Volume 4

Title Page

Contents

Officers and Members

Rules

Plates

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING	DATE
Dover	May, 1875
Cleveland	October, 1875
Washington	February, 1876

PAPERS:


DOVER MEETING May, 1875

TITLE	AUTHOR
Repairing the Upper Part of a Furnace Lining, without Blowing Out	Frank Firmstone
On the Use of Natural Gas for Puddling and Heating, at Leechburg, Pennsylvania	A.L. Holley C.E.
The Swansea Silver Smelting arid Refining Works of Chicago	J.L. Jernegan Jr. M.E.
Fires in Mines: Their Causes and the Means of Extinguishing Them	Richard P. Rothwell M.E.

CLEVELAND MEETING October, 1875

TITLE	AUTHOR
Some Pressing Needs of Our Iron and Steel Manufacture	A.L. Holley C.E.
Coking Indiana Block Coal	John S. Alexander
Furnace Hearth	George Asmus
Memoranda Relating to two Ninety-feet Chimneys for Siemens Heating Furnaces, at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works	P. Barnes
The Mass Copper of Lake Superior Mines and the Method of Mining it	Prof. William P. Blake
Notes on the Occurrence of Siderite at Gay Head, Mass	Prof. William P. Blake
On Evidence of Streams during the Deposition of the Coal	John F. Blandy
On the Compression of Gases	Charles F. Brush M.E.
The Velocity of Blast-Furnace Gases	John A. Church E.M.
Comparisons of Blast-Furnace Results	Frank Firmstone
Comparison of Results from Open-Topped and Closed-Topped Furnaces	Frank Firmstone
Bessemer Converter Bottoms	Robert Forsyth
What is Steel?	A.L. Holley C.E.
Improved Bessemer Plant	John B. Pearse
Iron and Carbon, Mechanically and Chemically Considered	John B. Pearse
Blast-Furnace Hearths and In-Walls	E.C. Pechin
The World's Product of Silver	R.W. Raymond Ph.D.
The Mahoning Valley Coal Regions	Andrew Roy

WASHINGTON MEETING February, 1876

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Inadequate Union of Engineering Science and Art	A.L. Holley C.E.
Suspended Hot-Blast Stoves	John Birkinbine
Determination of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel	Andrew A. Blair
Note upon the Manufacture of Ferro-Manganese in Austria	Prof. William P. Blake
On the Percentage of Iron in Certain Ores	Prof. Albert H. Chester
Blast-Furnace Statistics	John A. Church E.M.
Brückner Cylinders	N.H. Cone M.E.
Diatomaceous Sands of Richmond, Virginia	Martin Coryell
Railway Resistances	P.H. Dudley C.E.
Report of the Committee on Railway Resistances
Industrial Researches upon Heat and Combustion	P.H. Dudley C.E.
Refractory Materials	T. Egleston Ph.D.
Canfield's Mineral Dresser	T. Egleston Ph.D.
Boston and Colorado Smelting Works	T. Egleston Ph.D.
The Brown Coals of Utah and Adjoining Territories	H. Engelmann M.E.
The Midlothian, Virginia, Colliery, In 1876	Oswald J. Heinrich
The Worthington Compound Duplex Pressure Pump, at the Bessemer Works of the Albany and Rensselaer Iron and Steel Company, Troy New York	Robert W. Hunt
The Cornwall Iron Mine and some Related Deposits in Pennsylvania	T. Sterry Hunt LL.D. F.R.S.
A New Ore of Copper and its Metallurgy	T. Sterry Hunt LL.D. F.R.S.
What Steel Is	Prof. Frederick Prime Jr.
The Spahtic Iron Ores of the Hudson River	R.W. Raymond Ph.D.
The Mints and Assay Offices of Europe	Pierre de P. Ricketts E.M. Ph.D
Description of a Double Muffle Furnace, Designed for the Reduction of Hydrous Silicates Containing Copper	Prof. B. Silliman
The Use of the Magnetic Needle in Searching for Magnetic Iron Ore	Prof. J.C. Smock
The Manufacture of Ferro-Manganese in Georgia	Willard P. Ward
The Effect of Manganese in Bessemer Metal	Dr. August Wendel
The Cedar Point Iron Company's Furnace, No. 1, at Port Henry, Essex County, New York	T.F. Witherbee

INDEX

TITLE	AUTHOR
Index To Authors
Index to Papers