The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1909 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

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• ACCIDENTS, Street, in United Kingdom, Statistics, 475
• Acoustic Improvement in Paris, 601
• Acetone Consumption in Great Britain, 293
• Acetylene Gas Plant, 384
• Acetylene Lamps as Compared with Candles,
• Advantage in Light, Health and Cost, 111
• Admiralty Tenders, House of Commons Questions, 681
• Adrianople’s Bad Roads and One Motor Car, 633
• Aerial Navigation Company in France, 63
• - Experiments in Germany, 421
• - and the War-office, 421
• - Pleasure Yacht Ordered in Berlin, 369
• - Traffic in Germany ; Scheme for Stations and Service, 241
• Aero Biplane in United States, 343
• Aero Club Flying Ground at Sheppey, 240
• Aero Exhibition—see Exhibitions
• Aeronautical Society’s Experiments with Flaping Wings, 267
• Aeroplane and Balloon Trials on Salisbury Plain, 163
• - British Army, 69, 241
• - Experiments by Naval Submarine Staff at Portsmouth, 293
• - Flight without Rails for Starting, Wilbur Wright, 449
• - Instruction, School of Aviation in France, 37
• - Race at Monaco, 37
• - Tests, Views in the United States, 395
• Airbag Equipment and Steel Punt for Royal Engineers’ Experiments, 293
• Airship, German, Zeppelin I., Successful Trial Trips, 267
• - New Rigid Type in Germany, 607
• - for the Wellman Polar Expedition, 267
• Airships and Explosives, Hudson Maxim on, 369
• Alkali Manufacture, Electrolytic Process. 267
• Alloy, Copper-Aluminium, Advantages, 395
• Alloys, Aluminium and Magnesium, Valuable Properties of, 217
• Aluminium for Bus liars and Back Connections in Switchboards, 241
• - Coinage, Experiments at French Mint, 633
• - Conductors for Overhead Lines, Superior to Copper, 137
• Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Unemployment Statistics, 191
• American Cement Works, Increased Output, 241
• Annealing, Micinneal Packing, Laurentide Company, 96
• Annealing by New Method, American Experiments, 527
• Anthracite Production, Heavy Output, 475
• Antimony, Crude and Ore, Export to Changsha,
• Armoured Automobiles in War, 293
• Asbestos Goods Manufacture in India, 293

Associations, Institutions, & Societies:

• Association, British Foundrymen’s:
• Annual Meeting and Programme, 620

• Association, Engineering and Scientific, of Ireland ;
• Effect of Strain on the Strength of Ductile Materials, Dr. Lilly, 59

• Association of Engineers-in-Charge:
• Battersea Polytechnic, Visit, 176
• Feed Water and its Impurities, J, Kershaw, 176

• Association of Engineers, Manchester:
• Metollio Filament Lamps, Barnes, 63
• Visit to Alfred Herbert’s Coventry Works, Further Programme, 509

• Association of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Greenock:
• Electricity in Modem Industry, J. A. Robertson, 240
• Assreiation, Engineers’ Standardised Publications, 311

• Association, Glasgow and West of Scotland Foremen Engineers’;
• Annual Dinner, 304
• Locomotive, The Steam, Blacklook, 177
• Tools, Proper Shape and Cutting Speed. Prize Award, 304

• Association, Incorporated, of Municipal and County Engineers:
• Concrete, Its Aggregates and Mixing, W. Challoner, 288
• Destructor, Design and Working of a Modern, W. F. Loveday, 288
• Meetings, Programmes of Papers and Visits, 488, 629

• Association. Incorporated Municipal Electrical: Annual Convention and Programme, 434, 538

• Association, International, for Testing Materials :
• Meeting, Programme, 119
• Association, Lee Is Geological :
• Applications for Geology to Public Works Construction, Dr, H. Lapworth, 351

• Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham :
• Annual Dinner, 199
• Metallography of Steel, O. F. Hudson, 351
• Numbarg Gas Engine, B, Bechtel, 132
• Visit to Great Western Works, Swindon, 606

• Association of Water Engineers :
• Annual Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 538

• Institute of Chemistry:
• Annual Meeting, 250
• I’ass List, 432

• Institute, Concrete:
• ‘"""K
• Meetings, 96, 328
• ^^SerraiTi’er,^96'^™^’ ’’f-
• Setting of Portland Cement and Methods of
• ^nlaiing the same, H. K. G. Bamber,
• iQstitute, Iron and Steel:
• Annual Meeting and Programni'i, 403
• Autumn Meeting Arrangements, 420
• “ Bennett Brough ” Memorial Fund, 537
• President Decbnes Office ; Sir Hugh Bell Re-elected, 420

• Institute of Marine Engineers:
• Efficient Circulation of Water in Steam Boilers, A. Ross, 266
• Meeting and Elections, 325
• New Zealand’s Presentation and Letter to Secretary, 266 .
• Scholarship Founded by Lloyd’s Register, 391
• Some Details of a Cargo Steamer, W. Veysey Lang, 351
• Visit to Trinity House, 667

• Institute, Midland, of Mining, Civil, and Mechanical Engineers: .
• Visit to Butterley Company’s Collienes, 4J2

• Institute, North of England, of Mining and Mechanical Engineers:
• Meetings and Progamme, 159, 350

• Institute, Royal Sanitary:
• Henry Saxon Suell Prize, 228 i
• Meetiog and Discussion, 462
• Visits and Meeting in Sheffield, 174

• Institute of Sanitary Engineers :
• Roads, Past and Present, E. J. Harber. 132
• Institution of Automobile Engineers, Graduates Section :
• Horse-power and its Estimation, C. K. H. I House, 151

• Institution of Civil Engineers:
• Dinner, 330
• James Forrest Lecture, Road Motors, Colonel Holden, 306
• London Students: Annual Dinner, 474
• Students’ Meetings, 22, 62, 152, 266, 328, 381, 448 . X X r.
• Chemical Engineering, Some Aspects of, L. J, Guttmann, 328
• Development of Hydro - electric Power Schemes with Special Reference to Kinlochleven, J. M. S. Cuthbertson, 448
• Experiments on a Diesel Engine, W. E. Fisher and E. B. Wood, 152
• Portland Cement, The Effect of Fineness with Aeration on its Strength, K. W. S. Mitchell, 62
• Reinforced Concrete on Railways, W. Gurney, 381
• Slips in Railway Earthworks, E, G. Lovegrove, 266
• Turbines, High-power Water, on Moderate Falls, R. Woldenden, 22

• Glasgow Association of Students :
• Annual Dinner, 275 Arbroath Waterworks, J. M. Hogg, 24 Design of Bridges with Reference to Esthetic
• Treatment, R. Boyle, 107
• Leeds Section:
• Standardisation in Engineering Practice, Dr. Unwin, 240
• Manchester Association of Students:
• Annual Dinner, 273
• Newcastle upon-Tyne Association of Students! Desiun and Construction of Docks, Sir Whateley Eliot, 199, 301 Reinforced Concrete, H. W. Taylor, 325 Visits to Stakeford Bridge and Blyth Harbour Works, 655 Visit to Quayside EKtension Works at Ouse- burn, 525
• Yorkshire Association of Students : Pumping Station Estension for Widnes, W. M. Carr, 196 Standardisation in Engineering Practice, Dr. Unwin, 302
• Weg Portable Breathing Apparatus, W, D. Lloyd, 48
• Institution of Electrical Engineers : Dielectric Strength of Compressed Air, E. A. Watson, 293
• Glasgow Section: Greenock Refuse Destructor, Working Results, J. A. Robertson, 449
• Leeds Local Section: Annual Meeting and Elections, 434
• Electrification of Steam-driven, Non-Reversing Rolling Mills, W. F. Mylan, 434
• G.B. Surface Contact System, Stanley Clegg, 59

• Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland : Library and Reading-room, 35 Summer Meeting, Joint Institutions’ Programme, 536
• Watt Anniversary Dinner, 107

• Institution, Incorporated, of Automobile Engineers:
• Lecture, F. W. Lanchester, 489
• Petrol Engine Design, J. A, Dorling, 266
• Programme of Papers, 199
• Coventry Graduate Section:
• Flight, Progress of, J. A. Mackie, 96
• The Motor Cab: Its Development and Design, L. J. Shorter, 351
• London Branch, Graduates’ Section: Change-speed Gear, F. Thomas, 249; Prize Award, 620
• Cooling, H. Burchall, 489
• Institution, Junior, of Engineers: Coin-freed Mechanisms as Applied to Gas Meters, Construction of, T. S. F, Gibson, 594
• Dielectrics, The Use of, and the Principal Tests applied to them, T. Germann and S. M. Hills, 377
• Dinner, 483
• Distributing Systems for the Supply of Electricity, C. H. Smith, 512
• Heat Transmission in Buildings, Kenneth Gray, 266
• Heat Transmission in Steam Boilers, Dr. Nicolson, 146 1
• Heating and Ventilation, J. Jeffreys, 266
• Motor Omnibuses, Eric Boult, 33
• Visit to Chingford Reservoir Works, 417
• City and Guilds Technical College, 146
• J. E, Hall’s Refrigerating Works, 289
• London, Brighton, and South Coast Electric Plant at Battersea, &c., 449
• R.s. Otaki, 516
• Rugby Gasworks and British Thomson-Houston Works, 538

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
• Bryan Donkin Fund, 176
• General Meeting and Dinner, 383, 456
• Summer Meeting and Programme, 383
• Water, Filtration and Purification, for Public Supply, J. Don, 35
• Graduates' Association:
• Mechanical Draught for Steam Boilers,
• L. J. J. Murfin, 381
• Meeting and Elections, 637 .
• Motor Car Construction and Design, Roy Vining, 62
• Producer Gas, G. H. Cruse, 280
• Railway Permanent Way, H. H. Bird, 53/

• Institution of Mining Engineers :
• General Meeting, Programme of Papers and Visits, 483
• Institution of Mining Electrical Engineers : Meeting, 667
• Institution of Mining and Metallurgy: Annual Dinner, 417, 483
• Institution of Naval Architects : Annual Meeting and Dinner, 107
• Medal and Priz3 Offered, 107
• Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
• Fatigue of Copper Pipes, J. M. Allan, 196, 289 I
• General Meeting, 434
• Scientific Education of Naval Architects, Professor J. J. Welch, 196, 289, 434
• Steam Turbines for Propulsion of Vessels at Moderate Speed, Y. Wadagaki, 434, 526 Steel Water-tight Bulkheads, Strength of, A. J. Mui ray, 289, 434, 526
• Summer Meeting, Joint Institutions’ Programme, 626, 636
• Institution, Royal:
• Aerial Flight in Theory and Practice, Professor G. H, Bryan, 297
• Annual Meeting and Elections, 474
• Astronomical Research, Recent Results of, A. S. Eddington, 297
• Electrical Stiiations, Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, 297
• General Meetings and Elections, 382, 620 Meetings, Benefaction of £10,000, 143, 240, 620
• Programmes of Lectures, 76, 339, 462

• Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain :
• Aeronautical Engines, Some Points in, A. J. McKinney, 325
• Low Power versus High Power Machines, Jose Weiss, 325
• Society, American, of Mechanical Engineers: Convention and Programme, 377 |

• Society of Arts, Royal:
• Aerial Flight: Cantor Lectures, F. W. Lanchester, 434
• Albert Medal Awarded to Sir A. Nobel, 664 Awards for Papers, 658
• Modern Methods of Artificial Illumination, Leon Gaster, 132, 241
• Society of Arts, Royal Scottish :
• Keith Lectures, Gas Manufacture and L'ght- ing, H. O’Connor, 136, 187, 216
• Society of Chemical Industry—Birmingham and Midland Section:
• Coal, Spontaneous Combustion of, Professor R. Threlfall, 381
• Society, Crysta,! Palace Old Students, 33 Society of Edinburgh, Royal:
• Systematic Motion of the Stars, Professor Dyson, 240
• Society of Engineers:
• Awards, Presidential Address, 151
• Concrete, New Test for, Dr. J. S. Owens, 266
• Corrobiou of Steel Reinforcement in Concrete, E. R. Mathews, 368
• Infiaeuce of Rainfall on the Design of Sewers, C. A. Batliscombe, 420
• Status Pfizd Offered, Conditions, 292
• Status Prize Offered, Receipt of Papers, 665 “Transactions,” Two Forms of Publication, 629
• Visit to Keith Works of Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 536 I
• Visit to London Hydraulic Power Company’s Station, 629 I
• Society of Engineers and Metallurgists, Sheffield:
• Dinner, 248
• Society, Faraday:
• Programme of Papers, 304
• Society, Illuminating Engintering:
• Formation, Sight as a Desirable Object of Investigation, 659
• Society, Liverpool Engineering:
• Annual Dinner, 96
• Society, Physical, of London:
• Annual Meeting and Presidential Address, 171
• Meetings and Programmes, 209, 276, 328, 366, 618
• Papers by Professors Croker and S. Thompson, 209
• Society of Public Analysts:
• Analysis of the Air of Mines, W. J. A, Butterfield, 512
• Society, Royal ^ricultural:
• Notice to Exhibitors, 305
• Society, Royal Meteorological:
• Aimsand Efforts of the Society,Dr. H. R. Mill, 125
• Annual Meeting, 125
• Anti-cyclone Bait of the Northern Hemisphere, Colonel H. E. Rawson, 638
• Errors of Estimation in Thermometric Observations, A. Walter, 538
• Meteorological Conditions in the Philippine Islands, 1908, Rev. Jose Algue, 420
• Percolation, Evaporation, and Condensation, Baldwin Latham, 420
• Temperature in Antarctic and Sub-antarctic Regions, R. C. Mossman, 655
• ATOMIC Weights, International Committee’s Report, 317
• Automobiles for Drawing Austrian Balloon Trains,
• Automobilism, Royal Automobile Club’s Report, 22
• BACTERIOLOGICAL Incubators Heated by Electricity, 607
• Ball Bearings for Fans Preferable to White Metal, 37
• Balloon Ascents at Constantinople, 395
• Trains Drawn by Automobiles in Austria,
• Military Dirigible, Trials, 474, 501 Self-re^stcring, Remarkable Ascent by. 681
• United States Army, Explosion durincr Flight. 555
• Ballooning in Munich, “Academy of Aviation," 581
• Balloons, Tests with 18-Pounder Shell Firing, 343
• Basic Converter Blowing, Metallurgical Investigations, 63
• Bessemer, Henry, and Company, Meeting, 204 Birmingham Gasworks, Modified Report, 618 Birmingham Telephones, New Exchange, 620 blast Furnaces in the Longwy District, France, Restricted Operation, 475
• Blast Iron Furnace Operations, Uses of. Gavlev Process, 293
• Board of Trade Engineer Surveyor-in-Chief, Retirement and Presentation, 111
• Boby’s Water Softener, 489

Boilers;

• Autogenous Welding for Marino Boiler Repair. 6J7
• Board of Trade Report on Explosions, 501
• Boiler Explosion Caused by Ill-fitting Door, 395 Explosions Preventable, Manchester
• Steam Users’ Association Report, 527 Explosions in the United States, 317, 596 Testing, Admiralty Regulations, 37 Water, Scale Prevention in. 111
• Charcoal Iron Lap-weldod Tubes, British Standard Specification, 566
• Water Softening for Boilers in American Plant, Highly Favourable Results, 449

• BORING Square Holes, Interesting Device, 87

Bridges:

• Bridges, East Indian Railway, 111 Brooklyn Bridge, Operating Cosis, 475 Earthquake Damages, 293
• Pieman River Latticed Truss, Tasmania, 293
• Quebec Bridge Re-bnilding, Probable Increase in Height, 63; Time Reiiuired, Further Details. 501
• Quebec B idge, Negotiations for Wreck Removal and Riconstruccion, 601
• Southwalk Widening, Detads and Cost, 449 Strauss Trunnion Bascule, over Chicago River, 63
• Warrington, Recreation, Tenders Invited, 449 BRIQUETTE Making, Professor Galloway on, 607 British Metal and Machinery Exports, 607 Building Tower, 47 Stories High, in U.S.A., 11 Burntisland and Foreign Manufacturers, 62

• CALCIUM Carbide, Relative Efficiency of Arc and Resistance Furnace for Manufacture, S. R. Tucker, 607
• Canal Accident in Belgium, 607
• Improvement in Sweden, 581
• Suez, Traffic Statistics, 633 from Tuxpam to Tampico, Men’co, 581 Ceiling Fan Blades, Efficiency Eiperiments, 633 Cement Demand in Cnina, 267
• Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, British Standard Specification Report, 566
• Charcoal (Wood Distillation), Plant in the Nilgiri Hills, 354
• Chemical Industries of Madras, Committee of Inquiry, 555
• Chemicals in Solution Tanks of Water-softening Rant Stirred by Power from Pelton Wheel,
• Commercial Report, Output of Copper,
• China, Electric Lighting Plant and Telegraph, 449
• Climatic Changes in Egypt, 555
• Cloud Effects in Record to Illumination, 63
• Clouds, Height of, Observed by Searchlights, 581

Coal, Collieries, and Coke;

• Ashes to Replace Pillars in Coal Mines, 11
• Brown Coal in Victoria, Utilisation of. Wvko- hara Bayly, 11
• Coal Conciliation Board, Meeting, Wages Question, 216
• Consumption of, Great Britain, 241
• Coal Discovery at Powlett River, Victoria. 191 Exports from Great Britain in 1908, 421 Fields of Heraclea, Black Sea, 217 in Austria, Government Monopoly Proposed, 137
• in the United States, Rescue Stations for, 137
• Finding in Cylla Valley, 629 in India, 317
• Mine Testing Station for France. 668 and other Mineral Outputs in Great Britain, Statistics 293
• Mines in United Kingdom, Government Inspection, 527
• Mining by Lime Cartridges, 343 for the Naw. 343
• instead of Oil for Torpedo Boats, 136 Shaft in France, Deepest in the World, 395
• Supply in England, Future, Sir W. Ramsay on. 111
• Production in the United States, 217 Coke for Locomotive Fuel, 111
• Coke, Red-hot, Experiments in Water Absorption, 137
• Colliery and Mining Society to be Formed as a Result of Use of Electricity in Mine’s, 421
• Explosives in Coal Mines, Home-office Order, 449
• Fire-damp Detection, New Invention, 501 Inter-State Transportation of Coal in the United States, 527
• Midland Colliery Managers and the Eight Hours Act, 275
• Naval Ships and Fife Coal, 162
• New Zealand Collieries Haulage System, 163 Panama Railway as Coal Importer, 449 Yorkshire Trade, 96

• COAL Tar Product for Insulating Purposes, 501 Coast Erosion, Royal Commission, 317
• College, East London, Lectures on Electrification of Main Lines, L. Murphy, 569 ; G.B. System of Electric Tramways, Professor J. T. Morris, 569
• College, Merchant Venturers’ Technical, Bristol, 330
• College of Science, Imperial, Appointments and Honours, 317; Mine Purchase for Survey Study, 317
• Combustible Mineral Production in Prance, 241 Comet and “ Moving Pictures,” 343
• Compressed Air, Dielectric Strength of, 293

Concrete :

• Armoured, Use in United States, 601 Beams, Test of Three Large Reinforced, 421 Boats for Italy, 475
• Building, General Post-office Extension, 37 Buildings for Toronto, 343
• Caissons, Reinforced, for Railway Bridge in Holland. 421
• Construction, Reinforced, Lectures, C. F. Marsh, 75
• Reinforced, Lining for American Railway Tunnel, 369
• Telegraph Poles, Use Extended by Pennsylvania Railroad, 293

• COOLING Tower Tests, 527 Cooling Water for Mineral Water Production,
• New Method, 369
• Copper in Alaska, 293
• Copper Discoveries in Sikkim, 343
• Corsica’s Trade in Machinery, Slight Increase, 659
• Crank Shafts Deformation, Experiments and Calculations, 501
• Creosote Treatment of Cheap Woods, 111 Crompton and Company, Christmas Treat, 48 Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Awards, 348, 393
• Crystal Palace, Old Students’ Society, Conversazione, 508
• Cupolas, Foreign, Dimensions, 87

• DAIMLER Engine Trials, 489
• Dakar, New Port on West African Coast. 658 Devonport Dockyard, Unemployment Question, 633
• Diamond Drill Holes, Method of Ascertaining Deviation from the Straight, 421
• Dock at Jarrow, Admiralty Subsidy to Tyne Authorities Suggested, 607 at Marseilles, Projected New. 87 Steel Floating, for Norway, 667 Docks, Clyde Graving, 172
• on the East Coast, Questions in Parliament, 475 Donkin, Bryan, Fund, 176
• Dredge, Worked by Gasoline Engine, 317 Dredger, Gas-operated, for Drainage Canal Work in Iowa, 137
• Dredger, United States Clatsop, 17,000 Miles Voyage, 25
• Dredgers, Various, for Foreign Ports, Simons, 667 Dredging of Baltimore Channel, 633

• EAR Projectors for the Navy, 187
• Earthquake Resisted by Concrete, 482
• Edinburgh and Engineering, 146

Electrical Matters;

• Accident, Alternating-current Motor Explosion,
• Arc Lamp Carbons, Suggested Remedy for Flickering. 37
• Battery for Rolling Mill, Large, 87
• Direct-current Machines, Determination of Efficiency, 37
• Electrical Energy in Buildings, Mr. J. Swinburne’s Report to Home Department, 87
• Engineering Products, Decline in Exports from Germany, 369
• Engineering Trade Combination in Capetown, 217
• Equipment in Japanese Mines, 449 Furnace, New Type, 63 Industry Syndicate for Turkey, 369J
• Electrical Lighting Statistics, a Growing Industry, 449
• Manufacturers’ Association, National, Meeting, 408
• Power for Spain, Chiefly Made in Germany, 580
• Smelting in Sweden, 421
• Sounding Apparatus, Schortan Type, 11
• Standardising, Testing, and Training Institution, Faraday Scholarship, 328
• Storage Battery for Manchester, Largest in Great Britain, 501 Supply Companies in North of England, Projected Linking-up, 87
• Trades Benevolent Institution, Dinner, 273
• Electro-metallurgy, Belgian Report, 191 Electro-technical Commission, International, 254
• Energy Consumption with Various Air Brakes, Results, 137
• Farnham Electric Lighting by Overhead Wires, Powers Refused, 217
• Frequency of Alternating Currents, Method of Measuring, 369
• Generator, High-speed Electric, 395
• Giffie Electrical Furnace. 475
• Hemp Core instead of Wire for Swedish Transmission Line, 163
• High Generator Voltage in Austria-Hungary,
• Hydro-electric Power Station in Michigan, 87 Hydro-electric Stati^^r in Snain, 110, 163 Induction Motors, Devic'^s for Improvement of Starting Conditions, 267
• Induction Motors, Slip and Speed Measurements, 191
• Insulation of Transformer Oil, 293
• Insulator Defects Due to Annealing, 527 Insulators, High Tension, Method of Testing, 267
• Japan, Electrical Machinery for, Competition to Supply, 581
• Metallic Filament Lamps and the South Metropolitan Electric Company, 217
• Motor, Large, at German Ironworks, 63
• Motor, 6000 Horse-power, Largestin the World, 37
• Nitric Acid Manufacture by Electric Power,
• Oil Separator at Power Station of Chicago Elevated Railway, 217
• Peat or Coal for Electricity Production. 267 Power Stations, Parallel Operations of. 267 Rotary Converter, Direct Current Voltage, 217 Russian Electrical Prospects, 72
• South Wales Electrical Supply, Transfer of Authority, 581
• Squirrel-cage Induction Motors, 501 Transformer to Replace Present System o
• Batteries for Door Bells, &n., 633
• Transformers, Star or Delta Connections 191 Transmission Line, Niagara-Syracuse-Auburn, Largest Existing, 607
• Transmission Line Operating at 500,000 Volts, 527
• Transmission Wires, Chart for Calculating,
• Turbo-Generating Set, Exhaust Steam, for Darlington, Comparison of Cost, 449

• ENGINEERS’ Standardised Publications Association, 311
• Exhibition, Aeronautical, at Frankfort-on-Maine, 343, 475
• Aeroplane, at Olympia, 11, 238 Agricultural Machinery, at Omsk, 311
• Building, Permanent, for Manchester, 26, 176
• Electrical, Proposed at Brescia, 11 Imperial International, 1909, 254. 432
• Railway, at Buenos Aires, 217, 350 Winnipeg Industrial, Steam Engines Class, 150
• Explosion, Naval; Lubricating Oil Precautions, 61
• Explosive, Discovery of New Powerful, at Woolwich, 395
• Explosives, Abel Heat Test for. Home-office Committee Appointed, 449
• in Coal Mines, Prohibition by Home-office, 449
• Safe Destruction of, 11
• Eye Affections Caused by Herzian Waves, 444

• FACTORY Department of Home-office to be
• Transferred to Board of Trade, 137
• Factory Regulation of Metal Coating and Glass
• Enamelling, 137
• Ferro-silicon, Board of Trade Notice, 330 Ferro-tungsten, Powdered for High-speed Steels,
• 581
• Files, Admiralty Requirements, 527 Finland, Trorfields Discovered, 343 Fireboat for Spezta, Merry weather, 568 Fireclay Discovery in Queensland, 659 Firedamp Detection, New Invention, 501 Firedamp Detector, 143
• Flanging Bilge Plates, and Joining Lead Pipes, New Method, 267
• Fleet-street, Lighting with High-pressure Gas, 11 Forgings of British Manufacture for British Warships, 293
• FrankflKt Ae-onantical Exhibition, 343, 475 Fuel, Artificial, Factory in France with British Capital, 633
• Gas Analysers, Investigation 191 Purchased on Heat Value in United States, 555
• Testing Plant at Ottawa, 475 Fuels, Low-grade, for Producer Gas Manufacture, 163

• GALVANOMETER, Moving Coil, Advantages of,
• Gas, Coal, Production in the United States, 111 or Electric Lighting: Effect of New Methods on Human Eyesight, 421 Engineers at Bamford, 568
• Engines Replace Windmills in Holland, 137 Escapes in Mines Caused by Earthquakes, 217
• Ignition by Electric Wire, 137
• Lighting of Maldon, Improvements Reduce Cost, 217
• Manufacture and Lighting, Keith Lectures by H. O’Connor, 136,187, 216 and Oil Engines in Japan, 395
• Output and Cost in United Kingdom, 217 or Steam Engines, Comparison as to Reliability, 658
• Supply Line between Suction Producer and Engine, Insertion of Check Valve, 37 Tests of Heating Values, 395
• Thermometer at Washington, Five Years’ Progress of Construction, 37
• Geometry for Schools, 369
• Georgian Bay Ship Canal Projected, 421
• German RoVed Iron SecVons for Structural Purposes ; Stahl und Eisen on the Engineering Standards Committee, 421
• Germany, Strike Statistics, 63
• Glasgow University, Honorary Degrees Conferred, 644
• Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical CoUege, Retirement of Professor A. H. Sexton, 229 Glass Chimneys, Heat-resisting, for Coal Miners’ Lamps. 163
• Gold Dredging Successful in Klondike, 37
• Gold Output from Gold Coast, 659 Graphite, World’s Output, 267
• Greenwich Royal Observatory, Annual Visitation, 607
• Gun-cotton, History of Manufacture, 317 Gunnery and Torpedo Instruction for Senior Officers, 404
• Gunnery and Torpedo Practice, Instruction, 143 Guns and Gun-sights in Royal Naval Vessels, 343 Fourteen-inch, for United States Navy, 11 in the French Army, Parliamentary Dis- cu«sion, 11
• Sjogren’s Automatic Shot, Danish Patent, to be Manufactured in England, 217 Gyroscopic Action of Fly-wheels, Some Fallacies, 632

• HADFIELD’S Steel Foundry, Annual Meeting, 357
• Hardening Powders, Recipe, 217
• Heat, Method for Determination of Mechanical Equivalent, 343
• Heat Transfer, Varying Theories. 11
• Heating Apparatus, German Method of Immersing in Case of Oil-cooled Transformers, 317
• Hot-water from Jackets of Gas Engine, 659
• Hot-water, Turbo Accelerator Hadens, 36
• Hematite Ore Discoveries in North-West land,163
• Hogge’s Cannons, 475
• Hot-air Boot Drier, Foster and Ludlow, 380
• Hot Bearings, Alarm for, 638 Hot-water Service in Public Institutions, (Letter), 429

• ILLUMINANTS for Rooms and Streets, Quantity Required and Cost, 555
• Illumination of Rooms and Light-coloured Walls, 369
• Incandescent Mantle Ash as Commercial Asset, 163
• Indian Temperature, Great Diurnal Variation, 369
• Industrial Poisoning and Accidents Return, 396
• Industrial Sites, Great Western Railway Register, 381
• International Electrotechnical Commission, “Transactions” Published, 536

Iron and Steel:

• Annealing, Micanneal Packing, 96
• Brightside Foundry, Sheffield, Staff Dinner, 59 Furnaces, Stassano, Replace Crucibles for Steel Manufacture at Bonn, 163
• Iron, Electric Smelting Experiments, 37
• Founders’ Conciliation Board, 359
• Ore, Swedish, for the United States, 267
• Pig, Belgian Output, 87, 421
• Pipe Fittings, Cast, Effect of Superheated Steam, 111
• Rusting of, Testing Experiments at Charlottenburg, 581
• Slag Block Pavement in Richmond, New York, 556
• Trade Association, British, Meeting; United States and French Tariffs; Electric Smelting of Iron Ore in Sweden, 266
• Wrought, Pipe, Cement-lined, 137 Manganese Steel, Characteristics of, 267 Nickel Steel Rivets, Strength under Test, 475 Pig Iron in Canada, 343
• Steel, Basic, French Experiments on Gas Discharged, 11
• Castings in United States, 343
• Differentiation between kinds shown by Sparks Emitted in Grinding, 421
• Magnetic Properties Effected by Rolling,
• Steel Works and Scientific Research, 11 United States Total of Iron and Steel Finished Products, 607

• JAPAN as Market for Machinery and Tools, 343 I
• Japanese Architects’ Mission'to Europe, 241
• Japanese Engineering Undertakings, 111 Jericho, Ancient Walls Discovered, 63
• Jib Derrick, Unusnal Size for Log Handling, 317
• Jointing Material for Steam Pipes, Krausse and Auerbach, 669

• KEROSENE, Origin of Title, 317
• Kitchens, Field, for Austrian Army, 488
• Kite Station on Lake Constance, 267
• “ Kulm,” Swedish Company formed to Work, 581

• LAMPS, Carbon Electric, Rating, 501
• Mercury Vapour, Increased Efficiency, 317
• Metallic Filament, Caution to Purchasers, 369
• as Protection for Street Workers, 11
• Tungsten, for Street Lighting, Improved Light at Low Cost, 37 Lantern Slides of Engineering Works, Siemens, 254
• Lantern Slides, Union Electric Company, 311 Lathe, An Amateur’s, 22
• Lead Production in the United States, 111 Leadworks near Tunis, 629
• Life-saving Society’s Charts, Royal, 435 Lightning Rods for Chimneys, 37
• Lignite, Principal Producing Countries, 241 Livesey, Sir George, Memorial, 70
• Lloyds’ Register—see Ships
• London Chamber of Commerce and Railway Amalgamation Bill, 191

• MAGNETIC Survey in the United States, 475
• Manchester, Permanent Exhibition, Building for, 26, 176, 191
• Manganese Ore Discovered on Table Mountain, 421
• Manganese Ore, Russian Railway Rates for Transport, 217
• Matches, Prohibition of Use of White Phosphorus, 633
• Maw, Mr. W. H., Career; Receives Honorary Degree from Glasgow University, 644
• Melinile Inventor and Another New Powder, 293 Mersey Revetment Scheme. 633
• Metal, New Discovery in Japan, 217
• Metals, Autogenous Smelting of. Association for, 395
• Metric System Universal except in Great Britain and in the United States, 293
• Mica Grinding in Canada, 633
• Mica, Scrap, for Wall Papers, Paints, &c., 581 Milan, Canal and Dock Accommodation, Statistics, 658

Mines and Minerals:

• Austrian Mines, Rescue Chambers, 343
• Coal Dust Experiments to Prevent Accidents in Mines, 241
• Gas Escapes in Mines Caused by Earthquakes, 217
• Gravel Mining, Hydraulic, 63
• Laboratory of Mines Department, Victoria, Australia, 607
• Life Saving in Mines, Tyndall Medal for Inventions, 241
• Mineral Rights and Concessions in India, 163 Statistics for Peru, 87
• Wealth of the Caucasus, Neglected State, 449
• Minerals of Tasmania, Report, 241
• Miners and Mine Owners in New Zealand, 191 Miners’ Wages, 216
• Mining Regulations in Australia, 63
• Molybdenite Discovery in Pera, 601
• Royal School of Mines, Old Students’ Dinner, 250
• Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 655

• MIRROR, Largest Optical, 63
• Monel Metal Alloy, Tests, 395
• Motor Car Industry in St. Louis, Remarkable Growth, 633
• Handbook, Rolls-Royce, 434 Noise, Use of Stethoscope, 163 Motor Cars and the Budget, Roads Question, 568
• Historical, at Imperial Exhibition, 432
• and Tramcars, Question of Passing, 217
• Wanted in Turkey, 581
• Motoring and Wireless Telephony, 527

• NAPHTHA Bore-holes, Uses of Accompanying Water, 655
• Naples, Deficiency of Harbour Accommodation, 369
• National Electrical Manufacturers’ Association, Meetings, 480, 620
• National Physical Laboratory, Experiments on Satisfactory Form of Electric Heating Unit, 607
• Naval Architecture, Scholarship and Bequests by Dr. Elgar, 241
• Cadet Examinations, Result, 33 Officers, Courses of Instruction, 241 Stokers, Questions in Parliament, 627 “New York Times” Building Intersected by Railway Lines. 476
• Niagara Falls and Great Lakes ; Treaty between Canada and United States, 163
• Niagara Power Plants Interfered with by Ice, 267, 395
• Nicolson, Dr., on Heat Transmission in Steam Boilers, 146
• Nipporium, New Metal, 217
• Nitrate Supplies in Chili, Practically Inexhaustible, 217
• Northampton Polytechnic Institute, sazione, Prize Awards, 132
• Nova Scotia, Engineering and Coal Schools, 191

• OIL Discovery near Suez
• Output in California
• Pipe Line, New Method, in California. 11
• Wells, Method to Prevent Spouting, 163
• Oilfield Developments in California, 11
• Omsk, Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, 311
• Ordnance Survey of United Kingdom, 111
• Ore Concentration Abandoned on the Rand, 217
• Ozone as a Disinfectant, 421

• PANAMA Canal Excavation, Progress, 655 ; Rainfall, 317
• Patent Act, The New—see afxo Burntisland Convention between Germany and United States, 317
• Law and Danish Shot Guns, 217
• Models, Accumulation in United States, 11
• Patents in the United Kingdom, Comptroller- General’s Report, 434
• Patents, United States, Report, 137
• Pendulnm Experiments by Dr. O. Kriiger, 449 Pensions, Old Age, and 11.M. Dockyard Labourers, 581
• Petrol Engine Rating, Report on Proposals of Siciety of Motor Manufacturers, 607 in Germany, Great Increase in Production, 658
• Standard Specification Suggested, 681
• Tax : Petition by Taxicab Drivers, 607 Petroleum. Deep Wells in Burma, Increased Output, 191
• Petroleum Outputs of Various Countries, 217 Pipe Jointing Material, ‘’Kandarit,” for Steam
• Pipes, Krausse and Auerbach, 6f9
• Pipe Joints, Cement, in Ordinary Pipe, 63 Plate Girders, Simple Lowering Rig for, 843 Platinum Industry in Russia, State Regulation, 527
• Ploughs for Adrianople, Imports from Germany and Austria, 633
• Portland Cement, Sotting Affected by
• Salts, 627 Port Sudan Workshop Equipment, 449 Postcards, Picture, for Engineers, 556 Post Office Eogiooering Department,
• Dinner, 216 Pretoria, Municipal Improvements Loan,

• QUEBEC, Tunnel Proposed under St. Lawrence, 317
• Quix, 357

• RADIO-ACTIVE Constants, Table of, 317 Radiotelegraphic Station, French, on Large Scale near German Frontier, 293
• Radiotelegraphy, Powerful Plant for Washington, 369
• Radium, High Value of Present to Radium Institute, Quantity Supplied from Cornwall, 659
• from Pitchblende, Mine Tailings in Cornwall. 39,5
• Reported Rival, Sir W. Ramsay Sceptical, 241
• Found in Swedish Lignite, 577

Railways and Tramways:

• Accident, North-Eastern Railway, Defective Permanent Way, 607
• Shunting, on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 293. 369
• Signalling, on Midland Railway, Major Pringle’s Report, 449 Tonbridge Junction Collision, 267 Accidents, Railway Coupling, Board of Trade Report, 217
• Accidents, United Kingdom Railways’ Immunity from, 554, 581
• Accumulator Cars on Main Lines, 63 Agreement, Traders Petition against Amalgamation, 293—see. Great Central and Great Northern
• Aleppo Railways Inadequate for Trade, 6.59 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Annual Reports, 421
• America and Sze-Chuan Railway, 659 American Railway Statistics. 395 American Transcontinental Railways, Completion of Sixth, 369
• Andes, Various Railways Completed and in , Progress. 396, .501
• Anglesea, London and North-Western Railway Extension, 655
• Argentine Railway Concession to King Leopold,
• Association of Railway Companies’ Signal Superintendents’ and Engineers’ Conference, 555
• Australia, Tpan’oontinental Railway Survey,
• Australia’s Variety of Ganges, 449
• Antoraatio CmoHags, “Repu'ae” System on Italian Railways, 241
• Ayr Trainway Extension, 137
• Bakerloo and other Tube Railways, Progress. 217
• Bavarian Government and Water Power, Concession Applied for, .501
• Railways and Tramways
• Belgian Narrow-gauge Railways (Vicinal), Conversion to Electric Traction, 343
• Beleian Railways Turbine Steamers, 2^
• Berlin Underground Railways without Roofing, 137
• Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, Record Earnings and Low Cost of Workinsr-
• Birmingham to Derby, New Track, 63
• Birmingham Tramcars, Proposal for Horae Manufacture, 501
• Block Signalling, American Report; Reference to British Methods, 633
• Block Signalling on United States Railways, Increased Use. 607
• Board of Trade Railway Returns, 527
• Board of Trade Tramwey and Light Railway Returns, 63
• Boston Elevated Railway Company Engineers Meetings, 555
• Boston’s Subway and Elevated Railways Costly Construction, 11
• Bradford Tramway Scheme, 369 Brazil, Branch Railway Concession, 63 Brazil Railways Extension, 191
• Brennan’s Mono-Rail System offered to Australia, 87
• Brighton Company’s Relief Lines, Extension, 137
• Budapest and Waitzen, New Railway Projected. 369
• Buenos Aires Railway Exhibition, 217
• Cambrian and Great Western, Joint Economies, 111
• Canada’s New Trans-Continental Railway, &c., E. B. Osborn, 191
• Canadian Northern Railway, Quebec to Montreal. 241
• Northern R'^ilway Workshop Extension. 37
• Pacific Railway, Montreal Station Enlargement, 241
• Partial Electrification, 163 Proposed Extensions, 191 Rolling Stock, Enormous Increase and Demand, 191 Cape to Cairo Railway, Progress and Importance, 327, 658
• Carpentaria, Gulf of, Survey for Railway from Clonearry, 293
• Cattle Transp'»rt bv Passenger Train, 527 Chicago Consular Report, Year Unfavourable to Railways, 633
• Chicago. Milwaukee, and Puget Sound Railway, Last Rail Laid, 633
• Chili, Railway from General Cruz to Camarico Projected. 542
• Chilian Railway Electrification, 527 Chinese Railway Enterprise, Growth, 111, 607 Construction, Loan Agreement, 633
• Mileage Constructed, 343 Coke for Locomotive Fuel, 111
• Cologne to Diisseldorf, Proposed Electric Railway, 87
• Concrete Ca'ssons, Reinforced, for Railway Bridge in Holland, 421
• Concrete Cross Sleepers on German Street Riilways ; Successful Result, 163
• Corunna District; Projected Railways, 659 Creosoted Piles on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, Durability of, 475
• Cricklewood and Victoria, Proposed Underground Extension, 63
• Crude Oil Tire-heaters on American Railway, 293
• Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Extension, 163 Direct-current Third-rail System for Tunnel Traffic in New York, 87
• District Railway takes over London and North- Western Electric Locomotives, 191
• East Indian Railway Bridges, 111
• Edinburgh Cable Tramways and Board of Trade, 317
• Edinburgh and Railless Tramways, 408 Electric Car Equipment, Rate of Depreciation, 421
• Equipment on Milwaukee Company’s Lines, Change to Avoid Sub-stations, 501
• Heating and Ventilating of Cars in Chicago, 37
• 1200-Volt, Interurban Line, Pittsburg and Newcastle Railway, 37
• Locomotive, New Type, American Experiments, 633
• Railway, Men’s Severe Tests in U. S.A., 409
• Railway Mileage in Canada, 555 Shunting Locomotives, 40-Ton, on the Chicago Railway, 11
• Tramway Accidents in America, 87 Tramway Extension to Herne Hill; also to Cambridge Heath Railway Station, 633
• Tramways in Russia, 317 Electrification of East London and South London Railways, Financial Aspect, 111
• of Prussian Railways, Delayed for Financial Reasons, 87
• of St. Clair Tunnel, Success and Great Reduction in Cost, 369
• of Swedish Railways, Experimental. 317
• of United States Main Lines Discussed, 191
• Elevators in New York City, Six Million Passengers Daily, 607
• Embankments, Grass Sown to Hold, 449 European Railways, French Report on, 137 Euston and Watford Tube Railway. Ill Experimental Track for Overhead Trolley Construction in Pennsylvania Tunnel Railway,
• Fish and Parcel Van, Electrical, for North- Eastern Railway, 395
• Flags on Disabled Cars for Protection of Men at Work on Them, 501
• Franklin and Clearfield Railway, Tunnel Lining, Method of Construction, 421
• French Railway Servants’ Pension Scheme, 293
• Gasholders. Travelling Vehicles for Bengal- Nagpur Railway. 475
• Georgia, Motor Vehicles Carry Mails during Railway Strike. 555 ; Strike Endp 531
• German-Swedish Steam Train Ferry Service, 527
• Great Central, Great Eastern, and Great Northern Railways Agreement, Repairing Shop Changes, 11
• Great Northern, &e.. Railways Agreement Opposed by London Chamber of Commerce, 191; and by Traders, 293; Approved by Bradford Chamber of Commerce, 369
• and City Losses, Competition with Tramways. 163 Enfield - Stevenage Loop Line, 163
• Takes Over Joint Line from Lincoln to March. 659
• Great Western Railway Steamships, Enlarged Powers Applied for, 241
• Gun-carrying Trucks on Great Western, 343 Havti and San Domingo, Need of Railways, 581
• Hertford Loop Line of Great Northern Railway, 267
• High-tension Direct-current Trolley Wire on Inter-urban Railway, 163
• Home Railway Construction, Estimated Expenditure, 137
• Honduras, Railway Extension, 581
• Hounslow New Station and Extended District Service. 421
• Hudson Bay Railway Survey, Progress, 317 Indian Rolling Stock, Native Manufacture of, 659
• Indian Trains. Lighting, 205, 475
• Indo-Ceylon Railway, 581. 607
• Inter-State Transport of Coal in United States, 527
• Italian Government Concession for Branch Railway, 555
• Italian-Swiss Railway Projected, 217
• Italy, Projected New Port and Railway to Rome, 633
• Japanese Electric Railway at Keihan, Plant | Orders for Great Britain, 293 I
• Lake Shore Electric R lilwaymen’s Severe Tests, I 409
• Lancashire and Yorkshire Proposed Extension, 191
• Leopoldina Railway Extension, 659
• Light Railway Commissioners, Orders Confirmed and Applied for, 45, 96,191, 659
• Report, 483 Suggest Amendments of Light Railways Act, 514
• Lighting Carriages by Coal-gas (Correction, 48) Liverpool, Failure of First-class Tramcar Service, 317
• Locomotive, High Steam Pressure, Tests by Illinois Experiment Station, 163
• Locomotive and Rolling Stock Repairs, Cost Statistics, 395
• London, Brighton, and South Coast, London Bridge and Victoria Electrification, 37. 449, .581
• County Council Electric Tramways, Extension between Dulwich and Forest Hill, 11
• Tramways and Improvements Bill, 37 and North-Western, Cheshire Line from Wilmslow to Levenshulme, 501
• and North-Western. Non-stop Train, Euston to Rhyl, 659
• and North-Western, Mr. G. Whale’s Resignation, 22
• and South-Western, Widening between Copplestone and Umberleigh, 449 Madrid to Utiel, Plans called for for Railway, 475
• Manchurian Railways, Russo-Chinese Agreement, 501
• Melbourne, Mr. Merz’s Report on City Railways Electrification, Scheme Suspended, 11; Scheme Abandoned, 527
• Mexican Government Contract for Railway Extension. 555
• Mexican Railway Consolidation, 395
• Midland Railway Arbitration, Lord Cromer’s Award, 369
• Railway and Derby Gas Company, 37
• Midland Railway’s New Line — itee Water Orton
• Mongolian Railway Projected by Princes, 395 Moscow to Paris Train de Luxe, 137
• Natal Government Railway Works at Durban, Extension, 555
• Natal Railways, Record Speed in Catering, 475 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway, Overhead Contact Line Modifications, 421 ; Round House, 317
• Street Railway Power Station, Use of Soft Coal, 501
• Terminus of Pennsylvania Railroad, and Bridge beiween New York end Long Island, 369
• New Zealand Railways, Economies, 267 Non-stop TraifS on the District Railway, 111 North British Railway Widening, Rapid Work, 191
• Eastern Railway, Extension of Electrification, 659
• Eastern Signalling Cabin at Newcastle, Largest in England. 421
• Formosa Railway. 633
• West London Railway and “Bakerloo,” 63
• West London Railway Bill, Evidence before Select Committee, 501
• Ohio Electric Railway, Flat Cars for Grain Transport, 163
• Oil Treatment for Preserving Sleepers, 659 Omnibus Service by Railway Companies, 87 Osaka to Takaradyuka : Projected Electric Railway, 137
• Ottoman Railway, Financial Statement, 343 Overhead Steel Trolley Wires. 633 Palestine Trade Report, Railways Projected, 527
• Panama Railway as Coal Importer and Dealer, 449
• Paris Metropolitan Railway Tunnels, Progress, 204
• Pars Tramways, Financial Aspect, 241
• Railways and Tramways (ronfinw^f); »
• Pennsylvania Railroad Commission Seeks Power to Remove Level Cro«^ sines, 191
• Freedom from Accidents, 581
• Fire Extinction, 205 Powerful Locomotives. 11
• Signalling School. 449 Tunnel and Terminal Railway I Coranany: Changed Schemefor Electric Traction, 11
• Pirfcns-Athens Frontier Railway, Progress, I £07
• Porto Rico Trade and Railway Extension, 581 Potteries Railway in Staffordshire, Proposed Re-openine, 449
• Prossian State Railways Locomotives, 449 Punctuality «»f Hi^h-speed Trains, Pennsylvania Company’s Record, 421
• Radcliffe Viaduct on Gnat Northern, Recon- struction Begun, 343
• Rail Section on Canadian Pacific Ptailway, 267 Railless Electric Traction between Krano and St. Lucia, 87
• Rails, Wear of, Experiments on the Harriman Lines, 37
• Railway Agreements and Traders’ Objections, 267
• Combinations and the Board of Trade. 217
• Maintenance of Way. Tratman, 43
• Returns for United Kingdom, 607 Rateable Value of Railway Land, Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Company, 241 Rawtenstall and Boeup, Electric Trarawavs, 526 Record 965 Miles Run in United States,'42O Rhodesia, Southern, Bliokwater Line from Gwelo Completed, 475
• Road-motor Service Discontinued by Great Eastern, 267
• Rome to Naples Railway, Progress, 317 Roumanian Electric Tramways. 581 Russian Government Railway Gaarantee Suspended, 475
• Russian Railways Projected, 217, 449 St. Clair Tunnel, Improvements by Railway Electrification, 63
• San Fernando to Malaga, Strategic Railway Proposed. 475
• Shanghai-Hangchau Railway, Kiangsu Section Opened, 576
• Shovel, *‘Thew” Antomatio, Electrically- driven, Cost of Operating, 241
• Siamese Railway Extension, 37 ; Suspended, 421
• Signalling, Automatic Block, System on Lebanon Valley-street Railway,
• New Electric System on Great Western at Birmingham, 267 School Set Up by Pennsylvania Railroad, 449
• System, Changesand Experiments on Great Western and Other Lines, 217
• Single-phase System Advantages, 369 Snow Dislocates Tramway Service, 87 Snow Ploughs on Midland Riilway. 343 South African Railway Extension, 607 South American Railway Extension, 527 South-Western, Further Dock Extension at Southampton Projected, 659
• South Yorkshire Joint Line Opened, 217 Spanish Railway Extension, 87, 581
• Speed Indicators for Tramcars Discussed, 475
• Indicator Trials by Tramways and Light Railways Association, 658 of Trains and Increase of Passengers in India, 607
• Stay-bolts, Electrolytic Copper, Bad Results on Prussian Locomotives, 555
• Steam Tramways in Italy, 555
• Steel for Rails in United States, Comparison of Working Results, 555
• Strahane to Letterkenny Railway Opened, 137
• Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction R til way Company, Railway Amalgamations, 63
• Street and Electric Railways in United States. SrAtistics, 191
• Swedish Railway Electric System, Favourable Reprt, 241
• Swiss Railway Electrification Report. 163
• Railway Extension, Doubtful Schemes, 63 Railways, Electric Traction Special Commission, 191
• Switzerland, New Fast Service from London, 317
• Sydney Harbour Crossing, Royal Commission’s Report, 475
• Testing Car for Rail Joints on Vienna Tramways, 395
• Tiflis to Vladikavkas, Electric Railway Projected, 293, 475
• Timber Sleepers for United States Imported from Japan, 163
• Traders and Railway Companies, Board of Trade Reply, 241
• Tramcar Disinfection in Liverpool, 594 Tramway Accidents, Associations’ Reports, 11 Tramway Schemes in St. Pancras, Borough Council and L.C.C., 87
• Tramways Opened between Hammersmith and Putney; also between Chelsea Bridge and Lavender Hill, 87
• Trans-Formnsan Railway, 059
• Transportation Subways in Chicago, 527 Transvaal Railway Extension, 581. 629
• Trieste to Ofcina Railway Electrification, 317 Trolley Tramway Wires, Copper Sheathing for, 137
• Truck Acts and Railway Efficiency, 83
• Tube Extension to Liverpool-street from Shepherds Bush, 655
• Tube Railway Stations, Time-saving Devices.
• 293
• Tunnel Records on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Puget Sound Railway, 137
• Turkish Railway Schemes, 343
• Tyne, Tube Railway under, 37 United Kingdom, Immunity from Railway Accidents. 554
• Uruguay, Interior Railway, Colonisation Scheme, 317
• Uruguay, Railway Extension in, 659
• Waltham Abbey. Electric Railway frem Monument, Delay of Scheme, 581
• Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, Change of Equipment, 343
• Water Orton and Kingsbury Extension, 137, 449
• Waterloo Station Improvements, 63
• Weighing Machines for Export Mineral Traffic on North British Railway, 475
• West African Railway Extension, 111, 631 Wireless Telegraphy on Trains, Experiments in the United Staten, 395
• York Electric Tramways, Municipalisation Question, 421
• Yunnen Railway, Loan for Construction Authorised by French Government, 217

• RATING of Machinery, 368
• Refrigerating Plant, Small, Electrically-driven, 87
• Rhodesia, Small Gold Mines, 358
• Roads and Dust-laying in Cheshire, 555 and Motors Conference, 301 and Tar Spreading in Berlin, 7
• Rock Crushers, Experiments to Reduce Dangerous Vibration. 137
• Drilling at Elizabeth Lake Tunnel, American Records Brokeo, 217 Temperature in Bendigo Mines, 317 Rolling Mills, T. Firth’s, at Sheffield, 136 Rontgen Society’s Meeting, 633
• Rosyth Naval Base, Contract and Details of Work, 174
• Rotterdam, Dredging and Port Improvement, 475
• Ruler, Flexible, for Draughtsmen, Wilkins and Wright, 382

• SALT Water as Weed Killer, 111
• Salvage Work, Rapid Method, 633
• Sand Dunes, Shifting, on Borders of Lake Michigan, 607
• Scottish Contractors’ Association Formed, 497 Servia as Market for Machinery, 87
• Seville, Harbour Improvements and New Canal, 395
• Sewage Experiment Station at Chicago, 293
• Sewage Screenings for Boiler Firing, 421
• Sewer Tunnel Construction, Natural Rock Roof instead of Artificially Constructed Arch, 137
• Shell for United States Army, Novel Design, 527 Shellac, Used in Solid Form in India, Distinct from Ordinary Lacquer, 658
• Ships and Shipping* Matters:
• Armoured Cruisers to be Laid Down on the Clyde, 267
• Baltimore Shipbuilding Statistics, 633
• Battleship Building Pressed Forward at Portsmouth, 449
• Belgian Railway’s New Turbine Steamers, 241 Boadicea, Speed Trials, 343
• Board of Trade Certificate for Motor Vessels, 633
• Brazilian Destroyer Parahyba Launched on the Clyde, 527
• Brazilian Destroyer Rio Grande do Norte, Trials at Yarrow’s, 475
• British Corporation for Survey and Registry of Shipping, 254
• Bulwark, H, M. Battleship, Armament Refit, 137
• Caird’s Yard, Alterations, 216
• Clyde and Belfast, New Liners Building, 33 Shipbuilding and Labourers’ Wages, 659 in January, 132 Revival, 228
• Coaling Record by King Edward Seventh, 241 Concrete Vessels for Italy, 475
• Cornwall, H.M.S., Passing Out Examination, 377
• Craster Hall Launched, 177
• Cruisers, Special Service in British Navy, 633 Defence, H.M. Cruiser, Gunsight Testing, 217 Delaware, United States Battleship, 163 Destroyers for Australia, 304
• Dreadnoughts, Building Facilities at Elswick, 381
• Dreadnought Construction, Questions in Parliament, 527
• French Battleship Danton, Unsuccessful Launch, 555
• Ships and Shipping* Matters {continued)*
• French Navy Council Programme, 607
• Navy and Wireless Telephony, 395, 658
• Funnels of British Warships to be Lengthened, 137
• German Cruiser Fleet, Launch of the Mainz, 267
• German Cruiser Mainz Fitted with German Turbines. Ill
• Gladiator, H.M.S., Cost, Original, and Repairs after Salviner, 592
• Gladiator, H.M. Cruiser, Sold for Breaking Up, 527
• Good Hope, Argyll and Arrogant, H.M. Cruisers, Gunnery Experiments, 501
• Greenock Shipbuilding, 216
• Isherwood System, 254
• Italian Imports of Steam Engines and Boilers Diminished by Home Manufacture, 137
• Itchen, H.M. Destroyer, Damaged Propellers, 581
• Japanese Shipbuilding Legislation, 369
• Jarrow Slake as Repairing Base for Warships, 58
• Lloyd’s Register, Shipping Output, 62, 87. 895 of Shipping, Staff Changes, 20, 408
• of Shipping, Scholarship Offered. 394
• Mantua, P. and 0. Liner, Caird and Co., 216 Mauretania’s Ocean Records, 241
• Naval Ships and Fife Coal. 162
• Ocean, H.M. Battleship, Steam Trial, 343 Oil for Torpedo Boats Discarded by Admiralty, 136
• Onyx as DepOt Ship for Submarines, 421 Productiveness, Rewards and Penalties, W. R. Austin. 48
• Russian Fast-steaming Torpedo Cruisers, 217 Seagull, Service Steamer for Rangoon. 178 Shipbuilding Prospects at Antwerp, 317 Shipbuilding in Scotland, Favourable Prospect, 343
• Shipping at Amsterdam. Increase, 191 Shipowners* Union to Regulate Output, Pro- j’^cted International, 111
• Ships Longitudinally Framed, 177
• Submarine Base at Dundee, Admiralty Contract, 317, 555
• Diving Record, 63 Mining Vessels for Russia, 581 Thornycroft Launch, Gyrinus IL, Wins at Monaco, 369
• Turbines Combined with Reciprocating Engines, 254
• Warships, Old, as Targets, 475
• Warships in Progress, Dates of Probable Completion. 658

• SILICON, High Electrical Resistance of, 449 Slide Rule, Easyr Slide Rule Company, 628
• Small Arma Factory, Australia, Tenders. 70 Smelter Production of Lead in United States, 633
• Smoke Abatement Exhibition. 119
• Smoke Nuisance and the London County Council, 501 _
• Snow Gauging Stations in Rocky Mountains, 527
• Snow on Highways in United States, 317
• Steam Pipe Jointing Material, “Kandarit,” Krausse and Auerbach, 569
• Pipes, Pressure Drop Experiments, 191 Shovel Excavation in Alasha, 343 Trawling and Cables off the Irish Coast, 191
• Steel—see Iron and Steel
• Street-cleansing and Watering Machine in Paris. 191
• Sugar Cane Cultivation in India, Use of Sulphate of Ammonia, 658
• Sugar Mills in South Formosa, 241
• Sulphur Deposits in Trans- Caspia, 581
• Sulphur Elimination in the Cupola, 137 Sulphuric Acid, Company to Manufacture, Formed at Milan, 658
• Sunshine Recorded by Campbell-Stokes Instrument, 607
• Sun’s Rays, Scientific Observations in California, 658
• Superheated Steam, Effect on Cast Iron Pipe Fittings, 111
• Swiss Machinery, Trade Thrivine^. 87
• Sydney Harbour Crossing, Royal Commissioners’ Report, 475

• TANK, Steel Water, in Chicago Shops, Long Life of, 449
• Taxicabs, Meters Tested by National Physical Laboratory, 655
• Taximeters Connected to Cabs’ Front Wheels, 87 Technical Teachers* Annual Conference, 566 Telegraph and Telephone Arrangements in
• Canada, Nationalisation Projected, 343 Telegraphy, Direct, between London and Karachi, 137
• Telegraphy and Telephony as Subjects for Engineering Decree, 63
• Telegraphs in Japan, Wire and Wireless Statistics, 666
• Telephone Charges Reduced in Sweden, 37 Connections, Private, and Post-office Exchanges, 267
• Defects and Improvement, 293 The Humming, Dr. Kennelly, 191 Telephones, Field, for Austrian Army, 111 Telephones in London, Slatistics, 601 Telephone or Morse Signalling, Rival Means of Communication, 421
• Testing Materials, International Association—see Association
• Textile Trades, Board of Trade Statistics, 351 Timber for Railway Water Tanks, Cypress or White Pine, 501
• Tin Discovery in Rhodesia, 475
• Ore Smelting in Electric Furnaces, Experiments, 163
• Plate Crisis, Proposed Strike, 629
• Plates and Galvanised Sheets, Question of Duty, 421
• Recovery by Electrolysis, 633
• Torpedo, Experimental, Loss and Search for, 217 Factory, Removal from Woolwich to Greenock Delayed, 369
• The Williams, Advantages Claimed for, 527
• Tree Planting, Holes Blasted with Dynamite, 421 Trees, Age Scatistics, 317
• Trolley Wires, Necessity for High Tensile Strength. 191
• Tubes—see Boilers
• Tungsten, Molybdenum and other Metals, Development in California, Nevada, &c., 563 Turbines, Double Flow Steam, Nikonow’s Patent, 37
• German, for German Cruiser Mainz, 111
• Steam, on Rubber Foundations, 119 Turkey and Electrical Apparatus, Removal of Restrictions, 191
• UNITED STATES Geological Survey, Inquiry into and Testing of Structural Materials, 627
• Naval Bill, Powers of the President, 191
• Navy, Instruction in Marine Engineering Design, 601 University of Liverpool, Syllabus Changes, 655 Uralite, Fireproof Material, Examined by Royal Engineers, 601

• VALVES and Fittings for High Temperature,
• Expansion Experiments, 11
• Vickers, Sans and Maxim, Colonel Vickers’ Resignation, 668

• WARSAW, Drainage and Water Supply Equipment, 471
• Water Filtering by Slow Sand Method, Cost, 555
• Hammer and Use of Air Chamber, 475
• Power in British Guiana, Waterfall Five Times the Height of Niagara, 241
• Pumping, Electrical, 317
• Water Purification in Germany, Removal of Dissolved Iron, 11
• Softener, W. Boby, 489

Water Supply;

• Derwent Valley Waterworks, Report, 216
• Increase in National Consumption, W. R. Baldwin-Wiseman, 449
• Leven, Vale of, 332 Massachusetts, 607
• Metropolitan Supply and Rainfall Statistics, 63
• Metropolitan Water Board, Opening of Honor Oak Reservoir, 343, 501
• Ohio River Water and Outbreak of Illness, 217
• Trieste, Waterworks Scheme for, 475
• Water Waste in New Jersey, Pitometer Company Inquiry, 627

• WATERPROOFING Qualities of Clay and Alum mixed with Concrete, 343
• Waterways Commission, International, 146
• Weather Reports by Wireless Telegraphy, 37
• Welding, Electric, Time Occupied, 217 Whale, Mr. G., Resignati m, 22
• Wireless Equipment and Masked Lights at Sea, 217
• Telegram Rates for Queenborough- Flashing Steamers, 163
• Telegraphy between Admiralty and Naval Ports, 37 between Admiralty, Rosyth and Fleet at Sea, 87
• at Armstrong College, 137 Communication between Balloons and the Earth, 87
• between Berlin and Vienna, 369 Compulsory for Passenger Ships from America, 163, 202 on the East Coast, Admiralty Scheme, 607 between Eiffel Tower and Canada, 293 and Eye Affections, 444 Fittings of Battleships and Cruisers, Alteration in Height, £94 and Fog Formation, 37 for Genoa District, 633 ac Humberstone, 317 on Merchant Ships, Use Forbidden in Gibraltar Harbour 555 between North Ronald- shay and Sinday, Cost Question, 555 Post-cffice Experiments as to Economy for Short Distances, 449 Post-office Improvements, 395
• Post-office Licence Required, 601 Station at Leeds, 37 Tower in Washington for United States Navy, 317
• on Trains, Experiments in the United States, 395 in United States Navy, Interference by Amateurs, 47-5
• Telephony, Dr. Lee de Forest’s System, 191
• Liquid Microphone for, 293 Trials in France, 395, 658
• Wood Preservation in the United States ; Large Quantities of Chemicals Required, 659
• Workmen’s Accidents, Excessive Number in United States, 63
• Wrierht, Messrs. Orville and Wilbur, Visit to London, 163

• ZEPPELIN II., Particulars of, 395
• Zinc Smelters’ Association, Limited, 191
• Zurich Observatory, Complete Equipment of, 369

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