The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated

Formulae and Tables for the Strength of Materials, Roofs, Water Supply, Drainage, Gas, and other matters useful to Architects and Builders.

Information connected with Sanitary Engineering.

Memoranda on the several trades used in Building, including a description of Materials and Analyses of Prices for Builders' work.

The Practice of Builders' Measurement.

Mensuration and the Division of Land.

Tables of the Weights of Iron and other Building Materials.

Constants of Labour.

Valuation of Property.

Summary of the Practice in Dilapidations.

Scale of Professional Charges for Architects and Surveyors.

Tables of English and French Weights and Measures.

1. Production of the Electric Current—2. Electric Bells—3. Automatic Alarms—4. Domestic Telephones—5. Electric Clocks—6. Electric Lighters—7. Domestic Electric Lighting—8. Domestic Application of the Electric Light—9. Electric Motors—10. Electrical Locomotion—11. Electrotyping, Plating, and Gilding—12. Electric Recreations—13. Various Applications—Workshop of the Electrician.

The Dwelling—Site, Construction, Arrangement, Water Supply, Sanitation, Ventilation, Warming, Lighting, Furnishing, Decorating, Bells, Thieves, Fire. The Larder—Storing and Preserving. The Dairy—Milk, Butter, Cheese. The Cellar—Aërated drinks, Beer, Bitters, Cordials, Liqueurs, Wines, &c. The Pantry—Ovens, Bread, Cakes, &c. The Kitchen—Ranges, Processes of Cookery, Recipes for Soups, Fish, Meat, Game, Poultry, Puddings, Vegetables, Salads, Eggs, Cheese, Ices, Confectionery, and Foreign Dishes. The Housewife's Room—Testing Food, Cleaning, Marketing. The Dining Room—Laying and Waiting at Table, Bills of Fare. The Drawing Room—Etiquette, Dancing, Theatricals, Games, Puzzles, &c. The Bedroom. The Dressing Room. The Nursery. The Sickroom—Nurses and Nursing, Home Remedies, Common Complaints, Accidents, Poisons, &c. The Bathroom. The Laundry. The Schoolroom. The Playground. The Workroom. The Library. The Workshop. The Farmyard—Horse, Cow, Pig, Poultry. The Garden. Household Law.

Bookbinding—Bronzes—Candles—Cement—Cleaning—Concretes—Dyeing—Electro-Metallurgy—Enamels—Engraving—Etching—Firework Making—Freezing—Fulminates—Furniture Creams, Oils, Polishes, Lacquers, and Pastes—Gilding—Glass Cutting—Glass Making—Graining—Gums—Horn Working—India-rubber—Ink—Japans—Lacquers—Marble Working—Matches—Mortars—Paper Hanging—Painting in Oils—Photography—Polishes—Pottery—Silvering—Soap—Solders—Taxidermy—Treating Horn, Mother-o'-Pearl, and like substances—Varnishes—Veneering—Whitewashing, &c., &c.

Acidimetry and Alkalimetry—Albumen—Alcohol—Alkaloids—Baking Powders—Bitters—Bleaching—Boiler Incrustations—Cements and Lutes—Cleansing—Confectionery—Copying—Disinfectants—Dyeing—Staining and Colouring—Essences—Extracts—Fireproofing—Gelatine—Glue and Size—Glycerine—Gut—Hydrogen Peroxide—Inks—Iodine—Iodoform—Isinglass—Ivory Substitutes—Leather—Luminous Bodies—Magnesia—Matches—Paper—Parchment—Perchloric Acid—Pigments—Paint and Painting—Potassium—Oxalate—Preserving.

Alloys—Aluminium—Antimony—Barium—Beryllium—Bismuth—Cadmium—Cæsium—Calcium—Cerrium—Chromium—Cobalt—Copper—Didymium—Electrics (including alarms, batteries, bells, carbons, coils [induction, intensity, and resistance], dynamo-electric machines, fire risks, measuring, microphones, motors, phonographs, photophones, storing, telephones)—Enamels and Glazes—Erbium—Gallium—Glass—Gold—Indium—Iridium—Iron—Lacquers—Lanthanum—Lead—Lithium—Lubricants—Magnesium—Manganese—Mercury—Mica—Molybdenum—Nickel—Nisbium—Osmium—Palladium—Platinum—Potassium—Rhodium—Rubidium—Ruthenium—Silenium—Silver—Slag—Sodium—Strontium—Tantalum—Terbium—Thallium—Thorium—Tin—Titanium—Tungsten—Uranium—Vanadium—Yttrium—Zinc—Zirconium.

Waterproofing: rubber goods, cuprammonium processes, miscellaneous preparations—Packing and Storing articles of delicate odour or colour, of a deliquescent character, liable to ignition, apt to suffer from insects or damp, or easily broken—Embalming and Preserving anatomical specimens—Leather Polishes—Cooling Air and Water, producing low temperatures, making ice, cooling syrups and solutions, and separating salts from liquors by refrigeration—Pumps and Syphons, embracing every useful contrivance for raising and supplying water on a moderate scale, and moving corrosive, tenacious, and other liquids—Desiccating: air-and water-ovens, and other appliances for drying natural and artificial products—Distilling: water, tinctures, extracts, pharmaceutical preparations, essences, perfumes, and alcoholic liquids—Emulsifying as required by pharmacists and photographers—Evaporating: saline and other solutions, and liquids demanding special precautions—Filtering: water, and solutions of various kinds—Percolating and Macerating—Electrotyping—Stereotyping by both plaster and paper processes—Bookbinding in all its details—Straw Plaiting and the fabrication of baskets, matting, &c.—Musical Instruments: the preservation, tuning, and repair of pianos, harmoniums, musical instruments, &c.—Clock and Watch Mending: adapted for intelligent amateurs—Photography: recent development in rapid processes, handy apparatus, numerous recipes for sensitizing and developing solutions, and applications to modern illustrative purposes.