The Engineer 1911 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

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ABSOLUTE Pressure Gauge, Schaffer and | Budenberg, Limited, 522, 536

ACCIDENTS:

Accidents during Works of Construction, 157
Accidents in Workshops, 76
Austin Dam Disaster, 355, 376
Collapse of a Canal Embankment, 588
Liberte, French Battleship, Loss of, 333, 340 ; (Letter), 340
Olympic and H.M. Cruiser Hawke in Collision, 316, 637, 641
Railway Accidents, A Year’s, 213
Stranding of the Italian Cruiser San Giorgio, 201
ADAMSON, E., on Temperature Influence on Carbon and Iron, 385
Adherence of Flat Surfaces, H. M. Budgett, 570; (Letter), 647
Adkins-Lewis System of Continuous Transport, W. Y. Lewis, 277, 407, 645

AERONAUTICS:

Air Race, 105
Aviation, A. E. Berriman, 251 ; (Letter), 291
Bristol Aeroplanes and Factory, British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, 224
France, Aerotechnics in, 128, 133
French Exhibits at Turin, 63
Government Aeronautical Committee, Work of, 160, 172, 181, 194 ; (Letter), 216, 230
Military Aviation, 643
Models for Study of Aeroplane Problems, 172; (Letter), 216,'230
Progress of Aerial Navigation, 334
Progress of Aviation, 665
Propellers for Flying Machines, H. Chatley, 91 ; (Letters), 126, 164, 356, 379, 647
St. Cyr Aeronautical Institute, 128, 133 Wreck of the-Naval Airship, 326, 334
AGREEMENT to Employ an Engineer, Notes on, 106
Agricultural Machines, French and German, at Turin, 63, 64
Agricultural Machinery at Smithfield, 592 Air Compressors—see Compressors
Air Locomotive on the Lotschberg-Simplon Railway, 580
Alaska Bridge 'Building—see Bridges Alloys of Aluminium and Zinc, Dr. W, Rosen - hain and Mr. S. Archbutt, 325
Alloys of Copper and Tin, Volume Changes in,
G. L. Haughton and Professor T. Turner, 325 Alloys, The Electrical. Conductivity and Constitution of, Dr. W. M. Guertler, 325 Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Mechanical Influence of Carbon on, Professor J. O. Arnold and F. K. Knowles, 385 Aluminium Works—see Works America in Three Days, 181 ; (Letter), 216

AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS:

American Car Coupling, A New, 100 Extensive Railway Improvements, 138 Fueling Barge for Lake Steamers, 100 United Stats Collier Neptune, 100 Vanadium in. Cast Iron, 1-38
AMERICAN Patents, 566 American Steel—see Iron and Steel Amsler, Dr. Alfred, Some New Types of Dynamometers, 121
Anglo-Irish Communications, 146 Annual Report, United States Navy, 657 Antwerp, Moving a Wall in, 526 Approximate Stability, A. R. Liddell, 604 Architecture, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters Armour Plate Exhibits at Turin, 169 Armour for Ships—Ships, Naval Matters Arnold, Professor J. O., and F. K. Knowles, on
Mechanical Influence of Carbon on Alloys of Iron and Manganese, 385
Artillery—see War Material, and also Ships, Naval Matters

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

Association, The British :
Adkins-Lewis System of Rapid Continuous Transport, W. Y. Lewis, 277
Aviation, A. E. Berriman, 251 ; (Letter), 291 Aviation Maps, 275
Beet Sugar Industry, Neglect of, 252 Corrosion of Steel, Influence of Carbon on, 276
Corrugation oii Tram way. Rails, The Origin and Production of, W. Worby Beaumont, 250
Diesel Oil Engine, C. Day, 276
Economical Power Generation by Overtype Superheated Steam Engines, W. J. Marshall, 276
Electrical Drives for Screw Propellers, H. A. Mavor, 250
Electrical Steel Melting, 275
Electrical Steering, B. P. Haigh, 251 Gaseous Explosions Committee Report, 251 Geology, 252
Maps, Col. C. F. Close, 252
Meeting at Portsmouth, 238, 250, 275 Presidential Address, Sir William Ramsay, 238
Prime Movers now in Operation, Various 'Types, 276
Rolling of Ships, professor J. B. Biles, 241
Suction Gas Engines and Producers, W. A. Tookey, 276
Visit to Portsmouth Waterworks, 251
Association, British Foundrymen’s:
Annual Convention 161, 188
Art as Expressed in Castings, W. F. Bagnall, 188
Carbon Control in Cast Iron, R. Buchanan, 161
Association, British Foundrymen’s
(contfnweJ):
Crystallisation of Cast Metals, Dr. C. S. Desch, 188
Heat Treatment of Steel Castings, Professor A. Campion, 188
Metallography as an Aid to the Ironfounder, J. S. G. Primrose, 188
Special Foundry Pig Iron, H. Pilkington, 161
Visit to Hyde Park Locomotive Works, &c., 188
Warping in Castings, R. R. McGowan, 161
Association of Engineers. Manchester:
Coal-cutting Machinery, W. Bolton. Shaw, I 595
Cutting Tools, Dempster Smith, 471
. Electrification of Railways, E. O’Brien, 522
Association, Municipal and Electrical:
Convention, 22
Internal Combustion Engines for Power Stations, Gas Engines and Producer Plants, R.-M. Carr, 22
Internal Combustion Engines Working on the Diesel Principle, H. L. Howard, 22
Institute of Chemistry:
Cement, Bertram Blount, 469, 598
Institute, The Concrete:
Presidential Address, Sir H. Tanner, 526
institute. Iron and Steel |
Autumn Conference in London, 361, 384 Autumn Meeting at Turin, 57, 209, 310 Cutlers’ Feast at Sheffield, 384, 401 Mechanical Influence of Carbon on Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Professor J. O. Arnold and F. K, Knowles, 385
Origin of the Iron Ores of Swedish Lapland, L. Leigh Fermor, 386
Temperature Influence on Carbon and Iron,
E. Adamson, 385
Transformation of Steel within the Limits of the Temperatures employed in Heat Treatment, Monsieur L. Grenet, 385
Institute of Marine Engineers:
Visit to Bow Generating Station, 84
Institute of Metals:
Alloys of Aluminium and Zinc, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr. S. Archbutt, 325
Autumn Conference at Armstrong College, 303, 325
Corrosion of Brass with special reference to Condenser Tubes, Paul T. Bruhl, 325, 341
Electrical Conductivity and Constitution of Alloys, Dr. W. M. Guertler, 325
Failure of a Brazed Joint, Professor Henry Louis, 325
Further Notes on the Nature of Solid Solutions, C. A. Edwards, 325
Mechanical Properties of Hard - drawn Copper, D. R. Pye, 325
Non-ferrous Metals in Railway Work, George Hughes, 303
Visits to Works in and near Newcastle, 326
Volume Changes in the Alloys of Copper and Tin, G. L. Haughton and Professor Thomas Turner, 325
Institution of Automobile Engineers:
Presidential Address, L. A. Legros, 376
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Conference on Education and Training of Engineers, 6, 38
Education, Dr. W. C. Unwin, 7
Electric Lighting of Railway Trains, The Brake Vehicle Method, R. T. Smith, 574
Experiments on the Strength and Fatigue I Properties of Welded Joints in Iron and Steel, Dr. T. E. Stanton and J. R. Pannell, 624
Hydro-electric Plant at Kinlochleven, F. B. Sonnenschein, 523
Loch Leven Water Power Works, A. H.
Robert, 523
Pass List, 523
Position and Uses of Engineering Laboratories in relation to Education at College, Professors W. E. Dalby, John Goodman,
B. Hopkinson, 38
Practical Training, in Workshops or on Works of Construction, &c., Sir H. F. Donaldson and W. B. Worthington, 6
Presidential Address, Dr. Unwin, 499
Relation of Engineering Employers and Colleges and Practical Training of College Students, Professor J. E. Petayel, J. W. Horne, 7
Relation of Practical Training to College Study, &c., Professors A. Barr and H. Louis, 39
Value of a University Degree in Engineering Science in relation to Professional Competence, Professor S. M. Dixon, Professor
C. F. Jenkin, 9
Workshop Training as Preliminary to Practical Training in Engineering, J. A. Brodie, J. M. Moncrief! and Professor J. J. Welch, 40
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Articles of Association, Proposed Alterations, 497 ; (Letter), 497
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Marine Engineering of To-day and its Developments, E. Hall-Brown, 441, 460
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers:
Gravity and Hot Water Heating, Some Doubtful Points in, E. R. Dolby, 81
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Albula Hydro-electric Power Station near Thusis, 178
Altdorf Hydro-electric Power Station, 177
Augst-Wyhlen Water Power Station, Basle,
177
Bellinzona—Mesocco Electric Railway, 178
Berne Alpine Railway Electrification, Spiez- brigue, 177
Bernese Water Power Company’s Installations at Spiez and Kandergrund, 177
Beznau on the Aare Electricity Works, 33, 149
Biaschina and Ticinctto Hydro-electric Power Installations, 178
Brown, Boveri and Co.,’s Works at Baden, 95, 122 (Two-page Su/g lement, August 4th, 1911) ; (Letter), 126
Brusio Power Company’s Stations at Campo- Cologno and Robbia, 178
Double Cutting and High-speed Planing Machines, J. H. Wicksteed, 533, 546, 643
Electric Traction in Switzerland, E. Huber - Stockar, 95
Endurance of Metals, Experiments on Rotating Beams at University College, London,
E. M. Eden and others, 422, 533
Engineering Laboratories of the Zurich Polytechnic, 124
Escher, Wyss and Co.’s Works, Zurich, and Turbines, 175, 176
High-pressure Water Power Works, L. Zodel, 121
Laufenburg Hydro-electric Power Station,
93, 102
•Locarno—Ponte—Brolla—Bignasco Railway,
178
Loentscli Electricity Works, 66, 67'
Lucern-Engelberg Power Installation, 175
Modern Diesel Oil Engines, F. Scliuboler, 119
Monthly General Meetings1, 422
Oorlikon, Mascliinenfabrik, 149, 154
Results of Experiments with Francis Turbines and Tangential (Pelton) Turbines, Professor Dr. F. Prfsil, 147
Rheinfelden Hydro-electric Power Station,
94, 95
Schaffhausen Hydro-electric Power Station, 12, 149
Schweizerische Lokomotiv und Maschinen- fabrik, 123 (Two-page Supplement, August 4th, 1911)
Some New Types of Dynamometers, Dr. Alfred Amsler, 121
Sulzer Brothers’ Works at Winterthur and Ludwigshafen, 152
Visit to Switzerland, 12, 33, 66, 93, 102, 119, 147, 154, 175 (7'wo Two-page Supplements, August 4th, 1911)
Wangen Hydro-electric Power Station, 122
Institution of Mining Engineers:
Cardiff Meeting, 303
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers:
New Main Low-level Sewer for the South Side of London, 443
Institution of Naval Architects:
Armour for Ships, 1860-1910, C. E Ellis, 79
Cavitation, Some Further Notes on, S. W. Barnaby, 78
Collapsing of Beams and Elastic Curve Slips, Notes on, Professor Marbec, 79
Design and Performance of the Transpacific Liners Tenyo Maru and Chiyo Maru, Professors Terano and Baron C. Sliiba, 57, 137
Development of Merchant Shipbuilding in Japan, Dr. S. Terano and Mr. M. Yukawa, 55
Fifty Years’ Architectural Expression of Tactical Ideas, Admiral Sir C. Bridge, 21
Fifty Years’ Changes in British Warship
Machinery, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir
H. J. Oram, 54
Fifty Years’ Developments in Mercantile Ship Construction, Dr. S. J. P. 'l'hearle, 56
Fifty Years’ Progress in Shipbuilding in Italy, Colonel G. Russo, 79
History of the Institution of Naval Architects, Sir W. White, 19
Jubilee Meetings, 18, 54, 77, 137
Naval Artillery, Notes on Progress in, Sir Andrew Noble, 79
Progress of Naval Construction in Japan, Rear-Admiral Motoki Kondo, 21
Progress of Naval Engineering in Japan,
Engineer Rear-Admiral Terngoro Fujii, 77
Rational Application of the Turbine to the
Propulsion of Warships, Professor Rateau, 22, 54
Recent Developments in the Sea Transportation of Swedish Ore, J. Johnson, 57
Result of Experimental Tank Tests on Models of Submarines, M. S. Chace, 22
Scientific Study of Naval Architecture in Germany, Professor Flamm, 77
Shipping on the Great Lakes, F. E. Kirby and A. P. Rankin, 57
The Marine Steam Turbine from 1894 to 1910, Sir C. Parsons, 22, 215
Vibration Phenomena of Steamers, Our
Present Knowledge of, Dr. O. Sclilick, 55
Warship Building, 1860 to 1910, Sir P. Watts, 79
Institution of Naval Architects, German:
Annual Meeting. 567, 586
Design of my Large Oil Motor, Studies for, Professor H. Junkers, 568, 586
Marine Wireless Telegraphy Installations, Direktor Bredow, 567
New Electric- Torsion Indicator, Fr. Lux, 588
Institution of Naval Architects,
Germun continued) :
Oil Motor in the German Sea Fisheries, Professor Romberg, 567
Practical Results with Counter Propellers, Dr. Wagner, 586
Turbine, The Gas, H. Holzwarth, 587
Turning of a Twin-screw Steamer in her own
Length as Affected by the Direction of Rotation of the Screws, Herr Direktor Walter, 586
Society of Engineers:
Design of Tall Chimneys, Henry Adams, 59 Two-cycle Engines, R. W. A. Brewer, 498
Society, The Faraday:
Graphite, Di-. Edward E. Acheson, 538 AUSTIN Dam Disaster, 355, 376 Australian Engineering, 156
Automatic Coaling of Ships, 322, 332
Automatic Lubricator for Shafts, George Richards, 622
Automatic Telephones—see Telephones Aviation-—see Aeronautics

BALING Press, Forage, Ferretti and Goggi, 143
Ball, J. D. W., on Reinforced Concrete for Railway Engineering Works, 331, 421, 450
Ballard, P., on The Hob in its Cutting Position 145
.Balloons—see Aeronautics
Barnaby, S. W., on Some Further Notes on Cavitation, 78, 208
Barr, Professor A., on The Relation of Practical Training to College Study, 39
Battle of the Superheats, R. H. Smith, 632 Beaumont, W. Worby, on The .Origin and Pro duction of Corrugation on Tramway Rails, 250
Belfast, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory at, 558
Berriman, A. E., on Aviation, 251
Beznau Electricity Works, 33
Biles, Professor, J. B., on Rolling of Ships, 241 Birkenhead Waterworks, 367
Blast Furnace By-products, 131
Blast Furnaces and Hoists at Ilva Works, 350 (Supplement, October 6th, 1911)
Blount, Bertram, on Cement, 469, 598
Blower, Motor-driven, Hodges and Co., 388, 389.
Blowing Machinery at Britannia Works, Samuelsons, 252, 258
Board of‘Trade Returns, 44
BOILERS:
Boiler Fire-door, Smalley, 138
Boilers for Japanese Navy, 77
Care of Steam Boilers, Home-office Memorandum, 588
Flexible Joint Boiler for Large Mallet Loco motive, 636
Italian State Railway Locomotive Boiler, 402
Longridge’s, Report, Mr., 408
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Boiler Shop at Darlington, 655, 664
Staying the End's of Lancashire Boilers, Vulcan. System, 525
Steam Launch Accessible Boiler, Simpson, Strickland and Co., 410
Stirling Boilers ait Weston Point Salt Works, 424
Testing Steam Turbines and. High-speed Generators, 136
Tubeless Superheater Applied to Lancashire Boiler, Simplex Superheater Company, 109
BOSSES, Diameter and Length of, R. A. Lewis, 96
Bradford Technical College, Textile Department of, 469
“ Bradshaw ” Sixty-four Years Ago, 339 Bradshaw’s Railway Companion, 1840, 467 Brass, Corrosion of, with Special Reference to
Condenser Tubes, Paul T. Bruhl, 325, 341 Brentwood Sewage Disposal Works, 472 Bridge, Admiral Sir C., on Fifty Years’ Archi
tectural Expression of Tactical Ideas, 21
BRIDGES:
Alaska, Bridge Building in, 557, 581, 607, 614 (Two-page Supplement, December 8th, 1911) Carmarthen Bascule Bridge over the River . Towy, Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, Limited, 458, 459, 462
Egypt, New Bridges for, 638
Kuskulana Bridge, Alaska, 607, 614
Miles Glacier Bridge, Alaska, 558, 581 (Two- page Supplement, December 8th, 1911)
Quebec Bridge Caissons, 174, 180
Transporter Bridge at Middlesbrough over the Tees, 336, 412 ; (Letter), 356
Warrington, 355
BRIGHTON Railway, 'The Opening of the, September 20th, 1841, 301
Bristol Aeroplanes—see Aeronautics
British Trade in Hungary, 603
Brodie, J. A., on Workshop Training as a Preliminary to other Training in Engineering, 40 Bruce, A. Fairlie, on Cost of Carrying Out Work, 457
Bruhl, Paul T., on Corrosion of Brass with Special Reference to Condenser Tubes, 325, 341
Budgett, H. M., on Adherence of Flat Surfaces, 570 ; (Letter), 647

CAISSON S-^-see Bridges
Calcutta Mint, Combined Oil Engine^ and
Dynamo for, 267
Calendars and Diaries for 1912, 674
Canadian Navy, 565
Canal Embankment, Aire, and Calder Navigation, Collapse, 588
Cane Sugar Process, A New, Nipe Bay Sugar Company, 214
Capstans, Large Electric, Vaughan and Son, Limited, 670
Carbon, Influence of, &c.—see Alloys
Carbon and Iron, Temperature Influence on, E. Adamson, 385
Carborundum at Turin Exhibition, 90 Carno Reservoir Embankment and Filter Beds, 386 I*
Carr, R. M., on Internal Combustion Engines for Power Stations, Gas Engines and Producer Plants. 22
Catalogues. 84, 13?,- 166, 187, 218, 242, 319, 413, 550, 627 650,
Causes of River Deviation, T. S. Ellis, 606 Cavitation, Some Further Notes on, S. W. Barnaby, 78, 208
Cement, Bertram Blount on, 469, 598
Cliace, N. S., on Result of Experimental Tank
Tests in Models of Submarines, 22, 104, 110 Charcoal Furnaces Displaced in Italy, 169 Chassis for Commercial Vehicle for 25-Cwt.
Loads, Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company, 26
Chatley, H., on Propellers for Flying Machines, 91 ; (Letters), 126, 164, 356, 379, 647
Chester, Hydra-electric Power Plant for, 367 Choice of "Motive Power, W. O. Horsnaill, 658 Clover Huller, Ruston “ Champion,” 594 Clyde Shipbuilding—see Ships
Clyde Trust Finance and New Work, 256
COAL. COKE, ANO COLLIERIES:
Automatic Coaling of Ships, London and North-Western Barge Herald, 322, 332
Cardiff Meeting of the Institution of Mining Engineers, 303
Coal and Ash Handling Plant, Bennis, 329 Coal-cutting Machinery, W. Bolton Shaw, 595 Coal Mines Bill, 537
Coal-washing Plant at the Cramlington Colliery, Campbell, Binnie, Reid and Co., 648 (Two-page Supplement, December 22nd, 1911)
Declining Efficiency of Coal Mining, 309
' Escape of Gas from Coal, 157
Strikes, &c.—see Labour
Transport Machinery, German, at Turin, 63 COAST Erosion, Royal Commission on, 25 Compressing Plant,' Hydraulic Air, at Cobalt, 482
Compulsory Arbitration in Trade Disputes, 404 Conciliation,- 233-—see also Railway Commission Concrete—see also Reinforced Concrete Concrete, Corrosion of Steel in, 259
Concrete, Reinforced, with the Oxy-Acetylene Blow-pipe, Test of, 522 ; (Letter), 547
Concrete, Reinforced, for Railway Engineering Works, J. D. W. Ball, 321, 421, 450
Condensers for Wireless Telegraphy at Olympia, 362
Conference on Education—see Education Congress and the Panama Canal, 666 Construction, Accidents during Works of, 157 Continental Diesel Engine Practice—see Engines
Continuous Transport—see Railways
Contract, Time Clause in a, 247
Contracts, 30, 86, 114, 166, 190, 218, 244, 270, 294, 318, 342, 418, 474, 504, 550, 600, 626, 674
Converter, Oil-fired Steel, The Stock, 46,53 Copper—see also Alloys
Copper and Brass Exhibits at Turin, 169
Copper, Hand-drawn, The Mechanical Properties of, D. R. Pye, 325
Cornish Engine—see Engines
Corrosion of Brass, with Special Reference to Condenser Tubes, Paul T. Bruhl, 325, 341
Corrosion of the 4Wes tern Australian Goldfields Water Supply Pipe, 444 ; (Letter), 547
Corrugation on Tramway Rails, The Origin and Production of, W. Worby Beaumont, 250
Cost of Carrying Out Work, A. Fairlie Bruce, 457
Council, The Industrial, 384
Countershaft, Variable Speed, T. Robinson and Son,' 27
Crane, 7-Ton Floating Jib, for Spain, J. H. Wilson and Company, 162, 163
Crane Navvy, 16-Ton Steam, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 236
Crane, 5-Ton Steam Goliath, for Singapore, Stothert and Pitt, 645
Crane, 25-Ton Travelling, at the Vigeland Works, 374
Cranes, 60-Ton Electric Overhead, 671
Curves and Charts—see Plotting
Cutting Tools—see Machine Tools
Cutlers’ Feast at Sheffield, 348, 401

DAIMLER Engineering Scholarships, 187
Dalby, Professor W. E., on Laboratories in Relation to Education at College, 38
Dam, Austin, Disaster, 355, 376
Darling, C. R., on an Improved Thermo-electric Indicator, 432
Dawson, Philip, on the Future of Electrification, 616, 623
Declining Efficiency of Coal Mining. 309 Denny-Edgecombe Torsion Meter, .399
Diameter and Length of Bosses, R. A. Lewis, 96 Diesel Engines—see Engines and Motors, Internal Combustion
Dixon, Professor S. M., on the Value of a University Degree in Engineering Science in Relation to Professional Competence, 9
Dock Extension at Leith and Newhaven, 442 Dock, French Submarine Salvage, 454, 455 Docks, Growth of, 360
DOCKYARD NOTES:
Amphion, H.M.S.; 366
Archer, H.M. Destroyer, 467
Argentine Destroyer Cordoba, 524
Dockyard Notes (continued.):
Argentine Dreadnoughts, Moreno and Riva- davia, 467
Argentine, New Dock at Bahia Blanca, German Tender Accepted, 162
Austrian Dreadnoughts, Progress, 647 Austro-Hungarian Dreadnought, Viribus Unitus, 14
Chinese Cruisers Hai Chi and Hai Tien, 524
Chinese Navy, 524
Coaling Speed of H.M. Battleship Triumph, 14
Cuban Navy, Launch of the Cuba and the Patria, 524
D 5, H.M. Submarine, 368
Danish Torpedo Boat Soridderen, 14
Destroyer Flotilla, Movements, 186
Destroyer Flotillas, Complaints of Bridge Design, 266
Destroyers of the Acorn Class. 266, 524
Destroyers for the China Station, 164
Destroyers, H.M., Accidents to, 524
Devonport, New Battleship Laid Down, 647 Elswick Shipyard, Battleships in Building, 524
Falmouth, H.M. Cruiser, 279
Fishing and Eil ing in the Firth of Forth, 368
Forester, H.M. Ocean-going Destroyer, 562
French Battleships Mirabeau and Vergniaud, 524
French Cruiser Waldeck Rosseau, Trials, 647
French 700-ton Destroyer Bouclier, 14, 266, 368
French Fleet’s Target Practice, Results, 647
French Naval Forces Reorganised, 162
French Submarine Pluviose Disaster, 368
German Battleship Helgoland, 266
German Cruiser Moltke, Design Published, 266
German Cruiser Moltke, Speed, 647
German Cruiser Von der Tann, 162
Hamburg, German Naval Construction at Messrs. Blohm and Voss, 524
Hawke, H.M.S.. Repairs Completed, 647
“ Incinerators ” in Warships, 162
Italian Armoured Cruiser San Giorgio, Salvage Work, 368
Italian Government Adopts Yarrow Boiler, 647
Italian Scout, the Quarto, 266
Japanese Battleships Building at Various Yards, 186, 647
Kangaroo, H.M.S., Accident, 266
Kingstown as a Naval Base, 164
Lion, H.M. Dreadnought Cruiser, Progress, 467
Locust and Quail, H.M. Destroyers, 186 Monarch, H.M. Battleship, Trials, 524 Motor Boats, Four Ordered for Navy, 279 Navy League, Annual Meeting, 467 Orion, H.M. Battleship, Steam and Gunnery Trials, 279
Portsmouth Dockyard, New Lock, 368
Portuguese Programme, 647
Russian Orders for Dreadnoughts and Submarines, 14
Russian 26-knot Torpedo Cruiser Novik, 266
Sale of Scrapped Warships at Devonport, 14 Sandfly, H.M. Destroyer, 467
Seal and Lively, H.M. Destroyers, Damage tc, 524
Submarine Gun Experiments in France, 562 Swift, H.M.S., Speed Question, 266
Turkish Battleship Laid Down at Barrow, 647
Turret Working Chamber, Difficult of Ingress or Egress, 266
United States Battleships Florida and Utah, 266
United States Destroyers, 524
United States Gunboats Dubukue and Don Juan 3?Austria, 562
United States Two New Battleships, 562 Whitehead Submarines, 524
Working Hours in the Royal Dockyards, 467
DONALDSON, Sir H. F., on Practical Training in Workshops or On Works of Construction, &c., 6
Dredge Pumps at Panama, 299
Dredger, Hopper Bucket, Powerful, for Panama' Canal, W. Simons and Co., 414
Dredger, Suction, The South Australian, Werf Gusto, A. F. Smulders, 237
Dredgers on the New York State Barge Canal, 302, 308
Dunston Power Station, 2, 42, 64, 74 {Two-page Supplement, July 7 th, 1911)
Durbar Honours, 618
Dutch Dredger for Australia, Werf Gusto, A. F. Smulders, 237
Dynamometers, Some New Types of, Dr. Alfred Amsler, 121

EARL’S Court, Moving Staircase at {Sixteen- page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Early Railway Unrest, 621
Economic Position of the Oil Fuel Question, S. H. North and G. M. Edwards, 655 Economy in Machine Design, 492
Education, Conference on, 6, 17, 38, 76;
(Letters), 11, 58, 72, 109, 126
Education, Dr. W. C. Unwin, 7
ELECTRICAL MATTERS:
Accumulator Switchboard, Johnson and Phillips, 328
Albula Hydro-electric Power Station near Thusis, 178
Alloys, The Electrical Conductivity and Constitution of, Dr. W. M. Guertler, 325
Altdorf Hydro-electric Power Station, 177 Alternators, Automatic Paralleling Apparatus for, Union Electric Company, 390
Armature, Shipping, Floating and Transportation to Vigeland Works, 351
Augst-Wyhler Water Power Station, Basle, 177
Automatic Control of Electric Motors, British Thomson-Houston Company, .509
Auto-starters, Ferranti, Dorman and Smith, Siemens, General Electric Company, 158
Bell Transformer, Foster Engineering Company, 387
Bernese Water Power Company’s Installations at Spiez and at Kandergrund, 177
Beznau Electricity Works, 33
Electrical Matters (continued):
Biaschina and Ticinetto Hydro-electric Power Installations, 178
Bow Generating Station, Visit by Institute of Marine Engineers, 84
Brusio Power Company’s Hydro-electric Power Company’s Stations Campo-Cologno and Robbia, 178
Cascade Motor with Liquid Starter, Rotor, 'Stator Connections and Switch Connections, Sandycroft Foundry Company, 198
Chester Hydro-electric Power Plant, '367 Circuit Breaker, Morris and Lister, 186 Coal and Ash-handling Plant, Bennis, 329 Collector Column for Cranes, Allen West and
Co., 330
Controllers, Oil Immersed, Reversing, &c., Allen West' and Co., 329
Converter, 475-Ki’owatt Motor, Bruce Peebles, 389
Dunston Power Station, 2, 42, 64, 74, (Two- page Supplement, July 7th, 1911)
Dynamo -for Calcutta Mint, Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company, 267
Edison Storage Battery, 327
“ Electric Arc,?’ Machinery for, Mavor and Coulson, ‘304
Electrical Drives for Screw Propellers, H. A. Mavor, 250
Electric Lighting Powers. 104
Electric Lighting of Railway Trains, Brake Vehicle Method, R. T. Smith, 574
Electric Transport {Sixteen-page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Electro-plating Dynamo, Phoenix Dynamo Company,’ 390'
Electro-steel Works on Tyneside, 291
Equipment for Driving Planing Machine) Lancashire and Dynamo Motor Company, 388
Exhibition—see Exhibitions .
Expansion Cable Joint and Micanite Tube,
C. Vernier, 387
Fly-wheel Load Equaliser, 135
French and German Exhibits, at Turin, 63, 64 Friction Clutches for Induction Motors, T.
Broadbent, 159 ; Reavell and Co., 277
Generating Set, 2-J-kilowatt, 26
Germany, Electrical Manufacturing in, 591 “ Giles ” Valve for Protecting Cables, 362 High -tension Transmission Exhibits at Olympia, 388
Ironclad High-tension Switch Gear, Reyrolle and Co., 387
Lamps—see Lamps
Laufenburg Hydro-electric Power Station,
93. 102
Lighting Set, Self-contained, Westinghouse Brake Company, '327
Lighting Set, Pumps (Ram and Centrifugal) Friction Hoist, Marine Motor, Pipe Ventilated Motor, Electromotors, Limited, 329
Limiting Resistances, Johnson and Phillips, 328
Loentsch Electricity Works, 66, 67
Loom Motor, Haulage Motor Brush Gear, Split Pole Converter, Bruce Peebles, 389
Lucerne—Engelberg Power Installation, 175
Marine Transmission Scheme, Durtnall’s (iSixteen-paye iSwppfemenZ, November 24th, 1911); (Letter), 597
Mercury -Vapour Rectifier, Westinghouse Cooper-Hewitt Company, 327
Mining Induction Motor, Phoenix Dynamo Company, 390
Mining Switchgear, Reyrolle and Co., 387, 388
Moscicki Protective Gear, Condensers with Liquid Switches, &c., 362
Motor Car Lighting, 488
Motor Starting Switches, “ Adams Igranic,” 328
Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik, 149, 154
Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik, Electrical Plant at Vigeland Works—see Vigeland
Oil Electric Propulsion for Lake Steamers, 250
“ Partridge ” Safety Device for Transformers, 363
Pohl’s Half-turn Winding, 390
Polyphase Slip Ring Motor Starters, Adams Manufacturing Company; British Westinghouse Company ; Dick, Kerr and Co.; Electric and Ordnance Accessories Company ; Electrical Construction Company ; G. Ellison ; General Electric Company ; Siemens Brothers ; 227, 262
Power Stations, Old and New, 311
Railways—see Railways
Resistances, Grid and Unit, Allen West and Co., 330
Rheinfelden Hydro-electric Power Station,
94, 95
Rheostatic Starters with Squirrel Cage Induc- tion, G. Ellison, Adams Manufacturing Company, 158
Rotary Converter, Six - phase, Vickers Limited, 362
Schaffhausen. Hydro-electric Power Station, 12
Searchlight Projector, Johnson and Phillips, 328
Single-phase Induction Motor Starters, A. E. G. Company ; Adnil Electric Company; Brown, Boveri Electrical Company ; G. Ellison ; General Electric Company ;, T. Harding, Churton and Co., 263, 278
Searchlight Projector, Union Electric Company, 390
“ Spinner ” Motor, Mavor and Coulson, 198
Star Delta Switches, Union Electric Company ; Dorman and Smith ; Reyrolle ; British Thomson-Houston ; G. Ellison, 184 ; Electrical Construction Company ; General Electric Company ; Siemens Brothers ; Adams Manufacturing Company, 198
Starting Induction Motors, 158, 184, 198, 227, 262, 277
Stator Winding for Single-phase Motors, Siemens Brothers, 277
Steering, Electrical, B. P. Haigh, 251
Submersible Electric Motor, W. R. Macdonald, 390
Switch Panels and Starters, Ferranti Limited, 363
Switches and Switch Chambers at Dunston, 64, 74
Synchronising Outfit, Siemens, 329
Electrical Matters (continued):
Telephones—see Telephones
Three-phase Motor, Heyland, 277
Torsion Indicator, New Electric. Fr. Lux, 588
Tramways—see Tramways
Transformers, Foster Engineering Company, 387, 388
Turbo-alternator Set, 6000-Kilowatt, C. A. Parsons and Co., 329
Turbo-electric Machinery for United States Colliers, 250
Turbo-generator, Brush Electrical Engineering Company, 362
Vigeland Aluminium Works, Power-house and Plant; 351, 358, 373, 382, 390, 406
Wangen Hydro-electric Power Station, 122 Westinghouse Plant at Weston Point Salt Works, 424, 434
ELLIS, C. E., on Armour for Ships, 1860—1910' 79
Ellis, T. S., on The Causes of River Deviation, 606
Employment Bureaux in France, 131 Endurance of Metals—see Metals
ENGINES AND MOTORS: '
Locomotives—see Locomotives, also Railways, Locomotives
Pumping Engines—see Pumps
Internal Combustion Engines:
Carel-Westgarth, 800 H.P. Diesel Marine Engine, Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., 282
Continental Marine Diesel Engine Practice, Some Impressions of, 579,-610, 6-11, 629, 640, 653
Crude Oil Engine, Two-cycle, Plenty and Son, 573
Diesel Engines for the Italian Mail ’Boat Romagna, Sulzer Brothers, 629, 630
Diesel Marine Oil Engine, 600 H.P., Fiat Company, 107
“ Electric Arc ” Machinery, Mavor and Coulson, 304
Engines at the Smithfield Club Show, 592
F. I.A.T. Company’s Motor and Marine Engines at Turin, 143
Fire Engine, Motor-driven, Merryweather,
595
Four-cycle Engines for Submarines. Schneider and Co., 653
French High Compression Motor, Societe des Moteurs Sabathe, 49
Gas Engine, 30 B.H.P., Ambrose Shardlow,
596
Gas Engine, 1350 B.H.P., Galloways Limited; 82, 83
Gas Engine, Producer, Davey, Paxman and Co., .594
Henriod Engine for Darracq Car, 485 High-speed Petrol Engines, 616
Internal Combustion Engine for Naval Purposes, 436
Internal Combustion Engines for Power Stations, Gas Engines and Producer Plants, R. M. Carr, 22
Internal Combustion Engines Working on the Diesel Principle, H. L. Howard, 22
Knight Sleeveless Valve Motor Car Engine, 487
Marine Diesel Engine Practice, Continental, 579, 610, 611, 629, 640
Marine Diesel Engines, Sulzer Brothers, 629; 640
Marine Oil Engine, Weak Points of the, 75 Modern Diesel Oil Engines, F. Scliubeler, 119 Motor Car Engine, Crossley Motors, Limited, 465
Motor Car Engine, The Development of the, L. A. Legros, 376
Motor Car Engines at Olympia—see also Motor Vehicles
Normand’s Diesel Marine Motor, 195
Oil Engine for Driving Dynamo for Calcutta Mint, Brazil, Straker and Co., 267
Oil Engine for Lighting Set, Westinghouse Brake Company, 327
Oil Engine, Mirrlees-Diesel, 328
Oil Locomotives—see Locomotives
Oil Motor, Design of, Professor H. Junkers, 568, 586
Oil Motor in the German Sea Fisheries, Professor Romberg, 567
Oil Traction Engine, Spring-mounted, Petters Limited, 593
Petrol and Paraffin Engines at Norwich, Russell, Newbery and Co., 26
Sabathe, 420 H,P. Six-cylinder Roversing Marine Oil Engine, 49, 653
Scottish Marine Oil Engines, Beardmore, Gleniffcr, Kelvin, 304
Semi-Diesel Oil Engine, Petters Limited, 27 Six-cylinder Two-cycle-Marine Diesel Engine,
Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Niirnberg, 610, 611
Sleeve Valve Motor Car "Engine, Argyll’s Limited, 466, 485
Spyker Engine for Motor Car, 487
Two-cycle Diesel Oil Engine, 2400 H.P.j, Sulzer Brothers, 631, 640
Two-cycle or Four-cycle Engines, 653 ; (Letter), 671
Two-cycle Marine Oil Engine, 1000 B.H.P., Carel Freres, 579
Willans 335 B.H.P. Diesel Engine, 430
Steam Engines:
Corliss Winding Engine for India, Sandycroft Foundry Company, Limited, 438, 439.
Cornish Engine, 208
Governors for Engines and Turbines, Wilson Hartnell and Co., 364
“John Bull” Horizontal Steam Engine, E. R. and F. Turner, 594
Italian Battleship Engines, 170
Mill Engines, 464
Ploughing Engines at Smithfield, 592
Superheated Steam Engines and Wagons, 'Richard Garrett and'Sons, 595
ENGINEER, Agreement to Employ, Notes on, 106
Engineers, Structural, Spelter and Sheets, 306 Engineering Laboratories of the Zurich Polytechnic, 124
Engineering News from South America, 83, 201 287, 386, 496 ; (Letters), 413, 54.8
Engineering Standards Committee, 666
Engineering Training, Conference on Education, 6, 17, 38, 76 ; (Letters), 11, 58, 72, 109 126, 356
Engineering Training—A German View, Dipl. Ing. F. zur Nedden, 10
Equalisers—see Fly-wheel
Erosion, Coast—see Coast
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS:
Electrical, at Olympia, 327, 362, 387 Motor Car Show at Olympia, 465, 468, 485 Omsk, 300
Royal Agricultural Show at Norwich, 18, 26 Smithfield Club Show, 592
Textile Machinery, 380 Turin, 63, 89,143, 169, 322, 323, 402, 442,505, 608
EXPANSION Gear, Automatic, Browett-Lind- ley, 424, 434
Experiments on Flow, Professor J. Josse, 568, 586
Explosives, Mining 511

FATIGUE of Metals, Discussion at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 422
Fifty Years’Architectural Expression of Tactical Ideas, Admiral Sir C. Bridge, 21
Fifty Years’ Changes in British Warship Machinery, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir H. J. Oram, 22. 54
Fifty Years’ Developments in Mercantile Ship ?Construction, Dr. S. J. P. Thearle, 56
Fifty Years’ Progress in Shipbuilding in Italy, Colonel G. Russo, 79
Filtration—see Water
Fire Engine, Motor-driven Centrifugal Pump, Merryweather and Sons, 595
Fires, Forest, 90
Flamm, Professor, on Scientific Study of Naval Architecture in Germany, 77
Flat Surfaces, Adherence of, H. M. Budgett, 570 ; (Letter), 647
Floating Cranes—see Cranes Flour Mill Machinery, Samuelson’s, 252, 258 Flour Milling Appliances, T. Robinson and Son, 27
Flour Milling Appliances, H. Simon, Limited, 27 Flour Milling Machinery, E. R. and F. Turner, 27
Flow, Experiments on, Professor J. Josse, 568, 586
Fly-wheel Load Equaliser, 135 Flying Machines—see Aeronautics
Forage Baling Press, Ferretti and Goggi, 143 Forced Sale and its Outcome, 129
Forest Fires, 90
Forging Press Plant, 5000-Ton, at Terni, Davy Brothers, 297, 312
Forging Press, Steam Hydraulic, Haniel and Lueg, 214
Forthcoming' Engagements:
28, 58, 84, 112, 138, 165, 189, 213, 242, 270, 29,
28, 58, 84, 112, 138 ,165, 189, 213, 242, 270, 292, 317, 342, 368, 391, 414, 444, 472, 500, 526, 548, 574, 598, 624, 648, 673 Forthcoming Meetings, 414, 431, 456, 495 Foundries, Italian—see Italy, Iron and Steel Works
French Exhibits at Turin, 63
French Motor—see Engines and Motors French Railways—see Railways, Foreign French Warships—see Ships, Foreign
Fry, Lawford H., on Locomotive Proportions, 377 (Four-page Tabulated Supplement, October 15th, 1911)
Furnace By-products, Blast, 131
Furnace Charging Machine at Savona, 224

GAS Engines—see Engines, Internal Combustion
Gas, Escape of, from Coal, 157
Gas, Producer, 622
Gas Producers—see Producers
Gas Turbine, 1000 H.P., H. Holzwarth, 587 Gaseous Explosions, Committee’s Report, 251 Gauge, Absolute Pressure, Schaffer and Buden- berg, 522, 536
German Exhibits at Turin, 63
German Impulse Marine Steam Turbines, 202
German Machinery Industry, 519
German Shipyards, 98
German Steel Syndicate, 260 Germany, Electrical Manufacturing in, 591 Gloyne, R. M., on a New Main Low-level
Sewer for the South Side of London, 443 Gold, A Leakage of,'286, 642
Goodman, Professor J., on Laboratories in
Relation to Education at College, 38 Governors, Engine and Turbine, Wilson Hart
nell and Co., 364
Graphite, Dr. Edward E. Acheson, 538 Greenhill, Sir G., on Rifled Artillery, 505 Grenet, Monsieur L., on Transformation of
Steel within the Limits of the Temperatures
Employed in Heat Treatment, 385 Grinders—see Machine Tools Grosvenor-road Hydraulic Power Station, 44 Guertler, Dr. H. M., on The Electrical Conductivity and Constitution of Alloys, 325 Guillotine Shears, Large, Scriven and Co., 470 Gun-straightening Machine for Italy, Fielding
and Platt, Limited, 213 Gun Trials of Warships, 453 Gun Turrets on H.M.S. Monarch, Mounting,
135 (Two-page Supplement, August ith, 1911) Gyro-compass, The, 383

HAIGH, B. P., on Electrical Steering, 251
Hailstorms, The Prevention of, 480, 491
Hall-Brown, E., on Marine Engineering of
To-day and its Developments, 441, 460
Hammers—see Machine Tools
Heater, Water, Unit Heater Company, Limited, 470
Hob in its Cutting Position, P. Ballard, 145
“ Hoffman ” Ball and Roller Bearings, 388
Holzwarth, H., on The Gas Turbine, 587
Hopkinson, Professor B., on Laboratories in Relation to Education at College, 38
Horne, J. W., on Relation of Engineering Employers and Colleges and Practical Training of College Students, 7
Horsnaill, W. O., on The Choice of Motive Power, 658
Hot Water Heating, Some Doubtful Points in Gravity and, E. R. Dolby, 81
Howard, H. L., on Internal Combustion Engines Working on the Diesel Principle, 22
Huber-Stockar, E., on Electric Traction in Switzerland, 95
Hughes, George, on Non-ferrous Metals in
Railway Work, 303
Humidifiers for Textile Mills, 380 Hungary, British Trade in, 603 Hydraulic Air Compressing Plant at Cobalt, 482 Hydraulic Excavation in Panama, 298
Hydraulic Power in the French Alps, Paul Levy- Salvador, 237
Hydraulic Power Plant at Vigeland, 353 (Supplement, October 5th, 1911)
Hydraulic Power Station, London Hydraulic Power Company, 44
Hydro-electric Plant at Kinlochleven, F. B. Sonnenschein, 523
Hydro-electric Power Plant for Chester, 367 Hydro-electric Stations—see also Electrical Matters

ILIFFE, R. J., on Stepped Cone Diameters, 456
Increasing Competition in the Steel Industry, 464
Indian Iron and Engineering, 415 Indicator Gear, J. Graham, 109 Indicator, An Improved Thermo-electric, C. R. Darling, 432
Indicator Rig, A Simple, 341
Industrial Accidents and Legislation, 463 Industrial Council, The, 384
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations, &c.
Insurance Bill, National, Unemployment, 488 Insurance against Strike Losses, 537
Interference and Cavitation, 208; see also Cavitation
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines and Motors
International Competition in Shipbuilding, 395 Irish Strike—see Labour
IRON AND STEEL:
American Steel Trust and International Trade, 47, 384
Better Iron Conditions, 182
British Steel Trade and Foreign Agreements, 384
Corrosion of Steel in Concrete, 259 Cutlers’ Feast at Sheffield, 384, 401 Electro-steel Works on Tyneside, 291 Export Steel Trade Supremacy, 234 Fatigue of Metals, 422
German Steel Syndicate, 260 Indian Iron and Engineering, 415 International Steel Trade Situation, 666 Iron and Steel Exhibits at Turin, 169
Iron and Steel Institute, 310—see also Associations
Italy, Iron and Steel Industries of, 209, 222, 232, 273, 284, 297, 312, 349 (Four-page Supplement, September 1st, 1911), (Four-page Supplement, September 15th, 1911), (Twopage Supplement, September 22nd, 1911), Four-page Supplement, October 5th, 1911), (Two-page Supplement, October 20th, 1911) Italy, The Metallurgical Industries of, 469 Mechanical Influence of Carbon on Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Professor J. O. Arnold and F. K. Knowles, 385
Power Required to Cut Steel, P. V. Vernon, 182
Rebates in the Steel Trade, 401
Steel Industry, Increasing Competition in the, 464
Stock Oil-fired Steel Converter, 46, 53 Temperature Influence on Carbon and! Iron, E. Adamson, 385
Transformation of Steel Within the Limits of the Temperatures Employed in Heat ' Treatment, Monsieur L. Grenet, 385 Trustworthiness of Mild Steel, Mr. Stro - meyer’s Report, 642
Works—see Works
IRRIGATION Super-passage, The Nikla, F. R» Jacomb, 512', 516
Island Barn Reservoir, 494
Italy, Iron and Steel Industries of, 209, 222, 232, 273, 284, 297, 312, 349, 395 (Four-page Supplement, September 1st, 1911), (Four- page Supplement, September 15th, 1911), (Two - page Supplement, September, 22nd, 1911), (Four-page Supplement, October 5th, 1911), (Two-page Supplement, October 20th, 1911)J . i
Italy, The Metallurgical Industries of, 469

JACOMB, F. R., on Nikla Irrigation Superpassage, 512, 516
Japan, Development of Merchant Shipbuilding
in, Dr. S. Terano and Mr. M. Yukawa, 55
Japan, Progress of Naval Construction in, Rear- Admiral Motoki Kondo on, 21
Japan, Progress of Naval Engineering in, Engineer Rear-Admiral Terngoro Fujii, 77
Jenkin, Professor C. F., oh the Value of a University Degree in Engineering Science in Relation to Professional Competence, 9
Josse, Professor J., on Experiments on Flow, 568, 586
Junkers, Professor H., on Studies, &c., for the Design of My Large Oil Motor, 568, 586

KIRBY, F. E., and A. P. Rankin on Shipping on the Great Lakes, 57

LA SEYNE, Shipbuilding Works at, 193, 206 Laboratories in Relation to Education at Col- L* lege, Professors W. E. Dalby, J. Goodman,
B. Hopkinson, 38
Laboratories of the Zurich Polytechnic, Engineering, 124
Laboratory at Belfast, Mechanical Engineering, 558
LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS:
Compulsory Arbitration in Trade Disputes, 404
Conciliation, 233
Employment Bureaux in France, 131
Fair Wages Clause in Local Government Contracts, 310
Industrial Accidents and Legislation, 463 Industrial Council, 384
Insurance Against Strike Losses, 537
Irish Railway Strike, 310, 335, 361 ; (Letter), 356
Local Option and the Eight Hours Act, 17 Miners’ Minimum, 517
Miners’ Wages, 156, 359
National Insurance Bill : Unemployment, 488
Next Move, 592'
Peace without Honour, 207
Prevention of Strikes, 259
Railway Unrest, Early, 621
Royal Commission on Railway Conciliation
Boards, 238, 264, 290, 314, 337, 364, 428, 435, 543, 615
Strikes and Capital, 285 ; (Letters), 306, 340, 440
Unity House, 491 ; (Letter), 497
Workmen’s Compensation, 407
Wages in the Engineering Trades, 240
LAMP, “ Gem ” Filament, British Thomson- Houston Company, 306
Lamp, Mercury Vapour Silica, Westinghouse Cooper-Hewitt Company, 327
Lamps, Drawn-wire Tungsten, British Thomson-Houston Company, 197
Lamps,Lamp Glasses and Reflectors, “Mazda,” “ Gem,” &c., British Thomson-Houston Company, 388
Lamps, Metal Arc, &c., Foster Engineering
Company, 387
Lamps at Olympia Exhibition, 327
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Laufenburg Hydro-electric Power Station, 93, 102
Launches and Trial Trips:
53, 86, 114, 138, 213, 2’44', 266, 419, 5'50) 597, 624
Lead and Zinc Mining in the Lake District, 416
LEADERS:
Accidents in Workshops, 76
Aerial Navigation, The Progress of, 334
Air Race, 105
American Patents, 566
American Steel Trust and International Trade, 47
Australian Engineering, 156
Aviation, Progress of, 665
Baltic Locomotives; 286
Blast Furnace By-products, 130
British Steel Trade and Foreign Agreements, 384
Canadian Navy, 565
Coal Mining, A Declining Efficiency of, 309 Conciliation, 233
Conference, The, 17
Cornish Engine, 208
Corrosion of Steel in Concrete, 259
Docks, The Growth of, 360
Economy in Machine Design, 492
Electric Lighting Powers, 104
Electrical Manufacturing in Germany) 591 Electrification of Main Lines,- 616 Employment Bureaux in France, 131
Engineering Standards Committee, 666 Escape of Gas from Coal, 157
Export Steel Trade Supremacy, 234
Fair Wages Clause in Local Government Contracts, 310
Forced Sale and its Outcome, 129
French Naval Disaster, 333
French State Railway Management, 103 Germany Machinery Industry, 519
German Steel Syndicate, 259
Gold, A Leakage of, 286, 642
Governmental Aeronautics, 181
Gyro-Compass, The, 383
Hail Storms, The Prevention of, 491
High-speed Petrol Engines, 616
Increasing Competition in the Steel Industry, 464
Industrial Accidents and Legislation, 463 Industrial Council, The, 384
Interference and Cavitation, 208
Internal Combustion Engine for Naval Purposes, 436
International Steel Trade Situation, 666
. Irish Railway Strike, 310, 335, 361
Iron Conditions, 182
Iron and Steel Institute, 310
Liberty, Loss of the, 436
Local Option and the Eight Hours Act, 17
Longridge’s, Mr., Report, 408
Mallet Locomotives, Recent, 360
Marine Oil Engine, Weak Points of the, 75
Marine Speed Reduction Gear as a Commercial Proposition, 518
Mechanical Production of Rust, 542 Military Aviation, 643
Mill Engines, 464
Miners’ Minimum, The, 517
Miners’ Wages, 156, 359
Naval Architects, 592
Naval Architects, The, 48
Naval Power in South America, 591
Next Move, 592
Panama Canal, Congress and the, 666 Peace Without Honour, 207
Prevention of Strikes, 259
Railway Commissioners’ Report, 435
Railway Debate, 543
Railway Economics, 566
Railway Rates, 309
Railway Settlement, 615
Research, 565
Resistance of Trains, Measuring the, 48 Royal Show, 18
LEADERS (cont inued) :
Science of ^Observation, 333
Siberian Trade, 543
Sir William Ramsay’s Address, 233
Social Reforms and Industry, 155
Standardisation of Training, 76
Steam on Common Roads, 383
Strikes and Capital, 285
Submarines, Form of, 104
Suburban Transportation Problems, 407
Suction and the Steering of Ships, 641 Superheating, A Question of, 542
To America in Three Days, 181
Trustworthiness of Mild Steel, 642
Tube Trade, 130
Underground Railways for London, 615
Unity House, 491
Water Supply of London, 130
Weight Saving in Machinery Design, 541
Workmen’s Compensation, 407
LEAKAGE of Gold, 286, 642
Legros, L. A., on The Development of the Motor Car Engine, 376
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS:
America, 31, 61, 87, 115, 141, 167, 190, 218< 245, 295, 319, 370, 393, 418, 447, 475, 502, 528, 551, 576, 601, 626, 651
Australia, 294
England, North of, 29, 59, 85, 113, 139, 165, 189.) 217, 243, 269, 293, 318, 343, 369, 392) 417, 445, 473, 501, 527, 549. 575, 599, 625, 649, 673
Germany, France, Belgium, &c., 31, 61, 87, 115, 141, 167, 191, 219, 245, 271, 295, 319, 345, 370, 393) 418, 447, 475, 503, 529, 551, 577, 601, 627, 651, 674
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Other Districts, 29, 58, 85, 113, 139, 165, 189, 217, 243, 269, 293, 317, 343, 368, 391, 416, 444, 472, 500, 526, 548, 574, 598, 624, 649, 673
Lancashire, 29,) 59, 85; 113, 139, 165, 189, 217»
243, 269, 293, 317, 343, 368, 391, 416, 445,
473, 500, 527, 548, 575, 599, 624, 649, 673
Scotland, 30, 60, 86, 114, 140, 166, 190, 218,
244, 270, 294, 318, 344, 369) 392) 418, 446,
474, 502, 528, 549, 576, 600, 626, 650, 674
Sheffield, 29, 59, 85, 113, 139, 165, 189, 217, 243, 269, 293, 317, 343, 369, 391, 417, 445, 473, 501, 527, 549, 575, 599, 625, 649, 673
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 30, 60, 86, 114, 140, 166, 190, 218, 244, 270, 294, 318, 344, 370, 392) 418, 446, 474, 502, 528, 550, 576, 600, 626, 650, 674
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Adhesion of Flat Surfaces, R. B. Prosser, 647 Australian Engineering, J. A. Smith, 126 Aviation, J. S. Dines, 291
Baltic Locomotives, Expectant, 306
Boiler Compounds, Inquiry, 187
Bolts and Nuts, Querist, 11 ; J. H. Knight, 164
British Inventor, Arthur Kitson, 58 ; F. G. Hargreaves, 187 ; J. Batey, 164 ; J. B. Percival, 11 ;J. H. K., 58
Calorimeter in the Power-house, P. A. Lewis, 109
Capital and Labour, Boilermaker, 340 ; N. E. Brooks, 306 ; G. Little, 340, 440
Chilled Rolls, Foundry Foreman, 469
Colliery Explosions, J. Ashworth, 230 Continuous-service Trains, M. E., 440 Corrosibility of Cast and Wrought Iron Exhaust Pipes, The Relative, Exhaust, 187
Corrosion of the Western Australian Goldfields Water Supply Pipes, Aguas Corrien- tes, 547
Design of Cams, V. G. Barford, 71 ; R. F. McKay, 216
Double-cutting Planing Machines, J. Kershaw, 597
Education of Engineers—see Parent’s Point of View
Efficiency of Steam Turbines, M. G. S. Swallow, 187
Electric Railways, Engineer, 291
Electrical Ship Propulsion, W. P. Durtnall, 597
Ellipse, New Method of Drawing, D. A. Coates, 379
Endurance of Metals and Rust, An Old Rivet, 572—see also Mechanical Production of Rust
Expansion of Timber, J. E. W., 469
Foreign Representatives, Colonial Reader, 292
French Naval Disaster, Colonel, 340
Gas Engine Indicator Diagrams, E. J. Davis, 441 ; H. Lea, 469 ; W. J. Marshall, 413 ;
F. F. Oliver, 441, 497 ; W. J. F. Price, 440 ; H. Riall Sankey, 413 ; T. W. Sheppard, 469
German Locomotives for Japan, Hanno- versche Maschinenbau A.G., 164
Governmental Aeronautics, R. Baden-Powell, 230
Granite Spur Wheel, A. Dobree, 440
Institution of Electrical Engineers, R.
Orsettich, 497j
Locomotive Proportions, P. H. Parr, 469
Longitudinal Railway of Chile, Philip Ani- nat, 548
Marine Speed Reducing Gear, C. I. Davidson, Power Plant Company, Limited, 547
Maximum Bending Moment, Noel E. Britton, 291
Mechanical Production of Rust, J. N. Friend, 597 ; Hoffman Manufacturing Company, Limited, 597 ; J. Rhodin, 572, 647
Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, E. W. Young, 356
Motor Coaches on the Metropolitan Railway, British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, 597
Panama Canal Contracts, J. G. Leigh, 413
Parent’s Point of View, Another M. Inst. C.E., 11 ; Papa, 11 ; B.Sc., A.M. Inst. C.E., 58, 109 ; G. I. W., 72 ; Pater (M.I. Meeh. E.), 72 ; Papa, Junior, 72 ; S. U., 126 ; Indian Locomotive Engineer, 356
Photographs of the Flow of Liquids, 216
Plotting Curves to Logarithmic Scales, L. H. G. Dines, 356
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued)
Propellers for Flying Machines, A. R., 126 ;
H. B. W. Evans, 164 ; H. Chatley, 356, 379, 647
Railway Companies and Recognition,
G. B. D., 497P
Railways in the Sixteenth Century, R. B. P., 356
Recent Mallet Locomotives, Kappa, 413 Reinforced Concrete for Strong Rooms, William Sykes, 547
Resistance Moment of a Propeller, Screw, 379
St. Paul’s Bridge, O. B. J. T., 11, 72, 379
Steam on Common Roads, J. Robinson, 413 Steam Turbines, F. Samuelson, British Thomson-Houston Company, 379 ; H. Zoelly, 497
Stresses in Ships’ Derricks, Santerp, 58 Strikes and the Daily Press, E. D. Cecil, 356 Tecnomasio Italiano, Brown Boveri, 11
To America in Three Days, Barna, 216 Trailer Tramcars, W. W. Beaumont, 469 Train Resistance, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 11, 72 ; P. H. Parr, 72 ; H. E. Wimperis, 11
Training of Engineers—see Parent’s Point of View
Trouble with Grease Cups, V. Ryan, 164
Turbo Blowing Plant at Middlesbrough, Fraser and Chalmers, 126
Two-cycle Marine Diesel Engine, F. H. Tanner, 671
Wanted, Better Castings, W. J. May, 306 ; J. T. Towlson, 291 ?
LEWIS, W. Y., on Continuous Service in Passenger Transportation, 277, 407
Liddell, A. R., on Approximate Stability, 604 Lincoln Water Supply, 348
LITERATURE
Reviews:
Addresses to Engineering Students, 436 Brassey’s Naval Annual for 1911, 105 Building Construction, Beresford Pite and Others ,.617
Civil Engineering Practice, A Manual of, V. Noel Taylor, 261; 667
Copper Smelting, The Practice of, E. D. Peters, 617
Einfuhrung in die Berechnung und Kon- struktion von Dampflokomotiven, W. Bauer and X. Stiirzer, 157, 535
Electric Crane Construction, C. W. Hill, 667
Electric Propulsion of Ships, H. M. Hobart, 519
Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony, The Principles of, Professor J. A. Fleming, 668
Engines and Boilers, W. Mcquade, 23, 535
Gas Engines, W. J. Marshall and Capt. H. Riall Sankey,, 335 ; (Letters), 413, 440, 441, 469
Hommes et Choses du P.L.M., 1911, 131
Mining, Modern Practice in, R. A. S. Red- mayne, 131. 520
Oil Fields of New Zealand, J. D. Henry, 409, 668
Physical and Chemical Constants, &c., Tables of, G. W. C. Kaye and T. H. Laby, 668
Power, C. E. Lucke, 261, 535
Principles of Metallurgy, C. H. Fulton, 644 Punjab Rivers and Works, E. S. Bellasis, 261 ; (Correction), 282
Railway Shop Kinks, Roy V. Wright, 235 Screw Propeller Design, Captain C. W. Dyson, 409
Shipyard Practice as Applied to Warship Construction, N. J. McDermaid, 261, 361
Structural Engineering, J. Husband and N. Harby, 409, 667
Syndicalism and Labour, Sir A. Clay, 260 Transformers. A Treatise on the Theory, Construction, &c., H. Bohle and D. Robertson, 493
Water Purification, Modern Methods of, J. Don and J. Chisholm, 493
Short Notices:
Aerial or Wire Ropeways, A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 493
Bridge Engineering, History of, H G. Tyrrell, 261, 437
Card System Series, Vol. II., J. Kaiser, 335 Chemistry, Contemporary, E. E. Fournier d’Albe, 131, 261
Chemistry of the Coal-tar Dyes, Irving W. Fay, 409
Columns, The Calculation of, T. Nielsen, 668 Contracts in Engineering, J. I. Tucker, 520 Design of Channels for Irrigation or Drainage, R. B. Buckley, 535
Distribution by Steel, H. Woodall and B. R. Parkinson, 535
Engineering, The Law Relating to, L. W. J. Costello, 493
Fire Brigade, Handbook, J. C. Merry- * weather, 618
Gas, The Calorific Power of, J. H. Coate, 668 Gas Engine, Handbook on the, H. Haeder, 437, 668
Gasworks Directory and Statistics, 1911— 1912, 644
Graphic Statics, The Elements of, W. L. Cathcart and J. I. Chaffer, 520
Hiitte des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, Vols. I. and II., 437, 617
Hiitte des Bauingenieurs, 437, 617 Hydraulics, A Treatise on, H. J. Hughes and
A. T. Safford, 437
Marine Engineering Estimates and Costs,
C. R. Bruce, 409, 535
Mechanical World Pocket Diary and Yearbook for 1912, 535
Oil Fuel: Its Supply, Composition, and Application, Sydney H. North, 157, 409
Pumping Machinery, A. M. Greene, 131, 618 Pyrometry, C. R. Darling, 460, 644 Quarternions as the Result of Algebraic Operations, A. L. Baker, 131
Railway Operating Statistics, C. P. Mossop, 617
Reinforced Concrete, Beams and Columns, W. N. Twelvetrees, 131, 644
Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns. H. C. Adams, 437, 617
Telephones on the Continent of Europe, Public Ownership of, A. N. Holcombe, 520 “ Verbal ” Notes and Sketches for Marine Engineers, J. W. Sothern, 617
Books Received (ronzjn««i):
Mischen, Riihren, Kneten und die dazu Verwendeten Maschinen, Dr. Ing. Hermann Fischer, 23
Model Steam Engines, Rev. J. Shores; 668 Municipal Franchises, D. F. Wilcox, 618 National Health Insurance, E. J. Schuster, 131
Navy League Annual, 1911, 596
Neue Theorie und Berechnung der Kreisel- rader, Dr. Hans Lorenz, 409
Neuere Kraftanlagen, E. Josse, 23 Nitrocellulose Industry, E. C. Worden, 106 Patents, All About, C. W. Crossley, 131 Patents, Trade Marks and Designs, Guide to, 437
Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission Report, 23
Peru of the Twentieth Century, Percy F. Martin, 596
Physics, A Text-book of, Heat, J. S. Poynting and Sir J. J. Thomson, 618
Plan of Seattle, 618
Post-office, The, and its Story, E. Bennett, 437
Post-office London Directory, 1912, 668
Power-house Design, J. F. C. Snell, 618 Power Plant Testing, J. A. Moyer, 409 Practical Mathematics and Geometry, Part III., Advanced Course, E. L. Bates and F. Charlesworth, 437
Practical Thermodynamics, F. E. Cardullo, 437
Producer Gas, Essential Factors in the Formation of, J. K. Clement, L. H. Adams and C.N. Haskins, 187
Railway Accounts and Finance, J. A. Fisher, 261 ’
Railway Conquest of the World, F. A. Talbot, A. H. Burgoyne, 596
Railway Library, 1910, Slason Thompson, 618
Railways and Nationalisation, E. A. Pratt, 437
Railway Operating Statistics, C. P. Mossop, 131
Realitaten, Abstraktionen, Fingerungen und Fiktionen in der Theoretischen Mechanik, O. E. Westin, 618
Recherche Pratique et Exploitation des Mines d’Or, 157
Refrigeration, Cold Storage and Ice-making, A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 668
Reinforced Concrete Construction, H. Adams and E. R. Matthews, 618
Reinforced Concrete Design Simplified, J.. C. Gammon, 437
Salvador of the Twentieth Century, Percy F. Martin, 493
Second Irish Road Congress, Record of Proceedings, 493
Smoke Prevention and Fuel Economy, W. H. "Booth and J. B. C. Kershaw, 409
South Wales Coal and Iron Companies, Sixth Year, 157
Stability in Aviation, G. H. Brian, 618
Steam Turbine, Sir Charles A. Parsons, 40.9
Steam Turbine Design, John Morrow, 596 Technical Dictionary in Six Languages,
Vol. XI., Metallurgy of Iron, 23
Ten Republics, The, R. B. Porter, 187
Testing of Engines, Boilers and Auxiliary Machinery, W. W. F. Pullen, 261
Testing of Motive Power Engines, R. Royds, 409
Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of Development, T. Muir, 437
Theory of Structures, C. M. Spofford, 618 Transactions of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, 618
Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, 1911, R. W. Dana, 618
Transport Facilities, South Wales and Monmouthshire, C. S. Howells, 23
Universal Directory of Railway Officials, 1911, 187
University of Bristol Calendar, 1911 and 1912, 460
University College, London, Calendar, 460 Valves and Valve Gearing, C. Hurst, 493 Ventilation ? of Electrical Machinery, H. F.
Murdoch, 157
Versuche mit Eisenbetonbalken, &c., Professor C. Bach, 131
Vorpriifung , neuer milchwirthschaftlicher Gerate, B. Martiny, 437
White’s Engineering Pocket-book, P. T. White, 437
Whittaker’s Arithmetic of Electrical Engineering, 157
Who’s Who, 1912, 668
William Ford Stanley, Richard Inwards, 23
Workshop Arithmetic, Elementary, H. A. Darling, 596
Year-book of the Michigan College of Mmes, 1910, 1911, 261
LLOYD’S Register—see Ships
Local Option and the Eight Hours Act, 17 Loch Leven Water Power Works, A. H. Roberts, 523
Lock, Springless, Chubb and Son, 415
Locomotive, Air, on the Lotschberg-Simplon Railway, 580
Locomotive," 2000-Volt Continuous-current, at Mosel Blast Furnaces (iSfatfeen-poye Supplement, November 2Mh, 1911)
Locomotive, Petrol, Ironside, Son and Dycker- hoff, 268
Locomotives, Electrical Mining, Surface and Underground (Sixieen-pojre Supplement, November 2Mh, 1911)
Locomotives, Road, at Smithfield Show, 592 Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives Loentsch Electricity Works; 66, 67
London Traffic Report, 597, 603, 615 Longridge’s, Mr., Report, 408
Looms and Shuttle Threading Devices at Manchester, 380
Louis, Professor H., on the Relation of Practical Training to College Study, 39
Lubricator for Shafts, Automatic, Geo. Richards, 622

MACHINE Design, Economy in, 492
MACHINE! TOOLS :
Cutting Tools, Dempster Smith, 471
Grinder Machine, Automatic, for Cylinders, Mayer and Schmidt, 63
Gun Straightening Machine for Italy, Fielding and Platt, Limited, 213
Hammers, Steam, Expansion Valve Gear for, B. and S. Massey,, 210
Hob in its Cutting Position, P. Ballard, 146
Lathe, 8|in. Centres All-gear High-speed, Britannia Engineering Company, 212
Lathe, 18in. Testing, and Dynamometer, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 498
Lathe, for Turning Large Turbine Drums, Hulse and Co., Limited, 240
?Machine Tools, French and German, at Turin, 63
Machine Tools at Olympia, Burton, Griffiths and Co., 390
North-Eastern Railway Boiler Shop at Darlington, Machine Tools in, 655, 664
Planing Machines, Double-cutting and Highspeed, J. H. Wicksteed, 533, 546, 643
Power Required to Cut Steel, P. V. Vernon, 182
Sawing Machine, 9in. Acme. C. W. Burton, Griffiths and Co., 81
Shears, Large Guillotine, Scriven and Co., 470
Table Planing Machine, J. Buckton and Co., 388
Vertical Spindle Surface Grinder, B. R. Rowland and Co., 188
MACHINERY Design, Weight Saving in, 541 Machinery Industry, German, 519
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marine Engineering of To-day and its Developments, E. Hall Brown, 441, 460
Marine Speed Reduction Gear as a Commercial Proposition, 518
"Marine Turbines—see Turbines
Martin, Percy F., on Arica—La Paz Railway, 452 Mavor, H. A., on Electrical Drives for Screw Propellers, 250
Measurement of Shaft Horse-power, 399 '
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory at Belfast, 558
Mechanical Filtration and Softening of Water, Rubery, Owen and Co., 495
Mechanical Production of Rust, 542—see also Metals, Endurance of ; (Letters), 572, 597 647
Metal, Pressing Sheet, Henry Lea, 588
Metal Statistics, The World's, 84
Metals, Endurance of, Experiments at University College, London, 422, 533, 542 ; (Letters), 572, 597, 647
Metallurgical Exhibits at Turin, 169
Metallurgical Industries of Italy, 469 Middlesbrough Bridge—see Bridges
Military Aviation, 643
Mill Engines, 464
Mills, Grain, E. R. and F. Turner, 594
MINES AND MINING NEWS:
Coal Mines—see Coal and Collieries
Electrical Gear for Mines, 387, 388
Gold, A Leakage of, 286, 642 Labour Questions—see Labour
Lead and Zinc Mining in the Lake District 4-16
Mining Explosives, 511
Wages and Hours Questions—see Labour
MONCRIEFF, J. M., on Workshop Training as a Preliminary to Practical Training in Various Branches of Engineering, 40
Monorail Hoist, Witton Kramer Tool and Hoist Company (Sixteen-page Supplement, November, 2Mh, 1911)
Motive Power, The Choice of, W. O. Horsnaill, 658
Motor Boat Engines—see Engines and Motors Motor Boats—see Ships
Motors, Electric—see Electrical Matters
MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR MATTERS:
Bevel, Chain, and Worm Gearing, 487, 488
Chassis, Engine, Axles, Brakes, and Details for 15 and 20 Horse-power Car, Crossley Motors, Limited, 465, 468
Commercial Motor Vehicle, The, Trials Commemoration Dinner, 460
Cylinder Grinder Machine, Mayer and Schmidt, 63
Daimler Engineering Scholarships, 187 Daimler Motor Car at Olympia, 487 «
Darracq Car, The New. 485
Development of the Motor Car Engine, L. A. Legros, 376
Electric Lighting for Motor Cars, 488 F.I.A.T. Company’s Exhibits at Turin, 143 Hydraulic Gear for Motor "Car, Hugo Lentz, 487
Itala Automobiles, Limited, Engine at Olympia Show, 486
Knight Sleeveless Valve Motor Car Engine, 487
Lanchester Six-cylinder Engine, Chassis, Carburetter, and Valve Gear, 486
Motor Cars at Olympia, Baguley, B.S.A., Daimler, Humber, Maudslay, and Wolseley, 487, 488
Motor Tractors in the Argentine, 443
Napier 15 H.P. Car with Improved Back Axle, S. F. Edge, Limited, 487
Petrol-electric Railway Motor Car, Leyland Motors, Limited, 132
Petrol Motor Lorries, Subsidising of, 330 Sheffield-Simplex Six-cylinder Engine and
Car, 485
Shows—see Exhibitions
Turin, French and German Cars and Chassis, 63, 64
Valve Drive for Spyker Engine; 487
MOUNTING Gun Turrets on H.M.S. Monarch, 135 (Two-page Supplement, August Mh, 1911)
Moving a Wall in Antwerp, 526

NATIONAL Insurance—see Insurance
Naval Architects and Architecture—see Ships Naval Matters
Navvy, 16-Ton Steam Crane, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 236
Nedden, F. zur, on Engineering Training—A German View, 10
Next Move, 592 •
Nikla Irrigation Super-passage, F. R. Jacoinb, 512, 516
Noble,'Sir Andrew, on Progress in Nava! Artillery, 79
North-Eastern Shops—see Railways
North, Sydney H., and G. M. Edwards on the Economic Position of the Oil Fuel Question, 655

OBITUARY:

- Arthur, Nicol S., 511
- Conacher, John, 429
- Congreve, Hubert, 380
- Crossley, Sir William J. (Portrait), 401
- Davey, Darnton Charles, 429
- Foden, Edwin. 256
- Hallett, Holt Samuel, 511
- Howson, Richard, 183
- Inglis, Sir James Charles (Portrait), 635
- Knight, Robert, 316
- Last, William Isaac, 152
- Martin, William C., 495
- Mothersole, Hartley, 227
- Riches, Tom Hurry (Portrait), 256
- Sadler, Sir Samuel, 366
O’BRIEN, E., on Electrification of Railways, 522
Observational Sciences, Characteristics' of,
Professor H. H. Turner, 333
Oerlikon Works—see Works Oil-electric Propulsion for Lake Steamers, 250 Oil Engines—see Engines, Internal Combustion, also Railways, Locomotives
Oil Fuel Question, Economic Position, S. H. North and G. M. Edwards, 655
Oil, Mineral and Resin, Method of Detecting, in Other Oils, A. E. Outerbridge, 164
Oil Testing Appliances at Norwich, 27 Olympia—see Exhibitions
Omnibuses, Petrol-electric, Tillings, Limited, 536 (see also JSlectric Transport Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Oram, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir H. J., on Fifty Years’ Changes in British Warship Machinery, 22, 54
Ordnance Survey, 330
Outerbridge, A. E., on Method of Detecting
Mineral Oil and Resin Oil in Other Oils, 164 Ozone Water Purifying Plant at St. Petersburg, 560, 564

PANAMA Canal, Congress and the, 666
Panama Canal, Forced Sale, 129
Panama Canal, Hydraulic Excavation, 298 I, Panama Scrap, 596 eg
Paraffin and Petrol Engines—see Engines
Parsons, Sir C., on the Marine Steam Turbine from 1894-1910, 22, 215
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH AND AMERICAN:
Aeronautics, 62, 371, 476, 504, 651, 675
Batteries and Accumulators, 372
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 32, 88, 628
Cranes and Conveyors, 191, 220, 447, 476, 627
Dynamos and Motors, 61, 62, 141, 142, 168, 191,219,245, 295, 319, 345, 393, 447, 475, 476, 503, 529, 577, 601, 628, 651, 675
Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 61, 87, 88, 115, 141, 167, 168, 192, 219, 271, 272, 319, 345, 371, 393, 420, 447, 448, 503, 552, 577, 578, 601, 627, 651, 675, 676
Engines, Steam, 61, 168, 192, 272, 295, 394,
529, 578, 602, 651, 675, 676
Gas Producers, 31, 62, 115, 320, 394, 530
Hydraulics, 168, 419, 475
Lighting and Heating, 32, 116, 141, 142, 246, 272, 371, 476, 628
Locomotives, 32, 61, 62, 220, 296, 393, 420, 504, 551, 652
•Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 141, 142, 192, 220, 246, 271, 295, 346, 372, 394, 420, 447, 476, 504, 530; 578, 602, 652, 675, 676
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 32, 115, 142, 167, 192, 246, 296, 393, 419, 530, 552, 577
Mines and Metals, 168, 272, 320, 372, 394, 602, 628, 675
Miscellaneous, 32, 62, 88, 116, 142, 167, 192, 220, 246, 272, 296, 346, 372, 394, 476, 504, 578, 628, 652, 675
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 32, 272, 346, 394, 420, 504
Ordnance and Armour, 88, 116, 142, 220, 295, 371, 394; 420, 551, 602, 628
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 62, 142, 168, 272, 296, 320, 371, 394, 448, .504, 530, 552, 628.
Ships and Boats, 32, 142, 246, 346, 372, 448,
530, 551, 578, 602, 652
Steam Generators, 32; 87, 88, 115, 116, 219, 220, 245, 246, 271, 295, 319, 345, 346, 372, 394, 419, 448, 475, 476, 504, 529, 530, 552, 578, 652, 676
Switch Gear, 191, 219, 320, 393, 601
Telegraphs and Telephones, 191, 419
Tramways and Railways, 31, 88, 116, 220, 245, 296, 475, 652, 675
Transformers, 320, 503, 529, 628, 651
Transmission of Power, 62, 220, 245, 271, 420, •176, 551, 676
Turbine Machinery, 31, 88. 115, 167, 191, 192, 219, 220, 296, 346, 371, 447, 476, 530; 577, 627, 651, 676
PATENTS, American, 566
Peace without Honour, 207 Peat, Power from. 585
Pelton Wheel, 6000 H.P., at Loentsch Electricity Works, 67
Personal and Business Announcements 30, 60, 86, 114, 140, 166, 190, 270, 294, 318, 344, 370, 392, 446, 474, 502, 528, 550, 576, 600, 627, 650, 674,
Petavel, Professor1 J. E., on Relation of Engineering Employers, and Colleges and Practical Training of College Students, 7
Petrol Locomotive, Ironside. Son and Dycker- hoff, 268
Plotting Curves and Charts to Logarithmic Scales, E. A. Vessey and J. A; Seager, 287 ; (Letter),’ 356
Plough, Four-furrow, J. and F. Howard, 27 Power, The Choice of Motive, W. O. Horsnaill, 658
Power from Peat, 585
Power Required to Cut Steel, P. V. Vernon, 182 Power Stations—see Electrical Matters
Practical, 32 H.P. Sun-power Plant, F. Shuman, 484, 490
Practical Training in Workshops or on Works of Construction, &c., Sir H. F. Donaldson, 6 ; and W. B. Worthington, 6
Prasil, Professor Dr. F., on Experiments with Francis Turbines and Tangential Turbines, 147
Press, Steam Hydraulic Forging, Haniel and Lueg, 214
Pressing Sheet Metal, Henry Lea, 588 Prevention of Hail Storms, 480, 491
Producer Gas, 622
Producer, Suction Gas, Davey, Paxman and Co., 594
Producers, Suction, for Bituminous Coal, Farnham’s Patents, Limited, 80 ; (Correction), 114
Progress of Naval Construction in Japan, Rear- Admiral Motoki Kondo, 21
Progress of Artillery and Warships—see Ships, Naval Matters
Propellers—see Aeronautics and Ships
PUMPS:
Compound Tandem Steam Pumping Engines for the War Department, A. Barclay, Sons, and Co., 669
Dredge Pumps at Panama, 299 Fire Pump, Centrifugal, Merryweather, 595 Pump Valve, G. H. Read, 410
Pumps at Norwich, 27
Simple Donkey Pump, Davie and Horne, 524 Triple-expansion Pumping Engines for Lincoln, Ashton, Frost and Co., 349

RACK Railways and Locomotives—see Railways
Rails, New Method of Testing, 0. Fremont, 478, 481
RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS:
General:
Bradshaw’s Railway Guide—see Bradshaw
Continuous Transport, Adkins-Lewis System, 277, 407, 645 ; (Letter), 440
Early Railway Unrest, 621
Electric Lighting of Railway Trains, The Brake Vehicle Method, R. T. Smith, 574
Electric Traction Systems and Rolling Stock, Historical Survey (Sixteen-page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Electrification of Main Lines, P. Dawson, 616, 623
Electrification of Railways, E. O’Brien, 522
Measuring the Resistance of Trains, 48; (Letters), 11, 72
Next Move, 592
Non-ferrous Metals in Railway Work, George Hughes, 303 y
Petrol Electric Railway Motor Car, Leland Motors, Limited, 132
Railway Bills for the Next Session, 570
Railway Debate, 543—see also Royal Commission
Railway Economics, 566
Railway Rates, 309
Railway Settlement, 615
Railway Wagons—see Wagons
Reinforced Concrete for Railway Engineering Works, J. D. W. Ball, 321, 421, 450
Royal Commission on Railway. Conciliation Boards, 238, 264, 290, 314, 337, 3.64, 428, 435, 543, 615
Silvertown Train Lighting Equipment, 544
Underground Goods Railways for London, 615 Wagon, Self-discharging Hopper Ballasting, 288
British, Colonial and Indian :
Anglo Irish Communications, 146
East Indian Railway Works, 415
'Electric Railways in London, 537
Great Central Railway, 514
Indian Railways, Resumed Prosperity of the, 422
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Boiler Shop at Darlington, 655, 664
Opening of the Brighton Railway, September 20th, 1841, 301
Railway Half-year, 186
Railways in the Sixteenth Century, 324 ; (Letter), 356
Silvertown Train Lighting Equipment, 544
Surburban Transportation Problems, 407
Summer Train Service, The, 33
Unity House, 491 ; (Letter), 497
Year’s Accidents, Report, 213
Foreign:
Arica-La-Paz Railway, Percy F. Martin, 452
Bellinzona-Mesocco Electrio Railway, 178
Berne Alpine Railway Electrification, Spicz- brigue, 177
Buenos Aires Western Railway, Self-discharging Hopper Ballasting Wagon, 288
Franco-Spanish Railway, 41'5
French and German Railway Exhibits at Turin, 63
French Railways, Revolutionary Methods on; 11
French State Railway Management, 103 International Franco-Spanish Noguera-Pal-laresa Railway, 415
Locarno-Ponte-Brolla-Bignasco Railway, 178
Lotscliberg-Simplon Railway and its Construction. 477, 531, 580, 633
Roman Railways, Proposed, 267

RAILWAYS
General:

Automatic Locomotive Cylinder By-pass, Siabloff Valve, 108
Baltic Locomotives, 286 ; (Letter), 306 Baltic Type Locomotives at Work, 669 Locomotive Proportions, Lawford H. Fry, 377 (Four-page Supplement, Tables, October 13th, 1911); (Letter), 469
Mallet Locomotives, Recent, 360 : (Letter), 413
Mallet Superheater Locomotives, 292
Oil-buring Locomotives on the Tehuantepec National Railroad, R. G. Aston, 661
Rack Railway Locomotives of the Swiss Mountain Railways, T. Weber and S. Abt, 95

British, Colonial and Indian:

Great Northern Railway of Ireland Super¬heater Locomotive, 411
Groat Western Express Work, Recent, 658 London and South-Western Express Engine,
71 (JZ’wo-pagre Supplement, July 21st, 1911) Midland Railway Six-coupled Superheater
Goods Engine, 660, 661
North-Eastern Three-cylinder Passenger Ex¬press Engine and ’fender, 455 (Two-page Supplement, November 3rd, 1911)

Foreign:

Air Locomotive on the Lotschberg-Simplon Railway, 580
Bavarian State Railways Goods Locomotive, 608
Cheminde Fer duNordBaltic!Locomotives,669 ©hemin de Fer du Nord Four-cylinder Baltic
Type Compound Express Engine, 241, 286
Chicago and North-Western Superheater Passenger Engine, 28
Delaware and Hudson Railway, Mallet Com¬pound Superheater Locomotive, 292
Italian Locomotives, Early and Late, at Turin, 169, 170 —4
Italian State Railways Four-cylinder Pacific Type Express Engine, 402
Mallet Locomotives on American Railways, 583, 590, 636
Oil-burning Locomotives on the Tehuantepec Railroad, R. G. Aston, 661
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Locomotive, 322, 323
Soudan Government Mixed Traffic Engine, 100
Swiss Mountain Rack Railway Locomotives, T. Weber and S. Abt, 95
'Turin, Locomotive Exhibits at, 322, 323, 402, 505, 608
Wiirtemberg State Railways Locomotive, 505
RAMSAY, Sir William, Address to the British Association, 233, 238
Rangoon, Port of. 532 Rateau, Professor, on The Rational Application
of the Turbine to the Propulsion of Warships, 22, 54 i
Recorder. Speed and Power, Denny-Edgecombe, 136
Recorders, Lea Recording Company, 330
Recording Instruments, “ Bristol,” , J. W. and C. J. Phillips, 388
Refrigerated Meat Steamer—see Ships Reinforced Concrete—see also Concrete Reinforced Concrete for Railway Engineering
Works, J. D. W. Ball, 321, 421, 450 Reinforced Concrete Retaining Wall at Bury, 620
Reinforced Concrete Telegraph Poles, British Improved Construction Company, Limited, 442
Relation of Engineering Employers and Colleges and Practical Training of College Students, Professor J. E. Petavel, 7 ; J. W. Horne, 7
Research, 565
Reservoir, Island Barn, 494
Resistance of Trains—see Railways Retaining Wall at Bury, Reinforced Concrete, 620
Revolutionary Methods on French Railways, 11 Rheinfelden Hydro-electric Power Station, 94, 95
Rifled Artillery, Sir G. Greenhill, 505
Rig, A Simple Indicator, 341
River Deviation, The Causes of, T. S. Ellis, 606 Road Board, Report, 429
Road Materials, Trials of, 52
Road Vehicles, Electrical (Sixteen-pa<;e Supple¬ment, November 24th, 1911)
Roads, Steam on Common, 383 Roller, Light Steam, Mann’s Patent Steam Cart
and Wagon Company, 26
Rolling Mills at South Giovanni Valdarno Works, 395 ([Two-page Supplement, Octo¬ber 20th, 1911)
Rolling Mills and Trains at Italian Works, 222, 232 (Four-page Supplement, September 1st, 1911)
Rolling of Ships—see Ships
Roman Railways—see Railways
Romberg, Professor, on The Oi Motor in Ger¬man Sea Fisheries, 567
Royal Agricultural Society—see Exhibitions Royal Commission on Coast Erosion, 25
Royal Commission on Railway Conciliation
Boards, 238, 264, 290, 314, 337, 364, 428, 435, 543
Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, 543
Russo, Colonel G., on Fifty Years’ Progress in Shipbuilding in Italy, 79
Rust, Mechanical Production of, 542 ; (Letters), 572, 597, 647—see also Metals, Endurance of

SABATHE Motor—see Engines and Motors Safe, Concrete—see Test
Safe Load and Deflection of Helical Springs, R. G. T. Thomas, 171
St. Petersburg, Water Purification Works, 560, 564
Salt Works at Weston Point, Cheshire, 424, 434 Salvage Dock—see Docks
Saw Bench, Motor-driven Circular, A. Ransome and Co., 188
Saws—see also Machine Tools
Schaffhausen Hydro-electric Power Station, 12
Schlick, Dr. O., on Our Present Knowledge of the Vibration Phenomena of Steamers, 55
Schubeler, F., on Modern Diesel Oil Engines, 119
Science of Observation, 333
Scientific Study of Naval Architecture—see Ships, Naval Matters
Severn Waterway, 204
Sewage Disposal, Royal Commission on, 543
Sewage Disposal Works, Brentwood,- 472-
Sewer, New Main Low-level, for the South Side of London, R. M. Gloyne, 443
Shaft Horse-power, Measurement of, 399
Shafts, Automatic Lubricator for, George Richards, 622

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING:
General:

America in Three Days, 181 ; (Letter), 216 Approximate Stability, A. R. Liddell, 604 Capstans, Large Electric, Vaughan and Son, Limited, 670
Cavitation, Some Further Notes on, S. W. Barnaby, 78, 208
Development of Merchant Shipbuilding in Japan, Dr. S. Terano and Mr. M. Yukawa, 55
Electrical Drives for Screw Propellers, H. A. Mavor, 2’50
Electrical Steering, B. 'P. Haigh, 251
Electrically Propelled Boats and Ships (Sixteen-page Supplement, November 24th, 1911); (Letters), 597
Fifty Years’ Developments in Mercantile Ship Construction, Dr. S. J. P. Tliearle, 56
Interference and Cavitation, 208
International Competition in Shipbuilding, 395'
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 430
. Marine Engineering of To-day and its Developments, E. Hall-Brown, 441, 460
Marine Speed-reduction Gear as a Commercial Proposition, 518
Maximum Dimensions of Ships, Sir W. H. White, 554, 570
Measurement of Shaft Horse-power, 399 Nine Months’ Clyde Shipbuilding, 375 Oil-electric Propulsion for Lake Steamers, 250
Oil Motor in the German Sea Fisheries, Professor Romberg, 567
Rolling of Ships, Professor J. B. Biles, 241 Salvage Dock, French Submarine, 454, 455 Scottish Shipbuilding, Half-year’s, 28 Shipbuilding in Austria, 341
Shipping'bn the Great Lakes, F. E. Kirby and A. P. Rankin, 57
Suction of Vessels, 637, 641
Tanks, Experimental—see Tanks
Turbo-electric Machinery for United States Colliers, 250
Vibration Phenomena of Steamers, Our Present Knowledge of, Dr. O. Schlick, 55

British Navy:

British and German Torpedo Craft, 247 Canadian Navy, 565
Monarch, H.M.S., Mounting Gun Turrets, 135 (Two-page Supplement, August 4th, 1911)
New Zealand, Launch of H.M. Cruiser-Battleship, 24
Olympic and H.M. Cruiser Hawke in Collision, 316
Orion, H.M. First-Class Battleship, 235, 268

Naval Matters:

Armour for Ships] 1860-1910, C. E. Ellis, 79
Armour Plate Exhibits at Turin, 169
Artillery, Rifled, Sir G. Greenhill, 505
.Fifty Years’ Architectural Expression of Tactical Ideas, Admiral Sir C. Bridge, 21
Fifty Years’ Changes in British Warship Machinery, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir
H. J. Oram, 22, 54
Fifty Years’ Progress in Shipbuilding in Italy, Colonel G. Russo, 79
German Naval Development Exhibits at Turin, 63
Gun Trials of Warships, 453
Jubilee of the Institution of Naval Architects, 18, 48, 54, 77
Naval Airship—see Aeronautics
Naval Architects, 592
NaVal Artillery, Notes oil Progress in, Sir Andrew Noble, 79
Naval Power in South America, 591
Practical Results with Counter Propellers, Dr. Wagner, 586
Progress of Naval Construction in Japan, Rear-Admiral Motoki Kondo, 21
Progress of Naval Engineering in Japan, Engineer Rear-Admiral Terugoro Fujii, 77
Progress of Warships and Machinery under Construction in England, 48
Rational Application of the Turbine to the Proptilsion of Warships, Professor Rateau, 22, 54
Scientific Study of. Naval Architecture in Germany, Professor Flaimn, 77
Steering Gear for Battleships of the Giulio Cesare Type, 170 (Two-page Supplement, August 13th, 1911)
Submarines, Form of, 104
Turbines—see Turbines
Turning of a Twin-screw Steamer in her Own Length, &c., Herr Direktor Walter, 586
United States Navy, Secretary’s Annual Report, 657
Warship Building, 1860 to 1910, Sir P Watts, 79

Foreign Navies:

Argentine Battleships Moreno and Riva- davia, 555
Argentine Battleship Rivadavia, 282, 555 British and German Torpedo Craft, 247 Chinese Cruiser Chao Ho, 432
French Battleship Liberte, Loss of, 333, 340, 436 ; (Letter), 340
French Battleship Mirabeau, Trials of, 107
French Battleship Vergniaud, Trials, 647
French Battleships Jean Bart and Courbet, 412
French Destroyer Bouclier, A.’Normand, 622 French' Submarine Salvage Boat, 454, 455 German Submarine U 8, 568, 569
Italian- Armoured Cruiser San Giorgio, Stranding of, 201
Italian Battleship Conte di Cavour, 152
Italian Warship Building, Exhibits at Turin 170
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels:
Austria, Shipbuilding in, 341
Cunard Steamship Laconia, 125, 612
Electric Arc, Machinery for, Mavor and Coul son, 304 (Sixteen-page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Frieda, Electric Steamship, 250
Italian Mail Boat Romagna, Diesel Engines for, Sulzer Brothers, 629, 630
Japanese Pacific. Liner Shinyo Maru, 536, 540.
London and North-Western Coaling Barge Herald, 322, 333
Medina, P. and O. Steamer, 326
Motor Yacht Felicitas, Yarrow and Co., 431
Olympic and H.M. Cruiser Hawke in Collision, 316, 637, 641
Orient Liner Orama, John Brown and Co., 27, 488
Riviera, Turbine Steamer, for South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Denny and Brothers, 520, 521
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway CrossChannel Turbine Steamers, Denny and Brothers, 520, 521
Sprague, Stern-wheeler, with Coal Boats, 89
Steam Launch, Simpson, Strickland and Co., 410
Transpacific Liners Tenyo, Maru and Chiyo Maru, Design and Performance of the, Professors Teran o and Baron C. Shiba,’ 57, 137
Twin-screw Refrigerated Meat Steamer El Zarate, 618, 619
Two New Liners, 400
Union Castle Liner Galway Castle, 400
United States Collier Neptune, Speed Reducing Gear of, Westinghouse Company, 508 ; (Letters), 547
Vulcanus, A Long Trip by, 188
White Star Liner Zealandic, 400
SHIPBUILDING Works at La Seyne, 193, 206
Shipyards, Howaldtswerke, at Kiel-Dietrichsdorf, 98
Shows—see Exhibitions
Siberian Trade, 543
Silvertown Train Lighting Equipment, 544 Smith, Dempster, on Cutting 'Pools, 471
Smith, Professor R. H., on the Battle of the Superheats, 632
Smith, Roger T., on Electric Lighting of Railway Trains, 574
Social Reforms and Industry, 155
South America,, Engineering News from, 83, 201 287, 386, 496 ; (Letter), 413
Speed Countershaft—see Countershaft
Speed Reduction Gear—see Marine
Springs, Helical, Safe Load and Deflection of, R. G. T. Thomas, 171
Springless Lock, Chubb and Son, 415
Stability, Approximate, A. R. Liddell, 604
Standardisation of Training—see Education Starting Induction Motors—see Electrical Matters
Staying Boilers—see Boilers
Steam Boilers—see Boilers
Steam on Common Roads, 383 ; (Letter), 413
Steam Engines—see Engines, Steam
Steam Fittings at Norwich, Holden and Brooke, 27
Steam Power Plant Accessories, Willcox and Co., 329
Steam Turbines—see Turbines
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Stepped Cone Diameters, R. J. Iliffe, 456 Stock Oil-fired Steel Converter, 46, 53
Stonebreaking Plant, Hadfield’s Steel Foundry Company. 27
Storage of River Water, 119
Straightening Machines—see Machine Tools Strikes—see Labour
Structural Engineers : Spelter and Sheets, 306 Submarines—see Ships
Subsidising of Petrol Motor Lorries, 330
Suburban Transport—see Railways, Continuous Transport
Suburban Transportation Problems, 407
Suction Dredger, South Australian, Werf Gusto, A. F. Smulders, 237
Suction Dredgers—see also Dredgers
Suction Producers—-see Producers
Suction of Vessels, 637, 641
Sugar Process, Cane, Nipe Bay Sugar Company, 214
Sun-power Plant, A Practical, F. Shuman, 484, 490
Superheater and Reheater for Mallet Locomotive, 637
Superheater, Tubeless, Simplex Superheater Company, 109
Superheating, A Question of. 542
Superheats, Battle of the, R. H. Smith, 632
Supplement, Four-page, Tables of Locomotive Proportions, October 13th, 1911
Supplement, Sixteen-page, Electric Transport, November 24th, 1911
Supplements, Illustrations only—see Separate Section of Index
Syphon for Nikla Irrigation, 512 516

TANK, Experimental, Tests in Models of Submarines, Result of, M. S. Chace, 22, 104, 110 Tank, Yarrow Experimental, at Bushey, 16, 24
Tees, Development of the, 336, 412
Telegraph Poles, Reinforced Concrete, British Improved Construction Company, Limited, 442
Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Limited, 538, 560
Telpherage (Sixteen-page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Temperature Influence on Carbon and Iron, E. Adamson, 385
Test of Reinforced Concrete with the Oxy-Acetylene Blow-pipe, 522 ; (Letter), 547
Testing Rails, A New Method, C. Fremont, 478, 481
Testing Steam Turbines and High-speed Generators, 136
Textile Department of Bradford Technical College, 468
Textile Machinery at Manchester, 380
Thearle, Dr. S. J. P., on Fifty Years’ Developments in Mercantile Ship Construction, 56
Theodolite, A New, J. Davis and Son, 108
Thermo-electric Temperature Indicator, C. R. Darling, 432
Thomas, R. G. T., on the Safe Load and Deflection of Helical Springs, 171
Thrashing Machine, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 594
Time Clause in a Contract, 247
Torsion Indicator, New Electric, Fr. Lux, 588 Torsion Meter, Denny-Edgecombe, 399 Tractor, Agricultural, Saunderson and Gifkins, 593
Tractor, Compound Steam, Marshall, 593 Tractor, Compound Steam Motor, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 593
Tractor, “ New Century ” Petrol, Ironside, Son and Dyckerhoff, 268
Tractors, Motor, in the Argentine, 443 .Tractors and Traction Engines at Smithfield, 592
Trade in Hungary, British, 603
Trade Returns—see Board of Trade Traffic Report, London, 597, 603, 615
Trailer Cars on the L.C.C. Tramways, 471 ; (Letter)' 469
Trains—see Railways
Training of Engineers—see also Engineering Training
Training, Relation of Practical, to College Study, Professors A. Barr and H. Louis, 39
Training, Workshop, as a Preliminary to Practical Training in Engineering, J. A. Brodie, J. M. Moncrieff, and Professor J. J. Welch, 40
Tramway Rails, Origin and Production of Corrugation on, W. Worby Beaumont, 250
Tramways, Electric, Various Systems (Sixteen- page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Tramways, L.C.C., Trailer Cars on the, 471 ; (Letter), 469
Transport—see Railways
Transporter Bridges—see Bridges
Transporters, Overhead (Sixteen-page Supplement, November 24th, 1911)
Tube Trade, 130
Tubeless Superheater, Simplex Superheater
Company, 109 Tunnel, A Great Subaqueous, 23 Tunnels—see also Railways Turbine, Casing and Rotor for the Shinyo Maru, 536
Curtis, for Japanese Battleships, 77 for Italian Battleship Dante Alighieri, 170
Propulsion Developments, 326
Rational Application of the, to the Propulsion of Warships, Professor Rateau, 22, 54
Reducing Gear, Marine, Westinghouse Company, 508 ; (Letters), 547 '
Turbine, The Gas, II. Holzwartli, 587
The Marine Steam, from 1894—1910, Sir C. Parsons, 22, 215
Turbines, at Beznau and Loentsch Electricity Works, 33
Francis, at Schaffhausen, 12
Francis, and Tangential (Pelton) Turbines, Professor Dr. F. Prasil, 147
Marine Steam', Allgemeine Elektrici- tats Gesellschaft, 202
Steam, Escher, Wyss and Co., 175, 176
Steam, and High-speed Generators, Testing, 136
Steam, H. Zoelly on, 148 ; (Letters), 187, 379, 497
Theodor Bell’s Water, at the Vigeland Aluminium Works, G. Wuthrich, 351, 358, 373, 382, 396, 406
and Turbo-generators for Dunston Power Station, 2, 42 (Two-page Supplement, July 1th, 1911)
Water, Theodor Bell, Grenz, Gunther, Hercules, Voith, 248, 280
Water, for Low Falls, 200, 248, 280 Turbo-electric Machinery for United States- Colliers, 250
Turbo-generator, Brush Electrical Engineering Company, 362
Turin—see Exhibitions and Railway Locomotives

UNITED States Navy Report—see Ships, Naval Matters
Unity House, 491 ; (Letter), 497
Unwin, Dr. W. C., on Education, 7
Unwin, Dr. W. C., Presidential Address, 499

VACUUM Gauge, Absolute Pressure, Schaffer and Budenberg, 522, 536
Vacuum Salt Plant, Triple Effect, at Weston Point, 424, 434
Value of a University Degree in Engineering Science in Relation to Professional Competence, Professor S. M. Dixon, 9 ; Professor C. F. Jenkin, 9
Valve Pump, G. H. Read, 410
Vernon, P. V., on Power Required to Cut Steel, 182
Vessels—see Ships
Vessey, E. A., and J. A. Seager on Plotting Curves and Charts to Logarithmic Scales, 287
Vibration of Ships—see Ships
Vigeland Works—see Works

WAGES—see Labour
Wagner, Dr., on Practical Results with Counter Propellers, 586
Wagon, Self-discharging Hopper Ballasting for Buenos Aires Western Railway, 288
Wall in Antwerp, Moving, 526
Wall, Retaining, Reinforced Concrete, at Bury, 620
Walter, Herr Direktor, on Turning of a Twin- Screw Steamer in her Own Length, &c., 586

WAR MATERIAL:

French and German War Material Exhibits at Turin, 63
Rifled Artillery, Sir G. Greenhill, 505 Warships—see Ships
WATER Conduit Pipes, Exhibit at Turin, 169
Water Heater, Unit Heater Company, Limited, 470
Water, Mechanical Filtration and Softening of, Rubery, Owen and Co., 495
Water Power Works, High-pressure, L. Zodcl, 121
Water Power Works, Loch Leven, 523
Water Softener, Andrews’, 495
Water Softening Appliances at Manchester, Lassen and Hjort, 380

WATER SUPPLY

Birkenhead, 367
Ebbw Vale, 386
Lincoln, 348
London, 130, 494
Metropolitan Water Board Reservoir at Island Barn, 494
St. Petersburg, Waiter Purification Works at, 560, 564
Storage of River Water, 119 ]
Western Australian Water Supply Pipe, Corrosion of, 444 ; (Letter), 547
WATER Tower at Ilva Works, 350 (»SuppZe»ient October 6/A, 1911)
Water Turbines—see Turbines
Waterway, Severn, 204
Weber, T., and S. Abt on Rack Railway Locomotives of the Swiss Mountain Railways, 95 Weighing Machinery at Smithfield Show, 595 Weight Saving in Machinery Design, 541 Welch, Professor J. J., on Workshop Training as a Preliminary to Practical Training in all Branches of Engineering, 40
White, Sir W. H., on Maximum Dimensions of Ships, 554, 570
Wicksteed, J. H., on Double-cutting and Highspeed Planing Machines, 533, 546, 643
Winding Machines for Textile Mills, 380
Wire-drawing Machine, Automatic, 395 (Two- page Supplement, October 20th, 1911)
Wireless Telegraphy, 484
Wohler Test—see Metals, Endurance of Wood-planing Machine, Combined Hand and
Power Feed, T. Robinson and Son, 27 Work, Cost of Carrying out, A. Fairlie Bruce,
457

WORKS:

Aeroplane Factory, British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, 224
Britannia Works, Banbury, Samuelson and Co., Limited, 252, 258
Brown, Boveri’s Works at Baden, 95, 122 (Two-po^e Nuppfemeni, August 4th, 1911); (Letter), 126
East Indian Railway Works, 415
Elba, Societa, 273 (Two-page Supplement, September 15th, 1911)
Electrical Works-1—see also Electrical Matters Electro-steel Works on Tyneside, 291 Escher, Wyss and Co., Zurich, 175, 176 Ferriere ed Acciaiere del Vesuvio, 396
Hadfield’s Works, Visit of Admiral Count Togo, 109
Magona d’Italia Iron and Steel Works, 275, 284
Oerlikon, Maschinenfabrik, 149, 154
Piombino Iron and Steel Works, 273 (Two- page Supplement, September 15th, 1911)
S. Giovanni Valdarno, 395 (Two-page Supplement, October 20'h, 1911)
Salt Works at Weston Point, Cheshire, 424, 434
Schweizerische Lokomotiv-und Maschinenfabrik, 123 (Two-page Supplement, August 4th, 1911)
Shipbuilding Works at La Seyne, 193, 206 .
Societa degli Alti Forni, &c., di Terni, 297, 312 (Two-po^e <Swpp(e»ien£, September 22nd 1911)
Societa Ligure Metallurgica, 222, 232
Societa Siderurgica di Savona, 222 (Fowr- page Supplement, September 1st, 1911)
Steel Works in Italy, 169, 209, 222, 232, 273, 284, 297, 312 (Four-pogie Supplement, September 1st, 1911), (Four-page Supplement, September 15th, 1911), (Two-page Supplement, September 22nd, 1911), (2'wo-pa</c Supplement, October 20th, 1911)
Sulzer Brothers’ Works at Winterthur and Ludwigshafen, 152
Vigeland Aluminium Works, South Noryvay, G. Wuthrich, 351, 358, 373, 382, 395, 406
WORKMEN’S Compensation-1—see Labour Workshops, Accidents in, 76
World’s Metal Statistics, 84
Worthington, W. B., on Practical Training in Workshops, &c., 6
Wuthrich, G., on Aluminium Works at Vigeland, South Norway, 351, 358, 373, 382, 396 406

ZODEL, L., on High-pressure Water Power Works, 121
Zoelly, H., on Steam Turbines, 148 ; (Letters), 187, 379
Zurich, Visit of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers—see Institutions

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