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MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES

MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.
ID. APPLETON 4 CO., NEW YORK,
aAvE IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION, IN PARTS, PRICE
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A Dictionay of Machines, Mechanics.
Engine-Wok, aud Engineering
Designed for Practical Working Men, and those
intended for the Engineering Profession.
Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, Formerly Professor Of
Mathematics, College Of Civil Engineers, London
.7uthor and Inventor ef"1x Calculus Qf Fb,m, !"
"Ihs .Nssc and Improved System Of Logarithims, -
"Ihs Elements Of Euciidby Cotors, 7" etc., etc, ETC.
f'ro housond pages, upwards of fifteen hundred
plates and sir thousand rood cuts. II will present
working drawings and descriptions of the most inn
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IDENTIFY Of the results of American ingenuity it will
contain complete practical trestises Mechanics,
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all that ID useful in more than one thousand dol
lars worth of folio volumes, magazines, and other
books, among which may be mentioned the fol-
lowing;
l. Bibliotheque des Arts Industriels. Mason,
2. Civil Engineer and Architects Journal.
I4ondon.)
8. Engineer and Machinists Assistant. (Blackie,
Glasgow.)
4. Publication Industrelle. (Armcngaud Aine,
5. Jamieson's Mechanics of Fluids.
6. Treatise on Mechanics. (Posson.)
7. Allgemine Bauzeitung init Abbildungen.
(Forster, Wien)
g. Organ fur die Fortschri'te des Eisenbshnwe-
sens in technischer Beziehung. (Von Wal
degg, Wiesbaden.)
6. Sherwin's Logarithims.
10. Byrne's Logarithms.
IL. The Mechanical and Mathematical Works Of
Oliver Byrne.
l2. Silliman's Journal
l3. Algemeine Maschinen- Encyclopedias. (Huls-
Sc, Leipzig
IA. Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain and
America contrasted.
Is. HoltzapHels' Turning and Mechanical Manp-
pulation.
l6 The Steam Engine. g. Bourne.)
II. Eisenbahn- Zeitung. (Smttgart)
IL. Tregod on the Steam Engine.
l9. Pixies Mathematical and Optical instruments.
20. Dictionnaire des Arts ct Manufactures LA
boulaye, Paris.
81. Sganzin's Civil Engineering
%. Browns Indicator and Dynaonmeter
%. Origin and Progress Of Steam Navigation.
(Woodcroft.)
"a. Essai sur rIndustrie des Matieres Textiles
(Michel Alcan, Paris.)
%. MaCnelilS dDlcS.
26. Griers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
q. Templeton's Millwright's and Engineers
Pocket Companion.
| 2S. Lady' and Gentlemen's Diary
| 20. Marine Steam Engine. (Brown.)
| 30. Weisbach's Mechanics and Engineering.
! 81. The Mathematician. Uondon.)
| 3d. Barlow on Strength Of Materials.
| 33 Hann's Mechanics.
| "a Mechanical Principles of Engineering and
Architecture (Mosley.)
| 35 Journal of the Franklin Institute.
| Sc. The Transactions Of the Institute of Civil
Engineers. (London.)
| 81. The Artisan.
! 80. Quarterly Papers on Engineering. (Pub-
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| 49, Imperial Dictionary. (Glasgow.)
| 40 Students Guide to the Locomotive Engine.
| Al Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels. Bar
low, London,)
AZ. Recueil des Machines instruments ct APPAREL.
lie Blanc, Paris.)
49, Buchanan on Mill Work.
a. Practical Examples of Modern Tools and Ma
chimes. C. Rennie.)
As Repertoire de l'Industrie Franquaise ct Etran-
gere IL Matthias, Paris.)
46. Treatise on the Manufacture Of Gas. (Ac-
com, London.
AZ. Setting out Curves on Railways. (Law,
London.)
| 49, Hodge on the Steam Engine
40. Scientific American.
50. Railroad Journal New York
| 81. American Artisan.
| So Mechanics Magazine.
So. Nicholsons (Pe,er) Dictionary of Architee-
ture.
81. Dictionaire de Marine Voiles 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.
20 Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men.
go. Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia.
luke Herbert.)
6l Patent Journal London.
62. Bree's Glossary Of Engineering.
63 Eucyclopedia Of Civil Engineering. Grassy.
50. Craddock's Lectures OH the Steam-Engine
IS. Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. Has
koll.)
Sc. Mechanical Principia. (Leonard.)
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before practical men and students such an amount
of theoretical and scientific knowledge, in con-
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they might otherwise commit The amount OF
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beyond a precedent IN such works. Indeed there Is
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Mllwrights.
Moulder and Boiler Makers.
Art6cers in Brass Copper and Tin.
Cutters. and Workers OF Steel in general.
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