“a treatise on the construction and manipulation of tools, for the use and instruction of young engineers and scientific amateurs; comprising the arts of blacksmithing and forging; the construction and manufacture of hand tools, and the various methods of using and grinding them; the construction of machine tools and how to work them; machine fitting and erection; description of hand and machine processes; turning and screw cutting; principles of constructing and details of making and erecting steam engines; and the various details of setting out work incidental to the mechanical engineer's and machinist's art.”