Proceedings - Institution of Mechanical EngineersInstitution, 1862 |
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advantage amount armour plates Barnsley Birmingham bobbins boilers bore bottom brass cast iron cent centre CHAIRMAN enquired coal Colliery construction copper Cornish engine cutters degree of expansion dioptric double cylinder engine drill durability feet fibres friction fuel glass groove gunstock gutta-percha heat hemp hemp rope holes horse power inch cylinder inch diameter india-rubber indicator diagrams initial blow iron wire John lamp large cylinder Leeds length of stroke light Locomotive London machine machinery Manchester manufacture Messrs metal Newcastle-on-Tyne obtained ordinary packing rings paper passed piston Proceedings Inst produced puddling puddling furnaces pumping engines Railway regenerators revolving rifling round SAMPSON LLOYD Scale screw seam Section sheathing ship shot shown in Fig SIEMENS single cylinder engine small cylinder South Yorkshire square inch steel strands Street surface condensers telegraph cables tons tubes twist valve vertical Wednesbury weight William wire rope wrought iron yarns
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68. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
214. oldal - I employ the steam after it has acted in the first vessel to operate a second time in the other, by permitting it to expand itself, which I do by connecting the vessels together, and forming proper channels and apertures, whereby the steam shall occasionally go in and out of the said vessels. Thirdly, I condense the steam, by causing it to pass in contact with metallic substances, while water is applied to the opposite side.
68. oldal - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity, the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
66. oldal - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Annual Report of the Council was then read : — ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
68. oldal - Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new startingpoint from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
iii. oldal - ... weight of machinery and boilers — kind of paddle wheels — speed obtained in British war steamers, in British merchant steamers, and in Foreign ditto, with particulars of the construction of engines with paddle wheels, &c.
245. oldal - In a working engine the valves controlling the alternate flowings of the steam from the bottom of the small cylinder to the top of the large one and from the top of the small cylinder to the bottom of the large one are the movable partitions supposed in the diagram. The space A is supposed to be filled with steam of the boiler-pressure ; the space B is supposed to be filled with steam of the boiler-pressure expanded with pressures decreasing...
219. oldal - ... which has fully justified the expectations entertained of their advantages ; their use has been speedily and largely extended to other cases ; and the soundness of the principles on which they were constructed may now be said to have been fully proved. The general theory of the double cylinder engine is so well known that it is unnecessary to repeat it here ; the author proposes therefore to confine his remarks to such points as are of interest and importance in elucidating the advantages of...
66. oldal - MEETING of the Members was held in the Lecture Theatre of the Midland Institute, Birmingham, on Thursday, 23rd January, 1873 ; C.