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By William Fairbairn

Contributor William
Fairbairn

Published 1860
Longman, Green, Longman
, and Roberts

Engineering

380 pages

Original from the Library of Congress

v.2

Digitized May 25, 2007

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PART I	1
brazed, cylinder, Royal Society
Apparatus employed l	7
soldered, TUBES TO COLLAPSE, tube E
Lap and butt joints	15
lap-joint, cylindrical, TUBES TO COLLAPSE
Steel flue	21
25 inch thick, Plates 125 inch, rivets
Generalisation of the results	28
unity of length, reduced to unity, numbers
Practical application to construction of the results	41
boiler, square inch, ance to collapse

RESEARCHES ON THE RESISTANCE OF GLASS GLOBES AND CYLINDERS	46
wrought iron, specific gravity, Annealed
Resistance of glass to crushing	53
per square inch, Crushed suddenly, Cubes
Resistance of glass globes and cylinders to internal pressure	63
Ellipsoid, Thicknesses measured, Diameters 4-0
Resistance of glass globes and cylinders to an external pressure	74
Collapsing pressure, Thicknesses measured, Minimum thickness
Reduction of the preceding results	86
Unity of Thickness, cylinders, logP
RESEARCHES ON THE TENSILE STRENGTH of WROUGHT IRON AT VARIOUS	96
TENSILE STRENGTH, red heat, bar iron
IV	129
sandstone, Ingleton, Penmaenmawr
General summary	143
Exprmts, Limestone, Crushing force
Prom the age of five to ten years	150
profes, labour, cation
LECTURE II	162
Bakewell, tillage, Peru
Steam machinery	169
Deanston, tillage, ratus
Reaping machines	176
square metres, reaping machines, La Trappe
Os THE RISE OP CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENOINEEBINO AND	186
steam engine, Bridgewater Canal, John Rennie
LECTURE IV	211
millwright, Telford, Portsmouth
Steam navigation	219
Bennet Woodcroft, paddle-wheel, steam power
Iron houses	225
Britannia Bridge, revolutions per minute, Belper
Millwork	234
George Stephenson, RAINHILL, creeper
ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF IRON SHIPS	244
keel, John and McGregor, iron vessels
Proportion of deck section to keel	250
six feet, stringers, deck-planking
Riveted joints	259
chain riveted, cellular system, angle-iron
Proposed modifications	265
bulkheads, cells dd, cellular stringers
The general principle of construction	271
bulkheads, longitudinal keelsons, CELLULAR SYSTEM
War vessels	281
Keyham, break wheel, Devonport
LECTURE VIII	298
flues, boiler, Fahrenheit
APPENDICES	315
Royal Charter, Basalt, boat plates
INDEX	327
Woodcuts, morocco, Edinburgh Review

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Telford - Page 201
many discoveries and improvements, and may consider him the father of engineering; the model on which his successors Rennie and Telford were moulded. ...
more pages: xv 202 215 216 217 218 242

Liverpool - Page 244
[Read before the Polytechnic Institute in Liverpool, and at the opening Session of the Institute of Naval Architects in London. ...
more pages: xi 207 320 323

Manchester - Page 223
of them upwards of 2000 tons burden, and nine of which were built in sections at Manchester, and the remainder on the banks of the Thames at Millwall. ...
more pages: 3 48 202 224 234

Glasgow - Page 225
Warehouses, shops and private residences are now built in this way, and I might instance the large edifices recently erected in New York, Glasgow, ...
more pages: 323

Bolton - Page 202
millwork, and water engines for raising coal from the mines (some of which are still in existence between Worsley and Bolton), Brindley was without an ...

Derby - Page x
were intended for the information and encouragement of the members of several combined institutions at Derby ; they are historical and descriptive, ...

Portsmouth - Page 296
A crane of the same size as this has since been erected at Portsmouth dockyard, and has also an engine and boiler attached to the platform behind the ...

Canterbury - Page 192
went again after dinner to the other side of the city, extending his excursion as far as Vauxhall, beyond the palace of the archbishop of Canterbury, ...

London - Page 244
[Read before the Polytechnic Institute in Liverpool, and at the opening Session of the Institute of Naval Architects in London. ...
more pages: xi 211 212 223 320

Dumfries - Page 216
Next to Rennie, and equally renowned as a civil engineer, was Telford, the son of a shepherd, born in 1757, in the pastoral district of Dumfries and ...