The Engineer 1925 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ABERDEEN—see Water Supply Abrasion, Surface, and Corrosion, Ulick R. Evans, 294 Adjustable Parabolic Curve, W. H. Harling, 580 AERONAUTICS : See also Annual Articles Aero-engines;—see Engines Aircraft: All-metal Flying Boat, Rohrbach Metal Aeroplan Company, 350, 354 Beardmore Wee Bee I. Monoplane, 19 {Sup¬plement, January 2nd, 1925) Blackburn 1000* H.P. Torpedoplane “ Cubaroo,” 20, 21 Gloucestershire “ Gannet ” Light Biplane, 19 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Handley Page Triple-engines Commercial Biplane “ Hamilton,” 21 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Hawker Cygnet II. Biplane, 21 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Parnall Pixie III. Monoplane, 21 {Supple¬ment, January 2nd, 1925) United States and Rigid Airships, 455 Vickers “ Vulture ” Amphibian Biplane, 21 Westland Widgeon Monoplane and Westland Wood Pigeon Biplane, 21 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) AIRCRAFT Apprentices, Vacancies for, 224 Air Ministry’s Competition, 19, 224 Royal Air Force Cadetships, 405 AHRONS, E. L., The British Steam Railway Locomotive from 1825-1924, 2, 34, 66, 94, 124, 150, 178, 206, 232, 258, 288, 316, 344’ 370, 398, 424, 452, 478, 506, 534, 562, 590. 616, 642, 670, 698 ; (Letters), 155, 240, 278 468, 516, 704 Air Compressing Plant, Electric-driven, Auto- matic, ^ainwor^y Engineering Company, Aitchison, O. L., and L. W. Johnson, Grain and the Fatigue Strength of Steels, 540 ! Allcut, Professor E. A., Tests on a Two-stroke Cycle Oil Engine, 593 All-shining Plant at a South African Mine, 595 Alternators—see Electrical Matters Ambulance Reconditioning Works of the Metro¬politan Asylums Board, 208, 216 Analogies, 271 Angus, H. T., and P. F. Summers, The Effect of Grain Size upon Hardness, &c., 294 ANNUAL ARTICLES : AERONAUTICS IN 1924, 18 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) For Names of Machines—see Aeronautics Airships, 22 Light Aeroplanes, 19 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) J Some Civil and Military Machines, 20, 21 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) ANNUAL ARTICLES {continued) : ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1924, 25, 38 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Automatic Sub-stations, 39 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
Colliery Plant, 39
Converting Plant, 40
Electric Motors, 41
Electric Traction, 40
Hydro-electric Plant, 40
Power Station Plant, 38
Rolling Mill Plant, 39
Switchgear, 41
Transformers, 41
Transverter, 2000-K.W., W. E. Highfield,
26 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
Wireless Communications, 26 {Supplement, January ^nd, 1925) GAS ENGINEERING IN 1924, 96
Coke and Other Residuals, 97 Production of Smokeless Fuels, 96 Trend of Carbonisation, 96
Wembley and the World Power Conference. 97 HARBOURSAND WATERWAYS, 1924, 37
British Ports, 37
United Kingdom, 37
Bristol Channel and South Wales Ports,
37 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
British Inland Waterways, 37 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal, 37
North-East Coast and Humber Ports, 37
Other Ports, 37
Port of London, 37
Scotland, 37
Southampton, 37 {Supplement, January
European Ports, 37
Antwerp, 38
France, 38
Italy, 37
Continental Waterways, 38
Africa, 38
North and South America, 38
Canada, 38
United States, 38
South America, 38
Australia and the East, 38
Australia, 38
India and Ceylon, 38
Far East, 38
LOCOMOTIVES OF 1924, 9
{Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
See also Locomotives, Subjects Index
Exceptional Locomotives, 9 {Supplement,
January 2nd, 1925)
Great Western Railway, 11 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 10 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
London and North-Eastern Railway, 11
Makers’ Locomotives, 11
Normal Locomotives, 10
Southern Railway, 11
ANNUAL ARTICLES {continued):—
MOTOR SHIPS AND MARINE OIL ENGINES IN
1924, 4 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
Auxiliary Machinery, 7
Diesel Engine Research and Testing Work, 7 Double-acting Engines, 7 {Supplement,
January 2nd, 1925)
Four-stroke Single-acting Engines, 4
Beardmore-Tosi Type, 6
Harland and Wolff-Burmeister and Wain
Type, 4
North-Eastern-Werkspoor Type, 6
Vickers Solid Injection Type, 6
Opposed Piston Engines, 6 {Supplement,
January 2nd, 1925)
Camellaird-Fullagar Type, 6 {Supple
ment, January 2nd, 1925)
Doxford Engine, 6
Scott-Still Type, 7 {Supplement, January
2nd, 1925)
Progress in America and on the Continent. 7
Small Motor Craft, 7
Two-cycle Single-acting Engine, 6, 16, 23
Neptune Type, 6
Nobel Type, 6
Sulzer Type, 6, 16, 23
Conclusion, 8
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1924, 8
British Empire, 8
France, 9
Italy, 9
Japan, 9
Minor Navies, 9
Netherlands, 9
Spain, 9
United States, 8
RAILWAYS IN 1924, 56
Accidents, 57 ; (Paragraph), 77
General, 57
Great Western, 56
Ireland, 57
London, Midland and Scottish, 56
London and North-Eastern 56
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint, 56
Signalling, 57
Southern, 56 ; (Paragraph), 77
Underground, 57
SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1924, 25, 41
Folkestone’s New Outfall Works, 41
Leeds, 25
Lincoln, New Sewage Pumping Station at, 25
London Main Drainage, 25
Eltham Sewer, 25
Hammersmith Pumping Station, 25
Lewisham Branch Sewer, 25
North-Eastern Storm Relief Sewer, 25
Sludge Steamers, 25
South-Western Storm Relief Sewer, 25
Streatham-hill Sewer, 25
Manchester Main Drainage Scheme, 25
Newark, New Disposal Works at, 25
Other Works under Construction or in
Contemplation, 41
ANNUAL ARTICLES {continued):
SANITARY ENGINEERING TN 1924 {continued)-.
Sewage Treatment by Agitation and Aeration, 42 Activated Sludge or “ Diffused Air ” Process, 42
“ Bio-aeration ” Process, 42
“ Simplex ” Surface Aeration Process, 42
Works at Glasgow, 42
Works at Manchester, 42
Two Thames-side Sewage Works, 25 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
Walshaw System of Disposal, 42
STEAMSHIPS OF 1924, 22
{Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
Dredgers, Harbour and River Boats, 23
Flettner Developments, 23 {Supplement,
January 2nd, 1925)
Higher Steam Pressures, 23
Railway Boats and Cross-Channel Steamers, 23
Reconditioning and Repairing, 23
Salvage Work and Shipbreaking, 23 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Some Liners of the Year, 22 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Steel of Controlled Elastic Limit for Shipbuilding, 23
WATER SUPPLY IN 1924, 68, 100
Belfast Supply, The Silent Valley Reservoir, 69
Cardiff, 69
Llwynon Reservoir, 69
Roughing Filters, 69
Taff Fawr Conduit, Second Pipe Line, 69
Wen all t Reservoir, 69
France, 102
Glendevon Waterworks, 69
Guernsey’s New Supply, 100
High Head Pumping Plant at Simla, 1C 1
Hong Kong, 101
• Indian Coalfield, Water Supply in, 101
Liverpool 68
Oswestry, New Filters at, 68
Trunk Main, New, Prescot, Liverpool, 68
Manchester Water Supply, 69
Thirlmere, 69
Thirlmere Aqueduct, 69
Heaton Park Reservoir, 69
Metropolitan Water Board, 68
General, 68
Intercommunication Works Between the Southern and Northern Districts, 68 Kent District, Works for Improvement of Supply, 68 Littleton Reservoir and the Supply Therefrom, 68 River Supply South of the Thames, Works for Improvement, 68
Perth, New Scheme for. 100
Repairing a Damaged Reservoir, 100 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) Ry burn Scheme of the Wakefield Corporation, 100 Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile, 101 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued): WATER SUPPLY IN 1924 (continued): Singapore, 101 Works Abroad, Other, 102 Works under Construction or in Contemplation, 101 ANTI-FRICTION Bearing Applications for Heavy Duty, J. B. Dahlerus, 181, 197. 237 243 ; (Letter), 295 Anti-malarial Campaign, How to Conduct, Professor Emile Brumpt, 598 Apexior—see Heat Transmission Apprenticeship, 601 Apprenticeship in the Royal Ordnance Factories, G. W. Tripp, 372 Archbutt, S. L., Aluminium Alloy Castings, Improving the Properties of, 294 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES Association, British Acetylene and Welding:
Scientific Aspects of Welding, Professor C. R.
Darling, 113
Association, British Waterworks :
Annual General Meeting, 634, 718
Programme, 634
Association, Diesel Engine Users’ : Pyrometry of Exhaust Temperatures of Internal Combustion Engines, Chas. E. Foster, 598 Recent Oil Engine Developments, J. L. Chaloner, 456 Submarine Engines and High-speed Heavy Oil Engine Electric Generating Sets, P. A. Holliday, 219 Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Annual Dinner, 188
Internal Combustion Turbine, Dr. T. B.
Morley, 278
Pulverised Coal, R. Jackson, 97
Visit to Carborundum Company’s Works. 598
Association of Technical Institutions :
Annual Meeting, 302
Technical Education, Local Colleges, Decline of Apprenticeship System, 302 Institute, Indian, of Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, 352
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Annual Meeting, 411, 538, 566
Annual Dinner, 411, 541
Programme, 411
Report, 539
Carnegie Research Scholarship A wards, 566
Detection of Strain in Mild Steels, T. H.
Turner, and J. D. Jevons, 540
Diamond Pyramid for Hardness Testing, R. L. Smith and G. E. Sandland, 566 Economics of the Heavy Iron and Steel Industry, Presidential Address, Sir Frederick Mills, 524 “ Flakes ” or “ Hair Cracks ” in Chromium Steel, A. Hultgren, 539 Gases and Formation of Blow-holes, A. G. Lobley and C. L. Betts, 540 Grain and the Fatigue Strength of Steels, O. L. Aitchison and L. W. Johnson, 540
Martensite and Troostite, T. H. Whiteley, 567 Nitrogen and Temper Brittleness, W. T.
Griffiths, 566
“ Peeling ” in White-Heart Malleable,- D. H. Ingall and H. Field, 566 Progress in British Rolling Mill Practice, T. W. Hand, 539
Quenched Carbon Steels, B. D. Enlund, 567
Stain Detection in Mild Steel by Special Etching, J. D. Jevons, 540 Temper Brittleness of Steel, R. H. Greaves and J. A. Jones, 566
Joint Meeting with Faraday Society, 648
Chemistry of Steel Making, 648
Institute of Marine Engineers :
Presidential Address, Sir Westcott Abel, 191
Institute of Metals :
Annual General Meeting, 223, 294, 324 ;
Programme, 223
Annual Dinner, 294
Abrasion of Metals, Experiments, &c., Professors, K. Honda and R. Yamada, 326 Aluminium Alloy Castings, Improving the Properties of, S. L. Archbutt, 294 Aluminium-Zinc System, Professor Tomimatu Isihara, 325 Brittle Ranges of Brass, Dr. Denis Bunting, 324 Commercial Copper Rod, Comparative Tests, &c., T. G. Bamford, 324 Copper-Zinc System, G. L. Bailey and R. Genders, 325 Density of Rhodium, Sir Thomas Kirke Rose, 325 Effect of Grain Size upon Hardness and Annealing Temperature, H. T. Angus and P. F. Summers, 294
Electrical Resistivity of Copper, A. L.
Norbury, 325
Industrial Brasses, G. L. Bailey and R. Genders, 325 Motion of Electricity in Metals, Annual Lecture, Professor H. A. Lorentz, 512
Removal of Red Stains from Brass, E. A.
Bolton, 325
Surface Abrasion and Corrison, Ulick R.
Evans, 294
Institute of Transport:
Annual Congress, 541 List of Papers and Programme, 541 Modern Dock Equipment, H. J. Deane, 571
Institution of Chemical Engineers : Internal Combustion Boiler, Oscar Brunler, 184 Supersaturation, Professor A. L. Mellanby, 543 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued): Institution of Civil Engineers :
Conversazione, 684
Lectures, “ Progress of Steam Locomotive during the last Century,” Sir H. Fowler ; “ Air Transport,” Sir W. Sefton Brancker ; “ Reminiscences of Mount Everest Expedition, 1924,” N. E. Odell, 684 Metering Steam, Kent-Hodgson Turbine Steam Meter, 684 Exhibits, Rotary Air Compressors, Reavell Rolling Drum ; Small, for Hospitals and Laboratories, Mr. Quertier, 684 ; Cement Spraying Apparatus and Stucco Gun, Professor S. M. Dixon, 684 ; Prints and Photographs of Early Locomotives and Trains, Models, &c., 685 Effect of Camber on Wood-paved Roads, James Garvie, 570 Heat Engine Trials Committee, Joint Meetings, 357, 520 Heavy Oil Engines, Large Engines of the Self-ignition Type, James Forrest Lecture, by Captain H. Riall-Sankey, 508
October Examinations, 1924, Pass List, 114
Birmingham and District Association : London Water Supply, Some Features of» H. E. Stilgoe, 159 Institution of Electrical Engineers : Design of Electrical Plant Control Gear, &c., H. W. Clothier, 268 Electric Forces and Quanta, Kelvin Lecture, J. H. Jeans, 181 Electricity in Mines, Major E. Ivor David, 244, 248 Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 ,456 Summer Meeting, 380, 660, 677
Programme, 380
Visit to Birmingham Corporation’s Power Station at Nechells, 654, 660 Visits to Witton Factory, General Electric Company, 677 ; Austin Motor Co.’s Works, Longbridge, 678 ; Longbridge Arc Rectifier Sub-station, 678 ; Overhead Distribution System, Catshill, 679 ; Stourport Power Station, 679 ; British Thomson-Houston Co.’s Works, 680 Three-wire Direct-current Distribution Networks, H. W. Taylor, 75 Wireless Telegraphy and Signalling Bill, 349 WESTERN CENTRE Summer Meeting at Dursley, Gloucestershire, 634
WIRELESS SECTION :
Current Transformer Methods of Producing Small Known Voltages, &c., D. W. Dye, 295 High-frequency Resistance Measurement, New Method, Professor E. Mallet and Mr.
A. D. Blumlein, 69
Measurement of Frequency and Allied Quantities, &c., Colonel K. E. Edgeworth and
G. W. N. Cobbold, 295
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland : Four-cycle Marine Oil Engine, H. H. Blache, 246, *247 Institution of Gas Engineers : Annual Meeting, 414; Provisional Programme, 414 Presidential Address, Excerpts from, J. Ferguson Bell, 656 Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers:
Hot Water Supply Installations for Hospitals,
H. G. Cathcart, 714
Institution, Junior, of Engineers : High-pressure Cables, Major A. M. Taylor, 115; (Letter), 140 Inverted Tooth-chain Drives, J. M. Seddon, 280 Irrigation Engineering in Burma, A. P. Morris, 380 Milestones in the Development of the Prime Mover Locomotive, Honorary Member’s Lecture, Loughnan Pendred, 223
Power Plant Records, R. H. Parsons, 140 Presidential Address, Dr. Alexander Russell, 76
Institution of Locomotive Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 244
Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Annual General Meeting, 236 ; Election of Council, 236 ; Annual Report, 236 Anti-friction Bearing Applications for Heavy Duty, J. B. Dahlerus, 181, 197, 237 Cutting Tools Research Committee Reports : Action of Cutting Tools, Professor E. G.
Coker, 318 Flow and Rupture during Cutting, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr. A. C. Sturney, 126 Forces on a Cutting Tool, Dr. T. E. Stanton and Mr. J. H. Hyde, 126 Lathe Tools, Experiments with, &c., Dempster Smith and Arthur Leigh, 318 Examinations, April, 1925, 691
Hardness Tests Research, Adhesion between Tool and Material, G. A. Hankins, 483
Hardness Tests, Scratch, G. A. Shires, 483 Steam Nozzles Research Committee’s Report, 536
Summer Meeting, 295 ; Provisional Programme, 295 Tests on a Two-stroke Cycle Oil Engine, Professor E. A. Allcut, 593 Joint Meeting with Institution of Naval Architects, Report of Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, 346
GRADUATE SECTION :
Snper-power Stations in America, Annual Lecture, W. H. Patchell, 264
NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :
Corrosion-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 431 Steam Nozzles Research Committee, Fourth Report, 565 Swiss Railway Electrification, E. A. Eborall, 485 Wire Ropes Research Committee, Second Report, Dr. W. A. Scoble, 128 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued): Institution of Mining Engineers :
Eighty-third General Meeting, 608 Programme, 608
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers .
Annual General Meeting and Conference, 572 Programme, 572
Institution of Naval Architects : Annual Meetings, 336, 376, 401, 429 ; Programme, 336 ; Annual Dinner, 379 ; Report, Awards for Papers, Elections, 376
Analysis of Sir John Biles’ Paper on H.M.S.
Wolf Experiments, G. H. Hoffmann, 401
Efficiency of .the Screw Propeller, Suggested Method of Increasing, Walter Pollock, 402, 444 Form Effects and Form Resistance of Ships, W. G. A. Perring, 402 Japan’s Contribution to Naval Architecture, Professor F. B. Purvis, 401 Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, 346, 403 Model Experiments with Anti-rolling Tanks, H. J. R. Biles, 429 Notes on the Rolling of Ships, G. Vedeler, 429 Propulsive Performance of the Corrugated Ship, E. V. Telfer and A. H. Haver, 430
Skin Friction Committee’s Report, 402
Stability and Seaworthiness, G. Frodsham Holt, 430 Steam Engines v. Oil Engines for Passenger Ships, Sir John Biles, 377, 388 Stresses in Rectangular Plates, &c., Professor C. E. Inglis, 429 Tonnage Legislation, E. Blocksidge, 430 Trading Conditions and Intermediate Passenger Vessels, W. G. Cleghorn, 430 Wake Propeller Coefficients, Admiral D. W. Taylor, 402 Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Conversion of the S.S. Bintang, L. J. Le Mesurier, 380 Fuel Consumptions of Steam and Oil- engined Vessels, Sterry B. Freeman, 136 Institution, Royal:
Faraday as a Chemist, Sir Wm. Pope, 686
The Counting of Atoms, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Studies of Atomic Nuclei, 278, 331, 362, 380 Institution of Water Engineers : Thirteenth Summer General Meeting and Programme, 719 Society of Engineers and Metallurgists : Lecture on Gas Furnaces, Stanley A. Sears, 352 Society, Faraday : Joint Meeting with Iron and Steel Institute, 648 Chemistry of Steel Making, 648 Society of Glass Technology : Design of Modern Glass-melting Furnaces, 154 Sillimanite as a Glass Works Refractory,
F. G. Clark and W. J. Rees, 273
Sillimanite in the Preparation of Refractory Materials, A.Cousen and Professor W. E. S. Turner, 273 Society, Liverpool Engineering: Construction of a Spirally Guided Gasholder and Tank at Garston, E. Astbury, 291 Society, Radio, of Great Britain :
Presidential Address, Sir Oliver Lodge, 139
Resistance in Wireless Circuits, Lecture by Professor C. R. Fortescue, 265 Society, The Royal :
Conversazione, Various Exhibits, 541
Society, Royal, of Arts : Cantor Lectures, Three, on Atomic Structure of Metals and Alloys, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 293 Society, Royal Meteorological:
Seventy-fifth Anniversary Celebration, 434
Society, Royal Microscopical:
Conference at Sheffield, 390
Societies, Physical and Optical:
Exhibition, 52
ATOMIC Structure of Metals and Alloys, Dr.
W. Rosenhain, 293
Atoms, The Counting of Atomic Nuclei, Sir Ernest Rutherford, 278, 331, 362, 380 Austin, J., Preventing Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 223 Australia, Irrigation Works in, 462, 465 Australian Engineering Notes, 54, 223 Australian Naval Defence, 383 Automatic Regulators, Temperature, Pressure, &c., British Area Regulators, Ltd., 351 Automatic Telephones, 302 B BAILEY, G. L., and R. Genders, “ The Copper- Zinc System,” also on “ Industrial Brasses,” 325 Bamford, T, G., Commercial Copper Rod, Comparative Tests, 324 Barking Power Station, 568 Barnes, Alfred A., on Dry-weather Flows, 713 Biles, H. J. R., Model Experiments with Antirolling Tanks, 429 Biles, Sir John, Steam Engines v. Oil Engines for Passenger Ships, 377, 388 Birthday Honours, 624 Blache, H. H., Four-cycle Marine Oil Engine, 246, 247 Blocksidge, E., Tonnage Legislation, 430 Blow-pipe Metal Cutting Machine, Hancock and Sons, 238 Blue Print Washing and Drying Machine, Precision Photo Printing Plant, Ltd., 523 Boiler, Atmos High-pressure, J. V. Blomquist, 249 Boiler, Internal Combustion, Oscar Brunler, 184 Bolton, E. A., Removal of Red Stains from Brass, 325 Books of Reference, 248, 277, 326, 460, 544, 650. 717 Bow Power Station, 542, 546 Brass, Brittle Ranges of, <fcc., Dr. Denis Bunting, 324 Brass, Removal of Red Stains from, E. A. Bolton, 325 Brasses, Industrial, G. L. Bailey and R. Genders, 325 Bridge, Guillemard, Over the Kelantan River, 594 Bridge, New, Over the Niagara River, 490, 492 Bridge in Vienna, Shifting, 429 Bridge, Waterloo Temporary, Sir Wm. Arrol and Co., Ltd., 686, 701 {Two-page Supplement, June 26th, 1925) Bridges—see also Road British Chemical Standard Hematite Iron Ore, 170 British Engineering Standards Association:
Address, C. le Maistre, 129
SPECIFICATIONS :
Automobile Parts, Three New Standards, 718 Bright Bolts, Nuts and Studs, 335
Steels for Laminated Springs for Automobiles, 380 BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Report on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Engineering Industry, 409, 415 British Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives Broadcasting—see Wireless Brunler, Oscar, on Internal Combustion Boiler, 184 Bunting, Dr. Denis, Brittle Ranges of Brass, 324 Burton, Alexander, J. T., French Locomotive Performances, 153 Bryan Donkin and Co., History of, 544 c CABLES—see Electrical Matters Calendars, Diaries, &c., 29, 55, 86, 119, 145, 227, 557 Canada, Terms of Payment in, 85 Canada, Water Power Resources of, 97, 439 Canadian Water Power and Reclamation
Service, 714
Canal, Rhine to Rhone, Improvement of the, 291 Carbonisation—see Coal Catalogues, 145, 201, 393, 419, 447, 501, 557,
585, 637, 693, 721
Cathcart, H. G.. Hot Water Supply Installations for Hospitals, 714 Cellular Gravity Dam, Design for, Reginald Ryves, 279 Centenary of Henri Giffard, 1825-1882, 83 Ceylon, High Head Hydro-electric Scheme in, 619 Chain Link Making Machine, Wm. Grice and Sons, Ltd., 469 Chain Making, Wire, 239, 276, 292 Chaloner, J. L., Recent Oil Engine Developments, 456 Chancy-Pougny Hydro-electric Power Station, 321,‘328 Chassis, 2-Ton, War Office Subsidy, Vulcan Motor and Engineering Company (1906), Ltd., 378, 379 Chemistry of Steel Making, 648 Chuck, Strength of, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 662 Circular Saw Guard, New, M. Glover and Co., 223 Circulating Water Screening Plant, Fixing,
F. W. Brackett and Co., Ltd., 224
Cleghorn, W. G., Trading Conditions and Intermediate Passenger Vessels, 430 Clothier, H. W., Design of Electrical Plant Control Gear, &c., 269 Clyde—see Dock Equipment COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES : Carbonisation of Coal in Vertical Retorts, Walter T. Dunn, 470 Coal Pulverising Plant and Boilers at Nechells Power Station, 656, 660 Coal Staith, New, on the Tyne, R. E. Hindmarsh, 134, 141 Electric Lighting System for Collieries, British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Ltd.. 496 Low - Temperature Carbonisation, Some Aspects of, Lecture, N. Simpkin, 487
Pulverised Coal, R. Jackson, 97 Sale of Coke by Analysis, 464
Steep Colliery Ropeways in South Wales, R. White and Sons, 514 {Two-page Supplement, May Sth, 1925) Winder, Colliery, Geared Electric, English Electric Company and Robey and Co., Ltd., 404, 408 COKER, Professor E. G., Action of Cutting Tools, 318 Commercial Libraries, Charles Nowell, 50 Comptroller of Patents, 192 Condenser Tube Corrosion, J. Austin, 223 Contracts, 29, 61, 92, 122, 145, 173, 204, 230, 253, 286, 309, 337, 368, 393, 422, 447, 473, 504, 532, 560, 588, 614, 637, 665, 696, 724 Converters—see Electrical Matters Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize, 361 Copper Rod, Commercial, Comparative Tests, T. G. Bamford, 324 Copper-Zinc System, G. L. Bailey and R.
Genders, 325
Corrosion Again, 217 Crane Essentials, Standardisation of, Edward
G. Fiegehen, 619
Crane, 20-Ton Goliath, S. H. Heywood and
Co., Ltd., 658
Crane, Travelling Steam, Samuel Butler and Co., Ltd., 443 Crisis in the Engineering Industries, 409, 415 Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30, 62,
90, 120, 146, 174, 202, 228, 254, 284, 312, 340, 366, 394, 420, 448, 474, 502, 530, 558, 586, 612, 638, 666, 694, 722
Cutting Tools—see Machine Tools D DAHLERUS, J. B., on Anti-friction Bearing Applications for Heavy Duty, 181, 197, 237, 243 ; (Letters), 295, 434 Dam, Gleno, Case for the Owners, 330, 467 ; Another Report, 661 Darling, Professor C. R., Scientific Aspects ot Welding, 113 David, Major E. Ivor, on Electricity in Mmes, 244, 248 Dawson, Sir Philip, and Professor S. Parker Smith, on Main-line Railway Electrification, 98, 156, 620, 650; (Letters), 240, 295 Deep Mining on the Rand, 263 Deschamps, J., Influence of Pulsations on Combustion, 152 Deutsches Museum, Munich, 644 Diesel Engines—see Engines Dielectrics, Super-tension Cable, A. I. Tracey, 580 Dock Equipment, Modern, H. J. Deane, o71 Dock Equipment, New, on the Clyde, 233, 242, 274, 304, 332 ; (Letters), 434, 468 De-watering Plants for Graving Docks Nos. 1 and 3, 233, 242
No. 3 Graving Dock Pumps, 274
Hydraulic Powrer Services for Prince’s Dock and the Graving Docks, 304
Pneumatic and Electric Services, Prince’s and Graving Docks Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 332 Doors, Train—see Railways Drills—see Machine Tools
Dry Dock, American, Repairing, 359 Dry-weather Flows, Alfred A. Barnes, 713 Dye, D. W., Current Transformer Methods of
Producing Small Known Voltages, &c., 295
E EBORALL, E. A., Swiss Railway Electrification, 485 Education, Some Aspects of, 437 Educational Intelligence, 443 Effective Sluicing from a Spanish Reservoir, 320 ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
See also Annual Articles
Ammeter, “ Cirscale,” and Change Coil Multi-range Test Set for Alternating and Direct Currents, Record Electrical Company, 279
Aorangi, Electric Equipment for—see Ships
Barking Power Station, County of London Electric Supply Company, 568 Beama Annual Luncheon, Sir Benjamin Longbottom’s Address, 356
Bow Power Station Reconstruction, 542, 546 Cheap Electricity, 167
Combined Electric Motor and Pump, Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt, Ltd., 662 Constant-current Motors, Gilbert Austin, J. C. Macfarlane’s Notes, 440 Dock Equipment on the Clyde, New, 233, 242, 274, 304, 332 Electric Forces and Quanta, Kelvin Lecture, J. H. Jeans, 181
Electricity Commissioner, New Appoint- >• ment, 569
Gas Engineers and the Electrical Subsidy, 683 High Frequency Resistance Measurement,
New Method, 69
High-pressure Cables, Major A. M. Taylor, 108, 115 ; (Letter), 140 High Voltage Testing Laboratory, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 481 Hydro-electric Power Station, Chancy - Pougny, 321, 328 Institution of Electrical Engineers, Various Works Inspected during Summer Meeting, 654, 660, 677-680
Insulation, 520
International Conference on Extra High- tension Electric Systems, 273 Leafield Coupled Arc, 634—see also Annual Articles and Supplement Machine Tool Switchgear, Electrical Apparatus Company, 362 Million-volt Testing Equipments, Ferranti, Ltd., 412 Motor Starting Panels, Midget Type, Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd., 142
Nechells Power Station, Birmingham, 654,
Ongar and Brentwood Wireless Stations, 596, 597
Raby Castle, Diesel-electric Generating Sets, Radio Frequency Relay, A New, 498
Recent Oil Engine Developments, J. L. Chaloner, 456 Rotary Converters, 1500-Kilowatt Selfsynchronising, Mather and Platt, Ltd., 390 Self-synchronising Alternator, L. J. Hunt 526 Southern Railway, New Single-phase Equipment, General Electric Company, 486 Static Condensers for Power Factor Correction, 543 Super Power Stations in America, W. H. Patchell, 264 Super-tension Cable Dielectrics, A. I. Tracev 580 ,y’
Switchgear, H. W. Clothier, 268
Synchronous Motors for Mining Work, Maior
E. Ivor David, 244, 248
Three-wire Direct-current Distribution Networks, H. W. Taylor, 75
Transformers, Large, Ferranti, Ltd., 680 Upper Reno Power Project, 608 Use of Electricity, 463 ; (Letter), 485
Variable Speed Alternating-current Motors, Notes on, N. Pensabene-Perez, 624 Winder, Geared Electric, English Electric Company, 404, 408 ELLESMERE Port, Water Softening Plant, Wollaston Gas Producers (Manchester), Ltd.’ ENGINES AND MOTORS:
Aero-engines:
Aero-engine Performance, 55
Anzani Aero-engine, 21
Blackburn Three-cylinder Radial, 21
Blackburn Twin-cylinder Inverted, 21
ENGINES AND MOTORS {continued):
Aero-Engines {continued):
. Bristol Cherub, 19, 21 Eagle IX Engines for All-metal Flying Boat, 350, 354
Napier “ Cub ” Engine, 1000 H.P., 21
Napier “ Lion ” Engine, 21
Rolls-Royce 360 H.P. “ Eagle ” Engine, 21 Siddeley 230 H.P. “ Puma ” Engine, 21 Variation of Aero-engine Power with
Height, 595
Aorangi, Union Steamship Company’s Motor Liner, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ltd., Sulzer Type Diesel Engines and Auxiliaries, 6, 16, 23, 42, 48, 71,' 72, 106, 110, 111 {Supplement, January '2nd, 1925) {Two-page Supplement, January 16th, 1925) Cold-starting Solid Injection Oil Engine, 110 B.H.P., Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 222, 223 Crude Oil Engine, Two-stroke Vertical, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 222 Diesel Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Double-acting 6750 Engine for Motor Liner Gripsholm, Burmeister and Wain, 246, 247 Four-cycle Marine Engines, Burmeister and Wain, 246, 247
Future of the Marine Steam Engine, 384 Gas Engine, 7150 B.H.P., Soc. Anonyme John Cockerill, 166, 168 Gas or Paraffin Engine, 12| B.H.P., Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 222
Heat Engine Trials Committee Meeting, 520 Heavy Oil Engine, 66 H.P., National Gas Engine Company, 222, 223
Heavy Oil Engines, Large Engines of the Self- ignition Type, James Forrest Lecture by Captain H. Riall Sankey, 508 Lighting Set, Gas Engine and Chain-driven Dynamo, National Gas Engine Company and Electrical Construction Company, 222, 223 Lighting Set, 3 B.H.P. Paraffin Engine and 1| K.W. Dynamo, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 222, 223
Marine Oil Engine Progress, 191
Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, 346, 355, 403 Motor Foam Fire-fighting Engine, 467 Motor Lifeboat Engine, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 160 ; (Letter), 188 Oil Engine, 55 B.H.P., and Fuel Injection Arrangement, Blackstone and Co., 238
Oil Engine Difficulties, 491
Pyrometry of Exhaust Temperatures of Internal Combustion Engines, Chas. E. Foster, 598 Raby Castle, Propelling Machinery for, North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, 458 Steam Engines v. Oil Engines for Passenger Ships, Sir John Biles, 377, 388 200 K.W. Steam Extraction Generator Set, Ashworth and Parker, 630 Two-stroke Cycle Oil Engine, Tests on, Professor E. A. Allcut, 593 Vibration in Engine Test Gear, J. Morris, 484 ENGINEERS, Salaries of, 114 Engineers, Status of, 107 ; (Paragraph), 89 Engineering Industry—see British Engineers’ Association Evans, Ulick R., Surface Abrasion and Corrosion, 294 Evolution—see Ships Exeter Ship Canal, Replacing the Lock Gates of, 83 EXHIBITIONS:
British Industries Fair, 222, 238 Britsh Industries Fair, London, Section 1, 55 Grenoble Exhibition, 690 Marine and Small Craft Exhibition, 326 One-day Exhibition at Dartford, 390 Paris Exhibition, Switchback Railway, 525
Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 52—For Exhibits see Instruments Turnery Exhibition at the Mansion House, 380 F FAIRS—see Exhibitions Faraday as a Chemist, Sir Wm. Pope, 686 Fatigue and Shock, 136 Fiegehen, Edward G., Standardisation of Crane Essentials, 618 Fire-engine, Light Motor, Gwynnes Engineering Company, Ltd., 554 Fire-fighting Engine, Motor Foam, 467 Forrest, James, Lecture by Captain H. Riall Sankey on Heavy Oil Engines, Large Engines of the Self-ignition Type, 508 Fortescue, Professor C. R., Resistance in Wireless Circuits, 265 Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 64, 92, 122, 148 176, 204, 230, 256, 286, 314, 342, 368, 396^ 422, 450, 476, 504, 532, 560, 588, 614, 640. 668, 696,724 Foster, Chas. E., Pyrometry of Exhaust Temperatures, &c., 598 Foundry Ladle, A Handy, Constructional Engineering Company, Ltd., 469 Foundry Sand Recovery Plant, New Conveyor Company, 571 Foundry—see also Iron and Steel FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 31, 63, 91, 121, 147, 175, 203, 229, 255, 285 313, 341, 367, 395, 421, 449, 475, 503, 531, 559, 587, 613, 639, 667, 695, 723
African Development, 31 Agricultural Engineering, 147 Alsace Canal, 475, 531 Apprenticeship Tax, 285 Arsenals, 421 Aviation Engines, 421 Business Declension, 175 Capital and Trade, 255 Charcoal Congress, 531 Goal Production, 91, 449 Coal Slump, 695 Coal Tax, 285 Coal Trade, 667
I Colonial Cotton, 175 FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) :
Colonial Railways, 63 Commercial Clearing House, 5£7 Decorative Arts, 255 Ecole Centrale, 613 Electric Road Traction, 203 Electrical Engineering, 367 Engineering Outlook, 723 Ethylic Alcohol, 341 Exhibition Palace, 121 Exports, 421 Finance and Trade, 91 Fiscal Tariffs, 695 Foreign Trade, 31, 147, 475, 613, 723 Forestry and Engineering, 723 German Competition, 285 German Rolling Stock, 175 German Treaty, 285 Grenoble Exhibition, 613 Home and Export Prices, 341 Hydro-electric Distribution. 639 Import Duties, 667 Incinerators, 121 Industrial Development, 63 Industrial Values, 313 Iron and Steel, 639 Iron and Steel Combines, 255 Iron and Steel Prices, 203 Liquefying Coal, 531 Liquid Fuels, 121 Locomotive, A New, 121 Machine Tools, 587 Makhonine Fuel, 695 Makhonine Liquid, 121, 559 Maritime Week, 723 Marseilles-Rhone Canal, 31 Mont Blanc Cableway, 667 Motor Cars, 341 Motor Fuel, A New, 367 Motor Show, 63 Nationalisation of Mines, 723 Naval Construction, 503 Naval Programme, 91, 613 New Import Duties, 31 New Industries, 475 Oil Engines, 147 Paris Fair, 587 Paris Metropolitan, 367, 639 Paris Termini, New, 587 Paris Water Supply, 255, 503, 695 Patent Legislation, 341 Psycho-technical Laboratory, 91 Rail Motors, 203, 395 Railway Catastrophes, 395 Railway Electrification, 91, 503 Reconstruction, 229 Refloating the Liberte, 229 Refuse Disposal, 229 Reparations, 559 Road Paving, 531 Russian Fleet, 91 Seamen’s Hours, 255, 449 Shipbuilding Credits, 313 State Railway Control, 229 Suction Gas Lorries, 313 Suction Gas Vehicles, 341 Super Locomotive, 175 Synthetic Fuels, 175 Tariff Bill, 313 Tariff Examples, 3] Textile Industries, 639 “ The Joy Stick,” 503 Trade Burdens, 449 Trade Crisis, 695 Trade Difficulties, 421 Trade Exchanges, 559 Trade Outlook, 367 Trade Reforms, 395 Trade Restriction, 503 Trade Situation, 229, 667 Unemployment, 203 Year’s Outlook, 63
FRICTION of Pistons and Piston Rings, T. E.
Stanton, 70 ; (Letter), 240
Fuel Consumptions of Steam and Oil-engined
Vessels, Sterry B. Freeman, 136
Fuels and the Future, 80 ; (Letter), 114 Furnace Arch, Suspended, Liptak Furnace
Arches, Ltd., 361
G GARSTON, Construction of a Spirally Guided Gasholder and Tank at, E. Astbury, 291 Garvie, James, Effect of Camber on Wood- paved Roads, 570 Gas, A Century of, in South London, 496 Gas Engines—see Engines Gas Engineers and the Electrical Subsidy, 683 Gas Furnaces for Steel Industry, Stanley A.
Sears, 352 «i « .*
Gauge, New Tank, Negretti and Zambra, 470 Gauge, Pitting, V. Pickles and G. Hall, 554 Gee, W. W. Haldane, The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Joule’s First Measurements, 426 ; (Letter), 516 German Capital for Steel Making in South Africa, 57 ; (Letter), 114 German Industry and Commerce during April. 582 German Institution of Engineers, 606 Germany, Machinery Trade in, 718 Giffard, Henri, Centenary of, 1825-1882, 83 Glass Industry—see Society of Glass Technology Glass Melting Furnaces, Design of, 154 Gleno Dam, Case for the Owners, 330, 467 Gleno Dam, Another Report, 661 Good, E. T., Shipyard Labour Conditions, British and Foreign, 660 Government Tests of Agricultural Machinery, Report, 440 Grain Elevators, Floating Pneumatic, for the Port of London, East Ferry Road Engineering Works Company, 296, 297, 300 Griffith, Sir John Purser, on the Shannon Power Scheme, 132 Guillemard Bridge Over the Kelantan River, 594 H HAMMER, Electric, New Form, Kango Company, Ltd., 718 Hardening—see also Iron and Steel Hardness and Annealing Temperature, Effect of Grain Size upon, H. T. Angus and P. F. Summers, 294 Hardness Tests Research, 483 Harling, W. H., Adjustable Parabolic Curve, 580 Harvey, William. Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Its Structure, Defects and Repair, 129 Hatfield. Dr. W. H., Corrosion-resisting Steels, 431 Heat—see Mechanical Equivalent Heat Transmission through Coated Pipes, 140 Heaviside Layer, 192 Helium and Caisson Disease, 330 Hindmarsh, R. E., New Coal Staith on the Tyne, 134, 141 Holliday, P. A., on Submarine Engines and High-speed Heavy Oil Engine Electric Generating Sets, 219 Holt, G. Frodsham, Stability and Seaworthiness, 430 Hospitals, Hot Water Supply for, H. G. Cathcart, 714 Hydraulic Pumps—see Pumps, Clyde Dock Equipment Hydro-electric Power Station, Chancy-Pougny, 321, 328 Hydro-electric Scheme, High Head, in Ceylon, 619 Hydro-electric Scheme, Mangahao, 266, 270 Hydro-electric Schemes in Alsace, 211 I INCREASING Production, 715, 717 Indian Monsoons and Floods in 1924, Reginald Ryves, 290 Industrial Standardisation, C. le Maistre, 129 Industries, Ancient and Modern, 50 Influence of Pulsations on Combustion, J.
Deschamps, 152
Inglis, Professor C. E., Stresses on Rectangular Plates, 429 Institutes and Institutions—see Associations INSTRUMENTS, SCIENTIFIC : PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS : Cambridge Instrument Company, Photoelectric Cell, High-tension Disc Batteries, Frequency Meter, Record-measuring Machine, Recording Accelerometer, Thread Recorder, Dodder Machine, 52, 53 Crompton and Co., Ltd., Crompton- Robertson Combination Bridge and Potentiometer, 54 Elliott Brothers, Direct Reading Potentiometer, Universal Testing Set, 54 Evershed and Vignoles, Megger and Bridge Megger Testing Sets, “Meg ” Insulation Tester, “ Ductor ” Low-resistance Testing Sets, Workshops’ Ohmeters, Traction Recorder, “ Dionic ” Water Tester, 53 Igranic Electric Company, Ltd., Variometers, “ B,” “BL” and “ F ” Types, Variable Grid Leak, High-resistance Potentiometer, Unitune Fixed Coupler, 53 Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, New Wireless Apparatus, Microphone, Amplifier, Loud Speaker and 50-Watt Transmitter, 54 Mullard Radio Valve Company, Thermionic Valves, High-frequency and Low- frequency, Transmitting Valves, 53, 54 Negretti and Zambra, Assmann Recording Psychrometer, Density Recorder, Air Temperature and Oil Temperature Recorders for Aircraft, Liquid Tank Gauge, Hydrograph, Hygrometers, Thermometers, Recorders, &c., 54 Siemens Brothers, Cable Temperature Indicator, 53 Sullivan, H. W., Ltd., Multivibrator Wave Meter, 54 INTERNAL Combustion Engines—see Engines Internal Combustion Turbines—see Turbines Internal Stresses, 548 International Conference on Extra-high Tension Electric Systems, 273 International Railway Conference—see Railways International Tables, 83 IRON AND STEEL .
Chemistry of Steel Making, 648
Corrosion-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 431 Economics of the Heavy Iron and Steel Industry, Sir Frederick Mills, 524 ; (Letter), 595 “ Flakes ” or “ Hair Cracks ” in Chromium Steel, A. Hultgren, 539 Foundry, Iron, at Darnall Works, Sheffield, Davy Brothers, Ltd., 374, 382
Gas Furnaces, Stanley A. Sears, 352 Gases and Formation of Blow-holes, 540
German Capital for Steel-making in South Africa, 57 ; (Letter), 114 Grain and the Fatigue Strength of Steel, 540 Hematite Iron Ore Standard, 170 Iron and Steel Institute—for other Papers read, see Associations
Manganese Ore Industry of Russia, 280
Papers and Discussions, 655
Progress in British Rolling Mill Practice.
T. W. Hand, 539
Staybrite Silver Steel, Thos. Firth and Sons Ltd., 240 Steel Hardening and Carburising Plant at a Petrol Motor Works, August’s Muffle Fur naces, Ltd., 387 Steels, Standard, for Laminated Springs, 380 Strain Detection in Mild Steels, T. H. Turner and J. D. Jevons, 540
Wrought Iron or Steel, 656
IRRIGATION, The Bon Accord, Transvaal, 155 Irrigation Works in Australia, 462, 465 Italy, Upper Reno Power Project, 608
J JACKHAMMERS, What They Save, 109 Jackson, R., on Pulverised Coal, 97 Jeans, J. H., on Electric Forces and Quanta, Kelvin Lecture, 181 Jevons, J. D., Strain Detection in Mild Steel by Special Etching, 540 L LABORATORY—see Electrical Matters La Chute des Sept-Lacs, 582 Lathes—see Machine Tools Launches and Trial Trips, 85, 119, 143, 201, 283, 311, 396, 419, 473, 557, 611, 640, 696, 719 LEADERS :
1924—A Retrospect, .17 Analogies, 271 Apprenticeship, 601 Australian Naval Defence, 383 Automatic Telephones, 302 Comptroller of Patents, 192 Corrosion Again, 217 Crisis in the Engineering Industries, 409 Dr. Russell’s Address, 79 Doors of Railway Trains, 712 Electric Railway Standardisation, 712 Electrical Industry, The, 356 Electricity in Mines, 244 Exchange Trials of Locomotives, 627 Fatigue and Shock, 136 Fifty Per Cent. Cut-off Locomotives, 575 Fuels and the Future, 80 Future of the Marine Steam Engine, 384
Gas Engineers and the Electrical Subsidy, 683 Government Inspection of New Railways,
Heaviside Layer, 192
Helium and Caisson Disease, 330 High-pressure Cables, 108 Industries—Ancient and Modern, 50 Insulation, 520
Internal Combustion Turbine, 684 Internal Stresses, 548 International Railway Congress, 683 Locomotive Engineers, 244 Locomotive Trials, 492 Locomotive Valve Travel, 711 London County Council Tramways, 576 Marine Oil Engine Progress, 191 Minor Failures, 463 Naval Shipbuilding Requirements, 547 Navy Estimates, 329 New Battleships, 49 Notable Railway Appointment. 519 Oil Engine Difficulties, 491 Papers and Discussions, 655 Philosophy of Cutting, 163 Railway Year, 410 Roller Bearings for Heavy Loads, 243
Sale of Coke by Analysis, 464 Shannon Power Scheme, 575 Some Aspects of Education, 437 Speed and .Weight, 271
State of British Shipbuilding, 301 Status of Engineers, 107 Sycamore and Dolius Trials, 355 Telephones, 164 Time Element, 438 Unemployment Percentages, 601 Use of Electricity, 463 Vibration, 628 Wireless Bill, The New, 217 Work, Chip and Tool, 135 Wrought Iron or Steel, 656
LEAFIELD—see Electrical Matters Le Mesurier, L. J., on the Conversion of the ss.
Bintang, 380
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England, North of, 28, 61, 88, 118, 145, 172, 200, 226, 252, 282, 310, 339, 364, 392, 418, 446, 472, 500, 528, 556, 584, 610, 636, 664, 692, 720 Lancashire, 27, 59, 87, 117, 143, 171, 199, 225, 251, 281, 309, 337, 363, 391, 417, 445, 471, 499, 527, 555, 583, 609, 635, 663, 692, 719 Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 59, 87, 117, 143, 17], 199, 225, 251, 281, 309, 337, 363, 391, 393, 417, 445, 471, 499, 527, 555, 583, 609, 635, 663, 691, 719 Scotland, 29, 61, 89, 119, 145, 173, 201, 227, 253, 283, 311, 339, 365, 392, 419, 446, 472, 501, 529, 556, 584, 611, 637, 665, 693, 721 Sheffield, 28, 60, 88, 118, 144, 172, 200, 226, 252, 282, 310, 338, 364, 392, 418, 446, 472, 500, 528, 556, 584, 610, 636, 664, 692, 720 Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29, 61, 89, 119, 145, 173, 201, 227, 263, 283, 311, 339, 365, 393, 419, 447, 472, 501, 529, 557, 584, 611,637, 665, 693,721 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :
Airship Development, Nauticus, 485 British Steam Locomotive from 1825 to 1924,
E. L. Ahrons, 155, 278 ; Wm. Hy. Robson, 704—see also Locomotive Canal Transport Facilities, Carpe Diem, 595 Cannel Coal, H. F. R., 468
Chittaprat, The, F. Achard, 240
Closure of Finsbury Technical College, A. G.
Church, 188
Coal-burning Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 516 Cold Flow of Metals, Wm. F. Off ord, 406 Contra-propeller, L. H. G. Dines, 468 Co, Recorders, A. Dott, 516 ; J. J. Lassen, 541 Cutting Tool Research, T. E. Stanton, 155 Dilatometers, W. T. Griffiths, 468 Dolius and Sycamore, W. F. Ryan, 485 Economics of Industries, L. H. G. Dines, 595 Efficiency of Air Compressors, Interested, 434 ; Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., 468 Exchange Locomotive Tests, C. R. K., 651, 689 ; E. Wyett, 652 ; H. R. Sutton, 652 ;
F. H. Alexander, 688 ; Wm. Hy. Robson,
688 ; Spectator, 689 ; Albert V. Goodyear,
689 ; Rugby, 689
Factory Engineers’ Salaries, Industrial Engineer, M.I. Meeh. E., 55
Fibre in Metals, N. Belaiew, 55
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued) : Future of the Marine Engine, Charles R. King, 468
Gooch’s Coeur de Lion, H. V. Pegg, 468
Hair Cracks in Glazed Bricks and Glazed Tiles, W. P. Digby, 632- High-pressure Cables, A. M. Taylor, Major, 140 History of Business, H. Spencer Stowell, 76 Hydraulic Boiler Tests, Boilermakers, 595 Individualism in Locomotive Design, Cecil
G. Howsin, 55 ; J. G. H. Warren, 114
Iron Ore Resources of South .Africa, P. A. Delfos, 114
Lecture Courses at Grenoble, T. Rich, 689
Locomotive Development, E. Cecil Poultney, 240—see also British Main Line Railway Electrification, j. Sayers, 240 ; G. Parker Smith, 295 ; Dr. K. Sachs, Dr. A. C. Couwenhoven, 595 Mathematics and Engineers, 326 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, John Wilkie, 516
Monel Metal, Robert J. McKay, 278
Most Powerful British Locomotive, Chas. W. Dauncey, 516 Outside v. Inside Cylinders, Arthur Lee, 240 Papers at the Iron and Steel Institute, A Member, 652
Piston Ring Friction, S. J. Ellis, 240
Robert Stephenson, J. G. H. Warren, 76 Roller Bearings for Heavy Loads, C. E.
Davies, 295 ; J. B. Dahlerus, 434
Self-contained Pulverising Units, Leonard Harvey, 704
Ship’s Motor Lifeboat, A. Joe White, 188 Steam Wagon Transport, Auriga, 704 Street Explosions, W. Love, 406 Stresses in Axles, John Younger, 278 Submarine Railway Tubes, Arthur Oates, 295 Telephones, H. E. Powell-Jones, 188 ;
J. E. H., 632 ; A. H. Hall, 188 ; A. F. Schove, 278 Theory of Road Construction, Reginald Ryves, 468
Trevithick, Francis H., The Late, 632 Trials of the Sycamore, S. P. Christie, 55
Use of Electricity, British Shipbuilder, 485 Washing Out Locomotive Boilers, Interested, 188 Waste Heat, W. Gregson, 114
Watt and Woolf, W. A. Benton, 652
Whitworth Scholarships, A. D. Ottewell, 114 Workshop Efficiency, Method of Increasing,
F. H. Towler, 569
LIBRARIES, Commercial, Charles Nowell, 50 LITERATURE : Reviews :
Aeronautics in Great Britain, History of.
J. E. Hodgson, 51, 272
Allen’s Commercial Organic Analysis, Samuel S. Sadtler and Others, 603 Bleaching, A History of, S. H. Higgins, 165 Corrosion of Metals, Ulick R. Evans, 80 Die Kondensation bei Dampfkraftmaschinen,
K. Hoefer, 219, 303
Economics of Iron and Steel, H. J. Skelton, 81 Electrical Design of Overhead Power Transmission Lines, W. T. Taylor and R. E. Neale, 80 Electrical Measuring Instruments, Drysdale and Jolley, 51
Electrical Technology, H. Cotton, 219
Glass Technology, Text-book of, F. W. Hodkin and A. Cousen. 165, 331 History of the Portland Cement Industry in the United States, R. W. Lesley, 165, 272 History of the Telephone in the United Kingdom, F. G. C. Baldwin, 273, 411 Hull Down: Reminiscences of Windjammers, Troops and Travellers, Sir Bertram Hayes, 493 Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution, Thomas S. Ashton, 576 J.P. Transformer Book, S. Austen Stigant and Morgan Lacey, 218 Locomotive Running Shed Management, W. Paterson, 273, 464 Low-temperature Distillation, S. H. North and J. B. Garbe, 493, 549 Mechanics of Textile Machinery, Wm. A. Hanton, 81 Motor Car and Coach Painting, 51 Preservation of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Other Famous Buildings, William Harvey, 603 Principles of Applied Electro-chemistry, A J. Allmand and H. J. T. Ellingham, 183 Purchasing: Its Economic Aspects and Proper Methods, H. B. Twyford, 493 Radio : Beam and Broadcast, A. H. Morse, 165, 303 Railway Engineering, Notes and Data on, Frank Reeves, 273, 464 Regulation of Rivers Without Embankments, F. A. Leete, 165, 218 Reinforced Concrete Bridges, W. L. Scott, 411, 438 Screw Propellers, Vol. I. Text and Vol. II.
Atlas, Admiral Charles W. Dyson, 493, 602
Sewage Disposal in India and the East, G. Bransby Williams, 331, 385 Ships of the Royal Navy, Oscar Parkes, 629, 685 Theory and Design of Structures, E. S. Andrews, 273, 465 World Power Conference, The First, Transactions, 493 Short Notices : Ball and Roller Bearings, A. W. Macaulay, 81 Bituminous Substances, P. E. Spielmann, 165 Chemical Colouring of Metals, S. Field and
S. R. Bonney, 273
Concrete-making Machinery, W. Noble Twelvetrees, 81, 219 Construction of Wells and Bore-holes for Water Supply, J. E. Dumbleton, 411, 438 Cost of Power Production by Internal Combustion Engines, G. A. Burls, 577 Cranes and Hoists, Hermann Wilda, 51, 165 Das Kalkbrennen, Berthold Block, 577 Electric Circuits and Installation Diagrams,
W. S. Ibbetson, 51, 165
Electrical Equipment of Buildings, Regulations for, 81 Electro-plating, Polishing, &c., Handbook on, 577, 657 LITERATURE (continued) : Books Received (continued): Department of Overseas Trade, Industrial and Economic Situation in Chile, September, 1924, W. F. Vaughan Scott, 385 Design of Marine Diesel Engines, A. Buchanan, 331 Design of Railway Location, C. C. Williams, 629 Detection of Small Quantities of Petroleum Vapour, &c., G. W. Jones and W. P. Yant, 357
Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 81
Diesel and Oil Engineering Handbook, Land and Marine, Julius Rosbloom, 493 Die Vereinfachte Berechnung Beugsamer Flatten, Dr. Ing. H. Marcus. 629 Die Wirkung Wagerechter Krafte bei Eiser- nen Briicken, 629 Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1925, C. W. Biggar, 165 Directory of Shipowners, Shipbuilders and Marine Engineers, 1925, 165
Distillation Principles, C. Elliott, 219 Dust Hazard in Industry, W. E. Gibbs, 219
Economic, Financial and Commercial Conditions in the Dominican Republic, Darrell Wilson, 303 Einfluss der Fliehkrafte auf Eisenbriicken, Dr.-Ing. O. Kommerell und Bruno Schulz, 385
Electric Welding, L. B. Wilson, 577
Electrical Trades’ Directory and Handbook, 273 Electrician, The, Annual Tables of Electricity Undertakings, 1925, 577 Electricity for Everybody, R. Borlase Matthews, 577 Electricity and the Structure of Matter, L. Southerns, 629 Elements of Railway Economics, Sir W. M. Acworth and W. T. Stephenson, 136 Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress “ Proceedings,” 629 Empire Municipal Directory and Year-book, 1925-1926, 577 Engineering Applications of Mathematics, W. C. Bickley, 577
Engineering Index, 1924, 657
Engineering Mathematics, R. W. M. Gibbs, 219
Ether and Reality, Sir Oliver Lodge, 577 Experiments in the Use of Back Pressure on
Oil Wells, T. E. Swigart and C. R. Bopp, 385
Fire Tests with Glass, &c., 629 Fiume Tevere—Idrometro di Ripetta, 303
Flame Safety Lamps, J. W. Paul and Others, 81 Foundry Practice for Draughtsmen, M. Warnock, 165 Grundlagen des Ingenieurholzbaus, Dr.-Ing.
Hugo Seitz, 357 Health and Environment, L. Hill and A. Campbell, 714 Highway Engineer’s Year-book, 1925, 629 House Heating, Margaret Fishenden, 549
Hydraulics and its Applications, A. H. Gibson, 603
Hydro mechanik, M. Sam ter, 219 Ice and Cold Storage Trades’ Directory, 51
Illustrated Technical Dictionaries, Vol. XV., Spinning, Alfred Schlomann, 385 Institution of Civil Engineers, “ Proceedings,” 549
Instructions for Fitting Geysers, 165
Internal Combustion Locomotive, J. W. Hobson, 714 Introduction to Fluid Motion, W. N. Bond, 629 Involute and Barrel Types of Stator Winding for A.C. Electric Generators, R. Smallwood, 219 Iron Oxides, Activity of, in Removing Hydrogen Sulphide from City Gas, W. A. Dunk- ley and R. D. Leitch, 385 Jahrbuch der Drahtlosen Telegraphie und Telephonie, 303 Journal of the Institute of Metals, Vol.
XXXII., 165
Journal of Iron and Steel Institute, 1924, No. IL, Vol. CX., 136 Journal, Royal Agricultural Society of England, 689 Junior Technical Electricity, R. W. Hutchinson, 165 Kelly’s Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers, &c., 577 Kent’s Mechanical Engineer’s Year Book, 629 La Lumidre Intensive Phares et Projectures,
E. Marcotte, 549
La Relativite D6gag6e d’Hypothdses M6ta- physiques, H. Varcollier, 493 La Thdorie de la Relativite, A Einstein, 51,81 Land and Engineering Surveying, T. Baker, 549 ^Electrification Industrielle et Rural de la France, E. Pacoret, 577 Legante Pozzolanico, Di un Nuovo Tipo di,
F. Ferrari, 385
L’Enseignement Technique — Bulletin Mensuel du MusSe Professionel de lEtat a Morlanwelz-Mariemont, 689 L’errore di Situazione dei Punti determinati con procedimenti aerofotogram metrici, &c., G. Cassinis, 385
Les Lignites, E. Marcotte, 81
Les Notions Fondamentales d'Elernent Chimique et d’Atome, G. Urbain, 219 Livellazione Geometrica di Precisione della cittk di Viareggio, G. di Ricco, 385 Locomotive Repair Shops in England, Control Systems for Scheduling Operations, 629 London Fire Brigade, 493 Machine Design, Elements of, S. J. Berard and E. O. Waters, 603 Manchester Royal Exchange Directory, 1925, 577 Marine Engineering Repairs, Engineer- Captain F. J. Drover, R.N., 714 Mechanical Appliances, Mechanical Movements and Novelties of Construction,
G. D. Hiscox, 689
Mechanical Design of Overhead Electrical Transmission Lines, E. T. Painton, 331 Mechanical Investigations of Leonardo da Vinci, Ivor B. Hart, 411 Mechanical Mixing Machinery, L. Carpenter, 219 LITERATURE (continued) : Books Received (continued) : Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book, 1925, 165
Mechanical World Year Book, 1925, 81
Mechanics, Elements of, F. S. Carey and J.
Proudman, 577
Metallurgy of Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys, Robert J. Anderson, 577 Metallurgy for Engineers, A Course of, F. C. Thompson, 714 Metallurgy and its Influence on Modern Progress, Sir R. A. Hadfield, 165
Metalworkers’ Practical Calculator, J.
Matheson, 493
Metalworkers’ Practical Calendar, J. Matheson, 438
Microstructure of a Coal Seam, J. Lomax, 657
Mining Cases, Report on, P. G. Bamber, 577
Mining, Modern Practice in, Vol. oal,
Sir R. A. S. Redmayne, 549
Misure balistiche di Valori massimi, &c., and Variazioni di temperatura e di emissione elettronica di un filamento, &c., M. Paris, 385
Modern Soap and Detergent Industry, Vol.
II., Geoffrey Martin, 411
Molybdenum, Cerium and Related Alloy Steels, H. W. Gillett and E. L. Mack, 493 Motor Ship Reference Book for 1925, 81 National Screw Thread Commission, Report, 577 Neue Tabellen fur Exzentrisch Gedruckte Eisenbetonquerschnitte, Dr.-Ing. W. Kunze, 577 Nigeria, Railway System of, Report, F. D. Hammond, 493 Notes on Preparing a Tender, R. I. Money, 577 Papermakers of the United Kingdom, 1925, Directory of, 493 People’s Year Book, 1925, 81 Physical Chemistry of Igneous Rock Formation, 714 Port Administration and Operation, Brys- son Cunningham, 577
Port of Hull Annual, 1925, H. E. C. Newham ;
Port of Hull Monthly Journal, 549
Powell’s Electric Supply Share Handbook,
H. H. C. Blake, 136
Power Plant Machinery, W. H. James and
M. W. Dole, 629
Power Station Operation, Vol. I., 714 Practical D.C. Armature Winding, L. Wolli- son, 629 Practical Engineer Electrical Pocket Book and Diary, 1925, Conrad Arnold, 81 Practical Engineer Mechanical Pocket Book and Diary, 1925, Ernest G. Beck, 81 Practical Humidity Tables, 549 Practical Water-power Engineering, W. T.
Taylor, 629
Punjab Irrigation Branch Paper, No. 20, on Water-logging of the Soil &c., Supplements to, 136
Purification of Copper Sulphate Solutions,
G. S. Tilley and O. C. Ralston, 357
Quantities of Materials for Concrete Duff, Abrams and Stanton Walker, 689 Rahmen: Berechnung von Rahmen aus Eisen und Eisenbeton, &c., Dr.-Ing. W. Gehler, 689
Railway Year Book for 1925, 657
Refrigeration in the Chemical Industry, G. W.
Daniels, 657
Relativity and Common Sense, F. M. Denton, 165 Report on the Financial, Commercial and Economic Conditions of the Argentine Republic, H. O. Chalkley, 81 Report on the Financial, Commercial and Economic Conditions of the Republic of Panama and Canal Zone, R. Keith Jopson, 81
Republic of Hayti, J. E. M. Carvell, 303
Resistance of Express Trains, C. F. Dendy- Marshall, 603 Rilevamento Topografico dagli Aerci, Lo Stato Attnale dei Metodi di, G. Cassinis, 385 Size and Character of Grains of Non-Metallic Mineral Fillers, W. M. Weigel, 81 Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France, Annuaire de 1925, 577 Society of Chemical Industry, Annual Reports, 1924, 493 South American Handbook, 1925, 81 Steam Boilers : Their Defects, &c., R. D.
Munro and G. Ness, 714
Steam Condensing Plant in Theory and Practice, J. Sim, 603 Steam Power Plant Engineering, G. F. Gebhardt, 714
Steel, J. Rouelle, 577
Stevens’ Elements of Mercantile Law, H.
Jacobs, 273
Strength of Materials, E. S. Andrews, 689
Strength of Rotating Discs, R. Gardner, 165
Subject Index to Periodicals, 1921, Section K,
Science and Technology, 357
Sul Cosiddetto Coefliciente di Sicurezza degli Aeroplani, E. Pistolesi, 411 Sur L’Electrodynamique des Corps en Mouvement, A. Einstein, 51 Sweden Year Book, 1925, 549 Technical Mechanics : Statics, Kinematics and Kinetics, E. R. Maurer and R. J. Roark, 603
Technology of Cotton Machinery, Part I.,
A. A. Mercier, 657
Theorie und Konstanten Bestimmung des Hydrometrischen Flugels, Dr.-Ing. L. A. Ott, 689 Uber Kostenberechnung im Tiefbau, Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Eckert, 629 Uber Wirthschaftlichen Brennstoffverbrauch im Eisenbahnbetriebe, 657 Untersuchungen uber die Gas und Ol- Gleichdruckturbine, Wilh. Gentsch, 165 Use of Copper and Brass for Domestic Water Services, 714 Verzeichnis der Dr.-Ing.-Dissertationen, W.
B. Niemann, 219
Wellington (N.Z.) Harbour Board Accounts, Reports, &c., 689 Weltwirthschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1925, 629 Willis’ Workmen’s Compensation Acts, W. Addington Willis, 411 Wind und Warme bei der Berechnung holier Schornsteine aus Eisenbeton, Dr. -Ing. Carl
[ Dbring, 629
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, W. Greenwood, 629
Wireless Working Hints for Beginners, A. Williams, 81
LITTLETON—Queen Mary—Reservoir and Works, 672, 682, 705, 710 (Two-page Supplement, June \§th, 1925)
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
Lobley, A. G., and C. L. Betts, Gases and Formation of Blow-holes, 540
Lock Nut, A New, Herbert Terry and Sons, 544
Locomotive-building Machines—see Machine Tools
Locomotives, Electric—see Railway Locomotives
Lodge, Sir Oliver, Matter and Radiation, 139
London County Council Tramways, 576
London Section of the British Industries Fair. 55
Low Temperature—see Coal
M
MACHINE TOOLS:
CUTTING TOOLS RESEARCH REPORTS :
126, 163, 318 ; (Letters), 155
Action of Cutting Tools, Professor E. G. Coker, 318 Flow and Rupture during Cutting, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr. A. C. Sturney, 126 Forces on a Cutting Tool, Dr. T. E. Stanton and Mr. J. H. Hyde, 126 Lathe Tools and Fine Cuts, Dempster Smith and Arthur Leigh, 319, 389 Locomotive Wheel Quartering Machine, Cunliffe and Croom, Ltd., 250 Plano-milling Machine for Profile Work, Wm.
Muir and Co., Ltd., 308
Pneumatic Drill, E. M. Ling Engineering Company, Ltd., 442 Presses, Inclinable, with Friction Feed and with Double Roll Feed, Friction-driven Screw Press, Bradley and Turton, Ltd., 239, 240 Re-trueing Railway Carriage Wheels and Tires, Machine for, Hulse and Co., Ltd., 414 Rotary Shears, Bradley and Turton, Ltd., 239 Screw-cutting Lathe, Exe Engineering Company, Ltd., 239 Switchgear, Machine Tool, Electrical Apparatus Company, 362 MACHINERY Trade in Germany, 718 Makhonine Motor Fuel Process, 211 Mangahao Hydro-electric Scheme, 266, 270 Manganese—see Iron Marine Engines—see Engines Marine Propulsion—see Ships Ma'ssip Steam Trap, E. Lassen and Co., 608 Matter and Radiation, Sir Oliver Lodge, 139 Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations, H. A.
Thomas, 102
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Joule’s First Measurements, W. W. Haldane Gee, 426 ; (Letter), 516 Mechanical Shovel—see Shovel Mellanby, Professor A. L., on Supersaturation, 543 Metals, Motion of Electricity in, Professor H.
A. Lorentz, 512
Metropolitan Asylums—see Motor Transport Milestones in the Development of the Prime
Mover Locomotive, Loughnan Pendred, 223 Milling—see Machine Tools
Mills, Sir Frederick, Economics of the Heavy
Iron and Steel Industry, 524 ; (Letter), 595 Mine, South African, All-sliming Plant at, 595 Mineral Production of New South Wales, 466 Mineral Statistics, Our, 108
Miniature Radial Drilling Machine, J. Wightman, 497 Minor Failures, 463 Mitchell, George, Water Supply of the City of Aberdeen, 336 Moore, G. E., Stroboscopic Determination of Speeds and Frequencies, 209 Morris, J., Vibration in Engine Test Gear, 484 Mortising, Boring and Gaining Machine, John
Pickles and Son, Ltd., 359
Motor Fire-engine, Light, Gwynnes Engineering Company, Ltd., 554 Motor Transport in a Public Medical Service, 208, 216 Motor Vehicles, Railway—see Railways Motor Workshop Wagon, Albion Motor.Car Company, Ltd., 496 Motors, Electric—see Electrical Matters Museum, Deutsches, Munich, 644 N NEW South Wales, Mineral Production of, 466 New Zealand, Road Construction in, 552, 553 Niagara Cantilever Bridge, Demolishing, 608 Niagara, New Bridge Over, 490, 492 Nowell, Charles, Commercial Libraries, 50 o OBERHASLI Hydro-electric Project, 554 OBITUARY :
Acworth, Sir William Mitchell, 410 Austin, Samuel Peter, 385 Baldwin, Arthur Hugh, 602 Baxter, George Handyside, 83 Billington, John Robert, 360 Clark, William, 602 Cleeves, Frederick, 83 Garstin, Sir William E. (Portrait), 82 Goodwyn, Allen, 138 Heaviside, Oliver, 183 Hellins, Henry Herbert, 83 Holden, James, 656 Jacob, Arthur, 411 Johns, W. H., 109 Jones, Henry Edward, 384 Lees, William, 83 Lord Claud Hamilton, 138
OBITUARY (continued):
Molesworth, Sir Guilford Lindsey (Portrait), 137
Morison, D. B. (Portrait), 525 Reynolds, T. J., 385 Sampson, John, 569 Simpson, Charles Liddell, 331 Sir D. Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 456 Terry, Hubert L., 714 Tyzack, Walter, 138 Wallwork, Roughsedge, 83 Wells, Alfred Ernest, 549 White, Robert, 360 Wordingham, Charles Henry (Portrait), 165
OIL-DRIVEN Pumps—see Pumps Oil Engines—see Engines Oil Separator, Industrial Waste Eliminators, 239, 240 Ongar—see Wireless p PATCHELL, W. II., Super Power Stations in America, 264 PATENT SPECIFICATIONS : British :
Aeronautics, 63 Batteries and Accumulators, 255, 695 Building, 396
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 31, 667, 695 Cranes and Conveyors, 64, 176, 203, 255, 422, 640
Crushing and Grinding, 476, 560
Dynamos and Motors, 121, 175, 285, 313, 367,
475, 503, 559, 587, 639, 667
Electrical Appliances, 421, 613, 667
Engines, Internal Combustion, 63, 147, 229, 313, 341, 367, 421, 475, 503, 587, 639, 695, 723
Engines, Steam, 341 Furnaces, 64, 121, 229, 614 Gas Producers, 229, 342
Lighting and Heating, 32, 148, 203, 476, 532, 588 Locomotives, 560, 587, 614, 668 Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 31, 92, 148, 230, 313, 342, 368, 395, 422, 588, 614, 640, 668 Measuring and Testing Instruments, 64, 92, 147, 203, 341, 422, 449, 531, 559, 640, 667, 696, 723 Mining Machinery, 31, 475, 503, 723 Miscellaneous, 32, 122, 148, 176, 204, 230, 256, 285, 314, 368, 396, 450, 504, 532, 560, 588, 640, 668, 696, 724 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 314, 367, 450, 504, 588, 724 Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 285, 587 Ships and Boats, 121, 395, 476, 531, 696 Steam Generators, 91, 121, 175, 313, 449, 531, 613 Switchgear, 91, 285, 313, 395, 503, 559, 613, 639 Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 63, 91, 121, 175, 203, 229, 255, 341, 367, 395, 421, 449,
476, 559, 587, 613, 695, 723
Tramways and Railways, 32, 122, 147, 255, 723 Transformers and Converters, 63, 695 Transmission of Power, 31, 91, 121, 175, 203, 255, 285, 395, 449, 531, 614, 640, 667, 696, 723
Turbine Machinery, 147, 229, 475 Welding, 504, 588, 668
PATENTS, United States, 714 Pendred, Loughnan, Milestones in the Development of the Prime Mover Locomotive, 223 Pensabene-Perez, N., Notes on Variable-speed Alternating-current Motors, 624 Personal and Business Announcements, 27, 86, 122, 145, 169, 201, 230, 253, 286, 309, 342, 365, 393, 422, 447, 473, 501, 532, 560, 588, 614, 637, 668, 696, 724 - Petrol Power Plant, Automatic, D. Adamson and Co., Ltd., 582 Philosophy of Cutting, 163 Pipe Nipple, Double Expanded, J. Stone and Co., Ltd., 362 ; (Letter), 406 Pipe, Wood Stave, 400 Pipes, Large Diameter, Centrifugal Casting of, Hurst Ball System, 416 Pistons—see Friction Pitting Gauge, V. Pickles and G. Hall, 554 Platinum Boom in South Africa, 443 Pneumatic Equipment—see Dock Pollock, Walter, Increasing the Efficiency of the Screw Propeller, 402, 444 Ports of America and Europe as Seen by an, Australian, 336 Post Office Engineering Work, 184 Poultney, E. C., on Fifty Per Cent. Cut-off Locomotives, Pennsylvania Railroad Systefti, Part I., 509, 550, 575 Power Plant Records, R. H. Parsons, 140 Power Scheme, The Shannon, Sir John Purser Griffith, 132, 575 Preheaters, Howden-Lj ungstrom Preheaters.
Ltd., 240
Presses—see Machine Tools Problems of Professional Status, 579 Production, Increasing, 715, 717 Pulsations, Influence of, on Combustion, J.
Deschamps, 152
PUMPS : Centrifugal Pumping Set, Small, J. W. Brooke and Co., Ltd., 280 Clyde, New Dock Equipment, Pumping Arrangements for Prince’s Dock and Graving Docks, 233, 242, 274, 304 Combined Electric Motor and Pump, Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt, Ltd., 662 Littleton, Pumping Station, &c., 672, 682, 705, 710 (Two-page Supplement, June \6th, 1925) Oil-driven Pumping Plant at Chipstead, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 626, 632
Pumping Station in the Fen District, 76 Simla Water Supply, Pumping Station and
Plant, 162, 167 (Two-page Supplement, February 6th, 1925) PUNJAB Hydro-electric Scheme, 442 Pyrometry—see Engines
Q
QUICKSAND ? What is, 633
R
RADIUM from a Cornish Mine, 571
Radium Industry, Major C. E. S. Phillips, 265
RAILWAY AND RAILWAY MATTERS :
See also Annual Articles
General: Automatic Signalling on the Harrow and Rickmansworth Joint Line, 466
Doors of Railway Trains, 712 Economies in Railway Working, 649 Electric Railway Standardisation, 712
Government Inspection of New Railways, 548 International Railway Congress, 628, 646, 675, 683, 712 ; (Note), 697 Cost of Traction : Fuel and its Combustion, 647 Engine Sheds, 676 High-speed Electric Locomotives, 675 Level Crossings, 646 Rails and Rail Joints, 646 Shunting Yards, 676 ' Suburban Services, 677
Track, 628
Traffic Control, 677
Section II., Work : Locomotives and Rolling Stock Questions, 712 Main-line Railway Electrification, Sir Philip Dawson and Professor S. Parker Smith, 98, 156, 620, 650 ; (Letters), 240, 295 Motor Coach with Oil Transmission Gear, Swiss Federal Railways, 308
Notable Railway Appointment, 519 Railway Material for Egypt, 55 Railway Results in 1924, 406, 410
Railway Steam Car for New Zealand, Clayton Wagons, Ltd., 570 Retrueing Railway Carriage Wheels—see Machine Tools Special Railway Saloon for South Africa, 467 Submarine Tubular Railway, Proposed, 245 ;
(Letter), 295
Switchback Railway at the Paris Exhibition, Sir William Arrol and Co. (Swansea), Ltd., 525 British, Colonial and Indian :
Federated Malay States Railways, 83
Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland), New Viaduct at Annaghkilly, 139
Indian Railways in 1923—24, 352 New Zealand Railways, Report on, 235
Southern Railway, New Single-phase Equipment, General Electric Company, 486 Foreign Railways : Germany, Main-line Electrification, 620, 650 Scandinavia, Main-line Electrification, 98, 156 Spanish Railways, Classification of, 469 Swiss Railway Electrification, E. A. Eborall, 485
Virginian Railway, Electrification, 606
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES : General:
Diesel Locomotive Design in Germany, 578
Fifty per Cent. Cut-off Locomotives, Pennsylvania Railroad System, E. C. Poultney, Part I., 509, 550, 575 Garratt Locomotives for South African Railways, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 498 Geared Shunting Locomotive, Sentinel Wagon Works, 432, 433, 436 General Organisation of Running Sheds, Running Shed Manager, 260 Locomotive Engineers, 244
Locomotive Valve Travel, 711
Milestones in the Development of the Prime Mover Locomotive, Loughnan Pendred, 223 Motor Generator Locomotives, 22,000-Volt, 334 Narrow-gauge Locomotive for Assam, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Ltd., 168 Road Tests of a Diesel-electric Locomotive, Professor G. Lomonossoff, 249 Shipping Locomotives, 86 British, Colonial and Indian : BRITISH STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE FROM 1825-1924, E. L. Ahrons, 2, 34, 66, 94, 124, 150, 178, 206, 232, 258, 288, 316, 344, 370, 398, 424, 452, 478, 506, 534, 562, 590, 616, 642, 670, 698; (Letters), 155, 240, 278, 468, 516, 704
Period 1825-1827, 2
Period 1828-1831, 34
Period 1830-1837, 66, 94
Period 1837-1841, 124, 150
Period 1841-1848, 178, 206
Locomotive Performance to 1845, 232
Period 1846-1849, 258, 288
Period 1849-1855, 316, 344, 370, 398
Period 1855-1859, 424, 452
Period 1860-1865, 534, 562, 590
Period 1866-1869, 616, 642
Period 1870-1875, 670, 698
Locomotive Performances, Speeds, and Coke Consumption, 1845-1859, 478 Coal Burning in Locomotives, 479 Locomotives Built by British Firms for Abroad (including those for Colonial and Indian Railways), 506
Addenda, 372 *
Addendum, Dewrance’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1841-5, 507
Details, 453, 454, 642
Miscellaneous Details of Construction 1846-1855, 399 For Locomotives Illustrated—see Illustrated Index, Subjects
Exchange Trials—see Locomotive Trials
Locomotive Trials, 492, 627 ; (Erratum), 519 ; (Letters), 516, 651, 652, 688 London and North-Eastern Railway New Locomotives, Mikado (2-8-2), Mr. H. N. Gresley’s Design, 715, 717 ; Garratt Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 715, 716 RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES (continued)-. British, Colonial and Indian {continued):
Lytham Derailment, 457
Stockton and Darlington Railway Locomotive, The Magnet, 440 Foreign : Electric Locomotives for Main Lines, Scandinavia, 156 ' Electric Locomotives for the Norte Railway of Spain, 78, 84
French Locomotive Performances, J. T.
Burton Alexander, 153
German Federal Railways, Electric Locomotives, 620, 623, 650, 651 Italian Double-ended Diesel-electric Locomotive, 358 Italian Locomotives at the Grenoble Exhibition, 690 Italian Westinghouse Company’s Electric Locomotive, New Type of Link Work on, 690 Loetschberg Railway Large Single-phase Locomotives, 128 Virginian Railway, Triple Electric Locomotive for, 606 REGULATORS—see Automatic Reservoirs—see Water Supply Rhine to Rhone Canal, Improvement of the, 291 Ribble Navigation, 169 Road Bridges, Design of, 335 Road Construction in New Zealand, 552, 553 Road Sweeper, Sprinkler, and Dust' Collector, Combined, Karrier Motors, Ltd., 441 ; (Correction), 504 Roads in Devonshire, Andrew Warren, 104 Roads, Wood-paved, Effect of Camber on, James Garvie, 570 Roadless Half-track Vehicle, Vulcan Motor and
Engineering Company, Limited, 572, 574
Roller Bearings—see Anti-friction Ropeways, Steep, in South Wales, R. White and
Sons, 514 {Two-page Supplement, May Sth, 1925)
Rosenhain, Dr. W., Atomic Structure of Metals and Alloys, 293 Rosenhain, Dr. W., and Mr. A. C. Sturney, Flow and Rupture during Cutting, 126 Russell, Dr., Address, 76, 79 Rutherford, Sir Ernest, The Counting of
Atoms, Studies of Atomic Nuclei, 278, 331,- 362, 380
Ryves, Reginald, on Design for a Cellular Gravity Dam, 279 Ryves, Reginald, on Indian Monsoons and
Floods in 1924, 290
s SAINT Paul’s Cathedral : Its Structure, Defects and Repair, William Harvey, 129 Salaries of Engineers, 114 Sankey, Captain H. Riall, James Forrest
Lecture on Heavy Oil Engines, Large Engines of the Self-ignition Type, 508
Sao Paulo, New Water and Drainage Projects for, 237 Scoble, Dr. W. A., Report of Wire Ropes Research Committee, 128 Shannon Power Scheme, Sir John Purser Griffith, 132, 575 Sharr, Francis J., Method of Increasing Workshop Efficiency, 513 ; (Letter), 569 Shears—see Machine Tools Shifting a Bridge in Vienna, 429 SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING : General: Efficiency of the Screw Propeller, Suggested Method of Increasing, Walter Pollock, 402, 444 ; (Letter), 468 Evolution of the Steamship, Engineer- Captain Edgar C. Smith, 104 Fuel Consumptions of Steam and Oil-engined
Vessels, Sterry B. Freeman, 136
Germany’s Mercantile Fleet, 308 H. M.S. Triumph and her Cylinder Liner, Engineer-Captain Edgar C. Smith, 478 Japan’s Contribution to Naval Architecture, Professor F. P. Purvis, 401
Lloyd’s Register :
Annual Summary, 116
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 46, 405
Marine Oil Engine Progress, 191 Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, 346, 355, 403 Marine and Small Craft Exhibits at the Agricultural Hall, 326
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING (continued):
General {continued):
Model Experiments with Anti-rolling Tanks,
H. J. R. Biles, 429
Papers, Other, Read before the Institution of Naval Architects—see Associations, &c. Propeller Jet Marine Propulsion, Edmund S. G. Rees, 494 Propulsive Performance of the Corrugated Ship, E. V. Telfer and A. H. Haver, 430
Righting a Scuttled Destroyer, 434 Shipbuilding in Germany, 356
Shipyard Labour Conditions, British and Foreign, E. T. Good, 660 Stability and Seaworthiness, G. Frodsham Holt, 430 State of British Shipbuilding, 301 Stresses on Rectangular Plates, Professor
C. E. Inglis, 429
Tonnage Legislation, E. Blocksidge, 430 Trading Conditions and Intermediate Passenger Vessels, W. G. Cleghorn, 430 Wake Propeller Coefficients, Admiral D. W. Taylor, 402 British Navy :
Australian Naval Defence, 383 New Battleships, 49
Naval Matters : Experiments on H.M.S. Wolf, Analysis of Sir John Biles’ Paper on, G. H% Hoffmann, 401 Naval Shipbuilding Requirements, 547 Navy Estimates, 329 Warship Launchings in 1925, 662 Foreign Navies :
Dutch Torpedo-boat Destroyers, New, 632
Italian Scouts, New, The Leone, Pantera, Tigre, 456, 600, 604
Salving the French Battleship Liberte, 487 Siamese Gunboat Ratanakosindr, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., 521 Swedish Navy, Destroyers Nils Ehrenskold and O. H. Nordenskjold, 685
United States High-speed Cruiser Marblehead, 358 Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels : Aorangi, Union Steamship Company’s Motor Liner, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ltd., 6, 16, 23, 42, 48, 71, 72, 106, 110, 111 {Supplement, January 2nd, 1925) {Two-page Supplement, January W, 1925) Beldis, Motor Ship, with a Cargo of Locomotives, 86 Bintang, Steamship, Conversion of, L. J. Le Mesurier, 380 Italian Motor Liners, Largest in the World, 680 Latvian Icebreaker Krisjanis Valdemars, Wm. Beardmore and Co., Ltd., 686 Launch of the Italian Liner, Conte Bian- camono, 497
Oronsay, Twin-screw Geared Turbine Orient Liner, John Brown and Co., Ltd., 185, 190, 212, 213
Raby Castle, Single-screw Motor Ship, Lancashire Shipping Company, Ltd., 458 Ship’s Motor Lifeboat with Wireless Equipment, 160 ; (Letter), 188 Sycamore and Dolius Trials, 346, 355, 403 ; (Letter), 485 Thames Motor Tug Sparteolus, A. H. Green and Co., Ltd., 326 Twin-screw Ferry Boat Kathleen, John I.
Thorny croft, Ltd., 662
SHOVEL, Mechanical, for Subway Work, Bucyrus Company, 633 Signalling, Automatic—see Railways Sillimanite in the Glass Industry, Two Papers on, 273 Simpkin, N., Lecture on Low-temperature Carbonisation, 487 Sixty Years Ago, 27, 46, 85, 114, 136, 155, 188, 219, 245, 278, 295, 331, 360, 380, 411, 431, 460, 488, 521, 544, 567, 607, 619, 661, 689, 704 ; (Letters), 76, 468 Smith, Dempster, and Arthur Leigh, on Experiments with Lathe Tools on Fine Cuts, &c., 318, 389 Smith, Engineer-Captain Edgar C., on Evolution of the Steamship, 104 Societies—see Associations SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES : 86, 142, 196, 250, 307, 403, 553, 581, 632, 687 African Lake, New, 581
Bwana Mckubwa Copper Mine, 687 Concrete Cooling Towers, 307
T
TAFJORD Power Development, 295
Tank Gauge, Negretti and Zambra, 470
Taylor, H. W., Three-wire Direct-current Distribution Networks, 75
Taylor, Major A. M., High-pressure Cables, 108, 115 ; (Letter), 140
Technical Education—see Association of Technical Institutions
Tee Square, A New, Axene, Ltd., 169
Telephones, 164 ; (Letters), 188, 278
Telephones, Automatic, 302
Telfer, E. V., and A. H. Haver, Propulsive Performance of the Corrugated Ship, 430
Thom, A., and J. Small, on Velocity .of Wind in Conical Ducts, 262
Thomas, H. A., on Measurement of Mechanical
Vibrations, 102
Time Element, 438 Tinning Compound, Soldo Company, 413 Towler, C. O., Steam Reg6neration : Its Possibilities, 592 Tracey, A. I., Super-tension Cable Dielectrics, 580 Trade of the Port of Wellington, N.Z., 635 Traffic Delay and Level Crossings, 76 Tramway Transport, Vitality of, 718 Tripp, G. W., Apprenticeship in the Royal Ordnance Factories, 372 Turbine Equipment for Power Station, 321, 328 Turbine, Hydraulic, New Type of, Ateliers de Constructions Mecaniques de Vevey, 220
Turbine, Internal Combustion, 684
Turbine, Internal Combustion, Dr. T. B. Morlev 278 .
Turbines—see also Ships
Turner, T. H., Detection of Strain in Mild Steels, 540
u
UNEMPLOYMENT Percentages, 601 Uniflow Engines—see Engines United States Patents, 714
V
VELOCITY of Wind in Conical Ducts, A.
Thom and J. Small, 262
Viaducts, Railway—see Railways Vibration, 628 Vibration in Engine Test Gear, J. Morris, 484 Vibrations, Mechanical, Measurement of, H. A.
Thomas, 102
w WAGON Motor Workshop, Albion Motor Car Company, Ltd., 496 Wagons, 15-Ton Side-tipping, Charles Roberts and Co., Ltd., 85 War Office Subsidy 2-Ton Chassis, Vulcan Motor and Engineering Company (1906), Ltd., 378, 379 Warren, Andrew, on Roads in Devonshire, 104 Water Resources of Canada, 97, 439 Water-softening Plant at Burnell and Co.’s Works, Ellesmere Port, 386 WATER SUPPLY: Bombay Water Supply, Tansa Completion - Works, 495 City of Aberdeen, Supply, George Mitchell, 336 Kingston-upon-Hull, New Waterworks for, H3 Littleton — Queen Mary — Reservoir and Works, 672, 682, 705, 710 {Two-page Supplement, June \6th, 1925)
London Water Supply, Some Features of,
H. E. Stilgoe, 159
Protection of Underground Water, Report by Advisory Committee, 512 Simla Water Supply, 4200ft. Head Pumping Station, 162, 167 {Two-page Supplement, February 6th, 1925)
Torquay Water Supply, 457
WATERLOO Temporary Bridge, Sir Wm. Arrol and Co., Ltd., 686, 701 {Two-page Supplement, June 26th, 1925) Weighing Machine with Special Mechanism, W. and T. Avery, Ltd., 238 Welding Problems, ProfessorC. R. Darling, 113 Wind—see Velocity Winder—see Coal ; also Electric Matters Wire Chain Making, 239, 276, 292 Wire Flattening, 193 Wire Ropes Research, Dr. W. A. Scoble, 128 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY Current Transformer Methods of Producing Small Known Voltages, &c., D. W. Dye, 295 Local Reflection of Wireless Waves from the Upper Atmosphere, E. V. Appleton and A. F. Barnett, 441 London Broadcasting Station, New, British Broadcasting Company’s Equipment, 306 Measurement of Frequency and Allied Quantities in Wireless Telegraphy, Colonel K. E. Edgeworth and G. W. N. Cobbold, 295
New Wireless Bill, 217
Ongar and Brentwood Wireless Stations, 596, 597 Resistance in Wireless Circuits, Professor C. R. Fortescue, 265 Seven-valve Supersonic Wireless Receiver, Western Electric Company, 470
Wireless Telegraphy and Signalling Bill, 349
WOOD Stave Pipe, 400 Wood-working Machines : Universal Wood Worker, Wood-mortising Machine, Wood Moulding Machine and Examples of Work, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 522 Work, Chip and Tool, 126, 135 Workshop Efficiency, Method of Increasing, Francis J. Sharr, 513 : (Letter), 569
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