Practical Electrics

A Universal Handy Book

ON

ELECTRIC BELLS, BATTERIES, ACCUMULATORS,
DYNAMOS, MOTORS, INDUCTION AND INTENSITY COILS,
TELEPHONES, MICROPHONES, PHONOGRAPHS,
PHOTOPHONES, ETC.

With 124 Illustrations and 135 pages of Text


[No. 14.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

How To Build
A
BI-PLANE GLIDER

A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK ON ITS
CONSTRUCTION AND USE

BY

ALFRED POWELL MORGAN


31 Illustrations and 60 pages of Text


[No. 15.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

Model
Vaudeville Theatres

BY

Norman H. Schneider

With 34 Illustrations and 90 pages of Text


[No. 16.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

THE FIREMAN'S GUIDE
AND HANDBOOK ON THE
CARE OF BOILERS

BY

KARL P. DAHLSTROM, M.E.


[No. 17.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

A B C
OF THE
STEAM ENGINE
AND
AUTOMATIC GOVERNOR

Six scale drawings of a High Speed Steam Engine and Automatic Governor. Each part is given in detail with its name and number for easy reference, with description. With a chapter on Lubrication and other practical information.

BY

J. P. LISK, M.E.


[No. 18.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

SIMPLE
SOLDERING

BOTH
HARD AND SOFT

Together with Descriptions
of Inexpensive Home
Made Apparatus Necessary
for the Art.

By

EDWARD THATCHER

Instructor of
Decorative Metal Work
Columbia University
New York

52 Illustrations and
76 pages of Text.


[No. 19.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

THE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF
IGNITION ACCUMULATORS
AND
Electric Light for the Million

CONTAINING

Practical information on the Charging and Repairing of Motor Cycle,
Motor Car, and other similar Ignition Accumulators. Also
the adaptation of a slightly larger genus to a unique
system of Electric Lighting

BY

HAROLD H. U. CROSS


With 12 Illustrations and 66 pages of Text

CONTENTS

The Charging of Accumulators—The Repairing of Accumulators—The Accumulator in the Home


[No. 20.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

A Key
TO THE
Theory and Methods
OF
Linear Perspective

BY

CHARLES W. DYMOND, F.S.A.


With 16 Illustrations in 6 Plates, and 32 pages of Text.


The aim of the author of this brief treatise has been to include, within the smallest possible compass, everything that is required to convey to a reader, whose time is limited, a competent knowledge of the theory and the rudiments of the practice of drawing in perspective.


[No. 21.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

ELEMENTS OF
TELEPHONY

BY

ARTHUR CROTCH

Silver Medallist and Honoursman in Telegraphy, and Honoursman in Telephony, City and Guilds of London Institute, sometime Lecturer in these subjects at the Municipal Technical Schools, Norwich

With 51 Illustrations and 90 pages of Text


[No. 22.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

THE GYROSCOPE
An Experimental Study

FROM SPINNING TOP TO MONORAIL

BY

V. E. JOHNSON, M.A.

Author of "The Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplanes."
Formerly Exhibitioner of Magdalene College, Cambridge.


With 34 Illustrations and 40 pages of text.


[No. 23.—The S. & C. Series. Price 1/6 net.]

THE
CORLISS ENGINE

BY
JOHN T. HENTHORN

AND