The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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• ACCIDENTS in Workshops, Committee of Inquiry, 619
• Aerial Flight, Wright Brothers Methods, 619
• Aeronautical Society’s Experimental Ground, 645
• Aeronautics, Increase in Patents, 193
• Aeroplane British Military, Experiments and Trials, 193, 269, 351
• Aeroplane or Dirigible Balloon : their Use for Military Operations, 351
• Aeroplane Lifting Power, 117
• - Quarter of an Hour Race, 39
• - Roumegoux, Experiments, 141
• - Wilbur Wright’s Achievement, 351, 433, 541
• Aeroplanists, Legal Enactments Needful for Regulation, 645
• Air over Egypt, Observations of Royal Meteorological Society by Balloons and Kites, 91
• Airship, Military, for Austro-Hungary, 167
• - Military, for United States, 219
• - Petrol Engine for, 405
• - in Russia, Progress, 405
• - St. Petersburg Society for Construction, 219 ’
• Alcohol from Peat, 489
• Alloys, Electrical Resistance of, 541
• Alumina, Magnesia, and Silica, Reduction in Electric Furnace, 65
• Aluminium, Method of Manufacture, 11
• - in the United States, Large Consumption, 39
• American Cable Companies Complaints of Irish Trawlers, 11
• Ammunition Transport Facilities at Devonport, 219
• Anderton Lift, Opening after Reconstruction, 126
• Anthracite, Declining Supply, 117
• Antimony Output in New Brunswick, 245
• Army and Navy, British, Greatly Reduced Expenditure, 141
• Artillery Experiments in the United States, 489
• Asbestos in Cyprus, 39
• - Discovery in Luzon, 269
• Atmosphere at High Levels and Electricity Experiments by Manchester University, 141
• Automobile Club’s Dust Trials, 91
• Automobile Club of America, Road Race, International, in the United States; Rules of Entry, 50

Associations, Institutions & Societies:

• Association, British :
• Programme for Engineering Section, 226

• Association, British Foundrymen’s:
• Alloys, P. Longmuir, 373

• Association of Engineers, Barrow and District:
• Formation and Opening Meeting, 446

• Association of Engineers, Manchester:
• Engineering Features at Shepherd’s Bush and Manchester, 413
• Syllabus of Proceedings, 392
• Visit to Harland and Wolff’s Belfast Works, 19

• Association, Geologists’, London :
• Geology of the Berwyn District of North Wales, J. Lomas, 50
• Jubilee Celebration; Conversazione and Lecturettes, 562

• Association of Engineers-in-Charge :
• Snr .‘ke, J. Swinburne, 350
• Visit to Tower Bridge Machinery, 604

• Association, Greenock, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
• Steering Gears, E. H. Waters, 474

• Association, Incorporated, of Municipal and County Engineers:
• Gosport and some of its Recant Public Works, Frost, 178
• Meeting at Gosport, Excursions and Visits, 178

• Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham :
• Annual Meeting and Elections, 618
• Estimation of Costs in General Engineering Work, F. T. Clapham, 589

• Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions:
• Meetings, 470
• Technical Education at the Franco-British Exhibition, W. J. Linebam, 470

• Association of Water Engineers:
• Meeting, 478
• Programme of Papers, 604
• Rainfall, Measurement of, H. R. Mill, 478

• Institute, Aero Club :
• Formation and Objects, 376

• Institute, The Concrete:
• Concrete, Composition and Uses of Plain and Reinforced, Marsh, 497
• Designs for Reinforced Concrete Work, W. Dunn, 497, 669
• Offices and Secretary, 497

• Institute, Iron and Steel:
• Bessemer Medal Award, 589
• Secretary and Assistant Appointed, 592
• Institute, Iron and Steel, West of Scotland: Dinner, 607

• Institute of Marine Engineers :
• Denny Gold Medal Award, 152
• Generation and Electrical Transmission of Power for Main Propulsion and Speed Regulation, Durtnall, 74
• Lloyd’s Register Scholarship, 147, 350
• Repairs to Shipp, Elliott, 162
• Sarco Combustion Recorder, Demonstration, 618
• Visit to Franco-British Exhibition, 74

• Institute of Metals:
• First General Meeting, at Birmingham, 310
• Object and Particulars of Foundation, 152
• Programme of Papers for Discussion, 600

• Institute, Mining, of Scotland:
• Meeting and Admission of Members, 163
• Pumps, Experiment with Electrically-driven, Galloway, 163
• Timbering Roadways, Mavor, 163

• Institute, North of England, of Mining and Mechanical Engineers:
• Annual General Meeting, 125
• Meeting and Reports, 625
• Pumps, Old Wooden, from Rainton Colliery, 626
• Programme of Papers, 376

• Institute, Staffordshire Iron and Steel:
• Heat, New Views on, W, J. Foster’s Presidential Address, 418
• Sulphur and Iron, Mr. Stead’s Experiments, 425

• Institution of Civil Engineers:
• Awards of Medals and Prizes, 1907-1908, 460
• Rotherhithe Tunnel, E. H. Tabor, 627
• Students’ Meeting:
• Design and Erection of a Plate Girder Bridge over the Lea at Broxbourne, L. W. Atcherley, 632

• Glasgow Association of Students :
• Metals and Alloys, The Structure of, G. H. Gulliver, 526

• Manchester Association of Students :
• Presidential Address, Crook, 552
• Programme of Papers and Visits, 552
• Refrigeration, Engineering Appliances, Guest, 552
• Students’ Class for Associate Membership, 310
• Visit to Heaton Park Reservoir, 552

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne Association of Students :
• Inspection of Dynamometer Car, North - E astern Railway, 310
• Secretary Appointed, 152; Secretary Changed, 485
• Visit to Ferro-concrete Works at Dunston, 20
• Visiy to North-Eastern Railway Bridge over the Wear, 73; Carriage and Wagon Shops at York, 310

• Yorkshire Association of Students:
• Cement Company, Robson’s. Visit, 180
• Manufacture and Use of, Watson, 549
• Grindleford to Rowsley Section of the Derwent Aqueduct, A. H. Jameson, 644
• Headingley Filter Beds, Visit to, 74
• Hull Dock, Visit, 180

• Institution of Electrical Engineers :
• Awards, Dinner, 469
• Glasgow Local Section :
• Annual Dinner, 549
• Growth of Electrical Activity, W. W. Lackie, 526
• Opening Meeting, 537
• Glasgow Students’ Section:
• Mains Testing, Some Phases of, G. L. Black, 566
• Leeds Local Section :
• Natural and Induced Draught Systems, W. N. Y. King, 626
• Manchester Local Section :
• Annual Report, 167
• Institution of Engineers, Junior:
• Annual Meeting, Awards, Report, 469
• Hydraulic Machine Tools, Notes on, N. S. Trustrura, 497
• Visit to Limmer Asphalt Paving Works, 526
• Selfridge Store Buildings, 627
• Siebe, Gorman’s Submarine Engineering Works, 689

• Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
• Address Changed, 296
• Opening of New Buildings, 580
• Standardisation and its Relation to the Trade of the Country, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 680

• Institution, Incorporated, of Automobile Engineers :
• Motor Car, Some Problems of the, Dugald Clerk’s Presidential Address, 310
• Programme of Session, 1908-9, 215, 310

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
• Bristol Meeting, Papers and Programme^ 45
• Medal Award, 495
• Graduates’ Association :
• Commercial Precision Grinding, R. Bishop, 654
• Engine Testing and Modern Steam Practice, A. Stadelbauer, 80
• High-lift Centrifugal Pumps, W. Millington, 80
• Meeting in Manchester, 80
• Railway Fog and Automatic Signalling, L. Hillier, 537
• Steam Engine and Boiler Trials, W. Inchley, 448

• Institution of Mining Engineers :
• Annual Meeting, List of Papers, 192
• Headquarters transferred to London, 633

• Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :
• Meeting, Announcement of, 390

• Institution of Municipal Engineers :
• Meeting of Executive Committee, Applications for Membership, 360
• Meeting, Officers, Title, 448
• New Members and Students, 488

• Institution of Naval Architects :
• Martell Scholarship Award, 189

• Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
• Annual Meeting, Dinner, 471
• Cranes, Electrical Equipment of, J. Brentnall Duekitt, 636, 658
• Shipyard, System of Control for, W. J. Wilson, 658

• Institution, Permanent Way :
• Literature and Membership, 580 Institution, Royal:
• Juvenile Lectures, The Wheel of Life, Professor W. Stirling, 552, 653
• Meetings, and Elections, 52, 496
• Programme for Winter, 633

• Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain:
• Wright and Farman Aeroplanes, Lanchester, 627

• Society of Arts, Royal:
• Annual General Meeting, 20
• Election of Chairman, 73

• Society of Arts, Royal Scottish :
• Opening of Session; Awards of Medals and Prizes, 537
• Slide Valve Gears, Apparatus for Study and Design, A, R. Horne, 581

• Society of Engineers:
• Amalgamation with Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 658
• Elections ; Premium Awards, 669
• Visit to Dover Harbour, 336

• Society, Faraday:
• Meeting and Elections, 38
• Society, Manchester Geological and Mining :
• China Clay, G. Hiekling, 19
• Meeting, 19
• Temperatures at which Coal and Wood will Ignite, H. Hall, 19

• Society, Physical:
• Exhibition, 607

• Society, Royal Agricultural:
• Meeting, 592

• Society, Royal Meteorological:
• Balloon Ascents in the British Isles, Registering, C. J. P. Cave, 658
• Balloon Observations at Ditcham Park, C. J. P. Cave, 658
• Kites, Scientific, Some Forms of, E. S. Bruce, 658

• Society, Siemens Stafford Engineering : Conversazione and Exhibits 600

• BALLOON Conductivity, Possible Dangers, 269 ; Dirigible, Ville de Paris, 541
• Trials, Military, in Italy, 489 I
• Barometer, Electric, 671
• Bauxite in France, Export and Uses of, 117
• Bilbao Electrical Supply, 193
• Blackfriars Bridge Subway, 167
• Blast Furnace of New Design, 593
• Furnaces and Pig Iron Output in Belgium, 167
• Board of Trade Census Schedules for Various Trades, 641

Boilers:

• Boiler Explosion Inquiry at Harrington Ironworks, 65
• Locomotive, 641 at Stanton Iron Company’s Works. Report, 323
• BOTTLE Factory at Dusseldorf, 201
• Machine, Glass, Owen Patent, 201
• Brazil Floating Docks, 252
• Trade and Commercial Statistics, 489

Bridges:

• Bridge over the Wear from Deptford to Southwick, Important Advantages Anticipated, 91
• Chicago Bascule, 593
• Mississippi, Lift Bridge Across, 619
• Penryn Swing, 351
• Quebec, Rebuilding, 461
• Walney, Opening, 193
• Wear, at Sunderland, 433

• BRIQUETTES, Shedlock Patent Manufacture, 245
• British Trade in Newfoundland Ousted by American, 39
• Building Piaster Dried by Gas Heat, 641

• CALCIUM Carbide for Laying Dust, 405
• Calculating Machine, B. Baden-Powell, 382
• Canadian Iron and Steel Trade with Britain and United States, Comparison, 245
• Canals—see Harbours and Waterways
• Carbon Dioxide, Apparatus for Estimating, 39
• Carnegie Institution’s Ship for Study of Magnetic Conditions, 671
• Cement Mill, Large, in California, Electric- driven, 167
• Census of Production Act and Hull Chamber of Commerce, 275
• Centrifugal Pumps, Turbine-driven, for New York Fire-boats, 65
• Chemical and other Imports into Syria, International Comparison, 645
• Chemistry, International Congress of. Applied, Programme, 76 ; Appointments in Metallurgy and Mining Section, &c., 104, 669
• Chimney in Montana, Tallest in the World, 39
• China, Mineral Deposits in, 513
• City and Guilds of London Institute, Diploma and Certificate Awards, 116 Programme of Lectures, 448
• Clock, 40ft. Diameter Dial, Illuminated, 323 Clocks in the City, Synchronisation, and Greenwich Mean Time, 167
• Electrically-controlled System, 619

Coal, Collieries, and Coke:

• Coal Analysis before Purchase, 513
• Costly, for Russian Railways, 323
• Discovery in Kemagh, Turkey, 212 Imports in Brazil, 489
• British-borne, to Havre, 167 to Spain, 351
• United States, 219
• Mine Accident Statistics in United States, 351
• Miners’ Wages in Monmouthshire, 193
• Mines in Austria, Municipal Ownership Discussed, 117
• and Patent Fuel Imports into Martinique, 545
• Trade between Newcastle and Dusseldorf, 201
• Volatile Matter in, 615
• Washing Tests at St. Louis Laboratory 141
• Yorkshire Trade, and the Railways, 653
• Coals and Gas Calculations, Variations, 667
• Coke Output in the United States, 245

• COAST Erosion near Brighton, 501
• Coin Counting Machine, Electric, 671
• College, Dundee University, New Laboratories, 405
• Glasgow Technical, Dyeing Department Equipment, 496; Scientific Society, Meeting, Lecture on Radium, Professor Soddy, 552
• Heriot-Watt, Engineering Laboratories, 167, 317
• Leith Technical, Model for Shipbuilding Instruction, 384
• Royal Naval, Dartmouth, Passing-out List, 198
• Trondhiem Technical, in Course of Eric- lion, 669
• University, London, Annual Dinner, 578
• Colour Photography, New Process, 141

Concrete:

• Concrete, Effect of Locomotive Gases on, 433 Ferro-, for Ship Construction, 461 and Mortar, Temperature of, 619 Pavement, Hassam Type, 645 Pules, Weaving, 126
• Reinforced, Air Shaft and Fan-house in Cincinnati Coal Mine, 433
• Fences and Stock Pens in Chicago, 615 for Water Pipes at Clydebank, 539
• Steel in, National Physical Laboratory Experiments, 104
• Wall-building by New Method, 351

• COPPER Conductors Protected by Oil Coating, 645
• Production in Alaska, 593 from Waste Bronze, 193 Wire Scrap for Brassmakiog, 219
• Corundum and Emery as Abrasives, 405
• Cotton Mill Machinery, Better Protection of Workers Necessary, 193
• Crane, Large Tower, for Vulcan Shipbuilding Yard at Vegesak, 91
• Travelling Jib, Norel Type, 645
• Cranes, Hydraulic, for Devonport Dockyard, 167
• Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Certificates Awarded, 678
• Cullinan Diamond, Cutting and Polishing, 297
• Cummings, D, C., Retirement from Boilermakers’ Society and Appointment to Labour Department of Board of Trade, 308
• Cupola Lining Improvements, 193

• DAM, Roosevelt, in Arizona, Record Capacity 405
• Damascus, Electric Lighting and Tramways for 167
• Danish Customs, New Tariff, 297
• Devonport Dockyard Improvement for Various Government Services, 433
• Diamond Fields’ Pioneers’ Association, 442
• Ditch-Cutting Machine in California, 66
• Dock, Graving, for Burntisland, 554
• Increased Accommodation Needed for Hamburg, 461
• Leith Graving, Completion Projected, 377 London and South-Western, at Woolston, 593
• Vulcan Floating, 507
• Docks, Floating for Brazil, 252
• Docks—see also Harbours
• Dover, South Breakwater Reconstruction after
• Red Star Liner Collisiou, 242
• Drainage, Intercepting Traps, 527
• Dredge, Hydraulic, for Water Supply Reservoir, near Washington, 323
• Dredger for New Zealand, the Mawhera, Simons, 413
• Trailing Suction, for Tasmania, the Macquarie, Simons, 446
• Dredging Operations at Havre. 117
• Durban as a Coaling Station, 269
• Dust Problem, International Road Congress, 192, 405, 433
• Use of Calcium Carbide, 405
• Dynamite, “Red Cross,” with Low Freezing Point, 141
• Thawing of, 338

Electrical Matters:

• Alternating-current Problems, Simple Solution, 297
• Alternator, Copper and Iron Proportions, 513
• Arc, High-frequency, Efficiency of, 219
• Cables, Increased Self-induction, by Krarup’s Method, 269
• and Rat Destruction, 433
• Chicago’s Municipal Electrical Supply, Cost of, 619
• Electric Current Production Expenses in Isolated Plants, 245
• Delivery Van, 5-Ton, Experimental, in Pittsburg, 245
• Development in Japan, 619 Equipment in Bavaria, Manufacturers’ Petition, 11
• Energy for Paris from the Rhone Scheme Projected, 269
• Furnaces, Heroult. 141
• Laboratory for Oxford University, 65 Live Wires, Safety Measures, 619 Omnibuses with Overhead Supply but no Rails, 433
• Phenomena in Bolivia, 433 Power Development in Colorado, 245 in Peru ; Unsatisfactory Conditions, 193
• Scheme at Fiume, 541
• Station Consuming Peat only, in Prussia, 117
• Transmission Scheme in Ontario, 193, 619
• Standardising, Testing and Training Institution, Maxwell Scholarship. 19 Steering Gear for Russian Cruiser Rurik, 474
• Units, International Conference, 147, 373
• Electricity Displaces Steam in British Columbia Mining, 65
• as a Preservative of Wood against Insects, 219
• Supply Bill, London, 637 Supply for Rome, 461 Electrobus or Petrol, 11 Electro-chemical Cleaning, 323 Electrodes of Magnetic Metal, Electrolytic Treatment, 39
• Electrometer, Absolute Torsion, Salmon, 201 Electro-technical Commission, International, 384
• Films, High Resistance for, 65
• Foses, “Repaired” and otherwise, German Requirements, 645
• Generating Station Extension, Canadian, at Niagara Falls, 377
• Generators and Cables for Coal Mines, 645
• Glasgow Electrical Supply, 513
• Herzian Waves Receiv^ on Board Ship, 619 Induction Motor in Mining Work, A. W. K. Pierce, 193
• Motor, Single-phase, Kunkel’s Patent, 351
• Kite Experiments and Electric Current, 351
• Leeds Supply Failure, 667
• Morse Signalling by Arc Lamp, 351
• Flashing Disc for Teaching, Capt. Rugg’s Invention, 392 Transformers, Oil Cooling for, 377
• Voltage Increase on Lines of Mustegon-Grand Rapids Co., 297

• ELECTRO-PLATING, Improvement in, 593
• Engine for Airship, Light Petrol, 405
• Allis-Chalmers, 25,000 Horse-power Rolling Mill, 377
• - 4000 Horse-power Double Horizontal Steam, Van den Kerchove, 39
• Erection in America, Rapid, 26 High-speed, Satisfactory Test, 541 Engineering Standards Committee, Appointment, 116
• Exhibition Buildings, Erection and Removal, 296 Manchester Electrical, 80
• Explosion of Gelignite, Home-office Report, 215 Explosive Factory for Belgium and Holland, 297

• FERRO-SILICON Alloys in Chemical Industries, Jouve, 156
• Fire Boat, Petrol Motor, for South America, Merryweather, 384
• Boats for Chicago, Turbo-electric-driven, 91
• Brigades, London Private, 336
• Control Instruments. Experiments, 117
• Engine, Motor, for Rochdale, Merryweather, 440
• Floats, Successful Work by Merry weather’s Float at Genoa, 206
• Fireproof Clay, Self-glazing, 65
• Fire-resisting Construction Permits in America, 603
• Flight, Mechanical, Eric Bruce on, 645
• “Fludor”and “Tinol” for Soldering, Comparison. 323
• Flue Gas Analysis, 56/
• Fluorspar, at Home and Abroad, 269
• Flying Machine, Russia’s First, 73 Competition, Russian, 89
• Fog Dissipated by Electricity, 671
• Forest Experiment Stations Proposed in Western America, 461
• Fires in the United States, Losses by, 489
• French Government Aid Aerial Locomotion, 541
• Fruit Tree Spraying Machines, 549
• Fuel Gas Analysis, 567
• and Water Power in the United States; Need for Economy, 489
• Fulton, Robert, and Torpedo Invention, 433 |

• GAS and Air Mixing for Gas Engine, 297
• Conduits, Method of Cleansing, 167
• Companies’ Proposed Organisation to Meet Coalowners’ Price, 433
• Engine, Producer, History of Progress, 405 Propulsion of H.M.S. Rattler, 250 Engineers’ Claims more in Evidence than Substantiated, 377
• Flow from Gravel in Alluvial Mines, 297
• Making at Coatbridge, 563 Natural, Supplies Kansas City, 223 and Oil Wells in Idaho, 167
• Pipe Fittings and Standardisation of Screw Threads, United States Exhibits in France, 245
• Pressure, Calorific Power of, 619 Suction, Plants for Mines, 645
• Gasoline Escape Warning Apparatus, 593
• Gauge, Recording Draught, for Boilers on the Rand, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 141
• Glasgow, Cross-river Facilities, 147, 442 Industries and Foreign Patents, 554
• Glass Industry Extension in United States, 11
• Gold Dredging in California, Increasing Output, 91
• Output from Gold Coast, 245
• Production in Madagascar, 541
• Grain Storage in Russia, 513
• Gun, Test of, Sir Hiram Maxim’s Silent, 269
• Gyroscopes, Schlick, on Board Ship, 478

Harbours and Waterways:

• Antwerp and Liege Canal Improvements, 224
• Proposed Canal to the Rhine, 461 Buenos Aires Port Extensions, 541 Berlin-Stettin Canal, 269
• Canal and Waterway Improvement in Italy 405
• Chicago and New York, Water Communication Projected, 269
• Cluny Harbour Extension, 39
• Dieppe Harbour Works, Progress, 117
• Dover, South Breakwater Reconstruction after Red Star Liner Collision, 242
• Exeter and Bristol Canal Projected, 433
• Honolulu Harbour, Dredging of, 619
• Inland Waterways in Chins, 433
• Marseilles Canal, Rival to Railway, 323
• Odessa, New Grain Harbour Projected, 461
• Otaru Harbour, Japan, Projected Improvement, 405 I
• Panama Canal, Steam Shovel Records, 461
• Plymouth, Harbour Works Proposed in Wembury Bay, 567
• Portsmouth, Deep Water Lock, Construction Begun, 242
• Rangoon, Port Improvement, 658
• Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, 180
• Southampton Harbour Board and London and South-Western Railway, 645
• Valparaiso Harbour Improvement, 433

• HEATING by Waste Engine Heat, 541
• Helium Liquefied by Professor Ohnes, 141
• Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, New Engineering Laboratories, 167, 347
• Hop-drying Plants, Prize Offered by Royal Agricultural Society, 390
• Hydro-electric Plants, Progress in Italy. 405
• Station for Iron Mine in Canada, 541

• ICE in Canadian Water Power Plants, Successful Methods of Combating, 122
• Illumination and the Eye, Gradle, 117 Ink^^rasing by Machinery for Drawing-offices, Inventions and Designs Act, India, 420

Iron and Steel:

• Belgian Iron and Steel Exports, 461
• Ineot, Nickel Steel, Cammell Laird s Record. 351 ’
• Iron Foundry in Colombia, South America, 141 Ore Output in Russia, 297
• Weighing in Italy, 513
• Production of Great Britain, 593 and Steel and other Exports from Great Britain, Statistics, 377
• Imports into Barcelona, 269
• Institute at Middlesbrough Progress in Cleveland Iron and Steel Industries, W. Hawdon 277 ’
• Trade with Canada, 245 Trades Association, British, Mr Jeans’ Retirement, 104 Pig, Belgian Output. 11, 167, 193 Production in France, 351
• Germany, 645 m T» United States, 351 Trade ^Prospects, 91
• Steel Bands instead of Leather Belting for Power Transmission, 39
• Mr. Carnegie and Cost of Production in United States, 645
• in Concrete, National Physical Laboratory Experiments, 104
• Mine Cars for Anthracite Coal Mmes in Pennsylvania, 167
• Rock Drill, Analysis, 567
• Substituted for Malleable Iron, 2iy

• IRRIGATION Pumping Plant for Mexican Sugar Plantation, 297 .
• - Tanks Proposed for Madras Presidency, 567
• Italian Ports Improvement, 106

• JAPANESE Cold Storage Cara, 90
• - Dockyard Extension, 433
• - Machinery Imports, 39
• - Mountain Peak Illuminated by Electricity, 297
• - Telegraph Material Imports, 3/7

• KITE, Man-lifting, Experiments, 461
• - Prize Offered, 593

• LABORATORIES—sec Heriot Watt College Lamp, Arc, Efficiency Improvement, 593
• German Glow, New Form, 567 Incandescent, Elastic Suspension for Metallic Filament, 297
• Lead Furnace Crucibles, Cleaning, 645 Poisoning Statistics, 219
• World’s Production in 1907, 117
• Liconite, New Compound similar to Rubber, 91
• Lift, Automatic Electric Passenger, 130
• Liquid Air Plant, Tests at University of Illinois 167
• Longitude Determination by Wireless Telegraphy, 671
• Looms, Japanese Hand, Importation into China, 405
• Lumber in the United States, Odd Lengths, 567,

• MACHINE-WORKING Time Recorder, 461
• Machinery Manufacture in Westphalia and Rhenish Provinces, Depressed State, 91
• Magnesium in Brass Manufacture, 593
• Magnetic Survey in the Pacific Ocean, 269
• Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Report, 54
• Manganese Iron Ore in Elba, 433
• Marble, Artificial Production, 619
• Mather and Platt: Sir William Mather’s Jubilee, 87
• Metallic Aluminium Consumption in United States, 593
• Mexican Protective Tariff and Steel Rails, 245
• Mica, Experiments with High Voltage Gradient, 645
• Mica Production in the United States, 219
• Mine aux Mineurs in Liquidation, 619
• Mines Drainage and Coal Recovery in Staffordshire, 167
• Shaft Sinking by Poetsch Freezing Process, 11
• of the British Empire, Statistics, 91 Statistics, Indian, 351
• Mineral Industry in France, Society’s Jubilee, 11 Output from New South Wales, 215 Value Statistics in United Kingdom, 433 Water Found in Cornwall, 11
• Mining Accident Insurance, 593 Possibilities in Bolivia, 433 Prospects in Panama, 489 Statistics and White Miners on the Rand, 351
• Work at Record Speed in the Rand, 11
• Motor Car Services Proposed in Verona, 461 Cars and Induction Coil Adjustment, 117 Kit, Small, Avery and Roberts, 388 Omnibuses for Conveyance of French Miners, 39
• Excessive Speed, Identification and Checking, 219 on the Increase, 377 in the Tyrol, 1^
• Shows in France, 65
• Traction in Rostov, Unsuccessful Attempt. 297
• Tractor Trials, War-office Competition, 562
• Municipal Poblic Works in Germany, Statistics. 377
• Work and Minimum Wage, 461

• NAVAL Officers, Courses of Instruction for, 152
• New York Subway, Heat Prevention Measures 297
• Niagara Palls, Investigation by Government, 11

• OIL Discovery in Madagascar, 660
• - High-pressure Cylinder, U.S.A. Treasury Requirements, 167
• - Lubricating, for China, Greatly Increased Import, 541
• - Testing for Cylinders, 141
• Oiling Small Machines and Tools, 433
• Opera by “ Wireless.” 297
• Ore Concentration, Comparison of Minerals 405
• Oxygen, Commercial Production of, Law’ Case Appeal, 52

• PAINT as a Heat Indicator for Machine Parts, 117
• Tests, Valuable Results, 91
• Panama, General Improvement in Conditions, 513
• Patent Act, New, and Unemployment, 418 Law and Effect on Belgium, 567 Restoration Applied for, Bearings Improvements, 126
• Peat Fuel in Sweden, 405
• Peters, Dr. Theodor, of the Verein Deuisciter Death, 277
• Petrol Consnmption in Britain, 323
• Petroleum, Crude, World’s Production for 1907, 141
• Oils Tested by Calorimeter, 645
• Output in California, 93
• Production in the United States, 461 Regulations fjr Sale and Transport, 671
• Unrefined, for Heating Purposes, 607
• Phosphates, Rich Deposits in the Society Islands, 65
• Platinum Output in Columbia, 513
• Ports—Harbours and Waterways
• Portland Cement Production in United States, 245
• Portsmouth Deep-water Lock, Construction Begun, 242
• Dockyard, Additional Labour, 498
• Powder Tests in France, 513
• Power Scheme for Rome, Hydraulic and Steam Generation, 167
• Pump, Largest yet Built in Cape Colony,

• QUEENSFERRY Works, Willans and son’s, for Sale, 242
• Quicksilver Production in United States,

• RADIO-TELEGRAPHIC Stations, 55.5
• Radium Discoveries in Saxony, 461 Institute for Vienna, 141 from Sea Water off Irish Coast, 11

Railways and Tramways:

• Accra-Akwapim New Railway, 646
• Accumulator Cars on Main Lines, 297
• Mainz to Munster, Weight and Energy Consumption, 659
• for Prussian Railways, 344, 541
• Alfreton and Clay Cross Railway, Accommodation, 567
• Alpine Electric Railways, 693
• American Methods of Railway Accounting, 671
• Argentine Metre-gauge Railway Projected, 269
• Assam-Bengal Light Railway Extension, 489
• Australian Trans-Continental Railway Survey, 346
• Austrian State Railway Authorities and Electrification of Alpine Railways, 351
• Automatic Stop, Trial on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 593
• Baden, Grand Duchy, Electric Traction Scheme, 117
• State Railway Electrification, 461
• Baghdad Railway, Construction Resumed, 91 Railway Extension, German Survey, 39
• Bahia’s Railway System, 219
• Barcelona’s Excellent Tram Service, 219
• Bavarian Railways, Scheme for Electrification, 245
• Berlin State Railway Electrification, 405
• Bernese Alps, Conversion of Line to Electric Traction, 167, 245
• Bishopsgate-street Widening and Tramway, 117
• Board of Trade Railway Returns 54
• Bolivian Railway Extension, How to get to La Paz, 218, 433, 461
• Bournemouth Tram Car Accident, Board of Trade Report, 323
• Brake, Emergency, for Tramcars, Pringle’s, 117
• Test Records, Maximum, 19
• Brakes, Great Western and the Board of Trade, 671
• Brazil Railways, Opened and under Construction, 528
• British and American Railways, Comparison of Statistics, 65
• Buenos Aires and Tube Railways, 693
• Buffalo and Roches er Railway Company, Train Running by Schedule, 323
• Cable Railways Replaced by Electric Lines in Chicago, 540
• Calais Electric Tramways, 117
• Californian Railways, Steam and Electric in Existence and Projected, 141
• Canada, Cars Shortage, 489 Various Railway Extensions, 645 Railway Commission of, 223
• Canadian Northern Railway, Toronto to Sudbury Jjine, 167
• Pacific Railway, Baggage Statistics, 261 ; Report, 385
• Railways Sold, 297
• Trans-Continental Railway, Predicted Cost, 65, 226
• Cars for Transport of Automobiles by Railway, 489
• Central Essex Light Railway, Progress, 193 Ixindon and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railways, Connection by Holborn Subway, 645
• Railway, Proposed Extension, 593
• Ceylon Railway Extension, 141
• Chamonix to Mer de Glace Railway Opened, 193
• Chicago Elevated Railway Extension, 297 Noise Elimination
• Experiments, 323, Street Railways, Rehabilitation, 351
• Chinese Railway Enterprise, 167, 513
• Officials and the British Section, 39
• City and South London Railway Fire, Board of Trade Report, 323
• Coal for Austro-Hungarian Railways, 567 Carrying Railways of the United States, Operating Results, 438
• Companies and Scotch Railways, Recrimination Proposals, 269
• Yorkshire, and Railway Contracts, 653 Concrete, Reinforced, for Tramway Poles, 513 Telegraph Poles for Pennsylvania Railroad, 297
• Corean Railway Extension and Improvement. 377, 433 ’
• Costa Rica Railway Company’s Improvement, 219
• Derailment at Newcastle, 405 Dutch Railway from Stavoren to German Frontier, 11
• East India Railway, Lost Rolling Stock. 433
• Electric Headlights for Locomotives, 297
• Locomotive for Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, 645 for Coal and Goods Haulage in Indiana, 489 for Train Shunting in Berlin, 489
• Railways, Great Increase in the United States, 219
• Narrow-gauge, in the Bavarian Alps, 167
• Projected in Switzerland, 245
• on the Zugspitze, 167 Tramway Projected between Pamplona and Sanguesa, 513
• Electrification of Prussian Railways, Extensive Project, 489
• of Railways in the Austrian Tyrol, 489
• of State Railway between Basel and Zell, 297
• Fire Extinguishers for Canadian Railway Coaches, 269
• Precautions for London Electric Railways, 619
• Florence Railway Station Enlargement, 489 Formosa, Railway Extension by Japanese, 433 Freight Cars, Idle, in America, Statistics, 297
• French Government Purchase Western Railway, 65
• and Swiss Electric Extensions, 65
• Gasoline Motor Gar for Interurban Electric Railway Line, 377
• Genoa to Busalla Electric Railway, 65 Street Railway, Long Tunnel, 193
• German Railway Statistics, 1906-7, 242 Truck Union, 693
• South-West African Railway Opened,
• Africa, Railway Concession from Portuguese Government, 461
• Grand Trunk Pacific Line Extension. 66
• Great Eastern Railway Locomotive Department Annual Dinner, 563 Light Railway Projected, 269 Railway, March Station Improvements, 219
• Western Improvements in South Wales. 567
• Guatemala and San Salvador Railway, Extension, 141, 246, 323
• Hankow-Chengtu Railway Projected, 219
• Haslingden Tramways and Electrical Supply Difficulties, 167
• Hejaz Railway, Progress made from Damascus towards Medina, 167
• Opened at Medina, 377; Effect, 405
• Highways Committee, L.C.C., Tramways Report, 671
• Horwich Railway Mechanics’ Institute Engineering Club, 669
• Hudson Bay Railway Survey, 193 Indian Railway Returns, 141, 245
• Interlaken-Grindelwald Rack and Pinion Railway to be Electrified, 351
• Inter-Oceanic Railway, Conversion to Standard Gauge, 433
• Italian State Railway Electrification, 613
• Japanese Railway Extension, 91, 619
• Railways Increased Traffic ; Demand for Rolling Stock, 141
• Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient Railway; Progress and Advantages, 39
• Kara Sea to Siberian River Obi, Railway Projected, 45
• Keelung to Takow Railway Progress, 11 Knott End Railway Extension, Progress, 167 Lagos Railway, Progress, 39
• Lancashire and Yorkshire, Diminished Service, 405
• Humber Docks, Projected, 461
• Leghorn, Improved Railway Communication, 433 . ,
• Level Crossings in Belgium, Proposed Abolition, 461
• on Swiss Railway: Automatic Closing of Gates, 461 Libyan Desert Railway, 351
• Light Railway Commissioners’ Orders Confirmed, 65, 117, 167, 193, 269, 297, 461, 541. 671 Locomotive Boiler Explosion in France, 193 Locomotives, Electric or Steam, Comparison, 541
• Headlights, Electric, 297 British, Replace German, for Chili, 91
• Output by Philadelphia Firm, 323
• Loetschberg Tunnel, Rapid Progress, 11
• London Bridge and Victoria Railway Electrification, 193
• London and North-Western and Caledonian Railways Corridor Trains, 65 Lighting Experiments, 323 Midland, and Great Northern
• Cease Running Competitive Trains to Inverness, 377 Non-Stop Run from Euston to Rhyl, 91
• London and South-Western Accident, Board of Trade^Report, 567
• Railways and Tramways {continued'):
• London and Mechanical Engineers* Department Moved from London to Eastleigh, 567
• Lorenzo-Marques Railway Extension, 351 Manganese Steel for Tramway Tracks, 91 Marseilles Traffic: Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean New Railway, 297
• Massachusetts, Increased Railway Mileage, 11 Melbourne Suburban Railways, Proposed Electrification, 91, 323
• Mersey Railway Company, Changes in Management, 65
• Metal Sleepers Tested near Lucknow, 461 Metropolitan Railway, Improved Train Service, 351
• Midi Railway Company’s New Lines, 297 Midland Anti-vibration Corridor Train. 11
• Railway’s New Signal Light. 297 Railway Shop Extensions at Derby, 619 Staff Reductions, 461 ; (Correction, Letter, Clement Stretton, 497) Monorail Projected for New York, 619
• Montreal Terminus, Scheme by Grand Trunk Railway, 567
• Moscow Circular Railway Completed, 117 Electric Tramway Extension, 65 Odessa Railway Communication, 461
• Mountain Railway, Electric, 10,000ft., 11
• Natal Government Railway Mileage, 65
• Railway Extension Projected, 9
• New Haven Railway, Success of Electrification. 541 ’
• South Wales, Accident Statistics, 405 York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Overhead Contact Difficulties, 593 ; Proposed Further Electrification, 645
• New Haven and Hartford Railway, Providence Tunnel Pierced, 219
• Nice Railway Communication, Progress, 39
• Nine Elms Goods Yard Improvements, 433
• North British Railway, Reduction of Labourers’
• Working Hours, 433
• Station at Newtongrange, 167 and Caledonian Railways, Proposals for Increased Economy, 433
• Eastern Railway, Maximus Brake Test Records, 19
• London Railway Report, 167 Staffordshire Railway’s Six - coupled Radial Tank Engines, 567 Nottingham to Hull, Proposed Railway, 461
• Odessa Exchanges Horse Wagons for Electric Tramways, 433, 619
• Oregon Electric Railway and Telegraph Wire Troubles, 351
• Outram-way Closed in Derbyshire, 219
• Overhead Electric Railway, Narrow Gauge, in Switzerland, 461
• Wire Rope Tramway for San Francisco Lime Company, 593
• Paraguay, French Company Apply for Concession for Railway, 11
• Pay-as-you-enter Cars for Chicago, 541 Minneapolis, 323
• Pennsylvania Railroad, Long Service Employes,
• near New York, Mode of Traction Uncertain, 167
• Projected Electric Traction, 541
• Projected Track of Oak Blocks in Concrete, 671
• Record Punctuality, 219
• Record Speed Run to Test Bridges, 250
• Using Concrete Telegraph Polos, 297
• Peruvian Railways Conducted on American Lines, 193
• Petrol-Electric Locomotives in America, 405 Philadelphia Locomotive Output, 11
• Subway and Elevated Railway, 193
• Piraeus, Athens, and Larissa Railway, 269
• Portland and Salem Electric Railway, 117
• Portuguese Railways in the Mhambane and Mozambique Districts, 167
• Prussian Railways, Accumulator Cars, 344, 541
• Rail Bonds, Car for Testing, 619
• Rails on^Madras Railway too Light for Traffic, Thrust of Wheels on, 11
• Railway Capital and Labour, Discussion, 91
• Club, Superheating Apparatus for Locomotives, J. F. Gairns, 526
• Couplers, Automatic, Italian College Competition, 189, 193
• Reserve Men in America, 671 Servants’ Returns, 671 Traffic Returns, 593
• Railways, Irish and London Tube, Comparison of Cost. 334
• Rating of the Great Northern Railway, 126 Rhodesian and Cape to Cairo Railway Extension, 39, 193, 567, 645
• Ricken Tunnel Difficulties, 541
• Rolling Stock Lost on Russian Railways, 86
• Rosenberg Train-lighting Equipment, Trial on Austro-Hungarian Railways, 141
• Roumania Railway and Port Extensions, 513
• R^^sia, South-West, Need of More Railways, Russian Railway Electrification Discussed, 297 Mileage, 269 Orders, Great Decline, 39 Railways, Coal for, 323
• Mileage and Receipts, 167
• St. Petersburg to Kieff Railway, Progress, 193 Nicolas Railway Station, Rebuilding Projected, 193
• Scotch Expresses, Private Conference, 567 Railway Charges and Fares, Changes, z3
• Railways and Coal Companies, Recrimination Proposals, 269
• Mineral Traffic Economy, 593
• Servian Rolling Stock Made in Germany, 167 Shanghai and Ningpo Railway, Successful Construction by Chinese, 141
• Sheffield and Warrington Electric Railway, Projected, 141
• Siberian Railway, Automatic Registration of Trains and Cars, 351 Connections, Surveys, 11
• Siberian Railway, Director Appointed, 9 Extensions in Central Asia, 193
• Sicilian Railway, Paterno-Nicosia, 117 Railways Taken Over by Italian Government, 11
• Signalling, Automatic Block, Reliability, 645 Lamp, for Boston Street Railway, 513
• on Midland Railway, New Type of Light, 297
• Simplon Tunnel, Satisfactory Verdict on Electrification of Railway, 265
• Singapore-Penang Peninsula Railway Completed, 645
• Sleepers, Comparative Cost of Iron and Wood, 91
• Tests with Ferro concrete, 513
• Snow on Switches, &c., Melted by Oil, 513 South-Eastern Railway, Explanation of Declining Profits, 141
• Manchurian Railway Connected with Shanghai Mail Steamers, 174
• Nigerian Railway, Extension Opened, 297
• Yorkshire Colliery District, New Railway for, 405
• Spanish Railways, Uniform Gauge Proposed, 433
• Secondary Railway Projected, 193 Spark Arresters, Gradual Development, 645 Speed Indicators for Tramcars, 141 Station Indicator for Travellers, Automatic, 513
• Steam Tramways in Italy, 645
• Steel Rails for Mexican Railways, Home Manufactured, 245
• Ties for Street Railway Tracks, 117 Subway at South Kensington Opened Free, 671 Swedish Railways, Electrification, 269 Electrification, Large Demand for Electrolytic Copper, 461
• State Railways, Electrification Experiments, 39
• Peat Production for, 489
• Swiss Electric Railway from Gletsch to Dissentes, 513, 619
• Single-phase Railway, 65
• Switches, Facing Point, Changed on Pennsylvania Railroad, 11
• Tehuantepec Railway Extension, 219
• Ties on Signal System Track Circuits, Treatment by Zinc Chloride or Creosoted, 269
• Trackless Electric Tramways Projected in Falmouth, 461 Projected in Ireland, 245 Tramways Projected for Manchester, 351
• Trolley System, Trial in Manchester, 269
• Traffic Exceeds Facilities in New York, 117 Train Reporting, Effectual System, 513 Tramroad, Old, or Granite Railway, 405 Outram, Closed in Derbyshire, 219
• Tramway between Lucca and Valdinievolo, 489
• First-class Cars Projected for Liverpool, 11
• Working begun, 377 Tramways and Light Railways Association, First Congress, 91
• Trans-Pyrenian Line, Puymorens Tunnel Commenced, 377
• Transvaal, Proposed Railway to Louren^o Marques Line, 38
• Turkish Railway Difficulties, 167
• Unemployed in the Transvaal, Work Found on Lydenburg Railway, also in Mines, 377
• Uruguay Railway Extension, 645
• Venice Station and Bridge Improvements, 405 Vienna Underground Railway for Postal Purposes, 141
• War Railway Council, Strategic Arrangements, 377
• Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Connection Proposed, 433
• York tfilectric Tramways Scheme, 117
• Station Improvement, 377

• RAINFALL and Thames Flow, 65 Refrigeration Car in America, New Pattern, 219 on Small Scale, 541
• River Banks, Trees and their Effect, 405
• Road Congress, International, and the Dust Problem, 192, 405
• Making in Lancashire, New System, 567 Tarring Objected to in France, 377 Rock Drill Hose Strengthened by Marline, 297
• Rosyth Naval Base, Caisson Sinking Delayed, 39 Operations Begun, 323, 433
• Royal Agricultural Society’s Meeting at Gloucester, 440
• Rubber Bearing Territory, Important Discovery in South America, 117
• Ceara, Proposed Cultivation in Zanzibar, 208
• Exhibition at Olympia, 91 New Material to Rival, 323
• Rugby Engineering Society Conversazione, 532
• Russian Ironworks Closed after 150 Years’ Work, 91
• Rivers and High Roads, Improvement Scheme, 102
• Rust Prevention, Paper by Mr. Thornton-Murray, 91
• Rusting Experiments, 671
• Ruston, Proctor’s Annual Dinner, 627

• SCIENCE Congress, International, at Brussels, 39
• Scottish Engineers and Shipbuilders, Home for, 446
• Scrap Metal Exports, 593
• Seismograph Deficiencies, New Instrument, 141
• Silenium for Signalling Purposes, 193
• Sewage Disposal, Residential, by New System, 351
• Royal Commission Report, 268

Ships and Shipping Matters:

• Admiralty Casualty Returns for 1901-1908, 269, 377
• American Lake Shipyard Output, 219
• Berlin Steamships and Electric Propulsion, 269
• Board of Trade Return of Unsafe Ships, 541
• Brazilian Torpedo Destroyer Para, Launch at Yarrow Scotch Works, 65
• British Naval Work for Private Yards, 377
• Canadian Shipping to Replace United States
• Vessels for British Columbia Coastal Trade, 11
• Clyde Shipyards and the Depression, 66, 245
• Eight Months’ Shipbuilding, 250 Ten Months’ Shipbuilding, 519- Eleven Months’ Shipbuilding,
• Commonwealth, H.M. Battleship Fitted with High-power Wireless Telegraphic Service, 245
• Cruisers, British, H.M. Defence and others, 567
• Derelict Destroyer, Special Vessel Built, 619
• Dundee as a Submarine Depdt, 489
• Etruria, Single Propeller and Engine, 461 Explosives on Board Ship, Unsafe Storage, 671 Ferry Boats on the Rhine, Electric, 405, 513 Steamer for Glasgow, Ferguson, 147
• French Armoured Cruiser Quinet, 513 Destroyers, Reciprocating Engines or Turbines, 252
• Naval Estimates, 671
• German Battleships, Rates of Speed, 245 Dockship Vulcan, 507
• Liner’s Speed Record from New York, 219
• Navy League’s Demands, 351
• Gladiator, Salvage of, 193
• Greek Torpedo-boat Destroyers Built at Yarrow’s, 117
• Gunboats for the Danube, Yarrow, 76
• Hibernia, H.M. Battleship, and Torpedo Experiments, 541
• Highflyer, H.M. Cruiser, New Equipment for, 323
• Indomitable’s Achievements and Clydeside, 219 and Dreadnought, Docking at
• Chatham, 297
• Japanese Destroyers and Battleships, 219, 351
• Kennet, River Class Destroyer, Repairs and Wireless Telegraphy Installation, 331
• Launch, Steam Pilot, the Chin, 418
• Launches, Petrol and Electric, in Italy, 405
• Lloyd’s Shipping Returns, 65, 397
• Lochiel, R.M. Steamer, Fitted with Schlick’s Gyroscope, 478
• Lusitania’s Speed, 193
• Magnetic Survey by Special Ships, 269
• Masts, Military, for United States Warships, 117
• Mercantile Tonnage, Reduction in Output, 141
• Mercedes, Steam Collier for Naval Purposes, 567
• Motor-propelled Pinnaces, MacLaren Bros,, 502
• Munich, Great Eastern Railway Turbine Steamer, Dimensions and Trial, 485
• Naval Fighting Tonnage, Comparison between Great Britain and other Nations, 567 Machinery, New Regulations, 513 Strength, International Comparison, 141
• Navy and Wireless Telegraphy, 269
• New Zealand, H.M; Battleship, Refit, 555 Norwegian Motor Schooner Saevareid, 297
• Oil Tank Steamers, Clyde-built, 512
• Otaki, Twin-screw Turbine Steamer, Denny, 192
• Para, Brazilian Destroyer, Trials of, 297
• P. and 0. Liners at Greenock, New, 418
• Port Defence, Commercial, Admiralty Arrangements, 489
• Vessels for Rangoon, 658
• Rittler, H.M.S., Propulsion by Gas Engine, Beardmore, 250
• Reciprocating and Turbo Propulsion, Combined, 192
• Red Star Liner Lapland, Launch, 76
• Russian Battleship Building Difficulties, 39 Designs, Conference at St.
• Petersburg, 141, 219 Mercantile Marine, 634 Shipbuilding Decrease, 377
• Safety of Life at Sea, American Commission, 671
• Screw Propulsion in Shallow Rivers, 418
• Searchlights and Admiralty Orders, 645
• Shipbuilding Instruction, Leith Technical College, 384
• Shipping Casualty Returns, 193
• Ships’ Lights, Admiralty Order, 578
• Spanish Naval Contract, 658
• Steering Gear, Electric, for the Rurik, 474 Suez Canal Tonnage, 219
• T6m6rajre, H.M. Battleship, Progress of Equipment, 323
• Searchlight, 541
• Torpedo Boat Destroyers Equipped for Oil Burning, 39
• Petrol-propelled, Yarrow, 552
• Turbine Steamers for Irish Service, Denny, 163 Torpedo Boat No. 31, Thornycroft’s Dimensions and Launch, 405
• Turbines or Internal Combustion Engines for British Cruisers, 653
• United States Battleship South Carolina, 117 Navigation Bureau, Shipbuilding
• Report, 39
• Tonnage, Record-breaking Output, 117
• Warship Design, American Imitation of British System, 377

• SHREWSBURY, Weir and Bridge Projected across Severn, 141
• Silica, Process for Melting and Moulding by Electric Furnace, 489
• Silver Cyanidation and Manganese, 50^
• Slide Rule and Logarithms, History of, 65
• Small Arms Factory Proposed in New South Wales, 245 in Spain, 513
• Smoke Prevention Exhibition at Sheffield, 512 Sodium and its Properties, 269
• Sound Direction, Apparatus for Detecting, 489
• Sparking Plugs for Automobiles, Standardisation, 567
• Speed Indicators for Tramway and Motor Cars, 117
• Staffordshire Society, Increased Membership Desired, 242
• Steam Traps, Geipel’s “Rapidity,” Demonstration, 628
• Steel—see Iron and Steel
• Sulphuric Acid in Russia, Annual Production, 141
• Superheat Regulated by Tubes, 619
• Superheating Regulation with Fluctuating Steam
• Consumption, 361

• TABLOID, Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co., 19
• Tantalite Discovery in India, 693
• Tantalum Hardening by Oxygen, 297
• and Tantalite Output, 193
• Taxation of Gas and Electricity, German and Italian, 613
• Telegraphic Extension in French West Africa, 193
• Instruments, Historical Collection of Midland Railway, 117
• Message Tubes in Bremen, 246
• Telegraph, Submarine, and Steam Trawlers, 91
• Telegraphs and Telephones in Natal, 246
• Telegraphy, Underground, to Penzance. 641, 693
• Telephone Station in Italy, Highest in the World, 269
• and Telegraph Wires placed Underground in Melbourne, 22
• Telephones in Austria, Great Extensions, 615
• Test for Cylinder Oils, 328
• Testing, Commercial, by University Laboratory, Opposition, 66
• Textile Mills in United States, 323
• Thermo-Electric Couple, Inexpensive Method, 323
• Timber Destruction by Beetles Avenged by Fungus, 65
• Testing at Yale University, 405 Valuable, on Hainan Island, China, 405 Tin-plate and French Import Duties, 65 Tin Output in United States and Alaska, 297 ’
• Torpedo, New Type, Tested in United States, 269
• Torpedoes, Dirigible, 593
• Fulton and—see Fulton
• Tramways, London United and London County Council, 604
• Tubemakers’ Association, International, Dissolved, 39
• Tungsten Filament Fracture, To Determine Cause, 323
• to Increase Resistance, 541 Minerals, Various, 541
• Tunnel ^Boring Record in Montana, 245 underneath the Elbe at Hamburg, 461 Turbine, 5000-Kilowatt, Willans and Robinson’s,
• Tests at Manchester, 206
• Turbines, Exhaust Steam, in German Mining Work, 117
• Parsons, at Frankfort Electricity Works, 11
• Turkey, Guns and Ammunition for, 619

• UNEMPLOYMENT and the Strikes, 193
• University College : Appointments, New Lectureship, New Engineering Laboratories, Extensions and Equipment, 147 ; Lectures, Programme, 350; Radio-telegraphy and Radiotelephony, Course of Lectures by Professor Fleming, 292, 350

• VACUUM Pump, Two-stage, for Incandescent
• Lamp Manufacture, 141
• Ventilation of High speed Machines, 141
• Victoria, Gold Output, 167

• WALL at Spithead as Protection against Naval Attack, 219
• Watch, Remarkable, at Franco-British Exhibition, 513
• Water in Hot Springs, Radio-activity, 91
• Mains and Electrolysis, 567
• Water Power Plant, Large, in Japan, 593
• of Great Value in Certain of the American States, 117
• Plant, Swiss, on Lcentsch River, 193
• Resources of Foreign Countries, 489 in Scottish Highlands, 563

Water Supply:

• Aberdeen, 461
• Argentina, for Agricultural Purposes, 567
• Buenos Aires Water Supply and Drainage, 433
• Devonport, Storage Extension, 193
• Glasgow, 444
• Madras Presidency, 39
• Metropolitan Board, Island Barn Reservoir, 405 Report, 167
• Paris and its Water Supply, Various Suggestions, 269
• In Pennsylvania, Standard Set up, 513
• Rand, 206
• Stirling, 297
• Sucre, Bolivia, Water-tube Transportation Difficulties, 433
• Wormhill, 65

• WATER Tank, Large Steel, Successful Moving, 167
• Welding by Oxy-Acetylene Flame, 269
• Wind-press are Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 323
• Wire and Radio-Telegraphy, Joint Connection between Lima and Ignitos, 167
• Rope Stresses, 671
• Wireless Equipment for Hibernia and King Edward VII., 351
• Message to Australia, 141
• Service at a Penny per Word, 671
• Telegraphic Service, Radiotelegraphic Convention, 11, 39, 117
• Telegraphy at Algiers and Oran, 593 Conference, Results in France, 593 for Dominica, 11 Experiments at Aidershot, 167
• Fittings for the Navy, 269, 351
• in French Manoeuvres 297
• Wireless Telegraphy in Germany, 351
• for Great Eastern Railway Steamers, 39
• High-power Service, for H.M. Battleship Commonwealth, 245
• in Japan, Land and Sea, 39 Marconi Apparatus for the Mersey, 117
• Progress and Extensions at Home and Abroad, 377, 541
• Regulations in British East Africa, 671
• Station, Admiralty, near Grimsby, 572
• Station at Bolt Head, Sal- combe, 645
• Telephony, Dr. De Forest’s Expectation of Connection between Paris and New York, 219 in France, 193, 219 for German Manoeuvres, 245
• for the Navy, Dr. De Forest’s Tests at Portsmouth, 377
• for Opera Lovers, 297 Wood-testing by Microscope, 461
• Works, Rolls Royce, in Derby, Opening, 76

• YORKSHIRE Miners’ Association, Annual Demonstration, 76

• ZEPPELIN Airship, 73
• Zinc, German Output 65

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