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ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149 | ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149 | ||
Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver- sidge, Ltd., vii | |||
Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver-sidge, Ltd., vii | |||
Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422 | Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422 | ||
AERONAUTICS : | AERONAUTICS : | ||
See al*o Annua) Articles | |||
Aero-engines—aee Engines | |||
Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586 | Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586 | ||
French Air Services, 659 | |||
French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554 | |||
International Register of Aircraft, 244 | |||
AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104 | AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104 | ||
Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co.. | Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co.. | ||
Ltd., 217 | |||
Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559 | Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559 | ||
Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203 | Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203 | ||
Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323 | Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323 | ||
Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters | Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters | ||
Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121 | Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121 | ||
Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412 | Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412 | ||
America and Groat Britain, 415 | America and Groat Britain, 415 | ||
America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways | America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways | ||
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ; | AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ; | ||
468, 610, 638 | |||
Burning Wood Waste, 638 | |||
High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610 | |||
High-speed Oil Engines, 638 | |||
Improvements in Pointsand Crossings, 610 | |||
New Port, 611 | |||
Permanent Way Recording Car, 468 | |||
.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv | Pipe Lines for Oil, 468 | ||
Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336 | |||
Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel | Power in the /American Steel Industry, 610 | ||
ANNUAL ARTICLES : | |||
Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638 | |||
Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610 | |||
Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468 | |||
Track Shifting Machine, 610 | |||
Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610 | |||
.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv | |||
Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336 | |||
Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel | |||
ANNUAL ARTICLES : | |||
Aeronautics in 1926, 19, 34 | |||
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Aircraft Engines—see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19 | |||
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.: | Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.: | ||
All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37 | All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37 | ||
•* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37 | •* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37 | ||
Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37 | Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37 | ||
A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.: | |||
Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35 | Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35 | ||
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) | ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) | ||
Aeronautics in 1926 (continued): | |||
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.: | Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.: | ||
“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls- Royce Falcon Engine. 37 | “ Ripon ” Torpedo Aeroplane. 37 | ||
“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls-Royce Falcon Engine. 37 | |||
“ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37 | “ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37 | ||
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35 | Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35 | ||
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.: | |||
Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36 | Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36 | ||
Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34 | Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34 | ||
Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34 | Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34 | ||
Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.: | |||
'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35 | 'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35 | ||
Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.; | |||
Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37 | Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37 | ||
“ Coral ” All-steel Aeroplane, 37 | |||
“Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37 | “Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37 | ||
Handley Page, Ltd.: | |||
“ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19 | “ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19 | ||
“ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) | “ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) | ||
Hawker Engineering Co.. Ltd.: | |||
“ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) | “ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) | ||
65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21 | 65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21 | ||
Short Brothers, Ltd.: | |||
All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20 | |||
Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20 | Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20 | ||
“ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927) | “ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.: | |||
“ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | “ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Vickers Ltd.: | |||
“ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21 | “ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21 | ||
Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.: | |||
Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Bridges in 1926, 7 | |||
(Supplement, January 1th, \Wl) | |||
Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) : | ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) : | ||
Bridges in 1926 (continued): | |||
Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927) | Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927) | ||
Electrical Engineering in 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Converters. Automatic Sub-station, Soho-square. 25 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) | |||
Electric Traction, 43 | |||
50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried. | |||
Krupp, 43, 44 | |||
Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43 | Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43 | ||
Miscellaneous, 44 | |||
Research, 25 | |||
Telephones, 44 | |||
Television, 26 | |||
The Baird Televisor. 26 | |||
Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43 | Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43 | ||
High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A. | |||
Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43 | |||
Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26 Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Harbours and Waterways in 1926, 38 The United Kingdom, 38 | |||
British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38 | British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38 | ||
Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38 | Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38 | ||
Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38 | Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38 | ||
Southampton, 38 | |||
Africa, 39 | |||
Australasia, 39 | |||
Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39 | Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39 | ||
European Ports and Waterways, 38 | |||
North and South America, 39 | |||
Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January | |||
Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84 Locomotives of 1926, 3 | |||
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | |||
Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January llh, 1927) | |||
Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6 | London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6 | ||
Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5 | |||
New Standard Goods Engine, Extended | |||
Use of, 5 | |||
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) : | ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) : | ||
Locomotives in 1926 (continued): | |||
Southern Railway. 4 | |||
Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | ||
Locomotive Industry, 6 | |||
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7 | Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7 | ||
Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight- coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7 | |||
Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight-coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7 | |||
Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7 | Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7 | ||
North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | ||
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7 | Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7 | ||
Light Locomotives, 7 | |||
Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7 | Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7 | ||
Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7 | Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7 | ||
Motor Vessels and Marine On. Engines in 1926, 8 | |||
(Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) | |||
Double-acting Engines, 8 | |||
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd.. | |||
8. 10 | |||
Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9 | Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9 | ||
Opposed-piston Engines, 11 | |||
Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser- M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12 | |||
Dox ford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10. 11 Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11 Progress in Europe and America, 11 | |||
Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser-M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12 | |||
Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8 | Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8 | ||
Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis. | |||
Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) | Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) | ||
Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9 | |||
Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | ||
Smaller Marine Motors, 11 | |||
Some New Directions of Development, II | |||
Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12 | Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12 | ||
Naval Construction in 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | |||
British Empire, 2 | |||
France, 3 | |||
French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) | French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) | ||
Italy, 3 | |||
Japan, 3 | |||
Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3 | |||
Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) | ||
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued): | ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued): | ||
Naval Construction in 1926 (continued) : | |||
United States, 2 | |||
Minor Navies, 3 | |||
Railways in 1926, 42 | |||
Great Western, 42 | |||
London, Midland and Scottish, 42 | |||
London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’ | London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’ | ||
Metropolitan, 43 | |||
Southern, 42 | |||
Underground. 43 | |||
Sanitary Engineering in 1926. 55 | |||
General, 55 | |||
Bradford. 55 | |||
Leeds, 55 | |||
Leicester, 55 | |||
London Main Drainage, 55 | |||
Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22 | Manchester, 55 | ||
Main Drainage, 55 | |||
Outfall Works, 55 | |||
Portobello (Edinburgh), 55 | |||
West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55 | |||
Works in Progress or in Contemplation. 55 | |||
France, 55 | |||
Other Works Abroad, 56 | |||
Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering in 1926, 22 | |||
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | |||
Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22 | |||
High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22 | |||
Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22 | Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22 | ||
Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22 | Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22 | ||
Repairs and Reconditioning, 22 | |||
(3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22 | (3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22 | ||
High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23 | High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23 | ||
Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23 | |||
Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24 | Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24 | ||
Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23 | Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23 | ||
Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23 | |||
Some Dredgers of 1926, 23 | |||
Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23 | Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23 | ||
L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23 | L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23 | ||
Conclusion, 24 | |||
Water Supply in 1926, 24 | |||
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | |||
General, 24 | |||
Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | ||
Birmingham, 51 | |||
Cardiff, 51 | |||
Llwynon Reservoir, 52 | |||
Roughing Filters, 52 | |||
Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52 | |||
Wenallt Reservoir, 52 | |||
Durham County Water Board. 52 | |||
Glasgow, 53 | |||
Liverpool. Vyrnwy Supply. 24 | |||
Aber Tunnel, 24 | |||
Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24 | |||
Londonderry, 52 | |||
Manchester, 51 | |||
H aweswat er Scheme, 5! | |||
Heaton Park Reservoir, 51 | |||
Thirlmere, 51 | |||
Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51 | |||
Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53 | |||
Bradford. 53 | |||
Exeter, 53 | |||
Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53 | |||
Metropolitan Water Board, 51 | |||
Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51 | |||
Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) | |||
Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51 | |||
Works for the Improvement of Supply | |||
South of the Thames. 51 | |||
Works at Hampton. 51 | |||
Nottingham. 52 | |||
Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52 | |||
Colwick Hill Reservoir. 52 | |||
East wood Filtration Plant, 52 | |||
Plymouth, 52 | |||
Preston, 52 | |||
Taf Feehan, 53 | |||
Wakefield. 52 | |||
Bombay, 53 | |||
France, 53 | |||
Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53 | |||
South Australia, 53 | |||
Ot her Works Abroad, 53 | |||
Irrigation, 54 | |||
ARMOURING Machine—tee Electrical Matters | |||
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES | |||
Association, Diesel Engine Users' : | |||
Consumers’ Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504 | |||
High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday. 298 | |||
Association of Engineers, Manchester : | |||
Annual Dinner, 71 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E. | |||
Windeler, 354 | |||
Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 8. Howden, 125 | |||
Modern Developments in Steam Pressures. | |||
W. Bayliss, 280 | |||
Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235 | |||
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): | |||
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical: | |||
Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622 | |||
Annual General Meeting, 624 | |||
Dinner, 624 | |||
Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624 | |||
High- | |||
Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607 | |||
Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607 Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles. 622 | |||
Institute, Iron and Steel: | |||
Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541 | |||
Annual Report, 513 | |||
Annual Dinner, 516 | |||
ACj Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543 | |||
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541. 557 Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530 | |||
Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544 Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. 558 Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543 | |||
Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516 | |||
Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515 | |||
Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514 | |||
Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514 | |||
Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molyb-denum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544 | |||
Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543 | |||
The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516 | |||
Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543 | |||
Institute of Marine Engineers ; | |||
Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411 | |||
Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273 | |||
Institute of Metals : | |||
Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322 Programme, 184 | |||
Autumn Meeting, 184 | |||
Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322 | |||
Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322 | |||
Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322 | |||
Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322 | |||
Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322 | |||
Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294 | |||
Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294 | |||
Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294 | |||
Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295 | |||
Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322 | |||
Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323 | |||
Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323 | |||
Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323 | |||
Seventh Maj* Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527 | |||
Institution of Chemical Engineers : | |||
Annual Dinner, 326 | |||
Annuel General Meeting, 326 | |||
Conference, 193 | |||
Programme, 193 | |||
Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326 | |||
Meeting, 302, 325 | |||
Effect of Temperature on Some nf the Properties of Metals, &c.. Professor F. C. Lea, 325 | |||
Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture : | |||
(1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds, | |||
(2) W. G. Mills, 303 | |||
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302 | |||
Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302 | |||
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325 | |||
Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326 | |||
Institution of Civil Engineers : | |||
Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137 | |||
Conversazione, 662 | |||
Three Lantern Lectures, 662 | |||
Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed. “ Rubber-phalte ” Road Blocks, &c., 662 | |||
James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520 | |||
October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113 April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668 | |||
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602 | |||
Manchester and District Association : | |||
Sixth Annual Dinner, 181 | |||
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) : | |||
Institution of Electrical Engineers ■ | |||
Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208 Annual Dinner, 71, 193 | |||
Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472 | |||
Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison. 297 | |||
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221 | |||
Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654. 680. 686 ; Programme. 354 | |||
Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654 | |||
Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of (’onsett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680. 686 | |||
What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331 | |||
Wireless Section : | |||
Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews. 412 | |||
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland : | |||
Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693 | |||
Programme, 611 | |||
Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693 | |||
Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kur-furst, John S. Brown, 276 | |||
Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693 | |||
Institution, Junior, of Engineers: | |||
Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412 | |||
Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J. | |||
Calderwood, 336 | |||
Institution of Mechanical Engineers : | |||
Annual General Meeting, 206 | |||
Report, 206 | |||
Conversazione, 208 | |||
Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332 | |||
Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &c., Professor F. C. I.ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. -Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445 | |||
Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393 | |||
Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils— Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton. 376 | |||
Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240 | |||
Provisional Programme, 240 | |||
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146 | |||
North-Western Branch : | |||
Annual General Meeting, 109 | |||
Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr’s Paper, 207 | |||
Manchester Meeting, 208 | |||
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208 | |||
Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444 | |||
Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109 | |||
Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377 | |||
Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330 | |||
Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276 | |||
Institution of Mining Engineers : | |||
Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638 | |||
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers | |||
Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531 | |||
Institution of Naval Architects : | |||
Annual Dinner, 388 | |||
Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434 | |||
Report and Elections, 387 | |||
Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nieolson, 409 | |||
Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. .1. R. Biles, 435, 439 | |||
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405 | |||
Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408 | |||
Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421 | |||
l*rogramme of Meetings, 336 | |||
Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent. 434 | |||
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors. | |||
Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408 | |||
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436 | |||
Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336 | |||
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : | |||
Economy' of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125 | |||
Joint Meeting—see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland | |||
Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery | on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69 | |||
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth. 249 | |||
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : | |||
Institution of Structural Engineers : | |||
Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474 | |||
Institution of Water Engineers • | |||
Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450 | |||
Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691 | |||
Society, Ceramic : | |||
Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437 | |||
Society of Chemical Industry : | |||
Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84 Measurement of Temperature in Technical | |||
Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84 | |||
Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393 | |||
Society, Faraday ; | |||
Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374 | |||
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392 | |||
Society, Liverpool Engineering : | |||
Annual Dinner. 155 | |||
Society, Newcomen : | |||
Meeting, 219 | |||
British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219 | |||
First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne-Lyon Railway, M. Achard. 219 | |||
Summer Meeting, 576 | |||
Society, Royal : | |||
Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Seldnyi’s Method of Observing the “ Cleanup ” in a Vacuum Lamp, &c., 522 | |||
Societies, Physical and Optical: | |||
Exhibition, 12, 42, 72—For Details see Separate Heading, “ Physical and Optical Exhibits ” | |||
ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557 Australia and India, Wireless Communication with—see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations | |||
Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, “ Minik ” Plating Apparatus, &c., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265 | |||
B | |||
BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635 | |||
Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. 125 | |||
Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179 | |||
Balancing Gear—see Engines | |||
Balancing Machine. Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii | |||
Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574 | |||
Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157 | |||
Beam Engines—see Engines | |||
Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444 | |||
Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543 | |||
Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624 | |||
Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439 | |||
Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246 | |||
Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403 | |||
Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690 | |||
Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321 | |||
Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, &c., Hunt and Mitt on, 267 | |||
Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580 | |||
Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii | |||
Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682 | |||
Boilers. Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363 | |||
Boilers. Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii | |||
Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530 | |||
Books of Reference, 100, 152. 184, 220. 268, 364, 437. 584, 611 | |||
Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools | |||
Brakes, Trains—see Railways | |||
BRIDGES : | |||
Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177 | |||
Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A.. | |||
202, 214, 231, 304. 305. 318. 345 | |||
“ Iron Bridge ” at Plymouth. Centenary, 625 | |||
Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478 | |||
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419 | |||
BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665 | |||
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION | |||
Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335 | |||
Specifications : | |||
Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212 | |||
Cold-drawn Wcldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212 | |||
Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440 | |||
Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308 | |||
Electrical Protective Relays, 336 | |||
Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84 | |||
Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394 | |||
Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531 | |||
Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes. 582 | |||
Oil Paints, 277 | |||
Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44 | |||
Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550 | |||
Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193 | |||
Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692 | |||
Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent | |||
Electric Lamps, 109 | |||
Zinc Specifications, 171 | |||
BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637 | |||
British Industries—«ec Exhibitions | |||
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374 | |||
Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274 | |||
Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268 | |||
Buenos Aires Port Works, 298 | |||
Burning—sec Coal | |||
c | |||
CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422 | |||
Cables—see Electrical Matters | |||
Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408 | |||
Calendars, Diaries, &c., 87, 109, 225 | |||
(Jammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574 Cardington—see Aeronautics | |||
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520 | |||
Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 | |||
Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611 | |||
Catalogues. 87, 109, 171, 197, 367. 425. 453, 477, 611, 641, 071, 697 | |||
Centenary, Railway—see Railways | |||
Centenary, Waterworks—see Water Supply | |||
Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii | |||
Chain Pulling Jack, " Little Jack '* Engineering Company, Ltd., 694 | |||
Chemical Analysis, 216 | |||
China, The “ Red Menace “ in, 105 | |||
Chloronome—Water Softening | |||
Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351 Circulating Water—sec Electrical Mutters Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411 | |||
•‘Clear Space’ Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666 | |||
Clough, F. H., Stability of I.arge Power Systems, 221 | |||
COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES : | |||
British Cool in Franco, 350 | |||
Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162 | |||
Coal Ash and Probability. 48 ; (Letter), 449 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249 | |||
Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163 | |||
Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470 | |||
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268 | |||
Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626. 663 | |||
COASTERS—see Ships | |||
Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E. | |||
Davies, 92, 123 | |||
Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692 Combiiation—see Engines | |||
Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam-driven, for the Almcdu Liner, 379 | |||
Conference on Engineering Materials. 4 48 Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568 | |||
Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 31 1, 339. 367, 397, 425. 453. 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644. 674, 670 | |||
Conveyor, Genera) Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv | |||
Cook, Professor (L, Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403 | |||
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215 | |||
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471 | |||
Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294 | |||
Copper Castings—see Castings | |||
Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463 | |||
Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metal®—see British Non-ferrous Metals | |||
Crane Girder Design—sec Economics of | |||
Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter). 351 | |||
Cultivating Machinery—see Steam | |||
Cultivator—see Tea Garden | |||
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 114. 144. 172, 198. 226. 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398. 426, 454, 4 82, 508, 536. 564, 590, 616, 642, 672. 698 | |||
Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527 | |||
DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406. 420. 421 | |||
Dam. Eguzon, on the River (Tense, 64, 76 | |||
Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328 | |||
Dams, Continuous Nat ure of Decay in, William Harvey, 668 | |||
Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 02. 123 | |||
Deferrating Plant at. a Sussex Works. 98. 102 | |||
Delaware— .■.re Bridges | |||
Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518 | |||
Deptford—see Electrical Matters | |||
Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding. 274 | |||
Diamond Pool—see Longlands | |||
Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321 | |||
Diesel Engines—sec Engines | |||
Digging and Loading Machine. Spencer (Mclk-shain), Ltd.. 393 | |||
Dock Extensions at Liverpool. 372. 373, 384 | |||
Double Dry Grinding Machine. Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd.. 667 | |||
Drawing-otlice Lighting, 205 | |||
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557 | |||
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools | |||
Drying Oven, Largo Vacuum, at Heaton Works, (’. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654 | |||
Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables. 99 | |||
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580 | |||
Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T. | |||
Avery, Ltd., 265 | |||
Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265 | |||
E | |||
EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell. 233 | |||
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. \\ barton, 278 | |||
Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G. | |||
Fiegehcn, 204 | |||
Economy of Tank Testing—see Ship Propulsion Research | |||
Educational Intelligence, 54 | |||
Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets. 543 | |||
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76 | |||
ELECTRICAL MATTERS : | |||
See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits | |||
Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236 | |||
Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560 | |||
Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektrieitiits Gesellschaft, 297 | |||
Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584 | |||
Battery Eliminators. &c., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412 | |||
Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley’s, Ltd., 238 | |||
Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99 | |||
Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233 | |||
Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529 | |||
Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150 | |||
CO, Recorder, Elect rofio Meters, Ltd.. 239 | |||
Congella Power Station, Durban, 106 | |||
(’onset t Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686 | |||
Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532 | |||
Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237 | |||
Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239 | |||
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, | |||
C. J. Wharton, 278 | |||
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76 | |||
Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy, | |||
D. F. Campbell, 295 | |||
Electrical Industry, The, 437 | |||
Electrical Instruments, 208 | |||
Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412 | |||
Electrical Research, 188 | |||
Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuc-kert. 297 | |||
Electrified Homes . . . the Heating | |||
Question, H. H. Berry, 624 | |||
Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604 | |||
French Electrification Developments, 250 | |||
High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472 | |||
High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496. 503 | |||
Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550 | |||
Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135 | |||
Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694 | |||
Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal ami Rhome tai, Gutta Pore ha Company, 240 | |||
Manchester Electricity Supply, 625 | |||
Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547 | |||
North Tecs Electric Power Stations, 680 | |||
Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663 | |||
Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512. 524, 540 (Ttco-paye Supplement, May 1927) | |||
Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578 | |||
Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466. 470 | |||
Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240 | |||
Recent Development in Power Plant Design, Ac., T. Roles, 622 | |||
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268 | |||
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) : | |||
Stourport Power Station. 626, 627, 663 Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A. | |||
Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237 | |||
Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000*Volt Supply, George Ellison. 267 | |||
Switchgear Works. New, The Oerlikon Com pony. 404. 414 | |||
Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207 | |||
Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238 | |||
Thornton and Clevelvy's Electricity Scheme, 008 | |||
Three-phase Circuit Breaker. 100,000-Volt, 297 | |||
Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear. Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239 Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160. 163 | |||
Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Cort* Type Transformers : Single-phase. Radiid Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266 | |||
Treforcst Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237. 238 | |||
Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267 | |||
Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anil Co., Ltd., 654 | |||
U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266. 267 | |||
Voltage Regplating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle • upon - Tyne Scheme, Motropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556 | |||
What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton. 331 | |||
ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406. 420. 421 | |||
ENGINES AND MOTORS | |||
<$’*•<• al«o Annual Articles | |||
Aircraft Engines : | |||
Beardmore “ Typhoon ” Aero-engine, 97 Bristol Company’s “ Cherub.” “ Jupiter ’ and ” Lucifer ” Aeroplane Engines. 35 "Cirrus” Mark II. 75-8’1 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. . | |||
Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336 | |||
Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, ” V.M.” Deutz Type. 528. 544 | |||
Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507 | |||
Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692 | |||
Bearn Engines. Old—we Letters to the Edit or. 351, 449, 465, 025, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400 | |||
Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton ami Shuttieworth, Ltd., 80 | |||
Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632 | |||
Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii | |||
Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks. 569 | |||
Diesel Engineer s Log, M. V. Tampa, 279 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504 | |||
Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47 | |||
High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298 | |||
Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137 | |||
Internal Combustion Engines, Various, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii | |||
Marino Oil Engines -#rr alto Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, Ac.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering | |||
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472. 486, 518 | |||
Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v | |||
Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii | |||
Oil Engines and Governor Gear. Marshall, Sons and Co.. B.I.F. Supplement, ii | |||
Oil Engines. Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit anil Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v | |||
Some Tvpes of Marine Oil Engines, \V. F. Rubhidge, 273 | |||
Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Hindley and Sons, 335 | |||
Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers. 676 | |||
Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217 | |||
Water Power Oil Engines in Bulgaria, | |||
97 | |||
Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington. Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 300 | |||
ENGINEER and Client. 193 | |||
Engineering Conference at Manchester, 4 12 | |||
Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448 | |||
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on | |||
Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188; | |||
(Letter), 240 | |||
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir | |||
Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405 | |||
Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625 | |||
Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson, | |||
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EXHIBITIONS: | |||
British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264 | |||
Leipzig Fair. 263. 296. 320 | |||
Midland Building Trades’ Exhibition, 585 | |||
Paris Fair, 572 | |||
Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical | |||
Prague Fair, 350 | |||
EX PERT Evidence, 131 | |||
Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612 | |||
Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121 | |||
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FACTORIES, Safety in, 558 | |||
Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses. <&e.. Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522 | |||
Fairs—see Exhibitions | |||
Fan—see also Mine | |||
Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi | |||
Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474 | |||
Ferry. Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610 | |||
Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204 | |||
Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559 | |||
Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624 | |||
Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638 | |||
Fires Afloat—see Extinguishing | |||
Fleets. Fighting—sec Ships, Naval Matters | |||
Floating Prismatic Bodies—see Stability | |||
Flue Dust Collector, *’ Sirocco ” Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii | |||
Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132 | |||
Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594 | |||
Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200. 228, 256. 286. 314, 342, 370. 400. 428. 456, 484, 510, 538. 566. 592. 618. 641. 674, 670 | |||
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : | |||
31. 61. 89, 115. 145, 173. 199, 227, 255. 285. 313, 341, 369. 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699 | |||
.African Railways, 227 | |||
Barrage Models, 537 | |||
Battleship France, 173 | |||
Bridge Enlargements, 285 | |||
British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617 | |||
British Trade, 399 | |||
Cameroon Railways, 369 | |||
Cham bon Barrage, 115 | |||
Coal Import Licences, 673 | |||
Coal Production. 199 | |||
Coal Situation. 285, 341. 643 | |||
Coal Trade, 565, 699 | |||
Colonial Exhibition, 341 | |||
Colonial Works, 31, 509 | |||
Commercial Agreements, 427 | |||
Commercial Aviation. 255 | |||
Continuous Brakes. 369 | |||
Cruiser Suffren. 537 | |||
Engineering Trades. 483 | |||
Export Trade, 89 | |||
Flood Protection, 89 | |||
Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699 | |||
Hydraulic Works, 115 | |||
Hydro-electric Schemes, 455 | |||
Import Duties, 255 | |||
Industrial Agreements, 643 | |||
Inland Navigation. 509 | |||
Kembs Barrage, 369 | |||
Languedoc Ship Canal, 483 | |||
Manufacturing Costs, 61 | |||
Marseilles Extensions, 313 | |||
Midi Electrification, 483 | |||
Mont Valerien Lighthouse. 565 | |||
Motor Car Industry, 399, 565 | |||
Motor Car Trade. 227 | |||
Naval Construction, 369, 455 | |||
New Cruiser Type, 173 | |||
Novel Boat, 699 | |||
Over-production, 537 | |||
Paris Suburban Traffic, 427 | |||
Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617 | |||
Port of Strasburg, 341 | |||
Production and Prices, 565 | |||
Prospecting by Colours, 89 | |||
Public Works, 61, 145 | |||
Rail Motors, 173 | |||
Railway Accident, 643 | |||
Railway Centenary, 61 | |||
Railway Electrification, 399 | |||
Railway Standardisation, 31 | |||
Rod Makers’ Agreement, 89 | |||
Rove Tunnel, 483 | |||
Russian Navy, 285 | |||
Sales Organisations, 509 | |||
Sewage Disposal, 617 | |||
Shipbuilding, 145, 255 | |||
South American Air Service, 199 | |||
Steel and Concrete, 427 | |||
Steel Industry. 145, 673 | |||
Steel Pact, 3i.3 | |||
Steel Trade, 455 | |||
Steel Trade Depression, 699 | |||
Steel Union, 61 | |||
Tariff Bill, 591 | |||
Tariffs and Coal. 643 | |||
The “ He de France,” 673 | |||
Tidal Power. 673 | |||
Trade Depression. 145 | |||
Trade Difficulties, 255 | |||
Trade Organisation, 285 | |||
Trade Outlook, 399 | |||
Trade Ret urns, I 15 | |||
Trade Situation, 115 | |||
Trade Slump. 173 | |||
Trade Stagnation. 369 | |||
Trans-Saharnn Railway, 89 | |||
Tunnelling the Vosges, 509 | |||
Two Concrete Bridges', 673 | |||
Underground Paris. 115 | |||
Unemployment. 341 | |||
Wages and Prices, 227 | |||
Wages Reductions. 509 | |||
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) 1 | |||
Wages and Work, 313 | |||
Water Sterilisation, 399 | |||
Weaker Prices, 31 | |||
West African Railways, 427 | |||
Work for Unemployed, 199 | |||
Works in Indo-China, 537 | |||
FRENCH Oil Problem, 357 | |||
Fuel Pump—sec Pumps | |||
Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54 | |||
Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous | |||
Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii | |||
Furnaces, Electric—sec Electrical Matters | |||
Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233 | |||
G | |||
GAS—aree also Suction Gas | |||
Gas Boiler—see Boiler | |||
Gas Engines—see Engines | |||
Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131 | |||
Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxonv, 193, 240 | |||
Gases and Oro, Interactions of, in the Blast -furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530 | |||
Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137 | |||
Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and ('leaning Plant at, 477 | |||
Gear-boxes. Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii | |||
Gear-cutting—see Machine Tools | |||
Goar Wheels. Quiet-running, New Material for | |||
Making, “ Fenlin,” Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207 | |||
Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321 | |||
German Steel—see Iron | |||
Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 067 | |||
Gladstone Dock—sec Dock Extensions | |||
Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474 | |||
Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71 | |||
Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pud-more, Ltd., 478 | |||
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools | |||
Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527 | |||
H | |||
HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron ami Manganese, Low Carbon .Alloys, 515, 516 | |||
Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322 | |||
Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry. 84 | |||
Hammer, " Clear Space,” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666 | |||
Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514 Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163 | |||
Hardness Testing Instrument, “ Duroscope,” 321 | |||
Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297 | |||
Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568 | |||
Haslam, T. ('. $., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602 | |||
Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558 | |||
Helium in Canada, 465 | |||
Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277 | |||
Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82 | |||
High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd.. 611 | |||
High-pressure Steam, Historical References to tke Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635 | |||
H orated Keynes—see Water Supply, Deferrat-ing | |||
Howden, S., Junior Technical School ami its Relation to Engineering. 125 | |||
Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods. 646 | |||
Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217 | |||
Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv | |||
Hydro-electric Installation, Borbcra Valley, 222 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219 | |||
I | |||
IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554 | |||
Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625 | |||
India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), <184 | |||
Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino. 157 | |||
Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209 | |||
Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531 | |||
Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477 | |||
Industry—see Labour | |||
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interactions—see Gases | |||
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives | |||
International Congress for Testing Materials. | |||
184 | |||
International Discussion, 660 | |||
International Register of Aircraft. 244 | |||
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 032 | |||
IRON AND STEEL | |||
Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516 | |||
Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543 | |||
Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543 | |||
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541 German Steel Combination, 350 | |||
Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. (’. Benedicks and | |||
M. H. Loquiat, 543 | |||
Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558 | |||
IRON AND STEEL (continued): | |||
Interactions of Gases and Oro in the Blast furnace. Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514. 530 | |||
Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84 | |||
Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods o Production, 662 | |||
Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties. Si Robert Hadfield, 515, 516 | |||
Mikl Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, &c. | |||
R. Genders, 322 | |||
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manu facturers, Dinner, 691 | |||
Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron | |||
S. Wornick, 582 | |||
South Africa. Steel Industry in, 348 | |||
Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig | |||
Steel Cartel, 179 | |||
Steel Sections, Special. Janies Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., J no. Hy. Andrew ant Co.. Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, iv | |||
J | |||
JACK—Chain Pulling | |||
.lames Forrest Lecture. Some Recent Service) of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professo; II. C. H. Carpenter. 490. 520 | |||
K | |||
KELVIN Lecture—sec Institution of Elect rica Engineers | |||
Kent. J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434 | |||
Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in Brit is) and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203 | |||
Kershaw. John B. C., World’s Future Supply ol Liquid Fuels, 244, 261. 292, 316, 344 | |||
Kit son Clark. Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416 | |||
Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles foi Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306 330. 332 | |||
LABOUR MATTERS : | |||
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188 | |||
Goodwill in Industry, 440 | |||
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike, 688 | |||
Trades Unions Bill, 385 | |||
LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.LF. | |||
Supplement, iv | |||
Langerbruggo—sec Electrical Matters | |||
Lathes—nee Machine Tools | |||
Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563. 589, 61 I. 641. 671, 697 | |||
Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, &c., 325 | |||
Lea, Professor F. C.» and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses. &c., 487 ; (Letter), 522 | |||
Lead Burning. Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302 | |||
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302 | |||
LEADERS | |||
1926—A Retrospect of. 17 | |||
Electricity Supply, 18 | |||
High Pressures. 18 | |||
Locomotives, 18 | |||
London Traffic, 18 | |||
Metallurgy, 18 | |||
Conclusion. 18 | |||
Agricultural Engineering, 104 | |||
America and the Cruiser Question. 103 | |||
America and Great Britain, 415 | |||
Armament of Capital Ships, 553 | |||
British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors. 243 | |||
Burning of Low-grade Coal. 161 | |||
Chemical Analysis, 216 | |||
Ci merit Fondu Concrete, 329 | |||
Coal Ash and Probability, 48 | |||
Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 | |||
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215 | |||
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471 | |||
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580 | |||
Electrical Research, 188 | |||
Exchange in Ideas, 579 | |||
Expert Evidence, 131 | |||
French Air Services, 659 | |||
French Oil Problem, 354 | |||
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605 | |||
French Transatlantic Flights, 553 | |||
Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 4 7 | |||
Gaa Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131 | |||
Idea of Power for Nothing, 553 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415 | |||
International Discussion, 660 | |||
International Register of Aircraft. 214 | |||
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632 | |||
Kelvin Lecture, 472 | |||
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497 | |||
Marine Steam Turbine Progress. 77 | |||
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525 | |||
Naval Limitation Conference, 687 | |||
Navy Estimates, 301 | |||
New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444 | |||
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606 | |||
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments. 187 | |||
Problem of High Superheats, 272 | |||
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, -M3 | |||
Railways and Unfair Competition, 354 | |||
Rating of Machinery, 161 | |||
Reticence, 302 | |||
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike. 688 | |||
Steam Accumulators. 78 | |||
Super-pressure Steam Plant a;. Bradford. 78 | |||
Theoretical and Practical Lubrication. 386 | |||
Torsional Fatigue, 526 | |||
Trades Disputes Bill, 525 | |||
Trades Unions Bill, 385 | |||
LEADERS (continued) : | |||
Trans-Saharan Railway, 497 | |||
Trend of Fuel Injection Practice. 329 | |||
World's Fighting Fleets, 271 | |||
LEIPZIG—see Exhibitions | |||
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : | |||
England. North of, 28, 58. 86. 112. 142, 170. 196, 224. 252. 282, 3in. 338, 366. 396, 424. 452. 480, 506. 534. 562. 588, 614. 640. 670. 696 | |||
Lancashire. 27, 57, 85. 111. 141. 169. 195. 223. 251. 281. 30d, 337. 365. 395. 423. 451, 479. 505, 533. 561, 587. 613. 615. 639, 669. 695 | |||
Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56. 85. 111. 141, 169, 194. 223. 251. 281. 309. 337. 364. 395, 423, 451. 479, 505. 533, 561, 587, 613. 615, 639, 669, 695 | |||
Scotland, 29, 59. 86, 112, 143. 171. 197. 225. 253. 2b3. 311. 339, 367, 397. 425, 452, 481, 507. 534. 563. 589. 615. 640. 670. 696 | |||
Sheffield. 28. 58. 86. I 12. 142. 170, 19G. 224, 252. 282. 310, 338. 366, 396. 424. 452. 480. 506. 534. 562. 588. 1H4. 640, 670, 696 | |||
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29. 59. 87. 113, 143, 171, 197, 225. 253. 283. 311. 339. 367. 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535. 563, 589. 615. 611, 671, 697 | |||
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : | |||
Beam Engine. An Old, W. J. Barker. 351 ; W. Yates. 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction). 4011 | |||
Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ; | |||
H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd.. 684 | |||
Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133 | |||
British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Light -body. 559 | |||
British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd.. 351 | |||
Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82 | |||
Ciinent Fondu, John G. Kay, 351 | |||
Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos. 450 | |||
Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625 | |||
Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, “ Astonished,” 44 | |||
Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351 | |||
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240 | |||
Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren. 44 | |||
High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392 | |||
High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Meeh. E„ 656 | |||
Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines, | |||
F. J. B. Magg?». 181 | |||
“ Howlers,” H. E. Wimperis, 656 | |||
Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465 | |||
Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker. 133 | |||
Magnetisation of Dextrorsa! and Sinistrorse! Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585 | |||
Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494 | |||
Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133 | |||
Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456 | |||
Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83 | |||
Rcid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181 | |||
Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494 | |||
Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448 | |||
Smith. A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83 | |||
Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277 | |||
Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell-Sinith, 298 | |||
Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298 | |||
Torsional Fatigue. G. A. Hankins, 522 | |||
Unemployment—the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins. 133 | |||
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham. 298 | |||
Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684 | |||
Work Hardening. IL Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward | |||
G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277 | |||
LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531 | |||
Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478 | |||
Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v, vi | |||
Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw. 244. 261. 292 | |||
LITERATURE : | |||
Reviews : | |||
Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245. 473 | |||
Beitrflge zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matehoss, 216 | |||
Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133 | |||
Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. South-combe, 74 | |||
Chronicles of Boulton’s Siding, A. R. Bennett. 105 | |||
Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189. 350 | |||
Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386 | |||
Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard. 354. 660 | |||
Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105 | |||
Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526 | |||
Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445 | |||
Natural History of a Savant. Professor C. | |||
Richet. 386 | |||
Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford. 354, 498 Rotary Converters. E. P. Hill, 189. 473 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155 | |||
LITERATURE (continued): | |||
Short Notices: | |||
Ausldoidung von Druckstollen und Druck-schfichten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 71, 189 | |||
Business Economics, Sir William Ashley. 155 | |||
Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189 | |||
Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. 8. Sinnott, 155 | |||
Controllers for Electric Motors, H. I). James, 354. 580 | |||
Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216 | |||
Die Luft vorwilrrnung im DampfkcKselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. (Jumz, 133 | |||
Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189 | |||
Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155 | |||
Use of Power in Colliery Working. John Kirsopp, 105 | |||
Whitworth Book, The. 105 | |||
Books Received . | |||
Abridged Callondnr Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494 | |||
Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660 | |||
Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch. 689 | |||
Aerial Cableways, G. Beret ti, 189 | |||
Age of the Earth. A. Holmes. 277 | |||
Allgemeino Energiewirthschaft, Hof rat Ing. | |||
Hans von JUptner, 277 | |||
Aluminium anil its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133 | |||
Aluminium Facts and Figures. 105 | |||
American Society for Testing Materials. Proceedings of Meeting. 380 | |||
Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.-Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354 | |||
Annales des Ponta et Chausseos. 1926, 189 | |||
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585 | |||
Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia (liornale del Genio Civile). 354. 473, 585, 689 | |||
Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660 | |||
Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105 | |||
Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689 | |||
Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660 | |||
Art do ringdnieur ct Metallurgic, L. Descroix. 105 | |||
Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277 | |||
Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633 | |||
Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, &c., of Bauxite, C. 8. Fox, 689 | |||
Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton-bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445 | |||
Blue Book. 1927. 155 | |||
British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473 | |||
British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, &c.. G. P. Warner Terry. 133 | |||
Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585 | |||
Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689 | |||
Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585 | |||
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633 | |||
Bulletin de la Soci6t6 d* Encouragement pour rindustrie Nationale. 606, 633 | |||
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105 | |||
Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473 | |||
Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633 | |||
Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633 | |||
Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189 | |||
Central Station Voltages and Charges | |||
Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606 | |||
Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. 354 | |||
China Architects’ and Builders* Compendium, J. '1'. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633 | |||
China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai. 245 | |||
Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Tern- | |||
Serature, J. Roberts, 633 | |||
liery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48 | |||
Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386 | |||
Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48 | |||
Craft of Tracing, 417 | |||
Cutters and Cutter Blocks. 8. Ransome, 417 | |||
Cycling Manual, 155 | |||
Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245 | |||
Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473 | |||
Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf-b al ken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526 | |||
Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead. 494 | |||
Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105 | |||
Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch. 585 | |||
Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham. 133 | |||
Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494 | |||
Directory of the Members, Subscribers, &c., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660 | |||
Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386 | |||
Directory of Shipowners. Ac., 1927. 189 | |||
Domestic Electric Heating. IL G. Solomon. 633 | |||
Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277 | |||
Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G. | |||
Mingle, 633 | |||
Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189 | |||
Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M. | |||
Dekker. 633 | |||
Durehlaufende Eisen betonkon.strukt ionen in elastischer Verbindung mil den Zwischen-stiitzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105 | |||
Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354 | |||
E.H.T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417 | |||
Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133 | |||
Electric Telpherage. G. W. UroaMnith, 48 | |||
Electricity Act. The Now. W. S. Kennedy. 189 | |||
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, J. C. Dalton. 354 | |||
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Alien, 354 | |||
Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245 | |||
LITERATURE (continued): | |||
Books Received (continued): | |||
Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192", 473 | |||
Engine Service Testa of Interna! Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, &c.» M. J. Cavin and G. Wade, 633 | |||
Engineering Index, 1926, 689 | |||
English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen* Jxngh, 133 | |||
Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and KohAsion, &c., W. Fellenius, 277 | |||
Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals. | |||
F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660 | |||
Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364 | |||
Gottlob’s Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum. 417 | |||
Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paet-zold, 633 | |||
Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisen-bahnwesen und Stftdtebau, Oherbau und Glcisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386 | |||
High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48 | |||
Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633 H.M. Stationery Office Publications : | |||
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633 | |||
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606 | |||
Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526 Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust-, | |||
T. M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler. 585 | |||
Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386 | |||
Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386 | |||
Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689 | |||
Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585 | |||
Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494 | |||
Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585 | |||
Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633 | |||
History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155 | |||
Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660 Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585 | |||
Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations. | |||
N. B. Mehta, 633 | |||
Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48 | |||
Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133 Institution of Structural Engineers’ Year Book. 1927, 473 | |||
International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473 | |||
Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105 • | |||
1st Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Bauineister, 633 | |||
Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V.. 1926, 585 | |||
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189 | |||
* Journal of the Franklin Institute, May. 1927, | |||
633 t , | |||
Journal of the Institute of Metals, ' ol. | |||
XXXVI., 155 | |||
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 189 | |||
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of | |||
England, Vol. 87, 660 | |||
Kelly s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1927, 633 | |||
La Machine Locomotive, E. Sauvage. 41 > | |||
La Soci6t6 des Ingenieurs Civils de France : MSmoires et Coinpte Rendu des Travaux, 417 | |||
Large Uses of Steel in Small Ways. 689 | |||
Locomotive of To-day, 105 , | |||
L'Organisation Scientifique du Travail. (». | |||
Bricard, 386 | |||
Lubrication in Colliery Practice, N. Simpkin and A. Dawe, 48 | |||
Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 585 | |||
Machine Design. Construction and Drawing, H. J. Spooner. 354 | |||
Machine Tool Driving and Feed Gear-boxes, H. C. Town. 133 | |||
Magneto Manual. H. R. Langman. 633 | |||
Manuel des Laboratoires Sid6rurgiques : Methodes Analytiqucs Conventionnelles de la Cornmiinautc- Arbed Torres-Rouges. 417 Marine Diesel Engines, W. C. Macgibbon, 633 Mathematical Tables (Four Figures). C. V | |||
Durell, 473 . . | |||
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book. 1927. 133 . | |||
Mechanics Applied to Engineering, J. Good- | |||
Mechanics. Text-book of. E. H- Wood. 133 | |||
MechanischeSchwingungen und ihre Messung, Dr -Ing. J* Geiger. 585 | |||
Metallurgists’ Manual. T. G. Bamford and H. Harris. 633 _ | |||
Metallurgy of the Common Metals, L. | |||
Austin. 155 | |||
Meteorological Report for the \ ear 19-1. 689 | |||
Modern Ignition. H. H. V. CroML 633 | |||
Modern Scientific Ideas. Sir ( liver Lodge. 2- < Modern Steelwork, E. Fiander Etchell... fi89 Motor Cycling Manual 105 | |||
Motor Shin Reference Bock for 1».7, 155 | |||
Movable Bridges : Vol. TI„ Machinery. O. I-.. | |||
Hovey, 606 | |||
National Physical Laboratory. Collected Researches, 1926, 245 | |||
Naval Engineering Review, I art XII., No. *0, 473 | |||
New* South Wales. Report of Metropolitan Water. Sewerage, &c.t 386 | |||
Notes on the Preparation of Railuaj I rejects, H. L. Glass. 606 | |||
Oil and Retortable Materials. G. W Haise. | |||
Ordinary Differential Equations, E. L. Ince, 526 | |||
Petrol Engine, 4 7 3 | |||
LITERATURE (continued): | |||
Books Received (continued) : | |||
Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart. 633 | |||
Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 006 | |||
Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155 | |||
Pratique duCalcul du B6tonArm&,G. Magnel, 133 | |||
Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585 | |||
“ Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494 | |||
■* Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585 | |||
“ Proceedings” of the Chemical Engineering Group. 585 | |||
” Proceedings ” of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. 585 | |||
” Proceedings ” of the Optical Convention, | |||
1926, Parts I. and IT.. 18 | |||
“ Proceedings ” of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX.. 386 | |||
” Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473 | |||
Radio Communication, The Elements of, | |||
O. F. Brown. 133 | |||
Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155 | |||
Railway Year Book, 1927, 585 | |||
Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles. 277 | |||
Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689 | |||
Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133 | |||
Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum,. 1926, 494 | |||
Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb. 277 | |||
Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C. | |||
Miller, 660 | |||
Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105 | |||
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245 | |||
Sewage Works. F. C. Temple, 354 | |||
Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothen -burg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473 | |||
Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133 | |||
Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby. 633 | |||
Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585 | |||
Standards Year Book, 1927, 585 | |||
Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Pad-lield, 48 | |||
Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445 | |||
Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larra-naga, 386 | |||
Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield. 189 | |||
Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J. | |||
Kersey, 633 | |||
Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel. 689 | |||
To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs. 445 Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633 | |||
“ Transactions ” of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74 | |||
"Transactions” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245 | |||
“ Transactions ” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb. 245 | |||
Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105 | |||
Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74 | |||
Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585 | |||
Universal Directory of Railway Officials, | |||
1927, 660 | |||
WArmetechnische Grundlagen der Indus-triedfon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633 | |||
Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, &c., Dr.-Ing. G. Merkle, 386 | |||
Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386 | |||
Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494 | |||
Water Transport: IL, Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526 | |||
Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. Ac., to September 30th. 1926, 689 | |||
Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155 | |||
Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277 | |||
Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74 | |||
Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417 | |||
Zur Frage dos Shiffswiderstandos. Uh. | |||
Doydre, 606 | |||
LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148 | |||
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships | |||
Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96 | |||
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives. also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters) | |||
Long Distance Gas Transmission. 193. 240 | |||
Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277 Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376 | |||
Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy. 358. 361, 393 —see also Theoretical Lubrication | |||
M | |||
MACHINE TOOLS : | |||
Raring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defrics, 297. 630. 635 | |||
Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair. 320 | |||
Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfen-glirtner A.G., 583 | |||
Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110 | |||
MACHINE TOOLS (continued) : | |||
Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine. George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106. 107 | |||
Drills, Milling Cutters. Reamers, Saws. Arc.. Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265 | |||
Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion. Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v | |||
Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297 | |||
Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277 | |||
Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size. | |||
Eumtico A.G., &c., 297 | |||
High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i | |||
“ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine. .John Stick and Sons. Ltd.. 190. 19! | |||
Lathe. Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiesa* Defries, 297 | |||
Lat hes, Powerful Railway \\ heel. \\ ilheliii Hegenscheidt, 297 | |||
Maag Gear-cutting Machine. 320 | |||
Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Exhibits. 297 | |||
Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, &c.. Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, “ Floxtol.” Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266 | |||
Recent Developments in Machine Tools, | |||
G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235 | |||
Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., anti Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356 | |||
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463 | |||
Screwing Machine, Automatic, 3 horn as | |||
Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v | |||
Shearing Machine for Curves, 320 | |||
Shearing Machine, Henry Pels. 297 | |||
Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280 | |||
Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692 | |||
MACHINERY—also Rating | |||
Machinery, World’s Production and Trade in. 648 | |||
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs. 497 | |||
Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246 | |||
Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461. 472 | |||
Marine Engines—see Engines | |||
Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77 | |||
Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376 | |||
Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332 | |||
Mechanical—see also Tea Garden | |||
Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants. 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298 | |||
Mersey Tunnel—see Pumps | |||
Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514 | |||
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525 | |||
Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531 | |||
Metallurgy. Some Recent Services of. to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520 | |||
Metals—see also Associations, &c., Institute of Metals | |||
Metals—sec also Work Hardening | |||
Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527 | |||
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools | |||
Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548 | |||
Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665 | |||
Mines—see Safety | |||
Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209 | |||
Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71 | |||
Model Steam Power Station, 217 | |||
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518 | |||
Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J. | |||
Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii | |||
Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines— see Machine Tools | |||
Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377 | |||
N | |||
NAVAL Matters—see Ships | |||
New Work Always Ready for Men who Do | |||
Things, Frank Richards. 467 ; (Letter). 494 | |||
Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats. 409 | |||
Nozzles—see Proportioning | |||
OBITUARY : | |||
Anderson, Konrad. 389 | |||
Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50 | |||
Culthrop. Everard R.. 354 | |||
Campbell, Archibald W., 580 | |||
Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444 | |||
Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait). 499 | |||
D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter. 117 | |||
Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50 | |||
Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait). 49 | |||
Greenhill, Sir George, 189 | |||
Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale. 50. 79 | |||
Hill, Alfred John. 302 | |||
Hills, Arnold Frank. 273 | |||
Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602 | |||
Kearns, Henry Ward. 154 | |||
Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154 | |||
M’Cullough, F. W., 354 | |||
Phipps. Frederick Reginald, 50 | |||
Platt, John, 662 | |||
Samuelson, Ernest. 580 | |||
Savage, E. A., 151 | |||
Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait ), 153 | |||
Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661 | |||
Thomas, Qeorgo, 354 | |||
OIL Engines — nee Engines | |||
Oil Tests, Consumers’, Arthur F. Evans, 665 | |||
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606 | |||
Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication. 358. 361. 393 | |||
“ Osiso ” and its Modification." for Use as a | |||
Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and | |||
Manufacturing Company. 135 | |||
Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus — see | |||
Physical and Optical Exhibits | |||
Owens. Dr. J. 8., Movement nf Sand bv Wind, 377 | |||
Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey | |||
Engineering Works. 267 | |||
115. | |||
200, 450. | |||
044. | |||
115. | |||
455. | |||
691, | |||
115, | |||
537, | |||
P | |||
PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY | |||
388. 418. 438. 464. 519 | |||
Paint. Mills and Mixers. Torrance and Sons, 388. 389. 418. 461. 519 | |||
Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and | |||
Lund. 519, 520 | |||
Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and | |||
Blyth. 464 | |||
Mills with Chain-driving Gear. Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138. 439 | |||
Mills with Helical Driving Gear. Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear. Brinjes and Goodwin. 438 | |||
Paint Mixer and Strainer. Marchant Brothers, | |||
Ltd., 461 | |||
PARSONS. Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405 | |||
Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69 | |||
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH | |||
Aeronautics, 313 | |||
Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617 | |||
Building, 400 | |||
Condensers and Feed-water Healers. 173. 199, 591 | |||
Cranes and Conveyors, 61. 484. 510, 592 | |||
Crushing and Grinding. 200. 700 Dynamos and Motors, 61. 227, 255, 34), 399, ‘427, 455, 565. 617, 643, 673, 699 | |||
Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227 Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89. 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617 | |||
Furnaces, 89. 199, 228, 255, 427. 456, 510, 566, 643, 674 | |||
Gas Producers. 89 | |||
Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618 Locomotives, 510 | |||
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618. 643, 674, 699 | |||
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9 | |||
Metallurgy, 285, 428. 456 | |||
Mining Machinery, 115, 145 | |||
Miscellaneous, 32, 62. 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670 | |||
Ordnance and Armour, 90 | |||
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643 Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670 Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591 | |||
Switchgear, 31. 61, 341, 399. 509. 537, 617, 643, 673 | |||
Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61. 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427. 456. 483, 509. 565, 592. 617. 673 | |||
Tramways and Railways, 115, 173 | |||
Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509 | |||
Transmission of Power. 145. 199. 227. 255, 285, 399, 427. 537. 592, 643. 674, 699 | |||
Turbine Machinery, 227. 313, 483, 537. 699 | |||
PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87. 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589. 615, 644, 671, 697 | |||
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS : | |||
12. 40, 72 | |||
1 Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller. 12 | |||
Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory. 12 | |||
Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct-current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74 | |||
Bridge Ohmmeter. Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41 | |||
Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72 CO2 Indicator and Recorder. 41 ; Dissolved | |||
Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41 | |||
Dow Deposition Recorder, 72 | |||
Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope. 72 Guillet Vibrating-wiro Stroboscope, 73 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric | |||
Company, 40, 41 | |||
Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72 | |||
Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72 | |||
Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12 | |||
Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40 | |||
Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company. 42 | |||
Rotary Pump, The “ Geryk,” Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74 | |||
Rotary Steam Meter. George Kent, Ltd.. 74 Schering Galvanometer. Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd., 13 | |||
Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer. Foster Instrument. Company. 41, 42 | |||
S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 72 | |||
Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72 | |||
Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74 | |||
Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73 | |||
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EX | |||
HIBITS (continued): | |||
Wireless Apparatus : | |||
Continuous Wave Transmitter, l| kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41 (lalletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H. | |||
Tinsley and Co.,. 12 | |||
Mid worth Distant Repeater. Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd.. 13 | |||
Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74 | |||
PICCADILLY-CIRCUS-arc Railways | |||
Pipe Covering, “ Kisol,’’ Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267 | |||
Planing Machines—«rc Machine Tools | |||
Poplar—*ec Electrical Matters | |||
Port Improvements in Colombia, 692 | |||
Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362 | |||
Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive. 620 | |||
Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554 | |||
Power Stations see Electrical Mutters | |||
Prague—tuc Exhibitions | |||
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187 Problem of High Superheats. 272 , | |||
Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692 | |||
Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Tur bines, E. C. Wadlow, 600 | |||
Protective Effect—see Iron | |||
Pullman Cars—see Railways | |||
Pulverised Fuel. R. B. Potter, 362 | |||
PUMPS : | |||
Deep Well Turbine Pump. Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd., 222 | |||
Fuel Pumping Equipment nt Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd.. 290 | |||
H orated Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102 | |||
Mersey Tunnel Works. Submersible Pump* for. Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 580 | |||
Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks. 569 | |||
Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v | |||
Rotary Pump, A New. Mepstead and Co., 44( | |||
Rotary Pump. Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 69*1 Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd.. 532 ; (Paragraph), 566 | |||
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QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating. 549 Quarrying—see Steam Shovel | |||
R | |||
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS | |||
General: | |||
A Few Observations on Railways, 152 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 Railway Expenditure in relation tn Railway Receipts, 474 | |||
Railways and Unfair Competition, 357 | |||
British, Colonial and Indian : | |||
India, Vacuum Broke in. 462 ; (Letter), 684 Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450 | |||
Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458. 492, 493 | |||
Swing Bridges. London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177 | |||
Travelling Facilities in South-East London. 267 | |||
Foreign : | |||
Bolivian Railway Construction, 522 Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679 | |||
Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107 rardot Railway, Colombia. Kitson-Meyer Locomotive. 360 (Two •page Supplement. April Ul, 1927) | |||
Paris-Orleans Railway Company. Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains. 134 | |||
Pullman Cars for the Continent. Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136 | |||
Railway Projects in Africa, 450 | |||
Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike. 688 | |||
Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company. 134 | |||
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277 | |||
Trans-Saharan Railway, 84. 197 | |||
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES | |||
Sec also Annual Articles | |||
General: | |||
British Locomotive. The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotive. 96 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.* Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416 | |||
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354 | |||
Light Steam Locomotive. (Jayton Wagons, Ltd., 381 | |||
Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67 | |||
Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney. 620 | |||
Tools for Locomotive Work—see Machine Tools | |||
British, Colonial and Indian ; | |||
Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118. 130; (letter), 181 | |||
Foreign | |||
Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Inf, 1927) | |||
Single-pna.su Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107 | |||
RATING of Machinery, 148, 161 | |||
Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. II. Liven#, 148 | |||
Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and | |||
P. H. Geiger, 364 | |||
“ Red Menace ” in China. 105 | |||
Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almedu. Liverpool Refrigerating Coin pany, Ltd.. 378. 379. 380 | |||
Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472 | |||
Reservoirs—see Water Supply | |||
Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549 | |||
Reticence, 302 | |||
Richards. Frank. New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491 | |||
Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321. 322 | |||
Road-making. Concrete, Machine, Joseph Viigelr, 296 | |||
Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant nt Brighton, Millars’ Machinery Company, Ltd.. 504 | |||
Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant. 326 ; (Letter). 351 | |||
Roles.'I’., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, &c., 622 | |||
Rolling Mills—see Cotters for | |||
Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research. 516 | |||
Rotoscope—see Heteropt ic Shutter | |||
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325 | |||
179 | |||
125 | |||
J. L. | |||
8 | |||
SAFETY in Factories, 558 | |||
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines. 463 | |||
Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651 | |||
Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665 | |||
Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266 Sand—see Movement of Saws, Cold Disc, 321 | |||
Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold. | |||
Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267 Schemes in Soviet Union, 14 | |||
Scientific Apparatus—see. al«o Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition. | |||
Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349 | |||
Screwing Machines—see Machine Tools Scunthorpe—see Gasworks | |||
Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514 | |||
Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi | |||
Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools | |||
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING | |||
See also Annual Articles | |||
General Matters : | |||
America and the Cruiser Question, 103 | |||
Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 4U8 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. 11. J. R. | |||
Biles. 435, 439 | |||
High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Con struct ion of, David Nicolson, 409 | |||
Lloyd’s Register : | |||
Annual Summary, 81 | |||
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412 | |||
M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer’s Log, 279 | |||
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors. | |||
Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408 | |||
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249 | |||
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436 | |||
Ship Wave Resistance. W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker. Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker. Weather and the Propulsion of Ships. | |||
Kent. 434 | |||
Naval Matters : | |||
Armament of Capital Ships. 553 | |||
Machinery Installation of the Grosser fiirst, John 8. Brown. 276 | |||
Naval Limitation Conference, 687 | |||
Navy Estimates. 301 | |||
President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187 | |||
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443 | |||
World’s Fighting Fleets, 271 | |||
Foreign Navies: | |||
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605 | |||
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels | |||
Blue Star Liner Alineda, Refrigerating Machinery on. 378. 379 | |||
Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610 | |||
Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner. | 649. 658. 692 | |||
Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine ami Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 210. 211 | |||
SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690 | |||
Sixty Years Ago. 14. 48. 83. 97. 137, 162. 184. | |||
212. 249. 273. 393. 331. 351. 392. 417. 450. | |||
463. 498. 527. 547, 585. 602. 633. 656. 693 | |||
Skin Friction—see Ships | |||
Smith, Harold C., Applications of Power on Gasworks. 137 | |||
Societies—see Associations | |||
Soldering and Welding—see Aluminium | |||
South Africa, Steel Industry in. 348 | |||
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES | |||
110, 128. 168, 191. 221. 250. 280. 336. 391. | |||
422, 559. 585. 612. 666. 681 | |||
Accident Rate in Mines, 250 | |||
An Aerial Survey, 250 | |||
Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169 | |||
Big Platinum Plant, 194 | |||
British Combine, 250 | |||
British Motor Industry, To Help. 280 | |||
Buluwayo Water Supply, 336 | |||
Cape Town Harbour Extensions. 392 | |||
Cape Town’s Floating Dock. 168 | |||
Cape Town’s Mountain (’ableway. 194 | |||
Capo Town Water Supply, 422 | |||
Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684 | |||
Kur- | |||
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued): | |||
Defective American Locomotives, 280 Developing Table Bay, 336 Dunswart Works Expanding, 606 Durban’s Grain Elevator, 194 Electric Lighting of Trains, 392 Electric Power from City Reservoir. 612 Electricity Undertakings, IBS Electrification Results, 612 Engineering in 1926. 221 Ermelo Torbanites, 250 Funicular Railway, 330 Huge Locomotives. Two. 221 Improved Mining Methods. 110 Industrial Enterprises Checked, OK I Industrial Expansion. 128 Iron Ore Deposits of the Union. 392 Johannesburg Gasworks, 422 Johannesburg’s New Gasworks, 25o Largest. Winding Hoist, 585 Lightning Causes Mine Fire, I 10 Manganese for America, 422 Mining at Broken Hill, 336 Now Cement Factories. 250 New Durban North Bridge. 191 New Plant for Rond Mine. 191 Oil Boring Operations, 250 Pipes, Large Order for, 684 Platinum Mining, 684 Platinum Production, 250 Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194 Potgietersrust Platinums, 391 Preference on British Goods, 559 Pretoria Railway Workshops. 128 Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666 Production of Oil, 168 | |||
Progress at Dunswart Works, 250 | |||
Quick Coaling at Durban, 128 | |||
Railway Construction, 110 | |||
Railway Repair Shops, 612 | |||
Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559 | |||
Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559 | |||
Results of Railway Electrification 280 Rhodesia's Copper Mines. 128 Road Mot or Services, 336 Rolling Stock Position, 559 Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R.. 666 South African Coal. 194 | |||
S.A. Market for Tools, 559 | |||
State-aided Steel Industry, 612 | |||
Steam Omnibus, 250 | |||
Steel Combine Formed, 221 | |||
Suburban Railway Electrification. 666 | |||
Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684 | |||
Table Mountain Cableway, 221 | |||
Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422. 606 | |||
Tram Design, New, 585 | |||
Union Minidre Progress, 194 | |||
Union Rubber Industry, 168 | |||
Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110 | |||
Wankie Colliery Reconstruction. 612 | |||
SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179 South Australia—see Water Supply | |||
South-East London. Travelling Facilities in, 267 Springs—see also Manufacture | |||
Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267 | |||
Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149 | |||
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough. 221 | |||
Stationary Enginej—see Engines | |||
Steam Accumulators, 78 | |||
Steam Boiler Wagons—see Railways | |||
Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581 | |||
Steam Engines—see Engines | |||
Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, &c., Gummers, Ltd., 267 | |||
Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78 | |||
Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107 | |||
Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280 | |||
Steam Production—see Economic | |||
750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multijet Condensing Set. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi. | |||
Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594 | |||
Steel—see Iron | |||
Storage Batteries—see Electrical Matters | |||
Stourport—see Electrical Matters | |||
St resses. Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under. Professor F. (’. l-ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522 | |||
Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632 | |||
Strikes — see Labour | |||
Stroboscope—see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical »Societie«’ Exhibition | |||
Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516 | |||
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (I) | |||
Dr. II. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ; | |||
(2) W. G. Mills, 303 | |||
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277 | |||
Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bnlsovor, Cold-rolled Strip Steel, 543 | |||
Switchgear —see Elect rival Mai i era | |||
T | |||
TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co.. Ltd., 468 | |||
Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436 | Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436 | ||
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392 | Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134 | ||
Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84 | |||
Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654 | |||
Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i. ii | |||
Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 1b. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii | |||
Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv | |||
Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment. at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656 | |||
Tests, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386 Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 601 | |||
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392 | |||
Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84 | |||
Thornton and Clevrleys’—see Electrical Matters | |||
Thornton, Professor VV. M., Faraday Lecture. | |||
What is Electricity ? 331 | |||
Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56 | Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River, | ||
T. C. S. Haslam, 602 | |||
Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv | |||
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927) | |||
Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522 | |||
Torsional Stresses—see Failure of Steel Wires | |||
Torsional Vibration, J. (’alderwood, 336 | |||
u | |||
Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four •wheel | |||
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298 | |||
V | Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531 | ||
Trades Disputes Bill, 525 | |||
Trades Unions and Trade Disputes—w Labour | |||
WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600 | Trafford Park—see Electrical Matters | ||
Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504 | Train Ferry—see Ferry | ||
Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679 | |||
Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank | Transformers—sec Electrical Matters | ||
Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii | |||
Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; | Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed | ||
Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234 | |||
Stoker Company, 218 | |||
Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555 | Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329 | ||
Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186 | |||
Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688 | Trucks—sec also Electrical Matters | ||
De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven | |||
Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56 | |||
Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir (’. A. | |||
Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De- posits on Iron, 582 | |||
Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278 | Parsons and Others. 69 | ||
Turbine Pumps—see Pumps | |||
Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam. | |||
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927) | |||
Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288 | |||
Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd. | Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes. | ||
Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits | G. Arrowsmith, 109 | ||
Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323 | |||
Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634 | Turbines—see also Proportioning | ||
Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry. | |||
Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v | |||
Saw, Cross | C. A. Gillingham, 667 | ||
Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264 | |||
u | |||
UNIFLOW Engines—see Engines | |||
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298 | |||
Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414 | |||
Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd., 681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654 | V | ||
World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344 | VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684 | ||
World's Production | |||
Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and | Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422 | ||
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 1856-1926, 193 | |||
Viaduct—see Timber | |||
Volta and Laplace, 233 | |||
WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600 | |||
Wages —see Labour | |||
Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504 | |||
Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679 | |||
Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii | |||
Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; Cldoronome. Paterson Engineering Company, 218 | |||
Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234 | |||
WATER SUPPLY : | |||
See. also Annual Articles | |||
Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555 | |||
Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186 | |||
Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688 | |||
De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven | |||
Pumping Plant at. 569 | |||
WELDED Repairs—see. Bridges | |||
Werkspoor Indicator Gear. 209 | |||
Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De-posits on Iron, 582 | |||
Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278 | |||
Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220 | |||
Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance. | |||
Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages : | |||
Influence on Manufacturing Costs. | |||
(Letter), 240 | |||
Wilaou Dam— see | |||
Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 289. 300 | |||
Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd.. B.I.F., Supplement, iv | |||
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY | |||
Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits | |||
Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323 | |||
Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634 | |||
WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646 | |||
WOODWORKING MACHINES : | |||
Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v | |||
Saw, Cross cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single-dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknesaing Machine, Wo,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv | |||
Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264 | |||
Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321 | |||
WOOLWICH—see. Electrical Matters | |||
Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward | |||
U. Herbert, 138. 156. 18U ; (Letters), 277 | |||
136 | |||
Their | |||
188 : | |||
Dam | |||
Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414 | |||
Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd., | |||
681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654 | |||
World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344 | |||
World's Production und Trade in Machinery, 048 | |||
Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and Momhfh. Bostock and Brarnloy, B.I.F. Supplement, ii | |||
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ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149
Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver-sidge, Ltd., vii
Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
AERONAUTICS : See al*o Annua) Articles
Aero-engines—aee Engines
Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586
French Air Services, 659
French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554
International Register of Aircraft, 244
AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104
Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co..
Ltd., 217
Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203
Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323
Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters
Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121
Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412
America and Groat Britain, 415
America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ; 468, 610, 638
Burning Wood Waste, 638
High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610
High-speed Oil Engines, 638
Improvements in Pointsand Crossings, 610
New Port, 611
Permanent Way Recording Car, 468
Pipe Lines for Oil, 468
Power in the /American Steel Industry, 610
Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638
Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610
Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468
Track Shifting Machine, 610
Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610
.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336
Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel
ANNUAL ARTICLES : Aeronautics in 1926, 19, 34
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Aircraft Engines—see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.:
All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37
•* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37
Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37
A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.:
Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)
Aeronautics in 1926 (continued):
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.:
“ Ripon ” Torpedo Aeroplane. 37
“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls-Royce Falcon Engine. 37
“ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:
Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36
Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34
Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34
Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:
'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35
Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.;
Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37
“ Coral ” All-steel Aeroplane, 37
“Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37
Handley Page, Ltd.:
“ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19
“ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927)
Hawker Engineering Co.. Ltd.:
“ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21
Short Brothers, Ltd.:
All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20
Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20
“ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927)
Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.:
“ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Vickers Ltd.:
“ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21
Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.:
Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Bridges in 1926, 7
(Supplement, January 1th, \Wl)
Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) : Bridges in 1926 (continued):
Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927)
Electrical Engineering in 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Converters. Automatic Sub-station, Soho-square. 25 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
Electric Traction, 43
50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried.
Krupp, 43, 44
Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43
Miscellaneous, 44
Research, 25
Telephones, 44
Television, 26
The Baird Televisor. 26
Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43
High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A.
Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43
Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26 Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Harbours and Waterways in 1926, 38 The United Kingdom, 38
British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38
Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38
Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38
Southampton, 38
Africa, 39
Australasia, 39
Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39
European Ports and Waterways, 38
North and South America, 39
Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84 Locomotives of 1926, 3
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January llh, 1927)
Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6
Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5
New Standard Goods Engine, Extended
Use of, 5
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
Locomotives in 1926 (continued):
Southern Railway. 4
Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Locomotive Industry, 6
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7
Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight-coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7
Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7
North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7
Light Locomotives, 7
Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7
Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7
Motor Vessels and Marine On. Engines in 1926, 8
(Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
Double-acting Engines, 8
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd..
8. 10
Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9
Opposed-piston Engines, 11
Dox ford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10. 11 Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11 Progress in Europe and America, 11
Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser-M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12
Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8
Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis.
Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9
Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Smaller Marine Motors, 11
Some New Directions of Development, II
Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12
Naval Construction in 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
British Empire, 2
France, 3
French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
Italy, 3
Japan, 3
Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3
Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
Naval Construction in 1926 (continued) :
United States, 2
Minor Navies, 3
Railways in 1926, 42
Great Western, 42
London, Midland and Scottish, 42
London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’
Metropolitan, 43
Southern, 42
Underground. 43
Sanitary Engineering in 1926. 55
General, 55
Bradford. 55
Leeds, 55
Leicester, 55
London Main Drainage, 55
Manchester, 55
Main Drainage, 55
Outfall Works, 55
Portobello (Edinburgh), 55
West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55
Works in Progress or in Contemplation. 55
France, 55
Other Works Abroad, 56
Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering in 1926, 22
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22
High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22
Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22
Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22
Repairs and Reconditioning, 22
(3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22
High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23
Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23
Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24
Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23
Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23
Some Dredgers of 1926, 23
Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23
L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23
Conclusion, 24
Water Supply in 1926, 24
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
General, 24
Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Birmingham, 51
Cardiff, 51
Llwynon Reservoir, 52
Roughing Filters, 52
Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52
Wenallt Reservoir, 52
Durham County Water Board. 52
Glasgow, 53
Liverpool. Vyrnwy Supply. 24
Aber Tunnel, 24
Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24
Londonderry, 52
Manchester, 51
H aweswat er Scheme, 5!
Heaton Park Reservoir, 51
Thirlmere, 51
Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51
Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53
Bradford. 53
Exeter, 53
Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53
Metropolitan Water Board, 51
Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51
Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51
Works for the Improvement of Supply
South of the Thames. 51
Works at Hampton. 51
Nottingham. 52
Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52
Colwick Hill Reservoir. 52
East wood Filtration Plant, 52
Plymouth, 52
Preston, 52
Taf Feehan, 53
Wakefield. 52
Bombay, 53
France, 53
Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53
South Australia, 53
Ot her Works Abroad, 53
Irrigation, 54
ARMOURING Machine—tee Electrical Matters
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
Association, Diesel Engine Users' :
Consumers’ Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504
High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday. 298
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Annual Dinner, 71
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E.
Windeler, 354
Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 8. Howden, 125
Modern Developments in Steam Pressures.
W. Bayliss, 280
Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622
Annual General Meeting, 624
Dinner, 624
Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624
Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607
Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607 Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles. 622
Institute, Iron and Steel: Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541
Annual Report, 513
Annual Dinner, 516
ACj Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541. 557 Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544 Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. 558 Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515
Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514
Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514
Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molyb-denum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544
Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543
The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516
Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543
Institute of Marine Engineers ; Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411
Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273
Institute of Metals : Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322 Programme, 184
Autumn Meeting, 184
Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322
Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322
Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322
Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322
Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322
Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294
Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294
Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294
Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295
Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323
Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323
Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323
Seventh Maj* Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
Institution of Chemical Engineers : Annual Dinner, 326
Annuel General Meeting, 326
Conference, 193
Programme, 193
Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326
Meeting, 302, 325
Effect of Temperature on Some nf the Properties of Metals, &c.. Professor F. C. Lea, 325
Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture :
(1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds,
(2) W. G. Mills, 303
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325
Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326
Institution of Civil Engineers : Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137
Conversazione, 662
Three Lantern Lectures, 662
Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed. “ Rubber-phalte ” Road Blocks, &c., 662
James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520
October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113 April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602
Manchester and District Association :
Sixth Annual Dinner, 181
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :
Institution of Electrical Engineers ■
Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208 Annual Dinner, 71, 193
Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison. 297
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221
Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654. 680. 686 ; Programme. 354
Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654
Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of (’onsett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680. 686
What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331
Wireless Section :
Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews. 412
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland : Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693
Programme, 611
Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693
Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kur-furst, John S. Brown, 276
Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693
Institution, Junior, of Engineers: Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J.
Calderwood, 336
Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Annual General Meeting, 206
Report, 206
Conversazione, 208
Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332
Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &c., Professor F. C. I.ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. -Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445
Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393
Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils— Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton. 376
Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240
Provisional Programme, 240
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146
North-Western Branch :
Annual General Meeting, 109
Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr’s Paper, 207
Manchester Meeting, 208
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208
Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444
Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109
Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377
Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330
Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276
Institution of Mining Engineers : Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531
Institution of Naval Architects : Annual Dinner, 388
Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434
Report and Elections, 387
Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nieolson, 409
Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. .1. R. Biles, 435, 439
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408
Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421
l*rogramme of Meetings, 336
Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent. 434
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Economy' of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125
Joint Meeting—see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery | on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth. 249
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Structural Engineers :
Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474
Institution of Water Engineers • Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450
Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691
Society, Ceramic : Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437
Society of Chemical Industry : Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84 Measurement of Temperature in Technical
Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84
Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393
Society, Faraday ; Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392
Society, Liverpool Engineering : Annual Dinner. 155
Society, Newcomen : Meeting, 219
British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219
First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne-Lyon Railway, M. Achard. 219
Summer Meeting, 576
Society, Royal : Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Seldnyi’s Method of Observing the “ Cleanup ” in a Vacuum Lamp, &c., 522
Societies, Physical and Optical: Exhibition, 12, 42, 72—For Details see Separate Heading, “ Physical and Optical Exhibits ”
ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557 Australia and India, Wireless Communication with—see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations
Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, “ Minik ” Plating Apparatus, &c., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265
B BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635
Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. 125
Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179
Balancing Gear—see Engines
Balancing Machine. Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii
Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574
Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157
Beam Engines—see Engines
Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444
Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543
Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624
Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439
Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246
Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403
Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690
Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321
Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, &c., Hunt and Mitt on, 267
Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580
Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682
Boilers. Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363
Boilers. Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii
Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530
Books of Reference, 100, 152. 184, 220. 268, 364, 437. 584, 611
Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Brakes, Trains—see Railways
BRIDGES : Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A..
202, 214, 231, 304. 305. 318. 345
“ Iron Bridge ” at Plymouth. Centenary, 625
Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419
BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335
Specifications : Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212
Cold-drawn Wcldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212
Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440
Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308
Electrical Protective Relays, 336
Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84
Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394
Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531
Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes. 582
Oil Paints, 277
Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44
Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550
Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193
Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692
Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent
Electric Lamps, 109
Zinc Specifications, 171
BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637
British Industries—«ec Exhibitions
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374
Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274
Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
Buenos Aires Port Works, 298
Burning—sec Coal
c CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
Cables—see Electrical Matters
Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408
Calendars, Diaries, &c., 87, 109, 225
(Jammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574 Cardington—see Aeronautics
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520
Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611
Catalogues. 87, 109, 171, 197, 367. 425. 453, 477, 611, 641, 071, 697
Centenary, Railway—see Railways
Centenary, Waterworks—see Water Supply
Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii
Chain Pulling Jack, " Little Jack '* Engineering Company, Ltd., 694
Chemical Analysis, 216
China, The “ Red Menace “ in, 105
Chloronome—Water Softening
Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351 Circulating Water—sec Electrical Mutters Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411
•‘Clear Space’ Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
Clough, F. H., Stability of I.arge Power Systems, 221
COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES : British Cool in Franco, 350
Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162
Coal Ash and Probability. 48 ; (Letter), 449 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249
Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163
Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626. 663
COASTERS—see Ships
Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E.
Davies, 92, 123
Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692 Combiiation—see Engines
Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam-driven, for the Almcdu Liner, 379
Conference on Engineering Materials. 4 48 Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568
Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 31 1, 339. 367, 397, 425. 453. 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644. 674, 670
Conveyor, Genera) Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Cook, Professor (L, Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294
Copper Castings—see Castings
Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463
Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metal®—see British Non-ferrous Metals
Crane Girder Design—sec Economics of
Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter). 351
Cultivating Machinery—see Steam
Cultivator—see Tea Garden
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 114. 144. 172, 198. 226. 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398. 426, 454, 4 82, 508, 536. 564, 590, 616, 642, 672. 698
Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527
DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406. 420. 421
Dam. Eguzon, on the River (Tense, 64, 76
Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328
Dams, Continuous Nat ure of Decay in, William Harvey, 668
Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 02. 123
Deferrating Plant at. a Sussex Works. 98. 102
Delaware— .■.re Bridges
Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
Deptford—see Electrical Matters
Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding. 274
Diamond Pool—see Longlands
Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321
Diesel Engines—sec Engines
Digging and Loading Machine. Spencer (Mclk-shain), Ltd.. 393
Dock Extensions at Liverpool. 372. 373, 384
Double Dry Grinding Machine. Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd.. 667
Drawing-otlice Lighting, 205
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
Drying Oven, Largo Vacuum, at Heaton Works, (’. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654
Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables. 99
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T.
Avery, Ltd., 265
Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265
E EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell. 233
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. \\ barton, 278
Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G.
Fiegehcn, 204
Economy of Tank Testing—see Ship Propulsion Research
Educational Intelligence, 54
Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets. 543
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
ELECTRICAL MATTERS : See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits
Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236
Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560
Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektrieitiits Gesellschaft, 297
Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584
Battery Eliminators. &c., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412
Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley’s, Ltd., 238
Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99
Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233
Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529
Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150
CO, Recorder, Elect rofio Meters, Ltd.. 239
Congella Power Station, Durban, 106
(’onset t Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686
Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532
Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237
Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity,
C. J. Wharton, 278
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy,
D. F. Campbell, 295
Electrical Industry, The, 437
Electrical Instruments, 208
Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
Electrical Research, 188
Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuc-kert. 297
Electrified Homes . . . the Heating
Question, H. H. Berry, 624
Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604
French Electrification Developments, 250
High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496. 503
Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550
Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135
Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694
Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal ami Rhome tai, Gutta Pore ha Company, 240
Manchester Electricity Supply, 625
Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547
North Tecs Electric Power Stations, 680
Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663
Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512. 524, 540 (Ttco-paye Supplement, May 1927)
Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578
Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466. 470
Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240
Recent Development in Power Plant Design, Ac., T. Roles, 622
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
Stourport Power Station. 626, 627, 663 Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A.
Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237
Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000*Volt Supply, George Ellison. 267
Switchgear Works. New, The Oerlikon Com pony. 404. 414
Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207
Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238
Thornton and Clevelvy's Electricity Scheme, 008
Three-phase Circuit Breaker. 100,000-Volt, 297
Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear. Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239 Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160. 163
Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Cort* Type Transformers : Single-phase. Radiid Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266
Treforcst Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237. 238
Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267
Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anil Co., Ltd., 654
U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266. 267
Voltage Regplating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle • upon - Tyne Scheme, Motropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556
What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton. 331
ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406. 420. 421
ENGINES AND MOTORS <$’*•<• al«o Annual Articles
Aircraft Engines :
Beardmore “ Typhoon ” Aero-engine, 97 Bristol Company’s “ Cherub.” “ Jupiter ’ and ” Lucifer ” Aeroplane Engines. 35 "Cirrus” Mark II. 75-8’1 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. .
Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336
Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, ” V.M.” Deutz Type. 528. 544
Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507
Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692
Bearn Engines. Old—we Letters to the Edit or. 351, 449, 465, 025, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400
Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton ami Shuttieworth, Ltd., 80
Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632
Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii
Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks. 569
Diesel Engineer s Log, M. V. Tampa, 279 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504
Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47
High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298
Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137
Internal Combustion Engines, Various, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
Marino Oil Engines -#rr alto Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, Ac.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472. 486, 518
Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
Oil Engines and Governor Gear. Marshall, Sons and Co.. B.I.F. Supplement, ii
Oil Engines. Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit anil Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Some Tvpes of Marine Oil Engines, \V. F. Rubhidge, 273
Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Hindley and Sons, 335
Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers. 676
Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217
Water Power Oil Engines in Bulgaria,
97
Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington. Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 300
ENGINEER and Client. 193
Engineering Conference at Manchester, 4 12
Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on
Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188;
(Letter), 240
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir
Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625
Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson,
II I
EXHIBITIONS: British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264
Leipzig Fair. 263. 296. 320
Midland Building Trades’ Exhibition, 585
Paris Fair, 572
Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical
Prague Fair, 350
EX PERT Evidence, 131
Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612
Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121
F FACTORIES, Safety in, 558
Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses. <&e.. Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
Fairs—see Exhibitions
Fan—see also Mine
Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi
Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474
Ferry. Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610
Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204
Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624
Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638
Fires Afloat—see Extinguishing
Fleets. Fighting—sec Ships, Naval Matters
Floating Prismatic Bodies—see Stability
Flue Dust Collector, *’ Sirocco ” Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132
Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594
Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200. 228, 256. 286. 314, 342, 370. 400. 428. 456, 484, 510, 538. 566. 592. 618. 641. 674, 670
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 31. 61. 89, 115. 145, 173. 199, 227, 255. 285. 313, 341, 369. 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699
.African Railways, 227
Barrage Models, 537
Battleship France, 173
Bridge Enlargements, 285
British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617
British Trade, 399
Cameroon Railways, 369
Cham bon Barrage, 115
Coal Import Licences, 673
Coal Production. 199
Coal Situation. 285, 341. 643
Coal Trade, 565, 699
Colonial Exhibition, 341
Colonial Works, 31, 509
Commercial Agreements, 427
Commercial Aviation. 255
Continuous Brakes. 369
Cruiser Suffren. 537
Engineering Trades. 483
Export Trade, 89
Flood Protection, 89
Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699
Hydraulic Works, 115
Hydro-electric Schemes, 455
Import Duties, 255
Industrial Agreements, 643
Inland Navigation. 509
Kembs Barrage, 369
Languedoc Ship Canal, 483
Manufacturing Costs, 61
Marseilles Extensions, 313
Midi Electrification, 483
Mont Valerien Lighthouse. 565
Motor Car Industry, 399, 565
Motor Car Trade. 227
Naval Construction, 369, 455
New Cruiser Type, 173
Novel Boat, 699
Over-production, 537
Paris Suburban Traffic, 427
Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617
Port of Strasburg, 341
Production and Prices, 565
Prospecting by Colours, 89
Public Works, 61, 145
Rail Motors, 173
Railway Accident, 643
Railway Centenary, 61
Railway Electrification, 399
Railway Standardisation, 31
Rod Makers’ Agreement, 89
Rove Tunnel, 483
Russian Navy, 285
Sales Organisations, 509
Sewage Disposal, 617
Shipbuilding, 145, 255
South American Air Service, 199
Steel and Concrete, 427
Steel Industry. 145, 673
Steel Pact, 3i.3
Steel Trade, 455
Steel Trade Depression, 699
Steel Union, 61
Tariff Bill, 591
Tariffs and Coal. 643
The “ He de France,” 673
Tidal Power. 673
Trade Depression. 145
Trade Difficulties, 255
Trade Organisation, 285
Trade Outlook, 399
Trade Ret urns, I 15
Trade Situation, 115
Trade Slump. 173
Trade Stagnation. 369
Trans-Saharnn Railway, 89
Tunnelling the Vosges, 509
Two Concrete Bridges', 673
Underground Paris. 115
Unemployment. 341
Wages and Prices, 227
Wages Reductions. 509
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) 1 Wages and Work, 313
Water Sterilisation, 399
Weaker Prices, 31
West African Railways, 427
Work for Unemployed, 199
Works in Indo-China, 537
FRENCH Oil Problem, 357
Fuel Pump—sec Pumps
Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54
Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous
Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii
Furnaces, Electric—sec Electrical Matters
Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233
G GAS—aree also Suction Gas
Gas Boiler—see Boiler
Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxonv, 193, 240
Gases and Oro, Interactions of, in the Blast -furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137
Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and ('leaning Plant at, 477
Gear-boxes. Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
Gear-cutting—see Machine Tools
Goar Wheels. Quiet-running, New Material for
Making, “ Fenlin,” Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207
Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321
German Steel—see Iron
Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 067
Gladstone Dock—sec Dock Extensions
Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474
Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71
Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pud-more, Ltd., 478
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools
Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
H HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron ami Manganese, Low Carbon .Alloys, 515, 516
Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry. 84
Hammer, " Clear Space,” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514 Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163
Hardness Testing Instrument, “ Duroscope,” 321
Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297
Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568
Haslam, T. ('. $., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602
Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558
Helium in Canada, 465
Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277
Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82
High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd.. 611
High-pressure Steam, Historical References to tke Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635
H orated Keynes—see Water Supply, Deferrat-ing
Howden, S., Junior Technical School ami its Relation to Engineering. 125
Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods. 646
Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217
Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Hydro-electric Installation, Borbcra Valley, 222 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219
I IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554
Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625
India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), <184
Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino. 157
Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209
Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531
Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477
Industry—see Labour
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interactions—see Gases
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives
International Congress for Testing Materials.
184
International Discussion, 660
International Register of Aircraft. 244
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 032
IRON AND STEEL Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516
Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541 German Steel Combination, 350
Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. (’. Benedicks and
M. H. Loquiat, 543
Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
Interactions of Gases and Oro in the Blast furnace. Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514. 530
Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84
Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods o Production, 662
Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties. Si Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
Mikl Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, &c.
R. Genders, 322
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manu facturers, Dinner, 691
Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron
S. Wornick, 582
South Africa. Steel Industry in, 348
Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig
Steel Cartel, 179
Steel Sections, Special. Janies Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., J no. Hy. Andrew ant Co.. Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, iv
J JACK—Chain Pulling
.lames Forrest Lecture. Some Recent Service) of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professo; II. C. H. Carpenter. 490. 520
K KELVIN Lecture—sec Institution of Elect rica Engineers
Kent. J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434
Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in Brit is) and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203
Kershaw. John B. C., World’s Future Supply ol Liquid Fuels, 244, 261. 292, 316, 344
Kit son Clark. Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416
Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles foi Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306 330. 332
LABOUR MATTERS : Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188
Goodwill in Industry, 440
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike, 688
Trades Unions Bill, 385
LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.LF.
Supplement, iv
Langerbruggo—sec Electrical Matters
Lathes—nee Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563. 589, 61 I. 641. 671, 697
Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, &c., 325
Lea, Professor F. C.» and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses. &c., 487 ; (Letter), 522
Lead Burning. Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
LEADERS 1926—A Retrospect of. 17
Electricity Supply, 18
High Pressures. 18
Locomotives, 18
London Traffic, 18
Metallurgy, 18
Conclusion. 18
Agricultural Engineering, 104
America and the Cruiser Question. 103
America and Great Britain, 415
Armament of Capital Ships, 553
British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors. 243
Burning of Low-grade Coal. 161
Chemical Analysis, 216
Ci merit Fondu Concrete, 329
Coal Ash and Probability, 48
Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
Electrical Research, 188
Exchange in Ideas, 579
Expert Evidence, 131
French Air Services, 659
French Oil Problem, 354
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
French Transatlantic Flights, 553
Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 4 7
Gaa Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
Idea of Power for Nothing, 553
Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415
International Discussion, 660
International Register of Aircraft. 214
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632
Kelvin Lecture, 472
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497
Marine Steam Turbine Progress. 77
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
Naval Limitation Conference, 687
Navy Estimates, 301
New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments. 187
Problem of High Superheats, 272
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, -M3
Railways and Unfair Competition, 354
Rating of Machinery, 161
Reticence, 302
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike. 688
Steam Accumulators. 78
Super-pressure Steam Plant a;. Bradford. 78
Theoretical and Practical Lubrication. 386
Torsional Fatigue, 526
Trades Disputes Bill, 525
Trades Unions Bill, 385
LEADERS (continued) :
Trans-Saharan Railway, 497
Trend of Fuel Injection Practice. 329
World's Fighting Fleets, 271
LEIPZIG—see Exhibitions
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England. North of, 28, 58. 86. 112. 142, 170. 196, 224. 252. 282, 3in. 338, 366. 396, 424. 452. 480, 506. 534. 562. 588, 614. 640. 670. 696
Lancashire. 27, 57, 85. 111. 141. 169. 195. 223. 251. 281. 30d, 337. 365. 395. 423. 451, 479. 505, 533. 561, 587. 613. 615. 639, 669. 695
Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56. 85. 111. 141, 169, 194. 223. 251. 281. 309. 337. 364. 395, 423, 451. 479, 505. 533, 561, 587, 613. 615, 639, 669, 695
Scotland, 29, 59. 86, 112, 143. 171. 197. 225. 253. 2b3. 311. 339, 367, 397. 425, 452, 481, 507. 534. 563. 589. 615. 640. 670. 696
Sheffield. 28. 58. 86. I 12. 142. 170, 19G. 224, 252. 282. 310, 338. 366, 396. 424. 452. 480. 506. 534. 562. 588. 1H4. 640, 670, 696
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29. 59. 87. 113, 143, 171, 197, 225. 253. 283. 311. 339. 367. 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535. 563, 589. 615. 611, 671, 697
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : Beam Engine. An Old, W. J. Barker. 351 ; W. Yates. 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction). 4011
Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ;
H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd.. 684
Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133
British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Light -body. 559
British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd.. 351
Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82
Ciinent Fondu, John G. Kay, 351
Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos. 450
Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625
Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, “ Astonished,” 44
Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240
Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren. 44
High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392
High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Meeh. E„ 656
Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines,
F. J. B. Magg?». 181
“ Howlers,” H. E. Wimperis, 656
Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181
Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465
Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker. 133
Magnetisation of Dextrorsa! and Sinistrorse! Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585
Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494
Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133
Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456
Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83
Rcid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181
Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494
Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448
Smith. A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83
Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277
Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell-Sinith, 298
Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298
Torsional Fatigue. G. A. Hankins, 522
Unemployment—the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins. 133
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham. 298
Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684
Work Hardening. IL Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward
G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277
LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478
Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v, vi
Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw. 244. 261. 292
LITERATURE : Reviews : Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245. 473
Beitrflge zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matehoss, 216
Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133
Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. South-combe, 74
Chronicles of Boulton’s Siding, A. R. Bennett. 105
Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189. 350
Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386
Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard. 354. 660
Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105
Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526
Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445
Natural History of a Savant. Professor C.
Richet. 386
Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford. 354, 498 Rotary Converters. E. P. Hill, 189. 473 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155
LITERATURE (continued):
Short Notices:
Ausldoidung von Druckstollen und Druck-schfichten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 71, 189
Business Economics, Sir William Ashley. 155
Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189
Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. 8. Sinnott, 155
Controllers for Electric Motors, H. I). James, 354. 580
Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216
Die Luft vorwilrrnung im DampfkcKselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. (Jumz, 133
Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189
Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155
Use of Power in Colliery Working. John Kirsopp, 105
Whitworth Book, The. 105
Books Received . Abridged Callondnr Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494
Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660
Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch. 689
Aerial Cableways, G. Beret ti, 189
Age of the Earth. A. Holmes. 277
Allgemeino Energiewirthschaft, Hof rat Ing.
Hans von JUptner, 277
Aluminium anil its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133
Aluminium Facts and Figures. 105
American Society for Testing Materials. Proceedings of Meeting. 380
Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.-Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354
Annales des Ponta et Chausseos. 1926, 189
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585
Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia (liornale del Genio Civile). 354. 473, 585, 689
Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660
Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105
Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689
Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660
Art do ringdnieur ct Metallurgic, L. Descroix. 105
Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277
Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633
Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, &c., of Bauxite, C. 8. Fox, 689
Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton-bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445
Blue Book. 1927. 155
British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473
British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, &c.. G. P. Warner Terry. 133
Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585
Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689
Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633
Bulletin de la Soci6t6 d* Encouragement pour rindustrie Nationale. 606, 633
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105
Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473
Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633
Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633
Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189
Central Station Voltages and Charges
Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606
Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. 354
China Architects’ and Builders* Compendium, J. '1'. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633
China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai. 245
Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Tern-
Serature, J. Roberts, 633
liery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48
Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386
Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48
Craft of Tracing, 417
Cutters and Cutter Blocks. 8. Ransome, 417
Cycling Manual, 155
Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245
Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473
Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf-b al ken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526
Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead. 494
Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105
Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch. 585
Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham. 133
Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494
Directory of the Members, Subscribers, &c., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660
Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386
Directory of Shipowners. Ac., 1927. 189
Domestic Electric Heating. IL G. Solomon. 633
Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277
Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G.
Mingle, 633
Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189
Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M.
Dekker. 633
Durehlaufende Eisen betonkon.strukt ionen in elastischer Verbindung mil den Zwischen-stiitzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105
Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354
E.H.T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417
Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133
Electric Telpherage. G. W. UroaMnith, 48
Electricity Act. The Now. W. S. Kennedy. 189
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, J. C. Dalton. 354
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Alien, 354
Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192", 473
Engine Service Testa of Interna! Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, &c.» M. J. Cavin and G. Wade, 633
Engineering Index, 1926, 689
English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen* Jxngh, 133
Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and KohAsion, &c., W. Fellenius, 277
Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals.
F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660
Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364
Gottlob’s Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum. 417
Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paet-zold, 633
Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisen-bahnwesen und Stftdtebau, Oherbau und Glcisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386
High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48
Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633 H.M. Stationery Office Publications :
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606
Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526 Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust-,
T. M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler. 585
Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386
Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386
Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689
Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585
Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494
Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585
Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633
History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155
Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660 Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585
Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations.
N. B. Mehta, 633
Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48
Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133 Institution of Structural Engineers’ Year Book. 1927, 473
International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473
Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105 •
1st Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Bauineister, 633
Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V.. 1926, 585
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189
- Journal of the Franklin Institute, May. 1927,
633 t ,
Journal of the Institute of Metals, ' ol.
XXXVI., 155
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 189
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England, Vol. 87, 660
Kelly s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1927, 633
La Machine Locomotive, E. Sauvage. 41 >
La Soci6t6 des Ingenieurs Civils de France : MSmoires et Coinpte Rendu des Travaux, 417
Large Uses of Steel in Small Ways. 689
Locomotive of To-day, 105 ,
L'Organisation Scientifique du Travail. (».
Bricard, 386
Lubrication in Colliery Practice, N. Simpkin and A. Dawe, 48
Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 585
Machine Design. Construction and Drawing, H. J. Spooner. 354
Machine Tool Driving and Feed Gear-boxes, H. C. Town. 133
Magneto Manual. H. R. Langman. 633
Manuel des Laboratoires Sid6rurgiques : Methodes Analytiqucs Conventionnelles de la Cornmiinautc- Arbed Torres-Rouges. 417 Marine Diesel Engines, W. C. Macgibbon, 633 Mathematical Tables (Four Figures). C. V
Durell, 473 . .
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book. 1927. 133 .
Mechanics Applied to Engineering, J. Good-
Mechanics. Text-book of. E. H- Wood. 133
MechanischeSchwingungen und ihre Messung, Dr -Ing. J* Geiger. 585
Metallurgists’ Manual. T. G. Bamford and H. Harris. 633 _
Metallurgy of the Common Metals, L.
Austin. 155
Meteorological Report for the \ ear 19-1. 689
Modern Ignition. H. H. V. CroML 633
Modern Scientific Ideas. Sir ( liver Lodge. 2- < Modern Steelwork, E. Fiander Etchell... fi89 Motor Cycling Manual 105
Motor Shin Reference Bock for 1».7, 155
Movable Bridges : Vol. TI„ Machinery. O. I-..
Hovey, 606
National Physical Laboratory. Collected Researches, 1926, 245
Naval Engineering Review, I art XII., No. *0, 473
New* South Wales. Report of Metropolitan Water. Sewerage, &c.t 386
Notes on the Preparation of Railuaj I rejects, H. L. Glass. 606
Oil and Retortable Materials. G. W Haise.
Ordinary Differential Equations, E. L. Ince, 526
Petrol Engine, 4 7 3
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued) :
Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart. 633
Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 006
Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155
Pratique duCalcul du B6tonArm&,G. Magnel, 133
Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585
“ Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494
■* Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585
“ Proceedings” of the Chemical Engineering Group. 585
” Proceedings ” of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. 585
” Proceedings ” of the Optical Convention,
1926, Parts I. and IT.. 18
“ Proceedings ” of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX.. 386
” Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473
Radio Communication, The Elements of,
O. F. Brown. 133
Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155
Railway Year Book, 1927, 585
Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles. 277
Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689
Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133
Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum,. 1926, 494
Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb. 277
Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C.
Miller, 660
Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245
Sewage Works. F. C. Temple, 354
Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothen -burg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473
Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133
Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby. 633
Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585
Standards Year Book, 1927, 585
Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Pad-lield, 48
Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445
Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larra-naga, 386
Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield. 189
Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J.
Kersey, 633
Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel. 689
To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs. 445 Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633
“ Transactions ” of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74
"Transactions” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245
“ Transactions ” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb. 245
Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105
Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74
Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585
Universal Directory of Railway Officials,
1927, 660
WArmetechnische Grundlagen der Indus-triedfon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633
Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, &c., Dr.-Ing. G. Merkle, 386
Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386
Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494
Water Transport: IL, Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526
Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. Ac., to September 30th. 1926, 689
Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155
Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277
Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74
Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417
Zur Frage dos Shiffswiderstandos. Uh.
Doydre, 606
LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives. also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters)
Long Distance Gas Transmission. 193. 240
Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277 Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376
Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy. 358. 361, 393 —see also Theoretical Lubrication
M MACHINE TOOLS : Raring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defrics, 297. 630. 635
Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair. 320
Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfen-glirtner A.G., 583
Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110
MACHINE TOOLS (continued) :
Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine. George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106. 107
Drills, Milling Cutters. Reamers, Saws. Arc.. Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265
Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion. Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297
Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277
Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size.
Eumtico A.G., &c., 297
High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i
“ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine. .John Stick and Sons. Ltd.. 190. 19!
Lathe. Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiesa* Defries, 297
Lat hes, Powerful Railway \\ heel. \\ ilheliii Hegenscheidt, 297
Maag Gear-cutting Machine. 320
Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Exhibits. 297
Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, &c.. Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, “ Floxtol.” Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266
Recent Developments in Machine Tools,
G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., anti Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463
Screwing Machine, Automatic, 3 horn as
Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Shearing Machine for Curves, 320
Shearing Machine, Henry Pels. 297
Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280
Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692
MACHINERY—also Rating
Machinery, World’s Production and Trade in. 648
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs. 497
Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246
Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461. 472
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77
Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376
Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332
Mechanical—see also Tea Garden
Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants. 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298
Mersey Tunnel—see Pumps
Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531
Metallurgy. Some Recent Services of. to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520
Metals—see also Associations, &c., Institute of Metals
Metals—sec also Work Hardening
Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548
Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665
Mines—see Safety
Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209
Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71
Model Steam Power Station, 217
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J.
Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines— see Machine Tools
Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377
N NAVAL Matters—see Ships
New Work Always Ready for Men who Do
Things, Frank Richards. 467 ; (Letter). 494
Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats. 409
Nozzles—see Proportioning
OBITUARY : Anderson, Konrad. 389
Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50
Culthrop. Everard R.. 354
Campbell, Archibald W., 580
Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444
Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait). 499
D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter. 117
Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50
Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait). 49
Greenhill, Sir George, 189
Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale. 50. 79
Hill, Alfred John. 302
Hills, Arnold Frank. 273
Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602
Kearns, Henry Ward. 154
Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154
M’Cullough, F. W., 354
Phipps. Frederick Reginald, 50
Platt, John, 662
Samuelson, Ernest. 580
Savage, E. A., 151
Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait ), 153
Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661
Thomas, Qeorgo, 354
OIL Engines — nee Engines
Oil Tests, Consumers’, Arthur F. Evans, 665
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication. 358. 361. 393
“ Osiso ” and its Modification." for Use as a
Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company. 135
Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus — see
Physical and Optical Exhibits
Owens. Dr. J. 8., Movement nf Sand bv Wind, 377
Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey
Engineering Works. 267
115.
200, 450.
044.
115.
455.
691,
115,
537,
P PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY 388. 418. 438. 464. 519
Paint. Mills and Mixers. Torrance and Sons, 388. 389. 418. 461. 519
Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and
Lund. 519, 520
Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and
Blyth. 464
Mills with Chain-driving Gear. Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138. 439
Mills with Helical Driving Gear. Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear. Brinjes and Goodwin. 438
Paint Mixer and Strainer. Marchant Brothers,
Ltd., 461
PARSONS. Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405
Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH Aeronautics, 313
Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617
Building, 400
Condensers and Feed-water Healers. 173. 199, 591
Cranes and Conveyors, 61. 484. 510, 592
Crushing and Grinding. 200. 700 Dynamos and Motors, 61. 227, 255, 34), 399, ‘427, 455, 565. 617, 643, 673, 699
Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227 Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89. 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617
Furnaces, 89. 199, 228, 255, 427. 456, 510, 566, 643, 674
Gas Producers. 89
Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618 Locomotives, 510
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618. 643, 674, 699
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9
Metallurgy, 285, 428. 456
Mining Machinery, 115, 145
Miscellaneous, 32, 62. 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670
Ordnance and Armour, 90
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643 Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670 Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591
Switchgear, 31. 61, 341, 399. 509. 537, 617, 643, 673
Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61. 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427. 456. 483, 509. 565, 592. 617. 673
Tramways and Railways, 115, 173
Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509
Transmission of Power. 145. 199. 227. 255, 285, 399, 427. 537. 592, 643. 674, 699
Turbine Machinery, 227. 313, 483, 537. 699
PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87. 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589. 615, 644, 671, 697
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS : 12. 40, 72
1 Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller. 12
Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory. 12
Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct-current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74
Bridge Ohmmeter. Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41
Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72 CO2 Indicator and Recorder. 41 ; Dissolved
Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41
Dow Deposition Recorder, 72
Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope. 72 Guillet Vibrating-wiro Stroboscope, 73 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric
Company, 40, 41
Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72
Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72
Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12
Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40
Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company. 42
Rotary Pump, The “ Geryk,” Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74
Rotary Steam Meter. George Kent, Ltd.. 74 Schering Galvanometer. Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd., 13
Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer. Foster Instrument. Company. 41, 42
S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 72
Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72
Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74
Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EX HIBITS (continued):
Wireless Apparatus :
Continuous Wave Transmitter, l| kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41 (lalletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H.
Tinsley and Co.,. 12
Mid worth Distant Repeater. Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd.. 13
Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74
PICCADILLY-CIRCUS-arc Railways
Pipe Covering, “ Kisol,’’ Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267
Planing Machines—«rc Machine Tools
Poplar—*ec Electrical Matters
Port Improvements in Colombia, 692
Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362
Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive. 620
Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554
Power Stations see Electrical Mutters
Prague—tuc Exhibitions
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187 Problem of High Superheats. 272 ,
Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692
Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Tur bines, E. C. Wadlow, 600
Protective Effect—see Iron
Pullman Cars—see Railways
Pulverised Fuel. R. B. Potter, 362
PUMPS : Deep Well Turbine Pump. Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd., 222
Fuel Pumping Equipment nt Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd.. 290
H orated Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102
Mersey Tunnel Works. Submersible Pump* for. Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 580
Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks. 569
Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v
Rotary Pump, A New. Mepstead and Co., 44(
Rotary Pump. Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 69*1 Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd.. 532 ; (Paragraph), 566
Q QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating. 549 Quarrying—see Steam Shovel
R
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS General: A Few Observations on Railways, 152 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 Railway Expenditure in relation tn Railway Receipts, 474
Railways and Unfair Competition, 357
British, Colonial and Indian : India, Vacuum Broke in. 462 ; (Letter), 684 Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450
Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458. 492, 493
Swing Bridges. London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
Travelling Facilities in South-East London. 267
Foreign : Bolivian Railway Construction, 522 Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679
Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107 rardot Railway, Colombia. Kitson-Meyer Locomotive. 360 (Two •page Supplement. April Ul, 1927)
Paris-Orleans Railway Company. Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains. 134
Pullman Cars for the Continent. Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136
Railway Projects in Africa, 450
Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike. 688
Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company. 134
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
Trans-Saharan Railway, 84. 197
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES Sec also Annual Articles
General: British Locomotive. The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243
Internal Combustion Locomotive. 96
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.* Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354
Light Steam Locomotive. (Jayton Wagons, Ltd., 381
Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67
Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney. 620
Tools for Locomotive Work—see Machine Tools
British, Colonial and Indian ; Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118. 130; (letter), 181
Foreign Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Inf, 1927)
Single-pna.su Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107
RATING of Machinery, 148, 161
Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. II. Liven#, 148
Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and
P. H. Geiger, 364
“ Red Menace ” in China. 105
Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almedu. Liverpool Refrigerating Coin pany, Ltd.. 378. 379. 380
Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472
Reservoirs—see Water Supply
Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549
Reticence, 302
Richards. Frank. New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491
Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321. 322
Road-making. Concrete, Machine, Joseph Viigelr, 296
Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant nt Brighton, Millars’ Machinery Company, Ltd.. 504
Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant. 326 ; (Letter). 351
Roles.'I’., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, &c., 622
Rolling Mills—see Cotters for
Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research. 516
Rotoscope—see Heteropt ic Shutter
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325
179
125
J. L.
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SAFETY in Factories, 558
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines. 463
Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651
Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665
Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266 Sand—see Movement of Saws, Cold Disc, 321
Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold.
Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267 Schemes in Soviet Union, 14
Scientific Apparatus—see. al«o Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition.
Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349
Screwing Machines—see Machine Tools Scunthorpe—see Gasworks
Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514
Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi
Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING See also Annual Articles
General Matters :
America and the Cruiser Question, 103
Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 4U8 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. 11. J. R.
Biles. 435, 439
High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Con struct ion of, David Nicolson, 409
Lloyd’s Register :
Annual Summary, 81
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412
M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer’s Log, 279
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
Ship Wave Resistance. W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker. Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker. Weather and the Propulsion of Ships.
Kent. 434
Naval Matters : Armament of Capital Ships. 553
Machinery Installation of the Grosser fiirst, John 8. Brown. 276
Naval Limitation Conference, 687
Navy Estimates. 301
President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443
World’s Fighting Fleets, 271
Foreign Navies:
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels
Blue Star Liner Alineda, Refrigerating Machinery on. 378. 379
Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610
Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner. | 649. 658. 692
Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine ami Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 210. 211
SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690
Sixty Years Ago. 14. 48. 83. 97. 137, 162. 184.
212. 249. 273. 393. 331. 351. 392. 417. 450.
463. 498. 527. 547, 585. 602. 633. 656. 693
Skin Friction—see Ships
Smith, Harold C., Applications of Power on Gasworks. 137
Societies—see Associations
Soldering and Welding—see Aluminium
South Africa, Steel Industry in. 348
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES 110, 128. 168, 191. 221. 250. 280. 336. 391.
422, 559. 585. 612. 666. 681
Accident Rate in Mines, 250
An Aerial Survey, 250
Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169
Big Platinum Plant, 194
British Combine, 250
British Motor Industry, To Help. 280
Buluwayo Water Supply, 336
Cape Town Harbour Extensions. 392
Cape Town’s Floating Dock. 168
Cape Town’s Mountain (’ableway. 194
Capo Town Water Supply, 422
Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684
Kur-
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued): Defective American Locomotives, 280 Developing Table Bay, 336 Dunswart Works Expanding, 606 Durban’s Grain Elevator, 194 Electric Lighting of Trains, 392 Electric Power from City Reservoir. 612 Electricity Undertakings, IBS Electrification Results, 612 Engineering in 1926. 221 Ermelo Torbanites, 250 Funicular Railway, 330 Huge Locomotives. Two. 221 Improved Mining Methods. 110 Industrial Enterprises Checked, OK I Industrial Expansion. 128 Iron Ore Deposits of the Union. 392 Johannesburg Gasworks, 422 Johannesburg’s New Gasworks, 25o Largest. Winding Hoist, 585 Lightning Causes Mine Fire, I 10 Manganese for America, 422 Mining at Broken Hill, 336 Now Cement Factories. 250 New Durban North Bridge. 191 New Plant for Rond Mine. 191 Oil Boring Operations, 250 Pipes, Large Order for, 684 Platinum Mining, 684 Platinum Production, 250 Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194 Potgietersrust Platinums, 391 Preference on British Goods, 559 Pretoria Railway Workshops. 128 Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666 Production of Oil, 168
Progress at Dunswart Works, 250
Quick Coaling at Durban, 128
Railway Construction, 110
Railway Repair Shops, 612
Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559
Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559
Results of Railway Electrification 280 Rhodesia's Copper Mines. 128 Road Mot or Services, 336 Rolling Stock Position, 559 Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R.. 666 South African Coal. 194
S.A. Market for Tools, 559
State-aided Steel Industry, 612
Steam Omnibus, 250
Steel Combine Formed, 221
Suburban Railway Electrification. 666
Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684
Table Mountain Cableway, 221
Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422. 606
Tram Design, New, 585
Union Minidre Progress, 194
Union Rubber Industry, 168
Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110
Wankie Colliery Reconstruction. 612
SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179 South Australia—see Water Supply
South-East London. Travelling Facilities in, 267 Springs—see also Manufacture
Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267
Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough. 221
Stationary Enginej—see Engines
Steam Accumulators, 78
Steam Boiler Wagons—see Railways
Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, &c., Gummers, Ltd., 267
Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78
Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107
Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280
Steam Production—see Economic
750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multijet Condensing Set. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi.
Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594
Steel—see Iron
Storage Batteries—see Electrical Matters
Stourport—see Electrical Matters
St resses. Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under. Professor F. (’. l-ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632
Strikes — see Labour
Stroboscope—see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical »Societie«’ Exhibition
Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (I)
Dr. II. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ;
(2) W. G. Mills, 303
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bnlsovor, Cold-rolled Strip Steel, 543
Switchgear —see Elect rival Mai i era
T TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co.. Ltd., 468
Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436
Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134
Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654
Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i. ii
Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 1b. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii
Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment. at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656
Tests, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386 Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 601
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392
Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84
Thornton and Clevrleys’—see Electrical Matters
Thornton, Professor VV. M., Faraday Lecture.
What is Electricity ? 331
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River,
T. C. S. Haslam, 602
Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522
Torsional Stresses—see Failure of Steel Wires
Torsional Vibration, J. (’alderwood, 336
Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four •wheel
Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Trades Disputes Bill, 525
Trades Unions and Trade Disputes—w Labour
Trafford Park—see Electrical Matters
Train Ferry—see Ferry
Transformers—sec Electrical Matters
Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed
Stoker Company, 218
Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329
Trucks—sec also Electrical Matters
Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56
Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir (’. A.
Parsons and Others. 69
Turbine Pumps—see Pumps
Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam.
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927)
Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes.
G. Arrowsmith, 109
Turbines—see also Proportioning
Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry.
C. A. Gillingham, 667
u UNIFLOW Engines—see Engines
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298
V VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684
Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 1856-1926, 193
Viaduct—see Timber
Volta and Laplace, 233
WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600
Wages —see Labour
Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504
Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679
Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; Cldoronome. Paterson Engineering Company, 218
Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234
WATER SUPPLY : See. also Annual Articles
Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555
Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186
Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688
De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven
Pumping Plant at. 569
WELDED Repairs—see. Bridges
Werkspoor Indicator Gear. 209
Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De-posits on Iron, 582
Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278
Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220
Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance.
Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages :
Influence on Manufacturing Costs.
(Letter), 240
Wilaou Dam— see
Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 289. 300
Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd.. B.I.F., Supplement, iv
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits
Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323
Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634
WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646
WOODWORKING MACHINES : Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Saw, Cross cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single-dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknesaing Machine, Wo,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264
Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321
WOOLWICH—see. Electrical Matters
Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward
U. Herbert, 138. 156. 18U ; (Letters), 277
136
Their
188 :
Dam
Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414
Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd.,
681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654
World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344
World's Production und Trade in Machinery, 048
Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and Momhfh. Bostock and Brarnloy, B.I.F. Supplement, ii
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