The Engineer 1919 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ACID Hearth—see Iron and Steel Adjustable Ganges, M. Woldgaard, 529 AERONAUTICS:
See also Annual Articles
Aerial Photography, 367
Aero-dynamical Considerations, Captain G.
P. Thomson, 252
Aero-engine, 270 H.P. Basse-Selve, 246
Aero-engine Component- see Jigs, Tools, &c.
AERONAUTICAL NOTES, 489, 54 2, 590
American Airships, 590
American Production of Aeroplanes during the War, 542
B.A.T. Passenger Biplane, 489
Fastest Aeroplane in the World, 590 Fiat Transatlantic Machine, 542, 590 First Commercial Flight, 489 New British Airships, 489
Tarrant Triplane Disaster, 542, 591
Aeroplane Erecting Shop and Doping Boom, Austin Motor Company’s Works, 600, 608 j Aeroplane Factory, Heaton Chapel, Manchester, Crossley Motors, Limited, 422, 430 ; (Corrections), 468, 496 (Two-page Supple- \ me. nt, May 2nd, 1919) Aircraft Production at Lincoln, Ruston and | Hornsby, Limited, 391
Atlantic. Flight, 610
Blackburn “ Kangaroo ” Aeroplane, Black- [ burn Aeroplane and Motor Company, 579, 584 " Boulton-Paul” Transatlantic Aeroplane, Boulton and Paul, Limited, 435
Britain’s Air Effort during the War, 461
British Rigid Airship R 33, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 255
Commercial Airships, 84
Commercial Aviation, 38
Development of Airship Const ruction, C. 1. R.
Campbell, 384, 397, 420
D.H. 10 Bombing Biplane, Aircraft Manufacturing Company, 68
Education in the Royal Air Force, 128 Fiat 12-Cylinder 400 H.P. Aero-engine, 4 11
Fixed Radial Aero-engines, Cosmos Engineering Company (Brazil, Straker and Co.), 530
Halberstadt Two-seater Biplane, 158
Hydrogen Barges for Royal Air Force, 219, 226 . Magnesium and its Alloys : Its Use for Aeroengines and Motor Cars, 402 Manufacture of Rafwires and their Fittings, Woodside Engineering Company, Limited, 167 {Two-page Supplement, February 2W, 1919)
^Military and Commercial Aircraft, 610 Multiple-engined Aeroplanes, 305 Pfalz Single-seater Fighting Aeroplane, 95
Phoenix Cork Flying Boat, Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company, Limited, 194 R 34, Long Voyage by, 590
Seaplane and Towing Lighters, 169
Standardisation of Aircraft Materials and Parts, 391 Tarrant Six-engined 3000 H.P. Triplane, 452, 453, 456, 542, 591
Technical Training in the Air Force, 110 Trend of German Aeroplane Design, 25
" Vickers-Viiny ” Transatlantic and Commercial Aeroplanes, 555, 560
Wirelessly Directed Aircraft, 357 Zeitlin Aero-engine, 408
AGE-LONG Engineering Works of China, Professor Middleton Smith, 72 Agricultural Engineering in France, 457 Agricultural Machines at Cardiff Show, 62.7, 630 Agricultural Machines, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 630 Air Compressor Design, Improvements, Reavell and Co., Limited, 534, 538 Air Compressor, Petrol-driven, Portable, Lacy- Hulbert and Co., Limited, 165 Air Compressor Valve—see. Valve Air Receiver, Frank Richards, 562, 573 Air, Storing, in the Earth, 575 .Alloys—see Copper, Aluminium, Magnesium, Metals, &c. Almanacs and Diaries, 23, 46, 93, 118, 164, 442 Aluminium and its Alloys, Micrography of. D. Hanson and S. L. Archbutt, 322 Ambulance Trains—see Railways AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS:
152
American Railway Equipment in France, 152 American Steam Power Developments, 152 Brick Chimney, 585ft. High, 152 AMERICAN Factory, Handling Material at, 341 American Steel—see Iron and Steel Anchadura, 644 Andrew, J. H., and G. W. Green, on the Manufacture and Working of High-speed Steel, 503, 553 A n n eal ing - -see Fu rn a co ANNUAL ARTICLES:
AERONAUTICS, 1914-1918, 18
.Aero-engines, 18
Commercial Flying, 18
Cost of Aeroplaning, 18
Passenger Aeroplanes, 18
ENGINEERING AND ALLIED TRADES IN 1918, 2
Iron and Steel Centres, 3
Iron, Steel, and Coal Prices, 2
Labour and Wages, 3
Miscellaneous, 4
Shipyards, In the, 3
Locomotives of the Year, 5, 12
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
NAVAL PROGRESS, FOUR YEARS OP, 14 (Two- page Supplement, January '3rd, 1919) Battleships and Battle-cruisers, 14 Destroyers, 15 Engineers, The, 15 Light Cruisers, 15 Naval Guns, 15 Private Yards, 15 Submarines'and Special Vessels, 15 Railways, Biitish in 1918, 8 SHIPPING IN 1918, 16
Emigration and the Emigration Law, I 7 Freedom of the Seas, 17 German Merchant Marine, Penalising the, 17 Government Control of Shipping, 16 Legislation for Shipping, 16 National Treatment, of Shipping. 17 Shipbuilding Effort, 16 Shipbuilding, Our Capacity for, 16 Submarine Warfare Against Shipping, 16 Value of Shipping in the Future, 17 APPRENTICES, State Aid for, 468 Arc Welding—see Electric Welding Armitage, Herbert C., on Jigs, Tools, &c., for Production of Standardised Parts, 299, 309, 324 Armoured Concrete Cooling Tower, Harald Nielsen, 526 ? Armoured Trains for Coast Defence, 150 Armour-piercing Shells, 18in. High Velocity, Hadfield’s Steel Foundry Company’s, 231 Army Supply Stores at Brooklyn, U.S.A., 340 Art in Engineering, 'J’he Sense of, 406, 443 Asbestos, Rowell and Allen. 547 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Association of Engineers, Manchester:
Electric Power Supply, S. L. Pearce, 104
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
Annual Convention, The Twenty-fourth, 623 Electric Power Transmission Considerations, S. L. Pearce, 624 Presidential Address, F. Ayrton, 623
Programme for Twenty-fourth Annual Convention, 570 Valuing Electrical Undertakings, &c., Bailie W. B. Smith, 624
Visits to Works. 624
Whitley Report ; Joint Industrial Councils ; Research Work, Aiderman Walker, 624 Association, Technical Inspection:
Formation, 411
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Acid Hearth and Slag, J. H. Whiteley, 503 Andrew Carnegie Research Fund, Grants , from, 502
Annual Banquet ; Presidential Address, Monsieur Eugene Schneider, 458
Annual Meeting, 343, 458, 474, 502, 553 Belgian Iron and Steel Industry during the War, Leon Greiner, 474, 476
Bessemer Medal Award to Professor Giolitti and Presentation of Replica of Previously Awarded Medal to Son of Mr. A. Greiner, 474 Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513 Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer, 475, 490 Improvements in the Case Hardening Process, D. Hanson and J. E. Hurst, 503 Joint Meeting of the Institute and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Discussion of Papers on Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Works. List of Papers Booth - Hall Electric Furnace, \V. K. Booth ; Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer ; New Type of Electric Furnace, A. Sahlin ; Largo Electric Steel Melting Furnaces, V. Stobie ; Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby : Application of Electric Energy in Melting of Metals, H. A. Greaves ; 475, 490, 513 i Jubilee of the Institute, 458 Macro-etching and Macro-printing, J. C. W. Humphrey, 503 Manufacture and Working of High-speed Steel, J. H. Andrew and G. W. Green. 503, 553 Modern Steel Metallurgy, C. H. F. Bagley, 503 Some Points in the Manufacture of Files, G. Taylor, 503, 604, 606, 626
Use of Powdered Coal, L. C. Harvey, 474
Work of the Engineering Division of the National Research Council of America, Professor H. M. Howe, 502 Institute of Metals:
Annual General Meeting, 300, 301, 322 Corrosion Committee, Fourth Report, G. D.
Bengough and O. F. Hudson, 300, 301 Effect of Work on Metals and Allo vs, O. W.
Ellis, 322
Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of Oxygen-free Copper, F. Johnson, 322 Metallurgical Information Required by Engineers, Lieut.-Col. C. F. Jenkin, 322, 325 Micrography of Aluminium and its Alloys, D. Hanson and S. L. Archbutt, 322 Properties of Some Copper Alloys, Dr. Rosen- hain and D. Hanson. 322 Relationship Between the Laboratory and the Workshop, W. R. Barclay, 322 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : Institute of Metals (continued): Science and Industry in Relation to Nonferrous Metals, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527 Scope of the Works Laboratory, F. C. A. H. Lantsberry, 322 Institution of Civil Engineers :
Council of the Civils (Letters), 463, 489
Limit Gauges, Conference by the British Engineering Standards Association, 511
October Examinations, 1918: Pass List, 390
Institution of Electrical Engineers: Committee’s Recommendations on Power Supply, 92 Determination of the Efficiency of the Turboalternator, S. F. Barclay and S. P. Smith, 290 Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, 341 Joint Meeting of the Institution and the Iron and Steel Institute for Discussion of Six Papers on Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Works, 475. 490, 513—for List of Papers, see Iron and Steel Institute
Testing Transformer Oils, Arnold Philip, 47 • 'Phe Fullerphone, Major A. C. Fuller, 435 War Memorial, Electrical Engineers’, 101 Wireless Telegraphy, Formation of Committees in connection with Electrical Engineering, 315
Institution, Junior, of Engineers: What the War has Done for Engineers and the Part Engineers have to Play in Reconstruction, Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41 Institution of Locomotive Engineers :
Three-cylinder Locomotives, H. Holcroft, 485
Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Annual General Meeting, Award of Premiums, Suggested Formation of an Indian Society of Engineers, Patent Law Amendment, 193 Development of the Oxy-acetylene Welding and Cutting Industry in the United States, H. Cave, 109, 193
Electric Welding, Thomas T. Heaton, 101, 108, 127, 193
Jigs, Tools, &c., for Production of Standardised Parts, Herbert C. Armitage, 299, 309
Mechanical Properties of Steel with Consideration of Question of Brittleness, Dr. Hatfield, 447, 458, 552 Oxy-acetylene Welding. Papers by H. Cave, J. H. Davies, and F. Hazeidine, 108, 193 Proposed Visit to France (Paragraphs), 516, 619
Manchester, Engineers' Club, Repetition of . Papers read in London on Electric and Oxy-acetylene Welding, 133 Manchester, Engineers’ Club, Repetition of Paper read in London on Jigs, Tools and Special Machines, &c., by H. C. Armitage, 324
Manchester, Engineers’ Club, Repetition of Paper read in London on the Mechanical Properties of Steel, &c., bv Dr. Hatfield, 484 Institution of Naval Architects: Annual Conference, 350. '358, 374, 384, 396, 420 Annual Dinner, 351 Concrete Shipbuilding in the United States, W. L. Scott, 397 Development of Airship Construction, C. I.
R. Campbell, 384, 397, 420
Developments towards Simplification of Merchant Ship Construction, Sir E. d’Eyn- court and Mr. T. Graham, 396 Experiments on Full Cargo Ship Models, James Semple, 421
Investigations into the Causes of Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons and Stanley S. Cook, 427
Italian Two-floodable Compartment Cargo Steamers built during the War, Signor S. Orlando, 396 Model Experiments on the Effect of Beam on Resistance of Mercantile Ship Forms, J. L. Kent, 421
Naval Construction Corps of the United States Navy, Constructor-Commander S. V. Goodall, 374
Naval Construction during the War. Sir E. II. Tennyson d’Eyncourt, 351, 358 (Four- page Supplement, April 1 \th, 1919)
Presidential Address, Lord Bristol, 350 Ships of the British Navy on August 4th, 1914, and Some Matters of Interest in connection with their Production, Sir Philip Watts, 35], 447 (Two-page Supplement, May Oth, 1919)
Some Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, ~W. H. Gard, 420 Tonnage of Modern Steamships, A. T Wall 421 Women Associates, 420 Work of the British Marine Engineering Design and Construction Committee, A. E. Seaton, 374, 411 Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
Machine Tools, Sir Alfred Herbert, 254, 283 Summer Meeting in July, Programme, 591
Institution of Petroleum Technologists :
Oil from Cannel Coal and Colliery Refuse, 310 Purifying Paraffin Wax, R. S. Dickie, 165
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution, Royal: Dynamics of Flight, Captain G. P. Thomson, 252 Society, Ceramic : Refractory Materials Section ; Conference at Middlesbrough : Sir William Jones’ Account of Work during the War, 510 Society of Chemical Industry: Chemical Engineering Group, Formation of, 306
LONDON SECTION—
Testing Transformer Oils, Arnold Philip, 47 Societies, Rontg*en and Faraday : Elementary Principles of Rad io-metallography , Professor Bragg, 432 Examination of Metals by X-rays, General Discussion, Various Papers, 432 Society, Royal:
Conversazione, 529
Society, Royal, of Arts: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Sir F. Heath, 184
Still Engine, W. J. Still, 540
Wage Problem in Industry, W. L. Richens, 231 AUTOCRAT of Transport, 279 Automatic Doors for Colliery Haulage Ways. 378 Automatic Tools—see Machine Tools Automatic Valve for Motor-driven Air Compressors, British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, 464 Aviation—see Aeronautics Awards to Inventors, 614 B BAGHDAD, Bridge over the Tigris at, 55 Bagiev, C. H. F., on Modern Steel Metallurgy, 503 Barclay, S. F., and S. P. Smith, on the Determination of the Efficiency of the Turboalternator, 290 Barclay, W. R., on the Relationship between . the Laboratory and the Workshop, 322 Barges—see Ships Bascule Bridge at La Seyne, Toulon, 502, 508 (Two-page Supplement, May 23rd, 1919) Basingstoke—see Works Belgian Industries, Reconstruction of, 204, 216. 243, 250, 280, 304, 306, 332, 382, 393, 425, 431 ; (Letter), 399 (Two-page Supplement, March \Mh, 1919) Belgian Iron and Steel Industry during the War, Leon Greiner, 474, 4 76 Belgian Works, Demolition—see Belgian Industries Belgium, Our Special Commissioner in, 203— see Belgian Industries Belgium. The Needs of, 431 Bengough, G. D., and O. F. Hudson, Report to Corrosion Committee of Institute of Metals, 300, 301 Benzol Rectification Plant, Wilton, 196 Bibby, J., on Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, 475, 513 Biplanes-"-.see Aeronautics Blast-furnace Plant at Park Gate Iron and
Steel Works, Rotherham, 564 (Four-page Supplement, June Oth, 1919)
Blast-furnace Slags, Effect of Chilling, 606 Blue Nile Irrigation Scheme, 497 Board of Trade, Appointment of Marine Surveyors to, 417 Board of Trade Rules for Boilers, 146 Boiler, Coil, Explosion, 625 Boiler Failures, Two Curious, 136 Boiler Heat Losses Recorder, Electrical, Monsieur Chopin, 2] 3 Boilers, Board of Trade Rules for, 146 Boilers, Coal Meter for, Lea Recorder Companv, 261 Boilers, Marine, Rules for, 381 Boilers, Marine, Standardisation of, Committee’s Report, 276 Boilers of Merchant Ships, 84 Boilers, Unusual Method of Transporting, 639 Boilers, Water-tube, for Cargo Ships, Stirling
Boiler Company, Limited, 476 (Two-page Supplement, May 10th, 1919)
Books of Reference, 10, 165, 464,489, 501 Boy Artificers in the Royal Navy, 639 Bragg, Professor, on the Elementary Principles of Radiometallography, 432 Biidge, Bascule, at La Seyne, Toulon, 502, 508 (Two-page Supplement, May 23rd, 1919) Bridge Repair in America, 615 Bridge, over Tigris, at Baghdad, 55 Britain's Air Effort—see Aeronautics British Airship—sec Aeronautics British Engineering Standards Association, Conference on Limit Gauges, 511 British Industrial “ Safety First ’’ Association, 263 British Marine Engineering Design—see Ships British Motor—see Engines and Motors British Railway Workshops in Wartime, 576, 577, 604, 605, 630 British Railways—see also Railways c CALENDER, Tnree Bowl Universal, Motor Driven, D. Bridge and Co., Limited, 460, 461 Cambridgeshire, Fen Drainage and River Improvement, 174 Campbell, C. I. R., on the Development of Airship Construction, 384, 397, 420 Canada, Coal, Iron and Steel Industries of, 124 Canada’s Mining and Metallurgical Industries, 391 Canadian Train Ferry Can ora, 184 Carbon and Tungsten Filament Lamps, 532 Carburetter Jets, Flow of Petrol through, 521 Carburetter and Vaporiser for Oil Engine, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 629 Catalogues, 46, 92, 116. 142, 164, 238, 340, 417,
442, 546, 571, 591, 644
Caterpillar—sec Tractor Cave, Henry, on Development of the Oxy- Acetylene Welding and Cutting Industrv in U.S.A., 109, 133, 193 Centrifugal Pumps for Chicago Waterworks, 595 Channel Tunnel, 280 ; (Letters), 354, 532 Chemical Engineering, 306 Chemical Industry, International Competition in, 318 Chilling Blast-furnace Slags, Effect of, 606 China, Age-long Engineering Works of, Professor Middleton Smith, 72 Chronology of Locomotion, A Short, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 603, 624 ; (Letter), 635 Clifton, Charles, on the Engineering Schools of Liege, 497 Clutch-—see Electrical Matters COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:
See also Annual Articles
Automatic Doors for Colliery Haulage Ways, 378 Canada, Coal, Iron and Steel Industries of, 124 Coal Economies, 609 Coal Meter for Boilers, Lea Recorder Company, 261 Deterioration in the Heating Value of Coal during Storage, 284
Draper Coal Washing Machine, 180
Oil from Cannel Coal and Colliery Refuse, 310
Oil Fuel v. Coal, 183
Pulverised Coal Systems in America, Special
Report by L. C. Harvey, 494
Use of Powdered Coal, L. C. Harvey, 474
COIL Boiler Explosion, 625 Cold Rolling—see Influence of, &c. Colloidal Fuel, 390, 446, 457 Commercial Helium, 279 Compressed Air, Concreting a Tunnel by, 594 Compressed Air Engine—see Engines Compressing Plant for Hydrogen Barges,
Brotherhood, 219, 226
Compressor—see Air Compressor Concrete Oil Tanker, 1000-Ton Sea-going, Launch, 80 Concrete, Proportioning of, L. N. Edwards, 141 Concrete, Reinforced, Dock Gates at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 289, 290 ; (Letter), 354 Concrete Ships—see also Ships Concreting a Tunnel by Compressed Air, 594 Conservation of Labour, Law of, 228 Contracts, 65, 236, 314, 440, 470, 644 Cooling Towers, Natural Draught, Harald Nielsen, 526 Copper Alloys, Properties of Some, Dr. Rosen- hain and D. Hanson, 322 Copper, Oxygen-free. Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of, F. Johnson, 322 Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Investigations into Causes of, Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons and Mr. Stanley S. Cook, 427 Corrosion of Non-ferrous Metals, Report to Corrosion Committee of Institute of Metals,
G. D. Bengough and O. F. Hudson, 300, 301
Cotton Seed Defibrating Machine, E. C. De Segundo, 516 Cotton Warehouses with Fireproof Safes, 98 Crane Equipment, Electric Luffing, and Transporter ,|atRichborongh, Ransomes and Rapier, Limited, 76, 77 Crane. 20-Ton Locomotive Breakdown, John
H. Wilson and Co., Limited, 134
Crompton, Colonel R. E. B., on What the War has Done for Engineers, Ac., 41 Cross-Channel Transportation^-see Train Ferry Cutters—see Machine Tools D DAVIES, J. H., on Oxy-acetylene Welding, 109, 133, 193 Defibrating Machine for Cotton Seed, E. C. De Segundo, 516 Depth Charge Throwers^ J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 86 Deterioration in Coal—see Coal Development of Airship Construction—see Aeronautics Development of Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513 d’Eyncourt, Sir E. II. T., and Mr. T. Graham on Developments towards Simplification of Merchant Ship Construction, 396 d’Eyncourt, Sir E. H. Tennyson, on Naval Construction during the War, 351, 358 (Four-page Supplement, April 11/h, 1919) Dickie, R. S., on Purifying Paraffin Wax, 165 Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, 341 Dock, Fish, Extension at Fleetwood, 55 Dock Gates, Reinforced Concrete, at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 289, 290 ; (Letter), 354 m Dock Improvements, Middlesbrough and Tyne, 140 Doors, Automatic, for Colliery Haulage Ways, 378 Drainage, Fen, and River Improvement m Cambridgeshire, 174 Draper Coal Washing Machine, 180 Dredger, Lubecker Land, Orkney, 76, 79, 82 ;
(Letter), 152 .
Dredgers Used for Drainage Works in Egypt, 556 Dredging Tin Ore, 69 Duckham’s Gas-fired Annealing Furnace, 218
(Supplement, March 1th, 1919)
E ECONOMICS and the Workman, 156 ; (Letter), 176 Education, Emergency Technical, 37 • (Letter), 56 Education in the Royal Air Force, 128 Educational Intelligence, 92, 436, 494 Edwards, L. N., on the Proportioning of Concrete, 141 Effect of Work on Metals and Alloys, O. W. Ellis, 322 Egypt and the Sudan, Irrigation Schemes, 497, 536, 556 ELECTRICAL MATTERS : American Electric Steel by the Triplex Process, 126, 127 (Two-page Supplement, February 1th, 1919)
Benardos Carbon Arc Process, 172
Boiler Heat Losses Recorder, Monsieur Chopin, 213 Constant-energy Balancer Set, P. O. Noble, 353
Cranes, Electric—see Cranes
Davis-Soames Electromagnetic Clutch, 352 Determination of the Efficiency of the Turbo- alternator, S. F. Barclay and S. P. Smith, 290 Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513 Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Works ; Six Papers Discussed at Joint Meeting of Iron and Steel Institute and Institution of Electrical Engineers, 475, 484, 490, 513— for Titles of Papers see Institute, Iron and Steel Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer, 475, 490 Electric Power Supply, Committee’s Recommendation’s, 92
Electric Power Supply, S. L. Pearce, 104 Electric Power Transmission Considerations, S. L. Pearce, 624 Electric Welding Problems, 203
Electric Welding, Thomas T. Heaton, 101, 108, 127, 133, 193, 203 Electric Welding and Welding Appliances, .145, 172, 197, 220, 241, 267, 296, 319, 352, 375, 394, 421, 444, 471 ; (Letter), 436 Electrical Energy from the River Dee, 524 Electrical Engineers’ War Memorial, 101 Electrically Driven Ships’ Auxiliaries, Laurence, Scott and Co., Limited, 478, 482 Electricity and the Layman, 509 : (Letter), 532
Electricity Supply Bill, 477
Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, W. H. Gard, 420
Harnessing the Rhone, 458 Helmet for Arc Welding, 146
Hydro-electric Development in Tasmania, 263 International Electrotechnical Commission, 256, 619 Magneto Industry, Thomson-Bennett Magnetos, Limited, 26
Pontelec Methods and Machines, 241 Pontelec Spot Welding Machine, 588 Power Station Efficiencies, 134
Power from Tidal Waters, J. Smith, 590; (Letter), 635 Quasi-arc Welding Process, A. P. Stroh- menger, 267
Railways—see Railways
Richborough Electric Power Station, 102, 104, 106 Rolling Mill, 19,000 H.P. Electric Reversing, Equipment, Siemens Brothers’ Dynamo Works, Limited, 334 Rotary Transformer, Equipment and Engineering Company, 353 Spot Welding Machine, Large, Pontelec Welding Patents, Limited, 588 Submersible Electric Salvage Pumps and Engines, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278 Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 273;
(Letter k 354
Transformer Oils, Testing, Arnold Philip, 47 Turbo-generator, 70,000-Kilowatt, 589 Valuation of Electrical Undertakings, &c., Bailie W. B. Smith, 624 Vertical 24-Kilowatt Electric Lighting Set, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 627
Water Powers in Great Britain, 288
Water Turbine Generators, The Largest, for Queenstown, Canada, 575
Welding Problems, Electric, 203
Welding and Welding Appliances, Electric, 145, 172, 197, 220, 241, 267, 296, 319, 352, 375, 394, 421, 444, 47L; (Letter), 436 ELEVATORS, Pneumatic Grain, Floating, 206, 207 Ellis, O. W., on the Effect of Work on Metals and Alloys, 322 Emergency Technical Education, 37 ; (Letter), 56 ENGINES AND MOTORS : Aero-engine Component—see Jigs, Tools, &c. Basse-Selve Aero-engine, 270 H.P., 246 British Two-stroke Motor, Mitcham Motor Company, 182 Compressed Air Hoisting Engine for Mine in India, Sandycroft, Limited, 356, 363 Crude Oil Engine, 220 B.H.P., Petters, Limited, 206, 207 Diesel Marine Engine, 1100 B.H.P., Two- cycle, Ansaldo San Giorgio Company, 586
Fiat 12-Cylinder 400 H.P. Aero-engine, 411
Fixed Radial Aero-engines, Cosmos Engineering Company (Brazil, Straker and Co.), 530 Gas Blowing Engine at Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, 564 Gas and Oil Engines at the Cardiff Show, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 627 ; National Gas Engine Company, 629 ; Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 630 Heat Treatment of Steel for Small Petrol Marine Engines, 159 J.A.P. Motor Cycle Engine Testing Arrangements, 515 ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued): Jupiter and Mercury Aero-engines, Cosmos Engineering Company, 530 Mine Ventilating Engine, Bu mated and Chandler, Limited, 110 Multiple-engined Aeroplanes, 305 Newcomen Engines, Two, 621, 632 Oil Engines, Submersible, for Driving Electrical Salvage Pumps, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278 Petrol Engines, Device for Running, on Paraffin or Heavy Oils, 110 Portable Semi-Diesel Engine, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 630 Steam Engines at Cardiff Show, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, Robey and Co., Limited, 630 Steam Wagon, 5-Ton, Robey and Co., Limited, 630 Still Engine, W. J. Still, 540 ; (Letter), 558 Traction Engine, Single-cylinder, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 630 Vertical Engine for Electric Lighting Set, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 627, 628, 629 Vertical High-speed Steam Engines at Uxbridge, 222
Zeitlin Aero-engine, 408
ENGINEERING and Allied Trades in 1918, 2— for Details see Annual Article Engineering Equipment in a New Zealand Hospital, 40 Engineering, Links in the History of, Rhys Jenkins, 47], 536 Engineering Opportunities in Latin-America, 441 Engineering Schools of Liege, Charles Clifton, 497 Engineering, The Sense of Art in, 406, 443 Engineering Trades (New Industries) Committee’s Report, 93 ; Branch Committee— Machine Tools and Small Tools, 111 Engineers, Divisional, of the Royal Naval Division, 341 Engineers, Volunteer, London Army Troops Companies, 24, 47, 65, 94, 117, 137 Engineers, What the War has Done for, &c., Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41 Etching—see Macro-etching Exhibition of British Science Products, 19 Explosion, Coil Boiler, 625 F FACTORY, Aeroplane—see Aeronautics Failure in Slag Concrete, Causes of, 603 Fair, Holland’s Third Industries, 244, 272, 295, 323 Falls, The Yguazu, 506 Federated Malay States, Tin Industry in, 454 Ferry—see Train Ferry Files, Some Points in the Manufacture of, G.
Taylor, 503, 604, 606, 626
Fireproof Safes for Cotton, 98 Fish Dock at Fleetwood, 55 Fleet—see Ships Fleetwood Fish Dock Extension, 55 Floating Pneumatic Grain Elevators, 206, 207 Flow of Petrol—see Petrol Flue Gases, Measuring the Temperature of, 262 Fly-cutter—see Machine Tools Flying Boat—see Aeronautics Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 48, 70, 94, 118, 142, 166, 190, 214, 238, 264, 292, 316, 344, 368, 392, 418, 442, 470, 496, 522, 548, 572, . 596, 620, 646 Forty-seven Hour Week, 38 Forward, E. A., on the Measurement of Gauges, 282, 294 France, Agricultural Engineering in, 457 France, Labour Unrest in, 585 France, Public Works in, 464 France, Shipbuilding in—see Ships Franco-British Trade, 561 French Iron, &c.—see Iron and Steel Fresh-water Harbours and Shipping of the United States, 575 Fuel, Colloidal, 390, 446, 457 Fuel, Pulverised, Instructions for Safe Use of 398 Fuels, Powdered and Colloidal, 446, 457 Fullerphone, Major A. C. Fuller, 435 Furnace, Gas-fired Annealing Furnace, Sir A.
Duckham, 218 (Supplement, March 1th, 1919)
Furnace, Induction, Dr. E. F. Northrup, 529 Furnaces, Blast—see Blast-furnaces Furnaces for Burning Lignite, 639 Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matteis G GARD, W. H., on Some Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, 420 Gas Engines—see Engines Gas-fired Annealing Furnace, Sir A. Duckham, 218 (Supplement, March 1th, 1919) Gas Producer, 30 H.P., National Gas Engine Company, 627, 629 Gas by the Thermal Unit, 509 Gasworks and the Supply of Motor Spirit, 196 Gauge Making, Examples of. A. G. Robson, 499 Gauges, Adjustable, M. Woldgaard, 529 Gauges, Limit, Conference by the British Engineering Standards Association, 511 Gauges, Measurement of, E. A. Forward, 282, 294 Gear, Speed Reduction, for Marine Turbines, D. Brown and Sons, Limited, 371 (Two-page Supplement, April 18th, 1919) Gear, Speed Reduction, for Marine Turbines, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 135 German Aeroplanes—see Aeronautics German Industries, A Grand Federation of, 535 German Sources of Energy, State Control of, 180 Germany, Trade with the Allies, 108 Goodall, Constructor-Commander S. V., on the Naval Construction Corps of the United States Navy, 374 Government and Overseas Trade, 358 Government Rolling Mill, Southampton, 191, 202, 2]7 ; (Letter), 378 (Four-page Supplement, March 1th, 1919) Grain Elevators—see Elevators Greiner, Leon, on the Belgian Iron and Steel Industry During the War, 474, 476 Gun Mounting Shop—see Works H HANDLING Material at an American Factory, 341 Hanson, D., and S. L. Archbutt on the Micrography of Aluminium and its Alloys, 322 Hanson, D., and J. E. Hurst, on Improvements in the Case Hardening Process, 503 Harvey, L. C., Special Report on Pulverised Coal Systems in America, 494 Harvey, L. C., on the Use of Powdered Coal, 474 Hatfield, Dr., on the Mechanical Properties of
Steel, 447, 458, 484, 552, 561
Hazeldine, F., on Oxy-acetvlene Welding, 109, 133, 193 Heat Treatment of Steel—see Iron and Steel Heath, Sir Frank, on the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 184 , Heating and Ventilation of Workshops, Austin Motor Company’s Works, 599, 608 Heating and Ventilation of Workshops, Daimler Company, Limited, 504 Heaton, Thomas T., on Electric Welding, 101, 108, 127, 133, 193, 203 Helium, Commercial, 279 Helmet for Arc Welding, 146 Herbert, Sir Alfred, Machine Tools, 254, 283 Herdner, Monsieur, on Progress of the Express Passenger Locomotive in Fiance, 270 Hichens, W. L., on Wage Problem in Industry, 231 “ Historicus,’’ on Patent Law and the Legal Standard of Novelty, 346 History of Engineering, Links in the, Rhys Jenkins, 471, 536 Hoisting Engine— see Engines Holcroft, H., on Three-cylinder Locomotives, 485 Holidays, Earlier, 417 Holland’s Third Industries Fair. 244, 272, 295, 323 Hospital, New Zealand, Engineering Equipment in a, 40 Howe, Professor H. M.» on Research Work in America, 502 Humphrey, J. C. W.» on Macro-etching and Macro-printing, 503 Hydro-electric Development in Tasmania, 263 Hydrogen Barges Built at Richborough for
Royal Air Force, 219, 226
I ILLINOIS Steel Company—see Works Induction Furnace, American, 529 Industrial Building Construction in Ti afford Park, 98 Industrial League, 60, 566 Industrial Peace, 302 Industries, The Segregation of, 431 Industry and Ignorance, 179 Industry, Science of, 107 Inertia of the Standard, 535—see also Passing of Ingenuity Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of Oxygen-free Copper, F. Johnson, 322 Ingenuity, The Passing of, 405, 4 66, 535 Inspection Cars, Railway—-see Railways Institutes and Institutions—see Asscciations Instructions for Safe Use of Pulverised Fuel, 398 International Competition in the Chemical Industry, 318 International Electrotechnical Commission, 256, 619 Inventors, Awards to, 614 Irish Channel, Train Ferries for, 60 IRON AND STEEL:
(See also Annual Articles)
Acid Hearth and Slag, J. H. Whiteley, 503 American Electric Steel by the Triplex Pio- cess, 126, 127 (Two-page Supplement, February 1th, 1919) Belgian Iron and Steel Industiy during the War, Leon Greiner, 4 74, 476 Blast-furnace Plant at Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, Rotherham, 564 (Four-page Supplement, June (ith, 1919) Canada, Coal, Iron and Steel Industries of. 124 Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Causes ci, Hon. C. A. Parsons and Mr. Stanley S. Cook, 427 Developments in Electric lion and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513 Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Woiks ; Six Papers Discussed at Joint Meeting of Iron and Steel Institute and Institution of Electrical Engineers—for Titles of Papers, see Institute, Iron and Steel, 475, 484, 490, 513 Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer, 475, 490 Future of the French Iron and Steel Industries, 204
Future of the Steel Trade, 155
Heat Treatment of Steel for Small Petrol Marine Engines, 159 Improvements in the Case Hardening Process, D. Hanson and J. E. Hurst, 503
Iron Oxide Pigment from Spain. 603
Manufacture of Files, Some Points in, G.
Taylor, 503, 604, 606
Manufacture and Working of Hieh-speed Steel, J. H. Andrew and G. W. Green, 503, 553 Mechanical Properties of Steel, &c., Dr. Hatfield, 447, 458, 484, 552, 561 Modern Steel Metallurgy, C. H. F. Bagley, 503 Output of Iron and Steel, 566—see also Ministry of Munitions Production of Steel Ingots and Castings in 1918,490 x Regrouping of Iron and Steel Producticri' in Europe, 37
Shell Steel and Mild Steel, 619 Steel Production in Germany, 331 United States Steel Trade, 251
IRRIGATION, Egyptian and Sudan, Committee to Investigate, 224 Irrigation Schemes in Egypt and the Sudan, 497, 536, 556 Italian Steamers—nee Ships J JAMES Watt Centenary, 433, 480, 614, 634 J.A.P. Motor Cycle Engine Testing Arrangements, 515 Jenkin, Lieut.-Col. C. F.. on the Metallurgical Information Required by Engineers, 322, 325, 331 Jenkins, Rhys, on Links in the History of Engineering, 471, 536 Jigs, Tools, &c., for Production of Standardised Parts, H. C. Armitage, 299, 309, 324 Johnson, F., on the Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of Oxygen-free Copper, 322 Jones, Sir William, on Work in Refractory Materials during the War, 510 K KENT, J. L., Effect of Beam on Resistance of Mercantile Ship Forms, 421 Kershaw, J. B. C., on the Utilisation of Peat for Power Generation, 239, 265 : (Letter), 327 L LABORATORY and the Workshop, Relationship between, W. R. Barclay, 322 Laboratory, Works, "Scope of the, F. C. Lants- berry, 322 LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS:
(See also Annual Articles)
British Industrial “ Safety First ” Association, 263
Demands of Labour, 59
Economics and the Workman, 156 ; (Letter),
176
Forty-seven Hour Week, 38, 84, 88
Industrial League, 60, 566
Industrial Peace, 302
Labour Unrest, 132
Labour Unrest in France, 585
Law of Conservation of Labour, 228
No Railway Policy Yet, 132
Railway Strike, 155
The Strikes, 131
Wage Problem in Industry, W. L. Hichcns, 231 LAMPS, Carbon and Tungsten Filament, 532 Land Drainage in Cambridgeshire, 174 Land Dredger—see Dredger Landau, D., and P. H. Parr, on a New Theory of Plate Springs, 397 ; (Letter), 489 Lantsberry, F. C. A. H., on the Scope of the Works Laboratory, 322 Launches and Trial Trips, 314, 343, 367, 416, 436, 470, 490, 515, 570, 594, 619, 646 LEADERS:
1918—A Retrospect, 13
Admiral Jellicoe on Naval Material, 381
Agricultural Engineering in France, 457
Atlantic Flight, 610
Autocrat of Transport, 279
Boilers of Merchant Ships, 84
British Naval Design—An American Tribute,
131
Channel Tunnel, 280
Chemical Engineering, 306
Coal Economies, 609
Commercial Airships, 84
Commercial Aviation, 38
Commercial Helium, 279
Demands of Labour, 59
Economics and the Workman, 156
Electric Furnaces, 484
Electric Railways, 306
Electric Welding Problems, 203
Electricity and the Layman, 509
Emergency Technical Education, 37
Fleet That Was, 634
Forty-seven Hour Week, 38, 84
Franco-British Trade, 561
Future of British Railways, 83
Future of the French Iron and Steel Industries, 204
Future of the Steel 3'rade, 155
Future of the Submarine, 179
Gas by the Thermal Unit, 509
Government and Overseas Trade, 358
Grand Federation of German Industries, 535
Industrial League, 60
Industry and Ignorance, 179
Inertia of the Standard, 535
Labour Unrest in France, 585
Law of the Conservation of Labour, 228
Merchant Shipbuilding in France, 59
Military and Commercial Aircraft, 610
Multiple-engined Aeroplanes, 305
Needs of Belgium, 431
No Railway Policy Yet, 132
Oil Fuel in Merchant Ships, 107
Passing of Ingenuity, 405
Powdered and Colloidal Fuels, 457
Purchasers’ Tests, 331
Railway Deficit, 633
Railway Fares, 483
Railway Strike, 155
Regrouping of Iron and Steel Production in
Europe, 37
Renovation of the Navy, 483
Resilient Tires for Road Vehicles, 405
Rolling Stock Problem in France, 306
Rules for Marine Boilers, 381
Science of Industry, 107
Segregation of Industries, 431
State Railway Working Results in Germany, 585
Status of the Inspector, 633 Steel Production in Germany, 331 Strength of Metals; 251 The Strikes, 131
LEADERS (continued):
Tests of Metal, 561 Trade Between the Allies and Germany, 108 Traders and Railway Nationalisation, 38 United States Steel Trade Expectations, 251 Ways and Communications, 204 Ways and Communications Bill, 227 Wirelessly Directed Aircraft, 357
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS: England, North of, 21, 44, 64, 91, 114, 139, 162, 187, 211, 235, 259, 287, 313, 339, 365, 388,415, 438, 440, 466, 492, 494,518,520, 545, 568, 570, 593, 594, 617, 642
Lancashire, 20, 43, 62, 89, 113, 137, 162, 186, 209, 233, 257, 285, 311, 337, 363, 387, 414, 437, 440, 465, 468, 491, 494, 517, 520, 543, 567, 591, 616, 641 ; (Letter), 532 Midlands and Staffordshire, 19, 43, 62, 89, 112, 137, 161, 185, 209, 233, 257, 285, 311, 337, 363, 388, 413, 437, 440, 465, 468, 491, 494, 517, 543, 546, 567, 591, 594, 615, 641 Scotland, 22, 45, 64, 91, 115, 139, 163, 187, 211, 236, 259, 287, 313, 340, 365, 389, 415, 439, 440, 467, 493, 519, 545, 569, 593, 618, 643, 644 Sheffield, 20, 44, 63, 90, 114, 138, 161, 185, 210, 234, 258, 286, 312, 338, 364, 387, 414, 438, 466, 468, 492, 494. 518, 544, 568, 570, 592, 594, 616, 619, 642, 644
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 46, 65, 91, 115, 139, 163, 188, 212, 236, 260, 288, 314, 339, 366, 389, 416, 4 39, 440, 467, 468, 493, 494, 519, 520, 545, 546, 570, 594, 618, 619, 643, 644 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Aerial Transport, Henry Davey, 232 Air Waves, A. R. Liddell, 276 Belt Driving, F. R. Parsons, 613 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 635 ; E. W. Sargeant, 635 Caterpillar Tractors, C. W. Kay, 125 Central Heating, M. "Fitzgerald, 532 Channel Tunnel, A. Oates, 354 : A. Lee, 532 Chemical Standards, J. H. Wragg, 152 ; C. H. Ridsdale, 200
Coal Conservation, D. Milne Watson, 436— see also Letter on Super Gasworks, &c., M. B. L., 399 Combustion Capacity of Atmospheric Air, Jas. Dunlop, 80, 125, 200, 276, 378 ; Lubricator, 256, 354, 378 Cost of Electric Light, E. C. S., 152 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 176 ; F. E. H.. 176 Council of the Civils, D., 463 ; An Old Subscriber, 489 Economics and the Workman, H. C. Armitage, 176 Electric Welding and Welding Appliances, J. E. Weyman, 436 Electrically Operated Valves for Internal Combustion Engines, W. P. Durtnall, 614
Electricity and the Layman, M. C. C. G., 532 Electrification Work in Switzerland, A. Duruz, 354
Emergency Technical Education, H. G. Taylor, 56 Engineers and Demobilisation, H. C. H. Shenton, 125
Engineers in India, H. M. Heathcote, 354 Fletcher, Mr. William, J. T. Marshall, 34
Geometrical Trisection of an Angle, H. R. Kempe. 489, 582 ; A. Flindle, 558, 635 ; Guy B. Petter, 582 ; P. D. Forrester, 614 German Warships, R. G. Lindsay, 232 Germans and Hoboken Shipyard, Leon Greiner, 399 Government Rolling Mill, Southampton, J. M. Kennedy, 378 Indian Society of Engineers, E. M. Hugh man, 436
Institution of Civil Engineers—see Council
Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Donation, A. W. Kemp, 489 Labour Problem, E. T. Good, 558 ; Smilax, 614 , Land Dredgers at Richborough, Taylor and Hubbard, 152
Locomotive Valve Gear, J. W., 399
Marine Engineering Design and Construction, Cochran and Co., 463 Meikle’s Thrashing Machine, Arthur Lee, 200 Moratorium for Patents, Briggs and Son, 463 New “Drylock’’ on the Neckar-Danube Canal, N. J. Peddie, 109
Niagara, J. Shelley, 109
Nile Projects Committee, W. Willcocks, 354 Old Age Pensions, Works Manager, 125 Patent-office Searching System, James Keith, 232 Patents, H. G. G., 34 ; James Keith, 56 Patents Bill, The New, S. H. Adams, 399 Peat Gas Plant, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 327 Railways and Labour, E. W. Stoney, 56 Railways, State Control of, R. G. Lindsay, 34 Recent American Express Locomotives,
F. W. Brewer, 614
Reform of Public School Education, Charles Bright, 256 Reinforced Concrete Dock Gates at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 354 Reverse Stress or “ Wiggle Test,” Loco., South Indian Railway, 436 Richborough Transportation Depot and Train Ferry Terminus, Capt. H. E. Girdle- stone and Others, 109 : F. O. Stanford, 125 Royal Engineers, Common Sense, 276 Screw Thread, Proposed Shape of, G. Doorak- kers, 80 Short Chronology of Locomotion, W. B. Paley, 635 Space versus Economy in the Boiler-house, Economy, 4 63 ; Efficiency, 532 Steam Tenders, James Watt Boulton, 152 ;
H. G. King, 200
Super Gasworks v. Super Electricity Works, M. B. L., 399—see Letter on Coal Conservation, D. M. Watson, 436 Thames Passenger Boats, W. Etfigy, 80 “The Ether,” Bertram Blount, 614 : Piscator. 635 The Still Engine, F. L. Martineau, 558 Theory of Plate Springs, Geo. T. Pardoe, 489 Three cylinder Locomotives, A. McBeth, 56 :
Loco. M.I.M.E., 109 : Jas. Dunlop, 125, 354 : H. S. Vincent, 326 ; John Riekie, 125 Trisection, &c.—see Geometrical
Water Power and Tidal Energy, H. J. Peddie, 635 LIEGE, Engineering Schools of, Charles
Clifton, 497
Lighters—see Ships Lighting, Oil Tanks and, 515 Lignite, Furnaces for Burning, 639 Limit Gauges, Conference by the British Engi
neering Standards Association, 511
Lincoln and the Three Services, 254 Links in the History of Engineering, Rhys
Jenkins, 471, 536
LITERATURE : Reviews: X" Gyrostatics and Rotational Moiicn, A
Treatise on, Andrew Gray, 253
2 High Explosive®, Capt. E. do W. S. Colver, 328 Hydraulics, Handbook of, H. Williams King, n
Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1918, 133
Short Notices: Alternating-current Electrical Engineering, Philip Kemp, 228 Applied Optics, Dr. A. Steinheil and Dr. E.
Voit, Translated, J. W. French, 477, 542
Concrete Engineers’ Handbook, G. A. Holl and N. C. Johnson, 133 Design of Railway Location, C. C. Williams, 542 Mercantile War Loss Book, 61 Naval Annual, 1919, Earl Brassey, 610 Practical Electricity, Terrell Croft, 133 Transmission Gears, E. Butler, 228 Books Received: Aero-engines, Design and Construction of, C. Sylvester, 477, 587 Aeroplane Construction, Sydney Camm, 433 Aircraft Identification Book, R. B. Matthews and G. T. Clarkson, 333 Air Navigation, Notes and Examples, Instructor-Captain S. F. Card, 634 Alternating-current Machinery, Papers on the Design of, C. C. Hawkins and others, 433 Aluminium, The Manufacture of, J. T. Pattison, 39 America at School and at Work, H. B. Gray, 333 American Engineers Behind the Battle Lines in France, R. K. Tomlin, 253 Annual Report of the City Engineer of the City Providence for 1917, 39 Astronomy, Elements of, for Architects, R W. Chapman, 431 “ At a Glance ” : Twelve Conversion Tables for International Values of British, Metric and Russian Weights, &c., J. E. Slack and
A. Dorey, 433
Automobile and Aero-engines, Handbook, &c., Rene Devillers, 634 Boiler Chemistry and Feed water Supplies, J. H. Paul, 477 Books for Mechanical Engineers and Meta) Workers, 253 Brassfounding, J. G. Horner, 39 Butterworth’s Workmen’s Compensation Cases, Vol. XI., 477 Calculus, First Course in the, Part I., W. P. Milne and G. J. B. Westcott, 301 Can we Compete ? G. E. Mappin, 301 Carburetters, Vaporisers, &c., in Internal Combustion Engines, Edward Butler, 383 Cast Iron in the Light of Recent Research, W. H. Hatfield, 61 Catalysis in Industrial Chemistry, G. G. Henderson, 281 Catalytic Hydrogenation and Reduction, E. B. Maxted, 253 Centrifugal Pumps and Suction Dredgers, E. W. Sargeant, 383 Cheap Steam, with which is Incorporated Cheap Transport, Vol. II., 333 Commercial Russia, W. H. Beable, 228
Cycling Manual, 281
Dams, Earthen and Masonry,Construction of, Professor E. R. Matthews, 634 Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1919, 634
Dynamics, Part II., R. C. Fawdry, 301
Elastic Stresses in Structures, Translated by Ewart S. Andrews, 333 Electric Furnaces in the Iron and Steel Industry, W. Rodenhauser and others, 433
Electrician Directory, &c., 459
Electricity and Magnetism for Beginners, Part I., Harold Pender, 228 Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book 1919-1920, 634
English Reference Literature, 587 Excess Profit Duty, Spicer and Pegler, 61 Factory Administration and Accounts, E. T. Elbourne, 383
Federation of British Industries, Bulletin of the, 301 Fuel Economy in Boiler-rooms, in Two Parts A. R Maujer and C. H. Bromley, 10 George Westinghouse, His Life and Achievements, F. E. Leupp, 634 Graphic Dynamics, Elements of, Ewart S. Andrews, 587 Heat Engines : Steam, Gas and Oil, Elementary Manual on, Andrew Jamieson, 433 Heat and Heat Engines, A Text-book of, Andrew Jamieson, 383 High Adventure : Narrative of Air Fighting in France, J. N. Hall. 477 How to Form a Company, H. W. Jordan, 301 Hydrology, Elements of, A. F. Meyer. 281 Income lax : How to Avoid Overcharges &c., A. D. Macmillan, 634 Incorporated Swansea Exchange, Report 1917-18, 281 1 ’ Industrial Arts Index, C. G. Noves and L D Teich, 281 Industrial Electrical Measuring Instrument®, Kenelm Edgcumbe; 39
Industrial Situation after the War, 301 Institute of Metals, Journal of the, Vol. XX G. Shaw Scott, 301
Institution of Mechanical Engineers “ Proceedings,” October-December, 1918, 634 Iron and Steel : Pocket Encyloptedia H P Tiemann, 433 Italian Dictionary, A Short, Vol. IT., A. Hoare, 542 Italian Sea Power in the Great War Archibald Hurd, 61 LITERATURE (continued)*. Books Received (continued): Jane’s Pocket Aeronautical Dictionary, with English and French Technical Terms, 587 Juvenile Employment during the War and After, Ministry of Reconstruction, 228 La Formation des Ingenieurs a 1’Etranger et en France, 39 Manual of Machine Design, F. Castle, 477 Marine Boiler Management and Construction, C. E. Stromeyer, 433 Marine Engineering, A Manual of, A. E. Seaton, 433 Mechanics’ and Draughtsmen’s Pocket-book, W. E. Dommett, 281 Mica. Miner’s and Prospector’s Guide, A. A. C. Dickson, 433 Mnemonic Notation for Engineering Formulae, E. F. Etchells, 61 Modern Optical Instruments, Theory of, Dr. Alexander Gleichen, 301 Moving Loads by Influence Lines and Other Methods, E. H. Sprague, 301 Natural Organic Colouring Matters, A. G.
Perkin and A. E. Everest, 61 Naval Architects’ Data, J. Mitchell, 634 New Town, W. R. Hughes, 433
Oils. Fats and Waxes, Vol. IT., P. J. Fryer and F. E. Weston, 228 Oxy-acetylene Welding of Copper, Brasses and Bronzes, M. R. Amadeo, 228
Payment of Wages, G. D. H. Cole, 39 Permanent Way Handbook, Capt. S. C.
' Clayton, 587
Petrol and Petroleum Spirits, Capt. W. E. Guttentag, R.A.F., 39 Petroleum, Albert Lidgett, 459
Physiology of Industrial Organisation and Re-employment of the Disabled, Professor Jules Amar, 253 Power Plant, Installation, Upkeep and Economical Operation, T. R. Wollaston. 301 Practical Shell Forging and Plastic Deformation of Steel and its Heat Treatment, O. O. Bower, 333 Practical Ship Production, A. W. Carmichael, 433 Principles Underlying Radio Communication, Radio Pamphlet No. 40, 477 Production and Treatment of Vegetable Oils, T. W. Chalmers, 61 Quelques Guides de 1’Opinion en France pendant la Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, 228 Radio-telegraphy, Standard Tables and Equations in, Bertram Hoyle, 301
Railroad Structures and Estimates, J. W. Urrock, 301 Railway Reorganisation, 383 Railway Stores, Methods and Problems, W. H. Jarvis, 301 Railway Year-book for 1919, 459
Rangoon, Administration Report of the Commissioners, 39 Reconstruction Problems : Guide to Work and Benefits for Soldiers and Civil War Workers, 281 Reinforced Concrete Works, Recommendations, &c., concerning Execution of, Published by Concrete Institute, 333 Roads and Pavements, A Treatise on, Ira O. Baker, 333 Rudiments of Handicraft, W. A. S. Benson. 281
Safety of the Nation, Ian D. Colvin, 634
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, &c., 1919, 634
Shipbuilding Industry, R. W. Kelly and F. J. Allen, 333
Simple Problems in Marine Engineering Design, &e., R. M. Sothern 477
Sister of a Certain Soldier, S. J. Maher, 39
Slide Valves and Valve Gearing, Peter Youngson, 459 Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 61 South and East African Year-book and Guido for 1919, 459 Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange, R. Mordin, 431 Tables of Chemical and Physical Constants, P. E. Spielman, 281 Trade Unionism, An Introduction to, G. D.
H. Cole, 39 Trigonometry, Practical, H. Adams, 459
Tri-lingual Artillery Dictionary (English, French, and Italian), Vol. I., E. S. Hodgson, T.N.T.: Trinitrotoluenes and Mono and Dinitrotoluenes, &c., G. Carlton Smith, 4 33 Triplane and the Stable Biplane, T. C. Hunsaker, D.Sc., 39 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : BUREAU OF MINES :
Bulletins :
123, Analysis of Mine and Car Samples of Coal Collected, 1913-1916, A. C. Fieldner and Others, 39 129, Fusibility of Coal Ash and the Determination of the Softening Temperature, A. C. Fieldner and Others, 301 127, Gold Dredging in the United States, Chas. Jamin, 61 145, Measuring the Temperature of Gases in Boiler Settings, H. Kreisinger, 61 171 (Mineral Technology, 23), Melting Brass in a Rocking Electric Furnace, H. W. Gillett and A. E. Rhoads, 301 160 (Mineral Technology, 22), Rock Quarrying for Cement Manufacture, V. Bowles, 301 156, Petroleum Technology, 44 ; Diesel Engine : Its Fuels and its Uses, Herbert Haas ; Efficiency in the Use of Oil Fuel, J. M. Wadsurrtu, 61 List of Permissible Explosives, Lamps, and Motors, Tested Prior to May 31st, 1918, Albert H. Fay, 10 Monthly Statement of Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, Compiled by A. H. Fay, April, 1918, 10; May, 1918, 39; June, 1918, 61 ; July, August, and September, 1918, 301
Technical Papers :
206, Coke Oven Accidents in the United States, Albert H. Fay, 61 200, Colloids and Flotation, Fred G. Moses 301 LITERATURE continued): Books Received (continued): 91, Convenient Multiple-unit Calorimeter Installation, J. D. Davis and E. L. Wallace, 39 170, Diffusion of Oxygen Through Stored Coal, S. H. Katz, 10 204, Economic Operation of Steam Turbo - electric Stations, C. T. Hirshfeld and C. L. Karr, 301 208, How to Improve the Hot Air Furnace, C. W. Baker, 301 139, Low Rate Combustion in Fuel Beds of Hand-fired Furnaces, H. Kreisinger and Others, 61 190, Methane Accumulations from Interrupted Ventilations, H. J. Smith and R. J. Hamon, 39 192, Production of Explosives in the United States, Albert H. Fay, 61 186, Routine Work in Explosive Physical Laboratory of the Bureau of Mines, S. P. Howell and J. E. Tiffany, 61 205, Saving Coal in Boiler Plants, H. Kreisinger, 61 187, Slag Viscosity Tables for Blast-furnace Work, A. L. Field and P. H. Royster, 10 154, Suggestions for Improved Methods of Mining Coal on Indian Lands in Oklahoma, J. J. Rutledge and D. Harrington, 61
195, Tars Distilled from Bituminous Coal in Hand-fired Furnaces, S. H. Katz, 39 University of Illinois Bulletin, Economical Use of Coal in Railway Locomotives, 61
WESTERN AUSTRALIA : GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Bulletins :
67, Analysis of Western Australian Rocks, Meteorites and Natural Waters, E. S. Simpson, 542 71, Geology and Mineral Resources of the Yilgarn Goldfield, Part III., Gold Belt North of Southern Cross, T. Blatchford and C. S. Honman ; Minerals of West- onia, E. S. Simpson ; Petrological Notes, R. A. Farquharson, 542 73, Geology of North Coolgardie Goldfield, C. S. Honman, &c., 542 69, Geology and Ore Deposits of Kal- goorlie, Part III., F. R. Feldtmann, 542 68, Geology and Ore Deposits of Meek- atharra, Murchison Goldfield, E. de C. Clarke ; Petrology. R. A. Farquharson ; Mineralogy and Underground Waters, E. S. Simpson, 542 75, Geological Reconnaissance of Country between La verton and South Australian Border, H. W. B. Talbot and E. de C. Clarke ; Petrology, R. A. Farquharson, 542 76, Graphite Deposits at Munglinup, T. Blatchford, 542 74, Miscellaneous Reports, 542 72, Palaeontological Contributions to Geology of Western Australia, F. Chapman and R. Etheridge, 542 Woman’s Motor Manual, G. de Hamilland, 281
Wooden Ship Construction, W. H. Curtis, 433 Year-book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1918, 333 Zooms and Spins, Rathird, 587
LLOYD’S Register—see Ships Locomotion, A Short Chronology of, C. F.
Dendy Marshall, 603, 624 ; (Letter), 635
Lodge, Sir Oliver, on Protection ol Oil Tanks Against Lightning, 515 Lorry, Motor, Works, J. I. Thornycrolt and Co.’s, at Basingstoke, 54, 58 Loughborough Technical College, 183 Lubecker Land Dredger Orkney, 76, 79, 82 ; (Letter), 152 M MACHINE: TOOLS: Backing-off Taps and an Improved Form of Fly-cutter, D. McPherson, 256
Bar Automatic Tools, H. E. Thomas, 426
Cycloid Thread Milling Cutter, Ward and Gent, 159 Fly-cutter, Improved Form of, D. McPherson, 256
Francis Inserted Tooth Cutter, 6, 9
Inserted Tooth Facing and Bossing Cutter.
H. Francis and Vickers Limited, 613
Machine Tool Adaptations for the Manufacture of Tank Links, Pulsometer Engineering Company, Limited, 120, 130 Machine Tool Committee of the Ministry of Munitions, 424 Machine Tool Industry and the War, Sir Alfred Herbert, 254 Machine Tools and Small Tools, 111 Machine Tools and Workshop Methods of a Former Period, Sir A. Herbert, 283 Milling Applications and Adaptations, 6, 9 Power Presses, Automatic Arresting Motion for, M. Glover and Co., 135 MACRO-ETCHING and Macro-printing, J. C.
W. Humphrey, 503
Magnesium and its Alloys : Its Use for Aeroengines and Motor Cars, 402 Magneto Industry, Thomson-Bennett Magnetos, Limited, 26 Malay Peninsula, Mineral Deposits in, 571 Manchester, Discussions at Engineers’ Club— see Institution of Mechanical Engineers Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Mr.
Stromeyer’s Memorandum, 136
Mirine Auxiliaries, Turbine-driven, Franco
Tosi Company, 636, 640
Marine Boilers—see Boilers Marine Engineering Design—see Ships Marine Engines—see Engines Marine Surveyors, Appointment of, to the
Board of Trade, 417
Marine Turbine—see Turbine Marshall, C. F. Dendy, A Short Chronology of
Locomotion, 603, 624; (Letter), 635
Marshall, C. F. Dendy, on Wind Resistance, on a Train, 473 Materials and Prices, 88 Measuring the Temperature of Flue Gases, 262 Measurement of Gauges, E. A. Forward, 282, 294 Mechanical Properties of Steel—see Iron and Steel Mercer, R. G., on Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, 475. 490 Merchant Shipbuilding—see Ships Metal, Tests of, 561 Metals and Alloys, Effect of Work on, O. W.
Ellis, 322
Metals, Institute of—see Associations Metals, Non-ferrous, Science and Industry in Relation to, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527 Metals, Strength of, 251 Metals—see also Corrosion Metallurgical Information Required by Engineers, Lieut.-Col. C. F. Jenkin, 322, 325, 331 Meters, Steam, George Kent, Limited, 580, 581 Micrography of Aluminium and its Alloys, D.
Hanson and S. L. Archbutt, 322
Micrometer, M. Woldgaard, 529 Military Aircraft—see Aeronautics Military Train Ferry—see Train Ferry Milling Machines—see Machine Tools Mine Ventilating Plant, Bi misted and Chandler, Limited, 110 Mineral Deposits in the Malay Peninsula, 571 Mineral Productions of the United States, 276 Mineral Statistics, 156 Mines, Protection of Ships Against, 222 Minesand Quarries Report, 1917, 156 Mining and Metallurgical Industries, Canada’s, 391 Ministry of Munitions, Machine Tool Committee of, 424 Ministry of Munitions Orders, 23, 42, 43, 56, 93, 116, '137, 212, 231, 256, 273, 336, 366, 386, 436, 490, 546, 594 Aluminium, 93
Ammonia and Ammoniacal Products, 256 Announcement re Iron and Steel Stock, 42 Ball Bearings, 43
Bismuth Ores, Bismuth Metal and Products Therefrom, 273
Building Bricks, 231 Calcium Carbide, 93, 256
Coal Tar and Coke Oven By-products Returns, 366
Cold Blast Pig Iron, 336 Converter Plant, 256 Electricity Supply, 56 Gasworks Retort Carbon, 436
High-speed Tool Steel and Scrap Therefrom, 336 Home Prices, 137 Iron Prices, 93, 256 Iron and Steel, 366 Iron and Steel Prices, Home and Export, 23 ;
Corrected Notices, 212 Iron and Steel Stocks, 93, 386
Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery and Treadle Lathes, 546
Magnesite, 231 Marked Bars, 93
Metallurgical Coke, Iron, Steel and Ironstone, 436
Non-ferrous Materials. 256, 366, 490, 594
Output and Stocks of Iron and Steel, 336, 366, 386, 436, 566
Potassium Compounds— Kelp, 273 Rosin and Rosin Oil, 256 Scrap, 336 Second-hand Railway Wagons. 273 Small Tools, 231 Steel Exports, 137 Steel Prices, 231 Steel Slabs, &c., 117 Tin-plate Prices, 256
Tin-plate Prices, Extras for Charcoal Coating, 273
Tin-plates and Terne Plates, 116 Waste Paper, 273
MORGAN Continuous Wire-rod Rolling Mill, 597 (Four-page Supplement, June 20ih, 1919) Morland, Sir Samoa], Pumps, 537 Motor Cycle Engine Testing Arrangements, J. A. Prestwich and Co., 515 Motor Lorry Works at Basingstoke, J. I.
Thornycroft and Co., 54, 58
Motor Railways and Cars—see Railways Motor Spirit, Gasworks and the Supply of. 196 Munitions Output in Ipswich. Ransc mes, Sims and Jefferies, Limited, 160 N NATURAL Draught Cooling Towers, Harald Nielsen, 526 Naval Design, Naval Material—see Ships, Naval Matters NAVAL NOTES :
42, 513, 511, 638 British Battle-cruisers, New, 42 China Flagship, 638 “ Composite ” Destroyer, 42 Destroyer Speeds, 638 Destroyer Turquoise, 638 Destroyers, New, 511 Distribution of the Fleet, 638 Flotilla Leaders, 638 German Copies of the Renown, 638 German Naval Construction, 42 Portsmouth, Vessels at, 511 Post-war Construction, 510 Pre-Dreadnoughts Useless, 42 Repulse, Features of the, 511 Submarine Tonnage Figures, 42 Successfid Design. 511
NEEDS of Belgium, 431 Newcomen Engines—sec Engines New Zealand Hospital, Engineering Equipment in a, 40 Nielsen, Harald, on Natural Draught Cooling
Towers, 526
Nile Projects Committee, 224 Non-ferrous Metals, Science and Industry in relation to, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527 Norris, Captain W., Optical Method of Shaft Alignment, 451 North-East Coast Dock Improvements, 140 o OBITUARY:
Boyd, William, 537 Callaway, Hugh, 586 Calthrop, Sir Guy, 199 Canning, Thomas, 253 Crookes, Sir William, 348 Eyles, Sir George L., 281 Fletcher, William, 10 ; (Letter), 34 Gobert, Edward G. A., 586 Hill, George Heniy, 253 Ingleby, Edward Ceci), 124 Lineham, Wilfrid James, 424 Lockwood, George Francis, 302 Mitchell, Sir Thomas, 333 Mort, G. F., 10 Pauling, George, 185 Redwood, Sir Bo verton, 566 Rodgers, John, 88 Royle, John James, 228 Southern, R. W. A., 253 Watson, James, 348 Weatherburn, Robert, 109 Westwood, Charles John, 302 Wilde, Henry, 333 Wortley, Henry Bell, 185 Wright, The mas, 124 Wurl, Max O., 228
OCEAN-GOING Rafts of Logs, 541 Oil from Cannel Coal and Colliery Refuse, 310 Oil Engines—see Engines Oil Fuel v. Coal, 183 Oil Fuel in Merchant Ships, 107 Oil Fuel Reservoir at Rosy th, 324 Oil Tanker—see Ships Oil Tanks and Lightning, 515 Oil Tractors— see Tractors Oils, Transformer, Testing, Arnold Philip, 47 Optical Method of Shaft Alignment, Captain W. Norris, 451 Orlando, Signor G., on Italian Two-floodable
Compartment Steamers, 396
.Overseas Trade, 260 Overseas Trade, Government and, 358 Oxy-acetylene Welding, Papers at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 108, 133, 193 p PAPER Yarn, Manufacture and Use of, 495 Paraffin electric Salvage Set-—see Submersible Paraffin Wax, Purifying, R. S. Dickie, 165 Paravanes—see Ships Parsons, Hon. Sir C. A., and Mr. Stanley S. Cook on the Causes of Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, 427 Passing of Ingenuity, 405, 466, 535 Patent Law and the Legal Standard of Novelty, by “ Historicus,” 34 6 Patent-office Searching Svstem, 199 ; (Letter), 232 PATENT SPECIFICATIONS: British:
Aeronautics, 24, 94, 237, 392, 547 Agricultural, 142 Air Compressors, 118 Batteries and Accumulators, 367, 441
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 70, 165, 190 Dynamos and Motors, 23, 47, 70, 94, 117, 141, 165, 213, 264, 292, 469, 495, 521, 571, 595
Electrical, 117, 141, 166
Engines, Internal Combustion, 23, 47, 69, 93, 117, 165, 189, 237, 263, 291, 315, 343, 441, 469, 495, 571, 595, 619
Engines, Steam, 23, 93, 189, 521 Gas Producers, 291
Heating and Lighting, 47, 264, 315, 3-4-4, 419, 469, 496, 548, 620
Heating£and Ventilating, 620 Lighting—see Heating, &c. Locomotives, 646
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 24, 48, 70, 141, 238, 316, 367, 417, 442, 470, 496,
547, 620, 646
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 316, 368, 470, 522, 572 Mines and Metals, 24, 142, 213, 316, 368, 392, 646 Mining and Metallurgy - see Mines and Metals Miscellaneous, 48, 70, 118, 166, 190, 214, 238, 292, 344, 368, 392, 418, 442, 470, 496, 522,
548, 572, 596
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 48, 94, 166, 190, 213, 291, 496 Ordnance and Armour, 315 Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 47, 213, 367, 417, 596
Ships and Boats, 237, 292, 441, 522, 620 Steam Generators, 263, 495, 521
Switchgear, 23, 47, 189, 291, 391, 417, 469, 521, 547, 571, 595, 619, 645
Tramways and Railways, 263 Transformers, 391, 417
Transmission of Power, 213, 264, 343, 391, 441, 469, 572
Turbine Machinery, 343, 367, 39], 645 Turbines, Steam, 93, 141, 189, 237 Water Purification, 547, 646 Workshop Tools, &c.—see Machine Tools
PATENTS and Litigation, 133 Patents, United States Annual Report, 516 Patents and the War (Applications for), 68 Patents and the War (Extension of Time Limit), 630 Pavement Temperatures, 411 Peace, Industrial, 302 Pearce, S. L., on Electric Power Supply, 104 Peat for Power Generation, Utilisation of, J. B.
C. Kershaw, 239, 265 ; (Letter), 327
Personal and Business Announcements, 22, 47, 65, 92, 117, 140, 164, 190, 214, 238, 260, 288, 316, 344, 367, 392, 440, 470, 496, 520, 546, 572, 596, 620, 646 Petrol Engines—see Engines Petrol, Flow of, through Carburetter Jots, 521 Petrol Railway Cars—see Railways Petter, Mr. E. W., on Restriction of Output, 630 Philip, Arnold, on Testing Transformer Oils, 47 Photography, Aerial, 367 Plate Springs, New Theory of, D. Landau and
P. H. Parr, 397 ; (Letter), 489
Plough, Snow, Rapid Street Channel, 159 Pneumatic Grain Elevators, Floating, 206, 207 Pontoons for Grain Elevators, Edwards and
Co., Limited, 207
Portable Engines—see Engines Poultney, E. C., on Recent American Express
Locomotives, 523, 550, 574 ; (Letter, 614)
Powdered Fuels—see Fuels Power Presses—see Machine Tools Power Station Efficiencies, 134 Power from Tidal Waters, J. Smith, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Producer—see Gas Producer Propellers—see Ships Properties of Some Copper Alloys, Dr. Rosenhain and D. Hanson, 322 Proportioning of Concrete, L. N. Edwards, 141 Public Works in France, 464 Pulverised Coal Systems in America, Special
Report by L. C. Harvey, 494
Pulverised Fuel, Instructions for Safe Use of, 398 Pulverised Fuel Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Pump, Centrifugal, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 628, 629 Pumps, Centrifugal, for Chicago Waterworks, 595 Pumps, Sir Samuel Morland’s, 537 Pumps, Submersible Electric, Driven by Oil Engines, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278 Purchasers’ Tests, 331—see also Metallurgical Information Purifying Paraffin Wax, R. S. Dickie, 165 R RADIOMETALLOGRAPHY, 432 Rafts of Logs, Ocean-going, 541 Rafwires—see Aeronautics RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS:
(See also Annual Article)
General:
Accident Reports, Five Railway, 373 Accidents in 1918, Railway, 566 Armoured Train for Coast Defence, 150 Electric Railways, Sir E. Geddes’ Views, 306 Holidays, Earlier, 417 No Railway Policy Yet, 132
Petrol Railway Inspection Car, Motor Rail and Tramcar Company, Limited, 434
Railway Deficit, 633 Railway Fares, 483
Railway Wagons for War Traffic, North- Eastern Railway, 404, 410 Railway Working during the War, White Paper, 511
Railway Year, 198
Signalling, Improvement in, McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company, Limited, 262
Strikes and Labour Questions—see Labour
Three-position Light Signalling, McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company, Limited, 262
Traders and Railway Nationalisation, 38
British, Colonial and Indian : Ambulance Trains, Rolling Stock Converted by British Railways, 73, 75 British Railway Workshops in War Time,
576, 577, 604, 605, 630
British Railways under War Conditions, 38, 73, 75
Future of British Railways, 83
Great Northern Railway ; Sturrock’s Steam Tender, 66, 67 ; (Paragraph), 81; (Letters), 152, 200 High Capacity Goods Wagons for Indian Railways, 110
Indian Railways in 1917-18, 341
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Fish Dock at Fleetwood, 55
New South Wales Railways, 284
North-Eastern Railway Improvements, Middlesbrough and Tyne Dock, 140 North-Eastern Railway Wagons for War Traffic, 404, 410 North-Eastern Railway War Products, 576,
577, 604, 605, 630
Train Ferry and Transportation Depot at- Richborough, 31, 36, 49, 76, 82, 102, 106, 147, 154 ; (Letters), 109, 125, 152 (Two- page Supplement, January \Qth, 1919) (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919) Foreign:
Alaskan Government Railway, 347, 349 American Railway Work in 1918, 232 Belgian State Railways, Proposed Electrification of, 428 Rolling Stock Problem in France, 306
State Railway Working Results in Germany, 585
Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 273 ;
(Letter), 354
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES:
(See also Annual Article)
General: Pulverised Fuel Locomotive, 400, 457 (Two- page Supplement, April 25th, 1919) Three-cylinder Locomotives, H. Holcroft, 485 British, Colonial, and Indian : Great Central Railway Pulverised Fuel Locomotive, 400, 457 (Two-page Supplement, April 25 th, 1919)
Locomotives of 1918, 9, 12
Foreign: Express Locomotives in France, Development, Monsieur Herdner, 270 Recent American Express Locomotives, E. C Poultney, 523, 550, 574 ; (Letter), 614 RAPID Steel Channel Snow Plough, 159 Receiver, Air, Frank Richards, 562, 573 Reconstruction of Belgian Industries, 204, 216, 243, 250, 280, 304, 306, 332, 382, 393, 425, 431 ; (Letter), 399 (Two-page Supplement, March 14th, 1919) Reconstruction, The Part Engineers have to Play, &c., Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41 Recorder, Electrical Boiler Heat Losses, Monsieur Chopin, 213 Recording Coal Meter for Boilers, Lea Recorder Company, 261 Refractory Materials during the War, 510 Reinforced Concrete—see also Concrete Reinforced Concrete Dock Gates at Tilbury, Christian! and Nielsen, 289, 290 ; (Letter), 354 Relationship between the Laboratory and the Workshop, W. R. Barclay, 322 Renovation of the Navy, 483 Research, Scientific and Industrial, Government Scheme for, 237 Research, Scientific and Industrial, Sir F. Heath on the Department of, 184 Research Work in America, Professor H. M. Howe, 502 Reservoir, Oil Fuel, at Rosyth, 324 Resilient Tires for Road Vehicles, 405 Restriction of Output, Mr. E. W. Petter, 630 Rhone, Harnessing the, 458 Richards, Frank, on the Air Receiver, 562, 573 Richborough Transportation Depot and Train Ferry Terminus, 31, 36, 49, 76, 82, 102, 106, 147, 154, 169, 219, 226 ; (Letters), 109, 125, 152 (Two-page Supplement, January 10th, 1919) (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919) Road Destruction by Heavy Vehicles, 189 Road Scarifier, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 254 Road Scarifier, The Allen, Oxford Steam Plough Company, Limited, 589 Road Vehicles, Resilient Tires for, 405 Robson, A. G., Examples of Gauge-making, 499 Rolling Mill, Continuous Wire Rod, at Templeborough, Morgan Construction Company, 597 (Four-page Supplement, June 20th, 1919) Rolling Mill Equipment, 19,000 H.P. Electric Reversing, Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Limited, 334 Rolling Mill, Government, at Southampton, 191, 202, 217; (Letter), 378 (Four-page Supplement, March 1th, 1919) Rolling Stock Problem in France, 306 Rosenhain, Dr., and D. Hanson, on Properties of Some Copper Alloys, 322 Rosenhain, Dr. W., on Science and Industry in relation to Non-ferrous Metals, 322, 527 Rosyth, Oil Fuel Reservoir at, 324 Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Cardiff, 627 Royal Society—see Associations, &c. Rules for Boilers—see Boilers Ruston and Hornsby’s War Work, 254 s “ SAFETY First” Association, British Industrial, 263 Scarifier, Road, The Allen, Oxford Steam Plough Company, Limited, 589 Science of Industry, 107 Science and Industry in relation to Non-ferrous Metals, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527 Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of, Sir Frank Heath, 184 Scientific and Industrial Research, Government Scheme for, 237 Scope of the Works Laboratory, F. C. Lants- berry, 322 Seaton, A. E., on the Work of the British Marine Engineering Design and Construction Committee, 374, 411 ; (Letter). 463 Segregation of Industries, 431 Semple, James, Experiments on Full Cargo
Ship Models, 421
Sense of Art in Engineering, 406, 44 3 Serbia, Trade Opportunities in, 268 Shells, 18in. High-velocity Armour-piercing, Hadfield’s Steel Foundry Company, 231 SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING:
(See also Annual Articles)
General: Barges Built at Richborough, 147, 154, 219, 226
Boilers of Merchant Ships, 84
Developments towards Simplification of Merchant Ship Construction, Sir E. d’Eyn- court and Mr. T. Graham, 396
Effect of Beam on Resistance of Mercantile Ship Forms, Experiments, J. L. Kent, 421 Electrically-driven Ships’ Auxiliaries, Laurence, Scott and Co., Limited, 478, 482 Engines—see Engines and Motors
Experiments on Full Cargo Ship Models, James Semple, 421
Flying Boat—see Aeronautics
Hydrogen Barges for Royal Air Force, 219, 226 Investigations into Causes of Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons and Mr. Stanley S. Cook, 427 Italian Two-floodable Compartment Cargo Steamers Built during the War, Signor S. Orlando, 396
Lloyd's Register Scholarships, 212
Lloyd's Register Shipbuilding Returns, 79, 436 Mercantile Shipbuilding in 1918, Lloyd s Register, 199
Merchant Shipbuilding in France, 59 Oil Fuel in Merchant Ships, 107
Optical Method of Shaft Alignment, Captain W. Norris, 451 Paravane Protection of Ships Against Mines, 222, 293 Progress in Turbine Ship Propulsion, Speedreduction Gear, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 135
Protection of Ships Against Mines, 222, 293 Shipbuilding in Australia, 340
Shipping in 1918, 16- for Details, see Annual Article
Slips and Slipways at Richborough, 147, 154
SHIPS & SHIPBUILDING (continued): General (continued):
Slipway for Ship Repair Work at Esquimault,
B. C., Yarrows, Limited, 330, 341
Standardisation of Marine Boilers, Committee's Report, 276 Standardisation in Shipbuilding, 554 Tonnage of Modern Steamships, A. T. Wall, 421 Turbine-driven Marine Auxiliaries, Franco Tosi Company, 636, 640 Turbine Machinery for Standard Ships, J. Howden and Co. and D. Brown and Sons, Limited, 371 (Two-page Supplement, April 18th, 1919) War and the White Star Line, 208 Water-tube Boilers for Cargo Ships, Stirling Boiler Company, Limited, 476 (Two-page Supplement, May 10th, 1919) Work of the British Marine Engineering Design and Construction Committee, A. E. Seaton, 374, 411 ; (Letter), 463 British Navy: Arethusa, H.M. Light Cruiser, 449 (Supplement, May Oth, 1919) Battle-cruisers Renown and Repulse, 359, 361 (Supplement, April .1 IZZt, 1919) Battleships taken over from Foreign Governments, 359, 361 (Supplement, April 11th, 1919) British E Class Submarine, 449, 450 British Light Cruisers and Flotilla Leaders, 308 British Monitors, H.M.S. Sir Thomas Picton, H.M.S. Abercrombie, H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough. H.M.S. Havelock, H.M.S. Marshal Soult, M.23, 143 British Steam-driven Submarines of the “ K ” Class, 173, 178 Cambrian, H.M. Light Cruiser, in Dry Dock, 222, 293 Coastal Motor Boats for the Navy, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., 369, 380 Iron Duke and Queen Elizabeth. H.M. Battleships, 448 (Supplement, May Oth, 1919) Large Light Cruisers Courageous, Glorious and Furious, 359, 361 (Supplement,
April 11 th, 1919)
Lord Clive, H.M. Monitor, 143 (Two-page Supplement, February lAth, 1919)
Mine Sweepers, 360, 361, 362
Naval Construction during the War, Sir E. H. Tennyson d’Eyncourt, 351, 358 (Four-page Supplement, April 11/A, 1919) New British Warships, 71 (Two-page Supplement, January 24th, 1919)—see also Naval Construction during the War
“ P ” Boats, J. S. White and Co., 512 Patrol Boats, 360, 361
“ Royal Sovereign ” Class, H.M. Battleships 358, 361 (Supplement, April l.l/7<, 1919) Ships of the British Navy on August 4th, 1914, &c., Sir P. Watts, 351, 447 (Two-page Supplement, May Oth, 1919) Stalwart, H.M.A.S., Torpedo-boat Destroyer, Trial Trip, 351 Stormcloud, H.M. Destroyer, Launch of, Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, 582
Swift, H.M. Flotilla Leader, 448, 450
Tiger, H.M. Battle-cruiser, 14, 359, 361, 449 (Two page Supplement, January 3rd, 1919) (Supplement, May Oth, 1919) Trusty, H.M. T.B.D., 490 Turquoise, H.M. Destroyer, Speed Trials, Yarrow and Co., Limited, 532 Naval Matters: Admiral Jellicoe on Naval Material, 381 Boy Artificers in the Royal Navy, 639 British Naval Design : An American Tribute, 131 Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, 341 Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, W. H. Gard, 420
Fleet That Was, 634
Four Years of Naval Progress, 14—-for Details, see Annual Article Future of the Submarine, 179 Naval Construction Corps of the United States Navy, Constructor-Commander S. V. Goodall, 374 Naval Gun Mounting—see Works Oil Fuel Reservoir at Rosyth, 324 Protection of Warships Against Underwater Attack, 345 Towing Lighters, Seaplane, 169
United States Navy, Annual Report, 30, 97
Foreign Navies:
German Battle-cruiser Derfflinger, 56 German Mine-laying Cruisers, 383 German Naval Types, 56 United States Navy, Annual Report, 30, 97
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels
Canadian Train Ferry Canora, 184
Concrete 1000-Ton Sea-going Oil Tanker, Launch, 80 Cross-Channel Train Ferry Steamer T.F. 1, 49 (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919)—see also Richborough Transportation Depot Fresh Water Harbours and Shipping of the United States, 575 Gienapp, Motor Ship, Harland and Wolff, Limited, 612 Italian Motor Ship Ansaldo San Giorgio, 586 Reinforced Concrete Coal Lighters, Construction of, at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 315 (Two-page Supplement, March 28th, 1919) Sea-going Reinforced Concrete Tug Crete- hawser, Launched near Sunderland, 275 SHOW, Royal Agricultural Society, at Cardiff, 627 Signalling, Railway—see Railways Slag Concrete, Causes of Failure in, 603 Slips and Slipways—see Ships Smith, J., on Power from Tidal Waters, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Smith, Professor Middleton, on Age-long Engineering Works of China, 72 Snow Plough, Rapid Street Channel, 159 Societies—see Associations Southampton, Government Rolling Mill at, 191, 202, 217 ; (Letter), 378 (Four-page Supplement, March 1th, 1919) Springs, Plate, New Theory of, D. Landau and P. H. Parr, 397 ; (Letter), 489 Standard, Inertia, of, 535—see also Passing of Ingenuity Standardisation of Aircraft Materials and Parts, 39! ' , Standardisation of Marine Boilers, Committee s
Report, 276
Standardisation in Shipbuilding, 554 State Aid for Apprentices, 468 State Control of German Sources of Energy, 180 Status of the Inspector, 633 Steam Engines—see Engines Steam Meters, George Kent, Limited, 580, 581 Steam Tender—see Tenders Steam Tractors—see Tractors Steel—see Iron and Steel Still, Mr. J., Engine, 540 Storing Air in the Earth, 575 Strength of Metals, 251 Strikes—see Labour Sturrock’s .Steam Tender, Great Northern Railway, 66, 67, 463 ; (Letters), 152, 200 ; (Paragraph), 81 Submersible Salvage Electric Pumps and Engines, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278 “ Surplus,” 566, 631 Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 273 ;
(Letter), 354
TANK Links, Machine Tool Adaptations for the Manufacture of, Pulsometer Engineering Company, 120, 130 Tank Links Manufacture, North-Eastern Railway, 578, 579 Tanker, Oil—see Ships Tap, Water, Tonkin, Collins and Co., Limited. 590 Taps, Backing-off—see Machine Tools Tasmania, Hydro-electric Development in, 263 Taylor, G., on Some Points in the Manufacture of Files, 503, 604, 606, 626 Technical Education, Emergency, 37 ; (Letter), 56 Technical Inspection Association Formed, 411 Technical Training in the Air Force, 110 Temperature of Flue Gases, Measuring, 262 Temperatures, Pavement, 411 Tender, Sturrock’s Steam, Great Northern Railway, 66, 67, 463 ; (Letters), 152, 200 ; (Paragraph), 81 Testing Transformer Oils, Arnold Philip, 47 Tests of Metal, 561 Thomas, H. E., on Bar Automatic Tools, 426 Thomson, Captain G. P., on the Dynamics of Flight, 252 Thornycroft Depth Charge Throwers, 86 Thread Milling—see Machine Tools Tidal Waters, Power from, J. Smith, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Tigris, Bridge at Baghdad, 55 Tilbury—see Dock Gates Tin Industry in the Federated Malay States, 454 Tin Ore, Dredging, 69 Tires, Resilient, for Road Vehicles, 405 Tonnage of Ships—see Ships Tools, Machine, and Small Tools, 111 Towing Lighters—see Ships Tractor, Caterpillar, Paraffin Engine, Blackstone’s Limited, 627 Tractor, Steam Compound, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 630 Tractor, Three-wheel, D. L. Motor Manufacturing Company, Limited, 627 Tractors at the Cardiff Show, 627, 630 Trade Between the Allies and Germany, 107 Trade Opportunities in Serbia, 268 Trade, Overseas, 260 Trade, Overseas, Government and, 358 Traders and Railway Nationalisation, 38 Trafford Park, Industrial Building Construction 98 Train Ferries for the Irish Channel, 60 Train Ferry Canora, Canadian, 184 Train Ferry and Transportation Depot at Rich- borough, 31, 36, 49, 76, 82, 102, 106, 147, 154 169, 219, 226 ; (Letters), 109, 125, 152 (Two- page Supplement, January 10th, 1919) (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919) Train, Wind Resistance on a, C. F. Dendv Marshall, 473 Trains, Armoured, for Coast Defence, 150 Trains—see also Railways Tramways in the City, 183 Transport, The Autocrat of, 279 Transport Report, 60, 85, 123 Transporting Boilers, An Unusual Method of 639 Triplane—see Aeronaut cs Tugs—see Ships Tunnel, The Channel, 280 ; (Letters), 354, 532 Tunnel, Concreting, by Compressed Air,’ 594 Turbine-driven Marine Auxiliaries, Franco Tosi Company, 636, 640 Turbine Machinery for Standard Ships, J. Howden and Co. and D. Brown and Sons^ 18^^1919)71 Supplement, April Turbine, Marine, Speed Reduction Gear, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 135 Turbine, Water, The Largest, 575 Turbo-air Compressors, Reavell and Co Limited, 534, 538 ’ Turbo-alternators, Turbo-generators—see Electrical Matters Turbo-exhausters for Grain Elevators Fraser and Chalmers, 206, 207 u UNITED States, Mineral Productions of, 276 United States Patents, Annual Report, 516 United States Steel Trade, 251 Use of Coal—see Coal Utilisation of Peat for Power Generation, J. B‘
C. Kershaw, 239, 265 ; (Letter), 327
V VALVE, Automatic, for Motor-driven Air Compressors, British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, 464 Valve Gears for Three-cylinder Locomotives, 485 “ Vickers-Vimy ” Aeroplanes—see Aeronautics Volunteer Engineers, London Army Troops
Companies, 24, 47, 65, 94, 117, 137
WAGES—see Labour Wagon, 5-Ton Steam, Robey and Co., Limited, 630 Wagons, Railway—see Railways Wall, A. T., on Tonnage of Modern Steamships, 421 War Memorial, Electrical Engineers’, 101 War, Patents and the, 68 War Products—see also British Railway Workshops War and the White Star Line, 208 War Work in a Gainsborough Factory, 160 Water Powers in Great Britain, 288 Water Tap, A New, Tonkin, Collins and Co., Limited, 590 Water-tube Boilers—see Boilers Water Turbine, The Largest, 575 Waters, Tidal, Power from, J. Smith, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Waterworks, Chicago, Centrifugal Pump for, 595 Watt, James, Centenary, 433, 480, 614, 634 Watts, Sir P., on Ships of the British Navy on August 4th, 1914, &c., 351, 447 Wax, Paraffin, Purifying, R. S. Dickie, 165 Ways and Communications Bill, 204, 227, 229, 255 Welding, Electric, Thomas T. Heaton, 10], 108, 127, 133, 193, 203 Welding, Oxy-acetylene, Papers at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. H. Cave, J. H. Davies, F. Hazeldine, 109, 133, 193 Welding Problems, Electric, 203 Welding at’Steel Barrel Company’s Works at Uxbridge, 220, 421 Welding in Warships, Electric, Experiments with, W. H. Gard, 420 Welding and Welding Appliances, Electric, 145, 172, 197, 220, 241, 267, 296, 319, 352, 375, 394, 421, 444, 471—see also 588 ; (Letter), 436 What the War has done for Engineers, &c., Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41 Whiteley, J. H., on Acid Hearth and Slag, 503 Wilton Benzol Rectification Plant, 196 Wind Resistance on a Train, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 473 Wireless Telegraphy and the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 315 Wireless Telephony and Direction Finding, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 563 Wirelessly Directed Aircraft, 357 Wire Rod, Continuous, Rolling Mill, Morgan Construction Company, 597 (Four-page Supplement, June 20th, 1919) Women Associates of the Institution of Naval Architects, 420 Woolwich Arsenal, 56 WORKS:
Aeroplane Factory—see Aeronautics
Austin Motor Company’s Works, Heating and Ventilation of, 599, 608 Belgian Works Demolition—see also Belgian Works, Reconstruction Britannia Ironworks, Naval Gun Mounting Shop, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 160 Cockerill Works at Seraing, 243 (Two-page Supplement, March 14th, .1919) Daimler Company’s Works, Coventry, Heat ing and Ventilation of Workshops" 504 Illinois Steel Company's South Chicago Works, Triplex Steel Plants, 126, 127 (Two- page Supplement, February 1th, 1919) Magneto Industry, Thomson-Bennett Magnetos, Limited, 26 Munitions Output in Ipswich, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Limited. 160 North-Eastern Railway Workshops, War Products, Gateshead Shops, 576, 577, Darlington Shops, 604, 605—see Footnote, 604 Ougree-Marihaye Works, German Destruction of, 243, 250 Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Motor Lorry Works at Basingstoke, 54, 58 Warehouses in Trafford Park, Port of Manchester, Limited, 98
York Shops, 630
WORKSHOPS -see Works X-RAYS, Examination of Metals by, 432 Y YARN, Paper, Manufacture and Use of, 495 Yarrow’s Slipway at Victoria, B.C., 330, 341 Yguazu Falls, 506
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