Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 75, Part 1Institution of Civil Engineers, 1884 - 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 306 - Whyte was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 7th of December, 1869.
Page 153 - NOTICE. It has frequently occurred, that in Papers which have been considered deserving of being read and published, and have even had Premiums awarded to them, the Authors may have advanced somewhat doubtful theories, or may have arrived at conclusions at variance with received opinions. The Council would, therefore, emphatically repeat, that the Institution must not, as a body, be considered responsible for the facts and opinions advanced in the Papers, or in the consequent Discussions ; and it...
Page 153 - 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...
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Page 33 - HMS Lively, landed at the rock and laid the last stone of the tower ; and on the 18th May of the following year HRH lighted the lamps, and formally opened the lighthouse. The edifice was thus completed within four years from its commencement, at a cost of 59,255?. The work was executed under the immediate...
Page 295 - Burnett .was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 6th of February, 1877.
Page 19 - 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 302 - Imagine starting in the Bessemer business with $30,000! His mission was successful. The Bessemer patents were purchased, and subsequently combined with the conflicting American patents of Kelly. The works at Troy were built and started in 1865, and enlarged in 1867. From this time on, the career of Holley was substantially the history of the Bessemer manufacture in the United States. In 1867, he built the works at Harrisburg. About a year later, he was recalled to Troy, to rebuild the works there,...
Page 31 - On being landed, they were removed by the traversing-jib to their several positions, and set by hand. Three of the positions of the crane, which worked successfully throughout, are shown in Plate 1. Thus every stone in the building, together with the required cement, sand, water, &c., was landed and hoisted on to the work at one lift from the "Hercules." 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...
Page 34 - ... to their opportunities for landing and relief. The Town Council and inhabitants of Plymouth having expressed a desire that Smeaton's lighthouse should be re-erected on Plymouth Hoe, in lieu of the Trinity House sea mark thereat, the Trinity House, who, as custodians of public money, had no funds available for such a purpose, undertook to deliver to the authorities at Plymouth, at actual cost for labour, the lanterns and the four rooms of the tower.