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MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES

MECHANICAL ARTS s. SCIENCES.
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Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, formerly Professor If
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| |. Bbliotheque des Arts INDUSTRIES. (NIasson,
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| j. Engineer ana Machiilisls Assistahl' \Diach'o,
Glasgow
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! 5. Jamieson's Mechanics of Fluids.
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8 Organ fur die Fortschrto DIES Esenhahnwe-
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81 Sganzin's Civil Engineering
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80 Origin and Progress Of Steam Navigation
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25 Macnell's Tables.
26 Grers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
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% Lady IS and Gentlemen's Diary
% Marine Steam Engine. (Brown)
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81 The Mathematician. (London)
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Az Treatise on the Manufacture Of Gas (Ac
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~ Rowditch's Navigation.
50 Grepory's Mathematics for Practical Men
60 Enqineers' and Mechanics Encyclopedia.
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6I Patent Journal London.
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63 Encyclopedia Of Civil Engineering. Grassy
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G5 Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. Has
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