The Engineer 1887/05/27

1887 May 27th PDF

Main Subjects

• Contents, p 421.

• Carre's Boiling-Water Pump, p 417. (Illustrated)

• Death Announcement, Samuel Green, p 415.

• Editorial, p 421.
  • Defective Weapons.
  • The Control of the London Water Supply.
  • The Traffic of the Suez Canal.
  • Effects of Mining Rents and Royalties upon the Iron Trade.
  • Our Steamships.
• Institution of Civil Engineers, Edward Woods, President. The Conversion of Timber in the Pine Growing Districts of the U.S.A. by Circular Saw and Band Saws, p 428.
  • The Manufacture of Salt near Middlesborough, by Sir Lowthian Bell.
• Iron and Steel Institute, Daniel Adamson, President. Bessemer Medal awarded to James Riley, papers by Bernhard Samuelson and George Allen, p 428.

• Launches and Trial Trips, p 429.
  • SS Shannon, City of Cork Steamship Co, Refitted by David Rollo and Sons, G. A. Calvert, Engineer.
  • Steam Tug Jubilee, by Steward and Latham.
  • SS Albania, Built by A. McMillan and Son, Engines by D. Rowan and Son.
  • SS Grangense for R. Singleton and Co, Built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Co and SS Bazalgette
• Letters to the Editor, p 414.
  • W. Silver Hall.
  • J. K. Choate.
  • Westinghouse Brake Co.
  • I. Lancaster.
• 1887 Newcastle Exhibition, p 409 - p 411. (Illustrated)
  • Crossley Brothers.
  • North Eastern Steel Co.
  • Henry Watson and Sons.
  • Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co.
  • Steel Company of Scotland.
  • Leeds Forge Co.
  • Bedouin Steam Navigation Co.
  • Richard Garrett and Sons.
  • North Eastern Railway.
  • Farnley Iron Co.
  • Richard Garrett and Sons.
  • Samson Fox.
• New Promenade Pier, Folkestone, M. Noel Ridley, Engineer, p 416 p 418 and p 420. (Illustrated)
  • Folkestone Pier and Lift Co.
  • Heenan and Froude.
• Patent Journal, p 431.

• Power Hammers, John Wild and Co, Engineers, p 417. (Illustrated)

• Repairing Tanks and Reservoirs, p 417. (Illustrated)

• Report of the Committee on Sword Bayonets, p 418.
  • Martini-Henry Rifle.
• Rolling Contact of Bodies, by Professor Hele Shaw at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, p 415.

• Steamship Efficiencey, W. Stroudley, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, p 425.

• Professor Thurston's Patent Autographic Diagram Testing Machine for Iron, Steel, Brass, Copper etc. Built by W. H. Bailey, p 428. (Illustrated)

• Torpedo Boat Casualties, p 424.
  • Yarrow and Co.
  • White of Cowes.
  • Thornycroft.
• Trent Navigation Scheme, p 426.
  • Trent Navigation co.
  • T. Hawksley.
  • Sir Frederick Bramwell.
  • J. Abernethy.
  • W. H. Wilsted.
  • Leader Williams, Manchester Ship Canal Co.
• Wages in Great Britain, No. 11, p 412.

• Williams' Ferule Extractor, p 411. (Illustrated)

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