A Study of the Current Transformer with Particular Reference to Iron Loss (open access)

A Study of the Current Transformer with Particular Reference to Iron Loss

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over studies conducted on current transformers. Emphasis is placed on iron loss. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: 1911
Creator: Agnew, P. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of the Constants of Instrument Transformers (open access)

The Determination of the Constants of Instrument Transformers

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over studies on instrument transformers. As stated in the first paragraph, "the principle of the method here described is the same for both current and potential transformers, being an application of the potentiometer method" (p. 281). The methods and equipment studied are presented and discussed.
Date: 1911
Creator: Agnew, P. G. & Fitch, T. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Steam-Turbine Expansion Line on the Mollier Diagram, and a Short Method of Finding the Reheat Factor (open access)

The Steam-Turbine Expansion Line on the Mollier Diagram, and a Short Method of Finding the Reheat Factor

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over the Mollier diagram. The steam-turbine expansion line on the diagram is discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: 1911
Creator: Buckingham, Edgar
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Biological Survey of Colorado (open access)

A Biological Survey of Colorado

From introduction: "Report based chiefly on the field work prosecuted during 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1909. It is primarily a characterization of the several major distribution areas or life zones."
Date: August 17, 1911
Creator: Cary, Merritt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Explosive Mine Gases and Dusts: With Special Reference to Explosions in the Monongah, Darr, and Naomi Coal Mines (open access)

Notes on Explosive Mine Gases and Dusts: With Special Reference to Explosions in the Monongah, Darr, and Naomi Coal Mines

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing coal mining gas and dust explosions, specifically those at the Monongah, Darr, and Naomi mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Studies on mine explosions, as well as methods and analyses are presented. This report includes tables, and an illustration.
Date: 1911
Creator: Chamberlin, Rollin Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Essential Factors in the Formation of Producer Gas (open access)

Essential Factors in the Formation of Producer Gas

From Introduction Scope and Purpose of Inquiry: "The Bureau of Mines, to which the testing and analyzing of fuels as carried on by the United States Geographical Survey has been transferred, is continuing producer-gas investigations at the testing station at Pittsburgh, Pa. Results of the gas-producer tests made at the coal-testing plant erected at St.Louis, Mo., and of a study of some of the problems that came up in the tests have been published by Geological Survey. Results of the tests made at Norfolk, Va., and Pittsburgh, Pa. and of further studies of particular problems, will be published by the Bureau of Mines."
Date: 1911
Creator: Clement, J. K.; Adams, L. H. & Haskins, C. N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coupled Circuits in Which the Secondary has Distributed Inductance and Capacity (open access)

Coupled Circuits in Which the Secondary has Distributed Inductance and Capacity

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over studies conducted on coupled circuits. Emphasis was placed on the secondary circuit and its inductance and capacity. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes illustrations.
Date: 1911
Creator: Cohen, Louis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Uses of Peat for Fuel and Other Purposes (open access)

The Uses of Peat for Fuel and Other Purposes

From Introduction: "The bulletin sets forth the results of an investigation that was undertaken to determine whether peat, a fuel widely used in some countries, could be made serviceable in the United States, where, through labor and economic conditions differ from those in peat-using countries, there are opportunities for the introduction of a fuel selling at prices that should make the mining and shipment of peat to near-by markets profitable."
Date: 1911
Creator: Davis, Charles A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Features of Producer-Gas Power-Plant Development in Europe (open access)

Features of Producer-Gas Power-Plant Development in Europe

From Introduction: "Because the limited time available would not permit a careful inspection, much less a detailed study of all the plants visited, the writer has not aimed in this bulletin to present a comprehensive review of producer-gas power-plant development in Europe, or even to give such conclusions as might be drawn from what he saw, but has simply described some interesting features of European practice that attract the attention of even a casual observer."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910 (open access)

Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910

From Scope of Report: "The purpose of this report is, therefore, to present in convenient form all the more important data accumulated in the course of the tests described, in order that the results may be readily accessible both to the Government officials having charge of the design, purchase, or care of power plants and to all persons interested in the development of the internal-combustion engine and the gas producer as means for utilizing the energy of fuels."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H. & Smith, C. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incidental Problems in Gas-Producer Tests (open access)

Incidental Problems in Gas-Producer Tests

From Introduction: "In the course of this study many incidental problems of prime importance have demanded consideration. Among them is the determination, under practically constant conditions, of the duration of gas-producer tests necessary to reduce the possible error to minimum. A discussion of this proper length of test period forms the part of this bulletin."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H.; Smith, C. D.; Clement, J. K. & Grine, H. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alaskan Coal Problems (open access)

Alaskan Coal Problems

Report discussing coal problems existing in Alaska, which Alaskan coal has high value.
Date: 1911
Creator: Fisher, Walter L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus and Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Furnace Gases (open access)

Apparatus and Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Furnace Gases

From Introduction: "It is the purpose of this paper to describe some apparatus and methods which have proved satisfactory to those engaged in the chemical work of the investigations mentioned. While these methods and apparatus have been designed more particularly with regard to analysis of furnace gases, their use is by no means limited to that purpose."
Date: 1911
Creator: Frazer, J. C. W. & Hoffman, E. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the Spiny Pocket Mice: (Genera Heteromys and Liomys) (open access)

Revision of the Spiny Pocket Mice: (Genera Heteromys and Liomys)

From introduction: "Result of a study of the spiny pocket mice in the collection of the Biological Survey, now numbering nearly 1,000 specimens, supplemented by about 130 in the United States National Museum and from various sources."
Date: September 7, 1911
Creator: Goldman, Edward A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives (open access)

Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives

From Introduction: "For purpose of procuring data that could be using in estimating the value of the briquetting process as applied to American fuels, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with other interests, began in 1904, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, certain experiments involving the production and use of bituminous-coal briquets."
Date: 1911
Creator: Goss, W. F. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Utilization of Fuel in Locomotive Practice (open access)

The Utilization of Fuel in Locomotive Practice

Report that investigates the possibility of conserving coal despite its extensive use in railroad locomotives across the United States. Includes an experiment using different grades of coal in an approximation of a locomotive, as well as data regarding fuel utilization and loss.
Date: 1911
Creator: Goss, W. F. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Systematic Synopsis of the Muskrats (open access)

A Systematic Synopsis of the Muskrats

From introduction: "Systematic account of the genus Fiber through study of over 1,000 specimens, chiefly well-prepared skins, accompanied by skulls, together with many odd skulls and skeletons."
Date: April 29, 1911
Creator: Hollister, N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Work Conducted in the Chemical Laboratory of the United States Fuel-Testing Plant at St. Louis, Missouri, January 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906. (open access)

Experimental Work Conducted in the Chemical Laboratory of the United States Fuel-Testing Plant at St. Louis, Missouri, January 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906.

From Introduction: "This report therefore covers all such work up to its completion in July, 1906. In the following pages the results of each line of experimental work are given under a special heading indicating the object of the investigation."
Date: 1911
Creator: Lord, N. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Binders for Coal Briquets: Investigations Made at the Fuel-Testing Plant, St. Louis, Missouri (open access)

Binders for Coal Briquets: Investigations Made at the Fuel-Testing Plant, St. Louis, Missouri

From Introduction: "The problem is always to produce at a profit a briquet of satisfactory grade for the use intended. This problem will be made clearer by a brief summary of the available binders, followed by a preliminary discussion of the characteristics of a good briquet."
Date: 1911
Creator: Mills, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Primer on Explosives for Coal Miners (open access)

A Primer on Explosives for Coal Miners

From Introduction: "Much of the information in this primer has been obtained from experiments conducted by the technologic branch of the United Sates Geological Survey at the mining experiment station at Pittsburgh, Pa. These investigations have shown the recent development of a new type of short-flame explosives, which can be used with greater safety than black powder in mines where there is dangerous gas or inflammable dust, because the flame from the explosion of black powder lasts from 2,500 to 3,500 times as long does the flame from these newer explosives and is therefore more likely to ignite the gas or dust in such mines."
Date: 1911
Creator: Munroe, Charles E. & Hall, Clarence
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Llano-Burnet Region, Texas with an Account of the Pre-Cambrian Geology (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Llano-Burnet Region, Texas with an Account of the Pre-Cambrian Geology

The following report examines the mineral resources and geologic relations of the pre-Cambrian rocks and the associated iron ores in the Llano-Burnet region, Texas.
Date: 1911
Creator: Paige, Sidney
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Modified Method for the Determination of Relative Wave-Lengths (open access)

A Modified Method for the Determination of Relative Wave-Lengths

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over developments made to the methods for the determination of relative wave-lengths. The methods developed are discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: 1911
Creator: Priest, Irwin G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tests of Coal and Briquets as Fuel for House-Heating Boilers (open access)

Tests of Coal and Briquets as Fuel for House-Heating Boilers

From Introduction: "Perhaps the most important result obtained is that showing the relative value of different fuels for domestic purposes. From Table 16. on page 39, it is possible by comparison to arrive at the probable value of any fuel in any part of the country. The figures in the table show that with a sectional boiler the effectiveness of different fuels depends on the number of thermal units they contain. A brief summary of the results of this investigation is given on page 41."
Date: 1911
Creator: Randall, D. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Breckenridge District, Colorado (open access)

Geology and Ore Deposits of the Breckenridge District, Colorado

Study of the geology and ore deposits of the Breckenridge District in Colorado.
Date: 1911
Creator: Ransome, Frederick Leslie
System: The UNT Digital Library