The following notes compare the HTML version with the original printed text:-
- Illustrations
- These where scanned at 400dpi then mostly reduced to 100dpi, a few however are at 150dpi to improve the readability of the text.
- The original fig 3 (as it contained only printed text) being a photographic extract from Dr. Ures Dictonary, has been been put through the OCR process and placed within the main text.
- The original engravings are wonderful, as an example I have extracted a part of figure 44 from my original scan, which you may compare with the complete version I've included, some of the fine detail as been lost, but the multitude of various widths of fine lines have converted well (after some processing) into the shades you see. Which is just the effect from the original book, seen from a comfortable distrance.
- text
- Italic text has been preserved, as have é ü etc.
- The contents pages have been reduced to just a list of chapters, the original main topic headings have been moved to the start of each HTML chapter.
- A number of typographical errors have been corrected...
- from page 2
- among us, aud
- among us, and
- from page 141
- Such a furnance
- Such a furnace
- from page 213
- Danemora
- Dannemora
- from page 231
- Sir William Armstong
- Sir William Armstrong
- from page 260...
- that a knowledge of of its
- that a knowledge of its
- from page 347...
- they are rolled ont into flat
- they are rolled out into flat
- If you notice any I've introduced, please let me know.
- HTML version history
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- 1996, June-August, then October
- OCR, spell checking, proof reading.
