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Engineering and Technology, 1650-1750: Illustrations and Texts from Original Sources by Martin Jensen ISBN: 0486422321 Dover Publications Price: $21.95 click here to see this book Highly readable text features more than 200 engravings that encompass engineering projects dealing with surveying, leveling, materials, hand tools, lifting equipment, transport and erection, piling, bailing, water supply, hydraulic engineering, and more. Specific projects include transporting a 50-ton stone to the Louvre, erecting an obelisk, building timber locks, and dredging canals. Table of Contents for Engineering and Technology, 1650-1750: Illustrations and Texts from Original Sources Introduction Chapter 1 Paperwork and money Preliminary work Surveying Soundings Investigation of the soil Effect of a bridge upon the current of a river Drawings Specifications and conditions Estimates Competitive tendering Contracts Supervision Guaranty Money Chapter 2 Surveying Summary The measurement of length Equipment for field work Surveyor's bag Linear measure Plan tables Theodolites Surveying compasses Surveys Plan table Triangulation Chapter 3 Leveling Summary Leupold's introduction Instruments with plumb lines The miller's instrument Picard's instrument Calibration of an intrument with plumb line Picard's first method Picard's second method Picard's warnings Hanging instruments Huygens' instrument Calibration of a hanging instrument Levelling Equipment Procedure Chapter 4 Materials Timber Stone Bricks and tiles Mortar Slate Iron Metals Glass Chapter 5 Hand Tools Earthwork Work in rock Carpenter's tools Chapter 6 Lifting equipment Summary Levers and jacks Crowbars German lifting trestle French lifting trestle Jacks with worm gears Screwjacks Tackle Winches with vertical rope drums Winches with horizontal rope drums Cranes Tripod Crane with fixed winch The French crane The German crane Chapter 7 Transport and erection Summary Transport on rollers Waggons Transport of a large stone to Louvre Antonius column Erection of an obelisk Erection of a bascule bridge Chapter 8 Piling Summary Simple methods Whip pile-drivers The Dutch pile-driver Proc Time and cost Pile-drivers with winches Capstan Treadwheel Gadgets for releasing the ram A special winch Winches with clutches Camus' winch Schübler's winch Vauloué's pile-driver Piles Dimensions Species of timber Shaping Sheet piles Miscellaneous Test piles and sounds Followers Pitching a pile Order of pile driving Bearing values of piles Pile extractors Floating pile extractor Belidor's pile extractor Chapter 9 Bailing Summary Simple methods Tubs Swing scoop Rocking trough Water screws Construction Power Model investigation Paternoster-works Vertical Inclined Pumps Principles and designations Valves and pistons Simple suction pumps Chapter 10 Machines Summary Friction Power Chapter 11 Water supply On the origins and occurrence of springs and ground water Sinking wells 76 m deep shaft in Amsterdam Equipment Procedure Water boring Equipment Procedure Pipelines Wooden pipes Clay pipes Iron pipes Lead pipes Chapter 12 Work in earth and rock Simple transportation of earth Mechanized transportation of earth Excavation of a canal Aerial ropeway in Danzig Hooke's installation Excavators Work in rock Blasting Removal of tree stumps Chapter 13 Marine works and hydraulic engineering Summary Regulation of watercourses Cornelius Meyer's proposal Leupold's improved proposal Dykes Locks and sluices Gates for scouring sluices Inclined rollerways versus locks Timber locks versus stone locks The building of timber locks Tileman's steel-lock Dredging Simple methods Dutch dredger French dredger Diving equipment Common diving bell Halley's diving bell Diving-suits Rubble-mound breakwaters Setting out Stone transport Cross section Construction Breakwater at the Cape of Good Hope Underwater concreting Equipment and procedure Consumption of materials and work Cofferdams Cofferdams with clay Stepped cofferdam Sheet piling Prefabricated cofferdam Caissons Quays in Toulon and Nice Slipway Foundations for Westminster bridge Chapter 14 Roads and Streets Summary Roads on good lowland ground Earthwork Compacting Roads on poor lowland ground Gravel Road roller of iron Pavement Pavement with transverse Roads thourgh marsh or swamp Roads on mountain slopes Dry retaining walls Retaining walls with mortar Mountain roads Marking of roads Paved highways and streets Stone setts Foundation Cross sections Forms of paving The significance of road maintenance BIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY

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