The Engineer 1921/12/16

1921 December 16th PDF

• Contents, p 651.

Main Subjects

• Automatic Train Control, by W. J. Thorrowgood, Institution of Railway Signal Engineers, p 658.

• British Patent Specifications, p 665.

• Container Railway Car, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Avoidable Waste in Car Operation, by Walter C. Sanders, p 646 and p 647. (Illustrated)

• Ecuadorean Railway Construction, p 644.

• Editorial, p 651.
  • Engineers as Administrators.
  • Water Power Development.
• German Reparations in Kind, Institution of Electrical Engineers, J. S. Highfield, President, p 644.

• Greek and Roman Engineering Instruments, by R. C. Skyring Walters, before the Newcomen Society, p 637 - p 639. (Illustrated)

• Junior Institution of Engineers, C. H. Wordingham, Chairman, p 656 - p 657. (Illustrated)

• Launches and Trial Trips, p 666.
  • El Grillo, Built by Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth.
  • John W. Mackay, Built by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson.
  • Losada, Built by Harland and Wolff.
  • Aba, Built by Harland and Wolff.
  • SS Bellasco, Built by John I. Thornycroft and Co.
  • Slieve Donard, Built by Vickers.
• Lenz Oil Transmission Gear for Locomotive Work, p 660. (Illustrated)

• Letters to the Editor, p 644.
  • Relativity, E. W. Hill, C. Turnbull.
  • Noise, A. S. E. Ackermann.
  • Employers Fund for Workmen's Children.
  • A Question at the Civil Examination, Conrad Gribble.
  • Locomotive Boiler Explosion at Buxton, F. W. Brewer.
  • Locomotives with Four Excentrics, C. F. Dendy Marshall, E. A. Forward.
  • Heavy Tenders, William T. Hoecker.
• Power from Sewage Gas, (No. I.), p 642. (Illustrated)
  • C. C. James.
  • Horace Flicker, Horace Walshaw.
  • Septic Gas Co Australia, W. A. Winchester.
• Provincial Letters, p 660.

• Pulverised Coal as Fuel in the United States, (No. I.), p 655.

• Report of the Water Power Resources Committee, p 653.

• Scar House Hydro-Electric Installation, Lewis Mitchell, Engineer, p 639 - p 642 and p 650. (Illustrated)
  • Metropolitan-Vickers.
  • Les Ateliers des Charmilles.
  • W. T. Glover and Co.
  • Ioco Rubber and Waterproofing Co.
  • Twiss Electric Transmission.
• Seven Day Journal, Smoke Abatement, Lighting the Paris Airway and other Topics, p 645.

• Sorbitic Steel for Tires, p 656. (Illustrated)
  • Steel, Peech and Tozer.
  • C. P. Sandberg.
• Tanks and Chain Track Artillery, by L. A. Legros, (No. III.) (Illustrated)

• Valveless, Gearless Engine, W. F. Wege, Engineer, p 658. (Illustrated)

• Water Power, Sir Dugald Clerk, p 648.
  • Professor A. H. Gibson.
• Worm Gear Generating Machine, William Muir and Co, p 654. (Illustrated)

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