The Engineer 1857/02/06

1857 February 06th PDF

Main Subjects

• Barlow and Woodhouse's Improvements in Connecting Ends of Rails, p103 (Illustrated).

• Blackwood's Machinery for Doubling Yarns or Threads, p110.

• Chandler and Oliver's Improvements in Agricultural Engines, p110 (Illustrated).

• Editorial, p111.
  • Boiler Explosions
  • Dearth of Skilled Workmen
  • Land Drainage Fallacies
  • Projects for Parliament
  • Convict Labour
  • Street Railways.
• Eives' Machinery For Extracting Oil From Seeds, p101 (Illustrated).

• Experiments at William Dray and Co's Beetroot Distillery, Farningham, p101.

• Guerin's Self Acting Apparatus for Working Railway Brakes, p103 (Illustrated).

• Institution of Civil Engineers - I. K. Brunel (Vice President), p104.
  • Mr Henley
  • Charles Bright
  • Mr Wheatstone
  • Mr Wollaston
  • Mr Wilkins
  • Mr Weatherly
  • Mr Newall
  • Mr Statham
  • Josiah Latimer Clark
  • Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse
  • Werner Siemens
  • Edward Highton
  • Charles Fox

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers, p105.
  • Joseph Whitworth (President)
  • W. P. Marshall
  • Michael Scott
  • Andrew John Robertson
  • Ebenezer Rogers
  • William Waller.

• Late Fatal Explosion at Sough - Adjourned Inquest, p114.
  • Daniel Greenwood, engine driver
  • Henry Young, conductor of ballast train
  • Hargreaves, coroner
  • William Jenkins, from Miles Platting Works
  • William Fairbairn, C. E. of Manchester

• Letters to the Editor, p108.
  • John Onions
  • James Johnstone of Moffat
  • Henry Childs of Langton, Blandford
  • J. Smith (of Lowestoft)
  • Frederick Richards of Whitehaven
  • Thomas Dunn of Manchester
  • Samuel Symonds of Pimlico
  • Thomas Wincup of Portman Square, London
  • Thomas Railton of Mill Wall, London
  • R. V. J. Knight, Junior of Greenwich
  • A. Alexander of Canada Works, Birkenhead
• Luce's Improved Broadcast Seed Sower, p102 (Illustrated).

• Mental Calculation - George Parker Bidder, p101.
  • Henry Robinson Palmer
  • Serjeant Spankie
  • Joseph Whitworth.
• Review - Adulteration Detected in Food and Medicines by Arthur Hill Hassell - Longman, Brown and Co, p105 (Illustrated).
  • George Phillips (2).
• Sewerage of London, p113.
  • Benjamin Hall
  • Thomas Hawksley
• SS Great Britain, p113.
  • Mr. Bright, Sen., one of the principal owners
  • Mr. Paterson, the builder of the ship,
  • Captain Gray, her commander,
  • Captain Martin the chief engineer of the vessel
  • John Vernon
  • Thomas Vernon and Son
  • Fawcett, Preston and Co
  • Gibbs, Bright and Co.

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