Engineering 1910 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1910 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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General Index

A.E.G. Steam-Turbine, 639
Abegg, Professor R., The late, 461, 580
Abell, T. B., Comparison of Model Screw-Propeller Results, 374, 492
Abertillery, Wire Ropeway at. Colliery, 508
Abrasion Tests of Alloys, 161, 236
Accident Compensation. See Workmen’s Compensation under Legal.

Accidents:

Aeroplane Accident, Fatal, to Delagrange, 23, 50
Aeroplane Accidents, 50
Aeroplane Exhibition Flights, 786
Alexandra Dock, Newport, Collapse of Trench Timbering, 43
Industrial Processes, Disablements in, 186 i
Industrial Accidents, Prevention of, 202 Petrol, 490
Railway, 613 '
Railways, British, Board of Trade Returns, I 587 '
Stoat’s Nest Railway Accident, 148, 452
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
Accumulators, Hydraulic, Langebro Swing-Bridge, 742, 770 !
Acetylene Lamps, Portable, 577
Acetylene-Oxygen Blow-Pipe for Welding, 285, 311
Acheson Graphite and Carborundum Furnaces, 751
Acids, Resistance of Aluminium-Manganese Alloys to, 108, 227
Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal Adams Manufacturing Company’s Works, 488 Addresses, Presidential. See Presidential Address
Admiralty and Naval Constructors, 581 Admiralty and Naval Engineers’ Training, 781 Admiralty, Navy Estimates, 317, 349, 422 Admiralty Orders, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 755 Admiralty Policy. See Engineers^ Naval^ Warships
Aeration of Potable Water, 161
Aerial Navigation. See Aeroplanes, Airships, and Balloons
Aerial Propellers, Model, Experiments with, 386 Aerial Ropeway for Colliery Refuse, 508 Aerial Warfare, 717
Aero Exhibition, Olympia, 308, 309, 338, 369 Aeronautical Expeimental Station at Gottingen, 153
Aeronautical Experiments, National Physical Laboratory, 386, 439
Aeronautics, Trans-Oceanic Aviation, 618 Aeroplanes:
Accidents, 50, 786
Accident, Fatal, to Delagrange, 23, 50
Bldriot, at Olympia, 341
“ Demoiselle,” at Olympia, 339, 342
Engine, De Havilland, 370
Engines, Design of, 1, 733
Engines, Free Exhaust from, 424. See 373, 734
Engine, The Green, 341
Engines, Humber, 371
Engine, Lairiplough Rotary, 309
Engines at Olympia, 319, 339, 370. See 424, 734
Engine, Phoenix Rotary, 341
Engine, The Star, 342
Engines ; Table of Dimensions, 373
Engine (Thames Iron Works), 341
Engine, Two-Cycle (New Engine Co.), 339 Engines, Valves of, 733
Engines, Wolseley, 155, 340, 710
Exhibition Flights. 786
Farman, at Olympia, 341
Flight, London to Manchester, 583
Hargrave’s Self-Adjusting, 688
Humber, at Olympia, 370
Model Experimental Apparatus at Gdttingen, 153
Olympia Exhibition at, 339, 370
Aeroplanes—continued.
Parsons’ Early Model, 120
Propellers, Experiments with Medel, 3£6
Roe’s Triplane, 339
Short Aeroplanes at Olympia, 340, 312 Stability, 265, 301, 633, 688, 800 Sustainers, Phillips’s, 242
Valves of Engines, 733
War in, 717
Wright, at Olympia, 340
Africa, Northern, Climate of, 355. See 778 Africa. See also South Africa
Agreement between Employers and Men. See Legal
Agricultural Machinery, Brussels Exhibition, 720, 774
Agriculture and Meteorology, 112
Agricultural Motor Trials, Winnipeg Exhibition, 542
Agricultural Oil-Engines, 82
Agricultural Society, Royal, Show, 816, 826
Agricultural Tractors, Oil (Marshall) 555
Agricultural Tractors, Royal Agricultural Show, 818
Air, Compressed. See Compressed Air and Pneumatic
Air-Compressor and Griffin Oil-Engine, 110
Air-Compressor and Oil-Engine for Starting Gas-Engines (Campbell), 674
Air-Compressors, Quadruplex (Reavell), 557 Air-Compressor for Removing Dust from Machinery, 557
Air-Compressor, Rotary, Municipal and Health Exhibition, 619
Air-Compressor, with Stumpf Steam-Engine, 762 Air Currents, Experiments on Models in, 386 Air, Flow of, in Tubes, 386
Air-Heater for Boiler Furnaces, 720
Air, Liquid, Chemical Reactions at Temperature of, 116
Air-Pumps. See Pumps and Condemnsers Airships. See also Ae't'ial and A eroplane Airship Shed at Vickers’ Works, Barrow, 2C8 Airship for Trans-Oceanic Navigation, 618 Airships in War, 717
Airships, Wolseley Motors for, 155, 340, 710 Alcoholic Fermentation, 682
Alexandra Dock, Newport, Collapse of Trench Timbering, 43
Alkali Manufacture by the Ammonia-Soda Process, 184
Allgemeine E.-G., Velocity-Compounded Steam- Turbine, 639
Alloys, Aluminium, Analysis of, 84
Alloys, Aluminium-Manganese, Acid-Resisting Powers, 108, 227
Alloys, Aluminium-Zinc, 437
Alloys, Anti-PViction, for Bearings, 826 ; Method of Casting. 829 ; Compression Tests, 829
Alloys, Cooling of Eutectic, 437
Alloys of Copper, Aluminium and Manganese, 104, 125, 157, 187, 223, 236
Alloys of Copper and Arsenic, Properties of, 83
Alloys, Copper. See also Phosphor Bronze Alloys, Gold, Assaying, 84
Alloj s. Iron and Lead, 786
Alloys by Japanese Metal-Workers, 683
Alloys of Magnesium and Aluminium, 237
Alloys, Methods of Obtaining Cooling Curves, 570 Alloys, Nickel-Copper-Aluminium, 236
Alloys, Non-P^errous, Failure of, 85, 96. See 121, 277
Alloys, Non-Ferrous, Metallurgy of, 137
Alloys, Non-Ferrous, Record of Analyses, 86
Alloy, Parsons’, for Propellers, 54. See 74
Allots Research Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Ninth Report on Alloys of Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese, 104,125, 167,187, 223, 236
Alloys, Volume Changes during Heating, 437
Alloys of Zinc, Aluminium, and Copper, 237 Alternating Current See Electric
Alternating Stress Tests of Chromium Steel, 624
Alternating Stress Tests of Copper-A uminiuin-Manganese Alloys, 158, 160, 225
Alternating Stress Tests of Manganese Steel, 627
Alternating Stress Tests of Steel, 107, 386, 621, 627, 816. See also Bending
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium and Alloys, Analysis of, 81
Aluminium-Copper-Manganese Alloys, 101, 125, 157,187, 223, 236
Aluminium-Copper-Nickel Alloys, 236 Aluminium-Copper-Zinc Alloys, 237
Aluminium, Determination of Silicon in, 84
Aluminium Foundry (Wolseley Co., Ltd.), 71
Aluminium, Hdroult Electric Furnace for, 751
Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 237 Aluminium-Manganese Alloj^s, Acid Resisting
Powers, 108, 2z7
Aluminium, Softening Action on Water, 215. See LETTERS, 121, 277, 310, 346, 381, 423, 445, 481
Aluminium-Zinc Alloys, 437
American Locomotives. See Locomotices I
American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools American Metallurgical Industry. See 7ron,
Steely and United StateSy otes from the American. See United States
Ammonia-Soda Process of Alkali Manufacture, 184
Ammonia, Synthetical Preparation of, 488 Analyses, Chemical, of Steel, 727
Analyses of Non-Ferrous Me‘als, Suggested Record, 86
Angle-Shearing Machine (Covington Co.), 678 Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 422 Angstrom, Knut J., The late, 562
Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX. Antarctic Expedition, Motor-Sleigh, 421,445, 509 Anticyclonic Systems of Atlantic Ocean, 261 Anti-Friction Bearing Metals, 826; Method of
Casting, 829 ; Compression Tests, 829 Anti-Friction Metals, Iron and Lead, 786 Antimony Alloys for Bearings, 828 Antimony. See Metal-Price Diagrams Antwerp Water Works, Filter Canal, 118 Applied Mechanics, 469 Apprentices’ Education, 550, 579, 581, 609, 781 Apprenticeship. See Education and Training Aqueduct over River Kelvin, Glasgow, 567 Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See Legaly
Industrial NcteSy and PARAGRAPII INDEX
Arc, Electric, for Welding, 285, 311
Arc-Lamp, Timar-Dreger, 217
Arc. See also Electric
Arch. See Bridge
Argentine Engineering Development, 619, 654
Argentine Railways, Development of, 58, 489, 619, 654
Armaments. See Warships and Guns
Armit, T. N., The late Mr., 322
Armour of Brazilian Patt.eship, 66
Armour of French Battleship, 607
Armour and Guns, Naval, Arrangement, 353, 359. See 451
Armour of New Russian Battleships, 652
Armour. See also Warships
Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Arnold, J. O., on Chemical and Mechanical Relations of Iron, Manganese, and Carbon, 605,626
Arsenic-Copper Alloys, Properties of, 83
Artesian Wells, Pumping Plant for, 256
Artillery. See Guns
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 Railway, Mallet Compound Locomotives, 275 ; Superheater Tests, 706
Atlantic Liner “ Sant’Anna,” Forges et Chantiers, 608
Atlantic Ocean Tracks of Anticyclones, 261 Atmosphere, Electric Currents from Earth in, 463
Atom, Nature of the, 311
Atoms, Arrangement in Crystals, 517
“ Atsuta Maru,” Steamer for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 142, 210. See LETTERS, 242, 381, 424 i
Australia, Coal Production, 675
Australia. See also A’eiy South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia
Australian Trans-Continental Railway, 306
Austrian Railways, Board of Trade Report, 180
Auto-Cars. See Motors; Tractors; Traction Engines
Autogenous Welding, 285, 311
Automatic Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
Automatic Telephone System, 166, 203. See 808
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine, Dimensions, 109
Auxiliary Machiriery, Marine, Electric Drive for, 484, 543, 579
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine, Fdttinger’s Apparatus for Measuring Steam Consumption, o77
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine, Steam Consumption of, 620
Aviation. See Aerial; A er oplanes; Airships
Axle, Crank, Ivatt’s Locomotive, 312
Axles, Steel, Methods of Testing, 727. See 702
“ Ayudante,” Launch with Paraffin Engine, 174

Babbit Bearing Metal, 827, 828 ; Compression Tests, 829 ; Methods of Casting, 829
Bacilli. See Bacteria
Bacon, Rear-Admiral R. H. S., on the Battleship of the Future, 353, 359
Bacteria, Effect of Light and Low Temperature on, 117
Bacteria in River Water, 517
Bacteria in Water, Effect of Storage, 420, 517
Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 364
Bacteriological Purification of Drinking Water, 118, 133, 164
Badische Maschinenfabrik Hooded Cupola, 465
Bagasse, Steam Generation from, 197
Bahia Blanca, Development of, 654
Baker, IL Brereton, on the Ionisation of Gases and Chemical Change, 350
Baker, T. Thorne, on Electrical Transmission of Photographs, 551
Ball-Bearings, Lubrication of, 423
Balloon, Dirigible, for Ocean Trips, 618
Balloons, Dirigible. See Airships and Aerial
Balloon Fabric, Leakage of Hydrogen through, 439
Balloons, Photographic Surveying from, 116
“ Balmoral Castle,” Union-Castle Liner, 449, 478, 546
“ Baltimore,” United States Cruiser, Westinghouse Geared Turbines for, 221
Band-Saws. See Machine-Tools
Banding, Cotton, Machine for Making, 706
Bar-Cutting-Off Machine, 576
Barbette. See Guns
Barclay Type-Printing Telegraph, 805
Barges, Canal, Motor-Driven, 427
Barges’ Cargoes, Apparatus for Weighing, 460. See 377
Barge, Self-Dumping, for Stockholm, 203
Barnes, E. J., on Two per Cent. Chromium Steels, 605, 624
Barnett, J. R., on Motor Life-Boats, 406, 411
Barr, James, Experiments on Flow of Water over Triangular Notches, 435, 473. See Errata, 514
Barrow Steel Works, Blast-Furnace Gas-Engine, 545
Barton, Professor E. IT., on Theory of the Gyroscope, 797
Base-Plates for Columns ; Design, 787
Batteries. See Electric and Guns
Battleships. See Warships
Baudot Typewriting Telegraph, 805
Beams, Design of Bearing-Plates for, 787 Bearings, Ball, Lubrication of, 423
Bearing Metals ; Compression Tests, 829 Bearing Metals, Iron-Lead Alloys, 786 Bearing Metals, 826 ; Method of Casting, 829 Bearing-Plates for Beams, Design of, 787 Bearings, A.E.G. Steam-Turbine, 641
Beaufoy’s Experiments on Resistance and I Stability of Ships, 363. See also 457
Bending (Repeated) Tests of Steel, 702, 727 ; Testing-Machine, 703, 728
Bending Tests of Carbon and Tungsten Tool- Steels, 527, 559. See also A Iternatin t
Bending and Torsion Stresses in Shafting, 11 Bending and Torsion Tests of Brittle Materials, 661. See also Combined
Bessemer Medal, Iron and Steel Institute, 585 Bessemer Process in Germany, 821
Bibliography of the Pitot Tube, 95
Bigge, D. Selby, on the Production and Application of Electric Power in Iron and Steel Works, 586, 596, 603. See 711
Bills of Exchange, Law of, 151 Biplanes. See Aeroplanes
Birmingham, Sewage Disposal at, 364 Blades, Turbine, Energy Losses in, 552 Blading, Cooper and Greig’s Steam-Turbine, 712 Blading of Steam-Turbines, 17
Blading, Turbine, Westinghouse Flexible, 221 Blake Sole-Sewing Machine for Boots, 13 Blast for Cupolas, Pressure and Quantity of, 541, 670
Blast-Furnace Dust, Briquetting, 821 Blast-Furnace Gas, Cleaning, 821 Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas Blast-Furnace Gas for Siemens-Martin Furnaces, S21
Blast-Furnace Slag, Microscopical Estimation of, 821
Bldriot Aeroplanes at Olympia, 341
Block-Setting Cranes, Vornpor and Hanstholm Breakwaters, 667 .
Blocks, Concrete, Making and Setting, Tyne North Pier, 99. See also 78
Blount. Bertram, on Methods of Testing Steel, 702, 727
Blow-Pipe, Oxy-Acetylene, for Welding, 285, 311 Blower, Connersville, for Cupolas, 804 Blowers, Fan, for Cupolas, 736
Blowers, Fan, for Organs, The “ Discus,” 89 Blowers, Pressure, Buffalo Two-Stage, 736 Blowers, Rotary, for Cupolas, 801
Blower, Rotary Pressure, Municipal and Health Exhibition, 619
Blower, Steam-Jet, for Cupola, 467
Blowing-Engines. See Air-Compressors Blythwood Machine for Ruling Diffraction Gratings, 439 .
Boats, Fishing and Commercial, Internal-Combustion Engines for, 406, 426, 449. See 383
Boats, Fishing, Japanese, 108 |
Boats, Motor. See Motor-Launch£s and Motor- ' Boats
Boats, Submarine. See Warships
Bogies, Railway. See Carriages and Locomo-
Boiler Accessories, Brussels Exhibition, 720
Boilers, Electro-Chemical, Corrosion of, 251
Boilers, Decomposition of Soda in, 322
Boiler Explosion near Airdrie, 630 Boiler Explosion StatisLics, 756
Boiler Feed-Pumps. See Pximps
Boiler Feed-Water Treatment, “Luminator” System, 215. See LETTERS, 121, 277, 310, 346, 381, 423, 445, 481
Boiler Furnaces, Air-Heater for, 720
Boiler Furnaces for Bagasse, 197
Boiler Furnaces, Economical Combustion in, 699, 765, 798
Boiler Furnaces, Measuring Temperature, /67,800
Boiler Furnace, Schofield’s Forced Draught, 765
Boiler Furnaces, Underfeed, Brussels Exhibition, 720 .
Boilers, Heat-Transmission and Circulation, 138
Boiler Inspection, Results of, 756^
Boilers, Locomotive, ” 367, 706
Boiler, Locomotive, “Etobe,”280
Boilers, Locomotive. Boilers, Locomotive,' Boilers, Marine. See -
Boiler-Plates. Steel, Comparative Methods of Testing, 727. See 702
Boiler Repairs by Electric and Autogenous Welding, 235, 311
Boiler-bcale, Tiansmission of Heat through, 655
Boiler-Shops, Forges et Chantiers Works, 500
Boiler-Shops, Mitsu-Bishi (Japan), 659 Boiler-Testing Installation, 699, 765, 798 Boiler Trials, Indicating and Recording Instruments, 700, 765, 798
Boiler-Tubes, Brass, Locomotive, Corrosion of, 85, 96. See 121, 277
Boilers, Water-Tube, Kermode’s Oil Fuel, 510 Boiler, Water-Tube, The Parker, 138 Boiler, Water Tube, for Yacht, Oil-Fired, 76 Bollinckx Works, Cupola at, 467 Bolt-Screwing Machine, Double-Spindle, 459 Bone-Mill and Grease-Extracting Plant, 819 Boo.\s Received, 7, 38, 137, 202, 273, 472, 667, 770 Boot and >hoe-Making Machinery, 13, 44 Borchers, W., on the Girod Furnace, 592, 604 Bore-Holes, Pumping Plant f or, 256 Boring-Machine. See Machine-Tools Box-Kite, Hargrave’s Self-Adjusting, 688 Brake, Absorption. See Dgnamometer Brake, Vacuum, Brooke’s Ejector for, 576 Brass PYundry (Isaac Storey and Sons, Ltd.), 132 Brass Foundry (Wolseley Co., Ltd.), 71 Brass Locomotive Boiler-Tubes, Corrosion of, 85, 96. See 121, 277
Brassey’s Naval Annual, 665 Brayshaw’s Gas-Furnace, 524 Brayshaw, S. N., on the Hardening of Carbon and Low-Tungsten Tool-Steels, 506, 524, 559, 7C0. See LETTER, 542
Brazilian Battleship “ Minas Geraes,” 65 Brazilian Battleship “Sao Paulo,” 722 Breakdowns. See Accidents Breakwaters, Jutland, 667
Brennan Mono-Rail Carriage Trials, 289
Brewing, Chemistry of, 682
Bricks, Fire, Changes in Composition, 821
Bridjie, Arch, Ferro-Concrete, 39
Bridge Carrying Sewer, Glasgow Drainage, 567
Bridge over Clyde, Glasgow, Caledonian Railway, 443
Bridge Construction, 136
Bridge Erection, Liao River, Manchuria, 71
Bridge Erection, Sundcihnd, 444
Bridges, Ferro-Concrete Floors for, 522
Bridifee, Ferro-Concrete, Vandalia Railroad, 39
Bridges, Ferro-Concrete, Wabash Railway, U.S.A., 522
Bridge over Klang River, Mala\’, 7
Bridge, Proposed, over Sydney Harbour, 423
Bridge, Queen Alexandra, Sunderland, 443
Bridge, Railway, over Liao River, Manchuria, 71
Bridge. See also Culvert and Uiaduct
Bridge, Swing, Copenhagen, 737, 770
Briling’s Experiments on Energy Losses in Steam-Turbine Buckets, 552
Brine, Specific Heat of, 441
Brinell Hardness Tests of Copper-Aluminium- Manganese Alloys, 158,161
Brinell Hardness Tests of Tool Steels, 527, 559
Briquetting Iron Ore in Germany, 821
British Association (Winnipeg Meeting): A General Description of the Engineering and Constructional Features of the Panama Canal. By G. W. Goethals, 171, 238, 292, 325
British Battleships. See Warahip^
British Buffalo Motor Co.’s MarineOil-Engine,370 British Exhibits, Brussels Exhibition, 719 British and Foreign Shipbuilding, Lloyd’s Returns, 86
British Industrial Progress, 515
British Naval Expenditure, 317, 349. See 422 British Naval Training- See Engineers and Navg British Standard Pipe-Threads, Tests of, 439 British Thomson-Houston Co., Limited, Iron Foundry, 198
British Warships. See Warship^i,
British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Foundries, 131
Bronze Bearing Metals, 827, 829
Bronze Castings of Natural Objects, 756, 775, 809. See 685
Bronze Cutting Tools, 104, 236, 237
Bronze Founding in Old Japan, 685
Bronze, Phosphor, Properties of, 85 Brooke’s Ejector for Vacuum Brakes, 576 Brooke’s High-Velocity Feed-Water Heater, 243 Brownian Movements of Particles in Li(|uids, 453. See 455
Brush Company’s Tramway Car-Trucks, 491
IfirnsspS-s Exliibition : 401, 402, 520, 554, 719, 753
Acetylene Lamps, Portable (C. C. Wakefield and Co.), 577
Agricultural Machinery, 720, 774
Agricultural Machinery (Ruston, Proctor), 774
Air-Compressor and Oil-Engine for Starting Gas-Engines (Campbell), 674
Air-Compressors, Quadruplex (Reavell), 557 Air-Heater for Boiler Furnaces (Underfeed
Stoker Company, Limited), 720
Armature for Turbo-Generator (Parsons), 523 Boiler Accessories and Fittings, 720
Boring and Turning-Machines, A'ertical (J. Butler), 576
British Section, 719
Buildings, 401
Centrifugal Machines, Water-Driven (Pott, Cassels, and Williamson), 508 I
Clover-Huller (Ruston, Proctor), 774 ]
Cotton Machinery (Dobson and Barlow, ’ Limited), 703
Crane and Excavating-Machine (Ruston, Proctor), 774 1
Cutting-Off Machine for Bars (Butler), 676 '
Cutting-Off Tool for Turret-Lathe (Kendall and Gent), 742 '
Drilling-Machine, Sensitive Radial (Kendall and Gent), 742
Drilling, Tapping, and Studding-Machine (Kendall and Gent, Limited), 710
Economisers, Green’s, 720
Electric Supply, 402, 555, 754
Engine, Crude-Oil, 25-Horse-Power, Blackstone, 721. See 819
Engines, Gas and Oil (Campbell), 673. See Addendum^ 779
Engine, Oil, and Air-Compressor for Starting Gas-Engines (Campbell), 674
Engine, Steam Portable, 25-Hor8e-Power (Ruston, Proctor), 774
Fans, Sturtevant, 720
Gas Plant, Suction, 200 Horse-Power (Campbell), 673. See Addendum,
General Description, 554
German Exhibits, 554, 753
Heating and Ventilating Plants, 720
Lathe, Hexagon Turret, and Cutting-Off Attachment (Kendall and Gent), 742
Lift-Gear, Electrical, Push-Button Control (Marryat and Place). 823
Lubricator, Mechanical (Wakefield), 677 Metallurgical Exhibits, 554
Milling • Machines, Vertical (Kendall and Gent), 742
Oil Tractors (Marshall, Sons, and Co., Ltd.), 555
Opening, 520, 554
Planing-Machine (Butler), 576
Planing and Matching-Machine, Wood (Robinson), 642
Ploughing-Engine, Steam (Fowler), 589
Ploughing-Etigine (J. and H. McLaren), 720 ;
Ploughs, 721
Pumps, Boiler Feed (Weir), 720
Road-Roller (Ruston, Proctor), 774
Road-Roller, Steam (Fowler), 589
Roller Steady Tool-Holders (Kendall and Gent), 743
Saw, Horizontal Band, for Logs (Robinson), 642
Slotting-Machine (Butler), 576
Stokers, Underfeed, 720
Textile Machinery (Dobson and Barlow, Limited), 703
Thrashing-Machine (Ruston, Proctor), 774 Traction Engine, Compound Steam (Fowler), 589
Traction Engine (J. and H. McLaren), 720
Traction Engine and Wagon (Aveling and Porter, Limited), 514
Valves and Boiler Mountings, Hopkinson’s 720
Wood-Working Machinery (Robinson), 642
Bryan’s Theory of Aeroplane Stability, 301
Buckets of Pelton Wheels, Losses in, 93
Buckets, Turbine, Energy Losses in, 552
Buenos Aires. See also Argentine
Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Company, 1600-norse-Power High-Speed Engine for, 391
Buffalo Two-Stage-Pressure Blowers, 736
Buildings, Brussels Exhibition, 401
Building Construction. See Ferro-Concrete
Buildings, Foundry. See Foundry
Bullerfors, Hydro-Electric Station, Sweden, 755
Bullivant, W. Pelham, The late, 414
Bundling-Press for Cotton Yarn, 706
Bureau Veritas Shipbuilding Rules, 343
Burgess, Professor, Experiments on Boiler- Corrosion, 251
Burner, “ Carbogen,” for Licjuid Fuel, 542
Burners, Liquid Fuel, Kermode’s System, 510

Cables, Electric, High-Temperature Tests, 440
Cables, Electric, Tests of Rubber for, 183
Cables, High-Tension, Dundee, 338
Cables, Paper-Insulated, for Telegraphy and Telephony, 807
Cables, Telephone, Loaded, Currents in, 398, 530. See 803
Cableway for Colliery Refuse, 508
Cadmium Amalgams for Weston Cells, 763
Caisson Disease, 213, 277,. 310, 346, 381
Caissons, Ferro-Concrete, Genoa, 645
Caisson for Pier, Swing-Bridge, Copenhagen Harbour, 738
Calcium Chloride Solutions, Specific Heat, 441
Calcium Phosphate Industry in Lapland, 620
Caldercruix Paper • Mills. Explosion of Hair- Boiler. 630
Caledonian Railway, Clyde Bridge, Glasgow, 443
Callao, Thornycroft Motor-Launch for, 174
Callendar Recorder for Pyrometers, 799
Calorific Value of Bagasse, 197
Calorific Value of Coal, Formula, 816
Calorimeter, Recording, for Power-Gas, 441
Cambrian Railways, Composite Corridor Brake Carriage, 274
Camel, Lifting, for Ships, 745
Camera for Surveying from Balloons, 116
Campbell Gas-Engine Co.’s Iron Foundry, 71, 333 Canada, Coal Production, 675
Canada, Engineers’ Prospects in, 542, 60S
Canada, Georgian Bay Ship Canal, 637
Canada, Trials o f Agricultural Motors, 542
Canadian Iron-Ore Deposits, 349
Canadian Steamers, Grand Trunk Railway, 776
Canal Barges, Motor-Driven, 427
Canal, Panama, 171, 238, 292, 325
Canal, Ship, Forth and Clyde, 115 Canal, Ship, Georgian Bay, Canada, 637 f'anals of the United States. 19
Capital and Labour, Co-Partnershtp, 459 Capstan Lathes. See Machine-Tools “ Carbogen ” Burner for Liquid Fuel 542 Carbonaceous Filters, Hopkins’ Zinc Process, 86 Carbons, Electric Furnace, 21, 594 Carborundum Furnace, Acheson, 751 Carburettors, 6
Cardew, Major Philip, The late, 688 Carding-Engine for Cotton, 705
Carey’s Vacuum Cleaner and Disinfector, 644 Cargoes, Apparatus for Weighing Ships’, 377, 460 Carriage, Composite Corridor Brake, Cambrian Railway, 274
Carriage, Mono-Rail, Brennan System, Trials, 289 Carriages, Railway, Disinfection of, 620
Cars and Carriages. See Railway and Tramway Cars and Wagons
Case-Hardening, Investigations on, <91
Cast Welded Rail-Joints, Portable Cupola for, 810
Castings, Exhibition of, 756, 776, 809
Castings of Natural Objects, 756, 775, 809. See 685
Castings. See also Moulding
Casting White-Metal Bearings, 829
Catalogues, 95, 129, 154, 193, 229, 262,293, 331, 432, 464, 497, 530, 543, 629, 656. 696, 732, 795, 830. See PARAGRAPH INDEX for List
Catalytic Action in Chemical Transformations, 350
Cavendish, Henry, Centenary of, 196
Cells, Electric, Dry, Tests of, 440
Cells, Weston, Cadmium Amalgam for, 763 Cell, Weston Standard, Limitations, 763
Cement Concrete, See Concrete and Ferro- Concrete
Cement, Portland, Proportion of Lime in, 480, 642, 710
Cement, Portland, Setting of, 480, 642, 710
Cement, Waterproofing Materials for, 619 Census of Shipbuilding and Engineering Production. British, 75, 81
Central Station. See Electric^ Hydro-Electric^ and Power
Centrifugal Machines, Water - Driven (Pott, Cassels, and Williamson), 508
Centrifugal Pumps, Reduction of Disc Friction in, 587
Chagres River Diversion, Panama Canal, 239 Chain-Haulage Canal Tug, Motor-Driven, 427 Chains, Power-Transmission, 521
Chain-Rings, Design of, 665. See LETTER, 643 Channelling Machine, Rock, Panama Canal, 294 Chaplin, A., on Boot-Making Machinery, 13, 44 Chapman, R. W., on Flexibility of Wire-Ropes, 25
Charpy Impact Testing-Machine, 78
Chatley, H., on the Stability of Flying-Machines, 265, 301, 633, 800
Chelsea Water Works ; Simpson’s Purification Plant, 117
Chemical Constitution, Cry stal Structure, 517 Chemical Reactions, Catalytic Action, 350 Chemical Reactions, Liberation of Electrons, 521
Chemical Reactions at Low Temperatures, Effect of Light, 116
China, Navigation of Upper Yangtse Kiang, 51 China, Railway Bridge over Liao River, 71 China, Shallow-Draught Steamer “Shutung,” 51 China, Tientsin-Pukow Railway Locomotives, 479, 622
Chlorine, Effect on Brass Tubes in Locomotive Boilers, 86, 93,
Ohree, Dr. C., on Magnetic Storms, 319. See 444 Chromium Steel, the A2 Point, 605, 794 Chromium Steel, Heating and Cooling Curves, 624
Chromium Steel, Magnetic Changes During Heating. 794
Chromium Steels, Physical Properties, 605, 624 City and Guilds of London Institute, 754
<'jvil Engineers, Institution of:
Examination Papers, 207
Selection of President and Council, 417, 481 Building Scheme, Financial Aspect, 516, 688 New Building, Design for, 688
Design of Kolling-Stock for Smooth-Rail Working on Heavy Gradients, by F. W. Bach, 43
Reconstruction of Tyne North Pier, by I. 0. Barling, 78. See also 99
Notes on the Sheffield Water Supply, and Statistics Relating Thereto, by L. S. M. Marsh, 173
Statistical and Experimental Data on Filtration, by W. R. Baldwin-Wiseman, 173 Hudson River, Tunnels of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, by 0. M. Jacobs, 254
Birmingham Sewage-Disposal Works, by J. D. Watson, 364
Salisbury Drainage, by W. J. E. Binnie, 364 New Clyde Bridge of the Caledonian Railway at Glasgow, by D. A. Matheson, 443 Queen Alexandra Bridge over the River Wear, Sunderland, by F. C. Buscarlet, 413 Use of Reinforced Concrete on the Wabash Railway, U.S.A., by E. R. Matthews and A. O. Cunningham, 522
Disc Friction Experiments, by Professor A. H. Gibson and A. Ryan, 587
James Forrest Lecture on Recent Developments in Telegraphy and Telephony, by Sir John Gavey, 804
Clemence, Walter, on the Treatment of Water Antecedent to Filtration, 117, 132, 164, 185
Cleveland Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Cleveland and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 23, 47, 74, 113, 145, 177, 211, 245, 281, 315, 347, 390, 415, 448, 477, 513, 547, 575, 613, 647, 679, 715, 747, 779, 813
Clocks, Electrically Synchronised, 252 Clover-Huller at Brussels Exhibition, 774 Clutch. Sse also Couplings and Motor-Cars Clutch, Electro-Magnetic, for Rolling-Mills, 187 Clyde Bridge, Caledonian Railway, Glasgow 443 Clyde to Forth Ship Canal, 115
Coal Consumption. See Trials ; Tests Coal, Formula for Calorific Value, 816 Coal-Handling Plant, Dundee Station. 335 Coal-Handling, See also Transporters Coal-Mmes. See Collieries
Coal-Mining. See Collieries; Mines; Winding Coal Production, Colonial, 675
Coffer-Dams, McCall Ferry Power Plant, 3 Cohen, B. S., on Telephone Circuits, 530 Coherers for Detection of Electric Waves, 250 Coherers, Efficiency of, 463. See 763
Coherer, Galena, 763
Coke-Ovens, Development of, 820 Coke-Oven Gas, Utilisation of, 820. See 821 Coke-Ovens, Recovery of By-Products, 820 College Training, 141, 179, 206, 241, 681, 755 See also Education
Colleges, Teaching of Science in, 18 Colliau Cupola, 465. See Krratumt 609 Collieries, Electrical Accidents in, 616 Collieries, Ironclad Oil-Switches for, 442 Collieries, Three-Phase Distribution in, 616 Colliery Refuse, Aerial Transport for, 508 Colliery Rescue Stations, United States, 656 go See Winding ; Mine; Coal; Engine
Collision. See Accident
“Colossus,” H.M. Battleship, 451, 476 Colson, Alfred, The late, 710
Columns, Design of Base-Plates for, 787 Columns for Foundry Roofs, 333
Columns, Rankine-Gordon and Euler’s Formula’. 33. See Erratum^
Columns, Spirally-Armoured Concrete, 578 Combined Stress Experiments, 10 11 43 i^i Combined Stresses in Shafting, 11 ’
Combined Stresses, Strength of Materials under 555, 661 ’
Combing-Machine, Cotton, 705
^'arnaces, oyy, z65, 798
Co^‘»H^cialMotor-Veh See Motor; Wagons; Commission. Royal See Rogal Commission Compenfcation, Workmen’s. See Legal Compound Enaines.^ See Engines Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Compound Stress. See Combined Stress
Compressed-Air Brakes. See Brakes
Cleaning Gravel Filters by, Workmen, 213, 277,
Compressed-Air Work and Diving, 6 Compression Tests of Bearing Alloys, 829
Compressor, Air. See Air-Compressor Conciliation in Labour Disputes, 749. See In- dustrialWofes; Legal; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Concrete Block Construction, Breakwaters, 667
"-er-Station.
Concrete,_ Effect of Making with Different Quantities of Water, 642
Concrete, Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
Concrete Institute, Annual Meeting, 244
Concrete-Making Plants, Panama Canal, 295, 326 Concrete-Mixing Machine, 619
Concrete-Alixing, McCall Ferry Power Plant. 5 Concrete, Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete Condensers. See Pumps
Condenser Telephones, 689 Conductivity, Electrical, of Water, 584 755
Connersville Blower for Cupolas, 804 Considfere Ferro-Concrete Columns, 578
Construction of Ships. See Naval Architects; Ships; Steamers ’ Steamships; Warships Constructional Steel-Work. See Bridges, Boofs, Floors, and Columns
Contact-Beds. See Filters
Converter Steel Process in German5S 821 Conveyor. See Mining and Elevator Co-Operation in Industrial Concerns, 549 '
Cooling Curves, Chromium Steel, 605, 624, 794 Cooling Curves of Metals, Methods of Obtaining, 570
Cooling Curves of Tool Steel, 525, 701
Cooling and Heating Curves of Copper-Alu- minium-Manganese Alloys, 188, 225
Cooper and Greig’s Steam-Turbine, 712 Co-Partnership in Works Management, 549 Copenhagen, Langebro Swing-Bridge, 737, 770 Coping Machine (Covington Machine Co.), 678 Copper Alloys for Bearings, 827, 828, 829 Copper Alloys. See also Phosphor-Bronze Copper-Aluminium-Manganese Alloys, 104, 125, 157, 187, 223, 236
Copper-Aluminium-Nickel Alloys, 236 Copper-Aluminium-Zinc Alloys, 237
Copper-Arsenic Alloys, Properties of, 83 Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Cord, Cotton, Machine for Making, 706 Corrosion, Boiler ; Decomposition of Soda, 322 Corrosion, Boiler ; Electro-Chemical Action, 251 Corrosion of Brass Tubes, 85, 96. See 121, 277 Corrosion of Copper - Aluminium - Manganese Alloys in Sea-Water, 105, 187, 226, 227, 237
Cottage for Working Classes, 618 Cotton-Gins (Dobson and Barlow), 704 Cotton Machinery at Brussels Exhibition, 703 Cotton Machinery ; Japan-British Exhibition, 654 Cotton-Waste, Spontaneous Combustion of, 439 County Council. See London County Council Cowper-Coles Galvanising Process (Sherardising), 719
Crandall Cupola, 467
Crane, 20-Ton Steam Breakdown (Wilson), 642 Crane, 150 Ton Floating (Forges et Chantiers), 500
Crane, 150-Ton Hammer-Head (Mitsu-Bishi Dockyard and Engine Works), 659, 811
Cranes, Block-Setting ; Jutland Breakwaters, 667 Cranes, Block-Setting ; Tyne North Pier, 100 Cranes, Cantilever; McCall Ferry Power Plant, 5 Cranes, Construction ; Panama Canal, 326 Cranes. See also Hoists and Transporters Crane, Steam, and Excavating-Machine (Ruston,
Proctor), 774
Cranes, Wharf, Electric and Hydraulic, 28 Crank-Axle, Locomotive, Ivatt’s, 312
Crank Effort of 1500-Horse-Power High-Speed Engine, 391
Crank-Shafts, Design of, 555
Crank-Shafts, Machine for Drilling Oil-Holes, 174 Creed Typewriting Telegraph, 806
Crewe Works, L. and N.W. Railway, Iron Foundry, 271
Cruisers. See Warships
Crystal Structure and Chemical Constitution, 617
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See MicroPhotographs in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Cudworth, William John, The late, 22 Culvert, Ferro-Concrete, Vandalia Railroad, 39 Cupolas, Blast Required for, 541, 670
Cupolas, Combustion in, 403
Cupolas, Fan-Blowers for, 670, 734 Cupola Fans, Speeds and Capacities, 670, 736 Cupolas for Iron Foundries. See ILLUSTRATION
INDEX under Foundry Plant
Cupola, Portable, for Rail-Jointing, 810 Cupolas, Rotary Blowers for, 801 Cupro-Manganese, Preparation of, 128, 188 Curie’s Magnetic Balance, 661
(jurtis and Parsons Marine Turbines, Comparison of Results, 537
Cutting-Off Machine for Bars (Butler). 576 Cutting-Off Tool for Turret Lathe, 742 Cycles, Census of Production, 75, 81 Cylinder, Engine (Bollinckx), Relief Valve, 142 Cylinders. See Engines; Motor-Cars; Motors Cyrenaica, Physical Aspects of, 54
“ Daily Mirror ” Apparatus for Electrical Trans mission of Pictures, 551
Dale’s Rudder for S.S. “Paulina,” 242, 381, 424 Dam ; Bullerfors Power-Station, Sweden, 755 Dam, Concrete, for McCall Ferry Power Plant, 3 ;
Use of Steel Forms, 4
Dams on Panama Canal, 239, 325
Davey’s Differential Valve-Gear for Pumping- Engines, 257
De Havilland’s Aeroplane Engine, 370 Decking for Bridges. See Bridges Deer Creek Power Plant, California, 34, 59, 91 Delagrange, Fatal Aeroplane Accident to, 23, 50 Delaney System of Multiple Telegraphy, 804 “ Demoiselle ” Aeroplanes at Olympia, 339, 342 Denmark, Langebro Swing-Bridge, 737, 770 Derailment. See Accident
Design and Construction of Ships. See Naval Architects; Ships; Steamers; Warships
Design of Russian Battleships, 652 Destroyer-s. See Warships
Detectors for Electric Waves, 250, 463, 763 Detector, Galena, for Electric Waves, 763 Detectors, Wireless Telegraphy, Efficiency of, 463. See 763
Dewar, Sir James, on Light Reactions at Low Temperatures, 116
Diamonds in Iron, 21 Dickson’s Radial Drilling-Machine, 710 Dielectrics ; Polarisation in Field of Force, 222 Differential Cooling-Curves, Methods of Obtaining, 570
Differential Gears for Motor-Cars. See Motor- Cars
Differential Valve-Gear for Pumping-Engines, Davey’s, 257
Diffraction Gratings, Blythwood Machine for Ruling, 439
Direct United States Cable Co., Ltd., 422 Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Dirigible Balloons. See Airships ; Aerial; Balloons
Disasters. See Accidents
Discs Revolving in Water, Friction, 587
“ Discus ” Organ-Blowers, 89
Disinfecting Apparatus, Carey’s Portable, 644 Diving and Compressed-Air Work, Effects of, 6, 213, 277, 310, 346, 381
Dock, Alexandra, Newport, Collapse of Trench Timbering, 43
Docks, Floating and Graving, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 658, 660
Docks. See also Uarbour ; Port
Docks, Tidal Filling of, 775
Dock Works, Straits Settlements, 217 Door, Fireproof, 619
Dover Marine Railway Station, 487
Drainage of Panama Canal Works, 172
Drainage of Salisbury and Birmingham, 364
Drainage System of Glasgow, 533, 567, 597, 671. See Erratum, 621
Drainer, Melvin’s, for Sewage Precipitation Tanks, 600
Draughtsmen, College Training for, 141, 179 206, 241, 681. See LETTER, 755
Drawe, Dr. R., Design of Rolling-Mill Engines, 686, 591, 603
Drawing-Board, “Simplon” Combination, 77 Drawing-Frame for Cotton, 706
Drawing-Office Filing System, 249, 277 “Dreadnought” Battleships, Design of, 353, 359, 451. See also Warships
“ Dreadnought ” Battleships, Time Taken to Build, 210
Dredgers, Panama Canal Works, 327
Dredging Gold, Damage to Land by, in Victoria, 21
Drifters, Herring, with Internal-Combustion Engines, 406, 426
Drill, Rail, The Groff, 789
Drilling-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Dudley, Dr. Charles B., The late, 22 Dumping-Barge for Stockholm, 203
Dundee Electric Generating Station, 334 Durtnall, W. P., on Electric Motors for Ships, 407. See 484, 579
Dusseldorf, International Congress on Mining, Metallurgy, Applied Mechanics, and Geology, 820
Dust, Blast-Furnace, Briquetting, 821
Dust Removal from Machinery, Air-Compressor for, 557
Dust. See also Coal-Dust
“ Dwarf” Cupola, 539
Dyeing, Electrolytic Theorj' of, 455 Dynamometer, Transmission, Jakeman’s, 386 Dynamos. See Dynamos and Alternators under Electric
Eagle Creek Arch Bridge, Ferro-Concrete, 39
Eames, Sir William (R.N.), The late, 276 Earth-Plates for Lightning-Conductors, 456 Earth Tides, 750
Earthquake at Messina, Italy, 197, 242, 277 Eastern Telegraph Co., Ltd., 775
Ebonite, Dielectric Strength of, 440
Eckart, W. R., on Testing Impulse Water-Wheels with the Pitot Tube, 34, 69, 91
Ecole Centrale, Engineering Formulae and Tables, 472
Economisers, Green’s, Brussels Exhibition, 720
Education, Engineering, and Resourcefulness, 781
Education of Engineers, 141, 179, 206, 241, 550, 579, 609, 681. See LETTER, 755
Education of Naval Architects, 581
Education, Teaching of Science, 18
Education, Technical, City and Guilds of London Institute, 754
Education, Technical, and Resourcefulness, 781
Education, Technical, Value of, 650, 579, 609. See also College
“ Egori,” Stern-Wheel Steamer, for Nigeria, 278
Egypt, Climatic Influences, 355. See 778
Egyptian State Railways; Trevithick’s Locomotive Superheater, 369, 501 ; Feed-Water Heating, 501
Ejector, Hydraulic, for Water-Raising, 654
Ejector for Vacuum Brake, Brooke’s, 576
Elastic Limit, Effect of Fatigue, 386
Elastic Limits in Combined Stress, 10, 43, 121
Elastic Properties of Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese Alloys, 108, 126, 157, 159, 223, 225, 226
Elastic Properties of Tool-Steels, 528, 559 Elasticity of Steel, Effect of Heat Treatment, 106 Elbe River, Salts in Water of, 133, 164
Electric:
Adams Manufacturing Co.’s Works, 488 Air, Electric Currents from Earth in, 463 Arc-Lamp, The Timar-Dreger, 217 Armature, Parsons, for Turbo-Generator, 523 Boilers, Steam, Electro-Chemical Action, 251 Brussels Exhibition, Power Supply, 402, 555 Cables, High-Temperature Tests of, 440 Cables, High-Tension, Dundee, 338
Gables, Paper Insulated, for Telegraphy and Telephony, 807
Cables, Tests of Rubber for, 183
Cadmium Amalgams for Weston Cells, 763 Carbons, Electric Furnace, Manufacture of, 21 594
Cells, Dry, Tests of, 440
Clocks, Electrically Synchronised, 252
Clutch, The S.M. Electro-Magnetic, for Rolling-Mills, 187
Coherers for Detection of Electric Waves, 250 Coherers, Efficiency of, 463. See 762 Coherer, Galena, 763
Collieries, Three-Phase Distribution, 616 Condenser Telephones, 689
Cooling Curves of Metals, Methods of Obtaining, 570
Crane, Wharf, with Luffing Gear, 28 Detectors. See Coherers
Dielectrics, Polarisation in Field of Force, 222
Dundee Generating Station, 334
Dust Removal from Electrical Machinery, Air-Compressor for, 567
Dyeing, Electrolytic Theory of, 455
Earth-Air Currents, Automatic Recorder, 463
Earth-Plates for Lightning Conductors, 456 Ebonite, Dielectric Strength of, 440
Electric—continued.
Electrical Engineering, British, Census of Production, 76, 82
Electrical Engineers, Institution, Annual Meeting, 722
Electricity Supply, New Act, 384
Electrolysis, Visibility of Ions, 453. See 455
Equipotential Lines and Stress Distribution, 303, 424, 509, 543, 609
Exhaust-Steam Utilisation for Power Production, 586, f 96, 603
Factory Regulations, 289
Fittings, Sale by Municipalities, 820
Furnaces, Graphite, Carborundum, and Aluminium, 751
Furnace, National Physical Laboratory, 441 Furnace, Siemens Arc, 752
Furnaces. Se^ also Steel Fiirnaces; Hardening Furnaces
Furnace, Steel, IliSroult, 604, 752. See 822 Furnaces, Steel-Melting, 592, 604, 752, 822 Furnace. Steel-Melting, Girod, 592, 604, 752 Galena Detector for Electric Waves, 763 Generating Plant (Forges et Chantiers), 501 Generating-Stations ; Compulsory Purchase of Sites, 384
Generating-Station, Dundee, 334
Heating Apparatus, Domestic, 753
Heating and Pyrometry, 751, 784
Hertz Experiments on Electric Wav^s, 250, 287
High-Frequency Currents; Experiments, 216 Hoists for Charging Cupolas, 608
Home Office Regulations ; Electricit}’ in Factories, 289
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, California; Tests, 34, 59, 91
Hydro-Electric Power Plants, Lapland, 320. See 620
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, Milan, 488 Hydro-Electric Power Plant, Niagara Falls, 34
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, Steel Works, France, 594
Hydro-Electric Power-Station. Sweden, 755 Hydro-Electric Station, McCall Ferrv, U.S.A., 3
Illuminating Engineering Society, 686 Inductance Measurements, National Physical Laboratory, 440
Induction Motors, Phase-Advancer for, 446 Inductometers, Use of, 222
Insulators, Polarisation in Field of Force, 222
Insulating Materials, Tests of, 440
International Electro-Technical Commission, Report, 787
Lapland Railway Electrification, 320
Leyden Jar Discharge, Oscillatory Nature of, 215
Lift-Gear, Push-Button Control, 823
Light, Electro-Magnetic Theory of, 215, 250, 287, 321, 351, 387. See Erratum, 343
Lightning-Conductor Rules, Phoenix Assurance Co., 456
Marine Machinery, Electric Drive for, 484. See LETTERS 543, 679
Marine Propulsion, Electrical Power Transmission, 407. See 484, 579
Motors, Induction, Phase-Advancer for, 446 Motor-Starters, Manufacture, 488
Ohm, Lorenz Apparatus for Determination of, 439
Oil, Measuring Conductivity of. 755
Ore Separation, Electro-Magnetic, 136
Parsons’ Compensating Winding for Generators, 523
Petrol-Electric Generators, Olympia Exhibition, 308
Phase-Advancer for Induction Motors, 446 Photographs, Electrical Transmission of, 551 Photometers, Portable, 686
Photometric Measurements, National Physical Laboratory, 440
Planing-Machines, Electric Drive for, 481 Planing-Machines, Regenerative Drive for, 572
Plating, “Galvanit” Process, 152
Pollak-Virag Writing Telegraph, 806
Post Office Telegraphs and Telephones, 807
Power Factor of Induction Motors, Improvement of, 446
Power Plant, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 659
Power Production and Utilisation, 586, 598, 603. See 711
Power-Stations. See also Hydro-Electric
Power Supply in the Transvaal, 782
Pupin Coils, Effects on Currents in Telephone Cables, 398, 530. See 808
Pyrometers, Callendar Recorder for, 799 Pyrometers, Platinum Resistance, 784, 798 Pyrometers, Whipple Indicator for, 799 Railway Exhibition at St. Petersburg, 587 Railways, Electric Traction on, 768 Resistances, Motor-Starter, Manufacture, 488 Resonance Transformer, 763
Rolling-Mill Developments, 586, 596, 603 Rubber, Tests of, 183
Sand, Electrical Properties of, 214
Selenium Cells for Transmission of Pictures, 551
Standardisation, Report of International Commission on, 787
Steamers, Japanese, Electrical Installation, 144
Stress Distribution and Flow of Current, Analogy between, 303, 424, 509, 543, 609
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 422, 775 Switch-Gear, Dundee Power-Station, 338 Switches, Ironclad, Oil, for Mines, 442 Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 422, 775 Telegraph. See also Wireless
Telegraph and Telephone Cables, 807
Telegraphy; Multiple and High-Speed Working, 804
Telegraphy of Photographs and Pictures, 551 Telegraphy, Recent Developments in, 804 Telephone Cables, Loaded, Currents in, 398, 530. See 808
Telephones, Condenser, 669
Telephone Exchanges, Methods of Operating, 808
EJecti’ic —continued.
Telephone System, Automatic, 166, 203. See 808
Telephony, Principles of, 808
Telephony, Recent Developments in, 804’ Thermo-Couples, Electromotive Force of, 570, 785
Time Service, Electrical, 252
Tramway-Rail Jointing, Portable Cupola for. 810
Transformer, Resonance, 763
Turbines, Transmission of Power in, 149 Turbo-Generator, Parsons’ Armature for, 523 Turning-Gear, Swing-Bridge, 773
Valves, Hydraulic, Control-Gear, 772 Water, Conductivity of, 584, 755
Water-Heater. The “Therol,” 753
Water-Pipes, Thawing, 509, 609, 686
Waves, Electric, and the Electro-Magnetic Theory of Light, 215, 250, 287, 321, 351, 387. See Erratum, 343
Waves, Reflection, Refraction, and Polarisation of, 288
Waves, Velocity in Different Media, 320 Welding, Electric and Autogenous, 285, 311 Weston Cell, Limitations of, 763
Weston Cells, Cadmium Amalgams for, 763 Wireless Telegraphic Stations, Statistics, 152 Wireless Telegraphy, Coherers for, 250 Wireless Telegraphy, Development of, 8(9 Wireless Telegraphy, Efficiency of Coherers, 463. See 763
Wireless Telegraphy, Galena Detector, 763 Wireless Telegraphy of Pictures, 551 Electrical Engineers, Institution, 722 Electrons, Liberation during Chemical Reactions 521
Elevators. See Hoists ; Conveyors Employees, Dismissal of (Legal), 553 Employees, Profit-Sharing by, 549 Employees. See also Workmen
Employers’ Liability and Merchant Shipping Acts, 218. See 129. See also Workmen’s Compensation under Legal
Engine, Blast-Furnace Gas, Barrow Steel Works, 545
Engine,

Engine, Gas, lOO-Horse-Power Dynamo-Driving (Campbell), 674
Engine, Gas, Four-Cylinder Vertical (Campbell), 674. See Addendum^ 779
Engines, Gas, Large, for Iron and Steel Works, 603. See 711
Engines, Gas and Oil, Royal Agricultural
Society’s Show, 818
Engines, Gas. See also Humphrey’s Gas-Pump Engines, Gas, 137. See Erratum, 178
Engines, Internal - Combustion, Agricultural,
Trials at Winnipeg Exhibition, 542
Engine, Internal-Combustion and Air-Compressor (Reavell), 557
Engines, Internal-Combustion, for Marine Propulsion, 10, 42, 74, 121, 185, 206, 342, 369, 370, 406, 411, 812
Engines, Internal-Combustion, Treatise on Carburettors and Vaporisers for, 6
Engines, Locomotive. See Locomotive
Engines, Marine, Brazilian Battleship “Minas Geraes,”66
Engine, Marine, Compound, of Yacht, 76 Engines, Marine, Economy of Superheated
Steam, 253
Engines, Marine, Fottinger’s Apparatus for Measuring Feed-Water, 677
Engines, Marine, Internal • Combustion, at Olympia, 342, 369
Engines, Marine, for Japanese Steamers, 210 Engines, Marine, Oil, for Fishing and Commercial Boats, 406, 426, 449. See 383
Engines, Marine, Oil, Lloyd’s Rules for, 812 Engine, Marine, Paraffin (Thornycroft), 369 Engine, Marine, Petrol (British Buffalo Motor Company), 370
Engines, Marine, Petrol for Life-Boats, 406, 411
Engines, Marine, Queenborough - Flushing Steamers, 42
Engines, Marine, Russian Volunteer Steamer “Orel,” 314
Engines, Marine, S.S. “Balmoral Castle,” 546 Engines, Marine. See also Warships Engines, Marine, for Stern-Wheel Steamer “ Etobe,” 279
Engine, Marine, Stumpf System, Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, 762
Engines, Marine, of T.-S.SS. “Prince Rupert” and “ Prince George,” 778
Engines, Oil,^for Agricultural Purposes, 82 Engine, Oil, and Air-Compressor for Starting Gas-Engines (Campbell), 674
Engine, Oil, Crude, 25-Horse-Power (Blackstone). 721. See 819
Engine, Oil, 3^-H.-P. Portable, Hornsby’s, 819 Engine, Oil, 15-H.-P. (Campbell), 674 Engine, Oil, Four-Cylinder, with Air-Compressor Starter (Griffin), 110
Engine, Oil, National, 818
Engine, Paraffin, for Launch (Thornycroft), 174 Engine, Petrol, for Aeroplanes. See Aeroplanes Engines, Petrol, and Dynamos at Olympia Exhibition, 308
Engines, Petrol, for Motor-Cars ; Determination of Horse-Power, 812
Engine, Petrol, for Motor-Sleigh (Antarctic), 421 Engine, Petrol, for Racing-Launch (Wolseley),
Engines, Petrol. See also Motor-Cars ; Motors, Petrol; Motor-Launches ; Aeroplanes
Engines, Petrol, Two-Cycle (Lamplough), 309 Engines, Pumping; Davey’s Differential Valve- Gear, 257
Engine, Pumping, Widnes Water Works, 257
Engine, Rolling-Mill, Stumpf Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, 762
Engine, Steam, 1500-IIorse-Power' High-Speed Triple-Expansion (Browett, Lindley, and Co.. Limited), 391
Engines, Steam, Bollinckx, Cylinder Relief. Valve for, 142
Engines, Steam, &c.; Census of Production, 76,82 Engine, Steam, for Model Aeroplane, Parsons’, 120
Engine, Steam Ploughing (Fowler), 589
Engine, Steam Ploughing (J. and H. McLaren), 720
Engines, Steam Ploughing ; Liverpool Show, 817 Engine, Steam, Portable 25-Horse-Power (Ruston, Proctor), 774
Engine, Steam, Pumping, for Deep Wells, 256 Engines, Steam, Rolling-Mill, Design and Economy of, 586, 591, 603^
Engines, Steam, Royal Agricultural Show, 817 Engine, Steam, Semi-Portable, with Stumpf MidCylinder Exhaust, 761
Engines, Steam, Stumpf Mid-Cylinder Exhaust System, 758. See LEITERS, 175, 809
Engines, Steam, Triple-Expansion, Pumping,
Kinning Park Sewage Pumping Station, 570 Engine, Steam, Tandem Compound, Lentz “ Short-Built,” 73
Engines, Steering, Formula for Dimensions, 109 Engine, Traction. See Traction Engine; Tractor Engines, Turbine. See Turbine
Engine, Winding, Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, Stumpf System, 762
Engine, Winding, Royal Agricultural Show, 818 Engineering Education, Development of Resourcefulness, 781
Engineering Education. See College, Education and Technical
Engineering Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition. See Brussels Exhibition
Engineering, Marine, Development in, 353 Engineering Production, British Census, 75, 81 Engineering Progress during King Edward’s Reign, 615
Engineering Projects, Foreign, 15, 35, 80, 122, 193, 228, 261, 296, 323, 356, S82, 425, 461, 479, 529, 562, 588, 629, 662, 696, 732, 763, 795, 825
Engineers’ College Training, 141, 179, 203, 204, 241, 681, 755, 781
Engineers’ Education. See Education, Technical Engineers’ Influence on Public Affairs, 141 Engineers, Institutions of. See Cioil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Eaval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Phy^cal Society, British Association, Society of Arts, Metals, Institute of, Illuminating Engineers, and International
Engineers, Naval, 38?. See 781
Engineers, Naval, Training of, 731. See 388
Engineers, Society of, Regulations, 283
Engineers, Value of College Training, 141, 179, 206, 241, 681, 781. See LETTER, 755
Equipotential Linesand Stress Distribution, 303, 424, 509, 543, 609
Erosion of Turbine-Driven Propellers, 54. See 74 Erpf and Greiner Cupola, 467
“Etobe,” Stern Wheel Steamer for Nigeria, 278 Euler’s and Rankine-Gordon Formulae for Columns, 33. See Erratum, 77
Excavating Machines, Panama Canal, 238 Exciva'ing Machine, (Ruston, Proctor). 774 Excavation Work, Panama Canal, 172, 238, 326 Exhaust-Steam Turbines, 586, 596, 603 Exhibition, Aero and Motor-Boat, at Olympia, 398 3*^9 338 369
Exhibition, Brass ds. See Brussels Exhibition Exhibition of Castings and Models, 756. See LETTERS 775 809
Exhibition of ’ Electrical Railway Appliances,
St. Petersburg, 587 _
Exhibition, Japan-British, 654
Exhibition, Laundry, 454
Exhibition, Municipal and Health, 618
Exhibition, Printing, Stationery, and Allied Trades, 687
Exhibition, Winnipeg, Agricultural Motor Trials,
Experimental Station, Aeronautical, at Gottingen, 153
Experimental Tank, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 659
Experimental Tank, National Physical Laboratory, 344, 354. See 383
Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion Explosion of Indigo-Still, 241
Explosives, Gun-Cotton Charges for Torpedoes, 123
Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition Extensometer. See Sphingometer Eyeletting-Machine for Boot Manufacture, 46
Fabric, Balloon, Leakage of Hydrogen, 439 Facing-Machines. See Machine-Tools Factories, Home Office Regulations for Electricity in, 289
Factories. Textile, Steam-Turbines for, 120 Factorj’ Law Cases. See Legal
Fans, Buffalo, Two-Stage, for Cupolas, 736
Fans, Centrifugal, for Organ-Blowing, 89
Fans for Cupolas, Heenan, Schiele, Sturtevant, and Buffalo, 734, 736 ; Sirocco, 737
Fans for Cupolas, Speeds and Capacities. 670, 736 Fans, Sturtevant, Brussels Exhibition, 720 Farman Aeroplane at Olympia, 341
Fatigue of Metal. See Micro Photographs m ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Feed-Water Heater, Brooke’s High-Velocity, 243 Feed - Water Heating, Trevithick’s System, Egyptian State Railway, 501
Feed-Water Measuring-Tanks, Fbttinger s, 677
Feed-Water Softening, “Luminator” System, 215. See LETTERS, 121, 277, 310, 346, 381, 423, 445, 481
Ferber’s Theory of Aeroplane Stability, 302, 633, 800. See also Aeroplane Stability
Fermentation, Alcoholic, 682
Ferranti Electric Induction Furnace, 7o2 Ferro-Concrete Bridges on Vandalia Railroad, 39 Ferro-Concrete Pier Caissons, Genoa, 645 Ferro-Concrete Columns, Spirally Armoured, 578
Ferro-Concrete Culvert, Vandalia Railroad, 39 Ferro-Concrete Design, 10
Ferro-Concrete, Durability, 207, 241, 310, 423 Ferro-Concrete and the Local Government Board, 207, 241, 310, 423
Ferro-Concrete Piles, Cost, 232
Ferro-Concrete Pipes, 522
Ferro Concrete Railway Sleepers in U.S., 26b
Ferro-Concrete, 770
Ferro-Concrete on Wabash Railway, U.S., 522 Ferro-Concrete Water-Filters, Magdeburg, 135 Ferro-Silicon, Dangers of, 276. See also Silicon Ferry, Steam, Sassnitz-Trelleborg, Traffic, 655 F6ry Radiation Pyrometer, 785, 799 Field-Guns. See Guns
Fife Coal Co.’s Mixed-Pressure Turbines, 696 Filing Systems for Drawing-Offices, 249, 277 Films, Metallic, Transparency of, 387 Filters, Carbonaceous, Hopkins* Zinc Process, 86
Filter for Oil. See Oil-Filter
Filters, Sand, for Potable Water, Action of, 117, 132, 161. See 185
Filters, Sewage, at Birmingham and Salisbury, 361
Filters, Sewage, Capacity of, 517
Filters, Water, Cleaning by Compressed Air, 135
Filters, Water, Puech-Chabal System, 117, 132, 161. See 185
Filter, Water, “ Turn-Over,” 743
Filtration of Water and Antecedent Treatment, 117, 132, 164. See 185
Filtration of Water, Experimental andStxtist’cal Data, 173
Fire-Bricks, Chiyiges in Composition, 821 Fishguard Motor Life-Boat, 414 Fishing-Boats, Application of Internal-Combustion Engines to, 406, 426, 449. See 383 Fishing-Boats, Japanese, 108
Fleming, Professor J. A., on Electric Heating and Pyrometry, 751, 784
Flight. See A crial; Aeroplane; Airship Float-Gauge for Hydraulic Experiments, 433 Floating Bodies, Stability of, Beaufoy’s Experiments, 363. See 457
Floating Crane, 150-Ton (Forges et Chantiers), 509
Floating Docks, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 660 Floods in Seine Valley, 149
Floors, Ferro-Concrete, for Bridges, 522 Flushing-Queenborough Mail Steamers, 40 Flying-Machines. See Aeroplanes; Airships Focussing Gear, Frictional, for Microscopes, 464
Fog-Signalling Apparatus, Tyne Piers, 104 Forced-Draught Boiler Furnace, Schofield’s, 765 Foreign Engineering Projects, 16, 55, 80, 122, 193, 228, 251,296,323,356,382,425, 461, 479, 529, 562, 688, 629, 662, 696, 732,763, 795, 825 Forges et Chantiers de la M6diterran6e Shipbuilding Yards, 499, 607 ,
Forging, Pressure required for, 141,185 |
Formulae for Calorific Value of Coal, 816 i
Formulie, French Engineering, 472 Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, 115 Fottinger's Feed-Water Measuring-Tanks, 677 Foundations, Dundee Electric Power-Station, 335
Foundations for Dam and Locks, Panama Canal, 240
Foundations, Gun-Tempering Shop, Woolwich : Arsenal, 232
Foundations, Kinning Park Sewage Pumping. Station, Glasgow, 567. See Erratum^ 621 Foundations, Liao River Bridge, Manchuria, ; 71 ’
Foundations for Piers, Caledonian Railway i Bridge, Glasgow, 444
Foundations for Piers, Klang River Bridge, Malay, 7
Foundations, Pier, Copenhagen Swing-Bridge, 738
Foundations for Piers, Genoa Harbour, 645 Foundations, Tyne North Pier, Reconstruction, 78, 99
Founders, Worshipful Company of, Exhibition of Castings, 755. See LETTERS, 775, 809
Foundries, Tramway Tracks for, 195 Foundry Buildings, Arrangement of, 70, 333 Foundry, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 659 Foundry Plant and Machinery, 70, 131, 195, 269, 333, 402, 465, 638, 606, 670, 734, 801. See Erratum, 509. For details see ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Fournier’s Thermo-Recorders. 447
France, Motor-Car Industry, Statistics, 163 France, Use of White Lead in, 51 Freezing-Points of Copper-Aluminium-Man-
ganese Alloys, 188, 225
French Battleship “Voltaire,” 607
French, Chemin de Fer du Nord Locomotives with Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, Stumpf System, 761
French Engineering Formulte, 472
French Naval Construction, Projected, 252, 288 French Shipbuilding Works, Forges et Chantiers, 499, 607
Frick Electric Induction Furnace, 752 Friction of Discs Revolving in Water, 687 Friction, Internal, of Wire Ropes, 25 Friction, Valve, in Superheated Steam, 387 Froude’s and Taylor’s Screw-Propeller Experiments, Comparison, 374, 492
Fuel, Economical Combustion in Boilers, 699, 765, 798
Fuel, Liquid. See Oil Fuel Fuel. See also Combustion Furnaces, Boiler, for Bagasse, 197 Furnace, Blast. See Blast-Furnace Furnaces, Boiler, Air-Heater for, 720 Furnaces, Boiler, ” 699, 765, 798
Furnaces, Boiler,

767, 800

Furnace, Boiler,

Furnaces, Boiler, Underfeed, Brus-els Exhibition, 720
Furnaces, Cupola. See Foundry Plant and Machinery in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Furnaces, Electric, Graphite, Carborundum, and Aluminium, 751
Furnaces, Electric. Manufacture of Carbon Elec-
I trodes for, 21, 594
I Furnaces, Electric, at National Physical Laboratory, 441
Furnaces, Electric Steel-Melting, 752, 822 Furnace, Electric Steel-Melting, Girod, 592, 604, 75'2
Furnace, Electric Steel-Melting, H6roult, 604, 762. See 822
Furnace, Gas, Brayshaw’s Salt Bath, 524 Furnaces, Industrial, Use of Liquid Fuel, 542 Furnaces, Open-Hearth. See Siemens-Martin Furnace, Siemens’ Electric Arc, 752 Furnaces, Siemens-Martin. See Siemens-Martin Furnaces, Solar, Experimental, 520
Galena Detector for Electric Waves, 763 Galvanising, Cowper-Ooles “ Sherardising” Process, 719
“ Galvanic ” Process of Electro-Plating, 152
Gas, Blast-Furnace, Cleaning, 821
Gas, Blast-Furnace and Coke-Oven, for Siemens- ;
Martin Furnaces, 821
Gas Calorimeter, Recording, 411
Gas, Coke-Oven, Utilisation of, 820 Gas-Engines. See Engines^ Gas Gas-Furnace, Brayshaw’s Salt-Bath, 524 Gas-Producers, Efficiency of, 821
Gas-Producers. See also Producer and Suction ! Gas-Producer, Suction (Campbell), 673. See i 779
Gas-Producers, Suction ; Royal Agricultural ; Society’s Show, 818
Gas-Pump, Humphrey’s, Theorj’^ of, 181. See LETTER, 207. See Errata^ 207, 276
Gases, Ionisation of, and Chemical Change, 350
Gasoline-Engines. See Engines, Petrol Gatun Dam and Lock, Panama Canal, 239, 292 Gauge Basin, Glasgow Sewage Works, 602 Gauges, Hook and Float, for Hydraulic Experiments, 436
Gauges, Standard Screw ; National Physical ; Laboratory, 439 !
Gavey, Sir John, on Recent Developments in ; Telegraphy and Telephony, 804 ?
Gear-Cutting Machines. See Machine-Tools
Gears, Differential, for Motor-Cars. See Motor- j Car
Gear, Reversing. See Reversing Gear I
Gears, Speed-Reducing, for Marine Turbines, i 149,379, 409. See 186, 221, 383
Gears, Speed-Reducing, for Marine Turbines, S.S. “ Vespasian,” 379, 409. See 149, 383
Gear, Speed-Reducing, for Turbines, Melville- McAlpine’s (Westinghouse), 221. See also 149
Gear-Wheels, Peripheral Speed of, 311, 346, 381, : 445
Geiser, Arnold, The late, 11
General Electric Company (Schenectady), Foundry, 193
Generating-Station. See Hydro-Electric Electric
Generators, Electric. See Alternators Dynamos under Electric
Generators, Gas. See Producer, Sxcction, Gas
Genoa, Ferro-Concrete Piers for Grain-Handling Plant, 645
Geology of the Panama Canal, 171 Georgian Bay Ship Canal, 637
German Battleships, “Nassau” Class, 745
German Battleship “ Rheinland ” and Method of Reducing Draught, 745
German Cruiser “ Von der Tann,” Steam Trials, 819
German Exhibits, Brussels Exhibition, 554, 753 German Guns, Life and Power of, 486
German Iron Ore Imports, 816
German Iron and Steel Industry, Dusseldorf International Congress, 820
German Machine-Manufacturers’ Union, 458 German Naval Architects Proceedings, 468 German Naval Shipbuilding, 247, 665, 745, 819 Germany and Sweden, Ferry Traffic between, 655 Gins for Cotton, Dobson and Barlow’s, 704 Girders. See Reams; Bridges; Roofs
Girod Electric Steel Furnace, 592, 604, 752 Gland, Labyrinth, Cooper and Greig’s Steam-
Turbine, 713
“ Glasgow,” H.M. Cruiser, Trials, 674
Glasgow Main Drainage System, 533, 667, 597, 671. See Erratum^ 621
Glasgow, Railway Bridge over Clyde, 443 Glasgow University, Hydraulic Experiments, 435, 473. See Erratum, 614
Glass-Melting, Liquid Fuel for, 542
Glazebrook, Dr. R. T., Report on the Progress of the National Experimental Tank, 344, 354. See 383
Glazing, “ Refrax,” for Foundry Roofs, 334 “ Gnome ” Motor for Aeroplanes, 1
Goethals, G. W., on the Panama Canal, 171, 238, 292, 325
Gold Alloys, Assaying, 84
Gold Leaf, Transparency of, 387
Gold-Mines, Transvaal, Electric Supply, 782 Gold-Mining in Victoria, Damage to Land, 21 Goransson, A. Henrik, The late, 813
Gottingen Experimental Station for Airships, 153
Governing of Impulse Water-Wheels, 35, 59 Governor, Cut-Off, of Lentz Steam-Engine, 73 Governor, Oil-Engine, The “ National,” 818 Governor, Relay, A.E.G. Steam-Turbine, 641 Governor Trialsof 1500 H.-P. High-Speed Engine, 391
Gowland, Professor W., on Japanese Metal- Working, 683
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Steamers “ Prince Rupert ” and “ Prince George,” 776
Graphite Furnace, Acheson, 751
Gratings, Diffraction, Blythwood Machine for Ruling, 439
Graving Dock. See Dock
Grayson, Sydney A., Investigations on Case- Hardening, 791
Grease-Extracting Plant and Bone-Mill, 819 Great Northern Railway, Ivatt’s Locomotive
Crank-Axle, 312
Green’s Aeroplane Engine, 341
Green’s Economisers, Brussels Exhibition, 720 Green, W. R., The late, 323
Greenwich, Rainfall at, 522
Greenwood, Arthur, The late, 87, 104 Greiner and Erpf Cupola, 467
Griffin Oil-Engine and Air-Compressor, 110 Grinding-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Groff Rail-Drill, 789
Guarding of Machinery, 202
GuerUer’s Alloys of Iron and Lead, 786
Guest’s Law. See Combined Stress
Guns and Armour, Naval, 353, 359. See 451, 665
Guns of Brazilian Battleship “Minas Geraes,” 65
Guns of French Battleship “ Voltaire,” 607
Guns of German Battleships, “Nassau” Class 745
Gun, Heat-Treating Shop, Woolwich, 231
Guns of H.M.S. “ Hercules,” 610
Guns, Krupp, Life and Power of, 486
Guns of New French Warships, 288
Gun-Power, New British Battleships, 452, 665
Gun-Power, New Russian Battleships, 652
Gun. See also Warships
Gun Trials of Brazilian Battleships, 65, 723
Gun Turrets, Triple, in Russian Battleships, 652 Gunboats. See Warships
Gun-Cotton Charges for Torpedoes, 123
Gunpowder, Cordite and Nitro-Cellulose Stability, 649
Gyroscope, Elementary Theory of, 797
Gyroscope. See also Brennan Mono-Rail System; Schilowsky Mono-Rail System
Haack, Rudolph, The late, 217
Hague, A., on Bearing Metals, 826
Hall’s Early Ship Model Experiments, 457. See 363
Hammers. See Machine-Tools
Hanstholm Breakwater, Jutland, 667
Harbour. See also Docks
Harbour Works in Argentina, 654
Harbour Works in Straits Settlements, 217 Harden, Dr. Arthur, on Alcoholic Fermentation, 682
Hardening Carbon and Tungsten Tool-Steels, 506, 524, 559, 700. See LETTER, 542
Hardening (Case) Steel, Investigations, 791
Hardness Tests of Copper-Aluminium-Manga- nese Alloys, 158, 161
Hardness Tests of Tool-Steels, 527, 559
Hargrave’s Self-Adjusting Aeroplane, 688
Havelock, T. H., on Ship Resistance, 462, 481, 543
Heats, Specific, of Ice, Water and Steam, 584
Heats, Specific, of Saturated Liquids and Vapours, 222
Heat Transmission through Boiler Scale, 655
Heat Transmission and Circulation in Boilers, 138 Heat Transmission in Pipes, 385
Heat Treatment of Carbon and Tungsten Tool- Steels, 506, 524, 559, 700. See LETTER, 542
Heat Treatment of Chromium Steels, 605, 624
Heat Treatment, Effect on Copper-Aluminium- Manganese Alloys, 105, 161
Heat’Treatment of Steel and Elastic Properties, 106
Heat Treatment of T\.ol Steels and Durability, 695
Heat Value of Coal, Formula for, 816
Heat, Waste, Utilisation in Works, 586, 596, 603
Heater, Air, for Boiler Furnaces, 720
Heater, Feed-Water, Brooke’s High-Velocity, 2J3
Heater, Water, “ Therol ” Electric, 753
Heating Apparatus, Electrical, Domestic, 753
Heating and Cooling Curves, Chromium Steel, 624,794. See 605
Heating and Cooling Curves of Copper-Aluml- nium-Manganese Alloys, 188, 225
Heating and Cooling Curves of Tool-Steel, 525, 701
Heating and Pyrometry, Electrical, Professor Fleming on, 751, 784
Heating and Ventilating Plants, Brussels Exhibition, 720
Heenan Fan for Cupolas, 734
Helical Gearing for Marine Turbines, 379, 409. See 149, 383
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Henderson, Professor J. B., on Theory of Ship Propulsion, 374, 394
Hennebique Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Herbert, Edward G., on the Cutting Properties of Tool-Steel, 605, 691
Herbertz Cupola with Steam-Jet Blower, 467
“ Hercules,” H.M. Battleship, Launching-Gear, 610
Heredity in Industry, 483. See LETTER, 543
Hdroult Electric Steel-Meliing Furnace, 604, 752; Aluminium, 751. See 822
Herring - Drifters with Internal-Combustion Engines, 406, 426
Hertz Experiments on Electric Waves, 250, 287
Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
High-Frequency Currents, Experiments, 216 High-Speed Tool-Steel. See Tool-Steel
“ Hirano Maru,” Steamer for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 142, 210. See LETTERS, 242, 381, 424
His Majesty King Edward VII., Obituary, 614, 615
H M.SS. See Warships
Hoists, Charging, for Cupolas, 606
Home Office Regulations, Electricity in Factories, 289
Hong Kong, Trade of, 27
Hook Gauge for Hydraulic Experiments, 436
Hope, Linton, on the Application of Internal- Combustion Engines to Fishing and Commercial Vessels, 406, 426, 449. See 383
Hopkins’ Zinc Process, Use of Carbonaceous Filters, 86
Hopkinson, Professor B., on Measurement of Shaft Horse-Power, 411, 429
Hopkinson-Thring Torsionmeter, 411, 429
Hopkinson Valves, Brussels Exhibition, 720
Hopper Steamer “Shieldhall,” for Sewage Sludge, 671
Hopper Wagons, Queensland Railways, 109. See 645
Horner, Joseph, on Founds Plant and Machinery, 70, 131, 195, 269, 333, 402, 465, 538, 606. 670, 734, 801. See Erratum, 509. For Details see ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Hornsby, James, The late, 322
Horse-Power of Motor-Car Engines, Determination of, 812
Horwich Works, L. and Y. Railway, Foundries, 269, 333
Hudson River, Railway Tunnels Under, 254
Huggins, Sir William, The late, 651
Hughes, George, on Compounding and Superheating in Horwich, Locomotives, 357, 367, 396,431,501. See LETTER, 41
Hughes, T. Vaughan, on the Failure of Non- Ferrous Metals and Brass Locomotive Tubes, 85,96. See 121, 277
Hughes’ Type-Printing Telegraph, 805
Humber Aeroplanes and Engines, 370
Humphrey Gas-Pump, Theory of, 181. See LETTER, 207. See Errata^ 207, 276
Hungarian Railways, Board of Trade Report, ISO
Hunt Industrial Railways for Foundiies, 196 Hutchinson’s Recorder for Flow of Liquid, 603 H5 drauHc Ejector for Raising Water. 654 Hydraulic Experiments, Hook and Float-Gauges for, 436
Hydraulics, Flow of Water Over Triangular Notches, 435, 473. See Erratum, 514
Hydraulic Luffing Wharf Crane, 28
Hydraulic Machine-Tools. See Machine-To^ds
Hydraulic Machinery, 'Copenhagen Swing-Bridge: Pivot, 741; Accuniulators, 742, 770; Valves, 742, 770 ; Pumps, 770
Hydraulic Machinery, Japan-British Exhibition, 654
Hydraulics, Pitot Tube Tests of Impulse Turbines. 34. 59, 91
Hydraulic Pump, Roberts’s, 307
Hydraulic. See also Water
Hj’dro-Electric Power-Station, Sweden, 755 Hydro Electric Power Plant, California (Test), 34, 59, 91
Hydro-Electric Power Plants, Lapland, 320, 620
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, Milan, 488
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, Niagara Falls, 34
Hydro-Electric Power Plant for Steel Works, France, 594
Hydro-Electric Station, McCall Ferry, U.S.A., 3
Hydrogen Thermometer, Constant Volume, 784
Ice, Precautions against, McCall Ferry Power- Station, 4
Ice, Specific Heat of, 584
Idalia,” Steam-Yacht, Consumption of Superheated Steam, 253
Illinois Central Railway, Train Resistance Experiments, 710
Illuminating Engineering Society’s Meeting, 686 Illumination, Portable Instruments for Measure- ing Intensity, 686
Illumination. See alsoLf^At; Lighting; Lamps; Electric
Impact-Tensile Testing-Machine, 728 Impact-Tensile Tests of Steel, 702, 727 Impact Testing-Machine, Charpy, 78 Impact Testing-Machine for Notched Bars, 572 Impact Tests of Copper-Aluminium-Manganese
Alloys, 160, 225 Impulse Water-Wheels, 69, 91 Incrustation, Boiler,
through,655 Indexing Drawings, 249. India, Coal Production, 675 India-Rubber, Artificial Preparation of, 617 India-Rubber for Electrical Work (Tests), 183 Indigo-Still, Explosion of, 241 Induction Motors. See Electric Inductometers, Use of, 222 Industrial Accidents, Prevention of, 202 Industrial Notes, 25, 56, 90, 124, 156, 186, 219, 255, 291, 324, 356, 388, 425, 459, 491, 523, 558, 590, 623, 660, 689, 726, 757, 790, 823. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Industrial Progress in Great Britain, 515, 585 Industrial Railways for Foundries, 195 Industry, Heredity in, 483. See LETTER, 543 Inland Navigation in China, 51 Inland Navigation. See also Canals, Ac. Inland Navigation in the United States, 19 Institutions, Technical. See Electrical Engineers, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Eaval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, British Association, Society of Arts, Metals, Institute of. Illuminating Engineers, and International
Instruments, Electrical. See under Electric Insulating Materials, Electric, Tests of, 410 Insulators, Polarisation in Field of Force, 222 lnsurar.ee of Workmen. See Workmen*s Compensation under Legal
Inrerchangeabilitj'. See Standardisation Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines,
Petrol, Gas, Ac., Motor-Cars and Motor- Launches
Internal Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
International Aero and Motor-Boat Exhibition at Olympia, 308, 309, 338. 369
International Association for Testing Materials, Rules for Sale of Pig Iron, 217
International Congress on Mining, Metallurgy, Applied Mechanics, and Geology, at Dusseldorf, 820
International Electrotechnical Commission Report, 787
International Exhibitions. See also Exhibitions
Invar Measuring-Wires, Expansion of, 439 Invention. See Patent
Ionisation of Gases and Chemical Change, 350 Ions, Visibility of, 463. See 455 Irish Road Congress, 311
Iron and Steel Industry, German; Dujseldorf
International Congress, 820
Iron and Steel Industry, Swedish, 656 Iron, Case-Hardening, Investigations on, 791 iron, Combinations of Manganese and Carbon in, 605, 626
Iron, Composition of. See Photographs
in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Iron and Concrete. See Ferro Concrete Iron, Diamonds and other Crystals in, 21 Iron, Effects cf Strain and High Temperature, ( 438
Iron-Foundry Phnt and Machinery. See Foundry Plant and Machineiy
Iron Industry, British, Development, 515 Iron ?trid Lead Alloys for Bearing Metals, 786
Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges Iron-Markets, Swedish, 176
Iron Ore Briquetting in Germany, 821 Iron-Ore, Canadian Deposits, 349 Iron-Ore, German Imports, 816
Iron-Ore Trust. Projected, 253 Iron-Oxide Coherers for Wireless Telegraphy, 463
Iron, Pig, Rules for Sale of, 217 Iron. See also Cast Iron and Steel Iron-Smelting in South Africa, 687
Iron and Steel Institute:
Annual General Meeting, 585, 603
Report of Council, 585
Presidential Address, 585
Presentation to Sir Hugh Bell, Bart., 585
Award of the Bessen.er Medal, 585
Economy and Design of Modern Reversing Rolling - Mill Steam-Engines, by E. G. Sehmer and Dr. R. Drawe, 586, 591, 603
Development in the Production of Electric Power ; Its Application and Bearing upon the Iron (and Steel Industries, by D. Selby Bigge, 586, 596, 603. See 711
The Girod Furnace, by W. Borchers, 592, 604
A 2 Point in Chromium Steel, by Harold Moore, 605, 794
Physical Properties of Two per Cent. Chromium Steels, by A. McWilliam and E. J. Barnes, 605, 624
Chemical and Mechanical Relations of Iron. Manganese, and Carbon, by J. 0. Arnold and A. A. Read, €05, 626
Cutting Properties of Tool-Steel, by Edward G. Herbert, 605, 691
Recent Investigations on Case-Hardening, by Sydney A. Grayson, 791
Iron Structures, Trea’ise on, 273 Iron, Testing Magnetic Properties of, 222, 410 '
Iron Works, Production and Utilisation of Electric Power, 586, 596, 603. See 711
Iron-Work, Structural. See Bridges; Boofs; St el; Ferro-Concrete; Buildings; Works
Ironclads. See Warships Ironing-Machines, Laundry Exhibition, 454
Irrigation Works in Argentina, 655 Isthmian Canal. See Panama Canal
Italy, Earthqua’ie at Messina, 197. See LETTERS, 242, 277
Iva’t’s Locomotive Crank-Axle, 312
Jakeman’s Transmission Dynamometer, 386
James Forrest Lecture; Sir J. Gavey on Recent Developments in Telegraphy and Telephony, 804
Japan and Port Arthur, 152
Japan-British Exhibition, 654
Japanese Fishing-Boats, 108
Japanese Institution of Naval Architects, 108
Japanese Memorial to Professor West, 520
Japanese Metal-Working, 633
Japanese Railways, 120
Japanese Rules for Ship Scantlings, 108
Japanese Shipbuilding Works, Mitsu-Buhi, 658. See 811
Japanese Steamers for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 142, 210. See LETTERS, 242. 381, 424
Japanese Steamers, Use of Oil Fuel, 109 Jets, Hydraulic, Pitot Tube Tests of, 34, 59, 91 Jet Propellers, Efficiency of, 374, 394
Johns, A. W., on the Society for the Improve* ment of Naval Architecture, 354, 362
Jutland Breakwaters, 667
Kalgoorlie-Port Augusta Railway, Australia, 306
: “ Kamo Maru,” Steamer, 142, 210, 242, 381, 424 Kart el, German Machine Manufacturers, 458 Kartel, Iron Ore, Projected, 253
Keller Electric Steel Furnace, 752
Kelvin. Lord, Life of, 666
Kermcde’s Liquid Fuel-System, 510
Kieffer, H. Prime, McCall Ferry Hydro Electric Stati'^n, 3
King Edward VII., His Majesty ; Obituary, 614, 615
King’s Navy. See Warships
Kinning Park Sewage Pumping-Station, Glasgow, 567. See Erratum^ 621
Khkaldy, W. G., on Methods of Testing Steel, 702, 727
Kitano Maru,” Steamer, 142, 210, 242, 381, 424
Kite, Box, Hargrave’s Self-Adjusting, 688 Kjellberg’s Electric Welding Process, 285, 311
Kjellin Electric Induction Furnace, 752
Klang River Bridge, Malay, 7
Kobe Works (Mitsu-Bishi), 660
Kohlrausch, Professor Friedrich, The late, 140
Korn Apparatus for Electrical Transmission of Pictures, 551
Krigar Cupola, 406
Krupp Guns, Life and Power of, 486
Laboratory, German. See Reichsamtalt
Laboratory. See also National Physical Laboratory
Labour Affairs. See Industrial Note’s
Labour, Go-Partneish’p in Industrial Concerns, 549
Labour, Control of, 483. See LETTER, 543
Labour Exchanges, 147. See LETTER, 277
Labour Legislation Effects on Trade, 283
Labour Legislation. See also Workmen's Compensation under Legal; Industrial Notes; Trade
Labour Remuneration, Shipbuilding, 749
Labyrinth Gland. Cooper a.d Greig’s Steam- Turbine, 713
Lagrange’s Theoiy of Aeroplane Stability, S02
Laissle Maschinenfabrik Cupola 538
Lamplough’sTwo-Cycle Petrol-Engines, Olympia, 309
Lamps. ^eeELectric
Lancashire and Yorkshire RailAay Company’s Foundries, 269, 333
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Locomotives, Results of Compounding and Superheating, 357, 367, 396, 431, 501. See LETTER,481
Lanchester’s Theory of Aeroplane Stability, 302 Landslide, Panama Canal Works, 173
Langebro Swing-Bridge, Copenhagen, 737, 770 Lantsberry, F. C. A. IT., Report on Alloys of
Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese, 104,125, 157, 187, 223, 233
Lapland, Calcium Phosphate Industry, 620 Lapband, Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 320. See 620
Lapland Railway Electrification, 320
Ijapping Machines, Cotton, 705
Larard, C. E., on Boiler-Testing lustallations, 699, 765, 798
Lasting-Machine for Boot Manufacture, 45 Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Launch, Motor. See Motor-Launch; Motor- Boat
Launching-Ways for H.M.S. “ Hercules,” 610 i Laundry Exhibition, 454 I
Laval Steam-Turbines for Textile Mills, 120 |
Lead Alloys for Beatings, 828, 829
Lead and Iron Alloys for Bearing Metals, 786 Lead-Poisoning in France, 51
Lead, White, Use of, in France 51
Leather Manufacture, 272
Ceenl:
Bills of Exchange, 151
Brewer v. The Rhj mney Iron Company, Limited, 113
Dismissal of Servants, 553
Electric Lighting Act, New, 381
Employees. See also Workinen
Employers and Employees. 553, 685
Employers’ Liability and Merchant Shipping Acts, 218. See 129
Fire-Bar Patents Case, 577
Insurance of Employ ers against Workmen’s Compensation Claims, 660
Medical Examination of Workmen, 49, 277, 284,418
Municipal Electricity Supply and Sale cf Fittings, 820
Patent Law, Australian, 113
Railway Companies and Private Wagons, 284
Road Traffic, Extraordinary ; Liability, 786 Seimen, Compensation for Accidents, 218. See 129
Superannuation of Union Members, 524 Taxi-Cab Driver. Compensation Case, 492 Water-Tube-Boiler Case, 775
Workmen, Accidents Arising from Disease, 418. See 49, 277, 284, 788
Workmen’s Compensation ; Claims for Death of Husband and Sons, 520
Workmen’s Compensation Cases, 30, 59, 129, 140, 218, 253, 297, 323, 489, 621, 646, 675, 711, 788, 830. See also 49, 277, 284, 322, 418, 441, 520, 650, 719, 750
Workmen’s Compensation and Guarding of Machinery, 441
Workmen’s Compensation and Medical Examination, 49, 277, 284, 418
Workmen’s Compensation, Rights of Foreign Workmen, 59
Workmen and Insurance of Employers against Compensation Claims, 650
Workmen’s Liability for Negligence, 322, 719 Legislation, Labour, Effects on Industry, 283 Legislation. See Industrial Notes; Legal Leicester Corporation, Supply of Electric Fittings, 820
Lentz “Short-Built ” Tandem Steam-Engine, 73 Letters to the Editor, 10, 42, 74, 121, 141, 185, 206,241, 277,310. 346,381, 423, 444,480,509, 542, 678, 608, 642, 710, 755, 776, 809. See LETTERS INDEX
Leyden Jar Discharge, Oscillatory Nature of, 215 Leyland Steam-Motor Wagon, 817
Liao River Railway Bridge, Manchuria, 71 Lidgerwcod Unloader for Railway Trucks, 239 Life-Boats, Motor, 406, 411
Life-Saving Appliances for Submarines, 787 Life-Saving Stations for United States Mines, 656
Lifts, Charging, for Cupolas, 606
Lift-Gear, Electrical, Push-Button Control, 823
Lifts. See also Hoists and Elevators
Lifting and Swing-Bridges. See Bridges
Light, Anomalous Dispersion of, 351
Light, Electro-Magnetic Theory of, 215, 260, 287, 321, 351, 387. See Ert'atum, 343
Light, Portable Instruments for Measuring Intensity, 686
Light Radiations, Recoil from, 419
Light Reactions at Low Temperatures, 116
Light, Scattering, by Air Molecules, 289
Light, Softening Action on Water, 121, 215. See also “Luznmator” Waftr-Softener
Light, Ultra-Violet, Photography of the Moon by, 239
Lighthouse, Tyne North Pier, 78, 101
Lighting, Electric. See Electric and Lamp Luhtning-Conductor Rules, Phoenix Assurance Company’s, 466
Lilly, W. E., on the Rankine-Gordon and Euler’s
I Formulae for Columns, 33. See Erratum, “il Line Squalls and Associated Phenomena, 522 Liquid Air and Gases, Experiments, 117 Liquids, Movements of Solid Particles in, 453.
See 455
Literature, 6, 35, 136, 199, 272, 468, 665, 768. See LITERATURE INDEX
Liverpool Gas Light Co.; Tar-Fired Boilers, 510 “ Liverpool,” H.M. Cruiser, Steam Trials, 788 Liverpool Show, Royal Agricultural Society, 816,
Liverpool Water-Works, Completion,456
Lloyd’s Returns, 18, 86, 184, 456
Lloyd’s Rules for Marine Oil-Engines, 812
Lloyd’s Rules for Ship Scantlings, 108
Local Authorities Trading, 820. See Municipal and London County Council
Local Government Board and Ferro-Concrete, £07, 241, 310, 423
Locher-Freuler, Dr. E., The late, 788
Lo(ks, Georgian Bay Ship Canal, 637
Locks on Panama Canal, 292, 325, 239 Locomotive Boilers, Economy of Superheaters, 367
Locomotive Boilers, Tests of, 706
Locomotive Boiler Tubes, Brass, Corrosion of, 85, 96 See 121, 277
Locomotives, Census of Production, 75, 82
Locomotives, Compound, L. andN.-W. Railway,
Locomotives, Compound, Midland Railway, 504
Locomotives, Compounding and Superheating on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 35 H 367, 396, 431, 501. See LETTER, 4&1
Locomotive Crank-Axle, Ivatt’s, 312
Locomotives^, Economy of Low Superheat, 368,
LoComouVes?Eight-Ccupled, Natal Government Railways, 411
Locomotive Engineering, ISO
Locomotive Feed-Water Heater, 501
Locomotives for Heavy Gradients, 43
Locomotives, Heavy, on U.S. Railways, 783
Locomotives. Mallet Compound, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 Railway, 275
Locomotives, Piston-Valve for Reducing Com-
LocCmotkeVoad. See Trader,
Mbtor-Wagon
Locomotive, “ Servo ” Regulator V^ve for 56
Locomotives, Stumpf System, Mid-Cjlmder Ex-
Locomotive Superheater Tests Atchison,
Topeka, and Santa F6 Railway, <06
Locomotive Superheater, Trevithick s, Egyptian State Railways, 369, 501
Locomotive, Three-Cylmder Shunting, North- Eastern Railway, 56
Locomotives, Tientsin-Pukow Railway, ^79, 62- Locomotive Valves, Superheated Steam, Lubrication of, 367, 432
Loewe, Ludw., and Co., Iron-Foundry, IW
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Accident at Stoat’s Nest, 148, 452
London and North-Western Railway, Compound Locomotives, 502 ; Foundry at Crewe Works, 271
London Underground Railways, Traffic on, 249 London Water Supply, 420
Lorenz Apparatus for Determination of Ohm, 439
Lorries. See Motor-Wagons and Tractors
},ove Dr. A. E. H.. on Earth Tides. 750 Lubrication, A.E.G. Steam-Turbine, 641 Lubrication of Ball-Bearings, 423
Lubrication of Gas and Oil-Engines, 819
Lubrication of Locomotive Valves using Superheated Steam, 367, 432
Lubrication, Water in Oil, 423
Lubricator, Ring, for Traction-Engine 817 Lubricator, Wakefield’s Mechanical, 577 Luffing Wharf-Cranes, Electric and Hydraulic, 28 Luke, W. J.. Experimental Investigations on Wake and Thrust Deduction Values, 3/4, 392 See 383
“ Luminator ” Water-Softener, 215. See LETTERS, 121, 277, 310, 316, 381, 423, 445, 481
Maca'*, Yarrow’s Shallow-Draught Gunboat for 474 ’
Machine Design, 35
Machine Manufacturers, German, Annual Meet ing,458
Maclilne-TooTs:
Bolt-Screwing Machine, Double-Spindle (C. Winn and Co.), 459
Boot and Shoe-Making, 13, 44
Boring and Milling-Machine (Churchill), 1/4 Boring and Turning - Machines, Vertical (Butler). 576
Cutting-Off Attachment for Turret Lathe (Kendall and Gent), 742
Cutting-Off Machine for Bars (Butler), 5/6 Drill, Portable Hand (Alexander Engineering Company), 826
Drill, Sensitive, Radial JJones, Pollard, and Shipman, Limited), 474
Drilling-Machine, Sensitive, Radial (Kendall and Gent), 742 .
Drilling, Tapping, and Studding Machine, Radial (Kendall and Gent), 710
Grinding-Machine (Churchill), 174
Lathe, 102-In. Surfacing and Screw-Cutting (Shanks), 382 .
Lathe, Hexagon Turret and Cufting-Oft Attachment (Kendall and Gent), 742 Machine-Tools (Forges et Chantiers), 500 Machine-Tools, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 658 Milling-Machines, Vertical (Kendall and Gent), 742
Planing-Machine (Butler), 576 Planing-Machines, Electric Drive for (Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company, Limited), 481 . .
Planing-Machines, Regenerative Electric Drive for (Felten and Guilleaume), 572 Planing and Matching-Machine, Wcod (Robinson), 642
Punch, Hand, for Sheet Metals, 312 Rail-Drill, The Groff, 789 Ratchet-Brace (Alexander Engineering Company), 826
Saw, Horizontal Band, for Logs (Robinson), 642
Screwing-Machine, Double Spindle (Winn), 459
Shears, Universal, for Steel Sections and Plates (Covington Machine Company), 678 Slotting-Machine (Butler), 576 Tool, Cutting-Off, for Turret-Lathe (Kendall and Gent), 742
Tool-Holders, Roller Stealy (Kendall and Gent), 743
Tool-Steels ; Cutting Tests, 605, 691 Woodworking Machinery (Robinson), 642 Machinery, Guarding, 202 Machinery, Guarding, and Workmen’s Compensation, 441 -
Machinery, Propelling. See Engines, Marine ; Engines, Gas, Oil, Pdrol, A'c.
Magdeburg, Puech-Chabal Filters at, 132, 164 Magnesium and Aluminium, Alloys of, 237 Magnetic Balance, Curie’s, 661
Magnetic Changes in Chromium Steel During Heating, 794
Magnetic Clutch for Rolling-Mills, 187
Magnetic Ore Separation, 136
Magnetic Properties of Copper-Aluminium- Manganese Alloys, 227
Magnetic Properties of Ivon, Testing, 222
Magnetic Properties of Various Substances, (561 Magnetic Storms, 319. See 4l4
Magnetic Tests, National Physical Laboratorj', 440
Magnetism. See Electric and Physical Society Malay, Bridge over Klang River, 7
Mallet Compound Locomotives, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 Railway, 275
Manchester Steam-Users’ Association, 756 Manchurian Railway, Liao River Bridge, 71 Manchurian Railways and Port Arthur, 152 Manganese - Aluminium Alloys, Acid-Resisting Powers, 103, 227
Manganese-Aluminium-Copper Alloys, 104, 125, 157, 187, 233, 236
Manganese and Carbon Combinations in Iron, 605, 626
Manganese. See also Alloys : Ferro-Manganese Manganese Steel, Microscopic Analysis of, 626 Manganese Steel, Tests of, 627 ,
Marconi. See Wireless under Electric
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Fottinger’s Apparatus for Measuring Steam Consumption, 677
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Steam Consumption, 620
Marine Construction, Problems in, 383
Marine Engineering, British, Census of Production. 75, 81
Marine Engineering Development, 353
Marine Engineering. See also Engines, Marine ; Naval Architects; Propellers^ Screw; Turbines; Warships
Marine Machinery, Electric Drive, 484, 543, 579
Marine Propulsion, Electrical Transmission Gear, 407. See 484, 579
Marine Propulsion. See also Engines, Manne, Gas, and Oil
Marine Propulsion, Speed Reduction Gears for Turbines, 149, 379, 409. See 185, 221, 383
Marine Propulsion, Theory of. 374, 394 Marshall’s Military Tractor. Trials of, 216 Martin. Pierre, Invention of Siemens-Martin Process, 687. See Addendum, 724
Masters’ and Servants’ Cases. See Legal Masters’ Sons, Heredity in Industry, 483. See LETTER, 543
Materials, Mechanics of, 272 Matter, Vibratory Theory of, 311 Matthews, E. R., on the Use of Reinforced Concrete on the V'andalia Railroad, 39
Maxwell’s Theory of Light. See Light, Electro- Magnetic Theory c/j
McAlpine-Melville Reduction-Gear for Turbines,
. 221. See also 149
McCall Ferry Hydro-Electric Station. 3 McWilliam, Andrew, on Two per Cent. Chromium Steels, 695, 624
Measures, Length, Silica Standards, 439 Measuring Machines, National Physical Laboratory, 439
Measuring Tanks, Feed-Water, Fbttinger’s, 677 Measuring Wires, Invar, Expansion of, 439
Alechanieal Engineers, Institution of:
Power Plant of the Ontario Power Company at Niagara Falls, by C. W. Jordan, 34
Application of the Pitot Tube to the Testing of Impulse Water-Wheels, by W. R. Eckart, 34, 59, 91
The late Mr. Arthur Greenwood, 104 Nomination of Officers, 104
Ninth Report to the Alloys Research Committee, on the Properties of Some Alloys of Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese, by Dr. W. Rosenhain and F. C. A. H. Lants- berry, 104, 125, 157, 187, 223, 236
Annual General Meeting, 235
Annual Report, 235
Acquisition of Additional Site, 235 Grant for Standard Gauge?, 235 Bryan Donkin Fund, 235, 236
Alloys R-search Committee and other Research Work, 235
Calcutta Section, 235
Public Action bj’ the Institution ; Amendment of Building Acts, 235
Announcement of Forthcoming Summer Meeting, 235
Election of Officers, 236
Compounding and Superheating in Horwich Locomotives, by George Hughes, 357, 367, 396, 431, 501. See LETTER, 481
Research on the Hardening of Carbon and Low-Tungsten Tool-Steels, by S. N. Bray- shaw, 506, 521. 559, 700. See* LETTER, 642
Address to the King, 700
Comparison of the Tensile, Impact-Tensile, and Repeated-Bending Methods of Testing Steel, by Bertram Blount, W. G. Kirkaldy, and Captain H. Riall Sankey, 702, 727 Mechanical Stokers, Underfeed, 720 Mechanicians and Artificers. See Naval Mechanics, Applied, 469 Mechanics of Materials, 272 “Mecklenburg,” Steamer for Queenborough- Flushing Route, 40
Medical Examination of Workmen, 49, 277, 284, 418
Melville-McAlpine Reduction-Gear for Turbines, 221. See also 149
Melvin’s Drainer for Sewage Tanks, 600 Mercardier System of Multiple Telegraphy, 804 Messina Earthquake, 197, 242, 277
Metals, Bearing, Iron, and Lead, 786 Metals, Bearing, 826; Method of Casting, 829;
Compression Tests, 829
Metals, liistitme or:
Annual General Meeting, 83
Election of Officers, 83
Presidential Address bv Sir Gerard Muntz, 83
Properties and Constitution of Copper- Arsenic Alloys, by G. D. Bengough and B. P. Hill, S3
Assay of Industrial Gold Alloys, by E. A. Smith, 81
Analysis of Aluminium and Its Alloys, by Dr. R. Seligman and F. J. Wilmott, 84
Contribution to the Study of Phosphor- Bronze, by 0. F. Hudson and B. F. Law, 85
Non-Ferrous, Failure of, 85, 90, 121,
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Metallurgy of, 137 MetaP, Non-Ferrous, Record of Analyses, 86 Metal-Price Diagrams, 24, 154, 299, 458, 588, 722
Metals. See also Jron; Steel; Tin\ Copper; Aluminium; Alloys
Metal-Working, Japanese, 683 Metallic Films, Transparency of, 387 Metallising Wood and Paper Articles, 755 Metallurgical Exhibits, Brussels Exhibition, 554 Metallurgy, International Congress at Dusseldorf, 820
Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals, 137 Metallurgy. See also Iron and Steel Institute;
Metals, Institute of; Alloys Meteorological Records of Low - Temperature
Periods, 678
Aleteorolotrical Society* Royal:
Annual General Meeting, 112
Presidential Address (H. Mellish) on Meteorology and Agriculture, 112
Report on the Phenological Observations for 1909, by E. Mawley, 261
North Atlantic Anticj’clone, by Col. IL E. Rawson, 261
Investigation of the Electrical State of the Upper Atmosphere made at the Howard Estate Observatory, Glossop, by Dr. W. Makower, 291
Results of Twentj’-Five Registering Balloon Ascents made from Manchester on June 2 to 3. 1909, by A. W. Harwood, 291
Cbmatic InUuencesin Ejryptandthe Soudan, by Captain H. C. Lyons, 355
Line Squalls and Associated Phenomena, by G. K. Lempfert and R. Corless, 522
Daily Rainfall at the Royal Observatory, , Greenwich, by W. C. Nash, 522 I
Low-Temperature Periods during the Winters i 1908-9 and 1909-10, by L. C. W. Bonacina, i 678
Rate of Rainfall at Kew in 1908, by R. Corless, 678
England, Abyssinia, the South Atlantic; a Meteorological Triangle, by J. 1. Craig, ' 778
I Meteorology and AgFculture, 112
' Meter, “ Sarco” Steam, 113 i Metropolitan. See London I Micro-Organisms, Effect of Light and Low Tern- I perature on, 117
Microscopes, Frictional Focussing-Gfar for, 644 Micro-Structure of Metals. See Micro-PJiotO’ ( graphs in ILLVSTRATION IXDRX I Midland Railway, Compound Locomotives, 504 I Milan, Hydro-Eiectric Power Plant, 488 I Military Tractor, Marshall’s. Trials, 216 ' Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools i Mills. See Factories
“ Minas Geraes,” Brazilian Battleship, 65
! Mines. Coal. See Collieries
Mine Rescue-Stations, United States, 656 ' Mines, Transvaal. Electric Power Supply, 782
Mine Winding. See Engines, Winding ; Colliery Minerals. See Coal; Mining ; Ores : Railway Mining, Damage to Land by (Victoria), 21 Mining, International Congress, Dusseldorf, 820 Mining Machinerj’. See Engines, Winding, Hauling, and Electric
Miraflores Dam, Panama Canal, 325 Miscellanea, 55, 245
Mitsu-Bishi Works, 658 ; 150-Ton Crane, 811 Mixing-Machine for Concrete, 619
Miyoshi, Professor Shinrokuro, The late, 276 Model Aeroplane, Parsons’ Early, 120, 141 Models. See >^'hip; Propeller
Molecules, Visibility of, 453. See 455 Monckton, 0. Paul, on Explosion of Indigo-
Still. 241
Monoplane. See Aeropla7ie
Monorail Carriage, Brennan, Trials, 2S9 Monorail ; Schilowsky’s System, 577, 609
Monte Video Harbour W^orks, 655
Moon ; Photographs with Ultra-Violet Light, 289
Moore, Harold, on the A2 Point io Chromium Steel, 605. 794
Morley, Arthur, on Strength of Materials under Combined Stresses, 555
Morrow, Dr. John, on Geometry of the Turbine- Driven Propeller, 330
Mot'Jr-Boat and Aeroplane Exhibition at Olympia, 308, 309. 338, 369
Motor-Boat Engines at Olympia, 342, 369 Motor-Boats, Lloyd’s Rules for Engines, 812 Motor-Boat with Paraffin Engine, 174 Motor-Cars, Census of Production, 75, 81 Motor-Cars, Driving-Chains for, 521 Motor-Car Industry, French, 163 Motcr-Cars, Regulations Determining II.-P., 812 Motor-Cars, Treatise on, 273
Motors, Electric. See Electric
Motor Fishing and Commercial Boats, 406, 426, 449. See 383
Motors, Internal-Combustion. See Engines; Motor-Cars; Motor-Launch ; Aeroplanes
Motor Life-Boats, 406, 411
Motors, Marine. See Etigines
Motors. Petrol. See Motor-Cars; Engines, Petrol; Aeropla^ies
Motor-Sleigh, Antarctic Expedition, 421, 445, 509 •
Motor-Tractor, Marsball’Sj Trials, 216
Motor-Wagon, Leyland’s Steam, 817 Motor-Wagons. See also Tractor Motor-Wagons, Steam, Royal Show, 81. Mule for Cotton-Spinning, 706
Municipal and Health Exhibition, 618 Municipal Trading in Electrical Fittings, 820 Murray, A , on Weighing Ships’ Cargoes, 460.
See 377 „ , , OAK
Murray Typewriting Telegraph, 806
Nagasaki Works, Mitsu-Bishi, 658 ; 150-Ton Crane, 811
Nailing-Machine for Boots, 44 .
Napier’s Early Ship-Model Experiments, 457. See
“Nassau” Class German Battleships, /46 Natal Government Railways, Eight-Coupled
Locomotives, 411; Working Costs, 548
National Physical Laboratory, Experimental Tank, 344, 354. See 383 ; Work in 1900, 385, 437
Naval Annual, Brassey’s, 665
Naval Architects, Education of, 581
Naval Architects, German, Proceedings, 468
Naval Areliitects, Institution ol:
Annual Meeting, 352, 373, 406. See 383
Annual Report of Council, 352 Election of Officers, 353
Presidential Address, 353 Forthcoming Jubilee Meeting, 353
Annual Dinner, 354
Royal Charter of Incorporation, 373. bee 383
Battleship of the Future, by Rear-Admiral R. IL S. Bacon. 353, 359
Report on the Progress of the National Experimental Tank, by R. T. Glazebrook, 344, 354. See 383
Account of the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture, by A. W. Johns, 3o4, 362
Application of the Maiine Steam-Turbine and Mechanical Gearing to Merchant Ships, by Hon. C. A. Parsons, 379, 409. See 383 . . ,
Experimental Investigations on Wake a.nd Thrust Deduction Values, by W. J. Luke, 374, 392. See 383
Some Considerations Regarding the Phenomena of Propulsion, by Professor J. B. Henderson, 374, 394 , vi a- i T •«
Motor Life-Boats of the Royal National Life- Boat Institution, by J. R. Barnett, 406,
Application of the Internal-Combustion Engine to Fishing and Commercial Vessels, by Linton Hope, 406, 426, 449. See 383
The Substitution of the Electric Motor for Marine Propulsion, by W. P. Durlnall, 407.
Notes on the Measurement of Shaft Horse- Power ; Relation between Twitt and Torque, by Professor B. Hopkinson, 411, 429
New Methods of Ascertaining the Weight of Cargoes on Beard Ship, by A. Murray, 377, 460
Model Screw-Propeller Results; A Comparison, by T. B. Abell, 374, 492
Naval Architects, Japanese Institution of, 108 Naval Architecture, Society for the Improvement
Naval Construction, French Projected, 252, 288 : Naval Construction. See Ships; Steamers; Bar- ' ships
' Naval Constructors, Royal Corps of, 581
Naval Engineers, 388,
Naval Engineers, Training of, 781
Naval Guns, Use of Nitro-Cellulose Powders, 649 Naval Gunnery. See Guns
Naval Machinery. See Warships; Boilers;
I Engines; Turbines
Naval Ships Launched 1893-1909, 86
' Naval Shipbuilding Programme, 247. 665 Naval Warfare, Conditions of, 353, 359
I Navigation, Aerial. , See Aeroplanes; Airships
I Navigation, Inland, in China, 51 Navigation, Inland. See oXso Canals, Ac. Navigation, Inland, of the United States, 19 Navvies, Steam, Panama Canal Works, 238
, Navvy, Steam (Ruston, Proctor), 774 Navy Debates in Parliament, 349, 781 Navy Estimates, 317, 349. See 422 Naw. See also Naval; Warships New Engine Company’s Aeroplane Engine, 339 New South Wales, Proposed Bridge or Tunnel, Sydney Harbour. 423
New South Wales Railways, Annual Report, 518 . New York, Tunnels under Hudson River, 254 , Newport Dock, Collapse of Timbering, 43 Newten Cupola, 466
Niagara Falls, Ontario Power Co. s Plant, 34 Nickel-Copper-Aluminium Alloys, 236
Nigeria, Stern-Wheel Steamers for, 278
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Steamers for European
Service, 142, 210. See LETTERS, 242, 381, 424
Nitro-Cellulose Powder, Stability of. 649
Northampton Institute, Boiler Testing, 699, /65, 798
North-Eastern Railway, Three-Cylinder Shunting Locomotive for, 56
North, Notes from the, 24, 46, 79, 112, 144, 176, 210, 244, 280, 314. 346, 390, 414, 447, 477, 512, 546 574, 612, 646, 678. 714, ”46, 778, 812 .
Northern Railway of France, Locomotives with Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, Stumpf System, 761
Notched-Bars, Impact Testing-Machine for, 572
Notched-Bar Tests of Steel, 815
Notches, Triangular, Flow of Water over, 435, 473. See Erratum, 514 TTT x
Notes See Cleveland, North, South-West, South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial, Legal, and Miscellanea. See also PAR.A.GRAPII INDEX
Nozzles, A.E.G. Steam-Turbine, 640
Nozzles, Hydraulic, Pitot-Tube Tests of, 34, 59, 91
Nozzles, Steam-Turbine, Efficiency of, 552

Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Ohm, Lorenz Apparatus for Determination of, 439
Oil-Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor-Cars Motors; Tractors; Petrol; Motor-Launches
Oil Fuel, Boiler for Yacht Using, 76
Oil Fuel, Industrial Application of, 512
Oil Fuel for Japanese Steamers, 109
Oil Fuel, Kermode’s System, for Water-Tube Boilers, 510
Oil, Measuring Electrical Conductivity of, 755
Oil, Presence of Water in, 423
Oil-Pump, Wakefield’s, 577 Oil. See also Lubrication
Oil-Switches, Ironclad, for Mines, 442
Oil-Tractors (Marshall’s), 555
Ojl-Tractors, Royal Agricultural Show, 818
Oiler, Ring, for Traction-Engine, 817
Oldknow, R. C., The late, 490
Olympia Aero and Motor-Boat Exhibition, 308, 309, 338, 369
Ontario Pow’er Company, Hydro-Electric Plant at Niagara Falls, 31
Open-Hearth Furnaces. See Siemens-Martin Opening-Machines for Cotton, 705
“ Oranje Nassau,” Steamer for Queenborough- Flushing Route, 40
Ordnance. See Warships; Guns; Explosions Ore. See also Iron
Ore Separation, Electro-Magnetic, 136
“Orel,” S.S., for Russian Volunteer Fleet, 313
Organ-Blowers, The “Discus,” 89
Ort and Rieger’s Condenser Telephones, 689
Oscillations. Electrical, from Leyden-Jar Discharge, 215
Ottawa River, Deposits of Iron Ore, 349
Ovens, Coke. See Coke-Ovens
Oxy-Acetylene Blow-Pipe for Welding, 285, 311
Oxygen, Liquid, Formation of Ozone from, 117
Ozone, Formation from Liquid Oxygen, 117

Packing, Shaft, Cooper and Greig’s Steam-Turbine, 713
Paint, White-Lead, Prohibition in France, 51
Panama Canal, 171, 238, 292, 325
Paper, Coating with Metal, 755
Paper-Insulated Cables for Telegraphy and Telephony, 807
Paper Mill, Explosion of Hair-Boiler, 630
Paraffin-Engines for Boats, 406,426, 449. See383
Paraffin-Engines and Dynamos, 308
Paraffin-Motors for Agricultural Purposes, 82
Paraffin-Motors, Marine, 342, 369
Paraffin-Motors. See also Engines, Paraffin Paraffin-Motor, Thornycroft, for Launch,’174
Paratfin-Tractor, Marshall’s, 216, 555
Paragon Electric Transmission Gear for Turbine Steamers, 407. See 484, 579
Paris Floods, 149 Parker Water-Tube Boiler, 138
Parliament and Navy. See Warships; Engineers ; Naval
Parsons’ Alloy for Turbine-Driven Propellers. 64. See 74
Parsons’ Compensating Winding for Electric Generators, 623
Parsons and Curtis Marine Turbines, Comparison of Results, 537
Parsons’ Early Model Aeroplane, 120. See LETTER, 141
Parsons, Hon. C. A., on Mechanical Gearing for Marine Turbines, 379, 409. See 383
Parsons’ Marine Oil-Engine and Reversing Gear 369
Partick Sewage Pumping-Station, Glasgow, 567 Partnershipof Employees in Industrial Concerns 549
Patent Record, 31, 64, 97, 130,162, 194, 230, 263. 299, 332, 365, 433, 498, 531, 563, 631, 663. 697, 764, 796, 831. See PATENT INDEX
Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal, 325 Pegging-Machine for Boots, 15
Pelton-Wheel-Driven Centrifugal, 508 Pelton Wheels ; Losses in Buckets, 93 Pelton Wheels, Pitot Tube Tests of, 34, 59, 91 Pendulum, Horizontal, for Indicating Earth-
Tides, 750
Pensions, Workmen’s ; Mitsu-Bishi Works, 660 Penstocks ; Sewage Purification Works, 597 Perry, Professor J., on Telephone Circuits, £98 Petrol-Electric Generating Sets, 308 Petrol-Motors. See Engines, Petrol; Motor*
Cars; Motors, Petrol; Motor - Launches; Motor-Omnibuses; Tractors; Aeroplanes
Phase-Advancer for Induction Motors, 446 Phenological Observations for 1909, 261 Phillips’Aeroplane Sustainers, 242
Phillips, C. E. S., on Electrical and Other Pro-
I perties of Sand, 214
Phasnix Assurance Company’s Lightning-Oon- I ductor Rules, 456 i
Phoenix ” Rotary Petrol Motor for Aerop;ane’, 1 311
Phosphate Industry, Lapland, 620 Phosphor-Bronze Alloys for Bearings, 827 Phosphor-Bronze, Properties of, 85 Phosphorescence Phenomena at Low Temperatures, 117
Photographic Shutters, Tests of, 441 Photographic Surveying from Balloons, 116 Photographic Telegraph System, 805 Photographs, Electrical Transmission of, 551 Photographs, Micro. See Micro-Photographs in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Photography of Moon with Ultra-Violet Light, 289
Photometers, Portable, 636 Photometric Measurements, National Laboratory, 440
Physics. Treatise on, 272 Physical Laboratory. See National Laboratory
Physical Properties of Metal. See Metals; Micro-Photographs in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Physical Society : *
Saturation Specific Heats, &c-, with Van der Waals’ and Clausius’ Characteristics, by R. E. Baynes, 222
Polarisation of Dielectrics in a Steady Field of Force, by Professor Thornton, 222
On the Use of Mutual Inductometers, by A, Campbell, 222
Telephone Circuits, by Professor J. Perry, 398
On Coherers, bj^ Dr. W. H. Eccles, 463 Earth-Air Electric Currents, by G. C. Simpson, 463
Demonstration of Telephone Currents m Loaded and Unloaded Lines, by' B. S. Cohen, 530
Tests of Brittle Materials under Combined Stress, by W. A. Scoble, 661
Magnetic Balance of MM. Curie and C. Cheneveau, by A. C. Jolley, 661
Oscillation Detector Actuated Solely by Resistance-Temperature Variations, by Dr. W. H. Eccles, 763
Resonance Transformer, Exhibited by A. Eagle, '^63
Limitations of the Weston Cell as a Standard of Electromotive Force, by S. W. J. Smith, 763
Pictures, Electrical Transmission of, 551 piers. Ferro-Concrete, Genoa, 645 Pier Foundations, Manchuria, Bridge, 71 Piers, Klang River Bridge, Malay, 7 Pier, Langebro Swing-Bridge, Copenhagen, 738 Pier, Tyne, Reconstruction of, 78, 99 !
Pier. See also Bridge
Piers, Vornpbr and Hanstholm, Jutland, 66/ I Pig Iron, Rules for Sale of, 217
Pig Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams Piles, Ferro-Concrete, Cost of, 232 Piles. See also Ferro-Co7icrete Pipes, Ferro-Concrete, 522 Pipes, Flow of Air in, 386 , Pipes. Heat Transmission in, 385 Pipe-Threads, British Standard, Tests of, 439 Pipes, Water, Thawing by Electricity, 509, 609, 686
Piston-Valve, Locomotive, for Reducing Compression, 397
Pitkin-White Pyrometer, 785 Pitot Tube, Bibliography of, 95 Pitot Tube Tests of Impulse Water-Wheels, 34, 59,91 , . ,
Planing-Machine. See Machine-1 ools Plastic Metals for Bearings, 827, 829 Plating, Electro, “Galvanit” Process, lo2 platinum and Plitinum Alloy Thermo-Couples,
Electromotive Force of, 570, 785^ Platinum Resistance Pyrometers, <84, z98 Ploughing-Engine, Steam (Fowler). 589 ploughing - Engine, Steam (McLaren), /20 ,
Ploughs, 721 Ploughing-Engines, Steam, Royal Show, 817 Ploughing-Engine Trials, Winnipeg Exhib.tion,
Pneumatic Tools. See Machine-Tools Polarisation of Electric Waves, 288 Pollak-Virag Writing Telegraph, 805 Pollock, James, The late, 280
Pope, W., on Chemical Significance of Crystal Structure, 917 _
“Porhydrometer,” for Weighing Ships Cargoes, 460. See 377
Port Arthur, Japanese Control of. 152 Port Augusta Kalgoorlie Railway, Australia, SCO Port. See Harbours ; Docks Portland Cement. See Cement
Portuguese Shallow-Draught Gun-Boat for Macao (Yarrow), 474 ,
Post-Office Telegraphs and Telephones. 807 Powder, Nitro-Cellulose, Stability of, 649 Powell’s Tillery Sceam-Coal Com^'any, Wire . Power^'ElectHl Iron and Steel Works, 586, 596, 603 711
Power, Exhaust-Steam Turbine, 586, 593, C03 Power Factor of Induction Motors, Improvement of, 446
Power-Gas. See Engines, Gas; Suction-Gas, Blast-Furnaie Gas; Producer-Gas .
Power Plants. See Electric; Hydro-Electric Power-Stations, Electric, Compulsory Purchase of Sites, 384
Power-Station, Electric, Dundee, 334 Power-Station. See Eicctric; Hydro-Electric Power Supply, Electric, in the Transvaal, 782 Power Transmission, Chains for, 521 Power Water. Ses Hydro-Electric ; Electric Poynting, Profeesor J. IL, on the Recoil from Light, 419 T. .n
Precipitation Tanks, Sewage Purification, 599 Presidential Addros to Institution of Naval Architects *, by Right lion. Eirl Cawdor, 353 Presidential AddrefcS to Iron and Steel Institute,
Press for Bundling Cotton Yarn, 706
Prince Rupert’’and “ Prince George,” Steamers for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 776 “Prinses Juliana,” Steamer for Queenborough- Flnshing Route, 40
Printing, Stationery, and Allied Trades’ Exhibition, 687
Problem of Flight. See Aeroplane ; Aerial Producers, Gas, Efficiency of, 821
Producer-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas; Suction
Producer, Suction-Gas (Campbell), 673, 779 Producers, Suction-Gas, Royal Show, 818 Profit-Sharing in Industrial Concerns, 549 Propellers, Aerial, Experiments with Models, 386
Propellers, Bronze, Erosion of, 54. See 74
Propellers, Jet, Efficiency of, 374, 394
Propellers, Model Screw, Froude’s and Taylor’s Experiments. 374, 492
Propellers, Model Screw, Thrust of, 374, 492 Propellers, Screw, Comparisons of, 396 Propellers, Screw, Geber’s Experiments, 469 Propellers, Screw, In or Out-Tujn ng. 374, 392 Propellers, Screw, Theoretical Efficiency, 374, 395. See 495
Propellers, Screw, in Tunnels, Motor Life-Boats, 411
Propellers, Screw, Wake and Thrust Deduction- Values, 374, 392. See 383
Propeller-Shafts, Relation betw^een Twist and Torque, 411, 429
Propellers, Turbine-Driven, Geometry of, 330
Propellers, Turbine-Driven, Parsons’ Allo}’ for, 54. See 74
Propulsion of Ships, Distribution of Power, 462. j See LETTERS, 481, 543 i
Prussian State Railway, Locomotives, with Mid- I
Cylinder Exhaust, Stumpf System, 761
Public Affairs, Influence of Engineers on, 141 Puech-Chabal System of Water Purification, 117, 132, 164. See 185 i
Pumps, Air. See Air-Compressors and Con- I densers I
Pumps, Boiler-Feed (Weir), 720 i
Pumps, Centrifugal, Reduction of Disc Friction, I 587 I
Pump, Humphrey Gas, Theory of, 181. See I LETTER, 207. See Errata, 207, 276 ;
Pumps, Hydraulic, Copenhagen Swing-Bridge, j

770 I

Pump, Oil, Wakefield’s, 577 i
Pump, Roberts’s Hydraulic, 307 I
Pumping Arrangements, Dundee Power-Station, I 338
Pumping-Engines, Davey’s Differential Valve- ; Gear, 257 i
Pumping-Engines, Steam, Glasgow Sewage, 570 ;
Pumping Plant for Deep Wells, 256
Pumping Plant, Widnes Water Works, 2.57
Pumping Station, Sewage, Glasgow, 567. See j
Erratum, 621 I
Punch, Hand, for Sheet Metal, 312
Pupin Coils, Effects on Currents in Telephone Cables, 398, 530. See 808
Pyrometers for Boiler Furnace and Steam Temperatures, 767, 798
Pyrometers, Callendar Recorder for, 799 Pyrometer, The F6r5" Radiation, 785, 799
Pyrometers, Fournier’s Recording, 447
Pyrometers, High Temperature, Tests, 441 Pyrometer, The Pitkin-White, 785
Pyrometers, Platinum Resistance, 784, 798
Pyrometers, Thread Recorder for, 785, 800 Pyrometers, Whipple Indicator for, 798
Pyrometry and Heating, Electrical, 751, 784
Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Quays. See U arbours; Docks; Wharves Queen Alexandra Bridge, Sunderland, 443 Queenborough and Flushing Mail Steamers, 40 Queensland Railways, Hopper Wagons for, 109.
See 645
Queensland Railway Report, 582
Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns; Warskips Quick, Joseph, The late, 88
Quicksilver. See Mercury; Metal-Price Diagrams
Radial Engines for Aeroplanes, 1
Radiations, Light, Recoil from, 419
Radiation Pyrometer, The F^ry, 785, 799 Radiotelegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Radium, Effects on Chemical Reactions, 351 Rail-Drill, The Groff, 789
Rail-Motor. See Motor-CaniagQ
Rails, Steel, 822
Rails, Steel, Comparative Methods of Testing, 727. See 702
Rails, Tramway, Portable Cupola for Jointing, 810
Railroad, U^S.A., Ferro-Concrete Work, 39, 522 Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railways, Argentine, Development of, 58, 489, 619. See 654
Railway, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Ft^, Mallet Compound Locomotives, 275 ; Superheater Tests, 706
Railway, Australian Trans-Continental, 308
Railways, Austrian and Hungarian, ISO
Railway Breakdown Crane, 20 ? Ton Steam (Wilson). 642
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railways, British, Traffic on, 248
Railway, Buenos Aires and Pacific, 1500-Horse- Power High-Speed Engine for, 391
Railway, Caledonian, Bridge over Clyde, Glasgow, 443
Railways, Cambrian, Composite Corridor Brake Carriage, 274
Railway Carriages. See Carriages
Railway s, China, Bridge over Liao River, Manchuria, 71
Railway Companies, British, Working Agreements, 248
Railways, Egiplian State, Trevithick’s Locomotive Superheater, 389, 501; Feed-Water Heating, 501
Railway, Electric See also Electric
Railways, Electric Traction on, 768
Railways, Electrical Appliances for, St. Petersburg Exhibition, 587
Railway Ferry, Sassnitz-Trelleborg Service, 655
Raihvay, Grand Trunk Pacific, Steamers, 776 Railway, Great Northern, Ivatt’s Locomotive
Crank-Axle, S12
Railway, Illinois Central, Train Resistance Experiments, 710
Railwa\s, Japanese, 120 i
Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Foundries, 269,333 J
Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Results of i
Compounding and Superheating in Locomo- ' tives, 357, 367, 396, 431, 501. See LETTERS, 481 Railway, Lapland, Electrification of, 320 Railway Locomotive. See Locomotive ; Motor-
Car ; Hail; and under Electric Railway, London, Briehton, and South Coast •
Accident at Stoat’s Nest, 148, 452
Railway, London and North-Western, Compound Locomotives, 502
Railway, London and North-Western, Foundrv at Crewe Works 271
Railways, Manchurian, and Port Arthur, 152 Railway, Midland. Compound Locomotives, 504 Railway, Monorail, Brennan, 289 Railway, Monorail, Sehilowsky System, 577, 609 Railways, Natal, Eight-Coupled Locomotive for,
Railways, Natal, Working Costs on, 485 Railways, New South Wales, Annual Report, 518 Railway, North-Eastern, Three-Cylinder Shunting Locomotive, 66
Bailay, Northern of France, Locomotives with Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, Stumpf System, 761 Railways of Paris, Effects of Floods, 149 Railways, Prussian State, Locomotives with Mid
Cylinder Exhaust, Stumpf System, 761 Railwaj’s, Queensland, Hopper-Wagons for, 109
See 645 ?
Railways, Queensland, Report, 582 I
Railway Reconstruction, Panama Canal, 327 i
Railway Rolling-Stock for Heavy Gradients, 43 !
Rahway Rolling-Stock. See Carriages; Locomotives : Motor-Carriages; )ragons
Railway, Siberian, 184
Railway Situation, British, 218 Railway Sleepers, Steel and Ferro-Concrete, in
U.S,, 266
Railway, South-Eastern and Chatham, Dover
Pier-Head Station, 487 Railway, Street. See Tramwags Railways, Switchback, under Rivers, 509 Railway, Tientsin-Pukow, Locomotives, 479, 622 Railway Tracks in Foundries, 195 Railway Track-Shifting Machine, 239 Railway Train-Brake. See Lrake RaiAvay Trucks, Lidgerwood Unloader for, 239 Railway Trucks, Private, Use of, 284 Railway Tunnels under the Hudson River, 254 Railways, Underground, Traffic on, 249 I
Railway’s, United States; Development, 783 i Railways, Victorian ; Annual Report, 718 Railway, Wabash, U.S.A Use of Ferro-Concrete, 522
Railway Wheels, Movemen on Axles. 148, 452 I Rainfall, English and North African, Connection between, 778
Rainfall at Greenwich, 522 Rand Mines, Electric Power Supply of, 782 Rankine-Gordon and Euler’s Formula) for
Columns, 33. See Erratum, “ Rapid ” Cupolas, 406 Ratchet-Brace (Alexander Engineering Co.), 826 Rayleigh, Lord, on Colours of Sea and Sky. 289 •’’
Read, A. A., on Chemical and Mechanical Relation of Iron, Manganese, and Carbon, 605, 626 Recalescence Points of Chromium Steel, 624 Recalescence Points of Steeb, Methods of Obtaining, 570 ;
Recalescence Points of Tool-Steel, 625 Recorder for Flow of Steam, The “ Sarco,” 113 !
Recorder, Thread, for Pyrometer, 785, 800 Reduction Gear for Tui bines, Melville-McAlpine
(Westinghouse). 221. See also 149 Reduction Gear for Turbines, Parsons’. 379 409
See 149, 383 ’
“ Refrax ” Glass for Foundry Roofs, 334 i
Refrigerators, Specific Heat of Brine Solutions !
for, 441 I
Regenerator for Boiler Furnaces. 720 Reggio, Italy ; Destruction by Earthquake, 197 ‘
See LETTERS, 242. 277 Regulations, Home Office, for Electricity in
Factories, 289
Regulator-Valve, “ Servo,” for Locomotives 66 Reinforced Concrete. See Eerro-Concrete Relief-Valve (Bollinckx) for Steam ? Engine
Cylinder.-’, 142 ®
Rescue-Stations, Mine, United States, 656 Reservoirs, Storage and Decantation. 118 Resistance of .'hips. Distribution of Power, 462 See LETTERS, 481. 543
Resistance of Ships, Early Experiments, 363, 457 Resistance, Train, Illinois Central Railway Ex- !
periments, 710 Reversing-Gear for Marine Engines. Parsons’ 370 ; Thornycroft, 369 *
Revocation of Patents. See Patents ; Legal ,
Rheinland,” German Battleship, and Method ’ of Reducing Draught, 745
Richards, Edw’ard, The late, 113 t
Richter, Hans, The late, 547
Rieger and Ort’s Condenser Telephones, CE9 Rings, Chain, Design of, 565, 643 Ring Lubricator for Traction Engine, SI7 Ring-Spinning and Doubling-Frames, Cotton z06 ’
River Diversion Work, Panama Canal, 239 River Elbe Water, Salts in, 133. 164 Rivers, Navigable, of United States, 19 River Seine Floods, 149
Rivers. Sewage Effluent Contamination, 517 River Tyne, Reconstruction of North Pier, 78, 99 Road-Bridges. See Bridges Road Congress, Irish, 311
Road Locomotion. See Motor - Cars : Motor- Omnibuses; Motor-Wagons; Tractors
Road Locomotive. See Traction - Enqine • Tractor; Motor-Wagon
Road-Rollers, Royal Agricultural Show, 817 Road-Roller, Steam (Aveling and Porter, Ltd.), 514
Road-Roller, Steam (Fowler), 589
Road-Roller, Steam (Ruston, Proctor) 774 Road Traffic, Extraordinary. Liability for, /8b g°ob:s^T'^^“
RSlingdtf^^'enhauser Three-Phase nduction Rt^k^-ChTnnelling Machine, Panama Canal, 294 Roe’s Triplane, 339
Roller, Road. See 7?oad-J^oZJei Roller Steady Tool-Holders, 743 Rolling-Mills, Electric, Developments, 586, o96, Rolling-Mill Engines, Steam, Design and Economy of, 586, 591, 603 Pvlinder
Rolling-Mill^ Engine, Stumpf, Mid-Cx linder Rf^linff-MUls^ Ma<’-netic Clutch for, 187 Rolling-Stock. See also Carriages; Locomotives ;
Motor-Carriages ; Wagons 43
Rolling-Stock, Railwaj\ for Heavj G^^ts, 43 Roof, Gun-Tempering Shop. 232
Roof Principals for Foundry Buildings, 333 Roots’ Blowers for Cupolas, 801 Ropes, Wire, Flexibility of, 25 Ropeway, Aerial, for Colliery Refuse, 508 RoUrio. Argentina, Development of, 6o5 Rosenberg’s^Process of Electro-Plating, 152 Rosenhaiil Dr. W., Report on
Aluminium, and Manganese, 104,12.), 15/, 187, 223 236
Rotary Blowers for Cupolas, 801
Robarv Petrol-Engine (Lamplough), 309 Rotary Petrol-Engine (Phoenix), 341 Rotary Pressure-Blower, Municipal and Health R^^^AgrTcultural Society. See Agricultural Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, Report, 517
Koyal IiiMitiition:
Light Reactions at Low Temperatures, by
Sir James Dewar, 116
Electrical and other Properties of Sand, b> C. E. S. Phillips, 214 ..
Electric Waves and the Electro^Iagnetic Theory of Light, by Sir J. J. Thomson, 215,250,287,320,351, 38/
Colours of the Sea and Sky, by Lord Rayleigh, OQQ
Magnetic Storms, by Dr. C. Chree, 319. See
Ionisation of Gases and Chemical Change, bv H. Brereton Baker, 350
Chemical Significance of Crystal Structure, by W. Pope, 517 ,
Telegraphy of Photographs Wireless and bv Wire, by T. Thorne Baker, 55L
Modern Development of the
Alcoholic Fermentation, by Dr. Aithui Harden, 682
Earth Tides, by Dr. E. H. Love, 750
Electric Heating and Pyrometry, by Pro- feesor J. A. Fleming, 751, /84 , .
Royal Meteorological Society.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Motoi- RO^VTI Natw.’ ^See Navy ; Naval;
Royal Society ; Bakerian Lecture on the Recoil from Light, 419 « n*?
Rubber, Artificial Preparation of, 617 Rubber for Electrical Work, Jesting, 183 Rudder Action in Sleermg Ships, 468,, Rudder, Dale’s, for S.S. Paulina, 242, 381,
Rudder for Japanese Steamer, 144. See LETTERS, Rudder^Pintles, Lubrication of, 242, 381, 424 Ruling-Machine, Printing Exhibitmn, 687 Russia, Exhibition of Electrical Railway Appliances, 587 .
Russian Battleships, Design, 65- Russian Volunteer Steamer Orel, 313 Russian Warships (lorges et Chantiers), COS
Safety Appliances for Machinery, Treatise on, 202 . , Salisbury Sewage Disposal, c64 Salt, Absorption by Steel, 066 Salts in River Elbe Mater, 133, 164 Sand, Electrical and other Properties of, 214 Sand Filters for Potable M ater, Action of, 117, 132,164. See 185 * co-
Saniter E. H., Award of Bessemer Medal to, 58o Sankey: Captain H. Riall, on Methods of Testing SanVey’s'^^Repeated - Bending Testing - Machine, 703 7*^8
“ Sant’"Anna,” French Liner (Forges ct Chan- “ Paulo,” Brazilian Battleship, Triah, 722 “ Sarco” Recorder for Flow of Si^m. 113 Sassnitz-Trelleborti Steam Ferry, Traffic on, e.)5 Saw?. See Machine-Tools
Scale Boiler, Transmission of Heat through, 6o5 Schemes in Parliament. See ]*arliamen^ary
Sea-Water Corrosion Tests of Copper-Aluminiura- Manganese Alloys, 105, 187, 226, 227, 237 Seamen, Compensation for Accidents, 218. See 129
Sehmer, E. G., on Design of Rolling-Mill Engines, 586, 591, 603
Seine Valley Floods, 149
Seismic Zone in Italy, 197. See LETTERS, 242, 277 Selenium Cells for Electrical Transmission of Pictures, 551
Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Jlfofor-Cars; Motor' Wagons; Tractors; Traction Engines
“ Servo ” Regulator-Valve for Locomotives, 56 Sewage, Chemical Treatment of, 598 ; Cost of, 672 Sewage Disposal, Report of Co nmission, 517 Sewage Disposal, Salisbury and Birmingham, 364
Sewage Disposal Works. Glasgow, 533, 567, 597, 671. See Erratum, 621
Sewage Effluent, Weirs for Gauging Flow, 602 Sewage, Estimation of Strength, 617 Sewage Filters. Capacity of, 517
Sewage Pumping-Station, Glasgow, 567. See Erratxim, 621
Sewage Purification Works, Glasgow, 597 Sewer Construction, Glasgow Drainage, 535 Sewers, Ventilation of, 365
Sewing-Machines for Boots and Shoes, 13, 14 Seyne Shipbuilding Yard (Forges et Chantiers), 499, 607
Shaft-Horse-Power Measurement, 411, 429
Shafts, Propeller, Relation between Twist and Torque, 411, 429
Shafting, Bending and Twisting Stresses, 11
Shallow-Draught Gunboat, Portuguese (Yarrow), , 474 I
Shallow-Draught Steamer for China, 51 ,
Shaping-Machines. See Machine-Tools Shearing-Machines. See Machine-Tools Shed, Airship, at Vickers’ Works, Barrow, 208 Sheet-Metal, Hand Punch for, 312 Sheffield Water Supply, 173 Shepherd’s Bush, Japan-British Exhibition, 654
Sherardising,” Zinc Galvanising Process, 719
Shieldhall Sewage Purification Works, Glasgow, 597
“Shieldhall, ’ Sludge Steamer, Glasgow Drainage, 671
Ships, Action of Rudder in Steering, 463 ,
Ships, British Merchant, Number and Tonnage, ! 184
Ship Canal, Forth and Clyde, 116
Ship Canal, Georgian Bay, Canada, 637
Ship Canal, Panama, 171, 238, 292, 325
Ships’ Cargoes, Apparatus for Weighing, 460. See 377
Ship Construction in United Kingdom, 18, 86, 456 749
Ships,’ Jet-Propellers for, Efficiency, 374, 394
Ship Models, Early Experiments. 363, 457
Ship Model Experimental Tank, Mitsu - Bishi Works, 659
Ship Model Experimental Tank at National Physical Laboratory, 344, 354. See 383
Ship Model Experiments, Wake and Thrust Deduction Values, 374, 392
Ship Models. Japan-British Exhibition, 654
Ship Propulsion, Electrical-Transmission Gear, 407. See 484, 579
Ship Propulsion. See also Engines, Marine, Gas, Oil, Petrol
Ship Propulsion, Speed-Reduction Gears for Turbines, 149, 379, 409. See 185, 221, 383
Ship Propulsion, Theory of, 374, 394
Ship Resistance, Distribution of Power, 462. See LETTERS, 481, 543
Ship Resistance and Stability, Early Experiments, 363, 457
Ship Resistance, Wake and Thrust Deduction Values. 374, 392. See 383
Ship's Rudders, 144, 242, 381, 424, 468
Ships, Sailing, Auxiliary Power for, 406,426, 449. See 383
Ship Scantlings, Lloyd’s Rules, 108; Bureau Veritas, 343
Ships. See also Shipping; Steamers; Ifar- ships
Ships, Use of Electricity on, 484, 543, 579 Ship Windlasses, Formula for Dimensions, 109 Shipbuilding, Lloyd’s Return, 18, 86, 456, 749 Shipbuilding, Naval, Programmes, 247 Shipbuilding, Problems in, 383 Shipbuilding, Census of British Production, 75, 81
Shipbuilding Rules, Bureau Veritas, 343 ; Lloyd’s, 108
Shipbuilding. See also Warships; Naval Architects
Shipbuilding Trade, Possibility of Increasing Wages, 749
Shipbuilding Trade of the United Kingdom, 18, 86, 456, 749
Shipbuilding Works (Forges et Chantiers), 499, 607
Shipbuilding Works, Mitsu-Bishi, 658. See 811 Shipping Register, Lloyd’s, IOS ; Bureau Veritas, 343
Shoe-Making Machinery, 13, 44
Short Aeroplanes at Olympia, 340, 342
“ Shutung.” Shallow-Draught Steamer for
China, 51,
Siberian Railway, 184
Siemens’ Electric Arc Furnace, 762
Siemens and Halske Photographic Telegraph System, 805
Siemens-Martin Furnaces, Blast-Furnace and Coke-Oven Gas for, 821
Siemens-Martin Furnaces ; Improvements, 822 Siemens-Martin Process, Inventors of, 687, 724 Siemens-Martin Steel Process in Germany, 821 Silica Standards of Length, 439
Silicon in Aluminium, Determination of, 84 Silicon, See also Eerro-Silicon
“ Simplon ” Combination Drafting-Machine, 77 Simpson, John Harwood, The late, 674 Simpson’s Water-Purification Plant, Chelsea, 117 Singapore Dock and Harbour Works, 217 Sirocco Fans for Cupolas, 737 Skin Friction of Discs in Water, 587 Sky and Sea, Colour of the, 289 Slag, Blast-Furnace, I^Iicroscopical Estimation of, 821
Sleeperg, Railway, Steel and Ferro-Concrete, 263 Sleigh-Tractor, Motor, for Antarctic Expedition, 421. See LETTERS, 445, 503
Slotting-Machines. See Machine-Tools Slubbing-Frame for Cotton, 706 Sludge-Steamer “ ShieldhailGlasgow Sew'age, 671
Smithers, W. F., The late, 245
Smith’s Sphingometer, Accuracy of, 185, 207 Smoke Prevention ; Use of Liquid Fuel, 542 Society of Engineers, Regulations, 288
Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture, 354, 362
Society, Royal Agricultural. See Agricultural Society. See also Institution
Soda Decomposition in Boilers, 322
Soda Manufacture by Ammonia-Soda Process, 184
Sodium, Decomposition of Pure Wa^.er by, 351, 685
Sodium Vapour, Anomalous Dispersion of Light by, 351
Softener, Water. See Water-Softener Solar Furnaces, Experimental, 520 Solutions, Visibility of Molecules, 453. See 455 Sound, Dynamical Theory of, 469 South Africa, Coal Production, 675 South Africa. See also Capz Colony; Natal;
Orange lUoer Colony; Rhodesia; Transvaal
SouthAfrican T.-S.S. “ Balmoral Castle,” 449,478, 546
South African Mines, Electric Power, 782 South African Steel Trade Possibilities 687 South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Pierhead Station at Dover, 487
South Polar Expedition, Scott’s Motor-Sleigh for, 421. See LETTERS, 445, 509
South West, Notes from the, 23, 47, 79, 113, 145, 177, 211, 245, 281, 315, 347, 390, 415, 448, 477, 513,647, 575, 613, 647, 679, 715, 747, 779, 813
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 22, 47, 74,112, 145, 176, 211, 244, 281, 315, 347, 415, 448, 476, 513, 547, 576, 613, 647, 679, 715, 747, 779, 813
Spark-Arresters for Cupolas, 466, 639, 810 Spark Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Specific Heat of Brine Solutions, 441
Specific Heats of Ice-Water and Steam, 584 Specific Heats of Saturated Liquids and Vapours, 222
Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, 336
Speed Reduction Gears (Parsons) for Marine Turbines, 149, 379, 409. See 385, 221, 383
Speed Reduction Gear for Turbines, The Mel- ville-McAlpine (Westinghouse), 221. See 149
Spelter, Hopkins’ Process, Use of Carbonaceous
Filters, 86
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams} Spelter. See also Zinc
Sphingometer, Smith’s, Accuracy of, 185, 207 Spinning Machinery for Cotton, 706 Spontaneous Combustion of Cotton Waste, 439 Stability of Floating Bodies, Beaufoy’s Experiments, 363. See 457
Standard of Length, Silica, 439 Standardisation, Electrical, International, 787 Star Motor for Aeroplanes, 342
Starter, Gas-Engine, Compressed-Air (Campbell), 674
Stassano Electric Steel Furnace, 752
Stations, Electric Power. See under Electric^
B.ydrO'Electric ; Poioer Steamboats. See Steamers Steam Boilers. See Boilers Steam Consumption of 1500-H.-P. High-Speed
Engine, 391
Steam Consumption of Marine Auxiliary Machinery, 620
Steam Consumption of Marine Engines, Fottin- ger’s Tanks for Measuring, 677
Steam Consumption, Parsons and Curtis Marine Turbines, 537
Steam Consumption, Rolling-Mill Engines, 586, 591,693
Steam Consumption. See Steam Trials; Turbines; Tests; Diagrams in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Steam Consumption, Stumpf Engine, 761, 809 Steam Consumption of Turbines, 17
Steam Consumption of Zoelly Turbines, 218 Steam-Cranes. See Cranes
Steam-Engines. See Engines
Steam, Exhaust, Utilisation for Electric-Power
Production, 686, 596, 603 Steam-Hoist for Charging Cupolas, 606 Steam Jet-Blower for Cupola, 467 Steam-Lorries. See Motor-Wagons; Tractors;
traction
Steam Navvy (Ruston. Proctor), 774 Steam-Pumps. See Pumps and Pumping Steam-Recorder, The “Sarco,” 113 Steam-Roller. See Road-Roller Steam-Shovels, Panama Canal, 238 Steam, Specific Heat of, 584
Steam, Superheated, Consumption in Marine
Engines, 253; in Locomotives. See Locoinotives Steam, Superheated, Portable and Traction-
Engines, 818 Steam-Superheaters. See Superheaters Steam, Superheated, Specific Heat of, 386 Steam, Superheated, Valve Friction in, 387 Steam Trials. SQQ Trials; Warships Steam-Turbines. See Turbines Steam-Valve. See Valve Steam-Whistles, Automatic Drain for, 243 Steam-Yacht with Oil-Fired Boiler, 76 Steamers Auxiliary Machinery, Water Consumption of, 620
Steamer “Balmoral Castle,” Union-Castle, 449, 478, 546
Steamers, British Merchant, Number and Tonnage, 184
Steamers’ Cargoes, Apparatus for Weighing, 460 See 377
Steamers under Construction, Lloyd’s Returns, 456, See also 18, 86, 749
Steamers, Dimensions of Windlasses and Steering Engines, 109
Steamers, Japanese, Using Oil Fuel, 109 Steamers, Kermode’s Oil Fuel System, 510 Steamers Launched in 1893-1909, 86
Steamers for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 142, 210.
See LETTERS, 242, 381, 424
Steamer “Orel,” Russian Volunteer Fleet, 313 Steamers, Power f yr Propulsion, 462. See LETTERS, 481, 543
Steamers “ Prince Rupert” and “Prince George,” Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 776
Steamers “ Prinses Juliana,” “ Oranje Nassau,” and “ Mecklenburg,” for Queenborough-Flushing Route, 40
Steamer Repairs by Electric and Autogenous Welding, 285, 311
Steamer “ Sant ’Anna,” Forges et Chantiers, 603 Steamers' Scantlings, Lloyd’s Rules, 108 ; Bureau Veritas, 343
Steamers. See also Warships; Shipping Steamer, Shallow-Draught, for China, 51 Steamer, Sludge, “Shieldhall,” Glasgow Sewage, 671
Steamers, Stern-Wheel, for Nigeria, 278 Steamers’ Trials, Kbit nger’s Feed-Water Measuring Tanks, 677
Steamers, Turbine, Electrical Power Transmission, 407. See 481, 579
Steamers, Turbine, Erosion of Propellers, 54. See 74
Steamers, Turbine, Measurement of Shaft Horse- Power, 411, 429
Steamers, Turbine. See also Turbine Steamers, Turbine, Speed-Reduction 149, 379, 409. See 185, 221, 383
Steamers, Use of Electricity on, 579
Steamer ‘‘ Vespasian,” with Geared 379, 409. See 149, 383 Steel, Absorption of Salt, 606 Steel Alloys. See Alloys Steel, Case-Hardening, Investigations on, 791 Steel, Changes in Micro-Structure of, 701 Steel, Chemical Analyses of, 727 Steel, Chromium, Heating and Cooling Curves, 624
Steel, Chromium, Magnetic Changes During Heating, 794
Steels, Chromium, Physical Properties, 605, 624
Steel, Chromium, The A 2 Point, 605, 794
Steel, Combinations of Manganese and Carbon, 605, 626
Steel Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Steel, Effects of Strain and High Temperature, 438
Steel, Elasticity of, Heat Treatment Effect, 106
Steel Foundry, British Westinghouse Works, 132; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Works, 269, 333: Vickers’ Works, Borrow, 272
Steel Furnace, Electric, Hdroult, 604, 752. See 822
Steel Furnace, Electric, Girod, 592, 604, 752 Steel Furnaces. See also Siemens-Martin Steel, Hard, Tests under Combined Stress, 661 Steel Industry in South Africa, 687 Steel Industry, Swedish, 655
Steel and Iron Industry, German, Dusseldorf International Congress, 820
Steel and Iron. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel Manufacture, Converter Process in Germany, 821
Steel Manufacture, Inventors of Siemens-Martin Process, 687. See Addendum^ 721
Steel-Melting Furnaces, Electric, 592, 604, 752, 822
Steel, Micro-Structure of. See also Micro-Photo- graiih in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Steel, Notched Bar Tests of, 815 Steel Rails, 822
Steel Railway Sleepers in the U.S., 266 Ste j. Rolled Sections, Shearing-Machine. 678 Steel, Sankey’s Repeated - Bending Testing- Machine for, 703, 728
Steel. See also Alloys; Iron; Micro Photograpths in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Steel, Siemens-Martin, Manufacture in Germany, 821
Steel Structures, Treatise on, 273
Steel, Temperature of Separation of Constituents, 701
Steel Tests under Alternating Stress, 107, 386, 816
Steel Tests, Tensile, Impact-Tensile and Repeated- Bending, 702, 727
Steel-Testing, Examination of Fractures, 438 Steel, Tool, Carbon and High-Speed, Cutting Properties, 605, 691
Steels, Tool, Carbon and Tungsten, Hardening of, 506, 524, 559, 700. See LETTER, 542
Steels, Tool, Effect of Heat Treatment on Durability, 695
Steel, Tool, Heating and Cooling Curves, 525, 701 Steel, Tool, Manufacture by Electric Furnace, 753. See 592, 604, 752
Steel Tubes, Combined Stress Experiments, 10, 11, 43, 121 Steels, Vanadium, Cutting Properties, 605, 691 Steel Works, Electric Power, 586, 596, 603. See 711
Steel-Work. See Bridges; Roofs; Columns; Floors
Steel Works. See Works
Steering Engines, Formula for Dimensions, 109 Stern-Frame for Japanese Steamer, 144
! Stern-Wheel Steamers for Nigeria, 278
Still for Indigo, Explosion of, 241 Stoat’s Nest Railway Accident, 148, 452 Stocks Well Pumping Plant, Widnes, 257 Stokers, Underfeed, Brussels Exhibition, 720 Stop-Valve, Steam, Metallic Packing, 825 Storey, Isaac, and Sons, Limited; Brass Foundry, 132
St. Petersburg Electrical Railway Appliances Exhibition, 687
Straits Settlements, Harbour Work?, 217 Stream-Lines and Stress-Lines, £03, 424, 509,543, 609
Strength of Columns. See Columns
Stress, Alteinating. See Alternating Stress Stress, Combined. See Combined Stress Stress-Lines and Stream-Lines, 303, 424, 509, 543, 609
Strikesand Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes Stromness, Motor Life-Boat for, 414
Stronsay, Motor Life«Boat for, 414
Structural Iron and Steel-Work, 273
Structure of Metal. Micro-Photographs n LLUS- TRATiON INDEX
Struts, Strength of. See Columns
Stumpf Steam-Engines with Mid-Cylinder Ex- haust, 758. See LETTERS, 776, 809
Sturtevant Fans, Brussels Exhibition, 720 Sturtevant Fans for Cupolas, 734
Submarine-Boats. See Warships Submarine Telegraphic Enterprise, 422, 775 Submersible Boat. See Warships
Suction-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas Suction-Gas Producer. See Producer, Gas Sudan, Climate of, 355. See 778
Sugar-Cane Refuse, Boiler-Furnaces Using, 197 Sugar, Fermentation of, 682
Sulphur, Effect in Case-Hardening Steel, 792 Sunderland, Queen Alexandra Bridge, 443 Sun’s Heat, Utilisation for Experiments, 520 Superheated Steam Consumption in Marine
Engines, 253
Superheated Steam, Specific Heat of, 366 Superheated-Steam ; Traction-Engines, 818 Superheated Steam, Valve Friction in, 387 Superheaters, Locomotive, Tests on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 Railway, 706
Superheater, Locomotive, Trevithick’s ; Egyptian State Railways, 369, 501
Superheater of Parker Water-Tube Boiler, 139 Superheating in L. and Y. Locomotives, 367, 431, 501
Superheating, Low, in Locomotives, Economy of, 368, 501. See 706
Surface-Condensers. See l^umps; Condensers Surveying, Photographic, from Balloons, 116 Swath-Turner, Nicholson’s, 819
Sweden, Bullerfors Hydro-Electric Station, 755 Sweden and Germany, Ferry Traffic between, 655
Swedish Iron Markets, 176
Swedish Iron and Steel Industry, 655
“ Swift.” H.M. Torpedo-Boit Destroyer, 290 Swing-Bridge. See Bridge
Swinton, A. A. Campbell, on Parsons’ Early Model Aeroplane, 120. See LETTER, 141
Switchback Railways under Rivers, 609 Switchboards and Gear. See Electric Sydney Harbour, Proposed Bridge over, 423 Syndicate of German Machine-Makers, 458 Syrens, Steam, Automatic Drain for, 243
Tancred, Sir T. S., The late, 490
Tanjong Pagar Docks, Singapore, 217
Tank, Experimental, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 659
Tank, Experimental, National Physical Laboratory, 344, 354. See 383
Tanks, Feed-Water Measuring, Fdttinger’s, 677 Tar-Burners, Kermode System, 510
Taximeters, Tests of, 439
Taylor’s and Froude’s Screw-Propeller Experiments, Comparison, 374, 492
Teaching. See Education
Technical Education. See Education
“ Telectrograph ” Apparatus for Electrical Transmission of
Telegraphy.
Telegraphy,
Elects ic
Telephones.
Telescopes, Frictional Focussing Gear for, 644 Temperature Measurement. See Pyrometers Tempering of Carbon and Tungsten Tool-Steels, 560. See 691
Tenders of Locomotives. See Locomo'ives
Tensile and Impact Tensile Tests of Steel, 702, 727
Tensile Tests of Carbon and Tungsten Tool- Steels, 560
Tensile Tests of Chromium Steels, 624
Tensile Tests, High Temperature, of Copper- Aluminiuni-Manganese Alloys, 160, 236
Ternary Alloys for Bearings, 828
Ternary Alloys of Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese, 104, 125, 167, 187, 223, 236
Terrestrial Magnetism, Disturbances in 319, 444
Tests, Commercial, of Constructional Material, 815
Test Pieces, Tool-Steel, Design of, 560
Tests. See also Trials; Bteam Trials; Tur> bines; BeichsanstaH ; National Physical Laboratory; Diagrams in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Testing Boilers, Northampton Institute, 699,765, 798
Testing-Machine; Charpy Impact, 78
Testing-Machine for Cutting Properties of Tool- Steel, 605, 691
Testing-Machine, Impact, for Notched Bars, 572
Testing-Machine, Impact Tensile, 728
Testing-Machine, Sankey’s Repeated-Bendincr, 703,728
Testing Materials, International Association for, Rules for Sale of Pig-Iron, 217
Textile Industry, British, Development of, 515 Textile Machinery at Brussels Exhibition, 703 Textile Machinery, Japan-British Exhibition. 654
Textile Mills, Steam Turbines for Driving, 120 Thermo-Couples, Electre motive Force of. 570. 785
Thermometer, Hydrogen. Constant Volume, 784 Thermometer. See a’so Pyrometer Thermo-Recorders, Fournier’s, 447
“ Th(frol,” Electric Water-Heater, 753
Thomson, Sir J. J., on Electric Waves and Electro-Magnetic Theory of Light, 215, 250, 287, 321, 351, 387. See Erratum, 343
Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin), Life of, 666 Thornycroft Paraffin Marine-Engine and Reversing Gear, 369
Thrashing-Machine (Ruston, Proctor), 774 Threads, Pipe, British Standard, Tests of, 439 Ihread-Recorder for Pyrometers, 785, 800 Three-Phase. See Electric
Thrust-Deduction Values, Experimental Investigations on, 374, 392. See 3t3
Thrust of Model Screw-Propellers, Experiments 374, 492
“Thunderer,” H.M. Battleship, Breaking up
Th Waites Brothers, Iron Foundry by, 270
Tides, Earth, T50 ‘
Railway Locomotives 479 0'2 ’
Timar-prearer Arc-Lamp, 217
Timbering Trench, Collapse at Newport, 43 Time Service, Electrical, 252
Till Alloys for Bearings. 827. 828. 829 Tin-Plate Prices. See Diagrams
Titan Crane. See Cra^ie
Memoiial to Professor West,
Tools, Cutting, of Bronze, 104, 236, 237 Turret-Lathe, 742
Tool-Holders, Roller Steady, 743 Tools. Machine. See Machine-Tools Tool • Steel, Carbon and High-Speed, Cutting Properties, 605, 691
Tungsten, Hardening of, LETTER, 542
Tool Steels, Effect of Heat Treatment on Duia- bility, 695
Heating and Ccoling Curves, 525,
Manufacture by Electric Furnace,
Tool-Steel, Recalesqence Points. 525
Torpedo Attack in Naval Warfare, 353, 359 Torpedoes, Gun Cotton Charges for, 123 Torpedo. See also lFa? oAips
Propeller Shafts, Measurement, 411,
Torsion and Bending Stresses in Shafting 11 Torsion and Bending Tests of Briitle Materials, 6ol ’
^^ItloysVi^S^ ^oPPor-AIuminium-Manganese
Torsion Tests with Varying Stress, 207 Torsion Tests, Wohler, 207 Torsionmeter, The Hopkinson-Thring, 411 429 Towler, Alfred, on Steam-Driven Pumping Plant
for Deep WelU and Bore-Holes 256 ®
Track, Railway, Machine for Shifting, 239 Traction, Electric. See Tratmvays and Hailways under Electric
Traction Engine (J. and H. McLaren) 720
Traction Engine, Oil, Marshall’s, 566 ’
Royal Agricultural Show,
Traction Engines, Steam (Fowler), 589 514^°^ Porter),
Tractor, Marshall’s Military, Trials. 216 Tractor, Motor, for SJeighs, Antarctic Expedition, 421, 445, e09
Tractors, Oil, Royal Agricultural Show. 818 Tractor. See also Traction Engine of Labour Legislation on, 283 Trade unions and Labour Exchanges, 147 Trade Unions. See Indit trial Eotes; Legal Trading, Municipal See
Traffic, Road, Liability for Extraordinary, 786 ™T14 Hoad Transport (Aveling and Porter), Training. See
^'’^“V.Hesistance Expeiiments, Illinois Central Railway, 710
Trains. See Locomotives; Railways; Car-
Tramway Cars, Brush Truck for, 491
Rails, Portable Cupola for Jointing, 810
Tramways. See also Electric ; Traction Trans-ContinentsA Railway, Australian, 306 Transmission Dynamometer, Jakeman’s, 386 Transmission Gears for Turbine Steamers 149 379, 409. See 185, 221, 383
Transmission of Power, Chains for, 521 Transport Facilities, Great Britain, 515 Tran^sport, Progress during King Edward’s Reign, Transvaal Electric-Power Supply, 782 Transvaal Steel Industry, Possibilities, 687 Trelleborg-Sassnitz Steam Ferry Traffic 655 Trench Timbering, Collapse at Newport, 43 Trevithick’s Locomotive Superheater, Egyptian State Railways, 369, 501; Feed-Water Heater. 601
Boiler, Recording Instruments for, 700, /vu^ /Ho
Trials of Brazilian Battleship “ Minas Geraea ” 65 Sao Paulo,” 722 ’
^819^ German Cruiser “Von der Tann,” Trials of 1500-H..P. High-Speed Engine, 391 Trials of H.M. Cruiser “ Liverpool.” 788 Trials of H.M. Cruiser “Glasgow,” 074 Trials of Japanese Steamer, 210
Trials, Marine Engine, Fottinger’s Apparatus for Measuring Feed-Water, 677
Trials of Marshall’s Alilitary Tractor, 216 Trials. See also Wa?ships; Guns; Tests Trials of U.Sl Warships with Turbines Reciprocating Engines, 537
Trials of S.S. “Vespasian” with Geared bines and Reciprocating Engines, 379, See 383
Trials of Zoelly Steam-Turbines. 218 Tiiangular Notches, Flow of Water over 473. See Erratum, 514 ’
Triplane. See Aeroplane Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Truck, Brush, for Tramway Cars, 491 Trucks, Railway, Private, Use of, 284 Trucks. See also Carriages and Wagons Trusses. See Bridges; Roofs Trusts, Iron-Ore, Projected, 263 Tubes, Brass, for Lf comotive Boilers, Corrosion of, 85, 96 See 121. 277
Tube Railways, Traffic on, 249 Tube Railways under Rivers, 509 Tubes. See also Pipes
Tubes. Steel, Combined Stress Experiments, 10, 11, 43, 121
Tug, Chain Haulage, for Canal, 427
Tungsten Steels. Cutting Properties. 606, 691 Tungsten Steel, Hardening of, 506, 524, 559, 700. See LETTER, 542
Tunnels under the Hudson River, 264
River, Railway, Switchback Principle, buy
Tunnel under Sydney Harbour, Proposed, 423
Turbine Destroyers. See H.M. Destroyers under Warships
Turbine-Driven Propellers, Geometry or, 330 ; Parsons’Allov for, 54. See 74
Turbines. Geared, for U.S. Cruiser “Baltimore” (West’nghouse), 221
Turbines, Hydraulic, Impulse, Pitot Tube Tests
of, 34, 59, 91
Turbines, Hydraulic, at McCall Ferry Power Plant, 3
Turbine-Shops, Forges et Chantiers Works, 500 Turbine-Shops, Mitsu-Bishi Works, 659
Turbine, Steam, A.E.G., Velocity Compounded, 639 .
Turbines, Steam Consumption of Impulse ana Reaction Types. 17
Turbines, Steam. Efficiency of Nozzles, 552 Turbines, Steam, Energy Losses in Buckets, 552 Turb ne, Steam, Future Development of, 17 Turbines, Steam, H.M. Cruiser “Glasgow,” Trials, 674
Turbines, Steam, H.M. Cruiser “Liverpool,”
Tr als, 788
Turbine, Steam, 300 Horse - Power Impulse (Cooper and Greig). 712
Turl)ines, Steam, Melville-McAlpine Speed-Reduction Gear (Westinghouse), 221. See also 149
Turbines, Steam, Mixed Pressure, for Electric- Power Production, 586, 596, 603
Turbines, Steam, for New British Battleships, 452
Turbines, Steam, Parsons’, at Japan-British Exhibition, 654
Turbines, Steam. Speed Reduction Gears for, 149. 379, 409. See 185, 221, 383
Turbines, Steam, for Textile Mills, 120
Turbines, Steam, Treatise on, 38
Turbines, Steam, in United States Warships, Comparison of Results, 537
Turbines, Steam, Westinghouse Flexible Blading
, for, 221
Turbines, Steam, Zoelly, Steam Consumption, 218 . . z.
• Turbine Steamers, Electrical Transmission Gear, 407. See 484, 679
Turbine Steamers, Measurement of Shaft Horse- Power. 411, 429
Turbine Steamer “ Vespasian,” with Mechanical Gearing, 379, 409. See 383, 149
Turbine, Water. See also Dydro • Electric, , Hydraulic and Water
Turbo-Generator, Parsons’ Continuous-Current Armature for, 523
• “ Turn-Over” Water-Filter, 743
Turning-Gear, Copenhagen, Swing Bridge, 773 Turning-Machine. See Machine-Tools, Lathes Turpentine, Preparation of Rubber from, 617 Turret-Lathes. See Machine-Too^s Tuyeres for Cupolas. See Foundry Plant and Machinery in ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Tyne North Pier Reconstruction, 78, 99 Type-Casting Machines, Printing Exhibition, 687 Typewriting Telegraph Systems, 805
Ugine, France, Electric Steel Works at, 594. See 752
Ultra-Violet Light; Effect on Chemical Reactions at Low Temperatures, 117
Ultra-Violet Light Photographs of the Moon, 289
Underfeed Stokers ; Brussels Exhibition, 720 Underground Railways, London ; Traffic, 249 Underground Railway. See also Tunnels; Railways; Tube
Unemployment, Effect of Labour Exchanges on, 147. See LETTER, 277
Unemployment, Effects of Labour Legislation on, 283
Union-Castle Liner “ Balmoral Castle,” 449, 478, 546
Unions, Trades. See Trade Unions; Industrial Notes; Legal
United Kingdom. See British
United States Canals and Waterways, 19
United States Cruiser “Baltimore,” Westinghouse Geared Turbines for. 221
United States Mine Rescue-SUtions, 656
United States, Notes from, 16. 54, 88, 109, 140, 208, 280, 312, 3R5, 389, 422, 449, 479, 522, 555, 577, 612, 644, 676, 714, 756, 775, 810
United States Railways ; Development, 783 United States. See also Ameidca
United States ; Use of Steel and Ferro-Concrete Railway Sleepers, 266
United States Warships ; Trials of Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, 537
University, Glasgow ; Hydraulic Experiments, 435, 473. See Erratum, 514
University. See College
Unloader for Rail way-Trucks, Lidgerwood, 239
V Notches, Flow of Water over, 435, 473. See Erratwm, 514
Vacuum Brake-Ejector, Brooke’s, 576
Vacuum Chamber for Disinfection of Railway Carriages, 620
Vacuum Cleaner and Disinfector, Carey s Por-
Valves’of Aeroplane Engines, 733. See ^lero-
Valve, Automatic Drain, for Steam-Whistles, 243
Valves and Boiler Mountings, Hopkinson’s, 720 Valve, Boll iickx Cylinder Relief, for Steam- Engines, 142
Valve,Draining,for Precipitation Tanks, Melvin s,
Valve Friction, with Superheated Steam, 387 Valve-Gear of Blast-Furnace Gas-Engine, 545 Valve-Gear, Davey’s Differential, for Pumping- Engines, 257
Valve-Gear for Rolling-Mill Engines, 691 Valve-Gear, Stumpf Steam-Engines, 760, 762 Valves, Hydraulic, Copenhagen Swing-Bridge, 742, 770 ; Electrical Control-Gear, 772
Valve-Leakage, Locomotive, Effect of Low Superheat, 368, 601
Valves, Locomotive, Superheated Steam, Lubrication. 367, 432 .
Valve, Piston, Locomotive, for Reducing Compression, 397
Valves, Steam Stop, Metallic Packing, 825
Valves and A'alve-Gear. See also Engines; Locomotives; Regulators; Aeroplanes; Motor- Car
Vanadium Steels, Cutting Properties, 605. 691
Vandalia Railroad, U.S.A , Use of Ferro-Concrete on, 39
“Vanguard,” H.M. Battleship, 209
Vaponsers for Oil-Engines, 6
Vapours, Specific Hea*s of, 222
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Mo^or-Cars; Motor- Wagons \ Motor-Omnibuses; Motor-Carriages; Tractors; Traction
Ventilating Plants, Brussels Exhibition, 7?0
“ Vespasian,” Turbine-Steamer with Mechanical Gearing, 379, 409. See 149, 383
Vessels. See Shi2)8; St earners; Warthips Viaducts. See Bridges
Vickers’ Airship Shed, Barrow, 208
Vickers’ Foundries at Barrow Works, 272
Victoria, Damage to Land bj^ Mining in, 21 Victoria Falls Power Supply Scheme, 782
Victorian Railways, Annual Report, 718 “Voltaire,” French Battleship, 607 “Von der Tann,” German Cruiser,Trials, 819
Vornpor Breakwater, Jutland, 667
Vyrnwy Water Supply (Liverpool), 456
Wabash Railway, U.S.A., Ferro-Concrete, 522 Wagons, Hopper, Queensland Railways, 109, 645
Wagons, Railway, Use of Private, 284
Wagons, Steam. See Motor-Wagons; Tractors;
Traction
Wagon for Traction Engine, 514
Wake, Experimental Investigations on Steamers, 374, 392. See 383
Wakefield’s Mechanical Lubricator, 677 Walker, James, The late, 88
Warships:
Battleships, Future Design of, 353, 359. See 451
Brazilian Battleship “Minas Geraes,” 65 Brazilian Battleship “ Sao Paulo,” Trials, 722
“ Dreadnought ” Battleships, Time Taken to Build, 210
Forth and Clyde Ship-Canal, Strategic , Value 115 '
French Battleship “ Voltaire,” 607
French Naval Construction, Projected, 252, 288
German Battleships, “ Nassau ” Class, 745
German Battleship “ Rheinland,” and Method of Reducing Draught, 746
German Cruiser “ Von der Tann,” Steam Trials,” 819
Guns and Armour, Future Arrangements of, 353, 359. See 451, 665
Guns, Krupp, Life and Power of, 486
Gunboat, Portuguese Shallow Draught (Yarrow), 474
Gunpowder, Nitro Cellulose, Stability of, 649 H.M. Battleship “ Colossus,” 476. See 451 H.M. Batrlohips, Design of, 451. See 359 H.M. Battleships, Gun Power, 452, 665 H.M. Battleship “Hercules,” Launch and Launching-Ways, 610
H.M. Battleship “ Vanguard,”209
H.M. Cruiser “Glasgow,” Steam Trials, 674
H.M. Cruiser “Liverpool,” Steam Trials, 788
H.M. Destroyers, Orders for, 755
H.M. Destroyer “Swift,” 290
H M. Destroyers, 422
H.M. Ships under Construction, 18
H.M.S. “Thunderer,” Breaking up of, 208 Naval Annual, Brassej^’s, 665 Naval Constructors, 581 Naval Engineers, 388
Naval Engineers’Training, 781
Navy Estimates, 317, 349. See 422
Na\’y Shipbuilding Programmes, British and Foreign, 247, 665
, Naval Policy. See Naval; Navy; Admiralty Naval Warfare, Conditions of, 353, 359 Russian Battleships, Design, 652 Russian Volunteer Steamer “ Orel,”313 Russian Warships Built by Forges et Chantiers, 608
Shipbuilding, Naval, British, Census of Production, 75, 81
Submarines, Life-Saving Appliances, 787 Torpedo Attack in Naval Warfare, 353, 359
Torpedoes, Gun-Cotton Charges for, 123
U.S. Cruiser “ Baltimore,” Westinghouse Geared Turbines for, 221
United States Warships, Trials of Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, 537
Warships, British and Foreign, Launched 1893 to 1909, 18, 86
Warships under Construction, Lloyd’s Returns, 456
Washing-Machines, Laundry Exhibition, 454 Waste, Cotton, Spontaneous Combustion of, 439
Waste Heat Utilisation in Iron and Steel Works, 586, 596, 603
Water, Aeration of, 164
Water, Bacteriological Purification, 118, 133, 164
Water, Colour of, 289
Water, Constitution of, 583
Water Consumption of Engines. See Steam Consumption
Water, Discovery of Composition of, 186
Water, Effect of Storage on Bacteria, 420, 517 Water, Electrical Conductivity of, 584, 755 Water-Filter, “Turn-Over,” 743
W'ater Filtration and Antecedent Treatment, 117, 132, 164. See 185
Water Filtration, Experimental and Statistical Data, 173
Water Flow over Triangular Notches, 435, 473. See Erratum, 514
Water, Friction of Revolving Discs in, 587 Water-Heater, “ Therol” Electric, 753 Water-Pipes, Thawing by Electricity, 509, 609, 686
Water, Potable, Action of Sand Filters, 117, 132, 164. See 185
Water-Power. See Hydravlic; Hydro-Electric Cement. 619 ^ieciric
Water-Pumps. See Putnps
by Sodium, 35b P’®'’*'’ Simpson’s. 117 wlfie?." ste?85 ^""“‘’-Chabal System. 117, Water Reservoir. See PiS-rvoir
"^Effluenb M7 '"ith Sewau^e
^*be, Salts in, 133, 164
Water. See also Irrigation
\\ater-Sofcener, The “ Luminator” Svstem 215 See LETTERS, 121, 277, 310, 316, 3Si, 423, 44^
Water, Specific Heat of, 584
Water Supply of Cyrenaica, .54 vVater Supply, Liverpnol, 4.56 Hater Supply of London, 420
Water Supply, Sheffield, Notes and Statistics
Water-Tube Boiler. See Boilers
Waterways, Navigable, of United States 19 J'^erwa.ys. See Hirer; Canal ^59^ Tube Tests of, 34,
Liverpool, Completion of. 4.56 ^^agdeburg,Puech-ChabaI Filters.
Water Works,
Plant, 2.57
Watt Engineering Laboratories, Glasgow Uni Experiments, 435, 473, 514
Efficiency of Detectors,
El^ectric, Galena Detector for, 763
Haves, Electric. Reflection. Refraction, Polarisation of, 288
Wave-Alaking Resistance of Ships. 462. 481 See also Resistance ’ ’
Theory of Matter, 311
Wear Bridge. Sunderland, 443
Weather. See Meteorological
See*377 Cargoes, Apparatus for, 460.
WeRs for Gauging Flow of Sewage Effluent,
strength of. 386 w II Electric and Autogenous, 285 311 Deep, Pumping Plant for, 256 ’
\v P^’jJ^ssor C. D., Memorial to, 520 Western Telegraph Co., Ltd., 775 Westinghouse (British) Co.’s Foundries. 131 '-U.S. Cruiser w::^on 8:!L’UmbSs Whale, George. The late, 322
Electric and Hydraulic. 28 Wheatstone System of High-Speed Telegraphy. "445^^’ Peripheral Speed of, 311, 346, 381. Wheels, Railway, Movement on Axles, 148. 452 ^"<Lcator for Pyrometers, 798 PropeneVs^386 “ Model Aerial
TOite-LeaTuse of? irFranc?™!"

827 : Method of Cast- W7U ?-’ ^O“^Pfes8ion Tests, 829

Whiting Cupola, 465
The late, 445
Water Works Pumping Plant 277 'Jj^I'ams, Sir E. Leader, The late, 19 Winches. Steam Consumption of, 620 fss,’207*^ 381' 74, 122.
Ej.Perinaents on, 385, 386 Wjnding-Engine, Royal Agricultural Show, 818 Winding-Engine, Stumpf System, 762 H indmg-Machine for Cotton Yarn 706 Windlasses, Ship, Formula for Dimensions 109 (Phillips), 242. See AeronJni)p>i Wmnipeg Exhibition, Agricultural Motor Trials, "'KSSSK; s..
'^Sy^’ssr^'’ strength and Elae-
Expansion of, 43
Wire Ropes. Hexibility of, 25 wL"f Q^Pw 'Colliery Refuse, 508
W^se Sir W. Lloyd. The late, 53 Wohler Tests in Torsion, 207 Wo s-ley Company’s Foundries, 71 w Aeroplanes, 155, 340 710
Wolseley I etrol-Engine for Racing-Lauimh 3P8 Coating with Metal, 755 u'Jua-vIffilt "'U’
Wnnd’w^^'v-”^ Machinery. See 3/acAtne.TooZs Hood-Horking Shops, Mitsu-Bishi Works 658 Woolwich Arsenal Gun-Shops, 231 ’
j’ Condition of, 686 See7r277?28r788’“‘"^ 418.
Workmen’s Compensation. See Legal
® Employment, Legislation and 283 Workmen, Foreign, Compensation ?or Accidents, "Xml?650'^ against Compensation
"’.5".,%'"' -I E"gin..,-
Works:
Adams Alanufacturing Companv. 488 ®‘' Chantiers Shipbuilding Yards, 499.
Works —covtiuued.
Iron and Steel, Production and Utilisation of Electric Power, 586, 596, 603. See 711
Mitsu-Bishi Dockyard and Engine Works, 658. See 811
Repair-Shops on Panama Canal, 328
Steel, Ugine, France, Girod Process, 591. See 752
Works Management, 483. See LETTER, 543
Works Management, Co-Operation of Employees, 549
Wright Aeroplane at Olympia, 340
Writing Telegraph, The Pollak-Virag, 805

Yacht, Steam, with Oil-Fired Boiler, 70
Yangtse Kiang, Steamer for, 51
Yarn, Cotton, Bundling-Press for, 7C6
Year-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yeast, Action in Fermentation, 682
Yield Points of Chromium Steel, 624
Yield-Points with Combined Stress, 10, 43, 121
Yield-Points of Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese Alloys, 108, 126. 157, 159, 223, 225, 226
Yield-Points of Manganese Steel, 627

Zambesi Falls Power-Supply Scheme, 782
Zeeland Steamship Co.’s Steamers for Queenborough-Flushing Route, 40
Zinc Alloys for Bearings, 828
Zinc-Aluminium Alloys, 437
Zinc-Aluminium-Copper Alloys, 237
Zinc, Hopkins’ Process, Use of Carbonaceous Filters, 86
Zinc, Use to Prevent Boiler Corrosion, 2.51
Zoelly Steam-Turbines, Steam Consumption of, 218

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