Fire Engineering. FIRES, FIRE-ENGINES, AND FIRE BRIGADES. With a History of Fire-Engines, their Construction, Use, and Management; Remarks on Fire-Proof Buildings, and the Preservation of Life from Fire; Statistics of the Fire Appliances in English Towns; Foreign Fire Systems; Hints on Fire Brigades, &c., &c. By CHARLES F. T. YOUNG, C.E. With numerous Illustrations, handsomely printed, 544 pp., demy 8vo, 17. 4s. cloth. "We can most heartily commend this book."-Engineering. "Mr. Young's book on Fire Engines and Fire Brigades' contains a mass of information, which has been collected from a variety of sources. The subject is so intensely interesting and useful that it demands consideration."-Building News. Trigonometrical Surveying. AN OUTLINE OF THE METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY, for the Formation of Geo. graphical and Topographical Maps and Plans, Military Reconnaissance, Levelling, &c., with the most useful Problems in Geodesy and Practical Astronomy. By LIEUT.-GEN. FROME, R. E., late Inspector-General of Fortifications. Fourth Edition, Enlarged, and partly Re-written. By CAPTAIN CHARLES WARREN, R. E. With 19 Plates and 115 Woodcuts, royal 8vo, 16s. cloth. Tables of Curves. TABLES OF TANGENTIAL ANGLES and MULTIPLES for setting out Curves from 5 to 200 Radius. By ALEXANDER BEAZELEY, M. Inst. C.E. Second Edition. Printed on 48 Cards, and sold in a cloth box, waistcoat-pocket size, 3s. 6d. "Each table is printed on a small card, which, being placed on the theodolite, leaves the hands free to manipulate the instrument-no small advantage as regards the rapidity of work."-Engineer. "Very handy; a man may know that all his day's work must fall on two of these cards, which he puts into his own card-case, and leaves the rest behind."Atheneum. Engineering Fieldwork. THE PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING FIELDWORK, applied to Land and Hydraulic, Hydrographic, and Submarine Surveying and Levelling. Second Edition, revised, with considerable additions, and a Supplement on WATERWORKS, SEWERS, SEWAGE, and IRRIGATION. By W. DAVIS HASKOLL, C.E. Numerous folding Plates. In One Volume, demy 8vo, 17. 5s., cloth boards. Large Tunnel Shafts. THE CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE TUNNEL SHAFTS. cloth. "Many of the methods given are of extreme practical value to the mason, and the observations on the form of arch, the rules for ordering the stone, and the construction of the templates, will be found of considerable use. We commend the book to the engineering profession, and to all who have to build similar shafts.”—Building News. "Will be regarded by civil engineers as of the utmost value, and calculated to save much time and obviate many mistakes."-Colliery Guardian. Survey Practice. AID TO SURVEY PRACTICE: for Reference in Surveying, "Mr. Jackson has produced a valuable vade-mecum for the surveyor. 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With extensive additions on Recent Practice in the Combustion and Economy of Fuel-Coal, Coke, Wood, Peat, Petroleum, &c.; by D. KINNEAR CLARK, C.E., M.I.C.E. Second Edition, revised. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. 45. cloth boards. [Just published. "Students should buy the book and read it, as one of the most complete and satisfactory treatises on the combustion and economy of fuel to be had."-Engineer. Roads and Streets. In By THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS AND STREETS. Two Parts. I. The Art of Constructing Common Roads. HENRY LAW, C.E. Revised and Condensed by D. KINNEAR CLARK, C. E.-II. Recent Practice in the Construction of Roads and Streets including Pavements of Stone, Wood, and Asphalte. By D. KINNEAR CLARK, C.E., M.I.C.E. 12mo, 5s. cloth. "A book which every borough surveyor and engineer must possess, and which will be of considerable service to architects, builders, and property owners generally."— Building News. Field-Book for Engineers. THE ENGINEER'S, MINING SURVEYOR'S, and CON. TRACTOR'S FIELD-BOOK. By W. DAVIS HASKOLL, C.E. Consisting of a Series of Tables, with Rules, Explanations of Systems, and Use of Theodolite for Traverse Surveying and Plotting the Work with minute accuracy by means of Straight Edge and Set Square only; Levelling with the Theodolite, Casting out and Reducing Levels to Datum, and Plotting Sections in the ordinary manner; Setting out Curves with the Theodolite by Tangential Angles and Multiples with Right and Left-hand Readings of the Instrument; Setting out Curves without Theodolite on the System of Tangential Angles by Sets of Tangents and Offsets; and Earthwork Tables to 80 feet deep, calculated for every 6 inches in depth. With numerous woodcuts. 4th Edition, enlarged. Cr. 8vo. 12s. cloth. 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By order of the Board of Admiralty, the work will form the text-book on which the examination in iron ship-building of candidates for promotion in the dockyards will be mainly based."-Engineering. Pocket-Book for Marine Engineers. A POCKET-BOOK OF USEFUL TABLES AND FOR- "A most useful companion to all marine engineers."-United Service Gazette. "Scarcely anything required by a naval engineer appears to have been forgotten." "-Iron. |