Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 3Institution of Civil Engineers, 1844 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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Page 373 - Memoirs and accounts of the Works and Inventions of any of the following Engineers: — Sir Hugh Middleton ; Arthur Woolf; Jonathan Hornblower ; Richard Trevithick ; William Murdoch (of Soho) ; and Alexander Nimmo.
Page 28 - The author states that the fuel used in lighthouses for the production of light is almost universally oil, burnt in lamps of the Argand or Fresnel construction ; and, from the nature and use of the...
Page 9 - Secretary for the time being, that I am desirous of withdrawing my name therefrom, I shall (after the payment of any arrears which may be due by me at that period) be free from this obligation. I also engage to present to the Institution an original communication, drawing, plan, or model of engineering interest, or some scientific work for the library, within the space of twelve months from the date of my election.
Page 106 - Egyptians, as they seemed to have used it many centuries before the Christian era. The researches of modern travellers, particularly those of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson,* proved that the brick arch was known in Egypt in the reign of Amenoiph I., 1540 years BC, and the stone arch in the time of Psamaticus II., 600 years BC "The most remarkable," says Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, " are the door-ways surrounding the tanks of Assassief, which are composed of two or more concentric semicircles of brick, as well...
Page 20 - Practical Essays on subjects connected with Civil Engineering, such as Geology, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanic Arts, Statistics, Agriculture, &c. ; together with Models, Drawings, or Descriptions of any new and useful Apparatus, or Instruments applicable to the purposes of Engineering, or Surveying.
Page 59 - ... inch thick, crossing each other at an angle of 45°. At a height of 5 feet 6 inches above the bottom edge, transverse bearers are placed, formed of ^ inch angle-iron, 6 inches deep, and set 2 feet apart, similar to the cross ties now used for the decks of iron steam-vessels, and upon these the planking for the roadway is fastened. The account of the mode of construction, and of the raising and fixing the latticebeams, by Messrs. Perry of Dublin, the contractors, is given in detail. The author...
Page 333 - ... with the solid portion of the coal. From the chemical changes which take place in the combination of the hydrogen with oxygen, the bulk of the products is found to be to the bulk of the atmospheric air required to furnish the oxygen, as 10 is to 11.
Page 265 - Calculations and remarks, tending to prove the practicability, effects and advantages of a plan for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers upon an iron road through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air.
Page 145 - ... proposed to counteract that tendency by friction. This was effected, by dividing the slipping mass into vertical sections, by excavating perpendicular chases, 5 feet wide, and passing completely through the slip, down into the solid clay below ; these chases were 15 feet apart, and were filled up with masonry, or with chalk or gravel, well rammed down, so as to form a solid immoveable mass. Thus the slip was divided into a number of isolated portions, of comparatively small dimensions, each side...
Page 334 - This area having been obtained on the supposition that no more air is admitted than the quantity chemically required, and that the combustion is complete and perfect in the furnace, it is evident that this area must be much increased in practice, where we know these conditions are not fulfilled, but that a large surplus quantity of air is always admitted. A limit is thus found for the area over the bridge, or the area of the flue immediately behind the furnace, below which it must not be decreased,...