Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 38Royal Institution of Naval Architects., 1897 - Naval architecture List of members in each volume. |
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acetylene Admiral FitzGerald Admiralty advantage armour arrangement battleships Beardmore Belleville boilers built bulkheads cent coal connected construction cruisers cylinder cylindrical boilers displacement Durston Earl of Hopetoun elastic limit electric engines experience fighting power fitted fleet German give Guns and ammunition Hamburg Herr increase indicated horse-power Institution of Naval James John knots Laeisz lifting Lord and Gentlemen Lord Charles Beresford machine machinery Marine Martell Member of Council Mercantile Messrs mild steel motor Naval Architects naval officers Navy nickel steel ordinary paper plates pontoons Powerful and Terrible PRESENT ARMAMENT President pressure PROPOSED ARMAMENT Q.F. Guns question Ramage re-armed regard screw shaft shipbuilding ships Sir Edward Reed Sir William White speed steam steamers tons trials tubes Turbinia upper deck valve vertical vessels Vice-President warships water-line water-tight doors water-tube boilers weight of present weight of proposed
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Page xix - It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the direction of the Council, to conduct the correspondence of the Institution ; to attend all meetings of the Institution, and of the Council, and of Committees ; to take minutes of the proceedings of such meetings ; to read the minutes of the preceding...
Page xxiii - Members, and they think fit to draw up and sign a proposal requiring such expulsion, the same being delivered to the Secretary, shall be by him laid before the Council for consideration. If the Council, after due inquiry, do not find reason to concur in the proposal, no entry thereof shall be made in any Minutes, nor shall any public discussion thereon be permitted; but if the Council do find good reason for the proposed expulsion, they shall direct the Secretary to address a letter, according to...
Page xxiii - Appendix to the person proposed to be expelled, advising him to withdraw from the Institution. If that advice be followed, no entry on the minutes, nor any public discussion on the subject, shall be permitted ; but if that advice be not followed, nor a - satisfactory explanation given, the Council shall call a Special General Meeting of Members...
Page xxiii - Also they may remit any arrears which are due from such an individual ; or may accept a collection of books, or drawings, or models, or such other contribution as, in their opinion, under the circumstances of the case, may entitle the person to be enrolled as a Life Subscriber, or to enable him to resume his former rank in the Institution which may have been in abeyance from any particular cause.
Page xviii - Both Members and Associates of the Institution shall be eligible for election as VicePresidents. In the absence of the President, one of the Vice-Presidents shall preside at the General Meetings of the Institution, and shall regulate and keep order in the proceedings.
Page xix - The Auditors shall have access at all reasonable times to the Accounts of the pecuniary transactions of the Institution ; and they shall...
Page 278 - The character of steel now used by some railroads for crank-pins furnishes a marked illustration of the practicability of using high carbon steels. When steel was first used in such pins in place of wrought iron, a soft low carbon steel was generally employed, and the failures due to " fatigue " of the metal were almost as numerous as when wrought iron was used. The broken pins showed what has been called
Page xviii - But in case of the absence of the President and of all the VicePresidents, the Meeting may elect any member of Council, or, in case of their absence, any Corporate Member present, to take the chair at the Meeting.
Page 232 - It appeared that a cavity or blister first formed a little behind the leading edge, and near the tip of the blade ; then, as the speed of revolution was increased, it enlarged in all directions until, at a speed corresponding to that in the Turbinia's propeller, it had grown so as to cover a sector of the screw disc of go degrees.
Page 232 - ... to the other. In this extreme case nearly the whole energy of the screw was expended in maintaining this vacuous space. It also appeared that, when the cavity had grown to be a little larger than the width of the blade, the leading edge acted like a wedge, the forward side of the edge giving negative thrust...