Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 27Institution of Civil Engineers, 1868 - Civil engineering |
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Page 167 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 116 - Society ;" and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be -answered unto...
Page 145 - Bridges. Estimates and Diagrams of Railway Bridges for Turnpike, Public and Occupation Roads, in the Embankments of Double or Single Lines, and Cuttings of Double Lines, with Form for Calculating Quantities in Skew Structures, etc., also Culverts of various dimensions, and at Station Buildings, by JW Grover, MICE, second edition, enlarged, with 37 coloured plates, folio, cloth 31 6 E.
Page 160 - The THEORY of STRAINS in GIRDERS and similar Structures, with Observations on the application of Theory to Practice, and Tables of the Strength and other Properties of Materials.
Page 114 - Subject to such regulations as the Council, may from time to time prescribe, any Member, Associate Member...
Page 129 - THE COUNCIL of The Institution of Civil Engineers invite communications on the Subjects comprised in the following list, as well as upon others ; such as — 1.
Page 128 - THE COUNCIL of the Institution of Civil Engineers have awarded the following Premiums : — 1. A Telford Medal, and a Telford Premium, in Books, to Richard Price Williams, M. Inst, CE, for his Paper " On the Maintenance and Renewal of Permanent Way.
Page 259 - In such a case, it will be found that the pile will safely bear, without danger of further subsidence, " as many times the weight of the ram, as the distance which the pile is sunk the last blow, is contained in the distance which the ram falls in making that blow, divided by eight.
Page 116 - Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer...
Page 577 - Jeffcock was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 18th of May, 1858.