Engineering 1909 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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ABLETT, C. A., on the Determination of the'. Economj^ of Reversing Rolling-Mills, 458, 466 !
Absorption Dynamometer. See Dynamome,ter Accident Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation under Legal

Accidents:

Alexandra Dock, Newport ; Collapse of Trench Timbering, 658. See LETTERS, 799, 864
Atmospheric Electricity, Fatality from, 328
Coaling Plant, Durban, Overturned, 483
Electrical, in Collieries, 518, 621
Friezland Railw^ay, 724
Motive Power Machinery, 353 Motor-Car, 91
Railway, Board of Trade Returns, 286 Sault Ste. Marie Canal, 54
Trolley Standard, Charged, Fatality Due to, 661
Underground, in Coal-Mines, 621. See 518 Wembley Station, 289

Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
Acid, Nitric, Manufacture o.^ at Notodden, Norway, 609. See 555
Actinium Deposits, 425
Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal Adamson, E., on Tests of Cast Iron, 473, 529
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Adelaide and Port Darling Railway, Australia, Construction of, 287
Administration, Railway, School of, University of Illinois, U.S.A., 221
Admiralty Harbour at Dover, 501
Admiralty, Lord Charles Beresford and, 253 Admiralty Policy. See Engineers^ Naealt and Warships
Aerial Experiment Association, American, 322 Aerial Flight, Theory of. See also Aeroplanes Aerial Navigation, Backwardness of Britain in, 152, 727, 754
Aerial Navigation, Encouragement of, 727, 754 Aerial Navigation. See LETTERS and Aeropianes^ Airship, and Balloon
Aerial Navigation, Treatise on, 676
Aerial Navigation in Warfare, 186, 793, 893. See also 98, 727
Aerial Propellers, Action of. See also LETTERS Aerial Propellers, Action of, Smoke Apparatus for Demonstrating, 214
Aerial Propellers, Flexible, Tests of, 183
Aerial Ropeway for Coal-Conveying at Monte Video, 722
Aeronautics, Encouragement of, 727. See LETTER, 754
Aeronautics, Laws of. See LETTERS Aeroplanes, Action of. See LETTERS Aeroplane?, Air Friction of. Criticism of Lan-
Chester’s Theory, 81,148, 214, 325. See Erratum, 451
Aeroplanes, The “ Antoinette.” Farman, Santos Dumont, and Voisin, 490, 611, 656
Aeroplane, The Bl^riot, 149, 152, 499, 611, 656. See Erratum, 183
Aeroplane, The ChauvRre, 662
Aeroplanes at Doncaster and Blackpool, 552, 583. See LETTER, 625. See also 728
Aeroplanes, Effect of Wind on, 149
Aeroplane Engines, Trials of, 763
Aeroplane Flight Across the Channel by M. Bleriot, 149, 152, 183. See Erratum, 183
Aeroplane Flights in Bad Weather, 583. See LETTER, 625
Aeroplane Frames, Design of, 611
Aeroplanes, Guns for Attacking, 98
Aeroplanes, Lifting Power of, 386, 777
Aeroplanes; Method of Driving Propellers, 829. See LETTER,884
Aeroplane Models, Apparatus for Testing, 777 Aeroidane Motors at Paris Exhibition, 457, 490 Aeroplanes, Motors for; Relative Advantages of Air and Water-Cooling, 490
Aeroplanes at the Paris Exhibition, 456, 490 Aeroplanes, Position of Aviator on, 490 Aeroplanes at Rheims Meeting, 288, 321 Aeroplanes, Skin Friction of, Rateau’s Experiments on, 386, 755. See Erratum, 435
Aeroplanes, Smoke Apparatus for Demonstrating Action of, 214
Aeroplanes, Stability of, 392
Aeroplanes in Warfare, 793, 893. See also 98, 186, 727
Aeroplanes, Weights of, 6.56
Aeroplane, The Wright, 325, 490, 611, 656, 829 Africa. See South Africa
Agents, Law Relating to, 371
Agreement between Employers and Men. See Legal
Agricultural Machinery at Smithfield Show, 795 Agricultural Society, Royal, Gloucester Show, 21. See also vol. Ixxxvii.
Air, Action of, on Pure Iron, 526
Air-Blast for Cleaning Gun after Firing, 66 Air, Compressed. See also Qainpressed Air and
Air Compression, Humphrey Gas-Pump for, 7-10 Air-Compressor, with Paraffin Oil-Engine, 349 Air-Condenser, Electric Standard, 835
Air in Condensers. See also Cojidcnsers Air-Currents, Variation in, 853
Air-Excluder for Economisers, Ogden’s, 7t9 Air, Falling Velocity of Small Spheres in, 425 Air-Friction, Coefficient of, Lanchester’s Value of the, 81, 148, 214, 325. See 451
Air, Friction of, on Inclined Planes, 386. See LETTERS, 755. See Erratxkmy 425
Air-Locks for Caissons of Blackfriars Bridge, 330
Air Pressure on Inclined Planes, Rateau’s Experiments on, 386, 413, 755. See 435
Air Propellers, Rateau’s Theory of, 387. See pTraturriy 435
Air-Pump, Reden Mercurial, 735 Air, Recombination of Ions in, 425
Air, Specific Heat of, 330, 333
Airships for British Navy and Army, 186. See also 98, 727, 793, 893
Airships, Guns for Attacking, 98 Airship, The Parseval, 348
Airships. See also Aerial and Aeroplane Alcohol, Ethyl-Conductivity of Solutions in, 463 Alcohol Fuel for Engines, 460
Alexandra Dock, Newport, Collapse of Trench Timbering at, 658. See LETTERS, 799, 861
Alkali Works, Report on, 126
Allan, Mrs. Alex., The late, 247
Alloys, Aluminium-Copper-Tin, Constitution and Properties of. 556, 664
Alloys, Aluminium-Tin, Corrosion of, 557 Alloys, Copper, Corrosion of, 557, 741
Alloys, Copper, Modern Methods of Testing, 475
Alloys, CopperZinc, Volume Changes During Solidification, 586
Alpha Rays, Radiations from, 346, 375 Alternating Current. See PPctric
Alternating Currents from Galvanic Cells, 154 Alternating Stress, Testing-Machine for, 105 Alternating Stress, Tests of Copper Wire and Steel under, 438
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium-Copper-Tin Alloys, Constitution and Properties of, 556, 064
Aluminium-Tin Alloys, Corrosion of, 557 Aluminium, Tests of, under Combined Stress, 629 Aluminium Welding, Exhibit of, at Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Amalgam, Zinc, Transition Point in, 133 “America,” Italian Passenger and Emigrant
Steamer, La Veloce Company, 411
American Locomotives. See Locomotives American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools American Metallurgical Industry. See Iron and
Steel and Notes from the United States American. See also United States American Steam-Ferry Traffic, 58 Analytical Machine, Ludgate’s Proposed. 256 Anchorages, Blackwells Island Bridge. See
Blackwells Island Bridge in ILU'STRATED INDEX
Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel W. P., on the Improvements in the Navigation of the St. Lawrence River, 399
Andrew, J. H., on Aluminium-Copper-Tin Alloys, 556, 664
Anglo-Japanese Exhibition, 1910, 188 Annual, The Japanese Financial, 91
Annual Publications. See LITKRATIRE INDEX Anode Rays, Spectra of. 346. See 751 Antimony. See Metal-Price Diagrams “ Antoinette ” Aeroplane, 490, 656
Anzani Engine for Aeroplanes at Paris Aviation Exhibition, 457
Aperture Sights for Rifles, 76, 751 Apprentices, Elducation of, 517 Apprentices. Law Relating to, 794, 884 Apprenticeship, National Institution of, 154 Apprenticeship, Report of London County Coun
cil Education Committee on, 655
Apprenticeship. See also Education and Tram-
Approaches, Blackwells Island Bridge. See
Blackwells Island Bridge 'm ILLI STRATION INDEX Arbenz, Carl, The late, 81
Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See also Indxis* trial Notes and PARAORAI’H INDEX
Arbitration, The Law of, Recent Cases, 658
Arbitration. See also Legal
Arc, Electric, Birkeland-Eyde Process for Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen by Means of, 609. See 555
Arc, Electric, Effect of Condensers on, 23
Are. See also Electric
Arch. See Bridge
Argentina, Bridge over the Gualegua}' River, Entre Rios, 107
Argentine Railways, Electric Traction, 771
Argentine Government and International Competition in Naval Design, 895
Argon, Specific Heat of, 732
Argyll Motor-Car at Olympia Show, 683
Armaments. Sec Warships and Gxins Armour-Plate-Shaping Machine, 211
Armour. See also Warships
Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armstrong Breech Mechanism for Guns, 33
Armstrong Compressor Mount for Guns, 63
Armstrong, Professor H. E., on the Advance of Chemistry, 461
Army, British, Airships for, 186
Artesian-Well Boring, 420
Artillery. See Guns
Assaying Zinc, Methods of, 588
Astronomical Exhibits at Ro3’al Society, 24
Atlantic Liners, Comparative Dimensions and Strength of, 276
Atlantic Liners, Fishguard as a Port of Call for, 320, 390
Atmosphere, Upper, Investigations of, by Kites and Balloons, 461, 688
AtmosphericjNitrogen, Electric-Arc Furnaces for Fixation of, 555, 609
Atmospheric Pressure, Effect of, on the Earth’s Surface, 426
Atomic Theory, Present Position of, 323
Atoms, Structure of, 324
Auden, Arthur C., on Reinforced Concrete, 146, 173, 200
Aurora and Magnetic Storm of September 25, 1909, 488. See LETTER, 524
Australia. See also New South Wales^ Victoria, Qiieensland, Western Australia, and South Axistralia
Australia, South, Strength of Timbers of, 354 Australian Irrigation by Artesian Wells, 420 Australian Mail Steamers, Orient Line, Coal
Consumption and Speed of, f9
Australian Mail Steamers “Otranto” and “ Orvieto,” Orient Line, 580
Australian Patents, 733
Australian Railways and Production, 3S9 Australian States, Union of, 287
Auto-Cars. See Motor-Cars and Motor-Carriages Autographic Gear, Fatigue-Testing Machine, 106 Automatic Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools Automobiles. See Motor-Cars
Auxiliarj^ Machinery, Marine, Steam Consumption and Exhaust Utilisation, 705
Avery Testing-Machine, 300-Ton, at Birmingham University, 42
Aviation. See Aerial, Aeroplanes, and Airships
Axle-Boxes, Automatic Lubricator, Tilston’s, 15
Axles, Front, for Motor-Cars, Design of, 721
Axles for Locomotives, Life of, 195. See also 57

Balances, the Construction of, Treatise on, 269
Balancing of Locomotives on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 164
Balancing of Rotating Masses, Gyroscope for Studying, 47. See also 13, 247
Ballistics of Modern Guns, 28, 98
Ballistics, Trajectory, Indicated by Smoke, 100
Balloons, Dirigible. See Airships and Aerial
Balloons, Meteorological Investigations, 461, GS8
Banff Drifter “Sardius,” Paraffin Engine, 244 Barbette. See Guns
Batteries. See Electric and Guns
Battleships. See Warships
Bauerman, Professor Hilary, The late, 798
Baxter’s Tar-Macadam-Mixing Machine, 22 Beams, Continuous, Ferro-Concrete. 174,200, 747 Bearing, Adjustable Shaft, Richardson’s, 261 Bearing, The Timken Roller, 290
Beer-Chilling, Carbonating, Bottling Plant, 554 I Beer, Pasteurising Apparatus for, 553
Beer, Wrightson’s Syphon Jar for, 554
Belfast Municipal Technical Institute, Fatigue- Testing Machine for, 105
Bells, Submarine, Signalling on the River St. Lawrence, 399
Rending Moment on Ships’ Hulls, 276
Bending Tests, Static and Dynamic, of Notched Bars, 476
Bending Tests of Spring Steel, 520
Bending and Torsion, Combined StrCises in Shafts due to, 637, 840, 846, 849. See LETTERS 696, 697, 885
Benefit Society, Foremen's Mutual, 185
Bentall's Petrol Motor, with Piston Valves, 719 Beresford, Lord Charles, and the Navy, 25, 253 Bergen and Christiania Railway, 843
Bessemer, Sir Henry, Memorial, 89
Bidwell, Dr. Shelford, The late, 864 Biplanes. See Aeroplanes.
Birkeland-Eyde Electric Arc Furnaces for Fixation of Atmosplieric Nitrogen, 609
Birmingham Sewage Works, Alleged Pollution of the River Tame, 763
Birmingham Small-Arms Company, Aperture Sight for Rifles, 77
Birmingham University, 5, 42, 109
Bisley Meeting, Rifle-Sights at the, 76 Blackfriars Bridge, Widening of, 338 Blackpool Aviation Meeting, 552, 583.
LETTERS, 625. See also 728
Blackwells Island Bridge, New York, 237, 372, 471, 537, 644, 711, 745, 779, 816, 819. details see ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Blades, Turbine, Captain Sankey’s Method of Fixing, 549
Blades of Turbines, Use of Nickel Steel for, 19 Blading of Melms-Pfenninger Steam-Turbine, 39 Blading for Steam-Turbines, Tests of, 804 Blading of Zoelly Marine Steam-Turbines, 213
Blast, Dry, for Blast-Furnaces, Fuel Economy of, 458, 468. See also 467
Blast-Furnaces, Effect of Uniform Moisture, in Blast of, 459, 467. See 468
Blast-Furnace, Electric, at Domnarfvet Iron Works, Sweden, 414, 458,465. See also 695
Blast-Furnace Gas, Analyses of, 467
Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas, and Jnternal’Combustion Engines
Blast-Furnaces, Heat Account of, 467
Bibriot Aeroplane and Channel Flight, 149, 152, 183, 490, 611, 666. See Erratum, 183
Blowing-Engine, Gas, 2000 H.-P. Single-Cylinder, 865
Blowing-Engines. See also Air-Compressors Blow-Off Valve, Patterson’s, 839
Board of Trade and Boiler Explosions. See Boiler Explosions
Board of Trade and the Electric Lighting Acts (Amendment) Bill, 1909, 121
Board of Trade Exhibition Department, 153
Board of Trade New Electric Supply Regulations, 88
Board of Trade Railway Returns, 284, 288. See Erratum, 317
Boat, Fishing (Thornj croft Paraflin-Motor), 244 Boats, Hydroplane or Skimming, 124, 215, 313 Boats, Motor. S6e Motor-Launches and Motor- Boats
Boats, Submarine. See Warships
Boats, Tug, Suction-Gas, on the Rhine, 90 Bogies, Locomotive, L. and Y. Railway, 196 Bogies, Railway. See Carriages Locomotives Boiler Coverings, Efficiency of, 37
Boiler Explosion at Canterbury (Traction Engine), 633
Boiler Explosion at Liverpool, 101. See 119
Boiler Explosion near Penrith, 34
Boiler Explosion, Rhymney Railwaj’ Locomotive, 188
Boiler Explosions, Statistics of, 357
Boiler Explosion, Steam-Crane, at Glasgow, 670
Boiler Feed-Water Filters, Paterson’s, 788, 824 Boilers Fired with Methane from Coal-Seams, 423
Boiler, Flash, for Turner-Miesse Steam-Car, 9 Boiler Furnaces, Temperature of, 604
Boilers, Heat Transmission in, 539, 560, 604, 761, 892. See LETTERS, 625, 653, 821
Boilers, Locomotive, Circulation in, 155
Boilers, Locomotive, Corrosion of Tubes of, 305
Boilers, Locomotive, L. and Y. Railway, 194
Boilers, Locomotive, Pitting and Grooving of, 155, 194,198
Boilers of Locomotives. See also Locomotives Boilers, Marine, Liquid Fuel for, 707
Boilers, Marine, Mechanical Stokers for, 232
Boilers, Marine, Meyer’s Oil-Fuel System for, 484 Boilers, Ross-Hotchkiss Scum-Collector, 156, 162 Boiler Scale, Transmission of Heat Through, 563. See also 608
Boiler-Shop on H.M. Repair-Ship Cyclops,” 69 Boiler-Tubes, Heat Transmission in, Nusselt’s Experiments on, 892
Boilers, Water-Tube Marine, 176, 232
Boiler of Wolfs Semi-Portable Engine, 478
Bolinder’s Reversible Two-Cycle Marine Oil- Engine, 797
Bolt-Screwing Machine, 465
Books Received, 3, 39, 76, 211, 304, 424, 443, 572, 677, 882 ’ ’ ’
Booth, John Alfred, The late, 114 Boring-Machine. See Machine-Tools Boswall, R. 0., on Apparatus for Testing Aeroplane Models, 777
Bottle Cork-Wiring Machine, 554 Bottle-Washing Machines, 554 Boulton, Matthew, Biography of, 224 Bourdon’s Manet-Raliuc Indicator for Deterini- nation of Stress in Structural Members, 464
“ Bournemouth ” Vertical Gas-Retorts, 535 Brake, Absorption, 27. See also Dynamoincter Brake, Hydraulic, for Tests of Westinghouse Transmission-Gear for Steam-Turbines, 763 Brake, Rateau’s Hydraulic Absorption, 806 Brake, Vacuum, Improvements in, 579 Brass, Corrosion of, 567, 741 Brass, Hardness Tests of, 586 Brass, History of, 588 Brass, Methods of Testing, 475 Brass, Volume Changes during Solidification, 586 Brazilian Railway, Travelling Jib Crane for, 179 Bread Making, Dough-Mixing and Kneading- Machine for, 248
Breakdown Crane, Brazilian Railway, 179 Breakdown Crane. 36-Ton Steam, for Central Argentine Railway, 699
Breakdowns of Motive-Power Machinery, 353 Breakdowns. See also Accidents Breakwaters, Dover Harbour, 601 Breech Mechanism for Guns, 32
Bremberg, A ; Graphic Illustrations of Kaiser’s Theory of Stresses in built-Up Guns, 567. 639, 709, 811, 876
Brennan Mono-Rail System, 659
Brewers’ Exhibition, 653
Bridge, Bamboo, over the Sadand, Java, 131 Bridge, Blachfriars, Widening of, 338 Bridge, Blackwells Island, over the East River New York, 237, 267, 372, 471, 537, 614, 711, 745, 779, 816. For Details, see ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Bridge, Cantilever, Proposed, across Sydney Harbour, 673. See LETTERS, 755, 799, 883 '
Bridge Construction, Theory and Practice, 304, ) 443 I
Bridge, Ferro-Cqncrete or Steel Construction for. I at Waterford, 227 i
Bridge over the Gualeguay River, Entre Rios, ' Argentina, 107 |
Bridges, High Tensile Steel for, 385 I
Bridges, Highway, Design , 443. See 304 *
Bridge, Lifting, over the Shird River, Nyassa- land Railway, 129
Bridge over Makatote Gorge, New Zealand, £01 Bridge, Proposed New, Across the Thames, 24 Bridge. See also Culvert and Viadiict I
Bridge and Ship Construction Compared, 215 Bridge, Southwark, Improvements of, 24 Brinell Hardness-Testing Machine and Tests. 408 473, 475 ’
Briquette-Making Machine for Sawdust Fire- Lighters, 722
Bristol Recording Pyrometer, 131
Ifiritisli Association tWiiinipcg Mectiii;f>; ' Preliminary Arrangements, 254 I
Section Reports, 322, 342, 374, 425, 461, 492 Presidential Address, by Sir Joseph J. Thomson, 283. See 360
Engineering Papers, 322 Astronomical Papers, 343 Chemistry Papers, 461 Meteorological Papers, 461 Mathematical Papers, 461 Wheat and Food Papers, 492. See 518 Evening Discourses, 493 Excursions and Visits, 493 Western Excursion, 493 Concluding Remarks, 493
Section G.—Engineering :
Presidential Address to Engineering Section by Sir W. H. White, K.O.B., 292
The Behaviour of Ductile Material under Torsional Strain, by C. E. Larard, 308, 362. See 322, 590, 625, 653, 697, 698, 733, 755, 799, 821 ’
The Distribution of Dielectric Stress in Three-Phase Cables, by Professor W. M Thornton and O. J. Williams, 297. See 322
Hydroplanes or Skimmers, by Sir John Thornycroft, 313, 322. See also 124
Gaseous Explosions, Report of Committee on, 330. See 322
The Work of the British Association Committee on Gaseous Explosions, by Dugald Clerk, 334. See 322
International Electrical Standardisation, byOrmond Higman, 396. See also 833
The National Trans-Continental Railw'av, by Duncan MacPherson, 398
Improvements in the Navigation of the St. Lawrence, bj' Lieut.-Colonel Wm. P. Anderson, 399
Great Engineering Works on the Canadian Pacific Railway, by J. E Schwitzer, 430. See 323
Section A. — Mathematical and Physical Science:
Presidential Address, by Professor E. Rutherford, on the Position of the Atomic Theory, 323
On the Pressure of Radiation against the Source and the Recoil of Light, by Pro- fessor J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., and Guy Barlow, 342
Some Properties of Light of very Short Wave-
Lengths, by Professor T. Lyman, 343 Photographs of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, taken at the Lowell Observatory, by Dr. Percival Lowell, 343
Early Drawings of Jupiter, exhibited by Professor Sir Joseph Larmor, 343
Tlie Motion of some Small Stars in Messier 92 Herculis, by Professor E. E. Barnard, 343
Dynamic Isomerism, Report of Committee on, 343
Threefold Emission Spectra of Solid Organic Compound, by Professor E. Goldstein, 346 The Action of Electrolytes on Colloids, by Dr. E . F. Burton, 346
Separation of New Radioactive Substances, by Dr. 0. Hahn, 346
The Secondary Radiations Excited by Alpha
Rays, by Professor J. C. McLennan, 346 Some Phenomena Associated with the Radiation from Polonium, by V. E. Pound, 346 Anode Rass and their Spectra, by Dr. A. Reichenheim, 316 See 751
The Action of Alpha Rays upon Glass, by Professor Rutherford, 347
Positive Electricity, by Sir J. J. Thomson 374
Law of Distribution of Stellar Motion, by A. S. Eddington, 374
Some Results of Stellar Parallax Investigations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, by Dr. Arthur A. Rambaut, F.R.S., 374
Variation in the Specific Heat of Mercury at High Temperatures, by Professor H. T. Barnes, 375
The Relation of Vocal Quality to Sound- Waves, by Dr. T. Proctor Hall, 375. See also 428
Electric Splashes on Photographic Plates, by Professor A. W. Porter, B.Sc., 375. See also 24
Photographic Action of Alpha Rays, by T. Kinoshita, 375
Secondary Radiations by Gamma Rays on Different Metals, by Professor A. S. Eve,

Actinium Deposits, by W. R. Kennedy. 425 The Charge of the Gaseous Ion, by Dr. W.
Westphal and Dr. J. Franck, 425
The Action of Light of Insulating Property of Sulphur, by W. Bates, 425
Recombinations of Ions in Air at Different
Temperatures, by Dr. P. Phillips, 425
The Terminal Velocity of Fall of Small Spheres in Air, by Professor John Zeleny and L. H. McKeeham, 425
Earth Tides, by Professor A. E. H. Love, F.R.S., 425
On Effects of Atmospheric Pressure on the Earth’s Surface, by Dr. F. Napier Denison, 426
The Angular Momentum in a Beam of Circularly-Polarised Light, by Professor J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 426
The Lengthening of Loaded Wires when Twisted, by Professor Poynting, F.R.S., 426
The Effect on the Persistence of Vision of Fatiguing the Eye with Red, Orange, and Yellow, by Professor Frank Allen, 426
A New Method of Obtaining Luminosity
Curves, by Professor Frank Allen, 426
The Effect of Low Temperature on Fluorescent Spectra, by Professor E. L. Nichols and R. C. Gibbs, 427
Absorption and Fluorescence M Canary Glass at Low Temperatures, by Professor E. L, Mchols and R. C. Gibbs, 427
Diffraction of Electrical Waves, by Professor IL M. Macdonald, F.R.S., 427
The Effect of Temperature Variations on the Luminous Discharge in Gases for Low’ Pressures, by Professor R. F. Earhart, 427 The Instantaneous Propagation of a Disturbance in a Dispersive Medium, bj’ Dr. T. H. Havelock, 427
The Relative Motion of the Earth and Ether and the Fitzgerald-Lorentz Effect, by Professor C. W. Chamberlain, 427
Triple Objective for Spectroscopic Requirements, bj’ Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Gifford, 428
Magneto Striction, by Dr. IL G. Dorsey, 428 Some New Methods under Trial for Tables
of the Moon’s Motion, by Professor E. W. Brown, F.R.S., 428
Vibration Curves of Speech, by Professor D.
0. Miller, 428. See also 375
Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for Electrical Measurements, Report of Committee on, 428
Clark and Weston Standard Cells, by Professor H. L. Bronson, Ph.D., and A. N. Shaw, B. A., 428
Magnetic Observations at Falmouth Observatory, Report of Committee on, 428
Geodetic Arc in Africa, Measurement of (Committee Report), 428
Seismological Investigations, Report of Committee on, 428
The Present State of Our Knowledge of the Upper Atmosphere by the Use of Kites, Balloons, and Pilot Balloons, Report of Committee on, 461
Twenty-Five Registering Balloon Ascents from Manchester during the period June 2, 7 p m., to June 3, 7 p.m., 1909, by W. A,, Harwood, 461
The Highest Meteorological Observations in America, by Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, 461
Results of Some Recent Terrestrial Magnetic Work, by Dr. Louis A. Bauer, 461
Section B.—Chemistry:
Presidential zVddress, by Professor H. E. Armstrong on the Advance of Chemistry, 461
The Electric Conductivity of Solutions of Iodine and of Platinum Tetrachloride in Ethyl Alcohol, by E. H. iVrchibald and W. A. Patrick, 463
Atomic Weight of Iridium, by Dr, E. H. Archibald, 463
The Analysis of Potassium Chloroiridate, by Dr. E. H. Archibald, 463
Constancy of the Hydrogen Gas Electrodes, by Dr. 0. J. J. Fox, 463
Mercurous Sulphate for Standard Cells, by Dr. C. J. J. Fox, 463
Mercury and Cadmium Lines as Standards in Refractometry, by Dr. T. Martin Lowry, 492. See also 133
The Measurement of Rotatory Dispersion, by Dr. T. Martin Lowry, 492
A New Method of Producing a Cadmium Arc, by Dr. T. Martin Lowry, 492. See also 133
Wheat and Food Papers, 492. See 518
Repojts of Committees on Chemical Researches, 492
Electro Analysis, Report of Committee on, 492
Combustion, Report of Committee on, 492 Antiputrescent Effect of Copper, by Dr. A. Springer, 492
Section L,—Educational Science:
The Educational Factors of Imperialism ; Presidential Address, by the Rev. H. B. Gray, D.D., 492
British Battleships. See Warships
British Engine, Boiler, and Electrical Insurance
Company, Limited; Report
Motive Power Machinery, 353 British and Foreign Shipping,
of, 122 British and German Electrical
See also 657, 693
British Locomotives. See Locomotives
British Naval Training. See Ef^ineers and Navy British Warships. See Warskips
Brussels Exhibition, 1910, Arrangements for British Exhibitors at, 153
Buenos Aires Suburban Railways, Electric Traction Conditions on, 771
Building Construction. See also Ferro-Concrete Bulkheads, Watertight, of Norddeutscher Lloyd
Steamer “George Washington,” 276 Buoys for River St. Lawrence, 399 Burner, Liquid Fuel, for Steam Car, 9 Burners, Gas, The M6ker, 7u3 Burstall, Professor F. W., on Indicating of Gas-
Engines, 193 “ C.M.B.” Auto Converter, 60
Cables, Submarine Telegraph, Cost of Maintenance, 702
Cables, Three-Phase, Distribution of Dielectric Stress in, 297
Cableway, Coal-Handling, at Monte Video, 722
Cadmium Amalgams and the Weston Normal
Cell, Effect of Temperature Changes, 701
Cadmium Spectrum, Method of Producing Intense, 133, 492
Cadmium Spectra, Use of, as Standards in Refractometry, 133, 492
Caissons, Foundation, Blackfriars Bridge, 339
Calcium Chloride for Road Dust Prevention, 500
Calcium Nitrate, Manufacture of, Norway, 609 Calculating Machine, Ludgate’s Proposed, 256 Calculating Machine, Wright Electrical, 96, 133
Calculation of Contents of Cylindrical Tanks, 302 Calculator for Screw-Propellers, 102
Calculus, Treatise on, 675
Caledonian Railway, Widening of Wemyss Bay Line, 4, 71, 137, 2o7, 271
Calichiopulo-Peddie Rifle-Sight, 751
Calorie, Mechanical Ecjuivalent of, Rateau’s Determination of, 807
Calorific Value of Coal Gas, 5C6, 537, 574 Calorimeter, Gas, Fdry Thermo-Electric, 133 Camber of Ship-Launching Ways, Effect of, 261 Cambrai Water Works, France, Gas-Driven Pumping Plant for, 801
Camels, Steel Lifting, for Salvage Work, 250
Canada, Peat Industry of, 388
Canada. See also British Association
Canadian Ice-Breaking S.S. “ Earl Grey,” 399 Canadian Inland Navigation, 293. See also 518 Canadian Meeting of British Association. See British Association
Canadian National Trans-Continental Railway, Construction of, 398
Canadian Pacific Railway, Work on, 430
Canadian Railway Development, 292, 518
Canadian Shipping, Statistics of, 294
Canadian Shipping on the Great Lakes, 293, 518
Canadian Water-Power, 294
Canadian Wheat Industry and Transport, 518 Canals, English, for Traffic on, 585, 695, 832, 891
Canals, French and German, Statistics of, 620 Canal, Georgian Bay, 520
Canal, Panama, 21,74
Canal, Panama, Risk of Accidents to Locks, 54 Canals and Railways, Competition for Traffic on, 585, 620, 695, 832, 891
Canal, Sault Ste. Marie, Accident on the, 54 Canals. See also Channel
Canal, Ship, The Trollhattaii, Sweden, 569
Canal System of Canada, 293. See also 518 Canals and Waterways, Report of Royal Com
mission on, 585, 695, 832, 891. See 620
Canary Islands, Temperley Transporter, 146 Candle-Power, International Standard Unit, 97, 397
Cane-Sugar Manufacture, Treatise on, 676
Canet Breech Mechanism for Guns, 33
Canet Lecture, Junioi* Institution of Engineers, on the Engineering of Ordnance, by Sir Trevor Dawson, 28, 61, 98
Canet Mountings for Naval Guns, 63
Cantilever Bridge, Blackwells Island, New York, 237, 267, 372, 471, 537, 644, 711, 745, 779, 816. For details, see ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Capstan Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Carbon Dioxide, Dissociation of, 334
Carbon Monoxide, Dissociation of, 334
Carbonating and Bottling Plant for Beer, <fec., 554 Carburettor. See Motor-Car Details in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Carding-Machines, Removal of Dust from, 677 Cargo, Ship’s, Porhydrometer for Weighing, 154 Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., on the Growth of
Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings, 458 Carriage, Railway, Brennan, for Mono-Rail, 659 Cars and Carriages. See Motor-Cars^ Railivay^ and Tramway-Car
Cartagena Dockyard for Spanish Navy, 87 Cartsburn Tunnel, Wemyss Bay Railway, 271
Caruila, F. J. R., on Artificial Magnetic Oxide of Iron, 459, 632
Cask-Racking Machines, 554
Cast-Iron Columns and Bases, 838
Cast Iron, Effect of Silicon on, 473, 529
Cast Iron, Growth after Repeated Heatings, 458 Cast Iron, Malleable, Notes on, 669
Cast Iron, Specifications for, 4C9
Cast Iron, Strength of, 408
Cast Iron, Tests of, 473, 529
Castings, Brass, Volume Changes during Solidification of, 586
Castings, Methods of Preventing Defects in, 80 Casting. See also Moulding
Casting for Stern Frame of S.S. “ Olj’mpic, ’ Method of Transporting, 179
Catalogues, 34, 101, 133, 165, 234, 266, 299, £66, 435, 468, 500, 532, 666. 597, 634, 668, 707, 807, 872. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cavitation with Screw Propellers, 119
Cells, Clark and Weston Standard, 428. See 701 Cells, Electric, Tests at the Reichsanstalt, 836 Cells Giving Alternating Currents, 161
Cells, Standard, Method of Preparing Mercurous Sulphate for, 463
Cell, the Weston Normal, Effect of Temperature on Cadmium Amalgams, 701
Cement Concrete. See Concrete- and Ferro- Concrete
Cement Industry, Development of Danish, 356 Cement in Sea-Water, Committee on, 476 Cement Testing, Progress of, 476
Census of Production, 621
Centering for Ferro-Concrete Work, 200
Central Argentine Railway, 35-ton Steam Breakdown Crane for, 699
Central London Railway Company’s Exhibit at Imperial International Exhibition, 57
Central Station. See Electric, Hydro-Electric, and Power
Centrifugal Oil-Separator, Exhaust Steam, 854 Chalkley, A. P., on the Design and Performance of Curtis Marine Turbines, 753
Channel Flight, 149, 152,183. See Erratum, 183 Chassis. See Motor-Car Details in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Chatwood, Samuel, The late, 864
Chauvidre Aeroplane, 662
Chemical Researches at the Reichsanstalt, 837 Chemistry Department at Birmingham University, 110
Chemistry, Physical Exercises in, 507 Chemistry, Professor H. E. Armstrong on the Advance of, 461
Chemists and Engineers, Interdependence, 463 Chetwynd, Henry G. W., The late, 60
China, Development of, 491
China, Iron and Steel Industry in, 689
China, University of Hong Kong, 797 Chinese Naval Commission, 827, 885
Chinese Railways and Shipping, 732
Chinese Workmen, Wages of, 589 Christiania and Bergen Railway, 843 Chuck, Spiral Self-Centering, 625 “ City ” Class, H.M. Scouting Cruisers, 453 Civil Engineer, Adventures of a, 881 Civil Engineering Department, Birmingham University, 8, 42

Civil Engineers, Institution of:

Examination Papers in Applied Mechanics, 81, 216, 289, 325, 360
Presidential Address by J. C. Inglis, 623. See 619
The Single-Phase Electrification of the Heysham, Morecambe, and Lancaster Branch of the Midland Railway, by J. Dalziel and J. Sayers, 649
The Equipment and Working Results of the Mersey Railway under Steam and under Electric Traction, by J. Shaw, 649
The Effect of Electrical Operation on the Permanent-Way Maintenance of Railways, as Illustrated on the Tynemouth Branches of the North-Eastern Railway, by C. A. Harrison, 649
Marine Propulsion by Electric Motors, by H. A. Mavor, 790. See LETTERS, 798, 821
Railway Signalling in India, by C. W. Hodson, 834

Clark and Weston Standard Cells, 428 Clay-Cutting Dredgers for Bombay, 308. See 660 Clerk, Dugald, on the Work of the British Association Committee on Gaseous Explosions, 334. See also 330
Cleveland Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams Cleveland and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 17, 51, 85, 115, 145, 191, 219, 251, 281, 317, 361, 383, 417, 451, 485, 511, 545, 577, 617, 661, 689, 725, 769, 791, 825, 857, 889
Climbing Film Evaporator, Kestner, 822, 865 Clutch. See also Couplings and Motor-Cars Coal Consumption. See also Consumption, Trials and Tests
Coal Consumption and Speed of New Orient Liners, 59, 580
Coal-Dust Explosions, Recording Manometer, 830 Coal-Dust Explosions, Testing Apparatus, 357 Coal-Dust in Mines, Prevention of, 861
Coal-Gas, Calorific and Illuminating Values of, 606, 537, 574
Coal, German, 127
Coal-Handling Plant at Monte Video Electric Power-Station, 722
Coal-Handling. See also Transporters Coal-Mines, Electrical Accidents Underground, 518, 621
Coal-Mine, Model, Birmingham University, 109 Coal-Mines, Suggested Rules for Recovering, after Explosions and Fires, 210
Coal-Mines, Underground Accidents, 518, 621 Coal-Mining. Seealso3/ine6*and Engine, Winding Coal-Mining Instruction at Universities, 109 814 Coal-Mines, Utilisation of Methane, 423 Coal Syndicate, The Rhenish Westphalian, 127 Coaling Plant at Durban, Accident to, 483 Coaling Steamer “ Pallion,” now “ Emma Sauber,” 290
Coaling-Tip, Hydraulic, at Swansea, 688
Cobalt Silver Mines, 495
Cockburn’s Emergency Stop-Valve, 395 Coining Machinery, Boulton’s Improvements, 22|
Technology, The Imperial, New Buildinge for Royal School of Mines, 89
College, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, New Engineer* ing Laboratories and Workshops at, 243
Col lery. See Jfnie, Coal, and Enghie, Windinq Collision. See J ccidmi
Colloids, Action of Electrolytes on, 346 Colonies and the Navy, 296, 691 Colonies, Report on Mechanical Transport, 222 Colour Perception, Spectroscope for Testing, 24 Colour Phenomena and Dynamic Isomerism, 343
Colour Photography and Optics, 2 Columns and Basest Cast Iron, 838 Columns, Ferro-Concrete, 200 Columns, Ferro-Concrete, Spiral Reinforcement for, 338, 405
Columns, Ferro-Concrete, Tests of, 337, 405 Columns, The Rankine-Gordon and Euler’s For- mulse for, 1, 327
Coma, Optical, The Sine Conditions in Relation to, 133
Combined Stresses in Shafts Due to Torsion and Bending, 637, 840, 845, 849. See LETPERS, 696. 69/, 885
Combined Stress, Experiments on Solid Steel Bars under, 238, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 697, 732, 865, 885
Combined Stress Tests of Brass Tubes, 630 Combined Stress, Tests of Mild-Steel Tubes under, 815, 867. See LETTERS, 884, 865
Combined Stress Tests of Non-Ferrous Metals, 587, 593, 629. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 697, 773, 884
Combustion, Report of British Association Committee on,492
Commerce ; Machine-Tool Trade with Colonies, 46, 119
Commercial Education at Birmingham University, 111
Commercial Motor-Vehicles. See Motor and Tractor
Commercial Position of Electrical Industry. 657, 693, 828
Commercial Side of Engineering Business, 651 Commission, Royal. See Royal Comiriiasiori, Committee on Mechanical Transport in the Colonies, Report of, 222
Compass, Use of Gyrostat as, 2
Compensation, Workmen’s. See Legal Compensator, Automatic, for Temperature Changes in Pyrometer Leads, 131
Compound Engines. See Engines Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Compound Stress. See Combined Stress Compounding Alternators, Parsons’ Method, 23 Compressed-Air Brakes. See Brakes Compressed-Air Hammer, 361
Compressed-Air Rock-Drills for Removing Old Masonry, 188
Compression Combined with Torsional Stress Effect on Steel Bars. See Torsion, Combined tOc.
Compression, Influence of, on Thermal Efficiency of Gas-Engines, 522
Compression with Tension, Combined Stresses on Tubes, 845, 867. See LETTER, 866, 884
Compression Tests, Shortening Due to Bending of Specimen in, 632
Compressor, Air, and Paraffin-Oil Engine, 349 Compressor, Air, Humphrey Gas-Pump as, 740 Compressor, Gun Mounting. Armstrong, 63 Concentration of Liquids; Kestner Evaporator. 822. See Erratum, 865
Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See also 7n- dustrial Notes and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Concrete, Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
Concrete, Fire-Resisting Properties of, 146 Concrete-Mixing, Blackwells Island Bridge, 238 Concrete, Mixing of, 132
Concrete, Old, Drilling, 188
Concrete, Poisson’s Ratio for, 405
Concrete, Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete Concrete, Test for Mixing of, 132 Condensation of Steam, Rate of, 641 Condenser Air (Electric) Standard, 835 Condensers, “Contraflo,” on S.S. “ Otaki,” 180 Condensers, Electric, Effect of, on Arc, 23 Condensers for High Vacua, 705 Condensers, Steam, Test for Leakage in, 413 Condenser Tubes, Corrosion of, 557, 741 Condensing Machinery. See also Pumps and Air-Pumps
Conduction of Electricity, Koenigsberger’s Theory of, 55
Conduction of Heat in Metal Plates, 562 Conductivity, Electric, of Solutions in Ethyl Alcohol, 463
Conductivity of Heat-Insulating Materials, 37 Conduit, Steel, at Rochester, N.Y., Corrosion of, 272, 304
Cone, and Ball, Pressure Hardness Tests, 408, 473 ; Congress, International, on Testing of MateriW I 356, 362, 406, 438, 473 ,
Connecting-Rods, Failures of, 353 I
Conservation of Natural Resources, 693 Considdre Ferro-Concrete Columns, 338, 405 I
Constructional Steel-Work. See Bridges, Roofs, .
Floors, and Columns I
Construction of Ships. See also Ships, Steamers, and Steamships
Contact Beds. See Filters
Continuous Beams, Ferro-Concrete, 174, 200, 747 ' Contracts, Engineering, Law of, 354
Contracts for Foreign Engineering Works, 734 ' 808, 832, 866, 897
Control Gear for Electric Lifts, 274 '
Controller, Janney, for Operating Gun-Turrets, 66 Converter, Direct-Current, The “ C.M.B ,” CO Conveyor, Grain, the Mitchell Floating, 48 Conveyor. See also Milling and Elevator Copenhagen Congress on Testing of Materials.

356, 369, 406, 438, 473

Copper Alloys, Modern Methods of Testing, 475 Copper, Corrosion of, 657, 741
Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Copper in Russia, Production and Use, 622 Copper, Standard Specifications for, 371 Copper, Tests of, 596
Copper-Tin-AIuminium Alloys, Constitution and
Properties of, 556, 664 Copper Wire, Tests of, 438
Copper-Zinc Alloys, Volume Changes during
Solidification, 586
Cordite, Composition of, 32
Core-Boxes, Machine for Making, 483 Cores, Methods of Making, 80
Cork-Wiring Machine for Bottles, 554 Cornish, Harry J., Resignation from Lloyd’s, 25 Cornwall, Mining Industry of, 187 Corrosion of Aluminium-Tin Alloys, 557 Corrosion of Copper and Alloys, 557, 741 Corrosion of Iron, The Acid and Electrolytic
Theories of, 531. See also 526
Corrosion of Iron in Water, 476
Corrosion of Locomotive Boilers, 155, 194, 198 Corrosion of Steel Water Conduit at Rochester,
New York, 272, 304
Corrosion of Tubes of Locomotive Boilers, 305 Cost of Industrial Works, 258
Cotton-Mills Ventilation and Dust-Extraction, 677
Counterbalancing of Rotating Masses, 47. See also 13, 247
County Council. See London County Council Coupling for Hose-Pipes, Stove’s, 449 Coverings, Non-Conducting, Efficiency of, 37 Cowper-Coles Engineering Co., Ltd,; Exhibit at
Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Craig’s Engine Cylinder Gauge, 291 Crane, “ Hercules ” Floating, at Liverpool, 524 Cranes and Hoists on H.M. Repair - Ship
“ Cyclops.” 69
Crane, Hydraulic Luffing, 792
Crane and Locomotive, Electric, 329
Crane, Overhead Electric Travelling, 414 Cranes. See also Hoists and Transporters Crane, 75-Ton Steam Floating, for Montreal,

380. See LETTERS, 447, 481, 524

Crane, 35-Ton Steam Breakdown, for Central Argentine Railway, 699
Cranes, Travelling, for Erection of Blackwells Island Bridge, 746
Crane, Travelling, for Erection of Fades Viaduct, 880
Crane, Travelling, for Erection of Lethbridge Viaduct on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 432
Crane, Travelling Jib, for Brazilian Railway, 179
Crank-Axles, Locomotive, Design and Wear of, 155,194
Crank-Axle for Locomotives, Ivatt’s, at Imperial International Exhibition, 57
Crank-Shafts, Failures of, 353 Crank-Shafts, Design of, for Torsion and Bending,

637, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 696, 697, 885

“ Creole,” Steamer, with Curtis Turbines, Trials of, 754
Crosby and Hopkinson Indicators for Gas-
Engines, Comparison of Results, 193
Crown Works Exhibit at Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Cruisers. See Warships Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Micro Photographs
Crystallisation, Luminous Phenomena of, 345
Crystals, Liquid, Zeiss Micro-Projection Apparatus for Demonstration of, 24
Culvert, Ferro-Concrete (Kahn System), on the
North-Eastern Railway, 8871
Cunard Liner “Carmania,” 157
Curtiss Aeroplane, 322 i
Curtis Marine Turbines in the United States ;
Navy, 753. See 695, 768, 823
Curtis Turbines on Japanese Cruiser “Ibuki,”
Trials of, 449
Curtis Turbo-Alternator, 2500-Kilovolt-Ampere,
Tests of, 127
Curve, Flexible, for Draughtsmen, 435
Cutting Metal by Oxygen Jet, 168
Cutting-Off and Screwing-Machine for Pipesand
Bolts, 465
Cycle Show, Stanley, 731
“Cyclops,” H.M. Repair-Ship, 69
Cylinders, Engine, Craig’s Measuring-Gauge, 291 Cylinders. See Engines and Motor-Cars Cylinders, Thick, Kaiser’s Theory of Stresses in, *567, 639, 709, 811, 876
Cylindrical Tanks, Chart for Calculating Contents of, 302

“DI,” Submarine-Boat, H.M., 449
Daff Viaduct; Wemyss Bay Railway, 207
Daimler Motor-Car at Olympia Show, 685
Dalby, Professor \V. E., on Heat Transmission in Boilers, 539, 560, 604. See LBTTKRS, 625, 653, 821. See also 761
Dam, The Gatun, on the Panama Canal, 21
Danish Cement Industry, Development of, 356
Danish State Railway Ferry Steamers, 116, 347
Darling, Charles R., on the Practical Efficiency of Heat-Insulating Materials, 37
Darlington, William Henry, The late, 281
Darracq Engine for Aeroplanes, 457
Darracq Motor-Car, Pressed-Steel Chassis, 684
Davidson, C. F., Notes on Theory of Lubrication, 590. See LETTER, 626
Dawson, Sir Trevor, on the Engineering of Ord
nance, 28, 61, 98
Decking for Bridges. See Bridges Deflection of Girders, DafT Viaduct, 207 “ Delaware,” U.S. Battleship, Trials of, 823 Denmark and Sweden, Steam Ferries, 116, 347 Derailment. See Accident
Derby Gas-Works, 573 Design and Construction of Ships. See also
Naval Architects, Ships, and Steamers Dessau Vertical Retorts for Gas-Making, 506 Destroyers. See Warships
Deville’s Experiments on the Dissociation and
Diffusion of Gases, 333
Dickinson, H. W. ; the Biography of Matthew Boulton, 224
Dielectric Stress, Distribution of, in Three-Phase Cables, 297
Differential Gears for Motor-Cars. See Jfofor-
Car Details in ILLUSTRATION INDEX Diffraction of Electrical Waves, 427 Diffraction Gratings, Concave, Thorp - Butler
Replicas of, 23
Diffusion of Gases, Deville’s Experiments on, 333 Directories. See LITERATI RE INDEX
Dirigible Balloons. See Airships and Aerial Disasters. See Accidents
Discharge, Luminox’*' in Gases, 427
; i Dismissal, Wrongful, Compensation for, 412
Dissociation, Ionic, Professor Armstrong on,
I Dissociation and Diffusion of Gases, Deville’s j Experiments on, 333
I Dissociation of Metals and Minerals, Heat of, 65 Distress Amendment Act, 55
: Dock Accommodation for Battleships, 53
' Dock, Alexandra, Newport, Collapse of Trench
! Timbering at, 658. See LETTERS, 799, 864
’ i Docks, Brunswick and Union, Liverpool, Re-
I moval of, 188
Docks, Floating, for Warships, 53
Dock and Retaining-Walls of Ferro-Concrete, 201, 247, 327
Docks. See also Estuary, Harbour, and Port Dock, Swansea, Hydraulic Coaling-Tip for, 688 Dockyards at Ferrol and Cartagena, 87 Domnarfvet Iron Works, Sweden, Electric Blast-Furnace at, 414, 458, 465. See also 695
Doncaster Aviation Meeting, 552, 583. See LETTER, 625. See also 728
Dough-Mixing and Kneading Machine, 248
; Dover Harbour, 501
i Draughtsmen’s Curve, Flexible, 435
? Drawing-Office Practice, 216
Drawings, Bilative Positions of the Plan and Elevation on, 215
Dredger, Hopper and Suction for Venice, 218
Dredgers, Simons’ Clay-Cutting, Reclamation for Bombay, 308. See 660
Drifter “Sardius” with Thornycroft Paraffin- Motor, 244
Drill, Breast, Two-Speed, 702
Drills, Holman Rock, at Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Drilling-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Drilling Old Masonry and Concrete, Brunswick and Union Docks, Liverpool, 188
Drivers and Firemen on French Railways, Conditions of Labour of, 20. See 454
Drop-Hammers, Massey’s Friction Lift for, 686 Druitt-Halpin Thermal Storage Tank for Locomotive Boilers, 162
Dry-Blast for Blast-Furnaces, Fuel Economy of, 458, 468. See also 467
Drying-Machine, Centrifugal, for Sewage Sludge. Schaefer-ter Meer, 628 I
Ducat Sewage Filters at Hendon, 454 Duck ham and Woodhall’s Vertical Gas Retorts, 535
Ductile Materials, Torsion Tests of, 308, 362. See LETTERS, 590, 625, 653, 697, 698, 733, 755, 79!), 821 I
“Duke of Argyll,” Turbine Steamer for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, 757 !
“ Duke of Cumberland, ” Turbine Steamer for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 757
Durban, Accident to Coaling Plant at, 483
Dust Exhaustion in Grinding Operations, 729
Dust Extraction from Textile Mills, 677
Dust Prevention on Roads, Use of “ Chloride for, 500
Dust. See also Coal-Dust.
Dynamic Isomerism, Report of British tion Committee on, 343
Dynamometer, Absorption Brake, 27
Dynamometer, Hydraulic Absorption, 806
:Dynamometer, Hydraulic, Absorption, Westinghouse, 763
Dynamos. See Dynamos and Alternators under Electric.

“Earl Grey,” Canadian Ice-Breaking Steamer. 390
Earth and Ether, Relative Motion of, 427
Earthquake Investigation, Report of British Association Committee on, 428
Earthquake in Java, Effect on Railway, 131
East River, New York, Blackwells Island Bridge over, 237, 267, 372, 471, 537, 644, 711, 745, 779, 816. For details see ILLUSTKATION INDEX
Echelon Spectroscope, Secondary Action of, and the Structure of the Green Mercury Line, 96
Economisers, Ogden’s Air-Excluder for, 769 Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt College, New Engineering Laboratories and Workshops at, 243
Edridge-Green’s Spectroscope for Estimating Colour Perception, 24 '
Education Committee of London County Council ; Report on Apprenticeship, 656
Educational Factors of Imperialism, by the Rev. H. B. Gray, D.D., 492
Education, The Complete Student, 319. See LETTERS, 360, 392, 412, 447, 481
Education of Electrical Engineers (Professor .1. A. Fleming), 487, 664
Education of Railway Engineers, 221
Education, Technical, at the Heriot-Watt College. Edinburgh, 243
Education, Technical, in the United States; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 388
Education, Technical. See Birmingham, Leeds, Victoria, and Beriot-yVatt
Education, Technical, at Hong Kong, 797
Education, Technical, at University of Illinois. 221
Education of Workmen, 517
Edwards, C. A., on Aluminium-Copper-Tin Alloys, 656, 664
Efficiency of Steam-Turbines. See Turbines
Efficiency Tests of Internal-Combustion Engine, with Gas, Gasoline, and Alcohol, 460
Efficiency, Thermal, Gas-Engines, Influence of Compression on, 522
Egner-Holm Strom Long-Distance Telephone, 91 Egypt, Irrigation by Artesian Wells, 420 Egyptian Oasis ; Kharga, 74
Elasticity, Volume, Temperature Coefficient. 750
Elastic Breakdown of Non-Ferrous Metal, 587, 593, 629. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 697, 733, 884
Elastic Limit, Effect of Strain on, 363
Elastic Limits of Ductile Materials in Torsion Tests, 308, 362, 850. See LETTERS, 590, 625, 653, 697, 698, 733, 755, 799, 821
Elastic Limits of Steel Bars under Combined Stress, 238,840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 697, 732
Elastic Modulus of Spring Steel, 369
Elastic Modulus of Spring Steel by Transverse Tests, 520

Electric:

Agreements Relating to Electric Supply, 121
Alternating Current, Shunts for, 835
Alternators, Parsons’ Method of Compounding, 23
Alternators, Water-Driven, for Norway, 626
Arc, Cadmium, for Spectroscopic Purposes, Method of Producing, 133, 492
Ares, Effect of Condensers on, 23
Arc Furnaces for Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 555, 609
Arc-Lamp, “ Jandus ” Regenerative, 599
Argentine Railways, Electric Traction Condition on.771
Auto-Converter, The “ C.M.B.,” CO Birmingham University Electrical Department, 9
Board of Trade New Regulations for Electric Supply, 88
Cables, Three-Phase Distribution of Dielectric Stress in, 297
Cells giving Alternating Currents, 154
Cells, Tests of, at the Reichsanstalt, 826 Central London Railway Exhibit at Imperial International Exhibition, 57
Clark and Weston Standard Cells, 428 Coal-Handling Plant at Monte Video Power- Station, 722
^840 and Inductance of,
Collieries, Electrical, Accidents in, 518, 621 Cmnpensator, Automatic, for Temperature Changes in Pyrometer Leads, 131
Condenser, Air, Standard, 835
Conduction of Electricity, Koenigsberger’s Theory of, 55
Conductivity of Solutions in Ethyl Alcohol, 463
Crane, Four-Motor Overhead Travelling, 414 “Cyclops,’' 11.M. Repair-Ship, Electric Installation on, 69
Discharge, Luminous, in Gases, Effect of Temperature on, 427
Dynamo, Hjorth’s ; The First Self-Exciting Machine, 625
Electrical Engineering, Treatise on, 442
Electrical Engineers, Education of, 487, 564 Electrical. Industry, British Cultivation of Export Trade, 657, 828. See 693
Electrical Industry, The Outlook of, 657,828, See 693 ’ ’
Electric Lighting Acts (Amendment) Bill, 1909. 121 ’
Electrical Machinery, Breakdowns of, 354
Electrical Machinery, Cheapening of, 693. See also 657, 828
Electrical Researches at the Reichsanstalt, 835
Electricity for Medical Purposes, 206
Electricity Supply, Schemes in Parliament. 730, 766
Electro-Analysis, Report of British Association Committee on, 492
Electrodes, Hydrogen Gas, Constancy of, 463
Electrolytes, Conduction in, 325 Electrolytically Deposited Metal, Tension,555 Exhibition, Apparatus, Physical Society, 861 f actories and Workshops, Electricity in, 38 t urnaces. Arc, for Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 555, 609
Furnace, Blast, at Domnarfvet Iron Works, Sweden, 414, 458, 465. See also 695
Furnaces. See also Steel Furnaces and Hardening Furnaces
Gas Calorimeter, Fery, Thermo-Electric, 133 Gearing, The Lecoche Magnetic, 14 Generators, Automatic Regulation of, 693 German and British Electrical Industries. 828. See also 657, 693
German Electricity Works, Statistics of, 4«9 Gun-Mounting, Electric, for 10-In. Guns, 64 Hand-Lamps for Boiler Inspectors, 15 Heysham Bran(‘h of the Midland Railway,
Single-Phase Electric Traction on, 649
High-Frequency Currents, Self-Induction, 835
Hydro-Electric Nitrogen Works, Norway, 609 Ignition Gear, Low Tension, Gas-Engine, 575 Ignition Gears for Motor-Cars, 623 Ignition, High-Tension. Gas-Engines, 81, 413 Ilgner Electrically - Driven Rolling - Mill, Operating Costs of, 458, 466
Ions, Gaseous, Electric Charges on, 425
Iron-Smelting Furnace at Domnarfvet Iron Works, Sweden, 414, 458, 465. See also 695
Janney Hydraulic Speed-Varying Apparatus for Electric Motors, 66
Laboratories, Birmingham University, 42 Lamps, Metallic Filament, at Harrogate, 833 Lamps, “ Tuholite,” with Metal Filaments, 23 Lift-Control Gear, 274
Lifts on H.M. Repair-Ship “ Cyclop?,” 69 Light, Artificial, Requirements of, 728 Locomotive and Crane, 329
Locomotive, Three-Phase, for the Simplon Tunnel, 444, 546
Locomotive, Turbo-Electric, The Reid- Ramsay, 613
Magnetic Storm and Aurora of September 25. 1909, 488. See LETTERS, 524
Marine; Electrical Transmission, 233,706, 790. 798, 821 ’
Mercury, Electro-Deiiosition of, 492
Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, 835
Mersey Railway, Comparison of Steam and
Electric Working, 649
Meters, Electricity, Tests of, 835, 836
Motor, Three Phase Four-Speed, for Simplon
Tunnel Locomotive, 444, 546
Nomenclature, International Standardisation of, 396
Ohm’s Law, Validity of, for Electrolytes, 325
Oscillations, High-Frequency, Measurement of Wave-Lengths of, 133
Peltier Effect with Thermo-Couples, 835 Photographic Plates, Electric Splashes on, 24, 375
Physical Society Exhibition, 861
Pipes, Electrolytic Corrosion of, 272, 304
Planing-Machines, Automatic Electric Re* versing-Gear for, 888
Positive Electricity, Sir J. J. Thomson on, 374 . .
Power-Station, Birmingham University, 9, 42
Power-Stations. See llydrO'Electric Pyrometer, The Bristol Recording, 131 Railways, Electric Traction on. See Electrification
Railways, Traction on, 693 Rain, Electricity of, and Thunderstorms, 258 Resistances, Effect cf Moisture on, 836 Rolling-Mills, Electrical Operating, Costs of, 468, 466
Shunts for Alternating Current, 835 Standards for Electrical Measurements, 428, 833
Standardisation, International Electrical, 396, 833
Steel Production from Luxemburg Ore, 460 Stress, Determination of, by Thermo-Electric Measurements, 476
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 702 Sulphur, Effect of Light on Insulating Properties of, 425
Telegraph Cables, Submarine, Cost of Maintenance, 702
Telegraph. See also Wireless . i
Telephone Circuits, Inductance and Resistance in, 97
Telephone, The Egndr - Holmstrom Long- Distance, 91
Textile Factories, Electrical Operation of, 177, 201, 510, 653. 754, 7y9, 820. See 216 Thermo-Couples, Influence of Cold-Junction Temperature on, 131
Thermo-Couples, Tests, Reichsanstalt, 836 Thunderstorms, Origin of, 258
Tramways, Street Widenings, 89 Tramway Systems, Electric Supply from, 693 Transformer, Direct-Current, TheC.M.B., 60 Turbo-Alternator, Curtis 2500-K.V.A., Tests of, 127
Turbo-Electric Drive, Marine Propulsion, 233, 706, 790, 798, 821
Valves, Electrolytic, for Alternating Currents, 835
Water-Heater, The “ Therol,” 349 Waves, Electrical, Diffraction of, 427 Wave-Length Measurements of Electrical Oscillations, 835
Weston Normal Cell, Effect of Temperature I on Cadmium Amalgams, 701
Weston Standard Cells, Methods of Preparing Mercurous Sulphate for, 463
Wireless Telegraph; Poulsen High-Speed System, 588
Wright Device for Solving Equations, 96. See 133

Electricity, Positive, Sir J. J. Thomson on, 374
Electrolytic Conduction of Metals and Minerals, 65
Elements, Classification of, 462
Elevator, Electric, Control-Gear, 274
Elevator, Electric, onH.M. Repairing-Ship “Cyclops,” 69
Elevator, Grain, Mitchell Floating, 48
Elevators’. See also Hoii-is and Conveyors
“ Elswick ” Breech Mechanism for Guns, 33
Employers’ Liability at Common Law, 860 Employers’ Liabil ty. See also Workmen's Compensation under Legal
Employers’ Unions in Germany, 258 Employment Register for Engineers, 649
Engine Cylinders, Gauge for Measuring, 291 Engine-Drivers and Firemen on French Railways;
Conditions of Labour, 20. See 454
Engines, Experimental, at the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, 2i3
Engines, Experimental Steam and Gas, at Victoria University, Manchester, 82
Engine, Gas, Blowing, 2000-Horse-Power SingleCylinder, 855
Engines. Gas; Comparison of Hopkinson Optical and Crosby Indicators, 193
Engines, Gas, Design of, 335
Engines, Gas ; Effect of Cylinder Walls, 334
Engine, Gas, for Experiments on Gaseous Explosions, 330
Engines, Gas, High-Tension for, 81, 413
Engines, Gas; Influence of
Thermal Efficiency, 522
Engines, Gas, Low-Tensicn Gear for. 575
Engines, Gas and Oil, at the Smithfield Club Show, 795
Engine, Gas, “ Premier,” 600-Horse Power, 686 Engine, (ias, for Pumping Plant at Cambrai, France, SOI
Engines, Gas. See also Humphrey's and Joy's Gas Pumps
Engines, Gas, Thermal Efficiency of, 334 Engine Governor, Hall’s Frictionless, 591 Engine Governors, Theory and Practice cf, 13, 47, 247, See Erratum, 317
Engines, Internal - Combustion ; Comparative Tests with Gas, Gasoline, and Alcohol, 460
Engines, Internal-Combustion, Electric Ignition Gears for, 81, 413, 675, 623, 720
Engines, Internal-Combustion, Experimental, at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, 243
Engines, Internal-Combustion, at the Gloucester Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 22
Engines, Internal-Combustion, for Marine Propulsion, 232, 706. 821
Engines, Internal-Combustion. See also Motors Engines, Internal-Combustion, Treatise on, 76 Engines, Locomotive. See Locomotive Engines, Marine, Forced Lubrication for, 703 Engines, Marine Paddle, of Train-Ferry Steamer “ Fabius,” 443
Engines, Marine, Production of, in 1909, 800, 904 Engine, Marine, Quadruple-Expansion, Launch, 482
Engines, Marine, Quadruple-Expansion, of Orient Liner “Otranto,” 581
Engines, Marine, Quadruple-Expansion, of S.S. “George Washington,” 276
Engine, Marine, for Steam-Launch, at Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Engines, Marine. See also Warships
Engines, Marine, Steam Consumption of, 231
Engines, Marine, Superheated Steam in, 704
Engines, Marine, Triple Expansion, of S.S. “ America,” 412
Engines, Marine, for Warships, 703. See 691, 894 Engine, Oil, Two-Cycle Reversible, 797 Engine, Paraffin, with Air-Compressor, 349 Engine, Paraffin, Fairbank’s Two-Cjcle, 22 Engine, Paraffin, Hardy and Padmore’s, at Gloucester Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 22
Engines, Petrol, for Aeroplanes, Paris Aviation Exhibition, 457, 490
Engines, Petrol, for Aeroplanes, Relative Advantages of Air and Water Cooling, 490
Engines, Petrol, for Aeroplanes, Trials of, 763. See also A eroplanes
Engine, Petrol, for Argyll Motor-Car, 683
Engine, Petrol, 40-50 Horse-Power Six-Cylinder, for Wolseley-Siddeley Motor-Car, 648
Engines, Petrol, with Piston-Valves, 719 Engine, Petrol, with Piston-Valves (Hewitt), 720
Engines, Petrol. See also JZotor-Cars, J/otors, Petroly and Motor-Launches
Engine, Petrol, for Straker Squire Tramcarat the Imperial International Exhibition. 357 Engines, Petrol, Thermal Efficiency of, 331 Engines, Petrol, United States Railways, 481 Engines, Steam, Comparative Weights of Turbine and Reciprocating, 226
Engines, Steam, Earlj' History of, 224
Engines, Steam, Gas and Oil, Breakdowns of, 353
Engines, Steam, Ratios of Expansion in, 59, 704 Engines, Steam, Reciprocating, with Turbines for Marine Propulsion, 179. See 231, 295, 705 Engines, Steam, Rolling-Mill, Methods of Measuring Steam Consumption of, 458, 466
Engines, Steam, at Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Gloucester, 22
Engines, Steam, Sisson’s High-Speed, at Gloucester Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 22 Engine, Superheated Steam, for Stewart Military Tractor, 508
Engine, Superheated Steam, for Turner-Miesse Car, 9
Engine, Tandem Compound Condensing SemiPortable, 478, 497, 524
Engine, Traction, Boiler Explosion near Canterbury, 633
Engines, Traction, at Gloucester Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 22
Engines, Traction and Portable, at the Smith- field Club Show, 795
Engines, Turbine. See Turbine
Engines, Two-Cycle Petrol, for Motor-Cycles, 731
Engines, Winding, Design of, 857, 885
Engineering at Birmingham University, Civil, 8, 42; Mechanical, 9; Metallurgical, 46; draulic, 8
Engineering, The Commercial Side of, 551 Engineering Drawings, 215
Engineering Education. See Education Technical
Engineering Laboratories at Birmingham versity, 6, 42, 109
Engineering Laboratories at Leeds University, 713, 813
Engineering Laboratories, The Whitworth, at Victoria University, Manchester, 82
Engineering Laboratories and Workshops at the
Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, 243
Engineering Literature, Modern, Criticism of, 215
Engineering, Marine, in the Early Twentieth Century, Advance of, 176, 231
Engineering of Ordnance, 28, 61, 93
Engineering Profession, Status of, 484, 619, 623 Engineering Projects, Foreign, 734, 808, 839,856, 897
Engineering, Railway, School of, University of Illinois, U.S.A., 221
Engineering Schemes in Parliament, 730, 764 Engineering Works, The Design of, 258 Engineering Works Foremen, 185 Engineers and Chemists, Interdependence of, 463
Engineer, Civil, Adventures of a, 881
Engineers’ Education, Education, Technical^ and Training
Engineers’ Employment Register, 549 Engineers’ Influence on Public Affairs, 619, 623 Engineers, Institutions of. See Cioil Engineers^ Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Eacal Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, Bi'itish Association, Society of Arts, and Metals, Institxcte of
Engineers and Labour Problems. 624 Engineers, Law Affecting, Treatise on, 211
Engineers and the Law of Negligence, 224 Engineers, Naval, 619, 698, 754, 798, 820
Engineers’ Prospects in India, 13, 289
Engineers, Railway, Education of, 221
Entre Rios, Argentina, Bridge over the Guale- guay River, 107
Erection of Blackwells Island Bridge, See Blackwells Island Bridge in ILLUSTRATION LSOEX
Errata anil Addenda:

6000-Horse-Power Spur - Wheel Reduction Gear, 449

Air Pressure on Inclined Planes, 435
Baxendale and Co.’s Address, 101
British Railway Economics, 317
Channel Flight, 183
Garratt Locomotive, 856
Governor Theory and Practice, 317 Kestner Climbing Film E\ aporator, 86.5 Lanchester Theory of Flight, 451 Paterson’s High-Pressure Filters, 824 Royal Agricultural Show, 85 Tacheoraeters, 288
Turbines for German Cruisers, 382
Verband Deutscher Diplom.-Ingenieur, 115 Etalon for Refractometry, 863 Ether and the Earth, Relative Motion of, 427 Ether, Motion of Sun in the, 840 Euler’s and the Rankine-Gordon Formuke for Columns, 1, 327
Evaporator, Kestner Climbing Film, 822. See Erratum^ 865
Examination Papers in Applied Mechanics at Institution of Civil Engineers, 81, 216, 289, 325, 360
Excavation, Cost, Trollhattan Canal, 569 Exhaust-Steam Turbine, Rateau, 806 Exhaust-Steam Turbines, 731
Exhibition, Anglo-Japanese, 1910, 188 Exhibition, The Brewers’, 553
Exhibition at Brussels, 1910, Arrangements for British Exhibitors at, 153
Exhibition Department, Board of Trade, 153 Exhibition, Imperial International, at Shepherd’s Bush, Engineering Exhibits at, 56. 187, 357
Exhibition, The Ironmongery and Hardware Trades’, 90
Exhibition, The “Model Engineer,” 554
Exhibition, Motor-Cars at Olympia, 680, 719. See also 648
Exhibition, The Paris Aviation, 456, 490 Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, Physical Society’s, 829, 861
Exhibition, The Smithfield Club Show, 795
Exhibition, The Stanley Cycle Show, 731
Expansion Joint, Blackwells Island Bridge. See Blackwells Island Bridge\n ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Steamer “George Washington,” 276 Expansion in Steam-Engines, Ratios of, 59, 704 Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion Explosions of Coal-Dust, Recording Manometer for, 830
Explosions, Coal-Dust, Testing Apparatus, 357 Explosions, Gaseous, Report of British Association Committee on, 330. See also 334
Explosions, Suggested Rules for Recovering Coal- Mines after, 210
Explosive Compounds for Guns, 32 Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition
Extensometer for Fatigue-Testing Machine, 106 Extensometer, Manet-Rabut, for Structural Members, 464
Extensometer, Smith’s, The Sphingometer, Design and Calibration of, 587, 593, 631, 849, See LETTERS, 625, 652, 697, 733, 884

“Fabius,” Railway Ferry Steamer, for Northern Nigeria, 443
Facing-Machines. See Machine-Tools Factories, Textile, Electrical Operation of, 177, 201, 510, 653, 754, 799, 82o. See 216
Factories and Workshops, Electricity in, 38 Factory Law Cases. See Legal
Fades Viaduct on the Paris-Orleans Railway, 877 Fairbanks’ Two-Cycle Paraffin Engine at Gloucester Show of Royal Agricultural Society, 22 Falmouth Observatory Magnetic Observations, Report of British Association Committee, 428
Falsework for Blackwells Island Bridge. See Blackivells Island Bridge in ILLUSTRATION INDEX Farman Aeroplane, 490, 611, 656
Fatigue of Metal. See Micro-Photographs Fatigue-Testing Machine, 105
Feed-Water Filters, Pressure, 788. See Erratum^ 824
Feed-Water Temperature. See Condensers Fenby-Hale Aperture Sight for Rifles, 77 Ferro-Concrete, 146, 173. 200
Ferro-Concrete Columns, Spiral Reinforcement for, 338, 405
Ferro-Concrete Columns, Tests of, 337, 405 Ferro-Concrete Continuous Beams, 174, 200, 747 Ferro-Cor Crete Culvert (Kahn System) on North-Eastern Railway, 887
Ferro-Concrete Design, Limitations of, 747. LETTERS, 866
Ferro-Concrete Dock and Retaining-Walls, 247, 327
Ferro-Concrete, Fire-Resisting Properties of, 146 Ferro-Concrete Posts. 246, 622
Ferro-Concrete Struts and Columns, 200 Ferro-Concrete or Steel Bridge at Waterford, 227 Ferro-Concrete Torpedo-Testing Station, 170 Ferro-Concrete, Use of, in Coal-Mines, 622 Ferro-Silicon. See also Silicon
Ferro-Silicon, Use of, in the Foundry, 473, 520 Ferrol Dockyard for Spanish Navy, 87
Ferries, Steam, American, Traffic on, 58
Ferries, Steam, Railway, between Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, 58, 116, 347
Ferry Steamer for Danish State Railways, 347 Ferry Steamer, Nigerian Railway, 443
Ferry Steamers,Railway, “Malmo” and “Christian IX.” 116
Ferry Steamers, Railway, for Trelleborg-Sassnitz Service, 58
Fertilisers, Artificial Manufacture of, at Notod- den, Norway, 609. See also 555
Fcry Thermo-Electric Gas-Calorimeter, 133 Field Artillery, Development of, 98 Field Guns. See also Cuns
Filter-Beds, Sewage, Life of, 454
Filters for Boiler Feed Water, 788. See Erratum 824
Filters, Ducat, for Sewage at Hendon, 454 Filter for 0:1, See Qil-Eilter.
Financial Annual, Japanese, 91
Fire-Boxes, Boiler, Transmission of Heat through, 539, 560, 604, 761, ^92. See LETTERS, 625, 653, 821
Fire-Box, Corrugated, Locomotive, 155, 161 Fire-Boxes, Locomotive, Grooving and Pitting of, 155, 194, 198
Fire Brigade, London, The Command of the, 25 Fire-Lighters, Sawdust, Bri(iuetting Machine for Making, 722
Fire-Resisting Properties of Ferro-Concrete, 146 Fires, Suggested Rules for Recovering Coal- Mines after, 210
Fishguard as a Port for Atlantic Liners, 320, 390 Fishing-Boat with Paraffin Motor, 244 Fitzgerald-Lorentz Effect; the Relative Motion of the Earth and Ether, 427
Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, Notodden, 609
Flash Boiler for Turner-Miesse Steam-Car, 9 Fleet, Russian, Volunteer, Subsidies, 422 Fleming, Professor J. A., on Electrical Inventions and the Training of Electrical Engineers, 487, 564
“ Fleswick,” Steamer, Salvage of, 140
Flexible Aerial Propellers, Tests of, 183
Flexible Teeth for Speed-Reducing Gears of Steam-Turbines, 480
Flicker Photometer, Physiological Principles of, 775
Flight. See also Aerial, Aeroplane, Propeller, and Airship
Floating Crane, 75-Ton Steam, for Montreal, 380. See LETTERS, 447, 481, 524
Floating Crane, “ Hercules,” at Liverpool, 524 Floating Docks for Warships, 53
Floating Grain-Elevator, 48
Fluid Friction, Coefficient of, Lanchester’s Value of, 81, 148, 214, 325. See Erratum, 451
Fluids, Pressure of, on Inclined Planes, 386. See 413, 755. See Erratum, 435
Fluorescence of Canary Glaes at Low Temperatures, 427
Fluorescence of Glass and Quartz, 751 Fluorescence, Phenomena of, 346, 427 Fluorescent Spectra, Effect of Low Temperature on, 427
Flying-Machines. See Aeroplanes and Airships Fog-Signals on the River St. Lawrence; Submarine Signalling, 399
Foreign Engineering Projects, 734, 808. 839, 856, i 897
Foremen, Engineering Works, 185
Foremen’s Mutual Benefit Society, 185 Forging-Press, Hydraulic, 395
Forging-Press, Hydraulic, on H. M. Repair-Ship “ Cyclops,” 69
Formby Electric Power Station, 178
Formosa, Sugar Industry in, 460
Formula for Mean Effective Pressure in Steam- Engines, Royds’, 59
Formulie for Pressure and Temperature of Saturated Steam, 167. See LETTER, 524
Formulae, Wright Electrical Device for Evaluating, 96. See 133
Fbttinger Torsion-Meter, 601
Fottinger’s Hydraulic Transmitter for Marine Steam-Turbines, 601
Foundations of Blackfriars Bridge, 339
Foundations, Dock Walls. See Doefcsand Dams
Foundry on H.M. Repair-Ship “Cyclops,” 69
Foundry, The Mumford, Pneumatic Moulding-Machine for, 113
Foundry, Use of the Microscope in, 477
Foundry Work ; Methods for Preventing Defects ; in Castings. 80
Framing, Longitudinal, of Ships, 215, 360, 884
France, Workmen’s Pensions in, 895. See 20, 454
“Francesco Morosini,” Italian Battleship, Effect of Torpedo Attack on, 228
Fraser and Co.’s Aperture Sight for Rifles,
French Canals, Statistics of, 620
French Indo-China, Railways in, 895
French Railway Employes’ Pensions, 20, 895
French Railway Viaducts, Comparison, 877
French Torpedo-Testing Station, 170
Friction of Air on Inclini d Planes, 386. LETTER, 755. See Erratum, 435
Friction, Air, Lanchester’s Value of the

Galvanising, Cowper-Coles Process of, 187
Gamma Rays, Radiations from, 375
Gatforth Rescue Apparatus for Mines, 357
Garratt Locomotive for the Tasmanian Government Railway, 802
Garrod, J. R., on Gualeguay River Bridge, 107
Gas Bills in Parliament, 731, 766
Gas, Blast-Furnace, Analyses of, 467
Gas-Burners and Furnaces, The M6ker, 703
Gas-Calorimeter, The F6ry Thermo-Electric, 133
Gas, Coal, Calorific and Illuminating Values of, 606. 637, 574
Gas Engineering Department at Leeds University, 813
Gas-Engines. See Engines^ Gas
Gases, Heat Conductivity of, 562. See 761
Gases, Kinetic Theory of, 324
Gas Manufacture; Ammouia-Recovery Plants, 126
Gas Manufacture, Horizontal Retorts for, 573
Gas Manufacture, Recent Progress, 503, 535, 573
Gas Manufacture, Vertical Retorts for, 503, 535
Gas, Number of Molecules in Given Volume, 324
Gas Pressures, Small, Gauge for Measuring, 750
Gas Producer Plant, Suction, 554
Gas-Producer. See also Producer and Suction Gas-Pump, Joy’s, 783
Gas-Pump, Humphrey’s, 512, 736, 737, 772, 782 ; Results of Tests, 514, 772. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 820, 865
Gas, Suction, Tug-Boats on the Rhine, 90
Gases, Various, Specific Heat of, at High Tem« peratures, 731. See also 893
Gas Works, Derby, Horizontal Retorts at, 573
Gas Works, Nine Elms, Vertical Retorts at, 535
Gas Works, St. Helens, Vertical Retorts at, 526 ’
Gas Works at Sunderland, 503 . . ’
Gaseous Explosions, Report of British As^ocia- ' tion Committee on, 330. See also 33i Gases, Dissociation and Diffusion of; Devilles Experiments, 333 Gases, Ignition Point of, 330 Gases, Ionisation of, 343, 374 Gases, Luminous Discharge in, 427 Gases, Magnetism of. 188 Cases, Moving, Measuring Temperature of, IJ, Gases, Specific Heat of, at High Temperatures, 330. See also 334 . T. , ,
Gasoline Engines. See PetroL
Gatun Dam on the Panama Canal, 21 Gauge, Diaphragm, for Small Gas Pressures, 7..0 Gauge for Engine Cylinders, Craig’s, 2^ Gauge, Pier Diaphragm for Explosion Pressures, Gauge, Pressure-Recording, for Coal-Dust Explosions, 830 __ co
Gauge, The Reden Spiral, for High Vacua, 7S5 Gauges, Vacuum, Brotherhoods Apparatus for Testing, 578 _ _ ,
Gayley Dry Blast for Blast-Furnaces, Fuel Economy of, 458, 468. See also 467
Gear-Cutting Machines. See Machine’Tools Gears, Differential, for Motor-Cais. See Motor-
Car Details in ILLUSTRATION INDEX Gear, Lecoche Frictionless, 14 .
Gear-Machining Tools. See Machine-TooZs Gears, Speed-Reducing, for Steam-Turbines,
Flexible Teeth for, 480 v
Gear, Speed-Reducing, for Steam-Turbines,
Westinghouse, 377, 763, See 480. See Erra- ium, ; Fbttinger’s, 601
Generators, Electric. See Alternators and />»/- nainos Electric
Generators, Gas. See Producer, Suction and Gas Generating Station. See Power Plant and ilydro-Electric
Geodetic Arc in Africa, Measurement of, 428 Geological Exhibits at Rojal Society s Soiree, 24
Geology, Influence of Radioactivity on, 47/ “George Washington,” Norddeutscher - Lloyd Twin-Screw Steamer, 276
Georgian Bay Canal, 520
German and British Electrical Industries, 828.
See also 657, 693 .
German Canals, Statistics of, 620
German Coal Industry, 127
German Electricity Works, Statistics of, 4S9 German Employers’ Union, 258
German and English Shipbuilding, Comparison of, 521. See LETTER, 693
German Guns, Life and Power of, 123
German Machine-Tool Trade, 491 German Navy Estimates for 1910, /66
German Naval Architect’s A ear-Book, 2 Germany, Production of Iron and St-el in, 3-0. Ge^rma^ny and Sweden, International Steam-
Ferry Service, 58. See 116, 347
Germany, Syndicate and Kai tel Movement, 692 Girders. See Btans, Bridges, and Roofs Gjedser - Warnemtinde Steam -1 erry Steamer, Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College,
Absorp ion Brake Dynamometer for, 2/ Glass and Quartz, Fluorescence of, 751 Gliding or Skimming Boats, 124, 215, 313 “Gloucester,” H.M. Scout-Cruiser, /67 Gloucester, Royal Agricultural Society s Show at, 21. See also Vol. Ixxxvii.
Glover and West’s Vertical Gas-Retorts, 536 “ Gnome ” Motor for Aeroplanes, 457 Godbeer, S., on Formul® Connecting Pressu^re and Temperature of Saturated Steam, 167. See LETTER, 524
Governors, Engine, Theory and Practice of, 13, 47 247. See Erratum, 317
Governor, Hall’s Frictionless, 591 Gradients, Reduction of, on the Canadian Pacific Grai’n,'Sad^an. and Transport Facilities, 518 Grain-Elevator, Mitchell CantileverFloating, 43 Granite, Quarrying of, for Blackwells Is.and Gratings* ""Concave Diffraction, Th9rp-Butler Replicas of, 23
Graving Dock. See Dock B.“:n"the’ Educational Factors
GreVt'bakes'SadFan Shipping, 293. See 518 Great Northern Railway Company s Exhibit at Imperial International Exhibition, 56
Great Western Railway Mam Line from Fishguard to Paddington, 399 .
Gr^at Western Railway Record of Run from Fishguard to Paddington, 320, 390 .
Greenway, N. W., on the Comparative Weights of Reciprocating and Turbine Machinery for Marine Work, 226
Grinding in Workshops, Regulations for, 729 Grinding-Machines. See ^^(^cf^^^^ Tools Grinding-Machine for Tramway Rails, 384 Grinding Sparks, Determination of Quality of Steel by, 370
Grindstone-Dreesing Machine, 229
Grooving and Pitting of Locomotive Boilers, 155, Gualeguay River Bridge, Entre Ries, Argentina, 107
Guest’s Law. See Combined Stress Guns, Air-Blast for Cleaning, 66 Guns, Ballistics of Modern, 28, 98 Gun-Boats. See Warships Guns, Breech Mechanisms for, 32 Guns, British and German, Comparison of, 123 Guns, Built-Up, Shiinkage I rtssures in, 709 Guns, Chain Rammers for, 04 Gun-Cleaning, Air-Blast for, 66 Guns, Danger Zones of Modern, 67 Guns, Field. Modern, 98 Guns, Howitzers and Mortars, Modern, 98 Guns. Krupp, for Attacking Ba Icons and Aero- OunsI’^Ma^chine, Peddie Calichiopulo Sight for, 751. See also 76
Guns, Manufacture of, 28, 61, 98
Gun-Mounting, Electric, for Two 10-In. Guns, 64 Gun-Mounting, Hydraulic, for 12-In. Guns, 63 Gun-Mountings, Naval, 61
Guns, Muzzle Energy and Penetration of, 29, 67 Guns for New Spanish Battleships, 87. See 183 Gun-Power of Battleships, 67,151, 419 Guns, Quick-Firing, Breech-Loading, 67 Gun-Recoil Cylinders and Run-Out Gear, 65 Gun. See also Warships Gun-Sights, Telescopic, 67, 98
Guns, Stresses, Graphical Treatment of Kaiser s
Theory, 567, 639, 709, 811, 876 Gun-Turrets, Triple, 762 Gun, Vickers’ Automatic, 93 Guns, Wear and Weight of, 123 Guns, Weight of. Comparison of British and German, 123
Guns, Wire-Winding of, 31
Gyroscope. See Brennan Mono-Bail System
Gyroscope for Studying the Counterbalancing of Rotating Masses, 47. See also 13, 247
Gyroscopic Motion and Spinning-Top®, Treatise on, 423. See LETTER, 549
Gyrostatic Meridian Indicators, 2

Hall’s Frictionless Engine Governor, 531
Hamilton, Captain, Retirement of, from London Fire Brigade, 25
Hammers, Drop, Massey’s Friction Lift for, 6i6
Hammer, Pneumatic Power, 361
Hanger, Richardson’s Adjustable Shaft, 261
Hammers. See Machine-Tools Harbour, Admiralty, at Dover, 501
Harbour and Pier Schemes in Parliament, 766
Harbour. See also Bocks and Estuaries
Harbour, Sydney, Schemes for Crossing, 673. See LETTERS, 755, 799, 883
Hardness of Iron and Steel, Brinell and Cone Pressure, Tests for, 408, 473
Hardness-Testing Machine, Ball, 408 Hardness Tests of Copper Alloys, 475 Hardy and Padmore’s Paraffin-Engine at Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 22
Harrison, Hugh Erat, The late, 259 Hawksley, G. VW, The late, 791 Heat Conductivity of Gases, 562. See 761 Heat Conductivity of Metal Plates, 562 Heat Conductivity of Water, 562 Heat of Dissociation of Metals and Minerals, 55 Heat-Flow Between Gas-Engine Cylinders and Contents, 334
Heat-Insulating Materials, The Practical Efh- ciency of, 37
Heat, Latent, of Steam, 750
Heat, Mechanical Equivalent of, Rateau’s Determination of, 807
Heat, Specific, of Gases at High Temperature, 330. See also 334
Heat, Specific, of Various Gases at High Temperatures, 731. See also 893
Heat, Terrestrial, Radioactive Source of, 210^ Heat Transmission in Boilers, 639, 560, 601, 761, 892. See LETTERS, 626, 653, 821
Heat Transmission, Effect of Velocity of Gases on, 639, 560, 604, 761, 892. See LETTERS, 625, 653, 821 . _
Heat Transmission in Pipes, Nusselts Experiments on, 892
Heat Treatment, Effect of, on Metals, 593, 629 Helium, Production of, from Uranium and Thorium, 701
Helium, Transformation of Radium Emanations into, 222, 323 . .
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagram Hennebique Ferro-Concrete. See Perro-Concrete Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, New Engineering Laboratories and Workshops at, 243
Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Hewitt Petrol-Motor with Piston-Valves, 720
Heysham, Morecambe and Lancaster Branch of the Midland Railway, Single-Phase Electric Traction on, 649
High-Frequency Electrical Oscillations, Measurement of Wave-Length of, 133
High-Speed Tool-Sceel. See Tool-Steel Higman, Ormond, on International Electrical Standardisation, 396. See also 833
, Hippodrome, London, Structural Alterations at, 145
Hjorth’s Dynamo. 626 .
Hodge’s Portable Valve-Facing Machine, 23 Hoe, R., The late, 424 .
Holgate, Thomas, on Recent Progress in Gas Manufacture, 503, 535, 673
Holman Rock-Drills at Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Home-Office Regulations Relating to Ship- Platers’ Wages, 421
Hong Kong, University for 797
Honours for Engineers and Scientists, 659 Hopkinson Optical and Crosby Indicators for Gas- Engines ; Comparison of Results, 193
Hopper and Suction Dredger for Venice, 218 Horse-Power, Indicated, Slide-Rule Formula) for Calculating, 416, 447, 624, 549, 590, 626
Horwich Works of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Locomotives Designed and Built at, 165, 159,194. See also 178
Hose-Coupling, Stove’s, 449
Hotchkiss Scum-Collector for LocomctiveBoilers, 166,162
Howitzeis, Modern, 98
Hudson Bay Company, History of, 493 Huirhes. George, on Locomotives Designed ana Built at Horwicli Works, L. and Y. Radway,
Humber Motor Cars at Olympia Show, 684 Humphrey Gas-Pump, 512, /16, 737, 7/2, 78-,
Results of Tests, 514, 772. See LETTERS, 62O, 652, 820, 865 ,
Hydraulic Absorption Dynamometer, Rateau s, for Testing Turbines, 806
Hydraulic Absorption Dynamometer, Westinghouse, 763 .
Hydraulic Coaling-Tip at Swansea, 688 .
Hydraulic Engineering at Birmingham University, 8 , , _•
Hydraulic Experimental Channels at Birmingham University, 9
Hydraulic Forging-Press, 395
Hydraulic Gun-Mounting for Two 12-In. Guns, 63
Hydraulic Laboratory at Victoria University, Manchester, 82
Hydraulic Luffing-Crane, 792
Hydraulic Machine-Tools. See MacMne’Tools.
Hydraulic Machinery, London Hippodrome. 145
Hydraulic Motor, Pittier, at the Imperial International Exhibition, 357
Hydraulic Recoil Cylinders and Run-Out Gear for Guns, 65
Hydraulic Rock-Drill, Wolski’s, 825 Hydraulic. See also Water.
Hydraulic Speed-Varying Apparatus for Electric Motors, The Janney, 66
Hydraulic Transmitter, Fdttinger's, for Marine Steam-Turbine, 601
Hydro-Electric Nitrogen Works at Notodden, Norway, 609
Hydro-Electric Power in Norway, 287 Hydro • Electric Power • Station at Svaelgfos, Norway, 609
Hydrogen Gas Electrodes, Constancy of, 463 Hj'drogen, Specific Heat of, at High Temperatures, 732
Hydroplane Boat “Miranda III/ 121, 215, 313 Hj’grometers, Comparison of, 467

“ Ibuk',” Japanese Armoured Cruiser, with Curtis Turbines, Trials of, 449
Ice-Breaking Steamer the “Earl Grey,” for the Canadian Government, 390
Ignition Gears for Motor-Cars, 623, 720
Ignition Gear. Low-Tension Electric, for Gas- Engines, 575
Ignition, High-Tension, for Gas-Engines, 81, 413 Ignition Point of Gases, 330
Ilgner Electrically-Driven Rolling-Mill, Operating Costs of, 458, 466
Illinois, University of. School of Railway Engineering and Administration, 221
Illuminating Engineering, 728 Illuminating Power of Gas, 506, 537, 574
Illumination. See also Light and Lighting and Layups
Illustrations, The Use of, 13
Immingham, Warship • Docking Facilities 53
Impact-Bending Tests of Notched Bars, 476
Impact Tests, Effect of Resilience in, 441
Impact Tests, Influence of Temperature 441
Impact Tests, Longitudinal, 442, 474
Impact Tests of Metals, 439, 441, 476
Imperial College of Science and Technology, New Buildings for the Royal School of Mines, 89 1
Imperial International Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush, Engineering Exhibits at, 56, 187, 357
Inclined Planes, Fluid Pressure on, 386. See 413, I 755. See Erratum, 435 i
“Indefatigable,’ H.M. Cruiser, Gun-Powder and , Dimensions of, 419. See 521
India, Engineers’ Prospects in, 13, 289 !
India, Irrigation in, 782
India, Railway Signalling in, 834
India, River-Training Works at Rangoon, 833 Indian Railways, Working of, 359
Indicated Horse-Power, Slide-Rule Formulae for I Calculating, 416, 447, 524, 549, 590, 626 !
Indicating Gas-Engines, Comparison of. Ilopkin- ' son Optical and Crosby Indicators, 193 I
Indicator, Manet-Rabut, for Determination of Stress in Structural Members, 464
Indicators, Optical, Determination of Periods of Oscillation of, 333
Indicators, Speed, Tests of, 751 Indo-China, French, Railways in, 895 Inductance of Helical Coils, 840 Inductance in Telephone and other Circuits, 97 Industrial Methods, German, 828
Industrial Notes, 27. 61, 95, 129, 159, 189, 229, 260, 291, 328, 361, 393, 429, 463, 496, 625, 559, 591, 627, 663, 700, 735, 769, 803, 837, 866, 896. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Inertia and Mass, 13
Inglis, James Charles ; Presidential Address to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 623, 619
Inland Navigation. See Canals, J c. Inspection Lamps, Hand, for Boilers, 15 Institution of Apprenticeship, The National. 154 Institutions, Technical. See Electrical Engineers, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Eaval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, British Association, Society of Arts, and Metals, Institute of
Instruments, Electrical. See under Electric Insulating Materials for Heat, Practical Efficiency of, 37
Insulation of Electric Cables, Dielectric Stress in, 297
Insulators, Sulphur, Effect of Light on, 425 Insurance of Workmen. See Workmen's Compensation and Legal
Interchangeability. See Standardisation Internal-Combustion Engines, Fuels for, 67 Internal - Combustion Engines. See Engines, Petrol, (las, J’C., Motor-Cars, and Motor- Launches
Internal Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs
International Association for the Testing of Materials; Fifth Congress at Copenhagen, 356, 369, 406, 438, 473 ; Sixth Congress in United States, 477
International Steam-Ferries between Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. 58, 116, 347
International Unit of Candle-Power, Proposed, 97, 397
Invention. See Patent Inverkip Station, Roof of, 271 Inverkip Tunnel, Wemyss Bay Railway, 271 Iodine, Conductivity of Solutions of, in Ethyl Alcohol, 463
Ionic Dissociation, Professor Armstrong on, 462
Ionisation of Gases, 343, 374
Ions in the Air, Recombination of, 425
Ions, Gaseous Electric Charges on, 425
Iridium, Atomic Weight of. 463
Iron Castings, Preventing Defects in, 80
Iron. Composition of. See Micro-Photographs
Iron and Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Iron, Corrosion of ; Acid and Electrolytic Theories, 631. See also 526
Iron, Corrosion of, in Water, 476
Iron, Effect of Stress on Corrosion of, 304
Iron, Effect of Stress and Heat on Magnetic Properties of, 409
Iron, Hardness Tests of, 408, 473
Iron Industry of Sweden, 91
Iron Industry of the United States ; Importation of Foreign Ore, 860
Iron, International Specifications for, 370
Iron, Magnetic Oxide of. Artificial Production of, 459, 532
Iron, Magnetic Tests of, 836
Iron Market, Swedish, 72 L
Iron, Pure, Action of Air and Steam on, 526
Iron, Pure, Physical Tests of, 837
Iron, Rusting of, 272, 304
Iron. See also Cast Iron and Steel Iron-Smelting Furnace, Electric, at Domnarfvet
Iron Works, Sweden, 414, 468, 465, 695
Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges
Iron and Steel Industries in the Transvaal, 521
Iron and Steel Industry in China, 589
Iron and Steel Industry; Report of Union of Swedish Ironmasters, 521

Iron and Steel Institute:

Bristol Recording Pyrometer, by Percy Long- muir and Thomas Swinden, 131
Autumn Session in London :
Production of Iron and Steel by the Electric Smeltang Process, byE. J. Ljungberg, 458,

The Determination of the Economy of Reversing Rolling-Mills, by C. A. Ablett, 458,

The Growth of Cast Iron after Repeated Heatings, by Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and Professor H. F. Rugan, 458
Uniform Moisture in Blast; Experiments Carried Out at the Clarence Iron Works, 1909, by Greville Jones, 459, 467. See 468
The Fuel Economy of Dry Blast as Indicated by Calculations from Empirical Data, by R. S. Moore, 469, 468. See also 467
Artificial Magnetic Oxide of Iron, by F. J. R. Carulla, 459, 532
The Serviceable Life and Cost of Renewals . of Permanent Way of British Railways, by R. Price Williams, 472, 498
Tests on Cast Iron, by E. Adamson, 473, 529 Presentation of Carnegie Gold Medal to M. A. Portevin, 459
Visits and Excursions, 460
The Action of Air and Steam on Pure Iron, by J. Newton Friend, 526
The Corrosion of Iron, b\’ J. Newton Friend. 531
Iron and Steel, Nomenclature of Microscopical Constituents of, 370, 442, 589, 694, 861
Iron and Steel Production in Germany, 320,661 Iron and Steel Production of Lancashire, 521 Iron-Work, Structural. See Steel Bridges, Roofs,
FerrO‘Concrete and Buildings
Iron, Wrought, Pipes, Testing of, 406 Iron, Wrought, Torsion Tests of, 308, 362 Ironclads. See Warskips
Ironmongery and Hardware Trades’ Exhibition, 90
Irrigation by Artesian Wells, 420 Irrigation in India, 782
Isherwood’s System of Constructing Ships, 215, 360, 884
Isomerism, Dynamic, Report of British Association Committee on, 343
Itala Motor-Car, at Olympia Show’, 684
Italian Experiments on Torpedo Attack, 228
Italian Passenger and Emigrant Steamer “America,” La, Veloce Company, 411

Jandus Regenerative Arc-Lamp, 559
Janney Hydraulic Speed-Varying Apparatus for Electric Motors, 66
Japan, Jubilee of Yokohama, 227
Japan and the Sugar Industry of Formosa, 460 Japanese Administration in Korea, 127 Japanese Armoured Cruiser “ Ibuki,” Trials, 449 Japanese and English Exhibition, 1910, 183 Japanese Financial Annual, 91
Japanese Shipbuilding, Depression in, 288 Japanese State Railways, Accounts of, 258 Japan, Trade in, 1903, *4 46
Japanese Volunteer Fleet, Turbine Steamer “ Umegaka Maru” for, 633
Jarrot and Letts Motor-Car at Olympia Show, 684 Java, Engineering in, 131
Jenkins, A. Lewis, on Stresses Due to Bending and Twisting, and the Design of Shafting, 637. See LETTERS, 696, 697, 885
Jet Propulsion of Ships Using Humphrey Gas-Pump, 774, 783, 786
Joachimstbal, Uranium Mines at, 355 Jones, Greville, on Uniform Moisture in Blast, 459, 467. See 468
Joy’s Gas-Pump, 783 Joy’s Valve Gear for Locomotives, 159
Junior Institution of Engineers, Canet Lecture on the Engineering of Ordnance, by Sir Trevor Dawson, 28, 61. 98
Junior Institution of Engineers, Presidential Address of Engineer Vice-Admiral H. J. Oram, C. B , on Propelling Machinery of Warships, 703. See also 691

Kahn System, Ferro-Concrete Culvert on the North-Eastern Railway, 887
Kaiser’s Theory of Stresses in Built-Up Guns, Graphical Treatment of, 567, 639, 709, 811, 876
Kartels and Syndicates in Germany, 692
Kelly, A. C., on Electric Traction Conditions in the Argentine Republic, 771
Kennedy, Sir A. B. W., Address to Undergraduates of Birmingham University, 319. See LETTERS, 360, 392, 412, 447, 481
Kerr, James R., on Modern Surgerj’ in its Association with Engineering, 206
Kestner Climbing Film Evaporator, 822. See Erratum, 865
Kharga Oasis, An Account of the, 71
Kicking Horse Pass Grade on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Reduction of, 433
Kilton Culvert, Ferro-Concrete (Kahn System on the North-Eastern Railway, 887
Kinetic Theory' of Mai ter, 323
King’s Navy. See Warships
Kip Viaduct, Wemyss Bay Railway, 207
Kitchen Machinery on Orient Australian Mail Liners “ Otranto ” and “ Orvieto,’’ 581
Kneading and Mixing-Machine, The “Laurica. ' 248
Koenigsberger's Theory of the Conduction of Electricity, 55
Korea, Japanese Administration in, 127
Korea, Trade of, in 1908, 589
Korsbr-Nyborg Service, Ferry Steamer, 116
Krupp Breech Mechanism for Guns, 33
Krupp Guns for Attacking Aeroplanes and Balloons, 98
Krupp Guns, Life and Power of, 123

Laboratories, Engineering, at Birmingham University, 5, 42, 109 ; Hydraulic, 8; Electrical, 42 ; Metallurgical, 46
Laboratories, Engineering, at Leeds University. 713,813
Laboratorie9,Whitworth Engineering, at Victoria University, Manchester, 82
Laboratory, German. See Reiehsanstalt Labour Affairs. See Industrial Notes.
Labour Conditions in China, 589
Labour Disputes, 186
Labour Legislation. See also Workmen's Compensation, Legal, Industrial Notes, and Trade
Labour Problems, Effect of, on Engineering Profession, 624
Labour; Trades Union Congress, 1909, 387
Labour Troubles in Sweden, 189, 227, 256. 285, 325, 358. 389, 420, 488
Labour ; Wages of Ship-Platers, 421
Laggmgs for Boilers and Steam-Pipes, Efficiency
Lake Shipping, Canadian, 293. See also 518
Lamp, Arc, Jandus Regenerative, 559
Lamps, Electric Hand, for Boiler Inspectors, 15
Lamps, Electric Metallic P’ilament, 833
Lamps, Safety, Testing of, at Birmingham University, 109
Lamps. See also Kleetric
Lancashire Iron and Steel, Production of, 521
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Turbine Steamers “ Duke of Cumberland’’and “ Duke of Argyll,” 767
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Companv, Four-Cylinder Simple Locomotive for, 163
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Liverpool and ' Southport Electric Line, 178
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; Locomotives Designed and Built at Horwich Works, 155.159 194. See also 178
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Steam Motor- Carriage for, 162
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Train Service, 196
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; Water- Pick-Up Apparatus for Tank Locomotives, 615 ’
Lanchester’s Theory of Flight, Criticism of, 81. 148, 214, 325. See Erratum, 451
Landor, H. Savage, on a Recent Visit to Panama,
Larard, C. E., on Apparatus for Testing Aeroplane Models, 777
Larard, C. E , on the Behaviour of Ductile Material under Torsional Strain, 308, 362. See LETTERS, 599, 625, 653, 697, 698, 733, 755, 799, 821
Latham’s “ Antoinette ” Aeroplane, 490, 656
Latham’s FPghts at B'ackpool, 583. See LETTER 625 ’
Lathes. See M ach ine- Tools
Launch Engine, Steam, at Imperial International Exhibition. 187
Launch, Single-Handed Steam, 4S2
Launches, Motor. See Motor-Launches Launching Ships, Calculations for, 261
“ Laurica ” Mixing and Kneading-Machine, 248 Law Affecting Engineers, Treatise on, 211 Laybourne. Richard, The late, 617
Lea ” V-Notch Water-Flow Recorder, 217
Lead, Removal of, from Zinc, 587
Lecoche Frictionless Gearing, 14
Leeds University, 713, 813

Legal:

Agreements Relating to Electric Supply 121 Apprentices. Law Relating- to, 794. See LETTERS, 884 '
Arbitration Cases, Recent, 658
Dismissal, Wrongful, Compensation for, 412 Distress Amendment Act, 55
Electric Lighting Acts Amendment, 121 Employers’ Liability at Common Law, 860
J. H. Holmes and Co. v. Associated News- I papers. Limited, 577 I
Tom Jones v. The South Wales Miners’ Federation, 96
Law Affecting Engineers, Treatise on, 211 Miners Eight Hours Act, 20
Misconduct of Workmen and the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 257
Motor-Car Patent in the United States 584
Negligence, Law of. Affecting Engineers 224 ’
Ore-Separation Case, 725
Osborne v. Amalgamated SocieU of Railwav Servants, 96, 866, 896
Parliament, Members’ Pay and Trade Unions 96, 866, 896 ’
Patents Act. 1907, Effect of, 732
Patents, Australian, 733
Patent Cases, Recent, 798
Principal and Agent, Law of, 371
Pump-Valves, Defective, Steamship Owners’ Liability for, 158
Road Traffic, Extraordinary, Liability, 125
Sp’llers and Bakers (Limited) and Great
Western Railway Company, 115
Tenders, Law Relating to, 893
Trade Disputes, 186
Trades Dispute Case, 190, 230
Warranties and Engineering Contracts 364 Compension Act, “ Serious and
Wilful Misconduct,” 267
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Working of the, 489, See 584
Workmen’s Compensation Cases, 26, 102, 158, 233, 392, 447, 584, 598, 634,686,734, 808, 860
Workmen’s Compensation Cases in 1908, Statistics of, 584
Workmen’s Compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act, 860
Legislation. See Parliament^ Indicstrial Notes^ and Legal
Lethbridge Viaduct, Canadian Pacific Railway, 430
Letters to the Editor, 13, 46, 80, 119, 148. 183, 214, 247, 289, 325, 360, 392, 412, 447, 480, 522, 549, 590, 625, 652, 696, 732, 754, 798, 820, 864, 883. See LETTERS INBEX
Levers, Vilcars ” Anti-Elastic, 862
Life of Locomotives, 155, 159, 194
Life-Saving Apparatus, Garforth, 357 Life-Saving Apparatus, Rocket, Schermuly, 833
Lift-Control Gear, Electric, 274
Lift, Massey’s Friction, for Drop-Stamps, 686
Lifting Appliances for Erection of Blackwells
Island Bridge. See Blackivells Isla'iid Bridge in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Lifting Bridge. See Bridge Lifts, Electric, on H.M. Repair-Ship “ Cyclops,” 69
Lifts. See also Hoists and Elevators Light, Artificial, Requirements of, 728
Light, Effect of, on Dynamic Isomerism, 343 Light, Effect of, on the Insulating Properties of
Sulphur, 426
Light, Polarised, Mechanical Analogue to, 426 Light, Radiation Pressure and Recoil of, 342 Light, Rotary Dispersion of, Measurement, 492 Light Standard, Proposed International, 97, *397
Light, Standard Wave-Lengths of, 133, 492
Light, Ultra-Violet, Properties of, 343
Light-Waves, Instantaneous Propagation of, 427
Lighters, Lifting, for Salvage Purposes, 250
Lighthouses, Dover Harbour, 503
Lighting, Electric. See Electric and Lamp Lighting the Navigable Channel of the St.
Lawrence River, 399
Lilly, W. E., on the Rankine • Gordon and
Euler’s Formulae for Columns, 1. See 327
Lime, Nitrate of, Exhibits of Norwegian Industry at Imperial International Exhibition, 68
Liquids, Movements of Solid Particles in, 323
Liquid**, Rotating, for Telescope Mirrors, 124 Lister Drive, Electric Power-Station, 157
Literature, 2, 38, 74, 210, 269, 304, 423, 442, 477, 507, 572, 675, 864, 880. See LITERATURE INDEX
Literature, Modern Technical, Criticism of, 215
Liverpool, Boiler Explosion at, 301. See 119
Liverpool Corporation Electricity Works, 157
Liverpool, Removal of Old Brunswick and Union
Docks, 188 Liverpool and Southport Railway, 178
Liverpool University, Department of Civic Design, 358
Liverpool University, 178
Ljungberg, E. J., on the Production of Iron and Steel by the Electric Smelting Process, 458, 465. See also 414
Lloyd’s Annual Return of Shipwrecks, 226 Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Annual Report, 613
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Resignation of Mr. Harry J. Cornish, 25
Lloyd’s Return of British and Foreign Shipping, 122
Local Authorities. See Municipal and London County Council
Local Government Board, Report of Inspectoron Alkali Works, 126
Lock-Gates, Accident to, on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, 54
Locking-Gear, Automatic, for Stop-Valves, 788 Lock-Out, General, in Sweden, 189, 227, 256, 285, 325, 358, 389. 420, 488
Locks on the Trollhattan Canal, 569 Locomobile, Wolf’s, Semi-Portable Engine for .
Superheated Steam, 478 ; Tests of, 497. See LETTER, 524
Locomotive, “ Atlantic ” Type, for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 161
Locomotives, Automatic Variable-Blast Nozzle for, 882
Locomotives, Balancing of, 164 Locomotive Blast-Pipe, Variable Nozzle, 882 Locomotive Boilers, Corrosion of, 155, 194,198 Locomotive Boilers, Corrosion of Tubes of, 305 Locomotive Boilers, Corrugated Fire-Box for, 155, 161
Locomotive Boiler Explosion on the Rhymney Railway, 188
Locomotive Boilers (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway), 194
Locomotive Crane, 35-Ton Breakdown, 699 Locomotive Crank-Axles, Design and Wear of, 155, 194
Locomotive Crank-Axle, Ivatt’s, at Imperial International Exhibition, 57
Locomotives, Design of Smoke-Boxes, 166, 199 Locomotives Designed and Built at Horwich
Works of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 155, 159,194
Locomotive Details, 155, 159, 194 Locomotive, Electric, and Crane, 329 Locomotive, Electric, for Simplon Tunnel, 444, 546
Locomotive, Four-Coupled Tank, for London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway (Robert Stephenson and Co., Limited), 67, 882
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Simple, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 163
Locomotive, Garratt System, for the Tasmanian Government Railway (Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Limited), 802
Locomotives, Great Northern, at Imperial International Exhibition, 56
Locomotives, Joy’s Valve Gear for, 159 Locomotives, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 155, 159, 194
Locomotives, Road, at Gloucester Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 22
Locomotives, Road, at Smithfield Club Show, 795
Locomotives, Schmidt’s Superheater for, 162
Locomotive Springs, Life of, 196
Locomotive, 'Tank, for Netherlands Indian Railway, Design of (jonnecting-Rod, 626
Locomotives, Tank, Water-Pick-Up Apparatus, for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 615
Locomotives, Thermal Storage Tanks for, 162
Locomotive, Three-Phase Electric, for Simplon Tunnel, 444, 546
Locomotive, Turbo-Electric, Reid-Ramsay, 613 Locomotives, Wear of, 155, 159, 194
Locomotive Weighing-Machine, 507
Locomotive Work on the Great Western Railway, 320, 390
London County Council Education Committee, Report on Apprenticeship, 655
London County Council. See also Munieipal
London County Council Tramways ; Accounts of, 127, 555
London County Council Tramw’ays, Allocation of Cost of Street Widenings, 89
London County Council Tramways, Widening of Blackfriars Bridge, 338
London Fire Brigade, Command of the, 25
London and North-Western Railway Company, Hydraulic Coaling-Tip at Swansea Dock, 688
London, Proposed New Bridge across the Thames, 24
London Small-Arms Company, Sight for Rifles, 77
London and South-Western Railway, Locomotive Weighing-Machine, 507
London Suburban Railway Traffic, 255
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, Four- Coupled Tank Locomotive for (Robert Stephen ? and Co., Limited), 882. See 57
Longitudinal Framing of Ships, 215, 360, 884
Longmuir, Percy, on the Bristol Recording ! Pyrometer, 131 |
Longridge, Michael, Annual Report to the British Engine, Boiler and Electrical Insurance Company, Limited, on Breakdowns of Machinery, 353
Lorries. See also Motor-Wagoiis
Lowell, Dr. Percival; Photographs of .lupiter, 343
Lubrication, Forced, for Marine Engines, 703 Lubrication, Forced, for Railway Axles, 15 Lubrication of Motor-Car Engines and the Emission of Smeke, 422
Lubrication, The Theory of, 590, 626
Lubricator, Tilston’s Automatic, for Railway Axle-Boxes, 15
Ludgate’s Analytical Machine, Proposed, 256
Ludwik’s Cone Pressure Hardness Tests, 408, 473
Luffing-Gear for Cranes, Middleton’s, 792 Luminosity Curves, A New' Method of Obtaining, 426
Luminous Watch-Dials, 23

Macadam Roads, Tests of Stone for, 358 Macadam, Tar, Baxter’s Mixing-Machine for, 22
Macalpine, John H. ; Speed-Reducing Gear for Steam-Turbines, 377. See 480, 763. See Erratum, 449
Machine, Ludgate’s Calculating, Proposed, 256 Machine-Shops on H.M. Repair-Ship “ Cyclops,” 69
Machine-Tool Trade in Germany, 491 Machine-Tool Trade, Colonial ; A Suggestion for Improving, 46, 119
Machinery, Failures and Breakdown of, 353 Machinery, Japanese, Imports of, 446 Machinery, Propelling. See Engines^ Marine;
Engines, Gas, Oil, Petrol, de.

Machine-Tools:

Armour Plate Shaping Machine (Ernst Schiess), 211
Birmingham University, Machine-Tools at, 9 Boring and Milling • Machine, Portable (Ernst Schiess), 687
Breast-Drill, Two-Speed (Standard Machine Works, Limited), 702
Capstan-Lathe (Alfred Herbert, Limited), 477
Oiuck, Spiral Self-Centering (Charles Tay- lor), 525
Drilling, Boring, and Tapping-Machine (William Asquith, Limited), 393
Drop-Hammers, Massey’s Friction Lift for, 686
Grinding-Machine for Tramway Rails (Ernst Schiess), 384
Grinding-Machine, Universal, Foot-Driven (Drummond Brothers, Limited), 651
Grindstone-Dressing Machine (Alefounder and King), 229
Hammer, Compressed-Air (John Cochrane), 361
Lathe, 12-In. Centres High-Speed (Tangyes, Limited), 826
Lathes for Railway Wheels and Tyres (G. and A. Harvey, Limited), 516
Lathe for Turbine Work and Shafting (Ernst Schiess), 787
Lathe for Turning Gun-Tubes, 31
Machine-Tools on H.M. Repair-Ship “ Cyclops,” 69
Planing-Machines, Automatic Electric Reversing Gear for (Vickers Sons and Maxim, Limited), 888
Planing-Machine, High-Speed (Loudon Brothers, Limited), 544
Planing and Moulding-Machine, Four-Cutter, for Wood (A. Ransome and Co., Limited), 757
Press, Hydraulic Forging (Fielding and Platt, Limited), 395
Reamer, Vickers’ Adjustable, 400
Saw, Horizontal Cold (Ernst Schiess), 211 Screwing, Cutting-off, and Nipple-Making Machine (Charles Winn and Co.), 465
Shaping - Machine, Portable Hand - Power (Alexander Engineering Company), 703
Slotting and Drilling-Machine (Ernst Schiess), 412
Table, Tilting, for Drilling-Machines, 393 Valve-Facing Machine, Hodge’s Portable, 23 Vertical Turning and Boring-Machine (Ernst Schiess), 179
Vertical Turning-Machine (Ernst Schiess), 179
Wood-Working Machine for Pattern-Makera (Robert S. Allan and Co.), 483
MacLaurin, Dr. R. C., Election as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 388
Macpherson, Duncan, on the National Trans- Continental Railway of Canada, 398
Maginnis, Arthur J., on tho Advance of Marine Engineering in the Early Twentieth Century, 176, 231
Magnesia Laggings, Efficiencj' of, 37
Magnetic Gearing, The Lecoche, 14
Magnetic Observations at Falmouth observatory. Report of British Association Committee on, 428
Magnetic Pole, South, Position of, 659
Magnetic Properties of Iron and Steel, Effect of Stress and Heat on, 409
Magnetic Storm and Aurora of September 2.5, 1909, 488. See LETTER, 524
Magnetic Survey of the United States, 461 Magnetic Tests of Iron, 836
Magnetism, Alteration in Length of Steel Bars Due to, 428
Magnetism of Gases and Vapour, 183 Magnetism. See also Electric and Physical Society
Magnetism, Recent Work, in Terrestrial, 461 Magneto-Ignition Gears, Motor-Car, 623, 720 Magneto Striction, 428
Makatote Viaduct, New Zealand, 301
Malleable Cast Iron, Notes on, 669
“ Malmo,” Swedish Railway Ferry, 116 Manchester, Victoria University, Engineering at, 82
Manet-Rabut Indicator of Stress in Structures, 464
Manganese. See Alloys
Manhattan Approach. See Blackivells Tsland Bridge in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Manometer, Membrane, for Gas Pressures, 75 Manometer for Coal-Dust Explosions, 830 Mansfield Aperture Sights for Rifles, 77 Manufacturing Work, Efficiency in, 517
Manure, Artificial, Manufacture of, 609. See 555
Marconi. See Ifireles^? under Electric
Marine Auxiliaries, Steam Consumption, 705
Marine Engineering in Twentieth Century, 176, 231
Marine Engineering. See Engines, Marine, Eaoal Architects, Propellers, Screw, Turbines, and Warships
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding, 1909, 899
Marine Internal-Combustion Engines, 706, 821 Marine Machinery, 703
Marine Propulsion, Electric Drive, 706, 790. See LETTERS, 798, 821
Marine Turbine Development, 176, 231
Marine Turbine and Reciprocating Machinery Weights, 226
Mars, Water Vapour in the Atmosphere of, 875 Marsh Gas from Coal-Seams, Utilising of, 423 Mason, William, on Mild-Steel Tubes in Compression and under Combined Stress, 815,867. See LETTERS, 865, 884
Masonry, Drilling-, 188
Mass and Inertia, 13
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President, 388
Massey’s Friction Lift for Drop-Stamps, 686 Masters and Servants’ Cases. See Legal Match Works of Messrs. Bryant and May, 157 Mathematics, Applied, Teaching of, 13 Matter, Kinetic, Theory of, 323
Maudslay Motor-Car, 632 “Mauretania” Service Speed, 296
Meat Preservation at Low Temperatures, 153

Mechanical Engineers, lustitution of:

Summer Meeting at Licerpool:
Locomotives Designed and Built at Horwxch, with Some Results, by George Hughes’ 155, 159, 194
Indicating of Gas-Engines, 178, 193 Reinforced Concrete, by Arthur C. Auden 146, 173, 200 ’
The Electrical Operation of Textile Factories, by W. Wilson, 177, 201
The Advance of Marine Engineering in the Early Twen’ieth Century, by Arthur J. Maginnis, 176, 231
Visits, Excursions, &c., 157, 178
Votes of Thanks, 178
Winter Session:
Heat Transmission, by Professor W. E. Dalby, 539, 560, 604. See LETTERS, 625 653, 821. See also 761, 892
An Internal-Combustion Pump, and Other Applications of a New Principle, by H. A Humphrey, 716, 737, 772, 782. See also 512, 514, 625, 652, 820, 865
Compound Stress Experiments, by C. A. M. Smith, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 865, 884
Mild-Steel Tubes in Compression and under Combined Stress, by William Mason, 845, 867. See LETTERS, 865, 884
Mechanical Engineering ; Birmingham University, 9
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Rateau’s Determination of, 807
Mechanical Transport, 222
Mechanicians and Artificers. See Naval Mechanics, Applied, Examination Institution of
Civil Engineers, 81, 215, 289,325, 360 Mechanics, Teaching of, 13
M^ker Gas-Burners and Furnaces, 703 Melms-Pfenninger Steam-Turbine, 39
Melville, Rear-Admiral George W. ; Speed-Reducing Gear for Steam-Turbines, 377. See 480, 763. See Erratum, 449
Mercurial Air-Pump, Reden, 735 Mercury, Electro-Deposition of, 492
Mercury Line, Green, Spectroscopic Structure of, 96
Mercury Mirrors for Telescopes, 124
Mercury Oscillations in (J-Tube, 785
Mercury Spectra, Use of, as Standards in Refractometry, 133, 492
Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, 835
Mercury ; Variation of Specific Heat, 376 Meridian, Arc, in Africa, Measurement, 428 Meridian Indicators, Gyrostatic, 2
Mersej^ RaiI\^'ay, Steam v. Electric Working, 649
Mersey, Steel Lifting-Lighters for, 250 Metal-Cutting by Oxygen Jet, 168 Metal, Electroplated, Tension in, 655
Metals, Heat of, Dissociation of, 55

Metals, Institute of:

Manchester Meeting:
Preliminary Announcement, 520
The Constitution and Properties of Aluminium-Copper-Tin Alloys, by C. A. Edwards and J. H. Andrew, 556,661
The Surface Appearance of Solders, by C. 0. Bannister and H. J. Tabor, 567
Some Probable Causes of the Corrosion of Copper and Brass, by E. L. Rhead, 557, 741
The Copper-Zinc Alloys : A Study of Volume Changes During Solidification, by Professor T. Turner and M. T. Murray, 586
The Elastic Breakdown of Non - Ferrous Metals, by C. A. M. Smith, 587, 593, 629. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 697, 733, 884
The Production of Pure Spelter, by J. S, G. Primrose, 587
The Technical Assay of Zinc, by H. W. Greenwood, 588
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Elastic Breakdown, 587, 593, 629. See LETTERS, 626, 652, 697, 733, 884
Metal Plates, Heat Conductivity, 562
Metal-Price Diagrams, 26, 192, 326, 494, 626, 767, 898
Metals. See also Iron, Steel, Tin, Copper, Aluminium, Alloys, and Micro-Photographs
Metallic Filament Electric Lamps, 833 Metallography of Steel, 369, 370. See also 442 Metallurgical Laboratories, Birmingham University, 46
Metallurgy, Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Metallurgy in Gun Manufacture, 29
Metallurgy. See Iron and Steel Institute and Metals, Institute of
Meteorological Society* Royal:
Soiree, 24
Winter Temperatures on Mountain Heights, By W. Piffe Brown, 688
Registering Balloon Ascents at Gloucester, by W. Marriott, 688
The Variations of Currents of Air Indicated by Simultaneous Records of the Direction and Velocity of the Wind, by W. N. Shaw, 853
Meteorology, Magnetic Storm, 488, 524
Meters, Electricity, Tests, 835, 836
Meter, Water, The “ Lea,” 317
Methane from Coal-Seams, Utilising, 423 Metropolitan. See London
Meyer’s Oil-Fuel Marine System, 484 Microscope in Workshop and Foundry, 4/7 Microscope, Zeiss Projecting, for Demonstration of Liquid Crystals, 24
Microscopical Constituents of Iron and Steel, Nomenclature of, 370, 442, 589, 694, 861
Microstructure of Metals. See Micro Photographs in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Middleton’s Luffing Cranes, 792
Midland Railway. Single Phase Traction, 649 Military Steam Tractor, 608
Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools MiP-Ventilation and Dust-Extraction, 677 Mills. See also Factories
Mills, Textile, Electrical Operation of, 177, 201. See 216, 510, 653, 754, 799, 820
Mine Accidents, Royal Commission, 518, 621 Miners Eight-Hours Act, 20
Mines, Electrical Accidents, 518. See also 621 Mine, Model, Birmingham University, 109 Mines, Coal, Prevention of Dust in, 861
Mines, Coal, Rules for Recovery after Explosions and Fires, 210
Mines, Coal, Underground Accidents, 621, 518
Mines, Garforth Rescue Apparatus, 357
Mines, Uranium, at Joachimsthal, 365
Mine Winding. See Engines, Winding, and Colliery
Minerals, Heat of Dissociation of, 55
Minerals. See also Coal, Mining, Ores, Railway Mining Department, Birmingham University, 109
Mining Exhibits, Imperial International Exhibition, 187
Mining Industry of Cornwall, 187
Mining Machinery. See also Engines, Colliery, and Electric
“ Miranda III.,” Thornycroft Hydroplane Boat, 124, 313. See 215
Mirrors, Telescope, Rotating Liquids, 124 Miscellanea, 17, 115, 246, 317, 351, 889 Misconduct of Workmen and Compensation, 257
Mixing and Kneading Machine, 248
“Model Engineer” Exhibition, 554
Molecules, Number of, in Gas, 324
Molecules, Structure of, 461
Mond, Dr. Ludwig, The late, 834
Monoplane. See Aeroplane
Mono-Rail, Brennan System, 659
Monte Video, Aerial Ropeway, 722
Moon, Effect of, on Gravity, 425
Moon’s Motion, Tables of the, 428
Moore, R. S., on the Fuel Economy of Dry Blast as Indicated by Calculations from Empirical Data, 458, 468. See also 467
Morley, Professor Arthur, on the Calculation of Vibration and Whirling Speeds, 135, 205. See 289
Morley, T. B., on a Calculating Chart for the Contents of Cylindrical Tanks, 302
Mors Motor-Car, 684
Mortars, Modern, 98
Motor-Boat, Hydroplane or Skimmer, 124, 313. See 215
Motor-Oars, Darrac/i Pressed-Steel Chassis, 684
Motor-Cars, Design of, 720
Motor-Cars, Detachable Wheels, 719. 720
Motor-Car Details. See ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Motor-Cars, Front Axles, 721
Motor-Car with Gun for Attacking Aeroplanes and Balloons, 98
Motor-Cars, Hill-Climbing, 91
Motor-Cars, Ignition, 623, 720
Motor-Cars, Master-Patent in United States, 581
Motor-Cars at Olympia Show: “ Itala,” White Humbei\ Renault, Mors, Swift, Jarrot and Letts, Daimler, Sheffield-Simplex, 684, 685 Panhard and Levassor. 681 ; Maudslay. 682 : Argyll, 6S3 ; Sheffield-Simplex, 719 ; Wolseley. Siddeley, 648
Motor-Car Show, Olympia, 648. 680, 719 Motor-Cars, Smoke Emission of, 422
Motor-Cars, “ Panflex ” Spring Wheel, 23
Motor-Cars ; Substitutes for Petrol, 67
Motor-Cars, Scottish Trials, 91
Motor-Car, Steam, Turner-Miesse, 9
Motor-Cars, Wolseley-Siddeley, 648
Motor-Cars, Worm-Drive, 721
Motor-Carriage, L. and Y. Railway, 162
Motor-Carriage, Petrol, Railway, in U.S., 481
Motor-Cycles, 731
Motors, Electric. See Electric Motor Haulage in the Colonies, 222
Motors, Internal-Combustion. See Oily d;c.; MotoV’Cars and '
Motorsand Motoring, Treatise on, 507 and Engines^
Motor, Pittier Hydraulic Rotary, 357
Motor Vehicles, Seismograph for Registering Vibrations of, 23 ®
Motor Vehicles, Sizes of Wheels, 437
Motor Wagons. See also Tractor Moulding-Machine, Mumford Pneumatic, 113 Moulding and Planing-Machine for Wood 757 Moulding, Precautions against Defects, 80 Mumford Pneumatic Moulding-Machine 113
Municipal Electric Undertakings and the Elec- Acts (Amendment) Bill, 1909, ^^Counc^t Trading. See also London County
Muntz Metal, Tests of, 697,629
Muntz Metal, Corrosion of, 557, 741
Muzzle Energy and Penetration of Guns, 29, 67

Namias, Professor, on Malleable Cast Iron, 669
National Rifle Association, Rifle-Sights, 76
Naval Architects, German, Year-Book, 2
Naval Arcliiteefs, Institution of: On Launching Calculations, with Special Reference to the Effect of Camber bv John Smith, 261 ’
Naval Commission, Chinese, 827, 885 Naval Construction. See also Warships Naval Design, Argentine, and Competition, 895 Naval Engineers, 619, 698, 754, 798, 820 Naval Gunnery. See Guns Naval Machinery. See Warships^ Boilers En. gineSy Turbines
Naval Mountings for Guns, 61 Naval Power, Comparison, 800
Naval Shipbuilding, British Facilities, 151 Naval Shipbuilding Vote, 151, 521, 859 Naval Vote Distribution, British, 859 Navigation, Aerial. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Navigation. Inland. See Canals^ &c. Navigation of the St. Lawrence, 291, 399
Navy, Colonies and, 296, 691
Navy Department, U.S., Reorganisation, 796
Navy Estimates, German, 1916, 766 Navy Inquiry, Lord Charles Beresford’s, 253
Navy, Italian, Torpedo Attack, Tests, 2 ^8
Navy League Annual, 864
Navy Programme, Lord Charles Beresford’s, Navy, Russian Merchant, Government Subsidies 422 ’
Navy. See Naval and Warships Spanish Battleships and Dockyards, 87. See 183
Negligence, Law Affecting Engineers. 224 Neon, Properties of, 24
“ Neptune,” H.M. Battleship, 419 Netherlands India Railway, Locomotive Connecting-Rod, Design, 625
New York, Blackwells Island Bridge over the East River, 237, 267, 372, 471, 537, 644, 711, 745 ^79, 816. For details see ILLUSTRATION INDEX ’ New Zealand. Makatote Viaduct, 301 “ Newcastle,” H.M. Scout-Cruiser, 767 Nevyport, Alexandra Dock, Collapse of Trench Timbering at, 658. See LETTERS, 799, 864 Nickel Steel for Eye-Bars, Specifications, 267 Nickel Steel, Temperature Effect on Impact 441 ’
Nickel Steel for Turbine-Blades, 19 Nickel, Ten.sion in Electrolytically Deposited 555 *
Nigeria Railway Ferry Steamer “ Fabius.” 443 Nine Elms, Vertical Gas-Retorts at, 635 Nitrate of Lime Manufactured from Atmospheric Nitrogen, 609
Nitrate of Lime Manufacture, 58 Nitric Acid Manufacture, 609. See 555 Nitro-Cellulose and Nitro-Glycerine Explosives, 32
Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Electric-Arc Furnaces for Fixation of, 665, 609
Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Manufacture of Nitrate of Lime, 609
Nitrogen, Specific Heat, at High Temperatures, 732 ’
Nomenclature, Electrical, International Stan- dardisation, 396, 833
Nomenclature of Microscopical Constituents of Iron and Steel, 370, 442, 689, 694, 861 Non-Conducting Coverings, Efficiency, 37 Norddeutscher Lloyd T.-S.S. “George Washing.
“North Dakota,” U.S. Battleship, 695,768, 823
North-Eastern Railway, Transport of Stern-Frame of S.S. “ Olympic,” 179; Electric Traction, 649; Kilton Ferro-Concrete Culvert (Kahn System), 887
North, Notes from the. 16, 51, 84, 114, 144, 191, 219, 250, 280, 316, 350, 382, 416, 450, 485, 515, 544, 576, 616,660, 688, 724, 758, 790, 824, 856, 888
Northampton Institute, Testing Model Aeroplanes, 777 ; Machine for Torsion Tests at, 308
Norway, Bergen and Christiania Railway, 843
Norway, Hydro-Electric Notodden Works, 609
Norway, Hydro-Electric Station, Svaelgfos, 609
Norway, Large Water-Driven Alternators, 826
Norway, Water-Power Concessions, 287
Norwegian Nitrate Industry, 58. 609
Notched Bars, Impact Tests, 439, 441, 476
Notes. See Cleveland, North, South-West, South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial, Legal, and Miscellanea. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Notodden Nitrate of Lime Industry, 58, 609
“ Nubian,” H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 12
Nusselt’s Heat-Transmission Experiments, 892
Nyassaland Railway, Lifting-Bridge over River, 129
Nyborg-Korsbr, Ferry Steamer, 116

Oasis of Kharga, Account of, 74
Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Ogden’s Air-Excluder for Economisers, 769
Ohm’s Law, Validity for Electrolytes, 325
Oil-Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor-Cars, Motors, Tractors, Petrol, and Motor-Launches
Oil-Fuel Burner, Steam-Car, 9
Oil Fuel for Navy Boilers, 707
Oil-Fuel Steam-Launch, 482
Oil Fuel for Steamers, 232
Oil-Fuel System, Meyer’s Marine, 484
Oil. See Lubrication
Oil-Separator, Exhaust-Steam Turbo, 854
Olympia Motor-Car Show, 648, 680, 719
“ Olympic,” Transporting Stern-Frame of, 160
Optical and Crosby Gas-Engine Indicators, 193
Optical Indicators, Oscillation Periods of, 333
Optical Systems, The Sine Condition in Relation to the Coma of, 133
Optics, Photographic, and Colour Photography, 2
Oram, IL J., Engineer Vice-Admiral, on the Propelling Machinery of Warships, 703. See also 691
Ordnance. See Warships and Guns
Ore. See Iron
Orient Liners “Otranto” and “ Orvieto,” 59, 580
“Orsova,” Orient T.-S.S., 59, 580
“Orvieto,” Orient T.-S.S., 59, 580
Oscillation Periods. Optical Indicator, 333
Oscination8,High-Frequency Electrical, Measurement of Wave-Lengths of, 133, 835
Oscillograph for Fatigue Tests, 106
“Osterley,” OrientT.-S.S.,59
“Otaki” with Combined Reciprocating and Turbine Engines, Trials of, 179. See 231, 295
“ Otranto,” Orient T.-S.S., 59, 580 “Otway,” Orient T.-S.S., 59
Overstrain Effect on Non-Ferrous Metals, 587, 593, 629
Owens College. See Victoria University
Owens, J. S., on Mixing Concrete, 132
Oxide of Iron, Magnetic, Artificial Production, 459, 532
Oxygen Jet Cutting Metals, 168

Packing, Metallic, for Zoelly Turbine, 213
Paint, Magnetic Oxide of Iron, 459, 532
Panama Canal, 21, 54, 74
“ Panflex ” Spring-Wheel, 23
Panhard and Levassor ; Aeroplane Engines, 457
Panhard-Levassor Motor-Cars, 6S1
Paraffin Engine and Air-Compressor, 349
Paraffin Engine, Fairbanks’ Two-Cycle, 22
Paraffin Engine, Hardy and Padmore’s, 22
Paraffin Motors. See also Engi'iies, Paraffin
Paraffin Motor, Thornycroft, for Fishing Drifter, 244
Parallax, Stellar, Investigations, 374
Paris-Orleans Railway, Fades Viaduct, 877 Parker, The late John, 834
Parliament; Engineering Schemes, 730, 764
Parliament and Navy. See War^hips^ Enfjineers^ and Naval
Parseval Airship, 348
Parsons’ Method of Compounding Alternators, 23
Parsons Turbine. See Turbine
Partridge, The late W. Bailey, 417
Pasteurising Apparatus for Beer, 553
Patents Act, 1907, Effect of, 732
Patents, Australian, 733
Patent Cases, Recent, 798
Patent Record, 35, 68,103, 134, 203, 235, 300,336, 367, 401, 436, 469, 633, 599, 635, 671, 708, 743, 776, 809, 841, 873. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
Patent, United States Motor-Car, Master, 584
Patsch Plant; Fixing Atmospheric Nitrogen, 555
Pattern-Makers’ Machine, 483
Patterson’s Blow-Off Valve, 839
Pauling Process; Fixing Atmospheric Nitrogen, 555
Peat Industry of Canada, 388
Peddie-Calichiopulo Rifle-Sight, 751
Peech, The late William, 51
Peltier Effect with Thermo-Couples, 835
Penrith, Boiler Explosion near, 34
Pensions, French Railway, Employes, 20, 395, 454
Pensions, French Workmen’s, 895
“ Perkins,” U.S. Destroyer, Curtis Turbines, 753
Permanent Way, Great Northern Railway, 56
Permanent Way, Railway, Life and Cost, 472, 498
Permanent Way. Railway, Life under Electric Traction, 649
Petrol-Driven Tramcars, 357
Petrol-Motors. See Engines, Petrol; Motor- Cars; Motors, Petrol; Motor - Launches; Motor-Omnibuses; Tractors; and Motors
Petrol Substitutes, 67
Petrol Vapour, Combustion during Explosion, 331 Petroleum Institute, 188
Phosphorescence, Phenomena of, 345, 427 Photographic Optics and Colour Photography, 2 Photographs, Micro. See Micro-Photographs Photometer, Flicker; Physiological Principles, 775
Photometer, The Trotter Daylight, 831 Photometric Measurements at Reichsanstalt, 836 Physical Chemistry, Exercises in, £07
Physical Investigations at Reichsanstalt, 750,

Physical Properties of Metal. See also Alloys, Metals, and Micro-Photographs

Physical Society;

The Arthur Wright Electrical Device for Evaluating Formulae and Solving Equations, by Dr. Russell and Arthur Wright, 96
The Echelon Spectroscope ; Its Secondary Action and the Structure of the Green Mercury Line, by H. Stansfield, 96
Proposed International Unit of Candle- Power, by C. C. Paterson, 97. See also 397
Inductance and Resistance in Telephone and other Circuits, by Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 97
A Transition Point in Zinc Amalgam, by Professor H. S. Carhart, 133
A Method of Producing an Intense Cadmium Spectrum with a Proposal for the Use of Mercury and Cadmium as Standards in Refractometry, by Dr. T. M. Lowry, 133
On the Measurement of Wave-Lengths of High-Frequency Electrical Oscillations, by A. Campbell, 133
An Electro-Magnetic Method of Studying (he Theory of, and Solving, Algebraical Etjuations of any Degree, by Dr. Russell and Mr. Alty, 133
The Sine Condition in Relation to the Coma of Optical Systems, by S. D. Chalmers, 133
On Cadmium Amalgams and the Weston Normal Cell, by F. E. Smith, 701
Production of Radium from Uranium, by Mr. Soddy, 701
The Rays and Product of Uranium X, by Mr. Soddy, 701
The Production of Helium from Uranium and Thorium, by Mr. Soddy, 701
The Absorption Spectrum of Potassium Vapour, by P. V. Bevan, 775
Colour Perception Spectrometer, Exhibited by Dr. Edridge Green, 775
The Physiological Principles Underlying the Flicker Photometer, by J. S. Dow, 776 Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 829, 861 Ductile Materials under Combined Stress, by W. A. Scoble, 840
The Effective Resistance and Inductance of a Helical Coil, by Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 840
The Recoil of Radium C from Radium B, by Drs. W. Makower and S. Russ, 840
The Sun’s Motion with Respect to the Ether, by Dr. C. V. Burton, 840

Physics Department, Birmingham University, 110
Pier, Admiralty, Dover, Extension of, 503
Pier Diaphragm Pressure-Gauge, 732
Pier. See Bridge
Pier, Timber, Wemyss Bay Station, 137
Pig Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams Piles. See Ferro-Concrete
Piles, Screw, and Method of Driving for Gualeguay River Bridge, 107
Pipe-Screwing and Cutting Machine, 465
Pipes, Electrolytic Corrosion of, 272, 304
Pipes, Ferro-Concrete, Drains and Sewers, 201
Pipes, Heat Transmission in, 892
Pipe-Line, Floating, for Dredgers, 308
Pipes, Water Hammer in Steam, 423
Pipes, Wrought-Iron. Testing, 406
Piston-Valves, Petrol-Motor, 719, 720
Pitch-Blende Mining at Joachimsthal, 355
Pitting and Grooving of Boilers, 155, 194, 198
Pittier Rotary Pump, 357
Planes, Lifting Power in Air Current, 777
Planes, Inclined, Fluid Pressure on, 386. See 413, 755. See Erratxim, 435
Planets, Dr. Percival Lowell’s Illustrations, 343
Planing-Machine. See M achine-Tools
Plates, Metal, Slide-Rule for Calculating Weight, 628
Platinum Tetrachloride, Conductivity of Solutions of, in Eih>l Alcohol, 463
Pneumatic Moulding Machine, Mumford, 113 Pneumatic Power Hammer, 361
Pneumatic Run-Out Cylinders for Gun, 66 Pneumatic Tools. See Machine-Tools
Points, Tramway, Hadfield’s Pinless, Tongue-Switch for, 734
Poisson’s Ratio for Concrete, 405
Polarised Light, Mechanical Analogue, 426
Pole, South Magnetic, Position. 659
Polonium, Radiations from, Phenomena of, 340 Porhydrometer for Weighing Ships’ Cargoes, 154 Port. See Harbours and Docks
Portland Cement Industry, Danmark, 350
Posts, Ferro-Concrete, 246, 522
Poulsen High-Speed Wireless Telegraphy, 583 Powder, Smokeless, 32
Power-Gas. See Engines, Iatenial-Combusfion Gas; SuctioH’Gas; Blast-Furtiace Gas; Producer Gas
Power, Indicated, of Engines, Slide-Rule Formula) for Calculating, 416, 447, 524, 549, 590, 626
Power Plants. See Electric^ Hydro-Electric, and Water
Power-Station, Electric, Birmingham University, 9
Power-Stations, Electric, Liverpool Corporation, 157
Power Station, Electric, Formby, 178
Power-Station, Hydro-Electric, Norway, 609 Power-Station. See Electric and Poioer Plant Power, Water. See also Hydro-Electric and Electric
“ Premier ” 600 H.-P., Gas-Engine 686
Presidential Address to Chemical Section of British Association, by Professor H. E. Armstrong, 461
Presidential Address to Educational Science Section of British Association, by Rev. H. B. Gray, D.D., 492
Presidential Address, by James Charles Inglis to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 623. See 619
Presidential Address to Junior Institution of Engineers, by Engineer Vice-Admiral H. J. Oram, C. B., 703. See also 691
Presidential Address of Professor E. Rutherford to Mathematical and Physical Science Section of British Association, 323
Presidential Address, by Sir J. J. Thomson, to British Association, 283. See 360
Presidential Address, by Sir W. H. White, to the Engineering Section of British Association, 292
Press, Hydraulic Forging, 395
Pressed-Steel Car Chassis (Darracq), 684 Pressure-Gauge, Diaphragm, 750 Pressure-Gauge, Recording, for Coal-Dust Explosions, 830
Pressure, Mean Effective, Royd's Formula, 59 Pressure and Temperature of Saturated Steam, Formula) Connecting, 167. See LETTER, 524 Private Bill Legislation, 730, 764
Problem of Flight. See Aeroplane and LETTERS Producer-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas, Suction Producer Plant, Tangyes, Suction, 801 Producer, Suction-Gas, Boby, 554
Production, Census of, 521
Professional Status, Engineers’, 484. See 619, 623
Projectiles, Smoke-Tracer Shots for Indicating Trajectory of, 100
Propellers, Aerial, Flexible, Tests of, 183
Propellers, Aerial, Smoke Apparatus for Demonstrating Action of, 214
Propellers, Aeroplanes, Methods of Driving, 829, 884
Propellers, Screw, Calculator for. 102
Propellers, Screw, in Casings, 119
Propellers, Screw, Cavitation with, 119
Propellers, Screw ; Rateau’s Theory, 387, 435 Propellers, Screw, for Turbine Vessels, Number and Arrangement of, 403
Propeller Testing, Westinghouse, 15, 81 Propulsion, Ship ; Electrical Drive, 706, 790, 798, 821
Propulsion, Ship ; Internal - Combustion Engine, 706, 821
Pump, Air, Reden Mercurial, 735
Pumps, Air. See Air-Pump and Condenser
Pumps, Centrifugal, for Dredger, 308
Pump, Humphrey Gas, 512, 514, 716, 737, 772, 782. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 820, 865
Pump, Joy’s Gas, 783
Pump, Pittier Rotary, 357
Pumps, Steam and Gas ; Comparison of Working Costs, 716
Pump-Valves, Defective, Shipowners’ Liability, 158
Pumpflelds Electric-Power Station, 157
Pumping Plants, Gas-Driven, 801
Pumping. See Water
Pyrometer, The Bristol Recording, 131
Pyrometer, Compensator, for Temperature Changes in Leads, 131
Pyrometers, Thermo-Electric, Influence of Cold- Junction Temperature on, 131

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Quarrying Granite, 237
Quartz, Fluorescence of, 751
Quays. See Harbours, Docks, and Wharves
Quick-Firing Gun. See Guns and Warships
Quicksilver. See Mercxiry and Metal'Price Diagrams

Racking Machines, Cask, 554
Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford ; Stellar Parallax Investigations, 374
Radiation Effect in Gaseous Explosions, 332 Radiation from Fires, Measuring, 832
Radiation and Heat Transmission in Boilers, 504, 560
Radiation, Laws of, 560, 604, 750
Radiations from Polonium and Radium, 346
Radiation Pressure and Recoil of Light, 342
Radioactive Source of Terrestrial Heat, 210 Radioactive Substances, Separation of, 346 Radioactivity and Geology, 210
Radiotelegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy Radium Emanations on Glass and Photographic Plates, 347, 375
Radium Emanation, Decomposition of Water, 222
Radium Emanation, Purification of, 222 Radium Emanations, Recoil of, 840
Radium Emanations, Transformation into Helium, 222, 323
Radium Production at Joachimsthal, 355 Radium. Production from Uranium, 701 Rail-Grinding Machine, 384
Rail-Motor. See Motor‘C(trri(igQ Railway Accidents, Statistics, 286_
Railway, Adelaide and Port Darling, Australia, Construction of, 287
Railways, Argentine, Electric Traction, Con- ditionj on, 771
Railways, Australian, 389
Railway Axle-Boxes, Tilston’s Automatic Lubricator for, 15
Railways, British, 284, 288. See LETTERS, 325 Railway, Caledonian, Widening of Wemyss Bay
Line and Station, 4, 71, 137, 207, 271 Railways, Canadian, Development of, 292 Railways, Canadian, and the Grain Industry,

Railway, Canadian, National Trans-Continental, Construction of, 398
Railways, Canadian Pacific, Engineering Work on the, 430
Railways and Canals, Competition for Goods Traffic, 585, 620, 695, 832, 891
Railway Carriage, Brennan Mono Rail System, 659
Railway Carriages. See Carriages
Railway, Central Argentine, 35-Ton Steam
Breakdown Crane for, 699 Railways, Chinese, 732 Railway Company, Central London ; Exhibit at
the Imperial International Exhibition, 57 Railway Company, Great Northern, 56 Railway Contracts, Foreign, 734, 808, 839, 856,

Railways, Danish State, Ferry Steamers “Christian IX,” 116 ; “ Prins Christian,” 347
Railway Economics, British, 284, 288. See LETTER, 325. See Erratum, 317
Railway, Electric. See also Electric Railways, Electric Traction on, 693 Railway Engineering and Administration School;
University of Illinois, 221
Railway Engineers’ Education, 221
Railway Ferry Steamer “ Fabius,” Northern Nigeria, 443
Railway Ferry Steamers, 116, 347
Railway Ferry Steamers, Trelleborg-Sassnitz, 58
Railway Finance, 284, 288. See Erratum, 317 Railways, French Indo-China, E95
Railways, French, Pensions for Employes, 20, 454, 895
Railway, Great-Western, Profile of Fishguard to Paddington, 390
Railway, Great-Western Record of Run, Fishguard to Paddington, 320, 390
Railways, Indian, Working of, 359 Railways, Japanese State, 258
Railway' in Java ; Earthcpiake Effect, 131 Railway, L. ' 178,194 Railway, L. and comotive, Railway, L. and Railway, L. and Railway, L. and Y Railway, L. and Y., Water-Pick-Up Apparatus for Locomotives, 615
Railway, Liverpool and Southport Electric, 178 Railway Locomotive. See Locomotive and Motor-
Car, Bail, and under Electric
Railway, L. and S.-W., Locomotive Weighing Machine, 507
Railway, London, Tilbury, and Southend, Locomotives, 882
Railways, London Tube, Schemes, 730
Railway, Mersey, Steam and Electric Working Compared, 649
Railway, Midland, Single-Phase Traction on, 649
Railway, Netherlands and India, Design of Connecting-Rod for Tank Locomotive, 625
Railway, N.-E., Electric Traction on Tynemouth Branch, 649
Railway, N.-E., Kilton Ferro-Concrete Culvert, 887
Railway, N.-E., Transport of Stern Frame of S.S. “Olympic,” 179
Railway, Norway Bergen-Christiania, 843
Railway, Nyassaland, Lift-Bridge over Shird River, 129
Railway, Paris-Orleans. Fades Viaduct, 877
Railway, Permanent-Way, 56,472, 498, 649
Railways, Petrol-Cars on U.S., 481 Railway Rates, 8S0
Railway, Rhymney, Locomotive Boiler Explosion, 188
Railway and Road Bridges. See Bridges
Railway Rolling-Stock. See Carriages, Locomotives, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 730, 764 Railways and Shipping, Chinese, 732 Railway Signalling in India, 834
Railway Situation, British, 255 Railway Sleepers of Ferro-Concrete, 175, 201 Railways, Spanish, Working of, 770
Railway Steam-Ferries between Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, 58, 116,347 See 443
Rails, Steel, Life and Cost of, 472, 498 Railway, Street. See Tramways
Railways, Suburban, Buenos Aires ; Electric Traction, 771
Railway, Swedish State, Ferry Steamer, 116 Railways, Tasmanian ; Garratt Locomotive, 802.
See Addendum, 856
Railway Traffic, London Suburban, 255
Railway Train Brake. See Brake Railwa5’ Tunnels, United States, 435 Railways, United States; Petrol-Engines, 481 Railway Viaducts, French, Comparison of Dimensions, 877
Railway Viaduct over* Makatote Gorge, New Zealand, 301
Railway Wagons, Hydraulic Tip, Swansea Docks, 688
Railway Wheel and Tyre-Lathes, 516 Railway-Wheel Tyres, Wear of, 156, 195. See 472, 498
Rain ; Electricity and Thunderstorms, 258 Rammers, Chain, for Loading Guns, 64
Rangoon, River-Training Works at. 833 Rankine-Gordon and Euler’s Forniuho for Columns, 1, 327
Rateau, M., on Determination of Mechanical E<|uivalent of Heat, 807
Rateau’s Experiments on Fluid Pressure on Inclined Planes, 380. See 413, 755. See Erratum^ 435
Rateau’s Hydraulic Brake for Testing Turbines, i 806
Rateau Mixed-Pressure Turbine, 806
Rateau, M., on Calculating Steam-Turbines, 804
Rates, Railway, 880
Rayleigh, l^ord, on Ship Forms, 353 Rays, Canal, Deflection b5' Magnetic Field, 374 Reamer, Vickers’ Adjustable, 400
Reclamation of Land, Dredgers for, 308. See 660
Recoil Cylinders for Guns, 63, 05
Reden Mercurial Air-Pump, 735
Reduction-Gear, B'ottinger’s Hydraulic, for Turbines, 001
Reduction-Gear, Janney, 05
Reduction-Gear, Westinghouse, for Steam-Turbines, 377, 763. See 480. See Erratum, 449
Refractometer, 862
Refractometry, Use of Mercury and Cadmium as Standards in, 133, 492
Refrigeration Plant for Transport of Chilled Meat, 153
Register, Employment, for Engineers, 649 Regnault’s Experiments on Specific Heat of Air, 330, 333
Regulations, Board of Trade, for Electric Supply, 88
Reichsanstalt, Work of, 750, 835 Reid-Ramsay Turbo-Electric Locomotive, 613
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Reinforcement, Spiral, for Ferro • Concrete Columns, 338, 405
Reliability Trials of Motor-Cars, Scottish, 91
Renault Engines for Aeroplanes, 457 Renault Motor-Cars, 684
Repair-Ship “Cyclops” for British Navy, 69
Repeating Rifle. See Magazine Report on Boiler Explosions. See Boiler Explosions
Report of British Association Committee on Gaseous Explosions, 330. See also, 334
Report of Committee on Mechanical Transport in the Colonies, 222
Rescue Apparatus for Mines, Garforth’s, 357
Reservoirs, Water, Cost of Maintenance, 590
Resilience Effect in Impact Tests, 441
Resistance of Helical Coils, 840
Resistance in Telephone and other Circuits, 97
Retaining-Walls of Ferro-Concrete, 201, 247, 327 Retaining-Walls, Wemyss Bay Railway, 4, 271 Retorts, Gas, Horizontal, 573, Retorts, Gas, Vertical, 603, 535
Reversing Gear for 'Turbines, Fottinger’s Hydraulic, 601 ; Jannej’, 65
Revocation of Patents. See Patents Rhead, E. L., on Corrosion of Copper and Brass, 557, 741
Rheims Aviation Meeting, 288, 321 Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, Production and Consumption of Coal, 127
Rhine Suction-Gas Tug-Boats, 90
Rhvmney Railway, Locomotive Boiler Explosion, 188
Richardson’s Adjustable Hanger for Shafting, 2(51
Richter, The late Ernst, 759 Rifle-Sights, Peddie-Oalichiopulo, 751 Rifle-Sights at Bisley, 76. See also 751 Risden, P. J., on the Gualeguay River Bridge, 107
River Pollution. Sewage Works Effluent, 454 River Tame, Alleged Pollution of, 766 River-Training Works at Rangoon, 833 Road-Bridges. See Bridges
Roads, Effect of Motor Vehicles on, 437
Roads, Extraordinar.v Traffic on ; Liability, 125 Roads, Liability for Wear of, 125
Road Locomotion. See Motor • Cars, Motor- Omnibuses, MotorWagons, and Tractors
Road Locomotives, 22, 795
Roads, Macadam ; Tests of Stone, 358
Roads ; Use of Calcium Chloride for Dust-Prevention, 500
Rochester, N.Y.; Corrosion of Steel Conduit, 272, 304
Rock-Boring Machines for Tunnelling ; Bergen and Christiania Railway, 844
Rock-Drill'i, Holman, 187
Rock-Drills for Removing Old Masonry, 188 Rock-Drill, Wolski’s Hydraulic, 825
Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus, Schermuly, 833 Rodger, The late Anderson, 390
Roller-Bearing, Timken, 290
Rolling-Mills ; Electrical Operating Costs, 458 466
Rolling-Mills, Reversing ; Measuring Power, 458, 466
Rolling - Stock. See Carriages, Locomotives, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Rbntgen Rays. See X-Rays
Roofs of Station Buildings, Wemyss Bay, 4, 71, 137, 271
Rope-Driving, 875
Ropeway, Aerial, for Coal-Conveying, 722 Ross-Hotchkiss Scum-Collector for Boilers, 156, 162
Rosyth Naval Base, Progress of, 53 Rotary Pump, Pittier, 357
Rotating Liquids for Telescope Mirrors, 124 Rotating Masses, The Counterbalancing of.
Gyroscope for Studying, 47. See also 13, 247 Rowe, The late Frank L., 865
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural Royal Commission on Mines, Report on Colliery Accidents, 621. See also 518
Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, Report, 585. See 620, 695, 882. 891
Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, Report. 455
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological Royal Navy. See Navy, Naval, and Warships Royal School of Mines, New Buildings, 89 Royal Society of Arts. See Society of Arts
Royal Society’s Soirde, 23
Royd’s Formula for Mean Effective Pressure in Steam-Engines, 59
Rugan, Professor II. F., on the Growth of Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings, 458
Rules, Flexible, for Draughtsmen, 435
Russia, Copper Production and Consumption, 622
Russian Merchant Navy and Subsidies, 422
Rusting of Iron, Acid and Electrolytic Theories of, 531. See also 526
Rusting of Iron and Steel, 272, 304
Rusting of Iron in Water, 476
Rutherford, Professor E., Presidential Address to Mathematical and Physical Science Section of British Association, 323

Safety Devices on London Tube Railway, 57
Safety-Lamp Tests, Birmingham University, 109
Safety-Valve Defects, Boiler Explosion, 158
Sailing Ships Built in 19:9, 900
“Salem," U.S. Cruiser; Curtis Turbine Tests, 754
Salvage Lighters for Mersey, 250
Salvage of Steamer “ Fleswick,” 140
Samson, Peter, The late, 480
Sand for Reinforced Concrete, 147, 174
Sankey, Captain ; Method of Fixing Turbine- Blades, 549
Santos Dumont’s Aeroplane, 490, 611, 656
S.ao Paulo Railway, Brazil, Travelling Jib-Crane, 179
S.S. “Sardius," Drifter, Fitted with Thornycroft Paraffin Motor, 244
Sassnitz-Trelleborg Steam-Ferry, 58
Sault Ste. Marie Canal, Accident on, 54
Savery, T. A., an 1 Co.’s Exhibit (Imperial Exhibition), 187
Saw, Horizontal Cold, 211
Sawdust-Briquetting Platit for Fire-Lighters, 722
Sca’e, Boiler, Heat Transmission, 563. See also 608
Scandium, Photograph of Spectrum, 23
Schaefer-ter Meer’s Centrifugal Sewage-Drying Machine, 528
Schemes in Parliament. See Parliamentary Schermuly Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus, 833 Schiess, Ernst, Machine-Tools, 179, 211, 384, 412, 687, 787
Schmidt’s Superheater for Locomotives, 162 Schneider’s Torpedo-Tesling Station, 170 School of Mines, Roj^al, New Buildings, 89 School of R'lilway Engineering and Administration, University of Illinois, 221
Schwitzer, J. E., on Great Engineering Works on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 430
Scotland Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1909, 909
Scottish Club Motor-Car Trials, 91 Scouts. See Warships
Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Machine-Tools Screw Piles and Method of Driving for Gualeguay
River Bridge, 107
Screw-Propellers. See also Propellers and Aeroplanes
Screw-Propellers, Westinghouse Apparatus for Testing, 15, 81
Screwing- Machine. See Mackine- Tools Scum-Collector, Ross-Hotchkiss, for Boilers,

156, 162

Sea Power. See Nanai
Sea-Walls, Wemyss Bay Station, 4 Seismograph for Vibrations of Motor-Cars, 23 Seismological Investigations ; British Association
Committee, 428
Selden’s Master Motor-Car Patent in U. S., 584 Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Motor-Cais and
Motor- Wagons
Selve, Gustav, The late, 895
Separator, Oil, Exhaust-Steam Turbo, 854 Sewage Disposal; Report of Royal Commission, 454
Sewage Filter-Beds, Life of, 454 Sewage-Filters, Ducat, at Hendon, 454 Sewage-Sludge, Centrifugal Drying-Machine for,

Sewage Works, Alleged Pollution of River Tame, 766
Shafts, Crank, Failures of, 353 Shaft-Hanger, Richardson’s Adjustable, 261 Shafts, Torsion, Tests of, 308, 362
Shafts for Turbine Steamers, Number and Arrangement of, 403
Shafts, Vibration, and Whirling Speeds of, 135, 205. See 289
Shafting, Design of, for Torsion and Bending,

637, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 698, 697, 885

Shaping-Machines. See Machine-Tools Shaw, John, The late, 191
Shearing-Machines. See Machine-Tools Sheffield-Simplex Motor-Car, 719
Shepherd’s Bush Exhibition, Engineering at, 56, 187, 357
Ship Canal, Trollhattan, Sweden, 569
Ships, Economical Construction ef, 215, 330, 884
Ship Forms, Lord Rayleigh’s Experiments, 358 Ship, Jet Propulsion, Humphrey Gas-Pump, 774, 783, 786
Ship-Launching Calculations, 261 Ships, Longitudinal Framing, 215, 360, 884 Ship-Platers’ Wages, Home-Office Regulations, 421
Ships, Porhydrometer for Indicating Load on, 154
Ship Propulsion, 790, 795, 821
Ship Propulsion, 706, 821
Ship Propulsion, for. See also Engines, Gas, Oil, Pe^ol^&c.; and Engines, Marine
Ships, Sailing, Built in 1909, 900
Ships. See also Shipping, Steamers, and Warships
Shipbuilding, German Compared with English, 521. See LETTER, 698
Shipbuilding in Japan, Depression in, 288 Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1909, 899
Shipbuilding, Naval, British Facilities for, 151
Shipbuilding. See also Warships and Naval Architects
Shipbuilding Trade, Lloyd’s Returns, 59, 491 Shipping, British and Foreign, 122
Shipping, Canadian, on the Great Lakes. 293. See also 518
Shipping, Canadian, Statistics of, 294
Shipping, Chinese, 732
Shipping, Lloyd’s Register of, Annual Report, 613
Shipping Subsidies, Russian, 422
Shipwrecks, Lloyd’s Annual Returns of, 226 Shird River, Lift-Bridge Over, Nvassaland Railway, 129
Shrinkage Pressures in Built-Up Guns, 709 Siddeley-Wolseley Motor-Cars, 648 Sights, Aperture, for Rifles, 76, 751 Sights for Rifles, at Bisley, 76, 751
Sight for Rifles, The Peddie-Calichiopulo, 751 Sights, Telescopic, for Guns, 67, 98
Signalling Apparatus, Submarine, on S.S. “ George Washington,” 280
Signalling on Indian Railways, 834
Signalling, Submarine, on the St. Lawrence. 399
Silicate, Cotton, Effect of Density on Heat Insulating Properties of, 37
Silicon, Effect on Cast Iron, 473, 529
Silver Mines at Cobalt, 495
Silver Nitrate Test for Leakage in Steam-Condensers, 413
Simplon Tunnel, Three-Phase Lccomotive, 444, 516
Sine Condition in Relation to the Coma of Optical Systems, 133
Sisson’s High-Speed Steam-Engine, 22 Skimming-Boats or Hydroplanes, 124, 215, 313 Skin Friction, Coefficient of, Lanchester’s Value of the, 81, 148, 214, 325. See Erratum-^ 451
Skin Friction of Inclined Planes in Air Current, 386. See LETTER, 755. See Erratum, 435
Skinner, Frank W., on the Blackwells Island Bridge, New York, 237, 267, 372, 471, 537, 644, 711, 745, 779, 816. For details see ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Slag Enclosures in Steel, 409
Slag Wool; Effect of Density on Heat-Insulating Properties, 37
Sleepers, Railway, of Ferro-Concrete, 175, 201
Slide-Rule for Calculating Weights of Plates, 628
Slide-Rule Formulfc for Calculating Indicated Horse-Power, 416, 447, 524, 549, 599, 626
Slotting-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Sludge, Sewage, Centrifugal Drying-Machine for, 528
Smith, C. Alfred ; Experiments on Solid Steel Bars under Combined Stress, 238, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 697, 732, 865, 885. The Birmingham University, 6, 42, 109. The Elastic Breakdown of Non-Ferrous Metals, 587, 593, ' 629. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 697, 733, 884. I Stress Distribution in Tension Tests, 798. See LETTER, 821. The University of Leeds. 713. ' 813 \
Smith, Dr. J. H., on A Fatigue-Testing Machine, 105
Smith, John, on Launching Calculations, with Special Reference to the Effect of Camber 261 ’
Smithfield Club Agricultural Show, 795
Smith’s Typewriter, 250, 281
Smoke Apparatus for Indicating Flow of Air over Aeroplanes and Aerial Propellers, 214 Smoke-Boxes, Locomotive, 155, 199 Smoke Emission from Motor-Cars, 422
Smoke Nuisance and the London County Council, 766
Smoke, Tintometer for Measuring Density of, 627
Smoke-Tracer Shots to show Trajectory of Projectiles, 100
Society of Engineers’ Employment Register, 549
Society, Royal Agricultural. See Agricultural Society. See Institution
Soirde of the Royal Society, 23
Solar Heat, Possibilities of Utilisinsr, 566 Solar Motion with Respect to the Ether, 840 Sound, Velocity of, in Air, 750
Sound-Waves of Human Voice, 375. See also 428 South Africa, Irrigation of Dry Lands in, by Artesian Wells, 420
South Africa. See also Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, Rhodesia, and Trans^ vaal
South, Magnetic Pole, Position of, 659
South-West, Notes from the, 17, 51, 85, 115, 145 192, 219, 251, 281, 317, 351, 383, 417, 451, 485, 511, 545, 577, 617, 661, 689, 725, 759, 791, 825, 857, 889 ’
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16. 51, 85, 114,145 191, 219, 251, 281, 316, 350, 383, 417 451, 485, 511, 545, 577, 617, 660, 689, 725, 759, 791, 825, 857
Southport, Exhibition at Repair-Shop, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 178
Southport Line, Liverpool and ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railwajs 178
Southwark Bridge, Improvements of, 24
Spanish Navy ; Battleships and Dockyards, 87. See 183
Spanish Railways, 770
Spark-Discharge; Effects on Photographic Plates. 24, 375
Spark-Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy and Electric
Sparks, Grinding-Wheel, Determination of Quality of Steel by, 370
Specifications for Cast Iron, 409
Specifications, International, for Iron and Steel, 370 ’
Specifications, Standard, for Copper, 371
Spectra of Anode Rays, 340. See 751
Spectra, Emission, of Solid Organic Compounds, 346
Spectra, Fluorescent, Effect of Low Temperature on, 427
Specific Heat of Gases at High Temperatures, 330, 334
Specific Heat of Mercury, Variation at High Temperatures, 375
Specific Heat of Various Gases at High Temperatures, 731. See also 893
Spectrometer and Refractometer, 862
Spectrometer for Testing Colour Perception, 775 Spectroscope, The Echelon, Secondary Action of, and the Structure of the Green Mercury Line, 96
Spectroscope for Estimating Colour Perception, 24
Spectroscopic Use, Triple Objective for, 428 Spectroscopic Work at the Reichsanstalt, 751 Spectrum, Absorption, of Potassium Vapour, 775 Spectrum of Cadmium, Method of Producing an Intense, 133, 492
Spectrum, Ultra-Violet, Investigations of the, 343
Speech, A’ibration Curves of, 428. See also 375 Speeds, Critical, of Shafts, 135, 205. See 289 Speed-Indicators, Tests of, 751
Speed-Varying Apparatus, Hydraulic, Janney, 66. See also Racer sing (J ear
Spelter Prices. See MetaVPriee Diagrams Spelter, Pure, Production of, 687 Spelter. See Zinc
Spheres, Small, Terminal Velocity of Fall in Air, 425
Sphingometer, Smith’s, Design and Calibration of, 687, 593, 631, 849. See LETTERS, 625, 652, 697, 733, 884
Spinning-Mihs-, Electrical Operation of, 177, 201. See 216, 5i0, 653, 754, 799, 820
Spinning-Tops, Theory of, Treatise on, 423. See LETTER, 519
Spiral Tunnels on the C. P. Railway, 434 Spraying-Machine for Agricultural Purposes, 796 Spring Steel, Heat Treatment of, 369
Spring Steel, Transverse Tests of, 520 Springs of Locomotives, Life of, 196 St. Helens, Vertical Gas Retorts, 536 St. Lawrence River, Improvements in Navigation, 399
St. Lawrence River, Navigation, 291.
Standard Candle, Proposed International, 97, 397
Standard Capacity at the Reichsanstalt, 835
Standard Specifications for Copper, 371 Standards for Electrical Measurements, 833
Standardisation, International Electrical, 833
Stanley Cycle Show, 731
Stanley, W. F., The late, 259 Stars, Alotion of the, 343, 374
Station Roofs, Weniyss Bay Railway, 4, 71, 207, 271
Stations, Electric-Power. See under Electric^ Uydro-Electric, Power, and IVater
Steam Action on Pure Iron, 526
Steam Boilers. See Boilers
Steam Consumption of Marine Auxiliaries, 7v5 Steam Consumption of Marine Engines, 231 Steam Consumption of Reversing Rolling-Mill Engines, 458, 466
Steam Consumption. See also Steam Trials^ Turbinesy Tests, and. Diagrams in ILLUSTRATION liXDKX
Steam Consumption cf S.S. “Obaki,” with Combined Reciprocating and Turbine Engines, 179. See 231, 295
Steam, Dissociation of, 334
Steam-Engines. See Engines
Steam, Exhaust, from Marine Auxiliary, Utilisation of, 705
Steam Ferries, Railway, between Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, 58, 116, 347
Steani-Ferrj Traffic, American, 58
Steam, Latent Heat of, 750
Steam-Launch, Fast Single-Handed, 482 Steam-Lorries. See Motor- Wagons and Tractors Steam Motor-Car, The Turner-Miesse, 9 Steam, Moving, Measuring Temperature of, 19, 81
Steam-Pipe Coverings, Efficiency of, 37 Steam-Pipes, Water-Hammer in, 423 Steam-Pumps. See Pump and Pumping Steam, Rate of Condensation of, 541 Steam, Ratios of Expansion of, in Engines, 59, 704
Steam, Saturated, Formuko Connecting Pressure and Temperature, 167. See LETTERS, 524
Steam, Specific Heat of, at High Temperatures, 732
Steam-Superheaters. See Superheaters
Steam Superheated, Engine Failures due to, 353
Steam, Superheated, in Reciprocating and Turbine Marine Engines, 704
Steam, Tables of the Properties of, 677
Steam-Tractor for Military Purposes, 503
Steam Trials. See also Warships Steam-Turbines. See Turbines
Steam-Whistles, Water Arrester for, 329
Steamboats. See Steamers Steamers, Atlantic, Dimensions and Strength of, 276
Steamers Built in 1909, 899
Steamers, Canadian, for Great Lakes, 293, 518
Steamer, Canadian, Ice-Breaking, The “Earl Grey,” 39 J
Steamers, Cargo, Turbine Machinery for, 177, 231. See 179
Steamer, Coaling, 290
Steamer “Creole,” with Curtis Turbines, 754 Steamer “Cyclops,” II.M. Repairing, 69 Steamers, Defective Pump-Valves of, Liability for, 158
Steamer, Ferry, for Danish State Railways, 347
Steamer “ Fleswick,” Salvage of, 140
Steamer “George Washington” for Nord-deutscher-Lloyd, 276
Steamer, Italian Passenger and Emigrant, “ America” (La Veloce), 411
Steamers, Longitudinal Framing of, 215, 360, 884 Steamer “ Mauretania,” Service Speed of, 296 Steamers, Oil Fuel for, 232
Steamtrs, Orient Line, Coal Consumption and Speed, 59
Steamer “Otaki,” with Combined Reciprocating and Turbine Engines, Trials of, 179. See 231, 295
Steamers “Otranto” and “Orvieto,” Orient, 580
Steamer Pier, Timber, Weiiiyss Bay Station, 137
Steamers, Porhj drometer for Indicating Load on, 154
Steamer, Railway Ferry, for Nigeria, 443 Steamers, Railway Ferry, 116, 347
Steamers, Railway Ferry, Trelleborg-Sassiiitz Service, 58 _
Steamers.
Steamers, 295
Steamers, 403
Steamers, Turbine, “ Duke of Cumberland” and
“ Duke of Argyll ” for L. and Y. Railway, 757 Steamers, Turbine, Fuel Consumption of, 296 Steamer, Turbine, with Fottinger’s Hydraulic
Speed-Reducing and Reversing Gear, 601 Steamers, Turbine, Manoeuvring Qualities of, 403, 412
Steamers, Turbine, Number of, 231
Steamers. Turbine and Paddle, Advantages of, 412, 417
Steamers, Turbine. See also Turbine
Steamer, Turbine, “ Umegaka Maru,” Japanese Volunteer, 633
Steamers, Turbo-Electric Propulsion of, 233 Steamer Vibration, Effect of Water on, 119 Steel Bars, Alteration of Length when Magnetised, 428
Steel Bars under Combined Stress, Experiments on, 238, 810, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 697, 732, 865, 8^5
Steel, Bending Tests of Notched Bars, 476
Steel Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Steel Conduit at Rochester, N.Y., Corrosio.i, 272, 304
Steel, Cost of Rolling, 458, 466
Steel Cutting by Means of Oxygen Jet, 168
Steel, Determination of Quality of, by Sparks from
Grinding-Wheels, 370
Steel, Effect of Stress on Corrosion of, 304
Steel, Effect of Stress and Heat on Magnetic
Properties of, 409
Steel for Guns, Metallurgy of, 28
Steel Hardness, Tests of, 408, 473
StesI, High Tensile, for Structural Purposes, 385
Steel, Impact-Tests of, 439, 441, 476
Steel, Impact-Tests, Effect of Temperature, 441
Steel, International Specifications for, 370
Steel and Iron Industries, Transvaal, 521
Steel and Iron in China, 5S9
Steel and Iron, Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel and Iron Industry, Swedish, 521
Steel and Iron, Nomenclature of Microscopical
Constituents of, 370, 442, 589, 694, 861
Steel and Iron Production, Lancashire, 521
Steel, Longitudinal Impact-Tests of, 442, 474
Steel Measures, Variation in Length, 751
Steel, Metallography of, 369, 370. See also 442
Steel, Method of Determining Sulphur in, 30 Steel, Micro-Structure of. See also Micro-Photograph
Steel, Mild, Effect of Heat Treatment and Overstrain on, 629
Steel, Nickel, for Eye-Bars of Blackwells Island Bridge, Specifications of, 267
Steel, Nickel, for Turbine-Blades, 19
Steel Production, Electrical, from Luxemburg Ore, 460
Steel Production in Germany, 320. See 661
Steel Rails, Life and Cost of, 472, 498 Steel, Rusting of, 272, 304
Steel. Sea Alloys, Iron, Q.\\(\Micro-Photograi)hs
Steel, Slag Enclosures in, 409
Steels, Special, 369
Steel, Specification, for Blackwells Island Bridge, 267
Steel, Spring, Heat Treatment and Tests, 369
Steel, Spring, Transverse Tests of, 520 Steel, Tests under Alternate Stresses, 438 Steel, Torsion Tests, 308, 362
Steel Tube Tests under Combined Stress, 845, 867. See LETTERS, 865, 884
Steel Union, German, Report of, 320, 661 Steel-Work. See Fridges, Roofs, Cohemns, and Floors
Steel Works. See Works
Stellar Parallax Investigations at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 374
Stereoscopic Illustrations, The Use of, 13
Stern Frame of S.S. “Olympic,” Transporting, 179
“ Sterrett,” U.S. Destroyer, Curtis Turbines for, 753
Stewart Military Steam-Tractor, 503
“Stirling” Tvpe Boiler, Explosion, 101. See 119
Stokers, French Railway, Conditions of Labour, 20. See 454
Stokers, Mechanical, for Marine Boilers, 232
Stoke’s Law of Falling Spheres, Experimental Investigation of, 425
Stone for Macadam Roads, Tests of, 358
Stoney, Gerald, on Tension in Electrolytically- Deposited Metallic Films, 555
Stop-Valves, Automatic Locking-Gear for, 788
Stormonth, J., on Rope-Driving, 876 Stove’s Hose-Coupling, 449
Strain, Effect on Iron and Steel Corrosion, 304
Straker and Squire’s Petrol-Driven Tramcar (Imperial Exhibition), 357
Stream-Lines in Air, Smoke Apparatus for Demonstrating, 214
Street Widenings by Tramway Undertakings, Allocation of Cost of, 89
Strength of Columns. See also Columns
Strength of Materials under Combined Stress, 238, 840, 845, 849, 867. See LETTERS, 697, 732, 865, 884, 885
Stress, Alternating, Testing-Machine for, 105
Stress, Combined, Experiments on Solid-Steel
Bars under, 238, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 697, 732, 865, 885
Stress, Combined, Tests of Brass Tubes under, 630 ; Steel Tubes under, 845,866, 867, 834
Stress Determination by Thermo-Electric Measurements, 476
Stress Distribution in Testing Materials, 593, 595, 796, 821, 853
Stress, Effect on, Corrosion of Iron and Steel 304
Stresses in Metal. See also Micro-Photographs Stresses in Shafts Due to Combined Torsion and
Bending, 637, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 696, 697, 885
Stress in Structural Members, Manet-Rabut Indicator for Determining, 464
Stresses, Working, for Material in Torsion, 366 Strike and Lock-Out in Sweden, 189, 227, 256, 285, 325, 358, 389, 420, 488
Strikes and Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes
Stromeyer, C. E., on Water-Hammer in Steam- Pipes, 423
Strontium, Uses for, 413 Structure of Metal. See Micro Photographs Structures, Theory and Design of, 424
Struts, Strength of. See also Colxxmns Student, The Complete, 319. See LETTERS, 360, 392, 412, 447, 481
Submarine Boat. See also Warships
Submarine Signalling Apparatus on S.S. “ George Washington,’’ 280
Submarine Telegraph Cables ; Cost of Maintenance, 702
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 702 Sutiinersible Boat. See Warships Suburban Railway Traffic, London, 255
Suction Dredgers, Clay-Cutting, for Bombay,
SOS. See 660
Suction-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas Suction-Gas Producer. See Producer and Gas Suction-Gas Tug-Boats on the Rhine, 90
Suction and Hopper Dredger for “ Venezia,” 218 Sugar Indusiry in Formosa, 460
Sugar Manufacture, Treatise on, 676
Sulphur, Effect of Light on Insulating Properties of, 425
Sulphur in Steel, Method of Determining, 30 Sunderland Gas-Works. 506
Superannuation for French Railway Employes, ' 20, 454
Superheater, Schmidt’s, for Locomotives, 162 Superheated Steam-Engine Failures due to, 353
Superheated Steam in Reciprocating and Turbine Marine-Engines, 704
Superheated Steam-Engine for Tractor, 508 Superheated Steam-Engine, Motor-Car, 9 Superheated Steam, Wolf’s Semi-Poitable Engine for, 478; Tests of, 497. See LETTER, 524 Superheater of Wolf’s Semi-Portable Engine, 478
Surface-Condensers. See also Air-Puxop and Condensers
Surface Plates. Exhibit of Crown Works at Imperial Exhibition, 187
Surgery and Engineering, Association of, 206
Surgical Instruments, Modern, 206
Survey, United States Magnetic, 461
Surveying for Blackwells Island Bridge, 237
Surveying, Tacheometrical, 572
Surveying Work, Africa, for Meridian Measurement, 428
Svaelgfos, Norway, Hydro - Electric Station, 609
Swansea Docks ; Hydraulic Coaling-Tip, 638
Sweden, Electric Production of Pig Iron, 414, 458, 465, 695
Sweden and Germany ; Railway Ferrv, 58. See 116, 347
Sweden ; Iron Industry, 91
Swedeix; Strike and Lock-Out, 189,227,256, 285 325, 358, 389, 420, 488
Sweden, Trollhattan Canal, 569 Swedish Iron Market, 721
Swedish Iron-Ore in the United States, 860
Swedish Ironmasters’ Union Report, 521
Swedish State Railways, Ferry-Steamer for, 116
Swedish Steel Industry ; Electrical Production, 460
Swedish Water-Power Union, 588
Swinden, Thomas, on Bristol Recording Pyrometer, 131
“Swift ” Motor-Car, 684
Switchboards and Gear. See Electric
Switch-Tongue, for Tramway Tracks, ^Hadfield’s Pinless, 734
Sydney Harbour, Australia ; Schemes for Crossing, 673. See LETTERS, 755, 799, 883
Syndicates and Kartels in Germany, 692
Syphon Jar for Beer, Wrightson, 554

Table, Tilting, for Drilling-Machines, 393
Tables of Properties of Steam, 077
Tacheometrical Surveying, 572
Tachometers, Tests of, 751
Talbot, Professor, Tests of Ferro-Ccncrete Columns, 337, 405
Tame River, Alleged Pollution of, 766
Tangye, Edward, The late, 834
Tanks, Cylindrical, Chart for Calculating Contents, 302
Tar-Macadam Mixing Machine, Baxter’s, 22
Tasmanian Government Railway, Garratt Locomotive for, 802, 856
Teaching. See Education and Training
Technical Education. See Education
Technical Literature, Modern, Criticism of, 215
Teeth, Flexible, for Speed-Reducing Gears of Steam-Turbines, 480
Telegraphy. See under Electric
Telegraphy, Wireless. See Wireless under Electric
Telephone Circuits, Inductance and Resistance in, 97
Telephone, Egndr-Holmstrom Long-Distance, 91
Telephones. See also Electric
Telescope Mirrors, Rotating Liquids for, 124
Telescopic Gun-Sights, 67, 98
Temperature of Moving Gases, Measurement, 19, 81
Temperature and Pressure of Saturated Steam, Formulse Connecting, 167. See LETTER, 524
Tempering of Spring steel, 369
Temperley Transporter, Canary Islands, 146
Tenders, Law Relating to, 893
Tenders of Locomotives. See Locoinotices
Tensile Tests by Impact, 442, 474
Tension Combined with Torsion Stress, Effect on Steel Bars. See Torsion^ Canbined, &c.
Testing of Materials, International Association for the, Fifth Congress at Copenhagen, 356, 369, 406, 438, 473. See 477
Testing Materials, International Regulations, 442
Testing Station for Torpedoes, 170
Tests, Bending, of Notched Bars, 476 Tests of Cast Iron, 473, 529
Tests, Impact, Effect of Resilience in, 441
Tests, Impact, Influence of Temperature, 441 Tests, Impact, of Metals, 439, 441, 476
Tests of Iron and Steel, Use of Magnetic Properties in, 409
Tests, Longitudinal Impact, 442, 474
Tests of Materials, Eccentric Loading of Specimens, 593, 595, 796, 821, 853
Tests of Metal. See also M icro-Pliotographs
Tests of Mild-Steel Tubes under Combined Stress, 845, 867. See LETTERS, 865, 884
Tests. See also Trials^ Steam TrialsTurbines^ Reichsanstalty and Diagrams in ILLI STRATIOS INDEX
Tests of Solid-Steel Bars under Combined Stress, 238, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 697, 732, 865, 885
Tests of Steel under Alternate Stresses, 438
Tests, Transverse, of Cast Iron, 530 I
Tests, Transverse, of Spring Steel, 520
Tests of Wolf’s Semi-Portable Engine, 497. See | 478. See LETTERS, 524
Textile Department, Leeds University, 814
Textile Factories, Electrical Operation of, 177, 201. See 216, 510, 653, 7o4, 799, 820
Textile Factories, Ventilation and Dust-Extraction, 677
Textile Imports, Japanese, 446
Textile Machinery, Power Required for, 202 Thames Bridge, Pro])osed New, 24
Thermal Efficiency of Gas-Engines, 334
Thermal Efficiency of Gas-Engines. Influence of Compression on, 522
Thermal Storage Tanks for Locomotives, 162 Thermo-Couples, Influence of Cold-Junction Temperature on, 131
Thermo-Couples, Peltier Effect with, 835 Thermo-Couples, Ttsts, Reichsanstalt, 836 Thermal Efficiency of Petrol-Engines, 331 Thermo-Electric Ga^< Calorimeter, Fdry, 133 Thermo-Electric Measurements for Determination of Stress, 476
Thermometer. See also Pyrometer
Thom, John, The late, 424
Thomas, G. Allan, on the Status of the Engineering Profession, 484. See also 619, 623
Thompson, George, The late, 758
Thomson, Sir J. J., on Positive Electricity, 374
Thomson, Sir J. J.; Presidential Address to British Association, 283. See 360
Thorium, Production of Helium from, 701
Thornton, Professor W. M., on the Distribution of Dielectric Stress in Three-Phase Cables, 297
Thornycroft, Sir John, on Hydroplane Boats, 124, 313. See 215
Thorp-Butler Replicas of Concave Diffraction Gratings, 23
Thorpe, W. H., on the Limitations of Reinforced- Concrete Design, 747. See LETTER, 865
Thunderstorms, Origin of, 258
Tides, Earth, 425
Tilston’s Lubricator for Axle-Boxes, 15
Tilting Work-Table for Drilling-Machines, 393 Timbering of Trench at Alexandra Dock, Newport, Collapse of, 658. See LETTERS, 799, 864 Timber Pier, Wemyss Bay, 4, 71
Timbers, Strength of South Australian, 358
Timber, Treatise on, 38 |
Timken Roller-Bearing, 290
Tin-Aluminium Alloys, Corrosion of, 557 Tin-Copper-Aluminiuiu Alloys, Constitution and Properties of, 556, 664
Tin-Plate Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Tintometer for Measuring Density of Smoke, 6i7
Tippins’ Sight for Rifles, 77
Tookey, W. A., on the Influence of Compression Pressure upon Thermal Efficiencies of Gas- Engines, 522
Tools, Machine. See Machine-Tools
Tops, Spinning, Treatise on, 423. See LETTER, 549
Torpedo Attack, Italian Experiments on, 228 Torpedo. See Warships
Torpedo-Testing Station, Schneider’s, 170
Torsion, Combined with Bending, Stresses Due to, 637, 840, 845, 849. See LETTERS, 696, 697, 885
Torsion Combined with Tension or Compression, Effect of, on Steel Bars, 238, 840, 845, 849. Ste LETTERS, 697, 732
Torsion, Lengthening of Loaded Wires Due to, 426
Tor&ion-Mett-r, Fdtiinger, 601
TOiSion Tests of Ductile Material, 3C8, 362. See LETIERS, 590,623,603, 697, 698, 733, 755, 799, 821
Torsion Test Specification, 366
Torsion, Working Stress for Materials Under, 366
Torsional Strains, Sphingometer for Measuring, 593, 631, 849. See LETTERS, 626, 652, 697, 733, 884
Town-Planning ; School of Civic Design at Liverpool University, 358
Traction, Electric. See Tramivays and BaiUvayt: under Electi'ic
Traction-Engine Boiler Explosion, 633 Traction-Engines at Smithfield Show, 795 Traction-Engines and Tractors, 22 Tractor, Military Steam, 508
Tractors, Motor, Use in Colonies, 222 Trades Union Congress, 1909, 387 Trade-Union Disputes, 186 Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes and Legal Trading, Municipal. See Municipal
Traffic on Roads, Liability for Extraordinary, 125 Train-Ferries, Steam International, betv/een
Germany and Sweden, 58. See 116, 347 Train-Ferry Steamers, 58,116, 347, 413 Train-Ferry Steamer for Nigeria, 443 Trains. See Locomotives, Railways^ and Motor-Carriages
Train Service, L. and Y. Railway, 196
Training. See Education, Technka^ and Apprenticeship
Training Works, River, at Rangoon, 833 Trajectories of Projectiles, Smoke-Tracer Shots for Indicating, 100
Tramcars, Petrol, at Imperial Exhibition, 357 Tramways, London Countv Council, 127, 338, 555
Tramways, Municipal. See also Municipal Tramway - Points, Hadfield’s Pinless Tongue-
Switch for, 734
Tramway Rails, Grinding-Machine for, 384 Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 730, 765 Tramways. See also Electric and Traction Tramway, Street Widenings, Cost Allocation, 89
Tramway Systems, Electrical Supply from, 693 Transmission Gear, Fottinger’s Hydraulic, for
Turbines, 601
Transmission Gear, Janney, 66
Transmission Gear, Westinghouse, 377, 763. See 480. See Erratum, 449
Transport of Chilled Meat, 153
Transport Facilities and Canadian Development, 518
Transport, Mechanical, in Colonies, Report, 222 Transport by Rail Compared with Water, Costs, 585, 620, 695, 832, 891
Transporter, Coaling, at Durban, Accident, 483 Transporter, Temperley, Canary Islands, 146 Transvaal Iron and Steel Industry, 521 Traveller, Erecting, Lethbridge Viaduct, C. P.
Railway, 432
Traveller for Fades Viaduct Erection, 880 Travellers, Erecting, Blackwells Island Bridge, 746
Trelleborg-Sassnitz Steam-Ferry, 58
Trials, Japanese Armoured Cruiser “ Ibuki,” 449 Trials. See Steam Trials, Warships, Guns, and Tests
Trials of S.S. “ Otaki " with Combined Reciprocating and Turbine Engines, 179. See 231, 295 Trials of the “ Umegaka Maru,” Turbine Steamer
for the Japanese Volunteer Fleet, 633 Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Trolley-Wire, Tests of, 438 Trollhiittan Ship Canal, Sweden, 569 Trollhiittan, Sweden, Electric Iron-Smelting
Plant at, 695. See also 414, 458, 465 Trotter Daylight Photometer, 831 Trucks. See also Carriages Trusses. See also Bridges and Roofs Tubes, Brass, Tests, under Combined Stress, 630 Tubes, Heat Transmission, Nusselt’s Experiments, 892
Tubes of Locomotive Boilers, Corrosion, 305
Tube Railw’ay, Central London (Imperial Exhibition), 57
Tube Railway Improvements in Louden, 730 Tubes, Steel, Tests under Combined Stress, 845, 867. See LETTERS, 865, 884
Tug-Boats, Suction-Gas, on Rhine, 90
Tunnel, Gravehals, on Bergen and Christiania Railway, 844
Tunnels, Proposed, under Sydney Harbour, 673. See LETTERS, 755, 799, 883
Tunnels, Railway, of United States, 435
Tunnel, Simplon, Three-Phase Locomotive, 444, 546
Tunnels, Spiral, on C. P. Railw'ay, 434
Tunnels, Wemyss Bay Railw^ay, 271
Turbine Apparatusfor Testing Screw-Propellers, Westinghouse, 15. See 81
Turbine-Blades, Sankey’s Method of Fixing, 549 I I Turbine-Blades, Nickel Steel for, 19 I
Turbines Combined with Reciprocating Engines ! for Marine Propulsion, 179. See 231, 295, 705
Turbines, Condensers for. See Condenser
Turbines, Cruising, in the Navy, 705
Turbines, Curtis, on Japanese Cruiser “Ibuki,” 449
Turbines, Curtis, in U. S. Navy, 753. See 6^5, 768, 823
Turbine Destroyers. See II. M. Destroyers under Warships
Turbines, Exhaust-Steam, 731
Turbines, Fottinger Hydraulic Speed-Reducing and Reversing Gear for, 601
Turbines for H.M. Scout-Cruisers, 453
Turbines, Hj draulic ; Victoria University, Manchester, 82
Turbines, Impulse, Internal Efficiency of, 804
Turbines, Impulse, Relative Velocity of Steam and Blades, 804
Turbine Machinerv for Cargo Steamers, 177.179, 231
Turbine Machinery for Warships, Advantages of, 691, 703
Turbines, Marine, Development of, 176, 231
Turbines, Marine, Electrical Transmission for, 706
Turbines, Marine, Use of Superheated Steam, 704
Tuibine and Paddle-Steamers, Manosuvring Qualities of, 412, 447
Turbine, Rateau Mixed Pressure, 806
Turbine and Reciprocating Machinery for Marine Propulsion, Comparative Weights of, 226
Turbine, Reversing and Speed Reduction, Janney System, 66; Fottinger, 601; Westinghouse, 377, 449, 480, 763
Turbine Rotors, Lathe for Turning, 787
Turbine3 in Slow-Speed Steamers, 119. Sea 295
Turbines, Steam, Efficiency' of, 19, 81 Turbines, Steam, PLxperienes with, 19, 81
Turbines, Steam, Meims-Pfenninger, 39 Turbines, Steam, in the Navy; Efficiency, 691, 705, 894
Turbines, Steam, Range of Expansion in, 704 Turbines, Steam, Rateau, 806
Turbines, Steam, Rateau’s Method of Calculating, 804
Turbines, Steam, Westinghouse Hydraulic Absorption Dynamometer for Testing, 763
Turbine Steamers “Duke of Cumberland ” and “ Duke of Argyll ” for L. and Y. Railway, 757
Turbine-Steamers ; Fuel Consumption, 296
Turbine-Steamers, Manoeuvring Qualities, 403, 412
Turbine Steamer “Mauretania ;” Service Speed, 296
Turbine-Steamers, Number and Arrangement of’ Shafts of, 403
Turbine-Steamer “ Umegaka Maru ” for Japanese Volunteer Fleet, 633
Turbine-Steamers and Warships, Number of, 231
Turbine, Water. See Hydro-Electric Poioer
Turbines, Westinghouse Speed-Reducing Gear for, 377, 763. See 480. See Erratuw, 449
Turbine, Zoelly, for Marine Propulsion, 213
Turbo-Alternator, Test of, 127
Turbo-Electric Drive for Marine Propulsion, 233
Turbo-Electric Locomotive, Reid-Ramsay, 613
Turbo Oil-Separator for Exhaust Steam, 854
Turner-Miesse Steam Motor-Car, 9
Turner, Thomas, The late, 227
Turning-Machine. See Machine-Tools^ Lathes Turrets, Triple Gun, 762
Turret Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Turrets for Naval Guns, 61, 762
Twelvetrees, W. Noble, on Reinforced-Concrete Columns, 337, 405
Tynemouth Electric Railway, 649
Typewriter, Smith’s, 250. See 281
Tyres, Pneumatic, for Motor Vehicles, Sizes of, *437. See LETTER, 549
Tyres, Railway, Lathe for Turning, 51G
Tyres, Railway Wheel, Wear of, 156, 195. See 472, 498

U-Tube, Mercury Oscillaticnsin, 785
“ Umegaka Maru,” Turbine Steamer for Japanese Volunteer Fleet, 633
Underground Railway. See Ticnnels and Rail- ’ ways
Unions, Trade. See Trade Unions, Indtislrial Eotes, and Legal
Unit of Candle Power, International Standard, 97, 397
United Kingdom. See also lyritish
United Kingdom Shipbuilding and Engineering, 1909, 899
United States Battleship “ Delaware,” Trials of, 8^3
United States Battleship “North Dakota,” 768; Trials, 695, 823
United States, Conservation of Water Power, 693
United States Destro.yers “Perkins” and “Sterrett,” Curtis Turbines, 753
United States Iron Industry and Foreign Ore, 860
United States, Irrigation by Artesian Wells, 420
United States, Magnetic Survey of, 461
United States Navy, Curtis Turbines for, 753. See 695, 768, 823
United States Navy Department Reorganisation, 796
United States, Notes from, 11, 59, 80, 114, 158, 190, 228, 246, 289, 316, 350, 382, 450, 484, 510, 558, 580, 616, 649, 724, 754, 788, 824, 897
United States Principal Railway Tunnels, 435
United States Railways ; Petrol Engines, 481
United States Scout-Cruiser “Salem” Trials, 754
United States. See also America
University, Birmingham, 5, 42,109
University at Hong Kong, 797
University of Illinois ; School of Railway Engineering and Administration, 221
University of Leeds, 713, 813
University of Liverpool, Department of Civic Design, 358
University, Liverpool, 178
University, Victoria, Manchester, Engineering Department, 82
Unwin, Professor W. C., Report on Tests of Humphrey Gas-Pump, 514. See 512, 716, 737, 772, 782, 820, 865
Uranium Mines at Joachimsthal, 355
Uranium, Production of Helium and Radium from, 701
Uranium X, Rays and Products of, 701

V-Notch Water-Flow Recorder, The “ Lea,” 217
Vacua, High, Condensers for, 705
Vacuum-Brake Apparatus, Improved, 579
Vacuum-Gauges, Brotherhood’s Apparatus for Testing, 578
Vacuum-Gauge, Diaphragm, for High Vacua, 750
Vacuum-Gauge for High Vacua, The Reden, 735
Vacuum in Locomotive Smoke-Boxes, 155, 199
Vacuum Pump, Reden Mercurial, 735
Vacuum in Surface-Condensers. See Condensers
Valve, Blow-Off, Paterson’s, 839
Valves, Electrolytic, for Alternating Currents, 835
Valve-Facing Machine, Hodges’ Portable, 23
Valve-Gear, Joy’s, for Locomotives, 159
Valves, Piston, for Petrol Motors, 719, 720
Valve, Stop ; Automatic Locking-Gear, 788
Valve, Stop, Cockburn’s Emergency, 395
Valves and Valve Gear. See also Motor-Car Details, Locomotives, Regulators, and. Engines
Vancouver, British Association Excursion to, 493
“Vanguard,” H.M. Battleship, Steam Trials of, 768
Vapours, Magnetism of, 188
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor ? Carf^ Motor-Wagona, Motor-Omnibuncx, and Motor- Carriages
Veloce Liner “ America,” 411
“ Venezia,” Suction and Hopper Dredger, 218 Ventilation of Cotton-Mills, G77
Vertical Gas-Retorts, 503, 535
Vessels. See Ships and Steamers
Viaduct, Blackwells Island. See Hlackioells Island Hridge in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Viaduct, Datf, Weniyss Bay Railway, 207 Viaduct, Fades ; Paris-Orleans Railway, 877 Viaducts on French Railway, Comparison of, 877
Viaduct, Kip, Wemyss Ba}' Railway, 207
Viaduct, Lethbridge, on the O.P.R., 430 Viaducts. See also Bridges
Vibrations of Motor-\>hicles, Seismograph, 23
Vibrations of Norddeutscher-Lloyd S.S. “ George Washington,” 276
Vibrations of Steamers, Effect of Water, 119 Vibration and Whirling Speeds of Shafts, 135,205. See 289
Vickers’ Adjustable Reamer, 400; Automatic Gun, 98; Breech Mechanism for Guns, 33; Manufacture of Guns at, 28, 61, 98; II.M.S. “ Vanguard,” Trials, 768 ; Electric Drive for Planing-Machines, 888 ; Submarine, 449
Victoria University, Manchester, Engineering Department, 82
“ Vilcars ” Anti-Elastic Levers, 862
Vision, Persistence of, and Fatigue of the Eye, 426
Vocal Quality, Relation of Sound-Waves to, 375. Sec also 428
Voice, Sound-Waves of the, 375. See also 428 Voisin Aeroplane, 490, 611, 666
Volume Elasticity, Temperature Coefficient, 750
Volumetric Heat of Gases, 330
Volunteer Fleet, Russian, Subsidies of, 422

Waddell, Professor, on the Use of High-Tensile Steel for Structural Purposes, 385
Wagons, Railway, Hydraulic Tip for, 688
Wagons, Steam. See Motor- Wagons
Walker Engineering Laboratories, Liverpool University, 178
Walls, Dock and Retaining, Ferro-Concrete, 201, 247, 327
Walls, Retaining, Wemyss Bay Railway, 4, 271
Warfare. Aerial Navigation in, 793, 893. See also 98, 186, 727
Warnford-Lock, C. G., The late, 359
Warranties and Engineering Contracts, 354

Warships:

Argentine Government and International Competition in Naval Design, 895
Austro-Hungarian Submarine-Boat. Trials of, 423
British Naval Shipbuilding Facilities, 151
British Naval Shipbuilding Vote, 151, 521, 859
Chinese Naval Commission, 827, 885
Colonies and the Navy, 296, 691
Dock Accommodation for Battleships, 53
Dover Harbour, 501
Germany, Navy Estimates for 1910, 766
Gun-Power of Battleships, 67, 151. 419, 692. See 521, 692, 693
Gun-Turrets, Triple, 762
H.M. Battleships, Orders for Four, 521. See 859
H.M. Battleships, Trials of, 894
H.M. Cruiser “ Indefatigable,” Gun-Power and Dimensions of, 419. See 521
H.M. Destroyer “Nubian,” 12
H.M. Destroyers, Orders for, 359
H.M. Destroyers, Trials of, 894
H.M. “ Dreadnoughts,” Observation Masts and Arrangement of Guns, 698
H.M. Repair-Ship “Cyclops,” 69
H.M. Scout-Cruisers of the “City” Class 453, 588, 767, 859 ’
H.M. Scout-Cruiser “Gloucester,” 453, 767 H.M. Scout-Cruiser “Newcastle,” 453, 767
H.M. Submarine-Boat “ D 1,” 449
H.M. Torpedo-Boats and Destroyers. Trials of, 894
H.M S, “ Vanguard,” Steam Trials of, 768
H.M. Warships Built in 19G9, 899
H.M. Warship Design, 419
H.M. Warship Trials, 894
H.M.S., Propelling Machinery of, 691, 703
H.M.S. “Neptune,” Gun-Power and Dimensions of, 419
Italian Battleship “Francesco Morosini ” Effect of Torpedo Attack on, 228 ’
Italian Torpedo Attack on Ship, 228
Japanese Armoured Cruiser “ Ibuki,” Curtis Turbines, Trials, 449
Naval Engineers, 619, 698, 754, 798, 820
Naval Expenditure, British, Distribution of, 859
Naval Gun-Mountings, 61
Naval Guns, Manufacture of, 28, 61, 98
Naval Policy. See Nasal and Navy
Naval Power, Comparison of, 800
Navy Inquiry of Lord Charles Beresford, 253
Navy Programme of Lord Charles Beresford, 25, 253 ’
Spanish^ Navy, ^Battleships and Dockyards
Torpedo-Testing Station, Schneider’s 170
Turbine Machinery for Warships, Advan- tages of, 691, 703
Turbines, Number and Arrangement of in Naval Ships, 403 ’
Turbines and Reciprocating Machinery Comparative Weights of, 226 ' ’
Turbine Warships, Number of, 281
United States Battleship “ Delaware ” Trials of, 823 ’
United States Battleship “ North Dakota ” Trials, 695, 768,823
United states Destroyers “Perkins” and “ Sterrett,” Curtis Turbines for, 753
United States Scout-Cruiser “ Salem ” 753
Watch Dials, Luminous, 23 ’
Water-Arrester for Steam-Whistles, 329
Water-Conduit, Steel, Corrosion, 272, 304
Water, Decomposition of, by Radium Emanation, 222
Water, Feed, Pressure Filters for, 788. See Erratum, 824
Water-Flow Recorder, “ Lea ” V-Notch, 217
Water-Hammer in Steam-Pipes, 423
Water, Heat Conductivity of, 562
Water-Heater, Electric, “ Therol,” 349
Water-Mains, Cast-Iron, Durability, 305
Water-Pick-Up Apparatus for Tank Locomotives, L. and Y. Railway, 615
Water-Power of Canada, 294
Water-Power Concessions in Norway, 287
Water-Power, Conservation of, 693
Water-Power. See also Hydraulic and Hydro- Electric
Water-Power Union in Sweden, 588
Water-Pumps. See Pumps
Water Reservoir. See Reservoirs
Water. See also Irrigation
Water Supply from Artesian Wells, 420
Water Supply of the Oasis of Kharga, 74 Water-Supply Schemes in Parliament, 731, 765 Water-Tube Boiler. See Boilers
Water Vapour, Dissociation of, 334
Water Vapour, Specific Heat at High Temperatures, 732
Waterways and Canals Commission Report, 585, 620, 695, 832, 891
Water Works at Cambrai, France ; Gas-Driven Pump for, 801
Water Works, Costs of Maintenance, 590 Waterford, Ferro-Concrete or Steel Bridge at, 227
Waterways. See also Estuary, River, and Canal
Watson, William, The late, 480
Wave-Length Measurements of Electric Oscillations, 133, 835
Wave-Lengths of Light, Standard, 133, 492 Wear of Locomotives, 155, 159, 194 Weather. See Meteorological Society Weighing-Machines, Construction of, 269 Weighing-Machine for Locomotives, 507
Weights of Marine Reciprocating and Turbine ! Machinery, 226
Weights of Metal Plates, Slide-Rule for Calculating, 628
Welding Aluminium (Imperial Exhibition), 187 Wellner, Professor, The late, 527
Wells, Artesian, 420
Wemyss Bay Railway, 4, 71, 137, 207, 27^
Westinghouse ‘ "
meter, 763
Westinghouse tus, 15, 81
Westinghouse Turbines, 377, 763. 449
Weston Standard Cells, Accuracy of, 428, 701 Westphalian Coal Industry, 127
Wheat Industry, Canadian, and Transport Facilities, 51.8
Wheels, Detachable, for Motor-Cars ; Sheffield- Simplex, 719 ; Rudge Whitworth, 720
Wheels for Motor-Vehicles, Sizes of, 437
Wheel, Spring, The “ Pan flex” (Royal Society’s Soiree), 23
Wheels and Tyres, Railway, Lathes for Turning, 516
Wheel Tyres, Railway, Wear of, 156, 195. See 472, 498
Whirling Speeds of Shafts, 135, 205. See 289 Whistles, Steam, Water-Arrester for, 329 White Motor-Cars, 684
White, Sir W. H., Presidential Address to the Engineering Section of the British Association, 292; Society of Arts, 691
Whitehead Submarine Boat for Austro-Hungarian Navy ; Trials of, 423
Whitworth Engineering Laboratories, Victoria University, Manchester, 82
Wilkinson, Thomas, The late, 857
Williams, O. J., on the Distribution of Dielectric Stress in Three-Phase Cables, 297
Williams, R. Price, on the Serviceable Life and Cost of Renewal of Permanent Way of Brit’sh RoihvQva dQft
Wilson, Herbert W., on the Electrical Operation of Textile Factories, 177, 201. See 216
Wilson, M., The late, 246
Wilson, Thomas Perceval, The late, 450
Wind Bracing. See Blackwells Island Bridge in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Wind Effect on Aeroplanes, 149
Wind-Gauges for Rifle-Sights, 76
Wind Variations, 853
Winding-Engine Design, 857, 885
Wingfield, C. H., on Slide-Rule Formula) for Calculation of Indicated Horse-Power, 416. See LETTERS, 447, 524, 549, 590, 626,
Winnipeg Meeting of British Association. See British Association
Wire, Copper, Tests of, 438
Wires, Loaded, Lengthening when Twisted, 426
Wire Ropeway at Monte Video, 722
Wire-Winding of Guns, 31
Wire-Winding of Guns, Stresses in, 811, 876
Wireless Telegraphy. See under Electric
Wisnom, Engineer-Commander W. McK., on the Trials and Performances of the S.S. “Otaki,” with Combined Reciprocating and Turbine Engines, 179. See 231, 295
Wolf’s Semi-Portable Compound Condensing Engine, 478 ; Tests of, 497. See LETTER, 524
Wolseley-Siddeley Motor-Cars, 618 Wood-Testing, Committee on, 476
Woods, South Australian, Strength of, 354
Wood-Working Machinery. See Machine-Tools
Woodhall and Duckham’s Vertical Gas Retorts, 535
Working Hours in Mines, 20
Workmen’s Compensation. See Legal Workmen, Education of, 517
Workmen, Misconduct of, and the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 257
Workmen’s Pensions in France, 895. See also 20, 457

Works:

Alkali, Report on, 126
Bryant and May’s Match Works, 157
Derby Gas Works, 673
Design, 258
Electricity in Germany, 489
Engineering, Foremen in, 185
Horwich Works of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 178. See also 155, 159, 194
Liverpool Corporation Electricity Works, 157
Manufacturing, Efficiency in, 517 Nine Elms Gas Works, 535
St. Helen’s Gas Works, 53G
Sunderland Gas Works, 506

Water Works, Costs of Maintenance, 593
Workshops and Factories, Electricity in, 38
Workshops on H.M. Repair-Ship “ Cyclops, 69
Workshop, The Microscope in, 477
Worm-Gear for Motor-Car Drive, 721
Worm-Gearing, The Lecoche Frictionless, 14
Wright Aeroplane, 325, 490, 611. 656, See 829
Wright Electrical Device for Solving Eiiuations, 26. See 133
Wrought-Iron Pipes, Testing, 406
Yarrow-Schlick-Tweedy System of Balancing Applied to Locomotives, 164
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yield-Point of Sceel Bars under Combined Stress, 238, 845, 849, 840. See LETTERS, 732, 797
Yield-Point in Torsion Tests, 308, 362, 850. See LETTERS, 590, 625, 653, 697, 698, 733, 755, 799, 821
Yokohama, Jubilee of. 227
Young, W. H., The late, 345

Zeiss Micro-Projection Apparatus for Demonstration of Liquid Crystals, 24
Zinc-Amalgam, Transition Point in, 133
Zinc-Copper Alloys; Volume Changes during Solidification, 586
Zinc, Cowper-Coles Process of Coating Articles with, 187
Zinc, Method of Assaying, 588
Zinc, Pure, Production of, 587
Zoelly Steam-Turbine for Marine Propulsion, 213

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