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ADDRESS 1921 Engineering Adelaide COMMEMORATION ADDRESS ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY Angas application branches of Engineering bridge British build CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cent Chemistry Cinderella Civil Engineers coal and oil COMMEMORATION ADDRESS 1921 construction cost cubic yards Cuprous oxide ductile enable Engi engineering and manufacturing engineering departments engineering profession Engineering School erected established eutectic facilities for research Fairbairn finger of God Government graduate HASSELL PRESS Institution of Civil invention maker material mathematical mechanical engineer Mechanical Science Medicine Melbourne University metal method of training Michell modern engineer nation Newcastle obtained outlook oxygen possible PROFESSOR R. W. CHAPMAN progress pure copper purely practical qualities reason REC'D LD reduction reinforced concrete result Road Engineers scholarship scientific knowledge scientific method scientific training smith South Australia steam engine steel rods structure technical Telford tests and experiments thousands of pounds thrust bearings Todhunter University BY PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY Engineering University of Adelaide well-equipped University laboratory young engineer
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Page 2 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 2 - Then, as knowledge is my most ardent pursuit, a thousand things occur which call for investigation which would pass unnoticed by those who are content to trudge only in the beaten path. I am not contented unless I can give a reason for every particular method or practice which is pursued. Hence I am now very deep in chemistry. The mode of making mortar in the best way led me to inquire into the nature of lime. Having, in pursuit of this inquiry, looked into some books on chemistry, I perceived the...
Page 2 - ... content to trudge only in the beaten path. I am not contented unless I can give a reason for every particular method or practice which is pursued. Hence I am now very deep in chemistry. The mode of making mortar in the best way led me to inquire into the nature of lime. Having, in pursuit of this inquiry, looked into some books on chemistry, I perceived the field was boundless ; but that to assign satisfactory reasons for many mechanical processes required a general knowledge of that science....
Page 1 - London, 1854, pp. 88, 89. great estimation in which the smith was held In the Anglo-Saxon times. His person was protected by a double penalty. He was treated as an officer of the highest rank, and awarded the first place in precedency. After him ranked the maker of mead, and then the physician. In the royal court of Wales he sat in the great hall with the king and queen, next to the domestic chaplain...
Page 1 - He made and mended the weapons used in the chase and in war — the gavelocs, bills, and battle-axes ; he tipped the bowmen's arrows, and furnished spear-heads for the men-at-arms ; but, above all, he forged the mail-coats and cuirasses of the chiefs and welded their swords, on the temper and quality of which, life, honour, and victory in battle depended. Hence the great estimation in which the smith was held in the Anglo-Saxon times. His person was protected by a double penalty. He was treated as...
Page 2 - City at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, and that includes Petrovsky, despite the fact that my favourite is, of course, Strastnoi.
Page 3 - Lime,' and also Fourcroy's Lectures, translated from the French by one Mr. Elliot, of Edinburgh. And I am determined to study the subject with unwearied attention until I attain some accurate knowledge of chemistry, which is of no less use in the practice of the arts than it is in that of medicine.
Page 3 - Being self-taught, but with some little ambition, and a determination to improve himself, he was now enabled to stand before them with some pretensions to mechanical knowledge, and the persuasion that he had been a useful contributor to practical science and objects connected with mechanical engineering.
Page 1 - Anglo-Saxon times the person <if the smith was protected by a double penalty. He was treated as an officer of the highest rank, and awarded the first place in precedency. After him ranked the maker of mead, and then came the physician. In the royal court of Wales he sat in the great hall with the King and Queen, next to the domestic chaplain.