Electricity Control: A Treatise on Electric Switchgear and Systems of Electric Transmission

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C. Griffin, 1904 - Electric circuit-breakers - 231 pages

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Page 33 - TABLE, in place of the usual Fifteen minute computations required. This alone is evidence of the assistance which the Tables ensure to every user, and as every Surveyor in active practice has felt the want of such assistance FEW KNOWING OF THEIR PUBLICATION WILL REMAIN WITHOUT THEM.
Page 43 - The Master's Duty In respect of the Crew : Engagement Apprentices ; Discipline ; Provisions, Accommodation, and Medical Comforts ; Payment of Wages and Discharge...
Page 54 - Professor of Geology In the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and Examiner in the University of London.
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...
Page 41 - MARINE METEOROLOGY, FOR OFFICERS OF THE MERCHANT NAVY. BY WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, Joint Author of "Navigation, Theoretical and Practical." With numerous Plates, Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations, and a facsimile Reproduction of a Page from an actual Meteorological Log-Book.
Page 67 - I. — ALKALIES AND ALKALINE EARTH METALS : Magnesium, Lithium, Beryllium, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, the Carbides of the Alkaline Earth Metals. PART II. — THE EARTH METALS: Aluminium, Cerium, Lanthanum, Didymium. PART III. — THE HEAVY METALS: Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc and Cadmium, Mercury, Tin, Lead, Bismuth, Antimony, Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Uranium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, the Platinum Group. " COMPREHENSIVE and AUTHORITATIVE ... not only FULL of VALUABLE...
Page 38 - II. Classification of Steel Ships. III. Considerations in making choice of Type of Vessel — Framing of Ships. IV. Strains experienced by Ships. —Methods of Computing and Comparing Strengths of Ships.
Page 59 - Professor of Mining and Director of the Otago University School of Mines ; late Director Thames School of Mines, and Geological Surveyor and Mining Geologist to the Government or New Zealand GENERAL CONTENTS.
Page 36 - USEFUL RULES AND TABLES : For Architects, Builders, Engineers, Founders, Mechanics, Shipbuilders, Surveyors, &c. With APPENDIX for the use of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
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