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HURST'S ARCHITECT'S HANDBOOK.
A Handbook of Formulae, Rules, and Memoranda, for Architectural Surveyors and others engaged in Building.
By J. T. HURST, C.E.
CONTAINING----
Formulae useful in designing Builders' work. Memoranda connected with Builders' work. The Practice of Builders' Measurement. Summary of the Practice in Dilapidations. Mensuration.
Constants of labour. Valuation of Property.
Scale of Professional Charges for Architectural Surveyors.
&c etc. etc.
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MOLESWORTH'S ENGINEER'S POCKET-BOOK.
A Pocket-Book of Useful Formulae and Memoranda for Civil and Mechanical Engineers.
By G. L. MOLESWORTH,
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. CONSULTING ENGINEER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA FOR STATE RAILWAYS.
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS -
Surveying, Levelling, Setting Out, etc.; Earthwork, Brickwork. Masonry, Arches, &c; Beams, Girders, Bridges, etc.; Hoofs, Floors, Columns, Walls, etc.; Railways. Roads, Canals, Rivers, Docks, etc.; Water-works, Sewers, Gas-works, Drainage, etc.; Warming, Ventilation, Light, Sound, Heat, etc.
Gravity, Mechanical Centres and Powers; Mill work. Teeth of Wheels, Shafting and Belting. etc.; Alloys, Solders, and Workshop Recipes; Steam Boilers and Steam Engines; Water-wheels, Turbines, etc, and Windmills; Paddle and Screw Steamers; Miscellaneous Machinery.
Weights and Measures, English and Foreign; Logarithms of Numbers; Triangles, Trigonometry, and Tables of Sines, etc.; Properties of Ellipse, Parabola, Circle, &c; Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; Tables of Areas, and Circumferences of Circles; Weights and Properties of Materials; Squares, Cubes, Powers, Roots, and Reciprocals of Numbers.
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The Pocket-Book of Pocket-Books, being Molesworth and Hurst's Pocket-Books, printed on thin paper, and bound together in one volume.
London: E. & F. N. SPON, 48, Charing Cross.
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SPONS' TABLES AND MEMORANDA
FOR
ENGINEERS,
SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY
J. T. HURST, C.E.
CONTENTS: -
Excavators' Memoranda. Bricklayers': - Fire-Clay Flue Linings Weight of Bricks and Tiles. Masons' Memoranda: - Weight of Limes and Cements „ Purbeck Paving
Yorkshire „ Marble Slabs.
Slaters' Memoranda: -
Roof Scantlings Floors Rafters. plasterer8' memoranda. Smiths', and Founders' Memoranda: - Size of Heads, Nuts, etc.
„ Rivets Shrinkage of Castings Corrugated Iron Zinc
Weight of Round and Square Iron Flat Bar Iron „ Round Cast Iron
„ Various Metals per ft. sup. „ Sheet Iron
Weight of Hoop Iron
„ Chains and Size of
„ Cast-Iron Pipes
„ Heads, Nuts, and
Washers „ Cast-Iron Socket
. Pipes Wire Size and Weight of Nails per M Size and Weight of Spikes Weight of Cast-iron Balls „ Corrugated Iron
Roofing „ Nails
„ Shoes for Door
Frames Relative weight of various Metals Proportion of Wheels Cast-Iron Pillars Relative Strength of Cast and
Wrought Iron Pillars Safe Load for Stone Pillars
„ „ Floors
Strength of Rolled Iron per ft. cube Timber „ Liquids
Beams Fire-Proof Floors Wrought-Iron Roofs. Plumbers' Memoranda :- Weight of Sheet Iron „ Lead Pipes
Painters' and Glaziers'
Memoranda. Sundry Memoranda: - Weight of Metals per foo-cube „ Earth Stone, etc.
„ Men and Animals Forage „ Water
Oil
Water Ropes
Railway Curves Measurement of Heights Railway Road Crossings Measurement of Distances. Mensuration: - Circumferences of Circles Areas of Circles Regular Polygons. Money Tables, English and
Koreiw. Weights and Measures: - AVeiglit and Size of Casks Size of Taper French Measures Maltese
Comparison of English and Foreign Measures.
This work is printed in pearl type, and is so small, measuring only 2J in. x 2 in., by 1/4 in. thick, that it may be easily carried in the waistcoat pocket.
London: E. & F. N. SPON, 48, Charing Cross.
 
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