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Volume 27, Issue 2, December 1946

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OPTICAL GLASS IN WAR. THE SIR CHARLES PARSONS MEMORIAL LECTURE 1946. (INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS).
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- pp. 93–112
- Authors: SIR H CHANCE; SIR C PARSONS
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/ijoti.1946.13631
- JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS No. 2. 1946-47 DECEMBER 1946 SPECIAL MEETING. Thursday, 26 September, 1946. SIR PEIRSON PRANK, President, in the Chair. TH.E SIR CHARLES PARSONS MEMORL4L LECTURE, 1946. `` Optical Glass in War." By SIR HUGH CHANCE,M.A. INTRODUCTION. THEtheme of the storyI have to tell could no doubt be paralleled in other forms of manufacture. It covers the struggle to keepalive in time of peace the production of one of the essential raw materials of the optical instrument industry and the efforts made to improve quality, to develop new types of glass, to reduce costs of manufacture, and finally, to expand with great rapidity when war brought its greatly magnified demands for optical munitions...
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THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TEN 305-FOOT TUBULAR STEEL RADIO-MASTS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE. (INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS, PLATES AND APPENDICES).
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- pp. 113–179
- Author: J P HARDING
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/ijoti.1946.13632
- HARDING QN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TEN 305-POOT TUBULAR STEEL RADIO-MASTS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE . 113 Paper No . 5517. The Reconstruction of Ten 305-Foot Tubular Steel Radio-Masts in Reinforced Concrete." By JOHN PATBICK HARDING. B.Sc., A.M.1:E.E. (Ordered by the Council to be published with written discussion.)t TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE Symbols used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Existing masts ................... Methods of reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimation of loads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wind-velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connexion between wind-velocityand pressure . . . . . . . . . Variation of wind-pressurewith height ...
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A LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF SKIDDING ON ROADS.
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- pp. 179–215
- Author: D F ORCHARD
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/ijoti.1946.13783
- STEEL RADIO-MASTS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE. 179 17. C. P. Taylor and Leslie Turner. " Reinforced Concrete Chimneys ", 1940 (Concrete Publications, Ltd.). 18. Taylor and Thompson. " Concrete Plain and Reinforced " (1909). 19. T. ,Walmsley. " Length, Tension and Sag of Stay Ropes ", Instn Civ. Engrs, Select. Engg. Pap. No. 19 (1924). Paper No. 5630. A Laboratory Investigation of Skidding on Roads...
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OBITUARY. JOSEPH BERTRAM LLOYD MEEK, 1875-1946.
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- Document Type: Obituary
- DOI: 10.1680/ijoti.1946.13784
- 216 OBITUARY. OBITUARY. JOSEPH BERTRAM LLOYD MEEK was born a t Southport on the 30th April, 1875, and died a t South Petherton, Somerset, on the 15th September, 1946. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Manchester Grammar School, and in 1894 he became an assistant engineer to Messrs. Topham, Jones and Railton, Contractors, on the construction of the Leicester to Rugby section of the Great Central Railway. He acted as engineer for that firm on t,he Port Talbot graving dock from 1897 to 1899 ; as sectional engineer on the extension of H...

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Journal of the ICE

Volume 27, Issue 2, December 1946

OPTICAL GLASS IN WAR. THE SIR CHARLES PARSONS MEMORIAL LECTURE 1946. (INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS).

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TEN 305-FOOT TUBULAR STEEL RADIO-MASTS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE. (INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS, PLATES AND APPENDICES).

A LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF SKIDDING ON ROADS.

OBITUARY. JOSEPH BERTRAM LLOYD MEEK, 1875-1946.