Tillson, Benjamin Richards. Complete automobile instructor. $1.50. Wiley.
7–1971.
A timely companion for every one who drives a car, containing over six hundred questions with answers. It covers the ground of the principles, the operation and the care of gasoline automobiles.
“The possession of the book obviates the necessity for the new car owner’s ‘cramming’ with a mass of befuddling details at the outset, and enables him gradually to acquire a working knowledge of his machine as necessity demands it.”
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| Nation. 84: 152. F. 14, ’07. 30w. |
“Of the crop of automobile instruction books that have appeared in the last two or three years this seems to us the one the automobile owner who knows little of mechanics will find it easiest to master.”
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Tinney, W. H. Gold mining machinery; its selection, arrangement and installation: a practical handbook for the use of mine managers and engineers, with a chapter on the preparation of estimates of cost. *$5. Van Nostrand.
The volume includes a concise treatment of steam generation, water motors, gas and oil engines, engine erection, the various kinds of pumps adapted to mining work, winding machinery, air compressors, air drills, reduction of ores, transmission of power by shafting belts, compressed air and electricity, transport, piping, joints, etc.