. American engineer and railroad journal . Wahl, Secretary Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. JohnT. Williams. The committee publicly thanks the parties mentioned below fortheir offers of assistance, namely : The Continental Iron Works,for permission to use part of their yard and for numerous cour-tesies which have been extended to the committee from time totime ; the Carnegie Steel Companv, Limited, for their offer to fur-nish all the structural steel that the committee may need; J. B. &J. M. Cornell, for their offer to furnish the cast iron columns forwhich the committee may ask; Sinclair <
. American engineer and railroad journal . Wahl, Secretary Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. JohnT. Williams. The committee publicly thanks the parties mentioned below fortheir offers of assistance, namely : The Continental Iron Works,for permission to use part of their yard and for numerous cour-tesies which have been extended to the committee from time totime ; the Carnegie Steel Companv, Limited, for their offer to fur-nish all the structural steel that the committee may need; J. B. &J. M. Cornell, for their offer to furnish the cast iron columns forwhich the committee may ask; Sinclair <S- Babsen, for their dona-tion of 75 barrels of Alsen cement; the Lorillard Brick Com-pany, through Henry M. Keasbey, for 54,000 common bricks; HenryA. Maurer, for his donation of 14,000 fire bricks and 14 barrels offire clay. The report says : During the winter just past your committee erected a testingplant, as shown in the accompanying photograph. Fig. 1. The gasproducer in the background is 9 feet in diameter by 12 feet in. Fig. of Testing Plant-height, and is equipped with a hopper valve on top. Gas is gene-rated by means of steam from the boiler, as shown, and carriedinto the furnaces through pipes, as clearly indicated in the photo-graph. The foundation shown on the left is ready for the erectionupon it of a furnace for testing beams and floors. Its dimensionsare : length, 27 feet ; width, 12 feet ; but it can be arranged to takelarger beams if so desired. The furnace shown on the right is fortesting columns, and is 14 feet square, outside measurement. The arched roof is made of fire brick and is independent of theside walls, being supported by outside corner posts. The walls areof common brick, but can easily be changed so that experimentscan be made on other materials. One .side wall and the end wallwith the door are 12>.i inches in thickness; the rear wall is 8K: inches,and the fourth wall is 4 inches inside, 2 inches air space and 8Kinches outside,
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