MECHANICS, MANUFACTURES, &c.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILROADS,
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 Railroads,
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 Rev.
REPORTS ON LOCOMOTIVE AND FIXED
ENGINES. By J. Stephenson and J.
Walker, Civil Engineers. With an Account
of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad,
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."—Intelligencer.
"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."—Lat.
Gazette.
"This work may be considered one of the most valuable
books that has yet issued from the press connected
with colonial interests; indeed, we know of no greater
service we could render West India proprietors, than in
recommending the study of Mr. Porter's volume."—Spectator.
TREATISE ON CLOCK AND WATCHMAKING,
Theoretical and Practical. By
Thomas Reid, Edinburgh, Honorary Member
of the Worshipful Company of Clock-Makers,
London. Royal 8vo. Illustrated
by numerous Plates.
