Locomotive Volume 17-18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...engine, Rowland's wonderful, 78. Drills, twist, self-oiling, 6. Dye-becks.--See Steam, heating water by, Earthquake.--See Eruption. Electric power plants, care of, 124. Elmwood's poet writes a letter, 93. Energy.--See Heat Engines. Engine, dividing, Rowland's wonderful, 78. Engines, steam, tendencies in development of, 123. gas, efficiency and future of, 172. heat, and motive power in animals, 154. Engineer corps in the U. S. Navy, 10. Engineers, American Society of Mechanical, 88. Engravings, theft of, from The Locomotive, 153. Epidemic, the Maidstone, 171. Eruption, volcanic, in Japan, 104. Everett, City of, collapsed furnaces of, 17, 105. Exchange, Southern Ice, Prest. Allen's paper before, 33. Explosions, intentional boiler, 42, 57, 107, 120. boiler, summary for 1896, 30. Fever, typhoid, epidemic of, at Maidstone, 171 Fish, flying, 126. Fishes, sleeping, 172. Fletcher, Mr. Cavington E., death of, 120. Flues.--See Furnaces. Flying without wings, 126. Foord, Mr. James L., appointment of, 58. Ford, Mr. Benjamin, appointment of, 58. Fossil reptiles, huge, 60. Frames, re-enforcing, riveting of, 49. Furnaces, collapsed, of the Everett. 17, 105. Gardiner, Mr. C. C., Jr., appointment of, 58. Gas engines, efficiency and future of, 174. Gaskets, influence of, on cover-plate bolts, 161. Ganges, mercury, 65, 90. Glasgow and Loch Katrine water, 11. Glass, wired, 6. Gratings, diffraction, machine for making, 78. Hair, effect of " X-rays " on, 9. Hammer, the Nasmyth steam, 77. Health, note concerning, 185. Heat engines and motive power in animals, 154. Heating water by steam, 145. Helmholtz on priority in scientific discovery, 75. History, life, of scientific ideas, 189. Hollister, Mr. Nelson, death of, 58. "Hotel Sterile," rules of the, 91. Hunter...