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MECHANICS, MANUFACTURES, &c.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on RAIL-ROADS, and INTERIOR
COMMUNICATION in GENERAL—containing an
account of the performances of the different Locomotive Engines
at, and subsequent to, the Liverpool Contest; upwards of
two hundred and sixty Experiments, with Tables of the comparative
value of Canals and Rail-roads, and the power of the
present Locomotive Engines. By Nicholas Wood, Colliery
Viewer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, &c.
8vo. With plates.
“In this, the able author has brought up his treatise to the date of the latest
improvements in this nationally important plan. We consider the volume to
be one of great general interest.”
—Lit. Gaz.
“We must, in justice, refer the reader to the work itself, strongly assuring
him that, whether he be a man of science, or one totally unacquainted with its
technical difficulties, he will here receive instruction and pleasure, in a degree
which we have seldom seen united before.”
—Monthly Review.
REPORTS on LOCOMOTIVE and FIXED ENGINES. By
J. Stephenson and J. Walker, Civil Engineers. With an
Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-road, by H.
Booth. In 8vo. With plates.
MILLWRIGHT and MILLER'S GUIDE. By Oliver Evans.
New Edition, with additions and corrections, by the Professor
of Mechanics in the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, and a
description of an improved Merchant Flour-Mill, with engravings,
by C. & O. Evans, Engineers.
The NATURE and PROPERTIES of the SUGAR-CANE,
with Practical Directions for its Culture, and the Manufacture
of its various Products; detailing the improved Methods of Extracting,
Boiling, Refining, and Distilling; also descriptions of
the Best Machinery, and useful Directions for the general Management
of Estates. By George Richardson Porter.
“This volume contains a valuable mass of scientific and practical information,
and is, indeed, a compendium of everything interesting relative to colonial
agriculture and Manufacture.”
—Intelligence.
“We can altogether recommend this volume as a most valuable addition to
the library of the home West India merchant, as well as that of the resident
planter.”
—Lit. Gazette.
ELEMENTS of MECHANICS. By James Renwick, Esq.
Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Columbia
College, N. Y. In 8vo. with numerous engravings.
“We think this decidedly the best treatise on Mechanics, which has issued
from the American press, that we have seen; one, too, that is alike creditable
to the writer, and to the state of science in this country.”
—Am. Quar. Review.
TREATISE on CLOCK and WATCH-MAKING, Theoretical
and Practical, by Thomas Reid, Edinburgh Honorary Member
of the Worshipful Company of Clock-Makers, London. Royal
8vo. Illustrated by numerous plates.
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