The Engineer 1883/04/13

1883 April 13th PDF

Main Subject

• Automatic Water-Wheel Governors, H. J. H. King, p 285. (Illustrated)

• Death Announcement Lloyd Macdonald Hughes, p 289.

• Editorial, p 290.
  • Dynamite Peril.
  • Energy Expended in Propelling a Bicycle.
  • How to Unmake Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Sir Lyon Playfair and Sir Augustus Frederick Abel.
  • Artesian Wells upon the Great Plains of the United States.
  • Casualties in Mining.
  • Discharging Torpedos.
• Engines of the London and North Western Railway Company's Steamship Violet, Laird Brothers, Engineers, p 292 and p 293. (Illustrated)
  • SS Lily.
• Fixed Service to the Continent, South Eastern Railway Co, Sir Edward Watkin, p 281. (Illustrated)

• Horizontal Engines on Wrought Iron Bedplates, Hayward Tyler and Co, p 284. (Illustrated)

• Institution of Civil Engineers, The Summit-Level Tunnel of the Bettws and Festiniog Railway, by William Smith (1825-1911), p 287.

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The Strength of Shafting when exposed to Torsion and End Thrust, by A. G. Greenhill, p 280.
  • Modern Methods of Cutting Metals, by W. Ford Smith.
• Italian Ironclad Lepanto, p 281. (Illustrated)

• Jochumsen's Self Acting Feed-Water Regulator for Steam boilers, p 281. (Illustrated)

• Letters to the Editor, p 282.
  • J. Lancaster.
  • P. R. Jackson and Co.
  • Clement E. Stretton.
  • A. F. E. Richardson.
  • W. Tomlin.
• London and North Western Railway Company's SS Violet, p 279 and p 292. (Illustrated)

• Lubrication by John Veitch Wilson at the Manchester Association of Employers, Foremen and Draughtsmen, p 287.

• Malta Railway, p 280, p 284 and p 288. (Illustrated)
  • Railway Carriage Co.
  • Manning, Wardle and Co.
  • Wells-Owen andGervase Elwes
  • G. J. Burke.
• Meteorology as a Science, Royal Institution, Professor John Tyndall, p 292.

• Patent Journal, p 296.

• Steel Fire Boxes, by Mr. Fernie at the Institution of Civil Engineers, p 279.

• Transmission of Power by Electricity and the Portrush Railway, by Alexander Siemens and Edward Hopkinson, p 286.

• Trevithick Memorial, Institution of Civil Engineers, members present listed, p 294.

• Troopship for India, Laird Brothers, p 280.

• Villar Reservoir Dam, by E. J. Theodore Manby, p 294.

• What Nitro-Glycerine is, p 279.

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