The Engineer 1912 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

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The Engineer 1912 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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A

• ABYSSINIA Provided with Hydro-electric- driven Cartridge Factory, 65
• Accidents Due to Motor Omnibuses and Electric Tramcars, 65
• Accidents Due to Tramcars and Motor Cars, 597
• Accidents in Starting an Economiser, 149
• Acetylene Gas, Great Increase in Development and Application, 303
• Acetylene, Legitimate and Illegitimate Uses, 121
• Acid Resisting Alloys, 83
• Advertising by Quartz Mercury Vapour Lamp in Chicago, 493
• Aerial Ropeway for Passengers up Tyrolese Mountain, 570
• AERONAUTICS
• - Aerial Navigation in Japan, 277
• - Aeroplanes and Aviators for the Balkan States, 493
• - Airship No. 2 for the Admiralty, 225
• - Airships and Atmospheric Disturbance, 199
• - Guidoni Hydro-Flying Machine, 65, 225
• - Hydro-aeroplanes for the Navy, 331
• - Hydro-Flying Machine, Lieut. Calderasa, 225
• - Hydro-Flying Machines for Communication with a Fleet near Home Ports, 13
• - Hydroplane for the Admiralty, Trial at Sheerness, 439
• - Italian Airship Ml, 356
• - Italian Airship for Military Purposes, Successful Trials, 149
• - Night Flying by Searchlight, 303
• - Volunteer Air Corps for German Army, 175
• - Zeppelin Airship Viktoria Luise, Successful Trip, 65
• AGRICULTURAL Camps to Demonstrate Fertility of the Tripolitaine, 65
• Agricultural Motors in the Argentine, Trials of, 316
• Alloys, Acid Resisting, 83
• Aluminium Alloys, To Blacken, 519
• Aluminium Shot, 571
• Aluminium Solders, 571
• Aluminium for Use when Cold : Advantages, 297
• Anthracite Coal, Large Deposits in the Susquehana River, 149
• Apprenticeship System, Need of Revival, 39
• Artesian Tube Well at Amersham, C. Islet and Co., 180
• Artesian Wells in Westminster, Le Grand and Sutcliffe, 78
• Artificial Marble, New Process of Manufacture, 385
• ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
• - Association, British Engineers’ : Names of Officers and Members, 518
• - Association of Engineers, Manchester : Visit to National Gas Engine Company’s Works, 412
• - Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical : Annual Convention, 637
• - Institute of Chemistry : New Buildings Fund, 366
• - Institute, Iron and Steel : Autumn Meeting, 49 Changes and Elections, 454
• - Institute of Marine Engineers : Annual Dinner, 530 Applied Stability of Ships, J. H. Heck, 438
• - Institute, Mining, of Scotland : Annual Dinner, 631
• - Institute, Royal Sanitary : Twenty-eighth Congress, Earl Fortescue as President, 570
• - Institution of Automobile Engineers : Chassis Output at Fixed Price, Series of Papers on, G. Campbell-Taylor, 393 Visit to French Automobile Works in the Paris District, 21 Visit to London Aerodrome at Hendon, 365 Visit to National Physical Laboratory, 488 Visit to the United States, 657
• - Institution of Civil Engineers : Awards for Papers, 412 Bayliss Prize Award, 617 Building Progress and Arrangements, 448 James Forrest Prize, 545 Legacy from Sir James Inglis, 130 Palmer Scholarship, 510
• - Association of Birmingham Students : Problems and Difficulties in Connection with Waterworks, F. W. Macaulay, 545
• - Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Visit to Fairfield Works of Bryant and May, at Bow, 365 Visit to Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company’s Works at Chelmsford, 78 Visits to H.M. New Stationery Office and H.M. Office of Works’ Stores, 606
• - Institution of Naval Architects : Elgar Scholarship Raised in Value, 664 Post-graduate Scholarship in Naval Architecture, 1913, 660 Scholarship Award, 187
• - Institution, Royal : Christmas Juvenile Lectures, Programme. 486 Meetings and Elections, 26, 486, 604 Programme up to Easter, 604
• - Society, American, of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers : Meeting and Programme, 506
• - Society of Engineers : Annual Meeting ; Election of Council and Officers ; Award of Premiums, 662 Generation and Electrical Transmission of Power for Marine Transportation, W. P. Durtnall, 545 Town Planning from an Engineering Aspect, E. R. Matthews, 427
• ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETIES (continned) :
• - Society, Physical : Annual Exhibition, 486, 611
• - Society, Royal, of Arts : Annual Meeting, Report and Elections, 26
• AUTOGENOUS Welding Used by the Romans, Professor Gowland, 671
• Automatic Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, 39
• Automatic Stop Motion for Laundry Machinery, M. Glover and Co., 585

B

• BALL Bearings, Application of, to Engineering, G. W. Goodchild, 597
• Bavarian Nitrogen Works at Munich, 385
• Beater Tubs of Reinforced Concrete, 597
• Bicycle Statistics in France, 39
• Birmingham Gun Trade, Great Activity, 251
• Blast Furnaces and Rolling Mills in France, 675
• Board of Trade Report on Boiler Failures ; Cast Iron Unsuitable for High-pressure Steam Pipes, 545
• Boiler Firing with Fuel Oil, Satisfactory Results, 175
• Boiler Flues, Mechanical Cleaning, 149
• Boiler Settings, 519
• Boilers, Steam, Setting-of, 199, 225
• Boilermakers’ Society Report, 465
• Borough Polytechnic Institute, 634
• Brickmaking in Denmark, 264
• Bridge Test on the New York Barge Canal, 331
• Brighton and Trolley Omnibuses, 519
• Building, Three-storey Brick, Transported Bodily 300ft., 439
• Bulkheads, Water-tight Doors in, 78
• Burst Boiler Tube, Results of Close Examination, 303

C

• CABLE Completed between Syracuse and Tripoli, 93
• Canadian Ores, Electric Smelting of, 623
• Canal, Terneuzen, from Flushing to Ghent, 649
• Canyon Crossing 455ft. below the Hydraulic Grade of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 675
• Car Ferry Fitted with Petrol Motors, 597
• Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen, Experiments to Determine Percentages in Atmosphere which Fail to Support Combustion, 13
• Castor Oil Condemned for Internal Lubrication, 149
• Celluloid Handling and Storing, Home-office Committee, 413
• Celluloid Precautions in Birmingham, 149
• Census of Production, 49
• Chemicals, Storage of, and Attendant Risks, Dr. Julius Aeby, 571
• Chicago Vehicles, Electric and Petrol, 65
• Churns, Gramophones and Dairymaids’ Nerves, 519
• Coal-cutting Machines in United States Mining, 623
• Coal-dust Explosion Prevention, 175
• Coal, Manufacture of Artificial, 331
• Coal Mines, Shot-firing in, Use of Squibs, 519
• Coal Mining, Modern, W. Bentley, 519
• Coal-tar Oil, Increased Consumption for Diesel Engines and Otherwise, 121
• Coinage at the Mint, Statistics of 1911, 465
• Coining Press, Huge Size, for the French Mint. 493
• Coke Ovens to Deal with Coal Dust, 545
• Coke Production and Blast Furnace Working in China, 357
• Cold Water Corrosion, Results of Tests, 303
• Colliery Cable Suspension, Importance of Work. 121
• Colliery Electrical Plant, Installation of, 623
• Commercial Motor Vehicles, Night Shelter Accommodation for, 175
• Competition for Miners’ Lamps, 426
• Concrete Disintegration in Drains, 303
• Concrete, Liquid, Experiments in Lateral Pressure, 199
• Concrete, Physical Properties of, 121
• Concrete, Reinforced, W. N. Twelvetrees, 102
• Concrete for Reinforced Structures, New Method of Pouring, 251
• Condensers and Maintenance of a Vacuum, 121
• Cooling Towers, Need of Care, 331
• Cornwall Dinner, 645
• Corrosion, External, of Fuel Economisers, 157
• Corrosion of Iron by Stray Electric Currents in the Ground, 208
• Crane Controller, Electric. 321
• Creosote as Source of Disease, 93
• Crewe, The Development of, 606
• Crystal Palace Engineering School, Awards for Papers, 686
• Cylinder and Steam Kettle Failures, Board of Trade Report, 649

D

• DAIMLER Petrol-electric Omnibus, 649
• Diesel, Dr. R., on Oil Locomotives, 39
• Diesel Engine, Small Quantity of Cooling Water Required ; Adaptability for Variety of Inexpensive Fuels, 225
• Diesel Engine from the Users’ Standpoint, 439
• Diesel Engines for Large Power Stations, 277
• Docks, East India, Improvements Projected, 82
• Dover Harbour, Closing up of the Western Entrance by the Admiralty, 385
• Drainage Scheme for Dinard, 357
• Drawing Table Lighted from Beneath, 93
• Dynamometer, Direct-reading, 331

E

• EARTH’S Record in the Rocks, A. W. Knapp, 465
• Eastchurch Buildings for Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, 357
• Economiser Efficiencies ; Contraflo Type Recommended, J. W. Jackson, 303
• Economiser, Water Tests on, 149
• Egyptian Locks and Mediaeval Ironwork, 225
• Electrit, an Abrasive, 233
• ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
• - Alternating or Direct-current System for Collieries, 623
• - Alternator for Testing Telephone Apparatus, W. Duddell, 277
• - Atmospheric Electricity Collection and Spiders, 93
• - Augst-Wyhlen Power Station Approaching Completion, 13
• - Automatic Regulators, 316
• - Banked Boilers at Central Stations, F. Ayton, 121
• - Birmingham Electric Supply Extensions, 250
• - Blacksmiths’ Hearths and Electric Blowers, 65
• - Board of Trade Regulations for Electrical Pressure, 413
• - Circuit Breaker Accident at Horsham, 13
• - Circuit Interrupting Devices and Possible Accident, 121
• - Commutation, How to Attain Success, 39
• - Compound-wound Motors for Driving Machine Tools, 413
• - Controller Fingers and Contacts on Tram- cars, Requisite Care, 65
• - Current Supplied to Farmers in America by a Railway and Light Company, 199
• - Dairies, City, Utilisation of Electric Power, 225
• - Diesel Sub-stations in London, 331
• - Direct-current Sub-station Design and the Plant Installed, H. D. Phelps, 649
• - Dundalk Electric Lighting Station, 27
• - Dust-proof Electrical Plant in a Cement Works, 277
• - Dynamo Problems, Solution or Confusion ? 439
• - Earth Faults on Electric Supply Systems, 175
• - Electrical Heater for Shrinking on Wheel Rims, 675
• - Electrical Industry in Switzerland, Advantages of its Low Cost, 385
• - Electrical Projectors, A. Ogilvie, 571
• - Electrical and Telephone Statistics for 1911, 175
• - Electrical Winding Engine, Large, in the United States, 149
• - Extension in Use of Electricity for Power, Lighting, and Domestic Purposes, 13
• - Falmouth, Electrical Exhibition at, 186
• - Furnace Development in Thirty Years, 13
• - Gear Data for Motor Applications, C. W. Drake, 493
• - Generation and Electrical Transmission of Power for Marine Transportation, W. P. Durtnall, 545
• - Generation at Low Cost, Carelessness in Application of Knowledge, G. Wilkinson, 121
• - Generator Driving, Gas, Steam and Diesel Engine Compared, 465
• - High Voltage on Overhead Wires and Lamps in Trains ; Difficulties and How to Remedy Them, 38
• - Hydro-electric Plants for Supply of Current to Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett, 675
• - Iceland’s Available Water Power, 385
• - Imports and Exports of Electrical Goods ; Board of Trade Returns, 225
• - Insulating Materials for Electrical Machines, 286
• - Lamps, Graphitised Filament, Cause of Breakage and Remedy, 65
• - Losses in a Hydro-electric Station, 149
• - Means for Securing Reliability and Maintaining Continuity of Supply, F. Ayton, 331
• - Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, 571
• - Metal Vapour Lamps Giving White Light, German Invention, 597
• - Mica, Superiority as Insulator, 149
• - Mines, Electrical Energy Cheaper to Purchase than to Generate, G. Bright, 225
• - Monophase Furnace, 5-Ton, Experiments with, 331
• - Notes on Power-station Working, J. W. Jackson, 277
• - Oil Switches for Highest Voltage Line in Commercial Operation, 93
• - Oil Switches, Tests in Norway, 439
• - Plant in Electric Power Stations, Life of, Robert Hammond, 519
• - Railless Trolley, First with Alternating Current, 39
• - Rotary Converters for 25-Cycle Six-phase Working, 465
• - Rubber Industry of Japan, Progress in the Electrical Department, 385
• - Rural Districts, Electric Lighting of, 597
• - Shanghai’s Increased Use of Electrical Power, 413
• - Short Circuits, Effect with High and Low- pressure, 13
• - Single-phase Commutator Motors When Producing Useful Braking Action, 519
• - Spanish Demand for Electrical Apparatus, 251
• - Standard Pressures and Periodicities, S. D. Schofield, 492
• ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued)-.
• - Sterilisation of Water by Electrically Produced Ozone, 675
• - Stoutness, Electrical Treatment to Remedy, 439
• - Telephone Transmitter for Controlling the Speed of Motors Used for Water, Heating, and Ventilation Systems, 277
• - Testing Transformers, Temperature and Rating, 649
• - Tires for Electric Vehicles, 65
• - Titanium for Electric Glow Lamp Filaments, 251
• - Transmission Line Poles and Cross Arms Treated with Creosote Oil, 465
• - Tungsten Contacts Outlast Platinum and Platinum-iridium, 149
• - Tungsten Lamps, Single-conductor, Steel- taped Cable for Supplying, 39
• - Turbo Generator, Remarkable Test Results. 555
• - Tynemouth Corporation Electricity Works, Favourable Year’s Working, 597
• - Volts by the Million, Tesla’s Experiments, 199
• ELECTROLYSIS Damage in Chicago, Cost of Preventive Measures, 277
• Electrolysis Viewed as an Interesting Freak, 357
• Enamelling, an Egyptian Art, 65
• Engine Bed of 120 Tons Cast by American Firm, 199
• Engineering Standards Committee, 290
• English McKenna Process Company, 584
• Essay Competition for Prizes of the Keighley Association of Engineers, 488
• Exhibition, Engineering, at Bristol, 212
• Exhibition of Foreign Hardware from South Africa, List of Questions suggested by the Exhibition, 236
• Expansion in Steam Pipes, Necessity of Guard Bolts, 175
• Explosion of Compressed Ammonia Flask, 193
• Exports from the United Kingdom, 93

F

• FARMERS and Private Telephones in Northern Ontario, 545
• Feed-water Heaters, Open, Advantages and Drawbacks, 225
• Files, Re-sharpening, 331
• Fire Engine, Motor, at Rochdale, 390
• Floating Dock, Dreadnought, Successful Trial, 393
• Floating Dry Dock at Toronto, 357
• Fluorspar Output in the United Kingdom, 385
• Formosa, Trade Statistics of the Island, 357
• France : Warning to British Contractors, 634
• Fuels for Internal Combustion Engines, Engineer-Commander A. E. Tompkins, 519
• Furnace, Nickel Refining, New Type, 649
• Furnaces and Appliances for Burning Coal Tar Oil, Naphthalin, andc., 121

G

• GARDENING and Land Tillage by Explosives, 493
• Gas Authorities (Residual Products) Committee’s Report, 649
• Gas for Heating and Lighting, Hygienic Aspects of, Professor V. B. Lewes, 417
• Gas, Natural, in Kansas, 365
• Gas Power for Heating Purposes, D. R. Wilson, 259
• Gas Producer Plant, Economy in Coal Consumption, 251
• Gas Producers with Different Fuels, Operation of, R. H. Femald, 413
• German Machine Tool Trade Improvement, 519
• German Silver Castings Improved by Addition of Vanadium, 493
• Ghent Exhibition, Textile Machinery, 448
• Glasgow Royal Technical College Scientific Society :
• - Railway Signalling, L. P. Lewis, 532
• - Steam Friction in Turbine Wheels, W. Kerr, 631
• GOLD Output from the Gold Coast, 65
• Governing of Oil Engines, 597
• Graphite as a Solid Lubricant, 562
• Gun Trials Against Airships in Italy, 156

H

• HARBOUR at Bengasi, Difficulties in Construction, 331
• Hardening Twist Drills and Screw Taps, 597
• Heat Value Specifications in Sales, of Coal and of Fuel Oils, 121
• Heating and Ventilating Engineering Studentship, 585
• Heating and Ventilation Experiments at Cambridge, Professor J. B. Lock, 597
• Heavy Oil Engines, Captain H. Riall Sankey, 465
• High-pressure Gas for Manufacturing Purposes, A. W. Onslow, 251
• Hot and Ice-cold Water, Natural Supplies Side by Side in Australia, 649

I

• ICEBERGS, Experiments with System for Locating. Dr. M. Coplans, 384
• Ignition Tests with Explosive Gas Mixtures, 303
• Illuminating Engineering, Results of Study, L. Gaster, 623
• Illumination in Factories, Comparison between Gas and Electricity, 39
• Indian Bridges, Howrah and Sara, 675
• Industrial Accidents Due to Insufficient Illumination, 251
• International Reciprocation among Engineering Societies, 303
• Iono-magnetic Rotation, Professor Righi, 519
• IRON AND STEEL:
• - American Iron and Steel Association, Statistical Report, 357
• - Cast Iron and Superheated Steam, 545
• - Fremont Impact Test for Steel, 331
• - Iron Borings in Concrete Floors for Foundries, 493
• - Iron Mountain of Durango, Mexico, 439
• - Iron and Steel Works on the Rand, Utilisation of “Scrap,” 225
• - Malleable Iron Founders’ Association, 571
• - Modem Steel Foundry Practice, S. R. Robinson, 675
• - Origin of the “Steel-eating Worm,” 545
• - Peat Utilisation in Steel Smelting, 439
• - Steel Barrels Replace Wood in United States, 357
• - Steel Used for Transmission Systems, Surprising Amount, 571
• - Steel Works and the Shipbuilding Boom, 582
• - Steels, Classification of, for Small Tools, 199
• - Welded Pipes, 62
• - World’s Pig Iron, 162
• IRRIGATION and Gardens of Eden, Sir William Willcocks, 65
• Irrigation Scheme on Large Scale in New South Wales, 13
• Irrigation of Special Value where Salt is Contained in Rivers, 121
• Irrigation and Water Supply Projects in India, 493
• Italy’s War Expenses, 385

J

• JAPAN’S Consumption of Explosives, 649

K

• KEEFER, Mr. Thomas Cottrin, Proposed Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 156
• Kelvin Memorial, 78
• King and Queen Visit a Steel Wire Rope Works, 92

L

• LAMPS, Carbon and Metallic Filament, on Street Railways, Tests, Doane, 469
• Lamps, Electric Safety, Home-office Competition, 465
• Lamps, Mercury Vapour, for Railway Car Sheds, 465
• Lamps, Miners’ Acetylene, Competition, 426
• Lamps, Safety, Light Affected by Deficiency of Oxygen, Dr. J. S. Haldane and Dr. T. L. Llewellyn, 465
• Laundry Machinery, Automatic Stop Motion for, M. Glover and Co., 585
• Levelling Instruments for Farmers’ Use, Prizes Offered, 12
• Lightning Conductors for Trees, 478
• Lightning Effects at an American Power-house, 413
• Lignite Mining in Erzeroum, 493
• Liverpool Engineering Society :
• - Proposed Bridge Across the Mersey, L. H. Chase, 662
• LLOYDS’ Register Scholarship Examination, 162
• London Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, 448
• Low-pressure Steam Heating as a Valuable Business, 623

M

• MACHINE Tool and Engineering Association, Limited, 474
• Malaria and the Mosquito, Precautions, 13
• Mathematics and Engineering, Sir W. White, 225
• Mean Temperature for 1911, 65
• Mechanical Coal Cutters in Collieries, Attendant Difficulties, 39
• Metals, Effect of Repeated Meltings and Rate of Cooling on Strength, 465
• Mica and Manganese Ore Output in India, 413
• Milk, Electrolytic Purification, 251
• Milking Machines, Extensive Use in Australia, 303
• MINES AND MINING NEWS:
• - Deep Electrically Driven Pumping Plant at Golden Cycle Mine, Cripple Creek, 93
• - Petroleum Mining, Course of Instruction in, 78
• - Safety Lamp Testing near Barrow-in-Furness, 439
• - South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Commissioners’ Report, 413
• - Testing Miners’ Safety Lamps, 303
• - Transvaal Mines, Outlay on Machinery and Plant, 39
• MOLASSES Solution as Dust-laying Spray in African Mines, 39
• Motor Cars in Canada, Extending Use, 413
• Motor Cars, Committee on Horse-power Rating. 327
• Motor Vehicle Trade, Rapid Growth'in Brazil, 251
• Motor Vehicles for Military Purposes, 465
• Moulders’ Sand, Deterioration and Renewal, 545
• Moulding of a Jacketed Gas Engine Cylinder, J. G. Robinson, 493
• Moulds of the Bronze Age, 277

N

• NATURAL Gas for Fuel, 251
• New Caledonia, Export Statistics of Nickel, Copper, Chrome, andc., 357
• Nickel Deposits in China, 623
• Nobel Prize ; Awards for Physics and Chemistry, 519
• Norway, Proposed Motor Services for Passengers and Goods near Bergen, 675

O

• OIL Fuel for Boiler Firing and Diesel Engines, F. Carter, 331
• Oil Fuel for the Navy, Electrical Transmission a Necessity, 175
• Oil Fuel, Solid, The Advantages of, J. T. Armstrong, 413
• Oil Lighting and Origin of Petroleum, 545
• Oil Shale Field in Fifeshire, Admiralty Project for Re-opening, 597
• Osmiridium Production in Tasmania, 39
• Oxy-acetylene Welding of High-pressure Gas Mains, 675

P

• PACKING Rings, India Rubber or Asbestos, 69
• Pads for Reducing Vibration, Mascolite P., 148
• Paints and Varnish Production and Imports into Italy, 465
• Painting by Spraying and Dipping, A. S. Jennings, 438
• Panama Canal Law and Free Importation of Shipbuilding Materials, 519
• Patent Law and Practice, English, American, and German, A. M. Taylor, 571
• Pay-as-you-leave and Pay-as-you-enter Cars on the Cleveland (Ohio) Railway, 385
• Peat as Fuel for a Producer, 93
• Peat for Production of Gas for Motive Power, 93
• Peat Production in the Laboratory, Dr. Bergius, 545
• Petrol-electric Omnibuses, London County Council Tests, 385
• Petrol Motors in American Mines, 93
• Petroleum Imports into London ; Port Authority Regulations, 519
• Petroleum Mining, Course of Instruction in, 78
• Petroleum in Roumania, Greatly Increased Output, 303
• Petroleum, World’s Production, 413
• Pit Sinking Record in the Doncaster Coalfield, 303
• Plastering Walls by Spraying, German Patent, 121
• Platinum and its Substitutes, 623
• Poles, Life of, in Certain Soils, Suitable Timber and Treatment, 571
• Poplar Cultivation for Use in Paper Making, 303
• Port of London Authority New Offices, 64
• Portland Cement and Mortar, Effect of High- pressure Steam, Tests, 13
• Postal Telephonic and Telegraphic Improved Services for London and Liverpool, 623
• Presentation to Mr. F. Bailey, Chief Engineer, City of London Electric Lighting Company, 656
• Presentation to Mr. H. H. Couzens, 76
• Presentation to Mr. T. Stevens, 532
• Pumping Water into a Canal to Render it Navigable, 13

R

• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
• - Accident Inquiries Held in Private, 299
• - Accident Statistics in the United Kingdom, 225
• - All-steel Passenger and Goods Wagons, Advantage in Accidents, 65
• - Alternating and Direct-current Motors in Railway Work, 93
• - Ambulance Work on the Great Western Railway, 623
• - Anglo-Continental Express Electric Railways as Defensive Works, W. Rose Smith, 465
• - Apparatus for High-voltage Direct-current Railways, E. S. Johnson, 303
• - Austrian Railway Carriage Electric Lighting, 493
• - Austrian State Railways, Electrification of Section Between Attnang and Irdning, 225
• - Baghdad Railway, Sir Edward Grey on Progress of, 519
• - Baker-street Station and Metropolitan Railway Progress, 93
• - Battery Cars on the Prussian-Hessian Railways, 93
• - Bergen, Electrically Driven Cable Railway, 251
• - Berlin Railway Commission Borrow Hints from London Electrification Results, 303
• - Berlin Transport Problem Report, 439
• - Bombay Local and Suburban Service ; Electrification Proposed, 649
• - Bradford City Tramways, Report and Accounts, 303
• - Brake, Electro-magnetic Track, 439
• - Brighton Railway Electric Service, Satisfactory Results, 199
• - Broken Rails in America, Analysis, 331
• - Buenos Aires Great Southern and Western Railways Amalgamation, 385
• - Buenos Aires Midland Railway Company, Effect of Rain Slips and Strikes, 519
• - Bury Corporation Tramways, Bonuses for Drivers, 413
• - Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Electrification, 331
• - Camera Records of Tramway Accidents, 571
• - Canadian Northern Railway, Mount Royal Tunnel Electrification System, 413
• - Canadian Northern Railway, Plans to Reclaim Bed of Creek for Railway Termini and Improvements in Vancouver, 385
• - Car Axle Breakage and Belfast Tramway Improvements, 649
• - Caribbean Sea, Trujillo, Railway to Juticalpa, 623
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
• - Cast Iron Rails for Vehicular Traffic, 225
• - Central London Railway, Decrease in Passengers, 121
• - Central London Railway Motor Failure, 175
• - Central London Railway, Proposed Extension, 413
• - Change in Practice of Generating Current for Long Lines, 9
• - Charing, Cross and Hampstead Underground Railway, Increased and Accelerated Train Service, 93
• - Chicago Mileage and Railway Track, 65
• - Chinese Railways, 62,000 Miles to be Laid Within Ten Years, 649
• - Coal for Indian Locomotives, Expense of Transport, 149
• - Coasting Clocks for Electric Railways in America, Needful Pracautions, 225
• - Collision at St. Paul’s Station, Board of Trade Report, 13
• - Comparative Cost of Coal for Electrical and Steam Locomotives, 591
• - Continuous System at 1200 Volts, Advantages, 225
• - Corrugation of Rails, 277
• - Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway Extension, 39
• - Deadweight, Accommodation and Comfort, in Travelling ; Comparison between Horse- drawn Vehicles, Motor Cars and Trains, 675
• - Deforestation of Australia and Steel Sleepers, Experiments, 385
• - District Railway’s Service to Putney Bridge. 439
• - Door Fastenings on Railways, Need of Safety Measures, 175
• - Dual System of Rapid Transit for New York City, 439
• - Dutch East Indies Locomotives and Machine Tools Made in Germany, 675
• - Dynamometer Car for the Japanese Government, 545
• - Economies in Electric Railway Operation and Selection of Gear Ratios, 303
• - Economy in Electric Railway Working, 519
• - Electrical Equipment of Long Single-span Bridge in U.S.A., 545
• - Electrical Lighting of Trains in the United States, 597
• - Electrical Locomotives Success on Pennsylvania Railway, 331
• - Electrical Mining Locomotives, A. H. Marshall, 35
• - Electrical Practices of the Third-avenue Railway, 413
• - Electrical Railways, Room for Improvement, K. Simmon, 277
• - Electrical Traction and High Acceleration, 251
• - Electrical Traction in Italy, Extension of, 149 Vehicles in the United States, Statistics, 250
• - Electrical Welding for Locomotive Repairs, 149
• - Electrification of Railways, Choice of System, 649
• - Electrification of Steam Railways. Favourable Results, Mr. Calisch, 303
• - Electrification in Sweden, Peculiar Conditions, 199
• - Elevated Electric Railway for Coal Transport in Italy, 149
• - Feed-water Heating on the Caille System, 465
• - Fire - box Overheating Causes Accident, South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 519
• - Flexible Stays for the Crown Plate of a Locomotive Fire-box, 65
• - French Railway Rolling Stock, Home-made, 339
• - French State Railways Instal Water Troughs and Non-stop Trains, 465
• - Fuel Economy Campaign on Chicago and Alton Railway, 545
• - Gauge Question in Australia, 207
• - German East African Mittelland Railway Completed, 22
• - Glasgow Tramway Accounts, 65
• - Goods Traffic on Prussian Railways, 130
• - Goods Trains Accidents and Board of Trade Inquiries, 121
• - Goods Wagons for Indian Railway, Special Type, 357
• - Great Central Railway Heavy Goods Locomotives for Immingham Dock Traffic, 121
• - Great Eastern Railway Half-yearly Report, 175
• - Great Western Railway New Rolling Stock, 597
• - Great Western Railway, New Station at Dawlish Warren, 519
• - High-speed Electric Railways ; Points of Construction to be Observed, 623
• - Highland Railway Winter Train Service Reductions, 571
• - Honduras, Need of Railways, 251
• - Illumination on Indian Railway Vehicles, 331
• - Indian Railway Statistics for 1911. 175
• - Internal Combustion Locomotives for Waterless Districts, 649
• - Irrigation and Railways in Mesopotamia, Lieutenant P. G. Loch, 493
• - Italian Railway Electrification, 571
• - Italian State Railways Electrification between Rome and Ancona, 281
• - Japanese Coal for Chilian Railways, 413
• - Korean Railway Extension and Trade, 121
• - Light Railway Orders Applied for and Confirmed, 149, 198, 204, 277, 675
• - Light Railways, C. G. Bolas. 439
• - Light Railways (Chemins de fer Vicinaux) Statistics, 244
• - Lighting of Passenger Carriages and Postal Vans. 675
• - Liquid Fuel and Faulty Burners, W. N. Best, 493
• - Load Gauges in the United Kingdom, Variety of, and Difficulties Resulting, 93
• - Locomotive Feed Water Treatment with View to Economy, 519
• - Locomotive, New Type for Chemin de Fer du Midi, Brown, Boveri and Co., 597
• - Locomotives, Electric and Steam, Comparison, 13
• - London, Brighton and South-Coast Railway, Decrease in Revenue and in Working Expenses, 121
• - London County Council Tramways, Cost to the Rates, 39
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) ;
• - London and North-Western Railway, Half- yearly Report, 175
• - London and South-Western Thames Valley Lines, Electrification, 413
• - Ludgate Hill Railway Station, Proposed Building Additions, 93
• - Maintenance Shop Organisation, Electrical, 413
• - Malaria and Italian Railway Employes, 13
• - “Mallet” Articulated Locomotive, Increased Use in America, 199
• - “Mallet” Compound Locomotives, Large Size for Virginian Railway, 251
• - Manchuria-Korea Railway, Shops and Rolling Stock for the, 465
• - Manganese Steel for Cross-overs on the Central London Railway, Great Durability, 385
• - Mercury Arc Rectifiers for Railway Use, Mr. Coffin, 251
• - Mexican Electric Railway, 357
• - Mexican Railway Extension, 331
• - Mexico, Enlargement of National Railways System. 65
• - Midland Railway Half-yearly Report, 174
• - Milan, Gallarate and Varese Electric Railway: Improved Permanent-way and Trains of Double Weight, 121
• - Milan, Proposed Underground Railway, 474
• - Mileage of Electrical Railways in Canada, 385
• - Mileage of the World’s Railways, 357
• - Munich and Berlin Accelerated Railway Service, 39
• - New South Wales Railways Electrification, 417
• - New South Wales Railways Extension. 439
• - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway, Single-phase Working between Boston and Providence, 199
• - Non-coupled Compound Engines on the London and North-Western and London and South-Western Railways, 493
• - North British Railway Derailment, 225
• - North British Railway Extension, 121
• - North British Railway Extension for Development of Coal Traffic, 357
• - North British Railway Rewards for Averting an Accident, 342
• - North-Eastern Railway Electrification Extension, 465
• - Novel Uses of Narrow-gauge Track, 199
• - Oil-burning Locomotive on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Favourable Experiment, 195
• - Oil Fuel on Mexican Railways Effects very Large Saving, 225
• - Overhead Railway from Kurla to Victoria, Bombay, 39
• - Packeting and Marking Railway Tickets in Germany, 149
• - Paris Electric Omnibus Service, 571
• - Paris-Invalides-Versailles Multiple-unit Car, Tests, 545
• - Paris Underground Stations, Indistinct Names, 623
• - Pay-as-you-leave Car Withdrawn, 493
• - Permanent-way, Chairs and Sleepers, Alex. Newlands, 475
• - Petrol-electric Omnibuses for Liverpool, 610
• - Petrol Omnibuses and Electric Traction, Railless and other Systems, 571
• - Petrol Rail Motor Service in Victoria, Australia, 571
• - Petroleum Transit by Pipes to Relieve Railway Congestion, 303
• - Philadelphia Road Transit Company’s Contract for Supply, 439
• - Prussian State Railways Electrification, 65
• - Prussian State Railways Single-phase Locomotives and Motor Car, 357
• - Pyrenees Mountain Electric Railway, 597
• - Radial Buffer, New Type, 331
• - Rail Defects as Cause of Accident, 571
• - Rail Motor Car Driven by Internal Combustion Engine in South Australia, 597
• - Rail Resistance, Improved Method of Securing, 439
• - Rails for the Lehigh Valley Railway, U.S.A., 649
• - Rails, Steel, 8800 Tons, for Mexican National Railways, 649
• - Railway Rate Bill, 597
• - Railway Statistics, United Kingdom, for 1911, 175
• - Railways Bill, Board of Trade Explanatory Memorandum, 649
• - Relation of Central Station Generation to Railway Electrification, Samuel Insull, 225
• - Revolving Fare-table Cabinet, 251
• - Roller Bearings, Railway, J. N. Vandegrift, 199
• - Rolling Stock Demands on South African Railways ; Separate Conveyance of Coloured Passengers, 545
• - Rolling Stock Manufacturers and Railway Managers in France, Half-yearly Meetings for Mutual Plans, 385
• - Roman Monuments and Urban Railway. 493
• - Russian Railway Proposals and Finance 413
• - Russian Railways, Experiments in Electrification. 149
• - Sahara, Exploration by French Government, and Projected Railway, 597
• - Sao Paulo Railway Extension, Consular Report, 121
• - Sardinian Railway Extension and Railway Strike, 39
• - Scale and Water Purification for Locomotive Boilers, 277
• - Semaphore Signal Changes in the United States, 357
• - Shunting 7-Ton Battery Locomotive for Moving Cars in Shops and over Unelectrified Track, 385
• - Shunting Locomotive for New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, 39
• - Signal Post Plates in the London District of the Midland Railway, 331
• - Single-phase Motors and Control Systems on American Railways, 43
• - Single-phase Series Motor for Alternating Current Traction, 13
• - Single-phase System in France, Scanty Use, 149
• - Smoke Reduction by Use of Underfeed Mechanical Stokers and Suitable Coal, 121
• - Steam Consumption Averages on the London and North-Western Railway, 204
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
• - Superheater Locomotives, Steam Regulations when Drifting, 439
• - Swedish State Railway Flashlight Signalling, 545
• - Swiss Federal Railways, Change in Numbering Class of Carriages, 13
• - Tank Locomotives for Express Work, Question of Suitability, 623
• - Telephone System of Train Despatching on the Grand Trunk Railway, 675
• - Telescoping of Carriages, Methods of Prevention, 277
• - Test for Insulators Used in Feeder Construction, 303
• - Tests of Rails at Lehigh University, 675
• - Tourist Inducements by Cinematograph, 623
• - Trackless Trolley System for Shunting Goods Wagons at Altona, 149
• - Train Orders by Telegraph, U.S.A. Monument to Charles Minot, 357
• - Tramcar, New Type for Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, 251
• - Tramcars, Trailer, for London, 106
• - Tramway Extension in the Black Country, 385
• - Tramway Rails’ Effective Value, W. Thorn, 39
• - Tramway Trailers, Statistics, 277
• - Tramways in Bangalore, 277
• - Tramways, Motor and Trolley Omnibuses, Respective Values, 65
• - Tripoli to Gargaresch, Prolongation of Line Projected, 175, 331
• - Trolley Heads of Electric Tramcars, 93
• - Trolley Omnibus Scheme for Brighton and Hove, 65
• - Trolley Omnibuses Employing Alternating Current, 465
• - Trolley Wires, Steel or Copper, Comparison, 13
• - Tunnel between Calgary and Vancouver to Avoid Snow Slides, 385
• - Turbine Set for Locomotive Headlights, 385
• - United States Railways Using Electricity, 493
• - Variable Blast Pipes for Locomotives, 623
• - Vauxhall Railway Accident, 258
• - Wagons, Railway, Demand for, as an Indication of Improved Trade, 303
• - Water-tube Boilers for Locomotives, J. Robert, 199
• - Yangtse Kiang River, Proposed Electric Railway Under, 465
• - Yorkshire Collieries and Railway Facilities, 39
• RAT-KILLING Invention for Ship Use, 493
• Reciprocating Engines, A New Analysis of the Cylinder Performance of, J. P. Clayton, 93
• Reinforced Concrete, W. N. Twelvetrees, 102
• Rioters Tried on Cinematograph Evidence, 175
• Road Board, 47
• Road Board Advances for Road Improvement, 412
• Road Congress, Third International, 22, 474, 636
• Road Repair and Motor Omnibuses, 67.5
• Roads, Machines for Construction and Maintenance of, 12
• Rolling Mill Driving, Power Required, 251
• Rubber, Natural and Synthetic, F. Mollwo Perkin, 649
• Rust Prevention by Zinc, New Method of Application, 413

S

• SAWMILL Refuse as a Fuel in Gas Producers, The Value of, C. E. Snypp, 225
• Scotia Dam of the New York State Barge Canal, Pneumatic Caissons Employed, 357
• Scrap Metal, Market in Italy, 597
• Scrap Metal, Possibilities of Reclaiming, 277
• Screw Connections, Treatment with Graphite to Prevent Rusting on, 357
• Seaweed Treated for Commercial Purposes, 149
• Seven Wonders of the World : Order of Precedence, 385
• Sheet Mill Output in America, Increasing Demand, 39
• SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS:
• - Barges of Reinforced Concrete on the Panama Canal, 277
• - Deep Sounding Record by German Survey Ship, 413
• - Demerara, R.M.S.P., 186
• - “Drake,” Bird or Admiral ? 439
• - Eavestone, Trial of Furness, Withy and Co.’s Sea-going Diesel Motor Ship, 134
• - Fastest War Vessels Afloat, Keel Laying of Armoured Cruiser, 493
• - Firedrake, H.M. Destroyer, Successful Trials, 39
• - Italian Cruiser Libia, Late Abdul Hamid, 545
• - Italian Destroyer Ardito Launched, 519
• - Japanese Naval Orders for France and England, 597
• - Lurcher, H.M. Destroyer, Successful Fullspeed Trials, Yarrow and Co., 318
• - Oil-burning Hamburg-American Liner Christian X., 357
• - Oil Fuel for the Navy, 493
• - Paraffin Motor Barge for the United Alkali Company, 649
• - Shipbuilding Establishment at Reval, 357
• - Shipping Exhibition at Amsterdam, 610
• - Steel Works and the Shipbuilding Boom, 582
• - Submarine Salvage Vessels for the Admiralty, 218
• - Submarines, Tests of Italian Crews in Long Periods under Water, 277
• - Submersible for United States Navy, 277
• - Thunderer’s, H.M. Battleship, Broadsides to Test the Fire Director Invention of Admiral Sir P. Scott, 277
• - Tools for Electricians in the Navy, 571
• - Tug, Electrically Propelled, for Dock in India, 65
• - Turbine Steamer Greenore, 264
• - Turbines, Geared, for Slow-speed Cargo Vessel Cairnross, 571
• - Turbines, Geared Steam, for Marine Propulsion, 675
• - Turbines of the Italian Dreadnought Giulio Cesare, 571
• - United States Naval Annual Report, 675
• - United States Shipbuilding Statistics, 199
• SMOKE Abatement Inspectors, Examination for, 180
• Society Islands and the Panama Canal. 199
• Staffordshire Metallurgical Old Boys’ Association, 534
• Steam Generation ; Defective System ; Gas Firing Recommended, G. Wilkinson, 303
• Steam Regenerative Accumulators, D. R. Morrison, 311
• Steam Traps and Necessary Care, 102
• Steam Traps, Wastefulness of, 623
• Steam Turbine and Blade Cutting in Impulse Wheels, 175
• Steam Turbine Running, Need of Care, 251
• Steam Turbine, The Kienast, 175
• Stratfordians’ Association, 622
• Street Cleaner Worked on the Vacuum System, 93
• Stumpf Engine, Powerful Type, 331
• Submarine Bell near the Lizard, 181
• Sun Power Plant for Irrigation Purposes, 175
• Swimming-baths, Electrolytic Disinfectant in Relation to, Dr. J. G. Forbes, 13

T

• TECHNICAL College Research Work, 623
• Telephone Service in London, Unsatisfactory Condition, 121
• Telephone Time-saver, 199
• Telephones, Automatic, 148
• Telephones, Pocket Portable, for Police Use in Germany, 269
• Telephonic Communication between Berlin and Stockholm, 22
• Textile Machinery at the Ghent Exhibition, 448
• Thermometers in the Engine-room, 478
• Tidal Ebb and Flow for Power Purposes, Hamburg Experimental Plant, 465
• Timber Piles Coated Against Insect Destruction, 357
• Timber for Telegraph Poles, Immense Consumption in America and Canada, 649
• Tin Recovery from Old Cans, 675
• Torpedo Range at Loch Long, Argyllshire, 277
• Tower Higher than the Eiffel, Proposed Erection at Dusseldorf, 439
• Town Planning Competition, 559
• Town Planning, Summer School of, 106
• Tramcars, Motor Omnibuses, and Road Maintenance, 303
• Transmission of Power by Ropes, E. Ken von, 331
• Transport Appliances for Factory Material, 175
• Transporter Bridge, Widnes and Runcorn. Change from Electrical to Rope Haulage, 39
• Tungsten, Ductile, Applications of, C. G. M Fink, 649
• Tungsten for Use in Crookes or X-ray Tubes, 493
• Turbine Blading, Old and New, 195
• Turbine Driving for Steam Generation in Dye Works, 545
• Turbine, Improved New Type, 251
• Turbines and the Critical Speed of the Rotor, 199
• Turbines, Exhaust Steam and Mixed Pressure, Effect of Work of Sir C. Parsons and Professor Rateau, 225
• Turbines and Flooded Lubrication, 93
• Turbines—see also Ships
• Turf as Fuel in the Faroe Isles, 331
• Twist Drills, English and American, Cost and Duty, 623
• Tyne, Launches During August, 251

U

• UNIVERSITY of Bristol: Examinations List in Engineering, 135
• University of London : Goldsmid Scholarship. 187

V

• VACUUM Cleaners and Difficulties, 93
• Valves Turning Clockwise or the Reverse, Need of Standardisation to Avoid Risks, 385
• Ventilation by Individual Air Ducts, Experiments in Schools, 199
• Vibration, Comparative, of Reinforced Concrete and Steel with Masonry Tests by French Railway, 385
• Victorian Water Commission, Results of Survey, 385
• Volatility of Metals, Professor T. Turner, 571

W

• WATER SUPPLY:
• - Boston and District Water Consumption, 357
• - Fraserburgh New Water Supply, 13
• - Sterilisation of Water by Electrically Produced Ozone, 675
• WATER-TIGHT Doors in Bulkheads, 78
• Watt, James, R. H. Kirton, 534
• Welded Lap Joints in Boiler Plates, German Tests of Heating, 149
• Welding and Soldering Fluxes, 439
• Well Boring at Shoeburyness, 180
• Well at the New Marconi Works, C. Isler and Co., Limited, 49
• Westinghouse Steam Turbo-generators, Developments, 623
• Whitehall Club Dinner, 514
• Wilbur Wright’s Last Letter, 13
• Willcocks, Sir William, and Gardens of Eden, 65
• WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY:
• - Condensers Used in Wireless Telegraphy, W. Torikata and E. Yokoyama, 597
• - East Coast Chain of Wireless Stations, 465
• - Foreign-going Vessels and Statutory Regulations for Wireless Equipment, 199
• - French Fishing with Wireless Equipment, 277
• - Germany and Wireless Telegraphy, 22
• - United States Naval Wireless Station Tested, 597
• - Wireless Compass for Ship’s Use in Fog, 251
• - Wireless Stations and Earthed Wires, 39
• - Wireless Telegraphic Waves Received from the Sun as the Source of All Human Energy, 675
• WIRELESS Telephony between Rome and Tripoli, 675
• Women to Learn Plumbing, Carpentering, &c., 303
• Woolwich and North Woolwich Tunnel, 65

Y

• YARROW Convalescent Home, 92

Z

• ZINC Smelting, Furnace Temperature for, 251

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