Book/Printed Material The engineer's and mechanic's encyclopædia, comprehending practical illustrations of the machinery and processes employed in every description of manufacture of the British empire Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 iE he- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 7 of Volume 1 z STITT NTIAIN- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 8 of Volume 1 THE ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS ENCYCLOPAEDIA COMPREHENDING PRACTICAL TLLUSTRATIONS OF THE MACHINERY AND PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF MANUFACTURE OF THE ge BRITISH EMPIRE Tih neavlp Two THousand Engrabings BY LUKE HEBERT…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 9 of Volume 1 LONDON PRINTED BY RICHARD CLAY BREADSTREETHILL- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 10 of Volume 1 oo 3 PREFACE ALTHOUGH many excellent treatises have been published on the THEORY of the Mechanical and Chemical Sciences none of them embrace a combined and general view of the PRACTICAL APPLICATION…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 11 of Volume 1 iv PREFACE To accomplish an undertaking of such great convenience to the scientific as well as of real utility to operative men in a form adapted to instant reference and ready application…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 12 of Volume 1 ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS ENCYCLOPADIA rn enn me i ABACA A kind of flax which grows in the Philippine Islands There are two varieties of it the white and the grey the former…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 13 of Volume 1 2 ABSORBING AND PRODUCTIVE CASCADE The column a is filled with a great number of small bulbs of glass or porcelain its lower extremity resting in another cylinder of greater diameter in…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 14 of Volume 1 ACCELERATION 3 and dissolve it very easily The chlorine which is produced passes by the tube n into the absorbing cascade while the muriate of manganese is carried off as it forms…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 15 of Volume 1 4 ACCELERATION an ingenious contrivance of the late Mr Attwood of Cambridge the laws of motion above laid down may be verified experimentally The machine is called  Attwoodâs machineâ after the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 16 of Volume 1 ACIDS removed and a small bar of equal weight but of a length exceeding the diameter of the hole in be placed upon g and the stage be set at any division…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 17 of Volume 1 6 ACIDâACETIC muriatic which are manufactured on the great scale we shall describe in this place ACID AcEric is the acid contained in common vinegar but in a very dilute state and…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 18 of Volume 1 ACIDâACETIC 7 tube or cylinder enclosed in another of brickwork or tiles is affixed to the lateral cylinder and forms the condensing apparatus Thisis differentin different places in some the condensation is…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 19 of Volume 1 8 ACIDâACETIC around two cylinders Both ends are made to project a little from the brick work One of them is provided with a disk of castiron accurately fitted to it and…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 20 of Volume 1 ACIDMURIATIC 9 and with these bases it forms compounds some of which are crystallizable and others have not yet been reduced to a regularity of figure For the properties and uses of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 21 of Volume 1 10 ACIDâSULPHURIC gas from the last cylinder From this bottle whatever gas is not condensed is transmitted through a second range of bottles half filled with water which will absorb twofifths of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 22 of Volume 1 ACIDâSULPHURIC 11 leaden chamber containing about 20000 cubic feet at the same time a retort placed ir a sand bath and containing 93 1bs of nitric acid and 11 1b of molasses…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 23 of Volume 1 12 ADHESION of dying in the manufacture of the nitric and muriatic acids and in numerous other branches of manufacture The combinations of this acid with various bases are called sulphates many…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 24 of Volume 1 ADHESION 13 extraction in some experiments he found the ratio to be about 6 to 5 The following Table exhibits the relative adhesion of nails of various kinds when driven into dry…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 25 of Volume 1 14 AOLIPILE After they had been glued together twentyfour hours they required a force of 1260 lbs to separate them and as the area of the circular ends of the cylinders were…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 26 of Volume 1 AERATED WATERS 15 a description in this place which we shall give with reference to the subjoined figure Over a small furnace was placed a vase or caldron a containing water from…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 27 of Volume 1 16 AERATED WATERS pillars I I In using this apparatus the cask is to be half filled with distilled or spring water the hole K is then to be stopped airtight with…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 28 of Volume 1 AERATED WATERS 17 an intermediate vessel o containing about three gallons is formed either of thick sheet lead alone or of cast iron lined with lead This intermediate vessel is filled with…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 29 of Volume 1 18 AERATED WATERS a cylindrical form with spherical ends made strong enough to resist a pressure of several atmospheres b is a partition about twothirds from the top of the vessel separating…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 30 of Volume 1 ETNA SALT 19 small portion of acid will escape from the vessel d into the vessel e to keep up the generation of the gas as it passes off to the water…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 31 of Volume 1 20 AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS E For many other words which were formerly commenced with this diphthong see the letter E AFFINITY CHEMICAL See ArTracCTION AGARIC MINERAL or Mountain MEear found in the clefts…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 32 of Volume 1 AGRICULTURE 21 AGRICULTURE is the art of cultivating the earth so as to preserve or increase the natural fertility of the soil as well as to render sterile tracts pro ductive of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 33 of Volume 1 22 AILERON only 11 parts of fine calcareous earth the finelydivided clay amounting to 45 parts It lost 9 parts in decomposed animal and vegetable matter and 4 in water and exhibited…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 34 of Volume 1 AIRPUMP 23 AIR Armospueric From the remotest antiquity until a comparatively recent period the air was considered as one of four elements of which all things were compounded and it was generally…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 35 of Volume 1 24 ATRPUMP Prince and others but more especially by Mr Cuthbertson whose arrange ments are so excellent as to claim a particular notice and description Fig 1 represents a perspective view of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
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Image 36 of Volume 1 AIRPUMP 25 its own weight shuts the hole and prevents the return of the air into the barrel at d are fixed two pieces of brass to keep the wire  …- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 37 of Volume 1 26 AIRPUMP fit the outside of Fig 5 tb Fig 3 are round leathers about 60 in number of the same diameter as the barrel C D and having holes in the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 38 of Volume 1 AIRPUMP 27 its length the lower end of the hole having a valve e similar to the valve b in the cylinder and opening into the cylinder To the upper end of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 39 of Volume 1 28 AIRPUMP the skins in boxes and exhausting the air from the upper surface of the skins whilst the lower surface is exposed to the tanning liquor which is forced into the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
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Image 40 of Volume 1 AIRGUN 29 with the plunger at its lowest immersion or downstroke as it is called At this moment of time every part of the syphon is completely filled with the Auid it…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hebert, Luke
- Date: 1836
About this Item
Title
- The engineer's and mechanic's encyclopædia, comprehending practical illustrations of the machinery and processes employed in every description of manufacture of the British empire
Names
- Hebert, Luke
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London, T. Kelly, 1836-1837.
Headings
- - Technology--Dictionaries
- - Industrial arts--Dictionaries
- - Industries--Great Britain--Colonies--History
Notes
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2552
- - LAC ddw 2022-06-06 update (1 card)
- - Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-06
Medium
- 2 v. fronts., illus., diagrs. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- T9 .H44
- T9 .H44 Copy 2 Rosenwald collection item 2552.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 05004710
Online Format
- online text
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