The Engineer 1866/02/09

1866 February 09th PDF

Main Subjects

• Ching's Improved Fluid Valve, p 104.

• Crewe Locomotive Workshops, p 107.
  • Ramsbottom's Plan for an Endless Rope.
  • F. W. Webb's Machine Tools.
  • Beyer, Peacock and Co Large Vertical Drilling Machines.
• Dalston Hydrocarbon Lamp, p 104.

• Editorial, p 109.
  • Dismissal of Captain Coles.
  • Portable Steam Rivetting Machines - John Bourne (which?) claimed to have made the first rivetting machine in 1834 from an old punching press, William Fairbairn produced the first steam rivetting machine soon after; MacFarlane Gray had invented a new one.
  • Centrifugal Fans - J. F. Cail and Co.
  • Insulation of Submarine Telegraph Wires.
  • Notes on Private Bills.
  • Fall of the Manchester Railway Station - Engineer's Report.
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
• Papers on Puddling, (No. IV), p 101.

• Society of Engineers - Zerah Colburn, p 113.
  • William Murdoch.
• Taptee Viaduct, 104.
  • Ker and Wright.
  • Bleay and Eaton.
• Telegraph in New South Wales, p 112.
  • Edward Charles Cracknell.

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