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MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.
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| MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.
ID. APPLETON & Co, NEW YORK,
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A Dictona of Machines, Mechanics,
Engine Wok, and Engineering.
Designed for Practical Working Men, and those
intended for The Engineering Profession.
Edited by OLIVER BYRSE, formerly Professor q
| Mathematics, College Of Girl Engineers, London
.4,ithor aud mpentor or"The Calculus Qr Form, u
"1he .Nstc and Improved System of Lognithims,
"1he Elements Of Eucdby Cotors, ETC., etc, etc.
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/. Bbotheque des Arts Industries. (Masson,
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@ Civil Engineer and Architects Journal.
g. Engineer and Machinists Assistant. (Blackie,
| Glasgow
4. Publication Industrielle. (Armengaud Aine,
Paris.)
| S. Jamieson's Mechanics of. Fluids.
| G. Treatise on Mechanics (Poisson.)
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8 Organ fur die Fortschrte des Eisenbahnwe-
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Oliver Byrne.
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| 90 Dictionnaire des Arts eft Manufactures. (l.a-
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| Michel Alcan, Paris.)
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I lished by Weale, London.)
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4O Students Guide TO the Locomotive Fhgine,
Al. Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels. (Bar-
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lie Blanc Paris,)
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At Setting out Curves on Railways Claw,
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49 Scientific American.
So Railroad Journal. New York
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So Mechanics Magazine.
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,5 Conway and Menai Tubuler Bridges Fair
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Luke Herbert.
6I. Patent Journal London.
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s3 Encyclopedias Of Civil Engineering. Grassy,
81. Craddock's Lectures on the Steam Engine
65. Assistant Engineers Railway GUIDE. (has
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