Practical Sanitation: a Handbook for Sanitary Inspectors and Others Interested in Sanitation

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C. Griffin & Company, 1908 - 352 pages

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Page 292 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family: 6.
Page 42 - CONTENTS.— Resolution and Composition of Forces— Work done by Machines and Living Agents — The Mechanical Powers: The Lever; Derricks as Bent Levers— The Wheel and Axle : Windlass ; Ship's Capstan ; Crab Winch— Tackles : the "Old Man...
Page 59 - JAMES PARK, FGS, M.Inst.MM, 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 55 - CONTENTS. — Geology. — Search for Coal. — Breaking Ground. — Sinking. — Preliminary Operations. — Methods of Working. — Haulage. — Winding. — Pumping. — Ventilation.— Lighting.— Works at Surface. — Preparation of Coal for Market.— INDEX. " Quite THE BEST BOOK of its kind . . . as PRACTICAL in aim as a book can be . . . The illustrations are EXCELLENT." — Athenaeum. *1 We cordially recommend the work.
Page 76 - Sanitarian. In Handsome Cloth. With 59 Illustrations. 6s. net. SMOKE ABATEMENT. A Manual for the Use of Manufacturers, Inspectors, Medical Officers of Health, Engineers, and Others. BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Chief Smoke Inspector to the Sheffield Corporation.
Page 34 - The BEST BOOK yet published for the use of Students."— Engineer. APPLIED MECHANICS & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. Including All the Inst. CE Exams, in (l) Applied Mechanics; (2) Strength and Elasticity of Materials ; (33) Theory of Structures ; (ii) Theory of Machines; Hydraulics.
Page 48 - THE MEAN DENSITY OF THE EARTH : An Essay to which the Adams Prize was adjudged in 1893 in the University of Cambridge. By JH POYNTING, Sc.D., FRS, Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Physics, Birmingham University. In Large 8vo, with Bibliography, Illustrations in the Text, and Seven Lithographed Plates. 12s. 6d. " Cannot fail to be of GREAT and GENERAL INTEREST."— Athenteum.
Page 35 - A MANUAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING : Comprising Engineering Surveys, Earthwork, Foundations, Masonry, Carpentry, Metal Work, Roads, Railways, Canals, Rivers, Waterworks, Harbours, &c. With Numerous Tables and Illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth. TWENTY-THIRD EDITION. 16s. A MANUAL OF MACHINERY AND MILLWORK : Comprising the Geometry, Motions, Work, Strength, Construction, and Objects of Machines, &c.
Page 36 - Jacks. — Weighing Machines. — Riveters and Shop Tools. — Punching, Shearing, and Flanging Machines. — Cranes. — Coal Discharging Machines. — Drills and Cutters. — Pile Drivers, Excavators, &c. — Hydraulic Machinery applied to Bridges, Dock Gates, Wheels and Turbines. — Shields. — Various Systems and Power Installations. — Meters, &c. — INDEX. "The 'standard work on the application of water power.
Page 29 - World. Hints on Steam Engine Design and Construction. By CHARLES HURST, "Author of Valves and Valve Gearing.

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