The Engineer 1912 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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ACCIDENTS:

See also Annual Article
American Railway, 182
Boiler Explosions Report, Board of Trade, 411
Canadian Northern Railway, near Saskatoon, 323
Charlestown Curve Derailment, 672
Colwich Accident, London and North- Western Railway, 23
Explosion of a Steam Jacketed Boiler, 251, 256
Monoplanes, Accidents to, 381
Naval Disasters and Accidents during 1911, 224
Platelayers, Accidents to, 178
Spree Tunnel, Accident to, 387
Titanic, The Loss of the, 407, 409, 435, 441, 466, 519 ; (Letters), 441, 470, 499, 551, 579, 659
AERIAL Ropeway for Bolivia, Ropeways, Limited, 226, 235
Aerial Ropeway for a Shropshire Quarry, J. M. Henderson and Co., 89, 96

AERONAUTICS:

See also Annual Article
Accidents to Monoplanes, 381 Aerial Flight, H. R. A. Mallock, 444, 472
Aeroplane in War, 173
Aeroplanes in Paris, 9
Aviation Memorandum, 402, 408 Naval and Military Aviation, 402, 408 Stresses in Aeroplane Stays, Captain Largier, 386
AGRICULTURAL Machinery in Russia, 414 Ah Compressors—see Compressor
Air Pump, Westinghouse-Leblanc, 161
Alloys, Certain, when Heated in Vacuo, The Behaviour of, Professor T. Turner, 88
Alloys, Copper-Zinc, Experiments on the Inversion at 470 deg. Cent., Professor H. C, H. Carpenter, 87
Alloys Research Committee’s- Report, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr. S. L. Archbutt, 426, 493, 494
Alloys, Study of the Properties of, at High
? Temperatures, G. D. Bengough, 88
Alloys—see also Copper and Institute of Metals Amendment of the Light Railways Act, 356
Analysis of the Claims of the Marine Internal Combustion Engine, 274, 279
Andrews, Ewart S., on Stresses in Curved Beams, 405

ANNUAL ARTICLE:

ACCIDENTS OE 1911, 24
AERONAUTICS, 20
Aviator and War, 21
British War-office Competition, 22
Death Roll, 21
Dirigible Balloon, 21 Events of the Year—Abroad, 21 Events of the Year—Great Britain, 21 Hydro-aeroplane, 21
Improvement of Details, 21
BRIDGES, 20
CHEMISTRY IN 1911, 30
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1911
Batteries, 8
Electric Lamps, 8
Electrical Machinery, 7 Instruments, 8 Power Stations, 7
Railways and Tramways, 7 Road Vehicles, 7
Ships, 8
Telegraphs and Telephones, 8
ENGINEERING CASES IN 1911, 11
GAS SUPPLY IN 1911, 30
By-products, 31
Gas for Power Purposes, 31 Metropolis, The, 30
Public Lighting, 31 ; (Letter), 94 Quality of Gas Supplies, 31
Works Plant, 30
HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1911, 2 Africa, 29
America, 29
Barrow-in-Furness, 3
Belfast, 29
Blyth, 3 Clyde, The, 29
Continent, The, 29
Fraserburgh, 29 Hartlepool, 3 Humber, The, 3
Leith, 3 London, Port of, 2
Mersey, The, 2 Methil, 29
Peterhead, 29
Ribble Navigation, 3
Rosyth, 29
Southampton, 2 Sunderland, 3 Tees, The, 3 Tyne, The, 3
LABOUR
Coal Trade Disputes, 16
Irish Railway Strike, 16 Railway Strike, 16
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES
Caledonian, 17
Foreign Locomotives, 18
Glasgow and South-Western, 17 Great Central, 17
Great Eastern, 17
Great Northern, 17
Great Western, 17
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES (continued): .
London and Brighton, 17
London and North-Western, 16
London and South-Western, 17 Midland, 17
MARINE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES Auxiliary Engines, 18
Deck Auxiliaries, Governing, &c., 19 Long. Voyages, 18
Progress, The Line of, 18 Reversing and Transmitting, 18 Suction Gas Engines, 18 Work in Hand, 18
MOTOR CARS IN 1911, 35
RAILWAYS IN 1911, 19
Africa, 20
Asia, 20
Central and South America, 20 Europe, The Continent of, 20 Greater Britain and the Protectorates, 19 United Kingdom, 19
SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1911, 3
Berlin’s Sewage Farm, 4 Edmonton Sewage Farm, 4 ’ General, 3
Glasgow Sewage Disposal, 4 Leeds New Disposal Works, 4 London Main Drainage, North Side, 3 London Main Drainage, South Side, 3 Lower Thames and Wey Valley Sewerage Scheme, 4
Petrol Vapour in Sewers, 4
Power from Sewage Gas, 4
Royal Commission, 4 Sewage Purification by Carbon, 4 Sludge Treating Process, 4 Surbiton Disposal Works, 5
WAR MATERIAL IN 1911, THE PROGRESS OF, 31
Aircraft, 31
Balloon Guns, 31
Field Artillery Ammunition, 31
Field Guns, 31 Fortifications, 31 Horse Artillery, 31 Howitzers, 31
Mechanical Transport, 32 Mountain Guns,- 31 Searchlights, 32 Small Arms, 31
Telegraphy and Telephony, 32
WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION IN 1911, 35 ; (Correction), 158
WATER SUPPLY IN 1911, 33
Birkenhead, New Waterworks for, 34 Chew Reservoir and Works, 34 Derwent Valley Undertaking, 35 Drought, The, 33
Glasgow’s Additional Water Supply Works, 34
Hard Drinking Water, 34 ; (Letter), 94— see also Permutit
Metropolitan Water Board, The, 34 Paris Water Supply, 35
Permutit Water Softening Process, 34; (Letters), 94, 129, 143, 178, 207, 224, 248, 284, 333
Thames, Abstraction of Water from the, 34 Thirlmere Pipe Line, The Third, 35 Water Purification by Ozone at St. Petersburg, 34
Works Completed and in Progress, 34 ANTWERP, Trade of the Port of, 414, 481 Approximate Stability, A. R. Liddell, 189 ; (Letters), 224, 249
Arbitration Clause, 178
Argentine Train Ferry Steamers, A. and J. Inglis, Limited, 686
Armour Plate Ripping Machine, Noble and Lund, 500
Ashford Works of the South-Eastern Railway, 146

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETIES.

Association, The British Engineers’:
Organisation, 516
Association of Engineers, Manchester:
Electrical Furnaces, Cecil Myers, 120 Presidential Address, Michael Longridge, 64 Prime Costing and Estimating, G. J. Wells, 273
Association, incorporated Municipal Electrical:
Annual Convention, Programme, 552, 649, 671
Annual General Meeting and Elections, 672
Electric Cooking, F. M. Long, H. H. Holmes, 650
Limitation of Rate Relief from Trading Profits, S. L. Pearce, 671
Organisation in Electrical Undertakings, 671 |
Presidential Address, G. Wilkinson, 649 Pressure Regulation, Thrill and Taylor-Scotson Regulators, 671
Reliability and Continuity of Supply, F. Ayton 649
Association, International Railway Fuel:
Fuel as a Factor in Locomotive Capacity, W. F. M. Goss, 571, 577
Association, International Testing:
Meeting, 471
Institute of Chemistry
Annual Meeting, 246
Institution of Municipal Engineers
Public Tenders, 272
Institution of Naval Architects:
Arrangement of Boat Installations on Modern Ships, A. Welin, 373
Description of a Tide Indicator, Commander J. J. Baugh, 373
Description of the William Froude National Tank, Part III., G. S. Baker, 321
Effect of Bilge Keels on the Rolling of Lightships, George Idle and G. S. Baker, 348
Experiments on Water-tube Boilers with Special Reference to Superheating, Harold
E. Yarrow, 350, 363
Gas Power for Ship Propulsion, A. C. Holzapfel, 347
Geared Turbine Channel Steamers Normannia and Hantonia, Professor J. H. Biles, 371
Law of Comparison for Surface Friction and Eddy-making Resistance in Fluids, Dr T. E. Stanton, 321, 324
Load Extension Diagrams obtained Photographically with Optical Load Extension Indicator, Professor Dalby, 373
Measurement and Automatic Recording of Dead Reckoning, F. R. S. Bircham, 373
On Turning Circles, Professor W. Hovgaard 321
Performance on Service of the Channel Steamer Newhaven, Monsieur P. Sigaudy, 372
Presidential Address, Marquis of Bristol, 319 Solignac-Grille Boiler and its Application in French Channel Steamers, Monsieur G. Hart, 349
Some Military Principles which Bear on Warship Design, Admiral Sir R Custance 320
Spring Meeting, 283, 319, 346, 371
Trials of the Diesel-engined Sea-going Vessel Selandia, W. J. Knudsen, 346
Institution of Naval Architects, German:
Development of Submarine Boats and their Engines, J. Berling, 616
Development of the Torpedo, Capitan zur See S. Michelsen, 646
Diesel Motor Building at the Germaniawerft, Direktor C. Regenbogen, 646
Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, H. W. Schultz, 617
Summer Meetings, 616, 646
Institution, The Royal:
Electricity Supply: Past, Present and Future, A. C. Swinton, 437
Gyrostatic Compass, G. K. B. Elphinstone, 235
Society of Engineers:
Intermittency: Its Effect in Limiting
Electric Traction for City and Suburban Passenger Transport, Win. Yorath Lewis, 499
Railless Traction, H. C. Adams, 262
Society, Liverpool Engineering:*
Annual Dinner, 146
Brocklebank Dock Improvements on the Mersey Dock Estate, W. Hemming Jones, 146
Society, The Royal:
Conversazione, 496
AUSTRALIA, Prize Design for the Capita City, 657
Automatic Boring Machine——see Machine Tools Automobiles—see Motor Vehicles

BAHIA BLANCA—see Electrical Matters
Baker, G. S., on Description of the William Froude National Tank, Part III., 321, 349, 415
Baumann, K., on Recent Steam Turbine Practice, 76
Beams—see Curved Beams
Behn-Eschenburg, Dr. H., on Single-phase Locomotives, 575
Bell, Sir Hugh, on the Coal Trade—see Colliery Finance
Bengough, G. D., on Study of the Properties of Alloys at High Temperatures, 88
Berling, Marinebaurat J., on The Development of Submarine Boats and their Engines, 616 Bessemer Laboratory, Royal School of Mines, 118
Biles, Professor J. H., on Geared Turbine Channel Steamers Normannia and Hantonia, 371
Biles, Professor J. H., on The Loss of the Titanic, 409
Bilge Keels—see Ships
Bituminous Gas Plant at the Groenfontein Tin Mines, South Africa, 258
Block, Plummer, Self-oiling, John Jardine, 252 Board of Trade Boiler Explosions Report, 411

BOILERS:

Board of Trade Boiler Explosions Report, 411 Bury, Boiler Plant for Power Station, 152 Du Temple, Normand, Schulz and Yarrow Boilers, 232
Explosion of a Steam Jacketed Boiler, 251, 256
Great Eastern Railway Lomotive Boiler, 620, 621 (Two-page Supplement, June 14th, 1912)
Lancashire Boiler, 333
Overfilling of Heating Boilers, 256 Solignac-Grille Boiler in French Channel
Steamers, Monsieur G. Hart, 349
Boilers (continued):
Water-tube Boilers with Special Reference to Superheating Experiments, Harold E. Yarrow, 350, 355, 363 ; (Letters), 411, 441
Water-tube Boilers, Wider Adoption and Standardisation of, E. M. Speakman, 232, 260, 284
BOOKS of Reference, 128, 178, 208, 296, 361, 604
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools and Woodworking Machines
Boulter’s Lock, Reconstruction of, 587
Brick and Tile Press, Bradley and Craven, Limited, 78

BRIDGES:

See also Annual Article
Calcutta and Howrah Floating Bridge, 668, 669 (Two Two-page Supplements, June 28th, 1912)
Chile, Bridges on the Longitudinal Railway, 59, 70
Lift Bridges over the River Lee, Cork, 32, 42
Quebec Bridge, North Main Pier of, 369, 380
BRIGHT Side of the Marine Motor, 44
British and Foreign Shipbuilding, 436
British Trade in Bulgaria, 57
British Trade in Turkey, 110
Brimton, William, Letter of 1813, 164
Bulgaria, British Trade in, 57
Bundle-binding Machine, M. Glover and Co., 441
Bunkering Plant—see Colliers
Bury, Chamber Hall Power Station at, 152

CAISSONS used in Salvage of the San Giorgio, 424
Calculating Machine, The Schooling, 628 Calcutta Bridge—see Bridges
Calendars, Diaries, &c., for 1912, 26, 52, 184 Calorimetric Value of Fuel, J. G. A. Rhodia, 315 Canadian Dry Docks, 681
Canal, Kaiser Wilhelm, H. W. Schultz, 617 Canal, Panama, Construction, Last Stages of
the, 90, 137, 148; 163, 196 ; (Letter), 224 Canal, Panama, Use of Cement Gun, 62 Capping an Oil Gusher, 528
Carbon, Influence of, on Corrosion, C. Chappell, 537
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., Further Experiments on the Inversion at 470 deg. Cent, in Copper-zinc Alloys, 87
Carson Smoke-box Door and Fastener, Barclay, Curie and Co., Limited, 286
Casting Pipes without Cores, H. Molinder, 497;
(Correction), 527
Catalogues, 26, 83, 134, 158, 184, 2.12, 238, 265, 290, 390, 418, 446, 502, 580, 606, 636
Cement Gun, Gunite and their Uses, General
Cement Products Company, 61
Chappell, C., on Influence of Carbon on Corrosion, 537
Charges for London Water, 318
Chemical Injector, The “ Tiltometer,” George
Kent, Limited, 322 Chemistry—see Annual Article Chile, Railway—see Railways, also Bridges Circles, On Turning, Professor W. Hovgaard,
321
Clyde Shipbuilding—see Ships
Clyde Shipbuilding Yards, Changes and Extensions in, 578
Co-partnership Bill, 650

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

Coal Crisis, 202, 228
Coal, A Large Saving of, 165; (Letters), 249, 284, 300, 361
Coal Loading Appliance at Sunderland Docks, W. Simpson, 430, 434
Coal Strike, 256, 328, 356—see Coal Crisis, &c.
Coal Strike and the Trades Disputes Act, 355
Coal Trade Situation, 97, 280 ; (Letter), 142 —see Coal Crisis, Coal Strike, &c.
Colliers—see Ships
Colliery Finances, 155, 198 ; (Letter), 142 Electrical Coal Belts at Parkeston Quay, 390 Minimum Wage—see Labour
Negotiations in the Coal Trade, 149, 198 New Conditions in the Coal Trade, 382 State-aided Foreign Competition, 72 Stocks and Strikes, 408, 520 ; (Letter), 471 Wages and Profits in the Coal Trade, 137, 198 COMMERCIAL Type’ Marine Motor, Brazil, Straker and Co., 482
Compass, Gyrostatic, G. K. B. Elphinstone, 235 Compressing Plant, Air, Motor-driven, Ingersoll-Rand Compressor and Parsons Motor' Company, 234
Compressor, Ah', Motor-driven, 144 Compressor, Ah', Rateau, 421
Compressor, Twenty-stage Air, British Westinghouse Company, 578
Compressor, Two-stage Air, for Manchester,
W. H. Bailey and Co., Limited, 630 Compressors, Ah, Unloading Device for,
Robey and Co., 542
Compulsory Insurance, The Cost of, 563 Compulsory Working of Patents—see Patents Condensers for Metallic Filament Lamps, A. W.
Ashton, 295
Condensing Plant, Surface, Westinghouse-
Leblanc, 161
Contracts, 27, 55, 106, 134, 158, 184, 208, 238, 288, 312, 339, 366, 471, 530, 580, 608, 637, 664, 690
Converters—see Electrical Matters
Cooper, A., oh The Heavy Steel Industry, 485 Co-partnership, 572
Copper Alloys—see also Alloys
Copper and its Alloys in Early Times, Professor W. Gowland, 64, 65, 102
Copper Containing Arsenic or Antimony, Influence of Oxygen on, R. H. Greaves, 88 Cork Railways—see Railways
Corrosion Committee—see Institute of Metals Corrosion of Condenser Tubes by Contact with
Electro-negative Substances, Arnold Philip, 87
Corrosion of Nickel, Chromium and Nickel- Chromium Steel, J. N. Friend, J. L. Bentley, and W. West, 537
Cost of Compulsory Insurance, 563
Cost of Rock Excavation in Open Cutting, 423, 453
Crane, Electric, 15-Ton, at South Shields, J. Booth and Brothers, Limited, 568
Crane, R. T., on The Futility of Technical Schools, 98
Cranes and Hoists at Immingham Dock, 682
Cubillo, General L., on Manufacture and Treatment of Steel for Guns, 538, 564, 605, 630
Curnon Steam Meter, 462
Curved Beams, Stresses in, Ewart. S. Andrews, 404
Custance, Admiral Sir R., on Some Military Principles which Bear on Warship Design, 320
Cylinder Condensation, 71, 139; 149 ; (Letters), 142, 179, 207
Cylinder Liners, Hydraulic Press for, J. Shaw and Sons, 79
Cylinders, Superheated Steam, Water in, 378

DALBY, Professor, on Load Extension Diagrams obtained Photographically with Load Extension Indicator, 373
Dam, Emergency, for Miraflores Locks, 137, 148
Dam, Gatun, Panama Canal, Spillway Gate and Mechanism, 90
Davey, Norman, on The Gas Turbine, 241, 291, 344, 370, 421, 479, 493
Davis Gun-torpedo, 205
Davits-;—see Ships
Defective'Rails in America, 68
Demolition by Explosives at Port Talbot, 592 Depth of Water on Measured Miles, 85
Design of Warships—see Naval Matters
Diesel Boats—see Ships
Diesel Engines—see Engines
Diesel, Dr. Rudolph, on the Diesel Engine, 293, 307, 334, 388; (Letter), 411
Diesel Engine Formula, P. A. Holliday, 343 Dikker Step Valve, 249
Disasters and the Public, 466
Dock Extensions at Liverpool, 154, 170, 604 Dock, Floating, 32,000-Ton, Swan, Hunter and
Wigham Richardson, 552
Dock, The Immingham, 512, 534, 535, 596, 600, 615, 682
Dock, London, Proposed New, 167
Dock, New Graving at South Shields, 565, 570 Docks, Canadian Dry, 681
Docks for the Tees, New Dry, 542

DOCKYARD NOTES:

Adamant and Alecto, H.M.S. Submarine Tenders, 422
American Battleships War Service Trim, 77
Argentine Destroyer Flotilla, 422
Attack, H.M. Destroyer, with Superheaters, Full Speed Trials, 403
Battleships, Names of H.M. New, 155
Berwick, H.M. Armoured Cruiser, 77
Chilian Battleships Building at Elswick and Barrow, 120
Chilian Battleships Santiago and Valparaiso, 592
Coal Consumption and Speed Averages of British and German Ships, 77
Coaling Records of the Home Fleet, 182
Daisy, H.M. Surveying Ship, 182
Destroyers, Sale of Old, 403
Destroyers, Twenty Ocean-going, Names and Building Yards Chosen, 182, 259
Destroyers, Two New, with Yarrow Superheating, 592
Druid, H.M. Destroyer, Messrs. Denny, 259 Floating Dock, 32,000-Ton, 155
French Battleship to Replace the Liberte, 120
French Battleships Bretagne, Provence and Lorraine, 403
French Cruiser Descartes, 120
French Cruiser Dupuy de Lome Sold to Peru, 120
French Hydro-aeroplanes for the Navy, 120 French Navy Law, Numbers of all Classes, 403
French Submarine Nivose Launched, 40
French Submarines’ Altered Names, 403
French Submarines’ Expected Speed, 403
German Battleship Moltke, Horse-power and Speed, 77, 120, 155, 592
German Battleship Prinz Regent Luitpold, 120
German Cruisers of the “ Breslau ” Class, 592
German Cruisers, Small, Speeds of, 155
German Naval Heavy Guns, Three Types Building at Krupp’s, 77
German Programme, 120, 182
German Speed Trials, Change of Figures, 120, 155
Germany’s Four Largest Ships, Mean Speed, 77
Guns for Latest British Battleships, 592 Hospital Ship for the British Navy, 120 Isis, H.M. Cruiser, 182
Italian Dreadnoughts with Yarrow Boilers, 77
Italian Scout Mino Bixio, 120
Japanese Battle-cruisers Haruna and Kiri- shima, 120
Japanese Battleship Kawachi, 592
Japanese Cruiser Kongo, 77
Japanese Dry Dock, 182
Lion, H.M Battle-cruiser, Alterations, 259, 592
Lion, H.M. Battle-cruiser, Steam Trials, 40, 77
Masts or No Masts, 592
Melinite Shell from Brest Arsenal Sunk as “Unreliable,”. 40
Monarch, H.M. Battleship, Trials, 40 Naval Airship No. 2, 259
Neptune, H.M.S., Coaling Record, 403
Norway, Ambitious Naval Programme, 155
Orion, H.M.S., Drifts into H.M S. Liverpool, 40
Orion, H.M.S., Rolling and its Cause and Cure, 155, 182, 259, 403
Pactolus, H.M. Cruiser, as Submarine Depot Ship, 77
Portuguese Cruiser Dom Carlos Renamed Candido Reis, 422
Portuguese^Naval Project, 77
Primary Armament 'and Undei* Water Defence, 77
Princess Royal, H.M. Battle-cruiser 182
Dockyard Notes (continvcd):
Revenge, H.M. Battleship, Collides with H.M.S. Orion, 40
Scorpion, H.M. Destroyer, 77
Speed Record Obtained by Cylindrical Boiler, 77
Supplementary Tables of Warships, 77
Sutlej, H.M.S., New Guns, 182
Thunderer, H.M. Battleship, Programme of Trials, 177
Tripod Masts for Swedish Battleships, 592
United States Battleships to have only One Funnel, 422
United States Battleships Nevada and Oklahoma, 259
United States Destroyers Named, 40
United States Semi-submerged Boats, Construction Abandoned, 403
Water-tube Boilers for Warships in 1911, 155
Zeppelin Dirigibles for German Navy, 403
DOVER, New Marine Station at, 198
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools

EDUCATION and Economy, 667
Effect of Pressure on the Transmission of Heat, 227 ; (Letter, 249)

ELECTRICAL MATTERS

See also Annual Article
Bahia Blanca, Power Station at, 161, 172
Batteries on Alternating-current Systems, 168, 193, 218
Bury, Chamber Hall Power Station at, -152
Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company’s Motherwell Power-house, 643
Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company, Limited, Yoker Power. Station, 618
Coal Belts at . Parkeston Quay, 390
Condensers for Metallic Filament Lamps, A. W- Ashton, 295
Dynamos for Motor Road Vehicle Lighting, J. D. Morgan, 50
Electric Cooking, F. M. Long, H. H. Holmes, 650
Electric Vehicles, .298, 328
Electricity Supply: Past, Present, and Future, A. C. Swinton, 437
Entz Regulator, 168
Furnaces, Cecil Myers on, 120
Furnaces—see also Furnaces
Glasgow Electricity Supply Stations and Sub-stations, 642
Heat Paths in Electrical Machinery, H. D. Symons and Miles Walker, 114 ; (Letter), 179
High Tension Direct-current Transmission of Electricity, Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, 613
High Voltage Tests and Energy Losses in Insulating Materials, E. H. Rayner, 201, 209
Hobart, H. M., on Polyphase and Singlephase Systems, 271
Immingham Dock, Power-house and Electrical Equipment, 512, 534, 535, 596, 600, 615
Indiana Steel Works, Electrical Equipment, 218
Kramer, Lahmeyer, and Milch Systems of Speed Control, 76
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Connections, 168
Lifeboat Motors, Blake, Fay and Bowen, Thornycroft, Tylor, Wolseley, 221 (Two- page Supplement, March Is/., 1912)
Lifting Bridge Equipment, Cork, 32, 42
Locomotive Cab Signalling, Electrical, V. L. Raven, 330
Locomotive Controllers, 3000 Amperes, Oer- likon Company, 575, 592
Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Magnetism of Permanent Magnets, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 656
Manchester, Stuart-street Power Station, 250
Manchester University, Electro-technical Laboratories at, 230
Mercury Vapour Converter, Dr. P. C. Hewitt, 378
Middlesbrough, Electric Rolling Mills at, Dorman, Long and Co., 278, 282
Mining Rules, New Electric, 222
Motor and Connections for Siemens-Schuc- kert Locomotives for Dessau—Bitterfeld Railway, 438
Neasden Power-house Plant Additions, 154
Petrol-electric Coach Set for Railway Car, Westinghouse Company of France, 351, 354
Pinkston, Glasgow, Tramway Power Station and Equipment, 640, 652
Port Dundas Generating Station for Glasgow Electricity Supply, 642
Power in Self-contained Road Vehicles and Locomotives, P. C. Macfarlane and H. Burge, 298, 328
Prussian State Railways, Single-phase Locomotives for—see Railways
Railways and Railway Plant—see Railways
Rating of Electrical Machinery, 525
Reliability and Continuity of Supply, F. Ayton, 649
Single-phase t>. Continuous Current, 271
Single-phase Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Single-phase Motor with Pole-changing Windings, G. S. Nicholson and B. P. Haigh, 656
Speed Control of Large Induction Motors, N. Shuttleworth on, 76
Split-pole Converter, J. L. Woodbridge, 169, 193, 218
Three-phase Rochling—Rodenhauser Furnace, 120
Towing Locomotive, 197
Transformer, Diagram of Arrangements and Details of Lotschberg Electric Locomotive No. 121, 116, 122
Transmission of Electrical Energy by Direct Current on the Series System, J. S. Highfield, 627, 632,'661
Turbo-alternators, Two 3000-Kilowatt, C. A. Parsons and Co., 498
Voltage Regulation . of Rotary Converters, 243
Woolwich Footway Tunnel, Dynamos for Temporary Power Plant, 46
ELPHINSTONE, G. K. B , on the Gyrostatic Compass, 235
Emergency Dam—see Dam

ENGINES AND MOTORS:

Internal Combustion Engines:
Analysis of the Claims of the Marine Internal Combustion Engine, 274, 279
Bituminous Gas Engine in South Africa, 258
Detachable Boat Motor, Evinrude Motor Co., 209
Diesel Engine Formula, P. A. Holliday, 343
Diesel Motor Building at the Germaniawerft, Direktor C. Regenbogen, 646
Diesel, Dr. Rudolph, on the Diesel Engine and its Industrial Importance, 293, 307, 334, 388.;' (Letter.), 411
F.I.A.T. Diesel Motors, 560
Four-cylinder Marine Motor for Yacht Thoma. II., 460
Gas Engines and Producers for Woolwich Footway Tunnel, 46
Gas Engines and Producers for Holzapfel I. and IL, 176, 347
Krupp’s Diesel Motors, 646
Marine Engines—see also Annual Article
Marine Motor, The Bright Side of, 44
Marine Motor Pistons, 680
Marine Oil Engine, 38 H.P., Brazil, Straker and Co., 482
Marine Oil Engine, Thirty-day Non-stop Run, Barclay, Curie and Co., 99
Motor Engines for Marine Work, R. G. L. Markham, 474
Motor Ship Eveston, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., 552
Motor Twin-screw Ship Jutlandia, 525, 539; (Correction), 622
Oil Engine, 20 H.P., Westinghouse Brake Company, Limited, 576
Oil and Oil Engines in the Navy, 327
Selandia’s 1250 H.P. Eight-cylinder Fourcycle Diesel Engines, 200, 208, 247, 254, 269, 292, 346 (Two-page Supplement,
March 22nd, 1912)
Six-cylinder Marine Gas Engines, E. S. Hindley and Sons, 176
Two-cycle Diesel Marine Engine, 500 H.P., Franco Tosi, 399
Two-cycle Stationary Diesel Engine, 1000 H.P., Franco Tosi, 399
Steam Engines:
Steam Engines for Driving Reversing Rolling Mills, J. W. Hall, 538, 553
Three-cylinder Automatic Valve Beiliss Engine, 166
Trevithick High-pressure Engine, Reputed, 660
ENGINEERING Cases in 1911—see Annual Article
Engineering Laboratories at Liverpool University, 516, 533, 544
Engineering Progress Abroad, 443, 541, 685 ; (Letter). 94
Engineering Proposals in Parliament, 1912, 74; (Letter), 94
Engineering Standards Committee : Conference, 672
Engineering in United States in 1911, 141, 169 Engineering Works-—see .Works
Engineers and Contractors, Michael Longridge on, 64, 98
Engineers, The Titanic’s, 441
Entropy and Adiabatic Processes, Reversibility in Relation to, T. B. Morley, 457 ; (Letter), 499
Euston to Watford Widening, 611, 624, 639
Exammation, Mechanicals’—see Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Excavation, Rock, in Open Cuttings, The Cost of, 423, 453
Experiments on Fire-boxes, Tubes and Stays, Robert Weatherburn, 188, 217
Experiments with Riveted Connections, Professor Rudeloff, 252
FATIGUE of Metals, Professor B. Hopkinson, 113, 123 ; (Letter), 179
Feed-water at Sea, Heating, 466
Fender Cham Apparatus for Panama Canal, 163 ; (Letter), 224
Fender Chain Mechanism for Immingham Dock, 535
Fender Chain and Resistance Unit, Stopp-all Fender Chain and Resistance Unit Company, 252
Filter Bed Sand-washing Plant, W. Polglase, 180
Filters—see Water Supply
Fire-boxes, Locomotive—see Railways, General
Fire-boxes, The Staying of, R. Weatherburn, 507, 559
Fire Purposes, Water Supply for, 511
Firing Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Flash Lights for Railway Signals, 295
Floating Dock, 32,000-Ton, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 552
Foreign Trade and Commercial Espionage, 625 Forge, Portable, with Cylinder Blast, J. C. Bauer, 594
Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 52, 77, 103, 132, 156, 182, 210, 236, 262, 286, 310, 336, 365, 390, 416, 446, 474, 502, 528, 554, 580, 606, 634, 662, 688
Forty-Eight, 43
Fottinger, Dr., on The Turbine Pump, 348
French Ships—see Ships
Friction, Machine for Testing, Klein, Shanzline and Boecker, 376
Friction, Mediate, Theoretical and Experimental Study of, Professor N. Petroff, 244, 294, 351, 376
Friend, J. N., J. L. Bentley and W. West on Corrosion of Nickel, Chromium, and Nickel- Chromium Steel, 537
Friend, J. N., J. L. Bentley and W. West on Mechanism of Corrosion, 527, 537
Froude, William, National Tank, G. S. Baker on, 321, 349, 415
Fuel, Calorimetric Value of, J. G. A. Rhodi'n, 315
Fuel for Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Furnaces, Electric Steel, Improvements in, Dr. H. Nathusius, 487, 513
Futility of Technical Schools, R. T. Crane on, 98

GAS Engine Boat—see Ships
Gas Engines—.see Engines
Gas Light and Coke Company, 688
Gas Power for Ship Propulsion^ A. C. Holzapfel, 347
Gas Producers—see Producers
Gas Supply—see also Annual Article
Gas Turbine, Norman Davey, 241, 291, 344, 370, 421, 479, 493
Gasworks, Subterranean, 327
Gattie, A. W., on How to Cheapen Transport, 280 ; (Letter), 300
Geared Turbine Steamers—see Ships Geological Survey of Great Britain, 622 German Steel Syndicate, Renewal, 304, 494
Goss, W. F. M., on Fuel as a Factor in Locomotive Capacity, 571, 577
Gowland, Professor W., on Copper and its Alloys in Early Times, 64, 65, 102
Graphic Determination of Pressures on Retaining Walls, J. A. Main, 220
Great Britain, Geological Survey of, 622 Greek Market for Machinery, 187
Greenhill, Sir G., on Negative Angle Sighting, 100
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools Guns and Gunnery—see Ships, Naval Matters, also War Material
Gyrostatic Compass, G. K. B. Elphinstone, 235

HADFIELD, Sir R., on Sinhalese Iron and Steel of Ancient Origin, 514
Hall, J. W., on Steam Engines for Driving Reversing Rolling Mills, 538, 546, 553
Hand Testing Machine, Professors Dixon and Hummel, 361
Harbours and Waterways—see Annual Article Hart, Monsieur G., on the Solignac—Grille Boiler and its Application in French Channel Steamers, 349
Heat Drop in Steam Turbines, T B. Morley, 243
Heat, Effect of Pressure on the Transmission of, 227 ; (Letter), 249
Heat Paths—see Electrical Matters
Heating Feed Water at Sea, 466
Herbert, E. G., on Influence of Heat on Hardened Tool Steel, 564
High Voltage Tests—see Electrical Matters
Highfield, J. S., on Transmission of Electrical Energy by Direct Current on the Series System, 627, 632, 661
Hobart, H. M., on Polyphase and Single-phase Systems, 271
?Hoists and Cranes at Immingham Dock, 682
Holliday, P. A., on a New Diesel Engine Formula, 343
Holzapfel, A. C., on Gas Power for Ship Propulsion, 347
Hopkinson, Dr. Edward, and Mr. A E. L. Chorlton on Evolution and Development of the Turbine Pump, 92, 100, 130 ; (Correction), 117
Hopkinson, Professor B., on Fatigue of Metals, 113, 123; (Letters), 179
Houston, Dr. A. C., Report on Purification of Water Supplies, 458
Hovgaard, Professor W., on Turning Circles, 321
How to Cheapen Transport, A. W. Gattie, 280 ; (Letter), 300
Hydraulic Press for Cylinder Liners, J. Shaw and Sons, 79
Hydraulic Valve, Holmes and Davy, 234

ICEBERGS, 511
Idle, Geo., and G. S. Baker on the Effect of Bilge Keels on the Rolling of Lightships, 348
Immingham Dock, 512, 534, 535, 596, 600, 615, 682
Improvements to the Port of Antwerp, 481 Inchicore—see Works
Indicator, Optical Load Extension, Professor Dalby, 373
Injector, Chemical, The “ Tiltometer,” George Kent, Limited, 322
Inspection Cars—see Railways
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations, &c.
Insulating Materials—see Electrical Matters * Insurance, Compulsory, The Cost of, 563 ' Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines and Motors
International Patents—see Patents
International Tube Trade Syndicate, 598

IRON AND STEEL:

Australia, Iron and Steel Industry of, 245 Chemical and Mechanical Relations of Iron, Vanadium, and Carbon, Dr. Arnold and Professor A. A. Read, 514
Corrosion of Nickel, Chromium, and Nickel Chromium Steel, J. N. Friend, J. L. Bentley, and W. West, 537
Corrosion—see also Corrosion
Heavy Steel Industry, A. Cooper, 485
Improvements in Electric Steel Furnaces, Dr. H. Nathusius, 487, 513
Influence of Carbon on Corrosion, C. Chappell, 537
Influence of Heat on Hardened Tool Steel, E G. Herbert, 564
International Tube Trade Syndicate, 598
Iron and Steel Institute—see Associations, &c. Iron Trade, 441
Manufacture and Treatment of Steel for Guns, General L. ’Cubillo, 538, ’ 564, 605, 630
Mechanism of Corrosion, J. N. Friend, J. L. Bentley, and W. West, 527, 537
Notes on Bloom of Roman Iron, Sir Hugh Bell, 487, 514
Our Lost Supremacy in Steel Exports, 124
Renewal of the German Steel Syndicate, 304, 494
Sinhalese Iron and Steel of Ancient Origin, Sir R. Hadfield, 514
Iron and Steel (continued):
Solubility of Cementite in Hardemte, Dr. J. O. Arnold and Mr. L. Aitchison, 514
Steam Engines for Driving Reversing Rolling Mills, J. W. Hall, 538, 546, 553
Steel Trade Outlook, 572
Steel Trust, 255
Welding-up of Blowholes in Steel Ingots, J. E. Stead, 487, 514

JAMES Forrest Lecture—see Institution of Civil Engineers

KLEIN, Schanzline and Boecker Machine for Testing Friction, 376
Knudsen, W. I., on Results of Trials of the
Diesel-engined Sea-going Vessel Selandia 346

LABORATORIES, Engineering, at Liverpool University, 516, 533, 544
Laboratory Bessemer Royal School of Mines, 118

LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS:

See also Annual Article
Coal Strike and the Trades Disputes Act, 355
Coal Trade Situation, 97, 137, 149, 155, 198, 202, 228, 256, 280, 303, 328, 356 ; (Letter), 142
Colliery Finances, 155 ; (Letter), 142
Co-partnership, 572
Co-partnership Bill, 650
Forty-eight, 43
Lancashire Lock-out, 44
Minimum Wage Act, 521
Negotiations in the Coal Trade, 149
New Conditions in the Coal Trade, 382
Railway Servants’ Earnings and Hours, 206
Settlement of Trade Disputes, 597
Stocks and Strikes, 408 ; (Letter), 471
Strike and Some of its Lessons, 436
Strikes and the Living Wage, 255
Strikes and Lock-outs, 276
Taylorism Again, 382
Thames Shipbuilding, 24
The Bill and the Strike, 303
Wages and Profits in the Coal Trade, 137
LAMPS, Metallic Filament, Condensers for, A. W. Ashton, 295
Large Saving of Coal—see Coal
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips, 82, 135, 182, 208, 239, 286, 389, 449, 505, 583, 608, 662, 691
Launches of Warships—see Ships

LEADERS:

Accidents to Monoplanes, 381
Aeroplane in War, 173
Aviation Memorandum, 408
Belgium, The Light Railways of, 545
Bright Side of the Marine Motor, 44
British and Foreign Shipbuilding, 436
Capacity of Locomotive Fire-boxes, 653
Coal Strike and the Trades Disputes Act, 355
Coal Trade, New Conditions in, 383
Coal Trade Situation, 97, 149, 202, 228, 256, 280, 303, 328, 356
Co-partnership, 572
Cylinder Condensation, 71
Disasters and the Public, 466
Effect of Pressure on the Transmission of Heat, 227
Electric Vehicles, 328
Engineers and Contractors, 98
English and Prussian Railways, 173
Experimental Tanks, Large and Small, 465
Fatigue of Metals and Workshop Testing, 123 Firing Locomotives, 571
Foreign Trade and Commercial Espionage, 625
Forty-eight, 43
Futility of Technical Schools, 98
Gas Turbine, 493
German Steel Syndicate, The Renewal, 304, 494
Heating Feed Water at Sea, 466
How to Cheapen Transport, 280
Indian Railway Rolling Stock Problem, 625 International Tube Trade Syndicate, 598 Lancashire Lock-out, 44
Light Railways Act, Amendment of, 356 Marine Motor Pistons, 680
Mechanical Production of Rust, 72 Mechanicals’ Examination, 150, 201.
Missing Quantity and Leakages, 149
Models, 123
Nationalisation Again, 545
Navy Estimates, 281
Oil and Oil Engines in the Navy, 327
Oil or Steam, 279
Our Lost Supremacy in Steel Exports, 123
Overfilling of Heating Boilers, 256
Panama Canal Dues and the United States Merchant Marine, 174
Pressure Tests, 201
Railways Bill, 381
Rolling Mill Engines, 546
Safety of Large Steamships, 435
Specific Tenacity, 493
Standardisation of Automobile Parts, 654
State-aided Foreign Competition, 72
Steel Trade Outlook, 572
Steel Trust, 255
Stocks and Strikes, 408, 520
Strikes and the Living Wage, 255
Subterranean Gasworks, 327
Superheat and the Marine Engineer, 355
Swing of the Pendulum, 679
Synthetic Rubber, 654
Taylorism Again, 382
The Bill and the Strike, 303
The Mechanicals’ Examinations, 150
The Strike and Some of its Lessons, 436
Titanic, The Loss of the, 407, 519
Trade in 1911, 5
Trade Disputes, The Settlement of, 597
Trade Societies and Apprentices, 626
Train Control in America, 227
Tramways and Road Obstruction, 43, 520
Turbine Variations and Screw Propeller, 597
Unconsidered Aspects of Ventilation, 304
Yield Point and Elastic Limit, 72
LEAKAGE of Steam Past Piston Valves, H.
Denzil Lobley, 139, 149 ; (Letters), 142, 179, 207
Letter of 1813 William Brunton’s, 164

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS:

America, 27, 55, 82, 134, 185, 212, 238, 264, 288, 312, 338, 392, 448, 477, 556, 582, 609, 637, 665, 690
Australia, 238
England, North of, 25, 53, 81, 105, 133, 157, 183, 211, 237, 263, 287, 311, 337, 366, 391, 417, 447, 476, 529, 555, 581, 607, 635, 663, 689
Germany, France, Belgium, &c., 27, 55, 82, 107, 134, 159, 185, 213, 239, 264, 289, 313, 339, 367, 393, 419, 449, 477, 531, 557, 583, 609, 637, 665, 691
Iron, Coal and General Trades of Birmingham Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 25, 52, 80, 104, 132, 156, 183, 210, 236, 262, 287, 310, 337, 365, 391, 416, 446, 475, 529, 555, 581, 607, 634, 663, 689
Lancashire, 25, 52, 80, 104, 132, 156, 183, 210, 236, 262, 287, 310, 337, 365, 391, 417, 447, 475, 529, 555, 581, 607, 635, 663, 689
Scotland, 26, 53, 82, 106, 133,' 157, 184, 211, 237, 263, 288, 312, 338, 366, 392, 418, 448, 476, 530, 556, 582, 608, 636, 664, 690
Sheffield,. 25, 53, 81, 105, 133, 156, 183, 211, 237, 263, 287, 311, 337, 365, 391, 417, 447, 475, 529, 555, 581, 607, 635, 663, 689
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 26, 54, 82, 106, 133, 158, 184, 213, 238, 264, 288, 312, 338, 366, 392, 418, 448, 476, 530, 556, 582, 608, 636, 664, 690

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Adhesion of Flat Surfaces, H. M. Budgett, 49
Association of Consulting Engineers, J. S. Alford and others, 49 ; A. E. Beck, 80 ;
G. J. Wells, 142 ; A. J. Wallis—Tayler, 143
British Metrical Relation, Immo S. Allen, 224 Broad Beam Vessels and Heavy Rolling, P. B., 411
Centrifugal Pumps, F. H. S., 179, 207 ;
E. Hopkinson and A. E. Chorlton, 179
“ Civils ” Examination, A. K. Schmidt, 249 ; W. E. Gurry, 284 ; G. T. Pardoe, 284
Coal Storage, E. A. Harman, 333 ; Storage, 499
Coal Trade Situation, Hugh Bell, 142 Condenser Discharge, Common Sense, 441 Crude Oil Engine, A New, E. P. Plenty, 94 ;
J. Pollock, Sons, and Co., 49
Cupola Spark Arrester, Petters Limited, 622 Effect of Pressure on the Transmission of
Heat, A. H. Twells, 249
Engineering Education, H. A. B. Gray, 143 ; Vernon Smith, 94 ; W. H. Wheeler, 79, 129
English and Prussian Railways, J. H. Brasher, 207
Entropy, The Definition of, N. Davey, 499 Fatigue of Metals, R. B. P., 179
Fender Chains on the Panama Canal, Civil Engineer, 224
Firing Locomotives, W. S. Busby, 129
Fourth Recalescence in Steel, J. O. Arnold, 129
Graphical Construction for a Parabola of the nth Order, James Edwards, 676
Hair Cracks in Tail Rods, An Engineer, 622
Handling Engines at Termini, H. Bollinckx, 49
Hard versus Soft Water, Aqua Pura, 94
Institution and Engineering Appointments, Justice, 551 ; A Non-member, 579
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, F. Schubeler, 129 ; D. Adamson, 224
International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, O. Imray, 300 ,
Large Saving of Coal, M. C. Dunsmore, 249 ; W. F. Thain, 284 ; R. W. Weekes, 284 ; R. Wood, 284 ; Hal Williams, 300 ; A. E., 361
Large Sugar Mill, X. Y. Z., 333
Launching of Ships’ Boats, W. D. Maclean, 499
Leakage—see Missing Quantity
Lickey Inclined Plane, The, W. B. Paley, 676
London to New York by Rail, A Very Nervous Traveller, 551
Lost Opportunities, Prior Lien, 622, 676 ; L. B. S., 659
Marine Diesel Engines, G. W. Stallard, 49
Mechanical Production of Rust, A. S. Cushman, 80 ; H. L. Heathcote, 80
Mersey Docks, M. K. Burton, 94
Missing Quantity and Leakage, H. D. Lobley, 207 ; W. Longland, 142, 207 ; 179
Oil’ or Steam, Nederlandsche Fabrick, &c., 300
Practical Patriotism, United Stone Firms, Limited, 333
Propellers for Flying Machines, A. K., 80; H. Chatley, 333
Reversing of Marine Oil Engines—see Crude Oil Engine
River Deviation, The Causes of, E. F. T. Bennett, 143
Safety at Sea, J. Keith, 579 ; R. M. S., 551 ; Transatlantic, 659
Screw Propellers, J. Batey, 471
Ships’ Lifeboats, An Engineer, 471, 499
Size and Strength, Immo S. Allen, 441
Softening of Water, Chemist, 143 ; Fellow of the Chemical Society, 129, 284;)
H. J. W., 143, 207, 248, 284 ; Inquirer, 94, 178, 224, 284 ; Watts, Fincham, and Co., 129, 249 ; Works Chemist, 249, 284, 333
Stability of Ships, A. H. Liddell, 249 ; J. F. Ruthven, 224
Steam v. Diesel Engines, Soc. Anon. H. Bollinckx, 411
Stocks and Coal Strikes, W. S. Crabtree, 471 Street Lighting in Westminster, J. W. Bradley, 94
Strength of Large Ships, R. Ryves, 471
Suction of Vessels, Engineer, 48; M. F. Fitzgerald, 49 ; A. H. Liddell, 48 ; P. B., 48 ; Prior Lien, 49
Superheated Steam at Sea, R. W. Allen, 411 ; John Coates, 441
Tanks, Testing Large and Small, S. S. Baker, 551 ; J. Batey, 499
“ The Institution*” and Employment, Vigilant, 361
Thermodynamics, The True Second Law of. J. T. Wainwright, 658 ; 4> n, 676
Transport, How to Cheapen, A. W. Gattie, 300
Unit of Mass, F. M. Denton, 94
Unsinkable Ships—see Safety at Sea
Ventilation of Electrical Machinery, W. H. F. Murdoch, 179
Wire Wheels, J. D. Roots, 207
LICKEY Inclined Plane : Relics of its Early History, 657 ; (Letter), 676
Liddell, A. R., on Approximate Stability, 189 ; (Letters), 224, 249
Liddell, A. K., on Waves and Ship Form, 343 ; (Letter), 411
Lifeboat Motors—see Electrical Matters
Lighting Motor Road Vehicle, Dynamos for, J. D. Morgan, 50
Lightships—see Ships

LITERATURE

Reviews:
Die Gasturbine, Hans Holzwarth, 5
Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work,
A. P. Chalkley, 305, 547
Electric Cranes : Their Design, Construction, and Management, B. H. H. Broughton, 467
Engineering as a Vocation, E. McCullough, 150
Fergusson’s Percentage Unit of Angular Measurement, &c., J. C. Fergusson, 305, 598
Flottes de Combat en 1912, Les, Comm, de Balincourt, 175, 357
Framed Structures and Girders, Edgar Marburg, 281
Heat and Thermodynamics, F. M. Hartmann, 175, 599
Heat Treatment of Tool Steel, H. Brearley, 681
Law Relating to Electrical Energy in India, J. W. Meares, 229
Marine Steam Turbines, Dr. G. Bauer and
O. Lasche, 256
Mo tori Diesel, Giorgio Lupino, 73, 681
Nitrocellulose Industry, E. C. Warden, 202 Plate Girder Design, Notes on, C. W. Hudson,
174
Portable Steam Engine, W. D. Wansbrougli, 151, 329
Power-house Design, F. C. Snell, 357
Rating Locomotives, H. L. Cole, 281, 410 Reinforced Concrete Design Simplified, J. C.
Gammon, 257
Stability in Aviation, G. H. Bryan, 124
Steam Turbine Design, John Marrow, 73
Suspension Bridges and Cantilevers, D. B. Sleinman, 467, 496
Taschenbuch der Kriegsflotten, 1912, B. Weyer, 22, 357
Telephone, Manual of the, W. Aitken, 151, 305
Temperature—Entropy Diagram, C. W. Berry, 655
Testing of Motive Power Engines, R. Royds, 228
Thermodynamics, Practical, F. E. Cardullo,
175
Trade Unions, The Legal Position of the, H. H. Schloesser and W. S. Clark, 99, 229
Unity in Nature, C. E. Stromeyer, 45

Short Notices:

Application of Hyperbolic Functions to Electrical Engineering Problems, A. E. Kennedy, 175, 437
Arc Lamps and Accessory Apparatus, J. H. Johnson, 203
Aviation and Aerostation, A Compendium, of, Lieut.-Col. H. Hoernes, 151
Boiler Draught, H. K. Pratt, 151
British Rainfall, 1910, H. R. Mill, 151
Cast Iron in the Light of Recent Research, H. H. Hatfield, 411, 599
Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, B. Blount and A. G. Bloxam, 73
Clay, The Natural History of, A. B. Searle, 175, 203
Dams, The Design and Construction of, E. Wegmann, 257
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Sir Ed. Sharpe, 175, 203
Dynamo and Motor Management, Practical, 151
Electric Wiring, Principles and Practice of, A. Bursill, 73
Emery and the Emery Industry, A. Haenig 383, 467
Energy Diagram for Gas, F. W. Burstall, / 383, 496
Geological and Topographical Maps, A. R. D werryho use, 151
Graphic Statics, Elementary, W. J. Craw ford, 151
Guide to South and East Africa, 151
Gyrostatic Balancing, Practical, H. Challey, 467, 521
Heat and Steam, Engineer-Lieutenant S. G. Wheeler, 151
Helicopter Flying Machine, J. R. Porter, 203
How to do Business by Letter and Advertising, Sherwin Cody, 229
Ideal Motor Diary, Captain C. .Wiener, 73, 305 Inland Transport and Communication in
England, History of, E. A. Pratt, 99, 229 Locomotive Data, 521
Machine Tools Commonly Employed in Modern Engineering Workshops, J. W. French, 203
Mercantile Year-book and Directory of Exporters, W. Lindley, Jones, and Brothers, 467
Metallurgy, Vol. I., H. Lang, 203
Meteorological Instruments and Weather Forecasts, H. T. Davidge, 305, 437
Mining without Timber, R. B. Brinsmade, 229
Montagu Motor Book, G. C. Slierrin, 73, 305
Motor Bodies and Chassis, H. J. Butler, 99, 257
Short Notices (continued):
Motors, Secondary Batteries, Measuring Instruments and Switch Gear, S. K. Broadfoot, 203
Precise Calculation of Pipe Drain and Sewer Dimensions, C. E. Housden, 305, 467
Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical), L. P. Lewis, 305, 599
Railways, Law of, J. H. B. Browne, K.C., and H. Conacher, 73, 305
Reinforced Concrete Construction in Theory and Practice, H. Adams and E. R. Matthews, 73
Reinforced Concrete Design, O. Faber and P. G. Bowie, 357, 467
Rivista Tecnica delle Ferrovie Italians, 496
Sewage Purification, Modern Methods of, G. B. Kershaw, 151
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, Practical, H. C. H. Shenton, 175, 203
Ship Wiring and Fitting, T. M. Johnson, 73, 203
Simple Calculations for Sanitary Officials and Students, 175, 496
Small Water Supplies, S. N. Taylor, 305, 437
Smoke : A Study of Town Air, J. B. Cohen and A. G. Ruston, 383, 521
Soren Hjorth, Inventor of the Dynamoelectric Principle, Sigurd Smith, 573, 599
Theory and Practice in Designing, H. Adams, 73, 203
Ventilation of Electrical Machinery, W. H. F. Murdoch, 203
Works Management, W. D. Ennis, 73, 599

Books Received:

Aeroplane, The Mechanics of the, Captain Duchene, 573
Ainsley’s Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables, 1912, J. C. Ainsley, 73
All the World’s Air Craft (Aeroplanes and Dirigibles), Flying Annual, F. T. Jane, 547
Alphabet of the National Insurance Act, 1911, C. G. Moran, 99
Alternating-current Design, J. Frith, 99
American Electric Central Station Distribution Systems, H. P. Gear and P. F. Williams, 305
Applied Chemistry, A Dictionary of, Sir Edward Thorpe, 599
Arithmetic and Geometry, Technical, C. T. Millis, 175
Autocars of 1912, with Bonnets and Radiators, 411
Automatic Fire Extinction as Applied to Factories, G. J. Bullock, 681
Beitrag zur Pulsation des Wassers mit Rucksicht auf den Flussbau, Ing. C. Krischan, 151
Billiards and its Pointer, The Practical Science of, Col. C. M. Western, 151
Breakwater Building, A. E. Casey, 573
British Engineering Standard Coded Lists, Vol. 6, 305
British Standard Specifications for Materials Used in Construction of Railway Rolling Stock, 22
Building Construction, The Mechanics of, Henry Adams, 383
Building Structures in Earthquake Countries, Ing. A. Montel, 681
Caisson Sickness, L. Hill, 305
Canada, Annual Report on the Mineral Production of, 1910, 681
Cash Accounts, with Special Reference to those of an Engineer and Ironfounder, J. W. Best, 99
Cement, Lectures on, B. Blount, 305
Cenni Sulle Locomotive a Vapore delle Ferrovie dello Stato Italiano al 1905 ed al
1911, 151
Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, C. G. de Laval, 573
Centrifugal Pumps : Their Design and Construction, L. C. Loewenstein and C. P. Crissley, 73
Chemical Works: Their Design, Erection, and Equipment, S. S. Dyson and S. S. Clarkson, 305
Chemistry of the Rubber Industry, Harold E. Potts, 411
Chile, J. P. Canto, 151
China Year-book, 1912, H. I. M. Bell and H. G. W. Woodhead, 175
City Diary, 1912, 22
Civil Engineers’ Cost Book, F. E. Coleman, 357
Coal Mines Act, 1911, and other Acts Affecting Mines and Quarries, 383
Coals of Canada, Investigation of the, J. B. Porter and R. J. Darley, Vols. I. and II., 547, 681
Columns and Struts, Theory and Practical Design, W. Alexander, 573
Concrete Costs, F. W. Taylor and S. E. Thompson, 573
Constructions Navales-Coque, J. Rouge, 175 David Napier, Engineer (1790—1869), 681 Depreciation and Wasting Assets and their 'Treatment in Assessing Annual Profit and Loss, P. D. Leake, 175
Der Bau des Panamakanals, Geh. Baurat Tincauzer, 151
Destructor Practice, Modern, W. F. Goodrich, 573
Dictionary of Engineering Terms in English and Spanish, A. J. R. V. Garcia, 383
Die Dieselmaschine in der Grosschiffalirt, Ing. W. Kaemmerer, 547
Die Heissdampf-Schiff smaschine, Carl F. Holmbol, 175
Direct and Alternating Current Manual, J. Bedell and C. A. Pierce, 305
Dredges and Dredging, C. Prelini, 281
Duties of Employers under the Insurance Act, 573
Earthquakes, The Origin of, C. Davidson, 681
Electric Lighting, Power, and Traction Undertakings of the United Kingdom, the Electrician, 681
Electrical Trades Directory and Hand-book,
1912, 383
Elements of Structures, G. A. Hool, 467
Energy System of Matter, James Weir, 573
Engineering Estimating, The Elements of, A. Suggate, 467
Engineering Index Annual for 1911, 467
Engineering, Problems in, 8. G. Turner, 681
Engineering Work in Public Buildings, R. Owen Allsop, 357
Books Received (continued)’.
Engineers’ Year-book of Formulae, Rules, Tables, Data, and Memoranda, 1912, H. R. Kempe, 175
Essential Points Covering the Financial Value of an Engineering Property, Schuyler R. Schaff, 357
Farney’s Catechism of the Locomotive, G L.
Fowler, 411
Flight of Birds, J. W. Headley, 547 Forney’s Catechism of the Locomotive,
Part II., G. L. Fowler, 681
Frozen Meat Trade, History of the, J. I.
Critchell and J. Raymond, 573
Fuel Economy, W. H. Booth, 681
Fuel, Introduction to the Study of, F. J. Brislee, 305
Gas Engine in Principle and Practice, A. H.
Goldsingham, 411
Gas and Oil Engines, A. Kirschke, 573
Gemeinfassliche Darstellung des Eisenhiitten- wesens, 655
Geodetic Surveying, E. L. Ingram, 175 Glasgow Shipping Who’s Who, 1912, 467 Gleitgeschwindigkeit und Widerstand von
Schleppkahnen, Dr. Ing. W. Asthower, 655 Great Western Railway Mechanicals’ Institution, Swindon Engineering Society, 1910— 11, H. Holcroft, 151
Heat Engines, H. A. Garratt, 547
Heating and Ventilation, Theory and Practice of, A. H. Barker, 573
Hydro-dynamics, ABC of, Lieut.-Col. R. de
Villamil, 281
Hydrostatics, Elements of, G. W. Parker, 467 Incandescent Electric Lamp, Development of the, G. B. Barham, 573
Income Tax, Guide to, F. B. Leeming, 383
Industrial Evolution in India; A. Chatterton,
467
Institution of Civil Engineers, Minutes of “ Proceedings,” 175
Insurance Act and Yourself, H. B. Samuel, 383
Interior Ballistics, J. M. Ingallo, 411
Internal Combustion Engines, Elementary, J. W. Kershaw, 411
Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Producers, C. W. Askling and E. Roesler, 305
Inventions and Designs in 1911, Government of India Patent-office, 547
Iron and Steel Institute, The Journal of the,
G. C. Lloyd, 175
Ironfounding, The Principles of, A. H. Sexton and J. G. Primrose, 411
Irrigation : Its Principles and Practice as a Branch of Engineering, Sir Hanbury Brown, 383
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft, 1912, 281
Laboratory Exercises in Physical Chemistry, J. N. Pring, 99
Les Nomogrammes de l’Ingenieur, R. S. de la Garza, 655
Liquid Fuel and its Apparatus, W. H. Booth, 305
Liverpool Shipping, 305
Local Government Annual and Official Directory, 1912, S. E. Rogers, 175
Lockwood’s Builders’ and Contractors’ Price Book, 1912, 99
Locomotive, The Modern, C. E. Allen, 175
Locomotives Now in Use on the London and
North-Western Railway, A Register of, 281
London and South-Western Railway Official Illustrated Guide, 681
Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 681
Magnetism and Electricity, E. E. Brookes and A. W. Poyser, 681
Manual of Electrical Undertakings and Directory, 1912, E. Garcke, 573
Marine and Naval Boilers, Lieut.-Commander
F. Lyon and Lieut.-Commander A. W. Hinds, 547
Mechanical Engineers’ Price Book, 1912,
G. Brooks, 281
Mechanics of Heating and Ventilating, Konrad Meirr, 467
Mechanische Triebwerke und Bremsen, Dr. St. Loffler, 681
Mercantile Year-book and Directory of Exporters, 1912, W. L. Jones, 681
Merchant Service, How to Go to Sea in the, F. H. Stafford, 573
Metallurgical Manual of Iron and Steel, Horace Allen, 383
Metallurgy of Steel, F. W. Harbord and J. W. Hall, 73
Modern British Permanent Way, 22
Motor, The, J. Armstrong, 573
Motor Car Engineering, Text-book on, A. G. Clark, 73
Motor Cars Manufactured or Sold in the United Kingdom, 1906 to 1912, A List of, W. C. Bersey, 175
Motors and Motoring, II. J. Spooner, 175 National Insurance Act, 1911, A Guide to,
H. W. Gadd, 281
National Physical Laboratory, Collected Researches, 547
National Physical Laboratory Report for the Year 1911, 547
Naval Annual, 1912, 573
Naval War Game, How to Play, F. T. Jane, 281
Official Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies, 1911, 22
Oil Finding : An Introduction to the Geological Study of Petroleum, E. H. C. Craig, 681
Organisation et Direction des Usines, Andre Mayer, 73
Pattern Making, J. G. Horner, 467
Permanent Way Material, Plate Laying and Points and Crossings, Notes on, W. H. Cole, 573
Petroleum, The Coming of, 175
Photographic Lenses, C. Beck and H. Andrews, 73
Physical Chemistry, Problems in, E. B. R.
Prideaux, 681
Portland Cement, The Everyday Uses of, 175
Practical Chemistry for Engineering Students, A. J. Hale, 281
Practical Design of Marine Single-ended and Double-ended Boilers, J. Gray, 681 Radio-Telegraphists’ Guide and Log-book, W. II. Marchant, 175
Refrigeration, Elementary Mechanical, F. E.
Matthews, 573
Books Received (continued):
Reinforced Concrete Buildings, E. L. Ransome and A. Sausbrey, 573
Reinforced Concrete Compression Member Diagrams, C. F. Marsh, 73
Reinforced Concrete Construction, Elementary Principles of, E. S. Andrews, 411
Rhodes’ Directory of Passenger Steamers, 1912, 151
Rocks and their Origins, G. A. Z. Cole, 681 Royal Navy List and Naval Recorder, 1912, 151
Rugby Engineering Society: Proceedings, 1910 and 1911, 151
Science Examinations, 1911, 151
Sells’ Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1912, 151
Seven Follies of Science, John Phin, 305
Sewage Disposal, G. W. Fuller, 599
Sewage Sludge, A. Elsner, Fr. Spillner, and K. Allen, 175
Shipping World Year-book, 1912, Major Jones, 281
Sixty Years of Progress and Fiscal Policy, Earl Brassey, 573
Sketches of Engine and Machine Design, Wallace Bentley, 357
Social Guide, 1912, 573
Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1911, 467
South Wales Coal Annual, 1912, J. Davies and C. P. Hailey, 22
Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Pocket Price
Book and Diary, 1912, 175
Stamp Milling, A. Del Mar, 175
Statical Calculations, Reference Book for, F. Ruff, 681
Statische Tabellen Belastungsangaben, und
Formein zur Aufstellung von Berech- nungen fur.Bankonstruktionen, F. Boerner, 655
Steam Boiler Construction, E. G. Hiller, 681
Steam Engine and Turbine, R. C. H. Hick, 681
Strength of Materials, J. E. Boyd, 175 Strength of Materials, H. E. Murdock, 305 Structural Mechanics, The Principles of,
P. J. Woldram, 573
Superheating on Continental Locomotives, Lectures on, E. Sauvage, 99
Supply and Demand, The Laws of, G. B. Dibblee, 467
Surveying, The Effects of Errors in, H. Briggs, 573
Syllabus of Science and Technology for 1911— 1912, 99
Tacheometry, B. Sen, 681
Terrestrial Magnetism, Studies in, C. Chree, 681
Testing Fault Localisation and General Hints for Wiremen, J. Wright, 573
Text-book of Rand Metallurgical Practice, 357
Traite de Metallographie, F. Robin, 681 Transactions of the Institution of Naval
Architects, R. W. Dana, 151
Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, T. R. Wilton, 305
Tunnel Shields and the Use of Compressed Air in Subaqueous Work, W. C. Copper- thwaite, 467
Union des Ingenieurs Sortis des Ecoles Speciales de Louvain, 681
Valuation of Public Utility Properties, H. Floy, 573
Verbal Questions and Answers given at the Board of Trade Examinations for Engineers, A. R. Leask, 357
Who’s Who in Science (International), 1912, H. H. Stephenson, 151
Who’s Who Year-book, 1912 and 1913, 22 Willing’s Press Guide, 1912, 73
Wiring Calculations for Electric Light and
Power Installations, G. W. L. Paterson, 467
Writers’ and Artists’ Year-book, 1912, 22
Year-book of British Columbia, 1911, R. E. Gosnell, 73
LIVERPOOL Dock Extensions, 154, 170, 604
Liverpool University Engineering Laboratories, 516, 533, 544
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
Lobley, H. D., on Leakage of Steam Past Piston Valves, 139, 149 ; (Letters), 142, 179
Lock, Boulter’s, Reconstruction of, 587
Lock Gate Operating Mechanism, Panama Canal, 137
Lock-outs—see Labour
Locomotive, Electric Towing, 197
Locomotive Experiments, Electric, Monsieur Auvert, 377
Locomotive Fire-boxes—see Railway Locomotives
Locomotive Pile - Driving Plant, Whitaker Brothers, 298, 299
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives London County Council Tramcar Underframe with Warner Non-parallel Axle Truck, 414
London County Council Trams and the Roads Improvement Association, 43, 47, 510, 515, 520
London Dock, 167
London Water—see Water Supply
Longridge, Michael, on Purchasers, Contractors and Consulting Engineers, 64
Loom, Rotary Circular, Christopher Whalley, 127
Lotschberg—see Railways, also Railway Locomotives
lubricator, A New, Stern-Sonneborn Oil Company, 360

MACFARLANE, J. C., and H. Burge, on Power in Self-contained Road Vehicles and Locomotives, 298, 328

MACHINE TOOLS:

Boring and Drilling Machine Geo. Richards and Co., 524
Boring and Turning Mill, Geo. Richards and - Co., Limited, 204
Double Valve Facing Machine, Geo. Richards and Co., 524
Drilling Machine, Electrically Driven, J. Archdale and Co., 104
Drilling Machine, Hand Power, A. A. Jones, Pollard and Shipman, 250
Drilling Machine, Six-spindle Radial, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Limited, 259
Drilling Machines, Large Vertical, Selson Engineering Company, 672, 678
Grinding Machine, Plain Surface, for Locomotive Slide Bars, Beyer, Peacock and Co. Limited, 444
Lathe, All-geared Motor-driven, Darling and Sellers, Limited, 74
Lathes, Two Large Shafting, Thomas Shanks and Co., 326, 332
Single Standard Vertical Boring Mill, J. Butler and Co., 386
Tire Boring Machine, Automatic, Deutsche Niles Werke, 181
Woodworking Tools—see Woodworking
MACHINERY, Greek Market for, 187
Machinery, Rating of, 190
Madras Coast, A Sandy Belt on the, Reginald Ryves, 111
Magnetism of Permanent Magnets, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 656
Main, J. A., on Graphic Determination of Pressures on Retaining Walls, 220
Mallock, H. R. A., on Aerial Flight, 444, 472
Manchester University, Electro Technical Laboratories at, 230
Manual Testing Machine, Professors Dixon and Hummel, 361
Marconi Works at Chelmsford, 684
Marine Boilers—see Boilers
Marine Engines and Motors—see Engines Marine Motor Pistons, 680
Marine Station at Dover, 198
Markham, R. G. L., on Motor Engines or Marine Work, 474
Martin, Percy F., on the Panama Railroad, 614 “ Massip ” Oil- Separator, 385
Measurement and Automatic Recording of Dead Reckoning, F. R. S. Bireham, 373
Mechanical Production of Rust, 72 ; (Letters), 80
“ Mechanicals’ ” Examination—see Associations, &c., Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Mechanism of Corrosion—see Iron and Steel Mediate Friction—see Friction
Mellanby, Professor, on Surface Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 71
Metallic Filament Lamps—see Lamps
Metals, Fatigue of, Professor B. Hopkinson, 113, 123; (Letter), 179
Meter, Steam, The Curnon, 462
Michelsen, S., Capitan zur See, on the Development of the Torpedo, 646
Middlesbrough, Rolling Mills at, Dorman, Long and Co., Limited, 278, 282
Military Principles and Warship Design—see Ships, Naval Matters

MINES AND MINING NEWS:

Electric Mining Rules, New, 222 Mineral Statistics, Our, 60 South African School of Mines and Technology, 509, 518
MINERALS—see Mines
Minimum Wage—see Labour
Missing Quantity and Leakages—see .Cylinder Condensation
Models, Percival Marshall, 123
Morgan, J. D., on Dynamos for Motor Road Vehicle Lighting, 50
Morley, T. B., on Heat Drop in Steam Turbines, 243
Morley, T. B., on Reversibility in Relation to Entropy and Adiabatic Processes, 457 ; (Letter), 499
Motors, Electric—see Electrical Matters

MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR MATTERS:

See also Annual Article
Petrol-driven Railway Car, Midland Great Western of Ireland, 332
Petrol-driven Railway Inspection Car, Humber Limited, 385
Petrol-driven Tramway Car, Leyland Motors, Limited, 78
Petrol Motor Inspection Car, North-Eastern Railway, 489
Standardisation of Automobile Parts, 654
Wire Wheels, Rudge-Whitworth’s, 117
MYERS, Cecil, on Electrical Furnaces, 120

NATHUSIUS, Dr. H., on Improvements in Electric Steel Furnaces, 487, 513
Nationalisation Again, 545
Naval Engineer Appointments, 54, 131, 153, 182, 265, 297, 336, 365, 403, 441, 499, 554, 622, 659, 690
Navy Estimates—see Ships, Naval Matters Neasden—see Electrical Matters
Negative Angle Sighting, Sir G. Greenhill, 100
Nicholson, G. S., and B. P. Haigh on Singlephase Motor with Pole-changing Windings 656
Non-parallel Axle Rolling Stock, Warner International and Overseas Engineering Company, 412

OBITUARY:

- Alleyne, Sir John G. N., 194
- Bamlett, Adam Carlisle, 64
- Buckley, Samuel, 23
- Bull, John C., 404
- De la Cour, Paul, 521
- Gibbes, John Dixon, 273
- Goodwin, Gilbert S., 459
- Gwynne, John, 495
- Hudson, Robert, 404
- Johnson, Samuel Waite (Portrait), 63
- Melville, Rear-Admiral, U.S.N., 383
- Reynolds, Osborne, 194
- Ward, John, 318
- Wright, Wilbur, 602

OIL Engines—see Engines
Oil Gusher, Capping an, 528
Oil Separator, The “ Massip,” 385
Oil or Steam, 279 ; (Letter), 300
Oldham, Pumping Station for, 329
Optical Convention, 660
Overfilling Boilers—see Boilers
Oversea Trade, 94
Ozonair System of Ventilation, 526

PANAMA Canal Construction—see Canal
Panama Canal Dues and the United States Merchant Marine, 174
Panama Railroad—see Railways, Foreign Patents, International Compulsory Working of, 242 ; (Letter), 300

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH AND AMERICAN:

Aeronautics, 108, 136, 186, 266, 393, 450, 610, 637
Batteries and Accumulators, 160, 557, 609
Bridges, 532
Building, 478
Condensers and Feed-water -Heaters, 136, 213, 214, 340, 450
Cranes and Conveyors, 240, 477, 610, 666, 691
Dynamos and Motors, 27, 55,-83, 107, 135, 136, 159, 185, 213, 239, 266, 289, 313, 339, 367, 393, 419, 449, 505, 531, 609, 665
Engines,' Internal Combustion, 27, 56, 83, 84, 107, 108, 135, 185, 239, 289, 339, 367, 419, 420, 449, 477, 478, 505, 583, 6.38, 665, 692
Engines, Steam, 28, 135, 136, 185, 265, 340, 367, 368, 450, 506, 531, 558, 637, 692
Gas Producers, 55, 159, 239, 265, 290, 313, 339
Hydraulics, 289, 609
Lighting and Heating, 56, 240, 394, 420, 449, 505, 637, 691
Locomotives, 55, 108, 186, 340, 368, 420, 478, 557, 691
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 28, 56, 160, 186, 214, 240, 266, 314, 368, 394, 420, 450, 478, 506, 532, 558, 584, 609, 666, 692
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 28, 56, 83, 136, 160, 266, 314, 340, 368, 394, 450, 477, 531, 610
Mines and Metals, 160, 290, 340, 394, 478, 558, 584, 638, 691
Miscellaneous, 28, 56, 84, 108, 136, 160, 186, 214, 240, 266, 290, 314, 340, 368, 394, 420, 450, 478, 506, 532, 558, 584, 610, 638, 666, 692
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 27, 5.6, 214, 266, 290, 339, 477, 666
Ordnance and Armour, 290
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 55, 84, 159, 214, 240, 265, 289, 394, 450, 557, 637, 666
Ships and Boats, 28, 186, 314, 340, 394, 532, 557, 584, 610
Steam Generators, 27, 56, 83, 84, 159, 160, 213, 214, 313, 339, 368, 419, 477, 505, 506, 531, 532, 583, 609, 665, 666, 691
Switch Gear, 108, 185, 213, 266, 419, 638
Telegraphs and Telephones, 160, 239, 289, 314, 393, 666 •
Tramways and Railways, 28, 84, 186, 240, 340, 583
Transformers, 83, 135, 340
Transmission of Power, 55, 84, 214, 289, 314, 449, 531, 557, 638
Turbine Machinery, 28, 107, 186, 290, 314, 368, 394, 419, 478, 584, 610, 666, 691
PENDULUM, Swing of the, 679
Personal and Business Announcements, 28, 54, 80, 106, 134, 158, 186, 212, 240, 264, 288, 312, 339, 366, 418, 448, 504, 530, 582, 609, 636, 664, 691
Petroff, Professor N., on a Theoretical and Experimental Study of Mediate Friction, 244, 294, 351, 376
Petrol-driven Railway Car, C. Price and Son, 332
Petrol-driven Railway Inspection Car, Humber Limited, 385
Petrol-electric Railway Car for Great Central Railway, 351, 354
Petrol Motor Inspection Car, North-Eastern Railway, 489
Petrol Tramway Car—see Motor Vehicles Petroleum, Residuum, Pump—see Pumps Philip, A., on Corrosion of Condenser Tubes by Contact with Electro-negative Substances, 87
Pier, River Wear South Protecting, 603
Pile-Driving Plant, Self-propelled, Whitaker Brothers, Limited, 298, 299
Pipes, Casting, Without Cores, H. Molinder, 497 ; (Correction), 527
Piston Valves, Leakage of Steam Past, H. D.
Lobley, 139, 149; (Letters), 142, 179, 207 Pistons, Marine Motor, 680
Planing Machines—see Machine Tools and Wood
Working Machines
Plummer Block, Self-oiling, John Jardine, 252 Port of Antwerp, Trade and Improvements, 414, 481
Port Nelson Chosen for Hudson Bay Railway Terminus, 306
Port, The New Valparaiso, 540
Port Talbot, Demolition by Explosives at, 592 Portable Air-compressing Plant, Ingersoll-
Rand Compressor and Parsons Motor, 234
Portable Forge with Cylinder Blast, J. C. Bauer, 594
Power Plant, Temporary, for Woolwich Footway Tunnel, 46
Power in Self-contained Road Vehicles and Locomotives, J. C. Macfarlane and H. Burge, 298, 328
Press, Brick and Tile, Bradley and Craven, Limited, 78
Press, Hydraulic, for Cylinder Liners, J. Shaw and Sons, 79
Pressure, Effect of, on the Transmission of Heat, 227 ; (Letter), 249
Pressure Tests, E. H. Rayner, 201, 209
Prime Costing and Estimating, G. J. Wells, 273 Producer, Wood Refuse Suction Gas, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 687
Progress of Warships—see Ships, Naval Matters
Public Speaking and the Engineer, 576
Pugh, J. V., on Wire Wheels, 117

PUMPS:

Air Pump at South Shields Dock, Allen-Edwards, 568
Allen-Edwards Air Pumps, 602
Evolution and Development of the Turbine Pump, Dr. E. Hopkinson and Mr. A. E. L. Chorlton, 92, 100, 130; (Correction), 117 ; (Letters), 179, 207
Fottinger Turbine Pump, 348
Horizontal Treble Ram Pump, Frank Pearn and Co.; 470
Immingham Dock, Hydraulic and Electric
Pumps, 512, 534; 535, 596, 600
Jutlandia, Motor Ship, Pumps for, J. H.
Carruthers and Co., Limited, 603 ; (Correction), 622
Oil Engine Driven Six-stage Turbine Pump,
Jens Orten Boving and Co., 251
Oldham, Pumping-Station for,'329 Osborne-Reynolds Pump, 93, 100, 130 Pump, Three-throw Oil, Motor-driven, Hatley
Engine Company, 75
Self-contained Pumping Plant, 629
South Shields Electrically Driven Pumps for New Graving Dock, W. H. Allen and Son, 565, 570
PURCHASERS, Contractors, -and Consulting Engineers, Michael Longridge, 64, 98
Purification of Water-—see Water Supply

QUICK Shed Building, A. and J. Main and Co. Limited, 403

RAILLESS Traction, H. C. Adams, 262
Rails, Defective, in America, 68

RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS:

See also Annual Article
General:
Amendment of the Light Railways Act, 356 Defective Rails i nAmerica, 68
Fire-boxes, The Staying of, R. Weatherburn, 507
Fire-boxes, Tubes, and Stays, Experiments on, Robert Weatherburn, 188, 217
Flash Lights for Railway Signals, 295
Nationalisation Again, 545
Non-parallel Axle Rolling Stock, Warner International and Overseas Engineering Company, 412
Petrol-driven Railway Car, C. Price and Son, 332
Petrol-driven Railway Inspection Car, Humber Limited, 385
Petrol-electric Railway Car for Great Central Railway, 351, 354
Petrol Motor Inspection Cai-, North-Eastern Railway, 489
Railway Bill, 374, 381, 398
Railway Servants’ Earnings and Hours, 206
Railway Speed in 1911, 62
Single-phase Railways, 455; 480, 492, 522, 574, 590, 673
Ventilation of the Central London Railway, 526

British, Colonial and Indian:

Bray and Wicklow Railway, 246
Canadian Northern Railway Accident near Saskatoon, 323
Canadian Railways for 1911, 195
Central London Railway, Ventilation of, 526 Charlestown Curve (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) Derailment, 672
Cork City Railways, 32, 42
English and Prussian Railways, 173 ; (Letter), 207
Great Central Railway’s Petrol-electric' Railway Car, 351, 354
Indian Railway Rolling Stock Problem, 625
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Electrical Connections, 168
Lickey Inclined Plane : Relics of its Early History, 657 ; (Letter), 676
Light Railway and Tramway for Immingham Dock, 615
London and North-Western Railway Accident at Colwich, 23
London and North-Western Railway, Euston to Watford Widening, 611, 624, 639
Metropolitan Railway, Neasden Powerhouse Plant Additions, 154
Midland Great Western of Ireland Petrol- driven Car, 332
North-Eastern Railway,'Petrol Motor Inspection Car, 4'8,9
North Staffordshire Railway, Four-coupled Bogie. T.ank Engine, 302, 306
Port Nelson Chosen for Hudson Bay Railway Terminus, 306
Railway Half-year, 166, 204
South-Eastern Railway Works at Ashford, 146
West African Government Railways, 195

Foreign:

American Railway Accidents, 182
Belgium, The Light Railways of, 545
Berlin Stadtbahn, Single-phase Railway, 590 Chile, Longitudinal Railway for, 58, 70 Dessau—Bitterfeld Single-phase Railway, 455, 480, 492, 522
Lotschberg—Simplon Railway and its Construction, 10, 14, 66
Martigny—Orsieres Single-phase Railway, 673
Metropolitan Railway of Paris, Non-parallel Axle Motor .Bogie and Trailer, Warner International Company, 412
New Haven Railway, Single-phase Section, 590
Panama Railroad, Percy F. Martin, 614, 644 Spree Tunnel, Accident to, 387
Train Control in America, 227
Tripoli, A Railway in, 548
Valle Maggia Single-phase Railway, 591

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES:

See also Annual Article
General:
Capacity of Locomotive Fire-boxes, 653 Closed Circuit Crude Oil Locomotive, 38, 39 Electrical Locomotive Cab Signalling, V. L. Raven, 330
Electric Locomotive Experiments, Monsieur Au vert, 377
Firing Locomotives, 571
Fuel as a Factor in Locomotive Capacity, W. F. M. Goss, 571, 577
Locomotive Controllers, 3000 Amperes, Oer- likon Company, 575, 592
Locomotive Photographs at South Kensington, 38
Locomotive Tools—see Machine Tools Locomotive Works—see Works Locomotives Running Round; 286 Single-phase Locomotives, 455, 480, 492, 522, 590, 673
Water in Superheated Steam Cylinders, 378

British, Colonial and Indian:

Great Eastern Six-coupled Express Passenger Engine, 620, .621 (Two-page Supplement, June l£th, 1912)
Great Western Locomotive “ Great Bear,” 459 (Two-page Supplement, May ‘Ard, 1912)
Great Western Locomotive Photographs at South Kensington, 38
London and South-Western Smoke-box Superheater, 23

Foreign:

Compound System in Prussia, Re-introduction of the, 577
Dessau—Bitterfeld Railway Locomotives, 438, 480, 492, 522
French Locomotives, Some Recent, .378
Lotschberg Electric Locomotive, No.’ 121, 116, 122, 144 (Two-page Supplement,
February 9th, 1912) -.
Nord Tank Engine with Flat Valves, 378
Nord Tank Engine with Piston Valves, 378
P.L.M. Eight-coupled Goods Engine, 378 Prussian State Railways, Single-phase Locomotives for, 438, 480, 492, 522, 590
RAMSAY, Sir William, on Subterranean Gasworks, 327
Rand, Water—see Water Supply
Rapid Filters for Cheltenham Water Supply, 687
Ratchet Spanner, F. M. Frye and Co., 104 Rating of Electrical Machinery, 525 Rating of Machinery, 190
Raven, V. L., System of Electrical Locomotive Cab Signalling, 330
Rayner, E. H., on Pressure Tests, 201, 209 Reclamation of a Sandy Belt on the Madras Coast, R. Ryves, 111
Reconstruction of Boulter’s Lock, 587 Recorder, Speed, Denny—Edgecombe, 472 Regenbogen, Direktor C., on Diesel Motor
Building at the Germaniawerft, 646
Rennie, G., and Co., Removal of, from Greenwich, 232
Retaining Walls, Graphic Determination of Pressures on, J. A. Main, 220
Reversibility in Relation to Entropy and to Adiabatic Processes, T. B. Morley, 457 ; (Letter), 499
Rhodin, J. G. A., on the Calorimetric Value of Fuel, 315
Ripping Machine, Armour Plate, Noble and Lund,. 500
Riveted Connections, Experiments with, Professor Rudeloff, 252
Road Board, 24
Road Material, Standardisation of, 672
Road Obstruction, Tramways and, 43, 47, 510, 515, 520
Road Vehicle Lighting, Motor, Dynamos for, J. D. Morgan, 50
Rock Excavation in Open Cutting, The Cost of, 423, 453
Rolling Mills, Electric, at Middlesbrough, Dorman, Long and Co., 278, 282
Rolling Mills, Reversing, Steam Engines for Driving, J. N. Hall, 538, 546, 553
Rolling of Ships—see Ships
Ropeway, Aerial, for a Shropshire Quarry, J. M. Henderson and Co., 89, 96
Ropeway, High Altitude, for Bolivia, Ropeways Limited, 226, 235
Rosenhain, Dr. W., and Mr. S. L. Archbutt, Report to the Alloys Research Committee, 426, 493, 494
Rotary Circular Loom, Christopher Whalley, 127
Rubber, Synthetic, 654
Russia, Agricultural Machinery in, 414
Rust, Mechanical Production of, 72 ; (Letters), 80
Ryves, R., on A Sandy Belt on the Madras Coast, 111

SAFETY of Ships—see Ships
Salvage of Ships—see Ships
Salvage of Submarines, 140
Sand Washer, Improved, W. Polglase, 180
Sandy Belt on the Madras Coast, R. Ryves, 111
Sanitary Engineering—see also Annual Article Schooling Calculating Machine, 628
Schultz, Baurat H. W., on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, 617
Self-oiling Plummer Block, John Jardine, 252
Self-propelled Pile-Driving Plant, Whitaker Brothers, Limited, 298, 299
Separating Oil from Steam, “ Massip ” Sepa¬rator, 385
Settlement of Trade Disputes, 597
Shed Building, Quick, A. and J. Main and Co., Limited, 403

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General:

Approximate Stability, A. R. Liddell, 189 ; (Letters), 224, 249
Boat Engines and Motors—see Engines
Boat Installations on Modern Ships, Arrange¬ment of, A. Welin, 373
British and Foreign Shipbuilding, 436
Clyde Shipbuilding, Three Months of,' 352 Four Months of, 468
Clyde Shipbuilding Yards, Changes and Extensions in, 578
Colliers, Mechanically Discharging, C. I. Davidson, 387
Depth of Water on Measured Miles, 85
Description of a Tide Indicator, Commander J. J. Baugh, 373
Gas Power for Ship Propulsion, A. C. Holzapfel, 347
Geared Turbine Channel Steamers, Normannia andHantonia, Professor J. H. Biles, 371
Law of Comparison for Surface Friction, &c., Dr. T. E. Stanton, 321, 324
Life-boats, Motors for, Blake, Fay and Bowen, Thornycroft, Tylor, Wolseley 221 (Two-page Supplement, March lsf, 1912)
Load Extension Indicator Diagrams, Optical Indicator, Professor Dalby, 373
Marine Boilers—see Boilers
Marine Engines and Motors—see Engines Measurement and Automatic Recording of
Dead Reckoning, F. R. S. Bircham, 373
Mechanically Discharging Colliers, C. I. Davidson, 387
Models of the Aquitania, Making, 574
On Turning Circles, Professor W. Hovgaard, 321
Rolling of Lightships, Effect of Bilge Keels on, Geo. Idle and G. S. Baker, 348
Safety of Large Steamships, 435 ; (Letter), 551, 579
Salvage of the San Giorgio—see Foreign Navies
Shipbuilding in 1911, Lloyd’s Annual Summary, 126
Solignac-Grille Marine Boiler—see Boilers
Speed Recorder for Argentine Battleships, 472
Tanks, Experimental—see Tanks
Thames Shipbuilding, 24, 101
Waves and Ship Form, A. R. Liddell, 343 (Letter), 411
Welin Davits, 373

British Navy:

Adamant, H. M. Submarine Tender, 459
Ajax, H.M. Battleship, Launch of, 331
Alecto, H.M. Submarine Tender, 459
Diesel Motor Boat for the Admiralty, 12
Lion, H.M. Battle-cruiser, 12
Maidstone, H.M. Submarine Depot Ship, 459
Melbourne, H.M. Australian Cruiser, 604
Queen Mary, H.M. Battle-cruiser, Launch of, 297
Three Submarine Tenders, 459

Naval Matters:

Depth of Water on Measured Miles, 85
Design of Cruisers, 508
Development of Submarine Boats and Their Engines, J. Berling, 616
Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, H. W. Schultz, 617
Naval Disasters and Accidents during 1911, 224
Naval and Military Aviation, 402, 408
Navy Estimates, 273, 281, 297
Oil and Oil Engines in the Navy, 327
On Turning Circles, Professor W. Hovgaard, 321
Progress of Warships and Machinery Under Construction in England, 22
Shooting in the Navy, 206, 246
Some Military Principles which Bear on Warship Design, Admiral Sir R. Custance, 320
Strength of Ships, 667, 669
Submarine Transporting Ship Kanguroo, 594
Submarines, Salvage of, 140
Swing of the Pendulum, 679
Torpedo, The Davis Gun-, 205
Torpedo, Development of the, Capitan zur See S. Michelsen, 646
Warship Construction—see also Annual Article

Foreign Navies:

French Armoured Cruiser Waldeck Rousseau, 180
French Torpedo Boat Kabyle, with'Solignac- Grille Boilers, 349
German Battleship Prinzregent Luitpold, 317
German Battleships of the New “ Kaiser ” Class, 317
Greek Navy, Additions to, 170
Japanese Battle-cruiser Kongo, 540
Salvage of the San Giorgio, 395, 406, 424, 427
Spanish Dreadnought Espana, 141
United States Naval Collier Neptune, 488

Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels

Aquitania, Cunard Liner, Stern Frame and
Brackets of, 468, 469, 573^.574 (Four-poge (Supplement, May 3let, 191*2)
Argentine Train Ferry Steamers, A. and J. Inglis, 686
Arlanza, Triple-screw Steamer, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 619
.Cunard Liner Laconia, 85 (Two Two-page Supplements, January 29th, 1912)
Diesel Engine Liner Selandia, 200, 208, 247, 254, 269, 292, 346 (Two-page Supplement, March 22nd, 1912)
Eveston, Motor Ship, 552
Exequiel Ramos Mexia Train Ferry Steamer, A. and J. Inglis, 686
French Channel Steamers Le Nord and Pas de Calais, with Solignac-Grille Boilers, 349
French Transatlantic Company’s Liner France, 442
Gas Engine Cargo Boats Holzapfel I. and II., 176, 347
Jutlandia, First Clyde-built Motor Ship, Barclay, Curie and Co., 525, 539, 603; (Correction), 622
Kanguroo, Submarine Transporting Ship, Gironde Works, 594
Newhaven, Channel Steamer, Performance,
. Monsieur P. Sigaudy, 372
Titanic, White Star Liner, Loss of the, 407, 409, 435, 441, 466, 519; (Letters), 441, 470, 499, 551, 579, 659
Yacht Thoma II., Internal Combustion Motor for, 460
SHIPWRIGHTS’ Company, 23
Shooting, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters
Singapore—see Water Supply
Signals and Signalling—see Railways Single-phase Current—see Electrical Matters Slide Rule, Sensitive Trigonometrical, John Davis and Sons, Limited, 621
Smith, R. H., on Waves in Long Hydraulic Pipes and Tunnels, 267
Smoke-box Door and Fastener, The “ Carson,” 286
Solignac-Grille Boiler—see Boilers Somersetshire Engineering Works, Petters
Limited, 358, 362 ; (Letter), 622
South African School of Mines and Technology, 509, 518
South Shields, Graving Docks at, 565, 570 Spanner, Ratchet, F. M. Frye and Co., 104 Speakman, E. M., on the Wider Adoption and Standardisation of Water-tube Boilers, 232, 260, 284
Specific Tenacity, 493
Speed Recording, Denny-Edgecombe 472 Spree Tunnel, Accident to, 387
Stability, Approximate, A. R. Liddell, 189 (Letters), 224, 249
Standardisation of Automobile Parts, 654 Standardisation of Road Material, 672
Stanton, Dr. T. E., <on Law of Comparison for Surface Friction and Eddy-making Resistance in Fluids, 321, 324
State-aided Foreign Competition, 72
Staying of Fire-boxes, R. Weatherburn, 507, 559
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Meter, The Curnon, 462
Steam Tractor—see Tractor
Steam Turbines—see Turbines
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Stocks and Strikes, 408, 520 ; (Letter), 471 Strength of Ships—see Ships, General Stresses in Aeroplane Stays, Captain Largier, 386
Stresses in Curved Beams, Ewart S. Andrews,
404
Strikes—see Labour
Stuart-street Power Station, Manchester, 250 Subterranean Gasworks, 327
Suction Gas Producers—see Producers
Sugar Mill for Argentina, A Large, J. McNeil and Co.; 231; (Letter), 333
Superheat and the Marine Engineer, 355 ; (Letters), 411, 441
Superheated Steam Cylinders, Water in, 378 Superheaters, Railway Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives
Superheating Boilers—see Boilers
Surface Friction and Eddy-making Resistance in Fluids, Dr. T. E. Stanton, 321, 324
Survey of Great Britain, Geological, 622
Swing of the Pendulum, 679
Swinton, A. C., on Electricity Supply, Past, Present, and Future, 437
Symons, H. D., and Miles Walker on Heat Paths in Electrical Machinery, 114 ; (Letter), 179
Synthetic Rubber, 654

TANK, William Froude National, G. S. Baker, 321, 349, 415
Tanks, Experimental, The Froude and the Caws, 465 ; (Letters), 499, 551
Tanks, Experimental, Large and Small, 465 ; (Letter), 551
Taylorism Again, 382
Technical Education on the Rand, 509
Technical Schools, The Futility of, R. T. Crane on, 98
Tees, New Dry Docks for the, 542
Tenders, Public, Methods of Inviting, 272
Testing Friction—see Friction
Testing Machine, New Manual, Professors Dixon and Hummel, 361
Tests, Pressure, E. H. Rayner, 201, 209
Thames Shipbuilding, 24, 101
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Mediate Friction, Professor N. Petroff, 244, 294, 351, 376
Thermo-valve, A New, T. Clarke, 580
Thirty-day Non-stop Run—see Engines, Internal Combustion
Thompson, Dr.> S. P., on Magnetism of Permanent Magnets, 656
Tide Indicator, Description of, Commander
J. J. Baugh, 373
“ Tiltometer,” Chemical Injector, George Kent, Limited, 322
Tire Boring Machine—see Machine Tools
Titanic’s Engineers, 441
Torpedo, Development of the, Capitan zur See S. Michelsen, 646
Torpedo, Gun-, The Davis, 205
Towing Locomotive, Electric, 197
Tractor, Steam, with Condenser and Spring Draught Gear, Allen and Simmonds, 125
Trade in Bulgaria, British, 57
Trade Disputes—see Labour
Trade, Foreign, and Commercial Espionage, 625
Trade, Oversea, 94
Trade of the Port of Antwerp, 414, 481
Trade Societies and Apprentices, 625
Trade in Turkey, British, 110
Train Ferry Steamers—see Ships, Miscellaneous
Tram Car Under-frame with Warner Nonparallel Axle Truck, 414
Tramway Car, Petrol-driven, Leyland Motors, Limited, 78
Tramway Power Station at Pinkston, Glasgow, 640, 652
Tramways and Road Obstruction, 43, 47, 510, 515, 520
Transmission of Heat—see Heat
Transport, How to Cheapen A. W. Gattie, 280 ; (Letter), 300
Transporting the Stern Frame and Brackets of the Aquitania, 468, 469
Trevithick High-pressure Engine, Reputed, 660
Trigonometrical Slide Rule, J. Davis and Sons, 621
Tripoli Railway—see Railways, Foreign
Tube Trade Syndicate, International, 598
Turbine, Gas, Norman Davey, 241, 291, 344, 370, 421, 479, 493
Turbine Practice, Steam, Recent Developments, K. Baumann, 76
Turbine Pump—see Pumps
Turbine Steamers—see Ships
Turbine, 4000 H.P., of United States Collier Neptune, 488
Turbine Variations and the Screw Propeller, 597
Turbines at Bury Power Station, 152
Turbines, Steam, Heat Drop in, T. B. Morley, 243
Turbo-alternators,’ Two 3000 K.W., C. A. Parsons and Co., 498
Turbo-Blowers and Compressors, British Westinghouse Company, 578, 579
Turkey, British Trade in, 110
Turner, Professor T., on Behaviour of Certain Alloys when Heated in Vacuo, 88
Turning Circles, Professor W. Hovgaard, 321
Turning Machines—see Machine Tools and Wood-working Machines
Tyne, New Graving Dock on the, Middle Dock and Engineering Company, Limited, 565, 570

UNCONSIDERED Aspects of Ventilation, 304
Unloading Device for Air Compressors, Robey and Co., 542

VALPARAISO Port, The New, 540
Valve, Hydraulic, Holmes and Davy, 234
Valve, Improved Stop, Dikker, 249
Ventilation of Railways—see Railways
Ventilation, Unconsidered Aspects of, 304
Viscosity, Apparatus for Determining, 377
Voltage—see Electrical Matters

WAGES—see Labour
Wagon, 10-Ton, Royal Arsenal Railway, 412

WAR MATERIAL:

See also Annual Article
Gun-Torpedo, The Davis, 205
Manufacture and Treatment . of Steel for Guns, General L. Cubillo, 538, 564, 605, 630
Swing of the Pendulum, 679
Torpedo, Development of the, Capitan zur See S. Michelsen, 646
Warships—see Ships
WATER in Superheated Steam Cylinders, 378

WATER SUPPLY:

See also Annual Article
Charges for London Water, 318
Cheltenham, Rapid Filters for,
Fire Purposes, Supply for, 511
London, Future Supplies of Water for, 547
Oldham, Pumping Station for, 329
Permutit Water Softening—see Annual Article
Purification of Water Supplies, Dr. A. C. Houston on, 458
Rand, Water on the, 57
Sand Washer, W. Polgla.sc, 180
Singapore, Waterworks Extension, 452, 464
Softening of Water—see Annual Article
WATER-TUBE Boilers—see Boilers
Waves in Long Hydraulic Pipes and Tunnels, R. H. Smith, 267
Waves and Ship Form, A. R. Liddell, 343 ; (Letter), 411
Wear, River, South Protecting Pier, 603
Weatherburn, Robert, on Experiments on Fire-boxes, Tubes, and Stays, 188, 217
Weatherburn, Robert, on the Staying of Fireboxes, 507, 559
Welin, A., on Boat Installations on Modern Ships, 373
Wells, G. J., on Prime Costing and Estimating, 273
West African Government Railways, F. Shelford, 195
Wheel Turning Machine—see Wood-working Machines
Wheels, Wire, J. V. Pugh, 117
Wire Wheels, J. V. Pugh, 117 ; (Letter), 207
Wireless Telegraphy Works, Marconi, at Chelmsford, 684
Wood Refuse Suction Gas Producer, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 687
Wood-working Machines:
Boring Machine for the Hubs of Wooden Wheels, A. Ransome and Co., 443
Wheel Turning and Boring Machine, A. Ransome and Co., 443
Wood Planing Machine, Eight-roller, T. Robinson and Son, Limited, 384
Wood Planing Machine, Heavy, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 40
WOOLWICH Footway Tunnel, Temporary Power Plant for, 46

WORKS:

Ashford Locomotive Department of the South-Eastern Railway, 146
Babcock and Wilcox Works at Renfrew, 644
Beardmore and Co., Limited, William, 618
Carriage and Wagon Works at Inchicore, 206 Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, 618
Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company, Limited, 618, 643
Electrical Power Stations—see also Electrical Matters
Hydepark Locomotive Works, 643
Marconi Works at Chelmsford, 684
Petter’s Nautilus Works at Yeovil, 358, 362 ; (Letter), 622
Yarrow and Co., Limited, 618
WORKSHOP Testing, Fatigue of Metals and, 123

YARROW, Harold E.,on Experiments on Watertube Boilers, with Special Reference to Superheating, 350, 355, 363 ; (Letters), 411, 441
Yield Point and Elastic Limit, 72

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