The Engineer 1864/05/13

1864 May 13th PDF

Main Subjects

• Ashton Vale Colliery and Ironworks, p 295.

• Atlantic Telegraph, p 296.
  • SS Great Eastern.
• Brown and May's Traction Engines, p 294. (Illustrated)

• Distribution of Weight on the Wheels of Locomotives, by John Robinson, p 292.

• Editorial, p 295.
  • Fuel.
  • Patent Office.
• Experiments at Shoeburyness, p293.
  • John Brown and Co.
• Fall of a Factory Chimney, R. R. Whitehead and Brothers, p 293.

• Greener's Breech Loading Fire-Arms, p 294. (Illustrated)

• Institution of Civil Engineers, J. R. McLean President, The Means of Utislising the Products of Distillation of Coal, so as to Reduce the Price of Coke, by M. Pernolet, p 287.

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The Harrison Boiler by, Zerah Colburn, p 291.
  • Oliver Evans.
  • Richard Trevithick.
  • Hazledine and Rastrick.
  • Thomas Richardson and Sons.
• Institution of Naval Architects, J. S. Pakington, President, p 297.
  • The Height of the Centre of Gravity in Iron Ships by E. J. Reed.
  • The Application of Steam Power to the Working of Heavy Guns by, H. D. P. Cunningham.
  • Principles of Construction and the Armament of Iron Clads, by Captain R. A. E. Scott.
  • The Question at Issue between Modern Guns and Iron-Coated Ships, by J. Scott Russell.
  • Longitudinal Metacentre of a Ship; its use in Calculating the Alterations of the Trim and a New Method of Finding it, by F. K. Barnes.
  • A Method of Slewing a Ship without the use of a Rudder, by G. B. Airy.
  • The Steering Power of Ships by James R. Napier.
  • The Steering of Ships by Henry Lumley.
• Inventors Institute, Sir John Scott Lillie in the Chair, Inventions Relating to the Permanent Way of Railways, by Benjamin Burleigh, p 296.

• Letters to the Editor, p 296.
  • William Spence.
• Patent Journal, p 298.

• Royal Geographical Society, Sir R. J Murchison President, p 296.
• Royal Sovereign, p 296.

• Society of Arts, Edward Belcher, The Testing of Chain Cables, by Frederick Arthur Paget, p 287.

• Trial of the Caledonia, p 293.

• Waterman's Steam Engines, p 290. (Illustrated)

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