Accumulated work, 56 Adhesion, 176.
Air, weight of given bulks of, 63; ex pansion of, by heat, 231; properties of atmospheric, 273.
Alabaster, to harden and polish, 67. Algebraic symbols, 15.
Alloys, 286; recipes for various, 154-159. Adto-relievo, engraving in, 222. Amalgams, 89.
Amonton's law of elastie force, 177. Analysis of various organic substances, 269
Anchors, size of proportioned to the tonnage of vessels, 272. Animals, work of, 55. Approximations, decimal, 41.
Arches, hemispherical, how to construct,
Boiling point, height of, at different heights of the barometer, 287, Bolts and nuts, sizes of, 288. Bookbinders' recipes, 352-358. Boyle's law of elastic force, 177. Brass, weight of superficial foot of, 144. Bronze powder, 159.
Bronze recipes for various kinds of 347, 343.
Bronzing liquids, 108; for gun barrels, 179: for tin castings, ib. Bricklaying, 297.
Building, terms used in, 331-341.
Cables, strength of, 271; size of, accord- ing to the tonnage of vessels, 272. Capillary attraction, 224. Carbon, 173. Carpentry, 305.
Architectural terms, vocabulary of, 331-Cast-iron, dimensions of cylindrical
Ares, cireular, table of the lengths of 499.
Arithmetic, decimal, 24; instrumental, 42.
Arithmetical signs, 13.
Artificial stones, recipes for making different kinds of, 362-365. Atmosphere, temperature and weight of the, at various heights, 279. Attraction, centre of, 175; capillary, 224. Axle grease, 283
Balls, east-iron, weight of, 129. Beam, cast-iron, pressure it will sustain, 146.
Beams, equilibrium and pressure of, 59; transverse strength of, 209-211, 247; deflection of, 212.
Bending and gluing-up, method of join- ing woodwork by, 328, 329. Binary compounds, 250-255. Black, for miniature pain ers, 208, Blacking, recipes for, 202, 208. Blacklead pencils, 23. Board measure, 146.
Boiler tubes, table of surface of, 241. Boilers, engine, 47; the, of steam- engines, and their proportions, 77.
columns of, 142; compression of, 209; bars, breaking weight of, 207; bars, transverse strength of, 211; beam, pressure it will sustain. 140 pillars, table of ultimate breaking weight in tons, 119-122: pillars, strength of 216,! 217; pipes, 148, 149; pipes, table of weight of 131; plates, weight of, 245;] shafts, table of strengths of, 123, 124; wheel, to find the horse-power it is capable of transmitting, 246. Cement, 300, 302.
Cements, recipes for various. 262-269. Centre of attraction, equilibrium, fric-
tion, gravity, and gyration, 175, 176. Centre of gyration, 53; of percussion, ib. Centrifugal force, 50.
Chain rigging, scale of proofs for, 291. Chains and ropes, comparative scale of, 247.
Chalk drawings, how to render perma- nent, 358.
Chords, table of, 414; uses and applica- tions of the table of long, 501,
Circles, table of the diameters, circum- ferences, and areas of, 160-166; cir- cumferences and areas of, from one to fifty feet, 167-173.
Cisterns, capacity of, in gallons, 274,
Electrical machines, amalgam for, 89.
Coal, number of cubic feet to a ton, 280. Electrotype manipulations, solutions
Cocks, bore and weight of, 134. Cog wheels, pitch of, 68. Cohesion, 176.
Coins, method of taking impressions from, 118.
Combustion, spontaneous, to prevent, 79. Composition, for covering buildings, 268; for walls, 304; and resolution of forces, 812.
Compounds, binary, 250-255. Compression, 176.
Conducting powers of substances, 290. Copper, liquids for bronzing medals, figures, &c., of, 108; tubing, weight of, 134; weight of superficial foot of, 144; bean and feather shot, 152; etching fluid for, 214; rods or bolts, weight of, 273; pipes, weight of, 274; sheet, weight of a square foot of, 275; dimen- sions and weight of, 133.
Crane, to calculate the different parts of, as respects mechanical advantage, 58 Crayons, recipes for, 358.
Crystals, diamond prismatic, for win- dows, 82.
Cubes and cube roots of numbers, table of, 180-201.
Enamel, various recipes for making, 848, 849.
Engine, horse-power of, 57; boilers, 47; locomotive, general proportions of, 76. Engraving in alto-relievo, 222 Engravings, transfer of, to plaster casts, 129; how to take casts of, 133. Equilibrium, centre of, 175, of beams,
Floors, the construction of, 818-320. Fluids, elastic, mechanical laws of, 177- 179.
Formulæ for running lines, locating side-tracks, &c., 875.
Cupolas, plan to take away the lateral Forces, parallelogram of, 59.
thrust of, 295.
Cylinders, cast metal, 148.
Dalton's law of elastic force, 177; ex- periment on gases, 178.
Dampness, how to preserve walls from, 153.
Decay of wood, means of preventing,
Decimal arithmetic, 24; approximations,
Fresco painting, 182. Friction, centre of, 175.
Fuel, power of various species of, 288. Furniture oil, 127; paste, 159. Fusing point and fusibility of metals, 282, 284.
Gases, illuminating, 178; properties of, 278; pressure at which certain, are liquified, 257.
Gauge-points for the engineer's and common slide rule, 45. Gay-Lussac's law of elastic force, 177.
vegetable, circum- stances favorable to, 305, 806. Diamond crystals, prismatic, for win- Geometry, practical, 16.
Digging, measurement of, 801. Distance, how to estimate, 82.
Domes, plan to take away the lateral thrust of, 295.
Dovetailing, process of, 824.
Drawings, chalk and pencil, how to ren- der permanent, 858.
Driving wheels, revolutions per mile of,
Drums, velocity of, 68. Ductility of metals, 289, 290.
Dyeing hats, recipe for, 256; recipes for compound colors in dyeing, 850, 851.
Earthenware, glaze for, 102.
Gilding, recipes for different kinds of 359-361.
Glass, perfectly black hard, 82; soluble, 222; recipes for making different kinds of 242; how to stain various colors, 861, 362; paper, how to make, 304. Glazes, 102.
Globes, liquid amalgam for silvering, 89. Glue, 268, 264, 267; recipes for various kinds of, 342.
Gluing joints, process of, 823 Gold lustre for stone-ware, 70. Gradients, table of, and resistance per ton for each, 118.
Gravities, specific, of simple substances, 248; specific, of bodies, 281.
Elastic force of steam, 80; fluids, mecha- Gravity, 47; specific, 61; centre of, 175.
Elasticity of torsion, 143.
Grease, scouring drops for removing,
Grooving and lapping, method of join- ing woodwork by, 828. Gun barrels, bronzing liquids for, 179. Gunpowder, composition of different kinds of, 285.
Gutta percha, solvents for, 179, Gyration, centre of, 58, 176.
Hardness of metals, ratio of the, 23. Hardnesses of bodies, ratios of, 289, Hats, recipe for dyeing, 256. Heat, latent, in steam, 72; properties and miscellaneous effects of, 228-231; capacities of bodies for transmitting, 235; power of various substances to transmit, 291.
Heating power of various combustible substances, 82. Heel balls, 103.
Horse-power, 55; of an engine, 57; of a steam-engine, rule for obtaining, 75; nominal, of low pressure engines, 83; of high pressure, 84: capable of being transmitted by a cast-iron wheel, to find the, 246; of wheels, proportionate strength of, 258; comparison of, as ap- plied to machinery, 286. Horses, traction of, 56.
Illuminating gases, 178. Inches, table of solid, 245. Inclined plane, the, 66.
Ink, recipes for making different kinds of, 365-369.
Instrumental arithmetic, 42. Instruments, copper, bronzing liquids for, 108.
Iron, to preserve from rust, 153; cast- iron pillars, table of ultimate breaking weight in tons, 119-122; cast, com- pression of, 209; cast and wrought iron shafts, tables of strengths of, 123-126; flat and rolled, table of weight of, 130; malleable, weight of one foot length of, 132; sheet, weight of superficial foot of, 144; sheet and boiler plate, weight of a square foot of, 275; wrought, square, round, and flat, tables of weight of, 97-117; wrought, tensile and compressive strength of, 208. Ivory, recipes for softening, hardening, dyeing, marking, &c., 174, 175.
Joiners' work, finishing of. 330, 331. Joints, method of gluing, 323. Journals of shafts, strength of, 149.
Marble, plaster imitation of, 808; recipes for staining and cleaning, 349. Mariotte's law of elastic force, 177. Materials, strength of, 135; strain and stress of, 204; of construction, weight of, 234; conducting power of, 235. Masonry, different kinds of, 292, 293. Mastic, Greek, 303.
Mechanical powers, the, and their appli- cation, 63.
Medals, copper, bronzing liquids for, 108, Mensuration of superficies, 27, 44; of solids, 36, 46; of timber, 146; of circles,
Metals, ratio of the hardness of, 23; weight of, 97; paste for cleaning, 146 and other substances, weight of, 235; expansion of, by heat, 228; linear dilatation of, by heat, 230; fusing point and fusibility of, 282, 284: ductility and malleability of, 289, 290. Modelling wax, 86. Motion, laws of, 47. Mortar, 300.
Mortice and tenon, 326–328.
Numbers, properties of, 238, 239; table of useful, 240, 241; table of prime numbers to 5000, 243–245. Numeration, 42.
Kyan, Mr., his method of seasoning tim- Nuts, sizes of, equal in strength to their
ber, 310-812.
Lac, preparations of, 89. Land-surveying, 46.
Latent heat in steam, 72.
Oakum, weight of a cubic foot of, 180.
Oil, linseed, for varnishing, 87.
Paint, old, solvent for, 102. Paper glass and stone, how to make, 304. Papers, recipes for preparing, for various purposes, 342-347.
Parallel motion, table to determine dis- tances of movable points in a, 223. Parallelogram of forces, 59. Partitions, timber, 322, 323. Paste for cleaning metals, 146; for furni- ture, 158; common, 265; for laying eloth or leather on table tops, 267. Pencil drawings, how to render perma- nent, 358.
Pencils, blacklead, 203.
Pendulum, oscillations of, 49, 50. Pendulums, 249.
Percussion, centre of, 53. Petrifaction of wood, 70.
Pew's composition for covering build- ings, 268.
Photographs, paper for, 345-347. Pile-driving, force in, 139.
Pillars, cast-iron, table of ultimate break- ing weight in tons, 119-122. Pipe, lead, weight of, 134.
Pipes, weight of, of various metals, 128; cast-iron, table of weight of, 131; cast- iron, 148, 149.
Pitch of cog wheels, 68. Plane, the inclined, 66.
Plaster, in imitation of marble, 303. Plastering, 300.
Plastic figures, amalgam for varnishing,
Platina for springs, 145. Platina-mohr, 176.
Polishes, recipes for various, 851, 352. Polishing wood, recipes for, 226, 227, Porcelain, glaze for, 162.
Porphyry, to cut, with iron, 146. Power, steam, 71.
Power of man or horse as applied to machinery, 286.
Powers, the mechanical, and their ap- plication, 63.
Practical geometry, 16.
Pressure of beams, 59: lateral, 136; ver- tical, 141: of steam at different tem- peratures, 78.
Prime numbers, table of, to 5000, 243-245. Pulley, the. 65.
Pulleys, velocity of, 68.
Pump, common, principle of, 231. Pumps, quantity of water per linear foot, in, 276.
Putty, old, solvent for, 102.
Radiating powers of substances, 290.
Resolution of forces, 312.
Rigging, chain, scale of proofs for, 291. Roofs,, the construction of, 314-317. Ropes, strength of, 218, 271; comparative strength and weight of, 136; hempen, capacity of sustaining strain, 273; and chains, comparative scale of, 247. Rule, slide, description of, and manner of using, 42.
Rust, to preserve iron from, 153.
Safety valve, rule to find the proper diameter of, 75. Scouring balls, 159.
Scouring drops for removing grease, 103. Screw, the, 67.
Screw-cutting, change wheels for, 279. Screws, V-thread, number of threads to an inch in, 277.
Scribing, the operation of, 329.
Sealing-wax, recipes for making different kinds of, 369, 370. Seasoning timber, 307-312. Secants, external, table of, 415. Seed-lac, 89.
Shafts, cast and wrought-iron, tables of strengths of, 123-126; strength of journals of, 149; diameters of, 151; re- sistance of, to torsion, 150.
Shears, tension of the guise and shear- leg of, 60.
Sheet-iron, weight of superficial foot of, 144. Shell-lac, 89.
Side-tracks, on railroads, formula for locating, $72.
Signatures, method of taking fac-similes of, 132.
Sigs, aithmetical, 13. Silica, 173.
Silver, an indelible black to write on, 81; recipes for purifying and reducing, 201.
Silvering powder, 145.
Sines, versed, table of, 415; natural, 457. Size, 173.
Slide rule, description of, and manner of using, 42.
Solder for tortoise-shell, 128; for ferrules of tool handles, 133. Solders, recipes for varicus, 235. Solid measure, 147. Solids, mensuration of, 86, 46. Solvents for gutta percha, 179. Sound, velocity of, 176.
Specific gravity, 61; gravities, table of 62; of simple substances, 248; specifie gravities and other properties, 281.
Spontaneous combustion, to prevent, 79.) Units of work, 54. Springs, platina, 145.
Squares and square roots of numbers, table of, 180-201.
Staining woods, processes for, 218, 219. Stains, method of removing, 179; vari- ous, for glass, 861, 862.
Steam, pressure of, at different tem- peratures, 78; elastic force of, 80; force and temperature of, in atmo- spheres, 81; pressure of, 87, 88. Steam-engine, 71; table of surface of boiler tubes of, 241; various problems concerning, 227, 228.
Steam-engines, power of, 46; nominal horse-power of low pressure, 83; of high pressure, 84; proportions of con- densing, 85.
Steel, recipe to preserve articles made of, 173; etching fluid for, 214; cast, composition for welding, 263. Stick-lac, 89.
Stone, methods of joining, 294-296; pa- per, how to make, 304; ware, gold lustre for, 70.
Stones, artificial, recipes for making dif- ferent kinds of, 362–365.
Strain and stress of materials, 204. Strength of materials, 135.
Vegetable decomposition, circumstances favorable to, 805, 306.
Vegetables, the feeding properties of different, 249.
Velocity of falling bodies, 47; of wheels, drums, pulleys, &c., 68. Versed sines, table of, 415. Vertical pressure, resistance of bodies to, 141.
Vocabulary of technical terms used in building, 331-341.
Walls, preservation of, from dampness, 153.
Watchmaker's oil, 132.
Water, weight of given bulks of, 63; ex- pansion of, by heat, 229; boiling points of salt, 230; how to find the quantity and weight of, in pipes of any given size, 280; discharge of, over weirs, 285.
Wax, sealing, recipes for making dif- ferent kinds of, 369, 370. Wedge, the, 66.
Weirs, discharge of water over, 285. Welding composition, 201.
Stucco, fire-proof, for wood, 268; for Wheel and axle, the, 65.
inside walls, 301; Higgins', 302. Superficies, mensuration of, 27, 44. Symbols, algebraic, 15.
Tallow, weight of a cubic foot of, 280. Tangents, table of, 457,
Technical terms used in building, 381- 341.
Temperature, gradations of, 236. 237. Terms used in building, 331-341. Terra cotta, 268.
Thermometrical scales, comparative ta- ble of the degrees of the three, 232, 233.
Tides, variations in, 118.
Timber, results of experiments on the elasticity and strength of various species of, 136; mensuration of, 146; cause of the decay of, 305; methods of seasoning, 307-312; partitions, 322, 323. Timbers, framing of, 312; methods of scarfing, 321.
Tin castings, bronzing liquids for, 179. Toothed wheels, 68.
Torsion, elasticity of, 143; resistance to, by shafts, 150.
Tortoise-shell, solder for, 128; ground for metal, 139.
Transverse action, resistance to, 136; strength of bodies, 247.
Trusses, or timbers framed together for the support of weight, 820.
Wheel, cast-iron, to find the horse-power it is capable of transmitting, 246. Wheels, velocity of, 68; toothed, ib.; strength of, 152; driving, revolutions per mile of, 86; table of the propor- tions of 154; cast-iron, strength of teeth of, 127; dimensions of, in actual use, 246; proportionate strength of, in horse-power, 258; toothed, table for calculating the pitch of, 270; change, for screw-cutting, 279.
Wind, speed and force of, at different velocities, 286.
Wood, strength of, 23; to petrify, 70; fire-proof stucco for, 268; component parts of different varieties of, 278; specific gravities and other properties. of, 282; means of preventing decay in, 307.
Woods, processes for staining, 218, 219; how to polish and preserve, 226, 227. Woodwork, 305, different methods of joining, 323-326.
Work, units of, 54; of men and animals, 55; of machines, 56; accumulated, 56.
Wrought-iron shafts, tables of strengths of, 125, 126; tensile and compressive. strength of, 208; bar, transverse flexure of, by horizontal pressure, 213; experi- ments on transverse strength of rectangular tubes of, 215.
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