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A Practical Treatise on the Slide Valve by Eccentrics, examining by methods the action of the Eccentric upon the Slide Valve, ad explaining the Practical processes of laying out the movements. adapting the valve for its various duties in the steam engine. For the use of Engineers, Draughtsmen, Machinists, and Students of Valve Motions in gene By C W. Mac Cord, A M. Professor of Mechanical Drawing, Stevens' Institute of Techno ogy, Hoboken, N. J. Illustrated by 8 full page copperplates. 4to. cloth.... KIRK MOOD. Report on the Filtration of River aters, for the supply of cities, as practised in Europe, made to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of St. Louis. By James P Kirkwood. Illustrated by 30 double plate engravings. 4to, cloth, 15 00 PLATINER. Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blow ipe. From the last German edition, revised and enlarged. By Prof. Th. Kichter. of the Royal Saxon Mining Academy Translated by Prof. H. B. Cornwall, Assistant in the Columbia School of Mines, New York assisted by John H. Caswell. Illustrated with 87 wood cuts, and one lithographic plate Second edition, revised, 560 pages, 8vo, cloth....

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