A Catalogue of Books INCLUDING MANY NEW & STANDARD WORKS IN ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, AGRICULTURE, MATHEMATICS, MECHANICS, SCIENCE, &c., &c. PUBLISHED BY CROSBY LOCKWOOD & CO., 7, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL, E.C. ENGINEERING, SURVEYING, &c. Humber's New Work on Water-Supply. A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE on the WATER-SUPPLY of CITIES and TOWNS. By WILLIAM HUMBER, Assoc. Inst. C.E., and M. Inst. M. E. Author of "Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction," &c., &c. Imp. 4to. Illustrated with 50 Double Plates, 2 Single Plates, Coloured Frontispiece, and upwards of 250 Woodcuts, and containing 400 pages of Text, elegantly and substantially half-bound in morocco. 61, 6s. List of Contents: I. Historical Sketch of some of the means that have been adopted for the Supply of Water to Cities and Towns.-II. Water and the Foreign Matter usually associated with it.-III. Rainfall and Evaporation.-IV. Springs and the waterbearing formations of various districts.-V. Measurement and Estimation of the Flow of Water.-VI. On the Selection of the Source of Supply.-VII. Wells.VIII. Reservoirs.-IX. The Purification of Water.-X. Pumps.-XI. Pumping Machinery.-XII. Conduits.-XIII. Distribution of Water.-XIV. Meters, Service Pipes, and House Fittings.-XV. The Law and Economy of Water Works.XVI. Constant and Intermittent Supply.-XVII. Description of Plates.-Appendices, giving Tables of Rates of Supply, Velocities, &c. &c., together with Specifications of several Works illustrated, among which will be found :-Aberdeen, Bideford, Canterbury, Dundee, Halifax, Lambeth, Rotherham, Dublin, and others. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto produced in English, or in any other language."-Engineer (first notice). Mr. Humber's work is characterised almost throughout by an exhaustiveness much more distinctive of French and German than of English technical treatises."Engineer (third notice). We can congratulate Mr. Humber on having been able to give so large an amount of information on a subject so important as the water supply of cities and towns. The plates, fifty in number, are mostly drawings of executed works, and alone would have commanded the attention of every engineer whose practice may lie in this branch of the profession."-Builder. B Humber's Modern Engineering. First Series. A RECORD of the PROGRESS of MODERN ENGINEER- With copious Descriptive Letterpress, Specifications, &c. "Handsomely lithographed and printed. It will find favour with many who desire to preserve in a permanent form copies of the plans and specifications prepared for the guidance of the contractors for many important engineering works."-Engineer. Humber's Modern Engineering. Second Series. A RECORD of the PROGRESS of MODERN ENGINEER- "A résumé of all the more interesting and important works lately completed in Great Britain; and containing, as it does, carefully executed drawings, with full working details, it will be found a valuable accessory to the profession at large."-Engineer. "Mr. Humber has done the profession good and true service, by the fine collection of examples he has here brought before the profession and the public."-Practical Mechanics Journal. Humber's Modern Engineering. Third Series. A RECORD of the PROGRESS of MODERN ENGINEERING, 1865. Imp. 4to, with 40 Double Plates, drawn to a large scale, and Photo. Portrait of J. R. M'Clean, Esq., late President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 31. 35. half morocco. List of Plates and Diagrams. MAIN DRAINAGE, METROPOLIS MAIN DRAINAGE, METROPOLIS, NORTH SIDE. Plate 1. Map showing Interception of continued Outfall Sewer. Reservoir and Outlet. THAMES EMBANKMENT. 26 and 27. Steam-boat Pier, Westminster. Plate 25. Section of River Wall.Elevation and Details.-28. Landing Stairs between Charing Cross and Waterloo Bridges.-29 and 30. York Gate. Front Elevation. Side Elevation and Outlet at Savoy Street Sewer. Details; Details.-31, 32, and 33. Overflow and and Penstock.-34, 35, and 36. Steam-boat Pier, Waterloo Bridge. Penstocks. vation and Details.-13 and 14. Outfall Sewer. Reservoir. Plan and Section.15. Outfall Sewer. Tumbling Bay and Outlet.-16. Outfall Sewer. SOUTH SIDE. Elevation and Details.-37. Junction of Sewers. Plans and Sections -38. Gullies. Plans and Plates 17 and 18. Outfall Sewer. Ber-Sections.-39. Rolling Stock.-40. Granite mondsey Branch.-19, 20, 21, and 22. and Iron Forts. With copious Descriptive Letterpress, &c. Humber's Modern Engineering. Fourth Series. A RECORD of the PROGRESS of MODERN ENGINEERING, 1866. Imp. 4to, with 36 Double Plates, drawn to a large scale, and Photographic Portrait of John Fowler, Esq., President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 34. 35. half morocco. With Copious Descriptive Letterpress, Specifications, &c. B 2 Humber's Great Work on Bridge Construction. A COMPLETE and PRACTICAL TREATISE on CAST and "Mr. Humber's stately volumes lately issued-in which the most important bridges erected during the last five years, under the direction of our most eminent engineers, are drawn and specified in great detail."-Engineer. "A book-and particularly a large and costly treatise like Mr. Humber's-which has reached its third edition may certainly be said to have established its own reputation."-Engineering. Strains, Formula & Diagrams for Calculation of A HANDY BOOK for the CALCULATION of STRAINS in GIRDERS and SIMILAR STRUCTURES, and their STRENGTH; consisting of Formula and Corresponding Diagrams, with numerous Details for Practical Application, &c. By WILLIAM HUMBER, Assoc. Inst. C. E., &c. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, with nearly 100 Woodcuts and 3 Plates, 7s. 6d. cloth. "The arrangement of the matter in this little volume is as convenient as it well could be. The system of employing diagrams as a substitute for complex computations is one justly coming into great favour, and in that respect Mr. Humber's volume is fully up to the times."-Engineering. "The formulæ are neatly expressed, and the diagrams good."-Athenæum. "Mr. Humber has rendered a great service to the architect and engineer by producing a work especially treating on the methods of delineating the strains on iron beams, roofs, and bridges by means of diagrams."-Builder. Barlow on the Strength of Materials. A TREATISE ON THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS, with Rules for application in Architecture, the Construction of Suspension Bridges, Railways, &c.; and an Appendix on the Power of Locomotive Engines, and the effect of Inclined Planes and Gradients. By PETER BARLOW, F.R.S. A New Edition, revised by his Sons, P. W. BARLOW, F. R.S., and W. H. BARLOW, F.R.S. The whole arranged and edited by W. HUMBER, ASSOC. Inst. C.E. 8vo, 400 pp., with 19 large Plates, and numerous woodcuts, 18. cloth. "The best book on the subject which has yet appeared. no work that so completely fulfils its mission."-English Mechanic. "The standard treatise upon this particular subject."-Engineer. Tables of Curves. We know of TABLES OF TANGENTIAL ANGLES and MULTIPLES for setting out Curves from 5 to 200 Radius. By ALEXANDER BEAZELEY, M. Inst. C.E. Second Edition. Printed on 48 Cards, and sold in a cloth box, waistcoat-pocket size, 3s. 6d. "Each table is printed on a small card, which, being placed on the theodolite, leaves the hands free to manipulate the instrument-no small advantage as regards the rapidity of work. They are clearly printed, and compactly fitted into a small case for the pocket-an arrangement that will recommend them to all practical men."-Engineer. |