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Page 124 - This is, however, only a brief sketch of the objects of civil engineering, the real extent to which it may be applied is limited only by the progress of science ; its scope and utility will be increased with every discovery in philosophy, and its resources with every invention in mechanical or chemical art, since its bounds are unlimited, and equally so must be the researches of its professors.
Page 293 - Yang-tse-kiang, and it was during this occupation that he unfortunately caught the typhoid fever, to which he succumbed at Shanghai on the 19th of August, 1883. Mr. Burnett .was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 6th of February, 1877. Besides being a clever engineer, he was an accomplished linguist, speaking in addition to his native tongue, German, French and Spanish. He possessed great tact in managing large bodies of men, and was much liked and appreciated by all who...
Page 149 - Institution, shall be considered the property thereof, unless there shall have been some previous arrangement to the contrary, and the Council may publish the same in any way and at any time they may think proper. But should the Council refuse or...
Page 304 - Resident-Engineer, and during a term of twenty-four years in India his good services were repeatedly noticed with high approval by the Board, and by the Government of Bombay. Having been during many years one of the Company's Senior Resident-Engineers, he was selected as Secretary to the Company in London in 1882. Mr. Whyte was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 7th of December, 1869. He was a Fellow of the University of Bombay, a Justice of the Peace for the Presidency,...
Page 27 - This is probably the first application of floating steam machinery to the actual erection of a structure at sea. By June, 1879, the work was sufficiently advanced for the stones to be laid in the foundation-courses, and everything was arranged for HEH the Duke of Edinburgh, Master, who was to be accompanied by HRH the Prince of Wales, Elder Brother, of the Trinity House, Hon. MM. Inst. CE, to lay the foundation-stono on the 12th of the month.
Page 298 - Journal," and published in successive numbers of that paper during the summer. Up to 1849 he had been preparing for the classical course at Yale; but his bent not being in that direction he was entered at Brown University, Providence, in 1850, where he graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in September, 1853. After leaving college, Holley entered the shops of Corliss and Nightingale, at Providence. They were at the time engaged in the attempt to apply to the locomotive engine the principles...
Page 15 - It is with the deepest sorrow that I have to inform you of the death of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, at noon today. As your Ambassador in this country his loss will be sincerely deplored, while personally I shall mourn for an old friend of many years' standing for whom I had the greatest regard and respect.
Page 300 - US supervising inspector of passenger-steamers, in which he was supported by a host of firms and individuals, including the presidents and engineers of the principal American railways, and the managers of great shops for the construction of steam-machinery. In 1 862 he was sent to England by Mr. EA Stevens, the builder of the Stevens battery, and also the President of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, by whom Mr. Holley had been employed, to investigate the subject of ironclad vessels and ordnance....
Page 298 - Engineers, vol. iv., 1883, p. 35. defeats, with an air of victory that was the promise of victory to come. To this quality were added a keen observation and an inborn talent for drawing, which were specially directed toward machinery, in which he took the liveliest interest. His father having established a knife manufactory at Lakeville, the boy made himself familiar with all the machinery, and proposed numerous improvements, some of which were adopted. When at the Williams Academy at Stockbridge,...
Page 69 - Special machines are constructed for the mechanical tests, the condition to bo fulfilled being that for the breaking-strain the increasing load or stress shall be applied uniformly, without jerks or jumps, and the elongation-machine shall correctly register the actual stretch without the wire slipping. The torsive capacity of the wire is determined by an ink mark which forms a spiral on the wire during torsion, the number of spirals indicating the number of twists taken before breaking. The electrical...