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Volume 226, Issue 1928, January 1928

The first volume of the Institution's Proceedings was published in 1837. Entitled the Minutes of Proceedings, these contained not only papers but also Institution matters such as annual reports, announcements and membership grade transfers as well as abstracts of papers published in other contemporary journals.

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POWER-GAS FROM SEWAGE-SLUDGE AT THE WORKS OF THE BIRMINGHAM TAME AND REA DISTRICT DRAINAGE BOARD.
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- Authors: F C VOKES; C B TOWNEND
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14260
- `4 VOKES AND TOWNEND OX POWER-GAS Avsociate ~~~c,,~bers-continued. [Minuteb of ROBERT ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND,LESLIEREGINALD WARREN, B.&. B.Sc. (Eng.) (Lond.). (Birmingham). HARGOVIND TRIVEDI. FRANE J-4MES WATKINS, Stud. TYAGARAJA RAMASWAMIER c a - Inst. C.E. T~a RAJAN, B.A. (Madras). JOHN BRUCE WATSON, B.Sc. (Eng.) JEHANGIR NADIRSHAW VAKIL, B.E. (Lond.). (Bombay). HAROLD SHAW WEATHERHEAL), D...
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DISCUSSION. POWER-GAS FROM SEWAGE-SLUDGE AT THE WORKS OF THE BIRMINGHAM TAME AND REA DISTRICT DRAINAGE BOARD.
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- Authors: J D WATSON; H C WHITEHEAD; A J MARTIN; F R O SHAUGHNESSY; A P I COTTERELL; VOKES; TOWNEND
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14261
- Proceedings.] DISCUSSION ON POTI'ER-GAS. 19 Discussion. The PRESIDENT,moving the vote of thanks, remarked that The President* in the Paper described an interest,ing work which was unique in this country,and probably, as to its magnitude, inthe world. The sources of power in work of Civil Engineers was toadaptthe Nature to the use and convenience of man, and the Paper described how a source of energy hitherto wasted had been harnessed and made to do useful work. Mr. J. D. WATSON expressed his gratification that a description Mr...
CORRESPONDENCE. POWER-GAS FROM SEWAGE-SLUDGE AT THE WORKS OF THE BIRMINGHAM TAME AND REA DISTRICT DRAINAGE BOARD.
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- Authors: W C EASTON; G J FOWLER; A G GUTTERIDGE; G P HARVEY; F G HILL; G B KERSHAW; H J N H KESSENER; L F MOUNTFORT; H A ROECHLING; W SOHLER
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14271
- 32 ' COKKESPONDENCE ON POWElt-tiAS [Minutes of Correspondence. Mr. \F7. C. EASTON considered thatthePaper was a valuable contribution to what was a t last becoming recognized as one of the most vital points in sewage-purification, namely, sludge-disposal. From the aspect of sludge-digestion, it would appear clear that a tank-sludge containing 92 per cent. of moisture had, by means of 5 months digestion, been converted into a sludge containing 88 per cent. of moisture. Thereduction in moisture thus effected meant that for every 100 tons of tank-sludge arith 8 per cent...
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REINFORCED-CONCRETE PILES DRIVEN IN A GRAVEL FILL AT THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S NEW PIER `B-C' AT VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA.
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- Author: R M WYNNE EDWARDS
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14272
- Proceedings.] WYNNE-EDWARDS ON REINFORCED-CONCRETE PILES. 51 21 February, 1928. ERNESTFREDERIC CROSBIE TRENCH, C.B.E., President, in theChair. The PRESIDENT, announcing the in death of Mr. Alexandcr Siemens, Past President, stated that the following resolution had been passed by the Council :`' That the Council record the deepregretwith which they have learned of the death of Mr. Alexander Siemens, a Past President, who had been a member of The Institution for 55 years, and that an expression of the Council's regret and condolence be conveyed to his family...
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DISCUSSION. REINFORCED-CONCRETE PILES DRIVEN IN A GRAVEL FILL AT THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S NEW PIER `B-C' AT VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA.
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- Authors: M F G WILSON; E O WILLIAMS; H J DEANE; A D SWAN; J WILLIAMSON; G C REINHOLD; A D KEIGWIN
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14273
- Proceedings.] DISCUSSION ON REINFORCED-CONCRETE PILES. 77 Discussion. The PRESIDENT,moving the vote of thanks, remarked that n e President. in the Paper containeda number of interesting points t o which he would like t o refer, but he preferred that the discussion should come from the members, and he would therefore only refer t o one matter. Very great care had been taken, in making the piles, t o grade the aggregate and measure the water with which the concrete was mixed. Engineers were all aware of the effects of grading the aggregate and proportioning the water when tests of concrete were being made ; but very often those things were not quite so carefully done when concrete was mixed on works...
CORRESPONDENCE. REINFORCED-CONCRETE PILES DRIVEN IN A GRAVEL FILL AT THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S NEW PIER `B-C' AT VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA.
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- Authors: H H BROUGHTON; W CLEAVER; L M COX; W T HALCROW; E LATHAM; J MITCHELL; G F NICHOLSON; M K RICE OXLEY; H E SQUIRE; C P TAYLOR
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14274
- 90 CORRESPONDENCE ON REINFORCED-CONCRETE PILES [&Iinutea of Correspondence. Mr.Broughton. Mr. H. H. BROUGHTON remarked that he had had several opportunities during 1924-25 of inspecting the works described in the Paper, and from close observation he was able to st,ate that very great care had been taken by the engineers in the casting and driving of the piles. There was little t o criticize in the Paper. It had been a pleasure t o him to observe the precautions takenby the engineers to ensure good concrete of uniform quality...
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EARTH-PRESSURE ON FLEXIBLE WALLS.
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- Author: R N STROYER
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14275
- 116 STROYER ON EARTH-IRESSURE [Minutes of The following Papers were submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, the thanksof The Institution were accorded to the Authors. (Paper No. 4619.) `l Earth-Pressure on Flexible Walls." By RUDOLF XIELSESSTROYER. Y&OMthe modest sheet piles in acoffer-dam to the heavy reinforcedconcrete piles in permanent retaining-walls there is a wide range of application of the sheet wall for retaining purposes ; this Paper presents some special problems in connection with the calculation of the earth-pressure on such walls...
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JETTY AND PUMP-HOUSE WORKS AT BARKING POWER-STATION.
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- Author: J WILLIAMSON
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14276
- Proceedings.] WILLIAMSON ON JETTY AND PUMP-HOUSE 'WORKS. 135 (Paper No. 4668.) "Jetty and Pump-House Works at Barking Power-Station." By JAMES WILLIAMSON, Inst. C.E. M. THE new Barking power-station of the County of London Electric Supply Company, Ltd., is situated on the north bank of the River Thames, a short distance below Barking creek. It is the largest that has been built in Britain as a complete station at one time The constructural engineering works involved in such a station are extensive and important, and include a t Barking the execution of 250,000 cubic yards of earthwork, the forming of & mile of main roadway, the laying of 7 miles of standard-gaugerailway-track, the carrying-out of extensive works of drainage and water-supply, the driving of 6,000 reinforced-concrete piles, the execution of reinforcedconcrete work involving the use of 3,000 tons of steel rods, the building into walls of four million bricks, the construction of 1 mile of reinforced-concrete culverts and large pipes for the conveyance of condensing-water, the carrying-out under difficult conditions of a cable-tunnel & mile long a t a depth of 100 feet under the River Thames, the provision of deep chambers and intakes for condensingwater pumps, and the construction of reinforced-concrete jett,ies for the discharge of 500,000 tons of coal per annum from colliers of up to 8,000 tons capacity, andfor loading of ashes...
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DISCUSSION. JETTY AND PUMP-HOUSE WORKS AT BARKING POWER-STATION.
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- pp. 153–171
- Authors: STROYER; A GIBB; C KIRKPATRICK; L H SAVILE; V ELMONT; O FABER; N G GEDYE; H HOBSON
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14288
- ~roceedings.1 DISCL-SSIOS ON EARTH-PRESSURE ON WALLS. 153 Discussion. The PRESIDENT, in moving the vote of thanks, remarked that The President. i t was very interesting to have submitted for discussion two Papers so clearly complementary of one another. Mr. Stroyer's Paper was purelytheoretical, and Mr. Williamson's Paper described in useful detail a work of considerable magnitude. Mr. Stroyer gave a theory for a phenomenon which most engineers had observed, namely, the high earth-pressures which piles and sheetedtimber walls could w-ithstand successfully, not only for a short time, but for many years, although so far as could be seen they were entirely inadequate for the load...
CORRESPONDENCE. JETTY AND PUMP-HOUSE WORKS AT BARKING POWER-STATION.
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- Authors: W C ASH; A H CASE; P M CROSTHWAITE; HOWORTH; N J NIELSEN; C J R WILLIAMS
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14289
- 172 CORRESPONDENCE ON EARTH-PRESSURE ON WALLS [~inutes of Correspondence. 30. Ash. Mr. WILFRID ASH observed that the Commissioners for the C. decades, had in hand Port of Calcutta had, during the last two dock accommodat,ion. The number of extensions of their wet berths in the existingKidderpore docks had been increased, and the first stage of t,he new King George's dock was now approaching completion. I n both those works monolith construction forthe quay-walls had been adopted, on account of the character of the strata to be penetrated...
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MINING METHODS PAST AND PRESENT IN THE MORRO VELHO MINE OF THE ST. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY, LTD., AND LODE-CHANGES WHICH HAVE NECESSITATED AN ALTERATION OF SYSTEM.
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- Author: A G N CHALMERS
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14290
- Proceedings.] CHALMERS ON METHODS IN MORRO VELHO MINE. i89 20 March, 1928. ERNEST FREDERIC CROSBIE TRENCH, C.B.E., President, in the Chair. I n accordance with the By-laws, the Council presented a list of for the ofEces of the persons nominated by them suitable as President, Vice-Presidents, and other members of the Council for the ensuing year. The following Paper was submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, the thanks The Institution were accorded of to the Author...
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DISCUSSION. MINING METHODS PAST AND PRESENT IN THE MORRO VELHO MINE OF THE ST JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY, LTD., AND LODE-CHANGES WHICH HAVE NECESSITATED AN ALTERATION OF SYSTEM.
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- Authors: T H BAILEY; H F MARRIOTT; C B HORWOOD; H M MORGANS; H LOUIS; H C JENKINS
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14291
- 210 DlSCUSSION ON MINING METHODS PAST AND [Minutes of Discussion. The Presirlent. The PRESIDENT,moving the vote of thanks,remarked that in theAuthorhadassumedacertainamount of knowledge of the subject on the part of the members, and that seemed reasonable Morro Velho gold mine had been worked in view of the fact that the by a British company for about 100 years. The difficulties of mining had been great, the inclination and size of the lode varying in an extraordinary way; and those difficulties had been successfully overcome by the adoption of the improved methods described in the Paper...
CORRESPONDENCE. MINING METHODS PAST AND PRESENT IN THE MORRO VELHO MINE OF THE ST JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY, LTD., AND LODE-CHANGES WHICH HAVE NECESSITATED AN ALTERATION OF SYSTEM.
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- Authors: C F HEATHCOTE; F W TIMMIS
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14292
- Procedinga.] CORRESPONDENCE ON MORRO VELIIO MINE. 233 Correspondence. Mr. C. F. HEATEICOTE observed that, having to deal with a similar xr. IIeathcotc. class of labour and very similar labour turnover on an Indian mine, he could appreciate the difficulties met with by the Author andhis staff, and he thought he might have stated themmore emphat.ically and even then would by no means have exaggerated them ; t o haveachieved the improvement described in the Paper in such a short time musthavemeant a greatdeal of hard work and infinite patience...
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AN EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION AND THICKNESS OF THE OIL-FILM IN A FLOODED CYLINDRICAL BEARING.
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- Author: J GOODMAN
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14293
- 242 GOODMAN ON THE OIL-FILM IN [Minutes of Associctte Members-continued, MACEINNON LOGAN, B.&. LESLIEGILBERT TAFFS, (Eng.) DOUGLAS B.Sc. (Clas.). (Lond.), Stud. Inst. C.E. HAROLD ANTHONY MAGNBE, B.Sc. CECILANDERSON MONTAGU THORN. (Eng.) (Lond.). M.A. (Cuntab.). TON, STANLEY MEHEW, B.Sc. (Eng.) FREDERICK WILLIAM WADDELL, (Lond.), Stud. Inst. C.E. Stud...
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DISCUSSION. AN EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION AND THICKNESS OF THE OIL-FILM IN A FLOODED CYLINDRICAL BEARING.
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- Authors: W E DALBY; T STANTON; A E L CHORLTON; B P HAIGH; J H GIBSON; H S ROWELL; E A EVANS
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14294
- 262 DISCUSSION ON THE OIL-FILM IN [Minutes of The President. The PRESIDENT, in moving the vote of thanks, remarked that he had been impressed by the great care expended onthe investigations described in the Paper. They might not have brought out all that the Author hoped when he started, but they certainly advanced knowledge of this difficult subject. The Author mentioned a fact that seemed to be profoundly true with regard to experiments of this kind. He said : A record of failures is by no means a waste of time, since i t may warn others against following unprofitable lines of research ; and failures moreover often suggest other and better methods of attacking a problem...
CORRESPONDENCE. THE EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION AND THICKNESS OF THE OIL-FILM IN A FLOODED CYLINDRICAL BEARING.
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- Authors: R O BOSWALL; H H BROUGHTON; F HODGKINSON; H M MARTIN; H T NEWBIGIN; SOUTHCOMBE; H W SWIFT
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14297
- 276 The Author. DISCUSSION ON THE OIL-FILM IN [Minutes of pounds and feet (or inches), whereas chemists and physicists preferred dynes and centimetres. The conversion from one system to the otherwasasimple matter.' I the number expressing theviscosity f wasonlyrequired for comparativepurposesthe c.g.s. units were preferable, but when the viscosity was required for the purpose of calculating the frictional resistance of a bearing, i t was far more convenient to have it expressed in pounds and inches, since these for engineering were theunitsinvariably used inthiscountry purposes...
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DEEP-WATER JETTY AT BEVAN`S CEMENT-WORKS, NORTHFLEET.
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- Authors: C P TAYLOR; O FABER
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14327
- 250 TAYLOR AND FABER ON DEEP-WATER JETTY AT [Minutesof (Paper No. 41352.) " Deep-Water Jetty at Bevan's Cement-Works, Northfleet." By CHARLES PERCY TAYLOR OSCAR and FABER, O.B.E., D.Sc., MM. Inst. C.E. BEVAN'Scement-works a t Northfleet were taken over by The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers in 1900, and were partially rebuilt and enlarged between 1903 and 1907. By 1925 the works had become out-of-date, and in view of the excellence of their frontage on the Thames, it was decided to reconstruct them for an output of 500,000 tons per annum...
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DISCUSSION. DEEP-WATER JETTY AT BEVAN`S CEMENT-WORKS, NORTHFLEET.
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- Authors: FABER; F E WENTWORTH SHEILDS; F M G DU PLAT TAYLOR; M F G WILSON; A BINNS; F H HEBBLETHWAITE; A E HURSE; J WILLIAMSON; H J FEREDAY; C KIRKPATRICK; L H SAVILE; N G GEDYE; C J JACKAMAN; M G J MCHAFFIE
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- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14328
- Proceedings.] DISCUSSION ON DEEP-WATER JETTY. 303 Discussion. The PRESIDENT,moving the vote of thanks, observed that the The President in Paper must be very interesting to those who had been concerned in the construction and maintenance of marine works of the character described by the Authors. Formerly works of that kind had been almost entirely of either cylinder or timber-pile construction, but theadvent of the reinforced-concrete pile had provided another means of construction giving greater permanence than timberpiling andprobablygreater economy than cylinder construction. The difficulty hitherto had been to secure adequate lateral strength to withstand the impact of shipping...
CORRESPONDENCE. DEEP-WATER JETTY AT BEVAN`S CEMENT-WORKS, NORTHFLEET.
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- Authors: A H CASE; E A CULLEN; B CUNNINGHAM; P N FAWCETT; W T HALCROW; J MITCHELL; W H THORPE; F M G DU PLAT TAYLOR; FABER
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14329
- Proceediugs.] BEVAN'S CEMENT-WORKS, KORTIIFLEET. 331 driving a t the site of the new offices of the London Electric Railways Dr. Faber. a t St. James's Park station. There the trouble had been cured by silencing theexhausts of the pile-drivers. Thesteam pile-driver was not very suitable where it was desired not only to drive the pile into the ground but also to fix it firmly when it was driven. The large number of blows of the steam pile-driver, as compared with a few heavy blows of the drop hammer, undoubtedly caused much more vibration in the surrounding soil...
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THE JAMES FORREST LECTURE, 1928. A CENTURY OF INVENTIONS.
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- Author: J A EWING
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- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14330
- Extra Meeting.] EWING ON A CENTURY OF INVENTIONS. 38 7 EXTRAMEETING. 4 June, 1928. ERNESTFREDERICCROSBIETRENCH, in the Chair. C.B.E., President, THE JAMES FORREST LECTURE, 1928. The PRESIDENT he did not think the lecturer needed any said introduction. Probablyno one was better known in the engineering i world than Sr Alfred Ewing, or had had more students pass under his tuition. He had taught at the ImperialUniversity of Tokio and at University College, Dundee ; hehad been Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at theUniversity of Cambridge, and Director of Naval Education ; and he was now Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh...
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OBITUARY. ALEXANDER SIEMENS. 1847-1928.
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- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14331
- 408 OBITUARY. OBITTJARY. ALEXANDER SIEMENS, Past-President, son of Gustav Siemens, was born in Hanover on the 22nd January, 1847. When Hmover was annexed by Prussia in 1866 he automatically acquired Prussian nationality, which he renounced in 1878, when he became a naturalized British subject. He was educated a t the Lycenm, Hanover, and entered the Polytechnic School a t Hanover in 1866. I n the following yearhe spent severalmonthsasapupil of his cousin, the late Sir William Siemens,` M. Inst. C...
OBITUARY. THOMAS WILLIAM KEELE. 1850-1927.
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- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1928.14332
- OBITUARY. 409 Mr. Siemens was admitted as a Stndent of The Institution in 1871 ; he was elected an Associate in 1873 and transferred to the class of Members in 1890. He was a Member of Council from 1898 to 1912, and was Presidentduring the session 1910-11. I n his Presidential Address,' which covered a wide range of subjects, he dealt particularlywith the work of the engineer as affecting the progress of civilization. He was a firm believer in theusefulness of technical societies ; and, in addition to delivering Lectures or reading Papers before the R...

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Volume 226, Issue 1928, January 1928