Journal of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and Affiliated Societies, Volumes 13-14Engineers Club of Philadelphia, 1896 - Engineering |
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Page 132 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 235 - Bazin's Experiments upon the Contraction of the Liquid Vein Issuing from an Orifice.
Page 190 - ... long; in the middle of this neck is a bulb (C), above and below which are two marks, F and E; the volume between these marks is 20 cu.
Page 190 - The specific gravity can be determined in two ways: (1) The flask is filled with either of these liquids to the lower mark E, and 64 gr.
Page 183 - The material is weighed and placed on the mixing table, and a crater formed in the center, into which the proper percentage of clean water is poured; the material on the outer edge is turned into the crater by the aid of a trowel. As soon as the water has been absorbed, which should not require more than one minute, the operation is completed by vigorously kneading with the hands for an...
Page 127 - January, nineteen hundred and one, the metric system of weights and measures shall be the only legal system of weights and measures recognized in the United States.
Page 158 - There is one feature to which I would like to call attention, and that is the pin-bearings of the top chord.
Page 74 - American timber are contained in the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Convention of the Association of Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings, October, 1895, at which the Committee on Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers...
Page 77 - Report of Board of Engineers upon New York and New Jersey Bridge, 1894.