In many cases hand-shaping is indispensable, such as sudden breakage, operations abroad, and on board ship; also for constructors having a limited number of machines. Turning and screw-cutting occupy the last chapter. In this, the operations for lining, centering, turning, and screw-forming are detailed and their principles elucidated.

The Mechanician is the result of the author's experience in engine making during twenty years; and he has concluded that however retentive the memory of a machinist might be, it would be convenient for him to have a book of primary principles and processes to which he could refer with confidence.

Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval, with Technical Terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. In 97 numbers, super-royal 8vo, containing 3132 printed pages and 7414 engravings. Any Number can be had separate: Nos. 1 to 95, 1s. each, post free; Nos. 96, 97, 2s., post free.

Complete List of all the Subjects.

Nos.

Abacus...............

1

Adhesion...........

1

Agricultural Engines...........

1 and 2

Air-Chamber...........

2

Air-Pump..........

2

Algebraic Signs...........

2

Alloy..........

2

Aluminium.............

2

Amalgamating Machine..........

2

Ambulance..............

2

Anchors...........

2

Anemometer.........

2 and 3

Angular Motoin............

3 and 4

Angle-iron...........

3

Angle of Friction.........

3

Animal Charcoal Machine

4

Antimony...........

4

Anvil.............

4

Aqueduct.............

4

Arch...............

4

Archimedean Screw...........

4

Arming Press..............

4 and 5

Armour.............

5

Arsenic.............

5

Artesian Well..........

5

Assaying ..........

6

Artillery.........

5 and 6

Automatic Weights..........

6 and 7

Auger.............

7

Axles.............

7

Balance...............

7

Ballast...........

7

Bank Note Machinery..........

7

Barn Machinery..........

7 and 8

Barker's Mill..............

8

Barometer..........

8

Barracks...........

8

Barrage..............

8 and 9

Battery...........

9 and 10

Bell and Bell-hanging.........

10

Belts and Belting ............

10 and 11

Bismuth...........

11

Blast Furnace ...........

11 and 12

Blowing Machine .............

12

Body Plan ..............

12 and 13

No .

Boilers ..........

13, 14, 15

Bond..........

15 and 16

Bone Mill........

16

Boot-making Machinery

16

Boring and Blasting

16 to 19

Brake...........

19 and 20

Bread Machine ..........

20

Brewing Apparatus

20 and 21

Brick-making Machines

21

Bridges .........

21 to 28

Buffer ........

28

Cables .............

28 and 29

Cam..............

29

Canal ...........

29

Candles ..............

29 and 30

Cement ..........

30

Chimney...........

30

Coal, Cutting and Washing Machinery ...................... 31

Coast Defence ..............

31, 32

Compasses .............

32

Construction ..........

32 and 33

Cooler ..............

34

Copper .............

34

Cork-cutting Machine ..........

34

Corrosion ..........

34 and 35

Cotton Machinery ..........

35

Damming ...........

35 to 37

Details of Engines..........

37, 38

Displacement .......

38

Distilling Apparatus

38and 39

Diving and Diving Bells

39

Docks ...........

39 and 40

Drainage........

40 and 41

Drawbridge .........

41

Dredging Machine ..........

41

Dynamometer...........

41

Electro-Metallurgy .........

43, 44

Engines, Varietise.............

44, 45

Engines, Agricultural ..

1 and 2

Engines, marine .......

74, 75

Engines, Screw.........

89, 90

Engine, Stationary........

.. 91, 92

Escapement...........

45, 46

Fan ...............

46

E. & F. N. SPON, 135, STRAND.

Nos.

File-cutting Machine........

46

Fire-arms.......

46, 47

Flax Machinery..........

47, 48

Float Water-wheels........

48

Forging.....

48

Founding and Casting.....

48 to 50

Friction.......

50

Friction, Angle of.......

3

Fuel.......

50

Furnace....

50. 51

Fuze....

51

Gas.....

51

Gearing.....

51. 52

Gearing Belt.......

10, 11

Geodesy.....

52 and 53

Glass Machinery.....

53

Gold...........

53, 54

Governor.......

54

Gravity.....

54

Grindstone.......

54

Gun-carriage........

54

Gun Metal.....

54

Gunnery........

54 to 56

Gunpowder.....

56

Gun Machinery.....

56, 57

Hand Tools.......

57, 58

Hanger.........

58

Harbour.......

58

Haulage.........

58, 59

Hinging.....

59

Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machinery....

59 to 63

Ice-making Machine...

63

India-rubber.....

63

Indicator........

63 and 64

Injector.........

64

Iron........

64 to 67

Iron Ship Building....

67

Irrigation.......

67 and 68

Isomorphism........

68

Joints.......

68

Keels and Coal Shipping

68 and 69

Kiln...........

69

Knitting Machine.......

69

Kyanising........

69

Lamp, Safety...

69, 70

Lead........

70

Lifts, Hoists........

70. 71

Lights, Buoys, Beacons

71 and 72

Limes, Mortars, and Cements

72

Nos.

Locks and Lock Gates ..

72, 73

Locomotive....

73

Machine Tools..

73, 74

Manganese.........

74

Marine Engine

74 and 75

Materials of Construction

75 and 76

Measuring and Folding

76

Mechanical Movements

76, 77

Mercury.......

77

Metallurgy.......

Meter.....

77, 78

Metric System....

78

Mills...........

78, 79

Molecule...

79

Oblique Arch.......

79

Ores.........

79, 80

Ovens........

80

Over shot Water-wheel..

80, 81

Paper-Machinery....

81

Permanent Way.......

81, 82

Piles and Pile-driving ..

82 and 83

Pipes....

83,84

Planimeter.....

84

Pumps.....

84 and 85

Quarrying.....

85

Railway Engineering

85 and 86

Retaining Walls....

86

Rivers...

86, 87

Rivetted Joint..

87

Roads....

87 88

Roofs ........ ,

88, 89

Rope-making Machinery

89

Scaffolding....

89

Screw Engines....

89, 90

Signals..

90

Silver....

90, 91

Stationary Engine.....

91, 92

Stave-making and Cask Machiney....

92

Steel..........

92

Sugar Mil...

92, 93

Surveying and Surveying Instruments...

93, 94

Telegraphy...

Testing.......

95

Turbine....

95

Ventilation.....

95, 96, 97

Waterworks.....

96, 97

Wood-working Machinery

96, 97

Zinc......

96, 97

The Complete Work can be had in the following Bindings:

3 Vols, Cloth.............

£5

5

O

In 8 divisions, cloth ........

5

8

0

In 3 vols., half-morocco, top edge gilt ..

6

12

0

E. & F. N. SPON, 125, STRAND.

PUBLISHED BY E. & F. N. SPON.

Algebra. Algebra Self-taught. By P. Higgs, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., Assoc. Inst. C.E., Author of 'A Handbook of the Differential Calculus,' etc., second edition, crown !

Cloth, 2S. 6d.

Contents.

Symbols and the signs of operation - The equation and the unknown quantity-Positive and negative quantities - Multiplication - Involution - Exponent tive exponents - Roots, and the use of exponents as logarithms- Logarithms-Table of logarithms and proportionate parts - Transformation of system of logarithms - Common uses of common logarithms - Compound multiplication and the Binominal theorem - Division, Fractions, and Ratio - Continued proportion The series and the summation of the series - Limit of series - Square and Cube Roots - Equations - List of formulae, etc.

Applied Science. Progressive Lessons in Applied Science. By Edward Sang, F.R.S.E., crown 8vo, cloth, each part, 3s.

Part I. Geometry on Paper.

Part 2. Solidity, Weight, and Pressure.

Part 3. Trigonometry, Vision, Surveying Instruments.

Architect's Handbook. A Handbook of Formulae, Tables, and Memoranda, for Architectural Surveyors and others engaged in Building. By J. T. Hurst, C.E., thirteenth edition, royal 32mo, roan, 5s.

CONTAINING :

Formulae and Tables for the Strength of Materials, Roofs, Water Supply, Drainage, Gas, and other matters useful to Architects and Builders.

Information connected with Sanitary Engineering.

Memoranda on the several trades used in Building, including a description of Materials and Analyses of Prices for Builders' work.