Excerpt from An Elementary Outline of Mechanical Processes: Giving a Brief Account of the Materials Used in Engineering Construction and of the Essential Features in the Methods of Producing Them, Also Describing Shop Processes and Equipment for the Shaping of Metals Into Forms for Engineering and General Uses The Materials of Construction - Johnson. Calcareous Cements - Redgrave and Spackman. Hawkins Mechanical Dictionary. Cyclopaedia of Mechanical Engineering. Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.