Transcriber’s Notes
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected.
Some inconsistencies in hyphenation have been left as printed.
In the text version underscores have been used to indicate _italics_, and equals signs to show =bold= text.
- Figure numbering is not consistent through the book.
- p 79. The figure here is mislabelled as Fig 2 and has been corrected to Fig. 1.
- p 107. Fig14 is out of order and repeated further on, left as printed.
- p. 58. “Half the length of brass piece” has been corrected to “Half the length of the brass piece”.
- p. 106. “50 feet, ⅞ inch pien” changed to “50 feet, ⅞ inch pine”.
- p. 144. Fig. 3 appears to be upside down. It has been left as printed.
- p. 166. “No we have a pile of books” changed to “Now we have a pile of books”.
- p. 167. “The back cloth is always at beast an inch longer” changed to “The back cloth is always at best an inch longer”.
- p. 174. “hindrances that I had to encouter” changed to “hindrances that I had to encounter”.