SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
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(/■'or Index, see next page.)
PAGES
Levelling and Surveying .................. 1 to 15
Strength and Weight of Materials .......... 16 to 57
Earthwork, Brickwork, Masonry, and Arches .. 58 to 110
Struts, Columns, Beams, Floors, «nd Roofs .. Ill to 155
Girders and Bridges...........................156 to 18Ö
Railways and Roads ......................187 to 242
Hydraulics, Canals, Sewer?, Waterworks, bocks, > 2J3 to 2g9
Irrigation, and Breakwaters ______________(
Electric Telegraphs and Lighting, Lightning
Conductors, Gas, Ventilation, Warming .. .. j a
Heat, Light, Colour, and Sound..............375 to 381
Gravity, Centres, Forces, and Powers..........3s2 to 392
Millwork—Toothed Wheels, Shafting, Belting .. 392 to 421
Alloys, Workshop Recipes, &c_________________ 422 to 433
Miscellaneous Machinery, Steel and Iron Manu- ) to 44g
facture............................ . • • • 5
Steam and the Steam Engine ..............4£0 to 528
Animal Power ____................................529
Water Power and Water Motors..............529 to 544
Wind, Windmills, and Piieuniat.c Machines .. 545 to 551
Ships anil Steam Navigation__________________ 552 to 5T2
Gunnery, Projectiles, &e......................573 to 579
Weights, Measures, and Money.............. 580 to 606
Algebraical Signs and Formal», Arithmetical / to el3
and Geometrical Progrt-ssiun, Interest, &c. .. J
Trigonometry...............................614 to 624
Differential and Integral Calculus .......... 624 to 632
Conic Sections, Curves......................633 to 655
Mensuration—Areas, Circumferencee, &c_______ 656 to 679
Logarithms and Slide Rule..................680 to 695
Squares, Cubes, Powers, Roots, and Reciprocals 61)6 to 714
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