Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Band 15Institution of Civil Engineers, 1856 |
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Seite 120 - Discoveries of the Past Year in Mechanics and the Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Electricity, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, Meteorology, and Astronomy. By JOHN TIMES, FSA, Author of * ' Curiosities of Science, " ' ' Things not Generally Known,
Seite 116 - The Canadian Journal ; a Repertory of Industry, Science and Art ; and a Record of the Proceedings of the Canadian Institute.
Seite 311 - ... liquor, speedily restore to the troubled air such a proportion of vital parts, as would make it again, for a good while, fit for respiration...
Seite 480 - Institute,) in unanimously awarding to it the Gold Medal. " The Emperor Napoleon, true to the inspirations of his own genius and to the policy of his dynasty, caused the Swedish engine to be deposited in the Imperial Observatory of Paris, and to be placed at the disposal of the Members of the Board of Longitude.
Seite 260 - ... 21=68,681 The last result in each operation being alone registered by the memory, all the previous results being consecutively obliterated until a total product is obtained.
Seite 141 - • Give us," we say, " a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion. Commit to that tribunal, with any restrictions you think necessary, the whole of the great questions appertaining to our system. Let it protect private interests apart from railways ; let it judge of the desirability of all initiatory measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements : delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions as may be thought needful to secure...
Seite 289 - Report of the Commissioner of Patents to the Senate of the United States, on the Subject of Steam Boiler Explosions, 30th Congress, 2nd Session, Read January 8, 1849. 30. Report on "Impact, Hydrostatic, and Fire tests — Aluminum Alloy Compartments for Tank Trucks," Aluminum Company of America, New Kensington, Pa., 1930. 31. Robinson, JR. Explosions of Steam Boilers...
Seite 138 - Bear in mind that every additional Bill received by Parliament entailed additional expense, not only on the promoters of that one Bill, but on all the other eighteen competitors. They each and all had to bear the costs, not of parliamentary proceedings upon one Bill, but of the parliamentary proceedings upon nineteen Bills. They had to pay not only the costs of promoting their own line, but also the costs of opposing eighteen other lines ! And yet, conscious as Government must have been of this fact,...
Seite 118 - FORMULAE for finding the Discharge of Water from Orifices, Notches, Weirs, Pipes, and Rivers. With New Formulae, Tables, and General Information on Rain-fall, Catchment-Basins, Drainage, Sewerage, Water Supply for Towns and Mill Power. By JOHN NEVILLE, Civil Engineer, MRIA Third Edition, carefully revised, with considerable Additions.
Seite 147 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's richochet rockets, as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.