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Designed for Practical Working Men, and those
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Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, formerly Professor Of
Mathematics, College of Civil Engineers, London !;
.ditthor and Inventor 0r"Ihe Calculus Of F6,fn y
"1he .Ns,o and Improved System Of Logarithin,s, .
''Ihe Elements Of Euedoy CoIors, etc., ETC., etc.
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l. Bibliotheque des Arts INDUSTRIES. (Masson,
Paris.)
2. Civil Engineer and Architects Journal.
| London.)
8. Engineer and Machnsts Assistant (Blackie,
Glasgow.)
a. Publication Industrielle. (Armengaud Aine,
Paris.)
S. Jamieson's Mechanics Of. Fluids.
| 6. Treatise on Mechanics. (Poisson.)
7. Allgemine Bauzeitung nit Abbildungen'
g. Organ fur die Fortschritte des Eisenbahnwe-
sens in technischer Beziehung. (Von Wal
degg Wiesbaden)
6. Sherwin's Logarithims.
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~. SilIiman's Journal.
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H. Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain and
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! Is. Tregold on the Steam Engine.
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| 90. Dictionnaire des Arts ct Manufactures. LA
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Is 81. Sganzin's Civil Engineering.
! o. Browns Indicator and Dy9aonmeter.
80 Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation.
CWoodcroft.)
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michel Alcan, PARISH
| 25. Macneil's Tables.
%. Griers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
f27. Templeton's Millwrghts and Engineers
Pocket Companion.
%. Iady's and Gentlemen's Diary.
%. Marine Steam Engine. (Brown.)
30. Weisbach's Mechanics and Engineering.
81. The Mathematician. (London.)
3D. Barlow on Strength Of Materials.
49, Hams Mechanics.
"a Mechanical Principles of Engineering and
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Al. Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels. Bar
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40 Recueil des Machines instruments eft APPAREL.
lie Blanc, PARISH
a. Buchanan on Mill Work.
a.. Practical Examples Of Modern Tools and Ma
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45 Repertoire de l'Industrie Franquaise ct Etran-
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46. Treatise on the Manufacture of Gas. (Ac-
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a. Setting out Curves on Railways. Law,
London.)
as. Hodge on the Steam Engine
az. Scientific American.
50. Railroad Journal. New York
ST. American Artisan.
So. Mechanics Magazine.
SO. Nicholsons (Peter) Dictionary Of Architee.
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81. Dictionaire de Marine voiles ct vapeur,
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IS. Conway and Menai Tubuer Bridges Fair
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So. Bowditch's Navigation.
sol Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men.
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Luke Herbert.)
81. Patent Journal London.
81. Bree's Glossary Of Engineering.
GO Encyclopedia Of Civil Engineering. Grassy.
ga Craddock's Lectures OF the Steam-E Engine.
65. Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. HAS
koll.)
6e. Mechanical Principal. (Leonard.)
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