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Title: Scott Greenwood and Co. Catalogue of Special Technical Works, 1903 - For Manufacturers, Students, and Technical Schools, by Expert Writers
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JUNE, 1903.
Catalogue
OF
_Special Technical Works_
FOR
Manufacturers, Students, and Technical
Schools
BY EXPERT WRITERS
INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
PAGE
Agricultural Chemistry 10
Air, Industrial Use of 11
Alum and its Sulphates 9
Ammonia 9
Aniline Colours 3
Animal Fats 6
Anti-corrosive Paints 4
Architecture, Terms in 30
Architectural Pottery 16
Artificial Perfumes 7
Balsams 10
Bleaching 23
Bone Products 8
Bookbinding 31
Brick-making 15, 16
Burnishing Brass 27
Carpet Yarn Printing 21
Ceramic Books 14, 15
Charcoal 8
Chemical Essays 9
Chemistry of Pottery 17
Chemistry of Dye-stuffs 23
Clay Analysis 16
Coal-dust Firing 26
Colliery Recovery Work 25
Colour Matching 21
Colour-mixing for Dyers 21
Colouring Pottery 15
Colour Theory 22
Combing Machines 24
Compounding Oils 6
Condensing Apparatus 26
Cosmetics 7
Cotton Dyeing 22
Cotton Spinning 24
Damask Weaving 20
Dampness in Buildings 29
Decorators' Books 28
Decorative Textiles 20
Dental Metallurgy 27
Dictionary of Paint Materials 3
Drying Oils 5
Drying with Air 11
Dyeing Marble 30
Dyeing Woollen Fabrics 22
Dyers' Materials 23
Dye-stuffs 23
Enamelling Metal 19, 20
Enamels 18
Engraving 31
Essential Oils 7
Evaporating Apparatus 26
External Plumbing 27
Fats 5, 6
Faults in Woollen Goods 21
Gas Firing 26
Glass-making Recipes 17
Glass Painting 18
Glue Making and Testing 8
Greases 5
History of Staffs Potteries 17
Hops 28
Hot-water Supply 28
India-rubber 13
Inks 3, 11
Iron-corrosion 4
Iron, Science of 26
Japanning 28
Lacquering 27
Lake Pigments 3
Lead and its Compounds 11
Leather Industry 13
Leather-working Materials 14
Lithography 31
Lubricants 5, 6
Manures 8, 10
Mineral Pigments 2
Mine Ventilation 25
Mine Haulage 25
Oil and Colour Recipes 3
Oil Boiling 4
Oils 5
Ozone, Industrial Use of 12
Paint Manufacture 2
Paint Materials 3
Paint-material Testing 4
Paper-pulp Dyeing 18
Petroleum 6
Pigments, Chemistry of 2
Plumbers' Work 27
Porcelain Painting 18
Pottery Clays 16
Pottery Manufacture 14
Power-loom Weaving 20
Preserved Foods 30
Printing Inks 3
Recipes for Oilmen, etc. 3
Resins 10
Risks of Occupations 12
Rivetting China, etc. 16
Scheele's Essays 9
Sealing Waxes 11
Silk Dyeing 23
Silk Throwing 19
Smoke Prevention 25
Soaps 7
Spinning 20
Staining Marble, and Bone 30
Steam Drying 11
Sugar Refining 31
Steel Hardening 26
Sweetmeats 30
Terra-cotta 16
Testing Paint Materials 4
Testing Yarns 20
Textile Fabrics 20
Textile Materials 19, 20
Timber 29
Varnishes 4
Vegetable Fats 7
Waste Utilisation 10
Water, Industrial Use 12
Water-proofing Fabrics 32
Weaving Calculations 32
Wood Waste Utilisation 29
Wood Dyeing 30
Wool Dyeing 22
Writing Inks 11
X-Ray Work 13
Yarn Testing 20
SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO.,
19 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C.
Tel. Address: "PRINTERIES, LONDON".
Tel. No. 5403, Bank
Paints, Colours and Printing Inks.
=THE CHEMISTRY OF PIGMENTS.= By ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc.
(Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S., and J. H. COSTE, F.I.C., F.C.S.
Demy 8vo. Five Illustrations. 285 pp. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=Introductory.= Light--White Light--The Spectrum--The Invisible
Spectrum--Normal Spectrum--Simple Nature of Pure Spectral Colour--The
Recomposition of White Light--Primary and Complementary Colours--
Coloured Bodies--Absorption Spectra--=The Application of Pigments.=
Uses of Pigments: Artistic, Decorative, Protective--Methods of
Application of Pigments: Pastels and Crayons, Water Colour, Tempera
Painting, Fresco, Encaustic Painting, Oil-colour Painting, Keramic Art,
Enamel, Stained and Painted Glass, Mosaic--=Inorganic Pigments.= White
Lead--Zinc White--Enamel White--Whitening--Red Lead--Litharge--
Vermilion--Royal Scarlet--The Chromium Greens--Chromates of Lead, Zinc,
Silver and Mercury--Brunswick Green--The Ochres--Indian Red--Venetian
Red--Siennas and Umbers--Light Red--Cappagh Brown--Red Oxides--Mars
Colours--Terre Verte--Prussian Brown--Cobalt Colours--Coeruleum--Smalt
--Copper Pigments--Malachite--Bremen Green--Scheele's Green--Emerald
Green--Verdigris--Brunswick Green--Non-arsenical Greens--Copper Blues
--Ultramarine--Carbon Pigments--Ivory Black--Lamp Black--Bistre--Naples
Yellow--Arsenic Sulphides: Orpiment, Realgar--Cadmium Yellow--Vandyck
Brown--=Organic Pigments.= Prussian Blue--Natural Lakes--Cochineal--
Carmine--Crimson--Lac Dye--Scarlet--Madder--Alizarin--Campeachy--
Quercitron--Rhamnus--Brazil Wood--Alkanet--Santal Wood--Archil--Coal-tar
Lakes--Red Lakes--Alizarin Compounds--Orange and Yellow Lakes--Green
and Blue Lakes--Indigo--Dragon's Blood--Gamboge--Sepia--Indian Yellow,
Puree--Bitumen, Asphaltum, Mummy--=Index.=
=THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT.= A Practical Handbook for Paint
Manufacturers, Merchants and Painters. By J. CRUICKSHANK
SMITH, B.Sc. Demy 8vo. 1901. 200 pp. Sixty Illustrations and
One Large Diagram. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Preparation of Raw Material--Storing of Raw Material--Testing and
Valuation of Raw Material--Paint Plant and Machinery--The Grinding of
White Lead--Grinding of White Zinc--Grinding of other White Pigments
--Grinding of Oxide Paints--Grinding of Staining Colours--Grinding of
Black Paints--Grinding of Chemical Colours--Yellows--Grinding of
Chemical Colours--Blues--Grinding Greens--Grinding Reds--Grinding
Lakes--Grinding Colours in Water--Grinding Colours in Turpentine--The
Uses of Paint--Testing and Matching Paints--Economic Considerations
--Index.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE PIGMENTS.= Containing
Directions for the Manufacture of all Artificial, Artists
and Painters' Colours, Enamel, Soot and Metallic Pigments. A
Text-book for Manufacturers, Merchants, Artists and
Painters. By Dr. JOSEF BERSCH. Translated by A. C. WRIGHT,
M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Forty-three Illustrations. 476
pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies 13s.
6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Physico-chemical Behaviour of Pigments--Raw Materials
Employed in the Manufacture of Pigments--Assistant Materials--Metallic
Compounds--The Manufacture of Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of
White Lead--Enamel White--Washing Apparatus--Zinc White--Yellow Mineral
Pigments--Chrome Yellow--Lead Oxide Pigments--Other Yellow Pigments--
Mosaic Gold--Red Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of Vermilion--
Antimony Vermilion--Ferric Oxide Pigments--Other Red Mineral Pigments
--Purple of Cassius--Blue Mineral Pigments--Ultramarine--Manufacture
of Ultramarine--Blue Copper Pigments--Blue Cobalt Pigments--Smalts--
Green Mineral Pigments--Emerald Green--Verdigris--Chromium Oxide--Other
Green Chromium Pigments--Green Cobalt Pigments--Green Manganese
Pigments--Compounded Green Pigments--Violet Mineral Pigments--Brown
Mineral Pigments--Brown Decomposition Products--Black Pigments--
Manufacture of Soot Pigments--Manufacture of Lamp Black--The
Manufacture of Soot Black without Chambers--Indian Ink--Enamel
Colours--Metallic Pigments--Bronze Pigments--Vegetable Bronze Pigments.
PIGMENTS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN--Lakes--Yellow Lakes--Red Lakes--Manufacture
of Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Lac--Safflower or Carthamine
Red--Madder and its Colouring Matters--Madder Lakes--Manjit (Indian
Madder)--Lichen Colouring Matters--Red Wood Lakes--The Colouring
Matters of Sandal Wood and Other Dye Woods--Blue Lakes--Indigo
Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Log Wood--Green Lakes--Brown Organic
Pigments--Sap Colours--Water Colours--Crayons--Confectionery
Colours--The Preparation of Pigments for Painting--The Examination of
Pigments--Examination of Lakes--The Testing of Dye-Woods--The Design of
a Colour Works--Commercial Names of Pigments--Appendix: Conversion of
Metric to English Weights and Measures--Centigrade and Fahrenheit
Thermometer Scales--Index.
=DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED
PREPARATIONS.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp.
1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF LAKE PIGMENTS FROM ARTIFICIAL COLOURS.= By
FRANCIS H. JENNISON, F.I.C., F.C.S. =Sixteen Coloured Plates,
showing Specimens of Eighty-nine Colours, specially prepared
from the Recipes given in the Book.= 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters--The Nature and
Manipulation of Artificial Colours--Lake-forming Bodies for Acid
Colours--Lake-forming Bodies' Basic Colours--Lake Bases--The Principles
of Lake Formation--Red Lakes--Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and
Black Lakes--The Production of Insoluble Azo Colours in the Form of
Pigments--The General Properties of Lakes Produced from Artificial
Colours--Washing, Filtering and Finishing--Matching and Testing Lake
Pigments--Index.
=RECIPES FOR THE COLOUR, PAINT, VARNISH, OIL, SOAP AND
DRYSALTERY TRADES.= Compiled by AN ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. 350
pp. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and British
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Pigments or Colours for Paints, Lithographic and Letterpress Printing
Inks, etc.--Mixed Paints and Preparations for Paint-making, Painting,
Lime-washing, Paperhanging, etc.--Varnishes for Coach-builders,
Cabinetmakers, Wood-workers, Metal-workers, Photographers, etc.--Soaps
for Toilet, Cleansing, Polishing, etc.--Perfumes--Lubricating Greases,
Oils, etc.--Cements, Pastes, Glues and Other Adhesive Preparations--
Writing, Marking, Endorsing and Other Inks--Sealing-wax and Office
Requisites--Preparations for the Laundry, Kitchen, Stable and General
Household Uses--Disinfectant Preparations--Miscellaneous Preparations
--Index.
=OIL COLOURS AND PRINTING INKS.= By LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS.
Translated from the German. 215 pp. Crown 8vo. 56
Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies,
5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.
Contents.
Linseed Oil--Poppy Oil--Mechanical Purification of Linseed Oil--
Chemical Purification of Linseed Oil--Bleaching Linseed Oil--Oxidizing
Agents for Boiling Linseed Oil--Theory of Oil Boiling--Manufacture of
Boiled Oil--Adulterations of Boiled Oil--Chinese Drying Oil and Other
Specialities--Pigments for House and Artistic Painting and Inks--
Pigment for Printers' Black Inks--Substitutes for Lampblack--Machinery
for Colour Grinding and Rubbing--Machines for mixing Pigments with the
Vehicle--Paint Mills--Manufacture of House Oil Paints--Ship Paints--
Luminous Paint--Artists' Colours--Printers' Inks:--VEHICLES--Printers'
Inks:--PIGMENTS and MANUFACTURE--Index.
(_See also Writing Inks, p. 11._)
=SIMPLE METHODS FOR TESTING PAINTERS' MATERIALS.= By A. C.
WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Crown 8vo. 160 pp.
1903. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.
Contents.
Necessity for Testing--Standards--Arrangement--The Apparatus--The
Reagents--Practical Tests--Dry Colours--Stiff Paints--Liquid and Enamel
Paints--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Driers--Putty--Linseed
Oil--Turpentine--Water Stains--The Chemical Examination--Dry Colours
and Paints--White Pigments and Paints--Yellow Pigments and Paints--Blue
Pigments and Paints--Green Pigments and Paints--Red Pigments and
Paints--Brown Pigments and Paints--Black Pigments and Paints--Oil
Varnishes--Linseed Oil--Turpentine.
=IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS.=
Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two
Illustrations. 275 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Iron-rust and its Formation--Protection from Rusting by Paint--Grounding
the Iron with Linseed Oil, etc.--Testing Paints--Use of Tar for Painting
on Iron--Anti-corrosive Paints--Linseed Varnish--Chinese Wood Oil--Lead
Pigments--Iron Pigments--Artificial Iron Oxides--Carbon--Preparation of
Anti-corrosive Paints--Results of Examination of Several Anti-corrosive
Paints--Paints for Ship's Bottoms--Anti-fouling Compositions--Various
Anti-corrosive and Ship's Paints--Official Standard Specifications for
Ironwork Paints--Index.
=THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATERIALS USED IN PAINT AND
COLOUR MANUFACTURE.= By M. W. JONES, F.C.S. A Book for the
Laboratories of Colour Works. 88 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Aluminium Compounds--China Clay--Iron Compounds--Potassium Compounds
--Sodium Compounds--Ammonium Hydrate--Acids--Chromium Compounds--Tin
Compounds--Copper Compounds--Lead Compounds--Zinc Compounds--Manganese
Compounds--Arsenic Compounds--Antimony Compounds--Calcium Compounds--
Barium Compounds--Cadmium Compounds--Mercury Compounds--Ultramarine--
Cobalt and Carbon Compounds--Oils--Index.
=STUDENTS' MANUAL OF PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS AND VARNISHES.= By
JOHN FURNELL. Crown 8vo. 10 Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Plant--Chromes--Blues--Greens--Earth
Colours--Blacks--Reds--Lakes--Whites--Painters' Oils--Turpentine--Oil
Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Liquid Paints--Enamel Paints.
Varnishes and Drying Oils.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL REFINING AND BOILING, AND
KINDRED INDUSTRIES.= Translated from the French of ACH.
LIVACHE, Ingénieur Civil des Mines. Greatly Extended and
Adapted to English Practice, with numerous Original Recipes
by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. 27 Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo.
1899. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Resins--Solvents: Natural, Artificial, Manufacture, Storage, Special
Use--Colouring: Principles, Vegetable, Coal Tar, Coloured Resinates,
Coloured Oleates and Linoleates--Gum Running: Melting Pots, Mixing
Pans--Spirit Varnish Manufacture: Cold Solution Plant, Mechanical
Agitators, Storage Plant--Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses of the
Spirit Varnishes--Manufacture of Varnish Stains--Manufacture of
Lacquers--Manufacture of Spirit Enamels--Analysis of Spirit Varnishes
--Physical and Chemical Constants of Resins--Table of Solubility of
Resins in different Menstrua--Systematic qualitative Analysis of
Resins, Hirschop's tables--Drying Oils--Oil Refining: Processes--Oil
Boiling--Driers--Liquid Driers--Solidified Boiled Oil--Manufacture of
Linoleum--Manufacture of India Rubber Substitutes--Printing Ink
Manufacture--Lithographic Ink Manufacture--Manufacture of Oil
Varnishes--Running and Special Treatment of Amber, Copal, Kauri,
Manilla--Addition of Oil to Resin--Addition of Resin to Oil--Mixed
Processes--Solution in Cold of previously Fused Resin--Dissolving
Resins in Oil, etc., under pressure--Filtration--Clarification--
Storage--Ageing--Coachmakers' Varnishes and Japans--Oak Varnishes
--Japanners' Stoving Varnishes--Japanners' Gold Size--Brunswick
Black--Various Oil Varnishes--Oil-Varnish Stains--Varnishes for
"Enamels"--India Rubber Varnishes--Varnishes Analysis: Processes,
Matching--Faults in Varnishes: Cause, Prevention--Experiments and
Exercises.
=DRYING OILS, BOILED OIL AND SOLID AND LIQUID DRIERS.= By L.
E. ANDÉS. Expressly Written for this Series of Special
Technical Books, and the Publishers hold the Copyright for
English and Foreign Editions. Forty-two Illustrations. 342
pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s.
6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Properties of the Drying Oils; Cause of the Drying Property; Absorption
of Oxygen; Behaviour towards Metallic Oxides, etc.--The Properties of
and Methods for obtaining the Drying Oils--Production of the Drying
Oils by Expression and Extraction; Refining and Bleaching; Oil Cakes
and Meal; The Refining and Bleaching of the Drying Oils; The Bleaching
of Linseed Oil--The Manufacture of Boiled Oil; The Preparation of
Drying Oils for Use in the Grinding of Paints and Artists' Colours and
in the Manufacture of Varnishes by Heating over a Fire or by Steam, by
the Cold Process, by the Action of Air, and by Means of the Electric
Current; The Driers used in Boiling Linseed Oil; The Manufacture of
Boiled Oil and the Apparatus therefor; Livache's Process for Preparing
a Good Drying Oil and its Practical Application--The Preparation of
Varnishes for Letterpress, Lithographic and Copperplate Printing, for
Oilcloth and Waterproof Fabrics; The Manufacture of Thickened Linseed
Oil, Burnt Oil, Stand Oil by Fire Heat, Superheated Steam, and by a
Current of Air--Behaviour of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oils towards
Atmospheric Influences, Water, Acids and Alkalies--Boiled Oil
Substitutes--The Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from Linseed
Oil and Rosin; Linolic Acid Compounds of the Driers--The Adulteration
and Examination of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oil.
Oils, Fats, Soaps and Perfumes.
=LUBRICATING OILS, FATS AND GREASES=: Their Origin,
Preparation, Properties, Uses and Analyses. A Handbook for
Oil Manufacturers, Refiners and Merchants, and the Oil and
Fat Industry in General. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Second
Revised and Enlarged Edition. Sixty-five Illustrations. 317
pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory.= Oils and Fats, Fatty Oils and Fats, Hydrocarbon Oils,
Uses of Oils--=Hydrocarbon Oils.= Distillation, Simple Distillation,
Destructive Distillation, Products of Distillation, Hydrocarbons,
Paraffins, Olefins, Napthenes--=Scotch Shale Oils.= Scotch Shales,
Distillation of Scotch Oils, Shale Retorts, Products of Distilling
Shales, Separating Products, Treating Crude Shale Oil, Refining Shale
Oil, Shale Oil Stills, Shale Naphtha Burning Oils, Lubricating Oils,
Wax--=Petroleum.= Occurrence, Geology, Origin, Composition, Extraction,
Refining, Petroleum Stills, Petroleum Products, Cylinder Oils, Russian
Petroleum, Deblooming Mineral Oils--=Vegetable and Animal Oils.=
Introduction, Chemical Composition of Oils and Fats, Fatty Acids,
Glycerine, Extraction of Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils, Animal
Oils, Vegetable Oils, Rendering, Pressing, Refining, Bleaching,
Tallow, Tallow Oil, Lard Oil, Neatsfoot Oil, Palm Oil, Palm Nut Oil,
Cocoanut Oil, Castor Oil, Olive Oil, Rape and Colza Oils, Arachis Oil,
Niger Seed Oil, Sperm Oils, Whale Oil, Seal Oil, Brown Oils, Lardine,
Thickened Rape Oil--=Testing and Adulteration of Oils.= Specific
Gravity, Alkali Tests, Sulphuric Acid Tests, Free Acids in Oils,
Viscosity Tests, Flash and Fire Tests, Evaporation Tests, Iodine and
Bromide Tests, Elaidin Test, Melting Point of Fat, Testing Machines--
=Lubricating Greases.= Rosin Oil, Anthracene Oil, Making Greases,
Testing and Analysis of Greases--=Lubrication.= Friction and
Lubrication, Lubricant, Lubrication of Ordinary Machinery, Spontaneous
Combustion of Oils, Stainless Oils, Lubrication of Engine Cylinders,
Cylinder Oils--=Appendices.= A. Table of Baume's Hydrometer--B. Table of
Thermometric Degrees--C. Table of Specific Gravities of Oils--=Index.=
=TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM=: Oil Fields of the World--Their
History, Geography and Geology--Annual Production and
Development--Oil-well Drilling--Transport. By HENRY
NEUBERGER and HENRY NOALHAT. Translated from the French by
J. G. MCINTOSH. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26 Plates. Super
Royal 8vo. 1901. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other
Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Study of the Petroliferous Strata=--Petroleum--Definition--The Genesis
or Origin of Petroleum--The Oil Fields of Galicia, their History--
Physical Geography and Geology of the Galician Oil Fields--Practical
Notes on Galician Land Law--Economic Hints on Working, etc.--Roumania
--History, Geography, Geology--Petroleum in Russia--History--Russian
Petroleum (_continued_)--Geography and Geology of the Caucasian Oil
Fields--Russian Petroleum (_continued_)--The Secondary Oil Fields of
Europe, Northern Germany, Alsace, Italy, etc.--Petroleum in France--
Petroleum in Asia--Transcaspian and Turkestan Territory--Turkestan--
Persia--British India and Burmah--British Burmah or Lower Burmah--
China--Chinese Thibet--Japan, Formosa and Saghalien--Petroleum in
Oceania--Sumatra, Java, Borneo--Isle of Timor--Philippine Isles--New
Zealand--The United States of America--History--Physical Geology and
Geography of the United States Oil Fields--Canadian and other North
American Oil Fields--Economic Data of Work in North America--Petroleum
in the West Indies and South America--Petroleum in the French Colonies.
=Excavations=--Hand Excavation or Hand Digging of Oil Wells.
=Methods of Boring=--Methods of Oil-well Drilling or Boring--Boring Oil
Wells with the Rope--Drilling with Rigid Rods and a Free-fall--Fabian
System--Free-fall Drilling by Steam Power--Oil-well Drilling by the
Canadian System--Drilling Oil Wells on the Combined System--Comparison
between the Combined Fauck System and the Canadian--The American System
of Drilling with the Rope--Hydraulic Boring with the Drill by Hand and
Steam Power--Rotary Drilling of Oil Wells, Bits, Steel-crowned Tools,
Diamond Tools--Hand Power and Steam Power--Hydraulic Sand-pumping--
Improvements in and different Systems of Drilling Oil Wells.
=Accidents=--Boring Accidents--Methods of preventing them--Methods of
remedying them--Explosives and the use of the "Torpedo" Levigation--
Storing and Transport of Petroleum--General Advice--Prospecting,
Management and carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations.
=General Data=--=Customary Formulæ=--Memento. Practical Part. General Data
bearing on Petroleum--Glossary of Technical Terms used in the Petroleum
Industry--Copious Index.
=THE PRACTICAL COMPOUNDING OF OILS, TALLOW AND GREASE FOR
LUBRICATION, ETC.= By AN EXPERT OIL REFINER. 100 pp. 1898.
Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory Remarks= on the General Nomenclature of Oils, Tallow and
Greases suitable for Lubrication--=Hydrocarbon Oils=--=Animal and Fish
Oils=--=Compound Oils=--=Vegetable Oils=--=Lamp Oils=--=Engine Tallow,
Solidified Oils and Petroleum Jelly=--=Machinery Greases: Loco and
Anti-friction=--=Clarifying and Utilisation of Waste Fats, Oils, Tank
Bottoms, Drainings of Barrels and Drums, Pickings Up, Dregs, etc.=--
=The Fixing and Cleaning of Oil Tanks, etc.=--=Appendix and General
Information.=
=ANIMAL FATS AND OILS=: Their Practical Production,
Purification and Uses for a great Variety of Purposes. Their
Properties, Falsification and Examination. Translated from
the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two Illustrations.
240 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Occurrence, Origin, Properties and Chemical Constitution
of Animal Fats--Preparation of Animal Fats and Oils--Machinery--
Tallow-melting Plant--Extraction Plant--Presses--Filtering Apparatus
--Butter: Raw Material and Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Beef
Lard or Remelted Butter, Testing--Candle-fish Oil--Mutton-Tallow--Hare
Fat--Goose Fat--Neatsfoot Oil--Bone Fat: Bone Boiling, Steaming Bones,
Extraction, Refining--Bone Oil--Artificial Butter: Oleomargarine,
Margarine Manufacture in France, Grasso's Process, "Kaiser's Butter,"
Jahr & Münzberg's Method, Filbert's Process, Winter's Method--Human
Fat--Horse Fat--Beef Marrow--Turtle Oil--Hog's Lard: Raw Material--
Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Examination--Lard Oil--Fish
Oils--Liver Oils--Artificial Train Oil--Wool Fat: Properties, Purified
Wool Fat--Spermaceti: Examination of Fats and Oils in General.
=VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS=: Their Practical Preparation,
Purification and Employment for Various Purposes, their
Properties, Adulteration and Examination. Translated from
the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Ninety-four Illustrations.
340 pp. Second Edition. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=General Properties=--=Estimation of the Amount of Oil in Seeds=--=The
Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils=--Apparatus for Grinding Oil
Seeds and Fruits--=Installation of Oil and Fat Works=--Extraction
Method of Obtaining Oils and Fats--Oil Extraction Installations--Press
Moulds--=Non-drying Vegetable Oils=--=Vegetable drying Oils=--=Solid
Vegetable Fats=--Fruits Yielding Oils and Fats--Wool-softening
Oils--Soluble Oils--Treatment of the Oil after Leaving the Press--
Improved Methods of Refining--=Bleaching Fats and Oils=--Practical
Experiments on the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining and
Bleaching--Testing Oils and Fats.
=SOAPS.= A Practical Manual of the Manufacture of Domestic,
Toilet and other Soaps. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. 390 pp.
66 Illustrations. 1898. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory=--=Soap-maker's Alkalies=--=Soap Fats and Oils=--
=Perfumes=--=Water as a Soap Material=--=Soap Machinery=--
=Technology of Soap-making=--=Glycerine in Soap Lyes=--=Laying out
a Soap Factory=--=Soap Analysis=--=Appendices.=
=THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTIFICIAL PERFUMES.= By
ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. 411 pp. 20
Illustrations. 1899. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries. 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=The General Properties of Essential Oils=--=Compounds occurring in
Essential Oils=--=The Preparation of Essential Oils=--=The Analysis of
Essential Oils=--=Systematic Study of the Essential Oils=--=Terpeneless
Oils=--=The Chemistry of Artificial Perfumes=--=Appendix=: Table of
Constants--=Index.=
Cosmetical Preparations.
=COSMETICS: MANUFACTURE, EMPLOYMENT AND TESTING OF ALL
COSMETIC MATERIALS AND COSMETIC SPECIALITIES.= Translated
from the German of Dr. THEODOR KOLLER. Crown 8vo. 262 pp.
1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s. net.
Contents.
Purposes and Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of
Cosmetics--Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation,
Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and Extraction Methods--Chemical
and Animal Products used in the Preparation of Cosmetics--Oils and Fats
used in the Preparation of Cosmetics--General Cosmetic Preparations--
Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes--Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and
Depilatories--Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities--Colouring Cosmetic
Preparations--Antiseptic Washes and Soaps--Toilet and Hygienic
Soaps--Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth, Mouth,
etc.--Testing and Examining the Materials Employed in the Manufacture
of Cosmetics--Index.
Glue, Bone Products and Manures.
=GLUE AND GLUE TESTING.= By SAMUEL RIDEAL, D.Sc. (Lond.),
F.I.C. Fourteen Engravings. 144 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price
10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
=Constitution and Properties=: Definitions and Sources, Gelatine,
Chondrin and Allied Bodies, Physical and Chemical Properties,
Classification, Grades and Commercial Varieties--=Raw Materials and
Manufacture=: Glue Stock, Lining, Extraction, Washing and Clarifying,
Filter Presses, Water Supply, Use of Alkalies, Action of Bacteria and
of Antiseptics, Various Processes, Cleansing, Forming, Drying,
Crushing, etc., Secondary Products--=Uses of Glue=: Selection and
Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding,
Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.,
Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and Caoutchouc--
=Gelatine=: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine, Photographic
Uses, Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine, Artificial Silk,
Cements, Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat Extracts, Isinglass, Medicinal
and other Uses, Bacteriology--=Glue Testing=: Review of Processes,
Chemical Examination, Adulteration, Physical Tests, Valuation of Raw
Materials--=Commercial Aspects.=
=BONE PRODUCTS AND MANURES=: An Account of the most recent
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fat, Glue, Animal
Charcoal, Size, Gelatine and Manures. By THOMAS LAMBERT,
Technical and Consulting Chemist. Illustrated by Twenty-one
Plans and Diagrams. 162 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Chemical Composition of Bones--Arrangement of Factory--Crushing of
Bones--Treatment with Benzene--Benzene in Crude Fat--Analyses of
Clarified Fats--Mechanical Cleansing of Bones--Animal Charcoal--Tar and
Ammoniacal Liquor, Char and Gases, from good quality Bones--Method of
Retorting the Bones--Analyses of Chars--"Spent" Chars--Cooling of Tar
and Ammoniacal Vapours--Value of Nitrogen for Cyanide of Potash--Bone
Oil--Marrow Bones--Composition of Marrow Fat--Premier Juice--Buttons--
Properties of Glue--Glutin and Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--
Washing--Boiling of Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Acid Steeping
of Bones--Water System of Boiling Bones--Steam Method of Treating
Bones--Nitrogen in the Treated Bones--Glue-Boiling and Clarifying-House
--Plan showing Arrangement of Clarifying Vats--Plan showing Position of
Evaporators--Description of Evaporators--Sulphurous Acid Generator--
Clarification of Liquors--Section of Drying-House--Specification of a
Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation and Composition of Size--Concentrated
Size--Properties of Gelatine--Preparation of Skin Gelatine--Washing--
Bleaching--Boiling--Clarification--Evaporation--Drying--Bone Gelatine
--Selecting Bones--Crushing--Dissolving--Bleaching--Boiling--Properties
of Glutin and Chondrin--Testing of Glues and Gelatines--The Uses of
Glue, Gelatine and Size in Various Trades--Soluble and Liquid
Glues--Steam and Waterproof Glues--=Manures=--Importation of Food
Stuffs--Soils--Germination--Plant Life--=Natural Manures=--Water and
Nitrogen in Farmyard Manure--Full Analysis of Farmyard Manure--Action
on Crops--Water-Closet System--Sewage Manure--Green Manures--=Artificial
Manures=--=Mineral Manures=--Nitrogenous Matters--Shoddy--Hoofs and
Horns--Leather Waste--Dried Meat--Dried Blood--Superphosphates--
Composition--Manufacture--Section of Manure-Shed--First and Ground
Floor Plans of Manure-Shed--Quality of Acid Used--Mixings--Special
Manures--Potato Manure--Dissolved Bones--Dissolved Bone Compound--
Enriched Peruvian Guano--Special Manure for Garden Stuffs, etc.--
Special Manures--Analyses of Raw and Finished Products--Common Raw
Bones--Degreased Bones--Crude Fat--Refined Fat--Degelatinised Bones
--Animal Charcoal--Bone Superphosphates--Guanos--Dried Animal Products
--Potash Compounds--Sulphate of Ammonia--Extraction in Vacuo--French
and British Gelatines compared--Index.
Chemicals, Waste Products and Agricultural Chemistry.
REISSUE OF =CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. SCHEELE=. First Published
in English in 1786. Translated from the Academy of Sciences
at Stockholm, with Additions. 300 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Memoir: C. W. Scheele and his work (written for this edition by J. G.
McIntosh)--On Fluor Mineral and its Acid--On Fluor Mineral--Chemical
Investigation of Fluor Acid, with a View to the Earth which it Yields,
by Mr. Wiegler--Additional Information Concerning Fluor Minerals--On
Manganese, Magnesium, or Magnesia Vitrariorum--On Arsenic and its
Acid--Remarks upon Salts of Benzoin--On Silex, Clay and Alum--Analysis
of the Calculus Vesical--Method of Preparing Mercurius Dulcis Via
Humida--Cheaper and more Convenient Method of Preparing Pulvis
Algarothi--Experiments upon Molybdæna--Experiments on Plumbago--Method
of Preparing a New Green Colour--Of the Decomposition of Neutral Salts
by Unslaked Lime and Iron--On the Quantity of Pure Air which is Daily
Present in our Atmosphere--On Milk and its Acid--On the Acid of
Saccharum Lactis--On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus or
Tungsten--Experiments and Observations on Ether--Index.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF ALUM AND THE SULPHATES AND OTHER SALTS OF
ALUMINA AND IRON.= Their Uses and Applications as Mordants in
Dyeing and Calico Printing, and their other Applications in
the Arts, Manufactures, Sanitary Engineering, Agriculture
and Horticulture. Translated from the French of LUCIEN
GESCHWIND. 195 Illustrations. 400 pp. Royal 8vo. 1901. Price
12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries,
15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Theoretical Study of Aluminium, Iron, and Compounds of these
Metals=--Aluminium and its Compounds--Iron and Iron Compounds.
=Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphates and Sulphates of Iron=--Manufacture
of Aluminium Sulphate and the Alums--Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron.
=Uses of the Sulphates of Aluminium and Iron=--Uses of Aluminium Sulphate
and Alums--Application to Wool and Silk--Preparing and using Aluminium
Acetates--Employment of Aluminium Sulphate in Carbonising Wool--The
Manufacture of Lake Pigments--Manufacture of Prussian Blue--Hide and
Leather Industry--Paper Making--Hardening Plaster--Lime Washes--
Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood, etc.--Purification of Waste
Waters--=Uses and Applications of Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric
Sulphates=--Dyeing--Manufacture of Pigments--Writing Inks--Purification
of Lighting Gas--Agriculture--Cotton Dyeing--Disinfectant--Purifying
Waste Liquors--Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric Acid--Fertilising.
=Chemical Characteristics of Iron and Aluminium=--=Analysis of Various
Aluminous or Ferruginous Products=--Aluminium--=Analysing Aluminium
Products=--Alunite Alumina--Sodium Aluminate--Aluminium Sulphate--
=Iron=--Analytical Characteristics of Iron Salts--Analysis of
Pyritic Lignite--Ferrous and Ferric Sulphates--Rouil Mordant--Index.
=AMMONIA AND ITS COMPOUNDS=: Their Manufacture and Uses. By
CAMILLE VINCENT, Professor at the Central School of Arts and
Manufactures, Paris. Translated from the French by M. J.
SALTER. Royal 8vo. 114 pp. 1901. Thirty-two Illustrations.
Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries,
6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=General Considerations=: Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products; Human
Urine as a Source of Ammonia--=Extraction of Ammoniacal Products from
Sewage=--=Extraction of Ammonia from Gas Liquor=--=Manufacture of
Ammoniacal Compounds from Bones, Nitrogenous Waste, Beetroot Wash and
Peat=--=Manufacture of Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate
and Carbonate=--=Recovery of Ammonia from the Ammonia-Soda Mother
Liquors=--=Index.=
=ANALYSIS OF RESINS AND BALSAMS.= Translated from the German
of Dr. KARL DIETERICH. Demy 8vo. 340 pp. 1901. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Definition of Resins in General--Definition of Balsams, and especially
the Gum Resins--External and Superficial Characteristics of Resinous
Bodies--Distinction between Resinous Bodies and Fats and Oils--Origin,
Occurrence and Collection of Resinous Substances--Classification--
Chemical Constituents of Resinous Substances--Resinols--Resinot
Annols--Behaviour of Resin Constituents towards the Cholesterine
Reactions--Uses and Identification of Resins--Melting-point--Solvents
--Acid Value--Saponification Value--Resin Value--Ester and Ether
Values--Acetyl and Corbonyl Value--Methyl Value--Resin Acid--Systematic
Résumé of the Performance of the Acid and Saponification Value Tests.
=Balsams=--Introduction--Definitions--Canada Balsam--Copaiba Balsam--
Angostura Copaiba Balsam--Babia Copaiba Balsam--Carthagena Copaiba
Balsam--Maracaibo Copaiba Balsam--Maturin Copaiba Balsam--Gurjum
Copaiba Balsam--Para Copaiba Balsam--Surinam Copaiba Balsam--West
African Copaiba Balsam--Mecca Balsam--Peruvian Balsam--Tolu Balsam--
Acaroid Resin--Amine--Amber--African and West Indian Kino--Bengal
Kino--Labdanum--Mastic--Pine Resin--Sandarach--Scammonium--Shellac--
Storax--Adulteration of Styrax Liquidus Crudus--Purified Storax--Styrax Crudus Colatus--Tacamahac--Thapsia
Resin--Turpentine--Chios Turpentine--Strassburg Turpentine--Turpeth
Turpentine. =Gum Resins=--Ammoniacum--Bdellium--Euphorbium--Galbanum
--Gamboge--Lactucarium--Myrrh--Opopanax--Sagapenum--Olibanum or
Incense--Acaroid Resin--Amber--Thapsia Resin--Index.
=MANUAL OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.= By HERBERT INGLE, F.I.C.,
Lecturer on Agricultural Chemistry, the Yorkshire College;
Lecturer in the Victoria University. 388 pp. 11 Illustrations.
1902. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
Introduction--The Atmosphere--The Soil--The Reactions occurring in
Soils--The Analysis of Soils--Manures, Natural--Manures (continued)
--The Analysis of Manures--The Constituents of Plants--The Plant--
Crops--The Animal--Foods and Feeding--Milk and Milk Products--The
Analysis of Milk and Milk Products--Miscellaneous Products used in
Agriculture--Appendix--Index.
=THE UTILISATION OF WASTE PRODUCTS.= A Treatise on the
Rational Utilisation, Recovery and Treatment of Waste
Products of all kinds. By Dr. THEODOR KOLLER. Translated
from the Second Revised German Edition. Twenty-two
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Waste of Towns--=Ammonia and Sal-Ammoniac=--Rational Processes for
Obtaining these Substances by Treating Residues and Waste--Residues in
the Manufacture of Aniline Dyes--Amber Waste--Brewers' Waste--Blood
and Slaughter-House Refuse--Manufactured Fuels--Waste Paper and
Bookbinders' Waste--Iron Slags--Excrement--Colouring Matters from
Waste--Dyers' Waste Waters--Fat from Waste--Fish Waste--Calamine
Sludge--Tannery Waste--Gold and Silver Waste--India-rubber and
Caoutchouc Waste--Residues in the Manufacture of Rosin Oil--Wood
Waste--Horn Waste--Infusorial Earth--Iridium from Goldsmiths'
Sweepings--Jute Waste--Cork Waste--Leather Waste--Glue Makers'
Waste--Illuminating Gas from Waste and the By-Products of the
Manufacture of Coal Gas--Meerschum--Molasses--Metal Waste--By-Products
in the Manufacture of Mineral Waters--Fruit--The By-Products of Paper
and Paper Pulp Works--By-Products in the Treatment of Coal Tar
Oils--Fur Waste--The Waste Matter in the Manufacture of Parchment
Paper--Mother of Pearl Waste--Petroleum Residues--Platinum Residues--
Broken Porcelain, Earthenware and Glass--Salt Waste--Slate Waste--
Sulphur--Burnt Pyrites--Silk Waste--Soap Makers' Waste--Alkali Waste
and the Recovery of Soda--Waste Produced in Grinding Mirrors--Waste
Products in the Manufacture of Starch--Stearic Acid--Vegetable Ivory
Waste--Turf--Waste Waters of Cloth Factories--Wine Residues--Tinplate
Waste--Wool Waste--Wool Sweat--The Waste Liquids from Sugar Works--
Index.
Writing Inks and Sealing Waxes.
=INK MANUFACTURE=: Including Writing, Copying, Lithographic,
Marking, Stamping, and Laundry Inks. By SIGMUND LEHNER.
Three Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 162 pp. 1902. Translated
from the German of the Fifth Edition. Price 5s.; India and
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
Varieties of Ink--Writing Inks--Raw Materials of Tannin Inks--The
Chemical Constitution of the Tannin Inks--Recipes for Tannin
Inks--Logwood Tannin Inks--Ferric Inks--Alizarine Inks--Extract
Inks--Logwood Inks--Copying Inks--Hektographs--Hektograph Inks--Safety
Inks--Ink Extracts and Powders--Preserving Inks--Changes in Ink and
the Restoration of Faded Writing--Coloured Inks--Red Inks--Blue Inks
--Violet Inks--Yellow Inks--Green Inks--Metallic Inks--Indian Ink--
Lithographic Inks and Pencils--Ink Pencils--Marking Inks--Ink
Specialities--Sympathetic Inks--Stamping Inks--Laundry or Washing
Blue--Index.
=SEALING-WAXES, WAFERS AND OTHER ADHESIVES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD,
OFFICE, WORKSHOP AND FACTORY.= By H. C. STANDAGE. Crown 8vo.
96 pp. 1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Materials Used for Making Sealing-Waxes=--The Manufacture of
Sealing-Waxes--Wafers--Notes on the Nature of the Materials Used in
Making Adhesive Compounds--Cements for Use in the Household--Office
Gums, Pastes and Mucilages--Adhesive Compounds for Factory and Workshop
Use.
Lead Ores and Compounds.
=LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS.= By THOS. LAMBERT, Technical and
Consulting Chemist. Demy 8vo. 226 pp. Forty Illustrations.
1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; net. Plans and Diagrams.
Contents.
History--Ores of Lead--Geographical Distribution of the Lead
Industry--Chemical and Physical Properties of Lead--Alloys of
Lead--Compounds of Lead--Dressing of Lead Ores--Smelting of Lead
Ores--Smelting in the Scotch or American Ore-hearth--Smelting in the
Shaft or Blast Furnace--Condensation of Lead Fume--Desilverisation, or
the Separation of Silver from Argentiferous Lead--Cupellation--The
Manufacture of Lead Pipes and Sheets--Protoxide of Lead--Litharge and
Massicot--Red Lead or Minium--Lead Poisoning--Lead Substitutes--Zinc
and its Compounds--Pumice Stone--Drying Oils and Siccatives--Oil of
Turpentine Resin--Classification of Mineral Pigments--Analysis of Raw
and Finished Products--Tables--Index.
=NOTES ON LEAD ORES=: Their Distribution and Properties. By
JAS. FAIRIE, F.G.S. Crown 8vo. 1901. 64 pages. Price 2s.
6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
Industrial Uses of Air, Steam and Water.
=DRYING BY MEANS OF AIR AND STEAM.= Explanations, Formulæ, and
Tables for Use in Practice. Translated from the German of E.
HAUSBRAND. Two folding Diagrams and Thirteen Tables. Crown
8vo. 1901. 72 pp. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
British and Metric Systems Compared--Centigrade and Fahr. Thermometers
--Estimation of the Maximum Weight of Saturated Aqueous Vapour which
can be contained in 1 kilo. of Air at Different Pressure and
Temperatures--Calculation of the Necessary Weight and Volume of
Air, and of the Least Expenditure of Heat, per Drying Apparatus with
Heated Air, at the Atmospheric Pressure: _A_, With the Assumption that
the Air is _Completely Saturated_ with Vapour both before Entry and
after Exit from the Apparatus--_B_, When the Atmospheric Air is
Completely Saturated _before entry_, but at its _exit_ is _only_ 3/4,
1/2 or 1/4 Saturated--_C_, When the Atmospheric Air is _not_ Saturated
with Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus--Drying Apparatus,
in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created,
Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere--Drying by Means of
Superheated Steam, without Air--Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air
Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material,
Losses of Heat--Index.
(_See also "Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus," p. 26._)
=PURE AIR, OZONE AND WATER.= A Practical Treatise of their
Utilisation and Value in Oil, Grease, Soap, Paint, Glue and
other Industries. By W. B. COWELL. Twelve Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 85 pp. 1900. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Atmospheric Air; Lifting of Liquids; Suction Process; Preparing
Blown Oils; Preparing Siccative Drying Oils--Compressed Air;
Whitewash--Liquid Air; Retrocession--Purification of Water; Water
Hardness--Fleshings and Bones--Ozonised Air in the Bleaching and
Deodorising of Fats, Glues, etc.; Bleaching Textile Fibres--Appendix:
Air and Gases; Pressure of Air at Various Temperatures; Fuel; Table of
Combustibles; Saving of Fuel by Heating Feed Water; Table of
Solubilities of Scale Making Minerals; British Thermal Units Tables;
Volume of the Flow of Steam into the Atmosphere; Temperature of
Steam--Index.
=THE INDUSTRIAL USES OF WATER.
COMPOSITION--EFFECTS--TROUBLES--REMEDIES--RESIDUARY
WATERS--PURIFICATION-ANALYSIS.= By H. DE LA COUX. Royal 8vo.
400 pp. 135 Illustrations. Translated from the French.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Chemical Action of Water in Nature and in Industrial Use--Composition
of Waters--Solubility of Certain Salts in Water Considered from the
Industrial Point of View--Effects on the Boiling of Water--Effects of
Water in the Industries--Difficulties with Water--Feed Water for
Boilers--Water in Dyeworks, Print Works, and Bleach Works--Water in the
Textile Industries and in Conditioning--Water in Soap Works--Water in
Laundries and Washhouses--Water in Tanning--Water in Preparing Tannin
and Dyewood Extracts--Water in Papermaking--Water in Photography--Water
in Sugar Refining--Water in Making Ices and Beverages--Water in Cider
Making--Water in Brewing--Water in Distilling--Preliminary Treatment
and Apparatus--Substances Used for Preliminary Chemical Purification--
Commercial Specialities and their Employment--Precipitation of Matters
in Suspension in Water--Apparatus for the Preliminary Chemical
Purification of Water--Industrial Filters--Industrial Sterilisation
of Water--Residuary Waters and their Purification--Soil Filtration--
Purification by Chemical Processes--Analyses--Index.
(_See Books on Smoke Prevention, Engineering and Metallurgy, p. 26, etc._)
Industrial Hygiene.
=THE RISKS AND DANGERS TO HEALTH OF VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS AND
THEIR PREVENTION.= By LEONARD A. PARRY, M.D., B.S. (Lond.).
196 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Occupations which are Accompanied by the Generation and Scattering of
Abnormal Quantities of Dust--Trades in which there is Danger of
Metallic Poisoning--Certain Chemical Trades--Some Miscellaneous
Occupations--Trades in which Various Poisonous Vapours are Inhaled--
General Hygienic Considerations--Index.
X Rays.
=PRACTICAL X RAY WORK.= By FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.),
F.I.C., Member of the Roentgen Society of London;
Radiographer to St. George's Hospital; Demonstrator of
Physics and Chemistry, and Teacher of Radiography in St.
George's Hospital Medical School. Demy 8vo. Twelve Plates
from Photographs of X Ray Work. Fifty-two Illustrations. 200
pp. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Historical=--Work leading up to the Discovery of the X Rays--The
Discovery--=Apparatus and its Management=--Electrical Terms--Sources
of Electricity--Induction Coils--Electrostatic Machines--Tubes--Air
Pumps--Tube Holders and Stereoscopic Apparatus--Fluorescent Screens--
=Practical X Ray Work=--Installations--Radioscopy--Radiography--X Rays
in Dentistry--X Rays in Chemistry--X Rays in War--Index.
List of Plates.
_Frontispiece_--Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint.--I., Needle in
Finger.--II., Needle in Foot.--III., Revolver Bullet in Calf and
Leg.--IV., A Method of Localisation.--V., Stellate Fracture of Patella
showing shadow of "Strapping".--VI., Sarcoma.--VII., Six-weeks-old
Injury to Elbow showing new Growth of Bone.--VIII., Old Fracture of
Tibia and Fibula badly set.--IX., Heart Shadow.--X., Fractured Femur
showing Grain of Splint.--XI., Barrell's Method of Localisation.
India-Rubber and Gutta Percha.
=INDIA-RUBBER AND GUTTA PERCHA.= Translated from the French of
T. SEELIGMANN, G. LAMY TORVILHON and H. FALCONNET by JOHN
GEDDES MCINTOSH. Royal 8vo. Eighty-six Illustrations. Three
Plates. 412 pages. 1903. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=India-Rubber=--Botanical Origin--Climatology--Soil--Rational Culture
and Acclimation of the Different Species of India-Rubber Plants--
Methods of Obtaining the Latex--Methods of Preparing Raw or Crude
India-Rubber--Classification of the Commercial Species of Raw
Rubber--Physical and Chemical Properties of the Latex and of
India-Rubber--Mechanical Transformation of Natural Caoutchouc into
Washed or Normal Caoutchouc (Purification) and Normal Rubber into
Masticated Rubber--Softening, Cutting, Washing, Drying--Preliminary
Observations--Vulcanisation of Normal Rubber--Chemical and Physical
Properties of Vulcanised Rubber--General Considerations--Hardened
Rubber or Ebonite--Considerations on Mineralisation and other
Mixtures--Coloration and Dyeing--Analysis of Natural or Normal Rubber
and Vulcanised Rubber--Rubber Substitutes--Imitation Rubber.
=Gutta Percha=--Botanical Origin--Climatology--Soil--Rational
Culture--Methods of Collection--Classification of the Different Species
of Commercial Gutta Percha--Physical and Chemical Properties--Mechanical
Transformation--Methods of Analysing--Gutta Percha Substitutes--Index.
Leather Trades.
=PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LEATHER INDUSTRY.= By A. M. VILLON.
Translated by FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C.,
F.C.S.; and Corrected by an Eminent Member of the Trade. 500
pp., royal 8vo. 1901. 123 Illustrations. Price 21s.; India
and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Preface--Translator's Preface--List of Illustrations.
Part I., =Materials used in Tanning=--Skins: Skin and its Structure;
Skins used in Tanning; Various Skins and their Uses--Tannin and Tanning
Substances: Tannin; Barks (Oak); Barks other than Oak; Tanning Woods;
Tannin-bearing Leaves; Excrescences; Tan-bearing Fruits; Tan-bearing
Roots and Bulbs; Tanning Juices; Tanning Substances used in Various
Countries; Tannin Extracts; Estimation of Tannin and Tannin Principles.
Part II., =Tanning=--The Installation of a Tannery: Tan Furnaces;
Chimneys, Boilers, etc.; Steam Engines--Grinding and Trituration of
Tanning Substances: Cutting up Bark; Grinding Bark; The Grinding of Tan
Woods; Powdering Fruit, Galls and Grains; Notes on the Grinding of
Bark--Manufacture of Sole Leather: Soaking; Sweating and Unhairing;
Plumping and Colouring; Handling; Tanning; Tanning Elephants' Hides;
Drying; Striking or Pinning--Manufacture of Dressing Leather: Soaking;
Depilation; New Processes for the Depilation of Skins; Tanning; Cow
Hides; Horse Hides; Goat Skins; Manufacture of Split Hides--On Various
Methods of Tanning: Mechanical Methods; Physical Methods; Chemical
Methods; Tanning with Extracts--Quantity and Quality; Quantity; Net
Cost; Quality of Leather--Various Manipulations of Tanned Leather:
Second Tanning; Grease Stains; Bleaching Leather; Waterproofing
Leather; Weighting Tanned Leather; Preservation of Leather--Tanning
Various Skins.
Part III., =Currying=--Waxed Calf: Preparation; Shaving; Stretching or
Slicking; Oiling the Grain; Oiling the Flesh Side; Whitening and
Graining; Waxing; Finishing; Dry Finishing; Finishing in Colour;
Cost--White Calf: Finishing in White--Cow Hide for Upper Leathers:
Black Cow Hide; White Cow Hide; Coloured Cow Hide--Smooth Cow
Hide--Black Leather--Miscellaneous Hides: Horse; Goat; Waxed Goat Skin;
Matt Goat Skin--Russia Leather: Russia Leather; Artificial Russia
Leather.
Part IV., =Enamelled, Hungary and Chamoy Leather, Morocco, Parchment,
Furs and Artificial Leather=--Enamelled Leather: Varnish Manufacture;
Application of the Enamel; Enamelling in Colour--Hungary Leather:
Preliminary; Wet Work or Preparation; Aluming; Dressing or Loft Work;
Tallowing; Hungary Leather from Various Hides--Tawing: Preparatory
Operations; Dressing; Dyeing Tawed Skins; Rugs--Chamoy Leather--Morocco:
Preliminary Operations, Morocco Tanning; Mordants used in Morocco
Manufacture; Natural Colours used in Morocco Dyeing; Artificial Colours;
Different Methods of Dyeing; Dyeing with Natural Colours; Dyeing with
Aniline Colours; Dyeing with Metallic Salts; Leather Printing; Finishing
Morocco; Shagreen; Bronzed Leather--Gilding and Silvering: Gilding;
Silvering; Nickel and Cobalt--Parchment--Furs and Furriery: Preliminary
Remarks; Indigenous Furs; Foreign Furs from Hot Countries; Foreign Furs
from Cold Countries; Furs from Birds' Skins; Preparation of Furs;
Dressing; Colouring; Preparation of Birds' Skins; Preservation of
Furs--Artificial Leather: Leather made from Scraps; Compressed Leather;
American Cloth; Papier Mâché; Linoleum; Artificial Leather.
Part V., =Leather Testing and the Theory of Tanning=--Testing and
Analysis of Leather: Physical Testing of Tanned Leather; Chemical
Analysis--The Theory of Tanning and the other Operations of the Leather
and Skin Industry: Theory of Soaking; Theory of Unhairing; Theory of
Swelling; Theory of Handling; Theory of Tanning; Theory of the Action
of Tannin on the Skin; Theory of Hungary Leather Making; Theory of
Tawing; Theory of Chamoy Leather Making; Theory of Mineral Tanning.
Part VI., =Uses of Leather=--Machine Belts: Manufacture of Belting;
Leather Chain Belts; Various Belts, Use of Belts--Boot and Shoe making:
Boots and Shoes; Laces--Saddlery: Composition of a Saddle; Construction
of a Saddle--Harness: The Pack Saddle; Harness--Military Equipment--
Glove Making--Carriage Building--Mechanical Uses.
Appendix, =The World's Commerce in Leather=--Europe; America; Asia;
Africa; Australasia--Index.
=THE LEATHER WORKER'S MANUAL.= Being a Compendium of Practical
Recipes and Working Formulæ for Curriers, Bootmakers,
Leather Dressers, Blacking Manufacturers, Saddlers, Fancy
Leather Workers. By H. C. STANDAGE. 165 pp. 1900. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Blackings, Polishes, Glosses, Dressings, Renovators, etc., for Boot and
Shoe Leather--Harness Blackings, Dressings, Greases, Compositions,
Soaps, and Boot-top Powders and Liquids, etc., etc.--Leather Grinders'
Sundries--Currier's Seasonings, Blacking Compounds, Dressings,
Finishes, Glosses, etc.--Dyes and Stains for Leather--Miscellaneous
Information--Chrome Tannage--Index.
Books on Pottery, Bricks, Tiles, Glass, etc.
=THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL POTTING.= Compiled by Experts, and
Edited by CHAS. F. BINNS. Revised Third Edition and
Enlarged. 200 pp. 1901. Price 17s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
18s. 6d.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introduction.= The Rise and Progress of the Potter's Art--=Bodies.= China
and Porcelain Bodies, Parian Bodies, Semi-porcelain and Vitreous
Bodies, Mortar Bodies, Earthenwares Granite and C.C. Bodies,
Miscellaneous Bodies, Sagger and Crucible Clays, Coloured Bodies,
Jasper Bodies, Coloured Bodies for Mosaic Painting, Encaustic Tile
Bodies, Body Stains, Coloured Dips--=Glazes.= China Glazes, Ironstone
Glazes, Earthenware Glazes, Glazes without Lead, Miscellaneous Glazes,
Coloured Glazes, Majolica Colours--=Gold and Gold Colours.= Gold, Purple
of Cassius, Marone and Ruby, Enamel Coloured Bases, Enamel Colour
Fluxes, Enamel Colours, Mixed Enamel Colours, Antique and Vellum Enamel
Colours, Underglaze Colours, Underglaze Colour Fluxes, Mixed Underglaze
Colours, Flow Powders, Oils and Varnishes--=Means and Methods.=
Reclamation of Waste Gold, The Use of Cobalt, Notes on Enamel Colours,
Liquid or Bright Gold--=Classification and Analysis.= Classification of
Clay Ware, Lord Playfair's Analysis of Clays, The Markets of the World,
Time and Scale of Firing, Weights of Potter's Material, Decorated Goods
Count--Comparative Loss of Weight of Clays--Ground Felspar Calculations
--The Conversion of Slop Body Recipes into Dry Weight--The Cost
of Prepared Earthenware Clay--=Forms and Tables.= Articles of
Apprenticeship, Manufacturer's Guide to Stocktaking, Table of Relative
Values of Potter's Materials, Hourly Wages Table, Workman's Settling
Table, Comparative Guide for Earthenware and China Manufacturers in the
use of Slop Flint and Slop Stone, Foreign Terms applied to Earthenware
and China Goods, Table for the Conversion of Metrical Weights and
Measures on the Continent and South America--=Index.=
=CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY=: Being some Aspects of Technical Science
as Applied to Pottery Manufacture. Edited by CHARLES F.
BINNS. 100 pp. Demy 8vo. 1897. Price 12s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Preface--The Chemistry of Pottery--Analysis and Synthesis--Clays and
their Components--The Biscuit Oven--Pyrometry--Glazes and their
Composition--Colours and Colour-making--Index.
=COLOURING AND DECORATION OF CERAMIC WARE.= By ALEX.
BRONGNIART. With Notes and Additions by ALPHONSE SALVETAT.
Translated from the French. 200 pp. 1898. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly
net.
=A TREATISE ON THE CERAMIC INDUSTRIES.= A Complete Manual for
Pottery, Tile and Brick Works. By EMILE BOURRY. Translated
from the French by WILTON P. RIX, Examiner in Pottery and
Porcelain to the City and Guilds of London Technical
Institute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley School Board.
Royal 8vo. 1901. Over 700 pp. Price 21s.; India and
Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Part I., =General Pottery Methods=. Definition and History. Definitions
and Classification of Ceramic Products--Historic Summary of the
Ceramic Art--Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays: Pure Clay and Natural
Clays--Various Raw Materials: Analogous to Clay--Agglomerative and
Agglutinative--Opening--Fusible--Refractory--Trials of Raw Materials
--Plastic Bodies. Properties and Composition--Preparation of Raw
Materials: Disaggregation--Purification--Preparation of Bodies: By
Plastic Method--By Dry Method--By Liquid Method--Formation. Processes
of Formation: Throwing--Expression--Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley,
by Compression, by Slip Casting--Slapping--Slipping--Drying. Drying
of Bodies--Processes of Drying: By Evaporation--By Aeration--By
Heating--By Ventilation--By Absorption--Glazes. Composition and
Properties--Raw Materials--Manufacture and Application--Firing.
Properties of the Bodies and Glazes during Firing--Description of the
Kilns--Working of the Kilns--Decoration. Colouring Materials--Processes
of Decoration.
Part II., =Special Pottery Methods=. Terra Cottas. Classification: Plain
Ordinary, Hollow, Ornamental, Vitrified, and Light Bricks--Ordinary and
Black Tiles--Paving Tiles--Pipes--Architectural Terra Cottas--Vases,
Statues and Decorative Objects--Common Pottery--Pottery for Water and
Filters--Tobacco Pipes--Lustre Ware--Properties and Tests for Terra
Cottas--Fireclay Goods. Classification: Argillaceous, Aluminous,
Carboniferous, Silicious and Basic Fireclay Goods--Fireclay Mortar
(Pug)--Tests for Fireclay Goods--Faiences. Varnished Faiences--Enamelled
Faiences--Silicious Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble Work--
Feldspathic Faiences--Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General
Arrangements of Faience Potteries--Stoneware. Stoneware Properly
So-called: Paving Tiles--Pipes--Sanitary Ware--Stoneware for Food
Purposes and Chemical Productions--Architectural Stoneware--Vases,
Statues and other Decorative Objects--Fine Stoneware--Porcelain. Hard
Porcelain for Table Ware and Decoration, for the Fire, for Electrical
Conduits, for Mechanical Purposes; Architectural Porcelain, and Dull
or Biscuit Porcelain--Soft Phosphated or English Porcelain--Soft
Vitreous Porcelain, French and New Sèvres--Argillaceous Soft or Seger's
Porcelain--Dull Soft or Parian Porcelain--Dull Feldspathic Soft
Porcelain--=Index.=
=ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY.= Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled
Terra-cottas, Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware
Mosaics, Faïences and Architectural Stoneware. By LEON
LEFÊVRE. With Five Plates. 950 Illustrations in the Text,
and numerous estimates. 500 pp., royal 8vo. 1900. Translated
from the French by K. H. BIRD, M.A., and W. MOORE BINNS.
Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 17s.
6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Part I. =Plain Undecorated Pottery.=--=Clays=: Classification; General
Properties and Composition; Working of Clay-Pits--Open Pits--Underground
Pits. Preparation of the Clay. =Bricks=: Hand and Machine Moulding--
Expression Machines--Dies--Cutting-tables--General Remarks on the Choice
of Machines--Types of Installations--Estimates--Plenishing, Hand and
Steam Presses--Drying, by Exposure to Air, Without Shelter, and Under
Sheds--Drying-rooms in Tiers, Closed Drying-rooms, in Tunnels, in
Galleries--Detailed Estimates of the Various Drying-rooms, Comparison
of Prices--Transport from the Machines to the Drying-rooms--Firing--In
Clamps--In Intermittent Kilns--Continuous Kilns: with Solid Fuel: Round
Kiln, Rectangular Kiln, Chimneys (Plans and Estimates)--With Gas Fuel,
Fillard Kiln (Plans and Estimates), Water-gas Kiln--Heat Production of
the Kilns; Dimensions, Shapes, Colours, Decoration, and Quality of
Bricks--Hollow Bricks, Dimensions and Prices of Bricks, Various Shapes,
Qualities--Use of Bricks--Walls, Arches, Pavements, Flues, Cornices--
Facing with Coloured Bricks--Balustrades. =Tiles=: Manufacture--
Moulding, by Hand, by Machinery: Preparation of the Clay--Preparation
of the Slabs, Transformation into Flat Tiles, into Jointed Tiles--Screw,
Cam and Revolver Presses--Particulars of Tile-presses--Drying--
Planchettes, Shelves, Drying-barrows and Trucks--Firing--Divided
Kilns--Installation of Mechanical Tileworks--Estimates; Shapes,
Dimensions and Uses of the Principal Types of Tile--Ancient Tiles--
Foreign Tiles--Special Tiles--Ridge Tiles, Coping Tiles, Border Tiles,
Frontons, Gutters, Antefixes, Membron, Angular--Roofing Accessories:
Chimney-pots, Mitrons, Lanterns, Chimneys--Qualities of Tiles--Black
Tiles--Stoneware Tiles--Particulars of Tiles. =Pipes=: Conduit Pipes--
Manufacture--Moulding: Horizontal Machines, Vertical Machines--Drying
--Firing--=Chimney Flues=--Ventiducts and "Boisseaux," "Waggons"--
Particulars of these Products. Quarries: Plain Quarries of Ordinary
Clay; of Cleaned Clay--Machines, Cutting, Mixing, Polishing--Drying
and Firing--Applications--Particulars of Quarries. =Terra-cotta=:
History--Manufacture--Application: Balustrades, Columns, Pilasters,
Capitals, Friezes, Frontons, Medallions, Panels, Rose-windows,
Ceilings--Appendix: Official Methods of Testing Terra-cottas.
Part II. =Made-up or Decorated Pottery.=--General Remarks on the
Decoration of Pottery: Dips--Glazes: Composition, Colouring,
Preparation, Harmony with Pastes--Special Processes of Decoration--
Enamels, Opaque, Transparent, Colours, Underglaze, Over-glaze--Other
Processes: Crackling, Mottled, Flashing, Metallic Iridescence, Lustres.
Glazed and Enamelled Bricks--History: Glazing--Enamelling--Applications:
Ordinary Enamelled Bricks, Glazed Stoneware, Enamelled Stoneware--
Enamelled Tiles. Decorated Quarries: Paving Quarries--Decorated with
Dips--Stoneware: Applications--Plain or Incrusted Stoneware; Manufacture
--Application--Colouring, Manufacture, Moulding, Drying, Firing--
Applications--Facing Quarries--in Faïence--of Glazed Stoneware--of
Porcelain--Applications of Facing Quarries--Stove Quarries--Preparation
of the Pastes, Moulding, Firing, Enamelling, Decoration--Applications--
Faïences for Fireplaces. Architectural Decorated Pottery: Faïences;
Stoneware; Porcelain. Sanitary Pottery: Stoneware Pipes: Manufacture,
Firing--Applications--Sinks--Applications--Urinals, Seats and
Pans--Applications--Drinking-fountains, Washstands--Index.
=THE ART OF RIVETING GLASS, CHINA AND EARTHENWARE.= By J.
HOWARTH. Second Edition. 1900. Paper Cover. Price 1s. net;
by post, home or abroad, 1s. 1d.
=HOW TO ANALYSE CLAY.= Practical Methods for Practical Men. By
HOLDEN M. ASHBY, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvey
Medical College, U.S.A. Twenty Illustrations. 1898. Price
2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
=NOTES ON POTTERY CLAYS.= Their Distribution, Properties, Uses
and Analyses of Ball Clays, China Clays and China Stone. By
JAS. FAIRIE, F.G.S. 1901. 132 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly
net.
A Reissue of
=THE HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES; AND THE RISE AND
PROGRESS OF THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.= With
References to Genuine Specimens, and Notices of Eminent
Potters. By SIMEON SHAW. (Originally Published in 1829.) 265
pp. 1900. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory Chapter= showing the position of the Pottery Trade at the
present time (1899)--=Preliminary Remarks=--=The Potteries=, comprising
Tunstall, Brownhills, Greenfield and New Field, Golden Hill, Latebrook,
Green Lane, Burslem, Longport and Dale Hall, Hot Lane and Cobridge,
Hanley and Shelton, Etruria, Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton, Lane Delph, Foley,
Lane End--=On the Origin of the Art=, and its Practice among the early
Nations--=Manufacture of Pottery=, prior to 1700--=The Introduction of
Red Porcelain= by Messrs. Elers, of Bradwell, 1690--=Progress of the
Manufacture= from 1700 to Mr. Wedgwood's commencement in 1760--
=Introduction of Fluid Glaze=--Extension of the Manufacture of Cream
Colour--Mr. Wedgwood's Queen's Ware--Jasper, and Appointment of
Potter to Her Majesty--Black Printing--=Introduction of Porcelain.= Mr.
W. Littler's Porcelain--Mr. Cookworthy's Discovery of Kaolin and
Petuntse, and Patent--Sold to Mr. Champion--resold to the New Hall
Com.--Extension of Term--=Blue Printed Pottery.= Mr. Turner, Mr. Spode
(1), Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Spode (2), Messrs. Turner, Mr. Wood, Mr. Wilson,
Mr. Minton--Great Change in Patterns of Blue Printed--=Introduction of
Lustre Pottery.= Improvements in Pottery and Porcelain subsequent to
1800.
A Reissue of
=THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SEVERAL NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
HETEROGENEOUS COMPOUNDS USED IN MANUFACTURING PORCELAIN,
GLASS AND POTTERY.= By SIMEON SHAW. (Originally published in
1837.) 750 pp. 1900. Royal 8vo. Price 14s.; India and
Colonies, 15s.; Other Countries, 16s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
PART I., ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS.--=Introduction=: Laboratory and
Apparatus; =Elements=--=Temperature=--=Acids and Alkalies=--=The
Earths=--=Metals=.
PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS.--=Science of Mixing=--=Bodies=:
Porcelain--Hard, Porcelain--Fritted Bodies, Porcelain--Raw Bodies,
Porcelain--Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies, Stone Bodies, Ironstone,
Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted Jasper, Fritted Pearl, Fritted
Drab, Raw Chemical Utensils, Raw Stone, Raw Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw
Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw Brown, Raw Fawn, Raw Cane, Raw Red Porous, Raw
Egyptian, Earthenware, Queen's Ware, Cream Colour, Blue and Fancy
Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts, etc.--=Glazes=:
Porcelain--Hard Fritted Porcelain--Soft Fritted Porcelain--Soft Raw,
Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue Printed Porcelain, Fritted Glazes,
Analysis of Fritt, Analysis of Glaze, Coloured Glazes, Dips, Smears and
Washes; =Glasses=: Flint Glass, Coloured Glasses, Artificial Garnet,
Artificial Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial Sapphire,
Artificial Opal, Plate Glass, Crown Glass, Broad Glass, Bottle Glass,
Phosphoric Glass, British Steel Glass, Glass-Staining and Painting,
Engraving on Glass, Dr. Faraday's Experiments--=Colours=: Colour Making,
Fluxes or Solvents, Components of the Colours; =Reds, etc., from Gold=,
Carmine or Rose Colour, Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron, Blues, Yellows,
Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, Gold for Burnishing,
Printer's Oil, Lustres.
TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.
Glassware, Glass Staining and Painting.
=RECIPES FOR FLINT GLASS MAKING.= By a British Glass Master
and Mixer. Sixty Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book
of several experts in the Flint Glass Trade, containing
up-to-date recipes and valuable information as to Crystal,
Demi-crystal and Coloured Glass in its many varieties. It
contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing,
blowing, etc., as well as the most costly crystal and ruby.
Price for United Kingdom, 10s. 6d.; Abroad, 15s.; United
States, $4; strictly net.
Contents.
Ruby--Ruby from Copper--Flint for using with the Ruby for Coating--A
German Metal--Cornelian, or Alabaster--Sapphire Blue--Crysophis--Opal
--Turquoise Blue--Gold Colour--Dark Green--Green (common)--Green for
Malachite--Blue for Malachite--Black for Malachite--Black--Common
Canary Batch--Canary--White Opaque Glass--Sealing-wax Red--Flint--Flint
Glass (Crystal and Demi)--Achromatic Glass--Paste Glass--White Enamel
--Firestone--Dead White (for moons)--White Agate--Canary--Canary Enamel
--Index.
=A TREATISE ON THE ART OF GLASS PAINTING.= Prefaced with a
Review of Ancient Glass. By ERNEST R. SUFFLING. With One
Coloured Plate and Thirty-seven Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 140
pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
A Short History of Stained Glass--Designing Scale Drawings--Cartoons
and the Cut Line--Various Kinds of Glass Cutting for Windows--The
Colours and Brushes used in Glass Painting--Painting on Glass,
Dispersed Patterns--Diapered Patterns--Aciding--Firing--Fret Lead
Glazing--Index.
=PAINTING ON GLASS AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING.= A
Complete Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours
and Fluxes used for Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faïence
and Stoneware, the Coloured Pastes and Coloured Glasses,
together with a Minute Description of the Firing of Colours
and Enamels. By FELIX HERMANN, Technical Chemist. With
Eighteen Illustrations. 300 pp. Translated from the German
second and enlarged Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
History of Glass Painting--The Articles to be Painted: Glass,
Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faïence--Pigments: Metallic Pigments:
Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead Chromate, Silver
Chloride, Chromic Oxide--Fluxes: Fluxes, Felspar, Quartz, Purifying
Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching, Borax, Boracic Acid, Potassium and
Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille Flux--Preparation of the Colours for Glass
Painting--The Colour Pastes--The Coloured Glasses--Composition of the
Porcelain Colours--The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic Work--
Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Glass Gilding--Firing
the Colours: Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours on Glass, Firing Colours
on Porcelain: The Muffle--Accidents occasionally Supervening during the
Process of Firing--Remarks on the Different Methods of Painting on
Glass, Porcelain, etc.--Appendix: Cleaning Old Glass Paintings.
Paper Staining.
=THE DYEING OF PAPER PULP.= A Practical Treatise for the use
of Papermakers, Paperstainers, Students and others. By
Julius Erfurt, Manager of a Paper Mill. Translated into
English and Edited with Additions by JULIUS HÜBNER, F.C.S.,
Lecturer on Papermaking at the Manchester Municipal
Technical School. With Illustrations and =157 patterns of
paper dyed in the pulp=. Royal 8vo, 180 pp. 1901. Price 15s.;
India and Colonies. 16s.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly
net. Limited edition.
Contents.
=Behaviour of the Paper Fibres during the Process of Dyeing, Theory of
the Mordant=--=Colour Fixing Mediums= (=Mordants=)--=Influence of the
Quality of the Water Used=--=Inorganic Colours=--=Organic Colours=--
=Practical Application of the Coal Tar Colours according to their
Properties and their Behaviour towards the Different Paper Fibres=--
=Dyed Patterns on Various Pulp Mixtures=--=Dyeing to Shade=--Index.
Enamelling on Metal.
=ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING.= For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold
and Silver, and Manufacturers of Objects of Art. By PAUL
RANDAU. Translated from the German. With Sixteen
Illustrations. 180 pp. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Composition and Properties of Glass--Raw Materials for the Manufacture
of Enamels--Substances Added to Produce Opacity--Fluxes--Pigments--
Decolorising Agents--Testing the Raw Materials with the Blow-pipe
Flame--Subsidiary Materials--Preparing the Materials for Enamel
Making--Mixing the Materials--The Preparation of Technical Enamels,
The Enamel Mass--Appliances for Smelting the Enamel Mass--Smelting the
Charge--Composition of Enamel Masses--Composition of Masses for Ground
Enamels--Composition of Cover Enamels--Preparing the Articles for
Enamelling--Applying the Enamel--Firing the Ground Enamel--Applying
and Firing the Cover Enamel or Glaze--Repairing Defects in Enamelled
Ware--Enamelling Articles of Sheet Metal--Decorating Enamelled Ware--
Specialities in Enamelling--Dial-plate Enamelling--Enamels for Artistic
Purposes, Recipes for Enamels of Various Colours--Index.
=THE ART OF ENAMELLING ON METAL.= By W. NORMAN BROWN.
Twenty-eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 60 pp. 1900. Price
2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
Silk Manufacture.
=SILK THROWING AND WASTE SILK SPINNING.= By HOLLINS RAYNER.
Demy 8vo. 130 Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
The Silkworm--Cocoon Reeling and Qualities of Silk--Silk Throwing--Silk
Wastes--The Preparation of Silk Waste for Degumming--Silk Waste
Degumming, Schapping and Discharging--The Opening and Dressing of
Wastes--Silk Waste "Drawing" or "Preparing" Machinery--Long Spinning--
Short Spinning--Spinning and Finishing Processes--Utilisation of Waste
Products--Noil Spinning--Exhaust Noil Spinning.
Books on Textile and Dyeing Subjects.
=THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE FIBRES=: Their Origin,
Structure, Preparation, Washing, Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing
and Dressing. By Dr. GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated from
the German by CHARLES SALTER. 320 pp. Forty-seven
Illustrations. Royal 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s. net.
Contents.
=The Textile Fibres=--Artificial Fibres--Mineral Fibres--Vegetable
Fibres--Cellulose--Cotton--Bombax Cotton--Vegetable Silk--Flax--Hemp
--Jute--Ramie, Rhea, China Grass, Nettle Fibre--Distinguishing Tests
for the Various Fibres--Animal Fibres: Silk--Animal Hairs--Sheep's
Wool--Goat Wool and Camel Wool--Artificial Wool (Wool Substitutes)--
Conditioning--=Washing, Bleaching, Carbonising=--Bleaching Agents--
Cotton Bleaching--Linen Bleaching--Jute Bleaching--Hemp Bleaching--
Ramie Bleaching--Scouring and Bleaching Silk--Washing and Bleaching
Wool--Blueing or White Dyeing--Carbonising--=Mordants and Mordanting=
--=Dyeing=--Combination of Colours: Dyeing to Pattern--Theory of Dyeing
--Classification of Dye Stuffs: Methods of Dyeing--Application of Acid
Dye Stuffs--Application of Basic Dye Stuffs--Application of Direct or
Substantive Cotton Dyes--Application of the Mordant Dyes--Application
of the Developing Dyes--Dyeing on a Manufacturing Scale: Selection of
Dye Stuffs for Dyeing--Silk Dyeing--Wool Dyeing--Cotton Dyeing--Dyeing
Mixed Fabrics--Sample Dyeings, Colorimetric Determinations, Reactions
of Dye Stuffs on the Fibre, Tests for Fastness--=Printing=--Hand
Printing--Calico Printing: Reproduction of Pattern by Direct Printing:
Thickening Agents--Employment of Mordant Dye Stuffs, Basic, Albumin,
Direct, Developing, Vat, Acid--Treatment of the Goods when Printed--
Combined Printing and Dyeing--Discharge Style Printing--Reserve Style
Printing--Topping Printing--Wool Printing--Silk Printing--Printing
Yarns, Warps, and Combed Sliver--=Dressing and Finishing=--Dressing
and Finishing--Substances used in Finishing--Loading Ingredients--
Colouring for the Dressing Preparations--Metals or their Sulphites--
Waterproofing--Fireproofing--Antiseptics for Prevention of Mould--
Application of Dressings--Drying--Stretching--Finishing: Shearing,
Damping, Calendering, Beetling, Moiré or Watered Effects, Stamping--
Finishing Woollens--Index.
=POWER-LOOM WEAVING AND YARN NUMBERING=, According to Various
Systems, with Conversion Tables. Translated from the German
of ANTHON GRUNER. =With Twenty-six Diagrams in Colours.= 150
pp. 1900. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Power-Loom Weaving in General.= Various Systems of Looms--=Mounting
and Starting the Power-Loom.= English Looms--Tappet or Treadle Looms
--Dobbies--=General Remarks on the Numbering, Reeling and Packing
of Yarn=--=Appendix=--=Useful Hints.= Calculating Warps--Weft
Calculations--Calculations of Cost Price in Hanks.
=TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS.= (The
Study of the Raw Materials and the Technology of the
Spinning Process.) By JULIUS ZIPSER. Translated from German
by CHARLES SALTER. 302 Illustrations. 500 pp. Demy 8vo.
1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
PART I.--The Raw Materials Used in the Textile Industry.
MINERAL RAW MATERIALS. VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. ANIMAL RAW MATERIALS.
PART II.--The Technology of Spinning or the Conversion of Textile
Raw Materials into Yarn.
SPINNING VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. Cotton Spinning--Installation of a
Cotton Mill--Spinning Waste Cotton and Waste Cotton Yarns--Flax
Spinning--Fine Spinning--Tow Spinning--Hemp Spinning--Spinning Hemp Tow
String--Jute Spinning--Spinning Jute Line Yarn--Utilising Jute Waste.
PART III.--Spinning Animal Raw Materials.
Spinning Carded Woollen Yarn--Finishing Yarn--Worsted Spinning--
Finishing Worsted Yarn--Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning--Shoddy
and Mungo Manufacture--Spinning Shoddy and other Wool Substitutes--
Spinning Waste Silk--Chappe Silk--Fine Spinning--Index.
=THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS.= With
Reference to Official Specifications. Translated from the
German of Dr. J. HERZFELD. Second Edition. Sixty-nine
Illustrations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Yarn Testing.= =Determining the Yarn Number=--=Testing the Length of
Yarns=--=Examination of the External Appearance of Yarn=--=Determining
the Twist of Yarn and Twist=--=Determination of Tensile Strength and
Elasticity=--=Estimating the Percentage of Fat in Yarn=--=Determination
of Moisture= (Conditioning)--=Appendix.=
=DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS.= By R. T. LORD.
Manufacturers and Designers of Carpets, Damask, Dress and
all Textile Fabrics. 200 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and
Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics--A Few Hints on
Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on
Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on
Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--Hints for Ruled-paper
Draughtsmen--The Jacquard Machine--Brussels and Wilton Carpets--
Tapestry Carpets--Ingrain Carpets--Axminster Carpets--Damask and
Tapestry Fabrics--Scarf Silks and Ribbons--Silk Handkerchiefs--Dress
Fabrics--Mantle Cloths--Figured Plush--Bed Quilts--Calico Printing.
=THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DAMASK WEAVING.= By H. KINZER and K.
WALTER. Royal 8vo. Eighteen Plates. Six Illustrations.
Translated from the German.
[_In the press._
Contents.
=The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics=--Drill (Ticking, Handloom-made)
--Whole Damask for Tablecloths--Damask with Ground- and Connecting-warp
Threads--Furniture Damask--Lampas or Hangings--Church Damasks--=The
Manufacture of Whole Damask=--Damask Arrangement with and without
Cross-Shedding--The Altered Cone-arrangement--The Principle of the
Corner Lifting Cord--The Roller Principle--The Combination of the
Jacquard with the so-called Damask Machine--The Special Damask
Machine--The Combination of Two Tyings.
=FAULTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN GOODS AND THEIR
PREVENTION.= By NICOLAS REISER. Translated from the Second
German Edition. Crown 8vo. Sixty-three Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Improperly Chosen Raw Material or Improper Mixtures--Wrong Treatment of
the Material in Washing, Carbonisation, Drying, Dyeing and Spinning--
Improper Spacing of the Goods in the Loom--Wrong Placing of Colours--
Wrong Weight or Width of the Goods--Breaking of Warp and Weft Threads
--Presence of Doubles, Singles, Thick, Loose, and too Hard Twisted
Threads as well as Tangles, Thick Knots and the Like--Errors in
Cross-weaving--Inequalities, _i.e._, Bands and Stripes--Dirty Borders
--Defective Selvedges--Holes and Buttons--Rubbed Places--Creases--
Spots--Loose and Bad Colours--Badly Dyed Selvedges--Hard Goods--Brittle
Goods--Uneven Goods--Removal of Bands, Stripes, Creases and Spots.
Dyeing, Colour Printing, Matching and Dye-stuffs.
=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= Manual for Colour
Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S.
Seventeen Illustrations. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre--Yarn Scouring--Scouring
Materials--Water for Scouring--Bleaching Carpet Yarns--Colour Making
for Yarn Printing--Colour Printing Pastes--Colour Recipes for Yarn
Printing--Science of Colour Mixing--Matching of Colours--"Hank"
Printing--Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns--Yarn Printing--Steaming
Printed Yarns--Washing of Steamed Yarns--Aniline Colours Suitable for
Yarn Printing--Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn
Printing--Appendix.
=THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING.= A Manual intended for the use
of Dyers, Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID
PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one Illustrations, =Five Coloured
Plates, and Four Plates showing Eleven Dyed Specimens of
Fabrics=. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque
and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour--Analysis of Light; Spectrum;
Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum--Examination
of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its Construction; Colourists'
Use of the Spectroscope--Colour by Absorption; Solutions and Dyed
Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight--Colour Primaries of the
Scientist _versus_ the Dyer and Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation and
Lye Dyeing; Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad
and Sombre Colours--Colour Mixing; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange and
Violets; Large Variety of Shades from few Colours; Consideration of the
Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and Blue--Secondary Colours;
Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet;
Changes in Artificial Light--Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption
Spectra of Tertiary Shades--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens
Illustrating Text--Index.
=COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES.= A Manual intended for the use
of Students of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile
Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece.
Twenty-nine Illustrations and Fourteen Specimens of Dyed
Fabrics. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of Colour--Primary
and Complementary Colour Sensations--Daylight for Colour Matching--
Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight,
Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc., etc.--Matching of
Hues--Purity and Luminosity of Colours--Matching Bright Hues--Aid of
Tinted Films--Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast--Examination
of Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights--Effect of Lustre and
Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching--Matching of Colours on
Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs, Dichroism, Fluorescence
--Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange Film--Defects of the Eye--Yellowing of
the Lens--Colour Blindness, etc.--Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings and
Linings and Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of Shades in
Artificial Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--Examination of
Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights--Electric Arc, Magnesium and
Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc.--Testing Qualities
of an Illuminant--Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of
Hue under the Artificial Lights--Study of the Causes of Abnormal
Modifications of Hue, etc.
=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H.
HURST, F.C.S. =With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two
Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Colour and Its Production.= Light, Colour, Dispersion of White Light,
Methods of Producing the Spectrum, Glass Prism and Diffraction Grating
Spectroscopes, The Spectrum, Wave Motion of Light, Recomposition of
White Light, Hue, Luminosity, Purity of Colours, The Polariscope,
Phosphorescence, Fluorescence, Interference--=Cause of Colour in
Coloured Bodies.= Transmitted Colours, Absorption Spectra of Colouring
Matters--=Colour Phenomena and Theories.= Mixing Colours, White
Light from Coloured Lights, Effect of Coloured Light on Colours,
Complementary Colours, Young Helmholtz Theory, Brewster Theory,
Supplementary Colours, Maxwell's Theory, Colour Photography--=The
Physiology of Light.= Structure of the Eye, Persistence of Vision,
Subjective Colour Phenomena, Colour Blindness--=Contrast.= Contrast,
Simultaneous Contrast, Successive Contrast, Contrast of Tone, Contrast
of Colours, Modification of Colours by Contrast, Colour Contrast in
Decorative Design--=Colour in Decoration and Design.= Colour Harmonies,
Colour Equivalents, Illumination and Colour, Colour and Textile
Fabrics, Surface Structure and Colour--=Measurement of Colour.= Colour
Patch Method, The Tintometer, Chromometer.
=THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS=: A Practical Handbook for the
Dyer and Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and
Chemist. 272 pp. Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching and
Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre--Scouring and Bleaching of
Cotton--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Principles and
Practice of Cotton Dyeing--Direct Dyeing; Direct Dyeing followed by
Fixation with Metallic Salts; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with
Developers; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Couplers; Dyeing on
Tannic Mordant; Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; Production of Colour Direct
upon Cotton Fibres; Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with Dye-stuff
Solution--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton and Wool) Fabrics--Dyeing Half
Silk (Cotton-Silk, Satin) Fabrics--Operations following Dyeing--
Washing, Soaping, Drying--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--
Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Index.
The book contains numerous recipes for the production on Cotton Fabrics
of all kinds of a great range of colours.
=THE DYEING OF WOOLLEN FABRICS.= By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical
Colourist and Chemist. Thirty-three Illustrations. Demy 8vo.
228 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
The Wool Fibre--Structure, Composition and Properties--Processes
Preparatory to Dyeing--Scouring and Bleaching of Wool--Dyeing Machinery
and Dyeing Manipulations--Loose Wool Dyeing, Yarn Dyeing and Piece
Dyeing Machinery--The Principles and Practice of Wool Dyeing--Properties
of Wool Dyeing--Methods of Wool Dyeing--Groups of Dyes--Dyeing with the
Direct Dyes--Dyeing with Basic Dyes--Dyeing with Acid Dyes--Dyeing with
Mordant Dyes--Level Dyeing--Blacks on Wool--Reds on Wool--Mordanting of
Wool--Orange Shades on Wool--Yellow Shades on Wool--Green Shades on
Wool--Blue Shades on Wool--Violet Shades on Wool--Brown Shades on
Wool--Mode Colours on Wool--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton Wool) Fabrics
--Dyeing of Gloria--Operations following Dyeing--Washing, Soaping,
Drying--Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Testing of
the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--Index.
=DYERS' MATERIALS=: An Introduction to the Examination,
Evaluation and Application of the most important Substances
used in Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching and Finishing. By PAUL
HEERMAN, Ph.D. Translated from the German by. A. C. WRIGHT,
M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Twenty-four Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 150 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
_Indicators_--_Standard Solutions_--_Solutions and Reagents in General
Use_--_Water_--_Textile Fibres_--_Hydrochloric Acid_--_Chlorides_--
_Fluorides and Bifluorides_--_Sulphuric Acid_--_Sulphates_--_Nitric
Acid and Nitrates_--_Chlorine-Oxygen Compounds_--_Sulphite Compounds_
--_Miscellaneous Compounds_--_Alkalies_--_Peroxides_--_Zinc Dust_--
_Fatty Acids and Their Salts_--_Cyanogen Compounds_--_Derivatives of
the Fats_--_Tannins_--_Aniline and Aniline Salts_--_Thickening and
Stiffening Materials_: Starch, Prepared and Soluble Starch, Dextrine,
Gum Arabic, Gum Senegal, Gum Tragacanth, Glue, Size--_Dyes_--Appendix:
Atomic Weights of the Elements--Molecular Weights of Certain
Compounds--Gravimetric Equivalents--Volumetric Equivalents--Plate I.,
Microscopic Appearance of the Textile Fibres--Plate II., Microscopic
Appearance of the Different Varieties of Starch--Index.
Reissue of
=THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON.= Translated from the
French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY.
First Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. Demy 8vo.
446 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Part I., =The Art of Dyeing Wool and Woollen Cloth, Stuffs, Yarn,
Worsted, etc.= Part II., =The Art of Dyeing Silk=. Part III., =The Art of
Dyeing Cotton and Linen Thread, together with the Method of Stamping
Silks, Cottons, etc.=
=THE CHEMISTRY OF DYE-STUFFS.= By Dr. GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS.
Translated from the Second German Edition. 412 pp. Demy 8vo.
1903. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Coal Tar--Intermediate Products in the Manufacture of
Dye-stuffs--The Artificial Dye-stuffs (Coal-tar Dyes)--Nitroso
Dye-stuffs--Nitro Dye-stuffs--Azo Dye-stuffs--Substantive Cotton
Dye-stuffs--Azoxystilbene Dye-stuffs--Hydrazones--Ketoneimides--
Triphenylmethane Dye-stuffs--Rosolic Acid Dye-stuffs--Xanthene
Dye-stuffs--Xanthone Dye-stuffs--Flavones--Oxyketone Dye-stuffs--
Quinoline and Acridine Dye-stuffs--Quinonimide or Diphenylamine
Dye-stuffs--The Azine Group: Eurhodines, Safranines and Indulines--
Eurhodines--Safranines--Quinoxalines--Indigo--Dye-stuffs of Unknown
Constitution--Sulphur or Sulphine Dye-stuffs--Development of the
Artificial Dye-stuff Industry--The Natural Dye-stuffs--Mineral
Colours--Index.
Bleaching and Washing.
=A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BLEACHING OF LINEN AND COTTON
YARN AND FABRICS.= By L. TAILFER, Chemical and Mechanical
Engineer. Translated from the French by JOHN GEDDES
MCINTOSH. Demy 8vo. 303 pp. Twenty Illusts. 1901. Price 12s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
General Considerations on Bleaching--Steeping--Washing: Its End and
Importance--Roller Washing Machines--Wash Wheel (Dash Wheel)--Stocks or
Wash Mill--Squeezing--Lye Boiling--Lye Boiling with Milk of Lime--Lye
Boiling with Soda Lyes--Description of Lye Boiling Keirs--Operations of
Lye Boiling--Concentration of Lyes--Mather and Platt's Keir--Description
of the Keir--Saturation of the Fabrics--Alkali used in Lye Boiling--
Examples of Processes--Soap--Action of Soap in Bleaching--Quality and
Quantity of Soaps to use in the Lye--Soap Lyes or Scalds--Soap Scouring
Stocks--Bleaching on Grass or on the Bleaching Green or Lawn--
Chemicking--Remarks on Chlorides and their Decolourising Action--
Chemicking Cisterns--Chemicking--Strengths, etc.--Sours--Properties of
the Acids--Effects Produced by Acids--Souring Cisterns--Drying--Drying
by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying by Air--Damages to Fabrics in
Bleaching--Yarn Mildew--Fermentation--Iron Rust Spots--Spots from
Contact with Wood--Spots incurred on the Bleaching Green--Damages
arising from the Machines--Examples of Methods used in Bleaching--
Linen--Cotton--The Valuation of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (Soda)
and General Information Regarding these Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry
--Titration of Carbonate of Soda--Comparative Table of Different
Degrees of Alkalimetrical Strength--Five Problems relative to Carbonate
of Soda--Caustic Soda, its Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated
and Caustic Alkali--Note on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda
and Mixtures of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (Soda)--Chlorometry--
Titration--Wagner's Chlorometric Method--Preparation of Standard
Solutions--Apparatus for Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in
Decolourising Chlorides--Chlorine and Decolourising Chlorides--
Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride of Lime--Hypochlorite of Soda--Brochoki's
Chlorozone--Various Decolourising Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride
of Lime and Hypochlorite of Soda--Water--Qualities of Water--Hardness
--Dervaux's Purifier--Testing the Purified Water--Different Plant for
Purification--Filters--Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye Boiling
--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn--The Installation of
a Bleach Works--Water Supply--Steam Boilers--Steam Distribution
Pipes--Engines--Keirs--Washing--Machines--Stocks--Wash Wheels--
Chemicking and Souring Cisterns--Various--Buildings--Addenda--Energy
of Decolourising Chlorides and Bleaching by Electricity and Ozone--
Energy of Decolourising Chlorides--Chlorides--Production of Chlorine
and Hypochlorites by Electrolysis--Lunge's Process for increasing the
intensity of the Bleaching Power of Chloride of Lime--Trilfer's Process
for Removing the Excess of Lime or Soda from Decolourising Chlorides--
Bleaching by Ozone.
Cotton Spinning and Combing.
=COTTON SPINNING= (First Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY, Spinning
Master, Bolton Technical School. 160 pp. Eighty-four
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 3s.; Abroad, 3s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Syllabus and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute--Cultivation, Classification, Ginning, Baling and Mixing of
the Raw Cotton--Bale-Breakers, Mixing Lattices and Hopper
Feeders--Opening and Scutching--Carding--Indexes.
=COTTON SPINNING= (Intermediate, or Second Year). By THOMAS
THORNLEY. 180 pp. Seventy Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901.
Price 5s.; India and British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute--The Combing Process--The Drawing Frame--Bobbin and Fly
Frames--Mule Spinning--Ring Spinning--General Indexes.
=COTTON SPINNING= (Honours, or Third Year). By THOMAS
THORNLEY. 216 pp. Seventy-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
1901. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute--Cotton--The Practical Manipulation of Cotton Spinning
Machinery--Doubling and Winding--Reeling--Warping--Production and
Costs--Main Driving--Arrangement of Machinery and Mill Planning--Waste
and Waste Spinning--Indexes.
=COTTON COMBING MACHINES.= By THOS. THORNLEY, Spinning Master,
Technical School, Bolton. Demy 8vo. 117 Illustrations. 300
pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
The Sliver Lap Machine and the Ribbon Cap Machine--General Description
of the Heilmann Comber--The Cam Shaft--On the Detaching and Attaching
Mechanism of the Comber--Resetting of Combers--The Erection of a
Heilmann Comber--Stop Motions: Various Calculations--Various Notes and
Discussions--Cotton Combing Machines of Continental Make--Index.
Collieries and Mines.
=RECOVERY WORK AFTER PIT FIRES.= A Description of the
Principal Methods Pursued, especially in Fiery Mines, and of
the Various Appliances Employed, such as Respiratory and
Rescue Apparatus, Dams, etc. By ROBERT LAMPRECHT, Mining
Engineer and Manager. Translated from the German.
Illustrated by Six large Plates containing Seventy-six
Illustrations. 175 pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=Causes of Pit Fires=--=Preventive Regulations=: (1) The Outbreak and
Rapid Extension of a Shaft Fire can be most reliably prevented by
Employing little or no Combustible Material in the Construction of the
Shaft; (2) Precautions for Rapidly Localising an Outbreak of Fire in
the Shaft; (3) Precautions to be Adopted in case those under 1 and 2
Fail or Prove Inefficient. Precautions against Spontaneous Ignition of
Coal. Precautions for Preventing Explosions of Fire-damp and Coal Dust.
Employment of Electricity in Mining, particularly in Fiery Pits.
Experiments on the Ignition of Fire-damp Mixtures and Clouds of Coal
Dust by Electricity--=Indications of an Existing or Incipient
Fire=--=Appliances for Working in Irrespirable Gases=: Respiratory
Apparatus; Apparatus with Air Supply Pipes; Reservoir Apparatus; Oxygen
Apparatus--=Extinguishing Pit Fires=: (_a_) Chemical Means; (_b_)
Extinction with Water. Dragging down the Burning Masses and Packing
with Clay; (_c_) Insulating the Seat of the Fire by Dams. Dam Building.
Analyses of Fire Gases. Isolating the Seat of a Fire with Dams; Working
in Irrespirable Gases ("Gas-diving"); Air-Lock Work. Complete Isolation
of the Pit. Flooding a Burning Section isolated by means of Dams.
Wooden Dams: Masonry Dams. Examples of Cylindrical and Dome-shaped
Dams. Dam Doors: Flooding the Whole Pit--=Rescue Stations=: (_a_)
Stations above Ground; (_b_) Underground Rescue Stations--=Spontaneous
Ignition of Coal in Bulk=--Index.
=VENTILATION IN MINES.= By ROBERT WABNER, Mining Engineer.
Translated from the German. Royal 8vo. Thirty Plates and
Twenty-two Illustrations. 240 pp. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=The Causes of the Contamination of Pit Air=--=The Means of Preventing
the Dangers resulting from the Contamination of Pit Air=--=Calculating
the Volume of Ventilating Current necessary to free Pit Air from
Contamination=--=Determination of the Resistance Opposed to the Passage
of Air through the Pit=--=Laws of Resistance and Formulæ therefor=--
=Fluctuations in the Temperament or Specific Resistance of a Pit=
--=Means for Providing a Ventilating Current in the Pit=--=Mechanical
Ventilation=--=Ventilators and Fans=--=Determining the Theoretical,
Initial, and True (Effective) Depression of the Centrifugal Fan=--=New
Types of Centrifugal Fan of Small Diameter and High Working Speed=--
=Utilising the Ventilating Current to the utmost Advantage and
distributing the same through the Workings=--=Artificially retarding
the Ventilating Current=--=Ventilating Preliminary Workings=--=Blind
Headings=--=Separate Ventilation=--=Supervision of Ventilation=--INDEX.
=HAULAGE AND WINDING APPLIANCES USED IN MINING.= By CARL VOLK.
Translated from the German. Royal 8vo. With Six Plates and
146 Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Haulage Appliances--Ropes--Haulage Tubs and Tracks--Cages and Winding
Appliances--Winding Engines for Vertical Shafts--Winding without
Ropes--Haulage in Levels and Inclines--The Working of Underground
Engines--Machinery for Downhill Haulage.
Engineering, Smoke Prevention and Metallurgy.
=THE PREVENTION OF SMOKE.= Combined with the Economical
Combustion of Fuel. By W. C. POPPLEWELL, M.Sc., A.M.Inst.,
C.E., Consulting Engineer. Forty-six Illustrations. 190 pp.
1901. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Fuel and Combustion--Hand Firing in Boiler Furnaces--Stoking by
Mechanical Means--Powdered Fuel--Gaseous Fuel--Efficiency and Smoke
Tests of Boilers--Some Standard Smoke Trials--The Legal Aspect of the
Smoke Question--The Best Means to be adopted for the Prevention of
Smoke--Index.
=GAS AND COAL DUST FIRING.= A Critical Review of the Various
Appliances Patented in Germany for this purpose since 1885.
By ALBERT PÜTSCH. 130 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Translated from
the German. With 103 Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Generators--Generators Employing Steam--Stirring and Feed Regulating
Appliances--Direct Generators--Burners--Regenerators and Recuperators
--Glass Smelting Furnaces--Metallurgical Furnaces--Pottery Furnace--
Coal Dust Firing--Index.
=THE HARDENING AND TEMPERING OF STEEL IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.=
By FRIDOLIN REISER. Translated from the German of the Third
Edition. Crown 8vo. 120 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; India and
British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=Steel=--=Chemical and Physical Properties of Steel, and their Casual
Connection=--=Classification of Steel according to Use=--=Testing the
Quality of Steel=--=Steel-Hardening=--=Investigation of the Causes of
Failure in Hardening=--=Regeneration of Steel Spoilt in the
Furnace=--=Welding Steel=--=Index.=
=SIDEROLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF IRON= (The Constitution of Iron
Alloys and Slags). Translated from German of HANNS FREIHERR
V. JÜPTNER. 350 pp. Demy 8vo. Eleven Plates and Ten
Illustrations. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.
Contents.
=The Theory of Solution.=--Solutions--Molten Alloys--Varieties of
Solutions--Osmotic Pressure--Relation between Osmotic Pressure and
other Properties of Solutions--Osmotic Pressure and Molecular Weight of
the Dissolved Substance--Solutions of Gases--Solid Solutions--Solubility
--Diffusion--Electrical Conductivity--Constitution of Electrolytes and
Metals--Thermal Expansion. =Micrography.=--Microstructure--The
Micrographic Constituents of Iron--Relation between Micrographical
Composition, Carbon-Content, and Thermal Treatment of Iron Alloys--The
Microstructure of Slags. =Chemical Composition of the Alloys of Iron.=
--Constituents of Iron Alloys--Carbon--Constituents of the Iron Alloys,
Carbon--Opinions and Researches on Combined Carbon--Opinions and
Researches on Combined Carbon--Applying the Curves of Solution deduced
from the Curves of Recalescence to the Determination of the Chemical
Composition of the Carbon present in Iron Alloys--The Constituents of
Iron--Iron--The Constituents of Iron Alloys--Manganese--Remaining
Constituents of Iron Alloys--A Silicon--Gases. =The Chemical Composition
of Slag.=--Silicate Slags--Calculating the Composition of Silicate
Slags--Phosphate Slags--Oxide Slags--Appendix--Index.
=EVAPORATING, CONDENSING AND COOLING APPARATUS.= Explanations,
Formulæ and Tables for Use in Practice. By E. HAUSBRAND,
Engineer. Translated by A. C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc.
(Lond.). With Twenty-one Illustrations and Seventy-six
Tables. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.
Contents.
_Re_Coefficient of Transmission of Heat, k[underscored]/, and the Mean
Temperature Difference, [Greek: theta underscored]/m--Parallel and
Opposite Currents--Apparatus for Heating with Direct Fire--The
Injection of Saturated Steam--Superheated Steam--Evaporation by Means
of Hot Liquids--The Transference of Heat in General, and Transference
by means of Saturated Steam in Particular--The Transference of Heat
from Saturated Steam in Pipes (Coils) and Double Bottoms--Evaporation
in a Vacuum--The Multiple-effect Evaporator--Multiple-effect
Evaporators from which Extra Steam is Taken--The Weight of Water which
must be Evaporated from 100 Kilos. of Liquor in order its Original
Percentage of Dry Materials from 1-25 per cent. up to 20-70 per
cent.--The Relative Proportion of the Heating Surfaces in the Elements
of the Multiple Evaporator and their Actual Dimensions--The Pressure
Exerted by Currents of Steam and Gas upon Floating Drops of Water--The
Motion of Floating Drops of Water upon which Press Currents of
Steam--The Splashing of Evaporating Liquids--The Diameter of Pipes for
Steam, Alcohol, Vapour and Air--The Diameter of Water Pipes--The Loss
of Heat from Apparatus and Pipes to the Surrounding Air, and Means for
Preventing the Loss--Condensers--Heating Liquids by Means of Steam--The
Cooling of Liquids--The Volumes to be Exhausted from Condensers by the
Air-pumps--A Few Remarks on Air-pumps and the Vacua they Produce--The
Volumetric Efficiency of Air-pumps--The Volumes of Air which must be
Exhausted from a Vessel in order to Reduce its Original Pressure to a
Certain Lower Pressure--Index.
Dental Metallurgy.
=DENTAL METALLURGY: MANUAL FOR STUDENTS AND DENTISTS.= By A.
B. GRIFFITHS, Ph.D. Demy 8vo. Thirty-six Illustrations.
1903. 200 pp. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Physical Properties of the Metals--Action of Certain
Agents on Metals--Alloys--Action of Oral Bacteria on Alloys--Theory and
Varieties of Blowpipes--Fluxes--Furnaces and Appliances--Heat and
Temperature--Gold--Mercury--Silver--Iron--Copper--Zinc--Magnesium--
Cadmium--Tin--Lead--Aluminium--Antimony--Bismuth--Palladium--Platinum
--Iridium--Nickel--Practical Work--Weights and Measures.
Plumbing, Decorating, Metal Work, etc., etc.
=EXTERNAL PLUMBING WORK.= A Treatise on Lead Work for Roofs.
By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. 180 Illustrations. 272 pp. Demy 8vo.
Second Edition Revised. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Cast Sheet Lead--Milled Sheet Lead--Roof Cesspools--Socket Pipes--
Drips--Gutters--Gutters (continued)--Breaks--Circular Breaks--Flats--
Flats (continued)--Rolls on Flats--Roll Ends--Roll Intersections--Seam
Rolls--Seam Rolls (continued)--Tack Fixings--Step Flashings--Step
Flashings (continued)--Secret Gutters--Soakers--Hip and Valley
Soakers--Dormer Windows--Dormer Windows (continued)--Dormer Tops--
Internal Dormers--Skylights--Hips and Ridging--Hips and Ridging
(continued)--Fixings for Hips and Ridging--Ornamental Ridging--
Ornamental Curb Rolls--Curb Rolls--Cornices--Towers and Finials--Towers
and Finials (continued)--Towers and Finials (continued)--Domes--Domes
(continued)--Ornamental Lead Work--Rain Water Heads--Rain Water Heads
(continued)--Rain Water Heads (continued).
=HINTS TO PLUMBERS ON JOINT WIPING, PIPE BENDING AND LEAD
BURNING.= Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. By JOHN W.
HART, R.P.C. 184 Illustrations. 313 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Pipe Bending--Pipe Bending (continued)--Pipe Bending (continued)--
Square Pipe Bendings--Half-circular Elbows--Curved Bends on Square
Pipe--Bossed Bends--Curved Plinth Bends--Rain-water Shoes on
Square Pipe--Curved and Angle Bends--Square Pipe Fixings--Joint-wiping
--Substitutes for Wiped Joints--Preparing Wiped Joints--Joint Fixings
--Plumbing Irons--Joint Fixings--Use of "Touch" in Soldering--Underhand
Joints--Blown and Copper Bit Joints--Branch Joints--Branch Joints
(continued)--Block Joints--Block Joints (continued)--Block Fixings--
Astragal Joints--Pipe Fixings--Large Branch Joints--Large Underhand
Joints--Solders--Autogenous Soldering or Lead Burning--Index.
=THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF DIPPING, BURNISHING,
LACQUERING AND BRONZING BRASS WARE.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. 35
pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.; strictly
net.
=WORKSHOP WRINKLES= for Decorators, Painters, Paper-hangers
and Others. By W. N. BROWN. Crown 8vo. 128 pp. 1901. Price
2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
=HOUSE DECORATING AND PAINTING.= By W. NORMAN BROWN.
Eighty-eight Illustrations. 150 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price
3s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=A HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ART.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Thirty-nine
Illustrations. 96 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.;
Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
=A HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING AND ENAMELLING FOR CYCLES,
BEDSTEADS, TINWARE, ETC.= By WILLIAM NORMAN BROWN. 52 pp. and
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.;
net.
=THE PRINCIPLES OF HOT WATER SUPPLY.= By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C.
With 129 Illustrations. 1900. 177 pp., demy 8vo. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Water Circulation--The Tank System--Pipes and Joints--The Cylinder
System--Boilers for the Cylinder System--The Cylinder System--The
Combined Tank and Cylinder System--Combined Independent and Kitchen
Boiler--Combined Cylinder and Tank System with Duplicate Boilers--
Indirect Heating and Boiler Explosions--Pipe Boilers--Safety Valves
--Safety Valves--The American System--Heating Water by Steam--Steam
Kettles and Jets--Heating Power of Steam--Covering for Hot Water
Pipes--Index.
Brewing and Botanical.
=HOPS IN THEIR BOTANICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL ASPECT,
AND AS AN ARTICLE OF COMMERCE.= By EMMANUEL GROSS, Professor
at the Higher Agricultural College, Tetschen-Liebwerd.
Translated from the German. Seventy-eight Illustrations.
1900. 340 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
HISTORY OF THE HOP--THE HOP PLANT--Introductory--The Roots--The
Stem--and Leaves--Inflorescence and Flower: Inflorescence and Flower of
the Male Hop; Inflorescence and Flower of the Female Hop--The Fruit and
its Glandular Structure: The Fruit and Seed--Propagation and Selection
of the Hop--Varieties of the Hop: (_a_) Red Hops; (_b_) Green Hops;
(_c_) Pale Green Hops--Classification according to the Period of
Ripening: Early August Hops; Medium Early Hops; Late Hops--Injuries to
Growth--Leaves Turning Yellow, Summer or Sunbrand, Cones Dropping Off,
Honey Dew, Damage from Wind, Hail and Rain; Vegetable Enemies of the
Hop: Animal Enemies of the Hop--Beneficial Insects on Hops--
CULTIVATION--The Requirements of the Hop in Respect of Climate,
Soil and Situation: Climate; Soil; Situation--Selection of Variety and
Cuttings--Planting a Hop Garden: Drainage; Preparing the Ground;
Marking-out for Planting; Planting; Cultivation and Cropping of the Hop
Garden in the First Year--Work to be Performed Annually in the Hop
Garden: Working the Ground; Cutting; The Non-cutting System; The Proper
Performance of the Operation of Cutting: Method of Cutting: Close
Cutting, Ordinary Cutting, The Long Cut, The Topping Cut; Proper Season
for Cutting: Autumn Cutting, Spring Cutting; Manuring; Training the Hop
Plant: Poled Gardens, Frame Training; Principal Types of Frames;
Pruning, Cropping, Topping, and Leaf Stripping the Hop Plant; Picking,
Drying and Bagging--Principal and Subsidiary Utilisation of Hops and
Hop Gardens--Life of a Hop Garden; Subsequent Cropping--Cost of
Production, Yield and Selling Prices.
=Preservation and Storage=--Physical and Chemical Structure of the Hop
Cone--Judging the Value of Hops.
=Statistics of Production=--=The Hop Trade=--Index.
Timber and Wood Waste.
=TIMBER=: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects
(Commercial and Botanical), showing the Different
Applications and Uses of Timber in Various Trades, etc.
Translated from the French of PAUL CHARPENTIER. Royal 8vo.
437 pp. 178 Illustrations. 1902. Price 12s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; net.
Contents.
=Physical and Chemical Properties of Timber=--Composition of the
Vegetable Bodies--Chief Elements--M. Fremy's Researches--Elementary
Organs of Plants and especially of Forests--Different Parts of Wood
Anatomically and Chemically Considered--General Properties of
Wood--=Description of the Different Kinds of Wood=--Principal Essences
with Caducous Leaves--Coniferous Resinous Trees--=Division of the Useful
Varieties of Timber in the Different Countries of the Globe=--European
Timber--African Timber--Asiatic Timber--American Timber--Timber of
Oceania--=Forests=--General Notes as to Forests; their Influence--
Opinions as to Sylviculture--Improvement of Forests--Unwooding and
Rewooding--Preservation of Forests--Exploitation of Forests--Damage
caused to Forests--Different Alterations--=The Preservation of Timber=
--Generalities--Causes and Progress of Deterioration--History of
Different Proposed Processes--Dessication--Superficial Carbonisation
of Timber--Processes by Immersion--Generalities as to Antiseptics
Employed--Injection Processes in Closed Vessels--The Boucherie System,
Based upon the Displacement of the Sap--Processes for Making Timber
Uninflammable--=Applications of Timber=--Generalities--Working
Timber--Paving--Timber for Mines--Railway Traverses--Accessory
Products--Gums--Works of M. Fremy--Resins--Barks--Tan--Application of
Cork--The Application of Wood to Art and Dyeing--Different Applications
of Wood--Hard Wood--Distillation of Wood--Pyroligneous Acid--Oil of
Wood--Distillation of Resins--Index.
=THE UTILISATION OF WOOD WASTE.= Translated from the German of
ERNST HUBBARD. Crown 8vo. 192 pp. 1902. Fifty Illustrations.
Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries,
6s.; net.
Contents.
General Remarks on the Utilisation of Sawdust--Employment of Sawdust
as Fuel, with and without Simultaneous Recovery of Charcoal and the
Products of Distillation--Manufacture of Oxalic Acid from Sawdust--
Process with Soda Lye; Thorn's Process; Bohlig's Process--Manufacture
of Spirit (Ethyl Alcohol) from Wood Waste--Patent Dyes (Organic
Sulphides, Sulphur Dyes, or Mercapto Dyes)--Artificial Wood and
Plastic Compositions from Sawdust--Production of Artificial Wood
Compositions for Moulded Decorations--Employment of Sawdust for
Blasting Powders and Gunpowders--Employment of Sawdust for Briquettes
--Employment of Sawdust in the Ceramic Industry and as an Addition
to Mortar--Manufacture of Paper Pulp from Wood--Casks--Various
Applications of Sawdust and Wood Refuse--Calcium Carbide--Manure--Wood
Mosaic Plaques--Bottle Stoppers--Parquetry--Fire-lighters--Carborundum
--The Production of Wood Wool--Bark--Index.
Building and Architecture.
=THE PREVENTION OF DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS=; with Remarks on the
Causes, Nature and Effects of Saline, Efflorescences and
Dry-rot, for Architects, Builders, Overseers, Plasterers,
Painters and House Owners. By ADOLF WILHELM KEIM. Translated
from the German of the second revised Edition by M. J.
SALTER, F.I.C., F.C.S. Eight Coloured Plates and Thirteen
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 115 pp. 1902. Price 5s.; India and
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
The Various Causes of Dampness and Decay of the Masonry of Buildings,
and the Structural and Hygienic Evils of the Same--Precautionary
Measures during Building against Dampness and Efflorescence--Methods
of Remedying Dampness and Efflorescences in the Walls of Old Buildings
--The Artificial Drying of New Houses, as well as Old Damp Dwellings,
and the Theory of the Hardening of Mortar--New, Certain and Permanently
Efficient Methods for Drying Old Damp Walls and Dwellings--The Cause
and Origin of Dry-rot: its Injurious Effect on Health, its Destructive
Action on Buildings, and its Successful Repression--Methods of
Preventing Dry-rot to be Adopted During Construction--Old Methods of
Preventing Dry-rot--Recent and More Efficient Remedies for Dry-rot--
Index.
=GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING,
PLUMBING, AND THE ALLIED TRADES AND SUBJECTS.= By AUGUSTINE
C. PASSMORE. Demy 8vo. About 400 pp.
[_In the press._
Foods and Sweetmeats.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF PRESERVED FOODS AND SWEETMEATS.= By A.
HAUSNER. With Twenty-eight Illustrations. Translated from
the German of the third enlarged Edition. Crown 8vo. 225 pp.
1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; net.
Contents.
=The Manufacture of Conserves=--Introduction--The Causes of the
Putrefaction of Food--The Chemical Composition of Foods--The Products
of Decomposition--The Causes of Fermentation and Putrefaction--
Preservative Bodies--The Various Methods of Preserving Food--The
Preservation of Animal Food--Preserving Meat by Means of Ice--The
Preservation of Meat by Charcoal--Preservation of Meat by Drying--The
Preservation of Meat by the Exclusion of Air--The Appert Method--
Preserving Flesh by Smoking--Quick Smoking--Preserving Meat with
Salt--Quick Salting by Air Pressure--Quick Salting by Liquid
Pressure--Gamgee's Method of Preserving Meat--The Preservation of
Eggs--Preservation of White and Yolk of Egg--Milk Preservation--
Condensed Milk--The Preservation of Fat--Manufacture of Soup
Tablets--Meat Biscuits--Extract of Beef--The Preservation of
Vegetable Foods in General--Compressing Vegetables--Preservation of
Vegetables by Appert's Method--The Preservation of Fruit--Preservation
of Fruit by Storage--The Preservation of Fruit by Drying--Drying Fruit
by Artificial Heat--Roasting Fruit--The Preservation of Fruit with
Sugar--Boiled Preserved Fruit--The Preservation of Fruit in Spirit,
Acetic Acid or Glycerine--Preservation of Fruit without Boiling--Jam
Manufacture--The Manufacture of Fruit Jellies--The Making of Gelatine
Jellies--The Manufacture of "Sulzen"--The Preservation of Fermented
Beverages--=The Manufacture of Candies=--Introduction--The Manufacture
of Candied Fruit--The Manufacture of Boiled Sugar and Caramel--The
Candying of Fruit--Caramelised Fruit--The Manufacture of Sugar Sticks,
or Barley Sugar--Bonbon Making--Fruit Drops--The Manufacture of
Dragées--The Machinery and Appliances used in Candy Manufacture--Dyeing
Candies and Bonbons--Essential Oils used in Candy Making--Fruit
Essences--The Manufacture of Filled Bonbons, Liqueur Bonbons and
Stamped Lozenges--Recipes for Jams and Jellies--Recipes for Bonbon
Making--Dragées--Appendix--Index.
Dyeing Fancy Goods.
=THE ART OF DYEING AND STAINING MARBLE, ARTIFICIAL STONE,
BONE, HORN, IVORY AND WOOD, AND OF IMITATING ALL SORTS OF
WOOD.= A Practical Handbook for the Use of Joiners, Turners,
Manufacturers of Fancy Goods, Stick and Umbrella Makers,
Comb Makers, etc. Translated from the German of D. H.
SOXHLET, Technical Chemist. Crown 8vo. 168 pp. 1902. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
Mordants and Stains--Natural Dyes--Artificial Pigments--Coal Tar
Dyes--Staining Marble and Artificial Stone--Dyeing, Bleaching and
Imitation of Bone, Horn and Ivory--Imitation of Tortoiseshell for
Combs: Yellows, Dyeing Nuts--Ivory--Wood Dyeing--Imitation of Mahogany:
Dark Walnut, Oak, Birch-Bark, Elder-Marquetry, Walnut, Walnut-Marquetry,
Mahogany, Spanish Mahogany, Palisander and Rose Wood, Tortoiseshell,
Oak, Ebony, Pear Tree--Black Dyeing Processes with Penetrating
Colours--Varnishes and Polishes: English Furniture Polish, Vienna
Furniture Polish, Amber Varnish, Copal Varnish, Composition for
Preserving Furniture--Index.
Lithography and Engraving.
=PRACTICAL LITHOGRAPHY.= By JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE. Demy 8vo. With
Plates and Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Stones--Transfer Inks--Transfer Papers--Transfer Printing--Litho
Press--Press Work--Machine Printing--Colour Printing--Substitutes
for Lithographic Stones--Tin Plate Printing and Decoration--
Photo-Lithography.
=ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION. HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL NOTES.=
By J. KIRKBRIDE. 72 pp. Two Plates and Illustrations. Crown
8vo. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Its Inception--Wood Engraving--Metal Engraving--Engraving in
England--Etching--Mezzotint--Photo-Process Engraving--The Engraver's
Task--Appreciative Criticism--Index.
Bookbinding.
=PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING.= By PAUL ADAM. Translated from the
German. Demy 8vo. With 129 Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Materials for Sewing and Pasting--Materials for Covering the Book--
Materials for Decorating and Finishing--Tools--General Preparatory
Work--Sewing--Forwarding, Cutting, Rounding and Backing--Forwarding,
Decoration of Edges and Headbanding--Boarding--Preparing the Cover
--Work with the Blocking Press--Treatment of Sewn Books, Fastening in
Covers, and Finishing Off--Handtooling and Other Decoration--Account
Books--School Books, Mounting Maps, Drawings, etc.--Index.
Sugar Refining.
=THE TECHNOLOGY OF SUGAR=: Practical Treatise on the Modern
Methods of Manufacture of Sugar from the Sugar Cane and
Sugar Beet. By JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. Demy 8vo. 83
Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Chemistry of Sucrose, Lactose, Maltose, Glucose, Invert Sugar, etc.
--Purchase and Analysis of Beets--Treatment of Beets--Diffusion--
Filtration--Concentration--Evaporation--=Sugar Cane=: Cultivation--
Milling--Diffusion--Sugar Refining--Analysis of Raw Sugars--Chemistry
of Molasses, etc.
New Textile Books.
(_See also pp. 19-24._)
=TEXTILE CALCULATIONS=, especially relating to Woollens. From
the German of N. REISER. Thirty-four Illustrations. Tables.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Calculating the Raw Material--Proportion of Different Grades of Wool
to Furnish Mixture at a Given Price--Quantity to Produce a Given
Length--Yarn Calculations--Yarn Number--Working Calculations--
Calculating the Reed Count--Cost of Weaving, etc.
=WATERPROOFING FABRICS AND MATERIALS.= By Dr. S. MICRZINSKI.
Twenty-nine Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Preparing the Fabrics--Impregnating the
Fabrics--Drying--Paraffin--Cupric Oxide Ammonia--Size--Tannin--Metallic
Oxides, etc.
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free_, upon receipt of remittance at the published price, or they can
be obtained through all Booksellers.
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and particulars of books in the press will be sent when ready to
persons sending name and address.
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