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The Engineer 1907 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

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  • ABERDEEN Manhole Explosion, 391
  • Aeroplane Motor, Weight, 111
  • Air Compressors, Valve Proportions, 263
  • Air as an Electric Insulator, 289
  • Airships, New Invention, 597
  • Alaska, Coal Mining in, 189
  • Alcohol as a Fuel, Superior Advantages to Gasoline, 61
  • Alexandria Municipality, Engineers for, 68
  • Aluminium for Powerful Carrents, 391
  • Amalgamated andFedarated Engineers’ Societies, Conference, 11
  • Ammonia, Sulphite of, Production in Germany, 189
  • Ammunition, Carriage by Motor Car, 163
  • Ammunition Host, Pneumatic, 443
  • Anthracite and Blast Furnaces in United States, 189
  • Anthracite Coal in Russia, Extensive Deposits, 263
  • Antimony, Various Uses of, 367
  • Antwerp, Fire Station at, 44
  • Apokonin for Dust Prevention, 469
  • Apprenticeship Diminution and Unemployment
  • Arc Lamp Carbons, Special, 61
  • Arc Works, Outing, 24
  • Area Computing Scale, Casella, 608
  • Asbestos Deposits in Siberia, 237
  • - and Manganese Ore in the Philippines, 341
  • - in Western Australia, 519
  • Asphalt Mines in Turkey, 469

Associations, Institutions & Societies:

  • Association, Birmingham, of Mechanical Engineers, Annual Meeting, 584
  • Association, British :
  • Provisional Programme, 68
  • Visit to Leicester Coalfields, 37
  • Association, Cold Storage and Ice, Meeting and Paper, Announcement, 504
  • Association of Engineers-in-Charge :
  • Visit to Kodak Works, 454
  • Visit to Portland Cement Works, 197
  • Association, Geologists’:
  • Excursions, 74
  • Library, 74
  • Association, Incorporated, of Municipal and County Engineers :
  • Meetings, Date of, 24, 200
  • Meeting, Western District, 379
  • Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
  • Convention, Annual, List of Papers Kead, 25
  • Association, Manchester, of Engineers :
  • Meeting, Opening, 387
  • President’s Address, 454
  • Association, Water Engineers :
  • Meeting and Programme, 584
  • College of Science and Technology, Imperial:
  • Committees Appointed, 582
  • Institute, Iron and Steel :
  • Vienna Meeting, Programme, 224
  • Institute of Marine Engineers :
  • Annual Dinner, 482
  • Conversazione, 659
  • Denny Gold Medal, Award, 24, 375
  • Iron and Steel Vessels, Repairs ; Machinery, Repairs, Elliott, 662
  • Opening of Session, 375
  • Visit to Mumford’s Colchester Works, 224
  • Institute, North of England, of Mining and Mechanical Engineers:
  • Excursion Arranged, 413
  • Ferro-concrete Buildings, Dunston-upon-Tyne, Visit, 221
  • Programme of Annual Meeting, 118
  • Programme of General Meeting, 362
  • Institute, Northampton Polytechnic, Prize Giving and Conversazione, 477
  • Institute of Sanitary Engineers, Annual Dinner, 610
  • Institute, West of Scotland Iron and Steel: Annual Dinner, 608
  • Objects of the Institute, Prizes Offered, 636
  • Institution of Civil Engineers :
  • Palmer Scholarship, 136
  • Papers Announced, 458
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Association of Students, Meeting Announced, 551
  • Visit to Consett Ironworks, 45
  • Visit to “ Newcastle Chronicle ” Offices, 399
  • Yorkshire Association of Students, Hennebique Ferro-concrete, Construction of, De Vesian, 530
  • Iron and Steel Works, Utilisation of Waste Energy, Dick, 664
  • Visit to Clarence Iron and Steel Works, 454 Doncaster Locomotive Works, 80 Parkgate Iron and Steel Works, 582 Rotherham, 638
  • Institution of Electrical Engineers :
  • Glasgow Local Section—
  • Dinner, Annual, 385
  • Glasgow Students’ Section—
  • Transformers, Testing of, Maclean, 428
  • Ventilation Registering Apparatus, Jamieson, 528
  • Leeds Local Section—
  • Meeting and Paper, Announcement, 506
  • Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
  • Meeting Announcement, 503
  • Programme for Opening of Session, 348
  • Institution, Incorporated, of Automobile Engineers :
  • Meeting, Announcement of, 340, 376
  • Meeting, Elections, 442
  • Title, New, 213
  • Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
  • Arc Lighting, Krause, 632
  • Annual Meeting and Report, 438
  • Blackfriars Bridge Widening, Visit, 603
  • Engineering and Machinery Exhibition at Olympia, Visit, 330, 398
  • Hampton Waterworks, Visit, 330
  • Hollow Shafts, Economic Design of, Lilly, 438
  • President, Appointment, 96
  • Woolwich Arsenal, Visit to, 604
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
  • Meeting, Announcement of, 340
  • Water Arbitration Prize, Conditions, 118
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Graduates’ Association:
  • Meetings, 340, 390, 508
  • Railway Signalling, Morgan, 508
  • Institution of Mining Engineers, Programme of Annual Meeting, 197
  • Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Awards of Medals and Prizes, 515
  • Institution of Naval Architects, Scholarship Award, 197
  • Institution, Royal:
  • Astronomy, Old and New, Christmas Lectures, Sir D. Gill, 486, 632
  • Meetings and Elections, 18, 483, 579
  • Programme of Lectures till Easter, 1908, 579 Society, American, of Mechanical Engineers,
  • Annual Meeting, 483
  • Society of Arts:
  • Lectures, Programme of Titles and Lecturers, 604, 628
  • Meeting, Annual General, 11
  • Society of Engineers :
  • Annual Meeting, Award of Premiums, 608
  • Matthews, Sir William, Election as Honorary Member, 476
  • Meeting, Annual, Announced, 551
  • Associations, Institutions, & Societies (coJUoiKt'd):
  • Society, Engineering, East London College, Locomotion Through the Air, Thurston, 482
  • Society, Glasgow Technical College Scientific, Electric Sub-station Equipment, Prentice, 628
  • Society, Glasgow University Engineering, Mining Expletives, Latham, 604
  • Society, Liverpool Engineering, Annual Dinner, 610
  • Society, Physical, of London :
  • Annual Exhibition Announced, 515, 582 Programme of Meeting, 512
  • Socifcty, Royal Agricultural, Show at New- castle-on-Tyne, 584
  • Society, Royal Meteorological:
  • Balloon Observations Report, 552
  • British Kite Stations, Paper on Observations, 562
  • Symons Gold Medal, Award, 413
  • Sh affi >ld Society of Engineers and Metallurgists: Steel Testing, Arnold’s Lecture, 697 Superheated Steam in Practice, Gallaher, 519 Uaiversity College, London:
  • Annual Meeting, Election of President, 439 Chadwick Medals, Presentation, 432 Engineering Departments Extension, 197 University of Liverpool, Degrees Conferred, 68
  • AUSTRALIAN Duty on Roofing Slates, 610 Automobile, Amphibious, 571
  • Motors, Rating Formuhe. 125 Repair Shops in Austria, 571
  • BACTERIOLOGICAL Department for India, 543
  • Balloon, Captive, Struck by Lightning, 605 under Gun-fire, Experiments, 289 and Impure Gas, 571 Nalli SticuDdcs Lessons, 417 for Temperature Investigations, 391 for United States War Department, 367 Barrage and Hydro-electric Stations in Silesia, 213 Bauxite Deposits in the Adriatic, 213 Belgium Steel Rails Exports, 341
  • Belt Lacing, Steel, 263
  • Bitumen on the Coast of Venezuela, 571 Blackburn and Accrington Electric Tramway, 263 Blast Furnaces in Belgium, 189, 519 Blast, Large, at French Quarizite Quarry, 237 Blasting in France, Drill-hole Regulations, 367 B'asting, Mr. Walker’s Safety Invention, 571 BIjth Water Supply, 597

Boilers:

  • Boiler-cleaning Compound 263
  • Head, Rheutan’s. 106
  • Inspection in Japan, 571
  • Pings, Improvement Suggested by Mr. Yarrow, 11
  • Transported Nine Miles by Rolling, 61
  • Vertical, in the French Navy, 213 Boilermakers* Lock-out Averted, 367 Re-boilering of Spanish Liner, 558
  • BOOM Defence at Ilamoaze, 571
  • Borax and Brazing, 391
  • Borehole, Diamond Drill, 417
  • Boron Steel, 391
  • Bosnian State Ironworks, Output, 189
  • Brass for Condenser Tubes, 643
  • Brass, Regulations for Casting, 515
  • Brazil, Government Improvement of Means of Communication, 111
  • Braz ng Cast Iron, Lilienfeld’s “Castolin,” 84 Bricks from Borax, 391
  • Bricks of Sand and Lime, 391

Bridges:

  • Biackfriars, Widening, 11, 443
  • Burma Road, Across the Sittang, 651 Chicago and Alton Steel, 289 Connecticut River, Opened, 625
  • Galveston, and Causeway, 2S9
  • Manhattan, Construction Commenced, 61
  • Over Mississippi, for Chicago and North- Western Railway, 189
  • Quebec, Accident, Evidence, 519
  • Quebec, Length of Spans and Weight of Loads, 159
  • Railway, Reinforced Concrete, in Ohio. 625 Rodah, 45, 443
  • Stakeford, Details of Construction, 495
  • Stanley, over West London Railway, Proposed Rebuilding, 11
  • CADMIUM, Metallic, Production in United States, 213
  • Cairo Drainage, Important Sewage Scheme, 37 Calcium, AfiBnity for Carbon, 86
  • Carbide, New British Industry, 631 Metallic, Properties of. 163, 189
  • Camphor Cultivation in India, 625
  • Canada, Copper Ore Discovery, 86
  • Canadian Telegraph Line, Strong Earth Current, 391
  • Canals—see Harbours and Waterways
  • Car Ferry Service across Lake Ontario, 651
  • Carbide Factory in Yorkshire, 159
  • Carbonic Acid, Specific Heat of, 367
  • Carlisle, Sewage Schemes, 163
  • Carpenters in the Navy, 341
  • Cartagena and Colon, Telegraph for, 163
  • Cedar Wood in Algeria, Intended Sale, 111
  • Cement for Fastening Brass to Glass, 61 Fire-resisting, 495 Production in the United States, 651 Show at Chicago, 543
  • Cements, Hardening of Hydraulic, 391
  • Charcoal and Blast Furnaces in Poland, 37
  • Charcoal Iron in Ohio, 189
  • Chicago and the Labour Question, 469
  • Chimneys, Great Height in United States, 391
  • Chinese Telegraphs, 643
  • Chromite Mines in United States, 495
  • Clyde Traffic Economies, 367
  • Clyde Trust and Electricity, 273
  • COo Indicator, 137

Coal, Collieries, and Coke;

  • Coal Bores of Greatest Depth in United Kingdom, 263
  • - in Borneo, 391
  • Bounties and Coaling Facilities at Delagoa Bay, 625
  • British, for Austria, 289
  • and Copper in Formosa, 61
  • Cost Increases Passage Rates of Eastern Steamers, 189
  • Cutting by Electricity, 519
  • Decreased Output in United States, 495 Deep Bores in Fifeshire, 246 Discovery in Chili, 495
  • Dock, Largest in the W'orld, 469 in the Doncaster District, 495 Exported from United Kingdom to Costa Rica, 237
  • Exports to Haifa from United Kingdom, 111
  • Floating DepOt at Portsmouth, 442 German Output, 367
  • German Syndicate in Kent to Extract
  • Coal and Fireclay, 519
  • Importations at Suez, 111
  • Machine-mined in the United States,
  • Statistics, 571
  • Mine Timbering in India, 651
  • Mines in Dalmatia, 163
  • Mines, Ventilation, 443
  • Mining Accidents, International Comparisons, 37
  • Natal Output, 495, 625
  • Newcastle, for Alexandria, 495
  • Pits, Flooded, in United States, 417 Pits near Swansea Re-opened, 469 Prices in United States, Rapid Rise, 263 Replaces Oil Fuel in Texas, 111 Shipped from the Tyne, 651 South Wales, Wages Advanced, 495 Tip for Swansea Djck, 2S7
  • Trade and the Railways, 495
  • for United States Fleet Conveyed by Glasgow Steamers, 495
  • Coaling DepOts, Floating, for Navy, 417 Coke Ovens at Bryncethin Colliery, 597
  • Ovens in United States, Great Increase, 137
  • Production in United States, 163 Collieries, New, in Lancashire, 61, 111 Colliery Trade Meeting at Sydney, 367
  • COBALT for Glass Colouring, 367
  • Commercial Motor Users’ Association, Prizes, 666 Compasses for Russian Army, 543
  • Compressors, Motor Driven, for Colorado Mines, 367
  • Concrete Arch in America, 469
  • Coating for Corroded Iron Chimney Stacks, 571
  • Door, Reinforced, 85 under Pressure, Tests, 212
  • Safe, Reinforced, 469
  • Steam Curing of, 662
  • for Telegraph Poles, 163
  • Ferro-Concrete Construction, Adams, 390
  • Consignment Mark on Goods, 585
  • Cooling Tower at Los Angeles Electric Station, 495
  • Cooper H ewilt Mercurial Light for Naval Academy, 315
  • Copper in British East Africa, 519
  • Castings of High Electrical Conductivity, 85
  • Electrolytic, 289
  • Exports from Russia, 519 and Iron Alloy, 263 in Jamaica, 417 in the Ural District, 137
  • Cotton Mills, Electric Driving Replaces Steam,
  • Cotton Mills in India, 335
  • Cotunnite, Mineral Found in Vesuvian Eruptions, Properties of, 263
  • Coventry Electricity, Profits, 111
  • Crane, Steel Works Gantry, 662
  • Crystal Palace Engineering School, Papers and Awards, 658
  • Cuxhaven, Ajustable Landing Gangway, Capt. Tron, 542
  • Cyanide and Carbon Steel Tools, 85
  • DAM, Large, in United States, 417; Loughborough’s New Reservoir, 557
  • Dangerous Employment Allowance in Naval Machine Shops, 249
  • Decimal Classification in America, 391 Denmark’s Imports, 237;
  • Device for Operating Mechanism from a Distance, 417-
  • Diamond Drill Difficulties, 417; Industry in British Guiana, 4t>9
  • Diving in the Navy, 443 ; Deep, and Caisson Work, 376
  • Divining Rod Failure in Africa, 189
  • Dock, Million Ton, Reported Projection by Canadian Pacific Railway, 315
  • Tanjong Pagar, London Firm’s Tender Accepted, 651
  • Dry, for Boulogne, 61
  • for Bristol Channel, 651
  • at San Francisco, 163
  • for United States Government, near Philadelphia, 189
  • Dover Naval Harbour, Electric Power and Lighting for, 571
  • Drainage Ditch to Connect Hudson Bay and Gulf of Mexico, 289
  • Draughtsmen’s Association, Naval, 391
  • Dredger for the Mersey, 189
  • Drill Bits for Sandstone, 495
  • Drilling Bolt Holes in Cjncrete, 495
  • EASTBOURNE, New Pier Projected 625

Electrical Matters:

  • Accumulator Cars on German Railways, 263
  • Alternators, High-voltage, Construction of Coils, 468—see also Turbine Alternators
  • Ammeter, New Form of, in Berlin, 37
  • Electrical Matters {continual)'.
  • Belfast Corporation and Electric Supply, 37 Canadian Electiicity and Fluid Exportation Act, 85
  • Chesterfield Electric Supply, 37
  • Commutator Motors on Polyphase Circuits, 85
  • Dynamo Brushes, Experiments in Adjusting, 263
  • Firing, Admiralty Regulations, 237 Homopolar, to Maintain Constancy of Current, 367
  • Dynamos and Ships’ Compasses, 263 Electric Cables for Roumania, Customs Dues on, 111
  • Colliery Plant in Belgium, 111 Emploj^s’ Strike at Milan, 571 Generation in Russia and Germany, Comparison, 11
  • Heating for Paper Drying, 651 Lighting at Chinkiang, 189 Lighting for Phoenix Park, Proposed, 61
  • Oscillations, Apparatus for Experiments, 163, 213
  • Plant, Large, Planned for Sultan, United States, 37
  • Power, Interesting Example of Adaptability, 196
  • Power AVorks, Extensions in the Riviera, 111
  • Supply in Tampico, Mexico, 592 Swindling Device, 417,
  • Towing on Pennsylvanian Canal, 137 Traction for French Canal Boats, 37 Traction on Southern Pacific Railway, 263
  • Works for Copper Ore Treatment at Treport and Eu, 189
  • Electrical Equipment on United States Battleships, 597
  • Electrical Exhibition in Manchester, 1908, 568 Electrically-driven Machinery at Devonport, 651
  • Electricity. Compressed Air, Scott and Mountain’s Installation at Clifton Colliery Co., 96
  • in India, Legislation, 543 for Paris from the Rhone, 186 Replaces Gas at Yarmouth, 571 in Switzerland—Accidents, 11 Franco-Spanish Electric Supply Company, 37 Heysham Electric Lighting Order Revoked, 597 Induction Coil, New Type, 11
  • Insulators for High-tension Transmission Lines, 315
  • Kallmann’s Spark Reducing Switches, 315
  • Kryptol Resistances, 61
  • Monmouthshire Electric Supply, 469
  • Motors, Alternating or Direct Current, Torque Variations, 239
  • Rawtenstall. Electric Supply Stations, Projected, 137
  • Shovels, Electric, Superior to Steam, 37 Sparking in Single-phase Commutator Motors, Prevention of, 61
  • Prevention with Variable Speed Motor, 61
  • Stepney’s Increased Supply, 417 Turbine Alternators, 6000 Kilowatt, 443 Alternator, Large, for Brooklyn, 367
  • ELECTROLYSIS, Insulating Joint to Prevent, 189
  • Engineering Standards Committee, Appointment, 68
  • Entropy Diagram, Schmidt and Way, 510
  • Ergin, Liquid Fuel Used in Germany, 163
  • Erosion of Steam Fittings, Experiments, 137
  • Exhibition, Engineering and Machinery, Olympia, Lectures at, 263
  • Franco-British, 454 Rio de Janeiro, 597 Sc. Petersburg, International Lighting and Heating, 518
  • Winnipeg Industrial, 1908, Announcement of Prizes Offered, 477 Experimental Tank for Japan, 272
  • Explosives, Increase in Accidents from, 85
  • Explosives Testing Stations in United States, 11
  • FEED-WATER Heater, German Experiments, 482
  • Feed-water Heating with Live Steam, 495
  • Files, Methods to Free, from Metal Clogging, 85 Finland, Coal Imports, 137
  • Finland Waterfalls and Electric Traction, 11 Finsbury Technical College, Old Students’ Association Dinner, 551 ; Students’ Drawings, 45 ; Work at, 324
  • Fire Brigades Disbanded owing to Compensation Act, 85
  • Engine, Chemical, for Anthracite Coal Mines, 237
  • and Salvage Boat for Genoa, Merry- weather’s, 162 i
  • Fireclay for High Temperatures, 367 Fog Dispersion by Cannon, 451, 519 Forty-eight Hours Week, 483 French Airship Experiments, 111
  • Motor Building in Birmingham, 137 Submarine Signalling, 213
  • Telegraph Line to Timbuctoo, 237 West African Loan for Public Works, 189 Wireless Telegraphy, 213
  • Fuel Consumption, Automobile, Measuring Instrument, 237
  • Furnace, Automatic Ore-feeding, 341
  • GAS Engine, Allis-Chalmers Company, 443
  • Gasholder, Large, at Manchester, 315
  • Gasworks for Santa Cruz, 163
  • German Chemical Industry, Boom in, 37 Exports, 37
  • Military Balloon, 85, 213 Naval Port at Brunsbuttel, 597 Glasgow Sewage Scheme, 469
  • Glass Brushes for Cleaning Electiic Machinery
  • Lifted by Electro-Magnets, 571 Telegraph Poles, 495
  • Gold with Coal in Transylvania, 543 Discovery in Ontario, 11 Mining on Loch Fyne, 367 Output from Klondike, 195 Output from the Gold Coast, 417
  • Gorton Sewage Extension Scheme, 519
  • Graphite Discovered in Queensland, 37
  • Graphite in the United States, Value, 571
  • Greenland Mining Concessions, 341
  • Grinders’ Consumption, 608

Harbours and Waterways:

  • Antwerp, Harbour Improvements, 289
  • Caledonian Canal, Improvements Suggested, 111
  • Canal, New York to Boston. Projected, 213
  • Canals and Waterways, Royal Commission, 439 ; Inland Navigation Improvement, 608 ' Canalisation of Upper Rhine, Scheme for, 37 i Dover Harbour and Railway Improvements, 469
  • Harbour Extensions at Rothesay, 263
  • Harbour Works at Bahia, 263
  • Haulbowline Dockyard Extension, 263, 3/8
  • Mersey Improvements, 443
  • New York Harbour, Ambrose Channel, 571
  • Newlyn Harbour Improvement, 625
  • Peterhead Harbour Improvements, 443
  • St. Petersburg Port Improvements, 189
  • Scarborough Harbour Improvements, 61
  • Sligo Harbour Improvement, 625
  • Suez Canal, Navigable Dimensions Increased, 11
  • HARDWOODS in America, Annual Output, 37
  • Harrogate Sewage Scheme, 625
  • Heating by Hot Blast from Furnace, 315
  • Heating Plant for Japanese Steel Works, 303
  • High-speed Tool Steel Testing Plant, 315
  • Hungerford Drainage Scheme, 341
  • Hydeslite, Value for Heated Glass, 315
  • Hydrochloric Acid Gafc, Test for, 213
  • Hydro-electric Plant in Maritime Alps, 213
  • Hydrogen, New Process for Production of, 44
  • Hygiene and Demography, International Congress, 209
  • ICE Rink, Artificial, Largest, 380
  • India-rubber from South America, 495
  • India-rubber from Tongalatd and Zululand, 443>
  • Induction Furnace, New Patent, 237
  • Iridium and Rhodium trade Malleable, 163
  • Iron and Coal at Hartfield, 315
  • Coppered, 163
  • Corrosion and Rust Prevention, 391 Founders’ Conciliation Board Meeting, 519 Industry in Australia, 417
  • Mines in Italy, 367
  • Ore in Cuba, 391
  • Deposits of Vancouver Dland, 163
  • Discovery in Mexico, 237
  • Imports into Belgium, 417
  • Scarcity in Germany, 263, 294
  • Rusting of. Experiments, 289 and Steel Manufacture in United States, 176
  • and Steel Works in India, 571 or Steel, Blue, Polishing Method for, 61 163
  • Ironworks in the Urals, Reduced Number, 111 Irrigating Canal in Hawaii, 367
  • Irrigation in Argentina, 367
  • Irrigation Schemes for Formosa, 417
  • JAPANESE Floating Exhibition at Rio, 61 International Exhibition, Projected, 189
  • Ports, Increased Shipping, 237 Regulations for Foreign Companies Trading, 147
  • Steel Tested for Lloyd’s Standard, 341
  • KEIGHLEY Municipal Improvements, 625
  • Kettles, Paper, for German Army, 189
  • Keyham Dockyard Alterations, 263; Extension, Floating Stages for, 341
  • LAMPS, Incandescent, Removal and Renewal, 111
  • - Osmium and Tungsten, 213, 237
  • - Osram Electric, 213
  • - for Shop Lighting, 367
  • Lead Mine at Cripple Creek, to be Re-opened, 85"
  • Le Chatelier on Cements, 469, 625
  • Light Rays, Velocity of, 85
  • Lighthouse Construction near Ushant, 543 ; with Fog Attachment, 367
  • Lightning Arrester, Aluminium Cell, 596
  • Lignite in Cape Colony, 571
  • - in Germany, Development of Production, 430
  • - Mine at Colane, 163
  • Linen Manufacture in United States, 495
  • Liquid Air, Effect on Lead, 543
  • Liquid Oil Fuel, Admiralty Precautions, 443
  • Limestone Masonry, Protection of, 137
  • London County Council Evening Classes, 272
  • London County Council Steamer Statistics, 163
  • MAGNESITE and Magnesia in Turin, 391
  • Malvern Hills Protection, 651
  • Manganese, Discovered in Marudu Bay, 163 Exports from Salonica, Value, 213 Ore in India, 315
  • Ore, Reported Discovery in Tunisia, ' 163
  • Manhattan Island connected by Seven Tunnels with Surrounding Boroughs. 85
  • Melhuish’s Tool Warehouse, 375
  • Mercury Columns, High, 367
  • Metal-working Machinery in United States, 213
  • Metallurgical Laboratory at Yale, 61
  • Meteorological Observations at Hindhead, 625
  • Metric System in Denmark, 263
  • Metric Tables, 45
  • Mexican Coal Trade Developments, 163
  • Mexico and Mining Industry, 469
  • Mica. New Variety called “ Irvingite,” 163
  • Middlesbrough Drainage Scheme, 597
  • Mine Explosion, Record, near Carrara, 61
  • Mine Fire Extinction by Carbon Dioxide Gas, 543
  • Mineral Output of Australia, Value of, 11
  • Miners’ Association and Non-Union Men, 367
  • Miners’ Federation®, Scotch and English, 619
  • Mines. Russo-Japanese War, Danger to Shipping, 237
  • Mines in Saxony, Statistics, 417
  • Mining at Harbin, Foreigners Restricted, 367
  • Pit Cage, Safety, 651
  • Rescue Apparatus, 188
  • Mint for Canadian Coinage, 263
  • Mombasa Manual Street Cars, 367
  • Monazite Sand in Brazil, 543
  • Motor Cars, World’s Output, 399
  • - Fire Engine, Additional, for Edinburgh, 61
  • - Omnibus and Traction Engine' Traffic Cause Depreciation of House Property, 85
  • - Omnibuses and Police Requirements, .571
  • - Union and Royal Automobile Club, 518
  • NAPHTHA, from Baku, 111
  • Naphtha Springs and Lake in Saghalien, 417
  • National Physical Laboratory, Experiments in Pressure on Large and Small Surfaces, 417
  • Naval Cadets, Passing-out Examination, 159
  • Naval Dockyards, Boilermakers and Electrical Fitters, Inspectors’ Appointments, 236 Navvies, Steam, Work of, 315
  • New South Wales, Newcastle, Creep ” Damages Buildings, 417
  • New York and Brooklyn Subway Extension, 189, 571
  • Niagara Falls Generating Plant, 213
  • Niagara Falls, Illuminated by Searchlights, 289
  • Nickel Coins for Colombia, 417
  • Nitrogen Supply for Cyanide Making, 543
  • Norwich Pumping and Sewage Works, 11
  • Nova Scotia, Electric Power Plant, 213
  • Nurnberg Gas Engines at Bargoed Colliery, 543
  • OIL Fuel or Electric Traction in Italy, 608
  • - Fuel Tank Boat for Submarines, 90
  • - Motors and Air Compressors in Baku Oil District, 111
  • - Pipe in United States, New Type, 263
  • - Replaces Coal on Pacific Coast Steamers, 239
  • - Storage Tanks at Portsmouth, 315
  • Overgate Electric Lighting, 543
  • Oxford, Engineering Professorship, 582
  • PACKING, Asbestos, 367
  • Paint on Engines, To Clean, 495
  • Panama Canal, Excavation Progress, 189
  • Paper for Gas Pipes, 61
  • Paper for Kettles. 189
  • Papermaking in Japan, 519
  • Peat Coke Manufacture, Ziegler Process, 571
  • Peat Fuel in Sweden, Government Manufacture Abandoned, 263
  • Pencils, Potatoes may Replace Cedar, 37
  • Pennsylvania, Mining Rules Needed in Thirty-two Languages, 61
  • Peru, Output of Coal, Oil, and Copper, 341, 625
  • Philippines, Public Works and Improvements, 495
  • Photography, Distant, by Telephoto Camera, 519
  • Polytechnic Classes in, 376 by Telegraph, 469, 519, 597
  • Pig Iron by Electric Smelting, 213
  • - from North Lincolnshire, 469
  • - Production in Belgium, 341
  • - Canada, 341
  • - United States Increased, 11
  • Pile Driver, 108ft. High, 519
  • Pipe, Iron, for Oil Transmission, 469
  • Platinum, Great Rise in Price of, 37
  • - Melting Point, 189
  • Plumbers, Roistered, for Southampton Corporation and Poplar Borough Work, 11
  • - Registration in Coventry, 37
  • - Meeting, 454
  • Pontefract Corporation Takes over Gasworks, 11
  • Portuguese and British South Africa, 519
  • Post-office Engineering Department, Annual Dinner, 607
  • Post-office Underground Electric Railway Service in Vienna, 237
  • Precious Stones, Artificial, 391, 469
  • Premium System in Government Dockyards, 237
  • Producer Gas from Locomotive Cinders, 651 Thermal Value, 137
  • Pulp from Bamboo Grass, 341
  • Pumping Engine of Great Size for Nashville, U.S.A., 85
  • Plant in New South Wales, Interesting Features, 111
  • Pumps for Anthracite Mines, 495
  • Steam, Fuel Consumption of, 597
  • Pyrites Mines in Spain, 495
  • RADIATION Losses in a Basic Converter, 417
  • Radium in Austria, 137
  • - Cheaper Substitute for, 61
  • - in Coal Mines, 263
  • - Madame Curie on Atomic Weight of, 571
  • - Made in Vienna, 543

Railways and Tramways:

  • Accident Statistics on United States Railways, 367, 495
  • African, Profit and Liss, 50
  • Alsatian Mountain Railway, Electric, 163
  • American Locomotives for Chilian Railways, 289 ’
  • Anatolia Railway Extension, 263
  • Andino Riilway Sold to Central Argentine Railway Company, 603, 625
  • Argentina Railways, Projected, 133
  • Atchison, Topeka and Santa Atlantic Type Locomotive, 213
  • Australian Long Tunnel, 391
  • Austrian Strike, 341
  • Austrian State Railways, Brotan Boilers for, 597
  • Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Reconstruction, 11
  • Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Report, 417
  • Barcelona Electric Tramways, 11
  • Bavarian Railways, Record Locomotive, 213
  • Belfast Tramways Extension, 495, 571
  • Bengal and North-Western Branch Line, 597
  • Benguella Railway, Progress, 189
  • Berlin Underground Electric Railway, Projected, 495
  • Bexhill and Hastings Tramway Service, 543 ^^263^^^^ Accrington Electric Tramway, Bradford and Leeds Tram Service, 341
  • Brazil Railway Extension and Bridge Construction, 37
  • Brannan’s Mono-Railway Schemes Helped by Indian and Home Government, 61
  • Brighton Tramways, Decrease in Passengers, Increase in Economy, 11
  • British Columbia, Railway Electrification Projected, 163
  • Broken Rails on Pennsylvania Railroad, 315 Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railways, Light
  • Steam Car, 61
  • to Rosario, New Line, 61 • Underground Railways for, 289
  • Bulgarian Railway Extension, 638
  • Calais to Chamonix Through Service, 597
  • Camberwell and Tramway Proposals, 391
  • Canada, Large Number of New Locomotives, Rails, &3., for, 61, 289 ; Safety Railway Appliances in, 469
  • Canadian Northern Railway, Inadequate Locomotive Shops, 237
  • Rolling Stock, 519
  • Pacific Railway, Great Increase in Speed, 37
  • Landed Property, 519
  • Milhou-Ton Dock Projected, 315
  • Railway Extension, 341, 499
  • Cape Colony Locomotive Power Found Inadequate, 61
  • Cape Colony Locomotives all Pitted with Cast Iron Rocking Pinger Grate, 61
  • Car Perry Service across Lake Ontario, 592
  • Caucasus Mountains, Electric- Railway Projected, 237
  • Central London Railway Fares, 543 Charing Cross and Hampstead, Receipts, Gradients, Cost of Construction, 11
  • Charing Cross Railway Bridge, 391
  • Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, 189, 367
  • China, Railway Extensions in, 469
  • Chinese Railways and Government Control, 189 Columbia, Railway Mileage, 469
  • Conduit Tramways, Improved Point for Sideslot System, 289
  • Congo, New Railway, 625
  • Corea, Railway Extension, 189
  • Cornish Express Running Statistics, 391
  • Corrosion of Railway Bridgework in India, Prevention of, 85
  • Croydon and Crystal Palace Tramcar Service, 37 .
  • Detroit River Tunnel to be Electrically Operated, 37
  • District Railway Abandons Inner Circle Trains, 469; Improved Service, 571
  • Doncaster Tramways, Receipts and Expenditure, 137
  • Dover Harbour, Proposed Connection with Railway by Tunnels, 443
  • Dundee Overhead Electric Traction Extended, 163
  • East Ham Tramway Statistics, 367
  • Egyptian Railways, Locomotive with Feed-, water Heater for, 37
  • Electric Locomotive for Pennsylvania Railroad, 417
  • Locomotives for Heavy Load in United States, 61
  • Mountain Railway in Austria, 289
  • Pumping Plant for Indian Railway, 289
  • Railway from Lorraine to Essen, 237 in California, Novelty in Working, 111
  • Single - phase, Vienna to Baden, 189
  • Extension, 625 j
  • Supply, Portable Sub-station in Texas, I 495 I
  • Electrification of French Cable Railway Reduces Cost of Working, 315 !
  • Essex, Light Railway Projected in, 61 I
  • Fires Caused by Railway Locomotives, Prevention, 391
  • Fourteen Streams ? Klerksdorp Railway, Reported Purchase by Government, 479 i
  • Freight Trains in Prussia, State Limits, 213 '
  • French Railway under Construction from Tonkin to Yliunan Fu, 543
  • German Locomotives for French Railways, 189 German Street Car Fender, 391
  • Gorton Tramways, 597
  • Grand Trunk Pacific Trans-continental Line, 597
  • Gravesend South-Eastern Station Extension, 341
  • Great Central Railway, Extensive Buildings at Lincoln, 213
  • Great Eastern Railway, Proposal to Run Steamers to Additional Ports, 571
  • Great Eastern Railway, Stratfordians’ Dinner, 608
  • Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Works Removal, 651
  • Great Western Railway Extensions, 469, 519, 543
  • Great Western Railway, Widening Track, 625 Greece, Railway Statistics, 651
  • Hackney and Overhead Trolley System, 37 Halifax Tramways to be Extended, 37
  • Extension Abandoned, 11 New Slipper Brakes, 85
  • Hammersmith to Harlesden Overhead Electric Tramway, 469
  • Haslingden Electric Tramways, 469
  • Hayti Railway Extension, 367
  • High Peak Railway among the Earliest Constructed, 189
  • India to Ceylon, Railway Proposed, 237 India, Railway Snrveys, 367 Indian Railway Conciliation Board, 650
  • Extension and Growth of Revenues, 163
  • Gauges, 387 Re-arrangement, 519 Statistics, 356
  • Indiana Railroad and Interlocking Switches, 11
  • Indo-Chinese Railways, French, 495
  • Japan, Electric Tramways, Projected, 111
  • Japan from London in Seventeen Days, 289
  • Japanese Railway Improvement, 341
  • Japanese Railways Nationalised, 443
  • Kew Bridge, Proposed Tramway Over, 625
  • Kirkcaldy Tramways, Projected Extension, 111, 543 ’
  • Lancaster and Heysham Railway Electrification, 367
  • Leeds Tramways Improvements, 625
  • Leeds Tramways, Projected Extension, 163
  • Leith and Edinburgh Tramways, 341, 367
  • Light Railway, Clayton West to Darton, 443 Railways, Commissioners’ Inquiries, 189 597
  • Railway Commissioners’ Orders Confirmed, 111, 189, 263, 315, 391, 417, 443, 495
  • Lincoln Tramways in Working Order, 85 Lincolnshire, North, Projected Light Railway, 85
  • Live Rail Accident Statistics, 443
  • Llandudno Tramways Company Projects Light Railways, 11
  • Locomotive Smoke Prevention, 597 Locomotives in United States, Large Increase in Tractive Power, 37
  • London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Electric Trains on, 239, 443 ; Rail Motor Service, 137
  • Chatham and Dover Railway Company, Half-yearly Report, 145
  • County Council Electric Tramcars, Increased Number, 37
  • and North-Western Railway Engine Drvers’ Classes for Training Boys, 262 ; Train de Luxe for American Tourists, 85
  • Tilbury and Southend Railway Improvements, 597
  • Macclesfield and District Tramways, 519 Madeira-Mamor6 Projected Railway, 163 Manchester and Salford Tramways, 367
  • Tramways Projected, 391 Tramways Statics, 11 Melbourne Suburban Railway, Electrification Projected, 171, 543
  • Metropolitan Railway Traffic Receipts 111 Mexican Central Railway, New Branch Line, 289 Mexican Frontier to Coatepec, New Railway, Midland Brake Composite Car, New Type, 189 Railway’s Irish System, Extension of, 85
  • New Pier at Heysham, 495 Track Widening, 519 Mono Railway, Brennan’s, in India, Experiments, 571
  • Morecambe Tramway Schemes, 543 Morocco’s First Railway, 137 Newcastle Tramways, Report, 495 New South Wales Railway Sbat’stics, 391 New York, Newhaven aud Hartford Railway, Electrification of, 6o2
  • Rapid Transit Railway Tunnels, 315
  • State Railway Fares, 519 New Zealand Railways, State-owned, 519 Nigeria, British Colonial Railway Projected, 239 North British Railway and Methil Dock, 110 North-Eastern Railway Branch Line Electrification, 341
  • Building Extension, 391 Emigrant Train, 495 Marshalling Yard, 137 Proposed Docks at Hartlepool, 571
  • Rates, 495
  • and Shortage in Railway Wagons, 61 Traffic Returns, 597 and Tyne Dock, 543 North London Railway, New Station, 391 North Warwickshire Coalfields, New Railway, 469
  • Northern Nigeria Railway, 469 Oil Fuel for Guatemala Central Railway, 289
  • Locomotives in United States, 495 Mexican Railway, 237, 443
  • Overhead Trolley Electric Railway, 1200-Volt Direct Current, 597
  • Overhead Wires, New Steel Pole Adopted on Erie Railroad, 137
  • Pacific Railway, Change of Plant, 597 Pennsylvania Railroad, Block Signals on. 289
  • Broken Rails on, 315
  • Cars with Schoen Steel Wheels, 391
  • Electric Locomotives, 469
  • Equipment Problem, 61 Fire Protection for Yards and Buildings, 632
  • Locomotives, Order Cancelled, 543
  • Locomotives, Quick Coal and Water Delivery, 417
  • Rolling Stock, 111, 417
  • Railways and Tramways (.continued):
  • Pensions, Grand Trunk Railway Scheme, 651
  • Pensions, Old-age. for French Railwaymen, 163 Philadelphia and Western Electric Railway, 417 PhoDopores in Cape Colony Railway Traffic, 85 Plugged Sleepers on Danish Railways, 137 Pontypridd Station, Improvements, 625
  • Potteries Railway, Possibility of Re-opening,
  • Prussian Railways, Storage Battery Cars, 417
  • Prussian State Railways, Continuous Brakes for Goods Wagons, 625
  • Rail Motor Service, Horsham to Cranleigh, 85
  • Rails for Belgian Railways, Price and Weight of, 367, 391
  • Railway Club, 93, 324
  • Cross-country Train Services, Charlewood, 632
  • Visit to Midland Railway, Leicester, 93
  • Coal Contracts, 276
  • “ Recognition ” in United States, 385 Men’s Conference in Glasgow, 61 Men’s Hours, Board of Trade Regulations, 111
  • Servants, Amalgamated Society, Rs- turn of Members, 257
  • Steam Ferry Service between Larne and Stranraer not Impossible, 37
  • “ Surprise ” Service Tests, 85, 163 of the World, 289
  • Rhymney Railway Company’s Steam Motor Car Service, 519
  • Rhymney Railway Extensions, 625
  • Rolling Stock, Metropolitan Railway, Transferred to Nidd Valley Light Railway, 25'9
  • Russian Railway Extension, 237
  • Russian Railways, Large Trucks for, 189
  • Santiago del Estero, New Railway, 189
  • Scotch Railwaymen’s Hours and Wages, 341 Scottish and English Railway Fares, Increase, 519
  • Shanghai, Motor Vehicles, 417
  • Signalling, Block System, in United States, 443
  • Garman Railway Experiments, 133 on New Haven Railroad, 163
  • Tests on Pennsylvania Railroad, 651
  • Simplon Tunnel, A Second, Projected, 625
  • Simplon Tunnel and Steam Locomotives. 519
  • Sinking of Railway and Highway in United States, 367
  • South America and Transport Difficulties, 469
  • South-Eastern Bridge at Charing Cross, 391
  • South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Signalling, 469
  • South Indian Railway, Electric Control Interlocking System, 189
  • Southern Mahratca Railway Company, Removal of Headquarters, 237
  • Southwark Bridge Tramway, Proposed, 519
  • Spark Arresters in Massachusetts, 543
  • Stamford Bridge and Cliffe Common Light Railway Scheme, 163
  • Steel, Consumption for Railroads in United States, 341
  • Cross Sleepers for Montreal Street Railway, 625
  • Railway Cars in America, 391
  • Sleepers for Bossemer and Lake Erie Railroad, 391
  • Wheel Cars for Pennsylvania Railroad, 391
  • Strand Tube Station Opened, 543
  • Surface Contact or Overhead Systems for Aldgate to Bow Tramway, 237
  • Sweden and Finland, Projected Railway, 11
  • Sweden, Berlin, and Russia, Electric Traction Proposed for Connections between, 37
  • Swedish Railways, Rapid Growth of, 85
  • Swedish Railways, Steam Coal Orders, 61
  • Swiss Electric Railway Tunnels, 651
  • Table Mountain, Electric Railway to Summit Projected, 341
  • Taff Vale Railway, Proposed Docks at Peaarth, 571
  • Telephone Wires and Single-phase Railway, Disturbances, 111
  • Third-rail System in New Jersey, 391
  • Timber, Fire-killed, for Railway Sleepers, 163 Tokio and Europe, Through Sleeping Cars, 189 Tooting Tramways System Extended, 11 Traffic Increase, Euglish Railways, 443
  • Tramcar “Pedestrian Catcher,” 237
  • Tram Rails Corrugation, Method for Dealing with, 61
  • Tramway Brake, Pringle’s, 604
  • Cars, Sanding and Braking Inventions, 651
  • East London, Extension, 417 Highbury to Highgate, Electrification, 580
  • London County Council Extensions, East Dulwich to Brockley, 543 ' Point Adjuster, Automatic, 443 Newcastle-on-Tyne Statistics, 426 Shanghai System, 111 Sboneoridge to Wembley, 111 Tooting Extensions, 417 Torquay Extension, 417
  • Wakefield and East Ardsley, 357, 417 York Electrification Projected, 417
  • Tunnel, Tauern Mountain, Pierced, 137
  • Tunnels of New York Rapid Transit Railway Require Strengthening, 315
  • Tunnels—seealso under T Index
  • Turkish Railway Extension, 37
  • Turkish Railways, Annual Reporb, 571
  • Union Pacific Railroad, Petrol Motor Cars on, 302
  • United States Railways and the Steel Trust, 61
  • Vendee Adopts Overnead Electric Traction, 11
  • Victorian Railways and Electric Signalling, 469
  • Wakefield and Ardsley Light Railway, 367, 417, 469
  • Willesden and Harlesden Tramway Difficulties, 543
  • Wimbledon and Tooting Electric Tramways, 11 Windows of Railway Cars, Prevention of Sleet Upon, 536
  • Wolverhampton Tramway Extensions, 11, 213
  • Workmen’s Inventions, German Railway, Premiums for, 341
  • RANGOON, Port Improvements, 543
  • Reclamation of Land in United States, 651
  • Rectifier, Alternating Current Tests, 269
  • Refrigerating Industries, International Congress, 428
  • Refuge Destruction and Explosives, 391
  • Repairing Work at Chatham, 519
  • Resistances of Various Metals, Measurements, 341
  • Road Dust Prevention at Abergele, 85
  • Rock Drills, Sharpening, 443
  • Roller for Uneven Land, 495
  • Ropes for Boat Hoisting, Admiralty Decision, 495
  • Roscoelite, Vanadium Mica, in Colorado, 625
  • Roumanian Public Works Expenditure, 391
  • Royal Marines as Wireless Telegraphists, 61
  • Russian Metallurgical Industry, Depression, 31
  • Russian Steel Ingots for Italy, 111
  • SAN FRANCISCO Improvements, 289
  • Scottish National Exhibition in 1908, Arrangements, 126
  • Searchlight, Powerful, in America, 391
  • Searchlights, Tests of New, 263
  • Seismograph at Cardiff, 597
  • Selenium Cell, New Form, 417
  • Sewage Purification Scheme at Southend, 289
  • Sewage Scheme for Grimsby, 237
  • Shaft-sinking in France, New Method, 263
  • Shaft-sinking and Ventilation, 391
  • Sheffield, New Master Cutler, 200 ?
  • Shingles made from Asbestos Fibre and Portland Cement, 571

Ships: -

  • Armoured Vessels only Sold for Breaking-up, 85
  • Austro-Hungarian Shipping Increase, 137
  • Bellerophon, Rapid Work on, 391, 651
  • Boadicea Laid Down at Pembroke. 11
  • British Navy, Casualty Returns, 543
  • British Shipping and Philadelphia Port, 137
  • Canada’s 25-Knot Steamship, Joint Government Subsidy, 85
  • Canadian Lake Steamers, Clyde-built, 44
  • Caesar, Defective Shafting, 519
  • Cunard Tender Skirmisher, 556
  • Cyclops, Naval Steam Repair Ship, 495
  • Destroyers for United States, Turbine, 315
  • Dreadnought, Extra Propellers Fitted, 289, 571
  • Dredger for Mersey Docks, Largest ever Built, 11
  • Edgar, First-class Cruiser, Speed and Coal Consumption, 519
  • Fire Control Experiments on H.M.S. Vengeance, 625, 651
  • French Battleship J6na to be Repaired, 61
  • Destroyer Branlebas, 519 Naval Programme, 289
  • Gangway, Adjustable, at Cuxhaven, 542
  • Gas Engine for Tug oa the Volga, 597
  • Gibraltar, H.M. Cruiser, Repairs, 417
  • Guns, Naval, Cost of Ammunition, 289
  • Gyroscope Patent Rights, Schlick, Bought by
  • Hamburg-America Line, 543
  • Hero, Battleship, as Target, 367
  • Italian Naval Programme, 417; Navy Scrapping
  • Old Ships, 37
  • Japan and her Large Ships, 37
  • New Battleships, 289
  • Shipbuilding Industry, 37
  • Curious Transport Vessel, 597
  • Life Saving at Sea, Apparatus, 137
  • Lusitania and American Naval Inquiry, 443
  • Manchester Corporation and Discharged Workmen, 289 I
  • Marine Engine Economy : Comparison of Battleship Engines, 608 ; Engine Tests in United States, 316
  • Mauretania’s Speed, 469
  • Merchant Shipping of the World, 304
  • Minotaur’s Defects, 391
  • Motor Boats Replace Pontoons in Austria, 391
  • Naval Engine-room Ratings Revised, 495
  • Officers, Courses of Instruction for, 136
  • Practice Shells, Annual Number, 111
  • Regulations for Training in Stokehold, 367
  • Oil Barge, Attempt to Tow Across the Atlantic, 417 ; Large, for United States, 367
  • Philippines as United States Naval Base, 37
  • Plimsoll Line, British and German Negotiations, 221
  • Portsmouth Dockyard, New Lock Projected, 213
  • Royal Mail Company’s New Steamer, 11
  • Royal Naval Reserve, Engine-room Classes, 11
  • Russia and New Battleships, 85
  • Russia and New Destroyers, 469
  • Shipbuilding in Germany, Increase, 256
  • Shipbuilding at St. Nazaire, Increase, 137
  • Spanish Naval Reconstruction, 189 Steam Yacht Ivy Overhauled, 494
  • Steamer for Sixty Miles an Hour Speed, 519
  • Submarine Octopus Lowered 200ft.. 11
  • Superb, Details of Construction, 450
  • Tartar, Turbine Destroyer, Trials, 528
  • Turbines in H.M.S. Amethyst, Satisfactory, 289
  • Tyne Shipping, Decrease, 697
  • Typhonoide, Racing Launch, Trials, 400
  • United States Cruiser Chester Launched, 61 Cruisers, Tests with Reciprocating Engines and Turbines, 417
  • Naval Base on Pacific Coast, 625
  • Virginian’s Coal Consumption, 315
  • Warships, Works to Reduce Temperature of Magazines, 213
  • Wireless Telegraphy in the Navy, 213
  • Wireless Telegraphy (see also under Wireless Telegraphy)
  • SIGNALLING Apparatus, 11 ; Submarine, for American Warships, 237 by Submarine Bells on Lightships and Steamers, 219, 469, 597
  • Wilson’s Marine Fog, for Canada, 597
  • Silica in Bricks, 443
  • Silver Iodide or Aluminium for Violet Rays, 367 Smelting Iron Ores by Electricity, 111
  • Smoke, London: Conference at Hygiene Institute, 554
  • Smoke Nuisance in Lancashire, 495
  • Snow on Roofs, 391
  • Soft Solder Deterioration, 111
  • Steam and Gas Power, Relative Cost, 237
  • Steam Engine Cylinders, Heat Loss Experiments, 315
  • Steel Bars and Concrete, Resistance Tests, 391 Car Industry, Growth, 111 Cutting by Oxygen Gas, 137 Goods, To Blue, 61, 163 of Lyddite Shells Reported Defective, 37 Pins instead of Brass, 61
  • Struts and Beams for Lining Tunnels, 543 Stoker, Naval, Examinations, 237
  • Stone Pavement Subsidence due to Rats, 85 Strikes in Germany, 341
  • Styx River for Electric Generation for Mines, 61
  • Submarine Telegraphy, Bright, 375
  • Subsidence of Road in Staffordshire, 571
  • Sugar Manufacture in Formosa, Mirrlees, Watson’s Plant, 302
  • Sugar Plant for Porto Rico, Mirrlees, Watson s, 234
  • Sulphur Mines of Sanni, Report, 484
  • Sulphur Mining in Louisiana, 137
  • Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in Tasmania^ 11 Swansea Dock Extension, 189
  • TELEGRAPH Cable between Berlin and Copenhagen, 417
  • Telegraphs, Naval Engine-room, Improvement, 263
  • Telegraphs, Underground, Newcastle to Leeds, 11
  • Telephone Charges, 570
  • Telephone, Ruhmer’s New System, 189 Telephones and Electric Traction. 443
  • Telephones and the War-office, 543
  • Telephoning on Trains in Motion, 315
  • Telephoning over Power Wires, Experiments, 289 Tellurium, Little Use for, 37
  • Temperatures, Errors of Calculation Minimised, 315
  • Temperatures in Industrial Operations, Fury’s Methods of Determining, 341
  • Thames Conservancy, Projected Improvements, 469
  • Tin-plate Imports into Vigo from United Kingdom, 111
  • Tin Scrap, Detinning Apparatus, 341
  • Tooting Baths, 18
  • Torpedo Factory on the Firth of Clyde, 85, 163, 571, 647
  • Torpedo Range Removal from Weymouth, 237 Towing by Motor Car, 189 I
  • Tramcars, Safety Appliance for, 69 I
  • Tree-planting in Rivers to Check Freshets, 163 Trieste, New Shipbuilding Yard and Graving Dock, 189
  • Tube Trade, International, Correction, 428
  • Tunnel Clearing, Steel Sheets for, 417
  • Tunnel, Rove, for Canal from Marseilles to the Rhdne, 571
  • Turbine Torpedo, Experiments at Toulon, 263 Turbines, Steam Consumption Test, 111 and Reciprocating Engines,
  • Friction Comparison, 85 Researches by Dr. de Laval, 315 Twist Drills of High-speed Steel, Experiments , in United States, 11
  • URUGUAY Mineral Deposits, 315
  • VALVE Equipments, Motor-operated, 417
  • Explosion due to Water Hammer, 212
  • Graphite for Packing, 315
  • Vanadium, Effect on Steel, Experiments, 495 Steel for Automobile Crank Shafts, 417
  • Steel made in Basic Furnaces, 8.5 Vertical Pipe-making in South Australia, 137
  • WAGES Claim. 457
  • Water, Compressibility of, 263
  • in Dry Soils, Experiments, 289
  • Fresh and Sulphur Water from the same Well in Indiana, 643
  • Purification Plant in Chicago, 543 for Steam Boilers, Difficulty in Obtaining, in Certain Regions, 263
  • Service Junction under Pressure, 221 Supply, Bolton, Scheme, 289
  • Hanley, 636 Loughborough Corporation Waterworks, 45
  • Loughborough’s New Dam, 557 Manchester, at Longdendale,469 Maryport, 137
  • Metropolitan Water Board, Expenses and Revenue, 37 Renfrewshire, New Schemes, 61 Reservoir and Waterworks in Ayrshire, 508
  • Rye, Houses Required to be Connected with Water Mains, 61 Swansea, and Drainage Schemes, 85
  • Weighing Machine for Canada, Automatic, 346 Welding of Aluminium Wires, 443
  • by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 137 Replaces Riveting for Thin Plates, 469 Well Yielding both Fresh and Salt Water in Ohio, 11
  • Wharves, New Large, at Kobe, Japan, 163
  • Whitley, New Pier, 111
  • Wire, Copper, Welded to Steel, 367
  • Wireless Alarm for Police Force, 367
  • Telegram from the Atlantic to Berlin, 137
  • Telegraph between British Guiana and Trinidad, 571
  • Telegraphic Extension in Burma, 495 Telegraphic Stations for North Pole Expedition, 163
  • Telegraphy for Australian Coast, 571 in British Navy, Long Distance Communication, 237 in China, 391 from H.M.S. Cornwallis, 625
  • De Forest’s Tests on United States Warships, 391 for Fruit Steamers, 651 German Experiments, 341 and H.M.S. Spartan, 237 for Setting Ships’ Chronometers, 85
  • in United States War and Naval Departments, Increase, 237
  • Telephone Message, Long-distance, 651
  • Wood-distilling Apparatus, 341
  • Woolwich Arsenal, Address by Mr. Donaldson, 441
  • Workmen’s Compensation Act, Industrial Diseases and the, 46
  • YORKSHIRE and Weights and Measures Regulations, 543
  • ZINC and Annealing, 391

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