By John Courtney
Revised and Edited by D. Kinnear Clark. 5th. edition. Drawing, templating, and calculating boiler work and tank work. Rules for the evaporative power and the horse power of steam bollers, and the proportions of safety-valves; and useful tables of rivet joints, of circles, weights of metals, etc.
London. Crosby Lockwood And Son. 1898. 180p.
By Mrs. Jean Prescott Adams
Director of Department of Food and Economics, Armour and Company. A manual to promote Household Efficiency and Economy. “After a fair analysis, the housewife realizes that alive animal is not all meat and, furthermore, that the meat carcass is not all steaks and rib roasts…”(1921) 153 pages.
By A. M. Powell.
Arts and Sciences Series No. 7. A Practical Handbook for the Amateur Experimenters in Three Parts. Volume 1. (1918) 327 pages.
By Hawkins and Staff
A Practical Thesis. . Questions, answers and illustrations. A progressive course of study or engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of Electricity and its Applications. (1914) 425 pages.
By Anne Cobbett.
Contains advice on the conduct of household affairs, and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the kitchen, the pantry, the cellar, the larder, and the dairy. The whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping. (1851) 523 pages.
By Samuel Edward Dibble
Head of Sanitary equipment and installation dept. Carnegie Institute of Technology. “The author has in mind the needs of young men having no technical instruction who are anxious to become proficient in the art of plumbing. (1918) 262 pages.
By George Alexander Ross
Instructor in woodwork and pattern making, Lewis Institute, Chicago. . Designed for use in High and technical Schools with 134 illustrations . “…the exercises have been selected after having had a thorough test covering a period of three years…” (1901) 136 pages.
A Guide and Counselor for the Household, by the Home Companion Company, New York. Subjects covered are Wise Advice on Matrimony; Tips on Kitchen, Dining and Entertaining; Medical advice; Care of Babies; Toilet hints; Paternal duties; Matrimonial pitfalls; Special advice for husbands; The Art of Buying; Legal hints; Furnishing and care of the household. (1911) 125 pages.
This book has been written for the man who wants to learn how to install electrical wiring, so that the finished job will be both practical and safe. The installation will comply with the National Electrical Code. Then the finished job will be acceptable to electrical inspectors, power suppliers, and others having jurisdiction in the matter. Careful study of this book should enable you to wire a house or a farm, so that it will be acceptable to everyone concerned.
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 2022
