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Page 42 - Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Right Honourable Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Her Majesty's Attorney General, and Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Her Majesty's Solicitor General...
Page 19 - ... is made sufficiently capacious to contain the largest quantity of water which can be drawn from it at once by the simultaneous action of all the hydraulic machines with which it is connected.
Page 175 - Fig. 160, and is single-acting, being used only to lift the boring rod at each stroke, and the rod is lowered again by releasing the steam from the top side of the piston ; the stroke is limited by timber stops both below and above the end of the working beam B. The...
Page 1 - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The Secretary then read the following ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
Page 7 - AGRICULTURAL ENGINES, details of construction and results of working — duty obtained — application of machinery and steam power to agricultural purposes — barn machinery — field implements...
Page 38 - I have also now applied it with the most surprising effect to every sort of crane for raising and lowering goods in and out of warehouses. So complete is the device, that I will engage to erect a steam engine in any part of Dublin, and from it convey motion and power to all the cranes on the quays and elsewhere, by which goods of any weight may be raised at one-third of the usual cost.
Page 19 - the Accumulator," from the circumstance of its accumulating the power exerted by the engine in charging it. The accumulator is, in fact, a reservoir giving pressure by load instead of by elevation, and its use, like that of every provision of this kind, is to...
Page 176 - A cross-bar G, of the same width as the tool, guides it in the hole in the direction at right angles to the tool; and in the case of the larger and longer tools a second cross-bar higher up, at right angles to the first and parallel to the striking edge of the tool, is also added. If the whole length of the...
Page 136 - ... the work was done at the mean rate of about 15 square yards per hour, including the time required for running the machine back and changing the pick. The width or height of the groove cut out by the pick is 2 inches at the inner extremity, widening out slightly towards the face of the coal. It is necessary to stop the machine at intervals, in order to clear...
Page 16 - Bradford, and for many years took an active part in the management of the works, but ceased to do so in 1847.