Cement, Concrete, Limes, and Mortar.

Chimney Shafts.

Coal Cleansing and Washing.

Coal Mining.

Coal Cutting Machines.

c.o.ke Ovens. Copper.

Docks. Drainage.

Dredging Machinery.

Dynamo-Electric and Magneto-Electric Machines.

Dynamometers.

Electrical Engineering, Telegraphy, Electric Lighting and its practical details, Telephones.

Engines, Varieties of.

Explosives. Fans.

Founding, Moulding and the practical work of the Foundry.

Gas, Manufacture of.

Hammers, Steam and other Power.

Heat. Horse Power.

Hydraulics.

Hydro-geology.

Indicators. Iron.

Lifts, Hoists, and Elevators.

Lighthouses, Buoys, and Beacons.

Machine Tools.

Materials of Construction.

Meters.

Ores, Machinery and Processes employed to Dress.

Piers.

Pile Driving.

Pneumatic Transmission.

Pumps.

Pyrometers.

Road Locomotives.

Rock Drills.

Rolling Stock.

Sanitary Engineering.

Shafting.

Steel.

Steam Navvy.

Stone Machinery.

Tramways.

Well Sinking.

JUST PUBLISHED.

In demy 8vo, cloth, 600 pages, and 1420 Ill.u.s.trations, 6_s_.

SPONS'

MECHANICS' OWN BOOK;

A MANUAL FOR HANDICRAFTSMEN AND AMATEURS.

CONTENTS.

Mechanical Drawing--Casting and Founding in Iron, Bra.s.s, Bronze, and other Alloys--Forging and Finishing Iron--Sheetmetal Working-- Soldering, Brazing, and Burning--Carpentry and Joinery, embracing descriptions of some 400 Woods, over 200 Ill.u.s.trations of Tools and their uses, Explanations (with Diagrams) of 116 joints and hinges, and Details of Construction of Workshop appliances, rough furniture, Garden and Yard Erections, and House Building-- Cabinet-Making and Veneering--Carving and Fretcutting--Upholstery --Painting, Graining, and Marbling--Staining Furniture, Woods, Floors, and Fittings--Gilding, dead and bright, on various grounds--Polishing Marble, Metals, and Wood--Varnishing--Mechanical movements, ill.u.s.trating contrivances for transmitting motion-- Turning in Wood and Metals--Masonry, embracing Stonework, Brickwork, Terracotta, and Concrete--Roofing with Thatch, Tiles, Slates, Felt, Zinc, &c.--Glazing with and without putty, and lead glazing-- Plastering and Whitewashing--Paper-hanging--Gas-fitting--Bell-hanging, ordinary and electric Systems--Lighting--Warming--Ventilating-- Roads, Pavements, and Bridges--Hedges, Ditches, and Drains--Water Supply and Sanitation--Hints on House Construction suited to new countries.

E. & F. N. SPON, 125, Strand, London.

New York: 12, Cortlandt Street.