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Includes sect. "A survey of literature on the manufacture and properties of iron and steel, and kindred subjects" (title varies)

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Página 285 - Institution of Civil Engineers. Institution of Electrical Engineers. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Institution of Naval Architects.
Página 263 - Instruction in Mathematics should be given by methods differing considerably from those usually adopted in the teaching of this subject merely as an intellectual exercise. The geometrical side of Mathematics should be fostered, and before they leave school boys should be conversant with the use of logarithms, and with at least the elements of trigonometry, including the solution of triangles. It is also of importance that instruction in practical arithmetic should be carried further than has been...
Página 251 - Use of iron is more needful to men in many things than use of gold : though covetous men love more gold than iron. Without iron the commonalty be not sure against enemies, without dread of iron the common right is not governed ; with iron innocent men are defended : and foolhardiness of wicked men is chastised with dread of iron. And well nigh no handiwork is wrought without iron : no field is eared without iron, neither tilling craft used, nor building builded without iron.
Página 268 - Facilities for, and organisation of, post-graduate work by engineering students in Universities and higher technical institutions should be considerably increased. This recommendation is made with the special object of encouraging qualified students to undertake researches which may prove of practical value to engineering operations and processes. The number of such students is not likely to be large at any time, but their influence on younger students should be highly beneficial, and the advantage...
Página 262 - Examinations ; and that he should not commence his special training until he is about 17 years of age. 2. A leaving examination for secondary schools, similar in character to those already existing in Scotland and in Wales, is desirable throughout the United Kingdom. It is desirable to have a standard such that it could be accepted by The Institution as equivalent to the Studentship Examination, and by the Universities and Colleges as equivalent to a Matriculation Examination.
Página 264 - Much depends upon the development of individual boys, but the minimum age should be sixteen and the maximum eighteen years. '2. The practical training should be divided into two parts, whenever that arrangement can be made, and the preliminary stage of practical training should consist in all cases of at least a year spent in mechanical engineering workshops. This " introductory workshop course" is desirable even when students do not contemplate devoting themselves at a later stage to what is generally...
Página 484 - The subjects dealt with up to the present time include : — rolled sections ; railway and tramway rails ; locomotives for Indian railways ; pipe flanges ; screw threads ; pipe threads ; limit-gauges ; railway rolling-stock material; tire profiles; steel castings and forgings for marine work ; Portland cement ; cast-iron pipes ; generators, motors, and transformers ; prime-movers for electrical purposes ; physical standards ; telegraph and telephone material ; electric cables ; electric tramway materials;...
Página 268 - ... obtained, and it is considered to be of great importance in assessing the professional attainment of students. 12. Facilities for, and organisation of, post-graduate work by engineering students in universities and higher technical institutions should be considerably increased. This recommendation is made with the special object of encouraging qualified students to undertake researches which may prove of practical value to engineering operations and processes. The number of such students is not...
Página 1 - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE was held at the house of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, London, on Wednesday, May 24 — Sir FREDERICE A.
Página 265 - The longer period may be desirable in the case of boys who are to become mechanical engineers, and useful in all cases when boys leave school at 16 years. In some cases it may be preferred to take the workshop course after the first year of the College training common to all branches of Engineering. An interruption of College training at a later period must involve great disadvantages. 3. During workshop training boys should keep the regular working hours, should be treated like ordinary apprentices,...

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