The Engineer 1857/03/13

1857 March 13th PDF

Main Subjects

• Adam's Improvements in Railway Wheels, Axle and Axle-Boxes - Patented 9th July 1856, p 207.

• Association of Foremen Engineers, p 214.

• Chemical, p 215.
  • On the the Use of the Prism in Qualitative Analysis - By Dr Gladstone FRS.
  • Notes on Alum in Bread - By Mr. Hadlow, of King's College.
  • On Sweet Sorgo - By M. Stier.
  • Original Gravities of Beers and Other Ferments.
• Coal Mines Inspectors,p 213.
  • Cymmer Colliery.
  • Lund Hill Colliery.
• Dunn's Chain Cable and Timber Testing Machine, p 207.

• Editorial, p 211.
  • Permanent Way of Railways.
  • American Railways - Management.
  • United States Railway Construction.
  • Sewage Question.
  • Agricultural Labour.
• Endless Railway Co

• Fatal Boiler Explosion,p 208.
  • Midland Railway Company.
  • Colmore and Beale.
  • John Walker, foreman of the locomotive department of the Midland Railway.
  • Adam Dixon, engineer of Smethwick.
• HMS Renown, p 209.

• Institution of Civil Engineers - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, p 214.
  • Jabez Church.
• Iron - From the Boston and American Railway Times, p 201.

• Lecture on Coal Mining - By John Brown, p 201.

• Letters to the Editor, p 208.
  • Thomas Baldwin.
  • A. Chisholm of Manchester.
  • William Bridges Adams of The Adelphi.
  • J. H. Elliott of Hastings.
  • William McAdam of Bath.
• Lifeboat - Designed by J. Peake of Woolwich Dockyard; built by Messrs Forrest of Limehouse, p 210.

• Maudslay's Engines for Driving Screw Propellers, p 210. (Illustrated).

• Metropolitan Board of Works, p 214.

• Parliamentary Intelligence, p 214.
  • Guano.
  • Postal Communication with Ireland.
• Reaping Machines, p 201. Listed. to be continued
  • Bennet Woodcroft.
  • Mr Pitt of Penderford (1786)
  • Mr Plucknett of Kent (1805)
  • Smith of Deanston (1811)
  • Mr Ogle
  • Thomas Brown
  • Joseph Brown
  • Mr Bell
  • Mr Salmon of Bedforshire (1807)
  • Dray's Champion Reaper, p 203. (Illustrated).
• Sewage Question - William Bridges Adams, p 204.

• Society of Arts - John Hawkshaw, p 205.
  • Submarine Engineering - By H. B. Sears.
  • John Rennie.
• Lord Palmerston and the Society of Arts, p 208.
  • Colonel W. H. Sykes.
  • Frederick North, M.P.;
  • Benjamin Oliveira, M.P., F.R.S ;
  • Francis Bennock;
  • C. Wentworth Dilke, Vice President;
  • Rev. William Elliott;
  • Joseph Glynn, F.R.S.;
  • Peter Graham;
  • T. Twining, jun, Vice-President;
  • G. Fergusson Wilson, F.R.S.;
  • Thomas Winkworth;
  • Charles Chritchett, Assistant Secretary.
  • P. Le Neve Foster, Secretary.
• Spencer's Locomotive Feed-Pipe Coupling - Patented 25th July 1856, p 210.

• Temple Fountain, London, p 214.

• Tidmarsh's Apparatus for Lubricating Surfaces, p 210. (illustrated).

• Uchatius Steel Process, p 214.

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