The Engineer 1903 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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• 1902, 15.

Accidents, Explosions, and Fires.

• Boiler Explosions (tee Boiler)
• Clyde Valley Floods, (179)
• Colliery Accidents at Birley, Fall of Roof, (77); Haldan, (218); Hoyland Silkstone, Engine House Explosion, (95)
• Colliery Accidents in 1902 in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, (649)
• Crewe Works, Explosion of Molten Meta), (116)
• Driving Wheel at a Rolling Mill, West Hartle¬pool, Breakage of, (91)
• Dud bridge Ironworks, 606
• Due to Combustion within Air Compressors, Mr. A. R. Ledoux on, 475
• Explosions, Coal Mines in Illinois, Inquiry into the Causes of the iusny Fatal, (545)
• Dynamite, Torresdale, near Phila¬delphia, (194)
• Electric Battery, at Vickers’ Sons and Maxim’s Shipyard, (194)
• Engine-house, Hoyland Silkstone Colliery, (95)
• Torpedo Factory, Ohio, (471)
• Woolwich Arsenal, (621), (649)
• Fatdities caused by Vehicles, (575)
• Fires, "Dortmund Union” Wire Nail and Joiners’ Shops, (104)
• Grangemouth and Greenock Dockyard Company’s Works, (571)
• Merry weather and Son’s Works, (65)
• Niagara Falls Power Station, 211, (134)
• Fly-wheel, Bursting of, Haldan Colliery, (218)
• Fly-wheel of Traction Engine, Feltham, Break¬ing of, (519)
• F>y-wheels, Birsting of, U.S., (65), (194)
• Fulham Baths, Fatalities at, 42, 211
• Grimsby Fish Docks Ice House, (144)
• Gticdstone at Sheffield, Bursting of, (144)
• Gunnery Catastrophe, U.S. S. Massachusetts, (144)
• Lift, New York, (144)
• Mil) Gearing not being Fenced, Death due t->, (91)
• Mines and Quarries, Home Office Return of Fatal, (65)
• Powder Explosion on U.S. Battleship Massa¬chusetts, (91)
• Railway Accidents (tee Railway)
• Sherwood Colliery, R. W. Steele Electrocuted, ' (292)
• ACCOUNTING, U.S.A. Uniform Municipal, (555)
• Aerial Navigation, 95
• Aerial Navigation, Papers on, (228)
• Agricultural Appliances in Demand for Nor¬mandy, (267)
• Implements, an American Paper on j American, (241)
• Implements in Natal, 99
• Machinery, British, in Canada (xv., ’ Supplement, June 12th, 1903) Machinery, British, for the Colonies (Supplement. June 12th, 1903)
• Machinery, British, for South Africa j (xvi., Supplement, June 12th, 1903) | Machinery in New Zealand, by a New Zealander, 585
• Agriculture, Russian, Commission to Consider the Needs of, (595)
• Air, Mean Daily Horizontal Movement of, (595)
• Air Pump Diagrams, 323
• Airship, The Birton, (315)
• Airship’s Successful Trip, The Brothers Lebaudy 's, (496)
• Alaska, New Map of, (571)
• Alcohol in Austria, Power use of, 240
• Alcohol on the Prussian State Rxilwaye, 447
• Alcohol Engines, 169, 474, 576, 602
• Almanacs and Diaries, 22, 50, 76, 90, 124, 142
• Aluminium Conductors, New Joint for, (13)
• in Galvanising, Use of, (391)
• obtained Commercially, Iron and Sili- , con in the Purest, (13)
• for Sharpening Cutlery, (194)
• Amalgamations, (531), (557)
• America, Diary of an English Electrical Engineer's Tour in, 62, 127
• American Agricultural Machinery Shipped to Russia,( 292)
• Competition, Mr. Mosely on, 445
• Industrial Conditionsand Competition, 345
• Industries, by a Labour Leader, 4
• Patents, 296
• Tariff and the St. Louis Exhibition, 602
• Technical Prees Mistakes, (194)
• Amorphous Silicon, Properties of Different Forms of, (267)
• Andrew Carnegie Research Scholarship and Prof. James Watt Memorial, 45
• Anemograph, The Dines-Baxendell, 625
• Anti-smoke Ordinance, Chicago, (418)

Appointments and Resignations: Appointments:

• Anderson, Prof. W. C. F.,(557) Ashford, Mr. Cyril Ernest, (418)
• Barry, Sir John Wolfe, Re-appointment of, (321)
• Beaumont, Mr. W. Worby, (418)
• Pell, Mr. Hugh, (129), (154), 484 Bishop, Mr. J., (519)
• Black, Mr. J„ (13) Champness, Mr. H. R., (13)
• Dent, Mr. C. H., (471) Dodgson, Mr. J., (227)
• Exham, Col., (621)
• Evans, Mr. J. W. H.. (481)
• Hal), Mr. T. A., (443)
• Jones, Mr. F. V., (253)
• Larmor, Mr. Joseph, (211)
• Mayston, Mr. R., (13)
• Millard, Mr. C., (65)
• Robinson, Mr. S. J., (121)
• Rutsell, Mr. H. W., (1)8)
• Schott, Mr. Robert, (129)
• Scotter, Sir Chas., (207)
• Stead, Mr. John, E.. Elected F.R S., (484)
• Tait, Mr. Thos., (241)
• Terrey, Mr. Wm., (556)
• Wells, Mr. T. H., (519)

Resignations:

• Johnson, Mr. Claude, (40)
• Pease, Sir J. W„ (154)
• Prou*-, Mr., (218)
• APPRENTICESHIP of Engineers, 641, 651
• Aritbmograph, M. Troncet’s, (391)
• Armament of Warships, Cananges in the, 273

Armour Plates:

• Admiralty Orders for, (25), (153), (174), (2)2), I (633)
• British Warships’, 233, (292)
• Brown and Co., John, Armour for the Hindu¬stan, (153), (174), (292) (301)
• Cairasse Invented by M. Galay, (168)
• Hindustan’s, (153), (174), (292) (301)
• Plate Press, Bethlehem Steel Works, (168)
• Testing of, 501
• Two Hundred Tons of, for the Battleship King Edward VII., (13), (25), (1C3)
• Vickers, Sans and Maxim’s, Official Tests of, (418)
• Vickers’ 12m. Plates, Effect of Impact of Capped and Uncapped Projectiles on, 23, 21
• Armstrong and Co. and Old Age Pensions, 271 ;
• Army Service Corps, Enlistment of Men for the Mechanical Transport Companies of, (418)
• ASBESTOS Deposits, Quebec, (545)
• Asbestos Galvani»ed, Messrs. Wallach Bros., (323)
• Asphalt Paving, U.S.A , (555)

Association, American Railway:

• Annual Meeting, The Variaus Committees Present their Reports, Iron and Steel Struc¬tures, Rails, Yards and Terminals, Masonry 387

Association, Cold Storage and Ice:

• Annual Dinner, (496)

Association, British Iron Trade:

• American Industrial Condition and Compac¬tion, Conference on, 345

Association of Engineers In Charge:

• Eighth Annual Dinner, (326)

Association of Engineers, Leeds :

• Chains, Past, Present, and Possible, Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 240
• List of Officers for 1903-1904, (464)

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

• Forty-sixth Anniversary Dinner, 202
• Half-yearly Meeting, (632)
• Modern Gas Engines r. Steam, Mr. Ja?. Atkinson, 240
• Pneumatic Appliances, Mr. E. C. Amos, (327)
• Premium System of Remunerating Labour, Mr. John Ashford, 370
• Visit to the Municipal School of Technology, 450
• Visits to the Works of Alfred Herbert, Limited, Daimler Motor Company, Limited, and Motor ' Manufacturing Company, (660)

Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:

• Eighth Annual Convention to be held at Sunderland, Directions to Members, (40)

Association, Manchester Steam Users

• Annual Memorandum, Mr. Stromeyer's, 175

Association of Mechanical Engineers. Birmingham:

• Mechanical Engineering of Modern Collieries, Mr. Bardill, 201

Association, Municipal Electrical:

• Appointment of a Parliamentary Committee, 166
• Convention, (180)

Association, Sanitary Assurance:

• Twenty-second Annual Meeting, (204)
• ASTRONOMER Royal’s Reports, (595), (621)
• Atkins, Mr. Wm., (241), (253)
• Atlas Steel and Iron Works, John Brown and Co.’s Report for Year Ending March, 1903, (633)
• Atmospheric Potential, Diurnal Variation of. on Mont Blanc, (545)
• Atomising Oil, Effect of Steam for, 412
• Australian Mails, 1903, (102)
• Australasian Trade, 326
• Automatic Supply of Umbrellas, (267)
• Axles, Hollow Pressed, Mr. Camille Mercader,

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• BALLOONS, Apparatus for Infl ding, (391)
• Disabling by R fle or Gan Fire when Floating in the Air, (443)
• and Kite Ascents in Europe and U.S., Report upon, (367)
• Propulsion, Ao Original Method of, 95
• Barometric Colamn a Standard of Length, M. Gadot Proposes to make the, (519)
• Barrage, Zifta, (267)
• Bissano, Mr. W., (178)
• Bates, Mr. Henry, 148
• Baumann, Mr. H. (482)
• Beams, Deep-section Rolled, 209
• Bearings for High Speed, 446
• Belgium, Trade Returns, (443)
• Bell, Mr. James, 384
• Bell Bros., Limited, Annual Meeting, (404)
• Belts, The Slip of, by J. Stormontb, 335
• Bessemer, The Late Sir Henry, Memorial to, 467
• Bicycle Making in Russia, (365)
• Petrol Motor for, (471)
• Present Prices of, (40)
• Works, Japan, the First, (168)

Bills:

• Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, (519)
• Bill to Facilitate the Use of Electric Traction on Railways, (496)
• Board of Trade, Returns of Railway Extension, I (342)
• Bombay Boiler Inspection Act, Amendment BUI, (418)
• Bristol, London and Southern Counties, (471), (484)
• Cheap Trains, (418) City and South London Railway Opposed by the Metropolitan Railway Company, (346)
• County Council, 1903, 198
• County Council’s Annual Expenditure in Pro¬moting and Opposing, (558)
• Eight Hours Day, in America, 145
• Fishguard and Rosslare Railway and Harbours, (52)
• German, Forbidding Use of White or Yellow Phosphorus in Matchmaking, (571)
• Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Companies', to Enlarge their Powers to run Steam Vessels, (13)
• Light Locomotives (Ireland), Passed, (241)
• London—Brighton Mono-rail, (40)
• London and Bristol Railway, Fails to Pas», (118)
• Metric, U.S.A., (342)
• Neath Riilway, (506), (532)
• J North-Western Electricity and Power Gas Company’s, Opposed, (267)
• Petroleum Question, Mr. J. Reckitt’s, (168)
• Power Gas, (545)
• Private, in Parliament, 338, 372, 384
• Railway, Postponed, (241)
• Taff Vale Railway, (532)
• Thames Conservancy and Port of London Com¬missioners’, Opposad, (267)
• U.S. Naval Appropriation, (218)
• Workmen’s Compensation Act (1897) Amend¬ment, (144)
• BITULTTHIC Pavement, (543)
• Brimington, Institute Presented by Mr. C. P. Markham to, (227)
• Blakemore, Mr. W., (254)
• Blast Furnace Plant at Cette, 307, 312
• Blast Furnaces, Pressure in, 38
• B'ast Furnace Slag, Handling, United States, (251)
• Blue-books, Technical and Scientific, 598

Boilers:

• Casualties to, Board of Trade Returns, 244, (342)
• Choice of Steam, Mr. C. E. Stromeycr, 555
• Concussion and Water-tube, 527
• Deterioration of, Mr. H. M. Warner on, (399)
• Experiments Decided on by the Admiralty, (118)
• Explosion, The Bradley, 110
• Explosion, Remarkable, 36, 72, 99
• Explosion, Taunton, Massachusetts, (367)
• Explosion, Messrs. Tapper and Co., Limited, Batman’s Hill Ironworks, (103)
• Feed Pumps for, Clarke, Chapman and Co., 97
• Flash, 12, 42, 98,172
• French Navy, 197
• German, 594
• Heavy Guns and, (658)
• Horse-power, The American Standard, (168)
• Inspection, United States, (352)
• Lancashire Trade, List Basis Rates for Boiler¬plate Specifications, (118), (129)
• Marine, Modern, H.M. Rouothwaite, 44
• Marine, Water-tube, Babcock Wilcox. Shore¬ditch, 128
• Niclausse, (273)
• Normand, French Destroyers, (410)
• Normand, in the Russian Navy 38
• Steam, A New Style of, (338)
• Warship Boiler Tests, (118)
• Water-tube, 248
• Mr. W. Fonlis on, (204)
• in the Navy, 94
• with Small Tubes in Large War¬ships, French Minister of Marine's Objections to, (241)
• Tests with, (418)
• BOILING Temperature of Water, 527
• Board of Trade Returns of Imports and Exports into the United Kingdom, (194)
• Bolometer, Improvement of Dr. Langley's, (496)
• Boom Derrick in the United States, The Larges», (194)
• Boring Mil), Heavy, Smith and Coventry, Limited, 580
• Boston, Law against Tall Buildings in, (391)
• Boston, Mass., Subsidence of, into the Sea, (649)
• Brancker, Mr. John, (577)
• Brass, High-speed, 658
• Breakwater, Buffalo, 515, 516, 517
• Brickmaking in Maine, Fresh Start in, (496)

Bridges, Railway and other:

• Britannia, 553
• Building and Works, United States, 69, 84, 109, 136, 190, 208, 237, 238, 242, 283, 308, 310, 334, 357, 386, 408, 466, 536, 562
• Cape to Cairo Railway, (633)
• Chain Suspension, New York, (376)
• Conway, Telford’s Suspension Bridge over the, (168)
• Droitwich, Letts Mill and Sealey Brook Fords (241)
• France, Viaduct over Gorge of the Viaur River, (194), 216
• Haxey, near Gainsborough, Great Eastern and Great Northern Railway, (484)
• Hell Gate, 840ft. Central Span, (267)
• Impact and Fatigue in Railway, by J. Graham, 3
• Kew, Opening, (527)
• Lifting, 72, 73
• Landa, Tenders Called for Construction of a Railway Bridge, (91)
• London, Brighton, and South Coast Extensions, Queen's-road, 285, 286
• London Foot Bridge Tested, (65), 83
• London and South-Western Railway, Over the, 490, 491
• London, The Widening of, 83; Saving of Labour Effected by a Machine, (91)
• Missouri River, (390)
• Newcastle, New, 373, (148)
• Paderno Viaduct, Italy,332, 383, 381, 441,463, 464
• Pencoyd, United States, 237, 238, 239, 242
• Sonning, Demolition of, (65)
• South African, Destroyed by the Boers, 340, 341, 345
• South Africa, Repairing Broken. 305, 316, 567
• South African, Two Typical, 183, 189
• Thames, Mr. Deputy Pryke on New Bridges over the, (443)
• Thames, Proposed New Steel, Lambe b, (342)
• Tyne Railway, (148), 373, (484)
• Vauxhall, The New, (519). 541
• Viaur Viiduct, (194), 216, 217
• Victoria Falls, Rolled Steel to be used for Building, (649)
• Wear, North-Eastern Railway, across the, (586)
• BRICK-HANDLING Machinery. American, (376)
• Brickwork, Cause of Failure of, (391)

British Association:

• Acceptance of Invitation to Association to South Africa Recommended, (267)
• Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James, Nominated President, (267)
• Meeting of 1905 may be held in South Africa, (13)
• Presidents of the Various Sections, Southport, (367)
• BRITISH and Decimal Weights and Measures, Dr. G. J. Stoney on a Simple Method of Co¬relating, (267)
• British Guiana, Mioing in, 225
• British Trade with South Africa, 38
• Brown and Co., Limited, Messrs., Amalgamate n with Messrs. Thomas Firth and Sons, (203), (227)
• Buda Pesth, May 13tb, Night Fêtes, (443)
• Buoy on the Manacles, Sounding, (541)
• Bussey, M. de, (519)

C

• CALORIMETRY of Gaseous and Liquid Fuels, Mr. W. Garnet Wernham, 173
• Cambered Piston-rods, 602
• Camels as Agricultural Labourers in South Africa, (659)
• Cams for Automatic Screw Machines, 5 73
• Canada and the Conquered Colonies, (180)
• Canadian Customs Department and the Pre¬ferential Tariff, Precautions against German- made Goods, (496)

Canals:

• Amsterdam Sea, Deepening of, (496)
• Buffalo and New York Ship, (481)
• Chenab, India, (649)
• Economy of Haulage on, (292)
• Elbe-Trave, and the Dotriment to Stettin’s Trade, (571)
• Illinois and Michigan, Possible Conversion into a Road, (315)
• Irrigation under Construction in India, (595)
• Manchester Ship, Deepening of, at Partington Tips, (65); Scheme for Reorganising Finances of, (540)
• Manchester Ship, Traffic Returns, (194), (315)
• Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay, Pro¬jected, (40)
• Mexico, (418)
• North Sea and Baltic, February and April Traffic, (391), (571)
• Russia, to Connect the Vistula and the Niemen, (315)
• Sault Ste. Marie, (580)
• Soulanges, Electrical Work on, 38, 39
• Storage, Railway, U.S., (102)
• Suez, Increased Receipts, 1902, (571), (595)