Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 7Institution of Civil Engineers, 1848 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 45 - Bibliotheca Britannica ; or, a General Index to the Literature of Great Britain and Ireland, Ancient and Modern, with such Foreign Works...
Page 310 - Recovering breath by repose, it again dashes along, till, tired of uproar and mischief, it quits all that it has swept along, and leaves the opening of the valley strewed with the rejected waste. Now quitting its retirement, it comes abroad into the world, journeying, with more prudence and discretion, through cultivated fields, yielding to circumstances, and winding round what would trouble it to overwhelm or remove. It passes through...
Page 310 - Its beginnings are insignificant, and its infancy is frivolous: it plays among the flowers of a meadow, it waters a garden, or turns a little mill. Gathering strength, in its youth it becomes wild and impetuous. Impatient of the restraints which it still meets with in the hollows among the mountains, it is restless and fretful : quick in its turning, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract, tearing up and overturning whatever opposes its progress, and...
Page 24 - 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.
Page 274 - It would be premature, from the scanty data before me, to draw any conclusion as to the gradation in the quantity of rain, at these great elevations above the sea. But it seems probable, that in mountainous districts, the amount of rain increases from the valley upwards, to an altitude of about 2,000 feet, where it reaches a maximum ; and that above this elevation, the quantity rapidly decreases.
Page 21 - Italy), describing their physical characteristics, and the engineering works upon them. 8. An account of the waste or increase of the Land on any part of the coast of Great Britain, the nature of the Soil, the direction of the Tides, Currents, Rivers, Estuaries, &c., with the means adopted for retarding or preventing the waste of the land.
Page 276 - The experimental train consisted of first and second-class carriages, each on six wheels, 4 feet in diameter, taken from the working stock, and loaded with iron to represent a fair load of passengers, giving a gross weight, for each, of 10 tons. The experiments were tried with various weights and speeds up to 100 tons and to 62 miles per hour, and the results were classified and arranged in a tabular form, with copious explanatory headings, so as to render reference to them perfectly easy.
Page 66 - Secretary returned thanks. The Ballot having been open more than an hour, the Scrutineers, after examining the papers, announced that the following gentlemen were duly elected to fill the several offices in the Council for the ensuing year : — President, JAMES SIMPSON.
Page 21 - The Council' invite communications on the following, as well as other subjects, for premiums : — 1. A Review of the plans which have been proposed at different times for the embankment of the river Thames.
Page 20 - The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers have awarded the following Premiums:— 1. A Telford Medal in Silver, and a Council Premium of Books, suitably bound and inscribed, to William Henry Barlow, M.