BLACKIE & SON, 8, EAST CLYDE ST

AND 5, SOUTH COLLEGE STREET, EDINBURG

THE

MECHANIC'S CALCULATOR;

COMPREHENDING

PRINCIPLES, RULES, AND TABLES

IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF

MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS;

USEFUL TO

MILLWRIGHTS, ENGINEERS, AND ARTISANS IN GENERAL.

BY WILLIAM GRIER,

CIVIL ENGINEER.

THIRD EDITION,

CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED.

How have we obtained this great superiority over these poor savages? Because science
has been at work for many centuries, to diminish the amount of our mental labour, by
teaching us the easiest modes of calculation.

Results of Machinery.

GLASGOW:

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