Aide Memoire to The Military Sciences (1853-1862)

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Aide Memorie to The Military Sciences. Framed from contributions of officers of the different services, and edited by a committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers. London: John Weale, High Holborn

Vol.III Palaeontology to Zig-Zag (1862); 800 pages, plus 73 plates of illustrations and many other illustrations Price 88.00 {Item No.20263} [Originally edited by a committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1850-1852, 2nd edition corrected, 1861-1862]

• Palaeontology; 31 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 3.50 {Item No.20432} [Includes: Introduction, Outline of the periods, Review of the fossil species in comparison with the recent, 1. Carboniferous period, Devonian, Mountain limestone, and coal formation, Permain system, Trias period, Oolitic period, Cretaceous period, Geological distribution of Ammonites: Species with one entire or simple dorsal (more properly ventral) keel, Species with a channeled back, Species with sharp backs not keeled, Species with the back projecting, and notched along the medial line, Species having a hollow back and tubercles on the sides, Species with the back more or less square, Species with rounded convex back, Brachiopoda, Cephalopodous molluscs, Distribution of species]
• Palisade; 3 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.Item No.20433}
• Parapet. See Fortification, Field
• Passage of Rivers: I: Military Operations, and the Construction of Temporary Bridges; 12 pages, 13 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.Item No.20434} [Includes: Introduction, Rules for ascertaining the width of a river, 1st without instruments, 2ndly, with a sextant, compass, or theodolite. Temporary bridges (added to the article "Bridge, field"): Large trees, Wheel carriages, Wicker bridge, Coracles or hide-boats, Inflated skins, Pile bridge, Temporary bridges of gun and mortar platforms: First a trussel lattice bridge, Secondly, a suspension bridge, Third a trestle bridge, Fourthly rafts, Vulcanized India-rubber pontoons]
• Passage of Rivers: II: Permanent Bridges; 20 pages, 17 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.Item No.20435} [Includes: Equilibrium, Thrust, Abutments, Piers, The Arch, Roadway, Treating of the foundations, for bridges, especially in Indian rivers, On the proper waterway for bridges, General considerations]
• Passage of Rivers: III: Permanent Bridges; 17 pages, 10 illus. plus 11 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.Item No.20436} [Includes: Stone bridges, Brick bridges, Wooden bridges, Iron bridges, Drawbridges, including Bascule, Swivel, Roller, and others. Suspension bridge, Iron Tubular bridges]
• Pendulum; 13 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.Item No.20437} [Includes: Introduction, Properties of simple pendulums vibrating in cycloidal arcs, Properties of simple pendulums vibrating in circular arcs, Connection between the simple pendulum and any body vibrating about a horizontal axis, and acted upon by gravity only: Kater's pendulum, Compensation pendulums, Ballistic pendulum, Cannon pendulum, and Musket pendulum, (Including making ballistic pendulums for testing cannons and muskets)] [References "Projectiles" article]
• Penetration of Projectiles; 16 pages, 12 tables Price 2.00 {Item No.Item No.20438} [Includes a number of tables on penetration on everything from masonry to oak, with artillery and even small arms]
• Petard; 9 pages, plus 7 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.Item No.20439} [A gunpowder gate and wall breaching device] [The results of a series of 11 experiments on various types of walls using bags of gunpowder]
• Photography; 18 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.Item No.20440} [Includes: Introduction, The Photographic processes recommended to be employed, The camera, The bath, The dark room or tent, Packing and transport, Sun printing, The chemicals, General directions for taking negatives, Appendix: Solutions for preparing paper for printing, Account of the waxed paper process as practiced successfully in Bombay, Account of a mode of waxing paper extracted from the photographic news]
• Planting Trees; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20441}
• Point-Blank; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20442} [Definition of the term]
• Pontoon; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20443} [Floating bridge wooden and canvas pontoons]
• Position, Military; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20444} [Definition of the term]
• Position, Retrenched; 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.20445} [Definition of the term] [Fortified battle positions][Refers to article on "Field Fortification", in Vol.2]
• Prisons, Military: Discipline and Management; 12 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20446} [Includes: Introduction, Classification of prisoners, Hard labor, Diet, Duration of imprisonment, and expense. Regimental imprisonment in garrison or barracks cells. Steps taken for establishing military prisons, Effect of discipline, Discipline]
• Projectiles; 18 pages, 14 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20447} [Including: Introduction, General principles of motion, Ballistic pendulum, Gun pendulum, Whirling machine, Electro ballistic apparatus, Velocity, Recoil and strain, Resistance and retardation, Final or remaining and terminal velocity, Deviations of projectiles from smooth bored ordnance, Rifling, Causes of deviation, Experiment with the gyroscope, Advantages of elongated projectiles, Charge]
• Pyrotechny, Military; 26 pages, 85 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20448} [Military ammunition and fireworks] [Includes: Ammunition: Cannon cartridges, Land and sea service. Rifle cartridges, Ball spherical, Enfield bullet, Light balls. Composition for ground light-balls, Suspended light balls, Smoke balls. Caps, copper, Carcasses, Wood fuzes, Metal fuzes, Signal and long lights, Quick match, Slow match, Common portfires, Percussion portfires, Miners portfires, Slow portfires, Congreve rockets, General observations on firing rockets, Signal rockets, Composition for making stars for signal rockets, Tubes, Common quill tubes, Dutch or paper tubes, Detonating or gross headed tubes, Quill friction tube, Appendix I. Of fulminating compositions used in military pyrotechnics, Preparation of gunpowder for loading ordnance and small arms]
• Quarry; 7 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20449} [On stone cutting]
• Quartering of Troops (See Sanitary Precautions)
• Railway; 50 pages, 18 illus. plus 28 plates of illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.20450} [Includes: Preliminary remarks, Guages, Competing lines, Legislative enactments, Objects and advantages of railways, Construction of railways - Cost, Survey, Curves and gradients, Laying out a railway, Quantity of land necessary, Earthworks, Method of using the tables: For the trunk or central part in a cutting of embankment, For the slopes on the side of cutting or embankment, Embankments, Tunnel, Viaducts, Effects of velocity on bridges subject to deflection, Strength of iron, Bridges, Level crossings, Draining, Formation, Permanent way, Rails, Qualities of iron, Points and switches, Turn tables, Sidings, Signals, Stations, To make coke, Carriages, wagons, etc., Wheels, Axles of carriages, Springs, Axle boxes, Framing, Coupling and buffers, Passenger carriages, Cattle wagons, Brakes, Locomotive engines, Resistances to trains, Working expenses, Maintenance of way, Cost of working, Fares, Traffic, American railways, Comparative cost of railways, Note by editor]
• Reconnoitring; 8 pages, 1 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20451} [Military reconnaissance of a tract of country or of a position]
• Reports, Military; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20452} [Framing military reports]
• River and Inland Navigation; 69 pages, 38 illus. plus 12 plates of illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.20453} [Includes: Section I: Rivers, Works for the preservation of the banks and of the bed of rivers, New channels, cuts, and dredging. General considerations upon works for the establishment or the amelioration of the navigation in rivers, Dams or barrages in rivers, Locks for river navigation. Section II. Canals: Canals with a summit level, Execution of works upon canals, Bed of the canal, Tunnels, Locks, Substitutes for locks, Over bridges, Culverts and aqueduct bridges, Meeting a river on the same level, Supple valves, waste weirs, and supplementary works. Junction with rivers, and termini. Fences and enclosures, &c.. Statistics, Working and tolls]
• Roads: I.--Tracing and Construction; 32 pages, 11 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20454} [Includes: Part I: Tracing and construction: Tracing of roads, On the section of roads, On the construction of roads]
• Roads: II.--Maintenance of Macadamized Roads; 20 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20455} [Includes: Introduction, Observations and explanations, On watering roads, On macadamized roadways in large populous towns, On rolling new made roads]
• Rocket Artillery; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20456}
• Sanitary Precautions; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20457} [The 4 main reasons for mortality in an army]
• Sap; 9 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20458} [Includes: Single sap, Flying sap, Double sap, and other notes]
• Shot Garlands; 2 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20459} [Cannon ball stands]
• Shrapnell Shells, or Spherical Case; 2 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20460} [Includes the Diaphragm or round shell and range tables]
• Shutters, Embrasure; 1 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20461}
• Siege Operations in India; 13 pages, 1 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20462} [Includes: Attack of forts and fortresses: Principles to regulate the nature of the attack. Appendix I. Notes on the siege of Mooltan, Appendix II. Extract from a note by Captain T.W.Hicks, Field Commissary of Ordnance, Bombay Division, April 8, 1849 (The Bombay Siege artillery platform. Appendix III. Siege tactical notes. Plus tables]
• Siege Operations, Irregular; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20463} [An accelerated attack]
• Siege and Engineer Equipment; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20464} [The manning and distribution of tools, materiels, to each wagon for a company of Royal engineers in the field]
• Sod-work; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20465} [A Revetment of grass sods ]
• Staff; 6 pages Price .50 {Item No.20466} [The organization of a British staff in the Army]
• Statistics; 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20467} [Includes: Introduction, Population, Laws, Education, Institutions, Condition, Morale condition and climate]
• Steam Engine; 67 pages, 10 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.20468} [Includes: Section I. Mechanical action produced by steam, Section II. The properties of steam, Section III. How water is converted into steam, and how steam is reconverted into water, Section IV. The mechanical effect produced by the conversion of water into steam, Section V. The mechanical effect produced by the conversion of steam into water, Section VI. How much heat is necessary to convert water into steam, Section VII. The mechanical force of steam by the its expansion, Section VIII. How a vacuum is produced without cooling the vessel containing the steam, Section IX. The mechanical action of steam may be augmented by heat imparted to it directly, Section X. How a piston is made to move alternately from end to end of a cylinder with a definite mechanical action, Section XI. How the alternate motion of the piston-rod is contained to the working beam, Section XII. How the alternate motion of the working beam produces a motion of continued rotation, Section XIII. How the steam engine is rendered a self acting machine, Section XIV. How the mechanical effect exerted by the piston is ascertained, Section XV. How the heat is produced by which steam is made, Section XVI. How the draft through the furnace of a steam engine is maintained, Section XVII. How the mechanical virtue of fuel is estimated and expressed, Section XVIII. How the power of an engine is estimated and expressed, as distinguished from its duty, Section XIX. The dimension of the boiler and furnace necessary for an engine of given power, Section XX. What dimensions of the cylinder and other machinery are requisite for a given power of engine, Section XXI. How the internal condition of the boiler and engine is rendered externally manifest, Section XXII. How the wants of the boiler and engine are supplied and how their operation is regulated, Section XXIII. How the steam engine is adapted to the working of pumps, Section XXIV. How the steam engine is constructed in case where a condensing apparatus is inadmissible, Section XXV. How the mechanical pressure of the steam on the piston is limited, and how the speed of the piston is affected by this, Examples, Section XXVII. Illustrations: Barometer gauge, Siphon barometer gauge, Glass water gauge, The spring safety value for high pressure boilers, Watt's indicator, The slide value]
• Steam Engine, Locomotive: I. On the Consumption of Fuel and the Evaporation of Water; 29 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.20469} [Includes: Relation between the weight of fuel and the heat which it generates, Relation between mechanical force and the heat which produces it, The working duty of fuel as regards the production of steam, Diversion of heat generated, Production of such elevation of the temperature of the air or gases in the chimney as may be required to obtain the draft, Conduction through solids composing the furnace and boiler, and radiation from the same, Dissipation of unconsumed fuel, Mechanical dissipation of the fuel, Incomplete combustion of the elements of the fuel, The working duty of steam, Loss from resistances against the piston, produced by imperfect action of the valves, Loss from resistance of atmosphere against the piston, Loss as arising from imperfect condensation, and from heat carried off by, and not recovered from, the condensing water]
• Steam Engine, Locomotive: II. Resistances to Railway Trains; 22 pages, 1 illus., 8 tables Price 2.50 {Item No.20470} [Includes: Resistances on the narrow gauge, Resistances to the broad gauge, Resistance of the blast pipe]
• Steam Engine, Locomotive: III. Qualifications of Engine Drivers and Fire-men; 13 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.20471} [Includes: General duties, Extra trains, Luggage trains, Repairing road, Accidents, Fogs, Descending inclines, Ascending inclines, Extra inclines, Tunnels, Junctions, Reports, Duties in shed, Piloting]
• Steam Engine, Locomotive: IV. Description of the 'Lord of the Isles' and the 'Liverpool' Locomotive Engines; 13 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20472} [Includes: 'Lord of the Isles' broad gauge locomotive engine, Description of the engravings, Crampton's patent locomotives, Description of the engravings]
• Steam Engine, Locomotive: V. On the Dimensions of the Locomotive Engine Boiler in Relation to its Evaporative Power; 11 pages, 1 chart Price 1.50 {Item No.20473}
• Stockade; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20474}
• Street Fighting; 8 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20475} [Includes: On the attack and defence of open towns, and street fighting, General observations and arrangements]
• Surveying: Trigonometrical Survey; 21 pages, 5 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.20476}
• Surveying: Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ireland; 4 pages, 4 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20477}
• Swimming; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20478} [The military usefulness of swimming]
• Tactics of the Three Arms; 18 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20479} [Includes: On the combinations of the three arms in the composition, formations, and movements of armies: Relations subsisting between the combinations of the three arms and the results and fundamental conditions of warfare, Of the charge of troops, Of the charge of cavalry, Of fire in general, Of the fire of infantry, Fire of artillery, Combination of the three arms in the composition and organization of an army, Combinations of the three arms for the attack of a position, Combinations of the three arms in the movements of armies, Conclusion, Appendix A. Formations for attack, Appendix B. On the distribution of troops on a double alignment]
• Tambour; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20480} [Relates to the protection of gateways]
• Telegraph, Electric; See "Voltaic Electricity"
• Telegraph, Field; 1 page, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20481} [Non electric type of telegraph which uses a mast and yardarm]
• Telegraph, Universal; 8 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20482} [Non electric type of telegraph which uses combinations of movable wooden arms]
• Tete de Pont; 3 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20483} [A type of bridgehead fortification]
• Trous de loup; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20484} [A wooden stake pit obstacle]
• Voltaic Electricity: for Telegraphic purposes; 24 pages, 29 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20485} [The electric telegraph] [Including: Batteries, wire and connections]
• Voltaic Electricity: The Submarine Telegraph; 41 pages, 30 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20486} [Including: On the construction of submarine telegraphic cables, extracted from the report of the committee or submarine telegraphs, Laying and maintenance of submarine cable. Instruments (Galvanometers, Needle telegraph, The european morse telegraph alphabet and signals, Dial telegraph, Printing telegraphs (Including the Morse instrument or key telegraph), Relays, Alarms, Appendix: Electromagnets, Sine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer, Milner's electrometer, Wheatstone's parallelgram or 'Bridge', Rheostat]
• Water Meadows, or Irrigation: I. Historic Sketch; 30 pages, 21 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20487} [Includes: Introduction, General principles of irrigation, Description of the works required to carry out a system of irrigation: The different types of channels, Inclinations, Section of feeder, Other conditions, Reservoirs, Gauges, Sluices and overflows, Junctions with the main stream, Bridges, aqueducts, and syphons, Locks]
• Water Meadows, or Irrigation: II. Machines for Raising Water; 20 pages, 28 illus., bibliography, Price 2.00 {Item No.20488} [Includes: Pumps, Archimedean screws, Machines with buckets, Water wheels, with buckets, &c., Miscellaneous machines: Water column engine, The hydraulic ram of Montgolfier, Belidor's pressure engine, Rope pump of Vera, Wirtz's pump]
• Water Supply; 26 pages, 1 illus., bibliography, Price 3.00 {Item No.20489} [Includes: Quality of waters, Engineering details of supply, Volume of source, Modes of conducting supply, Raising water, Distribution, Modes of conducting supply, Open channels, Pipe conduits, Formula for open channels, Construction of conduits, Syphon bridges, Souterazice (Series of syphons) , Proper velocity of water, Pipe conduits, Cast-iron pipes, Wrought-iron pipes, Lead pipes, Formula for thickness of pipes, Usual thickness, Formula for movement in pipes, Friction of bends, Depth of pipes from surface and other precautions, Reservoirs, Methods to be adopted if the supply be at a low level, Engine power, Settling reservoirs, Filters, Service reservoirs, Stand pipes, House of municipal distribution, Illustrations of mode of calculating s zes of delivery pipes, Description of a continental distribution, Quantities used for various purposes, English systems of distribution, Low service, High service, Constant supply]
• Water-Wheels; 18 pages, 9 illus., biblio. Price 2.00 {Item No.20490} [Includes: Introduction, Vertical wheels with straight floats working in a straight mill race, Vertical float wheels working in a close breast, Vertical float wheels in unlimited water, or wheels working upon boats on rivers, Vertical undershot float wheels, working with curved floats, Poucelet's wheels. Vertical overshot wheels, with buckets. Breast wheels, Horizontal wheels working in a cylinder, Turbines of M.Fourneyron, Horizontal wheel with partitions, Reaction wheels, Comparison of the different descriptions of water wheels]
• Wells; 9 pages, biblio. Price 1.00 {Item No.20491} [Including: Introduction, Geological consideration affecting wells, Common wells, Dimensions, Artesian wells, Absorbing wells]
• Zig-Zag; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20492} [Zig zag trenches used in siege operations]