The Engineer 1877/07/27

1877 July 27th PDF

Main Subjects

• Albert Medal, Sir George Biddell Airy, p 62.

• British Association at Plymouth on Wednesday 15th August. List of Officials, p 70.

• Caisson for the Imperial Arsenal at Negasaki, p 57, p 60 and p 64. (Illustrated).
  • Head, Wrightson and Co.
• Colliers' Patent Rivet Making Machine, p 57 and 70. (Illustrated).

• Editorial, p 65.
  • The Silting up of the Thames.
  • Indian Famine and Relief Works, Lord Claude Hamilton.
  • Cost of the Exhibition of Scientific Instruments.
  • Explosives on Shipboard, The Great Queensland.
  • Owens College.
• Fairbairn and His Times, p 57.

• Institute of Mechanical Engineering - Bristol Meeting, Mr. Thomas Hawksley, R.P.I.C.E, President, p 67 - p 70.
  • The Klotz Safety Valve. (Illustrated).
  • Webbs' Circular Slide Valve, Francis William Webb. (Illustrated).
  • Tynewydd Colliery - Boring Apparatus and Food Carriers. (Illustrated).
• Obituary, John H. Adams, p 63.

• On the Economy of Variable Automatic Expansion in Steam Engines, by John C. Fell, p 62.

• Review - A Practical Treatise on the Steam Engine by Arthur Rigg, E. and F. N. Spon, p66.

• Steamships Limerick, Milford and Waterford, W. Simons and Co, p 61. (Illustrated).
  • Great Western Railway.
• Steam Street Cars, p 61. (Illustrated).

• Subterranean Telegraphy, p 63.

• United States Government at the Philadelphia Exhibition, p 58.

• Valve Gear on Locomotives, J. N. Lander, W. S. Hudson, F. A. Waite, p 63.(Illustrated).

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