The Engineer 1873/12/19

1873 December 19th PDF

Main Subjects

• Bridges in France, p 396.

• Death - Professor Agassiz, p 406.

• Editorial, p 405.
  • The Price of Gas.
  • Railway Accidents.
  • An Underground Railway for Paris.

• General Boxer and Mr. Hope, p 397.
  • General Shrapnel

• Gun Cotton and Water Bursting Charges, p.406
  • Mr Abel

• Legal Intelligence, p 398.
  • Josiah Swain.
  • George Lamb Scott.
• Letters to the Editor, p403.
  • Richard McDuff.
  • J. Beck.
• Locomotive Steam Derrick Crane and Double-Cylinder Hoisting Engine, Exhibited at 1873 Vienna Universal Exhibition , p 402 and p 404. (Illustrated).
  • J. H. Wilson and Co of Liverpool.
• Chubb and Son's Safe Works. p.402

• On the Limit of Useful Expansion in Steam Engines, (No. III), p 395.

• Practical Papers on Telegraphy (No XX), p.395

• The Royal Society, p 403.

• Smithfield Club Show, p 400.
  • Mr Fowler - Double Drum Ploughing Windlass, p 401. (Illustrated).
  • Mr Barford - plough
  • Ransomes, Sims and Head.
  • Mr Turner of Ipswich
  • Beverley Iron and Waggon Co.
  • Brotherhood and Hardingham.
  • J. N. Sears and Co
  • Davey, Paxman and Co.
  • Messrs Kennan of Fishamble-street, Dublin
• Society of Engineers - President in the Chair J. Church, p 401.
  • Charles Julian Light

• Society of Telegraph Engineers, p 398.
  • William Henry Preece .
  • Deaths of members in the year:
    • Sir Francis Ronald
    • Charles Lendi, of Berne, one of the original members of the Society
    • Donald McLeod
    • Captain Langham Rokeby,
    • George Saward
    • Mr. Theiler.
  • Proposed for honorary membership
    • Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer Royal
    • General Sir Edwin Sabin, K,C.B., R.A.
    • Professor William Weber, F.R.S.
  • George E. Preece

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