Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 155The Institution, 1904 - Civil engineering Vols. 39-204 (1874/75-1916/17) have a section 3 containing "Abstracts of papers in foreign transactions and periodicals" (title varies); issued separately, 1919-37, as the institution's Engineering abstracts from the current periodical literature of engineering and applied science, published outside the United Kingdom. |
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Page 20 - I never embarked in any one thing to which I have so entirely devoted myself, and to which I have devoted so much time, thought and labour, on the success of which I have staked so much reputation, and to which I have so largely committed myself and those who were disposed to place faith in me...
Page 20 - The use of iron,' he remarks, 'removes all difficulty in the construction,' and experience of several years has proved that size in a ship is an element of speed, strength, and safety, and of greater relative economy, instead of a disadvantage, and that it is limited only by the extent of demand for freight, and by the circumstances of the ports to be frequented.
Page 25 - I have laid down, and shall rigidly preserve, that no materials shall be employed on any part except at the place, and in the direction, and in the proportion, in which it is required, and can be usefully employed for the strength of the ship, and none merely for the purpose of facilitating the framing and first construction.
Page 166 - No other nation has any such interest in the maintenance of an undoubted superiority at sea as has England, whose seaboard is her frontier. England ranks among the great powers of the world by virtue of the naval position she has acquired in the past and which has never been seriously challenged since the close of the last great war.
Page 20 - ... strength with a minimum of weight; the increase of safety by water-tight subdivision and cellular double bottom ; the design of propelling machinery and boilers, with a view to economy of coal and great endurance for long-distance steaming ; the selection of forms and dimensions likely to minimise resistance and favour good behaviour at sea ; and to other features of the design which need not be specified...
Page 13 - The naval members of the Board of Admiralty were men who had long looked upon the noble line-of-battle-ships of the navy as not to be surpassed, and they could not apparently make up their minds to desecrate them, as they seemed to consider it, by the introduction of steam power. The result of this somewhat romantic feeling was, that early in Sir Baldwin Walker's administration a number of sailing three-deckers were laid down, in opposition to the expressed opinion of the leading civil professional...
Page 56 - Committee are of opinion that the advantages of watertube boilers for naval purposes are so great, chiefly from the military point of view, that, provided a satisfactory type of water-tube boiler be adopted, it would be more suitable for use in His Majesty's Navy than the cylindrical type of boiler.
Page 438 - Engineers, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Institution of Naval Architects.
Page 521 - ... rather than time, is shown by the fact that, in specimens soaked at 760° C. for 1.5 hours, the old net-work was still well preserved. IV. THEORETICAL INFERENCES The above observations seem to indicate that the destruction of the coarse net-work of cementite is caused by its carbon being dissolved in the martensite, and that the net-work surrounding the new grains is formed by the expulsion of cementite from the martensite as it is being cooled. It is important to distinguish between the formation...
Page 13 - The result of this somewhat romantic feeling was, that early in Sir Baldwin Walker's administration a number of sailing three-deckers were laid down, in opposition to the expressed opinion of the leading civil professional officers attached to the Admiralty. Not one of these vessels, as had been predicted, was ever launched as a sailing vessel.