Technology & Engineering
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A History of the Growth of the Steam-EngineA History of the Growth of the Steam-EngineThis little work embodies the more generally interesting portions of lectures first written for delivery at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in the winter of 1871-72, to a mixed audience, composed, however, principally of engineers by profession,...
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Making Your Camera PayMaking Your Camera Pay The demand of publishers for good pictures is increasing. Editors are eager to use the best photographs that may be obtained. They draw no distinction between the work of the amateur and that of the professional photographer. If a photograph...
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Four and Twenty BedsFour and Twenty Beds ANYONE CAN MANAGE a motel successfully--anyone who can subsist on meals snatched a mouthful at a time, and requires no sleep; anyone who is a mechanic, gardener, publicity agent, handyman, psychologist, carpenter, and midwife combined; anyone who can cheerfully greet...
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Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional CooksHand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks - Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human FoodFood is the most important of our wants; we cannot exist without it. The man who does not use his brain to select and prepare...
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A Treatise on the Brewing of BeerA Treatise on the Brewing of Beer The first edition of this treatise met with encouragement enough to flatter me that I had left no room to improve it: but, encouraged by the satisfaction my friends was pleased to express of its utility to...
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The New Guide to Knitting and CrochetThe New Guide to Knitting & CrochetI venture to publish The New Guide to Knitting and Crochet, believing it will prove both instructive and amusing to those Ladies, whose taste leads them to such pursuits. The Authoress being practically acquainted with these Arts, she...
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A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and CookeryA Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and CookeryThis course of lectures is designed to meet the wants of two classes of persons: FirstThose who are experienced housekeepers, familiar with the principles and practice of cookery, but who desire information concerning...
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The Preparation of Plantation RubberThe Preparation of Plantation RubberMr. Sidney Morgans work on Plantation Rubber in the East is so well known that he hardly needs introduction. An earlier book, published in 1914, by the Rubber Growers Association, entitled The Preparation of Plantation Rubber, was well received and...
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Cloud City Cook-BookCloud City Cook-Book"Of making many books there is no end," said a wise man; but probably he had good cooks. There is a "place" for all things as well as a "time," and every hungry man knows the place for a good dinner. If...
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Asbestos, Its production and useAsbestos, Its production and use - With some account of the asbestos mines of CanadaThe substance of the following pages was originally comprised in a series of Letters from Canada to a friend in London, who was desirous of obtaining all the authentic information...
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Guide to Hotel HousekeepingGuide to Hotel HousekeepingMy chief purpose in writing this book was to place a few guide-posts along the route of hotel housekeepers to warn them against certain errors common to women engaged in the arduous and difficult occupation of keeping house for hotels. If...
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Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in HorologyFriction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in HorologyMany books have been written on the various escapements, describing their action, construction and proportion, and the laws governing the same; learned writers have contributed much valuable information on adjusting; excellent attachments for the various lathes have been...
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Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public WorksScamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works The following pages have been written with the view to record a few scamping tricks occasionally practised upon public works, and to name some methods founded on practical experience adopted by sub-contractors and others...
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Handicraft for GirlsHandicraft for Girls - A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and CareThe exercises in this five-year course are based upon an estimated time of one hour per week in the first two...
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Domestic French Cookery, 4th edDomestic French Cookery, 4th ed.The design of the following little book is to furnish receipts for a select variety of French dishes, explained and described in such a manner as to make them intelligible to American cooks, and practicable with American utensils and American...
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The Century Cook BookThe Century Cook BookIn France various honors are awarded to cooks. Accomplished chefs de cuisine are by compliment called cordon-bleu, which is an ancient and princely order. A successful culinary production takes the name of the inventor, and by it his fame often lasts...
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Jane's All the World's Aircraft. 1913Jane's All the World's Aircraft. 1913s conjectured last year, considerable further changes have been produced in this edition. When, some five years ago, work on this annual was first commenced, the military aviator was an idle dream. Fighting men in dirigibles were a bare...
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The Story of the Atlantic TelegraphThe Story of the Atlantic TelegraphThe recent death of Mr. Cyrus W. Field recalls attention to the great enterprise with which his name will be forever associated. "The Atlantic Telegraph," said the late Chief Justice Chase, "is the most wonderful achievement of civilization, and...
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Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70Steam EnginesA steam engine is a device by means of which heat is transformed into work. Work may be defined as the result produced by a force acting through space, and is commonly measured in foot-pounds; a foot-pound represents the work done in raising...
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Let's Use SoybeansLet's Use SoybeansSoybeans and soybean products are receiving increased attention at the present time when the rationing of many of the protein-rich foods of animal origin has made us aware of the possibility of insufficient protein in our dietaries. This interest is highly desirable,...
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