The success which has attended the publication of ‘Spons’ Dictionary of Engineering’ has encouraged the Publishers to use every effort tending to keep the work up to the standard of existing professional knowledge. As the Book has now been some years before the public without addition or revision, there are many subjects of importance which, of necessity, are either not included in its pages, or have been treated somewhat less fully than their present importance demands. With the object, therefore, of remedying these omissions, this Supplement is now being issued. Each subject in it is treated in a thoroughly comprehensive way; but, of course, without repeating the information already included in the body of the work.
The new matter comprises articles upon
- Abacus, Counters, Speed Indicators, and Slide Rule.
- Agricultural Implements and Machinery.
- Air Compressors.
- Animal Charcoal Machinery.
- Antimony.
- Axles and Axle-boxes.
- Barn Machinery.
- Belts and Belting.
- Blasting.
- Boilers.
- Brakes.
- Brick Machinery.
- Bridges.
- Cages for Mines.
- Calculus, Differential and Integral.
- Canals.
- Carpentry.
- Cast Iron.
- Cement, Concrete, Limes, and Mortar.
- Chimney Shafts.
- Coal Cleansing and Washing.
- Coal Mining.
- Coal Cutting Machines.
- Coke 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.
NOW COMPLETE.
With nearly 1500 illustrations, in super-royal 8vo, in 5 Divisions, cloth. Divisions 1 to 4, 13s. 6d. each; Division 5, 17s. 6d.; or 2 vols., cloth, £3 10s.
SPONS’ ENCYCLOPÆDIA
OF THE
INDUSTRIAL ARTS, MANUFACTURES, and COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS.
Edited by C. G. WARNFORD LOCK, F.L.S.
Among the more important of the subjects treated of, are the following:—
- Acids, 207 pp. 220 figs.
- Alcohol, 23 pp. 16 figs.
- Alcoholic Liquors, 13 pp.
- Alkalies, 89 pp. 78 figs.
- Alloys.
- Alum.
- Asphalt.
- Assaying.
- Beverages, 89 pp. 29 figs.
- Blacks.
- Bleaching Powder, 15 pp.
- Bleaching, 51 pp. 48 figs.
- Candles, 18 pp. 9 figs.
- Carbon Bisulphide.
- Celluloid, 9 pp.
- Cements.
- Clay.
- Coal-tar Products, 44 pp. 14 figs.
- Cocoa, 8 pp.
- Coffee, 32 pp. 13 figs.
- Cork, 8 pp. 17 figs.
- Cotton Manufactures, 62 pp. 57 figs.
- Drugs, 38 pp.
- Dyeing and Calico Printing, 28 pp. 9 figs.
- Dyestuffs, 16 pp.
- Electro-Metallurgy, 13 pp.
- Explosives, 22 pp. 33 figs.
- Feathers.
- Fibrous Substances, 92 pp. 79 figs.
- Floor-cloth, 16 pp. 21 figs.
- Food Preservation, 8 pp.
- Fruit, 8 pp.
- Fur, 5 pp.
- Gas, Coal, 8 pp.
- Gems.
- Glass, 45 pp. 77 figs.
- Graphite, 7 pp.
- Hair, 7 pp.
- Hair Manufactures.
- Hats, 26 pp. 26 figs.
- Honey.
- Hops.
- Horn.
- Ice, 10 pp. 14 figs.
- Indiarubber Manufactures, 23 pp. 17 figs.
- Ink, 17 pp.
- Ivory.
- Jute Manufactures, 11 pp., 11 figs.
- Knitted Fabrics—Hosiery,
- 15 pp. 13 figs.
- Lace, 13 pp. 9 figs.
- Leather, 28 pp. 31 figs.
- Linen Manufactures, 16 pp. 6 figs.
- Manures, 21 pp. 30 figs.
- Matches, 17 pp. 38 figs.
- Mordants, 13 pp.
- Narcotics, 47 pp.
- Nuts, 10 pp.
- Oils and Fatty Substances, 125 pp.
- Paint.
- Paper, 26 pp. 23 figs.
- Paraffin, 8 pp. 6 figs.
- Pearl and Coral, 8 pp.
- Perfumes, 10 pp.
- Photography, 13 pp. 20 figs.
- Pigments, 9 pp. 6 figs.
- Pottery, 46 pp. 57 figs.
- Printing and Engraving, 20 pp. 8 figs.
- Rags.
- Resinous and Gummy Substances, 75 pp. 16 figs.
- Rope, 16 pp. 17 figs.
- Salt, 31 pp. 23 figs.
- Silk, 8 pp.
- Silk Manufactures, 9 pp. 11 figs.
- Skins, 5 pp.
- Small Wares, 4 pp.
- Soap and Glycerine, 39 pp. 45 figs.
- Spices, 16 pp.
- Sponge, 5 pp.
- Starch, 9 pp. 10 figs.
- Sugar, 155 pp. 134 figs.
- Sulphur.
- Tannin, 18 pp.
- Tea, 12 pp.
- Timber, 13 pp.
- Varnish, 15 pp.
- Vinegar, 5 pp.
- Wax, 5 pp.
- Wool, 2 pp.
- Woollen Manufactures, 58 pp. 39 figs.