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MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.

ESTABLISHED 1847.

PROCEEDINGS.

1901.

PARTS 1-2.

PUBLISHED BY THE INSTITUTION,

STOREY'S GATE, ST. JAMES'S PARK, WESTMINSTER, S.W.

The right of Publication and of Translation is reserved.

1901.
PARTS 1-2.

List of Past-Presidents

List of Officers

Articles and By-Laws

PROCEEDINGS, JANUARY MEETING.

Decease of Lord Armstrong

Election of New Members

Transferences

Annual Report

Presentation of Willans Premium and Graduates' Prizes

Election of Officers

Address from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Plate 18).

Appointment of Auditor

:

PROCEEDINGS, 8TH FEBRUARY.-Decease of Queen Victoria

Address to His Majesty the King (Plate 19)

33

38

39

40

41

"Power-Gas and large Gas-Engines"; by H. A. Humphrey (Plates 1-11)

GRADUATES' MEETING.-

"Structure of Metals"; Lecture by J. A. Ewing (Plates 12-17).

PROCEEDINGS, 15TH FEBRUARY.-Transferences

249

257

"Light Lathes and Screw Machines"; by J. Ashford (Plates 20-52) 259

PROCEEDINGS, MARCH MEETING.—

Election of New Members

371

Transferences

373

"Trolley-Conduit Electric Traction "; by A. N. Connett (Plates 53-62) 375

PROCEEDINGS, APRIL MEETING.—

PAST-PRESIDENTS.

GEORGE STEPHENSON, 1847-48. (Deceased 1848.)

ROBERT STEPHENSON, F.R.S., 1849-53. (Deceased 1859.)

SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, BART., LL.D., F.R.S., 1854-55. (Deceased 1874.)

SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH, BART., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 1856-57, 1866. (Deceased 1887.)

JOHN PENN, F.R.S., 1858-59, 1867-68. (Deceased 1878.)

JAMES KENNEDY, 1860. (Deceased 1886.)

THE RIGHT HON. LORD ARMSTRONG, C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 1861-62, 1869.

ROBERT NAPIER, 1863-65. (Deceased 1876.)

(Deceased 1900.)

JOHN RAMSBOTTOM, 1870-71. (Deceased 1897.)

SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 1872-73. (Deceased 1883.)

SIR FREDERICK J. BRAMWELL, BART., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 1874–75.

THOMAS HAWKSLEY, F.R.S., 1876-77. (Deceased 1893.)

JOHN ROBINSON, 1878-79.

EDWARD A. COWPER, 1880-81. (Deceased 1893.)

PERCY G. B. WESTMACOTT, 1882–83.

SIB LOWTHIAN BELL, BART., LL.D., F.R.S., 1884.

JEREMIAH HEAD, 1885-86. (Deceased 1899.)

SIR EDWARD H. Carbutt, Bart., 1887-88.

CHARLES COCHRANE, 1889. (Deceased 1898.)

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 1890-91. (Deceased 1894.)

SIR WILLIAM ANDERSON, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., 1892–93. (Deceased 1898.)

ALEXANDER B. W. KENNEDY, LL.D., F.R.S., 1894–95.

E. WINDSOR RICHARDS, 1896–97.

SAMUEL WAITE JOHNSON, 1898.

SIR WILLIAM H. WHITE, K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., 1899-1900.

SIR FREDERICK J. BRAMWELL, BART., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., London.

SIR WILLIAM H. WHITE, K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.,

SIR BENJAMIN BAKER, K.C.M.G., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.,..

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