Transcriber's notes:
Transcriber's notes:
Punctuation has been standardized after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Inconsistencies in spelling and word usage have been retained except as follows:
Pg vii:1)added "P" to "(P)AGE".2)ARRANGEMNET altered to ARRANGEMENT.
Pg 5: deserve altered to deserves. "These few words contain a truth which deserves"
Pg 12: has altered to have. "It is to be regretted that there have not been books"Helmotz altered to Helmholtz.
Pg 47: counter shafts altered to countershafts. "intermediate or countershafts, the expense"
Pg 57: breaks altered to brakes. "to operate railway brakes?"
Pg 59: separated altered to separate "The employment of magnetic machines to separate iron and brass filings or shop waste"
Pg 60: (4.) was retained as the question seems to be included after (3.)
Pg 62: breaks altered to brakes "operated by friction brakes"
Pg 64: kind altered to kinds "in high buildings for most kinds of manufacture"
Pg 97: preventing altered to prevent "to prevent the springing of castings."
Pg 100: Number of Question (8.) was missing. Questions renumbered according to the other blocks of questions.
Pg 120: adapation altered to adaptation. "but they are by such adaptation unfitted for general purposes."
Pg 151: does altered to do "In what way do standard dimensions"
Pg 170: han altered to hand "purely matters of hand skill"
Catalog:
Pg 14: solvlng altered to solving