London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1915. yarns and fabrics. 1915. illus. 8°. 640 p. Amplification and rewriting of the author's Wool Manufacture, with supplementary material on wool scouring and drying, carding, condensing, combing, drawing and spinning machinery and operations; the French system of worsted yarn construction; the principles of design applicable to the several grades and classes of woven textures made of wool and other fibrous substances; and recent developments in the art of manufacturing. Drawings are admirable and numerous. "There can be no doubt as to the magnitude of the work, and no doubt as to the manner in which it has been accomplished. Although we do not as a rule agree with comprehensive works of this character, the manner in which the matter has been arranged and dealt with in the present case proves the exception. No attempt has been made to deal exhaustively with any particular section, but sufficient has been done to enable the reader to derive a fundamental knowledge of every process and method, while at the same time imparting to him much valuable data and results acquired in original technical research and experimental investigation." From a review in Textile Recorder, June 15, 1915, p. 62. London: *Carter, Herbert R. Combers and combing; their setting and principles of their working, by H. R. Carter... J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1915. (In his: Technical handbooks. no. 7.) 132 p. illus. 8°. "The volume... is well conceived and wholly commendable... The devices passed under consideration in the course of this inquiry include the Heilmann, Nasmith, Delette, Schlumberger, Alisy-Trübenach, Little and Eastwood, Lister, Holden and Noble combs. They are described with care and, for the most part, in considerable detail, useful information being given on the important preparatory requirements of erecting, setting, and timing."-From a review in the Textile Mercury, Manchester, England, May 8, 1915, p. 360. *Regal, Samuel. The American garment cutter; a complete, practical, up-to-date treatise on the cutting of men's garments according to the most approved method. New York: American diagrs. illus. 3. ed. Fashion Co., 1914. 296 p. 4°. "For twenty years the author has devoted his time and study to the compilation of a book for self-instruction in the art of cutting and designing men's garments, so arranged that any one of average intelligence can master it with proper care and necessary diligence. "The student will find the system extremely simple and entirely free from complication; no scale or chart of any kind is used, simply the ordinary divisioned square and inch tape measure; everything which might have a tendency to befog and mislead the student has been eliminated, so that every line drawn and supplied may be easily grasped and perfectly understood."-From the preface. Miscellaneous *Ballerini, Ottorino. Fiori artificiali; manuale del fiorista. Seconda edizione aumentata e corretta con 246 figure. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1915. (Manuali Hoepli.) 368 p. illus. 24°. A well illustrated little manual describing tools and methods of making a large variety of artificial flowers and leaves. Has a useful dictionary of terms. Bushnell, S. Morgan, 1866–, and F. B. ORR. District heating; a brief exposition of the development of district heating and its position among public utilities, by S. Morgan Bushnell...and Fred B. Orr... New York: Heating and Ventilating Magazine Co., 1915. illus. 8°. 290 p. In 1876 Mr. Birdsill Holly of Lockport, N. Y., "ran an underground line from a boiler in his residence to a barn at the rear of his property and later connected an adjoining house." This was the beginning of "central heating" in America. In September, 1914, the service supplied from the mains of New York City "included 1300 customers to whom were furnished 1,750,000,000 lbs. of steam per annum, from which the company received a yearly income of $933,000. This book describes the selling of heat and the various distributing systems, metering, estimation of requirements, relation between heat load and electric load. Gives maps of systems in several cities. ing. Cosgrove, John Joseph. Sanitary refrigeration and ice mak- 331 p. illus. 8° [cop. 1914.] Tells in plain language about the different systems of freezing and cold storage, with chapters on machines for domestic use, brewery refrigeration, excavating by the freezing process, as well as tables showing rates and temperatures for the preservation of different products. "The book might almost be called 'popular' in its treatment, were it not for the large amount of specific data which are collected within its pages. There is practically no mathematics involved in the discussions, although a few expressions of general laws are given in mathematical form for brevity. The descriptions are clear and concise; the illustrations are unusually good for a book of this sort, owing largely to the suppression of catalog cuts and the substitution therefor of what appear, to be original sketches made after the approved practice of the best technical journals."—From a review in Engineering News, New York, April 15, 1915, p. 727. Also reviewed in Refrigerating World, New York, April, 1915, p. 40. Mün *Marr, Otto. Das Trocknen und die Trockner... chen, 1914. 2. ed.. 8°. bibliothek. Bd. 14.) (Oldenbourgs technische Hand Second edition of this authoritative work exceeds the first edition by 130 pages of text and 47 illustrations. Discusses drying in the mechanical, chemical and agricultural industries. Well provided with tables. "In the carefully revised second edition of Drying and drying apparatus, the well-known author again gives the results of his wide experience, and through his clear exposition of theory and by his contributions regarding the constructional features of apparatus in vogue, presents, within the book's scope, a satisfactory survey of the subject.”—From a review in Dinglers Polytechnisches Journal, Berlin, Oct. 24, 1910, p. 632. New Vosburgh, H. K. The tinsmith's helper and pattern book; with useful rules...; revised by William Neubecker. York: David Williams Co., 1914. In Circulation Department only. 131 p. diagr. 16°. United States. Hydrographic Office. International code of signals; American edition. Published under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Washington: 1914. 4°. (Publication no. 87.) 552 p. illus. Contains, in addition to the flag vocabularies and geographical signals, a list of the storm-warning display stations, life-saving stations, time-signal stations, and radio stations of the United States; Lloyd's signal stations of the world; semaphor, distance, and wigwag codes, American, English, and French. *Warren, Sir Charles. The early weights and measures of mankind. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1913. 8°. 135 p. A very readable account of the binary, sextarial and sexegesimal systems, the standards of the Greek, Roman, and Moslem empires, India, the Far East, and northern Europe, with remarks on the measures discovered in prehistoric remains. Includes a large number of tables and a bibliography. |