The Engineer 1916 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1916 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABELL, Professor T. B., on Resistance of Bilge Keels to Rolling, 342
Abell, W. S., on the Merchant Navy in War Time, 88
Abell, W. S., on Some Questions in Connection with the Work of th© Load Line Committee, 313
Aberdeen—see Water Supply

ACCIDENTS:

Jarrow Railway Disaster, 87, 90, 241
Penistone Viaduct Failure, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company’s Line, 135
Railway Accidents in the United States, 501

ACTIVATED Sludge Sewage Disposal, plant at Milwaukee, 58
Adamson, D., on Spur Gearing, 442, 460, 491, 608
Adventure, The Spirit of, 133

AERONAUTICS :

Aeronautical Pin-pricks, 155
Aeroplane Catapult in the United States Navy, 242
Air Inquiry, Government Committee, 486
Buoyancy of Zeppelins, 236 ; (Letters), 247, i 264, 273, 314, 336, 438
Froude’s Law for the Airship, Sir George Greenhill, 422
January Zeppelin Raids on Paris, 204
“Sachsen” and other Zeppelins, 166
Support and Progression in Air of Revolving ; Discs, Monsieur A. Brancher, 416
Zeppelins and the Weather, 219 ; (Letters), 247, 264, 273 ?

AGRICULTURAL Machinery at Manchester, . 626, 548
Ahrons, E. L., on the Strength and Wear of Locomotive Tires, 411, 456
Air Breakwater, Th© Brasher, 414 • (Letter), ' 478 ;
Air Compressors—see Compressors i
Air, Flow of, through Nozzles, Captain T. B. Morley, 82 '
Air Regulation for Diesel Engine Compressors, Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Limited, 193
Aitchison, Leslie, on Rustless Ferro-alloys, 329, i 361
Aitchison, L., on the Theory of the Corrosion , of Steel, 396
Alloy, A New, for Cutting Tools, P. R. Kuehn- ' rich, 438
Amar’s Machines for Training Maimed Soldiers, 472
America, Engineering in—see Engineering
America, Government Armour-plate Factory in, 180 I
American Competition—see Iron and Steel

ANNUAL ARTICLES:

BRIDGE BUILDING, 16
Hardinge Bridge, 16
Hell Gate Bridge, 16
Quebec Bridge, Th© New, 16
Southwark Bridge, New, 16

CHEMISTRY, 18
COAL TRADE IN 1915, 40
DOCKS, HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1915, 9, 10, 27
Alexandria, 27
Bahia Blanca, Argentine, 27
Blyth, 10
Clyde, The, 10
Denmark, Thyboron, 27
Dover, 10
Grimsby, 10
Hull, 10
Japan, 27
Littlehampton, 10
Liverpool, 9
London, The Port of, 9
Manchester, 10
New York, 27 '
Panama Canal, 27
Russia, 27
South Wales, 10
Sunderland, 10
Tees, The, and the Hartlepools, 10 Valparaiso, 27
Workington, 10

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1915, 8, 9, 32, 33
American Railways, 8
Electrical Trade after the War, 33
Electric Vehicles, 9
Examination of Metals by X-rays, 9
Introductory, 8 Lamps, 32
Lift Control on the Underground, 8
Light Control, 32
London County Council Electricity Bill, North Swedish Electric Railway, 9 Power Plants, 8
Railways, 8
Ships, 9
Telephone Cable, A New, 9
Wireless Telegraphy, 32
Wireless Telephony, 32

ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES IN 1915, 2
Armament Works, 2
Coal, 4
Dearth of Men, 2
Demand for Machine Tools, 2 North and Midlands, 3 Other Developments, 3 Output of Steel. 2 Prices, 3
Rolled Steel, 2
Shipbuilding, 3
Steel Export Restrictions, 3 Taxation of Profit, 3 The Future, 4
Tungsten, 3

LABOUR AND WAGES, 18

NAVY AND ARMY, 18

RAILWAYS, 15
Africa, 16
Australia, 16
British Railway Accidents in 1915, 16
European Continent, 16
India, 15
Railways and the War, 16
South America, 16
United Kingdom, 15

SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1915, 29
Activated Sludge Experiments in America, 31
Activated Sludge Experiments at Salford, 31
Activated Sludge Method of Sewage Disposal, 30
General Notes, 29
Large Screw Drainage Pumps, 29
Leeds New Sewage Works, 30
London Main Drainage, 31
Manchester Main Drainage, 31
Quantity of Activated Sludge Required, 30
Quantity of Air Required for the Process, 30
Reinforced Concrete Cantilever Bridge for Carrying a Sewer, ^0
Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, 29
Sheffield Sewage Disposal Works, 31 Works Abroad, 31

WATER SUPPLY IN 1915, 6
Aberdeen and Perth, 7
Alwen Water Supply for Birkenhead, 7 Bradford Waterworks, 7
Cast Iron Flexible Submarine Aqueduct, 7 ; (Letter), 33
Derwent Valley, 7
Drought, 6
Excess Lime Method of Water Purification, 8
General Notes, 6
Glasgow’s River Turk Scheme, 7
Kensico Dam, 7
Liverpool and Manchester, 6
I Mechanical Filtration, 7
Metropolitan Water Board, 7

ARCH, Erection—see Bridges
Armour Plate Factory, Government, in America, 180
Armstrong, Professor H., on The Economical Use of Coal, 230

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES

Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Average Conditions in Engineering, A. Etchells, 41
Fuel Oils from Coal, Harold Moore, 256 Manufacture of Rubber Belting, James Tinto, 241
Oil Engines, G. E. Windeler^ 158

Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
Agriculture, Electrical Supply for, 542
Annual Meeting, 540
Boiler-house Design, W. W. Lackie, 541
Linking up Stations, &c., H. S. Ellis, 541

Institute, The Iron and Steel:
Annual Meeting, 327, 373, 376, 396, 404 ; (Letter), 544
Annual Report; Alteration of By-laws; Award of Bessemer Gold Medal, &c., 373
Carnegie Research Grants, 397
Critical Cooling Velocities of Chromium Steel, Professor C. A. Edwards and Messrs. J. N. Greenwood and H. Kikkawa, 398
Cutting Efficiencies of Tool Steels, Dr. J. O. Arnold, 397
Influence of Carbon and Manganese upon the Corrosion of Iron and Steel, Sir Robert Hadfield and Dr. J. Newton Friend, 396
Presidential Address, Sir W. Beardmore, 373, 404
Progrfimme, 327
Surface Tension Effects in the Inter-Crystalline Cement in Metals and the Elastic Limit, F, C Thompson, 376, 398
Theory of the Corrosion of Steel, L. Aitchison, 396

Institute of Marine Engineers:
Cumberland Electrolytic, Method of venting Corrosion, J. F. Petter, 243

Institute of Metals: j
Annealing of Nickel Silver, F. C. Thompson, ! 294 ’ I
Annual General Meeting, 209, 275, 292 i Corrosion Committee’s Third Report, 276, j 281, 293 '
Elections, 275 I
Electric Furnaces as Applied to Non-ferrous i
Metallurgy, Professor A. Stansfield, 294 German Science and Price Cutting, J. Dewrance, 293 I
Note on Some Tin-Aluminium-Copper Alloys, I
Professor A. A. Read and R. H. Greaves, 294
Notes on the Analysis of Aluminium and its
Alloys, W. H. Whithey, 294
Presidential Address, Dr, Beilby, 292 Programme, 209 Transformations in Alloys of Gold
Copper,\ Dr. N. S. Kurnakow, Zemczuzny, and M. Zasedatelev, 294
X-rays and Crystal Structure with Special
Reference to Certain Metals, Professor | W. H. Bragg, 424

Institution of Civil Engineers:
February Examinations (Interim), Pass List, 216
Industrial Development, Harold Cox, Main Drainage of Cairo, C. C. James,
Notes on the Working of a Rack Railway, W. T, Lucy, 136
October Examinations, 1915, Pass List, 108
Yorkshire Association of Students:
Road Traction by Petrol, Steam and Electric Motor Vehicles, G. M. Gamble 182

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland:
Portland Cement, B, J. Day, 181

Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
Alternating Current Driving in Factories, G. H. Ayres, 366 i
Business in Engineering, F. G. Hatch, 60 i

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Annual General Meeting, 170
Chisels, Henry Fowler, 170
Composition of the Exhaust from Liquid Fuel Engines, Second Lieut. R. W. Penning, 261
Council and the Members, 177
Flow of Air through Nozzles, ^Captain T. B. Morley, 82
Spur Gearing, D. Adamson, 442
Theory and Practice in the Filtration of Water, W. Clemence, 333, 338, 344

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy:
British Coalfields, Sir R. A. S. Redinayne, 287
Notes from a Collision Investigation, John Reid, 361, 384
Present Position of the 'Marine Diesel Engine and its Possibilities, Engineer- Lieutenant-Commander W. P. Sillince, 326, 343
Shipyard Cranes of the Rotterdam Dockyard Company, M. G. de Gelder, 361
Skin Friction Resistance of Ships, &c., G. S. Baker, 342
Some Effects of the Bulkhead Committee’s Report in Practice, A. T. Wall, 361, 425
Some Questions in Connection with the Work of the Load Line Committee, W. S. Abell, 313
Strength of Water-tight Bulkheads, J. Foster King, 356, 360
Subdivision of Merchant Ships, Reports of Bulkhead Committee, 1912—1913, Sir A. Denny, 360

Institution of Petroleum Technologists:
Kimmeridge Oil Shale Deposits, W. H. Manfield, 235

Society of Chemical Industry :
Economical Use of Coal, Professor H. Armstrong, 230
Fuel Economy, Professor W. A. Bone, 236 Edinburgh and East of Scotland Section North-British Rubber Company’s Laboratories, Visit, 494
Raw Materials used by the Rubber Manufacturer, B. D. Porritt, 494
Some Aspects of Synthetic Rubber, B. D. W. Luff, 494

Society of Engineers:
Engineering and Scientific Research, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 380

Society, The Faraday:
The Making of a Big Gun, Dr. Rosenhain, 319.

Society, The Liverpool Engineering:
Education of a Marino Engineer, J. B. Jeffrey, 160
Lighting of Thoroughfares, Haydn T. Harrison, 196
Modernised Power Station, E. M. Hollingsworth, 252

Society, Royal Meteorological:
Annual General Meeting, Symons* Gold Medal Award, 140
Atmospheric Pressure and Rainfall at a Single Station, Lieut. E. H. Chapman, 656
Gun-firing in Flanders, Audibility of the, over South-East of England, Miller, Christy and W. Marriott, 556
Phenological Observations for 1915, Report, J. E. Clark and N B. Adames, 556
Winter Climate of the Eastern Mediterranean, Major H. G. Lyons, 140

AUSTRIAN Steel Industry in War Time, 335 Automobile Engine Bearings, W. Betterton, 201 Average Conditions in Engineering, A. Etchells, 41
Ayres, G. H., on Alternating Current Driving , in Factories, 366

BAKER, G. S., on Skin Friction Resistance of Ships, &c., 342, 379
Baling Hay and Straw, Press, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 549
Bath Caravans for Belgium, 365
Beamless Searchlights, 418
Bearings for Motor Car Engines, W. Betterton, 201
Belgium, Great Industries in, before, and during ' the War, Professor W. Hubert, 27, 55, 123, 156, 220
Berriman, A. E., on A Corps of Mechanical Engineers, 396
Betterton, W., on Automobile Engine Bearings, 201
Bilge Keels, Resistance of—see Ships.
Birthday Honours, 477
Bleaching, Dyeing and Printing Cotton Fabrics, Machinery for, 250, 271, 308, 316, 362, 358, 391, 469, 537, 641
Boiler-house Design, W. W. Lackie, 541
Bone, Professor W. A., on Fuel Economy, 236
Books of Reference, 115, 152, 179, 201, 236, 287, 341, 366, 415, 499
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Bragg, Professor W. H., on X-Rays and Crystal Structure with special Reference to Certain Metals, 424
Brancher, Monsieur A., on The Use of Revolving Discs for Flying Machines, 415
Breakwater, Brasher Air, 414 ; (Letters), 478, 502

BRIDGES;

See also Annual Article
Charing Cross Railway Bridge, 546, 547A 550
Erection of an Arch on Suspended Centering of Reinforced Concrete, 132, 134
Preston, New Bridge over the Ribbleat, 147, 154
Quebec Bridge, The Erection of, Programme for Season 1916, 496, 504

BRITISH and American Steel and Machinery Exports, 260
British Coalfields—see Coal
B.E.A.M.A. on the Future of British Trade, 84
British Engineering Industry, The Organisation of, 483
British Machinery and the Russian Market, P. Gurewitch, 260, 298, 340, 370
British Magnetos, 116
British Optical Glass Industry, 177 ; (Letter), 216
British Trade, The Future of, B.E.A.M.A. Dinner, 84
Bulkheads—see Ships
Buoyancy of Zeppelins—see Aeronautics
Business in Engineering, F. G. Hatch, 60

CAIRO, The Main Drainage of, C. C. James, 188
Calendars and Diaries, 49, 141
Carbon and Manganese—see Iron and Steel Catalogues, 165, 269, 305, 389, 431, 490, 535 Catap^t—see Aeronautics
Cement, Slag Portland, B. J. Day, 181 Centering Machines—see Machine Tools
Chain and Hollow Chisel Mortising Machine, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 66
Chemical Combination, A Huge German, 442
Chemical Industry and the Future, 359
Chemical Laboratories at University College, London, 294
Chemistry—see also Annual Article
Chisels, Henry Fowler, 170
Chucks, Boring Tools, &c. for Shell-making, J. and H. McLaren, 180
Chucks for Boring and Turning, E. R. and F. Turner, 263
Circular Revolving Discs for Flying Machines, Monsieur A. Brancher, 416
Circulating Water Screens—see Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Electrification
Clemence, W., on Theory and Practice in the Filtration of Water, 333, 338, 339, 344; (Letters), 366
Cleveland, Technical College for, 486

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

See also Annual Articles, Engineering Industries, &c.
Belgium, Coal Mines in, 28
British Coalfields, Sir R. A. S. Redmayne, 287
Coal and British Industry, 505
Coal Prices and Costs, 462
Coal Trade in 1915, 40
Colliery Plant—see Pumps
Economical Use of Coal, Professor H. Armstrong, 230
Fuel Economy, Professor W. A. Bone, 236 Fuel Oils from Coal, Harold Moore, 266 Slag Main Collieries, 564
Testing Locomotive Coals, 159, 325 ; (Letter), 314
Trade Terms Used in the Coal Markets of Great Britain {Two-page Supplement^ June 16ZA, 1916); (Letter), 522
Two Wood-working Machines for Collieries, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 300

COCKRILL, T. S., on The Determination of the Principal Dimensions of Marine Reciprocating Propelling Machinery, 320
Coming Economic Struggle, 620, 626 Commercial Conditions in Japan, 148 Commutators—see Electrical Matters
Compressor, Small Rotary Air, H. A. Hatcher, 383
Compressors, Diesel Engine, Air Regulation for, Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Limited, 193
Concrete Pipes, Steel Reinforced, Bonna System, Hughes and-Lancaster, 416, 420
Concrete, Reinforced, Erection of an Arch on Suspended Centering of, 132, 134
Condensers for Electrical Use—see Electrical Matters
Consular Advice, 199
Contracts, 97, 141, 209, 269, 287, 306, 326, 345, 389, 43,1, 493
Contractors and Engineers, 181
Corrosion of Non-Ferrous Metals Committee, 276, 279, 281
Corrosion of Iron and Steel—see also Iron and Steel
Corrosion, The Prevention of, -Cumberland Electrolytic Method, J. F. Peter, 243, 294
Cotton fabrics. Machinery for Bleaching, Dyeing and Printing, 250, 271, 308, 316, 362, 358, 391, 469, 637, 541
Council. Advisory—see Research
Cox, Harold, on Industrial Development, 216, 219 *
Cripples, War, in Austria and Germany, 64
Critical Speeds of Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 495, 618, 639
Cruiser Sterns—see Ships

DAM, Alwen, Birkenhead Water Supply, 7, 194 {Supplement, January Uh, 1916)
Dam, Angram, Bradford Waterworks, 7, 194 {Supplement, January Ith, 1916)
Dam, Derwent, Progress on, 7, 194 (*S'wppZe- ment, January ItK, 1916)
Dara, Kensico, 4, 12, 194 {Supplement, January 1th, 1916) •
Dam, Medlow, New South Wales, 268, 262
Daras, Some Recent, Comparative Particulars of, 194
Day, B. J., on Portland Cement, 181 *
Denny, Sir Archibald, on Sub-division of Merchant Ships Reports of Bulkhead Committee, 360
Die-Casting Machine, Monometer Manufacturing Co., Limited, 312
Diesel Engines—see Engines
Dilution of Labour, 469 ; (Letter), 477
Discs—see Circular Discs
Diversion of Don—see Works, Hadfields
Dock, Floating, at Hamburg, 17,600-ton, Vulkan Co., 483
Docks, Harbours, &c.—see also Annual Article Drill's—see Machine Tools
Drop Hammer, Friction Driven, Brett’s Patent Lifter Company, 204
Duration of German Patents, 136
Dust Separation and Collection, Twin Cyclo-Pneumatic System, T. Robinson and Son, Limited, 485
Duties of a Laboratory in a Mechanical Engineering Works, 178; (Letter), 116
Dyson, Captain C. W., on the Mystery of the Screw Propeller, 60, 64

ECONOMIC Conference at Paris, 520, 525 Economic Extraction of Tin and Tungsten from Cornish Ores, 280
Education of a Marine Engineer, J. B. Jeffrey, 160
Educational Books for British Prisoners of War, 631
Edwards, Professor C. A., and Messrs. J. N. Greenwood and H. Kikkawa on Critical Cooling Velocities of Chromium Steel, 398 Effect of Loads on the Refractoriness of Fireclays, Dr. J. W. Mellor and Lieut. B. J. Moore, 490
Elder, T. C., on Engineering Industry and Public Policy, 256

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

See also Annual Article
Adjustable Speed Induction Motor, F. Creedy, 528
Agriculture and Electrical Supply, 542
Alternating Current Driving in Factories, G. H. Ayres, 366
Boiler-house Design, W. W. Lackie, 641 Charging Edison Storage Batteries, 498
Clifton Junction Power Station, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 34, 38, 52, 62, 76, 86, 101, 103, 125, 167, 176 {Two- page Supplement, February 25th, 1916)
Commutator Insulation, B. G. Lamme, 477
Comparison of 600, 1200 and 2400-volt
Switchboards, 66
Condensers for Power Factor CoiTection, British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Limited, 649
Cumberland Electrolytic Method of Preventing Corrosion, J. F. Peter, 243
Electric Vehicle Progress During the War, 486
Electrification of Textile Fibres in the Process of Manufacture, 422
Extra High-tension Service Branches, D. M. Macleod, 418
Forced Lubrication for Starting Motor Generator Sets, J. R. Werth, 498
Glanmor Foundry and Engineering }Vorks, Electrical Plant at, 519, 621
High Voltage Sub-Station Machinery, 422 Interconnection of Electric Supply Undertakings,'Board of Trade Circular, 443
Isolated Factories, The Electrification of, 57, 80, 104, 128, 150, 172, 191, 231, 274, 310, 382, 412, 476, 619, 521 ; (Letters), 438, 461, 478, 531
Lake Margaret Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 40
Lifts, Electric, H. Marryat, 232
Lighting of Small Towns, 482
Linking up of Power Stations, J. A. Robertson, 482
Linking up Stations, &c., H. S. Ellis, 541
Ljungstrom System—see Ships
Locomotives—see Railways
Machine Tools, Electric Control Equipment for, British Thomson-Houston Company, 136
Measurement of Crest Voltages, 471
Modern Methods of Correcting Power Factor, 497, 549
Oscillations Produced by Electric Arcs, 417
Production of High Potential Direct Currents, 484
Railways—see Railways
St. Helens Corporation Electric Power Station Extensions, E. M. Hollingsworth, 262
Secondary Cell Installation for Telegraph Offices, J. M. F. Lamothe, 512
Self-contained Electric Generating Set, Parsons Motor Co., Limited, 276
Spain, Hydro-Electric Undertakings in, 500
Three-phase Motor, Peculiar Behaviour of, 418
Voltmeter Coil for Testing Transformers, A. B. Hendricks, 373
Winding Plant at Pumpherston Oil Company’s Pit, Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, 400, 403

ELSWICK. Gasworks, Remodelling, 110, 114
Employment of Women—see Women

ENGINES AND MOTORS:

Motor Car Engines, Bearings for, W. Betterton, 201

ENGINES AND MOTORS: Internal Combustion Engines:

Air Regulation for Diesel Engine Compressors, Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Limited, 193
Diesel Engine, New Type, Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, 158
Liquid Fuel Engines, Composition of the Exhaust from, Second Lieut. R. W. Penning, 251 ; (Correction), 273
Oil Engines, G. E. Windeler, 168
Present Position of the Marine Diesel Engine and its Possibilities, Engineer-Lieutenant- Commander W. P. Sillince, 325, 343
Semi-Diesel Engine, 300 Horse-power, Petters Limited, 234, 256
Why Small Farm Engines are Failures, F. R. Parsons, 385 ; (Letters), 396, 427, 438

ENGINES AND MOTORS: Steam Engines :

Determination of the Principal Dimensions of Marine Reciprocating Propelling Machinery, T. S. Cockrill, 320
Portable Steam Engine, R. Garrett and Sons, Limited, 526
Steam v. Diesel Marine Engines, 160

ENGINEER, Marine, Education of a, J, B. Jeffrey, 160
Engineer Volunteers, First London, 431, 438, 494, 614, 530
Engineers and the Russian Language, 211

ENGINEERING IN AMERICA IN 1916, 200, 240, 252
Bridges and Tunnels, 241 Harbours and Waterways, 252 Hydro-electric Developments, 200 Internal Combustion Engines, 200 Locomotives, 240
Municipal Engineering, 252 Railways, 240
Shipbuilding, 252
Steam Engines, 200 I
Steel, Iron and Coke, 200 I

ENGINEERING, Average Conditions in, A. Etchells, 41
Engineering, Business in, F. G. Hatch, 60 Engineering, 1915—A Retrospect, 13 Engineering Industry—see also Annual Article Engineering Industry, The British, Organisation of, 483
Engineering Industry and Public Policy, T. C. Elder, 266
Engineering Institutions’ Volunteer Engineer Corps, 23, 49, 74, 142, 166, 209, 227, 247, 204, 273, 305, 328, 345, 368, 385
Engineering Institutions and the War, 373, 460; (Letters), 478, 602, 531
Engineering and Scientific Research, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 380
Engineering after the War. T. C. Elder, 266
Engine-room Heroes’ Memorial at Liverpool, 443
Erection of Arch—see Bridges
Etchells, A., on Average Conditions in Engineering, 41
Evaporators, Multiple, On the Theory of, P. H. Parr, 146
Exhaust from Liquid Fuel Engines, Composition of. Second Lieut. R. W. Penning, 261
Experimental Tanks—see Ships
Export Trade, Our, with Latin-America, 505

FACTORIES, Electrification of—see Electrical I Matters '
Factories—see also Works.
Farm Engines—see Engines
Penning, Second Lieut. R. W., on Composition of the Exhaust from Liquid Fuel Engines, 261 ; (Correction), 273
Ferro-alloys, Rustless, Leslie Aitchison, 329, 351
Filtration of Water—see Water Supply Financing of Manufacturing Industries, 155 Fire-clays—see Refractoriness of
Fire Extinguishers, Relative Value, Committee’s Report, 462
Fleming, A. P. M., on Industrial Research, 294
Fleming, Dr. J. A., on Engineering and Scientific Research, 380
Floating Dock at Hamburg, 17,500-ton, Vulkan Company, 483
Flow of Air through Nozzles, Captain T. B. Morley, 82
Forthcoming Engagements, 23, 49, 6^^, 97, 121, 140, 165, 187, 209, 216, 247, 269, 287, 304, 325, 345, 367, 389, 409, 431, 449, 456, 490, 502, 530, 644
Fowler, Henry, on Chisels, 170
French Steel and Engineering Industries after the War, 171 .
Friction-driven Hammer—see Hammer
Froude’s Law for the Airship, Sir George Greenhill, 422
Fuel Economy, Professor W. A. Bone, 236
Fuel Oils from Coal,Harold Moore, 266
Furnaces at the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, Siemens-Martin, 51, 78 {Two-page Supplement, January 218t, 1916)
Future of British Trade, B.E.A.M.A. Dinner, 84

GAMBLE, G. M., on Road Traction by Petrol,
Steam and Electric Motor Vehicles, 182 Garnett, Dr. Wm., on National Research Laboratory, 395
Gasworks, The Elswick, Remodelling, 110, 114 Gauge Makers, Training of, 486
Gauges, Screw, 263
Gearing, Spur, D. Adamson, 442, 460, 491. 508 German Chemical Combination, 442
German Patents, The Duration of, 136 German Shells—see War Material
Germany’s Preparations for “After the War,” 519
Germany’s Trade After the War, 192 Glasgow Tramways, 631
Glass Industry, British Optical, 177 ; (Letter), 216
Glass, Manufacture of, in Scotland, 196
Glass Research, 249, 259 Grain-elevating and Conveying Plant at Sunderland, Henry Simon, Limited, 278 282 {Two-page Supplement, March 31^, 1916) Great Industries in Belgium Before and During
the War, Professor H. Hubert, 27, 55, 123, 156, 220
Greenhill, Sir George, on Froude’s Law for the
Airship, 422
Gun Lathe—see Machine Tools
Guns—see War Material
Gurewitch, P., on British Machinery and the
Russian Market, 260, 298, 340, 370 Gyroscopic Torque Apparatus, E. Rawson, 334

HADFIELD, Sir R., on the Metallurgy of Ferrous Metals, 395, 423
Hadfield, Sir R., and Dr. J. N. Friend, on the Influence of Carbon and Manganese upon the Corrosion of Iron and Steel, 396, 526, 528
Hamburg, 17,600-ton Floating Dock, 483
Hammer, Drop, Friction-driven, Brett’s Patent Lifter Company, 204
Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, 51, 78 {Two- page Supplement, January 21st, 1916)
Harrison, Haydn T., on Lighting of Thoroughfares, 196
Hatch, F. G., on Business in Engineering, 60
Hay Sweep, Horse-drawn, Richmond and Chandler, 549
Hobart, H. M., on Electrical Railways, 44, 68, 90, 105, 134, 149—see also Railway Electrification, 143
Hollingsworth, E. M., on A Modernised Power Station, 252
Hubert, Professor H., on the Great Industries in Belgium Before and During the War, 27, 55, 123, 166, 220
Hurley, E. N., on Trade Associations and Better Business Methods, 473
Hustlers, The—A Review, 548
Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Lake Margaret, Tasmania, 40
Hydro-electric Undertakings in Spain, 600

ILLUMINATING Factories, Home-office I poi’t—Lighting, Industiial
Industrial Development, Harold Cox, 215, Industrial Research, Australian Scheme, —see also Scientific Research
Industrial Research, A. P. M. Fleming, 294
Industries, The Great, in Belgium Before and During the War, Professor H. Hubert, 27, 55, 123, 156, 220
Influence of Carbon, &c.—see Iron and Steel Institutes and Institutions—see Associations, &c.
Institutions, Engineering—see Engineering Insulation—see Electrical Matters
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines^-

IRON AND STEEL:

See also in Annual Articles, “ Engineering Industries,” &c.
American Competition in Iron and Steel 87 Austrian Steel Industry in War Time, 335 Belgium, Iron and Steel Manufactures in, 55 British and American Steel and Machinery Exports, 260
Critical Cooling Velocities of Chromium Steel, Professor C. A. Edwards and Messrs. J. N. Greenwood and H. Kikkawa, 398
Cutting Efficiencies of Tool Steels, Dr. J. O. Arnold, 397
French Steel and Engineering Industries After the War, 171
German Shells and the Influence of Certain Elements on the Physical Properties of Steel, Dr. J. E. Stead, 43
Germany’s Trade After the War, 192
Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, 51, 78 {Two- page Supplement, January 21«i, 1916)
High-speed Steel Scrap, Government Rules for Disposal, 256
Influence of Carbon and Manganese upon the Corrosion of Iron and Steel, Sir R. Hadfield and Dr. J. N. Friend, 396, 525, 528
Institute, Iron and Steel, Papers, &c.—see also Associations, &c.
Iron Merchants’ Prices and Profits, 409
Metallurgy of Ferrous field, 395, 423
North-East Coast Iron
Rustless Ferro-alloys, Leslie Aitchison, 329, 351
Shell Steel, 39
Steel Pipes—see Pipes
Surface Tension Effects in the Inter-crystal- line Cement in Metals and the Elastic Limit, F. C. Thompson, 376, 398
Theory of the Corrosion of Steel, L. Aitchison, 396
Trade Terms Used in the Iron and Steel Markets of Great Britain, (Letter), 522 (Two-page Supplement, June IQth 1916)
V erdun and Iron Ore, 402
War Influence on Iron and Steel Production, 297
Washed Metals, 336

ISHERWOOD System—see Empress of Ireland

JAMES, C. C., on the Main Drainage of Cairo, 188
Japan, Commercial Conditions in, 148
Japan, Print Works, Mather and Platt Equipment, 639, 641
Jeffrey, J. B., on the Education of a Marine Engineer, 160
Joist, Spontaneous Rupture of, 19

KENSICO Dam, 412 (Supplement. Januaru ^th, 1916)
Kimmeridge Oil Shales, W. H. Manfield, 236
King, J. Foster, on the Strength of Watertight Bulkheads, 356, 360

LABORATORIES, Chemical, at University College, London, 294
Laboratories, Duties of, in a Mechanical Engineering Works, 178; (Letter), 116
Laboratory, National Research, Dr. Wm. Garnett, 395
Labour—see also Annual Article
Labour, Dilution of, 459 ; (Letter), 477
Labour and Wages, 18, 36, 66, 92, 116, 160, 169, 196, 216, 233, 268, 273
Lackie, W. W., on Boiler-house Design, 641
Lake Margaret Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 40
Lamme, B. G., on Commutator Insulation, 477 Article, Electrical

LEADERS:

Aeronautical Pin-pricks,
American Competition in Iron and Steel, 87
Beam and Draught of Warships, 402
British and American Steel and Machinery Exports, 260
British Optical Glass Industry, 177
Charing Cross Railway Bridge, 547 Chemical Industry and the Future, 359
Coal and British Industry, 605
Coming Economic Struggle, 625 Consular Advice, 199
Corrosion of Non-ferrous Metals, 279 Corrosion of Steel, 626
Council and the Members, 177
Cruiser Sterns on Merchant Ships, 359 Dilution of Labour, 469
Electric Lighting of Small Towns, 482 Electrification of Textile Fibres in the Process of Manufacture, 422
Engineering Institutions and the War, 460 Filtration of Water, 339
Financing of Manufacturing Industries, 155 Future of British Railways, 401
High-voltage Sub-station Machinery, 421 Industrial Development, 219
Industrial Research, 339
International Demand for New Ships, 318 Merchant Shipping, 421
Munition Factories and the Future, 442 Naval Action, 481
Our Export Trade with Latin-America, 505 Popular Science, 279
Profits of Controlled Engineering Works, 547 Radio-telephony, 379
Railways and Traders, 199
Resistance in a Seaway, 112 Retrospect—1916, 13
Safely in Railway Travel, 87
Scientific and Industrial Research, 259, 506
Screw Propeller, 64
Shell Steel, 39
Shipbuilding Contracts, 178
Single-phase Traction in America, 39 Spirit of Adventure, 133
Standardised Ships, 240
Strikers and the War, 297
Subdivision and Safety of Ships, 317 Super-submarine, The, 239
Surface Friction Resistance, 379 Taxation of Profits, 63
Torpedo Tubes in Large Warships, 441 Trade and Employment After the War, 111 Verdun and Iron Ore, 402
War Influence on Iron and Steel Production, 297
Women in Workshops, 133
Zeppelins and the Weather, 219

LEES, C. H., on Law of Skin Friction of a Fluid in a Streamline, &c., 342, 379

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS:

America, 25, 48, 98, 142, 188, 208, 228, 270 286, 306, 360, 389, 431, 467, 493, 514, 530
England, North of, 20, 46, 70, 94, 119, 138, 163, 184, 207, 225, 244, 266, 284, 302, 323, 347, 364, 387, 407, 429, 446, 465, 487, 510, 532. 552
Lancashire, 20, 45, 70, 93, 117, 137, 161, 183, 205, 223, 244, 265, 284, 301, 322, 346, 363, 386, 406, 428, 446, 464, 487, 509, 532, 552 ; (Letter), 554
Midlands and Staffordshire, 19, 45, 69, 93, 117, 137, 161, 183, 205, 223, 243, 265, 283, 301, 321, 347, 363, 385, 405, 427, 446, 463, 486, 509, 631, 551
Scotland, 22, 47, 71, 95, 119, 139, 163, 185, 207, 225, 245, 267, 286, 303, 324, 348, 365, 387, 408, 429, 449, 465, 489, 511, 533, 663 Sheffield, 21, 47, 73, 95, 118, 138, 162, 185, 206, 224, 245, 266 285, 303, 323, 347, 364, 386, 407, 428, 447, 464, 488, 510, 633, 663
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 48, 72, 96, 120, 139, 164, 186, 208, 226, 246, 267, 286, 303, 324, 348, 365, 388, 408, 430, 448, 466, 489, 612, 634, 554

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Aerial Navigation, Alpha,
Omega, 438
Aero Engine Weight and of Flight, W. J. Walker,
Air Jets—see Brasher
Charlottenburg, 602 ; Vim, 602 ; Member, 531
Labour After the War, E. T. Good, 522
London and North-Western Compounds,
N. Bushell, 461 ; J. W. Boulton, 478 ; Moon, 502
London and North-Western Locomotives— see London and North-Western Compounds
Optical Glass, Optic, 216
Our British Patent Laws, J. Keith, 161 Papermaking and its Machinery, L. N. Burt, 60
Patent-office Library, Vetax, 161 ; Merinok, 174 ; I. H., 216
Power Absorbed by Chipping Machine, G. T. Pardoe, 33
Privately-owned Wagons, J. Hurst, 33 ; E. J. H. L., 116 , ,
Projectile for Smooth-bore Ordnance, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 544
Rattler and Alecto, J. Batey, 544
Standard Keys, G. W. Brown, 544
Testing Locomotive Coals, D. W., 314
Theory and Practice in the Filtration of Water, W. Clemence, 366, 395, 427 ; A.M. Inst. C.E., 376 ; Engineer, 376 ; Wm. Paterson, 395, 438 ; H. B. H., 427 ; H. H. B., 461
Torsional Angle of Fracture, Braithwaite and Kirk, 461
Trade Terms Used in the Iron and Steel Markets of Great Britain, W. Bayliss, 522
Trade After the War and Excess Profits Tax,. H. C. B. Underdown, 264
Train Ferries, Engineer, 461
Training of Munition Workers—see Engineering Colleges
Water Power and the Future of Africa, C. L. Tweedale, 478
Water Softening, D. Adamson, 33
Why Small Farm Engines are Failures, E. W. Petter, 395, 438 ; C. H. Cox, 427 ; F. R. Parsons, 427
Wiring of Factories—see Electrification Works Laboratory, H. L, Heathcote, 116

LEVEL, Surveying, Purchasing a, 193
Library, The Patent-office, 193
Liddell, A. R., on Wave Proportions and their Effects, 474
Lifts, Electric, H, Marryat, 232
Lighting, Industrial, Principles of, 108
Lighting of Thoroughfares, Haydn T. Harrison, 19G
Liquid Fuel Engines—see Engines

LITERATURE: Reviews:

Brassey’s Naval Annual, 1916, 526
Hydraulic Flow Reviewed, A. A. Barnes, 281, 402
Ruling Caste and Frenzied Trade in Germany, M. Millioud, 381
Tacheometer Surveying, M. E. Yorke Eliot, 88

LITERATURE: Short Notices:

Aeroplanes and Airships, W. E. Dommett, 381
Civil Engineer’s Cost Book, Lieut.-Col. T. E. Coleman, 381
English Railways : Their Development and their Relation to the State, E. C, Stevens, 381
Excess Profits Duty and Profits of Controlled Establishments, Spicer and Pegler, 381
Log of 11.M.S. Bristol, W. Buchan, 381
Mechanics, Elementary Applied, T. Alexander and A. W. Thomson, 167, 381
Paint and Colour Mixing, A. S. Jennings, 174, 381
Submarines : Theii\ Mechanism and Operation, F. A. Talbot, 381 .
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony ; Handbook of'Eormube, Data, &c., W. H. Eccles, 299, 381

LITERATURE: Books Received:

A B C Guide to Patents for Inventions, R. E. Phillips and A. M. Elack, 130
Aeroplanes, The Design of, A. W. Judge, 461 Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the
Fourth Arm, F. W. Lanchester, 157
Air Screws: Introduction to the Aerofoil Theory of Screw Propulsion, M. A. S. Riach, 483
American Sewerage Practice, Vol. HI., Disposal of Sewage, Leonard Metcalf and H. P. Eddy, 174
Annuaire pour I’An, 1916, 157
Apprentice Training, The Princip|£.s of, A.
P. M. Fleming and J. G. Pearce, 483
Bridge Foundations, W. Burnside, 157
British Destiny : The Principles of Progress, D. N. Dunlop, 318
British Photographic Journal Almanac, &c., G. E. Brown, 215
British Trade and the Metric System, E. A. W. Phillips, 299
Business Prospects Year Book, 1916, J. Davies and C. P. Hailey, 41
Catalysis, E. Jobling, 41
Cold Storage and Ice Association, “ Proceedings,” 215
Colliery Manager’s Pocket-book, Almanac and Diary for 1916, 41
Continuous-current Engineering, Introductory Course of, A. Hay, 483
Deposits of the Useful Minerals and Rocks : Their Origin, Form and Content, Professors Dr. F. Beyschlag, J. H. L. Vogt and Dr. P. Krusch, 318
Diesel Engines, Land and Marine, G. Supine, 113
Electrical Apparatus Making for Beginners, A. V. Ballhatchet, 281
Electricity, A Treatise on, F. B. Pidduck, 318 Employers and Workmen under the Munitions of War Acts, 1915-16, T. A. Fyfe, 241 Engineering Thermodynamics, J. A. Moyer and J. P. Calderwood, 241
Excess Profits Duty and Excess Mineral Rights Duty, R. M. Montgomery and W’. Allen, 130
Field Engineering, W. H. Searles, 167
Finance Act, 1915 ; Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915 ; with Complete Notes, J. E. Piper, 483
First Naval Record of the War, Log of H.M.S. Bristol, May, 1914, to December, 1915, W. Buchan, 174 ?
Flying Machine : “ The Aerofoil ” and “ The Screw Propeller,” F. W. Lanchester, 215
Forging of Iron and Steel, W. A, Richards, 130
Gases,, The Dynamical Theory of, J. H. Jeans, 318
Geodetic Surveying, E. R. Cary, 461
Graphics and Structural Design, H. D. Hess, 130
Guide to South and East Africa, A. Samler BroWn and G. G. Brown, 41
Handbook of Carburation, A. B. Browne, 281 Heat Power Engineering, Elements of, C. F. Hirshfeld and AV. N. Barnard, 130
Highway Engineering, Elements of, A. H. Blanchard, 241
Imports to Exports, On the Relation of, J. Peddie, 318
Income Tax Law, J. T. Pratt, 215
Industrial Fluctuation, A Study of, D. H. Robertson, 157
Industiial History, An Outline of, E. Cressy, 130
Industrial Law, F. Tillyard, 483
Internal Combustion Engines : Theory and Design, R. L. Streeter, 41
Irontnonger Metal Market Year Book. 1916, 215
Irrigation and Practice Engineering, Vol. I., U.se of Irrigation Water and Irrigation Practice, B. A. Etcheverry ; Vol. II., Conveyance of AA’ater, 41
Japan, Fifteenth Financial and Economic Annual of, 1915, 157
Kilns and Kiln Building, A. B. Searle, 241 Live Load Stresses in Railway Bridges, G. E. Beggs, 483
L.C.C. Regulations relating to Reinforced Concrete, E. S. Andrews, 157
London Shipping. 1916, 281
Machine Design, A. W. Smith and G. H. Marx, 130
Mechanical Engineer’s Pocket-book, W. Kent, 483
Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material, G. F. Zimmer, 483
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book, 1916, 41
Mechanics, Textbook of, Vol. VI., Thermodynamics, L. A. Martin, jun., 483
Mineralogy, Elements of, F. Rutley, 483 Modern Workshop Practice, E. Pull, 157 Motor Car Red Book, 1916, W. C. Bersey and W. V. Foucard, 241
Naval Architect’s, Shipbuilder’s and Marine Engineer’s Pocket-book, C. Mackrow and L. Woollard, 483
Petroleum and Natural Gas Resources of Canada, Vol. 11., F. G. Clapp and others, No. 291, 299
Petrology, Practical, Methods in, H. B. Milner and G. M. Part, 483
Physics, Practical, A Text-book of. Dr. H. S. Allen and H. Moore, 299
Pioneer Railway Engineering, Herbert Chat- ley, 241
Radio-telegraphy and Radio-telephony, Elementary Manual, J. A. Fleming, 157
Railroad Track and Constrxiction, Elements of, W. L. Wilson, 167
Reinforced Concrete Construction, Vol. 111., Bridges and Culverts, G. A. Hool, 241
Rise of Rail Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914, E. A. Pratt, 41
Royal Automobile Club Year Book, 1916, 461 Royal Navy List: Who’s Who in the Navy, 1916, 157
Ruling Caste and Frenzied Trade in Germany, M. Millioud, 167
Salt and Alkali Industry, &c., G. Martin, S. Smith and F. Milsom, 318
Sampling and Chemical Analysis of Iron and Steel, O. Bauer and E. Deiss, 113
Sanitary Engineering, Elementary, Course of Instruction in, 215
Screw-cutting for Engineers, E. Pull, 157 Ship Painter’s Handbook, G. S. Welch, 461 Slide Valves and Valve Gearing, P. Youngson, 318
Steam Boiler Economy, W. Kent, 167 Structures and Properties of the More ^Common Materials of Construction, G. B. Upton, 299
Sulphuric Acid and Sulphur Products, G.
Martin and Major J. L. Foucar, 167
Swansea Chamber of Commerce Year Book, 1916, 113
Telegraph Engineering, Erich Transmaiin, 241
Thermodynamic Properties of Ammonia, F.
G. Keyes and R. Jl. Brownlee, 483 The Tropics, C. R. Enock, 241
Trench Warfare, Major A. R. Richardson, 215 Turbine, Marine Steam, Description of the
Parsons and Curtis Turbines, J. W. M. Sothern, 299
Twentieth Century Russia and Anglo- Russian Review, J Bale, Sons and Daniels- son. Limited, 130
Two-stroke Engine, Dr. A. M. Low, 174
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY :
No. 58 : Palieontological Contributions to the Geology of Western Australia, R. Etheridge, jun., 130
No. 62 : Geology and Mining at Sandstone, &c., E. C. Clarke ; Petrology, R. A. Farquharson, 130
No. 65 : Contribution on Asphaltum from the Southern Coast of Australia, E. S. Simpson ; Petrological Contribution, R. A. h'arquharson ; Reputed Petroliferous Area of the Warren River District, H. P. Woodward, 157
Willing’s Press Guide, 1916, 167
Wireless Transmission of Photographs, M. J. Martin, 318
Work and Wages, The Reward of Labour and the Cost of Work, Earl Brassey, 318
Workmen’s Compensation Cases, Judge Ruegg and Mr. D. Knocker, 241

LLOYD’S Register—see Ships Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
London, The Paving of the Streets of, 203 Lubrication for Motor Generators—see Elec- tiical Matters
Lucy, W# T , Notes on the Working of a Rack Railway, 136

MACHINE TOOLS

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Centring Machines for Shells, H. Hunt Sons, 42
Chucks, Boring Tools, Mandrils, &c.,
Shellmaking, J. and H. McLaren, 180 Chucks for Boring and Turning, E. R. F. Turner, 253
Conradson Turret Tool Post Attachment for
Lathes, Phoenix Manufacturing Co., 159
Electric Control Equipment for Machine
Tools, British Thomson-Houston Company, 136
Gun Lathe, 20in. Centre Electrically-driven,
J. Hetherington and Sons. Limited, 463 Machine Tool and Engineering Association,
Postponement of Exhibition, 312
Projectiles, Machinery for the Production of, 42
Punching and Shearing Machines, Hand- operated, C. A. Hunton and Sons, 202 Shell-banding Press, Pullan and Mann, 300 Shell Machining Equipment, E. R. and F.
Turner, 253
Shellmaking Tools, J. and H. McLaren. 180 Shell-stamping Machine, J. and H. McLaren, 424
Six-inch Shell-boring Lathe, Hunslet Engine Company, Limited, 498
Thread Milling Machine for Shells, Arundel and Co., 42
Thread Milling and Wave Grooving Machines for Shells, 253
Twist Drill, Improved, Leadbeater and Scott, 301

MACHINERY for Bleaching, Dyeing and Printing Cotton Fabrics, 250, 271, 308, 316, 352, 358, 391, 469, 537, 541 '
Machining of Shells—see Machine Tools Madsen Automatic Gun, 211
Magnetos. British, 116
Manchester to Bury Electrification—see Railways
Manchester Royal Agricultural Show, 526. 548
Manchester Steam Users’ Association. 493
Manfield, W. H., on Kimmeridge Oil Shales, 235
Manufacture of High-explosive Sliells in France, 143
Manufacturing Industries, Financing of, 155 Marine Engines—see Engines
Marryat, H., on Electric Lifts, 232
Maxwell, W. H., on Deep Boro Wells for Public Water Supply Purposes, 371
Measurement of Voltages—see Electrical Matters
Mechanical Engineers, A Corps of, A. E. Berri- man, 396
Medlow Dam, New South Wales, 258, 262 Melbourne—see Water Supply
Mellor, Dr. J. W., and Lieut. B. J. Moore on the Effect of Loads on the Refractoriness of Fire-clays, 490
Merchant Navy—see Ships
Metals, Non-ferrous, Corrosion Committee, 276, 279, 281
Metallurgy of Ferrous Metals—see Iron and Steel
Milling Machines—see Machine To/)Is
Milwaukee, Activated Sludge Sewage Disposal Riant at, 58
Moore, Harold, on Fuel Oils from Coal, 266
Morley, Captain T. B., on Flow of Air through Nozzles, 82
Mortising Machine, Chain and Hollow Chisel, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 66
Motors and Vehicles, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Motor Rolling Stock for Railways—see Railways
Motor Vehicles, Petrol, Steam and Electric, Road Traction by, G. M. Gamble, 182
Moulding Machines, Jolt Ram, Osborn Manufacturing Co., 24
Multiple Evaporators, On the Theory of, P. H. Parr, 146
Munition Factories and the Future, 442
Munition Workers, Training of, 467
Munitions—see War Material

NATIONAL Research Laboratory, Dr Wm. Garnett, 395
Naval Matters—see Ships
Neglect of Science, 312

OBITUARY:

Aveling, Stephen Thomas (Portrait), 214
Beatty, Hazlitt M., 527
Churchill, Charles H., 157
Dawbarn, Robert Arthur, 214
Donaldson, Sir H. Frederick, K.C.B. (Portrait), 474
Grant, Lewis, 65
Hill, J. J., 461
Laycock, Wilham Samuel (Portrait), 214
Meade, Thomas de Courcy, 167, 209
Minett, A. E. S., 527
Parker, John D., 416
Robertson, Leslie (Portrait), 476
Sabine, A. L., 174
Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin, 311
Smith, Robert Henry, 174
Stephen, John, 299
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Portrait), 499
Whjte, Peter, 19
Wolff, John F., 415
Woodall, Sir Corbet, 415

OIL Engines—see Engines
Oil Shales at Kimmeridge, W. H. Manfield, 235 Oil Tractor—see Tractor
Optical Glass Industry, British, 177 ; (Letter), 216
Organisation of the British Engineering Industry, 483
Oxygen Generator, International Oxygen Company, 89

PARIS, Economic Conference at, 520, 525
Parliament, Private Bills in, 1916, 33
Parr, P. H., on the Theory of Multiple Evaporators, 146
Parsons, F. R., on Why Small Farm Engines are Failures, 385
Patent-office Library, 193 ; (Letters), 161, 174, 216
Patent Rights, Acquisition of Enemy, 25, 50, 74, 98, 122, 142, 166, 188, 210, 228, 248, 270, 288, 306, 328, 350, 368, 390, 410, 432, 450, 468, 494, 514, 636, 556

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS

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Transmission of Power, 25, 73, 97, 141, 287, 328, 350, 494, 613
Turbines, 49 187, 432, 467, 613, 556

PATENTS, German, The Duration of, 136 Paving of the Streets of London, 203 Penistone Viaduct—see Railways
Personal and Business Announcements, 60, 142, 165, 188, 209, 228, 248, 306, 349, 368, 431, 490, 514, 656
Peter, J. F., on the Cumberland Electrolytic Method of Preventing Corrosion, 243, 294
Petrol Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives Petrol Road Traction—see Road Traction Pipes, Steel Reinforced Concrete, Bonna
System, Hughes and Lancaster, 416, 420
Pitch, Propeller, 275
Plated Girder, The Section Modulus of, 418 /
Pooling of Railway Wagons, 307
Popular Science, 279
Port Works, Valparaiso, 190, 198
Portable Saw Bench—see Saw
Pottery Research, 319
Power Factor Correction—see Electrical Matters
Power Stations—see Electrical Matters
Press, Shell-banding, Pullau'.and Mann, 300
Principles of Industrial Lighting, 108 Printing Cotton Fabrics—see Cotton Private Bills in Parliament, 1916, 33 Privately-owned Wagons—see Railways Profits of Controlled Engineering Works, 547 Profits, Taxation of, 63
Projectiles, Machinery for the Production of, 42 Propeller Pitch, 276
Propellers—see also Ships
Pumping Plant, Colliery, at Stoke-on-Trent, Pulsometer Engineering Company, 354 {Two-page Supplement, April 23th, 1916)
Pump, Sinking, Electrically-driven, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 319
Pump, Solid Piston Humphrey, 362 ; (Letter), 427
Punching Machines—see Machine Tools Purchasing a Surveying Level, 193

RADIO TELEPHONEY

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: General

See also Annual Article
Electrical Railways, H. M. Hobart, 44, 68, 90, 105, 134, 149—-see also Railway Electrification, 143
Future of British Railways, 401
Motor Rolling Stock—see Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Notes on the Working of a Rack Railway, W. T. Lucy, 136
Pooling of Railway Wagons, 307
Railway and Canal Traltic Act, 1913, 200
Railway Congestion, 229
Railway Electrification, 143
Railways and Traders, 199
Safety in Railway Travel, 87
Wagon, The Privately Owned Railway, 471

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: General British, Colonial, and Indian:

Canadian Pacific Railway Long Tunnel, 375 » Great Western Runs to Birmingham, 506
Jarrow Disaster, North-Eastern Railway, 87, 90, 241
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Chester to Bury Electrification, 52, 62, 76, 86, 101, 103, {Two-page Supplement, 1916)
Lancashire and Yorkshire at Penistone, Failure of,
North-Eastern Railway, Electrification Scheme, , {Two-page Supplement, June 2nd, 1916)

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: General Foreign:

Baghdad Railway, 112
Belgian Railway, 243
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 229, 238 {Two-page Supplement, March llth, 1916)
Electrification of Railways in Chicago, 179 Furka Pass Railway, 334
Norfolk and Western Railway, Electrification, 330
Pennsylvania Railroad, Electrification on the, 218, 221
Philadelphia and Paoli Line—see Pennsylvania
Single-phase Traction in America, 39
Tunkhannock and Martin’s Creek Viaducts, Lackawanna Railroad, 229, 238 {Two- page Supplement, March 11 th, 1916)
United States, Railway Accidents in. 501

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: General:

Ritchie Locomotive, 31
Shrinking Tires on Locomotive Wheels,
H. N. Gresley’s System, Great Northern Railway, 300
Strength and Wear of Locomotive T'res, E. L. Ahrons, 411, 465
Testing Locomotive Coals, 159, 325 ; (Letter), 314

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: British, Colonial and Indian :

New South Wales Government Railways, Standard Heavy Goods Engine, 10 {Two- page Supplement^ January Ith, 1916)
North-Eastern Railway, 1100 horse-power, 1500-volt Electric Locomotive, 433, 452, 458 {TwO’page Supplement^ June “Ind, 1916)

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: Foreign:

Chilian Transandine Railway Engines, W. T. Lucy, 136
Narrow Gauge Petrol Locomotive for Russia, 484
Small American Petrol Locomotives, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 484

REDMAYNE,
fields, 287 Refractoriness on the, Dr. Moore, 490
Reid, John, on Notes of a Collision Case, 361, 384
Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete Remodelling the Elswick Gasworks, 110, 114 Research, Engineering and Scientific, Dr. J. A.
Fleming, 380
Research, Glass, 249, 259
Research, Industrial, Australian Scheme, 339
Research, Industrial, A. P. M. Fleming, 294 Research in Metallurgy, Ferrous Metals, Sir
Robert Hadfield, 396, 423
Research, Pottery, 319
Research, Scientific and Industrial, Advisory Council, 249, 259, 319, 339, 395, 423, 506, 513 Resistance of Bilge Keels—see Ships Resistance in a Seaway, 112 River Tees Improvements, 193
Road Traction by Petrol, Steam, and Electric
Motor Vehicles, G. M. Gamble, 182 Robertson, J. A., on the Linking up of Power I Stations, 483
Rolling Stock for Railways—see Railways Rosenhain, Dr., on The Making of a Big Gun, 319
Royal Agricultural Show at Manchester, 526, 548.
Rubber Belting, The Manufacture of, James Tinto, 241
Russia, Trade with, Consular Advice, 199 Russian Language, Engineers and the, 211 Russo, Colonel G., on An Experimental Tank
Reproducing Wave Motion, 343 Rustless Ferro-alloys—see Iron and Steel

SANITARY Engineering—see also Annual Article
Saw Bench, Portable Self-contained, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 300
Science, Neglect of, 312
Science, Popular, 279
Scientific and Industrial Research, Advisory Council, 249, 259, 319, 339, 396, 423, 606, 513
Screens, Circulating Water—see Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Electrification Screw Gauges, 263
Searchlights, Beamless, 418
Section Modulus of a Plated Girder, 418 ,
Sewage Disposal Plant, Activated Sludge, at Milwaukee, 58
Shafts, Critical Speeds of, W. M. Wallace, 495, 518, 539
Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools shells—see War Material, also Machine Tools

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General:

Collision Investigation, Notes on, John Reid, 384
Co-ordination
Young, 343
Cruiser Sterns Determination
of Marine
Machinery, T. S. Cockrill, 320
Effects of the Bulkhead Committee’s Report in Practice, A. T. Wall, 301, 426, 444
Electric Ship Progress, 450
Empress of Ireland and Collier Storstad, Notes of Collision, John Reid, 301, 384
Experimental Tank Reproducing Wave
Motion, Colonel G. Russo, 343 International Demand for New Ships, 318 Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns, 67,
330
Lloyd’s. Register, World’.s Shipbuilding in 1915. 108, 390, 421
Load Lines of Merchant Ships, Sir Philip Watts, 313
Maximum Propulsive Efficiency of Screw Propellers, T. C. Tobin, 343
Merchant Navy in War Time, W. S. Abell, 88
Merchant Shipping, 421
Mystery of the Screw Propeller, Captain C. W.
Dyson, 60, 64
Present Position of the Marine Diesel Engine and its Possibilities, Engineer- Lieutenant-Commander W. P. Sillince, 325
Questions in Connection with the Work of the Load Line Committee, W. S. Abell, 313
Resistance of Bilge Keels to Rolling, Experiments to Determine, Professor T. B, Abell, 342
Resistance in a Seaway, 112
Shipbuilding Contracts, 178
Skin Friction of a Fluid in Stream Line, &c., C. H. Lees, 342, 379
Skin Friction Resistance of Ships, &c., G. S. Baker, 342, 379
Standardised Ships, 240
Strength of Watertight Bulkheads, J. F.
King, 356, 360
Subdivision of Merchant Ships ; Reports of Bulkhead Committee, 1912-1913, Sir A, Denny, 360
Subdivision and Safety of Ships, 317
Wave Proportions and their Effects, A. R. Liddell, 474
World’s Shipbuilding in 1915, 108

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Naval Matters:

See also Annual Article
Beam and Draught of Warships, 402
Naval Action off Jutland, 481
Super-submarine, The, 239
Torpedo Tubes in Large Warships, 441
U.S. Navy Department, The Annual Report of the, 129
Warship Design and the Present War, 100

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Foreign Navies:

Aeroplane Catapult on the United States Ship North Carolina, 242
German Battleship Grosser Kurfurst, 391 (Two-page Supplement, May 12th, 1910)

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels:

Chile, Motor Ship, Burmeister and Wain, 67
Collision between Storstad and Empress of Ireland, John Reid, 384
Motor Ship Oregon, 462
Swedish Electric Ship Ljungstrom, 466

SHOW, Royal Agricultural, at Manchester, 52G Shrinking Tires—see Railway Locomotives Sillince, Engineer-Lieut.-Commander W. P., on the Present Position of the Marine Diesel Engine and its Possibilities, 325, 343
Single-phase Traction—see Railways
Sinking Pump, Electrically-driven, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 319
Skin Friction Resistance of Ships—see Ships
Slag Portland Cement, B. J. Day, 181
Smoke Washer for an Engine Round-house,
American Smoke Washing Company, 180
Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Limited, 333’
Societies—see also Associations, &c.
Soldiers, Maimed, The Training of, Monsieur Amar’s Method, 472 Spirit of Adventure, 133
Spontaneous Rupture of a Joist, 19
Spur Gearing, D. Adamson, 442, 460 491, 508
Stead, Dr. J. E., on German Shells and the
Influence of Certain Elements on the Physical Properties of Steel, 43
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steel—see Iron and Steel Strength of Bulkheads—see Ships
Strikers and the War, 297
Subdivision of Ships—see Ships
Surface Tension Effects in the Inter-crystalline
Cement in Metals and the Elastic Limit, F. C. Thompson, 376, 398
Surveying Level, Purchasing, 193 Switchboards—see Electrical Matters

TAXATION of Profits, 63
Taxation of War Profits in Foreign Countries 115
Technical College for Cleveland, 486
Tees, River, Improvements, 193
Telegraph Office Installations—see Electrical Matters
Thompson, F. C., on Surface Tension Effects in the Inter-crystalline Cement in Metals and the Elastic Limit, 376, 398
Threshing Machine, Finishing, R. Garrett and Sons, Limited, 627
Tin and Tungsten, Economic Extraction of, from Cornish Ores, 280
Tinto, James, on the Manufacture of Rubber Belting, 241
Tires—see Railway Locomotives
Tobin, T. C., on the Maximum Propulsive
Efficiency of Screw Propellers, 343
Tool Steels—see Iron and Steel Torpedo Tubes in Large Warships, 441
Torque, Gyroscopic, Apparatus, E. Rawson, 334
Tractor, 30 B.H.P. Oil, Omnitractor Syndicate,* Limited, 527
Trade Associations and Better Business Methods, E. N. Hurley, 473
Trade, British, The Future of, B.E.A.M.A. Dinner, 84
Trade and Employment After the War, 111, 199 Trade—see also Export
Trade, Germany’s, After the War. 192
Trade Terms Used in the Coal Markets of Great Britain {Two-page Supplement, June 2^rd, 1916)
Trade Terms Used in the Iron and Steel Markets of Great Britain, (Letter), 522 {Two page Supplement, June 16fA 1916) Trade War, 520, 526
Trade After the War, 261, 366
Trading with the Enemy in South America, 507
Training of Gauge Makers, 485
Training of Maimed Soldiers, Monsieur Amar’s Method, 472
Training of Munition Workers, 467
Tramways, Glasgow, 531 Tunnels—see Railways

UNIVERSITY College, London, Chemical
Laboratories at, 294
Use of Revolving Discs—see Circular Discs

VALPARAISO Port Works, 190, 198
Venturi Meter at Kensico Reservoir, 6
Verdun and Iron Ore, 402
Viaducts on the Lackawanna Railroad, Martin’s Creek and Tunkhannock 229. 238 {Two- page Supplement March 17i/t, 1916)
Viaducts—see also Railways
Volunteer Corps, Engineering Institutions’, 23, 49, 74, 142, 166, 209, 227, 247, 264, 273, 305, 328, 345, 368, 386
Volunteers, First London Engineer, 494, 514, 530

WAGON’S—see Railways
Wall, A. T., on Some Effects of the
Committee’s Report in Practice, 444
Wallace, W. M., on Critical Speeds of Shafts, 495, 518, 539

WAR MATERIAL AND WAR MATTERS:

See also Annual Articles, Engineering Industries, &c.
Employment of Women on Munitions of War, 123, 133 {Two-page Supplement, February IRA, 1916)
German Shells and the Influence of Certain Elements on the Physical Properties of'I Steel, Dr. J. E. Stead, 43 j
Machinery for War Material—see Machine Tools . !
Machining Processes for Shell Bodies and
Nose Pieces, E. R. and F. Turner, 255
Madsen Automatic Gun, 211
Making of a Big Gun, Dr. Rosenhain, 319
Munition Factories and the Future, 442
Shell Steel, 39
Shells, High-explosive, Manufacture of, in France, 143
Taxation of War Profits in Foreign Countries, 115
Training of Maimed Soldiers, Monsieur Amar’s Machines, 472
Training of Munition Workers, 467
War Cripples in Austria and Germany, 64, 268
War Influence on Iron and Steel Production, 297
Warships—see Ships

WASHED Metals, 336

WATER SUPPLY:

See also Annual Article
Aberdeen, 515, 621
Birkenhead Water Supply, Alwen Dam and Barnston Reservoir, 7, 194 {Supplement, January 1th, 1916)
Bradford Waterworks, Angram Dam, 7, 194 {Supplement, January 1th, 1916)
Deep Bore Wells for Public Water Supply Purposes, W. H. Maxwell, 371
Derwent Valley Water Undertaking, 7, 194 {Supplement, January 1th, 1916)
Melbourne, Water Supply of, 291, 296, 374,' 378
New York, Kensico Dam, 4, 12, 194 {Supplement, January 1th, 1916)
Puech-Chabal System of Water Filtration, 333, 338, 339, 344
Rapid Filtration Plant near Kilwinning, Irvine Water Supply, 542
Theory and Practice in the Filtration of Water, W. Clemence, 333, 338, 339, 344 ; (Letters), 356, 376, 396, 427, 438, 461

WATTS, Sir Philip, on Load Lines of Merchant Ships, 313
Wave Proportions and their Effects, A. R. Liddell, 474
Wells—see Water Supply
Wheels—see Railway Locomotives
Why Small Farm Engines are Failures, F. R. Parsons, 386 ; (Letters), 395, 427, 438
Windeler, G-. E., on Oil Engines, 158
Winding Plant at Pumpherston Oil Company’s Pit, Electrical, Siemens Brothers’ Dynamo Works, 400, 403
Wireless Telegraphy, Oscillations Produced by Electric Arcs, 417
Women, Employment of, on Munitions of War, 123, 133 (Two-page Supplement^ February IR/z, 1916)
Women in Workshops—see Women, Employment of
Woodworking Machines, Two, for Collieries, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 300

WORKS: :

Government Armour-plate Factory in America, 180
Hadfield’s, Diversion of the River Don at Tinsley, Sheffield, 437, 440 {Two-page Supplement, May 2Qth, 1916)
Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, 51, 78 {l\vo- page Supplement, January 21st, 19IG)

X-RAYS and Crystal Structure, with Specia Reference to Certain Metals, Professor W H. Bragg, 424

YOUNG, J. D., on Co-ordination of Propeller Results, 343

ZEPPELINS—See Aeronautics

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