Engineering News And American Railway Journal 1897 July-Dec Vol XXXVIII

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Engineering News And American Railway Journal 1897 July-Dec Vol XXXVIII
 
Engineering News And American Railway Journal 1897 July-Dec Vol XXXVIII
Engineering News and American Railway Journal
Volume XXXVIII
1897
July-December
Engineering News Publishing Company
Hard Cover, Oversized
Covers are separated from the pages,

Index to Illustrations
Partial index Below
Earthquake results, India  290
Electric cranes on steamer "Bremen" 99
Electric power plants:
Niagara Power Co., Extension  242
Ogden, Utah  18
Electric railway, Surface contract system 270 Elevated railways, Raising structure ....210 Elevators, American Tract Society Bldg. 202, 204
Embankment of old Croton aqueduct , 164
Engines:
Sintz gasoline   102
Weiss two-cycle  341
(See also Pumping engines.)
qualizing gear for operating swing '
bridge  30
Evaporative condenser   165
Valve and branch inserting machines 284
Valve, gear, Stevens cam 384
Valves:
Automatic flap valve at end of pipe line 147
Locomotive boiler, Inside check 311
Outlet, of water supply tank  421
Viaduct, St. Louis & Suburban Ry..*404, 405

Each issue has a Table of Contents
Partial is Listed below
ENGINEERING NEWS OF THE WEEK 1
The Mississippi Floods of 1897 (with two-page plate
and other illustrations).... ......  2
The Relation of Civil Engineering to Progress 11
Experiments in Bursting a Boiler by Hydraulic Pres-
sure (illustrated) 12
The Cause of the Bad Taste and Odor of the Brook-
lyn Water in 1896 (illustrated) ....   13
De Volson Wood (with portrait).... ........14
The Westinghouse High-Speed Brake (illustrated) 14
The Central London Ry. (illustrated) 15
EDITORIAL NOTES 8
A Riveted Joint Stronger than Solid PlateA Model Society for the Promotion of Good Municipal Gov-ernmentThe Permanence of Combined Steel and Concrete ConstructionThe Spacing of Distant Signals and the Westinghouse High Speed BrakeMr. Starlings Paper on the Mississippi Floods.
EDITORIAL:
The Present Status of Motor Driven Vehicles for
Common Roads    9
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR   10

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