Calendar: 1885-1886 Page 197
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APPLIED SCIENCES 193 Coke Oil and Tallow General Rules for guidance of Engine me and Firemen Cornish Pumping Engine Double- beat Valve Tappet Motion Cataract Motion Duty of Engine Superheated Steam Marine Engines Blowing Engines Traction Engines One or more of the following subjects Propellers Various Forms of Paddlewheels Course of Kloat-boards through the Water Feathering Floats Screw Propellers Shaft and Bearings Water Wheels and Turbines Undershot Overshot Breast Ventilating Buckets Poncelet's Wheels Fourneyron's Tur- bines Wi 1dMills Tower Mills Smock Mills Sails Reefing and Regulation of Sails Lighthouses and Signals Reflectors Dioptric Catoptric Catadioptric Lights Railway Contrivances and Rolling Stock Points Crossings Switches Water Cranes Tanks Turntables Traversers Signals Wheels Axles Buffers Springs Carriages Wagons Trucks for Timber and Stone These Lectures are intended to add knowledge of Practice to knowledge of the Theory taught by the other Professors In order to attain this object Machines are not only described in general terms but their various details and the design of each particular construction are illustrated and explained by drawings and models Great advantages are afforded to the Students in this De oartment by Directors of Works and by Manufacturers in the 1ei2 hbourhood of London who from time to time kindlv con- lent to grant the Professorof Manufacturing Art and Machinery 3ermission to visit their Works accompanied by limited lumber of Students For these visits diligent Students are elected who show by their application and general industry hat the explanations given them are likely to increase their 0wers of observation judgment and invention Third Year Students are conducted through system of dvanced Work taking the form of Essays on various En- ineering questions and constructive designs for Machinery
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