The Metallurgy of Lead & Silver: Lead

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Page 33 - INTRODUCTION. — Tool Grinding. — Emery Wheels. — Mounting Emery Wheels. —Emery Rings and Cylinders. — Conditions to Ensure Efficient Working.— Leading Types of Machines.— Concave and Convex Grinding. — Cup and Cone Machines. — Multiple Grinding. — "Guest" Universal and Cutter Grinding Machines.
Page 28 - English and Foreign Boilers with their Heat Efficiencies shown in Fifty Tables — Fire Grates of Various Types — Mechanical Stokers — Combustion of Fuel in Boilers — Transmission of Heat through Boiler Plates, and their Temperature — Feed Water Heaters, Superheaters, Feed Pumps, &c. — Smoke and its Prevention — Instruments used in Testing Boilers — Marine and Locomotive Boilers — Fuel Testing Stations — Discussion of the Trials and Conclusions — On the Choice of a Boiler, and...
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Page 82 - Properties, and Applications of the various substances described, and concise directions for their Commercial Valuation, and for the Detection of Adulterants. BY CHRISTOPHER RAWSON, FIC, FCS, Consulting Chemist to the Behar Indigo Planters' Association ; Co- Author of " A Manual of Dyeing ;
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Page 80 - GENERAL CONTENTS. Introduction — Workshop and Stores— Plant and Appliances — Brushes and Tools — Materials : Pigments, Driers, Painters' Oils — Wall Hangings — Paper Hanging— Colour Mixing — Distempering — Plain Painting — Staining — Varnish and Varnishing — Imitative Painting — Graining — Marbling — Gilding — SignWriting and Lettering — Decoration : General Principles — Decoration in Distemper — Painted Decoration — Relievo Decoration — Colour — Measuring...
Page 33 - TRAVERSE TABLES: Computed to Four Places of Decimals for every Minute of Angle up to 100 of Distance. For the Use of Surveyors and Engineers. BY RICHARD LLOYD GURDEN, Authorised Surveyor for the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria, *»* Published with the Concurrence oj the Surveyors- General for New South Wales and Victoria. "Those who have experience in exact SURVEY-WORK will best know how to appreciate the enormous amount of labour represented by this valuable book.
Page 87 - The arguments for and against " sintering " and " slagging " respectively have been already stated in this chapter, and need not be repeated here. Suffice it to say that the...

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