Pocketbook of Useful Formulæ and Memoranda
for Civil and Mechanical Engineers

______________________ ___________________ _____ ____________ ______________ ___________ ___________ ______ . __________ ___________ ________________ _______ ______ _______ INDEX. 730 PAGE I Materials, Properties of .. 10 j -----------------Alloys 16 -------------1---Gases 21 | ------------------Liquids 21 __________________ PAGE Millimetres and Inches .. 606 Mills, Corn __________438 -----Floating..........531 -----Wind ..........546 Millwork..............392 Mining and Blasting .. 87 ------Machinery .. .. 440 Miscellaneous Substances, Weight of ..............20 Mississippi, Experiments in Rivers ..............267 Modulus of Elasticity .. 22 Moment of Inertia .. 126, 390 -----------------in Gir- ders and Beams .. .. 129 ----------------by Gra- phic Construction 128, 129 ___________________________■ Mis- cellaneous .. .. ;. 20 ___________ _______________Stones 19 _____________.._____Timber 17 I ......... Measures and Weights .. 5S0 -------Foreign .. .. 603 ________ -------French .. .. 605 ________ Indian .. .. 598 ________ Sundry .. .. 591 ______— Table for Reduc- ________________ tion of.............303 ________ Timber .. .. 59i> Measuring Casks .. .. 591 _________ Earthwork .. 66 _________ -------Heights .. .. 5 _______________without Instrument......... 6 ___________ _____with ________ Sextant ............. 7 -------Timber .. .. 590 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat .............453 __________Powers .. .. 392 Melting Point of Metals.. 375 Mensuration of Solids .. 657 ______1---------Surfaces.. 656 I Mercurial Gauge .. .. 450 Mercury, Inches of .. .. 451 Metalling Roads .. .. 242 Metals, Multipliers for .. 36 ______Plate, Weight of.. 39 ----— She't----------39 ------Strength and Weight of ......... 16 Metrical Equivalents .. 005 ------System .. ..604 Miles and Admiralty Knots, Table of .. .. 5*6 -----------Knots .. .. 584 ous Sections .. .. 123, 124 ---------- Resistance .. 128 Moments, Bending and Shearing.............133 ------Theorem of three 164 Momentum .........383 Money, American .. .. 602 ------Comparison of .. 601 ------Decimal Equiva- lent of .. .. .. .. 602 ------English.........59 T ------Foreign.........604 ------Indian.........599 Morse Alphabet .. .. 302 Mortar, Cement, &c. .. 96 ----Memoranda on 96 ----— Quantity from Lime and Cement .. 102 Mortars, Range of .. .. 578 Motion of Gas in Pipes .. 369 -----Joy’s .. .. .. 497 ------ Parallel_________496 -----Peaucellier’s .. 497 Motors, Relative Efficiency of..................459 ----— Water, Power of.. 529