500 Plain Answers to Direct Questions on Steam, Hot Water, Vapor and Vacuum Heating: The Science and Practice of Heating Explained in a Series of Plain Questions and Answers, with Tables, Rules and General Information, Forming a Complete Text Book and Manual. A Help to the Apprentice and Journeyman Steam Fitter in Preparing for Examination. A Reference Book for Master Steam Fitters, Architects and Heating ContractorsNorman W. Henley publishing Company, 1915 - 214 стор. |
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Сторінка 14 - This book has been prepared with special reference to the generation of heat by the combustion of the common fuels found in the United States, and deals particularly with the conditions necessary to the economic and smokeless combustion of bituminous coal in Stationary and Locomotive Steam Boilers.
Сторінка 7 - This work covers the entire practice of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. The best known experts in all branches of engineering have contributed to these volumes. The Cyclopedia is admirably well adapted to the needs of the beginner and the self-taught practical man, as well as the mechanical engineer, designer, draftsman, shop superintendent, foreman, and machinist.
Сторінка 20 - LOCOMOTIVE BREAKDOWNS AND THEIR REMEDIES. By GEO. L. FOWLER. Revised by WM. W. WOOD, Air-Brake Instructor. Just issued. Revised pocket edition. It is out of the question to try and tell you about every subject that is covered in this pocket edition of Locomotive Breakdowns.
Сторінка 11 - A New Sketching Paper. A new specially ruled paper to enable you to make sketches or drawings in isometric perspective without any figuring or fussing. It is being used for shop details as well as for assembly drawings, as it makes one sketch do the work of three, and no workman can help seeing just what is wanted. Pads of 40 sheets, 6x9 inches.
Сторінка 11 - This is a book which will prove of interest to many classes of people; the manufacturer who desires to know what product can be manufactured successfully in the electric furnace, the chemist who wishes to post himself on the electro-chemistry, and the student of science who merely looks into the subject from curiosity.
Сторінка 25 - ... connections for bath rooms, continued; examples of poor practice; roughing work ready for test; testing of plumbing system; method of continuous venting; continuous venting for two-floor work; continuous venting for two lines of fixtures on three or more floors; continuous venting of water closets; plumbIng for cottage house; construction for cellar piping; plumbing for residence, use of special fittings ; plumbing for two-flat house ; plumbing for apartment building, plumbing for double apartment...
Сторінка 25 - ... establishment; plumbing for engine house, factory plumbing: automatic flushing for schools, factories, etc.; use of flushing valves; urinals for public toilet rooms; the Durham system, the destruction of pipes by electrolysis; construction of work without use of lead; automatic sewage lift; automatic sump tank; country plumbing: construction of cesspools: septic tank and automatic sewage siphon; country plumbing: water supply for country house; thawing of water mains and service by electricity;...
Сторінка 26 - This book of 800 pages is the most complete book of recipes ever published, 'giving thousands of recipes for the manufacture of valuable articles for everyday use. Hints, helps, practical ideas and secret processes are revealed within its pages. It covers every branch of the useful arts and tells thousands of ways of making money and is just the book everyone should have at his command.
Сторінка 8 - ORNAMENTAL CONCRETE WITHOUT MOLDS. By AA HOUGHTON. The process for making ornamental concrete without molds has long been held as a secret, and now, for the first time, this process is given to the public. The book reveals the secret and is the only book published which explains a simple, practical method whereby the concrete worker is enabled, by employing wood and metal templates of different designs, to mold or model in concrete any Cornice, Archivolt, Column, Pedestal, Base Cap. Urn or Pier in...
Сторінка 27 - The work is of a handy size for the pocket, clearly and well printed, nicely bound, and profusely illustrated. To young engineers this catechism will be of great value, especially to those who may be preparing to go forward to be examined for certificates of competency; and to engineers generally it will be of no little service, as they will find in this volume more really practical and useful information than is to be found anywhere else within a like compass. 387 pages.