Engineering 1902 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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Accelerator, Portable, 175
Accident to a 15-Centinietre Quick-Firing Gun, 323. See LETTER, 373
Accident to Military Motor Wagon, 21. Sec Errata^ 48
Accident on the New York Central Railway, 156
Accident, Santos Dumont Airship, and Andree Balloon, 311, 819
Accumulators, Nickel Oxide, 355. See also Electric
Acetylene Gas Generator, Portable, 293
Action of Sea Water on Cement, 483
Admiralty Administration, 251, 2:8, 351, 511, 653, 684, 749. See also Naval
Admiralty and the Contract Department, 154, 223
Admiralty Orders for Warships, 445. See 120, 689, 749
Admiralty Policy as to Armaments, 653
Admiralty. See also Naval
Advertisers’ A, B, C, 146
Aerial Machines at the Royal Society’s Soiree, 651, 819
Africa. See South Africa
Air, Emissivity of, 1
Air Pumps, Edwards’ Electrically-Driven, 145
“ Airedale” Filter, 357
Airship, Santos Dumont, and Andree Balloon, 311, 819
Alcohol Motors, French, 45
Algiers Floating Docks, 212, 572, 789
Alkali Production, Electrolytic, 352. See ErratUi 377
Allen, Mr. Horace, on New System for Cooling Tuyeres for Blast-Furnaces, 619, 658
Alloys of Copper and Tin, Microscopical Examination of, 7, 28, 61, 95, 532
Alloys, Effect of Vanadium on Steel, 92, 113
Alloys, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of, 361, 373
Alloys, Low Carbon Steel, 639
Almanacs. See Literatuie Alternators. See Electric
America. See United Statfs
American Institution of Mining Engineers, Excursion to Mexico, 36, 69, 107, 143
American Locomotives. See Locomotives American Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Ammonia Recovery in Coke-Making, 618, 661
Ammonia, Sulphate of, 19
Amsterdam Port and North Sea Canal, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Andrde Balloon and Santos Dumont Airship, 311. See 819
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, on Micro-Crystalline Structure of Platinum, 856
Andrews, Professor T., on Microscopical Observations in Deterioration of Steel Rails, 501
Annuals, 146. See Literature index Anti-Corrosive Paint, 837
Antimony. See Metal Price Diagrams
Applied Mechanics, International Congress of, 501
Apprentices, The Law of, 191, 200
Apprentices’ School in Machine-Shop, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290
Apprenticeship Question, 160
Arched Viaduct over the Seine at Paris, 82, 137
Armour Arrangement on Battleships, 180. See 445
Armour Plate and Guns (Krupp), 737, 774
Armour-Plate, Krupp, Penetrated by Vickers Guns and Projectiles, 717, 724. See LETTER, 748
Armour-Plate Trials, Beardmore, 158
Armoured Cruisers. See Warships
Arrears in Naval Shipbuilding, 622, 684
Artillery. See Guns
Asaoka, M., on the Docking of Battleships, 702
Ashley Pump, Hydraulically Balanced, 643
Asplen’s Road Scarifier, 387
Assam-Bengal Railway. See Indian Raihcay Carriages
Atkinson, Mr. Robert E., on Standardisation of Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings, 634, 554, 588. Sec LETTER, 646
Atlantic Liner Passengers, 87
Atlantic IJners, 193
Atlantic Liners Coal Consumption and Revenue, 349
Atlantic Liners “Savoie” and “Lorraine,” French, 343, 404
Atlantic Liners’ Speed Contest, 385
Atlantic Shipping Combine, 579, 640, S49. See 349
Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning Protection, 703, 767, 802
Australian Coal, 446
Australian Copper Production, 482
Australian Dredgers, Cutting Machinery for, 676
Australian Pilot Boat, 846
Automatic Block-Signalling in America, 381
Automatic Machines. See Machine Tools Automobiles. See Motor Cars
Babbitt’s White Metal, Microscopical Examination of, 7, 28, 61, 95, 532

Babcock and Wilcox Boiler Explosion, 64. See LETTERS, 91, 517
Babcock and Wilcox versus Belleville Water- Tube Boilers in Battleships, 318. See also 120, 445, 689, 749
Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 158
Baghdad Railway, 449
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Tunnel, 454
Balancing Locomotives, 767
Balancing Marine Engines, 438. See 26, 57, 91, 402, 403, 426, 438, 454, 472, 491
Baldwin Compound Locomotive, Plant System, 641
Ball, Mr. W. Valentine, on Compulsory Purchase by Local Authorities, 569
Balloon, Andree, and Santes Dumont Airship, 311 Ballooning Experiments, 819
Bamford, Mr. C. F., on the Design and Construction of Railway Carriages in India, 236, 303, 340, 398, 466, 530, 568
Barbican Fire and the London Fire Brigade, 600, 785. See 789
Barnaby, Mr. S. W., on Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 383, 389
Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding, 78
Battleships, Docking of, 792. See also Docks Battleships’ Inturning Screws, 777
Battleships. See Warships
Beardmore Armour-Plate Trials, 158
Beare, Professor T. Hudson, on Recent Developments in the Gas Engine, 697, 729
Bearings for Guns, Roller Pressure, 275
Bearings, Improvements in Propeller Shaft, 403, 439. See LETTER, 518
Bearings, Microscopical Examination of Metals for, 7, 28, 61, 95, 532
Belfast Shipbuilding, 78
Belgium and the Congo Railway, 229
Belleville versus Babcock and Wilcox Boilers for Battleships, 318. See also 120, 445, 689, 749
Belleville versus Niclausse Boiler Trials in Italy, Comparative, 635. See Errata,
Bench, Engine Fitter’s, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290
Bending Cranks by Hydraulic Pressure, 486
Bending Rolls, Plate- (Rushworth), 247
Bengal-Assam Railway. See CarriageSf Indian Railway
Berlin, Electricity Works in, 89
Berlin Metropolitan Railway, 255
Berlin-Zossen Electric Railway, 547
Bermuda Floating Dock, 212, 572, 789
Bessemer Medal to his Excellency F. A. Krupp, 618
Bevel Gear Planer, The Bilgram, 369
Bilge Keels, Effect on Ship Rolling, 402, 520, 590. See Erratum, 509
Bilgram Bevel Gear Planer, 369
Birkenhead Corporation Tramways Electric Generating Plant, 574
Blast-Furnace Gas-Driven Blowing Engine, 1000 Horse-Power, 709
Blast-Furnace Gas-Driven Blowing Engine, 1200 Horse-Power, 573
Blast-Furnace Gas Engine, 600 Brake Horse- Power, and 460-Kilowatt Three phase Generator, 759. See 810, 857
Blast-Furnace and Open-Hearth Furnace Combined, 639
Blast-Furnace Tuyeres, Cooling of, 619,658
Blast Furnace Waste-Gas Engines, 697, 729. See 573, 709, 759
Blasting in Tunnelling, 364
Bleach Powder Electrolytic Chambers, 353. See Errata, 377
Blowing Engine, 1200 Horse-Power Gas-Driven, 578'
Blowing Engine, Blast-Furnace Gas Driven, 1000 Horse-Power, 709
Blowing Engines Operated by Blast Furnace Gas, 607, 729
Blyth and Whitby Shipbuilding, 57
Board of Trade and Electrical Industry, 685, 784, 817, 824. See LETTER, 855
Boat-Lowering Gear, Welin’s, 227
Boiler and Engine Efficiency, 728
Boiler Experiments, 204
Boiler Explosion at Chesterfield, 298
Boiler Explosion at Manchester, 361
Boiler Explosion at Oldham, 190, 197
Boiler Explosion at Oswestry, 699
Boiler Explosion at Ruabon, 560
Boiler Explosion at Runcorn, 64. See LETTERS, 91, 517
Boiler Explosions, Statistics, 354
Boiler-Furnace Equipment, Scott-Elliott, 484. See LETTER, 518
Boiler Testing, Locomotive, 627, 660, 692
Boiler Trials, H.M.SS. “Minerva” and “ Hyacinth” and R.M.S. “ Saxonia,” 254, 278, 326, 749
Boiler-Tube Swelling and Reducing Machine, 438
Boiler, Water-Tube, for Locomotive (London and South-Western Railway), 712. See 127
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water Tube Boilers.
Boiler Works, Glasgow, D. Rowan and Co., 597. See 604, 839
Boilers, Cylindrical and Water-Tube Combined, for British Cruisers, 120, 689
Boilers, Distortion in, Due to Overheating, 434, 458
Boilers of the French Atlantic Liners “Savoie” and “ Lorraine,” 342, 406
Boilers, Steam, 223
Boiling Water, Ebullition of, 723
Bonus System of Remunerating Labour, 208
Boobnoff, Mr. Ivan G , on the Stresses on Ships’ Plates, 384, 390
Books Received, 139, 205, 240,309, 338, 431, 501, 567, 668, 736, 806
Borax and its Manufacture, 513
Bordeaux New Railway Station, 467, 534
“ Boreas” Hose-Coupling, 194
Boring Machines. See Machine Tools
Bounties, Shipping, 349, 579, 649, 849
Boyer Pneumatic Tools in Shipwork, 416
Boys’ Tool-Grinder, 195
Brake, Eddy-Current Electric, 754, 762
Brass Foundry, Magnetic Separators, 608. See Errata, 647
Brassey’s “ Naval Annual” (1902), 707
Brazil Ir n Ores, 639
Break, Mechanical, for Induction Coils, 575
Breakwater, Zeebrugge, 65
Brett’s Hammers, Die-Forging, 139
Bridge Construction, Civil Engineering as Applied to, 806
Bridge Construction at New York Subway, 112, 205
Bridge Construction : United States Workshop Methods, 91
Bridge Girders, Formulae for Weights and Depths of, 338, 463
Bridge Girders. See also Girders
Bridge over the Godavari, Railway, in India, 12, 39
Bridge, The Largest Masonry Span in the World, 124
Bridge over North Sea Canal, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Bridge. See also Viaduct
Bridge, Swing, on North Sea Canal, 33
Bridge over the Seine at Paris, 82, 137
Bridge, Tay, Dundee, 224
Bridges, Relation between Metallurgy and Engineering : James Forrest Lecture, 538
Bridges, Comparative Cost of Combination, and All-Steel Bridges, Highway, 625
Brine-Well Boring, 307
British and Foreign Shipbuilding, 193. See 751
British and Foreign Locomotives, 480. See LETTERS, 26, 58, 486, 517
British Labour and International Competition, 153
British Trade in Siam, 634
British Warships. See Warships
British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company, 397. See also Westinghouse
Bronze for Steam Valve, Tests of. 204
Bruges Ship Canal, Zeebrugge Harbour, 65
Brush Electrical Engineering Works, 169, 218
Buckton Testing Machine, 91, 609
Buffalo Exhibition, Educational Section, 44
Buffalo Exhibition, Electricity at, 109
Buffers, Railway Car Companies’, 235
Building, Civil "Engineering as Applied to, 806
Building Construction, Fireproof, 25
Building Specifications, 835
Buildings, Composite, 363
Bulk Electric Power Bills, 222
Bunt, Mr. Thomas, on the Oil-Tempering of Mild-Steel Forgings, 794
Bursting Charges of Explosives, 563. See LETTER, 509, 645. See 546, 743
Bursting of Flywheels, 211
Business Methods, 205
By-Products in Coke-Making, Recover}’ of, 618, 661. See also 684

Cabin Accommodation, Steamship, 323
Cable Company, Telegraph, 224, 727
Cable, Pacific, 827
Cables.. Relays for Submarine, 016
Cableways at the Construction of New York Subway, 11
Calcium Carbide from Non-EIectric Furnaces, 821
Calendars, 146. See Literature Index
Caloric Constants, 626
Calorimeter, Simple Form of Fuel, 651, 801
Campbell, Mr. William, on the Microscopical Examination of the Alloys of Copper and Tin, 7, 28, 61,95, 532
Canadian Progress, 256
Canal Entrance at Zeebrugge, 65
Canal Lock-Gate Electric Gear, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Canal, Manchester Ship, Prospects of, 125
Canal, Mandalay, Headworks of, 345
Canal, Nivernais, Mechanical Traction on, 312
Canal, North Sea, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Canal: Panama or Nicaragua? 119. See 822
Canal and River Harbours in Russia, 722
Cantilever Cranes in American Shipyards, 435
Cape Government Railway Locomotive, 679
Capillary Tubes, Water Transport in, by Static Electricity, 20
Capital in Electrical Undertakings, 146
Capped Shells Penetrate Krupp Armour, 717, 724, 743
Capstan Lathes. See Machine Tools,
Capstan for North Sea Canal, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Car. See Motor Car^ Railway and Tramway Car Motors, French Spirit, 46
Carbon Anodes for Industrial Electrolj’sis, 54
Carbon Systems, Equilibrium of Iron, 626
Carbonic Acid Compressors. See Refrigerating
Carnegie Research Scholarships, 637, 655
Carriage, Railway, Lamp-Fittings, 303
Carriage, Railway, Lighting, 631
Carriages, Railway, in India, Design and Construction of, 235, 303, 340, 398, 466, 530, 56S
Carriages. See Railway &c.
Cars, Railway Companies’, and Buffers, 233
Cast Iron, Laboratory Experiments with, 204
Catalytic Sulphuric Acid Process, 414
Cathode Rays in Electric Current Work, 516
Cement, Action of Sea Water on, 483
Central London Railway Carriage, 208
Central London Railway, Vibration on, 373, 419
Centrifugal Machine, Electric Drive of, 812
Chain, Silent Gear, 210
Chamonix-Fayet Electric Railway, 573
Chance, The late Sir James J. T., 90
Charges, Bursting of Explosive, 563. See LETTERS, 609, 645. See also 546, 743
Charlottenburg Testing Station, 52
Charpy, G., and Grenet, L., on the Equilibrium of Iron Carbon Systems, 626
Chemical Constants, 625
Chemical Testing Station at Charlottenburg, 52 Chesterfield Boiler Explosion, 298
Chili Copper, 255
Chilled Cast Iron, Strength of, 204
China Coasting Trade, Japanese Steamers in, 754
China Railways, 20, 852
China, Russian Developments in, 821
China Tariff Question, 584
China, United States Trade with, 449
Chinese Railway, Proposed, 351
Chinese Trade and Railways, 753
Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 495
Cirencester Water Supply Pumps, Ashley, 643
Civil Engineering as Applied in Construction, 806

Civil Engineers, Institution ot:

American Workshop Methods in Steel Construction, by Mr. H. B. Molesworth, 91
The Sewerage System of Sydney, New South Wales, and its Suburbs, by Mr. J. Davis, 158
The Bacterial Treatment of Trades Waste, by Mr. W. Naylor, 158
The Port of Dundee, by Mr. G. C. Buchanan, 224
Electrical Traction on Railways, bj’ Mr. W. M. Mordey and Mr. B. M. Jenkin, 258. See also 317, 369, 392
The Greenwich Footway Tunnel, by Mr. W. C. Copperthwaite, 454
Subaqueous Tunnelling through the Thames Gravel, Baker-Street and Waterloo Railway, b}’ Mr. A. H. Ilaigh, 454
Locomotive Firebox Stays, by Mr. F. W. Webb, 516
James Forrest Lecture on the Relations between I\Ietallurgy and Engineering, by Sir W. Roberts-Austen, 538
Office Bearers, 624
Conversazione, 763
Clark and Standfield’s Floating Docks, 212, 572, 789
Clear.ince Effect on Economy of Enyrines, 275
Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Cleveland, Notes from, 14, 49, 83, 117, 151, 185, 215. 248, 283, 314, 346, 377, 411, 443, 477, 508, .542, 676, 612, 647, 681. 714, 746, 780, 815, 846 Climatology, English, 822
“Climax” Water-Tube Boiler, 342
Clouds, 316
Clouds, Thermal Relations of, 376
Clutch, Double Disc Friction, 623
Clutch, Friction, 757
Clyde Shipbuilding, 74
Coal, Australian, 446
Coal Calorimeter, A Simple Form of, 651, 801
Coal Deposits in Western Siberia, 621
Coal Gas. See Gas
Coal, New Zealand, 18
Coal, Nova Scotia, 788
Coal, Philippine, 124
Cmhields, United States, 722
Cohen, Professor E., on the Corrosion of Copper Tubes, 435,558
Coke-Making, Recovery of By-Products in, 618, 661. See also 694
Coke Manufacture from Compressed Fuel, 618, 694. See also 661
Coker, Mr, E. G., on Elastic Recovery of Steel Bars, 549
Coking of Coal, 618, 661, 694
Columns, Strength of, 731 See LETTERS Combines. See also 7Vus’s
Combine, Shipping, 5’9, 649, 849
Combines and the “ Surplus Product,” 85 Commercial Engineering, 451, 517
Commercial Engineering. See also Corapetltlon^ Foreign Drawing Ojjize^&c.y and Young UnMirs, Training of
Commercial Knowledge, 205
Commutation in Dynamos, Limits of, 197, 231, 261
Company’s Liabilities. See Legal
Compensation, The Law of, 355
Competition, Foreign and British Engineers, 310, 451, 517, 584, 608, 677. See Drawing Offi.ce, tCc., and Young Engineers
Competition, Foreign, and British Labour, 153
Competition in Shipping, 349, 579, 649, 849 Composite Structures, 363
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotives. See Locomolives Compressed Fuel, Coke Manufacture from, 618, 694. See also 661
Compulsory Purchase of Buildings, Compensation for, 355
Compulsory Purchase l»y Local Authorities, 569
Compulsory Purchase. See also Legal Compulsory Working of Patents, 285, 379,418. See LETTERS, 3U, 356, 486
Concrete and Composite Structures, 363
Concrete Mixe •, New York Subway, 141
Condenser Tubes, Corrosion of, 558, 435
Condensing Jdant, Klectrical'y • Driven (Allen, Bedford), 145
Congo Railway, 229
Congress, Diisseldorf Navigation, International (1902), 609
Congress at Dusseldorf. See also Dusseldorg Congr<5s International de Mdehanique Appliquee, 501
Connecting-Rod Bolts, Impact Tests, 513 i
Conservation of Enf'opy, 723 i
Constants and Calculations, System of Physical, 625
Construction, Civil Engineering as Applied in, 806
Construction, Fireproof Building, 25 Construction of Flywheels, 98, 123, 134
Construction of Railway Carriages in India, 215, 303, 340, 398, 466, 530, 568
Continuous Ingot-Heating Furnace, 796 Contract Department at the ^Vdmiralty, 154, 223
Contract for a Large Viaduct, 156
Contracts, AdmirAlty, and Arrears, 622, 684
Conversazione at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 753
Conversazione of the London University College, 851. See also Soiree
Converters. See Electric
Cooling Tuyeres for Blast-Furnaces, 619, 658
Copper, Australian, Production of, 482
Copper Outlook, 199
Copper Prices, See Metal Price Diagrams Copper Production, United States, 320
Copper, South American, 255
Copper and Tin, 581
Copper and Tin Alloys, Microscopical Examination of, 7, 28, 61, 95, 532
Copper Tube Manufacture bj' Electro-Metallurgical Process, 633
Copper Tubes. Corrosion of Condenser, 43.5, 558
Copper, The World’s Production. 688
Cordite, Erosion of Guns and Explosion on H.MS “Mars,” 546
Cordite, 563. See LETTERS, 609, 645. See 546, 743
Cornish Dust-Fall, 676
Corridor Carriages. See Railway Carriages Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 435, f58
Corrosion, Paints to Prevent, 837 Corrosion of Steel Girders, 240
Cost of Combination and All-Steel Highway Bridges, 625
Cost of Electric Traction on Railways, 719
Cost of Running High-Speed Trains, 173
Cost of a Visit to Japan, 62L
Cost of 'Water-Tube Boilers, 500
Costs, Manufacturing, and Drawing-Office, 711, 743, 744, 776, 822, 823
Cottancin Composite Structures, Tests of, 3'‘3 Cotton Mills in India, 90
Coupling, Hose, “Boreas,” 194
Coupling, Railway Train, and Draught Gear, 314. See LETTER, 419
Couplings, Railway Car, and Buffers, 235
Covent Garden Opera House, London, Modernisation of, 669
Crane, 5-Ton Travelling Gantry (Wellman- Seaver), 182
Cranes, Hydraulic Movable and Warehouse, 438
Cranes, &c., United States Shipyard Equipment, 435
Crank-Bending by Hydraulic Pressure, 486
Crankpin Lubricator, Positive Feed, 247
Crankshaft for North German Lloyd “Kaiser Wilhelm IL,” 606
Crankshafts, Strains on, 402, 426, 454, 491, See also 403, 439, 472, 518
Cruisers. See Warships
Cuban Iron, 221
Cuban Patents and T ade Marks, 777
Cunard Liner “ Saxonia,” Boiler Trials, 251, 278, 326, 749
Cupola at German Niles Tool Works, 835 Cutting Machinery for Suction Dredgers, 676 Cyanides, Manufacture of, 382
Cycles, Motor. Sec Motor Cars
Cylindrical versus Water-Tube Boiler Trials of H.M.SS. “Minerva” and “Hyacinth” and R.M.S. “ Saxonia,” 251, 278, 326, 749

Daimler Engine for Light Marine Work, 668. See 678
Daimler Oil Motor Launch for War OlKce, 678
Dairy Refrigerating Plant, 483
Dalby, Mr. W. E., on Balancing Locomotives, 767
Dalby, Professor W. E., on Unbalanced Forces in Marine Engines, 438
Dams, Subaqueous Foundations of, 822. See 119
Dangers of Electric Incandescent Lamp Decorations, 449
Dangers of Electric Railways, 21
Dangers of Electric Trolley Wire, 319
Daniels, F. H., on a Continuous Ingot-Heating D Furnace, 796
Danish State Railways, 89
Darby Mr. John II., on the Manufacture of Coke from Compressed Fuel, 618, 691. See also 661
Darling, Mr. C. H , on a Simple Form of Fuel Calorimeter, 801
Dawson, Mr. Philip, on Electric Traction, 550, 585
Decorations, Dangers of Electric Incandescent Lamps, 449
Deep Subaqueous Foundations, 822
Deep-Tunnel Railways in London, 750. See also 783
Deep-Tunnel Railways, Vibration on, 479
Denmark New Railwaj’ Rates, 788
Design of Battleships, Twenty-One Year’s Progress, 418, 420
Design of Open-Web Steel Girders, 517, 550, 609
Design of Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 383, 389
Destroyers, First Torpedo-Boat, 551, 5:^4 Destroyers. See Warships
Deterioration in Steel Rails, Microscopical Observation, 501
Deutsche Niles Tool Works, Berlin, 701, 769, 835
“ Deirschland ” Speed Contest, 385
“Devonshire” Class, II.M.S., Boilers for the, 120 6S9
“ Devonshire,” H.M.S., 445. See 120, 689. 749
Diagram of Metal Prices, 24, 194, 324, 452, 586, 756
Diagram of Naval Engineers’ Rank and Status, 229, 251, 264. See also Naval Engineers
Diagrams of Boiler and Engine Efficiency, H.M.SS. “Minerva” and “Hyacinth,” and R.M.S. “ Saxonia,”254, 278, 386, 749
Diamond-Mining in South 2tfrica, 200 Dictionary of Explosives, 835
Die-Forging, 35, 139, 203, 269, 333, 431, 527, 606. See LETTER, 486
Direct United States Cable Company, 224. See also 727
Directories, 146. See Literature
Disaster at Martinique, 655. See LETTERS Discharges. Figures, Point, 90
Distortion in Boilers due to Overheating, by C. E. Stromeyer, 434, 458
Distribution of Gas under High Pressure, 583
Docking of Battleship, 789, 792. See 789
Docking of the Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “ Salmon,” 368
Docks, Floating, 212, 572, 789
Dockyard Administration, 707
Domestic Electric Generator, 764
Donkin, The late Mr. Bryan, 320. See also 416
Double Bof^om of Ships : Stresses on Ships’ Plates, 384, 390
Douglas, Dr. James, on the Manufacture of Gas from Wood, 639, 663
Downie, Mr. A. Marshall, on the Construction of Flywheels, 98, 134. See also 123
“ Drake,” H.M.S., Trials of, and Propeller Efficiency, 853. See also 322, 687
Draught Gear, Friction, for Railway Trains, 314. See LETTER, 419
Drawing-Office Appliances : German Niles Tool Works, Berlin, 701. See 769, 839
Drawing-Office and Manufacturing (’osts, 711, 743, 744, 776, 822, 823
Drawings, Shop, 839. See a’so 597, 604
Dredgers, Suction, Cutting Machinery for, 676
Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools Drop-Forging. See Forging Drop-Hammers, Massey’s, 527
Drummond’s Water-Tube Boiler and
Arrester for Locomotives (London and Western Railway), 712. See 127
Dumont, Ballooning, 311, 819
Dundee Harbour, 224
Dunkerley, Professor S., on Strains on shafts, 402, 426, 454, 491. '

472, 518

Durban Harbour, Fire-Float for, 48

Dusseldorf Exhibition: 365, 498, 605, 654

Congress Visit, 753
Crankshaft for North German Lloyd “ Kaisex* Wilhelm II.,” 605
Deutz Gas Motor Works Pavilion, 365
Engine and Alternator (Humboldt Company), 500 Horse-Power Tandem, 642
Engine, Tandem Compound 500 Horse-Power, (Union Company, Essen), 843
Engine and Crane Plant, 498
Engine, Gas, 700 Horse-Power Two-Cycle (Korting System), 843
Ehrhardt Company and their Works, 807 Ehrhardt Pavilion, 365
Gas Driven Blast-Furnace Blowing Engine, 1000 Horse-Power, 709
l> uHMclUort* Exliililthm-conrinKcrf.
Gutehoffnungshubte Pavilion, 365
Krupp Gunsand Armour Plate, 737, /74 Krupp Pavilion and Exhibits, 365, 605 Machine Tools, 779. See LBTTBR, 823. See also under Machine Tools
Machine Tools (Ernst Schiess), 673
Machinery Exhibits, 365
Materials and Machine Tools, 753
Steel Ingot for Armour Plate, 130'Ton, 60.) Winding Engine, Horizontal Twin Tandem, 813
Dusseldorf International Navigation Congress (1902), 609
lliisseblort Hliipbiiilclints and Marine EiiKiiieeriiijx 751, 786 . .1
Iron Industry and Shipbuilding in German;, by Herr E. Schroedter, 751
Materials and Machine Tools at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 753
Visit to Exhibition, and Dinner, 751
The Development of the Navigation of the Rhine, bv Baron von Rolf, 753
The Use of Steel Wire Ropes for Navigation, by Herr Schleifenbaum, 753, 786
The River Rhine and its Shipping, by Herr W. Freiherr Van Rolf, 786
Excursions, 786
Krupp Works, 786
Hoerder and Gutehoffnungshutte Works, /ob Excursion on the Rhine, 786
Visit to Bremen and Hamburg, 786
Dust-Fall, Cornish, 676
Dynamos. See Eleclri-i
Earth Crust, Subterranean Pressures, 25, 225, 311. 419 .u ri
East Coast Railway, India, Bridge over the Godavari River, 12, 39
Eastern Extension of Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited, 727
Eastern Telegraph Company, 224. See a’so /27 Eborall, Mr. A. C., on Polyphase Machinery, 759. 810, 857
Ebullition of Rotating W’ater, 723
Economics, The Study of, 615
Education Endowment Fund, University College, London,518
Education, Technical, 17
Education, United States, 45 _
Educational Section at Buffalo Exhibition, 44 Edwards’ Air Pumps Electrically Driven, 145 Efficiency of Locomotives, 627, 660, 692 Efficiency of Propellers. See Propellers Ennt, British versus Foreign Locomotives in, '480. See LKTTERS, 26, 58, 486, 517
Ehrhardt Field Guns, 807
Elastic Recovery of Steel Bars, Temperature Effects, 549

Electric :

Accumulator, Edison, 109
Accumulator, Ricks, 191 Accumulator Works, Hygiene in, 157 Accumulators, Nickel Oxide, 3^5 Alloys, Conductivity of, 350, 373
Alternate Current, Maximum Value of, 754
I Alternator and Engine, 500 Horse • Power Tandem (Humboldt Company), 642. See also PvlyphcLse
Alternator, 1000-Kilowatt, Westinghouse, 308 Anodes of Carbon for Industrial Electrolysis, 54 Arc Cinematograph, or Photographophone, 20 Armaiure Constructions, 810
Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning Protectors, 703, 767, 802
Berlin-Zossen High-Speed Railway, 547
Brakes, Eddy-Current, 754 762
British IVestinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 397. See also Westinghouse
Brush Electrical Engineering Company, 169, 208
Cables, Submarine, 616
Canal Lock Gate Gear, 33, 105, 170, 243, 27 L Capital Vested in Electric Undertakings, 146 Carriages and Tramcars (Brush Company), 169, 208
Cathode Rays in Electric Current Work, 516 Centrifugal Machine Driving, 812
China Insulators, High Tension Tests for, 852 Coherer, Marconi, 818
Commutation, Limits of, 197, 231, 261 Compensation for Compulsory Purchase cf Land,355
Condensing Plant, Electrically^Driven, 145 Conductivity of Metals, 350, 373 Constants and Calculations, Simplified System of, 625
Converter for Traction Plant, Portable, 306 Crane at Amsterdam Wharf, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Crane, 5-Ton Travelling Gantry (Wellman- Seaver), 182
Directories and Manuals, 146
Dynamo, Commutation Limits of, 197, 231, 261 Dynamo Testing at the English Electric Manufacturing Company’s Works, Preston, 121
Edison Accumulator, 109
Electric Deposition, 633
Electrolytic Production of Alkali, 352. See Errata^ 377
Exhibits at Royal Society’s Soirde, 651, 8’9 Factory Act and Generating Stations, The, 685
Furnace, Fusion of Quartz in, 515
Ganz Electric Railway, 549 Gas-Driven Generators, 226, 258, 311, 356, 451, 759, 810, 857
Gear on Board Warships See Naval Engineers
Generating Plant, Birkenhead Corporation 'Tramways, 574
Generator for Domestic Use, 764
Generator, Limits of Commutation in, 197, 231, 261
Generator. See also Alternator and Dynamo Generators, Polyphase, 759, 810, 857 German Electric Practice, 89
Heaters, 516
Electric —continued.
Inductive Circuit, Growth of Currents in, 516
Induction Coil Mechanical Break, 575
Insulators, China, High-Tension Tests, 851 Lamp Decoration Dangers, 449
Lamp, Nernst, 109
Legislation, Defects in Electric, 685, 731, 784, 817, 824. See LETTER, 855
Light, Traction, and Power in Germany, 89
Lighting Station at Shoreditch, 821
London Oountj’ Council Electric Supply Bill, 380
London University College Conversazione, 857
Machine Tools, Electrically-Driven. Sec uinler Machine Tools
Magnets, Normal Permanent, 515
Measuring Instruments, 501
Meters, 337
Micrometers, Simple Electric, 696
Motor Construction, 857
Motor-Driven Shafting Machine, 835
Motors, Polyphase. See Polyphase
Municipal Trading, 784, 817, 821, 855
Nernst Lamp, 109
Oerlikon System of Traction, 481
Parliament. See Legislation
Photographophone, 20
Point Discharges Figures, 90
Polyphase Alternator, lOOO-Kilowatt, 303
Polyphase Machinery, Some Notes on, 759, 810 857
Portable Converter, 306
Power Bills in Parliament, 222
Power Company, South Wales, 581
Power Company, Yorkshire, 789
Power Distribution, 89
Power Plant at Shale Oil Works, 343
Power Plant, Buffalo Exhibition, 109
Power Plant, Wolverhampton Exhibition, f82
Power Station, Indiana Traction, 312
Power, Traction, and Light in Germany, 89
Power Transmission (Review), 667
Pump (Well), Electrically-Driven, 293
Pumping Machinery, Electrically-Driven, 438
Railway, Berlin Metropolitan, 255
Railway, Fayet-Chamonix, 573
Railway Fire Dangers ; Liverpool Oxerhead Railway, 21
Railway, Iligh-Speed, Berlin-Zossen, 517
Railway Problems, 258, 317, 359, 392, 481
Railway, Three-Phase, Normal Gauge, 519 Railway Traction, Cos: of, 719
Railways, Traction on Main, 481
Refrigerating Appliance, Electrically-Driven, 59
Relay for Submarine Cable, 616
Royal Society’s Soirde, 651, 819
Shoreditch Electric Supply, 821
South Wales “ Bulk ” Scheme, 581
Standardising Dynamo Tests, 212
Static Electricity, Water Transport in Capillary Tubes by, 20
Switch, (fee., for North Sea Canal Locks, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Telegraphs and Telephones in Germany, 89
Tests, High-Tension, of China Insulators, 851
Theatre Equipment, 669
Thermo-Electric Investigation of Stress, 191
Three-Phase Normal-Gauge Railway, 549
Traction, Light, and Power in Germany, 89
Traction and Overcrowding, 257
Traction Power Supply in Indiana 302
“ Traction and Transmission,” 755
Traction Trolley Wire, Dangers of, 319
Tramcars for the London County Council, 552
Tramway Company’s Liabilities, 88
Tramways, London, 385
Tramway Progress, 550, 585
Transformers, Electric Traction, 306, 312
Units of Electro-Magnetism, Rational, 723
Valve Gear for Engines with Electro Magnets 242
Ward-Leonard System of Traction, 481
Water Transport in Capillary Tubes by Static Electricity, 20
Westinghouse Station, Indiana, 306
Yorkshire Power Company, 7891

Electric P0wer Plant at the Buffalo Exhibition 109
Electric Power Scheme in South Wales, 581
Electric Traction, Gas Engines for, 226, 258, 311, 356, 451, 759, 810, 857
Electrical Engineering Measuring Instruments, 501

Electrical Engineers, liistitiitioii or:

Report of Visit to Germany, 89
Traction, Light, and Power Distribution, by Mr. W. H. Patchell and Colonel Crompton, 89
Telegraphs and Telephones, by Mr. J. 11. Kingsbury, 89
German Electric Practice, 89
Steam Boilers, by Mr. C. E, Stromeyer, 223
Railway Problem, by Mr. J. Swinburne, 317, 359, 392. See 258, 481
Dangers of the Trolley Wire, by Mr. A. P. Trotter, 319
The Electrical Conductivity and Magnetic Property' of Upwards of 100 Different Iron Alloys, by Professor Barrett, 350, 373
Electric Traction on Main Lines, by Mr. Mordey, 481
Students’ Visit to Newcastle, 590
Relays for Submarine Cables, by Mr. S. O. brown, 616

Electrical Traction on Steam Railways in Italy by Professor C. A. Cams Wilson, 719
Electrical Industry and Legislation, 685, 734, 784, ^17, 824. See LETTER, 855
Electrical Laboratory ac London University College, 851
Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Iron Alloys, 350. See LETTER, 373
Electrical Resistance, Temperature Variaticn of 386
Electrical Resonance of Minute Metal Particles, 386
Electricity, Atmospheric and Lightning Protec* tion, 703, 767, 802
Electricity at the Buffalo Exhibition, 109
Electro Magnetism, Rational Units of, 723
Electro-Metallurgical Works, 633 1
Electrolysis, Carbon Anodes for Industrial, 54 Electrolytic Alkali Company’s Works at Middlewich, 352. See Errata^ 377
Electrostatic Charge, Rowland’s Experiments on the Magnetic Action of, 124
Elevators. See also Hoists Elimination of Silicon in the Acid Open Hearth, 619, 658
Elliott, Professor E. 0., on Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers,” 485
Elmore Process of Electric Deposition, 633 Emissivity, Thermal, in High-Pressure Gases, 1 Employers and Technical Education, 710 Employment, Law as to, 133, 191, 200, 298, 393, 428, 489, 693, 627, 664, 683, 722, 729, 830
“ Encyclopaedia Britannica,” 565 Endowment Fund for German Research, 223 Endowment Fund, University College, London, 518. See also 851
Engine and APernator (Humboldt Company), 500 Horse-Power Tandem, 642
Engine, Blowing, Gas-Driven Blast-Furnace (1000 Horse-Power), 709
Engine and Boiler Efficiency, 723
Engine Clearance and Economy, 275
Engine, Compound, 500 Horse-Power Horizontal (Union Company, Essen), 843
Engine Connecting-Rod Bolts, Impact Tests, 513. See 189
Engine Efficiency, H.M.SS. “Minerva” and “ Hyacinth,” and R.M.S. “Saxonia,” 254, 278, 326, 749
Engine, Fire-Float for Durban Harbour, 48 Engine-Fitters’ Bench, 103,129, 163, 176, 290 Engine Flywheels, 23, 98, 134
Engine, Gas, Blast Furnace, 600 Brake Horse- Power and 450-Kilowatt Three-Phase Generator, 759. See 810, 857
Engine, Gas Driven Blowing, 1200 H.-P., 573 Engine, Gas (1000-Horse-Power Blast-Furnace), 709
Engine, Gas or Internal Continuous Explosion, and Pressure Recorder, 725. See 622
Engine, Gas, Research Recording Gauge at Royal Society’s Soiree, 651
Engine, Gas, 700 Horse-Power Two-Cycle (Korting System), 843
Engine Heat Problem, 274
Engine, Oil, 125 Brake Horse-Power (Hornsby), 374
Engine, Pumping, Ashley Hydraulically-Balanced, 643
Engine, Pumping, for the Hitchin Water Works, 572. See Errata^ 613, 715
Engine, Riedler “ Express” Pump, 310. See 48, 114
Engine Shafts. See Shafts
Engine Tests, Standardising, 212
Engine Trials, Steam, 220
Engine Valve Gear, 242
Engine, Winding, Horizontal Twin Tandem, 813 Engine, Winding,Non-Condensing Double-Drum, 604
Engine Works Management, 604. See 597, 839 Engines of the French Atlantic Liners “ Savoie” and “ Lorraine,” 342, 406
Engines, Gas, for Electric Traction, See Gas Engines
Engines, Gas, Explosion Temperature of, 833 Engines, Gas and Oil, Practical Treatise on, 240 Engines, Gas, Recent Development in, 697, 729 Engines, Gas, and Wood Gas Manufacture, 639, 663
Engines of H.M.S. “ Good Hope,” 286, 322, See 387, 451, 687, 853
Engines for High-Speed Vessels, Turbine versus Reciprccating, 419
Engines, Marine, Unbalanced Forces in, 438. See also 767
Engines, Oil and Gas, Practical Treatise on, 240 Engines, Oil, for Light Marine Work, 668. See 678
Engines, Practical Treatise on, 240
Engines, Pumping, Automatic Regulator, 149 Engines, Steam and Gas, Fencing of, 417, 423, 468. See also 489, 505, 539, 550
Engines of Steamers “ Winifred” and “Sybil,” for Lake Victoria, 808
Engines of the Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “ Shira- kumo,” 310
Engineering, Civil, as Applied in Construction, 806
Engineering, Commercial, 451,517. See Drawing O,^ce, (t'c.y and Voung Engi'iieers
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in 1901, 21, 55, 74
Engineering and Metallurgy, Relations between (James Forrest Lecture), 538
Engineers, British, andForeign Competition, 310, 461, 517, 584, 608, 677. See Drawin^-OtJice, tC’c., and Young Engineers
Engineers, Institutions of. See Civil Engineers^ Mechanical Engineers^ Mining Engineers^ Electrical Engineers, Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, and Dusseldorf Congress
Engineers’ Legal Liabilities, 301
Engineers, Naval. See Naval Engineers Engineers in the Navy, 219, 229, 264, 351, 619, 676. See LETTERS
Engineers in the Navy, Position of. Diagrams, 229, 251, 265
English Climatology, 822
English Electric Manufacturing Company’s Works at Preston, 121
English Electro-Metallurgical Company, Limited, 633
Entropy, Conservation of, 723
Equilibrium of Iron-Carbon Systems, 626
Erosion of Guns and Explosion on H.M.S. “ Mars,” 546
Eruption, Martinique, 655,777
Estimates, Naval. See Parlianie7it and the Navy
Etruria, Rudder Accident to (Steering Rudderless Ships), 517
Evaporators for Sugar Manufacture, 3, 71. See LETTER, 193
Exhibition, Buffalo, Education Section, 44 Exhibition, Buffalo, Electricity at, 109 Exhibition Buildings, Tests of Composite Structures, 363
Exhibition, Dusseldorf. See Dusseldorf Exhibition
Exhibition, Laundry and Sanitary, 617
Exhibition, Military and Naval, at Portsmouth, 373
Exhibition, Motor Car, 256, 548
Exhibition at Osaka in 1903, 418
Exhibition, Pan-American. See Buffalo Exhibition
Exhibition, United States, at the Crystal Palace, 156
Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 582
Expansion, Thermal, of Porcelain, 385
Expenditure on British Naval Construction, 229, 252, 265. See also Naval Problems
Explosion on H.M.S. “Mars,” 546
Explosion at Johannesburg, 149
Explosion and Pressure Recorder, Mathot Continuous, 725. See 622, 833
Explosion of Steam Pipes Due to Water-Hammer, 295. See LETTER, 310
Explosion on the S.S. “ Para,” 584
Explosion Temperatures of Internal Combustion Engines, 833. See also 622, 725
Explosions. See Boiler Explosions
Explosive Compounds, 563. See LETTERS, 609, 645. See 546, 743
Explosives Manufacture, 610
Explosives and Powders, 835
Expositions. See Exhibitions

Factors of Heat, The, 157
Factories, Guarding Dangerous Machinery. See Fencing of Engines
Factory and Workshop Legislation, 337, 734
Factory Act and Electric Generating Stations, 685, 817, 824, 855
Factory Act and Railway Companies, 467
Factory Act. See also Legal
Fayet Chamonix Electric Railway, 573
Fencing of Engines, Machinery and Lift-Shafts, &c.. 417, 423, 468, 489, 605, 539. See 550
Field Glass, Porro Prism, 275
Field Guns, Ehrhardt, 807
Field Guns, Krupp, 739
Field Guns. See Guns
Filter, “ Airedale,” 357
Filtration Plant at Albany, N.Y., 728
Financial Position of Japan, 527
Fire-Brigade Appliances in London, 600, 785, 789
Fire-Float for Durban Harbour, 48
Fire on Liverpool Overhead Railway, 21
Fire-Pump, Portable Petrol, 791
Firebox Stays, Locomotive, 516
Fireproof Construction, 25
First Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 551, 584
Fitters’ Bench, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290
Fives Lille Company, 95
Flanges, Pipe, Standardisation of, 534, 554, 588. See LETTER, 646
Flannery, Sir F., on Liquid Fuel for Ships, 399, 407
Fleet, Naval. See Warships.
Floating Docks, 212, 572, 789
Flooring of Machine-Shops, 103, 129,163,176, 290
Flying Machine, Santos Dumont, and Andrite
Balloon, 311. See also 819
Flywheel Construction, 98, 123,134
Flywheels, Bursting of Small, 211
Focal Lines and Anchor Ring Wave-Fronts, 360
Foden Military Wagon, Accident, 21. See Errata^ 48
Fog Signals, 324
Force of Wind Experiments, 676
Foreign and British Shipbuilding, 193
Foreign-Built and British Locomotives, 480. See LETTERS, 26, 68, 486, 517
Foreign Competition and British Engineers, 310, 451, 517, 584, 608, 677. See Drawing- Office^ and Young Engineers.
Foreign Competition and British Labour, 153
Forging, Die, 35, 139, 203, 269, 333, 431, 537, 606. See LETTER, 486
Forgings, Oil-Tempering of Mild Steel, 794
Formula) for Weights and Depths of Plate Girders, 338, 463
Foundations of Dams, Deep Subaqueous, 822
Foundries, German Niles Tool Works, Berlin, 701. See 769
Foundry, Brass, Magnetic Separators for, 608. See Errata^ 647
Fowler’s Electrical Engineers’ Year-Book, 146
French Mail Subsidies, 349. See 679, 649, 849
French Mechanical Industry, 95
French Railway Signalling, 184
French Spirit Motors, 45
French Trans-Atlantic Company’s Steamships “Lorraine’’ and “ Savoie,” 342, 406
Friction Clutch, 757
Friction Clutch, Double Disc, 623
Friction Draught Gear for Railway Trains, 314. See LETTER, 419
Fuel Calorimeter, Simple Form of, 801
Fuel, Liquid, for Ships, 399, 407
Fulton Memorial, 241
Furnace, Continuous Ingot-Heating, 796
Furnace, Electric, Fusion of Quartz in, 515
Furnace Eciuipment, Scott-Elliott, 484. See LETTER, 618
Furnace Gas Engines, 697, 729. See also Blast Excrnace Gas Engines
Furnace, Open-Hearth and Blast, Combined, 639 Furnaces, Calcium Carbides from Non-Electric, 821
Fusion of Quartz in Electric Furnace, 515
Fyson, Mr. Alfred, on Formula) for Weights and Depths of Plate Girders, 338, 463

Gales on the British Coast, 376
Gantry Crane, 5-Ton Travelling (Wellman* Seaver), 182
Ganz Electric Railway, 549
“ Garibaldi,” Comparative Trials of Water-Tube Boilers of Italian Warships, 635. See J^rrata. 677
Gas Distribution under High Pressure, 683
Gas Driven Blast-Furnace Blowing Engine, 1000
Horse-Power, 709
Gas-Driven Blowing Engine, 1200 Horse-Power, 673
Gas Engine Explosion Temperature, 833
Gas Engines. See Hngines (Jai^
Gas Engines for Electric Traction, 226, 258, 311, 356, 451
Gas Engineers’ Annual and Directory of Gas Undertakings, 146
Gas Generator, Acetylene, Portable, 293
Gas Lighting, Healthiness of, 113,160
Gas Lighting Railway Carriages, Cost of, 568
Gas Manufacture from Wood, 639, 663
Gas, Michael and Will on the Law Relating to Water and, 430
Gas-Produced Sulphate of Ammonia, 19
Gases, High-Pressure Emissivity, 1 Gauge-Glass Protector, 325
Gauges. Limit, 225. See also Machine-Shop Methods
Gear Chain, Silent, 210
Gear Planer, Bevel, The Bilgram, 369
Generator, Acetylene Gas, Portable, 293
Generators. See Flectric
German Accumulator Works, Hygiene in, 157
German Iron Industry and Shipbuilding, 751
German Liners’ Speed Contest, 385
German Mail Subsidies, 349. See 579, 649, 849
German Niles Tool Works, Berlin, 701, 769, 835
German Research Endowment Fund, 223
German Superheated Steam Locomotive, 827
Girder Construction at New York Subway, 112, 205
Girders, Design of Steel Web, 517, 550, 609
Girders, Formukc for Weights and Depths of, 338, 463
Girders, Stresses in Braced, 25
Girders, Webs of Plate, 236, 253. See Errata, 282
Glass Protector, Gauge, 325
Glasses, Porro Prism Field, 275
Godavari Bridge in India, 12, 39
Gold, The Metallurg^^ of, 835
Gold, Pyretic Smelting, 355
“Good Hope,” Steam Trials of H.M.S., 286, 322. See 387, 451, 687, 853
Goss, Mr. W. F. M., on Tests of the Boiler of the Purdue Locomotive, 627, 660, 692
Great Western Company’s Royal Train, 376
Greenock Tramway Cars, 208
Greenwich Footway Tunnel, 454
Grenet, L., and Charpy, G., on The Equilibrium of Iron Carbon Systems, 626
Gribble, Mr. T. Graham, on Plate Girder Webs, 236. See 253 and Errata, 282
Griffin Oil Engine for Light Marine Work, See 678
Grinder, Electrically Driven Tool, 575
Guarding Machine Tools, 417, 468, 539. See 423, 489, 505, 550
Guarding Machinery and Lift Shafts, 417, 468, 489, 505, 639. See 550
G Umbel. Herr L., on Torsional Vibrations of Shafts, 403, 472 See also 402, 439, 454, 491, 518, 526
Gun, Accident to a 15-Centimetre, 323. See LETTER, 373
Gun Bearings, Roller Pressure, 275
Gun-Cotton Manufacture, 610
Gun Explosion on H.M.S. “ Mars,” 646
Gun Power of British Warships, 653
Gun Range-Finder at Royal Society’s Soiree, 651
Guns and Armour-Plate (Krupp), 737, 774
Guns, Field, Ehrhardt, 807
Guns, Vickers, versus Armour Plates, 717, 724. See LETTER, 743
Gunboats. See Warships

Haarlem Engine Works, Electric and Hydraulic Wharf Cranes, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Hammers, Brett’s Die-Forging, 139. See also Die-Forging
Hammers, Massey’s Die-Forging, 527
Hanssen, Mr. C. I. T., on Physical Constants, 625
Harbour of Dundee, 224
Harbour, Durban, Fire-Float for, 48
Harbour Works, Zeebrugge, 65
Harbours for Russian Waterways, 722
Hardened Steel, Microstructure of, 638. See LETTER, 645
Hartlepool Shipbuilding, 67
“ Haste” Inertia Pump, 552
Hatfield, W. H., and McWilliam, Andrew, on the Elimination of Silicon in the Open Hearth, 619, 658
Headworks of Mandalay Canal, 345
Healthiness of Gas-Lighting, 113,160
Heat Accumulation in Salt Lakes, 821
Heat Engine Problem, 274
Heat, The Factors of, 157
Heater, Electric, 516
Heating of Shops, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290
Hematite Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
High-Pressure Gas Distribution, 583
High-Pressure Gases, Emissivity, 1
High Speed Railway, Berlin-Zossen Electric, 547
High-Speed Engine Shafts, Torsional Oscillations of, 26, 57, 91
Hitchin Water Works Pumping Engine, 572. See Errata, 613, 715
H.M.SS. “Hyacinth” and “Minerva” Steam Trials, 264, 278, 326, 749
H.M.SS. See War skips
Hobart, Mr. H. M., on Limits of Commutation, 197, 231, 261
Hoists, Protection and Safety Gear of, 417, 423, 468. See also 439, 489, 505, 550
Hong-Kong Trade, 88
Hopkinson, The late Mr. John, 385
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Die-Foiging, 35,139, 203, 269, 333, 431, 537, 606. See LETTER, 486
Hornsby Oil Engine, 125 Brake Horse-Powder, 374 Hose-Coupling, “ Boreas,” 194
Housing Problem and Electric Tramways, 257
Howden’s System, Boiler Trials, R.M.S. “ Saxo- nia,” 254, 278, 326, 749
Howitzers, Krupp, 738
Humber Shipbuilding, 79
i Hungarian Tank Locomotive, 12. See LETTER, 451
“Hyacinth,” “Minerva,” and “Saxonia,” Boiler Trials, 254, 278, 326, 749
Hydraulic Cranes at Amsterdam, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Hydraulic Crank-Bending, 480
Hydcaulic Die-Forging, 35, 139, 203, 269, 333, 431, 537, 6U6. See LETTER, 486
Hydraulic Movable and Warehouse Cranes, 438
Hydraulic Power at Hannawa Falls, 274 Hydro-Extractor, Electric Driving of, 812
Hygiene in German Accumulator Works, 157

Ice. See Refrigerating
Impact Tests of Notched Specimens, 513
Impact Tests on Notched Steel Bars, 180 India-Rubber, Manufacture of, 447
India-Rubber Recovered, 672
Indian Cotton Mills, 90
Indian Earth Temperature, 822
Indian Railway Bridge, 12, 30
Indian Railway Carriages, Design and Construction of, 235, 303, 340, 308, 466, 530, 568
Indiina Union Electric Tramway Power Station,
Indicator, Mathot, Continuous Explosion and Pressure, 725. See 622
Indicator Spring Test Apparatus for Steam 220
Indicator Temperatures for Use with Platinum Thermometers, 575
Induction Coils, Mechanical Break, 5/5
Industrial Electrolysis, Carbon Anodes for, 54
Industrial Notes, 27, 59, 94, 128, 161, IOD, 22/, 260. 294 325, 357, 387, 421, 453, 487, 519, 553, 587, 623, 657, 691, 725, 757, 791, 825, 853
Industrial Redistribution, 257
Industries of Mexico, 36, 69, 107, 143
Industries of Sweden, 354
Industry, Motor-Car, 545
Inertia Pump, “ Haste,” 552
Ingot-Heating Furnace, Continuous./96
Institute, Iron and Steel. See iron and Steel J nstitute
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Eiyji- neers , t,
Institution of Electrical Engineers, bee Electrical Engineers
Institution of Mechanical Eng neers. See Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Naval Architects. See Eaval
Insulators, China, for High Tensions, 851
Internal Combustion Engines, Recent Development in, 697, 729
International Congress at Dusseldorf, bee Dusseldorf j 4.
Inter-Urban Traction, Modern United States Practice, 306
Ireland, Shipbuilding, 78
Irish Viaduct Contract, 156
Iron Alloys, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of, 351, 373
Iron-Carbon Systems, Equilibrium of, 626
Iron in Cuba, 221
Iron Industry, German. 751
Iron, Magnetic Properties of, 6S9
Iron Ore Output, Lake Superior, 189
Iron Ores at Brazil, 639
Iron and Steel Girders, Formulae for Weights and Depths of, 338, 463 See also Gird,ers
Iron and Steel Works in Mexico, 8
Iron and Steel Institute, Review of Journal, 156

Iron and Steel Institute : See LETTERS, 617 Report of Council, 617, 637

Bessemer Medallist, His Excellency F. A. Krupp, Essen, 618
The Compression of Fuel before Coking, by Mr. J. H. Darby, 618, 694
The Recovery of Bv-Products in Coking, by Mr. J. Thiry, 618, 661
Elimination of Silicon in the Acid Open-Hearth, by Messrs. Andrew McWilliam and William H. Hatfield, 619, 658
A New System of Cooling Tuyeres for Blast- Furnaces, bj' Mr. Horace Allen, 619, 658
The Carnegie Medal and Scholarships, 637. 656 Nomenclature of Metallography, by Mr. J. E. Stead, 637
The Micro-Structure of Hardened Steel, by Professor J. O. Arnold and Mr. Andrew McWilliam. 638 See LETTER, 645
A Comparative Study of some Low Carbon Steel Alloys, by Dr J. A. Mathews, 639
The Iron Ores of Brazil, by Mr. H. K. Scott,
The Combined Blast-Furnace and Open-Hearth Furnace, by Mr. P. Eyermann, 639
Gas from Wood for Use in the Manufacture of Steel, by Dr. James Douglas, 639, 663
The Chemical and Physical Properties of Carbon in the Hearth of the Blast-Furnace, by Mr. W. J. Foster, 639
The Sulphur Contents of Slags and other Metallurgical Products, by Baron Juptner von JonstorfT, 639 . .
The Influence of Chemical Composition on the Soundness of Steel Ingots, by Axel. Wahlberg, 639
Annual Dinner, 639
The Summer Meeting, 640

Ironclads. See Warships . .
Irrigation in South Africa and United States, 448
Italian Electric Railways, 719
Italian Warships, Comparative Boiler Trials, 635, See Errata, 677
Italian Warship Re Umberto, 402, 520, 590. See Erratum, 509

James Forrest Lecture : Relations between Metallurgy and Engineering, 338
Japan, Cost of a Visit to, 621
Japan, Financial Position of, 527
Japan, Locomotive and Gunboat Construction I in, 722 . . , ,
Japan, National Industrial Exhibition at Osaka I in 1903, 418
Japan, Notes from, 57, 224
Japan Steel-Making, 155
Japan and its Trade, 687, 850
Japanese Battleships, 180
Japanese Battleships, Docking of, /92
Japanese Rail ways,. 643
Japanese Shipbuilding, 18
Japanese Shipping, 96 .
Japanese Steamers in Chinese Waters, 754
Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Bhirakumo, Engines of, 310

King Edward,” Turbine Steamer versus Paddle Steamer, 125, 755. See LETTER, 419
King Edward VIl.” Class of Battleship, 445.
See 120, 318, 089, 749
King Edward VII.,” H.M.S., Boilers for the, 120, 689
Korting System Gas Engine, 700 Horse-Power Two-Cycle, 843
“ Kronprinz Wilhelm” Speed Contest, 385 Krupp Cemented Armour Penetrated bj'
Vickers Guns and Projectiles, 717, 724, 743
Krupp, F. A., Presentation of Bessemer Medal to, 618
Krupp Guns and Armour-Plate, 737, 774
Krupp Works, 787

Laboratory Companion to Fats and Oils Industries, 337
Laboratory Experiments in Germany, 204
Laboratory, National Physical, 380. See Errata^ 461
Laboratories at London University College, 851
Labour, British and International, Competition, 153
Labour Question. See Industrial Notes
Lake Superior Ore Output, 189
Lake Victoria Steamers “Winifred” and “Sybil,” 808
Lamp Decorations, Dangers of Incandescent, 449
Lamp Fittings of Railway Carriages, 303 Lathes. See Machine To Is
Launch with Daimler Motor for British War Office, 678. See 668
Launches and Trial Trips, 66, 133, 147, 200, 226, 266, 297, 331, 361, 394, 420, 451, 494, 524, 560, 594, 630, 664, 698, 727, 764, 798, 826
Launches, Oil Motor, 668
Laundr}* and Sanitar)" Exhibition, 617
Laws. See Legal
Lead and Zinc Production, 415
Leaf Arrester for the Water Supply of Turbines, 59

Legal:

Apprentices, The Law of, 191, 200
Company Law, Limited Liability, 755
Compensation, The Law of, 355
Compulsory Purchase of Buildings, Compensation for, 355
Compulsory Purchase by Local Authorities, 569
Defects in Electrical Legislation, 784
Electric Generating Stations and the Factory Act, 685, 817, 821, See LETTER, 855
Electric Power Bills, 222
Electric Tramway Companies’ Liabilities, 88
Factory Act and Interested Justices, 621
Factory and Workshop Law, 734. See 685, 817, 824; and LETTER, 855
Factorj’ and Workshop LegisU’ion, 377
Liabilities of an Engineer, 301
Liabilities of Railway Companies, 449
Machinery Rating Case, 483. See 514
Manufacturing Justices and the Factory Act, 621
Master and Servant Law Cases, 133, 191, 200, 298, 393, 428, 489, 593, 627, 661, 683, 722, 729, 830
Michael and Will on the Law Relating to Gas and Water, 430
Peaceful Picketing, 354, 413
Private Bill Legislation, 222
Railway Companies and the Factory Act, 467
Taff Vale Railway Case, 354, 413. 683, 722, 729 830
Underground Support, The Liabilities of Railway Companies, 449
Valuations, Hints as to, 138

Legislation and Electrical Industry, 685, 784, 817, 824. See LETTER, 855
Legislation of Factory and Workshop, 337, 685, 734, 784, 817, 824, See LETTER, 855
Legislation. See Legal
Legislation, Mining, at Mexico, .39
Letters to the Editor, 25, 57, 91, 113, 160, 193, 225, 258, 310, 356, 373, 419, 450, 486, 517, 550, 584, 60S, 645, 676, 710, 742, 776, 822
“Leviathan,” Trials of II.M S., 687. See also 286, 332, 451
Liabilities of Railway Companies, 449
Liabilities, Legal, of an Engineer, 301
Liabilities. See Legal
Lift-Shafts, Protection of, and Safety Gear, 417, 423, 468. See 489, 505, 539, 550
Light Experiments at the Royal Society, 651, 819
Light Railway, Mid-Suffolk, 373, 451
Lighters, Towing Sea-Going, 26
Lighting Railway Carriages, Cost of, 568
Lightning Protection, Atmospheric Electricity and, 703, 767, 802
Limit-Gauges, 225
Limits of Commutation of Dynamos 261
“ Linvolpon ” System of Units, 175
Liquefying Hydrogen, 820
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel Liquid Fuel for Ships, 399, 407
Literature, 138, 146, 204, 240, 307, 35, 565, 667, 707, 734, 803, 835. {See Titles}
Liverpool Overhead Railway Fire, 21
Liverpool Train Speeds, 723
Lloyd’s Shipbuilding Returns, 124,583
Local Authorities’ Compulsory Purchasing Powers, 569
Local Government Annual and Official Directory, 146
Lock Gate and Sluice Electric Gear for North Sea Canal, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Lockers and Washstands for Workers in Shops, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290, 701
Locks, Ymuiden, on North Sea Canal, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Locomotive Boiler Testing, 627, 660, 692 Locomotive for the Cape Government Railway, 679
Locomotive, Compound, for the “ Plant ” System (Baldwin), 641
Locomotive Firebox Stays, 516
Locomotive Fireboxes, Water Tubes in (Smith, North Eastern Railway), 127. See 712
Locomotive, German Superheated Steam, 827
Locomotive Spark-Preventer (London and South-Western Railway), 712. See 127
Locomotive, Tank, for Hungary, 12. See LETTER, 451
Locomotive, Tank, for the Port Talbot Railway and Docks, 536
Locomotives, Balancing, 767
Locomotives, British versus Foreign Built, 480. See LETTERS, 26, 58, 486, 517
Locomotives and Gunboats in Japan, 722
Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 567
Locomotives, Roumanian, Oil-Burning, 742
Locomotives with Water-Tube Boilers (London and South-Western Railway), 712
London County Council Tramcars, 552
London County Council Electric Supply Bill, 389
London Electric Tramways, 385
London Fire Brigade and the Barbican Fire, 600, 785. See 789
London and North-Western Train Speed to Manchester, 723
London. See also Metropolitan
London and South-Western Railway Water-Tube Boiler and Spark-Preventer, 712
London University College Endowment Fund, 518. Conversazione, 851
London Water Bill, 319, 710
London Water Supply, 187
Longridge, Captain C. C., on Oil Engines for Marine Work, 668. See 678
Looms, Automatic, or Self-Shuttling, 214
“ Lorraine ” and “Savoie,” French Trans-Atlantic
Steamships, 342, 406
Lorries. See Motor Cars Low Carbon Steel Alloys, 639
Lowering Gear for Boats, Welin’s, 227
Lubricating Bearings for Woodworking Machinery, Self, 710
Lubricator, Positive Feed Crankpin, 247
Machine-Shop Methods, 103, 129, 103, 170, 290, 839

Machine Tools :

Bar and Tube-Straightening Machine (Mr. S. Platt, Wednesbury), 293
Bevel-Gear Planer, The Bilgram, 309
Bolt Rack, 103, 129, 103, 170, 290
Boring and Drilling Machine, “Duplex” Horizontal (Noble and Lund), 247
Boring Machine (Archdale, Birmingham), 183
Boring and Milling Machine, Horizontal and Vertical (Schiess), 673
Boring and Planing Machine at Dusseldorf Exhibition (Schiess), 779. See LETTER, 823
Boring and Turning Mill, Heavy Vertical (Richards), 12
Boring and Turning Mill, 28-Ft. (Sellers, Philadelphia), 112
Boring and Turning Mill, Vertical (Schiess), 673
Chucking Machines, 129
Countershaft Arrangement for Machine-Shop, 103, 129, 103, 170, 290
Drill (Radial), Electrically-Driven (Niles Company), 375
Drilling and Boring Machine, “ Duplex ” Horizontal (Noble and Lund), 247
Drilling Machine for Testing the Hardness of Iron, 103, 129,163, 176, 290
Drilling and Milling Machine, Universal Horizontal (Hulse), 150
Fencing Slachine Tools. See Guarding, ikc,
Gear-Cutter, Combined Automatic Worm and Spur (Phoenix Company, St. Petersburg), 214
German Niles Tool Works, Berlin, 701, 769, 835
Grinder for Tools, Boys’, 195
Guarding Machine Tools, 417, 468, 539. See also 423, 489, 505, 550
Jigs with Tools and Work, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290
Lathe-Carrier, Turton’s, 357. See Errata, 411 Lathe, 79-In. Double-Driving Wheel, 471 Lathe, Electrically-Driven (Hendey Company), 504
Lathe, Large Hexagon Turret Lathe, 470
Lathe Slide, 19.68-ln. (Schiess), 675
Lathe, 10-In. Sliding and Surfacing (Britannia Company), 325
Lubricating, Self, for Tool Spindles, 710
Milling Machine (Herbert), with Guards, 471
Milling and Drilling Machine, Universal Horizontal (Hulse), 150
Planer, The Bilgram Bevel Gear (Reinecker), 369
Planing and Boring Machine at Diisseldorf Exhibition (Schiess), 779. See LETTER, 823
Planing Machine, Electrically Driven, Heavy (Schiess), 673
Planing Machine (Sellers, Philadelphia), 277
Plate-Bending Rolls (Rushworth), 247
Plate-Straightening Machine (Craig and Donald), 148
Pneumatic Tools in Shipwork, 416
Punching and Shearing Machine, Four-Sided (Craig and Donald), 148
Saw-Bench (Robinson and King’s), 710
Screw Machine, The Schmutz Automatic, 344
Shaping Machine, Motor-Driven (Hendey), 825 Shipyard Tools, Electrically Driven, 148
Spur and Worm-Gear Cutter, Combined Automatic, 214
Tapping and Boring Machine at Dusseldorf Exhibition (Schiess), 779. See LETTER, 823
Tool Grinder, Boys’, 195
Tool Grinder, Electrically-Driven, 575
Tool Stands, 103, 129,163, 176, 290
Tool Steels, High-Speed, 689
Tube-Swelling and Reducing Machine, 438
Tube and Bar Straightening Machine (Mr. S. Platt, Wedneshury), 293
Turning and Boring Mill, Heavy Vertical (Richards), 12
Turning and Boring Mill, 28-Ft. (Sellers, Philadelphia), 112
Universal Portable Machine Tools (Capitaine, Frankfort), 80
Vice for Machine Tools, 575
Woodworking Machinery (Robinson, Rochdale), 710
Workshop Methods, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290, 839
Worm and Spur Gear-Cutter, Combined Automatic, 214

Machine Vice, Instantaneous Grip, 575
Machinery at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 365. See also DiissMorf Exhibition
Machinery Fencing or Guarding, 417, 423, 468, 489, 505, 539. See 550
Machinery Rating Bill, 483, 5J4
Magnetic Action of a Moving Electrostatic Charge, Rowland’s Experiments on, 124
Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Iron Alloys, 351, 373
Magnetic Properties of Iron, 689
Magnetic Separators, 608. See Errata, 647
Magnetic Valve Gear for Engines, 242 Magnetism. See Electric
Magnets, Normal Perntanent, 515
Management of Engine Works, 604. See 597, 839, and Machine Shop Methods
Manchester Boiler Explosion, 361
Manchester Ship Canal Prospects, 125
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 824
Manchester Train Speed, 723
Manchuria and Siberia Trade Openings, 222
Mandalay Canal, Headworks of, 345 Manganese, 52
Manila Rope Tests, 240
Manual nf Electrical Undertakings and Directory of Officials, 1901-1902, 146
Manufacture of Coke from Compressed Fuel, 618, 694. See also 661
Manufacture, Cyanides, 382
Manufacture of Gas from Wood, 639, 663
Manufacture of India-Rubber, 447
Manufacturers’ Costs, The Drawing-Office and, 711, 743, 744, 776, 822, 823
Marconi Telegraphy, 120, 818
Marine Boilers, 500. See Boilers and Water- Tube Boilers
Marine Engineering Works, Glasgow, of D. Rowan and Co., 597. See 604,839
Marine Engineering. See Engineering Warships
Marine Engines. See Engines
Marine Oil Engines, Light, 668. See 678
Marine Propellers. See Propellers
Marine Shafts. See Shafts
Mars ” Gun Explosion, 456
Marshall, Mr. H. 1)., on Fencing of Steam
Gas Engines, 417, 423, 468. See also 505, 539, 550
Martinique Disaster, 655, 777
Masonry Span, The Largest, in the World, 124
Massachusetts Institute and Technical Training, 710
Massey Hammers, 527. See Die-Forging
Master and Servant Law Cases, 133,191, 200, 298, 393, 428, 489, 593, 627, 664, 683, 722, 729, 830
Mathot Continuous Explosion and Pressure Recorder, 725. See 622
McWilliam, Andrew and Hatfield, W. H., on the Elimination of Silicon in the Open Hearth, 619, 658
Measurement of Very Small Time Intervals, 54
Mechanical Break for Induction Coils, 575

Mechanical Engineers, American Society of:

Annual Meeting at New York, 172, 208, 240, 274
Presidential Address bj^ Mr. S. T. Wellman, 172
The Cost of Running Trains at High Speed, by Mr. J. H. Delano, 173
Some Peculiarities of Springs : Spring-Testing Machines, by Mr. S. W. Baldwin, 173
The “ Linvolpon ” System of Units, 175
Portable Accelerometer for Railway Testing, by Mr. F. B. Cure^', 175
A Bonus System of Rewarding Labour, by Mr. H. L. Gantt, 208
A Silent Gear Chain, by Mr. J. 0. Nixon, 210
The Bursting of Smail Cast-Iron Flywheels, by Mr. C. H. Benjamin, 211
The Committee on the Standardising of Engine Tests, Preliminary Report, 212
The Working Loads for Manila Rope, by Mr. C. W. Hunt, 240
The Fulton Memorial, Unveiling, 241
New Valve Gear of Gas, Steam, and Air Engines, by Mr. E. W. Naylor. 242
The Potter Mesh Separator and Superheater, by Mr. F. A. Scheffler, 242
Committee on Pipe Unions, Report, 242
The Heat-Engine Problem, by Mr. Charles E. Lucke, 274
Experiments on Spiral Springs, by Mr. C. H. Benjamin and Mr. R. A. French, 274
Water Power Development at Hannawa Falls, by Mr. Wallace C. Johnson, 274
The How and the Why of the Porro Prism Field Glass, by Mr. W. R. Warner, 275
An Experiment on the Effect of Clearance on the Economy of a Small Steam Engine, by Mr. Albert Kinsbury, 275
Roller Pressures for Great Loads, by Mr. A. Victorin, 275
Locomotive Boiler Testing, by Mr. W. F. M. Goss, 627, 660, 692
Filtration Plant at Albany, by Mr. William 0. Webber, 728
Mechanical Engineers, liistitiiliou of: Portrait of the late Lord Armstrong, 7
The Microscopical Examination of the Alloys of Copper and Tin, by Mr. W. Campbell, 7, 28, 61, 95. See 532
Constitution of the Council, 103, 290 Modern Machine Methods, by Mr. H. F L
Orcutt, 103,129, 163, 176, 290
Protection of Lift-Shafts and Safety Devices in
Connection with Lift-Doors and Controlling Gear, by Mr. Henry C. Walker, 417, 423, 468. See also 489, 505, 539, 550
Guarding Machine Tools, by Mr. W. H. Johnson, 417, 468, 539. See also 423, 489, 505, 550 Fencing or Guarding Machinery Used in Tex- tile Factories, by Mr. S. R. Platt, 417, 468, 489, 505. See also 423, 505, 539, 550
Standardisation of Pipe Flanges and Hanged Fittings, by Mr. R. E. Atkinson, 534, 554, 588. See 646 ,
Recent Developments in the Gas Engine, by Professor T. Hudson Beare (Lecturer to Graduates), 697, 729

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory at the London University College, 851 .
Mechanical Traction on the Nivernais Canal, 31L
Mechanical Testing Station at Charlottenburg, 52
Memorial, Robert Fulton, 241
Merryweather’s Well Pump, Electrically-Driven, 293
Mersey Shipbuilding, 79
Merwarth Metallic Packing, 375
Meta4. See Stcc?, 7ron, Tin, Copper, and Aluminium .
Metal Price Diagrams, 24, 194, 324, 452, 586, ^56
Metals, Microscopical Examination of, 7, 28, 61, 95, 532
Metallic Packing, Merwarth, 375
Metallography, Nomenclature of. 637
Metallurgical Exhibits at the Royal Society s Soiree, 651, 819
Metallurgy and Engineering, Relations between : James Forrest Lecture, 538
Metallurgy of Gold, 835
Metallurgy of Mexico, 36, 69, 107, 143

Meteorological Society* Royal:
Annual Report, 92
Svmons Gold Medal to Dr. A. Buchan, 92 Theories of Probabilities Applied to Various Meteorological Problems, by the President, 92
Phenological Observations of 1901, by Mr. E. Morley, 258
La Lune Mange les Nuages, by Mr. W. N. Shaw, 376
The Prevalence of Gales on the Coasts of the British Isles During the Thirty Years 1871- 1900, 376
Clouds, by Captain D. Wilson-Barker, 516
Wind Force Experiments, by Captain D. Wilson-Barker and Mr. W. H. Dines, 676
The Cornish Dust Fall of January, 1902, by Dr. H. R. Mill, 676
English Climatology, 1890-1900, by Mr. F. C, Bayard,822
Earth Temperature Observations Recorded in Upper India, by Mr. W. L. Dallas, 822 Meters, Electric, 337
Metric System in United States, 256
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 789. See 600, 785
Metropolitan Railway, Electrifying, 719
Metropolitan Railway Traction, 306
Metropolitan Railways, Vibration on, 479
Metropolitan. See also Lo7i(ion
Mexican Industries, Public Buildings and Scenery, 36, 69, 107, 143
Mexico, Iron and Steel Works in, 8
Mexico, Mining Legislation in, 39
Michalowski Nickel Oxide Accumulator, 355
Michele Steering Gear, 539
Micro-Crystalline Structure of Platinum, 856
Micrographs of Metals at the Royal Society’s Soirde, 651, 819
Micrometers, Simple Electric, 696
Microscopic Examination of Metals, 7, 28, 61, 95, 532
Microscopical Observations on Deterioration in Steel Rails, 501
Micro-Structure of Hardened Steel, 638. See LETTER, 645
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, 373, 451
“ Mikasa,” Japanese Battleship, 180
Military and Naval Exhibition at Portsmouth, 373
Military Self-Propelled Wagon Trials, 21. Seo AVrafa, 48
Milling Machines. See Machine Tools “Minerva,” “Hyacinth,” and “ Saxonia,” Boiler Trials, 254, 278, 326, 749
Mine-Pumping Machinery, Electrically-Driven, 438
Mines, Winding Gear for Deep Shafts, 686 Mining, Canada, 256
Mining, Diamond, in South Africa, 200
Mining Engine, Non-Condensing Double Drum, Winding, 504
MiningEngineers, the American Institute, Excursion to Mexico, 36, 69, 107, 143
Mining Legislation in Mexico, 39
Mining Pumping Engines, Riedler, 48, 114, 310 Miscellanea, 15, 58, 92,126,160, 192, 217, 249, 292, 315, 347, 386, 420, 452, 477, 509, 543, 577, 613, 656, 681, 715, 747, 781, 815, 855
Moncrieff, Mr. J. M., on the Strength of Columns, 731. See LETTERS
Mond Gas and Sulphate of Ammonia, 19 Monterey Iron and Steel Works, Mexico, 8 Morgan Shipping Trust, 579, 649
Monson, Mr. D. B., on Naval Engineers, 229, 264. See also 219, 351, 619, 676, 718, and LETTERS
Morrin Patent Vertical Steam Boiler, 342
Motor Car Exhibition, 548
Motor Car Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 256 • Motor Car Industry, 545
Motor, Oil, for War Office Launch (Daimler), 678, 668
Motor Wagon Trials, Military, 21. See Errata, 4S
Motor War-Car, 484
Motors, French Spirit, 45
Motors and Motor-Driving, 803. See Erratum, 855
Motors. See Electric
Moulding Machine, High-Speed, with Self-Lubricating Bearings, 710
Municipal Authorities and Electric Power Bills, 222. See 817, 824, 855
Municipal Engineers’ Legal Liability, 301
Municipal Trade in the United States, 51
Municipalities’ Compulsory Purchasing Power, 569. See also Legal
Musker’s Hydraulic Movable and Cranes, 438

Naphtha Industry, Russian, 688
National Physical Laboratory, 380 451
Naval Administration, 511. See Problems
“ Naval Annual,” (1902), 707

Naval Architects, Institution of:

Annual Meeting, 382, 399, 434
Report of the Council, 382
Alteration in the Rules 383
President’s Address, by the Earl of Glasgow, 383
Testimonial to Mr. George Holmes, 383
The Gold Medal to Professor Dalby, 383
Torpedo-Boat Destroj’ers, by Mr. S. W. Barnaby, 383,389
The Stresses in a Ship’s Bottom Plating Due to Water Pressure, by Ivan G. Boobnoff, 384, 390
The Annual Dinner, 385
Liquid Fuel for Ships, by Sir J. Fortescue Flannery, 392, 407
The Navipendular Method of Experiments as Applied to Some Warships of Different Classes, by Captain Russo, 402, 520, 590. See Erratum, 509
Straining Forces in Crankshafts, by Professor S. Dunkerley, 402, 426, 454, 491
Torsional Vibrations of Shafts, by Mr. L. Gumbel, 403, 472
Improvements in Propeller-Shaft Bearings, by Mr. A. Scott Younger, 403, 439, 518
Recent Scientific Developments and the Future of Naval Warfare, by Mr. W. Laird Clowes, 403
Distortion in Boilers Due to Overheating, by Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 434, 458
Corrosion of Condenser Tubes and Sea Water Conductors, by Professor E. Cohen, 435, 558
The Methods of Handling Material over Shipbuilding Berths in American Shipyards, by Mr. W. A. Fairburn, 435
A Comparison of Five Types of Engines with Respect to their Unbalanced Forces and Couples, by Professor W. E. Dalby, 438. See also 402, 426, 454
Note on Simpson’s Rule, by Mr. Macfarlane Gray, 438
Construction , Expenditure, British, 229, 265
Engineers, 219, 229, 264, 351, 619, 676, See LETTERS
Engineers’ Rank and Status Diagrams,
See Errata,
also Natal
Naval 252,
Naval 718.
Naval 229, 251 ,265
Naval Guns. See Ouns
Naval Machinery. See Engines
Naval ” 373
Naval 749 351, 403, 511, 619, 622, 653, 676,' 684,' 707,' 718; 749
Naval Shipbuilding, Contract and Arrears, 622, 684
Naval Ships. See Warships
Naval Warfare and Scientific Development, 403
Navigation, Dusseldorf International Congress, (1902), 609
Navipendulum for Recording Ship-Rolling, 402, 520, 590. See Erratum, 509
Navy Boilers, World’s Water-Tube, 819 ’
Navy Contract Department, 154, 223
Navy. See Warships
Navy, Water-Tube Boilers in the. See Water- Tube Boilers
Navy, Water-Tube Boilers, Thornycroft, and Cylindrical Combination, 823
Negative Slip, 356,373, 450, 518, 551, 535, 609, 677, 743
Net-Guarding for Machines, Engines, and Lift- Shafts, 417, 423, 468, 489, 505, 539. See 550
New Explosives Company’s Works, Limited, Stowmarket, 610
New York Central Railway Accident, 156
New York City Subway, 11, 40, 112, 141, 205, 245, 276, 364, 429,464. See 783
New York Rapid Transit, 783. See also Nev) York City Sub way
New Zealand Coal, 18
Nicaragua or Panama? 119. See 822
Nicholson’s Wharf Cranes, 438
Nickel Oxide Accumulators, 355
Nickel Trust, 54
Niclausse versus Belleville Boiler Trials in Italy, Comparative, 635. See Errata,
Niles Tool Works, German, 835
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 95
Nitro-Cellulose Powders, 568. LETTERS, 609, 645
Nitro-Glycerine Powders, 563. LETTERS, 609, 645.
Nivernais Canal, Mechanical Traction on, 812 Nomenclature of Metallography, 637
North-East Coast Shipbuilding, 55
North-Eastern Railway Water-Tube Boiler Locomotive, 127
North of France Company Railway Signalling, 184
North German Liner “ Kaiser Wilhelm IL,” Crankshaft for, 645
North, Notes from the, 14, 48, 82, 116, 150, 184, 216, 248, 292, 314, 346, 376, 410, 442, 476, 508, 542, 576, 612, 646, 680, 714, 746, 780, 814, 847
North Sea Canal, 33, 105,170, 243, 271
Notched Steel Bars, Impact Tests on, 189, 513
Nova Scotia Coal, 788

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Objectives, Contributions to the Theory of. Resolving Power of, 360
Oil-Burning Locomotives, 742
Oil Engines. See jfc’ngmeif, Oil, and Motor Cars
Oil Fire-Pump, Portable, 791
Oil Fuel for Ships, 399, 407
Oil Industry, Russian Petroleum, 688
Oil-Motor Launches, 668, 678
Oil, Shale, Electric Power in Manufacture of, 345
Oil-Teiupering of Mild-Steel Forgings, 794
Oil-Well Boring, 307
Oil Industries, Laboratory Companion in, 377
Oldham Boiler Explosion, 190,197
Open-Hearth and Blast-Furnace Combined, 639
Open-Hearth Furnace, Elimination of Silicon in the, 619, 658
Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Modernisation of, 669
Ordnance. See Quns
Ore Output, Lake Superior, 189
Osaka Industrial Exhibition in 1903, 418
Oscillations, Torsional, in High-Speed Engine Shafts, 26, 57, 91
Oswestry, Boiler Explosions at, 690
Overheating of Boilers, Distortion Due to, 434, 458
Overland Railway to India, 739, 772

Pacific Cable, 827
Packing, Merwarth Metallic, 375
Paddle Steamer versus Turbine Steamer, 125, 755. See LETTER, 419
Paints, Anti-Corrosive, 837
Panama Canal, Subaqueous Foundations of Bohio Dam, 822
Panama or Nicaragua? 119
“Para,” Explosion on the S.S., 584
Paris, Arched Viaduct over Seine at, 82, 137
Paris Exhibition, Locomotives at, 567
Paris Street-Watering, 515
Parliament and the’Navy, 251, 288, 351, 511, 653, 684, 749. See also Naval Problems
Parsons’ Steam-Driven Merchant Steamers, 125, 755. See LETTER, 419
Parsons’ Turbine-Driven Destroyer, 223
Parsons’ Turbine-Driven Steam Yacht “Tarantula,” 745
Passengers on Atlantic Liners, 87
Patent Bill, The New, 285, 379, 418. See LETTERS, 311, 356, 486
Patent Record, 31,67, 101, 135, 167, 201, 233, 267, 299, 332, 362, 395, 461, 525, 561, 595, 631, 665, 699, 765, 799, 831, 860
Patents, Compulsory Working of, 285, 379, 418. See LETTERS, 311, 356, 486
Patents and Trade Marks in Cuba, 777
Patents and Trade Marks, Transvaal, 743
Pavilions at the Dusseldorf Exhibition. See Dusseldorf Exhibition
Pavilions, Tests of Composite Structures, 363
Peaceful Picketing, 354, 413
Pencoyd Company’s Bridge Construction Methods, 91
Pendulum, Note on the Compound, 576
Pennsylvania Railway Speeds, 551
Persian Gulf Railway, 739, 772
Persian Railway, 449
Peru Copper, 255
Petrol. See Oil and Engines, Oil
Petrol Tractor on the Nivernais Canal, 312
Petroleum Deposits in Central Asia, 821
Petroleum. See O?7and Engines, Oil
Phenological Observations of 1901, 258 ,
Philippine Coal, 124 ,
Phoenix Steam-Pressure Regulating and Automatic Cut-Off Valve, 537 I
Photographic Exhibits at the Roj’al Society’s Soiree, 651, 819
Photographophone, or Electric Arc Kinematograph, 20
Physical Constants, 625
Physical Exhilhts at the Royal Society’s Soirde, 651, 819
Physical Laboratory, National, 389. See Errata, 451 and 518, 851

Physical Society:

The Factors of Heat, by Mr. James Swinburne, 157
Twinned Crystals of Selenite, 157
Office Bearers, 261 President’s Address, 261 Focal Lines and Anchor Ring Wave-Fronts, by Professor E. H. Everett, 360
Contributions to the Theory of the Resolving Power of Objectives, by Professor Everett, 360
The Absorption, Dispeision, and Surface Colour of Selenium, by Professor R. W. Wood, 360
Tellurium Mirrors, 360
The Thermal Expansion of Porcelain, by Mr. A. E. Totton, 385
A Suspected Case of Electrical Resonance of Minute Metal Particles for Light Waves ; a New ’Type of Absorption, by Professor R. W. Wood, 386
The Temperature Variation of the Electrical Resistance of Pure Metals and Allied Matters, by Mr. W. Williams, 386
Electric Heater, by Dr. R. A. Lehfeldt, 516 An Apparatus for Vapour Pressure Measurements, by Mr. Grant, 516
Physical Society—continued.
On the Growth of Electric Currents on an Induction Circuit, by Mr. Morris, 516
The Use of Cathode Rays in Electric-Current Work, by Mr. J. T. Morris, 516
A Mechanical Break for Induction Coils, by Dr. Dawson Turner, 575
A Temperature Indicator for Use with Platinum Thermometers, in which Readings are Automatically Reduced to the Gas Scale, bj' Mr. R. H. Whippell, 575
Notes on the Compound Pendulum, by Mr. b. A. F. White, 576
Simple Electric Micrometer, by Dr. P. E. Shaw, 696
A Lecture Experiment on the Ebullition of Rotating Water, by Mr. T. C. Porter, 723 The Conservation of Entropy, by Mr. J. A. Erskine, 723 .
Rational Units of Electro • Magnetism, by Signor G. Giorgi, 723
Picketing, Peaceful, 354, 413
Picric Acid, 563. See 546, 743, and LETTERS, 609, <545 . .
Pig-Iron Prices. See Metdl Price Diagrcmni
Pigments, Anti-Corrosive Paints, 837
Pile-Driving Machine, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Pilot Steamer for Port Philip, 846 Pipe-Coupling, “Boreas ” Hose, 194
Pipe Flanges, Standardisation of, 534, 554, 588. See LETTER, 646
Pipe-Joint Packing, Merwarth, 375 Pipe Unions, 242
Pipes, Steam, Explosion of, Due to Water- Hammer, 295. See LETTER, 310
Planing Machines. Sec Machine Tools
“ Plant” System, Compound Locomotive (Baldwin). 641 „
Plate-Girder Webs, 236, 253. See Errata, 282, and Girders
Plates, Stresses on Ships’, 384, 390
Platinum, Micro-Crystalline Structure of, 856
Platt, Mr. S R., on Fencing or Guarding Machinery used in Textile Factories, 417, 468,489. See also 423, 505, 539, 550
Pneumatic. See Air
Pneumatic Hammer, Massey’s, 527. See also Die- Forging
Pneumatic Tools, 714, 743
Pneumatic Tools in Shipwork, 416 Point Discharges Figures, 90
Polyphase Machinery, Some Notes on, 759, 810, 857
Porcelain, Thermal Expansion of, 385
Port of Dundee, 224
Port Philip, Pilot Steamer for, 846
Port. See Amsterdam
Port Talbot Railway and Docks, Tank Locomotive for, 536
Portable Engines. See Engines.
Portable Petrol Fire-Pump, 791
Portable Universal Machine Tool (Capitaine, Frankfort), 80
Portsmouth, Military and Naval Exhibition at, 373
Potter Mesh Separator and Superheater, 242
Powder Explosion at Johannesburg, 149 Powders and Explosives, 835
Powder Manufacture, 610
Powders, Smokeless, Evolution of, 563. See 546, 743, and LETTERS, 609, 645
Powell-Duffryn Collieries, Riedler Pumps at, 48, 114. See also 310
Power Gas. See Engines, Gas
Power Plant. See Electric.
Power Plant, Water, at Hannawa Falls, 274
Power Scheme in South Wales, 581
Power Transmission, Electric, 667
Prelini, Mr. Charles, on the New Subway in New York, 11, 40, 112, 141, 205, 245, 276, 364, 429, 464. See 783 . , ,
Premium System of Remunerating Labour, 208
Pressing, Die, 35, 139, 203, 269, 333, 431, 537, 606. See LETTER,486
Pressure-Measuring Apparatus, Vapour, 516
Pressures, Subterranean, 25, 225, 311, 419
Principle of the “Surplus Product,” 85
Prism Field Glass, Porro, 275
Problems of Electric Railways, 258, 31 z, 359, 392, 481 .
Producer Gas Motors. See Engines, Gas Producers, Gas, for Wood Consumption, 639, 663
Progressive Steam Trials of H.M.S. “Good Hope,” 286, 322. See 387, 461, 687, 853
Projectiles, Capped, Penetrate Krupp Armour, 717,724, 743 . - .OQ
Propeller Shaft Bearings, Improvements in, 403, 439. See LETTER, 518
Propeller Slip. See Negative Slip
Propeller Tests of Cruisers “Leviathan, “Drake,” and “Good Hope,” 286, 322, 451, 687 853
Propellers in Battleships, Inturning, Twin, 777
Propellers, Reversible, for Oil-Motor Launches, 668
Protection of Workers at Engines, Machines, , and Lifts, 417, 423, 468, 489. 505, 539. 550
Prussian Superheated Steam Locomotive, 827
Pump, Ashley, Hydraulically Balanced, 643
Pump, “Haste” Inertia, 552 Pump, Portable, Petrol, Fire, 791
Pump, Riedler “ Express,” 310. See also 48, 114
Pump, Well, Electrically-Driven, 293
Pumps, Air, Edwards’ Electrically-Driven, 145
Pumps at the Powell-Duffryn Collieries, 48,114. See also 310
Pumping Engine Efficiency, 728
Pumping Engine for the Hitchin Water Works, 572. See Errata, 613, 715
Pumping Engines, Automatic Regulator, 149
Pumping Machinery, Electrically-Driven, 438
Purchase of Buildings, Compulsory, Compensation for, 355 . .
Purchase of Electric Undertakings by Municipalities, 569
Purdue College Locomotive Tests, 62z,660, 692
“ Pyritic” Smelting of Gold, 355
Pyromecer, A New, 754. See Erratum, 826

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quartz, Fusion of, in Electric Furnace, 515
“ Queen Alexandra,” Parsons’ Turbine Steamer, 765. See 125, and LETTER, 419
“ Queen,” 318
Occident to a 15-Cenfcimeter, 323. See LETTER, 373
Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns
Quicksilver. See Price Diagrams

Rails, Steel, Microscopical Observation of Deterioration in, 501. See also J/icro-s-coTiZca^, <0c.
Railway, Accident on the Liverpool Overhead,
Railway, Accident on the New York Central, 156 Railway, The Baghdad, 449
Railway, Berlin Metropolitan, 265
Railway Block Signalling in America, 381
Railway Bridge over the Godavari, 12, 39
Railway Car Companies and Buffers, 236
Railway Carriage Lamp-Fittings, 303 Railway Carriage Lighting, 568 466 ^530^ 568^°^®
Railway Companies and the Factory Act, 467
Railway Companies, Liabilities of, 449
Railway, Congo, 229
Railway, Electric. See under ELECTRIC
Railway Electric Traction, Cost of, 719
Railway, Fayet-Chamonix Electric, 573
Radwaj’, High-Speed, Berlin - Zossen Electric,
Railway, Light, Mid-Suffolk, 373, 451
Railway Locomotives. See Locomotives
Railway, Overland, to India, 739, 772
Rai way, Persian Gulf, 739, 772. See 449
Railway, Proposed Chinese, 351
Railway Rates in Denmark, New, 788 Ccbrriages and
Railway Royal Train, Great Western, 376 Em Developments in the Far
Railway Signalling in France, 184
Rai way. Small Three-Phase Normal Gauge. 549 Railway Speeds, United States, 551
Railway Station, New, for Bordeaux, 467, 534
Railway Train Accelerometer, 175
Railway Train Dispatching, 55
Radway Train Draught Gear, 314. See LETTER,
Railway Train Speed to Manchester 7^3
Radway Trains, Cost of High-Speed, 173
Railway Trains. See Trains Underground, New York Subway, 11, I'll, 205, 245, 276, 364,429,464.^ See
Railways, Canada, 256
Railways in China, 20, 852
Railways, Chinese Trade and, 753
Railways, Dangers of Electric, 21,156
Railways, Danish State, 89
Problem of, 258, 317, 359,
Traction on, 481. See also
Railways, Italian Electric, 719
Railways, Japanese, 643
Railways, Russian, Loss of Weight on. 364
Railways, Vibration on, 479. See 767
Royal Society’s Soirfie, 651.
Rapid Transit in New York, 783. See also Seiv r orK Lity mibway
Rates in Denmark, New Railway, 788
Rating Machinery, 483, 514. See also Legal
Rawson and Morrison’s Cableways at the Con- struction of New York Subways, 11
Reciprocating Engines versus Turbine for High- Speed Vessels, 419. See 125, 755
?'"o 9'‘s-EDgine Research at the Royal Society’s Soirde, 651. See 819
Recovered Rubber, 672
Reflex ” Gauge Glass Protector, 325 Refrigerating Plant, Electric, 59
Refrigerating Plant, Small, 483
Refrigerator Chamber, Explosion in, 584 Regulator, Automatic, for Pumping Engines 149
Relations between Metallurgy and Engineering James Forrest Lecture, 538
Relays for Submarine Cables, 616
Renold Gear Chain, 210
Repair and Salvage of H.M. Torpedo-Boat
Destroyer “ Salmon,” 368
Repairing a Tunnel Shaft at Sea, 195
Research Endowment Fund, German, 223
Research Endowment Fund, University College London, 618, See 380, 451, 851 ’
ReSgistance, Electrical, Temperature Variation of.
Electrical, of Minute Metal Par-
Reversals of Stress, 504
Reynolds, Professor Osborne, and Smith, J H Mea^Jst'res™'"^ Kever.ale of
Rhine and its Shipping, 786
Ricks, Accumulator, 191
Riedler Express ” Pump Engine, 310 ^48 114^^"“’'® I’owell-Duffryn Collieries,
River Barrow Viaduct, Contract for, 156
River Thames, Tunnelling Under, 454 74^^*^^’ Shipwork, 416. See 714,
Road Locomotion. See Jfotor Cars
Road Scarifier, Asplen’s, 387
Rock-Drilling and Blasting on New York Sub* way, 364
Roller Pressures for Great Loads, 276
Rohi^ng of Ships, Navipendulum for Recording, 402,520,590. See Erratum, 509 ®
Rolling Stock. See Carriages .and ira<7o?i6‘ ^129 1*63^ K6*^29b"^^^ Shaft Brackets, &c., 103,
Roof, Railway Station, 467, 534
Roofs ; Workshop, German Niles Tool Works, 769, 835
Rope, Manila, Tests, 240
Ropes for Shipping, Steel Wire, 753, 786
Rosse, Earl of, on a Leaf-Arrester for the Water Supply of Turbines, 59
Rotating Water, Ebullition of, 723
Roumanian Locomotives, 742
Rowan and Co.’s Marine Engine Works, Glasgow, 597. See 604, 839
Rowland’s Experiments on the Magnetic Action of a Moving Electrostatic Charge, 124
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological Society
Royal Society’s Soirde, 651, 819
Royal Train, Great Western, 376
Ruabon Boiler Explosion, 560
Rubber, Manufacture of India, 447
Rubber, Recovered, 672
Rudder Gear, Michele Steering, 539
Runcorn Boiler Explosion, 64. See LETTERS, 91, 517
Russian Developments in the Far East, 821
Russian Naphtha Industry, 688
Russian Petroleum Deposits, 821
Russian Railways, Loss in Weight of Goods on, 354
Russian Waterways, Harbours for, 722
Russo, Captain G., on the Navipendulum Method of Recording the Rolling of Ships, 402, 520, 590. See Erratum, 509
Rust, Paints to Prevent, 837

Safety-Gear of Lifts, 417, 423, 468, See also 439, 489\ 505, 550
Sailing Ship, Largest, in the World, 788
“Salmon,’ H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Repair and Salvage of, 368
Salt Industry, Stassfurt, 257
Salt Lakes as Natural Heat Accumulators, 821
Salvage and Repair of H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “ Salmon,” 368
Sandstone Stresses. 204
Sanitary Appliances for Railway Carriages in India, 531
Sanitary Appliances in Railway Trains, 340
Sanitary and Laundry Exhibition, 617
Santos Dumont Airship and Andree Balloon, 311. See also 819
“ Savoie” and “Lorraine,” French Trans-Atlantic Steamships, 342, 406
Saw-Bench (Robinson and King’s), 710
“ Sixonia,” Cunard Liner, Admiralty Boiler Trials, 254, 278, 326, 749
Scarifier, Asplen’s Road, 387
Schmidt’s Superheatel Steam Locomotive, 827
Schmidt’s System of Superheating Steam, 788
Schmuts’ Automatic Screw Machine. 345
Scholarships, Carnegie Research, 637, 655
School for Machine-Shop Apprent ces, 103,129 163, 176, 290
Scientific Developments and Naval Warfare, 403
Scotch Shipbuilding, 74
Scott - Elliott Furnace Equipment. 484. See LETTER, 518
Screw Machines. See Machine Tools
Screw Propellers. See Propellers
Sea Water, Action of, on Cement, 483
Sea Sound Signals, 324
Seine, Arched Viaduct over, at Paris, 82, 137 Seism’c D.sturbances, 655. See LETTER, 777 Selenium, The Absorption, Dispersion, and Surface Colour of, 360
Self-Lubricating Bearings for Wood-Working Machinery, 710
Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Motor Cars Separators, Magnetic, 60S. See Errata^ 647 Separator and Superheater, Potter Mesh, 242 Servant and Master, Law Cases, 133, 191, 200, 293, 393, 428, 489, 593, 627, 664, 683, 722, 729, 830
Sewage Treatment, 158
Sewer Crossing at New York Subway, 40
Shaft Bearings, Improvements in Propeller, 403, 439. See LETTER, 518
Shaft Repair at Sea, Tunnel, 195
Shafts, Crank, Strains on, 402, 426, 454, 491. See also 402. 43), 472, 518
Shafts, Deep, Winding Gear, 686
Shafts, Torsional Oscillations of High-Speed Engine, 26, 57, 9l
Shafts, Torsional Vibrations of, 403, 472. See also 402, 426, 439, 454, 491, 518
Shale Oil, Electric Power in Manufacture of, 345 Shallow-Draught Steamers for African Lakes, 808 Shanghai Trade, 53
Sheds and Warehouses at Amsterdam, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Shells, Bursting Charges of, 563. See LETTERS, 609, 615. See 546, 743
Shells, Capped, Penetrate Krupp Armour, 717, 724, 743
Ship “ Para,” Explosion on the, 534
Ship Propeller Shaft Bearings, 403, 439, 513
Ship Propeller Slip. See Negative Slip
Ship, Sailing, Largest, in the World, 788 Ships' Shaft, Repair of, at Sea, 195
Ship State-Room Accommodation, 323
Ship Steering Gear. Michele, 539
Ship’s Boat-Lowering Gea’*, Welin, 227
Ship’s Crankshafts, Strains on, 402, 426, 454, 491. See also 403, 439, 472, 518
Ships’ Double Bottoms, The Stresses on, 884, 890 Ships, Liquid Fuel for, 399, 407
Ships’ Plates, Stresses on, 384, 890
Ships, Rolling of, 402, 520, 690. See Erratum, 509
Ships. See also Steamers
Ships’ Shafts, Torsional Vibrations of, 403, 472. See also 402, 426, 439, 454, 491, 518
Ships, Sizes of, 24
Ships, Steering Rudderless, 517
Ships, Transverse Strength of, 113 Shipbuilding, British and Foreign, 193
Shipbuilding Costs in America and England, 349. See 579, 649
Shipbuilding Industry, German, 751 Shipbuilding, Japanese, 18
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1901, 21, 55, 74. See 124, 583
Shipbuilding for the Navy, Contract and Arrears, 622, 68 L See also Naval Problems
Shipbuilding, Pneumatic Tools in, 416, 714, 743
Shipbuildiiiir. See also Naval Architects Shipbuilding Trade Prospects, 124, 583
Shipbuilding Trade, Decreased Activity, 583
Shipbuilding and Bounties, 349, 579, 649, 849 Shipping Bounties, 349, 679, 649, 849 Shipping Combine, 579, 649, 849 Shipping, Japanese, 95
Shipping Problems, Lord Glasgow on, 383 Shipping on the Rhine, 786
Shipping, Steel Wire Ropes for, 753, 786 Shipping Subsidies, 349, 579, 649, 849 Shipyard Equipment, United States, 435 “ Shirakumo,” Engines of the Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 310
Shop Drawings, 839, See also 597, 604
Shop Flooring, Heating and Equipment, Machine, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290
Shoreditch Electric Supply, 821
Siam, British Trade in, 634 Siberia, Coal Deposits in Western, 621 Siberia and Manchuria Trade Openings, 222 Siberian Railway Development in the Far East, 821
Sieve for Leaf-Arrester for Water Supply of Turbines, 59
Signalling, Automatic Block, in America, 381 Signalling, Railway, North of France, 184 Signals, Fog, at Sea, 324
Silicon in the Open Hearth, 619, 658
Simplon Tunnel, 622
Simplon Tunnel, Ventilation of, 483
Simpson’s Rules, 438 Slip. See Negative Slip Sluices of Mandalay Canal, 345 Smelting of Gold, Pyritic,” 35.5
Smith, J. H., and Reynolds, Professor, Osborne, on a Throw Testing Machine for Reversals of Mean Stress, 504
Smokeless Powders, Evolution of, 563. See LETTERS, 609, 645. See 546, 743
Sound Signals, 324
South Africa, Irrigation in, 448 South African Diamond Mining, 200 South African Locomotive, 679 South American Copper, 255
South Wales Electric “ Bulk” Scheme, 581 South-West, Notes from the, 15, 49, 83, 117, 151, 185, 217, 249, 283, 315, 346, 377, 411, 443, 509, 543, 577, 613, 647, 681, 714, 746, 781, 847
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 14, 49, 83, 150, 185, 216, 248, 283, 314, 346, — "

476. 508, 542, 576, 612, 646, 680, 814, 846

Spark-Preventer for Locomotives South-Western Railway), 712
Specifications, Building, 835
Speed of Motor Cars, 545 Speed of Railway Trains to Manchester, 723
Speed Trains, Cost of Running High, 173
Speeds, United States Railway, 551
Spelter Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams Spiral Springs, Experiments, 274
Spirit Motors, French, 45 Springs, Spiral, Experiments, 274
Springs and Spring-Testing Machinery, 173 Stability of Ships, and Rolling, 402, 520, 590.
A'rrafw?n, 509
Stamping, Die, 35, 139, 203, 269, 333, 431, 636. See LETTER, 486
Standardisation of Limit Gauges, 225 Standardisation of Pipe Flanges and Flanged
Fittings, 534, 554, 588. See LETTER, 648 Standardising Engine Tests, 212 Stassfurt Salt Industry, 257 State Railways, Danish, 89 State-Room Accommodation, 323 Static Electricity, Water Transport in Capillary
Tubes by, 20
Station, New Railway, for Bordeaux, 467, 534 Stations, Electric, and the Factory Act, 685, 817, 824. See LETTERS, 855
Stations, Electric. See Poiver Stations^ Electric^ Engines^ and Engine, Gas
Statistics of Boiler Explosions, 354 Steam Boilers. See Boiler and
Boiler,
Steam - Distribution Mechanism
Engine, 813
I Steel for Connecting-Rod Bolts, Impact Tests,
I 513. See 189
j Steel Construction ; United States Workshop
I Methods, 91
i Steel, Corrosion of, 240
j Steel, Effect of Vanadium on, 92, 113
Steel Forgings, Oil-.Tempering of, 794
Steel Girders, Design of. See Qirders
Steel Industry, German, 751
Steel Ingot for Armour-Plate, 130-Ton, 605
Steel and Iron Girders, Formulae for Weights and Depths of, 338, 463. See also Girders
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel and Iron Works in Mexico, 8
Steelmaking in Japan, 155
Steel Manufacture, Canada, 256
Steel Manufacture, Equilibrium of Iron Carbon Systems, 626
Ste-l Manufacture with Gas Made from Wood, 639, 663
Steel, Microstructure of Hardened, 638. See LETTER, 645. See also Microscopic^ ct’c.
Steel, Open-Hearth Furnace, Elimination of
Silicon in, 619, 658
Steel Plate Girders, 236, 253. See also Girders Steel Production, United States, 86
Steel Progress in United States. 172
Steel Rails, Microscopical Observation of Deterioration in, 501
Steel Wire Ropes, 753, 786
Steel Works, United States, Increase in, 583 Steels, High-Speed Tool, 689
Steering Gear for Ships, Michele, 539
Steering Machinery of H.M.S. “Good Hope”
(Napiers), 322
Steering Rudderless Ships, 517
Stevenson’s Sea Guide and Yachting Manual for 1902, 146
Stock Exchange Year-Book for 1902, 146 Stokehold Temperatures on British Cruisers, 322 Storms on the British Coast, 376
Straightening Machine, Bar- and Tube-, 293 Strains on Crankshafts, 402, 426, 454, 491. See also 403, 439, 472, 518
Street-Watering in Paris, 515
Strength of Chilled Cast Iron, 204
Strength of Columns, 731. See LETTERS
Strength Test of Composite Buildings, 363 Strength of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 383, 389.
See 368
Strength of Vessels, Transverse, 113, 384, 390 Stress, Investigation of Thermo-Eleotric, 191 Stress, Reversals of, 504
Stresses in Braced Girders, 25
Stresses on Ships’ Plates, 384, 390. See 368
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., on the Distortion of Boilers
Due to Overheating, 434, 458
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., on Explosions of Steam Pipes Due to Water Hammer, 295. See LETTER, 310
Structure of Micro-Crystalline of Platinum, 856 Structure of Steel, 638. See Microscopic^ tOc.
' Structures, Composite, 363
Study of Economics, 615
Subaqueous Deep Foundations, 822 Submarine-Boats and Naval Warfare, 403 Submarine Cables, Relays for, 616 Submarine Telegraph Cable, 827
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 224, 727 Subsidies on Steam Shipping, 349, 579, 649, 849 Subterranean Pressures, 25, 225, 311, 419 Subway in New York City, 11, 40, 112, 141, 205,

245, 276, 364, 429, 464. See 783

Suction Dredgers, Cutting Machinery for, 676 Sugar Centrifugal Machine, Electric Drive, 812 Sugar Manufacture, Evaporators for, 3, 71. See
LETTER, 193
Sulphate of Ammonia, 19
Sulphuric Acid Process, Catalytic, 414 Superheated Steam Locomotive, 827 Superheater and Separator, Potter Mesh, 242 Superheating Steam, Schmidt’s System of, 788 “Surplus Product,” The Principle of the, 85 Surveying for Tunnels, 429 Swansea Water Supply, 347, 373
Sweden Industries, 354
Swinburne, Mr. J., on the Electric Problem of
Railways, 317, 359, 392. See 258
Sydney Sewerage Treatment, 158
Syren Signals, 324
Taff Vale Railway Legal Decision. See Trade Unions^ under LEGAL
Tanks, Experimental. See National and Physical Laboratory^ 383
“Tarantula,” Steam Yacht, Turbine-Driven, 745 Tariff Question, China, 584
Tay Bridge, Dundee, 224
Technical Education, 17, 710
Technical Lexicon; Nomenclature of Metallography, 637
Technical Words, United States, 193
Tees Shipbuilding, 57
Telegraph Cable Companies, 224, 727
Telegraph Cable, Pacific, 827
Telegraph, Relay for Submarine, 616
Telegraph, Submarine, 224, 727, 827 Telegraphy, Marconi, 120, 818
Temperature of Earth in India, 822
Temperature Effects on the Elastic Recovery of Steel Bars, 549
Temperature Indicator for Use with Platinum Thermometers, 575
Temperature Variation of the ance of Metals, 386
Temperatures of Explosion of tion Engines, 833
Temperatures, Stokehold, on

Tempering of Mild-Steel Forgings, 794
Temporary Engineers in the Navy, 26. See Naval Engineers
Temporary Steering Apparatus for Ships, 517 Test of Composite Buildings, 363
Testing Apparatus for Steam Trials, 220
Testing of Dynamos at the English Electric Manufacturing Company’s Works, Preston, 121
Testing of Locomotive Boiler, Purdue College, 627, 660, 682
Testing Machine, Buckton, 91, 609
Testing for Reversal of Mean Stress, 504
Testing Springs, Machine for, 173
- • Station, Charlottenburg, 52
xeava, on Notched Steel Bars, 189
Tests of Notched Specimens, Impact, 513 Tests, Standardising, for Engines, 212 Textile Machinery, Fencing and Guarding, 417, 468,489. See 423, 505, 639, 55U
Thames Shipbuilding, 79
Thames, Tunnelling under the River, 4&4
Theatre, Modernisation of Covent Gardea Opera
House, 669 _ -
Thermal Emissivity in High-Pressure Gases, 1 Thermal Expansion of Porcelain, 385 Thermal Relations of Floating Clouds, 3/6 Thermo-Electric Invest’gaticn of Stress, 191 Thermometers, Platinum Temperature Indi
cator for use with, 575
Tliirv Mr. J., on Recovery of By-Products in Coke-Making, 618, 661. See also 681
Thornycroft Boilers for Large Vessels, 155 Thornycroft and Cylindrical Combination Boiler
Installations, 823 . „ .
Thornycroft’s Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Engines,

310 Thunderstorms and Atmospheric Electricity, 703,
767, 802 a 11

Time Intervals, Measurement of Very Small, 54 Tin and Copper, 581 . , „
Tin and Copper Alloys, Microscopical Examina
tion of, 7, 28, 61, 95,532
Tin Prices. See Aletcbl Price Dia.nams TolchOil Engine for Light Marine Work, 668.
See 678 Tool-Grinder, Electrically-Driven, 575 Tool Steels, High-Speed, 689 . ,
Tools, Pneumatic. See P.’i^uwauc looia Tools. SQQ Machine Tools Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Engines (Thornycroft},
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, First of, 551, 584 Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships Torpedo Boats. See Warships .
Torsional Oscillations in High-Speed Engine
Shafts, 26, 67,91 ,
Torsional Vibrations of Shafts, 403, 472. See also 402, 426, 439, 454, 491, 618
Towing Sea-Going Lighters, 26
Track Moving, New York Subway, 141 Traction, Electric, 306, 550, 585 Traction, Electric, cn Main Railways, 481. bee
also Railivays under ELECTRIC Traction. See Tramways Tractor, Oil, on the Nivernais Canal, 312 Trade in China, United States, 449 Trade in Japan, 687, 850 Trade Marks and Patents, Transvaal, 743 Trade, Municipal, in United States, 51 Trade Openings in Siberia and Manchuria, 222 Trade Unions, Legal Position of. See Legal Trade Unions, Picketing, 354, 413 Trades’ Waste, Bacterial Treatment of, 158 Train Accelerometer, 175 Train Coupling and Draught Gear, 314. See LETTER, 419
Train-Despatching, 55 Train-Lighting, 531 Train, Royal, Great Western, 376 Train. See Railway Train Train for Transporting Main Shaft, 605 Trains, Cost of Running High-Speed, 173 Training, Technical, 710
Tram-Cars for the London County Council, 552 Tramway Companies’ Liabilities, Electric, 88 Tramway Compulsory Purchase by Local Authorities, 569
Tramway Trolley Wire Dangers, 319
Tramway, United States Practice in Electric, 306
Tramways, Birkenhead, Electric Generating Plant, 574
Traniwavs, Electric, and Housing, 257. See also 306, 550, 585
Tramways, London Electric, 385. See 552
Tramways. See New York Subway
Transit in New York, Rapid, 783. See also New York City Subway
Transmission of Electric Power, 667
Transporting Main Shaft, 605
Transvaal Patents and Trade Marks, 743 Transvaal Mines, Winding Gear for Deep Shafts, 686
Transverse Strength of Vessels, 113
Trap, Steam, High-Pressure, 623
Travelling Crane, 5-Ton, Gantry (Wellman- Seaver), 182
Treatment of Sewage, 158
Trials, Comparative, of Water-Tube Boilers in Italy, 635. See Errata^ 677
Trials of H.M. Cruisers, 286, 332, 451, 687, 853 Trials of Japanese Battleships, 180
Trials of Steam Engines, 220
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Trolley Wire, Electric, Dangers, 319 Trust, Nickel, 54
Trusts in America, 191 ,
Trusts. See also Combines
Trusts and the “ Surplus Product,” 85 Tube Manufacture by Electro-Deposition, 633 Tube Railways, Vibration on, 373, 419, 479 Tube Swelling and Reducing Machine, 438 Tubes, Condenser, Corrosion of, 435, 558 “ Tubes” in Parliament, 750
Tunnel Lining and Vibration, 373, 419 Tunnel Railways, Vibration on, 479 Tunnel, Simplon, 622
Tunnel, Simplon, Ventilation of, 483 Tunnelling, 240
Tunnelling, New York City Subway, 11, 40, 112, 141, 205, 245, 276, 364, 429, 464, 783
Tunnelling under the River Thames, 454, 750 Tunnels, Deep, in London, 373, 419, 479, 750 Turbine-Driven Destroyer, 223
Turbine-Driven Steam Yacht “ Tarantula,” 745 Turbine, Steam-Driven, for Merchant Steamers, Parsons’, 125, 755. See LETTER, 419
Turbine Steamer versus Paddle Steamer, 127, 755. See LETTER, 419
Turbine versus Reciprocating Engines for High- Speed Vessels, 419
Turbine Water Supply Leaf-Arrester, 59 Turning Machines. See Machine Tools Turton’s Lathe-Carrier, 357. See Errata^ 411 Tuyeres, Cooling, for Blast-Furnaces, 619, 65b
Twin Screws on Battleships, Inturning, 777
Tyne Shipbuilding, 5G
Tyres for Railway Carriages, 568
Tyrrell, Mr. If. G., on the Comparative Cost of Combination and All-Steel Bridges, 625

Unbalanced Forces in Marine Engines, 438. See also Balancing Engines
Underground Railway Fire Dangers, 21
Underground Railway, New York Citv Subway, 11, 40, 112,141, 205, 245, 276, 364, 429\ 464, 783
Underground Support; Liabilities of Railway Companies, 449
Underground Tramways. See also Underground Subways
Undermanning in the Navy. See Naval Engi neers
Unions, Pipe, 242
Unions, Trade. See Trade Unions
United States Automatic Block-Signalling, 381
United States Coalfields, 722
United States Combines and the “ Surplus Product,” 85. See also Combines
United States Copper Production, 320
United States Education, 45
United States Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 156
United States Gunboats Built in Japan, 722
United States, Irrigation in, 448
United States, Lake Superior Ore Output, 189
United States Locomotive, 641
United States and the Metric System, 256
United States, Municipal Trade in, 51
United States, Notes from the, 13, 126, 150, 215, 248, 283, 356, 374, 450, 486, 507, 542, 574, 622, 642, 680, 724, 756, 790, 814, 825, 855
United States Practice in Electric Inter-Urban Traction, 306
United States Railway Speeds, 551
United States Shipbuilding Costs, 349. See 435, 579, 649, 849
United States Shipyard Equipment, 435
United States Steel Production, 86
United States Steel Progress, 172
United States Steel Works, Increase in, 583
United States Technical Words, 193
United Stites Trade with China, 449
United States Trusts, 85, 191. See Shipping Coinbine and Steel Trust
United States versus British Locomotives, 480. See LETTERS, 26, 58, 486, 517
United States Workshop Methods in Steel Construction, 91
Units of Electro Magnetism, Rational, 723
Units, “ Linvolpon ” System of. 175
University College, London, Research Endowment, 518; Conversazione, 851
Universal Electrical Directoiy (J. A. Bsrly’s), 146 I
Universal Portable Machine Tool (Capitaine, Frankfort), 80

Valuations, Legal Hints as to, 138
Valve Gear for Gas, Steam and Air Engines, 242 Valves of Bronze, 204
Valves, Phoenix Steam-Pressure Regulating and Automatic Cut-Off Valve, 537
Vanadium, Its Effect on Steel, 92, 113
Vapour-Pressure Measuiing Apparatus, 516
“ Varese,” Comparative Trials of Boilers
Warship, 635. See Errata, 677
Varnishes for Railway Carriages, Causes
Failure, 568 Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor Cars
Ventilation of the Simplon Tunnel, 483, 622
Vessels, Transverse Strength of, 113, 384, 390
Viaduct, Arched, over Seine at Paris, 82, 137
Viaduct Contract, A Large, 156
Viaduct over the Godavari, Indian Railway,
Viaducts on New York Subway, 205
Vibration of Locomotives, 767
Vibration on Railways, 479
Vibrations of Shafts, 403, 472. See also 402, 439, 454, 491, 518, 526
Vice, Instantaneous Grip Machine, 575
Vickers Guns versus Krupp Armour-Plate, 717, 724. See LETTER, 743
Vickers Japanese Battleship “ Mikasa,” 180
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Motor War-Car, 484 Vieille Montagne, 689
Visit to Japan, Cost of, 621
Volcanic Action, Martinique, 655, 777
Wages, Bonus System, 208
Wagon Trials, Military Self-Propelled, 21.
Urrata, 48
Wagons. See Railway Wuyons
Wagons, Steam Motors. See Motor Cars
Walker, Mr. Heniy C., on Protection of
Shafts and Safety Devices in Connection
Lift-Doors and Controlling Gear, 417, 423, 468. See also 489, 505, 539, 550
Walls, Shifting Retaining, 215
War-Car, Motor, 484
War Office Launch with Daimler Motor, 678. See 668
Warehouse Cranes, Hydraulic Movable and, 438
Warehouses and Sheds, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Warfare, Naval, and Scientific Development, 403

Warships:

Admiralty Contracts and Arrears, Shipbuilding, 622, 684
Armament of British Warships, 318, 445, 653. See also 12'i, 689, 749
Battleship Designs, Twenty-One Years’ Progress in, 418, 420
Docking of Japanese Battleships. The, 792
Floating Dock for British and United States Warships, 212, 572, 789
German Warships with Thornycroft and Cylindrical Boilers, 823
Gun Power- of British Ships, 318, 445, 653 H.M.S. “ Devonshire ” Class, Boilers for the, 120, 689
H.M S. “Drake,” Trials and Propeller Efficiency, 853. See 322, 451, 687
H.M.S. “ Good Hope,” Steam Trials, 286, 322. See 451, 687, 853
H.M.S. “ King Edward VII.” Class, 445. See 120, 318, 689, 749
H.M.S. “King Edward VII.” Boilers for the, 120, 689
H.M.S. “ Leviathan,” Steam Trials of, 687. See also 286, 332, 451, 853
H.M.S. “Mars,” Explosion on, 546
H.M.S. “Prince of Wales,” 418, 420
H.M.S. “Queen,” 318
H.M.S. “Revenge,” Rolling of, 402, 520, 590. See Erratum, 609
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Salmon,” Salvage and Repair of, 368
Italian Warships “ Garibaldi” and “Varese,” Belleville versus Niclausse Boiler Trials, 635. See Errata,
Japanese Battleship “ Mikasa,” 180
Japanese Battleships, Docking of, 793
Japanese Toi^edo-Boat Destroyer “Shira- kumo,” Engines of, 310
Naval Expenditure and New Construction Diagram, 229, 251, 265
Propeller Efficiency of Cruisers, 322, 451, 687, 853
Scientific Equipment of Warships, 403
Small Tube Boilers for Large Vessels, 155, 823
Steamboat Equipment, 26, 57, 193
Submarine Boats and Naval Warfare, 403
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Design, 383, 389
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Parsons’ Turbine- Driven, 223
United States Gunboats Built in Japan, 722
Vickers Guns versus Armour-Plates, 717, 724. See LETTER, 743
Water-Tube Boiler Trials, H.M.SS. “Minerva” and “ Hvacinth,” and R.M S. “ Saxonia,” 254, 278, 326, 749
World’s Water-Tube Navy Boilers, 819
Washing Machines, 617
Washstands and Lockers for Workers in Shops, 103, 129, 163, 176, 290, 701
Water Bill, The London, 319, 710
Water, Ebullition of Rotating, 723
AVater Filter, “ Airedale,” 357
Water Filtration Plant at Albany, N. Y., 728
Water and Gas, Michael and Will on the Law Relating to, 430
Water Gauge-Glass Protector, 325
Water-Hammer, Explosion of Steam Pipes Due to, 295. See LETTER, 310
Water Power Development at Hannawa Falls, 274
Water Supply Leaf-Arrester, 59
Water Supply, London, 187
Water Supply Pump, Ashley’s, 643
Witter Supply, Swansea, 347, 373
Water Transport in Capillary Tubes by Static Electricity, 20
Water-Tube Boiler Committee’s Report, 149, 254, 278,326
Water-Tube Boiler Explosion at Runcorn, 64. See LETTERS, 91, 517
Water-Tube Boiler, Morrin, Vertical, 342
Water-Tube Boiler Trials in Italy, Comparative^ 635. See Errata, 677
Water Tube Boiler Water Consumption, H.M.SS. “Minerva” and “Hyacinth,” and R.M.S. “Saxonia,” 254, 278, 326, 749
Water-Tube Boilers in Battleships, Babcock and Wilcox versus Belleville, 318. See also 120, 445, 689, 749
Water-Tube Boilers, 500
Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation in, 495
Water-Tube Boilers in the German Navy, Thornycroft and Cylindrical Combination, 823
Water-Tube Boilers for Large Vessels, Small Tube, 155, 823
Water-Tube Boilers for Locomotives (London and South-Western Railway), 712. See also 127
Water-Tube Boilers in the Navy, 120, 193, 226, 254, 278, 311, 318, 326, 445, 689, 749
Water-Tube Boilers for the New British Cruisers, 120, 689
Water-Tube Boilers, The World’s Navy, 819
Water-Tubes in Locomotive Fireboxes (Smith,
North-Eastern Railway), 127. See also 712
Watering Streets in Paris, 515
Waterloo and Baker-street Railway Tunnel, 454
Water Turbines. See Turbines
Water-Well Boring, 307
Waterways. See Canals
Water Works Pumps. See Pumps
Wave Fronts, Focal Lines and Anchor Ring, 360
Wear Shipbuilding, 56
Weather Causes, 92
Webber, Mr. William O., on Filtration Plant at Albany, 728
Webs of Plate Girders, 236, 253. See Errata, 282, and Girders
Weight, Loss of, on Russian Railways, 354
Welin’s Boat-Lowering Gear, 227
Well-Boring for Water Brine and Oil, 307
Well Pump, Ashley, Hydraulically-Balanced, 643
Well Pump, Electrically-Driven, 293
Wellman-Seaver 5-Ton Travelling Gantry Crane, i 182
Westinghouse Company, Works of British, 397 ’
Westinghouse Electric Machinery at the Indiana Train way Station, 306
Wharf Cranes at Amsterdam, 33, 105, 170, 243, 271
Wharf and Warehouse Cranes, Hydraulic, 438
Whitby Shipbuilding, 57
White Metal. Microscopical Examination of, 7, 28, 61,95, 532
Willing’s Press Guide and Advertiser, and Advertisers’ Directory and Hand-Book, 146
Wiraperis, Mr. H. E., on Gas Engine Temperatures, 833
Wind-Force Experiments, 676
Winding Engine, Horizontal Twin Tandem, 812
Winding Engine, Non-Condensing Double Drum, 504
Winding Gear for Deep Shafts, 686
“Winifred” and “Sybil,” Steamers, for Lake Victoria, 808
Wire Ropes, Steel, for Shipping, 753, 786
Wireless Telegraphy, 120,818
Wolverhampton Exhibition, 582
Wolverhampton Exhibition, Woodworking Machinery, 710
Wood for Gas Manufacture, 639, 663
Woodworking Machinery at Wolverhampton Exhibition, 710
Words. See Technical Words
Working of the Boiler Explosions Act, 354. See Boiler Explosions
VVorkmen’s Compensation. See Servants and Masters
Workmen’s Houses and Electric Tramways, 257

Works :

British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 397
Brush Electrical Engineering Company, 169, 208
Ehrhardt Company and their Works, 807
Electrolytic Alkali Company’s Works, Middlewich, 352. See Errata, 377
English Electric Manufacturing Company’s Works at Preston, 121
English Electro-Metallurgical Company, Limited, 633
German Accumulator Works, Hygiene in, 157
German Niles Tool Works, Berlin, 701, 769, 835
Monterey Iron and Steel Works, Mexico, 8
New Explosives Company’s Works, The, 610
David Rowan and Co.’s Marine Works, Glasgow, 597. See 604, 839

Works, Increase in United States Steel, 583
Works Management, 604. See 597, 839 Workshop and Factory Law, 734
Workshop and Factory Legislation, 337
Workshop Methods. See Machine-Shop Methods
Workshop Methods in Steel Construction, United States, 91
World’s Copper Production, 688
World’s Water-Tube Na\y Boilers, 819
Wrought-Iron Columns, Strength of, 731. See LETTERS

Yacht, Steam, “Tarantula,” Turbine-Driven, 745
Yarrow Boilers for Large Cruisers, 155
Year-Books and Annuals, 146. See Literature
Ymuiden Locks on North Sea Canal, 33,105, 170, 243, 271
Yorkshire Electric Power Company, 789
Young Engineers, Training of, 677, 743, 744
Younger, Mr. A. Scott, on Improvements in Propeller-Shaft Bearings, 403, 439. See LETTER, 518

Zeebrugge Harbour Works, 65
Zinc and Lead Production, 415
Zinc Manufacture, 689
Zinc Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams

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