The Industrial Resources of the District of the Three Northern Rivers, the Tyne, Wear, and Tees: Including the Reports on the Local Manufactures, Read Before the British Association, in 1863William George Baron Armstrong, Isaac Lowthian Bell, John Taylor, Thomas Richardson Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864 - 361 Seiten |
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Alumina annum applied beds Birtley blast furnaces Boilers Bolckow and Vaughan Carbon carpet cent chloride Clarence clay Cleveland COAL MEASURES coal-field coke Colliery commenced condenser considerable construction containing copper cwts cylinder district Ditto Durham employed England erected extent feet fire-clay firm gases Gateshead glass heat hematite important improvements inches increased introduced ironstone Jarrow labour lead Lime limestone locomotive Looms Losh machine machinery magnesia manganese manufacture materials Messrs metal Middlesbrough miles mills mineral mines Newcastle North Northumberland obtained operation ovens oxide paper patent pig iron pipes plate present produced purpose pyrites quantity railway retorts river river Tyne ropemaking salt screw seam shaft Shotley Bridge smelting South South Shields steam engines steel stone sulphate of soda sulphuric acid Sunderland supply surface Tees temperature thickness tion tons trade Tyne vessels Wear Weardale Whitby wire ropes Wylam yards
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Seite xxxii - A sudden outburst of light, far exceeding the brightness of the sun's surface, was seen to take place, and sweep like a drifting cloud over a portion of the solar face. This was attended with magnetic disturbances of unusual intensity, and with exhibitions of aurora of extraordinary brilliancy. The identical instant at which the effusion of light was observed was recorded by an abrupt and strongly marked deflection in the self-registering instruments at Kew.
Seite xxxvii - ... in 300 feet, and that in fact it follows no definite law at all. Mr. Glaisher appears also to have ascertained the interesting fact that rain is only precipitated when cloud exists in a double layer. Raindrops, he has found, diminish in size with elevation, merging into wet mist, and ultimately into dry frog.
Seite xxvi - I can state with perfect confidence that, so far as the raising of steam is concerned, the production of smoke is unnecessary and inexcusable. The experiments to which I refer proved beyond a doubt, that by an easy method of firing, combined with a due admission of air and a proper arrangement of firegrate, not involving any complexity, the emission of smoke might be perfectly avoided, and that the prevention of the smoke increased the economic value of the fuel and the evaporative power of the boiler....
Seite xvi - ... of this district have contributed more largely than any others to supply the motive power by which steam communication by land and water has been established on so gigantic a scale. The history of railways shows what grand results may have their origin in small beginnings.
Seite xvi - As the art to boore with, iron rodds to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the Coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the Pits : Waggons with one horse to carry down Coales, from the Pits, to the Stathes, to the River, &c. Within few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse.
Seite 122 - This granulated cast iron is mixed with pulverized oxide of iron and some alkaline earths, and the whole put into the ordinary steel-melting crucibles, and placed in the furnaces, and brought into a fluid state. The degree of hardness of the steel is thus capable of being regulated by the size of the granules, and by the quantity of oxides used. The...
Seite xix - Turning, however, to our own particular country, and contemplating the rate at which we are expending those seams of coal which yield the best quality of fuel, and can be worked at the least expense, we shall find much cause for anxiety. The greatness of England much depends upon the superiority of her coal in cheapness and quality over that of other nations ; but we have already drawn from our choicest mines a far larger quantity of coal than has been raised in all other parts of the world put together,...
Seite xxvi - ... fuel. In fact, as the heat evolved in the furnace, or so much of it as is not communicated to the bodies exposed to its action, continually returns to augment the effect of the new fuel, there appears to be no limit to the temperature attainable except the powers of resistance in the materials of which the furnace is composed. With regard to smoke, which is at once a waste and a nuisance, having myself taken part with Dr. Richardson and Dr.
Seite xvii - The next step in the progress of railways was the attachment of slips of iron to the wooden rails. Then came the iron tramway, consisting of cast-iron bars of an angular section; in this arrangement, the upright flange of the bar acted as a guide, to keep the wheel on the track. The next advance was an important one, and consisted in transferring the guiding-flange from the rail to the wheel ; this improvement enabled cast-iron edge-rails to be used.
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