Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 39The Institution, 1875 Vols. 39-204 (1874/75-1916/17) have a section 3 containing "Abstracts of papers in foreign transactions and periodicals" (title varies); issued separately, 1919-37, as the institution's Engineering abstracts from the current periodical literature of engineering and applied science, published outside the United Kingdom. |
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... concrete ; above that level it is of sandstone ashlar , with the upper part and the arching set in Portland cement . The face most distant from the embankment ( Plate 2 , Fig . 1 ) is pierced by three openings 2 feet square fitted with ...
... concrete ; above that level it is of sandstone ashlar , with the upper part and the arching set in Portland cement . The face most distant from the embankment ( Plate 2 , Fig . 1 ) is pierced by three openings 2 feet square fitted with ...
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... concrete , and the openings in them built up , the pipe is borne partly on sandstone blocks , and partly on concrete and the masonry of the old sluice . Walls of rubble masonry are so built across the pipe as to allow of the flanged ...
... concrete , and the openings in them built up , the pipe is borne partly on sandstone blocks , and partly on concrete and the masonry of the old sluice . Walls of rubble masonry are so built across the pipe as to allow of the flanged ...
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... concrete 88. per cubic yard . The cast - iron sluices , valves , & c . , were obtained under a lump contract . The new waste weir ( Plate 2 , Figs . 6 and 7 ) consists of a curved wall , 200 feet long by 3 feet thick , capped with ...
... concrete 88. per cubic yard . The cast - iron sluices , valves , & c . , were obtained under a lump contract . The new waste weir ( Plate 2 , Figs . 6 and 7 ) consists of a curved wall , 200 feet long by 3 feet thick , capped with ...
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... concrete blocks was to have been founded on a bed excavated in the bottom of the sea . Liquid concrete hearting was to have been introduced into the upper portion of the work , and an apron of concrete blocks was intended to have been ...
... concrete blocks was to have been founded on a bed excavated in the bottom of the sea . Liquid concrete hearting was to have been introduced into the upper portion of the work , and an apron of concrete blocks was intended to have been ...
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... concrete were adopted for the foundations , in the first instance , on account of the difficulty of levelling the granite rock below low water . They were continued for the remainder of the breakwater , as the results proved successful ...
... concrete were adopted for the foundations , in the first instance , on account of the difficulty of levelling the granite rock below low water . They were continued for the remainder of the breakwater , as the results proved successful ...
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Page 162 - Charter in 1828 for the general advancement of mechanical science and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineering, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; c.
Page 162 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade...
Page 162 - ... the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in the construction and adaptation of machinery, and in the drainage of cities and towns.
Page 162 - Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer...
Page 399 - That the quantities of water evaporated by consecutive equal lengths of flue-tubes decrease in geometrical progression, whilst the distances from the commencement of the series increase in arithmetical progression. The point, he adds, at which the law begins to prevail, is that at which the radiation of heat from the fuel ceases, and heat is communicated by conduction alone. One of the experiments of which the results were investigated by M. Havrez, was made by M. Petiet, of the Northern Railway...
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Page 182 - A history of any fresh water channel, tidal river, or estuary, accompanied by plans and longitudinal and cross sections of the same, at various periods, showing the alterations in its condition, including notices of any works which may have been executed upon it, and of the effects of the works, particularly of the relative value of tidal and fresh water...
Page 290 - Landbeach to one of bis sons-in-law, the rev. TC Burroughs, but continued to reside there. He was in the commission of the peace for the county of Cambridge. He died at Landbeach July 5, 1798, in his eightythird year. As a divine he published only one sermon, " The Mischiefs of faction and rebellion considered," preached at Cambridge in 1745.
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