Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 1

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Page 46 - Apartments; with an account of the methods which have been employed most successfully, for ensuring a healthy state of the atmosphere. 3. An Account and Drawings of the original construction and present state of the Plymouth Breakwater.
Page 35 - Flint glass, called by the French " cristal," from its resemblance to real crystal, is composed of silex (whence the English name), to which is added carbonate of potash and litharge, or red lead ; to which latter material is owing, not only its great specific gravity, but its superior lustre, its ductility, and power of refraction. It is necessary for optical purposes that flint glass should be perfectly free from...
Page 70 - Pombal 1755. It resisted uninjured the shocks of the great earthquake in that year, although it was observed to oscillate considerably. The most conspicuous part of the work is that which crosses the Valley of Alcantra...
Page 106 - Embankments, with the cost thereof. 30. The proper slopes for Cuttings and Embankments in various soils. 31. Notice of the principal Self-acting Tools employed in the manufacture of Engines and Machines, and the effect of their introduction. 32. On the most effective and best adapted Machines for bruising or crushing the...
Page 5 - ... without the usual corresponding increase of weight. Mr. George Mills, from his experience as a ship-builder, at Glasgow, was enabled to confirm all that Mr. Seaward had advanced. On the Clyde, the employment of an excess of power in steam vessels had been carried to the greatest extent, without producing corresponding advantages, either for speed, or in a commercial point of view. It would appear that the same error had to a certain degree been committed on the Thames, but less than on the Clyde...
Page 53 - The attention of the meeting having been called to M. D'Harcourt's artificial granite for railways, blocks, and other purposes, Mr. Rastrick remarked that he had about a month ago laid down blocks of the Scotch Asphalte, two feet square, on a portion of the Southampton Railway. The sleeper was put in while the block was formed. It was usual to bore holes and to fix the chairs by bolts ; he had wished to ascertain how far the blocks would stand the driving in of the bolts, without any boring; they...
Page 75 - ... the bottom, and 3 feet 6 inches at the top, built of ashlar masonry strengthened by counterforts, was forced into the stream by the pressure of the earth behind it. With proper attention to the manner of filling the different materials, a comparatively slight wall may be constructed to sustain a considerable weight of backing. The author lays down as a rule that, wherever it is practicable, all filling behind walls should be commenced at the wall, and be proceeded with from thence towards the...
Page 67 - ... chimney of the mechanical lamp: The intensity of the shadows from the mechanical lamp and the hot oil lamp, of a wire a few inches long and of the thickness of a crow quill, was equal, at a distance of 10 and 11 feet respectively; their relative illuminations being as the squares of these are, as 100 and 121 respectively, and the consumption of the best sperm oil was 15'2 and 11'6 grains per minute ; the relative cost of illumination for this oil would thus appear to be 50 per cent. in favour...

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