Rare Books

Engineers' and mechanics' pocket-book, containing United States and foreign weights and measures; : tables of areas and circumferences of circles, circular segments and zones of a circle; squares and cubes, square and cube roots; lengths of circular and semi-elliptic arcs; and rules of arithmetic. Mensuration of surfaces and solids; the mechanical powers; geometry, trigonometry, gravity, strength of materials, water wheels, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, statics, dynamics, gunnery, heat, winding engines, tonnage, shot, shells, &c. Steam and the steam-engine; ...tables of the weights of metals, pipes, &c miscellaneous notes, dimensions of steamers, mills, motion of bodies in fluids, orthography of technical terms, &c. &c