Indian Engineering Volume 30 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...the new kitchen, which is regarded as an integral part of it The crowd wandered through the various rooms, using the new electric lift freely in getting from floor to floor and on to the roof; and we hear on every hand expressions of approval and acknowledgment that a great work has been achieved by those concerned, and that it is highly creditable. These congratulations, though given in general terms, were obviously meant to apply to the Engineers concerned. We have on several occasions in previous issues given details, and pointed to the excellences of the work as carried out, and we claim that the profession we represent in our Journal have every reason to be proud of the design and construction of this new hospital building. It is usual at these ceremonies for the persons or department who have carried out the work to have their services acknowledged openly by the presiding authority, and it strikes us as unfortunate and as amounting to a slur, that the only mention of such services should have been made, and then incidentally rather than in the sense we refer to, in the Superintendent's remarks. A New Rangefinder.--The instrument invented by Professor G. Forbes, F. R. S., consists of a folding aluminium base, six feet in length, which can be folded in the middle and strapped across the back, and a fieldglass carried in the usual fashion. The base in a square tube, hinged at the middle. Each half has at each end a doubly reflecting glass prism. The rays of light from a distant object strike the outer pair of these four prisms, are reflected at right angles along each tube, and are then reflected at the two middle prisms into the two telescopes of the binocular, which can be easily fixed to the centre of the base when in use in...