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ACCIDENTS: Nine Months’ Railway Accidents, 297

Railway Accidents in 1916, 169

Ratho Railway Accident, 63

Vanguard Disaster, 57

ACID Process—see Iron and Steel

Action of Caustic Liquors, &c.—see Iron and Steel

Admiralty Appeal to Workers, 51

AERONAUTICS: Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Report, 72

Aeroplane Production in America, 489, 498

Air Reprisals, 340

American Aviation Engine, 311

An Aeroplane Works, 257 (Two-page Supple ment, September VAst, 1917)

Aero-engine Connecting-rods, P. G. Bourcier, 167

Aeronautical Societies—see Associations

Duties of the Air Forces, 35

German Aeroplanes, Constructional Details, 516

Output of Aeroplanes, L. Blin Desbleds, 508

River Diversion for Aerodrome at Hanworth

Park, 366

Training of Aeronautical Engineers, Dr. R. M.

Walmsley and Mr. C. E. Luard, 6

Zeppelin, Engine-room Gondola of, 392

AERO-STEAM Railway Traction, Pierre Guedon, 425

Agar, A. F., on Engineering Works Canteens, 491

Agricultural Experiments — see Electrical Matters

Agricultural Machinery Department, Ministry of Munitions, 45

Agricultural Tractors and Haulers, British, 512, 533, 553, 562

AgriculturalTractors, Petrol, Aultman, Rumely,

Wallis, Gray, &c., 298

Agricultural Tractors—see also Tractor

Agriculture, Application of Science to, 412

Ahrons, E. L., on the Shrinkage Allowance for Locomotive Tires, 263

Ahrons, E. L., on Typos of Irish Locomotives,

162 ; (Letter), 184

Air Engines—see Engines

Air Heater for Carburetters—see Motor Vehicles

Air Heater for Workshops, J. Boyd and Sons, 503

Air Pumps and Air Lift Pumps—see Pumps

Alcohol, Fuel, 232

Alcohol, Fuel, in xAustralia, 278

Alcohol as a Source of Power, W. T. Rowe, 471

Almanacs and Diaries, 572

Aluminium, Effect of Heat on, Dr. H. C. H.

Carpenter and Mr. L. Taverner, 274

Aluminium Production in the West Highlands, 463, 525

Ambulance Trains—see Railways

AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS: 18, 130, 174, 300

Activated Sludge Process for Slaughter-house Wastes, 130

Advisory Committee on Terminal Facilities, 174

Alcohol from Garbage, 130

American Dockyard Works, 174

Bridge Erection by Locomotive Cranes, .301

Coal Shipping Pier at an American Atlantic Port, 300

Drainage of Irrigated Lands, 18

Goods Stations for Electric Railways, 300

Large Dockyard Crane, 174

Potash as a By-product of Portland Cement, 300, 540

Spray Irrigation for Vegetable Gardens, 300

Ten-coupled Locomotives, 174

Tests of Steel Columns, 301

Water Tube Fire-box for Locomotives, 18

AMERICAN Engineers and the War, 298

American Inventors Attack the Anti-Submarine Problem, 550

American Military Engineers in France, 419

Anthony, C., on Air-lift Pumping, 526 ; (Letter), 556

Apotheosis of the Destroyer, 499

Apprentices, Education of, 76

Arched Keel Block, Reinforced Concrete, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Limited, 345 Architecture, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters Argentina, Sugar Machinery for, 171 Ariadne—see Ships, British Navy

Ash Handling Plant, Pneumatic, Ed. Bennis and Co., 103

Aspinall, Frank B., on the Latent Heat of Steam, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279

Assaying and Chemical Balance, Wilfred Heusser, 192

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association of Engineers, Manchester : Briquetting Metal Turnings, Debate, 525

British and Foreign Patent Law Reform, V. A. B. Hughes, 425

Engineering Works Canteens, A. F. Agar, 491 Presidential Address, Wire Manufacture, J.

B. Bedson, 334

Worm Gearing, F. J. Bostock, 393

Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers: Heating Surface of Boilers for Locomotives, 45

Institute, Aeronautical: Output of Aeroplanes, Conference, L. Bh’n Desbleds, 508

Institute, Concrete: Conditions Essential to the Corrosion of Iron, Dr. Newton Friend, 550

Institute, The Iron and Steel: Acid Open-Hearth Process, Dr.F. Rogers, 276, 297

Autumn Meeting, 198, 239, 244, 265, 276, 296, 310

Eggertz Test for Combined Carbon in Steel, J. H. Whiteley, 297

Failure of Boiler Plates in Service, &c., Dr.

E. B. Wolff, 296

Heat Treatment of Grey Cast Iron, J. E. Hurst, 266

Influence of Heat Treatment on the Electrical and Thermal Resistivity, &c., of Some Steels, E. D. Campbell and W. C. Dowd, 297

Investigation upon a Cast of Acid Open-Hearth Steel, T. D. Morgans and F. Rogers, 297

Labour and Wages, 305

Microstructure of Chemically Pure Iron between Ar3 and Ar.„ 297

New Experiments on Shock Tests and on the Determination of Resilience, Georges Charpy and Andre Cornu-Thenard, 244, 265 Present Knowledge and Practice in regard to the Briquetting of Iron Ores, G. Barrett and T. B. Rogerson, 265, 299, 310

Reports of Mechanical and Metallurgical Section of Committee, 266

Institute of Metals: Autumn Meeting, 215, 252, 254, 274; Programme, 215

Effects of Heat at Various Temperatures on the Rate of Softening of Cold Rolled Aluminium Sheets, Dr. H. C. H. Carpenter and Mr. L. Taverner, 274

Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Metals, Professor Zay Jeffries, 275

Experiments on the Fatigue of Brasses, Dr.

B. Parker Haigh, 252

Fuel Economy Possibilities in Brass Melting Furnaces, L. G. Harvey, 275

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

Institute of Metals (continued) :

Gas Firing, Principles and Methods of a New System of, A. C. lonides, 275, 320

Hardness and Hardening, Professor T. Turner, 252, 254

High Temperature Thermostat, Further Notes on, J. L. Haughton and D. Hanson, 275, 322

Screen for Comparing or Standardising the Grain Size of Brass, Owen W. Ellis, 275

Use of Chromic Acid and Hydrogen Peroxide as an Etching Agent, S. W Miller, 275

Institute, Textile: Autumn Conference at Preston, 331

Institution of Automobile Engineers: Design of a Small Agricultural Tractor, A. E.

L. Chorlton, 545

Fuse Inspection, A. W. Reeves and Cecil Kimber, 52

Coventry Branch—

Welding with Application to Automobile Engineering, H. L. Towns, 125, 147

Institution of Civil Engineers : Centenary of the “ Civils,” 563

■ Engineering Training, Meeting, 364

Examination for Associate Membership, 567 Presidential Address, Harry E. J ones, 406 Recent Developments in By-Product Coking,

G. B. Walker, 509

Institution of Electrical Engineers: Presidential Address, C. H. Wordingham, 435

Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Comparison of Working Costs of Principal Prime Movers, Oswald Wans, 355, 363, 368, 380

Notes on Air-lift Pumping, A. W. Purchas, 446

Thomas Hawksley Lecture, Capt. H. Riall Sankey on Heat Engines, 489

Use of Soap Films in Solving Torsion Problems, A. A. Griffiths and G. I. Tavlor, 536, 546

Institution of Naval Architects:

Scholarship in Naval Architecture, 418

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders: Sub-Committee’s Report on Methods of Producing High Vacuum, 557

Institution of Water Engineers: Air-lift Pumping, Papers by Mr. C. Anthony and Professor A. H. Jameson, 526

Water Power Supplies of the United Kingdom, C. H. Roberts, 525

Winter Meeting, 525

Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain : Training of Aeronautical Engineers, Dr. K.

M. Walmsley and Mr. C. E. Luard, 6

Society, Ceramic : Dinner; Presidential Statement, W. J. J ones ; Visit to Dalzell Steel and Ironworks, D. Colville and Son, 292

Fire-clays and Ganisters of South of Scotland,

L. W. Kinsman and M. MacGregor, 291

Meeting at Glasgow, 291

Papers on Silica, Hydration of Calcined Dolomite and Fire-bricks, by Miss C. Beveridge and Mr. W. Emney, J. Burton, G. W. Wright, 291

Refractories and Modern Kilns, J. G. Maxwell, 291

Refractory Properties of Silica, H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 291

Tests for Refractories, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 291

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &

SOCIETIES (continued):

Society, Chemical:

Limitations of the Balance, Bertram Blount, 402

Society of Chemical Industry :

Activated Sludge Process of Sewage Purification, E. Ardern, 94

Annual General Meeting, 70, 93

Artificial Silk Industry, T. P. Wilson, 94

Benzene and Toluene for High Explosives, Sources of, T. F. E. Rhead, 71

Calorific Value of Industrial Gaseous Fuel, W. J. Pickering, 93

Chemical Porcelain, Henry Watkins, 71

Economics of Coal, Professor Henry Louis, 524

Future of the Fine Chemical Industry, E. W Mann, 94

Industrial Application of Town’s Gas, C. M.

Walter, 93

Industrial Fuel from Gasworks E. W. Smith, 93

Manufacture of Synthetic Nitrates by Electric Power, E. Kilburn Scott, 93

Metallurgical Questions, Professor Turner, 94

Other Papers : Cartridge Brass, Dr. H. W.

Brownsdon ; Aluminium Alloys, J. H. Stansbie ; Carbonless Alloys, J. Kent Smith ; Superheating of Slags and Metals during Refining, J. E. Fletcher, 94

Presidential Address, Dr. C. C. Carpenter, 71

Sands Used in Metallurgical Practice Compared with those Used in Glass Manufacture, Professor Boswell, 71

Synthesis of Ammonia and its Oxidation to Nitric Acid, E. B. Maxted, 93

Texture of Fire-clays, W. C. Hancock, 71

Visits, 94

London Section—

Patent Law Reform, Dr. F. W. Hay, 435

Society, Faraday :

Pyrometers and Pyrometry, Discussion, 393, 402, 424

Society, Royal, of Arts:

Copper, Progress in the Metallurgy of.

Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 491, 526, 566

Discovery and Invention, Sir Dugald Clerk’s

Trueman Wood Lecture, 514

Programme for Session, 442

Science and its Functions, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 447

ATMOSPHERIC Engine—see Engines

Atmospheric Pollution and the Impurities of Rain-water, J. B. C. Kershaw, 443

Attachment of Spindles to Forged Steel Valves,

F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153

Australia, Fuel Alcohol in, 278

Australia, Soldiers after the War, 336

Australian Notes, 518

Austrian Inland Waterways Project, 99

Automatic Control of Pumps—see Pumps

Automatic Drop-bottom Mine Car (Griffith

Tub), Sanford-Day Ironworks and Manufacturing Company, 457

Automobile Engineering, Welding with Application to, H. L. Towns, 125, 147

B BALANCE, Assaying and Chemical, Wilfred Heusser, 192

Balance, limitations of the, Bertram Blount.

402

Baling Press—see Cotton

Band Saw—see Sawing

Bar Mill—see Iron and Steel

Barrett, G., and T. B. Rogerson, on the

Briquetting of Iron Ores, 265, 299, 310

Basic Blast-furnaces, 392

Bedson, J. P.,' on Developments in Wire k Manufacture, 334

Benzol, The Future of, 387 ; (Letters), 428, 450 Bevel Gear Machines—see Machine Tools Blast-furnace Dust—see Ministry of Munitions Blount, Bertram, on the Limitations of the

Balance, 402

Boiler Feed-water Regulator, Copes, 367

Boiler Plates, Failure in, and the Stresses in Riveted Joints, Dr. E. B. Wolff, 296, 456

Boilers for Locomotives, Heating Surface of, 45 Boilers, Waste Heat, for Driving Drop Hammer

Plant, 450, 452

Books of Reference, 81, 118, 348

Boring Machines—see Machine Tools]

Bostock, F. J., on Worm Gearing, 393 R Boston, U.S.A., Submarine Tunnel at, 230, 234, 235

Boulnois, H. P., Report to Roads Improvement Association, Concrete Roads, 73

Bourcier, P. G., on Aero-engine Connecting-rods, 167

Brakes—see Railways

Brass Melting, L. G. Harvey, 275

Brass Scrap, 118

Brasses, Experiments on the Fatigue of, Dr. B.

Parker Haigh, 252

Brazil, Public Works in, 449

BRIDGES:

Locks and Bridges for Mid-Scotland Canal, 558 (Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)

Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards from a Theoretical Standpoint, George Kenworthy, 5, 25, 48, 91 ; (Letters), 162, 248

Quebec Bridge, The New, 253, 336, 338, 381, 403, 426 (Two-page Supplement, November 9th, 1917)

Suspension Bridges in New Zealand, J.

Dawson’s System, 52, 56

Typical Swing Bridge for Proposed MidScotland Canal, 560

BRIQUETTING—see also Iron and Steel

Briquetting Metal Turnings, Debate, 525

Britain as an Agricultural Country, 188 ;

(Letter), 360

British Agricultural Tractors and Haulers, 512, 533, 553, 562

British Industries, The War, Some Metals and, 99

British Marine Engineering Design, and Construction Committee, 209, 257, 505

British Standard Sections, Approved, 567 Business of War, 187

c CALIFORNIA, Power Plant Extension in, 193 Californian Magnesite, 103

Canada, Trade between the United Kingdom and, 118

Canadian Railways—see Railways

Canal Control Committee, 175

Canal Schemes, Mid-Scotland, 465, 538, 558 (Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)

Canals, 453

Canteens, Engineering Works, A. F. Agar, 491

Canteens at Munitions Works, 268, 269

Carburetters—see Motor Vehicles

Career Offered by Engineer’s Department of a British Railway, 113

Carlisle, Locomotive Coaling Plant at, London and North-Western Railway, 12, 18

Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., on Progress in the Metallurgy of Copper, 491, 526, 566

Carpenter, Dr. H. C. H., and Mr. L. Taverner, on the Effect of Heat on Aluminium, 274

Case Hardening Furnace, Monometer Manufacturing Company, 570

Casting, A Heavy, Transporting, 413

Castings, Some Large, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 292

Catalogues, 19, 39, 108, 132, 176, 196, 260, 418, 437

Caterpillar—see Evolution of Chain Track Tractor

Caustic Soda Concentration Plant, Mirrlees, Watson Company, Limited, 34, 44

Cement Joints for Cast Iron Water Mains, Clark H. Shaw, 32

Centenary of the “ Civils ”—see Associations &c.

Centenary of the Heat Regenerator and Stirling’s Engine of 1816, 516, 517 ; Stirling Specification, 567

Centrifugal Type Gas Washers, W. C. Holmes and Co., Limited, 502

Ceramic Society, Refractory Materials Section, 291 (For Details of Papers—see Associations, &c.)

Chain Track Tractor—see Tractor

Channel Tunnel, 193

Charges for Water—see Water Supply

Charpy, Georges, and Andre Cornu-Thenard, on Experiments on Shock Tests and on Determination of Resilience, 244, 265

Chemical Papers at Society of Chemical Industry—see Associations

Chester Hydro-electric Power Developments, 86

Chili, Engineering Schemes for, 560

China and the Engineer, S. W. B. McGregor, 360

Chorlton, A. E. L., on the Design of a Small Agricultural Tractor, 545

Chuck, The “ Marvel ” Drill, Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54

Circular Arcs, Simple Calculations of, 114

Clapham, F. T., on The Distribution of Establishment Charges, 177 : (Letters), 301, 323

Clapham, F. T., on Foundry Costs, 286

Clerk, Sir Dugald, Discovery and Invention, 514

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

By-product Coking, G. B. Walker, 509

Coal Concreted from Dust or Ashes, R. G.

Lovell, 126

Coal Problem, 330

Coal and Tin Mining in British Malaya, 63

Coal Transport Reorganisation Scheme, 36, 54

Coke-handling Plant, Telpher, at Warrington Gasworks, Strachan and Henshaw, Limited, 430, 434

Colliery Winding Engine, Old, 94, 98

Economics of Coal, Professor Henry Louis, 524

Economy in Coal Consumption, Government Suggestions, 7

COAL, COKE, & COLLIERIES (cont.) : Electricity Supply and the Economy of Coal, 540

Gas, Coal, for Motor Vehicles, 226

Griffith Colliery Tub (Automatic Drop-Bottom Mine Car), Sanford-Day Manufacturing Company, 457

Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, London and North-Western Railway, 12, 18

New Scheme for Coal Supply, 36

Osaka Electric Works, Coal and Ash Plant at the, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, G.

F. Zimmer, 115

Position of the Coal Mining Industry, A. F. Pease, 373

Push Button Coal and Ash Hoists at Allison and Baltimore, 254

Sampling Coal, 42

COKE—see Coal

Columbia, A New Port in, 425 ; (Letter), 556

Commerce and the State, 521

Commercial Aspect of Engineering in China, S.

W. B. McGregor, 360

Commercial Dock Developments at Falmouth, 378

Concrete, Reinforced, Arched Keel Block, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Limited, 345

Concrete, Reinforced, Shipbuilding in Norway, 520, 524

Concrete Roads, Report to Roads Improvement Association, H. P. Boulnois, 73

Concrete, Transmission of, by Air and Steam, 159,164

Concrete—see also Ferro-Concrete

Contract, 55.2

Controlled Owner, The, 251

Conversion of Ford Cars—see Motor Vehicles

Copes Boiler Feed Water Regulator, 367

Copper, Metallurgy of, Professor H. C. H.

Carpenter, 491, 526, 566

Correspondence Schools, 488

Corrosion of Iron—see Iron

Corrosion of Metal, Electrolytic, by Sea Water, 260

Costs—see Working Costs

Cotton Baling Methods and Freightage Economy, 282

Cotton Baling and Sampling Machinery, A. E.

Cummins, D. Bridge and Co., Limited, 448

Coventry Strike, 501

Cranes, 5-Ton Electric Goliath, for France, Sir

W. Arrol and Co., Limited, 140, 142

Critical Speeds of Loaded Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 246

Culm and other Waste Fuels, Use of, J. B. C. Kershaw, 307

Curtis Rateau Turbines—see Turbines

D DANGER of Letting Things Slide, 252

Darling, Chas. R., on Small Electric Furnaces and their Uses, 422

Desbleds, L. Blin, on the Output of Aeroplanes,

Design of a Tractor—see Tractor

Deterioration of Curtis Rateau Turbine Blading, A. Fenwick, 30, 60

Development of German Waterways, 196

Development of Machinery in" the United

States Navy—see Ships

Discharging Ore, New Method for, 193

Discovery and Invention, Trueman Wood Lecture, Sir Dugald Clerk, 514

Distribution of Engineers’ Products Overseas, C. Hamilton-Wickes, 314

Distribution of Establishment Charges, F. T.

Clapham, 177 ; (Letters), 301, 323

Diving Globe for Salving Sunken Ships, W. D. Sisson, 386, 389

Docks and Harbours, Empire, 499

Docks, Rosario, Improvements at the, 292

Donaldson Elevator for Ore Discharging, 193

Doorakkers, G., on the Manufacture of Hardened Thread Gauges, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390

Drill Chuck, The “ Marvel,” Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54

Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools

Drop Hammer Plant, Bretts’ Patent Lifter Company, 450, 452

Duties of the Air Forces, 35

Dyson, Captain C. W., on The Development of Machinery in the United States Navy, 170, 190, 211

E ECONOMY in Coal Consumption, Government Control, 7

Education of Apprentices, 76

Educational Intelligence, 196, 248, 284, 305, 328, 333, 572

Efficiency, A. L. Haas, 37

Efficiency, Meaning of—see Working Costs of Prime Movers

ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Bar Mill, 20in., Motor-driven, General

Electrical Company, 190

California, Power Plant Extension in, 193 Chester Hydro-Electric Power Developments, 86

Coal and Ash Plant at the Osaka Electric Works, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited,

G. F. Zimmer, 115

Electric Discharge and Crop Production, Experiments by Miss E. C. Dudgeon, Mr. J. E. Newman, and others, 74

Electric Drive for Warships, 228

Electricity Supply and the Economy of Coal, 540

Empress Works, Huddersfield, E. Brook, 342 Greenock, Ferro-Concrete Power House at, 239

Greenwich, L.C.C. Power Station, New Appointments at, 560

Halifax District, New Sub-Stations for, 76 Lancashire and Cheshire, Interconnection of

Electricity Supply Systems in, 171 Locomotives and Railways—see Railways Motor Boats, Electrically Controlled, 425 National Electric Supply Policy, 453 Pumps, Electrically Driven—see Pumps

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

Small Electric Furnaces and their Uses, Chas. R. Darling, 422

Standardisation of Machinery, British and American Conference, 319

Switch, Wall Socket and Plug, Combined, Donovan and Co., 83

Tasmanian Great Lake Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, 67, 78 (Two page Supplement, July 21th, 1911)

West Highlands, Big Water Power Scheme for Aluminium Manufacture, 463, 525

Wild-Barfield Method of Steel Hardening, 82 Winch, Electric, J. H. Wilson and Co., Limited, 525

ELECTROLYTIC Corrosion of Metal in Sea Water, 260

Elswick—see Works

Emmett, W. L. R., on the Turbine Electric Equipment of United States Cruisers, 228

Empire Docks and Harbours, 499

Empire, The : Its Commerce and its Commercial Requirements, S. J. Johnstone, 457

Employers and Employed, 10, 13

ENGINES AND MOTORS . Aero Engine Connecting-rods, P. G. Bour-cier, 167

American Aviation Engine, 311

Atmospheric Colliery Winding Engine at Madeley, 94, 98

Bulb Experiments on Hot Bulb Engines, 112;

(Letters), 149, 161, 215

Heat Engines, Capt. H. Riall Sankey, 489

Standardisation of Marine Engines, 209, 257 505

Stirling’s Regenerator and Hot Air Engine of 1816, 516, 517

Stirling’s Specification, 567 ; (Letter), 537

Testing Department of Fiat Company, Turin, 504

Uniflow Engine, H. W. Morley, 455

Uniflow Engine for Road Vehicles, F. W.

Marquis, 276 ; (Letters), 333, 360, 384 United States Naval Machinery—see. Ships Working Costs of the Principal Prime Movers,

Oswald Wans, 355, 363, 368, 380, 414; (Letter), 384

ENGINEER, Volunteers, County of London 24, 45, 68, 87, 110, 132, 152, 176, 196, 218, 239, 248, 305, 328, 350, 374, 397, 419, 442. 464, 486, 510, 527, 552, 570

Engineers, Training of, 379

Engineering Design—see British Marine, &c.

Engineering Enterprise in Mexico, 167

Engineering, Links in the History of, Rhys Jenkins, 493

Engineering Projects in Latin-America, 115— see also Latin-American Notes

Bolivian Railways, 115

Peru, A New Port in, 115

Engineering Schemes for Chili, 560

Engineering Training, 364

Engineering Works Canteens, Arthur F. Agar. 491 &

Establishment Charges, Distribution of, F. T. Clapham, 177

Evolution of the Chain Track Tractor, 111. 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 208, 221, 241, 250 : (Letter), 184

Excess Profits Problems. 53

Explosibility of Methane Air Mixtures, 215

F FAILURE of Boiler'PIates—see Boiler

Falmouth, Commercial Dock Developments at, 378

Feed Water Regulator, Copes, 367

Fenwick, A., Deterioration of Curtis Rateau

Turbine Blading, 30, 60

Ferro-Concrete Power House at Greenock, 239

Fiat Company, Turin, Testing Department, 504

Filter Bed Sand Washer, Portable, Hunter and

English, Limited, 44

Fire and Salvage Boat for Elswick, 503

Firebrick Manufacture, Testing, &c., Paper

Read at Glasgow Meeting of the Ceramic Society, 291

Floods, The Protection of Paris Against, 16

Ford Cars—see Motor Vehicles

Foreign Languages, Reconstruction and, 493

Forth and Clyde—see Canal

Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 110, 218, 238, 260, 284, 304, 326, 350, 360, 396, 415, 437, 462, 484, 508, 530, 550, 570

Foundry Costs, F. T. Clapham, 286 ; (Letters), 301, 323

French Industries, New, 248

Friction Screw Press, J. Rhodes and Sons, Limited, 43

Friend, Dr. Newton, on Conditions Essential to the Corrosion of Iron, 550

Fuel Alcohol, 232

Fuel Alcohol in Australia, 278

Fuel Economy Possibilities in Brass Melting

Furnaces, L. G. Harvey, 275

Fuel Research, 340, 344

Fuels, Culm and Other Waste, Use of, J. B. C.

Kershaw, 307

Furnace, Oil-fired Case Hardening, Monometcr Manufacturing Company, 570

Furnaces, Brass Melting, Fuel Economy Possibilities in, L. G. Harvey, 275

Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of Metals, J.

Wright and Co., 146, 147

Furnaces—see also Electrical Matters

Fuses—see War Material

Future of Benzol, 387 ; (Letters), 428, 450

Future of Railways—see Railways

G GAS, Coal, for Motor Vehicles, 226

Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, 178

Gas Firing, New System of, A. C. lonides, 275. 320

Gas, Industrial Uses, Abstracts of Papers at Society of Chemical Industry, 93

Gas Washers, Centrifugal Type, W. C. Holmes and Co., Limited, 502

Gases and Air, Inflammability of Mixtures of.

G. A. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 168

Gauges, Hardened Thread, Manufacture of, G. Doorakkers, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390

German Munitions Supply, 339

German Waterways, The Development of, 196

Germany’s Economic Position After the War, 544

Germany, Substitutes in, 509

Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 122

Greenock, Ferro-Concrete Power House at, 239

Greenwich, L.C.C. Power Station, New Appointments at, 560

Grey Cast Iron—see Iron

Griffith, A. A., and G. I. Taylor on the Use of Soap Films in Solving Torsion Problems, 536, 543, 546

Griffith Tub—see Coal

Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools

Guedon, Pierre, on Aero Steam Railway Traction, 425

Gunboats and Baghdad, 274

Gun Lathes—see Machine Tools

H HAAS, A. L., on Efficiency, 37

Haddrell, C. H., on The Industrial Outlook, 137, 144 : (Letter), 301

Haigh, Dr. B. P., on Experiments on the Fatigue of Brass, 252

Haig’s Weather, 295

Hamilton-Wickes, C., on The Distribution of Engineers’ Products Overseas, 3J4

Harbour Scheme, Langstone, near Portsmouth, 179

Hardness and Hardening, Professor T. Turner, 252, 254, 295

Harvey, L. G., on Fuel Economy Possibilities in Brass Melting Furnaces, 275

Haughton, J. L., and D. Hanson, Further Notes on a High Temperature Thermostat, 275, 322

Hawksley, Thomas, Lecture on Heat Engines, Capt. H. Riall Sankey, 489

Hay, Dr. F. W., on Patent Law Reform, 435 ; (Letter), 481

Heat, Effect of, on Aluminium, Dr. H. C. H.

Carpenter and Mr. L. Taverner, 274

Heat of Steam, The Latent, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279

Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel—see Iron

Heat Treatment of Metals, Furnaces for, J.

Wright and Co., 146, 147

Heating of Industrial Buildings, J. Boyd and ' Sons, 503

High Temperature Thermostat—see Thermostat

High Vacuum, Methods of Producing, Experimental Apparatus at Richardsons, West-garth and Co., Report, 557

History of Engineering, Links in, Rhys Jenkins, 493

Hobbs, E. W., Mechanical Arms for Maimed Soldiers, 334, 335, 351, 376

Hoists, Push Button Coal and Ash, 254

Hot Air Engines—see Engine s

Hot Bulb Engines, Some Bulb Experiments on, 112 : (Letters), 149, 161, 215

Hughes, V. A. B., on Reform of the Patent Laws, 425

Hurst, J. E., on Pleat Treatment of Grey Cast Iron, 266

Hydro-Electric Power Developments, Chester, 86

Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, Tasmanian Great Lake, 67, 78 (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1917)

Hydrostatic Pressure, Effect of, on Metals, Professor Zay Jeffries, 275

I IMPACT Testing Experiments, G. Charpy and A. Cornu-Thenard, 244, 265

Industrial League, 81, 196

Industrial Outlook, C. H. Haddrell, 137, 144

(Letter;, 301

Industrial Parliament, 35

Industrial—see also Labour Questions

Industrial Research—see Research

Industrial Unrest—see Labour

Industries, New French, 248

Industries of Poland, 14

Industry and the Whitley Report, 169

Inflammability of Mixtures of Gases and Air, G. A. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 168

Inland Waterways, Use of, 526

Institutes and Institutions—see Associations

Intensifier, Inverted Steam Hydraulic, Davy Brothers, Limited. 366

lonides, A. C., on a New System of Gas Firing, 275, 320

IRON AND STEEL: Acid Open-Hearth Process, Dr. F. Rogers, 276, 297

Action of Caustic Liquors on Steel Plates, C.

E. Stromeyer, 496

American Iron Trade, 228

Bar Mill, 20in., Electrically Driven, General Electric Company, 191

Basic Blast Furnaces, 392

Briquetting of Iron Ores, Guy Barrett and T. B. Rogerson, 265, 299, 310

British Steel for Shells, 509

Corrosion of Iron, Conditions Essential to the, Dr. Newton Friend, 550

Dealings in Pig Iron, 63

Electric Method of Steel Hardening, Wild-Barfield, 82

Forged Steel Valves, Attachment of Spindles to, F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153

Heat Treatment of Grey Cast Iron, J. E. Hurst, 266

Heat Treatment, Influence of, on Electrical Resistivity, &c., E. D. Campbell and W.

C. Dowd, 297

Iron Mines of Cumberland and Lancaster, 87

Iron Ore, Professor Henry Louis, 493

Iron Prices, 86

Iron and Steel Institute—see Associations Labour and Wages, 305—see also Labour Prices of Steel—see Ministry of Munitions The War, Some Metals and British Industry, 99

IRRIGATION Projects in South Africa, 169 Irrigation for Vegetable Growing, 108

JAPAN and the War, 248

Jeffries, Professor Zay, on the Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Metals, 275

Jenkins, Rhys, on Links in the History of Engineering, 493

Johnstone, S. J., on The Empire : Its Commerce and its Commercial Requirements, 457

K KENWORTHY, George, on Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards, &c., 5, 25, 48, 91 ; (Letters), 162, 248

Kershaw, J. B. C., on Atmospheric Pollution and the Impurities of Rain-water, 443

Kershaw, J. B. C., The Use of Culm and Other Waste Fuels, 307

Kershaw, J. B. C.» The Use of Waste Gases for Steam Generation. 27

L LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS: Admiralty Appeal to Workers, 51

Advances in Wages, 63

Employers and Employed, 13

Industrial Councils, 10, 13

Industrial League, 81

Industrial Parliament, 35

Industrial Unrest, 79

■ Industrial Unrest, Causes of, 121

Industrial Unrest, Inquiry, 122

Industry and the Whitley Report, 169

Labour and the State, 187

Miners’ Wages, 192

Pay of Foremen and Shop Managers, 425

Railway Enginemen’s Demands, 165

Railway Men’s Societies, 215

Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, 274 : (Letter), 323

Welsh Labour, Commissioners’ First Report, 100

Whitley Report, 169, 331, 357

LANGSTONE Harbour Scheme, 179

Latent Heat of Steam, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47,

58 : (Letters), 162, 184, 279

Lathes—see Machine Tools

Latin-American Engineering Notes, 115, 225, 397

Argentina, 225

Bolivian Railways, 115

Chili, 225, 397

El Salvador, 225

Peru, A New Port in, 115

LEADERS: Acid and Basic Steel, 364

Air Reprisal^, 340

America’s Shipbuilding Problems, 165

Apotheosis of the Destroyer, 499

Austrian Inland Waterways Project, 99

Britain as an Agricultural Country, 188

Business of War, 187

Canals, 453

Causes of Industrial Unrest, 121

Centenary of the “ Civils,” 563

Coal Transport Reorganisation Scheme, 36

Commerce and the State, 521

Controlled Owner, 251

Cycle in Naval Architecture, 431

Danger of Letting Things Slide, 252

Duties of the Air Forces, 35

Electrification of Main Line Railways, 563

Empire Docks and Harbours, 499

Employers and Employed,-13

Engineering Training, 364

First Lord’s Statement, 409

Fuel Alcohol, 232

Fuel Research, 340

Future of Benzol, 387

Future of British Railways, 475

Future of Canadian Railways, 79

German Munitions Supply, 339

Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 122

Gunboats and Baghdad, 274

Haig’s Weather, 295

Industrial Parliament, An, 35

Industrial Research, 209

Industrial Unrest, 79

Labour and the State, 187

Latent Heat of Steam, 58

London County Council Tramways, 58

Manufacturers and Standards, 317

Meaning of Efficiency, 363

Measurement of Temperature, 431

M.I.D., The, 543

Ministry of Munitions. 13

National Electric Supply Policy, 453

Organisation and Efficiency, 144

Our Naval Strategy, 143

Patent Law Reform, 521

Quality of Hardness, 295

Railway Enginemen’s Demands, 165

Science and the Man, 476

Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, 274

Shipping and Shipbuilding in the United States, 317

Ships and More Ships, 410 -i

Size of the Standard Ships, 273

Standardisation of Marine Engines, 209 j

Submarine War : The Latest Phase, 231

Taxation of Stock Values, 57

TheWar, Some Metals, and British Industries, ]

Torsion, 543 1

Transmission of Military Power, 387

Vanguard Disaster, 57 *

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS: England, North of, 21, 40, 64, 85, 107 128 150, 172, 195, 217, 237, 259, 280, 302, 324’ 346, 370, 394, 416, 438, 460, 482, 507, 528’ 548, 568

Lancashire, 20, 39, 64, 84, 106, 128, 150, 172 194, 216, 236, 258, 280, 302, 324, 346, 370’ 393, 415, 438, 459, 481, 505, 527, 548, 568’

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS {continued): Midlands and Staffordshire, 19, 39, 63, 84’ 106, 127, 149, 171, 193, 216, 236, 257, 279’ 301, 323, 345, 369, 393, 415, 437, 459, 481’ 505, 527, 548, 567

Scotland, 22, 41, 65, 86, 108, 129, 152, 173, 195, 218, 238, 259, 282, 304, 325, 347, 371, 395, 417, 440, 461, 483, 507, 529, 549, 569

Sheffield, 20, 42, 65, 84, 107, 129, 151, 173, 194, 216, 237, 258, 281, 303, 325, 347, 371, 395, 417, 439, 461, 483, 506, 529, 549, 568

Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 41, 66, 86, 108, 130, 152, 174, 196, 218, 238, 260, 282, 304, 326, 348, 372, 396, 418, 440, 462, 484, 507, 530, 550, 569

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Aeroplane Manufacture, L. Blin Desbleds, 360

Air-lift Pumps, R. Stirling, 556

American Industries, B. K., 301

Britain as an Agricultural Country, F. L. Morgan, 360

Centenary of the Heat Regenerator and the Stirling Air Engine, R. B. Prosser, 537

Charing Cross Railway Bridge, H. Davey, 105 Coal Economy—see Fuel

Colombia, A New Port in, F. L. Hothersall, 556

Commercial Aeronautics, Handley Page, Limited, 39

Conquest of Schleswig-Holstein, T. F. Wilkinson, 19

Control of Railways, Hexagon, 450

Copper Tubes for Aeroplanes, Ing. Carlo Maurilio Lerici, 19

Cornish Engine and Steam Engine Economy, Henry Davey, 537

Duddell, William Du Bois, 428

Early Steamboat, Arthur Lee, 118, 248, 323 ;

J. H. Anderson, 118 ; Fred. Walsh, 228 ;

R. B. P., 279

Engineers and India, Executive Engineer, 527 Ericsson’s Monitor, Writer of the Article, 161 Essential Metals, Geo. T. Pardoe, 537 Evolution of the Chain Track Tractor, L.

Sterne, 184

Evolution of the Monitor, R. B. P., 184

Excess Profits, Cleveland Manchester Engineer, 54

Feed-water Heating in Locomotives, W. G. Landon, 450 ; Mead, McLean and Co., 527

Filing Papers, A. Fanti, 87

Foundry Costs, Practical Cost Accountant, 301 ; F. T. Clapham, 323

Fuel Alcohol, Horace Wyatt, 248

Fuel Economy, F. Samuelson, 38 ; W. H. Casmey, 38, 105, 149, 215 ; Lancastrian, 87; W. Townsend, 118; Steam-Raiser, 118, 184

Future of Benzol, T. D. Parr, 428, 450 ; Interested Engineer, 149

German Trade after the War, H. Hamel Smith, 428

Gloucester as a Port: Why not Modernise It ? E. F., 526

Hot Bulb Engines, Basil H. Joy, 149 ; A. J. W. G., 149; R. E. Mathot, 161; Cecil H. Cox, 215

Latent Heat of Steam, Henry Sykes, 162 ; Steam, 184 ; F. B. Aspinall, 279

Locomotive Feed Purifiers, W. Effigy, 323

Metric System, F. A. Halsey, 105

Motor Boating and Motoring in Japan, W. H.

Leggett, 384

Names for Compound Units—see Pinch

Noise in Reinforced Concrete Buildings, S., 54 Oil Engine Nomenclature, H. A. Stuart, 384 Organ Blowing, C. M. Penman, 248

Patent Law Reform, Wilfred Hunt, 481 ;

James Keith, 537 ; E. C. Barton, 556

“ Penalty ” of Failure in the British Army, J. C., 54

“ Pinch,” C. F. Dendy Marshall. 162, 384 ; Associate Member, 333 ; H. W. Stowers, 384 ; H. Ravenshaw, 413 ; R. C. Kirkwood, 413

Plymouth as a Commercial Port, R. E. Ella-cott, 248

Pounds Per Square Inch—see Pinch

Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards, &c.,

H. R. White, 162 ; G. Kenworthy, 248

Production of Ductile Tungsten, British Thomson-Houston Company, 556

Pyrmont Bridge, Percy Allan, 162 ; H. R. White, 184

Railway Transport, A. W. Gattie, 54

Remuneration of the Staff, Skill, 384 ; Bitten, 428

Royal Navy and its Engineers, Ex-Editor, The Naval Engineering Review, 105

Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, Traditionist, 323

Secret Session for Engineers, H. C. C., 19

Solid Fuel for Steam Cars, C. D. Leng, 248

Steel Rail Trade, T. Good, 279

Tube Rolling Mill Patent, Clydeside Tube Company, 384

Types of Irish Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 184

Uniflow Compound Engine, M.I.C.E. (Fr.), 333 ; Robey and Co., 360 ; A. J. W. G., 384 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 384

-Valve for Sewage Pumps, E. C. Bowden-Smith, 428

Wagon Smash, Salt Union, Limited, 54

Wheels of Tractors, H. P. Saunderson, 39

Working Costs of Prime Movers. H. Davev. 384

LIMITATIONS of the Balance,Bertram Blount 402

Links in the History of Engineering, Rhvs

Jenkins, 493 J

LITERATURE : Reviews: All the World’s Aircraft, 1917, F. T. Jane, Edited, C. G. Grey, 166, 234

Composition of Technical Papers, H. A. Watt, 341

English and Engineering, Frank Aydelotte, 15 Explosives, Arthur Marshall, 15

On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 365

Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers, &c., Captain C. W. Dyson, 267

Rowan Premium Bonus System, 80

Searchlight Projectors, Electric, The Range of, Jean Rey, 59

LITERATURE (continued'):

Short Notices:

Industrial and Manufacturing Chemistry, Part II.: Inorganic, Geoffrey Martin, 32,101

London Transport Trust, Edwin A. Pratt, 15 ;

(Letter), 54

Mechanical Handling of Material, &c., G. r.

Zimmer, 32, 101

Naval Architecture, J. E. Steele, 80, 101

Properties of Aerofoils and Aerodynamic Bodies, A. W. Judge, 101

Saws : Their Care and Treatment, H. W.

Durham, 101

Steel and its Heat Treatment, D. K. Bullens, 101

Telegraph Engineering, Erich Hausmann, 15

Books Received: Applied Chemistry, Reports of the Progress of, 15

Artilleristisch Tijdschrift, J. H. Carstens and

J. H. Westerveld, 234

Brazil Commercially Considered, Syren and Shipping, 234

Business Law for Engineers, C. Frank Allen, 501

Canada : Department of Mines—Mines Branch :

Annual Report on Mineral Production cf Canada, No. 426 ; Report on Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada, Dr. Wm. A. Parks, No. 388

Bulletin No. 14, Coal Fields and Coal Industry of Eastern Canada, F. W. Gray, No. 430, 32

Mining of Thin Coal Seams as Applied to the Eastern Coalfields of Canada, J. F. Kellock Brown, 501

City and Guilds of London Institute, Department of Technology, Programme 1917, 18, 101

C.M.U.A. Handbook, F. G. Bristow, 257

Concrete—Plain and Reinforced, Dr. F. W.

Taylor and S. E. Thompson, 101

Continuous Current Motors and Control Apparatus, A. P. Maycock, 501

Contribucion al Estudio de las Ciencias Fisicas y Matem&ticas, &c., XVIII., XIX., XX., 501

Correction Tables for Thermodynamic Efficiency, C. H. Naylor, 101

Cours de G6ometrie Pure et Appliquee de 1’dcole Poly technique, M. d’Ocagne, 101

Critique des Propulseurs, Paul Popovatz, 140

Cycling Manual, 15, 501

Design and Construction of Industrial Buildings, Maurice Kahn, 257, 267

Design of Railway Location, C. C. Williams, 101

Diesel Engine Design, E. M. Rose, 267

Electrical Engineering, Principles and Practice of, Alexander Gray, 297

Electrical Measurements, F. A. Laws, 297

Elements of Coal Mining, D. Burns, 234

Explosives, A Short Account of, A. Marshall, 267, 341

Farming by Motor, 80

Flying Book, W. L. Wade, 15

Founder’s Manual, D. W. Payne, 297

Geological Survey, Memoirs of the :

“ Geology of the South Wales Coalfield,” Part IV.; “ Country Around Pontypridd and Maesteg,” Dr. Aubrey Strahan and Others, 501

Gold Deposits of the Rand, C. B. Horwood, 257

Graphic Statics, The Elements of, E. H.

Sprague, 32

Hawkins’ Electrical Guide, 257

Heat Drop Tables—Absolute Pressures, H.

Moss and Professor H. L. Callendar, 101

Heat Drop Tables—H.P. Gauge Pressures, &c., Herbert Moss and Professor H. L. Callendar, 501

How to Make Railways Pay for the War, Roy Horniman, 32

Hydraulics, Treatise on, Mansfield Merriman, 59

Indicator Handbook, Part II., 80

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, January-May, 1917, 234

Interpreters, The, George Ince, 234

Journal of the Institute of Metals, 123

Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 123

Kelly’s Directory of the Engineers and Iron, Metal and Electrical Trades, 80

Laws of Physical Science, E. F. Northrup, 234

Les Etablissements d’Artillerie Beiges Pendant la Guerre, Willy Breton, 234

Logarithms for Beginners, C. N. Pickworth, 80

Materials of Engineering, Text-book of the,

H. F. Moore, 501

Metallurgical Analysis, Methods in, C. H. White, 501

Modern Underpinning, Lazarus White and Edmund E. Prentis, Jun., 501

Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book, 1917, W. C. Bersey and A. Dorey, 267

Munition Workers’ Handbook, Ernest Pull, 234

Oils, Fats, and Waxes,^P. J. Fryer and F. E. Weston, 234

Operation and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems, S. T. Harding, 257

Organisation of Thought, A. N. Whitehead, 15

Power Wiring Diagrams, A. T. Dover, 501

Preservation of Wood, A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 267, 341

Proceedings, Engineering Association of N.S.W., 297

Proceedings of the Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, 1917, 267

Programme of the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, 80

Prospectus of University Courses in the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester, 80

Quantitative Analysis, Principles of, W. C.

Beasdale, 501

Records of Railway Interest in the War, Part IV., 59

Refrigeration, The Elements of, A. M. Greene, Jun., 501

Registration and Publication of Directors* Names, H. W. Jordan, 257

Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, 234

Science and Industry, R. T. Glazebrook, 59

LITERATURE (continued):

Books Received (continued):

Scientific Treatise on Smoke Abatement, H-Hamilton, 10]

Smoley’s Parallel Tables of Slopes and Rises,

C. K. Smoley, 297

Steam Turbines, J. A. Moyer, 59

Street Railways’ Fares, D. C. Jackson and

D. J. McGarth, 297

Theory of the Submarine Telegraph and Telephone Cable, H. W. Malcolm, 234

Trade of To-morrow, E. J. P. Benn, 101 United States Artillery Ammunition, Ethan

Viall, 234

United States Department of the Interior : Bureau of Mines :

Annual Report of Director of Bureau of Mines to Secretary of the Interior to June 30th, 1916, 15

Bulletins :

147, Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining, J. W. Thompson, 140

95, Magnetic and Other Properties of Iron-Aluminium Alloys Melted in Vacuo, Trygve D. Yensen and W. A. Gat ward, 101

128, Refining and Utilisation of Georgia Kaolins, Ira E. Sproat, 80

124, Sandstone Quarrying in the United States, O. Bowles, 140

Miners' Circular :

23, Elementary First Aid for the Miner, W. A. Lignott and D. Harrington, 15

Monthly Statements of Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, by Albert H. Fay, September and October, 1916, 15

Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1916, A. H. Fay, 80

January, February and March, 1917, 140

Technical Papers :

164, Accidents at Metallurgical Works in the United States, 1915, A. H. Fay, 15 •

106, Asphyxiation from Blast-furnace Gas, F. H. Willcox, 140

137, Combustion in the Fuel Bed of Hand-fired Furnaces, H. Kreisenger and Others, 80

150, Inflammability of Mixtures of Mine Gas and Industrial Gases with Air, G. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 140

153, Injurious Dusts in Steel Works, J. A. Watkins, 140

168, Metal Mine Accidents in the United States in 1915, A. H. Fay, 80

166, Motor Gasoline, Properties, Testing, &c., E. W. Dean, 140

143, Ores of Copper, Lead, Gold and Silver, C. H. Fulton, 140

140, Primary Volatile Products of the Carbonisation of Coal, Guy B. Taylor and H. C. Porter, 140

132, Underground Latrines for Mines, J. H. White, 15

142, Vapour Pressures of Various Compounds at Low Temperatures, G.- A. Burrell and I. W. Robertson, 15

Universal Directory of Railway Officials 1917, S. R. Blundstone, 234

Watt and the Steam Age, J. W. Grant, 234

What Germany is Fighting for, Sir C. Waldstein, 32

Wonder Book of the Navy, H. Golding, 234

Year Book of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917, 257

LOCOMOTIVES—see Railway Locomotives London County Council Tramways, 58 Longitudinal Sleepers for Railways and Tramways, Signor Olindo Valeri, 29

Losses of Ships—see Ships

Louis, Professor Henry, on Economics of Coal, 524

Louis, Professor Henry, on Iron Ore, 493

Lovell, R. G., on Coal Concreted from Dusts or Ashes, 126

Low Temperature Carbonisation from the Gasworks Standpoint, 423

M McGREGOR, S. W. B., on the Commercial Aspect of Engineering in China, 360

MACHINE TOOLS : (See also Works)

Bevel Gear Generating Machine, Smith and Coventry, 82

Boring, Milling and Drilling Machine, Geo.

Richards and Co., Limited, 118, 120

Gun Lathe, 15in. Motor-driven, John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, 213, 214

Internal Cylinder Grinding Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, 320

Plain Horizontal Milling Machines, 42in., Smith and Coventry, 102

Press, 250-Ton Friction Screw, J. Rhodes and Sons, Limited, 43

Screw-cutting Device, J. D. Carver, 18

Surfacing, Boring, Milling and Drilling Machine, Combined, Pearn-Richards, 118, 120

Taper-turning Sliding Lathe, 9in., H. F. Atkins, 43

Tool Works at Timperley, Smith and Coventry, 470, 474

MACHINERY, Naval—see Ships, also Engines Machinery Trade after the War, 248

McLarty, F. M., on Attachment of Spindles to

Forged Steel Valves, 153

Magnesite, Californian, 103

Manchester Stbam Users’ Association, Annual Report, C. E. Stromeyer, 496

Manufacture of Hardened Thread Gauges, G.

Doorakkers, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390

Manufacturers and Standards, 317

Marine Engines—see Engines

Marquis, F. W., on the Uniflow Engine for

Road Vehicles, 276 ; (Letters), 333, 360, 384

Measurement of Temperature, 432

Mechanical Arms for Maimed Soldiers, E W Hobbs, 334, 335, 351, 376

Mechanics’ Institution, Great Western Railway, at Swindon, 321

Mechanism for Signals—see Railways

Metal, Electrolytic Corrosion of, by Sea Water, 260

Metal Turnings and Borings, Briquetting, Debate at Manchester Association, 525

Metals, Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on, Professor Zay Jeffries, 275

Metals, Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of, J. Wright and Co., 146, 147

Metals, Institute of—see Associations, &c

Metallurgy of Copper—see Copper

Methane-Air Mixtures, Explosibility of, 215

Mexico, Engineering Enterprise in, 167

Mid-Scotland Ship Canal Schemes, 465, 538, 558 (Two-pa^e Supplement, December 28th, i y i / j

Military Power—see War and War Matters

Mill, 20in. Bar, Electrically-driven, Genera] Electric Company, 191

Milling Machines—see Machine Tools

Mine Car—see Automatic

Mineral Oil Resources of the British Empire, Professor J. S. S. Brame, 412

Miners—see Labour

Mines, German Naval, 227

Mining, Coal and Tin, in British Malaya, 63

Ministry of Munitions, 13

Ministry of Munitions : Agricultural Machinery Department, 45

Ministry of Munitions : Munitions Council, 171

Ministry of Munitions : Munitions Inventions Department, 535, 543

Ministry of Munitions Orders, 123, 192 197 219, 279, 547

Blast-furnaces Dust, 123

Calcium Carbide, 279

Chrome Ore, 219

Coal Tar, 219

^Oils *ie9Z01’ CrUde NaPhtha <and Light

Lead, 219

Eric®sSteel and Wrought Iron Scrap, 197 Road Stone Quarries, 123

Sh547 ■DiS°ard and Eleotrically^mado Steel,

Tap Cinder, Mill Cinder, Flue Cinder and Scale, 547

Tin-plates and Terneplates, 192

Women Engineers, 279

MONITOR—see Ships

Morley, H. W., on the Uniflow Engine, 455

MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR MATTERS :

.Air Heater for Motor Car Carburetters, Brown Brothers, Limited, 480

Coal Gas for Motor Vehicles, 226

Conversion of Ford Cars into Commercial Vehicles, 8

Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, 178

Technical Committee of the Motor Industries 66 ’

MUNITIONS Works, Canteens at, 268, 269

NAVAL Matters—see Ships

Naval Notes, 367, 413, 458, 504, 545

Austro-Hungarian Navy, 545

Destroyer Raid on Trieste, 545

Destroyer versus Submarine, 504

Drake, H.M., Armoured Cruiser, Torpedoed, oo /

Electrically-controlled Boats, 458

German and Austrian Navies, Revolutionary

Movements, 367 J

German Auxiliary Cruiser Marie Sunk. 413

German Electrically Controlled Boat, 413

German Naval Gunnery, 504

German Raider Seeadler, End of, 367

Germany’s New Ships with Old Names, 367

Histone Order, 505

Mine Layers, 459

Mr. Daniels’ Annual Report, 545

Naval Action in the Gulf of Riga 367

Navy for Indo-China, 504

Old Vessels on Active Service 458

Orama, H.M.S., Torpedoed, 413

Swedish Battleships, 459

Swedish New Battleship Sverige, 413

U.S.S. Jacob Jones, 545

N.S.W. REPATRIATION Scheme, 336

Zealand Suspension Bridge—see Bridges Niekei Deposits and Industry of Ontario, 210, Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Abstracts of Papers at . Society of Chemical Industry, 93 Nitrogen Compounds, Synthetic, 155 Nitrogen Problem, 472

o

OBITUARY:

Arkwright, Bernard, 319

Baines, William Newbold, 437

Buchanan, James, 477

Butler, James Ryder, 190

Denny, Peter, 455

Duddell William Du Bois, 411 ; (Letter), 428

Griggs, William J., 7

Hawksley, Charles (Portrait), 492

Holland, General, 7

Latham, Charles, 297

Matheson, Ewing, 523 ; (Correction), 550

Merry weather, James Compton, 477

Ritchie, Henry, 201

Sidney, Lieutenant L. P., 455

Simon, Captain Harry, 225

Sykes, William Robert (Portrait), 319

Westmacott, Percy, 225

OIL-FIRED Case Hardening Furnace, Mono-

meter Manufacturing Company, 570

Omnibus, Gas-driven, for Edinburgh, 226

Nickel Deposits and Industry of, 210,

Ore, New Method for Discharging, 193

Ore Shipping Pier on Lake Superior, 257

Organisation and Efficiency, 144

Oxide of Zinc, G. C. Stone, 418

Oxy-acetylene—see Welding

PARIS, The Protection of, Against Floods, 16 Patent Law Reform, 521 ; (Letters), 537, 556

Patent Law Reform, Dr. F. W. Hay, 435 ;

(Letter), 481

Patent Laws, Reform of the, V. A. B. Hughes, 425

Patent Rights, Acquisition of, 24, 46, 68, 88, 110, 132, 154, 176, 198, 220, 240, 262, 284, 306, 328, 350, 374, 398, 420, 442, 464, 486, 510, 532, 552, 572 ; (Letter), 384

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS: British : Aeronautics, 46, 67, 131, 306, 373, 397, 441, 485

Batteries and Accumulators, 571

Building, 398

Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 45, 87, 531, 551

Cranes and Conveyors, 262, 327

Crushing and Grinding, 350

Dynamos and Motors, 23, 67, 131, 198, 219, 239, 283, 327, 349, 373, 419, 464, 551

Engines, Internal Combustion, 23, 45, 67, 87, 131, 153, 175, 197, 219, 261, 283, 305, 327, 349, 373, 397, 419, 441, 464, 485, 509, 531, 551, 571

Engines, Steam, 153, 261, 327, 463

Gas Producers, 131, 349

Lighting and Heating, 24, 110, 154, 176, 240, 283, 305, 398, 571

Locomotives, 45, 349, 464, 552

Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 23, 68, 88, 110, 175, 220, 239, 262, 283, 306, 328, 375, 398, 485, 509, 532, 551, 571

Measuring and Testing Instruments, 110, 132, 153, 220

Mines and Metals, 46, 197, 350, 398, 510, 552 Miscellaneous, 24, 46, 68, 88, 110, 132, 176, 198, 220, 240, 284, 328, 350, 374, 398, 420, 442, 464, 486, 510, 532, 572

Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 87, 154, 262, 397, 420, 485, 532, 571

Ordnance and Armour, 67, 88, 220, 373, 419, 485

Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 109, 131, 220, 239, 374, 441, 509, 531

Refrigerating Machinery, 349

Ships and Boats, 68, 239, 262, 328, 420, 572

Steam Generators, 23, 45, 109, 239, 261, 305, 327, 397, 463, 485

Switchgear, 109

Telegraphs and Telephones, 131, 153

Textile Machinery, 240

Tramways and Railways, 283

Transformers, 67, 283, 441, 509

Transmission of Power, 23, 87, 109, 131 154 198, 262, 306, 419, 441, 464, 571

Turbine Machinery, 87, 197, 463, 531, 551

Water Purification, 306

PAY of Foremen and Shop Managers, 425

Pease, A. F., on the Position of the Coal Mining Industry, 373

Peat, The Utilisation of, 109

Personal and Business Announcements, 24, 45, 66, 88, 110, 132, 152, 196, 238, 260, 304, 350, 374, 393, 419, 464, 486, 508, 552

Petrol Gauze, 462

Petrol Tractor on the Farm, 298

Pipe Thread Tap Heads, 270

Ploughing Tractor, F. R. Simms, 183, 184

Plug Extractor for Shells, M. Glover and Co., 7

Plymouth as a Commercial Port, 224

Pneumatic Ash-handling Plant, Ed. Bennis and Co., 103

Poland, The Industries of, 14

Port, A New, in Colombia, 425 ; (Letter), 556

Potash from Brine Water, 540—see also American Engineering News

Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards—see Bridges

Presses—see Machine Tools

Prisoners of War, British, and their Studies, 123

Production and Preparation of Raw Rubber, 399, 421, 444, 467

Profits—see Excess Profits

Progress in the Metallurgy of Copper—see Copper

Pumping, Air-lift, C. Anthony, 526 ; (Letter),

Pumping, Air-lift, Professor A. H. Jameson, 526

Pumping, Air-lift, A. W. Purchas, 446

Pumps, Air, Committee’s Report, Experimental Plant, 557

Pumps, Electrically-driven Hydraulic, Automatic Control of, A. Towler, 480

Purchas, A. W., on Air-lift Pumping, 446

Push-button Hoists—see Coal

Pyrometers and Pyrometry, 393, 402, 424

Q QUALITY of Hardness, 295 Quarries—see Ministry of Munitions Quebec Bridge—see Bridges

“ R RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS General: Aero-steam Railway Traction, Pierre Guedon, 425

Ambulance Trains for the Continent, Midland

Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, 358 (Two-page Supplement, October 2Qth, 1917)

Automatic Train Control, W. R. Sykes Signal Interlocking Company, 50

Battery-operated Railway Signals, 124

Brake, Westinghouse or Vacuum, Automatic Train Control for, 50

Career Offered by Engineers’ Department of a British Railway, 113

Electrification of Main Line Railways, 563

Longitudinal Sleepers for Railways and

Tramways, Signor O. Valeri, 29

Narrow-gauge Self-discharging Wagons for Burma Mines Railway, Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company, 478

Nine Months’ Railway Accidents, 297 Railwaymen, Labour Questions—see Labour Railway Men’s Societies, 215

RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MAT TERS (continued):

British, Colonial and Indian :

Australian Transcontinental Railway, 356, 362 ; (Paragraph), 384

Burma Mines Railway Wagons, Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company, 478

Co-ordination Among Welsh Railways, 189 Future of British Railways, 475, 513, 535, 565

Future of Canadian Railways, 71, 79

Great Eastern Railway System of Automatic Train Control, 50

Great Western Railway Mechanics’ Institution at Swindon, 321

Mansfield Railway, 401, 408

New South Wales Railways, 477

North-Eastern Railwhy Transport of Heavy Castings, 413

Railway Accidents in 1916, 169

Ratho Railway Accident, 63

South African Railways and Harbours, 261 Sudan Railways in 1916, 419

Sydney, City and Suburban Electric Railways of, 144

Foreign: American Railways and the War, 357

Panama, Light Railway Building in, 314 Peru, Railway Construction in, 67 Virginian Railway, 312, 316

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES:

General:

Heating Surface of Boilers for Locomotives, 45

Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, 12, 18 Shrinkage Allowance for Locomotive Tires,

E. L. Ahrons, 263

British, Colonial, and Indian : Great Northern Railway, Conversion of Compound Engines, 542, 547

London and North-Western Railway, Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, 12, 18

North-Eastern Railway, Locomotive Performance, 200, 224

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, New Locomotives on the, 287, 294 ; (Letter), 323 ; (Correction), 326 (Two-page Supplement, October 5th, 1917)

Types of Irish Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 162 ; (Letter), 184

Foreign American Locomotives for the American Forces in France, 458

French Railways, Conversion of Singleexpansion to Compound Engines, 511 (Two-page Supplement, December 14<A, 1917)

P.L.M. Locomotive Conversion—see French Railway Engines

Paris-Orleans Railway, British-built Tank Locomotives for, 43 (Two-page Supplement, July \3th, 1917)

Pennsylvania Railroad Heavy Single-phase Electric Locomotive, 175

United States Southern Railway Eight-coupled Passenger Locomotives, 167

RANDOM REFLECTIONS: 318, 340, 364, 388, 410, 432, 454, 476, 500, 522, 544, 564 (see Special Index)

RARER Key Minerals, S. J. Johnstone, 457

Rastrick, John U., Drawing by, 81 ; (Letters), 118, 228, 248, 279

Reconstruction and Foreign Languages, 493

Reeves, A. W., and C. Kimber on Fuse Inspection, 52

Reform, Patent Law, 521 ; (Letter), 537

Reform, Patent Law, Dr. F. W. Hay, 435 ; (Letter), 481

Reform of the Patent Laws, V. A. B. Hughes, 425

Refractories, Papers at the Glasgow Meeting of Ceramic Society, 291

Regenerator and Hot Air Engine of 1816, Stirling’s, 516, 517 ; Stirling’s Specification, 567; (Letter), 537

Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete

Research, Scientific and Industrial Report, 179, 206, 209, 226, 253, 269, 344

River Diversion at Hanworth Park, 366

Road Sweeping and Loading Machine, F. Walters and Co., 96

Road Vehicles, The Uniflow Engine for, F. W. Marquis, 276

Roads, Concrete, Report to Roads Improvement Association, H. P. Boulnois, 73

Roads of Sheffield, 368

Rogers, Dr. F., on the Acid Open-hearth Process, 276, 297

Roller-welding, Tube, Machine, Rollings and Guest, Limited, 524

Rosario Docks, Improvements, 292

Rouen, The Port of, 459

Rowe, W. T., on Alcohol as a Source of Power.

471

Rubber, Raw, The Production and Preparation of, 399, 421, 444, 467

s SAMPLING—see Coal

Sand Washer, Portable Filter Bed, Hunter and English, Limited, 44

Sankey, Captain H. Rial!, on Heat Engines, 489

Sawing Machine, Vertical Band, T. Robinson and Son, Limited, 412

Science, Application of, to Agriculture, 412

Science, Applied, What the Empire Owes to, 351

Science and its Functions, A. A. Campbel] Swinton, 447, 476

Scientific and Industrial Research, Committee’s

Report, 179, 206, 209, 226, 253, 269, 344

Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, 274 ; (Letter), 323

Scotland, Canal—see Mid-Scotland

Scotland, Trade Education in, 289 •

Scrap, Brass, 118

Screwing Machines-—see Machine Tools

Sections, Approved British Standard, 567

Sewage Purification, E. Ardern, 94

Shafts, Loaded, Critical Speeds of, W. M. Wallace, 246

Shaw, Clark H., Cement Joints for Cast Iron

Water Mains, 32

Sheffield, The Roads of, 368

Shells, Plug Extractor for, M. Glover and Co., 7 Ship Canal—see Canal

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General: American Shipbuilding Developments, 261

America’s Shipbuilding Problems, 165

Device for Raising Sunken Ships, W. D.

Sisson, 386, 389

Electrically-controlled Motor Boats, 425

Government as Shipbuilders, 256

Losses of Ships and Submarines, 556

Marine Engines—see Engines

New National Shipyards, 458

Reinforced Concrete Arched Keel Block, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Limited, 345

Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding in Norway, 520, 524

Ships and More Ships, 410

Standardised British Merchant Ships, 267, 272 273

United States, Shipping and Shipbuilding in the, 317

British Navy: Ariadne, Loss of H.M. Protected Cruiser, 102

Submarine Chasers for the British Navy, American-built, 139

Vanguard Disaster, 57

Naval Matters: Admiralty Appeal to Workers, 51

American Inventors Attack the Anti-

Submarine Problem, 550

Apotheosis of the Destroyer, 499

Cycle in Naval Architecture, 431

Development of Machinery in the United States Navy, Captain C. W. Dyson, 170, 190, 211

Electric Drive for Warships, 228

First Lord’s Statement, 409

German Naval Mines, 227

Gunboats and Baghdad, 274

Losses of Ships and Submarines, 556

Monitor, Revival of the, 133 ; (Letters), 161, 184

Naval Dry Dock at Norfolk, U.S.A., 101

Naval Power-boat Construction in America, 139

Our Naval Strategy, 143

Submarine and Kindred Problems, 329, 550

Submarine War : The Latest Phase, 231

Foreign Navies: American Naval Programme, The New, 380 American Navy and Mercantile Marine, 256 German Battle Cruiser Graf von Spee, 246 Italian Submarine Chasers, 566 Submarine Chasers, American, 139

United States Cruisers, Turbine Electric Equipment, W. L. R. Emmett, 228

Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels: American Navy and Mercantile Marine, 256 American Wooden Steamships, 332 Fire and Salvage Boat for Elswick, 503 Steamboat, An Early, 81; (Letters), 118, 228, 248, 279, 323

SHOCK Tests, Experiments, &c., Georges Charpy and A. Cornu-Thenard, 244, 265

Shrinkage of Tires—see Railway Locomotives

Signals—see Railways

Silk, Artificial, T. P. Wilson, 94

Simple Calculations of Circular Arcs, 114

Six-Ton Steam Wagon, Atkinson and Co., 494 Sleepers—see Railways

Soap Films, Use of, in Solving Torsion Problems,

A. A. Griffith and G. I. Taylor, 536, 543, 546 Societies—see Associations

Soda Concentration Plant, Mirrlees, Watson Company, Limited, 34, 44

Soldiers, Maimed, Mechanical Arms for, E. W.

Hobbs, 334, 335, 351, 376

South Africa, Irrigation Projects in, 169

South African Railways and Harbours, 261

South American Engineering Markets, 348

South American Machine Belting Market, 531

Speeds, Critical, of Loaded Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 246

Spindles, Attachment of, to Forged Steel Valves, F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153

Standard Sections, Approved British, 567

Standard Ships—see Ships

Standardisation of Electrical Machinery, 319

Standardisation of Engines—see Engines

Standards, Manufacturers and, 317

Steam Generation, The Use of Waste Gases for, J. B. C. Kershaw, 27

Steam-Hydraulic Intensifier, Inverted, Davy Brothers, Limited, 366

Steam, The Latent Heat of, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184

Steam Wagon, Six-Ton, Atkinson and Co., 494 Steel—see Iron and Steel

Stirling’s Air Engine—see Engines

Stone, G. C., on Oxide of Zinc, 418

Strikes—see Labour

Stromeyer, C. E., on the Action of Caustic

Liquors on Steel Plates, 496

Submarines—see Ships

Submarine Tunnel at Boston, U.S.A., 230, 234, 235

Substitutes in Germany, 509

Sugar Machinery for Argentina, 171

Surfacing Machines—see Machine Tools

Suspension Bridges—see Bridges

Swinton, A. A. Campbell, on Science and its Functions, 447, 476

Synthetic Nitrogen Compounds, 155

TASMANIAN Great Lake Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, 69, 78 (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1917)

Taxation of Stock Values, 57

Telephone Engineering Progress, 201

Temperature, Measurement of, 432

Testing Department of the Fiat Company, Turin, 504

Testing—see also Impact

Thermostat, High Temperature, Further Notes on, J. L. Haughton and D. Hanson, 275, 322

Tin and Wolfram, Trengganu’s Supplies of, 297 Tin-plates, &c.—-see Ministry of Munitions Tires—see Railway Locomotives

Tools—see Machine Tools and also Works

Torsion Problems, Use of Soap Films in Solving, A. A. Griffith and G. L Taylor, 536, 543, 546

Towler, Alfred, on the Automatic Control of Electrically-driven Hydraulic Pumps, 480

Towns, H. L., on Welding with Application to Automobile Engineering, 125, 147

Traction Engine, J. Boydell, 111

Tractor, Chain-Track, Evolution of the, 111, 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 208, 221, 241, 250; (Letter), 184

Tractor, Pedrail, B. J. Diplock, 181, 223

Tractor, Small Agricultural, Design of, A. E. L.

Chorlton, 545

Tractor, The Petrol, on the Farm, 298

Tractors and Haulers, British Agricultural, 512, 533, 553, 562

Trade Education in Scotland, 289

Trade, Machinery, after the War, 248

Trade between the United Kingdom and Canada,118

Trade after the War—see Danger of Letting Things Slide

Training of Aeronautical Engineers—see Aeronautics

Training of Engineers, 379

Trains—see Railways

Tramways, Glasgow Corporation, 122

Tramways, London County Council, 58

Transmission of Concrete by Air and Steam4 159, 164

Transporting a Heavy Casting, 413

Trengganu’s Supplies of Tin and Wolfram, 297 Trueman Wood Lecture—see Associations, &c.,

Royal Society of Arts

Tube Roller-welding Machine, Rollings and Guest, Limited, 524

Tunnel, Submarine, at Boston, U.S.A., 230, 234, 235

Turbine Blading, Curtis Rateau, Deterioration of, A. Fenwick, 30, 60

Turner, Professor T.<on Hardness and Hardening, 252, 254, 295

u UNIFLOW Engine—see Engines

Use of Culm and Other Waste Fuels, J. B C.

Kershaw, 307

Use of Inland Waterways, 526

Use of Soap Films—see Soap

Use of Waste Gases for Steam Generation,

J. B. C. Kershaw, 27

Utilisation of Peat, 109

V VALVES, Forged Steel—see Iron and Steel

Vertical Band Saw—see Sawing

Victoria Works of Yarrows, Limited, 270

Volunteers, County of London Engineer, 24. 45, 68, 87, 110, 132, 152, 176, 196, 218, 239, 248, 284, 305, 328, 350, 374, 397, 419, 442, 464, 486, 510, 527, 552, 570

w WAGES—see Labour

Wagon, Six-Ton Steam, Atkinson and Co., 494

Wagons, Railway—see Railways

Walker, G. B., on By-Product Coking, 509

Wallace, W. M., on the Critical Speeds of Loaded Shafts, 246

Walmsley, Dr. R. M., and Mr. C. E. Luard, on the Training of Aeronautical Engineers, 6

Wans, Oswald, on a Comparison of Working Costs of the Principal Prime Movers, 355, 363, 368, 380, 414 ; (Letter), 384

WAR MATERIAL & WAR MATTERS: Air Reprisals, 340

American Military Engineers in France, 418

British Steel for Shells, 509

Business of War, 187

Fuse Inspection, A. W. Reeves and Cecil Kimber, 52

German Munitions Supply, 339

Transmission of Military Power, 387

WAR, Some Metals and British Industries, 99

Washer—see Gas Washer

Waste Gases for Steam Generation, The Use of, J. B. C. Kershaw, 27

Water Power Supplies of the United Kingdom, 463, 525

WATER SUPPLY: Cement Joints for Cast Iron Water Main/, Clark H. Shaw, 32

Charges for London Water, 83

Portable Filter Bed Sand Washer, Hunter and English, Limited, 44

WELDING with Application to Automobile Engineering, H. L. Towns, 125, 147

Welsh Labour, 100

West Highlands, Big Watei’ Power Scheme, 463, 525

What the Empire Owes to Applied Science, 351

Whitley Report, Industry and the, 169

Whitley Report-—see also Labour

Winch, Electric, J. H. Wilson and Co., Limited, 525

Wire Manufacture, History of, J. P. Bedson, 334

Wolff, Dr. E. B., on Failure of Boiler Plates in Service, &c., 296, 456

Women’s Work on Engineering Munitions, Permanent Memorial, 496

Working Costs of the Principal Prime Movers, Oswald Wans, 355, 363, 368, 380, 414; (Letter), 384

WORKS: An Aeroplane Works, 257 (Two-page Supplement, September 2lst, 1917)

Elswick Works, Fire and Salvage Boat for, 503

Empress Electrical Works, Huddersfield, E. Brook, 342

Smith and Coventry’s New Tool Works, 470 474

Victoria Works, Yarrows, Limited, 270

WORKSHOPS, Air Heater for, J. Boyd and Sons, 503

W.R. Combustion Indicator (Correction), 19

Y YARROWS, Limited, Victoria Works, 270

z ZEPPELINS—see Aeronautics

Zimmer, G. F., on Coal and Ash Plant at Osaka Electric Works, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, 115

Zinc, Oxide of, G. C. Stone, 418

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