ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. 41 



In Large 8vo. Handsome Cloth. With Plates and Illustrations. 16s. 



AT HOME AND ABROAD. 

 BY WILLIAM HENRY COLE, M.lNST.O.E., 



Late Deputy-Manager, North-Western Railway, India. 



Contents. Discussion of the Term "Light Railways." English Railway*, 

 Rates, and Farmers. Light Railways in Belgiiim, France. Italy, other 

 European Countries, America and the Colonies, India, Ireland. Road Trans- 

 port as an alternative. The Light Railways Act, 1890. --The Question of 

 (range. Construction and Working. Locomotives and Rolling-Stock. Light 

 Railways in England, Scotland, and Wales. Appendices and Index. 



"Mr. W. H. Cole has brought together . . . a LARGK AMOUNT of VALUABLE INFORMA- 

 TION . . . hitherto practically inaccessible to the ordinary reader." Times. 



44 THERE COULD BK NO BETTER BOOK of first reference on its subject. All classei ol 

 Engineers will welcome its appearance. " Scotsman. 



THIRD EDITION, Revised and Enlarged. Pocket-Site, Leather, 12*. Gd.; alto Larger Site for 

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Boilers, Marine and Land: 



THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND STRENGTH. 



A HANDBOOK o* RULES, FORMULA, TABLES, &c., RELATIVE TO MATERIAL, 



SCANTLINGS, AND PRESSURES, SAFETY VALVES, SPRINGS, 



FITTINGS AND MOUNTINGS, &a 



FOR THE USE OF ENGINEERS, SURVEYORS, BOILED- MAKERS* 

 AND STEAM USERS. 



BY T. W. TRAILL, M. INST. 0. R, F. E. K N., 



Late Engineer Surreyor-in-Chief to the Board of Trade. 



%* To THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS MANY NEW TABLES for PRESSURES 

 up to 200 LBS. per SQUARE INCH have been added. 



" THE MOST VALOAKLK WORK on Boilers published in England." Shipping World. 

 Contains an ENORMOUS QCAITTITT OP INFORMATION arranged in a very convenient form. . 

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