The Engineer 1858/11/19

1858 November 19th PDF

Main Subjects

• The Chinese - Their National Industry and Mechanical Arts, p 385.

• Daniel Evans' Mode of Supplying Air to Furnaces, p 390.

• Description of a Trammel, Called a Volutor to Describe the Spiral of Archimedes and Other Spirals, p 389.
  • Rev J. Booth.
• Editorial, p 395.
  • The Atlantic Telegraph.
  • Naval Warfare.
  • Foreign Railway Concessions.
  • Gold.
  • Railway Statistics.
  • New South Wales.
• Edmund Richmond's Machinery for Crushing Grain, p 389. (Illustrated).

• Institution of Civil Engineers, p 387.
  • George Parker Bidder.
  • John Sutherland Valentine.
  • Joseph Locke.
• James Rae's Improvements in Iron Ships, p 391.

• John Fowler, Junior's Improvements in Apparatus for Cultivating Land, p 391.

• Letters to the Editor, p 391.
  • George W. Jaffrey.
  • William Petrie.
  • William Spence.
  • W. J. Macquorn Rankine.
• Machinery for the Submersion of Telegraph Cables, p 389.
  • Henry Conybeare.
• Society of Arts, p 388.
  • Wentworth Dilke
  • Charles Eastlake.
  • Brandreth Gibbs
  • James Luke.
  • Henry Charles Johnson.
  • Richard Partridge.
• and medals were presented to:
  • J. Algernon Clarke, paper on steam power and agriculture
  • A. G. Findlay, paper on English lighthouses
  • Wentworth Lascelles Scott, paper on thermometer for use in the deep ocean
  • William Stones, paper on New Zealand resources
  • F. R. De la Trehonais, paper on French agriculture
  • John Underwood, paper on inks
  • J. Forbes Watson, paper on food in India
  • William Williams, paper on stone cutting machinery
  • J. W. Wilson, paper on wood shaping machinery
  • Professor John Wilson, FRSE, paper on Canadian resources
• William R. Jackson's Self-Acting Brake, p 394. (Illustrated).

• W. A. Gilbee's Machine for Corking Bottles, p 394.

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