Engineering 1909 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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ACCELERATION of Electric Railway Trains, 646 Acceleration and Force, Laws of, 803. See LETTERS, 817, 849
Accident Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation and Legal
Accident Funds in Works, 154

Accidents :

Accidents through Breach of Regulations, Employers’ Liability for, 566
Accidents in Coal-Mines in United States, 257
Accidents in Cotton-Mills, Prevention of, 841
Accidents to Workmen, Insurance against, in Austria, 586
Boiler Explosions, Accidental. See Boiler Egyptian State Railways ; Curious Accident to Locomotive, 47. See Erratum, 79
Electric-Shock Accidents, 539
Employers Hand-Book on Accidents to Workpeople, 321
Fatal Accidents to Employes, 48
Grounding of Submarine “A 12,” 394
Industrial Death-Roll, 367
Railway Accidents, 759
Railway Accidents in the United States, 15
Railway Fatalities in 1908. 731

Accounts and Statistics of Railways, 856
Accumulators for Electric Railway Working, 609
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
Accumulators, Hydraulic, Malta Naval Dockyard, 239
Acetylene. See Carbide of Calcium
Acetylene Lamps, Portable, 418
Acid, Action of, on Metal, 575
Acids, Manufacture of, in America, 780
Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address
Addressograph for Insurance Work, 527
Admiralty Orders for Guns and Armour, 493
Admiralty Policy. See Engineers, Eaval, and Warships
Aerial Flight, F. W. Lanchester on, 599, 602,639, 671 .
Aerial Flight, Lanchester’s Treatise on, 241, 269
Aerial Flight, Theory of. See also Aeroplanes
Aerial Flight in Theory and Practice, 461, 497
Aerial Navigation, Committee on, 641, 672
Aerial Navigation. See LETTERS and Airship and Balloon I
Aerial Propellers, Action of, 11. See LETTERS, 87, 213, 417
Aerial Rope-Way, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 522
Aerial Warfare, Treatise on, 99
Aero and Marine Motor Exhibition at Olympia, 413, 426, 458
Aerodonetics, Treatise on, by F. W. Lanchester, 241, 269
Aeronautics, Laws of. See LETTERS
Aeronauts and International Law, 828
Aeronauts and the Law of Trespass, 793
Aeroplanes, Action of, 11, 461. See LETTERS, 241, 269, 417
Aeroplanes, Effect of Wind on, 671
Aeroplane, The Lamplough, 413
Aeroplane Motor, The “Gnome,”413. See426, 458
Aeroplane Motor, The “Pipe,” 414
Aeroplanes at Olympia Exhibition, 413, 426, 458
Aeroplanes, Petrol-Motors for, 413, 530
Aeroplanes, Power Required for, 599
Aeroplane, Sims-Voisin, 414
Aeroplanes, Stability of, 639
Aeroplanes, Theory of, 241, 269, 599, 602, 639, 671 Aeroplanes, Trespass by, 793
Africa. See South Africa
Ageing of Mild Steel, 18
Agreement between Employers and Men. See Legal
Agreement in the Shipbuilding Trade, 77, 81
Agricultural-Motor Oil (Marshall’s), 852
Agricultural Society’s Show, Royal, at Gloucester, 830, 850. See also next volume
Agricultural Tractor, Steam (Foster and Co.), 850
Air-Blast, Effect of, on the Spark Discharge, 574
Air, Compressed, Dielectric Strength of, 392
Air, Compressed. See also Compressed A ir and Pneumatic
Air-Compressor, Electrically-Driven, with Hoerbiger-Rogler Valves, 626
Air-Compressors, Portable (Lacy Hulbert), 784
Air-Compressor (Scott’s), 853
Air-Compressors, Scott’s Ball-Valve for, 853
Air in Condensers, 364. See also Condensers
Air, Flow of, in Pipes, Experiments on, 446
Air Friction, 599, 661
Air Gas Lighting Plants, 563
Air-Jackets, Thermal Conductivity of, 1
Air-Propellers, Efficiency of, 599
Air-Propeller, Test of “Sirocco,” 534
Air-Pumps and Condensers at Khartoum Electric Power-Station, 214
Air-Resistance of Motor-Cars, 645
Airships, 312
Airships, Guns for Protection against, 292
Airships. See Aerial and Aeroplane
Airy, Wilfrid, on the History of Land Measurement in England, 341
Alby United Carbide Factories, Limited ; Manufacture of Calcium Carbide at Odda Works, Norway, 405, 443, 477, 522, 546, 617, 721, 777
Algerian Deposits of Iron Ore, 533
Alkali Manufacture, The Castner-Kellner Process, 749
Alkali Manufacture, Electrolytic Processes, 747, 814
Alkali Manufacture, The Finlay Electrolytic Cell, 704
Alloys of Copper, 123, 124
Alloys, Heat Treatment of Copper, 781
Alloys of Iron, 781
Alloys, Decarburisation of Iron Carbon, 684, 801 Alloys, Iron-Silicon, Properties of, 732
Alloys, Special, for Motor-Cars, 751 Alternate-Current Circuits, Use of the Potentiometer on,228
Alternating - Current Circuit, Application of Vector Diagrams to. Treatise on, 844
Alternating-Current. See Electric
Alternating Stress Apparatus for National Physical Laboratory, 447
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium Rods, Experiments on Impact of, 582, 624
Aluminium, Uses of, 123
Amalgamation of Railway Companies, 792
American Locomotives. See Locomotives
American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools /
American Metallurgical Industry, 628. See Iron and Steel and Notes from the United States
American Patent Practice, 794
American. See also United States
Ammonia, Synthetic, Preparation of, 497
Anderson’s System of Water Purification, 162
Angle-Bars, Least Moment of Inertia of, 451
Aniline and Water, Temperature of Equal Density, 400
Annealing of Copper Alloys, 124
Annealing Copper, Effect of, 257
Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX'
Anstey, H. C., on Internal-Combustion Engines for Marine Propulsion, 478, 507. See LETTERS, 523
Antarctic Regions, Temperature 'Variations in, 820
Anthracite Coal, The Origin of, 566
Anti-Cyclonic Belt of the Northern Hemisphere, 693
Anti-Friction Metals, Use of Nickel Bronzes for, 781
Antimony. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Antiseptic Value of Disinfectants, Testing the, 223
Applied Chemistry, International Congress of, 747, 780, 812
Applied Mechanics, Treatise on, 476
Apprenticeship. See also Edzication and Training
Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See also Industrial Notes
Arbitration in Railway and Engineering Disputes, 219
Arc, Electric, for Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 732, 749. See also Nitrogen
Arc-Lamp, “Victor” Flame, 159
Arc-Lamps, Manufacture of; Patents Case, 255, 424, 762
Arc-Lamps. See also Electric
Arc-Transmitter for Wireless Telegraphy, 832 1Arch. See Bridge
Arched Roof of Ferro-Concrete ; Croydon Baths, 193
Argentine Gunboat “ Parano ” (Armstrong, ' Whitworth), 862
Argentine Railways, Working of the, 576
i Armament of Modern Battleships, 762
I Armaments. See Warships and Guns
Armour and Guns, Admiralty Orders for, 493
Armour-Plate Manufacture at Parkhead Steel Works, 657
Armour-Plates, Tests of, at Beardmore’s, 656 Armour. See also Warships
Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Armoured Ships. See Warships
Army, Territorial, Engineers in the, 640
J- ® - Mysteries of
Metal, 145, 1/0. See LETTERS, 417
Mechanicians in the Navy, 628, Dui)
ArtiJIery. See (7izn.s
Pi’esidential Address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the Electrification of the Liverpool and Southport Railway, 603, 600, 646
Assouan Dam, Heightening of, 179, 640
Exhibits at Royal Society Soir6e 669 *
Astronomical Telescopes, Parallel Wire Micrometer for, 754
Atmosphere, Fixation of Nitrogen from the 73*? z49 ’
Atmospheric Nitrogen, Linde Plant for Extracting, 722
Australasia. See Neiv Souik Victoria
Queensland, Western Australia, and AxcstraUa
Australasia, Trans-Siberian Railway Route to 567 ’
Australian Steamer “Osterley,” Orient Line, 863 Australian Steamer Orsova,” Orient Line 715 Australian Steamer “ Otway,” Orient Line’ 745 Austria, Cost of Material and Labour in’, 187. See 586
Austria, Insurance and Pensioning of Emnlov^s in, 586
Auto-Cars. See jVo«o/'-Cars and Motor-Carriaqes Automatic Machine-Tools. See JfacAme.roo/s Automatic Telephone System, 828 Automobiles. See Motor-Cars
Aviation, Laws of. See Aerial, Aeronautics, and LETTERS ’
Axles, Fixed, of Motor-Cars, 309
Axles, Railway, Manufacture of, 754

Ball-Valve for Air-Compressors, Scott’s, 853
Balloons, Dirigible, 312
Balloons, Trespass by, 793
Ballycastle Railway, Four-Coupled Ten-Wheel
Tank Locomotive for, 431
Baltic-Black Sea Canal, 734
Bar Magnets, Self-Demagnetising Factor of, 400
Barbette. See Guixs
Barlow’s Lift-Gear, 383
Barnes, Ernest J., on Heat Treatment of Bessemer Steels, 688, 770
Barrage, Esneh, on the Nile, 173, 640
Barrel-Hoop Punching-Machine, 620
Barrel-Making Plant, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 619
Sir John Wolfe, on Standardisation, 163 ’
Barry Transporter, 314
Baths, Fused-Salt, Temperatures of, 535 I
Batteries for Electric Railway’ Workin" 609
Batteries. See Electric and Guns
Battery, High-Potential Primary, 451 Battleships. See Warships
Beardmore’s Steel Works at Parkhead, Glasgow I 439, 513, 581, 656, 639, 751 ® ’
William, and Co., 5000-Ton Press for Fluid Compression of Steel, 101
Beet-Sugar Manufacture, Hydros-Rak Diffusion I Plant for, 277 I
^1^89^” iiailway. Financial Statistics of.
Bell Water-Filter, 129
Beiliss, G. E., The late, 250
“ Ben-my-Chree,” Turbine Steamer, Working of i the, 483, 511
Bending Tests, Standard Test-Pieces for, 463 466 I Bending and Twisting Moments, Machine for ' Applying, 400
Bengal Nagpur Railway, Six-Coupled Express Locomotive for, 318 '
Bennett, James Wm., The late, 759 Bennis High-Temperature Coking-Stoker. 249
Bergen-Christiania Railway, 207 ^^39^ Models,
Berrier-Fontaine, The late M., 10
Bessemer Medal of Iron and Steel Institute, Pre- eentation of, to Mr. A. Pourcel, 683
Treatment on, _o88, z70
Bircham, F. R. S., on Internal-Combustion En- l^nes for Submarines, 478 485. See LETTER, Bismuth, Alloys of, 145
Bituminous Fuel, Morton’sSuction-Gas Producer for, 786
Black Sea-Baltic Canal, 734
Blackburn, C. J., on the Turbine-Steamer “ Ben- my-Chree,” 483, 511 ,
Blackfriars Bridge, Widening of, 310 i
Blackstone Crude-Oil Engines, 766 '
Blackwells Island Bridge, Safety of, 45
Blading, Turbine, Damage to, on U.S. Scout ' Salem,” 706 ‘
Blading of Turbines, Deposits on, 799 Blast-Furnace-Gas Engines. See Engines, Gas Blast-Furnaces, Use of Gaseous Fuel, 781 Blow-Off Tank, Explosion of, 401
Blowing-Engine with Hoerbiger-Rogler Valves, Blowing-Engines. See Engines, Blowing : also A ir- Comprest ors
Blue, John A. C., The late, 416
Board of Trade and Boiler Explosion. See Boiler Explosion
Committee on Railway Accounts, 856
Board of Trade Regulations for Weights and Measures, Treatise on, 579
Boat, Submarine. See Submarine-Boat and Warships
Boats, Hydroplane or Skimming, 365
Boats, Motor. See Motor-Launches and Motor- Boats
Bogies, Railway. See Carriages and Locomotives
Boiler Explo.sion near Campbelltown, 132
Boiler Explosion at Etchingham, 784
Boiler Explosion near Kirkcaldy, 337
Boiler Feed-Water, Purification of, 251
Boiler, Intercepting Tank, Explosion of, 401
Boilers, Locomotive, Combustion and Heat- Absorption in, 237, 307
Boilers of Locomotives. See also Locomotives
Boilers, Marine, Safety-Valves of, 295. LETTERS, 351, 384, 416
Boilers, Marine, of T.-S.S. “Osterley,” 863
Boiler-Plates, Ageing of Steel, 18
Boiler-Plate-Flanging Plant at Parkhead Works, 751
Boilers of Sinking Ship, Blowing-Down of, 317
Boilers, Steam, Heat-Transmission in, 183, 194, 229, 260, 280, 384
Boiler Trials at Greenvale Mill, 297. See LETTERS, 360, 385, 416, 523, 555, 591
Book. See LITERATURE INDEX
Books Received, 7, 100, 135, 208, 243, 270, 306, 347, 443, 476, 580, 624, 656, 845
Boot and Shoe Machinery Monopolies in Canada, 494
Borelli, G. A., 85
Boring-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Borough Councils of London Electric-Light Undertakings, 358
Bossing, Effect of, on the Resistance of Ships, 302
Boston, U.S.A., Washington-Street Tunnel, 65
Boyd, W., on the Suction Dredger “Leviathan,” 482, 570
Brace, Ratchet, The “Simplex” Detachable, 656
Bracing, Lattice, of Bridge Members, 45
Bragg, Professor W. II., on Secondary X-Rays, 611
Brand, James, The late, 114
Brass-Welding. See Welding-Machines^ Electric
Brassey, Lord, on Types of Warships Omitted in Recent Programmes of Naval Construction, 452, 462
Brassey’s “Naval Annual, 1909,”704
Brazilian Battleship “Sao Paulo,” 557
Brazilian Torpedo-Boat Destroj^er “Para” (Yarrow), 347
Breathing Apparatus, Liquid Oxygen, for Miners, 813
Breech-Blocks, Comparison of Wedge and Screw Types, 220. See LETTER, 523
Breech Mechanism of Exploded Gun on “ Latouche-Trdxille,” 52
Breeze Concrete, Expansion of, 604
Brett Drop-Forging Hammer, 659
Brickwork, Reinforced, 563
Bridge, Wideningof Blackfriars, 310
Bridge Members, Lattice Bracing of, 45
Bridges, Secondary Stresses in Large-Span, 151
Bridges, Steel, and Ferro-Concrete, Relative Advantages of, 823. See LETTER, 849. See Erratum, 853
Bridges, Steel Railway, Treatise on, 442
Bridge, Timber Suspension ; Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 478
Brinell’s Hardness-Testing Apparatus, 835
Briquetting Plant for Peat, 688, 737
Brictol, Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, 755
British Battleships. See Warships
British Buffalo Motor Co.’s Marine Motor, 428_
British Fire-Prevention Committee, Fire-Extinguisher Tests, 98,200
British Fire-Prevention Committee, Tenth Anniversary of, 734
British Locomotives. See Locomotwes
British Naval Seamen, 305
British Naval Training. See Engineers and Navy
British Railways, 287, 856
British Road Conference, 640
British Warships. See Warships
Bronzes, Nickel, as Anti-Friction Bronzes, 781
“ Bronzewing,” Oil-Motor Yacht (Thornycroft), j 448 i
Broom and Wade’s 25-Horse-Power Military Tractor, 329
Brown, Sydney G., on Submarine Telegraphy, 430
Bruhn, Dr. J., on Influence of Form and Bulkheads on the Strength of Ships, 521 i
Brunk By-Product Plants for Coke-Oven, 782
Brush Discharge, Effect of Radiations on, 451
Bryan, Professor G. IL, on Aerial Flight, 461, 497
Building Construction. See also Ferro-Concrete
Building for New York Times, 555
Buildings in San Francisco, Damage by Earthquake to, 617
Building Trades’ Exhibition at Olympia, 563
Bulkheads, Influence of, on the Strength of Ships, 521
Bulkheads, Strength of; the Loss of the “Republic,” 817
By-Product Plant for Coke-Ovens, 782

Cables, Telephone, Desiccating-Machine for, 784
Cableway, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 522
Caissons for Dock Entrances, Malta Dockyard, 6
Caissons for Foundations of Dock-Walls (Im- mingham), 653
Calcium Carbide, Acetylene Lamps, 418
Calcium Carbide Crushing and Grinding Plant, 619, 722
Calcium Carbide, Electric Furnaces for Manufacture of, 617, 814
Calcium Carbide, Electric Furnaces for Nitrification of, 777
Calcium Carbide, Manufacture of, 405, 443, 477, 522, 546, 617, 721, 777
Calcium Cyanamide, Manufacture of, 721, 750, 777. See also Calcium Carbide Manufacture !
Calcium Nitrate, Manufacture of, 732, 749 j
Calculator, Hydraulic, The “ Essex,” 49 !
Calendar. See LITERATURE INDEX
Californian Earthquake; Damage to Buildings in San Francisco, 617
Callendar, Professor H. L., on Osmotic Phenomena, 362
Calorific Value of Coal, 364, 781
Camber, Effect of, on Ship-Launching, 519 Campbelltown Boiler Explosion, 132
Canada, Development of Railways and Collieries in., 498
Canada, Patented Machinery Monopolies in, 494
Canadian Ice-Breaking Steamer “ Earl Grey ” (V'ickers), 829
Canal, The Baltic-Black Sea, 734
Canal, Panama, 390. See also 216, 321
Canal, Panama, Treatises on, 100
Canals, Progress of Continental, 637
Canals. See also Channel
Canal, Ship, in Scotland, Proposed, 564. See LETTER, 817
Canals, Steam or Electric Traction on, 672
Candy Water-Filter, 130
Capital and Labour Co-Partnership, 731
Capstans and Cranes ; Malta Dockyard, 240
Capstans, Hydraulic, at Malta Dockyard, 240
Capstan Lathes* See Machine-Tools Carbide of Calcium, Crushing and Grinding, Plant for, 619, 722
Carbide of Calcium, Electric Furnaces for Manufacture of, 617
Carbide of Calcium, Electric Furnaces for Nitrification of, 777
Carbide of Calcium, Manufacture of, 405, 443, 477, 522, 546, 617, 721, 777
Carbon Dioxide Recorder, The Rhode, 782
Carbon Dioxide Recorder, Simmance-Abady, 535
Carbon-Iron Alloys, Decarburisation of, 684, 801
Carbon Plate Rheostat for Electric Furnace, 400
Carbonyls, Metallic, 747
Carborunclum Crystals as Detectors for Electric Waves, 832
Carburettor. See Motor-Car Details in ILLI'S- TRATEO INDEX
Carding-Engines, Safety Appliances for, 841
Carlisle, Sewage-Pumping Plant for, 46
Carriages on the Liverpool and Southport Electric Railway, 609
Cars and Carriages. See Motor-Cars, Railway, and Tramway-Car
Carville Power-Station Works, Cost, 288
Cast Iron, Decarburisation of, 684, 801
Cast Iron, Malleable, 781
Casting. See also Moulding Castner-Kellner Alkali Process, 749
Catalogues 33, 48,132,167, 200, 266, 338, 370, 402, 438, 472, 543, 575, 615, 649, 676, 713, 744, 804, 836, 862. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cataract Dara for Sydney Water Supply, 394
Caustic Soda, Electrolytic Processes for Manufacture of, 747, 814
Caustic Soda, Finlay Electrolytic Cell for Manufacturing, 704
Cavendish Experiment, 391
Cavitation of Screw-Propellers, 808
Cell, The Finla5' Electrolytic, for Alkali Manufacture, 704. See 747, 814
Cell. See also Alkali Cement-Concrete. See Concrete and Ferro-Concrete
Cement-Concrete, Test for Mixing of, 849
Cement, Manufacture of Portland, 767
Cements, Paper on, at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 780
Central Station. See Electric, Hydro-Electric, and Power
Central Zinc Company’s Works at Seaton Carew, 141
Ceramic Castings, 780
Cesspools, Vacuum Exhauster for, 852
Chain. Welding Machines, 69,135
Channel, Experimental, for Hydraulic Experiments, 515, 524
! Charcoal, Absorption of Gases by, 825
' Charts, Construction of Marine, Treatise on,
' 623
, Chassis. See Motor-Car Details in ILLUSTRATED ; INDEX I
Chemistry, International Congress of Applied, i 747, 780, 812
“Chester” and “ Salem,” Trials of United States ; Scouts, 533, 661. See 706 i
Chili Nitrate Railways Company, Twelve- | Wheeled Duplex-Tank Locomotive for, 13, 694 j China, Commercial Future of, 223 i
China, North, Engineering and Mining College : at Tang Shan, 811 I
China, Railway Development in, 700 j
Chinese Methods of Railway Construction, 364 <
i Chlorine, Sewage Purification by Means of, 222 i I Christiania-Bergen Railway, 207
Christie’s “Acme ” Expansion-Joint, 44 i
Chromium-Nickel Steels, Heat Treatment of, 865 i Chromiura-Vanadiuin Steels, Heat Treatment of, ' 865 . ;
Circular Weirs and Orifices, Discharge of Water from, 64 j
Engineers, Institution of: '
Heat Losses in an Electric Power-Station, by | F. H. Corson, 10 i
High Speeds on Railway Curves, b}’ J. W. I Spiller, 86 j
A Practical Method for the Improvement of Existing Railway Curves, by W. H. Shortt, 86
Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution in the Gas-Engines, by Professor Bertram Hopkinson, 179
Design of Marine Steam-Turbines, by S. J. Reed, 251
Illustrations of Proceedings, 316, 351, 335, 417
Some Recent Grain-Handling and Storing i Appliances at the Millwall Docks, 320 1
Concrete and Masonry Dam Construction in [ New South Wales, by L. A. B. Wade, 394 Construction and Wear of Roads, H. A. R. Mallock, 418
The New York Times Building, by C. Purdy, 555 1James Forrest Lecture on Road Motors
' the Present Day, and Some Unsolved
Problems connected with them, bj' Colonel H. C. L. Holden, 607, 644
Cleaning and Disinfecting Machine, 249 Cleveland Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams Cleveland and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 15, 49, 79,115, 148, 183, 217, 246, 285, 321, 355, 381, 421, 455, 491, 527, 559, 535, 633, 665, 697, 727, 758,789, 821, 861
Clift Marine Motor, 428
Clutch. See also Couplings and Mot or-Cars Clyde and Forth Ship Canal, 564, 817 Clyde Works Sites, Value of, 192 C62 Recorder, The Rhode, 782
CO2 F«ecorder, Simmance-Abady, Test of, 535 Coal, Anthracite, The Origin of, 566
Coal Consumption. See also Combustion Trials 1 and Tests
I Coal-Dust, Explosions of, 813 Coal-Handling. See Transporters
, Coal and Limestone Storage Silos; Odda Cal-
I cium Carbide Works, 546
i Coal-Mines in Canada, Developments of, 498
! Coal-Mines, Fire-Damp Detector for, 782
! Coal-Mines, Ilgner Electric Winding-Engines for, 807
Coal-Mines, Life-Saving in, 293
Coal-Mines, Motor-Starter for Use in, 707 Coal-Mines, Testing-Stations for Explosives Used in, 812, 813
Coal-Mines of the United States, Accidents in, 257
Coal-Mining. See also Mines, Collieryand Engine, Winding
Coal, Purchase of, by Calorific Value, 364, 781 Coal-Testing, 780
‘ Coast Defence, Searchlight for, 380
I Coefficients of Restitution of Metals, 625 5 Cofferdam, Temporary, Malta Dockyard Works,
I Coin-Counting Machine, 828
? Coil, Self-Inductance of, Pirani's Method of Measuring, 451
Coiseau, Louis, The late, 124
Coke-Ovens and By-Product Plants, 782 Coker, Professor E. G., on an Experimental
Hydraulic Cylinder, 371
Coking Stoker, Bennis, High-Temperature, 249 Collapse of Tubes Under External Pressure, 35 College, Engineering and Mining, Tang Shan, North China, 811
College, Merchant Venturers’ Technical, at Bristol, 755
Collieries, Fire-Damp Detector for, 782 Collieries, Ilgner Electric Winding-Engines for, 807
Collieries, Life-Saving in, 293
Collieries and Railways in Canada, Development of, 498
Collieries, Testing-Stations for Explosives Used in, 812
Colliery Rating Appeal Case, 489
Colliery. See also Mine, Coal, and Engine, Winding
Collingham, R. H., on the Mechanics of Ilgner-
Operated Winding-Engines, 807 Collisions. See Accidents Colonies and the Navy, 791 Combined Stress, Guest’s Law of, 258, 281, 316, 351, 545, 555, 629, 817, 848. See 169 and LETTERS
Combined Stress, Strength of Pipes under, 327 Combustion and Heat Absorption in Locomotive
Boilers, 237, 307
Commercial Education in Korea, 733 Commercial Future of China, 223 Commercial Motor Vehicles. See Motor and
Tractor
Commission, Royal, on Shipping Rings, 761 Committee on Aerial Navigation, 641, 672 Committee, British Fire-Prevention, Tenth Anniversary of, 734. See 98, 200
Compensation, Workmen’s. See Legal Composing and Casting Machinery for Type, 28, 59, 90, 130
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Compound Stress, Guest’s Law of, 169, 258, 281,
I 316, 351. 545, 555, 629, 817, 848
I Compound Stress, Strength of Pipes under, 327
' Compound Stresses, Elastic Breakdown of Materials under, 169. See LETTERS, 203, 487, and Guest's Law
Compressed-Air Brakes. See Brakes Compressed Air, Dielectric Strength of, 392 Compression of Fluid Steel, 5000-Ton Press for, 101
Compressors, Air, Portable (Lacy Hulbert), 784 Compressor, Air, Scott’s, 853. See also Air Concentration of Ore, 783
Concentric Mains, Effective Resistance and Inductance of. 227
Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See also /n- dustial Notes and PARAGRAPH INDEX Concrete-Block Building Construction, 141 Concrete, Expansion of Breeze, 604 Concrete, Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
Concrete and Masonry Dam Construction in New South Wales, 394
Concrete-Mixer, The Ransome-ver Mehr, 528 Concrete, Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete Concrete, Test for Mixing of, 849
Concrete, Transverse Strength of, 56 Condensation, Evaporation, and Percolation of Water, 555
Condensers, Air in, 364
Condensers and Air-Pumps at Khartoum Electric Power-Station, 214
Condenser, Leblanc Ejector, 626 Condenser, Moscicki Electric, 88. See 114
Condensers for Steam-Turbines, 459
Condensing Machinery. See also Pumps and Air-Pumps
Conductivity, Electric, of Crystals, 768 Conference, The Railway, 792
Congress, International, of Applied Chemistry, 747, 780, 812
Congress, International Geological, 672 Congress, International Material-Testing, 860 Constitution of Steel, 417, 488
Construction of Ships, Treatise on, 135. See also Ships, Steamers, and Steamships
Constructional Steel-Work. See Bridges, Boo/s, Floors, and Columns
Consulting Engineers, Fees of, 817 Contact-Beds. See Filters Contracts for Naval Guns and Armour, 493 Conveyor, "The Barry, 314
Conveyor. See also Milling and Elevator Cooke Naval Range-Finder, 140 ; Military, 205 Cooler for Drills and Taps, 556 Co-Partnership, 731
Copenhagen, International Material-Testing Congress at, 860
Copley Medal, History of the, 551
Copper Alloys, Annealing of, 124
(iopper Alloys, Heat Treatment of, 781
Copper Alloys, Microstructure of, 145
Copper and Copper Alloys, 123,124
Copper, Effect of Heat Treatment on, 257
Copper-Mining in Greenland, 21
Copper-Mining in Norway, 18
Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Copper Hods, Experiments on Impact of, 582, 624
Copper-Welding. See Welding-Machines^ Electric
Cornish, Dr. Vaughan, on Wind-Waves in Water, Sand, and Snow, 393
Corrosion of Iron, Electrolytic Theory of the, 633, 708
Corrosion, Protection of Iron and Steel against, 683, 710, 742
Corrosion of Tin-Plates, 708, 710
Corrugated Fire-Box for Locomotives, 631
“ Cossack,” Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Trials of; Effect of Depth of Water, 508
Cost of Generating Electricity, 335
Cost of Power* Production, 288
Cotton-Mills, Safety Devices for Carding-Engines in, 811
Counting-Machine for Coins, 828
County Council. See London County Council Cowper-Coles Parabolic Mirrors, 669
Crane, 20-Ton Locomotive (Wilson), 383
Crane, 20-Ton Steam Travelling, for Malta Dockyard, 240
Crane, 50-Ton Steam, Fairbairn, for Malta Dockyard, 240
Crane, 60-Ton Floating (Day, Summers, and Co.), 569
Cranes and Capstans, Malta Naval Dockyard, 240 Crane, Gantry, Electric Travelling (Musker), 816
Cranes at Odda Calcium Carbide Works. 478, 620 Cranes. See also Uoists and Transporters Crank-Axle Lathe, 30-In. (J. Spencer and Co.), 354
Crank-Shaft, Stresses in a, 545. See 867 Creosote, Heating Furnace Using, 659
Croydon Baths, Ferro-Concrete Roof of, 193 Crucible Furnace, Helberger’s Electric, 672 Crude-Oil Engine, Blackstone, 756
Cruiser, Siamese Revenue, “SuriyaMonthon,” 76 (iruisers. See also Warships
Crushing and Grinding Plant for Calcium Carbide, 619, 722
Cryolite, Uses of, 783
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See MicroPhotographs
Crystallisation at High Temperatures and Pressures, 425. See Erratum^ 450
Crystallisation of Metals, 145, 170. See LETTER, 417
Crystals of Carborundum as Detectors for Electric Waves, 832
Crystals, Conductivity of, 768
Cultivation of Timber in the United Kingdom, 153
Cunard Liner “ Mauretania,” Speed of the, 733 Cunynghame, Sir Henry, on Saving Life in Coal-
Currie, Sir Donald, The late, 532
Curtis Turbines of United States Scout “ Salem,” Damage to Blading of, 7o6. See 553, 661
Curves on Railway, Improvement of, 86
Cushman, Allerton S., on the Preservation of Iron and Steel, 683, 710, 742
Cutmore“ Phone-Hush” Telephone Silencer, 333
Cutting-Tools, Forces on, Nicolson’s Dynamometer for Measuring, 244
Cyanamide of Calcium, Manufacture of, 721, 750, 777. See also Calcium Carbide Manufacture and ^itrolim
Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, 783
Cylinder, Hydraulic, Experimental, at Finsbury Technical College, 371
Cylinders of Petrol-Engines, Proportions of, 105
Cylinders and Pipes, The Strength of. 327
Cylinders. See Engines and Motor-Cars Cymometer, The Fleming, 211
Dalby, Professor W. E., on Electric Traction on Railways, 829
Dam, Assouan, Heightening of, 179, 640
Dam, The Cataract, for Sydney Water Supply, 394
Dams, Concrete and Masonry, Construction of, in New South Wales, 394
Dam, Esneh Barrage 173, 640
Dams. See also Cofferdams
Davis Formula for Total Heat of Steam, 51
Davison, Charles, on Californian Earthquake, 617
Daylight, Effect of, on Range of Wireless Telegraphy, 533
Daylight-Saving Bill, 359. See LETTERS, 385 De Laval. See Laval
Deacon, George Frederick, The late, 857 Decking for Bridges. See Bridges
Defence Committee, Imperial, and the Navy, 603
Degrees in Engineering, 54, 259
Denny, Archibald, Report on Work of Engineering Standards Committee on Sections and Tests for Materials, 463, 466
Deodoriser for Suction-Gas Scrubber Refuse, 576
Depression in Motor-Car Trade, 117
Depression in the Shipbuilding Trade, 52
Depth of Water, Effect of, on Speed of Destroyer “Cossack,” 508
Derailment. See Acciderd
Derham’s Tap and Drill Cooler, 556
Desiccating Machine for Telephone Cable, 784 Design and Construction of Ships, Treatise on. 135. See also Eaval Architects, Ships, Steamers
Destroyers.
Detector for
Disinfectants, Testing the Antiseptic Value of, 223
Disinfecting and Vacuum Cleaning Machine, 249 Distilleries, Disposal of Waste from, 531 Distributing-Machines for Type. See Typfi.’Ca^t-
inff aiid Composing Machines
Diverging Waves, 522
Division Plates, Method of Correcting, 131 Docks for Dreadnoughts, 667
Dock, Floating, for Rosyth Harbour, 667 Docks for French Warships, 459
Docks at Immingham, 653. 717 Docks, Millwall, Grain-Handling and Storing
Appliances at, 320
Docks, Naval, at Rosyth, 224 Dock. See also Estuary and Harbour and Port Docks. See Malta Dockyard Extension Donaldson, 11. F., on Interchangeability of
Screw-Threads, 212, 281
Dovetailing Machine, Universal (A. Ransome and Co.), 14
Drainage of the Metropolis, 701. See Erratum^ 720
Draught and Trim of Ships, The Geometrical
Investigation of, 642
Dreadnoughts, Armament of, 762 Dredger “ Leviathan,” for Liverpool, 482, 570 Dresden Uebigau Experimental Tank, 539
Drill and Tap Cooler, Derham’s, 556
Drills, Twist, Experiments on the Forces Acting on, 398, 410, 432, 470
Drilling Cast Iron and Steel, Power Required for, 398, 410, 432, 470
Drilling-Machine. See Machine-Tools Drop-Forging Hammer (Brett), 659 Drums, Manufacture of, for Calcium Carbide, 619 Duddell, W., on a Bifilar Vibration Galvano
meter, 754
Duplex Tank Locomotive; Nitrate Railways
Company, Chili, 13, 694
Dust, Explosions of Coal, 813 Dutch Indian Railway, Java, Ten-Wheeled Tank
Locomotive for, 818
Dwelshauvers-Dery, Professor V., on Inertia and
Mass, 803. See LETTERS, 817, 848
Dynamic Compression of Fluid Steel, 5000-Ton
Press for, lOl
Dynamic Effect of Rolling Loads on Large-Span
Bridges, 151
Dynamite, Velocity* of Detonation of, 813 Dynamometer for Machine-Tools, Nicolson’s
Universal, 244
Dynamometers for Ship Model Tanks, 539 Dynamos. See Dynamos and Alternators under
Electric
“ Earl Grey,” Canadian Ice-Breaking Steamer (Vickers), 829
Earl’s Court Exhibition, 828
Earth, Function of, in Radiotelegraphy, 766, 776, 795
Earthquake, Damage to Buildings in San Francisco, 617
Education, Commercial, in Korea, 733
Education of Engineers; University Degrees in Engineering, 54, 259
Education in Glasgow ; Work of Continuation Classes, 603
Education of Midshipmen in the Navy, 597 Education of Naval Architects, 352
Education, Technical, in North China, 811 Efficiency of Internal-Combustion Engines, Influence of Size on, 223
Efficiency Ratio of Steam-Turbines, 254 Efficiency of Steam-Turbines. See Turbines Efficiency, Thermal, of a Petrol-Engine, 763 Egypt, Electric Power Plant in Khartoum, 214 Egyptian Irrigation, Esneh Barrage on the Nile, 173, 640. See also Dam
Egyptian State Railways, Curious Accident to Locomotive on, 47. See Erratum^ 79
Ejector, Condenser, Leblanc, 626
Ekenberg, Dr. M., on Peat for Fuel, 688, 737
Elastic Limit of Bessemer Steel, Effect of Heat Treatment on, 6b8, 770
Elastic Limit, Determination of, 83
Elastic Limit of Materials Subjected toCompound Stresses, 169, 203. See Compound and LEITERS, 487
Elasticity, Guest’s Law of. See also LETTERS Elbe Water, Supply of, at Magdeburg, 256
Electric;
Acceleration of Electric Railway Trains, 646 Addressograph for Insurance Work, 527 Air-Compressor, Electrically • Driven, with Hoerbiger-Rogler Valves, 626
Alkali Manufacture, Castner-Kellner Process, 749
Alkali Manufacture, Electrolytic Process of, 704, 747, 814
Alternate-Current Generator, Theory, 641 Apparatus at Royal Society Soiree, 669 Arc for Extraction of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 732, 749
Arc-Lamp, “Victor” Flame, 159
Arc-Transmitter for Wireless Telegraphy, 832 Bar Magnets, Self-Demagnetising Factor of, 400
Batteries for Electric Railway Working, 609 Brush Discharge, Effect of Radiations on, 451
Canal Traction, Steam or Electric, 672 Compressed Air, Dielectric Strength of, 392 Concentric Mains, Resistance and Inductance of, 227
Condenser, Moscicki, 88. See Erratum^ 114 Conductivity of Crystals, 768
Crane, Travelling Gantry (Musker), 816 Crucible Furnace. Helberger’s, 672 Cymometer, The Fleming, 211
Direct - Current Electrical Engineering, Treatise on, 443
Discharge from Sharp Edges, 567
Distribution System at Carbide and Nitrolim Factories, Odda, 778
Dynamos and Alternators, Turbine-Driven, 459
Electrical Engineering, Treatise on Heavy, 621
Electrical Industries, Statistics of, 157 Electrical Machinery* on the S.S. “Orsova,” 717
lElectrlc—cantimied.
Electrical Sbriationg, 495
Electricity, Cost of Generating, 335
Electrification of Railways, Single-Phase Systems, 636, 824
Electrification of Railways, 21, 86,167, 186, 461, 603,609, 646, 829
Electrolytic. See Alkali
Equations, Electrical Apparatus for Solving, 669
Finlay Electrolytic Cell, 704
Flames, Electrical Properties of, 292
Furnaces for Calcium Carbide Manufacture, 617
Furnaces for Calcium Carbide and Steel Manufacture, 118, 814
Furnaces, Electric, at National Physical Laboratory, 4G9
Furnaces for Nitrification of Calcium Carbide, 777
Furnaces. See also Steel Furnaces and Hardening Furnaces
! G. B. Surface Contact System, 124. See 735
, Galvanometer, Bifilar Vibration, 755 Gas-Engines in Central Stations, 324 Hardening Furnaces, Fused-Salt, 535 Home-Office Regulations, 155 Hydro-Electric Power Plant for Calcium Carbide Works, 405, 443
Hydro-Electric Power Plants in Sweden and I Norway, 342, 372,405, 443 I
Hysteresis Loss in Iron, Effect of Temperature on, 755
Insulators of Porcelain, 734
Iron-Smelting in France, 78i
Iron Works at Trollhattan, 829
Lapland, Electric Traction on Swedish State Railways in, 86, 461
Lift-Gear, Barlow’s, 383
Liverpool and Southport Railway, Electrification of the, 603, 609, 646
Locomotive, Electro-Magnetic, 649
London Boroughs and Electric Lighting, 358 London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Electrification, 186
Measuring-Instruments, Switchboard, 316 Metre-Bridge and Potentiometer, 400 Moscicki Condenser, 88. See Erratitm^ 114 Motor-Starter for Mines, 707
Municipal Electricity and Competition in Glasgow, 328, 457
National Physical Laboratory, Electrical Measurements at, 408
Nitrate Industry in Norway, 431
Nitrates, Manufacture of, from the Atmosphere, 732, 749. See also Furnaces
Norwegian Railways, Cost of Electric Traction, 21
Oscillations, The Production of Steady, 574 Oscillations in Wireless Telegraphy, 795. See LETTERS, 817, 848
Potentiometer, Use of, on Alternate Current Circuits, 228
Power Plant at Khartoum, 214
Power Production, Cost of, 288
Power-Station, Heat Losses in. 10 Power-Stations. See Hydro-Electric Primaly Battery, High Potential, 451 Pump-Controlling Gear at Southsea Flood- Water Station, 110
Punkahs on S.S. “ Otway,” 746
Pyrometer, Thermo-Electric, for Students, 400
Radiogoniometer for Wireless Telegraphy, 795
Railways, Electric Traction on. See Electrification
Resistances of Silicon Iron, 732
Rheostat, Carbon Plate, for Electric Furnaces, 400
Riveter, Electro-Hydraulic Portable, 592 Rochling-Rcdenhauser Steel Furnace, The, 685, 690
Saw-Bench for Hand or Electric Drive, 643 Self-Inductance of a Coil, Pirani’s Method of Measuring, 451
Sewage-Pumping Plant for Carlisle, 46 Ship-Propulsion, Electrical Transmission for, 478, 507
Silicon, Resistance of, 732
Silicon, Thermo-Electric Properties of, 732
Single-Phase Traction on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, 824. See 186 and 636
Spark-Discharge, Effect of Air-Blast on, 574 Spark-Gap, Multiple, for Wireless Telegraphy, 795
Spiez-Frutigen Railway Electrification, 167 Steel Furnaces, Induction (Grondal-Kjellin and Rbchling-RodenhauserX 118
Steel-Making Furnaces, 672, 985, 690 Striations, 495
Submarine Telegraphy, 430, 674, 754
Sweden, Electric Power from Peat, 591,661 Switchboard - Measuring Instruments, Treatise on, 346
Tantalum Filaments for Electric Lamps, 601 Telegraph. See also Wireless
Telegraphic Systems, Treatise on, 243 Telephone Cables, Desiccating Machine for, 784
Telephone Receivers, Sensitiveness of, 832 Telephone Silencer, The Cutmore “ Phone- Hush,” 333
Telephone System, Automatic, 828
Tramway Surface-Contact System, The Suchostawer, 735. See 124
Turbine Pump, Worthington, 181
Turbo-Alternator, Tests of, 594
Vectors and Vector Diagrams Applied to Alternating-Current Circuits, Treatise on, 844
Waste, Reduction of, by Means of Electricity, 335
Welding-Machines, 69,135, 208 Wind-Driven Installation, 420 Winding-Engines, Ilgner, Electric, 807 Wireless Telegraphic Receivers, Testing, 574 Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus for Measuring Frequency and Wave-Length, 409 Wireless Telegraphy, Arc Transmitter for, 832
Electric —C01 tinued.
Wireless Telegraphy, Detectors for, 832 Wireless Telegraphy, Directed, 795 Wireless Telegraphy, Effect of Daylight on Range of, 533
Wireless Telegraphy, Function of the Earth in (Professor Fleming), 766, 776
Wi^reless Telegraphy, Radiogoniometer for, /OS
Wireless Telegraphy, Researches in (PrO’ f®8sor Fleming), 795, 832. See LETTERS, ol7, 848
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, Treatise on, zUo
X-Rays, Secondary, 641
X-Rays, Transformations of, 641
ETheory of the Corrosion of Iron, too, 708
Elevators. See also Hoists and Conveyors Elgar, The late Dr. Francis, 120. See 294 Employes, Insurance and Pensioning of in Austria, 586
Employers’ Insurance against Strikes in France,
Employers’ Liability. See also Workmen's Compensation under Legal
Engine, An Ancient Steam, 630,693
Engine, Blowing, with Hoerbiger Rogler Valves 626 ’
Engines, Compound Horizontal, with Recke- Ruston Valve-Gear, 8, 851
Engines, Crude-Oil, Blackstone, 756
Engine, Fire. See Fire-Engine
Engines, Gas, 30 and 70 Horse-Power (Fielding* and Platt), 830 ®
Engines, Gas, in Central Stations, 324
Engines, Gas, Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution in, 179
Engines, Gas, at Parkhead Steel Works, 439 Royal Agricultural Show, 830,
Engine, Hydraulic, for Operating Lock-Gates.
Imminghani Docks, 717
Engines, Hydraulic Pumping, at Malta Naval Dockyard, 239
Engims, Internal-Combustion, Influence of Size on Efficiency, 223
Engines, Internal-Combustion, for Marine Pro- pulsion, 478, 501. See LETTERS, 523
Engines, Internal-Combustion, for Motor-Cars 607, 644 ’
Engines, Internal-Combustion. See also E'nomes, Gai*; Engines, Oil; Etigincs, Marine; Engines, Petrol; and Motors
fof Submarines. 478, 485. See LETTERS, 523
Engines, Locomotive. See Locomotive
Engnies, Marine, Annual Production of. 22 Engines, Marine, for Crude Oil, 756
Engines, Marine, Internal - Combustion, at
Olympia, 426, 468
Engines, Marine, for Lake Steamer, 520, 577 Engines, Marine, of Orient Liner “Orsova,” 716 Engines, Marine, of Orient Liner “ Otway,” 745 Engines, Marine. See also Warships Engines, Marine, of T.-S.S “Osterley,” 863 Engines, Marine, Steam and Internal-Combus- tion, Weights of, 478, 507. See LETTERS, 523 ^^2’9^^^’ Steamer “Orcoma,” 209,
Triple-Expansion, of Brazilian
Battleship “Sao Paulo,” 557
Engine, Oil (Allen, Son, and Co.). 353
Engines, Oil of Motor-Yacht “Bronzewing”
(rhornycroft), 448
Engines, Oil, at Royal Agricultural Show, 852 Engines, Oil, for Submarines, 478, 485 See
LETTERS, 523 ’
Engines, Petrol, for Aeroplanes, 413, 530 Engines, Petrol, the “Gnome,” for Aeroplanes, ^'LETTER.f^*^^^^’ Rating of, 87. See
Engines, Petrol, Lubrication of, 826
Engine, Petrol, The “ Pipe,” for Aeroplanes 414 stroke in,'Ws’ Diameter’and
Engines, Petrol, Rating of, 700, 839
See also Motor-Cars; Motors,
Petrol^ and Motor-Launches
^*IFE?TERS*^623^’ 485. See
cfencies^ot^Ca Combustion Effl.
Engines. Reciprocating, Combined with Tur- bines (S.S. Laurentic”), 698 ^"avy Mechanicians in the
Engines, Safety' Appliances for Carding, 841 Engines, Steam, Efficiency of, 51 Engine, Steam, History’ of the, 118 Engine, Steam, “Lowca” High-Pressure 846 Engines, Traction, at Agricultural Show,’850 Engines, Turbine. See
Engines, Winding. Electric. Ilgner System of.
Engineering Industries, Review of, 157. 190 Engineering and Mathematics, 561
Nmth Ch^a“8n“‘“‘'’" ^han.
Engineerinar Standards Committee; Standard Mon,466 Construe-
Engineering Standards Committee. Work of 163 Engineering University', Degrees in 54 259’ Engineers, Consulting, i>es of fei?’ ’ ®
Technical Education
Engineers, InsUtutions of. See Civil Engineers Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers 1^0^^ cind Steel Institute Soc^lfof A,^^' ^^^ociation, and
^629°^^^*^ 635" Engineersand the Territorial Army 640 Entropy, Changes of, in Gas, 51 Eqjjations, Electrical Appaiatus for Solving Erosion of Guns. 751
Errata and Addenda:
Austrian Submarines, 225 Egyptian State Railways, Accident cn, 79 Ferro-Concrete and Steel Bridges, 853 Has’er Locomotive Speed-Recorder and Indicator, 248
Heysham Harbour ; Midland Railway, 400 High Pressure and Temperature Experiments, 450
Institution of Naval Architects, 595 Italian Submarine “ Foca,” 665
Main Drainage of the Metropolis, 720 Moscicki Electrical Condenser, 114 Oechelhauser Gas-Engine, 15 Ramp, T. P. Railway, 281
Reciprocating Engines and High Vacua, 302 Shipbuilding, 49
Esneh Barrage on the Nile, 173, 640
Essex County Council Asylum, Tenders for, 56 Etchingham, Boiler Explosion at, 784 Evaporation, Percolation, and Condensation of Water, 555
Evening Classes in Glasgow, Exhibition of Work, 603
Excavation Work for New Docks at Malta, 4 Exhauster, Vacuum, for Cesspools, 852 Exhaust Steam Turbines, 197
Exhibition, Aero and Marine-Motor, at Olympia, 413, 426, 458
Exhibition, Building Trades, at Olympia, 563 Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 828
Exhibition, Imperial International, at Shepherd’s Bush, 603
Expansion Joint, Christie’s “ Acme,” 44 Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion Explosions in Coal-Mines, 293 Explosions of Coal-Dust, 813
Explosion of Gun on “ Latouche-Trdville,” 52 Explosion of Intercepting Tank, 401
Explosives for Coal-Mines, Testing-Stations for, 812
Explosives, Decomposition of, 813
Explosives, Fall-Hammer Tests for, 813
Explosives, History of, 751
Explosives; Manufacture of Gun-Cotton and Nitro-Glycerine, 188
Explosives, Standardisation and Stability of, 812
Explosives, Velocity of Detonation in, 813 Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition
Extension, Railway, Liability of Companies, 531 Extractor, Vacuum,for Cesspools, &c., 852 Eye-Bars, Strength of, 45
Pacing-Machines. See Machine-Tools Factors of Safety in Bridge Design, 45, 151 Factory Ads; Home Office Regulations for Electricity, 155
Factory Law Cases. See Legal Factories, Safety Appliances in, 841 Fairbairn Crane for Malta Dockyard, 240 Fairbanks-Remington Two-Cycle Marine Motor, 428
Fan, “Sirocco ” Mine-Ventilating, Test of, 534 Fares, Railway, Treatise on, 475
Fatigue in Metal in Bridge Members, 45 Fatigue of Copper Pipes, 257
Fatigue of Metal. See Micro-Photographs Feed-Water, Purification of, 251
Feed-Water, Sodium Permutite, Filters for, 780 Feed-Water Temperature. See Condensers Fees of Consulting Engineers, 817 Fencing-Wire, Corrosion Tests of, 712 Fender-Chain Gear, Imminghain Docks, 717 Ferro-Alloys, 781
Ferrochlore Process of Water Purification, 161 Ferro-Concrete and Steel Bridges, Relative Advantages of, 823. See LETTER, 849. Errata, 853 Ferro-Concrete at Building Trades’ Exhibition, 563
Ferro-Concrete Roof at Croydon Baths, 193 Ferro-Concrete Roof at National Gallery, 554 Ferro-Concrete Submarine D6p6t at Haslar, 786 Ferro-Concrete, Tests of, 83
Ferro-Silicon, Dangers of, 781 Ferro-Silicon. See also Silicon Ferroxyl ; Reagent for Detecting Corrosion of Iron, 711
Fertilising Value of Nitrolim, 722 Fery Spiral Pyrometer, 663 Field-Guns. See also Guns
Filaments, Metallic, for Electric Lamps, 601 Filter-Beds for Distillery Waste, 531 Filter for Oil. See Oil
Filters, Mechanical, for Water, 128
Filtration Plant for Water at Magdeburg; Pue'ih-Chabal System, 277
Filtration and Purification of Water for Public Supply, 107, 126, 160, 272
Finance, Japanese, 145
Finlay Electrolytic Cell for Alkali Manufacture, 704. See also A Ikali
Finsbury Technical College; Experimental Hydraulic Cylinder, 371
Fire-Box, Wood’s, Corrugated, for Locomotives, 631
Fire-Brick Arches in Locomotive Boilers, Effect of, 237, 307
Fire-Bricks, Standardisation of, 167 Fire-Damp Detector for Mines, 782 Fire-Extinguisher and Fumigator for Ships, The Harker, 665, 780
Fire-Extinguishers, Tests of, 98, 200 Fire-Prevention Committee, Tenth Anniversary of the British, 734. See 93, 200
Fire-Protection, High-Pressure Fire-Service System in New York, 19
Firewood-Splitting Machine (Hill and Herbert), 43
Fixing Railway Rates and Fares, Treatise on, 475
Flames, Electrical, Properties of, 292
Flamm, Oswald, Treatise on Screw-Propellers, 808
Flanging Plant for Boiler-Plates at Steel Works, 751
Fleetw’ood Harbour, Manoeuvring Steamers in, 550
Fleming Cymometer, 211
Fleming, Dr. J. A., on the Effect of an on the Spark Discharge, 574
Fleming, Dr. J. A., on Electrical Oscillations and Testing Radiotelegraphic Receivers, 574
Flemi^, Dr. J. A., on the Function of the
I Earth in Radiotelegraphy, 766, 776
I Dr. J. A., on University Degrees in
I Engineering, 54. See 259
Fleming, Dr. J. A.; Researches in Radiotele* S32. See LETTERS, 817, 848
Flight, F. W. Lanchester on, 599, 602, 639, 671 ^ 661*^’ 260, 281, 316, 487, 523,
Flight, Problem of. See LETTERS
Flight. See also Aerialy Aeroplane^ Propeller and Airship
Flight, The Laws of. See LETTERS
Shears, 60-Ton (Day, Summers, and Co.), 569
Flood-Water Pumping Station at Southsea, 110 blue Gas, Fire-Extinguisher Using, 665, 780 Fluid Compression of Steel, 101 Fluorescence of Gas, 294
Fluorescence of Platino-Cyanides, 56
Flushing Apparatus for Sanitary Appliances on S.S. “Osterley,” 863
Flying-Machines, F. W. Lanchester on, 599 See also Flight
and Airships variation in Angular Velocity of, 719. See also Ilgner
“ Foca,” Italian Submersible Boat, 83
Fog, Formation of, 496
Forbes Water-Steriliser, 334
Force and Acceleration, Laws of, 803. See LETTERS, 817, 848
Forging Hammer (Brett), 659
Forging Presses at Parkhead Steel Works, 513 hormul» for Power of Petrol-Engines, 87 Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, 564, 817 ^^224^’ ’ Naval Establishment at Rosy th,
Foundations for Dock-Walls at Immingham, 653.
See also Docks and Dams
Foundations, Rubber, for Steam-Turbines, 183 roundry, Sand-Preparing Apparatus, 465 Foundry, Steel, at Parkhead Steel Works. 751 Frames, Pressed Steel, for Motor-Cars, 753 Framing, Longitudinal, of Ships, 487, 849 France. Employers’ Insurance Against Strikes in, 152
France, Gold-Mines of, 783
France, Iron-Smelting, Electric, in, 781
Freight Steamers on the Great Lakes, U.S.A., 520, 677 ’
French Labour Profit-Sharing, 533
French Naval Programme, 459
Friction of Air, 599, 661
Fritz Medal, Presentation of, to Mr. Charles T Porter, 603
Fry, Lawford H., on Comlmstion and Heat Absorption in Locomotive Boilers, 237, 307
Frykfors (Sweden), Hydro-Electric Power Plant at, 342
Fuel, Liquid. See Oil Fuel
Fuel from Peat, 688, 737
Fuel, Purchase of. by Calorific Value, 364, 781
Fuel. See also Combustion
Fuel-Testing, 780
Fumigator for Ships. The Harker, 665, 780
Furnace, Crucible, Helberger’s Electric. 672
Furnaces, Electric, for Calcium Carbide and Steel, 617, 814
Furnace, Electric, Carbon Plate Rheostat for, 400
Furnaces, Electric Hardening ; Fused-Salt Bath, 633
Furnaces, Electric, at National Physical Laboratory, 409
Furnaces, Electric, for Nitrification of Calcium Carbide, 777
Furnaces, Electric Steel, 118, 685, 690
Furnace, Hardening b.v Fused Salt, 535
Furnace, Heating, at Parkhead Steel Works. 442
Furnace, Oil-Fuel, 659
Furnaces, Siemens’ Open-Hearth, at Parkhead Steel Works, 441
Furnace, The Rbchling-Rodenfcauser Electric. 685, 690
Furnace for Tempering Guns at Parkhead Steel Works, 514
Furnaces, Use of Gaseous Fuel in Blast, 781 Fused-Salt Baths, Temperatures of, 535 Fused Silica Ware, 780
G.B. Surface-Contact System, 124
Galvanising, Protecting of Iron and Steel by, 712 Galvanometer, Bifilar Vibration, 755
Gantry Crane, Electric Travelling (Musker), 816 Gardner Marine Motor, 428
Gas-Engines. See Engines^ Gas
Gas Fired Limekilns (Odda Calcium Carbide Works), 549
Gas, Occlusion of, in Walls of Vacuum-Tube 294 ’
Gas, Petrol Air, for Lighting, 563
Gas Plants, Suction, Deodoriser for Scrubber Refuse, 576
Gas Plants, Treatise on Suction, 476 Gas-Producers, Fusion of Ashes in, 782 Gas Producers for Peat, 591, CGI Gas-Producers at Parkhead Steel Works, 439 Gas-Producer. See also Producer and Suction Gas-Producer, Suction, for Bituminous Fuel
Morton’s, 786 ’
Gas-Producers Using Low-Grade Coal, 781 Gas Supply, High-Pressure, 56 Gas Works, Coal-Handling in, 37, 74 Gases, Phosphorescence of, 825
Gate Engine, Hydraulic, Immingham Docks, 717 Gauges, Measuring, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 445
Gauges, Screw, Testing of, at National Physical
Laboratory, 446
Gear-Cutting Machines. See Machine-Tools Gears, Differential, for Motor-Cars, 271 Gears, Involute, Standards for, 723 Gear-Machining Tools. See Machine-Tools Gear-Wheels, Pressure on Teeth of, 418 i
Generating Station. See Power Plant and '
Hydro-Electric
Generators. Electric. See Alternators and
Dynamos under Electric
Generators, Gas. Producer, Suction, and Gas
Geological Congress, International, 672 Geometry of Ships, 542
German Laboratory, 83
German Motor-Car Industry, 191
German Naval Construction, 376, 387, 703 Gibson, J. Hamilton, on Marine Safety-Valves, 295. See LETTERS, 351, 384, 416
Girders. See Beams^ Bridges^ and Boofs Girders, Statically Indeterminate, Treatise on,
Gland for Tail-Shafts of Steamers, 706. See
Glasgow Continuation Classes, Exhibition of
Work, 603 ,
Glasgow Corporation Electric Supply and Competition, 328, 457
Glass, Fluorescence of, 294
Glass, Occlusion of Gas in, 294
Gliding Boats, 365
Gloucester, Royal Agricultural Society s Show at, 830, 850 ,
Glow-Lamp Detector for Wireless Telegraphy, 832
“Gnome” Petrol-Motors for Aeroplanes, 414 Gold-Bismuth Alloys, 145
Gold, Electrolytic Process for Refining, 783 Gold-Mines of France, 783
Gold, The Cyanide Process of Extraction, .83 Goldschmidt, Thermit Reactions of, 86 Goods Traffic on Railways, Fixing Rates for.
Treatise on, 475
Government and the Navy, 253 Government Regulation of Wages 17 Governor, Hydraulic, for Pelton Wheel, 6/5 Grain, Apparatus for Testing Moisture m, 22..
See 246
Grain-Handling and Storing Appliances at Millwall Docks, 320
Graving Dock. See also Dock
Graving Docks. See ^falta Dockyard Extension Gravitation, Laws of, 429
Gravitation, The Cavendish Experiment, 391 Great Central Railway Company; Docks at Im- mingham, 653, 717
Great Lakes, U.S.A., Shipbuilding on the, 520, 677
Greenhill, Sir George, on Ship Geometry, 542 Greenland, Copper-Mining in, 21
Greenvale Mill. Trials of Steam-Turbine Plant, 297. See LETTERS, 350. 385, 416, 523, 555, 591
Gridley, Arnold B., on Electricity and Its Application to the Reduction of Watte, 335
Grinding and Crushing Plant for Calcium Carbide, 619, 722 zr, 1 u
Grinding-Machines for Armour-Plates (Parkhead Steel Works), 657 .
Grinding-Machines. See ^[achme'l.ool$ Grindim*- Plant for Nitrolim (Odda Works), 7/7 Grbndaf• Kjellin and Rochling - Rodenhauser
Electric Steel Furnaces, 118, 685, 890 Growths in Water Mains, 163
Guest’s Law of Combined Stress, 258, 281, 316, 351, 545, 555, 629, 817, 848. See 327
Guest’s Law of Compound Stresses, 169, 203, 48/. See LETTERS, 487
Gulliver, G. IL, on the Discharge of Water from Circular Weirs and Orifices, 64
Guns for Battleships of Dreadnought Class, 762 Guns and Armour, Admiralty Orders for,_493 Gun Breech-Blocks, Screw and Wedge, 220, 5231 Gunboat “Parano,” Argentine Government (Armstrong, Whitwortli), 862
Gunboats. See Warships
Gun-Boring Lathe at Parkhead Steel Works, 580 Gun-Cotton and Nitro-Glycerine, Manufacture of, 188
Guns, Erosion of, 751
Gun Explosion on “ Latouche-Trevillc, 52 Guns for French Warships, 459
Guns, Manufacture of, at Parkhead Steel Works,
Guns for "Protection Against Airships, 2^..
Guns. See also WarsZiips
Gun-Shops at Parkhead Steel Works ,
Gun-Tempering Furnaces at Parkhead Steel Works 514
Guns, Wedge and Screw Breech-Blocks for, 220. Sec LETTER, 523 ,, , n «r i .
Guns, Wire-Winding, at Parkhead Steel Works, 580
Gunnery in the Navy in 1908, 224
Halliwell, R. F., on Exhaust Steam Turbines, 197 Hamburg, Shippingand Shipbuilding at, 768 Hammers. See Machine-Tools
Hammer Tests for Explosives, 813
Harbour and Naval Dockyard at Malta, Extension of, 2, 71,106, 239
Harbours. See also and
Hardening Furnaces, Electric lused-Sait Bath, E35
Hardness of Metals, Tests for, 835 .
Harker Fire-Extinguisher and lumigator for Ships, 665,780 . .,
Harmet Process of Compression of Fluid Steel, 101
Harz, Mining in the, 221
Ilaslar, Submarine Ddpot of lerro-Concretc at,
Hasler Speed-Recorder and Indicator for Locomotives, 182. See Erratum,
Hatfield, W. H., on the Decarburisation of Iron- Carbon Alloys, 634, 801 . .
Heat Absorption and Combustion in Lccomotn e
Heat Accumulator for Exhaust-Steam Turbines, 197
Heat Balances of Locomotive Boilers 237, 307 Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution in Gas-Engines, 179 . .
Heat Insulators. Thermal Conductivity of, 1 Heat Losses in Electric-Power Station, 10 Heat of Steam, Total. Davis Formula 51 Heat Transmission in Steam-Loilers, ISa, 229, 260, 280, 384
Heat Treatment of Bessemer Steels, 688, no
Heat Treatment of Chromiuni-Vanadium Steels, 865
Heat Treatment of Copper, 237
Heat Treatment of Nickel and Nickel-Chronuum Steels, 865 ,
Heat Treatment of Non-lerrous Metals, 7ot
Heat Treatment of Steel, Effect on Solubility, 08 4 Heat Treatment of Steel, 145, 170. See LETTERS, 417
Heat, Utilisation of Waste, 335
Heck, J. H., on the Determination of the Thrust of Propellers, 482, 5C0
Hecker’s Apparatus for Recording Rolling and Pitching of Ships, 203, 259
Helberger’s Electric Crucible Furnace, 672 Helium, Papers on, at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 781
Helium and Radium, Problems Connected with, 825
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Henderson, Professor J. B., on the Vibrations of Ships, 452, 463
Hennebique Ferro-Concrete D6p6t for Submarines at Haslar, 7S6. See also Perro-Concrete Hertzian-Wave Telegraphy, See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Hesse Marine Reversing Gear, 428 Hey, Walter, on Queen-Post Roof Trusses, 775 High-Pressure Gas-Supplj’, 56
High-Speed Tool-Steel. See Tool-Steel High Temperatures and Pressures, Experiments at, 425. See Erratum, 450
History of Land Measurement in England, 341 IIoerbiger-Rogler Valves for Blowing-Engines and Air-Compressors, 626
Hoists, Barlow’s Gear for, 383 Holden, Colonel H. C. L. ; James Forrest Lecture, on Motor-Cars, 607, 644
Home Office Regulations for Electricity, 155 Hopkinson, Professor Bertram, on Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution in Gas-Engines, 179
Horne, Alex. R., on the Variation in Angular ^'elocity of Fly-Wheels, 719
Horse-Power Rating of Petrol-Engines, 87 Hovgaard, Professor W., on Diverging Waves, 522 Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Com- panj’; Docks at Imminghain, 653, 717
Hydraulic Calculator, The “ Essex,” 49 Hydraulic Capstans at Malta Dockyard, 240 Hydraulics; Discharge of Water from Circular Weirs and Orifices, 64
Hj’draulic Experimental Cylinder at Finsbury Technical College, 371
Hydraulic Experiments, Channel for, 515, 524 Hydraulic Forging-Presses at Parkhead Steel Works, 513
Hydraulic Gate Engine, Immingham Docks, 717 Hydraulic Governor for Pelton Wheel, 675 Hydraulic Machine-Tools. See Machiixe-Tools Hydraulic Press, 5000-Ton, for Compression of Fluid Steel, 101
Hydraulic Pumping-Engines and Accumulators ; Malta Dock Works, 239
Hydraulics; Resistance and Propulsion of Ships, Treatise on, 475
Hydraulic Riveter, Electrically-Driven, 592 Hydraulic. See also Water
Hydraulic Shearing-Machine, 248
Hydraulic Sluices, Immingham Docks, 717 Hydro-Electric Power Plants in Norway and Sweden, 342, 372
Hydro-Electric Power Plant at Tyese, Norway, for Calcium Carbide Works, Odda, 405, 443
Hydro-Electric Power in Lapland, 86, 461 Hydrographical Surveying, Treatise on, 623 Hydroplane Boats, 365
Hydros-Rak Diffusion Plant for Beet Sugar Manufacture, 277
Hysteresis Loss in Iron, Effect of Temperature on, 755
Ice-Breaking Steamer “Earl Grey” (Vickers), 829
Ilgner System of Electric Winding-Engines, 807 Illness of Workmen, Insurance against, in Austria, 586 . , ». , . J
Illumination. See also Light and Lighting, and Lamps
Illustrations in Proceedings of Institution (f Civil Engineers, 316, 351, 385, 417
Imagination in Practical Life, 699 Immingham Docks, 653, 717 Impact, Experiments on, 582, 624 Impact, Tests by National Physical Laboratory, 147
Imperial Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush, 603 Imperial Railways, North China, Engineering and Mining College at Tang Shan, 811
Inclined Plates, Resistance of, in Current of Water, 515, 524
Indian State Railways, Crank-Axle Lathe for, 354
Inductance of a Coil, Pirani’s Method of Measuring, 451 _ . . .
Inductance and Resistance of Concentric Mams, 227
Induction, Steel, Furnaces, Electric, 118, 685, 690
• Industrial Notes, 32, 57, 89, 125, 159, 193, 226, 267, 295, 332, 367, 395, 431, 465, 498, 538, 569, 606, 650, 675, 707,536, 769, 799, 832, 864
Industry, Engineering Statistics of, 157, 190 Inertia and Mass, 803. See LETTERS, 817, 848 Influence Lines of Statically Indetenninate Forces in Girders, Treatise on, 100
Ingot Trepanning - Machine (Parkhead Steel Works), 580
• Ingots, Steel, 5000-Ton Press for, 101
Inland Navigation, Progress of Continental, 637
> Inspection of Engineering Work, 792 Institute of Metals, 122, 154 .
Institutions, Technical. See Electrical Engi-
’ neers, Cioil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Naval Architects, hpn and Steel Institute, , Physical Society, British Association, and Society of Arts j •
Instruments, Electrical. See under Llectrie Insulating Properties of Compressed Air, 392 Insulators, Electric, of Porcelain, 734 Insulators for Heat, Thermal Conductivity of, 1 Insurance Addressograph, 527 , . . . .
Insurance and Pensioning of Employes in Austria,
Insurance against Strikes in 1 rance, 152 Insurance against Unemployment, / J) Insurance of Workmen. See Workmens Compensation and Legal .
Intercepting Tank of Boiler, Explosion of, 401
Interchangeability of Screw-Threads, 212, 261 Interchangeability. See also Standardisation Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines, In- ternal-Combustion; Engines, Gas; Engines, Marine ; Engines, Oil ; Engines, Petrol; Motor-Cars; and Motor-Launches
Internal Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs
International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 747, 780, 812
Invention. See Patents
Involute Gear Standards, 723
Ionisation of Solids, 768
Iron-Carbon Alloys, Decarburisation of, 684, 801 Iron, Carbon, and Phosphorus, Alloys of, 781 Iron, Cast, Malleable, 781
Iron Casting. See also Foundry
Iron, Composition of. See Micro-Photographs Iron and Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Iron, Corrosion of, The Electrolytic Theory of, 660, 683, 708, 742
Iron, Decarburisation of Cast, 684, 801
Iron, Effect of Silicon in, 732
Iron, Effect of Temperature on Hysteresis Loss in, 755
Iron Ore in Algeria, 533
Iron Ore, Production of, 668
Iron Ore, Swedish, 223
Iron Ore, World’s Supply of, 672
Iron. See also Steel
Iron, The Passivity of, 712
Iron-Silicon Alloys, Electrical Resistance of, 732 Iron-Smelting, Electric, in France, 781. See Furnaces
Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges
Iron and Steel Institute :
On the Value of Physical Tests in the Selection and Testing of Protective Coatings for Iron and Steel, by J. Cruikshank Smith, 660, 683
London Meeting, 673, 633
New By-Laws, 673
Report of Council, 673
The Electrolytic Theory of the Corrosion of Iron, and its Applications, by William H. Walker, 683, 708
The Preservation of Iron and Steel, by Allerton S. Cushman, 683, 710, 742
Influence of the Treatment on the Solubility of Steel in Sulphuric Acid, by E. Heyn and 0. Bauer, 684
The Chemical Physics Involved in the Decarburisation of Iron-Carbon Alloys, by W. H. Hatfield, 684,1801
Presentation of Bessemer Medal, 685
The Electric Furnace and Electrical Process of Steel-Making with Particular Reference to the Rbchling-Rodenhauser Furnace, bj’ W. Rodenhauser, 685, 690
A Heat Treatment Study of Bessemer Steels, by Andrew MacWilliam and Ernest J. Barnes, 688, 770
Researches and Experiments with the Object of Finding a Suitable Process for Converting Peat into Fuel without Air-Drying, by Dr. M. Ekenberg, 688, 737
Notes on Tests for Hardness, by Professor Thomas Turner, 835
High-Tension Steels, by Percy Longmuir, 865
Iron and Steel, Preservation of, 660, 683, 708, 710, 712, 742
Iron and Steel, Production of, 668
Iron and Steel Production of United States, 628 Iron and Steel, Tests of Protective Coatings for, 660, 683
Iron Structures, Tests of, 124
Iron, Sw’edish, Production of, 155
Ironclad. See Warships Ironing-Machine with Steel Bed, 831 Ironing-Machine on Orient Liners, 747
Iron Works, Electric, at Trollhattan, Sweden, 829
Iron Work, Structural. See Steel Bridges, Roofs, Ferro-Concrete, and Buildings
Irrigation in Egypt, Esneh Barrage on the Nile, 173, 179, 640
Irrigation, Treatise on, 207
Islington Borough Council Electric Light Undertaking, 358
Italian Navy, Submarine Boat “Otaria,” 12 Italian Submersible Boat “Foca,” 88
Jack, J. R., on Ships’ Specifications, 543
James Forrest Lecture on Road-Motors and
Some Unsolved Problems Connected with
Them, 607, 644
Japanese Finance, 145
Japanese Patents, Treatise on, 476
Japanese Shipping Industry ; Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 225
Japanese Volunteer Turbine-Steamer “Sakura
Maru,” 331
Java, Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive for Dutch
Indian Railway, 818
Jetties, Ferro-Concrete, at Haslar, 786 I
Jewell Water-Filter, 129
Johnson’s Coin-Counting Machine, 828
Jossefora (Sweden), Hydro-Electric Power Plant at, 342
Kahn Reinforced-Concrete Roof at National Gallery, 554
Keep’s Test for Hardness, 835
Kelly, W. Hyde, on Working of South African Railways During the War, 83
Kenyon, Edwin, on the Transmission of Power by'Ropes, 368, 397
Kernot, Professor W. C., The late, 383
Khartoum Electric Power Installation, 214
Kilns, Gas-Fired, for Lime-Burning, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 549
King’s Navy. See Warships
Kirkcaldy, Boiler Explosion near, 337
Klbnne, August, The late, 183
Kopper’s Coke-Oven and By-Product Plant, 782 Korea, Commercial Education in, 733
Laboratory, German. See Materialprofungsamt
Laboratory, Work of the National Physical, in 1908, 408, 445, 535
Labour Affairs. See Industrial Notes
Labour and Capital Co-Partnership, 731 Labour Disputes, Arbitration in, 219 Labour Disputes in the Shipbuilding Trade;
the Shipbuilders’ Agreement, 77, 81 j
Labour Exchanges for Unemployed, 729 Labour Legislation. See also Workmen's Compensation, Legal, IndustHal Notes, and Trade ? Labour and Materials in Austria, Cost of, 187. |
See 580
Labour, Remuneration of, 17
Labour, Remuneration of, Profit-Sharing, 533 Lai)our ; The Right to Work, 529
Lake Shipbuilding of the United States of America, 520, 677
Lake Steamer “ Thomas L. Cole,” 520, 677 Lamp, Electric, as Detector of Electric Waves, 832
Lamp, Flame Arc, The “ Victor,” 159 Lamps, Portable Acetylene, 418 Lamps. See also Electric
Lamps. Tantalum Filaments for Electric, 601 Lamplough Aeroplane, 413
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; Electrification of the Liverpool and Southport Line, 603, 609, 646
Lanchester, F. W,, on Aerial Flight, 599, 602, 639,671
Land Measurement in England, History of, 341 Lanston Monotype Type-Oomposing and Casting-Machine, 93
Lapland, Electric Traction on Swedish State
Railways in, 86, 461 Lathes. See Machine-Tools “ Latouche-Tr^ville,” Gun Explosion on, 62 Lattice-Bracing of Bridge Members, 45 Launches, Motor. See Motor-Launches Launching Arrangements of Brazilian Battleship “ Sao Paulo,” 557
Launching Calculations and the Effect of Camber, 619
Laundries, Ironing-Machine for, 831 Laundry Machinery on T.-S.S. “ Otway,” 747 “ Laurentic,” White Star Liner, 598
Laval Steam-Turbine, Steam Consumption of, 758
Laval Steam-Turbine at Yngeredsfors Power-
Station, Sweden, 605
Lead Pipes, Action of Water on, 163
Lead Poisoning, 813
Lead and Silver-Mining in the Harz, 221 Leading Screws, Errors of, 261 Leblanc Ejector Condensers, 626
Legal:
Aeronauts and International Law, 828 Aeronauts and the Law of Trespass, 793 Compositors and Parliamentary Levies, 226 French Patent Law, 183
High-Speed Steel Litigation, 183 Miners’Levies, Question of Legality, 191, 226 Monell Patent, 144
Motor Engineers and Liability of Owners for Repairs, 861
Painters’ (Operative) Union ; Exclusion Case, 226
Patents Act, 82, 424, 458
Patents Act ; Arc-Lamp Manufacture, 265, 424, 762
Patents Act Procedure, 629
Patents, Compulsory Working of, 814 Patented Machinery Monopolies in Canada, 494
Patent Law in the United States, 794 Patents, Revocation of, 762 See also Patent Act
Plasterers’ Society; Question of Contract, 32
Railway Company’s Liability in Respect of Extension, 534
Bating Appeal Cases, 489
Tar-Spraying Machine ; Patent Case, 615 Tenant’s Fixtures Case, 558 I
Tender, The Lowest, 56
West Gloucestershire Water Company’s' Case, 285 '
Workmen’s Compensation Act Appeal Cases, 499, 770, 816
Workmen’s Compensation and Breach of Regulations, 566
Workmen’s Compensation ; County Court Cases, 800
Workmen’s Compensation; Pimms, Limited, V. Pearson, 225
Works Accident Fund, 154
Legislation. See Parliament, Industrial Notes, and Legal
Lenses, Photographic, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 446
Letters to the Editor, 11, S7, 316, 350, 384, 416, 450, 487, 623, 661, 693, 723, 754, 817, 848
“ Leviathan,” Suction Dredger, Liverpool, 482, 670
Life-Saving in Coal-Mines, 293 Lift-Gear, Barlow’s, 383 Lifts. See also Hoists and Elevators
Light, Effect of, on Range of Wireless Telegraphy, 533
Light, Radiation of, from a Black Body, 228 Light, Standard ; New International Unit, 706 Lighthouses and Marine Signalling, Treatise on, 305
Lighting, Electric. See Electric and Lamp Lighting Plant, Petrol, Air, Gas, 563 Limekilns, Gas-Fired, 549
Linde Plant for Extracting Nitrogen from the Air, 722
Linotype Composing-Machine, 95 Liquid-Fuel Heating Furnace, 659 Liquid Fuel, Sources and Uses of, 816 Liquid Fuel on Steamers, 267 Liquids, Surface Tension of, 460, 496 Literature, 99, 135, 207, 241, 269, 305, 346, 442, 475, 579, 621, 655, 704, 808, 844. See LITERATURE INDEX
Liverpool and Southport Railway, Electrification of the, 603, 609, 646
Liverpool, Suction Dredger “Leviathan” for, 482, 570
Liverpool University, Naval Architecture at, 86 Lloyd’s and Lloyd’s Register, 317 j Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Ship-
I ping, 189
Lloyd’s Register and the Clyde District, 149
Lloyd’s Rules for Scantlings of Steel Vessels, 846, 856
Local Authorities. See Municipal and London County Council
Local Government Board Committee cn Machinery at Poor Law Institutions, 423
i Locks, Entrance, Immingham Dock, 6.53
I Lock at Esneh Barrage, on the Nile, 175
Lock-Gates and Operating Mechanism, Immingham Docks, 653, 717
Lock-Nut, Turret, 382
Locomotive Accident, Egyptian State Railways, 47. See Erratum^ 79
Locomotive Boilers, Combustion and Heat Absorption in, 237, 307
Locomotive Boilers ; Effect of Fire-Brick Arches, 237, 307
Locomotives, Comparative Tests of, 828
Locomotive Crane, 20-Ton (Wilson), 383
I Locomotive, Electro-Magnetic, 619
; Locomotive, Four-Coupled 10-Wheeled Tank, for Ballycastle Railway, 431
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound, for Paris- Orleans Railway, 490, 588
Locomotives, Hasler Speed-Recorder and Indicator for, 182. See Erratum^ 248
Locomotive, Six-Coupled Express, for Bengal- Nagpur Railway, 318
Locomotive, Ten-Coupled Mineral, Swedish State Railways, 382
Locomotive, Ten-Wheeled Tank, Dutch Indian Railway, 818
Locomotive, Twelve-Wheeled Duplex Tank; Nitrate Railways Company, Chili (Yorkshire Engine Company), 13, 694
Locomotives, Wood’s Corrugated Fire Box for, 631
London Boroughs and Electric Lighting, 358
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Electrification, 186
London County Council. See also Municipal
London County Council Tramways and Steamboats, 392
London and North-Western Railway Labour Dispute, Arbitration in, 219
London Police Regulations for Motor-Omnibuses, 494
London, Sewage Disposal in, 701. See Erratum^ 720
London Underground Railway Traffic, 287 Longitudinal Framing for Ships, 487, 849 Longrauir, Percy, on High-Tension Steels, 865 Lorries. See also Motor- Wagons
“ Lowca,” High-Pressure Steam-Engine, 846 Low-Pressure Steam-Turbines, 197 Lubrication of Petrol-Motors, 826
Lubricator for Drills and Taps, 556 Luminous Efficiency of a Black Body, 228 “ Lusitania,” Vibrations of, 452, 463
Lyster, Anthony G., on the Suction-Dredger “Leviathan,” 482, 570
Machine-Shops at Parkhead Steel Works, 689 Machinery, Patented, Monopolies in Canada, 494 Machinery at Poor-Law Institutions, 423 Machinery, Propelling. See Engines, Marine;
Engines^ Oil
Machinery, Rating of, 4S9
Machinery Trade, General Review of, 157, 190
Machine-Tools :
Boring, Drilling, and Milling-Machine, Horizontal (Asquith), 419
Boring and Milling-Machine (Kendall and Gent), 148
Break-Lathe, Treble-Geared (Wilkinson), 728
Crank-Axle Lathe, 30-In. (J. Spencer and Co.), 354
Crank-Shaft Lathe at Parkhead Steel Works (Shanks), 689
Dovetailing-Machine, Universal (A. Ransome and Co.), 14
Drilling-Machine, 26-In. All-Geared (Jones, Pollard, and Shipman), 724
Dynamometer, Nicolson’s Universal, 244 Firewood-Splitting Machine (Hill and Herbert), 43
Gauges (N.P.L.), 445
Grinding-Machines for Armour-Plates at Parkhead Steel Works, 657
Hammer, Drop-Forging (Brett), 659
Lathes for Gun-Boring (Parkhead Steel Works), 580
Lathe for Large Turbine-Rotors (Harvey), 395
Lathe, Mersey Universal (Pealing), 89
Lathe for Propeller - Shaft at Parkhead Steel Works (Shanks), 689
Lathe, 32-In., at Parkhead Steel Works (Hulse), 689
Leading Screws, Errors of, 261
Milling • Machine, Three • Head (Ingersoll Milling-Machine Company), 472
Parting-Machine at Parkhead Steel Works (Fairbairn, MacPherson), 689
Planing-Machines for Armour-Plates, Parkhead Steel Works (Shanks), 657
Planing-Machine, High-Speed (Joshua Buckton and Co.), 42
Planing-Machines at Parkhead Steel Works, 689
Punch-Cutting Machine for Type-Founders, 29
Punching-Machine for Barrel-Hoops, 620
Riveter, Portable, Electro-Hydraulic (Oer- likon), 592
Saw-Bench, Hand or Electric Drive, 643
Shearing-Machine, Hydraulic, 248
Trepanning-Machine for Ingots (Fairbairn, MacPherson), 580
Twist-Drills, Experiments on the Forces Acting on, 398, 410, 432, 470
Wood-Working Machinery at Building Trades’ Exhibition, 563
MacWilliam, Andrew, on Heat Treatment of Bessemer Steels, 688, 770
Magdeburg, Puech-Chabal Water-Filtration System at, 277
Magdeburg, Water Supply from the Elbe at, 256
Magnetism. See also JilectTf-C and Phynical Society
Magnetism, Theory of, 7S1
Magnets, Bar, Self-Demagnetising Factor of, 400 Malleable Cast Iron, 781
Mallock, H. A. R., on Construction and Wear of Roads, 418 , . „
Malta, Extension of Naval Dockyard and Harbour at, 2, 71.106, 239
Manchester Steam-Usere’ Association, 18, 728 Manganese. See A Hoys
Mantcuvring Capabilities of Turbine-Steamers, 550
Manufacture of Calcium Carbide, 406,443, 4/7, 522, 646, 617, 721, 777
Marconi. See Wireless Telegraphy under Jifcc- tric
Marine Charts. Treatise on Construction of, 623 Marine Engineering. See Engines, Marine; Engines, Oil; Engines, Internal-Combustvm; Naval Architects; Propellers, Ships’; Tur- bines; and Warships
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1008, 22. See Erraticm, Marshall’s Military Tractor, 313 Marylebone Borough Council Electric - Light
Undertaking, 358
Masonry and Concrete Dam Construction in New South Wales, 394
Mass and Inertia, 803. See LETTERS, 817, 848 Mass and Weight, 429
Masters and Servants’ Ca^es. See Legal Materials, Breakdown, under Compound Stresses, 169, 203. See Compound Stress and LETTERS
Materials and Labour in Austria, Cost of, 187. See 586
Material-Testing Congress, International, 860 Materialprufungsamt, The Prussian, Work of, in 1907, 83
Mathematics and Engineering, 561 Matrices for Type-Casting, 69
Matter, Properties of, 326, 360, 391, 429, 460, 496. See 351
Maudslay Marine Motor, 427
“ Mauretania,” Speed of the, 733 “Mauretania,” Vibrations of, 452, 463
Measuring - Gauges, Testing of, at National
Physical Laboratory, 445 Measurement of Land in England, 341 Measuring Tapes, Testing, at National Physical
Laboratory, 445
Mechanical Enfsineers, Institution of:
Type-Casting and Composing Machinery, by L. A. Legros, 28, 59, 90, 130
Election of Officers, 106 Filtration and Purification of Water for Public Supply, by John Don, 107, 126, 160, 272
Interchangeability, and Methods of Securing it in Screw’-Threads, by H. F. Donaldson, 212, 261
Annual Report, 272 Institution Awards, 272 Bryan Donkin Fund, 272 Starley Premium Fund, 272 Water Arbitration Prize, 272 Filtration and Purification of Water, 272 Election of Officers, 272 Auditor, Appointment of, 272 Inauguration of New President, 272 Alloys Research Committee, The, 272 Research Committees, 272 Graduates’ Prizes, 272 Experiments Upon the Forces Acting on Twist-Drills when Operating on Cast Iron and Steel, by Dempster Smith, 398, 410, 432, 470
Presidential Address of Mr. John A. F. Aspinall, on the Liverpool and Southport Electric Railway, 603, 609, 646
Mechanical Filters for Water, 128
Mechanical Stoker, Bennis High-Temperature Coking, 249
Mechanicians and Engine-Room Artificers in the Navy, 628, 635. See also Naval
Mechanics ; Law of Inertia and Mass, 803. See LETTERS, 817, 848. See 429
? Mechanics, Treatise on Applied, 476
Mechanics of Winding-Engines on the Ilgner Sj’stem, 807
' “ Merc6d6s,,” Marine Motor, 423
Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, Bristol 755
Mersey, Suction Dredger for the, 482, 570 Mersey Universal Lathe (Pealing), 89
Metals, Action of Acids on, 575
Metals, Constitution of, 166
Metals, Crystallisation of, 145, 170. See LETTERS, 417
Metals, Institute of, 122,154
Metals, Mysteries of, 145, 170. See LETTER.S, 417
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Heat Treatment of, 781 Metal-Price Diagrams, 33, 58, 192, 328, 464,^642, 768
Metal Ribbon, Manufacture of, 192
Metals. See Iron, Steel, Tin, Copper, Aluminium, Alloys, and Micro-Pholographs
Metals, Tests for Hardness of, 835
Metallic Carbonyls, 747
Metallic Filaments for Electric Lamps, 601. See also Lamps
Metallic Oxides, Reduction of, by Carbon, 568
Metallography, Papers on, at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 781
Metallurgical Industry of America, 628
Metallurgy and Mining at the International Con* gress of Applied Chemistry, 781
Metallurgy. See Mysteries of Metals and Iron and Steel Institute, and Institute of Metals
Meteorological Society, Royal:
Aims of the Society, 114 Phenological Observations for 1908, 251 Cold Spell, December, 1908, 251 Wind-Waves in Water, Sand, and Snow, 393 Percolation, Evaporation, and Condensation, by Baldwin Latham, 555
The Meteorological Conditions in the Philip, pine Islands, 1908, by the Rev. Jo8(^ Algu^, 555
Meteorological Society—continued.
Errors of Estimation in Thermo-Metric Observations, by A. Walter, 693
The Anti-Cyclonic Belt of the Northern Hemisphere, by Colonel H. E. Rawson, 693
On the Interdiurnal Variability of Temperature in Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions, by R. C. Mossman, 820 Methane-Detector for Use in Mines, 782 Metrology, Work of National Physical Laboratory on, in 1908, 445
Metropolis, Drainage of the, 701. See Erratum, 720
Metropolitan Railway of Paris, Revenue of, 723 Metropolitan. See also London Micrometer, Parallel Wire, 754 Micro-Photographs of Bessemer Steel, 770 Micro-Photographs of Electrically-Welded Joints, 208
Micro-Structure of Gold-Bismuth Alloys, 145 Micro-Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photo- graphs in ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Micro-Structure of Steel, 145,170. See LETTERS, 417
Midshipmen in the Navy, Training of, 597 Military Range-Finder, The Cooke, 205 Military Tractor (Broom and Wade), 329 Military Tractor, 40-Hor8e-Power (Thornycroft), 329
Military Tractor, 60-Horse-Power (Marshall), 313 Military Tractor Trials, Lessons from the, 388. See LETTERS, 450
Military Tractors, War Office Trials of, 325, 361, 388, 392. See 351
Mill, Dr. H. R., on Meteorological Society, 114 Mill, Turbine Trials at Greenvale, 297 Mills. See also Factories
Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools Millwall Docks, Grain-Handling and Storing Appliances at, 320
Mines, Coal, Fire-Damp Detector for, 782 Mine-Fan, Test of “ Sirocco,” 534 Mines, Motor-Starter for Use in, 707 Mine Winding-Engines. See Engines, Winding, and Colliery
Minerals. See also Coal, Mining, Ores, and Railway
Miners’ Liquid Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, 813
Mining, Copper, in Greenland, 21
Mining and Engineering College, Tang Shan, North China, 811
Mining in Harz, 221 Mining Industry of Russia, 1908, 674 Mining Machinery. See also Engines, Colliery, and Electric
Mining and Metallurgy at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 781
Mirrors for Searchlights, 380, 669 Miscellanea, 49, 79, 247, 285, 321, 355, 559, 595, 633, 727, 759, 861
Mixer for Concrete, Ransome-ver Mehr, 528 Moisture-Testing Apparatus for Grain, 227. See 246
Molecule, Size of a, 360 Moments of Inertia of Angle-Bar Sections, 451 Monell Patents, 144
Monoline Type-Casting and Composing Machine, 98
Monoliths for Dock-Wall Foundation, Imming- ham, 653
Monopolies of Patented Machinery in Canada, 494
Monopolies, Shipping, Effect of, on Trade, 761 Monotype, Lanston, Type-Composing and Casting Machine, 93
Morton’s Suction-Gas Producer for Bituminous Fuel, 786
Moscicki Electrical Condenser, 88. See Erratum, 114
Mossman, R. C., on the Interdiurnal Variability of Temperature in Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions, 820
Motor-Boats, Hesse, Reversing Gear for, 428 Motor-Boats at Olympia, 426, 458
Motor-Boat Tender for Siamese Revenue Cruiser, 76
Motor-Boats, Villinger Reversible Propeller for, 283
Motor-Cars, Air Resistance of, 645 Motor-Car Details. See ILLUSTRATED INDEX Motor-Cars, Differential Gears for, 271 Motor-Car Frames of Pressed Steel, Manufacture of, 753
Motor-Car Industry^ in Germany, 191 Motor-Cars, Number-Plates for, 317, 351 Motor-Cars, Rating and Taxation of. 700, 839 Motor-Cars, Scottish Automobile Club’s Reliability Trial, 859
Motor-Cars, Sections of Fixed Axles for, 309 Motor-Cars, Special Alloys for, 751
Motor-Cars, The “Panflex” Spring Wheel for, 537
Motor-Car Trade, Depression in, 117 Motor-Cars, Unsolved Problems Connected with, 607, 644
Motor-Cars and Wear of Roads, 418 629, 640 Motors, Internal - Combustion. See Engines, Oil; Engines, Gas; Engiries, Petrol; Motor- Cars; Motor-Omnibus ; and Motor Launch Motors, Marine, Design of, 458 Motors, Marine, at Olympia, 426, 458 Motor, Oil, Agricultural (Marshall), 862 Motor-Omnibuses, Police Regulations for, 494 Motor, Paraffin Oil (Allen, Son, and Co.), 353 Motors, Petrol, for Aeroplanes, 413, 530 Motor, Petrol, The “Gnome,” for Aeroplanes, 414
Motor, Petrol, The “Pipe,” for Aeroplanes, 414 Motors, Petrol, Proportions of Diameter and Stroke in, 106
Motors Petrol. See Motor-Cars, and Engines, Petrol
Motor-Starter for Use in Mines, 707 Motor-Tender for Siamese Revenue Cruiser, 76 Motor-Tractor,
Wade), 329 Motor-Tractor, 829
Motor-Tractor, Service (Marshall), 313
Motor Trade, Position of, 117 '
Motor, Vacuum, Exhauster for Cesspools, 852 Motor-Wagons, Non-Skidding Device for, 852 Motor-Wagons at Royal Agricultural Show, 850 Motor-Wagons. See also Tractor
Motor-Yacht “ Bronzewing ” (Thornycroft), 448 Moulding Sand, Apparatus for Preparing, 465 Moulds for Type-Casting Machines, 60, 61 Mowing-Machine Motor at Royal Agricultural Show, 852
Municipal Bodies and Tenders for Work, 56
Municipal Electricity and Competition in Glasgow, 328, 457
Municipal Trading. See also London County ; Council
Mysteries of Metals, 145,170. See LETTER, 417
Nathan, Colonel Sir F. L., on Gun-Cotton and Nitro-Glycerine, 188
National Gallery, Reinforced Concrete Roof at, 554
National Physical Laboratory in 1908, 408, 445 National Physical Laboratory, Test of Sim- mance-Abady CO2 Recorder, 535
Naval Annual, 1909, 704 '
Naval Architects, Education of, 352 1
Naval Arcbitecis, liistitiitiaii of ;
Programme of Spring Meeting, 1909, 393 London Meeting, 461, 478, 515
Annual Report of Council, 461 Election of Officers, 462
Award of Medal and Premiums, 462
Types of Warships Omitted in Recent Programmes of Naval Construction, by the Right Hon. Lord Brassey, 452, 462
Vibrations of Ships and the Use of a Dynamical Model for Determining the Elasticity of Ships, by Professor J. B. Henderson, 452, 463
Report on the Work done by the Engineering Standards Committee on Sections and Tests for Materials used in the Construction of Ships and their Machinery, by Archibald Denny, 463, 466
Annual Dinner, 464
Internal-Combustion Engines for Submarines, by F. R. S. Birchara, 478, 485. See LETTER, 523
Some Considerations on the Application of Internal-Combustion Engines for Marine Propulsion, by H, C. Anstey, 478, 507. See LETTER,523
The Propulsion of Ships by Means of Contrary-Turning Screws on a Common Axis, by Lieut.-Colonel G. Rota, 481, 503 Description of the Suction Dredger “ Leviathan,” Recently Constructed for the Port of Liverpool, by Anthony G. Lyster and W. Boyd, 482, 670
Note on the Mechanical Method for Determining the Thrust of Propellers, by J. H. Heck, 482, 500
Explosions of Steam-Pipes Due to Water- Hammer, by C. E. Stromeyer, 483, 503
The Turbine Passenger-Steamer “ Ben-my- Chree,” and Practical Experience of the Parsons Marine Steam-Turbine,” by C. J. Blackburn, 483, 511
Speed Trials of H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “ Cossack ” at Skelmorlie and the Maplin Sands, by Sir Phillip Watts, 508
On Resistance of Thin Plates and Models in a Current of Water, by Dr. T. E. Stanton, 615, 524
Report of the Experimental Tank Committee, 618, 539. See Erratum^ 695
Launching Calculations, with Special Reference to the Effect of Camber, by John Smith, 519
Some Points in Connection with Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, U.S.A., by Professor Herbert C. Sadler, 520, 677
The Influence of Form and Bulkheads on the Strength of Ships, by Dr. J. Bruhn, 521
Diverging Waves, by Professor W. Hov- gaard,622
A Note on Ship Geometry, by Sir George Greenhill, 542
Naval Architecture at Liverpool University, 86 Naval Construction in Germany, 376, 387, 703 Naval Construction Programmes, Types of Warships Omitted from, 452, 462
Naval Construction, See also Warships
Naval Dockyard and Harbour at Malta, Extension of, 2, 71, 106, 239
Naval Establishment at Rosyth, 224 Navy Estimates, 253, 376, 387. See 703 Naval Expenditure, 253
Naval Expenditure of the Powers, 376, 703 Naval Gunnery in 1908, 224. See also
Naval Machinery. See Warships^ Boi'ers, En- pineSi and Turbines
Naval Programme, French, 459 Naval Range-Finder, The Cooke, 140
Naval Seamen, British, 305 Naval. See also Navy
Navigation, Inland, Progress of Continental, 637 Navy and the Colonies, 791
Navy Debate in Parliament, 387
Navy, Engine-Room Artificers and Mechanicians in the, 628, 635
Navy, Engineer Officers in the, 349, 357, 590, 597, 629. See 635
Navy, Government and the, 253 Navy; the Imperial Defence Committee, 603 Navy, The New Spanish, 322
Navies, Strength of, 703
Navy. See also Naval and Warships Navy, Training of Midshipmen in the, 597 j
Neasden Power-Station, Steam-Turbines at, 799 “Neptune” Class of Battleship, Gun-Power of, 253, 430
“Neptune” Class of Battleships, Tenders for, 430
New South Wales, Dam Construction in, 394 New South Wales, Public Works in, 730
New York Central and Hudson River Railway ; Wood’s Corrugated Fire-Box for Locomotives, 631
New York High-Pressure Fire-Service System, 19
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad ; Single-Phase Electric Traction, 824
New York Times Building, 555
New Zealand Government Railways, 53
Niagara Falls, Townsend Electrolytic Cells for Alkali Manufacture at, 814
Nickel Bronzes as Anti-Friction Metal, 781 Nickel-Chromium Steels, Heat Treatment of, 865 Nickel Steel, Effect of Heat Treatment on, 865 Nicolson, Dr. J. T., on Heat Transmission in
Steam Boilers, 194, 229. See 185, 260, 280, 384 Nicolson’s Universal Machine - Tool Dynamo- met?er, 244
Nile, Esneh Barrage on the, 173, 179,640
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Meeting, 225
Nitrate Industry in Norway, 461. See also Norway
Nitrates, Manufacture of, from the Atmosphere, 732, 749. See also Calcium Carbide
Nitrate Railways Company, Chili; Twelve- Wheeled Duplex Tank Locomotive for, 13, 694
Nitrate Works, Norway; Tya Hydro-Electric Power-Station, 372. See Carbide Works^ Cdda
Nitric Acid, Manufacture of, 732, 749
Nitrification of Calcium Carbide, Electric Furnaces for the, 777
Nitrogen from the Air, Linde Plant for Extracting, 722
Nitrogen, Fixation of Atmospheric, 732, 749
Nitro-Glycerine, Decomposition of, 813
Nitro-Glycerine and Gun-Cotton, Manufa cure of, 188
Nitrolim, Fertilising Value of, 722
Nitrolim-Grinding Plant, Odda Works, 777
Nitrolim, Manufacture of, 721, 750, 777. See also Calcium Carbide Manufacture
Nitrolim Storage Silos, Odda Works, 777
Non-Conducting Coverings, Thermal Conductivity of,
North China Engineering and Mining College at Tang Shan,811
North-East Coast, Cost of Power Production on, 335
North-East Coast; Depression in Shipbuilding Trade 25
North, Notes from the, 14, 48, 78, 114, 148, 182, 216, 246, 284, 320, 354, 381, 420. 454, 491, 526, 658, 594, 632, 664, 696, 726, 758, 788, 820, 860
North-Western Cyanamide Company, Limited, Odda Works of the, 721, 750, 777. See also Calcium Carbide Manufacture
Norway, Bergen-Christiania Railway, 207 Norway, Copper-Mining in, 18
Norway, Cost of Electric Traction in, 81
Norway, Hydro-Electric Power Plant at Tysse, 405, 443
Norway, Manufacture of Calcium Carbide and Nitrolim at Odda, 405, 443, 477, 522, 546, 617, 721, 777
Norway, Manufacture of Nitrates at Notodden, in, 73.2, 749
Norway and Sweden, Hydro-Electric Power Plants in, 342, 372
Norwegian Nitrate Industry, 461
Norwegian State Railway, Electric Traction on, 21
Notes. See Cleveland^ Norths Soxdh-West^ South Yorkshire^ Ifnited States^ Industrial^ Legate and Miscellanea
Notodden Nitrate Manufactory, 732, 749
Number-Plates for Motor-Cars, 317, 351
Nusselt, Dr. Wilhelm, on Thermal Conductivity of Heat-Insulators, 1

Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Odda, Norway, Manufacture of Calcium Carbide and Nitrolim at, 405, 443, 477, 622, 546, 617, 721, 777
Oil-Engines. See Engines^ Oil; Motor-Cars^ Motors, Tractors^ ]*etrol, and Motor Launches
Oil Fuel Heating Furnace, 659
Oil Fuel, Sourcesand Uses of, 816
Oil Fuel for Steamers, 267
Oil-Motor Yacht “ Bronzewing ” (Thornycroft), 448
Oil. See also Lubrication
O\d-A.^Q Pensions in Austria, 686
Olympia Aero and Marine Motor Exhibition, 413, 426, 458
Olympia Building Trades’ Exhibition, 663
Optical Pyrometer, The Fery Spiral, 663
“ Orcoma,” Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 209, 279
Ordnance. See Warships and Gwns
Ore Concentration, 783
Ore. See also Iron
Orient Australian Mail Liner ** Orsova,” 715
Orient Australian Mail IJner “ Otway,” 745
Orient Australian Mail Liner “ Osterley/’ 863
Orifices, Discharge of Water through, 371
“ Orsova,” Orient Line Australian Mail Steamer, 715
Oscillations, Electric, in Wireless Telegraphy, 795. See LETTERS, 817, 848
Oscillations, Electrical, The Production of, 574. See also i'leming and Wireless under Electric
Osmotic Pressure, Modern Theory of, 362
“Osterley,” Mail Liner, Orient Company’s, 863
"Otaria,” Submersible Boat, 12
“Otway,” Mail Steamer, Orient Line, 745
Oxides, Reduction of Metallic, by Carbon, 568
Oxychlorides, Process of Sewage Purification 222
Oxygen Breathing Apparatus for Miners, 813
Ozone, Phosphorescence of, 825
Ozone, Purification of Water by Means of, 108, 160

Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s Twin-Screw Steamer “ Orcoma,” 209, 279
Paints, Preservative, for Iron and Steel, Tests of, 660, 683, 742
Panama Canal, 390. See also 216, 321
Panama Canal, Treatise on, 100
“ Panfiex ” Spring Wheel for Motor-Cars, 537

8 Parabolic Mirrors for Searchlights, 380, 669

Parattin, Agricultural, Motor (Marshall), 852
Paraffin Agricultural Motors. See also Engines,
Paraffin Engines of Motor-Yacht “ Bronzewing,” 448
Paraffin Motors, Marine, at Olympia, 426, 458
Paraffin-Oil Motor (Allen, Son, and Co.), 353
“ Parano,” Gunboat, for Argentine Government (Armstrong, Whitworth), 862
Paris Experimental Ship Model Tank, 539
Paris Metropolitan Railway, Revenue of, 723
Paris-Orleans Railway, Four-Cylinder Compound Locomotive for, 490, 588
Parkhead Steel Works ; 5000-Ton Press for Fluid Steel, 101
Parkhead Steel Works (Messrs. William Beard- more and Co.), 439,513, 580, 656, 689, 751
Parliament, Navy Debate in, 387
Parliament and the Navy. See also yVarships, Engineers^ and Naval
Parsons’ Steam-Turbine, G. G. Stoney on. 430, 459, 497
Parsons, The Hon. R. C.; Spring Wheels for Motor-Cars, 537
Parsons’ Turbines. See Turbine
Partnership of Capital and Labour, 731
Passenger Accommodation on Orient Steamer “Orsova,”715
Patents Act, 82, 458, 762
Patents Act ; Arc-Lamp Manufacture, 255, 424. 762
Patents Act Procedure, 629, 762
Patents, Compulsor.y Working of, 814
Patents, Japanese, Treatise on, 476
Patent Law in the United States, 794
Patent Machinery Monopolies in Canada, 494
Patent Record, 34, 133, 168, 201, 235, 303, 339, 403, 473, 544, 577, 616, 651, 682, 714, 774, 805, 837, 868
Patents, Revocation of, 762
Patents System, Industrial Influence of, Treatise on, 476
Peacock and Burt’s Flushing Apparatus for Sanitary Appliances ; S.S “ Osterley,” 863
Peat, Briquetting Plant for, 688, 737
Peat, Electric Power from, 591, 661
Peat, Wet, Carbonising Process for, 638, 737 Pelton Wheel, Hydraulic Governor for, 675
Pennsylvania Railroad Rail Specifications, 218
Pensioning of Employes in Austria, 586
Penstocks; Malta Dockyard Extension Works, 106
Percolation, Evaporation, and Condensation of Water, 555
Pernter, Professor J. M., The late, 75
Petrol Air Gas-Lighting Plants, 563 Petrol-Motors for Aeroplanes at Olympia, 413, 530
Petrol-Motor, The “ Pipe,” for Aeroplanes, 414
Petrol-Motors. See Eyigines, Petrol; Afotor- Cars; Motors, Petrol; Motor-Launches; Motor- Omnibuses; Tractors; and Motors
Petrol-Motor, The “ Gnome,” for Aeroplanes,
Petrol-Motors, Thermal and Combustion Efficiencies of, 763
Phenological Observations for 1908, 251
Philippine Islands, Meteorological Conditions in the, 555
Phosphor-Bronze, Uses of, 154
Phosphorescence of Gases, 826
Phosphorus, Iron and Carbon Alloys, 781
Photographic Lenses, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 446
Photographic Shutters, Method of Testing, 765
Photographic Shutters, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 446
Photographs, Micro-. See Micro-Photographs Photometric Measurements at National Physical Laboratory, 409
Photometric Measurements, New International Standard for, 706
Phugoid Curves, Lanchester’s Theory of Aerial Flight, 241, 269
Physical Exhibits at Royal Society Soiree, 669
Physical Laboratory, Work of the National, in 1908, 408, 445, 535
Physical Notation and Constants, 813
Physical Properties of Metal. See also Alloys, Metals, and Micro-Photographs
Physical Society:
Effective Resistance and Inductance of a Concentric Main and Methods of Computing the Ber and Bei and Allied Functions, by Dr. Alexander Russell, 227
Note on the Luminous Efficiency of a Black Body, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 228
Use of the Potentiometer on Alternate-Current Circuits, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 228 Annual General Meeting, 280
A Laboratory Machine for Applying Bending and Twisting Moments Simultaneously, by Professor Coker, 400
The Self-Demagnetising Factor of a Bar- Magnet, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 400 Exhibition of a High - Potential Primary Battery, by W. S. Tucker, 451
i Pirani’s 'Method of Measuring the Self-In-
; ductance of a Coil, by A. E. Snow, 451 The Effect of Radiations on the Brush Dis-
j charge, by A. E. Garrett, 451
' The Least Moment of Inertia of an Angle
I Bar Section, by H. S. Rowell, 451
Physical Society—continued.
The Production of Steady Electrical Oscillations in Closed Circuits and a Method of Testing Radiotelegraphic Receivers, by Dr. J. A. Fleming and G. B. Dyke, 574
The Effect of an Air-Blast on the Spark Discharge of a Condenser Charged by an Induction - Coil or Transformer, by Dr. J. A. Fleming and H. W. Richardson, 574
The Action between Metals and Acids and the Conditions under which Mercury Causes Evolution of Hydrogen, by Dr. S. W. J. Smith, 575
On the Want of Symmetry shown by Secondary X-Rays, by Professor Bragg, 641
Theory of the Alternate-Current Generator, by Professor Lyle, 641
Transformations of X-Rays, by C. A. Sadler, 641
A Bifilar Vibration Galvanometer, by W. Duddell, 755
Effect of Temperature on the Hysteresis Loss in Iron in a Rotating Field, by W. P. Fuller and H. Grace, 755
On Method of Testing Photographic Shutters, bj’ A. Campbell and T. Smith, 755
Physics, Practical, Treatise of, 655
Pier. See Bridge
Pig-Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagratns
Pig Iron, Production of, 668
Pigments, Tests of, 660 .
Pigments, Tests of Rust Inhibitive Qualities of, 742
Piles, Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Pipes and Cylinders, Strength of, 327
Pipes, Flow of Air in, Experiments on, 446
Pipes, Lead, Action of Water on, 163
“ Pipe” Petrol-Motor for Aeroplanes, 414
Pipes, Steam, Water-Hammer in, 483, 508
Pirani’s Method of Measuring the Self-Inductance of a Coil, 451
Planing-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Plates, Inclined, Resistance cf, in Current of 51.5 524
Plate-Rolling Mills at Parkhead Steel Works, 442 Plate-Shearing Machine, Hydraulic, 248 Platino-Cyanides, Fluorescence of, 56
Platinum Tips of Contact-Screws, Machine for Welding, 208
Pneumatic Drill-Lubricator, 556
Pneumatic Tools. See also Machine-Tools
Pneumatic Tyres, Action of, on Roads, 629 Pocket-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Poisoning, Lead, 813
Police Regulations for Motor - Omnibuses in London, 494 .
Poor-Law Institutions, Engineering at, 423 Porcelain, History of, 780
Porcelain Insulators, Electric, 734
Portable Acetylene Lamps, 418
Portable Air-Compressor (Lacy Hulbert), <84
Portable Electro-Hydraulic Riveter, 592
Porter, Charles T.; Recipient of John Fritz Medal, 603
Port. See also Harbours and Docks
Portland Cement, Manufacture of, 767
Portsmouth Pumping-Station for Flood-Water at Southsea, 110
Potentiometer, Use of, on Alternate-Current Circuits, 228
Pourcel, Mr. A., Presentation of the Bessemer Medal to, 685
Power Gas. See Engine, Gas : Suction-Gas, Blast-Furnace Gas, and Producer-Gas
Power of Petrol-Engines, Formulae for Comput-
Power-Plant (Carville Works) Costs, 238
Power Plants, Hydro-Electric, in Sweden and Norway, 342, 372
Power Plant, Hydro-Electric, at Tysse, Norway, for Odda Calcium Carbide Factory, 405, 443
Pow'er Plant at Khartoum, 214 .
Power Plants. See Electric, Hydro-Electric, North-East Coast, and Water
Power Plants, Treatise on Steam, 844
Power Production, Cost of, in Central Stations and Private Plants, 288
Power Production, Cost of Electric, 335
Power Required for Aeroplanes, 599 Power-Stations, Electric, Gas-Engines in, 324 Power-Station, Electric, Heat Losses in, 10 Power-Station, Neasden, Steam-Turbines at, <99 Power-Station. See also Electric and Poifer J^lant
Power Transmission by Ropes, 368, ^7 ,
Power, Water. See also Hydro-Electric and Electric
Practical Thermo-Dynamics, 51
Preservation of Iron and Steel, 683, 710, 74Z Preservative Paints for Iron and Steel, Tests of, 740
Press, 5000-Ton Hydraulic, for Compression of Fluid Steel, 101
Pressed-Steel Motor-Car Frames, <53
Presses, Hydraulic Forging, at Parkhead Steel Works, 513 , __ ,. ,
Pressure of Wind, Experiments on, at National Physical Laboratory, 446 . x 4.
Pressures and Temperatures, Experiments at High, 425. See Erratum, 450
Primary Battery, High Potential, 451 “ Primus,” Two-Cycle Marine Motor, 428 Private Bill Legislation. See Parliamentary Private Plants, Cost of Power Production in, 2^ Problem of Flight, 87, 213, 260, 281, 316, 487, 523 661. See LETTERS, Aerial and Aeroplane
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Illustrations in, 316, 351, 385, 417
Producer, Gas, Engine. See i^i^i-n^sand Gets and Suction ,
Producer Gas-Fired Limekilns at Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 549
Producer-Gas from Low-Grade Coal, ^81 Producer-Gas, Fusion of Ashes in, 782 Producer-Gas ; Morton’s Suction Plant for Bituminous Fuel, 786
Producers, Gas, for Peat, 591, 661
Producer-Gas Plant; Deodoriser for Scrubber Refuse, 576 ,
Producer-Gas Plant; Parkhead Steel Works, 439 Producers, Suction Gas, Treatise on, 476 Profit-Sharing, 533
Profit-Sharing in Industrial Concerns, 731
Propellants, History of, 751
Propellers, Aerial, Action of, 11. See LETTERS, 87, 213, 417, and Aeroplane
Propellers, Contrary-Turning, for Ship Propulsion, 481, 503
Propellers, Efficiency of Air and Water, 599
Propellers, Marine, Treatise on, 305, 808
Propellers, Screw, Apparatus for Determining the Thrust of, 482, 500
Propellers, Screw, Cavitation of, 808
Propellers, Screw, Professor Flamm’s Treatise on, 808
Propellers, Screw, Results of, in Tubes, 602
Propeller-Shafts, Vickers’ Stern-Gland for, 706. See LETTER, 754
Propeller, Villinger Reversible, 283
Properties of Matter, 326, 360, 391, 429, 460, 496. See 351
Protracting Set-Square, Simplon, 382
Prussian Materialprufungsamt in 1907, 83
Public Works in New South Wales, 730 Puech-Chabal System of Water-Filtration, 130,277 Pulsometer Type-Composing Machine, 91 Pumps, Air. See Air-Pump and Condenser Pumps, High-Speed, Valves for, 662
Pumps, Three-Throw Horizontal (Fielding and Platt), 830
Pump, Turbine, for Stella Coal Company, Worthington, 181
Pumping-Engine Hydraulic, Malta Naval Dockyard, 239
Pumping-Plant, High-Pressure, Fire Service, New York, 19
Pumping Plant, Malta Dockyard, 71
Pumping Plant for Sewage at Carlisle, 46 Pumping. See also Water
Pumping Station for Flood Water, Southsea, 110 Punch-Cutting Machine for Type-Founders, 29 Punching-Machine for Barrel Hoop, 620
Punkahs, Electric, on the T.-S.S. “Otway,” 747
Purdy, 0. T., on the Few fork Times Building, 555
Purification and Filtration of Water for Public Supply, 107, 126, 160, 272
Purification of Sewage by the Oxychlorides Process, 222
Pyrometer, The F6ry Spiral, 663
Pyrometer, Thermo-Electric, for Students, 400
Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quays and Cranes, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 478, 620
Quays. See Harbours^ Docksand Wharves Quebec Bridge Disaster, Report on, 151 Queen-Post Roof Trusses, Stresses in, 775 Queensland Railway Report, 599
Quick-Firing Gun. See Guns and Warships Quicksilver. See Mercury and Metal’Prices
Radiations, Effect of, on Brush Discharge, 451 Radioactive Bodies, Properties of, 391 Radiogoniometer for Wireless Telegraphy, 795 Radiotelegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy and
Fleming
Radium and Helium, Problems Connected with, 825
Rails, Steel, Specifications of Pennsylvania Railroad, 218
Rails, Wear of, on Electric Railways, 609 Railway Accidents in 1908, 731 Railway Accounts and Statistics, 856 Railways, Argentine, Working of the, 576 Railway Auto-Car. See Motor-Carriage Railway, Ballycastle Four-Coupled Ten-Wheel
Side-Tank Locomotive for, 431 Railways, Belgian State, Finance of the, 189 Railway, Bergen-Christiania, Norway, 207 Railway Bridges, Steel, Treatise on, 442 Railways, British, 287, 856
Railways, British, Comparative Tests of Locomotives, 828
Railway Carriages. See Carriages
Railway Carriages on the Liverpool and Southport Electric Line, 609
Railways and Collieries in Canada, Development of, 498
Railway Companies, Amalgamation of, 792
Railway Company’s Liability for Extensions, 534 Railway Conference, 792
Railway Construction in New South Wales, 730 Railways, Cost of Electric Traction on Nor
wegian, 21
Railway Curves, High Speed on, 86
Railway Curves, Improvement of, 86
Railway Development in China, 700
Railway, Dutch Indian, Java, Ten-Wheeled Tank
Locomotive for, 818
Railways, Egyptian State, Curious Accident on, 47. See Erratum^ 79
Railway, Electric. See also Electric
Railways, Electric Traction on, 829
Railways, Electrification, Single-Phase System, j 636; Brighton, 186 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 603, 609, 646 ; Lapland, 86, 461; Norway, 21; Spiez-Frutigen, 167 ; Sweden, 829
Railway, Great Central, Docks at Immingham, 653, 717
Railways, Imperial North China Engineering and Mining College at Tang Shan, 811
Railway Labour Disputes, Arbitration in, 219 Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire, EIectrific«a-
tion of the Liverpool and Southport Line, 603, 609, 646
Railways in Lapland, Electric Traction on, 86, 461
Railway Locomotive. See Locomotive and Motor-Car^ Rail^ and under Electric
Railway, London, Brighton, and South Coast, Electrification of, 186
Railway, New York Central and Hudson River, Wood’s Corrugated Fire-Box for Locomotives, 631
Railway, New York, Newhaven, and Hartford Single Phase Traction, 824
Railways, New Zealand Government, 53 Railways, Nitrate, of Chili, Twelve-Wheeled
Duplex Tank Locomotive for, 13, 694 Railway, Paris Metropolitan, Revenue of, 723 Railway, Paris-Orleans Four-Cylinder Compound
Locomotive for, 490, 588
Railway Power Signalling, Treatise on, 679
Railways, Proposed Combination of, 287 Railways of Queensland, Report of, 599 Railway Ramp for Replacing Derailed Rolling- Stock. 268. See Erratum, 28 L
Railway Rates, 792 .
Railway Rates and Fares, Treatise on, 475 Railway Receipts, 287 .
Railway and Road Bridges. See Bridges Railway Rolling-Stock. See Carriages, Locomo- , twes,' Motor-Carriages, and
Railway, Shanghai, Hangchow, Ningpo, Chinese | Methods of Construction of, 364 i
Railway Situation, The, 287 . con i
Railways, South African, The Working of, 530 |
Railways of South Austtalia, Revenue of, 532 Railway, Spiez-Frutigen, Electrification of, 167 Railway, Street. See Tramways , ,
Railways, Swedish State. Ten-Coupled Mineral Locomotive, 382
Railway, Telpher, Odda Calcium Carbide v\orks, 548
Railway Traffic, London Suburban, 287 Railway Trains, Electric, Acceleration of, 616 Railway, Trans-Siberian, 567
Railways, Tube, Traffic on 237 . Railways, United States, Statistics of, 703 Railways, Use of Accumulators on Electric, 609 Railways of Victoria, Revenue of, 496 Railway, Washington-Street Tunnel, Boston, U.S.A., 65
Railways, Wayleaves for Cables on, 457 Railways of Western Australia, Revenue of, 562 Railway Wheels and Axles, Manufacture of, 754 Railway Wheel-Tyre Rolling-Mill at Parkhead Steel Works, 442 , .. . OO
Railway Working in the South African War, 83 Rake, Side-Delivery (Blackstone), 853 Ramp for Replacing Derailed Rolling-Stock, 268.
See Erratum, 2S1 r
Range-Finder, The Cooke Naval, 140; Military, 206 , _ _ . . .
Range-Finder, The Short-Base, and its Principles of Construction, 140, 205. See also vol.
Range of Wireless Telegraphy, Effect of Daylight on,533
Ransome-ver Mehr Concrete-Mixer, 528 Ratchet Brace, “Simplex” Detachable, 556 Ratchet Spanner, “The Simplex,’’ 556 Rateau Low-Pressure Steam-Turbines, 197 Rates and Fares on Railways, Treatise on, 4/4 Rating of Colliery ; Appeal Case, 489 Rating of Machinery, 489 Rating of Motor-Cars, 700, 839 Rating of Petrol-Engines, 87, 700, 839 Rating Valuation, Treatise on, 656 Reafforestation in the United Kingdom, 153 I Receivers, Sensitiveness of Telephone, 832 Receivers, Testing Radiotelegraphic, 574 Recke-Ruston Valve Gear, Compound Horizontal Engine Fitted with, 8
Recorder, Rhode CO2* 782 * roc
Recorder, Simmance-Abady CO2. Test of, 535 Reduction of Metallic Oxides by Carbon, 563 Reed, S. J., on the Design of Marine Steam- Turbines, 251
Reeves’ Water-Filter, 129 . * T •
Refrigerating Machinery of Orient Liner “ Orsova,” 715
Refuse from Distilleries, Disposal of, 531 Regulation of Wages, 17 .
Regulations of Home Office for Electricity, Regulations for Motor-Omnibuses in London, 494 Reinforced Brickwork at Building Trades’ Exhibition, 563 „
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Relay for Submarine Telegraphy (Brown), 430 Reliability Trial of the Scottish Automobile Club,859
Remuneration of Labour, 1/ .
Remuneration of Labour, Profit-Sharing, 533, /311 Repeating-Rifle. See Magazine
Report on Boiler Explosions. See Boiler Explosions ,
Reports, Railway, Board of Trade Committee on, 856
“ Republic,” Loss of the, 317
“Republic.” Loss of the ; the Strength of Bulk-
' heads, 817
Reservoirs, Water, 127 10.-,
Reservoir, Water Supply, Malta Dockyard, 241 Resistance, Electric, of Silicon and Iron-Silicon Alloys, 732 . _ , J
Resistance of Inclined Plates in Currents of
Water, 515, 524 . >r •
Resistance and Inductance of Concentric Mains, 227
Resistance and Propulsion of Ships, Treatise on, 475
Resistance of Roads to Traction, 696 Resistance of Ships, Effect of Bossing on, 30:- 1
Resistance of Trains, 646
Restitution, Coefficients of, for Metals, 6-5 Revenue Cruiser “ Suriya Monthon,” 76 Reversible Propeller, The Villinger, 283 Reversing-Gear for Motor-Boats, The Hesse, 4-8 Reviews. See LITERATVKB IXUBX Revocation of Patents. See l^atents Rheostat Carbon Plate for Electric Furnace, 400 Rhode COo Recorder, 782 I
Ribbon, Metallic Manufacture of, 192 Rims, Wheel, Welding-Machine for, 135 Rings, Machine for Welding, 135 Riveter, Portable Electro-Hydraulic, 592 Roads, Action of Pneumatic Tyres on, 629 Road-Bridges. See Bridges Road Conference, British, 640
Roads, Construction of; Utilisation of Waste Products, 780
Roads, Construction and Wear of, 418, 629, 640 Road Locomotion. See Motor - Cars, Motor - Omnibuses, Motor-Wagons, and Tractors
Road Motors, Unsolved Problems Connected with, 607, 644
Roads, Resistance of, to Traction, 696 Robinson, John, The late, 294
Ruehling-Rodenhauser Electric Steel Furnaces, 118, 685, 690
Bods, Experiments on Impact of, 582, 624 Rolling Loads, Dynamic Effect of, 151 Rolling-Mill Plant, Experiments with, 149 Rolling-Mills at Parkhead Steel Works, 442
I Rolling and Pitching of Ships, Apparatus for Recording, 203, 259
Rolling - Stock. See Carriages, Locomotives, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Rontgen Rays. See X-Rays
Roof, Ferro-Concrete, at Croydon Baths, 193 Roof, Ferro-Concrete, at National Gallery, 654 Roof Trusses, Queen-Post, Stresses in, 775 Rope-Driving, 368, 397
Ropeway, Wire, at OJda Calcium Carbide Woiks, 622 ’
Rosyth Harbour, Floating Dock for, 667
Rcsyth Naval Establishment, 224
Rota, Lieut.-Colonel, G., on Contrary-Turning Screws, 481, 503
Rotary Type-Casting Machine, Wicks’, 63 Rotors of Turbines, Lathe for Turning (Harvey), 395
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural Royal Commission on Shipping Rings, 761
Ito.val liistitiitioH;
I Mysteries of Metals, by Professor J. 0
Arnold, 145,170. See LETTERS, 417 Improvements in Production and Application of Gun-Cotton and Nitroglycerine, b\’ Colonel Sir Frederick L. Nathan, R. A., 188 Electrical Properties of Flames, by Professor Harold A. Wilson, 292
Recent Advances in Means of Saving Life in by Sir Henry Cunynghame,
The Properties of Matter, by Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, 326, 360, 391, 429, 460, 496 Osmotic Phenomena and their Modern Physical Interpretation, by Professor H L Callendar, 362
Ej^eriments at High Temperatures and Pressures, by R, Threlfall, 425. See Erratum, 450
Modern Submarine Telegraphy, by Sidnev
G. Brown, 430
Aerial Flight in Theory and Practice, by Professor G. H. Bryan, 461, 497
Electrical Striations, by Professor Sir J J Thomson, 495
Ti^^alum and Its Industrial Applications, Researches in Radiotelegraphy, by Professor oio^‘ ^32. See LETTERS, 817,
I 848
' Some Problems Connected with Helium and
Radium, by Sir James Dewar, 825
Electric Traction on Railwaj'^s, by Professor
W. E. Dalby, 829
Function of the Earth in Radiotelegraphv 795, 832 * ’
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological
Royal Navy. See Navy, Naval, and Warskips Royal Society Soirde, Exhibits at, 669
Royal Society. The Copley Medal, 551 Rubber Foundations for Steam-Turbines, 183 Rubber Manufacture, 750
Russia, Baltic-Black Sea Canal, 731 Russia, Mining Industry in 1908, 674
Rusting of Iron, Electrolytic Theory of the, 633, /08
®teel Against, DOO, /lO, /42
Transformations of X-Rays, 641
Sadler, Professor Herbert C., on the Effect of Bossing on the Resistance of Ships, 302
Sadler, Professor Herbert 0., on Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, 520, 677
Safety Appliances for Carding-Engines, 841
'X? T®’ Recent Developments in 295. See LETTERS 351, 384, 416
Sailing Ships Built in 1908, 23
Sails and Aeroplanes, Action of, 417
Sakura Maru,” Turbine Steamer, for Japanese Volunteer Fleet, 331
“ o'*’®";“Chester,” Trials of United States Scouts, 633, 661. See 706
“Salem,” United States Scout; Damage to Turbine Blading of, 706
Salts, Fused, Temperatures of, 535
Salts in River Elbe Water at Magdeburg, 256 ^^“^^I^ra-ncisco, Damage by Earthquake of 1906, Sand Filters for Water Purification. See Filtration and Purification of Water for Public ibupply
Sand-Preparing Apparatus for Foundries, 465 Steamers, Gland for
Exclusion of, 706. See LETTER, 754 Sand-Waves, 393
0^ T.-S.S. “Osterlev.” 863
Sao Paulo.” Brazilian Battleship, 557
o for Hand or Electric Drive, 643
Scantlings of Steel Vessels, 846, 855 qote? o Parliament. See Parliamentary LoTomo?i?e:
lieport to Quebec Bridge Com-
Sclerometer, Turner’s, for Hardness Tests, 835 Hardness Tests, 835
LE™.
^7n^ 25^’ ^^’Pbi^bding and Marine Engineering
^Reliability Trial, 859 ocott s Air-Compressor, 853
Se^706 ’ of. 533,
Scouts. See IFarsAips Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Mackine-Tools
Screws, Leading, Errors of, 261
determining the Thrust of, 482, 500 ®
Screw Propellers, Cavitation of, 808
Screw Propellers, Contrary - Turning, for Shin Propulsion, 481, 503 ” P
^^9^ P’opellers, Efficiency of, Air and Water, Screw Propellers, Professor Flamm’s Treatise on, Screw Propellers. See Propellers and Aerial
Screw Propellers in Tubes, Results of, 602 Screw-Threads Interchangeability of, 212, 261 446
Screw and Wedge Breech-Blocks, Comparison of, 220. See LETTER, 623 Screwing-Machine. See Machine-Tools Sen ven, Chas., The late, 79
Scrubber Refuse of Suction-Gas Plants De
odoriser for, 576
Sea Power. See Naval
Seamen, British Naval, 305
Searchlight for Coast Defence, 380 Searchlight, Parabolic Mirrors for, 669
RQ Experiments on Impact,
VQZI OZ4
Seaton Carew, Central Zinc Company’s Works at, 141
Secondary Batteries for Electric Railway Working, 609
Secondary Stresses in Large-Span Bridges, 151 Self-Induction of a Coil, Pirani’s Method of Measuring, 451
Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Motor-Cars and Motor- Wagons
Set-Square, Simplon Protracting, 382 Sewage-Disposal in London, 701. See Et'ratum,
Sewage-Disposal, Methods of Dealing with Distillery Waste, 531
Sewage-Disposal, Papers on, at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 813 Sewage-Disposal Works, Design, Construction, and Maintenance of. Treatise on, 346
Sewage-Pumping Plant for Carlisle, 46. See 110
Sewage-Purification by the Oxychloride Process,
Sewage Sludge, Disposal of, 813
Shafts, Apparatus for Determining the Thrust of Propeller, 482, 500
Shafts, Propeller, Vickers’ Stern Gland, 706 See LETTER, 754
Shafts, Vibration and Whirling of, 317, 350 384 417,450 ’ ’
Shanghai, Hangchow, and Ningpo Railway. Con- struction of, 364
Shaping-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Shearing-Machine, Hydraulic, 248 Shearing-Machines. See
Shears, Floating, 60-Ton (Day, Summers, and Co.), 569
Shepherd’s Bush, Imperial Exhibition at, 603
Ship Canal in Scotland, The Proposed, 564. See LETTER, 817
^^135* Construction of, Treatise on.
Ship Geometry, 642
®*yP®»^Harker Fire-Extinguisher and Fumigator Ships, Launches of, in Different Countries, 74 Ships, Launching, Effect of Camber on, 619 Ships, Longitudinal Framing for, 487, 849 Ship Model, Experimental Tanks, Report on. 618, 539. See Erratum^ 595
Ships, Propulsion of, by Contrary-Turning Screws,
Ship Propulsion, Electrical Transmission for, 478, 507
Ship Propulsion, Internal-Combustion Engine, ^r, 478, 607. See LETTERS, 523, and Engine, Oil, and Eng'ine, Marine
Ship Resistance, Effect of Bossing on, 302
Ship Resistance and Propulsion, Treatise on, 476
Ships, Rolling and Pitching of. Apparatus for Recording, 203, 259
Ships. See also Shipping, Steamers, and Jfar- shxps
Ships, Sinking, Blowing Down Boilers of, 317 Ships’ Specifications, 543
Ships, Steel, Scantlings of, 846, 856
Ships, Strength of, Influence of Form and Bulkheads on the, 521, 817
Ships, Structural Steel for. Standard Sections and Tests, 463, 466
Ship’s Trim and Draught Geometrically Investigated, 542
Ships, Vibration of, 452, 463
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, U.S.A., 520, 677 '
Shipbuilding Industry and Co-Partnership, 731 Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1908, 22. See Erratum, 49
Shipbuilding. See also Warships and Naval
A rchitects
Shipbuilding and Shipping at Hamburg, 768 Shipbuilding and Shipping Statistics of the United Kingdom, 190
Shipbuilding Trades’ Agreement, 77, 81
Shipbuilding Trade, Depression in, 52
Shipbuilding Trade on North-East Coast, Depression in, 25
Shipbuilding, The World’s, 74
Shipping, Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 225 Sh’pping, Lloyd’s Register of Biitish and Foreign,
Shipping Monopolies, Effect of, on Trade, 761 Shipping Rings, Royal Commission on, 761 Shipping and Shipbuilding at Hamburg, 768 Shore’s Scleroscope for Hardness Tests, 835 Short-Base Range-Finder, Principles of Construction of, 140, 205. See also vol. Ixxxvi.
Shutters, Photographic, Method of Testing. 755
Shutters, Photographic, Testing of, at National
Physical Laboratory, 446
Siamese Revenue Cruiser “Suriya Monthon,” 76 Siberian Railway, 567
Siemens, Alexander, on Tantalum and its Industrial Applications, 601
Siemens Open-Hearth Steel Furnaces at Parkhead Steel Works, 441
Siemens Regenerative Heating Furnaces at Parkhead Steel Works, 442
Signalling Power on Railways, Treatise on, 579 Signals, Marine, and Lighthouses, Treatise on. 305
Silencer for Telephones, “ Phone-Hush,” 333 Silica Ware, 780
Silicon-Iron Alloys, Electrical Re.sistance of, 732 Silicon in Iron, Effect of, 732
Silos for Storage of Limestone and Coal; Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 546
Silos for Storage of Nitrolim, 777
Silver and Lead-Mining in the Harz, 221 fe»nrimance-Abady COg Recorder Test* 536
Slide-Rule tor Hydraulic Calculations, 49
Tubes Under External Pressure, 35
S otting.Machines. See ^lackine^Tools
Sluice-Gates and Operating Gear, Esneh Barrage, on the Nile, 178
Hydraulic, Immingham Docks, 717 cic ’ o Guest’s Law of Combined Stress, 516. See also GuesVs Law
Strength of Pipes and Cylinders, 327
Smith. J. Cruikshank. on Physical Tests of Pro- c Coatings for Iron and Steel, 660, 683
o T Launching Calculations, 619
Smith, Joseph A., Engineer Rear-Admiral, The late, 156
Smith. Thomas. The late, 795
Snow-Waves, 395
Society, Royal Agricultural. Agricultural Society. See /miifwfwn
Cell for Manufacture of, /04. See also A Ikali
Sodium Nitrate, Manufacture of. 732, 749 Filters for Water-Softening, 780
Soirt^e. Royal Society, Exhibits at. 669
Solar Temperature Measurements, 410 Solubility of Steel, Effect of Treatment on, 681 Soudan, Irrigation Work in the, 173, 640
Sources of Water Supply, 127
South Africa. See also Cape. Colony, Natal, Grange River Colony, Rhodesia, and Trans- vaal
South African Railways, The Working of, 530 South African War, Working of Railways in, 83 South Australian Railwaj’s, Revenue of, 532 Southsea Pumping-Station for Flood-Water, 110 South-West, Notes from the, 15, 49, 79, 115, 149 217, 247, 285, 321, 355, 381, 421, 455, 491; 527, 559, 595, 633, 665, 697, 727, 759, 789, 821, 861
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 15. 48, 78. 115 149 183, 217, 246, 281, 320, 354, 381, 420, 455 491’ 526, 558, 591, 632, 664, 697, 726, 758, 789, 821, 860
Spanish Navy, The New, 322
Spanner, The “ Simplex” Ratchet, 556 Spark Discharge. Effect of Air-Blast on, 574 Spark-Gap, Multiple, for Wireless Telegraphic 795 Spark Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy, Fleming, and Electric
Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, 51
Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, Apparatus for Determining, 447 i
Specifications for Ships, 543, 846, 855 J
Speed Recorder and Indicator for Locomotives.
Hasler, 182. See Erratum, 248 I
Speed Trials of American Scouts, 533, 661. See 706 j
Speed Trials of Destroyer “Cossack,” Effect of 1
Depth of Water, 508. See also Warships 1
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams 1
Spelter. See Zinc
Spiez-Frutigen Railway, Electrification of, 167 Spiral Pyrometer, The F6ry, 663 ,
Spooner, C. E., The late, 706
Spot-Welding Machines, 208 ;
Spring in Foundations, Malta Docks, 6
Spring Wheel for Motor-Cars, The “Panflex” 537
St. Lawrence River, Ice-Breaking Steamer for, 829
st. Vincent Type, New British Battleships, 641 Stability of Aeroplanes, 639
Standards for Involute Gear, 72.3
Standard Light Unit, The New International, 706
Standard Sections and Tests for Materials Used in Ship Construction, 463, 466
Standard Test-Pieces, Steel, 463, 466
Standards Committee, Engineering, Work of, 163 Standardisation of Fire-Bricks, 167 Standardisation, Sir John Wolfe Barry on, 163 Standardisation and Stability of Explosives, 812 Stanley’s Hydraulic Calculator, 49
Stanton, Dr. T. E., on Experiments on Wind
Pressure and Flow of Air and Water, 446 Stanton, Dr. T. E., on the Resistance of Thin
PJates and Models in a Current of Water, 515,
Starter for Electric Motors in Mines, 707
Statically Indeterminate Girders, Treatise on.
Stations, Electric Power, See under Electric, Hydro-Electric, Power, and Water
Statistics and Accounts, Railway, 856
Statistics of Engineering Industries, 157, 190 Statistics of Shipbuilding and Shipping of the
United Kingdom, 22, 52, 190. Erratum, 49 Statistics of United States Railways, 703 Steam Boilers. See Boilers
Steam Consumption. See also Steam Trials, Turbines, Tests, and Diagrams in ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Steam-Engine. See Engines
Steam-Lorries. See Motor- Wagons and Tractors Steam-Pipes, Christie’s “Acme” Expansion Joint for, 44
Steam-Pipes, Water-Hammer in, 18. See LETTERS 385, 483, 508
Steam-Power Plant, Engineering, Treatise on 844 *
Steam-Pump. See Pump and Pumping
Steam, Specific Heat of Superheated, Apparatus for Determining, 447
Steam, Superheated, Specific Heat of, 51 Steam-Superheaters. SQG Superheaters Steam Trials of Orient Liners* 71.6j 745, 863 steam Trials. See Warships
Steam Trials of Turbine-Driven Warships. 19. 533, 661. See 706
Steam-Turbines. See Turbines Steam Turbo-Alternator, Tests of, 594 Steamboats. See Steamers
Steamer “ Ben-mj^-Chree, Turbine-Driven, Working of the, 483, 511
Steamers Built in 1908,22. See Erratum, 49 Steamer, The First Steel, 317
Steamers, Harker Fire-Extinguisher and Fumi- gator for, 665, 780
Steamer, Ice-Breaking and Passenger, the “ Earl Grey” (Vickers), 829
Steamers, Oil-Fuel for, 257
Steamer “Oreoma,” Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s, 209, 279
Steamer “ Orsova,” Orient Line Australian, 715 Steamer “Osterley,” Orient Line Australian Mail, 863
Steamer “Otway,” Orient Line Australian, 745 Steamer “Republic,” Loss of the; the Strength of Bulkheads, 317, 817
Steamers. See also Warships and Shipping Steamers, Steel, Scantlings of, 543, 846, 855 Steamers, Stern - Shaft Gland for, 706. See LETTER, 754
Steamer “ Thomas L. Cole ” for the Great Lakes, U.S.A., 520, 677
Steamer, Turbine, “Sakura Maru,” Japanese i Volunteer Fleet, 331
Steamers, Turbine. See also Turbine
I Steamers, Turbine, Manoeuvring Capabilities of, 550
Steamers, Turbines for Slow-Speed, 602 Steamers, Vibrations of Turbine, 452, 463 Steel, Ageing of, 18
Steel, Compression of Fluid, Press for, 101 Steel Concrete. See Eerro-Concrete Steel, Constitution of, 417, 488 Steel, Decarburisation of, 681, 801 Steels, Effect of Heat Treatment on Bessemer, 688, 770
Steel, Effect of Treatment on Solubility of, 684 Steel and Ferro-Concrete Bridges, Relative Advantages of, 823. See LETTER, 849 ; gee Erratum, 853
Steel Foundry at Parkhead Steel Works, 751 Steel Furnaces, Electric, 118, 814
Steel Furnaces, The Rochling-Rodenhauser Electric, 685, 690, 692
Steel, Heat Treatment of, 145, 170. See LETTERS, 417
Steels, Heat Treatment of Chromium-Vanadium, 865
Steels, Heat Treatment of Nickel-Chromium, 865 Steels, High-Tension, 865
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel and Iron, Preservation of, 660, 683, 710, 742 Steel and Iron, Production of, 668
Steel and Iron Production of United States, 628 Steel and Iron, Tests of Protective Coatings for, 660, 683
Steel-Making in New South Wales, 730 Steel Manufacture on the Monell Patent, 144 Steel Manufacture; Trade of the United Kingdom, 167
Steel-Melting Furnaces at Parkhead Works, 441 Steel, Micro-Structure of, 145, 170. See LETTERS, 417
Steel, Micro-Structure of. See also Micro-Photographs
Steel for Motor-Cars, 751
Steel, New High-Speed. 145, 170, 190 Steel, Nickel, Effect of Heat Treatment on, 865 Steel, Pressed, Motor-Car Frames, 753 Steel Rail Specifications, Pennsylvania Railroad, 218
Steel Railway Bridges, Treatise on, 442
Steel Rods, Experiments on Impactof, 582, 624 Steel. Alloys, Iron, and Micro-Photographs Steels, Special Structure of, 781 Steel Steamer, The First, 317
Steel, Structural, for Ships, Standard Sections and Tests of, 463, 466
Steel, Tests for Hardness of, 835 Steel Vessels, Scantlings of, 846, 855 Steel-Work. See Bridges, Hoofs, Columns, and Floors
Steel Works, Parkhead, Glasgow; Messrs. Beardmore and Co., Limited, 439, 613, 680, 656, 689, 761
Steel Works. See Works
Steriliser for Water, The Forbes, 334 Stern - Shaft Gland for Steamers, 706. See
LETTER, 764 Stoker, Bennis High-Temperature Coking, 249 Stoney, G. G., on Steam-Turbines, 430, 459, 497 Storage Silos for Coal and Limestone ; Odda
Calcium Carbide Works, 546
Storie, George B.; Trials of Steam-Turbine Plant, 297. See LETTERS, 350, 385, 416, 523, 655, 591
Stream-Lines of Ship in a Canal, 539 Strength of Concrete, 56
Strength of Columns. See also Columns Strength of Materials, 169, 203. See LETTERS Strength of Pipes and Cylinders, 327. See also Stress
Strength of Ships, Influence of Form and Bulkheads on the, 521, 817
Stress, Alternating, Apparatus for Testing, at the National Physical Ijaboratory, 447
Stresses in Bridge Members, 45 Stress, Combined, Guest’s Law of, 253, 281, 316, 351, 645, 555, 629, 817, 848 Stresses, Compound, Elastic Breakdown in
Materials under, 169, 203, 487. See LETTERS Stresses, Guest’s Law of. See LETTERS Stresses in Metal. See also Micro-Photograph Stresses in Queen-Post Roof Trusses, 775 Stresses, Secondary, in Large-Span Bridges, 151 Stress, Strength of Pipes under Combined, 327 Stress Temperatures, Changes Due to, 83 Striations in Vacuum Tubes, 495 Strikes, Arbitration to Avoid, 219 Strikes, Employers’ Insurance against, in France, 162
Strikes in the Shipbuilding Trade, Agreement to Avoid, 77, 81
Strikes and Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes
Stringertype Type- Compojing and Casting- Machine, 130
Stromeyer, C. E., on the Ageing of Steel, 18
Stromeyer, C. E., on Water-Hammer in Steam- Pipes, 483, 508
Structural Steel for Ships, Standard Sections and Tests for, 463, 466
Structure of Metal. See Micro-Photographs
Structures, Iron, Strength Tests of, 124
Struts, Strength of. See also Columns
Stud System of Electric Tramways, The Sucho- stawer, 735. See 124
Sturgeon, Thomas R., on Queen-Post Roof Trusses, 775
Sturrock, Archibald, The late, 44
Submarine “ A 12 ” Ashore at Fort Blockhouse, 394
Submarine Boat “Foca,” Italian, S8
Submarine Boat **Otaria,” 12
Submarine Boat. See also Warships
Submarine D6p6t, Ferro-Concrete, atHaslar,786 Submarines, Internal-Oombustion Engines for, 478, 485, 507. See LETTER, 523
Submarine Telegraphy, 430
Submarine Telegraphy, Brown’s Relay for, 430
Submarine Telegraphic Enterprise, 674, 754 Submersible Boat. See also Warships Suburban Railway Traflfic, London, 287 Suchostawer Surface-Contact System, 735 Suction-Dredger “Leviathan” for Liverpool, 483, 670
Suction-Gas Engine. See Engine^ Gas
Suction-Gas Plants, Deodoriser for Scrubber Refuse, 576
Suction-Gas Plants, Treatise on, 476
Suction-Gas Producers for Peat, 591, 661 Suction-Gas Producer. See Producer and Gas Sugar Manufacture from Beet, Hydros-Rak Diffusion Plant for, 277
Suir Bridge, Waterford ; Relative Advantages of Steel and Ferro-Concrete, 823. See LETTER, 849. See Erratum^ 853
Sulphur, Crystallisation of, at High Temperatures and Pressures, 425. See Erratum^ 450
Sulphuric Acid, Manufacture of, in America, 780 Sun, Temperature of the, 410
Superheated Steam, The “ Lowca ” Engine for, 846
Superheated Steam, Specific Heat of, 51
Superheated Steam, Specific Heat of, Apparatus for Determining, 417
Superheated-Steam Traction Engine, 850 Superheater, Schmidt, of Dutch Indian Railway Locomotive, 818
Surface-Condensers. See also Air-Pump and Condensers
Surface-Contact System, G.B., 124 Surface-Contact System, The Suchostawer, 735 Surface Tension of Liquids, 4€0, 496
Surface Tension, Effect of, on Wave Formation, 496
“ Suriya Monthon,” Siamese Cruiser, 76 Surveying of Small Areas, Treatise on, 99 Surveying, Treatise on Hydrographical, 623 Suspension Bridge, Timber, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 478
Sweden, Electric Power from Peat, 591, 661
Sweden and Norway, Hydro-Electric Power Plants in, 342, 372
Swedish Iron Ore, 223
Swedish Iron, Production of, 155
Swedish State Railways, Ten-Coupled Mineral Locomotive for, 382
Swedish State Railw’ays in Lapland. Electric Traction on, 86, 461
Switch-Gear. See also Switch under Electric Switchboards. See Electric
Sydney Water Supply, The Cataract Dam, 394
T.P. Ramp for Derailed Rolling-Stock, 268. See Erratum^ 281
Tail-Shaft Gland for Steamers, 706. See LETTER, 754
Tang Shan, North China, Engineering and Mining College at, 811
Tank Boiler, Intercepting, Explosion of, 401
Tank, Experimental, for Hydraulic Experiments, 515, 524
Tanks, Ship-Model Experimental, Report on, 518, 539. See Erratum^ 595
Tantalum Detector for Wireless Telegraphy, 832 Tantalum, Industrial Applications of, 601
Tap and Drill-Cooler, Derham’e, 556
Tapes, Measuring, at National Physical Labora tory. Testing, 445
Tariff Commission Report on Engineering Industries, 157, 190
Taxation and Rating of Motor-Vehicles, 700, 839 Taximeters, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 446
Taylor, H. Dennis, on the Short-Base Range- Finder, 140, 205. See also Vol. Ixxxvi.
Teaching. See Education and Training
Technical Education in Glasgow, Continuation Classes, 603
Technical Education at North China, 811
Technical Education. See also Education Teeth of Gear Wheels, Allowable Pressures on, 418
Teeth of Involute Gears, Standards for, 723 Telegraph, Results of Working Submarine, 674, 754
Telegraphic Systems, Treatise on, 243 Telegraphy, Brown’s Relay for Submarine, 430 Telegraphy, Submarine, 480
Telegraphy. See under Electric
Telegraphy, Wireless. See Wireless under Electric and Eleming
Telephone Cables, Desiccating Machine for, 784
Telephone Receivers, Sensitiveness of, 832 Telephones. See also Electric
Telephone Silencer, TheCutmore “Phone-Hush,” 333
Telephone System, Automatic, 828
Telescopes, Parallel-Wire Micrometer for, 754 Telpher Railway (Odda Calcium Carbide Works), 548
Temperature Changes in Solids under Stress, S3 Temperature Distribution in Gas-Engines, 179 Temperatures of Fused Salt Baths, 535 Temperatures and Pressures, Experiments at High, 425. See Erratumt 45ft
Temperature of the Sun, 410
Temperature Variations in Antarctic Regions, 820 Tempering Furnaces,Electric Fused-Salt Bath, 536 Tempering Furnace for Guns at Parkhead Steel Works, 514
Teinperley Transporters, 37, 74
Tenders for Battleships of “Neptune” Class, 430 Tender for Essex County Council Asylum. 56 Tender, The Lowest, 66
Tenders of Locomotive. See Locomotives Tensile Test-Pieces, Standard, 463, 466 Territorial Army, Engineers in the, 640 Testing Apparatus for Moisture in Grain, 227. See 246
Testing of Coal, 780
Testing Machine for Bending and Twisting, 400 Testing of Materials, International Congress on. 860
Testing Materials at National Physical Laboratory, 445, 447
Testing Radiotelegraphic Receivers, 574
Testing Stations for Explosives used in Coal- Mines, 812
Testing Thermometers, 409
Tests of British Locomotives, 828
Tests, Fall-Hammer, for Explosives, 813
Tests of Fire-Extinguishers, 98, 200
Tests for Hardness of Metal, 835
Tests of Iron Structures, 124
Tests of Locomotive Boilers, 237, 307
Tests of Metal. See abo MicrO‘Photog)'ciphs Test-Pieces, Steel Standard, Tensile and Bending. 463, 466
Tests of Protective Coatings for Iron and St^el 660, 683 ? ’
Tests of Reinforced Concrete, 83
Test of Simmance-Abady CO2 Recorder, 53.5
Test of “ Sirocco ” Mine-Fan, 534
Tests. See also Trials, Steam Trials, Turbines, Peichsanstalt and Diagrams in ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Tests of Turbo-Alternator, 4000-Kilowatt, 594 Textile Machinery, Safety Ai)piiances for, 841 Thames Steamboats of London County Council, 392
Thermal Conductivity of Heat-Insulators, 1 Thermal Efficiencies of Petrol-Engines, 763 Thermal Treatment of Bessemer Steels, 658, 770 Thermal Treatment of Chromium Vanadium Steels, 865
Thermal Treatment of Nickel and Nickel-Chro- mium Steels, 865 ,
Thennal Treatment of Non-Ferrous Metals, 781 '
Thermit, Reactions of, 86 ,
Thermo-Dynamics, Practical, 51
Thermo-Electric Pyrometer for Students, 400 '
Thermometric Observations, Errors of Estimation in, 693 '
Thermometers, Testing, 409 1
Thompson, John, The late, 594
Thomson. Professor Sir J. J., on Electrical 1 Striations, 495
Thomson, Sir J. J., on the Properties of Matter, 326(see 351), 360, 391, 429, 460, 496 ,
Thornycroft’s 40-Horse-Power Military Tractor ' 329 * ’ I
Thornycroft Marine Motor, 427
Thornycroft, Sir J. L, on Hydroplanes, 365
Threlfall, R., on Experiments of High Tempe- , ratures and Pressures, 425. See Erratum, 450 '
Thrust of Propellers, Apparatus for Determin- I ing, 482, 500
Timber, Cultivation of, in the United Kingdom 153
Tin Plates, Corrosion of, 708, 710
Tin Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Tools, Cutting, Dynamometer for Measuring- Forces on, 244
Tools, Machine. See Machine-Tools
Tool, Steel, New High-Speed, 190. See 170
Torpedo. See Warships
Torricelli Evangelista, 41
Townsend Electrolytic Cells for Alkali Manufacture, 814
Toxteth Workhouse, Explosion of InterceDtimr Tank, 401
Traction, Electric. See Tramways and Pailways, under Electric
Traction Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 850 Traction, Resistance of Roads to, 696
Traction, Steam or Electric, on Canals, 672
Tractor, Agricultural, Oil (Marshall^ 852
Tractor, 25 Horse-Power Military (Broom and Wade), 329
Tractor, 40-Horse-Power Military (Thornycroft), 329
Tractor, 60-Horse-Power, for Military Service (Marshall), 313
Tractors, Military; Lessonsfrom Trials, 388. See LETTER, 450 and 351, 361, 388, 392
Tractors at Royal Agricultural Show, 850
Tractor, Steam, Agricultural (Foster), 850 Tractors, War Office Trials of, 325, 388. See 351 361, 388, 392
Trade, Depression in Motor-Car, 117
Trade, Engineering, General Review of, 157,190 Trade of Japan, 145
Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes and Legal Trading, Municipal. See Municipal
Trains, Acceleration of Electric, 646 Train Resistance, 646
Trains. See Locomotives, Railways, and Motor- Carriages
Training of Midshipmen in the Navy, 597
Training. See Education, Technical, and Apprenticeship
Tramway, Electric, Suchostawer Surface-Contact System, 735
Tramways, G.B. Surface-Contact System, 124 Tramways, Municipal. See also Municipal Tramways. See also Electric and Traction Tramways and Steamboats of the London Countv Council, 392
Trans-Siberian Railway, 567
Transmission of Heat in Steam Boilers, 185 194 229, 260, 280, 384
Transmission of Power by' Ropes, 368, 397
Transport of Materials at Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 548
Transporter, The Barry, 314
Transporters, Temperley, 37, 74 Transverse Strength of Concrete, 56
Trepanning-Machine for Steel Ingots, Parkhead Steel Works, 580
Trespass by Aeronauts, 793
Trials of Destroyer “Cossack;” Effect of Depth of Water, 508
Trials of Military Tractors, 325, 361, 388, 392. See 351
Trials of Military Tractors, Lessons from the, 388. See LETTER, 450
Trial, Motor-Car Reliability, of the Scottish Automobile Club, 859
Trials of Orient Liners, 715, 745, 863
Trials. See Steam Trials, Warships, Guns, and Tests
Trials of Steam-Turbine-Driven Warships, 19
Trials of Steam-Turbine Plant at Greenvale Mill, 297. See LETTERS, 350, 385, 416, 521, f55. 591
Trials of United States Scouts “Salem” and “ Chester,” 533, 661. See 706
Trim and Draught of Ships Geometricallj’ Investigated, 542
Triple-Expansion Engine. See Engines
Trollhattan, Electric Iron Works at, 829 Trucks. See also Carriages Trusses. See also Bridges and Roofs Tube Railways, Traffic on, 287
Tubes, Collapse of, under External Pressure, 35 Tubes, Strength of, 327
Tunnel, Washington Street, Boston, U.S.A., 65 Turbine Blading, Deposits on, 799
Turbine Blading of United States Scout “ Salem,” Damage to, 706
Turbines, Condensers for, 626. See also Condensers
Turbine, De Laval, Steam Consumption cf, Steam, 758
Turbine, De Laval Steam, at Yngeredsfors Power- Station, Sweden, 60.5
Turbine Destroyer. See B.M. Destroyers under Warships
Turbine-Driven Dynamos and Alternators, 459 Turbine-Driven Warships, Steam Trials of, 19, 533, 661
Turbines, Exhaust-Steam, 197
Turbines for H.M.S. “ Vanguard,” 290
Turbine, Marine Steam, Design of, 251
Turbine Pump, Worthington, for Stella Coal Company, 181
Turbinesand Reciprocating Engines, Combined ; S.S. “Laurentic,” 598
Turbine Rotors, Lathe for Turning (Harvey), 39.5
Turbine Scouts “Chester ” and “Salem,” United States Navy, Trials of. 533, 661. See 706
Turbines for Slow-Speed Steamers, 602 Turbine, Steam, Development of, 118 Turbine, Steam, Efficiency of, 51
Turbines, Steam ; Efficiency Ratios of Reaction and Impulse Types, 254
Turbine, Steam, G. G. Stoney on, 430, 459, 497
Turbine, Steam, for Maiine Propulsion, Development of, 497
Turbines, Steam, at Neasden Power-Station, 799 Turbine, Steam, Rubber Foundations for, 183 Turbine, Steam, Treatise on, 621
Turbine, Steam, Trials of, at Greenvale Mill, 297. See LETTERS, 350, 385, 416, 523, 555, 591
Turbine Steamer “ Ben-my-Chree,” Working of the, 483, 511
Turbine Steamer “ Mauretania,” Speed of, 733 Turbine Steamers, Manoeuvring of, 550
Turbine Steamer “Sakura Maru,” Japanese Volunteer Fleet, 331
Turbine Steamers, Vibrations of, 452, 463 Turbine, Water. See Hydro-Electric Poxver Turbo-Alternator, Tests of, 594
Turner, L. B., on Elastic Breakdown of Materials under Compound Stresses, 169, 203. See LETTERS, 487
Turner, Professor Thomas, on Tests for Hardness, 835
Turning Machine. See Machine-Tools; Lathes Turret-Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Turret Lock-Nut, 382
Twist-Drills, Experiments on the Forces Acting on, 398, 410, 432, 470
Twisting and Bending Moments, Machine for Applying, 400
Tya (Norway), Hydro-Electric-Power at, 372 Type-Casting and Composing Machinery, 28, 59, 90, 130
Type-Casting Machine, Wicks Rotary, 63 Type-Founding. See Type - Casting and Composing Machinery
Tyres, Pneumatic, Action of, on Roads, 629 Tyre-Rolling Mill at Parkhead Steel Works, 442 Type-Setting Machines, 28, 59, 90, 130
Tyres, Wheel, Machine for Welding, 13.5
Tysse, Norway, Hydro-Electric Power Plant for Calcium Carbide Works, 405, 443
Uebigau Experimental Tank, 539
Underground Railway. See Tunnels and Railways
Underground Railway Traffic, 287
Unemployed, Labour Exchanges for, 729 Unemployment, Effect of Workmen’s Compensation Act, 638
Unemployment, Insurance against, 729 Unemployment and the Right to Work, 529 Unions, Trade. See Trade Unions^ Industrial
Notes^ and Legal
United Kingdom. See also British
United Kingdom, Railway Accidents in 1908, 731 United Kingdom, Statistics of Shipbuilding in the, 22, 52. See Erratum, 49
United States Coal-Mines, Accidents in, 267
United States Metallurgical Industry, 628
United States, Notes from, 10, 44, 113, 156,190, 251, 284, 319, 383, 419, 450, 534, 568, 605, 632, 664, 696, 726, 784, 820
United States Patent Practice, 794
United States, Railway Accidents in, 1908, 731
United States Railway Statistics, 703
United States. See also America
United States Scout “Salem,” Damage to Turbine, Blading of, 706
United States Scouts “Salem” and “Chester,” Trials of, 533, 661. See 706
United States, Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, 520, 677
Universal Dovetailing ^la
Co.), 14
University Degrees in Engineering, 54, 269
Vacuum Gleaning and Disinfecting Machine, 249 Vacuum Exhauster for Cesspools, 852
Vacuum in Surface-Condensers. See Condensers Vacuum Tubes, Occluded Gas in Walls of, 294 Vacuum Tubes, Striations in, 495
Valuation for Rating, Treatise on, 656
Valve-Gear, Recke-Ruston, Compound Horizontal Engine Fitted with, 8
Valves for High-Speed Pumps, 662
Valves, Hoerbiger-Rogler, for Blowing-Engines and Air-Compressors, 626
Valves, Safety, of Marine Boilers, Developments in, 295. See LETTERS, 351, 384, 416
Valve, Scott’s Ball, for Air-Compressor, 853 Valves and Valve-Gear. See also MotoV’Car Details, Locomotives^ Regulators^ and Engines
Vanadium-Chromium Steels, Heat Treatment of, 865
“Vanguard.” Launch of H.M.S., 290
Vectors and Vector Diagrams Applied to the Alternating-Current Circuit, Treatise on, 844
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor-Cars, Motor- Wagons^ Motor-Buses, and Motor-Carriages
Velocity, Angular, of Flywheels, 719 _ Ventilating Fan for Mines, Test of “Sirocco/’ 634 Vessels. See Ships and Steamers
Viaduct. See Bridges
Vibration Galvanometer, Bifilar, 755 Vibrationsand “Mauretania” and “Lusitania,” 452, 463
Vibration and Whirling of Shafts, 317, 350, 384, 417, 450
Vicker.s, Colonel T. E., Retirement of, 859 Victorian Railways, Revenue of, 496 “ Viking,” Turbine Steamer, Manoeuvring Capabilities of, 550
Villinger Reversible Propeller, 283
Vamafos Hydro Electric Power-Plant, 345
Wade, L. A. B., on Dam Construction in New South Wales, 394
Wages, Government Regulation of, 17
Wagc.s in the Shipbuilding Trade (Shipbuilders’ Agreement), 77, 81
Wagons, Steam. See Motor-Wagons
Walker, William H., on Electrolytic Theory of the Corrosion of Iron, 683, 708
War Office Trials of Military Tractors, 325, 361, 388, 392, See 351 and LETTER, 450
War in South Africa, Working of Railways During, 83
Warfare, Aerial, Treatise on, 99. See 828 Warriner, Henry, The late, 464, 490. See L’^TTER, 523
IVar.sliips:
Argentine Gunboat “Parano” (Armstrong, Whitworth), 862
Armament of Modern Battleships, 762 Brazilian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Para” (Yarrow), 347
Colonies and the Navy, 791
Cruisers, Value of, 452, 462
Destroyer “Cossack,” Trials of; Effect of Depth of Water, 508
Docks for Dreadnoughts, 667
Engine-Room Artificers and Mechanicians in the Navy, 628, 635
Engineer Officers in the Navy, 349, 367, 590, 597, 629
“ Foca, ’ Italian Submersible Boat, 88 French Navy, The, 459
German Naval Construction, 376, 387, 703 Government and the Navy, 253
Guns and Armour, Admiralty Orders for, 493 Guns for Battleships of the “ Dreadnought ” Class, 762
Gun Power of “ Dreadnought ” Class, 253 Gun Power of “Neptune” Class, 253, 430 Gunnery in the Navy in 1908, 224 H.M.S. “ Vanguard,” Launch of. 290 Imperial Defence Committee and the Navy, 603
Japanese Volunteer Turbine - Steamer “Sakura Maru,”331
“Latouche-Tr6ville,” Gun Explosion on, 52 Malta Naval Dockyard and Harbour Works, 2, 71, 106, 239
Midshipmen, Training of, 597 “Naval Annual, 1909,” 704
Naval Construction Programmes, Types of Warships Omitted from, 452, 462
Navies, Strength of, 703
Navy Estimates, 376, 387. See 703
New British Battleships of the “St.Vincent” Type, 641
“ Otaria,” Italian Submarine Boat, 12
“ S.ao Paulo,” Brazilian Battleship, 557
Ship Canal in Scotland, Strategic Value of, 564. See LETTERS, 817
Spanish Navy, The New, 322
Steam Trials of Turbine-Driven H.M. Ships, 19
Submarine “ A 12 ” Ashore at Haslar, 394
Submarine D6p6t at Haslar, Ferro Concrete, 786
Submarines, Internal-Combustion Engines for, 478, 485. See LETTERS, 523
Tenders for “ Neptune” Class, 430
Tonnage Launched in Different Countries, 74
United States Scouts “ Salem ” and “ Chester,” Trials of, 533, 661. See 706
United States Scout “ Salem,” Damage to Turbine Blading, 706

Warships Built in 1908, 22, 74
Washington Street Tunnel, Boston, U.S.A., 65
Waste from Distilleries, The Disposal of, 531
Waste Heat, Utilisation of, 335
Waste, Reduction of, by Means of Electricity 335
Water and Aniline, Temperature of Equal Density, 400
“ Water Boil; ” Malta Dock Works, 6
Water for Boiler Feed, Purification of, 251
Water, Discharge of, from Circular Weirs and Orifices, 64
Waterford Ferro-Concrete and Steel Bridge Discussion, 823. See LETTER, 849. See £rrafwwi, 853
Water Filters at Madgeburg, Puech-Chabal System, 277
Water-Hammer in Steam-Pipes, 18, 483, 508. See LETTERS, 385
Water Mains, Growths in, 163
Water, Mechanical Filters for, 128
Water, Percolation, Evaporation, and Condensation of, 555
Water-Power, Conservation of, 814
Water-Power Plants in Sweden and Norway, 342 372
Water-Power. See also HydTauUc and Hydro J^leclric
Water for Public Supply, Filtration and Purification of, 107, 126, 160, 272
Water-Pumps. See Pumps
Water-Reservoir. See Reservoirs
Water. See also Irrigation
Water-Softening by Sodium Permutite Fillers, 780
Water-Steriliser, The Forbes, 334
Water Supply from Dew Ponds, 364
Water Supply from the Elbe at Magdeburg, 266
Water Supply Reservoir at Malta Dockyard, 241
Water Supply, Sources of, 127
Water-Tube Boilers. See Boilers
Waterways. See also Estuary, River, and Canal
Watts, Sir Philip, on Speed Trials of the Destroyer “ Cossack,” 508
Wave Formation, Effect of Surface Tension on, 496
Wave Lengths in Wireless Telegraphy, Apparatus for Measuring, 211
Waves, Diverging, 522 “
Waves, Electric, in Radiotelegraphy, 795, 832. See LETTERS, 817, 848, and Flemvivg
Waves in Water, Sand, and Snow, 393
Wayleaves for Cables on Railways, 457
Wear of Rails on Electric Railway, 609
Wear of Roads, 418, 629, 640
Weather. See Meteorologieal Society
Wedge and Screw Breech-Blocks, Comparison of, 220. See LETTERS 523
Weighing Machine at Parkhead Steel Works (W. and T. Avery, Limited), 754
Weight and Mass, 429
Weights of Marine Engines and Machinery, 478, 507. See LETTER, 523
Weights and Measures, Board of Trade Regulations, Treatise on, 579
Weirs and Orifices, Circular, Discharge of Water from, 64
Welding, Machines for Chain, 69, 135
Welding Machines, Electric, 69, 135, 208
Western Australian Railways, Revenue of, 562
Weston, Thomas Aldrich, The late, 665
Wheels and Axles, Manufacture of Railway, 754
Wheels, Gear, Pressures on Teeth of, 418
Wheels, Involute Gear, Standards for, 723
Wheel, Non-Skidding, for Motor-Wagons, 852
Wheel, The “Panflex” Spring, for Motor-Cars, 537
Wheel Tyres and Rims, Machines for W’'elding, 135
Whirling and Vibration of Shafts, 317, 350, 384, 417, 450
White Star Liner “ Laurentic,” 598
Wicks Rotary Type-Casting Machine, 63
Widening of Blackfriars Bridge, 310
Wiegand, Dr. H., The late, 490
Wilson, Professor Harold A., on the Electrical Properties of Flame, 292
W’inch, Travelling, for Operating Sluice-Gates, Esneh Barrage, 178
Wind-Driven Electric Installation, 420
Wind, Effect of, on Aeroplanes, 671
Wind-Pressure Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 446
Winding-Engines, Electric, Ilgner System, 807
Windmill Sails, Efficiency of, 417
Wire Fencing, Corrosion Tests of, 712
Wire Ropeway, Odda Calcium Carbide Works, 522
Wire-Wound Guns, Manufacture of, at Parkhead Steel Works, 514, 580
Wireless Telegraphy, Moscicki Condenser for, 88. See Erratum, 114
Wireless Telegraphy. See under Electric and Fleming
Wood-Splitting Machines (Hill and Herbert), 43
Wood-Working Machinery. See Machine-Tools
Wood’s Corrugated Fire-Box for Locomotives, 631
Work, The Right to, 629
Workhouses. &c., Machinery at, 423
Working Stresses in Large-Span Bridges, 151
Workmen as Co-Partners in Industrial Concerns, 731
Workmen’s Compensation Cases. See Legal
Workmen’s Dwellings; Carbide and Nitrolim Factories, 779
Workmen, Insurance and Pensioning of, in Austria, 586
Workmen, Labour Exchanges for, 729

Works ;

Calcium Carbide Works of the Alby United Carbide Factories, Limited, Odda. Norway, 405, 443, 477, 522, 546, 617, 721, 750, 777 '
Central Zinc Company, Seaton Carew, 141
,ron Works, Electric, at Trollhiittan, 829
Nitrolim Factory of the North-Western Cyanamide Co, Limited, Odda, 721, i 750,777
Parkhead Steel Works (William Beardmore and Co., Limited), 439, 513, 580, 656, 689, 751
Works Accident Fund, 154
Works Sites on the Clyde, 192
World’s Shipbuilding, 74
Worthington Turbine-Pump, Electrically-Driven, 181
Wright’s Electrical Apparatus for Solving Equations, 669

X-Rays, Secondary, 641
X-Rays, Transformation of, 641

Yacht “Bronzewing,” Oil - Motor for the (Thornycroft), 448
Year-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yngeredsfors (Sweden), Hydro Electric Power Plant at, 343, 605

Zalinski, Major E. L., The late, 380
Zeolites, Artificial, 780
Zinc as Protection for Iron and Steel, 712
Zinc Works at Seaton Carew, 141

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