LITERATURE-(Continued) GAS ENGINE CASTINGS bination of wide experience in the class room and unquestionable scholarship. in the rough or partly fin- horse power Franklin Castings, Materials and Blue Prints, complete, $16.50. Circular 7. PARSELL @ WEED 129-131 West 31st St. NEW YORK CITY MACKENZIE & LEE Telephone Main 3603 Boiler Construction. By Frank B. Kleinhans. Pages 421. Cloth. Illustrated. The Derry-Collard Company, New York, Publishers. Price, $3.00. THE FIRST IMPRESSION one gets from this book is that it is devoted largely to the locomotive type; but the reason is readily understood when one considers that the operations on other boilers are much more simple, while the methods and machinery are the same. A valuable feature is the clear explanation of the way things are done and the tools used in doing them. The illustrations are very clear and readily understood. The following are some of the processes that deserve mention here: Laying Out Gusset Sheet, Dome Base, Tube Sheets, Throat Sheets; Flanging; Punching; Planing; Bending; etc. Boiler-Shop Machinery is illustrated by excellent half-tone engravings. Tables give valuable information regarding dies and punches, rate of driving rivets, etc. Steel Square Pocket-Book. By Dwight L. Stoddard. Pages 110. Clotb. Illustrated. Industrial Publication Company, New York, Publishers. Price, 50 cents. THIS LITTLE INEXPENSIVE BOOK gives the practical, every-day uses of the steel square. The various graduations are first explained so that the reader may know the tool. Laying-out spacing, and measuring main rafters, valley and hip rafters, jack rafters, miters, curved rafters, etc., are among the subjects treated. The illustrations are very clear and simple. A thorough understanding of the problems in the book should lead to a complete mastery of the tool. The most costly piece of railroad literature ever is- and Answers. By Spangenberg, Uhl, and Pratt. of full page and half page photo-gravures-the most ex Cloth. Illustrated. Indexed. Pages 672. Geo. A. quisite examples of the modern printers' art, and each Zeller, St. Louis, Mo., Publisher. Price, $3.50. worthy of framing. Sent free on receipt of 10 cents to THIS REFERENCE BOOK for steam, elecpay postage. trical, and refrigerating engineers, is preJ. W. WHITE, pared in question-and-answer form, and includes stationary, locomotive, and elecGeneral Industrial Agent, trical subjects, as well as mechanical rePORTSMOUTH, VA. frigeration, compressed air, gas engines, SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY hydraulic elevators, etc. The book en deavors to combine both theoretical and Mention The Technical World. LITERATURE-(Continued) INDUSTRIES ARE OF F ER E D With satisfactory inducements, practical work, but even a slight examination indicates the strong tendency toward the practical. The names of the authors alone are sufficient to guarantee the practical usefulness of the volume. Prof. E. Spangenberg, C. E., was superintendent of the St. Louis School of Engineering, a man of wide practical experience and a successful teacher, especially in the preparation of men for license examinations. Mr. Albert Uhl, A. I. E. E., is an electrical contractor, and is instructor in practical electricity at the St. Louis School of Engineering. The third author, Mr. E. W. Pratt, is an expert on locomotive and railroad matters, being Master Mechanic of one of the large railways. THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD -AND THE For full information and descriptive J. C. CLAIR, Telephone Principles and Practice. By George Wilder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Armour Institute of Technology. Pages 445. Cantwell Publishing Company, Madison, Wis. Price, $2.00, postpaid. 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