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GENERAL

ABBE, E., Centenary of, 66, See Errata, 88
Abbott Profilometer for Surface-Finish Examination, 345*
Aberdare Cables, Ltd., Repair of 2,000-ton Cable-Sheathing Pres^ 475*
Abingdon Borough Council versus James, and versus Thane, 338
Abstracting and Indexing Scientific Literature, 217

Accidents :

Accidents to Children on Engineering Works, Legal Decisions on, 148
— Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation under Labour
Explosion, Compressed-Air Cylinder, 555* Factory Accidents, Legal Decisions on, 120 Failures of High-Voltage Alternators, 40 Industrial Accidents, Court Cases, 507 Lift Accident, Hamilton-Square Station, Mersey Railway, 67
Mining Accidents, Chief Inspector of Mines’ Report, 256
Railway Accident at Stretford, Report on, 590
Road Accidents and the Black Out, 67 Sinking of H.M. Submarine ” Thetis,” Report on, 389, 392, 417
' Accumulators, Electric. See under Electric Acetylene, Flame Temperature of, 241 Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Adequate Weighers, Ltd,, Continuous Weigher for Lime, 454*
Admiralty Control of Merchant Shipbuilding, 145
— See also Warships
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Transport. See Aeronautics Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics

Aeronautics :

Aerodynamics Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 626
Aeroplanes, German Troop-Carrying, Diagrams of, 605*
Air Power and Sea Power, 605
-—Raid Precaution Lighting, Gauges for. Specification, 254
Precaution Lighting in Germany, 118. See LETTER, 207
Precaution Signs, Lighting of. Specification, 582
on Scapa Flow and Sylt, 337
Shelters, Heavy Aggregates for. Specification, 280
Shelters, Lighting of, Specification, 142
— Services, Waste on, 587
Aircraft Industry, Position and Prospects, 109, 162
— Production, Acceleration of, 565, 625. See LETTERS, 590, 610.
— and Shipping, British Corporation Register of, Jubilee, 285
Aviation Lighting, Progress in, 277 British Overseas Airways Corporation, Policy of, 363
Navigation, Aerial. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Technical Officers for, 461
War in the Air, Review of, 309 Wind-Tunnel Experiments on Singing Marine Propellers, 443, 470*, 512*, 532*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics Age-hardening of Aluminium Alloys, 313 of Copper-Aluminium Alloy, 548
Aggregates, Heavy, for A.R.P. Shelters, Specification, 280
— Natural, for Concrete, Specification, 280 Agnew, W. G., on Control of Dust in Rock
Drilling, by Water Spray, 121
Agricultural-Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 322
— Motors. See Engines ; Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture, Power in, 362
— Use of Electricity in, 612
— See also Irrigation and PARAGRAPH INDEX Air, Compressed. See Compressed Air ; Pneumatic
— (’ompressor for 4,000-kW Gas-Turbine Set,
3*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
Plant, Petrol-Driven Transportable (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 421*
Air Compressor for Road Holier {Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 97*
Two-Stage, Diesel-Driven (National Gas Oil Engine Co., Ltd.), 277*
— Conditioning in Ships’ Passenger and Cargo
Spaces, 506
— Discharge, Sudden, from Pressure Vessel,
Experiments on, 17*
— Force, Royal. See Aeronautics
— Friction, Effect on Performance of Cooling
Towers, 598* !
— Heaters in Power Stations, Operation of, i
185, 232, 295, 317, 472*
— Pollution, Conference on, 583
— Raids. See Aeronautics
Precautions. See Aeronautics
— Resistance to Falling Bodies, 6 Aircraft. See Aeronautics
Alarm Apparatus, Pressure and Temperature (Monitor Patent Safety Devices, Ltd.), 444*
— Liquid-Level (Light Production Co., Ltd.),
581*
Albert Canal, Belgium, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 573*
Alexander Machinery, G. H., Ltd., Doall Height and Depth Gauge, 427*
All-American Canal, California, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 612
” All Angle ” Milling Attachment, 19 Allen, W. H., Sons and Co., Ltd., Unattended 266-h.p. Oil-Driven Generating Set, 87* Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Alloys. See Metallurgy; MicropJiotographs;
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Allurement and Engineering Works, Legal Decisions on, 148
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials} Alternators. See Generators, Electric; Turbo-
Generators
Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, Wireless-Station Memorial, 391
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under J/eMZ- Zwrf/y
— Control of, 281
— See also Metallurgy
Amalgamated Engineering Union and Armaments Production, 147
Amarillo, Helium Production at, 97 American Broach and Machine Co., 2-ton
Vertical Hydraulic Press, 182*
— Institute of Electrical Engineers. See
Electrical Engineers
— Pig-Iron Manufacture, 489
— Shipbuilders’ National Council, Report on
Shipbuilding, 258
— Society of Civil Engineers. See Cwil Engi
neers
of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. See Naval Architects
for Testing Materials. See Testing American Telephone and Telegraph Co., World
Telephone Statistics, 587
— See also United States Amos, H. C., the Late, 529 Amsler, Dr. A. J., the Late, 468, 489* Anchorages for Steel Penstocks, 351* Anglo-French Collaboration in Munitions Manufacture, 93
Industrial Agreement, 284
Angwin, Col. A. S., Telegram-Form and Telephone-Ticket Conveying Systems at General Post Office, 375*, 429*, 535*, 615* Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annuals and Reference Books, 36, 62 {Erratum}, 113, 151, 252, 279, 332, 358, 386, 522, 562, 602. See LITERATURE INDEX
Anti-Piping Compounds, Influence on Segregation in Steel Ingots, 517
Appalachian Electric Power Co., Logan Station
High-Pressure Plant, 294 Apparatus, Electrical. See Electric- Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. See Education Arc. See Electric; Furnace; Welding Arch, Reinforced-Concrete, Movable Centring for, 321*
— Spans, Steel, Storstrom Bridge, 53*
“ Archimedes,” S.S., History of, 126, 182 Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects
— Registration Council, Maintenance Scholar
ships, 225
— Royal Institute of British, Formation of
Research Board, 527
Argentina, British Trade with, 588
— Markets of, 497
Argentine State Railways, Ganz Railcars, 111* Armaments Production and Amalgamated
Engineering Union, 147
— Work, Gauges for, Appeal to Amateur Model
Makers, 587
— See also Munitions and Warships
Armco Iron, Non-Uniform Yielding, during
Tests, 325*. See Addendum, 455 Armoured Ships. See Warships Armstrong Whitworth Securities Co., Ltd.,
Tests of 125-b.h.p. Petter Superscavenge Engine, 43*. See LETTERS, 96, 149, 207 ; 5-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder and 118-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Kadenacy Oil Engines, 195* ;
Tests of Kadenacy Engine, 515*, 557*, 617* Arnold, Ur. R. N., on Problems of Singing
Propeller, 470*, 512*, 532*. See 442 Arrol, Sir W., <fe Co., Ltd., Machinery for
Bascule Span, Masnedsund Bridge, 55* Arts, Royal Society of, Cantor Lectures on
Metals as Engineering Materials, by Dr. C. H. Desch, 176, 231, 312 ; Plastics as
Constructional and Engineering Materials, by H. V. Potter, 519 ; Earthquakes and
Structures, by D. L. Thornton, 528 Asbestos-Cement Slates and Sheets, Specifica
tion, 502
— iVIining Industry, Report, 504
Asca, Ltd., 12,000-kVA Alternators, 27* Asiatic Petroleum Co., Duplex Double-Acting
Oil Pump, 411*
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institution Atlantic, First Screw Ships on, 182
— Liners. See Steamers Atmospheric Pollution, Conference on, 583 Atomic Transmutation and Engineering, 547 Attwood, E. L., the Late, 44 Augustin-Normand, P., on Circulation of Water*
and Steam in Water-Tube Boilers, 394. See 258, 291*
Australia, New South Wales Department of
Works’ Annual Report, 570
— South, Railways, Annual Report, 285
— Townsville Harbour Board Report, 258
Autogenous Welding. See Welding Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Stokers. See Stokers
Automobiles. See Motor Vehicles : Motor Cars Aveling-Barford, Ltd., Road-Line Marking Machine, 209*
Aviation. See Aeronautics
Axial-Plow Compressed-Air Driven Pans (Davidson and Co., Ltd.), 561*

BABAT, G., on Heat Treatment of Steel by High-Prequency Currents, 251
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers in Power Stations, 263*, 317*, 472* ; Boiler Plant for Catalagzi Power Station, 465
Baggerud, 0. J., on Graphical Analysis of Pipe Stresses, 121
Bailey, A. S., the Late, 179
Bailey, T. C., on “ Pool ” Grades of Fuel and their Utilisation, 127*
Baird, D. H., the Late, 63
Baird, Major W. M., the Late, 10
Baker, Sir B., Centenary of, 338
Balancing and Vibrations, Mechanics Applied to (Review), 163
Ball, E. B., on Development of Irrigation Through the Ages, 235*. See 206
— Hardness Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials}
— Mill, Centrifugal, Development of, 378*
— Steel and Bronze, Influence of Lubricants on Seizure, 131*
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
Bangkok Docks Co., Ltd., Dynamometer for Measuring Ground Pressures, 433*
Barber-Greene Co., Petrol-Driven Road- Finishing Machine, 530*
Barking Power Station, Tests of Fire-Fighting Equipments at, 139*, 146
Barnes, G., the Late, 469
Barnes, W., on Dragline Excavators, 571*, 612*
Barrage, Sluice-Gate, for Irrigation, 236*
— Sukkur, India, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 572
Barton Power Station, Manchester, Developments at, 256, 264*, 397*, 423*
Bascule Bridge. See Bridges
Bastian and Allen, Ltd., Electric Boiler for Swimming Pool, 461
Baths, Derby, Blackpool Corporation, 553*
Batteries. See Electric
Battersea Power Station, Developments at, 250, 317*, 397*, 423*, 472*, 492*
Battleships. See Warships
Bauer, Dr. S. G., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 122*, 443*. See LETTERS, 19, 207, 286*, 509. See Erratum, 307
— Wach Exhaust-Steam Turbine System, 382 Baxter, A. M., on Test-Piece for Investigating
Yield Point in Iron and Steel, 176*
Beare, Sir T. H., the Late, 586, 607*. See LETTER, 629
Bearings, Coefficient of Friction, with Graphite and Plain Oils, 177*
— Crankshaft, for Duplex Double-Acting
Oil Pump, 411*
— Plastic Materials for, 519
— of Rolling Mills, Synthetic Materials for, 99* Beds of Solid Particles, Gas Flow and Heat Transfer through, 517
Belgium, Albert Canal, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 573*
— Condition of Vierendeel Welded Bridges, 285
— Trade Statistics, 136, 218
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Shifting Gear, Safety (H. Lindsay, Ltd.), 212* B.E.N. Patents, Ltd., Pneumatic Fuse-Testing
Machine, 165*
Bending Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Bends in Pipe Lines, Head Losses in, 349* Bengston, H. W., on Ship Plating Under Compression, 121
Benkert, M., on Production Methods in War Time, 96. See 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTER, 122
Benson Boiler, Characteristics, 246
Bergius Hydrogenation Process, Introduction of, 459
Bessemer Medal, Presentation to Dr. A. Mc- Cance, 488
Bevel Gears. See Gears
Biased Differential Relays for Feeder Protection (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 125*
Bicycles. See Cycles and Motor Cycles
Bier, P. J., on Penstocks for Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 349*
Bilge Keels, Effect on Rolling of Ships, 552*,559* Bimetals, Thermostatic, Properties and Applications of, 212, 223
Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Birmingham Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Arc i\ir- nace for Melting Steel Scrap, 330*
“ Hams Hall Power Station, Performance of Cooling Towers at, 599
— Tame and Rea District Drainage Board, Ex
periments at Minworth Sewage Works, 117 Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Tar
Black-Out, Factory Ventilation in. Pamphlet on, 531
Road Accidents Due to, 67
Blackadder, Prof. W., the Late, 529 Blackpool Corporation, Derby Baths, 553* Blading, High-Pressure Turbine, Experiences with, 184, 210, 232, 294
— Turbine, Marine, Development of, 373 Prevention of Deposits on, 568, 601, 633 Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Blocks, Concrete, for Building Construction. See Concrete
Blow-By, Piston-Ring, in Internal-Combustion Engines, 297*
— Pipe. See Welding ; Cutting
Blower, Independently-Driven, for Internal- Combustion Engines, 596*
Board of Trade, Appointment of Sir A. Duncan to, 41 ; Export Trade in Internal-Combustion Engines, 363, 546 : Memorandum on Work of Export Council, 363, 546 ;• Order on Limiting Home Trade, 587. See also Overseas Trade Department
Boarland versus Pirie, Appleton and Co., Ltd. 393 Boat, Motor. See Motor Barge
— Submarine. See Warships
Bogie, Carriage, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 165*, 222*
— for 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— for Stainless-Steel Railway Carriage, Italian
State Railways, 35*
Boiler, Electric, for Swimming Pool (Bastian and Allen, Ltd.), 461
Use of for House Heating, 612
— Feed-Water Softening. See Water Softening Water. See Feed and Water
— Forced-Circulation, Advantages Accruing
from, 143
Circulation in Power Stations. 317, 492
— Furnaces. See Stoker
Boilers High-Pressure and Forced-Circulation, 246*. See LETTER, 468
Pressure, in Power Stations, Experiences with, 184, 209, 232, 294
Pressure, for Ships, 420
~ ^329*^^^^^^’ Manningham Mills, Bradford, Marine. Fifty Years Development, 382, 420 Plant, Catalagzi Power Station, 465
— Small, Code for Commercial Testing, 170 lower Station, Forty Years’ Developments in, 256, 263*, 317*, 397*, 423, 472*, 492*
-n” station. Progress in, 611 Prevention of Corrosion and Deposits in 568, 601, 633
Efficiency of. Estimating, 102* ;X^®i^e-Heat, La Mont, M.S. “ Hav,” 275* in and Design of, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
— — Tube, for Ships, 153
See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bollee, A., Pioneer of Mechanical Road Locomotion, 314
Bombs, Incendiary, Testing of Resistant to. Specification, 306
— Terminal Velocities of, 7 Books, New, Notes on, 9, 194,
See LITERATURE INDEX
— Received, 10, 36, 114, 142, 306, 332, 358, 386, 412, 4«)o, 502, 522, 542, 562, 582, 602, 622
Booms for Dragline Excavators, 572* Boreholes. See Wells
Boring Machine. See Machine Tools Boston, Massachusetts, Experiments on Ventilation of Manholes, 356
Bradby’s Engineering Works, Ltd., Petrol- Driven Portable Generating and Pumping Plant, 25* ; Electrically-Driven Hedge Trimmer, 25*
Bradford, Dr. S. C., on Efficiency in Documentation, 217
— Manningham Mills, Power Plant at, 329* Bradley, Dr. A. J., on Structure of Alloys, 488 Bragg, Prof. W. L., on Structure of Alloys, 488 Bragg Sir W., on Development of Vacuum Flasks, 42*
Braking System, 12,000-h.p. Electric Loco- motive, 105*
Branly, Prof. E., the Late, 339 Brass, Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Direct Rolling of, 139
•— Pub^, Seamless, Specification, 358 Brazil, British Trade with, 588
— Markets of, 497 Breakdoums. See Accidents
Bressey, R. J., on “ Pool ” Grades of Fuels and theirUtilisation, 127*
Bridge, Katugastota, Ceylon, Reconstruction, 269*
Lattice, Girder, Instructions in Engineering Design, Vol. II (Review), 431
Masnedsund, Denmark, Bascule Span, 55* Portal-Frame, All-Welded, Clayhithe, Cambridgeshire, 409*
Storstrom and Masnedsund, Denmark 4* 53* ’ ’
““ Belgium, Condition
— See also Culvert and PARAGRAPH INDEX Bridges, F. W., the Late, 314, 339
Brighton to Shoreham Railway Centenary, 527 * Bnmsdown Power Station, Experiences vith
, High-Voltage Alternators in, 40 Brindley, J., Diary of, 198
British Association ;
Conference on Science in Nationai and Aspects, Programme, -49, 5-7 ; ( ancellation of Conference, 083
British Association Screw Threads, Standard Specification, 391
<^nipressed Air Society, Luncheon, 148 Pritish Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft, Jubilee, 285 i r o u
British pectric Transformer Co., Ltd., 30,000- kVA. stand-by Transformer, 288* ; Transformers for Electric Melting Furnace 333
— Electrical and Allied Industries Itesearch
Association, Tests of Fire-Fighting Equipment for Electrical Installations, 139*. See 15,146 ; Annual Report, 178: In- Kything, 228 ; Report on Performance of Glass Insulators, 434 - and Allied Manufacturers’ Association Annual Report, 444 ’
Luncheon, 311 British Engine, Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., Ltd., Report on Welding Research, and<;SS “s/.”'”'™
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships
~ Association,
Report on Quantitative Spectrographic Analysis -vvith Microphotometer, 589 Overseas Airways Corporation, Policy of, 363 Railways. See Railivays
~ Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Shipping. See Shipping
Institution. See Standards ^465^^*^^^ Journals and Foreign Circulation, British Thermostat Co., Ltd., Pressure-Operated Control Svatches, 77* Ikitish Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd Porfabip Oil-Testing Set. 122*; CoMro'l’ S S?
MIg’^t^on Contactor tor Spot Welders, 275*; Engineering I Training Scheme, 381 ; “ Permitol
Liquid Dielectric for Transformers, 490
— Irade. See Trade
Driti^ Twin Disc and Clarifiers, Ltd., Twin- ' Disc Friction Clutch, 8*
Brittle Fracture of Forgings and Castings 22 ' See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570 ,
“ All-Angle ” Milling Attachment, 19; Combined LafhP I Milling and Drilling Machine, 600* ' I
Bronze, Aluminium, Properties of, 159*, 190*
— Influence of Lubricants on Seizure, 131* Brookes, M., Power Plant at Manningham Mills, Bradford, 329*
Broom and Wade, Ltd., Transportable Petrol- Driven Air-Compressor Plant, 421*
Brown, Boveri and Co., Ltd., Tests of 4,000-kW Gas-Turbine Set, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259 ; Self-Contained Refrigerating Plant, 59; Testing Apparatus for Gear-Wheel Material, 96
Brown, D., <fe Sons (Hndd), Ltd., Triple- Helical Reduction Gear, 239* ; Reduction Gearing for Duplex Double-Acting Oil Pump, 411*
Brown, D., Tractors, Ltd., 28-b.h.p. Track- Laying Tractor, 260* ; Power Take-Off Unit for 25-h.p. Petrol-Paraffin Tractor, 590
Brown-Firth Research Laboratories, Apparatus for Estimation of Hydrogen in Metals, 479*, 509
Bruce, A. K„ onK. A. Stuart and the Heavy- Oil Engine, 70, 101. See 67*, 94
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Brnsh- Koela Gas Producer, 70*, 532* ; 700-kVA Substation Equipment, 291*
Bryce, Ltd., and Tests of 125-b.h.p. Petter Superscavenge Engine, 96. See 43*. See LETTERS, 149, 207
Buchanan, Sir G., the Late, 419 Buckets for Dragline Excavators,’571* Buckingham Palace, Electrically-Heated Swimming Pool at, 461
Budapest, Tunnel Under River Danube, 575* Budd Co., Stainless-Steel Railway Coaerhes, 34*
Building Construction, Concrete Blocks for. See Concrete
Use of Plastics in, 519
War Time, Bulletin, No. 3, 604 War Time, Pamphlet on. 569 See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Damaged in War, Authority to Take
Photographs and Drawinj^ of, 567
in War, Government Policy. 175, 583,587
— and Engineering Contracts, Law Relating to
(Review), 556
— Limes, Specification, 542
— Repairs of, Legal Decisions on, 393
— Research Station, Compression Tests on
Clay Soils, 57*
— Subjected to Earthquakes, Design of, 528
— Over Water Mains, 3..egal Decision on, 338 Bull Motors (Branch of E. R. <fe F. Turner,
Ltd.), Air-Compressor Motors for Railway Carriage, 165, 222. See Addendum, 281 Bunsen Burner, Flame Structure. 45 Bureau of Mines. See United States
— of Standards. See United States Burmah Oil Co., Diesel Pumping Sets for
Oil-Field Duty, 305*
Burners, Oil-Fuel. See Oil Fuel Burton, Griffiths Co., Ltd.,
Automatic Chucking Lathe, Addendum, 142
Busch Comparison Microscope for Finish, 344*
Canada, Asbestos Production
— Hydro-Electric Progress,
185, 518*
— Trade Statistics, 110 Canadian Water and Power
Report, 185, 518*
— Wood-Pulp and Paper Industry, Electricity
Supply in, 518
Pulp and Paper Industry, Position, 382 Canal Construction, Use of Dragline Excavators in, 573*, 612
— Ship, Juliana, Holland, Traffic on, 403*
— in War Time, 363
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cane-Sugar Plant, Magnetic-Drum Separator
for, 35
Canter versus J. Gardner and Co., Ltd., and Demolition and Construction Co., Ltd., 338
Cantor Lectures on Metals as Engineering Materials, 176, 231, 312
Capacitance. See Electric Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway
Carbide Tools, Grinding and Lapping Machine for, 435*
Carbon Dioxide in Boiler Water, Elimination
601 in Water, Action on Copper Pipes, 261
— Monoxide, Apparatus for Detection of, 382 Carburettor, Coal-Gas, for Running-in and
Road Service (Gas Light and Coke Co.), 60* Carey, W. F., on Development of the Centrifugal
Ball Mill, 378* Cargo Steamers. See Steamers Carnt, A. H., the Late, 623 Carriage, Railway, Lightweight, London
Midland and Scottish Railway, 165*, 222* See Addendiim, 281
Oil-Driven, for Argentina (Ganz and Co., Ltd.), Ill* >
Carriage, Railway, Stainless Steel, for Italian State Railways, 34*
Waterloo and (dty Railway, 138*
* Carriers, Machine-Gun, Manufacture of, 33* Cast Iron, Welded Steel as Substitute for, 237 Castings of Aluminium Bronze, 159*, 190*
— Brittle Fracture of, Effect of Size on, 22.
See LETTERS, 490*, 530,. 570
— Welding as Substitute for, 2^57
Castleford Colliery, Centrafised Control of Coaf- Wasliing Plant, 250*
Catalagzi, Electric Power Station, 465
Catalogue.s, 51, 77, 157, 213,. 239,. 267, 280, 358,. 427, 437, 473, 489, 493, 513, 534, 542, 554, 594, 599, 614. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Caterpillar Tractor. See Tractor
Caustic Embrittlement in Boilers, Prevention of, 568, 601, 633
Cavendish Laboratory, Two-Million Volt Direct- Current Generator, 547
Cavitation and Singing Propellers, Investigations on,. 442, 470*, 512*, 532*
Cement. See Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Censorship of Scientific Journals, 229
— and Technical Institution Meetings, 417 Centenaries, Engineering, in 1940,. 14 Centenary of E.. Abbe, 66. See Emrfa, 88
— of Sir B. Baker, 338
— of Baron de Prony, 282
— of Brighton to Shoreham Railway,. 527
— of Derby Railway Works, 511, 527
— London Midland and Scottish Railway, 115, I
511, 527
— of Sir H. S. Maxim, 203. See LETTER, 339
— of Sir R. Seppings, 417
Central Electricity Board, Payment for Duplicate Grid Supplies, 2^; .30',.000-kVA
Stand-by Transformers, 288* r Annual Report, 440 ; Emergency Substations, 487; 30,000-kVA , 132/33-kV MobHe Transformer, 599*
— Station. See Power Station
— Telegraph Office, Telegram-Form Conveying System, 375*, 429*, 535*
Centre Punch,, Automatic (J. Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 401*
Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps
Centring, Movable, for Reinforcedi-Concrete Arches, 321*
Ceylon Public Works Department,. Reconstruction of Ivatugastota Bridge, 269*
Chain Track Tractor. See Tractor
Chamber of Mines Steel Products, Ltd., Are Furnace for Melting Steel Scrap, 330*
— of Shipping, Presidential Address, by Sir P.
Haldin, on Shipping Industry, 259. See 283 Charcoal, Forest Products Research Baiixl’s- Investigations on, 92
Chatley, Dr. H., on Terminal Velocities, 6 ; on Pumping of Granular Solids in Fluid Suspension, 230 ; on Theory of Meandering of Rivers, 628*
Chatterton, Sir A., Report of Uninn Memorial Committee, 233
Chemical Engineers, Institution of. Sedimentation and Flocculation, by M. B. Donald, 248 ; Heat Transmission in Evaporative Condensers, by Dr. A. K. G. Thomson, 319 ; Luncheon, 391; Presidential Address, by F. H. Rogers, on Oil, 448, 459
— Engineering, Practical Manual (Review), 302
— for Feed-Water Treatment, 568, 601, 633
— Industry, Use of Plastic Materials in, 520
— Laboratory, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481* Chemistry of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Swedish Contributions to, 548
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cherre, V., on Movable Centring for Reinforced- Concrete Arches, 321*
Chester Corporation, Proposed Queensferry Power Station, 567
— Waterworks, Dean Valve-Control Installation at, 560*
Chilcote Pumping Station, South Staffordshire Waterworks Co., 451*, 495*
Chile, British Trade with, 588
— Markets of, 497
Chinese Link-Chain Pump, 235*
Christian! and Nielsen, Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
Christie, A. G., on Postgraduate Training of Mechanical Engineers, 123
Chromium Compounds Control Order, 387, 460 Cincinnati Shaper Co., Press for Manufacture
I of Corrugated Steel Culverts, 435* Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
Cistern for Decontaminating Anti-Gas Clothing, Specification, 142
Civil Defence (Review), 556
— Engineers, American Society of, Presentation of Replica of Myddelton Cup, 94
Civil Engineers, Institution of :
The Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, Denmark, by G. A. Maunsell and J. F. Pain, 4*, 53*
Presentation of Replica of Myddelton Cup to American Society of Civil Engineers, 94
Luncheon, 441
— to United States Ambassador, 465 Award of Ewing Medal to Prof. G. L.
Taylor, 566
— of Parsons Medal to Dr. H. L. Guy, 566 The Dragline Excavator, by W, Barnes,
571*, 612*
Clark, P. W., on Rat-Proofing Ships, 150
Clay, Sedimentation of, 248
— Soils, Compression Tests on. Portable Apparatus for, 57*
Clayhithe, Cambridgeshire, All-Welded Road Bridge, 409*
Clayton, D., on Lubricants and Seizure of Steel and Bronze, 131*
Cleaning Machine, 2-cub. ft. Shot-Blast (Tilgh- man’s Patent Sand Blast Co., Ltd.), 113* Cleansing, Public, Cost of, 15
Cleveland and from, 11, 225, 253, 437, 461, 603, 623.
* Climate.
Climax Rock Drill and Engineerfng Works, Ltd,, Wodack Electric DriTT,. 178*
Cloth, Galvanised-Wirc, Specification, 142
Clothing, Anti-Gas, Cistern for Decontaminating, Specification, 142
Clutch, Friction, Twin-Disc (British'Twin Disc and Clarifiers,. Ltd.), 8*
CO3 See Carbon D'voxide
Coaches, Railway.. See Carriagefi
Coal and Carbonisation Industries,. Specification for Portable Gas-Producer FUels, 150
— for Coke ProductiMi, Investigationei on, 486
— Consumption of Ships, 328
— Earliest Industrial Use of, 468
— Economy. See Fuel Feononifi ; P'nlverised
Fuel
— Gas. See
— Marketing-Schemes, Report on. 203’
— Mine. See Colliery
— Oil Production from,. 459
— Production Committee, Appointment of, 393 in 1938, Statistics', 255
— Pulverised. See Pnlrerised Fuel
— Slack, Pneumatic Conveyance of, Energy
Required, 7
— Washing Plant, ('astleford CoUier7»
tralised Control for, 250*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
CoaHirookdale Company and the' Ne^'comen Engine, 97
Cockcroft, Prof. J. D., on Engineering and Atomic Transmutation, 547
Cofferdam for Reconstruction of Katu'gastota Bridge, Cejdon, 271*
— Steel, Storstrom Bridge, 5*
Coghlan, H. H., on Prehistoric Co-pper,. 198
Coil, Petersen, Non-Oscfllating (Oerlikon Co. Ltd.), 194*
for Protection of Transmission Systems, 579*
Coke-Oven Developments,. 486
— Producers’ Federation, Ltd., Work of, 486
— Quality of (Review),. 30
— Research Committee,.Midland, Work of, 486 Cold-Flow and Creep Characteristics of Plastics,
447*, 456*-
— Storage. See Peffiyeration
CoUege. See Education
Colliery, Castleford, Centralised Control of Coal-Washing Plant, 250*
— and Coke-Oven Developments, 4'86
— Fire Risks from Electric Cables in. Experiments on,. 360*
— Ground Pressure in. Dynamometer for
Measuring, 433*
— Mercury-Arc Rectifiers in, 546
— Reports of Secretary for Mine and and Chief Inspector of Mines, 255
— Yorkshire, Electricity^ Supply for, 203
— See also Mi/nes and Coal
Collisions. See Accidents
Coinbrook By-Pass Road Experiments on, 335
Colonial “ Wireless Chain ” (Cables and Wireless, Ltd.), 547
Combined Stress. See under Tests (Materials'), Combustion Chamber for 4,000-kW Gas- Turbine Set, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
— and Fuel Injection in Oil Engines, 466,
592*, 631*
— of Gases, Investigations on, 45 I
— of “ Pool ” Grades of Oil Fuel, 128*
— Products of Town Gas, Corrosion by, 58.
See Errata, 115
— See also Fuel; Cases
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commission, Royal. See Eoyal Commission Commonwealth. See Australia
Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Compensation, Workmen’s. See Labour Compounds, Anti-Piping, Influence on Segregation in Steel Ingots, 517
— Stress. See Tests (Materials}
Compressed-Air Cylinder, Explosion of. Report on, 555*
Driven Axial-Flow Fans, 561*
Driven Reversible Single-Drum Hoist (Sullivan Machinery Co., Ltd.), 265*
See also Pneumatic
— -Gas Cylinders. See Gas
Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor
Concrete Blocks for Erdfelyi and Vajda Tunnel Lining, 575*
— Natural Aggregates for. Specification, 280
— Piers, Katugastota Bridge, Ceylon, 269*
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— Road, Use of Salt on Frozen Surface, 335
— See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Concreting Plant for Storstrom Bridge Construction, 6*
Condensation in Marine-Engine Cylinders, 372 Condensers, Barometric, Stuart Street Power Station, 264*
— and Cooling Plants, Economic Dimensions
of, 79*
— Evaporative, Heat Transfer in, Investigations on, 319
— Marine, Fifty Years Development of, 372 Condensing Plant in Power Stations, Forty
Years’ Development in, 263*
Conductivity, Thermal, in High-Pressure Boiler Tubes, 247. See LETTER, 468
Conference on Atmospheric Pollution, 583
— on Friction and Surface Finish, 527
Congress, International, of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Liege, Proceedings, 114 •
Conservation of Coal. See Coal; Fuel: Pulverised Fuel
Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd,, Pneumatic Sludge Pump, 610*
Constructional-Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 379
Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Report, 567
Contact Maker for Gas Engines in Tropical Service, 510*
Contactor, Ignitron, for Spot Welder (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 275*
Continental Machines, Inc., Height and Depth Gauge, 427*
Contorograph, Shaw, for Surface-Finish Examination, 345*
Contracts, Building and Engineering, I.aw Relating to (Review), 556’
Contracts for Small Firms, 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTERS, 96, 122
Contractor, Dr. G. P., on Damping Capacity of Steel, 508
— Moratorium for, Decisions on, 55
— and Sub-Contractors, Responsibility for
Safety of Persons Employed by, 338
Control, Centralised, for Coal-Washing Plant at Castleford, 250*
— Gear for 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive,
105*
— — for Electric Soot Blowers (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 179*
Vargon Hydro-Electric Plant, 28*
— Panel, Chilcote Pumping Station, 495*
— System, Dean Electric, for Valves (Igranic Electric Co., Ltd.), 560*
Converters, Arc, Fundamental Theory of (Review), 30
— Variable-Frequency (General Electric Co.,
Ltd.), 458*
Conveying Systems for Telegram-Forms and Telephone-Tickets, 375*, 429*, 535*, 615*
Conveyor, Belt, Water-Hyacinth Destructor “ Kenny,” 520*
Cook, Prof. G., on Notched-Bar Test Pieces, 530. See 22*. See LETTERS, 490*, 570
Cook, Dr. M,, on Structure of Cold-Rolled and Annealed Copper, 548
Cooke versus Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, 149
Cooler, Oil, for 30,000-kVA Mobile Transformer (Serck Radiators, Ltd.), 599*
Cooling, Hydrogen, of Electric Generators, Experiences with, 295
— Plants and Condensers, Economic Dimensions of, 79*
— Tower, Water Cooling by, 598*
Cooling, L. F., on Portable Apparatus for Compression Tests on Clay Soils, 57*
Copper Alloys. See Brass; Bronze; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Cold-Rolled and Annealed, Structure of, 548
— Commercial, Classification of, 25
— Corrosion of, 345 See also Corrosion
— Crystallisation of, Infiuence of Alloying
Elements on, 547
— Industry of United States, Report, 111
—? Licences for Use of, 582
— Pipes, Action of Water on, Investigations,
260
—? Prehistoric Production of, 198
— See also Metallurgy
Corrosion in Boilers, Prevention of, 568, 601, 633
— by Combustion Products of Town Gas, 58.
See Errata, 115
— of Copper Pipes, Investigations on, 260
— Electrolytic, of Ship Structures, 425*
— Fatigue, Investigations on, 25
— of Metals, Theories and Types of, 345
— of Non-Ferrous Alloys, 159
— Research at Cambridge University, 508 Laboratory, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481* Coupling, Flexible, Bonded-Rubber (General
Electric Co., Ltd.), 356*
Cowans, Sheldon and Co., Ltd., 70-ft. Locomotive Turntable, 621
Cox, H. E., on Oilless Metal-Clad Switchgear for Alternating-Current Circuits, 383*. See 416
Cracking of High-Tensile Steel Rivets, Causes of, 150
— of Oil, Development of, 448 Craig, J., the Late, 225
Craig, J., on Iron and Steel Industry, 488 <.’rane. Floating, for Construction of Storstrom Bridge, 54*
— See also Hoists
Creep and Cold-Flow Characteristics of Plastics, 447*, 456*
— of Steel at High Temperatures, 287*
— Tests. See Tests Materials
Crompton, Col. R. E. B., the Late, 204*
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., Electrical Installation for Radio Factory, 551 ; Motors for Derby Baths, Blackpool, 553*
Crossley-Premier Engines, Ltd., Ignition Equipment for 1,600-b.h.p. Gas Engine, 510*
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil
Crusher, Rotary, Sturtevant, Chilcote Pumping Station, 454*
Crushing Mill, Water-Hyacinth Destructor ” Kenny,” 521*
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Micro Photographs
Crystallisation of Copper, Influence of Alloying Elements on, 547
Culverts, Shutter Gate for, 237*
— Steel, Corrugated, Press for Manufacture of
(Cincinnati Shaper Co.), 435*
Cunard Co., First Screw Ships of, 183
Current, Electric. See Electric
Curves, French, New Method of Constructing 215*
Cutters, Milling. See Milling under Machine Tools
Cutting, Oxygen, in Demolition of S.S. ” Mauretania,” 341.370
Cycle Industry, Position and Prospects, 135
— Motor. See Motor Cycle
( ’yclotron, Api)lications of, 547
Cylinder. Compressed-Air, Explosion of. Report on,555*
— Gas. See Gas
— Hydraulic, Cast-Steel, Repair by Welding
(International Combustion, Ltd.), 475*
— Wear, Collected Researches on (Review), 301

DAIRY Wastes, Experiments on Treatment of, 117
Dam, Gota River, Vargdn Hydro-Electric Plant, 27*
— Grand Coulee, Steel Penstocks for, 352*
— - Impounding, for Irrigation, 236*
Damping ('apacity of Steel, 508
Dani.^h State Railways, Storstroiri and Mas- nedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
— See also Denmark
Danube, River, Tunnel under, Budapest, 575* Darwin, Dr. C. G., on Thermodynamics and Lowest Temperatures, 465
David, Prof. W. T., on Temperature of Flame Gases, 241*
Davidson and Co., Ltd., Axial-Flow Compressed- Air Driven Fan, 561*
I Davies, A. S., on Coalbrookdale Company and
I the Newcomen Engine, 97
Dav^s, Prof. S. J., on Sudden Discharge of Air from Pressure Vessel, 17* ; on Kadenacy
I System of Scavenging, 19, 207. See LETTERS, 122*, 286*, 443*, 509. See Erratum, 397; on Tests of 125-b.h.p. Petter Superscavenge Engine, 43*. See LETTERS, 96, 149, 207 ; on Analysis of Characteristics of Kadenacy Engine, 515*, 557*, 617*
Davis, A. W., on Characteristics of Silent Propellers, 74*
De-Aerator, Feed-Water, Waterside Power Station, 185, 295
Dean Electric Control System for Valves (Igranic Electric Co., Ltd.), 560*
Defence, Civil (Review), 556
Delco-Kemy and Hyatt, Ltd., Bench-Type Double Grinding Machine, 129*
Delnronte, J., on Permanence of Physical Properties of Plastics, 447*, 456*
Demolition and Construction Co., Ltd., and J. Gardner and Co., Ltd., versus Canter, 338
Denmark,^Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, — Trade Statistics, 365
— See also Danish
Deptford Power Station, Developments at, 317*, 397*, 423*, 472*, 493
Baths of Blackpool Coriioration, 553*
— Railway Works, Centenary of, 511, 527
, — Research Laboratory, Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 567*
I Desch, Dr. C. H., on Metals as Engineering Materials, 176, 231, 312
“ Devastation,” H.M. Ironclad, Rolling Experiments with, 552
Dewar, Sir J., Work on Vacuum Flask, 42* Diagrams, Indicator. See Indicator
Dick, Major W. H., the Late, 62
Die-Casting, Gravity of. Aluminium-Bronze 159*, 190*
Diesel Engine Users' Association, Herbert Akioyd Stuart and Development of the Heavy-Oil Engine, by T. Hornbuckle and A. K. Bruce, 70, 101. See 67*, 94 Dngines, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion
Diesel, R., Work on Oil Engine, 67
Digging Machine. See
Dilut^o^meter for Cutting Fluids (Sternol, Ltd.), Dimensional Analysis, Application to Stresses in Railway Tracks, 4.5
Direction Finding, Radiotelegraphic. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Directories. See LITERATUEE INDEX
Discharge, Sudden, of Air from Pressure Vessel. Experiments on, 17*
Disputes, Trade. See Labour
Dixon, F. J., Chilcote Pumping Station, 451*. 495*
Dixon, Prof. S. M., the Late, 366
” Doall ” Height and Depth Gauge, 427* Documents, Photographic Reproduction of, 566 Documentation, Efficiency in, 217
Donald, lil. B., on Sedimentation and Flocculation, 248
Doncaster, D., and Sons, Ltd., Extruded Valves for Internal-Combustion Engines, 600*
Doors, Watertiglit. See Watertight Sub- division
Dorey, Dr. S. F.. on Weldingas a Substitute for Casting, 237
Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, Denmark, 4*, 53*
Dortmund, Westphalia, Tunnel Construction at, 575*
Double Reduction Gears, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Downcomers in Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation in, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
Dowson, J. E., the Late, 44
Draft Tubes, Concrete, Vargon Hydro-Electric Plant, 27*
Drainage, Land, and Reclamation (Review) 30 Draining of the Fens (Review), 404
Drake, J., Derby Baths, Blackpool Corporation, 553*
Drills and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools
Drilling, Rock, Control of Dust by Water Spray, 121
Drinking Fountain and Water Tap, Combined. (Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd.), 373*
Drucquer, L., on Oil-Less Metal-Clad Switchgear for Alternating-Current Circuits, 383*. See 416
Drums of Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation in. 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
Dry Feeding Machines for Chemicals, Chilcote Pumping Station, 495*
DuBose, Rear-Admiral W. G., on High-Tensile Steel Rivets in Ship Construction, 150
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Scholarship Scheme, 66
Duralumin, Non-Uniform Yielding During
Tests, 325*. See Addendum, 455 Dust, Coal. See Pulverised Fuel — in Rock Drilling, Control by Water Sprav,
121 ‘
Dutch. See Holland
Dynamometer for Measuring Ground Pressures 433*
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Generators

EARTH’S Crust, Formation of, 528
— Pressures, Dynamometer for Measuring,433*
Earthing, Practical Aspects, 228
Earthquakes and Structures, 528
“ Eclipse ” Automatic Centre Punch, 401*
Economics, Industrial. See Labour
— Kailway. See Railway
Economisers in Power Stations, 317, 472
Economy, Fuel. SeeEwe^
Edge, S. F., the Late, 179
Edinburgh Post Office, Telegram-Form Conveyors at, 378*, 431*

Education :

Architects* Registration Council, Maintenance Scholarships, 225
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Scholarship Scheme, 66
Electrical Engineers, Institution of, Particulars of Scholarships, 224
Engineering Training Scheme of British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 381
Imperial Institute as Educational Centre, 32
Marine Engineers, Institute of, Lloyd’s Register Scholarship, 10
Naval Architects, Institution of. Wrought Light Alloys Development Association’s Scholarship, 198
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Studentship Examinations, 198
Post-graduate Training of Mechanical Engineers, 123
Technical Education in Japan, Rise of, 229 Training Women for Munition Work, 408 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, F. H., the Late, 482
Efliciency of Boiler Plants. See Roiler Plants Engines. See Engines
Eggert, Capt. E. F., on Form Resistance Experiments, 181
Egyptian Shadouf for Raising Water, 235*
Eichelberg, Prof. G., on Investigations on Combustion-Engine Problems, 297*
Elam, Dr. C. F., on Test-Piece for Investigating Yield Point in Iron and Steel, 176* ; on Non-Uniform Yielding in Metals during Tensile Test, 325*. See Addenda?}}, 455
Elastic Modulus of Metals and Alloys, 231
Electric :
Accumulators, Applications of, 129 Alternating-Current Circuits, Oil-Less Metal-Clad Switchgear for, 383*, 416 Power Supply, Measurement of Frequency, 319
Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Arc Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric — Suppression Coil, Non-Oscillating (Oer- likon, Ltd.), 194*
— Welding. See Welding
Battery. See Accurmilator (above)
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Tests of Fire- Fighting Equipment for Electrical Installations, 139*. Annual Report, 178 ; on Earthing, 228; ? formance of Glass Insulators, 434
and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 444
Development Association Luncheon, 311
Cables, Development of, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 440
— Fire-Fighting, Tests of Equipments for, 15, 139*, 146
— and Fire Risks, Experiments on, 369*
— for Ships, 289
Specification, 582
— Trade in, 218
— Trailing, for Mining Purposes, Specification, 412
— Transmission, Effects of Short Circuits on, 352*, 405*, 478*, 539*, 578*, 608* Capacitance and Inductance of Three- Phase Transmission Lines, 354* Central Electricity Board, Payment for Duplicate Grid Supplies, 285 ; 30,000- kVA Stand-by Transformers, 288* ; Annual Report, 440; Emergency Substations, 487: 30,000-kVA 132/33-kV Mobile Transformer, 599
— Stations. See Power Stations
Contactor, Ignitron, for Spot Welder (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 275*
Converters, Arc, Fundamental Theory of (Review), 30
— Variable-Frequency (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 458*
Dielectrics for Cables, Fire-Resisting Properties of, 369*
— Liquid, “ Permitol,” for Transformers (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 490
Dynamo. See Generator; Turbo-Generator Earth Currents and Short Circuits in Transmission Lines, 478*, 539*, 578* Earthing, Practical Aspects of, 228 Electric Testing in Metallurgical Work, 421 Electrical Apparatus, Fluid-Filling Media for, 586
Historical, at United States National Museum, 229
Trade Statistics, 219
— Engineering, Mathematics Applied to (Review), 432
— Equipment for Ships, 289, 303
— Industry and Export Groups, 487, 627 Position and Prospects, 192, 218 Use of Plastic Materials in, 520
— Installations, Tests of Fire-Fighting Equipments for, 15, 139*, 146
— Invention and Re-Invention, 274, 314
— Machines, Introduction to (Review), 327
— Machinery, Imports and Exports, 192, 218
Electricity Commissioners, Letter on Electrical Development in War Time, 229 ; Steel Supplies for Electricity Undertakings, 468 ; Chester Corporation and Queensferry Power Station, 567 ; Table of Electricity Charges, 627
— Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 627
— in Mines, Use of, 255
Electricity Undertakings and Increased Charges, 627
Electrodes for Earthing, Exp?riments on, 228
— for Welding, Effects of Coverings of, 21 Electrostatic Cliarge on Conveyor Belts at Post Office, 377
Export Groups in Electrical Industry, 487, 627
Frequency of Alternating-Current Power
Supply, Measurement of, 319 Furnaces. See Fiirnaces Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo High-Frequency Currents, Heat Treatment of Steel by, 251
— Tension Transmission, Progress with ,612 . Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Ignition for Internal-Combustion Engines. See Ignition
Inductance and Capacitance of Three- Phase Transmission Lines, 354* Induction Furnace. See Furnace — Motors. See Motors, Electric Insulators, Glass and Porcelain, Performance of, 434, 449*
Laboratory, High-Voltage, U.S. Bureau of
Standards, Washington, 624
Lamps for Air-Raid Precautions in Germany, 118. See LETTER, 207
— Front, for Tramway Cars, Specification, 542
— Progress in, 276
— Trade Statistics, 219
Lighting of A.R.P. Shelters, Specification,
142
— Emergency, Use of Accumulators for,
129
— Progress in, 277
— Systems in Ships, 304 Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines. See Generators; Motors; Turbo
Magnetos. See Ignition Mains. See Cables (above) Motors. See Motors, Electric Oil Switch. See Switchgear Oscillators, Valve, Theory and Design of (Review), 164
Power. See Power
— Stations. See Power Stations Railways. See Pailways Rays. See Pbntgen
Rectifiers, Mercury-Arc, in Coal-Mining Industry, 546
Relays, Biassed Differential, for Feeder Protection (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 125*
Resistance Welding. See Welding Rolling Mills, Electric Driving of. See Rolling Mills
Rdntgen Rays. Ship Propulsion. Short Circuits, Transmisson 478*, 539*, 578*, 608*
Sphere-Gaps for Measurement of High
Voltages, Specification, 358
Steel Manufacture. See Metallurgy; and Furnace, Electric Storage Battery. Substation. Switchgear. Telegraphy. Telephony. Traction.
ways Tramways. See Tramicays Transformers. See Transformers Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Voltages, High, Rules for Measurement of, 358
— Regulator, Ultra-Rapid (Oerlikon Co.), 232
— Transmission and Distribution, Specification, 254
Welding. See Welding
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy;
Radio
— Telephony. See Telephony ; Radio X-Rays. See Rbntgen Rays See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electrical Engineers, American Institute of. A Quarter Century of Transcontinental Telephony, by Dr. F. B. Jewett, 485 ; Mercury-Arc Rectifiers in Coal-Mining Industry in the United States, by D. E. Renshaw, 546

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Operating Experiences with High-Voltage Alternators, by Wi 1). Horsley, 40
Storage Batteries: A Review of their Application, by E. C. McKinnon, 129
Discussion on Fire-Eighting Equipments for Electrical Installations, 139*. See 15, 146
Load Building in War Time, by F. W. Purse, 175
Telegraphic Type Setting, by H. H. Harrison, 213
Particulars of Scholarships, 224
Heat Treatment of Steel by High-Frequency Currents, by G. Babat and M. Losinsky, 251
Progress in Electric Illumination, by Dr. C. C. Paterson, 276
Trends in Application of Electricity in British Ships, by G. 0. Watson, 289, 303
Oil-Less Metal-Clad Switchgear for Medium Voltage Alternating-Current Circuits, by H. E. Cox and L. Drucquer, 383*. See 416
Kelvin Lecture on Thermodynamics and the Lowest Temperatures, b\^ Dr. C. G. Darwin. 465
Annual Report, 507 Modification in Journal,
Fluid-Filling Media for Electrical Apparatus, by F. Meyer, 586
Electrical Engineers, Institution of—* continued.
Meter and Instrument Section :
Measuring Frequency of Alternating- Current Power Supplies, by Morrell and G. R. Oman, 319 Transmission Section:
Practical Aspects of Farthing, Fawssett, II. W. Grimmitt, Shotter and H. G. Taylor, 228 Electric Cables and Fire Risks, by Melsom, 369*
Development of Pre-Stressed Glass Insulators, by P. M. Hogg, 449*. See 434 Mechanical Integrity in Design of Electrical Circuit-Breakers, by M. C. Hunter, 524 Irish Centre:
Electricity Supply in Ireland, by Dr. T. A. McLaughlin 239
Electrical Industry, Export Groups, 487, 627 Table of Increased Charges, 627
— Power Engineers’ Association, High-Pres
sure and Forced-Circulation Boilers, by Dr. R. P. Wallis, 246*. See LETTER, 468 Electricians, Belgian Society of, Recent Progress in Electrical Technology, by M. Heins, 611
'— Supervising, National Association of. See Supervising, Electrical Engineers, Association of
Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electro-Chemical Phenomena of Corrosion, 425* • Processes in Metallurgy, 394
Theory of Corrosion, 345
Electrolimit Gauges (Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 220*
Electrostatic Precipitation in Metallurgical Industry, 421
Elliott, L., on Superimposed Installation at Omaha Power Station, 232
Embrittlement, Caustic, in Boilers, Prevention of, 568, 601, 633
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 Court Case Under, 393
Empire Resources and Work of Imperial Institute, 31
— Timbers, Handbook of, 606
Employees. See Labour Employment. See Labour
Emulsifier, 10-Gallon per Hour (Improved, Emulsification Process Co., Ltd.), 621*
Endurance Tests. See Fatigue Tests under Tests {Materials)
Engelund, Prof. A., Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
Engines, Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire Engines
— Gas, 1,600-b.h.p., Contact Maker for
Tropical Service (Crossley-Premier Engines, Ltd.), 510*
Fifty Years’ of Pressure Scavenging in, 595*
See also Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Indicators. See Indicators
— Internal-Combustion, for Dragline Excava
tors, 572
Combustion, Effect on Oil Industry, 448 Combustion, Export Trade in, 363, 546 Combustion, Extruded Valves for (D. Doncaster and Sons, Ltd.), 600*
Combustion, Fifty Years’ of Pressure Scavenging in, 595*
Combustion, 800-h.p. Free-Piston, 299*
Combustion, New Investigations on Old Problems, 297*
Combustion, Kadenacy, Analysis of Characteristics of, 515*, 557*, 617*
Combustion, Kadenacy, 5-b.h.p. SingleCylinder and 118-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Armstrong-Whitworth Securities Co.,
Ltd.), 195*
Combustion, Kadenacy System of Scavenging in. See LETTERS, 19, 122*, 207, 286*, 443*, 509. See Erratum, 307
Combustion, for Military Vehicles, Manufacture of, 33
Combustion, Pressure and Temperature Alarm Apparatus for (“ Monitor ” Patent Safety Devices, Ltd.), 444*
Combustion, War Export Group, 363, 546
Combustion, Water-Circulation Indicator for (Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 395*
Combustion. See also Turbines, Gas
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, Four-Cylinder, for Air Com
pressor (National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd.), 277*
Diesel, 47-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder, for Welding Set, 550*
Diesel, Marine, Development of, 420 Diesel, Marine, for Oil Tankers, 121, 266 Diesel, Marine, with Reduction Gear, Application of, 121
—• — Diesel, Petter Superscavenge, 125-b.h.p. ' Two-Cylinder, Tests of, 43*. See LETTERS, 96, 149, 207
Diesel, 62 • 5-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, Fowler- '• Sanders, for Pumping Set, 150*
Diesel, 12-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder Fowler- Sanders, 305*
Diesel. See also Motorships; Marine Propulsion; Diesel Engine Users’ Association
Fuel Injection in Relation to Combustion 466, 592*, 631*
Kadenacy, Analysis of Characteristics of, 515*, 557*, 617*
Kadenacy System of Scavenging in, See LETTERS, 19, 122*, 207, 286*, 443*, 509. See Erratum, 307
Kadenacy, 5-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder and 118-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Armstrong-Wliit- worth Securities Co,, Ltd.), 195*
Marine, Costs and Weights of, 153*
266-b.h.p. Seven-Cylinder (W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 87*
Six-Cylinder, with Belt-Driven Blower, Tests of 597*
Work of H. A. Stuart on, 67*, 70, 94, 161 See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX Engines, Petrol, Coal-Gas Carburettors for, 60*
Engine, Petrol, 23-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder, for Ferguson-Ford Tractor-Plough, 570* Four-Cylinder, for Fire Pump (Harland Engineering Co., Ltd.), 245*
li’h.p., Single-Cylinder (Bradby’s Engineering Works, Ltd.), 25*
110-h.p., Six-Cylinder, for Pumping Set (Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 206*
See also Carburettors ; Motor Vehicles
— Steam, Marine, Development, 328, 371*, 381 Marine, for Early Screw Ships, 127 Marine, for Oil Tankers, 121, 266
Marine. See also Marine Propulsion; Turbines
Newcomen, and Coalbrookdale Company, 97
Reciprocating, in Electric Power Stations, 263*, 317*
for Ships, Costs and Weights of, 153*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers in Charge, Institution of. Annual Dinner, 441
— Education. See Education
— Institutions. See Institutions
— Production, Institution of. See Production
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of.
Characteristics of Silent Propellers, by A. W. Davis, 74* ; Welding as Substitute for Casting, by Dr. S. F. Dorey, 237; Electrolytic Corrosion of Ship Structures, by Dr. J. H. Paterson, 425*
Engineering and Allied Industries, Position and Prospects, 16, 108, 135, 162, 192, 218, 243, 272, 299, 322, 364, 379
— Apprentices. See Education
— and Atomic Transmutation, 547
— Centenaries in 1940, 14
— Contracts. See Contracts ; Legal
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Work of, 626
— Design, Vol. II, Lattice Girder Bridges
(Review), 431
— Education. See Education
— Industrial, Romance of (Review), 242
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National
Physical
— Materials (Review), 556
“ENGINEERING’* and Paper Shortage, 487;
Arrangements Regarding Index, 627
— Societies. See Institutions
— Standards. See Standards Institution
— Works. See Works
English Electric Co., Ltd., Electrical Equipment for Railway Carriage, 165*, 222*. See Addendum, 281 ; Electrical Equipment, Chilcote Pumping Station, 451*, 495*
English Steel Corporation, Ltd., Steel Liner for Hydraxilic Cylinder, 476*
Equilibrium Constant in Water-Gas Process, 157*
Erdelyi and Vajda Tunnel Lining, 575* Eskin, S. G., on Thermostatic Bimetals, 212, 223 Esson, W. B., the Late, 511
Ethylene-Air Mixtures, Inflammable Ranges of. Investigation on, 127*
— Flame Temperature of, 241 Evaporative Condenser. See Condenser Evered and Co., Ltd., Filling Valve for Gas-
Driven Vehicles, 60*
European War. See War and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Evacuation, War Time, Effect on Electricity Consumption, 284
Evans, J., and Sons (Wolverhampton), Ltd., Duplex Pump for Oil-Field Duty, 305*
Evans, Dr. U. R., on Corrosion Research Work at Cambridge, 508
Evans, Dr. W. H., on Dynamometer for Measuring Ground Pressures, 433*
Every, W. S., the Late, 435
Ewing Medal, Award to Prof. G. I. Taylor, 566 Excavation by Hallinger Tunnel Shield, 575* Excavator, Dragline, Development, Use and Operating Costs, 571*, 612*
— 3-Cub. Yd. “ Walking ’’ Dragline (Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd.), 513*
Excelsior Wire Rope Co., Ltd., versrts Callan, 149
Exhaust of Internal-Combustion Engines, Phenomena of, LETTERS, 19, 122*, 207, 286*, 443*, 509. See Erratum, 307
— of Kadenaoy Engine, Investigations on, 515*, 557*, 617*
— Steam Turbine. See Turbin-e Expansion Joints in Steel Penstocks, 351* Experimental Engine. See Engine
— Tank. See Tank; Models ; Ship Pesistance Explosions, Colliery. See Accidents and Colliery
— of Compressed-Air Cylinder, Report on, 555* Export Credits Guarantee Department, Work of, 623
— Groups in Electrical Industry, 487, 627 in Internal-Combustion Engine Industry, 363, 546
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Trade. See also Trade; and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Express Lift Co., Ltd., Gearing for Two-Speed Lifts, 305*

FACTORY Accidents. See Accidents
— Construction, War Time Building Bulletin, 569
— Employment of Women. See Labour
— Layout Planning and Progress (Review), 242
— Occupiers, Liability for Accidents to Workmen, 507
— Radio, Electrical Installation for (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 551
— Repairs by Tenant, Legal Decisions, 393
— Undertakings (Record and Information) Order, 363
— Ventilation in Black-Out, Pamphlet on, 531
— and Workshop Act, 1901, Decisions under, 120
Falkner, J. C., on Operation of Waterside Power Station, 184
Falling Bodies, Terminal Velocities of, 6
Falling Persons, Safety Device for (J. W. Scherrer), 183*
Fan, Axial-Flow, Compressed-Air Driven (Davidson A Co., Ltd.), 561*
— and Pumps, Propeller, Design of (Review),
477
Faraday’s Law and Corrosion of Metals, 345 Farming. See Agriculture ; Tractors Farnworth versus Manchester Corporation, 56 Fatigue Cracking in Welded Joints, Investigations on, 25, 49*
— Industrial. See under Labour
— Tests of Metals. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Fawssett, E., on Practical Aspects of Earthing, 228
Federation of British Industries, Views on War- Risks Insurance Scheme, 119 ; Views on Small Firms and War Contracts, 203. See 39, 42, 95, 311, 625. See LETTERS, 96, 112
— of Manufacturers and Producers of Great
Britain, Formation of, 39, 42. See LETTERS, 96,122. See 95, 203, 311, 625
Feed-Heating in Ships, 372, 381
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Water Heating in Power Stations, 256, 317, 397*, 472*
Softener. See Water Softener
Treatment for High-Pressure Boilers, 185, 232, 294
Treatment, Progress in, 568, 601, 633 See also Water
Fellows, C. H., on Progress in Feed-Water Treatment, 568, 601, 633
Female Labour. See Labour and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Fen Drain Widening by Dragline Excavator, 572*
— Draining of (Review), 404
— Land, Medieval (Review), 404
Fencing of Machinery, Legal Decisions on, 121 Ferguson-Ford 23-b.h.p. Tractor-Plough, 570* Ferro-Concrete Arches, Movable Centring for, 321*
Cooling Towers, Mouchel, Performance of, 599*
Pit Props, Specification, 514
Structures, Effects of Earthquakes on, 528 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Field, F. H., the Late, 179. See Erratum, 212
— Tubes in Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation in, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
Fielding, C. H., on Cooling Water by Cooling Towers, 598*
Fielding and Platt, Ltd., 700-kVA Works Substation, 291*
Film, Protective, on Tin-Plate, Production, 630 Filter, Percolating, for Sewage Treatment, Experiments ^^ith, 117
Filtering Plant, Chilcoto Pumping Station, 451*, 495*
Filtration Plant, Derby Baths, Blackpool, 553* Finniecome, J. R., on Critical Flow through Nozzles, 454*
Fire-Fighting Equipments for Electrical Installations, Tests of, 15, 139*, 146
— Risks and Electric Cables, Experiments, 369* Fischer-Tropsch Process of Oil Production, 459 Fisk Power Station, Operation of High-Pressure
Topping Plant at, 209
Flame Gases, Temperature of. Determination of, 241*
— Propagation, Theories of, 45 Flanges of Steel Penstocks, 351* Fleet. See Warships
Fleming, Dr. A. P. M., on Electricity Applied to Metallurgy, 394, 421
Flensborg, H., Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
Flight. See Aeronautics
Floating Crane. See Crane
Flood-Control Schemes, Mississippi, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 573*
Florence and Milan, Record Run by Electric Train between, 41
Flow, Critical, of Steam through Nozzles, 454*
— of Gas and Heat Transfer through Bed of
Solid Particles, 517
Flue-Gas Washing Plants in Power Stations, 317, 493*
Fluid Friction. See Air Resistance; Ship Resistance
Fokker, A. H. G., the Late, 19
Fond, Dr. A., on Economic Dimensions of Condensers and Cooling Plants, 79*
Food Investigation Board, Annual Report, 464 Ford, Dr. H., on Flow of Gas through Bed of Solid Particles, 517
Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 23-b.h.p. Ferguson-Ford Tractor-Plough, 570*
Forest Products Research Board, Annual Report, 92
Research Laboratory, Handbook of Home-Grown Timbers, 606 ; Handbook of Empire Timbers, 606
Forgings. Brittle Fracture of, Effect of Size on 22. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools Forsyth, J. S., on Inflammable Ranges of
Ethylene-Air Mixtures, 127*
Foundations, Effects of Earthquakes on, 528
— Pier, Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges,
4*, 55
Foundry. See Castings
— Work. See Die Casting
Foundrymen, British, Institute of, Cheltenham Conference, Programme, 543 ; Cancellation of Conference, 563
Fowler, Prof. A., the Late, 629
Fowler, J., Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 62-5-b.h.p. Diesel-Driven Pumping Sets, 150* ; Diesel- Driven Pumping Sets for Oil-Field Duty, 305*
Fracture, Brittle, of Forgings and Castings, 22. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
France, Collaboration with Great Britain in Munitions Manufacture, 93
— Industrial Agreement with Great Britain 284
— Shipwrights' Guilds in, 310 I
— Trade Statistics, 110, 136, 162, 193, 218. 244, 273, 300, 324 ’ > ,
— See also French
Fray Machine Tool Co., “All-Angle” Milling Attachment, 19
Freeman, S. B., on Mechanical Engineering Problems in Marine Transport. 153*
Freezing, Differential, and Segregation in Steel Ingots, 517
French and British Governments, Industrial Agreement Between, 284
— Curves, New Method of Constructing, 215*
— See also France
Friction Clutch. See Clutch
— Piston-Ring, in Internal-Combustion Engines, 297*
— and Surface Finish, Conference on, 527 Frictional Resistance of Ships. See Ship
“ Frigibloc " Refrigerating Plant, 59 Fritze, J. R., on Thermostatic Bimetals, 212, 223
Fuel Consumption of Marine Oil Engines, 429 in Power Stations, 256, 318, 423* in Ships, 153*
— Gas-Producers for Road Vehicles, Specifica
tion, 150
— Imported, Home-Produced Substitutes for.
Survey of, 337
— Injection in Oil Engines, Relation to Combustion, 466, 592*, 631*
— Institute of, Simplified Method for Estimating Thermal Efficiency of Steam Boilers, by J. W. Reber, 102* ; “ Pool ” Grades of Gas, Diesel and Fuel Oils, and their Efficient Utilisation in Oil-Burning Installations, by N. L. Hudson, R. J, Bressey and T. C. Bailey, 127*
— Liquid. See also Oil Fuel
— Motor. See also Oas; Petrol; Producer
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Producer-Gas, Distribution of, 417
— for Producer-Gas Production, 527
— Pump. See Pump
— Research at Leeds University, Annual
Report, 200
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas; Pulrerised Coal Fumes from Power Stations, Legal Aspects, 56 Furnace, Blast, American, Developments, 489 Coke for, 486
— Boiler. See Stoker
— Electric, Arc, for Melting Steel Scrap (Birmingham Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 330* for Metallurgical Processes, 394 Progress with, 612
Tropenas, for Steel Manufacture, 59
— See also Coke Ocens Fuse, Shell, (B.E.N.

GAEDE, G. ,
Super-Liners, 182
Galvanised Wire, Test for, Specification, 114 Ganz and Co., Ltd., 640-h.p. Railcars for Argentina, 111*
Gardner and Co., Ltd., and Demolition Construction Co., Ltd., versus Canter, 338 Gas, Acetylene. See Acetylene
— Carbon Dioxide. See Carbon Dioxide
— Combustion of. Investigations, 45
— Constant for Superheated Steam, 454*
— Cylinder, Explosion of. Report on, 555*
— Electric Discharge in. See Vacuum Tubes
— and Electricity Supply Industries, Co
operation Between, 337
— Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Engineers, Institution, of: Factors Affecting Flame Velocity, by Prof. D. T. A. Townend and Dr. M. Maccormac, 45; Corrosion by Products of Combustion of Town Gas under Conditions of Condensation and Re-evaporation, by F. Taylor and J. W. Wood, 58. See Errata, 115; Report of Research Executive Committee 87 ; Inflammable Ranges of Ethylene-Air Mixtures at Atmospheric and Reduced Pressures, and the Influence of Small Amounts of Nitrogen Peroxide Thereon by J. S. Forsyth and Prof. D. T. A. Town- ^57* ’ Influence of Pressure upon Water-Gas and Other Equilibria by G Sartori and Dr. D. M. Newitt, 157*
— Flame, Determination of Temperature, 241*
— Flow and Heat Transfer through Bed of
Solid Particles, 517
and Gas Works. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Gas Light and Coke Co., Coal-Gas Carburettors for Running-in and Road Service, 60*
— Producer. See Producer
— Storage of Food, Investigations on, 464
Supply and Coke-Oven Developments, 486-
— Town, Corrosion by Combustion Products
of, 58. See Errata, 115
— Toxic, in Industry, Method of Detection, 382
— Turbine. See Turbine
— Water, Process, Influence of Pressure. 157*
— See also Acetylene ; Carbon Dioxide; Carbon
Monoxide; Hydrogen; Oxygen.; etc.
Gaseous Explosions. See Accidents and Collieru
— Systems, Condensed, Physico-Chemical Properties of, 157*
Gasoline. See Petrol; Engine, Petrol Gates, Lock, Juliana Ship Canal 404
— Sector, Vargon Hydro-Electric Plant 27*
— Shutter, for Culverts, 237*
~ Sluice, for Dams, Development of, 236* Gauges for A.R.P. Lighting, Specification, 254 Appeal to Amateur Model Makers, 587
— EUctrolimit, External and Internal (Taylor
Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 220*
— Emergency Manufacture of, 547, 587
— Feeler. Draft Specification, 457
— Height and Depth (Continental Machines Inc.), 427*
~ Slip or Block, Specification, 412
Rolling Experiments with Ships and Models, 552*, 559*
Gayler, Dr. M. L. V., on Ageing of Copper- Aluminium Alloy, 548
Gear, Bevel, Curved Tooth, Generation S’"*
— Cutting Machines. See Machine Tools
— Helical, Generation of, 187*
““ Involute-Profile, Curved Tooth, Generation,
Gear, Reduction, Triple-Helical (D. Brown and Sons (Hudd), Ltd.), 239*
— Spiral, Design of, 187*
— Wheel Material, Brown-Boveri Testing Apparatus for, 96
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion . .
Gearing, Lubricants for. Investigations on, ofH
— Reduction, for Duplex Double-Acting Oil
Pump (D. Brown and Sons (Hudd), Ltd.), 411*
for Marine Diesel Engines, 121 for Ships, Development of, 373
— Transmission, 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— for Two-Speed Electric Lifts (Express Lift
Co., Ltd.), 305*
Gebel Aulia Dam, White Nile, 237*
General Electric Co., Ltd., Switch-Transformer Unit for Low-Voltage Circuits, 76; Electrical Equipment for 550-h.p. Battery Shunting Locomotive, 85*; Biased Differential Relays for Feeder Protection, 125*: Centralised Control for Coal-Washing Plant, Castleford, 250* ; 1,875- kW., Back-Pressure Turbo-Alternators, 329* ; Bonded-Rubber Flexible Coupling, 356* ; Direct-Coupled Motors for Steel- Mill Rollers, 458*
General Screw Steam Shipping Co., Ships of, 182 Generating Machine, Gear*. See Oear under Machine Tools
— Station. See Power Station
Generator, Electric, 20,000-kW, Catalagzi Power Station, 465
Forty Years’ Development of, 256, 263*, 317* 397* 423*
4,000-kW. Gas-Turbine Driven, Tests of, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
for High-Pressure, High-Temperature Plant, 184, 209, 232, 294
— - High-Voltage, Operating Experiences
with, 40
History of, 274, 314
l,875-kW, Manning Bills, Bradford. 329* 184-kW, Oil-Driven, Unattended (W. H. Allen, Sons <fe Co., Ltd.), 87*
Pioneers of, 274, 314
Portable, li-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Bradby’s Engineering Works, Ltd.), 25*
Two-Million Volt, Direct-Current, 547 12,000-kVA, Vargon Hydro-Electric I Plant, 27*
Welding, Drooping-Characteristic (J. H. Holmes and Co., Ltd.), 181*
16-kW, for Welding Set (Lincoln Electric Co.. Ltd.), 550*
See also Tnrbo-Oenerator
— Motor, 300-h.p., for 700-kVA Substation
(Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 291*
?“ Geometric ” Jig-Boring Machine, 541* German Troop-Carrying Aeroplanes, Diagrams of, 605*
Germany, Air-Raid Precaution Lighting in, 118. See LETTER, 207
— Export Trade of. Maintenance, 41
— Power-Plant Standardisation in, 538
— Trade Statistics, 110, 136, 163, 193, 218, 244, 273, 300, 324, 365
Gilmour, Sir J., the Late, 366 i
Girder Bridge, Lattice, Instruction in Engineering Design, Vol. II (Review), 431 |
— Lattice, Steel, Katugastota Bridge, Ceylon, 269* I
— Steel, Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, I 4* 53*
— Welded, for Road Bridge, Clayhithe, Cambridgeshire, 409*
— See also Bridges
Glasgow, Royal technical College Investigation on Singing Propellers, 442, 470*, 512*, 532* Glass, Houghton and Castleford Collieries, Ltd., Centralised Control of Coal-Washing Plant, 250*
— Industry, Use of Electric Furnaces in, 612
— Iron Oxide Content of. Influence of Sodium Chloride on, 264
— Optical, Work of E. Abbe on, 66. See Errata, 88
— Technology, Society of; Colour of Soda- Lime-Silica Glasses Containing Iron and Manganese Oxides, by A. Lawton and Prof. W. E. S. Turner, 264 ; Influence of Sodium Chloride on Iron Oxide Content of Glasses, by R. Halle and Prof. W. E. S. Turner, 264 ; Transmission and Radiation through Glasses at High Temperatures, by Dr. A. J. Holland and Prof. W. E. S. Turner, 265
— Toughened, for Insulators, 434, 449*
Glass, W. H., on Air Conditioning in Ships, 506 Glasses Containing Iron and Manganese Oxides, Colour of, 264
— at High Temperatures, Transmission and
Radiation through, 265
Gleason Works, Curved-Tooth Bevel-Gear Generating Machines, 82*
Glenfield <fe Kennedy, Ltd., History of (Review), 242 ; Combined Water Tap and Drinking Fountain, 373*
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon (Jo., Ltd., 550-h.p. Electric Battery Shunting Locomotive, 85*
Gloves, Rubber, Electricians’, Specification, 412 Golder, H. Q., on Portable Apparatus for Compression Tests on Clay Soils, 57*
Gota River, Sweden, Vargon Hydro-Electric Plant. 27*
Gotaverken Exhaust-Steam Turbine System, 382
Gough, G. S., on Stresses in Railway Tracks, 45 Governing of Turbo-Generators, 424 Government Contracts and Small Firms, 39, 42, 96, See LETTERS, 95, 122, 203, 311, 625.
— Railways. See Railways Governor Gear.Vargdn Hydro-Electric Plant, 27* Graham, W. V., the Late, 550
Grain Structure of Metals, Study by Sclero- Grating, 517
Grand Coulee Dam, Steel Penstocks for, 352* Graphite, Colloidal. Use in Lubricating Oil, 177* Grates. See Stoker
Gray Ijecture on Fifty Years of Marine Engineering. .312. 328. 371 * 381 420
Green, G. W. A., on Fuel Injection in Oil Engines, 592*, 631*. See 466
Green, W. A., on Tests of 125-b.h.p. Petter Superscavenge Engine, 96. See 43*. See LETTERS,149, 207
Gregory, Dr. E., on Anti-Piping Compounds and Segregation in Steel Ingots, 517
Grieve, W. H. on Oil-Groove Cutting Machine, 339. See 294*
Grimmitt, H. W., on Practical Aspects of Earthing, 228
Grinding Machines. See Machine Tools
Ground Pressures, Dynamometer for Measuring, 433*
Grunert, A. E., on Operation of Topping-Unit at Fisk Station, 209
Gun Carriers and Tanks, Manufacture of, 83*
Gunther, Dr. R. T., the Late, 287
Guy, Dr. H. L., Award of Parsons Medal to, 566

HAGUE, DR. B. on New Method of Constructing French Curves, 215*
Haigh, Prof. B. P., on Electric Welding as i Integral Part of Structural Design, 21*, 49*. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
Hajnal-Kdnyi, Dr. K., on Hallinger Tunnel Shield and Erd^lyi and Vajda Tunnel Lining, 575*
Haldin, Sir P., on Shipping Industry, 259. See 283
Halle, R., on Influence of Sodium Chloride on Iron Oxide Content of Glasses, 264
Hallinger Tunnel-Construction Shield, 575* Hamilton, J. H., Work on Pressure Scavenging, 595*
Hammers, Hand, Specification, 88
— See also Machine Tools
Hams Hall Power Station, Performance of Cooling Tower.s at, 599
; Hanchett Manufacturing Co., Parallel-Surface Grinding Machine, 49*
Hannifin Manufacturing Co., Hydraulic Presses with Sensitive Control, 569* ; Combined Lathe, Milling and Drilling Machine, 600*
Hardening Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Hardie, G. D., the Late, 148
Hardness of Metal Surfaces, Study by Sclero- Grating, 517
, —Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Hardwoods, Nomenclature of. Specification, 254 Harland Engineering Co., Ltd., Petrol-Driven Trailer Fire Pump, 245*
Harrison, H. H., on Telegraphic Type Setting, 213
Haslar Experiment Tank, Experiments on Rolling of H.M. Ships, 552*, 559*
“ Hav,” M.S., La Mont Waste-Heat Boiler,275* Haven, W. A., on Manufacture of Pig Iron in America, 489
Hawkes, Prof. C. J., on Tests of 125-b.h.p. Petter Super-scavenge Engine, 207. See 43*. See LETTERS, 96, 149
Hawksley Lecture on Development in Mechanical Engineering Plant in Power Stations, 94, 256, 263*, 317*, 397*, 413*, 472*, 492* Hayward-Tyler and Co., Ltd., Duplex Double- Acting Oil Pump, 411*
Hazelett, C. W’’., on Direct Rolling of Metals,139 Health, Ministry of, Return on Public Cleansing Services, 15
— Research Board, Industrial, Report on Industrial Health in War, 505
Heat Cycles in Steam Power Stations, 256, 317, 397*, 423
— Engines. See Engines ; Turbines
— Specific. See Specific Heat
— Text-Book of (Review), 477
— Transfer in Cooling Towers, 598*
in Evaporative Cozidensers, Investigations on, 319
— from Gas through Bed of Solid Particles, 517
in High-Pressure Boilers, 247. See LETTER. 468
in Marine Boilers, 382
in Tubes of Water-Tube Boilers, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
in Vacuum Vessels, 42*
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy
— Waste. See Waste Heat
Heaters, Air, in Power Stations, Operation of, 185,232,295
—• Feed-Water. See Feed-Water Heater Heating Plant, Derby Baths, Blackpool, 553
— Values of “ Pool ” Grades of Oil Fuel, 127* Hedge Trimmer, Electrically-Driven (Bradby’s
Engineering Works, Ltd.), 25*
Heel Indicator for Ships, 399*. See Addendum, 413
Heins, M., on Progress in Electrical Technology, 611
Helical Gears. See Gears
Helium Production in United States, 97
Herbert, Sir A., on Production Methods in War Time, 96. See 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTER, 122 ; on the Munitions Drive, 590. See 565, 625. See LETTER, 610 Herbert, A., Ltd., Portable Grinding Machine for Tungsten-Carbide Tools, 21* ; Knee- Type Vertical Milling Machine, 591*
Herbert, E. G., Ltd., Jig-Sawing and Filing Machine, 100*
Heywood, Dr. H., on Development of Centrifugal Ball Mill, 378*
Higgins Comparascoi)e for Surface-Finish Examination, 344*
Higgs Motors, Ltd., Split-Phase Fractional Horse-Power Motors, 211
High Duty Alloys, Ltd., Research Laboratories, 481*
— Frequency. See Electric
— Temperature Tests. See Tests {Materials} Highway-Engineering Terms, British Standard
Glossary of, 584
— See also Roads
History of Screw Propulsion, 97, 126, 182 Hjorth, S., Early Work on Dynamo, 274, 314 H.M.SS. See under Warships
Mobbing Machines, Gear. See Gear under Machine Tools
Hogg, P. M., on Development of Pre-Stressed Glass Insulator, 449*. See 434
Hoist, Compressed-Air Driven, Reversible Single-Drum (Sullivan Machinery Co., Ltd.), 265*
— and Lifts, Wire Ropes for, Specification, 170
— See also Crane
Holes, Fitting of Shafts in. See Gauges
Holland, Dr. A. J., on Transmission and Radiation through Glass at High Temperatures, 265
— Electricity Supply in, 175
— Juliana Ship Canal, Traffic on, 403*
— Trade Statistics, 162, 218, 365
Holman Brothers, Ltd., Air Compressor for Road Roller, 97*
Holmes, J. H., and Co., Ltd., Drooping-Cha- racteristic Welding Generator, 181*
Holmes, V., on Women and Munition Work,407
Hornbuckle, T., on H. A. Stuart and the Heavy- Oil Engine, 70, 101. See 67*, 94
Hornsby, R., and Son, Development of Akroyd Stuart Oil Engine, 68, 71, 94, 101
Horsley, W. D., on Operating Experiences with High-Voltage Alternators, 40
Hours of Labour. See Labour
Hudson, N. L., on “Pool” Grades of Fuels and their Utilisation, 127*
Humidity, Effect on Physical Properties of Plastics, 457
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 4-6-0 Type Passenger Locomotive, 630*
Hunter, M. C., on Mechanical Design of Circuit-Breakers, 524
Hunter, S., the Late, 44, 68
Hurd, Sir A., on Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing after the War, 315, 340. See 311
Huts, War Time, Building, Bulletin on, 604 Hyacinth, Water, Destructor “Kenny,” 520* Hydraulic Conveyance of Granular Solids, 230
— Machine Tool. See Machine Tools
— Power Plant. See Power Plant
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Turbines. See Turbines ; Power Plant
— See also Irrigation ; Water Hydrodynamics. See Ship Pesistaucc Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant Hydrogen Cooling of Electric Generators,
Experiences with, 295
— Flame Temperature of, 241
— in Metals, Estimation of, 479*, 509 Hydrogenation Process of Oil Production, 459 Hypoid Curved-Tooth Gear Generation, 83*

ICE. See Refrigeration
Ignition Apparatus for 1,600-b.h.p. Gas Engine in Tropics (Lodge Plugs, Ltd.), 510*
Ignitron Contactor for Spot Welder (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 275*
Igranic Electric Co., Ltd., Dean Electric Control System for Valves, 560*
Illumination, Electric, Progress in, 276
— See also Light ; Lighting ; and Lamps under
Electric
Impact Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Imperial Institute, Organisation and Work of, 31 ; Annual Report, 257
Import Trade. See Trade
Improved Emulsification Process Co., Ltd., 10-Gallon “ Impulsor ” Emulsifier, 621* Impulse Turbines. See Turbines “Impulsor” Emulsifier, 621*
Incandescent Lamps. See Lamps under Electric Incombustible Material Resistant to Incendia- ary Bombs, Testing of, Specification, 306
Inconel, Properties and Uses of, Booklet on 282, Index to ENGINEERING, New Arrangements, 627 Indexing and Abstracting Scientific Literature, 217
India, Import Trade of. Report, 336
— Irrigation Sluice-Gate Barrage, 236*
— Jaipur State Railway, 4-6-0 Type Passenger Locomotive, 630*
— Rubber. See Rubber
— Store Department, Annual Report, 120
— Sukkur Barrage, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 572
Indian Doon for Irrigation, 235*
— Forest Records, Report on Strength of Indian Timbers, 606
Indicator Diagrams, Gas Engine with Pressure Scavenging, 595*
— Heel, for Ships, 399*. See Addendum, 413
— Oil-Pressure, Electrical (Rotherham and Sons, Ltd.), 213*
— Water-Circulation, for Internal-Combustion Engines (Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd.), 395*
Induction Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric
— Motor. See Motor, Electric Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Economics. See Labour
— Engineering, Romance of (Review), 242
— Fatigue. See Labour
' — Furnaces. See Furnaces : — Health Research Board, Report on Industrial Health in War, 505
— History of Sweden, 548
— Notes. See Labour Notes under Labour
— Population, Distribution of. Royal Com
mission’s Report, 174, 441
— Research. See Research
Industries, British, Federation of. See Federa^ tion
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Inflammable Ranges of Ethylene-Air Mixtures,
Investigation on, 127*
Information, Ministry of. Appointment Sir J. Reith to, 41
Ingots, Steel, Segregation in. Influence Anti-Piping Compounds, 517
Injection, Fuel, in Oil Engines, Relation Combustion, 466, 592*, 631*
Inland Navigation. See Canals ; Rivers, etc.
— Revenue Commissioners versus Stemco, Ltd., 393
Institute of Transport. See Transport
— See Institutions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards
— Royal. See Royal Institution
Institution of Production Engineers. See Production
— Technical and Scientific. See Architects,
British, Royal Institute of; Arts, Royal Society of; British Association; British Compressed Air Society ; Chemical En-gi- wers, Institution of; Civil Engineers, American Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Consulting Engineers, Association of; Diesel Engine Users' Association ; Electrical Engineers, American Institute of; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Electricians, Belgian Society of; Engineers in Charge, Institution of; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Foundrymen, British Institute of; Fuel, Institute of ; Gas Engineers, Institution of; Glass Technology, Society of; Iron and Steel Institute; Junior Institution of Engineers; Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of; Machine-Tool Trade Association (under Machine Tools}; Manchester Association of Engineers ; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Materials and their Testing, Joint Committee on ; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of; Midland Metallurgical Society ; Naval Architects, Institution of; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of; Newcomen Society; North- East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders ; North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; Production Engineers, Institutio^i of; Royal Institution; Smithsonian Institution ; South Wales Institute of Engineers : Structural Engineers, Institution of; Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of; Testing Materials, American Society for; Women's Engineering Society ; and Wrought Light Alloys Development Association
Instruments for Examination of Surface Finish, 344*
— See also under Electric Insulation. See Electric
Insurance, War-Risk, for British Shipping, 259,283
Risk, Industrial, Postponement of Scheme, 119
— Workmen’s. See Labour
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines ; Motor-cars ; Tractors ; Turbine, Gas
International Combustion, Ltd., Repairs by Welding of 2,000-ton Cable-Sheathing Press, 475*
— Congress of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers, Li^ge, Proceedings of, 114
— Tin Research and Development Council,
Annual Report, 302 ; Report on Determination of Tellurium in Tin-Rich Alloys, 427; Process for Production of Protective Films on Tin-Plate, 630
— Trade. See Trade Invar, Properties of, 212 Inventions. See Patents
: “ Invicta ” Traffic-Line Marker for Roads, 209* Ireland, Electricity Supply in, 239, 363 Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
— Armco, Non-Uniform Yielding during
Tests, 325*. See Addendum
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast; Metal
lurgy
— Ore. See Ore
— Oxide in Glasses, Effect on Colour, 264
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— and Steel Control Orders, 34, 147, 288, 337,
386, 468, 503,543
as Engineering Materials, 176, 312
Industry, Developments, 488 Industry in Sweden, 548 Industry, Position and Prospects, 16
Iron and Steel Institute:
Annual Meeting, London:
Programme, 63, 366
B,eport of Council, 488
Honorary Treasurers’ Report, 488 Election of Officers, 488
Presentation of Bessemer Medal to Dr. A. McCance, 488
Presidential Address, by J. Craig, on the Iron and Steel Industry, 488
Researches into Structure of Alloys, by Dr. A. J. Bradley, Prof. W. L. Bragg, and Dr. C. Sykes, 488
Manufacture of Pig Iron in America, by W. A. Haven, 489
Report on Corrosion Research Work at Cambridge University Interrupted by Outbreak of War, by Dr. U. R. Evans, 508
Damping Capacity of Steel and its Measurement, by Dr. G. P. Contractor and Prof. E. C. Thompson, 508
Estimation of Hydrogen in Steel and other Metals, by Dr. W. C. Newell, 479*. See 509
Anti-Piping Compounds and their Influence on Major Segregation in Steel Ingots, by Dr. E. Gregory, 517
Heat Transfer in Flow of Gas through Bed of Solid Particles by O. A. Saunders and Dr. H. Ford, 517
Method of Sclero-Grating Employed for Study of Grain Boundaries and of Nitrided Cases; Grain Structures Revealed by Cutting, by 0. W. L. Ujunggren, 517
Iron and Steel Scrap Campaign, 89,119 Scrap Control Orders, 288, 337, 503 Works. See Works
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Pig Iron ; Metallurgy
Ironfounders’ National Committee, Work of, 333
Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges; Structures
Irrigation through the Ages, 235*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Isle of Wight, Alum Bay Wireless-Station Memorial, 391
Isler, C., and Co., Ltd., Boreholes at Chilcote Pumping Station, 451*
Italian State Railways, Developments on, 34; High-Speed Electric-Train Record, 41
— Submarine “ Luigi-Torelli,” Launch of, 199
Italy’s Entry into War, 585
— Trade Statistics, 110, 162, 365
Ivor Power Specialty Co., Ltd., La Mont Waste-Heat Boiler, 275*

JACKSON, SIR A., the Late, 122
“ Jaguar,” Oil-Tank M.S., Reconstruction of,62 Jaipur State Railway, 4-6-0 Type Passenger Locomotive, 630*
James versus Abingdon Borough Council, 338 Japan, Development of Engineering and Shipbuilding in, 229
Japanese Trade Statistics, 137, 218, 244
with India, 336
Jedlik, A., Early Work on Dynamo, 274, 314 Jernstrora, K. W., on Graphical Analysis of Pipe Stresses, 121
Jets, Steam. See Nozzles
Jewett, Dr. E. B., on Quarter Century of Transcontinental Telephony, 485
Johnson, C. H., the Late, 590
Johnson, J. A., Control of Dust in Rock Drilling by Water Spray, 121
Johnson versus Latham, 148
Joints, Welded, for Ships, Tests of, 49* in Steel Penstocks, Efficiency of, 351* Joists, Wooden, Tests of, 92
Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., Vicaco Continuous Oil Groover, 294*. See LETTER, 339 ; Phoenix Small-Part Finishing Machine, 357* ; Press for Manufacture of Corrugated Steel Culverts, 435*
Jones, G. W., on Ventilation of Manholes, 356 Jones, J. A., on Steels for High-Pressure Water- Tube Boilers, 468. See 246*
Journals, Technical, British, and Foreign Circulation, 465
— See Bearings
Joy, B. H., the Late, 44, 70
Jubilee of British Corporation Register of Shipping, 285
Judson, J., the Late, 63
Juliana Ship Canal, Holland, Traffic on, 403* Junior Institution of Engineers; Terminal Velocities, by Dr. H. Chatley, 6 ; Advantages Accruing to Forced-Circulation Boilers, by Capt. R. E. Trevithick, 143; Luncheon, 441

KADENACY Engine, Analysis of Characteristics of, 515*, 557*, 617*
— Principle Application to 125-b.h.p. Petters
Superscavenge Engine, 43*. See LETTERS, 96,149, 207
— System of Scavenging in Internal-Combus
tion Engines, LETTERS, 19,122*, 207,286*, 443*, 509. See Erratum, 307
— System, Tests of Oil Engines Operating on,
195*
Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstads Aktiebolag, 18,000-b.h.p. Kaplan Turbine, 27*
Kastner, L. J., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 207. 509. See LETTERS, 19, 122*, 207, 286*, 443*. See Erratum, 307
Katugastota Bridge, Ceylon, Reconstruction of, 269*
Kelvin Lecture on Thermodynamics and
Lowest Temperatures, 465
” Kenny,” Water-Hyacinth Destructor, 520* Kerr, Prof. W., on Problems of Singing Propeller, 470*, 512*, 532*. See 442
** King George V,” II.M. Battleship, Rolling Experiments with, 552*, 559

LA MONT Boiler, Characteristics of, 247 •
Boilers in Power Stations, 492
Waste-Heat Boiler, M.S. ” Hav,” 275*
— Laboratory, Cavendish Two-Million Volt
Direct-Current Generator, 547
— Forest Products Research, Handbook of
Home-Grown Timbers, 606; Handbook of Empire Timbers, 606
— High-Voltage, U.S. Bureau of Standards,
624
Research, Brown-Firth, Apparatus for Estimation of Hydrogen in Metals, 479*, 509
Derby, Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 567*
High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481’
— See also National Physical
Labour:
Amalgamated Engineering Union and
Armaments Production, 147
Distribution of Industrial Population, Royal Commission’s Report, 174, 441
Employment Statistics, Engineering and Allied Industries, 16. 108, 135, 162, 192, 218, 299, 364, 379
Engineering Apprentices and National Service, 175
Factory Undertakings (Pvecord and Information) Order, 363
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Health in War, Report, 505
Insurance, Unemployment. See Vnem- ployment (below)
Labour, Additional, for Munitions Work. 442
Labour and the Military Crisis, 525
— and Munitions Production, 565, 625.
See LETTERS, 590, 610
— for Munitions Work, 545
— and National Service, Ministry of.
Conference with Amalgamated Engineering Union on Armaments Production, 147 ; Work of Training Centres, 227; Message to Workpeople, 625 ; Labour for Munitions Work 545
— Notes, 20, 46, 72, 98, 124, 152, 180, 208,234, 262, 290, 316, 342, 368, 396, 422, 446, 469, 491, 511, 531, 551, 571, 592, 611, 630. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mercantile Marine, Increases of Pay in, 176
— — Personnel in United States, Observations on, 181
Munitions Production by Voluntary Labour, 625. See 39, 42, 95, 203,
311. See LETTERS, 96,122
Shipwrights* Guilds in France, 310 Training Labour for Munitions, 227
— Scheme of British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 381
Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, Annual Report, 311
— Statistics, Engineering and Allied Industries, 16, 108, 135, 162, 192, 218, 299,364,379
Wages and Prices in War Time, 91 Women and Munitions Production, 257, 407, 439
Workmen and Accidents, Court Cases on, 507
?—Compensation Act, 1925, Legal Decisions under, 508
Laing Lecture on Electric Welding in Structural Design, 21*, 49*. See LETTERS, 490*, 530,570
Lake, Ullswater, Prevention of Water Pollution at, 93
Lamps, Electric. See Electric Lancashire Boiler. See Boiler
Land Drainage and Reclamation (Review), 30 Landsberg, Dr. R., on Steam-Turbine Nozzle Efficiency, 149
Lapping and Grinding Machine. See Machine Tools
Latham versus Johnson, 148 Lathes. See Machine Tools Law. See Legal; Labour ; Patents
Lawton, A., on Colour of Glasses Containing Iron and Manganese Oxides, 264
Lead, Water Contamination bv, investigations on,118
Leeds University, Investigations on Inflammable Ranges of Ethylene-Air Mixtures, 127*; Fuel Research at. Annual Report, 200
Legal:
King versus Electricity Commissioners, 567 Labour Legislation. See Labour Law Relating to Building and Engineering Contracts (Review), 556
Patent Law. See Patents
Recent Court Cases, 55,120,148, 338, 393, 507
Special Enactments (Provision of Time) Bill and Electricity Undertakings, 390 Workmen’s Compensation. See Labour See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Leggett, W. D., on Geared Marine Diesel Engines, 121
Legislation. See Legal; Labour; Patents
Letters to the Editor, 19, 45, 96, 122*, 149, 207, 259, 286*, 339, 394, 443*, 468, 490*, 509, 530, 570, 590, 610, 623
Lew’is, Prof. W. C. M., and Water Pollution at Ullswater Lake, 93
Lewis, W. Y., on Water-Tube Boiler Circulation and Design, 291*. See 258. See LETTER,394
Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of. Presidential Address, by Sir H. Lindsay, on Imperial Institute as Information Centre, 31; War-Time Guides to British Sources of Specialist Information, 473
Licences under Enemy-Owned British Patents, 94
Liddle versus Yorkshire (North Riding) County Council, 148
Li(^ge, International Congress of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Proceedings of, 114
Lift, Electric, Tw’o-Speed, Gearing for (Express Lift Co., Ltd.), 305*
— and Hoists, Wire Ropes for. Specification.
170
— Hydraulic, Accident at Hamilton-Square
Station, Mersey Railway 67
Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Formation of, 413 ; Work of, 627
Light Production Co., Ltd., Liquid-Level Alarm, 581*
— See also Spectrography
Lighting, Air-Raid Precaution, Gauges for. Specification, 254
Raid Precaution, in Germany, 118. See LETTER,207
— •— Raid Precaution Signs, 582
—? — Raid Shelters, Specification, 142
— Electric, Progress in, 276
— Street, under War-Time Conditions, Specification, 114, 306
— See also Lamps under Electric Lilly, Dr. W. E., the Late, 69 Lime, Building, Specification, 542
— Hydrated, Specification, 88
Liming Plant, Chilcote Pumping Station, 452*, 495*
Limit Gauges. See Gauges
Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., 16-kW Diesel- Driven Welding Set, 650*
Lincoln, J. F., Arc-Welding Foundation, Essay Competition, 288, 339
Lindsay, H., on A.R.P. Lighting in Germany, 207. See 118
Lindsay, Sir H., on Imperial Institute as Information Centre, 31
Lindsay, H., Ltd., Safety Belt-Shifting Gear, 212*
Liners. See Steamers
Lining, Tunnel, ErdMyi and Vajda, 575*
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel; See also
Lister and Co., Ltd., Power Plant at Manningham Mills, 329*
Literature, 30, 163, 242, 301, 327, 404, 431, 455, 477, 556. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Scientific, Abstracting and Indexing, 217 Litigation. See Legal; Labour ; Patents Liverpool and Southport Railway,
Rolling Stock for, 165*, 222*. See
Adder3.um, 281
Ljunggren, 0. W. L., on Investigation of Steel Surfaces by Sclero-Grating, 517
Lloyd’s Register Scholarship in Marine Engineering, 10
Locks, Juliana Ship Canal, Holland, 403*
Locomotiue Connecting and Coupling Rods, Stressingof (Review), 456
— Early British, (Review), 242
— 12,000-h.p. Electric, for St. Gothard Railway, 105*
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 299
— 4-6-0 Type Passenger, Jaipur State Railway, 630*
— Shunting, 550-h.p. Battery, London Passenger Transport Board, 85*
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Lodge Plugs, Ltd., Gas-Engine Contact Maker for Tropical Service, 510*
Loeffler Boiler, Characteristics of, 247
in Power Stations, 492
Logan Power Station, Operation of High- Pressure Plant at, 294
London Midland and Scottish Railway, Centenaries, 115, 511, 527; Lightweight Passenger Rolling Stock, 165*, 222*. See Addendum, 281 ; Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 567*; 70-ft. Locomotive
Turntable, 621*
— and North Eastern Railway, Postponement
of Manchester-Sheffield Electrification. 42 ; Electrification of High Barnet Branch Line, 391
— Passenger Transport Board, 550-h.p.
Electric Battery Shunting Locomotive, 85*
London Plywood and Timber Co., Ltd., versus Rappaport, 393
London Power Co., Developments in Power Stations of, 256, 317*, 397*, 423*, 472*
— Underground Railways. See Underground
— University, New Investigations on Old
Combustion-Engine Problems, by Prof. G. Eichelberg, 297*
Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
I Losinsky, M., on Heat Treatment of Steel by
; High-Frequency Currents, 251
Love, Prof. A. E. H.. the Late, 590
Lubricants, Four-Ball Test, Wear-Load Characteristics, 567*
— Influence on Seizure of Steel and Bronze, 131*
— and Lubrication (Review), 327 Lubricating Oils. See Oils.
Lubrication Research Committee, Investigations on Lubricants and Seizure of Steel and Bronze, 131*
“ Luigi-Torelli,” Italian Submarine, Launch of, 199
Luton Borough Council, Road Roller with Air Compressor, 97*
Lysaght, D. C., the Late, 523. 630
Lythall, R. T., on Selection of Low-Voltage Switchgear, 15

MACARTNEY, W. C., the Late, 314
Macbeth, C., Bonded-Rubber Flexible Coupling, 356*
Macconnac, Dr. M., on Factors affecting Flame Velocity, 45
Macfarlane, P. G., Reconstruction of Katu- gastota Bridge, Ceylon, 269*
Mac. See also Me.
Machine-Gun Carriers, Manufacture of, 33*
— Shops. See Works and Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machine and Tests
{Materials}

Machine Tools :

Boring Machine, Jig, “ Geometric ” (Meyer Mechanical Laboratory), 541* — and Tapping Machine, 4|-in. Vertical (National Acme Co.), 61*
Cutting Fluid for Machine Tools, Diluto- meter for (Sternol, Ltd.), 594
— Machine, Oil-Groove (Vicaco Machine Corporation), 294*. See LETTER, 339 — Tools, Macrome Toughening Treatment for (Macrome, Ltd.), 438
Drill, Electric, Hammer (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 347*
— Rock, Control of Dust by Spray, 121
Electric, Wodack (Climax Drill and Engineering Works, 178*
Drilling and Milling Machine and
Double- Headed Universal (Power Plant Co., Ltd.), 498*, 577*
Grinding and Lapping Machine, Portable, for Tungsten-Carbide Tools (Van Dorn Electric Tools), 21*
Machine for Sintered-Carbide Tools (W. G. Bowen <fe Co. (Engineers), Ltd.), 435*
Machine Tools—continued.
Grinding Machine, Double. Bench-Type (Delco-Remy Hyatt, Ltd.), 129* Parallel-Surface (Hanchett Manufacturing Co.), 49*
Surface, Table-Type /Weight Electric Motors (Halifax), Ltd.), 76
— Surface Finish by, 343* Hammer, Drilling, Electric (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 347*
Honing, Surface Finish by, 343* Hydraulic Press. See Press (below) Jig-Boring Machine “ Geometric (Meyer Mechanical Laboratory), 541*
— Sawing and Filing Machine (E. G. Herbert, Ltd.), 100*
Lapping and Grinding Machine, Portable, for Tungsten-Carbide Tools (Van Dorn Electric Tools), 23*
Machine for Sintered-Carbide Tools (W. G. Bowen and Co. (Engineers) Ltd.), 435*
— Surface Finish by, 343*
Lathe, Automatic Chucking, Six-Spindle (National Acme Co.), 8*. See
Addendum, 142
— Milling and Drilling Machine, Combined (Hannifin Manufacturing Co.), 600* limit Gauging. See Gauges
Machine Tools, Acceptance Tests for, 463- See LBTTEh, 468
Allied Exchange of, 391 American, Purchase of, 547 for Armaments Production, Census of, 565. See LETTERS, 590, 610
Industry, Position and Prospects^ 272
Motorised Drive Unit for (Newman Industries, Ltd.), 156*
Trades Association. Luncheon, 257 ; Views on Acceptance Test for Machine Tools, 468. See 463
— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauges Milling Attachment, “ All-Angle ” (Fray Machine Tool Co.), 19
— and Drilling Machine and Lathe,
Combined (Hannifin Manufacturing Co.), 600*
— Machine, Knee-Type Vertical (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 591*
Planing Machine for Marine Propellers (Morton Manufacturing Co.), 500* Pneumatic Drills. See Drills (above) Press, Corrugating and Punching, for Steel Culverts (Cincinnati Shaper Co.), 435*
— Hydraulic, 2,000-ton, Repair by Welding (International Combustion, Ltd.), 475*
with Sensitive Control (Hannifin Manufacturing Co.), 569*
— — 2-ton Vertical (American Broach
and Machine Co.), 182*
— for Railway-Carriage Construction, 167* -
Sawing and Filing Machine for Jigs (E. G. Herbert, Ltd.), 100*
Surface Finish, Research on. Report, 343* Swaging Machine, Rotary (Stevens and Bullivant), 519*
Tapping and Boring Machine, 4i-in. Vertical (Acme National Co.), 61*
Woodworking Machinery, Wood-Cutting Investigations by Forest Products Research Board, 93
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Machine Works. See Machine Tools. Machinery, Dangerous, Legal Aspects of, 120
— Imports and Exports, Statistics, 16, 108, 135, 162, 192, 218, 243, 272, 299, 322, 364,379
— Use of Plastic Materials in, 519 Macrome, Ltd., Tests of Macrome Toughened
Twist Drills, 438
Madras Electricity Supply, Annual Report, 119 Magnesite Control Order, 387
Magnetic Testing in Metallurgical Work, 421 Mahadeva, S., Reconstruction of Katugastota Bridge, 269*
Mains, Electric. See Cables under Electric Malaya, Economic and Commercial Conditions in, Report, 211
Manchester Association of Engineers, Demolition of the “Mauretania,” Wilkinson, 343, 370
— Corporation versxis Earn worth, 56
— Power Stations, Developments
264*, 397*, 423*, 472*
— to Sheffield Line, Postponement
triflcation of, 42
— South Junction and Altrincham
Marine Propulsion, First Twenty Years of Screw Propulsion, 97, 126, 182
Geared Diesel Engines for, 121 Geared Turbines, Development of, 373 Geared Turbines and other Machinery in
Oil Tankers, 121, 266 Oil Engines in Ships, 420 Oil Fuel for. See Oil i'uel Steam Turbines for, Costs and Weights, 153*
Steam Turbines, Development, 372. 381 Steam Turbines and Engines, Combination of, 382
Types, Costs and Weights of Machinery for, 153*
See also Engines; Turbines; Propellers ; Ship Resistance; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Transport, Mechanical Engineering Problems in, 153*
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Marker, Traffic-Line, for Roads (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 209*
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Maryland University, Helium Production in United States, by Dr. C. W. Siebel, 97 Masnedsund and Storstrom Bridges, Denmark, 4*, 53*
Masonry Structures, Effects of Earthquakes on, 528
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Conference on Friction and Surface Finish, Programme, 527
Massey, W. H., the Late, 529 Materials, Engineering (Review), 556
— Strength of. See Stress and Tests.
{Materials)
— and their Testing, Joint Committee on,
Annual Report, 507
Mathematics Applied to Electrical Engineering (Review), 432
Mather and Platt, Ltd., Plurovane High-Lift Turbine Pump, 151 ; Pumping Plant, Chilcote Pumping Station, 451*, 495*
Matter at Low Temperatures, Properties of, 465 Maunsell, G. A., on Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
“ Mauretania,” S.S., Demolition of, 341, 370 Tests of Silicon-Steel Plates from, 23*, 50 Maxim, Sir H. S., Centenary of, 203. See LETTER, 339
May Lecture, Institute of Metals, Engineering and Atomic Transmutation, 547
McCance, Dr. A., Presentation of Bessemer Medal to, 488
McDonald, J. A. R., on Organisation of Munitions Supplies, 122. See 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTER, 96
McGregor, J. E. M., Telephone-Ticket Transmission System, 615*
McKinnon, E. C., on Applications of Storage Batteries, 129
McLaughlin, Dr. T. A., on Electricity Supply in Ireland, 239
Me. See also Mac Meade-King, Sir W., the Late, 419 Meandering of Rivers, Theory of, 628* Mechanical Engineers, American Society of. Presidential Address, by A. G. Christie, on Postgraduate Training of Mechanical Engineers, 123 ; Direct Rolling of Metals, by C. W. Hazelett, 139 •, High-Pressure, High-Temperature Superimposed Installations at Waterside Station, by J. C. Falkner, 184 ; Fisk Station Topping-Unit Operation, by A. E. Grunert, 209;
Thermostatic Bimetals, by S. G. Eskin and J. R. Fritze, 212, 223 ; Superimposed Installation at Omaha Station of Messrs. Nebraska Power Co., by L. Elliott, 232; Logan Operating Experience, by P, Sporn, 294; Permanence of Physical Properties of Plastics, by J. Delmonte. 447*, 456* ; Progress in Feed-Water Treatment, by C. H. Fellows, 568, 601, 633
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Acceptance Test Charts for Machine Tools, 463. See LETTER, 468
Luncheon to United States Ambassador, 465 Papers Prepared for American Summer Meeting, 1939 :
Motor Transport, by E. C. Ottaway, 47* Mechanical Engineering Problems in Marine Transport, by S. B. Freeman, 153*
Lightweight Passenger Rolling Stock, by W. A. Stanier, 165*. See 222*. See Addendum, 281
London Meetings, Winter Session :
Annual Report, 206 Presentation of Prizes, 206
Presidential Address, by E. B. Ball, on The Influence of the Mechanical Mind on the Development of Irrigation through the Ages, 235*. See 206 Election of Officers, 206
Thomas Hawksley Lecture on A Review of Forty Years’ Development in Mechanical Engineering Plant in Power Stations, by Sir L. Pearce, 263*, 317*, 397*, 423*, 472*, 492*. See 94, 256
Circulation of Water and Steam in Water- Tube Boilers and Rational Simplification of Boiler Design, by W. Y. Lewis and S. A. Robertson, 291*. See 258. See LETTER, 394
Report of Benevolent Fund Committee,
312. See 206
Gray Lecture on Fifty Years of Marine Engineering, by Prof. A. L. Mellanby, 328, 371*, 381, 420. See 312
Problems of Singing Propellers, by Prcif. W. Kerr, Dr. J. F. Shannon and Dr. R. N. Arnold, 470*, 512*, 532*. See 442
Fuel Injection in Oil Engines in Relation * Green,
Mechanics Applied to Vibrations and Balancing (Review), 163
— Soil, and Road Research, 336 Mediterranean, War in, 585
Meldahi, A., on Brown-Boveri Testing
Apparatus for Gear-Wheel Material, 96 Mellanby, Prof. A. L., on Fifty Years of Marine
Engineering, 328, 371*, 381, 420. See 312 Melson, S. W., on Electric Cables and Fire
Risks, 369*
Memorial Tablet to Elihu Thomson, at Philadelphia, 333
Menelaus Lecture on Electricity Applied to Metallurgy, 394, 421
Mercantile Marine, Increases in Pay in, 176 Personnel in the United States, Observations on,181
Merchant Ships. See Ships; Steamers
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Mercury-Arc Rectifiers in Coal-Mining Industry, 546
Mersey Railway, Lift Accident at Hamilton- Square Station, 67
Metals, Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— as Engineering Materials, 176, 231, 312
— Estimation of Hydrogen in, 479*, 509
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests
{Materials)
— Filament Lamps. See Lamps under
Electric

Metals, Institute of:

Action of Water on Copper Pipes, by Prof. L. Tronstad and R. Veimo, 260 Annual Meeting, London:
Report of Council, 285 Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 286 Election of Officers, 286 Platinum Medal Awarded to Dr. P. D.
Merica, 286
New President’s Message, 286
General Meeting, London:
Programme, 413
Influence of Alloying Elements on Crystallisation of Copper. Part II— Large Additions and Part Played by Constitution, by’Dr. L. Northcott, 547 Structural Changes in Copper, Effected by Cold-Rolling and Annealing, by Drs. M. Cook and T. LI. Richards, 548 Ageing of High-Purity 4 per cent. Copper- Aluminium Alloy, by Dr. L. M. V. Gayler and R. Parkhouse, 548
May Lecture on Engineering and Atomic Transmutation, by Prof. J. D. Cockcroft, 547
Metals, Non-Ferrous, British Research Association, Report on Quantitative Spectrographic Analysis with Microphotometer, 589
Ferrous, Direct Bolling of, 139
— Physical Examination of (Review), 302
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— Surfaces, Examination by Sclero-Grating,
517
— Welding. See Welding
?— See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs Metallography. See Metallurgy : Microphotographs

Metallurgy:

Alloy. Aluminium-Bronze, Gravity Die- Casting of, 159*, 190*
Non-Uniform Yielding During Tests, 325*. See Addendum, 455
— Copper-Aluminium, Ageing of, 548 Influence of Alloying Elements on Crystallisation of, 547
Licences for Use of, 582 See also Brass ; Bronze — Inconel, Properties and Uses of, 282 — Iron, Structure and Properties, 312 — Light, as Engineering Materials, 177, 313
— Nickel, Developments in, 90
— Non-Ferrous, Corrosion of, 159
— Structure of, X-ray Investigations on, 488
— Tin, Researches on, 302
Tellurium, Analysis of, 427 Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces Brass. See Brass Bronze. See Bronze Cast Iron. See Cast Iron Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens Copper Smelting, Experiments on, 198 Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Foundry. See Foundry ; Moulding Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces Heat Treatment, Age-Hardening of 4 per cent. Co})per-Aluminium Alloy, 548 Age-Hardening of Light Alloys, 313 Laboratory, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 482*
of Steel by High-Frequency, Currents, 251
Structure of Copper after Cold- Rolling and Annealing, 548
Iron Manufacture, Early, 176 See also Furnaces, Blast — Ore. See Ore
Metals, Tests of. See Tests {Materials) Metallurgical Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 626 — Industry, Application of Electricity to, 394, 421
Power Drives in, 421
— Progress in Sweden, 548
— Uses of Nickel, 90
Metallurgy, Engineering Physical (Review), 432
Powder Metallurgy, Development of, 313 ' Refractories. See Refractory M^aterials Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces — Hard-Surfacing by Welding, 334 — Manufacture, Electric Tropenas Process, 59
Electric, in United Kingdom, 395 Thermostatic Bimetals, Properties and Applications, 212, 223
Welding. See JFcWwf/
See also Iron and Steel Institute ; Metals, Institute of; Microphotographs ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Meteorites, Terminal Velocities of, 7
Meteorology, Effect of Cold Weather on Electricity Supply, 147
Methane Production in Water-Gas Process, Investigation on, 157*
Metrology Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 626
Metropolitan Electric Supply Co., Stations of, 263*
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Oil Circuit Breaker for Rural mission Lines, 73*; Catalagzi Station, Turkey, 465; 30,000-kVA,
132/33-kV Mobile Transformer, 599*
— See also London
Meyer, F., on Fluid-Filling Media for Electric Apparatus, 586 ,
Meyer Mechanical Laboratory, Geometric ’ Jig-Boring Machine, 541*
Micanite and Insulators Co., Ltd., Bushings for 30,000-kVA Mobile Transformer, 599* Microphotographs, Aluminium-Bronze, 160*
— and Photomicrograph, Use of Terms, 566 Microphotometer, Quantitative Spectrographic
Analysis with, Report on, 589
Microscopes for Examination of Surface Finish, 344*
Microstructure of Metals. See Micro-photographs
Midland Area Advisory Committee, Ministry of Supply, Inauguration of, 93
— Coke Research Committee, Work of, 486
— Great Western Railway of Ireland versus
Cooke, 149 .
— Metallurgical Society, Synthetic Materials
as Bearings for Mills, by C. D- Pliilippe, 99*
Miklosi, Dr. C., on Notched-Bar Test Pieces, 490. See 22*. See LETTERS, 490*, 530,570
Milan and Florence, Record Run b5’^ Electric Train between, 41
Military Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
— Motor Transport. See Motor ; Tank Mill, Ball, Centrifugal, Development of, 378*
— Rolling. See Rolling Mills.
Miller, W. E., on Ventilation of Manholes, 356
Milling Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools
Mines, Chief Inspector of. Annual Report, 255
— Department, Report on Coal-Marketing
Schemes, 203; Survey of Home- Produced Substitutes for Imported Fuels, 337; Speciflcations for Reinforced- Concrete Pit Props, 514
— Ministry of. Appointment of Coal Pro
duction Committee, 391
— Open-Cast Iron Stone, Use of Dragline
Excavators in, 613*
— Secretary for, Annual Report, 255
— United States Bureau of. See United States
— See also Coal; Collieries ; Mining ; Ores ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineral Oils. See Oils
— Technology and Grade of Ore, Report, 202
— See also Coal: Mining; Ores; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mining Developments, Influence of Grade of Ore on, 202
— Industry, Asbestos, Report, 504
of Sweden, 548
— and Quarrying Industries in 1938, Statis
tics, 256
— Trailing Cables for, Specification, 412
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ministry of Health. See. Health
Labour and National Service. See under Labour
Mines. See Mines
Supply. See Supply
Transport. See Transport
Minworth Sewage Works, Exi)eriments with
Percolating Filters at, 117
Mississippi Flood-Control Schemes, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 573*
Mix and Genest Telephone-Ticket Transmission System, 615*
Model Experiments, Rolling of H.M. Ships, 552*, 559*
on Singing Propellers, 443. 470*, 512*, 532*
See also Aeronautics ; Tank Experiments
— Makers, Amateur, and War Effort, 587 Modulus of Elasticity of Metals and Alloys, 231 Molybdenum Steels, Creep Properties of, 287* “Monitor” Patent Safety Devices, Ltd.,
Pressure and Temperature Alarm Apparatus, 444*
Montgomrev, J. E., on the Late Sir T. II. Beare, 629. See 586, 607*
Moratorium for Contractors, Decisions on, 55 Morgan, W. J., on Machine-Tool Tests and Alignments, 468. See 463
Morley versus Staffordshire County Council, 148
Morrell, F. 0., on Measuring Frequency of Alternating-Current Supply, 319
Mortar, Lime-Cement, Specification, 88
Morton Manufacturing Co., Planing Machine for Marine Propellers, 500*
Motor Barge ” Kenny,” with Water-Hyacinth Destroying Equipment, 520*
— Car Engines. See Engines, Petrol
Engineers. See Automobile Engineers Fuels. See Petrol
Military. See Motor Vehicle; Tanks Use of Plastic Materials in, 519
See also Motor Cycles; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Coaches, Design and Types of, 47*
— Compressed-Air, for Hoist (Sullivan Machinery Co., Ltd.), 265*
— Cycle Industry, Position and Prospects, 135
— Electric, 145-b.h.p., Chilcote Pumping Station, 452*
for Coal-Washing Plant, Castleford, 250*
— .— Derby Baths, Blackpool, 553*
Direct-Coupled, for Steel-Mill Rollers (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 458*
Direct-Current, Use in Coal-Mining Industry, 546
for Dragline Excavator, 572 Induction (Review), 327
for Machine-Tool Drives (Newman Industries, Ltd.), 156*
Motors, Electric, Manningham Mills, Bradford, 330*
in Ships, 303
Single-Phase, for 12,000-h.p. Locomotive, 105*
Split-Phase, Fractional Horse-Power (Higgs Motors, Ltd.), 211
235-h.p. Traction, for Railway Carriage, 165*, 222*. See Addendum, 281
— Generator, 300-h.p., for 700-kVA Substation
(Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 291*
— Goods Vehicles, Design and Types of, 47*
— Marine, Engines; Marine Propulsion ;
Motor ships
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 108
— Internal-Combustion. See Engines ; Tractors
— OmnibuseSj^De^gn and Types of, 47*
— Paraffin.
— Petrol.
— Plough. See Tractors
— Road Rollers. See Road Rollers
— Spirit. See Petrol
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Vehicles, Armoured, Tanks, and Machine-Gun Carriers, Manufacture of, 33*
Brush-Koela Gas Producer for. 70*, 532* Distribution of Producer-Gas Fuels for, 417
Emergency Portable Gas Producer for 173. See Errata, 198
Gas-Driven, Filling Valve for, 60*
Goods and Passenger, Design and Types, 47*
Imports and Exports, 108
Producer Gas for, 527
Producer-Gas Fuels for. Specification, 150
Motorship “ Hav,” La Mont Waste-Heat Boiler, 275*
— Oil-Tank, Design of, 121, 266
Tank, “Jaguar,” Reconstruction of, 62
— Types, Costs and Weights of Machinery for,
153*
— See also Marine Propulsion
Mouchel Ferro-Concrete Cooling Towers, Performance of, 599*
Moulds for Aluminium-Bronze Die-Castings, 190*
Mourton versus Poulter, 149
Mucklow, Dr. G. F., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 286*. See LETTERS, 19, 122*, 207,‘443*, 509. See Erratum, 307 Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers
Munitions Factories, Women in. 407, 439
— Manufacture, Anglo-French Collaboration,
93
— Production, Acceleration of, 565, 625. See
LETTERS, 590, 610
and Labour, 525
in War Time, 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTERS, 96,122
— Supply, Organisation of, 14
— Training Labour for, 227
— Work, Additional Labour for, 442
Organisation of Labour for, 54,5 Training Women for, 407, 439
— Workers, Health of, 505
Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., Hard-Surfacing Electrodes for Steel, 334
Museum, National, United States, Historical Electrical Apparatus at, 229
Myddelton Cup, Presentation of Replica to American Society of Civil Engineers, 94

NATIONAL ACME CO., Six-Spindle Automatic Chucking Lathe, 8*. See Addendum^ 142 ; 4^-in. Vertical Boring and Tapping Machine, 61*
— Association of Supervising Electricians.
See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
— Expenditure, Report of Select Committee,
587
National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd., Diesel- Driven Two-Stage Air Compressor, 277*
— Physical Laboratory, Investigations on
Lubricants and Seizure of Steel and Bronze, 131* ; Formation of New Department of Light, 413 ; Annual Report, 626
Naval Architects, Institution of :
Wrought Light Alloys Development Association’s Scholarship, 198
Spring Meeting, London:
Programme, 139
Report of Council, 311 Election of Officers, 312
Papers for Written Discussion :
The Shipbuilding and Ship-Repairing ’Industries after the War, by Sir A. Hurd, 315, 340. See 311
Measurement of Heel and Trim, by T. U. Taylor, 399*. See Addenda'tn, 413
Rolling Experiments with Ships and Models in Still Water, by R. W. L. Gawn, 552*, 559*
Naval Architects and Marine En^:ineers, International Congress, Liege, Proceedings, 114 and Marine Engineers, Society of. New
York Meeting : Ship Plating under Compression and Hydrostatic Pressure, by H. W. Bengston, 121 : Graphical Analysis of Pipe Stresses, by 0. J. Baggerud and K. W. Jernstrom, 121 ; Modern Tanker Design, by N. J. Pluymert, 266. See 121 : Geared Diesel Marine Application, by Lieut. Comdr. W. D. Leggett, Junr., 121 ; Ship Rat-Proofing, by P. W. Clark, 150; Important Considerations in Use of High-Tensile Steel Rivets in Shipbuilding, by Rear-Admiral W. G. Dulk)se, 150 ; Further Form Resistance Experiments, by Capt. E. F. Eggert. 181 : Observations Regarding Merchant Marine Personnel, by Prof. H. L. Seward, 181 ; American Super-Liners—They will Pav!, by G. C. Gaede, 182
Naval Architecture, Watertight Subdivision of Ships. See Watertight
See also Warships
— Construction in Prance, 1614-1789, 310 See also Warships
Navigation, Wireless Telegraphy in. See7We- graphy, Wireless
Navvy. See
Navy, British. See H.M, under Warships
— Italian. See Italian under Warships
— Sec also Naval; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Nebraska Power Co., Omaha Station High- Pressure Plant, 232
Neill, J., <fe Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., Automatic Centre Punch, 401*
Netherlands Graving Dock Co., Reconstruction of Oil-Tank M.S. “ Jaguar,” 62 Netting, Galvanised-Wire, Specification, 142 Neuchatel, 4,000-kW Emergency Gas-Turbine Set, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
Newcomen Society: First Twenty Years of Screw Propulsion, 1838-58, Part II, by Engineer-Captain E. C. Smith, 126, 182. See 97 ; Coalbrookdale Co. and Newcomen Engine, 1717-69, by A. S. Davies, 97 ; Prehistoric Copper and Some Experiments in Smelting, by H. H. Coghlan, 198 ; Diary of J. Brindley, by A. Titl^y, 198; Electrical Invention, ' Invention, by W. T. O’Dea, 314. 274; Amedee Bollee, Pioneer of Mechanical Road Locomotion, by J. Nicholls, 314; \ ,
E. <fe R. Wailes, 468 ; Earliest Industrial Use of Coal, by Dr. T. T. Read, 468 ; Summer Meeting, Programme, 544; Proceedings, 606
Newell, Dr. W. C., on Estimation of Hydrogen in Metals, 479*. See 509
Newitt, Dr. D. M., on Influence of Pressure upon Water-Gas and other Equilibria, 157* Newman Industries, Ltd., Motorised Drive Unit for Machine Tools, 156*
New South Wales, Statistics of Electricity Supply in, 507
Wales Department of Works’ Annual Report, 570
— York, Port of. Annual Report, 509
Nichols, J. R., on Amedee Bollee and Road Locomotion, 314
Nickel Industry in 1939, Report, 90
Nile, Gebel AiUia Dam, 237* Nitrided Surfaces, Study by Sclero-Grating, 517
Noise from Marine Propellers, Investigations on, 74*, 442 470* 512* 532*
Non-Eerrous Metals. See Metals ; Metallurgy North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Sliipbuilders: Laing Lecture on Electric Welding as Integral Part of Structural Design, by Prof. B. P. Haigh, 21*, 49*. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570; Creep at High Temperatures, by H. J. Tapsell, 287* ; Air Conditioning in Ships’ Passenger and Cargo Spaces, by W. H. Glass, 506
— of England Institute of Mining and
Mechanical Engineers, Studentship Examinations, 198
North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co., Problem of Purchase of, 390
— Notes from, 11, 37, 63, 89, 115, 143, 171,
199, 225, 252, 281, 307, 333, 358, 387, 413, 437, 461, 483, 503, 523, 543, 563, 583, 603, 623. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Northcott, Dr. L., on Crystallisation of Copper, 547
Norwegian Technical High School, Trondheim, Investigations on Action of Water on Copper Pipes, 260
— Veritas, Report for 75-Year Jubilee (Re
view), 30
Notched-Bar Tests. See Tests {Materials} Notes on New Books. See Books and

Obituary (moved to separate index)
O’Dea, W. T., on Electrical Invention and Re-Invention, 314. See 274
Odling, J., and Co., Ltd., Road-Finishing Machine, 530*
Oerlikon, Co., Ltd., 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105* ; Non-Oscillating Petersen Coil, 194*; Ultra-Rapid Voltage Regulator, 232
Oil Cooler for 30,000-kVA Mobile Transformer (Serck Radiators, Ltd.), 599*
— Engines. Engines, Oil; Tractors
— Fuel, Imported, Home-Produced Substitutes for, 337
” Pool ” Grades, Efficient Utilisation of, 127*
— Groove Cutting Machine (Vicaco Machine Corporation), 294*. See LETTER, 339
— Insulating, for Electrical Apparatus, 586 Testing Set for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 122*
— Its History, Production and Uses, 448, 459
— Lubricating, Conservation of, 177*
Consumption in Ships, 154
Influence on Seizure of Steel and Bronze, 131*
— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Tractors
— Pressure Indicator (Rotherham and Sons, ' Ltd.), 213*
— Production from Coal, 256
— Switches, See Sioitchgear
— Tankers, Design of, 121, 266
— Tractors. See Tractors
— See also Lubrication
Omaha Power Station, Operation of High- Pressure Plant at, 232
Oman, G. R., on Measuring Frequency of Alternating-Current Supply, 319
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
Operating Gear for Bascule Span, Masnedsund Bridge, 55
— Machinery for Barrage Sluice Gates, 236* Optical Glass. See Glass
— Instruments for Examination of Surface
Finish, 344*
Optics, Work of E. Abbe, 66. See Errata, 88
Oram, G. C., Reconstruction of Katugastota Bridge, 269*-
Ore, Influence Grade on Mining Development, Report, 202
— Iron, Swedish Industry, 548
Quarries, Use of Dragline Excavators in,613*
— Non-Ferrous Metal, Ministry of Supply
Committee, 281
Oscillation, Torsional, in Marine Oil Engines, 420
— Electric. Electric ; Valves, Thermionic Ottaway, E. C., on Motor Transport, 47* Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Aspects of Earthing in, 228
Power Transmission in Canada, 518 Power Transmission, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 440
Power Transmission, Glass and Porcelain Insulators for, 434, 449*
Power Transmission, Progress with, 612 Power Transmission, Rural, Oil Circuit Breaker for, 73*
Power Transmission, Three-Phase, Effects of Short Circuits in, 352*, 405*, 478*, 539*, 578*, 608*
Overseas Trade Department, Committee on Export Trade, 147 ; Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Malaya, 211 ; Survey of Import Trade of India, 336 Oxygen in Boiler Water, Elimination of, 568, 601, 633
— in Water, Action on Copper Pipes, 261

PACIFIC, Conquest by Steam (Review), 327
Pain, J. F., on Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
Paint, Fluorescent and Phosphorescent, Specification, 300
Painting Machine for Road Lines, (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 209*
Panjnad Sluice-Gate Barrage, Punjab, 236* Pantographs for 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
Paper, Consumption, Control and Salvage of, 203, 284
— Industry, Canadian, Position of, 382
— and Pulp Industry, Canadian, Electricity
Supply in, 518
— Shortage and “ ENGINEERING,” 487, 027 Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Oil
Paraffin Tractors. See Tractors
Parkhouse, R., on Ageing of Copper-Aluminium Alloys, 548
Parsons, C. A., <fe Co., Ltd., Turbo-Alternators, 97
Parsons Co., Disc Tamping Roller, 303*
Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd., 110-h.p. Six-
Cylinder Petrol Engine, 206* ; Water- Circulation indicator for Internal-Combustion Engines, 395*
— Medal, Award to Dr. H. L. Guy, 566
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine
Propulsion
Particles, Solid, Gas Elow and Heat Transfer through Bed of, 517
— Terminal Velocities of, 6
Partridge, G. W., the Late, 490. See Errata, 523
Passenger Steamers. See Steamers
Patents, British, Enemy-Owned, Licences under, 94
— Record, 26*, 52*, 78*, 104*, 130*,
186*, 214*, 240*, 268*, 296*, 348*, 374*.402*, 428*, 450*, 474*, 514*, 534*, 554*, 574*, 594*,
634*. Sec PATENT RECORD INDEX
Paterson, Dr. C. C., on Progress in Electrical Illumination, 276
Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd., Water- Softening Plant, Chilcote Pumping Station, 451*, 495*
Paterson, Dr. J. H., on Electrolytic Corrosion of Ship Structures, 425*
Payment of Labour. See Labour Peake, A. E., All-Welded Road Bridge,
Clayhithe, Cambridgeshire, 409*
Pearce, Sir L., on Developments in Mechanical Engineering Plant in Power Stations, 263*, 317*, 397*, 423*, 472*, 492*. See 94, 256
Pell-Walpole, Dr. W. T., on Determination of Tellurium in Tin-Rich Alloys, 427
Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co., First Screw Sliips of, 183
Penstocks for Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 349*
Perkins-Field Tubes in Water-Tube Circulation in, 258, 291*. Sec 394
“ Permitol ” Liquid Dielectric for formers, 490
Persian Wheel with Peripheral Buckets, 235* Personal, 10, 36, 62, 88, 114, 142, 170, 198, 224, 252, 280, 306, 332,358, 386, 412, 436, 460, 482, 502, 522, 542, 562, 582, 602, 622
Peru, British Trade with, 588
— Markets of, 497
Petersen Coil, Non-Oscillating (Oeiiikon, Ltd.), 194*
for Protection of Transmission Systems, 579*
Petri Glass Dishes, Specification, 502
Petrol, History of, 448
— Motors.
— Tractors. Petroleum.
Philippe, C. D., on Synthetic Materials as Bearings for Mills, 99*
Phoenix Telephone and Electric Works, Ltd., Small-Part Finishing Machine, 357*
Photographic Reproduction of Documents, 566 Photography, Application to Examination for Surface Finish, 344*
Photometry and Progress in Electric Illumination, 277
Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physical Examination of Metals (Review), 302
— Laboratory. See National Physical Physics, Atomic Transmutation and Engineering, 547
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Work of. 626
— Heat, Text-Book on (Review), 477
— Thermodynamics and Lowest Tempera
tures, 465
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Piaggio, Messrs., Stainless-Steel Railway Carriages, 34*
Picardy Post Mill, 468 Piers, Concrete, Katugastota Bridge, Ceylon, 269*
— Storstroni and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 55*
Pig-Iron Manufacture in America, 489 Pile Driver, Plastic “ Dolly ” for, 519 Pinions. See Gears; Gearing; Marine, Propxdsion
Pipes, Copper, Action of Water on, Investigations on,260
— Line, Head Losses in, 349*
— Steam. See Steam Pipes
— Stresses, Graphical Analysis of, 121
— See also Tubes
Piping in Steel Ingots, Compounds for Combating, 517
Pirie, Appleton and Co., Ltd., versus Boarland, 393
Piston-Rings, Internal-Combustion Engine, Blow-by and Friction of, 297*
“Pistonair” Reversible Single-Drum Hoist, 265*
Pit Props, Reinforced-Concrete, Specification, 514
Planing Machine. See Machine Tools
Plastic Strain and Yield Point in Mild Steel, 22. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
Plastics, Behaviour at High Temperatures, 457*
— as Constructional and Engineering Materials. 519
— as Materials for Rolling-Mill Bearings, 99*
— Permanence of Physical Properties, 447*, 456*
Plates, Silicon-Steel, from S.S. “Mauretania,” Tests of, 23*, 50
Plating, Ship, Strength under Compression, 121 Plough, Motor. See Tractor
Pluymert, N. J., on Modern Tanker Design, 266. See 121
Pneumatic Conveyance of Granular Solids, 230 of Slack Coal, Energy Required for, 7
— Conveying System for Telegram Forms and
Telephone Tickets, 375, 431, 535*, 615*
— Testing Machine for Shell Fuses (B.E.N.
Patents, Ltd.), 165*
Pollard, F. E., the Late, 468
Pollution, Atmospheric, Conference on, 583
— Water, Kesearch Board, Aninm} RenoTt,
117
at UJlswater Lake, Pre^’cntion of, 93
Population, Industrial, Distribution of, Koyal Commission’s Report, 174, 441
Port of London Authority and J, Russell (t Co., Rippon, 507
— of New York, Annual Report, 509
— of Rangoon, Annual Report, 308
— of Townsville, Queensland, Report, 1936-38,
258
Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
Portal Frames for Road Bridge, Clayhithe, Cambridgeshire, 409*
Post Office, Telegraph-Form and TelephoneTicket Conveying Systems, 375*, 429*, 535*, 615* ; Transportable Petrol-Driven Air-Compressor Plant, 421*
Potter, II. V., on Plastics as Constructional and Engineering Materials, 519
Poulter versus Mourton, 149
Powder Metallurgy, Development of, 313
— Smokeless, Invention of, 203. See LETTER,
339
Powdered Coal. See Pulverised Fuel
Power Factor Improvement in Radio Factory, 551
— Gas. See Engines, Gas ; Producers
Power Plant Co., Ltd., 18-ft. Double-Headed Universal Gear-Hobbing Machine, 498*. 577*
Hydro-Electric, in Canada, Annual Report, 185, 518*
Hydro-Electric, Irish, 363
Hydro-Electric, in Madras, 119
Hydro-Electric, Penstocks for, 349*
Hydro-Electric, Vargdn, Sweden, 27* Standardisation, 538
See also Poiver Stations; Power, Water; Substations
— Press. See Machine Tools
— for Ship Propulsion. See Marine Pro
pulsion; Ship Resistance
— Station, Electric, British, Machinery for, 192 Electric, Catalagzi, Turkey, 465
Electric, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 440
Electric, Condensers and Cooling Plant for, 79*
Electric, Development of Mechanical Engineering Plant in, 94, 256, 263*. 317* 397*, 423*, 472*, 492*
Electric, Experiences with High-Voltage Alternators in, 40
Electric, Fire-Fighting Equipments for. Tests of, 15, 139*, 146
Electric, Fumes from. Legal Aspects, 56 — Electric, Hams Hall, Performance of Cooling Towers at, 599
Electric, Irish, 239, 363
Electric, Manningham Mills, Bradford, 329*
5}ectric, Queensferry, Proposed, 567 Electric, Standardisation of Plant, 538 Electric, United States, Operation of High-Pressure Plants in, 184, 209, 232, 294
Electric, Aspects of Earthing in, 228
— — See also Power Plants; Substations
— Steam, in Agriculture, 362
Supply, Electric, Alternating - Current Measuring Frequency of, 319
Ejectric, Applied to Metallurgy, 394, 421 Canada, Annual Report, 185,
Electric, Chilcote Pumping Station, 452* Electric, Co-operation between Undertakings and Gas Industry, 337
i O'PA Dsyelopment of Consumption, iyiy~iy4Uj3x1
Electric, Developments in War Time, 229 Electric, Effect of Cold Weather on 147 Electric, Effect of Evacuation on, 284
- Electric, Government Policy Recardinn- Air-Raid Damage, 583 ’
Electric, Gro\rth in Demand for, 493* Electric, in Holland, 175
Electric, Increased Charges for, 627
Electric, in Ireland, 239, 363
Sf^ctric, for Italian State Railways 34* Electric, Load Building in War Time’ 175 Madras, Annual Report,’ 119 Manningham Mills, Bradford, 329* ; Cost of, 330*
"‘lies. Statistics 01, 507
-Electric, Payment for Duplicate Grid Supplies, 285
Electric, Progress in, 611
^w^’chase of Undertakings, 390 Electric, for Radio Factory, 551
' Accumulators for, 129
Damage to Undertakings,
— — Electric, for Yorkshire Collieries, 203
— Take-off Unit for Tractor (D. Brown
Tractors, Ltd.), 590*
— Transmission, Overhead Lines, Aspects of
Earthing in, 228
Lines, in Canada, 518
Central Electricity Board s Report, 440
-Overhead Lines, Glass and Porceiain Insulators for, 434, 449*
Lines, Progress with, 612
Three-Phase, Effects Circuits in, 352* 405* 478* 539*, 578*, 608* ’ ’ ’
Z Marine Propulsion
Water, Canadian Resources, 185, 518* hydraulic; Power Plants, ^^a^bines, Hydraulic ^-^^^^rnai and Internal Electrohmit Gauges, 220*
Indtstiy, Metallurgical
Preservation of Timber, Investigations on 92 Presidential Address to American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, by A. G. Christie Mechanical
Presidential Address to Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, by bir H. Lindsay, on Imperial Institute as Information Centre, 31 T»
to Chamber of Shipping, by Sir P. Haldin, on Shipping Industry, 259. See
2^ to Institution of Chemical Engineers, bv F. H. Rogers, on Oil, 448, 459
to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, bv E. B. Ball, on Development of Irrigation through the Ages, 235*. See 206
to Iron and Steel Institute, by J. Craig, on Iron and Steel Industry, 488
Press. See Machine Tools
Pressure, Ground, Dynamometer for Measur- and^’ Temperature Alarm Apparatus
(“ Monitor ” Patent Safety Devices, Ltd.), 444*
Prices and Wages, Problem of, 91
Primary Battery. See Accumulator under Electri'C
Proctor, C. F., the Late, 490. See Errata, 603
Producer, Gas, Brush-Ko el a, for Motor Vehicles, 70*, 532* _
_ — Emergency Portable, for Motor Aehicles, 173. See Errata, 198
Engine. See Engines, Gas
Fuels for Motor Vehicles, Distribution
Fuels for Road Vehicles, Specification, 150 527
Production Engineers, Institution of . Research on Surface Finish, by Dr. G. 343* ; Acceptance Test Charts for Machine Tools, 463. See LETTER, 468
— Methods in War Time, 39, 42, 95, 203,311, 625. See LETTERS, 96,122 ,
Profilometer, Abbott, for Surface-Finish Examination, 345*
Pronv, Baron de, Centenary of, 283
Propellers, Marine, Early Progress with, 97, 126,182
Planing Machine for, 500* Silent, Characteristics of, 74* Singing, Investigations on, 442, 512* 532*
Station, 451* _ , , ,
Portable, li-h.p. PetroJ-Driven (Brad- by’s Engineering Works, Ltd.), 25
— and Fans, Propeller, Design of (Review), 477
Fire. Trailer, Petrol-Driven (Harland Engineering Co., Ltd.), 245*
Jerk, for Fuel Injection in Oil Engines, 466,593*, 631
— Link-Chain, Chinese, 235*
— Pneumatic, for Sludge (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 610*
— Reciprocating, Duplex Double-Acting, Oil (Hayward-Tyler and Co., Ltd.), 411
Pumping of Granular Solids in Fluid Suspen- piant^ Coal-Washing Plant, Castleford, 250* Derby Baths, Blackpool, 553*
Set, 62-5-b.h.p. Diesel-Driven (J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 150*
Diesel-Driven, Portable, for Oil-Field Duty (J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 305*
110-h.p. Petrol-Engined (Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd.), 207*
Station, Chilcote, South Staffordshire Waterworks Co., 451*, 495*
Punch, Centre, Automatic (J. ^ellland Co. (Shef- Purchasl^’of Electricity-Supply Undertakings, Problems of, 390
Purification of Sewage. See Sewage — of Water. See Water .
Purse, F. W., on Load Building in War Time, 175
Purvis, Prof. F. P-, the Late, 229, 232

QUALITY Control, Statistical Method from View Point of (Review), 432 .
Quarries, Use of Dragline Excavators in, 613
Quarrying and Mining Industries in 1938, Statistics, 256
Queensferry Power Station, Proposed, 56/
Queensland, Port of Townsville, Report 1936-38, 258
Quicksilver. See Mercury
Quinney Testing Machine, Recording Apparatus for, 325*

RADIATION’ Through Glass at High Temperatures, 265 '
Radio Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 627
— Direction Finding, Glossary of Terms, 161
— Equipment for Ships, 289
— Factory, Electrical Installation for (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 551
Radiotelegraphy. See also Telegraphy, Wireless Radiotelephony. See also Telephony, Wireless Railcars. See Carriages, Railway
Railroads. See Railways
Railway Accidents. See Aecidents
— Argentine State, Ganz Railcars for, 111*
— Bridge. See Bridge
— British, Centenaries of Derby Works and Brighton-Shoreham Railway, 511, 527 Increased Charges on, 441 Past and Future of, 361
in War Time, 361
War-Time Financial Arrangements, 201 — Carriage. See Carriage
— Danish State, Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, 4*, 53*
— Electrification, British, Progress with, 193 — Italian State, Developments on, 34*; High-Speed Electric-Train Record, 41
— Jaipur State, 4-6-0 Type Passenger Locomotive, 630*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London Midland and Scottish, Centenaries. 115,511,527 ; Manufacture of Lightweight Passenger Rolling Stock, ,165*, 222*. See Addendum, 281 ; Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 567* ; 70-ft. Locomotive Turntable, 621*
and North Eastern, Postponement of Manchester-Sheffield Electrification, 42; Electrification of High Barnet Branch Line, 391
— Manchester South Junction Altrincham, Report on Stretford Accident, 590
— Mersey, Lift Accident at Hamilton-Square Station, 67
— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— and Road Transport Problem (Review), 477
— Rolling Stock Industry, Position and Pro.s- pects, 299
Stock. See also Carriages; Locomotives ; Wagons
— South Australian, Annual Report, 285
— St. Gothard, 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— Street. See Tramways
— Swiss Federal, 13,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— Tracks, Application of Dimensional Analysis to Stresses in, 45
— Tube. See Undergroxcnd
— Vnderground. See XJnderground
— Wagons. See Wagons
— Waterloo and City, New Rolling Stock, 138*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ramzin Boiler, Characteristics of, 246* Rangoon, Port of. Annual Report, 308 Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd., Magnetic-Drum Separator for Sugar-Cane Plant, Operation of, 35
Rappaport versus London Plywood and Timber Co., Ltd., 393
Rat-Proof Construction in Ships, 150
“ Rattler,” H.M. Screw Sloop, 126
Rawlplug Co., Ltd., Electric Drilling Hammer, 347*
Rays, Rdntgen. See Rbntgen
Read, Dr. T. T., on Earliest Industrial Use of Coal, 468
Reber, J. W., on Estimating Thermal Efficiency of Boilers, 102*
Reclamation and Land Drainage (Review), 30
Records and Research in Engineering and Industrial Science (Review), 526
Rectifiers, Mercury-Arc, in Coal-Mining Industry, 546
Reduction Gears. See Gears; Marine Propulsion
Reference Books. See Annuals
Refrigerating Plant, Self-Contained (Brown, Boveri and Co., Ltd.), 59
in Ships, Electrical Instruments for, 303 Refrigeration Association, Commercial Electric, Formation of, 604
— Investigations by Food Investigation Board,
464
— Physics of, 465
Regulator, Voltage, Ultra-Rapid (Oerlikon Co.), 232
Reinforced Concrete. See 'Ferro-Concrete
Relays, Biased Differential, for Feeder Pro- ' tection (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 125* Remuneration of Labour. See Labour
Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Work for India Store Department, 120
Renshaw, D. E., on Mercury-Arc Rectifiers in Coal-Mining IndusK^, 546
Repair by Welding of 2,000-ton Cable- Sheathing Press, 475*
Repeated Stresses. See Fatigue under Teste {Materials} i
Report, Administration of Road Fund, 415
— Annual, British Electrical and Allied
Industries Research Association, 178 • British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers* Association, 444
Canadian Water and Power Bureau, 185, 518*
Chamber of Shipping, 283. See 259
Chief Inspector of Mines, 255
Food Investigation Board, 464
Forest Products Research Board, 92
Fuel Research at Leeds University, 200 Hydro-Electric Progress in Canada, 185, 518*
Imperial Institute, 257
India Store Department, 120
International Tin Research and Development Council, 302
Madras Electricity Supply, 119
National Physical Laboratory, 626 New South Wales Department of Works, 570
Port of New York, 509
Report, Annual, Port of Rangoon, 308
Road Research Board, 335
Secretary of Mines, 255
South Australian Railways, 285
Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, 311
— -Water-Pollution Research Board, 117
— Asbestos Mining Industry, 504
— on Coal Marketing Schemes, 203
— of Committee on Emergency Conversion of
Motor Vehicles for Producer Gas, 173. See Errata , 198
— Copper Industry of United States, 111
— Economic and Commercial Conditions in Malaya, 211
— Electricity-Supply Undertakings in New South Wales, 507
— Explosion of Compressed-Air Cylinder, 555*
— Import Trade of India, 336
— Industrial Health in War, 505
— Institution of Gas Engineers’ Research Committee, 87
— on Loss of H.M. Submarine “ Thetis,” 389,
392, 417
— Mineral Technology and Grade of Ore, 202
— Nickel Industry in 1939, 90
— Performance of Glass Insulators, 434
— Quantitative Spectrographic Analysis with Microphotometer, 589
— Research on Surface Finish, 343*
— Royal Commission on Distribution of Industrial Population, 174, 441
— Select Committee on National Expenditure, 587
— Soil Erosion in Southern Rhodesia, 587
— Strength of Indian Timbers, 606
— Tests of Fire-Fighting Equipments for Electrical Installations, 15, 139*, 146
— Townsville Harbour Board, Australia, 258
— Umvin Memorial Committee, 233
— Ventilation of Manholes, 356
— on Wielding Research, British Engine,
Boiler, and Electrical Insurance Co., 65
— See also Board of Trade
Republic Steel Corporation, Manufacture of Corrugated Steel Culverts, 435*
Research Association, British Electrical and Allied Industries : Tests of Fire-Fighting Equipment for Electrical Installations, 139*. See 15, 146 ; Annual Report, 178 ; Investigations on Earthing, 228 ; Report on Performance of Glass Insulators, 434.
Non-Ferrous Metals, British, Report on Quantitative Spectrographic Analysis with Microphotometer, 589
— Board, Forest Products, Annual Report, 92 Industrial Health, Report on Industrial
Health in War, 505
Road, Annual Report, 335
Royal Institute of British Architects, Formation of 527
Water-Pollution, Annual Report, 117
— Committee, Institution of Gas Engineers’,
Report of, 87
• Lubrication, Investigations on Lubri
cants and Seizure of Steel and Bronze, 131* Midland Coke, Work of, 486
— Corrosion, at Cambridge University, 508
— Department, Scientific and Industrial,
Apparatus for Detection of Carbon Monoxide, 382 ; Pamphlet on War Time Building, 569
— and Development Council, Tin, International: Annual Report, 302; Report on
! Determination of Tellurium in Tin-Rich Alloys, 427 ; Process for Production of Protective Films on Tin-Plate, 630
— Food, Report on 464
— Fuel, Leeds University, Annual Report, 200
~ Laboratories, Brown-Firth, Apparatus for Estimation of Hydrogen in Metals, 479*. 509
Derby, Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 567*
— — Forest Products, Handbook of Home-
Grown Timbers, 606; Handbook of Empire Timbers, 606
High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481*
— Marine Engineering, 328, 371*, 381, 420
— and Records in Engineering and Industrial
Science (Review), 526
— Scientific, in War Time, 93
— Scientific, and Technical Development,
Advisory Council to Ministry of Supply, 15
— Station, Building, Compression Tests on
Clay Soils, 57*
— on Surface Finish, Report, 343*
— on Welding, 238
— Welding, Report by British Engine, Boiler
and Electrical Insurance Co., 65
— See also National Physical Laboratory Resin Coating for Materials under Test, 51* Resistance, Air. See Air
— of Ships. See Ship Resistance
Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., Switchgear at Manningham Mills, Bradford, 330
Rhodesia, Southern, Soil Erosion, Report, 587
Richards, Dr. T. LI., on Structure of Cold-
Rolled and Annealed Copper, 548
Rings, Piston. See Piston Rings
Rippon versus Port of London Authority and J. Russell and Co., 507
River Cam, All-Welded Road Bridge over, 409*
— Danube, Tunnel under, Budapest, 575*
— Gota, Vargdn Hydro-Electric Plant, 27*
— Meandering of. Theory of, 628*
— Mississippi Flood-Control Schemes, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 573*
— Nile, Gebel Aulia Dam, 237*
— Sarda, Sluice-Gate Barrage, 236*
Rivets, High-Tensile Steel, in Ship Construction, 150
Road Accidents. See Accidents
— Construction, Expenditure on, 380
— Engineering Terms, British Standard Glossary of, 584
— Finishing Machine, Petrol-Driven (Barber-
Greene Co.), 530*
— Fund, Report on Administration of, 415
— and Rail Transport Problem (Review), 477 ,
— Research Board, Annual Report, 33,5 I
— Roller, Diesel-Driven, with Air Compressor.
97*
Disc Tamping (Parsons Co.), 303* I
Road Surfaces, Frozen, Eflect of Use of Salt on.335
-Traffic-Line Marker for (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 209*
— Transport, Brush-Koela Gas Producer for,
70*, 532*
Emergency Portable Gas Producer for, 173. See Errata, 198
Gas Producers for, 527
Types of Vehicles for, 47*
— Wear of, Observations on, 335
— See also Tar
Robertson, S. A., on Water-Tube Boiler Circulation and Design, 291*. See 258. See LETTER, 394
Robey, E. W., on Development of Centrifugal Ball Mill, 378*
Rock Drill, Electric, Wodack (C;limax Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Ltd.), 178*
— Drilling, Control of Dust by Water Sprav,
121 *
Rogers, F. H., on Oil, 448, 459
Roller, Road. See Road Roller
Rolling, Direct, of Metals, Progress with, 139
— Mill Bearings, Synthetic Materials for, 99* Steel, Direct-Coupled Motors for Rollers
(General Electric Co., Ltd.), 458*
— of Ships. See Ships
— Stock. See Carriages ; Locomotives; Railway ; Wagons
Rontgen-Ray Crystallographic Laboratory, High-duty Alloys, Ltd., 481*
Equipment at U.S. Bureau of Standards High-Voltage Laboratory, 624
Researches on Structure of Alloys, 488
Testing in Metallurgical Work, 421
Roof, Ferro-Concrete, Movable Centring for, 321*
Ropes, Wire. See Wire Ropes
Rotary Blowers, See Blowers ; Turbo-Blowers
— Engine. See Engine
— Pump. See Pump
Rotherham and Sons, Ltd., Electrical Oil- Pressure Indicator, 213*
Rotor for 12,0()0-kVA Alternator, Vargdn Hydro-Electric Plant, 28*
— for Electric Motor for Steel-Mill Rollers,
458*
— for 4,000-kW Gas Turbine, 1*
Rowell, P. F., the Late, 443
Royal Commission on Distribution of Industrial Population, Report, 174, 441
Royal Institution :
Development of Vacuum Flask, by Sir W. Bragg, 42*
Roj’^al Naval College, Greenwich. Investigations on Electric-Welded Joints, 21*, 49*. See LETTER, 490*, 530. 570
— Society of Arts. See Arts
— Swedish Board of Waterfalls, Vargon Hydro-Electric Station, 27*
— Technical College, Glasgow, Investigation on
Singing Propellers, 442, 470*, 512*. 532*
Rubber, Bonded, Flexible Coupling (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 356*
— Chlorinated, Use with Road Tars, 336
Rumford’s Work on Heat Transference, 42*
Russell, J., Co. and Port of London Authority
versus Rippon, 507
Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., 3-cub. yd. “ Walking ” Dragline Excavator, 513*
SAFETY Device for Falling Persons (J. W. Scherrer), 183*
for Unattended Electric Power Plant, 87* Saint. See St.
Salonika Plain Reclamation Scheme, Use of Dragline Excavator on, 572*
Salt River Power Station, Experiences with High-Voltage Alternator in, 40
Salvage, Ministry of Supply Order Regardintr Collection, C27
Sarda River Sluice-Gate Barrage, India, 236*
Sartori, G., on Influence of Pressure on Water- Gas and other Equilibria, 157*
Saunders, O. A., on Flow of Gas through Bed of Solid Particles, 517
Scale in Boilers, Prevention of, 568, 601, 633
Scapa Flow and Sylt, Air Raids on, 337
Scavenging, Kadenacy System, applied to 125-b.h.p. Petters Superscavenge Engine 43*. See LETTERS, 96, 149, 207
System, in Internal-Combustion Engines LETTERS, 19, 122*, 207, 286*, 443*, 509’ See Erratum^ 307
System, Tests of 5-b.h.p. and 118-b.h n Oil Engines, 195*
— Pressure, in Internal-Combustion Engines
History of, 595* ’
Scherrer, J. W., Safety Device for Falling Persons, 183*
Schlesinger, Dr. G., on Research on Surface Finish, 343*
Schmidt-Hartmann Boiler Characteristics, 247*
Schmirmann, R., on Four-Ball Test with Lubricants, 567*
Scholarships. See Education
Science, Engineering and Industrial, Records and Research in (Review), 526
Scientiflc Information, Documentation of, 526
— Journals, War-Time Censorship of, 229
— Literature, Abstracting and Indexing, 217
— Progress in Sweden, 548
— Research. See Research
— Societies. See Institutions
Sclero-Grating, Examination of Metal Surfaces by, 517
Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in. See Engineers
Scott, R. G., the Late, 307
Scrap Campaign, Iron and Steel, 89, 119
— Iron and Steel, Control Orders, 288, 337, 503 Scraper, Helical, for Deposition Tank Chiicote
Pumping Station, 452*
Screw Propellers. See Propellers
— Threads, British Association, Specification,
Sea Power and Air Power, 605
— Temperature Recorder for Ships, 303
Seaton Burn Sewage-Disposal Works, Dean Valve-Control Installation, 560*
Sedimentation and Flocculation, Researches, 248
Segregation in Steel Ingots, Influence of AntiPiping Compounds, 517
Seismology. See Earthquake
Seizure of Steel and Bronze, Influence of Lubricants on,131*
Separator, Magnetic-Drum, for Sugar-Cane Plant, Operation of (Rapid Magnetting Co., Ltd.), 35
Seppings, Sir R., Centenary of, 417
Serck Radiators, Ltd., Oil Cooler for 30,000- kVA Mobile Transformer, 599*
Seviour versus Somerset Collieries, Ltd., Sewage-Disposal Works, Seaton Burn,
Valve-Control Installation, 560*
— Treatment, Flocculation in, 248 Water-Pollution Research Board’s
on, 117
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Seward, Prof. H. L., on Merchant-Marine Personnel, 181
Shaft Coupling. See Coupling
— and Holes, Fitting of. See Gauges
Shannon, Dr. J. F., on Problems of Singing Propeller, 470*, 512*, 532. See 442
Shaw Contorograph for Surface-Finish Examination, 345*
Sheathing for Electric Cables, Fire Tests, 369*
Sheets and Slates, Asbestos-Cement, Specification, 502
Sheffield to Manchester IJne, Postponement of Electrification of, 42
— Waterworks, 62-5-b.h.p. Diesel-Driven
Pumping Sets, 150*
Shell Fuses, Pneumatic Testing Machine for (B.E.N. Patents, Ltd.), 165*
Shelters, Air-Raid, Heavy Aggregates for, Specification, 280
Raid, Lighting of, Specification, 142 Shield, Tunnel Construction, Hallinger, 575* Ships, British, Application of Electricity in 289, 303
Launched from 1892 to 1914, 315
— Canal. See Canal
— Cargo, Air Conditioning in, 506 Running Costs of, 153*
— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships; Marine
Propulsion
— Motor. See Motorships ; Marine Propulsion
— Electrolytic Corrosion on, 425*
— Heel Indicator for, 399*. See Addendum, :
413
— Merchant, Manning of, 45, 181
— Model Experiments. See Tank Experiments
— Motor. See Motorships ; Marine Propulsion ~ Passenger, Air Conditioning in, 506
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion; Engines ; Turbines; Propellers
— Rat-Proof Construction in, 150
— Resistance, Model Experiments on Form Resistance, 181
— Rolling of, Experiments on, 552*, 559*
— with Singing Pro])ellers, Investigations on,
442, 470*, 512*, 532*
— Watertight Subdivision of. See Ifafcr-
tight
— See also Marine; Motorships; Shipping;
Steamers; Warships; and PARAGR.APH INDEX
Shipbuilders and Engineers, North-East Coast Institution of. See North-East Coast
in Scotland, Institution of. See Engineers Shipbuilding, Electric Welding in. Investigation on, 21*, 49*
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 16, 364
— Merchant, Admiralty Control of. 145
— Modern Tanker Design, 121, 266
— Naval. See Warships
— Projects in 1914-18, 315
— Rat-Proof Construction, 150
— and Ship-Repairing Industries after the
War, 315, 340
— Strength of Ship Plating under Compression,
121
— in United States. Statistics, 258
— Use of High-Tensile Steel Rivets in, 150 of Plastics in, 519
— Watertight Subdivision. See Watertight
— Wooden, in France, History of, 310
— See also Steamers ; Motorships ; Naval.
Warships and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, British Corporation Register Jubilee. 285
— Chamber of. Presidential Address, by Sir
P. Haldin. on Shipping Industry, 259. See 283
— Industry in War Time, 259, 283. 315, 340
— Ministry of, Control of Shipping by, 41;
Notice regarding Marine-Engineer Apprentices, 175
— Steam Conquers the Pacific (Review), 327 Shipwrights’ Guilds in France, 310
Shock Breaker for Falling Persons (J. W. Scherrer), 183*
— Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests
{Materials}
Shotter, G. F., on Practical Aspects of Earthing, 228
Shutter, Automatic Collapsing, for Dam, 236*
— Gate for Culverts, 237*
Sidwell, E. E., the Late, 432
Siebel, Dr. C. W,, on Helium Production in the United States, 97
Signs, Air-Raid Precaution. Lighting of, 582 Silsbee, F. B., on U.S. Bureau of Standards High-Voltage Laboratory, Washington, 624
Sintered-Carbide Tools, Grinding and Lapping Machines for, 21*. 435*
Skin Friction. See Air Resistance ; Friction Slates and Sheets, Asbestos-Cement, Specification, 502
Sloan, R. A., the Late, 70
Sludge, Portable Pneumatic Pump for (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 610*
Sluice Gate.s for Dams, Development of, 236* Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
412, 436, 460, 483, 503, 523, 543, 563, 583, 603, 623. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 37, 63, 89, 115,
142, 171, 199, 224, 253, 280, 307, 333, 359, 387, 413, 437, 461, 483, 503, 523, 543, 563, 583, 603, 623. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Southampton County Council versus Provender Millers (Winchester), Ltd., 55
Specialist Information, War-Time Guides to British Sources of, 473.
Specific Heats (Review), 456 ‘at Low Temperatures, 465 Specifications, Standard. See Standards ; Standardisation
Spectrographic Analysis, Quantitative, with Microphotometer, Report on, 589
— Department, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481* Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears ; Gearing;
Marine Propulsion ;
— Reduction Gears. See Gears ; Gearing ;
Marine Propulsion
— Regulation. See Governing Spirit, Motor. See Petrol
Sporn, P., on Logan Operating Experience, 294 Spraying Equipment for Rock Drills. 121 Squares, Engineers’, Draft Specification, 436 St. Gothard Railway, 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
Stability of Ships. See Ships
Staffordshire County Council versus Morley, 148
Stamping Presses. See Machine Tools
Standards Institution, British. Specifications: Hand Hammers, 88 ; Hydrated Lime and Lime-Cement Mortar, 88 ; Street Lighting under War-time Conditions, 114. 306; Tests for Galvanised Wire, 114 ; Galvanised Wire Netting and Cloth. 142; Cistern for Decontaminating Anti-Gas Clothing, 142; Steel Tubes for Water-Well Casing, 142; Lighting of A.R.P. Shelters. 142. Glossary of Terms used in Radio Direction Finding, 161. Specifications, Wire Ropes for Lifts and Hoists. 170; Commercial Testing of Small Steam-Raising Plants, 170; Transmission and Distribution Voltages, 254 ; Gauges for A.R.P. Lighting, 254. Nomenclature of Hardwoods, 254. Specifications Air-Break Switches and Circuit Breakers, 280; Heavy Aggregates for A.R.P. Shelters, 280 ; Natural Aggregates for Concrete, 280 ; Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Paint, 306 ; Testing of Incombustible Material Resistant to Incendiary Bombs, 306 ; Seamless Brass Tubes, 358 ; Standard Rules for Measurement of High Voltages, 358; British Association Screw Threads, 391 ; Electricians’ Rubber Gloves, 412 ; Trailing Cables for Mining Purposes, 412 ; Engineers’ Precision Tools, 412. Draft Specifications, Engineers' Squares, 436 ; Feeler Gauges, 457. Specifications, Laboratory Thermometers, 502 ; Petri Glass Dishes, 502 ; Asbestos-Cement Slates and Sheets, 502 ; Building Limes, 542; Front Lamps for Tramway Cars, 542 ; Direct-Reading Rockwell Hardness Test, 542: Metal Arc Welding. 542; Lighting of A.R.P. Signs, 582; Ship’s Electric Cable, 582. Glossary of Highway- Engineering Terms, 584.
Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., versus Stimson and Another, 120; Pneumatic Telephone-Ticket Transmission SvsVems, 615*
Standards. U.S. Bureau of. See United States Standardisation of Power Plants. 538
Stanier, W. A., on Lightweight Passenger Rollingstock, 165*. See 222*. See Addendum, 281
Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd., 3-cub. yd. “ Walking ” Dragline Excavator, 513*; Use of Dragline Excavators by, 613
State Railways. See Pailwags Stations, Power. See Pou'er Stations Statistical Method from View Point of Quality Control (Review), 432
Statistics, Trade. See Trade Stator for 12,000-kVA Alternator, Vargon Hydro-Electric Plant, 28*
— for Electric Motor for Steel-Mill Rollers, 458* Steam Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Condensation. See Condensation — Conquers the Pacific (Review), 327 — Consumption. See Coal Consumption — Engines. See Engines
—Flow Through Nozzles. See Nozzles
Steam, High-Pressure and High-Temperature’ in Power Stations, 250, 203*, 317, ?397*, 423* 472*, 492*
Pressure and High-Temperature, in United Spates Power Stations, 184, 209, 232, 294
— Pipes, Power Plant, Standardisation of, 539
— Power in Agriculture, 302
— Pressures in Power Plants, Standardisation
of 538
— Raising Plants, Small, Code for Commercial
Testing, 170
— Sui)erheater. See Superheater
— Supply, Manningham Mills, Cost of, 330*
— Turbines. See Turbines
— and Water at Various Pressures, Heat in,
240*
in Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation of, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
Steamer “ Archimedes,” History of, 126, 182
— Atlantic, Ojjerating Statistics of. 182
— Fifty Years’ Development of Machinery for,
328, 371*, 381, 420
— Geared Turbines for. See Marine Prcrpulsion
— ” Mauretania,” Demolition of, 341, 370 Tests of Silicon-Steel Plates from, 23*, 50
— Oil-Tank, Design of, 121, 260
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— Registered in 1857, 183.
— Rolling of. See Ships, Polling of
— Types, Costs and Weights of Machinery,
153*
— Watertight Subdivision of. See Water
tight
— ” Waterwitch,” Screw Aperture of, 182
— See also Engines ; Marine Propxdsicn ; Ship
building ; Shipping; Ships ; Turbines; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Steel, Alloy, for High-Pressure Boiler Tubes, 247, 408
Structure and Properties of, 312
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
—? Creep at High Temperatures. 287* See also under Tests {Materials}
— Culverts, Corrugated, Press for Manufacture
of (Cincinnati Shaper (’o.), 435*
— Damping Capacity of, 508
— Direct Rolling of, 139
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
— Furnaces. See Furnaees
— Hard-Surfacing by Welding, 334
— Heat Treatment of. See’ Jleat Treatment under Metallurgy
— for High-Pressure Boiler Tubes, 247. See LETTER, 468
— High-Tensile Rivets in Shipbuilding, 150
— — Tensile, Use in Lightweight Passenger
Rolling Stock, 165*, 222. Sec Addendum, 281
Tensile, Use in Storstrom Bridge. 53*
— Hydrogen in, Estimation of, 479*, 509
— Ingots, Segregation in. Influence of Anti
Piping Compounds, 517
— and Iron Scrap Campaign, 89, 119 Scrap Control Orders, 288, 337, 503 Control Orders, 34, 147, 288, 337, 386, 468, 503, 543
— Manufacture. See Metallurgy
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs
— Modern (Review), 242
— Non-Uniform Yielding. During Tests, 325.
See Addendum, 455
— Penstocks for Hydro-Electric Plants, 349*
— Rationing Scheme, 337
— Rolling Mills. See tiolling Mills
—? Ropes. See Wire Popes
— Seizure of, Influence of Lubricants, 131*
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests (Materials)
— Surfaces, Examination by Sclero-Grating,517
— Tests of. See Tests (Materials)
— Tool, Macrome Process, 438
— Tubes for Boreholes, ChiJcote Pumping
Station, 451*
for Water-Well Casing, Specification, 142
— Works. See IFozA’s
Stemco, Ltd., versiis Inland sioners, 393
Sternol, Ltd., Sternopal Cutting Fluid, 594
Stevens and Bullivant, Machine, 519*
Stimson and Another versus Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 120
Stodola, Prof. A., on Tests of 4,000-kW Gas- Turbine Set, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
Stoker, Mechanical, Coking, Maniiingham Mills, Bradford, 329*
in Power Stations, 317, 492*
Storage Battery. See Accumulator under Electric
— Gas, of Food, Investigations on, 464 Storstrom and Masnedsund Bridges, Denmark,
4*, 53*
Strain. See Stress
Streams, Theory of Meandering, 628*
Street, Dr. A., on A^minium-Bronze Gravity Die-Casting, 159*, 190*
— Lighting, Electric, Progress in, 277
in War-Time, in Germany, 118. See LETTER, 207
— — under War-time Conditions, Specification, 114,306
— Railway. See Tramways
— See also Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests (Materials)
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
— Behaviour of Plastics under, 447*, 456*
— Creep, Steel at High Temperatures, 287* See also Tests (Materials)
— in High-Pressure Boiler Tubes, 247. See
LETTER, 408
in Katugastota Bridge, Ceylon, 270
— Pipe, Graphical Analysis of, 121
— in Railway Tracks, Application of Dimen
sional Analysis to, 45
— Repetitions. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
— in Steel Penstocks, 350*
— in Structures due to Earthquakes, 528
— in Thermostatic Bimetals, 223
— in Welded Construction, 21
Stressing of Locomotive Connecting and Coupling Rods (Review), 456
Stretford Railway Accident, Manchester south Junction and Altrincham Railway, Report. 500
Structural Design, Electric Weldingas Integral Part of, 21*, 49*. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
— Engineers, Institution of. Annual Dinner,
257
— Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 379
Structure of Alloys, Investigations on, 488
— Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
— Subjected to Earthquakes, Design of, 528
— Theory of (Review), 302
Stuart, Dr. A. H., on Conservation of Lubricating Oil, 177*
Stuart, H. A., Work on Oil Engine, 67*, 70, 94, 101
Stuart Street Power Station, Manchester, Developments at, 264*, 397*, 423*, 472*
Sub-Contractors, Responsibility for Safety of Persons Employed by, 338
Subdivision of Ships. See Watertight Submarines. See Warships
Subsidies and British Shipping, 259, 283 Substations, Aspects of Earthing in, 228
— for Electric Melting Furnace, 331*
— Emergency, Central Electricity Board. 487
— for Radio Factory
Ltd.), 551
~ Toes, Switzerland, pression Coil, 194*
— 700-kVA, at Works
Ltd., 291*
Sugar Mill, Operation of Magnetic-Drum Separator in, 35
Sugg, W., and Co., Ltd., Filling Valve for Gas- Driven Vehicles, 60*
Sukkur Barrage, Use of Dragline Excavators on, 572
Sullivan Machinery Co., Ltd., “Pistonair’* Reversible Single-Drum Hoist, 265*
Sulphur Print, Steel from Exploded Compressed-Air Cylinder, 556*
— in Town Gas, Effect of Deposits from, 58.
See Errata, 115
Sulzer Boilers in Power Stations, 492
— Monotube Boiler, Characteristics, 246 Summerfield, W., on Recent Court Cases, 55,
120, 148, 338, 393, 507
Superheated Steam, Gas Constant for, 454* Superheaters in Power Stations, 317, 397*, 472*
— Prevention of Deposits in, 568, 601, 633 Superheating in Ships, 381
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of, Selection of Low-Voltage Switchgear, by R. T. Lythall, 15
Supply, Ministry of. Work of, 14, 337 ; Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, 15, 119; Relations with Engineering Industry, 16 ; (Contracts for Small Firms, 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTERS, 96, 122; Organisation of Raw Materials Supply, 67 ; Midland-Area Advisory Committee, Inauguration of,- 93 ; Iron and Steel Scrap Campaign, 89, 119 ; Orders for Control of Iron and Steel, 34, 147, 288, 337, 386, 468, 503, 543 ; Organisation of Waste-Material Collection, 147 ; Control of Paper Order, 203, 284 ; Committee on Non-Ferrous Metallic Ores, 281 ; Control of Aluminium, 281 ; Iron and Steel Scrap Control Orders, 288, 337, 503 ; Factory Undertakings (Record and Information) Order, 363 ; Control of Chromium, Magnesite and Wolfram Order, 387, 460 ; Order for Control of Timber. 443 ; Steel Supplies for Electricity Undertakings, 468 ; Message to Munition Workers, 525 ; Salvage Campaign, 527 ; Circular on Purchase of American Machine Tools, 547 ; Appointment of Tank Board, 565. See LETTERS, 590, 610 ; Licences for Use of Copper and Copper Alloys, 582; Order for Collection of Salvage, 627 Surface Condensers. See Condensers
— Finish and Friction, Conference on, 527 Research on, Report, 345*
— Grinding Machine. See Grinding under
Machine Tools
Surveying, Plane and Geodetic, for Engineers (Review), 455
Swaging Machine. See Machine Tools
Swales, J. K., 62-5-b.h.p. Diesel-Driven
Pumping Sets, 150*
Sweden, Industrial History of, 548
— Trade Statistics, 193, 365
— Vargdn Hydro-Electric Station, 27* Swimming Pools, Blackpool, Pumping and
Filtration Plant, 553*
Buckingham Palace, Electrically-Heated, 461
SAVISS Federal Institute of Technology, Investigations on Internal-Combustion Engine Problems, 297*
Railways, 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— Locomotive and Machine Works, 12,000-h.p.
Electric Locomotive, 105*
— See also Sivitzerland
Switchgear for Centralised Control of Coal- Washing Plant, 250*
— Circuit Breakers. Air-Break. Specification,
280
Breakers, Fire-Fighting Equipments, 146 Breakers, Mechanical Design of, 524 Breaker, Oil, for Rural Transmission
Lines (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 73*
Breakers, Oil-less Metal-Clad, fOr Alternating Current Circuits, 383*, 416
— for 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— Emergency, Central Electricity Board. 487
— Insulating Oil for, 586
— Low-Voltage, Selection of, 15
— Manningham Mills, Bradford, 330
— Oil-less Metal-Ciad, for Alternating-Current
Circuits, 383*, 416
— Progress wth, 612
— for Ships, 304
— for 700-kVA Substation (Brush Ele.-trical
Engineering Co., Ltd.), 291*
Specification, Air-Break Switches, 280
Switchgear, Pressure - Operated Control Switches (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 77*
— Switch Transformer Unit for Low-Voltage Circuits (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 76
— Vargon Hydro-Electric Plant, 28*
Switzerland, Neuchandtel, 4,000-kW Emergency Gas-Turbine Set, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
— Toes Substation, 5,650-kVA Arc-Suppres
sion Coil, 194*
— Trade Statistics, 193, 244, 273
— See also Siviss
Sykes, Dr. C., on Structure of Alloys, 488 Sylt and Scapa Flow, Air Raids on, 337 Synthetic Materials as Bearings for Mills, 99*

TANK Board, Appointment of, 565. See LETTERS, 590, 610
— Deposition, Filtering Plant, Chilcote Pumping Station, 452*
— Experiment, Haslar, Rolling Experiments
on H.M. Ships, 552*, 559*
on Ship-Form Resistance, 181 See also Model Experiments; Ship Resistance
— Military, Cruiser Type, Production of, 581* Manufacture of, 33*
— Ships, Motor. See Motorships
— Steamers. See Steamers
Tap, Water, and Drinking Fountain, Combined (Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd.), 373* Tapping Machine. See Machine Tools Tapsell, H. J., on Creep at High Temperatures, 287*
Tar for Roads, Bituminous-Carpet Levelling and Tamping Machine, 530*
Investigations on, 335
Taylor, F., On Corrosion by Products of Combustion of Town Gas, 48. See Errata, 115 Taylor, Prof. G. I., Award of Ewing Medal, 566 Taylor, H. G., on Practical Aspects of Earthing, 228
Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd., External and Internal Electrolimit Gauges, 220*
Taylor, T. U., on Measurement of Heel and Trim, 399*. See Addendum, 413
Teaching. See Education
Technical College and Education. See Education
— Institution Meetings and Censorship, 417
— Journals,
465
— Societies.
INDEX Teeth, Gear. Telegram-Form Conveying System, General Post Office, 375*, 429*, 535*, 615*
Telegraphic Apparatus, Trade Statistics, 219
— Type Setting, 213
Telegraphy. See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Wireless, Colonial “ Wireless Chain,” 547 Direction Finding, Glossary of Terms,
161
Isle of Wight Station, Memorial at, 391 for Ships, 289
Trade in Apparatus for, 218 See also Radio; Valves, 'Thermionic Telephone Equipment for Ships, 289
— Ticket Conveying System, General Post
Office, 535*, 615*
Telephonic Apparatus, Trade Statistics, 219 Telephony, Transcontinental, Quarter Century of, 485
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Wireless, Colonial ‘‘ Wireless Chain,” 547 for Ships, 289
Trade in Apparatus for, 218 See also Radio ; Valves, Thermionic
— World Statistics of, 687 Teletypesetters, Advantages of, 213 Tellurium, Determination in Tin-Rich Alloys,
427
Temperature-Entropy Diagram, Steam at 200-lb. Pressure, 246*
— of Flame Gases, Determination of, 241*
— Measurement. See also Thermometer
— and Pressure Alarm Apparatus (” Monitor ”
Patent Safety Devices, Ltd.), 444* Tenders, 10, 36, 62, 88, 114, 142, 170, 198, 224, 252, 280, 306, 332, 358, 386, 412, 436, 460, 482, 502, 522, 542, 562, 582, 602, 622 Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials} Terminal Velocities of Bodies, 6 Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Tests, Acceptance, for Machine Tools, 463. See LETTER, 468
— Bonded-Rubber Flexible Coupling, 356*
— Compression, on Clay Soils, Portable
Apparatus for, 57*
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Diesel-Driven Two-Stage Air Compressor, 279*
— Fire, of Electric Cables, 369*
Fighting Equipments for Electrical Installations, 15, 139*, 146
— Four-Ball, of Lubricants, Wear-Load Characteristic of, 567*
— for Galvanised Wire, Specification, 114
— 4,000-kW Gas-Turbine Generating Set, 1*.
See LETTERS, 122, 259
— Glass and Porcelain Insulators, 434, 449*
— Internal-Combustion Engine of Kadenacy
Design, 195*, 515*, 557*, 617*. See also under Kadenacy
— Loading Lightweight Railway Carriage, 169
— Magnetic. See Magnetic
Tests (Materials):
Bending Tests, Notched-Bar, for Welded Joints, 22*. See LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
? of Resin-Coated Structural Sections,
51*
Creep Tests of Metals, 231
Steel at High Temperatures, 287* See also Creep
Deformation Tests of Plastics, 447*, 456*
Tests (Materials)—continued.
Electric. Magnetic and X-Ray Testing in Metallurgical Work, 421
Fatigue Stresses, Effect on Metals, 177
— Tests of Metals, 231 of Welded Joints, 25, 49* Hardness Test, Rockwell Direct-Reading, Specification, 542
— — Steel from Exploded Compressed-
Air Cylinder, 555
Impact Tests of Metals, 231 Macrome-Toughened Twist Drills, 438 Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above)
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile Test of Bimetals, 213, 223 of Metals, History of, 231 of Metals, Non-Uniform Yielding in, 325*. See Addendum, 455
Test Piece for Investigating Yield Point in Iron and Steel, 176*
Testing Laboratories, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481*
— Machine, Haigh Electromagnetic, 49* See also Testing Machine
— Methods for Engineering Materials, 231
— Mechanical, of Inconel, 282
— of Welded Work, 338
Tests, Oil Engine with Belt-Driven Blower, 597*
— of 125-b.h.p. Petters Superscavenge Engine,
43*. See LETTERS, 96, 149, 207
— 5-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder and 118-b.h.p. Six-
Cylinder Kadenacy Engines, 195*
— of Wooden Joints, 92
Tester, Surface, Zeiss-Schmalz, 345*
Testing Apparatus, Brown-Boveri, for Gear- Wheel Material, 96
— of Incombustible Material Resistant to
Incendiary Bombs, Specification, 306
— Laboratories, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., 481* See also National Physical
— Machine, Haigh Electromagnetic, 49* Piston-Ring Friction, 298*
Pneumatic, for Shell Fuses (B.E.N.
Patents, Ltd.), 165*
Portable, for Clay Soils, 57*
Quinney, Recording Apparatus for, 325* See also under Tests {Materials)
— Materials, American Society for. Programme
of Atlantic City Meeting, 549
— Set for Insulating Oil (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.) 122*
— See also Tests (Materials)
Text Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Textile-Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 243
Thane versus Abingdon Borough Council, 338 Thermal Efficiency of Boilers, Estimating, 102* 4,000-kW Gas Turbine Set, 1*. See LETTERS, 122, 259
of Marine Machinery, 154 I of Power Stations, 256, 318, 397* I
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy j
Thermionic Valves. See Valves '
Thermodynamics and Lowest Temperatures,465 Thermometers, Laboratory, Specification, 502 Thermostatic Bimetals, Properties and Applications of, 212, 223
“ Thetis,” H.M. Submarine, Report on Loss of, 389, 392, 417
Thixotropy and Flocculation, 249
Thomas, H. C., the Late, 630 Thomas, H. S., the Late, 95 Thomas, J. F. L, the Late, 550 Thompson, Prof, F. C., on Damping Capacity of Steel, 508
Thompson, J. (Engineering) Co., Ltd., Lancashire Boiler, 329*
Thomson, Dr. A. K. G., on Heat Transmission in Evaporative Condensers, 319
Thomson, Elihu, Memorial Tablet, at Philadelphia, 333
Thornton, D. L., on Earthquakes and Structures, 528
Thorpe, Sir J., the Late, 629 '
Threads, Screw. See Screw
Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Co., Ltd., 2-cub.
ft. Shot-Blast Cleaning Machine, 113* Timber Control Order, 443 Orders, Court Case under, 393
— Its Properties, Pests and Preservation (Re
view), 40.5
— Researches by Forest Products Research
Board, 92
— Supply and Use of, 606
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Plate, Protective Films on. Production, 630
— Research and Development Council, Inter
national : Annual Report, 302 ; Report on Determination of Tellurium in Tin-Rich Alloys, 427 ; Process for Production of Protective Films on Tin-Plate, 630
Tir John North Power Station, Experiences with High-Voltage Alternator in, 40
Titley, A., on Diary of J. Brindley, 198 Toes Substation, Switzerland, 5,650-kVA Arc- Suppression Coil, 194*
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges Tookey, W. A., on Fifty Years of
Scavenging, 595*
Tool Grinder. See Grinding under
Tools
— Machine. See Machine Tools
— Steel. See Steel Toothed Gear. See Gear ; Gearing ;
Propulsion
Torsional Oscillation in Marine Oil Engines, 420 Tower,s Cooling, Water Cooling by, 598* Town Gas. See Gas
Townend, Prof. D. T. A., on Factors Affecting Flame Velocity, 45 ; On Inflammable Ranges of Ethylene-Air Mixtures, 127* Townsville, Port of, Queensland, Report for, 1936-38, 258
Toxic Gases in Industry, Method of Detection, 382
Tracks for Dragline Excavators, 572
— Railway, Application of Dimensional Analysis to Stresses in, 45
Traction, Electric. See Pailways
Tractor, 25-h.p. Petrol-Paraffin, Power Take-off Unit for (D. Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 590*
— Plough, 23-b.h.p. Ferguson-Ford (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 570*
— 28-b.h.p. Track-Laying (D. Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 260*
Trade, Agricultural-Machinery, Imports and Exports, 322
— Aircraft, Imports and Exports, 109, 162
— British, with South America, 497
— Coal, in 1938, 255 Report on Marketing Schemes, 203 — Copper Industry of United States, 111 — Disputes. See Labour ; Labour Notes — Economic Conditions in Malaya, Report, 211 — Electrical Machinery, Imports and Exports, 192, 218
Machinery War Export Groups, 627
— Engineering and Allied, Position and Prospects, 16, 108, 135, 162, 192, 218, 243, 272, 299, 322, 364, 379
— Export, and Electrical Industry, 487 Groups, Formation of, 363, 546, 627. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX.
Internal-Combustion Engine, 363, 546 Overseas Trade Department Committee on, 147
of Ships, 1926-1938, 315 to South America, 588 in War Time, 14
— Foreign, Earnings of British Shipping in, 340
— German Export, Maintenance of, 41 with South America, 497
— Home, Board of Trade Order Limiting, 587 •
— Indian Import, Report, 336 ' I
— Internal-Combustion Engine, War-Export I
Group, 363, 546
— Locomotive, British and Foreign Export, 299
— Machine-Tool Imports and Ex])orts, 272
— Machinery, Imports and Exports, 16, 108,
135, 162, 192, 218, 243, 272, 299, 322, 364, 379
— Marine-Engine, Position and Prospects, 364 —: Motor Cycles and Cycles, Imports and Exports, 135
Vehicles, Imports and Exports, 108
— Oil Imports into United Kingdom, 448, 459
— with South America, Possibilities of, 497
— Textile-Machinery, Imports and Exports, 243
— Unions. See Labour ; Labour Notes
— United States, with South America, 497 Traffic-Line Marker for Roads (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 209*
Trailer Fire Pump (Harland Engineering . Co., Ltd.), 245*
Train. See Railway Training. See Education Tramway Cars, Front Lamps for, Specification, 542
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Transcontinental Telephony, Quarter Century of, 485
Transformation, Order-Disorder, in Alloys, 488 Transformers, 30,000-kVA, for Central Electricity Board, 288*
— for Electric-Arc Melting Furnace (British
Electric Transformer Co., Ltd.), 331*
— for 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 105*
— Emergency, Central Electricity Board, 487
— Fire-Fighting Equipments for, Tests, 139*,
146
— Insulating Oil for, 586
. — 30,000-kVA,132/33-kV Mobile (Metropolitan-
I Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 599*
' — “ Permitol ” Liquid Dielectric for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 490
— and Short Circuits on Transmission Lines,
405*, 578*
Transmission, Electric, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Pro
pulsion
— oi Power. See Marine Propulsion; Power
Transmission
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Marine, Mechanical Engineering Problems
in, 153*
— Ministry of. Railways (Demurrage Charges)
Order, 1939, 15; Organisation of War Work for Small Firms, 311. See 39, 42, 95, 203, 625. See LETTERS, 96,122 ; Road Research Board’s Annual Report, 335; Assistance to Canals, 363; Report on Administration of Road Fund, 415 ; Increased Railway Charges, 441 ; Report on Stretford Railway Accident, 590 ; Table of Electricity Charges, 627
— Motor. See Road; Motor
— Problem, Road and Rail (Review), 477
— Railway. See Railivay
— Road. See Road; Motor
Trestles for Movable Centring for Ferro- Concrete Arches, 321*
Trevithick, Capt. R. E., on Forced-Circulation Boilers, 143
Trials. See Tests
Trim of Ships, Measurement of, 399*. See Addendum, 413
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines, Steam
— Helical Gearing. See Gear
Trondheim, Norwegian Technical High-School, Investigations on Action of Water on Copper Pipes, 260
Tronstad, Prof. L., Copper Pipes,
Tropenas Process, ture, 59
Trucks, Railway.
— See also Bogie Trusses, Wooden,
Ferro-Concrete Arches, 321*
Tubes, Boiler, Behaviour at High Pressures and High Temperatures, 211
Circulation of Water and Steam in, 258, 291*. See LETTER, 394
High-Pressure, 247. See LETTER, 468
— Brass, Seamless, Specification, 358
— for High-Pressure Boilers, Steels for, 247.
See LETTER, 468
— Railways. See Underground Railways
— Steel, for Boreholes, Chilcote Pumping
Station, 451*
for Water-Well Casing, Specification, 142
— Wells. See TFcZZs
— See also Pipes
! Tungsten Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
Tunnel Construction, Hallinger Shield and Erdfelyi and Vadja Lining, 575
Tupholme, C. H. S., on Power-Plant Standardisation, 538
Tuplin, Dr. W. A., on Design of Spiral Gears, 187*
Turbine, Compressed-Air, for Axial-Flow Fan (Davidson and Co., Ltd.), 561*
— Exhaust Steam, Bauer-Wach, 382
— Gas, 4,000-kW., Load Tests of, 1*. See
LETTERS 122, 259
Progress with, 612
— Hydraulic, Canadian Installations of, 518* Design of Penstocks for, 349*
18,000-b.h.p. Kaplan, Vargon Hydro- Electric Plant, 27*
See also Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, 1,875-kW Back-Pressure, Manningham Mills, 329*
Blading for. See Blading
20,000-kW, Catalagzi Power Station, 465
Condensers and Cooling Plant for, 79* Forty Years’ Development of, 256, 263*, 317*, 397*, 423*
High-Pressure, Experiences ^\lth, 184, 209, 232, 294
Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion Progress with, 612
Researches on Nozzle Efficiency, 149 Standardisation of, 538
See also Turbo-Generators
— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships
Turbo-Blowers for Internal-Combustion Engines, 596*
— Compressor for Velox Boiler, Operating Cycle of, 248*
— Electric System, Ship Propulsion. See
Marine Propulsion
— Generators, 1,875-kW Back Pressure, Manningham Mills, 329*
20,000-kW, Catalagzi Power Station, 465 Condensers and Cooling Plant for, 79* Forty Years’ Development of, 256, 263*, 317*, 397*, 423*
High-Pressure, Experiences with, 184, 209, 232, 294
Recent, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 97 Standardisation of, 538
Turkey, Catalagzi Electric Power Station, 465
Turnbull, C., on Sir H. S. Maxim, 339. See 203
Turner, Prof. W. E. S., on Colour of Glasses Containing Iron and Manganese Oxides, 264 ; on Influence of Sodium Chloride on Iron Oxide Content of Glasses, 264 ; on Transmission and Radiation through G ass at High Temperatures, 265
Turning. See Machine Tools
Turntable, Locomotive, 70-ft., London Midlan and Scottish Railway, 621*
Twin Disc and Clarifiers, Ltd., Twin-Disc Friction Clutch, 8*
Type Setting, Telegraphic, 213

ULLSWATER, Prevention of Water Pollution at, 93
Underground Railway, London, Carriages for Waterloo and City Line, 138*
Unemployment. Unions, Trade. United States Army, Corps of Engineers,
Water-Hyacinth Destructor “ Kenny,” 520*
Blast Furnaces, 489 Bureau of Mines, Helium Production at
Amarillo, 97 ; Report on Copper Industry, 111 ; Control of Dust in Rock Drilling by Water Spray, by J. A. Johnson and W. G. Agnew, 121 ; Report on Mineral Technology and Grade of Ore, 202 ; Experiments on Ventilation of Manholes, 356; Report on Asbestos Mining Industry, 504 Bureau of Standards, High-Voltage
Laboratory, 624
Coal-Mining Industry, Mercury-Arc Rectifiers in, 546
Development of Transcontinental Telephony in, 485
Direct Rolling of Metals in, 139 Electricity Supply in, 611 Helium Production, in 97 National Museum, Historical Electrical
Apparatus at, 229 Power Stations, Developments in, 256,
317, 397, 342*, 472*
Power Stations, Operation of High-Pressure Plants in, 184, 209, 232, 294
Shipbuilding in. Statistics, 258 Super-Liners, Economics of, 182 Trade Statistics, 110, 136, 162, 193, 218, 244; 273, 300, 324
— — Works Progress Administration, Report on Mineral Technology and Grade of Ore, 202
See also America
United Steel Co., Ltd., and Steels for High-
Pressure Water-Tube Boilers, 468. See 246*
University, Cambridge, Investigation on Yield Point in Iron and Steel, 176* ; Investigations on Non-Uniform Yielding of Metals During Tensile Tests, 325*. See Addendum, 455 ; Corrosion Research at, 508
— Leeds, Investigations on Inflammable
Ranges of Ethylene-Air Mixtures, 127* ; Fuel Research at. Annual Report, 200
— London, New Investigations on
bustion-Engine Problems, by Eichelberg, 297*
— Maryland, Helium Production
States, by Dr. C. W. Siebel, 97
— Wisconsin, Investigations on Corrosion of
Metals, 345
— See also Education
Unwin Memorial Committee, Report, 233 Uruguay, British I’rade with, 588

VACUUM Flask, Development of, 42*
— Tube. See Rimtgen Rays; Valves, Thermionic
Valves, Extruded, for Internal-Combustion Engines (D. Doncaster and Sons, Ltd.), 600*
— Filling, for Gas-Driven Vehicles, 60*
— Fuel-Injection, for Oil Engines, 466, 592*,
631*
— Steam, Water, and Gas, Dean Electric Con
trol System for (Igranic Electric Co., Ltd.), 560*
— Suction and Delivery, Duplex Double-Acting Oil Pump, 411*
— Thermionic, Theorj^ and Design of Valve
Oscillators (Review), 164
Use in Transcontinental Telephony, 485
— Unloading, for Air Compressor, 279*
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines
Van Dorn Electric Tools, Portable Grinding Machine for Tungsten-Carbide Tools, 21*
Vargdn Hydro-Electric Power Station, 27* Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear
Vehicles, Armoured Track, for War Service, Manufacture of, 33*, 581*
— Steam, Work of A. Bolide on, 314
Veimo, R., on Action of Water on Copper Pipes, 260
Velocities, Terminal, of Falling Bodies, 6 Velox Boiler, Characteristics of, 248* in Power Stations, 492
Ventilation, Factory, in Black-Out, Pamphlet on, 531
•— of Manholes, Experiments on, Report, 356 “ Vespasian,” S.S., Geared Turbines of, 372 Vessel, Pressure, Sudden Discharge of Air from. Experiments on, 17*
Viaduct. See Bridges
Vibrations and Balancing, Mechanics Applied to (Review), 163
— in Earth’s Crust during Earthquakes, 528
— in Marine Engineering, 373, 420
— and Noises of Marine Propellers, 74*
— in Ships, Fatigue-Cracking through, 25
— from Singing Propellers, Investigations on,
442, 470*, 512*, 532*
Vicaco Machine Corporation, Oil-Groove Cutting Machine, 294*. See LETTER, 339
Vierendeel Welded Bridges in Belgium, Condition of, 285
Vivien,” H.M. Destroyer, Rolling Experiments with, 552*, 559*
Vortex Action and Singing Propellers, Investigations on, 442, 470*, 512*, 532*

WAGES. See Lab(mr
Wagons, Railway, Speedier Release of, 15 Truck for 30,000-kVA-Mobile Transformer, 599*
Wailes, E. and R., on Picardy Post Mill, 468
Wailes, G., and Co., Ltd., Dynamometer for Measuring Ground Pressures, 433*
** Walking ” Dragline Excavator, 3-cub. yd., 513*, 613
Wall, Dr. T. F., on Effects of Short Circuits on Three-Phase Transmission Lines, 352*, 405* 478*, 539*, 578*, 608*
Wallis, Dr. R. P., on High-Pressure and Forced- Circulation Boilers, 246*. See LETTER, 468
Wanderlich, W. E., Water-Hyacinth Destructor ” Kenny,” 520*
War in the Air, Review, 309
— Damage, Authority to take Photographs and Drawings of, 567
to Electricity Supply Undertakings, 583 to Property, Appointment of Compensation Board, 587 I
Vehicles for, 33* ; Production Tanks, 581*
— Time Activities, Retrospect of,
Erratum^ 37
Air Power and Sea Power in,
British Railways in, 361
Building Bulletin, No. 3, 604
Building Construction, Pamphlet on, 569 Canals in, 363
Censorship of Scientific Journals, 229 Electrical Supply Undertakings in, 229 Evacuation, Effect on Electricity Consumption, 284
Export Trade in, 14
Guides to British Sources of Specialist Information, 473
Munitions Production in, 39, 42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTERS, 96, 122
Shipping Industry in, 259, 283
Street Lighting, Specification, 114, 306 Wages and Prices, Problem of, 91
— Work for Small Firms, Organisation for, 39,
42, 95, 203, 311, 625. See LETTERS, 96,122 Ward, H. J., the Late, 511 Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics

Warships :

Admiralty and Merchant Shipbuilding, 315, 340
— Scheme for Temporary Commissions in Royal Navy, 120
TI.M. Ships, Early Progress of Screw Propulsion in, 97, 126, 182
Rolling Experiments with, 552*, 559* — Submarine “ Thetis,” Report on Loss of, 339, 392, 417
Italian Navy, Strength of, 585
— Submarine ” Luigi Torelli,” Launch of, 199
Sea Power and Air Power, 605
See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX Washing Plant, Coal, Castleford Colliery, Centralised Control for, 250*
Flue-Gas, in Power Stations, 317, 493* Washington, U.S. Bureau of Standards High- Voltage Laboratory, 624
Waste on Air Services, 587
— Dairy, Experiments on Treatment of, 117
— Heat Boiler, La Mont, M.S. “ Hav,” 275*
— Materials, Collection of, 147
Ministry of Supply Order Regarding Collection, 627
Water, Action on Copper Pipes, Investigations on, 260
— for Boilers, Treatment of, 568, 601, 633
— Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 258,
291*. See LETTER, 394
— Contamination by Lead, Investigations on,
118
— Cooling by Cooling Towers, 598*
— Filters. See Filters
— Friction. See Friction ; Ship Resistance
— Gas See Gas
— Hammer in Penstocks, Pressure due to, 350
— Heaters. See Feed-Water Heaters
— Hyacinth Destructor ” Kenny,” 520*
— Lifting Appliances for Irrigation, 235*
— Mains, Buildings over, Legal Decision, 338
— Pollution Research Board, Annual Report,
117
at Ullswater, Prevention of, 93
— Power. See Hydraulic; Poiver Plant;
Power, Water; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Softening Plant, Chilcote Pumping Station,
451*, 495*
— Spray for Control of Dust in Rock Drilling,
Water and 246*
— Supply.
Wells
— Tanks.
— Treatment at Chilcote Pumping Station,
451*, 495*
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic; Power
Plant
Waterloo and City Railway, New Rolling Stock, 138*
Waterside Power Station, Operation of High- Pressure Units at, 184
Watertight Doors, Dean Valve-Control System for, 560*
Waterways. See Rivers; Canals
“ Waterwitch,*’ S.S., Screw Aperture of, 182 Waterworks, Chester, Dean Valve-Control Installation at, 560*
— Practice, Flocculation in, 248
— Sheffield, 62 • 5-b.h.p. Diesel-Driven Pumping
Sets, 150*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Watson, G. O., on Application of Electricity in British Ships, 289, 303
Watts, Prof. O. P., on Corrosion of Metals, 345 Wave Formation through Locking, Juliana Ship Canal, 404
Wear, Cylinder, Collected Researches on (Review), 301
— Load Characteristic of Four-Ball Test of
Lubricants, 567*
— of Steel and Bronze, Influence of Lubricants
on, 131*
Weather. See Meteorology
Weigher, Continuous, for Lime, Chilcote Pumping Station, 454*
Welded Bridges, Vierendeel, in Belgium, Condition of, 285
— Construction in Oil Tankers, 121, 266 in Passenger Carriages, London Midland
and Scottish Railway, 165*, 222*
— Joints in Steel Penstocks, Efficiency, 351 Welding, Arc, Lincoln Foundation Essay
Competition, 288, 339
— Electric, Development of, 395
as Integral Part of Structural Design, 21*. See LETTERS, 49*, 490*, 530, 570
in Ship Construction, 304
— Electrode, Hard-Surfacing, for Steel (Murex
Welding Processes, Ltd.), 334
— Generator, Drooping-Characteristic (J, H.
Holmes and Co., Ltd.), 181*
— Machine, Spot, Ignitron Contactor for
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 275*
— Metal Arc, Speciflcation, 542
— Repair of 2,000-ton Cable-Sheathing Press,
475*
— Research by British Engine, Boiler and
Electrical Insurance Co., Report, 65
— Set, 16-kW. Diesel-Driven (Lincoln Electric
Co., Ltd.), 550*
— as Substitute for Casting, 237
Wells, Borehole, Chilcote Pumping Station, 451*
— Casing, Steel Tubes for. Specification, 142 West, A. C., on Manning of Merchant Ships, 45 Westphalia, Tunnel Construction at Dortmund,
575*
Wheels, Gear. See Gears; Gearing; Marine 'PTn'niil fiinn
White N^le, Gebel Aulia Dam, 237*
White, R., and Partners, 4-6-0 Type Passenger Locomotive, 630*
White, W. A., the Late, 610
Wiggin, H., <fe Co., Ltd., Booklet on Properties and Uses of Inconel, 282
Wilkinson, M., on the Demolition of S.S. “ Mauretania,” 341, 370
William Menelaus Lecture on Electricity Applied to Metallurgy, 394, 421
Winch, Electric, Use in Ships, 303 Wind Tunnels. See Aeronazitics
Windmill, Picardy, 468
Windred, G., on Early Electrical Pioneers, 274 See 314
Wingfield, Bowles Partners, Derby Baths, Blackpool, 553*
Wire, Galvanised, Test for. Specification, 114
— Ropes for Lifts and Hoists, Specification,
170
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy ; Radio
— Telephony. See Telephony; Radio Wisconsin University, Investigations on Corrosion of Metals, 345
“ Wodack ” Climax Electric Rock Drill, 178* Wohler Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials)
Wolfram, Control Order for, 387
Women’s Engineering Society, Coming-of-Age Luncheon, 257 ; Scheme for Training Fore women for Munitions Work, 408
— Workers. See also Labour
Wood, J. W., on Corrosion by Products of Combustion of Town Gas, 58. See Errata, 115
— Lane Power Station, Generating Plant, 263*
— Pulp Industry, Canadian, Electricity Supply
in, 518
Industry, Canadian, Position of, 382 Wooden Cooling Towers, Performance of, 599*
— Joists, Tests of, 92
Woodhouse, W. B., the Late, 366
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools
Works ;
Engineering Works, Employment of Women. See Labour
Factory Construction, War Time Building Bulletin, 569
Industrial Diseases. See Labour
Steelworks, Provision of Coke-Oven Departments, 486
Workmen’s Compensation. See Labour
— See Labour
Workshops. See Works ; Machine Tools
— Training. See Education World Telephone Statistics, 587
Worthington, W. B., the Late, 19
Wrecks. See Accidents
Wright Electric Motors (Halifax), Ltd., Tabletype Surface Grinding Machine, 76*
Wrought Light Alloys Development Association, Research Scholarship, 198

X-RAYS See Rbyvtgen Rays

YEAR Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yield Point in Iron and Steel, Test-Piece for Investigating, 176*
and Plastic Strain in Mild Steel, 22. See
LETTERS, 490*, 530, 570
Yorkshire Electric Power Co., Power Supply for
Collieries, 203
— (North Riding) County Council versus
Liddle, 148
Young’s Modulus. See Elastic Modulus

ZEISS-SCHMALZ Surface Tester, 345*
Zinc Production, Use of Electric Furnaces for, 612
Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Investigations on Internal-Combustion Engines, 297*

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