Civil and mechanical engineering. Popularly and socially considered
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- Preface to the first edition (p.r5)
- Preface to the second edition (p.r6)
- Table of contents (p.r7)
- List of Plates (n.n.)
- Chapter I. Steam Navigation. Canals and Railways (p.1)
- Chapter II. General Engineering (p.12)
- Chapter III. Dumbarton and the Clyde (p.28)
- Chapter IV. Glasgow and Ocean Steam Ships (p.41)
- Chapter V. The Birkenhead Ironworks (p.55)
- Chapter VI. Apprentices (p.71)
- Chapter VII. Civil Engineering (p.93)
- Chapter VIII. Practice of Engineering (p.116)
- Chapter IX. Drawing Office Calculations (p.134)
- Chapter X. Engines in Progress. The Screw Propeller (p.151)
- Chapter XI. Origin of Marine Engineering. Steam Power on Canals (p.176)
- Chapter XII. Bad Workmanship (p.193)
- Chapter XIII. System of Design and Construction in Marine Engines (p.204)
- Chapter XIV. Boiler Yard, and Boilers in Construction (p.226)
- Chapter XV. The Building Yard. Ships Ancient and Modern (p.237)
- Chapter XVI. Finishing the Engines in the Works (p.251)
- Chapter XVII. Launching a Ship (p.267)
- Chapter XVIII. Ship and Engines Completed (p.278)
- Chapter XIX. Ship's Appliances. Trial Trip (p.294)
- Chapter XX. « Breakdowns, » and Mysterious Losses at Sea (p.316)
- Chapter XXI. Loss of West India Mail Steamer « Amazon ». Engineering Smashes on Land (p.329)
- Chapter XXII. Story of a Disastrous Trial Trip (p.348)
- Chapter XXIII. End of the Fatal Trial Trip (p.363)
- Chapter XXIV. How I commenced Private Practice (p.373)
- Chapter XXV. How « Competitions » are conducted (p.386)
- Chapter XXVI. Clients : an Iron Work Speculation (p.400)
- Chapter XXVII. Voyage from Sydney to London in 1845 (p.414)
- Chapter XXVIII. Engineering of the Past and Present (p.428)
- Chapter XXIX. Triple Expansion Machinery (p.442)
- Chapter XXX. Quadruple and New Compound Engines (p.462)
- Index (p.481)
- Abstracts of Reviews of First Edition (p.491)
- [Books relating to Applied Science published by E. & F. N. SPON] (p.2x1)
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