Pocketbook of Useful Formulæ and Memoranda
for Civil and Mechanical Engineers

717 INDEX. PAGE Barrel-drains..........107 Base Lines, Reduction of 7 Batteries, Range froni .. 573 Bazin’s Coefficient .. .. 266 Bearn, best from Log .. 121 ------- Engine.......... .......... Beams, built ....................133 —------Deflection of .. 131 ------of equal Strength 130 ______of Pine,Safe Load on 125 ______of various Sections 123 -------on the Slope .. 131 ------Rectangular .. 122 -----------------------------Rolled Jion .. .. 13« ------------- Steel.. .. 139 —------------Stiffness of .. .. 135 I ,------Strength of . . .. 122! -------Trussed .. .. 134 -------Unequally Loaded 131 ; Bearings, Adjiistable .. 413 ________ -------Carriage, Alloys for.................._ Beaufoy’s Expeiimetits .. 557 Heer Measure__________682 Belting, High-speed.. ..415 r------Li’aiher .. 4H -------]’öwer transmitted .................. by.........................414 _______Weight of Leather 435 Bending Alomentsin Beams 133 -------Rails..........21S Bends of l’ipt s..........262 Beton .. .. __.....................96 Birmingham Wire Gauge 592 Blackening for Moulds .. 425 Black Wash .. • • •• 425 Blast Furnaces..........442 Blasting ..............85 -------Agents .. .. 86 Blast-pipe Exhaust .. .. 472 Blocks, Crane __...................55 —------Plummer .. ..413 -------Power gained by 436 Blowing Engines .. . • PACK Blows versus Pressure .. 11« Blue Process, Ferrotype.. 433 Board of Trade Regula- tions for Boilers .. .. 4H _________________Regula- tions for Railways .. 188 Bodies, Collision of .. .. 384 ------Falling..........382 Boiler, Elephant .. .. 46S ------Fairbairn “ 5-tube ” 467 ------Mountings .. .. 462 ------Plates, Punching of 434 ------Weight of 39 Boilers, Belgian, Tubes for 469 ------ Board of Trade Rules for .. .. ..474 -Bursting pressure of 4 K0 --Caulking .. ..470 --Collapsing pressure 478 -Combustion in .. 461 -Cornish .. 463,466 ------■' Cylindi ical Strength of..................474 i ----- Evaporative Per- fol mance of .. .. .. 464 ------Fuel for .. .. 461 i -----Grate and Healing I Surface of ..........462 !---------—in Locomotives 473 __________ j-------Incrustation of .. 432 I------Injectors fur .. .. 473 I-------Lancashire .. 463,466 i-------Land ..........462 i ------Marine..........470 I ------------- Table of .. 527_____________ ------Multi tubular .. 463 ------Notes on .. .. 471 ------Riveting for .. .. 4S2 ■ —----Safety-valves of .. 490 ------Setting .. .. ..470 ------Staying of .. ..477 I ______Stays,distance apart 478 I ------Strength of .. ..474 ,------Tubular .. .. 463