Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Band 16Institution of Civil Engineers, 1857 |
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Seite 176 - Memoirs and accounts of the Works and Inventions of any of the following Engineers: — Sir Hugh Middleton ; Arthur Woolf; Jonathan Hornblower ; Richard Trevithick , William Murdoch (ofSoho); and Alexander Nimmo.
Seite 120 - A Telford Medal in Silver to James Bremner, M. Inst. CE, for his Papers " On Pulteney Town Harbour," " Sarclet Harbour," " A new Piling Engine," and " An Apparatus for floating large Stones for Harbour Works." A Telford Medal in Silver to Andrew Murray, Assoc. Inst. CE, for his Paper " On the construction and proper proportions of Steam Boilers.
Seite 171 - THE COUNCIL of the Institution of Civil Engineers have awarded the following Premiums : — 1. A Telford Medal, and a Council Premium of Books, suitably bound and inscribed, to John Murray, M. Inst. CE, for his paper " On the Progressive Construction of the Sunderland Docks.
Seite 141 - Assoc. Inst. CE, as the first of the vast system now being formed, and which will work such a revolution in the destiny of the Indian Empire. The Ceylon and the Pernambuco lines were also under his charge. He was likewise consulting Engineer for the Regent's Canal and Dock Company, the Lynn Harbour Commissioners, the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, and the Jarrow Dock Company on the river Tyne.
Seite 173 - The comparative advantages of Iron and Wood, or of both materials combined, for the construction of Steam Vessels, with drawings and descriptions; — the methods for preventing corrosion ; — and details of the arrangements for the Compasses, and for their adjustment in Iron Ships.
Seite 182 - Fly-Fishing for Salmon; Lists of good Salmon Flies for every good River in the Empire ; the Natural History of the Salmon, its Habits described, and the best way of artificially Breeding it. Fcp. 8vo. with coloured Plates, price 14s. Fairbairn.— Useful Information for Engineers : Being a Series of Lectures delivered to the Working Engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Seite 184 - HORN-BOOK FOR THE LAW OF STORMS. Being a Practical Exposition of the Theory of the Law of Storms, and its uses to Mariners of all Classes in all Parts of the World. Shown by transparent Storm Cards and useful Lessons. 7th Ed.
Seite 102 - ... day, died at Clapham on Thursday the 14th of August. Unhappily, the intellectual death of Dr. Buckland dates, not from the year 1856, but from six or seven years ago, since which time a cloud has come over his once active mind, and he has spent the evening of his life in confinement. William Buckland was born at Axminster, in the county of Devon, in the year 1784. He received his early education at Winchester School, whence he removed to Oxford in 1801, being elected to a scholarship on the Exeter...
Seite 133 - Surrey, in the 77th year of his age, and was buried in the new cemetery at Brighton.
Seite 378 - That the quantity of heat produced by the friction of bodies, whether solid or liquid, is always proportional to the quantity of force extended.