A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber

Name: A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber
Author: Thomas Allen Britton

by Thomas Allen Britton

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A TREATISE ON DRY ROT IN TIMBER.
CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF TIMBER.
CHAPTER II. ON THE GRADUAL RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF DRY ROT.
CHAPTER III. FELLING TIMBER.
CHAPTER IV. ON SEASONING TIMBER BY NATURAL METHODS, VIZ. HOT AND COLD AIR; FRESH AND SALT WATER; VAPOUR; SMOKE; STEAM; BOILING; CHARRING AND SCORCHING, ETC.
WATER SEASONING.
SEASONING BY STEAMING AND BOILING, ETC.
SEASONING BY SMOKE DRYING.
STOVE DRYING.
SEASONING BY SCORCHING AND CHARRING.
SEASONING BY EXTRACTION OF SAP.
“‘SEASONING’ BY BRIBES.”
CHAPTER V. ON SEASONING TIMBER BY PATENT PROCESSES, ETC.
CHAPTER VI. ON THE MEANS OF PREVENTING DRY ROT IN MODERN HOUSES; AND THE CAUSES OF THEIR DECAY.
CHAPTER VII. ON THE PRESERVATION OF WOODEN BRIDGES, JETTIES, PILES, HARBOUR WORKS, ETC., FROM THE RAVAGES OF THE TEREDO NAVALIS AND OTHER SEA-WORMS.
WOODS WHICH RESIST SEA WORMS.
CHAPTER VIII. ON THE DESTRUCTION OF WOODWORK IN HOT CLIMATES BY THE TERMITE OR WHITE ANT, WOOD-CUTTER, CARPENTER BEE, &c., AND THE MEANS OF PREVENTING THE SAME.
ANT-RESISTING WOODS.
CHAPTER IX. ON THE CAUSES OF DECAY IN FURNITURE, WOOD CARVINGS, ETC., AND THE MEANS OF PREVENTING AND REMEDYING THE EFFECT OF SUCH DECAY.
I. Vaporization.
II. Saturation.
CHAPTER X. SUMMARY OF CURATIVE PROCESSES.
TO PRESERVE WOODWORKS THAT ARE EXPOSED TO WET OR DAMP.
TO PREVENT ROT.
TO CURE INCIPIENT DRY ROT.
TO PREVENT WORMS IN TIMBER.
TO PREVENT WORMS IN MARINE BUILDING.
TO DESTROY WORMS IN CARVINGS.
TO DESTROY ANTS AND INSECTS IN WOOD.
CHAPTER XI. GENERAL REMARKS AND CONCLUSION.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
BOOKS RELATING TO APPLIED SCIENCE, PUBLISHED BY E. & F. N. SPON, LONDON: 16, CHARING CROSS. NEW YORK: 446, BROOME STREET.
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