Draft Calculation -- Set
Calculation -- Tow Combing -- Compound Systems -- Automatic Stop
Motions and Independent Heads -- Details of Preparing Machinery --
Ventilation -- Humidification. #Gill Spinning.# -- Gill Spinning for
Shoe Threads, Rope Yarns, Binder and Trawl Twines -- The Automatic
Gill Spinner -- Rope and Reaper Yarn Numbering. #The Flax, Hemp and
Jute Roving Frame.# -- Bobbin Winding -- Differential Motion -- Twist
Calculation -- Practical Changing -- Rove Stock. #Dry and Half-Dry
Spinning.# -- Flyer and Ring Frames -- Draft and Twist Calculation --
Bobbin Dragging -- Reaches -- Set of Breast Beam and Tin-rod. #Wet
Spinning# of Flax, Hemp and Tow -- Hot and Cold Water Spinning --
Improvements in the Water Trough -- Turn off and Speed of Spindles --
Reaches -- Belting -- Band Tying -- Tape Driving -- Oiling -- Black
Threads -- Cuts per Spindle -- Ventilation of the Wet Spinning Room.
#Yarn Department.# -- Reeling -- Cop Winding -- Cheese and Spool Winding
-- Balling Shoe Thread, Reaper Yarn, etc. -- Yarn Drying and
Conditioning -- Yarn Bundling -- Yarn Baling -- Weight of Yarn -- Yarn
Tables -- Duty on Yarn Imports. #Manufacture of Threads, Twines and
Cords.# -- Hank Winding -- Wet and Dry Twisting -- Cabling -- Fancy
Yarns -- Twine Laying -- Sizing and Polishing Threads and Twines --
Softening Threads -- Skeining Threads -- Balling Twines -- Leeson's
Universal Winder -- Randing Twines -- Spooling Sewing Threads --
Comparative Prices of Flax and Hemp Cords, Lines and Threads. #Rope
Making.# -- Construction of Hawsers and Cables -- Stranding -- Laying
and Closing -- Compound Rope Machines -- Rules for Rope Makers --
Weight of Ropes -- Balling and Coiling Ropes. #Mechanical Department.#
-- Boilers, Engines and Turbines -- Power Transmission by Belts and
Ropes -- Electric Light and Power Transmission -- Fans -- Oils and
Oiling -- Repairs -- Fluting. #Mill Construction.# -- Flax, Hemp and
Jute Spinning Mills and Rope works -- Heating -- Roofs -- Chimneys,
etc.

#COLLIERIES AND MINES.# (p. c25)

#RECOVERY WORK AFTER PIT FIRES.# By Robert LAMPRECHT, Mining Engineer
and Manager. Translated from the German. Illustrated by Six large
Plates, containing Seventy-six Illustrations. 175 pp., demy 8vo. Price
10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 10s. 10d. home; 11s. abroad.)

#Contents.#

#Causes of Pit Fires -- Preventive Regulations#: (1) The Outbreak and
Rapid Extension of a Sha