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The Engineer 1927 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

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A

  • AERIAL Ropeway for Colliery--see Coal, andc. Kent Colliery
  • Aerial Ropeway for Passenger Traffic up Mount Hood, Near Portland, Oregon, 355
  • AERONAUTICS :
  • - Aerial Survey by Seaplanes of Chittagong Hill Tract, 159
  • - Aeroplane, D.H. Moth, Production Increase Would Reduce Price More than 50 Per Cont., 603
  • - Aeroplane Engine Supercharger Submitted to Government Testa in Military Machines, 657
  • - Air-cooled Aeroplane Engine, New, The "Wright Cyclone," United States Navy's Successful Tests, 45
  • - Aircraft Apprentices, Vacancies, 137
  • - Aircraft Budding in Spain. 657
  • - Air Transport Between Tasmania and Australian Mainland, Company's Equipment, 551
  • AERONAUTICS (continued) :
  • - Royal Aero Club Sending Racing Seaplanes to Compete in Italian Waters, 241
  • AMERICAN Engineering Colleges and Engineering Research, 495
  • Ammonia, Synthetic, Plant of Lazote Inc., Projected Considerable Enlargement, 101
  • Ammonia, Synthetic Production of, in Various Countries, Comparison of Statistics, 101
  • Ammonium Compounds Accidental Explosion, Investigation into Fundamental Conditions Causing Such to Arise, 101
  • Andalusit, Mineral for Production of Heat- resisting Refractories, 327
  • Antwerp Port Equipment Greatly Increased, 495
  • Antwerp, Tenders for Three New Graving Docks, Proposed, 355
  • Arc Welding, Best Papers on. Money Given for Awards, 441
  • Argentina's Projected Outlay on Now Port of Buenos Aires and other Works, 299
  • Artificial Silk not to be Manufactured in Japan, 129
  • Asbestos Mining and Kurunian Natives, 185
  • ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
  • - ASSOCIATION or CONSULTING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 225
  • - ASSOCIATION OF DIESEL ENGINE USERS :
  • -- February Meeting, Growth of the Association, 197
  • - ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, BELFAST :
  • -- Latest, Two-cycle Double-acting Oil Engine, J. Burdon, 370
  • - ASSOCIATION OF SUPERVISING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- W. E. Highfleld Shield, Competition Awards, 535
  • - INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
  • -- Borough Council's Demand to Inspect Private Laboratory Illegal, 15
  • -- Forty-ninth Annual General Meeting, Supply of Chemists Exceeding Demand, 200
  • ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
  • - INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
  • -- Annual General Meeting, 140, 428
  • -- Autumn Meeting to ho Held at Glasgow, 311
  • -- Invitation to Visit Spain in 1928, 522
  • -- Annual Dinner, 140
  • -- Carnegie Fund Grants, 140
  • -- Programme of Proceedings, 428
  • -- Bessemer Gold Medal Awards, 311
  • - INSTITUTE OF METALS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 283
  • -- Annual General Meeting in London and Autumn Meeting in Derby, Date Fixtures, 45
  • -- "Trade Alloys," Compilation of Full List of, 365
  • - INSTITUTE, ROYAL, OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS :
  • -- Royal Gold Medal Award, 453
  • - INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Examinations for Associate Membership, 225
  • ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
  • - INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 370
  • -- Annual General Meeting, Awards for Papers, 517
  • -- Election of Officers and Council, 559
  • -- Heat Engine Trials Committee, Meeting, 611
  • - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- A.M.I.E.E. Examination, 32
  • -- Award for Papers, 535
  • -- Electro-pneumatic Lamp, German, Very Old, 299
  • -- Faraday Medal, Sixth Annual Award, 116
  • -- I.E.E. Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 697
  • -- Null Methods of Measuring Ratio and Phase Displacement of Two Alternating Voltages, B. C. Churcher, 469
  • -- Summer Meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 481
  • -- Wireless Section Committee, 1927-28, Nominations to the Committee, 586
  • -- Wireless Works Laboratory, P. K. Turner, 629
  • - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS-IN-CHARGE :
  • -- Twenty-seventh Annual Dinner, 397
  • - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIP - BUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
  • -- Joint Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 379
  • - INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Summer Meetings at Bournemouth, 611
  • - INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 481
  • -- Case Hardening, Percy J. Haler, 44
  • -- Iron Foundry Cupola, Efficiency of, Mr. Wolstenholme, 299
  • -- J.I.E. "Old Brigade" Meeting, 283
  • -- Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, 213
  • -- Shock Absorber Units, Design and Construction. C. D. Holland, 469
  • -- Unusual Gathering, 200
  • - INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
  • - North-Western Branch :
  • -- Machine Tools for Wheel and Axle Production, E. W. Tipple, 166
  • - INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Summer Meeting at Newcastle, 228, 697
  • - INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 222
  • -- Annual General Meeting, 222
  • -- Awards for Papers, andc, 361
  • - INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS : YORKSHIRE DISTRICT :
  • -- Competition and Prizes Offered. 240
  • - INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
  • -- Annual General Meeting, 140
  • -- Annual Dinner, 140
  • - INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
  • -- Joint Summer Meeting in Glasgow. 370
  • - INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC LIGHTING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Conference to bo Hehl at Brighton, 370
  • - INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Meeting. Elections and Report, 168
  • -- Signalling System, New, at Charing Cross, Cannon-street and London Bridge, W. J. Thorowgood, 577
  • - INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
  • -- Annual Meeting, 507
  • -- General Meetings and Elections, 174, 535, 671
  • -- Reports and Elections, 507
  • - INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 559
  • -- Brenforce Travelling Scholarship, 311
  • -- Examinations for Graduateship and Associate Membership, 674
  • -- Scholarship and Medals Awards for Competitive Design, 684
  • - SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
  • -- Phenol-Aldehyde Resin, Product Possibilities and Difficulties, 327
  • - SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
  • -- Premiums for Technical Papers, 684
  • - SOCIETY, ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING :
  • -- Novel Form of Discussion, 327
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
  • -- Alteration of Rule for Chairman's Term of Office ; Re-election of Colonel the Master of Sempill, 547
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
  • -- Competition of Industrial Designs, 1927, 463
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL :
  • -- Wireless Transmission and the Upper Atmosphere, Dr. E. V. Appleton, 577
  • AUSTRALIAN Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, 45
  • Austrian State Highways, Reconstruction Planned, 441
  • Automatic Telephone Conversion, This Year's Programme for London and Provinces, 269
  • Automatic Telephone Exchanges for Brisbane, To be Supplied by British Firm, 129
  • Automobiles, Output in Canada, 469

B

  • BARRAGE on the Moldau near Prague, Preliminary Work, 15
  • Beet Production, Increase Necessary if the Industry is to become Successful, 159
  • Beet Sugar Corporation Factory at Cupar, Anglo-Scottish, Acreage Planned for Beet Growing, 331
  • Beet Sugar Factory for Lincolnshire, 159
  • Beet Sugar Factory Proposed for Bedfordshire, 657
  • Beira Harbour, East Africa, Dredging and Improvement, 413
  • Belfast Association of Engineers, Electrically Operated Ship's Deck Machinery, W. E. Porter, 155
  • Belfast Harbour, Improvement of Quays, 469
  • Belgian Rails for South Africa, Reporter Rejection of More than 25 per cent, or Account of Defects, 269
  • Bengal and Need of Irrigation for Cultivation of Land and Reduction of Malaria, 15
  • Billingham Works of Synthetic Ammonia am Nitrates, Extension Work Delayed by Coal Stoppage, 24
  • Birmingham Decides Against Acquiring Canals 241
  • Bituminous Sands of Northern Alberta to be Used for Road Surfacing, 15
  • Blast-furnace Gas and Recovery of Crude Cyanide, 269
  • Blasting Under Mining Conditions, Study am Investigation by U.S. Bureau of Mines, 101
  • Board of Trade and Ministry of Transport Rumours as to Work Readjustment, 79
  • Boiler Failures, Statistics and Boiler Insurance 101
  • Boiler Plates, Embrittlement of, Remedy Dis covered by Experiments, 551
  • Boiler Scale Formation, Report, 577
  • Boiler, Vertical, Failure, Official Report, 629
  • Boilers on Ships, Stopper Rods and Washers Board of Trade Warning, 45
  • Boron Oro Discovery in Majave Desert, California, 327
  • Brazilian Factory for Chemical Treatment of National Fibres, Manufacture of Rope, andc. Concession Asked for, 45
  • Brick Factory at East Beauport, Quebec Projected, 413
  • Brick-making Plant for 150,000 Bricks for British Columbia, Whittaker and Co., 576
  • Bricks Made of Calcium Phosphate, 269
  • Bricks, Standard Size Fixed by Canadian Association, 327
  • BRIDGES
  • - Bridge Replacement Across the Coleron River, India, 355
  • - Buffalo and Fort Erie and Peace Bridge Connecting Canada with U.S.A., Opened, 657
  • - Charing Cross, Proposed Double-decker Bridge, 657
  • - Cologne and Millheim Bridge over the Rhine to be Built by Krupps, 75, 185
  • - Cologne and Millheim Now Bridge, Prize Design Condemned by Experts, 469 ; Final Decision in Favour of Suspension Bridge, 577
  • - Cologne, New Bridge Over the Rhine, 75
  • - Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, Series of Load Tests to be Carried out on, 603
  • - Concrete Bridge in Durban North, Longest Erected by Private Enterprise, 129
  • - Concrete Highway Bridge, Largest Yet Undertaken in United States, 495
  • - Double-deck Bridge Over Clarence River, New South Wales, Fresh Tenders to be Invited, 15
  • - International Bridge Across the St. Lawrence River Projected, 45; Project Rejected by Dominion House of Commons, 441
  • - Lions' Gate at Vancouver, Bridge Across, Projected, 355
  • - Murray River Bridge at Echuca, Strengthening Completed, 629
  • - Murray River, New Bridge Projected, 71
  • - Nerbuddo Bridge, India, 577
  • - New Bridge Over the Clyde at Finnieston, 523
  • - Niagara Falls, Bill for Construction of Bridge Opposed as Likely to Spoil Beauty of the Falls, 355
  • - Port of New York, Projected Bridge to Connect Bayonne, N.J., with Staten Island, 241
  • - Projected Bridge Across the Danube, 159
  • - Reinforced Concrete Bridge Across Minnesota River, Claimed as Record, 101
  • - Sydney Harbour Bridge, Fourth and Last Bearing Completed for, 629
  • - Timber Trestle Bridge near Tacoma, Washington, 523
  • BRITISH Columbia, Greatest Water Power Unit Yet Discovered, Reserved by Government, 355
  • BRITISH ELECTRICAL AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES' RESEARCH ASSOCIATION :
  • - Sixth Annual Report, 174
  • - British Empire Overseas, Research Relating to, 75
  • BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :
  • - Specifications :
  • - Bull-head Rails, 253
  • - Drawn Steel Reinforcement Bars, Proposed New Specification, 674
  • British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Exhibition, 383
  • British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Seventh Annual General Meeting. 611 ; Report, 629
  • British Optical Science, 566
  • Buenaventura Harbour, Agreement for Improvements at, 685
  • Burma Oil Company's Agreement with Bugti Tribe in Beluchistan, 577
  • Burma, Salin Canal System to be Remodelled. Also Singan Swamp to be Reclaimed, 551

C

  • CABLE, New Electric. Laid Between Boulogne and Sandgate, 355
  • Cadmium Production at United States Plants, 75
  • Calcutta and Bombay Telephone Connection nearly 1800 Miles in Length, 129
  • Canada, Forest Fires Damage Lust Year, 523
  • Canada, the Main Source of World's Supply of Cobalt, 129
  • Canada's Diamond Jubilee Commemoration, 75
  • Canada's First Air Mail Service, 550
  • Canada's Forests, Campaign for Protection from Fires, 469
  • Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Calgary Branch Extension, 129
  • Canadian and Uni toil States Co-operation in Investigations Affecting the Mineral Industry, 603
  • Canadian Vickers Company's Busy Season. 101
  • Canal, Direct, in Belgian Territory, from Meuse to Antwerp, Proposed, 657
  • Canal, Hoover Commission Reports in Favour of the St. Lawrence Route for Canal from Croat Lakes to the Atlantic, 15
  • Carbon Monoxide, Contamination of Tunnel Air, Tests Made in U.S.A., 299
  • Cardington Airship Mooring Tower, 586
  • Caustic Soda and Chlorine, Factory for Manufacture of, Near Sydney, Australia, 129
  • Cellulose Acetate, Industrial Use of, in France, 629
  • Cement in Great Britain, Largely Increased Output., 413
  • Central Marine Engine Works, 143
  • Cheap Power, Booklet, Ruston and Hornshy, Ltd., 146
  • Chilo Starting Factory for Copper Wire to Secure Independence of Foreign Markets, 603
  • Chimneys of Reinforced Concrete, Vastly Superior in Wind Resistance to Brick or Steel, 15
  • Coal Liquefaction Plant and Calcium Nitrate Plant in Germany, 129
  • COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
  • - Barnsley Seam Reached at the New Upton Colliery, Near Doncaster, 657
  • - Battery of Twenty Coke Ovens to be Put Up Near Barnsley, 383
  • - Bedlington Coal Company, Extensive Improvements Involve Suspension of Work, 629
  • - Bergius Process of Treating Coal, Dr. J. A. Roelofsen, 185
  • - Bituminous Coal, Second International Conference, 326
  • - Brazilian Government and Coal Mining, 185
  • - British Coal-raising Record, 213
  • - British Columbia Coal Production in 1926, Reduced Amount, 269
  • - By-products Works to Experiment on Low- temperature Carbonisation, 441
  • - Canadian Improved Coal Output, 213
  • - Chimney Stack Razed to the Ground and Path-Head Colliery Dismantled, 159
  • - Coal Analysis, Report on, 413
  • - Coal, Modern Methods of Using as Fuel, 383
  • - Coal Seam Discovery in Newfoundland, 523
  • - Coal Seam Reported Struck at Crosby, Cumberland, 97
  • - Coal Shipments from the Tyne, 213
  • - Coals and Temperature at which Decomposition Begins, General Investigation in Progress, 603
  • - Colliery Company Reopening in Lancashire, 159
  • - Colliery Wharf on the River Ouse, 213
  • - Czechoslovakia Hard Coal Production Statistics for 1926, 241
  • - Durham and Northumberland Coalfields, Physical and Chemical Survey of, 441
  • - English and German Coal Markets Position During and Since the English Strike, 495
  • - Formosa, Output of Cool from, 577
  • - France, Output of Coal and Pig Iron in January and February, 469
  • - Gas Supply Over Long Distances Direct from Coal Pits, Question Under Consideration, 83
  • - Hungary's Slump in Coal Demand, Coalgetting Restricted, 355
  • - Kent Colliery and Aerial Ropeway, Probable Closing of Colliery, 327 ; Revival of Scheme, Favourable Result Hoped for, 657
  • - Koppers Continuous Vertical Chamber Coke Ovens, First Installation in this Country, 383
  • - Low-temperature Carbonisation of Coal on Large Scale Proposed for Canada, 441
  • - National Coal Resources, 342
  • - Oil Shale, Distilling, Fushun Colliery Plant for, 434
  • - Oil Shale Laboratory Work and Further Developments at Fushun Collieries, 469
  • - Output of Coal from Mines of Great Britain, 21
  • - Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, Ltd., Appointment of Managing Director, 45
  • - Pulverised Coal for Scotch Marine Boilers, Favourable Result of Laboratory Tests, 653
  • - Safety in Coal Mining. Problems, 629
  • - Scam of Coal Found During Well Sinking, Near Leamington, 551
  • - Seaham Harbour, New Coal Pit Projected, 667
  • - Sinking Progress at New Colliery at Upton, 213
  • - South African Coal Industry, Natal Section, Crippled for Lack of Railway Rolling Stock, 15
  • - South Australia, Coal and Lignite Resources of, 213
  • - Soviet Union Sinking New Coal Shafts, 551
  • - Union of South Africa's Coal Output in November, 1926, 269
  • - United States Statistics of Coal Mine Fatalities in 1926, 241
  • - Wemyss Coal Company's Shaft, Record Diameter, 629
  • COLD Storage Warehouse, Large. Projected Construction for Benefit of British Columbia Fruit Crop, 15
  • Collapse of Tank and Tower Duo to Removal of Rod Connections, 159
  • Colonial Scientific and Research Service, 685
  • Columns Having H-shaped Sections, Testing of Different Types of Construction, 101
  • Commercial Motor Users Association, Annual London Motor Parade, 228
  • Compressed Air System, Transmission Losses in, 657
  • Concrete Construction, Novel System for Houses at Cambridge, 383
  • Concrete, Result of Heat Test. Effects, 15
  • Concrete Slab Lowered by Means of Melting Ice Blocks, 523
  • Congo, Cataract Region of, to be Made Navigable for Large Steamers, 75
  • Congress on the Explosion Engine, 618
  • Congress of Gas Engineers, Coke Oven Managers anti Fuel Section of Society of Chemical Industry Postponed, 159
  • Continental New Steamship Route. French Steamers and L.M. and S. Railway, 441
  • Copper Mines, Allihies, Berehaven, Co. Cork, Work Resumed, 355
  • Copper Ore Raised by Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, 129
  • Copper Pipe Explosion, Probable Cause of, 551
  • Corona Discharge During Cracking of Oils, 185
  • Corrosion, An Interesting Case of, in Adelaide, H. E. Bellamy, 45
  • Crane Accident, Unusual, 413
  • Crude Petroleum Refining in Great Britain, 441
  • Crystal Detectors, Rectifying Action of, 551
  • Cutting Speed of a Diamond Bit Used in Oilfields, 45
  • Czechoslovak Projected Fund for Road Improvement on Large Scale, 299

D

  • DAM Building in Record Time, but at Record Cost, 269
  • Damming the Water of Three Lakes m Quebec, Plans Submitted. 45
  • Dead Sea Mineral Contents, Estimated Value of, 523
  • Death of Colonel H. G. Prout, 241
  • Detonation in an Engine Using Liquid Fuel. 185
  • Diamonds, Black, and White or Borts, 15
  • Diesel Engine Burning Whale Oil, 213
  • Diesel Engines versus Steam Turbines, Result of Costs Calculation, 185
  • Dock Facilities, Possible Establishment of, on the River Tees, 694
  • Doulton's Manufacture of Stoneware Drainage Pipes Transferred from Lambeth to Erith, 577
  • Dredger Breakdown at Bombay, Result of Investigation, 551
  • Durban Technical College Extensions, 327

E

  • EAST London, South Africa, Projected Turning Basin 1000ft. Square, 551
  • Eclipse of the Sun, Total Lantern Lecture, 538
  • Edinburgh and Glasgow, First Completed Section of New Arterial Road
  • ELECTRICAL MATTERS
  • - Alternating Voltages, Measuring Ratio and Phase Displacement, R. C. Churcher, 469
  • - Assisted Wiring Scheme Increases Customers. 495
  • - Atmosphere and the Variation in Electric- Field, 129
  • - Auxiliary Hot-water Heating System in Electric Houses at Glasgow, 129
  • - Basingstoke Electricity Works, 314
  • - British Columbia's Electric Development, 185
  • - British Electrical Development Association Annual Dinner, 339
  • - Calcutta Big Power Station, First of Three Turbines Started Up, 101
  • - Cape Town Electricity Undertaking, Proposed Extensions, 519 ; and Expenditure on, 603
  • - Carolina Company Installing Electric Storage Batteries, each Weighing 100,000 lb., 15
  • - Columbia Power Station Remarkable Operating Results, 469
  • - County of London Electric Supply Company, New Engineer-in-Chief, 577
  • - Design and Balancing of Three-phase, Low- tension Systems. W. Fordham Cooper, 603
  • - Destructive Insects Destroyed by Electric Light, 241
  • - Distributors of Too Small Area, Needless Expense Caused by Replacement to Meet Increasing Demand, 523
  • - Electrical Blasting from a Circuit, Needful Precautions, 159
  • - Electric Crucible Furnace, First Country, 355
  • - Electrical Generating Plant Extension at Beckton Works, 213
  • - Electrical Industry in the U.S.A., 213
  • - Electric Motor Breakdown. Interesting Case of, 495
  • - Electric Trolley Bus, 298
  • - Electricity from Coke Oven Gas, Staveley Coaland Iron Company's Progress, 15
  • - Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, 113
  • - Extra High-tension Systems, Fourth Conference on, 15
  • - French Regulations as to Use of Electrical Equipment Underground, 241
  • - Fukien Province of China, Electricity Supply for Kulangsu, 15
  • - German Use of Electricity, Report of the Industry, 629
  • - Ghent, New Central Electricity Station Completed, 299
  • - Hackney Electricity Committee, Proposed Extensions, 551
  • - Heating, Electric, in Strasbourg. Great Increase in Consumption, 185
  • - House Heating by Electricity, 75
  • - Hull, Quebec, Ample Supply of Electric Energy for any Industry, 413
  • - Industrial Electric Heating Load in United States, 495
  • - Insulating Material, Valuable Discovery, Professor A. I. Yoffe, 269
  • - International High-tension Transmission Congress, the Fourth, to be held in Paris, 523
  • - Italy, Large Transformers in Use, 629
  • - Kootenay River, British Columbia. New Generating Station, 383
  • - Large Electric Generators for Southern California, Unusual Design, 241
  • - Liverpool Power Station, Second Large Generating Sot to be Installed, 101
  • - Low-tension Supply Appliances, 495
  • - Melbourne Electrical Exhibition, 551
  • - Mercury-Arc Rectifier, Automatic, Substation at Verdun, Quebec, 241
  • - Mica, Chief Use in Electrical Industries 577
  • - Moffatt Tunnel Rock Removal by Shot Fired by Electric Current at Washington, 277
  • - Moscow Report on Electrification of the Donetz Biwin, 269
  • - 1200-Kilowatt Oil-driven Plant at Ashford, Position of Small Stations, 469
  • - Power Plant, 50,000-Kilowatt. Proposed for Supply of Electricity to Canberra, Australia, 450
  • - Power Transmission Line. High-voltage, between Montiers and Lyons, Underground Cable Installed for a High Section of the Line, 603
  • - Pumps, Electrically Driven, for Irrigation, 43
  • - Restaurant with all Heat, Light and Power Derived from Electricity, 80
  • - Safety Lamp, New Electric Type, 213
  • ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
  • - Salmon River, Idaho, Horse-power Development Anticipated, 269
  • - Secondary Batteries in Warships, Restricted Use of, 469
  • - Shannon Electricity Supply Bill, 299
  • - Society Electrique du Nord-Ouest, Prosperous Financial Year, 558
  • - South Africa,m Increase in Imports of Electrical Machinery, 551
  • - Southend Suggests Electricity Power Station Erection on Canvey Island, 269
  • - Swellendam, South Africa, Electric Lighting Scheme for, 129
  • - Tasmanian Hydro-electric Supply System. Great Increase in Number of Consumers, 101
  • - Towers for Transmission Line from the Shannon to Dublin, 213
  • - Turbo-alternator Set, 20,000-Kilowatt, Alternator for, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 87
  • - Turbo-alternator Set, 25,000-Kilowatt, for Liverpool, Installation Followed by Order for Second Similar Set, 299
  • - Victorian State Electricity Commission, Various Extensions and Undertakings, 261
  • - Welding Electrode, New Type, 495
  • - West Midland Electricity Scheme for Area of 1095 Square Miles, 159
  • ELECTROLUX Works, Luton, 592
  • Electro platers' and Depositors' Technical Society, Electro-deposited Coatings for Prevention of Corrosion, H. Sutton, 158 ; Electro-deposition of Iron, T. Jolmston, 256
  • Elevator for Canada, Largest Single-working Constructed in One Unit, 685
  • Empire Sugar, 428
  • "Engineer" Degree to Involve Nine Years' Work, 45
  • Engineers' League Challenge Shield for Rifle Shooting, 29
  • Excavation of Submarine Pipe Trench, 75
  • EXHIBITIONS :
  • - A.E.G. Transformer Works. Berlin, Plant for New Treatment of Oil, 657
  • - British Industries Fair, 45 ; American Buyers to Obtain Remission of Fee on Passport Visa to Great Britain, 45
  • - Como, Exhibition, Commemorative Centenary, 101
  • - Exhibition of Results of Recent Research Work on Adhesives Application, 15
  • - International Foundry Exhibition to be Organised in Paris, 657
  • - Melbourne Electrical Exhibition, 551
  • - Melbourne, Exhibition of British Goods, 181
  • - Milan Sample Fair, 228
  • - Model Railway Club Annual Exhibition, 469
  • - North-East Coast Industries Exhibition Postponed, 327
  • - Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 222
  • - Royal Dublin Society's Spring Show at Ball's Bridge, 159
  • - Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, 213
  • - Street Lighting Appliances Exhibition at Brighton, 197
  • - Trade Exhibition at Manchester of Modern Power Efficiency Machinery, 241
  • EXPLOSION of Hot Plate and Needful Precautions, Board of Trade Comments, 15
  • Explosion of a Stenin Trap, 75
  • Explosion of Tube in Steam-heated Oven, Surveyor's Report, 629

F

  • FACTORY, Crosse and Blackwell, to be Used for Artificial Silk Manufacture, 129
  • Failure of Old Gauge Glass Fitting on Board a Steam Drifter, 15
  • Fairs--see Exhibitions
  • Faraday House Electrical Engineering College Entrance Scholarships, 425
  • Federated Malay States to Import Dredgers for Flood Prevention Work, 241
  • Federation of British Industries Meeting, 314
  • Fertiliser from Vegetable Refuse, Scheme for Production at Birmingham, 327
  • Finnish Manufacture of Gunpowder and Nitro-cellulose, 241
  • Fire in Chemical Works and Use of Ammonia Gas, 75
  • Fires, Carbon Bisulphide, Necessary Precaution in Use of Water for Extinction, 269
  • Fishing Industry, Recovery of By-products, 327
  • Flame Movement, The Study of, O. C. de C. Ellis, 469
  • Forest Products Research Laboratory. Paper on Movement of Moisture Through Wood, 15
  • Fracture of Quartz by Heat, Result of Laboratory Experiments, 241
  • France, Output of Coal and Pig Iron in January and February, 469
  • "Frigorifico" at South Dock, Buenos Aires, Most Up-to-date Cold Storage, 327
  • Fruit in Cold Storage and Temperature Precautions, 213
  • Fruit Storage in Gas, Experiments, 523
  • Fuel Research and By-products, 75

G

  • GALVESTON Bay, Coast Submergence, 159
  • Garbage, Household, New Method for Recovery of Valuable Products from, 129
  • Gas Welding for Chromium Alloys, 555
  • Gasworks, Dawsholm, Glasgow, Projected Extension of, 129
  • Germany, Reported Projected Company to Study Problem of Long-distance Production of Gas from Lignite, 551
  • Gold Find, Very Rich, on Western Shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, 355
  • Gold Output from South African Mines in 1926, 159, 185
  • Gold, Particles of, New Electrical Device for Reclaiming, 355
  • Gold Recovery from Cleaning Up of Old Plant in Abandoned South African Mine, 523
  • Gold Yield of New South Wales for 1926, 355
  • Gun-laying in Warships, Device for Reducing Effects of Rolling and Pitching, 355

H

  • HAIFA and Baghdad. Transport Service Projected, 185
  • Harbour Works in Spain, 657
  • Heat Insulating Material with Cork as Basis, 355
  • Heat Transfer to Heavy Oils in Steam Heaters, Result of Experiments, 577
  • Herne Bay Waterworks, Centrifugal Bore hole Pump, 15
  • High-speed Steel Hacksaw Blades. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., 253
  • Highway Engineering, Chair of, at London University, 685
  • Hull, Alexandra Dock Gates Reconstruction, 413
  • Hume Reservoir, Australia. Threatened with Extinction, Urgent Need of Improved Management, 603
  • Hydraulic Accumulators, Advantage of Using Air Pressure Instead of Dead Weight for Loading, 14
  • Hydro-electric Development of Canada, 129, 383
  • Hydro-electric Development of Switzerland, 629
  • Hydro-electric Installation on Batiscan River, Canada, Particulars of, 666
  • Hydro-electric Plant in California, 60in. Penstock for, 355
  • Hydro-electric Plants, Very Large, on Winnipeg River, 355, 413
  • Hydro-electric Power Plant Construction on the Saluda River, Platts by Lexington Water Power Company, Columbia, 355
  • Hydro-electric Power Station at Meso, Inauguration by Crown Prince of Italy, 657
  • Hydro-electric Scheme. Mandi, India, Tunnel Piercing to Begin, 523
  • Hydro-electric Scheme on Susquehanna River, Maryland, Progress of, 15
  • Hydro-electric Schemes in Victoria. Australia, 551
  • Hydro-electric Schemes at Zurich, in the Engadine, and the Lower Aare River, 211

I

  • ICEBERGS, High Temperatures for Rapid Destruction of, 603
  • Ijmuiden, North Sea Port, Now Lock to he Largest in the World, 129
  • Impact of Light Effects and Value of Attention to them, 241
  • Indian Road and Transport Development Association, 280
  • India's Surfeit of Self-termed Engineers, 129
  • Industrial Liverpool, 531
  • Industry, New, tor Manufacture of Megans into Building Boards, andc., 101
  • Ingot Mould, Huge Size of, 383
  • Institutes and Institutions--see Associations
  • International Commission on Illumination, Meeting at Bellagio, 586
  • International Conference on Large Electric High-tension Systems, 481
  • Irish Engineering and Foundry Firm Completes Ninety-six Years of Continuous Activity, 15
  • Irish Free State's Road Grant, 269
  • IRON AND STEEL
  • - Ashton Mechanical Iron Puddling Process, 635
  • - Blast-furnaces, Idle for Years, Being Blown in, 383
  • - Cast Steel, Alternating Stress Fatigue Tests. Professor H. F. Moore, 15
  • - Cobalt Steel Magnets, Super Cast, J. F. Kayser, 45
  • - Electrodeposition of Iron. T. Johnston, 256
  • - European Steel Cartel's Output, 269
  • - Foundry Moulds and Cores, Nitride Application to Surface of, a great Advantage. F. Bickowsky, 45
  • - Gamngara Manganese Corporation Formed in South Africa, 577
  • - Gaseous Reduction of Iron Ore, Mr. Heihachi Kamura, 523
  • - Heat Treatment of Steel. Recent Experiments, 657
  • - Ilmenite-bearing Iron Ores. New Use for, 213
  • - Indian Tariff Board Report and Steel Industry Protection, 185
  • - Ingots of Basic Open-hearth Steel. Huge Size, 629
  • - Iron Deposits Discovered in Mountains of County Leitrim, 159
  • - Iron Ore from Hudson Bay Island to be Tested in England, 159
  • - Iron Smelting, New Electrical Process of, 383
  • - Iron and Steel Industry in Pretoria, 129
  • - Manganese Deposits in Kuruman District, South Africa, 462
  • - Manganese Ores Research in the United States, 523
  • - Manganese Steel Railway Crossings, 413
  • - Maple Leaf Steel Mills, Development on Large Scale of Iron and Steel Manufacture, 15
  • - Molybdenum Used in Steel, New Method, 383
  • - Mysore Ironworks, Scheme to Utilise Byproducts, 685
  • - National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Reports :
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 185
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in January, 185
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in February, 299
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Stool Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in March, 413
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in April, 577
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in May, 657
  • - Ore Extraction from Mounds Near Cleveland Ironstone Mines, 213
  • - Pig Iron Imports into the United States in 1925, 269
  • - Pig Iron, New and Valuable Type in Norway, 129
  • - Record Steel Output, 213
  • IRON AND STEEL (continued) :
  • - South Africa, Sub-Continent. Major Occurences of Iron Ore, 419
  • - South Australia, Production of Iron Ore, Statistics, 685
  • - South Russian Steel Works Tube Mill and Steel Plant, 383
  • - Steam Pipes, Cast Iron, for High Pressures, Need of Great Care to Secure Even Thickness of Metal, 503
  • - Steel, British and American, Compared, 45
  • - Steel Pipes Manufacture in Factory Projected at Vereeniging, S.A.. 81
  • - Steel Production by New Furnace at Cardiff. A British Record. 523
  • - Steel Protection Bill in Indian Legislative Assembly, 129
  • - Steel Sections, Arc-welded. Better than Cast Iron for Machine Parts, J. F. Lincoln, 603
  • - Swedish Iron Industry, Government Measures for Support, 685
  • - Swedish Ironworks Collaboration in Technical Research Work, Extension of, 685
  • - Technological Laboratory in American Steel Industry, 495
  • - United States Iron Ore Mining Statistics for 1926, 100
  • IRRIGATION Project Submitted to Mexican Government, 523
  • Irrigation Pumps, Electrically Driven, 13

J

  • JAPAN'S Total Disappearance into the Pacific Predicted if Earthquakes Continue, 413
  • Johannesburg Municipal Gasworks, 185
  • Jubilee of Service, 29

K

  • KAURI Timber Industry of New Zealand and Use of Waste Wood, 495

L

  • LANDSLIDES in South Wales, Professor G. Knox, 413
  • Lead and Copper Production in the United States in 1925 and 1926, 129
  • Lead Discoveries in Kiaochow and at Tsian, Fengtien Province, 241
  • Lead Mine, Derelict for Nearly Eighty Years, Reopened on Discovery of Rich Vein, 355
  • Lead Mine, Western Australia, New Treatment Plant Completed, 441
  • Lead Mines Near Harrogate Reopened, 159
  • Lead Mining Industry in Wales, Attempted Re vivid, 269
  • Lead Producing Field in South-West Africa, Hopeful Prospect from, 185
  • Lenham By-pass. Concrete Road, Officially Opened, 413
  • Liege-Antwerp Canal, Direct, Proposed, 685
  • Lime Whitewash for Brickwork of High Temperature Industrial Furnaces, E. P. Arthur and Others, 495
  • Limestone Removal by' Mining Superior to Quarrying, 383
  • Lincoln Cathedral Repairs, Fresh Defects Discovered, 327
  • Load Tests on a Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, 603
  • Loughborough College, British Empire Scholarships Awards, 592
  • Lubricants, Good, from Certain Crude Oils, Tests in America, 441
  • Lubricants, G. W. Watson, 355
  • Lubrication Problems, 535

M

  • MACHINE Tool Home Trade Slowly Recovering, 495
  • Machine Tool Trades' Association, Annual Dinner, 339
  • Madras Hydro-electric Schemes and Railway Electrification in South India, Government Committee to be Appointed, 159
  • Magnesite Beds in Manchuria, 75, 213
  • Magneto, The High-tension, with Tungsten Contacts, 441
  • Manchester's Lark of Light and Excessive Deposit of Foreign Matter from Atmosphere, 603
  • Manhattan Island Excavation, Island's Value Now and 300 Years Ago, 450
  • Manitoba, Highway Construction Programme, 413
  • Marlow Lock Reopened After Reconstruction, 409
  • Measurement of Air Flow in Mines, 355
  • Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, 367, 400
  • Mercury Obtained in Distillation of Coal Tar, 413
  • Mercury, Selling Price of, Negotiations Between Spanish and Italian Governments, 269
  • Mersey Tunnel, Now. Settlement Reached as to Birkenhead Entrances, 469
  • Metallic Alloys, Reported Discovery of Three New, 523
  • Metrovick Carnival, 397
  • Mexico City and Acapulco, Highway Between, Extensive Scheme Planned, 603
  • Mino Ventilation Problems, C. F. Raney, 355
  • Mineralogical Analyses. Varieties in Chemical Investigation, 327
  • Mines Accidents Statistics for 1926, 213
  • Mining Prospects in Canada, Dr. Adam Shortt, 383
  • Molybdite, Two New Leaching Methods for Recovery of, 129
  • Montevideo Scheme for Construction of the Rambla Sud (South Sea Wall), 241
  • Montreal, Port of. Further Expenditure on Development, 15
  • Monument to Eiffel Projected in Paris, 159
  • Motor Road Proposed Between Genoa, Milan and Hamburg, 101
  • Motor Transport Growth in Southern Rhodesia, 241
  • Motor Vehicle Increase in India and Ceylon, Creation of Central Road Board and other Measures Proposed, 101
  • Mysore State Industries, Experiments, 685

N

  • NATAL Sugar Industry and Alcohol Production as Motor Spirit, 269
  • Natural Gas for Lifting Oil from Deep Oil Wells,
  • Natural Graphite. Chief Uses of, 657
  • Newfoundland Mining Industry Revival Possible, 213
  • New Zealand Invites Tenders for Electric Locomotives, Machinery and Material from British Firms, 269
  • New Zealand's Variety of Heavy Orders Placed in United Kingdom, 327
  • Newsprint Factory Projected at Port Arthur, Ontario, 355
  • Newsprint Factory at Winnipeg, Projected Increase, 356
  • Newsprint Mills at Bathurst. New Brunswick, 355
  • Newsprint Production in Canada, 603
  • Nigeria's Road and Railway Construction Programme, 327
  • Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Government Aid in Brazil in Erection of Factory for Fixation, 75
  • North /Australia Needs Works Engineer, 603
  • Nova Scotia, Wealth in Gypsum Shipped to the United States, 441

O

  • OIL from Alaska, Poor Prospect of, 185
  • Oil, Commercial Production of by Hydrogenation of Brown Coal, 383
  • Oil, Crude, Production in Tasmania, 159
  • Oil Discovery Near Grand View, Canada, 129
  • Oil Drilling Operations, Analysing Underground Waters Encountered, 685
  • Oil Recovery in Large Quantities by the Bowie- Gavin Process, 159
  • Oil Removal from Steam Engine Condenser Water, Professor Dijkshoorn, 269
  • Oil Sand and "Tar Spring" Accessible Deposits in Canada and in California, 129
  • Oil Shale. Valuable Discovery in Longquimay Valley, Chili, 523
  • Oil Shale--see also Coal
  • Oils and Lubricants, Specifications for India Stores Department, 185
  • Oldest Engineering Firm, 312
  • Ontario Association of Professional Engineers, Annual Meeting, 185
  • Ontario Road Construction Schemes, 383
  • Ontario's Wealth in Valuable White and Red Pine, 383
  • Oxygen, Percentage Necessary to Keep in Good Health, 299

P

  • PAINT Spraying Machines for Clyde Shipyards, Balloting on Employers' Proposals, 269
  • Palestine's Interest in Dead Sea Concession for Extraction of Potash, 495
  • Panama and Suez Canals Traffic Comparison, 185
  • Paper, High Quality, Successful Production from State Forests Bamboo, Bombay, 685
  • Paper Pulp Manufacture in Tasmania, Expert- mental Plant, 685
  • Paper Pulp Mill Projected on Vancouver Island, 185
  • Past and Present Crewe Pupils' Thirty-seventh Annual Dinner, 618
  • Patent Prolongation of Five Years, 159
  • Pavement, Double, Type Being Used in Paris, 629
  • Petrol, Synthetic, and Other By-products from Spitzbergen Coal, Factory "for Production, 523
  • Petroleum Industry Losses Due to Formation of Water in Oil Emulsions, 15
  • Petroleum in Okla, U.S.A., Very Large Increase in Production by New Method, 45
  • Petroleum Operations at Infantas, Colombia, Success Results, 129
  • Petroleum Pipe Lines in the United States, 185
  • Petroleum Reserves of America, Deeper Drilling Believed to be Best Solution for Supply, 101
  • Phenolic, Products Removal from Effluent Liquors from Distillation of Gasworks Ammonia, 383
  • Platinum Concentrates in South Africa, Output of, 577
  • Platinum Discovery in Quebec, 657
  • Platinum and Palladium Recovery while Refining Nickel-copper Matte, 657
  • Platinum, Rich Deposit Discovered in Province of Quebec, 327
  • Plumbago Industry, Flagging, in Ceylon, 577
  • Portland Cement, British Rapid-hardening, for Re-paving of Broadway, New York, 523
  • Portuguese Government Plans for Good Roads, 502
  • Potash Salts Reserves, Russian Geological Mission Investigation Report, 523
  • Power Alcohol Manufacture on the Queensland Sugar Fields, 241
  • Power Alcohol Plant Near Mackay, Queensland, Large Capacity of, 355
  • Power Generation and Distribution, Commission of Inquiry Appointed by Saskatchewan Government, 413
  • Power Provision to Replace Diesel Plant by, Harnessing Umtata Falls, South Africa, 355
  • Presentation to Professor Dempster Smith, 425
  • Prince Edward Island, Expenditure on Harbours and Rivers, 603
  • Printing Trades and Illumination Research Committee's Report, 299
  • Professor D. A. Low, Complimentary Dinner to, 90
  • Pulp and Paper Mill Plant Proposed for Erection on Vancouver Island, 657
  • Pulp and Paper Mill Projected for Prince George, British Columbia, 45
  • Pulp and Paper Production in Canada, Notable Industry, 189, 327
  • Pulpwood and Water Power Resources of Quebec, Development, 213

Q

  • QUARRY Managers' Institution, Annual Conference, 225
  • Quebec and Northern Ontario, Record Gold Production Anticipated, 413
  • Quebec Rivalling Ontario and British Columbia as a Metal-producing Province, 129

R

  • RADIUM Recovery After Passing Through Destructor Fires, 269
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
  • - Accidents :
  • -- Accident Inquiries Affected by the Strike and Coal Stoppage in 1926, 213
  • -- Anniversary of General Strike and Serious Accidents, 523
  • -- Collision, Due to Fog, Between Light Engine and Passenger Train, Report and Recommendation, 101
  • -- Collision Between Freight Trains, Inquiry and Report, 684
  • -- Collision at Gale St. Halt, on Tilbury Section, Report on Causes, 603, 685
  • -- Collision Between Light Engine and Passenger Train Near Birmingham, 159
  • -- Collision with Light Engine at Penistone Station, 241, 269
  • -- Collision of Scottish Express with Light Engine, 551
  • -- Collision, Serious, on Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 327
  • -- Collision at Sheffield Station, Result of Inquiry, 629
  • -- Collision Between Train and Motor Car at Unprotected Level Crossing, Report on, 413
  • -- Derailment hut Little Damage on Express from Manchester to York, 101
  • -- Fatal Accident to Driver on the L. and N.E.R., Report, 411
  • -- Fiftieth Anniversary of Remarkable Accident, 355
  • -- Finsbury Park Accident Report, 628
  • -- Government- Inquiries into Accidents, 148
  • -- Hull Railway Disaster Inquiry, 213, 241, 327
  • -- Mishaps and Delayed Trains on the Southern and Metropolitan District Lines, 101
  • -- Occupation Crossing Fatality Near Tottenham, 241
  • -- Past Years, Analysis of Accidents in the Present Century, 15
  • -- Report on Accident at Roudhain, Ancient Regulations Still in Force, Bridge Recommended, 469
  • -- Report on Collision on the Southern Railway, 159
  • -- Report on Derailment Caused by Broken Brake Hanger, 218
  • -- Report on Derailment Outside Charing Cross Station After Re-signalling of Yard, 245
  • -- Report on Rawmarsh Fatal Collision, 327
  • -- Royal Commission Railway Accidents Report Fifty Years Ago, 159
  • -- Runaway Carriages Derailed and Damaged on Rishworth Branch, 129
  • -- Thirty-third Anniversary of Bad Accident, 625
  • - American Interstate Bureau of Safety, Exception to General Good Will, 184
  • - Anti-friction Clips for Switches, 159
  • - Antioquia Railway, Projected Tunnel Between Santiago and Limon, 75
  • - Appointments and Staff Changes, 75, 382, 523, 603, 662, 693
  • - Australian Losses on Steam Tramways at Certain Centres to be Abolished as Nonpaying Concerns, 101
  • - Australian North-South Transcontinental Extension, First Sod Turned, 101
  • - Automatic Signalling on the Great Northern Railway of America, Various Records of the Railway, 101
  • - Automatic Train Control, New System on Reading--New Jersey--Railroad, 75
  • - Automatic Train Control, Trial of New Switch to Cut Off Battery Automatically, 101
  • - Avonmouth Light Railway Transferred from Private Ownership, 441
  • - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Locomotives, Repainting and Re-naming, 469
  • - Becontree Housing Scheme and Railway Extension Question, 185
  • - Belgian Rails Supplied to South Africa, Considerable Proportion Rejected, South African Trade with the Empire, 299
  • - Birthday Honours for Engineers and Industrialists, 629
  • - Bridges--see Separate Heading
  • - Britain and Japan, Exchange of Courtesy, 685
  • - British Columbia Electric Railway Plant, 185 ; (Letter), 559
  • - British Railways Handicapped by Smallness of Goods Consignments, 413
  • - Burmah Desires State Management of its Railways, 383
  • - Buxton and Ashby Light Railway Closed Down, 241
  • - Calais and Brussels, New Train to Connect with 11 a.m. Train from Victoria, 248
  • - Canadian National Railways, Engineers' Report on Proposed Route for New Line, 629
  • - Canadian National Railways Improved Position, 383
  • - Canadian National Railways, Programme for Construction of Branch Lines, 355
  • - Canadian National Railway's Steady Financial Improvement, 15
  • - Canadian Northern National Railways, Earnings in 1926, 185
  • - Canal, Kennett and Avon, Question of its Future, 185
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
  • - Central of New Jersey Railway New Bridge, 75, 677
  • - Channel Tunnel Question, Scheme Opposed by all Parties, 603
  • - Coal Stoppage and Wagon Supply Trouble, 213
  • - Colombia, Survey on Section of the Puerto Witches Railway, 495
  • - Compensation Money Paid to Railways, 269
  • - Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 685
  • - Cost of Living Figure and Extra Shilling for Railwaymen, 15
  • - Court House Station. Changes of Ownership and Rolling Stock on Various Midland County Railways, 75
  • - Danger of Using Boards Left on a Roof, 15
  • - Death of Mr. George Deuchars, 441
  • - Death of Mr. W. T. Foxleo, 383
  • - Death of Mr. George A. Mountain, 327
  • - Death of Mr. J. H. E. Secretan, 45
  • - Dividend Reduction and Withdrawals from Reserve Funds on all the Principal Railways, 213
  • - Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Sold to Tramways Company, 629
  • - East London, Transit Accommodation in. Suggested Postponement of Further House Building, 101, 185
  • - Egyptian Government Railways Now* All Standard Gauge, 657
  • - Electric Railways in the Ruhr and Westphalian District, Doubtful Scheme, 577
  • - Finance Statistics of Four Great Lines. 657
  • - Foreign Coal Contracts Necessitate Further Large Transferences from Reserved Funds, 213
  • - Foreign Coal Imports and Shortage of Wagons 15
  • - German Railway Students Touring English Railways, 495
  • - Great Indian Peninsular Railway, Projected Independent Electric Power Station, 101
  • - Great Northern Engine No. 1 Placed in York Museum, 383
  • - Great Southern Railways of Ireland. Alterations in Signalling Operation at Killarney Junction, Kingstown, andc., 412
  • - Great Western Railway :
  • -- Junction, Old Oak Common, for Wycombe Line, Improvement, Projection, 495
  • -- Kennett and Avon Canal, Abandonment Decision Modified, 185
  • -- Land Taken Over on Lease from G. W.R. by Patent Fuel Company, 277
  • -- Mineral Wagons, 20-Ton, Rebate of Charges to be Allowed for Use of Such, 129
  • -- Newton Abbot Station Opened After Rebuilding, 441
  • -- Newton Abbot Station, Souvenir of Brunel, 577
  • -- Plymouth, Overseas Mails Arriving to be Handled by Belt Conveyor Instead of by Men, 495
  • -- Up and Down Lines for Engines and Empty Stock, 299
  • -- Wages Bill of the Company, 629
  • - Guaranteed Week for Railwaymen Being Gradually Restored, 213
  • - Harbin Electric Tramway Extension, 15
  • - Heavy Outlay of Four Larger Companies Last Year on Engines and Rolling Stock, 383
  • - Hudson Bay Railway Completion, Question of Choice of Termini, 469
  • - Hull, Alexandra Dock Gates Reconstruction, 413
  • - India, Class I. Railways, Locomotives and Rolling Stock Equipped with or Piped for Vacuum Brake, 15
  • - Irish Mails between London and Belfast. Holyhead-Kingstown Route Restored, 469, 657
  • - Irish Mails for Ulster, Suggested Change from Kingstown to Killough Harbour, County Down, 355
  • - Irish National Wages Board, Chairman's Resignation, 629
  • - Irish Railway Companies Financial Returns, 269
  • - Italy, Increase in Length of Electrified Railways, 603
  • - Johannesburg, Cost of New Railway Station Extensions, 327
  • - Jointly Owned and also Light Railways, Exceptional Legislation for, 523
  • - Largest Passenger Locomotive (Correction), 26
  • - Level Crossings, Occupation, or Otherwise, Parties Responsible, 351
  • - Locomotive for Mine Haulage, Most Powerful in the World, 657
  • - Locomotives, High Power, "Mountain" Type Built by Spanish Firm, 657
  • - London Electric Railways Company :
  • -- Enlarged Station in Piccadilly Circus, Oneway Traffic Difficulties, 101
  • -- Lighting, Concealed. Experiment on Piccadilly Railway, 577
  • -- Liverpool Overhead Railway Supplied with Electric Power, 685
  • -- London Site Wanted by One Railway, but Bought by Another, 299
  • -- Morden Terminus Motor Garage, 185
  • -- Unusual Incident Causes Holding-up of Trains, 213
  • - London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
  • -- Ancient History, Midland Company and Scottish Policy, 603
  • -- Automatic Signalling, Cause of Delay, 269
  • -- Belfast Steamship Service of the Company to be Transferred from Fleetwood and Centred Wholly on Heysham, 693
  • -- Caprotti Steam Valves Reported to be Adopted for Locomotives, 441
  • -- Coleraine-Port rush Deviation to Port-stewart, 523
  • -- Estimates of Expenditure on Capital Account, 241
  • -- L.M. and S. New Train and Steamship Service to the Continent end Tilbury and Dunkirk, 469
  • -- Naming of Some Long-distance Trains, 68
  • -- New Administration by Four Vice-Presidents, 15
  • -- New All-steel Passenger Coaches and Projected New Locomotives, 101
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
  • - London, Midland and Scottish Railway (continued) :
  • -- Non-stop Run Between Euston and Scotland, 685
  • -- Passenger Brake Vans, New Type, 240
  • -- Railwaymen's Investments in Railway Stock, 629
  • -- Rates Increase to be Imposed Cautiously, 355
  • -- Road, Motor and Railway Working, Appeal to the Government as to Adjustment of Expenses, 276
  • -- Seventy-five New Coaches for Service in London Area, 495
  • -- Sidings, Increased, for Handling Coal Traffic, 75
  • -- Suggestions Made by Staff, Bureau Started at Euston, 413
  • -- Water Troughs Laid Down in Scotland for Long Non-stop Runs, 15, 159 ; Change of Plans Projected, 551 ; Misconception and Explanation, 45
  • - London and North-Eastern Railway :
  • -- Bridge Collapse Interferes with Traffic, 299
  • -- Expenditure Charged to Capital, Varying Practice of Different Railways, 269
  • -- Foreign Coal Contracts as Provision Against Possible Railway Stoppage, 355
  • -- Future of British Railways, Sir Ralphn Wedgwood, 441
  • -- Great Eastern Railway's Goods Traffic, 495
  • -- Hull Roads, Level Crossings Over, Cost of Suggested Abolition, 577
  • -- King's Cross to Newcastle at 1.15 a.m., 299
  • -- Lincoln, Level Crossing, Questions in House of Commons, 383
  • -- Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works All on Full Time, 364
  • -- Locomotive Coaling Plant, New Mechanical, Its Cost, 327
  • -- Marshalling Yard Enlargement at White- moor, 129 ; Cost of Improvements, 327
  • -- Naworth Disaster, Recommendations to be Adopted, 299
  • -- Passenger Vehicles, Order for Additional Construction, 441
  • -- Potters Bar Complaint of Unpunctuality and its Result, 269
  • -- Report for 1926, Variation in Certificates, 269
  • -- Signalling System, Special Type, to he Introduced on L. and N.E. Railway, 213
  • -- Timing of Summer Trains as in Former Years, 657
  • -- Traffic Control Office at King's Cross, 551
  • -- Trains No Longer Running Between Marylebone and Watford, Metropolitan to Take Over Service, 129
  • -- Two Locomotive Items of Interest, 413
  • -- Walton-on-the-Naze, Proposed Diversion to Avoid Erosion, 413
  • - Mersey Railway Company Statistics fur 1926, 250
  • - Metropolitan Railway :
  • -- Additional Expenditure of Capital on Rolling Stock, 213
  • -- Housing Scheme at Becontree, 185
  • -- Metropolitan Railway to Supply Additional Service from Watford to Replace L. and N.E.R., 129
  • -- Neasden Power-house Improved Equipment, 213
  • -- Reduced Dividend, 159
  • -- Revenue from Letting Premises on Railway Stations, 355
  • - Ministry of Transport :
  • -- Annual Railway Returns, 75
  • -- Inquiries into Serious Accidents, Statistics of, 448
  • -- Minister of Transport Congratulated by his Labour Predecessor, 551
  • -- New Standard Charges, Date for Operation to Begin, 551
  • -- Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, No Re-appointment to be Made, 213
  • -- Railway Statistics for October, 1926, 45
  • -- Railway Statistics for November, 185
  • -- Railway Statistics for December, 299
  • -- Railway Statistics for January, 1927, 441
  • -- Railway Statistics for February, 1927, 551
  • -- Railway Statistics for March, 1927, 685
  • -- Suggested Inquiry into Railway Organisation Declined, 269
  • - Model Railway Club Exhibition, 469
  • - Moscow's Growth, Scheme for Construction of Metropolitan Railway, 185
  • - Natal Main Line Railway Electrification and Increased Capacity of Line, 603
  • - National Union of Railwaymen
  • -- Levy of Threepence a Week to Replace Depletion of Funds, 45
  • - National Wages Board, A Spirit of Forgiveness Both Ways, 45
  • - New Year Honours, Solitary Railwayman, 15
  • - Oil-burning Locomotives of the Southern Pacific Railway, Fuel Consumption, 185
  • - Passenger Duty Question, 495
  • - Privately Owned Wagon Question, Appointment of Standing Committee, 216
  • - Punjab Railways, Two New Sections, 629
  • - Rail Failures, Extraordinary Number of, on American Railroad, 523
  • - Railroad Sleepers Made from Used Rails, 469
  • - Railway Across Lake Titicaca (Bolivia) to Puno (Peru), Construction Begun, 498
  • - Railway Benevolent Institution Dinner, Mr. Bromley's Speech, 577
  • - Railway Construction in Kirin Province, Chinese and Japanese Organising Engineering Works to Secure Contracts, 577
  • - Railway Material Exports Statistics, 45, 101, 185, 299, 383, 551, 657
  • - Railwaymen as Presidents of Two Societies, 577
  • - Railway Rates, Increased, 75
  • - Railway Rates Increase, Rail and Road Transport Question. Suggestion, 185
  • - Railway Rates Tribunal :
  • -- Railway Sleepers Made Out of Old Flat-bottomed Rails, 551
  • -- Reversal of Tribunal's Judgment by Court of Appeal, 241
  • -- Standard Charges Judgment, 45
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
  • - Record Upward Career of Railway Engineer, 159
  • - Rhodesian Railways, Northern and Southern, Reorganisation, 500
  • - Rome and Bari, Projected New Railway Between, 185
  • - Sao Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company, 185
  • - Sloane-square Station Modernisation, 129
  • - South African Railways Report, 129
  • - Southern Railway :
  • -- Brake, Westinghouse, Conversion to the Vacuum, on All Sections, 355
  • -- Brighton Station to be Enlarged, 495
  • -- Coal Carrying Rate and Closing of Colliery, Favourable Result Hoped for, 327, 657
  • -- Dover, Big Programme in Progress, 577
  • -- Dover Priory Station Reconstruction, Removal of Locomotive Depot and Suggested Marine Walk at Dover, 129
  • -- Further Electrification Details, 269
  • -- "Gladstone," Old Engine, to Go to Museum, 551
  • -- Oil Fuel Too Costly for Locomotives, 355
  • -- 1000 Passengers Per Minute Detrain in Three Hours Daily, 437
  • -- Railwaymen's Investments in Railway Stock, 629
  • -- Southern Railway New Line, 273
  • -- Victoria Boat Trains Improved Running, 299
  • -- Widening of Four Bridges Over Roads at Peckham, Parliamentary Bill, 299
  • -- Widening of Line Near Beckenham and Reconstruction of Bridge, 603
  • -- Wimbledon and Sutton Intended Railway, Time Extension for Land Purchase, 327
  • - Spanish Government Concession for Now Railway, 685
  • - Stationery Office Preliminary Railway Returns for 1926, 383
  • - Survey by Bolivian and Peruvian Governments with View to Construction of Railway at Lofty Elevation, 249
  • - Swiss Federal Railways, Electrification Progress, 665
  • - Sydney, Progress of Central Station and City Railway, 45
  • - Texas, 75-Mile Gap in Incompleted Railway to be Built, 523
  • - Thorne Colliery, Withdrawal of Bill for Private Railway, 577
  • - Ticket "Census" on the Underground, Explanation of its Cause, 213
  • - Timiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, Extension, 413
  • - Traffic Returns for First Quarter of 1927, Figures Affected by Date of Good Friday, 413
  • - Tramcar Equipment and Modern Speed Demand, 185
  • - Tramway Fatal Derailment. Report and Recommendations, 45
  • - Turkestan-Siberian Railway to be Laid, 181
  • - Turkish Government's Projected Railway Schemes, 15
  • - Twin-screw Steamers for Hey sham Belfast Service, 308, 355
  • - Underground Electric Railways Company :
  • -- London's Increased Population and Relative Increase in Rail and Road Travellers, 441
  • -- Loud speaking Announcers of Stations in Trains Proposed, Unpopular Proposal, 441
  • -- New Morning Train, Edgware to Charing Cross, 694
  • -- Pooling Agreement Between Underground Railway, London General Omnibus Company, and London County Council for Tramways, 657
  • -- Underground Company Accepts Record Number of Suggestions Sent in by Staff, 129
  • - Unfair Road Motor Competition, Deputation from Railways and Trades Unions to Chancellor of Exchequer, 355
  • - United States Transportation Act, 1920, Points of Difference from British Act, 629
  • - Unpunctuality of Business Trains, Possible Explanation, 129
  • - Victorian Government Railways, All-steel Restaurant Car, 657
  • - Victorian Government Railways, Workshops, Clock Dial to Record Accidents, 377
  • - Victorian Government's Choice of Local in Preference to English Firm's Tender, 269
  • - Weekly Traffic Returns Compared with 1925 as Well as with Coal Strike Period, 551
  • - Welland Railway, Old Line in Canada, Ceases Operation, Service Taken Over by Electric Lines, 551
  • - Welsh Highland Railway, Receiver Appointed, 272 ; Railway to Continue Working, 383
  • - Western Canada, Great Activity in Railway Construction Predicted, 15
  • - Wireless Receiving Apparatus in Trains, 495
  • - Woolwich, Cost of Locomotives and Parts Provided at, 299
  • Rangoon, Improvement of Channel below, 355
  • Rangoon University, Presentation by Burmah Company for Establishment of College of Mining and Engineering, 657
  • Reaping Machine Invention Centenary, 657
  • Reclamation of Large Swamp Area Along the Kootenay River, British Columbia, 603
  • Reclamation Schemes in the Forth Estuary, Good Progress of, 577
  • Record in Long Service, Employees of J. and E. Hall, Ltd., 113
  • Refrigerating Plant, New, at Buenos Aires One of the Largest in the World, 45
  • Refrigeration, Development of New Form of, 269
  • Refrigerator, Household, New Swedish Type, 657
  • Reinforced Concrete Bridges--see Bridges
  • Reinforced Concrete, Mild versus High-tensile Steel in, 566
  • Research and the Metal Industries Exhibition, 339
  • Research Scholarships in Technology, 510
  • Reservoir's Plight--see Hume Reservoir Reservoir Production Feat in Oregon, 523
  • Reykiavik, Iceland, Scheme for Heating the Whole Town by Underground Hot Springs, 551
  • Rhodesia Broken Hill Mine, Large Amount of Vanadium Minerals, 603
  • Rio de Janeiro, State Concession for Port Works at Bay of Angra dos Reis, 685
  • Road-covering Substance, A New, Invented in Sweden by Mr. John Behmer, 523
  • Road Drills, Search for Less Noisy Type, 110
  • Road Motor Vehicles Statistics for 1926, 389
  • Road Watering in Sweden, Use of Sulphite Lye, 469
  • Roadway Over Quebec Bridge Projected, 657
  • Rolled Wire Rods, Home Production Reduced while Imported Rods Increase, 653
  • Rolling Mill, New Type, Carnegie Steel Company, 413
  • Romance of a Century, 559
  • Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 222
  • Royal Scholarships and Studentships in Science, 222
  • Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Annual Report, 589
  • Rubber Bearings Valuable where Exposed to Grit, 551
  • Rubber, Electro-deposition of, Difficulties, 159
  • Rubber in Industrial Occupations, 657
  • Rubber-lined Pipes, Astonishing Durability of, in Comparison with Lap-welded Mild Steel, 45
  • Rubber, Use of, for Wet and Dry Grinding, 185
  • Rubber Used for Tests on Skew Arches, 269
  • Russian Mica Industry Development, 327
  • Russian Nikitinski Mercury Mines to be Restarted, 45

S

  • SAFEGUARDING of Industries Act, Additional Articles Liable to Duty, 37
  • Saint Nazaire, Improvement of Port, 441
  • Salt River Power Station, South Africa, Further Extension of, 355
  • San Pablo Bay, California, Proposed Bridge Across, 413
  • Santo Domingo Port, Structural Improvements, 523
  • Scholarship, Brenforce Travelling, Competition, 400
  • Scholarships, British Empire, Engineering, at Loughborough College, Awards, 592
  • Scholarships, Charles R. E. Bell Fund, 397
  • Scholarships, Research, in Technology, 510
  • Science, Applied, Graduates of Toronto Finding Posts in United States, 603
  • Sea Wall, The Throndon, New Zealand, will be Largest in that Country, 45
  • Seville, Port to be Made Accessible to Large Vessels, 299
  • Shale Oil, Value of, and also Complexity of its Composition, 75
  • SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
  • - Agamemnon, Battleship, to be Broken Up and Replaced as Target Ship by the Centurion, 241
  • - Atlantic Liner and the Port of London, 697
  • - Belfast Boats Transferred to Heysham from Fleetwood Route, 308, 355
  • - Blue Star Liner Andalucia, 253
  • - Blue Star Liner Arandora, Trials of, 629
  • - Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., to Erect New Docks at Toronto, 241
  • - Cross-Channel Triple-screw Steamer to Run Between Vancouver and Nanaimo, 263
  • - Deep-water Berths Projected at Durban, 129
  • - Destroyers for Roumania, Design Order Given to J. I. Thonrycroft and Co., Ltd., 140
  • - Dublin Bay, Measured Mile for Speed Trials of Sea-going Vessels, 355
  • - Ferry Boat, Oil-engined, for Conveyance of MotorCars, 185
  • - Hamburg-American Motor Passenger Liner Ordered, 577
  • - H.M.S. Berwick, Light Cruiser, Completed, 469
  • - H.M.S. Nelson, Britain's Most Powerful Battleship, Completed, 441
  • SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):
  • - Merchant Steamers at South Kensington Science Museum, 456
  • - North German Lloyd Vessels to Call at Galway, 75
  • - Rapid Work in Cargo Discharge, 136
  • - Refrigerator Motor Ship, A Large, 370
  • - Repairing Accommodation, Additional for, Trawlers at the Port of Fleetwood, 657
  • - Secondary Batteries in Warships, 469
  • - Sherard Osborn, Ex-Cable Ship, Fitted Out for Oil Extraction from Non-edible Fish, 159
  • - Shipbuilding Industry Materials, Board of Trade Deputation, 154
  • - Shipbuilding Industry Revival Reported from Moscow, 413
  • - Shipbuilding in Russia, 374
  • - Shipyard Reopening at Stockton, 213
  • - Tonnage with Cargo and in Ballast at Ports of United Kingdom and to Other Countries, Statistics Show Reduction in Both for 1926, 299
  • - Tonnage Under Construction for Great Britain and Ireland, 685
  • - Tonnage of Vessels Entered into British India and Cleared Outwards with Cargoes, Analysis, 355
  • - Trawler, First Steel Motor Twin-screw, in Shanghai, Launch of, 75
  • - World Shipping, Improvement in Basic Conditions, 327
  • SHOWS--see Exhibitions
  • Skew Arches, Interesting Test Arrangement for Experiments on, Professor G. E. Beggs, 269
  • Smokeless Fuel Plant at a Gasworks, Results Exceed Expectations, 269
  • Sodium Carbonate Solutions, Adverse Effects on Aluminium, 551
  • Solway Viaduct Closed as Dangerous, 303
  • Soviet Spinning Factory, First Opened in Russia, 159
  • Spanish Plans for Compulsory Expropriation for Hydro-electric Development, also for Construction of Road Exclusively for Motor Cars, 45
  • Speed Indicator, Vest Pocket, Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company, 286
  • Spirit Distilleries in Groat Britain, Census, 299
  • Spodumene Lithium Orc from Canada for German Experimental Use, 383
  • Steam Pipe, Flexible Metallic, Failure of, on an Engine Makers' Test Bed, 523
  • Steam Road Vehicles and their Coal Consumption, 577
  • Steam Turbo-generators in Russia, Attempt to Extend Construction, 495
  • Steel--see Iron
  • Stone Preservation, 566, 635
  • Storing Drawings for Reference, 566
  • Story of the Electric Detonator, 551
  • Suction Gas Power Plant Superseded by Steam Engine, 75
  • Sulphite Cellulose Process, Memory of its Discoverer to be Marked by Fund for Research, 355
  • Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Likely to Become the Largest Structure in the British Empire, 657
  • Sydney Harbour Bridge Bearings, Special Train Necessary for Transport of, 75

T

  • TECHNICAL Teachers, Annual Conference, 342
  • Telegraph Offices Along Chinese Railway in Manchuria and Competition of Long-distance Telephones, 15
  • Telephone Cable to Belgium, Group of Lines Opened, 495
  • Telephone Kiosks, Large Number Erected and Increasing, 657
  • Telephone System's Growth and Flourishing Condition Notwithstanding Coal Stoppage and General Strike in 1926, 299
  • Telephone Talk Between Great Britain and Certain American States at £5 4s. per Minute, 213
  • Television--see Wireless
  • Tenders of Widely Varying Amounts, 327
  • Testing Machine, Largest and Most Powerful in Canada, 185
  • Tientsin and Tungchow, Proposal to Reopen Canal Between, 75
  • Tin-bearing Land in Queensland, Company Formed to Work it, 101
  • Tin Discovery at Largs, Ayrshire, 269
  • Tin Mine, Tambo, Northern Transvaal, Development of, 441
  • Tin Ore Deposit in the Northern Transvaal, Great Extent of, 355
  • Tin-plate Company Starting New Mills, 159
  • Tire Puncture on Four and Six-wheelers, F. A. Boyce, 169
  • Tires, Manufacture of Various Types, Pirelli, Ltd., 685
  • Toronto Bricklayers' Increased Wage, 101
  • Toronto's Harbour Project, Necessary Expenditure, 269
  • Transatlantic Conversation with Possibility of Seeing as Well as Hearing the Speaker, 15
  • Tristan da Cunha Receives First Steamer Visit for Twelve Months, 213
  • Tunnel Aqueduct, A Second, to Carry Water from the Catskills to New York, 413
  • Turbine, Fourneyron, Celebration of the Invention, 629
  • Turbine Pumps for Shanghai, Holden and Brooke, Ltd., 566
  • Tyneside Big Advertising Campaign, 495
  • Tyneside and Unemployment, 495

V

  • VACUUM Cups to Replace Slings, 269
  • Vacuum Tube, Reputed World's Largest, Now in Use in Radio Station, 551
  • Vanadium Properties, Opinions Differ, 413
  • Venezuelan Government Scheme for Widening Bay and Port Reconstruction, 75
  • Vickers Group Amateur Operatic Society, 222
  • Vizagapatam Harbour to Become Transhipment Port for Manganese Ore, 383

W

  • WADE'S Tables, 113
  • War Office Large Contract for Hacksaw Blades, 602
  • Water Powers of Canada, Nelson River Capacity, 677
  • WATER SUPPLY :
  • - Australian Water Catchment Neglect, Proposal to Remove Control from Government Departments, 603
  • - Brixton and Newton Ferrers, Scheme for Water Supply, 125
  • - Chungking, China, Projected Supply, 629
  • - Gatineau River, Quebec, Large Storage Reservoir, 685
  • - Geelong, Victoria, District, Projected Increase of Stocks of Water, 101
  • - Groendal Water Scheme of Uitenhage Town Council, South Africa, 547
  • - Metropolitan Water Board Electrically Driven Centrifugal Pumps, 685
  • - Redruth Town's Water Supply Augmentation, 495
  • - Reservoir, Record, for Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 441
  • - South Australian Water Supplies, Hume Reservoir Threatened, 603
  • - Sydney Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board Contract for New Pipe Line, 441
  • - Sydney Water Supply Augmentation by Cordeaux Dam, 355
  • - Water Conservation, Proposal to Dam the Lachlan River, New South Wales, 355
  • - Water and Sewerage System of San Jose, Costa Rica, Commission to Consider Extension, 75
  • - Waterworks Pumping Plant, Centrifugal Type, Mather and Platt, Ltd., 228
  • - World's Water Reservoirs' Capacities, 159
  • WATER-TUBE Boiler Tube Failure, 523
  • Water Wheels in Power Plants in the United States, Capacity of, 577
  • Waterworks, Old Buildings, at Slough to be Converted into Factory, 129
  • Winnington Chemical Works, Reconstruction Contemplated by Brunner, Mond and Co., 355
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY :
  • - Amazon River, Broadcasting Station to be Erected on, 327
  • - Atmospherics, Range of Interference with Reception, 577
  • - Birmingham Proposes By-laws for Control of Wireless Aerials, 629
  • - British Broadcasting Corporation's Proposed Change, 657
  • - Broadcasting Station, Large, at Zeesen, 685
  • - Calcutta and Bombay Stations of Indian Broadcasting Company to Begin Work in August, 551
  • - Characteristics of Wireless Waves Ten Miles Aloft, Test by French Scientists, 441
  • - European Broadcasting Stations, Minor Adjustments in Wave Lengths Projected, 551
  • - European Wireless Engineers' Conference, 213
  • - Federal Radio Commission Orders to Stations, 629
  • - High-power Broadcast Station in Germany Audible All Over Europe, 441
  • - Hull Trawlers Proceeding to Greenland Equipped with Wireless Telephone Apparatus, 685
  • - Loud Speakers, Lecture and Demonstration, J. E. Roe, 577
  • - Nanking, Wireless Station at Pehchikoh, 75
  • - Portable Radio Direction Finder, F. W. Dunmore, 233
  • - Rumanian Company to Monopolise Broadcasting Manufacture of Radio Apparatus, andc., 299
  • - Ship's Wireless Equipment, Simple Spark and Continuous Wave Telegraphy, 299
  • - Sophia, Tenders for New Wireless Telegraphic and Telephonic Station from British, French and German Firms, 303
  • - South Seas Wireless Stations Broadcast Copra Quotations, 213
  • - Telephone Receiving Station, Transatlantic, in Scotland, 3-Mile Long Aerials, 441
  • - Television Between London and Glasgow, 629 Television Between New York and Washington, Successful Demonstration Over 250 Miles, 441
  • - Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Receiving Station at Kern back, Near Cupar, 327
  • - Wireless Communication Between Lighthouses on the Clyde, 657
  • - Wireless Problems Discussion at Colonial Conference in London, 657
  • WOOD Preservers' Association, American, Incising or Treating Timber, Tests on, 413
  • Wood Protection by Aluminium Leaf Coating, 185
  • Workington Dock Opening, 629
  • World Motor Transport Congress, 327

Y

  • YEAST-making Industry, New, Starting in Western Canada, 577

Z

  • ZEEBRUGGE Mole, Project to Replace, by One Built on Arches, 491
  • Zinc Reduction Plants, Production of Slab Zinc in U.S.A., 441

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