Papers on engineering, 1865 - 1869
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous works and calculations regarding engineering, including J. Fowler's calculations on a road-bridge; strains on bridges; Airy's views on suspension bridges; a proposed safety railway; C. Fay on a continuous railway brake; an article from 'The Chester Chronicle' on the Great Channel Tunnel; a report, with drawings, on a safety steam boiler; a rainfall chart; a sketch of a rotary valve, with a paper model; R. John's surveying stand; the preservation of ship's timber; the notices, awards and proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers; experiments on the resistance of air to projectiles, including work on the Bashforth chronograph; a report on steam fire engines; a theory by T. Adams of new motive power, with plans; a facsimile of J.F.W. Herschel's suspension roof; an article from 'The Times' on the Suez Canal; reports on irrigation in India; C. Brooke's paper on 'negative fluid pressure on a given surface'; and J.F. Bourne's 'Whirle wheel star pointer'. The correspondents include, among others, C.P. Smyth (on the Great Pyramid), E.J. Stone, E.J. Routh, A.P. Ryder, E. Loomie, A. de Morgan, J.F.W. Herschel, F. Bashforth, J.C. Adams, G.G. Stokes, C.B. Vignoles and I.K. Brunel.
Dates
- Creation: 1865 - 1869
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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Extent
3 archive box(es) (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
D5/38
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:45:06+00:00
Subject
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) (Person)
- Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1806 - 1859 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Routh, Edward John, 1831 - 1907 (mathematician) (Person)
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) (Person)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) (Person)
- Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Institution of Civil Engineers (Organization)
- Brooke, Charles, 1804 - 1879 (surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments) (Person)
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