Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Part 21

_The Details and Designs are Drawn to Scale, 1/8", 1/4", 1/2", and Full size being chiefly used._

The Plates are arranged in Two Parts. The First Part contains Details of Work in the four princ.i.p.al Building materials, the following being a few of the subjects in this Part:--Various forms of Doors and Windows, Wood and Iron Roofs, Half Timber Work, Porches, Towers, Spires, Belfries, Flying b.u.t.tresses, Groining, Carving, Church Fittings, Constructive and Ornamental Iron Work, Cla.s.sic and Gothic Molds and Ornament, Foliation Natural and Conventional, Stained Gla.s.s, Coloured Decoration, a Section to Scale of the Great Pyramid, Grecian and Roman Work, Continental and English Gothic, Pile Foundations, Chimney Shafts according to the regulations of the London County Council, Board Schools. The Second Part consists of Drawings of Plans and Elevations of Buildings, arranged under the following heads:--Workmen's Cottages and Dwellings, Cottage Residences and Dwelling Houses, Shops, Factories, Warehouses, Schools, Churches and Chapels, Public Buildings, Hotels and Taverns, and Buildings of a general character.

All the Plates are accompanied with particulars of the Work, with Explanatory Notes and Dimensions of the various parts.

[Ill.u.s.tration: _Specimen Pages, reduced from the originals._]

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WORKSHOP RECEIPTS,

FIRST SERIES.

BY ERNEST SPON.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

Bookbinding.

Bronzes and Bronzing.

Candles.

Cement.

Cleaning.

Colourwas.h.i.+ng.

Concretes.

Dipping Acids.

Drawing Office Details.

Drying Oils.

Dynamite.

Electro-Metallurgy--(Cleaning, Dipping, Scratch-brus.h.i.+ng, Batteries, Baths, and Deposits of every description).

Enamels.

Engraving on Wood, Copper, Gold, Silver, Steel, and Stone.

Etching and Aqua Tint.

Firework Making--(Rockets, Stars, Rains, Gerbes, Jets, Tour-billons, Candles, Fires, Lances, Lights, Wheels, Fire-balloons, and minor Fireworks).

Fluxes.

Foundry Mixtures.

Freezing.

Fulminates.

Furniture Creams, Oils, Polishes, Lacquers, and Pastes.

Gilding.

Gla.s.s Cutting, Cleaning, Frosting, Drilling, Darkening, Bending, Staining, and Painting.

Gla.s.s Making.

Glues.

Gold.

Graining.

Gums.

Gun Cotton.

Gunpowder.

Horn Working.

Indiarubber.

j.a.pans, j.a.panning, and kindred processes.

Lacquers.

Lathing.

Lubricants.

Marble Working.

Matches.

Mortars.

Nitro-Glycerine.

Oils.

Paper.

Paper Hanging.

Painting in Oils, in Water Colours, as well as Fresco, House, Transparency, Sign, and Carriage Painting.

Photography.

Plastering.

Polishes.

Pottery--(Clays, Bodies, Glazes, Colours, Oils, Stains, Fluxes, Enamels, and l.u.s.tres).

Scouring.

Silvering.

Soap.

Solders.

Tanning.

Taxidermy.

Tempering Metals.

Treating Horn, Mother-o'-Pearl, and like substances.

Varnishes, Manufacture and Use of.

Veneering.

Was.h.i.+ng.

Waterproofing.

Welding.

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WORKSHOP RECEIPTS,

SECOND SERIES.

BY ROBERT HALDANE.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

Acidimetry and Alkalimetry.