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ACTIVATED Sludge, Composition and Properties, 9

Adelphi Houses, Risks to Historic Houses of Proposed Government Occupation, 329

Aerial Ropeways in India, 439

AERONAUTICS : Aircraft.Engine Weight per Horse-power, 243

Aircraft Losses of the Enemy More than Double those of the Allies, 97

Air Raids and Bombardment Casualties, 463

American Aircraft Bureau’s Quick Work, 395

American Air Mail Service, Low Cost of, 395

American Flight Across the Atlantic, Early Achievement Predicted, 75

Cacquot Captive Balloon ; Kite Balloons, 221

Doping in Aircraft Factories ; Report on Health of Workers, 139

Doping Departments of Aeroplane Factories, Importance of Ventilation, 117

Evolution in Aircraft Engines, Statement by United States War Department, 97, 243

Flight at Low or High Levels, Merits of Internal Combustion and Steam Engines Compared, 117

German Diesel Engine for Use on Aeroplanes, 31

German Dirigibles, Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, Method of Reading Signals, 9

Handley-Page Works, Visit to, 272

Lamp, Wireless Signal, for Aeroplane and other War Work, 31

Propellers for Aircraft, New Design in America, J. A. Irving, 139

Radiological Aeroplane for Rendering Surgical Aid, 395

Reduced Power of Engines at 15,000ft. Due to Reduced Density of Atmosphere, 135

Wounded Soldiers Transport by Aeroplane, 395

AFFORESTATION, Preliminary Expenditure, Interim, Authority Set up, 463

Age Limit for Driving Licences, Reduction in, 108

Agricultural Implements Needed by Roumania, 499

Agricultural Motor Tractors, Large Supplies by Food Production Department, 243

Agricultural Tractors, Projected Trials, 509

Air Compressor Design, Best Practice, J. M.

Ford, 75

Air Pressure of 47 lb. per Square Inch, 53

Alcohol for Industrial Purposes, Statistics, 181

Alcohol and Petrol Blend as Liqiid Fuel, 96

Alcohol, Production from Carbide, 31

Alcohol Proof Enamels and Varnish, Jenson and Nicholson, 108

Alcohol from Sugar in Sulphite of Soda Lyes Used for Treating Wood Pulp-alcohols, Value for Internal Combustion Engines, 243

Alkali Works, Annual Report, 75

Alloy : A New, Ferrouranium, 553

Alloys for Anti-friction Metals, French Trials to Economise Copper, &c., 287

Aluminium, Cold-rolled Sheet, Practice in Annealing, 463

Aluminium, Electrolytic Production of, in Various Countries, 181

Aluminium and Glucinium, 487

Aluminium Ingots, Reduction in Price, 287

Aluminium, Rapid Increase in World’s Production of, 415

Aluminium for Reduction of Oxide, Intensely

High Temperature Produced, 221

American Anti-trust Law, 298

American Cold Storage Plants, Three, with

14,000,000 Cubic Feet Capacity, 139

American Lumbermen’s Waste of Timber Products, 53

American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee

Formed to Report on, 75

American War Finance Corporation, 287

Americans and Diesel Engine Building, 9

Ammonia as a By-Product at Gasworks, 159

Ammonia, Latent Heat of Vaporisation, 139

Ammonia for Munitions, but Shortage in

Quantity for Refrigeration, 139

Ammonia, One Pound of, to Make Twenty Hand Grenades, 139

Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures : Superiority of Ammonal, 329

Apprentices at Huddersfield, Successful Scheme, 553

Architects, Surveyors, Constructional Engineers, &c., New Federation of, 351

Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co.’s,

Fabricated Ship, 415

Artesian Well Boring in Queensland, Cost oi, 307

Asbestos Insulation in Brick Boiler Settings to

Reduce Air Leakage and Save Heat, 351

Asbestos Mining Industry in Rhodesia, 395

Asphalt Laid during Rainfall, 75

Assessment of an Engineering Works, 476

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Association, Automobile r

Coal Gas for Motor Vehicles, £1000 Prize, 415

Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical :

Large Capital Expenditure and Income

Represented by Members, 9

Institute of Arbitrators :

Annual Meeting ; Report and Elections, 382 Institute of Chemistry :

Chemists for Government Service, 531

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Autumn Meeting, 171. Programme, 171

Institute of Marine Engineers :

King George as Patron, 373

Institute of Metals :

Autumn Meeting, 148. Programme, 148

Membership Advantages : Pamphlet. 44

Relation of Science to the Non-Ferrous

Metals Industry, 487

Institute, Royal Sanitary :

Henry Saxon Snell Prize Award, 553

Refuse Disposal Prize Essay, James Jackson, 553

Institution of Automobile Engineers ;

Election of Motor Cycle Engineers, 329

Tanks Design ; Honorary Membership for

Major W. G. Wilson, 553

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Hundredth Session, Opening, 373

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Contracts, Modification of Model Conditions, 395

Co-ordination of Research in Works and Laboratories, Premium Offered for Paper, 9

Cross Compound Turbo - Generator for Large Sets, J. H. Shaw, 531

Examination Rules Suspended during War, 97

Posting of Members Joining the Army to Technical Units, 201

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :

Employment for Engineers, 496

Institution of Naval Architects :

Annual Meetings for 1919, 373

Scholarship for 1918 Award, 190

Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :

Annual Report, 117

Maximum Regulating Resistance and Maximum Shunt Resistance of Track Circuits, W. J. Thorrowgood, 9

Sub-Committee to Provide Names for Functions of Track Circuits, 329

Institution, Royal :

Christmas Juvenile Lectures ; Fish of the Sea, Professor D’Arcy Thompson, 406

Christmas and Other Courses of Lectures, 530

Meetings and Elections, 17, 406

Society of Engineers :

Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 564

Society, Physical :

Measuring Alternating Currents and Electric Oscillations, J. Williams, 94

Society, Royal Aeronautical •

Postponement of Lecture on Civil Aerial Transport , by Mr. Claude Grahame -White, 500

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Wireless Transmission of Electric Energy in Bulk, Unknown Possibilities, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 509

AUSTRALIA Prohibits Importation of Bosch Magnetos, 53

Australian Production of Fencing Wire and Wire Netting, 53

Austria and Permissible Stresses in Structural Ironwork, 553

Automatic Telephones in Shanghai, 395

Automobile Construction in the United States, War Orders to Come First, 243

BALLOONS—see Aeronautics

Barbed Wire Exports from the United States, 97

Barbed Wire Scrap Collected by Machine, 9 Bauxite for Furnace Lining and Crucibles, 159 Belts, Driving, Paper Substitute, in Germany, 463

Birkenhead’s Extensive Refrigeration Equipment, 159

Boiler Conversion, from Coal to Fuel Oil Firing, Results at London Factory, A. F. Baillie, 395

Boiler Efficiency at United States Steel Works, Tests with Uncleaned Blast-furnace Gas, 221

Boiler Plants on Oil Fuel in New England, 117

Boiler Pressure at Carville Power Station and at Glasgow, 531

Boiler Scale Removal with Paraffin, 362

Boilers, Egg-ended and Modern Lancashire, Compared, 9

Boilers, Marine, Life of, Prolonged by Care in Early Days of Use, 139

Boring and Turning Mill, Large Extension, for Arsenal Work, 31

Boy Welfare, 217

Bradford Technical College, 256

Brass Industry Pooling Scheme, Proposed, by Mr. Howard F. Smith, 9

Bridges, Continuous Span, and Structural Efficiency, 509

British Empire’s Natural Resources and Water Power Development, 553

British Engineers’ Association, New Appointment, 531

British Gauge Manufacturers’ Association, 351

British Industries Fair, 373

British Magnetos, 298

British Scientific Products Exhibition, 487

Building Industry of the United States, Suggested Federation of all the Interests Involved, 53

Building in United States Cities, 463

Business Profits’ Value in Creation of Opportunities for Others, 243

By-product Ovens in Canada, Varieties of Type, 243

By-products, New Uses for, 395

c CABLES, World’s Submarine, Private and National, Analysis, 351

Caissons, Concrete, Trapezoidal, Compared with

Rectangular Sections, 509

Calendar for 1919, Abdulla’s, 544

Calorific Value of Pitch, 329

Canada Balsam, Best Known but far from Satisfactory Medium for Joining Optical Parts, 509

Canada’s Arable Land, Nitrates and Hydraulic

Energy, 307

Canada’s Imports of Coal and Oil, 439

Canada’s Very Largely Increased Exports of Paper and Paper Pulp, 373

Canadian Training of Disabled Soldiers, Large Numbers under Instruction, 243

Canal between Paris and Dieppe, Scheme of 1694 Again Revived, 373

Canal, Ship, from Doncaster or Sheffield to Goole and the Sea, Projected, 96

Canals, Government-owned, Deep-sea Level Along the United States Atlantic Coast, Recommended Scheme, 373

Carbide Scarcity for Acetylene Lamps, 315

Case-hardening* and Oil-hardening Compositions, Comparison, 117

Catalogues for Purchasing Agents, Standard Size Adopted, 287

Celluloid, Excellent Substitute for, in Making

Surgical Appliances and Artificial Limbs, 531

Cement, Natural, in United States Rocks, 553

Channel Tunnel Scheme for Japan, 395

Chemical Activity in America, Great Influence

of the War, 509

Chemists for Government Service, 531

Chilean Nitrate, History of its Increased

Export, 9

Chimney at Tacoma, Height Record Again Broken, 9

China Manufactures Pencils with Machines from Japan, 382

Chinese Tax on Goods in Transit, 4.63

COAL, COKE. AND COLLIERIES: Anthracite Coal from Irish Mines, No Surplus Available, 415

Arigna Coalfields and Railway Connection with County Sligo, 415 .

Berlin’s Coal Supply Economised by Trans- I mission of Electricity, 351

Board of Trade Requisitions of Coal and other Fuel, 201

Boring for Anthracite in Dauphine, Depth of

Nearly a Mile said to be Reached, 75

By-product Coking in the United States, 542

Carbo-coal, New American Fuel, 117

Coal Consumption Economy Stimulated by

Bonus System, 351

Coal Controller, New Assistants Appointed, 201

Coal Storage, Need of Inspection for Avoidance of Spontaneous Combustion, 139

Coal Storage Safer when Fine Sizes Exclude the Air, 9

Coal with Sulphur Content, Divided Opinion as to Liability to Spontaneous Combustion, 53

Coal Tar Dyes and Chemicals in the United States, Census, 463

Coke, The Formation of, Messrs. Charpy and

Godehot, 243

Coke and Weather Injury, 487

Colliers with, the Colours, 53

Denmark to Pay Increased Duty on Coal

Imported from United Kingdom, 201

Dye Industry and Coke By-products, 395

English and American Coal Shortage Compared, 553

German Prices for Coal and Iron Greatly Increased, 201

Oil Fuel as Coal Substitute, Comparison, E. H. Peabody, 177

Pulverised Coal Replaces Oil Fuel at Central Heating Station in Seattle, 553

Pulverised Coal in United States Manufactures, 415

Queensland Coal Deposits, Extent and Value, 117

Rationing Colliers : Why Not ? 75

Shortage of Coal, Controller’s Report, 509 South Wales Coal Losses through Short Time, 415

Sp'tzbergen Coal for Sweden, 75

Steam Users and Coal Wastage, 351

Sulphur in Coal and Liability to Heat when

Stored in the Open, 373

Testing Coals at Seattle, 531

United States Bureau of Mines, Paper on

Weights of Various Coals, 181

United States Survey’s Estimate of Coal and Coke Output for 1917, 395

Vlassovo-Grujer District Coal Output Reduced to One-seventh of Normal Yield, 247

COINAGE Reform, Suggested Change of Penny Value, 509

Cold Storage Space in United Kingdom, Great Increase Expected, 69

Cold Storage in United Kingdom and United States, 9

Concrete—see also Reinforced

Concrete Beams and Computation of Energy, 439

Concrete Blocks and Beams for Building, Government Report, 329

Concrete Bodies with Hollow Centres Produced by Use of Ice, 307

Concrete Construction, Methods and Tests in United States, 307

Concrete Floors, Dusty, Various Remedies for, 53

Concrete Structures, Marine, in United States and Canada, Adverse Report on Liability to Corrosion, 373

Concrete as Substitute for Steel in Car Construction, Gondola Car to be Tested, 382

Concrete Walls, Prevention of Condensation, Kerner Greenwood, 329

Condensers, Glass, Hard Paper and Mica, Tests with Varying Frequency, 395

Copper Castings, Addition of Strontium an Advantage, 287

Copper and Copper Alloys, Manufactured Products, Inquiry in Connection, Department of Scientific Research, 531

Copper Output in America, 181

Copper from Pyritic Ashes, New Method for

Electrolytic Extraction, 382

Cost plus System, 395

Counterfeit Coin—see Platinum

Cranes with Alternating and with Direct

Current, Comparison as to Safety, 9

Crude Oil and Fuel Oil, 395

Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 564

D DANISH Government Hydro-electric Scheme, 415

Danube, Utilisation of, for Navigation and Water Power, 553

Death in Action of Lieut. Graham Johns, 314

Death of S.r George Armytage, 439

Detonation of Gun-cotton, Nitro-Glycerine, &c., 329

Disabled Sailors and Soldiers or Widows of Men Killed; Offer from Royal Sanitary Institute, 9

Dock Construction near Naples, Largest Dock in the Mediterranean, 221

Dock, Large New, at South San Francisco, 159

Dredger, Large Suction, Built at Sydney, 373

Drilled Holes in Motor Lorries, Aeroplanes, Motor Cycles and Torpedoes, 307

Driving Belts of Paper in German Workshops, 373

Dyeing Industry in the Ellesmere Port Dis» strict, 221

Dyestuffs from Coal-tar, America’s Enormous Production Replaces Previous Imports from Germany, 509

E ECONOMIC Problems after the War, 285

Economic and Reconstruction Supplements to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press, 243 Economy in Unnecessary Correspondence, 395 Edgware-road (London), Traffic Census, 439

ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Alternator Voltage Limitations and the Reason for Them, 439

Aluminium Conductors of Low Conductivity, Change in Austrian Regulations, 415

Arc Welding and Control of Weld Constituents, 439

Cables of 33,000 Volts Probably the Limit of Useful Pressure Development, 53

Crystalline Selenium, and other Substances Affected by Light, 553

Dielectric Losses in Cables : Comparison between Insulation with Mineral • Base and Vegetable-Base Compounds, 221

Electric Heating as a Desirable Load for the Central Station, 97

Electrically Driven Reversing Cogging Mill —see Miscellaneous Index

Electrode Manufacture at Frederikstad, Norway, 159

Electro-Magnetic Theory of Matter, Albert C. Crehore, 31

French Glow-lamp Production, 307

Galicia’s Purchase from Germany of Electric Plant Erected in East Galicia During War, 415

Heat Application by Electrical Eddy Currents Instead of Steam, 307

Heat Storage by Novel Electric Heating System, 287

Hydro-electric Undertakings—see also Hydroelectric

Insulator, Wood Stick, for High Voltages, in Favour in America, 221

Metallic Oxides as Depolarisers, Treatment of Positive Electrodes of Primary Batteries, 159

Ministry of Munitions, Permits and Electrical Development, 509

Motor Ampdre Calculator, George Ellison, 362

Motor, Very Small, for Surgical and other Purposes, 415

Motors in Steel Mill Equipment, Need of Standardisation, 307

Niagara, Increased Water Power from, for War Purposes, 159

Ovens, Electric Tests in U.S.A., Economical for Long but not for Short Cooking Operations, 117

Oxide Film Lightning Arrester, 75

Platinum for Electrical Work, Scarcity, and Suggested Tax on Use for Luxuries, 75

Power Extension by Southern Canada Power Company, 1 59

Research Work of Committee Appointed by Institution of Electrical Engineers in Connection with Department of Scientific Research, 97

Shanghai and Electrical Progress, 117

Shanghai Electricity Department, Report, 31

Ship Construction and Electric Welding, 75, 221

Shipbuilding and Electric Welding, Divided Opinion, Commander S. V. Goodalls, 531

South African Extensive Use of Electricity, 221

Spanish Electric Power Supply from Falls of the Douro, 43

Temperature in the Electric Furnace, 219

Temperature of Metals and Value as Electric Conductors, 531

Tramways’ Consumption of Electricity, J. M. McElroy, 351

Transmission, Electric, 447

Transmission of Electric Energy to Economise Berlin’s Coal Supply, 351

Tungsten Filament Lamps, Large Sale in America, 97

Turbo-Alternator Constructed at A. E. G.

Works, First of 60,000 K.V.A. Capacity, 159

Turbo-Generator, Cross-compound for Large Sets, J. H. Shaw, 531

Water, Electrical Conductivity of, 75

Welding, Electric, for Ship Construction, A.

J. Mason, 75

EMPIRE’S Mineral Resources, 365

Employment for Engineers, 496

Employment Exchange and -Local Advisory Committee, 509

Engineer Volunteer Corps, County of London, Royal, Recruits Called for, 53

Engineers, Divisional, Unit, Proposed Re-union, 531

Engineering Works Sports for War Funds, 128

Engineering Workshops and Septic Poisoning,

Satisfactory Result of Enquiry, 329

Eri Silk from Indian Moth Cocoons, 463

Exhibition of Key Industries, 287, 329, 351

Explosive for Mines in South Africa, Substitute for Nitro-Glycerine, 53

F FEDERATION of British Industries, British Empire Producers’ Organisation, and Imperial Council of Commerce, Joint Councils, 53

Ferrouranium, a New Ferro-alloy, 553

Fire Losses in Canada Greatest, per Head of Population, in the World, 221

Fish of the. Sea, Professor D’Arcy Thompson, 553

I Flexure and Torsion in Propeller Blades,

I Experiments on Beams 395

Flow, Orifice and Weir, Effect ol Slight Round-

i ings of the Upstream Edge, Jacob O. Jon®?, 9

Free Trade, Real Principles of, J. S. Hecht, 243

French Incandescent Lamp Factories, Output, 415 „ f

French Licences for Imports to France of

Textile and Sewing Machines, 97

‘ Fuel Conditions and Needed Economy in

1 Electric Supply Stations, 221

1 Fuel Limitations in Manufacture of 1 leasure

I Vehicles in America, 97

Fuel, New American Invention, 117

Fuel, Patent Mixture Used in New York, 487

Fuel Requirements of Canada, 439

| Fuels, Natalite and E. H. A., anation in

| Ingredients, 53

GARLIC, Fungi, Carbide, Heather, Chalk ;

1 New Uses for above Raw Products, 351

1 Gas and Allied Industries, Question of Legislative Protection, 487

Gas, Coal, Its Powers, Heat-giving and Lightgiving ; New Departure, 139

Gas, Coke Oven, Successfully Utilised for Domestic and Industrial Purposes, 463

Gas Containers, Permeability of Fabric and Loss of Gas, 415 .

Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, £1000 Prize, 4 5

Gas-driven Omnibuses, Satisfactory Inals, 11/ Gas Furnaces, Optical Pyrometer for, 41a Gas-propelled Vehicles and Government Permits, 307 .

Gas Generated by Wood Waste Fuel for Driving Swedish Internal Combustion

Gas ^fraction Section at British Scientific Products Exhibition, 509

German Gas-driven Road Motors alter the War, 415 , i

German Goods with Neutral Trade-marks, 433

German Inland Waterways, Propo-ed Rhine-Danube Ship Canal, 553

German Leather Trade, Shortage of Materials and Prizes Offered for Substitutes, 287

German Motor Trade Thriving Notwithstanding

War 415

German Silver, Differences in Manufacture in England, America and Germany, 221

German Transport Vehicles with W ooden lues, 307

Germany’s Difficulties Due to Metal Shortage, 201 ' , „ .

Germany’s Metal Shortage and Device foi Tubing, 221 . ' ,

Glasses or Telescopes through Lady Robert-..

Glass-ware, Graduated,. Tested at National Physical Laboratory, 53

Glassware, Scientific, Volumetric Tests at the National Physical Laboratory, 149

Gloucester as a Concrete Shipbuilding Port, oOJ

Glucinium an Aluminium, 487

Goggles, Substitute for Glass Found in U.S.A.,

Gold Production of the World almost entirely in British and American Hands, 55a

Grain Elevators for South Africa, Need of, 48/

Graphite Deposit in Norway about to be Utilised, 307

Gun and Munition U.S.A., Extensive

Plant on Neville Island, Preparations, 181

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Recovering from

Disaster, 382 „ . „

Hardness of Ceramic Products and Brinell

Heat insulating Material of Newly Discovered

Swedish Clay, 97

Heat Loss from Chimneys, Apparatus tor

Measurement, Monsieur Chopin 28/

Heating and Power Plant with Pulverised Coal

Fuel, at Vancouver, 438

Herring Oil Factories in Norway, 41a

Hides and Skins Exported from India, 463

Hot Water Transmission Possible for lour

Miles, W. M. Selvey, 139

House Famine in Toronto. 117

Huddersfield Engineers’ Training Association,

Success of Scheme, 553

Hydraulic Energy and Fuel Energy in t

United States, 463

Hydraulic Riveting Dangers and German

Remedy, 201 . ., p5vAl.

Hydro-electric Equipment in White River

Plant, Puget Sound Traction Company, 13o

Hydro-electric Power in U.S.A., Insufficie .■

Supply and Need for Coal Economy, 329

Hydro electric Schemes in New Zealand,

Success and Further Development, 404

Hydro-electric Work for Railway Electrifica

tion, Huge Barrage in France, 423

Hysteresis or Backlash Present in Measuring

Instruments, 97

ILLUMINANTS, Tests of Effect on the Eye, Incandescent Mantle, Physical Theory, Rubens India, Extension of Use of Machinery in Agriculture and Irrigation, 287 . .

India, Openings for British Trade in Agricultural Machines, 287

India, Road and Bridge Construction, 221

Indian War Loan Advertised on Great Indian

Peninsula Railway Coaches, 166

Indigo, Liquid, Process of Manufacture, 509 Industrial Conferences, Further Programme,

Industrial Progress of Past Four Years 395

Industrial Reconstruction Council, Change

Address, 9

Industrial Series of Conferences, 170

Inland Revenue, Analysis of Gross Rec®'Pt®> 0

Institutes and Institutions—see Associations

IRON AND STEEL: Corrosion by Sea Water of Surface Condenser Tubes, 129

Eight-hour Day as Basis of Wage Payment in United States Steel Industry, 395

German Iron Deterioration since Outbreak of War, 439

German Prices for Coal and Iron Greatly Increased, 201

Holland, Government Participation in Establishment of Steel Foundries and Rolling Mills, 463

Iron in Contact with Sulphuric Acid, Professor C. E. Fawsitt and A. A. Pain, 487

Iron Ore, Valuable Deposits of, in South Africa, 196

Iron Oxides for Protective Coatings, 117

Iron and Steel Exchange for London, 499

Manganese Ore Exports from British

Columbia to the United States, 181

Metallic Iron and Tetrachloride of Silicium, Experiments and Results, 493

Molybdenum Smelting Works in Norway, 487

North Staff ordshire Railway Rates and the Iron and Coal Trades, 404

Queensland, Development of Molybdenite Mining, 487

Queensland, Discovery of Iron Ore, 31

Queensland, Discovery of Scheelite at Percy-ville, 487

Queensland Royal Commission on Steel and Ironworks, 491

Rustless Steel, Increase in Chronruni for, 395

Scheelite Discovery at Percy ville, Queensland, 487

Scrap Steel or Iron, Re-conversion into Pig Iron, 139

Temper Removal from Hardened Steel, 159

Temperature in the Electric Furnace, 219

Tungsten with Carbide, How to Treat, for

Mechanical Working, 53

Tungsten, Experiments in Welding, 53

Tungsten Exports .from Federated Malay States, 221

United States Prices of Tool Steel Compared with those of United Kingdom, 9

J JAPANESE Clocks, Increased Export of, 31

Japanese Government Encouragement of

Motor Lorry Manufacture, 53

KAISER Wilhelm Trust for Promotion of the

Science of War, 351

L LEAD Alloys, Advantage of Tin Addition, 351

Leggings, Safety, for Molten Metal Workers, 53

Lighting Restrictions and Dust Deposits on Lamps, &c., 97

Light Transmission through Water, Difficulty of, 243

Lignite Briquettes, Carbonised, Plant for Manufacture in Canada, 75

Liquid Fuel, Blend of Alcohol and Petrol, 96

London County Council Trade Scholarships, 286

Lorries, Standardised, Rapid Construction in

United States, 97

Loughborough Instructional Factory and Classroom Training, 553

Lubricants, Cutting, and Cooling Liquids, Memorandum of Scientific and Industrial Research Department, 287

Lubricants for Twist Drills, Result of Tests at Illinois University, 221

Lubrication of Air Compressor Cylinders, Right Type of Oil Required, 243

Lubrication of Wire Rope, Importance of Method Employed, 351

M MACHINE Tool Department, Permission to

Purchase Tools, 221

Machine Tool Depreciation in Wartime, 314

Machine Tool Manufacture for Non-war Work,

Government Regulations, 287, 357

Machine Tools, British and German, J. Judson, 382

Magnesite from Manchuria, Superiority of, 351

Magnetising other Metals Besides Iron, 415

Magnetos, British, 298

Manchester College of Technology, Department

of Industrial Management, 201

Manganese—-.see Iron and Steel

Measurement, Rapid, of Fluctuating Temperatures, 159

Measuring Instruments and Hysteresis, 97

Meat Treatment in the United States, 9

Menothorium, A New Substitute for Radium,

Dr. R. N. Moore, 395

Metal Extraction D.rect from Ores, Testing

New Dutch Process, 287

Metal Scrap Purchase in Small Quantities, 243

Metal Shortage, Utilisation of Old Bullets by the Calcutta Mint, 439

Metal Spraying by New Process, 75

Metal Spraying by Oxy-Hydrogen Flame, 243

Meteorological Unit of Pressure, 117

Metric System and Foreign Trade, Inquiry in

America, 139

Mexican Petroleum Production, Number of

New Wells Bored, 53

Milling Cutter Manufacturers’ Association, 276

Mine Employees Above and Below Ground,

Statistics, 181

Mineral Resources, Empire’s, 365

Mines Abandoned in 1917, 181

Mines T.mbering in the Loire District, Sylvestre

Pine Preferred, 463

Miners’ Federation and Coal Control, 221

Minimum Wage Rejected by American War x Labour Board, 307

Mints of Calcutta and Bombay, Large Coin

Output, 373

Molybdenum—-see Iron and Steel

Motor Car Taxation in the United States, 463

Motor Cars in Europe, Census, 31

Motor Cars, Private, Manufacture in the United

States Practically Stopped for Lack of Material, 306

Motor Club in North China, 329

Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society, Series of Exhibitions, 463

Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society, Steam Vehicle Section, 531

Motor Vehicles and Equipment in United States, Largest Government Order ever given, 415

Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, £1000 Prize, 415

Mysore Gold Mines, Report, 439

N NATIONAL Comparisons of Production and Costs, England and Elsewhere, Sam Turner, 439

Nationalisation of Tran-port and Electric Supply, Mr. Lloyd George’s View, 439

Natural Gas Treatment for Recovery of Motor Spirit in America, 97

Natural Gas Wells Bored in China before the Christian Era, 243

Newspapers, After the War, 65

New Uses-of Certain Raw Products, 351

New Zealand and Hydro-electric Development, 404

New Zealand, Local Cold Storage Expansion, 307

New Zealand’s Petroleum Possibilities, 531

Niagara, Increased Water Power for War Purposes, 159

Nickel and Copper Works, New, in Ontario, Production Begun, 181

Nitric Acid from the Air, Extension of Bavarian Establishments for Production of, 139

Nitric Acid Production in the United States, 439

Nitrogen, Fixation of Atmospheric, Japanese Laboratory for Study, 395

Nitrogen Fixation, Extensive Literature and Patents Dealing with, 531

Nitrogen F.xation Patents ; Haber Process and German Duplicity, 201

Nitrogen, World’s Consumption, 323

Northampton Polytechnic Workshop’s Output for Woolwich Arsenal, 509

Norway Prohibits Contracts for Delivery of Goods Abroad for More than Six Months Ahead, 139

Norway’s First Fuel Factory, 373

Norway’s Unused Water Power to be Utilised for Replacing Coal Deficiency, 181

o OIL from Alum Schist in Sweden, Use in Crude or Converted Form, 463

Oil from the Antarctic Regions, 487

Oil Drilling in Derbyshire, 307

Oil Extraction from Schist, Factories in Sweden, 373

Oil Factories, Herring, in Norway, 415

Oil Fuel as Coal Substitute, Comparison, E. H. Peabody, 177

Oil Refineries, Waste of Fuel, 97

Old Tins, What to do with, 171

Omnibuses Running on Compressed Coal Gas, 97

Optical Effects in a Photographic Dark Room, 439

Optical Instruments, Better Joining Medium Much Needed, 509

Optical Instruments and “ Ghosts,” 307

Optical Pyrometer for Controlling Temperature of Gas Furnaces, 415

Output per Acre and per Worker and Railway Charges ; Comparison between United Kingdom and other Countries, Sam Turner, 439

Ovens, Electric—see also Electrical Matters

Ovens, Electric and Steam Heating Compared, 167

Oxide Film Lightning Arrester, 329

Oxy-acetylene Weldintr Efficiency, Satisfactory Tests, 395

p PAINTS and Enamels, Mixing, Good and Bad, 97

Paintwork of Motor Cars, 439

Paper Clothing of Vienna Tramway Conductresses, 287

Paper from Grass in South Africa, 463

Paper Substitute Driving Belts made in Germany, 373

Paper Supplies Improved by Use of Home-grown Products, 287

Paper Textiles in Germany, 272

Patents, Grants to Aliens since Outbreak of

War, 31

Peat Areas in Jutland, Utilisation of, 531

Peat Briquette Manufacture in Belfast, 307

Peat in Ireland, Price and Facilities for Conveyance, 117

Persona] Equation and Technical Difficulty, 463

Petrol-Electric Transmission, 447

Petrol Entropy Diagram, 139

Petrol Locomotives, Armoured, for Bringing up

Supplies to the Front in France, 382

Petrol for Passenger Vehicles : No Prohibition of its use in United States, 53

Petrol Production from Coal, Company Started in India, 307

Petroleum from Mexico, Increased Exports, 159

Petroleum Possibilities in New Zealand, 531

Phosphorus, Effect of, on Soft Steel, 117

Photography with Bromide Paper, Twenty

Years’ Life, 75

Pier, Very Large, at Vancouver, 31

“ Platino ” as Substitute for Platinum, Properties of, 201

Platinum Counterfeit Coins More Valuable than

the Real Thing, 9 ; (Letter), 30

Pneumatic Riveting Tools, Increasing Use in Clyde and Tyne Areas, 401

Potash from Germany Before the War, English Present Output,'53

Potash Recovery in a Gas-cleaning Plant;

Killing Two Birds with One Stone. 139

Potash Salts for Agriculture in France, Contrasted. Supply and Demand, 87

Precision Gauges and other Munitions, Work of the London County Council, 53!

Profit-sharing in Italy, 287

Q QUEENSLAND Coal Mines, Report for 1917* 382

Queensland Mineral Output, Expected Increase, 31

Queensland Mining—see also Iron and Steel

Quenching of Forgings, 117

R RADIOTELEGRAPHY, Scientific Problems of. Professor J. A. Fleming, 286

Radium, Substitute for, Dr. R. N. Moore, 395

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Aberdeen, County of, Rural Transport in, 243, 415

Accident Anniversaries in September and October, 265, 307

Accident Anniversaries in December, 531

Accident to Brooklyn Rapid Transit Train, 415

Accident to Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Train, 159

Administration of Railways in the Future, I 159

Air Brake Defects and Fuel Waste, 287

Aircraft Transport, Large Covered Vans Built at Swindon, 463

American Red Cross Canteen in Presidential State Rooms at Union Station, Washington, 139

American Ton-m:Ie Statistics, Proposal to Abandon Compilation Rejected, 139

Americans’ Capture of German Narrow Gauge Railway, Petrol Locomotives and Railway Material, 373

Appointments and Staff Changes, 53, 75, 97, 117, 158, 159, 221, 265, 307, 329, 415, 463, 487, 509, 553

Argentine Government Refuses Railways Permission to Increase Rates, 243

Armistice Day and Railwaymen’s Pay, 531

Australia and England, Divergent Opinion on Wharf and Railway Bill, 75

Australian Imports of Permanent Way Material, 1913 and 1916 Compared, 373

Baghdad Railway, Present Condition of Track and Rolling Stock, 553

Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway Taken up to Supply Material for Overseas, 75

Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Surveys and Extensions, 329

Birm’ngham Demonstration and London and North-Western Railway Suggestions, 351

Blackpool and Fleetwood Electric Railway, 139, 329

Blandford Station and Military Camp, New Railway, 463

Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Statistics, 31

Branch Railways, Power Sought for Construction of, 487

British Railways, Sacrifice of Wagons in War Interests, 139

Brooklyn Rapid Transit Train’s Fatal Derailment, 415

Brussels, Great Eastern Railway Steamer, Sunk in Raid on Zecbrugge, 395

Burma Railways, Increased Dividend, 509

Caledonian Railway, Reduction of Extra

Passenger Trains, 243

Cambrian and Furness Railways both

Damaged by Storm, 265

Cambrian Railway to Take over Tanat Valley Railway, 351

Cambrian Railways, Carriage of Timber, 395

Canada and New Zealand, Railway Policy, Comparisons, 329

Canadian Government’s Foresight in Provision of Locomotives, 531

Canadian Industry during Transition from War to Peace, Government Action, 509

Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific Companies Exchange of Facilities to Promote Economy and Good Service, 509

Canadian-Pacific Service Flag and Employees with the Colours, 509

Canadian Railroads, and Wages Increase, 287

Canadian Railway Collisions and Automatic Control, 509

Canadian Railway Congestion Relieved by Double Tracking, 553

Canadian Railway War Board, New Wages Scale, 221

Canals and Railways, Board of Trade Control, 9

Cape Central Railway as a Private Concern, Question of Government Taking it Over, 265

Carriers’ Liability, London and North-Western Railway Loses Case, 75

Castlecomer Railway Construction, Irish Members’ Complaint, 53

Castle comer Railway and the Great Southern and Western Railway, 159

Castlecomer—see also Great Southern and Western

Ceylon Government Railways, Report, 329

Charges on Goods Transport, Prepayment Proposed, 53

China, Need of Locomotives in, 391

Christmas Holidays and Travelling Facilities, 463

Clermont-Auvergne-Alais Railway Electrification, Hydro-electric Works in La Lozere, 433

Coal for Railway Use, Diminished Supplies and Probable Further Reduction in Train Services, 243

Coal Rationing in Ireland, Non-existent, 97

Coal in Trucks for Private Consumers

Liable to Commandeering, 287

Collision, Another Disastrous, in the United States, 75, 439

Collision, Disastrous, on Indiana Railway, 31

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued) :

Collision between Goods Trains on the London and North-Western Railway, 181, 287

Communication Chain on Trains, Illegal Use, 553

Conciliation Board on the Great Western Railway, Retirement of Chairman and New Appointment, 509

Continental Loading Gauge for Railway Vehicles, 265 ; (Correction), 329

Continental Time System for the British Army, 265

Continuous Brakes and Abolition of Private

Ownership of Wagons, 487

Cork, Railway Connection Much Needed, 415

Crewe Mayoralty Accepted by Chief Mechanical Engineer of London and North-Western Railway, 307

Damage to Cars and Cargoes by Careless Shunting, 287, 39.5

Death of Mr. Thomas A. Armstrong, 97

Mr. Peter Drummond, 53

Mr. C. A. Goodnow, 287

the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, 463

Mr. Adam Hunter, 97

Mr. John Frederick Robinson, 97 Sir Frederick Upcott, 395 Mr. G. J. Whitelaw. 487

Demobilisation Schemes, Train Arrangements, 531

Dividends, Increased, on Various Railways, 97, 117, 139

Eight Hours’ Day for Railway Traffic Employees in United Kingdom, 509

Federated Malay States, Bangkok and Penang Through Service Opened, 351

Fertilisers in Agr culture, Carriage Rates and Distribution, 117

Fish from Ireland Spo:lt by Transit Delay, 75 France, Northern Railway of, Wanton Destruction of Property by Germans, 531 France, State Ra.lway System of, Rolling Stock Statistics, 31

Freight Congestion in the United States, Canadian Cars Held Up, 531

French Railway Accident, Decision, 97

French Railways and State Control Question, 351

Fry, Sir Edward, the Late, as Arbitrator in Railway D.spute, 373

German Systematic Destruction of French Railway Property, 53.1

Germans’ Wilful Damage to Great Northern Railway Carriages, 265

Glasgow and South-Western Railway and Ayr Harbour, Commissioners’ Decision, 329 Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Death of Locomotive Superintendent, 53 ; Appointment of Successor, 75

Glasgow and South-Western Train Service, Curtailment Due to Coal Scarcity, 304

Glover, Colonel G. T., Locomotive Engineer to Great Northern Railway, Ireland, 265

Government Control of Trade and of Railways, Criticism, 181

Government and Trade Union Negotiations Resumed, 221

Grain Sacks, Charge for Hire of, from Railways Increased, 307

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to Build Ships at Prince Rupert, 181

Great Northern Ra i waymen Abstained from Joining Strike, 351

Great Northern Three-cylinder Engine, Mr.

Gresley’s Good Working Results, 265

Great Southern and Western Railway, Progress of Connections with Wolfhill and with Castlecomer Collieries, 53, 415

Great Western Railway. Standard Locomotives, Classification, 553

Great Western Railway, Withdrawal of Rail Motor Service to Welsh Colliery, Protests and Inquiry, 75

Heated Corn in Transit Preserved by Use of Compressed Air, 201

Holiday Traffic Limited by Railway Executive Committee, 9, 75

Import Traffic Rates, Home and Foreign Merchandise, 463

Independence Day and United States Railroads, 117

India’s Contribution of Railway Material, Rolling Stock and Labour for Mesopotamia and Palestine, 181

Inexperienced Railway Staffs and Need of Patience, 395

Influenza Masks Compulsory on Alberta Trains, 509

Ingot Iron Plates for* Locomotive Fire-boxes, Causes of Damage, 447

Institutions, Railway—acs Associations

Ipswich Dock Bill and the Gas Company, 97 Ireland, Passengers’ Route Restrictions Withdrawn, 463

Ireland, Suggested Construction of Tunnel Connection, 395

Irish Boats, Holyhead and North Wall, Normal Night Sailings Resumed, 487, 509

Irish Coal and Iron, Position of County Sligo, 415

Irish Coal MiTie, Railway Connection with, 159

Irish Mail Boats, Alteration to Daylight Sailing, and Consequent Train Changes, 287, 329, 400, 463

Irish Mails, Expiring Contract, 31 ; Renewal of Contract, 159,

Irish Railways and Coal Shortage, 97

Irish Reconstruction, Contradictory Statements, 531

Irish Sub-committee of Committee on Transport, Big Schemes, 221

Irish Timber and Turf, Question of Improved Railway Transit, 415

Irish Traffic Delays Due to Enemy Action, A on

Iron and Coal Trades and North Staffordshire Railway Rates, 404

Italian New Three-phase Locomotives, 139

J ubilee of the Metropolitan District Railway, 463

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Change of Chairman, 307 ; Death of Late Chairman, Sir G. Armytage, 439

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Collision, 221

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Damaged and Trains Delayed by Cloud Burst, 75

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued)

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, “ Rationing ” Holiday Traffic, 9, 75, 159, 265

Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Deposit Bill for New Railway, 487

Light Railway Commission Inquiries, Report for 1917, 97 1

Light Railway for New Dyeing Industry in the Ellesmere Port District, 221

Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 265

Light Railways Commission, Powers Continued at Reduced Cost, 31

Lights, Standard Head, for Engines, New Code to Economise Oil, 159, 287

Llandrindod Wells Connection with Cambrian Company, 351

Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association, 463 Locomotive Returned to Crewe with Message from France, 221

Locomotives After the War, Baldwin Locomotive Company’s Anticipations, 201

Locomotives, Armoured Petrol, for 'J aking Supplies in France to the Front, 382

Locomotives Lying Idle in Large Numbers through Lack of Repairers, 487

London, Brighton and South Coast’s Motor Car Train Service between West Croydon and Wimbledon, 373

London Electric Railways Company : Purchase of Land in Westminster, 395

London and North-Western Disaster Averted by Signalman, 307

London and North-Western Railway Roll of Honour, .395

London and North-Western Resumed Early Morning Service from Euston to Ireland, 373

London and South-Western Railway, Abolition of Second Class, 31

London and South Western Railway Allotments under Cultivation, 243

Longridge and Helhfield Proposed Light Railway, 373

Lord Rhondda as Railway Director, 31

Shaughnessy, Recognition of his Services by McGill University, 53

McAdoo, Mr. W. G.; Resignation as Director-General, 463

Mansfield Railway Company’s Proposed New Branches, 487

Marseilles Expresses, Terrible Disaster, 265 lI<?nnncKai” -District Railway Carrying 7000 Soldiers Daily, 558 6

Mexico, Proposed ’Extension of Railway from Tampico to Higo, 8

Railway Control of Dravmen, 395 Midland Railway Friendly Society’s In-vi VuStn?9nt National War Bonds, 108 Midland Railway’s Further Investment in war Loan, 463

Military Stores by Passenger Trains, Complaints, 351

Motor Car Train Service, Wimbledon and West Croydon, 373

Motor Trollies for Signal Maintainers, Saving of Labour, 287

yrapcP0it Workers’ Federation, Wholesale Demands, 553

National Union of Railwaymen, Members Killed in the War, 463

N^ional Union of Railwaymen and Mr.

•I. H. Thomas, 351

National Un;on of Railwaymen, Mr. J. H „ ihomas’ Report, 53

Nationalisation of Railways, Mr. Winston Churchill on, 553

New South Wales, Expenditure on Railway and tramway Construction since 1850. 9

New South Wales Railways, Signalling Device, 415 ®

New Year Staff Changes, 553

281 RaiIway System, New Line Opened, N%d Railway, Valenciennes Station and the Signalling System, 439

2 ord-Sud of Paris, Great Increase in Passengers, nearly 50 per cent. Women Employees, 415

North-Eastern Railway and Coal Saving, 509 ^ 553 Eastern Railway’s Proposed Bridge, North-Eastern Railway Sheds and Electric Rolling Stock Destroyed by Fire at Newcastle, 139

November’s Accidents Record Recalled, 439 Oil-burning Locomotives, United States statistics, 53

Orleans Railway. Mechanical Cleaning for Carriages and also for Hired Cabs, 117

Packing of Goods Sent by Railway, Need of Improvement,. 31

•Parcels by Passenger Train, Revision of Rates, 328, 373

Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway Disaster, 265 J

anc* Mediterranean Railway.

Electrification of Branch Line, 423 leat in Ireland, Railway Conveyance, 117 Pennsylvania Railroad and War Workers, Heavy Daily Traffic, 53

Piccadilly Tube, Broken Axle Causes Great Delay to Traffic. 75

Pooling Scottish Railway Wagons. 97

Pooling Wagons, all Now Included. 159

1 repayment of Merchandise Transport be heme Postponed, 221 • ■ ’

Pr|jjOge Tickets Overcrowded Railways, Quebec Bridge Question of Running Powers over the Bridge, 97 6

Queensland Railway Development, Room for

Improved Methods, 373

Question Record at Paddington. 243

Kail Head Distortions and Wheel Loads American Railway Investigations, 181

Radway Benevolent Institution Flag-day, R vtpancyt”163 °anal Commission’ Death Radway Clerks’ Association and the Railway Executive Committee, 307 J

RaiisTa287U3t51i,a5(yjXPOrtS Statistics’ 9’ 139> Rajiway Material Shortage, Light Railway

Taken up, tor Overseas Purposes, 75 “lmaytiSrWwnd Rai'Way °aZette’ Amal-

RaonW<394 °liOy Kfter th® War’ Sir A- Stanley

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con tinned):

Railway Traffic to London Waterside Stations, Demurrage Payment Demands, 31

Rates Increased for Transport of Candles,

St Glycerine, &c.» between Bromborough Joint Railway and London, 243

Rationing Tickets on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 9, 75, 159, 265

Restricted Service, Week-end Travelling Inadvisable, 53

Restrictions on Travelling, 31

Return Tickets and Through Booking Restrictions, 201

Royal Marine Engineers Employed to Supply Deficient Civilian Labour for Railway Making, 9

Safety Measures on the North London Railway, 201

St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, Improved Access for Pedestrians, 265

Scottish Railway Stocks and Shared, New Association, 181, 395, 531

Scottish Railways and Harbours, Private Legislation Commissioners’ Decision, 329 Season Ticket Question under Consideration, 463

Season Ticket Regulations for Mercantile Marine, 159

Season Ticket Restrictions Removed, 487

Season Tickets, Interavailability of, and Clerical Labour, 117

Shipping Shortage and Over-burdened Rail Transport at Bristol, 287

Signal, Position Light, under Test by Metropolitan Railway, 351

Sligo’s Reported Coal and Iron and the New Railway Line from Arigna, 415

Soldiers’ Leave and Week-end Travelling, 117

South African Railway Administration, Criticisms said to be Unwarranted, 75

South African Railways, Economy and Need of Grain Elevators, 487

South African Railways and Harbours, Change of Date of Report, 207

South - Eastern and Chatham Railway, Dispute with the Gravesend Corporation, 487

South - Eastern and Chatham Steamers, Senior Engineer Retires, 221

Stephenson, not Stevenson, George, 243

Stockholders’ Association, England, to Follow Scottish Example, 531

Superannuation Funds, Suggested Reinvestment, 159

Sweden’s Proposed Railway Electrification, 553

Swedish Railways and Government Control, 329

Swedish Train’s Terrible Disaster, 307

Switzerland Ocean Project for New Railway, Turin to Bordeaux, 139

Telephoning and Accidents, Need of More Accurate Wording of Inquiries, 97

Thomas, Mr. J. H., on Nationalisation of Railways, 531

Torpedoed Steamer Dundalk, Death of Mr.

S. J. Cocks, 373

Traffic for Shipment through Port of London, Railway Executive Stipulations, 467

Train Service, Further Reductions Contemplated, 181

Train Service, No Further Reductions Expected, 395

Tramway Transportation of Fire-clay and Coal, 415

Tramway Transportation of Parcels Pe r-mitted in Sheffield, 415

Tramways, Consumption of Electricity, J. M. McElroy, 351

Transport Company Refused Permission to Increase Capital, 395

Transport Facilities in the United Kingdom, Committee Appointed, 139, 159

Transportation by Rail, Road and Canal, Mr. Lloyd George’s Views, 439

Trans-Siberian Railway, Future National Management, 395

Travelling Facilities, Increase Already Up to Power of Engines and Length of Platforms, 463

Uganda Railway, General Manager, 117

Underground Railways, Congestion, Insufficient Rolling Stock, 509

Union of South Africa Railways and Harbours, General Manager Coming to Peace Conference, 4 87 s «

United States Rail Production in 1917 201

United States Railroad Brotherhood and “ Safety First ” Measures, 201

United States Railroad Trainmen Brotherhood ; Members in the American Army and Navy, 201

United States Railroad, Transportation of Coal, 53

United States Transportation of Grain, 307

United States Transportation of Troops, 201

United States Railroads under Federal Control: Administration Considering Question of New Locomotive Plant or Loans to Existing Builders, 234, 307

Administration to Dredge and Operate Portion of Cape Cod Canal, 221

Administration and Railroad Bonds, 373

Administration and Wages of Shop Craftsmen, 315

Atlantic Ports, Greatly Reduced Congestion of, Since December, 1917, 415

Bureau of Railway Economics, Effort to Continue its Existence, 9, 139

Class I. Railroads, Earnings, 315

Connections of Passenger Trains, Needed Improvement, 117

Federal Control, Effects, Saving of Interest on Loan, 53

Fire Insurance Abandoned in View of Operation as a Single System, 139

Fire Insurance, Change of Policy, 373

Fuel Economy by Skip-stop System, 243

Government Control, Suggested Permanence. 553

Government Enlarges President’s Power to Control Urban Electric Lines, 9

Government Payment for Use of Railways, Expected Heavy Deficit in Working Cost, 9

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

United States Railroads under Federal Control (continued): Government Regulation of Necessary Work, 221

Interstate Commerce Commission, Suggested Improved Rails to Avoid Accidents, 201 ; Violation of Statutes for Promotion of Safety, 439

Large Locomotive Orders from Baldwin Company, 221

Locomotives for France : Demand for War Purposes Necessitates Restrictions in the United States, 439

Locomotives and Superheating, 181

Maintenance of Way, Difficulties of Material and Labour Shortage, 97

New Engines to Haul Trains from Makers to the Railway Company, 139

New Federal Railroad Managers, 242

New Locomotives, Distribution of Orders for 1415 Engines, 139

Nine Hours a Day for Maintenance of Way, 553

Orders for Locomotives and Freight Cars, 53

Pennsylvania Railway Tracks and Tunnels Opened for Use by other Companies, 439 Presidential Control and the Coming of Peace, 487, 509

Privately Owned Passenger Cars Taken Over, 307

Railroad Bridge Spans in Stock to be Used in Other Districts, 201

Railroad Fares, Suggested Schools for Instruction of Officials, 117

Railroad Scrap Metal, Limit on Prices, 117 Railroads and Shortage of Rubber, 117 Standardisation, Permanent Committee Appointed, 243

Steel, Removal of Embargo on Use of, for Non-War Projects, Railways Benefit, 531 Suggested Use of Letters Instead of Postcards between Railways and Shippers, 75 Terminal Unification ; Emergency War Measures, 307

United States Soldiers, Proposed Cent a Mile Fares, Opposition, 5G9

Wagons and Contents Damaged in Shunting, 287

Women on Railroads ; Increased Employment, but Additional Safeguards, 243, 307

Wooden Cars on Railways ; Statistics, 53

Victoria Government Railways, New Chief Engineer, 415

Wagon Bearing Plate Spring Used Since 1894 and as Good as Ever, 9

Wagons Damaged in Shunting, 395

Wagons for Iron Transport in the North, 221 Wagons, Railway Owned; Common User, and Channel Ferry, 553

Wagons, Second-hand, Dealing Without a Permit, 395

War Wages, Further Demands, Conference, and Awards, 181, 307

War Wages, New Agreement for Automatic Increase, 466

Waterloo System for Receipt of Shop Parcels, 395

Women Railway Workers in Procession at Royal Silver Wedding, 31

Women as “ Signalmen ; ” Divided Opinion as to Fitness, 181

Women’s Labour on Railway Main Lines, 221 Women’s Strike on the London Tube Railways, 181

RAND Water Board—see Water Supply

Raw Products Turned to Fresh Purposes, 351 Reconstruction, The Aims of, 239 Reconstruction Committees Formed ; Progress.

531

Reconstruction Lectures, 391

Reconstruction, Ministry of, and Trade Conferences, 553

Refrigerating Plant for the United States Army in France, 487

Refuse Disposal, Prize Essay, 553

Reinforced Concrete—see also Concrete

Reinforced Concrete Chimneys, Vibration of, 243

Reinforced Concrete Floors, Effect of Brine, 329 Rifles and Cupro-Nickel Fouling, Necessary Measures, 31

Road Board Improvement Fund Allocations, 351 /,

Road Costs in the Maidstone District, 329

Road Siding Defects and Remedy, 439

Road Work as Means of Employment, Government Grant, 531

Roads for War Purposes, Army Council Committee, 415

Roberts, Lady, Fund and Return of Field Glasses, 553

Roumania’s Need of Agricultural Implements, 499

Rubber, Synthetic, Discussion at German Bunsen Society, 243

Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germans, 560

Rubber of the World : Distribution and Value, 35

Russia the Principal Customer Before the War for Silesian Zinc, 373

Russian Locomotive Output and War Repairs, 351

Russia’s Heavy Losses of all Kinds, Due to Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 201

Rust-inhibitive Coating from Blue Lead, 139

s SAILORS and Soldiers, Discharged, Separate

Employment Exchange, 287

Salters’ Institute of Industrial Chemistry, 287

Salvage, Wholesale, 373

Sawdust for Extinction of Petrol Fires, 75

Scales and Weighing Machines 386

Scheelite—see Iron and Steel, 487

Scientific and Industrial Research. Inquiry by Committee on Metallurgy of Copper and Zinc, 531

Screwing Tackle Manufacturers Form Association, 351

Scythes in Russia, Great Scarcity, 487

Serbia, Mineral Resources oi, 21

Sesame Cultivation in Tonkin and Elsewhere, 221

Sewage Experiments in New York, 31

Sewage of London, Suggested Scheme for Profitable Use, 75

Sewage and Water Disinfection in the United States, 75

Shell Production in Canada, 181

Shells Fired on the Western Front, Activities of Controller of Machine Tools,’ 553

Ship Canal from Doncaster or Sheffield to the Sea vid Goole, Projected, 102

Shipbuilding, Engineering and Steel Commercial Staff’s Association, Formation, 561

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : Additional Shipbuilding Berths at Northumberland Shipyard, 201

American Shipbuilding Workers, 221

America’s Large Submarines, 139

Belfast Firms, Shipbuilding, Amalgamation of Two, 415

Belfast's Shipbuilding Growth during War, 415

Canadian Output of Ocean Ships, 213

Clan MacWilliam, Large Cargo Carrier, Launched, 418

Concrete Shipbuilding Seventy Years Ago and Since, 221

Concrete Ships have Come to Stay, 201

Concrete Ships and New Yards for Building Them in U.S.A., 159

Concrete Ships, No Protective Composition Needed for Hulls, 373

Concrete Ships, Suggested Building in Floating Dry Docks, 181

Concrete Steamship Faith, Excellent Performance in Exceptionally Rough Weather, 97

Concrete Vessels, Severe Tests of. 307

Electric Welding and Lloyd’s Register, 221

Electric Welding for Ship Construction, A. J. Mason, 75

Electric Welding for Ships, Plant in the United States, 509

Electric Welding in Shipbuilding, Divided Opinion, Commander S. V. Goodall, 531

Electrically Welded Ships, First Vessel Built in America, 509

Fabricated Ship, First, Designed by Sir W.

G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 415

Fabricated Ship, First National, as Pattern, Dstails of Construction, 329—see also Miscellaneous Index

Ferro-concrete Shipbuilding in Ireland, New Yard for, 415

Harland and Wolff’s Engines for Other Firms’ Standard Ships, 351

Hospital Bed Endowment Chosen by Shipyard Workers as Reward for Rapid Shipbuilding, 373

Japanese Shipbuilding for the Entente Powers, 53

Large Merchant Ships Recently Launched, 329

Lloyd’s Register and Concrete Ships, 439

Marine Engineers’ Responsibility and Great Need of Efficiency, 75

Merchant Shipbuilding in the United States, Enormous Increase, 221

Pneumatic Riveting Tools in Shipyards, 401

Rapid Ship Construction in United States, 97

Repair of Ships by the Admiralty, Large Numbers, British and Foreign, Dealt with, 487

Riveting in Shipyard Work, Hand and Pneumatic, Comparison, 531

Salvage of Steamship Arabv, Interesting, 362

Shipbuilding Before the War, British Much Cheaper than Canadian, 75

Ships, Docks, &c., in United States. Plans not to be Carried out of the Country except by U.S. Officials or Representatives, 243

Smart Work at Shipyard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 181

Steam Traps on Board Ship, 75

Tankers, New Concrete, in U.S.A., 159

United States Future Shipping Expansion, Lieut. Commander Stevenson-Taylor, 553

United States Shipyard Accidents, Reported Exaggeration, 196

Wooden Ship Repaired with Concrete, 531

Work in the Shipyards, 210

SIAM’S Imports of Cutlery, &c., Japan Ousting Germany, 181

Silesian Zinc, Falling Off in Metal and also Ore, 373

Silica Brick and the Transformation of Quartz, H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitsch, 373

Silicon in Metallic Iron Experiments, 493

Sisal Hemp Cultivation in Antigua, 463 Societies—see Associations, &c.

Soiree to Celebrate Armistice, 564

Solder, Cadmium Suggested as Substitute for Tin, 75

South Africa, Expansion of Industry and Municipal Proposals, 553

South African Mine Training School, the Third Started by Government, 31

Souvenir of the War, Simplex Conduits, Limited, 564

Spirit for Industrial Purposes from Moss, &c., Distillery in Sweden, 186

Spruce, Fifty Million Feet Exported from America for Aircraft, 395

Steam Users and Coal Wastage, 351

Stellar Parallax, Progress and Improved Instruments, 97

Stellite, Non-ferrous Alloy, Properties of, 439

Storage Warehouses, &c., for Army Material in the United States, 262

Suez Canal Receipts Greatly Reduced by the War, 75

Sugar Cane Insufficiently Cultivated in the West Indies, 53

Sugar from the Palm and Sugar Cane, 117

Sulphuric Acid Production in United Kingdom, 373

Sulphuric Acid Substitutes from Waste Pro* ducts, 373

Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Training Scheme for Mechanics, 351

Synthetic Rubber, Discussion at German

Bunsen Society Meeting, 243

T TASMANIA as an Ideal Hydro electric Centre, 329

Tax of £46,000,000 Paid by one Firm, 53

Telegraph Systems and State Control, in United

Kingdom and U.S.A., J 59

Telephones, Automatic, in Shanghai, 395

Temperature Variations in Engines, Rapid

Measurement by New Apparatus, 159

Thermos Flask Not a Foreign Invention, 243

Thimbles, Great Shortage on the Continent, Government Metal Permit to Brass Founders Employers’ Association, 97

Timber for Building, Suggested War Economy, 415

Timber Question in Great Britain, Afforestation Difficulties, 307

Timber Scarcity after the War : a Suggestion, 112

Timber, Scientific Technology of, State Promotion of Research Desirable, 75

Timber of Scots Pine, its Value, 117

Timber Stocks in the United Kingdom, Census, 31

Tin Plate in Australia, Great Scarcity for Meat and Jam Packing, 159

Tin Plate Output in America, Enormous Increase since the McKinley Tariff, 139

Tins, Old, What to do with, 171

Toluol from Gas in America, Great Expectations, 243

Tractor, Throe Wheel Electric, to Replace Horses for Wagon Drawing, 31

Training at Loughborough, Suggested Continuance, 553

Training for Mechanics at Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson’s Works, 351

Transport Industry, Joint Industrial Council, 531

Transport in the United Kingdom, Need of Improvement after the War, Mr. Lloyd George, 242

T.N.T. Purification Difficult, 415

T.N.T. Work, Improved Hea-’th of Workers, 75

Tungsten—tec Iron and Steel

Tunnel Driving in New York, Shield of Unusual Size Employed, 31

Tunnel. Otira, New Zealand, Progress of. 412

Typewriters in Japan, 329

UNITED States Development of Wireless Telegraphy, 97

Exports of Tin-plates, Terneplates and Taggers Tin, 20 per cent. Increase, 509 Foreign Trade, Growth of,553 Government and Groat Telegraph Companies, 463

Oil Shales Hitherto Unused, 201

Trade Markings, 487

Trade Statistics, Date of Compilation. 487

Units ana Unity, Napier Shaw, 31

VALVES, Revolving, of Internal Combustion, Engines, Capt. B. C. Hucks’ Method, 439 Varnish and Enamel, .Alcohol Proof, Jensen and Nichol-on, 108

Vegetable Wax, Extraction of, as a Japanese Industry, 463

Vehicles, British Army, in France, 553

Vickers, Limited, Resignation of Chairman, 243 Volumetric Tests on Scientific Glassware, N. P. Laboratory's Pamphlet, ]49

WASTE Products, Striking Economy by Utilisation of, 373

Waterproofing Mixture, French, for Leather, Cloth, Paper, &c._, 183

WATER SUPPLY: American Water Works Association, Cost Increase in Inverse Proportion to Efficiency, 509

Barrage, Vaal River, Rand Water Scheme, 31!

Bombav Agricultural Department, Bores for Wells, 307

Brisbane Water Supply, 298

Cape Town’s Water Supply, 307

Chlorination Treatment of Water in America, Satisfactory Results, 181

Water Power in France, Greatly Increased Utilisation since Outbreak of War, 373

Water Power in Great Britain Available for Development, Less than One-tenth in Use, 287

Water Power from Natural Supplies, Very Long Time for Observation Necessary to Determine Action. 287

Wells for the Allied Forces on the Continent, 75

WATT, Janies, Organ Built by him Given to Glasgow Corporation, 9

Welding.. Autogenous, Importance of Purity of Added Metal, 307

Wire Pope Lubrication, Importance of Method, 351

Wireless Communication between United Kingdom and Australia, 287

Wireless System to Connect Larin-America and United States, 117

Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Motor Truck, 373

Wolfram Mining in Bohemia, 307

Wolfram Ore in China, 181, 221

Wood Protection in Damp Situations, 307

Wooden Poles, Zinc Fluoride Recommended as Preservative, 373, 463

Workman’s Time and Balance Book, 66

World’s Submarine Cables, Private and National, Analysis, 351 *

Y YARN Production from Paper, Long Known in Japan, 531

ZINC Fluoride as a Preservative of Wooden Poles, 373, 463

Zinc Ores Mined in Canada, Proposed Bounties on, 201

Zinc Output of Australia, 9

Zirconia, Recommended Addition of, to

Graphite used for Smelting Crucibles, 14

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