The Works Of Messrs. Schneider And Co.

350 INDEX. Elongation of Tyre Steel, 55 Employés of Creusot, 6 ,, ,, Area of Land occupied by, 6 ,, Relations between Messrs. Schneider and their, 6 ,, Subventions paid by Messrs. Schneider on behalf of their, 6 ,, and Workmen of Creusot, Pensions to, 8 Employment at Creusot, Duration of, 6 Endurance of Schneider-Canet Quick-Firing Guns, 193 Engine, High-Speed Locomotive, Thuile System, 336 “Engineering,” Vol. IV., 1867, page 476, quotes Creusot Rolling Mills, 77 Engineering Department, 95 Engine Shafts, of Basic Steel, 42 Engines, Blowiiig, for Bessemer Process, 33 „ ,, Blast-Furnaces, 24 il ,, ,, Particulars of, 25 > , ), >, Speed and Pressure Regulator, 25 , , for Factories, Construction Department, 112 > High-Speed, ,, ,, 110 , , Marine, built at Creusot, the First, 4 „ ,, „ 101, 103 , , for River Steamers, Construction Department, 101 , , for Rolling Mills, Construction Department, 111 , , Stationary, Construction Department, 108 , , Winding, Construction Department, 108 Erecting and Fitting Shops, Construction Department, 99 Erection of Bridges, Methods followed for the, 132 , , Schneider Pavilion, Paris Exhibition, 329 , , Wrought-Iron Chimney, Tyre Shops, 56 Establishment of Electric Department at Creusot, 5 Examples of Steel Castings Manufacturée!, 51 ,, Work executed in Construction Department, 101 Exhibition of 1878, Machinery Hall, 126, 153 ,, 1889, Canet Guns at the, 179 ,, 1900, The Schneider Pavilion and Exhibition, 329 Experiments with Armour-Plates, Varions, 73 ,, made by Messrs. Schneider in Steel for Gun Construc- tion, 163 Explosive Charges, 322 Explosives, 320 Explosives, High-power, 322 Extent and Capacity of Messrs. Schneider’s Works, 6 Facb-Platb Planing Machine for Armour-Plates, 71 Factory Engines, Construction Department, 112 ,, the First Gun at Creusot, 3 ,, Glass, at Creusot, 2 „ the Gun, at Creusot, 5, 165 ,, ,, Havre, 170 ,, and Works, Iron Buildings for, 164 Fall Tests of Tyres, 55, 56 ,, „ Tower for, 52, 55 Falling Weights, Tests of Castings, 51 Farm Lands of Creusot, Area of, 6 Feed Rollers, Armour-Plate Mill, 87 „ Blooming Mill, 84 Field Artillery, 278 ,, >, exhibited by Messrs. Schneider, Paris Exhibition, 332 ,, Gun Carnages, with Telescopic Recoil Cylinders, 289 ,, Guns on Carnages, with Compressible Trail, 286 „ ,, and Mitrailleuses manufacture«! by Messrs. Schneider in 1870, 163 ,, ,, Quick-Firing, Mountings for, 280 Finished Products at Creusot, Annual Amount of, 6 Finishing and Planing Armour-Plates, 70 ,, Rolls, Tyre Rolling Mills, 53 ,, Shop for Armour-Plates, 69 Firing Device of Mitrailleuses of 1870, 163 „ Tubes, 323 First Armour-Plates Manufactured at Creusot, 4 ,, Bankruptcy of Creusot Works-, 1818, 3 First Concession of Creusot Mines, 1 , , Cupola Furnaces at Creusot, 1 „ Deed of Sale of Creusot, 1 , , Industrial Company at Creusot, 1 , , Locomotive built at Creusot, 4 „ Marine Engine built at Creusot, 4 ,, Steel Armour-Plate tried at Spezia, 1876, 57 Fitting and Erecting Shops, Construction Department, 99 „ Shop, the Steel Works, 31 Flat-Bottomed Cartridge Cases, 327 Floating Batteries, the First Armoured, 4 ,, ,, Protected, 93, 74 ,, Bridges built at Chalon Works, 145 ,, Crânes built at Chalon Works, 126 ,, Dock Gates built at Chalon Works, 126 ,, Docks built at Chalon Works, 157 Foot-Bridges of 150-Ton Electric Travelling Crâne, 47 Forcing Pumps, Construction Department, 112 Forge, the Old Creusot, 77 Forges et Chantiers, Havre, Gun Factory Purchased, 5, 164, 169, 170 Forging Press, the New, Armour-Plate Shop, 62 ,, Presses, Armour-Plate Shop, 60, 61, 62 ,, Shop, the Steel Works Heavy, 31 Forgings for Guns, 192 ,, Steel, exhibited by Messrs. Schneider, Paris Exhibition, 341 ,, Steel, the First Manufactured, 4 Formation, the Coal, at Creusot, 14 Fortification and Ordnance Department, 161 Foundation Sinking, Pneumatic Process for, 126 Foundations of Havre Gun Shops, 170, 171 Foundries, the Iron, Construction Department, 95 Foundry, Steel, at Creusot, 5 ,, the Steel Works, 31 Free Kecoil Mountain Artillery, 298 French Commercial Treaties of 1860, Rolling-Mill Department, 77 ,, Government Gun Manufacture, 192 „ ,, Powder Factories, 320 ,, Locomotive built at Creusot, the First, 1838, 4 Fribourg Viaduct, 132 Friction Tubes, 323 Fuel used in Rolling-Mill Re-Heating Furnaces, 80 Funds, Charitable, at Creusot, 9 Furnaces for Annealing Tyres, 54 „ Blast, Average Daily Output, 24 ,, ,, for Bessemer Pig, 24 ,, ,, for Bessemer-Thomas Process, 24 „ ,, Blowing Engines for, 24 ,, ,, Closing Bell for, 23 ,, ,, Department at Creusot, 22 ,, ,, Dimensions of Standard, 24 ,, ,, Installation for Granulating Slag direct from, 25 ,, ,, Tubulär Boilers Fired by Waste Gases from, 27 ,, Boilers, Tyre Shops, 52 ,, Charging Siemens-Martin, 35 ,, at Creusot, the First Cupola, 1 ,, Danks, 44 ,, and Hammers, Tyre Shops, 52 ,, Old Biast, at Allevard Iron Mines, 17 ,, for Re-Heating Armour-Plates, 58, 59, 61, 62, 88 ,, Re-Heating, Rolling-Mill Department, 80 ,, ,, Tyre Shops, 53 ,, Rotary Puddling, 43 ,, Siemens-Martin, Dimensions of, 36 ,, ,, Process, 34 ,, Steel Foundry, 48 ,, Transforming, Siemens-Martin Process, 35 ,, Types of Biast, 22 ,, Wrought-Iron Chimneys for Siemens-Martin Process, 37 Fuses and Detonators, 324 Ganz Dynamos of the 150-Ton Electric Travelling Crâne, 47 ,, Machines at Central Electric Lighting Station, 117