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Examines a Victorian volume well known to most engineers. Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Molesworth's Pocket Book of Engineering Formula (Thanks to Carol Morgan. Archivist, Institution of Civil Engineers, for this photograph, and to the ICE for permission to use the image), content and comparators, surveying, properties of materials, Albert Jesse Lander, Harling's drawing and surveying instruments, civil engineering, Pulsometer steam pump, stress on beams, tables of useful information, railway construction, Joy valve gear and Peaucellier's parallel motion, Alfred Williams, Worthington Pumping engines, other power, roads and hydraulics, physics, mathematics, Hindley's high-speed engines, Harris & Mills, sines and cosines |