The Engineer 1909 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1909 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABLETT, C. A., on The Determination of the Economy of Reversing Rolling Mills, 340
Accelerometer, H. E. Wimperis, 524

Accidents:

American Railway, 604
Colliery, in Wales, 475
Crawford Derailment, 7
Floods at Monterey, 238
Priezland Derailment, London and North- Western Railway, 658
Necaxa Dam, No. 2, 101, 143
Newport Dock Disaster, 35 Railway, General Report on, 275
Rhymney Railway Boiler Explosion, 167. 171 ; (Letter), 199 > » ' ,
Submarine, Loss of C 11, 65, 89, 103

ADAMSON, E., on Tests of Cast Iron, 389
Admiralty—see Ships, Naval Matters

Aeronautics:

Aeronautical Motors in Paris, 342, 346, 364— see also Engines and Motors
Aeroplane Development in France—see Rheims Meeting I
Blackpool Aviation Week, 394, 427, 455
Bleriot Monoplane Engine and Channel Flight I 116, 211, 218, 219, 237, 247, 342, 427
Dirigibles and Aeroplanes for the French Army, 639
Doncaster Aeronautical Meeting, 434, 460 Farman Biplane, 211, 218 219, 237 , 247, 364 427, 455
Plight with Passengers, S. P. Cody’s, 190
Flight Problems, Solution of, by Graphical Methods, M. B. Logan, 50
Latham’s Attempt to Fly across Channel. 82
- at Blackpool, 427, 455
Paulhan and Rougier at Blackpool, 427, 455
Rheims 218, 219, 237, 247,
Scottish Aeroplane and Engine, Barnwell. 196
Sommer at Doncaster, 434, 460
Sommer’s Record Aeroplane Flight, 171
Biplane, 211, 218, 219, 237, 247, 427,

AGRICULTURAL Machinery at Gloucester, 13
Agricultural Machinery at Smithfield Show, 602
Air Compressors—see Com pressors.
Alchohol, Etyhl, from Wood Refuse, Production of, 403; (Letter), 430
Alexanderson, E. P. W’., on 100,000 Cycle Alternator, 42
Alloy, Reducing, “Sical,” 615
Alloys, Alumimum-Copper-Tin, Constitution and Properties of, C. A. Edwards and J. H. Andrew, 415
Alloys, Copper Zinc, Professor Turner and M. T. Murray, 417
Aluminium Solder, 578

American Engineering News;

83, 122, 223

AMERICAN Foundry Practice and Development, 53
Apprenticeship, 608
Armatures—see Electrical Matters
Armoured Plate, Manufacture of, 64
Concrete Trusses, 655
Armstrong College Radio-Telegraphic Apparatus, 634 rr

Associations, Institutions and Societies:

Association, British :
Gaseous Explosions Committee, 271
Presidential Address, Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, 212, 238 (Engineering Section), Sir W. H. w • X- White, 227, 253
Winnipeg Meeting, 212

Association of Engineers, Manchester;
Distribution and Application of Electric Power. J. S. Peck, 645
Engineering Efficiency, J. H. Stubbs, 390
Mechanism of Spinning Machinery, W. H. Cook, 444
Turbine, The Exhaust Steam, J. N. Bailey, 525
Visits to Cotton Mills, 93
Winding Engine Design, G. J. Wells, 586

Association, International, for Testing Materials :
Cement, Effect of Sea Water upon, 290
Industry, Danish, P. Larsen, 276
Concrete, Reinforced, International Commission on, 290
Cones Pressure Tests, Dr. A. Gessner, 310 Congress at Copenhagen, 276,289, 310, 348 Corrosion of Iron in Water and Aqueous Solutions, Professors Heyn and Bauer. 349
Hardness Testing, Brinell Test, Dr. P. Ludwik, 310
on Metal, Mr. G. Charpy’s Re- ^^^and Steel, International Specifications for, Le Chatelier Test, B. Blount, 349
Martin’s Testing Machine, 310
Metallography; Report ; Nomenclature of
Constituents, &c.. Prof. Heyn, 289
Microscopy and Macroscopy in Workshon nnH Foundry, J. E, Stead, 34^ 379
Lubrication, Dr. Max Albrecht,
S- S.
Camerman, 349
Shore Scleroscope, 310
Spark Test Experiments, Max Bermann, 311 ^Ppry® 289*® ’ ^^atment of, Lawford H.
As^clatipn, International, for Testing ( Materials (imitinued)'.
^*^289 Enclosures in, Dr. W. Eosanhain, Steels, Special, Professor Leon Guillot, 289 Technical Testing, International Regulation of, Dr. W. Exner, 349
Testing of Rubber, Yarns, Threads, &c., 349
Hydraulic Cements, Professor K. Schule 8 Report, 349
Timber Tests in the United States, Professor
W. H. Hatt, 349
Visits, 290, 349

Institute, American, of Electrical Engineers:
Alternator, 100,000-Cycle, E. F. W. Alex- .anderson, 42
Asynchronous Generators, W. L. Walters, 302
Commutating Poles, Tests on, J. N. Dodd, 164 Problems in Steel Plants, R. Tschentscber, 343
Rolling Mill Motors, E. W. Yearsley, 200

Institute of Chemistry;
Position of the Institute, 480

Institute, Iron and Steel:
I Action of Air and Steam on Pure Iron, Dr. Newton Friend, 389
I Artificial Magnetic Oxide of Iron, F. J. E. Carulla, 363
Autumn Meeting, 339, 360, 388
Blast, Dry, Duel Eoonomy of, &c., R. S Moore, 360
n x-x Hniform Moisture in, Greville Jones, 360 Constitution of Carbon Tungsten Steels, T. Swindon, 389
Corrosion of Iron, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 363 Determination of the Economy of Reversing Rolling Mills, C. A. Ablett, 340
Growth of Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings, Professors H. F. Rugan and H. C. H. Carpenter, 341
National Physical Laboratory, 363 be'Jg ^339 E- J- Ljung-
Serviceable Life and Cost of Renewals of Per-

Institute of Metals:
Autumn Meeting and Visits, 415
Constitution and Properties of the Aluminium- Copper-Tin Alloys, C. A. Edwards and J. H. Andrew, 415
Professor Turner and M. T. Murray, 417
Elastic Breakdown of Non-ferrous Metals: Sphingometer; C. A. M, Smith, 417
Production of Pure Spe’ter, J. C. G. Primrose
Some Causes the Corrosion of Copper and Brass, E. L. Rbead, 416
Surface Appearance of Solders, C. Bannister and H. J. Tabor, 416
Greenwood and P, J, Bris-lee, 418

Institute, The Textile :
Formation, 511
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Marine Propulsion by Electric Motors, H. A. Mavor, 648
New Building, 525
Pass List, October Examination, 1909 Presidential Address, J. C. Inglis, 473, 513 Eagilway Signalling in India, C. W, Hodson,
Institution of Glectrical Engrineeps : Presidential Address, Dr. Gisbert Kapp, 527
Institution of Engineers and Ship, builders in Scotland:
Fifty Years of Warship Building on the Clydei Prof. Biles, 182
Joint Meeting, 144, 156, 181
Meeting and Membership, 457
°*xJy X®®'™ of Merchant Shipbuilding on the North-East Coast, G. B. Hunter and E. W. De Rusett, 182
Slight Sketch of the History of Propellants,
Sir A. Noble, 156
Tmls and Performances of the s.s. Otaki, Engineer-Commander W. McK. Wisnom, loo, 181
Visits to Works in Motherwell, Johnstone. &c. &c., 159, 182 ’

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Gi^tave Canet Lecture, Lieut. Dawson on Eogineering of Ordnance, 37

Institution of Mechanical Knglneeps:
Advances of Marine Engineering in the Early
Twentieth Century, A. J, Maginnis, 135 Combustion and Heat Balance in Locomotive
Boilers, Lawford Fry, 421
Compound Stress Experiments, Professor C. A. M. Smith, 657
Concrete, Reinforced, A. C. Auden, 106, 133 Dinner and Visits, 106, 136, 169
Dixon’s Experimental Apparatus, 610
Electrical Operation of a Textile Factory, H. W. Wilson, 136
Heat Transmission, Professor Dalby, 420, 432, 461, 481, 493
indicat^^j^ 136^^^ Engines, Professor F. W, Internal Combustion Pump, &o., H. A. Humphrey, 547, 562, 586, 609, 616, 617 I
Joy’s Gas Pump, 609
Lister Drive Power Stations, 106
Locomotives Designed and Bnilt at Horwich, 6. Hughes, 105, 119, 140, 146, 147, 174
Mild Steel Tubes in Compression, &c., W. Mason 657, 671
Summer Meetii^, 29, 105, 133, 169
Water Arbitration Prize : Conditions, 29 Wilkinson’s Experimental Apparatus, 420 Worthington and Humphrey Pump Contrasted,
Institution of Mining* Engineers ;
Annual Meeting at Newcastle, 293, 313
Dinner and Visits, 314
Fire-damp Ct*ps and Detection of Fire-damp in Mines by Safety Lamps, E. B. Whalley and W. M. Tweedie, yl3
Flame-caps, Equipment for the Study of, &c., G. R. Thompson, 313
Leak-stopping under High Pressure, &c., W. O. Wood, 314
Newbiggin Colliery, Steam Plant and Power House, 314
Royal Commission on Safety in Mines, Sir H.H. Cunynghame, 313
Sinking Through Sand at Newbiggin Colliery, E. M. Bainbridge and W. M. Redfearn, 314

Institution, Mining Electrical Engineers
Inaugural Meeting, 662

Institution of Naval Architects, German:
Continuous Current Steam Engines, Professor Stumpf, 659, 572
Cranes, Heavy Shipyard, for Fitting-out Purposes, C. Michenfelder, 560
Marine Gas Engines, Professor Romberg, 572 Propulsion by Turbo-pumps, &c., Miersch, 601
Turbine Problems, A New Solution of, Dr. Ing. Fdbtinger, 559, 572 Measurements of Rudder Pressure, &c., T. Schwarz, 573
New Propeller Research, Fr. Gebers, 601 Organisation of Works, especially of Shipyards, Gumbel, 560, 572

Institution, North-East Coast of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
Annual Meeting, 601
Fifty Years of Warship Building on the Clyde, Professor Biles, 182
Joint Meeting, 144, 156, 181
Marine Boiler Design, Construction and Efficiency. D. Myles, 501
Sixty Years of Merchant Shipbuilding on the North-East Coast, G. B. Hunter and E. W. De Busett, 182
Slight Sketch of the History of Propellants, Sir A. Noble, 156
Trials and Performances of s.s. Otaki, Engineer-Commander W. McK, Wisnom, 156, 181
Visits to Works in Motherwell, Johnstone. &c. &c., 159, 182

Society of Arts, Royal:
An Imperial Navy, Sir W. White, 531

Society of Engineers:
Chemistry and Bacteriology of Sewage Purification, D. Sommerville, 514
Status of the Engineering Profession, G. A. Thomas, 377

Society, Glasgow University Engineering:
Locomotive on the Reid-Ramsey System. Huirh Reid, 486

Society, Physical:
Laboratory Machine for Applying Heading and
Twisting Moments, Professor E. G. Coker, 43

Society, Royal:
Alternator, Compound, Working Model, C. A. Parsons, 4
Condensers, Electrostatic, W. M. Mordey, 4 Conversazione, 3
India-rubber, Heat Contraction Experiments Professor S. P, Thompson, 3 ’
Liquid Crystals, Zeiss, 3
Luminous Watch Dial and Military Comnass C. E. S. Phillips, 3 ’
“ Panflex ” Spring Wheel for Motor Vehicles
Parsons’, 3
Seismograms of Messina Earthquake, Professor J. Milne, 3
Thorp-Butler Replica-grating Spectroscope, 3 Timber, Photographs of, R. A. Robertson, 3 *‘Tubolite,” Metallic Filament, Linolite Company, 3
Auden, A. C., on Reinforced Concrete, 106. 133 194 ; (Letter), 199 ’
Australia. The New Capital of, 584
Austria, Effect of War Scare on Iron Trade 60 Troubles in, 585 ’
Autographic Records of Machine Output, 83 Axle, Flexible Crank, Ivatt, 144
Axles, Flexible Crank, 142, 144 ; (Letter) 173

BAILEY, J, N., on The Exhaust Steam Turbine 625, o08
Bannister, C., and H. J. Tabor on the Surface Appearance of Solders, 416
Beams, Rolled, The Strength of, 220
Bearings, Kynoch’s Self-oiling, 460
Belta, Chain Driving, Peerless "V -Belt Company, 224
Bevel Gear Table'’, Chas. Watts, 161
Bickford, J. S. V., on Experiments with a Glass Carburetter, 132; (Letters), 173,199,242, 278, 315
Birthday Honours, 8, 511
Blackman, A. S., on Steam Turbines. 71 Blast, Dry. Fuel Economy of, &c., R. S. Moore, 360
Uniform Moisture in, G. Jones, 360 Bohm, Dr. C. R., on Forerunners of the Metallic Filament Incandescent Lamps, 143

Boilers:

Boiler, Vaughan Pendred, 420 De Vignes, 420 Corrosion as an Electro-chemical Action, Professor C. F. Burgess, 328
Feed Pump, Fire and, Merry weather, 92 Boilers of Brazilian Torpedo B lai Destroyer, Matto Grosso, Yarrow, 4, 6, (Two TwO’page SupplentcKtii July 1909)
German Steam Boiler Law, 684
Inglis Marine Boiler, Barclay, Curie and Co., 16 Lancashire Boilers at Newbiggin Colliery, 314 Locomotive Boiler, Combined, and Feed-water Heater, 223; (Letter), 242
The Broton, 105
Boilers, Combustion and Heat Balance in, Lawford Fry, 421 Marine Boiler Design, Construction and Efficiency, D. Myles, 501, 606
Rhymney Railway, Explosion, 167, (Letter), 199
Suckling Water-tube Boiler, Hawksley, and Co., 42
Water-tube Boiler and Superheater for motive, Schneider, 431
Wilkinson’s Experimental Apparatus for Evaporation, &c., 420

BOOM-BREAKING Experiment, 306 Borough Engineer as Arbitrator, 605 Bottle-washers, Bottling and Corking Machinery, Brewers’, 421
Boulton, Matthew, and the Soho Works, 195, 259, 462, 624 ; (Correction), 307; (Letters), 315, 700
Brake, Vacuum, Improvements, Gresham and Craven, 301
Brame, J. S. S., on Liquid Fuel in its Economic Aspects, 434
Brennan Four-wheel, Self-propelling, Mono-rail Car, 510
Brewers’ Machinery and Vehicles, 421

Bridges:

Armoured Concrete Trusses, 655 Blackfriars, Widening of, 293
Bridge and Market, Combined, at Monterey, 83 Bridge, A Steel Bowstring Arch, 122 Broadway Bridge over the Cumberland River, 655
Electrically Worked Lifting Bridge at Edinburgh, Armstrong, Whitworthand Co., 509 Jaltepec River, Bridge over, at Santa Lucrecia on Tehuantepec Railway, 205
Knippelsbro Bascule Drawbridge, 350 Langebro Swing Bridge, 350
Newburgh and North Fife Railway Bridges, 84, 88
Nile Bridge, near Mansourah, 550 Bridges, 238
Scherzer Rolling Lift Railway Bridge, Burma, Spencer and Co., 294, 296
Tehuantepec Railway, Bridges on, 205 Thames, New Bridge Proposed, 528 Wansbeck River, Ferro-Concrete Bridge over, 444, 445
Wey, Footbridge over the River, 248 Winniogton Swing Bridge across the Weaver, 359, 361

BRITISH Engineers and Russian Trade, 54 Building Stones, Weathering Resistance of, 349 Burgess, Professor C. F., on Boiler Corrosion as an Electro-Chemical Action, 328
Burstall, F. W., oa Indicating of, 136, 279 Burton-Alexander, J. T., on Recent Locomotive Performances on the Northern Railway of France, 369; (Letter), 404

CALENDARS, Diaries, &c., for 1910, 700
Canals for United States Irrigation—sec Irrigation and Waterways, Royal Commission on. 446, 498, 656, 683, 691
Car, Brennan Monorail, Four-wheel, Self-propelling, 510
Carburetter, Automatic, Polyrhoe, Wadkin, 375 Capel’s, 197
Glass, Experiments with, J. S. V. Bickford, 132; (Letters) 173, 199, 242, 278, 303, 315
Carulla, F. J. B., on Artificial .Magnetic Oxide of Iron, 363

Catalogues:

18, 72, 98, 124, 160, 176, 254, 280, 305, 330, 355, 408, 543, 700

CEMENT, Effect of Sea Water upon, 290 Mill at Vulcan Works, Montreal, 680, 690
Cements, Hydraulic, Tests, Professor F. Schule ; Le Chatelier Test, B. Blount, 349
Central American Steamship Service, 327 Centrifugals—see Pumps
Chain Belts, Driving Pnmps, Peerless V-Belt Company, 224
Charpy, G., on Impact Tests on Metal, 348 Chemistry and Bacteriology of Sewage Purification, D. Sommerville, 514
City and Guilds of London Institute, Awards of Diplomas and Certificates, 94
Coal, Coke, and Collieries:
Accidents, Colliery, in Wales, 475 Bituminous Coal, Gas Producer Plant for. Fielding and Platt, 317
Coal Dust Experiments, 376
Coaling Vessels—see Ships
Electricity in Collieries. 481
Engines, Colliery—see Engines and Motors
Firedamp Caps and Safety Lamps, Papers and Discussion at Institution of Mining Engineers, 313
Detection of, Winstanley’s Appa- rftljos 094
Hull Coal Traffic,’164, 400. 540
Labour Questions—see Labour
Mines Eight Hours Act, 507
Newbiggin Colliery, Visit of Mining Engineers Institution, 314
Royal Commission on Safety in Mines, Sir H.
H. Cunnynghame on, 313
Swansea, Coaling Wharves and Jetties at King’s Dock, 552, 653
Ventilation in Mines, 314
Wages, Profits and Royalties in the Coal Trade, 336

COMPENSATION, Workmen’s—see Labour Compressed Air, Rock Receiver for, 190 Compressor, Air, Scott, 15 ; (Correction), 41
Portable Air, C. Price, 190 Vertical, Cross-compound, Two-stage
Air, Bailey, 447 {Two-page Supple- Oct<i}er 29(/t, 1909)
Concrete, Ferro-, Wharf Construction at Dundee, 93
Reinforced, A. C. Auden, 106,133,194; (Letters), 199, 225 Report, on, 290
Slabs, “ Muribloc,” 640 Trusses, Armoured, 655
Condenser and Air Pump, Relationship between, R. M, Neilson, 130
The “ Consummate ” Evaporative, Deane and Beal, 350
Weir-Uniflux, for s.s. Tortuguero, 32 Condensers, Jet, 12 ; (Letter), 69
Testing, for Leakages, 226 Condensing Plant at Bermondsey Supply Station, 350
and Water-cooling Plants, E. Lunn, 96

Contracts:

21, 46, 74, 98, 124, 176, 232, 256. 280, 332, 356, 382, 408, 436, 464, 488, 514, 542, 590, 620, 650, 676

COOK, W H., on Mechanism of Cotton-spinning Machinery, 444
Copper, 483
and Brass, Some Causes of the Corrosion of, E, L. Rhead, 416
Steam for Brewers, Briggs’, 421
Trade Combination, 638
Zinc Alloys, Professor Turner and M. T. Murray, 417
Corrosion, Boiler as an Electro-chemical Action, Professor C. F. Burgess, 328
of Copper and Brass, Some Causes of the, E. L. Rhead, 416
of Iron, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 363 Cotton - spinning Machinery, Mechanism of, W. H. Cook, 444
Counter and Chronograph, Combined, Novel, 344 Coupling for Hose Pipes, Livett, 172
Nunan’s 354 Instantaneous Hose, Max,” Limited, 200
Crane, Electric Luffing, Waygood, 450 160-Ton Electric Revolving Cantilever, Cowans, Sheldon and Co., 534
Goliath, at Melilla, Appleby’s, 460 Electrical Tower, Anderson, 643 70-Ton Hydraulic, at Swansea, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 601
Movable Hydraulic, C. and A. Musker, 513
Three-ton Electric Locomotive, J. H Wilson, 42
160-Ton Electric Shipbuilding, Sir W. Arrol, 187, 189
150-Ton Revolving Tower, Benrather Maschinenfabiik, 576, 580
Cranes in German shipyards, 374, 412, 470, 576, 680
New Cantilever, at the Wallsend Shipyard, 669
Crank Shaft Failures, Mr. Longridge’s Report, 245, 272
Catting off a Steamer’s Stem—see Ships Cylinder Condensation and the Temperature of
Cylinder Walls, R. Royds, 385, 426 ; (Letter), 502
Cylinders, Locomotive Engine, 426

DALBY, Professor, on Heat Transmission, 420, 432, 461, 479, 481, 493 ; (Letters), 476, 502
Dam, Necaxa, No, 2, Accident to, 101, 143
Dams, Pumps, Canals, and Aqueducts for, United States Irrigation—see Irrigation
Davis, J. G., and Harding, W. R., Experiments with Centrifugal Pumps, 206
Deeley, R. M., on Compound Engines, 623, 637; (Letter), 674
Deflection due to Shear, W. C. Popplewell, 309; (Letter), 353
Design of Shafts—see Shafts
Dixon’s Experimental Apparatus, 610

Docks:

Brazil, Floating, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 190, 252
Brocklebank Graving, at Liverpool, 169 King’s, at Swansea, 526, 551, 597 {Ttco-page
Supplei)i&nt^ Noceinbei' 19^Zi, 1909)
Kobe, 12.000-Ton Pontoon Floating Dock at, 250, 251
Newport Dock Disaster, 35
Penarth, Off-shore Floating Dock for, Swan,
Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 316, 320

Dockyard Notes:

ARGENTINA’S Orders for Destroyers, 618
Dockyard Notes {contin.ucdy»
Argentine Destroyers, Four to be Built by
Cammell, Laird, 685 Dreadnoughts, Germany’s Efforts to Secure Contract ; Private Yards Question, 536, 560 Kivadavia and Moreno, 685 Bellona, Trials, 536
Blanche and Newcastle, H.M.S,, Armament Question, 633
Brazilian Destroyer Alagoas, Full-speed Trials, 378 Minas Geraes’ Trials, 560
Chilian Naval Expansion, 618
Chinese Navy, Postponement or Abandonment.
560 French Destroyer Voltigeur, Trials, 618
Naval Position and Navy League, 560 Navy and French Finance, 378 Smokeless Powder, 509
Funnel Marking for the British Navy, 378 German Battleship Ersatz Beowulf, 536 Nassau, Speed on Trials, 636
Battleships to have Torpedo Nets, 560 Cruiser Blucher, 633
Destroyer G, 171, 618 Thuringen Class, Details, 618 Warships Built for Sale, Rumours, 685 Germany’s Active Naval Ptrsonnel Increased, 618
Greek Armoured Cruiser, 685 Cruiser Averof, 633 Navy and Turkey, 678
Hvalen versics Papin, 578
Indefatigable, H.M.S., Armament, 509
H.M.S. (Old Apollo Class) renamed Melpomene, 685 Italian Battleships and Cruisers Converted into Colliers, 618
Dreadnoughts and Cruisers, Additions to Fleet 618
Japanese Navy, Building Rumours, 537 Shipyards’ Output, 560
Lion Cruisers, Chief Features, 508, 633
Liverpool, H.M. Town Class Cruiser, Launched, 537
Naval Engineer Officers’ Status, 685 Neptune, H.M. Battleship, 509 Nomenclature of Dreadnought Cruisers, 685 Norway and Sweden : Warship Proiects Hang Fire, 560
Orion and Lion Classes. Gun Question, 508, 578, 633
Portsmouth Harbour Dredging, 685
Russian Gunboats, Re-equipment of Engines, Boilers, and Armament, 618
St. Vincent, Collingwood, and Vanguard, H.M. Battleships, Trials, 509, 633
Spanish Battleship Espana, 633 Stoker Recruits, 560
Turkey and the Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 536, 560
Turkish Monitor, with Tri nod Masts, 686 United States Battleship North Dakota, Speed on Trials, 637
United States Battleships, Size of, 633
Vanguard, H.M.S., Gun Trials, 560

DODD, J, N., on Tests on Commutating Poles. 164
Dredger, Gold, Propulsion Screen, for Peru, Lobnitz. 268, 270
Rock-lifting Hopper, Viscount Ridley, Fleming and Ferguson, 500
Sand Pump Coronation, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 169
Sand Pump Pelican, Simons, 58
Drop Stamp Battery, Improved Friction, Massey, 304
Dynamometer, 600 H.P., Rear-Admiral Melville and J. H. Macalpine, 576

EDWARDS, C. A., and J. H. Andrew on the Constitution and Properties of the Aluminium- Copper-Tin Alloys, 415

Electrical Matters:

Adamello Power Plant, Escher, Wyss, 430 Alternator, Compound, Working Model, C. A. Parsons, 4
100,000-Cycle, 42
Armatures, Machine for Putting Bands on, Tangyes, 378
Buenos Ayres, Generating Station at, 263, 267 Collieries, Electricity in, 481
Commutating Poles, Tests on, J. N. Dodd, 164 Continuous Current Pressure Converter, Crompton, 40
Design of Shafts, with Special Reference to High-speed Electric Generators, H. H. Jeffcott, 411, 439, 491, 583, 623
Distribution and Application of Electric Power, J. S. Peck, 645
Electrical Driving of a Lead Works, 661 Engineers, Training of. Professor J. A. Fleming, 380
Electric Power Stations, Efficiency of, 209
Electricity from Refuse; Meldrum’s Destructor, 458
in Steel Works, R. Tschentscher, 343
Electrolysis Troubles in Winnipeg, Professor Herdt’s Report, 211
Furnaces—see Furnaces
Fuse, Water-tight, S. W. Martyn, 172
Generating Plant for Christiania, Brown, Boveri, 315
Generators, Asynchronous, 302
High-tension Insulators and Polarised Light, S. Richey and F. Bounet, 301
Hydro-Electric Generator, Union Electric Company, 540
Lighting Sets, Small Oil Engine, Capel, 197
Lister Drive Power Stations, 106
Marine Propulsion, Electric Drive for, Wilson, 135
Marine Propulsion by Electric Motors, H. A. Mavor, 648
Power House at Newbiggin Colliery, 314
Rolling Mill Motors, E. W. Yearsley, 200
Shop Testing of Direct and Alternating Current Machinery, J, W. Rogers, 646
Sparking Plug, Low Accessories and Ignition Company, 70
Starting Switch, Adams Manufacturing Company, 117
Stepney Electricity Works. 448
Textile Factory, Electrical Operation of, H. W. Wilson, 136
Tortuguero Steamship Lighting Set, W. H. Allen, 29 ; (Correction) 92
Tarbo-Alteroator, 6000-Kilowatt, Howden and Company and Siemens Brothers, 452, 456
Turbo-Alternator, 11,000 h.p. Rotor and Stator at* Buenos Ayres, 263, 267
Wind Turbine Electric Plant at Private House, Childs, 528

ELEVATOR, Mitchell Cantilever Grain, New Conveyor Company, 28
Embankment Building Machine, 83

Engines and Motors:

Electrical Motors—see Electrical Matters
Internal Combustion Engines
Ae*’ODautical Motors in Paris : Antoinette, Anzani, Aster, Bayard-Clement, Beck, Berthaud, Brouhot, Bucket, Clerget, Cote (Prini-Berthaud), Darracq. De Dion, Demoiselle (Santos-Dumont), Duthenil, E.N.V., Parcot, Fernandez, Fiat, Gnome, Green, Gregoire-Gyp, Koechlin, Mors, Panhard,
B. E.P., Renard, Renault, Rougier, Vendome, Wolseley 342, 346, 364
Aeroplane Engines—see Aeronautics
Allsop Motor Paraffin Engine, 547
Bingham’s Piston-valve Engine for Motor Cars, 521
Cooper Piston-valve Engine for Motor Cars, 521
Crossley’s Engines at Gloucester, 14
Crossley New Type Motor Car Engine and Gear-box, 522 ; (Letter), 565
Dolphin, and Knight-Daimler Motor Car Engines, 523
Dudbridge, 12 B.H.P. Oil Engine, 15
Gas Engine, Development of the, 425 ; (Letters). 459, 476. 502
and Suction Gas Plant, Hornsby- Stockport, 14
Gas Engines at Gloucester, Campbell Gas Engine Company, 15
Indicating of, F. W. Burstall, 136, 279
National Gas Engine Company,
Hewitt Piston-valve Petrol Engine for Motor Cars, 521
Internal Combustion Engine, Ideal Card for, 193
Lucas Valveless Motor Car Engine, 623 Marine Gas Engines, Professor Romberg, 672 Oil Engine Electric Lighting Sets, Capel, 197 Works—see Wor&
Engines, Hornsby-Ackroyd, 14 Engines at Smithfield, 602
Petrol Engine for Tipping Wagon, Clayton, 14 Petrol Engine, Variable Stroke, Gill, 401 Petroleum Engine, 22 B.H.P., Petter, 14, 15 Piston Valve Petrol Engine for Motor Cars, 520 Reversible Marine Oil Engine, Pollock, 614 Suction Gas Engine, Capel,

Engines and Motors: Steam Engines:

Compound Ploughing Engine, Fowler, 602
Continuous Current Steam Engines, Professor Stumpf, 559, 572
Double-beat Engine Valves, 168
Engines of the Brazilian Torpedo Boat Destroyer Matto Grosso, Yarrow, 4, 6 i?09)^^'^^'^*^’^^ 2ncf,
Centrifugal Pump, Pistons, and Piston Valve of s.s. Tortuguero, Alex. Stephen and W. H. Allen, 29, 30, 34 cf the French Cruiser Ernest Renan, 240, 244
of the Italian Battleship Napoli, 184, 192 (Tico-page Supplement, Auqust 1909)
of the Steamship Graceful, Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., 344 (Ywo- page Supplement^ October Is^, 1909) for Traioing Trawler Engineers, 404
Experimental Drop Valve Engine at South- Western Polytechnic, Easton and Bessemer, 402
Marine Governor, Kerr’s Anticipating, for s.s. Tortuguero, 31, 32
Ploughing Eagine, Aveling, 603
Road Locomotive and Tractor, Aveling, 603
Single-cylinder Superheated Steam Traction Engine, Garrett, 602
Steam Eagine and Dynamo, Combined, for s.s. Tortuguero, W. H. Allen, 29
Engines, Agricultural, Turner, 13
Turbine v. Piston Engines in Warships—see Ships, Foreign Navies
Ulster, s.s., Oscillating Cylinders of, 261 Vertical Compound Corliss Steam Engine,
Hick, Hargreaves and Co., 640
Winding Engine Design, G. J. Wells, 586 Winding Engines at Newbiggin Colliery, Robey, 314

ENGINEERING Contracts, Technical Guarantees in, 321
Efficiency, J. H. Stubbs, 390 and Industrial Finance, 665 Laboratories at the Manchester University, 62, 66 at Melilla, 460 of Ordnance, 37
Profession, Status of, G. A.
Thomas, 377
Science and Business, 666 in South and Central America, Progress of, 531, 545 Engineers and Port of London Rates, 297
Royal Reserve, 514
English Universities and Engineers, 663 Evaporator for s.s. Tortuguero, Weir, 32

Exhibitions and Shows;

Aeronautical Motors in Paris, 342, 346
Alaska, Yukon, and Pacific, 161 Brewers’ Machinery, &c., 421 Brussels, 1910, 574
Buenos Aires, 1910, 670
Lagos Agricultural Show, 1910, 642 Motor Car, at Olympia, 511, 520, 646 Royal Agricultural Society, at Gloucester, 13 Show, Smithfield Club, 602

EXPERIMENTAL Apparatus for Evaporation, &c., Wilkinson, 420
Explosions, Gaseous, British Association and, 271
Explosives, 110
Export Trade—see Trade
Exports of Machinery, 322
Extensometer, Professor Turner’s, 417

FACTORY Stock-room Methods, 122
Ferry Steamers—see Ships
Ferry Steamer, Train, Drottning Victoria. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 65, 107, 112 ; (Letter), 225 (Two-page Supplement, Julu _ 30<A, 1909)
Finland, Development of the Industries of, 234 Waterways and Waterfalls of, 285
Fire and Boiler-feed Pump, Merryweather, 92
Fire-boxes—see Locomotives, Jacobs-Shupert, 316
I^stection of, Winstanley’s Apparatus,
Fishguard as a Port of Call, 250
Fleming, Professor J. A., on Training of Electrical Engineers, 380
Flexible Crank Axles, 142,144 ; (Letter), 173
Plight—see Aeronautics
Footplate Experience - see Locomotives
Forging Press, Hydraulic, Berry, 215
Forthcoming Meetings, 510, 536, 550
Fbttinger, Dr. Ing., on a New Solution of Marine Turbine Problems, 559
Foundry Hints, Some, 160
Practice and Development, American, 53 Soho—see Works, Soho
Friction Drop Stamp Battery, Massey, 304 Heating by, 348 ; (Letter), 404
Friend, Dr. J. Newton, on Action of Air and Steam on Pure Iron, 389
Corrosion of Iron, 363
Fruit Tree Spraving Machines, Drake and Fletcher, 15 ; Weeks and Son, 15
Fry, Lawford, on Combustion and Heat Balance in Locomotive Boilers, 421
Fuel, Liquid, in its Economic Aspects. J. S. S. Brame, 434
Supplies, Choice and Control of, by Steamship Companies, J. B. C. Kershaw, 181 Fuels, Liquid, Heat Values of, 304
Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives
Fulton Centenary, 314, 347 ; (Letter), 430, 459
Furnace, Continuous Annealing, 688
Electric Smelting, 339
Fuses—see Electrical Matters

GANTRIES—see Ships
Gas Engines—see Engines holders at Gateshead, Old and New, 577 Plant at Smithfield Show, 602
Soho, Murdock’s, 261
Producer Plant for Bituminous Coal. Fielding and Platt, 317
Producers, Suction, Experience with. 79.129, 155
Experiments with, 79 Gaseous Explosions, British Association and, 271 Gasquet Pasteuriser, 422
Gassing of Yarns—see Yarns
German Competition in Steel, 693
Shipyards, 374, 412, 424, 468,519,521,
Steam Boiler Law, 584
Going down to the Roots, 56, 64 ; (Letters), 95, 118
Gold Dredgers, Modern, Development of, 268, 270
Governors, Steam Turbine, 299
Grain Conveying Machinery at Avonmouth, New Conveyor Company, 326
Elevator, Mitchell Cantilever, New Conveyor Company, 28
Greenhill, Sir G., on the Work of Recoil, 64—sw Letters to the Editor on Marine Propulsion Grindstones, Dressing, Brunton and Trier, 644 • (Correction), 676
Grinding Machines—Machine Tools
Gun Recoil—see Recoil
Guns—see War Material

HAMBLOCH, A., on Materials for Binding Mortar, 443
Hammers—see Machine Tools

Harbours and Waterways:

Bristol Channel Ports, 658—see also Docks
Clyde, The, at a Shipping and Shipbuilding Port, 302 ®
Copenhagen Harbour, Visited by International Association, 350
Dover, Admiralty Harbour at, 390, 396, 397
Finland, Waterways and Waterfalls of, 285 Fishguard Harbour, 670, 693 (Four-page Supplement, Decembet' 3rd, 1909) as a Port of Call, 250
Havre, New Deep-water Quay, 144
Kirkcaldy Harbour Extensions, 405
Mersey, Annual Report, 145
Navigation in the United States, Inland, 406
Newcastle Quayside Improvements, 164
Port of London Rates, Engineers and, 297 Rangoon, Port Works at, 58
Scarborcmgh Harbour, Recent Improvements at, 683
Waterways and Railways, Inland, 582

HARDNESS of Metals, New Device for Aseer* taining, 538
Hay and Straw Baling Press, Howard, 13 Headlights—see Motor Vehicles
Heat of Steam. Total, New Formula for the. Professor R. H. Smith, 667
Transmission, Professor Dalby, 420, 432. 461, 479, 481, 493 ; (Letters), 476, 502
Values of Liquid Fuels, 304
Heatiog by Friction, 348; (Letter), 404
Herdt, Professor, Report on Electrical Conditions in Winnipeg, 211
Highways. Control and Management of, 299
Hodson, C. W., on Railway Signalling in India,
Homerton Workhouse and Infirmary, 880
Hose Coupling, Instantaneous, “Max” Limited, Pipe Coupling, Livett, 172
Nunan’s 854
Hospital Warming and Lighting, 604 Centenary, 314, 347 ; (Letter), 4oUj 4&y
Hughes, G., on Locomotives at Horwich 105 114, 119, 140, 146,147,174
Humphrey, H. A., on an Internal Combustion Pump, 428, 547, 557, 562, 586, 597, 607, 609 616, 617 ; (Letters) 564, 588, 613 ’ ’
Humphrey Pump, Impressions of, 597
Hutton, S., on Yield of Water, Rainfall, &c, 71

IMPACT—see Tests
Improving Trade, 55, 272, 404
Injector, The “ Time-saver ” Automatic, 117 Inland Navigation in the United States, 406 Internal Combustion Pumps—see Pumps
Iron and Steel:
Action of Air and Steam on Pure Iron. Dr Newton Friend, 389
Blast, Dry, Fuel Economy of, &o., R. S. Moore 360 ’
Uniform Moisture in, G. Jones, 360 Constitution of Carbon Tungsten Steels T. Swieden, 389 ’
Corrosion of Iron, Dr. J. Newton Friend 363 Electricity in Steel Works, R. Tsohentscher, o4o
German Competition in Steel, 693
Growth of Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings Professors H. F. Rugan and H. C. H Carpenter, 341
Iron Trade in Austria, Effects of War Scare 60 Revival, 221
Large Steel Castings for the Titanic—see Ships Magnetic Oxide of Iron, Artificial, F. J R Carulla, 363
Mild Steel Tubes in Compression. &o W Mason, 657, 671 ’’
Nomenclature of Iron and Steel, Report, Professor H. Howe, 290 ’
Metallurgy, Professor Hevn, 289
Rail Steel, Treatment of, 114 Steg9Enclosures in Steel, Dr, W. Rosenhain, for Iron and Steel,
Steel Production, Profits on, 692
Rail Trade, Future of, 297
^339’“®^ -E!- J- Ljunberg,
Spring, Heat Treatment of. Lawford H Kry, 289
Steels, Special, Professor Leon Guillet, 289 tests of Cast Iron, E. Adamson, 389 TT .. y^rious, for Iron and Steel, 310 United States Steel Trust, 454

IRRIGATION Works of the United States Government, 292, 311, 337, 386, 440, 496, 548,
Ivatt’s Axles—see Axles

JEFFCOTT, H. H, on Design of Shafts. with Special Reference to High-speed Electric Generators, 411, 439, 491, 583, 623
Jones, Greville, on Uniform Moisture in Blast

KERSHAW, J. B. C., on choice and Control of Fuel Supplies by Steamship Companies, 181
Kiel Dockyard Scandal, 669

LABORATORY Machines for Applying Bending and Twisting Moments, Professor E. G. Coker,

Labour News, Strikes, and Wages Questions:

Coal Trade Crisis, Scotch, 63, 89, 113 141 Dispute, 16
Employers and Workmen’s Compensation, 167,
Labour Exchanges Bill; Financial Statement, Problem in France, 398
Mmes Eight Hours Act, 507
Pit Lads’ Revolt, 37
Population and Unemployment, 35 gP’Pyard Operations, Demarcation of, 39 uSed <596

LAMP, Metallic Filament Incandescent, The
Poreruoners of the. Dr. C. R. Bohm, 143
Land Reclamation tor Park Purposes, 223

Launches and Trial Trips-

LEAD Trap Press, Phillips, 695

Leaders:

Admiralty Destroyer Policy, 372
Aeroplane Development in France. 219 Apprenticeship, 608
Armour Plate, Manufacture of, 64
Boilers, Modern Marine, 508
Borough Engineer as Arbitrator, 505
Briquettes as a Locomotive Fuel 666 609 Bristol Channel Ports, 558 ’ ’
British Association and Caseous Explosions, 271

Leaders :

(missing lines)
Canal Commission, Report, 691
Coal Trade Crisis, 63, 89, 113, 141
Common Denominator, The, 607
Copper Trade Combination, 638 Crank Shaft Failures, 272
Double-beat Engine Valves, 168 Dover Harbour, 397
Electricity in Collieries, 481
Workmen’s Compensation, 167,
Engineering and Industrial Finance, 665
of Ordnance, 37
Science and Business, 666 Engineers and Port of London Rates, 297 Exports of Machinery, 322
Flexible Crank Axles, 142
French Dreadnoughts, 639
Marine, The Report on the, 11, 91 Friezland Derailment, 558
Gas Engine, Development of the, 426 Pump, 557
German Dreadnoughts. 607
Heat Transmission, 479
Heating by Friction, 348
Hudson-Fulton Centenary, 347
Inland Waterways and Railways, 682 Institute of Chemistry, 480
Internal Combustion Engine, Ideal Card of an, 193
Iron Trade Revival, 221
Jet Condensers, 12
Labour Exchanges, 11
Problem in France, 398
Locomotive Engine Cylinders, 426 Fire-boxes, 114
Performance, 298
Locomotives, Ideal, 532
London Trade Schools, 559
London Traffic. 506
Mathematics, Higher, and the Engineer, 219 Midland Railway, Compound Locomotives on the, 637
Mines Eight Hours Act, 507
Missing Quantity, 426
Motor Car Wheels, 246
Motor Roads, 247, 273
Naval Works Vote, 36
Navy, An Imperial, 531
Newport Disaster, 35
Patents, Compulsory Working of, 246 Reciprocity in the Working of, 454
Permanent Way, Life of, 371, 398
Population and Unemployment, 35
Rail Steel, Treatment of. 114
Ralls, Failure of, in the United States, 90 Railway Fuel, 666, 692
Railway Passenger Classes, 348
Rhymney Railway Boiler Explosion, 167
Roads, Motor, 247, 273
Rolled Beams, Tne Strength of, 220
Rolling Stock, The Purchase of, 582
Sand in Concrete, 194
Scotch Miners and their Wages, 63, 89,113 141 Scrap Heap, The, 245 ’
Standardisation as a Principle, 453
Steel Production, Pro6ts on, 692
Steel Rail Trade, Future of, 297
Steel Trust, 454
Stream Line Theory and Collisions at Sea, 221 Submarine, Future of the, 89 Suburban Railway Traffic, 194 Technical Guaraniees in Engineering Contracts, oJl
Trade, Improving, 272
Turbine, The Exhaust Steam, 608 Turbines, Steam Consumptrnn of, 141
in the United States Navy, 638
Underground Electric Railways, 36
Unskilled Labour, 372
Warship Armament, 533
Warships, Novel Types of, 681
Propelling Machinery for, 532
Water Hammer, 322
Workshop Accuracy, 63

Legal Intelligence:

Minerals Separation, Limited, v. British Ore Concentration Syndicate, Limited, 565

Letters from our own Correspondents:

±11, ^\j±, zza, -zai), 281, 306, 331 .366' 381’ 649,’ 675, 702
^72T“1^<3^?7O 201 47, 74, 99,
201, 229. 255, 281, 305, 331,’355,’ 381 407 435. 463. 487- 61-f; 641 KCK con 675, 701
366 38?’ 256,’ 282, 306^ ’332,
408, 436, 464, 488, 516 542 666 590, 619, 650, 676, 702 ’ ’

Letters to the Editor :

Apprenticsship, G. Wyatt Truscott, 377 " B
KK?rg^ht','?9^^
Centrifugal Force, A. R., 537: H. L. Brown, ^*“®S.537; Kilius, ?;Tat=er^3^0;’4V6?53^6^i^’ 587,’643®-’®'^=- “•
Centrifugal Pumps, Experiments with F. H. S., 278; J. G. Davis, 278, 377 Colombian Mining, G. T. Pardoe, 118 Concrete, Reinforced, Beams, H. L. Brown, 476
Retaining Walls, A. V. M., 199
Sand in, A. F. Bruce, 225 Condensation in Steam Turbines, F. Foster, 94 Condensers, Jet, W. O. Horsnaill, 69 Crank Axles, Breakage of, J. Riekie, 95 Crofsley Motor Car Engines, Crossley Brothers, 565
Deflection due to Shear, D. Gillespie, 353 A Fallacies, W. J. H., 95, 138; Wetted Surface, 118
Denny Edgecombe Torsion Meter, G. T. Pardoe, 502
Drawing an Ellipse, D. B., 377 ; E. Benedict, 430 ; J. H. Bradley, 315; T. C. Broom, 404;
J. E. H., 315; M. Kloss, 353; P. Merry del Vai, 278
Electric Driving of Textile Factories, W. B. Woodhouse, 502
Ethyl Alcohol from Wood Refuse, Production, J. C. Stead, 430
Ferry Steamers, McKie and Baxter, 674
Gas Engine, Development of the, A British Manufacturer, 476; D. Neustadter, 459, 502
Heat Transmission, Professor Dalby on, Mark Robinson, 476 ; R. H. Smith, 502
Heating by Friction, J. Lomax, 404
Hollow Axles, Crank Pins, and Stud Pins, C. R. King, 173
Home - office and Power Gas Engines, Hal Williams, 95
“Humphrey” Pump, H. Davey, 613; H. A. Humphrey, 588, 613; D. H. Irwin, 564, 613; J, F. Robinson, 643
Interconnection of Engineering Societies, H. W. C., 700
Invention of the Steamboat, J. H. Hulls, 430, 459
Latent and Sensible Heat, F. B. Aspinall, 9, 68, 173, 502, 587 ; Interested, 68; R. Royds, 537 ; E. C. S., 303
Locomotive Boiler Barrels, Long, Antiplea, 242 Crank Axles, R. A. Lewis. 225
First Four-Cylinder “Balanced” Compound, in America, F. W.
Brewer, 69 ; Railways, 173
Life of a, A. Price Williams, 41
Practice of To-day, British, F. L.
Bassett, 277 ; F. W. Brewer, 199, 277, 502; C. W. Dauncey, 199, 225, 303, 404, 476; H. W. Dearberg, 95, 138, 198, 242, 302 ; Excelsior, 95 ; L. A. F., 137,'242, 303; F. S. Hennell, 315; A. Hockley, 199, 303 ; C. K. King, 172 ; Marine Engineer, 537 ; J. Riekie, 69, 118, 173, 277, 459, 537; A. J. Robinson, 404 Locomotives, Compound, Harold Smith, 674
Early Balanced, &c.—see Locomotive, First Four-cylinder,
G. N.R., at the White City,
F. W. Brewer, 138
Marine Propulsion, H. Barnes, 40; T. S. C., 198, 242 ; Fuse, 95, 138, 242 ; G. Greenhill, 118, 198; W. Preidel, 9. 68, 118, 224; A. R., 68 ; J. Ramsay, 198 ; F. R, S., 69
Mathematics, Pure v. Practical, P. H. Parr, 303 ; F. J. Romer, 315
Momentum, &c.—see Marine Propulsion Motor Cars and the Budget, Taxation of, B. Blount, 199
Primitive Engineering of Canadian Loggers, G. A. W., 588
Propellers in Tubes, S. W, Barnaby, 225; Yasuzo Wadagaki, 138, 476
Pumping Engines, Economy of, U.S.A., 588 —see also Humphrey Pump
Rhymney Railway Locomotive Boiler Explosion, J. W. Martin, 199
Road Surveyor, Qualifications of, Q. Q., 199 “ Rocket,” The Driver of the, R. B. P., 643 Self-opening Die Hoad for Capstan and Turret Lathes, H. Maplethorpe, 69
Soho, Old Tools at, A. C. Franklin, 315 Works, Jas. Forbes, 700
Steam, Volumes and Pressures of—see Latent and Sensible Heat
Technical Education, Failure of, G. Lewis, 700 Territorials, Engineers and the, F. E. G. Skey, 41
Tidal Power v. Gas Power, W. 0. Horsnaill, 41; J. Jamison, 9
Time and Overtime, Beechwood, 9 Trans-Siberian Railway, F. A. F., 588 Workshop Accuracy, P. Van den Kerchove, 41 Life-saving Devices in Submarine Boats, Siebe,
Gorman, 612
Liquid Fuel—see Fuel

Literature: Reviews:

Adventures of a Civil Engineer, C. 0. Burge, 142
Annuaire pour I’An, 1910, 627
Balance, The Construction of the, Dr. E. Brauer, 274, 323
Cane Sugar and its Manufacture, H. C. Prinsen Geerligs 91, 115
Cotton Mid Construction and Engineering, Recent, J. and F. Nasmith, 627
Crampton Lokomotive, Die, mit besonderer Barucksichtigung der deutschen Bauarten,
F. Gaiser, 667
Design of Plate Girders and Columns, Professor W. E. Lilly, 65
Electricity, H. M. Hobart, 693
Elliptic and Pseudo - Elliptic Arches, the Ideal Masonry Arch, K. Pearson, W. D Reynolds and W. F. Stanton, 627
Fighting Ships, 1909, F. T. Jane, 37, 91
Gas, Oil and Petrol Engine, Dugald Clerk, 274, 533
Portland Cement, A. C. Davies, 442
Poussiferes de Houille, Les, M. J. Daniel, 195 Steam Tables and Diagrams, L. S. Marks and H. N. Davis, 168

Literature: Short Notices:

Automatic Screw Machines and their Tools, C. L. Goodrich and F. A. Stanley, 115
Azimuth, G. L. Hosmer, 115
Bamboo for Papermaking. R. W. Si^ndall, 196 Bridge Construction, A Practical Treatise on,
T. Claxton Fidler, 115
Bridges, Design of Highway, and Stresses in
Bridge Trusses, M. S. Ketchum, 65
British Explosives Industry, Rise and 1 regress of, E. A. B. Hodgetts, ol Standard Railway Riils and Fishplates, 442
Building Foreman’s Pocket-book, &c., II. G. Richey, 115 .
Calculus and its Applications, R. G. Blame, 190 Canada, Mines Branch, Peat Bogs and Peat
Industry of Canada, 169
Carburetters, Vaporisers and Distributing Valves, E. Butler, 169 . .
Concrete Construction, Reinforced, Principles of, F. E. Turneaure and E. K. Maurer, 216
Reinforced, in Europe, A. L. Colby, 323
Drawings for Medium-sized Repetition Work,
R. D. Spinney, 274
Electrical Calculations, Elementary, T. O’C. Sloane, 534
Installations, Rankin Kennedy, 91, 216
Engineering Units of Measurement, J. Ramsay, 274
Gas Engine Theory and Design, A. C. Mehr tens, 91
Gas and Gas Meters, Practical Testing of, C. H. Stone,116
Geometry, Descriptive, V. T. Wilson, 274
Guns, Theory of the Recoil of, F. Rausen- berger, 115
Hydraulic Tables and Diagrams for Practical Engineers, Capt. A. ff. Garrett, 37 Hydro-Electric Developments and Engineering, F. Koester, 323 ; (Correction), 377
Instanter Decimal Tables of Weights, Measures and Monies, 0. G. Winzar, 115
Iron and Steel Analyses, Laboratory Notes on, W. Macfarlane, 534, 694
Law Affecting Engineers, W. V. Ball, 196 Locomotive Engineering, A Manual of, W. F. Pettigrew, 169
Machine Shop Drawings, F. H. Colvin 634, 694 Marine Engineering, A. N. Somerscales, 91 Mechanics, Elementary of, Solids and Fluids, A. C. Jones and C. H. Blomfield, 216
Metallurgy of the Common Metals, A. H. Sexton and J. S. G. Primrose, 274
Motor Car, The, A Practical Manual, R. W. A. Brewer, 37
Motors and Motoring, H. J. Spooner, 196
Ore Deposits of South Africa, J. P. Johnson, 115
Separation, Electro-Magnetic, G. Godfrey Gunther, 91
Polar Planimeter, F. J. Gray, 534
Railroad Structures and Estimates, 91
Railway Rates, Joseph Horrocks, 91
Retaining Walls, T. B. Coleman, 91
Sanitary Law and Practice, W. Robertson, 65 Sanitation and Sanitary Engineering, W. P. Gerhard, 216
Sewage Disposal Works, Practical Management of, W. C. Easdale, 274
Slide Valve Motion for Marine Engineers, Peter Youngson, 116
Steam Power Plant Piping Systems, W. L. Morris, 274
Turbines, H. E. Collins, 115
Structures, The Theory of, R. J. Woods, 274 Vectors and Vector Diagrams Applied to the Alternating-current Circuit, W, Cramp and C. F. Smith, 65
Volcanic Origin of Coal and Modern Geological Theories, 196

Literature: Books Received:

Algebra, Elementary, Exercise Papers in, E. M, Radford, 274
American Institute of Architects, Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Convention, 274
British Motor Tourists’ A.B.C., L. N. Gill, 274 Cape Colony To-Day, 627
Conquest of the Air, Alphoase Berget, 442 Co-ordinate Geometry Applied to Land Surveying, W. Pilkington, 442
Deutscher Kalender fur Elektrotechniker, 1910, G. Dettmar, 694
Dynamics, A First, C. S. Jackson and W. M. Roberts, 91
Dynamo, The, Its Theory, Design and Manufacture, C. C. Hawkins and F. Wallis, 627
Etude Compl(^m6ntaire sur la Stability du Materiel des Chemins de Fer, G. Marie, 534
Fitting, The Principles of, J. G. Homer, 274
Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College Calendar for 1909-1910, 442
Hennebique Ferro-Concrete Theory and Practice, L. G, Mouchel, 694
Institute of Metals, Journal of, G. S. Scott, 37 Jron Age Directory, 1909, 274
Machine Design, The Elements of, W. C. Unwin, 274
Manchester Geological and Mining Society Transactions, 274
Mechanics, Applied, Professor Jameson, 627
Molesworth’s Metrical Tables, Sir G. L. Moles- worth, 274
Oscillations de Lacet des Vehicules de Chemins de Fer, G. Mari^, 534
Ore Deposits of South Africa, J. P. Johnson Part II., 534
Physical Chemistry, Exercises in, N. A. Roth 274
Physics and Mechanics, Experimental, The Apprentice’s Course of, J. L. Maxim, 534
Royal Automobile Club Year-book. 19u9, 37 Solicitors’ Patent Practice, G. F. Emery, 274 South Africa, Guide to, 1909-10, A. S. and G. G. Brown, 627
Spon’s Workshop Receipts, Vol. IL, Dyes— Japanning, 442
Surveying, Exercises in, J. C. Tracy, 274
Tabellen fiir die Berechnung von Eisenbeton- konstruktionen, G. Funke, 37
Timber, Shipping Marks on ; Timber Trades Journal List, 627
Wireless Telegraphy and Wireless Telephjnv. H. E. Keonelly, 627
Telephone Construction, N. Harrison, 442

LJUNBERG, E, J., on Refining Steel by Electricity, 339
Lloyds Register—see Ships
Locomotives—see Railways, also Engines and Motors
Logan, M. B., on Solution of Flight Problems, 50
London County Council’s Tramways Accounts, 83 Port of—see Harbours and Waterways Trade Schools, 559
Traffic, 506
Longridge’s Annual Report, 245, 272
Lorry, Brewers, Leyland, 421
Lubrication of Check Rails, Neachell’s System, 632
Lubricator, Force Feed Pump, W. 11. Bailey, 92 for Locomotives. C. C. Wakefield, 508
Lucas Automatic Sounding Machine, 660, 664
Lunn, E., on Condensing and Water-cooling Plants, 96

Machine Tools:

Boring, Drilling and Milling Machine, Loudon,
162 ’ and Turning Mill with Drilling Attachment, George Richards, 611 Boulton and Old Tools at Soho Works, 195, 259,462,624; (Correction), 307; (Letters), 315,700
Duplex Mechanical Striker, B. and S. Massey, 200
Forging Press, Hydraulic, Berry, 215 Grinding Machines (Special Supplement^ November 26Z/t, 1909)—for Names of Makers see Special Supplement
Hammer, Combined Steam, and Forging Press, Fielding, 458
High-speed Pneumatic, Pilkington, 695
Lathe, 8Jin. Centre Screw-cutting, Colchester Lathe Company, 216
Large Turbine, Buckton, 248, 249 Machine Tools at Kerr, Stuart’s Works, Stoke- on-Trent, ^^'2(Tivo-'fiageSnp- plementf Octob&i' 1909)
T. Shanks’ Works, 160. 166 Milling Cutter, Inserted Tooth, J. H. Barker, 196
Machine, High-speed Vertical, Archdale, 300
Tangyes, 8
Motor Car Repair Tools, Drummond, 547 Multiple Screwing and Tapping Machine,
Carter and Wright, 539
Planing Machine, Open Side, Hulse, 461 Planing Machine, Smith and Coventry, 183 Power Tests of Machine Tools, P. V. Vernon, 670
Shaping Machine, Storey, 432
Vice, M. Glover’s, 460

MACHINES for Loading Railway Wagons with Coal, 122
Machinery, Exports of, 322
Maginnis, A. J., on Advances of Marine Engineering in the Early Twentieth Century, 135 Manchester University Engineering Laboratories.
62, 66 * Marburg, Professor, Tests on Rolled Beams. 220 Marconi, G., on Wireless Telegraphy, 630, 658 Marine Engineering—see Ships Marine Engineers, Examination, 642 Mason, W., on Mild Steel Tubes in Compression, &c., 657, 671
Mathematics, Higher, and the Engineer, Professor Sir J, J. Thomson, 212, 219, 238
Mavor, H. A., on Marine Propulsion by Electric Motors, 648
Mechanical Stokers for Locomotives, 172
Metal, Impact Tests on, G. Charpy’s Report, 348 —see also Tests
Metals, Hardness of, New Testing Device, 538 Metals, Non-Ferrous, Elastic Breakdown of, C. A. M. Smith, 417
Metallography, Nomenclature of Constituents, 289
Mechanical Transport in the Colonies, 176 Microscopy and Microscopy in the Workshop and
Foundry, J. E. Stead, 319, 379 Milker, Mechanical, Hj. Loquist, 13 Milling Appliances, Flour, E. R. and F. Turner.
13 Machines—see Machine Tools Mineral Statistics, Our, 679

Mines and Mining News:

Colombia, Mines of, 81; (Letter), 118 Eight Hours Act, 507
Scotch Miners and their Wages, 63, 89 South Staffordshire Mines Drainage, 368

MISSING Quantity—see Cylinder Condensation Models of Railway Coaches—see Railways Monorail Car, Brennan Four-wheel. Self-propelling, 510 '
Monterey, Floods at, 238
Montreal, New Cement Mill Near, 680, 690 Moore, R. S., on Fuel Economy of Dry Blast, &c., 360
Mortar, Materials for Binding, A. Hambloch, 443 Mortising Machine, Hollow Chisel, A. Ransome, 327

Motor Vehicles and all Matters Relating thereto:

Austrian Army, Motors for, 252
Brennan Monorail Car, Four-wheel Self-Propelling, 510
Brewers’ Motor Vehicles, 421
Cooper Double Transmission Gear, 522 Cowey System of Suspension, 523, 546 Crossley New Type Car, Chassis and Details, 522; (Letter), 565
Engines—see Engines and Motors Exhibitions—see Exhibitions
Headlights. Tests of, at the Crystal Palace, 200
Hydraulic Transmission Gear, Motor Mercantile Association, 523
System for Motor Cars, 520
Machine Tools for Motor Car Repair, Drummond, 547
Motor Car Wheels, 246 Roads, 247, 273 Wagons for Use in a Factory, 83
Motors for the Transport of Troops, Clarkson. 427
“ Panflex” Spring Wheel, Parsons, 3 Roller Bearings for Road Motors, Empire Roller Bearings Company, 645
Motor Vehicles and all Matters Relating thereto {continued)*,
Rolls-Royce Cars, 547
Sunbeam Live Axle Car, 546
Wheel, Detachable Road, Riley Cycle Company, 547
Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company’s Cars, 547

MURDOCK’S Gas Plant at Soho, 261
“ Muribloc” Partition Slabs, 640
Myles, D., on Marine Boiler Design, Construction and Efficiency, 501, 506

NATIONAL Physical Laboratory, 363
Naval Engineer Appointments, 32, 200, 280, 303
Navvy, Steam, Ruston-Proctor, 551
Neilson, R. M., on Relationship between Condenser and Air Pump, 130
Newcastle Quayside Improvements, 164
Noble, Sir A., on the History of Propellants, 156
North Platte Irrigation District, 312

Obituary:

Bauerman, Professor Hilary, Portrait, 604 291
Harrison, Hugh Erat, 195
Hawksley, George William
Hepburn, George, 578
Jones, Sir Alfred, 639 291
Laybourne, Richard, 455 291
Mond, Dr. Ludwig, 639 291
Robinson, Thomas Field, 15 291
Rodger, Anderson, 299 291
Samson, Peter, 373 291
Stanley, William Ford, 195 291
Tangye, Edward, 639 291
Thompson, George, 578 291
Turner, Thomas, 164 291
Warnford-Lock, C. G. , 277 291
Wilson, Thomas Perceval, 341 291
Young, Harry William, 428

OIL-FRICTION Testing Machine, W. Alexander, 291
Oil Fuel, Meyer’s System, 393 in the Navy, 350
Optical Apparatus for Gas-lighted Boat, 209
Oram, Engineer Vice-Admiral H. J., on Propelling Machinery for Warships, 532, 539. 561
Ordnance—see War Material
Ore Process at the Open-hearth Plant of the Dneprovsky Works, South Russia, M. Pavloff, 216
Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe Cutter, 512

PASTEURISER, Gasquet, 422

Patent Specifications, British:

Aeronautics, 100, 232, 334
Batteries and Accumulators, 100
Building, 258
Cranes and Conveyors, 466
Dynamos and Motors, 21, 48, 75, 99, 125, 154, 179, 231, 257, 283, 334, 410, 438, 489, 544, 591, 621, 652, 677, 704
Engines, Internal Combustion, 21, 75, 99, 153, 257, 307, 333, 357, 384, 409, 465, 518, 567, 591, 621, 651, 677, 703 Steam, 47, 163, 203, 283, 333, 383, 409, 437, 465, 517,567, 691, 661
Gas Producers, 154
Lighting and Heating, 544
Locomotives, 76, 99, 257
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances. ?6, 154, 204, 284, 334, 358, 410, 437. 568, 622, 678
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 22, 100, 126, 154, 257, 308, 358, 490
Mines and Metals, 258
Miscellaneous, 22. 76, 154, 180. 232, 308, 384, 410, 438, 490, 544, 568, 592, 662, 678
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 75, 100, 204, 284, 308
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 76,126, 232, 384, 409, 643, 568, 591. 621, 662. 678
Ships and Boats, 48, 126, 180, 204, 258, 284, 704
Steam Generators, 21, 47, 125, 153, 179, 231. 283, 307, 357, 383, 437, 465, 489, 567, 651, 677. 703
Switch Gear, 75, 180, 231, 438, 490, 517, 704
Telegraphs and Telephones, 308, 592, 621

Patents, Selected American :

(missing lines)
Clutch, C. P. Hollister, 258
Commutator for Dynamo-Electric Machines, B. 6. Lamme, 284
Condenser, C. J. A. Gottlieb, 622
A. Kuylenstjerna, 204
Coupling, J. G. Zimmerman, 284
Crushing Mill, N. A. Helmer, 76
Drainage Excavator, M. G. Bunnell, 678 Dynamo-Electric Machine, B. A. Behrend, 100 Engine, Compound Rotary, J. A. Eaton, 100
Explosive, R. W. Coffee. 48
Internal Combustion, G, V. Benson, 622
Internal Combustion, C. D. McClintock, 22
Lubricating Device, A. Krebs, 204 Rotary, J, Clark, 518
Rotary, T. Jorgensen, 76
Equilibrium Stop Valve, J. Kcenig, 466 Feed-water Filter, R. C. Monteagle, 358
Means for Introducing into Steam Boilers, C. W. Seddon, 258 Fluid-clutch Speed Controller, &c., R. E. Newcomb, 48
Furnace, Annealing and Hardening, W. S.
Rockwell, 678
Annealing, with Inset Sealed by Steam, C, C. Baldwin, 358
F. S. Lang, 126 Electric, F. J. Tone, 308 Electric, J. B. Tritton
Gas, Liquid, and Method of Making, L. Wolf, 258
Producer, G. Hatton, 154
R. B. Kernahan, 652
H. I. Laa, 544
Grate for Gas Producers, &c., H. F. Smith, 258 Guard Rail, C, A. Alden, 56o
Guns, Firing Mechanism for, A. Y. Leech, 180
Gyroscopic Steering Gear, F. M Leavitt, 180 Hammer, Steam, T. E. Holmes, 284 Hydraulic Ram, P. E, Alger, 438 Induction Motor, Sven R. Bergman, 518
Ingot Mould, E. Gathmann, 678
Ingots, Sound Metal, and other Castings, Method for Making, R. A. Hadfield, 466
Lathe Centre, C. S. Totten, 358
Liquid Seal for Rotary Apparatus, F. Samuelson, 100
Locomotive, S. M. Vauclain, 518
Engines, F. J. Cole and F. F. Scoville, 544
Lubricator, J. Kelly, 490
for Locomotives, E. Blauhorn, 384
Metal Bodies, Device for Severing. E. Wiss, 334 Metallic Surfaces, Method of Finishing, A.
Ridd, 592
Mining Coal, Method of, D. P. Loomis, 518 Motive Power System, A. Wilstam, 678 Motor, Single-phase, S. R. Bergmann, 76 Nitrogen from Air, Process of Extracting. 0.
P. Hurford, 48
Oxidising Metals Dissolved in Mercury, Method of, J. Whiting, 592
Pipe Coupling, W. H. Hammond, 284
Piston Packing, H. A. Young, 490
Pump, N. McCarty, 652
Rails, Method of Manufacturing, N. Rendle- man, 652
Resilient Driving Connection, G. M. Eaton, 592
Rods, Tubes, Wires, &c., Method of Producing Direct from Molten Metal, A. H. Pehrson, 358
Rolling Mill, Universal, H. Sack, 622
Rope Pulley made in Two Parts, J. F. Henry, 232
Separating Water from Oil, Process of, J. W. Pittock, 232
Slag, Apparatus for Handling, D. T. Croxton, 334
Steam Condenser, E. Koerting, 204
Steel Car Axle and Method of Making, &c., A. C. Cunningham, 622
Process for the Manufacture of, G. J. Stock, 466
Superheater, H. W. Jacobs, 568 for Locomotives, 0. W. Ott, 490 Steam Boiler, F. J. Cole, 518
Tire, C. H, Keiffer, 154
Turbine, W. L. R. Emmet, 76
Blades, Device for Fixing, J. Dahl, 410
Elastic Fluid, C. G. Curtis, 232
W. L. R. Emmet, 100
F. Hodgkinson, 668
G. Westinghouse, 490 Engine, C. W. Weiss, 204
Steam, J. Karrer, 384
Valve, G. L. Crook, 438
Blow-off, J. V. Schmid, 692 Gear, Reversible, for Elastic Fluid
Engines, R. Hensig, 518
Mechanism for Hot Water Pumps, G. Caille, 384
Mechanism for Steam Engines, G. L. Bowen, 22
Stop, J. Koenig, 308
Valves in Engine Cylinders, Means for Mounting, L. G. Sabathd. 258
Wash-out Plugs for Boilers, Method of Forming Openings for, H. B. Ayers, 180
Water Supplying Device for Locomotive Tenders, J. L. Wissinger, 204
Water-tight Hatch or Manhole Cover, M. A. Lanbeuf, 622
Wheel Tire Contour Recorder, W. C. Arp and F. F. Hildreth, 518

PATENTS, Compulsory Working of, 246, 584 Patents, Reciprocity in the Working of, 454 Peat Deposits of Maine, 373
Peck, J. S., on Distribution and Application of E ectric Power, 645
Permanent Way—see Railways

Personal and Business Announcements :

21, 46, 74, 98. 124, 152, 178, 202, 230, 256, 282, 332, 356, 382, 436, 464, 488, 514, 542, 566, 590, 620, 650, 676, 702

PIPE Coupling—see Coupling
Pistons and Piston Valves, 23
Pistons and Piston Valves, Dean’s Adjustable, for s.s. Tortuguero, .30, 31, 32 ; (Correction), 92
Popplewell, W. C., on Deflection due to iShear, 309; (Letter), 353
Population and Unemployment, 35
Porhydrometer, The, 117
Ports—see Harbours
Postmaster-General and the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, 137
Potato Digger and Mower, Martin’s Cultivator Company, 15
Power Tests of Machine Tools—see Machine Tools
Prioe-WilUams R., on the Life of Permanent Way, 371, 388, 398—see also Tire and Rail
P^^fose, J. C. G., on Production of Pure Spelter, Propellers—see Ships
Propelling Machinery for Warships—see Ships Naval Matters ’
Puerto Mexico, Warehouses at, 237

Pumps:

Brewers’ Pumps, Albany Engineering Company, 421
Centrifugal Pumps, Experiments with, J, G ?7T’377“'^^’ 206; (Letters/
Dixon’s Hot-air Mercury Pump, 610
Pfe and Boiler Feed Pump, Merryweather, 92 Floating Irrigation, Pumping Plant, 387-^see abo Irngation Works of United States, &c.
Gwynne’s ‘ ‘ Invincible, ” 169
T* ^“bustion Pump, Professor Unwin’s 597 807 fiiT /i^’ 686,
Joy’s Gas Pomp, 609
Oil Pumping Engine, Weir, 184
Treble-Arm Sinking Pump, Pearn, 561
Turbine Pump, Electrically-driven,

QUAYS—see Harbours

RADIO-Telegraphic Apparatus at the Armstrong Colleger

Railways and Railway Matters, General

Crawford Derailment, 7 ’
Friezland Derailment, 558
^'6^2°^*"°“ Neaohell’s System,
Models of Early Railway Coaches. 67 37““38MT8^^’ Price-Williams,
Rail Steel, Treatment of, 114 „ Trade, Steel, Future of, 297 Railway Accounts, 315
Fuel see Railway Locomotives Passenger Classes, 348 n .1- Perry—see Ferry
Rolling Stock, Purchase of, 582 Tire and Rail, 492 Trunk Lines, Electrification of, 324 Underground Electric Railways, 36 Waterways and Railways, Inland, 582

Railways and Railway Matters, British, Colonial and Indian:

Ashendon-Aynho Railway, 418
Baro-Kano Railway, 288, 354 (Tieo-paqe Sumle- nu-nt, Septemier nth, 19091
Bray and Wicklow Railway, 38
British and ^ench Railway Speed in 1909, 680 Caledonian Railway, Derailment at Crawford, Canadian Northern Railway—see Fort Garry Easton to Watford Electric, 171 Fort Garry Station, Winnipeg, 443 ^^SteamThip°-^see^Sh^s ""??Yarnton'au^ P°-®-- Signalling at
w"se®te‘:‘°642"“‘^ De^^anmeltf’s^’^"'*"”
Newburgh and North Fife Railway, 84 88 Nigerian Railways-see Baro-Kano Railway North-Eastern and Hull and Birusley Railways Agreement, 528
Railway Position, 273
Subnrban Railway Traffic, 19i
Summer Train Services, 39
Thornhill and Royston Line, Midland Railway,
Victorian Railways, 603

Railways and Railway Matters, Foreign:

Accidents, American Railway, 277, 604 Baro-Kano Railway, Nigeria, 288, 354 (Tim- page Supplement, September nth, 1909)
British and French Railway Speed in 1909 8Sn Finnish Railwaysand their^EtK/catiou,’262 German Railways and the State, 276 La Guaira-Caracas Railway Rolling Stock, 545 Nigerian Railway—see Baro-Kano Railway Peking-Kalgan Railway, 688
Pennsylvania New Terminus at New York 93 Prussian Railway Electrification, 221 Rails in the United States, Failure of, 90 San Paulo (Brazilian) Superheated Steam Loco- ^5**370^°"^*^** British Locomotive Company),
Tauern Railway, 494, 604 ^®23V 259 Terminal Ports, 203,
Venezuela, Railways of, 545

Railway Locomotives, General :

Axles, Flexible Crank, 142, 144 • fLettsr) 179 Boilers, Locomotive, Combustion and ’Heat
Balance in. Lawford Kry. 421 *
Briquettes—see Railway Fuel
(?et?:rV24^ ?’®®'i-water Heater, 223 ;
Railway' Locomotives, General (von- tinued):
Compound Engines, R. M. Deeley, 623, 637 ; (Letter), 674
Cylinders, Locomotive Engine, 426
Fire-box, Stayless, for Locomotives, 316 Fire-boxes, Locomotive, 114
Ideal Ijoeomotives, 532
Locomotive Brake Blocks, Pressure on, 26 Performance, 185, 298—see Letters to the Editor
Proportions and Power, G. J.
Wells, 628, 654
Superheater, American Locomotive Company, 615
with Water-tube Boiler and Superheater, Schneider, 431
Lubricator for Locomotives, C. C. Wakefield, 508
Railway Fuel, 666, 692
Reid-Ramsey System of Locomotive, Hugh Reid, 486
Simple V. Compound, A Footplate Experience, by a Fireman, 185, 298; (Letter), 225
Stokers, Mechanical, for Locomotives, 172 Vacuum Brake Improvements, Gresham and Craven, 30
Valve Gear—see Valves

Railway Locomotives, British, Colonial and Indian:

Assam-Bengal Railway Petrol Locomotive, 662 Lancashire and Yorkshire Locomotives—see
Locomotives Designed at Horwich I
Locomotives Designed and Built at Horwich, I G. Hughes, 105, 114, 119, 140, 146, 147, 174—566 also Works
Midland Railway, Compound Locomotives on, R. M. Deeley. 623, 637 ; (Letter), 674
Petrol Locomotive for Assam, McEwan, Pratt and Co., 662
Rhymney Railway Boiler Explosion, 167, 171 ; (Letter), 199
“Rocket’s” Driver, The, Edward Entwistle, 573 ; (Letter), 643

Railway Locomotives, Foreign:

Chemin de Fer du Nord, Six-coupled Compound Express and Tender—see Northern Railway of France.
Chicago and Altona Locomotive with Pilliod Valve Gear, 252
Detroit RiverTunnel Electric Locomotive, 474, 478
Locomotives, New French, 668, 669
Northern Railway of France, Some Recent L’comotive Performances on the, J, T. Burton-Alexander, 359, 482 ; (Letter). 404 (TivO’page Supplement^ Novembet' 5ZZt, 1909)
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Locomotives, 668, 669

RECOIL, The Work of, SirG. Greenhill, 64—see Letters to the Editor on Marine Propulsion Refrigerating Machine for s.s. Tortuguero, 31, 32 Machinery. Montagu, Sharp and Co., 421
Reservoirs—566 Water Supply
Rhead, E. L., on Causes of the Corrosion of Copper and Brass, 416
Rivers—566 Harbours and Waterways
Road Improvement Experiments, 122 Roller, 10-Tons Compound Steam, Aveling, 14
Roads, Motor, 247, 273—566 also Highways Rock Receiver for Compressed Air. 190 " Rocket’s ” Driver, The, Edward Entwistle, 573 ; (Letter), 643
Rogers, J. W., on Shop Testing of Direct and Alternating-Current Machinery, 646
Roll Mill Housing, Repairing a, Thermit Limited, 644
Roller Baarings for Road Motors, Empire Roller Bearings Company, 645
Rolling Mill, Hollow, for Making Turbine Rotor
Drums, John Brown and Co., 497 (Two-page Supplement^ November 12ZA, 1909)1
Motors, E, W. Yearsley, 200
Strip, at Bromford Ironworks, 483 Ahlls, Reversing, Determination of the Economy of, C. A. Ablett, 340
Royal Reserve Engineers, 514
Royds, R., on Cylinder Condensation and the Temperature of Cylinder Walls, 385, 426; (Letter), 502
Rubber, Testing of, and other Materials, 401
Rugan, H. F., and Carpenter, H. C. H., Professors, on Growth of Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings, 341
Russian Trade, British Engineers and, 54

SAND in Concrete, 194—see also Concrete ; (Letter), 225
San Francisco, Rebuilding of, 86
Schools, Technical, at Home and Abroad, 507 !
Scrap Heap, Mr. Longridge’s Report, 245, 272 Secrecy in Naval Construction—see Ships, Naval
Matters
Sewage Disposal in Sheffield, 462
Shackle for Tensile Tests, E. Adamson, 389
Shafts, Design of, with Special Reterenee to High-speed Electric Generators, H. H. Jeffcott, 411, 439, 491, 583. 623
Shear, Deflection Due to, W. C. Popplewell, 309; (Letter), 353

Ships and Shipbuilding, General:

Clyde, The, as a Shipping and Shipbuilding Port, 302
Cutting off a Steamer’s Stem, British Oxygen Company’s Method, 512
Electric Drive for Marine Propulsion, Wilson, 135
Fuel Supplies, Choice and Control of, by Steamship Companies, J. B. C. Kershaw, 181
Gantries, Shipbuilding, at Bremerhaven, 519, 530
Hudson Fulton Centenary, 314, 347 ; (Letters), 430, 459
Italy and Canada, Steamship Service between, 190
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Annual Report, 512
Marine Engineering, Advances in the Early Twentieth Century, A. J. Maginnis, 135
Ships and Shipbuilding’, General (con- iimicd):
Marine Propulsion by Electric Motors, H. A.. Mavor, 648
Measurements of Rudder Pressure, &c,, T. Schwarz, 573
Porhydrometer, The, 117
Screw Propellers of Small Boats, 252
Ship Construction, Monitor Corrugated System, 145
Shipyard Operations, Demarcation of, 39
Sixty Years of Merchant Shipbuilding on the North-East Coast, G. B. Hunter and E. W, De Rusett, 182
Steam Navigation, Eirly History of, 366
Submarine Signalling, 696*
Suction of Vessels, Model Experiments on.
Naval Constructor D. W. Taylor, U.S.A,, 221
Tanks, Experimental—see. Tanks

Ships and Shipbuilding, British Navy:

Bellerophon, H.M. Battleship, 60 (Two-page Supplement)
Cyclops, H.M.S., Floating Repair Shop, 77 (Eight-page Supplement^ July 1909);
(Correction, 176)
Gloucester, H.M. Cruiser, 450
Indefatigable, H.M. Cruiser-Battleship, 450
Invincible, H.M.S., 525
Liverpool, H.M. Second-class Cruiser, Vickers, 474
Neptune, H.M. Battleship, 341
Newcastle, H.M. Second-class Cruiser, Launch of, 578
Orion, H.M. Battleship (A Forecast), 550, 556
Submarine C 11, Loss of, 65, 89, 106
Submarine D 1, 354
Warships, Four New, 662

Ships and Shipbuilding, Naval Matters:

Admiralty Destroyer Policy, 372
Fifty Years of Warship Building on the Clyde, Professor Biles, 182
Life-saving Devices in Submarine Boats, Siebe, Gorman, 612
Naval Construction, Secrecy io, 117
Work on the Clyde, 696 Works Vote, 36
Navy, An Imperial, Sir W. White on, 531
Oil Fuel in the Navy, 350
Propelling Machinery for Warships, Engineer
Vice-Admiral H. J. Oram. 532, 539, 661 Submarine, Future of the, 89
Submarines and Life-saving Devices, 106 Turbine v. Piston Engines in Warships, Trials of United States Dreadnoughts Delaware and North Dakota, 634, 638
Warship Armament, 533 Warships and Machinery under Construction in
England, Progress of, 25
Novel Types of, 581

Ships and Shipbuilding, Foreign Navies:

Argentina, New Battleship, 462
Brazilian Torpedo Boat Destroyer Matto Grosso, Yarrow (Tico Tno-page Supplements, July 2?w2,1909), 4
French Armourad Cruiser, Ernest Renan, 240, 244
Dreadnoughts, 576 The New, 639
Marine, The Report on the, 11, 91 Submarine Manoeuvres, 67
German Dreadnoughts, 607
Guns of the United States Navy, 687
Italian Battleship Napoli, Machinery, 184, 192 (Tuo-page Supplement, August 1909) Turbines in the United States Navy, 634, 638 United States Dreadnoughts Delaware and North Dakota, Turbines v. Piston Engines, 634, 638
Warship Chester. Parsons Turbines in Use, 17

Ships and Shipbuilding, Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels:

Berbice and Karoola, R.M. Steamship?, Harland and Wolff, 92
British Tank Steamers for the Pacific Trade, 393
Central American Steamship Service, 327
Cunard Line New Steamship, 462
Drottning Victoria—see Ferry Steamer, Train Ferry Steamer Guanabacoa, Cammell, Laird, 645; (Letter), 674
Train, Drottning Victoria, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richftrdson, 55, 107, 112; (Letter). 225 (Tico-page Supplement, July Z^th, 1909) Flashing Gas-lighted Boat, Unwatched, Str T. Matthews, 209
Graceful, s.?., Engines of, Richardsons, Westgarth and Company, 344 (Tioo-page Supplement, OcUibet' 15^, 1909)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company’s Steamship Prince Rupert, 641
Guanabacoa—see Ferry Steamer
Monitoria, Steamship, Osbourne, Graham and Co., 145
Orient Line T.S.S. Otranto, 27
Otaki, S.S., Combined Piston and Turbine Propulsion, A. J. Maginnis on, 135 ; Engineer- Commander W. Wisnom on, 156, 181, 501
PaHion Coaling Vessel, Self-discharging, Dox- ford, 222
Queenborough-Fiushing Steamers, Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, 57
Snohomish Life-saving Steamer, 144
Stern Frames and Brackets of the New White Star Liners, Darlington Forge Company, 632, 636
Telcooia, Cable-Repairing Steamer, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. 660, 664 Tenasserim, Steamship, Stern Cut off by Oxygen, 512
Tortona, Steamship, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 190
Tortuguero, Fruit and Passenger Steamer, Alex. Stephen, 29, 30, 34; (Correction), 92 Trinculo, Oil Tank Steamer, with Meyer’s Fuel System, 393
Turbine Steamer Huallaga, Cammell, Laird and Co., 294
White Star. Liners Olympic and Titacic, Harland and Wolff, 226,. 585, 632, 636 Winchester, Steam Yacht, Yarrow, 404

SHIPBUILDING Berths and Cranes at the Wallsend Shipyard, 669

Shipbuilding Notes :

Allan Line Steamship Company, Move Glasgow to Montreal, 318
American Shipbuilding, Growth and Tonnage, 614
Balmoral Castle, Old and New, Fairfield Company, for Union-Castle Line, 554
Bibby Liner Leicestershire, 318
Bone, W. J.. Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company, Death of, 614
Boston, Lincolnshire, included in Forth Shipping Company’s Service, 446
Brazilian Floating Dock, Order given to Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 318
Cairo and Heliopolis, Alterations and Change of Service, 554
Clyde Contracts, 614 Trust Centenary, 318 Trustees and Glasgow’s Prosperity, 83
Colossus, H.M. Battleship, Construction begun at Scott’s, Greenock, 16
Cossack, H.M.S., Trial Results; Sir P. Watts’ Paper, 422
Canard Company, Mr. James Bain’s Retirement, 422
Canarder, New, to replace Slavonia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 290
Destroyers, H.M., Orders for Twenty Placed, 291
Discharge Note System for Shipyard Workers, 110
Docks for Dreadnoughts, Admiralty Order, 614 Dredging at Bombay ; Simons* New Type of Dredger, 110
Drottning Victoria, Train Ferry Steamer, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 83
Floating Dock for Brazil, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 318
Frame Spacing of Merchant Ships, 674
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company’s Steamer Prince Rupert, 674
Harland and Wolff’s Output, 318, 554
Henzada, Cargo Steamer, Launched from Denny Brothers* Yard, 83
Holidays in Clydeside Shipyards, 110
Hooghly Train Perry Steamer for Bengal- Nagpur Railway Service, 614
Institute of Marine Engineers, Annual Dinner, 511
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland and North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Joint Meeting at ly { Glasgow ; Sir A. Noble on “ History of Propellants”; Engineer-Commander Wisnom on “Trials and Performances of the Otaki.” Other Papers and Visits, 163
Iron Sailing Vessel Kentmere as Coal Depot, 351
versus Steel, Resistance to Corrosion, 351 Isherwood System of Construction, 351 Jones, Sir Alfred, Death, 674
Lloyd’s Register, Change in Rules, 16, 70, 511
Quarterly Return, 83, 423 Report, 511
Load Line Tables, Revision, 352
London and South-Western Railway’s Turbine Channel Steamers, 290
Mauretania’s Record-breaking Voyages, 16. 83 Monitoria, Launch from Osbourne, Graham and Co.’s Yard, 70
Service Performances, 554
Naval Architecture—Chair Instituted at Liverpool University, 163, 554
Literature of, 614
North-East Coast Institution of Shipbuilders and Engineers, Meeting, 511
Olympic and Titanic, Building Progress, 554 Orient Liner Orvieto Launched, 70; Completed, 550
Osterley’s Speed Trials, 16
Prinses Juliana, Zeeland Steamship Company’s Steamer, Trials, 290
Sale of Steamers, Large and Small, 110 Scotch Shipbuilding Output, 290
Shipbuilding Depression Abroad as well as at Home, 16
Design and the New Cunarder, 290
in the North ; New Orders Booked, 318, 422
Prospects on North-East Coast, 70, 110, 511
Stability of Merchant Steamers, 351 Stability of Ships, 511
Star of Canada, Workman, Clark, 422 Steamers for Frozen Meat Trade, Increased Construction, Russell and Co., and Cammell, Laird, 511, 554
Thearle, Mr. S. J. P,, Succeeds Mr, H. J. Cornish as Chief Ship Surveyor at Lloyd’s, 16
Union-Castle New Liners, 554
Vespasian as Experimental Ship, Turbines or Reciprocating Engines, 70
Viking, H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyer launched at Jarrow, 351
Waratah, Loss of, 674
Web-framed Ships, Absence of New Vessels of this Type, 440

SHIPYARDS—Works
Shop Management at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. W. Bird, 268
Shows—see Exhibitions Signalling—see Railways and Ships
Smith, Professor C. A. M., on Compound Stress Experiments, 657, 697
Sphingometer; Elastic Breakdown of Non-ferrous Metals, 417
R. H., on a new Formula for the Total Heat of Steam, 667 Solder, Aluminium, 578
Surface Appearance of, C. Bannister and H. J. Tabor, 416
Sommerville, D., on Chemistry and Bacteriology of Sewage Purification, 514
South America, Engineering—see Engineering &c Spelter, Production of Pure, J. C, G. Prim^se; 418 ’
Sphingometer, C. A. M. Smith, 417
Spraying Machine, Dodman, 603 Standardisation as a Principle, 453
Stead, J E., on Microscopy and Macroscopy in the Workshop and Foundry, 349, 379
Steam Navigation—see Ships
New Formula for the Total Heat of, Professor R. H. Smith, 667 ,
Regulator Valve, The “Servo, Hulburd Engineering Company, 378
Trap, Paterson, 394 Turbine Governors, 299—see also Turbines Stokers, Mechanical, for Locomotives 172 Stream Line Theory and Collisions at S^a,^221 Stress Experiments, Compound, Professor C A.
M. Smith, 657, 697 . .
Stubbs, J. H., OP. Engineering Efficiency, dyu
Stumpf, Professor, on Continuous-current Steam Engines, 559
Submarine Signalling—see Ships _
Superheater, Locomotive, American Locomotive Company, 615
Superheating, The Theory of, 684 .
Supplements, Illustrated—see Separate Section

Supplement, Sixteen-page Special,

Grinding Machines, November 26th, 1909:
Archdale’s Piston-rod Grinding Machine, Machine for Grinding Shell, and Universal Cutter Grinding Machine, viii., ix., xv.
Beyer, Peacock and Co.’s Crank Pin, Universal Lapping and Taper Hole Grinding Machines, iV. V*
Birch and Co.’s Plain and Universal Grinding Machines, v., vi., vii., viii. . .
Churchill Machine Tool Company s Plain Grinding Machine and Ring and Surface Grinder, xiv., XV. , _ ,,
Crosier and Stephens’ Self-contained Treadle Grinder, xv., xvi. . .
Herbert’s Large Universal Grinding Machine, Universal Cutter and Tool Grinding Machine, and Twist Drill Grinder, x., xi., xii., xvi.
Hetherington’s Grinding Machine for Carding Engine Cylinders, vi., vii., viii.
Holroyd and Co.’s Elpctrically-driven Plain * Grinder^ and ^Milling Cutter Grinder, xiii., xiv.
Hulse’s Plain Cylindrical, Planer Type Flat, and Locomotive Link Grinding Machines, and Combined Milling Cutter and Twist Drill Grinding Machine, i., ii., iii., xvi.
Kendall and Gent’s Bush and Face Grinder and Two-spindle Flat Grinding Machine, vii., viii. .
Lande’s Motor-driven Grinding Machine, xiii. Lang’s Drill and Small Tool Grinder, xvi.
Luke and Spencer’s Automatic Surface Grinding Machines, xii.
Mitchell’s Combined Tool and Twist Drill Grinder, xv.
Norton Plain Grinder, Grinder with Crank Shaft Attachment, and Railway Wheel Grinding Machine, v., vi., vii.
Reinecker’s Circular Face, Large Shaft and Crank Shaft Grinding Machines, ix., x.
Richards’, Geo., Piston-rod Grinding Machine, iv.
Roberts’ Disc Grinder, xv.
Rowland’s Combined Wet Tool and Twist Drill Grinder, xvi.
Schuchardt and Schutte’s Journal and Plain Grinding Machines, xii., xiii.
Sterne’s Tooth Grinder, xv. Thompson Universal Grinder, xiii.
Ward’s Plain and Bush Grinding Machines, ii., iii., iv.

SWAIN, Professor G. E., on “The Relation of Engineering to Science and to Business,” 666
Swinden, T., on Constitution of Carbon-Tungsten Steels, 389

TANK, Experimental, Management and Equipment, 49, 80, 101 9,000,000 Gallons Water, for Calcutta, Clayton, Son and Co., 44
Tanks, Measuring and Testing, at Drysdale’s Works, 595
Technical Guarantees in Engineering Contracts, 321
Schools at Home and Abroad, 507 Telegraph Cable Machinery for the Telconia, 660, 664
Testing Machine for Hardness of Metals, 538 50-Ton Hydraulic, S. Denison, 70
Oil Friction, W. Alexander, 291
Materials, International Association for, Congress at Copenhagen, 276. 289, 310 (For Papers, see Associations, &e.) of Rubber and Other Materials, 401 Tests of Cast Iron, Shackle for Tensile Tests, E. Adamson, 389
of Hydraulic Cements, Prof. F. Schule’s Report, 349
Impact, on Metal, G. Charpy’s Report, 348
Papers Presented to the International Association at Copenhagen, 348 of Internal Combustion Pump by Prof. Unwin—see Pumps
Textile Factory, Electrical Operation of, H. W. Wilson, 136
Institute—see Associations, &c.
Thieme, H, C. A. —see Heat Transmission
Thomson, Prof. Sir J. J., on Higher Mathematics, 212, 219, 238
Thrashing Machinery at Smithfield, 602
Tinning Metal, Regulations for, 164
Tipping Wagon, Clayton and Co., 14
Tire and Rail, 492
Torsion Meter, Denny-Edgecombe, 471 ;(Letter),
Tractor, Agricultural Motor, Saunderson, 13. 14
7 H.P. Compound Steam, Ruston, Proctor, 602 ’
Oil, Marshall, 602
Petrol or Paraffin, Cyclone Agricultural
Tractor Company, 14
Tractors, Military, in Germany, 215 at Smithfield Show, 602
Trade—see also Labour News
Export, 499
Trade Improving, 55, 272, 404
Iron, in Austria, 60 Russian, 54
Schools, London, 559
Traffic, London, 506
Train Ferry—see Ferry
Tramway Car Wheel—see.Wheels
Tramways Accounts, London County Council’s, 83
Transport, Mechanical, in the Colonies, 176 Troops, Motors for Transport, Clarkson, 427 Tschentscher, R., on Electric Power Problems in Steel Plants, 313
Tubes, Mild Steel—s<?elron and Steel
Turbine, Exhaust Steam, J. N. Bailey, 525, 608
Governors, Steam. 299
Impulse Steam, WiHans, 324. 325
Marine. Problems, New Solution of, Dr. Ing. Fbttinger, 559, 572
Parsons, on U.S. Warship Chester, 17 '0 Piston Engines in Warships—see Ships, Foreign Navies
Rotor Drums, Hollow Rolling Mill for Making, John Brown and Co.’s, 497 {Tvjo-page Suppleiiient^ Nooember 12zA, 1909)
Schulz Marine Steam, 484
110 H.P. Steam and Dynamo, 486
Wind, Electrical Plant—see Electrical Matters
Turbines, Steam Consumption of, 141
Steam, from the User’s Point of View, A. S. Blackman, 71
Water, at Royal Agricultural Show, 13 Turbo-Alternators—see Electrical Matters Turner, Professor, and M. T. Murray on Copper- Zine Alloys ; Extensometer, 417

UNEMPLOYMENT—see Labour
Unskilled Labour—see Labour
Universities, English, and Engineers, 653
University College, London, Professor Fleming on the Training of Electrical Engineers, 380
Unwin, Professor, Tests on an Intornal Combustion Pump, 428
VACUUM Brake Improvement, Gresham and Craven, 301
Valve Gear, Pilliod. for Chicago and Alton Locomotive, 252
“Servo” Steam Regulator, Hulburd
Engineering Company, 378 Valves, Engine—see Engines and Motors Water, Hydraulically-operated, Kennedy Valve Company, 70
Vernon, P. V., on Power Tests of Machine Tools, 670
Vice—see Machine Tools

WAGON, 21-Ton, Self-discharging Steel for Burma, Leeds Forge Steel Company, 275
Steam, with Locomotive Boiler, Tasker, 15
Tipping, Clayton and Co., 14
Wall, C. H. on Soho Foundry, its Men and Methods. 624—see Boulton
Walters, W. L., on Asynchronous Generators, 302

War Material:

Dirigibles and Aeroplanes for the French Army, 639
Engineering of Ordnance, 37
Guns of the United States Navy, 687
Motors for Austrian Army, 252
Ships—see Ships
Tractors. Military, in Germany, 215

WATER Hammer, Mr. Stromeyer’s Memorandum, 322

Heater, “ Rudd ” Automatic, Wannbacher, 422
Water Supply:
Artesian Well at Slough, C. Isler, 482 Bury ; The Scout Moor Reservoir, 474 Mansfield, 110
Waterwork Filter Plant, 223
and Fire Protection, 122

WATER, Yield of-5ee Yield Waterways—see Harbours and Waterways Waterwheels and Turbines at Royal Agricultural Sbow, 13
Watts, C , on Bevel-gear Tables, 161 Weigher, Calculating Section, Pooley, 93 Weighing Machine, 200-Ton Railway, 83 Wells, G. J., on Locomotive Proportions and
Power, 628, 654
on Winding Engine Design, 586 Wells—see Supply
Wharves, Ferro-Concrete, at Dundee, 93 Wheel, “Panflex” Spring, Parsons, 3 Reid-Riekie Spring, 560
Wheels, Motor Car, 246—see also Motor Vehicles, &c.
White, Sir W. H., Address as President of Engineering Section, British Association, 227, 253 on an Imperial Navy, 531 Wilkinson’s Experimental Apparatus, 420 Wilson, H. W., on the Electrical Operation of a Textile Factory, 136
Wind Motors at Royal Agricultural Show, 13 Wireless Telegraphy, G. Marconi, 630, 658
Short Distance, C. A. Booth, 137
Wisnom, W. McK., on Trials and Performances of the ss. Otaki, 156, 181
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Shop Management at, W. Bird, 268
Workhouse and Infirmary, Homerton, 380 Workmen’s Compensation—see Labour

Works;

Cammell, Laird’s ; Lever Brothers ; Horwich Locomotive ; Lister Drive Power Stations, &c.; Visits of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 106, 126, 169
Chubb’s Lock and Safe Works at Wolverhampton, 399
Drysdale and Company, 595, 606
Poster, Blackett’s Lead, 661
German Shipyards, 374, 412, 424, 488, 519, 521, 530,576, 580
Kerr, Stuart, at Stoke-on-Trent, 392 (Two page Sapplernewt^ October 15<A, 1909)
Mirrlees’ Oil Engine, 52
Salt Union, Winsford, 170
Scotch, Visited by the Institutions of Engineers and Shipbuilders (North-East Coast and Scotch), 159, 182
Soho Works, Boulton, and Old Tools at, 195, 259, 462, 624; (Correction), 307; (Letters),315, 700
Yarrow, Bird’s Eye View, 184

WORKSHOP Accuracy, 63

YARNS. The Gassing of, Arundel Gas Regulator and Gassing Frame, Stubbs’ Gassing Frame, 352
Yearsley, E. W., on Rolling Mill Motors, 200
Yield of Water, Rainfall, &c., on a Moorland Watershed, S. Hutton, 71

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