Calendar: 1899-1900 Page 195

ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES 191 The following subjects are dealt with in the Lectures as far as the time available permits and more or less fully according to the requirements of the particular Class -General considerations concerning the Principles of Metallurgy -Fuel -Combustion Calorific Power and Intensity Wood Charcoal Peat Lignites Bituminous and Anthracitic Coals their Composition Properties Classification and Uses Coke the Nature and Quantity of the Coke and of the by-products obtained by different processes Recovery of Tar Ammonia &c Patent Fuels Petroleum Gaseous Fuels Coal- Water Producer-Blast-Furnace and Natural Gases Regenerative System Calorimetry and Pyrometry -Materials used in the Construction of Furnaces &c -The Chemical Physical and Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys and the influence of foreign substances and of different methods of mechanical treatment upon these piroperties illustrated by actual tests being made with the large Testing Machine The behaviour of the metals when exposed to the action of Air Water &c -The Metals considered individually especial attention being paid to the effect of the foreign substances commonly found in each on the properties enumerated in the origin of these impurities and the means by which and the extent to which they may be eliminated Iron and Steel -Iron Ores and Early Smelting Methods Smelting in the Blast-furnace Blast-furnace products including Spiegel-iron and Ferro-manganese Processes by which crude pig- iron may be converted into wrought or malleable iron and steel The Bloomery Refining Puddling Bessemer and Siemens Processes and their Modifications Cementation and Crucible steel Tempering of steel Malleable cast-iron Case hardening The different grades of cast-iron steel