The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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ACCELERATED Motion of Bodies in Water, &c., A. W. Johns, 388

Accidents:

American Railway Accidents, 627
Birkenhead, Cofferdam Failure, 272
Boiler Explosion, Responsibility for, 424
British Railways, Safety of, 33, 444
Crawford Derailment, 662
Wreck of the Irada, 40«

Aeronautics:

Aeroplane Exhibitions—see Exhibitions
Aerial Flight in Theory and Practice, Professor G. H. Bryan, 353, 368
Aerial Navigation, Government Committee, 479, 482
Aeroplanes, 296
Aeroplanes at Olympia, Cochrane, Lamplough, and R. E. P., 313
Airships, Design of Weapons for Attacking, 505
- Mechanical Flight in 1908, 15 (Supplement^ January Is^, 1909)
Wright Aeroplane, 10

AFFORESTATION and Labour, Report of Royal Commission, 91
Agreement—see Labour
Air Compressors—see Compressors
Air in Marine Condensers, 244
Almanacs, Diaries, &c., for 1909, 22, 72, 124
Amalgamation of Marine Engine Builders, 20
American Engineering News, 665
- Tariff and Tool Steels, 324
- Transformer Construction, Tobey, 457
Anderson, F. C., on Experiments with Rolling Mill Plant, 107
Anderton Boat Lift, Re-construction (Supplement, January 1909)
Andrews, L. and R. Porter on Gas Engines versus Steam Turbines for Generating Electric Power, 188
Angle Iron-bending Machines—see Machine Tools

Annual Article:

BRIDGES IN 1908, 18 (Correction, 48)
CHEMISTRY IN 1908, 19
DOCKS OF 1908, 3 (Supplement, January l-s7,1909)

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1908, 6
Agriculture, 7
Bulk Supply, 6
Exhibitions, 7
Lamps, 7
Mill Driving, 7
Mining, Electricity in, 7
Railways, Electric, 7
Road Cars, 7
Telegraphy, 7
Tramways, 7

ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL, IN 1908, 14
Couplers, Automatic, 14
Engines, Marine, 14
Internal Combustion, 15
Locomotives, 14 (Supplement^ January Is^, 1909)
French Chemin de Fer de I’Est Four-cylinder Compound, 14 (Supplement January 13<, 1909)
Italian State Railways Ten Wheels Coupled Compound, 14 (Supplement January 15^, 1909)
Machine Tools and Textile Machinery, 15 Mol or Cars, 15
Power of Cars, 15
Rolling Stock, 14

GAS SUPPLY IN 1908, 19
Gas Manufacture, 19
Sir George Livesey, 19

HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS, 1908, 3 (SupplementjJanuary 15<, 1909)
Bristol Channel, 3 (Supplement^ January 15^, 1909)
Colonial and Foreign Ports, 3
East Coast, 3
English Channel Ports, 3
Havre Port, Florida Lock, 3 (Supplement^ January Is^, 1909)
Liverpool, Port of, 3
London, Port of, 3
Manchester Ship Cana\ 3
Panama Canal, 4 (Supplement^ January Is^, 1909)
West Coast, 3

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIES IN 1908, 16
Arbitration, Board of Trade Court, 17
Census of Production, 17
Conciliation Boards, 16
Co-partnership, 16
Patent Law, Working of the New, 16
Payment of Parliamentary Representatives, 16
Railway Conciliation Boards, 16 Strikes, 16

MECHANICAL FLIGHT IN 1908, 15 (Supplement^ January Is^, 1909)
Balloons, Motor Military, 16
Bleriot Monoplane, 16 (Supplement^ January Is^, 1909)
Bonnet-Labranche Aeroplane (Supplement, January Is^, 1909)
Esnanlt-Pelterie Monoplane, 16 (Supple- menty January 15^, 1909
Farman Aeroplane, 15 (Supplement, January 15^, 1909)
Prizes and Competitions, 16
Record Flights, 16
Voisin Aeroplane, 15 (Supplement, Jamtary 15^, 1909)
Wright Aeroplane, 10, 16 (Supplement, January ls< 1909)
Annual Article {continued');

RAILWAYS IN 1908, 17
American, 18
Australasian, 18
British African, 18
Canadian, 18
Continental, 17
Eastern, 17
London,17
Provincial, 17
Various, 18

SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1908, 5
Artificial and Land Treatment, 6
Glasgow, Kinning Park Pumping Station, 6
Glasgow Main Drainage, 6
Grease from Sewage, Recovery of, 6
Nitrates in Effluents, Effect of, 6
Royal Commission, Report, 5
Sewage for Condensing Purposes, 6
Sewage Pumps, Gas Engine-driven, 5
Standards of Purification, 5
Toronto, Sewerage Works at, 6
Works Completed and in Hand, 6

WATER SUPPLY IN 1908, 4
Cambridge Water, Report, 5
Cardiff, Water from the Severn Tunnel, 5 Coventry, New Supply for, 5 Derwent Valley Scheme, 5
Edinburgh, Filtration of Upland Water, 5 Leeds, New Reservoir for, 5 Loch Braden, Water from, 5 London, Charges for Water, 4—see cdso Metropolitan Water Board
Manchester, Water from Thirlmere, 6 Metropolitan Water Board, 4 Monterey, Mexico, New Waterworks, 5 New Works, Completed and Begun, 5

ENGINEERING IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1908,
63, 77, 101, 133, 154
Bridges, 64 Buddings, 101 Canals and Inland Navigation, 77 Electric Traction ; Railways and Tramways, 53
Harbours, 78 Hydro-Electric Plant, 78 Iron and Steel, 133 Irrigation and Drainage, 78 Locomotives and Rolling Stock, 164 Machinery, 133
Mines and Metallurgy, 133 Railways, 53 Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, 101 Streets and Roads, 101 Tunnels and Underground Railways, 53 Water Supply, 101

ANSTEY, H. C., on Internal Combustion Engines for Marine Propulsion, 362
Anti-vibration—see Pads Apprentices, Engineering, Training of, 399
Arnold, Professor, on Tool Steel, 243
Aspinall, J. A. F,, on Electrification of Railways, 469, 486, 504

Associations, Institutions and Societies:

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

Annual Dinner, 197
Experiments with Rolling Mill Plant, F. C. Anderson, 107
Metallic Filament Lamps, W. A. Barnes, 70
Testing of Files and Tool Steel, E. G. Herbert, 349
Visit to Alfred Herbert’s Works at Coventry, 526

Association of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Greenock:

Measurement of Marine Engine Power by Means of Torsionmeters, J. Menmuir, 186

Association, The Incorporated Municipal Electrical:

Meeting in Manchester, Program in 3, Visits, 658

Institute, Cleveland, of Engineers:

Corrosion of Iron and Suoel, E. Crowe, 431

Institution of Electrical Engineers, American:

Experiments on Eirth Connections, J. L. K. Hayden, 419

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Ageing of Mild Steel and the Influence of Nitrogen, C. E. Stromeyer, 550
Bessemer Medal Presentation, 548
Chemical Physics Involved in the Decarburisation of Iron-carbon Alloys, W. H. Hatfield, 522
Electric Furnace and Electricil Process cf Steel-making, W. Rodenhauser, 648, 617, 640
Electrolytic 3 heory of the Corrosion of Iron, &c., W. H. Walker, 520
Fuel from Peat, Dr. M. Ekenbergi 549 Heat Treatment Study of Bessemer Steels, Professor Me William and E. J. Barnes, 549 High-tension Steels, P. Longmuir, 550 Notes on Tests for Hardness, Professor T.
Turner, 550
Preservation of Iron and Steel, A. S. Cushman, 520, 537, 665
Pyrometer, The British Recording, P. Longmuir and T. Swinden, 650
Solubility of Steel in Sulphuric Acid, Influence of the Treatment, &c., E. Heyn and 0. Bauer, 621
Spring Meeting, 520
Value of Physical Tests in Selection and Testing of Coatings for Iron and Steel, J. C. Smith, 620

Institution of – Engineers, Westminster:

An Open Letter, 307; (Letters), 351, 403, 417, 482

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Council Report on Professional Etiquette, 453 j (Letters), 509, 666
Design of Marine Steam Turbines, S. J. Reed, 203
Grflio Handling and Storing Appliances at the Millwall Docks, Magnus Mowat, 266
Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution in the Gas Engine, Professor Ilopkinson, 140, 173
Heat Losses in an Electric Power Station, An Investigation, F. H. Corson, 21
James Forrest Lecture, Col. Holden on Road Motors. 456
“New York Times” Buildiog, C. T. Purdy, 420
Pass List, October Examinations, 1908, 21
Pass List, February ExaminatiAns. 1909, 410
Railway Curves, High Speeds on, J. W. Spiller, 122
Railway Curves. Improvement of Existing, W. H. Shortt, 122
Road Motors of the Present Day and Uns'^lved Problems Connected with them, Col. H, C. L. Holden, 456
Serviceable Life and Average Annual Cost of ’’ oomotives in Groat Britain, Price-Williams, 636

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Alternators, The Parallel Operation of, Dr. E. EosoQber«r, 132
G.B. Surface Contact System, Stanley Clegg, 68
Motor Converter’, Theory and Application of, H. S. Hallo, 551
Use of Large Ga? Engines for Generating Electric Power, L. Andrews and R. Porter, 188

Glasgow Local Section:

Early Experiments in Electric Traction, W. W. Lackie, 172
Interpoles, W. B. Hird, 506

Leeds Local Section :

Electrification of Steam-driven Non-reversing Rolling Mills, W. F. Mylan, 497
Institution of Engineers, Junior:
Heat Transmission in Steam Boilers, Dr. Nicolson, 89
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland:
Effect of Bossing upon Resistance, Professor H. C. Sadler, 393

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Annual Meeting, 213
Interchangeability and Methods of Securing it in Screw Threads, H. F. Donaldson, 170
Presidential Address, J. A. F. Aspinall, 459, 485. 504
Twist Drills, Experiments upon the Forces Acting on, When Operah’ng on Cast Iron and Steel, Dempster Smith and R. Poliakoff, 309, 326
Water for Public Supply. Filtration and Purification of, J. Don, 81, 95, 120, 213

Institution of Naval Architects :

Accelerated Motion of Bodies in Water, &c., A. W. Johns, 388
Annual Meeting and Programme, 299, 337, 362, 387
Contrary Turning Screws on a Common Axis, Propub ion of Ships by, Lt.-Col. G. Rota, 363
Cossack, H.M. Torpedo Bnat Destroyer, Speed Trials, Sir P. Watts, 390
Dinner, Annual, 339
Diverging Waves, Professor W. Hovgaard, 392 Experimental Tank at Busby, 337 Experimental Tank, Dr. Gkz^'brook, 388 Infiuence of Form and Bulkheads on the
Strength of Ships, Dr. J. Bruhn, 392
Internal Combustion Engines for Marine Propulsion, H. C. Anstey, 362
Internal Combustion Engines for Submarines, F. R. S. Birchprn, 362, 378, 379
Launching, with Special Reference to the Effect of Camber, John Snaith, 391
Leviathan, Suction Dredger, A, G, Lyster and W. Boyd, 364
Mccbauical Method for Determining the Thrust of Propellers, J. 11. Heck, 363, 510
Resistance of Thin Plates and Models in a Current of Water, Dr. T. E. Stanton, 387. 405
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes of North America, Professor H. C. Sadler, 391
Ship Geometry, Sir G. Greenbill, 391
Standardisation : Report on Work Done by the Engineering Standards Committee on Materials used in Ships, &c., Archibald Denny, 339
Turbine Steamer Ben-my-Chree and Parsons Turbine, C. J. Blackburn. 364
Vibrations of Ships and Use of a Dynamical Model in Determining E'asticir.y, &c., Professor J. B. Henderson, 339, 349
Warships, Types Omitted in Recent Program utes, Lord Brassey, 337, 345
Water Hammer, Explosions of Steam Pipes due to, C. E. Stromeyer, 365

Institution, North-East Coast of Engineers and Shipbuilders:

Scientific Education of Naval Architects, Prof. J. J. Welch, 224

Institution, Royal:

Aerial Flight in Theory and Practice, Professor G. H. Bryan, 363, 368

Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain:

Aeronautical Engines, J. McKinney, 415

Society, American Electro-Chemical:

Professor J. W. Richards on Iron and Steel Making on the Heroult System, 668

Society of Chemical Industry:

Sulphur as a Cause of Corrosion in Steel, G. N. Huntly, 416

Society. Manchester Geological and Mining:

Drainage Adits for Metal Mines, J. Philip Jones, 156
Society of Mechanical Engineers, American:
Articulated Compound Locomotives, Mellin, 47

Society, Royal:

Conversazione, 500

AUSTRALIA, New Capital for, 27 _
Australia, Public Works Departments in, 559 ;
(Letter), 615, 667
Austria, Shipbuilding Changes in. 606
Austrian Postal Service, Motor Cars, 33 Autoclave, The, 262

BACH, Professor, on Tests on Mild Steel Dished Ends, 154,155, 209, 210, 211, 212
Badcock, H. D,, on Storm Drainage of Pretoria, 58
Barnes, G. N., on Co-partnership and Unemployment, 27 ; (Letter), 139
Barrage, Ksneh, 78 (Correcti'^n, 146) (Two-page Supplement, January 22nd, 1909)
Bauer, Dr., on Turbines versus Reciprocating Engines, 39, 77 ; (Letter), 119
Beaumont, W. Worby, on Computation of Engine Horse-power Rating Formulae, 534 (Correction, 563)
Bells, Submarine, E’ectrically Operated, 4
Bending Machines—see Machine Tools
Berlin Technical College, Testing Establishment, 81
Berlin Telephones, 579
Bircham, F, R, S., on Internal Combustion Engines for Submarines, 362, 378, 379
Birminerham University, Engineering Equipment of, 649
Blackburn, C. J., on Ben-my-Chree and Parsons Turbine, 364
Blane, W,, on The Rand as a Market for Engi- nee^-irg Products, 598, 625, 619
Blast Furnaces—see Furnaces
Blasting, Submarine, Drill Boat for, 403
Board of Trade Railway Conference, 636 Boats—see Ships, also Engines and Motors

Boilers:

Boiler Efficiency (Dr. Nicolson’s Lecture), 89, 165 ; (Letters), 119, 144, 159, 187, 216
Boiler and Superheater, Ruston, Proctor, 366, 370
Corrosive Action of Magnesian and other Waters on Steam Boilers, Dr. J. Grossmann, 262
Explosion, Question of Responsibility, 424 Locomotive Boiler Construction in America, 666
Quixo Boiler-tube End and Plate Cleaner, Cwt. F. S. Pets 474
Transmission of Heat through Boiler Plates, 184, 207
Water-tube Boiler, Status of the, 477

BORING Machines —see Machine Tools
Bosses, Tee Diameter and Length of, R. A. Lewis, 637
Brassey, Lord, on Types of Warships Omitted in Recent Programmes, 337, 345
Breakdowns, 270

Bridges:

Abya Choung Bridge in Burmah, 579
Bridge Construction, Modern Methods, 179
Bridges in 1908, 18 (Correction, 48)
Bridges in 1908, U.S.A., 54
Concession to Prejudice, 66
Concrete Arch Railway, 666
Girder, New Form of, R. C. Fry, 426
New Form of Construction, R. C. Fry, 425
Queenboro’ (Blackwell’s Island), A Defence of, 609
Road and Rail, over the Blue Nile, 32
Road and Railway, over the Wear, 588, 602, 608
Sittang River, 578, 582, 630, 634
Stresses in a Suspension Bridge, L. H. Chase, 469, 491, 518

BRUHN, Dr. J., on Influence of Form and Bulkheads on the Strength of Ships, 392
Bryan, Professor G. H., on Aerial Flight in Theory and Practice, 353, 368
Building, Margin of Safety in, Concession to Prejudice, 66
Buildings in t .S.A,, 101
Burne, E. L., on Wind Power, 286
Burner, The Meker, Cambridge Scientihe Instrument Company, 640
Bury, R. E., on Drop Forging, 277

CABLE Suspender, W. T. Glover, 482 Cableway, Long-span Travelling, at Grays, Henderson, 168, 169
Caisson Construction and Erection for Torpedo Battery at Hybres, 412
Calculator, Copper Smelting Furnace Charge, R. Marshall, 44
Calculator, Pipe Discharge, Essex, 668

Canals:

Canals and Inland Navigation in U.S.A, in 1908, 77
Panama, The Culebra Cub (Supplement, Jamuiry 1»«, 1909)
Suez, Present Condition of, 440
Weaver Navigation, Anderton Boat Lift (Supplement, January Is^, 1909)

CASTING, Large Engine Winding Drum, 119 Casting—see also Furnaces

Catalogues:

48, 72, 98, 122, 148, 174, 200,252, 304, 328, 380, 432, 538, 568, 592, 642, 670

CEMENT in Canada, Production in 1908, 658 Cement Works at Southam, 8, 12, 28, 38; (Note,
100)
Chain Shackle, “ Renter ” Weldless, 331
Chains without Transverse Welds, 312
Charcoal Blast Furnace Practice in the Ural, Professor Pavloff, 493
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, Dinner, 238
Chase, L. H., on Stresses in a Suspension Bridge, 469, 491, 518
Chemistry in 1908, 19

Chemistry, International Congress of Applied:

251, 597
PAPERS
Cements, Le Chatelier, Feret, R. K. Meade, 597
Coal Dust and Mining Explosions, Professor Galloway, Bedson, Foralmann, 597
Electric Iron Smelting and Refining in Prance, Prcxsent Position, C. de Cous- sergues, 597
Ferro-alloys, Chaplet, 597
Ferro-alloys and Special Steels, Guflet, 597 Fuel Purchase and Fuel Testing, Professor Constam, E. Gudeman, J. B. C. Kershaw, Pery, 597
Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel, Guillet, 597
Metallography and Eutectic A’loys, C. H. Desch, J. E. Stead, Rovillon, 597

CLAMP, “Cop” Plate - lifting, Mork Patent Pulley Block Company, 223
Clegg, Stanley, on G.B. Surface Contact System, 68, 85
Clutch, Murphy, Friction, Reddaway, 117 Clutches, Coil, for Coal Plant in Japan, 250, 251 Clutches, Hele-Shaw, Friction, at Winnipeg, 657

Coal Coke, and Collieries:

Coal Barge Lifting Pontoon, Goole Shipbuilding Company, 561
Elevators, Evolution of the Rotary Feed in, Bennis, 564
Shipping Plant in Japan, Coil Clutches for, 250, 251
Store, Elevated Reinforced Concrete, 604 Tables for, 1907, 392
Tip, Ferro-concrete, at Sharpness Decks, 60, 64
Trade Troubles and Foreign Competition, 663
Collieries, Financial Burdens on, 519 Colliery, Electrical Power Plant at, Brown,
Boveri, 502, 508 (Correction, 611) Co-partnership in a Coal Mine, Sir C. Furness, 566
Efficiency of C'al. 194 Eight Hours’ Day in Practice, 271
Mines, Saving Lire in, Sir H. Cunynghame, 221
South Yorkshire Coal in 1908, 42 Weathering of Coal, 584
Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 240

COFFERDAM Failare at Birkenhead, 272 Colorado River Breach and Closure, 359 Compensation—see Labour
Compressor,

Contracts;

50, 74, 98, 125, 150, 176, 201, 228, 254, 280, 304, 330, 351, 381, 410, 462, 488, 512, 540, 568, 594, 620, 644, 672

CONVEYOR Plant at the Cologne Gasworks, 387
Cooling Towers at a Colliery, 508 Co-partnership—nee Labour
Copper Pipe Joint, Leigh, 248 Corrosion—see Iron and Steel Corrosive Action of Magnesian and other Waters
on Steam Boilers, Dr. J. Grossmann, 262 Cost of Iron Production—see Iron and Steel ^*^^169^^ Copper Pipes, Improved, W. Bryce, Coventry, Manchester Association of Engineers’
Visit to Alfred Herbert’s Works, 526 Crane, 100-Ton, Applebys, 586
30-Ton Breakdown, Ransomes and Rapier, 118
30'Ton Electric Travelling Jib, Cowans, Sheldon and Co., 276, 277
150-Tons Floating, for Japan, Cowans, Sheldon and Co., 374 ; (Latter), 509
Motor-driven Mono-rail, Royce, 299 25-Ton Steam Wharf, A, Chaplin, 606 Wide-span Overhead Travelling, S. IL Heywood, 458
Cranes, Early Steam, and Hoists, Taylor’s, Appleby’s, Cowans, Sheldon’s, Irlam’s, Wright's, 551 ; (Letter), 614
Large Power Fixed and Floating, 374 ; (Letter), 509
Locomotive Steam Gantry, Wilson, 44 Tower, and Temperley Transporters, Applebys, 431

CROWE, E., on Corrosion of Iron and Steel, 431
Cunynghame, Sir H., on Saving Life in Coal Mines, 221
Cupolas, Spark Arrester for, S. Osborn and D. Carnegie, 278
Cushman, A. S., on Preservation of Iron and Steel, 520, 530, 537, 569, 591
Cylinders, Steam Engine, Clearance in, 220

DAM, Tbe Cataract, New South Wales {SuppU- tneni, Janvnry 1909)
Day, C., on the Diesel Engin©, 278
Denny, Archibald, on Work Done by Engineering Standards Committee on Materials Uted in Ships, &c., 339
Depositing Dock for Monolith Work. 118 Determination of Quantities, 194

Docks:

Avonmouth. Royal Edward Dock at, 3 (Sup/de’ m-enif January l^i, 1909)
Cofferdam Failure at Birkenhead. 272
Dock, Depositing, for Monolith Work, 118
Dock, Floating Pontoon, Towed from the Tyne to Callao, 430
Docks, 1908, 3 (Supplenuintt January 1909) Floating Docks, Battlesh’ps and, 319 Germany, Naval Docks in, 451
Graving Docks of the World, N. G. Gedye, 442, 443, 467 ; (Note). 492
Hawaii, Dry Dock for, 665
Sharpness, Ferro-concrete Coal Tip and Viaduct, 60. 64
Swansea, King’s Dock at, 3 (iSapplemcnif January lif, 1909)

DOCKYARD Administration, 183

Dockyard Notes:

Afridi, H.M., Still Incomplete, 32; Speed Trials, 265
Amazon and Saracen, H.M.S., 265
Argentine Dreadnoughts, 404
Austrian Naval Estimates, Scanty Progress, 550 Battleships and Dockyard Ships, Tenders fur New, 455
Boadicea, H.M.S , Trials and Adjustments, 456 Boadicea Class Scout Cruisers, Two New, 455 Brassey’s Naval Annual, 2^6
Brazilian Scout Rio Grande do Sul and Destroyer Amazonas, 265
Destroyer, Rio Grande do Norte, Launched, 266
Warships, Bahia and San Paulo, 32, 265
Conniog Towers, Varieties and Defects, 550 Cruising Turbines, Doubtful Advantage of, 32 Electrical Mountings for Large Naval Guns, 32
French Armoured Cruiser Ernst Renan, Trial, 266; Details of Eugines and Speed, 455
Battleships, Diderot, Condorcet, &o., 455
Cr ’’ser Gloire, Corrosion of Tail Shafts, 550
Toipado Boat Destroyer Ciasseur; Turbine Machinery; Trials, 404 and United States Navies, Slow Rate of Construction, 266
Fuel for Destroyers, Oil or Coal Question, 550
Gauges for Marine Condensers; Admiraby Forbids Use of Mercury, 550
German Destroyers, Trials Satisfactory, 550 Ships, Progress, 265, 404
Turbine Cruisers Lubeck and Stettin, 455
Ghurka, H.M. Ocean-going Destroyer, 32, 266, 455
Guos, Modifications and Wiring, 404
Invincible, H.M.S., Gun Trials, 32 ; Joins tbe Fleet, 265
Italian Naval Programme, Details, 550
Italian Warship Napoli, Speed Trials, 32 (Correction, 146)
Japanese Orders for Guns and Mount ngs, 404
Krupp Guns and Mountings, 455
Neptune, Naval Secrets and International Courtesies, 404
Oil Consumption, Admiralty Limits, 266 Portuguese Naval Orders, Rumours, 45o Progress of Var ous Ships, 265
Scouts, H.M., Re-named. 265
Spaii'sh Navy, British Contracts Confirmed, 404
Torpedo Craft, Form and Speed, 32
Torpedo Tubes, Improvements; Saving in Weight and Cost, 550
Torpedoes Lost during Practice, 404
United States Battleship North Dakota, 266 Submarines and Destroyers, Names and State of Progcoss, 404
Tests of Masts of the Idaho, 455

DON, J., on Filtration and Purification of Water for Public Supply, 81, 95, 120, 213
Donaldson, H. F., on Interchangeability and Methods of Securing it in Screw Threads, 170, , . 201
Drainage Adits for Metal Mines, J. Philip Jones, 156
in Ireland, Arterial, 439
of London, M. Fitzmaurice 550
Storm,‘of Pretoria, Badcock, 58 Dredger, Bucket, on the Tees, Fiemiog and Ferguson, 322
Cayo Piedra, for the Cuban Government, 612
Sand Pump, Leviathan, 344, 362, 353, 364
Dredging of the River Thames, 605
Drill Boat—see Ships
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools; Drop Forging, R. E. Bury, 277
Durtnall, W. P,, on Electrical Power for Marine Propulsion, 288
Dust, Removal of, from Card Rooms of Cotton Mills, 116
Dynamometer, A Portable, Acer, Limited, 273 Dynamometer, Twist Drill, Dempster Smith and R. Poliakoff, 309, 326

EARTHWORKS, 265
Easement Curves, K H. Smith, 574
Efficiency of Marine Eogioes, Mechanical, 77
Efficiency of Marine Engines and Propellers. J. H. Gibson, 106
Ekenberg, Dr. M., on Fuel from Peat, 549 ;
Apparatus for Wet-carbonising Process for Peat, 549

Electrical Matters:

Electrical Railways—see Railways Tramways—see Tramways
Institution of Electrical Engineers—see Associations
Alternator, Combined Steam Engine and, J. P. Hall and Robey, 200
Alternators, The Parallel Operation of, Dr, E. Rosenberg, 132
American General Electrical Company’s 666
Arc Lamps, Improvement in, Union Company, 172
Arc Lamps, Lowering Gear, London Firm, 144
Cable Suspender, W. T. Glover, 482 Colliery, Power Plant at. Brown, Boveri, 502, 508 (Correction, 611)
Converters, Motor or Rotary, 554
Developments in Transforming Devices, H. W. Tobey, 457
Earth Connections, S)me Experiments on, J. L. R. Hayden, 419
Electrical Engineering in 1908 Electric Furnaces—see Furnace
Traction, Early Experiments in, W. W. Lackie, 172
Traction, Railways and Tramways in U.S.A., 1908, 53
Welding, V. D. Green, 565 Electricity as a Fuel, 558—see also Furnaces, Electric
Regulations, Mr. Swinburne’s Report, 250
from Wind Power, Child’s, 323
Works at Southend, Evaporative Condenser, Ledward, 418, 419, 422
Electrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 500
G.B. Surface-contact System, 68, 85
Heat Losses in an Elecrric Powar Station, An Investigation, F. H. Corson, 21
Ignition Gear and Barring Machine at Barrow Iron Company’s Works, 135
Interpoles, W. B. Hird, 506
Lighting and Pumping Sets, Small, W. H. Allen, 272
London, Lightirgin, 287
Marine Propulsion, W. P. Dartnail on Electrical Power for, 288
Motor, 300 Horse-power, Armature and Frame for, 183
Motor C 'Hverters, Theory and Application of, H. S. Hallo, 554
Mot<)r8, Atiachment for Drilling, H.W. Kearns. 173
Motors, Induction, Some Experiments with, 664
Photometric Units. 523
Power, Gas Engines versus Steam Turbines for Generating, L. Andrews and R. Porter, 188
Power Station lor the General Post-office, 639 Rolling Mills, Electrification of Steam-driven Non-reversiog, W. F. Mylan, 497
“Spinner” Induction Motor, Mavor and Coulson, 367

ELECTRO Hydraulic Ladle Carriage, Duisburgher Company, 523
Engineering Apprentices, Training of, 399
Equipment, of Birmingham University, 649
Industries, Tariff Commission’s Report, 110, 147
Mechanical, in 1908, 14
Testing House for Manchester, 59 in the United States in 1908, 53, 77, 101, 133, 154
at the University of Toronto, 103. 112, 129
Works, Extravagant Expenditure on, 503 ; (Letter), 577
Engineers and Architects, 245
in the Royal Navy, 296; (Letters), 351, 482
and the Territorials, 517; (Letter), 615 in the United States, Pay of Junior, 47d

Engines and Motors:

See also Tractors, Motor Vehicles, Valves, Engines, Aeronautical, J. McKioney, 415
Engines, Aeroplane, Gobron-Brilli6, Renault’s Eight-cylinder 50 H.P. Air-cooled, 70 H.P. Pipe, 315
Breakdowns, 270
Computation of Engine Horse power Rating Formulae, W. Worby Beaumont, 534
Engines and Machinery, Various, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 653

Gas, Oil, and Spirit Engines:

Agricultural Oil Motor, Marshall, 655
2^ H.P. Air-cooled Paraffin, C. Price and Son. 427
Blackstone Four-cylinder Vertical Marine Oil 653
Blast Furnace Gas Blowing, 1100 B.H.P.. at Barrow, Lille>hali Company, 134, 136 (Ttvo- page Supplement, February blK, 1909)
Diesel, C. Day, 278
Four-cylinder30H.P. Crossley Gas, for Launch, 3/6
Gas, for Accumulator Pump Driving, Sicgener Mascliiuenbau A.G., 88, 92
and Air Compressor Combined. Reavell,46 Heat Flow and Temperature, Distribution in the. Professor B. Hopkinson. 140,173 The Marine, 610
and Producer, Davey, Paxman, 655
and Producer Plant at Winnipeg Fire Station, Crossley, 656
vefTsus Steam Turbines for Generating Electric Power, L. Andrews and R. Porter, 188
Internal Combustion, for Marine Pronukion H, C. Anstey, 362 ’
Internal Combustion for
Bircham, 362, 378, 379
Lampless Oil, Fielding 7 H.P., 653
Marine, Motor Boat, at Olympia, Merc^d^s, Parsons, Tbornycroft, 336
Nurnberg. Lilleshall Company, 135 (Two-paye Stipplemeut, Febrttary, 1909)
Paraffin Oil, and Dynamo, Combined, Reavell, 348
Small Paraffin, W, H. Allen, 272
24 H.P. Suction Gas, Fielding and Platt, 653

Steam Engines:

Combined Steam, and Alternator, Robey and J. P. Hall, 200
Compound Semi-portable, ard Superheater, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 366, 370
Eiffht-cylinder Compound Sirgle-acling, New Lowca Engineering Company, 664
Marine, Mechanical Efficiency of, 77
Engine Power, Measurement of, by Torsionmeters, J. Menmuir, 186
Engines and Propellers. Efficiency of, J. H. Gibson, 106; (Le ter), 145
Ploughing Engine, John F«)wJer,
Reciprocating, Turbines 39 ; (Letter), 119
R 'b# y’s Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 655
Steam Engine Cylinders, Clearance in, 220
Steam Engires, Internal Lubrication of, T, C. Thomsen, 375
Traction, Clayton and ShuVlewo^th, 655
Twin-screw Eogines for Paso de Martin Garcia, Thornycroft, 528, 536

ESNEH Barrage, 78 (CorrecVon, 146) {Two- p(tg6 Sv.pple.'nie.nt, JaTnuary^^ndy 1909)
Evaporative Condenser Piano at Sjuchend, Led- ward, 418, 419. 422
Evolution of the Rotary Feed in Coal Elevators, Bennis, 564

Exhibitions and Shows :

Aero and Motor Boat, at Olympia, 313, 336 (Correction, 351)
Aeroplane, in Paris, 10, 35
Building, at Olympia, 416, 448
Imperial, The, 82
International Exhibitions, 368
Royal Agricultural, at Gloucester. 117, 653
Smoke Abatement, at Sheffield, 250

FAN, Mine, Tested, 430
Files—see Machine Tools
Filters, Candy, Reeves, &c., 81, 95, 120, 213
Filtration of Water—see Water Supply Fire-bricks, Standardisation of. 96
Fire Service Pumping Station at Winnipeg, 656 Flanging—see Machine Tools
Flour Muling Machinery, T. Robinson, 655
Plight of Birds, F. W. Lanchester, 198, 225; (Letters, 216. 240)
Fluids, Transmission of Heat between, R. M. Neilson, 157 ; (Letters, 216, 210)
Flying Machine*—see Aeronautics Forging, Drop, R. E. Bury, 277
French Marine, The Crisis in the, 493
Friction Clutch. Reddaway’s Murphy. 117
Fry, Lawford H., on Some Recent Tram Resistance Formu'te, 310, 335
Fuel, Electricity as a, 558
Fuel from Peat. Dr. M. Ekenherg, 549
Furnace, The Electric, and Electrical Process of Steel-Making, W. Rodenhauser, 548, 558, 617, 640
Plants, Sone American Blast, 34, 57 Practice, Charcoal Blast in the Ural, Professor M. A. PavJoff, 493
Furnaces, Crucible, Morgan Crucible Company, 36
Furnaces, Girod, Martin, H6roult, 548, 658, 617, 640
Furness’, Sir C.. Proposal for Co-partnerchip in a Coal Mine, 566

GANTRIES—see Ships
Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas Supply of Calcutta, 287
Gas Supply in 1908, 19
Gear Drive, Largn Worm, at Epsom Waterworks, D. Brown, 118
Gedve, N. G., on the Graving Docks of the World, 442, 443, 467 (Note,492)
Geography and Engineering, 399
Geometry, Ship, Sir G. Greenhill, 391
Germany, Naval Docks in, 451
Gibson, J. Hamilton, on Efficiency of Marine Engines and Propellers, 106 ; (Letter), 145
Girders—see Bridges
Giaz^brook, Dr., on Report of the Experimental Tank Committee, 388—also see Tank, The Yarrow
Grain Handling and Storing Appliances at the Mill wall Docks, Magnus Mowat, 266
Green, V. D., on Electric Weiding, 565
GreenhiH, Sir G., tn Ship Geometry, 391
Grossmann, Dr. J., on Corrosive Action of Magnesian and other Waters on Steam Boilers, 262
Guard for Wood Moulding Machines, A. Ransome, 613
Guns—see War Material

HALLIWELL, R. F., on the Utilisation of Exhaust Steam in Low-pressure Turbines, 107
Hammers—sec Machine Tools

Harbours and Waterways;

Antwerp, Port, 589
Baltimore Harbour Works, 104
Harbours and Waterways in 1908, 3 (Snpple- vtientf January \st. 1909)
Harbours U.S.A., in 1908. 78
London, Port Authority, 346
Port Sudan, 402
Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, 496, 600 Trieste Harbour and Austrian Lloyd Company, e03
Turkey, Railway and Harbour Work in, 393

HARLAND and Wolff’s Ships and Works, 626 (Four-page Szipplement and Sixteen'page Special Siippletnenlf Jane 18^^, 1909)
Hatfield, W. H., on the Chemical Physics Involved in the Decarburisation of Iron-Carbon Alloys, 522
Hatsohek’s Patent Case, 337
“"conneoHont 4^9 ®“ Earth
”^Bngite7’ Hopkinson - Gas
of, between Fluids, R. M, 240)^°°’ ®®° Boilers ; (Letters, 216,
Heck, J. H,, on a Mechanical Method for Deter- (Le“tt’e?),^577^^“* Propellers, 363, 510;
Professor J. B., on Vibrations of Use of a Dynamical Model in Deter- mining Elasticity, &o., 339, 349
J ^^34^*’ '’^®®‘‘S Piles and Tool Steel,
! O'Bauer, on Solubility of Steel in
bulpburic Acid, &o., 521
Hird, W. B., on Interpoles, 506
Pre,’e^t°n®- rV” Motors of the
Present Day and Unsolved Problems, 456 Hopkinson, -Professor B., on Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution in the Gas Engine, 140,
Hovgaard, Professor W., on Diverging Waves, Huntly, G. N., on Sulphur as a Cause of Corrosion in Steel, 416
Hydro-electric .Plant in U.S.A, in 1908, 78

INDIA, Railways—Railways ^“239’“240^"‘““® (‘^®“®rs), 159, 187,
Invention '! What is a New, 652
Ireland, Arterial Drainage in, 439

Iron and Steel:

American Competitirn in Iron and Steel 91 Bessemer Steels Heit Treatment, StJdy rf,
Professor McWilliam and E. J. Barnes, 549 Cast Iron and Steel, Experiments with Twist 309”326°®“‘’^‘® Boliakoff,
Chemical Physics Involved in the Daearbnrisa- 522* Alloys, W. H. Hatfield,
Coatings for Iron and Steel, Value of Physical lests in Selection and Testing, J. C. Smith,
Corrosion, 530 Concrete and, 628
Electrolytic Theory of, &o., W. H. Walker, 520, 530
of Iron and Steel, E. Crowe, 431 •
(Letter), 526
Wrought Iron Tubes, 418 ^^®^® B* Sconghton,
^'47 Production in Britain and America, Electric Furnace and Electrical Process of o^eel-making, W. Rodenhauser, 548, 558, 617, How Steel Dumping is Profitable, II4 India as an Iron Producer, 262 283 Iron, Pig, Prodnotion of, 208 Iron and Steel Returns, 531
Iron and Steel in U.S.A, in 1908 133 Irrigation and Drainage in U.S.A, in 1908 78 w, si
^^r7ctio'ii’*3'16)*^ Works at Shipley, 290 (Cor- Solubility of Steel in Sulphuric Acid, Influence Bauder® gTreatinent, &e., E. Heyn and 0.
E®‘Mehem Company versus Niles-Bement-Pond C’jmpaoy, 174
“D. Professor 26^0*^261^^’ ^59,
I Steel, New Process of Treating, Pearlite Com- pany, DOO
Tool Steel Sensation, 243, 289, 347 Steels, American Tariff and, 324 Steels, High-speed, Tests, 243, 289, 347— jfee also Testing

IRRIGATING Machine, Combined Tractor and Gwynne, 590 ’
Irrigation, Divi Pumping Project, Madras, (Supplement, January Dt, 1909)
Bidia, Madras Presidency,
P. F. Martin, 109

’"’K: Watt'
Joint for Copper Pipes, Leigh, 248
°° Metal

KASHMIR, 153
“ Renter” Weldless Chain Shackle, 361

LABORATORIES at Toronto University—iee j
Laboratory Muffle Furnace, 500

Labour News, Strikes, and Wages Questions:

Trades, 67, 70
Troubles and Foreign Competition, Contract, Freedom of, 372 1
Co-partnership, 16, 20, 27
*° ® 2°®^ Mine, Sir C. Furness, 566
and Unemployment, G. N. Barnes, 27; (Letter), 119 ' I

Eight Hours’ Day in Practice, 271
Labour Disputes in Germany. 190
Labour Exchanges, Mr. Winston Churchill’s Bill, 558, 561
Labour and Industries in 1908, 16
Patent Law, The New, 13
Railway, The, and the Arbitrator, 167
Time and Overtime. 662
Trade Waves and Unemployment, 219
Wages in the Engineering 'Trades, 107,142 Workmen’s Compensation Cases, Some Recent, 455

LACKIE, H. W., on Early Experiments in Electric Traction, 172
Ladle Carriage, Electro-hydraulic, Duisburgher Company, 523
Lamps, Arc, Improvement in. Union Electric Company, 172
Arc. Lowering Gear, London Electric Firm, 144
Metallic Filament, Barnes, 70 Lanchester, F. W., on The Flight cf Birds, 198, 225 ; (Letters). 216, 2l0
Lathes—see Machine Tools

Launches and Trial Trips:

48, 98, 124, 150, 176 278. 354, 406, 432, 462, 512, 538, 568, 694, 618, 672

Leaders:

Aeronautical Committee, 479
Aeroplanes, 296
Afforestation and Labour. National, 91 Agreement, A Notable, 67
American Competition in Iron and Steel, 91 Atlantic Liners, The Cost of, 684
Atlantic Steam Navigation, Early, 398 Battleships and Docking Accommodation, 529 and Floating Docks, 319 Primary Armament of, 193
Board of Trade Railway Conference, 636
Boiler Efficiency, 89, 165
Boiler, Water-tube, Status of, 477 Breakdowns, 269
Canadian Atlantic Passenger Trade, 451
Coal, The Efficiency of, 194
Trade Troubles and Foreign Competition, 663
The Weathering of, 584
Concession to Prejudice, 66
Condenser. Theory of the, 530
Contrary Turning Screws on a Common Axis, 371
Corrosion, 530
Cost of Steam Power on the Continent, 270 Crawford Derailment, 662
Determination of Quantities, 194
Dreadnoughts. 321
Eight Hours’ Day in Practice, 271
Electricity as a Fuel, 558
Engineers and Architects, 245
Engineers in the Royal Navy, 296
Extravagant Expenditure on Engineering Works, 503
Fitness in Invention, 139
Freedom of Contract, 372
French Naval Programme, 636
Gas Engine Temperatures, 140
Geography and Engineering, 399
Germany, Naval Docks in, 451
How Steel Dumping is Profitable, 114 Institution of Civil Engineers, 453 Irada, Wreck of the, 40
Junior Engineers in the United States, Pay of, 478
Labour Exchanges, 558 Laurentic—see Canadian Trade Local Government Board and Reinforced Concrete, 113
Locomotive Efficiency, 398
Locomotive, The Life of a, 635
Locomotives, Compound, 114 Four-cylinder, 583 Limit of Weight in, 166
London Railways and Tramway Competition, 140
London Tramways, 604
Marine Condensers, Air in, 244
Marine Gas Engine, 610
Milling Machines, 66
Naval Architects, Scientific Education of, 220 Navy Estimates, 295
Nicholson’s, Dr., Experiment—see Boiler Efficiency
Patent Revocation, 41
Patents, Compulsory Working of, 421 Port of London Authority, 346 Private Bill Legislation, 67
Propeller Blades, Pitting of, 397 Propellers in Tubes, 478
Queenboro Bridge, Defence cf, 609 Railway and the Arbitrator, Toe, 167
Bill, Withdrawal, 452 Combinations and ]\lanufacturers, 244 Outlook for 1909, 41
Railways, Electrification of, Mr. Aspinah’s Presidential Address, 604
Responsibility, A Question of, 424
Safety Valves, 320
Scientific Dogma, Tyranny of, 557 Scottish Railways and the Traders, 115 South American Navies, Status of, 90 Steam Engine Cylinders, Clearance in, 220 Submarine Mino Layers, 346
Time and Overtime, 662
Ton Miles, 661
Tool Steel Sensation, 243
Toothed Wheels and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 610
Torsional Vibrations and Shaft Horse-power, 269
Trade in 1908, 13
Trade Waves and Unemployment, 219
Turbine Propellers, 65
Turbines, Cruising, 166
Turbines vei'sus Reciprocating Engines, 39 Warship Types, 345, 423
Water Hammer, 40
Yarrow Tank, 371

Legal Intelligence:

Blakeley, Wm., v. T. Aitken, Patent Appeal Case, 515
British Liquid Air Company. Limited, v. British Oxygen Company, Lim ted, 368
Jackson Romford Rural District Council, 324
Musgrave, J., and Sons, Limited, v. Mayor, ! &o., of Bradford, 666
Wilkinson, G., v. Hamilton and McMasters, Patent Appeal Case, 566

LEGISLATION, Private Bill, 67

Letters From Our Own Correspondents

Australian Notes, 50, 202, 540, 594, 672 England, North of, 23, 49, 73, 97, 123, 176, 203, 227, 253, 279, 303, 329, 365, oo^, 407, 433, 461, 487, 513, 539, 567, 693, 619, 643. 671
Germany, France, Belgium, &o., Notes from, 26, 60, 76, 99, 125, 151, 177, 205, 229, 254, 281, 305, 331, 357, 383, 409, 435, 463, 489, 615, 541, 569, 594, 620, 644, 672
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and other Districts, 22, 48, 73, 96, 122, 148, 174. 203, 227, 262, 279, 302, 329, 355, 381, 407, 433, 461, 486, 513, 539, 567, 593, 618, 643, 670
Lancashire, Notes from, 22, 48, 73, 96, 122, 149, 175, 203, 227, 252, 279, 302, 329, 355, 38 L, 407, 433, 461, 486, 513, 539, 567, 593, 618, 643, 670
Scotland. Notes from, 23, 49, 74, 97, 123, 160, 175, 204, 228, 253, 280, 303, 330, 356, 382, 408, 434, 462, 487, 614, 540, 567, 593, 619, 644, 671
Sheffield District, 23. 49, 73, 97, 123, 149, 175, 203, 227, 252, 279, 303, 329, 355, 381, 407, 433, 461,487, 613, 539, 567, 593, 619, 643, 671
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 124, 150, 176, 204, 228, 253, 356, 382, 408, 434, 462, 488, 594, 6z0, 644, 672

Letters to the Editor :

Armoured Concrete Floating Docks, T. Rich. 629
Belt Drive, F. V. L. Mathias, 483
Boiler Efficiency, S. V. Cooke, 119; J. G. Hudson, 119 ; J. T. Nicolson, 144, 187 ; N.
C. , 159 ; G. Halliday, 159 ; Prior Lien, 159 ; W. S. Hide, 216
Central European Time in Great Britain, C. R. King, 275
Computation of Engine Horse-power Rating Formulas, W. Worby Beaumont, 563
Concrete Chimney, J. B. Spaulding, 384 Condenser, Theory of the, R. M, Neilson, 563 Co-partnership and Trade Unions, C. Carpenter, 119
Corrosion, W, Whitfield, 526
Corrosion of Propeller Blades, Superintending Engineer, 429
Crane, 150-Tons Floating, H., 609
Curzon-street Station, Birmingham, C. E. Stretton, 509
Depreciation of Machinery, A. W. Price, 10 Design of Arches, E. R. T. Berggren, 428 Dust in Card Rooms, W. N, Booth, 159 Early Railway History and Fallacy, benex, 86 Early Steam Cranes and Hoists, Geo. Russeil, 614
Engine, Hydrocarbon, J. M. Meyer, 384
Engineer Officers, Royal Navy, Inquirer, 351; Sorties, 483
Etgineers and the Territorials, Air Line, 615 Enlarging the Scope of an Automatic, H.
Maplethorpe, 169
Expansion Curve of Dry Saturated Steam, C. H., 629
Extravagant Expenditure on Engineering Works, Resident Engiueer, 577
Flight, W. J. Blaxton, 216; L. H. Nicholson, 240
Haystack Boiler, An Old, H. Maplethorpe, 677 Heat Transmission—566 Boiler Efficiency, also Transmission of Heat between Fiuids
Hennebique Ferro-Concrete Piles, L. G. Mon- chel and Partners, Ltd., 351
Huskisson, Death of. Agenoria, 45; Clement E. Stretton, 61; X,, 10
lubiitution of Civil Engineers and Reform, Associate Member, 509 ; J. Forrest Brunton. 667
Invention and our Patent Laws—see Patents and Unemployment
Involute Gear Standards, P. V. Vernon, 562 Latent and Sensible Heat, F. B. Aspinall, 429, 509, 563, 628; G. B. D., 216, 275, 325, 377, 483, 667 ; L. H. G. Dines, 615 ; C. H., 577 ; A. M., 275 ; C. C. Walker, 240, 292, 377, William Walker, 351, 429
Liverpool and Manchester Engines, Clement E. Stretton, 10, 45, 62
Locomotive Economy, Argus, 187, 275; F. W.
Brewer, 46, 145, 239, 326, 629; C. W. Dauncey, 86, 239, 292, 429, 483, 561, 629; F, C. D., 526; Diamond, 46, 417; Lawford H. Fry, 561; C. R. King, 145, 292; Railway, 377; J. Riekie, 158, 187, 275, 325, 457, 483; w’ Schmidt, 86, 275; Spectator, 457, 509, 577, 629
Efficiency, Practice (British), Superheating, Four-cyiiuder Express, Simple V, Compound, Superheater and Compound, Superheatings. Compound, and Weight Limits (Compound}--see Locomotive Economy
Life of the, J, E. Darbishire, 667 Wheels—see Wheels
Marine Engine, Present Status of the, N. G. Anglesea, 563 ; John S. Chapman, 416, 526, 615—see Marine Propellers — also Turbines
Engines and Propellers, Efficiency of, Superintending Engineer, 145
Propellers, Slip in, H. U. B., 614: T. S. Cockrill, 324, 483, 576, 667 ; J. Gray, 292; Helix, 274, 325; Julius, 351; W. Preidel, 292. 417. 526, 614 ; A. R., 615 ; X., 508, 562,
Lettons to the Editor (con<i?iu€d):
Motor Car Trade, New Engine (Motor) Company, Limited, J. C. Mort, 62; An Engineer, 86
Naval Strength, Comparison of, Magne Hcgg- stad, 187
Papers and Discussion, Anticipation, 3ol; J. Forrest Brunton, 482 ; L. A. Legros, 482; Lover of Truth, 417 ; Lumen, 403; S^nex, 403 ; Standish, W., 403; Would-be Debater, 351
Patoats, Abolition of, C. H. Beale, 2l0 ; Industrial Unit, 240; C. F. D. Marshall, 216; J. S. Warner, 187
Patents and Unemployment, F. Lanksy, 159 ; R. R. 0., 239
Plumbers and Engineers, H. B. Watt, 429
Propellers in Tuoes—see Turbines, Marine ST earn
Public Works Departments in Australia, C, 0, Burge, 615 ; Statist 667
Rolling Rings, J. S, Allen, 10
Rolling of Steamships, Cjclops, 44; T. W. Sheppard, 62
Ships, Longitudinally Framed, J. E. Scott, 417 Sibdria, Eascern, Russian Engineer, 377 Sjogren Shot Guns, Cogswell and Harrison, Limited, 326
Steamships, Effective Horse-power Measurements in, Tolver Preston, 187 ; C. F. D. Marshall, 216
Steel Dumping, How it is Profitable, Scrutator, 159
Steeb, High-speed, Grinding, H, B, Buckle, 326; Eogineer, 325
Super - Dreadnoughts, Soper - Extra - Double Dreadnought, 562
Thrust Meters, J. S. Dines, 677
Tioal Power, A. F. Bruce. 240; G. Holland, 240 ; W. 0. Horsnaiil, 292 ; J. H. Knight, 240
Torpedoes, Firing Means for, C. Davis, 384 Transmission of Heat—see Boiler Efficiency Transmission of Heat between Fluids, R, M.
Neilson, 240 ; N. V. Treeby, 216
Turbines, Marine Steam, S. W. Barnaby, 616 ; J. H. Gibson, 561—see Marine Engines—also Marine Proptllers
Turbines versus Reciprocating Engines, Me’ins and Pfenninger, 119
Tarret Lathe, Work that Pays on the, H. Maplethorp e, 62
Valves, Safety, J. H. Gibson, 377
War-office Light Tractor Trials, New Lowca Engineering Company, 276
Waste of Water and Fuel, Practice, 626, 629; N. Watkins, 457, 508, 577
Water Hammer, Aiton and Co., 240; F. B. Aspinall, 86 ; Engineer • in - Charge, 119 ; MoGuffie, 119
Waves and the Conservation of Energy, F. N. Maude, 240
Wheel Notation, Arcanum, 119 ; F. W. Brewer, 159 ; A. M. Bushell, 216 ; C. W. Dauncey, 145
Widening of Gauge on Curves, H. E. G., 457; Geo. T. Pardoe, 609
Wind Power, E. L. Burne, 457, 609; J. H. Knight, 377 ; J. S. Learning, 483; H. M. Sayers, 377
Wind Velocity, E. H. K., 403

LEWIS, R. A., on The Diameter and Length of Bosses, 637
Lighting Secs for Boats at Olympia, 336
Line-throwing Appliances for Use on Ships, Board of Trade Report, 406

Literature: Reviews:

Alloys and their Industrial Applications, E. F. Law, 195, 215
Baumaschinen, Die, F. Lincke, 373
Brassey’s Naval Annual for 1909, 643
Chadwick Lectures, W. D. Scott-Moncrieff, 505
Coal Buyers, Hints to, C. E. Evans, 399, 479
Cold, Mechanical Production of, J. A. Ewing, 67
Dynamics, Notes on, Sir G. Greenhill, 347, 424
Heavy Electrical Engineering, H. M. Hobart, 271
Hutte: Des Ingenieur’s Taschenbuch, Part II., 167
Hutte: Des Ingenieur’s Taschenbuch, Part HI., till
Hydraulics and its Applications, A. H. Gibson, 373
Internal Combustion Engine, The, H. E. Wim- peris, 195, 321
Locomotive, Risultati Delle Prove di Trazione Esequiti, &c., 195, 347
Mechanical Eogineering for Beginners, R. S. M’Laren, 196
Metalliferous Waste, Systematic Treatment of, L. Parry, 425
Minerals, The Dressing of, Henry Louis, 425, 631
Railway Track and Track Work, E. E. R. Tratman, 644
Refrigeration, An Elementary Text-book, J, W. Anderson, 41
Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water Power, and Domestic Water Supply, J. D. Schuyler, 115
Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft, Jahrbuch der, 425
Schiffschraube, Die, und ihre Wirkung auf das Wasser, Oswald Flamm, 605, 611
Screw Propeller, A. E. Seaton, 505, 585

Literature: Short Notices:

Aerodynamics, Practical: Part I., Major B, Baden-Powell, 644
Ainsley’s Engineers’ Manual of the Local Marine Board Examinations, 637
Alternating Current, Practical, C. F. Smith, 611
Antimony, Chung Yu Wang, 637
Australasia, The Trade and Industry cf, B. H, Morgan, 115
Boiler Feed Water, The Series, F. A.
Anderson, 373
Boilers, Steam, C. H. Peab.idy and E. F. Miller, 221
Building Materials, The Chemistry and Physics of, A. E. Munby, 544
Calculation of Change Wheels for Screw-cutting on Lathes, D. De Vries, 631
Carburetters and Carburation, D. Leechman, 631
Short Notices {continued) :
Chemical Industry on the Continent, H. Baron, 611
City of London Directory, 1909, 644 Collieries, Electrical Equipment of, W. G. Dnncan and D. Penman, 196
Commercial Engineers’ Pocket-book: Electricity Supply, F. H. Davies, 544
Dictionary Autotechnic, R. Schmidt, 41 Dustless Roads and Tar Macadam, J. W. Smith, 644
Earth Slopes, Retaining Walls and Dams, Graphical Determination of, C. Prelini, 479 Electrical Cables and Networks, Theory of, Alexander Russell, 321
Directory, The Universal, J. A. Berly’s, 271
Trades Directory and Handbook, 1909, 644
Electricity in Factories and Workshops, A. P. Haslam, 425
Electro-Chemical Centres, Some, J, N. Priog, 167
Engineer’s Year-Book of Engineering Formula;, H. R. Kempe, 373
English-Russian and Russian-English Engineering Dictionary, Leo Meycliar, 544
Export Merchant Shippers, 1S09, Carter Publishing Company, 585
Fleet Annual ana Naval Year-book, 1909, L. Yexley, 271
Force of the Wind, H. Chatley, 637
Foundry Practice, J. M. Tate and M. O. Stone, 322
Four-cylinder Petrol Engine, Notes on and Drawings of a, H. J. Spooner, 167
Fowler’s Mechanics’ and Machinists’ Pocketbook and Diary, 1909, 67
Gas Engine, C. P, Poole, 453
Heat Energy and Fuels, Harms v. Juptner, 425
Hydrographical Surveying, Sir W. J, L. Wharton, 271
Internal Combustion Engines, R. C. Carpenter and H. Diederichs, 167
Jack’s Reference Book for Home and Office, 167
Japanese Patents, H. S. B. Brindley, 322 Kelly’s Directory of Engineers, Iron and Metal Trades, &c., 611
Kelly’s Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1909, 544 Laboratory Experiments in Metallurgy, A, Sauveur and H. M. Boylston, 426
La Forme du Lit des Rivieres h Fond Mobile, L. Fargue, 347, 399
Lamps, Electric, Maurice Solomon, 425
Local Government Annual and Official Directory, S. Edgecumbe Rogers, 322
Locomotive and Carriage Officers in India,
Directory and Railway List, 531 Malleable Cast Iron, S. J. Parsons, 611 Marine Engineering, A. N. Somerscales, 425 Mercantile Year-book and Directory of Exporters, 1909, 479
Millwrighting, J. F. Hobart, 637 Mining and Metallurgical Industries of Canada, Report, 322
Modern Electric Practice, Magnus Maclean, 611
Munro and Jamieson’s Pocket-book of Electrical Rules and Tables, J. Munro and A. Jamieson, 544
Navy League Annual, 1908-9, Alan H. Bur- goyne, 195
Oil Slotors and their Users, A Manual of, G. Lieckfeld, 167
Paper, The Manufacture of, R. W. Sindall (Westminster Series), 531
Permanent Way Diagiams, F. H. Frere, 425 Petrol Air Gas, Henry O’Connor, 453 Photc graphic Optics and Colour Photography, G. Lindley Johnson, 271
Pioneering, F. Shelford, 611 Post-office London Directory, 115 Power Handoooks, H. E. Collins, 41
Power Handbooks: Boilers, H. E. Collins, 271 Quebec Bridge Inquiry, Royal Commission Report, 322
Railroad Construction, W. L. Webb, 41 Railway Year-book for 1909, 637 Refrigerating Machines, G. T. Voorhees, 453 Reid’s Handy Colliery Guide for Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, 614
Road Congress, Paris, 1908, The First International, G, M. Harris and H. T. Wakelam, 115
Roads and Pavements, A Text-book on, F. P. Spalding, 221
Science Year-book and Diary for 1909, Baden- Powell, 167
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1909, 321
Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, and Rope Transmission, H. E. Collins, 271
Sheet and Plate Metal Work, Practical, E. A. Atkins, 41
Skipping E, R, Jones, 544
Ships, The Resistance and PropuLion of, W. F. Durand, 585
Slide-rule, Handbook for Use of the, B. J, Hall, 425
Small Tools, Handbook of, Erik Oberg, 322 Spon’s Workshop Receipts, 425 Steam-Eiectric Power Plants, F. Koester, 221 Steam Plants, Economy Factor in, G. W. Hawkins, 425
Submarine Cable Laying and Repairing, H. D. Wilkinson, 115
Suction Gas Plants, Professor C. A. Smith, 321
Theodolite Surveying and Levelling, J. Park, 41
To and Fro in London, 479
Transmission Calculations, L. W. Rosenthal, 425
Turbine, The Marine Steam, J. W. Sothern, 544
Turbine, The Steam, J. A, Moyer, 167 Vacuum Automatic Brake, Notes on the, 463 Valve Setting, H. E. Collins, 221 Verbrenunngsvorgange in den Feuerungen und der Verbundzugmesser, A. Dosch, 399 Water Analysis, Industrial, Laboratory Notes on, Ellen H. Richards, 196
Water Hammer in Hydraulic Pipe Lines, A. H. Gibson, 68
Waterways, Artificial and Commercial Development, A. B. Hepburn, 321
Short Notices {continued):
Welding and Cutting Metals by Aid of Cases or Electricity, F. A. Groth, 544 ^ColVnan® 531“^®““**°'*

Literature: Books Received:

Aerial Warfare, R. P. Hearne, 68 Anglo-American Club, Freiberg, 195 pL Sp7e?ern
nu® Charles Bright, 167
"^po^ sTl Commerce, Paris, Aunual BoildiDg Inspection Manual of, W R Purchase, 68
Capital and Investments, 373
Carries by Railway, H. W. Disney, 373 Chandieres Marints et Acoessoires, <fec., L Jaach and A. Masm6jean, 611
Coal Mines after Explosions and Fires, Rules for^covenng, W. E. Carforth, 605
Coal Mining, Practical, W. S. Bmlton. 195 Companies I Consolidation) Act, 1908, F. Evansand and H H. King, 373
Cuhen District Council Publication, 505 Dosch®637 Wartung der, A.
Dampftiirbinentheorie, Zur, W. Denillin, 3/3 Departooental Decisions by the Local Goveru- ment Board, Board of Education, &?., S E Rogers, 195 »
’^“^'^'-““'?rent Dynamo Epctric Machinery, C. E. Ashford and E. W, K-Joopson, C8 HawklnJ^sJ^*'
IK" vS‘ir373“"
Practice of, W. S. Ibbetson, 425
Elektrische, D.e, P. Scharlott, 115
^^oydfog Machinists’ Handbook, H. A. ^t4--ti:37" S.
Manufacture of, O. Guttman, Bou::;715 Maxim"^ S.
’°19M, '115 Engineers’ Pocket-book,
Gas Engine, The, Forrest R. Jones 373 Gasworks Directory and Statistics for 1908-9, ^raih^373 E'senbabnbaues, W. Kocken- ^Dgenieurwissenschaften, F. Hennebique Ferro-concrete, Theory and Pra-- I tice, L. G. Mouchel, 611
^HaTn“19?‘’^®"’ ® Williams and A.
^“F77P r Eoss following
Fire, Gautier de Ste. Croix, 425 ®
mTnf505"“'’ *“
^373® **’® World, 1903,
Kiikoudbright, Burgh Council, 531
Eslating to Custom and the Usages of Trades, R. W. Aske, 611
Lightning and the Churches, A. Hands 425 sT°w,s;"S^
Lockwood’s Builders’ and Contractors’ P,-:o= Book, 1909, F. T. W. Miller7195
Eow Temperature liesearca at the Royal In- [ stitutira. Charcoal Vacuum Septenate, Pro- fessor H. E. Armstrong, 531
Luftung und Entstaubung, K. H. Sohwaneoke, Maschinenbaues, Die Matorialen des. Professor A. V. Lachemair, 637
^eMk°195^PP*'^'^’ Engineers, E. L. Han- Metallurgy, Laboratory Experiments in A Sauveur and H. M. BoyLton, 195
Model Maker, The Young, 399
National Physical Laboratory, Cjllectsd Researches, Vol. V., 505 ate
Physical Laboratory, Rsport, 1908,
“New Express” Percentage, Discount, &c., Reckoner, 3/3 '
Norway, Touts in, F. Beyer, 531
Forecasting the Weather, Meteorology without Instruments, D W Horner, 611 • .
^7909'^115^°®’“®®'^ Pocket-book and Diary, Public Schools Year-book, 1909, 373 Radio-Activity and Geology, J. Joly, 611 Railway Rates, J, Horrocks, 373 Railways and the Nation. W. Bolland 611 Ra^g Appeals, Reports of, E. M. konstom. Reinforced Couerete Beams, Simpli6ed Methods of Calculating, W. N, Twelvetrees, 611 Kmnforced Concrete Cojstruotion, W. Noble Twelvetrees, 611 ’
S*’®'’, Eort of London, Fluvius, 115
Royal Navy List and Navy Recorder, 195 banitary Inspections, Guide to, W. P. Gerhard 195 ’
Sanitation and Sanitary Engineering. W P Gerhard, 637 ® ‘
^hnellbahn-System, Ein Neues, A. Soherl, 611 Schutz der Htchspannungsanlagen gegen Blitz und Ueberspanuungen, Herru Zipp, 637 Schoolmasters’ Year-book and Directory, 1909 373 ’ ’
Sohomsteinbau, Der, Alfons Putmans. 115 S.ing, The, W. L. Jordan, 115 Spanish and English Technical Terms. R D Monteverde, 347 Statics, L. J. Johnson, 195 Statik des Kranbaues, Die, W. L. Andree, 115
Books Received
Steam and Steam Engines, A Text-book of, Professor A. Jamieson, 195
Steam Engine and other Prime Movers, A
Manual of the, Professor Rankine, 195
Steel Construction, John Dicks Press, 505 Taschenbuch der KriegsHotten, 1909, B. Weyer, 115
Taschenbuch fur Schiffsingenieure und See- moschinisten, E. Ludwig and E. Linder, 373 Technical and Art Schools and Colleges of the
United Kingdom, 399
Tool Work, Accurate, C. L. Goodrich and F. A. Stanley, 195
Unites Electriques, Le Comte de Baillehache, 115
University of London ; Chadwick Lectures, W. D. Scott-Moncrieff, 399
Wasserbau, Der, M. Scrukel, 115
Water Pipe and Sewer Discharge Diagrams,
F. C. Ekin, 611
Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 to 1904, J. D. Fletcher, 115
Weltschiffahrt, Die Technik der. Dr. Ing. E. Foerster, 637
Willing’s Press Guide, 373
Wilson’s Equivalents of English Pounds in
Kilogrammes and of Kilogrammes in English Pounds, 116
Wireless Telegraphy, A Handbook of, J. E. E. Murray, 373

LLOYD’S Register—see Ships London, Main Drainage of, M. Fitzmaurice, 550 Lubrication, Internal, of Steam Engines, T. C. Thomsen, 375
Lysler, A. G., and W. Boyd, on Suction Dredger Leviathan, 364 171

McBRIDE, on the Theory of Steam Condensers, 530

Machine Tools:

Bar-cutting Machine, Butler and Company, 665 Bending Machines, Angle-iron, Midgley and Sutcliffe, 120
Boring and Turning Mill, Duplex Horizontal, Webster, 400, 401
Drillioff Electric Motors, Attachment for, H. W. Kearns, 173
Drilling Machine, Duplex Four-spindle Webster, 401, 402
Drills, Twist, Archdale’s Machine for Testing, 590
Dinis, Twist, Experiments with, on Cast Iron and Steel, Dempster Smith and R. Poliakoff, 309, 326
Files and Tool Steel, Testing, Edward G. Herbert, 349
Flanging Press, 600-Ton, H. Berry, 173
Flanging Press, Large Hydraulic, A. Borsig, 21 Hammer, Duplex Compound Pneumatic, Peter Pilkington, 172
Hammer, Pneumatic, Converted, Pilkington, 660
Lathe, 8Jin., with All-gear Head, Salmond and Co., 248, 249
Duplex Horizontal, Webster and Bennett, 400, 401
Hollow Spindle Chasing, Holbrcok, 251 Large Screw-cutting, Cunliffe and Croom, 484
102in. Turbine Rotor, Muir, 498 Machine for Drilling Rails and Driving Screw Spikes, Jacobs, 668
Machine Tools at Sheet Iron Tank Works, 290 Milling Machine Tests, P. V. Vernon, ^84 Milling Machines, Mr. De Leeuw’s Paper, 66 Planer, Bridge Turntable, Decatur Bridge Company, 666
Plano-milling Machine, Large, Kendall and Gent, 68
Shaping Machine, H. W. Kearns, 454

MACHINERY in the United States in 1908, 133 Machinery Users’ Association, 636
McKinney, J,, on Aeronautical Engines, 415 MeWihiam, Profe&sor, and E. J. Barnes, on Heat Treatment Study of Bessemer Steels, 649
Maintenance and Defect Clauses, 80,102
Maps—see Illustrations, Subjects
Marine Condensers—see Condensers
Engine Builders, An Amalgamation, 20 Propulsion—see Ships
Turbines—see Turbines
Martin, P. F., on Irrigation Works in India, 109
Martin, P. F., on Light Railways in India, 411, 411
Mason, Rear-Admiral, Report on United States Ordnance, 29
Match-drying Machine, Tomlinson’s, 348
Measuring Boxes at Berlin Testing Establishment, 81
Mechanical Efficiency of Marine Engines, 77 Engineering—see Engineering Flight—see Aeronautics
Method for Determining the Thrust of Propellers, J, H. Heck, 363
Mediterranean, French Torpedo Battery near Hyeres, 412
Mellin, on Articulated Compound Locomotives, 47
Menmuir, J., on Measurement of Marine Engine Power by Torsionmeters, 186
Metal Statistics, Tne World’s, 642
Mill, Hamilton Tube, 416
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mills, Tidal, W. C. Horsnaill, 214, 233; (Letters), 240

Mines and Mining News:

Coal Mines—see Coal
Compressed-air Locomotives for Underground Haulage, 32
Drainage Adits for Metal Mines, J. Philip Jones, 156
Fan Testing, 430
Mines and Metallurgy in the United States in 1908, 133
Transporter for Mining Works, A, R, Gros- smith, 638
Yorkshire Miners’ Aesociation, 240

MOTOR Boats at Olympia, 316, 336

Motor Vehicles and all Matters Relating thereto:

See also Tractors and Wagons
Computation of Engine Horse-power Rating Formula). W. Worby Beaumont, 534 (Correction, 563)
Leyland Motor Vehicles at Royal Agricultural Show, 655
Motor Cars in the Austrian Postal Service, 33 Road Motors of the Present Day and Un- Folved Problems, Col. H. C. L. Holden, 456
Trackless Trolley Cars versus Motor Omnibuses, 83
Wheel. Spring, Hon. R. C. Parsons’ “Panflex,” 404

MOWAT, M., on Grain Handling and Storing Appliances at the Mill wall Docks, 266
Mylan, N. F., on Electrification of Stebm-driven Non-reversing Rolling Mills, 497

NATIONAL Physical Laboratory and Bushy Tank —see Tank, the Yarrow

Naval Engineer Appointments:

22, 99, 126, 176, 228, 281, 328, 432, 462, 488, 540, 618, 672 ’

NEILSON, R. M.. on Transmission of Heat between Fluids. 157 ; (Letier?, 216, 210)
York Times Building. C. T. Purdy, 420 Nicolson, Dr., on Boiler Efficiency—see Boilers Nut-locking Device, New Sultan Engineering Company, 560

Obituary:

OMNIBUSES, Motor—see Motor Vehicles Ordnance—see War Material
Ore Shipping Piers on the American Lakes, 560

PACKING, Improved, and Piston Ring, Lancaster and Tonge, Limited, 190, 480
Pads, Carriage and Foundation, Mitchell’s, 200 Paper Mill, Electrically Driven, Felling Shore, 605 Paris Experimental Tank, 340
Patent Agents, Chartered Institute, Dinner, 238 Case, An Important, 337
Case, Emil Weber; Gammeter-Osborn, 554 Cases—see Legal Intelligence Law, Compulsory Working, 554 Law, Workh g cf the New, 13, 16, 424 Revocation, 41
Patents, Report of the Comptroller-General, 454

Patents, Selected American:

Atomising and Spraying Oily Materials, Method and Apparatus for, H. 0. Brandt, 358
Barometric Condenser, A. H. Helander, 178 Blast Furnace, J. E. Johnson, 126
Blast Furnaces, Apparatus for Charging. &c.. W. C. Mitchell, 206
Blasting Charges, Machine for Fixing, 0. F. Malcolm, 358
Boilers, Stay-bolt for, J. Deneal, 256
Boilers, Steam, Consti notion of, A. W. Metcalfe and J. S. D. Shanks, 152
Breech-loading Ordnance, A. T, Dawson and
G. T. Buckham, 674
Car Wheels, Manufacture cf, C. E. Wolle, 646
Cement Clinker, Process of and Apparatus for Making, C. Ellis, 256
Centrifugal Fan and Pump, G. M. Capell, 306 Coke Oven, J. Armstrong, 516
Combustion Head for Hydro-carbon Engines, F. L. Nichols, 256
Compressor, Vacuum Pump, &c., F. J, Rochow, 622 ’
Condenser, G. M. Newhall, 230
Plant, R. D. Tomlinson, 596 Surface, J. F. M. Patitz, 570
Contact-maker, F. E. Kinsman, 256
Converting Liquid Hydro-carbons into Gas or Vapour, Method of and Apparatus for. E. B. Benham, 622 '
Cutter-chain, R. E. Noble, 646
Cylinder Relief and Drainage Device, F. C. Miller, 256
Dynamo-electric Machine, B. A. Behrend, 230 W. F. Dawson, 622 J. E. Noeggeratb, 622
Dynamo-Electric Machines, Means for Starting, W. D. Pomeroy, 206
Ejector, F. S. Miller, 646
Electric Furnaces, Method of Operating, P. L. T. Hdroult, 358
Electric Locomotives, Spring and Equaliser System for, W. E. Woodard, 542
Engine-starting Device, S. Dillon, 570
Engine Valve, J. Rothchild, 436
Exhaust Steam, System for Utilising, Y. Wadagaki, 332
Feed-water Purifier, J. Patten, 516
Fire-box, Sectional, F. W. Shupert and H. W. Jacobs, 464
Flue Dust in Blast Furnaces, Method of Precipitation and Prevention, R. W. H. Atcherson and W. Siddall, 332
Forging Metal, Method and Apparatus, E. E. Stick, 410
Gas Engine, H. Sohnlein, 52 from Coal, Process of Manufacturing, B.
Thiemich, 332
Prieess of Manufacturing, W. H. Cove, 674
Process of Making, H. L. Doherty, 282 Turbine Engine, A. W. H. Griepe, 256
Gauge Glass Cock, R. M. Shad and 6. N. Shad, 178
Generator, Alternating-current High-frequency, E. F. Alexanderfeon, 76
Grain Cleaner, Centrifugal, F. Muller, 436 Gun-carriage, N. Koch, 282
Guns, Recoil, Pneumatic Recuperator for, N, Koch, 26
Hopper Dredgers and Barges, Discharge Door of, F. Lobnitz, 52
Hydrocarbons, Process rf Obtaining Power from, P. D. Johnson. 52
Hydro-Extractors, H. Diamanti and N. Beuf, 26
Insulating High Voltage Transmission Lines, W. T. Goddard, 282
Internal Combustion Engine, C. W. Weiss, 178 Jet Condenser, W. B. Potter, 282
Ladle, Blast Furnace S*ae, J, H. Dewhurst, 52 Lever Mechanism for Throttle Valves, J. F. Murphy, 126
Liquid Air. Art or Process of Producirg, J, F, Place, 516
Locomotive, Articulated, S. M. Vauclaio, 490 Mechanical Production of High Vacuums, J. Zeitlin. KO
Motor, A. E. Guy, 206
Muffler Cut-out Mechanism, L, S. Chadwick, 674
Pig Iron and Steel, Process of Meltirg, H. A. Evans, 306
Pneumatic Apparatus for Discharging Furnaces, S. E. Hitt, 464
Pneumatic Tools, Water-spraying Device for, A, H. Taylor, 52
Power-generating System, E. Rosenberg and E. W. Mix, 76
Press for Manufacture of Hollow Ingots, H. Harrnet. 646
Printing Plates, Metallic, Method of Making, J. 0. de Wolf, 26
projectile, Capped, A. J. Soden. 670
Pumps, Liquid Packing for, J, V. 0. Palm, 306
Refrigerating Plants, Regulating Device for, 0. Levilly, 52
Riveting Machine, G. Ermel, 306
Rock Drill, C. Jackson, 464
Sand-papering Hand Plane, C. Delsee, 464
Sea Wall, Breakwater and Similar Structure, W. Smith, 52
Sectional Gear, R. E. Porter, 358
Sheet Metal Pulley, J. E. Zimmermann, 178 Silicon, Method of Producing, H. N. Potter, 152
Silicon, Production of, G. 0. Seward, 436
Spark Plug, F. Baril, 542
Steam Separator and Heater, G. R. Sisterson, 516
Subaqueous Rock-breaker, B. H. Coffey, 596 Superheater Boiler, J. E, Bell, 206
Tubes, Manufacture of, 0. Briede, 368 Turbine, H. F. Fullagar, 622 C. SemaJe, 596
Elastic Fluid, C. G. Curtis, 490, 622 Elastic Fluid, B. Ljungstrom, 126
Turbines, Steam, Apparatus for Governing, H. F. Fullagar, 332
Turbines, Steam, Condensing Apparatus for, G. Huguenin, 100
Vacuum Pump, C. L. Heiser, 230
Valve, Balanced Proportioning, for Explosive Engines, W. A. Reeves and E. R. Reeves, 162
Gear, H. Sanderson, 410
Motion for Gas Motors, G. Mees, 646
Vehicle for Receiving a Portable Gnu, M. Dreger, 256
Waste Water Straining Device, 0. Schumann, 410
"Wrench, E. Reynolds, 464

Patent Specifications, British:

Batteries and Accumulators, 410
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 383 Cranes and Conveyors, 76,100.282,306 331,410 Dynamos and Motors, 25, 61, 75. 125. 151, 177, 205, 229, 255, 305. 367, 384,' 435, 463, 464, 490. 515. 641, 570, 595, 645. 673
Gas Producers, 51, 151, 178, 206, 331, 409
Internal Combustion Engines, 256, 281, 331, 383, 489, 515, 541, 670, 695, 621, 645, 673
Lighting and Heating, 51, 99, 230, 409, 490, 570
Locomotives, 25
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 52, 76, 125,230, 282, 358, 409, 464, 516, 542, 696, 616, 674
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 229, 282, 332
Mines and Metals, 26, 100, 206, 256, 2S2, 464
Miscellaneous. 52, 76, 126, 230, 306, 332, 358, 410, 642, 646, 674
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 26, 178, 256, 281,
384, 409, 436, 542, 622, 646
Ordnance and Armour, 410, 436
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 76, 205, 305, 615, 541, 646, 673
Ships and Boats, 26, 152, 178, 306, 332, 367
Steam Engines, 99, 205, 435, 569, 621
Steam Generators, 61, 75, 99, 126, 151, 177, 205, 229, 255, 281. 306, 331, 357, 383. 435, 463. 489, 515, 541, 669, 596, 621, 645. 673 Switch Gear, 25, 162, 206, 596, 621
Telegraphs and Telephones, 206, 332, 357, 436, 516, 596
Tramways and Railways, 126,152, 229, 358, 409, 464, 542, 622
Transformers, 25, 256, 616, 670
Transmission and Power, 99, 126, 177, 670, 621 Turbine Machinery, 151, 255, 331, 383, 463,490, 595, 673

PAVLOFF, Professor, on Charcoal Blast-furnace Practice in the Ural, 493
Pearlite Process for Steel, 668
Peat—see. Fuel
Personal and Business Announcements, 24, 60, 74, 98, 124. 150, 176, 204, 228, 254.280, 304, 382, 408, 463, 488, 614, 540, 594, 620, 644, 672
Photometric Units, 623
Piers, Ore Shipping, on the Aroeriean Lakes, 660 Pile Driver, Steam, J. Garvie, 603
Pile-Raising Machine, 40-Roller, Tomlinson’s, 274
Pipes, Copper, Improved Coupling for, W. Bryce, 169
Joint for, Leigh, 248 Water, Concrete, 249
Piston Ring—see Packing
Pistons and Piston Valves, 623. 647
Planing Machines—see Machine Tools
Platelayer’s Ratchet Spanner, Frye, 324
Plate-lifiiog Clamp, Mork Patent Pulley Block Company, 223
Pontoon, Floatiog, Goole Shipbuilding and Repairing Company, 661
Ports—see Harbours
Post-ofl5ce, Geneial, Electric Power Station for 639
Pretoria, Storm Drainage of, Badcock, 58
Price-Williams, on the Life and Cost of Locomotives in Great Britain, 635
Propellers in Tubes—see Turbine Propulsion Propellers, Thrust of—see Ships
Public Works Departments in Australia, 559 (Letter), 615, 667

Pumps:

Accumulator Pumps. Gas Engine-driven,
Siegener Mascbinenbau A.G., 88, 92
Automatic Pump Controller, 188
Glenfield snd Kennedy’s Pumps at Wionipeg, 65h
Hydraulic Pumping Engines for Japan, Fielding and Platt, Limited, 190
Mollerup Lubricating, 135
Pumps and Turbines for Circulating Condensing Water, W. H. Allen, 506, 607 (Correction, 665)
Sand, for Dredger, 344, 352, 353
Sewage Pumping Plant, Electrical, at Milton, 188
Small Lighting and Pumping Sets. W. H. Allen, 272
Three-stage Turbine, Worthington, 170

PURDY, C. T., on JVeiu York Tinies Building, 420

QUIXO Boiler Tube End and Plate Cleaner. Caps. F. S. Pett, 474

Railways and Railway Matters, General:

Board of Trade Conference, 636
Bridges, Railway—see Bridges
Early Railway History and Fallacy, 64: (Letter). 86 >
Earthworks, 265
Easement Curves, R. H. Smith, 574 Electrification of Railways, J. A. F. Aepioall.
459,485,5(4
Machine for Drilling Rails and Driving Screw
Spikes, Jacobs, 668
Railway Combuiatioos and Manufacturers, 244 Railway Curves, 122
Railway, The, and the Arbitrator, 167 Railways in 1908, 17
Railways in the United States in 1908, 53 Roytd Journey Fifty Years Ago, 612 Ton Miles, 651
Train Resistance Formulie. Lawford H. Fry. 310, 335
Ventilator for Carriages, Minnitt, 169

Railways and Railway Matters, British, Colonial and Indian:

Amalgamation, Great Northern, Great Central and Great Eastern, 351, 368, 452
British Railway Position, 297
Camerton and Limpley Stoke Railway, 130 Cape Government Railways, Maintenance of
Way on, 394
Crawford Derailment, 662
India, Light Railways in, Percy Martin, 411, 441
Kingsbury' and Water Orton Line, Midland Railway, 480, 481; (Letter), 509
London, Brighton and South Coast Electric Train, 162, 164
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, London Bridge to Victoria Electrification. 141, 162, 164
London Railways and Tramway Competition,
Midland Railway Company’s System of Training Apprentices, 399
Midland Railway New Line—see Kingsbury Midland Railway Station at Nottingham. 446 North-Eastern, Queen’s New Saloon, 318, 322 North-Eastern Railway, Snow Plough for, 302 North London Railway, 239
Nottingham, Midland Railway Station at, 446 Queen’s New Saloon, North-Eistern, 318, 322 Railway Outlook for 1909, 41
Railway Position, 323
Safety of British Railways, 33, 444 Scottish Railways and the Traders, 115 South London Electrification—see London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Timetable of 1838, 92 “ Whitaker” on Railways, 59 Wilmslow and Levenshulme Railway, 108

Railways and Railway Matters, Foreign:

American Accidents, 627
Ariea-La Paz Railway, 381, 444, 450
China, Railways of, 257
Detroit River Tunnel, 180
Dorada Railway Extension in Colombia, 264. 268
Genoa and Milan, Proposed New Tunnel, 160 Italy, State Railways, Electrification of, 385 Pegu-Moulmein Railway and theSittang River, A. S. Buckle, 578, 682. 630, 634
Railway and Harbour Work in Turkey, 393
Spiez Frutigen Railway, Electrification, 82
Tunnel, Proposed, between Genoa and Milan, 160

Railway Locomotives, General:

Articulated Compound, Mellin, 47, 71
Bodmer’s Balanced Locomotives, H. T. Walker, 236
Compound Locomotives. 114
Compressed Air, for Underground Haulage, i>2
Four-cylinder Loocomotives, 583
Locomotive Elluioacy, 393; (Letter), 417—see also Letters to the Editor
Locomotive, The Life of a, 635 ; Price- Williams; (Letter), 667
Locomotives, Limit of Weight in, 166
Railways, Locomotives, British, Colonial and Indian ;
Great Central Three-cylinder Tank, 14 {Supple- Tiieidf January LZ, 1909)
Great Western Four-cylinder Non compound Express, 14 {Supplement, January Lsf, 1909)
London. Brighton, and Siuth Coast New Tank 10, 15 January 1st, 1909), (Correction, 62)
London, Brighton, and South Coast Pullman Exor<»8s, 31
North-Eastern Raiway, Four-coupled Express Passeevor, 4i0, 474 {Two-page Supplement April 23rd^ 1909); {Two-page Supplement, May Itfi, 1909)
Soul h-Eastern and Chatham Four Wheels Couple^ Express, 14 (Supplement, January IxZ, 1909)
Southern Belle Express, 31

Railways, Locomotives, Foreign:

Central Argentine Compound Passenger Engine, 601
Chemin de Ferdu Nord Six-coupled Express,587 Eastern Railway of France. Mai let Articulated
Compound, 291 299 (Two-page Supplement, March 19i/t, 1909)
Electric Locomotive, Detroit River Tunnel, 183 Electric Tunnel Locomotive, 69
Great Northern Railway of America, Electric Locomotive, 69
Locoraotivoa and Rolling Stock in U.S.A, in 1908, 154
Mallet Compound, for Southern Pacific Railway, 522
P.L. M. Suburban and Riviera Tank, 587 Tunnels and Underground Railways in the United States in 1908, 53

RAND, The, as a Market for Engineering Products, W. Biano, 598, 625, 649
Reamers, Adjustable, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 223
Reed, S. J., on the Design of Marine Steam Turbine'’, 203
Reservoirs—see Water Supply
Resistance of Tnin Piates and Models in a Current of Wate**, Dr. T. E Stanton, 387, 405 Responsibility, Question of, 424 • River, Colorado, Breach and Closure, 359 Road Motors—see Motor Veh’cles
Rodenhau’er, W., on the Electric Furnace and Electr cal Process of Sieel Making, 548, 558, 617, 640
Rolling Mill Practice, Modern, F. C. Anderson, 107
Mills, Steam-diiven, Non-reversing, Electrificition of, W. F. Mvlan, 497
Stock, Railway—see Railways Ropes, Cotton, Power Transmission by. 197
Cross-laid Double-layer Wire, 56 Square-plaited, Veithardt, 46 (Correction, 75)
Rosenberg, Dr. E., on the Parallel Operation of Alternatort«. 132
Rota, Lt.-Col. G., on Propulsion of Ships by Con- triry Turning Screws on a Common Axis, 363. 371
Royal Journey Fifty Years Ago, 612
Russian Trade and Foreign Enterprise, 189;
(Letter), 377—see also Siberia

SADLER, Professor H. C., on Effect of Bossing upon Ship Resistance, 393; on Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes of North Americi, 391
Safety. Margin of. Concession to Prejudice. 66 Sand Pump Dredger Leviathan, 344, 352, 353

Sanitary Bngineering;

Glasgow South-side Sewage Disposal Works. 138, 142
Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, 263 Sanitary Engineering in 19U8, 5
Sewage Disposal Scheme for Monmouthshire. 82
Sewage Pumping at Milton, Weston-super-Mare, 188
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal in the United
States in 1908, 101

SAWS—see Woodworking Machinery
Scale, Enlarging and Hedocicg, B. J. Hall, 660 Screw Threads, luterchangeahility and Methods of Securing it io, H. F. Donaldson, 170, 201 Shackle, “Renter” Weldless Chun, 361 Shaping Machine—see Machine Tools

Ships and Shipbuilding, General:

(See. also Dockyard Notes and Shipbuilding Notes)
Accelerated Motion of Bodies in Water, &c.. A. W. Johns, 388
Agreement, The Shipbuilding Trades’, 67, 70 Atlantic Liners, Cost of, 684
Boat Lighting Sets at Olympia, Parsons’,
Spicer’s, 336 ’
Bulkheads, Water-tight, in Passenger Vessels, 207
Cruising Turbines, 166
Diverging Waves, Professor W. Hovgaard, 392 Dredgers—see Dredgers
Early Atlantic Steam Navigatioo, 398
Efficiency of Mar<ne Eogines and Propellers.
J. H. Gibs n, 106 ; (Letter), 145 Engines, Marine—see Eoginos and Motors Gantries at Harland and Wolffs Works (Six
teen page Special Supplement, June 16tk, 1909)
Influence ot Form and Bulkbeads on the
Strergth of Sbip«, Dr. J. Bruhn, 392
Xsherwood System—see Craster Hall
Ships and Shipbuilding*, General (eon- tinu(d)l
Launching, and Effect of Camber, John Smith, 391
Line-throwing Appliances for Use on Ships, Board of Trade Report, 405
L^yH’s Register, Revi-fed Rules, 652
Llojd’s Survey and Engineering Progress. 110 LoDgituHinally-framed Ships—see Craster Hall Marine Condensers—see Cendenters
Propulsion — see Propellers and also Letters to the Editor
Propulsion, Durtnall on Electrical Power for, 288
Marine Steam Turbines, 437 ; (Letter), 561 Mechanical Efficiency of Marine Eogines, 77 Propeller Blades, The Pitting of, 397 ; (Letter), 429
Propellers, Mechan’ed Method for Determining the Thrust of, J, H. Heck, 363, 510; (Letter), 577
Propellers, Turbine, 65
Propulsion of Ships by Contrary Turning Screws on a Common Axis, Lient.-Col. G. R )ta, 363, 371
Resistance of Thin Plates and Models in a Current of Water, Dr, T. B. Stanton, 387, 405
Reversing Gear, Motor Boat, Herse and Savory. 336
Reversing Propellers and Gear Boxes for Motor Boati at Olympia, 336
Ship Geometry, Sir G. Greenhill, 391
Ship Resistance, Effect of Bossing upon, Professor H. C. Sadler, 393
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes of North America, Professor H. C. Sadler, 391
Stability and Comf wt, A. R. Liddell, 386
Staudai disali'U, Work Done by Engineering Standards Committee nn Materials used in Ships, &c., A. Denny, 339
Tanks, Experimental—see Tanks
Torsional Vibrations and Shaft Horse-power, 269
Torsionmeters, Measurement of Marine Engine Power by, J. Menmuir, 186
Turbine Propu’sion for Siow Speeds, Yasuzo Wadagaki, 470, 478
Vibrations of Ships and use of a Dynamical Model in Determining Elasticity, &c., Professor J. B. Henderson, 339, 349

Ships and Shipbuilding, British Navy:

Battleships and Floating Docks, 319
Be’leropbon H. M. Battleship (Siipplement, January Isf, 1909)
Cossack, H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyer, Speed Tria's, Sir P. Watts, 390
Dreadnoughts, 321
Ind fatigable, H.M. Cruiser, 224
Indomitable, H.M. Ar r*oured Ctuiser (*S«/>/>Ze- ment, January IxZ, 1909)
Superb, H.M. Battleship, 224, 453
Swift. H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer. 222, 223
Vanguard, H.M. First-class BaHleship. 218, 224, 342 {Tivo-page Szipplement, April 2nd, 1909)
Warships, Recent Trials, 453

Ships and Shipbuilding, Naval Matters:

Admiralty Warship Return, 559
BAtrlosbips and Docking Aceommndation, 529 Battleships, Prima’^y Armament of, 193 Eopineers in the Royal Navy, 296; (Letters), 351. 482
Engineers in the United States Navy, Pay of Junior, 478
French Marine, The Crisis in the, 493
Germany, Naval Docks io, 451
Naval Architects. Scientific Education of, Professor J. J. Welch, 220, 224
Navy Estimates, 295, 300
Offensive Powers of the Fleets of 1911, 104 ; (Letter), 187
Shooting in the Navy, 143
Speed Triab of the Deutschland Class, 411
Submarine Mine Layers, 346
Warships, New Types, 423
Warships, Types Omitted in Recent Programmes, Lord Brassey, 337, 345

Ships and Shipbuilding, Foreign Navies:

Argentine Gunboat Parana, 665 Austro-Hungarian Submarines, 43
Brazilian Battleship Minas Geraes {Supplement, Janiairy 1909)
Battleship Sao Paulo, 430
Scout Bahia Launched, 82 Scout Rio Grande Do Su', 420 Deutschland Class, Speed Trials of, 411 French Dreadnoughts, 438
Naval Programme, 636
Submarine Salvage Boat Vulcain, 598 German Cruisers Hamburg and Lubeck, 77 Russian Armoured Cruiser Rurik (Supplement, Januai'y 1909)
South American Navies, Status of, 90 Spanish Navy Contracts, 132 United States Naval Ordnance, 29
Sc«iut Cruiser Salem, Turbine Repairs, 616
Steamship Chester, Operation tf Parsons Turbine, Lieut. A. F. Yates, 669

Ships and Shipbuilding, Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels:

American Sdvage and Repair Steamer Favourite, 136
Axholme, Stern Wheel Steamer, 616 hen-ray CDree and Parsons Turbine, 364
Canadian Atlantic Passenger Trade, 451
Clyde Shipbuilding, 448
Craster Hall, Longitudinally Framed Ship, 234, 242; (Letter), 417 (Two-j^age Snppleineni^ Marek btk, 1909)
Defender 1., Motor Racing Boat, Maudblay Company, 336
Drill Boat for Submarine Blasting, 403
Harland and Wolff’s Ships, Typical Vessels Built at Belfast, 626 (Four-page Supplement, June 18(A, 1909) ’
Irada, Wreck, 40
Lannchfcs, Oil-fired, Simpson, Strickland, 146, (Note) 174
Laurontjc, White Star Triple-screw Steamer, 426, 451
London and North-Western Passenger Steamship Rathmore, 55 (Tu-o TieO'jyage Supple- ?nientSy Jamxiary 1909)
Lusitania and Mauretania, Propeller Changes, 65
Mauretinia, 65, 245
Motor Boats at Olympia, 316, 336
Orient Liners, The New. 545, 556
Orsova, Orient Liner, J. Brown and 556
Paso de Martin Garcia, Twin-scraw draught Steamer, fur South Thoroycroft, 528, 536
Pioneer, 40ft. Gas-driven Cabin MacLaren, 376

Shipbuilding Notes :

Aaiericao Shipbuilding. IiDpr3ved Trade, 613 British Corporation, New Register and Building Rule?, 316
B'oomhill, Steam Collier, Trials, 613
Bruhn, Dr. J., New Appointment, 632
Cargo Vessels with Topside Tank, The Fiona, 298
Clyde Yards’ New Work, 613
Coaling L'ghter, New Type, 500
Conrad Moor, Petroleum, Carrying Vessel for Bergen, Launched at Middlesbrough, 427
Co-partnersh p, Sir C. Furness’s Scheme, 394 Craggs and tfons, Affairs of, 500 Craster Hall Launched, 278
Danubian, Petroleum C irryiner Steamer, 394 Death of 6ir Donald Currie, 428
Dr. Elgar Succeeded by Mr. A. Gracie as Chairman of the Fairfield Company, 298 Duke of Argyle, Turbine Channel Steamer Launched fay Danny Brothers, 560
Duke of Cumberland Launched from Denny’s Shipyard at Laven, 316
Fai-field Company’s Unbroken Record in Shipbuilding, 613
Furness, Sir Christopher, Freeman of Hartlepool, 474
Golden Eagle and the Kingfither, Thames to Boulogne Service, 447, 632
Great Lake Shipbuilding Industry, Prosperous Trade, 474
Harland and Wolff’s Record Output, 474 Institution of Naval Architecct, Meeting and Programme 316, 394
Institutions of Shipbuilders, No^th-East Coast and Scotland, Programme of Joint Meeting, 614
Isherwood System and Launch of the Thessaly, 632
Laing, Sir J., and Company, Reconstruction Proposals, 448
Lapland, Laurentic, and Minnewaska, 474 Liurentic, White Star Liner, 447
Lloyd’s Register, Shipbuddiog Returns, 427 Lloyd’s Register Staff Changes, 394 Mauretania and Lusitania, Performance of, 278, 298
M-gantic, White Star Liner, Goes to Liverpool, 614
Megantic, White Star Liner, Maiden Voyage, 632
New Constructional Feature to Economise Horse-p')wer, 278
Oil Steamers, Demand for, The Lucigen, 298
Oil S’eamers, Minna Brea, 316
Orhnt Liner Building, at Belfast and on the Clyde, 632
Orsova, Orient Liner, in the Thames, 560 Otranto, Orient Company’s New Steamer, 394 Otwa’^, Orient Liner, Trials, 613
Palmer’s Shipb lildirg and Iron Company, 394 Pavlina and 'Topside Water Badast Tanks, 448 Penicsular and Oriental Company’s New S earner Mantua, Caird, 474
Prinses Juliana, Fiuahiug - Queenborough St-amer, 613
Reed, Sir E. J., Memorial Tablet Unveiled, 448
Royal School of Naval Architecture, Biennial Re-union, 560
Shipbuilding Industry, Progress in Large Firms only, 560 on N( rth-East Coast and in Scotland, Comparison of Tonnage, 427
Outlook Brighter, 613 Trade Depression. Large Firms’ Meetings, 394, 500
Ships’ Specifications, J. R. Jack, at Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 427
Steam Trawler, Evolution of the, The Rorqual. ^98
Torpedo Destroyers Building on the Clyde, Australian Wurkmen under Instruction, 428
Trade Revival, Sir C. Furness’s Opinion, 474 Turbines and Recipn eating Engines Combined, Liureniic and Ocaki, 447
Turbines versn^s Reciprocating Engines, Dr. Caird and Sir W. White on the Lusitania and i Mauretania, 298 '
Warship Contracts for Private Yards, 500

SHOOTING—see Ships, Naval Matters
Shows—see Exhibitions
Siberia, British Trade in, 92, 189 ; (Latbr), 377 Signalling, Coast, Wreck of the Irada, 40 Signals, Fog—see Submarine B-ills
Slide Rule for Calculating Velocity and Discharge from Pipes, Essex, 668
Small Arms Wo’’ks—see Works
Smith, Dempster, and R. Poliakoff on Experiments with Twist Drills, 309, 326
J, Cruickshank, on Value of Physical Tests in Selection and Testing of Coatings for Iron and Steel, 520
John, on Launching with Reference to the Effec, of Camber, 391
Professor Robert H., on Easement Curves, 574
Smoke Abatement Exhibition—see Exhibitions Snow Plough for the North-Ewtern Railway, 302 Soudan, Development, 32—sec also Port Sjudan Spanner, Platelayer’s Ratchet, Frye, 324 Spark Arrester for Cupolas, S. Osborn and D. Carnegie, 278
Spinning Frames, “Mongue” Two-speed Device for, Coulthard, 197
Stability and Comfort, A. R. Liddell, 386
Stanton, Dr. T. E., on Resistance of Thin Plates and Models in a Current of Water, 387, 405
Steam Power on the Continent, Cost of, 270
Steam Trap and Reducing Valve, W. H. Bailey and Company, 561
Steel—.see Iron and Steel
Streets and Roads in the United States in 1908, 101
Stromeyer, C. E., on Water Hammer, 40, 365
Submarine Bells on the English and Irish Coast, 302
Bells, French, E'ectrically-operated, 41 Mine Layen—see Ships
Sugar Cane Mill, Eleven Roller, and Dumbtnrner, J. McNeil, 192, 196
Sulphur as a Cause of Corrosion in Steel, G. N. Huntly, 416
Superheater—see Boilers
Sopplement, Sixteen-p^ge Special, June 18th, 1909, Harland and Wolff’s Works at Belfast
Sapplement®, Illustrated—see Separate Section Swinburne, J., Report on Electricity Regulations, 250

TANK, Experimental, at Paris, 340, 389
Experimental, The Yarrow, 337, 371, 388
Works, Sheet Iron, at Shipley, Butterfield’s, 290 (Correction, 316) Tariff, American, and Tool Steels, 324 Tariff Commission’s Report on Engineering Industries, 110,147
Telephones, Berlin, 579 Territorials, Engineers and the, 517; (Letter), 615 Testing Establishment of the Technical College of Berlin, 81
of Files and Tool Steel, Machine for, 349 Hoose, Engineering, for Manchester, 59 Machine for High speed Twist Drills, Archdale, 590
Machine, 300-Ton Universal, at Birmingham University, W. and T. Avery, 532, 533
Tests, High-speed Tool Steel, 289
on Mild S'eel Dishei Ends, Prnfes'nr Bach, 154, 155. 209, 210, 211, 212, 258, 259, 260, 261
Milling Machine. P. V. Vernon, 284 Thames, Dredging of the River, 605 Thermodynamics in Toeory and Practice. 600 Thomsen, T. C., on Internal Lubrication of Steam Engine!, 375
Tidal Power, W. C. Horsnaill on, 214, 233; (Letters), 240, 292
Tobey, H. W.. on Development in Transforming Devices. 457
Tool Steel—see Steel
Toothed Wheels and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 610
Toronto, Engineering at the University of, 103, 112, 129
Torpedo Battery in the Mediterranean, Schneider, 412
Toreion Meters—sec Ships
Torsional Vibrations and Shaft Horse-power, 269 Towing Feat, Remarkable, 430
Trackless Trolley Cars v. Motor Omnibuses, 83 Tractor, Broom and Wade’s Milhary. 216
Foster’s Light Steam, 654, 655 and Irrigating Machine, Combined, Gwynne, 590
Mann’s Compound 5-Ton Steam, 654 Ransome’s Compound Steam, 655 Steam, New Lowca Engineering Company, 664
Stewart’s Steam, 246 Thornycroft’s Military, 248 Tractors, Light, War-office Competition, 223, 246, 297; (Letter), 275
Tractors at the Royal Agricultural Show, Various Makers, 654
Trade—see also Labour News in 1908, 13
Waves and Unemployment, 219
Trains—see Railways
Tramway Crossings, Castings, 36
Tramways, G.B. Surface Contact System, 68, 85 London, 17, 504
London, Compeiition with Railways, 140
Provincial, 17
—see also Trackless Trolley
Transmission of Heat between Fluids, R. M. Neilson, 157; (Letters), 216, 240—.see also Boi ers
Transporter for Buenos Aires, Motor - driven, Royce, 580
Transporter, A Norel Type, A. K, Grossmitb, 638
Transporters, Tower Cranes and, Applebys, 431 Traverser, 70-Ton Electric, S. H, Heywood, 42 Tube Mill, Hamilton, 416
Tunnels—see Railways
Turbine, Parsons’ Marine Steam and Ben-my- Chree, C. J. Blackburn, 364
Parsons, Operation of, on U.S.S. Chester, Lieut. A. F, H. Yates, 669 Propellers, 65
Propulsion for Slow Speeds, Yasuz.0 Nadagaki, 470, 478
Repairs of United States Scout Cruiser, Salem, 616
Steam, Development, A Review of, 546 Turbines, Cruising, 166
Design of Marine Steam, S. J. Reed, 203
Low-pressure, Utilisation of Exhaust Steam io, R. F. Halliwell, 107 Marine Steam, 437 ; (Letter), 661 Pumps and, for Ci’^culating Condensing Water, W. H. Allen, 506, 507 (Correction, 566)
St-3 im, Gas Engines versus^ for Generating Electric Power, Andrews and R. Porter, 188 versus Reciprocating Engines. (Letters), 119, 145
Wind, Steel Wings Turbine Company, 639

TURKEY, Railway and Harbour Work in, 393 Tyranny of Scientific Dogma, 557; (Letter), 629

URAL, Chare'»al Blast furnace Practice in the,
Pr •fe'-sor M. A. Parloff 493
Utilisation of Exhaust Steam in Low-pressure
Turbines,^ R. F. Halliwell, 107

VALVE Gear. R^cke-Ruston. 366. 370, 655
Valves, “ Hoerbiger ” Self-acting Frictionless, 136 Valves, Safety, 320 ; (Letter), 377
Ventilator fo; Railway Carriages, Minnitt, 169 Vernon, P. V., on Milling Machine Test’’, 284 Viaduct, Ferro-concrete, at Sharpness Docks, 60, 64

WAGES—see Labour
Wagon, Heavy Oil Motor, Broom and Wfc.>»* , 93
Wagon, Five-ton Steam. Garrett, 655
Walker, H. T., on Bodmer's Balanced Locomotives, 236
Walker, W. H,, on The Electrolytic Theory of the Corrosion of Iron, &c., 620, 630

War Material

Austrian 76 mm. Gun, with Goerz Sights, 652. 660
Bethlehem 3in. Gun, 652, f60 D’p'^rt Pneumatic Recoil G^ar, 651 Ehrhardt Ammunition Wagon, 652 ; Gears for Guns, Deport, Rothe, Krufp, 650
Guns, Quick-firing Field, Recent Developments in, 650, 660
Krupp Balloon Gun, 505
Military Tractors, 223, 246, 297, 664 ; (Letter), 275
Schneider 75 mm. Gun, 650, 660
Shells, Explosive, Ehrhardt-, &c., 652
United States Naval Ordnance, Admiral Mason’s Report, 29
VavaFsmr Valve, 651 Vickers-Maxim 75 mm. Mountain Gun, 652, 660

WATER Hammer, 40; (Letters), 86, 119, 240 Experimental at Messrs. Alton’s, 300, 366 Explosions of Steam P pes due to, C. E. Stromeyer, 365
Water Pipes, Concrete, “Bonna” Type, 249

Water Supply:

Filtration and Purification of Water for Public Supply, J. Dm, 81, 95, 120, 213
Glasgow, Increased Supply for, 162
London—see Metropolitan Water Board
Metropolitan Water Board, Report on Storage of Raw River Water, 360
Metropolitan Water Board Reservoir at Honor Oak, 472 476
Toronto Waterworks Tunnel, 84
Water, Raw River, Storage of, Dr. A. C.
Houston’s Report, 360
Water Storage in the Ruhr Valley, 117 Supply in 1908, 4
Supply in U.S.A, in 1908, 101

WATTS, Sir P., on Speed Trials of H.M. Torpe loboat Destroyer Cossack, 390
Waves, Diverging:, Professor W. Hovgaard, 392 Weapons, Ddfcign of, for Attacking Airships, .505
Weighing Machine, Automatic Grain, Stacey, 94 Weighing Machine, Hydraulic, Schaffer and Budenberg, 427
Welch, Prof. J. J., on Scientific Education of Naval Architects 220, 224
Welding, E'ectric, V. D. Green, 565
Wheel, “ Panflex ” Spring, Hon. R. C. Parsons, 404
“ Whitaker” on Railways, 59 Wind Mill, La Cour’s, 308
Power, E. Lancaster Burne, 286, 307; (Letters), 377, 457, 483. 609
Power, Electricity from (Childs), 323 Turbines, Steel Wings Turbine Company, 639

Wood-working Machinery:

Saw Bench, Two-spindle, T. Robinson, 196 Wood-moulding Machines, Pressure Guard for, A. Rins)me, 613
Wood-working Plant at Royal Show, 655

WORKS, Harland and Wolff’s, at (Sixteen - page Special June 18z/t, 1909)
- A. Herbert’s, at Coventry, 526
- Small Arms and Machine Tool, at Erith, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 573, 5^2 (Ttco-page Supplements June 4<A, 1909)
- Southam, Cement, at, 8, 12, 28, 38 ; (Note), 100
- Tank, Sheet Iron, at ShipLy Batterfield’s, 290 (Co»'rection, 3i6)
World’s Metal Statistics, 642
Worm Gear Drive, Large, at Epsom Waterworks, D. Brown, 118

YARROW Experimental Tank, 337. 371 388
Yasuzo Wadagaki on Turbine Propulsion for Slow Speeds, 470, 478
Yates. Lieut. A. F. H, on the Parsons Steam Turbine on U.S.S. Chester, 669
Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 240

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