PART TWO
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Subjects Treated
The Air Pump; Air and Vacuum Pumps; Air Compressors; The Air Lift Pump; The Steam Fire Engine; Miscellaneous Pumps; Mining Pumps; Marine Pumps; “Sugar-house” Pumps; Circulating Pumps; Atmospheric Pumps; Ammonia or Acid Pumps; The Screw Pump; Aermotor Pumps; Rotary and Centrifugal Pumps; Turbine Pumps; Injectors and Ejectors; Pulsometer-Aqua-Thruster; Pump Speed Governors; Condensing Apparatus; Utilities and Attachments, Tools, Valves and Piping, Pipes, Joints and Fittings, Useful Notes; Tables and Data; Glossary of Pump and Hydraulic Terms; Elementary Hydraulics; Flow of water Under Pressure; Water Pressure Machines, Water Wheels; Turbine Water Wheels; Turbine Pumps; Water Pressure Engines; Hydraulic Motors; Hydraulic Apparatus; Hydraulic Jack; Hydraulic Press; Hydraulic Accumulator; Hydraulic Ram; Pumps as Hydraulic Apparatus; Classification of Pumps; Hand Pumps; Power Pumps; Belted Pumps; The Electric Pump; The Steam Pump; The Duplex Pump; Underwriter Fire Pump; Specifications of the National Board of Fire Underwriters Relating to Duplex Fire Pumps.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
=+29 CHAPTERS+=
The Telephone Apparatus and its Operation; A Brief Survey of the Theory of Sound, Necessary to an Understanding of the Telephone; A Brief Survey of the Principles of Electricity; Electrical Quantities; History of the Speaking Telephone; Later Modifications of the Magnet Telephone; The Carbon Microphone Transmitter; The Circuits of a Telephone Apparatus; The Switch Hook and its Function in Telephone Apparatus; The Switchboard and the Appliances of the Central Station; The Operator’s Switch Keys and Telephone Set; Improved Switchboard Attachments; Switchboard Lamp Signals and Circuits; The Multiple Switchboard; Locally Interconnected or Multiple Transfer Switchboard; Exchange Battery Systems; Party Lines and Selective Signals; Private Telephone Lines and Intercommunicating Systems; Common Return Circuits; Private Telephone Lines and Intercommunicating Systems; Full Metallic Circuits; Large Private Systems and Automatic Exchanges; Devices for Protecting Telephone Apparatus from Electrical Disturbances; The General Conditions of Telephone Line Construction; Telephone Pole Lines; Wire Transportations on a Pole Line. Telephone Cables and their Use in Underground and Pole Lines; Circuit Balancing Devices; The Microtelephone; Wireless Telephony; Useful Definitions and Hints on Telephone Management.
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Transcriber’s note:
The original spelling, hyphenation, accentuation and punctuation has been retained, except for apparent typographical errors.
A table of contents has been added by the transcriber following the preface.
Index entry ‘Evans, Robt., 11.’ corrected to read ‘Evans, Oliver, viii.’
In the chapter ‘CHIMNEYS AND DRAUGHT’ 12th para:-
‘… having about 1 square foot of heating surface to 45 square feet of heating surface.’
This has been changed to read:-
‘… having about 1 square foot of grate area to 45 square feet of heating surface.’
The references to a ‘Six Inch Flue Boiler’ in Fig. 32 and the Index may mean ‘Six Flue Boiler’, these instances have not been changed.
In the chapter ‘CHEMISTRY OF THE FURNACE’, the opening paragraph has a number of apparent typographical errors relating to names of substances. These have been left as printed and are:-
naphthaline typographical error for naphthalene alizarine „ „ „ alizarin toludine „ „ „ toluidine anthracine „ „ „ anthracene toluches „ „ „ toluene saccharine „ „ „ saccharin