Pocketbook of Useful Formulæ and Memoranda
for Civil and Mechanical Engineers

724 INDEX. PAGE ' Ferrotype Process .. .. 433 Field Earthworks .. .. 579 Figure of Revolution .. 658 Filters for Water-works.. 281 Fire-box Stays .. .. .. 477 Fire-proof Flooring .. .. 139 First Cost...............611 Five-tube Boiler .. .. 467 Flanged Couplings .. . . 411 Flat Iron.....................37 ------Ropes, Weight and Strength of.............53 Floating Bodies..........552 ------------— Docks .. .. 295 I ------Mills..............531 ------------------------------—— Objects, Range of 573 Floats of Paddle-wheels, Area of .. ............ 565 , --------Paddle-wheels, Immersion of .. .. 565 Flood Discharge in India 267 Flooring, Asphalte .. .. 136 --------Fire-proof .. 139 -----------------------.— Wooden .. ..137 Flow of Rivers .. .. .. 267 Flues. Collapsing Pressure of ....................4T8 ------Ribs in............479 Fluids, Weight of .. .. 21 Fluxes for Soldering or Welding................ 422 } Fly-wheel, Weight of .. 49-1 Foot, Decimal Equivalents of ...................... 588 I Force, Centrifugal .. .. 383 : “ Force de Cheval” . . .. 486 i Force, Elastic, of Steam .. 450 -------of Water in Motion 250 -— ----Wind...............545 ; Forces, Rpsolution of .. 1-54 j Foreign Money.. .. .. 604 ! -------Substances in Iron 35 | -------------------------------Weights und ; Measures .............. 603 : PAGE Forgings, Weight of.. .. 420 Formula, Harding’s. • .. 222 —-------Prismoidal .. 58 Formulae, Algebraic .. 608 ---------Telegraphic .. 321 Foundations, Inequality of 91 ------------- Pneumatic Resistance of.........421 Foundry Recipes ... .. 424 Fourneyron’s Turbines .. 540 Framing, Polygonal.. .. 151 French Horse-power .. 486 ------Locomotives .. 504 ------Measures and Weights...............605 -------Polish .. .. ..428 ------Practice, Safety- valves ..................491 --------------— in Loco- motives --5Ü-1 ------Railways .. ..195 Friction, Coefficient of .. 22(5 --------of Axles .. .. 403 ————— Breaks .. .. 428 ■---------Engines un- loaded ...............486 ---:------Knees and Bends 262 ----------Plane Surfaces 420 ---------- Pneumatic Foundations...........421 --------■ in Tubes .. .. 457 Fuel, Combustion of.. .. 461 ----Evaporative Power of 458 ----Liquid .............460 ----Relative P"wer of .. 459 Functions, Trigonome- trical ................. 616 Funnels of Steamers .. 473 Furnaces, Blast, Dimen- sions of .. .. .. .. 442 Gallons, Decimal Equiva- lents of ............-..693 -------Table of .. .. 593