The Engineer 1920/01/23

1920 January 23rd PDF

• Contents, p 93.

Main Subjects

• Cheap Heat Power, p 97. (Illustrated).

• Editorial, p 93.
  • HMS Hood. (Illustrated).
  • Boiler Explosions.
  • Water-Cooling for Turbo Generators.
  • Women in Engineering - V. Key Jones.
• Evolution of the Heavier than Air Flying Machine, p 83.
  • Chapman Frederick Dendy Marshall.
  • 1868 Aeronautical Exhibition.
  • Charles Spencer.
  • Hiram Stevens Maxim.
  • Percy Pilcher.
  • Chanute and Hering.
  • Samuel Pierpont Langley.
  • Wright Brothers.
  • F. H. Wenham.
• Failures of Turbo-Generators and Suggestions for Improvements - J. Shepherd MIEE, p 88.

• HMS Hood - John Brown and Co, p 92 and 93. (Illustrated).

• Iron and Steel Production in 1919, p 98.

• Gyroscopic Compass: A Non-Mathematical Treatment - (No. II), p 81.

• Letters to the Editor, p 89.
  • Payment By Results - J. E. Powell.
  • The Trisection of an Angle - A. S. Field.
  • The Smithsonian Rocket and The World - Chapman Frederick Dendy Marshall.
  • Propulsion of Aeroplanes - J. Walmsley.
• Microscope - Faraday Society, p 85.
  • Royal Microscopic Society.
  • John Edward Stead.
  • Robert Hadfield.
  • T. G. Elliott.
  • National Physical Laboratory.
  • J. C. McLennan.
  • J. E. Barnard - President of the Royal Microscopic Society.
  • F. Martin Duncan - President of the Photomicrographic Society.
  • Herbert Jackson.
  • F. J. Cheshire - President of the Optical Society and Director of School of Technical Optics.
  • Ministry of Munitions.
  • Robert Mullineux Walmsley.
  • Walter Rosenhain.
  • Cecil Henry Desch.
  • T. G. Elliott.
  • F. C. Thompson.
  • J. H. G. Monypenny.
  • W. H. Hatfield.
• Motor-Driven Geared Air-Compressor - Broom and Wade, p 98. (Illustrated).

• Patents, p 103.
  • G. J. Prat - Induced or suction draft apparatus.
  • S. Z. Hall - Combustion Chambers]].
  • G. Stirk, E. Stirk, J. Stirk and R. Stirk - Control of electric motors.
  • Cable Accessories Co - Electrical fuses.
  • O. O. Kring - Electric soldering irons.
  • Metropolitan Gas Co - Gas Furnaces.
  • J. B. Parker - Trolley Heads.
  • E. L. D. B. Balfour and J. W. B. Balfour - Railway spikes.
  • Workman, Clark and co - Launching Gear.
• Power Alcohol and Peat, p 97. (Illustrated).

• Short Histories of Famous Firms - (No. I) Vulcan Foundry - Ernest Leopold Ahrons, p 85. (Illustrated).
  • Vulcan Foundry - Historic Locomotives, p 84. (Illustrated).
  • Charles Tayleur
  • Robert Stephenson
  • London and Birmingham Railway
  • W. F. Gooch
  • Britannia Bridge
  • William Collingwood

• War Service Tugs, p 96. (Illustrated).
  • Livingstone and Cooper.
  • Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.

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