SCIENCE CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2213, 28 July 1914, Page 3

SCIENCE CONGRESS

PAPERS ON ENGINEERING. ■ The provisional programme of the work that will be done by the engineering section: of, the .British. Association in, Australia has- now been fixed, and tho list of papers to be delivered,by home members is as follows:—At Melbourne: "Aviation- Research": (Professor J. 'E. Petavcl, F.R.S:), : "Raihvays and Motor Power" ' (Professor, W. E'. Dalby, F.R.S.),' ''Development of the Port of London" (Mr. C; R. S. Kirkpatrick), "Behaviour of Metals Under Strain" (Dr. W. Rosenhain, F.R.S.), "The.Testing of. Materials" (Professor ' Dalby), "Stress Distribution in Short Compression Members" (Professor E. G. Coker and Professor L. N. G. Filon, F.R.S.), "Rolling Loads on Beams" (Professor Chatley), "The Humphrey Pump" (Mr. H. A. Humphrey), and "Irrigation in Italy'' (Professor Luiggi). There will also be a joint discussion on "Irrigation" with the Section of Agriculture, and the R-eport of the .Committee • oh "Complex Stress", will be read. '. At Sydney Professor E. G. Cokcr"will deliver his presidential 'address, and tho papers arranged include: "Engineering Work by Italians in Libya" (Professor Luiggi), "The New Engineering Laboratories of the City and Guilds .'Engineering Collego" (Professor W. E. Dalby), '•Tlie Kilo Flood Record from G4l to 1451 .O>." (Mr. T. W. Keele), "Some Applications of Reinforced Concrete to Harbour Work" (Mr. H. D.. Walsh), "The Proposed Metropolitan Eloctric Railway in Sydney (Mr. J. JVC. Bradfield), "Irrigation in New South Wales" (Mr. L. A. B. Wade), "Australian Ports in Relation to Modern Shipping" (Mr. W. E. Adams), "Australian Timbers" (Mr. W. H. Warren),'; "The Lost Pressure in Gaseo»s Explosions" (Professor Thornton), 'The Temperature' Cycle in Hrat Engines" (Professor Coker and Mr. Scoble), "Petrol , Fire Engines" O'tofessor Hudson Beare), "Coupled Circuits" (Dr. W. H. Eccles), "Capacity of Antennae , " (Professor G; _W. ,0. Howe), "Safety of. Electricity in Coal Mining"' (Professor Thornton), and "Distribution of Phosphorus in Steel" (Dr. R-osenbain)., \ A joint discussion has also been arranged with'the Mathematical and. Physical Section on "Wireless Telegraphy," and there will be a report from the committee on "Gaseous Explosions." ..--..