The Engineer 1909 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1909 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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ABRASIVE Materials, United States Output, 345
Abruzzi, Duke, Himalayan Expedition. 243
Accident to La Republique Airship, 423
Acidity of Lubricating Oil, Test, 191
Admiralty Courses of Instruction, 215
Aerial Navigation, Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 635
- Progress, King Leopold’s Prize, 243
- in France, Appeal for Public Financial Support, 345
- Prize Award by Institute of France, 10
- Torpedo for Life-saving, 61
Aero Club, Suspensions of Well-known Aviators, 503
Aeronautical Club, Berlin, Prize Award, 499
Aeronautics, Army, and the National Physical Laboratory, 191
- Lectures at East London College, Thurston, 391
Aeroplane Competitions at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium, 87
- Industry in France, Rapid Growth, 345
Aeroplanes and Balloons Endangered by Atmospheric Electricity, 503
- for Everyday Use, 165 New Wright Patent, 503
Agricultural Labour-saving Machinery, 217
- Lectures Planned by Railways, 295
- Society’s Experimental Farm in Russia, 165
Air Samples from a Height of Nine Miles, 295
Air Steam Engine, 423
Airship, La Republique, Cause of Accident, 423
Airship School at Friedrichshafen, 217
Airships and Smuggling, 111
Airships, Wireless Signalling for, 345
Algiers Bay, Expensive Telegrams, 477
Alloy, Non-shrinking, 423
Aluminium Coinage for France, 423
- Paint, 111
- to Replace Bronze Coinage in France, 635
Ammonia Production from the Atmosphere, 87
Apprenticeship Scheme for Engineers, South-Western Polytechnic and Glasgow Firms, 344
Areameter, A. E. Mallandain, 674
Argentina, Agricultural Development of, 369
Arsenic in Brimstone, Determination of, Laboratory Tests, 423
Asbestos Discoveries in the Urals, 33, 111
Asbestos Output in Canada and United States respectively, 295

Associations, Institutions, and Societies:

Association, Birmingham, of Engineers: Aerial Navigation, Dr. A. R. Ratcliffe, 488
Water Organisation with ”* ’ making, J. Batey, 488

Association, Birmingham, Engineers: Annual Meeting, 586
Works Organisation with making, J. Batey, 579

Association, British: Arrangements for Sheffield Visit in 1910, 16
Winnipeg Meeting, 61, 152
Programme, 152

Association, British Foundrymen’s: Annual Convention, 92

Association, Edinburgh, of Science and Arts :
Concrete Construction, Reinforced, F. A. Macdonald, 579

Association of Engineers-in-Charge: Presidential Election, Programme, 330

Association of Engineers, Manchester: Syllabus for the Session, Conversazione, 350, 382

Association, Geologists’:
Excursions, 60
Meeting and Programme, 7

Association, Incorporated, of Municipal and County Engineers:
Meeting and Inspection at Cardiff, 365 Association, International, for Testing Materials:
Meeting and Nomination of Representatives, with List of Objects of Study, 483, 588

Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions :
Annual Meeting and Report, 488 Association of Water Engineers :
Winter Meeting and Programme of Papers, 560
Institute, American, of Electrical Engineers : Cost of Power, Stott, 33

Institute of Engineers, South Wales : Machine Mining, &c., S. Mavor, 555

Institute, Iron and Steel:
Andrew Carnegie Research Scholarship, 591
Annual Meeting and Dinner in 1910, 560 Autumn Meeting, Programme, 242

Institute, Iron and Steel, West of Scotland : Annual Dinner, 603

Institute of Marine Engineers:
Boilers and Steam Pipes, Notes on Coverings for, A. T. Strohmenger, 591
Denny Gold Medal Award to W. P. Durtnall, 339, 383, 618
Dinner, 511
Generation and Transmission of Power for Marine Propulsion, &c., W. P. Durtnall, 339
Hydraulic Cargo Gear for Passenger Ships, A. M. McAlister, 383
Meetings and Awards, 382, 383
Refrigerating Installations, &c., R. Balfour, 70, 95, 382, 383
Visit to Imperial Exhibition, 70, 95
Water Hammer, Bishop N. King, 383

Institute of Metals:
Membership, Autumn Meeting Programme, &c., 99, 307, 324
Institute, Midland, of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers:
Exhaust Steam, Recovery of Power from, W. M. Sanderson. 459
Locked Coil Winding Ropes, Working and Testing, J. E. Silverwood, 122
Meetings and Programmes of Papers, 69,122, 620

Institute, North of England, Mining and Mechanical Engineers:
Annual Meeting, 152
Automatic Case Tub Stops, T. C. Enters, 374, 622
Coal Cargo Steamers, Various Types, &c., J. Kisropp, 152
Electricity in Coal Mines, R. Nelson, 374 Meetings at Newcastle and Programme of Papers, 374, 622

Institute, Royal Sanitary:
Henry Sa? on Snell Prize Competition, Heating and Ventilating Public Buildings, 95 Institution of Automobile Engineers: Graduates’ Section, London Branch:
Indicators for Petrol Engines, C. E. G. House, 446

Institution of Civil Engineers :
Awards for 1908-1909, 446
Heysham, Morecambe and Lancaster Line, Electrification of, J. Dalziel and J. Sayers, 446
Marine Propulsion by Electric Motors, H. A, Mavor, 446
Mersey Railway under Steam and Electric Traction, Equipment, &c., J. Shaw, 446 Students’ Meetings:
Design of Generating Stations, G. Ingram, 620
Foundation and Construction of Dock Walls, H. T. Tudsbery, 694
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Association of Students : Secretaryship, 667
Visits to Addison Potter’s Cement Works and North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company’s Works at Wallsend, 27
Visit to Spencer’s Steel Works at Newburn. 199
Yorkshire Students, Association of:
Visit to Leighton Reservoir, 242
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland : Presidential Address, 555

Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 620
Efficiency of Short Spark Methods of Generating Electrical Oscillations, Dr. W. H. Eccles and A. J. Makower, 663
Electricity in Mines, Use of, 695
German Electrical Industry, Methods and Practice, L. J. Lepine and A. R. Stelling, ' 663
Hopkinson, Dr. John, Marble Bust of. Pre- i sented, 483, 555
Lighting, Gas or Electrical, Cost Compari- I son, G. Wilkinson and R. McCourt, 605
Presidential Address, Dr. Gisbert Kapp, 458, 689
Winter-Eichberg Motor, 555
Birmingham Section :
Research on Metallic Filament Lamps, F. H. K. Lavender, 635
Glasgow Local Section :
Annual Dinner, 618
Continuous-current Boosters and Balancers. 695 ’
Glasgow Students’ Section:
Opening Meeting : Mr. Mavor on Electrical Propulsion of Ships, 436
Leeds Local Section:
Cost of Electrical Energy, W. M. Rogerson, 605
Experiments on Single and Stranded Low- tension Fuses, W. T. Maccall, 555 Manchester Section:
Magneto Ignition, J. W. Warr on, 555 Opening Meeting, 419
Unemployed Electrical Plant, S. J. Watson. 529 ’
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland:
Joint Summer Meeting, Programme, 122 Presidential Address by C. P. Hogg: Slow Progress of Railway Electrification, 679 Institution of Gas Engineers :
Gas Heating Research Committee’s Report at Leeds University, 10
Manchester District:
Vertical Retorts in Gas Making, S. Glover, 508 ’

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Annual Meeting and Report; Elections, 473 Recent Warship Machinery, Engineer Vice- admiral, H. J. Oram, 473
Reinforced Concrete Construction of the New General Post-office Buildings, London, T. A. Watson, 473
Summer Meeting ; Programme, 179
Visit to Menpes Colour-printing Works at Watford, 32
Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Application of Pitot Tube to the Testing of Impulse Water-wheels, W. R. Eckhart, 676
Bryan Donkin Research Fond, 605
Graduates’ Association:
Commercial Testing of Railway Materials T. H. Sanders, 538
Correlation of Micro - structure with the Elasticity of Materials of Construction, Professor Arnold, 9
Drawing-office Systems, John Heath, 9
Associations, Institutions, and Societies {continued);
Inventions and Industrial Progress and British Patent System, J. E. S. Lockwood, 391
Leaking in Locomotive Fire-boxes, Causes and Treatment, F. Hollingsworth, 9
Planning and Equipment of Turbo-generating Stations, T. Walmsley, 641
Power Plant of Ontario Company at Niagara Palls, C. W. Jordan, 676
Summer Meeting ; Visits, 9

Institution of Mining Engineers :
Meeting at Newcastie-on-Tyne. 239
Institution of Mining Electrical Engineers :
Formation of Scotch Branch Projected, 7
Meetings and Membership, 230, 380
Meetings of Yorks and Notts Branches, 94

Institution of Naval Architects :
Elgar Scholarship, 696
Meeting in 1910, 489
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
Annual Dinner, 643
Baikal Railway Ferry Steamers, J. 0. Handy, 540, 648
Joint Summer Meeting and Programme, 122 Marine Boiler Design, Construction and Economy, D. Myles, 540, 648
Remarkable Failure of a Consignment of Steel Ship Plates, W. J. B. Wilson, 648 Institution, Permanent Way :
Annual Summer Convention, Awards and Lecture, 95

Institution Royal:
Christmas Juvenile Lectures, Modern Electricity, W. Duddell, 473, 676, 689
Elections, 27, 473
Meetings and Lecture Arrangements, 473, 620
Society, American, of Mechanical Engineers :
Annual Meeting and Programme, 436

Society, American, of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers:
Carnegie, Non-magnetic vessel. Details of Construction, 579
General Meeting and Programme of Papers, 528
Society, Glasgow Technical College Scientific : High-tension Switch Gear, A. G. Collis, 476 Modern Condensing Installations, W. A. Dexter, 518

Society, Glasgow University Engineering : Oechelbaeuser Gas Engines in Great Britain, R. Stokes and J. Cunningham, 539
Three-phase Motors with Speed Control, Parker-Haigh, 538

Society, Glasgow University Physical:
Visit to Blythswood House Laboratory, 476 Society of Engineers:
Mechanics of Dust, C. H. W. Biggs, 635 Status Prize Award, 291
Visit to Greenwich Generating Station, 57 Hill’s Organ-building Works, 330 Society, Illuminating Engineering:
Modern Methods of Illumination, L. Gaster, 555
Opening Meeting, 502
Professor Sylvanus Thompson’s Address, 555 Society, Liverpool Engineering:
Parsons’ Steam Turbines on Fast Channel Steamers, C. J. Blackburn, 648
Presidential Address, W. Brodie, 537

Society, Manchester Geological and Mining :
Visit to Ashton, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield Waterworks, 57
Society, Physical, of London:
Exhibition, Programme, List of Exhibitors, 518, 603
Meetings and Programmes of Papers, 518, 576

Society, Royal Agricultural:
Annual General Meeting, 573
Liverpool Show, 1910, 410
Norwich Show Suggested for 1911, 423

Society, Royal, of Arts: «
Albert Medal, Presentation to Sir A. Noble, 41
Annual Meeting and Report, 20
Chemistry of Plame, Professor H. B. Dixon. 688

Society, Royal Meteorological:
Balloon Registrations of Atmosphere, C. E, P. Cave, 524
Ascents at Gloucester, Registering, W. Marriott, 524
Winter Temperatures on Mountain Heights. W. P. Brown, 524
Rainfall, Semi-diurnal Variation of. E. Gold. 524
South American Rainfall Types, Study of Phenomenal Climatology, W. G. Reed, 677 Symons Gold Medal Award, 586
Variations of Currents of Air, &c., Dr. W. N Shaw, 677, 689

Society, Sheffield, of Engineers and Metallurgists :
Home-office Regulations for Generation, &c. of Electrical Energy, H. 0. Wraith. 403
Microscopic Methods in Relation to Factory Problems, H. Brearley, 555

ASTRONOMICAL Compass Adopted in India for Military Purposes, 61
Australian Patent Act, Representations by United Kingdom Manufacturers and Patent Agents, 408, 423
Preference to United Kingdom on Electrical Imports, 423
Austria, Motor Lorries for, 87
Automobile Guild, International, 153
Industry, Growth in United States,
Repair by Blacksmiths, Technical Courses in Austria, 499
Automobile Trade of Nice, British Dealers Poorly Represented, 10
Vans, Industrial, in Germany, Owners
Subsidised by Government, 529
Aviation in France, Benefaction to University of Paris for Purposes of Study, 10 Week, Blackpool, 368
Ayr Auld Brig Preservation, Insufficient Funds, 87

BALL Bearings, Defective Steel, Used for Metal Polishing, 139
Balloons. Firing at, United States Tests, 689 Belgian Law and White Lead Importation, 663 Bell, Submarine, for Signalling near Holyhead, 269
Belt, Driving, Record Size and Cost, 605
Benadir Coast, Italian Survey for Harbour and Railway, 503
Benzol not Liable to Petrol Tax, 61
Berlin-Stettin Ship Canal, Progress of Construction, 423, 605
Bioscope or Kinematograph Pictures, To Eliminate Vibratory Effect, 269
Blast Furnace Gas for Electrical Generation, 243
Borough Polytechnic Institute, Training and Work of Stokers, 383
Brazil, Machinery and other Imports, Consular Reports, 438
Manufacture Statistics, 139
Mineral Resources, Electric Smelting Needed, 423
Schemes to Counteract Drought, 503 Breakwater, 10,000ft. in Length, for Hawaii, 295

Bridges:

Blackfriars Bridge Completion, 165 Blackwell’s Island Bridge. Who is to Pay? 663 Brayford Swing Bridge, Great Northern Railway, Reconstruction, 295
Bridge Spans, Floating to Position by Rising and Falling Tide, 191
Delfshaven Bridge Projected, 529 Ferro-Concrete Bridges for Illinois, 87 Pittsburg, 228
Ganges, Sara Bridge over, Details, 395
Girder and Arch Combination Bridge for Electric Railway, U.S.A., 369
Gloucester, Great Western Railway’s Proposed New Bridge, 702
Grafton Bridge, Longest Masonry Span in the World, 605
Iron Girder, at Lea, connecting with Viaduct over Kingsbury and Water Orton Railway, 579
Manhattan Bridge Tested, 369 Pontoon Bridge, New Type, in Sweden, 503 Quebec Bridge Reconstruction, Progress, 689 Question of Piers, 87
Tenders for Work, 368, 428 Railway Bridge at 450ft. height across Sioule Gorge, France, 423
Raised by Breakdown Cranes, 87
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Fall of Bridge in Sussex, 446
Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia, Largest Ferro-Concrete Bridge in the World, 319
Yellow River Bridge, on Chinese Railway, 33 ; (Correction), 74
BRISTOL Docks as Distributing Centre for Motor Spirit, 111
British West Africa, Sanitary Officers Appointed, 33
Building, Loftiest Inhabited in the World, 60
Building Material Interests in United States, Brighter Prospects, 579
Building Progress in the United States, 402

CALCIUM Chloride, Properties and Value, 319
Cyanamide Manufacture in Europe, 382
Cyanamide, to Render Inoffensive, 269
Canadian Cement Industry, 319
Canadian Immigration, Decrease from Ocean Ports, Increase from United States, 423
Canal at Leipzig, Projected, 111
Canal and River Ports for Lyons District, Opposition by Railway Company, 395
Canals, Royal Commission Report, 165, 191, 423 Carborundum, Thermal Conductivity of, 702 Case-hardening Power of Gases, 217
Castings, Cause of Blow-holes, Shrinkages, &c.. 269
Cement in Denmark, Exported instead of Imported, 61
Cement from Furnace Slag Waste, 345
Ceylon Gem Mines, European Syndicate to Control, 243
Charco, New Fuel, 540
Chicago Lighting Experiments, 217
Chilian Seaport Projected at San Antonio, 61 Chimney in Montana, Tallest in the World, 217 Chinese Machinery Imports Increasing. 33 Cinchona Factory in Bengal, Output, 534
City and Guilds of London Institute, Programme. 431
Clays, Plasticity Tested by Dye Absorption, 529 Clock to Show Time all over the World, 243 Clyde Engineers’ Demands, 61
Belgium Collieries, New Shaft Sunk, 423 Bituminous Coal, First Mined in the United States, 269
Spontaneous Combustion of,
Causes Loss of Steamship, 334
Briquette, Coal, Installations Pronounced a Failure in United States, 10
Coal Cutters, Electrical -versus Compressed Air, Rival Progress, 369
Dust Explosion Statistics, 295
Exports to Italy, British, 87
Handling by Hand in a Paper Mill, David Gaehr, 663
Output in the Midlands, Eight Hours Act, Electricity in Mines, Committee of Inquiry, 269, 319, 462. 477
Fire in Coal Mine Checked by Concrete Wall, 555
Foreign and Welsh Coalowners, 377
Hull Coal Traffic, 74
Indo-China Mines, Successful, 529 Labour Troubles at Welsh Collieries, 380 Sicily’s Imports of British Coal, 319
South Wales Coal Conciliation Board, Labour Demands Withdrawn, 503
Yorkshire Colliery Closed because of Strike, 330
New Colliery Opened, 430 Turbo-compressors for Collieries, 345

CO-PARTNERY Shipbuilding Yards and Production, 689
College, Imperial, of Science and Technology, Lectures on Aeronautics and Scholarships, 651
New Technical, for Y.M.C.A., 41 Compressed Air, Perils of Divers and Workers in, Leonard Hill on, 555
Concrete for Bridges up to 60ft Span, 87 Caisson, Difficulties of Vertical Sinking, 139
Columns, Reinforced, for New General Post-office, Interesting Tests, 635 Construction, Reinforced, F. A. Macdonald, 579
Ferro Bridge, Largest in the World, 319 Ferro, Examples of Rigidity, 319 New and Old Bonding, 165; Another Method, 635
Platforms to Replace Wooden, Central London Railway, 395
Poles of Hexagonal Shape, 503 Proportions for Greatest Density, To Determine, 477
Reinforced, Experiments with Transverse Ties, &c., 423
Reinforced, for Prison Cells, 345 Reservoirs, Accidents to, 87
for Crude Oil Storage, 451 Sheathed Timber Pile Construction in San Francisco, 319
and Steel, Tests by Professor Kirsch, 451
Switchboards, 341 Telegraph Poles, Extended Use, 111, 451
Wall placed in Position by Aiken ‘ ‘ J ack ” System, 191
Wall, Reinforced, New Type, 702 Condensing Arrangements at London Power Station, Defective, 395
Cooling by Steam-heating Coils in New York, A. M. Feldman, 191
Copper, Gold and Silver, Reported Discoveries in the Fiji Islands, 10
Copper Mining Projected in China, 33
Copper Sheets, Heat-transmitting Properties, Tests at Worcester Polytechnic, U.S.A., 579
Corrosion Prevented by Coal Tar Pitch Coating, 243
Cotton-seed for Gas Generating in Nigeria, 605 Coventry Engineering Society, 473 Crude Oil Storage in Concrete Reservoirs, 689 * Crystal Palace Engineering School, Awards for Papers, 676
Crystal Palace Old Students’ Society Annual Dinner, 428

DAIMLER Motor Car Works, 590
Dam Across Lyari River for Sind Irrigation, 605 1
Collapsible Steel in Utah, 605
Damming of Niagara to Raise Lake Erie Level, 61 Dartmouth, Royal Naval College Examination,185 Daylight-saving in Cincinnati, 61
Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1909, M. Sharpe, 20
Dock, Dry, for Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, 345
Floating, for Christiania, 61
at Immingham, Admiralty and Great Central Railway, 111
at Renfrew, Proposed Scheme, 111
at Southampton, London and South-Western Railway’s Change of Plan, 503 Docks, New Scottish, at Leith and Burntisland, 242
Doakin, Bryan, Research Fund, 605 Drainage, Main, Extension in London, 176 Dredge, Hydraulic, for Land Reclamation, Rapid Work at Bombay, 369
Dredger Leviathan, Mersey Bar Improvement, 61 Dredgers and Hopper Barges for Singapore and Para, 306
for Tin Recovery in New South Wales, 111
Dredging Plant for Port of Para, Lobnitz, 213 Drilling Slate and Marble, 2 9
Dust Prevention by Oil Sprinkling, 319—see also Roads

EARTHQUAKE in Calabria, Escapes of Houses, 655
Earthquakes and Concrete Buildings, Expert Japanese Opinion, 663
Echoes in Great Halls, Experiments to Avoid, 87
Economisers in Tower Plant Operation, 512 Education of Engineers, 69

Electrical Matters;

Accident through Fall of High Tension Wire near Lake Como, 217
Accident on Wolverhampton Tramoar, 555 Accidents, Treatment for Electric Shock. 303 Accumulators, Life of. Record Instance, 38 Alternating-current Circuits, J. B. Taylor, 139 Aluminium versus Copper as Conductor, 295 Ammeters and Voltmeters, Standard Specification, 395
Australia’s Electrical Enterprise, 477
Baku District Needs Electrical Equipment, 635
Bavarian Water Power Concession, Postponement of Government Consent, 10
Brazil, Extensive Use of Hydraulic Power for Generating Electricity, 111
Central Station in East Friesland ; Peat as Fuel, 635
Christiania Power Station, Turbines by Esheher Wyss and Co., 403
Chungking Electric Light Company Extending Operations, 33
Commutators of Dynamos or Motors ; Method of Glazing, 423
Grooved, and High-grade Carbon Brushes for American Railway Companies, 450
Concrete Switchboards with Compartments for Instruments, 341
Edison Central Station, Chicago, Operating Cost, 579
Electrical Drive for Steam Shovels and Dredgers, 295
Engineers, Institute for South Africa, 111
Engineers (London Division) Annual Dinner, 662
Furnaces in Norway and Sweden, 243
Instruments, Source of Error in, 269
Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, 69 Lighting and New Metallic Filament Lamps in Sheffield ; Temporary Loss, 383
Machine, Steinmetz Patent, 635 Plants for Farm Use, 689 Power Station Regulations, 191 Shock, Treatment for ; Wall Card Instructions, 303
Traction’s Slow Growth in the United Kingdom, 295
Units and Standards, International Conference, 689
Water Power Stations in Italy, 87 Electricity for Agricultural Purposes, Experiments, 663
Output at Manchester, 10
Supply to Isolated Power Users ; Comparative Cost of Public and Private Supply, 319
Electrolysis in Water Mains, Investigations at Winnipeg, 191
Electrolytic Hydrogen Plant for Balloon House in Nebraska, 243
Electrophone Conveys Lord Rosebery’s Speech from Glasgow to London, 332
Energy Consumption in Electrical Traction Tests, 343
Field Coils, Impregnation of New and Old, Recommended, 477
Furnaces, Electric, Increase in Number and Capacity, 451
Gas-light Motor an Impossibility, 332 Generating Plant on Colorado River, 395 Generation, &e., of Energy, Home-office Regulations, 403
Germany, Electrical Industry in. Consular Report, 315
Grinder for Electric Rails, 191
Hailstorms and Electricity, Experiments, 295 High-tension Electric Lighting Plants for Germany, 295
Hydro-Electric Plant in Utah, Telluride Company, Water for Irrigation, as well as for Power, 165
Soheme.s in Mexican Mining District, 395
Incubators, Bacteriological, Heated by Electricity, 369
Institution of Electrical Engineers—see Associations, &c.
Insulation to Prevent Loss of Current, 369 and Rubber Substitutes, 345 Invention to Prevent Fraud in Credit Notes, &o., 369
Kobe District Trade and Navigation, Electrical Machinery, Keen International Competition, 10,
Leakage of Electric Current, 295
Leolanoh4 Battery, Improved Type Patented in France, 451
Lighting, Electric, for Suez and Port Tewfik, 269
Load on Shunt-wound Direct-current Motors
395
Long Distance Transmission on Overhead Lines, Marchant and Watson, 663
Magnet Coils and Heat Dissipation, 477 Magneto Machine, High-tension, Model, 172 Mines, Electricity in. Committee of Inouirv. 269,319,462,477
National Electrical Manufacturers’ Association, Committee Meeting, 584
Observatory and Tramways, Astronomer- Royal’s Objections, 603, 529
Oils for Insulation, Method to Remove Water. 529 ’
Peat for Generating Electricity, Works in Germany, 210
Power, Cost of, Stott, 33
Costs for Factories, F. W. Ballard, 663 Propulsion of Naval Vessels by Electricity, W. L. R. Emmet, 579
Report on Electrical Machinery Breakdowns, Longridge, 306
Resistence Measurement, New Method, 369 Salonica Electric Lighting Installations, 369 Servia’s Electrical Industry, 165 Single-phase Induction Motor, Self-starting.
New Patent, 689
Solar Electric Generator in United States, 10
Steel Works, Electrical, in Norway, 555 Stourbridge Lighting Bill, 188 Sub-station, Electric, and Noise Nuisance, 295 Switches, Tell-Tale, to Prevent Accidents, 689 Telegraph and Telephone Cables, Propagation of Electric Currents in, &o.. Advanced Lectures by Professor Fleming, 585
Testing Coils for Dynamo Airgaps, 635
Thury Direct-current System: Success and Developments, 330
Transformer, Oil, Explosion, 170
Turbo-compressors for Collieries, 345 Turbo-generators and Carbon Brushes, 345 Turbo-electric Drive for Marine Propulsion, Proposition to United States Navy, 319, 345 Unemployed Electrical Plant, Methods of Economy Proposed, 529
Valves, Stop. Electrically Operated, 635
Volt Scale Meter, 165
Water Power in Portugal, 10
Wave Lengths of Generators, 395
Winter-Eichberg Motor, Dr. Gisbert Kapp on, 555
Woolwich Electric Light Failure, 555

EMBANKMENT made by Hand Labour, 395 Engineering Works, Discussion of Area Required, G. H. Gibson and A. Home-Morton, 217
Engineers, Mercantile Marine, Board of Trade Examination, 16
in the Navy, Admiralty Regulations, 33
Wages in Manchester, 332
Exhibition, Aeronautical at Frankfort, Prizes Offered, 61
Engineering and Allied Trades at Manchester, 1911, 560
Franco-British, Souvenir Album of North-East England Manufacturers at, 95
International Agricultural at Buenos Aires, 10
International Labour, in Turin, Invention Prize, 295
Japan-British, 1910, 280, 618 Machinery, in Manchester, 622 Physical Society, 502
Scientific, at Westminster, 60, 353 Scottish National, at Glasgow, 400 Explosion at Gunpowder Factory, 356 at Gunpowder Factory, Derbyshire
Inspector’s Report, 451
Explosions Caused by Gas Engine Silencers, 269
Explosive for Blasting, British Invention, Tested at Panama, 503
Explosives Factory near Rosyth, 243

FACTORIES, Electro-Chemical, in Belgium, 555 and Workshops Report, Prohibition of White Phosphorus Matches, 89
Falmouth as a Naval Station, 191
Filey, Heavy Fall of Cliff, 243
Finsbury Technical College, Programme, 431 Fire Alarm by Telephone, 511
Installation, High-pressure, Merryweather, 618
Station at Charlton, Motor Equipment, 499 Fishguard as Port of Call for Cunarders, 217 Fishing Nets Dyed Blue, 61
Fleet-street and Bishopsgate-street Widening Schemes, 191, 423
Fly-wheel Failures, 605
Folkestone-Boulogne Route, Improved Service, 87
Forestry in Italy, Vigorous Policy in Progress, 451
Forests and Forestry in Germany, 451
Founders’ Company Exhibition and Competition, 573
French Chamber of Commerce Report, Trade with England, 646
Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters Furness, Sir Christopher, and Trade Prospects, 578

GAS and Electric Motors to Replace Steam Power for United States Steel Corporation, 319 Lamps, Automatic Extinguishing of, Proposed Trial at Newcastle, 33
for Lighting, Who First Extracted it from Coal, 72
Liquefaction in the Linde or Hampon Apparatus, Discussion on Cooling, 529 Making in a Colliery Centre, Disadvantages, Financial Position, 239
Vertical Retorts in, 508
Producer Tests, Accuracy Questioned, 579 German Imports of British Steam-driven Tractors, 663
Regard for Atmospheric Conditions, 477 Glasgow to Edinburgh Underground Telegraph System, 683
Quays and Harbour Facilities at, 408 Glass to Resist Sudden Changes of Temperature, 579
Gold Output in the Transvaal, 503
and Silver Export Tax in Mexico, 477 Grape Vines and Insect Pest, Successful Method of Destruction, 529
Graphite Discoveries in Africa, 269
Grinding of Metals, Home-office Regulations, 529

HANGO Harbour, Finland, Extensions, 178
Harland and Wolff’s Canadian Works, 406
Harris Level, Merryweather, 674
Heating and Domestic Engineering, Trade Dispute, 644
Hopper Barges and Dredgers for Singapore and Para, 306
Hull and Humber Land Defences, Naval and Military Commission to Inspect, 61

ILLUMINATION of New York during Hudson-Fulton Celebrations, 139
Imperial Chemical Institute for Germany, 663 India and Burma and Telegraphic Improvement, 61
India, Purchase of Government Stores, 87 India-rubber, Substitute for, 87
Indian Meteorological Department, Work of, 605 Indian Soils and Purification of Sewage and Sullage, 529
Indo-Cbiua Minerals and Coal Deposits, 529 Industrial Advantages of North-East England, 280
Ink in 11 B.c._, 605
Invention Prize at Turin International Labour Exhibition 295

Iron and Steel:

Cast Iron Pipes, Engineering Standards Specification, 106
Chrome Iron Deposits, Quebec, Report^ 395
Electric Smelting of Iron Ore ; Swedish Government Commission on Qaestion of Provision of Capital for Experiments, 4/7
Smelting Plant, First Large, for Canada, 395
Electrical Steel Works in Norway, 555 Galvanised Iron, Persian Imports from United Kingdom, 395
High-speed Steels from Ferro-Tungsten, 87 Hysteresis of Steel, Apparatus for Testing, 345 Ingot, Steel, Output in France, 529
Iron Industry in Brazil, 395
and Steels Exports by Great Britain, 33, 165, 369, 503
and Steel Imports and Unemployment, 605 Magnetising Tests on Iron and Steel, 111 Nova Scotia Iron Ores Report, 122 Pig Iron Electrically Produced, 503
made in the Electric Furnace, First in United States, 369
Rolling Mill Output of the United States, 395 Smelting Works for Scrap Iron in the Transvaal, 319
Steel, Electric Furnace, Method of Improving, 61
Tests by Marine Department of Board of Trade, 33
Trust and Private Firms ; Trade Agreement, 423
Swedish Iron Ore and Electric Smelting, 191. 217
United States Tariff on Steel, 95
Vanadium Discovery in Pennsylvania, 423 Steel for Plating American Dreadnoughts, 87

IRRIGATION by Electrical Pumping on Large Scale in Texas, 191

JAPANESE Harbour for Coal Export, 191
Japan’s Increased Machinery Trade, 111

KERTCH-YENKALE Channel from Black Sea to Sea of Azov Dredged, 139
King’s College (University of London):
Irrigation Works, N. F. Mackenzie, 694
Reinforced Concrete, Professor H. M. Wavnforth, 694
Single-phase Electrical Traction, Professor E. Wilson and Mr. F. Lydall, 694

LABOUR Exchange for Sheffield, 635
Lamps, Incandescent, Tests of Light Efficiency. 269
Mercury Vapour, Injurious to Sight, 529 Metal Filament or Arc, 635
Metallic Filament, Comparison between Tantalum and Tungsten, and also Carbon Lamps, in regard to Cost and Efficiency, 579
Tungsten, Sealed Carton for, 542
Lead, Smelter Production of, in United States, 165
Letters Automatically Registered in Germany 605
Lighting for the City, Gas or Electricity, 139
Municipal and Private Companies, 605
Lightning Arresters, Aluminium, 269
Lignite as Fuel in Generating Stations in Germany, 165
Liquid Gas from Crude Oil. Swiss Experiment 87 Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
Loads on Tackle, Illustrative Diagram, Davey, 15 Loch Tarbert Shipway and other Improvements, 555
Longridge’s Report on Electrical Machinery Breakdowns, 306
Lung Diseases among Sheffield Grinders, Dr. H. Scurfield, 139

MACHINERY Imports and Exports, Statistics, 217
Magnetic Storms, Discussion between Sir Oliver Lodge and Dr. C. Cfaree, 451 and Solar Influence, 503, 579
Magneto Machine, High-tension, Model, 172
Manchester, Paving Experiments, 139
Manchuria, Projected Port at Halutao. 445
Massana, Suggested Improvement of Port, 451
Mechanical Engineering Industry Declining in Gothenburg, 345
Melbourne Harbour Facilities, 529
Mercury Output at Spanish Mine, 635
Mersey, Charts of the Channel, 139
Messina’s Slow Reconstruction, 10
Metal Articles, Hollow, Need of Care as to
Presence of Water in Heating, 33 Babbitt, Mixture for, 319 Cutting by Oxhydric Process, 61 Metallic Chromium as a Commercial Article, 33, 243
Metals, Transparency in, 87
Meteorological Investigations into
Climates, 451 Report for 1908-9, 213 Committee’s Report, Use of Wireless Telegraphy, 354
Metric System for China, 635
Mica Output of the United States, 111 Micro-photographic Experiments, 635 Milk in Paper Bottles, 423
Milking Machines in Australia and Denmark, 61
Mines and Minerals:
Asia Minor and Mining, 477
Bolivian Mining Machinery and Tin Production, 165
Corean Mining Industry Statistics, 423 Electricity in Mines, Committee of Inquiry, 269, 319, 462, 477
Machine Mining in South Wales, S. Mavor, 555 Mine Inspectors Reports in United States, 345 Minerals, Asterism ” in, 319
Mining Dangers and United States Legislation, 503
and Metallurgy Congress at Dusseldorf, 111, 243
Nova Scotia Iron Ores Report, 122
Swedish Mining Progress, 579
Transvaal Mines Department, Statistical Report 87

MONOPLANE, New Type, J. Neale, 111 Montevideo Port Improvements, 61
Morse Alphabet, How to Learn, Lake, Sison and Brown, 674
Motor Car Imports and Exports Increase, 689 in the United Kingdom Decrease, 423
Increase in France, 663 Industry in United States, Record Advance in a Decade, 48
Cars and Bicycles, Italian Imports and Exports of, 369 in Spain, Chiefly French, 33
Chassis and Engine Support, Diversity of Systems, 529
Horns, Test, 555
Inspection Car for Road or Railway, 203 Light Running, for United States Military Purposes, 116
Pumps to Deepen Water in London Docks, 529
Spirit Storage at Portishead, 111
Vehicle, Industrial, Industry in France, Statistics, 243
Vehicles in the Lyons District, Commercial Vehicles Replacing Pleasure Car8,451 Mozambique Supplies Native Labour for Transvaal Gold Mines, 10

NAPLES, Industrial Activity of, 369
Natural Gas at Chittagong said to have been on Fire for Centuries, Suggested Extinction and Utilisation, 10
Naval Establishments in British Possessions, New Bill, 217
Firing by Night, Efforts to Improve, 61
Navvies, Steam, at Panama, 605
Nitrate Discovery in California, 503
of Soda as a Fertiliser in Canton, 702
Nitrates, Artificial Manufacture, 165
Nitrogen Recovery from the Atmosphere, 243 North British Locomotive Company’s New Offices, 291
North Sea, Hydrographical Survey Report, 503
Northampton Polytechnic Institute Aeronautical
Engineering Course, 69
Norway, Emigration to America, 61

OBSERVATORY 14,000ft. above Sea Level, Mount Whitney, California, 369
Odessa and British Trade, Poor Prospects, 369 Oil Engine Ignition Plug, 377
Output of the United States, 111 Storage in Concrete Reservoirs, 451 Transformer Explosion, 170
Oils, Lubricating, Tests of, 345
Old Tin Cans Source of Municipal Profit, 423
Ore, Gold and Silver, Treated by Cyanide to Avoid Transport Expenses, 423
Orkney Islands Naval Base, 503
Osaka Underground Temperature Analysis, 477 Overhead Wire Transmission, Troubles in Welsh Collieries, 451
Overtime Payments at the Admiralty, 451 Osborne, Cadetships for, 190
Oxygen Generators for American Miners, 61 in Mars, 295
Oxy-hydrogen Blow Pipe Utilised to Cut Piston-rod, 217

PACKING, Cocoanut Cotton Waste for Flower, 509
Paint as Disinfectant, 217
Painting a Cement Wall, 477
Steel Sheets while Hot as Method of Preserving Metal, 87
Panama Canal Progress, 61, 689
Paper Mill at Chinan, German Machinery, 33 Patent Act, New, Working and Suggested Modification, 635
Law in Austria, 87 British, Effect on German Tralfrs, 87
Patents Bill, Australia—see Australia Briiisb, Statistics, 217
Peat Bogs of Sweden, Supply Statistic^, 139 Fuel Experiments in France, 33
Sweden, 165, 555 for Generating Electricity, Works in Germany, 210
Process to Separate Water, 61 production in Sweden, Rising Cost, 477
Pelton Wheel for Power in Quartz Mining, Troubles and their Cause, 191
Petrol in Sewers, Dangers of, 451
Petroleum as Disinfectant in Plague, 503 Industry of Roumania, Unfavourable Position, 345
Phosphorus in Bronze. 369
Photographic History of Canada’s Progress, 111 Photographs by Telegraphy, New System, 243, 579
Transmitted to any Distance by Telegraph, Telephone, or Wireless, 579
Pipes, Cast Iron, Engineering Standards Specification, 106
Platinum as a By-product in British Columbia, 61 Soldering, 395
Polar Expedition, Projected, 61
Pope, B. B., Death of, 153
Port of Musel Improved by Dredging, 319
Portland Cement Manufacture and Testing, J. G. Smith, 663
Portsmouth Harbour Defence Experiments, 87 Postal Electrical Engineering, Change in the Midland District, 369
Pulleys, Cracked Iron, Repair by Local Heat, 139
Palp Wood Consumption in United States, 139 Pyrometer, F^ry Spiral, 111

QUANTITATIVE Measurements in Connection with Radio-Telegraphy, Professor J. A. Fleming, 663
Quicksilver Output of Mexico, 395

RADIUM Discovery in Portugal, 61
Radium for Sale, 555 Radium in Sea Water, 295
Rail Bender, Motor-driven, 395

Railways and Tramways:

Accidents, Board of Trade Report, 217 Ada Bazaar, Call for Tramways, 395 Agricultural Lectures to Farmers, Organised by Railway Companies, 295
Albany and Hudson Railway : Electric Rail Grinder, 191
Alberta and Great Waterways Railway ; Extension to Fort Murray, 689
American Views of European Signalling, 61 Anglo-Visco Navarra Railway, 319 Argentine Railway Extension, 451
Northern Railway Locomotives; Firms’ Tenders Compared, 605 Assam-Bengal Railway Extension, Bridge Construction Delayed, 243 Rolling Stock and Increased Use of Vacuum Brakes, 635 Australian State Railway Statistics, 451 Austrian Electric Railway Conditions, 269 ^^52^^ ’ Financing,
State Railways to use Liquid Fuel 295
Automatic Coupler for Cape Railways, 555 Aynho to Ashendon Line, 477
Baffdad Railway Construction to Helif and Branch Line lo Aleppo, 503
Bahia, Brazil, Railway Report. 191
Ball Bearings for Car Axle Journals, Experiments on Prussian Railways, 689
Ballast Wagon for Ore Handling ; Trials of New Design, 345
Baltic Sound, Electric Railway Underneath Proposed, 689
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Rail Experiments, 243
Baluchistan, Railway Survey in, 269
Belgium State Railways Accumulator Cars, 663
Benadir, Projected Harbour and Railway, 451 Berlin Circular Railway Accident due to Falling Tower, 217
Underground Railways, Criticism of Finance, 243
Bilbao, Horse Tramway Concession, 503 Birmingham Tramways Extension, 165 Bolivian Railway Concessions, 217
Bordeaux to Toulouse Main Line Electrified, 87
Boston Elevated Railway Extension, 663 Bozen, Austria. Tramway Construction, 451 Brazilian New Railways, 243, 269
Railways in Belgian Hands, 87
Bridge, Railway, at 450ft. height over Sioule Gorge, France, 423
Raised by Breakdown Cranks.

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Briquettes for Locomotive Fuel. Tests, 663 Bristol’s New Railway Approach ; London and Avonmouth Connected, 477
British Columbia Electric Agreement, 269 Hydro-Electric Railway Projected, 61
Budget Exemptions and Railway Companies, 61 Cable Railway, Los Angeles and Mount Washington, 462
Canadian Projected Railways and Steamship Service, 529
Northern Quebec Railway Opened. 605
Pacific New Halifax Terminus, 319 Railway Circular to Locomotive Engineers, 477
Railway Electrification, 319 Commission Regulations to Fencing aud Gates Crossings, 217
Cape to Cairo Railway, Construction Work New Section, 269
Progress, 61, 635
Car Motor Brushes Soaked in Sperm Oil Prevent Chipping, &c., 689
Central South African Railways Engineer to Investigate American Locomotive Practice, 319
Centre Rails of Three-track Road Used for Up or Down Traffic, 503 .
Ceylon, Negombo Railway Extension, 295 .
Chamonix to Montanvert Rack and Pinion Railway, 369 .
Chicago, Electrification of Railways entering City, Question of Compulsion, 395 ; Adverse Report, 603 and North-Western Railway Motor
Inspection Car, 203 o j-
Chili Railway Contract Given to British Syndi-
Chilian State Railway; Proposal for Partial Electrification, 33
Chinese Railway Locomotive Orders, 139 Progress, 33, 139, 165,
395, 529, 635
Railways to be Home-made, 635 Christiania and Bergen, Progress of Railway, 61
City and South London Railway Lift Accident, 319
Coin, New, Wanted for Electric Companies’ Fares, 61
Colorado and Southern Railway ; Steam and Electric Traction on the Same Tracks, 423
Colour and Climate; Yellow Chosen for Panama Railway Rolling Stock, 477
Concrete, Reinforced, Increased Use for Railway Work, 689
Congress. South American Railway at Buenos Aires, 61
Corea Railway Extension, 295
Danube to the Adriatic, Turkish Consent to Railway from Servian Frontier to Antivari, 345 Devonport and District Tramways, Interrupted Service, 529
Direct-current, 1200-Volt, System of Interurban Light Railways in United States, C. D. Evelett, 139
District Railway Service Improvements, 303 Dockhead and Greenwich Road Improvements, 529
Doncaster, Proposed Light Railways, 555 Dover Naval Harbour, Tunnel to Connect Railway, 111
Dunfermline and District Tramways, 269 Dutch East Indies, Large Locomotives for, 451
Earth Current Effects on Gas and Water Mains, Experiments in Germany, 689
East London Railway and Electrification, 139 Electric Lighting Replaces Gas on Prussian Railways, 663
Locomotives, Success on Prussian Railways, 477
Rail Grinder on Albany and Hudson Railway, 191
Motor Cars, Special Type, for New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, 451
Motor Omnibuses in Berlin, Experiments with New Type, 369
Railways in United States, Grooved Commutators and High-grade Carbon Brushes for, 450 and Steam Traction on in Colorado, 423
Traction and Energy
Tests, 343
Tramway Trolley Wire tween Putney and Hammersmith, 33
Tramways, Rapid Growth, 579
Welding of Rails Reduces Corrugation and Noise, 243
Working on Main Lines, Development of. Dr. Eichberg, 555
Electrification of Great Northern Railway (U.S.A.) Tunnel, Tests of Locomotives, 269
Railways, Slow Progress in this Country, 579
Railways in United States, Committee of Investigation, 139
Electrified Track Laid in Concrete, 423
Engine Houses and Locomotive Turntables in
America, 555 I
Erie Railway’s Solution of Heating and Ventilating Problems, 579
Farthing Fares on Electric Tramways, 663 Finland Railway Projects, 111, 243, 579 Fires in Arkansas Forest, Measures to Reduce, 269
France, Western Railway, Electrification Commenced, 165
French Railway Statistics, 605
Fresh Air Cars on the Erie Railway, 579
Fuel, Liquid, for Austrian State Railways, 295 ' Fuel-saving Device for Lehigh Valley Railway Locomotives, 663 !
Gas-driven Street Car in Philadelphia, 319 Gas Lighting and Accidents, Sleeping Cars Converted for Electric Lighting, 139
Ganz Steam Motor Car, Chicago Railway Remodelled, 423
Geneva-Lyons Route, Electric Line Opened, 451
German Locomotives and Railways, Diminishing Earnings, 87
Golders Green, Hendon, Tramways to Finchley, Opening, 663
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Battle River Viaduct, 606
Completion, 61
Proposed Electrification ; Natural Facilities, 199
Proposed Route, 111
Rapid Progress, 689
(Canada) Annual Photographs of Towns on its Route, 111
Great Central Railway, Offer of Dock at Im- mingham, 111
Eastern Railway Branch Line from Edmonton to Ches- hunt not to be Reopened, 689 Locomotive Department, -Staff Dinner, 590
Great Eastern * Suburban Stations Closed Because of Tramway Competition, 217, 369
Northern Locomotive Exhibits ’at Shepherds’ Bush ; Old and New Engines, 87; (Letter), 138 Railway and First-class TraflSc, 165
Reconstruction of Brayford Swing Bridge, 295 Extension Line, Aynho to Ashendon,477
New Station at Birmingham, 33 Brixham Branch Renewal of Permanent Way, 423
Western’s New Bridge at Gloucester, 702 Western Station at Shrubb Hill, Worcester : Improvements, 295
Greenwich Observatory and Woolwich Tramways, 345
Grimsby, Proposed Light Railway to Immingham Dock, 295
7 Guadalajara-Chamela Railway, 663 Guatemala Railway Extension, 635 Hangchow Bay to Ningpo Railway,* All Made in China, 605
Hatfield Light Railway, 295
Hauenstein Railway, Busse Tunnel, Approved of by Swiss Government, 345
^Heavy Goods Train Hauled by Single Locomotive. Record Experiment, 33, 87 } ’Hidalgo, Railway Extension in, 200
Honduras : Only Public Railway in Bad Condition ; Private Railways for Banana Transport, 199
Hull and Barnsley and North-Eastern Railways Agreement, 503
Illinois Central Railway, Reports against Electrification in Chicago, 503
India, Renard Train between Nagina and Bijnor, 87
Indian Mail and Parcel Transport, Petrol Motor Railway Vans Discussed, 243 Railway Board Report, 191 Railways, Progress in Fitting Vacuum Brakes to Rolling Stock, 423
Report, Lines Opened and Projected, 345
Rolling Stock, Orders for British Manufacturers, 477 Irish Railways, Commissioners’ Report, 423 Island, Norderney, to be Connected with Mainland by Viaduct carrying Electric Railway, 345
Italian Railway Electrification, Progress, 663 Railway Extension, 603 State Railways, Electrification of Heavy Gradients, 395
Steam Railway Concession 451 Tramway Projected, 503 Japanese Railway Development, 635 Electrification, 243 Statistics, 191 Java Tramway Extension. 396 Johannesburg Tramway Extension, 369 Jungfrau Railway Progress, 663 Kirkcaldy and Dysart Tramway Extension, 635 Level Crossings; Railway and Public Rights, 165
Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 61, 191, 282, 369, 529, 635
Narrow Gauge, Series Projected in Rhone and Loire Departments, 423
Liverpool Tramway Extensions, 477 Locomotive Shops, Scranton, U.S.A., Concrete Rain Gutters for, 423
Locomotives, Atlantic Type, for North-Eastern Railway, 111
Electric v. Steam, 33, 111, 269 Half-boilers ; Tests on Models, 10 London, Brighton, and South Coast, London Bridge and Victoria Electrification, 111, 369, 579 ; Effect on Telegraph and Telephone Lines, 423 ; Centre Track Question, 503
Rail Motor Extension, 343 County Council Tramcars, 125 Tramways Extension, 165
and North-Western Local Electric Line, 477
Loop Line Construction, 555; Cost, &c., 635
Proposed Record Non-stopto Birminaham, 579 Railway Widening, 482 Train Accident, 165, 191, 503 Road Station, Manchester, Improvements, 10
South-Western Railway Dock Changes at Southampton, 503 Extensions and Connections ,477
Long Island Railway Electrification, 663 Los Angeles and Mount Washington Cable Railway, 462
Madagascar, Progress of Railway Construction, 503
Magnetic Storm, Effect on Cambrian Railway, 345
Mechanical Stokers for Locomotives, Experiments Unfavourable, 87
Metropolitan Railway Automatic Signalling, 139, 369
Collision, 304 Through Train from Harrow to Margate, Experiment, 319
Mexican Company proposes Extension of Inter- Oceanic Railway, 689
North-Western Railway Extensions, 217
Pan-American Railway Opened ; Connection with Tehuantepec Railway; Projected Extensions, 87, 111 Railway Extension, 529 : Inter-Urban, 217
Reverts to Coal Burners owing to Failure of Oil Supply, 605
Railways ; New Working Proposals, 87
Michigan Central Railroad Tunnel, Electric Lighting and Traction, 243
Midland Railway, Changes and Appointments, 605
Heysham Electrification, Mr. Deeley’s Test Data, 139 New Line, Corridor Expresses, 33 ,
Mileage Computation of Railway Cars in United States, 635
Mono-rail Trains at 135 Miles an Hour, 295 Transport in India, Experiments, Type of Carriage, 10, 243
Mont Blanc Rack and Pinion Railway, Progress, 369
Moorgate-street Station Collision, 304
Moscow Circular Railway Opened and Unsatisfactory, 217
Motor Coaches for the North-Eastern Railway, 116
Moving Platform Proposed at Holborn between Central London and Great Northern and Piccadilly Railways, 10, 191
Natal Railway and Harbour Extension, 503 Government Loan for Railways and other Public Works, 529
New South Wales Statistics, 395 New York, .Central and Hudson River Railway, Extension of Electric Zone, 295 Central Railroad, Extension of Electrification Progress, 605 Elevated and Subway Railways, Traffic Records, 477
New Haven and Hartford Railway, Motor Cars of Special Type, 451 New Haven and Hartford Railway, Trial of Electric Freight Locomotives. 33, 111, 243
Steam Railways, Statistics, 451 Subway, Estimate of Material and Cost, 345
Terminal Station for Pennsylvania Railway, 295
Zealand Mountain Railway, Difficult Engineering Task, 423
Nicaraguan Railway Extension, 369 Nigerian Railway Baro-Kano, 111 North American Trans-Continental Railway. 87 British Locomotive Company’s New Offices, 291
Railway Ports at Methil and Burntisland, 319
Eastern Locomotives, Atlantic Type, 111 Railway Erects Water Tower at York, 319
Men and Sir J. Woodhouse’s Award, 605 Motor Coaches, 116 Pamphlets respecting In- d ustrial Advantages of Certain Towns, 280 Northern Pacific Railway Bridge Construction, 529
Timber Structures Replaced by Steel or Concrete, 579 Norwegian Railway, Christiania to Bergen, Completed, 579 Extension, 61, 579 Single-phase Electrification, 423
Odessa Tramways, Preliminary Difficulties, 150 Osaka Electric Railway, Progress, 10
Paris-Lyon-Mediterran^e Railway, Electrification Experiments, 139, 451
Orleans Railway, Descriptive Booklet, 70 Peat and Coal as Fuel on Railways, Experiments in Sweden, 165 ; Failure of Peat, 555 for Steam Raising in Locomotives, Failure in Sweden, 555
Pennsylvania Railway’s Extended Use of Concrete Telegraph Poles, 45, 111 Railway, Record Run by He*vy
Freight Train, 33, 87 Terminus in New York, 295
and Timber Planting, 111
Tunnel System from Harrison, N.J., to New York City, 605 Philadelphia Street Cars, “Pay Within” System, Closed Doors, Fewer Accidents, 635 Pontresina to Bernina-Hospiz Electric Railway, 139
Portuguese Africa, Light Railway Projected, 10 Postal Underground Railway in Vienna, 87 Pyrenees, Electric Railway System, 295
Rail Corrugation, German Paper on, 154 Failures in New York State, 33 Motor Service Extension on London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 343 Tests, Ferro-Titanium and Bessemer Steel, 111, 243
Rails, Steel, Inquiry into Physical Properties and Manufacture, 269 Titanium used for, 111. 243, 345
Railless Electric Trolley Cars,. Leeds Committee Report, Details of System on Continent, 10
Railway to Connect the Nile with Lake Victoria Nyanza, Projected, 579
Signal Systems and the Personnel^ 605 Rain Gutters in Concrete at Scranton Locomotive Shops, 423
Renard Train in India, 87
Returns, Official, for United Kingdom, 243 Rhodesia, Mazoe Railway, Probable Routes, 269
Rhfine and Loire District, Narrow Gauge Light Railway Construction, 369
Rio Grande Harbour Works, Railway to Transport Material, 319
de Janeiro, Increased Electrical Power Supply, 369
Pvolling Stock Equipment of the United States, 345
Rotherham, Maltby and Laughton Railway Opening, 488
Roumanian Railway Extension, 503
Russian Electric Tramways, Ownership, 423,433 Railway Finance, 635
Survey, Further Extension, 529, 579
St. Gothard to Basilea, Route Shortened, 345 Santa F^ Railway Company, Partial Electrification, 87
Shanghai-Nanking .Railway, Report, 165
Siamese Railway Extension Checked by Lack of Funds, 332
Sicilian Railways, Construction of Montallegno- Siculiana Branch, 33
Signalling, Automatic Block, from Atlantic to Pacific, 33, 345
on the Metropolitan Railway Extension, 139, 369
Change, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 395
Changes at London Road Station, Manchester, 10
Continuous Automatic Block, System in the United States, 10 and Telephonic Communication on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 61 Signals, New Type, between Brussels and Antwerp, 645
Silesia, Electrification of Main Line between Lauban and Marklissa, 269
Singapore and Bangkok Rail Connection, 395 Sleepers for Indian Railways, Experiments with Varieties of Timber, 605
Sliding Embankment Remedied by Tunnelling, 477
South Australian Railway Extension, 635 Report, 663 Survey, 87
Eastern and Chatham Railway, Fall of Railway Bridge, 446
Indian Railway, Shops at Trichinopoly, 243
London Elevated Electric Railway, 579 Spanish Railway Concession Applied for, 33 Extension, 61
Steam Railway Electrification, Subject of Study by New York Railway Club, 10
Steel Girders and Brick Masonry to Replace Timber Bridges on Burma Railways, 689
Trestles already Replacing Timber on New Railway in America, 61
Street and Interurban Railway Statistics, United States, 451
Submarine Railway between Sweden and Copenhagen, 269
Suburban Lines, Electrification too Costly except for Very Dense Traffic, 689
Survey for Railway along the Black Sea, 319 Swedish Experiments on Fuel Value of Peat and Coal for Railways, 165
Railway Finance, Narrow and Standard Gauges Compared, Statistics, 139, 165
Swiss Railways, New Line, Ebuat to Nasslau, 327
Sydney Suburban Lines, Electrification to be Completed, 369
T-rails for Tract Construction in Paved Streets. 615
Teetas River Bridge on Assam-Bengal Railway Extension, 243
Telephones for Train-despatching in America, 295
Trackless Trolley Car, Proposed Service through Blackwall and Rotherhithe Tunnels, 451
Trolley System, Parliamentary Refusal of Consent, 635 Tramway to Clapham Junction, vid Wands- worth-road, 319
Tramways in Dairen, Rails and Cars Supplied by United Kingdom, 635 and Speed Register Devices, 369 at Woolwich and Royal Observatory, 503. 529
Trans-Andine Railway Tunnel Pierced, 579
Australian Railway, Favourable Surveyor’s Report, 423
Siberian Railway, Second Track, American Efforts to get Contract, 555 Transvaal Railway Extension, 61, 217 Tree Planting on American Railways, 61, 111 Turbo-Alternator, 3000-K.W., for Glasgow Tramways, 61
Turkey Consents to Railway from Danube to Adriatic, 345
and Greece, Railway to the Pirasus, 111 Turkish Pailway Construction in Armenia and Kurdistan, Concessions Sought by America, 243
Turntables for Heavy Locomotives in India, 605 Underground Postal Railway in Vienna, 87 ValtelHna Three-phase Railway and Neighbouring Telegraphs, 663
Watford Station, Improvements Projected, 319
Western Australia, Railway Progress, 403 Winter-Eichberg Motor for Railway Work, 555 Wolverhampton Electric Tramways Accident, 555
Woolwich Tramway Electrification, Overhead System, checked by Greenwich Observatory Risks, 345

REDUCTION Gear for Turbine Driven Marine Engines, 423
Re-Joresting Experiments by United States, 33, 42
Renfrew, Proposed Graving Dock, 111 Reservoirs, Reinforced Concrete, Accidents to, 87
Rifles, Automatic, Exhaustive Trials, 503 River Pollution, German Regulations, 689 Rivets, Resistance of. 111
Road, Chert, with Bituminous Binder, 295 Experimental, atTrnro, Resilient, Mud and
Dust-proof, 689
Paving in Paris with Special Timber, 217 Roads, Advantages of Calcium Chloride as Dust Preventive, 319
Dust Preventives and their Results on Rivers, 278
Roadways, Covering of Rubber Asphalt, 295 Rosario, Consular Report on Trade of, 358 Rosyth Naval Base Contract, Questions in House of Commons, 29
Progress, 319 Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Examination, 185
Osborne, 190
Rust Disappearance Due to Concrete, 139
Rust-preventing Coating for Iron, 111

SALT Pan Industry in South Africa, 689
Sanitary Works in Buenos Aires, 191 Seismometers, Characteristics of, 33
Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press, 104 Semi-precious Stones, Trade in Germany, 87 Sewage Purification by Indian Soils, 529 Sewerage at Salt Lake City, 225
Sheffield, Master Cutler, 380
Trade with the United States, 382 University, Appointment, 662
Ships and Shipping* Matters:
Ancona as Naval Base for Large Italian Battleships, 345
Argentine Gunboats Panama and Rosario, 61 Austro-Hungarian Dreadnought, the First, 295
Bellona and Vanguard, H.M.S., Trials, 503
Bonetta and Albacore, H.M. Destroyers, Test Results, 111
Brazilian Destroyer Parahyba, Full-speed Trials, 61
Brazilian Destroyer Santa Catharina, 451
Bulkhead Testing in Naval Ships, Admiralty Reply, 191
Carnegie, Magnetic Survey Yacht, 165
Carnegie, Magnetic Survey Yacht, Details of Construction, 579
Collingwood, H. M. Battleship, Armament, 629, 605
Cruiser, New Super-Invincible Type, 269 Cunard Sailings to Fishguard, 635
Cunarder, The New, Unfounded Rumours, 239 Cunarders Bought for Breaking up, 524 Destroyers, Delay in Delivery, 191
Old, Relegated to Subsidiary List, 579
Dreadnought Fleets of Austria and Italy, Construction Bases, 451
Dreadnoughts, This Year’s World’s Output, 423
Electricity, Applications of, to Propulsion of Naval Vessels, W. L. R. Emmet, 579
First Dreadnought, An American Claim, 696
Forced Draught on Board Ship, 269
French Destroyer Chasseur’s Trials, 139 German Battleships Nassau and Westfalen, Trials, 477
Dreadnought Westfalen, Trials, 395 Dreadnoughts, Progress, 111 Warships, Rapid Progress in Construction, 529
Holland-American Liner Nienw Amsterdam. 685
Indefatigable, H.M. Armoured Cruiser, Building Progress, 61
Cruiser, and other Warships, 269
Kingfisher, H.M.S., Gun-laying Test and World’s Record, 139
Lloyd’s Register, New Chairman, 475 Returns, 61 Scholarship, Award, 190
Londonderry Steamship, Burning and Loss of, Board of Trade Inquiry, 334
Navies of the World, Report on Tonnage, 162
Nubian, H.M.S. Destroyer, and her Sister Ships, 239
Record Renewal of Ship’s Bronze Propeller, 651
Russian Squadron to Visit Plymouth, 423
Sailing Ships’ Depreciated Value, 191
Shipping of the United Kingdom, Statistics, 243
Star Steamship Engines, Record Speed in Refitting, &c,. 403
Steel Steamer Building at Nova Scotia, New Departure, 111
Submarine Engine Tests. Ill
Submarines and Safety Helmets, 111
Torpedo Craft Hull Plating, Drill Tests, 111
Turbo-electric Drive for Marine Propulsion, Proposition to United States Navy, 319, 345
United States Battleship North Dakota, 605, 62y
Dreadnoughts Plated with Vanadium Steel, 87
First Dreadnought, Delaware, 461
Navy, Yearly Steaming Contests, 33, feo
Warship with Turbo-electric Drive, Professor Fessenden’s Suggestion, 319
Warships Repair at Devonport, 529
Wreck of the Ellen Vannin, 605
Wreck Statistics for 1908, 172

SILIC0-MANGANE3E and Silico Chrome for Motor Car Gears and Springs, 683
Slag Waste used as Cement, 345
Smoke Abatement Appliances, Bennis, 110
Smoke Nuisance by Chemical Works in Staffordshire, Inquiry, 451
Sound, Navigation Difficulties and Project for Harbour at Elsinore, 111
-proof but Unventilated Laboratory, 87
South-Western Polytechnic Sandwich Scheme for Engineer Apprentices, 344
Spain, Dam Works and Irrigation, 217
Standard Time for Germany, Clock and Telephone Arrangement, 395
Status Prize—see Society of Engineers
Steam Shovel on Panama Canal, August Record. 395
Shovels and Dredgers, Motor Driven, 295 Use in Metallurgical and Chemical Operations, 87
^Steelite,” New Explosive, Output in Brazil, for Blasting, 139
Stokers, Admiralty Regulations, 139
Stourbridge Electric Lighting Bill, 188 Street-lighting Experiments in Sydney, 635
Strikes and Lock-outs, German Statistics, 33
Stuffing-box Packing, R. Klinger, 586
Sudan Development Railways, Telegraphs, and Bridges, 165
Suez Canal Company’s Agreement with Egyptian Government Renewed, 423
Sweated Industries Exhibition at Earl’s Court. 87

TAXES on Petrol, Carnarvonshire Objections, 111
Technical Education in Burma, Conference in Rangoon, 635
Telegraph Cable across Forth Bridge, 319 Pole Damage by Birds, Advantage of Creosoting, 295
Poles of Concrete, Extended use, 111, 451
and Telephones, United States Returns, 395
Telephone between London and Copenhagen vi/l Paris, Projected, 22
Repeater Patent, 689 Reproduction of “ Wireless ” Signals, 477
Service, State, for Montevideo, 33 between Sweden and Paris viA Copenhagen, 22
System for Pekin, 295
Telephones, Automatic and Otherwise, 622 and Fire Alarm, 511 in Uruguay, 10
Telephonic Circuits, Inductance and Resistance, Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 10
Telescope for Transvaal Observatory, 605
Tellurium, Useless and Malodorous, 689
Temperature of Coal Pile determined Auger, 139
Textile Machinery, Motor Driven, 529
Thames Conservancy Improvements at Lock, 395 Floods Prevention Discussed servancy Board, 477
Thwaite, B. H,, Fund and Mr. Carnegie, 122
Timber, Commercial, Diminishing Supplies, 87 Destruction by Insects, Experiments with Preservatives in the United States, 10
Planted by Pennsylvania Railway, 111 Preservative, Cresol-Calcium, 586 ; (Correction), 652
Replaced by Iron Tubes, 139
Shortage and Forestry in America, 42
Structures Replaced by Steel or Concrete on Northern Pacific Railway, 579
Tin and Lead, Coating of Metals, Regulations, 165
Ore, Output in Malay Peninsula, 10 Plate Making, History and Development, W. E. Gray, 10, 33
Spanish Duty on, Refund on Tinned Food Exportation, 41
Titanium for Steel Rails, 345
Torpedo, Aerial, for Life Saving, 61
Torque Driving Band with Patent Fastenings, C. McD. Cheeld, 640
Tramways and Telephones, a Curious Accident, 319
Transfusion of Metal Particles by Electrical Current, 33, 243
Transparency in Metals, 87
Transvaal Machinery Inspector to Make a Tour with Mr. Harbord, 319
Telegraph and Telephone Service, Great Extension and Improvement, 217
Trieste, Prizes Awarded for Land Recovery by Removal of Stones, 451
Tungsten Ore in Canada, 319
Nova Scotia, 319 Ores, New Uses for, 191
Tunnelling Record in Los Angeles Aqueduct, 345
Turbines for Christiaina Power Plant, Escher, Wyss, 403
Turbo-electric Drive for Warship, Professor Fessenden’s Proposition, 319, 345
Turpentine from Mill Refuse, 635

ULTRAMARINE, Cheapened Manufacture, 165
University College, London : Awards, 57 ; Appointments, and Special Engineering Lectures, 199; Full Programme, 350; Professor Fleming’s Advanced Lectures on Electric Currents and Telegraph and Telephone Cables, &c., 565 of Melbourne, Appointment, 689
Uruguay Trade Report, Great Embankment at Monte Video, 165

VACUUM Vessel, Dewar’s, used in Calorimetry, 503
Vegetation and Climate, Investigations*, 423
Vienna, First Subway Projected, 451
- Scavenging System, 696

WAR Signal Station at Entrance to Belfast Lough,
Direct Communication with Admiralty, 477
Washington Aqueduct, 605
Water, Circulation of, in the Earth, Professor Boyd Dawkins, 679
Sub-surface Flow through Sand, &c., Experiments, T65
Subterranean, Instrument to Detect, by Sound, 503
Supply for the Lock Canal at Panama, J. F. Sorzano, 605

Water Supply:

Belgrade, 213
Brooklyn, 6it. Steel Main to Supplement Masonry Conduit, 269
Canton Waterworks, British Built, 663
Chilecito, South America, 295
Glasgow, Increased Supply from Loch Katrine, 87
Holbeach, 689
Los Angeles, Tunnelling Record in New Aqueduct, 345
Nice, Water Supply, Sterilised, 61
Palmo de Majorca, 295
Purification by Ozone Process to Check Cholera, 346
Reservoirs at Chingford and Island Barn, 579
Rhode Island, Micro-organisms in Filtered Water. 191
Taipeh, Formosa, 663
Zanzibar, Improvements, 363

WATER Tower at Arbroath, Proposal to Adapt it as Gymnasium, 603 at York for North-Eastern Railway, 319
Waterworks Directory and Statistics, 1909, 303
Wave Telegraphy in Fogs, Prussian Investigations, 663
Weighing an Atom, Professor Rutherford, 579
Westinghouse Company, Farewell Dinner, 365
Westminster Technical Institute, Lectures by F, Hudleston, 540
White Lead Ravages, Use Forbidden in France, 166
Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 430
Wind Records by Anemometer in Berlin, 295
Winnipeg, Population and Statistics. 243
Wireless Signalling for Airships, 345
Telegraph Station, Admiralty, at Wick, 451
at Bolt Head, Cost of, 243
at Kingston, Jamaica, 165
on Mont Blanc, Projected, 243 and Telephone Station for Experiments at Omaha, 451 Stations in China, 139
Control to be Retained by Government, 139
Mobile and Otherwise, Swiss Military Experiments, 555
on South African Coast, 243
Wireless Telegraphy, Bellini-Tosi System, at Brescia Exhibition. 395
at Copenhagen, 61
High-speed Automatic Transmitter, 303
Independent of Magnetic Disturbance, 369
for Lightships at Liverpool Bay, 663
in Massachusetts, Tests, 33 New Adaptation, 443 at Rosyth, 10 and Royal Marines, Increased Pay for Officers, 217
R. A. Fessenden’s Patent, Ships Position Located by, 663
for Steering Motor Boat, 689 and Telephony, New System, 689
Towers. Sags and Tensions of Guys, Coating with Ice, &c., 165
Wireless Telegraphy, Underground Station in Paris, 319
United States Naval Tower, 61
Women Chain-workers at Earl’s Court, 87
Wood—see Timber

Y.M.C.A., New Headquarters, 41
Yarn from Paper, Mills for Manufacture, 269
Yorkshire Enginemen’s Association, Jubilee, 436

ZEPPELIN Airships, Sheds and Machine Shops, Necessary Qualifications of, 403
Zinc Centenary and History in Silesia, 33

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