The southern press., 1851-12-25
On CITY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 95, 1851.
MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES

MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.
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A Dictonsc Of Machines, Mechanics,
Engine Wok. and Engineering.
Designed for Practical Working Men, and those
Intended fnr the Engineering Profession.
Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, formerly Professor Qf
Mathematics, College Of Civil Engineers, London
.4mfhor aud Inventor Of" The Calculus If Form,
The .Ns,o and Improved System Of Loga'ifhi'ns,
"Ihe Etementsof Eueiidby Coors, ETC., etc. etc.
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Glasgow
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% Browns Indicator and Dynaonmeter.
80 Origin and Progress Of Steam Navigation.
(Woodcroft.)
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michel Alcan, ParI,)
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81 Templeton's Millwright's and Engineer
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2S I.ady's and Gentlemen's Diary
30 Marine Steam Engine. (Brown.)
30 Weisbachs Mechanics and Engineering
81 The Mathematician. London
3D. Barlow on Strength OF Materials.
49, Uann's Mechanics.
IA Mechanical Principles of Engineering and
Arcbitecture (Mosley.)
S. Journal of the Franklin Institute
36. The Transactions Of the Institute of Civi
+ Engineers. Q.ondon.)
81. The Artisan
80. Quarterly Papers on Engineering (fuo
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40 Imperial Dictionary. (Glasgow)
40, Students Guide TO the Locomotive Engine
: Al. Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels. tbzr
low, London,)
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AZ Repertoire de plndustrie Franquase et Elran
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a6 Treatise on the Manufacture of Gas. (Ac
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A. Setting out Curves on Railways LA"
London.)
AZ. Hodge on the Steam Engine
40. Scientific American
so. Railroad Journal. New York;
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50 Mechanics Magazine.
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Sc Brees' Railway Practice.
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So Bowditch's Navigation
20 Gregory,s Mathematics for Practical Men
co Engineers' and Mechanics Encyclopedia.
Luke Herbert.)
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"a Encvclopedia of Civil Engineering. Grassy
"a Craddock's Lectures Oh the Steam Engine
! G5 Assistant Engineer's Railway Guide. (iias
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!, 66. Mechanical Principia. CLeonard')
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