The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-03
WASHINGTON CITY, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1851
MECHANICAL ARTS s. SCIENCES

MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES
ID. APPLETON Il CO., NEW YORK,
HAVE in COURSE OF PUBLICATION, IN PARTS, PRICE
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH,
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 If
Mathematics, College Of Girl Engineers, London
.4uthor and hspe,ior o|"The Calculus Of Form
''Ihs .Nsw and Improved System of Logarithin,s -
"Ihe Eemsats Of Euctidby Coiors, ETC., ETC., etc.
THIS work i oflarge Svo size, containing nearly
tro thousand pages, upwards Of fifteen hundred
plates, and sir thousand tcood cuts. II will present
working-drawings and descriptions Of the most i'm
portant machines in the United States Indepen
IDENTITY of the results of Americ an ingenuity, it will
contain complete practical trestises on Mechanics,
Machinery, Engine-work ard Engineering; with
all that is useful in more than one thousand dol
lars worth OF fulio volumes magazines, and other
books, among which may be mentioned the fol-
lowing
1. Bibiotheque des Arts Industries. (Masson,
2. Civil Engineer and Architects Journal
(I4ondon.)
3. Engineer aud Machnsts Assistant (Blacke,
Glasgow
4. Publication lndustrielle, (Armengaud Aine,
Paris,)
S. Jamieson's Mechanics Of. Fluids.
6. Treatise on Mechanics. (Polsson.)
7. AlIgemine Bauzeitung nit Abbildungen.
(Forster Wien)
s Organ fur die Fortschri'te des Eisenhahnwe-
sens in technischer Bezchung. (Von Wal
| degg, Wiesbadcn.)
| g. Sherwins Logarthms.
| TO- Byrne's Logarithms.
| IL. The Mechanical and Mathematical Works OF
Oliver Ryrne,
! - Sllimans Journal.
| 49, Algemeine Maschinen- Encyclopedia. (IIuls-
! Sc, Leipzig
| IA. Cotton Manufacture Of Great Britain and
| America oontrasted
! Is. Holtzapfiels' Turning and Mechanical Manip
| pulatlon
| I6 The Steam Engine o. Bourne.)
| II. EIscnbahn-Zeitung. (Stuttgart)
| 49, Tregold on the Steam Engine.
| 49, Fixes Mathematical and Optical Instruments.
! 90 Dictionnare des Ats ct Manufactures. La
boulaye, Paris.
81. Sganz,n's Civil Engineering.
| %. Browns Indicator and DynaoDmeter.
| 90 Origin and Progress oi.Steam Navigation.
(Woodcroft.)
| pa. Essa sur PIndustrie les Matieres Textiles
| Michel Aican, Paris)
| 25. Macneill's Tables
26. Griers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
| 81. Templetons Millwr'ghi's and Engineer
| Pocket Companion.
| %. i.ad,'s and Gentlemens Diary,
~. Marine Steam Engine, (llrown.)
80 Weisbachls Mechanics ard Engineering.
! 81 The Matnematican. Ooudon.)
| 80 Barlow on Strength of Materials.
| 33, Hams Mechanics,
"a Mechanical Principles Of Engineering and
| Architecture M 'sley.)
IS. Journal of the Franklin Institute.
| SO. The Transactions OF the Institute OF Civl
Engineers. (London.)
| 81 The Artisan.
80. Quarterly Papers Engineering. pub
| lished by Weale, London.)
80. Imperial Dictionary. (Glasgow.)
! 40. Students GUIDE to the Locomotive Engine.
| Al. Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels. Oar
low, London,)
az. Recuel DIES Machines instruments ct APPAREL
lie Blanc, Paris.)
AZ. Buchanan on Mill Work
a. Practical Examples OF Modern Tools and Ma
| chimes C. Renne.)
| As. repertoire de 'Industrc Franquaise Ell Etran-
gere IL Matthias, Paris.)
! as Treatise on the Manufacture OF Gas, (Ac-
| com, London.)
| 47. Setting out Curves on Railways. Claw,
London)
| a. Hodge on the Steam Engine
| 40 Scientific American.
| So Railroad Journal. New York
! 81 American Artisan
| ST. Mechanics Magazine.
| So Nicholson's (Peicr) Dictionary OF Archltec-
ture,
| 5a Dictionaire de Marine Voies ct Vapeur,
(De Bonnefoux, Paris.)
S.. Conway and Mena Tubaler Bridges (Fair-
barn.)
| S. Brces' Railway Practice
| 81. Barlows Mathematical Dictionary.
| So Bowditch's Navigation.
| So Gregorys Mathematics for Practical Men.
| go. Engineers and Mechanics Encyci'Pedia.
Luke Herbcrt.)
! 81. Patent Journal London,
! e. Brces Glossary of Engineering,
| "a Enoyclopedia Of Civil Engineering Grassy.
| "a Craddock's Lectures on the Steam-Engine.
65. Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. HAS
koll)
66 Mechanical Principal. (Lconard)
The great object of this publication is to place
before practical men and students such an amount
| Of theoretical and scientific knowledge, IN con-
densed form, as shall enable them TO WORK 10 the
best advantage, and to avoid those mis- axes which
fbev might otherwise commit The amount OF
useful information thus brought together, is almost
bevond cedent IN such works, Indeed there Is
hardly any subject thin ITS range when IS not
Gated with such clearness aud precision, that even
man of the most ordinary capacity cannot iaii OF
understanding, and thus learning iron IL much
which il is important for him to know.
From the annexed list of the principal authors
and subject comprised in this work it is seIl-evi-
dent. that all citizens engaged in the practical and
useful arts, etc, may derive essential advantages
from the possession and study of this publication,
The following m ~ be especially desrgnated'
Millwrights,
Mouider and Boiler Makers.
Artificers iu Brass, Copper and Tin.
Cutters, and Workers OF Steel IN general
Carpenters
Brickmakers
Workers in Ivory, Bone and Horn,
civil Enpip, ers, Railway Con,,;ctors, and Con-
tractors for Earth Work, and Masonry OF every
description.
Architects an Bridge Builders,
Ru;Idcrs Master Ma.uns, aud Bricklayers.
ship Bnilders, Matters OF Vessels, Ship Carpen-
,drs and others connected with Building and