International Congress of Engineers (1894)

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Operations of the Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. Held in Chicago Last August, under the Auspices of the World’s Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition (1894)

• Operations of the Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. Held in Chicago Last August, under the Auspices of the World’s Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition. Washington: Government Printing Office (1894); 982 pages, 200+illus.[the full report] Price 98.00 {Item No.6100} [Includes 45 articles]
• I. Report of Major Clifton Comly, Ordnance Department; 5 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6101} [Introduction]
• II. Coast Defense, including Submarine Mines. by Col. Henry L.Abbott, Corps of Engineer, U.S.Army; 16 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6102}
• III. Coast Defense. by Major Sir G.S.Clarke, K.C.M.G.; 14 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6103}
• IV. Fortification for Coast Defense, including Submarine Mines. by Major J.F.Lewis, Royal Engineers; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6104}
• V. Controllable Torpedoes, operated for Shore Stations. by Lieut.Col.W.R.King, Corps of Engineers, U.S.Army; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6105}
• VI. Military Land Mine. by Prof.James Mercur, U.S.Military Academy; 9 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6106}
• VII. Intrenched Camps. by Lieut.A.M.D’Armit, Corps of Engineers, U.S.Army; 31 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.6107}
• VIII. Field Fortifications and Intrenched Camps. by Captain F.N.Maude, Royal Engineers; 51 pages Price 5.00 {Item No.6108}
• IX. Military Surveys and Reconnaissance and Map Duplication in the Field. by Lieut. Henry Jervey, Corps of Engineer, U.S.Army; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6109}
• X. Military Sketching and Maps. by Col.Von Usedom, Royal Prussian Government Survey; 12 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6110}
• XI. Range and Position Finding for Purposes of Gunnery. by William Oliver Smith; 28 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.6111}
• XII. Military Railway, Bridges, Locomotives, and Rolling Stock. by Captain C.G.Bate, Royal Engineers; 11 pages, plus 21 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.6112}
• XIII. Modern Gun Construction. by James Atkinson Longridge, Civil Engineer; 35 pages, 3 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.6113} [Includes: Introductory remarks, The Bursting Strain, The Longitudinal Strain, The Torsional Strain, Materials for Modern Gun Construction, Methods of Construction, Various Designs of Wire Guns, Liners, Breech Mechanism, Obturators and Metallic Cartridges, Rifling, New Powders, Conclusion]
• XIV. Modern Gun Construction and Breech Mechanism. by Captain Rogers Birnie, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; 38 pages, plus 8 plates of illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.6114} [Includes: Introductory, Tangential Resistance, Modes of Gun Construction, Classes of Guns, Resistance and Shrinkags of Built-up Forged-Steel Guns, Longitudinal Resistance, Breech Mechanism]
• XVa. Modern Gun Construction and Armor Piercing Shells. by Fleet Engineer George Quick, Royal Navy; 10 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6115}
• XVb. Armor-Piercing Shells Containing High Explosives. by George Quick, Royal Navy; 11 pages, 2 tables Price 1.00 {Item No.6116}
• XVI. The Manufacture of Steel for Modern Guns and other Ordnance Purposes. by Lieut. Sidney E. Stuart, Ordnance Department, U.S.Army; 14 pages, plus 17 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.6117} [Includes: Gun Steel, Steel for Gun Carriages, Projectiles, Armor Plate]
• XVII. Rapid-fire Guns. by Lieut. E. St.J.Greble, Second U.S.Artillery; 28 pages, plus data tables and 16 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.6118}
• XVIII. The Modern Infantry Rifle. by Captain S.E.Blunt, Ordnance Department, U.S.Army; 30 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.6119} [Includes: Part I: The Magazines, Central Magazines, Breech Mechanisms, Caliber—Smokeless Powder—Bullets, Penetration—Velocity—Accuracy, Sights—Bayonets. Part Two: The Small Arms of Roumania, England, and the United States, Mannlicher (Roumania and Holland), Lee-Speed, Mark I (England), Magazine Rifle, Model 1892 (United States)
• XIX. Explosives. by W.R.Quinan; 14 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6120} [Includes: Explosive Mixtures for Industrial Purposes, Gunpowder for Military Purposes, Sodium Nitrate for Brown Powder, Smokeless Powders, Sporting Powders, High Explosives for Industrial Purposes, Guncotton, Picric Acid, Etc., Materials Used, Gelatin Dynamite, Ammunium Nitrate]
• XX. Projectiles. by Capt.Henry Mctcalfe, Ordnance Department, U.S.Army; 3 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6121}
• XXI. Explosives. by Lieut.Willoughby Walke, Fifth U.S.Artillery; 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6122}
• XXII. Interior Ballistics, with Bibliography of Exterior and Interior Ballistics. by Capt.J.M.Ingalls, First U.S. Artillery; 28 pages, bibliography Price 3.00 {Item No.6123} [Includes: Definition and Object, Interior Ballistics, History, Robins’ Experiments and Deductions, Hutton’s Experiments, D’arcy’s Method, Rumford’s Experiments with Fixed Gunpower, Rodman’s Inventions and Experiments, Count De Saint-Robert’s Hypotheses, Formulas for pressure and work of unit weight of powder, upon the hypothesis that no heat is received from the non-gaseous products, Noble and Abel’s Experiments, Theoretical work effected by gunpowder, according to Noble and Abel, Sarrau’s formulas for velocity and pressure, Sarrau’s Formula for the maximum pressure on the breech, Influence of the Characteristics, Bibliography of Exterior Ballistic Machines, Bibliography of Interior Ballistics.American, Bibliography of Ballistics.Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, English, French]
• XXIII. The Transport of Troops and Supplies. by Brig. Gen.S.B.Holabird, U.S.Army (retired); 8 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6124}
• XXIV. Transportation and Subsistance. by Col.Olbrecht, Army of Switzerland; 8 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6125} [Includes: Transportation, Military organized transportation, Private vehicles, Rail and Steamboat Transports, Conditions for Transport, Normal Loads, Subsistance, Modes of Procuring Provisions: By Contract, Regie or Magazine system, Requestions]
• XXV. Report of Measures taken for the Sanitary Supervision of the Elbe Basin during the Cholera Epidemic of 1892 in Hamburg. by Dr.Paul Kohlstock, Staff Surgeon, Berlin; 13 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6126}
• XXVI. The Sanitary Relations of Military Sites. by Major Alf.Woodhull, Surgeon, U.S.Army; 13 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6127} [Includes: Soil, Soil air, Soil moisture and ground water, Soil temperature, Preparation of site, Topography, Conclusions]
• XXVII. Collection and Transmission of Intelligence in the Field. by Lieut.Col.C.L.C.Beresford, Royal Engineers; 8 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6128} [Includes: Instruments, Limits for Telegraph lines, Balloons, Position of Director of Telegraph]
• XXVIII. The Signal Corps of the Army of the United States with Reference to its Engineering Development. by Brig. Gen.A.W.Greely, Chief Signal Officer, U.S.Army; 16 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6129} [Includes: Heligraph screen, Night signaling, Field glasses, Flying telegraph lines, Outpost communications, Military Balloons]
• XXIX. Some Remarks on Aerial Warfare. by Major J.D.Fullerton, Royal Engineers; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.6130} [Includes: Aerial warfare now possible, Desirable to examine the effect on the art of war, classes of aerial ships likely to be used, Navigable balloons, Flying machines, Armament of air ships, Aerial warfare as effecting war by sea, Aerial warfare as affecting war by land, Warfare in the air, War in the future, Summary]
• XXX. Strength of Iron and Steel at High Temperatures. by J.E.Howard, Watertown. Watertown Arsenal, Mass.; 10 pages, 2 charts Price 1.50 {Item No.6131} [Includes: Coefficients of Expansion, Tensile tests, The Elastic Limit, Tensile strength, Total Elongation, Contraction of Area, The Modulus of Elasticity, Elongation under stresses between elastic limit and tensile strength, Effects of overstraining hot on the subsequent strength when ruptured cold, Slow and rapid fractures, The color of the ruptured bars, Specific gravity and internal strains, miscellaneous observations]
• XXXI. Disappearing Gun-Carriage. by Captain W.B.Gordon, Ordnance Department, U.S.Army; 26 pages, plus 13 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.6132} [Includes: Introduction, Elswick Hydropneumatic carriage for 9.2-inch B.L.R., 10-inch B.L.R., 6-inch 5-ton B.L.R., The Pneumatic carriage, The Buffington-crozier carriage, The Gordon carriage]
• XXXIa. American Military Roads and Bridges. by Prof. P.S.Michie, U.S. Military Academy; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6133} [Includes: Military Roads, Railroads, Corduroy Roads, Military Bridges, Other Military Bridges]
• XXXII. Range and Position Finding. by Capt.W.T.Unge, Late of the Staff-General and Captain in Royal Uplands Regiment (Army of Sweden); 10 pages, plus 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6134}
• XXXIII. A General Review of Existing Artillery. by Captain Gaston Moch, French Artillery; 114 pages Price 12.00 {Item No.6135} [In 2 Parts, divided into 7 chapters. Including: High-Power Artillery: Armor-Piercing Guns, Torpedo Shells and Pneumatic Guns. Field Guns: Weights and Caliber, The Question of Rapid Fire, The Gun Carriage, Upon Different Carriages Recently Proposed, The Materiel of the Light 75, Conclusion]
• XXXIV. Military Surveys and Reconnaissance, and Map Duplicating in the Fields. by Major W.R.Livermore. Corps of Engineers, U.S.Army; 8 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6136} [Includes: Reconnaissance, Surveys, Map Duplicating in the Field]
• XXXV. The Future Infantry Weapon. by Captain Rafael Mallen, Mexican Army; 7 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6137}
• XXXVI. Disappearing Gun-Mountings. by Captain J.E.C.Bracebridge, Third Middlesex Volunteer Artillery; 26 pages, plus 21(-15) pages of plates and photographs Price 5.00 {Item No.6138} [Unfortunately Plates number I-III, V-XIII and XIX-XX are missing in our copy. They appear to not to have been bound into the book in the first place. But the article is still useful.]
• XXXVII. Rapid-fire Guns and Mitrailleuses. by Major Jose L.Legorreta, Artillery Mexixan Army; 20 pages, plus 2 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.6139} [Includes: Rapid-Fire Guns and Mitrailleuses, Rapid-Fire Guns, Guns: Wedge systems, Screw Systems. Carriages, Checks, Appliances for pointing, Operation of Firing, Ammunition]
• XXXVIII. The De Bange, Krupps, Krupp, and Mondragon Breech-Closing System. by Major Miguel Gil, Mexican Artillery; 10 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6140} [Includes: The Wedge system, The De Bange Breech-Closing system, Model No.1, Model No.2, Model No.3]
• XXXIX. The Mondragon Rifle. by Majors Manuel Mondragon, and Luis G.Gil, Mexican Artillery; 33 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.6141} [Includes: Preface, Part I. Historical remarks on small arms, Part II. Description and opinions of the Mexican repeating rifle of the Mondragon system, The working of the gun, opinions, Part III. A short comparison of some modern models]
• XL. Torpedoes for Coast Defense. by Second Captain L.V.Arriago, and Lieut.P.Leyva, Mexican Engineers; 23 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6142} [Includes: Historical Resume, Description of torpedoes and their classification, Means employed for firing, Best arrangement of torpedoes for coast defense, maritime and fluvial works.][Covers mines and self propelled torpedoes]
• XLI. A Short Comparatives Study of the Material of the Regulation Mountain Artillery, and that proposed by Major G.Luna, Mexican Artillery; 39 pages, plus 4 plates of illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.6143} [Includes: Importance of Field Artillery and the conditions it must fulfill, The gun, The gun carriage, Mountain Artillery, Mountain Artillery: De Bange system, “Mondragon” system of mountain artillery, Comparison of the materiel of the mountain artillery systems of De Bange and Mondragon, Supplement][A complex Engineering argument, the great number of formulas]
• XLII. Synthetic and Analytical Monograph on Explosives. by First Captain E.Mondragon, Mexican Artillery; 39 pages Price 4.00 {Item No.6144} [Includes: Introduction, Compounds that have Nitric Cellulose for a base, Belgium Powders, Westphalia Powder, Maxius Powder, Classification by groups, Dynamites, Dynamites of inert base, Conditions of acceptance of explosives, Neutrality, Test for moisture, weight and density, Ignition, Resistance to mechanical action, Qualitative and quantitative analysis of modern explosives, Quantitative analysis for Nitrate of Potash, Quantitive analysis for sulphur, Quantitative analysis for carbon, Quantitative analysis of the compounds of nitroglycerin]
• XLIII. Gunshot Injuries by Jacketed Projectiles of the Small-Bores Rifle. by Captain L.A.La Garde, Assistant Surgeon, U.S.Army; 4 pages, plus 7 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6145}