Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 150The Institution, 1902 - Civil engineering Vols. 39-204 (1874/75-1916/17) have a section 3 containing "Abstracts of papers in foreign transactions and periodicals" (title varies); issued separately, 1919-37, as the institution's Engineering abstracts from the current periodical literature of engineering and applied science, published outside the United Kingdom. |
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Page 157 - As man, that is; all tended to mankind, And, man produced, all has its end thus far: But in completed man begins anew A tendency to God. Prognostics told Man's near approach; so in man's self arise August anticipations, symbols, types Of a dim splendour ever on before In that eternal circle life pursues.
Page 201 - 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 delay the publication of such Paper, beyond a reasonable time, the Author thereof shall have a right to copy the same, and to publish it as he may think fit, having previously given notice, in writing, to the Secretary of his intention. No person shall...
Page 148 - Institution delivered in 1860, said "that if he were called upon to define the object and scope of the profession of civil engineer, he would say that it was ' to take up the results discovered by the abstract men of science and to apply them practically for the commercial advantage of the world at large, and to diffuse their beneficent influence among all classes of his fellow citizens.
Page 156 - The question we have to put to the steelmakers is, What are our prospects of obtaining a material which we can use without such delicate manipulation and so much fear and trembling?
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Page 546 - If any rail break when subjected to the drop test, two additional tests will be made of other rails from the same blow of steel, and if either of these latter tests fail all the rails of the blow which they represent will be rejected, but if both of these additional test pieces meet the requirements, all the rails of the blow which they represent will be accepted.
Page 157 - There are some men who, besides being the exponents of their age, belong to all time, and surely such men shed light from within, and do not merely reflect it from without. I like to remember that Browning makes the chemist Paracelsus say that — " in man's self arise August anticipations, symbols, types Of a dim splendour ever on before In that eternal circle life pursues." I must now come to the third period in the history of steel, which began towards the end of the past century — the period...
Page 288 - ... of the same weight of water at the temperature of the engine exhaust, both quantities being reckoned from 32
Page 153 - Viewing the century as a whole, it may be divided into three very unequal periods in relation to the production of iron and steel : — . I. For about two-thirds of the century cast iron and puddled iron were the main materials in use ; then II. The age of steel began and gradually gained vigour, while III. Towards the end of the century great attention was devoted to considerations connected with the molecular structure and molecular properties of steel, and to enforcing the action of carbon by...
Page 200 - Diagrams will be required sufficiently largo and boldly coloured to be clearly visible at a distance of 60 feet. These diagrams will be returned. Papers which have been read at the Meetings of other Societies, or have been published, cannot be read at a Meeting of the Institution, nor be admitted in competition for the Premiums.