The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1915 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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A

• ACCIDENTS in London Streets, Great Increase, 273
• Acetol for Removing Carbon Deposit from Engines, 11
• Acetone Production from Wattle Wood, Investigation, 11
• Acetylene Gas, Corrosive Effect on Pipes and Metal Containers, 435
• Acetylene Gas Generating Apparatus, Nonexplosive Gas at Low Cost, 273
• Aerial Ropeways for the War-office, Record Speed in Manufacture, 389

AERONAUTICS:

• - Advisory Committee Investigations Relative to Stability of Aeroplanes, 11
• - Aeronautical Institute of Great Britain, 353
• - Aeronautical Institute of Great Britain, Members, 411
• - Aeronautical Production Committee, 540
• - Aeronautical Production. Funds Needed for Organisation, 553
• - Aeroplane Industry to be Started in Australia, 87
• - Aeroplanes and Aero Engines Supplied to the Allies by the United States, 225
• - Fourth Aeroplane Presented to Royal Flying Corps by Gold Coast, 553
• - Grahame-White and his Aviation Company, 157
• - Huge Triplanes to be Constructed by Germany, 481
• - Hydro-aeroplanes, Design of Hulls, H. C. Richardson, 133
• - Military Aeronautics, Men Needed in Inspection Department, 518
• - Parachute Life-saving for Aviators, 179
• - Royal Naval Air Service, Rapid Expansion of Personnel and Materiel, 249
• - Signalling from an Airship, Electric Flashlight, 553
• - Wireless Telegraphy Instruction for Flying Corps, 35
• AFRICA, formerly German South-West—see German
• Air of the City of London ; Rain Water Analysis and Dirt Revelations, 356
• Alloy, New Acid-resisting, 529
• Aluminium Alloy, Non-sweating and Non- corrosive, 273
• Aluminium Alloy Piston Cast in Permanent Moulds, Standardisation of, in the United States, 457
• Aluminium Alloy Pistons on Motor Car Engines, 36
• Aluminium Castings, Need of Suitable Tools and Lubricants, 365
• Aluminium Consumption, Steady Increase, 225
• Aluminium Recovery in Melting Chips, Mechanical Cleanliness, 625
• American Industries Benefit from European War, 597
• American Machines for Trench-digging at the Canadian Training Camps, 133
• American Motor Cars, Improvement Predicted, 365
• Anti-aircraft Guns, Tests at Copenhagen, 625
• Aquatic Molluscs of South Galway Destroyed by Motor Barges, 317
• Architects and the War Department, 157
• Arsenate of Calcium as an Insecticide, 389

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETIES:

• - Institute, The Aeronautical, of Great Britain: Inauguration, 353
• - Institute, Iron and Steel
• - Annual and Autumn Meetings for 1916, 51(5
• - Institute of Metals :
• - List of Papers, 169
• - Birmingham Section : Metallurgical Problems Arising Out of the War, 553
• - Institute, The Royal Sanitary :
• - Programme of Lectures, andc., for Sanitary Officers, 110
• - Institution of Civil Engineers :
• - Awards for Papei 8, 407
• - Earlier Hour for Meetings, 468
• - Institution of Electrical Engineers :
• - Museum of Interesting Historical Specimens of Apparatus, 203
• - Birmingham Local Section : Arrangements for Meetings, 396
• - Manchester Students’ Section : All Meetings Cancelled, 577
• - Newcastle Section - Power Station Switchboards and Switchgear, Design of, P. V. Hunter, 553
• - Institution of Locomotive Engineers (Incorporated) :
• - Change of President, 564
• - Institution of Naval Architects :
• - Dates for Next Annual Meetings, 457
• - Scholarship Award, 237
• - Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
• - Future of British Engineering and Shipbuilding, E. W. Fraser Smith, 179
• - Institution, Royal :
• - Meetings and Elections, 76, 431, 564
• - Programme of Lectures before Easter, 564, 584
• - Society of Engineers :
• - Awards, Elections and Membership, 577

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES (continued):

• - Society, Faraday :
• - Corrosion of Metals, Ferrous and Nonferrous, 540
• - Society, Royal :
• - Consumption of Carbon in the Electric Arc, Professor W. G. Duffield, 601
• - Society, Royal Meteorological :
• - Incidence of Bright Sunshine over the United Kingdom During Thirty Years, 1881-1910, F. J. Brodie, 600
• - Mounting and Illumination of Barometers and Accuracy Obtainable in Readings, J. S. Dimes, 492
• - Rainfall over the British Isles, N. A. Comissopulos, 492
• - Remarkable Cloud Phenomena, Dr. W. Galloway, 600
• AUTOGENOUS Welding and the Need of Care, 324
• Automatic Stokers, Large Capacity, The Erith- Riley, 73
• Automobile, Delivery, Record Run, 601
• Automobile Speedway. Timber Track, 553
• Automobiles, Solid Tire Rims, Engineering Standards Committee, 26

B

• BEARING Metal, Choice of, under Abnormal Working Conditions, 6
• Bearings, White Meta], Roller and Ball, Relative Efficiency, 225
• Belgian Commission for Military Inventions, 330
• Belts, Oak-tanned Leather, Relative Humidity, Investigations, Professor W. W. Bird and F. W. Roys, 411
• Benzol for Mixture with Petrol in Car-running, 179
• Benzol and Toluol, Manufactare in Germany Restricted, 389
• Birmingham’s Enormous Water Consumption, Hardness of Water, 35, 529
• Birmingham’s Exports to America, Decline in Trade, 157
• Birmingham Municipal Gas Economy, 365
• Blueprinting Typewritten Sheets, 528
• Board of Trade Twopenny Handbooks to Aid Employment Committees, 365
• Board of Trade and Unemployment, 61
• Boiler Attendants, Advice to, Annual Memorandum, C. E. Stromeyer, 341, 376
• Boiler Explosions .with Cast Iron Heating Boilers in the United States, 249
• Boiler Plugs, Fusible Tin, Result of Investigation, 87
• Brest Harbour, Natural and Engineering Advantages, 625
• Briquetting Plants and Fuel in the United States, 179
• Bristol Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, War Service Record, 61
• British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Decision Against Annual Dinner, 516
• British Industries Fair, 625, 638
• British Thomson-Houston Man Awarded D.C. Medal, 146
• British Trade Prospects in China, 307
• Bullets in British and American Shells, Comparison, 111

C

• CABLE Communication Between United States and Germany not to be Restored, 35
• Calcutta’s Foreign Trade, Decrease Due to War, 295
• Calorimeter, New Type, H. C. Dickinson and N. S. Osborne. 11
• Canada, Effect of the War on Immigration into, 337
• Canadian By-product Coke Oven Plants, 133
• Cast Iron Blanking Dies, F. C. Mason, 11
• Cement, Establishment of Laboratory for Testing, 435
• Centrifugal Pumps, Proper and Improper Packing, 411
• Ceylon Plumbago, 608
• Chains and Lifting Appliances and Legal Regulations, Home-office Memorandum, 601
• Chemical Industry of Roumania, Lack of Material, 203
• Chemical Science and the War, 179
• China as a Market for Machinery and Electric Lighting Installations, 255, 577
• Chinese Neglect of Machinery ; Consul’s Suggestion to British Manufacturers, 317
• Christmas Juvenile Lectures, Professor H. H. Turner, 431
• Cloth for Aircraft, Measures to Prevent it Reaching Enemy, 317
• Coal Bureau in Holland, 133
• Coal Consumption Increase in China, 625
• Coal Deterioration ; Methods of Storage, 295
• Coal Output and Transport Shortage, Board of Trade Letter, 317, 341
• Coal Price and Heating Value, 111
• Coal Storage at Hammersmith, 317, 341
• Coal Supplv, Board of Trade Announcement, 540
• Coke Breeze as Locomotive Fuel, 61
• Coke and its By-products in Germany, 11
• Coke Supplies and Maximum Prices, 601
• Coking Slack Shortage, Board of Trade Suggestions, 601
• Concrete, Ordinary and Reinforced, Roads, and Gas Mains Question, 601
• Constructional Data for Telescope Objectives, 264
• Copper Extraction Plant in the United States, 249
• Copper Goods for Holland, Copenhagen and Sweden, Sudden Remarkable Increase in Extent of Orders, 411
• Copper in South-West Africa, 73
• Corrosion of Metals : Ferrous and Non-ferrous, 540
• Corrosion of Small-sized Articles, Method of Protection, 529
• Cranes, Advantages of Electric Working Compared with Hydraulic and Steam, C. H. Woodfield, 18
• Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Awards, 145, 636
• Cutting Odd Threads, 636

D

• DESIGN and Lubrication of Bearings, F Foster, 35
• Diesel Engine, New Type for Italian Government, Franco Tosi. 411
• Differential Resonator for Tuning Musical Instruments, andc., De. E. H. Murfee, 61
• Drawings of Machinery, Hint for Draughtsmen, 3
• Drills and Drilling Machines : Which is at Fault? 601

E

• EDINBURGH Castle One o’clock Time Gun Put out of Action by Lightning, 179

ELECTRICAL MATTERS :

• - American Electrical Industry and the European War, 249
• - Arc Generators of Large Size for Radio - Telegraphy, 601
• - Birmingham" Electrical Supply; Difficulties Ending with Completion of Temporary Station, 435
• - Cable Testing; Possibility of Undetected Flaws, 273
• - Car Testing Set at Purdue University, 273
• - Circuit Breaker, New Form, 61
• - Circuit Breaking under Control for Scientific investigations, 87
• - Classification of Alternating-current Motors, V. A. Fynn, 133
• - Commutator Life Increased by Insulating Paste Filler, 157
• - Concrete in Cold Weather Kept Warm by Electric Car Heaters, 457
• - Determination of Resistances, 249
• - Developments in Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson, 625
• - Dredger with Self-starting Synchronous Motors, 203
• - Dust-collecting Van, Electric, Success, 317
• - Edison Battery 30-Cwt. Vehicle for Edinburgh, 317
• - Electric Delivery Vehicle as an Economy for the Small Tradesman, New Edison Battery Type, 411
• - Manufactures in the United States, June Exports, 365
• - Meters and Spiders, 111
• - Motor Cars, Cost of Running, 179
• - Standards Committee Rules, 470
• - Tramcar Company to Repair Motor Cars Damaged in Collisions, 157
• - Vehicle Committee, Meeting, 389
• - Electrocution by Thief-catching Device, 481
• - Ferry, with Overhead Trolley Conductor, at Strasburg, 577
• - Fog Dispelled by Electrical Machine, Experiments in San Francisco, 457
• - France and the Electrical Industries During the War, 273
• - Furnace, Electric, Development in the United States, 341
• - Generator, 10-kilowatt, 10,000-volt Continuous-current, 625
• - Generators, Design of, to Produce True Line Curve, 225
• - Generators, Freedom from Fire Damage, 577
• - Historic Electrical Apparatus Collection, 61
• - Imports, Electrical, of the United Kingdom, Increase Since the Outbreak of War, 61
• - Injurious Harmonics in a 750-kilowatt Generator, 157
• - Insulation Strength of Transformer Oil used with High Voltage, 356
• - Iron as Substitute for Copper in Transmission Lines for Germany, 295
• - Leonard Control Applied to Mine Hoists, R. Torikai, 553
• - Live Wire Risks, Involuntary Connection, 553
• - Locomotives, Powerful Single-unit Mine, 35
• - Mechanical Stresses and Electrical Apparatus, 389
• - Meter Registration Affected by Surrounding Magnetic Fields, 481
• - Mossay Electric Vehicles for Refuse Disposal Works, 35
• - Noisy Alternator and the Remedy, 157
• - Oerlikon Works Special Transformer for Own Laboratories, 245
• - Oil-cooled Transformers and Short-circuiting,
• - Oil Switches as a Cause of Danger, 273
• - Organising the Electrical Supply, Howard Foulds, 534
• - Photometry of Stars, Electrical ; Use of the Selenium Bridge, Stebbins, 317
• - Pocket Blasting Machine, Electric, 317
• - Portable Power Plant on a Motor Truck for Film Production at Night, 389
• - Power Factor Correction, 273
• - Power Factors of New Incandescent Lamps with Spiral Filaments, 35
• - Power Transmission, Unique Example, 240
• - Protection of Conductors Against Danger from Stray Currents, 389
• - Pumping Experiments, Electrical, in India, Successful Results, 317
• - Refrigeration Installations, Great Use in Silk Dyeing, 35

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

• - Rickshaws in India, Suggestion to Replace by Electric Vehicles, 389
• - Rotary Hammer Type of Electric Drill, 529
• - Russian Military Industries Committee, Removal of Electrical Apparatus, 415
• - Sand or Earth Resistance to Electric Current, 411
• - Scotland, Electrical Supply for, Suggested Division into Three Areas only, W. W. Lackie, 457
• - Separation of Voltage Wave into its Component Harmonics, 389
• - Short Circuits and Protective Measures, 15
• - Simla Municipal Electric Supply, Extension in Hand, 341
• - Snow White Glass for Electric Lamp Shades, 295
• - Solid Tire Does 25,000 Miles on Electric Vehicle, 10
• - Static Charges of Electricity, 249
• - Temperature Rise for Transformer Oil, 203
• - Three-phase Motor Coal Trucks, 457
• - Three-storey Building to House a 60-Cycle 1,000,000-Volt Transformer, 577
• - Transformers. Large, Need of Satisfactory Arrangements, for Oil Drainage, 341
• - Use of Water Power for Generating Stations in Spain on the Increase, 457
• - Watering Van, Electric, for Blackpool, 317
• - White Flame Arc, Twenty-five Ampdres; Light Valuable for Colour Testing, 457
• - Worcester City Electricity Department, Absence of Profits, 87
• ELECTROLYTIC Antimony Refining, A. G- Betts, 601
• Emissivities of Metals and Oxides near Melting- point, G. K. Burgess and R. G. Waltenberg. 61
• Engineering Institutions, Unauthorised Use of Letters and Abbreviations Signifying Membership, 111
• Engineering Institutions’ Volunteer Training Corps, 19—see Miscellaneous Index
• Engineering Standards Committee : Electrical Standards Committee Rules, 470
• Engineering Standards Committee, Solid Tire Rim Diameters for Automobiles, 26
• Exhibition of Empire Natural Resources, Institute of Industry and Science, 11
• Explosion in the Grain Bin of a New York Elevator, 249

F

• FARMING in Oregon Greatly Assisted by Electricity for Light and Power, 203
• Fibrox, Dr. E. W. Weintraub, 178
• File Sharpening, Sand-blasting Apparatus for, 553
• Filter Papers, Toughening, 365
• Fireproof Building Material, 111
• Forgings, Question of Extrusion of Metal, 457
• Foundry Operations with Bronze, 553
• French Bomb-throwers and German Captures of “Guns,” 273
• Fruit Cleaning and Grading by Machinery, 480
• Fuel Binder, French Patent, 411
• Fuel Gas Used in Autogenous Welding, Discovery of Cheaper Substitute, 133
• Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters
• Furnaces in Sheffield, Simple Induction versus Crucible, 625
• Fusible Tin Boiler Plugs, Investigation, 203

G

• GAS Companies and the War-office, 553
• Gas Engineering and Gas Manufacture, 306
• Gas Extraction from Peat Mixed with Coal, 625
• Gas Meter Reading by Photography, 225
• Gas and Petrol Engines at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, 364
• Gas Production from Mixture of Pear with Coal. 341
• German and Austrian Trade Capture, Board of Trade Inquiries Lists, 341
• German Chemical Research to Find Substitutes for Aluminium, Brass and Copper, 87
• German Chemists for France, 295
• German Copper Scarcity; Flex to be Made with Iron Wire, 435
• German Economics According to Dr. W. Rathenau, 317
• German Export Trade and War Committee of German Industry, 157
• German Food Cost and the British Blockade, 157
• German 42 cm. Gun, Secret of Dimensions and Character, 577
• German Hunt for Copper in Switzerland, Advantage Taken of Peasants’ Ignorance, 273
• German Jute Spinning and Weaving Works, Search for Substitute for Indian Hemp, 249
• German Labour Disputes in 1915, Statistics, 534
• German Labour Returns ; Reduction in Work¬people ; Employment of Women, 203
• Germans’ Live Wire Barricade between Holland and Belgium, 435
• German Locomotives for Norway and Lack of Copper, 365
• German Oil Fruits and Demand for Grease, 341
• German Reports of Plenty in Home Supplies of Food and Steel, 389
• German Requisitioning of Metal, Metal Utensils, Instruments, Church Bells, andc., 202
• German South-West Africa Prior to the War ; Projected Aerial Photographic Survey, 133
• German Trade Unions’ Huge Payments to Members’ Families in connection with the War, 225
• German War Trophies on the Horse Guards Parade, 481
• Germany and the Ironmongery Trade, 553
• Girl Turning Out Shells from a “Gisholt” Combination Turret Lathe, 625
• Glasgow, Co-ordination of Naval, Military and Civil Requirements, 203
• Glass and Porcelain Scientific Apparatus ; Manufacture in this Country Considered, 157
• Glass for X-ray Bulbs in France, 179
• Gold Find in China, 295
• Goods Imported from Enemy Countries Before the War, Board of Trade Regulations, 577
• Greenwich Observatory, the Moon, the Earth, and Navigation, 11
• Grinding Wheels, Speed, andc., Recommended, C. G. Smith, 411
• Guns, Disappearing, for Submarines and Against Aircraft, United States, 111

H

• HEATING Concrete with Car Heaters to Lay Street Track in Winter, 505
• High-speed Tools, Difference Between Hardness and Cutting Ability, 577
• Hottest Region in the United States, Shade Temperature of 134 deg. Fah., 577
• Humidity, Effect of, on Leather Belting, 179
• Hydro-electric Development in the Western States of America, 133
• Hydro-electric Installations in the Caucasus, 179
• Hypochlorite of Magnesium, Electrolytically Made, Advantages, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 87

I

• ILLIUM, New Acid-resisting Alloy, 529
• Impure Platinum Crucibles; Thermo-electric Test, 435
• India’s Cotton Waste, Former Exports to Germany, How to Utilise in India, 225
• Institutions—see Associations

IRON AND STEEL:

• - Critical Points in Iron, Steel and Non-ferrous Alloys, “Scimatco” Method of Accurate Determination, 481
• - German Comments on Professor Arnold’s Theories of Steel Development, 435
• - High-speed Steel, Scarcity in the United States, 132
• - High-speed Steels, Wet or Dry Grinding, 553
• - Iron Ore Output of Algeria, 87
• - Magnetic Test of Steel Rails, 35
• - Marked Bar Prices Advanced to £12 10s. a Ton, 365
• - Plate Mill, Largest in the World, 625
• - Production of Various Grades of Pig Iron from the Same Blast Furnace Heat, Successful Experiments, 529
• - Research Committe, Joint Action, 529
• - Resicza Steel Works, Hungary ; Vast Military Importance to Hungary, Possibilities of Balkan Outbreak, 277
• - Scrap Iron Collection by Germans in Russian Poland, 87
• - Sheet Manufacture, Galvanised Sheets and High Price of Spelter, 35
• - Spectroscopic Analysis of Steel, 389
• - Steel Analysis by Spectroscopic Methods, 87
• - Steel Used for Motor Vehicles, Joint Research to be Undertaken, 435
• - Tests of Piston-rods Made of Special Steel, 317
• - Tubes and Sheets of Electrolytic Iron, Process at French Works, 529
• ITALY’S Foreign Trade, 133

J

• JAPANESE Glass in Great Demand in England to Replace Supplies from Belgium and Germany, 510

L

• LADDERS for Lamp Operators in Chicago Streets, Novelty in Fixing, 389
• Lead Coating for Iron and Steel for Tank Linings, Condensers, andc., 225
• Lead-covered Cables, Telephone and other, Destroyed by Boring Insect, 203
• Lighthouse Station for Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea, 389
• Lighting in the Metropolitan Area During War, Reduction and Uniformity, 341
• Lorries, French Military, Rods to Prevent Overturning, 295

M

• MACADAM Streets, Destruction of, Stronger Foundations Needed, H. E. Stilgoe, 601
• Machine Tools for Manufacture of War Munitions, 11
• Machine Tools, Prohibition of Importation, 529
• Manchester Atmospheric Pollution Measured by Automatic Electric Apparatus, W. Thomson, 61
• Manchester’s War Trophy, 179
• Manganese Exports from India, 111
• Manganese Ore Exports from Russia, 87
• Melting Points of Chemical Elements, Washing¬ton Bureau of Standards Table, 365
• Mexico as an Oil Fuel Producing Country, 435
• Mica Abundance and Unsatisfactory Returns in India, 411
• Mine Explosions due to Preventable Causes, 529
• Mines in South Wales, Inspector’s Report, Statistics, 295
• Mines in the United Kingdom, Home-office Blue-book, 411
• Mining at a Vertical Depth of a Mile Below the Surface in Brazil, 457
• Ministry of Munitions, Appointment of Sir Salter Pyne, 337
• Misfiring on a Ford Car, 317
• Motor Car Construction, Standards for Various Components, 203
• Motor Car Tires, Necessity of Perfect Alignment, 203
• Motor Car Trade and American Competition, 273
• Motor Cars, Chassis and Parts, Statistics of Imports into the United Kingdom, 411
• Motor Cars in the United States, Date of Announcement of New Models, 481
• Motor-cycle Two-stroke Petrol Engine, 461
• Motor Factories’ Value for Munitions, British Output will Exceed German, 577
• Moving Picture Plant, Artificial Illustration, Experiments to Replace Daylight, 225
• Munition Factories’ Work Imperilled by Scarcity of Labour at Gas and Electrical Supply Works, 457
• Munition Workers, Classes in Birmingham for Training, 435
• Munition Workers, Skilled, Great Scarcity of, 249
• Munition Workers, Training at King’s College, 19
• Munitions Production in the Manchester District, Organisation, 61
• Munitions Production, Organisation of Voluntary Help, 203
• Munitions Statistics According to Gerrqany, 225
• Munitions of War Manufacture in the United States, Bribing Skilled Workers to Leave Government Work, 111
• Munitions of War, Need of Scientific Assistance, 61
• Munitions of War Production in Italy, New Association Formed, 365
• Munitions of War, Release of Skilled Men from the Army, 133

N

• NATIONAL Physical Laboratory’s Publication to Aid Optical Instrument Makers, 264
• National Society of Brassworkers and Metal Mechanics’ Notice to Workmen, 61
• Naval Shipwrights, Admission of Boys to Training, 553
• Neutral Trading and Declarations before H.M. Consuls, 26
• New Machines in Excess After the War, 11
• New Zealand’s Offef of Machine Guns, 481
• Niagara Gorge, Proposed Dam to Secure 2,000,000 H.P., 225
• Nickel Anodes Welded by Oxy-Acetylene Process, 529
• Nickel Exports from Canada to Enemy Countries, Government Prevention, 295
• Nitrates, Artificial, Hydro-electric Plant for Manufacture in France, 111
• Nitro-toluol Still Explosion in Yorkshire Chemical Works, 597
• Nobel Prize for Physics Awarded to Professor W. H. Bragg for Examination of the Formation of Crystals by X-rays, 481
• Noisy Work, Unnecessary, 480

O

• OILS, Use and Abuse of, on Mining Plant, T. C. Thomson, 485
• Oilstone, Method of Trueing, 435
• Oil Wells in Alberta, 87
• Omnibuses, Petrol or Electric Trolley, Comparison, H. Webber, 601
• Optical Instruments—see National Physical Laboratory
• Oxy-acetylene Welding, Protection of Workers, 87

P

• PAPERMAKING Problems, Prizes Offered, 341
• Paraffin and Petrol for Motor Cycles, 577
• Patents and Enemy Aliens, 341
• Peat and Chalk Used for Briquetting in Canada, 225
• Petrol Consumption of the Overland Car, Test Immediately on Landing, 317
• Petrol Engine, Commercial, Largest Ever Built, 87
• Petrol Engine, Largest Built, for Transportation of Trains Across an Arm of San Francisco Bay, 435
• Petrol Engine on the Two-stroke Principle, 461
• Petrol Lorries or Motor Vans, American or English ? 18
• Petroleum Find in Chili, 111
• Photography, Amateur, Advantage of Gas-filled Tungsten Lamp, 203
• Pig Iron Production by Electric Furnace in Norway, 111
• Piston Ring Fit and Carbon Deposits, 61
• Piston Rings for Motor Car Engines, 295
• Platinum Discovery in Spanish Mountains, 481
• Platinum Purity and Loss of Weight on Heating, andc., Thermo Electric Test, 341
• Portland Cement Manufacture in the Colonies 11
• Portland Cement Production in the United States, 133
• Postal Service of the Royal Engineers Special Reserve, Satisfactory Recruiting, 246
• Potash Deposits in Germany and India Compared, 111
• Potash Mines in Alsace, 481
• Potash, The World’s Supply of, 179
• Pottery Establishments, Waste in Heat and Coal Consumption, 1. R. Wollaston, 365
• Printing Inks, Composition, Properties, and Testing of, 11
• Projectiles in the Human Body, Radioscopic Method of Accurate Localisation, 157
• Provisional Orders, Board of Trade Notice, 494

Q

• QUEENSLAND Production Statistics for 1914, 249

R

• RADIUM Discovery in Colorado Greatly Reduces Cost of Metal, 302
• Radium Mineral Spring, Strongest in the World, 295
• Radium in the Ocean, Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico, 133

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS:

• - Accident,
• - at Enfield Lock Station, Great Eastern Railway, 179, 273
• - Inquiries by the Board of Trade, 111
• - Inqairies Reduced from Lack of Staff and Time, 61
• - Irish Mail at Weedon, 203, 286
• - at Liverpool-street Station ; Necessity for Responsible Ganger, 133
• - to Platelayer Due to Single-line Working, 203
• - at Pollokshaws Station, Collision Between Glasgow Trains, Colonel Druitt’s Report, 203, 365, 389
• - Statistics other than Caused by Shunting, 179
• - at Wilton, London and South- Western Railway, 179, 273
• - Accidents,
• - Blue-book for Quarter Ending March 31st, 365
• - for Quarter Ended June 30th, 577
• - Board of Trade Returns, 11
• - on the Chicago and North- Western Railway, Success of “ Safety First ” Campaign, 203
• - Fatal, Dining Present Compared with Previous Years, 341
• - to Railway Servants Due to Want of Care and Ignorance, 131, 365
• - on the Southern United States Railway Almost Nonexistent, 203
• - Worst Years in United States, 341
• - Africa, Formerly German South-West, Rebuilding of Railways and Conversion of Gauge, 203
• - Alaska Railway in Course of Building by United States Government, 365
• - Ambulance Trains for British Troops on the Continent, Particulars, 87
• - American Railway Association, Death of Mr. W. F. Allen, 553
• - American Railway Statistics, Wages, Revenue and Shareholders, 295
• - Annual Report on Railway Accidents, 341
• - Arc Welding for Depositing New Metal on Worn Flanges of Steel Car Wheels, 11
• - Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers v. The Great Northern Railway, 553
• - Australian Government Orders for Locomotives for Trans-Continental Railway, 111
• - Australian Trans-Continental Railway, Good Progress, 295
• - Automatic Adjustment of Brakes, Doors, Lights, and Speed on New York Municipal Railways, 31
• - Automatic Couplings and Discomfort in Railway Travelling, 11
• - Axle Failures, Boa/d of Trade Annual Returns, 389
• - Axle Failures, German-made and otherwise, Board of Trade Investigations, 389
• - Bagdad Railway, Completion of Baghtche Tunnel, 481
• - Baldwin Locomotive Works, Great Increase in Staff, 111
• - Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Largest Business in its History, 553
• - Belfast and County Down Railway Dividend, 82
• - Board of Trade Railway Accident Statistics, 249
• - Board of Trade White Paper on British Railways in 1914, 249
• - Bogie Pins and Accidents, 411
• - Bogie Removal by Electric Crane, 411
• - Brake for Street Railway Cars in Cairo, 481
• - Brighton and Hove Electric Railless Omnibuses, Scheme Deferred, 203
• - British Railway Expenditure in Excess of Receipts, Question to Board of Trade, 525
• - British Railways and the Wartime Traffic, 577
• - British South-West Africa, Restoration of Lines of Communication, Narrow-gauge Lines to be Converted to Standard, 35
• - Broken Rails, Increase of, in the United States, 625
• - Cab Signalling, Necessity for Uniformity Due to Exercise of Running Powers, 61
• - Caledonian and North British Railways, Train Service Curtailment, 505
• - Cambrian Railway Company’s Tank Engines, 577
• - Cambrian Railway Observation Cars, 457
• - Canada, Train Accident Statistics, 59
• - Canadian Railway Development ; Up-to- date Through Passenger Service between Winnipeg and Toronto vid Cochrane, 202
• - Canadian Railways Mileage Increase, 417
• - Carr Bridge Accident an “ Act of God,” 341
• - Central Argentine Railway, New Station in Buenos Aires, 341
• - Chalfont and Latimer, Chorley Wood and Chenies Stations, 435
• - Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Damaged by Beavers, 553
• - Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Further Conversion to Electric Traction, 157
• - Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Electric Locomotives, Special Switch Arrangements for Shed Use, 295
• - Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Electric Locomotives, Specimen on Exhibition, 505
• - Chinese Government Proposed New Lines Outside the Great Wall, 111
• - Cinematograph Instruction in Signalling on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 295
• - City and South London Railway, Change in Source of Electricity Supply, 240
• - Clerks with the Colours, Unstarred, 435
• - Coasting Recorders on Trains, 577
• - Collision on the Great Northern Railway, 249
• - Creosoted Oak Sleepers from Chicago for a South African Line, 317
• - Cruickshank, Mr. A. E , Manager of Gold Coast Railways, Death at Sea, 133
• - Deadweight Haulage, Successful Efforts for Reduction, 601

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, Screw or Cut Spikes, Cost of Track Laying, andc., 56, 61
• - Dent, F. H., South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Manager, Awarded Legion of Honour, 128
• - Derailment at Bulwell Common, Great Central Railway, 337
• - Dividends of Various Railway Companies, 133, 157, 186
• - Driver Retires after Fifty-one Years’ Excellent Service, 87
• - Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Resignation of General Manager, 553
• - Earthquake Shocks, Severe Damage to Southern Pacific Line in Nevada, 511
• - East London Railway, Wapping Station, Stairs Replaced by Lifts, 411
• - Egyptian State Railways, 132,000 Sleepers Wanted, 456
• - Electric Locomotives on the Pennsylvania Railroad, Details of Service, 157
• - Electric Locomotives and other Rolling Stock on British Railways, Statistics, 529
• - Electrification of Main Lines and Economy, W. S. Murray, 11
• - Employers’ Liability and Hartlepool Bombardment, 179, 529
• - Engine and Crew for Yard Service, Cost per Day, 317
• - Engineers at Bristol and Shrewsbury Stations, Changes, 553
• - Erie Railroad, Eightieth Anniversary of Cutting First Sod, 454
• - Euston Station Improvements, 553
• - Farmers’ Goods and Railway Transport Difficulties, 481
• - Fire at the Ediswan Works at Ponders End, 589
• - Fish Traffic from Aberdeen sent Alternately by Caledonian and North British Railways, 553
• - Flashlights as Warning of Single-line Working, 11
• - Fog Signalmen Shortage, Provision of Detonator-laying Machines, 435
• - Freight Locomotives, Largest Type, to Handle Heavy Grain Traffic, 317
• - French and Belgian Railways used by Germans with Storage Battery Cars to Remove Wounded, 87
• - Furness Company’s New Tank Engines, Details, 111
• - Furness Railway Company, Duke of Devonshire’s Retirement from the Chairmanship, 202
• - Gardiner, Major, Deputy Manager, Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, Killed in France, 157
• - German Optimistic Report on Overcoming Difficulties in Russia, 249
• - German Railwaymen, 400,000 Called to Colours, Women Training to Replace Them, 87
• - Glasgow and South-Western Railway Men with the Colours, 481
• - Glasgow and South-Western Railway’s New Engines, 481
• - Gowdall-Braithwell Railway, Yorkshire, 35
• - Grand Central Station, New York, Size and Statistics of Traffic Using it, 295
• - Great Eastern Company, Locomotives Marked with District Numbers, 553
• - Great Eastern Railway, Long Roll of Honour of Men with the Colours, 133
• - Great Indian Peninsula Railway Main Line Re-alignment near Bombay, 529
• - Great Northern Railway Company Ceases to Reserve Seats and Send Advance Luggage, 505
• - Great Western and Metropolitan Railway, Hammersmith and Kensington Rating Question, 157
• - Gretna Railway Accident, Trial of Railwaymen Concerned, 35, 133 ; Another Death, 87—see also Quintinshill
• - Hampton Court Flying Junction on the London and South-Western Railway, 295
• - Hartlepool Bombardment and Employers.’ Liability, 179, 529
• - Heavier Track Construction in the United States to meet Heavier Axle Loads, 411
• - Highland Railway, Change of Chairman, 457
• - Highland Railway, Change of Locomotive Superintendent, 411
• - Highland Railway Company Closes Keith and Buckie Branch Line, Great Scarcity of Men, 153, 225, 273, 341
• - Highland Railway Engine Shortage, 273 ; Improved Situation, 601
• - Highland Railway, Flood Damage, 341
• - Highland Railway Vehicle Returns, 273
• - History by Signboard on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St, Louis Railway, 111
• - Horse-keeping on Premises in Manchester Pronounced Insanitary, 573
• - Impact Resulting from Flat Spots on Railway Loads, 170
• - Improvements in Electric Lighting of Steam Railroad Cars, 505
• - Indian and French Locomotives Built in the United Kingdom, Consultation with Ministry of Munitions, 87
• - Indo-Ceylon Railway, Proposed, 529
• - Interstate Commerce Commission, Accident Statistics in 1914, 87 ; Another Derailment'Due to Broken Wheel, 203 ; Inquiry into Derailment Due to Broken Wheel, 35 ; Reporting of Accidents, 553 ; Signalling Statistics, 83
• - Irish Railway Charges to England, Increase Due to Shipping Freights, 317
• - Irish Railways, Rates and Revenues, 411
• - Italian Electric Railway Scheme, 179
• - Italian State Railways, Large Order for Timber Sleepers from Chili, 133
• - Italian State Railways, New Type of Electric Locomotive, 341
• - Italian State Railways Open London Office, 133
• - Japanese Government Lines, Statistics of Personnel, Rolling Stock and Track, 389
• - Japanese Railway Electrification, Progress, 481
• - Kalgoorlie to Port Augustus Railway, Progress, 317
• - Labelling of Parcels and Goods, Changed Regulations, 225
• - Labour-saving Appliances and War Scarcity of Labour on United States Railroads, 457

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Large Number of Men with the Colours, 435
• - Level Crossings, Booms to Stop Motorists, 225
• - Lever Collars, Employment of, Purely Permissive, 11
• - Lever Collars and Shunted Trains, 11
• - Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 481, 505
• - Liverpool-street Train and Passenger Statistics, 225
• - Locomotive Cabs Numbered to Indicate Correct Shed, 505
• - Locomotive Superintendent and Storekeeper, Question of a Typewriter, 457
• - London and North-Western Camden Engine Shed Men ; Fifty Enlisting in a Body, 529
• - London and North-Western Railway, Efforts at Punctuality in Face of Naval and Military Requirements, 317
• - London and North-Western Railwaymen with the Colours, Casualities and Honours, 61, 272
• - London and North-Western Train Service, Electric Current Tapped for Driving Machinery, 341
• - London and South-Western Electric Service between Waterloo and Shepperton Postponed owing to Interference with Telegraphs and Telephones, 529
• - London and South-Western Railway, Coach in Use from 1834-1886, 133
• - London and South-Western Railway, Improvements at Nine Elms, 87
• - London and South-Western Railway, Large Power-house Opened in Durnsford-road, 505
• - London and South-Western Stations Closed for the Present, 411
• - Long and Short Rails for Railway Track, 365
• - Loop Line for Liverpool and Southport Electric Railway, 87
• - Maine Railroad Abandons Oil as Locomotive Fuel on Account of Cost, 389
• - Manchester and Bury vid Prestwich, Rapid Progress of Electrification, 61
• - Maryport and Carlisle Railway, Change of Engineers in Charge, 389
• - Melbourne Electrification Delay, 111, 529
• - Melbourne Railways Electrification, Signalling Arrangements, 203, 529
• - Metropolitan Railway Company’s Stoker Receives Distinguished Conduct Medal, 273
• - Metropolitan Railway Tank Engine with Robinson Superheater, 601
• - Metropolitan and Greal Central Joint Line, Change of Two Stations Names, 435
• - Midland Great Western Railway, Ireland, Appointment of Assistant to Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent, 553
• - Midland-Great Western Railway of Ireland, Change of Locomotive Superintenent, 481
• - Midland Railway Company’s Staff, Statistics, 341
• - Midland Railwaymen with the Colours, 35
• - Midland Railway Stations in London, Two Closed, 481
• - Motorists’ Risks at Level Crossings, 505
• - Munitions Department, Additional Railwaymen Joining, 35, 111
• - National Union of Railwaymen, Members Lost in the War, 529
• - Newark Accident, Result of Inquiry, 411
• - New South Wales Government and Victoria Government Railways, Scheme for Inter- State Extension, 317
• - New South Wales Railways, Revenue Statistics, 341
• - New York Central Railway, Excellent Record of Empire State Express, 625
• - New York Municipal Railways, Complete Automatic Control, 31
• - New York Rapid Transit, Opening of the Steinway Tunnel, 295
• - Non-inflammable Material for Railway Carriages and the Board of Trade, 625
• - Norfolk and Western Railroad, Correction of Previous Clerical Error, 389
• - North British Company’s Single Line Branch Closed, 249
• - North British Railway Company Wagons Awaiting Repair, 317
• - North-Eastern Company’s Stations Closed Owing to Insufficient Staff, 317
• - North-Eastern Engine-driver and the Hartlepool Bombardment, 179, 529
• - North-Eastern Railway Accident at Micklefield, 601
• - North-Eastern Railway Ambulance Corps, Presentation of Medals, 67
• - North-Eastern Railway Electrified Section from Shildon to Newport, Experiments Prior to Opening, 273
• - North-Eastern Railwaymen with the Colours, and Casualties, 61, 553
• - North-Eastern Railway, Position of Docks Engineer, 341
• - North London Railway, Reduction in Number of Trains, 428
• - North Staffordshire Railway, Death of Locomotive Superintendent, 565 ; New Superintendent Appointed, 553
• - Orleans Railway System, Enormous Service under Military Authorities, 170
• - Parcels Sent by Passenger Rather than by Goods Trains, 505
• - Pennsylvania Railroad, Electrification of Twenty Miles of Line, 203
• - Pennsylvania Railroad’s Grand Prize at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, 157
• - Pennsylvania Railroad, Roll of Honour Replaces List of Punishments, 365
• - Pennsylvania Railroad Servants, Proportion of Italians Learning English, 389
• - Pennsylvania Railroad Statistics, Absence of Passenger Accidents, 225
• - Power Signalling on the New South Wales Railways, W. F. Barton, 411
• - “Prince of Wales” Class Passenger Engines for London and North-Western Railway to Bear War Names, 601
• - Qualities of Good Steel Rails, G. Lindenthall, 156, 225
• - Queensland Government Railways, Excellent Annual Report, 601
• - Queensland Locomotives, Practice of Naming as well as Numbering Resumed, 573
• - Queensland Railways’ Commissioner, Extension of Engagement, 111
• - Queensland Railways Divided into Southern, Central and Northern, 625

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - Quintinshill—see also Gretna
• - Quintinshill Accident, Inquiry into Deaths of Railway Servants, 457
• - Quintinshill Death Total. 341
• - Quintinshill Signalmen, Movement for Revision of Sentences, 317
• - Rail-laying by Steam Cranes, Lehigh Valley Railway Company, 389
• - Rail-loading Record on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 111
• - Rails, Groove Sinking by Woods-Gilbert Rail Planer, Increase in Durability, 179
• - Railway Companies’ Instructions Not to Pay out Gold, 225
• - Railway Congestion Due to Work on Munitions, 625
• - Railway Executive Committee and the Government, 577
• - Railwaymen with the Colours, Large Percentage, 317
• - Railway Returns, New Form, 111
• - Railway Scrap, 30,000 Tons, in Mexico, Resulting from Eighteen Months’ Political Turmoil, 553
• - Railway Servants, Average Number of Accidents, 249
• - Railway Statistics for 1914, 249
• - Raven, Mr. V. L., at Woolwich, Conspicuous Services, 625
• - Repairing Binding Wire of Armature, 435
• - Reservation of Seats in Trains No Longor in Existence, 553
• - Returned Empties, Beneficial Change in Regulations, 225, 205
• - Returned Empties, Exchange between Firms, 457
• - Roll of Honour for Good Conduct on American Railways, 411
• - Rolling Stock Statistics of the United Kingdom, 601
• - Safety Appliances Committee, 11
• - St. Gethard Railway, Question of Extending' the Electrification in View of Liability to Aerial Attack, 435
• - Salt Lake and Ogden Railway Track Laid in Winter by Novel Method, 505
• - Sheffield Tramcars, Women as Conductors, 203
• - Shortage of Steamships and Resulting Congestion of Loaded Railway Cars at New York Termini, 601
• - Shunting Signals, Electrically Operated, Same Set in Use for Nearly Forty Years on South-Eastern and Chatham Line, 133
• - Shunting, Statistics of Fatal Accidents Caused by, 179
• - Signal Wire Adjustments to Suit Variations of Temperature, 389
• - Signalling and the Norton Fitzwarren Accident, 179
• - Signalling on the Queen’s Park Extension of the Baker-street and Waterloo Railway, 435
• - Signalling in the United States, System Copied from British Practice, 577
• - Signals for New York Elevated Railroad, 179
• - Sleepers, Cost of, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 417
• - Sleepers Damaged by Fire, Advantage of Exchanging Wood for Steel, 61
• - Sleepers for Russia, 6,000,000 from America, 481
• - South Africa, Union of, Railways, 12 per cent, of men with the Colours during Rebellion, South African Engineer Corps to the Rescue, 317
• - South African Railway Statistics for 1914, 249
• - South African Railways’ Electrification Scheme Delayed by the War, 341
• - South African Rebellion, Damage to Line, Interference with Bridges, Telegraphs, andc., Need of Special Measures, 317
• - South American Railway Connection, Another Transcontinental Line, 35, 337
• - South American Transcontinental Railway Interrupted by Storms, 337
• - South-Eastern and Chatham, Controls for Returned Empties and Hop Deliveries, 295, 457
• - South-Eastern and Chatham Diminished Branch Services, 529
• - South-Eastern and Chatham, Interim Dividend, 87
• - South-Eastern and Chatham Line Blocked by Fall of Cliff, 625
• - South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Collision at New Cross, 601
• - South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Probable Reduction in Train Service, 428
• - South India Railway, Officers with the Colours, 481
• - Southern Pacific Railway, Fire in Tunnel, Rapidly Built Deviation Line, 295
• - Southern Pacific Railway 1 rackmen, Improved Quarters Provided in Arizona and California, 553
• - Special Acts (Extension of Time) Act, 157
• - Statistics of Tender and Tank Engines and Tenders in the United Kingdom in 1913, 505
• - Surface Contact, G.B. System, Tramway Costs at Lincoln, 61
• - Swiss State Railway Estimates, Electric Traction, 481
• - Telegraphing in Code on United States Railway, Reduction in Unnecessary Telegraphing, 133
• - Telescoping Risks in Railway Accidents, British and American Construction Compared, 435
• - Three Collisions in Twenty-four Hours, 157
• - Timber Treatment and Cost of Railway Sleepers, 417
• - Track-laying in New Jersey, Labour Cost per Mile, G. J. Ray, 56, 61
• - Train Service Changes on the London and North- Western Railway, 625
• - Tramcars for Hauling Coke and Coal Wagons, in Vienna, 157
• - Transport of Troops in Australia, Number and Weight of Vehicles Required with respect to Varying Gauge of Railways, 457
• - Transport Worker at Seventy-eight, 389
• - Transportation Professorship .Founded in America, 61
• - Trans-Siberian Railway, Connection with the Altai Agricultural and Mineral Region, 457

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - United States Locomotive Boiler Inspection Act, Extension, 411
• - United States Railways, Benefit from War Material Traffic, 529
• - United States Railways, “Safe” and “Unsafe” Notice, 225
• - United States Railways, Satisfactory State of Traffic and Revenues, 435
• - United States Record Speed in Locomotive Output, 597
• - Victoria Government Railways’ Expenditure, 601
• - Victoria Railway Commission Report—see Melbourne Electrification
• - Victoria Railway, Locomotives Built at Newport Works, 601
• - Victoria Railway, Men with the Colours, 601
• - Victoria Railway, Men’s Demand for Increase of Pay, 411
• - Victoria Railway Station Extensions, 577
• - Wagons Awaiting Repair, Quantity Large but not Abnormal, 625
• - Wagons, Railway-owned and Privately- owned, Question of Pooling, 625
• - Wagons, Statistics of United Kingdom Railways, 577
• - Washington Bureau of Railway Economics, Revenue and Maintenance Statistics of United States Railways, 389
• - Watches for American Railwaymen, Perfect Timekeepers, 107
• - Waterloo Station, Reconstruction of Roads and Roof, 69
• - Weedon Accident to Irish Mail, 203, 286
• - Willard, Daniel, Successive Honojrs, from Labourer to President of Railway, 225
• - Willesden Carriage Shed in connection with Electrification of London and North- Western Railway, 203
• - Women Workers and the War, 225
• - Worksop and Bawtry Railway Bill Withdrawn, 111
• - Worksop and Bawtry Railway, Light Railway Scheme Varied, 133
• RAIN, Attempted Artificial Production in Australia, 203
• Refractory Material, Zirconia and Silicon Carbide, 624
• Research Committee—see Iron and Steel
• Road Board, Address, 638
• Road Board, Advances to Highway Authorities, 74, 370
• Road Repair, Economical Scheme, 365
• Road Signals for Cattle Driving after Dark, 540
• Road Surfaces, Bituminous Treatment, Trials in Federated Malay States, 457
• Road Surfaces Disturbed by Different Authorities, Need for Combination, 529
• Roads, Double or Parallel, for One-way Traffic, Suggested Construction in America, to Avoid Accidents, 389
• Roadways Treatment at Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park, 481
• Royal Engineers’ Commissions, 423
• Rubber Hardness and Elasticity Measured by “Durometer” and “Elastometer,” 61
• Russian Motor Ambulance Fund, 402

S

• ST. HELENS Corporation Electricity Works, Proposed Considerable Extension, 249
• Salt Water Bathing Pool Provided in Puget Sound, 481
• Sand-line Brick, Strength of, 11
• Science, National Organisation of, Sir W. Ramsay, 35
• Seaweed Purchases by Germans, 336
• Sewer Pipes, Relative Merits of Cast Iron and Stoneware, 225
• Shaft Coupling, J. W. Boulton, 566
• Shell-making in Canada, Development of, 133
• Shell Output by United States, Canada and Franco, 87
• Shells, Shrapnel, Temperature Necessary for Testing, 529

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS:

• - Anglia, Hospital Ship, Lost in the Channel, formerly on Holyhead-Dublin Route, 505
• - Barge Driven by Car which it Transports across the Water, 157
• - British Navy, Growth in Ships and Aircraft, 111
• - California, U.S,A. Electric Battleship, 457
• - Emden, German Cruiser, Memento Showing Effect of Shot from H.M.S. Sydney, 157
• - Emden, German Naval Gun Recovered and on View at the Horse Guards Parade, 457
• - Emden to be Refloated, 87
• - French Submarine Designer, Death of, M. Romannotti, 295
• - German Submarine Base and Factory on the Bosphorus, 87
• - Gyro-compasses on Ships of United States Navy, 179
• - Hamburg-America and Norddeutscher Lloyd Companies, Particulars, 111
• - Holland Orders Two Cruisers from Germania Shipbuilding Yard, 463
• - Japanese Shipyards’ Great Activity, 132
• - London and North - Western Steamers Hibernia and Anglia Converted to Government Service and Lost, 481, 505
• - Merchant Ships and Signalling, Necessity of Knowledge of Morse and Semaphore Codes, 317
• - Merchant Tonnage Destroyed by War Operations, 133
• - Motor Boat, High-speed Armed, to Combat the Submarine, Suggestion, 87
• - Paint to Conceal or Disguise Warships, Experiments in United States Navy, 225 Rear-Admiral A. D. Ricardo Succeeds Rear- Admiral Anson, Record of Service, 225
• - Submarine Periscope Painted to Produce Invisibility, 179
• - Submarines of Important New Type for United States Navy, 87
• - Swiss Electricity Supply Curtailed as the Result of Mobilisation, 179
• - Tara, H.M. Boarding Steamer, Lost in Mediterranean, formerly London and North-Western Railway Ship Hibernia, 481
• - United States 37,000 H.P. Electric Motor- driven Battleship California, W. L. R. Emmet on, 625
• - U.S. Research and Experimental Laboratory for the Navy, 481
• - United States Shipbuilding, Diminished Output, 225
• - United States Submarines, Edison Nickel Batteries to be Fitted, 295
• SHIPPING Goods to New Zealand, Waste Space in Packing, 295
• Shortage of Steamships for Transatlantic Service, Congestion of Cargoes and Railway Vehicles, 601
• Shrapnel Cartridge Cases, Suitable Alloy for, 87
• Signalling Outfit for Mine Rescue Work, 457
• Sixty-storey Skyscraper in New York, Powerful Lighting, 157
• Somaliland, Coal and Salt Production, 111
• South African Institution of Engineers, Offers of Technical Assistance to the British Cause in the War, 133
• South-Western Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Courses, 165
• Steam Engines, Position of Receivers and Separators for, 203
• Steam Turbines, Importance of Strength of Blade Fastenings, 249
• Steel—see Iron and Steel
• Storage of Bituminous Coal, Open and Closed Sheds, 601
• Storm Detector, Revival of Use of Filings Coherer for Radio Communication, 457
• Street Accidents in London Due to Darkness, 553
• Substitute for Flexible Leather Belts for Driving Light Machinery, 157
• Suez Canal, Tonnage of Traffic, 133
• Sugar Beet Cultivation and London and South- Western Railway, 457
• Sulphur Mining Plant in Texas, Economy of, Experiment in Heating Mine Water, 341
• Swedish Engineering Convention in the United States, Papers Read, 411
• Swiss Trade Affected by the War, 61

T

• TANGS on Taper Shank Tools, 225
• Tapioca Manufacture, Makers of Machinery and Implements Wanted, 481
• Tarspraying of Roads and Detriment to Water, Report, 365
• Technical Books for Wounded Belgians, 468
• Telautograph, New Principle, 577
• Telephone, Wireless, Successful Experiment by United States Navy, 536
• Telephones in United States and South America, 625
• Telephones, Wireless, for Long-distance Talk, 365
• Telescopes Wanted for the Front, 481
• Telescopes—see also National Physical Laboratory
• Temperature of Transformer Oil, 203
• Theatre for War Workers, Recreation Provided by the Vickers Company, 638
• Thermometers in Oil Distillation Flasks, Required Corrections for Readings, 295
• Timber Shortage and Home-grown Supplies, 601
• Trade Exhibitions in London, Projected Erection of Large “Palace of Industry,” 157
• Trade Winds, North-east, and Water Level Fluctuations in the North and Baltic Seas, 249
• Tungsten, Patent for Preparation of, for Lamp Filaments, 625
• Tungsten Powder, Process for Producing, 35
• Turbine, Largest Steam, in Philadelphia Generating Station, 435
• Turbines, Differences in Design of Small and Large, 111
• Turntable Motor House for American’s Car in Confined Space, 61

U

• UNITED Kingdom Trade with China, 364
• University of London Officers’ Training Corps, Commissions Obtained, 423

V

• VISCOMETER, Simple Form, Alan Speedy, 341
• Volunteer Training Corps, Engineering Institutions, 19=see also Miscellaneous Index

W

• WAGES Increase Due to War, 411
• War Inventions, Belgian Service, London Headquarters, 48
• War Munitions in France, 415
• War-office Munitions Centre in Manchester, 157
• War Work, Appeal to Members of Toolmakers’, Engineers’ and Machinists’ Union, 35
• War Work, Offer of Lathes and other Tools by Cotton Spinners’ and Doublers’ Association, 35
• Watch, Chain Drive, One Hundred and Fifty- Seven Years Old, 295
• Water Consumption, Abnormal, in Birmingham, 35, 529
• Water Supplies, Artesian, in Queensland, Great Improvement in the Country, 625
• Waters, Underground, of Australia, Diminished Supply, Investigation Suggested, 577
• Wattle Wood for Production of Acetone, Investigation, 11
• Welding, Autogenous, Strength of the Joint Produced, 457
• West China, Important Industrial Centre, 577
• Westminster Hall Roof, Necessary Employment of Men in Repair, 133

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY :

• - Airmen’s Instruction in Wireless Telegraphy, 35
• - Installations and Operatives, Statistics, 341
• - United States, List of Radio Stations, 577
• WOOD versus Concrete in American Canal Structures, 317

X

• X-RAYS, Standardisation of, for Medical Purposes, Committee’s Report, 529

Z

• ZEPPELIN Aerodrome Removal, Attacks by Allied Airmen, 317
• Zinc Chloride as Preservative of Pine, Unsafe for Certain Uses, 435
• Zinc Industry of Japan, Imports from Siberia Replace those from Germany and Belgium. 389
• Zinc Plant to be Established in Japan, 87
• Zinc Smelting Works, German Concern at Swansea Sold to London Group, 157

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