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diff --git a/44090-0.txt b/44090-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a94241 --- /dev/null +++ b/44090-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3009 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44090 *** + + MAY, 1904. + + 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 + + Bibliography, 32 + + Bleaching, 23 + + Bone Products, 8 + + Bookbinding, 31 + + Brick-making, 15, 16 + + Burnishing Brass, 28 + + 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 + + Colour Matching, 21 + + Colliery Recovery Work, 25 + + Colour-mixing for Dyers, 21 + + 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, 30 + + Decorators' Books, 28 + + Decorative Textiles, 20 + + Dental Metallurgy, 27 + + Dictionary of Paint Materials, 3 + + Drying Oils, 5 + + Drying with Air, 11 + + Dyeing Marble, 31 + + Dyeing Woollen Fabrics, 22 + + Dyers' Materials, 21 + + Dye-stuffs, 23 + + Enamelling Metal, 18 + + Enamels, 18 + + Engraving, 31 + + Essential Oils, 7 + + Evaporating Apparatus, 26 + + External Plumbing, 27 + + Fats, 5, 6 + + Faults in Woollen Goods, 20 + + Gas Firing, 26 + + Glass-making Recipes, 17 + + Glass Painting, 17 + + Glue Making and Testing, 8 + + Greases, 5 + + History of Staffs Potteries, 16 + + Hops, 28 + + Hot-water Supply, 28 + + How to make a Woollen Mill Pay, 21 + + India-rubber, 13 + + Inks, 3, 11 + + Iron-corrosion, 4 + + Iron, Science of, 26 + + Japanning, 28 + + Lacquering, 28 + + 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 + + Oil Merchants' Manual, 7 + + 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, 19 + + Preserved Foods, 30 + + Printers' Ready Reckoner, 31 + + Printing Inks, 3 + + Recipes for Oilmen, etc., 3 + + Resins, 10 + + Risks of Occupations, 12 + + Rivetting China, etc., 16 + + Sanitary Plumbing, 28 + + Scheele's Essays, 9 + + Sealing Waxes, 11 + + Silk Dyeing, 23 + + Silk Throwing, 19 + + Smoke Prevention, 25 + + Soaps, 7, 32 + + Spinning, 20 + + Staining Marble, and Bone, 31 + + Steam Drying, 11 + + Sugar Refining, 32 + + 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 + + Waterproofing Fabrics, 21 + + Weaving Calculations, 20 + + Wood Waste Utilisation, 29 + + Wood Dyeing, 31 + + Wool Dyeing, 22 + + Writing Inks, 11 + + X-Ray Work, 13 + + Yarn Testing, 20 + + + + + PUBLISHED BY + 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. 12 Illustrations. 96 pp. 1903. Price 2s. 6d.; +Abroad, 3s.; strictly net. + + 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--Hydrocarbon Oils--Scotch Shale + Oils--Petroleum--Vegetable and Animal Oils--Testing and + Adulteration of Oils--Lubricating + Greases--Lubrication--Appendices--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.= + + =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--Neat's Foot 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. + + +=THE OIL MERCHANTS' MANUAL AND OIL TRADE READY RECKONER.= Compiled by +FRANK F. SHERIFF. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 214 +pp. 1904. + + [_In the press._ + + Contents. + + Trade Terms and Customs--Tables to Ascertain Value of Oil sold + per cwt. or ton--Specific Gravity Tables--Percentage Tare + Tables--Petroleum Tables--Paraffine and Benzoline + Calculations--Customary Drafts--Tables for Calculating + Allowance for Dirt, Water, etc.--Capacity of Circular Tanks + Tables, etc., etc. + + +=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=. + + (_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 32._) + + + + + 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--Meerchum--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. +Translated from the French. 364 pp. 135 Illustrations. 1903. Price +10s. 6d.; Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net. + + 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 + Wash-houses--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., Barrett'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. + + +=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. 760 pp. 323 Illustrations. 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, Bricks, Tiles, + Pipes, Chimney Flues, Terra-cotta.= + + Part II. =Made-up or Decorated Pottery.= + + +=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. +74 pp. Twenty Illus. 1901. 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. Crown 8vo. +1900. 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 Melachite--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, Paper-stainers, 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. Demy 8vo. 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. +170 pp. 117 Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other +Countries, 6s.; strictly net. + + 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--Washing, Bleaching, Carbonising--Mordants + and Mordanting--Dyeing--Printing--Dressing and Finishing.= + + +=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 Folding Plates. Six Illustrations. Translated from +the German. 110 pp. 1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other +Countries, 9s. 6d.; strictly net. + + Contents. + + =The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics=--Drill (Ticking, + Hand-loom-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. 170 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; +Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net. + + 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. + + +=SPINNING AND WEAVING CALCULATIONS=, especially relating to Woollens. +From the German of N. REISER. Thirty-four Illustrations. Tables. Demy +8vo. 170 pp. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other +Countries, 12s.; strictly net. + + Contents. + + Calculating the Raw Material--Proportion of Different Grades of + Wool to Furnish a 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 OF FABRICS.= By Dr. S. MIERZINSKI. Crown 8vo. 104 pp. 29 +Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; +strictly net. + + Contents. + + Introduction--Preliminary Treatment of the + Fabric--Waterproofing with Acetate of Alumina--Impregnation of + the Fabric--Drying--Waterproofing with Paraffin--Waterproofing + with Ammonium Cuprate--Waterproofing with Metallic + Oxides--Coloured Waterproof Fabrics--Waterproofing with + Gelatine, Tannin, Caseinate of Lime and other + Bodies--Manufacture of Tarpaulin--British Waterproofing + Patents--Index. + + +=HOW TO MAKE A WOOLLEN MILL PAY.= By JOHN MACKIE. Crown 8vo. 76 pp. +1904. Price 3s. 6d.; Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; net. + + Contents. + + Blends, Piles, or Mixtures of Clean Scoured Wools--Dyed Wool + Book--The Order Book--Pattern Duplicate Books--Management and + Oversight--Constant Inspection of Mill Departments--Importance + of Delivering Goods to Time, Shade, Strength, etc.--Plums. + + (_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 32._) + + + + + 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. + + +=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. + + +=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--Cause of Colour in Coloured + Bodies--Colour Phenomena and Theories--The Physiology of + Light--Contrast--Colour in Decoration and Design--Measurement + of Colour.= + + +=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.= + + +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 MINES.= By CARL VOLK. Translated +from the German. Royal 8vo. With Six Plates and 148 Illustrations. 150 +pp. 1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other Countries, 9s. 6d.; +strictly net. + + 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. + + The Coefficient of Transmission of Heat, _k_, and the Mean + Temperature Difference [theta]_{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. + + +=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. + + +=SANITARY PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE.= By JOHN W. HART. Demy 8vo. With 208 +Illustrations. 250 pp. 1904. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; +Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net. + + Contents. + + Sanitary Surveys--Drain Testing--Drain Testing with + Smoke--Testing Drains with Water--Drain Plugs for + Testing--Sanitary Defects--Closets--Baths and Lavatories--House + Drains--Manholes--Iron Soil Pipes--Lead Soil Pipes--Ventilating + Pipes--Water-closets--Flushing Cisterns--Baths--Bath + Fittings--Lavatories--Lavatory Fittings--Sinks--Waste + Pipes--Water Supply--Ball Valves--Town House Sanitary + Arrangements--Drainage--Jointing Pipes--Accessible Drains--Iron + Drains--Iron Junctions--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. + + +=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. + + +=HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING, AND +THEIR ALLIED TRADES AND SUBJECTS.= By AUGUSTINE C. PASSMORE. Demy 8vo. +380 pp. 1904. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, +8s. 6d.; strictly net, post free. + + + + + 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, Printing and Engraving. + + +=PRACTICAL LITHOGRAPHY.= By ALFRED SEYMOUR. Demy 8vo. With Frontispiece +and 33 Illus. 120 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other +Countries, 6s.; net. + + 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. + + +=PRINTERS' AND STATIONERS' READY RECKONER AND COMPENDIUM.= Compiled by +VICTOR GRAHAM. Crown 8vo. 1904. + + [_In the press._ + + Contents. + + Price of Paper per Sheet, Quire, Ream and Lb.--Cost of 100 to + 1000 Sheets at various Sizes and Prices per Ream--Cost of + Cards--Quantity Table--Sizes and Weights of Paper, Cards, + etc.--Notes on Account Books--Discount Tables--Sizes of + spaces--Leads to a lb.--Dictionary--Measure for + Bookwork--Correcting Proofs, etc. + + +=ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION. HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL NOTES.= By J. +KIRKBRIDE. 72 pp. Two Plates and 6 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1903. +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. Crown +8vo. 180 pp. 127 Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; +Other Countries, 6s.; net. + + 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--Hand-tooling 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. 420 pp. Seventy-six +Tables. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; +net. + +(_See "Evaporating, Condensing, etc., Apparatus," p. 26._) + + 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. + + + + + Bibliography. + + +=CLASSIFIED GUIDE TO TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL BOOKS.= Compiled by EDGAR +GREENWOOD. Demy 8vo. 1904. Being a Subject-list of the Principal +British and American Books in print; giving Title, Author, Size, Date, +Publisher and Price. + + [_In the press._ + + Contents. + + Agriculture--Architecture--Art--Book Production--Building-- + Chemicals--Commercial--Electricity--Engineering--Farming-- + Gardening--Glass--Hygiene--Legal (not pure Law)--Metallurgy-- + Mining--Military--Music--Naval--Oils--Paints--Photography--Physical + Training--Plumbing--Pottery--Printing--Public Health--Railways-- + Roads--Soaps--Surveying--Teaching--Textile--Veterinary--Water-- + Index, etc., etc. + + +=TEXTILE SOAPS AND OILS.= Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and +Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing +and Printing. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Crown 8vo. 200 pp. Nine +Illustrations. 1904. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other +Countries, 6s.; net. + + Contents. + + =Methods of Making Soaps=--Hard Soap--Soft Soap. =Special Textile + Soaps=--Wool Soaps--Calico Printers' Soaps--Dyers' Soaps. + =Relation of Soap to Water for Industrial Purposes=--Treating + Waste Soap Liquors--Boiled Off Liquor--Calico Printers and + Dyers' Soap Liquors--=Soap Analysis=--=Fat in Soap=. + + ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS--Tallow--Lard--Bone + Grease--Tallow Oil. =Vegetable Soap, Oils and Fats=--Palm + Oil--Coco-nut Oil--Olive Oil--Cottonseed Oil--Linseed + Oil--Castor Oil--Corn Oil--Whale Oil or Train Oil--Repe Oil. + + GLYCERINE. + + TEXTILE OILS--Oleic Acid--Blended Wool Oils--Oils for Cotton + Dyeing, Printing and Finishing--Turkey Red Oil--Alizarine + Oil--Oleine--Oxy Turkey Red Oils--Soluble Oil--Analysis of + Turkey Red Oil--Finisher's Soluble Oil--Finisher's Soap + Softening--Testing and Adulteration of Oils--Index. + + * * * * * + +SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO. will forward any of the above Books, _post +free_, upon receipt of remittance at the published price, or they can +be obtained through all Booksellers. + +Full List of Contents of any of the books will be sent on application, +and particulars of books in the press will be sent when ready to +persons sending name and address. + + * * * * * + + SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO., + Technical Book Publishers, + 19 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. + + + + +Transcriber's Note + +This catalogue was originally bound in with Practical Bookbinding by +Paul Adam, which is available from Project Gutenberg at +http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39318 + +On p.26, the title of the first chapter of Evaporating, Condensing and +Cooling Apparatus has been corrected by reference to the original book. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Catalogue of Special Technical Works +for Manufacturers, Students, and Technical Schools, by Scott, Greenwood & Co + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44090 *** |
