The Engineer 1878/03/08

1878 March 08th PDF

Main Subjects

• 1878 Paris Exhibition, p160, p166 (XII).

• Asquith's Radial Drilling Machine, p163 (Illustrated).

• Ceylon Government Railways-Matale Extension-Type Drawings, p162, p169 (Illustrated).

• Editorial, p167.
  • England's Commercial Position
  • Steam Power on Tramways
  • Pay and Position of Draughtsmen
  • Relative Economy in Trussed Girders
    • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Necessity for Cheapening Iron
  • Convict Labour in America
    • Perry and Co of Chicago, USA
  • The Needle and the Government
    • Cleopatra's Needle
• Highest Mine in the World, p169.

• Inflexible, p165.

• Meteorological Society, p171.

• Notes on the Telephone - R. M. Ferguson, p164.

• Results of the Transit of Venus Expeditions, p159.

• Review - Remunerative Railways for New Countries - Richard C. Rapier, p169.

• Torpedo Boat for the Admirality, p171.
  • Yarrow and Co
• Wood's Self-Binding Reaper, p163 (Illustrated).
  • Walter Abbot Wood, of London, and Hoosick Falls, New York, USA

• Weatherburn's Patent Syphon Lubricators, p170 (Illustrated).

• Wood Pavement, p171 (I).

See Also

• 1878 Paris Exhibition
• The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun