Pocketbook of Useful Formulæ and Memoranda
for Civil and Mechanical Engineers

72S INDEX, PAGE Tron, Tests of............423 -----Weight of.............36 -----Wire .. .. 45, 350 I :----Works ..................441 ■----Wrought, PiptjB, Weight of ............50 ----:-----Sizes of .. 158 ----------and Steel, CqitojsJou of 33 Irrigation Channels.. .. 293 ----------:---------In India 291 ----------Sluices . . .. 294 Jets of Water, Horizontal 248 -------------Oblique .. 2-19 -----------------------------Vertical---------------------250 -----------------------------Steam- 549 Joints, Face ............425 -----Flanged, for Shaft- ing ....................4 411 -----Flush, fur Shafting 410 •----Lead .............. 286 -----Riveted..............481 ----------—— In Tension 484 ----------Socket ,. .. .. 286 -----Turned and Bored 2»6 Joists >. *« • • ... 137 Jonval’s Turbine .. .. 536 Joule’s Mechanical Equi- valent of Heat .. .. 453 । Journals...................401 i Joy’s Valve Motion.. .. 497 ■ Keys and Key ways .. ..409 Kilns, Lime, Section of 101 . Knees, Resistance of ■ .. 262 I Knots, Table of .. .. 584 I —— -------— Admiralty 586 | -----Tackling, &c. .. 56 Kutter’s Formula .. .. 265 Lacquer, Brass .. .. .. 428 ■ —!---—Iron .. .. .. 428 : Lamps, Service for .. .. 369 1 -----Street..........36S Land Drainage.........290 : FAGH Lap and Lead of Slide- valve ., .. ,, .. 486 ■-----------■— in loco- motives .. ., ,, ,, 501 ----------------Table of 488 Lathes, Change Wheels for 435 ------ Screw-cutting .. 435 Latitude, Correction for ,. 14 Lattice Bridges .. ,, 171 ---------------Diagrams of Strains ...............175 Lattices, Strains on .. .. 167 Lead Joints .. ,, .. 286 -----Pipes, Weight of ,, 51 -----Sheet.............39,143 Lead of Slide-valve .. .. 486 Leather Belting, Power of 414 ------— Cement for ,, .. 428 Lemnlscate Curve .. .. 653 Levelling with Barometer 12 -----Thermo- meter .. ,, .. 10 ---------*----Thermo- meter, Table............11 Levers, Safety-valve, &c. 490 Life of Ralls.......237 -------Rolling Stock .. 238 Light,-Decomposition of., 381 ----- Velocity of „ 381 Lighting, Electric ,, 368 Lightning Conductor^ , , 363 Lime Ki ins ...........,101 -----Notes on..........100 -----Testing...........101 Limes and Cements .. ,.102 -----Experiments on ., 102 Limits of Deviation ., .. 187 Links and Feet, Table of 583 ------Surface and Solidity of............ ,, .,658 ------Suspension .. ., 186 Liquid Fuel .......... 400 Liquids, Weight of .. .. 21