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This paper examines how boulders, pebbles, gravel, and coarse sand move along sea and lake shores, a process that earlier geology manuals treated only briefly or ambiguously. Drawing on observations at Alushta and Yalta and on simple tracking experiments with brick fragments in surf, the author argu…
This article presents a historical survey of urban sewerage as a component of sanitary engineering and of cultural history, arguing that its development should be studied alongside contemporary technical practice. Drawing on scattered literary, archaeological, and technical sources, it outlines sewe…
This paper develops a graphical and geometrical study of slider-crank, eccentric, and slotted-link mechanisms, with particular attention to the effects of finite connecting-rod and eccentric-rod length. It classifies principal and derived crank mechanisms according to the relation between the crank …
This annual report documents the organization, personnel, teaching activity, student body, facilities, publications, and finances of the Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II during 1907. It presents administrative changes, departmental curricula, lists of academic staff and their sch…
This report describes P. A. Kazansky’s 1907 foreign trip undertaken to select and purchase paleontological and related natural history collections for the Tomsk Technological Institute. It summarizes visits to dealers and museums in Berlin, Bonn, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg, no…
This paper develops a graphical method for converting indicator diagrams of internal combustion engines from pressure volume coordinates into temperature entropy coordinates, where area represents heat. Starting from the thermodynamic relations for ideal gases, it derives entropy expressions in term…
This study examines how steel balls deform metal plates under dynamic loading, extending questions raised by Brinell hardness testing from static pressure to impact by kinetic energy. Using a drop hammer, balls of several diameters, varied falling loads and heights, and different interlayer material…
This study reports on 1906 exploration of the southeastern part of the South Russian manganese deposit near Gorodishche and Nikopol, undertaken amid renewed industrial interest in manganese supplies. Using natural exposures, boreholes, shafts, prospect pits, leveling, washing tests, and chemical ana…
This preliminary report summarizes a 1904 geological excursion funded by the Tomsk Technological Institute to the lower Volga region, the Urals, and parts of Western Siberia, with the aims of examining Mesozoic deposits and collecting paleontological material. The author records visited localities, …
This note revisits Cantor’s notions of adherences and coherences for linear point domains, comparing them with W. H. Young’s treatment and with derived sets. Using the author’s notation and the concept of types of arrangement, it derives general relations between coherences of finite and transfinite…
This study examines railway ballast as a critical and unstable element of the permanent way, relating its physical properties, elasticity, drainage, layer dimensions, and resistance to vertical and horizontal forces to track stability and safety. It argues that commonly used formulas for rail stress…
This study investigates Poisson’s ratio for gray cast iron, a material whose elastic behavior was considered insufficiently characterized, especially under changing and repeated loads. Pinegin describes a mirror-based apparatus for measuring transverse deformation directly, compares two instrument d…
These regulations define the conditions under which the Tomsk Technological Institute could assign and fund foreign travel for academic development. They specify eligible categories of staff and former scholarship holders, qualification requirements based on examinations or scholarly publications, d…
This report documents the formation and operation of the Library of the Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II from its opening in 1900 through January 1907. Drawing on cash books, commission records, and appended statistical tables, it analyzes appropriations, expenditures, subject-ba…
This paper reports chemical analyses of mineral waters from several Siberian lakes near the Shira resort, principally Shira, Bilë, Uchum, and Itkul, based on samples collected in 1904 and examined by standard quantitative methods with specified modifications for magnesium and alkali determination. I…
This work develops a theoretical and practical treatment of steam injector calculation, focusing on the intake nozzle, the conversion of jet kinetic energy into pressure, and the influence of nozzle geometry on delivery and back pressure. It derives relations between velocity and pressure for flow t…
This monograph examines the wheel lathe as a costly and strategically important machine tool in railway workshops, linking its design to the broader problem of high railway operating and repair costs in Russia. It proposes a scientific basis for evaluating machine tools through the machining process…
This preliminary report describes V. A. Obruchev’s 1906 geological and orographic expedition in Western Dzungaria, continuing earlier investigations of the Saur, Tarbagatai, and Maili-Barlyk mountain systems. Based on field routes, visual surveying, geological observations, and height measurements, …
This report records an inspection of selected mining enterprises and museum materials in the Altai District during 1905, combining institutional assessment with observations on the region’s declining mining economy. Tove evaluates the proposed transfer of Barnaul Mining Museum models to Tomsk, findi…
This work develops a theoretical and practical treatment of the steam injector as a boiler feed apparatus, addressing its reputation for irregular and unreliable operation. It analyzes the injector as a jet apparatus through mechanics of impact, thermodynamics of steam expansion and condensation, an…
This paper investigates transformations of cyclobutyldimethylcarbinol and the reduction of tetramethylenecarboxylic acid, with particular attention to the stability and rearrangement of four-membered rings. Through reactions with oxalic acid, dilute sulfuric acid, hydrobromic acid, chromic mixture, …
This study presents a systematic early survey of the glaciers of the Munku-Sardyk Range on the Russia, Mongolia border, with particular attention to the southern and northern glaciers of the main summit and the glacier at the source of the Bely Irkut River. Drawing on field excursions from 1896 to 1…
This document sets out draft regulations for awarding medals, honorable mentions, and possible publication to students submitting essays on special topics at an institute. It defines the annual proposal and announcement of topics by departments, submission deadlines, anonymous motto based review pro…
This document presents regulations approved in 1907 by the Council of the Tomsk Technological Institute for the publication of lectures delivered by its professors and instructors. It defines eligible uses of publication funds, conditions for publishing different categories of courses, minimum submi…
This report examines the conditions under which sugar beet cultivation, and by extension sugar production, might be developed in Siberia by comparing established beet-growing estates across European Russia. Based on inspections in the Podolia, Kiev, Kharkov, Kursk, Voronezh, Tula, and Samara provinc…
This article examines how the mechanical strength of wood under compression and bending can be characterized, with particular attention to the relation between compressive strength, bending strength, moisture content, and specific gravity in the absolutely dry state. Drawing on the author’s compress…
This paper presents a graphical approach to mine surveying problems involving the geometric relations between bedded deposits and mine workings. It explains the method of projections with numerical elevations, including the representation of points, lines, slopes, planes, strike, and dip, and compar…
This document presents draft regulations of the Tomsk Technological Institute for examinations granting the right to occupy an academic chair under the institute statute. It defines the examination as an oral procedure conducted by the relevant department, specifies scheduling, examiners, protocols,…
This preliminary report summarizes a 1905 geological expedition to the Barlyk and Tarbagatai mountain systems and adjacent regions of the Dzungarian Gate, Saur, Manrak, and the Kirghiz steppe. Based on route surveys, hypsometric observations, field diaries, and collections of rocks and fossils, the …
This publication is a classified catalog of the Tomsk Technological Institute library holdings in theoretical mechanics as of the early twentieth century. It organizes entries by books printed in Russian type and in foreign typefaces, listing authors, titles, publication places and dates, volumes, t…
This report summarizes M. I. Yuzhakov’s overseas technical study trip to German engineering schools and factories, with particular attention to gas engines, internal combustion engines, mechanical laboratories, and methods of experimental instruction. It describes visits to works including Körting, …
This work develops a systematic account of linear point sets, their structure, and their measure, using Cantorian terminology and related formulations by Riemann, Jordan, and others. It defines intervals, domains, complements, boundary and interior points, derived sets, isolated, condensed, closed, …
This report documents the activities, staffing, administration, and material condition of the Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II during 1905, a year in which regular classes did not take place. It records the institute’s departmental structure, personnel changes, honorary members, …
This publication is a printed catalogue of the pure mathematics holdings of the Library of the Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II, issued as Section 2 of the library catalogue. It records books and related materials in Russian and other European languages, giving inventory numbers,…
This report summarizes a ten-month overseas study of hydraulic engineering and turbine construction, centered on instruction at the Zurich Polytechnic, visits to Swiss hydroelectric installations, and inspections of turbine-manufacturing works. It describes the Polytechnic’s curriculum, laboratory p…
This paper develops an approximate hydraulic theory for calculating and designing the blades of high-speed Francis turbines, especially the American type in which water paths vary across the runner. It presents a layer-by-layer method that divides the runner into elementary turbines, derives general…
This study reconstructs the history and technical design of Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov’s eighteenth-century steam engine, built at the Barnaul works to supply blast for smelting furnaces without reliance on water power. Drawing on archival extracts, earlier publications, surviving models, and technical…
This study examines how the partial density of a volatile solvent in solution is related to the vapor pressure, or elasticity, of the solution, treating the problem as part of a broader connection between solvent density and osmotic pressure. It develops an approximate theoretical relation using the…
This technical manual examines the use of river water as motive power, with particular attention to dams as devices for creating head, regulating discharge, and storing usable water. It combines hydraulic formulas, economic comparisons, site and pond design considerations, and empirical guidance on …
This report documents the activities and condition of the Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II during 1904, with attention to its departments, courses, personnel, governance, and administrative changes. It records the expansion of instruction across the mechanical, chemical, mining, …
This annual report documents the organization, staffing, instruction, facilities, finances, and student support of the Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II during 1903. It records the expansion of academic courses across the mechanical, chemical, mining, and civil engineering departm…
This preliminary report summarizes a 1904 geological expedition to the Mugodzhar and Guberlin Mountains and adjacent regions, with incidental barometric, botanical, and zoological observations by members of the party. It describes the route, field methods, collected material, and principal observati…
This study examines the mechanical strength of longleaf yellow pine, Pinus palustris, through tests conducted in the U.S. Forest Department laboratory system in Washington and associated stations. It presents the laboratory organization, specimen selection procedures, and standardized methods for de…
This paper examines the structural calculation of the Résal bridge system, developed for large spans where ordinary arch thrust ties at springing level would obstruct navigation. It first reviews the approximate procedure used for the 1900 Paris Exposition footbridge and derives a preliminary formul…
This study examines the performance of 18-pound-per-foot rails on the Siberian Railway under traffic conditions that soon exceeded the modest assumptions used in the line’s original construction. Drawing on nearly three years of field observations, derailment investigations, measurements of rail wea…
This survey introduces metallography as an emerging science that uses microscopic examination and studies of solidification to relate the internal structure of metals and alloys to their chemical composition, physical properties, and treatment history. It outlines practical methods for preparing, po…
This paper develops a mathematical treatment of the parallel operation of alternators, motivated by the growing practical importance of alternating current systems, large generating units, direct coupling to prime movers, and synchronous motor applications. It reviews earlier work on synchronizing c…
