Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of The Franklin Institute: Of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts ; with an Appendix, Containing the Works Added Since the Year 1847

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R. W. Barnard & sons, printers, 1851 - Architecture - 185 pages

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Page 81 - Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the Information required by a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of...
Page 40 - The American's guide: comprising the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the several states composing the union . . . Philadelphia : Hogan & Thompson, 1839.
Page 19 - ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMISTRY, •° PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL : Embracing its application to the Arts, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, Medicine, and Pharmacy. By JAMES C. BOOTH, Melter and Refiner in the United States Mint, Professor of Applied Chemistry in the Franklin Institute, etc., assisted by CAMPBELL MORFIT, author of "Chemical Manipulations,
Page 27 - March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be imposed on, and collected from all parts of the navigable communications between the great western and northern lakes, and the Atlantic ocean...
Page 27 - Laws of the state of New York, in relation to the Erie and Champlain canals, together with the annual reports of the Canal commissioners, and other documents requisite for a complete official history of those works. Also, correct maps delineating the routes of the Erie and Champlain canals, and designating the lands through which they pass.
Page 12 - Chemical Analysis. THE COMMERCIAL HANDBOOK of CHEMICAL ANALYSIS ; or Practical Instructions for the determination of the Intrinsic or Commercial Value of Substances used in Manufactures, in Trades, and in the Arts. By A. NORMANDY, Author of " Practical Introduction to Rose's Chemistry," and Editor of Rose's " Treatise on Chemical Analysis.
Page 73 - Jonathan. Thermometrical Navigation ; being a Series of Experiments and Observations, tending to prove, that by ascertaining the Relative Heat of the Sea-Water from time to time, the Passage of a Ship through the Gulf Stream, and from deep water into soundings, may be discovered in Time to avoid Danger, although (owing to tempestuous weather) it may be impossible to heave the Lead or observe the Heavenly Bodies.
Page 9 - A Treatise on the Forces which produce the Organization of Plants. With an Appendix, containing several Memoirs on Capillary Attraction, Electricity, and the Chemical Action of Light.
Page 36 - The progress of the development of the Law of Storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation.
Page 81 - to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States...

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