Deals with some 300 of the larger and more common wild flowers, without technical terms, and uses identification methods described as similar to those employed by the police in identifying people.
=Stanley, W. F.= Notes on the Nebular Theory in Relation to Stellar, Solar, Planetary, Cometary, and Geological Phenomena. 15 + 259 pp. 31 _Illus._ 8¼ ins. × 5½ ins. 1895. (Paul, Trench, Trübner). =CSTR= S70(016)
Author (1829-1900), (F.R.A.S., F.G.S., etc.), scientific instrument maker and educationalist, was a South Norwood resident, a local J.P., and founder of the Stanley Technical Trade Schools, South Norwood.
=Jennings,= A. S. =Painting= by immersion and by compressed air. 1915. _Ill._ [698]
A detailed technical treatise on the methods and appliances for “spraying” paint, lacquer, enamel, varnish, etc., and painting by immersion. By the process of “flowing on” it is stated that a complete coat of enamel can be given to the body of a four-seated touring car in two minutes.
=Jex-Blake=, A. J. =Tuberculosis:= a general account of the disease, its forms, treatment, and prevention. 1915. [616.995]
=Kean=, F. J. =Petrol engine.= 1915. _Diagrams._ [621.434]
Each part of the engine is dealt with in a separate chapter. The two-stroke engine receives a chapter to itself. Liquid fuels are very briefly covered in four pages. The appendix deals with engine troubles, their causes and cure.
=Kingsbury=, J. E. =Telephone= and telephone exchanges: their invention and development. 1915. _Ill._ [621.385]
An attempt has been made in this work so to relate the inventions and developments in the telephone field that the record may constitute in effect a short history of the telephone industry and an expression of its main principles.
=Lange=, K. R. By-products of =coal-gas= manufacture; _trans._ from the German. 1915. _Ill._ [665.7]
_Contents_: Introduction; Purification of coal gas; Coke; Gas-tar; Gas liquor; Treatment of the gas purifying agents; Treatment of cyanogen sludge; Treatment of crude liquors; Treatment of ammonium thiocyanate, etc.
=McCormick=, W. H. _Electricity_. _Romance of Reality Series._ 1915. _Ill._ [621.3]
=Martin=, Geoffrey. =Chlorine= and Chlorine products. _Manuals of Chemical Technology IV._ 1915. _Ill._ [661.3]