Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Threshing machine, old fashioned, III., 288. Threshing machine, modern, Salt River valley, III., 294. Trenching machine, III., 292. Air-locks : Medical, IL, 107. . Rotherhithe Tunnel, I., 56. Runcorn Bridge foundations, I., 298. Ammunition hoists on warship, I., 447. Anchor, Mauretania's, II., 68. Anchorage for cables of bridge, I., 299 ; II., 264, 265, 267. Angara, train ferry, L, 77, 78. Apples grown on irrigated land, II., 84. AQUEDUCTS: Barton Swing, I., 163, 167. Birmingham : Cut-and-cover work, III., 184. Lowering pipe into trench, III., 184. Large stesl pipe at Maes-y-gelli, III., 186. Map of, III., 189. Three pipes in trench, III., 186. Three pipes crossing Worcester- shire and Staffordshire Canal, III., 192. Carlsbad, New Mexico, II., 94. Catskill: Cut-and-cover section, III., 108, 109. Map of course, III., 107. Steel moulds for cut-and-cover, III., 110. Typical sections, III., 112. Kinlochleven, III., 274. Liverpool, map of, III., 180. Manchester, map of, III., 187. Roman: Pont du Gard, I., 18. Section of, L, 17. Segovia, I., 16. Solani, III., 242. Armour of a battleship : Armoured decks, I., 403. Barbette, assembling, I., 400. Barbette shield for 12-inch gun, I., 401. Barbette shield of Dreadnought, I., 401. Disposition of armour on various ships, I., 415. Planing armour plates, I., 397. Rolling armour plates, I., 398. Steel communication tube, I., 400. Artesian wells and well-boring : A AERONAUTICAL ENGINES: Anzani, three-cylinder, III., 32. Bayard - Clément, seven - cylinder, III., 34. Four-cylinder for airship, III., 38’ Fiat, eight-cylinder, III., 37. Gnome, seven-cylinder, III., 33. Gobron, eight-cylinder, III., 37. Green, four-cylinder, III., 31, 32. Pipe, eight-cylinder, III., 37. Wolseley, eight-cylinder, III., 36. Wright, four-cylinder, III., 31. Zodiac Ill's, III., 63. AEROPLANES: Construction : Double-surfaced deck, III., 41. Scene in factory, III., 40. Single-surfaced deck, III., 39. Theory: Angle of descent, III., 8. Diagram showing forces acting on oblique surface, III., 6. Section of deck, III., 6. Machines : Antoinette monoplane— Diagram of, III., 28. In flight, III., 26, 28. Tuning up, III., 13. Blériot monoplane— Diagram of, III., 27. Carriage of, III., 27. In flight, III., 25. Cody biplane— Diagram of, III., 24. In flight. III., 14. Curtiss biplane, III., 22. Farman biplane— Diagram of, III., 23. * At rest, III., 23. Carrying two persons, III., 10. Voisin biplane— Diagrams of, III., 21. At rest, III., 15. In flight, III., 20, 22. Wright biplane— Diagram of, III., 18. On starting rail, III., 19. In flight, III., 4, 16. Agamemnon, II., 356, 359. Agricultural machinery : Combined harvester and thresher, horse drawn, III., 295. Combined harvester and thresher, steam propelled, III., 296. Disc plough, III., 291. Gan<r plough, steam drawn, III., 298. Grain elevator, III., 297. “ Header,” for reaping corn, III., 294. Heath plough, III., 292. Ivel agricultural motor, III., 299. Mole drainer, III., 293. Plough engines, Fowler’s, III., 289. Punt ploughing tackle, III., 290. Ridger, III., 291. Sand screen, III., 341. Sinking well in river bed, III., 337. Spouting well, III., 341. Tools for well-sinking—chisels, III., 338 ; “ crow’s foot,” 339 ; latch tool, 339 ; rod-tiller, 338. Artesian wells of Australia, IL, 312-320 : Cambridge Downs, II., 314, 320. Cunnamula, II., 317. Dolgelly, N.S.W., IL, 314. Eulolo, II., 318. Maxwelton No. 1, II., 315. Moree, II., 319. Noorama No. 1, IL, 316. Toorak, IL, 318. Assouan dam : Closing sudd, II., 392. Foundations, II., 394, 395. Navigation canal, II., 402. Opening ceremony, II., 397. Plan of site, IL, 391. Section5 of dam, II., 394, 408. Sluice lining, IL, 398. Sluices, Stoney, II., 398. Air-lift, III., 345. Bomb for dynamiting a well, HL, 335. Bourne well, III., 340. Diver about to enter well, III., 343. Drilling rig at work, III., 342. Drills—shot drill, III., 339 ; calyx, 339. Pumping from an artesian well, III., 344. B Baalbec, great stone of, I., 11. Baikal, train-ferry, I., 65-72, 74, 75, 78. Balloons, dirigible : Clément-Bayard entering shed, III., 57. Colonel Rénard at Rheims, III., 46. Giffard’s, III., 49. Gross IL, semi-rigid, III., 61. Malecot, semi-rigid, III., 47. Parseval II., non-rigid, III., 59, 62. Renard and Krebs, III., 51. Severo’s, III., 49. Ville de Paris, non-rigid, III., 58. Zeppelin, III., 50, 52, 54. Zodiac III., III., 56. Barking outfall works, plan of, III., 214 RarrscfAQ • Assiout, II., 399, 400, 407, 408. Delta, IL, 390. Esneh, II., 401, 404. Bed-plates, Forth Bridge piers, I., 331. Beira, railway pier at, II., 155. Bessemer converter, in blast, III., 264 ; section of, III., 265. Blast furnace, III., 260; diagram of, III., 261 ; linked with gas engine, I., 225. Blasting rocks at Fishguard Harbour, I., 174, 175 ; wreckage of Chatham, 252. Block coefficient, L, 352. “ Blow out ” in Thames, L, 307 ; in East River, New York, from Battery Tunnel, IL, 119. Boilers : Babcock and Wilcox water-tube, II., 32, 33. Baikal's being placed on deck, I., 73. Chatham's, after blasting, I., 252. Forced draught for, II., 33.