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Fire Engineering. 



FIRES, FIRE-ENGINES, AND FIRE BRIGADES. With 

 a History of Fire -Engines, their Construction, Use, and Manage- 

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Manual of Mining Tools, 



MINING TOOLS. For the use of Mine Managers, Agents, 

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Common Sense for Gas-Users, 



COMMON SENSE FOR GAS-USERS: a Catechism of Gas- 

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Gas and Gasworks, 



A TREATISE on GASWORKS and the PRACTICE of 

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Waterworks for Cities and Towns, 



WATERWORKS for the SUPPLY of CITIES and TOWNS, 

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Coal and Coal Mining, 



COAL AND COAL MINING : a Rudimentary Treatise on. By 

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