Pocketbook of Useful Formulæ and Memoranda
for Civil and Mechanical Engineers

733 INDEX, PAGE Power. Horse, French .. 486 -------Tractive, in Loco- motives 221 —------Transmitted by Belting.................414 -------Water.........529 Powers, 1 ’ 7 and 3’6 .. 113 -------- a or .. .. 708 ----------4th and 5th.. .. 70(1 ----------Mechanical .. 392 ----------Square and Cube 696 Press, Hydraulic .. . . 543 Pressure; Bursting, in Boilers.................480 ------Collapsing, in Boilers.................479 ------of Water .. ..246 ---in Motion..................251 ------------------ on Lock Gates..............295 ------------- Sluices 294 -------------Wind and * Water------320 ------------------on Roofs .. .........Ill -------Terminal, of Steam .. ...............455 --— versus Blows .. 118 Prismoidal Formula .. 58 Products of Coal .. .. 369 Progression, Arithmetical and Geometrical .. ..613 Projectiles, Path of .. .. 573 ----------— Penetration of 577 Propeller, Screw .. ,. 566 Properties of Alloys .. 16 ------— Gases.. .. 21 —— Liquids .. 21 ------Metals .. 16 -------------Miscellaneous 20 -------------Stones .. 19 Proportions of Funs.. .. 518 --------------.Nozzles .. 248 PAGE Propulsion of Vessels .. 562 Protracting Angles .. .. 7 Pi Besinn Railways .. .. 191 Pulleys ... .. it >. 414 ------Belting for .. .. 414 ------Dimensions of .. 4i. 9 ------Eyes of . .. 409 Pumping Engines •.. 2S1, 283 ■------------— H.P. of 283 Pumps, Centrifugal., .. 54+ ■-----Cold-water .. ., 492 ------Feed ..............492 ----------------------------Single-acting .. 2«3 ----------------------------Useful Numbers fur .283 Punching Boiler-plates .. 434 Purifiers for Gas .. .. 369 Purlins .................145 Pyramid, Frustum of .. 657 Qnadratrix Curve .. .. 654 Queen Truss .............134 Radiation of Heat .. .. 373 Rafters .................145 I Rail, Elevation of Outer, on I Curves .. .. .. 213 I Rails, Bending.........215 ------Life of............237 -Memoranda on .. 207 -Standard Steel .. 206 -Weight of .. .. 207 Bailway Accidents .. .. 236 ------Board of Trade Regulations fur .. ..188 ------— Breaks .. .. 226 ■--———Bridges, Loäcls on 159 --- ——; ■ Kule- for 109 —--- Carriages .. .. 232 - Consumption of Oil on ...............503 ------Curves.............2J6 ---------- —Ranging of 215 -------------Setting out with two Theodolites ., 218