The southern press., 1851-07-09
WASHINGTON CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY o 1851
MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.

MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.
ID. APPLETON & CO., NEW YORK,
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A Dictionay of Machines, Mechanics,
Engine Wok, and Engineering
Designed for Pracsical Working Men, and those
intended for the Engineering Profession.
Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, formerly Professor Qf
Mathematics, College of Civii Engineers London !;
.auihor aud Iaue,.tor efs' The Calcssls Qf Firm,
"TAe .Nsr and hngwoued System Of Logarithims, :"
<Ihs Etsments Of Euc!sdby Cotors, ETC., ETC., ETC.
THIS work is ofIarge Svo. sixe containing nearly
4 tUo thousand pages, upwards Of fifteen hundred
plates and sir thousand ,cood c,is. II will present
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IDENTIFY Of the results of American ingenuity II will
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Machpegs Engne-work, and EAginesring; with
all that u useful IN more than cuo Thousand dot
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lowing:
l. Bibliotheque dcs Arts INDUSTRIES (Masson,
2. Civil Engineer and Architects Journal.
Q.ondon.)
3. Engineer and Machinists Assistant. (Blackic,
Glasgow
4. Publication Industriollc. (Armengaud Ainc,
| Paris.)
5. Jamieson's Mechanics OF. Fluids.
| 6. Treatise on Mechanics. (Poisson.)
| 7. Allgemne Bauzeitung nit Abbildungen.
(Forster, Wien.)
| 8 Organ fur die Fortschrte des Eisenbahnwe-
sens in technischcr Bezichung (von Wal
| degg, Wiesbaden.)
| 6. Sherwns Logarthims.
| 10. Byrne's Logarithms
| IL. The Mechanical and Mathematical Works OF
Oliver Byrne.
| IL. SilimaDs Journal.
10. Algemeine Maschnen- Encyclopedia. (Huls-
SO, Leipzig
| IA. Cotton Manufacture Of Great Britain and
America contrasted.
| Is. Holtzapfels' Turning and Mechanical Manip'
| pulation.
! l6. The Steam Engine. q. Bourne.)
| II. Esenbahn-Zeiung. (Smttgart.)
| IL. Tregold on the Steam Engine.
10. Pixies Mathematical and Optical Instruments.
| 20. Dictionnaire des Arts ct Manufactures. Q.a-
boulaye, Paris.
| 81. Sganzin's Civil Engineering.
| 90 Browns Indicator and Dynaonmeter.
| 23 Origin and Progress Of Steam Navigation.
| (Noodcroft.)
| "a. Essai sur lIndustrie des Matieres Textiles
(hlchel Alcan, Paris.)
| 25. Macneil's Tables.
26 Griers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
| 81 Templeton's Millwright's and Engineers
| Pocket Companion.
o. I.ady's and Gentlemen's Diary.
! 80 Marine Steam Engine. (Brown.)
| 80 Weisbach's Mechanics and Engineering.
| 81 The Mathematician. Q.ondon.)
| 80. Barlow on Strength Of Materials.
80. Hams Mechanics.
| "a Mechanical Principles Of Engineering and
Architecture. (Mosley.)
35. Journal of the Franklin Institute.
SO. The Transactions of the Institute of Civil
Engineers. (.ondon.)
81. The Artisan.
80. Quarterly Papers on Engineering. pub
lished by Wealc, London.)
| 80 Imperial Dictionary. (Glasgow.)
40. Students Guide to the Locomotive Eogine.
| II. Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels. Bar
| low, London,)
AZ. Recueil des Machines Instrumcns ct APPAREL.
O.c Blanc, Paris.)
| 43. Buchanan on Mill Work.
| a.. Practical Examples of Modern Tools and Ma
chimes C. Rennie.)
45 Repertoire dc l'Ipdustre Franquaise ct Etran-
gere O. Matthias Paris.)
as. Treatise on the Manufacture Of Gas. (Ac-
com, London.
AZ. Setting out Curves on Railways CLaw,
London.)
| as. Hodge on the Steam Engine
40 Scientific American.
so. Railroad Journal (Ncw York
ST. American Artisan.
So. Mechanics Magazine
So Nicholson's (Pelcr) Dictionary OF hrchi'cc
ture.
81. Dictionaire de Marine yoiIes ct Vapcur,
(Dc Bonncfoux, Paris)
SIS. CONWAY and Mcnai Tubuler Bridges Fair
barn.)
Sc. Brces' Railway Practice.
81 Rarowis Mathematical Dictionary.
So Bowditch's Navigation.
SO. Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men,
60. Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia.
luke Hcrberi.)
6I Patent Journal London
g. Bree's Glossary of Engineering
63 Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering. Crasy
Ga. Craddock's Lectures OH the Steam-Engine.
IS. Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. Has
&c. Mechanical Principia. (Leonard.)
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MiIlwrights.
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