Abstract
THE summer meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was held last week in Belgium. The opening proceedings took place in the city of Liége, the president, Mr. E. P. Martin, occupying the chair at the preliminary sitting. Six papers were down for reading and discussion, the mornings of June 20 and June 21 being devoted to their consideration. The following is a list of the papers:—Superheaters applied to locomotives on the Belgian State railways, by M. J. B. Flamme; the growth of large gas-engines on the Continent, by M. Rodolphe Mathot; ferro-concrete, and some of its most characteristic applications in Belgium, by M. Ed. Noaillon; electric winding machines, by M. Paul Habets; strength of columns, by Prof. W. E. Lilly; an investigation to determine the effects of steam-jacketing upon the efficiency of a horizontal compound steam engine, by Mr. A. L. Mellanby.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers . Nature 72, 212–214 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072212a0
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