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Engine. As to malicious injuries to engines and machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 11, 14, 15; and as to placing wood, etc., on any railway, with intent to obstruct or overthrow any engine, see s. 35. The use of locomotive engines on railways is authorized by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, and regulated by s. 116 of that Act. The Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by the Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Act, 1923, gives compensation for damage by fires caused by sparks or cinders from railway engines; see Martin v. G.E. Railway, (1912) 2 KB 406; A.-G. v. G.W. Railway, (1924) 2 KB 1. See TRACTION ENGINE and SMOKE....
Engineer
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering as a civil engineer an electronic engineer a chemical engineer See under Engineering n...
Civil Engineer
Civil Engineer. In 1923 the Institution of Civil Engineers was granted a supplemental Royal Charter which gives members and associate members an exclusive right to describe themselves as 'Chartered Civil Engineers.' The term 'engineer' was originally understood to mean military engineer; the word 'civil' was therefore applied to distinguish the institution....
Engineer Corps
In the United States army the Corps of Engineers a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general whose title is Chief of Engineers It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense the improvement of rivers and harbors the construction of lighthouses etc and in time of war supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field...
Engineering
Originally the art of managing engines in its modern and extended sense the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man whether in structures machines chemical substances or living organisms the occupation and work of an engineer In the modern sense the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions may be considered as engineering including such abstract tasks as designing software software engineering...
Radial engine
An engine usually an internal combustion engine of a certain type the radial type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft...
Steam engines
Steam engines. As to the negligent use of the furnaces of these, see the Steam Engine Furnaces Act, 1831; and as to damaging or obstructing them, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 29, 35, 36. See also ss. 114-116 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 27; Martin v. G.E. Ry. Co., (1912) 2 KB 406. See ENGINE; ROAD TRAFFIC....
Gas engine
A kind of internal combustion engine which see using fixed gas also broadly any internal combustion engine...
Gasoline engine
A kind of internal combustion engine in British countries called usually petrol engine...
Radiant engine
A semiradial engine See Radial engine above...
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