The Engineer 1910 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1910 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1908 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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ABSORPTION and Adsorption with Reference to the Radio-active Emanations, Dr. E. W. Doyle, 275
Acetic Acid Importation into Servia Forbidden, 669
Acetylene Gas Beacons and Frost, 543
Acetylene Lamps and Fog, 275
Acetylene for Lighting in Turkey, E03
Admiralty Regulations for Mechanicians’ Examinations, 143
Admiralty Surveying Staff to Supersede Private Firms, 411

Aeronautics:

Advertisement Airships, 248
Aerial Warfare, Use of Explosives in, W. F. Reid, 465
Aero Club Certificate Regulations, 359
Aeronautical Lectures by L. Blin Desbleds, 515
Aeroplane Accidents, Small Percentage, 669
Aeroplane Flight from Deck of United States Cruiser, 543
Aeroplane Increase and the Cloth Trade, 359
Aeroplane, Largest in the World, at Wolverhampton, 275
Aeroplanes for Scouting, German Orders, 465
Air Cruisers for Dropping Explosives, 143 '
Airship: Finding Its Height, Captain P. Renard, 515
Airships and Gun-fire, Experiments off Plymouth, 303
America, Dirigible Airship, 385
Anchor for Airships, H. Fuchs, 385
Army Dirigible Beta, 89, 515
Aviation Certificate Insisted on in Brandenburg, 169
Aviation and Electric Transmission Lines, 197
Aviators and Cross-country Wires, 669
Balloon Ascent for Wireless Telegraphy Experiments, 275
Balloons, Dirigible, and Wireless Telegraphy Experiments, 13
Flight Altitude Record, 623
Kite, Man-lifting, Towed by Warship, Experiments, 245
Lanark Aviation Meeting, 52
Lectures on Aeroplanes, 452
Military Air Corps at Aldershot, 385
Monoplane, The Sea Gull, Successful Flight, 89
Record Flights by Several Aviators, 182
Scottish Aeroplane, 168

AFRICAN Trade, Mining and Railway Prospects, 262 .
Air Purification in Glasgow, 236
Alexandria Harbour Works Progress, 406
Alloy of Cobalt and Chromium : Its Special Properties, 411
Aluminium-bronze Alloy for French Coinage, 39
Aluminium for Vice Jaws, 669
American Locomotive Company’s Plant, Electrification of, 410
American Manufacturers and Accident Prevention, 169
Ammonia Sulphate, Use by German Farmers, 249
Architecture Lectures, Banister Fletcher, 393
Armour-plate Rolling Mill at Terni Steel Works, 359
Asphalt Discoveries in Northern Alberta, 275
Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, 597
Automobile Factory’s Large Output, 597
“ Autoscaler ” Drafting Machine (Correction), 26

Associations, Institutions and Societies:

Association, British Foundrymen’s: Aluminium, its Manufacture and Founding, W. Roxburgh, 554
Association of Electrical Engineering Students : Conversazione, Meeting, Papers, 655

Association of Engineers-in-Charge :
Visit to Davey, Paxman’s Shops, 57
Association of Engineers, Manchester : Programme of Papers for Session, 400
Visit to Manchester Ship Canal and Salt Union Works, 26

Association, Geologists:
Excursion to West Yorkshire and Harrogate, 73

Association of Mining Electrical Engineers ; Electricity in New South Wales Collieries, 704
Examination for Membership, 680 Meetings, 274, 680, 704

Association, National Electrical Manufacturers:
Meetings, 370
Institute of Chemistry:
Examination Results, 168

Institute, Iron and Steel:
Andrew Carnegie Research Scholarships, 552
Autumn Meeting at Buxton, Programme, 257

Institute of Marine Engineers :
Electro-magnetic Transmission for Main Propulsion, J. Lecoche, 339, 474
Steam Engine Indicator, J. G. Hawthorn, 690
Visit to Naval, Mercantile Marine and General Engineering Exhibition, Programme, 154, 339

Institute of Metals:
Autumn Meeting and Programme, 274

Institute, Midland, of Mining, Civil and Mechanical :
Meeting and Programme, 478

Institute, North of England, of Mining and Mechanical Engineers :
Annual Meeting, 155
Experiments Illustrative of the Inflammability of Mixtures of Coal Dust and Air, Dr. P. P. Bedson, 400
Meeting and Programme, 632

Institution' of Civil Engineers :
Awards for Papers Published in “Proceedings,” 425
Awards for Students’ Papers, 372
Palmer Scholarship, 445
Students’ Meetings:
Steel in Reinforced Concrete Beams, &c.. Ratio of, C. S. Meik, 682
Yarrow Educational Fund, 524
Institution cf Electrical Engineers :
Dinner Postponed, 596
Manchester Local Section:
Opening Meeting, 474
Yorkshire Local Section:
Radio-telegraphy, Dr. H. Stroud, 693

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders Scotland:
President’s Address, 503
Programme for the Session and List Papers, 400
Rankine Hall, 231
Rankine Portrait, 503
The Block Coefficient, P. A. Hillhouse, 502

Institution of Gas Engineers :
Professorship of Coal, Gas, and Fuel Industries Established, 52
Visit of German Association of Gas and Water Engineers, 155, 370, 398
Associations, Institutions, and Societies (eontimied)!
Institution, Incorporated, of Automobile Engineers :
Castellated Shafts, C. E. Larard, 678 Postponement of Paper, 678 Programme for the Session, 342

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Law Relating to Engineering, Lectures by L. W. J. Costello, 84, 402
Manufacture of Glass Bottles, B. A. Kupferberg, 487
Meeting at Olympia Engineering Exhibition, 97
President Elected, 52
Presidential Address, Sir J. J. Thompson, 543
Recent Developments in Condensing Plants, G. L. Kothuy, 689
Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Birmingham Meeting, 77
Development of Road Locomotion in Recent Years, L. A. Legros, 514
Graduates’ Association :
Foundry Plant, Machinery and Working, E. Timothy, 503
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy : Annual Dinner, 658
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers : District Meeting in Dublin ; Programme, 210 International Roads Congress at Brussels, 52, 211
Meeting at Guildford and Programme, 400

Institution of Naval Architects:
Annual and Jubilee Meetings, 530
Elgar Scholarships, 1910, 474
Grant of Royal Charter of Incorporation, 665 King as Patron, 7

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
Annual Dinner, 646
Meetings, 474, 567

Institution, Royal:
Christmas Course of Lectures, Professor
Silvanus Thompson, 526, 636, 703 King as Patron, 50 Meetings ; Elections, 50, 636 Programme of Lectures, Christmas to Easter,
636, 655

Institution of Signal Engineers :
Presidential Address; Detection, A. IL Johnson, 554
Associations, Institutions and Societies

Society of Engineers:
Annual General Meeting, First; Council and
Officers ; Report, 682
Awards for Papers, 682
Current Professional Topics, H. C. Adams, 439
Lectures on Law relating to Engineering, L. W. J, Costello, 84, 402
Society, Glasgow Technical College Scientific : Metallography as an Aid to the Engineer, J. S. G. Primrose, 682
Modern Lathes and Methods, R. Lang, 558 Paper Making, W. Watson, 497
Society, Illuminating Engineering:
Street Lighting Committee, 669

Society, Physical, of London :
Exhibition of Apparatus, 642
Meetings and Programme, 50, 528, 566
Wireless Telegraphy, Energy Relations of
Certain Detectors, Dr. W. H. Eccles, 197 Society, Rontgen:
Radio-activity of Thorium, Professor Rutherford, 684

Society, Royal:
Awards of Medals, 543
Tyndal Research Studentship, 474
Society, Royal Agricultural:
Exhibition in 1911, 630

Society, Royal, of Arts :
Albert Medal Awarded to Madame Curie, 50 Candidates for Examination, Increased Number, 465
Industrial Pyrometry, Cantor Lectures by C. R. Darling, 554

Society, Royal Meteorological:
Atmospheric Waves of Short Period, Dr. W.
Schmidt, 703
Meteorological Significance of Small Wind and Pressure Variations, Capt. C. H. Ley, 703
King as Patron, 114
Report on Balloon Experiments, Capt. C. H. Ley, 703

BAMBOO, Various Uses for, 202
Bavarian Engineering, Poor Prospects. 331 Bedford Grammar School Magazine, 646 Belgian Glass Industry Improvement, 411 Belgian Labour Department Statistics, 491 Belle Fourche Dam, South Dakota, Huge Earth Embankment Complete, 275
Birmingham Sewage Disposal, 143
Birmingham’s Letter from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 571
Birmingham Metallurgical Society, Professor Turner’s Address, 69.5
Boiler Blow-off Valve, Baltes’ Patent, Roy les. Limited, 85
Boiler Corrosion, Zinc as Preventive of, 223
Boiler at Fleetwood, Water-tube Failure, 6.5
Boiler Sheets, Unequal Expansion, 13
Box for Blue Print Paper Roll, 303
Brazil Trade, British Share in, 249, 331
Bricks, Experiments on Different Classes, 411

Bridges ;

Concrete Bridge with Zinc Joinings, 51.5 Glasgow, Proposed New Bridge, 69.5 Hudson River Bridge, Project Abandoned, 543 Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Bridge, 660 New Zealand, Large Reinforced Concrete Bridge, 398
Railway Bridges—see also Railways St. Paul’s Bridge, Construction to Proceed, 359 Super-elevation on Bridges, 543

BRONZE Workers, Health Precautions, 223
Brussels Exhibition Fire : Reopening of British Section, 249
Buenos Aires Channel Dredging, 647
Building in the Panama Canal Zone Rapidly Increasing, 439
Buoys, Gas and Whistling, for South-West Pass, New Orleans, 331

CABLES, Circular and Hexagonal, 623
Calcutta and Howrah, New Bridge Projected, 359 Canadian New Canal, 543
Canadian Rivers, Total Horse-power of, 669 Cars, High Capacity, for Work at Panama, 39 Cement Clinker, Experiments, 439
Cement for Rubber and Iron Connection, 39 Cement, Standard Portland, 232
Chile, Schemes for Trade Development, 695 China’s Methods for Combating Drought, 89 Chinese Use of Agricultural Machinery : Need for Cautious Dealing, 331
Cinder Concrete Resists Fire Tests, 39
Clinker and Mineral Refuse, Utilisation of, 39 Clyde Torpedo Factory, 197, 438
Coal Discovery near Newark, 249
Discovery in Pernambuco, 491
Dust Explosibility, United States Bulletin, 385
and Forest Resources of Canada, 465
and Iron Ore in Skye and Ramsay, 13 Meter to Measure Delivery, 39 Mine Boring at Bewdley, 223
Mine Statistics: Newcastle Inspector’s Report, 169
Storage, and Berlin Gas Association, 411
Submerged Storage in Minneapolis, 249
Submerging and Storage Plant in Illinois, 359
Wastes, Hydraulic Stowing of, Experiments, 223
Coast-watching : Hut Erection, 197 Cofferdams of Sacks of Earth, 465 Coke By-products in South Russia, 275 Collieries’ Use of Electricity, 370
Colloidal Solutions, Professor Paterno’s Researches, 439
Compass Actuated by Hertzian Waves, Utility in Case of Accident, 303
Compressed Air for Cleaning Electric Machinery, 115
“Concealed Lighting” Advantages, 571
Concrete, Articles on, 332
Beams, Cause of Cracks, 571
Blocks for Bottom of a Creek at Syracuse, 543
Blocks for Structural and Ornamental Work, 491
Building, Six-storey Reinforced, 331
Covering of Sewage Tanks, Cause of Failure, 439
Depositing by Special Cableways for Gatun Dam, 695
Floors in Coal and Ore-carrying Wooden Ships, 12
Pavement with Expansion Joints, 543 Pavements, Surfacing Mixture, 585 Pipe Line, Unique in Kind and Size, 331 and Reinforced Concrete Piles, H. J. F. Gourley, 597
Reinforced, Motor Boat, 677
Reinforced, Problem of Varying Diameters of Steel Rods, 65
Tests of Effect of Sea-water, 385
Water Tanks in French Chimney, 115 Conduction of Heat through Rarified Gases, F. Soddy and A. J. Berry, 571
Contract for Capetown, 659
Copper-clad Steel, 248
Copper Sulphate, United Kingdom Output, 385
Corliss Engine for Electrical Supply Station, 571
Cornwall, Passing Out Examination, 180
Cosletising Process, 465, 500
Crystal Palace Engineering School, List of Papers and Awards, 690
Crystal Palace Old Students’ Society, Annual Dinner, 526
Cushions in Testing Base Plates, Experiments, 39

DAM, Chandiere, Across the Ottawa River, 39 Damascus and lee Manufacture, 13
Damp Walls, New Method of Drying, Knappen, 646
Dangerous Structures: London County Council Report, 249
Dew Considered Useless as Adjunct to Water Supply, 275
Diamonds in the Pretoria District, 359
Dock Works at Methil: Progress, 180
Dover: Marine Drive to St. Margaret’s Bay, 515 Drafting Machine, The Autoscaler (Correction), 26
Drainage System of Manchester, Scheme, 223 Dredge Shock Arrester, 359
Dredger, Peewit, for Bombay, Wm. Simons, 500
Drewry Car Company and Birmingham Small Arms Company, 658
Dry Blast for Fuel Economy and Increased Production, 597
Dusseldorf and Machinery Trade Reports, 303, 359
Dust-collecting Machine for Card-rooms, 115 Dutch Patents Act Revived. 115
Dutch Shipbuilding Statistics, 331

EARTHQUAKE Consequences and Taxation in Italy and Sicily, 197
Earth Vibrations, Cause of, Dr. Otto Klotz, 647 East London College: Lectures on Aeronautics, !
577 I
Edison’s Patents, 597 I

Electrical Matters:

Accumulator Locomotives for Transport in a Works, 143
Accumulators, Necessary Care of, 303 Accumulator and Petrol-electric Cars, Experiments, 169
Aerial Cableways, Electrical, in Russia, 597 Agriculture, Application of Electricity, 623 Armature and Rotor Troubles, 543
Bahia Blanca Electric Power Installation for Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway, 13
Birmingham Central Power Station, Increased Use of Electricity, 465
Birmingham and Electrical Power Legislation, 169
Birmingham, Increased Use of Electrical Power, 695
Boiler Installation, Large, for Generating Station, 647
Buoys Lighted by Submerged Electric Lights instead of Acetylene, 169
Cables, Proper Care of, Tests, &c., 169 Canadian Colliery Company’s Survey for Power
Station on the Partridge River, 543 Carbon Electrodes Exhibited in Sweden, 65 Cheapening Machinery and Plant for Generation of Electricity, 647
China, Extended Use of Electric Lighting, 331 Circuits, Experimental, for Laboratories, 65 Coil Giving Fifty-inch Spark, 491
Damage to Electrical Apparatus through Atmospheric Discharges, 101
Doubling Wires for Power Transmission, 515 Earth as a Return Conductor, Swiss Observations Satisfactory, 515
Electrical Committee, Meeting, 577
Energy in Granada, Abundant Water Power, 249
Lamps for Exterior Illuminating,
Denver Experiments, 695
Light Company in America and Antismoke Laws, 275
Lights for Drawing Boards, 669 Omnibuses and Goods Vehicles for London, 491
Smelting Concession in Norway, 465, 515
Smelting on Large Scale in Sweden, 543
Electrically Fitted House as Model, 597 Electricity at Collieries, 370
Electrostatic Voltmeters for High Pressures, 39 Foreign Competition in the Electrical Trade, 647
Furnace Development, FJectric, P. McNiven Bennie, 695
Furnaces, Extending Use. 168
Generating Stations in Bavaria, Inquiries and Statistics, 439
German Electrical Industry, 571
Eleetplcal Matters (COH (jmifiQ;
Graphite and Carborundum Furnaces, Voltage Regulation of, 169
H^oult Electric Furnace in California, P. M Bennie, 223
High-pressure Switch-house, Durham, 450
Induction Motor Operated Under Water, 89
Induction Motors, E, D. Brunner, 465 ^*^249“ Station for Naples Supply,
Lead Poisoning in Accumulator Works, 115 London Electric Supply Authorities’ Conference, 632
Long Transmission Line in United States, 439 Machinery Equipment, Electrical, in Mexico,
MMaga’s Reduced Imports of Motors and Dynamos, 5L5
Mercury Vapour Lamp, 696
Mmes, Electrical Installations in. Need of Precaution, 597
Mississippi Water Level Diagrams, 143
Molybdenum for Are Lamp Electrodes, 115 Motor Engine Trade in Diisseldorf, Poor Prospects, 359
New Zealand’s Electric Power, 669
Niagara Electric Power, Cost of, 275
Night Lamp Electric Lighting on Lake Michigan Steamship, 115
Northampton Polytechnic Institute, New Generating Station, 398
Palestine, Electric Lighting in 597
Paris Generating Stations, Two New, 411
Phase Earthed through Water, Results at Frankfort, 515
Electrical Engineering, Professor E. Rutherford, 439
P 249 Electrical Discharges,
Portable Rheostat, 549
Potential Stresses in Dielectrics, Relation to
Disruptive Voltage, 623
Power House, Large New, on the Hudson, 359
Power Plant and Rats, 39
Power Stations in Pomerania, 143
Products Manufactured by Niagara Electric Power, Long List, 385
Protection against Short Circuit Dangers, &c..
Protective Devices for Electrical Apparatus A. 6. Heather, 178
Return Conductors and Two-phase Currents, 491 ’
Rio de Janeiro, Electrical Installations in, Mongin, 115 ’
Russian Electrical Companies Successful Working, 223
Russia, Electrical Installations by Belgium and Germany, 249
Shawinigan, Second Power Station, 115
Slotting Commutators and Use of Le Carbone Brushes, 89
Speed-torque of Alternating and Direct-current Motors, 623 '
Spottiswoode Coil Replaced by New Invention, Squirrel Cage Induction Motor, to Improve
Starting Torque, S. R. Bergman, 65 btabihty of the Arc, Buisson and Fabry, 453 Sterilisation by Mercury Arc Lamp, 115 Street Lighting in Barrie, Ontario, 385 Sulphated Storage Cells, Renewal, 169 Swedish Waterfalls at Aelfkarleo, Utilisation tor Industrial Purposes, 27,5
Synchronous Converter, Variable Ratio, 13 w"? f®'’ Research
Work at Purdue University, 223
Power for Ironworks Electrification,
Transformer, Measurement of Reactance, 89
'^WortS?89^“®’ Successful
Trollbattan Palls Electric Works, 623
' 647'^’^^^^°'^ Induction Motor,
Wagner Type Single-phase Motor, 143 waste from Locomotives to Generate Electricity, 543
Waste Oil Recovery by Electrical Process, 197 Fores^°89Station in the Black
Water Power of New York State, 411
Water Power Schemes in Japan, 167
Water Power Station at Bullersfors Palls, 515

ELEPHANT and Castle Subways
Elliott Cresson Gold Medals, 704
Encyclopedia Britannica, 636
Engineering Geology Lectures, 211
Relating to, ^“^4"®®“°’ Eeetures on Reinforced Concrete, Engineering in South Africa, 97
Erosion of Reservoir Banks, Precautions, 89
Excavation at Panama, Record Speed, 385
Exhaust Steam, p. C. Richards, 69,5
Chester’ and Machinery at Man-
^"Objmpi,182^'°'°""^ Machinery at
Exhibition of Fencing Material, South Africa,
Explosion at Electricity Works, Cause of 491
Explosions in Flour Mills, caused by Nails, &c..
- Magnets used to Cleanse the Grain 13
Explosive, New, Secret Experiments, ’491
Explosives Factories, Accident Statistics, 197
Explosives Works, Admiralty, 669

FACTORIES and Accidnets, Chief Inspector’s Statistics, 491
Farms in Shawia, Morocco. 515
Filaments of Wire Lamps, Renewal Patent, 318
Finland, Statistics of Labour and Machinery 223
Fire Alarm, New Type Patented, E. LaX^r’eu?
Fire Appliance, Motor, for Willesden, Merryweather, 339 ?
Firewall and Protection for Manhattan Island, 647
Firing of Gases by Compression, Professor Dixon, 491
Fiume, Dock Enlargement, 623
Floating Dock, 22,000-Ton, for Brazil, 398 Forest Fires, Fighting, 543
French and German Cable, 39
Fuel Scarcity in Mexico, 169
Fuel Tests in the United States, Bureau of Mines Bulletins, 249

GAS Engine Exhaust and Steam Economy, 303
Gas Mantles and Glasgow Street Lighting, 669 Gas Producer Plant for Colliers, Experimental, 465
Gas-washing in Widnes, Complaints, 695
Gas and Water Companies, Proposed Government Management, 623
Gatun Dam Statistics, 597
German Machinery Industry, Statistics, 669
German Patent Law Changes, 169
“Glacial” to Prevent Overheating of Bearings, 24
Glasgow, Cross-river Communication, 271
Glasgow, Electricity for Domestic Uses, 556
Glasgow Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, 419 „ .
Glasgow Technical College and Civil Engineering, 556 . .
Glycerine Scarcity and High Price, 623
Gold Mining Company’s Six-mile Ditch, 571
Gold Mining in Scotland, 680 Gothenburg, Trade of, 186
Grading Machine for Street Work in Chicago, 333
Grafton and Company’s Bedford Works, Extension, 524
Granite Block Pavement, Experiments, 669 Granite Dam Blown Up with Dynamite, 331 Granite Industry in Finland, 197
Gravity Quarrying Operations, Unusual, 65 Greenwich Royal Observatory and Electric Tramways, 53 . * •
Greenwich Royal Observatory, Foundation Anniversary, 202
Greenwich Time for France, 115
Gun Trade and American Tariff, 465, 669
Gun Trade Flourishing, 669

HAMBURG Central Telephone Exchange, 115 Harbour at Gary for Steel Corporation, 89 Harbour of Monte Video to be Improved and Enlarged, 65
Harbour Works at Jamaica Bay, New York, 411 Hardness Testing of Rolled Brass, 143 Heat Transfer through Pipe Walls, 570
Heat Transmission through a Steel Tube, Measurement of, 65
Helicopter, Live Weight and Lifting Power, Mathematical Proofs, 411
Heligoland Coast Erosion and Protection, 197 House Refuse for Road Paving. 683 ,
Housing Improvement by Garden Cities Association, 303
Housing in Vienna, 602
Humber, Tunnelling the River, 571

ILLUMINATED Shell or “Tracer ’’Experiments at Portsmouth, 439
Illuminating Engineering Society’s Recommendations, 597
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering Instruction, 704; Free Places. 74, 182
Indian Government and Technical Art Instruction, 169
Internal Combustion Engines for Marine Purposes, 647
International Road Congress, 52, 211

Iron and Steel:

Board of Trade Returns of Imports and Exports, 439
Brazing Cast Iron, Flux for Joint, 623
British Exports of Iron and Steel, 197, 275
“ Cementation Steel,” 385
Copper-clad Steel, 248
Electric Furnace and Bessemer Converter, New Method of Steel Manufacture, 359
Electric Smelting of Iron in Norway, 439
Electric Smelting on Large Scale in Sweden, 543 Electric Steel Works in Russia, 385
Furnaces, Steel, Nathusius, 491
Hematite Pig Iron, New Trade with India, 515 Iron Alloy, High Resistance, 39
Iron, Growth of Grain under Heat, Experiments, 407
Iron, to Coat with Lead Covering, 331
Iron Ore Discovery in Natal, 303
Iron Ore Preparation for Blast Furnaces, German Practice, 515
Iron, Temperature Affects Sound following a Blow, 89
Mild Steel Plate, Large, 26
New’ South Wales Mill for Steel Rails, 623
Pearson and Knowles’ Proposed New Steel Works, near Manchester, 373
Pig Iron from Low Grade Ores by Electric Smelting, 39
Pig Iron Output in the United States, 89
Shipbuilding, Structural Steel for, British Standard Specification, 435
Steel Industry and Blast Furnaces in Japan, 197 Steel Output and Trade in South Africa, 359
Steel Works Projected at Barry and at Irlam, 647
Swedish Furnaces for Electric Smelting, 411
Titanium for Manufacture of Basic Open- Hearth Steel, 491
Wrought Iron, Standard Specification for, 262

IRRIGATION Canal, Yakima, Safety Precautions, 197
Irrigation Dam in the Punjab, 385
Italian Naval Programme, 515

JAMES Watt Anniversary, 393
Japanese Machinery Business, Diminishing Trade, 169

KEIRS’ and Similar Steaming ’Vessels and their Bolts, 65
Kew Observatory, Meteorological Office and National Physical Laboratory, 3
Keyways and Strength of Shafts, 647
Krupp’s Works Progress, 515

LABORATORIES, Association of. Formed in Spain, 39
Lamp Holders, Bayonet, Standard Specification for, 411
Lantern Slides of Engineering Subjects, Siemens, 579
Law Relating to Engineering, Lectures on, L. W. J. Costello, 84, 402, 452
Lead Poisoning and Milk, Dangerous Employments, 39
Lectures on Aeroplanes, 452
Lectures, Engineering—see Engineering
Leipzig Canal to Coast Projected, 275
Liebig Memorial Museum, 623
Lighted Shells for Night Firing, 65
Lighting of London, Gas and Electric, 197
Lignite as a Boiler Fuel, 647
Lignite Mining and Patent Fuel Manufacture, 597
Liverpool, Engineering Laboratories for, 474
Lock at Troy, 491
London Electrical Engineers Territorial Force, 655
London Port Rates on Goods, 474
Lubricant for Hoisting Ropes, 65

MACHINE Tools, American and British, Relative Cost, 623
Machinery Exports to Naples, Statistics for United Kingdom, 439
Madras Wants Wharves to Replace Lighters, 669 Magnesium as an Alloy. Experiments, 515 Magnetic Separators for Metal Recovery in Foundries, 491
Mahogany from the Gold Coast, 89
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Report, 411 Metal-cutting with Oxygen, 683
Metal Framing, Now Type, H. C. James-Carrington, 438
Metals, New, Reflectivity of, 435 Meteorological Office, Readjustment of Work, 3 Milking by Machinery, 223
Mill Industry in India, 19

Mines and Mining News :

Electricity in Mining Operations, Extended Use, 39
Inspectors for Mines, Home-office Conference, 39
Mine Rescue Apparatus, Experiments, 303
Mine Rescue Apparatus, Prize Award, 27
Mine Safety Apparatus, Abolition of Customs Duty and Uniformity of Construction Desirable, 13
Mineral Survey of Ceylon, 647
Mining Machinery for Ontario’s Gold and Silver Mines, 515
Mining and Power Development in Canada, 256
Ores, Fuels, &c., in Canada, Analyses of, 695 Peru’s Mineral Statistics, 303

MONTREAL, Longest Cable in the World Connected with Laud Line, 223
Mosquito-proof Steamers for Tropical Waters, 169
Motor Car Exports to Portugal by United States, 249
Car Induction Pipe Failure, 197
Cars in Bilbao of French Manufacture, 571
Fort, A Mare’s Nest, 289
Industry, British, Increase, 465 Industry, German, Increase, 465 Spirit, Excise Regulations for Manufacture and Sale, 331
Music by Phonograph and Telephone, 54

NATIONAL Physical Laboratory, Extension of
Metallurgy Department, 523
Natural Gas Supply Failure Causes Removal of Industries, 538
Naval Base at Dundee Abandoned, 197
Nitrate Industry in Chile, 669
Nitrate Output of Chile, 465
Nitrate Production in New Zealand, 39
Nitrate of Soda, World’s Consumption, 669
Northampton Polytechnic Institute: Medal Award for Aeronautics, 26 ; New Generating Station, 398
Nut Opening by Heated Wrench, 571

ODESSA, Grain Harbour at, 197
Oil Extraction from Deep Wells, 115
Fuel, Advantages over Coal, 13
Fuel, Discharge into Port Waters Forbidden, 65
Fuel, Economy, 465
Fuel, Storage Tanks on the Medway, 6.5 Production of Los Angeles, 13
Storage and Pipe Transmission in California, 385
Open Hearth Furnaces, Waste Gases as Fuel, 473 Optical Convention Proposed in 1912, 461, 658
Orkney Harbour Improvements Projected, 169
Osaka Trade, Vice-Consul’s Report, 411
Osborne Cadetships, 182
Overfed Sprinklers at Sewage Purification Works,
Overhead Wires in London, Derelict or Disused, Removal, 197
Overheated Bearings, Prevention, 24

PAINT on Concrete, Action of Cement, C. Macnichol, 249
Paint Industry in the United States, 359
Painting Sheds at Antwerp Docks, 61
Panama, Blasting at, 669
Panama Canal and Breakwater Construction, 623 Paris Inundation Prevention Work, 65
Paris Municipal Council and tne Smoke Nuisance, 249
Patent and Copyright Law in Holland, 647 Patent-office Examination, 167
Peat as Fuel in the United States, 197
Perfilograph for Graphically Recording the
Undulations of the Bottom of a Channel, 597 Petrol Consumption Test, 43
Petroleum in the Argentine, 623
Petroleum, Treatment to Prevent Smoking when Burnt as an Illuminant, 623
Pewter Tarnish Removal, 411
Photographic Inventories of Machinery and Tools, 359
Photography, Instantaneous, Interesting Investigations, 669
Pier Construction at Marola Prevented by Springs, 623
Pilgrim Monument Set on Sand Foundation, Yet Firm under Tests, 385
Pipe Thread Defects, To Correct, 697
Pisa, Leaning Tower's Increased Deflection, 197 Pitot Tubes for Water Measurement, 571
Plaster of Paris, Hardening Method, 143
Platinum Alloy, its Cost and Uses, 543
Platinum, Raw, Exports from Russia Forbidden, 669
Pneumatic Caisson Sinking Record, 13
Pula Wireless Station Tower, 700-Mile Radius, 275
Portable Engines, Steam or Gas, 115
Portland Cement Production in the United States. 465
Portland, Oregon, Town and Harbour Improvement Scheme, 571
Poulsen Wireless Telegraph and Telephone System at San Francisco, 139
Pumping Plant, Electric, Quick Installation, 491
Pumps Wanted for the Crimea, 260

RADIUM Institute in Birmingham, 359
Radium : New Discovery by Madame Curie:
Production in England, 303

Railways and Tramways:

Accident at Ormskirk, 611
Accident, Unusual, in Illinois, 385
Agricultural Workers on French Railways, 669
Alberta, 700 Mile Railway Projected, 303
All-steel Cars for Pennsylvania Railway, 89 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants,
Headquarters Opening by Mr. Sidney Webb, 223
American and British Locomotive Practice, 385
American Engine Failures : Record of Mileage per Breakdown, 439
Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, Proposed Railway Extensions, 597
Argentine Railway Extension, 303, 543
Armagh and Castleblaney Railway, 571
Ai'ia Minor Railway Construction by French Syndicate, 65
Assouan Reservoir Outflow, Water Power for Electric Railway, 623
Australian Railway Extension, 249
Automatic Transporting Equipment Connecting Coal Mine and Railway, 597
Baden Railway Electrification, 223 Bawtry and Haxey Light Railway, 491
Brazil, Electric Railway for Iron Ore District, 623 I
Belfast Harbour Tramways, Strengthening and Extension, 317
Belfast Tramway Schemes, 65, 196
Berlin and Suburbs Railway Extension, 647
Berlin Suspended Electric Railway Scheme, 466
Berwick Station Improvements, 39
British Columbia Marine Railway’s New Dock at Esquimalt, 465
Birkenhead and Wallasey Tramway Projected, 197
Block Signalling Installation, Largest on any E ectrical Railway, 582
Block Signalling in United States: Statistics, 116
Bridge, High Single-span Masonry, for Light Riilway, 2’23
Bridge, Railway, Longest in Switzerland, 115
Brine as a Preservative for Railway Sleepers and Poles, 647
Brockley-lane and Forest Hill Tramway, 571 Brunel’s Timber Viaduct, near Horrabridge, Replaced, 385
Buenos Aires and Asuncion Connected by Railway, 39
Buenos Aires Midland Railway, 669
Buenos Aires Railway, Underground, 647 Burnley Tramways : Speed Question, 515 Caledonian Railway Engineering Appointment, 398
Caledonian Railway Manager Exchanges to Buenos Aires Railway, 39 ; New Appointment, 236
Canada, Railway Extension in, 697
Canadian National Transcontinental Railway, 257
Canadian Northern Railway Extension, 143
Canadian Northern Railway to Fence in Lines, &c.,115
Canadian-Pacific Railway Reorganisation, 65 Canton-Kowloon Railway Progress, 197, 331, 385
Cape to Cairo Railway Extension to Elizabethville, 385
Cape of Good Hope Railway Statistics, 623 Cardiff to Treforest, New Line, 359
Caucasian Railway (Kakhetian); Concession Granted, 669
Central Paraguay Elactric Tramway and Motor Car Service, 571
Central Uruguay Railway Extension, 465 Charleston Consolidated Railway and Lighting Company, 515
Chile, Longitudinal Railway from Santiago Northwards, 249
Chinchau-Aigun Railway, 439
Chinese Government Railways and American Financiers, 411
Chinese Railway Extension, 197, 331, 385, 439, 615
Chinese Railway Officials Training School, 359 Christiania and Bergen Railway, 262 Cleansing of Railway Carriages, 39
Coach, New Type, for Underground Railways, 439
Concrete Sleepers, Question of Noise, 223 Constantinople Tramways Electrified, 223 Cork Floor Slabs for Railway Cars, 331 Crude Petroleum Tested as Substitute for Coal in Locomotives, 275
Denver, North-Western and Pacific
Tunnel Reconstruction, 465
Derwent Valley Light Railway, 571
Dewsbury Tramway Extension and ment, 647
Direct-current 12C0-volt Railway in Pennsylvania; 647
District Railway’s Increased Service, 303
District Railway’s Through Trains to Southend, 169
Dunfermline and Rosyth Tramways, Change of Route, 115
Dunoon and Sandbank Tramways, 571
Durban Tramway Cars Built at Home, 197 ; (Letter), 393
Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush Railway Begun, 249
East London Railway and Electrification. 169 Edinburgh Corporation and the North British Railway, 169
Electric Boilers, Use on Pennsylvania Railway in New York, 275
Electric Lighting of Austrian State Railway Carriages, 439
Electric Lighting on Burlington System Trains, 115
Electric Railway between Wesel and Emmerich- Huthum, 543
Elevated Railway Extension in Chicago, 39 Federated Malay States and Railway Construction, 543
Finnish Railways to be Adapted to Russian Requirements, 275
Freight Cars, Idle, in the United States, 465
Freight Rates on United States Railways, 411 French Railway Accidents, Light Cars, 499 I French State Railway Works at Dieppe and I Havre, 223
Gardens at Stations, Midland Railway Awards, 623
Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Innsbruck New Line,
I 439
Gateshead and District Tramway Extension, 411
Generating Stations for Electric Railway in Brazil, 359
German Locomotive Building Industry : Unfavourable Prospect, 249
German Railways, Extension of. Electrification 13, 385
Glossop and Marple Mono-rail Tramway, 695 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Bridge, 465 Great Central Railway Pamphlet; Advantages of North-East Lincolnshire, 13
Great Eastern Railway Annual Dinner, 642 Railway and Lowestoft Harbour, 515
Railway’s New Station near Bishop’s Stortford, 359
Railway and Suburban Electrification, 515
Great Northern and City Railway, Cinematograph. 465
Great Western Locomotive Shed at Bristol, 331 and London and South-Western Agreement, 39
Railway Abolish Second-class Carriages, 223, 385
Railway Goods Depot in South Lambeth, 543
Railway Company’s Report, 169 Railway Improvements at Pan- tyffynon, 89
Gummersbach Light Railway Electrification, 331, 564
Halifax Tramway Extension, 249
Holl and Barnsley and Great Central Railways’ New Joint Line from Gowdall to Braithwell, 296
“Hatfield” Pump for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 128
Height Limit for Children’s Fares, 695
Hours of Railway Servants, Board of Trade Statistics, 115
Hudson Bay Railway Construction Begun, 39 India, Extensive Orders for all kinds of Railway Material, 491
Railway Institutes Established, 303 Triennial Programme of Railway Construction, 669
Railway Board and Indian Railways, 303
Railways, Revenue, 411. 515 Indo-Ceylon Railway, Boring Experiments and Pambau Reef, 223
International Transport Conference, 249
Irish Railway Accidents Report, 385
Italian Railway Improvement, Advantages to Leghorn, 331
Italian Somaliland, New Railway from Muk- dishu to Afgoi, 303
Italian State Railways, Purchase of Wagons, 695
Italy, Railway Concession Granted, 623 Japanese Government Railways, Extensions, 169
Japan, Light Railway Extension in, 303 Japanese Narrow-gauge Electric Tramway, 586 ! Keighley and Bingle and Trackless Tramways, i 223, 543
Railways and Tramways (continued)*,
Kensington Tramway Extension, 543
Khartoum and RaUway Extension, 515
Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Railway Extension, 303. 491
Leeds Tramway Extensions, 197
Liirht Railway Commissioners’ Orders Confirmed, 123, 169, 197, 303, 417, 439, 465, 543,
Light Railway Under Construction by Great
Northern Railway Company, 89
Liverpool Corporation Tramways’ Report, 411
Liverpool and Southport Electric Railway
Extensions, 207
Liverpool Tramways’ New Car, 429
Locomotive Output by German Firm, 359 Locomotive Waste to Generate Electricity, 543 Locomotives of the Edwardian Era, J. F.
London Bridge and Victoria Elevated Electric Railway’s Success. 515
Brighton and South Coast Railway Electrical Service Extension, 13, 143
Chatham and Dover Railway Dividend, 89
County Council New Tramways, 465, 691
Electric Railways’ Improved Service, 359
and North-Western Railway Accident at Northampton, 13
and North-Western Electric Suburban Line, Rapid W3t*k, 275
and North-Western’s Five-thousandth Locomotive, 491
and North-Western Locomotive Trials, 623
and North-Western Motor Trains, 411 and North-Western’s Test Run, 515 Tilbury, and Southend Railway’s Proposed Electrification, 695
Tube Railways, Proposed Extension, 597
Louisiana Railway Commission, Regulations, 223
Mallet Compound Engine : Reconstructed Locomotives for Chicago Railway, 597
Malvern Funicular Railway, 115
Manchester Tramway Extension, 303 Manchurian Railways and British Trade, 197 Martigny : New Electric Railway in the Mont Blanc Region, 623
Metropo i^an District Railway Success, 597
Metropolitan Railway’s New Carriage, 331
Metropolitan Railway of Paris Strengthened
by Injections of Cement, 249
Mexican Railway Improvement and Extension,
13
Midland Railway’s Overhead Line through Bradford, 491
Midland Railway Company’s Record Receipts, 169
Milan to Crema Electric Tramway, 543
Milan-Varese Railway, Purchase of Electric Locomotives, 275
Mono-rail System in Australia for Transport of Farm Produce, 597
Mono-rail Tramway, Glossop and Marple, 695 Mono-railway in the Bronx, New York City, 143
Mont Cenis Railway, Proposed Electrification, 695
Monte Video Tramways, 647
Montreal Street Railway Improvements, 39
Multiple-unit Train Service between Port Chester and New York, 39
Nantwich and Northwich, Motor Train Service by L. and N.-W. Railway, 331
Natal, Proposed Railway Improvements, 169 Natural Gas Fuel for Locomotives, 275
New South Wales Railway and Tramway Earnings, 619
New South Wales Railways Report, 515, 543
New York Central Railway Station Yard and Overhead Buildings, 39
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway Electrification, 543
New Zealand Railways and Rolling Stock, 89 Newcastle Tramway Extensions, 515 Nigeria Railways, Change of Direction from Kano, 65
Nord Railway Sabotage. 647
North Brirish Railway Carriage Cleaning Shed, 597
British Railway and Dock Extension, 13 Eastern Railway Accident Report, 249 Eastern Railway’s Engineering Shops at Darlington, 89
Eastern Railway and Land Tax Forms, 411
Eastern Railway New Buildings at Monkwearmouth, 465
Eastern Railway Slag Breaking Plant at Middlesbrough, 465
London Railway Company’s Meeting, 169
Northern Chile Railways’ Map, 465
Norwich Electric Tramway Improvements. 597
Official Railway Returns for United Kingdom, 143
Oil for Panama Locomotives, 491
Pacific Coast New Railway Projected, 359
Panama Railway Extension, 623, 647, 695
Panama Railway, Negotiations and Survey, 526
Paris and Berlin Railway Acceleration, 197 Passengers Registered by Machinery, 359 Pennsylvania Railroad Yard, Philadelphia, 143 Pennsylvania Station, the Largest in the World, •111
Pennsylvania Station, New York, Full Working, 669
Permanent Way and Special Platelayers in Prussia, 411
Persia’s Need of Railways and Lack of Enterprise, 223
Persian Railway Negotiations, 623
Prussian - Hessian System, Inventory of Material, 439
Prussian Railways, Electrification of Main Lines, Alternating-current Locomotives, 13
Prussian State Rdlways and Local Lines, 491
Prussian State Railway Signalling Inspection, 331
Queensland, Railway Extension, 331, 623
Railless Electric Traction, Report of Bradford Continental Daputarion, 169
Rails for American Railways, American Railway Association Report, 13
Railway Engineering, Instruction in, 155 Exports from Nicolaiev Increased, 223 Extension Suspended in Favour of Agricultural Labour, 385 Improvements in South America, 275 Servants’ Hours, Board of Trade Report, 309, Transportation for Farm Produce in Australia, Trial of Monorail, 597,
Rhenish-Westphalia, Change of Electric Railway Scheme, 115
Roscrea Accident, Engine-driver’s Reward, 197 Rosyth Naval Base, Railway Projected in Connection, 331
Roumania State Railway Locomotives, Belgian and German Contracts, 249
Russian Narrow-gauge Railways, 197 Railway Development on Large Scale, 275
Railway Extension on Large Scale, 65 Trains Slow Speed, 571 Wagon Capacity, Increase on Paper, 385
Russians only to Fill High Offices on Russian Railways, 385
Safety Appliances on United States Railways, 411
Safety Valves, Ramsbottom or American, 89 St. Petersburg and Imatra Electric Railway, 303, 465
St. Petersburg-Moscow Projected New Railway, 65
St. Polten Narrow-gauge Single-phase Railway, 223
San Paulo and Minas Railway, Progress, 385 San Paulo State, New Railway, 310
Santa Marta Railway Canal, 143
Scarborough Winter Tramway Service, 571,623
Suhdneberg Electric Underground Railway, 669
Scottish Railway Accident Report, 385
Second Class Abolished on the Great Western Railway, 223, 385
Sevastopol to Alushta, Survey for Electric Railway, 385 1
Sheffield Tramways Report, 65 ?
Siamese Peninsular Railway Progress, 543 Signalling and Pogmen, 284
Signalling at North British Railway Works, Edinburgh, 669
Signalling Training System cn the Pennsylvania Railway, 3C3
Single-phase Electric Traction in Switzerland, 439 ; also in United States, 543
Sleeping Cars, Third-class, on Swedish Railways, 439
Slow Travel, Record held by Salt Lake City Train, 65 j
Snow’s Effect on Railway Tracks in the Galera Tunnel, Peru, 580 j
Snow Slides in the Cascade Mountains, Railway Protection Measures, 39
South Africa, Railway Construction in, 621 Spanish Railway Concession, 623 Spanish Railway Extension, 439, 571 Speed Indicators for Tramway Cars, 359 State-owned Railway in Australia, First in the British Empire, 411
Statistics for the United Kingdom, 385
Steam Locomotives in a Long Tunnel; Advantages of Electric Traction, 89
Straits Settlements, Hill Railway in Penang, 543
Study by Correspondence for Railwaymen, 143 Sudan Government Railways Extension, 385 Superheating of Continental Locomotives,
Lectures by Professor E. Sauvage, 384 Swedish States Railways Electrification, 491 Swiss Railways and Electric Lighting, 197 Tehuantepec Railway, Heavy Goods Traffic, 197
Telephone, Simultaneous Call to all the Members of Breakdown Gang. 439
Telephone Service on Trains in U.S.A., 89 Telephoning from Trains in Motion, 143 Timber for Railway Purposes, Vast Forests in Brazil. 669
Tokyo, Overhead Electric Railway, 303
Track Fastening Experiments in Chicago, 695 Track Mileage in the United States, 89 Trackless Tramways at Keighley, 223, 543
Trolley Omnibuses for Letds, 571 Trolley Omnibuses for Stockholm, 115 Trolleys in Question at Berlin, 669 Trolley Tramway System under Consideration at Plymouth, 39
Train Lighting by Tungsten Lamp, 669 Tramcar, Double Truck, for New York, 647 Tramway Construction in Loire Departments of France, Extensive, 647
Tramway Rails and Motor Vehicles, 491
Tramway Traffic Statistics, 597
Tramways, London United, and London County Council, 669
Trans-Andean Railway, A Second, Authorised by Argentine Government, 543
Trans-Australian Railway, Report, 143 Trieste and Opeina Electric Railway, 491
Tube Railways in London. Different Systems of Power Transmission, 169
Tube Railway, Victoria to Penge, Projected, 13 Turkish Railway Extensions, 89
United States Railway Accident Increase, 359 United States Railways’ Use of Oil Fuel, 197 Vanadium Cast Iron for Locomotive Cylinders, 115
Victorian Railway Commissioners’ Report, 465 I Warsaw Electric Tramway Service Statistics, I 543
Waterloo Station Improvement Scheme, 359 Wayside Stations in England, Costly and Unsatisfactory Upkeep. 275
I Western Pacific Railway Opened, 223
I Western Queensland Railway Projected, 597 Weymoutn Tramways Scheme, 206 Winnipeg to Moncton Railway, Progress, 143 j Yorkshire Dales Railway, Proposed Extension, 515, 647, 669, 695

RAIN Gauge Tests at Ithaca, 89
Rain Tree of Peru, 571
Rainfall in August, 543
Rammer, Special, for Concrete Work, 331 Rapid Constructional Work in Vancouver, 275
Refrigerating Plant at the Houses of Parliament, 608
Refuse Destructor at Coventry : Utilisation of Furnace Residues, 249
Refuse Destructor Extension at Wolverhampton, 89
Refuse Destructors for St. Petersburg, 61 Reheater Investigations, A. C. Wilson, 695 Renfrew New Dock, 303
Resin Collector, New Type, 439 Rhodesia’s Extending Trade Markets, 515 R6a*gen Rays, Preparation Impermeable to, 465 Rosyth Extension on Large Scale, 543
Rosyth Submarine Basin, Progress of Sea Wall, 275
Rubber, Artificial Substitute for, 115 Rubber from Costa Rica, 13
Rusda, Increase in Industrial Activity, 439 Russian Coal and Coke Imports, 515
Harbour Improvements Projected, 647
Inland Waterway System, Projected Improvements, 249
Machine Tools and Engines Unsuccessful, 439
Mines, Question of Ownership, 465

SAFE, Chemical Fire-resisting, 491
Salt for preservation of Poles and Sleepers, 597
Sanitary Improvements in St. Petersburg, 223
Sawdust, Great Variety of its Usefulness, 411 Science Museum, South Kensington, Statistics, 143
Screw, Wood, Method of Removal when Stiff, 331
Sea Erosion at Key West, Device to Prevent, 411 Searchlights and Arc Lamps for Barge Unloading at Gatun Docks, 169
Seismograph, New Type, 385
Sewage Disposal at Be fast, 465
Szjwage Purification Affected by Action of Birds and Insects, 359
Sewerage Work at Toronto, 695 Shanghai Trade Report, 515

Ships and Shipping Matters:

Adventure, H.M. Scout, Man-lifting Kite Experiments, 245
Bedford, H.M, Cruiser, Wreck to be Sold, 385 British Ships and Seamen, 231 j
Clyde, The, and Deep Draught Steamers, 344 Clyde Shipbuilding Output, 143
Comet, Centenary Celebration at the/‘Scottish ; History” Exhibition, 372
Comet, Last Voyage of the, 703 Concrete, Reinforced, Motor Boat, 677 Destroyers, Oil Fuel Burning, 500 Engineering in the United States Navy, Competition Results, 571
Exmouth Training Ship, Sea-going Order, 223
Ferry Passenger Steamer for the Cammell, Laird and Co., 128
Fervent, H.M. Destroyer, 647 Gloucester, H.M.S., Trials, 155 Hermione, H.M.S., for Service with 385
Larne, H.M. Destroyer, Launched, 258 Lion, H.M. Cruiser, Progress, 695 Lloyd’s Register Returns, 411
Magnetic Survey Yacht Carnegie, 571 Mars, H.M. Battle-ihip, Refit at Devonport, 303 Merchant Vessel 106 Years Old. 143
Mine-Laying Vessels, Suitable Gun Armaments for, 331
Motor-driven 9000-Ton Liner for Hamburg- American Line, 115]
Motor Fishing Boats with Crude Oil Fuel, 331 Motor Launch for Thames Police, 7 »
Naval Shipbuilding Yard for Melbourne, 385 Neptune, H.M. Battleship, Gunnery Trials, 411 Oil-carrying Steamer, Esturia, 605
Olympic Electrical Supply from a Tug, 597 I Police Motor Boat for the Danube, 130
Russian Ships Sunk as a Barrier and Raised after the Crimean War, 13
Salving British Battleship Montagu and Dis- , covory of Spanish Wreck, 385
Scrapping of Battleships, 448
Shipping Statistics , of Vessels Lost or Broken up, 223
Small Yacht’s 6000-Mile Voyage, 515
Steam and Motor Launch Races in Italy, 7
Structural Steel for Shipbuilding, British Standard Specification, 435
Submarine Signal Receivers, Bells, and Telephone Buoys, 13
Sunderland’s Shipbuilding Output, 426 Surveying Vessels and Chart Additions, 39 Swedish Shipbuilding Industry, 249
Torpedo Destroyers Built at Fairfield, 500 Tramp Steamer’s Wireless Performance, 358 Tyne Shipping Output, 39
Weymouth, H.M. Cruiser, Launched, 543
Yacht Propulsion by Producer Gas, 249

SILVERWARE in Sheffield, Greatly Increased
Trade, 515
Sind Agriculture, Defective Implements and Machinery, 303
Sluice and Sluice Gate Trials, Prize Offered. 322 Smoke Abatement Exhibition at Glasgow, 168 Smokelessness and Fuel Economy in Boilers, 283 I Solar Physics Observatory at South Kensington,
Report, 143
Sound Transmission Affected by Temperature and Air Current-*, 89
Southampton New Dock, 391
Spanish Industries and Lack of Capital, 571 Spirit Manufacture from Wood Pulp, 571 Spitzbergen, Coal Mine Working and Mild Winter, 385
Stalactite Cave. Largest in Europe, Discovered in Austria, 359
Steam Experiments with a Barometer Tube, 647 Street Flushing and Sprinkling, Automatic, 89 Submarine Telegraph Cable between Colon and Limon, 515
Suction Dredger Record in New York State, 669 Suction Producer Cooled by Carbonic Acid, 223 Sulphur in Coals and Cokes, To Estimate, 543 Sulphur Mines in Sicily, Legal Requirements. 275 Sulphur Trade between Japan and the United States, 695 .
Survey, Geological, &c,, of Victoria, Australia, I 143 I

TANKS to Counteract Rolling in Ships, 571
Teachers in Technical Institutions, Association of. 511
Telegraph Cables between America and Cornwixll Projected, 359
Telegraph Poles, Preservative Methods, 143
Telegraphy between Germany and her Colonies, 669
Telephone or Electric Light; Friendly Interchange of Courtesy, 275
Telephones in Collieries Made Compulsory in Onio, 275
Temperature of Wire, Accuracy in Survey Work, 275
Tenedos II., Wooden Battleship Sold by Auction, 115
Tests or Timber Beams, 32, 290
Textile Institute, History, 223
Thames Survey by New Port Authority, 571 Thorium, F. Soddy, 695
Tientsin Trade for 1909, 89
Timber from Brazil Forests, 623
Construction, Novel Type, 571 Preservation, Simple Recipe for, 695 Testing by Microscope, 143
Tests, Strength Lost by Creosoting, 32 of Vancouver Islnnd and Coast, 623
Time Signals from the Eiffel Tower, 597
Tin Smelting in the Transvaal a Success, 385
Torpedo Factory on the Clyde, 197, 438
Transport of Coal and Ore by Electric Traction, W. C. Brown, 439
Tree-felling by Electric Wire, 303
Trees 100,000 Years Old, 385
Tungsten Discovery in North Chile, 465
Tungsten Filament, Brittleness of, 89
Tungsten Mines in Washington, 89
Turbine, De Laval, Reversible, 465 Turpentine Extraction in Karafuto, 355
Tyndall Research Studentship, 474

UNITED States Output of Tin-plates and Terne Plates, 515
University College, London, Post-graduate Lectures, 330, 514; Telegraphy and Telephony, Electrical Measurements, Professor J. A. Fleming, 516
University of Liverpool, Engineering Appointments, 626
Uranium Discovery in Western Australia, 249 Uruguay and Wireless Telegraphy, 647

VALPARAISO Harbour, Improved Equipment, 303
Valve Diagram Instrument, Heath, 258
Vancouver’s Cheap Water Power, 623
Venice Dock Extension, 39
Ventilating Tunnels by Water Power, 439
Ventilation Aided by Ozonised Air, 249

WATER Communication between North and South Germany, 643
Water Pipe Scarcity in Toronto, 275
Water Power in France, Amount Unutilised, 465 Water Power Installations for Generating Compressed Air, 256
Water Turbine Plant, Jens Often Boving, 579 Water Valve Accident, Strange, 439

Water Supply:

Birmingham Water Committee, Severn Syphon Strengthening, 597
Cairo, Wells Abandoned in Favour of the Nile, 65
Copper Sulphate to Prevent Algae in Reservoirs, 439
Edinburgh and District Water Trust, 615 Hereford Waterworks: Question of Loan, 515 Hyderabad, Waterworks Improvement at, 623 Lowell, Mass., Complaints and Remedies, 169 Metropolitan Water Board’s Visit to Ching- ford Reservoir, 115; Annual Report, 197
Old Well Found in Ottawa, 143
Pressure Filters on Water Mains, 143
Troon, Now Waterworks at Loch Bradan, 418
United States Geological Survey, Report on Water Supply, 612
Vienna, New Waterworks Completion, 143
Water Economised by Discovery of Underground Leaks. 223
Water Mains, New System of Cleaning, R. A. Adamson, 331
Waters, Surface, in the United States, Quality of, R. B. Dole, 13

WAYSIDE Telephones to Connect with Domestic or Public System, 89
Weights and Measures in South Africa, 385 Weldless Steel Rings, Largest Rolled in the United States, 465
Westminster Hall Roof, Restoration Suspended, 669
Wheat Elevator System for Karachi, 89 Who’s Who in British Engineering, 88 Wind Power and Wind Velocity. 618 Wire Cables for Holding Shaft Timbers, 359 Wire, Iron, instead of Platinum for Electric Light Bulbs, 331

Wireless Telegraphy:

Compulsory on Austrian Passenger Ships, 642
Compulsory for Vessels Leaving British and Irish Ports, 89
Equipment at Colon, 39
Equipment on Cross-Channel Steamers, 385
Equipment on Cuxhaven Steam Trawlers, 65
Equipment, New Marconi, Trials at Newark, 359
Experiment, Message Picked Up at 850 Miles, 516
Record by Tramp Steamer, 358
Station in Brazil, 543
Station Erected by Students, 647
Station at Scarborough, 276
Station on the Zugspitze, 671
Stations for Australia and New Zealand, 156
Stations at Capetown and on the Cape Coast, 303
Stations in Chicago, Large Number, 223
Stations’ Directory, 597
Telegrams for Ships, Public Facilities by Post-office, 39
Telegraphy in Africa, 219
Telegraphy and Bacon, 236

WOOD Ashes, Analysis, 249
Workmen’s Compensation and Frostbite, 5

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