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Page 36 - is INVALUABLE. The NAVAL ARCHITECT will find brought togetner and ready to his hand, a mass of information which he would otherwise have to seek in an almost endless variety of publications, and some of which he would possibly not be able to obtain at all elsewhere.
Page 40 - PRACTICAL MECHANICS.' . . . IT is A LIFE'S EXPERIENCE. . . . What an amount we frequently see wasted by rigging purchases without reason and accidents to spars, &c., &c. ! 'PRACTICAL MECHANICS
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Page 37 - Cannot but prove an acquisition to those studying Navigation." — Marine Engineer. Practical Mechanics : Applied to the requirements of the Sailor. By THOS. MACKENZIE, Master Mariner, FRAS SECOND EDITION, Revised.
Page 40 - All but the simplest explanations have, therefore, been avoided, and ANSWERS to the Exercises are given. Any person may readily, by careful study, become master of their contents, and thus lay the foundation for a further mathematical course, if desired. It is hoped that to the younger Officers of our Mercantile Marine they will be found decidedly serviceable.
Page 46 - Membei of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, &c General Principles of Switchgear Design.— Constructional Details. — Circuit Breakers or Arc Interrupting Devices. — Automatically Operated Circuit- Breakers. — Alternating Reverse Current Devices. — Arrangement of 'Bus Bars, and Apparatus for Parallel Running.— General Arrangement of Controlling Apparatus for High Tension Systems. — General Arrangement of Controlling Apparatus for Low...
Page 35 - Pump Valves — General Principles of Non-Rotative Pumping Engines — The Cornish Engine, Simple and Compound — Types of Mining Engines — Pit Work — Shaft Sinking — Hydraulic Transmission of Power in Mines — Electric Transmission of Power — Valve Gears of Pumping Engines — Water...