ENGINEERING.
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90 .
153 Plates, engraved in the best style of Art, half-bound in morocco, very neat, Price £4. 4s.
PUBLIC WORKS OF GREAT BRITAIN ;
CONSISTING OF
Railways, Rails, Chairs, Blocks, Cuttings, Embankments, Tunnels, Oblique Arches, Viaducts, Bridges,Stations, Locomotive Engines , &c.; Cast-Iron Bridges, Iron and Gas Works, Canals, Lock-gates,Centering, Masonry and Brickwork for Canal Tunnels; Canal Boats; the London and Liverpool Docks,Plans and Dimensions, Dock-gates, Walls , Quays , and their Masonry; Mooring-chains, Plan of theHarbour and Port of London, and other important Engineering Works, with Descriptions and Specifi-cations ; the W'hole rendered of the utmost utility to the Civil Engineer and to the Student, and asExamples to the Foreign Engineer.
Edited by F. W. SIMMS, C.E.
This Work is on an Imperial folio size, the Drawings and Engravings have been executed by eminentArtists, and no expense has been spared in rendering it highly essential for practical use; also, asan ornamental Volume of important Engineering Works in several Parts of the Kingdom. Thereare some Plates in the Volume that may be preferred in Colours, viz., the elaborate subject of theBlisworth Cuttings, on the Birmingham Line, 18 Plates, geologically coloured; Glasgow and GairnkirkRailway Cutting through Moss, geologically coloured, &c.; making 20 Plates, carefully coloured,and for which an additional £1: Is. is charged.
The following is a list of the Authors whose works are comprised in the volume.
Brindley
Hartley
M‘Adam
Telford
Brunei
Hosking
Palmer
Thomas
Buck
Jessop
Rennie
Tierney Clark
G. and R. Stephenson
Landmann
Rhodes
Walker.
91 .
In Imperial 8vo. Second Edition, with Additions. 11 Plates, extra cloth boards, Price 8s.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF
OBLIQUE ARCHES.
By JAMES HART, Mason.
92 .
Just ready, a Second, and much enlarged Edition, in royal 8vo. bds., with 11 Charts and aMeteorological Table, Price £1. 4s.
AN ATTEMPT TO DEVELOPE THE LAW OF STORMS,
By means of Facts arranged according to Place and Time; and hence to point out a Cause for theVARIABLE WINDS, with the view to practical use in navigation.
By Lieut.-Colonel W. REID, C.B. and R.E., and Lieut. -Governor of the Bermudas.
Some copies with the Charts in a separate Atlas form, Price £1. 8s.
93 .
AN ESSAY ON THE MODERN SYSTEM OF FORTIFICATION
Adopted on the Rhine and Danube , and followed in all the works constructed since the Peace of 1815,in Germany . Illustrated by a copious Memoir on the Fortress of Coblentz, and accompanied bybeautiful Plans and Sections of the w'orks of that place.
By Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. HUMFREY, K.S.F.,
Formerly of the Royal Artillery and Royal Stalf Corps, and late Commanding Engineer to the Corps ofCantabria , Author of several Military Works, &e. Long resident in Germany , where he had oppor-tunities of collecting information from the best sources.