Engineering 1908 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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ABELL, W. S., on Two Notes on Ship Calculation?, 542, 766

Accidents :

Batnber Bridge Accident; Report, 184
Dore and Totley Junction Railway Accident, h3
Elberfeld Barnfeld Railway, 583
Glasgow Corporation Tramway, £49
New York : Railway Accidents, 403 Shrewsbury, 558
West Hampstead, 191 Wembley Park, 603

Accident Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation and Legal.
Accidents in Factories, 861. See also Safety
Accident to H.M.S. “ Gladiator,” 614, 652, 690
Accident, Hydraulic Main, 762
Accident in Monongah Coal-Mine, 590
Accident to Quebec Bridge, 346, 405,412, 580, 715, 782. See LETTERS, See 37. Erratum, 594
Accident to the S.S. “Milwaukee,” Repair, 100
Accumulators. See Electric
Acetylene, The Manufacture of Calcium Carbide, 290. See 790
Acetylene Works of the Thorn and Hoddle Company, 712
Acts of Parliament.
Adhesion between Ferro-Concrete
Admiralty Policy. Warships
Admiralty of the Atlantic, Treatise on, 642
Aerial Cableway, Argentine, 361, 425
Aerial Navigation, Problem of, 89, 147, 219, 254, 285, 304, 346, 373, 398, 411, 480, 5o9, 614, 659, 691, 715, 725, 748, 861
Aerial Propellers, 384. See LETTERS : of Flight
Aerodromometer, The, 759
Aerodynamics, Treatise on, 460, 558. See Flight
Aeronautics, Treatise on, 297
Afoten Iron-Ore Deposits, 177
Africa, See South Africa Air. Compressed. See also Compressed Air and Pneumatic
Air, Compressed, Winding-Engine (Messrs. Fullerton, Hodgart, and Barclay, Limited), 334
Air-Compressor, Vertical Compound (Lacy, Hulbert and Co.), 161
Air-Compressors, Mason Regulator for, 349
Air Currents ; Measurements of Velocity, 759
Air-Driven Locomotive, 690
Air, Effect of, in Surface-Condenser, 507, 532
Air, The Exploration of. See also Aeroplanes
Air Jets and Balls, 615, 749
Air-Leakage in Steam-Condensers, 866
Air-Lift Pumps, 210
Air, Liquefaction of, 793
Air, Li<iuid, Separation of Oxygen from, 761
Air Pressure on Planes. See Aeroplanes Air Resistance of Plates, 605
Air-Ships, Treatise on, 297. See Aerial Alcohol for Commercial Purposes, 282. See 156
Aldwych and Embankment Subway, 523
“ Alexandra,” Royal Turbine-Driven Yacht, 821
Alkaline Metal?, Davy’s Discovery of, 122
Allan Liner “ Corsican,” 46, 111
Alloys of Copper, Tin, and Zinc, 316
Alloys, The Planimetric Analysis of, 589
Alloys of Platinum and Iron, 282
Alloys, Recaiescence Curves of, ISO Alloys, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 423-
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium, Manufacture of, 292 Amazon and Andes, Treatise on, 331, 372 America. See also United States
American Boiler Explosions, 592 American Colliery Explosion, 590 American Locomotives. See Locomotives American Metallurgical Industry. See Iron and >iteel and Eotes from the 'United States
American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools American Needle Dams on the Big Sandy River, 69
American Submarines, 345
American University and Columbia, New York, 479
American View of Municipal Trading, 190, 222 Ammonia-Recovery Plant at the Staveley Works, 574
Ammunition in the French Navy, 758 Ammunition, Instability of Nitro-CellTilose, 316 Amur Railway, Projected, 834
Analysis of Allo3*s, 589
Analysis of Flue Gas by CO-j Recorder, 784 Analysis of Paints, Treatise on, 461 Analysis, Steel Works, 809
Andes and Amazon, Treatise on, 331, 372 Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX Antimony. See Metal-Price Diagrams Appleby, Charles James, The late, 592 Apprentices, Educational Scheme for, 31 Apprentices, The Treatment of, 342 Apprenticeship in France, 592 Apprenticeship, Premium or Non-Premiuin, 15 Apprenticeship. See also Education and Training
Arc-Lamp, The Jandus Flame, 256 Arc-Lamp. See also Electric Arch Bridges, Destruction of, 727 Arch. See Bridge
Area Scale, White and Bean’s, 60, 79
Argentine Mountains, Wire Ropeway in, 361, 425 Armament of Warships. See Warships
Armour and its Attack, 476,484 See also Warships Armour-Piercing Shells. 476, 481 Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Armoured Ships. See Warships
Arnold, Professor John Oliver, on Factors of Safety in Marine Engineering, 543, 565, 598. Sec Erratum, 619
Arrol, Sir William, and Co., Limited ; Nile Bridges at Cairo, 49,
Arrol, Sir William, and Co., Limited, Works of, 359
Artillery. See Gxins
Astronomy and the Doppler Principle, 269
Astronomy at the Fraiico-British Exhibition, 823 Atkinson, James, on The Governing and Regu- larily of Gas-Engines, 520. 526
Atlantic Liner “Corsi an” (Barclay, Curie, and Co.). 46, 111
Atlantic Liner; Record Passages. See Cxt^nard Liner Performances
Atlantic Liners, Work of, 221
Atmospheric Nitrogen, Fixation of, 780
Austen, IL C. M., 0:1 British Fishery Harbours, 395, 671
Austen, IL C. M , on The Physical Difficulties of Modern llaibourand Dock Extension, 41, 124
Australa?ia. See Few South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Axtstra'ia, and South Australia
Australian Government Building at Franco- British Exhibition, 712
Australian Mail Contract, 553 Auto-Cars. See Motor-Cars Auto CO2 Recorder, 784
Automobiles. See Motor-Cars
Avonmouth Dock at Bristol, 857. See also Vol. LXXXVL

Balata, Treatise on, 778
Balloons, Treatise on, 297
Baltic-North Sea Canal Extension, 159, 721
Baltiicore Lighthouse, Overturned Caisson of, 608
Bamber, E. F., on Some Thoughts alout Lord Kelvin, 20
Bamber, H. Kelway, on Indian Broad-Gauge Railways, 70
Barbettes. See Guns
Barclay Oddie High-Speed Pump, 750
Barge, Coaling, with Steam Winches, 859
Barrels, Machines for Making Slack, 815 I
Bars, Lateral, Vibrations of, 849
Basic Bessemer Steel Manufacture, Improvements in, 65. See Erratum, 82
Batteries. See Electric and Guns Battleships. See Warships Beams, Calculation of Deflection in, 782, 863 Beams, Continuous, Theory of, 839 Beams, Ferro-Concrete, 223
Beams, Lateral Vibrations of, 849
Beams, Strength of, 37, 680, 715. See I.ETTERS, 405, and Quebec
Beams, Time of Vibration of, 347 Bean and Wnite’s Area Scale, 60, 79 Bearings, Lubrication of, 86
Bell, IL P., on the Destiuction of Tar in Gas- Producers, 141, 171
Bell, Thomas, on Performances of the Cunard
Liner “Lusitania,” 489, 503. See 727
Bell’s Asbestos Company ; Shielded Stop-Valve, 829
BelluzzD Two-Speed Steam-Turbine, 270 Bending of Continuous Beams, 839 “ Ben-my-Chree,” Turbine-Steamer for Isle of
Man Service, 332 Bennett’s Ideal Condenser, 168 Benzol for Motor Fuel, 156, 282 Bessemer Sttel Manufacture, Improvements in,
65. See Erratum, 82 Big Sandy River, Needle Dams on, 69 Birmingham Boiler Explosion, 765 Blake Oil-Tester, 183 Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas Blast-Furnace Slag. Utilisation of, 671, 868 Blast-Furnace Walls Destroyed by Carbon De
posits, 794 Blast-Furnaces at the Staveley Iron Works, 391 Blower, The Rateau, Details of, 639 Blowing Engines. See Engines, Blowing, also
A ir-Compressors
Blowing-Engines at Staveley Works, 609 Board of Trade and Boiler Explosions. See
Boiler Explosions
Boats, Motor. See Motor-Launches and Motor- Boats
Bogies, Railway. See Carriages and Locomotives
Boiler, The “Clyde” Upright Multi-Tubular (Marriott and Graham), 770
Boiler Efficiency, 471 Boiler Explosion at Allan Grange, 697 Boiler Explosions in America, 592 Boiler Explosion at Birmingham, 765 Boiler Explosion at Brighouse, 321 Boiler Explosion at Bristol, 735 Boiler Explosion at Coatbridge, 65 Boiler Explosion at Greenwich, 113, 120 Boiler Explosions and Manchester Steam-Users’
Association, 731
Boiler Explosion at Middlesbrough, 769 Boiler Explosion at Wednesbury, 636 Boiler Explosion on Yarmouth Drifter, 355 Boiler, Flash, for Steam Omnibus, 463
Boiler Flue Gas, The “ Auto ” CO2 Recorder, 784 Boiler Flues, Recording Draught Gauge for, 336 Boilers in the French Navy, 252, 305
Boilers, Gas-Fired, at the Staveley Works, 509 Boiler Inspection, Graham’s Candlestick and 1
Gang? for, 352 I
Boilers, Locomotive, Tests of, 427, 450, 451, 471, 494
Boilers of Locomotives. See also Locomotioes Boilers, ftlarine, of Allan Liner “Corsican”
(Barclay, Curie, and Co.), 46, 111 Boilers and Oil Fuel for Ships, 805 Boiler-Plates, Defective Flanging of, 113,120 Boilers. Shutting Down for Cleaning, 660 Boiler Tests with Live-Steam Feed-lleater, 264,
287. See 371, 435 Boiler-Tube Cleaner, The Willcox Ramoneur, 766 Books Received, 7, 37, 75, 136, 239, 297, 331, 461,
577, 642, 711, 761, 779, 809, 811 Books. See LITERATURE INDEX “Boreas” Vertical Compound Air-Compressor,
161 Boring-Machine. See Machine-Tools Bracing of Frames of Motor-Cars, 233 Brake, The “ Maximus ” Railway, 728, 758, 796 Brass and Copper Institute, 124, 252 Brassey’s Navy Annual, 760 Brazing, New System of, 822, 862. SeeLV/'aMtw,
853
Breakdown Cranes for Buenos Ayres and Rosario
Railway (Beyer, Peacock, and Co.), 254 Breathing Apparatus for Use in Mines, 89, 93,824 Breech Mechanism for Guns, 6, Treatise on, 207 Bricks, Fire, Destroyed by Carbon Deposits, 794 Bridge Construclion, Treatise on, 7 Bridges, The Curzon and Netravati, India, 398 Bridge Disaster at Quebec, 37, 346, 405 412, 580
715, 782. See LE’ITERS : Erraixun^ 594 Bridges, Erection of, 211 Bridge Foundations, Sinking, by Divers, 135 Bridge, King Edward VII , at Newcastle on-
Tyne, 479 Bridges, Masonry, Destruction of, 727 Bridges over the Nile at Cairo, 40 Bridges, Proposed, at Glasgow Harbour, 54 Bridge Rail-Joint, Marriott’s, 257 Bridge. See also Beam Bridge, Swing, at Sculcoates, Hull, 146, 239 Bridge Works of Sir William Arrol and Co.,
Limited, 359 Brighouse, Steam-pipe Explosion at, 321 Brinell Hardness-Testing Machine (J. W. Jack
man and Co.), 661 Brifjuetting Iron Ore in Sweden, 749 Brislee, Dr. F. J., on Combustion Processes in
English Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 427, 450. See 454, 471, 494
Bristol, Boiler Explosion at, 735 Bristol, Royal Edward Dock at, 857. See also
Vol. LXXXVI.
British Battleships. See Warships British Copper-Mines, 757
British Fishery Harbours, 395, 671 British Lead-Mining, 312
British Naval Training. See Engineers and Navy British Trade with Canada, 723 British Warships. See Warships Brush-Parsons Turbine Machinery, Details of,
202
Building Act and Cable-Boxes, 626
Building Construction. See also Ferro-Conerete Buildings at Franco-British Exhibition, 646, 679, 712
Buildings, Heating of, 438
Bulkheads, Danger of, 614
Burstall, Professor F. W.; The Third Report of the Gas-Engine Research Committee, 103,128. See 147

CO2 Recorder (The “ Auto ” Recorder Company), ' 784 !
Cable-Boxes, Legal Position of, 626 '
Cables, Electric, Grading of, 736
Cables, Submarine, Development of, 694 Cableway in North Argentine, 361, 425
Cairo, New Nile Bridges at, 40
“Cairo,” Turbine Steamer (The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company), 126, 560, 616
Caisson, Overturned, of Baltimore Lighthouse, 608 I
Calcium Carbide, Manufacture of, 290
Calcium Cyanamide, Manufacture of, 790
Calculations for Ship Curves, 542, 766 Calorimetry of Gas and Steam, 1
Canada, British Trade with, 723
Canadian Port of St. John, 167
Canal, Kaiser Wilhelm, Extension of, 159, 724 C
anals and Railways in Russia, 726
Canals and Waterways, Royal Commission on, 55
Candlestick, Graham’s, for Boiler Inspection, 352 Capstan Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Carbon Deposits on Blast Furnace Walls, 794 Carbon Dioxide, Specific Heat of, 1
Carbon Dioxide Recorder, 784
Carbonisation of Coal, 410
Carborundum, Manufacture of, 292
Carriage, Dining, for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 729
Carriages on Indian Broad-Gauge Railways, 70 Carriages, Railway, for Natal Government, 364, 436
Carriage, Railway, Petrol-Electric, 469
Cars and Carriages. See Motor-Cars^ Bailway CarSf and Tramzvay-Cars
Carulla, F. J. R., on Cast-Iron in Construction of Chemical Plant, 695, 670
Casks, Machines for Making, 845
Cast-Iron for Chemical Plants, 670, 695 Cast-Iron. See also Iron
Castellated Shafts, 337
Castings, Hints on Making, 863
Casting, Iron, by Szekeb^ Process in Metallic Moulds, 16
Castings, Manufacture of, 79
Casting, Scientific Foundry Work, 224
Casual Employment, 759
Catalogues, 15, 64, 134, 166, 230, 322, 356, 387, 458, 635, 668, 698, 736, 800, 834, 870. For Names of Firms see PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cataract Dam at Sydney, 537
Cathode Rays, Action of, on Diamonds, 458
Cathode Rays and the Doppler Principle, 269
Cathode Volatilisation in Rarefied Gases, 686. See also Electee Discharses
Cement Barrels, Machinery for Making, 815
Cement Concrete. See Concrete and Ferro- ! Concrete
Cement, Portland, Specification for, 180
Cement, Waterproof, 590
Census of Shipbuilding and Engineering, 819 Centenary of Discovery of Alkaline Metals, 122 Central Station. See Electric and Poxver Centrifugal Pumps, Charging of, 191 Cesspool-Exhauster, Merryweather’s Steam-Propelled, 595
Chace Mason, S., on Submarines of Battleship Speed, 61
Chain-Drives for Motor-Cars, 137, 255
Chains, Renold, for Driving Machine-Tools, &c., 307, 674, 705, 826
Chain Track-Tractor, Hornsby’s, 614
Change-Speed Friction-Gear, 829
Charging-Gear for Blast-Furnaces at the Staveley Iron Works, 393
Charing Cross Station, New Roof at, 174, 234
Chassis. See Motor-Car
Chemical Analysis for Steel-Work, Treatise on, t 809
Chemical Plants, Use of Cast Iron in, 670, 695 Chemistry of Gas Manufacture, Treatise on, 135 Chemistry and the Spectroscope, Treatise on, 710 Chimneys, Ferro-Concrete, 325, 481
Chromium and Tungsten in High-Speed Tool- Steel, 717

Civil Engineers, Inslitiilion of:

Experimental Investigation of the Stresses in Masonry Dams subjected to Water Pressure, by Sir John W. Ottley and ilr. A. W. Brightmore, 162. See 73, 692
Stresses in Dams: An Experimental Investigation by Means of India-Rubber Models, by J. S. Wilson and W. Gore, 162. See also 73, 692
Stresses in Masony Dams, by E. P. Hill, 162. See 73, 692
The Erection of the Pwll-y-pant Viaduct on the Brecon and Merthyr Extension of the Barry Railway, by A. L. Dickie, 211
Notes on the Erection of Cantilever Bridges, 1)5' Professor T. Claxton Fidler, 211
Shaft-Sinking at the Horden Colliery, South- East Durham, by J. J. Prest, 276
The New York Rapid Transit Subway, by William Barclay Parsons, 320
The Curzon Bridge at Allahabad, by R. R. Gales, 398
The Netravati Bridge at Mangalore, by A. S. Napier, 398
Some Methods of Heating Adopted in Hospitals and Asylums Recently Built, by E. R. Dolby, 438
The King Edward VH. Bridge, Newcastle-on- Tyne, by F. W. Davis and C. R. S. Kirkpatrick, 479
James Forrest Lecture on Some Unsolved Problems in Metal-Mining, by Professor Henry Louis, 596, 632
Reform Movement, 861
Cleveland Iron. See MetabPrice Piagraini^
Cleveland, Notes from, 10, 48, 83, 125, 151, 185, 215, 247, 273, 308, 339, 369, 403, 439, 483, 514, 551, 585, 619, 651, 683, 718, 753, 787, 817, 853
Cliff, Fall of, at Lyme Regis, 823
Cloud, Pillar of, 90
Clutch. See Coupling and Motor-Car
Clutches for Chain-Driven Countershafting, 674
“ Clyde ” Upright Multitubular Boiler, 770
Coal Carriage on Russian Railway’s, 45
Coal-Crushing Plant at the Staveley Works, 573
Coal, Destructive Distillation of, 410 Coal-Hoist, Hydraulic, at Newport Docks, 306
Coal and Industry, 375
Coal and Iron in Belgium, 14
Coal-Mines, Disinfection in, 863
Coal-Mines of Kyushu, Japan, 158
Coal-Mines, Rescue Station for, 591
Coal-Mines, Rescue Work in, 89, 93, 824 Coal-Mining Legislation in France, 794 Coal-Mining in New Zealand, 315
Coal-Mining. See also Colliery and Engine^ Winding
Coal-Mining, Some Unsolved Problems in, 596, 632
' Coaling-Barge, Steam-Winch, 850
Coasts, The Lighting of, 250
Coatbridge Boiler Explosion, 65
Coded Lists for Marine Work, 812
Coke-Ovens at the Stavele.v Works, 573
Collier “ Everett,” for the New England Coal and Coke Company, 179
Collieries, Breathing Apparatus for Use in, 89, 93. See 591, 834
Collieries, Westphalian, Electricity in, 688 Colliery District, Rescue Station in, 591. See Coal Colliery Explosion in Monongah Mine, 590 Colliery. See also Coal and Engine- Winding Colliery-Shaft Sinking in Durham, 276
Colliery Winding ? Engine, 3000-Horse • Power (Robey and Co., Limited), 75. See also Winding
Collision, H.M.S. “ Gladiator,” 6U, 652, 690 Collisions. See Accidents
Colonial Factory Legislation, 623
Colour-Printing Machine for Linoleum (Summers and Scott, Limited), 8
Columbia University, New York, 479
Columns, Strength of, 37, 580, 715. See LETTERS, 405, and Quebec
Combine of German Iron and Steel Trade, 58 Combination of German Iron-Masters, 787 Combination of Turbines and Reciprocating
Engines, 502, 511, 614, 659, 690, 748. See Erratxnn^ 584
Combustion in Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 427, 450, 454, 494. See 471
Commercial Motor Vehicle, Roval Light Delivery Van, 144
Commercial Motor Vehicle. See also Motor
Commercial Motor Vehicles, 569, 607, 614, 658, 706. See 444, 463
Companies Act, The New, 856
Companies and Partnerships Act, 52 Company Re-Construction, 519
Compass, Mariner’s, Modern Developments of, 545
Compensation, Workmen’s. See Legal
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotive. See Locomotives Compressed-Air Brake. See Brakes Compressed-Air-Driven Locomotives, 690 Compressed-Air Rock-Drills (Keymer and Co.), 209. See 583
Compressed-Air Winding-Engine (Messrs. Fullerton, Hodgart, and Barclay, Limited), 334
Concrete, Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
Concrete, Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
Concrete, Water-Proof, 590
Condensers, Air-Leakage in, 866
Condenser for Chemical Work, Bennett’s, 168 Condensers, Surface, Effect of Air in, 507, 532 Condensing Machinery. See also Pumps Congress, International Life-Saving, 824 Continuous Beams, Theory of, 839
Contracts for Electric Light Supply, 448 Contracts and Payment by Instalments, 557 Conversazione of Royal Society, Exhibits of, 655 Conveyors for Railway Freight, 727
Cooperage, Machines for, 845
“ Copenhagen,” Turbine Channel Steamer, 223 Copper and Brass Institute, 124, 252 Copper-Mining in the United Kingdom, 757 Copper, Phosphor, The Structure of, 589 Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Copper, Tin, and Zinc Alloys, 316. SeealsoAWoys Copper, Treatment of, for Steam-Pipes, 355 Cordingley’s Motor Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, 408
Corrosion, The Coslett Process for Preventing, 870
Corrosion of Iron, 329, 381. See 344
“ Corsican,” Allan Liner (Barclay, Curie, and Co.), 46, 111
Coslett Rust-Preventing Process, 870
Cost of Power for Industrial Purposes, 95 Cotton-Mills, Safety Appliances in, 263, 499 Counter, Graham’s, for Gas-Engines, 851 County Council. See London County Council Crane, 5-Ton Electric Overhead, 365 Crane, Hydraulic, at Newport Docks, 306 Crane Locomotives for Buenos Ayres and Rosario
Railway (Beyer, Peacock, and Co.), 254 Cranes, Removal of, from Portsmouth Yard, 795 Crane. See also Hoist
Critchley-Norris Steam-Omnibus, 444 Crookes Tubes, Gas Bubbles in, 159, 181 Crystalline Structure of Metal. See also Micro- Photograph
Cunard Atlantic Liners, 221
Cunard Liner “ Lusitania,” Performances of, 489, 503, 727, 758, 820
Cunard Liner “Mauretania,” Performances of, 758, 782, 820, 863
Cupola, Emergency, 413
Curtis Steam-Turbines. See Turbines
Curtis Turbine, Efficiency of, 346
Curzon and Netravati Bridges, India, 398
Cutting-Tools, Welded-in Holders, 822, 862
Cyanamide of Calcium, Manufacture of, 790
Cylinder Foundations, Sinking, by Divers, 135

Dam, The Assouan, and Egyptian Irrigation, 85
Dam, The Cataract, at Sydney, 637
Dams, Construction of. Treatise on, 73
Dams for Irrigation Work, 136, 255
Dams, Masonry, Stresses in, 162, 692
Dams, Needle, on the Big Sandy River, 69
Dams, Reservoir, 139
Danish Tunnel under the Great Belt, 626
Darracq-Serpollet Steam-Omnibus, 463
Davy’s Discovery of the Alkaline Metals, 122 Decking for Bridges. See Bridges Deflection of Beams, Calculation of, 782,863. See also Beams
Derailment. See Accident
Design and Experience, 311, 441
Design of Ferro-Concrete Chimneys, 325, 481 Design of Motor-Car Frames, 233
Designsand Patents Act, 659. See 157, 622 Destroyers. See Warships
Destructor Plant for Chiswick, 12
Destructor at Twickenham, 759 Diagrams. See ILLUSTRATED INDEX Diagrams, Metal-Price. See Metal-Price Diagrams, White and Bean’s Area Scale for, 60, 79
Diamonds, Conversion of, into Coke, 458 Didelon Regulator for Filter-Bed, 92. See Erratum, 273
Dieterich, L. M.; Variable-Speed Friction-Gear, 829
Diffusion, Coefficient of, 796
Dining-Car, First-Class, for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 729
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX Disaster. See Accident
Disinfection in Mines, 863 Distillation of Coal, 410 Distilling Condenser, Bennett’s, 168 District Railway of London, 259. See 208 Divers’ Sinking-Well and Cylinder Foundation, 135
Dobbie, J. C., on the Mariner’s Compass, 545
Dock, Avonmouth, at Bristol, 857. See also Vol. LXXXVI.
Dock Engineering, Treatise on, 641
Docks, Portsmouth, Removal of Cranes, 795 Dock. See also Harbour and Port
Docks and Warehouses, Power in, 313
Doppler Principle and Canal Rays, 269
Double Helical Gear, Machine-Cut, 241
Douglas Adjustable Propeller, 784. See Erratum 817
Dover Naval Harbour, 759
Draught - Gauge, Recording (the Cxmbridge
Scientific Instrument Company), 336
Draught, Measurement of, 759
Draughtsmen and Design, 311, 441
Drawings, Wireless Transmission of, 472, 557, 594
Dredger, Suction, Clay-Cutting, 432
Dredging Harbours, Cost of, 44,124
Drilling-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Drills, Rock, 209
Drills, Rock, Detachable Bits for, 583
Drury Lane Theatre, Fire at, 412
Dummy Packings, 35. See Erratum^ 185
Dust-Catching Plant at the Staveley Works, 459 Dust-Destructor Plant for Chiswick, 12 Dust-Destructor at Twickenham, 759
Dynamos. See Dynamos and Alternators under Electric

Earth, Radioactive Change in, 443
Earthquakes, Recent, 407
“ Eclipse” Electric Track-Grinder, 81
Education of Apprentices, 31
Education, Engineering, at Columbia University, 479
Education, Engineering, in Public Schools, 789, 826
Education, Engineering. See also Technical Education
Education of Engineers, 311, 399, 434, 479, 480, 558, 789, 826
Education of Workmen, 311, 576, 659
Edwards, C. A., on Chromium and Tungsten in High Speed Tool-Steel, 717
Efficiency of Boilers, 471. See Combustion
Efficiency of Engine with Varying Piston Speeds, 732
Efficiency of Gas-Engines, 103, 128, 520, 526, 630, 655. See LETTERS
Efficiency of Petrol-Motor with Varying Com- i pression, 370
Efficiency of Steam-Turbine. See
Egypt, Irrigation in, 85
Egypt, Meteorology in, 689
Egypt, Progress of, 623
Egyptian Mail Turbine-Steamers “ Heliopolis” and “ Cairo,” 126, 560, 616
Eiffel’s Experiments on the Air Resistance of Plates, 605
Eight-Hour Day in Coal-Mines, 375
Elastic Limit and Strength, 653, 718, 747, 755, 782

Electric:

Alternator Driven by 800-Brake-Horse-Power Two-Cycle Gas-Engine, 827
Arc-Lamp, Jandus Regenerative Flame, 256 Cable-Boxes, Legal Position of, 626 Cable Developments, Submarine, 212, 694 Cables, Formulie for the Grading of, 736 Cathode Rays, Action of, on Diamonds, 458 Cost of Power for Industrial Purposes, 95 Currents Suitable for Telephonic Measurements, 796
Discharge in Monatomic Gases, 163
Discharges through Gases, 343, 379, 410, 447, 472, 519
Distribution in France, 224 Electro-Metallurgy, Treatise on, 460 Exhibits at Royal Societj' Soiree, 655 Furnace Reactions under High Gaseous Pressures, 259, 289
Furnaces for Iron and Steel Manufacture, 699, 739, 775
Gases, Rarefied, Cathode Volatilisation in, 686
German Electricity Works in 1907, 795 Hydro-Electric Power, 58, 224, 235, 710, 727, 794
Inductance of Parallel Wires, 849
Instruments and the Use of Shunts and Transformers, 565
Jib Crane, 5-Ton Travelling, 365
Lamps, Jandus Flame Arc, 256
Lamps, Metallic Filament, 685, 714
Lighting Contracts and Municipal Corporations, 448
Lightning and the Production of Fulgurites, 627
Magnetic Temperature Gauge for Steel- Hardening, 693
Magnetic Testing by Plug Permeameter, 564 Modern Views of Electricity, Treatise on, 808 Municipal Supply Undertakings as Creditors, 250
Paris Electricit5’ Supply, 86
Petrol-Electric Motor-Bus (J. and E. Hall, Limited), 78
Petrol-Electric Motor-Omnibus (Greenwood and Batley), 400
Petrol-Electric Railway-Carriage, 469 Positive Electricity, Theory of, 518 Power in Docks and Warehouses, 313 Power-House Equipments of Fairfield Shipyard, 780
Power Installation at the Staveley Works, 643
Power-Station at Trollhattan, 58
Power-Station and the Law of Nuisance, 728 Power Supply and Bankruptcy, 250
Power Supply in London, 51
Power Supply on Tyneside, 431
Radioactivity, 183, 420, 443, 627 Railway, Hydro-Electric, in Sweden, 727
Railways, Electrification of, 121, 155 Resistance of a Notched Conductor, 849 Short Spark Phenomena, 627
Standardisation of Machinery and Units, 442 Supply in Germany, State Control of, 54 Telegraphic Enterprise, Submarine, 212, 694 Telephones in Sweden, 167
Telephotography, 475, 557, 594
Testing at the National Physical Laboratory, 389, 423
Train-Lighting System of the Gesellschaft fur Zugbeleuchtung, 846
Tramway Track-Grinding Machine, 81 Tramways, London County Council, 406 Transporter ; Kramos, Limited, Bath, 43 Turbo-Electric Ship-Propulsion, 252 Turbo Generators, Brush-Parsons; 202 Vacuum Gauge, Sensitive, 21
Vacuum Tube Apparatus for Investigating Waves in Cables, 564
Vacuum Tubes, Gas-Bubbles in, 159,181 Warping-Winches, 287
Water-Power. See Hydro-Electric Wattmeters of the Dynamometer Type, 565 Westphalian Collieries, Electrical Power in, 688
Wireless Telegraphy, A Directive System of, 848
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony by Undamped Waves, 555
Wireless Telegraphy, Trans-Atlantic, 376, 399
Wireless Telegraphy, Treatise on, 779 Wireless Transmission of Pictures, 594. See 475, 557
Elevators. See also Hoists and Cranes Embankment and Aldwych Subway, 523 Emergency Cupola, 413
Employers’ Liability. See TTor&men’a Compensation and Legal
Emulsifying Machine, Shears’s, 383
Engine, 4000-Horse-Power, at Brussels Power- Station, 578
Engines, Blowing, at the Staveley Works, 509 Engines Combined with Turbines, 502, 611, 614, 659, 690, 748. See Erratum, 584
Engine, Gas, 750-Brake-Horse-Power for Japanese Cotton-Mill, 160
Engines, Gas, 800-Brake-Horse-Power Two-Cycle, 827
Engines, Gas, The Construction of Large, 305
Engines, Gas, in Cotton-Mills, 160, 211 Engines, Gas, Governing of, 520, 526 Engines, Gas, Graham’s Counter for, 851 Engine, Gas, Possible Development of, 249 Engines, Gas, Research on, 103, 128, 147 Engines, Gas, The Thermal Efficiency of, 630, 665. See LETTERS
Engines, Internal-Combustion, Fuels for, 181, 282
Engines, Internal-Combustion. See also Motor; Engines, Gas; Engines, Parafin; Engines, \ Petrol; Engines, Oil
Engines, Locomotive. See Locomotive
Engines, Marine, of Allan Liner “Corsican,” 46, 111
Engines, Marine. See also Turbines and Warships
Engines, Marine, Stern-Wheel Steamer “Sultan,”
Marine, with Superheated Steam, 538,
Paraffin, for Submarine-Boats, 192 Paraffin (Woodnutt), 446 Petrol, for 400-Horse-Power Racing 463
Engines, Engines, 732
Engines,
House of Fairfield Shipyard),°780*
Engines, Steam, Working on Closed Circuit, 399 Engines, Turbine. See Txtrbine
Engine, Winding, SOOO-Horse-Power (Robey and
Co., Limited, Lincoln), 75
Engine, Winding, Dense-Air (Messrs. Fullerton, Hodgart, and Barclay, Limited), 334 Engineering at Columbia University, N.Y., 479 Engineering Design, 311, 441 Engineering Dispute on the North-East Coast, 187, 218, 282, 587, 654, 721
Engineering Education. See Education and Training
Engineering Education and Technical Colleges, 311, 399, 434, 479, 480, 658, 789, 826
Engineering Formulae, Standard Notation of, 153 Engineering Institution, Functions of, 46, 79. 147, 861
Engineering, Marine, Factors of Safety in, 543, 565, 598. See Erratum, 619
Engineering and Public Schools, 789, 826. See Education
Engineering Science, Treatise on, 711 Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1907, 25 Engineering and Shipbuilding Census, 819 Engineering society, Function of, 45, 79, 147,861 Engineering Standardisation, 153, 409, 442 I
Engineers, Institutions of. See Civil Engineers, |
Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, > Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, and Society of Arts ‘
Engineers, Naval, and Admiralty Policy, 376, 441 ! 480, 558
Engineers, Naval, Military Rank for, 690 England, Copper-Mining in, 757
Errata nii<l Addenda:
British Fishery Harbours, Modern Develop' ment of, 31
Didelon Regulator for Filter-Beds, 273 Douglas Adjustable Propeller, 817 Field-Gun Trials in Greece, 147 Flohr Addition to Bessemer Basic Charges, 82
Gray, J. Macfarlane, 125 Labyrinth Packing, 186 Milling-Cutters, Manufacture and Upkeep of, 81
New System of Welding, 853
Pump, Electrically-Driven, 307
Estimates, Naval, 277, 279, 341. See Naval. Ether of Space, 281
Evaporating Plant at the Staveley Works, 575 “Everett,” Steam-Collier (The Fore River Ship building Company), 179
Exhibition of Commercial Vehicles and Motor- Boats at Olympia, 444, 463. See also Commercial Exhibition, Franco-British. See Franco-British Exhibition
Exhibition, Japanese, of 1912, 21
Exhibition of Motor Vehicles at the Agricultural Hall, 408
Exhibition, The Municipal Building and Public Health, 624
Expanded-Metal Tool-Lockers, 59 Experience and Design, 311, 441 Experiments on the Air Resistance of Plates, 695 Experiments on Model Screw-Propellers, 539, 546, 593, 602
Experiments on Ships’ Models, 542, 562 Experiments on Stresses in Masonrv Dams. 162, 692
Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions Explosive Combustion of Hydro-Carbons, 314 Explosives, Nitro-Cellulose, Instability of, 316 Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition and Franco-British Extensometer (The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company), 658

Faber, Oscar, on the Design of Ferro-Concrete Chimneys, 325. See 481
Facing-Machine. See Machine-Tools Factories, Accidents in, 861
Factories, Cost of Power for, 95
Factories, Cotton, Safety Appliances in, 263, 499
Factories, London, Power Used in, 703
Factories, Textile, Power Plants in, 160, 211
Factors of Safety in Marine Engineering, 619
Factory Law and Cases. See Legal
Factory Legislation in the Colonies, 623
Fairfield Shipyard; Power-House Equipment, 780
Fatigue of Metal. See Micro-Photographs Fatigue Tests for Iron and Steel, 669, 697 Feed-Water Heater and Softener, The Paterson, 746
Feed-Water Heating by Live Steam, 264, 287. See 371, 435
Felten and Guilleaume Lahmeyerwerke A.-G., 108
Ferro-Concrete Beams, 228 Ferro-Concrete Chimneys, 325, 481 Ferro-Concrete Construction, 669, 690, 714, 748 Field Guns. See Gxins
Field-Guns, Trials of, in Greece, 53. See Erra‘ turn, 147
Filter-Beds, The Didelon Regulator for, 92. See Erratnm^ 273
Filters and Tank for Small Water Works, 301 Finance System, London County Council, 403, 855
Fire-Boxes, Efficiency of, 471 Fire-Boxes, Locomotive, Combustion in, 427, 450, 454, 494
Fire-Bricks Destroyed by Carbon Deposits, 794 Fire at Drury-Lane Theatre, 412 Fire-Resisting Materials, 235
Firth of Forth Naval Establishment at Rosyth, 348. See 342
Fishery Harbours, British, 395, 671 Fishing-Boat, Boiler Explosion on, 3.^5 Fish-Plate, Marriot’s, 257
Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 760 Fixtures and Machinery, Law’ of, 588 Flame Arc-Lamp, The Jandus Regenerative, 250 Flanging of Boiler-Plates, Defective, 113, 120 Flat-Block Linoleum-Printing Machine, 8 Fleet, Naval. See Warships
Flight, Problem of, 89, 147, 181, 210, 219, 254, 285, 304, 346, 373, 398, 411, 434, 477, 480, 559, 614, 659, 691, 715, 725, 748, 783, 812, 861
Flohr Addition to Bessemer Basic Charges, 65.
See Erratum^ 82 Flue-Gas, CO2 Recorder, 784 Flues, Recording Draught-Gauge for, 336 Flying-Machines, Theory of, 89, 147, 219, 254, 285, 304, 346, 373, 398, 411, 480, 559, 614, 659, 691, 715, 725, 748, 861
Flying-Machines, Treatise on, 297 Footstep Bearings, Lubrication of, 86
Foreign Abuse of our Patent Law', 622.
658 Forestry and the Cultivation of Timber, 589
Formula), Engineering, Standard Notation of, 153
Foundations, Sinking, by Divers, 135
Foundry Emergency Cupola, 413
Foundry Methods, 863
Foundry Organisation and Costs, 79
Foundry, The Szekely Process of Casting, 16
Foundry Work, Science in, 224
Frames of Motor-Cars, Bracing of, 233
France, Apprenticeship in, 592

Franco-British Exhibition:

British Machinery Section, 859 Buildings, 646, 679, 712
Machine-Tools at, 693, 741, 810. See Machine- Tools. See also Vol. LXXXVI.
Science Section at, 823, 841
Australian Government Building, 712 ; No. 2 Building, 679 ; Uxbridge-Road Entrance, 646
Vickers Ordnance, 837 Fraserburgh Fishery Harbour, 396. See 671 Freight-Handling Machinery, 727 French Electric Supply, 86
French Legislation on Electric Distribution, 224 French Mining Legislation, 794
French Navy, 58 ,
French Navy, Boilers in, 252, 305 French Navy, Projectiles in the, 758 French Railway Company and the State, 756 French Railway Legislation, 621 French Sunday Observance Law, 19 Friction Gear, Variable Speed, 829 Froude, R.E., on Experiments on Model Screw*
Propellers, 539, 546, 593, 602. See 542, 562, 826
Fry, L. H.,on Combustion Processes in American Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 427, 450, 454, 494
Fuels, Gaseous and Liquid, Treatise on, 841 Fuel, Liquid, for Ships, £05
Fuel for Motors, 156, 181, 282
Fulgurites, Artificial, 627
Furnaces, Blast, and Carbon Deposits, 794
Furnaces, Boiler, Efficiency of, 471
Furnace-Charging Gas for Blast-Furnaces at the
Staveley Iron Works, 393
Furnaces, Electric, 699, 739, 775
Furnaces, Electric, under High Pressures, 289
Furnace Emergency Cupola, 413
Furnaces, Refractory Materials for, 235
Furnace Slag, Utilisation of, 868

Gas, Acetylene, Generation and Use of, 712. 290, 292, 790
Gas-Bubbles in the Glass of Crookes Tubes, 181
Gas-Cleaning Plant at the Staveley Works, 459, 573
Gas-Engines. See Engines^ Gas Gas-Fired Boilers at the Staveley Works, 509 Gas Fired Lime Kilns, 271
Gas-Lamps, Apparatus for Automatically Lighting, 624
Gas Manufacture from Coal, 410 Gas Manufacture, Treatise on, 135 Gas-Producer. See also Producer and Suction Gas-Producers, Destruction of Tar in, 141,171 Gases Contained in Iron and Steel, 420 Gases, Electric Discharge in, 163, 636 Gases, Electric Discharges through, 343, 379,410, 447, 472, 519
Gases, Explosive, Combustion of, 314
Gases, Liquefaction of, 793
Gases, Monatomic, Electric Discharge in, 163 Gases, Specific Heat of, 1
Gaseous and Liquid Fuels, Treatise on, 841 Gasoline. See Petrol Gauge for CO2, 784
Gauge, Graham’s, for Boiler Inspection, 352 Gauge for High Vacuum, 21
Gauge for Recording Draught (The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company), 336
Gear Arrangements in Motor-Cars, 137, 255 Gear-Cutting. See Machine-Tools Gear, Double-Helical Machine-Cut, 241 “ General Guerrero,” Transport Ship for the Mexican Government, 126
Generators, Electric. See Alternators and Dijnamos under Electric
Generators, Gas. See Producer and Sicction and Gas
Geodetic Surveying, Invar Tapes for, 21 Geology for Miners, Treatise on, 778 German Atlantic Liners, 221. See also Atlantic German Coal Districts, Electricity in, 688 German Electricity and State Control, 54 German Electricity Works in 1907, 795 German Iron-Masters, Union of, 787
German Niles Tool Works, Berlin ; Armour- Plate Drilling-Machine, 25
German Sea Power, Treatise on, 642
German Ship Canal, Extension of, 159, 724 German Steel Syndicate, 58
Gibson, J. Hamilton, on Torsion-Meters for the Power of Marine Turbines, 195. See 210
Girders, Calculation of Deflection, 782, 863. See Beams
Girders, Ferro-Concrete, 223
Girders. See Bridges^ Roofs^ and Beams “ Gladiator,” H.M.S., Accident to, 614, 652, 690 Glasgow Harbour, Proposed Swing-Bridges at, 54 Glass Tubes, Gas-Bubbles in, 159, 181
Glenday, C., on the Design of Ferro-Concrete Chimneys, 325. See 481
Godard, Felix F. T., on the Use of Superheated Steam with Marine Engines, 538, 545
Goodman, Professor John, on Tests of a Live- Steam Feed-Heater, 264, 287. See 371, 435
Goods, Mechanical Handling of, 727
Goulaeff, General E. E., on Unsinkable Ships, 466, 475
Governing of Gas-Engines, 520, 526
Government Control of Electricity in Germany, 54 , !
Graham’s Candlestick and Gauge for Boiler Inspection, 352
Graham’s Twin-Counter for Gas-Engines, 851 Graving-Dock. See Dock
Gravitation, Modified Theory of, 736 Gray, J. Macfarlane, on the Pillar of Cloud, 90 Gray, J. Macfarlane, The late, 87. See 124, 125, 147, 181, 285
Great Eastern Railway Turbine Steamer “ Copenhagen,” 223
Greek Navy, Torpedo-Boat Destroyer for, 448 Greek Trials of Field-Guns, 53. See Erratum, 147
Greenwich, Boiler Explosion at, 113, 120 Greenwood and Batley Petrol-Electric Omnibus, 400
Grinding-Machines. See Machine-Tools Grinding-Machine for Tramways, 81
Guards for Cotton Looms, 499. See 263 Guns and Ammunition in the French Navy, 758 Gun-Boats. See Warships
Gun Construction at the Skoda Works, Pilsen, 298
Gun Factory at Woolwich, Pyrometric Installation, 670
Guns, Field, Trials of, in Greece, 53. See Erratum, 147
Guns, Screw and Wedge-Breech Mechanism for, 6 ; Treatise on, 207
Guns. See also Warships
Guns, Vickers, at the Franco-British Exhibition, 837
Gutta-Percha, Treatise on, 778
Gyroscope, Principle of, 385

Hallford Petrol-Electric Motor-Bus, 78
Hamilton Water Works, Filters and Tanks for, 301
Hammer, Pneumatic, for Railway Tyres, 401 Hammers. See Machine-Tools
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Treatise, 711
Harbour, Bristol, 857. See Vol. LXXXVL Harbours, British Fishery, 395, 671
Harbour Engineering, Treatise on, 641
HarbourExtension, Physical Difficulti Harbour at Glasgow, Proposed Swing-Bridges, 54 Harbour, Naval, at Dover, 759
Harbour, Naval, at Rosy th, 348. See 342 Harbour. See also Dock and Port Hardening Steel, Temperature Gauge foi, 693 Hardness-Testing Machine, Brine , 661^ Harland and WolfT’s Works at Belfast, /91 Heating of Hospital Buildings, 438 Heating of Modern Ocean Liners, 506, 798 i
Heat and Light, Radiation of, 155 j
Heat-Resisting Materials, 235
Heat Transmission, Efficiency of, 471
Heat, Treatise on, 297 Helical Gear, Machine-Cut, 241 “ Heliopolis,” Turbine-Steamer, 126, 560, 610 Hematite Prices. See McM^Pricc Diagram Herbert, Alfred, Limited, Edgwick Works, //3 Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Wireless Pole- qraphy under Electric
Hesse Reverse-Gear and Thrust-Block, 797 High-Speed Steel. See Tool Steel , Hill, Professor Leonard, on Breathing Apparatus for Use in Mines, 89, 93
Hire-Purchase of Machinery, 688
Hoist, Hydraulic, at Newport Docks, 306 Holgate, Thomas, on Refractory Materials, 235 Hopkinson, Professor Bertram, on the Effect or xMixture Strength and Scavenging upon Thermal Efficiency, 665. See LETTERS
Rorden Colliery, Shaft-Sinking at, 276 Horner, Joseph, on Machine-Tools at the Fianco-British Exhibition, 741. See 826 Hornsby’s Chain-Tractor, 614 Horsfall Destructor for Chiswick, 12 Hospital Buildings, Heating of, 438 Hulls of Ships ; New System of Construction, 505, 830
Hull, Swing-Bridge at, 146, 239
Hunt and Mitton, Birmingham ; Sight-Ieed Oil- Pump, 66 „ .
Hutton, R. S., on Electric Furnace Reaction under High Gaseous Pressures, 259, 289
Hydraulic Engine, Mason’s Regulator for, 349 Hydraulic Machine-Tools. See Machine- Tools Hydraulic Power Exploitation in Sweden, /94 Hydraulic Power in Sweden, 235 Hydraulic Testing-Machine, 616 Hydraulics, Treatise on, 710, 840 Hydrocarbons, Explosive Oombustiori of, 314 Hj^dro-Electric Power-Stations, 58, 224, «35, 710, 727, 794
Hydro-Electric Railway in Sweden, 727

Ice, The Natural History of, 688
Igewsky, Professor B., on Electric Smelting- Furnaces, 699
Ignition of Explosive Mixtures, 314 Illumination. See also Light and Lighting and Lamps
Impact Tests, Notched Bar. 803 .
Indian Broad-Gauge Railways, Carnages on, 70 Indian Broad-Gauge Railways, High-Oapacity Wagons for, 605, 748, 863
Indian Railway Property, 66 India-Rubber, Treatise on, 778 “ Indomitable,” H.M.S., 704 Industrial Alcohol, 282. See 156 Industrial Notes, 23, 59, 91, 126, 161, 193, 225, 257, 283, 319, 349, 383, 413, 449, 484, 524, 561, 595, 629, 662, 693, 730, 764, 797, 828, 864
Industrial Outlook in Russia, 49
Industrial Purposes, Cost of Power for, 95 Institution of Copper and Brass, 124, 25.- Institutions, Engineering, Function of, 45, 79, 147
Institutions, Technical. See Civil Engineers^ Mechanical-Engineers^ Electrical Engineers, Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, British Association, and Society of A rts .
Instruments, Electric. See under Electric Insurance of Workmen, 283. See Workmens Compensation and Legal.
Integration of Ship Curves, 542, ^6 Integrator for Areas, White and Bean s, 60, 7J Interchangeability. See Standardisatian Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines, Internal-Combustion
Internal Structure of Metal. See also Micro- Photographs
International Life-Saving Congress, 824 Invar and Steel Tapes for Surveying, 21 Inventions. See Patents
Iron, Cast, for Chemical Plant, 670, 69o Iron Castings, Hints on Making, 863 Iron and Coal in Belgium, 14
Iron, Composition of. See Micro-Photographs Iron and Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Iron, The Coslett Rust-Preventing Process for, 870 Iron-Foundry Emergency Cupola, 413 Iron-Foundry Organisation and Costs, 79 Iron Group of Metals, Melting-Points of, 20 Iron Ore Deposits at Afoten, 177
Iron Ore Deposits at Luossavaara, 381
Iron Ore, Position of, 861 Iron Ore in Sweden, 89 Iron Ore in Sweden, Purchase of, 726 Iron and Platinum Alloys, 282 Iron Production in Sweden, 749 Iron, Rusting of, 329, 381. See 344 Iron, Scientific Foundry Work, 224 Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges Iron and Steel Furnaces, Electric, 699, z39, 775 Iron and Steel, Gases Contained in, 420

Iron and Steel Institute :

Report of Council, 645
Bessemer Gold Medal, 646
Improvements in Plate-Rolling Mills, by Andrew Lamberton, 663, 669
A New Type of Electric Furnace for the Smelting of Iron, by Professor B. Igewsky,
A New Fatigue Test for Iron and Steel, b} T. E. Stanton, 669, 697
Pyrometric Installation in the Gun Section, ‘Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Woolwich, by W. Lambert, 670
Metallurgical and Chemical Laboratories in the National Physical Laboratory, by W. Rosenhain, 670
Iron and Steel Institute—continued
Cast Iron in the Construction of Chemical Plants, bj" F. J. R. Carulla, 670, 695
Utilisation of Blast-Furnace Slag, by Chevalier C. de Schwarz, 671
Function of Chromium and Tungsten in High-Speed Tool-Steel, by C. A. Edwards, 717
The Physical Qualities of Steel in Relation to its Mechanical Treatment, by James E. York, 734
Utilisation of Blast-Furnace Slag, by the Chevalier C. de Schwarz, 868

Iron Syndicate in Germany, 787
Iron Works of the Staveley Company, 391, 459, 509, 573,642. For details, see ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Iron Works, Structural. See Steely Bri^geSj Beams, Roofs, Struts, and Buildings
Irrigation in Egypt, 85, 623
Irrigation Works, Practical Design of, 136, 255 Isherwood, J. W., on a New System of Ship Construction, 505, 830
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s Turbine Steamer Ben my-Chree,” 382
Italian State Railways and Superheated Steam Locomotive, 181. See 210

James Forrest Lecture, on Unsolved Problems in Metal-Mining, 596, 632
Jandus Regenerative Flame Arc-Lamps, 256
Japan, Coal-Mines in, 158
Japanese Exhibition in 1912, 21
Japanese Trade-Mark Law, 79
Japan, Scientific Progress in, 816
Japan Steamship Company, 351
Jib-Crane, 5-Ton Electric Overhead, 365
Joint-Stock Company Reconstruction, 519

Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, Extension of, 159, 724
Kelvin, Life and Work of, 20, 625, 722
Keys, Castellated, for Shafts, 337
Kieffer, H. P., on the Overturned Caisson of the Baltimore Lighthouse, 608
Kiel Canal, Extension of, 159, 724
Kilbirnie Water Works, 139
Kilns for Burning Lime, Gas-Fired, 271
King Edward VII. Bridge, Newcastle, 479
King’s Navy. See Warships
Kingsway Subway to Embankment, 523
Kyushu, The Coal-Mines of, 158

Laboratory, National Physical, Report of, 389,423
Labour Affairs. See Industrial ^iotes Labour and Casual Employment, 759
Labour Dispute in Shipbuilding Trade, 187, 218, 587, 654, 721
Labour Legislation. See also Workmen's Compensation, Legal, and Trade
Labour on Sunday in France, 19 Labour and Unemployment, 686
Labour and Wages, Treatise on, 576
Labyrinth Packings, 35. See Erratum, 185 Lahmeyer Company, Works of, 108 Lahmeyer, Wilhelm, The late, 162
Lamberton, Andrew, on Improvements in Plate Rolling-Mills, 663, 669
Laminated Springs, Design of, 354 Lamps, Gas, Automatic Lighting of, 624 Lamp, Jandus, Regenerative Flame Arc, 256 Lamps, Metallic Filament, 685, 714 Lamps. See also Electric
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway First-Class Dining-Car, 729 ; Locomotive for Motor Carriage, 182 ; Special Wagons for, 113
Lanchester, F. W., on Motor-Car Design, 352, 384 Landslide at Lyme Regis, 823 Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Launch, Motor, 400-Horse-Power Racing, Sidde- ley-Wolseley, 243, 382
Launches, Motor. See Motor-Launches Load-Lined Iron Tubing, 208 Lead-Mining in Great Britain, 312
Leakage of Air in Steam-Condensers, 866. See 507

Legal: 19, 37, 52, 79,154, 219, 224, 250, 283, 285, 347, 380, 420, 448, 519, 554, 657, 588, 623, 626, 660, 671, 687, 728, 759, 770, 794, 808, 866, 861

Acts Relating to Fisherj’ Harbours, 671
Battersea Borough Council ; Rate Case, 320
Companies and Partnerships Act, 52, 856. See 519
Company Reconstruction, 519
Electric Works and the Law of Nuisance, 728 Factory Legislation in the Colonies, 623 French Law on the Day of Rest, 19
French Legislation on Electric Distribution, 224
French Legislation on Railways, 621
French Mining Legislation, 794 Japanese Trade-Mark Law, 79 Machinerj’ and Fixtures, Law of, 688 Master and Servant, Law of, 420, 770 Municipal Corporations and Electric-Light Contracts, 448
Municipal Traders as Creditors, 250 Patent Act (New), 255. See 157, 622, 658 Pembroke Dockyard Case, 273 Position of Electric Cable-Boxes. 626 Printers’ Breach of Contract Case, 524 Rating of Light Railways and Tramways, 687 Rating Machinery, 219, 285, 347 Rights of Water Company, 380 Sabbath Law in France, 19
Shipbuilding Contract and Payment by Instalments, 557
Shutting Down Boilers for Cleaning, 660 Smoke Nuisance, 861
Trades Disputes Act Cases, 258, 798 Trade-Union Law, Treatise on, 37 Traders and Railways, Treatise on, 808 Tunnel, Projected, Under the Great Belt, 626
Workmen’s Compensation Act and Illegitimate Children, 401
Workmen’s Compensation Cases, 283, 554 Workmen’s Compensation Cases in the
Court of Appeal, 154
Workmen’s Compensation and Casual Employment, 769
Workmen’s Compensation and the Insurance Companies, 283

Legislation, French Railway, 621
Legislation. See also Parlidmeni and Legal Letters. See LETTER INDEX
Life-Saving Apparatus for Use in Mines, 89, 93 Life-Saving Congress, International, 824 Life-Saving Station for Colliery District, 591 Lifts. See also Hoists
Light and the Doppler Principle, 269
Light and Heat, Radiation of, 155
Lighthouse at Baltimore, Overturned Caisson of, 608
Lighthouses on the British Coast, 250
Lighting, Electric. See also Electric
Lighting of Railway Trains, The Gesellschaft fur Zugbeleuchtung, 846
Lightning and the Production of Fulgurites, 627 Lilly, W. E., on the Design of Struts, 37 Limekilns, Gas-Fired, 271
Limited Liability Act, The New, 52, 856
Liners, Atlantic. See Atlantic and Cunard Liners, Heating of, 506, 798
Linoleum-Printing Machine, 8 Liquefaction of Gases, 793 Liquid Fuel for Ships, 805
Liquid and Gaseous Fuels, Treatise on, 841 Liquid-Air, Separation of Oxygen from, 761 Literature, 6, 22, 36, 73, 135, 238, 297, 331, 460, 576, 623, 641, 709, 760, 778, 808, 840. For details see LITERATURE INDEX
Livermore, J. E., on Notes on the Use of Grind ing-Machines, 295, 435. See 372
Live-Steam Feed-Heater, Test of, 264, 287. Set 371, 435
Lloyd’s Records. See Shipbuilding and Shvp- ping and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Local Authorities. See Municipal and London County Council
Lockers of Expanded Metal, 59
Lock-Out in the Shipbuilding Trade, 187, 587, 654, 721
Locomotive Cranes for Buenos Ayres and Railway, 254
Locomotive Fire-Boxes, Combustion in, 427, 454, 494. See 471
Locomotive, Four-Coupled Ten-Wheel Side-Tank (London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway) 274
Locomotives of the Future, Treatise on, 238, 709 Locomotives, Modern, Development of, 593, 690
Locomotive, Rack, for Portuguese Railway (A. Borsig, Tegel, Berlin), 212
Locomotive for Railway Motor Carriage (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway), 182
Locomotive, Superheating, 181, 210, 238
Locomotive, Twelve-Wheel Mallet Compound for the Brazilian Railway (American Locomotive Company), 814
Locomotives of the World, Treatise on, 709
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway ; Four-Coupled Ten-Wheel Tank Locomotive, 274
London Building Act and Cable-Boxes, 626 London County Council. See also Municipal London County Council Steamboats, 253 London County Council Subway from Aldwych to Embankment, 523
London County Council, Rotherhithe Tunnel, 821 London County Council Tramways and Finance, 406, 855
London County Council Works Department, 381 London Electrical Proposals, 51
London Factories, Power used in, 703
London and North-Western Railway Company ; Steamer “ Slievebloom,” 159
London Port and Parliament, 254, 316, 478, 687 London Underground Water Supply, 654
London, Water Charges for, 659, 826
Looms, Safety Appliances for, 499. See 263 “ Lord Nelson,” H.M. Battleship (Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company), 523
Lorries. See also Motor- Wagons
Louis, Professor Henry, on Unsolved Problems in Metal-Mining, 596, 632
Lubricant-Testing Machine, The Blake, 183 Lubricating Pump, Parsons’, 463
Lubrication of Bearings, 86. See also Oil Lubrication of Engines and Machinery, 688 Lubricators, Forced Sight-Feed, 66, 656 Luossavaara Iron-Ore Deposit, 381
“ Lusitania,” Cunard Liner, Performances of, 489, 503, 727, 758, 820. See 782, 863
Lyme Regis, Landslide at, 823

Macassey, L. L., The late, 646
Machinery and Fixtures, Law of, 588
Machinery at the Franco-British Exhibition, 859
Machinery for Handling Freight, 727
Machinery for Making Barrels, 845
Machinery Production, Census of, 819
Machinery, The Rating of, 219,285, 347. See 588

Machine-Tools:

Boring and Turning-Mill, 5-Ft. (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 741
Drilling-Machine for Armour-Plates(Qerman Niles Tool Works, Berlin), 25
Drilling-Machine, Radial Chain-Driven (J. Archdale and Co., Limited), 705
Drilling-Machine, Radial (A. Haworth and Co., Luton), 629
Drilling-Machine, Radial (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 742
Drilling-Machine, Sensitive (Alfred Herbert, Limited, Coventry), 745, 826
Drilling and Milling-Machine, Vertical (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 742
Drilling and Tapping-Machine, 10-In. (A. A. Jones, Pollard, and Shipman, Limited, Leicester), 319
Gear Cutter, The Pedersen (Messrs. Vickers Sons and Maxim, Erith), 751
Gear-Hobbing Machine (John Holroyd and Co., Limited), 741
Grinding-Machine, Chain-Driven (Messrs. Hans Renold, Manchester), 705
Grinding-Machine for Hobs (John Holroyd and Co., Limited), 741
Grind^ing-Machine, Internal (Burton, Griffiths, and Co.), 225
Grinding-Machines, Notes on the Use of, 295, 372, 435
Grooving-Machine for Foundation Ring of Turbine Blade, 2
Hammer, Pneumatic, for Railway Tyres (B. and S. Massey), 401
Hobbing-Macbine for Worm Gear (John Hol- roj’d and Co., Limited), 741
Hob-Grinding Machine (John Holroyd and Co., Limited), 741
Lathes, Automatic Chain-Driven, 674, 826
Lathes, 14-In. and 10-In. High-Speed Sliding, Surfacing, and Screw - Cutting, (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 741
Lathe, High-Speed, for Railway Wheels (Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Manchester), 146
Lathe, 9] In. All-Geared, at the Franco- British Exhibition (The Colchester Lathe Company), 810
Lathe, Screw-Cutting, 18-In. Gap (Emile Chouanard, Paris), 810
Milling and Drilling-Machine, Vertical (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 742
Milling-Machine, Universal (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 741
Milling Machines, Universal, with Chain- Drives, 705
Milling and Profiling Machine, Double-Head (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 207
Pig-Iron Breaker (The New Lowca Engineering Company), 644
Pipe Screwing Machine (Charles Winn and Co., Birmingham), 13
Planing-Machine, 14-Ft. (The Niles-Bement Pond Company, Philadelphia), 525
Planing-Machine (Joshua Buckton and Co., Leeds), 693
Planing-Machine, with Travelling Standard (Joshua Buckton and Co., Limited, Leeds), 779
Profiling and Milling-Machine, Double-Head (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 207
Punching-Machine for Shrouding of Turbine ! Blades, 2 '
Punching and Shearing-Machine (R. Becker and Co., Limited), 168
Saw-Bench, Chain-Driven, 705 Screwing-Machine for Pipes (Charles Winn and Co., Birmingham), 13
Shaping-Machine, 12-In. Stroke (John Holroyd and Co.), 741
Shearing and Punching-Machine (R. Becker and Co., London), 168
Squaring-Up Machine, Electrically-Driven (A. Ransome and Co., Limited, Newark), 82
Straightening-Rolls, Chain-Driven, 705 Tapping and Drilling-Machine, 10-In. (A. A.
Jones, Pollard, and Shipman, Limited, ’ Leicester), 319
Tenoning Machine with Block-Chain Feed, 705
Turning and Boring Mill, 5 Ft. (John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, Manchester), 741
Turning-Machine, Automatic (Alfred Herbert, Limited, Coventry), 743
Welding Cutters to Tool-Holders, 822, 862
Worm-Wheel Hobbing-Machine (John Holroyd and Co., Limited), 741

Mackenzie, Thomas D., on the Electric Discharge in Monatomic Gases, 163
Maclachlan, D. R., on Tests of a Live-Steam Feed-Water Heater, 264, 287. See 371, 435
Magnetic Temperature-Gauge for Steel-Hardening, 693
Magnetism. See Electric and Physical Society Mail Contract for Australia, 553
Management of Iron-Foundries, 79 Management of Water Works, Treatise on, 841 Management of Works, Treatise on, 331 Manchester Steam-Users’ Association, 731 Manganese. See Alloys and Metals Manufactures, Census of, 819
Marine Engineering, Factors of Safetj' in, 543, 565, 598. See Erratum^ 619
Marine Engineering. See EnginesMarine^
Naval Architects, Turbines^ and Warships Marine Motors. See Motors and Motor Laxtnchcs
Marine Standards and Code, 812
Marine Steam-Turbine. See Turbine Mariner’s Compass, Modern Developments of, 545
Marriott’s Fish-Plate, 257
Masonry Bridges, Destruction of, 727 Masonry Dams, Stresses in, 162, 692
Masonry Dams, 69, 73, 85, 136, 255, 537 Masters and Servants’ Cases. See Legal Mathematical Formulae, Standard Notation of, 153
Matter, Evolution of. Treatise on, 36
Matter, Polarity of. Treatise on, 74
“ Mauretania,” Cunard Liner, Performances of,
758, 782, 820, 863. See 489, 503, 727 “Maximus ” Railway Brake, Trials of, 728, 758, 796
McBride, Thomas C., on Air-Leakage in Steam*
Condensers, 866. See 507, 532 McGee, David, the late, 122 Measurement of Areas by White and Bean’s Scale, 60, 79
Measurement of Gas Velocity, 759

Mechanical Engrineers, Institution of:

Third Report of the Gas-Engine Research Committee, by Professor F. W. Burstall, 103, 128. See 147
Annual General Meeting, 264
Report of Council, 264 Graduates’ Prizes, 264 Election of Officers, 264
Test of a Live-Steam Feed-Water Heater, by Professor Goodman and D. R. MacLachlan, 264, 287. See 371, 435
Combustion Processes in English Locomotive Fire-Boxes, by Dr. F. J. Brislee, 427, 450. See 471
Combustion Processes in American Locomotive Fire-Boxes, by Lawford H. Fry, 427, 454, 494. See 471
liccli. Eiigineers» Inst, ot—continned.
The Governing and the Regularity of Gas- Engines, by James Atkinson, 520, 526
The Effect of Mixture Strength and Scavenging upon Thermal Efficiency, by Professor Bertram Hopkinson, 520, 630, 665. See 558, 593, 614, 658 . .. • i
Mechanical Treatment of Steel and its Physical
Qualities, 734 ,
Melms-Pfenninger Turbine, Test of 200-Kilowatt, Melttng Points of the Iron Group of Metals, 20 Mercantile Marine, The World’s, 123 Metallic Alloys, The Planimetric Analysis of, 589 Metallurgy, Electro, Treatise on, 460 Metallurgy of Steel, 543, 565,593. See Krrafwm, 619
Metallurgy, Steel Works, Treatise on, 809 Metallic Filament Lamps, 685, 714 .
Metals of the Iron Group, Melting Points of, 20 Metal-Mining, Some Unsolved Problems in, 506, 632
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Institute of, 124, 252 Metal-Price Diagrams, 24, 194, 318, 449, 594, 762 Metals. See Iron, Steel, Tin, Copper, Alumi- nium, Alloys, and Micro-Photographs

Meteorological Society, Royal:

Map Studies of Rainfall, by Dr. H. R. Mill, 167 „
A Comparison of Ships’ Barometer Readings with those Deduced from Land Observations, by Ernest Gold, 293
Snow-Rollers, by C. Browet, 293
The Dawn of Meteorology, by Dr. G. Ilell- mann, 335
The Anti-Cyclonic Belt of the Southern Hemisphere, by Colonel H. E. Rawson, 582
The Phenological Observations for 1907, by Edward Mawley, 582
Observations on the Colour of Lightning, made at Epsom, 1903 to 1907, 689
Upper Air Observations in Egypt, by B. F. E. j Keeling, 689
An Elementary Explanation of Correlation, by R. H. Hooker, 869
The Hong Kong Typhoon of September 18, 1906, by Lawrence Gibbs, 869

Metropolitan District Railway, 259. See also 208
Metropolitan Railway, 208
Metropolitan. See also London Metropolitan Underground Water Supply, 654
Metropolitan Water Board, Charges of, 659, 826
Micrographic Structure of Steel, 543, 565, 598.
See Erratum, 619
Micro-Photographs of Exploded Thermal Storage > ' Drum, 113, 120
Microstructure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs
Middlesbrough, Boiler Explosion at, 769 Mills, Cotton, Safety Appliances in, 263, 499
> Mills, Rolling, for Plates, 663, 669
Mills. See also Factories
Mills, Textile, Power Plants in, 160, 211 Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools “ Milwaukee,” Steamer, Repair of, 100 Mines, Breathing Apparatus for Use in, 89, 93. See also 591, 824
Mines, Coal, Explosion in, 590
Mines, Coal, of Kyushu, Japan, 158
Mines, Disinfection in, 863 Mine-Drills, Detachable Bits for, 583. See 209 Mines, Iron, Production of, 861
Mines, Iron, in Sweden, Purchase of, 726 Mines, Rescue Work in, 591, 824. See 89, 93 Mine-Shaft Sinking in Durham, 276 Mine-Shafts, Winding Ropes and Safety Appliances in, 201,327
Mine Winding-Engines. See Engines, Winding, and Colliery
Minerals. See also Railway Miners and Eight-Hours Day, 375 Mining Activity in Sweden, 89 Mining in Belgium, 14
Mining Coal in New Zealand, 315 Mining, Copper, in United Kingdom, 757 Mining, Lead, in Great Britain, 312 Mining Legislation in France, 794 Mining Machinery. See also Engines, Colliery, Drills, and Electric
Mining and Prospecting, Treatise on, 778 Mining, Rock-Drills for, 209, 583
Mining, Some Unsolved Problems in, 596, 632 Mining Transport Appliances in the North Argentine Cordilleras, 361, 425
Minshall, T. IL, on Power used in London Factories, 703
Miscellanea, 11, 49, 83, 215, 309, 403, 439, 483, 515, 548, 585, 619, 683, 719, 753,817, 853
Model Screw-Popeller Experiments, 539, 546, 693, 602. See 542, 562, 826
Monongah Colliery Explosion, 590
Monoxide of Silicon, 316, 722 Morison, D. B., on the Effect of Air in Surface-Condensers, 507, 532
Motor-Boat Exhibition at Olympia, 444, 463 Motor-Boat, 400-Horse-Power Racing, Siddeley- Wolseley, 243, 382
Motor-Boats, The Douglas Adjustable Propeller, 784. See also Motor Launch
Motor-Cars, Castellated Shafts for, 337 Motor-Cars, Design of, 352, 384
Motor-Car Driven by Producer-Gas, 181 ;
Motor-Car Frames, Bracing of, 233
Motor-Cars, Fuel for, 156, 181, 282 Motor-Cars, Gear Arrangements in, 137, 255 Motor-Cars, Limits of Piston Speed, 173 Motor-Cars and Modern Roads, 283
Motor-Carriage, Gasoline Electric, “Irene,” 469
Motor-Cars and Road Maintenance, 655
Motor-Cars, The Scottish Trials of, 856
Motor-Car. See also Motor Vehicle _ Motor-Carriage, Railway, Locomotive, for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 182
Motor Cesspool-Exhauster, 595 Motor Delivery-Van, The Roval, 144 Motor, Internal-Combustion. See Engines, Oil',
Engines, Gas > Engines, Paraffin; Engines, Petrol; Motor-Car; Motor - Omnibus; and Motor-Launch
Motor-Launch, Reverse-Gear and Thrust-Block, 797. See also Motor-Boat and Motor-Pinnace
Motor-Launches, Parsons Reversing-Gear, 463
Motor-Omnibus, Petrol-Electric, 400
Motor-Omnibus, Steam, Critchley Norris, 444
Motor-Omnibus, Steam, Darracq Serpollet, 463 Motor-Omnibus, The Hallford Petrol-Electric, 78 Motors, Paraffin, for the Royal Italian Navy, 192 Motor, Paraffin, 446
Motors, Petrol. See Motor-Cars; Engines, Petrol Motor, Petrol, The Tylor, 370
Motor-Pinnaces for the Royal Navj' (John I.
Thornycroft and Co.), 332
Motor-Vehicles at the Agricultural Hall, 408 Motor-Vehicles, Commercial, 444, 463, 569, 607,
614, 658, 706. See also Motor-Cars Motor-Vehicles, Variable - Speed Friction-Gear,
829
Moulds, Metallic, for Iron Casting, 16
Moulders, Hints to, 863
Moulding and Foundry Management, 79
Mountain Ropeway in North Argentina, 361, 425 Mulser, Shears’s, 383
Municipal Building and Public Health Exhibition, 624
Municipal Corporations and Electric-Light Contracts, 448
Municipal Traders as Creditors, 250
Municipal Trading, An American View of, 190, 222
Municipal Trading. See also London County Council

Nadir of Temperature, 793
Natal Government Railways ; Passenger Rolling- Stock, 364, 436
Nationalisation of Railways in France, 756. See 621
National Physical Laboratory in 1907, 389, 423
National Physical Laboratory ; Metallurgical and Chemical Laboratories, 670
Natural Laws, Significance of, 119

Naval Architects* Institution of:

London Meeting, 473, 502, 538
Presidential Address b}’ Lord Glasgow, 474 Report of Council, 474
Election of Office-Bearers, 474
Experimental Tank at National Physical Laboratory, 474
Award of Premiums, 475
Election of Lord Cawdor as President, 475
Unsinkable and Uncapsizable Ships of the Goulaeff Form anti System of Construction, by General E. E. Goulaeff, 466, 475
Modern Armour and Its zVttack, by Captain T. J. Tresidder, 476, 484
Modern Torpedo-Boats and Destroyers, by J. E. Thornycroft, 477, 487
Annual Dinner, 477
The Speed Trials and Service Performance of the Cunard Steamer “ Lusitania,” by Thomas Bell, 489, 503. See also 727, 758, 782, 802, 863
The Combination System of Reciprocating Engines and Steam-Turbines, by the Hon. C. A. Parsons and R. J. Walker, 502, 511. See LETTERS, See Erratum, 584
A New System of Ship Construction, by J. W. Isherwood, 505, 830
The Influence of Air on Vacuum in Surface Condensers, by D. B. Morison, 507, 532
Notes on the Use of Superheated Steam with Marine Engines, by N. Felix Godard, 538, 545
Results of Further Model-Screw-Propeller Experiments, b,y Dr. R. E. Froude, 539, 546, 593, 602. See 826
Two Notes on Ships Calculations, by W. S. Abell, 542, 766
An Analysis of the Resistance of Ships, by Professor William Hovgaard, 542
A New Method of Research Work on Fluid Resistance and Ship Propulsion, by H. Wellenkamp, 542, 562
Factors of Safety in Marine Engineering, by Professor J. O. Arnold, 543, 565, 598. See Erratum, 619
The Modern Developments of the Mariner’s Compass, by J. C. Dobbie, 545
The Heating of Modern Ocean Liners, by W. Carlile Wallace, 506, 798

Naval Construction. See also Warships
Naval Engineers and Admiralty Policy, 376, 411, 480, 558
Naval Engineers, Military Rank for, 690
Naval Engineering, Experience in, 376, 441, 4S0, 558
Naval Establishment at Rosyth, 348. See 342 Naval Harbour at Dover, 759
Naval Machinery. See Warships, Boilers, Engines, and Turbine
Naval Power, German, Treatise on, 642
Naval. See also Navy
Naval Ships and Works, 341
Naval Situation, 17
Navy Annual, 760
Navy, The French, 58
Navy, The French, Boilers in, 252, 305
Navy, The French, Projectiles in, 758 Navy and the Government, 279, 341
Navy League Annual; Treatise, 74
Needle Dams on the Big Sandy River, 69 Netravati and Curzon Bridges, India, 398
Newcastle-on-Tyne, King Edward VIL Bridge, 479
Newport Dock ; Hydraulic Coal-Hoist, 3C6
New South Wales, Steel-Making in, 472
New York Rapid-Transit Subway, 320
New Zealand, Coal-Mining and State Enterprise in, 315
Nile Basin, Reservoirs in, 85
Nile Bridges at Cairo, 40
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 351 Nitrocellulose Powders, Instability of, 316
Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Fixation of, 790 Nitrogen, Specific Heat of, 1
North-East Coast Labour Dispute, 187, 218, 282, 587, 654, 721
North, Notes from the, 10, 48, 82, 124, 150, 184, 214, 246, 272, 308, 338, 368, 402, 438, 482, 514, 550, 584, 618, 650, 682, 718, 752, 786, 816, 852
North Sea-Baltic Canal, Extension of, 159, 724 Norwegian Iron-Ore Deposit, 177
Notched-Bar Impact Tests,803
Notes. See Cleveland, North, South-West, South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial, Legal, and Miscellanea
Nuisance of Smoke, 861

Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Oddie-Barclay High-Speed Pump, 750
Oil-Cloth-Printing Machine, 8
Oil-Eogines. See Engines,
Oil; Motor-Cars; Motors, and Motor-Launches
Oil Fuel for Ships, 805
Oil Fuel, Treatise on, 841
Oil-Pump, Parsons’, 463 Oil-Pumps, Sight-Feed, 66, 656
Oil-Removal from Boiler Feed-Water, 746
Oil. See also Lubrication
Oil Supply to Bearings, 86
Oil Supply to Engines and Machinery, 688
Oil-Tester, The Blake, 183
Olympia Exhibition, Commercial Vehicles and Motor-Boats at, 444, 463
Optics, Geometrical Illustrations of, 736
Ordnance. See Warships and Guns
Ore-Carrying Steamer “ Polcirkeln,” 81
Ore Deposits in Sweden, 89, 776
Ore, Iron, at Afdten, Norway, 177
Ore, Iron, Deposits at Luossavaara, 381
Ore, Iron, Position of, 861
Ore. See also Iron
Orient Line and Australian Mail Contract, 553
Oscillation of Loaded Structures, 347
Oscillations on Railways, Treatise on, 779
Oscillations, Torsional, of Shafting, 481
Ovens, Coke, at the Staveley Works, 575 Oxidation, Coslett Process for Preventing, 870.
See also Rusting
Oxide of Silicon, Uses of, 316, 722
Oxygen Apparatus for Use in Mines, 89, 93 See 591, 824
Oxygen Separation from Liquid Air, 761 Ozone, Purification of Water by, 688

Packings, Labyrinth, 35. See Erratum, 185
Paints, Treatise on, 461
Paraffin Motors, 192, 446
Paris Electric Supply, 86
Parliament and the Navy, 279, 341* See also Warships, Engineers, and Naval
Parliament and Port of London, 254,316,478, 687 Parsons, Hon. C. A., on Combined Reciprocating
Engines and Turbines, 502, 511. See LETTERS. See Erratum, 584. See also Turbine
Parsons, Hon. Charles A., on The Conversion of Diamonds into Coke, 458
Partnerships and Companies Act, 52. See 856 Patent Law, Foreign Abuse of, 157, 622, 658 Patent Record, 33, 67, 101, 169, 231, 294, 323, 357, 388,421,536, 567,603,637, 701, 737,771, 801,835, 871
Patents and Designs Act, Effect of, 157, 622, 658 Paterson Feed-Water Heater and Softener, 746 Pedersen Gear-Cutter, 751
Pennsylvania Railroad, Standard Rails for, 628 Petavel, J. E., on Electric Furnace Reactions under High Gaseous Pressures, 259, 289
Petrol-Electric Motor-Bus, 78 Petrol-Electric Motor-Omnibus, 400
Petrol-Electric Railway Car, “Irene,” 469 Petrol-Motors. Engines, Petrol', Motor-Cars-, Motor-Launches, and Motor-Omnibuses
Petrol, Substitutes for, 156, 181, 282, 533 Phillips’s Flying-Machine, 286. See LETTERS Phosphor-Copper, The Structure of, 589 Photographs, Micro. See Micro-Photographs Photo-Telegraphy, 472, 557, 594
Physical Properties of Metal. See Alloys and Micro-Photographs
Physical Science, Treatise on, 36

Physical Society :

Observations on Recalescence Curves, by W. Rosenhain, 180
Annual Report, 276
An Experimental Examination of Gibbs’s Theory of Surface Concentration Regarded as the Basis of Adsorption and its Application to the Theory of Dyeing, by W. C. M. Lewis, 335
On the Contact Potential Differences Determined by Means of Null Solutions, by S. W. J. Smith and H. Moss, 335
Analogues of by Professor
for Demon- of Alternate- Current Waves in Cables, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 564
Notes on the Plug Permeameter, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 564
Dynamometer Watt-Meters, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 565
The Use of Shunts and Transformers with Alternate-Current Measuring Instruments, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 565
An Experimental Investigation of the Nature of Gamma Rays, bj" Professor W. II. Bragg and Mr. Madsen, 627
Short-Spark Phenomena, by W. Duddell, 627 Experiments on Artificial Fulgurites, b}’ Miss D. D. Butcher, 627
Illustrations of Geometrical Optics, by R. M. Archer, 736
A Modified Theory of Gravitation, by Dr. C, V. Burton, 736
An Examination of the Formulae for the Grading of Cables, by C. S. Whitehead, 736
The Coefficient of Diffusion, by B. W. Clack, 796
The Production of Small Variable-Frequency Alternating Currents Suitable for Telephonic and Other Measurements, by B. S. Cohen,796
The Spectrum Top, by F. P. Sexton, 796 Experiments on a Directive System of Wireless Telegraphy, by E. Bellini and A. Tosi, 848
The Inductance of Two Parallel Wires, by Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 849
The Lateral Vibration and Deflection of Clamped Directed Bars, by E. Morrow, 849 On the Resistance of a Conductor of Uniform Thickness whose Breadth Suddenly Changes, and on the Shape of the Stream- Lines, by Professor C. H. Lees, 849 Physics, Treatise on, 74
Pictures, Wireless Transmission of, 594. See 472, 557
Pieron Steam-Trap, 307
Pig-Iron Breaker at the Staveley Works, 642 Pig-Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagram Pigments, Treatise on, 461
Pillar of Cloud, 90
Pinnaces, Motor and Steam-Driven, for the Royal Navy, 332
Pipe-Cleaner, The Willcox Ramoneur, 766 Pipes, Copper, for Steam, 355
Pipe Bursting at Brighouse, 321
Pipes, Lead-Lined, 208 Piston-Speed in Motor-Cars, Limits of, 173 Piston-Speed and Steam-Engine Economy, 732 Planing-Machine. See Machine-Tools Planimetric Analysis of Alloys, 589 Plates, Air Resistance of, 605
Plate Girders, Treatise on, 7 Plate-Rolling Mills, Improvements in, 663, 669 Plate-Spring, Design of, 354
Platinum and Iron Alloys, 282 Pneumatic Drills, Detachable Bits for, 583 Pneumatic Hammer for Railway Tyres, 401 Pneumatic Rock-Drills, 209
Pneumatic Tools. See also Machine-Tools Pocket-Books. See Year-Books
Polarity of Matter, Treatise on, 74
“ Polcirkeln,” Iron-Ore-Carrying Steamer, 81 Port. See also Harbour and Docks
Portland Cement, Standard Specification for, 180 Port of London Bill, 254, 316, 478, 687
Port of Rangoon, 21
Port of St. John, New Brunswick, 167 Portsmouth Dockyard, Removal of Cranes from, 795
Potassium, Discovery of, 122
Poulsen’s System of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, 555
Power, Cost of, for Industrial Purposes, 95 Power-Gas. See Engi'iies, Gas; Suction Gas^
Blast-Furnace Gas, and Producer-Gas
Power Measurement of Marine Turbines, 195, 210 Power Plant in Textile Mills, 160, 211
Power Plants. See Electric and Hydro-Electric Power Supply in London, 51
Pow’er Used in London Factory, 703 Premium Apprenticeship, 15. See 342, 592 Printing-Machine for Linoleum, 8 Private Bill Legislation. See Parliamentary Private Railway Wagons, Laminated Springs for, 554
Problems Peculiar to Motor-Car Design, 352, 384 Producer-Gas Engines. See Engines and Gas Producers, Gas, Destruction of Tar in, 141, 171 Producer Gas for Motor-Cars, 181 Projectiles in the French Navy, 758 Projectiles and Modern Armour, 476, 484 Propellers, Aerial, 384. See Aerial and LETTERS Propellers, Model, Experiments on, 539, 546, 593, 602. See 826
Propeller, The Douglas Adjustable, 784.
Erratum, 807
Propellers and Turbines, 517 Prospecting, for^Miners, Treatise on, 778 Public Schools, Engineering in, 789, 826.
Education
Pumps, Air-Lift, 210
Pumps, Centrifugal, Charging of, 191 Pump, Feed, for Steam-Omnibus, 463 Pumps, Mason’s Regulator for, 349 Pump, Oil, Parsons’, 463 See also Oil Pump, Oddie-Barclay High-Speed, 750 Pumping Plant at the Staveley Works, 642 Purification of Water by Ozone, (88 Pyrometer Gauge for Steel-Hardening, 693 Pyrometric Installation at Woolwich Arsenal, ‘670
Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Quays. See Harboiirs, PocAix, and Wharves Quebec Bridge Disaster, 346, 405, 412, 680,715, 782. See LETTERS ; see 37 ; and Erratum^ 594
Queensland Railwaj’’ Report, 380 Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns and Quicksilver. See Diagram
Rack Locomotive for Portuguese Railway, 212 Radiation of Heat and Light, 155 Radioactive Changes in the Earth, 443 Radioactivity ; The Gamma Rays, 627 Radioactivity, Recent Researches in, 188.
420, and Gases
Radiotelegraphy. See Wireless under Electric

1 Rails, Fatigue Test for, 669, 697 Rail-Grinder for Tramways, 81 Rails, Manufacture of, in New South Wales, 472 Rail Motor-Carriage, Locomotive, for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 182

Rails, Standard, for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 628
Rails, Steel; Effects of Rolling, 734 Railway Accident. See Accidents Railway Auto-Car. See Motor^Garriage Railway Carriage. See Carriage
Railway Companies and the French Government, 621, 756
Railway Conditions in Queensland, 380 Railway Dining-Car ; Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, 729
Railway, Electric. See also Electric Railways, Electrification of, 121, 155 Railway Enterprise in Spain, 865 Railway Fish-Plate, Marriott’s, 257 Railway Freight-Handling by Machinery, 727 Railway, Hydro-Electric, in Sweden, 727 Railways, Indian Broad-Gauge, Carriages on, 70 Railways, Indian Broad-Gauge, High-Capacity
Wagons for, 605, 748, 863
Railway Legislation in France, 621, 756
Railway Locomotive. See Locomotive and Motor-
Carriage^ and under Electric ;
Railway Locomotives, Treatise on, 709 I
Railway, Metropolitan, 208 Railway, Metropolitan-District, 259. See also 208
Railways in Natal, Passenger Rolling-Stock, 364,
436
Railway Oscillations, Treatise on, 779 Railway Permanent-Way, Treatise on, 779 Railway, Projected Amur, 834 Railway Property, Indian, 66
Railway and Road Bridges. See Badges Railway Rolling-Stock. See Carriages, Locomotives, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons Railways, Russian, and the Carriage of Coal, 45 Railways of South Australia, 188 Railway Station Roof at Charing Cross, 174, 234
Railway Statistics and Trade, 378 Railways, Street. See Tramway Railways and Traders, Treatise on, 808 Railway Train Brake, The “ Maximus,” 728, 758, 796
Railway Trains, Lighting of (Gesellschaft fur Zugbeleuchtung), 846
Railway and Tramway Rating, 687
Railway Tyres, Pneumatic Hammer for, 401 Railway, Underground, in New York, 320 Railway Wagons, Laminated Springs for, 554 Railways and Waterways in Russia, 726 Rainfall. See Meteorological Society Ramoneiir Boiler-Tube Cleaner, 763 Rams of Warships, 614, 652, 690 Rangoon, Port of, 21
Rapid-Transit Subway in New York, 320 Rateau Steam-Turbine and Blower, Details of, 639
Rating of Light Railways and Tramways, 687 Rating of Machinery, 219, 285, 347 Recalescence Curve in Metal, 180 Reciprocating Engines and Turbines, Combination, 502, 511, 584. See LETTERS
Reconstruction of Limited Companies, 519.
52, 856
Recording Draught-Gauge, 336 Reform Movement in the Institution of Engineers, 861
Refractory Materials, 235 Refuse-Destructor Plant for Chiswick, 12 Refuse-Disposal at Twickenham, 759 Regulator for Controlling Pumps, 349 Regulator, The Didelon, for Filter-Bed, 92. Erratum, 273
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Reliability Trials for Motor-Cars, The Scottish, 856
Renold Chains for Driving Machine-Tools, 307, 674, 705, 826
Repair of S.S. “Milwaukee,” ICO Report of the National Physical Laboratory, 389, 423. See 670
Rescue Apparatus for Use in Mines, 89, 93 Rescue Station for Colliery District, 591 Rescue Work, Congress on, 824 Research Committee on Gas-Engines, Third Report of, 103, 128. See 147
Reservoir and Cataract Dam, Sydney, 537 Reservoir Dam, Treatise on, 73 Reservoir for Kilbirnie Water Works, 139 i Reservoirs in the Nile Basin, 85 ' Resistance of Ships, Experiments on, 542, 562. See also 539, 546, 593, 602, 826
Reverse-Gear and Thrust-Block, 797 Reversing-Gear, Parsons, for Motor-Launches, 463
Reversing-Gear, Variable Change-Speed, 829 Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX Richardson, J. Wigham, The late, 550 Riehle Hydraulic Testing-Machine, 616 Ring Spinning-Frames, Safety Appliances for, 263. See 499
River Steamer, Stern-Wheel, 149 Road Bridges. See Bridges Road Locomotion. See Motor-Cars, Motor-Buses, Motor-Vehicles, Motor-Wagons, and Traction
Roads and Modern Traffic Requirements, 283 Roads and Motor-Cars, 655 Rock-Breaking, Cost of, 44, 124 Rock-Drilling, Development of, 596, 632 Rock-Drills, Detachable Bits for, 583 Rock-Drills, 209 Rocks, Radioactive Change in, 443 Rolling-Mills for Plates, 663, 669 Rolling Steel, Effects of, 734
Rolling-stock, See Carriages, tocomotives, Motor-Carriages and ira.gon«
Kolling Test for Steel, 069, 697 Roof of Charing Cross Station, 1/^
Roofs at Franco-British Exhibition, 646, 6 9. 71^ Ropeway in the North Argentine Cordilleras, Ropls,^Winding, for Mine-Shafts, 201, 327. See Bosyth, Naval Establishment at, 318. See 342 Rotherhithe Tunnel, 821
KS
BoS-al Edw;ard Dock at Bristol, 85z. See also Rm-al ^Meteorological Society. See JMeoro- ' noi&vy. See yau;/, Naral, and Warsli/ps
Royal Society Soiree, Exhibits at, 6o5 Royal Yacht “ Alexandra, 821 Runway, Electrically Driven, 43 Russia, Industrial Outlook in, 49 Russian Railway, Proj^ted, 834 Russian Railways and Carriage of Coal, 4&
Russian Railways and O^A
Rust-Preventing Process, The Coslett, 8/0
Rusting of Iron, 329, 381. See 344
Sabbath-Observance Law in France, 19 Safety Appliances in Mine-Shafts, 2UL, Safety - Appliances in Spinning -1 rames
Weaving-Sheds, 263, 499
Scavenging Gas-Engines, Ethciency of, 520, 630, 665. See LETTERS
Scheme for Treatment of Apprentices, 312
Schemes in Parliament. See Schmatolla System of Gas-Fired Lime-Kilns, 2/1 Schools, Public, Engineering m, 789, 826. bee Schwarz.^Chevaner C. de, on the Utilisation of Science Section^at tlm Franco-British Exhibition, 823 841
Scottish Motor-Car Trials, 856
Scouts. Warships Aerial '
Screws, Aerial, 384. See BETTERS apd Aez tai Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Screw Propellers. See PropMer mA Aerial Screw Threads, Standardisation of* ^69 Screwing-Machine. Sec Sculcoates, Swing-Bridge at, 146, 23y Sea Power. See Self-Propelled Vehicles. See J/ofor-Cars, Motor-
Wagons, and Motor-Vehicles Sellers, Dr. Coleman, The late, 158 Separation of Oxygen from Liquid Air, 761 Serpollet Steam-Omnibus, 463 ,
Sewage-Exhauster, Merryweather s Steam-Propelled, 595
Sewage Sludge, 3L5
Sewage Works at Chiswick, 12 Sewage Works at Twickenhain, /59 Shaft-Sinking at the Horden Colliery, 2/6 Shafts, Castellated, 337 m T o lor;
Shaft Torsion Meters for Marine Turbines, 195,
210 f-
Shafting Driven by Renold Chains, 674, 705 Shafting, Torsional Oscillations of, 481 Shallow-Draught Steamer “ Sultan, 149 Shaping-Machine. See Machine-lools Shearer, Sir John, The late, 307 Shearing-Machine. See Machine-1 ools Shears’s Mulser, 383 Shells, Armour-Piercing, 476, 484 Shells in the French Navy, 758 Ship Calculations, Two Notes on, 542, z66 Ship Construction, A New System of, 830 Ship-Model Experiments, 542, 562. See also o39, 546, 593, 602, 826
Ships, Oil Fuel for, 805 .
Ship Propulsion, Turbo-Electric, 252 Ships. See also 5(ca?ncr« and IFars/up« Ships, Unsinkable and Uncapsizable, 466, 475 Ships, Vibrations of, 351 , „ . , .
Shipbuilding Contract, Legal Point 557 Shipbuilding Dispute, 187, 218, 587, 654, / 21 Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1907, 25 Shipbuilding and Engineering Census, 819 Shipbuilding. See also Warships and Aatat A rchitects
Shipbuilding Trade, Depression in, 58, 478 Shipbuilding, The World’s, 123 Shrewsbury Railway Accident, 558 Siddeley-Wolseley 400-Horse-Power Racing-Boat, 243, 382
Side-Slip of Motor-Cars, 386 Siebe and Gorman’s Miners’ Rescue Apparatus, 89, 93. See 591, 824
Sight-Feed Oil-Pumps, 66, 656 Silica, The Fusing of, 292
Silicon Monoxide, The Uses of, 316, 722 Sinking Shafts at the Horden Colliery, 2/6 Sinking Well and Cylinder Foundation, 135 Skoda Works, PHsen, Bohemia, 298 Slag, Blast-Furnace, Utilisation of, 671, 868 “ Slievebloom,” Channel Steamer for the Lon- don and North-Western Railway Company, lo9 Slotting-Machine. See Machine-Tools Sludge from Sewage, 345
Smelting, Electric, 699,739, /(5. See also Kwrziace Smith, Professor J. H., on the Calculations for Continuous Beams, 839
Smoke and the “ Pillar of Cloud,” 90
Smoke Nuisance, 861
Snell, John, F. C., on Cost of Power for Indus- , trial Purposes, 95 r 1.-7
Society, Engineering, Function of, 45, 79, 14/ Society. See Institution . ,
Soddy, Frederick, on the Electric Discharge in Monatomic Gases, 163
' Sodium, Discovery of, 122 Soiree of Royal Society, Exhibits at, 655 South Africa. See also Cape Colony, Natal,
Orange River Colony, Rhodesia, and iram-
South Australian Railways, 188
South-West, Notes from, 11, 49, 83, 125, 151, 185 215, 247, 273, 309, 339, 369, 403, 439, 488, 515; 551, 585, 619, 651, 683, 719, 753, 787, 817, 853
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 10, 48, 82, 125, 161, 185, 215, 246, 273, 309, 339, 369, 402, 438, 482, 514, 551, 584, 618, 650, 682, 718,762, 786, 816,852 Southwold Fishery Harbour, 396 Space, The Ether of, 281 Spanish Railway Enterprise, 865
Spark Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Special Service Railway Wagons, 113
Specific Heat of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, and
Steam, 1
Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, 415 Specification for Portland Cement, 180 Spectroscope, Treatise on, 710 Spectroscopy and the Doppler Principle, 269 Speed-Indicator, Thornycroft’s Differential, 656 Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Spence, W. G., on the Education of Engineering
Apprentices, 31
Spinning Frames, Safety Appliances for, 263. See 499
Spring-Loaded Safety-Valve, 865 Springs, Laminated, for Railway Wagons, 554 Springs for Motor-Cars, 354
St. John, New Brunswick, Port of, 167
“ St. Paul,” American Liner, Accident to, 614, 652, 690
Standard Notation of Engineering Formulae, 153 Standard Rails for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 628 Standard Specification for Portland Cement, 180 Standard Spring for Railway Wagons, 664 Standardisation in Electric and Mechanical
Engineering, 409, 442
Standardisation in Shipbuilding Sections, 812 Stanton, T. E., on the Air Resistance of Plates, 605
Stanton, T. E., on the New Fatigue Test for Iron and Steel, 669, 697
State Control of Electricity in Germany, 54 State Railways in France, 756 Station Roof at Charing Cross,174, 234 Stations, Electric Power. See under Electric and
Hydro-Electric
Staveley Iron and Steel Company, New Works of, 391, 459, 509, 573, 642. For details see ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Steamboats. See Steamers Steam Boilers. See Boilers Steam-Consumption. See also Steam Trials,
Turbines, Tests, and Diagrams in ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Steam-Engines. See Engines Steam Glands, Labyrinth Packings for, 35. See
Erratum, 185 Steam-Lorries. See Motor- Wagons Steam Pinnace for the Royal Navy, 332 Steam-Pipe Explosion at Brighouse, 321 Steam-Pipes, Use of Copper for, 355 Steam Plant, Closed Circuit, 399 Steam, Specific Heat of, 1 Steam, Superheated, Specific Heat of, 415 Steam-Superheater. See Superheaters Steam Results of Cunard Liner “Lusitania” and
“ Mauretania,” 489, 603,727, 758. See 782, 820, 863
Steam-Trap, The Pieron, 307 Steam Trials of II.M.S. “ Lord Nelson,” 523 Steam Trials of Turbine-Steamers “Heliopolis”
and “ Cairo,” 126, 560, 616
Steam Trials of Warships in 1907, 17 Steam-Turbines. See Turbines Steam-Users’ Association, 731 Steam-Winch, Coaling-Barge, 850 Steam-Yacht “Alexandra,” 821 Steamers, Atlantic, Comparisons of, 221. See
Steam Results
Steamer, Coal-Carrying, “ Everett,” 179 Steamers Driven with Combined Reciprocating
Engines and Turbines, 502, 511, 614, 659, 690 748. See Erratum, 684
Steamers, Heating of, 506, 798 Steamers, London County Council, 253 Steamer “Milwaukee,” Repair of, 100 Steamers of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 351 Steamers, Oil Fuel for, 805
Steamer “ Polcirkeln,” for Iron Ore, 81 Steamers. See also Warships
Steamer “ Slievebloom,” for the London and
North-Western Railway Company, 159 Steamer, Stern-Wheel, “Sultan,” 149 Steamer, Turbine-Driven, “Copenhagen,” 223 Steamers, Turbine-Driven, “Heliopolis” and
“Cairo,” 126, 560, 616
Steamers, Turbine-Driven, and Propellers, 517. See Propellers
Steamer, Turbine, for Isle of Man Service, 382 Steamers, Turbine, Measuring the Power of 195 210
Steamers, Turbine. See also Turbine
Steamer, Twin-Screw,“Corsican,” for Allan Line.
46, 111
Steamer, Transport, for the Mexican Government, 126
Steamers, Vibrations of, 851
Steamers, The World’s Production of, 123. See 25 Steel, Bessemer, The Flohr Process of Manufacture of, 65. See Erratum, 82
Steel, Corrosion of, 329, 344, 381, 870 Steel Concrete. See Eei'i'o-Concrete Steel of Exploded Thermal Storage Plant, Tests
of, 113,120
Steel, Fatigue, Testing of, 669,697. See also Test Steel Furnaces, Electric, 699, 739, 776. See 259 Steel-Hardening, Temperature Gauge for, 693 Steel, High-Speed, Chromium and Tungsten in 717. See also Tool
Steel and Invar Tapes for Surveying, 21 Steel and Iron, Gases contained in, 420 Steel and Iron Institute. See iron and Steel
Institute
Steel-Making in New South Wales, 472 Steel Manufacture in Belgium, 14 Steel used in Marine Engineering, 643, 665, 598.
See Erratum, 619
Steel, Micro-Structure of. See Micro-Photo^ graphs
Steel, Notched-Bar Impact Tests for, 803
Steel, Physical Qualities and Mechanical Treatment of, 734
Steel, Pyrometry of, at Woolwich, 670
Steel Rails, Specification of, for Pennsylvania
Railroad, 628
Steel, Recalescence Curves in, 180
Steel. See AlloySt Iron^ and Micro-Photographs
Steel for Structural Purposes, 344
Steel Syndicate in Germany, 58, 787
Steel, Ultimate Strength of, 653, 718, 747, 755
Steel Works Analysis, Treatise on, 809
Stoney, Edward W., on Sinking Well and Cylinder Foundation in India, 135
Stop-Valve, Shielded, 829
Stoves, Hot-Blast, at the Staveley Works, 459 Strachey, Sir Richard, The late, 243
Street-Boxes, Legal Position of, 626 Street-Lamps, Automatic Lighting of, 624
Strength of Beams, 37, 405, 580, 715
Strength of Columns, 37, 580, 715. See LETTERS, 405, and Q'^ebec '
Strength and Elastic Limit, 653, 718, 747, 755, 782 I
Strength of Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Strength of Struts, 37, 405, 580, 715
Stresses Allowed in Marine Engineering, 543,565, 598. See Erratum^ 619
Stresses and the Elastic Limit, 653, 718, 747, 755, 782
Stresses in Masonry Dams, 162, 692. See Dams Stresses in Metal. See also Micro-Photographs Strickland, Frederick, on Limits of Piston Speed, 173
Strike in Shipbuilding Trade, 187, 218, 587, 654, 721
Strikes and Trade Union. See Industrial and ' Legal
Structural Ironwork at Franco-British Exhibition, 646, 679, 712
Structure of Metal. See Micro-Photograph
Struts, Strength of, 37, 580, 715. See LETTERS, , 405, and Quebec i
Subaqueous Tunnel under the Great Belt, 626
Subaqueous Tunnel at Rotherhithe, 821 Submarine Boat. See Warships
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 212, 694 Subway from Aldwych to the Embankment, 523
Subway, Rapid-Transit, in New York, 320 Suction-Dredger, Clay-Cutting, 432
Suction Gas-Engine. See Engine^ Gas
Suction Gas-Producer. See Producer-Gas
Sulphate - of • Ammonia Plant at the Staveley Works, 574
“ Sultan,” Stern-Wheel Steamer, for the Niger, 149
Sunday Observance Law in France, 19 Superheated Steam with Marine Engines, 538, 545
Superheated Steam, Specific Heat of, 415 Superheatinc in Locomotives, 181, 210, 238
Supply of Electric Light, Law Regarding, 448 Surface-Condensers, Effect of Air in, 507, 532,866 Surveying, Steel and Invar Tape for, 21
Swan, Colonel H. F., The late, 411
Sweden, First Hydro-Electric Railway in, 727
Swedish Iron-Masters, The Society of, 749
Swedish Iron-Ore Deposits, 381
Swedish Iron-Ore Deposits, Purchase of, 726
Swedish Mining Activity, 89
Swedish Power-Station at Trollhiittan, 58
Swedish State and Water-Power, 224
Swedish Telephones, 167
Swedish Water-Power, 235
Swedish Water-Power Exploitation, 794 Swing-Bridge at Sculcoates, Hull, 146, 239
Swing-Bridges at Glasgow Harbour, 54
Swinton A, A. C., on the Conversion of Diamonds into Coke, 458
Sydney, Cataract Dam at, 537
Symbols, Mathematical, Standard Notation of, 153
Syndicate of German Iron-Masters, 787 Syndicate, German Steel, 58
Szekely Process of Casting Iron in Metallic Moulds, 16
Tank at National Physical Laboratory, 474
Tank Experiments on Ship Models, 542, 562
Tank Experiments on Ships’ Screws, 539, 546, 593, 602. See 826
Tanks and Filters for Small Water Woiks, 301
Tar Application to Roads, 283
Tarin Gas-Producers, Destruction of, 141, 171
Taylor, 0. P., on the Design of Ferro-Concrete Chimneys, 325, 481
Teaching Engineering in Public Schools, 789, 826
Teaching. See Edxccation and Training and Apprenticeship
Technical College and Engineering Education, 899, 480, 434, 558, 789, 826
Technical Education. See also Education and Training
Teeth, Double Helical, Machine-Cut, 241
Telegraph, Submarine. See Submarine
Telegraphy, Wireless. See Wireless under Electric
Telephone. See under Electric
Telephony, Wireless. See Wireless under Electric Telephotography, 472, 557. See 594
Temperature, Absolute Zero of, 793 Temperature Gauge for Steel-Hardening, 693 Temperature of Melting of the Iron Group of Metals, 20
Tenders of Locomotive. See Locomotives
Testing Iron and Steel for Fatigue, 669, 697 Testing-Machine for Hardness, 661
Testing-Machine, Hydraulic, 616
Testing-Machine for Oil, the Blake, 183
Testing Work of the National Physical Laboratory, 389, 423. See 670
Test of 200-KilowattMeIms-Pfenninger Turbine, 763
Tests of 4000-Hor8e-Power Engine at Brussels Power-Station, 578
Tests of “Clyde” Upright Multitubular Boiler, 770
Tests of Commercial Motor Vehicles, 569, 607,
614 658, 706
Tests of Engines with Varying Piston Speed, 732
Tests of Ferro-Concrete Beams, 223
Tests of Field-Guns, 53. See Ti’rrafwm, 147
Test of Live-Steam Feed-Water Heater, 264, 287. See 371, 435
Tests of Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 427, 450, 454, 494
Tests of “Maximus” Railway Brake, 728, 758, 796
Tests of Metal. See also Micro-Photographs
Tests of Metal of Thermal Storage-Drum, 113,120 Tests, Notched-Bar Impact, 803
Tests of Rails for Pennsylvania Railroad, 628
Tests. See also Trials, Steam Trials, Tii^rhines, and Diagrams in ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Tests of Structural Steel, 344
Tests of Willan’s Steam Turbines at West Ham, 251, 305
Textile Factories, Safety-Appliances in, 263, 499
Textile Mills, Power-Plants in, 160, 211
Thames River Board Legislation, 254, 316, 478, 687
Thames Steam-Boats, 253
Thames Tunnel at Rotherhithe, 821
Theatre, Drury-Lane, Fire at, 412
Thermal Storage-Drum Explosion at Greenwich, 113,120
Thermodynamics, Treatise on, 297
Thomas, B. F,, on the High Needle Dams on the Big Sandy River, 69
Thomson, Professor J. J., on Electric Discharge through Gases, 343, 378, 410, 447, 472, 518, 519
Thorn and Hoddle Acetylene Works, 712 Thornycroft’s Differential Speed-Indicator, 656
Thorny croft, J. E., on Modern Torpedo-Boats and Destroyers, 477, 487
Thornycroft’s Spring-Loaded Safety-Valve, 865 Thrust-Bearings, Lubrication of, 86 Thrust-Block and Reverse Gear, 797
Timber, Cultivation of, 589
Tin, Copper, and Zinc Alloys, 316
Tin Prices. See Metal-Pnce Diagrams
Tools, Hardening, Gauge for, 693
Tool-Lockers of Expanded Metal, 56
Tools, Machine. See Machine-Tools Tool-Steel, Chromium and Tungsten, 717 Tool-Steel Welding in Holders, 823, 862 Torpedo. See Warships
Torsion-Meters for Marine Turbines, 195, 210
Torsional Oscillations of Shafting, 481 Track-Grinder for Tramways, 81
Traction, Electric. See Tramways and Railways under Electric
Tractor, Hornby’s Chain, 614
Trade, British, with Canada, 723
Trade and the Coal Supply, 375
Trade-Mark Law in Japan, 79
Trade and Municipal Creditors, 250
Trade Outlook in Russia, 49
Trade and Railways, 378
Trade, Shipbuilding, Depression in, 478
Trade and Unemployment, 686
Trade Union Law, Treatise on, 37
Trade Union. See Industrial Notes and Legal Traders and Railways, Treatise on, 808 Trading, Municipal, American View of, 190, 222 Trading, Municipal. See Municipal
Traffic on Roads, 283
Train-Brake, The “Maximus,” 728, 758, 796
Train-Lighting System of the Gesellschaft fur Zugbeleuchtung, 846
Trains. See Locomotives, Raihvays, and Motor- Carriages
Training of Apprentices, Scheme for, 31 Training. See Education and Apprenticeship Tramway from Aldwych to Embankment, 523 Tramways of the London County Council, 406, 855
Tramways and Railways, Rating of, 687 Tramways, See also Electric and Municipal Tramway Track-Grinder, 81
Trans-Atlantic Wireless Telegraphy, 376, 399 See Wireless Telegraphy under ELECTRIC
Transport Steamer for the Mexican Government, 126
Transport by Wire Ropeway in the North Argentine Cordilleras, 361,425
Transporter, Electrically-Driven, 43
Travelling Jib-Crane, 5-Ton Overhead, 365
Travels in Peru, Treatise on, 331, 372
Tresidder, Captain T. J., on Modern Armour and its Attack, 476, 484
Trials, The Scottish, for Motor-Cars, 856
Trials. See Steam Trials, Warships,Guns, Tests
Triple-Expansion Engine. See Engine
Trollhattan Electric Power Station, 58, 235
Trucks, High Capacity, for Indian Broad-Gauge Railway, 605, 748, 863
Trucks, Special Service, for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 113
Trusses. See Bridges and Roofs
Trust of German Ironmasters, 787 Trust, German Steel, 58
Tube-Cleaner, The Willcox-Ramoneur, 766 Tubes, Lead-Lined, 208
Tungsten and Chromium in High-Speed Tool Steel, 717
Tunnel from Aldwyeh to Embankment, 523
Tunnel at Rotherhithe, 821
Tunnel Subway in New York, 320
Turbines, Axial Thrust in, 79
Turbine, The Belluzzo Two Speed, 270
Turbine Destroyer. See under Warships
I Turbine, The Development of the Modern, 591,
' 626
Turbines and Flying-Machines, Blades for, 399. See LETTERS
Turbines and Generators, Brush-Parsons, Details of. 202
Turbines, Labyrinth Packings for, Theory of, 35. See Erratum, 185
Turbines, Marine, Combined with Reciprocating Engines, 502, 511, 614, 659, 690, 748. See Erratum, 584
Turbines, Marine, Efficiency of, 346
Turbines, Marine, Measuring Horse-Power of, 195, 210
Turbines, Marine, of Royal Yacht “ Alexandra,” 821
Turbine, Parsons Type, 12,000 Horse-Power (Franco Tosi, Legnano), 680
Turbines and Propellers, 517
Turbine, The Rateau, Details of, 639
Turbine Steamer “ Ben-my-chree,” for Isle of Man Service, 382
Turbine Steamer “ Copenhagen,” 223
Turbine Steamers “ Heliopolis” and “Cairo,” for Egyptian Mail Company, 126, 560, 616
Turbine Steamer “Lusitania,” Performances of, 489, 503, 727, 758, 820
Turbine Steamer “ Mauretania,” Performances of, 758, 782, 820, 863
Turbine, Test of 200’Kilowatt Melms-Pfenninger, 763
Turbines in Textile Mills, 211
Turbine, Willans-Parsons, Details of, 2
Turbines, Willans-Parsons, at West Ham, 251, 305 Turbo-Electric Ship Propulsion, 252 Turning-Machines. See Machine-Tools Turret-Lathe. See Machine-Tools
Twickenham Sewage Works, 759
Tyler, Sir Henry Whatley, The late, 192 Tyneside, Electrical Developments upon, 431 Typhoon at Hong-Kong, 869
Tyres, Railway, Pneumatic Hammer for, 401
Underground Railways in London, 203, 259
Underground Railways. See Tunnels and Railways
Underground Water Supply, 654
Unemployed, Question of, 686
Union of German Iron-Masters, 787
Union of German Steel and Iron Industry, 58
Unions, Trade. See Trade Unions, Industrial Notes, and Legal
United Kingdom, Copper-Mining in, 757
United States, Notes from the, 10, 46, 81, 113, 146, 181, 246, 276, 308, 338, 368, 401, 478, 523, 550, 613, 679, 714, 750, 788, 816
United States. See also Amerlea
Units, Standardisation of, 409, 442
University, Columbia, New York, 479 Unsinkable and Uncapsizable Ships, 466, 475
Utilisation of Blast-Furnace Slag, 868
Vacuum and Air in Condensers, 507, 532, 866
Vacuum Cesspool-Exhauster, 595
Vacuum Gauge, Sensitive, 21
Vacuum Tube, Gas-Bubbles in, 159, 181
Vacuum Tubes, Electric Discharge in, 163
Valve, Stop, Shielded, 829
Valve, Spring-Loaded Safety, 865
Valves and Valve Gear. See also Motor-Car Details, Locomotives, Regulators, Turbines, and Engines
Variable-Speed Friction-Gear, 829
Varnishes, Treatise on, 461
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor-Cars, Motor- ^agons, Motor-Buses, and Motor-Carriages
Velocity of Gas, Measurement of, 759
Ventilating Ocean Liners, 506, 798
Viaducts, Erection of, 211
Vibrations of Beams, 849
Vibration of Loaded Structures, 347
Vibrations of Ships, 351
Vibrations, Torsional, of Shafting, 481
Wagons, High-Capacity, for Indian Broad-Gauge Railway, 605, 748, 863
Wagons, Railway, Laminated Springs for, 554 Wagons, Special Service, for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 113
Wagon, Steam. See also Motor- Wagons Walker, R. J., on Combined Reciprocating Engines and Turbines, 502, 511. See LETTERS. See Erraticm, 584
Wallace, W. Carlile, on the Heating of Ocean Liners, 506, 798
Warehouses and Docks, Power in, 313 Warping Winches, Electric, 287
Warships:
American Submarines, 345
Boilers in the French Navy, 252, 305 Bulkheads in Warships, 614. See 652, 690 Cruisers, British and Foreign, 176 Efficiency of Steam-Turbines, 346 French Navy, 58, 252, 305
German Sea Power, Treatise on, 642 Government and the Navy, 279
Guns, Screw and Wedge Breech Mechanism for, 207; Treatise on, 6
II.M. Battleship “Lord Nelson,” 523
H.M.S. “Gladiator,” Accident to, 614, 652, 690
H.M.S. “Indomitable,” 704
H.M. Ships’ Steam Trials in 1907, 17
ILM. Torpedo-Boats and Destroyers, 477, 487 Ironclads, History of, 159
Modern Armour and its Attack, 476, 484 Naval Establishment at Rosy th, 348. See 342 Naval Harbour at Dover, 759 Naval Ships and Naval Works, 341 Naval Situation, 17 Navy Annual, 760 Navy League Annual, 74
Nitrocellulose Powders, Instability of, 316 Projectile?, Armour-Piercing, 476, 484 Projectiles in the French Navy, 758 Rams and Ramming, 614, 652,690 Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1905, 25,123 Steam Trials of Warships in 1907,17 Steam-Winch Coaling Barge 850 Submarines of Battleship, Speed, 61 Submarine Boats, Paraffin Motors for, 192 Torpedo-Boat Destroyer for Greek Navy (Yarrow and Co,, Limited), 448
Torpedo-Boats and Destroyers, 477, 487 Torpedo, Development of, 217
Wai’sllipS—continued.
Transport Ship “ General Guerrero,” for the Mexican Government, 126
Turbines and Propellers, 517 Unsinkable Ships of the Goulaeff type, 466, 475
World’s Production of Warships, 123
Water Companies, Legal Rights of, 380
Water Filter. See Filter
Water Heater and Softener, The Paterson, 746
Water Power Exploitation in Sweden, 794
Water Power. See Hydraulic and Hydro- Electric
Water Power in Sweden, 58, 224, 235, 727
Water Power, Treatise on, 710
Water, Price of, in London, 659, 826 Waterproof Concrete, 590
Water-Pumps. See Pumps
Water Purification by Ozone, 688 Water-Raising by Air-Lifts, 210 Water Reservoir. See Reservoir Water. See also Irrigation
Water Supply, Design of Irrigation Work, 136, 255
Water Supply in Egypt, 85
Water Supply of Sydney, New South Wales, 537
Water Supply, Underground, 654 Water-Tube Boilers. See Boilers
Waterways and Canals, Royal Commission on, 55
Waterways and Railways in Russia, 726 Waterways. See also Rivers and Canals
Water Works, Didelon Regulator for Filter- Beds, 92. See Erratum, 273
Water Works, Filters and Tanks for, 301
Water Works at Hamilton, 301
Water Works at Kilbirnie, 139
Water Works Management, Treatise on, 841
Weaving Sheds, Safety Appliances in, 499. See 263
Webb, Francis Hughes, The late, 689
Wedding, Hermann, The late, 651. See 584 Wednesbury Boiler Explosion, 636
Weighton, Professor, R. L., on Piston Speed and Steam-Engine Economy, 732
Weights and Measures, Standardisation of, 409, 442
Welding by Acetylene Gas, 712
Welding, New System of, 822, 8C2 Ses Erratum, 853
Wellenkamp, IL, on Ship Model Experiments, 542, 562
West Ham, Willans Turbines at, 251, 305
West Hampstead Railway Accident, 191 Westphalian Coal District, Electricity in, 688 Wheels, Railway, Pneumatic Hammer for, 401 White and Bean’s Area Scale, 60, 79 Willans-Parsons Steam-Turbine, Details of, 2 Willcox-Ranioneur Boiler-Tube Cleaner, 766 Wind Resistance of Plates, 605
Winches on Coaling-Barge, 850
Winches, Warping, Electric, 287
Wind-Pressure Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 423
Winding-Engine, 3000-Horse-Power, 75 Winding-Engine, Dense-Air, 334
Winding Ropes and Appliances in Mine Shafts, 201, 327
Winn Pipe-Screwing Machine, 13
Wire Ropeway in the North Argentine Cordilleras, 361, 425
Wire Ropes for Mine Shafts, 201, 327
Wireless Telegraphy. See under Electric Wireless Transmission of Pictures, 594. See 472, 557
Wood, The Cultivation of, 589
Wood-Working Machinery. See Machiue-Tbols Woolwich Arsenal, Pyrometric Installation at, 670 Working Stresses, 653, 718, 747, 755, 782 Workmen, Education of.
Training
Workmen’s Compensation
554, 759
Workmen’s Compensation
ment, 759
Works :
Sir William Arrol and Co., Limited, 359 Edgwick Works of Messrs. Alfred Herbert, Limited, 773
Felten and Guilleaume Lahmeyerwerke, Germany, 108
Hans Renold, Limited, Didsbury, Alanches- ter, 674, 705
Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 791 London Factories, Power Used in, 703 Management of Works of Messrs. Ludw.
Loewe and Co., Berlin, Treatise on, 331 New Works in England and the Patents
Act, 658. See 157, 622
Skoda Works, Pilsen, Bohemia, The, 298 Staveley Iron and Steel Company, 391, 459, 509, 573, 642. For details see ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Thorn and Hoddle Acetylene Company, Limited, The, 712
Willans and Robinson, Limited. Rugby, 2 Works, Cost of Power for, 95. See 703 Works Costs, Treatise on, 331
Works Department of London Coun v Council, 381
Work and Wages, Treatise on, 576
Workshops, Accidents in, 861
World’s Shipbuilding, 25,123 576, 659.
See also
Cases, 154,
and Casual

283, 401

Employ-
Yacht, Royal, “Alexandra,” 821
Yarmouth Fishery Harbour, 390
Year-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
York, James E., on the Physical Qualities of
Steel in Relation to Mechanical Treatment, 734
Zero of Temperature, 793
Zinc, Copper, and Tin Alloys, 316

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