Author: Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.).
Title: Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXVI-from July to December, 1903.
Description: London; 1903; Office for Publication and Advertisements; cloth; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : stamping machine for coke manufacture at Borsigwerk (constructed by the Maschinenfabrik Brinck and Hübner, Mannheim, with plans and fig.; ten-wheel express locomotive for the Glasgow and South-Western railway (constructed from the designs of Mr. James Manson, locomotive superintendent,. by the North British Locomotive Co., engineers, Glasgow), with a view of the locomotive; American bridges on the Uganda railway, with ills.; steam lifeboat "Princess of Wales" for Mauritius (constructed by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Chiswick), with plans and fig.; arrangement of machinery for T.S.S. "Turbinia", with plans and fig.; the North German Lloyd T.-S.S. "Kaiser Wilhelm II" (constructed by the Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft "Vulcan", Bredow, Stettin), with view, tables, fig.; the London, Brighton and Sout-Coast railway, with fig.; double-cylinder steam fire-engine for Newcastle-on-Tyne (constructed by Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, engineers, London), with a view of the steam engine; wire ropeway at Messrs. Willans and Robinson's new boiler works, Queensferry, Flint (constructed by Messrs. Bullivant and Co., London), with ills.; Borsig's Works in Germany, with ills.; Basset atmospheric engine at Denby Colliery, near Derby, with ills.; works of the Universal Tube Company, Chesterfield, with ills.; electric light plan for Dutch torpedo-boats (constructed by the electrotechnische industrie (formerly Willem Smit and Co, Likkerveer), with plans and fig.; extensive index; XL, 886 pp. Former library copy. 26 Double paged enclosures not included. Final pages with slight waterstaining in margins.

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