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SPONS' HOUSEHOLD MANUAL:

A Treasury of Domestic Receipts and Guide for Home Management.

: A complete Explanation of the London Practice. General Instructions. Order of Taking Off. Modes of Measurement of the various Trades. Use and Waste. Ventilation and Warming. Credits, with various Examples of Treatment. Abbreviations. Squaring the Dimensions. Abstracting, with Examples in illustration of each Trade. Billing. Examples of Preambles to each Trade. Form for a Bill of Quantities. Do. Bill of Credits. Do. Bill for Alternative Estimate. Restorations and Repairs, and Form of Bill. Variations before Acceptance of Tender. Errors in a Builder's Estimate. Schedule of Prices. Form of Schedule of Prices. Analysis of Schedule of Prices. Adjustment of Accounts. Form of a Bill of Variations. Remarks on Specifications. Prices and Valuation of Work, with Examples and Remarks upon each Trade. The Law as it affects Quantity Surveyors, with Law Reports. Taking Off after the Old Method. Northern Practice. The General Statement of the Methods recommended by the Manchester Society of Architects for taking Quantities. Examples of Collections. Examples of "Taking Off" in each Trade. Remarks on the Past and Present Methods of Estimating.

: Introductory Remarks--Natural Productions--Architecture and Engineering--Topography, Trade, and Natural History--Principal Stations--Weights and Measures, etc., etc.

: General Description of South Africa--Physical Geography with reference to Engineering Operations--Notes on Labour and Material in Cape Colony--Geological Notes on Rock Formation in South Africa--Engineering Instruments for Use in South Africa--Principal Public Works in Cape Colony: Railways, Mountain Roads and Passes, Harbour Works, Bridges, Gas Works, Irrigation and Water Supply, Lighthouses, Drainage and Sanitary Engineering, Public Buildings, Mines--Table of Woods in South Africa--Animals used for Draught Purposes--Statistical Notes--Table of Distances--Rates of Carriage, etc.

: Physical Geography of India--Building Materials--Roads--Railways-- Bridges--Irrigation--River Works--Harbours--Lighthouse Buildings-- Native Labour--The Principal Trees of India--Money--Weights and Measures--Glossary of Indian Terms, etc.

: The Appointment and Duties of the Town Surveyor--Traffic-- Macadamised Roadways--Steam Rolling--Road Metal and Breaking-- Pitched Pavements--Asphalte--Wood Pavements--Footpaths--Kerbs and Gutters--Street Naming and Numbering--Street Lighting--Sewerage-- Ventilation of Sewers--Disposal of Sewage--House Drainage-- Disinfection--Gas and Water Companies, etc., Breaking up Streets-- Improvement of Private Streets--Borrowing Powers--Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings--Public Conveniences--Scavenging, including Street Cleansing--Watering and the Removing of Snow--Planting Street Trees--Deposit of Plans--Dangerous Buildings--Hoardings-- Obstructions--Improving Street Lines--Cellar Openings--Public Pleasure Grounds--Cemeteries--Mortuaries--Cattle and Ordinary Markets--Public Slaughter-houses, etc.--Giving numerous Forms of Notices, Specifications, and General Information upon these and other subjects of great importance to Municipal Engineers and others engaged in Sanitary Work.

: General--Linear Measures--Square Measures--Cubic Measures--Measures of Capacity--Weights--Combinations--Thermometers.

SYNOPSIS OF : Surveying, Levelling, etc.--Strength and Weight of Materials-- Earthwork, Brickwork, Masonry, Arches, etc.--Struts, Columns, Beams, and Trusses--Flooring, Roofing, and Roof Trusses--Girders, Bridges, etc.--Railways and Roads--Hydraulic Formulae--Canals, Sewers, Waterworks, Docks--Irrigation and Breakwaters--Gas, Ventilation, and Warming--Heat, Light, Colour, and Sound--Gravity: Centres, Forces, and Powers--Millwork, Teeth of Wheels, Shafting, etc.--Workshop Recipes--Sundry Machinery--Animal Power--Steam and the Steam Engine--Water-power, Water-wheels, Turbines, etc.--Wind and Windmills--Steam Navigation, Ship Building, Tonnage, etc.-- Gunnery, Projectiles, etc.--Weights, Measures, and Money-- Trigonometry, Conic Sections, and Curves--Telegraphy--Mensuration-- Tables of Areas and Circumference, and Arcs of Circles--Logarithms, Square and Cube Roots, Powers--Reciprocals, etc.--Useful Numbers-- Differential and Integral Calculus--Algebraic Signs--Telegraphic Construction and Formulae.

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SYNOPSIS OF : Introduction--History of Gas Lighting--Chemistry of Gas Manufacture, by Lewis Thompson, Esq., M.R.C.S.--Coal, with Analyses, by J. Paterson, Lewis Thompson, and G. R. Hislop, Esqrs.--Retorts, Iron and Clay--Retort Setting--Hydraulic Main-- Condensers--Exhausters--Washers and Scrubbers--Purifiers-- Purification--History of Gas Holder--Tanks, Brick and Stone, Composite, Concrete, Cast-iron, Compound Annular Wrought-iron-- Specifications--Gas Holders--Station Meter--Governor-- Distribution--Mains--Gas Mathematics, or Formulae for the Distribution of Gas, by Lewis Thompson, Esq.--Services--Consumers' Meters--Regulators--Burners--Fittings--Photometer--Carburization of Gas--Air Gas and Water Gas--Composition of Coal Gas, by Lewis Thompson, Esq.--Analyses of Gas--Influence of Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature on Gas--Residual Products--Appendix--Description of Retort Settings, Buildings, etc., etc.

: Chap. 1. How Work is Measured by a Unit, both with and without reference to a Unit of Time--Chap. 2. The Work of Living Agents, the Influence of Friction, and introduces one of the most beautiful Laws of Motion--Chap. 3. The principles expounded in the first and second chapters are applied to the Motion of Bodies--Chap. 4. The Transmission of Work by simple Machines--Chap. 5. Useful Propositions and Rules.

: Machinery for Prospecting, Excavating, Hauling, and Hoisting-- Ventilation--Pumping--Treatment of Mineral Products, including Gold and Silver, Copper, Tin, and Lead, Iron, Coal, Sulphur, China Clay, Brick Earth, etc.

: The Drawing Office and its Furnishings--Geometrical Problems-- Lines, Dots, and their Combinations--Colours, Shading, Lettering, Bordering, and North Points--Scales--Plotting--Civil Engineers' and Surveyors' Plans--Map Drawing--Mechanical and Architectural Drawing--Copying and Reducing Trigonometrical Formulae, etc., etc.

PRINCIPAL : Part 1. Introduction and the Principles of Geometry. Part 2. Land Surveying; comprising General Observations--The Chain--Offsets Surveying by the Chain only--Surveying Hilly Ground--To Survey an Estate or Parish by the Chain only--Surveying with the Theodolite-- Mining and Town Surveying--Railroad Surveying--Mapping--Division and Laying out of Land--Observations on Enclosures--Plane Trigonometry. Part 3. Levelling--Simple and Compound Levelling-- The Level Book--Parliamentary Plan and Section--Levelling with a Theodolite--Gradients--Wooden Curves--To Lay out a Railway Curve-- Setting out Widths. Part 4. Calculating Quantities generally for Estimates--Cuttings and Embankments--Tunnels--Brickwork--Ironwork-- Timber Measuring. Part 5. Description and Use of Instruments in Surveying and Plotting--The Improved Dumpy Level--Troughton's Level--The Prismatic Compass--Proportional Compass--Box Sextant-- Vernier--Pantagraph--Merrett's Improved Quadrant--Improved Computation Scale--The Diagonal Scale--Straight Edge and Sector. Part 6. Logarithms of Numbers--Logarithmic Sines and Co-Sines, Tangents and Co-Tangents--Natural Sines and Co-Sines--Tables for Earthwork, for Setting out Curves, and for various Calculations, etc., etc., etc.

: On Lathes--Turning Tools--Turning Wood--Drilling--Screw Cutting-- Miscellaneous Apparatus and Processes--Turning Particular Forms-- Staining--Polishing--Spinning Metals--Materials--Ornamental Turning, etc.

: Definitions of Words and Terms used in Watchwork--Tools--Time-- Historical Summary--On Calculations of the Numbers for Wheels and Pinions; their Proportional Sizes, Trains, etc.--Of Dial Wheels, or Motion Work--Length of Time of Going without Winding up--The Verge--The Horizontal--The Duplex--The Lever--The Chronometer--Repeating Watches--Keyless Watches--The Pendulum, or Spiral Spring--Compensation--Jewelling of Pivot Holes-- Clerkenwell--Fallacies of the Trade--Incapacity of Workmen-- How to Choose and Use a Watch, etc.

: Symbols and the Signs of Operation--The Equation and the Unknown Quantity--Positive and Negative Quantities--Multiplication-- Involution--Exponents--Negative Exponents--Roots, and the Use of Exponents as Logarithms--Logarithms--Tables of Logarithms and Proportionate Parts--Transformation of System of Logarithms-- Common Uses of Common Logarithms--Compound Multiplication and the Binomial Theorem--Division, Fractions, and Ratio--Continued Proportion--The Series and the Summation of the Series--Limit of Series--Square and Cube Roots--Equations--List of Formulae, etc.

: 1. Production of the Electric Current--2. Electric Bells-- 3. Automatic Alarms--4. Domestic Telephones--5. Electric Clocks-- 6. Electric Lighters--7. Domestic Electric Lighting--8. Domestic Application of the Electric Light--9. Electric Motors-- 10. Electrical Locomotion--11. Electrotyping, Plating, and Gilding--12. Electric Recreations--13. Various applications-- Workshop of the Electrician.

: 1. The Electric Current and its production by Chemical means-- 2. Production of Electric Currents by Mechanical means-- 3. Dynamo-Electric Machines--4. Electric Lamps--5. Lead-- 6. Ship Lighting.

: 1. The Nature of Heat and the Properties of Steam--2. Combustion.-- 3. Externally Fired Stationary Boilers--4. Internally Fired Stationary Boilers--5. Internally Fired Portable Locomotive and Marine Boilers--6. Design, Construction, and Strength of Boilers-- 7. Proportions of Heating Surface, Economic Evaporation, Explosions--8. Miscellaneous Boilers, Choice of Boiler Fittings and Appurtenances.

: 1. Introduction--2. Original Engines--3. Boilers--4. High-Pressure Beam Engines--5. Cornish Beam Engines--6. Horizontal Engines--7. Oscillating Engines--8. Vertical High-Pressure Engines--9. Special Engines--10. Portable Engines--11. Locomotive Engines--12. Marine Engines.

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