Engineering 1910 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1910 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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General Index

Absorption Brake. See Brake.
Acceleration of-Electric Trains, 283
— Steam Locomotives, 347
— Units of Measurement, 670
Accelerometer, Wimperis, 408, 670. See 697 ;
Moore, 670; Lanchester, 670 ; Trotter, 868
— Design of, 670. See 408, 697, 868

Accidents:

Aeroplane, 94, 130
— Accident, Fatal, to Hon. C. S. Rolls, 94
— and Record-Making, 636
Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation under Legal
Electric Railway Breakdowns, 281
Gun Explosion, U.S. Battleship “Georgia,” 562
Hawes Junction, Midland Railway, 896 Industrial, Apparatus for Preventing, 133 — German Insurance, 545
— Indemnity, 172
Lartington, North-Eastern Railway, 445
Locomotive, Record of, 158
Machinery, Report on, 338
Railway, Board of Trade Returns, 241 Shipwrecks, Lloyd’s Returns, 442 Willesden Junction, L. and N.W. Railway, 794
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
Acetylene-Oxygen Steel Welding and Cutting, 462 ; Costs, 857 .
Acid, Sulphurous, for Metallographic Etching, 471. See Erratum, 512
Actinium, Active Deposit of, 423
Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal Adding-Machines, Business Exhibition, 575 Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Addressing-Machines, Business Exhibition, 575. See Erratum, 700
Addressograph, 575
Admiralty and Commercial Propagandism, 335. See Letter, 580
— and Internal-Combustion Engines for Warships, 305. See Letters, 329, 511, 546, 598
— and Naval Supremacy, 129. See 771
— Orders for Warships, 836
— and Preparatory Training of Navel Cadets, 776
— and Turkish Warships, 335. See Letter, 580
— See also Naval and Warships
Aerating Plants, Beer, 576
Aeration of Portland Cement, 733
Aerial Navigation. See Aeroplanes and Airships
— Propellers. See Aeroplanes and Airships
— Ropeway, Excavating, Erie Canal, 327
— Ropeway in Mining Industry, 45
— Ropeway, Steetley Quarries, 744
Aeroplanes and Airships:
Aerodynamics, Data, 337. See Letter, 373 Aeronautics, Popular Treatise on, 557
— Report of Committee. 337. See Letter, 373 -- Theory of, 37, 80, 98,338, 395,410, 505, 524 Aeroplane Accident, Fatal, Hon. C. S. Rolls, 94
— Accidents, 94, 130
— Accidents and Record-Making, 636
— Advantages of Flexibility, 697
— Bracing' of Monoplanes, 94. See 697
— and Britain’s Insular Position, 470
— Data for Design, 337. See Letter, 373
— Davidson Gyropter, 59. See 697
— Design, Use of Mathematics, 410. See 337
— Effect of Wind, 524
— Efficiency of Narrow Planes, 510
— Engine, “ Gnome,” Machining Parts, 120
— Engine, “ Gnome,” Results, 130
— Engine, Improvements, 411
— Engine, Sizes and Weights of, 403. See 510
— Fabrics, Strength of, 337
— Flight, Flapping, “Vilcar” Mechanism for, 889
— Flight, Records and Progress, 368
— Flights at Bournemouth Meeting, 94, 130. See 204, 368
— Lateral Stability of, 80
— Popular Treatise on, 557
— Position of Centre of Pressure, 38
— Propellers, Air-Flow Through, 378
— Propellers, Smoke Tests, 379
— Propellers for Vertical Flight, 732
— Propeller Tests, Northampton Institute, 319. See Letters, 580, 641, 663
— Propeller - Testing Apparatus, Vickers, Barrow, 39. See Letters, 208, 242, 319, 377, 411, 580
— Propellers, Value of Anchored Tests, 377. See 39, 208, 242, 411, 580, 641, 663, 825
— Reactance Tubes for Propulsion, 277, 299
— Sizes and Weights of, 403. See Letter, 510
— Speed of, 204
— Stability of, 37, 80, 505, 524. See 98, 395, 410
— Stability, Constrained and Volitional, 505, 525
— Stability, Use of Gyroscopes, 525. See 505 —- Surfaces, Lifting Power, 337. See Letters, 373, 510
— Wright, Propeller Efficiency, 580 Balloons, Dirigible, in Bad Weather, 611 —- Defence, 470
— Fabrics, Tests. 337
Agreement between Employers and Men. See Legal
— Great Western and South-Western Railways, 271
— Labour, Shipbuilding Trade, 367, 401, 831
Agricultural Boilers, Compulsory Inspection, 311. See 298
Agricultural Machinery, Smithfield Show, 803. See 839
— Society, Royal, Liverpool Show, 9 ; Trials of
Agricultural Motors, 240, 272. See 234, 276
— Tractors at R.A.S. Trials ; Mann, 234; “ Ivel,” 234 ; Wallis and Steevens, 234 ; Saunderson, 276. See 240, 272
— Work, Petrol Engines for, 10
Agriculture, Strength of Electric Currents used in, 168.. See 453
— Possibilities of Nitrogen Fertilisers, 703, 712
Aiken’s Rolling-Mill for Steel Beams, 477
Air Blast for Cooling Milling-Cutters, 199
— Carbon Dioxide in, Testing for, 463
— Compressed. See Compressed Air and Pneumatic
— Compressing Plant, Transandine Tunnel, 880
— Compressing Plant, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 526, 527
Air-Compressors, Automatic Control Device (Broom and Wade), 121
— Hydraulic, 45
— Humphrey Gas-Pump as, 126, 714
— for Motor-Car Tyres, 31, 502
— Portable, for Electric Stations, 31
— and Pumps (Lacy-Hulbert and Co., Ltd.), 31
— Single-Stage (Broom and Wade), 121
— Turbo Rateau, 45
Air-Condensers, Standard Electric, 728
Air-Cooled Condenser, Lamplough’s, 386
— Currents, Inclined Planes in, 337. See Letters, 373, 510
— Currents, Investigation of, by Balloons, 454, 455, 697, 869
— Flow through Circular Orifices, 380, 413
— Flow through Propellers, 378
— Flow in Pipes, Gauge for Measuring, 144
— Furnace for Malleable Iron, 789
— Gaps, Electrical Resistance at High Temperatures, 406
— Heater for Boiler Furnace (Underfeed Stoker Co.), 200
— Heater for Workshops, 267
— Ionisation, Electric Stress to Produce, 839
— Jackets, Flow of Heat through, 397
— Liquid, Magnetic Properties of Alloys in, 647. See 439
Air, Separation of Constituents by Liquefaction, 837
Air Supply to Gas-Engines, Measurement, 380, 413
— Washing Apparatus, Ventilation Plant, Glasgow and West of Scotland College, 426
Air-Lock for Shaft-Sinking, 44 Air-Pump. See Pump
Airships and Britain’s Insular Position, 470
Aire and Calder Rivers, Pollution of, 57, 133, 293
Airships in Bad Weather, 641
Airships. See Aeroplanes and Airships Aitken’s Strainer for Circulating Water, 677
Alexandria, Road Construction and Maintenance, 325
“Alfonso XIII,” New Spanish Battleship, 80
Alford, L. P.,on the Development of High-Speed Drilling-Machines, 197. See also 188
Alkali Works, British, Report, 131
Allcut, E. A., Experiments on Bomb Calorimeter, 755
Alien’s Fire-Bars and Joggling-Gear for Boiler Furnaces, 462
Allotropy or Transmutation of Elements, 510

Alloys:

Aluminium-Copper, Hardening, 491, 549 Aluminium-Copper, High-Pressure Castings, 852, 870
Aluminium, “ Duralumin,” 510
Aluminium-Zinc, Assaying, 682 ; Tests, 682, 683
Aluminium-Zinc, Shrinkage during Solidification, 441, 678
Antimony-Lead, Hardness Tests, 679
Antimony-Lead, Shrinkage during Solidification, 441, 678
Copper, Black Stains for, 730
Copper, Manganese, &c., Magnetic Properties, 439, 646
Copper-Tin, High-Pressure Castings, 852,870
* Copper-Tin, Shrinkage in Cooling, 683 Copper, Metallography in Founding, 446, 458 Copper-Zinc, Heat Treatment, 440, 447 Copper. See also Brass, Bronze, Gun-Metal, and Phosphor-Bronze
Heusler, Magnetic Properties, 439, 646 Iron-Carbon, Magnetic Investigations, 835 Iron-Carbon, Theory of Hardening, 490, 548 Magnetic Properties in Liquid Air, 647. See 439
Non-Ferrous, Common Defects, 458, 812 Non-Ferrous, Corrosion and Erosion, 459, 813 Non-Ferrous, Molecular Changes, 459, 813 Recalescence Curve Tracer, 889
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress, Influence on Materials, 669
— Stress, Tests of Steel, 61, 494, 669
Alternators. See Electric
Altofts Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 43, 801, 865
Altoona Running-Sheds, Pennsylvania Railroad, 183
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys
— Effects on Arsenical Copper, 455
— Phosphate, Electrification due to Heating, 29 Amalgaline Joints, Lead Pipes, 886 Amalgams, Effect on Rubber, 370
American Metallurgical Industry. See Iron, Steel, and United States, Notes from the —• See also United States
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Ammonia Absorption Refrigerating Plant (Werner, Pfleiderer and Perkin), 11
— Sulphate of, Fertiliser, 703, 712
— Sulphate Production, 131
Amsterdam Power Station, Bennis Stokers and Coal-Conveyor, 700
Analysis, Electro, B.A. Report, 528
Anchors and Anchor Gear, S.S. “Olympic,” 572. See 341, 390
Anderson’s Scuttles and Windows for Ships, 313
Andes, Railway Tunnel through, 880
Angle-Cropping Machines (H. Pels and Co.), 427
Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. See Japan-British Exhibition
Annealing, Effects on Brass, 440, 447
— Effect on Magnetic Properties of Alloys, 647. See 439
— Furnaces, Malleable Castings, 791
Annual Publications. See Literature Index
Annuities for Workmen, Elswick Works, 19
Anode and Cathode Rays, 672
Antarctic Expedition, Scott’s Motor-Sleigh Tractors, 317, 855
Anthracite Mining, Native Chinese, 761
Antimony Alloys. See Alloys
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Apparatus, Scientific, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 866, 888
Apprentice Training, Glasgow College, 487
Apprenticeship. See Education
Aqueduct, Medina, Ferro-Concrete Arch, 264
— Rochester, N.Y., Erie Canal, 1
Arbitration, Compulsory, in Trade Disputes, 506
— in Labour Disputes. See Legal, Industrial
Notes, and Paragraph Index
Arc. See also Electric
Arch, Ferro-Concrete, Aqueduct, Erie Canal, 264
— See also Bridge
Arches, Auld Brig o’ Ayr, Restoration, 73
— Ferro-Concrete, Considbre Construction, 329
Architects, British, Royal Institute of; Town-Planning Conference, 299, 395, 539
— and Engineers, 863, 901
Argentine Railway Affairs,
— Transandine Tunnel, 880
Argyll Motor-Car, 688
Armour. See also Warships
Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
— Ships. See Warships
Armstrong, Whitworth Employees’ Bank and Pensions, 19
“Arrow” Water-Meter, 502
Arsenic Production, 132
Arsenical Copper, Effect of Silver, Bismuth, and Aluminium, 455
Artillery. See Guns
Asbestos, Heat Conductivity of, 397
Ash-Handling, Brussels Exhibition Boiler-House, 600. See 250
Ashes, Coke, Composition of, 107
Asphalt Roads, 206, 239, 325
Assaying Aluminium-Zinc Alloys, 682
Assembling-Machine for Foundry Flasks, 535
Association of Consulting Engineers, 277
Astronomer-Royal, Retirement, 472
Astronomical Exhibits, Japan-British Exhibition, 167
Astronomy, Report on Study of, 453
Atmosphere, Effect of Halley’s Comet, 454
— Ionisation of, 454
— Upper, Effect of Radiation, 455
— Upper, Investigation by Balloons, 454, 455, 697, 869
Atmospheric Electricity, 453
— Impurities, 529
— Nitrogen, Oxidation in Electric Arc, 674
— Waves, Short Period, 455
Atom, Number of Electrons in, 422
“ Audiffren” Refrigerating Machine, 577
Augsburg - Ntlrnberg Maschinenfabrik, Water Supply, 345
Auld Brig o’ Ayr, Restoration, 73
Australia. Compulsory Arbitration in, 506
— Solar Observatory for, 453
— See also New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia
Australian Immigration, 741, 833. See Letters, 824
— Navy, Destroyers, 404
— Railway Economics, 741, 833, 861. See
Letters, 824
— Trans-Continental Railway, 274
Auto-Cars. See Motor-Cars,' Tractors, Traction Engines
Automatic Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine, 85, 571, 620, 779, 809. See Letters, 794, 825
Aviation, 368. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Axles, Locomotive, Rapid Turning, 195
— Motor-Car. See Motor-Car Details in Illustration Index
Ayr Old Bridge, Restoration, 73

Babcock and Wilcox Semi-Portable Boiler, 501
Bacon, F., on Testing Heat Insulation, 396, 414
Baden State Railway s, Hydro-Electric Power, 742
Badische Brass-Melting Furnace, 727
Bagasse, Paper Manufacture from, 893
Bailey-Denton, E., on Water Supplies (Protection) Bill, 310
Baker Rotary Blower, 42
Balance, Delicate, Steele and Grant’s, 423
Balance, Thermo-Electric, for Radiation Measurements, 317
Balancing-Engines, Treatise on, 817
— Turbine Rotors, 70
Ball-Bearings, Lubrication and Preservation, 373
— Motor-Car, 693
— for Railway Swing-Bridge Centre, 345
— Sensitive Drilling-Machines, 389, 431, 463, 464
— Woodworking-Machines, 463
Ball-Mills, Grondal, 383
Balloons, Dirigible. See Aeroplanes and Airships
— Fabrics, Strength and Permeability of, 337
— Investigations of Upper Atmosphere, 454, 455, 697, 869
Band-Saws. See Machine-Tools
Banking Scheme for Employees, Elswick Works 19
Bar-Straightening and Polishing Machine, 500
Barge, Canal, New York State, 26
Barges, Electric, Accumulator, for Bricks, 273
Barker’s Milling-Cutter, Inserted Teeth, 575
Barnoldswick Sewage Disposal, Local Government Board and, 609
Barreto-Drummond Universal Machine-Tool, 332
Barr’s Experiments on Triangular Notches, 598
Barry Clutch for Mine Haulage Gear, 710
Batteries. See Electric
Battleships. See Warships ,
Beams, Ferro-Concrete, Design, 607
— Optical Determination of Stresses in, 412
— Wide Flange, Rolling-Mills for, 471, 477
Beardmore Marine Oil-Engine, 50, 638
Bearings, Ball. See Ball-Bearings
— Brush-Parsons Turbine, 4
— Hydraulic, Sugar-Cane Rolls, 233
— Roller, 500, 693, 723. See Roller-Bearings
— Thrust, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 5
— Thrust, Michel, 435
“ Beaver ” Self-Adjusting Stock and Dies, 547
Beer-Bottling, Carbonating, Chilling, and Fermenting, 576
Belgian Coal and Iron Statistics, 732
— Collieries, Labour Statistics, 732
— Tramways and Light Railways, 725
Belliss Steam-Engine, Effect off Vacuum, 794, 810, 825
Bending-Machine for Pipes, Kennedy, 498
Bengough, G. D., on Heat Treatment of Brass, 440, 447
Bennis Sprinkling-Stokers, Amsterdam Power-Station, 700
Berlin, Road Construction and Maintenance, 325
Bessemer Converters for Steel Castings, 296
— Steel, Experiments on Welding, 510
Bevel Gears. See Gears
Bi-Meter CO2 Recorder, 889
Bicycles, Increased Use of, 724, 747
Bilgram Gear-Cutting Machine, 213, 391
Billet Shears (Davy Bros., Ltd.), 529
— Shears (H. Pels and Co.), 643
Binding Iron-Ore Briquettes, 481. See 470
Biplanes. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Birmingham Meeting Inst. Mech. E. See Mechanical Engineers
Bismuth Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 439, 648
— Effect on Arsenical Copper, 455
Bituminous Coal, Use in Producers, 893
Black-Body Radiation, Determination of Constants, 673
Blacksmiths’ Shops, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 231
Blackstone 80-H.-P. Marine Oil-Engine, 638
Blades, Turbine, Centrifugal Stresses in, 101
Blading, Brush-Parsons Exhaust-Steam Turbine, 4
— Turbine, Materials, 105 ; Fixing, 66, 68, 69
Blast-Furnace Blowers, Rotary, Electric, 515, 518
— Blowing Engines, Comparisons, 371
— Flue-Dust, Briquetting, 481
— Gas for Power, 494, 515, 537
— Gas Engines. See Engines, Gas
— Iron, Castings from, 462 <
— Slag, Granulation of, 311
Block-Making, Concrete, 593
Blocks, Pulley, Pickerings’, 461
Blow-Holes in Gun-Metal Castings, 446, 458
— in Steel Ingots, Closing of, 509
Blow-Pipe, Oxy-Acetylene, for Welding and
Cutting Steel, 462 ; Costs, 857
Blowers, Rotary, 16, 42, 45, 386
— Rotary, Blast-Furnace, Electric, 515, 518
Blowing-Engines, Blast-Furnace, Comparison of Systems, 371
— Running Costs, 12
— See also Air-Compressors
Board of Trade, Exhibitions Branch, 639
— Reports on Boiler Explosions, 240 ; Railway
Accidents, 241 ; British Railways, 1909, 469, 476. See 345, 356
Boat-Davit (Allen and Simmonds, Ltd.), 462
— The Welin Quadrant, 14
Boats, Fishing, Oil-Motors for, 613, 637
— Hydroplanes, 187. See Letter., 277
— Motor. See Motor-Boats
— Sails, Size and Efficiency, 403, 510
Bochum Mining School, 704
Bodley, Owen A., The late, 444
Bogies, Railway. See Carriages and Locomotives
Boilers, Agricultural, Compulsory Inspection, 311. See 298
— Attendants, Certificate of Competency, 438
— Defects in, 339
— Design, Tests of Nicolson’s Theory, 764. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
— Disincrustant, “Cak tine,”436
— Effect of Sodium Salts, 95
— Efficiency, Effect of Firing, 764. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
Boiler Explosion Statistics, 1908-9, 240
— Explosion, Traction-Engine, Langford, 298. See 311
— Feed-Pumps, See Pumps
— Feed-Water Heaters. See Feed
— Feed-Water Regulator, 498
— Feed-Water Testing ; Electric Conductivity Method, 807. See 888
— Flash, Sheppee Motor-Vehicle, 762
— Furnaces. See Furnace
— Heat-Transmission Tests/764. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
— Locomotive, Heat Transmission in, 255, 289, 347. See 511, 641, 901
— Locomotive, Low-Water Test of Jacobs-Shupert Fire-Box, 675
— Locomotive Standard, for Indian Railways, 615
— Locomotive Type, Superheater, 858, 891
— Locomotive Type, Marshall’s Corrugated Stayless Fire-Box Roof, 779. See 805
— Locomotive, Washing out and Filling, 155, 169, 181
Locomotive, Water-Softening for, 158,170,171
— Locomotive. See also Locomotives
— Marine, Feed-Heating, 783. See 794, 811, 825
— Marine, S.S. Olympic, 570, 693
— Marine. See also Steamers
— Water-Tube, Babcock and Wilcox, Semi-Portable, 501
— Water-Tube, and Superheaters, 200
— Water-Tube and Fire-Tube, Comparisons, 765. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
— Water-Tube, Grille, Trials, 25, 275
— Water-Tube, Woodeson’s, 498
— Water-Tube, Yarrow, 545. See 732, 778 Boiler-Plates, Lloyd’s Tests, 546
— Flange-Turning Machine, 848
— Steel, Brittle, 673
Boilermakers’ Lock-Out, 367, 401, 831
Boiler Plant, Schenck, Coal-Conveyor for, 600 Boiler-House, Amsterdam Power-Station, 700
— Brussels Exhibition, 200; Coal-Conveyor, 600 Boiler-Scaler, Electrically Driven, 798 Boiler-Shop; Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 375; Penhoet Shipyard, France, 848
Bolinder Reversible Marine Oil-Engine, 637 Bolt-Screwing Machine. See Machine-Tools Bomb Calorimeter, Effect of Oxygen Pressure, 755
Bombay Dry Dock Pumping Plant, 395
Bonding Tramway Rails, Cupola for, 581
Bone, Professor W. A., on Gaseous Combustion, 452. See also 340, 357, 381, 417, 482
Bonney, Rev. T. G., Presidential Address to British Association, 336
Bonus System for Employees, Elswick Works, 19
Bon villain and Ronceray’s Moulding Machines, 533
Books Received, 84, 112, 260, 295, 559, 620, 654, 791, 817
Bordeaux, Chantiers de la Gironde, Dock, 302
“Boreas” Air-Compressors and Pumps, 31
Boring Machine. See Machine-Tools
Boron Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 439, 648
Bosch Double Ignition, Motor-Car Engines, 692
Boswall, R. O., on Testing Aerial Propellers, 319. See Letters, 580, 641, 663
Bottle-Filling, Stoppers, and Washing, 576
Bourne Flow, Croydon, 339
Bournemouth Aviation Meeting, 94, 130 See 204, 368
Brackenbury, II. I., on High-Speed Tools and Machines to Fit Them, 173, 188. See Letters, 241
Bradford Sewage Disposal Schemes, 293
Brake, Absorption, Recording, 490
— See also Motor-Car Details in Illustration Index
Brass, Causes of Burning, 440, 447
— Common Defects, 458, 812
Effect of Gases at High Temperatures, 448
— Effects of Heat Treatment, 440, 447
— Founding, Metallography in, 446, 458
— Loss of Zinc in Annealing, 440, 448
— Melting Furnaces, 559, 654, 725
— New Inversion Point, 440
— Wire, High-Temperature Tests, 440, 448 Brazilian Railways, Loading Gauge, 663. See 614
— Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Yarrow), 265 Breakdown Crane. See Crane
— of Machinery, 338
— See Accidents
Breakwaters, Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 591 Breathing Apparatus, Oxygen, for Mines, 463 Breech Mechanism, Vickers’ 12-In. Guns, 222 Brereton, C. A., The late, 395
Brewing Machinery Exhibition, 576
B rey d on Swing Bridge, Ball-Bearing Centre, 345 Bricklaying, Gilbreth’s System, 192
Bridge, Ferro-Concrete Arch, Chateau Thierry, 329
— Girder Design, 39
— Indian Railway, 514
— New, River Thames, London, 775, 863
— Old, at Ayr, Restoration, 73
— Railway Swing, Ball-Bearing for Centre 345
— Schemes in Parliament, 775
— Transporter, Tees, 209
— Use of Nickel Steel, 274
— See also Culvert, Viaduct, and Aqueduct Brinell Hardness-Testing Machine, 4b9
Briquettes, Iron Ore, for Steel Furnaces, 481
Briquetting Blast-Furnace Flue-Dust, 481
— Iron Ores, 470, 480. See Erratum, 512
— Plant, Iron Ore, Lulea, 418
— Plant, Iron Ore, South Varanger, Norway, 383
“Bristol,” H.M.S. (Brown-Curtis Turbines). 465
Bristol Tramways, Purchase of Motor Omnibuses, 302
Britain, Effect of Flight on Insular Position, 470 British Architects, Royal Institute of, Town-
Planning Conference, 299, 395, 539
British Association (Sheflield Meeting):
Preliminary Announcements and Programme, 306
History of Sheffield, 306
Presidential Address, by Rev. T. G. Bonney 836
Mathematical Papers, 421
Section Reports, 356, 407, 421, 451, 508, 528
Physical Papers, 451
Astronomical Papers, 453
Meteorological Papers, 453, 454, 4o5, 5U8
Metallurgical Papers, 508, 528
Chemical Papers, 508, 528
Organic Chemistry Papers, 528
Geological Papers, 529
Evening Discourses, 529
Concluding Remarks : Attendance, Arrangements, Excursions, &C., 529
Agricultural Papers, 529
Section G.—Engineering:
Presidential Address to Engineering Section, by Professor W. E. Dalby, 315, 356. See 469, 476, 511,641, 901
Testing Lathe-Tools, by Professor Ripper,
356. See Erratum, 416
Gaseous Explosions, Report of Committee on, 357, 381, 417, 482. See 340, 452
Testing Cutting Qualities of Files, by Professor Ripper, 361
Aerial Propellers ; Value of Anchored Tests, by W. A. Scoble and S. C. Carter, 377. See 411 . , r ,
Electrification of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway between Victoria and London Bridge, by Philip Dawson, 407 Road Resistance and Horse-Power, by U.
Wimperis, 408
Gas-Engine Cylinders ; Cyclical Temperature Variations, by Professor E. Coker, 409 ...
Principles of Mechanical Flight, Discussion on, 410
Optical Determination of Stress, by Professor E. Coker, 412
Laws of Electro-Mechanics, by Professor S.
P. Thompson, 413
Measurement of the Air Supply to a Gas-Engine by Means of an Orifice, by Professor W. E. Dalby, 380, 413
New Method of Producing High-Tension Electrical Discharges, by Professor E. Wilson and W. II. Wilson, 414
Testing Heat - Insulating Materials, by Frederic Bacon, 396, 414
Gravity Self-Raising Rollers for Maps, Theatre Curtains, &c., by R. W. Weekes, 547. See 415
Machine for Testing Rubber by Means of the Mechanical Hysteresis, by Professor A. Schwartz, 415
Utilisation of Solar Radiation, Wind-Power, and other Intermittent Sources of Energy, by Professor Fessenden, 415
Experimental Investigation on the Strength of Thick Cylinders, by G. Cook, 416
Gaseous Combustion ; Joint Discussion with Sections A and B, 452
Section A.—Mathematical <(- Physical Science:
Presidential Address, by Professor Hobson, on Mathematics, 421
Some Problems of Initial Motions of Electrified Spheres, by Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 422
Evolutions of a Vortex, by Professor W. M. Hicks, 422
Positive Electricity, by Sir J. J. Thomson, 432
Number of Electrons in the Atom, by Dr. J. A. Crowther, 422
Attraction Constants of Molecules and their Chemical Properties, by Dr. R. D. Klee-man, 422
Molecular Weight of Radium Emanation, by Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., and Dr. R. Whytlaw Gray, 422
Secondary Radiation from Carbon at Low Temperatures, by V. E. Pound, 423
Active Deposit of Actinium, by W. T. Kennedy, 423
Recoil of Radium B from Radium A, by Dr. W. Makower, 423
Magnetic Field Produced by a Charged Condenser Moving through Space, by W. F. G. Swann, 423
Photo-Electric Fatigue, by Dr. H. Stanley Allen, 423
Relation between Density and Refractive Index, by Dr. T. H. Havelock, 451
Relation of Spectra to the Periodic Series of Elements, by W. M. Hicks, 451
Series Spectrum of the Mercury Arc, by Dr S. R. Milner, 451
Auto-Collimating and Focussing Prism and a Simple form of Spectrograph, by Professor C. F6ry, 451, 519
New Spectrophotometer of the Htlfner Type by Dr. R. A. Houston, 451
New and Simple Means of Producing Interference Bands, by Dr. R. A. Houston, 451 Apparatus for the Production of Circularly Polarised Light, by A. E. Oxley, 451
Demonstration of Vacuum-Tight Seals between Iron and Glass, by Dr. H. J. S Sand,451
Report of Committee on Practical Standards for Electrical Measurements, 452
New Gyroscopic Apparatus, by Professor A. E. H. Love, 452
Complete Apparatus for Measurements of Sound, by Professor A. G. Webster, 452
Gaseous Combustion and Explosion, Joint Discussion with Sections B and G 452 See also Gaseous Explosions, Section G
Astronomy, Meteorology, and Geophysics Report on Study of, 453 h j ,
Solar Observatory in Australia, Report on Committee for Establishing, 453
Geodetic Arc in Africa ; Report of Progress,
Stars as Furnaces, by Sir Norman Lockyer
Ix.G.B., 453 ’
Eahv n°,n TP^eJI? CosmicaI Problems, by Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 453
Atmospheric Electricity, Discussion on, 453
Recent Views on the Propagation of Sudden
D°nChreee 45e”tS °f Magnetic Storms, by
British Association—co”^"***
Magnetic Observations at Falmouth Observa-
Upper Ain>o.i'bere.
Report of Committee, 454
Observations in the Upper during the Passage of the Earth through the Tail of Halley’s Comet, by w. H. Dines, 454 , t .
Results of Hourly Balloon Ascents made from the Meteorological department o. Manchester University, by Miss M. n hite,
Effect of Radiation on the Height and Temperature of the Advective Region, bt E. Gold, 455 .
Atmospheric Waves of Short Period, bj I r.
W. Schmidt, 455
Seismological Investigations, Report of Committee on, 508
Sensitive Bifilar Seismograph, by Professor F. J. Bailey, 508
Section B.—Chemistry :
Presidential Address, by Dr. J. E. Stead, on the Effect of Sulphur and Silicon on the Carbon Condition of Cast Iron, 508
Fourth State of Recalescence in Steel, by Professor J. O. Arnold, £09
Closing and Welding of Blow-Holes in Steel Ingots, by Professor H. M. Howe, 509
Gaseous Combustion and Explosion, Joint Discussion with Section A and G, 452. See also Section G.
Allotropy or Transmutation, by Professor II. M. Howe, 510
Influence of Chemical Composition and Thermal Treatment upon the Properties of Steel, by Professor A. McWilliam, 528 Ferro-Silicon ; Causation of Danger Incidental to its Transport and Storage, by Dr. S. M. Copeman, 528
Corrosion of Iron and Steel, by Dr. J. N. Friend, 528
Provident Use of Coal, Discussion on, 528 Electro-Analvsis, Report of Committee on. 528
Organic Chemistry Papers, 528
Sub-Sect ion B.—Agriculture :
Presidential Address, by A. D. Hall, F.R.S., 529
Impurities in the Atmosphere and their Effects on Vegetation, by Dr. C. Crowther and A. G. Ruston, 529
Section C.—Geology :
Concealed Coal-Field of Yorkshire, Notting-hamshire, and Derbyshire, Discussion on. 529
Geology of the Sheffield District, by Cosmo Johns, 529
Metallurgical Industries in Relation to the Rocks of the Sheffield District, bv Pro-fessor A. McWilliam, 529
British Coal-Dust Experiments, 43, 801. 865
— Coal, German Imports, 277
— Engine, Boiler, and Electrical Insurance Co.,
Ltd.; Report on Machinery Failures, 33b
— Industries, Census of Production. 205
— Railway Statistics, 345, 356, 469, 476
Shipbuilders and Foreign Work* 335 580
— Warships. See Warships
Broad-Gauge Railways, India, Standard Loco motives, 595, 614. See 605, €63
Bronze, Aluminium, Castings for High Pressures, 852, 870
Bronzes, Common Defects, 458, 812
— Magnetic Properties, 439, 64G
— Shrinkage in Cooling, 683
Use of Metallography in Casting, 446, 458
— See also Alloys
Brown-Boveri Turbine, Design of Rotor 70
Brown-Curtis Turbines, H.M.S. BrLstol,’’465 •
Steam Consumption, 466
Br°wn and Sharpe Gears and Gear-Cuttin Machines, 213. See Letter, 242
Brunetti, Casimir, The late 744
B^sh-Parsons Exhaust-Steam Turbine 2 Brush Co. s Quartzlite Lamp, 536
— Turbine, Design of Rotor, 68
Brushes, Morganite, for Dynamos, 133
Brussels Exhibition-- „oM rxDKX C?oSine°,f0V9 Exhibition> Work of, 639 Krel^
Ge273n Hydraulic Engineering Exhibits,
Indu8trial Exhibit, 133 scientific Instruments, British
Brussels Road Congress, 205 239 low qos
Bucket Scraper Excavator, ErfeCanal l‘>6 Buildmg Construction. See also r
— Stones, Durability of, 273 Concrete
Bullard Vertical Lathe, Work Process ion
Burner, Gas, Mansfield Inverted pU8^n^essdExhtbiUonyo1vnqdaOr,r>75^iC'e’ 762 Butz Rolling-Mill, for SteeF Beams 4--
uxton Meeting, Iron and Steel Institute
Iron and Steel Ins*itute ,,8t,tutc-
Byng, G., The late, 776
‘‘C’AcIrs,E474CtriC-LighlinR Sy6te"> 'or
Cabl.es> Netherton Iron Works 300
Cableways Aerial it xr—France> 8«8
— StlCatl'a^ng’ Erie Canal',n327nt,U8try’ 45
„ Quarries, 744
Cad8etsM&1;°pTepa'raStor^M’ See
Cadillac Motoi-Uar^S ’ Training, 776 “ cTktine Dock, 651
Calcium Spectrum C&UDd> 436
P trum, Broadening of Lines, 672
Motor-
Calculating-Machines. Electrical, 168; Exhibi-lion, 575
Calder. J , on Rapid Production in Machine-Work, 195. Set also 188
Calder River, Pollution of. 57, 133, 293
Caledonian Railway, General Manager, 311
Calij*er and Limit-Gauges (Crown Worts), 430
Calendar’s Experiments on Kvliation from
Flames. 482. See >40. 357, 381, 417
Calorie, Determination of. 672
Calorimeter, Bomb, Effect of Oxygen Pressure, 765
Cam-OoUinp Machines (C. Nube), 825
Milling. Herbert # Works. 119
Canadian Inland Xavigation, 523
Railways, 28, 705, 9U3
— Rafflray*' Handling Ixjcomotivea, 171. 179
Canal Bank#. Erosion, 273
— Bills in Parliament,
— Electric Accumulator Barges. 273
— Erie. New York State, 1. 76, 360. 326, 523.
For details see lu shlatiux Kokx
— German, 273
— Kaiser Wilhelm. Enlargement, 274
— I’errus Railroad.#, 77, 624
— Ship. Canadian. 523
— Terminal Freight Facilities. 26
Cane-Cnuhing Rolla, 233
Sugar Manufacture. Treatise on, 555
Cape Naval Dockyard, 591. 621, 651, 756, 818, 881. For details see IL.LVsraanojc Ivon
Capital and lalxnir, Co-< ►jwration, 19
— and Industry, 55, 127, 162, 208, 241
Capstans, Hydraulic, Cape Nava! Yard. 885 Lathes. See MacAt nr-Tools
Cars and Carriages. See Hamway and Trim, tray Can, Motor-Can and Wagone
— Repair Shops, Beating, 267
Wheel Turning. Rapid. 196
Carl*on, Conversion of Diamonds to Graphite, 868
Dioxide in Air, Testing for. 463
— Dioxide in French Mine*. 44
Dioxide Recorder, Bi Meter, 889
Packed Glands for Turbine Shafts, 466
Secondarv Radiation* at Low Temperature*, 423
Steeb. Theory of Hardening. 490, 548
Carbonating Plants for Beer, 576
Carborundum Product# al Olympia, 391
Carburettor, Longurmarc, G91
Scott-Robinson, Automatic, C92
— Wolseley, Three-Jet, 628
Card System, Herbert’s Works, 115
Card*. Instruction, for Machine-Work. 171, 197
Cards* Drop-Valve. Steam-Engine, 89*
Caro, Dr. Heinrich, The late, 700
Carpenter, Professor H. C H., on Castings for
High Pressures, 852, 879
Carriage#, Electric Railway, Costa. 249, 285
Railway, Design of Journals. 723
— Railway, lateral Oscillations, 724, 725
Sleeping. i’.LM. Railway. 201
Carr's Bras*-Melting Furnaces. 560
Cartagena. Spanish Naial Yard. 77
Carter, F. W., on the Electrification of Suburban
Railway s. 223. 281
Carter, 8. C.. on Anchored Tests of Aerial Profiler*. 377. See 39. 208. 242, 411, 589. 641, 063, K25
Carr tile Power-Station. Extensions, 536
Case’s Ligno-Concrete. Tests, 820
Cast Iron, Effects of Manganese, 471, 581
— Effect of Manganeae ami Silicon. 844. Sec 471
— Effects of Sulphur and Silicon, 608
Malleable, Air Furnace for, 789
Manganese, Hardness, 585. 587. See 47i
— Pure, Effect* of Silicon. 471. 811
Silicon, Hardness Test*, 844 See 471 Vanadium, IxxxmdoUvs Cylinders, 17, 519 See also Alloyg
Castings, Brass. Use of Metallography, 446, 458 Die, for Light Machine Parts, 501 Gun-Metal and Aluminium-Bronae, for High
Pres-ure#, 852, 870
Gun-Metal, Causes of Blow. Hole#, 4 46, 458
— Gun-Metal, Effect of !*ho«phorw», 446
Iron, from Blast -Furnace, 462
Iron, Defects in, G39
— Iron, Effect of Sinking Head, 140
Malleable-Iron, Annealing Furnaces, 791 Malleable-Iron, Manufacture of, 7b7
— Non-Ferrous Metals. Defects in, 458. 812 See also AUoyg. Moulding; Foundry Plant and Machinery
Catalogues, 71. 143, 286, 318, 332. 485. 521. 551, 588, 617, 684, 720, 753, 7*3, 814, 814, 876. See Paragraph Ijcdkx
Cathode Rays, 672
~ Bays, Conversion into Rontgen Rays. 775 "agon*. Railway, Disinfection, 472
Cells. See also Electric
Cement Concrete. Sec Concrete and Ferro-Concrete
Grouting, Repairs of Auld Brig o’ Ayr. 73
— Grouting for Shaft-Sinking, 44
Manufacture. Granulation of Slag for, 311
Pillars, Increase in Height, 672
— Portland, Lime in, 98
Portland, Manufacture ; Aeration, 733
— I ortland, Setting of, 98
— Road Surface*. 308
— Waterproofing, 60
Census of Production, 1907. 205
Central London Railway ; Heating Repair-Shop*, 26/
~ W orking Costs, 223. 349
Central Station. Sec Electric, Hydro Electric, and Power
Centrifugal Pump*. See Pumpg, Centrifugal jf*8*** *n turbine Rotorsand Blades, 101
Chadbum’s Telegraphs for Steamer*. 427
Chain-Grate Stoker (Babcock and Wilcox), 501
< hams, Netherton Iron Works. 390
thatnier, G.. on Hanxang Iron and Steel W’orks, 3/1. See 491
-hangt Sf cd Gear. See Motor-Car Detail* in iLLKHTRAThiX Isi.RX
Char her Brass Furnace 726
Chassis. See Motor-Car
rh h MU y,hierr-v’ Ferro-Concrete Bridge. 329
Chatley. H.,on the Stability of Hying-Machines, 3/» W), 524. See Lkttuls, 9b, 395
Chatterton, George, The late, 52
Chemical Exhibits, Japan-British Exhibition, 206
— Industry, Germany, 768
— Works, British, Report on, 131
Chemistry, Treatise on, 81
Chili, Transandine Tunnel, 880
China, Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, 371, 491
— Hong Kong University, 607
— Labour Conditions, 372
— New Railway Route to, 639
Railways and Mines, Recovery of Concessions, 775
— Shansi, Native Coal and Iron Industry 761
— Steel Rail Manufacture, 372
Chinese Industries, Development, 372
Railways, 340, 418, 639
— Railway Schools, 418
Chingford Reservoir, Metropolitan Water Board, 168 ’
Chloride of Lime, Action on Metals, 512 Chlorine for Water Purification, 888 Christie, Sir W. H. M., Retirement, 472 Chromium Spectrum, Broadening of Lines, 672
Steel, Physical Properties, 528 Chronographs, Electric, Coal-Dust Experiments, Circuit-Breaker, Time Limit, 888 Circulating Pump, Wolseley Motor-Car, 632 ~ Water, Condenser, Rotary Strainer, 677 Circulation in Condensers. See Condensers Civic Design, 299, 395, 539, 863, 901
Civil Engineers, Institution of:
Behaviour of Ductile Material under Torsional Strain, with Restoration of Elasticity at Low Temperature, by C. E Larard, 32
Ferro-Concrete, Interim Report, 607
New Buildings, Laying Foundation-Stone,611
1 residential Address by A. Siemens, 644 See 635
London County Council Holborn to Strand Improvement and Tramway Subway, by G. Vv. Humphreys, 675
Portland Cement and the Question of its '
Aeration, by H. K. G. Bamber, 733 i Winning of Coastal Lands in Holland, by I
A. E. Carey, 869 !
Clamp, Magnetic (Crown Works), 430
Clark, F. H., Engine-House Practice, 169, 179
Clarkson Propeller for Vertical Flight, 732
Clay-Cutting Dredger. See Dredger
Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal Price Diagram
and the Northern Counties, Notes from 17 q^89;?o23’^163’209’235’ 269> 303’ 333,365,’ §9?» 503’ 537’ 579» G03> G33, 667, 701’737> 829, 857, 893
Climate, Effects of Forests on, 307
Clutches, Friction, for Mine Haulage Gears, 710 ^a»ne^1G, for Blowing-Engine, 100 See also Motor-Car Details in Illustration Index
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
Coal, Belgian, Statistics, 732
Bituminous, Use in Gas-Producers, 898
— Boiler-Furnace Tests, 93
— British, German Imports, 277
— Calculation of Heat Production, 289
— Calorific Value, Bomb Calorimeter Experiments, 755
~ B.'>;'Produfits and Agriculture, 703, 712. See 795
— Combustion, Effect of Volatile Constituents, 93
Conservation and Electric-Energy Distribution, /03, 712. See 795
— Consumption, British Warships, 897
Consumption, Laval Turbo-Generators, 386
Consumption of Locomotives, 314
— Consumption, Marine Engines, Effect of Vacuum, 811. See 779, 794, 825
— Consumption. See also Trials; Tests
— Conveyor, Brussels Exhibition, 600. Sse 200
— Deposits, Island of Sakhalin, 405
Dust Explosions, Experimental Investigations 43, 801; Recording Apparatus, 865
Dust Prevention, Meissner Hydraulic Process,
— Field, Concealed, 529
— Handling Plant, Amsterdam, 700
Handling. See also Transporters
— and Iron Industry, Native Chinese, 761
— Low-Grade, Utilisation of, 44, 898
— Low-Temperature Coking, 528
— Mines. See Colliery
— Mining. See Colliery ; Mines ; Winding
— Production, Cost of Labour, 95
— Stores, Cape Naval Yard, 621
— Waste, Domestic, 528, 703, 712
Coaling^Elevator for Locomotives, S.E. Railway,
Stations, Locomotive, American, 170, 180, 182
— Steamers, Suisted’s Floating Elevator for, 264 See Addendum, 373
—- Transporter, Electric, Fleetwood, 700
Coalite for Domestic Heating, 528
Coast Erosion Prevention, Holland, 869
Coating for Hot-Water Pipes, 26
Cochrane Propeller, Tests, 378
Cocks, Gauge, Klinger’s Asbestos-Packed, 499
Coe, H. I., on the Effect of Manganese in Cast
Iron, 471, 581
Cofferdam, Sheet-Steel Pile, Erie Canal, 328
-- Temporary, for Cape Dock Construction, 651
Coherers. See Electric
Coil, Electric Induction, Wilson’s, 414 678
Coke for Domestic Heating, 528
— for Foundry Purposes, 107
Coker, Professor E., on Temperatures in Gas-
Engine Cj linders, 409; on Optical Deter-mination of Stress, 412
Coking Peat, Laval Process, 136
Cold Saw. See Machine-Tools
— Stores, Tests of Heat Insulation, 396, 414
College, Technical. See Technical College
— Training. See Education
Colliery Coal-Dust Explosions, 43, 801; Recording Apparatus, 865
— Cost of Labour, 95
— Expansions, Stone-Dust, Prevention of, 43,801, 865 ’
Colliery, Ferro-Concrete Supports, 44
— French, Carbon Dioxide in, 44
— Haulage Gear, Endless Rope, 710
— Haulage Gear, Main and Tail, 710
— Hydraulic Filling of, 13
— International Congress, Dusseldorf, 11, 43
— Meissner Hydraulic Process of Dust Prevention, 13
— Native, Shansi, China, 761
— Safety Lamp for Gas Estimation, 137
— Shaft-Sinking, Cement Grouting for, 44
— Shaft-Sinking, Freezing Process, 13
— See also Mine; Coal; Winding; Engine Collision. See Accidents
Columns, Iron, Sinking Heads in Casting, 140
— Design for Varying Loads, 208
— Pin-Jointed, for Shops, 231
— Workshop, Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 884 Combination Metallic Piston-Rod Packing, 499 Combined Stresses in Thick Cylinders, 324, 416. See Letters, 511, 546, 580, 599. See also 669 Combustion, Calculation of Heat Production, 289
— of Coke in Furnaces, 107
— Gaseous, B.A. Report on, 452. See also 340, 357, 381, 417, 482
— Gaseous, Effect of Moisture, 452
— in Locomotive Boilers, 255, 289, 347. See 511, 641, 901
Comet, Halley’s, Effect on Atmosphere, 454 Commercial Motor Vehicles. See Motor; Wagon; Tractor; Traction Engine
Commutator Segments, Machine for Making, 665
Compasses, Magnetic, 133
— Proportional, Reeve’s, 867
Compensation, Workmen’s. See Legal Compound Engines. See Engines
— Locomotives. See Locomotives
— Stress. See Combined Stress Compressed-Air Brakes. See Ji rakes
— Lock for Shaft-Sinking, 44
— Locomotives for Mines, 45
— Plant, Transandine Tunnel, 880
— Plant (Vulcan Co., Hamburg), 526, 527
Compressor, Air. See Air - Compressor and Pneumatic
Concentration Plant, Iron Ore, Lulea, 418 Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See Industrial
Notes, Legal;and Paragraph Index Concrete-Block Construction, Cape Yard, 591
— Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
— Foundations, Harland and Wolff’s Shipbuilding Berths, 566
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— Reinforced with Wood, Tests, 820
— Road Surfaces, 308
— Waterproofing, 60
— Work, Simon’s Bay Graving-Dock, 651
Condenser, Air-Cooled, 386
— Air, Standard Electric, 728
— “ Contraflo,” Marine, 782. See 811
— Optical, for Microscopes, 889
— Rotary Strainer for, 677
— S.S. “Olympic,” 571, 621
— Weir Uniflux, H.M.S. “Newcastle,” 265
— See also Pumps
Condensing-Plant, Dutch, 602
— Worthington, 502
Conductivity, Heat, Fire-Clay, 743
— Heat, of Various Materials, 396, 414
Conference, International, Employers’, 863
— International Town-Planning, 299, 395, 539 Congress, International, Mining and Metallurgy, Dusseldorf, 11, 43
— International Road, Brussels, 205, 239, 308, 325
— Trades Union, 437. See 401
Considbre, Ferro-Concrete Arches, 329
Constam, Professor, Experiments on Coal Combustion, 93
Construction of Ships. See Naval Architects ;
Ships; Steamers; Warships
Constructional Steel Work. See Bridges; Roojs; Floors; Columns
Consulting Engineers, Association of, 277
— Engineers and Contractors, 635, 645 Contact-Beds. See Filters
Continental Roads. See Road Congress
Contractors and Consulting Engineers, 635, 615
— and the Law of Negligence, 575 Contracts, Forfeiture Clause, 802
— Lump Sum, 22. See 733
— for Municipal Work, 95
— Sale of Goods, 740
— for Service, Restrictive Covenants, 165
“ Contraflo ” Condensers, Marine, 782, 811 Controller, Navy, Sir J. Jellicoe’s Work, 864 Controlling Device for Air-Compressors, 121 Convection of Heat from Bodies in Fluids, 317 Converter, Robert, for Steel Castings, 296
— Small, for Steel Castings, 296
— “ Stock” Oil-Fired (Steel Castings), 297
— Tropenas, for Steel Castings, 296
Conveyor, Chain, Amsterdam Power-Station, 700
— Coal, Brussels Exhibition, 600. See 200
— See also Elevator
Cook, G.; Experiments on Thick Cylinders, 416
Cooling Curves, Alloys ; Tracing Apparatus, 889 Cooper-Hewitt (Westinghouse) Silica Lamp, 343 Co-Operation of Capital and Labour, 19 Copper Alloys. See Alloys
— Arsenical, Effect of Bismuth, Silver, and Alu
minium, 455
— Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Coppersmiths’ Shop, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 375 Copying-Machine (C. Nube), 826
Core-Boxes, Machines for Making, 431, 497
Cork, Heat Conductivity of, 397
Corrosion of Iron, Acid Theory, 528
— of Non-Ferrous Alloys, 459, 813
Corrugated Stayless Fire Box Roof, 779, 805 Cosmical Effects of Radiation Pressure, 453 Cost, Capital and Labour, of Machine-Work, 175
— in Engineering Design, 56
— Keeping, Herbert’s Works, 115
— Single-Phase and Direct-Current Traction, 223, 226, 227, 249, 281, 284, 348. See 407
Cotton-Mill Construction, Treatise on, 619
— Operatives’ Strike, 401
Counter, Revolution, for Marine Engines, 796 County Council. See London County Council Coupling, Flexible, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 5
Thin Brass Tubes, Roy les’, 497
Covenants, Restrictive (Legal), 165
Coventry Works, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 113 Cranes, 5-Ton Overhead Projection, 150
— 10-Ton Hammer-Head, Vulcan Co., Hamburg 148
—- 30-Ton Steam Travelling, Cape Naval Yar 834
— 36-Ton Steam Breakdown, G.W.R., 201
— 50-Ton, Fairbairn, Cape Naval Yard, 884. 594
— 100-Ton Floating, Vulcan Works, Hambur; 293
— 150-Ton Hammer-Head, Penhoeb Shipyard France, 850
— Cargo, S.S. “ Olympic,” 693
— Electric Block-Setting, 128
— Equipment, Penhoet Shipyard, 847
— Floating, British Navy, 864
Foundations, Cape Naval Yard, 594, 834
— for Lifting Locomotives, 155
— Luffing-Gear, Mitchell-Williams, 766
— Shipyard. See Vulcan Co.
— Simon’s Bay Dockyard, 591, 624, 884
— Titan, Block-Setting. 593
— See also Hoists and Transporters
Crank-Pins, Locomotive, Des’gn, 723
Crank-Shaft, S.S. “ Olympic,” 571
— Failures of, 339
Crewe Works, L. and N.-W. Railway, Steel Furnaces, 151; Annealing Furnaces, 791
Critical Speeds of Shafts, 104, 785, 901
Croydon Bourne Flow, 339
Crucible Furnaces, Brass-Melting, 559, 654, 725 Cruisers. See Warships
Crushing Machines, Renewable Jaws for, 497
— Plant for Iron Ore, 383
— Rolls, Sugar Cane (Gebr. Stork), 233 Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Micro
Photographs in Illustration Index Cserhati, Eugen, The late, 869
Cultivation, Possibilities of Nitrogen Fertilisers 703, 712
Culverts, Simon’s Bay Graving-Dock, 818
Cunard Liner, New, 836
Cunynghame-Cadman Lamp for Estimating Fire Damp, 137
Cupola, Portable, for Tram-Rail Jointing, 581
— Coke for, 187
— Rotary Blowers for, 42
Curtis Turbines, H.M.S. “ Bristol,” 465; Stean
Consumption, 466
Cust-Field Deep-Sea Tide-Recorder, 206, 300 Cutters. See Milling-Cutters under Machine Tools
Cutting-Off Machine. See Machine-Tools Cycles, Increased Use of, 724, 747
Cylinders, Gun-Metal and Aluminium-Bronze,
Hydraulic Tests, 852, 870
— Locomotive, Vanadium Cast Iron, 17, 519
— Thick, Shortening Due to Internal Pressure, 511
— Thick, Stresses in, 324, 416. See Letters, 511, 546, 580, 599. See also 669
— See Engines and Motors

“DI” Submarine, Wireless Installation, 444 Dalby, Professor W. E., on Air Supply to Gas-Engines, 380, 413 ; on Characteristic Energy Diagrams for Steam Locomotives, 255, 289, 347. See 511, 641, 901 ; Facts and Problems Relating to British Railways, 345, 356. See 469, 476, 511, 641, 901
Dams, Land Reclamation, Holland, 869
— Movable, Erie Canal, 263
— Temporary, for Dock Construction, 651
Darlington Technical College, Opening New Laboratory, 610
Darracq 15-H.-P. Motor-Car, 659
Davidson Gyropter, 59. See 697
Davits, Boat (Allen and Simmonds, Ltd.), 462
— for Double-Banked Boats, The Welin Quadrant, 14
Dawson, Philip, on the Electrification of the
L. B. and S.C. Railway, 407
“ Dayol” Hose-Couplings, 463
De-Clor Water Purification System, 888
Delahaye Six-Cylinder Diagonal Motor-Car
Engine, 662
De Laval. See Laval
De Naeyer Boilers and Superheaters, 200
Dempster Rotary Blower, 43
Deptford Generating Station, Strainer for Circulating Water, 677
Derailment. See Accident
D6ri Single-Phase Motor, 518. See 494
Desch, C. H., on Defects in Alloys, 458, 812
Design and Construction of Ships. See Naval Architects; Ships; Steamers; Warships
Destroyers. See Warships
Detectors, Wireless Telegraphy. See under Electric
Diagrams, Energy, Steam Locomotives, 255, 289, 347. See 511, 641, 901
Diamonds, Conversion into Graphite, 868
“ Diderot,” French Battleship, Construction, 847 Die-Castings for Light Machine Parts, 501 Die-Forging, Drop-Stamps and Friction Lifters, 330
Dies, Screwing, “ Beaver” Self Adjusting, 547 Diesel Engine with Electric Transmission for
Tram-Cars, 725
— Oil-Engines, Influence of Compression, 511, 546, 598
— Oil-Engine, 600-H.-P. High-Speed, 731 Differential Gears for Motor-Cars. See Motor-
Car Details in Illustration Index
Diffraction Gratings, Echelette, 506
— Grating, Michelson Echelon, 132
— Grating Replicas, Metallising, 672
Digging. See Excavating
“ Dionic” Water-Tester, 807. See 888
Diplock Pedrail Road Tractor, 724, 749 Directories. See Literature Index
Directors, Company, Qualifications of, 895
Dirigible Balloons. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Disasters. See Accidents
Disc Grinding-Machines. See Machine-Tools Discs, Rotating, Centrifugal Stresses in, 101 ‘ Disco” Wood-Trimmer, 463
Disincrustant for Boilers, “Caktine,” 436
Disinfection of Railway Cattle-Trucks, 472
Dismissal, Wrongful, and Restrictive Covenants, 164
Distillation, Sea-Water, Treatise on, 619 District Railway, Automatic Signalling, 348;
Breakdowns, 281; Working Results, 272, 349
Dividers, Proportional, Reeve’s, 867
Diving Apparatus, Olympia Exhibition, 463 Dixon’s Experiments on Exploding Gases by Compression, 357. See 452
Docks. See also Harbours ; Ports
— Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux, 302
— Dry, Bombay, Pumping Plant, 395
— Dry, Penhoet Shipyard, France, 850
— Floating, British Navy, 864
— Floating, Vulcan Shipyard, Hamburg, 292
— Graving, Cape Navy Yard, 651, 756, 818
— Schemes in Parliament, 775, 803 Dockyards, French Naval, 806, 850. See 302
— Naval, Cape Colony, 591, 621, 651, 756, 818, 884. For details, see Illustration Index
— Spanish Navy, 77
Don River, Pollution of, 328
Doors, “Dreadnought” Fireproof, 461
— Sliding, for Coal Stores, 623
Dover-Ostend Service, Turbine Steamers, 84
Dow Portable Photometer, 840
Drain-Valve, Automatic, for Steam-Pipes, 499
Drainage Schemes in Parliament, 775, 803
Draught-Gauge, Two-Liquid Differential, 144
Draughtsmen and Cost of Machine Parts, 56
Draw-Bar Pull, Locomotive, 258
Drawing Instruments, Brussels Exhibition, 133
— Office and Cost of Machine Parts, 56
“ Dreadnought ” Battleships, British Requirements, 129. See 771
— Battleships, Guns of, 305
— Battleships of the World, 654
Dredgers, Erie Canal, 328
— German,, 274
— Lobnitz Rock-Crushing, 328
— “St. Lawrence,” with Spiral Cutters, 364, 511
— Suction, Clay-Cutting, “ Ontario,” 328 Drilling-Machine. See Machine-Tools Drills, High-Speed Steel, 174, 177, 178,190, 197
— Ingersoll Rock, Transandine Tunnel, 880
— Twist, Grinding-Machines, 393, 434 Drop Pits for Locomotive Wheels, 170, 171
— Stamps. See Machine-Tools
— Tests, Locomotive Slide-Valves, 852
— Valves. See Valves
Drummond-Barreto Universal Machine-Tool, 332 Dry Dock. See Dock
Drying Plant for Timber, Vulcan Works, Hamburg, 291; Penhoet Shipyard, France, 850
Drysdale’s Alternate-Current Potentiometer, 168, 889
Duddell Oscillographs, Brussels Exhibition, 133 “ Duralumin ; ” New Alloy, 510
Dusseldorf International Congress, Mining and Metallurgy, 11,43.
Dust, Blast-Furnace Flue, Briquetting, 481
— Coal. See Coal-Dust
— Removing from Electrical Machinery, Air
Compressor for, 31
— on Roads, Methods of Reducing, 91. See 724, 725,749. See also Hoad Congress
— Stone, for Preventing Colliery Explosions, 43
801, 865 ,
Dutch Land Reclamation, 869
Dynamometer, Recording, for Experimental Engine, 490
Dynamos. See Dynamos and Alternators under Electric
Dyson, Prof. F. W., New Astronomer-Royal, 472

Earth, Effects of Tides, 508
— Frozen, Strength of, 13 Earthquakes, Artificial, 47
— Effect on Mines, 44
— Investigations, B.A. Report, 508
— Recorders, Milne’s, 167
— See also Seismograph
East Altoona Running-Sheds, Pennsylvania Railroad, 183
Ebbw Vale Co., Colliers’ Wages, 95
Echelette Diffraction Gratings, 506
Echelon, Michelson, Diffraction Grating, 132 Economics of Engineering, 635, 644
— of Australian Railways, 741, 833, 861
— of British Railways, 345, 469
— of Manufacture, 55. See 127,162, 208, 241
— of Railway Electrification, 223, 284, 573. See 203, 244, 249, 281, 314
Eden’s Experiments on Alternating Stress, 669 Edgwick Works, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 113 Edinburgh-London, Railway Service, 347, 356 Edinburgh Water Supply, Purity, 708 Education, Advance of, 635, 644
— Engineering, Value of Practical Work, 610
— Higher, Utility of, 111, 599
— Hong Kong University, 607
— Japanese, 556
— Preliminary, Naval Cadets, 776
— Teaching Elementary Mathematics, 421
— Technical, Glasgow, Progress, 424, 487
— Technical. See also Technical College
— Technical. See Glasgow and West of Scotland College
Edwards, C. A.; Theory of Hardening Carbon Steels, 490, 548; on Castings for High Pressures, 852, 870
Efficiency, Thermal, Humphrey Gas-Pump, 718. See 125
— Thermal, Petrol-Motors, 856
Eicher Htitten-Verein; Electric Steel Plant, 674 Eiffel Tower Wireless Time Signals, 639 Ejector, Sand, for Locomotives, 30
— Water, Theory, 369
Elasticity, Brass, Heat Treatment Effect, 440,447
— Steel, under Torsional Strain, 32
— Torsional, Wires at High Temperatures, 472
— Volume, Temperature Influence, 672 Elbe Tunnel, Hamburg, Shaft-Sinking, 44
Electric :
Accelerometer, Moore’s, 670
Agriculture, Current Strength, 168. See 453 Air-Compressor, Portable, for Electrical Machinery, 31
Air-Gaps, Resistance at High Temperatures, 406
Air Ionisation, Electric Stress to Produce, 839
Electric—continued,
Alternate-Current Motors, Speed Regulation, 315. See 494, 697
Alternating Currents, Galvanometer for, 29 Alternating-Current Measurements, 728 — Rectifier, 888
Alternator, Experimental, Glasgow and West of Scotland College, 758
Aluminium Phosphate, Electrification due to Heating, 29
Analysis, Electro, B.A. Report, 528
Apparatus at Brussels Exhibition, 133
Arc, Oxidation of Nitrogen in, 674 Atmospheric Electricity, 453.
Barges, Accumulator, for Bricks, 273
Battery, Primary, Silvertown Bleeck-Love, 888
Blowing-Engines, Running Costs, 12
Brushes, Morganite, 133
Cathode Rays, Conversion into Rontgen Rays, 775
Central Power Scheme and Coal Conservation, 703, 712. See 795
Chronographs, Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 865
Circuit-Breaker, Time Limit, 888
— Automatic, Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 865
Coherers, Properties of, 318
Commutator-Segment Machine, 665
Condensers, Standard Air, 728
Conductivity, Metals, Electron Theory, 315 D6ri Single-Phase Motor, 518. See 494 Detectors, Wireless Telegraphy, Properties, 318
Discharges, High-Tension, Producing, 414, 678
Distribution, Electric Energy and Coal Conservation, 703, 712. See 795
Dynamo, Variable-Speed, Motor-Car Lighting, 474
Electro-Magnetic Laws, 413
Electro-Pneumatic Signalling Systems, 348
Electrometer, Tilted Gold Leaf, 867
Electrometers, Alternating - Current Constants, 728
Equations, Apparatus for Solving, 168
Fire-Engine, Merryweather’s Accumulator, 809
Frahm Tachometer, Generator for, 30
Furnace, Carbon-Tube, Radiation Experiments, 673
— See also Steel Furnaces; Hardening Furnaces
Fuses, Ageing of, 728
Galvanometer for Alternating Currents, 29
— Brussels Exhibition, 133
— Sensitive Moving Coil, 889
Gases, Discharge in, Cause of Afterglow, 840 Generator for High-Tension Discharges, 414, 678
Glasgow and West of Scotland College, Electrical Engineering Department, 757
High-Frequency Resistance, Stranded Cables, 728
High-Tension Discharges, Apparatus for Producing, 414, 678
Hydro-Electric Power, Baden State Railways, 742
— Power Companies, Norwegian, 406
— Power Plant, Lapland, 23, 185
— Power Scheme, Tasmania, 709
— Power, Sweden’s Waterfalls, 775, 779 Hysteresis, Energy Losses in, 317 Induction Coil, Wilson’s System, 414, 678
— Motors, Speed Regulation of, 515. See 494, 697
Instruments at Brussels Exhibition, 133
— at Japan-British Exhibition, 168
— Physical Society’s Exhibition, 866, 888
Insulators, Resistance at High Temperatures, 406
Inter-Urban Railways, 285
Kramer Speed-Regulation System, Three-Phase Motors, 518. See 494, 697
Laboratory, Glasgow College, 757
Lamps, Metallic Filament, Tests, 729
— for Microscopes, 867, 889
Lifts, Scott, Push-Button Control, 498
Light, Effect on Charged Bodies, 423
Lighting Installation, S.S. “Olympic,” 693
— Schemes in Parliament, 774, 803
Locomotive, 15,000 - Volt, Single-Phase, Loetschberg Railway, 611
— American, Data, 226, 246
— Lapland Railway, 185
— Steam and Electric, Comparisons, 203, 285, 314, 316
— Turbo-Electric, Reid-Ramsay, 54
Machine-Tools, Individual Drive, 20
Magnetic Field Produced by Moving Condenser, 423
— Gearing, Lecoche, Marine Propulsion, 442 Magneto, Bosch Double Ignition, 692
— Mea, Motor-Car Ignition, 692
Measuring Instrument, Paul’s Universal, 889
Mercury-Vapour Lamp, Brush, 536
— Westinghouse, 343
Meters, Tests, 728
Mines, Machinery for, 44
Motors, Alternate-Current, Speed Regulation, 515. See 494, 697
Motor-Car, Lighting, “ C.A.V.” Dynamo, 474
Motors, Experimental, Glasgow College, 758
— Generator Set, Glasgow College, 758
— Railway, Comparisons, 245
— Railway, Heating of, 226, 227, 283
— Single-Phase, Ddri, 518. See 494
Oscillations, Fleming’s Glow-Lamp Rectifier. 866
Oscillographs, Duddell, Brussels Exhibition. 133
Photo-Electric Fatigue, 423
Photographs, Telegraphic Transmission, Treatise on, 816
Photometer, Dow Portable, 840
— Trotter’s Portable, 868
Platinum Resistance Thermometers, Tests 729
Positive Electricity, 422
— ElectrifyingAluminium Phosphate, 29
Electric—continued.
Potentiometer, Drysdale’s Alternate-Current, 168, 889
— for Pyrometry, 142
Power Plant, Ore-Briquetting Works, South Varanger, 384
— Plant, Randfontein Mines, 735
— Plants, Waste-Heat and, 537
— Production from Blast-Furnace Gas, 515. See 494
— Production, Cost, 25,186, 735
— Production from Peat, 340
— Production from Solar Heat, 415
— Station, Carville, Extensions, 536
— Station for Electric Railways, 315
— Station, London Post Office, 709
— Station, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 525
— Stations. See also Hydro-Electric
— Supply Bills in Parliament, 774, 803
— Transmission, Comparisons, 223, 226, 245, 247
Pyrometers, 141, 498, 729, 866, 867
Railless Road Traction, 724, 725, 749, 774, 803
Rail-Wear with Electric Traction, 226
Railways, Breakdowns, 281
— British, 203, 282, 347, 349, 573
— Electrification, Comparison of Systems, Costs, Energy, Results, Possibilities, 203, 223, 227, 244, 249, 271, 281, 284, 315, 318, 407, 573
— Electrification, Lapland, 23, 185
— Electrification, Papers at Institution of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
— Freight Traffic, 227
— Kiruna-Riksgransen, 185
— Liverpool Overhead, 281, 349, 573
— Liverpool and Southport, Costs, 203,229, 251, 281, 349, 573
— Main Line, Electrification, 223, 224, 227, 314, 573. See 284
— North-Eastern, Working Costs, 281, 349, 573
— Position of Third Rail, 573
— Single-Phase and Direct-Current Systems, 223, 226, 227, 244, 249, 281, 284, 406
— Steam and Electric, Comparison of Costs, 314. See 203, 348, 407
— Suburban, Electrification of, 223, 281, 573. See 203, 407
— Traction, Steam and Electric, Costs, 186
— Trains Acceleration and Energy Consumption, 203, 283
Rays, Anode and Cathode, 672
Rectifier for Alternating Current, 888
Resistance, Adjustable, for Electric Lamps, 462
— High Frequency, Stranded Cables, 728
— Standard, Paul’s, 889
— Standard, Tests, 727
Rolling-Mill Driving, 494, 515, 518
Rotary Converter, Glasgow College, 758
Scherbins Speed-Regulation System, Three-Phase Motors, 516. See 494, 697
Signalling, Automatic, District Railway, 348
Single-Phase and Direct-Current Railways, Comparisons, 223, 226, 227, 244, 249, 281, 284, 407
— Locomotive, Loetschberg Railway, 611
— Motor, D6ri, 518. See 494
— Motors, Railway, 244, 245, 249, 407
— Traction, L. B. & S. C. Railway, 407 ; Costs, 227, 251, 281. See 204, 271, 348
— Traction, New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, 244, 246. See 223
Solenoids, Design of, 413
Spark-Gap, Effect of Air Blast, 867
Speed Regulation, Alternate-Current Motors, 515. See 494, 697
Spheres, Electrified, Initial Motions of, 422
Standards, Report of B.A. Committee, 452
Steel Furnaces, Eicher Htttten-Verein, 674
Steel Works, Utilisation of Electric Power, 494, 515. See 537, 697
Street-Lighting, Gas versus Electric 511
Submarine Telephone Cable, England to France, 868
Switches, Turn-Down for Electric Light, 462
Switch-Testing, Reichsanstalt, 728
Telegraph. See also Wireless
Telegraphic and Telephonic Apparatus, Japan British Exhibition, 168
— Transmission of Photographs, Treatise, 816
Telephone Cable, England to France, 868
Telewriter Exchange, Walbrook, 59
Thermo-Couple, Bridge, for Alternating Currents, 728
— for Gas-Engine Cylinders. 409
— Peake Compensating Leads, 867
— for Pyrometers, 141
— Tests, Reichsanstalt, 729
— Welding Fine Wires for, 728
Thermo-Electric Balance for Heat-Radiation Measurements, 817
Thermometer, Clinical Recording, 867
Third-Rail Position, Standard, 573
Three-Phase Motors, Railway, 245
— Motors, Speed Regulation of, 515. See 494, 697
Time-Marker, Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 866
Time-Signals, Radiotelegraphic, 639
Tramcar Trolley Standards, Leakage-Indicator, 868
Tramways, London, Statistics, 749
— Tracks, Construction and Maintenance. 309, 325
Transformers, Continuous Current to Alternating Current, 888
— Stray Flux, 728
Transmission, Petrol - Electric, Motor-Vehicles, 545, 725
— of Photographs, 816
Turbo-Alternators, Parsons’, Randfontein Mines, 735
Turbo - Generator, Continuous - Current
Brush, 8 ’
Vacuum Tubes, Cause of Afterglow, 840
— Tubes, Sealing Iron Wires into, 451
Voltmeters, High-Tension Electrostatic, 868
Waves, Electro-Magnetic, Pressure Effects, 453
vic—continued.
Waves, Fleming’s Glow-Lamp Rectifier,
Water-Testing, Conductivity Me >
888
Weston Standard Cells, 728
Wireless Installation, Submarines,
— Telegraphy, Spark-Gaps, 86 < .
— Telegraphy, Glow-Lamp Receiver, 866
- Telegraphy: High-Tension Generator for,
— Telegraphy, Properties of Detectors, 318
— Time Signals, 639
X-Ray Coil, Wilson’s System 414 6/8
— Tubes, Comparisons of Anti-Cathodes,
775
_Tubes Improvements, 867
Electrical Engineers, I1natj,tutio'!1°f2PfeS'.g®n7o3 Address, S. Z. de Ferranti, 712. See <03, 795
Electrons, Number in the Atom, 422
Elements, Allotropic Forms or Transmutation,
— Periodic Series, Relation of Spectra to, 451
Elevated Electric Railway. See London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Elevator for Coaling Locomotives, Railuaj, ifw
Elevator, Floating, for Coaling Steamers, -61. See Addendum, 373
— See also Hoists ; Conveyors; Lifts
Elswick Works, Employees’ Bank and 1 ension
Fund, 19
Employees. See also Workmen . .
Employees’ Wrongful Dismissal, and Restrictive Covenants, 165
Employers’ Insurance Against Strikes, Germany, 369
— International Meeting, 868
— Liability. See Legal
— Shipbuilding, and Strikes, 367, 401, 831
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 806
Energy Diagrams, Steam Locomotives, 255, 2a9, 347. See 511, 641, 901
— Electric and Coal Conserval ion, 703, 712. See
795
Engines, Agricultural, at R.A.S. Trials; Mann, 231; “ Ivel,” 234 ; Wallis and Steevens, 234 ; Saunderson, 276 ; Trials, 240, 272
— Attendants, Certificate of Competency, 438
— Blowing, 371 ; Running Costs, 12
— Crankless, Internal-Combustion, 427
— Fire, Merryweather’s Accumulator, 809
— Foundations, Failures of, 338
— Gas, 20-H.-P. (Ruston, Proctor), 805, 839
— Gas, 40-H.-P. (Davy Paxman), 805
— Gas, Cyclical, Temperature Variations, 409. See 856
— Gas, Heat Radiation from, 340, 357, 360, 381,
417, 482. See 856
— Gas, Large, Experiments with, 45
— Gas, Measurement of Air Supply, 350, 413
— Gas and Oil, Breakdowns, 338
— Gas and Oil, Smithfield Show, 805, S39
— Gas and Oil, for Warships, 305. See Letters,
329, 511, 546, 598
— Gas and Steam-Turbines, Comparison, 739. See Letter,778
— Gas and Steam, Use of Low-Grade Fuels, 898
— Gas, Suction (Ruston, Proctor), 16
— Gas. See also Humphrey's Gas-Bump
— Houses. See Locomotive Running-Sheds
— Internal-Combustion, Marine, Development,
546. See 305, 329, 511, 598
— Internal-Combustion Tramcar, 724, 725, 749
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Marine, Combined with Turbines, S.S. “Olym
pic,” 564, 571, 620, 693
— Marine, McNab’s Revolution-Indicator, 7£6
— Marine Oil, 47-H.-P., Forced Lubrication
(Thornycroft), 613
— Marine Oil, 60-H.-P. (Gardner), 637
— Marine Oil, 60-H.-P. (Beardmore), 390, 638
— Marine Oil, 80-H.-P. (Blackstone), 638
— Marine Oil, Bolinder Reversible, 637
— Marine Oil, “ Kromhout,” 637
— Marine Oil, 50 H.-P. (Britannia Co.), 500
— Marine Oil, 180 B.H.-P., Two-Cycle (Beard-
more), 50. See 638
— Marine Oil, Yarmouth Exhibition, 613, 637
— Marine, Quadruple - Expansion, S.S. “Ex
plorer,” 839
— Marine, Triple-Expansion, S.S. “Olympic”
571, 620, 693 H ’
Marine. See also Steamers and Warships
~ ° 620nd Perry 8 Book’ German Edition,
“ 2-!’ 49-B.H.-P. (Ruston, Proctor), 16
Oil, Diesel, 600-H.-P. Highspeed, 731
— Oil, Diesel, Marine, Influence of Compression,
511, 546, 598
— Oil (National), Agricultural Show, 9
— Oil, Portable, “ Handy-Man,” 804
— Oil. See also Engines, Marine, Oil
— Petrol, 14-H.-P., Air-Cooled, Motor Sleigh
Tractor (Wolseley), 855. See 317
~ peasAeroplane3- See Aer°pla™ and
— Petrol, for Farm-Work, 10
peJr°!’ hydroplane Boat (Thornycroft), 187
— Petrol Motor-Car, Argyll, 688 ; Sizaire and
65Qn-dinn662 ’ Wolfl8eley> 628» 632 ; Germain, ,, » Darracq, 659; “ Overland,” 661 •
_ p l?°l659 ’ Delahaye. 662 ; Ford 660 ’
— Petro ’ M«rorrar’ n°S?h Double ’-'"'tion, 892 letioi, Motor-Car, Design, 659 689
— Petrol’ Motor ^night Slec’ve-Valve, 688
Petrol, Motor-Car, Longuemare Carburettor, n®Jro!’ JJoJ'Or-Car, Mea Magneto, 692
Petrol, Motor-Car, Speed of, 555. 689
Petrol, Motor-Car, Torque at Different Speeds,
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Wolseley Drivino-
— Petrol, Piston Design, 815 lngGear, 632
— Petrol, Two-Cycle, Thermal Efficiency 85(i
— Petrol. See also Motor-Cars Motor-1
_ pi ““'IAer°Planes and Airships awnehM’
P Trials, 234, 240, 272 97n
— Ploughing Smithfield Show, 803 ’ °
Poi table, Smithfield Show, 805
— Steam, Agricultural, with Superheaters, 80G
Engines. Steam, Breakdowns. 338
_Steam. Compound, 690-H-P., Cards’ Drop.
Waives. 892
— Steam. Compound. Experimental. Glasgow College, 489 ; Trials, 794, 509, *25
— Steam and Gas, Comparison, 739. See Letter, 778
— Steam, Gas and Oil, Perry’s Treatise, German Edition, 620
— Steam, Low-Pressure (Lamp Pump), 11
— Steam, Marine, Nominal H -P., 732
— Steam, Marine and Stationary, Effect of
Vacuum, 779, 803. See Lkttkrh, 791, 825
— Steam, Pistons for. 462
— Steam Ploughing (Aveling and Porter), 9
— Steam Pumping, Cape Graving-Dock, 819
— Steam, Steering. S.S. “ Olympic.” 693
— Steam, Stumpf Mid-Cylinder Exhaust, 84, 93
— Suction-Gas (Ruston, Proctor), 16
— Superheated Steam, Semi Port able (Boston,
Proctor), 15
— Superheated Steam, Sheppee Motor-Vehicle,
762. See Erratum, 795
— Superheated Steam, Compound (Ruston, Proctor), 16
— Superheated Steam, Vertical Tandem Compound, 81
— Traction. See Traction Engine; Tractor
— Turbine. See Turbine
Engine-Room Telegraphs for Steamers. 427
Engine Speed Regulation and Balancing, Treatise on, 817
Engineering Standards Committee, Standardisation of Indian Ix>romotivcs and Materials, 595,614. See 6< 6,663
Engineers and Architects, 863, 901 Consulting, Association of, 277
— Consulting, and Contractors, 635. 615
— Education. See Technical College and
Education
— as General Managers of Railways, 311
— Institutions of. See Ciril Engineers; Mechanical Engineers; Electrical Engineers; Naval Architects; Iron and Steel Institute ; Physical Society; British Association ; Metals, Institute of; International
— Value of College Training, ill, 599
Engineering Design, Cost in, 56
Economics, 635, 644
— Education. See Technical College
— and Machinery Exhibition, Olvmpia, 341, 351,
386, 427, 459, 497. See 332 '
— Projects, Foreign, 34, 70, 106, 139, 160, 219,
242, 286, 316, 319. 364 . 416.450.484,621,552. 587, 617, 64 4, 681, 720, 762, 768, 813, 8l0, 876. 904
— and Pure Science, 705
— Schemes in Parliament, 773, 803
Work, Census of Production, 1907, 205
— Work, Lump-Sum Contracts, 22. See 733 Engraving and Copying-Machine (Nube), 826 Erie Canal, New York State, 1, 76, 260, 326, 623.
For Details see Illi str at ion Inpex
Erith, C., on Boiler Design, 764. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
Erosion of Non-Ferrous Alloys, 459, 813
“ Espana,’’ New Spanish Battleship. 80
Etching, Metallographic, Sulphurous Acid for, 471. Sea Erratum, 512
Evaporation Experiments, Lake Grimnitz, 273 Evaporator. Double Effect, Glasgow and West of Scotland College, 426. 760
Ewen, D., on Shrinkage of Allots during Solidification, 441, 678
Excavating Machines. Sec also Dredgers and Tunnelling
Exhaust-Steam Feed-Water Heater, Smith’s, 462
— Injector, Metcalfe, 859
— Marine Auxiliary, Feed-Water Heating by,
783. See 794, 811. 825
— Turbine. See Turbine
Exhauster, Rotary, I^amplough’s, 386
Exhibitions Branch, Board of Trade, 639
— Brewers’, 576
— Brussels. See Bru axels Exhibition
— Business and Advertising, Olympia, 575
— Engineering, at Olvmpia, 341, 351,386,427,
459, 497. See 832
— Japan - British," Vickers’ Ordnanc», 221 ;
Results, 896 ; Science Section. 167, 206
— Motor-Cars, Olympia. 627, 659, 68.x
— North Sea Fisheries, Yarmouth, 613. 637
— Scientific Apparatus, Physical Society, 866,
888
— Smithfield Show, 803, 839
— Turin International, 742
Expansit Schrodt, Heat Conductivity of, 397 Experimental Research. Reward of, 127, 162 Exploding Gases by Adiabatic Compression, 357.
*->^C 4 4) >2
Explorer,” S.S., Harrison Line, Engines. 839 Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion
— Coal-Dust, Experiments, 43, 801 ; Recording
Apparatus, 865
— Gaseous, Heat Radiation in, 340, 357,381,417,
482, 483
Gaseous, Influence of, Surfaces and Moisture, 452
— Gaseous, Report of B.A. Committee, 357, 381,
417, 482. See 340, 452
— Gaseous, Wave Propagation in, 452. See 357 Gun, U.S. Battleship “Georgia,” 562
Explosives, Smokeless, Dangers of Multiple Perforations, 562
Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition
Extensometer, Mirror, for Alloy Shrinkage, 682
Fabry-Perot Interferometer, 132
F aci ng - Mach in e. See M ach inc-Tools
^;or8 °f Safety for Engineering Mated ds, 6€9 factory Inspection in France, 606
Inspectors and Machinery-Guards, 26
u ,, , w Cases. See Legal
H-M.,Scout Cruiser, 441
mmouth, Magnetic Observations." 451
an, ventilating, Gelsenkirchen Mines, 518 bans and Blowers, Treatise on, 81 P^mngt2n’ Vorl8,nouth Water Works at, 495
*arr,nKdon ” Fermenting Vessel, 577
atigue of Metals. Experiments, 494. See 669
Feed-Pump. See Pumps
Feed-Water Heater, Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 763
— Heater, Smith’s Exhaust Steam, 462
— Heaters Using Marine Auxiliary Exhaust, 783. See 794, 811, 825
— Injector, Metcalfe Exhaust Steam, 859
— Regulator for Boilers, 498
— Removing Oil from, 526
— Softener? See Water-Softener
— Testing, Electric Conductivity Method, 807. See 888
Fellows’ Gear-Cutting Machine, 213
Fermenting Vessel, “ Farringdon,” 577
Ferranti, S. Z. de, Presidential Address, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 712. See 703, 795
Ferro-Concrete Aqueduct, Erie Canal, 264
— Arch Bridge, Chateau Thierry, 329
— Arches, Considdre Construction, 329
— Beams and Floors, Design, 607
— History, 519
— Inst, of Civil Engineers’ Interim Report, 607
— Mine Supports, 44
— Piles, Simplex, 149, 291, 374
— Piles, Tests, 149
— Reservoirs, Portsmouth, 495
— Use on Manchester Ship Canal, 607
— See also Ligno-Concrete
Ferro Silicon, * Transport and Storage Dangers, 528
•Ferrol, Spanish Naval Yard, 77
Fertilisers, Nitrogen, Possibilities, 703, 712
F6ry, Professor C., on an Auto-Collimating and Focussing Prism and a Simple Form of Spectrograph, 451, 519
F6ry Radiation Pyrometer, 142
Fessenden, Professor, on Utilisation of Solar Radiation, Wind Power and other Intermittent Sources of Energy, 415
Field-Cust Deep-Sea Tide-Recorder, 206, 300
Field-Guns. See Guns
File-Testing, Professor Ripper’s Method; Improved Herbert Machine, 361
Files, Milling, 353, 430
Filters, Mechanical, at Wellingborough, 836
Merrill’s Twin, 563
— for Oil. See Oil-Filter
— Sand and Mechanical, Bacteriological Results,
708. See 888
—• Sand, Portsmouth, 495
— Water, De-Clor Pressure, 888
— See also Water and Seivage
Fire-Box, Marshall’s Corrugated Stayless Roof, 779. See 805
— Jacobs-Shupert Locomotive, Low-Water Test,
675
Fire-Bricks and Clays, Investigations on, 25, 899
Fire, Brussels Exhibition, 275. See 639
Fire-Clay, Thermal Conductivity, 743
Fire-Engine, Merryweather’s Accumulator, 809
Fireman’s Lamp for Collieries, 137
Fireproof Doors, “ Dreadnought,” 461
Fishing-Boats, Oil-Motors for, 613, 637
Fish-Plates, Punching-Press for, 597
Fits, Standard, for Machine Work, 118, 200
Flames, Gas, Action on Metals, 729
— Gas, Radiation from, 357,381,417, 482, 484 See
340
— Gas, Transparency to Heat Radiation, 360, 417,
482. See 340
Flange-Turning Machine for Boiler-Plates, 848
Flash Boiler, Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 762
Flask-Foundry, Mechanical Slip, 536
— Assembling-Machine, 535
Fleetwood Docks, Electric Transporter, 700
Fleming, Professor J. A., Wireless Telegraphic Improvements, 866
Fletcher, Russell; Brass-Melting Furnace, 727
Flett, George, The late, 172, 207
Flexible Coupling, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 5
Flight. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Floating Crane. See Crafie
— Dock. See Dock
Floods, River Seine, Causes, 307
Floors. Ferro-Concrete, Design, 607
Flue-Dust, Blast-Furnace, Briquetting, 481
Flue-Gas Analysis, 93, 889
Fluid Friction, Differential Gauge for Measuring, 144
Fluorspar Prisms, Refractive Index, 729
Fly-Wheel Design, Treatise on, 817
Flying-Machine. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Folding-Machines for Circulars, 575
Forced Lubrication, Thornycroft Oil-Engine, 613
Ford Motor-Car, 660
Foreign Engineering Projects, 34, 70, 106, 139, 160, 218, 242, 286, 316, 349, 364, 416, 450, 484, 521, 552, 587, 617, 644, 684, 720, 752, 768, 813, 840, 876, 904
Forest Denudation, Effects on Climate, 307
Forfeiture Clause ; Contracts, 802
Forging-Hammers. See under Machine-Tools
Forgings, Steel, for Turbine Rotors, 105
— Steel, Beardmore’s, 390
Forsyth, on U.S. Locomotive Terminals, 169, 183
Foster Radiation Pyrometer, 888
Foundations, Auld Brig o’ Ayr, Repairs, 73
— Breakwater, Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 593
— Engine, Failures of, 338
— Harland and Wolff’s Shipbuilding Berths, 566
— Mud, for Retaining-Walls, Treatise on, 558
— Vulcan Shipyard, Hamburg, 148, 291, 374
Foundries, Brass, Crucible Furnaces, 559, 654, 725
— Brass, Use of Metallography, 446, 458
— Converters, 296
— Coke for, 107
— Cupola, Portable, for Rail-Jointing, 581
— Flask, Assembling-Machine, 535
— Flask, Mechanical Slip, 536
— Iron Castings, Effect of Sinking Heads, 140
— Iron, Defects in Castings, 639
— Iron, Native Chinese, 761
— Moulding, System and Machines, 533
— Patterns, Machines for Making, 431, 497, 499
— Plant and Machinery, 42, 151, 296, 559, 654, 725, 787. For Details see Illustration Index
— Steel, Furnaces, 151
Fournier Vapour Pressure Thermometers, 497
Frahm’s Experiments, Rolling of Ships, 832
— Vibration Tachometer, 30
Frames, Ship, Gas-Heated Furnace for, 230
France, Factory Inspection, 606
— Labour Exchanges in, 541
“ France,” S.S., Construction, 847
Freezing- Points of Pure Metals, 143,
Freight Traffic on Electric Railways, 227
French Battleship “ Diderot,” Construction, 847 French Experiments on Coal-Dust Explosions, 43
— Field-Guns, Air Running-Up Gear, 405
— Floods, Causes of, 307
— Lorraine, Iron-Ore Deposits, 168
— Mines, Carbon Dioxide in, 44
— Mining Legislation, 404
— Naval Dockyards, 806
— Railway Strike, Causes, 574
— Railways, Labour Conditions, 574
— Shipyard, St. Nazaire, 847
— Steamers, “ France ” and “ Rochambeau,” 847 Friction-Clutch. See Clutch
— Fluid, Differential Gauge for Measuring, 144
— of Gears, 192 ; Machine for Testing, 217
— Hoist, Pickerings’, 461
— Lifters for Drop-Stamps, 330
— of Plates in Air Currents, 337. See 373
— Rolling-Stock Journals, 723
— Screw-Press for Stamping, 500
— Testing-Machine for Roller-Bearings, 500
Fuel, Liquid. See Oil Fuel
— for Domestic Heating, 528
— See also Combustion
Furnace, Air, for Malleable Iron, 789
— Annealing, Malleable Castings, 791
— Blast. See Blast-Furnace
— Boiler, Air-Heater for, 200
— Boiler, Alien’s Fire-Bars and Joggling-Gear,
462
— Boiler, Babcock and Wilcox Chain - Grate
Stoker, 501
— Boiler, Bennis Compressed-Air, Amsterdam,
700
— Boiler, Combustion in, 764, 795, 825, 856, 901
— Boiler, Gregory Combined Coal and Oil, 733
— Boiler, Smoke Production, 742
— Boiler, Tests of Coal, 93
— Boiler, with Underfeed Stokers, 200
— Brass-Melting, 559, 654, 725; Whiting, 560; Carr, 560 ; Piat, 657 ; Green, 658; Morgan, 658; Rockwell, 725 ; Schwartz, 726; Charlier, 726; Badische, 727; Fletcher Russel, 727
— Carbon Tube, Electric, Radiation Experiments, 673
— Coke for, 107
— Electric, Steel Refining, 492
— Electric, Steel, Eicher HUtten-Verein, 674
— Forging, Producer-Gas Heated, 47
— Foundry. See Foundry Plant
— Gas-Heated, Ship Frame and Plate, 230, 231
— Linings, Materials for, 25, 899
— Locomotive Boiler, Heat Production in, 289
— Siemens, Combustion in, 580, 641
— Siemens, Theory of, 484
— Siemens, Steel-Melting, 151, 484, 580, 611
— Steel, Gas-Fired, Mason’s, 154
— Steel, Open-Hearth, Use of Iron-Ore Bri
quettes, 481
— Steel, Wellman Tilting, 154
Furness Railway, Locomotive Superheater, 858, 891
Fuses, Electrical, Ageing of, 728
Galvanising Plant, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 231 Galvanometers. See under Electric
Gardner Marine Oil-Engine, 637
Garforth, W. E. ; Coal-Dust Experiments, 43, 801, 865
Garwood’s Sounding Apparatus for Lakes, 207 Gas, Blast-Furnace, for Power, 515. See 494, 557
— Burner, Mansfield Inverted, 579
— Coal, Effects of Sulphur, 528
— for Domestic Heating, 528, 712
— and Electric Lighting, London Streets, 511
— Engineers, German, in England, 507
— Engines. See Engines, Gas
— Explosive, in Mines, Lamp for Estimating 137
— Fired Annealing Furnaces, Malleable Cast
ings, 791
— Fired Brass Furnaces, 726
— Fired Frame and Plate Furnaces, 230, 231
— Fired Steel Furnaces, 151
— Flames, Action on Metals, 729
— Flames, Radiation from, 357, 381, 417, 482,
484. See 340
— Flames, Transparency to Heat Radiation,
360, 417, 482. See 340
— Flue, Analysis of, 93, 889
— in French Mines, 44
— Lighting, Bills in Parliament, 775
— Lighting, History, 507
— Lighting, Locomotive Running-Sheds, 155
— and Oil-Fired Brass-Furnace, 727
— Permeability of Balloon Fabrics to, 337
— Pressures, Small, Differential Gauge for, 144
— Producers. See Producer and Suction
— Pumps and Air-Compressors, Humphrey, 125,
714
— Pump, Humphrey, Ship Propulsion, 718
— Sampling Apparatus, Coal-Dust Explosion
Experiments, 866
— Thermometry, Progress in, 141
— Turbines, Possibilities, 739
Gaseous Explosions, Heat Radiation in, 340, 357, 381, 417, 482, 483
— Explosions, Influence of Surfaces and Mois
ture 452
— Explosions, Wave Propagation in, 452. See
357
Gases, Effect on Brass at High Temperatures, 448 — Electric Discharge in, Cause of Afterglow, 840 — Exploding by Compression, 357. See 452
— Separation by Liquefaction, 837 Gasoline Engines. See Engines, Petrol
\ Gauges, Caliper and Limit (Crown Works), 430
— Cocks, Klinger’s Asbestos-Packed, 499
— Glasses and Protectors, 498, 499
— Measuring, Changes in Length, 673
— Pressure, Crosby Testing-Machine, 498
— Pressure - Recording, Coal - Dust Explosion Experiments, 866
— Pressure, Two Liquid, Differential, 144
Gear, Change-Speed. See Motor-Car Details in Illustration Index
— Cutting Machines, See Machine-Tools
Gear, Differential, for Motor-Cars. See Motor-Car Details in Illustration Index
— Helical (Citroen), 430. See 465
— Helical, for Machine-Tools, 176
— Involute, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers’ Committee on Standards, 216
— Involute, Forms of Teeth, 192, 213, 216, 242
— Involute, Machines for Cutting, 213
— Patterns, Machine for Making (Wadkin), 431
— Reversing. See Reversing-Gear
— Teeth Friction, 192 ; Machine for Testing, 217
— Worm, for Motor-Car Drive, 659, 662, 688, 689 Gearing, Involute, Interchangeable, 192, 216
— Lecoche Magnetic, Marine Propulsion, 442
— Noiseless, 192
Gelsenkirchen Mines, Ventilating Fan, 518 Gemeente Electriciteitswerken, Amsterdam ;
Bennis Stokers and Coal-Conveyor, 700 Generating-Station. See Hydro-Electric, Electric, and Power
Generators, Electric. See Alternators and Dynamos under Electric
— Gas. See Producers, Suction and Gas Geodetic Arc in Africa, Progress, 453 Geography, Japan-British Exhibition, 206 Geological Effects of Ice, 336
— Survey of United Kingdom, 311
Geology, Japan-British Exhibition, 207 Geophysics, Report on Study, 453
“ Georgia,” U.S. Battleship; Gun Explosion, 562 Germain Motor-Car Engine, 15-H.-P., 659 German Asphalt Roads, 325
— Chemical Industry, 768
— Cruiser “Von der Tann,” 27
— Experiments on Coal Combustion, 93
— Experiments, Rolling of Ships, 832
— Field-Guns, Running-Out Gears, 405
— Gas Engineers’ Visit, 507
— Guns, Wear of, 773
— Hydraulic Engineering, 273
— Imports of British Coal, 277
— Inland Navigation, 273
— Insurance against Industrial Accidents, 545
— Insurance against Strikes, 369
— Iron and Steel Industry, 552
— Light Tax, 729
— Lorraine, Iron-Ore Deposits, 168
— Machinery Exports, 598
— Mine - Owners’ Association and School,
Bochum, 704
— Naval Development, 129. See 771
— Navy and the British 13.5-In. Gun, 636
— Peat Deposits, Utilisation, 340
— Pig-Iron Union, 373
— Rolling-Mill Practice, 12
— Shipbuilding Manual, 791
— Shipyards, Labour Troubles, 276,329
-- Strikes and Lock-Outs, Statistics, 370 Gibb, II. M., on Design of Plate Girders, 39 Gilbreth’s System of Bricklaying, 192 Girard Turbine, Glasgow College, 685 Girders, Plate, Design of, 39
— Shearing-Machines for (Pels), 427, 643
— See also Beams; Bridges ; Roofs
Gironde Shipbuilding Works, Bordeaux Dock,302 Glaciers, Geological Effects, 336
Glands, Carbon Packed, for Turbine Shafts, 466
— Labyrinth, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 4 Glaser, Carl, The late, 299
Glasgow School of Architecture, 624
— and South-Western Railway ; Lawsuit, 733
— and West of Scotland Technical College, 424,
487, 624, 685, 757; Engine Trials, 794, 809, 825
Glass Furnace, Siemens, Theory of, 484
— Plates, Plane Parallel, Production of, 132
— Removing Grease from, 673
— Sealing Iron Wires into, 451
— Weathering Properties, 729
Gleason Gear-Cutting Machine, 213 “Gloucester,” H.M. Cruiser ; Steam Trials, 241
“ Gnome” Aeroplane Engine, 120, 130, 411
Golcar Sewage Disposal, 610
Gold-Beaters’ Skin, Permeability of, 337
Gold-Leaf Electrometer, 867 Gold Production, Ural, 136
Goods Traffic on Electric Railways, 227
Goss, W. F. M.; Locomotive Tests, 289
Goudie, W. J.; Chart for Specific Volumes of Steam, 8
Governing Engines, Treatise on, 817
Governor-Gear, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 5
Grab, Excavating, 327. See also Dredgers
Grading-Machines, Erie Canal, 326
Grand Trunk Railway Development, 765
Granulation of Blast-Furnace Slag, 311
Graphite, Conversion of Diamonds to, 868
— Dynamo Brushes, 133
— Feeding Lubricator, 499
— Products at Olympia, 499
Grate. See Furnace, Boiler
Gratings, Diffraction. See Diffraction Gratings Graving Dock. See Dock
Gray-Ross Magnetometer, 647
Grease for Ball-Bearings, 373
— Removing from Glass, &c., 673
Great Eastern Railway, Working Results, 271
— Western Railway, Breakdown Crane, 201;
Locomotive Standardisation, 596 ; Running-Sheds, 155 ; Use of Private Wagons, 772 ; Working Agreement with L. and S.W. Railway, 271
Green’s Tilting Brass-Furnaces, 658
Greenwich Observatory, Retirement of Sir W. H. M. Christie, 472
Gregory Coal-Oil Furnace, 733
Grey’s Rolling-Mill for Steel Beams, 477
Grille Water-Tube Boiler Trials, 25, 275
Grimnitz Lake, Evaporation Experiments, 273
Grinding-Machines. See Machine-Tools
— Mill, Jackson, 828
— Surface, 197
Grbndal Ball and Tube Mills, 383
— Process of Iron-Ore Briquetting, 480. See 470 ; See Erratum, 512
Grouting, Cement, Repairs of Old Brig o’ Ayr, 73
— Cement, for Shaft Sinking, 44
Guarding Machinery, Factory Inspectors’ Requirements, 26
Guards for Machinery, 277
Guest’s Law. See Combined Stress Gun, 4,33-In. Howitzer (Vickers), 222
Gun, 12-In. Breech Mechanism (Vickers), 222
— 12-In. Wire-Wound and Built-Up (Vickers), 222
— 13.5-In., H.M. Cruiser “Lion,” 237
— 75-Mm. Field (Vickers), 221
— Australian Destroyers, 404
— Beardmore’s, at Olympia, 390
— Bending Due to Temperature, 879
— British 13-5-In., German Knowledge of, 636
— Explosion, U.S. Battleship “Georgia,” 562
— Life and Wear of, 773
— Projectiles, Length and Weight of, 22
— Projectiles, Spiral Trajectory, 877
— Running-Out Gears, 405
— Strength of, 324. See 416, 511, 546, 580, 599
— Vibrations of, 879
— Wire-Wound, and Solid, Comparative Stiffness, 877
— See also Warships
Gunboats. See Warships
Gun-Metal, Causes of Blow-Holes, 446, 458
— Casting, Effects of Phosphorus, 446
— Casting for High Pressures, 852, 870
— Effect of Casting Temperature, 446
— Effect of Heat Treatment, 852
— Metallography in Casting, 446,458
— Spanish Battleships, 80
Gun-Powder, Smokeless, Dangers of Multiple Perforations, 562
Gun-Power of British Battleships, 305, 441
— H.M. Scout, “ Falmouth,” 441
— H.M.S. “Neptune,” 305
Guttmann, Oscar, The late, 207
GWynnes .Centrifugal Pumps, 435
Gyropter, The Davidson, 59. See 697
Gyroscopes for Controlling Aeroplanes, 525. See 505
— Elementary Theory, 61, 98
Gyroscopic Demonstration Apparatus, 452
H.M.S. See Warships
Hack-Sawing Machine. See Machine-Tools
Hague, A. ; Influence of Silicon on Pure Cast Iron, 471, 841
Halifax Sewage Disposal, 543
Hall Friction-Clutch, Mine Haulage Gear, 711
Halley’s Comet, Effect on Atmosphere, 454
Hallwach’s Effect, Fatigue in, 423
Hamburg Shipyards, Labour Troubles, 276, 329
Hamburg Shipyard, Vulcan Co., 147, 230, 290, 374, 525
Hammer-Head Crane. See Crane
Hammers. See Machine-Tools
Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, China, 371. See 491
Harbour Schemes in Parliament, 775, 803
— See also Dock
— See also Simon's Bay Naval Dockyard
Hardening Aluminium-Copper Alloys, 491, 549
— Carbon Steels, 490, 548
Hardness, Manganese Cast-Iron, 585, 587. 471
— Testing-Machine, Ball, 459
— Tests of Alloys, 679, 682
— Tests, Silicon Oast Iron, 844. See 471
Harfield, Lieut.-Col. W. H., The late, 503
Harland and Wolff’s Shipbuilding Berths, 566
Harris, H. Graham, The late, 577. See 595
Harrison Liner “ Explorer,” Engines, 839
Hart, C. T.,The late, 443
Haulage-Gear, Mine, Endless Rope, 710
— Gear, Mine, Main and Tail, 710
— Systems for Mines, 45
Hawes Junction Accident, Midland Railway, 896
Heat Conductivity, Fire-Clay, 743
— Conductivity of Materials, 396, 414, 743
— Convection from Bodies in Fluids, 317
— Insulating Materials for Cold Stores, Tests
396, 414
— Latent, Steam, 672
— Production in Locomotive Boilers, 289
— Radiation. See Radiation
— Transmission in Boilers, Tests, 764. See
Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
— Transmission inJLocomotive Boilers, 255, 289,
347. See 511, 641, 901
— Treatment of Brass, 440, 447
— Treatment, Defective, Non-Ferrous Alloys,
813. See 458
— Treatment, Effect on Gun-Metal, 852
— Treatment, Effect on Magnetic Properties of
Alloys, 647. See 439
— Treatment, Steel, Changes in Physical Pro
perties, 906
— Treatment, Steel, Magnetic Tests,’836. See
907
— Treatment. See also Alloys
Heater, Air, for Boiler-Furnaces (Underfeed Stoker Company), 200
— Feed-Water. See Feed- Water Eeater
Heating Apparatus for Engineering Shops, 267
— Buildings, Glasgow College, 426
— Electrical, and Coal Conservation, 703, 712. See 795
— and Ventilating Locomotive Sheds, 182 Helical Gears. See Gears
Hematite Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams Hennebique Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Heraeus, Heinrich, The late, 697
Herbert’s Coventry and Edgwick Works, 113;
Milling Cutter Guard, 277 ; Herbert’s File-Testing Machine, Professor Ripper’s Improvements, 361
H6roult Electric Steel Furnaces, 492
Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Heusler Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 439, 646
Heysham Electric Railway, Costs, 224, 251
High-Speed Tool Steel. See Tool Steel
Hitchcock, C., on Standardisation of Locomotives in India, 595, 614. See 605, 663
Hobart, H. M., on the Cost of Electrically-Propelled Suburban Trains, 223, 249
Hobbing-Machines, Gear. See Machine-Tools
Hobson, Prof., Presidential Address to Section A, British Association, 421
Hodges’ Turbine Blowers, 16
Hoist, Friction, Pickerings’, 461
Holborn-Strand Tramway Tunnel, London, 675
Holland, Land Reclamation, 869
Holland’s Propeller, Tests, 378
Hollerith Tabulating Machine, 170
Home Office Industrial Exhibit, Brussels Exhibition, 133
Hong Kong University, 607
Honours, King’s Birthday, for Scientists, 25
Hopkinson’s Experiments on Radiation in Gaseous Explosions, 340, 483. See 357,381, 417
Horner, Joseph ; The Engineering Exhibition at Olympia, 351, 386, 427, 459, 497
— on Foundry Plant and Machinery, 42, 151, 296, 559, 654, 725, 787. For details see Illustration Index
Horse Traction on Roads, Decrease in, 721, 749 Horwich Works, L. and Y. Railway, Steel Furnaces, 154
Hose-Couplings, “ Dayol,” 463
Howell, George, The late, 444
Howitzer, 4.33-In. (Vickers’), 222
— Running-Out Gears for, 405
Huddersfield Sewage Disposal, 543
Hudson, 0. F., on Heat Treatment of Brass, 440, 447
Hudson River and Lake Erie Canal, 1, 76, 260, 326, 523. For details see Illustration Index Hiifner Type Spectrophotometer, 451
Hughes, T. W. R., The late, 611
Humber Motor-Car, 689
Humpage, Thomson, and Hardy ; Gear-Cutting Machine, 213
Humphrey Gas-Pumps and Air-Compressors, 125, 714
— Gas-Pump, Brussels Exhibition, 125. See 714
— Gas-Pump, Ship Propulsion, 718
Hydraulic Air-Compressors, 45
— Capstans, Cape Naval Yard, 885
— Engineering, German, Exhibition, 273
— Experiments, Differential Gauge for, 144
— Filling in Collieries, 13
— Jet Pump, Theory, 369
— Launching Gear, S.S. “Olympic,” 568
— Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
— Mains, Stresses in, 324. See 416, 511, 546, 580, 599. See also 669
— Moulding Machines, Bonvillain and Ronce-ray’s, 533
— Pressures, Gun-Metal and Aluminium-Bronze Castings for, 852, 870
— Process, Coal-Dust Prevention, 13
— Pump, Petavel’s High Pressure, 872. See 852
— Telemotor for Steering-Gears, 442, 498
— Triangular Notches, Coefficient of Discharge,
— Valve Blocks, Aluminium-Bronze, Tests, 852.
873 ’
— See also Water
Hydro-Electric Power, Baden State Railways. 742 J ’
— Power Companies, Norwegian, 406
— Power Plant, Porjus Falls, Lapland, 23, 185
— Power Scheme, Tasmania, 709
— Power, Sweden’s Waterfalls, 775, 779 Hydro-Geological Survey, United Kingdom, 311 Hydrogen, Production from Water-Gas, 12 Hydroplane Boat, “Miranda IV.” (Thornycroft).
99, 187. See Letter, 277
— Boats, Possibilities of, 187. See also 99, 277 Hysteresis, Magnetic, Energy Losses in, 317
— Tests of Rubber, 415
Hyetograph, Recording Rain-Gauge, 133
Ice, Geological Effects, 336
Ice-Making Machine, Methyl Chloride, 577
Ice. See also Refrigerating
Illumination. See also Light; Lighting ;
Lamps; Electric
Impact Tensile-Testing Machine, 860
— Testing Machine, Rotary, 459
Inclined Planes in Air-Currents, 837. See
Letters, 373, 510
India, Madras Irrigation, 671
Indian Locomotives,Standard Specificationsand
Tests for Materials, 615
— Locomotives, Standardisation of. 595. 605 614. See 663 ’
— Railways, Development, 514
— Railways, Loading-Gauges, Broad and Metre-Gauge Lines, 614. See 663
India-Rubber, Effects of Mercury Vapour, 370
— Testing by Mechanical Hysteresis, 415 Indicator, Revolution, for Engines, McNab’s 796 ’
— Speed, Frahm Vibration, 30
Induction Coil, Wilson’s System, 414, 678
— Motors. See Electric
Industrial Accidents, German Insurance, 545
— Concerns, Directors’ Qualifications, 895
— Notes, 27, 48, 99, 137, 173, 211,243, 279 312 344, 376, 394, 445, 476, 513, 531, 663, 612 64o’ 676, 696, 745, 777, 808, 837, 861, 900.’ See Paragraph Index
— Progress in China, 372
Industries, British. Census of Production 205
— and Politics, 771 ’
— Value of Amalgamation, 55, 127, 162, 241 Ingots, Steel, Closing of Blow Holes, 509
— Steel, Double Band-Saw for, 736
Injector, Metcalfe Exhaust-Steam, 859
Inland Navigation, Canadian, 523
— Navigation, German, 273
— Navigation. See also Canals, &c.
— Navigation, Terminal Freight Facilities, 26 inspection of Farm Boilers, 311. See 298 Institutions, Technical. See Civil Engineers •
Mechanical Engineers; Electrical Engineers; Naval Architects; Iron and Steel Institute ; Physical Society ; British A sso-ciation, Metals, 1 nstitute of; International Instruction-Cards for Machine Work 171 197 Instruments, Electrical. See under "Electric
— Scientific, Brussels Exhibition, 132
— Scientific, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 866
888 ’
Insulating Materials for Cold Stores, Tests 396 414 * ’
Insulators, Electric, Resistance at High Temperatures, 406
Insurance, Industrial Accidents, Germany 545
— against Strikes in Germany, 369
— of Workmen. See Workmen's Compensation
under Legal
Interchangeability. See Standardisation Interference, Light, Apparatus for, 451
— Prism for Resolving Spectrum Lines, 672 Interferometer, Fabry-Perot, 132
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines Petrol, Gas, Oil, &c.; Motor-Cars, Motor-Launches, Tractors; Aeroplanes and Airships
International Congress, Mining and Metallurg) , Dusseldorf, 11, 43
— Exhibitions. See Exhibitions
— Road Congress, Brussels, 205, 239, 308, 3-5
— Town-Planning Conference, 299, 395, 539 Invention. See Patent
Inventions, Commercial Value, 636, 646
— Improvements in, 339
Involute Gearing, Interchangeable, 192, 216 .
— Gearing Standards Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 216
— Gears, Forms of Teeth, 192, 213, 216. See Letter, 242
— Gears, Machines for Cutting, 213
Ionisation, Air, Electric Stress to Produce, 839
— of Atmosphere, 451
Irish Railways Commission, Report, 166
— Railways, State Management of, 166
— Engineering Schemes in Parliament, 803
Iron-Carbon Alloys, Theory of Hardening, 490, 548
Iron, Cast. See Cast Iron
— Castings from Blast-Furnace, 462
— Castings’, Defects in, 639
— Castings, Effect of Sinking Heads, 140
— Castings, Malleable, Annealing Furnaces, 791
— Castings, Malleable, Manufacture of, 787
— Composition of. See Micro-Photographs in
Illustration Index
— Corrosion, Acid Theory, 528
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Industry, German, 552
— Industry, Native Chinese, 761
— Magnetic Tests in Intense Fields, 835
— Ore Briquetting, 470, 480. See Erratum, 512
— Ore Briquettes for Steel Furnaces, 481
— Ore British Supplies, 708
— Ore Concentrating and Briquetting Plant,
Lulea, 418
— Ore Crushing Plant, 383
— Ore Deposits and Briquetting Plant, South
Varanger, Norway, 383
— Ore Deposits, Lorraine, 168
— Ore Deposits, Ural, 136
— Ore, Magnetic Separating Plant, 383
— Ore Nodulising by Heat, 470, 481
— Ore Transport, Lapland, 23, 185
— Oxides, Magnetic, from Aqueous Solutions,
471
— Pig, German Union, 373
— Pig, from Lapland Ore, 418
— Production, Belgium, 732
— Rolling-Mills. See Rolling-Mills
— Sheet. Magnetic Tests, 728
— and Steel Institute, West of Scotland, Presi
dential Address, 610
— and Steel Swedish Markets, 778
— See also Cast Iron and Steel
Iron-Work, Structural. See Bridges; Roofs;
Steel; Ferro-Concrete; Buildings ; Works
— Wires, High Temperature Torsion-Tests, 472
— Works, Hanyang, China, 371. See 491
— Works, Karlsvik, Lulea, 418 Ironclads. See Warships
Iron and Steel Institute:
Buxton Meeting :—
Opening Ceremony, 470
Visits and Excursions, 471, 491, 495
Concluding Proceedings, 495
Reports of Discussions, 470, 490
Briquetting Iron Ores, by C. de Schwarz
470, 480. See Erratum, 512
Manufacture of Rolled H-Beams, by G. E. Moore, 471, 477
Sulphurous Acid as a Metallographic Etching Medium, by S. Hilpert and E. Colver-Glauert, 471. See Erratum, 512
Preparation of Magnetic Oxides of Iron from Aqueous Solution, by S. Hilpert, 471
Influence of Silicon on Pure Cast Iron, by A. Hague and Professor T. Turner, 471 841
Manganese in Cast Iron and the Volume Changes During Cooling, by H. I. Coe 471, 581
Theory of Hardening Carbon Steels, by C. A. Edwards, 490, 548
Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, by G Chamier, 491. See 371
Electric Steel Refining, by D. F. Campbell,
Utilisation of Electric Power in the Iron and Steel Industry, with Special Reference to the Economical Speed Regulation of the Motors, by J. J. E. Schuurman, 491, 515. See Letter, 697
Experiments on Fatigue of Metals, by Professor J. H. Smith, 494. See 669 Irrigation, Madras, Report, 671
“ Ivel ” Agricultural Tractor, 234. See 240, 272

Jackson Grinding-Mill, 828
Jacobs-Shupert Locomotive Fire-Box, Low-Water Test, 675
Jaeger Rotary Blower, 42
“ Jaime I.,” New Spanish Battleship, 80
“Jan Breydel,” Turbine Channel Steamer, 84
Japan-British Exhibition, British Science Section, 167, 206 ; Vickers’ Ordnance, 221 • Results, 806
Japanese Education Report, 556
— Financial Annual, 276
Jellicoe, Sir J., Controllership of Navy, 864
Jet Propulsion of Ships, 269; Humphrey Gas-Pump for, 718
Jet-Pump, Hydraulic, Theory, 369
Jigs for Machine-Work, 119, 198
Joggling-Gear for Fire-Bars, Allen’s, 462
John’s Punching and Shearing-Machines, 427 643
Johnson, F., on the Effect of Impurities on Arsenical Copper, 455
Johow’s Shipbuilding Manual, 791
Jointing Material for Steam-Pipes, 502 Joists, Steel, Rolling-Mills for, 471, 477
— Shearing-Machines for (Pels), 427, 643 Jones, Lieut. H. J., on Stiffness of Guns, 877
jost High-Speed Drilling-Machines 460
Journals, Ko»ing-SU>ck Des^n.-B
Judel, Dr.-Ing. Max., T ,irJeer3 presidential Junior Institution of Engineers, Address, Sir J. J. Thomson, /0a

Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, Enlargement, 2.4
— System, Value of, 55, 1-/, 16-, -
KSWSSft?* >"ki"s B““ -

Large Castings, 140

Kennedy Pipe-Bending Mach'"e> ”s
Rolling-Mill^^nS(^<rB0^;S’d4\Ve3t of Scot-er ’ land Technical College, 424, 487, 624, 68a, ^57
Kerr’s Sand-Ejector for Locomotives 30
Ketch “ Mohawk ” with Auxiliary Motor, 8-1 King’s Navy. See Warships
Kingsbury? A., on Polishing Metals for Micro-scopic Examination, 108
Kingsway Tramway Tunnel, London, 675
Kiruna - Riksgriinsen Railway Electrification,
185
Kirunavaara Iron-Ore Deposits, Lapland, 185 Klenk Septic Tank, 903 .
Knight Sleeve-Valve Motor-Car Engines, 68^
Krlimer Speed-Regulation System for Three-Phase Motors, 518. See 491, 697
« Kromhout ” Marine Oil-Engines, 637
Krupp Guns, Wear of, 773
Laboratories and Departments, Glasgow and West of Scotland College; Physical, 42i>, 688 ; Chemical, 426, 758, 759, 7G<>; Mechanical Engineering, 488 ; Civil Engineering, 624 ; Architectural, 624 ; Hydraulic, 626, 685 ; Naval Architecture, 685 ; Mining and Geology, 685; Mathematics, 6s*; Electrical, 757; Metallurgy, 760; Textile, 760
— Works, Utility of, 705
— See also National Physical Laboratory and
Reichsanstalt
Labour Affairs. See also Industrial Notes
— Agreements, Shipbuilding Trade, 367, 401, 831
— Attitude towards Machinery, 635, 645
— Belgian Collieries, Statistics, 732
— and Capital, Co-operation, 19
— and Capital, Cost of Machine Work, 175
— Conditions in China, 372
— Cost of Coal Production, 95
— Disputes, Compulsory Arbitration, 506
— Dispute, Cotton Operatives, 401
— Dispute, South Wales Coal-Miners, 401
— Disunion, 367, 401. See 831
— Duty to the Slate, 165
— Exchanges, French, 541
— Exchanges and Trade Unions, 438
— on French Railways, 574
— in Germany, Insurance against Strikes, 369
— in Germany, Statistics of Disputes, 370
— Inspection, France, 60G
— Insurance in Germany, 545
— International Meeting of Employers, 868
— Legislation. See also Workmen’s Compensa
tion under Ley al; Industrial Notes ; Trade
— in Mines, French Legislation, 404
— Position in Industry, 65, 127, 162, 208, 241
— and the Railway Companies, 165. See 272
— Representation in Parliament, 437
— Troubles, German Shipyards, 276, 329
Labyrinth-Packing Glands, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 4
— Steam-Leakage, 69,136, 373
Lackawanna Sheet-Steel Piling, Erie Canal, 328 Lagging Small Steam-Pipes, Futility of, 414 Lake Steamers, U.S., Lloyd’s Classification, 546 Lamp’s Theory of.Thick Cylinders, Experimental Proof, 416
Lamp, Mercury Vapour, Westinghouse, 343 : Brush, 536
— Metallic Filament, Tests, 729
— Miners’ Safety, for Gas Estimation, 137
— Pump, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
— See also Electric
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Electric Transporter Fleetwood Docks, 700; Steel Furnaces at Horwich, 154
Lanchester Accelerometer, 670
Lanchester, F. W., on Utility of Motor-Cars, 540
— Theory of Flight, 37
Land Reclamation, Holland, 869
Langford, Explosion of Traction-Engine Boiler,
Lapland, Hydro-Electric Power-Plant, 93 185
— Ore, Pig Iron from, 418
— Railway Electrification, 23, 185
— Transport of Iron Ore, 23, 185
Larar<J, ,G\ f., on the Behaviour of Ductile Material under Torsional Strain, 32 • on 5^64RlA663al Propeller8> 319’ See Lexers, Latent Heat, Steam, 672 Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Launch, Motor. See Motor Launch; Motor-JljOCLu
Launching Gear for Double-Banked Ships’ Boats Wehn Quadrant, 14 ’
— Gear for Ships’ Boats (Allen and Simmonds,
— Gear, S.S. “ Olympic,” 568
Ways, Vulcan Shipyard Hamburg 291 • r iP^n,h9efc ShlP5’ard, France, 847 ’
Laval Coking Process for Peat, 136
— St®a“^rbine, Design of Disc and Shaft, 66,
— Turbines and Electric Generators, Ore Bri-
quetting Plant, 384; Tests. 386
Lead-Antimony Alloys. See Alloys Lead Mining, Scotland, 638
— Pipes, Amalgaline Joints, 886
T“ E,““«
Leaseholds, Points of Law, 864
Lecoche Gearing, Marine Propulsion, 442
Leeds, Atmosphere of, 529
Sewage Disposal Scheme, 133
Lriral:
Arbitration, Compulsory, in Trade Disputes, 5U6
Bovd and Forrest r. Glasgow and South-Western Railway. 733
Conciliation Acte, Australia and New Zea-land, 506
Contracts, Forfeiture Clause, 802
— Lump-Sum, 22. Sec 733
— Sale of Goods. 402, 740
Crovdon Borough Council, Telephone Wirinr
Case, 332 , 5
Employees. See also YTorihneft
Engineering, tew Relating to. 120
Foundation Bore-Holes, 733
Iron founders' Friend h Society r. Ingall, 77; leaseholds, Pointe of Law, 8G4
levies. Parliamentary. Injunctions Against 28, 100. See 437, 717
Logan r. Chatham Government I labourers’ I nion, 900
Mining Legislation in France, 404
Motor Omnibuses, Sale and Purchase, 302 Negligence, Law of, 575
Osl»omc Case, Payment of labour Members of Parliament, 437. See 28, 100,717
Osborne and the Society of Railway Servants,
Patent Law, Recent Case*, 97
Patent Specifications, Wording of, 438
Patented Inventions, Improvement* in, 339 Patents, Thornton. Treatise on, bl
Railway Wagons, Privately OW’ned, 772
Restraint of Trade, Plea by Unregistered Unions, 28, 717
Restrictive Covenants. 165
Sale of Goods, < 'ontracts relating to, 402, 740 Selden Automobile Patent (U.S.), 311
Servants, Wrongful 1 dismissal, and Restrictive Covenant*, 165
Spillers and Bakers r. G. W. Railway, 772
Tender, Deposit on Making a, 485
Tenders for Municipal Work, 95
Unlawful Assembly (Ironworkers') Case, 213 Workmen's Compensation Cases, 31, 71, 97
127, 268, 318. 341. 519, Cll, G42, 719, 753, 779, 8*»7. 83b, 904
Legislation. Bee Industrial Sole* ; Legal Legros, L A., on Road Ixx?omotion, 724, 747 Lena River, Shallow-Draught* Tug-Boat, 731 Letter, .lames Watt, Presentation to American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, 169
Letters to the Editor, 26, 61, 98, 127, 162, 208 241, 277, 299, 329, 373, 395, 510,546, 580, 598*. €41. 663, 697. 732, 778, 794, 824 , 856, 901. See Letters 1m>kx
Level, Zeiss, 889
Lewis, W., on Interchangeable Involute Gearing 192, 216
Lidgerwood Cableway. Excavating, 327
Lievin Experiments on Coal-Dust Explosions, 43 Lift of Inclined Planes in Air Currents, 837. See
Letters, 373, 510
Lift, Service, Pickerings’, 462
Lifts. See also Hoist* and Elcvatort
Lifters, Friction, for Stamps (Massey), 330 Lifting-Bridges. See Bridget
Light, Apparatus for Circular Polarisation, 451
— Apparatus for Interference Bands, 451
Ousped Waves, and Theory of Rainbow, 744
— Diffraction. See Diffraction
— Interference Prism, 672
— Polarised, for Determination of Stress, 412 Pressure, Cosmical Applications, 453 Reflection by Metals, Temperature Effect, 729 Refractive Index, Quartz and Fluorspar, 729 Tax, German, 729
Light Railways, Belgium, 725
Lighthouse, Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 595 Lighting. Electric. See Electric and Lamp
— Gas and Electric, Bills in Parliament, 774, 893
— Gas and Electric, London Streets, 511
— Gas, History, 507
— Gas, Locomotive Running-Shed, 155, 180
— Gas, Mansfield Inverted Incandescent Burner,
579
Lignite, Producer-Gas from, 898
Ligno-Concrete, Teste, 820
Lime in Briquetting Iron Ore, 481. See 470
— Chloride of, Action on Metals, 512
— in Portland Cement, 98
Limit-Gauges, Windley’s (Crown Works), 430 Limited Co.'s, Directors’ Qualifications, 895 Limits for Machine Work, 118, 200
Linthwaite and Golcar Sewage Disposal, G10 ‘ Lion,’’ H.M. Cruiser, Design, 237
Liquefaction of Gases, Separation of Consti tuents, 837
Liquid Air, Magnetic Properties of Alloys in, 647. See 439
— Fuel. See Oil EucI
Lissajous Curves and Hysteresis Loops, 317
Literature, 81, 11), 259, 557, 6)9, 653, 791,816, 869. See Literati re Inpex,
Livenxiol Overhead Railway, 281, 349, 573
— Show, Royal Agricultural Society. 9
"" a,,d ^°«th)»ort Electric Railway, Costs, 203, 229.251, 281,349, 573
Lloyd s Register of Shipping, Rejxjrt, 646
Returns, British and Foreign! Shipping, 274 Returns, Shipbuilding Trade, 60, 508 Returns of Shipwrecks, 442
— Tests, Shipbuilding Material, 546
Loading Gauge, Brazilian Metre Gauge Railways, 663
— Gauges, Indian Railways, Broad and Metre
Gauge Lines, 614
TL21>"1,t? ^^nisher, Erie Canal, 328 uthorities. See Municipal and London
County Council
C cLT-.T'1 lk,artl and Ri'er Pollution, 68, vOo, i (Jfj
Lock, Erie Canal, 261
Ix)cks on German Canals, 274 xx’k-out, German Shipyards, 276. 3‘>9
— German, Statistics, 870
Shipbuilding Trade, 367, 461, 831 r2^!no,l.,on’Hoa<l, Development*, 724. 747 U in°9sa Bo,,crFu«»ace8, Heat Production
— Rrll<vSi’ Locomotive
reakdowns, Record of, 158
Locomotive, Characteristic Energy Diagrams, 255,289, 347. See 511, 641, 901
-■ Coal Consumption, 314
— Coaling Elevator, South-Eastern Railway, 155
— Coaling Stations, American, 170, 180, 182
— Compound Eight - Coupled Goods, P.L.M.
Railway, 796
— Compressed Air, for Mines, 45
— Cylinders, Vanadium Cast-Iron, 17, 519
— Design of Bearings, 723
— Draw-Bar Pull, 258
— Electric, American Data, 226, 246
— Electric, Lapland Railway, 185
— Examination, Midland Railway, 159. See 171
— Handling, Canadian Railways, 171, 179
— Indian, Standard Specifications and Tests for
Materials, 615
— Influence of Boiler Pressure on Economy, 259
— Kerr’s Sand-Ejector for, 30
— Mallet Compound, for Natal, 48
— Metcalfe’s Exhaust-Steam Injector, 859
— Pooling, or Assigned Crews for, 179, 183, 184. See 169
— Repairs, 158, 170, 171, 179
— Road. See Traction Engine, Tractor, and
Mot or-Wag on
— Running-Sheds, American, 1C9, 179, 181,183
— Running-Sheds, East Altoona, P.R.R., 183
— Running-Sheds, English Practice, 155, 169
— Running-Shed Pits, 170, 172
— Shearlegs for Lifting, 155
— Single-Phase Electric, Loetschberg Railway,
611
— Slide-Valves, Drop Tests, 852
— Standardisation of, 605 ; India, 595, 614, 663 ;
Great Western Railway, 596
— Steam and Electric, Comparisons, 203, 285,
314, 316
— Steam, Power, Speed, and Acceleration, 347
— Superheaters, “ Phcenix,” 858, 891
— Tests, Analyses of Results, 255, 289. See 347,
511, 641, 901
— Turbo-Electric, Reid-Ramsay, 54
— Turntables, 170, 171,180
— Type Boilers. See Boilers, Locomotive Type
— Wheels and Axles, Rapid Turning, 195
— Wheels, Drop-Pits for, 170, 171
Loetschberg Railway, Electric Locomotive, 611
Loewe, Isidor, The late, 341
London and Birmingham Railway, Statistics, 346
— Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Single
Phase Electric Traction, 407 ; Costs, 227, 251, 281. See 204, 271, 348
— County Council Tramway Subway Holborn-
Strand, 675
— Edinburgh Railway Service, 347, 356
— Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd. ; Strainer
for Circulating Water, Deptford Station, 677
— Motor Vehicles, Statistics, r/48. See 724
— New Bridge over Thames, 775, 863
— and North-Western Railway, Statistics, 271,
346 ; Steel Furnaces at Crewe, 151 ; Annealing Furnaces, 791; Willesden Accident, 794
— Post-Office, Electric-Power Plant, 709
— Road Maintenance, Costs, 749
— and South-Western Railway, Locomotive
Running-Sheds, 155
— and South-Western and Great Western Rail
ways, Working Agreement, 271
— Street Improvements, 675, 863, 901
— Street Lighting, Gas and Electric, 511
— Tramways, Statistics, 749
— Tube Railways, 203, 223, 250, 272, 281, 349
•— Underground Railways, Schemes in Parliament, 774
Longridge, M., Report on Machinery Failures, 338
Longuemare Carburettor, 691
Lorraine Iron-Ore Deposits, 168
Lorries. See Motor- Wagons and Tractors
Lowthian, G., on the Water Supplies (Protection)
Bill, 310
Lubecker Excavating Machine, Erie Canal, 327
Lubricant for Ball-Bearings, 373
Lubrication, Forced, Thornycroft Oil-Engine, 613
— Motor-Car Engines, 659, 688
— Rolling-Stock Journals, 723
— Spray, “ Britannia” Oil-Engine, 500
Lubricator for Feeding Graphite, 499
— Mechanical, Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 762
— Mechanical, at Olympia, 499
Luffing Gear for Cranes, Mitchell-Williams, 766
Lulea, Sweden, Karlsvik Iron Works, 418
MacLachlan, D. R., Impact Tensile Testing-Machine, 860
Macadam and Tar-Macadam Roads, 91, 206, 239, 308, 325. See 740
Machine Design, Cost in, 56
— Moulding, Bonvillain and Ronceray’s System,
533
— Shops. See Works
Machine-Tools:
Automatic Machines, Herbert’s Works, 114
— Turning-Machine (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 119 Axle-Lathe for High-Speed Steel, 177, 195 Band-Saw, Double, for Steel Ingots (Noble
and Lund, Ltd.), 736
— Wood (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 463
— Wood (W. B. Haigh and Co., Ltd.), 463
— Wood (Panhard and Levassor), 751
Billet Shears (Davy Bros , Ltd.), 529
Boiler-Scaler, Electrically-Driven, 798
Bolt-Screwing Machines (Kendall and Gent, Ltd.), 51
Boring and Turning Machine, Vertical (Ernst Schiess), 598
Cam-Cutting Machines (C. Nube), 828
Cam-Milling, Herbert’s Works, 119
Capstan Lathes, 5|-In. and 4-In. (H. W. Ward and Co., Ltd.), 389,390
— Lathe, Automatic Screw-Cutting (Clark’s Machine-Tool Co. (1907), Ltd.), 793
Commutator Segment Machine (Garbe, Lah-meyerand Co.), 665
Cutting-Oft' Machines for Bars (J. Butler and Co.), 538
Disc-Grinding Machine (Herbert), 464
Drills, High-Speed Steel, 174, 177, 178, 190, 197
Machine Tools—continued.
Di ills, Sensitive Radial Foot-Driven (Drummond Brothers, Ltd.), 353
— Sensitive Radial (Herbert), 464
— Sensitive (H. W. Ward and Co., Ltd.), 389
— Sensitive Three Spindle (Herbert), 463
— Sensitive (Jones, Pollard, and Shipman, Ltd.), 434
Drilling-Machine, Duplex Horizontal (Joshua Buckton), 888
— High-Speed (Jost and Co.), 460
— Tests, with High-Speed Steel, 197, 434
Drop Stamps and Friction Lifters (B. and S. Massey), 330
Electric Driving, 20
Engraving and Copying-Machine (C. Nube),
File-Testing Machine, Herbert’s ; Professor Ripper’s Improvements, 361
Gear-Cutting with High-Speed Steel, 197, 199
Gear-Cutting Machines, 213
Gear Patterns, Machine for Cutting (Wadkin and Co.), 431
Gear-Planing Machines, Reinecker (Pfeil and Co.), 391. See 213
— Machine, Sunderland (J. Parkinson and Son), 35?. See Erratum, 391
Grinder, Disc (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 464
— .Vertical Surface (Pratt and Whitney), 197
Grinding, Finishing Machine-Work by, 197, 200 *-
Grinding-Machine for Drills (Jones, Pollard, and Shipman, Ltd.), 434
— for Drills, Schmaltz (Burton, Griffiths and Co.), 393
— for Tools (Lumsden Machine Co., Ltd.), 392
— Universal, Foot-Driven (Drummond Bros., Ltd.), 353
Hack-Sawing Machines (C. Wicksteed and Co.), 353
— Machines, Double (Perkin and Co., Ltd.). 430
Hammers, Drop, and Friction-Lifters (B. and S. Massey), 330
— Steam and Pneumatic (B. and S. Massey), 330
Herbert’s Works and Tools, 114, 361, 463, 464 High-Speed Steel, Machines for, 173, 188,195, 197. See Letters, 241
Hobbing-Machines for Gears, 213
Hydraulic Press, Pistonless, 747
Instruction Cards for Machine-Work, 171, 197
Jigs for Machine-Work, 119,198
Lathes, 3;|-in. and 4|-in. Screw-Cutting, Foot-Power (Britannia Co.), 278. See 500
Lathe, 7|-in. High-Speed (J. Parkinson and Son), 352
— 8-in. Hexagon Turret (Clark’s Machine-Tool Co. (1907), Ltd.), 792
— 8£ in. All-Geared (J. Parkinson and Son), 351
— 9-in. (Drummond Bros., Ltd.), 353
— Automatic (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 119
— Automatic Capstan, Screw - Cutting (Clark’s Machine-Tool Co. (1907), Ltd.),
' 793
— for High-Speed Steel, 176, 195. See Letters, 241
— for High-Speed Steel, Power Required,
175, 176
— and Milling-Machine Combined, Drummond-Barreto, 332
— with Multiple Stops (Lodge and Shipley), 196
— Semi-All-Geared (Colchester Lathe Company), 352
— Vertical Turret (Bullard), 196
— Wheel, Outputs, 195
— Work, Labour and Capital Cost,. 175
Lathe-Tool Testing, Professor Ripper’s Speed Increment Method, 356. See Erratum, 416
Machine-Work, Labour and Capital Cost, 175
— Limits and Tolerances, 118, 200
— Rapid Production, 195
— System of Checking, Herbert’s Works, 115
Magnetic Clamp (Crown Works), 430
Manufacturing Methods, 198
Milling-Cutters, Air-Blast for Cooling, 199
— Herbert’s Guard for, 277
— High-Speed Steek.197,198, 199
— Inserted Teeth, Barker’s, 575
Milling-Machine, 42-In. (Bement-Miles), 197
— All-Geared (Cunliffe and Croom, Ltd.), 460
— All-Geared (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 120
— All-Geared (J. Parkinson and Son), 391
— All-Geared (H. W. Ward and Co., Ltd.), 386
— for Cams (C. Nube), 828
— Duplex'Horizontal (Joshua Buckton), 838
— for High-Speed Steel, 179. See 197, 198, 199
— and Lathe, Combined, Drummond-Barreto, 332
— Planer Type (Kendall and Gent), 331
— Results with High-Speed Steel, 197, 198, 199
— Vertical and Horizontal(Burton, Griffiths, and Co.), 393
Mortising-Machine, Chain, 291
— Chain and Hollow Chisel (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 431; (W. B. Haigh and Co., Ltd.), 463
Notching-Machine for Joists (Pels), 430, 643
Pattern-Making Machine (R. S. Allan and Co.), 499
— Machine (Pattern-Making Machine Co.), 497
— Machine (Wadkin and Co.), 431
Pipe-Bending Machine, Kennedy, 498
Planing-Machines, Double Cutting Tools for, 188
— for High-Speed Steel, 179. See 188
— Open-Side (Ernst Schiess), 891
— Portable, for Valve-Seats (Perkin and Co , Ltd.), 430
— Tuibine Casings, 848
Machine To a Is—continued.
Planing-Machines, Vertical and Horizontal (Ernst Schiess), 891
— Wood (W. B. Haigh and Co., Ltd.), 463
— Wood (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 463
— Wood (Panhard and Levassor), 751
— Wood, Horizontal Disc (Fleck), 290
Press, Friction Screw (A. Reiner and Co.), 500
Profiling-Machine (J. Parkinson and Son), 351. See Erratum, 394
Punching Machine, Triple (Pels), 643
— Press for Fish-Plates (Ernst Schiess), 597
— and Shearing Machines (Pels), 427, 613
— and Shearing Machine, Steel Plate Frame (Schenck and Liebe-Harkort), 500
Rail-Drilling Machine, Portable (Perkin and Co., Ltd.), 430
Roller-Steady Box-Turning Tool, Herbert’s, 119.
Saw-Bench, Two-Spindle (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 431
Saw, Cold Iron (Pfeil and Co.), 391
— Horizontal Band for Wood (Kirchner), 290
Sawing-Machines for Girders (C. Wicksteed and Co.), 353
Screws, Micrometer, Method of Cutting, 140 Shearing-Machine for Hot Steel Billets (Davy
Bros., Ltd.), 529
— for Plates and Bars (Pels), 427, 643
— for Steel Billets (Pels), 643
Slotting-Machines, 6-In. and 3-In. Stroke (Clark’s Machine-Tool Co. (1907), Ltd.), 791
— (J. Butler & Co.), 538
— Circular Attachment for (Clark’s Machine-Tool Co. (1907), Ltd.), 791
— for High-Speed Steel, 178
— Oscillating Cutter Type (Smith Slotting Machine Co., Ltd.), 460
— Portable, Hand (Alexander Engineering Co.), 463
Straightening and Polishing Machine for Bars A. Reiner & Co.), 500
Surfacing Machine, Wood (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 463
Table, Wolfensberger’s Universal, 390
Tapping - Machine, Duplex Horizontal (Joshua Buckton), 838
Tools, High-Speed Steel, Cutting Angles, Speeds, and Feeds, 174, 189, 197. See Letters, 241
— Special, for Machines. See Herbert's IF orks
Turning-Machine for Flanged Boiler Plates, 848
Turret-Lathes for High-Speed Sjeel (Costs), 177
Universal Machine, Drummond-Barreto, 332
Valve - Seat Planing - Machine, Portable (Perkin and Co., Ltd.), 430
Vulcan Shipyard, Hamburg, 150, 231, 374, 375, 376
Wheel-Lathes, Outputs, 195
Wood-Trimmer, “Disco” (W. B. Haigh and Co., Ltd.), 463
Wood-Working Machine for Pattern-Makers. See Pattern-Making Machines
— Machinery at Olympia, 431, 434, 463, 497, 499
— Machinery, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 233, 290 ; Penhoet Shipyard, France, 848 Machine Work. See Machine-Tools Machinery Breakdowns, 338
— German Exports, 598
— Guarding, Factory Inspectors’ Requirements,
26 ; Propelling. See Engines, Marine; Engines, Gas, Oil, Petrol, <(-c.
— and Unemployment, 635, 645
McCance, A., on the Constitution of Troostite, 853, 905
McNab’s Marine Engine Revolution-Indicator, 796
Madras Irrigation, Report, 671
Magnetic Clamp (Crown Works), 430
— Clutch for Blowing-Engine, 100
— Compasses, Brussels Exhibition, 133
— Field, Action on Cathode Rays, 673
— Gearing, Lecoche, Marine Propulsion, 442
— Hysteresis, Energy Losses, 317
— Iron Oxides from Aqueous Solutions, 471
— Observations, Falmouth, 454
— Properties, Alloys of Copper, Manganese, &2.,
439, 646. See also Alloys
— Properties of Steel, Changes on Tempering,
907. See 835
— Separating Plant for Iron Ore, 383
— Storms, Propagation of, 454, 744
— Tests, Constitution of Steel, 835. See 907
— Tests of Iron in Intense Fields, 835
— Tests, Reichsanstalt, 728
Magnetism. See also Electric and Physical Society
Magneto, Bosch Double Ignition, 692
— Mea, Motor-Car Ignition, 692
Magnetometer, Gray-Ross, 617
Magnets, Electro, Laws of, 413
Main and Tail Haulage Gear for Mining, 710
Malleable Castings, Annealing Furnaces for, 791
— Castings, Manufacture of, 787
— Iron, Air-Furnace for, 789
Mallet Compound Locomotive for Natal, 48
Management of Industrial Concerns, 895
Manchester Ship Canal, Use of Ferro-Concrete, 607
Manganese in Cast Iron, Effects of, 471, 581
— Cast Iron, Hardness, 585, 587. See 471
— Effect on Silicon Cast Iron, 844. See 471
— Steel, Physical Properties, 528
— See also Alloys and Ferro-Manganese
Mann Agricultural Motor, 234. See 240, 272
Manoeuvring Valves, S.S. “Olympic,” 571, 621;
S.S. “Jan Breydel,” 85
Manometers, Recording, Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 166
Mansfield Inverted Incandescent Gas-Burner, 579
Manufacture, Factors of Success in, 55. See Letters, 127, 162, 208, 241
— British, Census of Production, 1907, 205
Manufacturersand Engineers, 635, 645
Manufacturing Companies, Directors’ Qualifications, 895
Maps, Gravity Self-Raising Rollers, 547. See 415
Marconi. See Wireless under Electric
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Economical Working, 779, 809. See Letters, 794, 825
— Engineering. See also Engines, Marine;
Naval Architects; Propellers, Screw; Turbines; Warships
— Engineers, Olympia Meeting, 442
— Propulsion, Humphrey Gas-Pump, 718
— Propulsion, Internal-Combustion Engines for, ^.516. See 305, 329, 511, 598
--^PFopulsion, Lecoche Magnetic Gearing, 442
— Propulsion, Progress of Parsons Turbines, 603
— Propulsion. See also Engines, Marine, Gas,
and Oil
Marshall’s Corrugated Stayless Fire-Box Roof, 779. See 805
Martensite in Steel, Nature of, 853, 908
Martin, E. P., The late, 472. See 470, 595
Masonry, Durability of, 273
Masonry Pillars, Increase in Height, 672
Mason’s Gas-Fired Steel Furnace, 154 ; Annealing Oven, 791
Master*’ and Servants’ Cases. See Legal
Materials of Construction, Working Stresses in, 669
— for Indian Locomotives, Standard Specifica
tions and Tests, 615
— for Motor-Cars, Special Steels, 26
— Strength of, German Treatise, 651
Mathematical Equations, Electrical Apparatus for Solving, 168
— Instruments, Brussels Exhibition, 132
Mathematics and Aeroplane Design, 410. See 338
— Elementary, Teaching of, 421
— Pure, Objects and Value of, 421
Matheson, Donald A., Appointment as General Manager, Caledonian Railway, 311
Maudslay Motor-Car, Colonial Type, 689
Mea Magneto, Motor-Car Ignition, 692
Measures, Steel, Changes in Length, 673
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Joint Meeting with American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Birmingham and London:
Preliminary Announcement, 26
Reports, 169, 188, 193, 223
Opening Ceremony, 169
Presentation of James Watt Letter, 169
English Running-Shed Practice, by Cecil W. Paget, 155,169
High-Speed Tools and Machines to Fit them, by H. I. Brackenbury, 173, 188. See Letters, 24 1
Handling Engines, by H. H. Vaughan, 169, 179
Handling Locomotives at Terminals, by Frederic M. Whyte, 169, 181
Engine-House Practice, by F. H. Clark, 169 179
American Locomotive Terminals, by William Forsyth, 169, 183
Rapid Production in Machine Work, by John Calder, 188, 195
Development of High-Speed Drilling-Machines, by L. P. Alford, 188, 197
Data on Manufacturing Methods with Machine-Tools, by L. D. Burlingame, 188, 198
Tooth-Gearing, by J. D. Steven, 192, 213. See Letter., 242
Interchangeable Involute Gearing, by Wilfred Lewis, 192, 216
Electrification of Railways: an Imperative Need for the Selection of a System for Universal Use, by George Westinghouse, 223, 244. See also 203, 573
Cost of Electrically - Propelled Suburban Trains, by H. M. Hobart, 223, 249. See also 203, 407
Electrification of Suburban Railways, by F. W. Carter, 223, 281. See also 203, 407, 573
Economics of Railway Electrification, by William Bancroft Potter, 223, 281. See also 203, 573
Electrification of Trunk Lines, by L. R. Pomeroy, 223, 314. See also 573
Excursions, 172, 193; Herbert’s Works, 113;
Humphrey Pump, Dudley Port, 125
Banquet to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 193
London Meetings, Winter Session :
Standardisation of Locomotives in India> 1910, by C. Hitchcock, 595, 614. See 605, 663
Development of Road Locomotion in Recent Years, by L. A. Legros, 724, 747
Production of Castings to Withstand High Pressures, by Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and C. A. Edwards, 852, 870
Constitution of Troostite and the Tempering of Steel, by A. McCance, 853, 905
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of, Committee on Involute Gearing, 216. See Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
— Stoker. See Furnace, Boiler
Medina Aqueduct, Ferro-Concrete Arch, Erie Canal, 264
Meik, P. W., The late, 96. See Addendum, 127 Meissner Process of Coal-Dust Prevention, 13 Meker Gas-Burner, Radiation from, 417, 482. See 381
Meld rum, James, The late, 858, 891
Melms-Pfenninger Turbine, Design of Rotor, 70
Melting Points of Pure Metals, 143
Mercury, Rotating, for Telescope Mirrors, 507
— Spectrum of, 451
— Vapour, Effects on Rubber, 370
— Vapour Lamp, Westinghouse, 343 ; Brush, 536
Meridian Measurement in Africa, 453
Merrill’s Strainer for Pumps, 563
Metallic Piston-Rod Packing, Combination, 499
— Filament Lamps, Tests, 729
Metallography in the Brass Foundry, 446, 458
— Polishing Metals for, 108
— See also Micro-Photographs in Illustration
Index
— Sulphurous Acid for Etching, 47L See Erra
tum, 512
Metallurgy, International Congress, Dusseldorf,
— See also Iron and Steal Institute, Metals,
Institute of; A Hoys
— Spectrograph for, 451, 519
— Use of Electricity in, 712
Metals, Action of Gas Flames on, 729
— Black Stains for, 730
— Emissivity of, 729
— Experiments on Fatigue, 494. bee boy
Metals* Institute of:
Glasgow Meeting:
Reports of Discussions, 4S9, 455
Incorporation of the Institute, 455
Metallography as an Aid to the Brass-Founder, by H. S. Primrose, 446, 458
Heat Treatment of Brass, Experiments on 70 : 30 Alloy, by G. D. Bengough and 0. F. Hudson, 440, 447
Magnetic Alloys formed from Non-Magnetic Materials, by A. D. Ross, 439, 646
Shrinkage of the Antimony-Lead Alloys, and of the Aluminium-Zinc Alloys During and After Solidification, by D. Ewen and Professor T. Turner, 441, 678
Some Common Defects Occurring in Alloys, by C. H. Desch. 458, 812 . .
Effect of Silver, Bismuth, and Aluminium I upon the Mechanical Properties of “Tough Pitch” Copper containing Arsenic, by F. Johnson, 455
Corrosion Committee, Preliminary Report of, 598 I
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Common Defects, 458, 812 _Non-Ferrous, Corrosion and Erosion, 459, 813
— Non-Ferrous, Molecular Changes, 459, 813
— Polishing, for the Microscope, 108
Price Diagrams, 62, 210, 342, 512, 642, 778,902
— Pure, Melting Points, 143^
— Removing Grease from, 673
— Spectra of, 520
— Volume Elasticity, Influence of Temperature,
— See also Iron; Steel; Tin; Copper; Alu-\
minium; Alloys; Brass
Metcalfe Exhaust-Steam Injector, 859
Meteorological Exhibits, Japan-British Exhibition, 167
— Instruments, Brussels Exhibition, 132
— Papers at British Association, 453, 454, 455
Meteorological Society, Royal:
Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere, 697, 869 .
Meteorological Significance of Small Wind and Pressure Variations, by Captain C. IL Ley, 869
Balloon Investigation of Air-Currents at Blackpool, Report, 869
Meteorology, Report on Study of, 453
Meters, Electricity, Tests, 728
— Steam Recording, 438
— Water. See Water-Meter
Methane in Mines, Lamp for Estimating, 137 Methyl Chloride Refrigerating-Machine, 577 Metre-Gauge Railways, India, Standard Locomotives, 595, 614. See 605, 663
Metric System, Advantages of, 616
Metropolitan. See also London
— Water Board ; Chingford Reservoir, 168
Michel Thrust-Bearing, 435
Michelson Echelon Grating, 132
Micro-Balance, Steel and Grant’s, 423 Micro-Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs in Illustration Index
Micrometer Screws, Method of Cutting, 140
Microscopes, Condenser for, 889
— Electric Lamps for, 867, 889
— Polishing Metals for the, 108
— Use in Brass Foundry, 446, 458
Midland Railway, Hawes Junction Accident, 896;
Heysham Electric Line, Costs, 224, 251;
Running-Shed Arrangements, 158
Military Uses of Aeroplanes and Airships, 470 Mill, Cotton, Construction and Engineering,
Treatise on, 619
-- Grinding, Jackson, 828
Milling-Cutters. See Machine-Tools
Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools Milne’s Seismograph, 167
Mine Accidents, Apparatus for Preventing, 133
— Chinese, Recovery of Concessions, 775
Mines, Coal. See Collieries
— Compressed-Air Locomotives for, 45
— Effect of Earthquakes, 44
— Electrical Machinery for, 44
— Fan, Electric, Gelsenkirchen Mines, 518
— Ferro-Concrete Supports, 44
— French, Carbon Dioxide in, 44
— Haulage Gear, Endless Rope, 710
— Haulage Gear, Main and Tail, 710
— Haulage Systems, 45
— Hydraulic Filling in, 13
— Laying Steamer, Portuguese, 362
— Lead, in Scotland, 638
— Randfontein, Electric Power Plant, 735
— Rescue Apparatus, 463
■— Shaft-Sinking, Cement Grouting for, 44
— Shaft-Sinking, Freezing Process, 13
— Surveying, 44
— Winding. See Engines, Winding, and Colliery
Miners’ Safety-Lamp for Gas Estimation, 137
— School, Bochum, 704
— Strike, South Wales, 401
Mineralogy, Japan-British Exhibition, 206 Minerals. See Coal; Mining ; Orcs Mining Coal and Iron, Native Chinese, 761 — International Congress, Dusseldorf, 11, 43 — Legislation in France, 404
— Machinery. See Engines, Winding, Hauling, and Electric
“Miranda IV.,” Thornycroft’s Hydroplane Boat, 99, 187. See Letter, 277
Mirror Extensometer for Shrinkage of Alloys, 682
Mirrors, Rotating Mercury, 507
Mitchell-Williams Luffing-Gear for Cranes, 766
Models, Ship, Apparatus for Making, National Physical Laboratory, 63
" Mohawk,” Sailing-Yacht, with Auxiliary Motor, 821
Molecular Weight, Radium Emanation, 422
Molecules, Attraction Constants, 422
— Visibility in Solutions, 371
“ Monarch,” II.M., Class Battleships, 836 Monoplane. See Aeroplanes and Airships Moore Electric Accelerometer, 670
Moore, G. E., on the Manufacture of Rolled H-Beams, 471,477
Morganite Brushes for Dynamos, 133
Morgan Crucible Co.’s Brass-Furnaces, 658
Morison, D. B., on Economical Working of Marine-Engines and Auxiliaries, 779, 809. See Letters, 794, 825
Morley, Professor A., on Critical Speeds of Shafts, 785, 901
Morocco Wharf, Rapid Luffing-Cranes, 766
Morrow, J., on the Theory of Labyrinth Packing, 136. See 69, 373
Mortising-Machines. See Machine-Tools Motors, Agricultural, R.A.S. Trials ; Mann, 231;
“ Ivel,” 234 : Wallis and Steevens, 231 ; Saunderson, 276. See 240, 272
Motor - Boat, Hydroplane, “Miranda IV.” (Thornycroft), 99,187. See Letter, 277
— Hydroplane, Possibilities of, 187
Motor-Cabs, London, Statistics, 748. See 724
Motor-Car, 12-H -P. Argyll, Worm-Drive, 688
— American Design, 659, 689
— Argyll, Front Wheel-Brake, 688
— Ball and Roller-Bearings, 693
— Cadillac, 659
— Darracq, 659
— Delahaye Six-Cylinder, 662
— Design of, 659, 689
— Detachable Wheels for, 693
— Details. See Illustration Index
— Development, 748
— Economy in Design, 56
— Engines. See Engines
— Exhibition, Olympia, 627, 659, 688
— Ford, 660
— Gearing for, 213. See 216
— Germain, 659
— Hill-Climbing Powers, 409
— Humber, 689
— Industry, Development, 645
— Lateral Oscillations, 724, 725
— Lighting, “C.A.V.” Dynamo, 474
— Maudslay Colonial Type, 689
— Overland, 661
— Philosophic and Commercial Aspect, 540
— Railway Wagon for P.L.M. Railway, 201
— Renault, 689
— Road Resistance and Power, 408, 670, 697
— Rolls-Royce Six-Cylinder, 688
— Scottish Automobile Club Trials, 750
— Sizaire and Nandin, 662
— Springs, Design, 659, 661, 663, 689
— Steam, at Olympia, 659
— Steels for, 26
— Thornycroft, Worm-Drive, 662
— Timkin Roller-Bearings, 693
— Tyres, Air-Compressors for, 31, 502
— Waverley, 663
— and Wear of Roads, 91. See 540, 724, 725,740,
749. See also Road Congress
— Weights of Chassis, 689
— Wimperis Accelerometer for Testing, 670. See 697
— Wolseley 16-H.-P. Chassis, 632
— Wolseley 50-H.-P. Six-Cylinder Chassis, 628
— Wolseley, Various Sizes, 627
— Worm Drive, 659, 662, 688, 689
Motors, Electric. See Electric
— Fire-Engine, Merry weather’s Accumulator, 809
— Internal-Combustion. See Engines; Motor-
Cars; Motor-Launch ; Aeroplanes and Airships
— Marine. See Engines
Motor-Omnibus, Stevens’ Petrol-Electric, 545
— London, Statistics, 748. See 724
— Railway Use of, 748
— Sale and Purchase of (Legal), 302
Motors, Petrol. See Engines, Petrol; Motor-Cars; Motor-Launches ; Tractors; Aeroplanes and Airships
— Road-Roller (Barford and Perkins). 9
— Sleigh Tractors, Antarctic, 317, 855
— Vehicles, Commercial, Developments, 724, 748
— Vehicles, Petrol Electric Transmission, 725
— Vehicle, Sheppee Steam, Convertible, 762. See
Erratum, 795
Motor-Wagon, 3-Ton Steam (Aveling and Porter, Ltd.), 803
— Resistance and Power, 408, 670. See 697
— Steam (Aveling and Porter), 9
— Steam, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9
— Use of, 749
— See also Tractor
Moulding, Bon villain and Ronceray’s System and Machines, 533
— Box, Mechanical Slip, 536
— Use of Pattern and Stripping Plates, 533
Moulds, Foundry, Assembling-Machine, 535
Mud Foundations for Retaining-Walls, Treatise on, 558
Municipal Work, Tenders for, 95
Mushet High-Speed Tool-Steel, 497
Naeyer Boilers and Superheaters, 200
Natal Government Railways, Mallet Compound Locomotive, 48
National Physical Laboratory, Ship-Model Making Apparatus, 63
Nationalisation of Irish Railways, 166
Natural Resources, Utilisation for Power Production, 415
Naval Base, Rosy th, Electric Crane for, 128
— Cadets, Preparatory Training, 776
— Construction, Secrecy in, 335, 636. See
Letter, 580
— Construction. See also Steamers ; Warships
— Dockyards, French, 806
— Dockyard, Simon’s Town, Cape Colony, 591
62], 651, 756, 818, 884. For Details see Illustration Index
— Guns. See Guns
— Machinery. See Warships; Boilers ; Engines;
Turbines
— Mercantile Marine and General Engineering
and Machinery Exhibition, Olympia, 341 35J, 386, 427, 459, 497. See also 332
Naval Requirements and Social Reform, 129.
— Shipbuilders and Foreign Work, 335. See
Letter,580 .
— l/land. See Inland Navigation, Canals, Ac.
Navy, Australian, Destroyers for, 404
— Controller, Sir J. Jelicoe s Work,861
— German, and the British 13.5-In. Gun, 636
— League Annual, 653
— Programme, 1910, 836
— Shipbuilding Vote Debate, 1-9
— Spanish, The New, 77 . q
— Turkish, and the British Admiralty, 335. bee
Letter, 580 .
— See also Naval', Warships
Negligence, Law of, 575
“ Neptune,” H.M. Battleship, Guns and Machinery, 305 ; Trials, 514
Netherlands, Land Reclamation, <.69
New South Wales Conciliation Act, o06
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Ka>lroad -Single-Phase Traction, 244, 246. See 2-3
— State Barge Canal, Terminal Commission, 26
— State, The Erie Canal, 1, 76, 260, 326, 523.
For Details see Illustration Index
New Zealand Conciliation Act, 506
— Government Railways ; Report, 92
“ Newcastle,” H.M. Cruiser, 264
Newton, J. McKenzie; Steam-Turbine Rotor
Design and Construction, 64, 101
Nickel Alloys, Defects in, 458, 812. See Alloys
— Steel for Bridge Construction, 274
— Wires, High Temperature Torsion Tests, 4 / 2
Nicolson’s Theory, Boiler Design, Tests, 764. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
Nitrate Industry, Norway, 406
Nitrogen Fertilisers, Possibilities, /03, /l-
— Oxidation in Electric Arc, 674
— Separation from Air by Liquefaction, 83/
North-East Coast, Waste-Heat Power Plants, 537
North-Eastern Railway, Results of Electric
Working, 281, 349, 573 ; Strike, 165. See 272 ; Washing Locomotive Boilers, 155
North, Notes from the, 16, 52, 88, 122, 162, 209, 234, 268, 302, 332, 364, 393, 442, 474, 502, 536, 578, 602, 632, 666, 700, 736, 768, 798, 828, 857, 892
— Sea Fisheries’ Exhibition, Yarmouth, 613, 637
Northampton Institute, Aerial Propeller Tests, 319. See Letter, 580, 641, 663
Norway, South Varanger Iron-Ore Deposits and Briquetting Plant, 383
Norwegian Hydro-Electric Power Companies, 406
Notches, Triangular, Coefficient of Discharge, 598
Notching-Machine for Steel Joists (H. Pels and Co.), 430, 643
Notes. See Cleveland, North, South-West, South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial, Legal, and Miscellanea. See also Paragraph Index

Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Solar, for Australia, 453
Ocean Temperatures, 206
Oceanography, Japan-British Exhibition, 206
Oil, Effects on Foundations, 338
— Eliminator, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 526
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor-Cars ; Motor-Launches ; Tractors
Oil-Field Development, Treatise on, 259
— British Empire, Treatise on, 557
Oil-Fired Brass Furnaces, Rockwell, 725; Morgan Crucible Co., 658; Schwartz, 726; Fletcher Russell, 727 ; Charlier, 726
— Converter for Steel Casting, 297
Oil-Fuel Burner, Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 762
— Furnace, Gregory Coal-Oil 733
Oil, Petroleum, Sakhalin Island, 405
Oil-Pump, Positive Rotary, Lamplough’s, 386
— Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 762
Oil. See also Lubrication
Oil-Testing Apparatus, Reichsanstalt, 729
Olympia, Business and Advertising Exhibition 575
— Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 341 351, 386, 427, 459, 497. See 332
— Motor-Car Exhibition, 627, 659. 688 Motor Cars
“ Olympic,” White Star Liner, 564, 620,693 Fo details see Illustration Index. Welin Davi for Double-Banked Boats, 15
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor-Omnibus
‘‘Ontario,” Clay-Cutting Suction-Dredger, 328
Open-Hearth Steel Furnaces, Use of Iron-or Briquettes, 481; Combustion in, 580, 641
P 856^ 888ratUS’ Phy8iCal Society '8 Exhibition
— Determination of Stress, 412
— Instruments, Brussels Exhibition, 132 Projection Apparatus, Kaiserling, 888
Optical Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
— Society, Thomas Young Lecture, 506 Ordnance. See Guns; Explosives; Warships Ore Concentrating and Briquetting Plant Lule* 418
— Iron, Chinese, Smelting Methods, 761
— Supplies, Steel Manufacturers’, 708
— See also Iron
Orifices, Circular, Flow of Air Through, 380 413 “Orion,” H.M.S., Guns and Machinery ’tor* Costs, 336
Osborne Case, Payment of Labour Members nf Parliament. See Legal
Oscillations, Lateral, of Motor-Cars, 724 725 Oscillographs, Duddell, Brussels Exhibition 133 Osset t Sewage Disposal, 609 *
Ostend-Dover Service, Turbine Steamers for 84 Ovens, Annealing, Malleable Castings, 791 ’ Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens “ Overland,” 25-H.-P. Motor-Car, 661 Oxides, Iron, Magnetic, from Aqueous Solutions 471 ’
Oxy-Acetylene Steel Welding and Cutting 469 . Costs, 857’
Oxygen, Separation from Air by Liquefaction

Packing Gland, Carbon, for Turbines, 466
— Glands, Labyrinth, Brush-Parsons Turbine 4
— Labyrinth, Steam Leakage, 69, 136, 373*
— Materials, “ Rainbow,” 502
— Metallic, Combination, 499
Paddle Steamer, Shallow-Draught, Siberian 731 Page Scraper Buckets, Excavating, 326’
Paget, C. W., on English Running-Shed Practice, 155, 169
Paper from Sugar-Cane Refuse, 893
Paraffin Motors. See Engines, Paraffin
Engines, Oil
— Wax Ship Model-Making Machine, 63
— Wax Polishing Beds for Metallography, 108
“ Paramatta.” Australian iJestroyer, Trials, 404
Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway, Compound Eight-Coupled Locomotive, 796; Sleeping Carriages and Motor-Car Wagon, 201
Paris Road Construction and Maintenance, 825
Parliament, Engineering Schemes in, 773, 803
— and Industry, 771
Labour Representation in, 437. See Legal and Naval Supremacy, 129. See 771 a°d Navy. See Warships; Engineers; Naval; Admiralty
Parsons, Hon. C. A., on Engineering Education, 610
Parsons Marine Steam-Turbine, Progress, 603. See Turbines
Patent Law, Recent Cases, 97. See also Legal Inventions, Improvements in (Legal), 339
— Record, 35, 72, 109, 145, 219, 254, 287, 350, 419, 486, 522, 553, 589, 618, 649, 721, 754, 784 845, 909. See Patent Index
Patents, Commercial Value, 636, 646
— Specifications, Wording of, 438
— Thornton on (Treatise), 81
Pattern-Making Machine. See Machine-Tools
Peat, De Laval Coking Process, 136
— Deposits, German, Utilisation, 340
— Producer-Gas from, 898
Pedrail Road-Tractor, 724, 749
Pekin-St. Petersburg Railway, 639
Pelton Wheel, Glasgow College, 626
Penhoet Shipyard, St. Nazaire, 847
Pennsylvania Locomotive Tests, Analyses of Results, 255, 289
Pennsylvania Railroad, East Altoona Running-Sheds, 183
Pensions for Workmen, Elswick Works, 19
Penstocks, Simon’s Bay Graving-Dock, 756
Perishable Goods, Transport on U.S. Railways, 21 1 ermeability of Balloon Fabrics, 337
— Magnetic, Tests of Steel, 835. See 907 letavel’s High-Pressure Hydraulic Pump, 872. See 852.
Petrol-Electric Omnibus, Stevens, 545
— Transmission, Motor Vehicles, 725
etrol Motors. See Engines, Petrol; Motor Cars; Motor-Launches; Tractors; Aero-plants and Airships
Petroleum. See Oil
Phillips’ Aeroplane Wings, Lifting Power, 337. u n • I?ETTKRS’ 373, 510
‘Phoenix ” Locomotive Superheater, 858, 891 nonometer, Sound-Measuring Apparatus, 452
1 hosphonifi in Gun-Metal Castings, 446 lotographs, Micro. See Micro-Photographs in
1 lu stration Index
— Telegraphic Transmission, Treatise on, 816
1 notometers, Portable, Dow. 840; Trotter, 868
— for Spectroscopes, 451
Photometry, Reichsanstalt, 729
jsical Lal»oratory. See National Physical Laboratory and Reichsanstalt
— Properties of Metals. See Alloys; Metals;
Micro-Photographs in Illustration Index
ijsical Society:
Galvanometer for Alternate-Current Cir-QU1nu’-n^ Dr. W. E. Sumpner and W. 0. S. Phillips, 29
Positive Electrification due to Heating Alu-n;!nium Phosphate, by A. E. Garrett, 29 f ° Ji? an8e ’ A Thermo-Electric Balance or the Absolute Measurement of Radia-Uaij "Hb Applications to Radium and ts Emanation, by Professor H. L. Cal-lendar, 317
Convection of Heat from a Body Cooled by * Stream of Fluid, by Dr. A. Russell, 317
5 teresis Loops and Lissa jous Figures, and the. Energy Wasted in a Hysteresis Fn^ - d ?' ?rofessor S. P. Thompson, 317
- ' Relations of Certain Detectors Used in Wireless Telegraphy, by Dr. W. H. Eccles, 318
New Method for Producing High-Tension w i?a<Se,8’ b>* p^fessor E. Wilson and " • H. Wilson, 678. See 414
Behayour of S:eel under Combined Static Prnnn ^and Shock’ b-v F- Rogers, 678 pagatl0.n °f Equatorial Magnetic Disturbances with Velocities of the Order of 100 Miles per Second, by Dr. C. Chree, 744
Physical Society-continued,
Cusped Waves of Light and the Theory of the Rainbow, by Professor W. B. Morton, 744
Electric Stress at which Ionisation Begins in Air, by Dr. A. Russell, 839
Afterglow of Electric Discharge, by Professor R. J. Strutt, 810
Portable Photometer, J. S. Dow, 840 Exhibition of 2\.pparatus, 866, 888
Piat Tilting Brass Furnaces, 657
Piece-Work System, Herbert’s Works, 117
Piers, Auld Brig o’ Ayr, Repairs, 73
-- Schemes in Parliament, 775, 803
— Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 591
— See also Bridge ; Foundation
“ Pieter de Coninck,” Turbine Steamer, 81
Pig Iron. See Iron
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Pile-Driver, Suspended, Erie Canal, 328 Piles, Ferro-Concrete, Simplex, 149, 291, 374
— Ferro-Concrete, Tests, 149
Piling, Steel Sheet, for Cofferdam, Erie Canal, 328 Pipes, Air Flow in, Gauge for Measuring, 144
— Bending Machine, Kennedy, 498
— Cast-Iron, Sinking Heads in Casting, 140
— Hot Water, Coating for, 26
— Hydraulic, Stresses in, 324. See 416, 511, 546, 580, 599
— Jointing Materials. “Rainbow,” 502
— Lead, Amalgaline Joints, 886
— Screwing Stocks and Dies, Self-Adjusting, 547
— Steam, Automatic Stop-Valve and Drain, 499
— Steam, Small, Futility of Lagging, 414
— Thin, Royles’ Coupling, 497
Pistons, Petrol Motor, Design, 815
— Rod Packing, Combination Metallic, 499
— Steam-Engine (Allen and Simmonds), 462 Pistonless Hydraulic Press, 747
Pits, Drop, for Locomotive Wheels, 170,171 Planing-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Plate Furnace, Gas Heated, 231
— Girders, Design of Webs and Stiffeners, 39
Plates, Inclined, in Air Currents, 337. See Letter, 373, 510
Plate-Shearing Machines (Pels), 427, 643
Platinum, Melting-Point, 729
— Production, Ural, 136
— Resistance Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
Plenum Ventilation System, Glasgow and West of Scotland College, 426
Ploughing Engines, R.A.S. Trials, 240, 272. See 234,276
— Engines, Smithfield Show, 803
— Engine, Steam (Aveling and Porter), 9 Plumbago Dynamo Brushes, 133
Plumbing, Amalgaline Process, 886
Pneumatic Power Hammers (Massey), 330
— Signalling Systems, 348
— Tools. See Machine-Tools
— See also Compressed Air
Poetsch Process of Shaft-Sinking,13
Polarisation, Circular, of Light, 451
Polarised Light for Determination of Stress, 412 Polishing Machine for Steel Shafting, 500
— Metals for the Microscope, 108
Politics and Industry, 771
Pollok, J., on the Transandine Tunnel, 880
Pollution of Rivers. See West Riding Rivers
Pomeroy, L. R., on the Electrification of Trunk Lines, 223, 314
Pooling Locomotives on Railways, 179, 183, 184. See 169
Porjus Falls, Power-Plant, Lapland, 23, 185
Port. See Harbours; Docks
Porter, C. T., The late, 542
Portholes, Anderson, 313
Portland Cement. See Cement
Portsmouth Water Works, New Filters and Reservoirs, 495
Portuguese Mine-Laying and Torpedo-Testing Steamer, 362
Positive Electrification due to Heating Aluminium Phosphate, 29
Post Office, London, Electric Power-Station, 709 Potentiometer. See Electric
Potter, W. B., on the Economics of Railway Electrification, 223, 284
Power, Electric, from Blast-Furnace Gas, 515. See 494
— Electric, and Coal Conservation, 703, 712. See 795
— Electric, Cost of Production, 25, 186
— Electric, Production from Peat, 340
— Electric, Randfontein Mines, Costs, 735
— Gas. See Engines, Gas; Blast-Furnace Gas;
Producer-Gas
— Hammer. See Machine-Tools
— Plant, Electric, Randfontein Mines, 735
— Plant, Hydro-Electric, Porjus Falls, Lapland, 23, 185
— Plants. See also Electric; Hydro-Electric
— Plants, Steam and Gas, 739. See Letter, 778
— Plant Turbo-Electric, Ore-Briquetting Works, South Varanger, 384
— Plants, Waste Heat, North-East Coast, 537
— Production from Natural Resources, 415
— Station Capacity for Electric Railways, 315
— Station, Electric, London Post-Office, 709
— Station, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 525
— Station. See also Electric and Hydro-Electric
— Supply, Electric, Schemes in Parliament, 774, 803
— Transmission, Electric, Comparisons, 223, 226, 245, 247
— Water. See Hydraulic, Hydro-Electric, and
Electric
Prelini, C., on the Erie Canal, 1, 76, 260, 326, 523
Premium System, Locomotive Cleaning, 158
Presidential Address, British Association, by Professor Bonney, 336
— British Association, Section A, by Professor
Hobson, 421
— British Association, Chemical Section, by Dr.
J. E. Stead, 508
— British Association, Engineering Section, by
Professor W. E. Dalby, 345, 356. See 469, 476, 511, 641, 901
— Institution of Civil Engineers, by A. Siemens, 644. See 635
— Institution of Electrical Engineers, by S. Z.
< de Ferranti, 712. See 703, 795
Press, Hydraulic, Pistonless, 747
— Screw, for Stamping, 500
Pressure-Gauge, Differential, Two Liquid, 144
— Gauge Testing-Machine, Crosby, 498
— Recorders, Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 866
Primrose, H. S., on Metallography in the Brass Foundry, 446, 458
Prism for Circular Polarisation of Light, 451
— Interference, for Spectroscopy, 672
— Fdry’s Auto-Collimating and Focussing, for
Spectrograph, 451, 519
— Quartz and Fluorspar, Refractive Index, 729
Problem of Flight. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Producer-Gas Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Fired Annealing Furnace, Malleable Castings, 791
— Fired Steel Furnaces, 151
— Fired Furnaces for Forging, 47
— from Low-Grade Fuels, 898
— Production of Hydrogen from, 12
— Ship-Frame and Plate Furnaces, 230, 231
— and Smoke Reduction, 742
Producer, Suction (Ruston, Proctor), 16, 839
Production, Census of, 1907, 205
Profiling Machine. See Machine-Tools
Profit-Sharing, Elswick Works, 19
Projectiles, High-Explosive, Length and Weight, 22
— Spiral Trajectory, 877
Projection Apparatus, Kaiserling, 888
Propellers, Aerial. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Propellers, Erosion of, 459, 813
— S.S. “ Olympic,” 571
Propulsion of Ships, Humphrey Gas-Pump, 718
— of Ships, Jet-Pump for, 369
Pulley-Blocks, Pickerings’, 461
Pumps and Air-Compressors, Humphrey Gas, 125, 714
— Air, Condensing Plant, 602
— Air, Dual, H.M.S. “Newcastle,” 265
— Air, Rotary, Lamplough’s, 386
— Air. See Air-Compressors ; Condensers
— Air, Temperature Regulation, 782
— Boiler-Feed and Circulating, S.S. “Olympic,” 571
— Centrifugal, Boiler-Feed (Worthington), 502
— Centrifugal, Condensing Plant, 602
— Centrifugal, Five Stage (Gebr. Stork), 84
— Centrifugal, Olympia Exhibition ; Gwynncs, 435; Worthington, 502
— Centrifugal, Simon’s Bay Graving Dock, 819
— Centrifugal, Three-Stage, Glasgow College, 685
— Circulating, Wolseley Motor-Car, 632
— Differential, Experimental, Glasgow College, 685
— Feed, Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 762
— Humphrey Gas, Brussels Exhibition, 125. See 714
— Humphrey Gas, Ship Propulsion, 718
— Hydraulic High-Pressure, Petavel’s, 872. See 852
— Hydraulic Jet, Theory, 369
— Oil, Sheppee Motor Vehicle, 762
— Positive Rotary, Lamplough’s, 386
— Single-Acting Three-Throw, Simon’s Bay
Graving-Dock, 819
— Steam, Storey’s Valve-Gear, 390
— “ Twin ” Strainer for, 563
— Vacuum, Rotary, Lamplough’s, 386
— Valves, Experimental, 685
Pumping-Engine, Low-Pressure Steam (Lamp-
Pump Syndicate, Ltd.), 11
— Plant for Dry Dock, Bombay, 396
— Plant, Simon’s Bay Graving-Dock, 818
Purdue Locomotive Tests, Analyses of Results, 255 289
Pyrometers, Control of Range, 867
— Foster Radiation, 888
— Fournier Vapour Pressure, 497
— for Gas-Engine Cylinders, 409
— and Indicators, Thermo-Couple Type, 498
— Peake Compensating Leads, 867
— Radiation, 142
— Reichsanstalt Tests, 729
— Resistance, Coal-Dust Explosion Experiments, 866
— Resistance, Harris Indicator, 498
— Resistance, Improvements, 141
Seger Cones, Tests, 729
— Standardisation of, 143
— Thermo-Couple, Crompton’s, 867
— Thermo-Couples for, 141
Pyrometry, Recent Advances in, 141

Quadrant Boat Davit, The Welin, 14 Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Quartz Prisms, Refractive Index, 729
— Refractory Properties, 899
— Tubes for Mercury Vapour Lamps, 343, 536
Quartzlite Lamp, 536
Quay. See Harbour; Docks ; Wharves Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns ; Warships .
Quicksilver. See Mercury and Metal-Price Diagrams
Radiation from Gas Flames, 357, 381,417,482, 484. See 340
— Heat, Absolute Measurement of, 317
— Heat, Determination of Constants, 673
— Heat, in Gaseous Explosions, 340, 357, 381, 417, 482, 483
— Heat, Transparency of Gas Flames to, 360, 417, 482. See 340
— from Hot Bodies, 142
— Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
— Secondary, from Carbon at Low Temperatures, 423 . , m 7 .
Radiotelegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Radium B, Recoil from Radium A, 423
—- Emanation, Molecular Weight 422
— Measurement of Heat Radiation, 317 Rail-Drilling Machine, Portable (Perkin), 430 Rail Motor. See Motor Carriage
— Steel. See Steel Rails . .
— Tramway, Portable Cupola for Jointing, o81
— Wear with Electric Traction, 226
Railless Electric Road Traction, 724, 725, <49. 774, 803
Railroads and Canals, U.S. Competition, 77, 524
Railroads, New York, New Haven, and Hartford, Single-Phase Traction, 244, 246. See 223
— Pennsylvania, Running Sheds, 183
— United States, Policy of, 524
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Argentine, Developments, 743
— Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fd, Test of Jacobs-Shupert Fire-Box, 675
— Australian, 345, 741, 824, 833, 861
— Australian Trans-Continental, 274
— Baden State, Hydro-Electric Power, 742
— Brazilian Metre-Gauge Loading-Gauge, 663. See 614
— Breakdown Crane. See Crane
— British, Statistics, 271, 345, 356, 469, 476
— British, Use of Motor-Omnibuses, 748
— Caledonian, New General Manager, 311 -- Canadian, Extensions, 28, 765, 903
— Canadian, Handling Locomotives, 171, 179
— Carriages. See Carriages
— Central London, Heating Repair-Shops, 267
— Central London, Working Costs, 223, 349
— Chinese, 310, 418
— Chinese, Recovery of Concessions. 775
— District, Automatic Signalling, 348
— Electric, Breakdowns, 281
— Electric. See also Electri:
— Elevator for Coaling Locomotives, 155
— Engineers as General Managers, 311
— Federalisation of, 741, 833
— French, Causes of Strike, 574
— Furness, Locomotive Superheater, 858, 891
— Glasgow and South-Western. Lawsuit, 733
— Grand Trunk, Canada, Development, 765
— Great Eastern, Working Results, 271
— Great Western, Breakdown Crane, 201; Running-Sheds, 155; Standardisation of Locomotives, 596 ; Use of Private Wagons, 772
— Great Western and South-Western, Working Agreement, 271
— Indian, Development, 514
— Indian, Loading Gauges, Broad and Metre Gauge Lines, 614. See 663
— Indian, Standardisation of Locomotives, 595. 605, 614. See 663
— Irish, State Management of, 166
— Kiruna-Riksgransen, Electrification, 185
— L. & Y., Electric Transporter, Fleetwood
Docks, 700; Steel Furnaces at Horwich, 154
— Lapland, Electrification, 23, 185
— Light, Belgium, 725
— Liverpool and Southport Electric, Costs, 203, 229, 251, 281, 399, 573
— Locomotive. See Locomotive^ Motor-Carriage, and Electric
— Loetschberg, Electric Locomotive, 611
— London and Birmingham, Statistics, 346
— L.B.&S.C., Single-Phase Electric Traction, 407 ; Costs, 227, 251, 281. See 204, 271, 348
— L. & N.W., Statistics, 346; Steel Furnaces at Crewe, 151; Annealing Furnaces, 791; Willesden Accident, 794 ; Working Results’ 271
— L. & S.W., Running-Sheds, 155
— London Underground, 203, 223, 250, 272, 281, 343; Schemes in Parliament, 774
— Main Line, Electrification, 223, 224, 227, 314, 573. See 284
— Midland, Hawes Junction Accident, 896; Heysham Electric Line, Costs, 224, 251; Running-Shed Arrangements, 158
— Motors, Heating of Electric, 226, 227, 283
— Natal, Mallet Compound Locomotive, 48
— New Zealand, Report, 92
— N.E., Results of Electric Working, 281, 349, 573 ; Strike, 165. See 272 ; Washing Locomotive Boilers, 155
— Officials, Chinese, School for, 418
Paris - Lyons - Mediterranean, Compound Eight-Coupled Locomotive, 796 ; Sleeping Carriages and Motor-Car Wagon, 201
— Refrigerator Cars, 21
— Returns, British, 469, 476. See 345, 356
— Rolling-Stock, Design of Journals, 723
— Rolling-Stock. See Carriages ; Locomotives ; Motor-Carriages ; Wagons
— Running-Shed Practice, 155, 169, 179, 181,183
— Schemes in Parliament, 774, 803
— Servants’ Strike, 165. See 272
— Service, Scotch Express, Data, 347, 356
— Signalling, Power Systems, 348
— Sleepers, in United States, Wooden, 96
— South Australian, Report, 56
— South London Elevated, Single-Phase Traction, 407; Costs, 227, 251, 281. See 204. 271, 348
— Spanish, Report, 62
— St. Petersburg-Pekin, 639
— Steam and Electric, Comparisons of Costs, 186, 314. See 203, 348, 407
— Street. See Tramways
— Suburban, Electrification of, 223, 281. See 203, 407, 573
— Train Brake. See Brake
— Trains, Electric, Acceleration and Energy Consumption, 203, 283
— Trains, Emergency Appliances on, 896
— and Tramway Competition, 204, 271, 281. 407 469
— Transandine Tunnel, 880
— U.S., Operating Costs, 314
— U.S., Running-Shed Practice, 169. 179, 181. 183 ’
— U.S., Transport of Perishable Goods, 21
— Wagon, 40-Ton Steel, Self-Discharging, 530
— Wagon for Motor-Cars, P.L.M. Railway, 201
— Wagons, Privately-Owned, Use of, 772"
— Western Australia, Reports, 238

Rain-Gauge, Recording, 133
Rainbow, Theory of, 744
Rainfall, Effects of Forests, 307
Ramsay-Reid Turbo-Electric Locomotive, 54 Randfontein Mines, Electric Power Plant, 735 Rateau Mixed-Pressure Steam-Turbines. 45
— Turbine, Design of Rotating Parts, 67
— Turbo-Blowers and Air-Compressors, 45 Rays, Anode and Cathode, 672
— Positive, Sir J. J. Thomson’s Experiments, 422 Reading Water Works, De-Clor Purification System, 888
Recalescence Curve Tracer, 889
Recorders, Steam Flow7, 438
Recorders, Steering, Russell-Ranken, 435
— Tide, Field-Cust Deep-Sea, 206, 300
Rectifier, Electro-Magnetic, 888
Reed Vibration Tachometer, Frahm, 30
Reflection, Light, by Metals, Effect of Temperature, 729
Refractive Index and Density, Relationship, 451
— Index, Quartz and Fluorspar, 729
Refractory Materials, Investigations, 25, 899
Refrigerating-Machine, Methyl Chloride, 577
— Machinery, S.S. “ Olympic,” 621
— Plant, Ammonia Absorption System, 11
— Plant for Shaft-Sinking, 13
— Plants, Tests of Heat-Insulating Materials, 396, 414
Refrigerator Railway-Cars, 21
Regenerative Air-Heater for Boiler Furnaces, 200
— Furnaces for Brass-Melting, 658
Regulator, Automatic, Water Temperature, 434
— Boiler Feed-Water, 498
Reichsanstalt, Work in 1909, 672, 727
Reid-Ramsay Turbo-Electric Locomotive, 54
Reinecker Gear-Cutting Machines, 213. See 391
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Reliability Trials, Motor-Car, Scottish Automobile Club,750
Renard Road-Train, 724, 725
Renault Motor-Car, 689
Report of B. A. Committee on Gaseous Explosions, 357, 381, 417, 482. See 310, 452
Rescue Apparatus for Mines, 463
Research, Value in Engineering, 705
— Work, Reward of, 127, 162
Reservoir, Chingford, Metropolitan Water Board, 168
Reservoirs, Portsmouth Water Works, 495
Resistances, Electric, Paul’s Standard, 889
— Standard Electric, Tests, 727
Retaining-Walls on Mud Foundations, Treatise on, 558
Reviews. See Literature Index
Revocation of Patents. See Patents ; Legal
Reynolds’s Experiments on Alternating Stress, 61
Rhead, E. L., on Coke for Foundry Purposes, 107
Rigby, Jason, The late, 395
Riley, James, The late, 135
Ripper, Professor, W., on Testing Files, 361; on Testing Lathe-Tools, 356, 416
Rivers, Flow of, Effects of Forests, 307
River-Pollution by Trade Effluents, 67, 328, 543, 608, 706
— West Riding, 1904-1910, 57, 133, 293, 328, 543, 608, 706
Road Administration, United States, 308
— Asphalt, 206 239, 325
— Binding Materials, 206, 239, 308
— Board, Disposal of Funds, 740
— Bridges. See Bridges
— Cleansing and Watering, 310. See 740
— Concrete Surfaces, 308
— Congress, International, 205, 239, 308, 325
— Construction and Maintenance, Paris, Alexandria, and Berlin, 325. See 740
— Decrease in Horse Traction, 724,749
— Dust on. See Congress
— Locomotion, Recent Developments, 724, 747
— Macadam and Tar-Macadam, 91, 206, 239, 308, 325. See 740
— Maintenance Costs, London, 749
— Making and Repairing, 91. See 740
-- Resistance of Motor Vehicles, 408, 670, 697
— Roller, Motor, 9
— Traction, Railless Electric, 724, 725, 749, 774, 863
— Tractor, Pedrail, 724, 749
— Traffic Regulation, 724, 725, 750
— Train, Renard, 724, 725
— Wear by Motor-Cars, 91. See 510, 724, 725, 740, 749
Robert Converter for Steel Castings, 296
Robinson, Sir J. Clifton, The late, 674
Robson, T., on Rolling-Stock Journals, 723
“ Rochambeau,” S.S., Construction, 847
Rochester Aqueduct, Erie Canal, 1
Rock-Crusher, Lobnitz, Erie Canal, 328
Rock-Drills, Ingersoll, Transandine Tunnel, 880
Rocking-Gear for Fire-Bars, Allen’s, 462
Rockwell Oil-Fired Brass Furnace, 725
Rolled-Steel Joists, Manufacture of, 471, 477
— Sections, Machines for Shearing (Pels), 427,643
Roller-Bearings, “ C. P.,” 499
— Friction Testing-Machine, 500
— Timkin, Motor-Car, 693
Rollers, Gravity Self-Raising, for Maps, &c., 547. See 415
— Road. See Road-Roller
— Steady-Box Turning-Tool, Herbert’s, 119
Rolling-Mills, Electric-Driving, 45, 494, 515, 518
— German Practice, 12
— Improvements in, 11
— Universal, for H -Beams, 471, 477
Rolling - Stock and Energy, Electric Railway, Costs, 223, 226, 227, 249, 284. See 348
— Railway, Design of Journals, 723
— Se also Carriages; Locomotives; Motor-
e Carriages; Wagons
Rolls, Hon. C. S., Fatal Aeroplane Accident to, 94 Rolls-Royce 45-H.-P. Six-Cylinder Motor-Car, 688 Rbntgen-Ray Tubes, Comparisons of Anti
Cathodes, 775
— Improvements, 867
Roof, Workshop, Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 884 Ropeways, Aerial, in Mining Industry, 45
— Aerial, Steetley Quarries, 744
— Wire, Excavating, Erie Canal, 327
Ross, A. D., on Magnetic Alloys from Non-
Magnetic Materials, 439, 646
Ross-Gray Magnetometer, 647
Rosyth Naval Base, Electric Crane for, 123
Rotary Blowers. See Blowers
Rotating Discs, Centrifugal Stresses in, 101 Rotherham Sewage Disposal, 544
Rotors, Turbine. See Turbines
Round-Houses, Locomotive, 155,169,170,172,179, 181,183
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
— Institute of British Architects : Town Planning Conference, 299, 395, 539
— Meteorological Society. See Meteorological
— Navy. See Nary; Naval; Warships
Royles’ Coupling for Thin Brass Tubes, 497
Rubber, Effects of Mercury Vapour, 370
_ Testing bv Mechanical Hysteresis, 41o
Rudder, S.S? “ Olympic,” 567
Running-Fits, Standard, 118, 200
Running-Sheds, Locomotive. . See Locomotive
Russell-Ranken Steering-Recorder, 435
Russia, Mineral Wealth of the Ural, 136
Russian Machinery Imports, 598
Rusting of Iron, Acid Theory, 528

Sack’s Rolling-Mill for Steel Beams, 477
Safety Lamp for Gas Estimation, 13/
— Valves, Defective, 339
Sailing Yacht “Mohawk,” Motor, 821
Sails, Boat, Size and Efficiency, 403, 510
Sakhalin Island, Minerals of, 405
Sand-Drving Plant, Railway Running-Sheds, 180, 182"
Sand-Ejector for Locomotives, 30
Sankey Detachable Motor-Car Wheel, 6?3
Saunderson Agricultural Tractor, 2/6. See 240,
272, 806
Saw-Mills, Vulcan Shipyard, Hamburg, 290
Saws. See Machine-Tools
Scaling-Machine for Boilers, 798
Schemes in Parliament. See Parliament
Schenk Coal-Conveyor, 600
Scherbins Speed-Regulation System, Three-
Phase Motors, 516. See 494, 697
Schmaltz Twist-Drill Grinder, 393
Schneider Field-Guns, Air Running-Out Gear,
School. See also University; Education; Technical College
Schumacher Briquetting Process, 481
Schuurman, J. J. E., Utilisation of Electric Power in Iron and Steel Industries, 494,515. See Letter, 697
Schwartz Gasor Oil-Fired Brass Furnace, /26
Schwartz, Professor A., on Testing Rubber, 415
Schwarz, C. de, on Briquetting Iron Ores, 4/0, 480. See Erratum, 512
Science, Advance of, 635, 644
— and Engineering, 705 . .
Scientific Apparatus, Physical Society s Exhibition, 866, 838 .
— Instruments, Brussels Exhibition, 132
Scoble, W. A., on Anchored Tests of Aerial Propellers, 377. See 39, 208, 242, 580, 641, €63, 825
Scotland, Lead-Mining in, 638
Scott-Robinson Automatic Carburettor, 692
Scottish Automobile Club Motor-Car Trials, 750
— Engineering Schemes in Parliament, 803
— Express Service, Data, 347, 356 .
Scott’s Antarctic Expedition, Motor Sleigh-
Tractors, 317, 855 Scouts. See Warships
Scraper Buckets, Page, Excavating, 326
Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Machine-Tools
Screws, Micrometer, Method of Cutting, 140
Screw Press for Stamping, 500
— Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeroplanes and A irships
Screwing Dies, “ Beaver ” Self-Adjusting, 547
— Machine. See Machine-Tools Scuttles and Sliding Windows, Ships’, 313
Sea, Deep, Temperature of, 206
_ Power. See A aval; Warships
— Tide Recorder, Field-Cust, 206, 300
— Water Distillation, Treatise on, 619 Seaman’s Rolling-Mill for Steel Beams, 477
Seger Cones, Tests, 729
Seine River, Causes of Floods, 307 .
Seismograms of Earth Tremors, 47; British
Association Report, 508 t I
Seismographs, Bailey’s Bifilar, 508 ; Milne’s, 16/ Self Propelled Vehicles. See Motor-Cars, Motor -Wagons, Tractors, and Traction Engines Separating Plant, Magnetic, for Iron Ore, 3S3 Separator, Oil, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 526 Septic Tank, Klenk, 903 ,
Sewage Disposal Commission, Report, 1908, 706
— Disposal, Government Attitude, 608 ;
— Disposal, Klenk Septic Tank, 903
— Disposal, Leeds, 133 ; Bradford, 293 ; Sheffield, 328 ; Huddenfield, 513 ; Halifax, 513 ; i Rotherham, 544. See also 608, 706
Sewerage Schemes in Parliament, 775, 803 Shafts, Critical Speeds of, 104, 785, 901
— Sinking, Cement Grouting for, 41 ;
— Sinking, Compressed-Air Locks for, 44
— Sinking, Elbe Tunnel, Hamburg, 44
— Sinking ; Freezing Process, 13
— Torsional and Longitudinal Vibrations, 785, 901
— Turbine, Design of, 103. See also 785. 901. Shafting, Straightening and Polishing Machine
for, 500
Shallow-Draught Steamer for Siberia, 731 Shansi. China, Native Coal and Iron Industry, 761
Shaping-Machine. See Machine-Tools Shearing-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Sheds, Locomotive. See Locomotive
Sheep-Shearing Machines, Agricultural Show, 11
Sheet Piling, Steel, Erie Canal, 328
Sheffield District, Geology, 529
— History cf, 306
— British Association at. See British Association
— Sewage Disposal Schemes, 328 Shells, Explosive, Length and Weight, 22 Sheppee Steam Motor-Vehicle, 762, 795 Ships’ Boats, Welin Quadrant Davit, 14 — Boats, Launching Gear, 462
— Canal. See Canal
— Frame and Plate Furnaces, Gas-Heated, 230, 231
— Model Making Apparatus, National Physical Laboratory, 63
— Propulsion, Lecoche Magnetic Gearing, 442 — Propulsion. See also Engines, Marine; and Turljines
— Scuttles and Sliding Windows, 313
— Water-Tanks for Preventing Rolling, 832
— See also Shipping; Steamers; Warships Shipbuilders, Naval, and Foreign Work, 335, 580 Shipbuilding Berths, Harland and Wolff’s, 566 ;
Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 291 ; Penhoet Shipyard, France, 847
— British Naval, 1910, 896
Shipbuilding Manual, German, 791
— Material, Lloyd’s Tests, 546
— Trade, German, Labour Troubles, 276, 329
— Trade, Lloyd’s Returns, 60, 274, 508
— Trade, Lock-Out, 367, 40', 831
— Yard, French Naval, 8C6; Spanish Navy, 77 ;
Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 117, 230, 290, 374, 525 ; Chantier et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, 847 ; Harland and Wolff. See “ Olympic ”
— See Steamers; Warships; Naval Architects Shipping, Lloyd’s Register, Report, 546 Shipwrecks, Lloyd’s Returns, 442
Shock Effects on Steel, 678 Shop Process Cards, 171, 197
— System, Herbert’s Works, 115
Siberia, Shallow-Draught Tug, 731
Siberian Railway, New Route to Pekin, 639 Siemens, A., Presidential Address to Institution of Civil Engineers, 635, 644
— Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Sifting-Machine, Centrifugal, 577
Signalling, Automatic, District Railway, 348
— Railway, Power Systems, 348
Signals, Time, Radiotelegraphic, 639
Silica Lamp, Westinghouse Mercury Vapour, 343 Silicate Cotton, Heat Conductivity of, 397 Silicon Cast Iron, Effect of Manganese, 471, 844
— Cast Iron, Hardness Tests, 844. See 471
— Effect on Cast Iron, 471, 508,2841. See also
Ferro-Silicon
Silver, Effect on Arsenical Copper, 455
— Wires, High-Temperature Torsion Tests, 472
Simon’s Town Naval Dockyard, Cape Colony, 591, 621, 651, 756, 818, 884. For Details see Illustration Index
Single-Phase. See under Electric Sirocco Fans for Shop Ventilation, 267
Sizaire and Naudin, 12-H.-P. Motor-Car, 662
Skin-Friction of Plates in Air Current, 337, 373
Skinningrove Iron Works ; Rotary Blast-Furnace
Blower, 518
Slag, Blast-Furnace, Granulation of, 311
— Wool, Heat Conductivity of, 397
Sleigh Tractors, Motor (Antarctic), 317, 855
Slide-Valves, Locomotive, Drop Tests, 852
Slips, Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Berths
Slotting-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Sluice-Valves, Cape Graving-Dock, 756
Smith, Professor J. H., on Fatigue of Metals, 494. See also €69
Smith’s Exhaust Steam Feed-Water Heater, 462
Smith, J. A., on a Two-Liquid Differential Pressure-Gauge, 144
Smith, Professor C. A. M., Tests of Ligno-Con -crete, 820; on the Strength of Guns and Cylinders, 324. See 511, 546, 580, 599
Smiths’ Shops, Vulcan Company, Hamburg, 231 Smithfield Club Show, 803, 839
Smoke, Effects on Vegetation, 529, 712
— Nuisance from Domestic Fires, 528, 703, 712
— Production, Boiler Furnaces, 742
— Reduction by Producer-Gas, 742
— Tests of Aerial Propellers, 379
smokeless Powders, Dangers of Multiple Perforations, 562
Social Reform and Naval Strength, 129. See 771 Society. See Institution *
Sodium Salts, Effect on Boilers, 95
Softener, Water. See Water-Softener Solar Heat, Power Production from, 415
— Radiation, Pressures Effects, 453 Solenoids, Design of, 413
Solutions, Salt, Visibility of Molecules, 371 Sound, Measuring Intensity, 452
Sounding Apparatus for Lakes, &c., 207 Sounding-Machines, Kelvin, 133
South Africa. See also Cape Colony; Natal;
Orange River Colony; Rhodesia; Transvaal
— Australian Railways, Report, 56
— Eastern Railway, Elevator for Coaling Locomotives, 155
London Elevated Railway, Single - Phase Traction, 407 ; Costs, 227, 251, 281. See 204, 271, 348
— Polar Expedition, Scott’s, Motor Sleighs, 317,
QRK ' ' '
— Varanger, Norway, Iron-Ore Deposits and
Briquetting Plant, 383
— Wales Coal-Miners’ Strike, 401
— West, Notes from the, 17, 53, 89,123,163, 210. 235, 269, 303, 333, 365, 399, 443, 475, 503, 537, 579, 603, 633, 667, 701, 737, 769, 799,829, 857, fitH
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 17, 53, 89, 123, 163, 209, 235, 269, 303, 333, 365, 399, 443, 475, 503, 537, 579, 603, 633, 667, 701, 737, 769, 799, 829, 856, 893
Spanner, Self-Adjusting (Fastnut, Ltd.), 462
Spanish Navy, Tne New, 77
— Railways, Report, 62
Spark-Gaps, Wireless Telegraphy, 867
Specifications, Contractors’ and Customers’, 238
— Ferro-Concrete Work, 607
— Patent, Wording of, 438
— Standard, Indian Locomotives, and Materials,
Alfi
Spectra, Chromium and Calcium, 672
— Relation to the Periodic Series, 451
— of Various Metals, 520
Spectrograph, Fdry’s Auto - Collimating and
Focussing Prism for, 451, 519
Spectrophotometer, Hiifner Type, 451
Spectroscope, Beck-Rafferty Wave-Length, 867
Spectroscopic Apparatus, 132
Spectrum Lines, Interference Prism for Resolving, 672
— of Mercury, 451
Speed Indicator, Frahm Vibration, 30
— Indicator, Liquid, 867
— Regulation, Alternating-Current Motors, 515. See 494, 697
Spelter. See Zinc and Metal Price Diagrams
Spherical Shells, Thick, Stresses in, 324
Spherometer, Aldis, 889
Spring, Periodical, at Croydon, 339
Motor-Car ; Design, 659, 661,663, 689
Spur-Gearing See Gears; Gearing
“St. Lawrence,” Dredger, with Spiral Cutters, 364, 511
St. Louis Locomotive Tests, 255, 289
St. Nazaire Shipbuilding Yard, 847
St. Petersburg-Pekin Railway, 639
Stability of Aeroplanes. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Stains for Metals, 730
Stamping-Press for Sheet Metal, 500 Stamps. See Machine-Tools . Standard Air-Condensers, Electric, /28
— Cells, Weston, 728
— Electric Resistances, Tests, 727
Standards, Electrical; B.A. Report, 45..
— Committee, Engineering; Standardisation ot
Indian Locomotives and Materials, 59a, 614. See 605, 663 . m
Standardisation of Electric Railways, 223, 227, 244 573
— of Locomotives, 605 ; Indian, 595, 614, 663 ; Great Western Railway, 596
Statics, German Treatise on, 654
Stations, Electric Power. See under Electric
Stead, Dr. J. E., on the Effects of Sulphur and
Silicon on Cast Iron, 508
Steam-Boilers. See Boilers
— Chart of Specific Volumes, 8
— Consumption, Brown-Curtis Turbines; H.M.S. “ Bristol,” 466
— Consumption, Brush-Parsons Exhaust-Steam Turbine, 8
— Consumption, De Laval Turbo Generators, 386
— Consumption, Marine and Stationary Engines, Effect of Vacuum, 779, 809. See Letters, 794, 825
— Consumption, Ruston-Proctor Semi-Portable Engine, 16 .
— Consumption. See also Steam Trials; Turbines; Tests; Diagrams in Illustration Index
— Consumption, Stumpf Engine, 98
— Latent Heat, 672
— Leakage, Labyrinth Packings, 69, 136. See Letter, 373
— Lorries. See Motor- Wagons; Tractors; Traction Engines
— Meters, Recording, 438
— Pipes, Automatic Stop-Valve and Drain, 499
— Pipe Jointing Materials, “Rainbow,” 502
— Pipes, Small, Futility of Lagging, 414
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Regulator for Water-Heating, 431
— Superheated. See Superheated Steam
— Trials. See Warships; Trials
— Turbines. See Turbines
— Valve. See Valve
Steamboats. See Straw rs
Steamers, American Lake, Lloyd’s Classification, 546
— Cunard, New, 836
— “ Explorer,” Harrison Line; Engines, 839
— “ France ’ and “Rochambeau,” Construction, 847
— Helm Position, Recorder for, 435
— Mine-Laying and Torpedo-Testing, Portuguese, 362
— “ Olympic,” White Star Line, 564, 620, 693. For details see Illustration Index
— Shallow-Draught Paddle, for Siberia, 731
— Steering-Gear, Brown’s Hydraulic Telemotor, 442, 498
— Turbine, Dover-Ostend Service, “ Jan Breydel,” “ Pieter de Coninck ” (Cockerill), 84
— Water-Tanks for Preventing Rolling, 832
— See also Warships; Shipping ; Shipbuilding ; Engines; Turbines
Steel, Absorption of Occluded Gas, 509
— Beams, Rolling-Mills for, 471, 477
— Bessemer, Experiments on Welding, 510
— Billet Shears (Pels), 643
— Boiler-Plate, Brittle, 673
— Carbon, Theory of Hardening, 490, 548
— Castings, Small Converters for, 296
— Constitution of, Magnetic Tests, 835, 937
— Converters, Small, 296
— Corrosion, Acid Theory, 528
— Effects of Static Stress and Shock, 678
~ Elastic Properties under Torsional Strain, 32
— Electric Furnaces for Refining, 492
— Experiments on Fatigue, 494. See 669
— Forgings, Beardmore’s, 390
— Forgings for Turbine Rotors, 105
— Foundry Furnaces, 151. See Foundry Plant
— Fourth Recalescence State, 509
— Furnace, Gas-Fired, Mason’s, 154
— Furnaces, Open-Hearth, Use of Iron-Ore Briquettes, 481
— Furnaces, Siemens, Combustion in, 580, 641
— Furnace, Siemens, Theory of, 484. See 151
— Furnace, Wellman Tilting, 154
— Gases in Blisters, 510
— High-Speed, Cutting-Angles ; Speeds and heeds of Tools, 174, 189, 197. See Letters 241
— High-Speed, Lathe Tools, Testing, 356. See
Erratum, 416
— High-Speed, Mushet, 497
High-Speed Tool, Machines for, 173, 188, 195 197. See Letters, 241 ’
Industry, British, Development, 610
— Industry, German, 552
— Industry, Sheffield, History, 306
Ingots, Closing of Blow-Holes. 509
Z tnd Iron’ See/™™ and Steel Institute and Ghro,nium. Physical Proper-uies, ozu •
— Manufacturers’ Ore Supplies, 708
~ JHasm-ing Gauges, Changes in Length 673
Metallography, Sulphurous Acid for Etching, 471. See Erratum, 512
— Micro-Structure. See Micro-Photographs in
Illustration Index ^j'^pns m
for Motor-Car Construction, 26
— Nature of Martensite, 853, 908
~ ?*tiUr,e of Tro°stite, 853, 905
— PW ’w r Bridge Construction, 274
|Jant, Electric, Eicher-Hiitten-Verein 674 Production, Belgian, 732 verein, 6/4
— Properties of, Chemical and Thermal In
fluences, 528 -*-'ivrmai in-
— Rails, Chinese Manufacture 37°
— Recalescence Curve-Tracer, 889
ctions, Machines for Shearing (Pels), 427,
Steel Tempering, Changes in. Physical Properties, 906
Testa under Alternating Stress, 61
— Wohler Tests, Range of Stress, 494. See 669
— Work. See Bridges ; Poofs ; Columns ;
Floors
_ Works. See Works
Steele and Grant’s Micro-Balance, 423
Steering Gear, Brown’s Hydraulic Telemotor, 442 498
__Qear ’s S. “ Olympic,” 572, 693. See 430
— Recorder, Russell-Rapken, 435
qteetlev Quarries, Aerial Ropeway, /44 Stefan-Boltzmann Radiation Law, 142, 673 Storn Frame Castings, S.S. “ Olympic,” 567 Steven, J. D., on Tooth Gearing, 192, 213. See
Letter,242
Stevens Petrol-Electric Omnibus, 545
Stock and Dies, “ Beaver” Self-Adjusting, 547 ‘‘ Stock" Oil-Fired Converter for bteel, 297 qtnkers Bennis, Amsterdam Power-Station, 700
— ChSn Grate (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 501
— Underfeed, and Air-Heaters, 200 Stones, Building, Durability of, 273
Stone Dust for Preventing Colliery Explosions, 43, 801, 865
Stop-Valve and Drain for Steam-Pipes, 499
Straightening-Machine for Steel Shafting 500
Strainer, Rotary, Condenser Circulating Water, 677
— “Twin,” for Pumps, 563
Strand-Holborn Tramway Tunnel, London, 6/5
Street Cleaning and Watering, 310. See 740
— Improvements, London, 675, 863, £01
. Lighting, London, Gas and Electric, 511
— Traffic Regulation, 724, 725, 750
— See also Hoads
Strength of Columns. See Columns
— of Materials, German Treatise, 654
Stress, Centrifugal, io Turbines, 101
— in Machines and Structures, 669
_ Optical Determination of, 412
— See also Alternating and Combined
Strike, Cotton Operatives, 401
— German, and Employers’ Insurance, 369 _ shipbuilding Trade, 367, 401, 831
— South Wales Coal-Miners, 401
_ and Trade Unions. See Industrial botes Stripping Plates, Moulding, Manufacture, and
Use, 533
Structural Details. Treatise on, 817
Structure of Metal. See Micro-Photographs in Illustration Index
— Theory of, Treatise on, 619
Stuffing-Box, Carbon-Packed, for Turbines, 466 Stumpf Steam-Engine, 84, 98
Submarine Boats. See Warships
— Telephone Cable, England to France, 868 Suburban Railway E’ectrification, 203, 223, 249, 281, 284, 315, 348, 407, 573
Subway, Tramway, Holborn-Strand, London, 675
Suction Dredger. See Dredger^
Gas Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Gas Producer. See Producer
Sugar-Cane, Crm-hing Rolls (Gebr. Stork), 233
— Cane Refuse, Manufacture of Paper, 893 Sugar Manufacture, Treatise on, 558
Vacuum Pan for, 530
Suisted's Floating Coal-Elevator, 261, 373
Sulphate of Ammonia Fertiliser, 703, 712 of Ammonia Production, 131
Sulphur in Coal-Gas, 528
— Effect on Cast Iron, 508
Sulphurous Acid for Metallographic Etchirg, 471, 512
Sulzer, A., The late, 776
Sunderland Gear-Planing Machine, 352, 394 Superannuation Fund, Elswick Works, 19 Superheated Steam, Brown-Curtis Turbines 466
— Steam Engine, Compound, 84 Steam-Engine, Sheppee Vehicle, 762
— Steam-Engine, Semi-Portable, 15
— Steam-Engine, Tandem Compound, 16
- Steam Throttle-Valve, 762
Superheaters, De Naeyer Boilers, 200 Superheater, “ Phoenix,” Locomotive, 858, 891 — Steam, Agricultural Engines, 806 Surface Condensers. See Condensers Survey, Hydro-Geological, of U.K ,311
Surveying Instruments, Brussels Exhibition, 132
— Instruments, Glasgow College, 624
— Mine, 44
Sweden, Karlsvik Iron Works, 418
— Lapland, Electric Railway, 23, 185 Waterfalls of, 775, 779
Swedish Iron and Steel Markets, 778
Swing Bridge, See Bridge
Swiss Roads, 309 Switchboards and Gear. See under Electric Syndicate, German Pig-Iron Trade, 373

Table, Wolfensberger's, for Machine-Tools, 399 Tabulating Machine, Hollerith’s, 170 Tachometer, Frahm Vibration, 30
Talla Water Supply, Edinburgh, Purity of, 708 Tank, Testing, Ship Model Making Machine, 63
— Water, for Preventing Ships Rolling, 832 Tar-Macadam Roads, 91, 206, 239, 308, 325, 740
Tasmania, Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, 709 Teaching. See Education
Technical College, Darlington, 610
— Glasgow and West of Scotland, 424. 487, 624, 685, 757 ; Engine Trials, 791, 809, 825
— Mining, Bochum, 704
— Railway, China, 418
Education. See Education
Tees Transporter Bridge, 209
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Telegraphs, Engine-Room, for Steamers, 427 Telegraphy. See under Electric
— Wireless. See Wireless under Electric
Telemotor, Hydraulic, for Steering-Gears, 442, 498
Telephone. See under Electric
Telescope Mirrors, Rotating Mercury, 507
Telewriter Exchange, Walbrook, 59
Temperature Measurement. See Purometer Thermometer
— Regulator for Liquids, 434
Tempered Steel, Nature of Troostite, 853, 905 Tenders of Locomoth es. See Locomotives
Tenders for Municipal Work, 95
Ternary Alloys, Copper, Manganese, &c., Magnetic Properties, 439, 646
Tests of Aerial Propellers. See Aeroplanes and Air ships
— Castings for High Pressures, 852, 870
— Drilling • Machines with High-Speed Steel, 197, 434
— Drop, Locomotive Slide-Valves, 852
— Ferro-Concrete Piles, 149
— Laval Turbo-Generators, 386
— Locomotive, Analyses of Results, 255, 289. See 347, 511, 641, 901
— Low-Grade Fuels in Gas-Producers, 898
— Low-Water, Jacobs-Shupert Locomotive Fire-
Box, 675
— Motor - Cars, Wimperis Accelerometer for,
408, 670, 697
— Specimens, Axial Loading, 511
Testing Files, Professor Ripper’s Method, 361
— Installation, Brown-Curtis Turbines, 465
— Lathe Tools, Professor Ripper’s Speed Incre
ment Method, 356. See Erratum, 416
— Machine, Ball, Hardness, 459
— Machine for Gear Friction, 217. See 192
— Machines, Glasgow College, 685
— Machine, Impact, Rotary, 459
— Machine, Impact Tensile, 860
— Machine for Pressure Gauges (Crosby), 498
— Machine for Roller Bearings, 500
— Turbines, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 375
— See also Trials; Steam Trials; Turbines;
Reichsanstalt; Rational Physical Laboratory; Diagrams in Illustration Index
Textile Trade Effluents, Treatment, 543
Thames, New Bridge, London, 775, 863
Theatre Curtains, Self-Raising Rollers for, 547. See 415
Theodolites, Brussels Exhibition, 132
Thermal Conductivity, Fire-Clay, 743
— Efficiency, Humphrey Gas-Pump, 718. See
125
Thermo-Couple Bridge, Alternating Currents, 728
Thermo-Couples, 141, 498, 729, 867
— for Gas-Engine Cylinders, 409
— Welding Fine Wires for, 728
Thermometer, Clinical Recording, 867
— Fournier Vapour-Pressure, 497
— Gas, Recent Improvements, 141
— Testing, Reichsanstalt, 729
— See also Pyrometer
Thermometry, Progress in, 141
Thermostat, Sheppee Steam Motor-Vehicle, 762
— for Water Temperature Regulation, 434
Thompson, Professor S. P., on Laws of ElectroMechanics, 413
Thomson, Sir J. J., on Positive Electricity, 422
— Vortex Turbine, Glasgow College, 626 Thornycroft Motor-Car, Worm-Drive, 662
— Hydroplane-Boat “Miranda IV.,” 99, 187, 277 Thrashing-Machine (Clayton and Shuttleworth),
Three-Phase. See Electric
Throttle-Valve, Superheated Steam, 762
Thrust Bearing, Michel, 435
— Block, Brush-Parsons Turbine, 5
— Shaft, S.S. “Olympic,” 571
Tide-Recorder, Field-Cust, Deep Sea, 206, 3^0
Timber Drying Plant, Vulcan Shipyard, Hamburg, 291; Penhoet Shipyard, France, 850
-- Scarcity in U.S., 96
Time-Signals, Radiotelegraphic, 639
Timkin Roller-Bearings, Motor-Car, 693
Tin Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 439, 646
Tin-Copper Alloys, High-Pressure Castings, 852, 870
— Alloys, Shrinkage in Cooling, 683
— See also Alloys
Tin-Plate Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Tin, Spontaneous Crystallisation, 459, 813
Titan Crane. See Crane
Tolerances for Machine Work, 118, 200
Tools, Double-Cutting, for Planers, 188 Tool-Grinding Machine, Lumsden, 392
Tools, High-Speed Steel, and Machines for, 173, 174, 188, 189, 195, 197. See Letters, 241
— Lathe, Professor Ripper’s Method of Testing,
356. See Eiratum, 416
— Machine. See Machine-Tools
Tool-Steels, Carbon, Theory of Hardening,490,548 .
— Mushet High-Speed, 497
Tool, Turning, Roller-Steady, Herbert’s, 119 Tooth Gearing. See Gearing
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Toipedo-Testing Steamer, Portuguese, 362
Torsion, Behaviour of Steel under, 32
Torsional Elasticity, Wires at High Temperatures, 472
— Vibrations of Shafts, 785, 901
Tcsi Turbine, Design of Rotor, 70
Town Planning, 299, 395, 539, 863, 901
Traction, Electric. See Tramuays and Railways under Electric
— Engines, Use of, 749
— Road, Railless Electric, 724, 725, 749, 774, 803
Tractors, Agricultural, at R. A.S. Trials, 9 ; Mann, 234; Ivel, 234 ; Wallis and Steevens, 234; Saunderson, 276. See 246, 272
— Petrol-Motor for Sleigh, Antarctic Expedi
tion, 317, 855
— Road, Pedrail, 724, 749
— Steam, Boiler Explosion, Langford, 298. See
311
— Steam (Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd.), 804
— Steam, Smithfield Show, 803, 805
— Steam, Small, Agricultural, 234. See 240, 272 Trade, British. See also Census of Production
— Disputes, Compulsory Arbitration, 506
— Effluents, River Pollution by, 57, 328, 543,
608, 706
— Union Congress, 437. See 401
— Unions and Labour Exchanges, 438
— Unions and Labour Exchanges, French, 541
— Unions and Parliamentary Representation,
437. See 401
— Unions, Shipbuilding, Agreement, 367, 401,
831
— Unions. See also Industrial Notes; Legal;
Labour; Strike; Lock-Out
Traders’ Railway Wagons, Use of, 772
Trading, Municipal. See Municipal
Traffic, Street, Regulation, 724, 725, 750. See 749, 774, 803
Train, Road, Renard, 724, 725
Training. See Education ; Apprenticeship
Trains. See Locomotives; Railways; Carriages; Electric
Tramcars with Internal-Combustion Engines, 724, 725, 749
— Trolley Standards, Leakage-Indicator, 868
Tramways in Belgium, 725
— London, Statistics, 749
. — and Railway Competition, 204, 271, 281, 407, 469
— Schemes in Parliament, 774, 803
— Tracks, Construction and Maintenance, 309,
325
| — Tunnel, Holborn-Strand, London, 675
I Trans-Continental Railway, Australian, 274
Transandine Railway Tunnel, 880
Transformers, Electric, Stray Flux, 728
Transmission of Power, Electrical, 223, 226, 245, 247
Transmutation of Elements, 510
Transport, Iron Ore, Lapland, 23,185
— of Perishable Goods, U.S. Railways, 21
Transporter, 2^-Ton Electric, Fleetwood Docks, 700
— Bridge, Tees, 209
Transvaal Mines, Electric Power Plant, 735
Trials of Agricultural Motors, 240, 272. See 234, 276
— Boiler, Nicolson’s Theory of Heat Transmis
sion, 764. See Letters, 795, 825, 856, 901
— Brush-Parsons, Exhaust-Steam Turbine, 8
— Grille Water-Tube Boiler, 25, 275
— Humphrey Gas-Pump, 126. See 714
— Motor-Car, Scottish Automobile Club, 750
— Steam, Brazilian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer
(Yarrow), 265
— Steam-Engine, Effect of Vacuum, 809. See
779, 794, 825
— Steamer, Effect of Vacuum on Economy, 811. See 779, 794, 825
— Turbine Channel Steamer, “ Jan Breydel,”
88
— Warships. See Warships
Triangular Notches, Coefficient of Discharge, 598
Triplane. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Triple-Expansicn Engine. See Engines
Trolley Standards, Tram-Car, Leakage - Indicator, 868
Troostite in Steel, Constitution of, 853, 905
Tropenas Converter for Steel Castings, 296
Trotter’s Portable Photometer, 868. Accelerometer, 868
Trucks. See also Carriages and Wagons
Trunk Railway Lines, Electrification of, 223, 224, 227, 314, 573. See 284
Trusses. See Bridges; Roofs
Trust, German Chemical, 768
— German Pig-Iron Trade, 373
— See also Kartels
Tube Mills, Grondal, 383
— Railways, London, 203, 223, 250, 272, 281,
349, 774
— Thin, Royles’ Coupling for, 497
— See also Pipes
Tuckfield’s Crankless Engine, 427
Tug, Shallow-Draught Paddle, for Siberia, 731
Tunnel, Elbe, Hamburg, Shaft-Sinking, 44
Tunnel Tramway, Holborn-Strand, London, 675 Tunnel, Transandine Railway, 880
Turbines, Belgian Channel Steamer “Jan Breydel,” 84
— Blades, Centrifugal Streses in, 101
— Blading, Materials and Fixing, 66, 68, 69,
105
— Blowers, Hodges’, 16
— Brown-Curtis, H.M.S. “ Bristol,” 465 ; Steam
Consumption, 446
— Carbon-Packed Glands, 466
— Design of Rotating Parts, 64, 101
— Exhaust-Steam, Brush-Parsons, 2
— Exhaust-Steam, for Electric Power Produc
tion, 537
— Exhaust-Steam, S.S. “ Olympic,” 571, 620, 693
— Gas ; Possibilities, 739
— and Gas-Engines, Comparison, 739. See
Letter, 778
— Hydraulic, Girard, Glasgow College, 685
— Hydraulic, Vortex, Glasgow College, 626
— Hydraulic. See also Hydro-Electric ; Hy
draulic; Water; Pelton Wheel
— Laval, Design of Disc and Shaft, 66,101, 104
— Laval, and Electric Generators, 384, 386
— Leakage through Labyrinth Packings, 69,136. See Letter, 373
— Leakage Between Stages, 67, 69
— Marine, of H.M.SS. “Neptune ” and “Orion,”
306 ; Costs, 336 ; Trials, 514
— Marine, H.M.S. “Newcastle,” 264
— Marine, Manoeuvring Valves, S.S. “Jan Brey
del,” 85 ; S.S. “ Olympic,” 571, 621
— Marine, Nominal Power, 732
— Marine, New Spanish Battleships, 80
— Marine, Parsons, Progress, 603
— Marine, and Reciprocating Engines, Com
bined, S.S. “ Olympic,” 564, 571, 629, 693
•— Marine, Rotors, Balancing, 70
— Marine, Testing, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 375
— Marine, Trials, British Warships. Ste War
ships
— Parsons, 2, 80, 84, 164, 306, 514, 537, 571, 603,
620, 693
— Pump. See Pump Centrifugal
— Rateau, Mixed Pressure, 45
— Rotors, Centrifugal Stresses in, 101
— Rotors, Materials for, 105
— Shafts, Design of, 103. See also 785, 901
— Shops, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 374, 375; Pen-
hoet Shipyard, France, 848
— Similar, Speeds and Outputs, 105
— Steamers. See Steamers
— Warships. See under Warships
— Zoelly (Gebr. Stork), 84
Turbo-Alternators, Parsons’, Randfontein Mines, 735
Turbo-Blowers, Rateau, 45
Turbo-Electric Locomotive, Reid-Ramsay, 54 Tuiin International Exhibition, 742
Turkish Navy and the British Admiralty, 335. See Letter, 580
Turner, Professor T., Influence of Silicon on Pure Cast Iron, 471, 841 ; on Shrinkage of Alloys during Solidification, 441, 678
Turning-Machines. See Lathes and Automatic under Machine-Tools
Turntables, Locomotive, 170, 171, 180
Turret Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Twist-Drill Grinder. See Machine-Tools
Tyres, Motor Ca-, Air-Compressors for, 31, 502
Underfeed Stokers and Air-Heaters. 200
Underground Railways, London, 203, 223, 250, 272, 281, 319
Underground Railway. See also Tunnels;
Tubes; Railways
Uniflux Condensers, H.M.S. “ Newcastle,” 265
Union, German Chemical Industry, Report, 768
— German Pig-Iron Trade, 373 -
— Trades. See Trade Unions ; . Industrial
Notes; Legal
— See also K artels
United Kingdom, Hydro-Geological Survey, 311
— Kingdom. See British
United States Battleship “ Georgia,” Gun Explosion, 562
— Electric Locomotives, Data, 226, 246
— Lake Steamers, Lloyd’s Classification, 546
— Motor-Car Design, 659, 689
— Navy and Smokeless Powder, 562
— Notes from, 14, 52, 88, 122, 172, 201, 236, 270,
302, 331, 398, 444, 468, 510, 536, 578,601,632, (66, 7(9, 736, 776, 798, 828, 858, 892
— Railroads, Policy, 524
— Railways, Operating Costs, 311
— Railways, Running-Shed Practice, 169, 179,
181, 183
— Railways, Transport of Perishable Goods, 21
— Railways, Wood Sleepers on, 96
— Road Administration, 308
— Tests of Low-Grade Fuels in Gas-Producers,
898
— Timber Scarcity, 96
— See also America
University, Hong Kong, 607
— See also Technical Co'lege
Ural District, Mineral Wealth, 136
V-Notches, Coefficient of Discharge, 598
Vacuum-Brake. See Brake
— Effect on Steam - Engines, 779, 809. See
Letter8,794, 825
— Pan, Steam-Heated, for Sugar, 530
— Pump, Rotary, Lamplough’s 386
— Tubes, Sealing Iron Wires into, 451
Valve, Automatic Stop and Drain, for Steam-Pipes, 499
— Blocks, Hydraulic, Aluminium-Bronze, Tests,
852, 873
— Drop, Garels’, Steam-Engine, 892
— Drop, of Ruston-Proctor Engine, 16
— Gear, Diesel Oil-Engine, 731
— Gear, Differential, Storey’s Steam-Pump, 390
— Gear, Humphrey Gas-Pump, 715. See 125
— Manoeuvring, S.S. “ Olympic,” 571, 621; S.S.
“Jan Brey del,” 85
— Motor-Car Engines, 659, 688
— Pump, Experimental, 685
— Seat Planing-Machine, Portable, 430
— Slide, Drop Tests, 852
— Sluice, Cape Graving Dock, 756
— Steam, Aluminium-Bronze, Tests, 852, 875
— Throttle, Superheated Steam, 762
Valves and Valve-Gear. See also Engines; Locomotives; Regulators ; Motor - Cars; Aeroplanes and Airships
Vanadium Cast Iron, Locomotive Cylinders, 17, 519
Varanger, Norway, Iron-Ore Deposits and Briquetting Plant, 383
Vaughan, H. H., on Handling Locomotives, 169, 179
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor-Cars; Motor-Carriages, Rail; Motor- Wagons; Tractors; Traction-Engine
Ventilating Fan, Electric, Gelsenkirchen Mines, 518
— and Heating Engineering Shops, 267
— and Heating Locomotive Running-Sheds, 182
Ventilation, Plenum System, Glasgow College, 426
Venturi Water-Meters at Olympia, 462
Vessels. See Ships; Steamers; Warships
Viaducts. See also Bridges
Vibration Tachometer, Frahm, 30
Vibrations of Shafts, 785. See Letter, 901
Vickers Co.’s Aerial Propellt r Testing Apparatus,
39. See Letters, 208, 242, 319/377, 411, 580 “ Vilcar” Mechanism and Flapping Flight, 889 Volume Elasticity, Metals, Influence of Tem
perature, 672
“Von der Tann,” German Cruiser, 27
Vortex, Evolutions of a, 422
— Turbine, Glasgow College, 626
“ Vulcan ” Magnetic Clutch for Blowing-Engines, 100
Vulcan Company’s Shipyard at Hamburg, 147, 230, 290, 374, 525
Wages Cost of Coal Production, 95
Wagons, Cattle, Railway ; Disinfection, 472
— Motor ; Road-Resistance and Power, 408, 670. See 697
— Motor, Use of, 749
— Railway, 40-Ton Steel Self-Discharging, 530
— Railway, Design of Journals, 723
— Railway, for Motor-Cars, P.L.M. Railway, 201
— Railway, Use of, Privately-Owned, 772
— Steam Motor (Aveling and Porter), 9, 803
— Steam Motor, Agricultural Show, 9
— Steam, Sheppee, 762. See Erratum, 795
— Steam. See Motor - Wagons; Tractors;
Traction Engine
Walbrook Telewriter Exchange, 59
Wallis and Steevens’ Agricultural Tractor, 234. See 240, 272
Walls, Retaining, on Mud Foundations, Treatise on, 558
Warfare, Effect of Aeroplanes and Airships, 470
Warships:
Admiralty and Commercial Propagandism, 335. See Letter, 580
continued.
Australian Navy, Destroyers for, 404
Brazilian Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Yarrow), 265
“Dreadnought” Battleships of the World, 654
Engines, Gas and Oil, for Battleships, 305. See Letters, 329, 511, 546, 598
French Battleship “Diderot,” Construction, 847
— Naval Dockyards, 806
German Cruiser “Von der Tann,” 27
Guns, 12-In. 50-Calibre, Naval (Vickers), 222
— 13.5-In., in H.M. Cruiser “Lion,” 237, 636
— Life and Wear of, 773
Gun-Power of British Battleships, 305
Guns, Wire-Wound and Solid, Comparative Stiffness, 877
H.M. Battleship “Monarch” Class ; Admi-ralty Orders. 836
— “Neptune,” Guns and Machinery, 305 ;
Trials, 514
— Battleship “Orion,” Guns and Machinery, 306 ; Costs, 336
— Cruiser “Bristol” with Brown-Curtis Turbines, 465 ; Trials, 466
— Cruisers, Design, 237
— Cruiser “Gloucester,” Steam Trials, 241
— Cruiser “Lion,” Design, 237
— Cruiser “Newcastle,” 264
— Scout-Cruiser “Falmouth,” 441
H.M.SS. Building, €0, 508
H.M. Scout Cruisers, Development, 441
H.M.SS. Steam Trials, 1910, 897
H.M. Submarine “DI,” with Wireless Installation, 444
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, Steam Trials, 1910, 898
H.M. Naval Construction, 1910, 896
— Navy Controller, Sir J. Jellicoe’s Work, 864 '
— Naval Cadets, Preparatory Training, 776
— Construction, Secrecy in, 335, 636. See Letter, 580
— Dockyard, Cape Colony, 591,621. 651,756, 818, *884. For Details see Illustration Index
— Policy. See Naval; Nayy; Admiralty
— Requirements and Social Reform, 129. See 771
Naval Shipbuilders and Foreign Work, 335. See Letter, 580
— Shipbuilding, 1910, British, 896
Navy League Annual, 653
Portuguese Mine-Laying and Torpedo-Testing Steamer, 362
Spanish Battleships “Alphonso XIII.,” “ Espana,” and “ Jaime I.,” 80
— Navy, The New, 77
Submarines of the World’s Navies, Treatise on, 620
Torpedo-BoatDestroyers,British andForeign, Launched in 1910, 897
Turbines, Parsons, in Foreign War Vessel”, 603
Turkish Navy and British Admiralty, 335. See Letter, 580
United States Battleship “Georgia,” Gun Explosion, 562
Yarrow Boilers in Warships, 545. See Letters, 732, 778
Waste Heat Power Plants, N.E. Coast, 537
Water, Bacterial Purification, Sand and Mechanical Filters, 708. See 888
— Consumption of Engines. See Steam Con
sumption
— Ejectors, Theory, 869
— Feed-Heaters. See Feed- Water Heaters
— Feed, Removing Oil from, 526
— Filters. See Filters
— Flow over Triangular Notches, 598
— Gas. See Producer Gas
— Gauge-Glasses and Protectors, 498, 499
— Level Regulator for Boilers, 498
— Meter, “Arrow” Straight-Flow, 502
— Meters, Venturi, at Olympia, 462
— Power. See Hydraulic; Hydro-Electric
— Proofing Buildings, 60
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Purification, De-Clor Chlorine Process, 888
— Reservoir. See Reservoir
— Sea, Distillation, Treatise on, 619
— Softener, Vulcan Co., Hamburg, 526
— Softening for Locomotives, 158, 170, 171
— Softening, Wellingborough Water Works, 836
— Strainer, “Twin,” for Pumps, 563
— Strainer, Rotary, 677
— Supplies (Protection Bill), 1910, 310
— Supply, Edinburgh, Purity, 708
— Supply, Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nttrn-
berg, 345
— Supply Schemes in Parliament, 775, 803
_Temperature Regulator, Automatic, 434
— Testing, Electric Conductivity Method, 807. See 888
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines
— Vapour, Saturation Pressure, 672
— Wheel. See Pelton Wheel; Turbine
— Works, Portsmouth, 495
— Works, Reading ; De-Clor Purification, 888
— Works, Wellingborough ; Softening Plant, 836
— See also Irrigation
Waterways. See also Rivers; Canals
Watt, James, Letter, Presentation to American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 169
Wave Propagation in Gaseous Explosions, 452. See 357 ™ 7
— Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
“ Waverley” Motor-Car, 663
Wax Polishing Beds for Metallography, 108
“Weardale” Gas-Fired Annealing Furnace, 791
Weather. See Meteorological
Webs, Plate-Girder, Design, 39
Weekes, R. W., on Gravity Self-Raising Rollers for Maps, &c., 547. See 415
Weir-Uniflux Condensers, H.M.S. “Newcastle, 265
Weirs, Triangular, Coefficient of Discharge, 598 Welding, Oxy-Acetylene, 462
Welding Steel, Experiments on, 510
Welin Quadrant Davit for Ships’ Boats, 14 Wellingborough Water Works ; Softening Plant, 836
Wellman TiltingSteel Furnace, 151
West, H. J., The late, 641
— Riding Rivers, 57, 133, 293, 328, 543, 608, 706
— of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute; Presidential Address, 610
Western Australian Railways, Report, 238
Westinghouse, G., on the Electrification of Railways, 223, 244. See 203, 573
Westinghouse Silica Mercury-Vapour Lamp, 343
Weston Standard Cells, 728
Westphalian Mine-Owners’ Association and Miners’ School, 704
Wheels, Detachable, Motor-Car, 693
— Gear. See Gears ; Gearing
— Locomotive, Drop-Pits for, 170, 171
Whipple, R. S., on Recent Advances in Pyrometry, 141
Whirling Speeds of Shafts, 104, 785, 901
White Star Liner “ Olympic,” 564, 620, 693. For Details see Illustration Index
Whiting Brass-Melting Furnaces, 560 ; Malleable-Iron Furnace, 789; Annealing-Oven for Malleable Castings, 791
Whitworth’s Double Cutting Tools for Planers, 188
Whyte, F. M., on Handling Locomotives at Terminals, 169, 181
Wien-Planck Radiation Law, Determination of Constants 673
Willesden Junction Railway Accident, Williams-Mitchell Luffing-Gear for Cranes, 7b«
Wilson, Prof. E.', Apparatus for Producing High Tension Electrical Discharges, 414, 678
Wimperis Accelerometer, 408, 670. See 697
Wimperis, H., on Road Resistance of Motor Vehicles, 408. See 670, 697
Wind, Power Production from, 415
Winding-Gear, Electrical, 44
Windley’s Caliper and Limit-Gauges, 430
Wire, Brass, High-Temperature Tensile Tests, 440, 448
— Cables, Stranded, High-Frequency Resistance, 728
— Fine, for Thermo-Couples, Welding, 728
— High-Temperature Torsion Tests, 472
— Iron, Sealing into Glass Tubes, 451
— Ropeway, Excavating, Erie Canal, 327
— Ropeways in Mining Industry, 45
— Ropeway, Steetley Quarries, 744
— Wound Guns, Stiffness, 877
Wohler’s Tests of Steel, 61, 494, 669
Wolf, Dr.-Ing. Rudolf, The late, 807
Wolfensberger’s Universal Work-Table for Machine-Tools, 390
Wolseley Motor-Cars, 627 ; Sleigh, 317, 855
Wood, Heat Conductivity of, 397
Drying Plant, Vulcan Shipyard, Hamburg, 291; Penhoet Shipyard, France, 850
Reinforced Concrete, Tests, 820
Wood, Professor R. W., on Echelette Gratings and the Mercury Telescope, 506
Wood-Working Machinery. See Machnxe-Toolt
Woollen Trade Effluents, Treatment, 543
Woolwich Polytechnic, Impact Tensile Testing-Machine, 860
Work-Table, Wolfensberger’s, for Machine-Tools, 390
Works:
Alkali, British, Report on, 131
Engineering Shops, Heating Apparatus, 267
French, Inspection of, 606
Hanyang, China, Iron and Steel, 371. See 491
Herbert, Alfred, Ltd., Coventry and Edg-wiok,113
Ore-Briquetting, S. Varanger, Norway, 383
Shipbuilding, Chantier et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, 847
Shipbuilding Yards, Spanish, 77
Shipbuilding Yard, Vulcan Co.’s, Hamburg, 147, 230, 290, 374, 525
Steel, Utilisation of Electric Power, 494, 515. See 537, 697
Works Management. See Herbert's Works
Workshops, Simon’s Bay Naval Yard, 884
Workman,Clark, and Co.; Exhaust-Steam Turbine Plant, 2
Workmen’s Compensation. See Legal
Workmen and Labour-Saving Appliances, 635,645
Workmen’s Pension Fund and Bank, Elswick Works, 19
Worm-Gears for Motor-Car Drive, 632, 659, 662 688, 689
Worm-Wheel, Worn, 17®
Worthington Pumps and Condensing Plant, 502
— Centrifugal Pump, Glasgow College, 685
Wright Aeroplane, Propeller Efficiency, 580
Wrought-Iron. See Iron

X-Ray Coil, W’ilson’s System, 414, 678
— Tubes, Comparisons of Anti-Cathodes, 7/5
Xylonite for Optical Determination of Stress 412

Yacht “Mohawk,” with Auxiliary Motor, 821
Yarmouth, Breydon Swing Railway Bridge ; Ball Bearing Centre, 345
— North Sea Fisheries’ Exhibition, 613,637
“ Yarra,” Australian Destroyer. Trials, 404
Yarrow Boilers for British Warships, 545. Ste Lkttehs, 732, 778
Year-Books. See Litkratcrr Iniucx
York’s Rolling-Mill for Steel Beams, 477
Yorkshire, West Riding Rivers, 1904-10, 57, 133 293, 328, 543,608, 7(«8

“Zig-Zag” Milling File, 430
Zinc-Aluminium Alloys, Assaying, 682; Tests 68?, 683
— Alloys, Shrinkage during Solidification, 441, 678. See also A Uoyt
Zinc-Copper Alloys, Heat Treatment, 440, 447
Zinc Loss from Brass in Annealing, 440, 448
Zoelly Steam Turbine (Gcbr. Stork), 84
— Turbine, Design of Rotating Parts, 67

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