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Transactions - Softcover

Society Of Engineers

 
9780461784541: Transactions

Synopsis

Transactions by Society of Engineers. This volume, published from proceedings dated 1873, provides a snapshot of Victorian engineering discourse and practice. It opens with an Inaugural Address by Jabez Church and includes a diverse set of technical papers: continuous railway brakes by William H. Fox; electric telegraph instruments and telegraphic batteries by E. G. Bartholomew; reports on harbour works, dry docking, and British metropolitan improvements; Sanitary Engineering progress and sewage disposal, including mechanical drying and lime-and-clay precipitation methods; discussions on railway train intercommunication by S. Alfred Varley; pumping engines for mines by Henry Davey, with innovations in compound and differential-expansion designs; and the economic uses of blast-furnace slag by Perry F. Nursey. Other papers cover horse railways, street tramways, gas retorts, earthworks slope setting-out methods, and related industrial topics. The volume also includes observations from industrial visits, debates, and appendices with data tables, illustrating the era’s breadth of engineering inquiry and applied science.

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