EXPERIMENTS BOOK - Steam Engines, Railway Materials and Thrashing Machines.

Most entries have detailed technical data with varying format according to the nature of the experiments and the items concerned. Where no indication is given in the book of the material's intended use, it is likely that they were meant for railway work. There is an alphabetical subject index at the front of the volume. Contents:

i. [c 1846](14 Feb) Iron bars for railway chairs. pp 1-8

ii. [late 1840's] Railway goods waggon springs. p 9

iii. [late 1840's] Girders for Diss Corn Exchange. p 11

iv. [c 1875] Water discharge through vertical 2½" wide slit to determine coefficient of Q = CV²h² diminishes as depth of stream increases. For pumping machinery. pp 13-16.

v. 1875(14 Sep-22 Oct) Pumping machinery. 3 expansion portable steam engines [no 2603 8 HP self acting. no 3347 10 HP. no 3164 12 HP double cylinder] with J & H Gwynne's 10" pump. pp 17-19

vi. 1846(29 May) Scantling Struts [for railway work] pp 21-23

vii. 1848(21 Sep) Trussed and sandwich purlins [for railway work] pp 27-29

viii. 1846(4 Nov) Corrugated iron [for railway works] pp 31-32

ix. [late 1840's] Contractor's rail[for railway work] p 33

x. [late 1840's] Columns [for railway work] pp 37-38

xi. [late 1840's] Crane jib [for railway work] p 41

xii. [late 1840's] Shearing and punching iron [for railway work] p 43

xiii. [late 1840's] Angles, "T" and sheet iron [for railway work] pp 45-47

xiv. 1853(10 Dec)-1854(14 Jan) Iron for Madras railway chairs. pp 49-54

xv. [c1866] 10hp ordinary portable steam engine - 9 x 12" stroke. pp 55-56

xvi. 1866(30 Jul-7 Aug) 5 HP expansion "portable" steam engines for Russian lighthouses. pp 57-58

xvii. 1860(14-20 Jul) 10 HP ordinary portable steam engine with various slide valves including Adams and Parsons type. p 59.

xviii. 1866(5-13 Nov) 8 HP ordinary portable steam engine with different grate areas p 59

xix. 1867(17 & 18 Sep) Steam engine slide valves. p 60

xx. 1866(12 Jul-18 Dec) 12 HP portable expansion steam engine - 12 x 18 stroke with steam jacket. pp 61-66

xxi. 1867(4-8 Jan) Ditto for heater and fuel consumption. pp 67-68

xxii. 1867(22-23 Feb) 10 HP portable expansion steam engine - 10 x 13" stroke for Paris Exhibition 1867 no 1369. p 69.

xxiii. 1867(8-16 Mar) 10 HP "portable" expansion steam engine - 10 x 13" stroke for Billancourt Exhibition. pp 70-72.

xxiv. 1867(27 Mar-4 Apr) 8 HP portable steam engine - 7¾ x 11" stroke. no 263. From Town Warehouse. pp 73-76.

xxv. 1867(5-28 May) 10 HP Portable steam engine - 10 x 13" stroke with double port slide valve. Order no 7256. pp 77-79.

xxvi. 1867(23 May)-1868(23 Jan) Light 10 HP portable steam engine - 10 x 13" stroke with double port slide valve with relief ring. Engine no 1410. pp 79-83

xxvii. 1867(15-19 Jun) 8 HP ordinary portable steam engine - 7¾ x 11" stroke with ordinary slide valve and shifting eccentric. p 83

xxviii. 1867(20 Jun) 10 HP ordinary portable steam engine - 9 x 12" stroke. no 1399. p 83

xxix. 1867(4 Jun-21 Sep) 15 HP double cylinder portable steam engine 8¼ x 12" x 2 stroke with double port valves and relief rings. No 1403. pp 85-88.

xxx. 1868(3-17 Nov) 3 expansion portable steam engines for Santiago Exhibition [no 1616-10 HP 10 x 13" stroke double slide valve, relief ring, steam jacket and heater, no 1617 12 HP double cylinder 8¼ x 12" x 2 stroke, no 1618 8 HP single cylinder, 9¾ x 12" stroke, slide valve] pp 89-90.

xxxi. 1869(14 and 23 Dec) 8 HP single slide expansion portable steam engine, no 1798. p 90.

xxxii. 1871(20-27 Feb) Comparison of economic value of 5 kinds of coal. p 91

xxxiii. 1871(14 Feb-18 Mar) Ditto using 50 HP Turnery stationary steam engine. p 92.

xxxiv. 1871(4 Apr-16 May) Turnery 50 HP stationary steam engine - steam jackets and air holes. pp 93-94.

xxxv. 1871(23 Nov) Warming feed water of portable steam engine. An ordinary 10 HP with steam jacketed cylinder was used. No 2276. pp 95-96.

xxxvi. 1871(27 Oct)-1872(15 May) Al steam thrashing machine no 6448 with detailed notes. pp 97-102.

xxxvii. 1872(3-24 Jan) Comparison of two 10 HP portable steam engines, one with steam jacket, one without. Nos 2246 and 2276. pp 103-104.

xxxviii. 1873(21 Jan-1 Apr) Special 8 HP portable steam engines - 9 x 13" stroke for Vienna Exhibition 1873. No 2603. pp 105-108.

xxxix. 1873(3 Apr-7 May) Comparison of 10 HP portable steam engine - Clayton, Shuttleworth & Co. No 12160, with RSH portable steam engine [no 2502 - 10HP ordinary. no 2618 - 10 HP expansion. no 2564 - 12 HP ordinary. no 2635 - 8 HP expansion] pp 109-112.

xl. 1872-3 Five portable steam engines straw burning trials pp 113-114

a. 1872(5 Dec) In thrashing. Rose Hill Farm

b. 1873(19 May) 10 HP portable steam engine no 2598 for W Maw of "Engineering"

c. 1873(20 May) 10 HP portable steam engine no 2598 for W Mallett of "The Engineer".

d. 1873(16 Aug) 10 HP portable steam engine. At Factory of Clayton, Shuttleworth & Co. Vienna.

e. 1873(1 Sep) 10 HP portable steam engine. Burning cotton wood. no 2738.

xli. 1873(19-20 Jun) Strawshaker with RSH and Marshall Sons & Co Steam Thrashing Machines. Resgrave. p 115.

xlii. 1873(6-19 Nov) Compairson of 8 HP portable steam engine with 10 HP cylinder and ordinary 8 HP portable steam engine - 7¾ x 11" stroke, no 2768. pp 115

xliii. 1873(22 Dec)-1874(16 Jan) Economic values of Asia Minor coal, Cambridgeshire Kennett peat and Rhonda steam coal. 8 HP portable steam engine - 7¾ x 11" stroke. no 2768 was used. pp 116-117.

xliv. 1874(25 Feb) Reed and seed turnip stalk burning. An 10 HP portable steam engine straw burner no 2795 was used. p 117.

xlv. 1875(7-8 Jan) Blast nozzles. A 12 HP single slide expansion portable steam engine straw burner was used. pp118.

xlvi. 1874(29 Sep)-1876(22 Sep) Comparison of 8HP self acting expnasion portable steam engine with round top fire boxes nos 3000 and 3001 RSH with 8 HP single cylinder variable expansion portable steam engine - 9½ x 12" stroke Marshall Sons & Co no 4875 pp 119-120.

xlvii. 1874(25 Nov)-1875(24 Mar) Dudgeon's 12" and 8" rotary steam engine. pp 121-122

xlviii. 1875(8 Feb-4 Mar) 10 HP expansion portable steam engine. 10 x 13" stroke on Welter's paptent boiler. pp 123-124.

xlix. 1875(5-10 Apr) Varieties of blank nozzle. p 125.

l. 1875(16-22 Apr) 12 HP double cylinder ordinary portable steam engine straw burner with various blank nozzles and straw sizes. p 126.

li. 1875(18 Aug-10 Sep) Account of straw burning portable steam engine trials, using 8 HP expansion and 10 HP expansion engines, the latter no 3302. pp 127-129.

lii. 1876(10-17 Aug) Ditto, using 6 HP ordinary no 3437 and 10 HP ordinary pp 130-131

liii. 1877(23-27 Jul) Ditto, using 8 HP expansion engine. pp 131-133.

liv. 1877(31 Jul-2 Nov) Ditto, brick arch in firebox of straw burning. steam engine. pp 133-141.

lv. 1875-1877 summary table of experiments with various strawburning steam engine, divided into plain fireboxes, brick arches, brick partitions and bridge and baffler. p 142.

lvi. 1878(2-27 Feb) Boiler tubes for 8 HP strawburning portable steam engine. p 143.

lvii. 1878(5 Jul)-1879(2 May) 8 HP new standard strawburning portable steam engine. Account of trials. pp 144-147.

lviii. 1882(1 Sep) Trial of 3 HP vertical steam engine - Davey, Paxman & Co at the Inkstand Works. pp 148-150.

lix. 1885(29 Sep and 1 Oct) and 1889(19 Jun) 6 HP strawburning traction engine, no 3306 in 1889 trials. pp 151-154.