4,15.2.6.

USEFUL

INFORMATION FOR ENGINEERS

BEING

A SERIES OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE
THE WORKING ENGINEERS OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE

TOGETHER WITH

A SERIES OF APPENDICES

CONTAINING THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRIES INTO THE
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS, THE CAUSES OF BOILER EXPLOSIONS, &c.

BY

S WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, F.R.S. F.G.S.

PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE
CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR: ETC.

THIRD AND REVISED EDITION

LONDON

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS

TO THE

RIGHT REV. JAMES PRINCE LEE, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER

THAN WHOM THERE IS NO MORE SINCERE FRIEND AND ADVOCATE OF EDUCATION

IN ITS MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED SENSE

This Volume is Inscribed

AS A MARK OF PERSONAL REGARD

AND IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE EMINENT SERVICES HE HAS RENDERED

TO THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF HIS COUNTRY.