Engineering 1920 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABBEY WORKS, Lincoln, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 778*
Aberdeen Chronograph for Ballistic Experiments, 798
Ablett, C. A., on Electric Drive of Steel Works Plant, 643, 664*
Absorption Process, Petrol Recovery from Natural Gas, 760

Accidents :

Accident Compensation, See If'ozA'jnew’s Compensation under Labour
Explosions of Economisers, 120
Man Engine, Cornish Mine, Failure, 352*
Multiple Accidents, Workshop, Mathematical Investigation, 5
Turbines, Steam, Curtis, Wheel Failures, 269
Turbo-Alternator, Regina Power Station, 252
— Generators, Failures of, 43*, 95*. See Errata 116. Sep also 121, 176, 225, 254, 452
See also Boiler Explosions and PARAGRAPH J ND EX
Accumulators, Electric. See Acetone Vapour and Air, 290
Acetylene-Oxygen Blowpipe.
— Welding. See Welding Acids, Fatty, in Oils, Effect 184. See LETTER, 279.
— Sulphuric, Lead Attack by, 215
Acland, Capt. P. D., on Aerial Transport, 520
Acoustics, Experiments in Rotational Dyna- Tuics 6S9
— Work of Lord Rayleigh, 456
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address
Admiralty Policy, Merchant Shipbuilding in Dockyards, 21, 350, 382
— Specifications, Turbine Reduction Gear, 480
— See also Warships Adventure in Engineering, 198
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, U.S., Reports, 117, 216, 793
— — for Aeronautics, Work of, 289, 588, 726. See 621
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Propellers. See Aeronautics
— Ropeway Transporters, Ltd., Ropeway, 80* See Wire Ropeway
— Transport. See Aeronautics Aerials. See Telegraphy, Wireless Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics Aeronautical Society, Royal, J. E. M. Pritchard, on the Size of Airships, 184 ; Major P. Bishop, on the Durability of Aeroplanes, 252 ; Captain P. D. Acland, on Cost of Aerial Transport, 520; Major-General Sir S. Brancker, on Aerial Transport, 587; Prof. Sir R. T. Glazebrook, on the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 726 ; Wilbur Wright Lecture, by Dr. J. C. Hunsaker, on Naval
in Aeronautics, 857*
Aeronautics
Advisory
U.S. for 726.
Aerial Transport, Cost of, 520, 554, 587. See LETTER, 590
Aerodynamics, Aerofoils. Existence of Critical Speeds, 535*
Variation of No-Lift Angle, 537* — Air Flow round Ship’s Funnel, 134* — Balances, McCook-Field Wind Tunnel, 503*
— Comparison of Experiments in Air and Water, 101*. Seo LETTERS, 225, 255
— Effect of Local Heating on Fluid Motion, 101*. See LETTERS, 225, 255
— Investigations of Flight Vortices, 501* 534*
— Rendering Air Flow Visible, 501*, 534*
— Scale Effect in Model Experiments, 502
Aerofoils, Existence of Critical Speeds, 535*
— Variation of No-Lift Angle, 537* Aeronautical Instruments, Royal Society Soiree, 864
Aeronautical Research Committee, For" mation, 289, 621
Aeronautics, Zaharoff Professorship of, 289
Aeroplanes, Air Ministry Competitions, 545
— Bristol ” M.R.I.,” All-Metal Construction, 410*
— Clouds seen from, 420
— Construction, Glues for, 216
U.S. Timber Supplies, 177
— Design, Consistent Strength, 133. See LETTEKS, 175, 280
Factors of Safety in, 133, 175, 280, 511. See LETI'ER, 720.
— ?— Proportions of Control Surfaces, 858.
Resources, 798
Weight Estimation, 857
— Factors Affecting Durability, 252
— Mail Service, Karachi-Constantinople, 587
— Metal Construction for, 357*, 375* 408*. See LETTERS, 421*, 458, 490, 545
— Spars, Solid, Laminated and Built-up, Strength, 177
Stresses in, 357*, 375*, 408*. See LETTERS, 421*, 458, 490, 514*, 545
Vibration, 201*
— Stability, Metacentric Height Criterion, 857*
— Structures (Review), 299. See LETTERS 378, 458.
— Timbers (Review), 332
— Transference of Insect Pests, 552
— Vickers-Vimy, Cost of Transport, 520
— Wing Frameworks, Stresses in. Optical Investigation, 25*
Ribs, Testing, 1*
— See also Seaplane, (below).
Air, Skin Friction over Smooth Plates, 867
— Speed Indicator, Smith Recording, 89*
Airships, Advantages of Large 439, 464*
— Commercial Possibilities, LETTER, 590
— Design, Normand's Weight 859
— Early, Dupuy de Lome’s, 860
— Fabrics, Measuring Permeability, 868
— Helium Production from Natural Gas, 124
—‘ Hydrogen Production, 811
— “ R 33 " and “ R 34,” Machinery, 433*, 504*
— Rigid, Effect of Size on Performance, 439, 464*. See 184
— Service, England to India, 554. See LETTER, 590
Aviation in H.M. Navy, 381
— Industry, State Aid, 798
Ballopn Fabrics, Measuring Permeabllitv 868
Dynamical Similarity, Fluid Motion and Skin Friction, 474, 737*
Scale Effect in Model Experiments, 502
Work of Lord Rayleigh, 456 Education, Aeronautics, Imperial College, 289. See 621
Engines, Petrol, Aeroplane, Air Cooling, 211, 241*
Aeroplane, Aluminium and Cast- Iron Pistons, 242*
Aeroplane, Design and Construction of Cylinders, 241*. See 213
Aeroplane, Rhone, Presentation to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 153
Airship, 270-h.p. Sunbeam 504*. See 433*
Flight Vortices, Investigations, 534*
Fluid Motion, Turbulent, and Friction, 474, 737*
Glues for Aeroplane Construction, 216 Load Factors, Aeroplane. See Aeroplane Design (above)
Meteorological Office, Control by Air Ministry, 282
Model Experiments, Scale Effect, 502 Seaplane Hull Design, 326, 859 Naval Architecture in. Aeronautics, 857* Navigation, Aerial, Hughes-Baker Sextant, 89
See also Telegraphy, Wireless. Propellers, Aerial, Limiting Speeds, 537
Propeller Sections, Variation of No-Lift Angle, 537*
Resistance of Bodies in Air and Water, Effect of Local Heating, 101*. See LETTERS, 225, 255
Ribs, Aeroplane Wing, Testing, 1*
Seaplanes, Air Ministry Competitions, 545 — Boat,Form and Dimensions of Hull,323* — French and Italian, at Monaco, 655* — Hulls, Design, Tank Experiments, 859 — Load Factors for. See Aeroplane Design (above).
Transport, Aerial, Cost, 520, 554, 587. See LETTER, 590
United States Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Reports, 177, 216, 793
Wind Tunnel, McCook-Field High-Speed, Venturi Type, 501*, 534*
— Velocity Distribution, Ship’s Funnel, 134*
Wing Frameworks, Aeroplane, Stresses in, Optical Investigation, 25*
Wireless Apparatus for Aircraft. See Telegraphy, Wireless.
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX.
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics.
* Afrika,” M.S., for East Asiatic Co., 546* Agreements, Labour. See Labour.
Agricultural Climatology of Australia, 694
— Machinery Manufacture. See AlarshalVs
Works, Clayton ds Shuttleivorth's IForZ;^’, and Foster's Works.
Report of Committee, 583
— Motors. See Engines, Motors^ Tractors.
— Phenological Observations for 1919, 694
— Society, Royal, Agricultural Tractor Trials 90, 251, 313. See 157*, 494, 867
— Tractors. See Tractors.
— Use of Basic Slag, 455
— See also Irrigation and PARAGRAPH INDEX. Ainswoith, George, the Late, 117
Air Blast, Granulating Copper Alloy, 390*
— Compressed. See Compressed Air ;
malic.
— Compressors, Electrically-Driven,
strong Shipyard, 697*
Four-Stage, Single-Crank, 82* Oil-Driven, Parsons Motor Co., 373*
Water Cooler for, 862*
— Cooling, Petrol Engines, 211, 241*
— Currents, Water Evaporation in, 588
— Effect on Heat Tiansmission, Surface
Condensers, 687
— Ejectors, Steam Jet, for High Vacua, 28*.
See LETTER, 57
— Flow round Aerofoils, Discontinuities, 535* and Measurement (Review), 691
Rendering Visible by Condensation, 501*, 534*
round Ship’s Funnel, 134*
— Internal Friction in, 282 —? Leakage, Surface Condensers, 28*.
LETTER, 57
— Liquid, Transport in Metallic Vessels, {
— Ministry Competitions, Aeroplanes
Seaplanes, 545
Control of Meteorological Office, 282
— Optical Properties, 690
?—? Pollution of, and Co^l Economy, 276, 279
— Pump. See Pump
— Saturated, Water Vapour in, 28*
— Skin Friction over Smooth Plates, 867
— Speed Indicator, Smith Recording, 89*
— and Water Cooling, Turbo-Generators,
Comparisons, 95*, 121. See Errata, 116. See LETTERS, 176, 225, 254
— See also Atmosphere Aircraft. See Aeronautics Airlift Pumping, Oil Wells, 725
Airships. See Aeronautics
Alcohol-Ether Fuel (Natalite) for Motor Cars, * 150. See Erratum, 177
— Mixtures, Motor Car Fuels, Recent Patents, 251
— Production from Coke Oven Gas, 518
— Vapour and Air, Inflammability, 290 Algebra, Vector, Elements of (Review), 762 Alignment Diagram, Properties of Steam, 301*.
See Erratum, 422
Alkins, W. E., on Cold Drawing Copper, 400 Alldays and Onions, Ltd., Agricultural Tractor, 244*
Allen, Sir C., the Late, 523*
Allgemeine Blektricitats Gesellschaft, Address to Employees, 703, 734. See 723
Alloy Welding Processes, Ltd., Welding Electrodes, 153
Alloys. See Metallurgy, Microphotographs and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Alternating Stress. See Tests (Materials) Alternators. See Generators, Electric; Turbo Alternators
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Corrosion by Hard Water, 362, 271'
— Pistons, Aero Engines, 242*
— See also Metallurgy ; Metal-Price Diagrams Ambulance Trolley Car, Mesopotamia Railways, 127*
American Car and Foundry Co., Electric Rivet Heater, 730*
— Chemical Society. See Chemical
— Dyeing Industry (Review), 570
— Emergency Fleet, Water-Tube Boilers, 294*. See 316
— Engineering Institutions, Joint Organisation, 222
— Institute of Electrical Engineers. See Electrical Engineers
of Mining and Metallurgy. See Mining
— Light Railways in French War Area, 277*. See 747
— Mercantile Marine, Government Assistance, 868
— Society of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers
of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechani- cal Engineers
for Testing Materials, N. J. Gobert, on Magnetic and Mechanical Tests of Steel, 136*
— Steel and Wire Company, Coke Oven Machinery, 78*
— See also United States
Ammonia Production, Claude Synthetic Process, 223
— Recovery Producer Plant, Lymn, Design and
Operation, 529*, 562*
Analysis by Rontgen Rays, 365*
— Chemical, of Copper, 393 of Iron (Review), 22
• Minerals and Ores, Rare Elements (Review), 456
— — by Positive Rays. See Positive Rays Zirconium Minerals, 610
Anchor Pins, Cornwall Bridge, Renewal, 790* Ancona Motor Company, Ltd., Tractor, 157*. See 90
Anderson, J., on the Dimensions of Cargo Steamers, 438, 460*
Andrew, J. H., on Initial Temperatures of Steel, 678, 681*
Anemometer, Hot-Wire, Directional Type, 420 Angle Smiths’ Shop, Armstrong Shipyard, 601* Anglo-American Oil Companv, M.S. “ Narra- gansett,” 623*, 716*
Angus-Sanderson Motor Car, Transmission and Control Gear, 210*
Annealing. See Heat Treatment under
Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX Antennae. See Telegraphy, Wireless Anthracite Dust, Use with Oil as Liquid Fuel, 577
Anti - Friction Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Antimony Alloys. See Metallurgy
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Antwerp, Cold Storage Barges for, 765 Appalachian Power Co.’s Power Plant, 143* Apparatus, Scientific, Physical and Optical
Societies’ Exhibition, 55, 87*. See Addendum, 117
Royal Society Soiree, 658, 864 Api>ointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprentices, Education, Marshall’s Works, 672*
—? Shipyard, Education, 290. See 311, 418 Apprenticeship System, British Thomson- Houston Co., 32 ; B.S.A. Works, 320
— See also Education
Aqueduct, Catskill, Grouting Operations, 525*, 558*, 627*
Aquitania,” S.S., Oil Fuel Installation, 832 Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See Labour ; Industrial Notes and PARAGRAPH INDEX Arc. See Electric, Furnace and Welding Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects and Japanese '
Argon, Chemical Production, 156 Armament. See Guns, Warships
Armour. See Warships and Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Armoured Cars. See Tanks
— Ships. See Warships
Armstrong, Dr. H. E., On the Art of Systematic Enquiry, 735
Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., Oil Tank Steamer, “ San Fernando,” 76* ; Armstrong Shipyard, 366*, 434*, 469*, 540,* 567,* 601*, 695*. See Addendum^ 756 ; Workmen’s Compensation Case, 455, 485 ; High Speed Jjathe, 513*
Arnold, Dr, J. O., Molybdenum Steel, 23 Arthur’s Bending Machine for Deck Beams, 602*
Artificial Manures, Manufacture from Atmosphere, 119
Artillery. See Guns, and PARAGRAPH INDEX Arts, Royal Society of: S. Preston on English Canals, 252 ; H. M. Thornton on Gas in Relation to Increased Output and National Economy, 351 ; Air Commodore E. M. Maitland on the Commercial Possibilities of Airships, 554. See LETTER., 590; J. S Highfield, Dr. W. R. Ormandy and D. Northall-Lawrie, on Electric Osmosis, 689 ; Lord Montague on Roads and Transport in India, 724
Ashfield, Lord, on London Travel, 121, 517, 655. See LETTER, 720.
* Asia,” Motor Ship, for East Asiatic Co., 12* Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institutions
Assurance Corporation, London, Bicentenary, 869
Astronomical Exhibits, Royal Society Soiree, 658
Atkins, E. A., on Steel Wire and Wire Drawing, 731*, 749*
Atlantic Liners. ’ See Steamers Atmosphere, Internal Friction in, 282
— Optical Properties, 690
— Pollution of, and Coal Economy, 276, 279
— Upper, Composition,
cosity, 836
Atmospheric Electricity, 658
— Nitrogen, Fixation of,
— and Terrestrial Radiation,282 Atom, Structure of the, 124
Atoms, Arrangement in Crystals, 761
Atomic Weights, determination by Positive Rays. See Positive Bays
— Weight, Nebulium, 453
and Isotopes, 21, 32, 336*, 384*, 453 Australia, Agricultural Climatology, 694
— Melbourne Suburban Railway Electrification, 6*, 40*
— Mineral Wealth of Queensland, 440
— Power Production from Brown Coal, 287 Australian Railways, Report, 250
Autogenous Welding. See nVZtZs and Welding Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Signalling. See Signalling
— Sprinklers, Fire Protection (Review), 331 Automobile Association Competition, Gas for Motor Vehicles, 186
— Engineers, Institution of, D. J. Smith on
Producer Gas for Motor Vehicles, 59*, 92. See 57, 85, 117; Dr. A. H. Gibson, ‘ _ 1 Engines, 211,
P. J. Worsley, on Gear Cutting, 836; W. D.

BABCOCK and Wilcox Boilers, Merchant Ships, 316. See 294*
Bacteria, Iron Absorbing, Water Supply Systems (Review), 569"
Baker, G. S., On Flying-Boat Hulls, 323* ; on Model Experiments on Submarine Warfare, 419, 770*
T., on the Ball Test, 675, 698*
— W. E., on Ball Bearings, 37*, 69*
— Sextant, Aerial Navigation, 89
Balances, Aerodynamic, McCook-Field Wind Tunnel, 503*
Propeller and Vibration of Ships, 494*. See 474
— Torsion, Investigation of Rigidity, 659 Balancing Machine, Turbine Rotors and
Propellers, 473, 491*
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Norway and China, 448*
Baling Press, Electric, for Jute Bags, 92*
Ball and Cup Type Viscosity Meter, 509*
— Bearings. See Bearings
Depth Gauge for Countersinking, 702*
— Elastic, Collisions of, 565*
— Falling, Measurement of Viscosity, 860
— Hardness Tests. See Hardness under
Tests {Materials}
Ballistic Experiments, Aberdeen Chronograph, 798
— —^Firing Candle through Door, 711. See
LETTERS, 792, 836, 857
“ — Measurement of Time Intervals, 514, 798 Pendulum, Dynamics of, 710*
Balloons. See Aeronautics
Band Saws. See Saivs under Machine tools Barges, German. Cold Storage, 765
Barkla, Prof. C. G., on the Structure of the Atom, 124
Barrow Hematite Steel Co., Gas Engine for, 729
Bascule Bridges. See Bridges
Basic Slag, Production and Use in Agriculture, 455
Batteries. See Blectric
Battleships. See Warships
Bawtree Colorimeter, Photo-Process Work, 56
Beachley Shipbuilding Yard, 52
Beams, Ship’s Deck, Arthur’s Bending Machine, 602*
— Vertical Thrust on Webs, 280*
W. Beardmore and Co., Ltd., T.S.S. “Lawrence,” for Indian Government, 115* ; Duralumin Aeroplane Spars, 409*
Bearings, Ball, for loathe Mandrels, 709* Skefko, for Horse Vehicles, 715*, 833 Swivelling, Principles and Practice, 37*, 59*
for Thrashing Machine, 743*
— Friction Measurement at High Tempera
tures, 866*
— Lathe Spindles, Design. See HornerJ.
— Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Roller, Swivelling, 71*
— Rolling Mill, Measurement of Forces, 258*
— Thrust, Kingsbury, Vertical Turbine Sliafts,
193*, 338
— —Michell, H.M.S. “Hood,” 399*
Michell, Theory of, 233*. See Erratum, 291
Beckinsale, S., on Annealing Brass, 393*, 399
Belt Fastener, “ Gripolv,” for Drop Hammers, 790*
Bench, Optical, Annealing Tests of Metals, 855
Bending Machine. See Machine Tools
— Rolls, Plate. See Machine Tools
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Benedicks. Prof. C., on Thermo-Electricity, 831
Bengough, G. D., Report on Corrosion, 357,
370
Benzene and Toluene, High Temperature Reactions, 787
Benzole, Corrosion of Metals by Sulphur, 213
! — Production from Coal, 518, 554
I Berg, E., on Large Turbo-Generators, 269*
I Bergen Point Ironworks, Steamship Coaling Appliance, 591*
Bergstrom, E. M., on Utilisation of Water Power, 140*, 152, 191*, 227*, 272, 338. See LETTERS, 355, 421
Berths, Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
Berwick Electric Rivet Heater, 730*
Bessel, Clifford, and Fourier Functions, 851
Bessemer Medal, Award to Mr. H. Brearlev, 620
Bevel Gears. See Gears.
Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Bingham, Miss K. E., on Zinc Alloys, 400 Biological Exhibits, Royal Society Soirde, 659, 865
Biplanes. See Aeronautics
Birkenhead, Cammell Laird’s Works, 812*, 851*
Birmingham, British Industries Fair, 288. See 307
— Small Arms Co., Sparkbrook Works, 319 Bishop, Major P., on the Durability of Aeroplanes, 252
Blacksmiths’ Shops. See Smiths' Shops Blading, Turbine, Materials for, 349, 354 Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Blocks, Concrete, Machines for Making, 518, 556
Blow-Pipe, Oxy-Acetylene, for Cutting Manholes, 606*
— Oxy-Acetylene. See also Welding ; Cutting
Blows, Dynamical Principles and Problems, 565*, 604*, 669*, 710*. See Errata,
792. See LETTERS, 792
Blue Light of the Sky, 690
Blyth Harbour, Reduction of Wave Action, 130
Board of Trade Enquiries, Boiler Explosions, Lawyers at, 120
Boats, Flying. See Seaplane under Aeronautics
— Motor. See Motor Boat
— Submarine. See Warships
Boilers, Brass Tube Water Level Indicator, 574*. See 702
— Construction and Repairs, Fusion Welding,
96, 121, 176, 225. 254, 289
— Explosion Enquiries, Lawyers at, 120
— Feed Pump. See Pump
— Firing with Blast Furnace Gas, 321, 443
— Flue Flanging and Welding Machines,
Marshall’s Works, 640*
— Grates, Effect of Air Admission, 296*. See
316
— Inspection, Report of Manchester Steam
Users’ Association, 836. See 120
— Lancashire, Data on Mechanical Firing, 404,
426, 495. See LETTERS, 590, 609. See also 71
— Locomotive, Autogenous Welding in Fire
boxes, 289
See also Locomotives
— Plants, Explosions of Economisers, 120 Steam used in Steam Jets, 71, 495, See
404
— Plate Drilling Machine, Table Fittings,
169*
Oxy-Acetylene Manhole-Cutting Machine, 606*
— Seatings, Planing Machine, Marshall’s
Works, 638*
— Sentinel Motor Wagon, Oil-Fired, 644*
— Shops, Cammell Laird Shipyard, 91* ;
Clayton and Shuttleworth Works, 742* ; Foster’s Works, 848* ; Marshall’s Works, 640*
— Steam, Electrically-Heated, in Switzerland,
170*
— Water-Tube, Babcock and Wilcox, Merchant
Ships, 316. See 294*
for U.S. Timber Ships, 294*. See 316 : Trials, 295*. See 316
—• — Yarrow, and Superheater, 579*
— See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Boiling Water in Glass Vessels, 588
Bolts, Connecting Rod, Diesel Engine, 89.
833 ’ ’
Bonus System. See Labour
Books Received, 23, 125, 187, 207, 268, 301, 332, 457, 522, 539, 621, 671, 692, 729 763, 801, 834, 870
— New, Notes on, 224, 253, 276, 308, 509,
622, 692, 801. See LITERATURE INDEX
Boom Defence Nets, Submarine Warfare, Tank Experiments, 419, 77t)*
Bordeaux Shops, South of France Kailway, Locomotive used for Shell Drawing, 214* Bore Holes. Sec Wellti I
Boring Machine. See Machine Tools Bose Grescograph, Kecording Plant Growth, 727
Botany, Plant Growth Kecorder, 727 |
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Steel Construction for Aeroplanes, BOO*, 410
Boumphrey, H. S., the Late, 862
Boys, Prof. C. V. ,Noon Ketlector, 658
Bracings, Machine Tool Spindles and Tables, See Uorner, J.
Bradshaw,^ L., on Silica Bricks, 877. See 787 ; on Specific Heat of Kefractory Materials, 875. See 787
Brake Gear, Westinghouse, Melbourne Electric Railways, 43*
— Motor Car. See Motor Car Details
Bragg, Prof. W. H., on Analysis by Rdntgen Kays, 365*
— Prof. W. L., on Atoms in Crystals, 761 Brancker, Major-General Sir S., on Aerial
Transport, 587
Brass Condenser Tubes, Corrosion, Kcport 357, 370
— (.'orrosion of. See Corrosion
— Finisher’s Lathe. See Lathe under Machine
Tools
—? Foundry. See Foundry
— High Tensile, Casting, 372, 388*
— Internal Stresses in, Removal by Annealing, 393*, 399
— Mercurous Nitrate Test for Internal Stresses, 394*
— Tube Water Gauge for Boilers, 574*. See 702
Brazil, Costeira Shipyard, Kio de Janeiro, 217
Breakdowns. See Accidents Breakwater Design, Reduction of Wave Action, 129, 130
— Rejjairs, Madras Harbour, 291
Brearlcy, 11., Award of Bessemer Medal. 620
Bricks, Fire. See Firebricks and liefractory Materials
— -making Press (Sutcliffe, Speakman and Co. Ltd.), 556*
— Manufacture from Blast-Furnace Slag, 690
— Silica, Expansion and Contraction, 787 Hand and Machine-Made, Tests, 877. See 787
Bridge, Cantilever, Cornwall, Anchor Pin Renewal, 790*
— over Danube, Cernavoda, Restoration, 837*
— Design, Stress Determination in Space Frames, 165*
Stress Diagram for Rolling Loads, 35*
— Forth, Stresses in Members, 165*
— Members, Fereday-Palmer Stress Recorder. 138*
— Timber, Lifting, over Canal, French Area, 278*
over Main Line Railway, French Area, 279*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Bridgman, Prof. P. W., on One-Piece
Construction, 712*
Brindley, H. S. B., the Late, 498
Brinell Hardness Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials)
Briquetting Press (Sutcliffe, Speakman and Co]]., Ltd.), 556*
Bristol “ M.R. 1 ” All-Metal Aeroplane, 410* Britannia Co., Lathe Head, 709*
— Works, Gainsborough, [[Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 635*. See 670*
British Aluminium Company, Kinlochleven Power Plant, 230*
— Association Committee on Stress Distribution, Report, 25*, 64*, 158*
— Columbia, Victoria, Water Supply, 485
— Electric and Allied Manufacturers* Association, Investigations of Turbine Steels. 452. '
— Empire, Development of Mineral Resources55, 520, 790
Wireless Communication, 351
— Engineering Standards Associations. See
Engineering
— Industries Fair, Birmingliam, 288. See307
Federation of, Overseas Commissioners, 654
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships '
— Railways. See Railways
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Apprenticeship System, 32 ; Half-Watt Lamp Litigation, 519
— Touring Trade Exhibition, 252
— Trade. See Trade
Brittleness, Nickel-Chrome and other Steels 678
Broadbridge, W., on Froth Flotation, 153 Broodbank, Sir J., on Dock Problems, 829 Bromell Patents Co., Ltd., Water Gauge 574*. See 702 ’
Bronze, Manganese, Casting, 372, 388*
Brown Coal, Ctilisation in Victoria, Australia287 ’
— Gyrostatic Compass, 202*
— J., and Co., Ltd., H.M.S. “ Hood ” 397*
Sec 418, 423*
— S. G., on the Gyrostatic Compass, 202*
— and^Sharpe Screw Machine, Spindle Design,
— Curtis Geared Turbines, Tank Steamer
“ San Fernando,” 76* ; H.M.S. ” Hood,” 398*. See 418, 424
Brownlie, D., Data on Running Boiler Plants, 71 ; on Performance of Mechanical Stokers, 404, 426, 495. See LETTERS, 590, 609. See also 71. ’ *
— J. T., on Unemployment, 386 Bruhn, J., on Freeboard and Strength of
Ships, 438, 807*
Bruntons], Ltd., Steel Aeroplane Spars, 361*
Brush-Ljungstrom 'I’urbo-GencratorH, Mar- HhaH’s Power Station, 673*
Bryant, Capt. W., on the U.S. Naval Wireless Service, 224
Buckley, W. H., on Jilast Furnace Plants, 321 Bucyrus Co., Trench Digging Machine, 822* Buildings, Concrete, Portable Mould for, 225
— (.Construction, Concrete for, 197, 223, 225
— -—Concrete JUock Machines, 518, 556
Concrete, Expanded Metal, 556 Electrically Welded Roof, 654 Monolithic Concrete, Forms, 519 Strength of Domes, 57
See also Eerro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Exhibition, Olympia, 518, 556*
— Frame, Ferro-Concrete, Design, 777* -
— Ferro-Concrete Office, Armstrong Shipyard,
469*
Bulge Protection of Warships against Torpedoes, 397*, 424*.
Bureau of Mines,
— of Standards.
Burmeister it Wain’s Engineering and Shipbuilding (‘o., M.S. “Asia,” 12*; M.S. “ Afrika,” 546*
Burners, Oil Fuel. See Oil Fuel
Burstall, Prof. F. W., Optical Indicator, 658 Business, Risk and Reward in, 102
Butler R. R., On Eye Protection in Welding, 823*. See 830
By-Product Recovery, Power Production from Coal, 183
c.
CABINET-MAKEltS* Shopfi, Armstrong Shipyard, 695* ; Caininell Laird Shipyard, 814*
(’ables. See H'ire Ropes and Electric
C’ableway. See H’ire Ropeway
Cadell, H. M., on Oil 'Prospects in Scotland, 90 (.’aen, Mondeville-Colombelles Steel Works, 180*, 293*
Cadman, Sir J., on Petroleum and tlie War, 351 ; on Miners’ Safety Lamps, 338
Cairns, C. W., on Auxiliary Condensers, 687 Caissons, Sealing with Cement Grout, 628* (’aking of Chemical Salts, 455 ; of Coal, 685
Calcium Cyanide, Manufacture in Britaiji 119 Caldwell, P. W., on Plight Vortices, 501*, 534*
California Gas and Electric Corporation, Power Plant, 196*
Calvert, G. C., Coal Dust and Oil as Liquid Puel, 577
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, CO2 Recorder, 88.
Camel Hair Popes, Alternating Stress Tests, 866
Camera, Spectroscopic, for Colour Work, 56
— Sub-Aqueous, in Plooded Mines, 868
Cammellaird-Pullagar Marine Diesel Engine, 144*. See LETTERS, 175, 254, 280*, 356, 378, 458, 514, 660, 680. See also 210, 817*
Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 812*, 851*
Campbell, C. 1. K., on Airships, 439, 464*
Canada, Cedar Kapids Power Plant, 194*. See 339
— Coal Production in, 226
— Kegina Power Station, Accident, 252
Canadian Production, Tungsten and Molybdenum, 186
Canal Bridge, Timber, Lifting, French War Area, 278*
Canals, English, Transport on, 252
— German, Development, 791
— Panama, Annual Report, 52
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 195*. See 339
Surges due to Lock Operation, 89
— Ship, Manchester, Report, 251
— and Waterways, Committee on, 762
—? See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Candle, Firing through Door, 711. See LETTERS, 792, 836, 857
Cantilever Cranes. See Cranes
Capacity. See Electric
Capital Investments in Industrial Concerns, 54, 533
Capital and Labour. See Labour and Industrial Notes
Capitalists and Inventors, 39
Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tool^
Car, Dy namometer, Swiss State Railwavs, 871*
— Trolley, Inspection Ambulance, Mesopo
tamian Railways, 127*
— Motor. See Motor Cars
Carbon Dioxide Recorder, Cambridge Electrical, 88*
Carboniferous Grits, Denbighshire and Flintshire, 610
I Carburettors, Corrosion by Benzole, 213
J — Petrol-Paraffln, Wolseley, 786*
Cardiff, University College, Experimental Steam Engine, 612*
Cargo Steamers. See Steamers
— Winch, Oil-Driven, 373*
Carlisle Branch, N.E. Railway, Profile, 209* Carnot Cycle, Reversed, for Heating, 593
Carr House Works, Gainsborough, Marshall. Sons and Co., Ltd., 672
Carriages, Railway, Manufacture, Clayton Shuttleworth’s Works, 778*
Carts. Horse, Skefko Ball Bearings, 715*, 833
Case Hardening. See Metallurgy
Cast Iron, Action of Sea on, 587
Pipes, Replaced by Wielded Steel, 730* Railway Wheels, 100
Castings for Diesel Engines, 177*, 249. See LETTER, 355
— High-Tensile Brass, 372, 388*
— Process, Manufacture of Gas Retorts. 803*,
See 787
— Steel, Design and Treatment, 768*. See
676
Large Turbine Rotor, 270*
Catalogues, 32, 66,130, 198, 264, 297, 395, 430, 531, 704, 738, 808, 844, 875. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Catalysers, Hydrogen and Oxygen Generation, 268
Caterpillar Tractor. See Tractor, Tanks Catskill Water Supply, Grouting Operations, 525*, 558*, 627*
Caudron Seaplanes at Monaco, 656*
Cedar Rapids Power Plant, Canada 194* See 339
Cells. See Electric
Celluloid Models, Stress Determination. See Optical Eetermination of Stress
Cement, from Blast Furnace Slags, 626, 641
— Iron Portland, Manufacture and Pro
perties, 626,641,
— Grouting, Catskill Water Supply, 525*,
558*, 627*
— Standardising Consistency, 587
— Water for Mixing, 587
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Cementation. See Metallurgy Central Station. See Power Staiion Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal Ceramic Society: Stevens’ Oil Fuel Burner,
exhibited by Sir W. J. Jones, 610 : Carboniferous Grits of Denbighshire and Flintshire, by T. A. Acton, 610; Refractory Materials of the North Staffordshire District, by Dr, A. Scott, 610; Analysis of Zirconium Minerals, by H. V. Thompson, 610 ; Influence of Grog in Admixture with Clay, by W. C. Hancock, 610 ; Fused Artificial Sillimanite, by A. Malinovsky, 645 ; Corrosion of Coke Oven Walls, by W. J. Rees, 646 ; Symposium on Gas Firing, 646 ; The Art of Systematic Enquiry, by Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 735 ; Development of the Tunnel Oven, by Dr. A. Granger, 735 ; Psychological versus Scientific Management, by Dr. C. S. Myers, 773 ; Manufacture of Gas Retorts by Casting Process, by Dr. J. W. Mellor and W. Emery, 803*. See 787 ; Specific Heat of Refractory Materials, at High Temperatures, by L. Bradshaw and W. Emery, 875. See 787 ; Tests of Machine-made and Hand-made Silica Bricks, by W. Emery and L. Bradshaw, 877. Seo 787
Cernavoda Bridge, River Danube, Restoration, 837*
Cliain Track Tractor. See Tractor, Tank Chaine-Helice Liquid Elevator, 441* Change-Speed Gear. See Gear; Motor-Car ' Details
Chantraine Pot-Annealing Furnace, 754* Charcoal, Gas Absorption by, 250 Charging Cranes for Steel Furnaces, 180* Chart, Alignment, Properties of Steam, 301*. See Erratum, 422
— Graphical, Construction (Review), 299 Chemical Analysis. See Analysis
— Conditions, Blast Furnaces, 631*, 641
— Engineer, Training and Functions, 384
— Glassware, Volumetric Testing at N.P.L.,
188
— Industry, Society of: H. M. Wells and
J. E. Southcombe on Lubrication, 184. See LETTER, 279 ; Dr. T. M. Lowry on the Properties of Powders, 455
— Industries, Swiss, 291
— Manufacturers, German, 223
— Salts, Caking of, 455
— Society, American, Symposium on Re
fractory Materials, 98, 128
A. G. White and T. W. Price, on Inflammability of Mixtures of Air with Ether, Alcohol and Acetone, 290 ; Papers on the Constitution of Coal, 485. See LETTER, 545
Chemistry, Ammonia Production, Claude Synthetic Process, 223
— Arrangement of Atoms in Crystals, 761
— Atomic Weights, Determination by Positive
Rays. See Positive Rays
— Catalysers in Hydrogen and Oxygen
Generation, 268
— of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Hydrogen, Triatomic Molecule, 403*, 453
— Hydrogenation of Oils (Review), 268
— Isotopes and Atomic Weights, 21, 32, 336*,
384*, 453
— Matter, Constitution and Properties. See
Positive Rays
Physical (Review), 125
— Rare Barths, Metals of (Review), 456 Elements, Analysis of Minerals and Ores
(Review), 456
— Structure of the Atom, 124
— Thermal, and Crystal Structure, 798
— Toluene and Benzene, High Temperatme
Reactions, 787
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Chepstow Sliipbuilding Yard, 52 Chester Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 194* Chevres Power Plant, 143*
Chlorine, Isotopes and Atomic Weight, 366*, 385*, 453
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Electric Locomotive, 289
'China, Peking-Mukden Railway, Baldwin Locomotive, 448*
Chittick, C., the Late, 413 Chrome-Nickel Steel, Brittleness in, 678 Magnetic and Mechanical Tests, 136* Rolls, Cold Rolling Mills, 307 Chromium Steels, Effect of Heat Treatment on Resistance, 676
Effect of Initial Temperature, 678, 681* Structure, 677
Thermal Analysis, 676, 692* Chronograph, Aberdeen, for Ballistic Experiments, 798
Chuck. See Machine Tools
Cincinnati Lathe and Tool Co.; AU Geared Lathes, 758* ; MiUing Machine Bracings, 237* ; Lubrication of Planing Machine Slides, 508*
Circular Holes, Effect on Stresses in Tension Members, 259*, 298.* See LETTER, 458*. See also 440, 840*
— Correction, Clock Pendulum, 670*, 710
— Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Circulating Pumps. See Pumps
Reduction at Blyth and Whitby Harbours, by J. W. Sandeman, 130, Improvement to the Entrance to Sunderland Harbour, with reference to Reduction of Wave Action, by W. Simpson, 130
Experiments on the Horizontal Pressure of Sand, by P. M. Crosthwaite, 253
Overturning Moment on Retaining Walls, by A. R. Pulton, 254
Restoration of Damaged Breakwater Madras Harbour, and Coastal Sand Travel near Madras Harbour, by Sir P. J. E. Spring, 291
Civil Engineers’ Registration BUI, 418 James Forrest Lecture on Coal Conservation in the United Kingdom, by Sir D. Clerk, 543*, 591.
Report’of Committee on Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 584
CivU Engineers Registration Bill, 418
— Engineers, Treatment in Indian Public
Works Department, 255
— Aerial Transport. See Aeronautics Clamping Machine Tool Slides, 507*
Claude Synthetic Process, Ammonia Production, 223
Clay, Influence of Grog, 610
— Purification by Blectric Osmosis, 689
— Fire. See Firebriclcs, Refractory Materials Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., Works and
' Products, 741,* 778* Cleaning Plant, Gas, Halberger-Beth, 444* Clearance, Internal Combustion Engine, Determining, 782*
Clearing House, Gattie, Report, 20 Clements, P., on Blast Furnace Practice, 641, 642, 646*
Clerk, Sir D., on Coal Conservation, 543*, 591. See 763, 863
— Sir D., on the Gas Industry, 763 Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 15,
48, 82, 116, 146, 180, 216, 246, 282, 312, 346, 378, 412, 449, 480, 514, 548, 580, 615, 650, 684, 720, 756, 792, 826, 860. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Clifford, Bessel and Fourier Functions, 851 Climate. See Meteorological
Climatology, Agricultural, of Australia, 694 Clock Pendulum, Circular Correction, 670*, 710
Cloud Recorder for Night Use, 614 ?— seen from an Aeroplane, 420 Clutch, Friction, Parsons Marine Motor, 821*
— and Reversing Gear for Motor Boats,
Langdon, 375* ; Green, 408* Clutches. See also Motor-Car Details CO2 Recorder. See Carbon Dioxide Coaches, Railway. See Carriages Coal, Brown, Utilisation in Victoria, Australia 287
— Caking Tests, 685
— Coking Tests, 485
— Conservation Committee, Report, Criticism,
543*, 591
Comparisons of Gas and Electricity, 543*, ’ 591, 763, 863
— Constitution of, 485. See LETTER, 545
— Consumption in Various Industries, 543.
See 591
— Dust and Oil, Use as Liquid Fuel, 577
— Economy. See Fuel Fconomy, Pulverlted
Coal
— Gas. See Gas
— Handling Appliances, Power Station, Mar
shall’s Works, 673*
— Industry, Irish, Development, 619
— Low-Temperature Carbonisation and Pro
duction of Motor Spirit, 518
— Mine. See Colliery
— Mining and the Coal Miner (Review), 869
— and Oil Fuel, Marine Propulsion, Compari
sons, 417
— Photographic Action, 485
— Power Production from, By-Product Re
covery, 183
— Production in Canada, 226 of Motor Spirit, from, 518, 554
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Goal
— Trade, Indian, 221
— Used in Steam Production, 426. See 404
— Weighing Machine, Automatic, for Power
Stations, 754*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cooling Appliance, Portable, for Steamships, 591
Coastal Motor Boat " C.M.B. 4,” 372 Coblentz, W. W., on Signalling by Invisible Rays, 797
Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Balancing Machine for Turbine Rotors, 4'73, 491*
Coke-Oven Gas, Alcohol Prod.uction, 518 Machines for Operating, 78* , Plants, Benzole Production, 518, See 654 ?
Walls, Corrosion, 646
Coker, Prof. E. G., on Stress Distribution in Tension Members, 259*, 298*. See LETTER 458* On Holes and Cracks in Ship’s Plating, 440, 840*
Coking, Low-Temperature, of Coal, and Motor Spirit Production, 518
Coking Stoker. See Stoker
— Tests of Coal, 485
Cold RoUed Metals and Alloys, Properties, 112
— Rolling Mills, Non-Ferrous Metals, Vickers], Ltd., 307
— Storage Barges, German, 765
See also Refrigeration
— Saw. See Machine Tools
— Work, Effect on Copper, 400, 401
Collector, Pantograph, Melbourne Electric , Railways, 41* i
College. See Education
Collieries, French, Flooded, Subaqueous Camera, 868 ,
Colliery Lighting. See Safety Lamps ,
— See also Mines, Goal
Collision Dynamics, Principles and Problems, 565*, 604*, 669*, 710*. See Errata, 792. See LETTERS, 792, 836, 857
— Stellar, Pressures reached, 151
Colloil Liquid Fuel, 577
Colorimeter, Bawtree, Photo-Process Work, 56 Columns, Tubular, Strength of, 25*
Colwyn Committee, Report on Merchant Shipbuilding in Dockyards, 350, 382. See 21
Combustion. See also Fuel, Gases and Gaseous Explosions
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor
— Printing, Treatise on (Review), 207
Committee on Canals and Waterways, 762 ;
— Engineering Standards. See Engineering i
and Standardisation
Commonwealth. See Australia
Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX I
Compass, Gyrostatic, Brown, 202* I
— Magnetic, Inaccuracies, 202
Compensation, Workmen’s. See Labour Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives
— Stress. See Tests {Materials)
Compressor; Air. See Air Compressor. Compressed Air Tools. See Machine Tools See also Pneumatic
Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See Labour, Industrial Notes, and PARAGRAPH INDEX Concrete Block Making Machines, Building Construction, 518, 556
— for Building Construction, 197, 223, 225, 519,
556
— Building Construction, Expanded Metal,
556
Construction, Monolithic, Forms, 519
— Buildings, Portable Moulds, 225
— Destruction by Sea Water, 584
— Institute, H. G. Lloyd on the Consistency
of Cement Mortar and Concrete, 587 '
— Mixing and Laying Machine, Road Con
struction, 557* (
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— Ships. See Ferro-Concrete
— Standardising Consistency, 587
— Surface Wear by Sea, 215
— Water for Mixing, 587
— See also Ferro-Concrete
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Condensation, Moisture, Rendering Air Flow Visible by, 501*, 534*
Condensers, Ah’ Pumps, for. See Pumps, Air
— Ferrules, Machine for Slitting, 701*. See
: 817
— Marine Auxiliary, Tests, 687
Air Leakage in, 28*. See LETTER, 57
— Surface, Effect of Air on Heat Transmission,
687
— Tubes, Corrosion of, in Navy, 354. See
i 371
I Polishing Machine, 701*
Corrosion, Electrolytic Theory, 371. See 357
Corrosion, Report, 357, 370
i — for Vacuum Evaporators, Air Pump Capacities, 74*
— See also Electric
Condensing Plant, Marine, Air Ejectors for High Vacua, 28*. See LETTER, 57
: Newport Power Station, Melbourne, 9*
I Strainers for Circulating Water, 9*,
679*
I Water Vapour in Saturated Air, 28*
) Conductivity. See Electric
Cone Bearings, Lathe, Design. See Horner,
— Ends, Gauge Pipes, Trueing Machine, 701* Conic Sections, Apparatus for Drawing, 658 Conical Pendulum, Dynamics of, 670*, 710.
See Errata, 792
Connecting Rod Bolts, Diesel Engine, 89, 833 Forks, Internal-Combustion Engines, Design, 114*, 254*
Conservation of Coal. See Coal, Fuel, Pulverised Coal.
' Constantinople-Karachi Aerial Mail Service, 587
Constructional Engineering Co., Portable Cupola, 591*
Contracts, Engineering and Electrical, 521. See LETTER, 609
Controllers, Electric Motor. See Motor, Electric
Conveyor System, Motor Car Assembly, Ford Works, 417
C. W. Cook, Ltd., Hurst-Tomlinson Extensometer, 108*
— F. J., on Diesel Engine Castings, 177*. See 249. See LETTER, 355
— G., on a Submarine Depth Meter, 333* Cooke, T., and Sons, Ltd., Universal Milling and Shaping Machine, 785*
Cooking Ranges, Oil-Fired, for Naval Use, 422* Welcome OU Burner, 378
Cooler, Water, Self-Contained, Heenan Froude, 862*
Cooling, Air, Petrol Engines, 211, 241* and Water, of Turbo-Generators,
121. See Errata 116. See LETTERS, 252, 254
Cooper, J. C. G., on Laying-off in Ship Construction, 149
Copper Alloys, See A Hoys under Metallurgy
Copper, Chemical Analysis of, 393
— Effect of Cold Work, 400, 401 of Hydrogen, 391*, 400
— Electro-Deposited, Idiomorphic Crystals,
401
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Shell Driving Bands, Manufacture, 355
— See also Metallurgy
Coppersmiths’ Shop, Armstrong Shipyard, 696* Corner, B., on Air Pump Capacities, 74* Cornwall Bridge, St. Lawrence River, Anchor
Pin Renewal 790*,
— Levant Mine, Failure of Man Engine, 352* Corrosion, Aluminium, by Hard Water, 362,
371
— Coke Oven Walls, 646
— of Condenser Tubes, Electrolytic Theory,
361. See 357
Tubes in Navy, 354. See 371
Tubes, Report, 357, 370
— Internal, Gas Mains and Meters, 787
— Iron and Steel, in Sea Water, 584
— of Metals, Sulphur in Benzole, 213 Corrugated Iron Sheets, Hand Shearing
Machine, 524*
Cost .of Aerial Transport, 520, 554, 587. See LETTER 590
Living, Statistics, 459*
Power Production, Effect of By-Product Recovery, 183
Costeira Shipyard, Rio de Janeiro, 217 Countersinking, Ball Depth Gauge, 702* Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Heat Insulation
Cowans, Sheldon and Co., Ltd., Floating Crane, 851*
Cowley, W. L., on Fluid Motion and Viscosity, 101*. See LETTERS, 225, 255
Cracking, Season, of Brass, Prevention by Annealing, 393*, 399
Cracks in Ship’s Plating, Stresses near, 440, 840*. See also 259*, 298*, 458*
Crane, Charging, for Steel Furnaces, 180*
— Equipment, Shipbuilding Berths, Cammell Laird Yard, 812*
— Floating, 200-ton Steam, Cammell Laird Shipyard, 851*
— Gantry, for Excavated Material, 368*
— and Grab Bucket, Dredging River Ouse, 572*
— for Handling Hot Steel BUlets, 294*
— Ladle, 60-ton, Mondeville - Colombelles Works, 293*
— Luffing, .30-ton Electric, Armstrong yard, 437*
— Portable, for Coaling Ships, 591*
— Tower, 10-ton Electric Travelling,
strong Shipyard, 370*
— Wheels, Determination of Loads on.
See LETTERS, 792, 836, 856
D.
D ALM ARNO CK Power Station, Automatic Coal Scales, 754*
Dam Foundations, Cement Grouting under, 628*
Danube Bridge, Cernavoda, Restoration, 837*
Davis-Bournonville Co., Manhole Cutting Machine, 606*
Dean, F. W., on Boilers for U.S. Emergen Fleet, 294*. See 316
Decentralisation in Industrial Concerns, 13
— and the London Traffic Problem, 121, 517.
655. See LETTER, 720
Deck Beams, Arthur’s Bending Machine, 602*
Decorations. See Honours
Dellinger, J. H., on Radiotelegraphy, 467
Denbighshire,’ Carboniferous Grits, 610 Depreciation of Plant, 468 -
Deptford Strainers for Circulating Water, 679* Depth Gauge, Ball, for Countersinking, 702*
— Meter, Submarine, Mine Sweeping ^Work,
333*
Destroyers. See Warships
Destructor, Refuse, for Naval Service, 854*
Detectors, Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Detonation Pressures, Gaseous Explosions, 867
Detonators, IIopkiusou’sYTesting Apparatus,
» 658. See 710
Deutsch, F., on Socialisation of Industry, 703, *734. See 723
Dewar, Sir J., on Low Temperature Studies, ? 122
D’Eyncourt, Sir E., on H.M.S. “Hood,” 418, 423*. See 397*
Diagram, Alignment, Properties of Steam, ?mig 301*. See Erratum, 422
— Indicator. See Indicator
— Metal-Price. See Metal-Price Eiagrams
— Stress, for Rolling Loads, 35* Diamonds, Artificial Formation, 151 Diathermancy of Substances, Low Temperatures, 123
Die Head, Lavender’s Self-Opening, 524*
— Forging Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s
Works, 779*
— Nut, Split, for Repairing Damaged Studs,
701*
Dielectrics. See under Electric Diesel Engine Users’ Association, Meetings, 36,
89, 264, 416, 520, 833
— Engines. See Engines, Oil, Diesel Differential Radiometer, Ether, 836 Digging Machine, Trench, Bucyrus, for Drainage Work, 822*
Dlonic Water-Testing Apparatus, 56 Directional ^Wireless. See Telegraphy, Wire- less
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Disc, Steel, Distortion by Hardening, 576, 594*
— Turbine, Tests of Steel, 452
Discharge, Electric. See Electric and Vacuum 2'uhes
Disinfector, Steam, for Naval Service, 854* Disputes, Trade. See Legal; Labour Dock Boards, Labour Representation on 829. ,
— Construction, Deterioration of Structures
in Sea Water, 584
— Graving, Cammell Laird Shipyard, 812* Dockyard, Cockatoo Island, Balancing Machine
for Turbine Rotors, 473, 491*
— Government, Merchant Shipbuilding in, 21,
350, 382 -.o'
Dolivo-Dobrowolsky, Dr., The Late, 3o2. See Errata, 403 ,
Domes, Spherical, Strength of, 57
W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd., Motor Vehicle Engines, 342*
Double Helical Gears, See Gears
Drainage, Fen District, Dredger for River | Ouse, 572*
— Land, from Field to Sea (Review), 538
— Work, Trench Digging Machine, 822*
Draught, Forced, Steam Used in Steam Jets, 71, 495. See 404
Drawing, Cold, Effect on Copper, 400
— Shells, French Locomotive used for, 214* Dredger, Grab, with Ferro-Concrete Pontoons,
Fen District, 572*
— Patents, Simons’, Prolongation, 554
Drill Chuck. See Machine Tools
— and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools Driving Bands for Shells, Manufacture, 355 Drop Forging Hammers, See Hammers under
Machine Tools
— Forging Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s
Works 779*
Drummond Brothers, Ltd., Lathe, Radial Drill and Hand Shaper, 375*
Dry Dock. See Doclc
Drying}Machines, Tea, Possible Improvements, 89
Drysdale’s Stroboscopic Speed Indicator, 88, 117
Duckham, Sir A., onlLabour’s Position in Industry, 822
Duncan, H. M., on Tests of Steel for Turbines, 452
Dunlop Rubber Co., Steel Sparjor Aeroplanes, 360*
Durability of Aeroplanes, 252
—^Disadvantages in Engineering Products, 468 Duralumin Construction for Aeroplanes, 357*, 375*, 408*. See-LETTERS, 421*, 458, 490, 514*, 545
— Effect of Heat Treatment, 412*
Durham, Earl of, on Labour Problems and Reconstruction, 418
Dust, Coal, and Oil, Use as Liquid Fuel, 577
Dyeing Industry, German and Americaai (Review), 570
Dynamics, Collision, Principles and ^Problems, 565*, 604*, 669*, 710*. See Errata, 792. See LETTERS, 792, 836, 857
— of Flying. See Aeronautics
Dynamical Similarity, Fluid Motion and Skin Friction, 474, 737*
Scale Effect in Model Experiments, 502 in Structural Design, 64*
Work of Lord Rayleigh, 456
See also Aeronautics
Dynamometer Car, Swiss State Railways, 871* Trials, Goods Locomotive, N.E. Railway, 208*
— Trials of Agricultural Tractors, 867 Dynamics, Rotational, Experiments in, 659 Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Generators ; Turbo-Alternators
E.
EAKTH’S Rotation, Effect on Gravity, 290
East Asiatic Co., M.S. “ Asia,” 12* ; M.S. * Afrika,” 546*
Ebullition in Glass Vessels, Phenomena, 588 Eccentric Loading, Tensile and Compression Tests, 64*
Eccles, Prof. AV., on the Thermionic Tube, 724*
Economics of the Shipbuilding Industry, 437, 459*. See LETTERS, 458, 490
— Railway. See liailway
Economisers, Explosions of, 120
Economy, Euel. See Fuel Economy
Education :
Aeronautics, Education at Imperial College, 289. See 621
Apprentices, Education at Marshall’s Works, 672*
Education—continued^
Apprenticeship System, British Thomson- Houston Co., 32 ; B.S.A. AVorks, 320
Chemical Engineer, Training and Functions, 384. See 342
Education Act and Juvenile Workers, 20 Industrial Efficiency and . Educational Effort, 131
Manchester University,, Engineering Department, 590
Naval Engineers, Training of, 421
Scientific Method, Pliilosophy and Practice (Keview), 729
Shipyard Apprentices, Education, 290. See 311, 418
University College, Cardiff, Experimental Steam Engine, 612*
London, Extension of Engineering Laboratories, 124, 339*. See 329, 384, 413, 721 ; Students’ War Memorial, 458
See also PARAOSAPH INPEX
Edwards, Prof. C. A., on Chromium Steels, 676, 692*
, Efficiency o^ Hydraulic Turbines, 141*, 153, 191*, 229*, 272. See LETTERS, 355, 421
! — of Large Turbo-Generators, 269* Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. See Eelaiiviiy Ejectors, Air, for High Vacua, 28*. See LETTER, 57
— Silencer for Motor Boats, Langdon’s, 375* Elastic Drive, Triple HeUcal Geaj, 713*
— Limit and Strain Energy Eiuiction, 158*
— Spheres, Collisions of, 565*
[ Electric :
Accumulator Vehicles. See Motor Wagons Alternator. See (-ienerator and Turbo Anemometer, Hot-Wire, Directional Type, 420
Arc Furnace.
— Tungsten, “ Pointolite ” Lamps, 56
— Welding. See Welding
Atmospheric Electricity, Direction Indicator, 658
Battery Vehicles. See Motor Wagons
Boilers, Steam, ]£lectrically Heated, in Switzerland, 170*
Cable Jointing, Melbourne Electric Railway System, 10*
— Manufacture, Electric Welding Machine
for Steel Tapes, 802*
Carbon Dioxide Recorder, Cambridge Electrical, 88*
Central Stations. See Tower Stations
Condenser Discharge, Measurement of Time Intervals, 514
— Phantom, Wireless Telegraphy, 88 Conductivity, Metals, and Thermo-Electric Effects, 831
Contracts, Electrical and Engineering (Review), 521. See LETTER, 609 Cranes. See Cranes
Current Generation, Rdntgen'’Ray Work, 315
Dielectric Constants, Gases at Low Temperatures, 534
Detectors, Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Dynamo. See Generator; Turbo-Generator ; Turbo-Alternators
Electrical Engineering Industry at Liverpool, 124
Electricity in the Service of Man (Review), 621
— (Supply) Act, 18, 554
Electroscope, Terrestrial Pole Indicating, 658
Electro-Plating. See Electro Electrodes for Arc Welding, 153 Furnaces. See Furnaces
Gases, Dielectric Constants at Low Temperatures, 534
Generating Stations. See Powandr Stations Generator. See Generator; Turbo-Generator ; Turbo-Alternator
German Electrical Industry, Outlook, 214 Heat Storage, Electrical, in Switzerland, 170*
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Hysteresis Losses, Silicon" Iron, 720 Induction Coils v. Transformers, Rbntgen Ray Work, 315
— Furnace. See Furnace
— Motors. See Motors, Electric Insulating} Materials, Effect of Temperature on Life, 46*. See Errata, 116. See also 121, 176, 225, 254
— of Turbo-Generators, 44. See Errata,
116. See 121, 176, 225, 254
Instruments, Measuring, at Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 56, 87 Lamp Filaments, Thermionic Properties, 719
— Half-Watt, Patent Litigation, 519
— Incandescent, Temperature of Fila
ments, 864
— Industry, Profiteering, 383
— ” Pointolite,” Tungsten Arc, 56
— Safety, Oil and Electric, Comparisons,
321.. See 383
Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machinery Rating, International Standard Rules, 528
Machines. See Generators; Motors; Turbo-Generators ; Turbo-Alternators'
Mains. See Cables (above) Motors. See Motors, Electric Oil Switch. See Switch
Osmosis, Electric, Commercial Applications, 689
Petrol-Electric Fire Engine. Tilling- Stevens, 173* ’
Positive Rays. See Positive Potentiometer, Tuisley Precision, 87 Power Production, Heating and Lighting Comparisons of Gas and Electricity’ 544*, 591, 763, 863
— See Power
Stations. See Power Stations Pyrometer. See Pyrometer
Electric—continue f.
Railways. Sec RaUways Kays. See PosUive^ EonUjcn Keaistance, CUroiuiuui Steels, Effect of
Heat Treatuient, 076
— Type Water-Testing Apparatus, 50
— Welding. See Welding Kivct Heaters, Portable Electric, 441*, 730*
Kiveting Macidne, “ Kenica,” Electric, 025*
Kolling Mills, Electric Driving of. See Rolling Sails
Kontgen Kays. See iRnitgen Ship Propulsion. See A/arinc Propulsion Specilic Inductive Capacities, Gases at
Low Temperatures, 534 Starters, Motor, See Alotors^ Elcctrw Street Railways, See Tramways Switchgear. See Switchgear Telegraphy. See Telegraphy Telephone. See Telephone Thermal Electromotive Forces, Investigation of Alloys, 401, 803*
Thermo-Electric Effects and Conductivity of Metals, 831
Track Circuit, Artificial, for Tramway and
Railway Signalling, 88 Traction. See RMways; Tramways Train. Seo Railway^ Rlectric Tramways. See Tramways Transformers. See Transformers Turbo-Generators. See Tur5o-G’«ncra(or8 Vacuum Tubes. See Vacxium Tubes Waves, Electromagnetic. Sec Telegraphy^ Wireless
Welding. See Welding Wheatstone-Bridge Type Anemometer, 420
Wireloss Telegraphy. See Telegraphy — Telephony. See Telephony X-Kays. Seo R'mtgen lia^fs also PARAOKAPH INDEX lilectrical Engineers, American Institute of, Capt. W. Bryant on the Naval Radio Service, 224 ; E. Berg on Largo Turbo- Generators, 269* ; J. P. .Tohnson on Large Turbo-Generators, 270*
Electrical Engineers, Institution of :
Failures of Turbo-Generators and Suggestions for Improvements by J. Shepherd, 43*, 95*. See /i’rrahz, 116. Seo also 121, 176, 225, 254
Direction and Position Finding, by Capt. H. J. Round, 108*, 161*
Presidential Address to Liverpool Section, by Professor E. W. Maichont, on the Electrical Engineering Industry of Liverpool, 124
Informal Meetings, 251 Current Generation for X-Ray Work, Discussion on, 315
Production of Power from Blast-Furnace Gas, by S. H. Fowles, 443*
Notes on Operating a By-Product Producer-Gas Plant for Power and Heating, by W. H. Patchell, 529*, 562* Discussion on Gas v. Electricity, 863 Electro-Chemical Industries, Swiss, 291
— Deposited Iron, Defects, 675 Iron for Machinery Repairs, 655 Electrodes for Arc Welding, 153 Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion Electromagnetic Waves. See^ Telegraphy,
Wireless
Electroscope, Terrestrial Pole Indicating, 658 Elements, Constitution of. Isotopes and Atomic
? Weights, 21, 32, 336*, 384*, 453 Elevators, Agricultural, Power Driving Gear, 743* fev
— Liquid, Chaine-Helice, 441*
Ellipticall Holes in Tension Members, Stresses
Round, 440, 840*. See also^259*,' 298*, 458*
Emergency Fleet, U.S., Water-Tube Boilers, 294*. See 316
Emery, W., on Casting'Gas Retorts, 803*. See 787 ; on Silica Bricks, 877. See 787 ; on Specific Heat of Refractory Materials, 875. See 787
Empire Art Metal Co., Steel Aeroplane Spars> 361*
— British, Development of Mineral Resources,
55, 520, 790
Wireless Communication, 351 Employees. See Labour
Employers* Liability. See Labour Organisations in Industry,. 864
Employment. See Labour Endurance Tests. 8ee Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials)
Energy and Mass, Nature of, 454
— Definitions of, 490. See 836, 857
— Molecular, in Gases, 842
— Planck’s Quantum Theory (Review), 125 Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel
— Erecting Shops, Marshall’s Works, 638*
— Fire. See Fire Engine
— Gas, 1,850 H.P., for Barrow Hematite Steel
Co., 729
and Alternators, Resonance Effects, 665 Design of Connecting-Rod Forks, 114*, 254*
XJse of Blast-Furnace Gas, 321, 443* Water Cooler for, 862*
— See also Gaseous Explosions ; Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
H^at, Reversed Carnot Cycle for Heating, 593
— Indicators. See Indicators
— Internal-Combustion, Design of Connecting,-
RodjSForks, 114*, 254*
Combustion, Determining Clearance, 782* Combustion, Burstall’s Optical Indicator, 658
— Combustion, Ignition Temperatures of Fuels, 151
Combustion, New^Thermodynamic Cycle,
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
Engliio, Man-Lifting, CorniHli Mine, Failure’ 352*
— Motor (Jar. Seo Ermines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, Castings for, 177*, 240. See
LETTER, 355
Diesel, Connectlng-Kod Bolts, 811, 833 Diesel, Design of (Review), 300 Diesel, Design of Connecting-Roil Forks, 114*, 254*
Diesel, and Electric Generator, M.S. “ Afrika,” 546*
Diesel, Fuel Oil Strainer, 701*
Diesel, Marine, for M.S. “ Afrika,’’ 540* Diesel, Marine, for M.S. “ Asia,” 12* Diesel, Marine, Camniellalrd-Fullager, Two-Cycle Opposed Piston Type, 144*. See LETTERS, 175, 254, 280*, 356, 378, 458, 514, 660, 680. Seo also 216, 817*
Diesel, Marine, German Submarines, 419, 432, 613
Diesel, Marine, Methods of Scavenging, 146*. See LETTERS, 175, 234, 280*, 356, 378, 458, 514, 660, 680
Diesel, Marine, Reducing Noise, 797 Diesel, Marine, Running and Maintenance (Review), 763
Diesel, Marine, Types under Construction, 617
Diesel, Marine, Two-Cycle and Four- Cycle Types, 617
Diesel, Marine, Vickers, M.S. “ Narra- gausett,” 623*, 716*
Diesel, Obturator Rings for Pistons, 520 Diesel and Semi-Diesel, Fuel Peed and Fuels, 19
I Diesel, Dse of Tar and Tar Oil, 20
Diesel, Wear of, 264, 416
; Diesel. See also Diesel Engine Users’
Association
Marine, Clutch and Reversing Gear for, Langdon, 375* ; Green, 408*
Marine, Construction and Maintenance ' (Review), 76.3
Marine, Langdon’s Ejector Silencer, 375 Marine, Magnetic Reverse Gear, 786* Marine, Motor-Boat Exhibition, 310*, 372*
Marine, 90 II.P. Kronihout, 373*
? Marine, 45 H.P., Three-Cylinder Parsons
821*
Marine, 90 H.P. Six-Cylinder Parsons. 820*
Marine, 300 H.P. Four-Cylinder, Two- Cycle, Vickers-Petters, Ltd., 246*
Details and Operation (Review), 728 and Cargo Winch, 373*
21 H.P. Parsons, and Air Compressor, 373*
Parsons, and 12-kw. Generator, 373* 47 h.p. Four-Cylinder, Thornyeroft, 310* Semi-Diesel, Fuel Feid, 19
Semi-Diesel, for Marine Installations (Review), 539
Two-Cycle, Hamworthv, 792*
Two-Cycle, Hot-Bulb, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 744*
Water Cooler for, 862*
Wolseley Petrol-Paraffln Carburettor, 786*
See also Tractors and PAK.IORARH INDEX
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics Air-Cooling, 211, 241*
Marine, Magnetic Reverse Gear, 786* Marine, Detachable, for Small Boats, 374
Marine, 3 h.p. and 6 h.p. Two-Cycle (W. D. Fair and Co.), 374*
Marine 450 h.p. 18-CyIinder Green, 406* Marine, 70 h.p. Six-Cylinder,. Thorny- croft, 310*
Motor Car, Aloohol-Ether Fuel, ISO. See Erratum 177
Motor Car, Effect of Exhaust on Garage Atmosphere, 32
Motor Car, 25 h.p., Four-Cylinder, Dorman, 342*
— Motor Car, 12 h.p. 4-Cylinder, Dorman, 343*
— Motor Car,. Eating for Taxation, 483. See 466, 869
53 h.p., 4-Cylinder, Thomjcroft, 310* See also AeronauticsCarburettors; Alotor Cars
— Steam,, Experimental, University College.
Cardiff, 612*
Industrial, Coal Consumption, See 591
Locomobile,, with Superheater shaU’s), 767*
Marine. See Marine Propulsion ; bines
Traction, Showman’s, 849*
Uniflow, 1,500 h.p., for Rolling Mill, 729
— Traction. See Tractors
— See also PARAGRATH INDEX
Engineer, Chemical, Training and Functions. 384. See 342
— Civil, Registration BUI,. 418
Treatment in Indian Public Works • Department, 255
— Education. See Education ; Apprenticeship
— in-Cliarge, Association of, A. Ramsay on
Industrial Reconstruction, 160
— Institutions of. See Institutions
— Mathematics for, 795 for (Review), 834
— Naval, Training of, 421
— Thermodynamics for (Review), 799
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution
ofi Prof. E. G. Coker and Y. Satake, on Stress Distribution in Tension Members, 259*, 298*. See LETTER, 458*; Major J. S.. Nicholson, on Metal Construction in Aircraft,.357*, 375*, 408*. See LETTERS 421* 458, 490, 514* 545 ;'W. W. Marriner, on High-Speed Craft during the War 578*. See LETTER, 756
— and Agriculture, 583
Engineering and Adventure, 198
— Apprentices. See Apprentices
— Contracts (Review), 521. See LETTER.
Engineering Education. See Education ; Apprenticeship
— Irrigation (Review), 267
— Laboratories. See Laboratories ; National
Physical
— Materials, Stress Distribution, Report, 25*,
64*, 168*
— Products, Disadvantages of Durability, 468
— Societies. See Institutions
— Standards Association, Limits for Holes,
32 ; Standardisation of Gears, 282
Ether-Alcohol Fuel (Natalite) for Motor Cars, 150. See Erratum, 177
— Differential Radiometer, 886
— Motion of. See Relativity
— Vapour and Air, Inflammability, 290
European War, Effect on Patent Applications, 54
Employment of Ex-Service Men, 285 German Submarines used, 419, 428* High-speed Craft used, 578*. See LETTER, 756
Japanese.Industrial Development, 290
Labour Disputes during, 288
Light Railways used in France, 277*, 747
Meteorological Work, 416
Naval Operations, History of (Review), 521
Petroleum Consumption, 351 -
Prices of Commodities, 459*
Prolongation of Patents, 287. See 546
Restoration of Cernavoda Danube Bridge 837*
Restoration of Pre-War Practices, 350, 417
Pvoad Construction in France, 618
Signalling by Invisible Rays, 797
Submarine Warfare, Tank Experiments, 419, 770*
Wireless Direction and Position Finding 108*, 161*
Work of Ministry of Shipping, 52
Work of Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, 451
See also Mesopotamian Railways
See also Reconstruction and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Evaporation, Water, in Air Currents, 588
Evaporators, Vacuum Capacities of Air Pumps, 74*
Ewing, Sir J. A., on Molecular Energy in Gases 842
Excavating Machine, Trench, Bucyrus, for Drainage Work, 822*
Excavation Work, Construction of Armstrong Shipyard, 366*
Exhaust, Motor-Car Engine, Effect on Garage Atmosphere, 32
— Steam from Turbines, Heating by, 592 Exhibition, British Industries Fair, Birmingham, 288. See 307
— Building, Olympia, 518, 556*
— Ideal Home, Olympia, 223, 225
— Motor Boat, Olympia, 372*, 406*. See
310*
— Scientific Apparatus, Physical aud Optical
Societies, 55, 87*. See Addendum, 117
Apparatus, Roybal Society Soirde 658, 864
— Trade, British Touring, 252 Entertainment Tax, 54
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Expanded Metal, Concrete Building Construction, 556
Experimental Steam Engine, University College Cardiff, 612*
— Tank. See Tank, Ship Models, Ship Resist
ance.
Explosion, Boiler. See Roller Explosion
— of Economisers, 120
— Gaseous. See Gaseous Explosions
Explosives, Detonators, Hopkinson’s Apparatus for Testing, 658, See 710
— Factories, Gretna and Waltham Abbey,
Future, 619
— See also Guns and Explosives in PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Export Trade. See Trade and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extensometer for Eccentric Loading Tests, 64*
— Hurst-Tomlinson Dial Reading, 108*
— Photographic Recording, for Bridge
Members, 138*
Eye Protection in Welding Operations, 823*. 830
— Protection by Automatic Sprinklers
(Review), 331
System, Marshall’s Works, 672
Fishing Vessels, Use of Kitchen Rudder, 289. See 408
Fitting-out Quay, Armstrong Shipyard, 434*
— Shop, Armstrong Shipyard, 602*
Fixtmes, Machine, Manufacture at B.S.A. Works, 320.
Flame Velocity in Gaseous Explosions, 23, 57 Flanging Machine. See Machine Tools Fleet. See Warships
Fleming, Prof. J. A., on the Thermionic Valve, 760* 1
Fleming Valve. See Telegraphy, Wireless : Flight. See Aeronautics
Flintshire, Carboniferous Grits, 610 Flotation, Froth, Ore Concentration by, 153 Floating Crane. See Crane
Flues, BoUer, Flanging and Welding Machines, Marshall’s Works, 640*
Fluid Flow in Pipes, 474, 726, 737*, 867
— Friction. See also Aeronautics, Air Resist
ance, Friction, Hydrodynamics, Ship Rcshslo/ficc
— Motion, Effect of Local Heating, 101*. See
LETTERS, 225, 255
Turbulent, and Skin Friction, 474, 737*
— Viscosity, Measurement by Falling Sphere,
860
Flying Boats. See Seaplanes under Aeronautics
— Machines. See Aeronautics
Flywheel Boring and Turning Mill, Marshall’s Works, 636*
Forced Draught, Steam Used in Steam Jets, 71, 495. See 404
Ford Motor-Car Works, Organisation, 417 Forcing, Drop. See Drop Forging
— Hammer. See Hammer under Machine
Tools
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Shells, French Locomotive used for, 214* Forms, Monolithic Concrete Building Construction, 519
Forrest Lecture on Coal Conservation, 543*, 591
Forth Bridge, Stresses in Members, 165* W. Foster and Co., Ltd.. Works and Products, 847*. See 685
Foimdations, Dam, Cement Grouting under, 628*
Foundries, Iron and Steel, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 742*
— Marshall’s Works, Gainsborough, 636*, 640*
— Portable Cupolas for, 591*
Foundry, Cammell Laird Shipyard, 817*
— Iron, Foster’s W’'orks, 848*
— Metallurgical Department, N. P. L., 868
— Work, Castings for Diesel, Engines, 177*,
249. See LETTER 355
Casting Large Turbine Rotor, 270* Casting High-Tensile Brass, 372*, 388* Notes on Steel Castings, 768*. See 676 Pourier, Bessel and Clifford Functions, 851 Forshulten Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 195* Powles, S. H., on Power Production from Blast Furnace Gas, 443*
Frame, Building, Ferro-Concrete, Design, 777*
— Design, Shipbuilding, Proposed Modifica
tion, 149
— Shed, Armstrong Shipyard, 601*
— Space, Stress Determination, 165* France, Light Railways in War Area, 277*,
747
— Road Construction in War Area, 618 Francis Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic. Franklin Institute, Capt. W. Bryant, on U.S.
Naval Radio Service, 224
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Welded Steel Pipes, 730*
Freeboard and Strength of Ships, 438, 807* French I.ocomotive used for Shell Drawing, 214
— Mining Legislation, 27
French Mines, Restoration of, Subaqueous
Camera, 868
— Seaplanes at Monaco, 655*
Friction, Bearing, High-Temperature Measurements, 866*
— Clutch. See Clutch and Motor Car Details
— Internal, in the Atmosphere, 282
— of Roll Necks, Measurement of, 258*
— Skin, and Turbulent Fluid Motion, 474,
737*
— Skin, of Air, over Smooth Plates, 867 Froth Flotation, Ore Concentration by, 153 Fuel, Coal Gas, for Motor Vehicles, Competition, 186
— Economy, Comparisons of Gas and Electri
city, 543*, 591, 763, 863
and Pollution of Atmosphere, 276, 279 Report of Coal Conservation Committee,
Criticism, 543*, 591
— Feed for Heavy Oil Engines, 19
— Gas, for Industrial Furnaces, Advantages,
351
— Heavy Oil, for Diesel and Semi-Diesel
Engines, 19
— Internal-Combustion Engines, Ignition Tem
peratures, 151
— Liquid, Coal Dust and Oil, 577 See also Oil Fuel
— Motor. See Alcohol, Benzol, Gas, Motor,
Paraffin, Petrol
— Oil and Coal, Marine Propulsion, Comparisons, 417
Strainer, for Diesel Engines, 701* Use in Navy, 579, 756
Welcome Burner for Cooking Ranges, 378
— Peat, Difficulties of Utilisation, 484
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Coal.
— See also Coal, Oil, Gas, Peat “ Fullagar,” M.S., Launch of, 216 Fullagar Marine Diesel Engine, 144*.
LETTERS, 175, 254, 280*, 356, 378, 514, 660, 680
FuUy Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 230*.
339
Fulton, A. R., on the Elastic Properties of
Steel, 65 ; on Retaining Walls, 254 Funnel, Ship's, Air Flow Round, 134* Furnaces, Blast, Brick Manufacture from Slag, 690
— Blast, British Practice, 641, 642, 646* Cements from Slags, 626, 641
Chemical and Thermal Conditions, 631*, 641
Construction and Equipment, 321 Halberger-Beth Gas Cleaning Plant, 444*
Revolving Stock Distributor, 647* Utilisation of Gas, 321, 443*
— Boiler. See Stoker
— Gas-Fired, Advantages of, 351, 646
— Glass, Oil-Fuel Burner, 610
— Industrial, Refractory Materials for, 98,
128
— Metal Mixer, 700-ton, Mondeville-Colom-
belles Works, 293*
— Open Hearth, Silicon Reduction from Slag,
644, 666*
Hearth Slag Conditions, 644, 661*
— Pot-Armealing, Chantraine Rotary Plame,
754*
— Soaking Pits for Steel Ingots, 294*
— Steel, Charging Cranes for, 180*
— Tunnel Oven, Development, 753
— See also Coke Ovens, Cupolas Fusion Welding, See Melding

GAINSBOROUGH, Marshall’s Works, 635*, 670*
Galloways, Ltd., Visit to Works, 729
Galvanised Iron Sheets, Hand Shearing Machine, 524*
— Steel, Metallography, 327*
Galvanising, Effect on Steel Wires, 329* Garden Cities and the Transport Problem, 121, 517, 655. See LETTER 720
Gas Absorption by Charcoal, 250
— Blast-Furnace, Halbergcr - Beth Cleaning Plant, 444*
Furnace, Utilisation of, 311, 443*
— Carbon Dioxide. See Carbon Dioxide
— Coke Oven. See Coke Oven
— Companies, Supply of Electric Power, 819
— Engine. See Engines, Oas
— Engineers, Institution of, 763, 787, 803*,
819, 975, 877
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Fuel for Motor Vehicles, Competition, 186
— Hydrogen, Triatomic Molecules, 403*, 453
— Industry, Future of, 763
Refractories for, 129
— Investigation Committee, Reports, 787
— Lighting, Proportion of Inerts, 764, 787,
819
— Liquid, Thermoscope, Radiation Experi
ments, 122
— Mains and Meters, Internal Corrosion, 787
— Manufacture, Systems of Carbonisation,
819
Use of Oxygen, 819
— Natural, Production of Helium, 124
Recovery of Petrol, 760
— Permeability of Airship Fabrics, 868
— for Power, Heat and Light, Comparisons
with Electricity, 544*, 591, 763, 863
— Producer. See Producer
— Production and Utilisation,
Efficiency, 764, 787, 819.
— Retorts, Manufacture by
See 787
Gases, Analysis by Positive Kavs See Rays
Gaseous Explosions Dielectric Constants at Low Temperatures 534
— Electric Discharge in. See Electric, Vacuum Tubes
— Plow and Aleasurement (Review), 691
— Ionisation of. See Ionisation
— Liquid, Properties of Rubber Membranes m, 122
— Molecular Energy in, 842
See also Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Nztrogen, Oxygen, <andc.
Gasoline. See Petrol and Engines, Petrol Gattie System of Goods Handling, Report 20 Gatuii Lock, Panama Canal, Hvdro-Electrio Power Plant, 195*. See 339'
Gauge, Depth, for Countersinking, 702* — Pipes, Machine for Trueing Ends, 701* — Screw, Hardening of, 575, 593*, 595* Pitch Measuring Machine, 594* Projection Apparatus for Measuring, 273*
— Standard Limits for Holes, 32
— Water, Brass Tube, for Boilers, 574*. See 702
Gayley, J., the Late, 420
Gear Boxes, Motor Car. See Motor Car Details
— Citroen, for Electric Locomotives, 712*
— Cutting, Hobbiug Pinions for H.M.S. “ Hood,” 399*
for Motor Cars, 382. See I^ETTERS, 680, 836
Machines. See Machine Tools — Differential. See Motor Car Details
— Mitre, Grinding Machine, 702*
— Reduction, Admiralty Specifications, 480 Design of Teeth, 476*. See 472, 599* Lubrication of Teeth, 476*, 600*. See 473. See ERRATUM, 651
Pressures on Teeth, 473, 477*, 599* for Warships, 472, 474*
— Reversing. See Reversing Gear
— Standardisation of, 282
I — Steering. See Motor Car Details
— Testing Machine, N.P.L., 334*
[ — Triple Helical, with Elastic Drive, 713* Geared Turbines, Marme. See Marine Propulsion
I Gebert, N. J., on Magnetic and Mechanical ! Tests of Steel, 136*
Geddes, Sir E., on British Railwavs, 41.5 Generating Station. See Power Station Generator, Electric, and Diesel Engine,
M.S. “ Afrika,” 546*
— Electric, A.C., Gas-Driven, Resonance
Effects, 665
High-Tension D. C., 56
75-kw., Motor Driven, Lead Rolling Mill, 215*. See ADDENDUM, 283
12-kw. Oil-Driven, Parsons Motor Co., 373*
Rules for Rating, 523
See also Turbo-Alternators, Turbo- Generators
Geology, Carboniferous Grits, Denbighshire and Elintshire, 610
Geophysics, Elow of Rocks and Minerals, 151
— Magnetic Susceptibility of Rocks and
Minerals, 316
German Chemical Manufacturers, 223
— Cold Storage Barges, 765
— Dyeing Industry (Review), 570
— Electrical Industry, Outlook, 214
— Industry, Socialisation of, 703, 734. See
723
— Light Railways in Erench War Area, 277*.
See 747
— Motor Car Industry, 217
— Shipbuilding Industry, 55
— Submarines, Diesel Engines, 419, 432
613
used in War, 419, 428*
— Trade Reconstruction and Raw Materials,
223
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Waterways, Development, 791
Germany, Brick Manufacture from Blast-
Eurnace Slag, 690 Ghost Lines in Steel, 676 Gibson, Dr. A. H., on Cooling Petrol Engines, 211, 241*
Gibson, ,T. H., on Workshop Inventions, 700* Gilbertson, E. W., on Educational Effort and Industrial Efliciency; 131
Gill Hydraulic Propulsion
Launch, 403
Girder, Roof, Eerro-Concrete,
— See also Beams, Bridges Glasgow, Dalinarnock Power
matic Coal Scales, 754*
Glass, Eye Protection in Welding, 823*, 830
— Manufacture, Treatise on (Review), 833
— Optical, for Microscope Objectives, 106
— Pot, Two-Part Construction, 190
— Potash and Soda, Relative Durabilities,
190
— Special, for Scientific Work, 55
— Technology, Society of. Dr. W. E. _ .
Turner, on the Eactory Inspection of Glassware, 190 ; Lieut.-Col. C. Thomas, on a Glass-House Pot Special Construction, 190 ; E. W. Hodkin and Dr. W. E. S. Turner, on the Durabilities of Potash and Soda Glass for Artistic and Table Ware, 190
— Vessels, Ebullition in, 588
— and Water, Adhesion of, 588
— Works, Oil-Euel Burner, 610 Glassware, Eactory Inspection of, 190
— Scientific, Testing at N.P.L., 188 Glazebrook, Sir R. T., Zaharofl Professorship
of Aeronautics, 289; on the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 726
Glow Lamps. See Lamps under Electric Glues for Aeroplane Construction, 216
Gold, Lieut.-Colonel E., on Meteorology and the War, 416
— Production and the Cost of Living, 460* Goods Handling on Railways, Gattie System,
H.
H.M. SS. See Warships
Hadfield, Sir Pv., on the Microscope, 86 ; Prize for Hardness Tests, 680
Haigh, B. P., on Strain Energy Function and
Elastic Limit, 158*
Haigh‘s Magnetic Testing Machine, Alternating Stress, 866
Hailstorm in Surrey, 614 Halberger-Beth Gas Cleaning Plant, 444* Halsey Bonus System, 219
Hammers. See Machine Tools Hamworthy Engineering Co., Ltd., Oil Engine, 792*
Handley-Page Aeroplane, Metal Construction, 376*, 408*
Hands, C. H., the Late, 308
Harbour, Blyth, Reduction of Wave Action,
130
— Design, Reduction of Wave Action, 129
130
— Madras, Coastal Sand Travel, 291 Repairs to Breakwater, 291
— Sunderland, Reduction of Wave Action,
130
— Whitby Improvements, 129, 130
— Works, Deterioration of Structures in Sea
Water, 584
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Hardening Oils by Hydrogenation (Review),
268
— Metals. See Metallurgy, Hardness Tests. See Tests (Materials} Hardy, Prof. W. B., on Lubrication, 333 Hatfield, Dr. W. H., on Tests of Steel for
Turbine Construction, 452 ; on Standardisation of Special Steels, 551
Haughton, J. L., on Zinc Alloys, 400 ; Investigation of Alloys by Thermal Electromotive Forces, 401, 803*
Havelock, Prof. T. H., on Turbulent Motion and Skin Friction, 474, 737*
Hayes, H. H., on Preparation of Zinc for Micro-Examination, 401, 466
Headstocks, Lathe, Design of. See Horner, 7. Heat Engines. See Engines
— Insulation Tests, Fireproof Materials, 66
— Radiation, Atmospheric and Terrestrial,
282
Experiments, Liquid' Gas Thermoscope,
122
Transmission at Low Temperatures, 123
— Specific. See Specific Heat
— Storage, Electrical, in Switzerland, 170*
— Transmission, Surface Condensers, Effect
of Air, 687
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy Heater, Feed-Water. See Feed-Water Heater
— Rivet, Portable Electric, 441*, 730* Heating, Comparisons of Gas and Electricity,
544*, 591, 763, 863
— Effects in Fluid Motion, 101*. See LETTERS
225, 255
— by Exhaust Steam from Turbines, 592
— by Reversed Carnot Cycle, 593
Heenan, H., the Late, 855
Heenan Froude, Ltd., Water Cooler, 862* Helical Gears. See Gears
Helium, Production from Natural Gas, 124
Hematite Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Hendey-Norton Milling Machine Bracings, 237*, 238* ; Lathe Mandrel, 709*
Hennebique Ferro-Concrete Construction, Arra- I strong Shipyard, 434*, 469* ! Herbert Sensitive Drill, Table, 103* 1 Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Heskett, J. A., on New Zealand Iron Ores, t 875*. See 676
High Speed Tool Steel. See Steel
— Temperature and Pressure Research, 150. See 223
Tests. See Tests (Malerials)
— Walker-on-Tyne, Armstrong Shipyard. Seo Shipyard
Highfleld, J. S., on Electric Osmosis, 689 Highways. See Roadways
Hilger, A., Ltd., Bench for Annealing 855
Hindle, Son and Co., Electric Baling 92*
Hindmarsh, R. F., on Harbour Design, Hobbing, Gear. See Gear-Cutting Machine Tools
Hoffmann Ball Bearing Works, Operation of . Lymn Producer Plant, 529*, 562
Holes in Ship’s Plating, Stresses near, 440, 840*. See also 259*, 298*, 458*
Tension Members, Effect on Stresses, 259*, 298*. See LETTER, 458*
Hollow Spindles, Lathe, Design. See Horner, J. Honours, New Year, 23 “Hood,” H.M. Battle-Cruiser, 397*, 423*. See 422*, 854*
Hopkinsou’s Apparatus for Testing plosives, 658. See 710J
Horner, J., on Recent Machine Developments :
103*, 169*, 236*, 505*, 707*
Tables, Drilling Machine, Design, 169*
— Drilling Machine : Sensitive 103* ; Radial Type, 103* Table, Drilling and Boring Machine, Webster and Bennett, Ltd., 104*
— Drilling Machine, Multiple Spindle,
- Webster and Bennett, Ltd., 105
— Drilling and Tapping Machine, for Locomotive Tube Plates, 169*
— Drilling Machine, Multiple Spindle, for Boiler Plates, 169*
— Milling and Profiling Machine, Kendall and Gent, Ltd., 169*
Tables, Shaping Machine, Supports, 238* Bracings, Milling Machine; Pillar and Knee Tj-pe, 236* ; Lincoln Type, 237* ; Parkinson, 237* ; Hendey, 237*, 238* ? Cincinnati, 237* ; Tangye, 238*
— Gear Cutting Machines, 238*
— Shaping Machine Tables, 238* Tailstock Details, Richard’s Universal Surfacing, Boring, Milling and Drilling Machine, 238*
Slides, Machine Tool, Adjusting Strips, 505*
Combined Gibs and Clamps, 507* Lubrication, 508* .«i«l — — Protection from Dirt, 508* Spindles and Bearings, Lathe, Early Examples, 707*
— Lathe, Ball Bearings for, 709*
Hollow, Design, 708*
Hollow, Britannia Co., 709* • Pratt and Whitney Bench Lathe, 710* Lubrication, 708*
Thrust Collars for, 709*
Spindle^^Screw Machine, Brown and Sharpe, Horse Vehicles, Skefko Ball Bearings, 715*.
833 *
HothcFSd.ll, W. C., oil the Effects of Hvdroffen on Copper, 391*, 400
Howitzer. See Gun
Hughes, W. E., on Electro-Deposited Copper, 401; on Electro-Deposited Iron, 675 Hughes - Baker Sextant, Aerial Navigation, 89
Hulls, Seaplane, Form and Dimensions, 323* Hunsaker, Dr. J. C., on Naval Architecture in Aeronautics, 857*
Huntington, Prof. A. K., the Late, 555 Hurst-Tomlinson Extensometer, 108* Hydraulic Crane. See Crane
— Cylinder, Frictionless, Rolling Mill Experi
ments, 258*
— Dynamometer, Locomotive Trials, Swiss
State Railways, 871*
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
Packing for very High Pressures, 712*
— Power Plant. See Power Plant
— — Station, Armstrong Shipyard, 697*
— Propulsion, Gill System, Motor Launch,
408 ’ I
— Pump. See Pump j
— Plant, Armstrong Shipyard, 569* !
— Turbines. See Turbines; Pelton Wheels; I
Power Plant
— Valve, Balanced, Vickers, Ltd., 281* i
Hydraulics, Estimating River Flow, 4 j
—- See also Hydrodynamics ; Irrigation ; Water i Hydro-aeroplane. See. Seaplane under Aero- i
nautzcs
Hydrodynamics, Effect of Local Heating on Fluid Motion,’101*. See LETTERS, 225
~ and Measurement of Gases (Review),
— Fluid Flow in Pipes, 474, 726, 737*, 867
^737^^^^^ Skin Friction, 474,
— See also Ship Resistance
See Power
Hydrogen, Effects on Copper, 391*, 400 Manufacture, Use of Catalysers, 268
— Production for Airships, 811
— Permeability of Airship Fabrics, 868
— Tnatomic Molecules, 403*,’453 Hydrogenation of Oils (Review), 268 Hysteresis Losses, Silicon Iron, 720
IDEAL Home Exliibition, 223, 225 Idiomorphic Crystals, Electro - Deposited Copper, 401
Ignition Temperatures, Infiammable Vapours, 290
— Temperatures, Liquid Fuels, 151 Soap Bubble Method, 189
Illuminating Engineering Society, Dr. T. L. Llewellyn, on Mine Lighting, 821
Illumination. See also Liyht; lAglding ; and Lamps under Electric
Impact. See Collision Dynamics
— Tests. See Tests (Materials')
Imperial College, Education in Aeronautics, 289. See 621
— Mineral Resources Bureau, 55, 620. See 790
— Wireless Communication, 351
I mport Trade. See Trade
Imi)ulse Turbines. See Turbines Incandescent Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
Incinerator, Refuse, for Naval Service, 854* Income Tax Allowance, Subscriptions to Technical Societies, 383
on Patents, 490
Incrustation, Water Pipes, and Iron Bacteria (Review), 509
India, Airship Service to, 554. Seo LETTER, 590
— Roads and Transport in, 724
— Rubber. See Rubber
— Trade and Industries of, 221
Indian Government, T.S.S. “ Lawrence,” 115*
— Iron Dre Deposits, 221
— Public Works Department, Treatment of Engineers, 255
Indicator, Air Speed, Smith’s Recording, 89* — Diagram, Diesel Engine, M.S. “ Narragan- sett,” 719*
Scavenging Pump, Diesel Engine, 146*
— Optical, BiirstalTs, 658
— Water Level, Brass Tube, for Boilers, 574*. See 702
Induction Motor. See Motor, Electric Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Agreements and Disputes. See Labour; Industrial Notes
— Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Concerns, Effect of Size on Efficiency, 135 !
Recent Investments in, 54, 533
— Decentralisation and London Traffic, 121, I 517, 655. Seo LETTER, 720 i
— Democracy, the Story of (Review), 186
— Efiiciency and Educational Effort, 131
— Fair, Birmingham, 288. See 307
— Fatigue. See under Labour
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Management. See Works Management
— Notes, 10, 46, 78, 113, 154, 190, 226, 256, 292, 321, 344, 888. 422, 457, 487, 510, 547, 589, 611, 660, 680, 715, 764,
886, 855. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Reconstruction. See Reconstruction
— Research. See Research
— Unrest. See Labour
— Welfare. See Labour •
Industries, British, Overseas Commissioners, 654
— German Chemical, 223
— of India, 221
— Japanese, Development of, 290
— Swiss, Electro-Chemical, 291
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Industry, Co-partnership in. See Labour
— Effects of Small Profits, 533
— Electric Lamp, Profiteering, 383
— Electrical, at Liverpool, 124
— Employers’ Organisations, 864
— Gas, Future of, 763
— German Electrical, Outlook, 214
Motor Car, 217
Shipbuilding, 55
— Irish Coal, Development, 619
— Iron and Steel, Progress, 620
— Labour Control of. See iMbour
Position in, 822
— Needs for Fresh Capital, 533
— Public or Private Ownership, 703, 723,
734
— Rewards of Capital and Labour, 703, 723,
734
— Risk and Reward in, 102
— Scientific Research in, 735
— Shipbuilding, Economic Position, 437, 459*.
See LETTERS, 458, 490
Foreign Competition, 460
— Socialisation of, 703, 723, 734
— Zinc, Present Position and Prospects, 123 Inert Constituents, Lighting Gas, 764, 787,
I 819
. Inflammability of Ether, Alcohol and Acetone
. Vapours, 290
I Ingots, Steel, Soaking Pits for, 294* Stripping Machine for, 180*. See 294*
1 Inland Navigation. See Navigation ; Canals ;
I
1
J
See Heat; Electric
Engines. See Motor Cars;
Engineering,
— Engineering, London and Provincial
ings, 251
— Royal. See Eoyal Institiition
— Scientific, Conjoint Board, 548, 690
— Technical, Increased Subscriptions, 252,
383
— Technical, Income Tax Allowance for
Subscriptions, 383
Institutions, Technical and Scientific. 8oe’A«ro- nautical Soddy^ Royal; Agricultural Society , Royal; American Society for Testing Materials; Arts, Royal Society of; Automobile Engineers^ Institution of; British Association ; Ceramic Society ; Chemical Industry, Society of; Chemical Society; Chemical Society, American; Civil Engineers, American Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Concrete Institute; Diesel Engine Users* Assoda- tion; Electrical Engineers, American Institute of; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Engineers-in-Charge, , Association of; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Faraday Society; Franklin Institute; Cas Engineers, Institution of; Class Technology, Society of ; Greenock Philosophical Society ; Illuminating Engineering Society ; Iron and Steel Institute; Japanese Society of Naral Architects; Junior l7i8tUution of Engineers ; Liverpool Engineering Society ; Manchester Association of Engineers; Manchester Steam Users* Association; Marine Engineers, Institiite of; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Medicine, Royal Society of; Metals, Institute of; Meteorological Society, Royal; Microscopical Society, Royal ; Mining and Metallurgy, American Institute of; Mining and Metallurgy, Institution of; Mining Institute of Scotland; Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Society of: Naval Architects, Institulion of; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of; North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders ; Optical Society; Petroleum Technologists, Institution of; Photomicrographic Society ; Physical Society ; R'ontgen Society; Royal Institution ; Royal Society ; Transport, Institute of Instruments, Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Making, Universal Machine Tool, 785*
— Scientific, Physical and Optical Societies’
Exhibition, 55, 87*. See ADDENDUM, 117 at Royal Society Soiree, 658, 864
— See also Aeronautics ; Electric Insurance, Workmen’s. See Labour International Rules, Rating Electrical Machinery, 523
— Trade. See Trade
Invar Steel, Properties and Applications, 663 Inventions, Workshop, Encouragement, 700*
— See also Patents
— and Research Laboratories, 39 Investments in Industrial Concerns, 54. See
533
Ionisation of the Upper Atmosphere, 836 Irish Coal Industry, Development, 019 Iron. See also Cast Iron ; Steel ; Pig Iron ;
Metallurgy
— Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
— Bacteria, Water Supply Systems (Review),
569
— Case-Hardening, See Metallurgy
— Chemical Analysis of (Review), 22
— Coating 5vith Lead, 793
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Electro-Deposited, Defects, 675
Deposited, for Machinery Repairs, 655
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast; Metal
lurgy
— Ore. See Ore
— Pig, Prices. See MefaZ-Price Piagra-tns
— Portland Cement, Manufacture and Pro
perties, 626, 641
— Rolling Mills. See Polling Mills
— and Deposits, New Zealand, 875*. See 676
— Silicon, Magnetic Properties, 720
— and Steel, Indian Trade and Industry, 221 Steel Industry, Progress, 620
Iron and Steel Institute :
Programme, 446 Report of Council, 620 Special Fund, 620
Work of Committees, 620
Induction of New President, Dr. J. E. Stead, 620
Award of Bessemer Medal to Mr. Brearley, 620
Presidential Address by Dr. J. E. Stead, on Progress in the Iron and Steel Industry, 620
Reports of Discussions, 641, 675
Dinner and Exhibition, 642
Iron Portland Cement, with a Classification of Cements made from Blast Furnace Slag, by E. H. Lewis, 626, 641
British Blast Furnace Practice, by F. Clements, 641, 642, 646*
Valuation of Ores and Iron-Making Material, by C. R. Ridsdale, 607, 641, 642
Chemical and Thermal Conditions in Blast Furnace Practice, by H. E. Wright, 631*, 641
Direct-Current Compared with Three- Phase Current for Driving Steel Works Plant, by C. A. Ablett, 643, 664*
Slag Conditions in Open-Hearth Basic Steel-Making Practice, by J. F. Wilson, 644, 661*
Reduction of Silicon from the Slag in the Acid Open-Hearth Process, by B. Yaneske and G. A. Wood, 644. 666*
Some Defects in Electro-Deposited Iron, by W. E. Hughes, 675
Note on the Ball Test, by T. Baker and T. F. Russell, 675, 698*
Distribution of Phosphorus in Steel between the Points Acl and Ac3, by J. H. Whiteley, 676
Iron and Steel Inst.—continued. |
Practical Notes on the Design and Treat- | ment of Steel Castings, by G. F. Preston, 768*. See 676
Utilisation of Titaniferous Iron Ore in New Zealand, by J. A. Heskett, 875*. See 676
Properties of Iron-Chromium-Carbon Steels, Part I, Thermal Analysis, by Prof. C. A. Edwards, H. Sutton and G. Oishi, 676, 692*
Chromium Steels, Part II, Effect of Heat Treatment of Electrical Resistivity, by Prof. C. A. Edwards and A. L. Norbury, 676
Structure of Some Chromium Steels, by J. H. G. Monypenny, 677
Effect of Initial Temperature upon the Physical Properties of Steel, by J. H. Andrew, J. E. Rippon, C. P. Miller and A. Wragg, 678, 681*
Brittleness in Nickel-Chrome and other Steels, by Dr. F. Rogers, 678 Iron and Steel. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Works. See Works
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
— Welding. See Welding
— Zinc Alloys, Crystallisation Curves, 327*
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Pig Iron; Metallurgy
Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges ; Columns ; Roofs; Steel work
Irrigation Engineering (Review), 267
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Isotopes and Atomic Weights, 21, 32, 336*, 384*, 453
Italian Seaplanes at Monaco, 655*
Italy, Water Power Developments, 338 Izat, Alexander, the Late, 79
J.
JACKSON, P. R., on the Stabilisation of Ships by Gyroscopes, 439, 462*
Japan, Kinugawa Power Plant, Pipe Line, 232* Japanese Industrial Development and the War, 290
— Society of Naval Architects, Y. Taji, on
Metallography of Galvanised Steel, 327*
Jet, Air Ejectors for High Vacua, 28*. See LETTER, 57
— Steam, Forced Draught, Steam Con
sumption, 71, 495. See 404
Jetties, Ferro-Concrete, Armstrong Shipyard, 434*
Jig Manufacture, B.S.A. Works, 320
Johns, A. W., on German Submarines, 419, 428*
Johnson, J. P., on Large Turbo-Generators, 270*
— F., on Cold Rolling Copper, 401
Joiners’ Shop, Armstrong Shipyard, 695* ; Cammell Laird Shipyard, 814*
Joints for Pipe Lines, Hydro-Electsic Power Plants, 231*
Jonah, F. G., on Light Railways in War Area, 277*. See 747
Jones, Major E. R., the Late, 125
— R. M., Report on Corrosion, 357, 370 Journals. See Bearings.
Junior Institution of Engineers, C. M. Paterson on Tea-Drying Machines, 89 ; T. H. Sanders, on Railway Wheels and Axles, 99 ; F. A. Simpson on the Chaine-Helice, 441*
Jute Bags, Electric Baling Press for. 92*
K.
KAPP, N. G., on a Stress Diagram for Rolling Loads, 35*
Karachi-Constantinople Aerial Mail Service, 587
Kaye, Major G. W. C., on X-ray Work, 555
Kayser, Ellison <fe Co., Thin Steel for Aircrai't Construction, 411*
Keel-Plate Elanging Machine, Armstrong Shipyard, 568*
Kelvin’s Reversed Carnot Cycle for Heating, 593
Kendall and Gent, Ltd., Table for Milling and Profiling Machine, 169*
Keokuk Power Plant, Mississippi River, 192* Kermode’s Oil Duel System, Motor Wagon, 644*
Key, Reversing, for Pyrometry, 864
Keyser’s Hardness Testing Machine, Higli Temperature, 157*
KUns, Advantages of Gas Firing, 646
Kimball, A. L., on Holes and Cracks in Ship’s Plating, 440, 840*
Kinlochleven Hvdro-Blectric Power Plant, 230*
King-Salter, J. J., on Balancing Turbine Rotors, 473, 491*
Kingsbury Thrust Bearing, 193*, 338 Kinugawa Power Plant, Pipe Line, 232* Kitchen Reversing Rudder on Fishing Vessels, 289. See 408
Knee Bracings, Milling Machine. See Horner, J. Koppers Coke Ovens, Machines lor Operating, 78*
Kothny, G. L. E., on High Vacuum Apparatus, 28*. See LETTER, 57
Kreisinger, H., on Trials of Boilers, U.S. Emergency Fleet, 295*. See 316
Kromhout Marine Oil Engine, 373*
L.
LABORATORIES, Engineering, University ‘College, Extension of, 124, 339*. See 329, 384, 413, 721
— Research, and Rewards for Inventions, 39
— See also National Physical
Labour :
Apprentices, Shipyard, Education, 290, See 311, 418
Apprenticeship System, British Thomson- Houston Co., 32; B.S.A. Works, 320
Act and Juvenile Workers,
Inventions, Encouragement,
and Employees, Intercourse "between, 437. See 459, 756
— Organisations in Industry, 864 Employment, Ex-Service Men, and the Trades Unions, 285
Female Labour, Restoration of Pre-War Practices, 350, 417
Industrial Democracy, Story of (Review), 186
— Fatigue Research Board, Report, 5
— Reconstruction, Co-operation of Capital and Labour, 160
Labour Problems, 418
Stimulus of the War, 173
— Notes, 10, 46, 78, 113, 154, 256, 292, 321, 344, 388, 487, 510, 547, 589, 611, 715, 764, 788, 835, 855. { GRAPH INDEX
— Unrest, Effect of Reticence, 415 Intercourse between Employers and Employees, 437. See 459, 756
and the Spirit of Adventure, 198 Need for Leadership, 156
— Welfare Society, 20
Industry, Rewards of Capital and Labour, 703, 723, 734
Insurance, Unemployment, Government Scheme, 21, 186. See 386
Labour Difficulties and Suggested Solutions (Review), 800
— Position in Industry, 822
— Share in Control of Industry, 161, 829
— Troubles in Large and Small Factories, 136
Man to Man, Story of Industrial Democracy (Review), 186
Merchant Shipbuilding in Government Dockyards, 21, 350, 382
Moulders’ Strike, Use of Welded Steel Pipes, 730*
Multiple Accidents, Worksliop, Mathematical Investigation, 5
Mimitions Tribunals, Jurisdiction on Wages Questions, 520
Piecework and Bonus Systems, 219 Prices of Commodities, Fluctuations in, 459*
Railway Officials and Workers’ Grievances, 688
Railwaymen’s Wages and Cost of Living, 51
Remuneration of Labour, Piecework and Bonus Systems, 219
Restoration of Pre-War Practices, Employment of Women, 350, 417
Socialisation of Industry, 703, 723, 734 Strikes during the War, 288
Trade Disputes Act Case, Definition of “ Dispute,” 619
Act, Electrical Trades Unions Case, 321
Employers’ Organisations, 864
— Unions and Employment of Ex-Service Men, 285
Leaders, Legal Liability, 698. See 619 .
Members, Payment of Fines, 554 and Restoration of Pre-War Practices, 350, 417
— Unionism, History of (Review), 486 Unemployment, Effects of Small Profits, 533
— Government Insurance Scheme, 21, 186. See 386
— and Restriction of Output, 21
the Training of Ex-Service Men, 285 — Workers’ Views, 386
Wages Adjustment to Cost of Living, 51 — Questions, Jurisdiction of Munitions Tribunals, 520
— and Cost of Living,-459*. See 437 Welfare Society, Industrial, 20
— Work, Marshall’s Works, Gainsborough, 673
Women, Employment of. Restoration of Pre-War Practices, 350, 417
Workmen’s Compensation Case, Accident in Canteen, 455, 485
Workshop Inventions, Encouragement, 700*
Ladle Cranes, 60-ton, MondevUle-Colorabelles Works, 293*
Lagging Materials. See Heat Insulation Lamps, Electric. See Electric
— Safety, Development, 383
Oil and Electric, Comparisons, 321 Lancashire Boilers, Data on Mechanical Firing, 404, 426, 495. See LETTERS, 590, 609. See also 71
Land Drainage from Field to Sea (Review), 538
Langdon Engineering Works, Clutch and Reversing Gear for Motor Boats, 375* ; Ejector Silencer, 375*
Lathes. See Machines, Tools
Launch of M.S. “ Fullagar,” 216. See also Fullagar Marine Diesel Engine
— Cunard S.S. “ Scythia,” 417
— H.M.S. Hood, 397*. See 424
— Motor. See Motor Boats Lavender’s Self-Opening Die Head, 524*
Law. See Legal
“ Lawrence,” T.S.S. for Indian Government, 115*
Lea Road Power Station, Marshall’s Works, 673*
Lead, Attack by Sulphuric Acid, 215
— Coating Iron with, 793
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Rolling Mill, Electric Drive, 215*. See
Addendum, 283
Le Blanc Air ISjector for Marine Condensers, 29*. See LETTER, 57
Lefroy, Prof. H. M., on Insect Pests, 652
Legal :
Boiler Explosion Enquiries, Lawyers at, 120
Contracts, Engineering and Electrical (Review), 521. See LETTER, 609
Electricity (Supply) Act, 18, 554 French Mining Legislation, 27
Labour Legislation. See Labour Insurance, Workmen’s. See Labour Patent Law. See Patents
Trade Marks, Use of Surname, 351, See 547
Workmen’s Compensation. See Ijdbour See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Legislation. See Legal; Labour; Patents Lens CoUeries, Flooded, Sub Aqueous Camera, 868
Lenses, Microscope, Testing, 106
— Spectacle, Photography with, 223
Letters to the Editor, 23, 57, 114*, 156, 175, 225, 254*, 279*, 311, 355, 378, 421*, 458*, 490, 514*, 545, 590, 609, 660, 680, 720, 756, 792, 836, 856. See LETTERS INDEX
Levant Mine, Failure of Man Engine, 352* Lewis, E. H., on Iron Portland Cement, 626, 641
Lewis and Tylor, Ltd., Belt Fastener, 790* Lifting Bridges. See Bridges
Light, Blue, of the Sky, 690
— Deflection by Gravity. See Relativity
— Invisible, Signalling by, 797
— Polarised, Stress Determination by. See
Optical
— Railways in French War Area, 277*, 747
— Rays, Tracing through Optical System,
720
Lighters, German Cold Storage, 765
Lighting, Colliery. See Safety Lamps
— Electric. See Electric
— Gas. See Gas
Limestone, Flow at High Temperatures and Pressures, 151
Limit Gauges. See Gauges
— Standard, for Holes, 32.
Limnorla, Destruction of Timber by, 585 Lincoln, Agricultural Tractor Trials. See TTdCtOTS
— Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 741*,
778* ; Foster’s Works, 847*. See 685
— Type Milling Machines, Bracings, 237* Lineham, W. J., on Hardening Screw Gauges, 575, 593*, 595*
Liners. See Steamers
Links, Locomotive Reversing Gear, Grinding Machine, 240*.
Liquid Air. See Air
— Elevator, Chaine-Helice, 441*
— Fuel. See Oil Fuel; see also Alcohol, Benzole, Motor, Paraffin, Petrol
— Gas Thermoscope, Radiation Experiments, 122
Properties of Rubber Membranes in, 122
— Tensile Strength, 588
— Viscosity. See Viscosity..
Literature,' 22, 125, 186, 206, 267, 299, 331, 456, 486, 521, 537, 569, 621, 690, 727, 762, 799, 833, 869. See LlTERATDRB INDEX
Litigation. See Legal
Liverpool, Electrical Engineering Industry, 124
— Engineering Society, Annual Dinner, 251 ;
A. T. Wall, on the Kitchen Rudder, 289 ; A. Spyer, on Water-Tube Boilers for Merchant Ships, 316. See 294* ; E. A. Atkins, on Steel Wire and Wire Drawing, 731*, 749*
— Fire Brigade, Oil-Fired Steam Wagon,
644*
— Meeting, Institution of Naval Architects,
Programme, 726
Ljungstrom Turbo - Generators, Marshall’s Power Station, 673*
Llewellyn, Dr. T. L., on Mine Lighting, 321
Lloyd, H. G., on the Consistency of Cement Mortar and Concrete, 587
Lloyd’s Statistics, Vessels under Construction, 86, 552
— Statistics, World’s Shipbuilding, 154 Load Factors, Aeroplane. See
Design under Aeronautics
— Crane Wheel, Determination,
LETTERS, 792, 836, 856
Locking Plates, Nut, Adjustable 702*
Locomobile, Compound, with Superheater, Marshall’s, 767*
Locomotive Cranes. See Cranes
— Electric, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 289
Citroen Gears, 712*
— Fireboxes, Autogenous Welding, 289
— French, used for Shell Drawing, 214*
— Reversing Gears, Grinding Machine for Links, 240*
— Road. See Motor, Road, Tractor
— Tube Plates, Drilling and Tapping Machine, 169*
— 0-8-0 Type, Three-Cylinder Superheater,
Goods, North - Eastern Railway, 50*, 208*. See Errahim, 83
— 0-10-0 Type, Superheater, Midland Railway, 311*
— 2-10-0 Type, Pennsylvania Railroad, with Early Cut-off, 87
— 4-6-0 Type, Superheater, lor Norway (Baldwin), 448*
— 4-6-2 Type, lor Peking-Mukden Railway (Baldwin), 448*
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Lockouts. See Labour; Industrial Notes Locks, Panama Canal, Surges due to, 89 ^®Way^^508*^ Sliding
Loetschberg Railway, Electric Locomotives Citroen Gears, 712*
Logs, Horizontal Band Saw for. Tensioning 869 Corporation, Bicentenary,
^829^’ Representatives on Boards,
— and North Western Railway, Crewe Works,
Record of Staff, 23
— Railway Clearing House, Goods Handling,
— Road Traffic, Speed of Vehicles, 54 Traffic Problem and Decentralisation, 121,
517, 655. See LETTER, 720
Underground Railways. See Hndergrerund University College, Extension of Engineering Laboratories, 124, 339*. See 329 384, 413, 721
Longitude, Determination by Precision Watches, 716
Loop Aerials for Wireless Telegraphy, 467 Lorries. See Motor Wagons : Tractors Lowry, Dr. T. M., on Powders, 455 Lubrication, Effect of Chemical Constitution of Lubricants, 333
of Surface Tension and 184. See LETTER, 279
— Journal Friction at High 866*
— Lathe Mandrels, 708*
— Machine Tool Slides, 508*
— Reduction Gears, 476*, 600*. Erratum, 651
— Theory of Michell Bearing, 233*. See Erratum, 291
— Visible and Invisible Layers, 333
— Oils, Examination, 653
Viscosity Measurements at High Pressures, 867
— See also Oils
Lubricants, Solid, Action of, 320
Lymn Gas Producer Plant, Design and Operation, 529*, 562*
Lysaght, Ltd., Rolling Mill Engine for, 729 Lyster, A. G., the Late, 387*

MAC. See Me Macadam. See Roads
Machine Shops. See Works and Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machines and Tests (Materials)
Maclean, N. J., on Casting Brass, 372, 388*
Machine Tools :
Band Saw, Horizontal, for Logs, Improved Tensioning Gear (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd., 257*
Beams, Ship’s Deck, Arthur’s Bending Machine (Smith Brothers, Glasgow, Ltd.), 602*
Bending Machine, Arthur’s, for Deck Beams (Smith Brothers, Glasgow, Ltd.), 602*
— Pipes, Sand-Filling Machine, Armstrong Shipyard, 696
— Rolls, Plate, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith and Co.), 541*
Boring, Surfacing, Milling and Drilling Machines, Tailstock " ' " Richards, Ltd.), 238*
— and Turning Mill for Flywheels, Marshall’s Works, 636*
Bracing, Machine Tool Spindles and Tables. See Homer, J.
Chuck, Drill, Quick-Acting (Tangent Tool Co., Ltd.), 678*
Cone Ends, Gauge Pipes, Trueing Machine, 701*
Die Head, Lavender’s Self-Opening (Voucher, Ltd.), 524*
— Nut, Split, for Repairing Studs, 701*
Drill Chuck, Quick-Acting Tool Co., Ltd.), 678*
— Tuist, Manufacture at Works, 320
Drilling, Boring, Surfacing and Milling Machines, Tailstock Details (G. Richards, Ltd.), 238*
— Machine, Radial, Foot or Power (Drummond Brothers, Ltd.), 375* Six-Spindle, Automatic, Marshall’s Works, 640*
Tables, Design. See Horner, J.
Drop Forging Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 779*
Emery Wheel Grinding Machines. See Grinding Machines
Flanging Machine, Boiler Flue, Marshall’s Works, 641*
Keel-Plate, Hydraulic, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith and Co., Ltd.), 568*
Gear Cutting, Hobbing Pinions for H.M.S. “ Hood,” 399*
Machines, Bracings for, 238* Machine for Instrument Making (T. Cooke and Sons, Ltd.), 785* v
for Motor Cars, 382. See LBTTEES, 680, 836
Naval Reduction Gears, 476*. See 472
Grinding Machine for Links, Locomotive Reversing Gears (L. Sterne and Co., Ltd.), 240*
for Mitre Wheels, 702*
for Valve Rings on Ships, 702* Hammers, Drop Forging, Belt Fastener, 790*
Headstocks, Lathe, Design. See Horner, ,J.
Hobbing Pinions for H.M.S. “Hood,” 399*
Jigs and Fixtures, Manufacture at B.S.A. Works, 320
Machine Tools—(‘ontinued,
Keel-Plate Flanging Machine, Hydraulic, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith and Co., Ltd.), 508*
Lathes, All Geared (Cincinnati Lathe and Tool Co.), 758*
— Bench, Pratt tfe Whitney, Head- stock, 710*
— Capstan, Machining Operations for Piston, 747*
— Self-Opening Die Head for Screw Cutting (Voucher, Ltd.), 524*
— Head (Britannia Co.), 709*
— Headstocks, Design. See Horner^ J.
— Lodge <and Shipley, Protection of Sliding Ways, 508*
— Multiple Tool Holder for (Newland Engineering Syndicate, Ltd.), 291*
— Relieving Attachment (Milton, Ltd.), 345*
— Spindle and Bearing Design. See Horner^ J.
— 7-in. Sliding, Surfacing and Screw
Cutting (Drummond Brothers, Ltd,), 375*
— 18-in. High-Speed Sliding and Sur
facing (Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd.), 513*
Machine Shops, Caramell Laird Shipyard, 815* ; Clayton Shuttleworth’s Works, 746*. 780* ; Poster’s Works 848* ; Marshall’s Works, 636*
Management. See IForl's Manage- ?imnt
— Tools, Recent Developments. See J.
— Work, Standard Limits for Holes, 32 Machining Operations for Pistons, 747* Milling Cutters, Manufacture at B.S.A. Works, 320
— Drilling, Boring and Surfacing Machine, Tailstock Details (G. Richards, Ltd.), 238*
— Machine Bracings, Design of. See Horner^ J.
Double Headed, Marshall’s Works, 640*
— and Profiling Machine, Table (Kendall and Gent, Ltd.)_, 169*
— and Shaping
Instrument Making (T. Cooke and Sons, Ltd.),
Pipe Bending, Armstrong Shipyard, 696
Planing Machine, Boiler Seatings, Marshall’s Works, 633*
Cincinnati, Lubrication of Slides, 508*
Plate-Edge, Armstrong Shipyard (Smith Brothers and Co., Glasgow, Ltd.), 569*
Plate Bending Rolls, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith and Co., Ltd.), 541*
— Edge, Planing Machine, Armstrong Shipyard (Smith Brothers and Co., Glasgow, Ltd.), 569*
— Keel, Hydraulic Flanging Machine for, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith and Co., Ltd.), 568*
— Scarfing Machine, Double, Shipyard (H. Smith A 567*
Press, Electric Baling, for Jute Bags (Hindle, Son and Co.), 92*
— Forging, for Shells, Locomotive used as, 214*
Profiling Machine Table (Kendall <fe Gent, Ltd.), 169*
Punching Machine, Multiple, for Curved Plates, 702*
Relieving Attachment for Lathes (Milton, Ltd.), 345*
Riveting Machine, “ Remca ” Electric (Mada Engineering Co., Ltd.), 625*
— Plant, Hydraulic, Armstrong Shipyard, 569*
Rolls, Plate-Bending, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith A Co., Ltd.), 541* Saw, Band, Horizontal, for Logs, Improved Tensioning Gear (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 257*
— Bench, Two-Spindle, with Tilting Table (T.'JRobinson A Son, Ltd.), 46*
— Cold, Attachment for Slitting Condenser Ferrules, 701*. See 817
Scarfing Machine, Double, Armstrong Shipyard (H. Smith and Co., Ltd.), 567*
Screw Cutting on Capstan Lathes, Self Opening Die Head (Voucher, Ltd.), 524*
— Machine, Brown and Sharpe, Spindle Design, 709*
Shaping Machine, Hand Power (Drummond Brothers, Ltd.), 375*
Tables, Supports for, 238*
— and Milling Machine, Universal, for Instrument Making (T. Cooke and Sons, Ltd.), 785*
Shearing Machines, Hand, for Rods and Sheets (Tangent Tool Co., Ltd.), 524*
Slides, Machine, Design of. See Horner, J. Spindle Bracings. See J.
— Lathe, Design.
Stamping Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 779*
Surfacing, Boring, Milling and Drilling Machine, Tailstock Details (G. Richards, Ltd.), 238*
Tables, Machine, Design. See Horner, J. Tailstock Details, Universal Surfacing, Boring and Milling Machine ((5. Richards, Ltd.), 238*
Toolholder, Multiple, for Lathes and Engineering Syndicate, Ltd.), 291*
Tools, Small, Manufacture at Sparkbrook Works, B.S.A. Co., 319
Turning and Boring Mill for Flywheels, Marshall’s Works, 636*
Machine Tools—continued^
Universal Milling and Shaping Machine for Instrument Making (T. Cooke tfc Sons, Ltd.), 785*
Vice, Machine, for Repetition Work (Tangent Tool Co., Ltd.), 441* Woodworking Department, Armstrong Shipyard, 695* ; Cammell Laird Shipyard, 814* ; Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 743*, 779* ; Foster’s Works, 848* ; Marshall’s Works, 1570* ,
— Machinery, Horizontal Band Saw for Logs, Improved Tensioning Gear (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 257*
Two-Spindle Saw Bench (T. Robinson Son, Ltd.), 46*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Machine Vice. See Vice under Machine Tools
— Work. See Machine Tools
Machinery, Disadvantages of Durability, 468
— Electrical, Rules for Rating, 523
— Indian Imports, 222
— Repairs, Electro-Deposition of Iron, 655 Mada Engineering Co., Ltd., Electric Riveter,
625*
Madras Harbour, Coastal Sand Travel, 291 Repairs to Breakwater, 291 Magnetic Compass, Inaccuracies of, 202
— Properties of Silicon Iron (Stalloy), 720
— Reverse Gear, Wolseley, for Motor Boats,
786*
— Separators, Ore Concentration, 317
— Susceptibility of Metals and Minerals, 316
— Testing Machine, Haigh’s Alternating
Stress, 866
— Tests of Steel, Comparisons with Mechani
cal, 136*
Magnets, Permanent, Temperature Co-offl- cients, 217
Mains, Electric. See Cables under Rleclric
— Gas, Internal Corrosion, 787
Maitland, Air Commodore E. M., on Airships 554. See LETTER, 590
Maize-Shelling Machine, Foster’s, 849* Man to Man, Story of Industrial Democracy (Review), 186
Man-Lifting Engine, Cornish Mine, Failure, 352*
Management, Industrial, Labour’s Share in. See Labour
— of Works. See Marks Management Manchester Association of Engineers, Annual
Dinner, 251; W. H. Buckley, on Blast Furnace Plants, 321 ; T. Gorst, on the Ford Motor Works, 417 ; Visit to Galloways’ Works, 729
— Ship Canal, Report, 251
— Steam Users’ Association, Report, 120, 836
— University, Engineering Department, 590 Mandrels, Lathe, Design. See Horner, J, Manganese Bronze, Casting, 372, 388* Manhole-Cutting Machine, Oxy-Acetylene, 606*
Manlove, Alliott and Co., Ltd., Oil-Fired Cooking Ranges, 422* ; Incinerator and Disinfector for Naval Service, 854*
Manures, Manufacture from Atmosphere, 119 Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Management
— Distributors’ and Retailers' Profits, 161
— See also Trade
Manufacturing Concerns, Effect of Size on Efficiency, 135
— Trades, Effects of Small Profits, 533 Needs for Fresh Capital, 533 Maori Aero Engine, 504*. See 433* Marchent, Prof. E. W., on Electrical Engineering at Liverpool, 124
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, H.M.S. " Hood,” 399. See 418, 424
Machinery Steam Jet Air Ejectors for High Vacua, 28*. See LETTER, 57
Machinery Tests of Condensers, 687
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Engineering Works. See IForArs
— Engineers, Institute of, J. H. Gibson, on
Workshop Inventions, 700*
and Naval Architects, American Societj' of. See Naval Architects
— Engines. See Engines ; Turbines ; Marine
Propulsion
Marine Propulsion, Comparisons of OU and Coal, 417
Diesel Engine, Cammellaird-Fullagar, 144*. See LETTERS 175, 254, 280*, 356, 378, 458, 514, 660, 680. See also 216, 817*
Diesel Engines in German Submarines, 419, 432, 613
Diesel Engines Running and Maintenance (Review), 763
Diesel Engines, Reducing Noise, 797 Diesel Engines, Types under Construction, 617
Diesel Machinery, M.S. * Narragansett,” y 623*, 716*
y Electric System, Air and Water Cool- 1 ing of Windings, 97. See Errata, 116. / See also 121, 176, 225, 254
> Geared ’Turbines, Brown-Curtis, Tank
f Steamer ” San Fernando,” 76* ; H.M.S. “Hood,” 398*. See 418, 424
Geared Turbines, Design of Teeth, 476*, See 472, 599*
Geared Turbines, Effect of Torque Fluctuations, 599*. See Erratum, 651
Geared Turbines, Lubrication of Teeth, 476*, 600*. See 473. See Erratum, 651 Geared Turbines, Tooth Pressures, 473, 477*, 599*
GUI Hydraulic System, Motor Launch, 408
Kitchen Reversing Rudder, 289. See 408
Loss due to Propeller Drag, 27 Magnetic Reverse Gear for Motor Boats, 786*
Naval Machinery, Development of, 349. See 354
Naval Machinery, Use of Non-Ferrous Metals, 354. See 349
Marine Propulsion, Oil l-jiigines, Construction and Maintenance (Review), 763
Keduction Gears, Admiralty Specification, 480
Keduction Gears in British Warships, 472, 474*
Seinl-Dlesol Engine Installations (Review), 539
Tests of Auxiliary Condensers, 687 —_— See also Engines ; Turbines ; 1 Pro
pellers; Ship Res-istance; Motor Boat Exhibition; and
— Turbines. See
Propulsion
— Works, Report on Deterioration, 584 Markets. • See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Marriner, W. W., on High-Speed Craft, 578*.
See JbETTKH, 766
Marshall, Sons and, Co., Ltd., Compound Loco- mobile with Superheater, 767* ; Experimental Engine, Uni verity College, Cardiff, 612* ; Works and Products, 635*, 670* Mass and 'Energy, Nature of, 454 Weight in Dynamics, 567
Massaboden Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 196*
Materials, Strength of. See Stress and Tests (Materials)
Mathematical Investigation, Workshop Accidents, 5
Mathematics, Continuity and Discontinuity, 795
— for Engineers, 795, 834
— Fourier, Bessel and Clifford Functions, 851
— Vector Algebra, Elements of (Review),
702
Matter, Constitution and Properties. See Positive Rays
— Structure of the Atom, 124
May, H., on the Size of Airships, 439, 404*
— Lecture, Institute of Metals, by Prof. C. ' Benedicks, on Thermo-Electricity, 831
Maybury, Sir H. P., on Roads, 553 McAlpine, Sir R., and Sons, Railway Construction at Slough, 300*
McCook-Field Wind/funnel, 501*, 534* McDonald, P. B., on Engineering and Adventure, 198
McLachlan, N. W., on Testing Aeroplane Ribs, 1*
Measuring Machines, for Screw Gauges, 273*, 594*
Meat Transport, German Cold Storage Barges, 705
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of, F. W.Dean, on Boilers for U.S. Emergency Fleet, 294*. See 310; H. Kreismger, on Trials of Water-Tube Boilers for U.S. Emergency Fleet, 295*. See 316
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :
Election of Officers, 152, 272 Modification of By-laws, 152, 271, 338 Presentation of Rhone Aero-Engine, 153 Annual General Meeting, 271, 338 Annual Report, 271 Benevolent Fund, 272 Informal Meetings, 251
The Late Mr. Wilson Worsdell, 575. See 553*
Junior Grade of Graduates, 575
Annual Dinner, 577
Hadfield Prize for Hardness Tests, 680 Recent Advances in Utilisation of Water I?ower, by E. M. Bergstrom, 140*, 152, 191*, 227*, 272, 338. See
LETTERS, 355, 421
Exact Data on the Performance of Mechanical Stokers as applied to Lancashire or other Narrow-Flued Boilers, by D. Brownlie, 404, 426, 495. See LETTERS, 590, 609. See also 71
Hardening of Screw Gauges with the Least Distortion in Pitch, by the Late W. J. Lineham, 575, 593*, 595* Mechanical Flight. See Aeronautics
— Stokers. See Stokers
— Trades, Effect of War, 173
— Traction on Roads. See Roads; Motor
Cars; Tractors
Mechanics, Collision Dynamics, Principles and Problems, 565*, 604*, 669*, 710*. See Errata, 792. See LETTERS, 792, 836, 857
— Definitions of Energy, 490. See 83'6, 857 Medicine, Royal Society of; Discussion on
Current Generation for X-Ray Work, 315
Melbourne, Power Supply from Brown Coal, I 287
— Suburban Railway Electrification, 6*, 40* MeUor, Dr. J. W., on Casting Gas Retorts,
803*. See 787
Membranes, Rubber, Properties in Liquid Gases, 122
Mercantile Marine, American, Government Assistance, 868
Merchant Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Ships. See Ships ; Steamers
Mercurous Nitrate Test, Internal Stresses in Brass, 394*
Mercury Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Mesopotamian Railways, Inspection Ambulance Motor Trolley, 127*
— Shallow-Draught Gunboats, 579* Metacentric Height, Stability of Aeroplanes,
857*
Metals, Annealing Temperatures, Bench for Determining, 855
— Anti-Friction. See Alloys under
lurgy
— Cold Rolled, Properties of, 112
— Conductivity of, Thermo-Electric
Metals, Institute of :
Programme of Spring Meeting, London, 264
Annual Report, 352 Treasurer’s Report, 352
Induction of New President, Engineer Vico-Adinlral Sir G. Goodwin, 352
Reports of Discussions, 352, 370, 390 Concessions to Student Members, 490 Presidential Address, on the Use of Non- Eerrous Metals in Naval Machinery, by Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir G. Goodwin, 354. See 349
Fifth Report to the (Corrosion Committee, by G. 1). Bengough, R. M. Jones and Ruth Pirret, 357, 370
Action on Aluminium of Hard Industrial Water, bv R. Seligman and P. Williams, 362, 371
Art of Casting in High Tensile Brass, by N. J. Maclean, 372, 388*
Removal of Internal Stress in 70:30 Brass by Low Temperature Annealing, by H. Moore and S. Beckinsale, 393*, 399
Model for Representing the Constitution of Ternary Alloys, by Dr. W. Rosen- hain, 400, 527*. Seo 868
Zinc Alloys with Aluminium and Copper by Dr. W. Rosenhain, J. L. Haughton and Miss K. E. Bingham, 400
Tin-Phosphorus Alloys, by A. C. Vivian,
400
Notes on the Elfects of Hydrogen on Copper, by W. C. Ilothersall and E. L. Rhead, 391*, 400
Effect of Progressive Cold Drawing upon some Physical Properties of Commercially Pure Copper, by W. E. Alkins, 400
Influence of Cold Rolling on the Physical Properties of Copper, by F. Johnson,
401
Study of Thermal Electromotive Forces as an Aid to the Investigation of the Constitution of Alloy Systems, by J. L. Haughton, 401, 803*
Idiomorphic Crystals of Electro-Deposited CopfJer, by W. E. Hughes, 401
Polishing and Etching of Zinc for Micro Examination, by H. H. Hayes, 401, 466
May Lecture, on Recent Progress in Thermo-Electricity by Prof. C. Benedicks, 831
Metals, Magnetic Susceptibility, 316
— Mixer, 700-ton Mondevilles-Colombelles
Works, 293*
— Non-Ferrous, Cold Rolling MiUs, Vickers, Ltd., 307
Use in Naval Machinery, 354. See 349
— Price Diagrams, 24*, 58*, 188*, 189*, 308*, 309*, 488*, 489*, 622*, 623*, 752* 753*
— of Rare Earths (Review), 456
— Solid and Liquid, Specific Heat of, 31
— Structure of. See Metallography ; Micro
photographs
— Trade and Industry, Indian, 222
— Welding. S6e Welding
— See also Metallography; Metallurgy; Microphotographs
Metallic Films, Transparent, Production, 402 Metallography of Galvanised Steel, 327*
— Polishing and Etching Zinc, 401, 466
— Use of Microscope in, 86*, 107*
— See also Metals; Metallurgy; Micro
photographs
Metallurgy :
Alloys, Anti-Friction, Use in Navy, 355 — Cold Rolled, Properties of, 112 — Constitution of. Investigation by Thermal Electromotive Forces, 401, 803*
— Copper, Granulating by Air Blast, 390*
— Iron-Nickel, Properties and Applications, 663
— Ternary, Model Representing Constitution, 400, 527*. See 868
— Zinc-Copper-Aluminium, Constitution and Properties, 400
Iron, Crystallisation Curves, 327* Basic Slag, Production and Use in^Agriculture, 455
Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Brass. See Brass
Bronze. See Bronze
Cast Iron. See Cast Iron
Castings for Diesel Engines, Composition and Properties, 177*, 249. See LETTER, 355
Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens
Copper, Effects of Hydrogen, 391*, 400 Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosiem Foundry. See Foundry
Furnaces, Metallurgical. See Furnaces Heat Treatment, Annealing Brass at Low Temperatures, 393*, 399
Annealing Temperatures, Optical Bench for Determining, 855
Annealing and Tempering Steel Wire, 733*
Chromium Steels, Effect on sistance, 676
Diesel Engine Castings, 179.
249 355
of Duralumin, 412* Hardening of Screw Gauges,
593*, 595*
Hardening of Steel Disc, Distortion, 576, 594*
High-Tensile Steel Strip, 412* Nickel-Chrome Steel, and Brittleness, 678
Pot-annealing Furnace, Chantraine 754*
Turbine Steel, Effects of, 452' Steel, Effect on Mechanical and Magnetic Properties, 136*
Metallurgy—contimied.
Iron, Chemical Analysis of (Review), 22
— Manufacture, Valuation of Materials, 607, 641, 642
See also Fiirnaces, Blast
— Ore. See Ore
Metals and Alloys, Cold Rolled, Properties, 112
— Mixer, 700-ton, Mondevilles-Colom- belles Works, 293*
— Teste of. See Tests (Materials)
Metallurgical Department, N.P.L., Work of, 868
Microscope, Use in Metallography, 86*, 107*
Model Representing Constitution of
Alloys, 400, 527*. See 868
Ore Concentration by Froth Flotation, 153
—• — Magnetic Separators, 317 Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Refractories. See Refractory Materials ;
Firebricks
Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
Slag, Basic, Production and Use a Agriculture, 455
— Blast-Furnace Brick Manufacture, 690
— Cements, Manufacture, 626, 641
— Conditions, in Open-Hearth Furnaces, 644, 661*
— Silicon Reduction from. Steel Manufacture, 644, 666*
Spelter Industry, Present Position and Prospects, 123
Steels, Chromium, Effect of Heat Treatment on Resistance, 676
— — Thermal Analysis, 676, 692*
Structure, 677
— Distribution of Phosphorous, 676
— Effect of Initial Temperature, 678, 681*
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
—- High Speed, Use of Molybdenum, 23
— Manufacture, Acid, Silicon Reduction from Slag, 644, 666*
— — Basic, Slag Conditions, 644, 661* Plant at Mondeville-ColombeUes
Works, 180*, 293*
— Nickel-Chrome, Brittleness, 678
— Welding. See Welding Zinc industry. Present Position and Prospects, 123
— Recovery from Low-Grade Ores, 82 See also iron and Steel Institute ; Metals, Institute of; Microphotographs ; Foundry ; and PARAGRAPH IHDEX Metallurgy and Mining, American Institute_of.
See Mining Mining, Institution of. See Mining Metcalfe, .1., the Late, 545
Meteorological Exhibits, Royal Society Soiree,
864
— Office, Control by Air Ministry, 282 Meteorological Society, Royal
Pioneers in the Science of the Weather, by Sir N. Shaw, 143
Status of Meteorological Office and its Relation to the State and to 'the Public, by Capt. C. J. P. Cave, 282
Atmospheric and Terrestrial Radiation, by W. H. Dines, 282
Internal Friction in the Atmosphere, 0. Brunt, 282
Clouds as seen from an Aeroplane, Capt. C. K. M. Douglas, 420
Night Sky Recorder, 614
Local Weather Conditions, at Mullion, Cornwall, by Lieut. N. L. Silvester, 614
Surrey Hailstorm, July 16th, 1918, by J. B. Clark, 614
Agricultural Climatology of Australia, by G. Taylor, 694
Report on Phenological Observations for 1919, by J. is. Clark and H. B. Adames, 694
Ether Differential Radiometer, by W.’H. Dines, 836
Composition, Ionisation and Viscosity of the Atmosphere at Great Heights, by Prof. S. Chapman and E. A. Milne, 836
Meteorological Work in the War, 416 Meteorology, Cloud Recorder for Night Use, 614
— Early Workers in, 143 Meters, Gas, Internal Corrosion, 787 Metrology, Projection Apparatus, ’*•'< Gauges, 273* Metropolitan-Vlckers Electrical Co.,
Electric Drive for Lead Rolling Mill, See Addendum, 283 —- See also London Michell Bearing, Mathematical Theory of, 283*.
See Erratum, 291
— Bearings, H.M.S. “ Hood,” 399* —;? Workshop Viscosity Meter, 509* Midland Railway, 0-10-0 Type Superheater
w Locomotive, 311*
Microphotographs, Cast Iron for Diesel Engines, 179*
— Copper, Effects of Hydrogen, 392*
— Galvanised Steel, 328*, 329*
— High Tensile Brasses, 389*
— Iron and Steel, at High Magnifications, 86*
— Nickel-Chromium Steel, 683*
— Steel Wire, 731*, 732*, 733*, 750*, 751* Microscopes and Accessories, Physical and
Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 56, 88
— Design, Construction and Application, 86*, 106*
— History of, 86
— Objectives, Testing, 106
Microscopic Examination, Preparation of Zinc, 401, 466
Microscopical Society, Royal, Discussion on Microscopes, 86*, 106*
Microstructure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Microtome, Cambridge and Paul Instrument Co., Ltd., 659
Military Motor Oars. See Tanks
— Railways in French War Area, 277,* 747
Miller, C. P., on Effect of Initial Temperature on Steel, 678, 681*
Milling Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tdbls
Mills, Rolling. See 'Rolling Mills
Milton, Ltd., Relieving Attachment for Lathes, 345*
Mine, Cornish, Failure of Man Engine, 352*
— French, Restoration of. Sub-aqueous Camera, 868
— laying Submarines, German, 429*. See 419
— Sweeping Work, Submarine Depth Meter, 333*
— United States Bureau of. See United Stales
— Coal. See Collieries
— See also Coal; Collieries ; Mining ; Ores ;
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineral Oils. See Oils
Minerals, Flow at High Temperatures and
Pressures, 151
— Magnetic Susceptibility, 316
— of Rare Elements, Analysis of (Review), 456
— Resources Bureau, Imperial, 55, 520. See
790.
— Wealth of Queensland, 440
— Zirconium, Analysis, 610
— See also Coal; Mining ; Ores ; PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Miners’ Safety Lamps, Development, 383 Lamps, Oil and Electric, Comparisons, 312
Mining, Coal, and the Coal Miner (Review),
869
— French Legislation, 27
— Institute of Scotland, H. M.
in Scotland, 90
— and Metallurgy, American
Professor P. W. Bridgman
Gun Construction, 712*
Metallurgy, Institution of, W. Broadbridge on Froth Flotation,
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Ministry of Shipping, Work of,
— of Transport, Committee
Electrification, 416
— of Transport and Railway
415. See 654,
“ Miranda ” Class Destroyers, 579*
Mirrors, Pvcversing, Photo-Process Cameras, 56
Mississippi River, Keokuk Power Plant, 192*
I Mitchell, J-., on Whitbv Harbour Improvements 129
Mitre Wheels, Grinding Machine, 702*
Mixer, Metal, 700-ton, Mondeville-Oolombelles Works, 293*
Mixing Machine, Concrete, for Road Construction, 557*
Mockfjaerden Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 195*
Model Experiments. See Aeronautics ; Ship Models \ Ship Resistance
Representing Constitution of Ternary
Alloys, 400 527*. See 868
— for Stress Determination. Seo Optical
Determination of Stress
Moisture Condensation, Rendering Air Flow Visible by, 501*, 534*
Molecular Energy in Gases, 842 Molybdenum, Canadian Production of, 186 —-Use in High Speed Steel, 23
Monaco, French and Italian Seaplanes at, 655*
Mondeville-Colombclles Steel Works’ Plant, 180*, 293*
Monolithic Concrete Building Construction, Forms, 519
Montagnon, E L.,
Wheels, 705*.
856 Montagu, Lord, on
India, 724
Monypenny, J. H.
677
Moodie, R,, the Late, 590 Moon’s Motion, Dynamics of, 605*
Moore, U., on Ignition Temperatures ' of Liquid Fuels, 151 ; on Annealing Brass, 393* 399
Morgan Self-Heating Crucible, 868
Morrow, Dr. J., on Auxiliary Condensers, 687 Mortar, Cement, Standardising Consistency, 587
— Water for Mixing, 587
Motor Boat, -Coastal, “ C. M.B. 4,” 372 Clutch and Reversing Gear for, Langdon
Engineering Works, 375* ; Green Engine
Co., 408* ; Wolseley Magnetic, 786
— — Exhibition, Olympia, 372*, 406.*
310*
Hydraulic Propulsion, Gill System, Langdon’s Ejector Silencer, 375*
— Car, Angus-Sanderson, Transmission
Control Gear, 210*
Motor Car Details :
Bevel Drive, Clayton ’Praetor, 743* Brake Gear, Augus-Sanderson Car, 210* Clutches, Clayton, Tractor, 743* Differential Gear, Angus-Sanderson Car, 210* Alldays and Onions Tractor, 244*
Engine Mounting, Clayton Tractor, 743* Front Axle, Angus-Sanderson Car, 210* Gear Box and Control Mechanism, Angus-
Sanderson Car, 210* ; Clayton Tractor, 743*
Rear Axle, Angus-Sanderson Car, 210*; Alldays and Onions Tractor, 244*
Steering Gear, Alldays and Onions Tractor, 245* ; Clayton Tractor, 743* Motor-Car Engineers. See Automobile Engineers.
Engines Alcohol-Ether (Natalite) Fuel for, 150. See Erratum^ 177
Engine Exhaust, Effect on Garage Atmosphere, 32
Engines. See also Engines, Petrol
Gear Cutting for, 382. Seo LETTERS, 680, 836
Industry, German, 217
Military. See Tanks
Mixed Fuels for. Recent Patents, 251 Rating for Taxation, 483, 869. Seo 466
Construction, 806*
— Ship “ Afrika,” Bast Asiatic Co., 546* “ Asia,” East Asiatic Co., 12* “ Eullagar,” Launch, 216. See
Fullagar Marine Diexel Engine
“ Narragansett,” Oil Tanker, 623*, 716* Trend of Diesel Machinery, 617 See also Marine Propulsion
— Spirit, Benzole, Corrosion of Metals by, 213 —? — Production from Coal, 518, 554
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Trolley Car, Inspection Ambulance, Meso
potamian Railways, 127*
— Vehicles, Coal Gas Duel for, Competition,
186
Defects and Remedies, 782
Producer Gas for, 59*, 85, 92. See Errata, 57, 117
Worn, Supply of Parts, 782
— Wagon, Electric Tipping (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.) 446*
Steam, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 780*
Steam, Manufacture. See Clayton, and Shuttleworth's IVorks ; Foster's Worands Steam Kermode Oil Fuel, 644* See also Tractor
Mould Loft, Armstrong Shipyard, 540*
— Monolithic Concrete Building Construction,
519
— Portable, for Concrete Building, 225
Moulded Plating, Use in Shipbuilding, 149
Moulding Machines, Concrete Blocks, 518, Concrete Tiles, Vickers, Ltd., 557*
Moulton, Lord, on the Chemical Engineer, 384
Mountains, Model Illustrating Origin, 659
Mounting Panoramic Photographs, 659
Mullion, Cornwall, Local Weather, 614
Multiple Accidents, Workshop, Mathematical
Investigation, 5
— Tool Holder for Lathes, Newland, 291* Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers
Municipal Control of Industry, 703, 723, 734 Munitions Tribunals, Jurisdiction on Wages, 520
Myers, Dr. C. S., on Psychological versus Scientific Management, 773

“ NARRAGANSETT,” Motor Oil Tank Ship, 623*, 716*
Narrow Gauge Railways in French War Area, 277*, 747
Natalite Fuel for Motor Cars, 150. See Erratiim, 177
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, U.S., Reports, 177, 793, 216
— Physical Laboratory, Exhibits at Royal
Society Soiree, 659, 864 ; Gear-Testing
Machine, 334* ; Informal Visits, 762 ; Projection Apparatus for Screw Gauges, 273* ; Tank Experiments on Submarine Warfare, 419, 770* ; Testing Scientific Glassware, 188 ; Work of, 866*
— Shipbuilding Yards, 52
Natural Gas, Recovery of Petrol, 760 Production of Helium, 124
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
Naval Architects, Instilution of :
Report on Training Shipyard Apprentices, 290. See 311, 418
Programme of Spring Meeting, London, 351
Report of Council, 417
Election of Officers, 418
Civil Engineers Registration Bill, 418
Presidential Address, by Earl of Durham, on Labour Problems and Reconstruction, 418
Annual Dinner, 419
Reports of Discussions, 418, 437, 472
H.M.S. " Hood,” by Sir E. d'Evneourt,
418, 423*. See 397*, 854*
German Submarines, by A. W. Johns,
419, 428*
Model Experiments in Connection with Submarine Warfare, by G. S. Baker, 419, 770*
Notes on our Economic Position as a Shipbuilding Country, by Sir A. Yarrow, 437, 459*. Seo LETTERS, 458, 490
Further Notes on the Dimensions of Cargo Steamers, by J. Anderson, 438, 460*
Freeboard and Strength of Ships, by J. Bruhn, 438, 807*
Stabilisation of Ships by means of Gyroscopes, by P. R. Jackson, 439, 462*
Yawing of Ships caused by Oscillations amongst Waves, by Dr. K. Suyehiro, 439, 874
Naval Architects—continued.
Effect of Size upon Performance of Rigid Airships, by 0. I. R. Campbell and H. May, 439, 464*
Effects of Holes, Cracks, Discontinuities in Ships’ Prof. E. G. Coker and A. 440, 840*
Experience and Practice in
and Marine Engineers, L. E. Kothny, on High Vacuum Apparatus, 28*. See 57
See also Japanese
— Architecture in Aeronautics, 857* Design of High-Speed War
578*. See LETTER, 756 See also Warships
— Constructors, Royal Corps, Work,
— Dockyards, Merchant Shipbuilding, 21, 350,
382
— Engineers, Training of, 421
— Machinery, Development of Reduction
Gears, 472, 474*
Use of Non-Ferrous Metals, 354. bee 349 . .
— Operations, European War (Review), 521
— Programme, United States, 321
— Propelling Machinery, Development of, 349.
See 354
— Warfare. See Warships
— See also Warships Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Brown Gyrostatic Compass, 202*
— Inaccuracies of Magnetic Compass, 202
— Inland, Committee on Canals and Water
ways, 762
German Development, 791 Use of English Canals, 252
— Longitude Determination by Watches, <16
— Wireless Telgraphy in. See Telegraphy,
Wireless
Navy, British.
— Estimates, 381.
— United States.
Warships
— See also Naval; Warships ; and PARA
GRAPH INDEX .
Navvv, Steam. See Excavating^Machine Nebulium, Atomic Weight, 453
Neon, Isotopes and Atomic Weight, 336*, 454) Nets, Submarine Defence, Tank Experiments, 419 770*
NewcasUe-on-Tyne,Armstrong Shipyard. See Shipyard
Electric Power’’Stations, Development, 619 Newland Engineering Syndicate, Ltd., Multiple Tool Holder, 291* .
Newport Power Station, Melbourne Electric Railways, 6*
New Year Honours, 23 York Central Railroad, Anchor Pm Renewal, Cornwall Bridge, 790*
— York Water Supply, Grouting Operations,
Catskill Aqueduct, 525*, 558*, 027*«
— Zealand, Titaniferous Iron Ores, 875*. See
676
“ Niagara,” ss.. Propeller Balance and vibration, 494*. See 474 , , _ ,
Nicholson, Major J. S., on Metal Construction for Aircraft, 357*, 375,* 408*See LETTERS, 421*, 458, 490, 514*, 545
Nieuport Seaplanes, at Monaco, 666* Nickel and Chrome-Nickel Steel, Magnetic and Mechanical Tests, 136*
— Chrome Steel, Brittleness, 678 Steel RoUs, Cold Rolling Mills, 307
— Chromium Steel, Effect of Initial Tem
perature, 678, 681*
Nitrates, Powdered, Caking of, 456
Nitrogen Absorption in Vacuum Tubes, 420
— Products Committee, Report, 119, 183,
484. See LETTER, 156
Manufacture in Britain, 119 i Noise, Diesel Engine, Reduction of, 797
Non-Conducting Covering, See Jleat Insula-
liou, , ,, . „
— Ferrous Metals. See JMctals *, l^lPtall'iiTgy Noon Reflector, Professor Boys’, 658 Norburv, A. L., on Chromium Steel, 676 Normand’s Weight Equation, Airship Design,
859
Normaude, Socidt6 de Metailurg>e, Caen works, 180*, 293* .
Northall-Lawrie, D„ on Electric Osmosis, 689
Norway, Rjukanfos Power Plant, Pipe Line Anchorage, 232*
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Some Suggested Developments in Laying- off for Speeding up Ship Construction, by J. C. G. Cooper, 149
Diesel Engine Castings, by F, J. Cook, i 177*. See 249. See LETTER, 355
Flying Boats : The Form and Dimensions of Their Hulls, by G. S. Baker, 323*
Tests of Steel for Turbine Construction, by Dr. W. H. Hatfleld and H. M. Duncan, 452
Power Station Progress, by J. S. Watson, 619 , ,
Tests of Marine Auxillar5f Condensers, by C. W. Cairns and Dr. J. Morrow,
Bibliographical Papers by Graduates, 798 North Eastern Railway, Carlisle Branch, Profile, 209* ,, „
— — Railway, Goods Locomotive, 50*, 2U». See Erratum, 83
North, Notes from, 14, 49, 83, 117, 147, 181, 217, 247, 312, 347, 379, 413, 449, 481, 515, 549, 581, 615, 651, 685, 721, 757, 793, 827, 861. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Norwich, Road Construction, Labour-Saving Appliances, 726
Norwegian Trunk Railway, Baldwin Locomotive, 448*
Notes on New Books. See Books and LITERATURE INDEX
— See Cleveland ; North ; South West; South Yorkshire; and Industrial. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Notched Bar Tests. See Tests (Materials)
Nut, Die, Split, for Repairing Damaged Studs, 701* Locking Plates, Adjustable Template, 702*

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Objectives, Alicroscope, Testing, 106
Observation in Scientific Enquiry, 735
Obturator Rings, Diesel Engine Pistons, 520
Oil and Coal Dust, Use as Liquid Fuel, 577
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Motor Boats ; Tractors
Fired Cooking Ranges for Naval Use, 422*
— Fuel Burner for Glass Works, 610
Burner, Welcome, for Cooking Ranges, 378
and Coal, Marine Propulsion, Comparisons, 417
Heavy, for Diesel and Semi-Diesel Engines, 19
Ignition Temperatures, 151
Installation, White System, S.S. “ Aquitania,* 832 ; S.S. “ Olympic,” 865
Kermode System, on Steam Wagon, 644*
Use in Navy, 57.9, 756
— Hydrogenation of (Review), 268
— Lubricating, Effect of Surface Tension and Fatty Acids, 184. See LETTER, 279
Examination, 653
— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars ; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Petroleum Consumption during War, 351 Pressure Governors, Hydraulic Turbines, 227*
Prospects in Scotland, 90
— Strainer for Diesel Engines, 701*
— Switches. See Switchgear
Oil Tank Ship “ Narragansett,” Diesel Engines, 623*, 716*
Steamers, Movement of Cargo, Tank Experiments, 867
Steamer San Fernando,” 76*
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Viscosity Measurements at High Pressures, 867
of, Measurement by Falling Sphere, 860 Meter, Michell’s Ball and Cup Type, 509*
— Wells, Airlift Pumping, 725
Gas traps for, 220
— See also Lubrication ; Petroleum
Oishi, G., on Chromium Steels, 676, 692* Olympia. See Exhibition
'* Olympic,” S.S., Oil Fuel Installation, 865 Open Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Opening Bridges. See Bridges
Optical Apparatus, Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 55, 87
— Bench, Annealing Tests of Metals, 855
— Determination of Stresses, Aeroplane Wing Framework, 25* ; Holes in Tension Members, 259*, 298*. See LETTER, 458* ; Holes and Cracks, Ship’s Plating, 440, 840*
— Glass. See Glass
—? Indicator, Burstall’s . Internal-Combustion Engines, 658
— Projection Apparatus, Screw Gauges,
— Properties of Air, 690
— Stress Recorder, Fereday-Palmer, Bridges, 138*
— System, Tracing Rays through, 720
— Society, Exhibition of Apparatus, 55,
Osmosis, Electric, ^Commercial Applications, 6S9 ‘MJ 1*-*^ *<(
Ouse, River, Grab Dredging Plant, 572* Ovens, Coke. See Goke Ovens
— Tunnel, Development, 763 Overhead Cranes. See Cranes
— Equipment, Melbourne Electric* Railways,
10*
Overseas Touring Trade Exhibition, 252
— Trade Commissioners, 054
Oxy-Acetylene Cutting Machine for Manholes, 606*
— Welding. See Welding
Oxygen, Manufacture and Supply of, 156 Use of Catalysers, 268
— Use in Gas Manufacture, 819
p.
PACKING, Hydraulic, for very High Pressures, 712*
Panama Canal, Annual Report, 52
Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 195*. See 339
Surges due to Lock Operation, 89 Panoramic Photographs, Method of Mounting, 659
Pantograph Collector Gear, Melbourne Electric Railways, 41*
Paraffin Carburettor, Wolseley, 786*
— Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Tractors. See Tractors
Parkgate Iron Works, Blast Eumace Practice, 646*. See 641, 642
Parkinson Milling Machine Bracing, 237*
Parsons Motor Co., Ltd., OU Engines at Motor Boat Exhibition, 373* ; Paralfin Marine Motors, 820*
Parsons, Sir C. A., on High Temperature and Pressure Research, 150 ; Apparatus for Demonstrating Water Hammer, 658
— Turbines. See TurbineSt Steam ; Marine
Propulsion
Passenger Aeroplane. See Aeroplane under Aeronautics
— Steamers. See Steamers
PatcheU,^W. H., on a By-Product Producer Plant, 529*, 562*
Patents Act, New Features of, 53
— Applications and the War, 54
— Income Tax on, 490
— Infringement Case, Half-Watt Lamps, 519
— Litigation in 1919, 546
— In New European States, 765
— Prolongation of, 287. see 546
— Recent, Mixed Fuels for Motor Cars, 251
— Record, 33*, 67*, 132*, 199*, 265*, 330*,
396*, 499*, 532*, 598*, 634*, 739*, 775*, 809*, 845, 878*. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
— Simons* Dredger, Prolongation, 554
Patrol Boats. See Warships
Pattern Shop, Cammell Laird Shipyard, 814* Patterson, C. M., on Tea-Drying Machines, 89 Payment of Labour. See Labour
Pearson's Balanced Hydraulic Valve, 281* Peat, Difficulties of Utilisation, 484 Peking-Mukden Railway, Baldwin, Locomotive, 448*
Pelton Wheels, Development, Design and Trials, 229*
Reconstruction, 851*
Pendulum, Clock, Circular Correction, 670*. 710
— Ballistic, Dynamics of, 710*
— Dynamics of, 669*, 670*, 710*. See
Errata, 792
Pennsylvania Railroad, Locomotive Design, 87 Perman and Co., Ltd., Oil Engines and Oil- Driven Winch, 373*
Permanent Magnets. See Magnets Permeability, Gas, of Airship Fabrics, 868 Pests, Insect, and International Communications, 552
Petrol, Recovery from Natural Gas, 760
— Carburettors. See Carburettors
— Electric Fire Engine, Tilling-Stevens, 173*
— Motors. See Aeronautics ; Engines, Petrol;
Motor Cars ; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum Consumption during War, 351
— Industry, United States, Production of
Helium, 124
— Technologists, Institution of, A. J. Wilson
on the Application of Liquid Fuel to - Heavy Oil Engines, 19 ; H. Moore on Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of Liquid Fuels, 151; Dr. W. R. Ormandy on Mixed Fuels for Motor Cars, 251 ; G. F. Robertshaw on Examination of Lubricating Oils, 668 ; Discussion on Air Lift Pumping, 725
— Wells, Airlift Pumping, 725
Gas Traps for, 220
— See also Oil ; Paraffin ; Engines, Oil Phantom Condenser, Wireless Telegraphy, 88 Phenological Observations for 1919, 694 Philosophical Society, Greenock. See Greenock Phosphorus Distribution in Steel, 676 Photo-Elasticity. See Optical Betermination oj
Stress
Photographic Action of Coal, 485 Positive Rays, 318*
— Stress Recorder, Fereday-Palmer, for
Bridges, 138*
Photographs, Panoramic, Method of Mountinc. 659
Photography with Spectacle Lenses, 223
— Subaqueous, in Flooded French Mines, Lens
District, 868
Photomicrographic Society, Discussion on Microscopes, 86*, 106*
Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Photo-Process Work, Apparatus for, 56 Physical Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Laboratory. See National Physical
Physical Society ;
Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 55, 87* See Addendum, 117
Absorption of Gases in the Electric Discharge Tube, by F. H. Newman, 420 '
Physics, Arrangement of Atoms In Crystals, 701
— High Pressure and Temperature Research,
150. See 223
— Matter, Constitution and Properties. See
l^ositive Hays
— Mass and Energy, Nature of, 454
— Properties of Liquids, 588
— Radiation, Mechanism of, 454* ' — Structure of the Atom, 124
— Work of Lord Rayleigh, 455
— See also Physical Society and PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Piecework. See Labour
Pig Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Pile, W. I)., on Motor Spirit from Coal, 518 Piles, Destruction by Sea Water and Marine Organisms, 584
— Hollow, Eerro-Concrete, Armstrong Ship
yard Quay, 436*
Pinions. See Gears ; Gearing
Pins, Anchor, Cornwall Bridge, Renewal, 790* Pipe Bending, Sand Filling Machine, 090
— Connections, Welded Steel, 730*
— Lines, Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 231* Hvdro-Electric Power Plants, Surge
Tanks, 228*
Pipes, Economiser, Explosions of, 120
— Fluid Flow In, 474, 726, 737*, 867
— Gas, Internal Corrosion, 787
— Pressure Gauge, Machine for Tnielng Ends,
701*
— Water, Ferro-Concrete, Manufacture, 485,
' 490
Incrustation and Iron Bacteria (Review) 569
— See also Tubes
Pippard, A. J. S., on the Aeroplane of Consistent Strength, 133. See LEITERS, 175, 280 I
Pirret, Ruth, Report on Corrosion, 357, 370 .
Pistons, Aluminium and Cast Iron, Aero | Engines, 242*
— Diesel Engine, Design and Composition of I Castings, 177*. See 249. See LEITER, 355
Engine, Obturator Rings for, 520
— Drop Forged, Machining Operations, 747* Pitting. See Corrosion
Pitman, P., on Pelton Wheel Reconstruction, 851*
Pits, Soaking, for Steel Ingots, 294*
Planck’s Quantum Theory of Energy (Review), 125
Planing Machine. See Machine Tools Plant, Disadvantages of Durability, 468 — Growth, Crescograph Recorder, 727 Plate Edge Planing Machine. See Planing Machine under Machine Tools
— Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools I — Bending Rolls. See Machine Tools
— Boiler, Drilling Machine, Table Fittings, 169*
— Flanging Machine. See Machine Tools
— Scarfing Machines. See Machine Tools
— Stress Distribution near Holes, 259*, 298*, 440, 840*. See LETTER, 458*
— Steel, Prices. See MetaPPrice Diagrams Platelayers, Electric Tamping Machine for, 213
Platers’ Shed, Armstrong Shipyard, 540*, 567* ; Cammell Laird Shipyard, 815*
Plating, Electro-. See Electro
— Ship’s, Stresses round Holes and Cracks, 440, 840*. See also 259*, 298*, 458*
Platinum Resistance Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
Plough, Motor. See Tractor
Plumbers’ Shop, Armstrong Shipyard, 696* Pneumatic Power Station, Armstrong Shipyard, 697*
— Tyres, Standardisation of, 114
— See also Compressed Air ; Air Compressor Pointolite ” Tungsten Arc Lamps, 56
Polarised Light. See Light and Optical Determination of Stress
Polishing Machine for Condenser Tubes, 701* — Zinc for Micro-Examination, 401, 466 Pontoons, Ferro - Concrete, Grab Dredger, 572*
Porjus Hydro-Electric Powder Station, 195 Port Authorities and Labour Representatives, 829
Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portbury Shipbuilding Yard, 52
Porter, J., on Wear of Diesel Engines, 416 Portland Cement. See Cement
Positive Rays, Properties and Applications, 286, 318*, 335*, 384*, 402*, 453*
Pot-Annealing Furnace, Chautraine Rotary Flame, 754*
Potentiometer. See Electric Powder for Guns. See Explosives Pow^dered Chemicals, Caking of, 455 — Coal.' See Pulverised Coal
Power, Electric, Distribution, Armstrong Shipyard, 696 ; Marshall’s Works, 675 ; Cammell Laird Shipyard, 817
Electricity Supply Bill, 18, 554 Steel Works, Comparisons of D.C. and Three-Phase, 643, 664*
Supply by Gas Companies, 819 — Gas. See Producers : Engines, Gas
Chester, 194*
Chevres, Switzerland,
in Spain, Development.
Hydro - Electric, Surge Tanks for, 228*
Hydro-Electric, Swedish ; Forshultou, Mockfjaerden,;*^ and Trollhattan, 19§* ; Porjus, 195
gee also Power Stations ; Power, }Vater
— for Ship Propulsion. See Marine Pro^nd-
eion ; Skip Resistance
— Press. See Machine Tools
— Production from Blast Furnace Gas, 321,
443*
from” Coal, By-Product Becovery’, 183 Coal Bequircd for, 543. See 691
Comparisons of Gas and Electricity, 544* 591, 763, 863 *
from Peat, 484
— Station, Electric, Cammell Laird Shipyard,
817* ; Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 780* ; Foster’s Works, 847 ; Marshall’s Works, 673*
Electric, Dalmarnock, Automatic Coal Scales, 754*
Electric, Failures of Turbo-Generators, 43*, 95*. See Prrata, 116. See also 121, 176, 225, 254, 452
Electric, Melbourne Suburban Bailways, 6*
Electric, Newcastle, Development, 619 Electric, Thermal Efficiency, 592 Exhaust Steam for Heating, 592
Hydraulic and Pneumatic, Armstrong Shipyard, 697*
Hydro-Electric (Beview), 690
Begina, Canada, Accident to Turbo- ilfprnflfnT
Strainers for Circulating Water, 9*, 679* See also Power Plant
— Supply, Electric, Electricity (Supply)' Act,
18, 554
Melbourne, from Brown Coal, 287
— Transmission Line, Melbourne Electric
Bailway System, 10*
See also Gearing ; Marine Propulsion
— Water, Developments in Italy, 338 Available in various Countries, 232 Spain, Development, 796
Dtilisation of, Becent Advances, 140*, 152, 191*, 227*, 272, 338. See LETTERS, 355, 421
See also Jlydraulic; Power Plants, Hydro-Electric ; Pelton Wheels ; Turbines, Hydraulic
Pratt Whitney Bench Lathe, Headstock, 710*
Presidential Address, Institution of Gas Engineers, by Sir D. Clerk, on the Gas Industry, 763
Institute of Metals, by Sir G. Goodwin, on Non-Ferrous Metal in the Navy, 354. See 349
Institution of Naval Architects, by Earl of Durham, on Labour'^ Problems and Beconstruction, 418
Iron and Steel Institute, by Dr. J. E. Stead, on Progress in the Iron and Steel Industry, 620
Boyal Meteorological Society, by Sir N. Shaw, on Pioneers in Weather Science, 143
Press, Brickmaking and Briquetting, 556*
— Electric Baling, for Jute Bags, 92*
— See also Machine Tools
Pressures, Detonation, Gaseous Explosions, 867
— Gauge Pipes, Machine for Trueing Ends, 701*
— High, Besearches at, 150. See 223
— Horizontal, of Sand, 253
— Beached in Stellar Collisions, 151
Preston, G. F., on Steel Castings, 768*. See 676
Preston, S., on English Canals, 252
Price, T. W., on Inflammability of Air and Vapour Mixtures, 290
Prices of Commodities, Fluctuations in, 459* Metals. See Metal-Price Hiagranv^ Priest, F. E., The Late, 548
Priestman Brothers, Grab Dredging Plant, Fen District, 572*
Primrose, J. S. G., on a Swiss Dynamometer Car, 871*
Printing for Business (Beview), 207
Pritchard, J. E. M., on the Size of Airships, 184
Process Work, Photographic, Apparatus for, 56
Procter, J., The Late, 356
Producers, Gas, Low-Temperature Working and Tar Becovery, 619
Producers, Gas, lor Motor Vehicles, 59*, 85> 92. See Errata, 57, 117
Engine. See Engines, Gas
— Plant, Lymn, Ammonia Recovery, Design
and Operation, 529*, 562*
Profile, N.E. Railway, Carlisle Branch, 209* Profiling Machine. See Machine Tools Profit Sharing. See Labour
Projectile Drawing, French Locomotive used for, 214*
— Manufacture of Driving Bands, 355
— Velocity of. Chronograph for Measuring,
798. See 514
Projection Apparatus, Screw Gauges, 273* Promotion, Factors Afiectmg, 102 Propellants for Guns. See Explosives Propeller Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Blades, Materials for, 354
— Erosion, Water Hammer Action, 658
— Marine, Balance of, and Vibration of Ships,
494*. See 474
Balancing Machine, 473, 491 Loss Due to Drag, 27
— Testing Gear, N.P.L. Tank, 868 Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion ;
Engines; Turbines; Propellers; Ship Resistance
Psychological Methods in Works Management, 773
PubUc Works Department, India, Treatment of Civil Engineers, 255
Statistics, Proposed Commission, 21 Pulverised Coal and Oil, Use as Liquid Fuel, 577
Pumps, Air and Circulating, Marshall’s Power Station, 675*
for Vacuum Evaporators, Capacities of, 74*
See also Air Compressors
— Boiler Feed, Marshall’s Power Station, 674*
— Centrifugal, Electrically-Driven, Motor
Fire Engine, 173*
— Chaine-Helice Liquid Elevator, 441*
— Circulating, Newport Power Station, Mel
bourne, 9*
— Hydraulic, Electrically-Driven, Armstrong
Shipyard, 697*
— Red Lead, for Shipyard Work, 702* Pumping, Airlift, for OU WeUs, 725 Purification, Clay, by Electric Osmosis, 689 Rjurometry, Refractory Tubes for Thermocouples, 868
— Reversing Key for, 864

QUADRUPLE-EXPANSION Engines. See Engines
Quantum Theory of Energy (Review), 125
Quavs, Ferro-Concrete, Armstrong Shipyard, 434*
Queensland, Mineral W’ealth of, 440
Quenching of Steel. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns
Quicksilver. See Mereniry and Metal-Price Diagrams

'* R.33 ” and “ R.34 ” Airships, Machinery of, 433*, 504*
Radial Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Radiation, Atmospheric and Terrestrial, 282
— Experiments, Liquid Gas Thermoscope, 122
— Heat, Transmission at Low Temperatures, 123
— Invisible, SignaUing by, 797
— Mechanism of, 454*
— Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
Radiometer, Crooke’s, Modified Theory, 719
— Ether Differential, 836
Radiophonic Signalling, 797 Radiotelegraphy. See Telegraphy, Wireless Radojet Air Ejector for Marine Condensers, 29*. See LETTER, .57
Rails, Steel, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams RaUroad, Chicago, MUwaukee and St. Paul, Electric Locomotive, 289
— New York Central, Anchor Pin Renewal,
Cornwall Bridge, 790*
— Pennsylvania, Locomotive Design, 87
— See also Railways
RaUways, Australian, Report, 250
— Bridge. See Bridge
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Construction, Rapid, Slough Motor Depot,
306*
— Economics, Need for Publicity, 415
— Electric, Artificial Track Chcuit for Sig
nalling, 88
— Electrification, Melbourne Suburban Lines,
6*, 40*
—? — and Ministry of Transport, 123, 416
— Engineers, Crewe, Annual Dinner, 123
— Great Western, Rapid Construction Work,
Slough, 306*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— L. and N.W., Crewe Works, Record of Staff,
23
— London Underground, and Decentralisa
tion, 121, 517, 655. See LETTER, 720
— Loetschberg, Electric Locomotives, Citroen
Gears, 712*
— Materials, Indian Imports, 222
— Mesopotamian,Inspection Ambulance Motor
Trolley, 127*
— Midland, 0-10-0 Type Superheater Loco
motive, 311*
— Narrow Gauge, in French War Area, 277*,
7 47
— North-Eastern, Goods Locomotive for, 50*,
208*. See Erratum, 83
Eastern, Profile of Carlisle Branch, 209*
— Norwegian Trunk, Baldwin Locomotive,
448*
— Peking-Mukden, Baldwin Locomotive for,
448*
— Rates, Increase in, 17, 654 !
— Rolling Stock Manufacture, Clayton and J
Shuttleworth’s Works, 778* i
Railways Rolling Stock. See also Carriages; Locomotives; Wagons
— Roumanian State, Bridge Restoration,
837*
— South of France, Locomotive used for Shell
Drawing, 214*
— Street. See Tramways
— Swiss, Dynamometer Car, 871*
— Track, Electric Tamping Machine, 213
— Train Brake. See Brake
— Transport, Gattie System of Goods Handling, 20
— Underground. Seo Underground
— United Kingdom, Statistics, 584
— Wheels and Axles, European and American Practice, 99
— Wagons. See Wagons
— Working, Detail Improvement and General Efficiency, 688
Policy of Ministry of Transport, 123, 415. See 654
— See also Railroad and PARAGRAPH? INDEX Railwaymen’s Wages and the Cost of Living, 51
Rainfall Records, Estimating River Flow from, 4
Ramsay, A., on Industrial Reconstruction, 160
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Electric Tipping Wagon, 446*
Rare Earths, Metals of (Review), 456
— Elements, Analysis of Minerals and Ores
(Review), 456
Rating Electrical Machinery, International Rules, 523
— of Motor Cars for Taxation, 483. See 466,
869
Rayleigh, Lord, on the Blue Light of the Sky and Optical Properties of Air, 690
Work of, 455
Rays, Electric. See Positive; Rdntgen Reactions, Chemical. See Chemistry Recalescence Curves. See Metallurgy Reconstruction, German Trade, and Raw
Materials, 223
— Industrial, Co-operation of Capital
Labour, 160
—- — Stimulus of the War, 173
— Labour Problems, 418
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Recorder, CO2, Cambridge Electrical, 88*
— Cloud, for Night Use, 614
— Crescograph, for Plant Growth, 727
— Gyroscopic, RoUmg of Ships, 462*.
439
Recording Air Speed Indicator, Smith’s,
— of Coal Conservation Committee, Criticism,
543*, 591
— of Committee on Agricultural Machinery, 583
— Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 257, 370
— Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water,
584
— Gas Investigation Committee, 787
— Gattie System of Goods Handling, 20
— German Chemical Industries, 223
— Indian Trade Commissioner, 221
— Industrial Fatigue Research Board, 5
— Lincoln Agricultural Tractor Trials, 90.
I See 157*, 494
i — Manchester Ship Canal, 251
Steam Users’ Association, 120, 836
I — Merchant Shipbuilding in Government Dockyards, 350. 382. See 21
— Nitrogen Products Committee, 119, 183
484. See LETTER, 156
i — Tests of Marine Auxiliary Condensers, 687
I — Training Shipyard Apprentices, 290.
; 311, 418
' — United States Advisory Committee Aeronautics, 177, 216, 793
— Working of Panama Canal, 52 Research, Aeronautical, New Committee,
621
Work of Advisory Committee, 289, 726. See 621
— in Agricultural Machinery, 584
— Associations, Staffing of, 759
— Department, Scientific and Industrial,
Action of Solid Lubricants, 320
— High Pressure and Temperature, 150. See
223
— Industrial Fatigue, Report, 5
— Laboratories and Rewards for Inventions,
39 '"4
— Scientific, in Industry, 735
in the Navy, 381
— Seo also National Physical Laboratory Resistance, Air. See Air and Aeronautics
— Electric. See Electric
— Pyrometer. See Pyrometer
— of Ships. See Ship Resistance
Resistance Welding. See Welding
Resonance Effects, Gas Driven Alternators, 665 _ ,
Restoration of Pre-War Practices, Employment of Women, 350, 417
Retaining WaU,' Eerro-Concrete, Armstrong Shipyard, 472*
; OverturningMoment, 254
Retorts, Gas, Manufacture by Casting, 803 . See 787 ,
Reversing Key for Pyrometry, 864
— Gears, Locomotive, Grinding^ Machine tor Links, 240* T Q--* ?
lor Motor Boats; Langdon, 3/o* , Green, 408* ; Wolseley Magnetic, 786*
— Mirrors, Photo-Process Cameras, 56 —‘Rudder, Kitchen, on Eishmg Vessels, 289. See 408
Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX
Rhead, E. L., on the Effects of^Hydrogen on Copper, 391*, 400
Rhine, Cold Storage Barges on, 765
Rhodes, C. E., the Late, 802
Rhone'? Aero-Engine, Presentation to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 153
Ribs, Aeroplane Wing, Method, of Testing,
Richards, G., Ltd., Surfacing, Bonng and Milling Machine Details, 238*
Ridsdale, C. H., on Valuation of Ores, andc., 607, 641,642 .
Rigid Airships. See Avtslwps under A^ro-
Rigidity, Changes with Temperature, 659
Rings, Obturator, Diesel Engme . Pistons, 520
Rio de Janeiro, Costeira Shipyard, 217
Rippon J. E., on Effect of Initial Temperature on Steel, 678, 681*
Risk and Reward in Industry, 102
River Danube, Cernavoda Bridge, Restoration, 837*
Plow, Estimating from Rainfall Records, 4
— German, Canalisation of, 791
— Ouse, Grab Dredging Plant, 5/2*
St. Lawrence, Cornwall Bridge, Anchor Pin Renewal, 790* z., c-n*
Tigris, ShaUow-Draught Gunboats, 5/9* Rivet Heaters, Portable Electric, 441*, 730*
— Holes, BaU Depth Gauge for Counter
Riveting Machine, “ Remca ” Electric, 625* Plant, Hydraulic, Armstrong Shipyard, 569*
Rjukanfos Power Plant, Pipe Line"Anchorage, 232*
Roads, Capital Cost and Maintenance, 553
Construction, Concrete Mixing and Laying Machine, 557*
Prench War Area, 618
Labour Saving Appliances at Norwich,
— Locomotive, Steam, for Showman, 849* See also Afofor; Tractor
— TrafBc, London, Speed of Vehicles, 554
— and Transport in India, 724
Robertshaw, G. F., on Lubricating Oils, 653
Robertson, Major A., on Tubular Struts, 2o
Robinson, T., and Son, Ltd., Two-Spmdle Saw Bench, 46* ; Horizontal Band Saw, 25 <*
Rocks, Plow at High Temperatures and Pressures, 151
— Magnetic Susceptibility, 316
Rods, Hand Shearing Machines for, 524
Rogers, Dr. F., on Brittleness'(.in Steels, 6/8
Roller Bearings. See Bearings
Rolling, Cold, Effect on Copper, 401
— Loads, Stress Diagram for, 35*
Mills, Cold, Non-Ferrous Metals, Vickers, I/td 307
Electric, Comparisons of D.C. and Three- Phase, 643, 664* T> 11 AT
Measurement of Forces on EoU Necks, 258*
National Physical Laboratory, 868 Sheet Lead, Electric Drive, 215*. See Addendum, 283
Uniflow Engine for, 729
— of Ships. See Ships ,
— Stock Manufacture, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 778*
See also Carriages; Locomotvves; 'iV ilOOTlS
Rolls, Nickel-Chrome Steel, Cold; RoUing Mills. 307 ,
— Plate-Bending. See Machine Tools Rontgen Rays, Analysis by, 365*
Investigations, Atoms in Crystals, 761 Work, Current Generation, 315 Work, Recent Developments, 555 Society ; Discussion on Current Generation for X-Ray Work, 315 ; Professor W. H. Bragg on Analysis by Rdntgen Rays, 365*
Roof Girder, Ferro-Concrete, Design, 777*
— Steel, Electrically Welded, 654
Ropes, Camel Hair, Alternating Stress Tests, 866
Ropeway, Aerial. See Wire Ropeway Rosenhain, Dr. W., on Metallurgical Microscopes, 107* ; Model Representing Constitution of Ternary Alloys, 400, 527*. See 868 ; on Zinc Alloys, 400
Rotation, Terrestrial, Effect on Gravity, 290 j Rotational Dynamics, Experiments, 659 Rotors, Turbine, Balancing Machine, 473, 491* i Roumanian State Railways, Bridge Restoration, 837*
Round, Capt. H. J., on Direction and Position Finding, 108*, 161*
Rowan Bonus System, 219 Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical
— Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
— Corps of Naval Constructors, Work, 451
Royal Institution :
Low Temperature Studies, by Sir J. Dewar, 122
Researches at High Pressures and Temperatures, by Sir C. A. Parsons, 150 Gyrostatic Compass, by S. G. Brown, 202*
Positive Rays, by Sir J. J. Thomson, 286, 318*, 335*, 384*, 402*, 453*
Royal Institution—continued.
Magnetic Susceptibility, by Professor E. Wilson, 316
Problems of Lubrication, by Professor W. B. Hardy, 333
Petroleum and the War, by Sir J. Cadman, 351
Miners’ Lamps, by Sir J. Cadman, 383 Meteorology and the War, by Lieut.-Col.
E. Gold, 416
Scientific Work of the late Lord Eayleigh, by Sir J. J. Thomson, 455
Menace of Man’s Dispersal of Insect Pests, by Prof. H. M. Lefroy, 552
Eecent Advances in X-Ray Work, by Major G. W. C. Kaye, 555
Ebullition, Evaporation and Tensile Strength of Liquids, by Principal S. Skinner, 588
Blue Light of the Sky and the Optical Properties of Air, by Lord Eayleigh,
690
Thermionic Tube as Detector, Amplifier and Generator of Electric Oscillations, by Prof. W.. Eccles, 724*
Thermionic Valve in Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, by Prof. J. A. Fleming, 760*
Arrangement of Atoms in Crystals, by Prof. W. L. Bragg, 761
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological
— Microscopical Society. See Microscopical
— Society; of Arts. See Arts
ofi Medicine. See Medicine
Soiree, 658, 864
Rubber Membranes, Properties in Liquid Gases, 122
Rudder, Kitchen Reversing, on Fishing Vessels, 289. See 408
Rudge-Whitworth and Co., Steel Spar for Aeroplanes, 360*
Rules, International, Rating Electrical Machinery, 523
RusseU, Dr. E. J., on Basic Slags, 455 j — T., on the Ball Test, 675, 698*
Rusting. See Corrosion
s.
SAFETY Lamps, Development, 383 Oil and Electric, Comparisons, 321
Saint. See Et.
Salts, Chemical, Caking of, 455
Sand, Iron, New Zealand Deposits, 875*. See 676
— Horizontal Pressure of, 253
— Filling Machine for Pipe Bending, 696
— Travel, near Madras Harbour, 291 Sanborn, J. F., on Grouting Operations, Catskill Water Supply, 525*, 558*, 627*
Sandeman, J. W., on’Harbour? Design, 130 Sanders, T. H., on Railway Wheels and Axles,
' 99
' Satake, Y., on Stress Distribution in Tension ; Members, 259*,‘298*. See LETTER, 458*
' Savoia Seaplanes ati Monaco, 657*
Sawmills, Armstrong Shipyard, 695* ; Cam-
' meU Laird Shipyard, 814* ; Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 743*, 779* ;
Foster’s Works, 848* ; Marshall’s Works,
I 670* -
Saws. See Machine Tools
I Scale Effect in Aerodynamic' Experiments, 502 I — Coal-Weighing, for^ Power Stations, 754* ' Scarfing Machine. andandandMachine Tools
Scavenging Methods, Marine Diesel Engines, o.. Tr™,rr,c 175. 254, 280*, 356,
I
I
: “ Scythia,” SS., launch, 417
I Sea Water, Deterioration of Structures in, 584 j Seaplanes. See Aeronautics
Season Cracking, Brass, Prevention by Anneal- ' ing, 393*, 399 <s~
I Secondary Battery. See Accumwiaior under I Electric
Self-Induction. See Bieciric " ’ rvj I Seligman, E., On Aluminium Corrosion, 362, I 371
, Semet-Solvay Coke Ovens, Machines for • Operating, 78*
i Semi-Portable Engine. See Engine
I Sensitive Drill. See Erill under Machine ! 'I'ools
i Sentinel Steam Wagon, Kermode Oil Fuel, 644* Separators, Magnetic, Ore Concentration, 317
— .uercnant, Earning Power and Cost, 54 ’
— — Water-lube Boilers, 316. See 294» — Motor. See Motor Ships
Stresses Bound Holes and Cracks 440, 840*. See also 259*, 298*, 458* Portable Coaling Appliance, 591*
— Propellers. See Propellers
Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion,: Engines; Turbines; Propellers
Existence, Turbulent Motion and Skin Friction, 474, 737*
~ C^yroscopic Becorder, 462*. See
439
Sperry Gyroscopic Stabiliser, 439, 462* ~ U.S. Emergency Fleet, Water-Tube
Boilers, 294*. See 316
"V libration of, and Propeller Balance, 494* See 474
Yawing Caused by Wave Action, 439, 874
— See^0 Ferro-Concrete ; Marine; Motor
Sf^^PP'<-ng; Steamers; Warships, and PARAGRAPH INDEX
ShipbuUders and Engineers, North-East Coast iMtitution of. See North-East Coast Engineers in Scotland, Institution of. See Engineers
Armstrong Shipyard, ! Cammell Laird’s Yard, 812*
— British Merchant, in 1919 14
— in Brazil, 217
— Feyo-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Industry, Economic Position, 437, 459* See LETTERS, 458, 490
Foreign Competition, 460 German, 55
Lloyd’s Statistics, Vessels under Construction, 86, 552
Merchant, and Bepairing, during War, 52 77 J!? 6o^ernment Dockyards, 21, 350, 382
— Methods of Expediting, 149
Modification in Frame Design, 149
Naval. See Warships
— Use of Moulded Plating, 149
— Worlds’, Lloyd’s Annual Statistics, 154
— bee also Steamers ; Naval; Warships ; and
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipyard ^Apprentices, Education,, 290. See oil, 418 rJ
~ High-Walker-on-Tyne, 366*.
567*, 601*, 695.* See Addendum^
~ ^812™®851*^^'^ Uirkenhead,
— Costeira, Bio de Janeiro, 217
— Employees’ Inventions in, 700*
— National, .52
Japanese, Development of, 290
—. Ministry, Work of, 52 States, Government Assistance, 868 (37^1.)®“
Management Shore Scleroscope Hardness 'Tests. See Hard- under Tests {Materials)
^^vating Machine bnow. See Exhwxtwn
Shuttering, Monolithic Concrete Building Construction, 519
Siebe Gorman and Co., Ltd., Air Compressor, 82 , Sub-Aqueous Camera, 868
^®® Furnaces SlgnaUing, Electric, Artificial Track Circuit, 88
— by Invisible Bays. 797
Ejector, Langdon’s, for Motor Boats, 375*
Silica Bricks. See FirebricTcs
Silicon Iron, Magnetic Properties, 720
~ Steel Manufacture, 644, 666* ’
Sillimanite, Fused Artificial, 645
Similarity, Dynamical. See DyaamicaZ Similarity and Aeronautics
Simons’ Dredger Patents, Prolongation, 554 olmplon Tunnel, JIassaboden Power Plant 196* ’
Simpson, F. A., on the Chaine-Helice, 441*
— \V., on Sunderland Harbour Improvements, 130
i Singer Manufacturing Co., Steel Aeroplane
See Furnaces and Coal Economy, 276,
See Explosices Producer Gas for Motor
Vehicles, 59*, 92. See 57, 85, 117
— H., and Co., Ltd., Machine Tools for Ship building, 541*, 567*, 568*
— Brothers tfe Co. (Glasgow), Ltd., Machine
Tools for Shipbuilding, 469*, 602*
— Recording Air Speed Indicator, 89*
— Shops, Armstrong Shipyard, 601*, 695* ;
Marshall’s Works, 640*
Soaking Pits for Steel Ingots, 294*
Soap Bubble Method, Determiaing Ignition Temperatures of Gases, 189
— Films, Stress Estimation by, 64 Socialisation of Industry, 703, 723, 734 Socidt^ Normande de M6tallurgie, Plant for
Mondeville-Colombelles Steel Works, 180*, 293*
Societies, Engineering. See Institutions
— Scientific, Conjoint Board, 548, 690
— Trade. See Labour ; Industrial Notes Solar. See Sun
Soldiers, Discharged, Employment of, 285 Solid Lubricants, Action of, 320
Sorby’s Work in Metallography, 86* Sound, Work of Lord Rayleigh, 456
South of France Railway Shops, Locomotive Used for Shell Drawing, 214*
— West, Notes from 15, 49, 83, 117, 147, 181,
247, 283, 313, 347, 379, 413, 449, 481, 515, 549, 581, 615, 651, 685, 721, 757, 793, 827, 861. See PARAGRAPH INPEX
— Yorkshire, Notes from 14, 48, 82, 116, 146,
180, 216, 246, 282, 312, 346, 378, 412, 448, 480, 514, 548, 580, 614, 650, 684, 720, 756, 792, 826, 860. See PARAGRAPH INPEX
Southcombe, J. B., on Lubrication, 184. See LETTER, 279
Southwell, R. V., on Stress Determination in Space Frames. 165*
Space Frames, Stress Determination in, 165* Spad-Canon Seaplane at Monaco, 656* Spain, Hydro-Electric Power Development, 796 I
Sparkbrook Works, B.S.A. Company, 319 Spars, Aeroplane. See Aeroplane under Aeronautics
Specific Heat, Refractory Materials, 875. See 787
Solid and Liquid Metals, 31
— Inductive Capacity, Gases at Low Temperatures, 534
Specifications, Admiralty, Turbine Reduction Gear, 480
Spectacles, Eve Protection in Welding, 823*, 830
— Lenses, Photography with, 223 Spectroscope, Vacuum, for Schumann Light,
55
Spectroscopic Camera for Colour Work, 56 Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears; Marine Propulsion ; Motor Gar Details
Speed Indicator, Aeroplane, Smith Recording, 89*
Drysdale’s Stroboscopic, 88, 117
— Reduction Gears. See Gears ; Gearing ;
Marine Propulsion
Spelter Industry, Present Position and Prospects, 123
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Sperry Gyroscopic Stabiliser ’for Ships, 439, 462*
Spheres, Elastic, Collisions of, 565*
— Falling, Measurement of Viscosity, 860 Spherical Domes, Strength of, 57 Spindles, Lathe, Design. See Horner, J.
— Machine Tool, Bracing of. See Homer, J.
1 Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures, Liquid Fuels, 151
Sprinklers, Automatic, Fire Protection (Review), 331
Sprinkling Stoker. See Stoker
Spring, Sir F. J. E., on Madras Harbour, 291
— Drive, Triple Helical Gear, 713* Dynamics of, 669
— Motor Car Design, 783
Spur Gearing. See Gears ; Gearing ; Marine Propulsion
Spyer, A., on Water-Tube Boilers for Merchant Ships, 316. See 294*
Stabiliser, Sperry Gyroscopic, for Ships, 439, 462*
Stability of Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics Staffordshire, Refractory Materials of, 610 Stalloy, Magnetic Properties, 720
Stamp End Works, Clayton Shuttleworth, Ltd., 742*. See 778*
Stamping Hammers and Presses. See Machine Tools
— Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Works, 779*
Standard Limits for Holes, 32
Standardisation of Agricultural Machinery, 583
— of Gears, 282
— of Pneumatic Tyres, 114
— Rating Rules for Electrical Machinery, 523
Standardisation, Special Steels for Motor Cars, 551
Standards dissociation. See Engineering Standards
— U.S. Bureau of. See United- Slated Stanton, Dr. T. E., on Gear-Testing Machine, 334*
Star' Collisions, Pressures Reached, 151 Starters, Motor. See Motors^ Electric State Aid, Aviation Industry, 798
— Control, Electric Power in Spain, 796 of Industry, 703, 723, 734
— Railways, Australian, Report, 250
— Unemjdoyment Insurance Sclicme, 21, 186.
Seo 386 Stations, Power. See Power Stations Statistics, United Kingdom Railways, 584
— Public Works, Proposed Commission, 21
— Trade. Sec Trade
St. Lawrence River, Cornwall Bridge, Anchor Pin Renewal, 790*
Stead, A. L., on Narrow Gauge Rallwaj^ on the Western Front, 747. See 277*
— Dr. J. E., on Progress in tlie Iron and Steel
Industry, 620
Steam Boilers. See Boilers
— Condensation. See Condensation
— Consumption, Turbines, Effect of Size, 592
— Crane. See Crane
— Disinfector for Naval Service, 854*
— Enefines. See Engines
— Exhaust, from Turbines, Heating by,
— Generation, Electrical, in Switzerland,
— Jet Air Ejectors for High Vacua, 28*. LETTER,57
Forced Draught, Steam Consumption, 71, 495. See 404
— Lorries. See Motor Wagons; Tractors
— Navvy. See Excavating Machine
— Power Plant Engineering (Review), 22
— Production, Coal Used, 426. See 404
— Properties of, Alignment Diagram, 301*.
See Erratum, 422
— Raising, Coal Required for, 543*. See 591
— Shovel. Seo Excavating Machine
— Superheater. See Superheater; Super-heated
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Turbines. See Turbines
— Users’ Association. See Manchester
— Wagon. See MotorWagon ; Tractor Steamboats. See iSfeamers
Steamers, American, Government Subsidies, 868
— * Aquitania,” Oil Fuel Installation, 832
— Built, Lloyd’s Annual Statistics, 154
— Cargo, Dimensions, 438, 460*
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 86, 552
— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
— Freeboard and Strength, 438, 807*
— Funnel, Air Flow Round, 134* '
— Geared Turbines for. See Marine Propidsion
— High-Speed, Used in War, 578*. See LETTER, 756
— “ Lawrence,” for Indian Government, 115*
— Merchant, Earning Power and Cost, 54
— ” Niagara,” Propeller Balance and Vibration, 494*. See 474
— Oil Tank, Cargo Movements, Tank Experiments, 867
Tank, ” San Fernando,” 76*
— ” Olympic,” Oil Fuel Installation, 865 •— Portable Coaling Appliance, 591*.
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion; '
Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— Resistance of. See Ship Resistance
— Rolling of. See Ships, Rolling of
— ” Scythia,” Cunard Line, Launch, 417
— Sperry Gyroscope Stabiliser, 439, 462*
— Timber, U.S. Emergency Fleet, Water-Tube
Boilers, 294*. See 316
— Yawing Caused by Wave Action, 439, 874
— See also Engines ; Marine Propulsion ;
Shipbuilding; Shipping; Ships; Tur- i bines; Warships ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX ’ Steamships. See Ships; Steamers; Warships
Steel Billets, Cranes for Handling, 294*
— Case Hardening of. See Metallurgy
— Castings, Design and Treatment, 768*. See 676
Large Turbine Rotor, 270*
— Chromium, Effect of Heat Treatment on
Resistance, 676 Structure, 677 Thermal Analysis, 676, 692*
— Construction for Aeroplanes, 357*, 375*, 408*. See LETTERS, 421*, 458, 490, 514*, 545
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
—. Disc, Distortion by Hardening, 576, 594*
— Distribution of Phosphorus, 676
— Effect of Initial Temperature, 678, 681*
— Fatigue of. See Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials}
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Galvanised, Metallography, 327*
— Ghost Lines In, 676
— Heat Treatment of. See Metallurgy
— High Speed, Use of Molybdenum, 23
— Indian Trade and Industry, 221
— Industry, Progress, 620
— Ingots, Soaldng Pits for, 294*
Stripping Macliine for, 180*. See 294*
— Manufacture. See Metallurgy
— Microstructure. See Microphotographs
— Mild, Effect of Stress Alterations
Elastic Properties, 65 ?— Nickel-Chrome, andc., Brittleness, 678 and Chrome-Nickel, Magnetic
Mechanical Tests, 136*
Invar, Properties and Applications,
— Pipe Connections, Welded, 730*
Steel Roof, Electrically Welded, 654
— Special, for Motor Cars, Standardisation, 551
— Stress Distribution In. See Stress
— Strip, Aircraft Construction, Composition and Properties, 411*
— Tapes, Electric Weldins Machine, 802* Tests of. See Tests {Materials}
— Tool, Hardness Tests at High Temperatures 157*
— for Turbine Construction, Tests, 452
— Wing Co., Aeroplane Spars, 360*, 410*
— Wires, Effect of Galvanising, 329* and Wire Drawing, 731*, 749*
— Works. See Works
Steelwork, Platers’ Shed, Armstnjng Shipyard, 540*
Steering Gear. Seo Jl/ofor Car Details Stellar Collisions, Pressures reached, 161 Sterne, L., and Co., Ltd., Link Grinding hH Machine, 240*
Stevens Oil-Fuel Burner, 610
Stirling, B., on Raising Oil by Airlift, 725
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., Concrete Mixing and Laying Machine, 657*
Stokers, Meclianical, Data of Performance, 404, 426, 495. See """ """
See also 71
Storage Battery. See Electric
Strain Energy Function 158*
— See also Stress
Strainers, Circulating Water, Newport Station, 9*
— Deptford, Self-Cleaning, for Circulating Water, 679*
— Fuel Oil, for Diesel Engines, 701*
Street Railways. See Tramways
— See also Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests (Materials}
Stress Alterations, Effect on Elastic Properties of Steel, 66
— Alternating and Combined.
(Materials}
— Determination in Space Frames,
— Diagram for Rolling Loads, 85*
— Distribution, Holes and Cracks
Plating, 440, 840*
Report of B. A. Committee 64*, 158*
Tension Members, Effect of Holes, 259*, 298*. See LETTER,
— Estimation by Soap Films, 04
— Optical Determination of. See Optical
— Recorder, Photographic, Fcreday-Palmer,
for Bridges, 138*
Stresses in Aeroplane Spars, 357*, 375*, 408* See LETTERS, 421*, 458, 490, 514*, 545
— in Aeroplane Wings, Optical Investigation,
25*
— in Forth Bridge Members, 165*
— Internal, in Brass, Removal by Annealing
393*, 399
— in Motor Car Springs, 783
Strickland, F., on Profits in Manufacturing Trades, 533 ; on Defects in Motor cles, 782
Strikes. See Labour ; Industrial Notes, Strip, Steel, Aircraft Construction, position and Properties, 411*
Electric Welding Machine, 802* Stripping Machines for Steel Ingots,
See 294*
Stroboscopic Speed Indicator, Drysdale’s. 88, 117
Stromeyer, C. E., Report of Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 120. See 836
Structural Design of Aeroplanes. See Aeroplanes under Aeronautics
Dynamical Similarity in, 64* Strength of Spherical Domes, 57 Stress Determination in Space Frames, 165*
Stress Diagram for Rolling Loads, 35*
I Structures, Deterioration in Sea Water, 584 ; — Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Struts, Tubular, Strength of, 25*
Stuart, A. H., on Vibration of Aeroplane Spars, 201* ; on Clearance of Internal-Combustion Engines, 782*
Studs, l5amaged, Split Die Nut for Repairing, 701*
Sub-Aqueous Camera in Flooded Mines, 868 Submarine Depth Meter, Mine-Sweeping Work, 333*
— Mines. See Mines.
— and Submersible Boats. See Warships Subscriptions to Technical Societies, Increase
of, 383
Subsidies, American Shipping, 868
Suction Gas Engine. See Engine, Gas
Sulphur in Benzole, Corrosion of Metals, 213
Sulphuric Acid, Lead Attack by, 215
Sun’s Disc, Cause of Sharp Boundary, 215
Sunbeam Motor Car Co., Ltd., Airship Machinery, 433*, 504*
Sunderland Harbour, Reduction of Wave Action, 130
Superheater Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Marshall’s Compound Locomobile, 767*
— Yarrow Water-Tube Boiler, 579* Surface Condensers. See Condensers
— Tension of Oils, Effect on Lubrication 184. See LETTER, 279
Surge^^anks, Hydro-Electric Power Plants,
— in Panama Canal, 89
Surnames, Use as Trade Marks, 351. See
Surveying Instruments, Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 50
Susceptibility, Magnetic, Metals and Minerals 316 ’
Sutcliffe, Speakman and Co., Ltd., Brick and Briquetting Press, 556*
Sutton, H., on Chromium Steels, 676, 692*
Suyehiro, Dr. K., on the Yawing of Ships 439, 874 ’
Swedish Hydro-Electric Power Plants, For- shulten, Mockfjaerden and Trollhattan 195* ; Porjus, 195
Swiss Electro-Chemical Industries, 291
Hydro-Electric Power Plants; Clievres, 143* ; Massaboden, 196* ; Fully, 230 . See 339
— state Railways, Dynamometer Car, 871* Switch, Reversing, for Pyrometry, 864 Switches, Motor Starting. See flfotors, Electric ,
Switchgear, Newport Power Station, Mel- bourne 9
Power Station, Marshall’s Works, 675*
Switzerland, Electrical Steam Braising and Heat Storage, 170* . . , ,,
Swivelling Ball Bearings, Prmciples and Practice 37*, 69*
Synthetic Ammonia Production, Claude Process, 223
Systems, Shop. See Works Management

TABLES, Machine Toc^, Design. See Horzier, J.
Tailstock Details, Richards’ Universal Surfacing, Boring and Milling Machine, 238*
Taji, Y., on Metallography of Galvanised Steel, 327*
Talents’ Spectroscopic Camera, 56
Tamping Machine, Electric, for Railway Track, 213
Tangent Tool Company, Ltd., Machine Vice, 441* ; Hand Power Shearing Machine, 524* ; Drill Chuck, 678*
Tangye Milling Machine Bracings, 238*
Tank Experiments, Cargo Movements in Tank Steamers, 867
Seaplane Hulls, 826, 859
Screw Testing Gear, N.P.L.,868
Submarine Warfare, 419, 770*
— Locomotive. See locomotives
Military, Construction at Poster’s Works, 685, 848* , „ .
— Ship “ Narragansett,” Diesel Engines, 623*, 716* , X,
Steamers, Cargo Movements, Tank Experiments, 867
“ San Fernando,” 76*
Surge, Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 228* Tapes, Steel, Electric Welding Machine, 802* Tar Recovery from Gas Producers, 619
— and Tar Oil, Use in Diesel Endues, 20 Tax, Entertainment, Trade Exhibitions, 54
— Income, on Patents, 490
Taxation of Motor Cars, 483, 869. See 466 Tea-Drying Machines, Possible Improvements, 89
Technical College and Education. See Education
Societies. See Institutions and PAEAGRAPH INDEX . , ,
Teddington Laboratory. See National Physical Teed, P. L., on Hydrogen Production, 811 Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Telegraphy, Wireless, Antennae or Loop ^Vcriuls 67
Direction and Position Finding in War 108*, 161*
Imperial Communication Scheme, 351 Phantom Condenser, 88
Text-Book on (Review), 206 Theory of Valve Amplifiers, 163* Thermionic Properties of Lamp Filaments, Ilfi
Thermionic Valves, 56, 724*, (60*
U.S. Naval Developments, 224
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telephone Systems, Cross Talk Meter, 88 Telephony, Wireless, Demonstration at Royal
Society Soirde, 659
Thermionic Valve, 760*
Treatise on (Review), 537
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Temperatures, Annealing, Optical Bench for
Determining, 855
— Co-effleients, Permanent Magnets, 217
Effects in Fluid Motion, 101*. See LETTERS, 225, 255
— High, Researches at, 150. See 223
— Ignition, Soap Bubble Method, 189
— — of Liquid Fuels, 151
— Measurement. See Pyrometry
Tempering. See Neat Treatment under Metal- . luT(jy
Template, Adjustable, for Nut-Locking Plates, 702*
Tenders, Locomotive. See LOGomoiive Tensile Strength of Liquids, 588
— Tests. See Tests {Matetrials')
Tension Members, Stresses in. Effect of Holes 259*, 298*, 440, 840*. See LETTER, 458*
— Surface. See Surface Tension Teredo, Destruction of ’Timber by, 585 Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Terrestrial and Atmospheric Radiation, 282
— Magnetism. See Magnetism
- Rotation, Effect on Gravity, 290
Testing Apparatus, Water, Dionic Resistance Type, 56
— Detonators, Hopkinson’s Apparatus, 658.
ggg 7X0
— Laboratory. See National Physical
— Machine, Spur and Bevel Gear, N.P.L.,
334*
See also Tests {Materials')
— Materials, American Society for. See
American
— Valves, Marshall’s Works, 637*
— Volumetric, Scientific Glassware, at N.P.L.
188
— See also Tests {Materials'); Trials Tests, Aeronautical. Seo Aeronautics
— Caking Power of Coal, 685
— Coking, of Coal, 485
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Hand and Machine-Made Silica Bricks, 877. See 787
— Heat Insulation, Fireproof Materials, 66
— of Lubricating Oils, 653
— Magnetic. See Magnetic
— Marine Auxiliary Condensers, 687
— Mercurous Nitrate, Internal Stresses in Brass, 394*
— Static Load, Metal Aeroplane Construction, 410*
i Tests (Materials) :
i
Alternating Stress, Testing Appliances at N.P.L., 866
Testing Machine, Haigh’s Magnetic,
Testing Machine for Thin Sheets, 866
Tests, Camel Hair Ropes, 866 Tests, Turbine Steels, 452 Bending Tests, Cast Iron for Diesel Engines, 179
Combined Stresses, Strain Energy Function and Elastic Limit, 158*
Compression Tests, Eccentric Loading, 64*
Slag Cements, 627
Eccentric Loading, Tensile and Compression Tests, 64*
Extensometer, Eccentric Loading Tests, 64*
— Hurst-Tomlinson Dial Reading, 108*
— Photographic Recording, for Bridge Members, 138*
Hardness Test, Ball, Investigations, 675, 698*
Cast Iron for Diesel Engines, 179 —— Chromium Steels, 692 Hadfield Prize, 680
Steel, Comparisons with Magnetic, 136*
Turbine Steels, 452
— Testing Machine, Kayser’s, High Temperatures, 157*
Impact Tests, Apparatus at N.P.L., 866 Cast Iron for Diesel Engines, 179 Notched Bar, Nature of, 551 Turbine Steels, 452 Magnetic Tests, See Magnetic Steel for Turbine Construction,
452
Strain Energy Function and Limit, 158*
Stress Alterations, Effect on
Tests,
Elastic
Elastic
Properties of Steel, 65 „ ,
— Determination, Optical. See Optwal
— Distribution, Report of B.A. Committee on, 25*, 64*, 158*
in Materials and Structures. See Stress , _ .
Tensile Tests, Cast Iron for Diesel Engines, 179
Eccentric Loading, 64*
Galvanised Steel Wires, 329* High-Tensile Steel Strip, 412* Slag Cements, 626
Steel, Comparisons with 136*
Turbine Steels, 452
Testing Aeroplane Wing .
— Machine, Alternating Magnetic, 866
Alternating Stress, i 866
Hardness, High Kayser’s, 157*
Tests for Railway Wheels and Axles, 99 Torsion Tests, Galvanised Steel Wires, 329*
Text Books. See LTTEKATUKE INDEX Thermal Analysis, Chromium Steels, 676, 692*
— Conditions, Blast Furnaces, 631*, 641 Efficiency, Electric Power Stations, 592 Gas Production and Utilisation, 764,
787, 819. See 863 .
—- Electromotive Forces, Investigation of Alloys, 401, 803*
— Storage, Electrical, in Switzerland, 1/0*
— Treatment. See liettt TrefitinS'nt under
Metalluroy .
Thermionic Properties, Lamp Filaments, 719
— Valves. See Telegraphy, Wireless.
Tb PF ro Q- Cb cm i str y and Crystal Structure, 798
— Couples, Refractory Tubes for, 868
See also Pyrometer . Thermo-Electric Effects and Conductivity of
Metals, 831 , ,
Thermodynamic Cycle, New, Internal-Combustion Engines, 467* .
Thermodynamics for Engineers (Review), 79J
— Heating by Reversed Carnot Cycle, 593
— Molecular Energy in Gases, 842
— Steam Alignment Diagram, 301*.
Erratum, 422 Thermometer. See also Pyrometer Thermoscope, Liquid Gas, Radiation
periments, 122 Thomas, B. H., on Electro-Deposited
for Repairs, 655 Thomson, D. H., on a Steam Alignment Dia-
gram, 301*. See Erratum, 422
— Sir J. J., on Positive Rays, 286, 318*
335*, 484*, 402*, 453* ; on the Work of Lord Rayleigh, 455
Thornton, H. M., on Gas Furnaces, 351
— Sir H., on Railway-Operating Problems, 688 J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., Shipbuilding
in Brazil, 217 ; Oil and Petrol Engines at Motor Boat Exhibition, 310* ; Coastal Motor Boat “ C.M.B. 4,” 372; Motor Launch, 375 ; Use of Surname as Trade Mark, 351. See 547
Threads, Screw. See Screw ,
Threshing Machine for Maize, Foster s, 849 Manufacture, See Marshall’s Works,
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Works and Foster’s Works
Thrust Bearing. Sec Bearing
Thurston, Dr. A. P., on Air Flow round Ship 3 Funnel, 134*
Thyssen Gas Producers, Tar Recovery, 619 Tigris River, Shallow-Draught Gunboats, 579*
Tile-making Machine, Concrete, Vickers, Ltd., 557*
Tilling-Stevens Petrol-Electric Fire Engine, 173*
Timber, Aeroplane Construction (Review), 332
Construction, U.S. Supplies, 177
— Bridges, American Light Railways in
France, 278*, 279*
Ribs,
412*
Magnetic,
Ribs, 1*
Stress, Haigh’s for Thin Sheets,
Temperatures,
See
Ex-
Iron
Timber Destruction by Sea Water and Marine Organisms, 584
— Semi-Portable Wire Ropeway for, 80*
— Ships, U.S. Emergency Fleet, Water-Tube
Boilers, 294*. See 316
Time Intervals, Short, Aleasurement of, 514, 798
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— and Tinplate Prices. See Metal Price
Diagrams
Tipping Wagon, Electric, 446*
Titanic Works, Lincohi, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 746*
Titaniferous Iron Ore, New Zealand, 875*. See 676
Toluene and Benzene, High Temperature 4 Reactions, 787
Tool Holder. See Meuihine Tools
— Machine. See Machine Tools
— Small, Manufacture at Sparkbrook Works,
B.S.A. Co., 319
— Steel. See Steel
Toothed Gearing. See Gearing
Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See Warships Torque Fluctuations, Effect on Geared Turbines, 599*. See Erratum 651
— Indicator, Gear-Testing Machine, 334* Torsion Balance, Investigation of Rigidity,
659
— Indicator, Gear-Testing Machine, 334*
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Tostevin, Engineer-Commander H. B., on Reduction Gears in Warships, 472, 474* Tower Cranes. See Crane
Town Planning and the Transport Problem, 121, 517, 655. See LETTER, 720
Track Circuit, Artificial, for Signalling, 88
— Railway, Electric Tamping Machine, Traction, Electric. See Pailway
— Engine, Steam, for Showman, 849* Tractor, Agricultural, 30-h.p. Alldays
Onions, Details, 244*
Clayton Chain Track, 743*
Forthcoming Trials, 251, 313. See Results of Lincoln Trials, 90.
157*, 494
Trials of. Dynamometer, 867 Wallis Junior, 157*. See 90
— Caterpillar. See Tanks
— Steam, Road Haulage, Clayton and Shuttle
worth, 780*
— Steam, Road Haulage, the “ Wellington,”
848*
Trade Commissioners, Overseas, 654
— Disputes. See Labour ; IndMstrial
— Exhibitions. See Exhibitions
— German Electrical, Outlook, 214
— and Industries of India, 221 —.Japanese, Development of, 290
— Manufacturing, Effects of Small
533
Needs for Fresh Capital, 533
— Mechanical, Effect of War, 173
— Reconstruction after War. See
St/TUCt/tOVl/
213
and
867
See
Nates
Profits,
Pecon-
— Unions. See Labour ; Industrial Notes Trademarks, Use of Surname, 351. Bee 547 Traffic, London and Decentralisation, 121,
517, 655. See LETTER, 720
Training. See Educalion ; Apprenticeship Tramwavs, Artificial Track Circuit, 88
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Transformation Points, Metals. See Metallurgy
Transformers v. Induction Coils, Rontgen Rav Work, 315
Transmission, Electric, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Gear. See Gear; Gearing ; Marine Pro
pulsion
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Power
Transmission
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Canals and Waterways, Committee on,
762
— on English Canals, 252
— Inland Navigation, German Development,
791
— Institute of. Sir E. Geddes on British
Railways, 415 ; Sir H. P. Maybury, on Roads, 553 ; Sir H. Thornton on Railway Operating Ihoblems, 688; Sir J. Broodbank on Dock Problems, 829
— London Traffic Problem and Decentralisa
tion, 121, 517, 655. See IJETTER, 720
— Ministry and Railway Working, 123,
415. See 654
Committee on Railway Electrification, 416
— Motor. See Poads ; Motor
— Problems, Need for Detailed Study, 829
— and Roads in India, 724
— Railway. See Railway
— Road. See Road Trautweiler, A., the Late, 421 Travelling Cranes. See Crane
Transverse Tests. See Rending Tests under Tests {Materials)
Trench Digging Machine, Bucyrus, for Drainage Work, 822*
Trent Works, Gainsborough, Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 670*. See 635*
Trials of Agricultural Machinery, 583 Tractor. See Tractors
— Ball Bearings for Horse Vehicles,
See 715*
— Boiler, with Mechanical Stokers, 404,
495. See LETTERS, 590, 609. See 71
833.
426, also
— Dynamometer Car, Goods Locomotive,
North Eastern Railway. 208*. See 50*, 83
— of Hydraulic Turbines, 141*, 191*, 229*
— of Lvmn Producer Gas Plant, 562*. See
529*
— Water-Tube Boiler, for U.S. Timber
Ships, 295*. See 316
— See also Tests
Tribunals, Munitions, Jurisdiction on Wages Questions, 520
Triple Helical Gearing. See Gearing
Trolley Car, Inspection Ambulance, Mesopotamian Railways, 127*
TroUhattan Hydro-Electric Power Plant 195*
Trusses. See Bridges : Roofs
Tube Plates, Locomotive, Drilling and Tapping Machine, 169*
— Railways. See Underground Railways Tubes, Condenser, Corrosion, Electrolytic
Theory, 371. See 357
Corrosion of, in Navy, 354. See 571 Corrosion, Report, 357, 370
Polishing Machine, 701*
— See also Pipes
Tubular Struts, Strength of, 25*
Tungsten Arc Lamps, “ Pointolite,” 56
— Canadian Production of, 186
— Lamps. See Lamps, under Electric
Tunnel, Loetschberg, Citroen Gears for Electric Locomotives, 712*
— Oven, Development, 753
— Pressure, Catskill Water Supply, Grouting
Operations, 525*, 558*, 627*
— Simplon, Massaboden Power Plant, 196* Turbine Construction, Tests of Steel, 452
— Hydraulic, Francis Type, Development,
Design and Trials, 140*, 153, 191*, 227*, 272, 338. See LETTERS, 355, 421 Governing Mechanism, 227*, 230* See 339
Relieving End Thrust, 197*
See also Power Plan! ; Pelton Wheels
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Rotors, Balancing Machine, 473, 491*
— Steam, Curtis, Wheel Failures, 269
Design and Efficiency of Large Units, 269*. See 592
Design, Steam Alignment Diagram, 301*. See Erratum, 422
Effect of Size on Economy, 592. 269*
Effect of Vacuum, 269*
Heating by Exhaust, 592
Limiting Size of, 269*
Marine, Geared. See Marine pulsion
Marine, High Vacuum Apparatus, See LETTER, 57
Materials for Blading, 349, 354
Unions, Trade. See Labour ; Industrial Notes United Kingdom, Railways of. See Raihcays Shipbuilding of. See Shipbuilding See also British
— States Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Reports, 177, 216, 793
Bureau of Mines, Gas Traps for Oil Wells, 220; Helium Production from
Natural Gas, 124 ; Zinc Recovery from Low Grade Ores, 82
Bureau of Standards, Radiotelegraphy by Antennae or Loop Aerials, 467;
phonic Signalling, 797
Dyeing Industry (Review), 570 Emergency Fleet, Water-Tube 294*. See 316
Engineering Institutions, Joint sation, 222
Light Railways in French War Area, 277*. See 747
Navy. See United States under Warships
Railways. See Bailways ; Railroads Shipping, Government Assistance, 868 Supplies of Aircraft Timber, 177 See also America
Universal Milling and Shaping Machine, Instrument Making, 785*
University College, Cardiff, Experimental Steam Engine, 612*
London, Extension of* Engineering Laboratories, 124, 339*. See 329, 384, 413, 721 ; Students' War Memorial, 458
— of Manchester, Engineering Department, 590
— See also Education

VACUUM, Effect on Steam Turbines, 269*
— Evaporators, Capacities of Air Pumps, 74*
— Spectroscope for Schumann Light, 55
— Tubes, Nitrogen Absorption in, 420 Valuation of Iron Ore, andc., 607, 641, 642
Valve, Hydraulic, Balanced, Vickers, Ltd., 281*
— Rings on Ships, Grinding Machine, 702*
— Testing, Marshall’s Works, 637*
— Tliermionic. See Telegraphy, Wireless Van Dyke, E. C., on Works Management, 35 Vapour, Water, in Saturated Air, 28*
— Ether, Alcohol and Acetone, Inflammability, 290
Variable Speed Gear. See Gear; Motor Car Details
Vector Algebra, Elements of (Review), 762 Velocity, Flame, in Gaseous Explosions, 23, 57
— of Projectiles, Chronograph for Measuring, 798. See 514
Ventilation of Turbo-Generators, 45, 95*. See Enata, 116. See also 121, 176, 225, 254
Vibration of Aeroplane Spars, 201*
— of Ships, and Propeller Balance, 494*.
See 474
Vice. See Machine Tools
Vickers, Ltd., Cold Rolling Mills, 307; Concrete Tile Machine, 557* ; Duralumin Construction for Aeroplanes, 359*, 408* ; Launch of s.s. “ Scythia,” Motor Oil Tank Ship, * Narragansett,' 623*, 716* ; Pearson’s Balanced Hydraulic Valve, 281* ; Vickers-Vimy Aeroplane, Cost of Aerial Transport, 520
Vickers-Petters, Ltd., Marine Oil Engine, 246*
Victoria, Australia, Utilisation of Brown Coal, 287
— B. C., Water Supply, 485
Viscosity, Effect of Local Heating on Fluid Motion, 101*. See LETTERS, 225, 255
— Measurement by Falling Sphere, 860
— Meter, Michell’s Ball and Cup Type, 509*
— Oils, Measurement at High Pressures, 867
— of the Upper Atmosphere, 836
Volumetric Testing, Scientific Glassware, at N.P.L., 188
Vortices, Flight, Investigations, 5(H*, 534* Voucher,

H.M. Navy, Training of Engineers, 421 Use of Non-Ferrous Metals, 354. See 349
— — Use of Oil Fuel, 579, 756 Work of Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, 451
— Shallow-Draught Gunboats for Mesopotamia, 579*
Submaiine Warfare, Tank Experiments, 419, 770*
Submarines, German, Diesel Engines 419, 432, 613
used in War, 419, 428*
Torpedo Attack, Bulge Protection for Warships, 397*, 424*. See 418 Naval Guns. See Guns
United States Naval Programme, 321 Navy, One-Piece Gun Construction, 712*
Navy, Wireless Developments, 224 See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Watches, Lever, Precision, Longitude Determination, 716
Water, Adhesion to Glass, 588
— Circulating, Deptford Self-Cleaning Strainers, 679*
r- Screens for, Newport Pow’er Station, 9*
— Cooler, Self-Contained, Heenan and Froude, 862*
— Cooling of Turbo-Generators, 95*,
See Erraiai 116. See LETTERS, 225, 254
— Depth Meter, Mine-Sweeping Work, :
— Ebullition in Glass Vessels, 588
— Elevator, Chaine-Helico, 441*
— Evaporation in Air Currents, 588
— Flow in Pipes, 474, 726, 737*. See 867
— Friction. See Friction ; Hydrodynamics ; Ship Resistance
— Hammer, Parsons’ Demonstration Apparatus, 658
— Hard, Corrosion of Aluminium by, 362, 371
— Heaters. See Feed-Water Heaters
— Level Indicator, BrassJ Tube, for Boilers, 574*. See 702
— Pipes, Ferro-Concrete, Manufacture, 485,490 Incrustation, and Iron Bacteria (Review), 569
— Power. See Hydraulic ; Felton 'Wheel; Power Plant; Pou'er^ Water; Turbine, Hydrdulic
— Sea, Deterioration of Structures in, 584
— Supply, Catskill, Grouting Operations, 525*, 558*, 627*
Digest of Parliamentary Reports, 239
Estimating RiverjFIow, 4
Public and Private Ownership,»239 Systems, Iron Bacteria (Review), 56© Use of Distant CoUectingiAreas, 239 Victoria, B. C., 485
See also Irrigation
— Testing Apparatus, Dionic Resistance Type, 56
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbine, Hydraulic; Pelton Wheel; Power Plant
— Vapour in Saturated Air, 28*
— Wheels. See Pelton Wheel; Turbine, Hydraulic ; Power Plant
— Works. See Water Supply. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Waterways, German, Development, 791
— Inland, Committee on, 762
Transport on, 252
— See also Bivers; Canals; Navigation, Inland
Watson, J. S., on Power Station* Progress, 619
Watt Lecture, by Prof. C. G. Barkla, on the Structure of the Atom, 124
"Wave Action Reduction, Harbour Design, 129, 130
and the Yawing of Ships, 439, 874
— Electromagnetic. See Telegraphy, Wireless Wear of Diesel Engines, 264, 416
— — Marine Reduction Gears, Effect of
Torque Fluctuations, 599*. See Erratum* 651
Weather. See Meteorological
Webster and Bennett, Ltd., Drilling and Boring Machine Tables, 104*, 105*
Weighing Machine, Coal, for Power-Stations, 754*
Weights, Atomic, Determination by Positive Rays. See Positive Bays
and Isotopes, 21, 32, 336*, 384,* 453 Nebulium, 453
— on Crane Wheels, Determination of, 705*.
See LETTERS, 792, 836, 856
Weight, Equation, Normand's, Airship Eeeign, 859
— and Mass in Dynamics, 567
— Estimation, Aeroplane Design, 857 Welcome Oil Burner, for Cooking Banges, 378 Welded Steel Pipe Connections, 730* Welding, Arc, Special Electrodes for, 153
— Autogenous, Eye Protection in, 823*, 830 for Boilers and Steam Pipes, 96, 121, 176, 225, 254, 289
Locomotive Fireboxes, 289
— Electric, Motor Ship “ FuUagar,” 216
Construction of Steel Koof, 654
— Machine, Boiler Flue, Marshairs Works, 640*
Electric, for Steel Tapes, 802*
Welfare Work. See Labour
Wellington Foundry, Lincoln, W. Foster and Co., Ltd., 847*. See 685
— Steam Tractor, 849
Wellman - Seaver - Morgan Co., Coke-Oven Machinery, 78*
— Smith-Owen Engineering Corporation, Ltd.,
Steel Works Plant, 180*, 29b*
Wells, H. M., on Lubrication, 184. See LETTEB, 279
— Oil, Airlift Pumping, 725
Gas Traps for, 220
West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel
Westinghouse Brake Gear, Melbourne Electric Railways, 43*
— Turbines, Design and Efficiency of Large Units, 270*
Westminster Engineering Co., Ltd., Electric Rivet Heater, 441* ; Electric Welding Machine, 802*
Wheatstone Bridge. See Elect) ic
W’heels, Agricultural Machinery, Manufacture at Marshall's Works, 640*
— Crane, Determination of Loads on, 705*.
See LETTEKB, 792, 836, 866
— Failures, Curtis Turbines, 269
— Gear. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— Railway, European and American Practice, 99
Whitby Harbour Improvements, 129,130
White, A. G., on Inflammability of Aij and Vapour Mixtures, 290
— Metals, Anti-Friction.
Metallurgy
— Oil Fuel Installation, s.s.
832 ; s.s. “ f
— Star Liner, “
tion, 865
Whiteley, H. J., on Phosphorus in Steel, 676 Wildey's Relieving Attachment for Lathes, 345*
Williams, P., on Aluminium Corrosion, 362, 371
— W. R., the Late, 313
Williamson, J. W., on Staffing Research Associations, 759
Wilson, A. J., on Fuel for Heavy Oil Engines, 19
— Prof. E., on Magnetic Susceptibility, 316
— J. F., on Slag Conditions, 644, 661* Winch, Cargo, Oil-Driven, 373* Wind Timnels. See Aeronautics
— Velocity Distribution, Ship's Funnel, 134* Wings, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
Wire Filament Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
— Ropeway, Semi-Portable, for Timber, 80*
— Steel, Effect of Galvanising, 329* and Wire Drawing, 731*, 749* ?Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. SeeJTcZepAowy
Wohler's Tests. See Alternating Stress under Tests (Materials)
Wolff, C. E., on Fourier, Bessel and Clifford, 851
Wolseley Motors, Ltd., Magnetic Reverse Gear and Petrol-Paraffin^ Carburettor, ! 786* ‘
Women Workers. See Labour
Wood, G. A., on The Reduction of Silicon from Slag, 644, 666*
— Aeroplane Construction (Review), 332 Construction, U.S. Supplies, 177
— Destruction by Sea Water and Marine Organisms, 584
Wooden Ships, U.S. Emergency Fleet, Water- Tube Boilers, 294*. See 316
Woodworking Department, Armstrong Shipyard, 695* ; Cammell Laird SlSpyard, 814* ; Clayton and Shuttleworth's Works, 743*, 779* ; Foster’s Works, 848*;
Marshall’s Works, 670*
— Machinery. See Machine Tools Ltd., 434,* Sec
Birmingham Small Arms Co., Small Tool Works, Sparkbrook, 319
Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, Birkenhead, 812*, 851*
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., Lincoln, 741*, 778*
Crewe Works, London and North-Western Railway, Record of Staff, 23 Engineering W’orks, Effect of Size on Efficiency, 185
Explosives Eactories,Gretnn and W’altl am
Abbey, Euture, 019
Factory Decentralisation and London Traffic, 121, 517, 655. See LEITER, 720
Ford Motor-Car Works, Organlsaticn, 417 Foster, W’., and Co., Ltd., Lincoln, 847*.
See 685 ,
Galloways, Ltd., Visit of Manchester Association of Engineers, 729 Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., Gainsborough, 635*, 670*
Parbgate Iron W’orks, Blast Furnace
Practiie, 646 * See 641, 642
SccicitC* Noimandc de Mclalkigic, Caen, 18C*, £93*
Steel W’orks, Electric Drive, Comparisons of D. C. and Three-Phase, 643, 664* Mondeville-Colombelles Plant, 180*, 293*
Welfare Movement in W'orks. Sec Labour W'orks Management, Features of, 35 Ford Motor-Car Works, 417 Moderation in, 305. See LETTER, 378 Psychological versus Scientific Methods, 773
Workshop Inventions, Encouragement, 700* —; Multiple Accidents, Mathematical Investigation, 5
— Training. See Avpreulicesbip ; Education
— See also B’orA*®; Machine Tools
W’orld’s Shipbuilding, Lloyd’s Annual Statistics, 154
Worsdell, W., the Late, 553*. See 575 Worsley, P. J., on Gear Cutting, 382. See LETTERS, 680, 836
Wragg, A., on Effect of Initial Temperature on Steel, 678, 681*
Wrecks. See Accidents E. G. Wrigley and Co., Ltd., Transmission and Control Gear, Angus-Sanderson Motor Car, 210*
Wright, H. E., on Blast - Furnace Practice, 631*, 641
— Lecture on Naval Architecture in Aeronautics, 857*
Wrought Iron. See Iron Wynn, A. E., on Design of Feno-Conciete Girder, 777*

X-RAYS. See Pontgen Pays,
Xylonite Models for Stress Determination. See Optical Determination oj Stress

YANESKE, B., on the Reduction of Silicon from Slag, 644, 666*
Yarrow, Sir A., on the Economic Position of Shipbuilding, 437, 459*. See LETTTKS, 458, 490
— High-Speed War Vessels, 578*. See LETTER, 756
— Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater, 579*
Yawing of Ships, due to Wave Action, 439, 874
Year-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX

ZAHAROEE Professorship of Aeronautics, 289
Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Industry, Present Position and Prospects, 123
— Polishing and Etching for Micro-EyaTnination, 401, 466
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Recovery from Low-Grade Ores, 82
Zipser, M. E., on Grouting Operations, Catskill Water Supply, 525*, 558*, 627*
Zirconium Minerals, Analysis, 610

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