List of Contents

The collection

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This page is devoted to listing all the contents of the book.

(They are in the order laid out in the book, not chronological order).

Letter to Olive Arnold, daughter of RHT, dated April, 1905

List of Medals.

Obituary from the ‘Times’.

Progress of the Tweddell System of Hydraulic Rivetting.

Biographical Sketch of Ralph Hart Tweddell.

Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

Obituary from ‘The Machinery Market’.

Portrait of Ralph Hart Tweddell, C.E.

Application of Water Pressure to Shop Tools, etc. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, at Liverpool, 31st July, 1872.

Paper on the Transmission and Application of Power to Machine Tools, etc., read at the Manchester Association of Engineers, January 25th, 1896.

Paper on Direct-Acting Hydraulic Machinery, read before the Society of Engineers, 4th June, 1877.

Application of Water Pressure to Machine Tools and Appliances, read before the Society of Engineers, 3rd March, 1890.

Tweddell and McDonnell on Hydraulic Machine Tools, with an Abstract of the Discussion upon the Papers. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 6th March 1883.

Tweddell on the Application of Hydraulic Pressure, with an Abstract of the Discussion upon the Paper. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 20th February, 1894.

Modern Hydraulic Machine Tools and Appliances.  A Paper read before the society of Engineers on “The Application of Water Pressure to Machine Tools and Appliances,” 3rd March, 1890.

The Application of Hydraulic Pressure to the Driving of Machines, and the Transport of Material in Works. Excerpt of Proceedings of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, February, 1886.

Tweddell’s Hydraulic Rivetting, Machinery, etc.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers – Memoirs.  Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings, July, 1895.

Paper on the Transmission and Application of Power to Machine Tools, etc. A Paper read before the Manchester Association of Engineers, 25th January, 1896.

The Employment of Hydraulic Machinery in Engineering Workshops. A Paper read before the Society of Arts, January 14th, 1885.

Illustration of Ralph Hart Tweddell’s Improved Hydraulic Rivetter.

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