The Engineer 1917 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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ACCIDENTS:

Explosion, The, 86

Railway Accidents, 39, 276

Railway Collisions at Wigan and Kirtle-bridge. 226, 229

Ratho and Wigan Railway Accidents, 39, 44, 54, 226, 229 ; (Letter), 44

ACCURACY and- Probability of Fire, Sir G. Greenhill, 73, 100

Admiralty, Changes at the, 499

AERONAUTICS :

Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 298

Aeronautical Exhibition, 188

Aviation after the War, 521

Boring and Recessing Machine for Aircraft Propellers, Thos. Robinson and Sons, Limited, 296

British Aircraft Engines of High Output, Louis Coatalen, 568

Commercial Aeronautics, 517

Educational Lectures on Aeronautics, Syllabus, 211

Folkestone Raid, 497 ; (Letter), 515

Handley-Page, 550 Horse-power Tractor Bi-plane, 517

Steel Used in Aero Work, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 386

AGRICULTURAL Tractors, Government Invitation for Tenders, 470

Agricultural Tractors, Trial of Two Ford Motor-, 437

Ahrons, E. L., on Locomotives of the United Kingdom, 216 ; (Letters), 243, 494

Air Compressing Plant, Portable, Lacy, Hulbert and Co., Limited, 569

Allcock, Harry, on the Decimal System of Coinage, Weights and Measures, 290; (Letter), 586

Alternating Stress—see Stress

Aluminium, Ministry of Munitions Regulations, 182, 231

Aluminium Scrap and Swarf, Control of, in the

United Kingdom, 231

America at War, 337

American Cotton Held Machinery, 515

American Engineering News, 433, 470, 527

Chicago Underground Railways, 433

Concrete Piles, 470

Divining Rods and Perpetual Motion, 433

Eighty-five Ton Coal Wagons, 433

Hot-Blast Stoves, 527

Huge Grab Bucket Dredger, 527

Miners’ Portable Lamps, 527

Quick-Bend Tests for Steel Rails, 470

Steam Tenders for Locomotives, 527

AMERICAN Navy—see Ships

American Railways—see Railways

American Steel Trade, 62

Annealing Furnace—see Furnace

Annealing of Nickel Silver, Dr. F. C. Thompson, 285

ANNUAL ARTICLES:

Aeronautics in 1916, 18

Aeroplanes, 18

Airships, 18

Chemistry in 1916, 20

Engineering Industry in 1916, 2

Coalfields, 2

Engineers and the Army, 3

Lancashire and Cumberland, 4

Midlands, 4

Miscellaneous, 5

North-East Coast, 4

Payment by Results, 3

Sheffield, 4

Shipbuilding, 3

South Wales, 4

Wages and Workers, 3

West of Scotland, 4

Women Workers, 4

Harbours, Docks, and Waterways in 1916, 9

Belfast, 10

Chicago, 10

Forth and Clyde Canal Scheme, 10

Germany’s Waterway Projects, 32

Government and Dockyard Harbour Dues, 9

Hey sham Harbour, 10

Liverpool, 10

London, The Port of, 10

Madras, 31

Manchester Ship Canal, 10

Marseilles-Rhone Canal, 32

New York, 10

Panama Canal, 10

Russia, 32

South Africa, 31

South Wales, 10

Suez Canal, 31

U.S.A. Naval Docks, 10

Valparaiso, 32

Welland Canal, 10

Zuider Zee, 32

Railways in 1916, 16

Australian Trans-Continental Railway, 18

British Railways Generally, 17

Electrification of Railways, 17

Locomotive Coaling Plants, 17

Locomotives, 17 ; (Letters), 108, 127

New Works, 16

Proposed Capital Expenditure in 1916, 16

Railway Accidents, 17

Rolling Stock, 17

Snowstorm of March 27th-28th, 17

ANNUAL ARTICLES (.continued)

Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering in 1916, 20

Aberdeen Water Supply, 32

Activated Sludge Process, 33

Metropolitan V\ ater Board, 2}

Nitrogen from Sewage, The Recovery of, 33

Salford Activated Sludge Experiments, Report on, 33

Sterilisation of Water, 32

Sterilising by Liquid Chlorine, 32

Treasury, The Action of the, 21

Value of the Dried Sludge, 33

War and the Stoppage of Works, 20

APPLICATION of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, H. M. Thornton, 374

Apprentices, 40

Apprentices, The Future of, 61, 64, 66

“ Aquadag ”—see Graphite Cylinder Lubrication

Asbestos, Blue, 524

Asbestos Corrugated Roofing, British Everite and Asbestilite Works, Limited, 570

Asbridge, H. H., on Precision Grinding, 268

Ashdown, H. H., on the Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, 263

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & bOClEfiEb:

Association, British Engineers:

Meeting, 553

Association of Engineers, Manchester :

Bearing of Research Work on Practical Mechanical Engineering, A. Saxon, 162

Development of the Manufacture of Steel Castings, E. F. Lange,

Education of Engineers, Committee’s Reports, 66

Nile and the Utilisation of its Waters, A. A. Barnes, 33

Precision Grinding, H. H. Asbridge, 268

Steam Turbines lor Land Purposes, H. L. Guy, 107 : (Corrections), 127, 166

Testing of Steel, Hairy Brearley, 288

Workshop Design and Equipment, E. Simpson, 197

Association, Incorporated Municipal electrical:

Annual General Meeting, 579

Fuel Economy, J. A. Robertson, 579

New Industries Utilising Electric Power, Presidential Address. Mr. Long, 580

Nitric Acid from the Air, Kilburn Scott Process, 580

Profit Sharing in Municipal Electrical Undertakings, J. H. Bowden, 580

Institute of Engineers, South Wales:

Presidential Address, Mr. Hugh Bramwell, 117

Institute, The Iron and Steel:

Annual Meeting, 347, 418, 420, 440, 442 Award of Bessemer Medal to Mr. Andrew Lamberton, 418

Notes on Some Quenching Experiments, Lawford H. Pry, 442

Penetration of the Hardening Effect in Chromium and Copper Steels, L. Grenet. 442

Properties of Refractory Materials Used in the Iron and Steel Industry, Cosmo J ohns, 419, 420

Steel Ingot Defects, J. N. Kilby, 440

Institute of Metals:

Annealing of Nickel Silver, Dr. F. C. Thompson, 285

Coal Gas as Fuel for Melting Non-ferrous Alloys, G. B. Brook, 311

Electric Resistance Furnace for Melting in Crucibles, Dr. H. C. Greenwood and Dr. R. S. Hulton, 340

General Properties of Stampings and Chill Castings in Brass, &c., Owen W. Ellis, 284

High-pressure Gas Melting, C. M. Walter, 311

Ideals and Limitations in Melting of Nonferrous Metals, Carl Hering, 340

Machining Properties of Brass, O. W. Ellis, 283

Melting of Brass and Copper in a Crucible Furnace with Coal-gas Fuel, H. M. Thornton and H. Hartley, 311, 340

Metal Melting as Practised at the Royal Mint, W. J. Hocking, 311

Metal Melting in a Simple Crude Oil Furnace, H. S. Primrose, 311, 340

Researches Made Possible by the Autographic Load Extension Optical Indicator, Professor W. E. Dalby, 422, 452, 453

Spring Meeting; Programme, 181, 284, 311, 340

Surface Tension and Cohesion in Metals and Alloys, Sydney W. Smith, 285

Institution of Automobile Engineers!

Factories • Their Building and Organisation, H. O. Blackford, 198

Prizes Offered, 198

Screw Gauges, Colonel Crompton, 66

Use and Abuse of Steel, Lieut.-Col. Bagnall-Wild and Lieut. E. W. Birch, 352, 384, 430

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Decimal System of Coinage, Wights and Measures, H. Allcock, 290

Foreign Trade and the Engineer, 242

Pass List (Interim) February Examinations, 1917, 259

Pass List, February Examinations, 1917

Standardisation of Engineering Materials, James Forrest Lecture, Sir J. Wolfe Barrv 406 **

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SO CI JE TIES (continued):

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Building Taken Over by Government, 280

Institution of Engineers and Sbip-buildexs in Scotland:

Electric Motor Vehicles, L. Brockman, 95

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Deputation to Mr. Guy Calthrop, Coal Controller, 527

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Alternating Stress Experiments, Dr. W. Mason, 172, 176

Annual General Meeting, 175

Hardness of Metals, Sir B. Hadfield’s Prize, 279

Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, Sir W. Beardmore, 263, 280

Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, H. H. Ashdown, 263

Manufacture of Gauges at the L.C.C Paddington Technical Institute, A. G. Cooke, W. J. Gow. and W. G. Tunnicliffe, 78, 95

Notes on the Construction of Turbine Pumps, A. E. L. Chorlton, 463, 476, 477

Presidential Address, Mr. Michael Longridge, 371

Institution of Mining Engineers:

Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 569

Institution of Naval Architects:

Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines, Professor W. Hovgaara, 33U, 34U

Closing of all Ship Side Apertures from the Bridge, Signor E. Benvenuti, 318

Design of Pin Joints Based on Ultimate Strength, Lieut. W. A. Scoble, 319

Diagram for Stability of Submarines, Cesare Laurenti, 330

Further Experiments upon Wake and Thrust Deduction, W. J. Luke, 319

Marine Application of Moating Gears of the Moating Jbrame Type, J. H. Macalpine, 330

Method of Obtaining for Ship Design the Spacing of Bulkheads, &c., W. J. Lovett, 317

On Launching, P. A. Hillhouse and W. H. Riddlesworth, 330

, Presidential Address, Lord Bristol, 286

Some Experiments on Influence of Running Balance on Vibration of Ships, J. J. King-Salter, 330

Spring Meeting, 286, 317, 330

Stability, Apparatus for Use of Ship Masters, T. Graham, 318

Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 287, 302

Strength and Inner Structure of Mild Steel, Professor W. E. Dalby, 318

Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, J. Montgomerie, 317

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and shipbuilders:

Guidance Specification for Reciprocating Triple-expansion Marine Engines for Cargo Boats, 130

Institution, Royal:

Industrial Finance after the War, Professor H. S. Foxwell, 403

Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain:

Lecture on Aircraft Problems, Louis Coatalen. 568

Steels Used in Aero Work, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 386

Society of British Gas Industries:

Presidential Address by Sir Robert Hadfield, 391

Society of Chemical Industry, London Section:

Basic Slag as a Fertiliser, Professors Gilchrist and Louis, 162

Society, The Faraday:

Training and Work of the Chemical Engineer, Sir G. Beilby, 219, 225, 227, 363

Society, Optical:

Glass Grinding and Polishing, J. W. French, 182

Society, Royal, of Arts:

Application of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, H. M. Thornton, 374

National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Howard Lecture, Professor W. G. Eearn -sides, 399, 429

Works Organisation and Efficiency, Papers by Professor Ripper and Messrs. A. W. Beeves and C. Kimber, 454

ASTRONOMICAL Model, Dr. Wilson, 489

Atmospheric Engine—see Pumps

Autographic Load Extension Indicator, Professor W. E. Dalby, 422, 452, 453, 468

Automatic Signalling—see Railways

BAGNALL-WILD, Lieut.-Col., and Lieut. E. W. Birch, on the Use and Abuse of Steel, 352, 384, 430

Barnes, A. A., on the Nile and the Utilisation of its Waters, 33

Barry, Sir J. Wolfe, on Standardisation of Engineering Materials, 403, 406 ; (Letter), 424

Bartrum, C. O., on A Clock of Precision, 161 ;

(Letters), 198, 243

Basic Slag, 275

Basic Slag as a Fertiliser, Professors Gilchrist and Louis, 162

Beardmore, Sir W., on the Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, 263, 280

Beilby, Sir G., on the Training and Work of the Chemical Engineer, 219, 225, 227, 363

Belt Conveyor Coal Loading Plant in New South Wales, 5, 14

Benvenuti, Signor E., on the Closing of all Ship

Side Apertures from the Bridge, 318

Benzol Recovery at Gasworks, 237

Birmingham Electrical Engineers Volunteers, ’ 298

Birthday Honours List, 518

Blackwood, Peter, on Electric Steel, 494

Blue Asbestos, 524

BOILERS:

Coal Efficiency in the Boiler-house, 116, 137 Taylor Underfeed Stoker, Scholey and Co., Limited, 88

BOMBAY Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 443, 44«, 464, 472 (Two-page Supplement, May \*th, 1917)

Books of Reference, 63, 91, 117, 159, 176, 376, 421, 506, 570

Boring and Recessing Machine for Aircraft Manufacture, Thos. Robinson and Sons, Limited, 296

Bottle Making Plant, A Modern, Thatcher

Manufacturing Company, 578, 588

Brakes—see Railways

Brass and Copper, Melting of, in a Crucible Furnace with Coal-gas Jbuel, H. M. Thornton and H. Hartley, 311, 340

Brass, General Properties of Stampings and Chill Castings in, &c., O. W. Ellis, 281

Brass, Machining Properties of, O. W. Ellis, 283

Brearley, Harry, on the Testing of Steel, 288

BRIDGES:

Bascule Bridge Over the Chicago River, 174 178

Coppermill Ferro-concrete Bridge Over the Colne at Wraysbury, R. N. Stroyer, 206

Pyrmont Electric Swing Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, 75, 84, 103, 110, 124, 132, 150, 151 ; (Letters), 198, 230 (Two-page Supplement, February 9th, 1917)

BRIQUETTING of Metal Swarf, 514, 538, 557, 592

British versus American Sugar Machinery, 202 : (Letter), 230

British Business in Latin America, 249, 589

British Magneto Industry, 86

British Prisoners of War, Educational Facilities for, 280

Brockman, L , on Electric Motor Vehicles, 95

Brook, G. B., on Coal Gas as Fuel for Melting Non-ferrous Alloys, 311

Brushwood Sewage Filters, 337 ; (Letter), 375

Bulkheads—see Ships

Bundling Presses—see Briquetting

Bureau of Mineral Resources, 450

c CALENDARS and Diaries, 50, 70, 122, 230, 598

Canada—see Railways

Canal Problem, 225

Canal, The Proposed Rhone-Rhine, 53

Canals, Government and the, 180

Canker of Unrest—see Labour

Cardiff, Shipbuilding in, 549

Case-hardening Furnace, Monometer Manufacturing Company, Limited, 276

Catalogues, 70, 166,‘185, 211, 366

Catalogues for South America. 79

Caterpillar Tractor, Petrol, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 308, 314 (Two-page Supplement, April Sth, 1917)

Ceramic Society Meeting at Stourbridge Refractory Materials, 466 °

Chain Cables in the U.S. Navy, Power Forging of, Naval Constructor F. G. Coburn, 200 204 • (Letter), 230

Changes at the Admiralty, 499

Chart Table, Illuminated, Kelvin, Bottomlev and Baird, 222 wuuuy

Chemical Engineer, The Training and Work of.

Sir G. Beilby, 219, 225, 227, 363

Chile, Engineering in, 570

Chile, Engineering Progress in, 355

China after the War, 352

Chlorinator, Wallace and Tiernan, 252

Ch°r£°n, A* 5’ Notes on the Construction of lurbine Pumps, 463, 476, 477, 500

Clapham, F. T., on Intensive Production Establishment Charges and Selling Price, 516 • (Letter), 586

Clock of Precision, C. O. Bartrum 161 • (Letters), 198, 243 ’ *

Closing of Ship Side Apertures—see Ships Coaches, Railway—see Railways

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

See also Annual Articles—Engineering Industry °

Application of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, H. M. Thornton. 374

Belt Conveyor Coal Loading Plant at Port Kembla, New South Wales, 5, 14

Canadian Pig Iron, Steel and Coal in 1916, 95 Coal Efficiency in the Boiler-house, 116, 137 Coal Gas as Fuel for Melting Non-ferrous

Alloys, G. B. Brook, 311

Coal and the State, 179

Coal Supplies for the Gas Engineer, 527

Colliery Pumping Engine—see Pumps

Concreted Coal, R. G. Lovell and C. M.

Hughes, 548 ; (Letter), 571

Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 569

Use of Coke and Coke-Breeze for Steam Generation, J. B. C. Kershaw, 51

COATALEN Louis, on Aircraft Problems, 568

Coburn, Naval Constructor F. G., on Power Forging of Chain Cables in the U.S. Navv 200, 204 ; (Letter), 230

Commercial Production of Hydrogen. 25

Concrete Bridge—see Bridges

Concreted Coal, R. G. Lovell and C. M. Hughes, 548 ; (Letter), 571

Contracts, 24, 70, 122, 260, 279, 320

Control of Aluminium Scrap and Swarf in the United Kingdom, 231

Cooke, A. G., W. J. Gow and W. G. Tunnicliffe. on the Manufacture of Gauges at the L.C.C. Paddington Technical Institute, 78, 95 ; (Letter), 139

Corrosion of Lock Gate Machinery on the Panama Canal, 255

Cotton-Field Machinery, American, 515

Crompton, Colonel, on Screw Gauges, 66

Cupro-Nickel Scrap. 243

Cycloid-Weir Water Meter, Kennicott Company,

D DALBY, Professor W. E., on Autographic Load Extension Optical Indicator, 422, 452, 453, 468

Dalby, Professor W. E., on the Strength and Inner Structure of Mild Steel, 318

Dams for Water Supply—see Water Supply

Decimal System of Coinage, Weights and

Measures, H. Allcock, 290 : (Letter), 586

Delta as a Trade Name, Legal Action, 280

Design of Pin Joints, &c., Lieut. W. A. Scoble, 319

Development, The Secret of. 85

Diesel Engines—see Engines

Dock, Dry, at Manchester, 492. 493, 496

Dock, Temporary Dry, Made v th Sheet Piling, at Valparaiso, 64, 65

Drawing-office, Premium System in the, H. Kewney, 275

Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools

E EDUCATION and Business, W. L. Hichens, 61, 64

Education of Engineers, 61. 64, 66

Educational Facilities for British Prisoners of War, 280

Eighteenth Century Pumping Engine—see Pumps

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

Birmingham Electrical Engineers Volunteers, 298

Bombay Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 443, 448, 464, 472 (Two-page Supplement, May 18th, 1917)

Bridges—see Bridges

Electric Power Supply, Board of Trade Report, 482

Electric Steel. 494

Furnace, Electric Resistance, for Melting in Crucibles, Dr. H. C. Greenwood and Dr. R. S. Hulton. 340

Hydro-electric Plant, Mitchell Brothers’ Mill at Hebden Bridge, Gilbert Gilkes and Co., Limited, 266 : (Letter), 289

Lamps for Daylight Signals, 455

Linking Up of Electrical Undertakings, 246

Lo-Thermo Enclosed Air-cooled Motor, Electromotors Limited, 26

Packing Electric Locomotives for Export, 424

Pumping from Deep Wells, W. J. Wills’ System, 409

Rail wa ys—see Rail ways

Rolling Mill Equipment, British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. 402, 406

Super-electric Supply Station, 271

Training of Disabled Sa-lors and Soldiers for Electrical Sub-station Work. 399

Turbo-generator for Ship Lighting, British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 406

Vehicles—see Motor Vehicles

Wairua Falls. New Zealand, Hydro-electro Power Scheme, 376, 380

ELECTROLYSER for Ships, V. Roberts and Co.. 549

Ellis. Owen W., on Machining Properties of

Brass and on General Properties of Stampings and Chill Castings in Brass. &c., 284

Empire Mineral Resources, 527

ENGINES AND MOTORS:

General:

Aero Engines. Sunbeam Motor Car Company, Limited, 568

Atmospheric Engine—see Pumps

Locomotive Engines, Minister of Munitions’ Regulations, 143

Pumping Engines—see Pumps

Standard Marine Engines, 381

Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 287, 302

ENGINES AND MOTORS {continued):

Internal Combustion Engines:

Internal Combustion Engine Tests, W. A. Tookey, 29

Motor Installation for Barges, T. H. Coggins and A. E. Hook, 420

Petrol Engine for Caterpillar Tractor, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 308, 314 (Page Supplement, National Gas Engine Company)

Relative Failure of the Marine Diesel Engine, 2U2

Steam Engines :

Guidance Specification for Reciprocating Triple-expansion Marine Engines for Cargo Boats, 130

Indicator Cards—see Plotting

ENGINEER Volunteers, First London, 27, 50, 67. 90, 120, 139, 168, 190, 212, 236, 259, 280, 303, 321, 347, 368, 392, 412, 438, 459, 483, 506, 527, 553, 576, 599

Engineers and the Battle of the Ancre, 566

Engineers and the Metric System, 290

Engineering in Chile, 570

Engineering Industry—see also Annual Article

Engineering Materials, Standardisation of, James Forrest Lecture, Sir J. W. Barry, 403, 406 ; (Letter). 424

Engineering Organisation, 11

Engineering Progress in Chile, 355

Engineering Works—see Works

Excess Profits Tax, 427

Explosion, The, 86

Explosions, Petrol, in Sewers, 283

Explosives, Inspectors of, Report for 1916, 580

Extraction of Sugar-cane Mills, P. H. Parr, 148

F

FARM Machinery and Implements, Ministry of Munitions Branch, 48

Fearnsides, Professor W. G., on the National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, 399, 429

Fertiliser, Basic Slag as a, Professors Gilchrist and Louis, 162

Filters—see Sewage Filters

Financing Industry and Trade, 403

Fire Brigade Competitions at Luton, 437

Fire Pumps—see Pumps

First Lord’s Speech, 201

Fixation of Nitrogen, Kilburn-Scott Process, 580, 595

Folkestone—see Aeronautics

Foreign Trade and the Engineer, 242

Forgings—see Heat Treatment

Forrest, James, Lecture on the Standardisation of Engineering Materials, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 403, 406 ; (Letter), 424

Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 48, 70, 94, 120, 143, 166, 188, 210, 231, 255, 279, 301, 325, 346, 368, 390, 409, 436, 459, 483, 508, 531, 549, 574, 598

Foxwell, Professor H. S., on Industrial Finance after the War. 403

French Atlantic Service—see Ships

French, J. W., on Glass Grinding and Polishing, 182

Fry, Lawford H., Notes on Some Quenching Experiments, 442

Fuel Economy, J. A. Robertson, 579

Fuel Supplies of the United Kingdom, Board Appointed, 176

Furnace, Annealing, for Bottle Making, Thatcher Manufacturing Company, 578

Furnace, Case-hardening. Monometer Manufacturing Company, Limited, 276

Furnace, Electric Resistance, for Melting in Crucibles, Dr. H. C. Greenwood and Dr. R. S. Hulton. 340

Furnace, Hydrogen Retort, Howard Lane, 511, 546 (Two-vaqe Supplement. June 15th, 1917)

Furnaces, Three-phase, for Manufacture of Nitric Acid from the Air, Kilburn-Scott, 580, 595

G

GAS—see also Coal Gas

Gas Industry, Coal Supplies for, 527

Gasworks, Benzol Recovery at, 237

Gauge, Standard Structure, in the United States, 552

Gauges, Manufacture of. at the L.C.C. Paddington Technical Institute, A. G. Cooke, W. J. Gow and W. G. Tunnicliffe, 78, 95 ; (Letter), 139

Gauges. Screw, Colonel Crompton, 66

German Industry, Technical Library to Aid, 326

German Naval Dockyards. 555

German Patent System, The Dangers of the, 315 : (Letter). 467

Germany, Merchant Shipbuilding in, 112

Gilchrist and Louis. Professors, on Basic Slag as a Fertiliser, 162

Glass Grinding and Polishing, J. W. French, 182

Glass Research. Committee Appointed. 149

Glazebrook, Sir Richard, on Science and Industry—The Place of Cambridge, &c., 535

Glycerine Recovery and Refining, George Scott and Son, 581, 585

Government and the Canals, 180

Government Orders, Recent. 297

Graham. T., Apparatus for Interpreting Stability for the Use of Ship Masters. 318

Graphite Cylinder Lubrication, “ Aquadag,” E. W. Johnston, 71

Greenhill, Sir G., on Accuracy and Probability of Fire. 73. 100

Greenwood, Dr. H. C., and Dr. R. S. Hulton, on An Electric Resistance Furnace for Melting in Crucible0. 340

Grenet L.. on the Penetration of rhe Hardening Effect in Chromium and Copper Steels, 442

Grinding—see Machine Tools

Guerre de Course, 565

Guy, H. L., on Steam Turbines for Land Purposes, 107 ; (Corrections), 127, 166

H

HADFIELD, Sir R., on British Patents, 391

Hadfield, Sir R., Prize Offered, 279

Hadfield, Sir R., on the Training and Work o the Engineering Chemist, 219. 225, 227, 363

Haldane, Dr. J. S., on the Spontaneous Com bustion of Coal, 569

Harbour Improvements at Valparaiso, 516, 52< Hardness of Metals, Sir R. Hadfield’s Prize, 271 Hatfield, Dr. W. H., on Steels Used in Aer< Work, 386

Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, Sir W Beardmore, 263, 280

Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, H. H Ashdown, 263

Hering, Carl, on Ideas and Limitations ir Melting of Non-ferrous Metals, 340

Hichens, W. L., on Education and Business, 61 64

High Precision Design, Some Points in, 584

Hillhouse, P. A., and W. H. Riddlesworth, on Launching, 330

Hocking, W. J., on Metal Melting as Practised at the Royal Mint, 311

Houston Dr.—see Water Supply

Hovgaard, Professor W., on the Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines, 330, 340

Hudson River Tunnel, 540

Humphreys, G. W.. on the Main Drainage System of London, 235

Hydro-electric Plant for a Yorkshire Mill, Gilbert Gilkes and ~ (Letter), 289

Hydro-electric Power __________ *«««,

Bombay, 443, 448, 464, 472 (Two-page Supplement, May ISth, 1917)

Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Wairua Falls, New Zealand, 376, 380

Hydrogen, The Commercial Production of, 25

Hydrogenation of Oil, Howard Lane System, 511, 546 (Two-page Supplement, June 15th, 1917)

Co., Limited, 266 ; Scheme, Tata, for 1917)

I

IDEALS, &c.—see Melting of Non-ferrous Metals

Illuminated Chart Table, Fletcher Lit-from-below, Kelvin. Bottomley and Baird, 222

Indicator, Autographic Load Extension, Optical, Professor W. E. Dalby, 422, 452, 453, 468

Indicator Cards—see Plotting

Indicator, W.R. Combustion, H. R. Webster, 595

Industrial Finance after th° wn.r. Professor H. S. Foxwell, 403

Industrial Unrest—see Labour

Industries, New, in South Wales, 549

Industries, Reconstruction of, 577

Intensive Production Establishment Charges and Selling Price, F. T. Clapham, 516 ; (Letter), 586

Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines

IRON AND STEEL:

American Steel Trade, 62

Canadian Pig Iron, Steel and Coal in 1916, 95

Development of the Manufacture of Steel

Castings, E. F. Lange, 55

Electric Steel, 494

Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, Sir W. Beardmore, 263, 280

Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, H. H. Ashdown 263

High-speed Steel Importation into .Italy, 298

High-speed Tool Steel Patent Action, 412

Mechanical Puddling, 465

National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Professor W. G. Fearnsides, 399, 429

Notes on Some Quenching Experiments, Lawford H. Fry, 442

Penetration of the Hardening Effect in Chromium and Copper Steels, L. Grenet, 442

Real Value of Iron Ores, 272

Refractory Materials Used in the Iron and

Steel Industry, Cosmo Johns, 419, 420, 428

Steel Ingot Defects, J. N. Kilby, 440

Steels Used in Aero Work, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 386

Strength and Inner Structure of Mild Steel, Professor W. E. Dalby. 318

Testing of Steel, Harry Brearley, 288

Use and Abuse of Steel, Lieut.-Colonel Bag-nall-Wild and Lieut. E. W. Birch, 352, 384, 430

IS Welfare Work Good Business ? 101

J

JOHNS, Cosmo, on Properties of Refractory Materials Used in Iron and Steel Industry, 419, 420, 428

Johnston, E. W., on Graphite Cylinder Lubrication, 71

K

KERSHAW, J. B. C , on the Use of Coke and Coke-Breeze for Steam Generation, 51

Kewney, H., on The Premium System in the Drawing-office. 275

Kilburn Scott Three-phase Furnaces for Fixation of Nitrogen, 580, 595

Kilby, J. N., on Steel Ingot Defects, 440

King-Salter, J. J., on Influence of Running

Balance on Vibration of Ships, 330

L

LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS:

Canker of Industrial Unrest, 473 : (Letter), 494

Commissions on Labour Unrest, 543, 549

Is Welfare Work Good Business ? 101

Labour and the State, 497

Munitions Workers’ Strike, 449

Partition of Bonuses, 250 ; (Letters), 268

Premium System in the Drawing-office, H. Kewney, 275

LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS {continued):

Profit Sharing in Electrical and Gas Industries, 580

Stimulated Management, 179; (Letters), 193, 230. 251, 268, 375

Suspicion, 134

Women in Industry, 502

Women Mechanics, 294, 296

LAMPS for Daylight Signals, 455

Lane, Howard, System of Oil Hydrogenation, 511, 546 {Two-page Supplement, June 15th. 1917)

Lange, E. F., on the Development of the Manufacture of Steel Castings, 55

Lathes—-see Machine Tools

Latin America, British Business in, 249

Latin America, Our Trade with, 589

Launching—see Ships

Laurenti, Cesare, Diagram for Stability of Submarines, 330

Lead, Government Order Concerning, 333

LEADERS:

America at War, 337

American Battle Cruisers, 543

American Navy at War, 359

American Shipbuilding and Shipping, 381

American Steel Trade, 62

Automatic Control of Trains, 111

Automatic Railway Signalling, 589

Automatic Train Control, 226

Aviation After the War, 521

British versus American Sugar Machinery, 202

British Business in Latin America, 249

British Magneto Industry, 86

Brushwood Sewage Filters, 337

Bureau of Mineral Resources, 450

Canal Problem, 225

Canker of Industrial Unrest, 473

Chemical Engineer, 225

Coal and the State, 179

Commissions on Labour Unrest, 543

Dangers of the German Patent System, 315

Engineers and the Battle of the Ancre, 566

Excess Profits Tax, 427

Explosion, The. 86

Financing Industry and Trade. 403

First Lord’s Speech. 201

Folkestone Raid, 497

Future of Apprentices. 61

Government and the Canals, 180

Guerre de Course, 565

Labour and the State, 497

Latin America. Our Trade with, 589

Life Saving at Sea, 360

Melting of Metals. 293

Merchant Shipbuilding in Germany, 112

Munition Workers’ Strike, 449

Mystery of Metals, 39

Output and the Market, 315

Partition of Bonuses, 250

Peaceful Penetration, 521

Railway Accidents, 39

Real Value of Iron Ores, 272

Refractorv Materials, 428

Relative Failure of the Marine Diesel Engine, 293

Retrospect—1916, 15

Secret of Development, 85

Standard Marine Engines, 381

Standardisation. 403

Sterilisation of Water Supplies, 157

Stimulated Management, 179

Submarines, 157

Sugar Problem, 85

Super-electr;c Supply Station, 271

Suspicion, 134

Text-books : Actual and Ideal, 473

Triumph of Expediency over Sentimentality 566

United States Navy, 133

Women Mechanics, 294

LETTERS ^ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS:

America, 24. 71. 91, 120, 168, 297, 320, 347

Australia, 97, 211

England, North of, 23, 47, 69, 93, 118, 141, 164, 186, 209, 233, 256, 278, 300, 324, 344, 364, 388, 411, 434, 456, 481, 504, 530, 550, 572, 596

Lancashire, 21, 46. 68, 92, 118, 140, 163. 186

208, 232, 256, 277, 299, 323, 344, 364, 388,

410, 434, 456, 480, 504, 528, 550, 571, 596

Midlands and Staffordshire, 21, 45, 67, 91, 117, 140, 163, 185, 208, 231, 255, 277, 298, 322, 343, 363, 387, 409, 433, 456, 479, 504, 528, 550, 571, 595

Scotland, 23, 47, 69, 93, 119, 142, 165, 187,

209, 234, 257, 279, 300, 323, 345, 365, 390,

411, 436, 458, 481, 505, 529, 552, 573, 597

Sheffield, 22. 46, 68, 92, 119, 141, 164, 187’ 208. 232, 257, 277, 299. 322, 345. 365, 389>' 410, 435, 457, 480, 505, 529, 551, 573, 597

Wales and Adjoining Counties, 24, 48. 69, 94, ] 19. 142. 165, 188. 210, 234, 258, 279. 301, 324, 346, 366. 390, 412, 436, 458, 482, 506, 530, 552, 574, 598

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

American St earn Warship in 1815 570

Apparatus for Adjusting Tension of Aeroplane Wire, C. M. Lerici, 424

Automatic Control of Trains, Audi Vide, 163

Batteries of Electric Vehicles. F. Crawter, 198

British Air Service. M. Meeh. E., 321

British v. American Sugar Machinery, Guy Wyatt. 230

British Beet Sugar Industry, H. F. Easton, 321

British Decimal Coinage, H. Allcock. 586

British Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 243

Br tish Ton, J. Pearse, 494

Brushwood Filters, S. H. Adams, 375

Caledonian Locomotives, Loco., 108, W. Pick-ersgill, 127

Canker of Industrial Unrest, W. Fyfe, 494

Chair of Engineering History, &c., M.I.C.E.

(Fr.). 126

Clock of Precision, E. M. Wingfield, 198, C. O.

Bart-rum. 243

Compound Locomotives, M.T.C.E. (Fr.), 268

Concret ng Coal. Clinch Jones, 571

Condensers. S. F. J. R., 230 ; G. W. L -H..

243 ; F.S, L., 289"

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued)-.

Dangers of the German Patent System, James Keith, 423 ; Patent Agent, 467

Demobilisation Problems, The Writer of that Article, 82 ; Reform, 198

Detinning, Omega, 442

Electricity in Agriculture—see Electricity and Crops

Electricity and Crops, J. E. Newman, 494 ;

V. H. Blackman and Ingvar Jorgensen, 515 Engineers and the Submarine Problem,

Member of Institutions of Civil and of Mechanical Engineers, 424 ; Frank Fielden, 467 T, •

Engineers and Submarines—see Engineers and the Submarine Problem—also Secret Session for Engineers

F.S.S. System of Units. W. F. Dunton, 334

Filing Papers, E. R. Briggs, 321

Folkestone Raid, Ajax, 515

Human Efficiency, F. B. Gilbreth. 400

Hydro-electric Plant for a Yorkshire Mill, Mitchell Brothers, 289

Increased Production, H. J. Marshall, 66 ;

C. H. Haddrell, 467

Industrial Peace, Chas. Barnes, 36

Industrial Research, J. G. Pearce, 289

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, H. C. C., 494

Intensive Production, R. G. Foster, 586

James Forrest, N., 289

Libraries, E. C. B., 571

Light Railways, R. White and Sons, 45

Manufacture of Gauges at the Paddington Technical Institute, J. E. Sears, 139

Marlborough Wheels, N. W. Hill, 334

Melting Steel Scrap in the Foundry Cupola, J. E. Hurst, 25

Metric System, E. C. Barton, 243, 424 ;

W. A., 289, 356; Manager, 312; A. M., 312 ; A. H. Bell, 334 ; Metricist, 334, 375 ;

E. A. W. Phillips, 334 ; C. M. Lerici, 356 ; Senex, 356 ; Tony, 356 ; F. A. Halsey, 375 ; Another Manager, 375; H. C. A., 375;

F. J. Lassen, 400 ; Juvenis, 424 ; R. M. Leslie, 443 ; E. W. Sargeant, 467

Noise in Reinforced Concrete Buildings, Rowntree and Co., 549 ; C. Bentham, 571 ; Institution, 571

Oil Engine Nomenclature, H. Akroyd-Stuart, 108, 423

Old Books, H. A. Bennie Gray, 549 ; Harry J. Donkin, 571 ; Arthur L. Johnson, 586

Patents and the Poor Inventor, W. S. Pearce, 198

Pay of Draughtsmen, Draughtsman, 251 ; Purple Stripe, 268 ; Designing Draughtsman, 289

Permanent Industrial Exhibitions, Barunar, Limited, 82

Plea for Up-to-date Bridgework in the United Kingdom, H. R. White, 36 ; H. R. Lewis, 67 ; Conrad Gribble, 67

Power Forging of Chain Cables, Brown, Lenox and Co., 230

Premium Bonus System, Engineer, 45 ; J. Ross, 82 ; G. B. Petter, 82 ; R. F. McKay, 127 ; C. Barnes, 162

Protection Against Submarines, J. Pratt, 163 ; W. A. Woodward, 230

Pyrmont Electric Swing Bridge, H. H, Broughton, 198 ; N. R. White, 230

Rating of Machinery, J. Etherington, 25 Re P/S Napoleon III., W. W. Bengough, 243 Recent American Warships, Turrets, 67 Salaries in the Ministry of Shipping, Omega, 400

Seasoned Castings, W. W. Beaumont, 400

Secret Session for Engineers, E. W. Petter, 455, 494 ; Pontifex, 467 ; Michael Long-ridge, 467 ; C. E. H., 515—see also Engineers and the Submarine Problem

Seger Cones, H. Ansell, 312

Ship Salving, J. W. W., 467

Standard Catalogues and Periodicals, A.

Fanti, 443

Standardisation, An Engineer Who Believes in Standardisation, &c., 424

Stimulated Management, W. J. T., 198, 230, 251, 268, 289 ; E. M. Wingfield, 251 ; P. M., 251 : W. G. Traquair, 268 ; C. H. Haddrell, 375

Stresses in Wire-wrapped Guns, J. H. Jones, 45

Submarine Tramps, R. M. Deeley, 108 Submarines and Secrecy, Victory, 443 Taylorism and Humanity, S. Turner, 36 Technical Papers for the Front, J. H. Kerner-

Greenwood, 334

Thermodynamic Problem, T. D. Parr, 312, 424 ; W. J. Walker, 353, 375 ; G. W. L. H., 353

Torpedo-proof Ships, Anti-submarine, 400 Trade and Professional Secrets, 184

Types of British Locomotives, P. C. Dewhurst, 494

Vacuum Brake Fittings, D. Cardew, 66

Valve Gear, A Single Excentric, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 185

Vulkanoid, C. H. S„ 356

Water-tight Doors, Brunton Brothers, Limited, 82

Wigan Railway Accident, Audi Vide, 44

LIFEBOAT Station at Wick, 19, 25

Life Saving at Sea, 360

Liquid Fuels, Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of, Harold Moore, 561

LITERATURE :

Reviews:

Bridge Engineering, J. A. L. Waddell, 523 Fari e Segnali Marittimi, Vice-Admiral P. L.

Cattolica and Captain A. Luria, 218

Germany’s Economic Position and England’s Commercial and Industrial Policy After the War, G. B. Dibblee, 81

How to Lay Out Turret Lathe Tools, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 475, 591

Industrial and Manufacturing Chemistry, Inorganic, G. Martin, 356, 545

Jane’s “ Fighting Ships,” 1916, 67

Pictures of War Work in England, J. Pennell, 113

Rail Power in War and Conquest, The Rise of, E. A. Pratt, 113

Steam Turbines, W. J. Goudie, 176, 503 Strength of Ships, A. J. Murray, 79, 503 Submarine Torpedo Boat, Allen Hoar, 176, 405

Topicos Tecnicos, Octavio A. Acevedo, 255, 339

LITERATURE (continued):

Short Notices:

Briquetting, A Handbook of, G. Franke, 113, 545

Engineers’ Costs and Economical Workshop Production, D. Smith and P. C. N. Pickworth, 113

General Cargo : An Introduction to Salesmanship, R. E. Goddard, 113

Machine Designers, Shop Men and Draughtsmen, Handbook for, F. A. Halsey, 503, 545

Practical Safety Methods and Devices : Manufacturing and Engineering, G. A. Cowee, 265

Reinforced Concrete, Manual of, C. F. Marsh and W. Dunn, 265

Books Received:

AerodonStique, F. W. Lanchester, 79

Air Power, Naval, Military, Commercial, Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper, 475

Atoms, Jean Perrin, 451

Autogenous Welding, Practical Manual of,

R. Granjon and P. Rosemberg, 255

British Dominions Year Book, 1917, 176 Butterworth’s Workmen’s Compensation Cases, Judge Ruegg, 176

' Calculation and Measurement of Inductance and Capacity, W. H. Nottage, 475 Calculations for Steel Frame Structures, W. C. Cocking, 475

Calculus, H. W. March and H. C. Wolff, 451 Can We Set the World in Order ? C. R.

Enock, U3

Canada : Department of the Interior, Water Power Branch :

Paper No. 12, “ Small Water Powers,” A. M. Beale. Paper No. 13, “ Coquitlam-Buntzen Hydro-electric Development, British Columbia,” G. R. G. Conway, Paper No. 17, “ Canadian Hydraulic Power Development and Electric Power in Canadian Industry,” C. N. Mitchell. Water Resources :—Paper No. 2, “ Bow River and Storage Investigations,” M. C. Hendry. Paper No. 7, “ Manitoba Water Powers,” D. L. McLean and others, 545

Canada Year Book, 1915, 503

Chemistry, General, Hamilton P. Cady, 405 Compressed Air Practice in Mining, D.

Penman, 113

Contribucion al Estudio de las Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, 79

Design of Machine Elements, W. G. Dunkley, 356

I Dictionary of Commercial Correspondence, in Seven Languages, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 451

Documents Governing the Construction of a Bridge, E. E. Howard, 503

Electrical Engineering Practice, J. W. Mears, 545

Electrical Review's Electrical and Allied Trades Directory, 1917, 503

Electric Traction, A. T. Dover, 475

Electrical Trades’ Directory and Handbook, 503

Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony, The Principles of, J. A. Fleming, 67

Electricity and the Motor Car, F. H. Hutton, 255

Elementary Cams, F. de Ronde Furman, 339 English and Engineering, F. Aydelotte, 475 Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus, E. Haustrand, 176

Experimental Building Science, Vol. I., J. L. Manson, 545

Explosives, A. Marshall, 265

Flying Machine from an Engineering Standpoint, F. W. Lanchester, 79

Gasworks, Operation of, W. M. Russell, 451

High Speed Internal Combustion Engines, A.

W. Judge, 176

Hornets, The, Hermes, 255

Hydro-electric Power, Lamar Lyndon, 405

In the Royal Naval Air Service, Harold Rosher, R.N., 503

Institute of Metals, Journal of the, G. Shaw Scott, 451

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, October-December, 1916, 503

Judicial Interpretations of the Munitions of War Acts, 1915-1916, J. Chartres, 503

Kelly’s Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 545

Kempe’s Engineers’ Year Book, H. R. Kempe, 451

Kingsbridge, Salcombe and the Kingsbridge Estuary, A. H. Anderson, 475

Lgcons sur les Fonctions elliptiques en vue de leurs applications, R. de Montessus de Ballore, 356

Lectures on Levelling, V. J. Martin, 79 Lockwood’s Builders’ Price Book, 1917, 176 Manufacturing Costs and Accounts, A. H.

Church, 475

Marine Engineering, Practical, Captain C. W. Dyson, 503

Mercantile Year Book and Directory of Exporters, 503

Mining and Mine Ventilation, J. J. Walsh, 503 Modern Milling, Ernest Pull, 475

Motor Car, T. O. A. Lawton and R. G. H. Gibson, 113

Motor Car Engineering, Text-book on, Vol.

II., A. Graham Clark, 503

Munro’s Marine Engineers’ Annual Pocket Log and Diary, J. Munro and Co., Limited, 79

National System of Economics, J. T. Peddie, 475

Next War, The British Industries Fair, C. H. Betts and M. Watts, 113

Office Machinery, L. R. Dicksee, 451 Peaceful Penetration, A. D. McLaren, 113 Physics for Engineers, Elementary, J. P.

Yorke, 176

Primary Batteries, W. A. Cooper, 176

Properties of Aerofoils and Aerodynamic Bodies. A. W. Judge, 475

Radiodynamics, B. F. Miessner, 503

Railway Maintenance Engineering, W. H. Sellen, 503

Rational Wages System, H. Atkinson, 545 Reinforced Concrete, Manual of, Chas.

Marsh, 451

LITERATURE (continued):

Books Received (continued):

Rivers as Sources of Water Supply, A. C. Houston, 475

Riveted Boiler Joints, S. F. Jeter, 475

Rules for the Classification and Construction of Steel Ships, 265, 545

Saws, Their Care and Treatment, H. W. Durham, 176

Sea Power, A. Hurd, 113

Shipping World Year Book, Major Jones, 475 Shorthand and Business Training, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 451

Steel and its Heat Treatment, D. K. Bullens, 503

Stresses in Structure, A. H. Heller, 67

Sugar, The High Price of, and Flow to Reduce it, H. Hamel Smith, 79

Syren and Shipping International Mercantile Diary, 1917, 67

Telegraphy and Telephony, 1917, 545 Turbines Applied to Marine Propulsion, Stanley J. Reed, 503

United States : Department of Agriculture Bureau of Chemistry :

Service and Regulatory Announcements, Supplement, N. J. 4351-4400, 219

United States : Department of Commerce, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards .

No. 86, Resistance of an Oil to Emulsification, Winston H. Herschel, 475

United States : Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines :

Bulletins :—No. 105, “ Black Damp in Mines.” No. 106, “ Technology of Marble Quarrying.” No. 116, “Method of Sampling Delivered Coal, &c.” No. 121, “ History and Development of Gold Dredging in Montana.” No. 126, “ Current Decisions on Mines and Mining,” 219

Coal Mine Fatalities, 1916, 219

No. 143, Law Serial. Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining, J. N. Thomson, 356

Bulletins, 108, Mineral Technology 14, “ Melting Aluminium Chips,” H. W. Gillett and G. M. James ; 134. Petroleum Technology 36, “ Use of Mud-laden Fluid in Oil and Gas Wells,” J. O. Lewis and W. F. McMurray, 503

Monthly Statement of Coal Mine Fatalities in U.S. Coal Mines, August, 1916. “ Rescue and Recovery Operations in Mines after Fires and Explosions,” J. W. Paul and H. M. Wolflin, 503

Technical Paper 146. “ Nitration of Toluene,” E. J. Hoffman, 503

Technical Paper 165. Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Year 1915, 523

Technical Paper 135. Bibliography of Recent Literature on Flotation of Ores, January-June, 1916, D. A. Lyon and Others, 523

Technical Paper 82. iC Oxygen Mine Rescue Apparatus and Physiological Effects on Users,” Dr. Y. Henderson and J. W. Paul. Technical Papers No. 86. “ Ore Sampling Conditions in the West.” No. 102, “ Health Conservation at Steel Mills.” No. 117, “ Quantity of Gasoline Necessary to Produce Explosive Conditions in Sewers.” No. 130, “ Underground Wastes in Oil and Gas Fields and Methods of Prevention.” No. 136, “ Safe Practice at Blast Furnaces.” No. 145, “ Sensitiveness to Detonation of Trinitrotoluene and Tetra-nitromethylanilin.” No. 157, “ Method of Measuring the Viscosity of Blastfurnace Slag at High Temperatures.” No. 159, “ Production of Explosives in United States in 1915.” No. 161, “ Construction and Operation of a Single Tube Cracking Furnace for Making Gasoline,” 545

Valuation, Depreciation, and the Rate Base, Carl E. Grunsky, 503

Vaporising of Paraffin for High-speed Motors, Edward Butler, 356

Ventilation, Some Modern Methods of, R. Grierson, 79

Wireless Telegraphy, Elementary Principles of, R. D. Bangay, 503

Year Book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 265

LIVERPOOL Tramways, 386

Load Extension Diagrams—see Indicator Locomotive Engines, Minister of Munitions Regulations, 143

London, Main Drainage System of, G. W. Humphreys, 235

Longridge, Mr. M., Presidential Address at Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 371

Lorry, Five-Ton Petrol Motor, J. E. D. Ralls. 354, 355

Lovett, W. J., on a Method of Obtaining for Ship Design the Spacing of Bulkheads, &c., 317

Lubrication of Steam Turbines, T. C. Thomsen, 238, 264, 319, 327, 394

Luke, W. J., on Wake and Thrust Deduction, 319

M

MACALPINE, J. H., on the Marine Application of Floating Gears of the Floating Frame Type, 330

Machines Used in Oil Production—see Oils

MACHINE TOOLS:

An “ Exploded ” Reamer, 567

Crank-pin Turning Lathe, Geo. Swift and Sons, Limited, 292, 296

High-speed Tool Steel Patent Action, 412

Horizontal Drilling Machines, D. and J. Tullis, Limited, 387

Lathe for Turning Cam Shafts, J. Parkinson and Son, 182

Machine Tool and Engineering Association,

MACHINE TOOLS (continued):

Motor-driven 8|in. Centres Geared Lathe, Geo. Swift and Sons, Limited, 292, 296

Precision Grinding, H. H. Asbridge, 268

Two New Lathes, Geo. Swift and Sons, Limited, 292, 296

MACHINES used in Oil Production—see Oils

Magneto Industry, The British, 86

Main Drainage System of London, G. W. Humphreys, 235

Malay—see Railways

Manchester, Dry Dock at, 492, 493, 496

Marine Engines—see Engines

Mason, Dr. W., on Alternating Stress Experiments, 172, 176

Materials, Refractory, 54

Materials—see also Engineering Materials

Mechanical Engineering, Practical, Bearing of Research Work on, A. Saxon, 162

Mechanical Puddling, 465

Melting of Brass and Copper in a Crucible Furnace, with Coal-Gas Fuel, H. M. Thornton and H. Hartley, 311, 340

Melting of Metals, 293—see also Metal Melting

Melting of Non-ferrous Metals, Ideals and Limitations in, Carl Hering, 340

Metal Melting as Practised at the Royal Mint, W. J. Hocking, 311

Metal Melting in a Simple Crude Oil Furnace, H.

S. Primrose, 311, 340

Metal Swarf, Briquetting of, 514, 538, 557, 592

Metals and Alloys, Surface Tension and Cohesion in, Sydney W. Smith, 285

Metals, Hardness of. Sir R. Hadfield’s Prize, 279

Metals, Institute of—see Associations

Metals, Mystery of, 39

Metric System : American Institute of Weights and Measures 479—see also Decimal System, and Letters to the Editor

Mills, Oil—see Oils

Mine Haulage, Safety Carriage for, Record Engineering Comnany, Limited, 525

Mineral Resources, Bureau of, 450

Mineral Resources, Empire, 527

Mineral Statistics, Our, 328

Montgomery, J., on Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, 317

Moore, Harold, on The Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of Liquid Fuels, 561

Morgan, C. L., The Retirement of, 176

Morison, D. B., on Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, 287, 302, 381

Motor Installation for Barges, T. H. Coggins and A. E. Hook, 420

Motor Vehicles, Electric, L. Brockman, 95

Motors, Electric—see Electrical Matters

Munitions Workers’ Strike, 449

Munro, A. R., on a Rapid Method of Plotting Combined Indicator Cards, 136, 137

Mystery of Metals, 39

N NATIONAL Defence in the United States, 593

National Physical Laboratory, Official Report, 569—See also Standardisation of Engineering Materials

National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Professor W. G. Fearnsides, 399, 429

New Year's Honours, 166

New York Harbour—see Removing Subaqueous Rock

New Zealand, Thomas Transmission Car in, 90

Nickel Silver, Annealing of, Dr. F. C. Thompson, 285

Nile, The Conservation of the, A. A. Barnes, 33

Nitrogen from the Air. Kilburn Scott Three-phase Process, 580, 595

Non-ferrous Metals—see Melting of

North British Rubber Factory Extensions, 91

o OBITUARY:

Biggart, Andrew Stevenson, 405

Binnie, Sir Alexander Richardson, 470

Blyth, Benjamin Hall, 451

Browne, Sir Benjamin (Portrait), 221

Durston, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir A. John, K.C.B. (Portrait), 377

Forrest. James (Portrait), 220

Gilchrist, James, 127

Halcomb, Svdney Broughton, 48

Harpur, William, 503

Hobson, George Andrew, 108

Hughes, Colonel Herbert, 58

Hunter, William Henry, 203

Ireland, Arthur James, 12

Kennedy, Rankin, 377

Kennedv, Thomas, 377

Leigh. John George, 378

Macmillan, William, 12

Mann, Isaac John. 127

Murray, Ronald W., 12

Porter, Robert Percival, 221

Raworth, John S., 285

Russell, Joseph, 523

Seaton, Gervase Douglas. 591

Sharp, Robert Gordon (Portrait), 285

Short, Horace, 339

Stirling. James (Portrait), 81

Stott, Henry G., 203

Ward, George G., 378

Western, James Halifax, 339

OIL Engines—see Engines

Oil Industry, The Scottish Shale, 221, 270, 274

Oils. Vegetable, Production and Industrial Emplovment of, 123, 147, 169, 192 213, 240 261, 307, 309, 349, 395, 417, 439 .441, 462, 486, 511, 546, 559, 564, 581, 585 (Two Page Supplements, April 20th, 1917) (Two-page Supplement, June 15th, 1917)

Organisers’ Clearing House, 570

Our Trade with Latin-America. 589

Output and the Market, 315 ; (Letter), 467

PACKING Electric Locomotives for Export,

Panama Canal Lock Gate Machinery, Corrosion of, 255

Parr, P. H., on the Extraction of Sugar-Cane Mills, 148

Partition of Bonuses, 250 : (Letters), 268—See also S' imnlated Management

Patent Action, High Speed Tool Steel, 412

Patent Rights, Acquisition of, 28, 50, 72, 98, 122, 144, 168, 190, 212, 236, 260, 282, 304, 326, 348, 368, 392, 414, 438, 460, 484, 508, 532, 554, 576, 600

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS:

Aeronautics, 27, 71, 97, 189, 281, 303, 325, 347, 391, 413, 507, 531, 575

Condensers and Feed-Water Heaters, 211, 260, 507

Cranes and Conveyors, 97, 167, 212, 599

Dynamos and Motors, 27, 49, 71, 121, 189, 235, 259, 391, 413, 437, 553, 575

Engines. Internal Combustion, 27, 49, 71, 97, 121, 143, 167, 189, 211, 235, 259, 281, 325,

347, 367, 391, 413, 437, 459, 483, 507, 531, 553, 575, 699

Engines, Steam, 367, 413, 531

Gas Producers, 460, 483, 507

Heating—see Lighting

Lighting and Heating, 212, 303, 392, 438,

483, 532, 554, 575

Locomotives, 259

Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 50, 71, 97, 121, 144, 167, 236, 304, 325, 347, 392, 438, 460, 484, 607, 532, 553

Measuring and Testing Instruments, 168, 189, 211, 282, 348, 367

Mines and Metals, 236, 259, 282, 392, 484, 608, 532, 554, 600

Miscellaneous, 28, 50, 72, 98, 122, 168, 190, 212, 236, 260, 282, 304, 326, 368, 414, 438,

484, 508, 554, 576

Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 144, 236, 575, 600

Ordnance and Armour, 28, 50, 72, 143, 190, 260, 282, 326. 368, 392, 531

Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 121, 235,

348, 599

Ships and Boats, 28, 98, 167, 189, 236, 281, 325, 391, 437. 507, 532, 600

Steam Generators, 189, 211, 259, 303, 459 Switchgear. 167, 189, 484, 531

Telegraphs and Telephones, 49, 143, 167, 211, 235, 281, 599

Tramways and Railways, 98

Transformers, 303

Transmission of Power, 121, 144, 190, 212, 304, 325. 348, 413, 460, 508, 553, 575

Turbine Machinery, 121, 303, 459, 484, 553, 575

Water Purification, 414

PATENT System, Dangers of the German, 315 ;

(Letters), 423, 467

Patents, British, Sir R. Hadfield, 391

Peaceful Penetration, 521

Pelton Wheel, 100 Horse-power for Hydro-Electric Plant at Hebden Bridge, G. Gilkes and Co., 266

Personal and Business Announcements, 27, 48, 94. 122, 168, 190, 255, 282, 326, 347, 368, 412, 459. 483. 508, 676

Petrol Caterpillar Tractor, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 308, 314 (Two-page Supplement, April 6th, 1917)

Petrol Coaches, Railway—see Railways Petrol-driven Fire Pump—see Pumps Petrol Engines—see Engines

Petrol Explosions in Sewers, 283

Petrol Measuring Pumps, 203

Petrol M 'tor Lorry, Five-Ton, J. E. D. Ralls, 354, 355

Plotting Combined Indicator Cards, A Rapid Method of, A. R. Munro, 136, 137

Portishead Dock Pumps—see Pumps Power Forging—see Chain Cables

Precision, A Clock of, C. O. Bartrum, 161 ;

(Letters). 198, 243

Precision Grinding, H. H. Asbridge, 268

Precision, High, Design, Some Points in. 584

Premium System in the Drawing-office, H.

Kewney, 275

Presses for Briquetting—see Briquetting

Presses for Oil Production—see Production

Primrose. H. S., on Metal Melting in a Simple Crude Oil Furnace, 311, 340

Prisoners of War. British, Educational Facilities for, 280

Production and Industrial Employment of Vegetable Oils, 123, 147, 169, 192, 213, 240, 261, 307, 309, 349, 395, 417, 439, 441, 462, 468, 511, 546, 659, 564. 581. 585 (Two Page Supplements, April 20th, 1917) (Two-page Supplement, June \5th, 1917)

Puddling—see Iron and Steel

Pumpherston Works—see Works

PUMPS:

Deep Wells, New Electric System of'Pumping, W. J. Wills, 409 "

Eighteenth Century Colliery Pumping Engine, at Pentrich Colliery, 56. 60

Eighteenth Century Pumping Engine at Gregory’s Mine, near Ashover, Fr. Tompson, 138

Newcomen Pumping Engine at Ashton-underLyne. 218

Petrol Measuring Pumps, 203

Portable Petrol-driven Fire Pump, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 542, 548

Portishead Dock Pumping Machinery, Oil Engine Driven, Blackstone and Co., Limited. 80 (Two-page Supplement, January 26th, 1917)

Turbine Pumps, Notes on the Construction of, A. E. L. Chorlton, 463, 476, 477, 500

PYRMONT—see Bridges

R RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS:

See also Annual Article

General:

Association of Minor Railways, 413

Automatic Control of Trains, 111, 226 ;

(Letter), 163

Automatic Railway Signalling, 589

Railway Accidents, 39, 276

Railway Material for South America, 408

RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS (continued):

Genepal (continued):

Rotary Interlocking Block System, W. R.

Sykes Interlocking Signal Companv" Limited. 276 J

Signals, Daylight, Lamps for, 455

Vacuum Brake Apparatus Improvements, Consolidated Brake and Engineering Company, 594

Vacuum Brake Improvements, Vacuum Brake Company, Limited, 228

British, Colonial, and Indian :

Accidents at Ratho and Wigan, 39. 44 54 226, 229 ; (Letter), 44 ’

Australian Railway Finance, 378

Australian Trans-Continental Railway, 526

British Railways in 1916, 172, 183, 206, 254

Canada, Future of the Railways of, 502 Canadian Transcontinental Railway Scheme,

Collisions at Wigan and Kirtlebridge, 226, a

Future of English Railways, 327

Indian Railways in 1915-16, 378

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Retirement of Mr. C. L. Morgan, 176

London and North-Western Railway Electric

Tram Service to Watford, 332, 336

Malay Peninsula, Railway Expansion in, 493 Petrol-Electric Coach, New Zealand Govern

ment Railways, Thomas Transmission, Limited, 91

Forelem:

American Railways in War Time, 331

Goods Wagon of 120 Tons Capacity, Virginian Railway, 574

Latin America, New Railway Works in, 90

Swiss Railway Problems, 446

Swiss Railways in War Time, 149

Trainmen’s Eight Hours Act in America, 455

War and American Railways, 52

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES:

General:

Packing Electric Locomotives for Export 424

Standardisation, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 403, 406

British, Colonial and Indian :

Locomotives of the United Kingdom, E L Ahrons, 216 ; (Letters), 243, 494

North Staffordshire Railway, Passenger Tank Engine, 288

Foreign

American Great Northern Railway

“ Mikado ” Type Engine, 244, 248

American Heavy Goods Locomotives, Recent, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 244, 248

American Locomotives for Spain, 5*49

Bessemer and Lake Erie Line, Ten Wheels

Coupled Engine, 244, 248

Modern High Power Locomotive Economy in France, 509

Paris-Orleans Railway, British-built Tank Locomotives for, 224, 229

Virginia Railway, Triple Articulated Locomotive, 244, 248

RANDOM REFLECTIONS:

40, 62, 87, 112, 134, 158, 180, 202, 226, 250 272, 294, 316, 338, 360, 382, 404, 428, 450* 474 498, 522, 544, 566, 690 (see Special Index)

RAZORS for the Army, 378 Reamers— see Machine Tools Reconstruction of Industries, 577

Reeves, A. W., and C. Kimber, on Works

Organisation and Efficiency, 454

Refractory Materials, 54, 466—see also Iron and Ste-1

Reid Standard Unit Construction for Steel

Frame Buildings, F. Braby and Co., Limited, 358, 362

Relative Failure of the Marine Diesel Engine 293 5 ’

Removing Subaqueous Rock under Difficult Conditions, 114

Research. Glass, 149

Research, Scientific and Industrial, 149, 176

Research, W. R. Whitney, 245 ; (Letter), 289

Research Work, Bearing of, on Practical

Mechanical Engineering, A. Saxon, 162

Researches made Possible, &c.—see Autographic Indicator

Resources of the Empire, 198

Rhone-Rhine Canal, The Proposed, 53

Ripper, Professor, on Works Organisation and Efficiency, 454

Robertson, J. A., on Fuel Economy, 579

Rock, Subaqueous, Removing, under Difficult Conditions, 114

Rodgers, Capt. W. L., on the Suitability of the Current Design of Submarines to U.S. Navy 153, 157 ■

Rolling Mill Electrical Equipment, British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 402, 406

Rotary Interlocking Block System, W. R.

Sykes Interlocking Signal Company, Limited,

Royal Agricultural Society’s Trial of Ford Motor Tractors, 437

Rubber Factory, Extensions to, North British Rubber Company, Limited, 91

s SAFETY Carriage for Mine Haulage, Record

Engineering Company, Limited, 525

Sailors and Soldiers, Disabled, Training of, for

Electrical Sub-Station Work, 399

San Marcos—see Ships

Saxon, Alfred, on The Bearing of Research 1

Work on Practical Mechanical Engineering,

Science and Industry—The Place of Cambridge,

&c., Sir Richard Glazebrook, 535

Science, What Industry Owes to, 34, 88, 102,

160, 217, 273, 329, 415, 461, 488, 539, 558, 577

Scientific and Industrial Research, 149, 176

Scoble, Lieut. W. A., on Design of Pin Joints

Based on Ultimate Strength, 319

Scottish Shale Oil Industry, 221, 270, 274

Screw Gauges, Colonel Crompton, 66

Screw Threads—see Whitworth

Secret of Development, 85

Sewage Filters, Brushwood, 337 ; (Letter), 375

Sewers, Petrol Explosions in, 283

Shale Oil Industry, The Scottish, 221, 270, 274

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING:

Shipbuilding—see also Annual Articles, Engineering Industry

General:

American Shipbuilding and Shipping, 381

Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines, Professor W. Hovgaard, 330, 340

Closing of all Ship Side Apertures from the

• Bridge, Signor E. Benvenuti, 318

Design of Pin Joints Based on Ultimate Strength, Lieut. W. A. Scoble, 319

Electrolyser for Ships, V. Roberts and Co. 549

Influence of Running Balance on Vibration of Ships, Experiments, J. J. King-Salter, ooO

Launching, P. A. Hillhouse and W. H. Riddlesworth, 330

Laurenti’s Diagram for Stability of Submarines, 330

Marine Application of Floating Gears of the Floating Frame Type, J. H. Macalpine, 330

Marine Engines—see Engines

Merchant Shipbuilding in Germany, 112

Motor Installation for Barges, T. H. Coesins and A. E. Hook, 420

Shipping Control, 26

Spacing of Bulkheads, &c., Method of Obtaining for Ship Design, W. J. Lovett, 317

Stability, Apparatus for Use of Ship Masters.

T. Graham, 318

Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 487, 302, 381

Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, J. Montgomerie, 317

Wake and Thrust Deduction, Further Experiments, W. J. Luke, 319

Naval Matters:

First Lord’s Speech, 201

Guerre de Course, 565

Institution of Naval Architects—see Associations, &c.

Power Forging of Chain Cables in the U.S. Navy, Naval Constructor F. G. Coburn 200, 204

Salving by Italian Navy of German Submarine U C 12, 416, 426 ; (Letter), 467

Submarines, 157 ; (Letters), 163, 230

Suitability of Current Design of Submarines to the U.S. Navy, Capt. W. L. Rodgers, 153, 157

Foreign Navies :

American Navy at War, 359

German High Sea Fleet and its Bases, 533, 555

German Mine-Laying Submarine U C 12 Salved and in Service of Italian Navy, 416, 426 ; (Letter), 467

Recent American Warships, 8, 41, 74, 543 ;

(Letter), 67 (Two-page Supplement, January 5th, 1917)

Spanish Submarine Isaac Peral, 97; Paragraph, 447

Submarines in the Adriatic, 416, 426 • (Letter), 467

Suitability of Current Design of Submarines to the U.S. Navy, Capt. W. L. Rodgers, 153,

United States Battle Cruisers, 1 to 4, Projected, 8, 543 (Supplement, January 5th, 1917)

United States Battleship Pennsylvania, 8, 41

United States Battleships Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, 8 (Two-page Supplement, January 5th, 1917)

United States Naval Experiments on the San Marcos 369

United States Navy, Mr. Daniels’ Report, 54, 75, 133

Miscellaneous:

Early History of the French Atlantic Services, 145, 156 ; (Letter), 243

Italian Coal and Ore Carrying Steamer, Milazzo, 194 (Two-page Supplement, March 2nd, 1917)

Motor Ship Sebastian, 548

SIGNALS—see Railways

Simpson, E., on Workshop Design and Equipment, 197

Skilled Women—see Women Mechanics

Slag—see Basic Slag

Smith, Sydney W., on Surface Tension and Cohesion in Metals and Alloys, 285

Soap, Manufacture of, 559, 564

Soldiers at the Front, Technical Publications for, 537

Soldiers—see also Sailors and Soldiers

Some Points in High Precision Design, 584

South America, Catalogues for, 79

South America, Railway Materials from, 408

South Wales, New Industries in, 549

Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of Liquid

Fuels, Harold Moore, 561

Stability—see Ships

Standard Engines—see Engines

Standard Structure Gauge in the United States, 552

Standard Unit Construction, Reid, for Steel Frame Buildings, F. Braby and Co., Limited, 358, 362

Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 287, 302, 381

Standardisation of Engineering Materials, James Forrest Lecture by Sir J. Wolfe Barry. 403, 406 ; (Letter), 424

Steam Engines—see Engines

Steam Generation. Use of Coke and Coke Breeze for, J. C. B. Kershaw, 51

Steam Turbines for Land Purposes, H. L. Guy,

Steam Turbines, Lubrication of, T. C. Thomsen, 238, 264, 319, 327

Steel—see Iron and Steel

Steel Frame Buildings—see Standard Unit Construction

Sterilisation—see Water Supply

Stimulated Management, 179: (Letters), 198, 230, 251, 268, 375

Stoker, The Taylor Underfeed, Scholey and Co., Limited, 88

Strength of Steel—see Iron and Steel

Stress, Alternating, Experiments, Dr. W. Mason 172, 176

Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, J.

Montgomerie, 317

Submarines—see Ships

Sugar-cane Mills, The Extraction of, P. H. Parr, 148

Sugar Machinery, British versus Axneric&n., 202 ;

(Letter), 230

Sugar Problem, 85 ; (Letter), 312

Surface Tension and Cohesion in Metals and

Alloys, Sydney W. Smith, 285

Suspicion, 134

Swansea, Expected Oil Trade Development, 549

Swarf, Metal, The Briquetting of, 514, 538, 557,

T TAX, Excess Profits, 427

Taylor Underfeed Stoker, Scholey and Co., Limited, 88

Technical Library to Aid German Industry, 326

Technical Publications for Soldiers at the Front, 537

Testing Steel—see Iron and Steel

Text-books : Actual and Ideal, 473

Thompson, Dr. F. C., on Annealing of Nickel Silver, 285

Thomsen, T. C., on Lubrication of Steam Turbines, 238, 264, 319, 327, 394

Thornton, H. M., on Application of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, 374

Thornton, H. M., and H. Hartley, on the Melting of Brass and Copper in a Crucible Furnace with Coal-gas Fuel, 311, 340

Tookey, W. A., on Internal Combustion Engine Tests, ’29 *

Traction Engines—see Engines

Tractor, Caterpillar Petrol, Clayton and

Shuttleworth, Limited, 308, 314 (Two-page Supplement, April 6th, 1917)

Tractors, Ford Motor Agricultural, Trial of Two, 437

Trade After the War, 255

Training of Disabled Sailors and Soldiers for Electrical Sub-Station Work, 399

Training and Work of the Chemical Engineer, Sir G. Beilby, 219, 225, 227, 363

Trainmen’s Eight Hours Act in United States, 455

Trains—see Railways

Triumph of Expediency—see Water Supply

Tunnel, Hudson River, 540

Turbine Pumps—see Pumps

Turbines, Steam, for Land Purposes, H. L.

Guy, 107 ; (Corrections), 127, 166

Turbines, Steam, Lubrication of, T. C. Thomsen, 238, 264, 319, 327, 394

Turbo-Generators—see Electrical Matters

Turin a Seaport, 482

u UNITED STATES, National Defence in the, 593

University College, London, Annual Report, 297

University Intelligence, 168

Use and Abuse of Steel—see Iron and Steel

Use of Coke—see Coal, &c.

V VACUUM Brake Apparatus Improvements, Consolidated Brake and Engineering Company, 594

Vacuum Brake Improvements, Vacuum Brake Company, Limited, 228

Valparaiso, Harbour Improvements at, 516, 520

Valparaiso, Temporary Dry Dock Made with Sheet Piling, 64, 65

Vegetable Oils—see Oils

Volunteers, Birmingham Electrical Engineers, 298

Volunteers, First London Engineer, 27, 50, 67, 90, 120, 139, 168, 190, 212, 236, 259, 280, 303, 321, 347, 368, 392, 412, 438, 459, 483, 506, 527, 553, 576, 599

•.R. COMBUSTION Indicator, H. R. Webster, 595

agon, Goods—see Railways

airua Falls Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 376, 380

ake and Thrust Deduction—see Ships

arships—see Ships

ater Meters—see Water Supply, 408

aterspout in the Mediterranean, 183

fATER SUPPLY:

See also Annual Article

Broken Hill, New South Wales, Supply for, 34, 38

Cycloid-Weir Water Meter, Kennicott Company, 408

Pumping from Deep Wells, W. J. Wills’

Electrical System, 409

South Africa, Waterworks in, 172

Sterilisation of Water Supplies, 157, 252

Triumph of Expediency over Sentimentality, 566

Water Purification by Liquid Chlorine, Wallace and Tiernan Apparatus, 252

Water Research, Dr. Houston’s Report, 128, 566

Electric Train Service—see Rail

ways

elfare Work Good Business, Is ? 101

'hat Industry Owes to Science, 34, 88, 102, 160, 217, 273, 329, 415, 461, 488, 539, 558 577

Whitney, W. R., on Research, 245 ; (Letter), 289

Whitworth Form of Thread, 334

Women in Industry, 502

Women Mechanics, 294, 296

WORKS:

British Westinghouse Works, Visit by Overseas Dominions’ Representatives, 402, 406

Craven Brothers’ Tool and Crane Works, 197

WORKS (continued):

Crossley Brothers’ Engineering Works Extension in Manchester, 207

Pumpherston Shale Oil Works, 270, 274

WORKS Organisation and Efficiency, Two Papers by Professor Ripper and Messrs. A. W. Reeves and C. Kimber, 454

Workshop Design and Equipment, Edmund Simpson, 197

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