Transactions . -steel, withround metal ends, is covered with an acid-proof paint. The accumulator feeds the glow lamp, giving 1\ to 2 candle-power, for 12 hours. The accumulator is connected up to asimple charging-device by plugs. The weight of the lamp, ready for use, is 4 pounds, and theheight is MU inches. Mr. J. Or. Weeks, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Cremerfor his paper, stated that the Wolf-Uohres lamp was a step in theright direction, if it would burn 12 hours, although the weightwas somewhat excessive. It was unfortunate that an electriclamp would not detect the presence! of ga
Transactions . -steel, withround metal ends, is covered with an acid-proof paint. The accumulator feeds the glow lamp, giving 1\ to 2 candle-power, for 12 hours. The accumulator is connected up to asimple charging-device by plugs. The weight of the lamp, ready for use, is 4 pounds, and theheight is MU inches. Mr. J. Or. Weeks, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Cremerfor his paper, stated that the Wolf-Uohres lamp was a step in theright direction, if it would burn 12 hours, although the weightwas somewhat excessive. It was unfortunate that an electriclamp would not detect the presence! of gas. Mr. M. Walton Brown seconded the resolution which wascordially approved. FERRO-CONCRETE WORK AT prXKTON-VPON-TYNE. 61 THE NORTH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF MINING ANDMECHANICAL ENGINEERS, EXCURSION MEETING,Held at Dunston-upon-Tyne, Auchtst 29th, 1907. FERRO-CONCRETE WORK AT DTTNSTON-UPON-TYNE. In addition to a warehouse built ou the Mouohel-Heniiebiquesystem of ferro-concrete near the northern bank of the river. Pig. L. — Ferro-concrete Granary. T\ lie, ai Newcastle, the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Limited,has adopted Ihc same method of construction for the execution 62 FERR0-C0XCRETK WORK AT DUNSTON-UPON-TYNE. of other interesting examples of architectural and engineeringwork in the district. The most important of these buildings is erected at Dunston,and measures 155 feet in length, 110 feet in width, and 94 feetin height to the uttermost level. This structure (fig. 1) com-prises a granary divided into fifty-six bins or silos for the stor-age of grain, and a grain-cleaning house surmounted by a towercontaining a. tank for water-sprinkling apparatus, while themain roof of the cleaning-house forms a water-storage lank, tfeet deep. The building stands upon a continuous foundation-slab of ferro-concrete, connecting the heads of numerous piles
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