Compressed Air Work And Diving 1909

INDEX. ABSOLUTE pressure, half, i, 10, 11,12 Admiralty Committee, i, 3, 24,35, 36 Alcoholic excess, effect of, on caisson workers, 3 Air compressors, 106-111 — compressors, duplex, 110 — compressors running at constant speed, 43, in — compressors, tandem drive, 110 Air-lock, Conway, 55 — Barmouth, 59 — Davis, 40, 62 — East River Tunnels, 89, 90, 95 — emergency, 70, 71, 92 — for men, 39, 40 — material, 39, 40, 71, 92, 95 — medical, 13 — Moir’s medical, 95 — on shields, 79, 92 — “ purgatory,” 11, 72 — Rochester Bridge, 50, 51 — Rotherhithe Tunnel, 82, 83 Air pipe, diver’s, 23, 26, 27 — pressure, 41, 42, 43, 73 — supply, 4, 9, 42 Air-tight floors, 72, 82, 83 Biasting gelatine, 98 “ Biowing up,” 24, 25 “ Blows,” 42, 73 Boots, lead-soled diving, 21 Boycott, Dr A. E., 1 Brackets bolted to sides of caisson, 46, 90, 91 Brake gilders, 46 Breastplate, 20 Bridge, Barmouth, 57-59 — Chepstow, 51 — Conway, 55-57 — Forth, 54 — King Edward VIL, 43, 44, 60-65, in — Redheugh, 60 — Rochester, 50, 51 — Saltash, 52 — Victoria, Stockton-on-Tees, 54 British Navy, 3 Brown, James, 86 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 51, 52 Bucket chamber, 40, 62 — for removing exeavated material, 40, 62-64, 91 Buoyancy of caissons, 41 IRAKER, Sir Benjamin, 69 Baugee pan, 75 Bell, diving, Halley’s, 32 — diving, John Smeaton’s, 33 — diving, Rennie’s, 33 Bells, diving, 32, 33, 34 “ Bends,” 6 Binnic, Sir Alexander, 78 Blackwall Tunnel, 72, 74, 78, 79, 80, 81 j AISSON, Brunel’s, 52, 53 — best type of, 59-60 Caissons, east iron for, 55 — Barmouth Bridge, 57-59 — Blackwall Tunnel, 79 80 — Conway Bridge, 55-57 — East River Tunnels, 88-91 — Forth Bridge, 43, 54 i — King Edward Vil. Bridge, 43, 44, 60-62, 64, 65 11