The Engineer 1866/03/16

1866 March 16th PDF

Main Subjects

• Boiler Explosions in 1865, p 192.

• Editorial, p 201.
  • Working Heavy Heavy Guns.
  • Government Interference with Constructive Details.

• Deaths -
  • Margaret Holt, eldest daughter of John Ramsbottom
  • H. M. Burton.
  • Fraser Gun, p 203.
  • The Rotating Fan.
  • Coal and Timber in Japan.
• Foreign Science, p 198.

• HMS Minotaur - Gun Carriage Compressors, p 196.

• Midland Boiler Inspection and Assurance Co - Engineers Report, p 191.

• Manufacture of Cold-Drawn Steel Tubes - G. P. Harding, L. Christophe, p 197.
  • London Zinc Co.
  • Cold Drawn Steel Tube and Ordnance Co.
• On Explosive Materials Used for Mining and Quarrying (II) - Nitroglycerine and Gunpowder, p 191.
  • Alfred Nobel.
• On Saturated Vapours - W. J. Macquorn Rankine, p 198.

• Paris Exhibition and Working Men, p 194.
• Ritson's Tipping Wagon, p 196.

• Society of Engineers - On Arched Roofs, concluded from p 174, p 193.
  • Derby Market Hall.
  • Sydenham Crystal Palace Roof.
  • Amsterdam Crystal Palace Roof.
  • Proposed Roof of the St. Pancras Railway Station, Midland Railway.

See Also

• John Ramsbottom (1814-1897)
• The Engineer 1866 Jan-Jun