The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-24
MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.


Intended TOR The Engineering Pr0feSsi0n
Edited by OLIyER ByRNE, formerly Professor Of
Mathematics, College Of CiVii Engineers, London,
.flihor and hrentor cf"IHe Calculus If Form, %
"Ihe -Nsp and Improved SYSTEM Of Logasithims, F"
"1he EiementsQf Eueiidby Coiors," ETC.. ETC., etc.
rINHIS work is oflarge 6yo. size, containing nearly
Il tioo thousand pages, upwards Of fifteen hundred
plates, and sir thousand ioood cuts II will present
working drawings and descriptions Of the most im-
portant machines in the United States Indepen-
IDENTIFY Of the results of American ingenuity, it will
contain complete practical treatises on Mechanics,
Machinery, Engine-work, and Engineering with
all that is useful in more than thousand dol
lars worth of folio volumes, magazines, and other
books, among which may be mentioned the fol-
lowing:
l. Bibiotheque dcs Arts INDUSTRIES. (Masson,
9. Civil Engineer and Architects Journal,
QLondon.)
3. Engineer and Machinists Assistant. (Backie,
Glasgow
4. Publication Industrielle. (Armengaud Aine,
Paris.)
5. Jamieson's Mechanics Of. Fluids.
6. Treatise on Mechanics. CPosson.)
I. Allgemine Bauzeitung nit Abbidungen.
(Forster, Wien)
g. Organ fur die Fortschritte des Esenbahnwe-
sens in technischer Beziehung. (Von Wal
degg, Wiesbaden.)
6. Sherwin's Logarihms.
10. Byrne's Logarithms.
H. The Mechanical and Mathematical Works OF
Oliver Byrne.
l2. Sillman's Journal.
10. Algemeine Maschnen-Enc yclopeda. (Huls-
Sc, Leipzig
IA. Cotton Manufacture Of Great Britain and
America contrasted.
Is. Holtzaphels' Turning and Mechanical Manip-
pulation-
l6. The Steam Engine. (J. Bourne.)
II. Eisenbahn-Z etung. (Stuttgart-)
IL. Tregold on the Steam Engine.
10. Pixies Mathematical and Optical Instruments.
20. Dictionnaire des Arts ct Manufactures. LA
boulaye, Paris.
81. Sganzin's Civil Engineering.
%. Browns Indicator and Dynaonmeter.
90. Origin and Progress Of Steam Navigation.
(Woodcroft.)
"a. Essai sur PIndustrc des Matieres Textiles
michel Alcan, Paris.)
%. Macnei's Tables.
%. Griers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
81 Templeton's Millwright's and Engineers
Pocket Companion.
% I.ady's and Gentlemen's Diary.
90 Marine Steam Engine. (Brown.)
80 Wcisbach's Mechanics and Engineering.
81 The Mathematician. (London.)
3d. Barlow on Strength ofMaterials
49, Hams Mechanics
"a Mechanical Principles of Engineering and
Architecture. (NOslcy-
35 Journal of the Franklin Institute.
&C. The Transactions of the Institute of Civil
Engineers. (London)
81. The Artisan.
SO. Quarterly Papers on Engineering. pub
lished by WeaIe, London.)
49, Imperial Dictionary. Glasgow
40. Students Guide to the Locomotive Engine.
AL Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels Bar
low, London,)
40. Recueil des Machines instruments ct APPAREL.
Gle Blanc, Paris.)
Az Buchanan on Mill Work.
"a. Practical Examples of Modern Tools and Ma
ctines. &c. Rennie.)
As Repertoire de l'IndustTie Franquase ct Etran-
gere. o. Matthias, Paris.)
as. Treatise on the Manufacture Of Gas. (Ac-
com, London.)
At. Setting out Curves on Railways. Claw,
London.)
a. Hodge on the Steam Engine
40 Scientific American.
so. Railroad Journal. New York
ST. American Artisan
50. Mechanics Magazine.
So Nicholson's (Peter) Dictionary OF Architee-
ture.
"a. Dictionaire de Marine Voles ct Vapeur,
de Bonnefoux, Paris.)
IS. Conway and Menai Tubuler Bridges Fair
barn.)
Sc. Brees' Railway Practice.
81 Barlow's Mathematical Dictionary.
So. Bowditch's Navigation.
SO Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men.
so Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia.
Luke Herbert.)
CT. Patent Journal London.
62. Bree's Glossary Of Engineering.
"a Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering. Grassy.
ga Craddock's Lectures OH the Steam-Engine.
65. Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. HAS
koll)
6s. Mechanical Principal. (Leonard)
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before practical men and students such an amount
Of theoretical and scientific knowledge, m con-
densed form, as shall enable them to work to the
hest advantage. and to avoid those mistakes which
thew might otherwise commit The amount OF
useful information thus brought together, IS almost
beyond precedent IN such works. Indeed there IS
hardly any subject within ats range which Is mol
Gated with such clearness and precision, that even
man of the most ordinary capacity cannot fail oil
understanding, and thus learning IRON II much
which il is important for him TO know
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