Memorial of Alexander Lyman Holley, C.E., LL. D.: President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vice-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vice-president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... Etc., Etc. Born July 20, 1832. Died January 29, 1882American institute of mining engineers, 1884 - 224 páginas |
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... furnaces , blooming - mills , and rolling- mills . He was unable for a long time to engage in any Bessemer enterprise in which he could carry out his own ideas to his satis- faction . Perhaps it was not in the long run unfortunate that ...
... furnaces , blooming - mills , and rolling- mills . He was unable for a long time to engage in any Bessemer enterprise in which he could carry out his own ideas to his satis- faction . Perhaps it was not in the long run unfortunate that ...
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... furnace , and the results now being attained in the plants built under his advice certainly point toward his belief having been well founded . After full investigation in Europe he became fully impressed with the merits of the Basic ...
... furnace , and the results now being attained in the plants built under his advice certainly point toward his belief having been well founded . After full investigation in Europe he became fully impressed with the merits of the Basic ...
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... furnace for melting the iron to be charged into the converter . Mr. Durfee's failure to make this improvement successful was due to the small size of his cupola , the distance the iron had to be moved in the ladle , and the fact that ...
... furnace for melting the iron to be charged into the converter . Mr. Durfee's failure to make this improvement successful was due to the small size of his cupola , the distance the iron had to be moved in the ladle , and the fact that ...
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... furnaces ; and last , but by no means least , introduced the intermediate or accumulating ladle , which is placed on scales , and thus insures accuracy of operation by rendering pos- sible the weighing of each charge of melted iron ...
... furnaces ; and last , but by no means least , introduced the intermediate or accumulating ladle , which is placed on scales , and thus insures accuracy of operation by rendering pos- sible the weighing of each charge of melted iron ...
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... furnace - construction , in the roof of which were spaces for air , water , or spray conduits for cooling the same . In 1879 he patented a feeding - device for rolling - mills , in which the feed - rollers were mounted on a special ...
... furnace - construction , in the roof of which were spaces for air , water , or spray conduits for cooling the same . In 1879 he patented a feeding - device for rolling - mills , in which the feed - rollers were mounted on a special ...
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Página 68 - Bessemer plant. He did away with the English deep pit, and raised the vessels so as to get working space under them on the ground floor ; he substituted top-supported hydraulic cranes for the more expensive counter-weighted English ones, and put three ingot cranes around the pit instead of two, and thereby obtained greater area of power ; he changed the location of the...
Página 53 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 121 - Setting aside 52 miscellaneous articles (descriptive, political, etc.), and 30 which may be called "scattering," though devoted to engineering "topics, we have 194, divided as follows : Railways (including street railways), 49 ; steam navigation, 42 ; war ships and armor, 30; the Stevens battery, 22 ; arms and ordnance, 19 ; boiler explosions, 11 ; and steam engines, 7. The most important and remarkable of these articles were, perhaps, those on the Great Eastern, written under the signature of
Página 65 - The Permanent Way and Coal-Burning Locomotive Boilers of European Railways, with a Comparison of the Working Economy of European and American Lines, and the Principles upon which Improvement Must Proceed.
Página 68 - Bottom, which, either in its form as patented, or in a modification of it as now used in all American works, has rendered possible, as much as any other one thing, the present immense production.
Página 134 - The converter is then turned upon its side, the blast shut off, and the recarburizer run in. Then for a moment the war of the elements rages again ; the mass boils and flames with higher intensity, and with a rapidity of chemical reaction, sometimes throwing it violently out of the converter-mouth ; then all is quiet, and the product is steel — liquid, milky steel, that pours out into the ladle from under its roof of slag, smooth, shining, and almost transparent.
Página 132 - ... present accepted type of American Bessemer plant. He did away with the English deep pit and raised the vessels so as to get working space under them on the ground floor; he substituted top-supported hydraulic cranes for the more expensive counter-weighted English ones, and put three ingot cranes around the pit instead of two, and thereby obtained greater area of power. He changed the location of the vessels as related to the pit and melting-house.
Página 64 - The thoughtful locomotive driver is clothed upon, not with the mere machinery of a larger organism, but with all the attributes except volition of a power superior to his own. Every faculty is stimulated, and every sense exalted. An unusual sound amid the roaring exhaust and the clattering wheels, tells him instantly the place and degree of danger as would a pain in his own flesh. The consciousness of a certain jarring...
Página 179 - He proposes using this property to define steel as "a compound or alloy of iron whose modulus of resilience (or spring) can be rendered by proper mechanical treatment as great as that of a compound of 99.7 per cent, iron with 0.3 per cent, carbon can be by tempering.