The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ABRASIVE Blocks, Commutator Grinding Block Company, 249 Accelerometer and Air Speed Recorder, Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd., 37 Activated—see Sewage Adhesives, 500 “ Aeroflex,” Improved Electric Fuse, 366 AERONAUTICS :
See also Annual Articles Air Transport, 518 Civil Marine Aircraft, 324
International Tests of Aeronautical Models, 174
Italian Airship Norge, 437
Metal Aeroplane Developments, Boulton and
Paul, Ltd., 306
“ Pterodactyl ” Tailless Aeroplane, Captain
G. T. R. Hill, 463, 498, 501
Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research, H. E. Wimperis, 613 Technical Aspects of the Commercial Airship,
B. N. Wallis, 217 ; (Letter), 296 Wireless Equipment of a Seaplane, 209
AGRICULTURE, Applications of Engineering
to, Frank Ayton, 645, 647 ; (Letter), 673
Agricultural Engineering, 128 Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, '242 Air Compressor with Cylinder 4-|in. by 6in. and
5 H.P. Oil Engine, Blackstone Company,
Air Pollution in English Towns and Cities, John
B. C. Kershaw, 433 ; (Letter), 580
Alloys, Light, or Steel ? 528 Aluminium-copper-tin Alloys, Dr. D. Stock- dale, 318 American Engine Trials—see Engines AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS :
79, 162, 190, 465, 504, 552, 661
American Shipbuilding, 661
Blast-furnace, New 700-Ton, 661
Concrete Roads, 465
Conveyors in Coal Mines, 465
Creosoting Works of the Southern Pacific
Railway, 162
Diesel-electric Dredger, 162
Economy in Turbine Plants, 504
Electrical Energy, 190
Electric Excavators, 552
Ferro-sulphurous Blast-furnace, 552
Heavy Dredging Work, 79
Iron and Steel, 190
Labour, 190
Large Locomotive Terminus, 552
Leaching Low-grade Copper Ore, 552
Locomotives with Trailing Bogies, 79
Machine Operation of a Coal Mine, 504
Mountain Railway Engineering, 79
Ocean Shipping, 190
Railway Labour-saving Machinery, 552
Railway Lift Bridges, 504
Simplified Practice, 191
Strengthening a 416ft. Bridge Span, 465
Twelve-coupled American Locomotives, 661
Underground Mining of Limestone, 162
ANNUAL ARTICLES :
AERONAUTICS IN 1925, 10, 32
(Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
British, Some, Military and Civil Aeroplanes, 10, 32
A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd.:
Av. o “ Bison ” Fleet-spotting Machine, 10 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Avro-Lynx Seaplane, 10
English Electric Company Ltd.:
Metal-hulled “ Kingston ” Flying Boat, 12 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Handley Page, Ltd.:
Triple-engined “ Hampstead ” Passenger Machine, 10 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Short Brothers, Ltd.:
All-metal Aircraft Construction, 11
32 H.P. All-metal Monoplane Flying Boat, 11, 12 Experimental Duralumin-hulled Flying Boat, 12 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Vickers Ltd.:
“ Vanguard ” 25-Seater Passenger Biplane, with “ Condor ” Engine, 10, 11 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) “ Vixen ” Military Machine 11 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Westland Aircraft Works : 1
Yeovil Bombing Machines, 10 (Supplement, January Isi, 1926)
Additional Military and Civil Aeroplanes, 32, Armstrong, Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.:
“ Ajax ” Two-seater Reconaissance Biplane, with “ Jaguar ” Engine, 33, 44 “ Argosy ” Three-engined Passenger Biplane, 32, 33
Beardmore, Wm., and Co., Ltd.:
Two-seater, Fighter Biplane, with Rolls- Royce “ Eagle ” Engine and “ Lamblin ” Radiator, 33, 34
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:
Various Aeroplanes and Engines, 34, 35
Variable Timing Gear, 34, 35
Bristol “ Bloodhound ” Test Results, 35
Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:
Fairey “ Fox ” Two-seater Day Bomber with Fairey-Reed Metal Air Screw and Fairey “ Felix ” D 12 400 H.P. Aeroengine, 32 Fairey “ Fawn ” Three-seater Army Ma- t< chine with Napier “ Lion ” Engine, 32 “ Flycatcher ” Single-seater Scout, Variable Types and Engines, 32
Fairey III. D Seaplane, 32 Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, Ltd.:
“ Gamecock ” Single-seater Fighter with “ Jupiter ” Engine, 33 “ Gloster III.” Single-seater Racing Sea- plane, 33, 44 “ Gorcock ” Single-seater Fighter with t Napier “ Lion ” Engine, 33
‘ Jupiter Greve,” Developed Type, 33
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
Hawker Engineering Company, Ltd.: “ Woodcock ” Single - seater Fighter ;
“ Heron ” Single-seater with Metal Structural Details ; “ Hedgehog ” Three- seater Biplane: ‘‘Woodcock,” “Heron ” and “ Hedgehog,” with Bristol “ Jupiter ” Engines, 32 “ Horsley ” Day Bomber with Rolls- Royce Condor Engine, 32 Single-seater Fighters for Royal Danish Navy, with Siddeley “ Jaguar ” Mark IV. Engines, 33
Parnail, George, and Co.:
“ Plover ” Single-seater Fighter, with
“ Jupiter ” or “ Jaguar ” Engine, 34, 44 Airships :
U.S. Shenandoah, British R 33, 35
Civil Aviation, 10
Helicopters :
Autogiro, 35
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1925, 20, 48 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Electric Motors, 48
Electric Traction, 49 ; Storage Battery Mine Locomotive, Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Ltd., 49 Generating Sets, 21 Barking Power Station, 40,000-Kilowatt j Parsons Turbo-generator Set, 21 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) Bow Generating Station, 22 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) Turbo-generator at Bradford Electricity Works, English Electric Company, 22 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Hydro-electric Plant, 48
Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, 21
Sub-station Plant, Mercury Vapour and
Static Transformer Sections, 21
Mining Plant, 49
Miscellaneous, 50
Rolling Mill Plant, 49
Sub-station Plant, 22
Automatic Sub-stations, 22
Supervisory Control Equipment for Automatic Sub-statiop, Metropolitan- Vickers Company, 22 (Supplement, January Isi, 1926)
Switchgear, 48 Telephone Cables, 50 Transformers, 48
Testing Transformers for Sustained Arc between Points 114in. Apart, Ferranti, Ltd., 48
Wireless Communication, 20
Automatic Call Apparatus, Marconi Company, Radio Communication Company, 21 ; Daventry Wireless Transmitting Gear, 20 Fluctuations in Prices of Engineering Materials during 1925, 9
GAS ENGINEERING IN 1925, 63 Combined Nitrogen Production, 64
Gasworks and Low-temperature Carbonisation, 63
Synthetic Alcohol, 64 Technical Progress, 64 Utilisation of Coke, 64
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1925, 50 United Kingdom, 50
Bristol Channel and South Wales Ports, 50 British Waterways, 51 London, Port of, 50
Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal, 50
Naval Dockyards, 51
North-East Coast and Humber Ports, 50
Other Ports, 50
Scotland, 50
Southampton, 50
Africa, 51
European Ports, 51
Belgium, 51
Continental Waterways, 51
France, 51
Germany, 51
Holland, 51
Italy, 51
North and South America, 51
Canada, 51
South America, 51
United States, 51
The East, 51
Locomotives—see Steam
MOTOR SHIPS AND MARINE OIL ENGINES IN 1925, 14, 17,18
(Supplement, January l.$£, 1926) Brown-Sulzer Engine, 14, 17, 18, 19 Continental Progress in 1925, 19 Double-acting Engines, 14, 17
Asturias, R.M.S.P. Motor Passenger Liner, and One of Main Engines, 14, 17, 18 North British Two-cycle Sliding Cylinder Engine, 17, 18 Swedish-American Liner Gripsholm, 17, 18 (Supplement, January Isi, 1925) Mirrlees-Nobel 1000 B.H.P. Two-cycle Engine, 19 “ Neptune ” Type Marine Engine, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 18, 19 Opposed Piston Engines, 19
Single-acting Four-cycle Eng'nes, 17
Raby Castle, North-Eastern’ Werkspoor
Motor for, 17 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
S.'ngle-acting Two-cycle Engines, 17
Upwey Grange Houlder Line Motor Reirigerator Ship, 17, 18 (Supplement, January 1926) Motor Ships and Marine Oil Engines in America, 19
Worthington 2900 B.H.P. Double-acting
Engine, 19
Conclusion, 20
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1925, 5
British Empire, 5
France, 6
Italy, 7
Japan, 6
Minor Navies, 7
United States, 6
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) : RAILWAYS IN 1925, 46
Great Western, 47 London Electric Railways, 47 London, Midland and Scottish, 46 London and North-Eastern, 46 Metropolitan, 47
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway, 47
Southern, 47 Two Light Railways, 47
SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1925, 23
Bradford Esholt Scheme, 23 Falmouth, New Main Drainage Works at, General Outlook, 22
Leeds Main Drainage and Sewage Disposal Works, 23 London Main Drainage, 22
Manchester, 22 Reading, New Disposal Works at, 23 Salford, 23 Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board, 23
Works Completed, Under Construction or in Contemplation, 23 STEAM LOCOMOTIVES OF 1925, 2 (Supplement, January 1$£, 1926)—see also Illustrations, Names Index and Subjects Index, Locomotives
French Engines :
P.L.M. Railway, Eight-coupled Passenger Engines, 5 (Supplement, J anuary 1 st, 1926) Paris-Orleans Eight-coupled Passenger Engine, 5 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) Great Western Railway, 2 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) Great Western Railway Passenger Engine Saint Martin, 2 (Supplement, January ls«, 1926)
London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 2 London, Midland and Scottish Railway Three-cylinder Compound Engine, 2
London and North-Eastern Railway, 2 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) London and North-Eastern Engines, “ Mikado ” Type Locomotive, “ Garratt ” Locomotive, 2 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926) London and North-Eastern Railway Engine with Lentz Valve Gear, 2
Makers’ Locomotives :
Avonside Engine Company, Fireless Locomotive, 2, 3 Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., South Australian Railways, Six-coupled Engine, 5 W. G. Bagnall, Ltd., Madras and S.M. Railway, 3 Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., Garratt Engine, Indian State N.W. Railway, 3 ; Experimental Ljungstrom Geared Turbine Engine, 3, 4 Hawthorn, R. and W., Leslie and Co., Ltd., Indian State Railways, Tank Engine, 5 North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., South African Railways Modified “ Fairlie ” Engine, 3 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926) Peckett and Sons, Ltd., Saddle-tank Engine, 4
Robert Stephenson and Co., Ltd., x Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, Eight-coupled Goods Engine, 4 Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Nigerian Railways Three-cylinder Narrow-gauge Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) -
Yorkshire Engine Company, Ltd., Oil- burning Engine, Central Railway of Peru, 4 ' Southern Railway, 2 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) Southern Railway, Express Passenger Engine, “ King Arthur ” Class, 2 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
STEAMSHIPS OF 1925, 7
(Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
British-built Liners, 7
Caledonia, Anchor-Cunard Liner, 8 Carinthia, Cunard Liner, 7
Conte Biancamano, Lloyd Sabaudo Company, 8 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926) Llandovery Castle, Union-Castle Liner, 7 Princess Marguerite, Canadian Pacific Liner, 8 Ranchi, Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company, 7 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926) Dredgers Built During 1925, 8 Railway and River Boats, 8 Repairs and Reconditioning, 8
Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 8
Some New Developments, 8
Some Refrigerator Ships, 8
WATER SUPPLY IN 1925, 35
(Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
British Works :
Belfast’s Silent Valley Scheme, 36 Bradford, 35
Cardiff, 36
Loch Katrine Works, 36
Manchester Corporation Waterworks : Haweswater Scheme, Heaton Park Reservoir, Thirlmere, 35 Queen Mary Reservoir, 35 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Taf Fechan Water Supply Board, 36 Wakefield’s Ryburn Valley Scheme, 36 Works in Hand or in Contemplation, 36 Hong Kong Water Supply, 36
Sennar Dam and the Gezira Irrigation Scheme, 36 (Supplement, January lsi5, 1926) Singapore Water Supply from Johore, 37 Other Works Abroad, 37 -see Traditional Manufacture of, Armstrong, Professor H. E., Fuel Research, Report on the Coal Industry, 375, 524 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association, British Acetylene and Welding : Notes on Welding of Aluminium, Edgar T. Painton, 189 Association, British Waterworks :
Summer Meeting at Bristol, Programme, 649
Association, Diesel Engine Users’ : Heavy Oil Engine Installations, Geoffrey Porter, 277 Industrial Tests of Internal Combustion Engines, W. A. Tookey, 437 Specifications for Lubricating Oils for Use on Heavy Oil Engines, E. W. Johnston, 615 Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Garratt Locomotive, R. H. Whitelegg, 392
Association, Incorporated, Municipal Electrical ? Industrial Electric Heating, A. P. M. Fleming and J. H. Crossley, 669 Operating Costs of Electric Battery Vehicles C. W. Marshall, 668 Presidential Address, R. B. Mitchell, 635 Supplies to Outlying Districts, S. E. Britton, 635 Thirty-first Annual Convention at Glasgow, 635, 668 Institute, Iron and Steel:
Annual Meeting, 447, 600, 627 Coal-blending, D. Brownlie, 628
Effect of Mass in the Heat Treatment of Nickel Steel, Dr. W. Rosenhain and others, 628 Hardening and Tempering of High-speed Steel, A. R. Page, 630 Hardness of Carbon Steels at High Temperatures, I. G. Slater and T. H. Turner,' 629
List of Papers Taken as Read, 630
Ratio of the Tensile Strength of Steel to the Brinell Hardness Number, R. H. Greaves and J. A. Jones, 630 Autumn Meeting Programme, 447, 630 Bessemer Gold Medal Award, 600 Past and Future of the Steel Industry, Sir W. P. Rylands, 574, 583, 601
Programme, 447
Report on the Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 528, 601 Silicates in Steel Ingots, J. H. S. Dickenson, 528, 602 Institute of Marine Engineers : Electric-hydraulic Steering Gear, Dr. Hele- Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 506 Institute of Metals :
Annual Dinner, 293
Annual and Extraordinary General Meeting, List of Papers, 222 Annual Meeting, 222, 292, 317, 345 Extraordinary Meeting, New Articles of Association, 346 Aluminium-Copper-Tin Alloys, Dr. D. Stock- dale, 318
Brittle Ranges of Bronze, W. L. Kent, 318 Constitution of the Alloys of Silver and Tin,
A. J. Murphy, 345
Corrosion of an Ancient Tin Specimen, Professor C. O. Bannister, 346 Crystal Growth in Recrystallised Metals, Dr. W. Feitknecht, 317 Determination of Zinc Oxide in Brass, Dr.
B. S. Evans and Mr. N. F. Richards, 346
Die Casting of Aluminium Alloys, George Mortimer, 292 Hardness of Cold-rolled Copper, S. L. Hoyt and T. R. Schermerhorn, 292 Influence of Gases at High Temperatures, A. Glynne Lobley and Douglas Jepson, 318 Intermetallic Compounds, W. Hume-Rothery, 345 Macrostructure of Cast Metals, R. Genders, 317 Mechanical Properties of a Nickel-Copper Alloy, H. J. Tapsell and J. Bradley, 346
Single Crystals of Metals, Sixteenth May Lecture, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 559 Soft Soldering of Copper, Dr. T. B. Crow, 318 Softening of Strain-hardened Metals, &c.,
R. W. Bailey, 292
Striation Due to Working or Corrosion, Monsieur A. M. Portevin, 346, Institute of Physics : Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research, H. E. Wimperis, 613 Institute of Transport:
Sixth Congress Programme, 468
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 293
April Examinations, 1926, Pass List (Interim) and Associate Membership, 565 Construction of a Breakwater Head at Madras, Colin Robert White, 464 Conversazione, 640 ; Three Lectures, Models and other Exhibits, Compressed Air Machinery, Monel Metal Parts, Metal- lurgical Exhibits, Optophone for the Blind, Manometer, Ventilating and Displacement, Vertical Vibrograph and Stress Recorder, Fan Brake Dynamometer, Dust Counter, 640
Khyber Railway, Victor Bayley, 221
Khyber Railway, Survey and Construction of, Colonel Gordon R. Hearn, 221
Limiting Stresses, Discussion, 472
October Examinations, 1925, Pass List, 161 ASSOCIATION OF LONDON STUDENTS : Caine Waterworks Company, Recent Improvements in the Works of, J. Kennard, 68 Development of Harbour and Dock Engineering, Vernon-Harcourt Lecture, Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, 24 Driving a Cable Tunnel under the Thames, 242 BIRMINGHAM AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION :
JOINT MEETING :
Road Transport and its Possible Developments, Papers by Major F. C. Cook, Mr. C. Owen Silvers, and Sir John Thorny- croft, and Discussion, 2’07, 208 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
(continued) :
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
American Switchgear, 192
Application of Machinery at the Coal Face, Sam Mavor, 444 Design of Storage Battery Locomotives for Use in Mines, L. Miller, 444 Electric Traction on the Orleans Railway, H.
Parodi, 408
Electricity in Mines, R. Nelson, 444
Improvement of Power Factor, Edgar Wall
Dorey, 182
Semi-Jubilee Dinner, 130
Summer Meeting, 384
Testing Static Transformers, Lindley Thompson and H. Walmsley, 158
SOUTH MIDLAND CENTRE:
Joint Meeting on Road Transport, 207
WIRELESS SECTION :
Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators, Lieut.-Colonel K. E. Edgeworth: 70 Propagation of Radio Waves, J. Holling- worth, 192 Rugby Wireless Station, E. H. Shaughnessy, 448 Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Nobel Oil Engine, P. H. Wilson, 324 Werkspoor Marine Oil Engine, G. J. Lugt, 193
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers,
Summer Meetings, 621 Preliminary Programme, 621
Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Commercial Aspect of Foundry Work, J. Wolstenholme, 130 Lifting and Shifting Machinery, C. H. Woodfield, 306 Pipework : Its Manufacture and Lay-out, G. H. Willett, 351 Power Stations in U.S.A, in 1925, Honorary Member’s Lecture, W. H. Patchell, 224 Tendencies in Modern Electric Practice, J. M. Seddon, 306 Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
High Efficiency Oil Engine, A. E. L. Chorlton.
360, 364, 394 ; (Letter), 363
Marine Oil Engines Trial Committee’s Report, 65 Measurement of Cutting Temperatures, E. G.
Herbert, 24, 238—see also North-Western Branch
Modern Development of Paper Mill Plant, W. W. Beaumont and Leslie N. Burt, 462, 476 Piston Temperatures and Heat Flow in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson, 122 Summer Meeting at Ipswich, 645 Applications of Engineering to Agriculture, Frank Ayton, 645, 647 Modern Flour Milling Machinery, Lieut.- Colonel F. W. Turner, 635, 645, 670
MIDLAND BRANCH :
Joint Meeting on Road Transport, 207
NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :
Cutting Temperatures, E. G. Herbert, 225 Marine Oil Engine Trials Committes’s Report, 134 Some Mechanisms of Textile Machinery, W. A. Hanton, 296 Institution of Mining Engineers : Scholarship, Travelling Post-Graduate, Offered, 361 Institution of Municipal and County Engineers : Fifty-third Annual General Meeting and Conference, 506 Meeting in the Scottish District, Programme, 561 Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Meeting, 349, 379, 405 ; Report, 349 Annual Dinner, 351 Comparative Freight Economics of a Cargo Vessel with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, W. J. Lovett, 380
Crane Equipment of Shipbuilding Berths, Ebenezer Smith, 406 Experiments on Mercantile Ship Models in Waves, J. L. Kent, 381 Experiments upon the Skin Friction of Smooth Surfaces, W. G. A. Perring, 381 High-pressure Water-tube Boilers for Marine Purposes, Harold Yarrow, 405, 410, 411, 414
Launching Problems, W. J. Berry, 350 Method Used in H.M. Ships for Readily
Correcting Heel and Trim, A. W. Cluett, 406
Present Outlook for British Shipbuilding,
A. C. F. Henderson, 349, 362
Propeller Dimension Formulae Based on Mr.
R. E. Froude’s Model Screw Experiments, Professor C. M. Carter, 381 Recent Modifications to Water-tube Boilers of the Three-drum Type, Engineer-Captain L. M. Hobbs, 405 Ship Wave Resistance, Comparison of Mathematical Theory with Experimental Results, W. C. S. Wigley, 381
Spring Meetings, Programme, 296 Summer Meeting in Belgium, 588, 660, 672
Belgian Mercantile Marine, Monsieur A. Pierrard, 660 Programme and List of Papers, 588 Relative Efficiency of Turbine and Diesel Machinery, Sir John Biles, 660, 672 Temperature Variation and Heat Stresses in Diesel Engines, Robert Sulzer, 379, 391 Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
High-powered Oil Engines, W. S. Burn, 494 Electric Propulsion of Ships, Eskil Berg, 275 What is Sea Speed ? Reginald J. Eyres, 392
Institution, Royal, of Great Britain :
AFTER-EASTER SESSION :
Friday Evening Discourses, List of Subjects and Speakers, 393 Programme of General Courses of Lectures, 393 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): Institution of Water Engineers : Manchester Waterworks, 614 Programme, 450
Thirty-first General Meeting, 450, 617
Society, Faraday : Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media, General Discussion, List of Papers, 633 Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media, 656 I. Explosive Reactions, General Considera
tions :
Explosion Wave in Cyanogen Mixtures, Dr. Colin Campbell and Professor H. B. Dixon ; Gaseous Explosions at High Initial Pressures ; Ignition Point of Gases, Professor H. B. Dixon and others ; Ionisation in Gas Explosions, W. E. Garner and S. W. Saunders ; Ionisation and Gaseous Explosions, S. C. Lind ; Radiation in Gaseous Explosions, Professor W. T. David ; Uniform Movement of Flame, Professor R. V. Wheeler and Dr. W. Payman, 657 II. Explosive Reactions in Reference to Internal Combustion Engines : Combustion in Gas Engines, Professor W. T. David, 658 Effect of Metallic Sols in Delaying Detonation in Internal Combustion Engines, Flight-Lieutenant C. J. Sims and Dr. E. W. Mardles ; Explosions in Petrol Engines, H. T. Tizard, 658 Society, Newcomen : John George Bodmer and Mechanical Stoking, David Brownlie, 164 Matthew Murray, G. F. Tyas, 268 Society, Royal: Conversazione : Archimedian Loculus, Borehole Alignment Indicator, Pendulum Apparatus for Determinations of Gravity, Vibrations of an Autocar Illustration, Compression Tests on Aluminium Crystals, <k c., 633 Society, Royal, of Arts : Propagation of Electric Waves, J. E. Taylor, 249 Societies, Physical and Optical:
Exhibition, 37
AUTOMATIC Superheating of Steam, 516 Axle-boxes—see Railway Locomotives Ayton, Frank, Applications of Engineering to Agriculture, 645, 647 ; (Letter), 673 B BAILEY, R. W., Softening of Strain-hardened Metals, &c., 292 Bakery, Large Electrically Driven, Kneaders, Moulders, Conveyors and other Plant, 294, 298 Ballasting—see Railways Beaumont, W. Worby, and Leslie N. Burt, Modern Development of Paper Mill Plant, 462, 476, 505 Belgium, Freight Rates in, 546 Bending and Torsional Strains and Stresses in a Loaded Crank Shaft, H. Carrington, 520 Benton, W. A., Some Aspects of Friction, 403, 430, 458 Berg, Eskil, Electric Propulsion of Ships, 275 Berry, W. J., Launching Arrangements of H.M. Ships Nelson and Rodney, 350 Biles, Sir John, Steam versus the Diesel Engine, 660, 672 Birmingham Trade Fair, Extension to, 80 “ Black Spot,” The, 299 Bodmer, John George, and Mechanical Stoking, David Brownlie, 164 Boiler Design, Improvement in, 499 ; (Letter), 530 Boiler, Oil-fired Yarrow Land Type, 274, 275 Boiler, Producer Gas-fired, Wollaston Gas Producers, Ltd., 163 Boiler Tests, Credibility of, 156 Boiler, “ Thermax,” Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 248 Boiler Water Conditioning, Dr. R. E. Hall, 223 Boilers, High-pressure Water-tube, for Marine Purposes, Harold Yarrow, 405, 410, 411, 414, 587 Boilers, Water Capacity of, 611 Boilers, Water-tube, of the Three-drum Type, Recent Modifications to, Engineer-Captain L. M. Hobbs, 405 Bombay, Back Bay Reclamation, 275 Books of Reference, 107, 160, 252, 384, 411, 477, 547, 608, 661 BRIDGES: Highway, British Standard Unit Loading for, J. M. Liddell, 119 Menai Straits Suspension, Centenary of, 133 New, Over the Thames at Caversham, L. G.
Mouchel and Partners, 656, 666 Oswald-street, Glasgow, Construction of, W. L. Scott, 62 Reinforced Concrete, Wairoa River, N.Z., 94 Second Narrows, Vancouver, 409
Steel Swing, for Wallasey, Francis Morton and Co., Ltd., 276 BRIDGE Flooring, Special Flanging Press for, Davy Brothers, Ltd., 674 British Cement—see Works BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :
Specifications:
Corrugated Furnaces and Smoke Tubes for Marine Boilers, 293 Ebonite for Radio Purposes, 95 Genuine Dry White Lead, 351 Genuine White Lead Oil Paste, 351 Painting Materials, 351, 562 Paints, White Spirit for, Turpentine for, Raw Linseed Oil for, 677
Railway Rails, 562
Reflector Fittings for Electric Lighting, 160
Side Scuttles and Frames, 506
Tables of Brinell Hardness Numbers, 562 Vulcanised Fibre and Pressboard for Elec
trical Purposes, 95
BRITISH Railways—see Railways British Standard Unit Loading for Highway
Bridges, J. M. Liddell, 119
Brittle Ranges of Bronze, W. L. Keat, 318 Britton, S. E., Supplies to Outlying Districts, 635 Brownlie, David, Coal Blending, 628 Brownlie, David, on John George Bodmer and
Mechanical Stoking, 164
Brugg Sub-station—see Railways, Foreign Burn, W. S., High-powered Oil Engines, 494, 534 c CALENDARS, Diaries, &e., 27, 53, S3, 111, 197, 456 Calendering—see Linoleum in Subjects Index Calvert, Dr. H. T., Activated Sludge Process of Sewage Treatment, 267 Canada, Water Power Resources of, 436 Canadian Water Resources, 47 Canal de Castilla Irrigation Schemes, 447 Carnot Centenary, 128 Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., Single Crystals of Metals, 559 Carrington, H., Bending and Torsional Strains and Stresses in a Loaded Crank Shaft, 520 Carter, Professor C. M., Propeller Dimension Formulae Based on Mr. R. E. Fronde’s Model Screw Experiments, 381 Catalogues, 83, 111, 167, 255, 309, 337, 425, 481, 565, 593, 621, 651, 677 Cements, Quick-hardening, 590 Centenary of a Famous Bridge, 133 Chadwick Public Lecture, Sewage Treatment, Activated kludge Process of, Dr. H. T. Calvert, 267 Chemists and Power Plant Problems, 612 Chorlton, A. E. L., High-efficiency Oil Engine, 360, 364, 394 ; (Letters), 363, 412 Chromium Plating, General Survey of, E. A. Ollard, 212 Cluett, A. W., Method Used in H.M. Ships for Readily Correcting Heel and Trim, 406 COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Coal Blending, David Brownlie, 628 Coal Commission, 322
Coal and Economies, 556 ; (Letters), 617, 649 Coal Powdering Machine, Atomised Fuel and Engineering Company, 248 Electric Winding Gear at Monceau-Fontaine Colliery, Belgium, 210, 211, 214 Powdered Coal Plant at Dover, Lindley Duffield and Co., Ltd., 319 Report on the Coal Industry, Professor Henry E. Armstrong, 375
Skip Hoisting at Coal Mines, 47 Wages Boards for the Coal Industry, 556
COMPARATIVE Performances of Air Heaters, 668 Concrete—see Bridges, Reinforced, and Steel Concrete and Steel, Bond Between, 160 Congress of Chemists, Forty-fifth Annual Meeting, Co-operation of Numerous Societies, Programme, 646 Consistency of Steam Tables, 272 Contracts, 27, 57, 86, 111, 140, 167, 197, 230, 252, 278, 309, 337, 372, 425, 453, 48], 509, 540, 568, 596, 624, 651, 677 Contracts Secured by British Firms, 268 Control of the River Scoltenna, 669 Cork Jointing, Works, South Chingford, 271, 273 Cork Mills, &c.—See Linoleum Cornish Mining, 465 Corrosion of an Ancient Tin Specimen, Professor C. O. Bannister, 346 Crane Equipment—see Ships Crane, “ Toplis,” l|-Ton Level Luffing Jib, Bedford Engineering Company, 589 Cranes, Hydraulic Cargo, on the Motor Liner Asturias, Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclav, Ltd., 364 Crank Shaft—see Bending Strains Creber, W. F. H., Manchester Waterworks, 614 Crow, Dr. T. B., Soft Soldering of Copper, 318 Cruisers—see Ships, Naval Crystal Growth in Recrystallised Metals, Dr.
W. Feitknecht, 317
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 28, 58, 84, 112, 138, 168, 198, 228, 256, 282, 310, 338, 370, 398, 426, 454, 482. 510, 538, 566, 594, 622, 652, 678 Cutting Temperatures, Apparatus for Measurement of, E. G. Herbert, 24, 225, 238, 245 ; (Letters), 276, 296 D DAVIES, C. E. Sprea ” of Metal in Rolling, 598, 626 Dawson, Sir Philip, and Professor S. Parker Smith, on Main Line Railway Electrification, 175 Derrick, Self-slewing, H. Robb, Ltd., 163 Design of Air Heaters, 300 Dickenson, J. H. S., Distribution of Silicates in Steel Ingots, 602 Die Casting of Aluminium Alloys, 292 Distilling Plant for the Red Sea, Mirrlees
Watson Company, Ltd., 577
Dorey, Edgar Wall, Improvement of Power Factor, 182, 186 E ECONOMISER, Future of the, 74 : (Letters) 95, 152 v h Edgeworth, Lieut.-Colonel, Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators, 70 Education and the Employee, 640 Education in the Gas Industry, F. W. Goodenough, 644 Educational Intelligence, 54, 83, 197, 565 ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
See also Annual Articles
Alternating-current Pressure Regulators, 431, 459, 487, 516, 548—For details see Illustrated Index (Electrical Matters) ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued): Alternating-current Switchgear, Brookhurst Switchgear, Ltd., 646, 647 American Switchgear, 192 Arc Welding Plant, Portable, Siemens - Schuckert, Ltd., 562 Automatic Rotary Converter Sub-station, 218 Binary Converter, New .Electrical, Mawds- ley’s, Ltd., 503 BIRMINGHAM REPRESENTATIVE ELECTRICAL GOODS AT THE BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR, 260 Automatic Engine-driven Sub-station Plant, Austin Lighting Company and National Gas Engine Company, 263 Mercury Vapour Rectifier, Hewittic, and Hackbridge Transformer, 260 Model of Electrically Driven Winding Engine, Fraser and Chalmers, 262, 263 Motors in Operation and Component Parts, Electric Welding Appliances, Electro-plating Apparatus, Filtering and Heating Apparatus, &c., 263 Motors, Small, Collection of Varying Sizes, Exhaust Fans, Polishing and Grinding Motors, Manda Motors, Ltd., 261 Oil-break Star-delta Motor Starter, Oil Circuit Breaker, 6600-Volt Starting Gear for Slip-ring Motor, George Ellison, 261 Pirelli Joint for High-pressure Cables, Method of Insulating and of Applying Paper Insulation to, Ferrule for Joining Large Cables, Pirelli General Cable Works, Ltd., 262 Steel Works Motor, General Electric Company, 262, 263 Transformer, 110,000-Volt, English Electric Company, 261 Trucks, Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 260 Cleaning Blast-furnace Gases by Electricity, 588 Comparison of Power Stations, 387 10,000-Kilowatt Diesel Generator Set, Blohm und Voss and Siemens and Schuckert, 662 Electrical Distribution System at Hawarden Bridge Steel Works, 610, 613 Electric Hydraulic Steering Gear, Dr. Hele- Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 506 Electric Motor Starting and Protection, 532 Electric Storage Battery Locomotive Competition, 673 Electric Traverser and Grab for Bar Shearing Machine, Craven Brothers, Ltd., 104, 105
Electricity in the Home, 354 Electricity in Mmes, 444 Electricity Supply, 104, 327 ; (Letter), 384
Exhibits, Various, at the Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 38 Extensions to Lots-road Power Station, 273 Fuse, Improved Electric, t^ie “ Aeroflex,” 366 Heat Transmission Aspect of a Power Station, 416 High-frequency Fatigue Tests, 434 High-voltage Direct-current Testing Equipments, 658 Induction Regulators—see Alternating Current Industrial Electric Heating, A. P. M. Fleming and J. H. Crossley, 669 Langerbrugge Power Station, 570, 582 (Two page Supplement, June 4th, 1926) Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives Manchester Electricity Supply, 664 Measuring Small Fluid Pressures, An Electrical Method, H. A. Thomas, 88 Miegebat Power Station, Midi Railwav, 376, 378 Monceau-Fontaine Colliery, Belgium, Electric Winding Gear at, 210, 211, 214 Motor Generators for the Rugby Wireless Station, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 40
Ontario, Electric Power for, 580
Operating Costs of Electric Battery Vehicles, C. W. Marshall, 668
Petrol-electric Generator for Rail Car, 361
Power Factor, Improvement of, Edgar Wall Dorey, 182, 186 Propagation of Electric Waves, J. E. Taylor, 249
Railways —see Railways Rating of Generating Plant, 333 Shanghai, Electric Power in, 587
Ships, Electric Propulsion of, Eskil Berg, 275 Showrooms and Offices, Electrical, Metro- politan-Vickers Electrical Company, 464 Small Electric Lighting Sets, Austin Lighting Company, Chloride Electrical Storage Company, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 206, 207 Supplies to Outlying Districts, S. E. Britton, 635 Testing Static Transformers, Lindley Thompson and H. Walmsley, 158 Tests of Turbo-generator Sets, 603 Trolley Omnibuses at Ipswich, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, 493 Water Power for the Paris-Orleans Railway Electrification, 584 Windmills for Generation of Electricity, 586 Wireless Matters—see Wireless Telegraphy ; also Annual Articles ELECTROMETER, Compton, Cambridge Instrument Company, 38 Electro-pneumatic Power Hammer, 30-Cwt.,
B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 533
ENGINES AND MOTORS :
See also Annual Articles American Marine Oil Engine Trials, 477
Asturias, R.M.P.S. Motor Liner, Engines of, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 14, 17, 18, 79 240, 244 Cold-starting Two-stroke Oil Engines, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 247 Comparative Freight Economies of a Cargo Vessel with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, W. J. Lovett, 380 Diesel Engine, 15,000 B.H.P. and 10,000- Kilowatt Three-phase Generator, Blohm and Voss, 662 Double-acting Four-stroke Marine Oil Engine, 4000 B.H.P., North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Ltd., 554, 558, 559 Double-acting Two-cycle Marine Oil Engine, Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., 494 ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued): Eight-cylinder Marine Oil Engine, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 447 Gas Oil for Petrol Engines, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 412 High-efficiency Oil Engine, A. E. L. Chorlton, 360, 364, 394 ; (Letters), 363, 412 High-powered Oil Engines, W. S. Burn, 494, 534 Horizontal 31 B.H.P. Oil Engine, 3 B.H.P. Enclosed Paraffin Engine with Dynamo, &c., for f to 1| Kilowatts Lighting Set; Single-cylinder Two-stroke Oil Engine with Scavenging Pump, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 207 Horizontal 66 H.P. Heavy Oil Engine, National Gas Engine Company, Ltd.; Small Lighting Sets, Austin Lighting Company and National Gas Engine Company, Ltd., 206 Industrial Tests of Internal Combustion Engines, W. A. Tookey, 437 Inertia Governor, A New, Ramsay, Jackson and Co., Ltd., 419 Links in the History of the Steam Engine, 402 M.A.N. Double-acting Marine Oil Engine, 352, 353, 356, 382 Marine Oil Engines Trials Committee, Third Report, 65, 134 ; Extracts from Fourth Report, 576 Marine Reverse Gear, Improved, Langdon Engineering Company (1924), Ltd., 616 Nobel Oil Engine, P. H. Wilson, 324 600 B.H.P. Oil Engine at Basingstoke, Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., 158 ; (Addendum), 197 Oil Engine, 130 B.H.P., Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 248 Oil Engines, Fielding and Platt, Ltd., 247 Oil Engines, 100 B.H.P. and 5 B.H.P. with Special Fuel Oil Injection, Blackstone Company, Ltd., 207 Petrol Engines, High-speed, Piston Temperatures and Heat Flow in, Professor A.
H. Gibson, 122, 148
Petters, Ltd., Twin-cylinder Marine and other Engines, 247 Portable Steam Engines at Brussels Exhibition, 242 Six-cylinder Heavy Oil Engine, 300 B.H.P., L. Gardner and Sons, Ltd., 422 Steam versus the Diesel Engine, Sir John Biles, 660, 672
Tangyes Oil Engines, 247
Temperature Variation and Heat Stresses in Diesel Engines, Robert Sulzer, 379, 391, 420 Triple - expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine, Hathorn, Davey and Co., Ltd., 438, 439 15,000 B.H.P. Two-cycle Double-acting Diesel Engine, Blohm and Voss, 134 Two-stroke Crude Oil Engine, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 108 Vickers-Petters 100 H.P. Oil Engine, 247
Werkspoor Marine Oil Engine, 193
ENGINE-ROOM—see Ships, Naval Matters Engineering in America and Great Britain, 127 ;
(Letter), 152
Engineering, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters Engineering Plant at Olympia, 491 A.C.E. Cube and other Concrete Mixers, “ Tonkin ” Mixer for Concrete and other Material, Australia Concrete Machinery Company, 492 “ Cling Surface ” for Belt Dressing, Thomas and Bishop, Ltd., 493 Combined Screening and Crushing Plant, Concrete Block-making and Mixing Machinery, Winget, Ltd., 491 Concrete Mixer “ Roll,” the “ Exe ” Hoist Builders and Contractors’ Plant, Ltd., 491 492 Concrete Mixers, John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 491 Hydraulic Block and Brick Moulding Machine, Edge-runner Mortar Mill, Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., 493 “ Klippon ” Scaffolding Bracket, P. E. Helme and Co., 492 Scaffolding, Tubular, Scaffix Scaffolding Ties, “ Conforms ” Steel Shuttering, &c., Scaffolding (Great Britain), Ltd., 493 Sewage Purification Plant, Tuke and Bell, 492 Tubes, Brass and Copper, Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd., 492 Window Frames, Variety of, from Standardised Units, John T. Beacon Windows, Ltd, 492 Esholt Sewage Works, New, Opening of, 530 Excavator, Oil-engine Driven Dragline, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 418, 419 EXHIBITIONS : Agricultural Machinery at Brussels Exhibition, 242 British Industries Fair, London and Birmingham, 80, 205, 247, 260 Building Exhibition at Olympia, 472, 491 Electrical Exhibition at Osaka, 412 International Foundry Trades Exhibition, 630 International Road Congress and Exhibition, 494 Leipzig, Technical Fair at, 286 Paris Industrial Fair, 557 Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 37 ; for Exhibits, see Various Headings. EXPERIMENTS upon the Skin Friction of Smooth Surfaces, W. G. A. Perring, 381 Experiments—see also Ships Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media. For List of Papers, see Associations, &c., Society Faraday Eyres, Reginald J., What is Sea Speed ? 392 F FACTORY—see Works Fairs—see Exhibitions Feed Water—see Railway Locomotives Feitknecht, Dr. W„ Crystal Growth in crystallised Metals, 317 Finance and Industry in France, 417 Flanging Press for Bridge Flooring, Davy Brothers, Ltd., 674 Fleming, A. P. M., and J. H. Crossley, Industrial Electric Heating, 669 Flour-milling Machinery, Lieut.-Colonel F. W.
Turner, 635, 645, 670
Flow of Water through Soil, 315 Fluctuations in Prices—see Annual Articles Forthcoming Engagements, 30, 60, 86, 114 140, 170, 200, 230, 258, 284, 312, 340, 372 400, 428, 456, 484, 512, 540, 568, 596, 624^ 654, 680 Founder of Technical Education, 70 FOUNDRY EXHIBITS AT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL : 630
Air Compressors, Broom and Wade, 633
Core-making Oils, Spermoline, Ltd., Beecroft and Partners, 632, 633 Cupola Construction, Internationa'. Foundry Equipment Company, Pneu’.ec Machine Company, 633 Foundry Sand-preparing Machine, T. Ketin and R. Thiriart, 631 High-speed Moulding Machine, Sand Sifter, and Sand Mill, Universal System of, Machine Moulding Company, 631, 632 Jolt Moulding Machine, Hand-operated, Denbigh Engineering Company, 632
List of other Exhibitors, 633
Magnetic Separator, Rapid Magnetting Company, 631, 632 Mill for Mixing Sea Sand and Oil for Coremaking, Fordath Engineering Company 633
National Physical Laboratory Exhibits, 630
Pneumatic Sand Sifter, Britannia Foundry Company, 631 Spark Arrester, Pneulee Machine Company 632, 633 X-ray Examination of Metals, 630 FREIGHT Rates in Belgium, 546 FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES :
29, 59, 85, 113, 139, 169, 199, 229, 257, 283
311, 339, 371, 399, 427, 455, 483, 511, 539*
567, 595, 62-3, 653, 679
Advancing Costs, 113
Advancing Prices, 455
Agricultural Engineering, 455
Alpine Railway, 113
Automatic Couplings, 139
Aviation, 623
Brest-Casablanca Cable, 595
Case-hardening, 483
Chambon Barrage, 595
Cheap Fuels, 679
Coal, 679
Coal Production, 85, 229
Coal Strikes, 483
Colliery Industry, 427
Colonial Works, 29, 311
Concrete Piling, 199
Continuous Brakes, 199, 653
Credit Restrictions, 283
Currency Depreciation, 399
Electric Vehicles, 567
Electrical Ploughing, 371
Electricity on the Farm, 371
Electricity Tariffs, 427
European Commercial League, 311
Export Trade, 595
Ferry Boats, 229
Floating Docks, 229
Flood Protection, 59, 139
Foreign Trade, 139, 257, 399
French Navy, 257
Fuel Economies, 283
Higher Import Duties, 169
Hydraulic Works, 567
Hydro-electric Plants, 595
Import Duties, 283 «
Import Tariffs, 399
Industrial Burdens, 169
International Steel Union, 567, 623
Iron and Steel Production, 199
Iron and Steel Trades, 339
Joy Stick, 59
Miners’ Wages, 139
Moto." Cars, 199
Motor Fuels, 311, 455
Narrow-gauge Railways, 511
Naval Air Force, 169
Oil Borings, 539
Paris Sewage, 623, 653
Paris Water Supply, 455
Pig Iron Production, 539
Port of Nantes, 311
Port of Rouen, 257
Power Alcohol, 113
Production Costs, 85
Public Works, 679
Rail Motors, 85
Rail Union, 29, 339, 427, 539
Railway Accident, 59
Railway Progress, 511
Railway Rates, 399
Reparations and Public Works, 539
Rhine Canal, 653
Rhine-Rhone Canal, 511
Rove Tunnel, 29, 623
Russian Trade, 483
Saigon Arsenal, 85
Scrap Iron, 113
Seaborne Traffic, 339
Seaplane Trials, 283
Selling Prices, 483
Shipbuilding, 113, 229
Shipping, 339
Strikes in Belgium, 29
Suburban Traffic, 169
Tank Steamer, 539
The Situation, 511
Trade Future, 257
Trade Outlook, 59, 567
Trade Restrictions, 653
Transalpine Railway, 59
Tunnel Ventilation, 427
Tunnelling the Vosges, 139
Wages and Production, 595
FREQUENCY Variations, &c.—see Wireless 1 elegraphy FriCoiOn.’ S°me Aspects of, W. A. Benton, 403, 43U, 458 FuTeLDilAobuting Gear’ Ruston and Hornsby, -Ltd., 608 Fuel Research, Report on the Coal Industry, Professor Henry E. Armstrong, 524 Fuel Technology, 333
Furnace Production, Requirements for, Metal • or Mineral, Gas-fire Hardening Shop, Gibbons Brothers, 248 Furnaces and Combustion, 102 ; (Letter), 123 Furnaces, Gas-fired, Incandescent Heat Company, Ltd., 248 Fuse—see Electrical Matters G GAS Industry, Education in the, F. W. Goodenough, 644 Gas Oil for Petrol Engines, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 412 Gases at High Temperatures, Influence of, A.
Glynne Lobley and Douglas Jepson, 318
Gasworks Structures, Electrically Welded, J. Newell Reeson, 252 Gear Shaper, Super-accurate Production of Spur Gears on the Gear Shaper, H. Walker, 316 Gear, Toothless, Garrard Gears, Ltd., 304 Gearing—see Involute Gearing, Hydro-mechanical—see Ships Genders, R., Macrostructure of Cast Metals, 317 General Strike, 527 Geological Congress at Madrid, 78 German Steel and Coal Trust, A New, 382 Gibson, Professor A. H., on Piston Temperatures and Heat Flow in High-speed Petrol Engines, 122, 148 Goggles, Protective Effect of, J. and R. Fleming, Ltd., 251 Good, E. T., World Steel Trade and Britain’s Share, 149 Goodenough, F. W., Education in the Gas Industry, 644 Greaves, R. H., and J. A. J ones, Tensile Strength and Brinell Numbers, 630 H HALL, Dr. R. E., on Boiler Water Conditioning, 233 Hally, George, Electric Train Testing on the Metropolitan Railway, 514, 542 Hammer, Power, 30-Cwt. Electro-pneumatic, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 533 Harbour and Dock Engineering, Development of, Vernon-Harcourt Lecture, Sir C. Kirkpatrick, 24 Harvey, William, Traditional Architectural Forms and their Structural Efficiency, 374 Heat Transmission—see Electrical Matters Henderson, A. C. F., Outlook for Shipbuilding, 349, 362 Herbert, E. G., Apparatus for Measurement of Cutting Temperatures, 24, 225, 238, 245 ; (Letters), 276, 296 Heterogeneity, &c.—see Iron and Steel, Report on High Efficiency-^—see Engines Highway Bridges—see Bridges Hill, Captain G. T. R., Tailless Aeroplane, 463, 498, 501 Hobbs, Engineer-Captain L. M., Recent Modifications to Water-tube Boilers of the Three- drum Type, 405 Hume-Rothery, W., Intermetallic Compounds, 345 Hydraulic Cargo Cranes on the Motor Liner Asturias, Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, Ltd., 364 Hydraulic Developments of the Midi Railway in the Ossau Valley, 376 Hydraulic Governor, A New, Percy Pitman, 191 Hydraulic Press, Double-action, Wm. Grice and Sons, 450 Hydraulic Works in Sao Paulo, 334 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1925, 223 Hydro-electric Supply, Swiss, Alfred R. .Sieveking, 519 Hydro-mechanical Gear—see Ships I ILLUMINATION and Photometry, Glossary of Terms Used in, 79 India, Reinforced Concrete Retaining Walls in, 390 Indian Irrigation, 1921-1924, 388, 402 Industrial Locomotives, Societe John Cockerill, 532 Industry and Trade, 390 Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Instruments, Various, at the Physical and
Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 38
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines Intermetallic Compounds, Researches on the
Nature, Properties, &c., of, W. Hume- Rothery, 345
International Geological Congress, 78 International Road Congress and Exhibition, 494 International Shipping Conference, 468 International Tests—see Aeronautics Involute Internal Gearing, H. Walker, 146, 172 IRON AND STEEL :
“ Bond between Concrete and Steel,” 160 British Steel, 583
Cleaning Blast-furnace Gases by Electricity, 588
Continental Production of Iron, 369
German Iron and Steel Production in 1925, 157 Hardening and Tempering of High-speed Steel, A. R. Page, 630 Hardness of Carbon Steels at High Temperatures, I. G. Slater and T. H. Turner, 629 International Iron and Steel Agreements, 408
Iron and Steel Production in 1925, 95 Light Alloys or Steel ? 528
Mass, Effect of, in the Heat Treatment of Nickel Steel, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Others, 628 Nickel-Copper Alloy, H. J. Tapsell and J. Bradley, 346 Past and Future of the Steel Industry, Sir W. P. Rylands, 674, 583
Quenching, 216 Report on the Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots,
IRON AND STEEL (continued): Safe Loads and Endurance of Steels under Repeated Bending Stresses, 130 Sandviken, Steel Strip Rolling at, 466, 470 Silicates and Steel Ingots, J. H. S. Dickenson, 602
Some Special Steels, Hadfields, Ltd., 407 Steel Rails Production in America, 504
Tensile Strength and Brinell Numbers, R. H. Greaves and J. A. Jones, 630 Ukrainian Iron and Steel Industry, Development of, 412 United Steel Companies’ Works, Tar-distilling Plant, W. C. Holmes and Co., 68, 72 World Steel Trade and Britain’s Share, E. T. Good, 149 IRRIGATION—see also Indian Irrigation Schemes, Canal de Castilla, 447 Irrigation Works, Van Ryneveld’s Pass, 54 Italy, Water Power in, 98 J JOHNSTON, E. W., Lubricating Oils for Heavy
Oil Engines, 615
Jubilee of the Telephone, 636 Jutland, Battle of, 545 Jutland, Lessons of, 555 K KENT, J. L., Experiments on Mercantile
Ship Models in Waves, 381
Kent, W. L., Brittle Ranges of Bronze, 318 Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in English
Towns and Cities, 433 ; (Letter), 580
L LANGERBRUGGE—see Electrical Matters Launches and Trial Trips, 54, 83, 137, 197, 309, 425, 509, 593, 621, 654 Lawn Mower, Motor-driven, Dennis Brothers, 248 LEADERS:
1925—A Retrospect of, 15
Aeroplane and the Car, 16
Civil Engineering, 16
Education, 16
Industry, 16
Locomotives, 16
Marine Engineering, 15
Adhesives, 500
Agricultural Engineering, 128
All-steel Passenger Rolling Stock, 472
“ Black Spot,” The, 299
British Steel, 583
Chemists and Power Plant Problems, 612
Coal and Economics, 556
Comparative Performances of Air Heaters, 668
Comparison of Power Stations, 387 Credibility of Boiler Tests, 156 Cutting Temperatures, 245 Design of Air Heaters, 300 Dreadnought Anniversary, 155 Education and the Employee, 639 Electricity in Mines, 444 Electricity Supply, 101, 327
Engineering in America and Great Britain, 127
Foreigr er on British Railways, 388 French Navy, 471 Furnaces and Combustion, 102 Future of the Economiser, 74 General Strike, 527
Heat Transmission Aspect of a Power Station, 416 Improvement in Boiler Design, 499 Lessons of Jutland, 555 Liberty of the Subject, 583 Light Alloys or Steel ? 528 Limiting Stresses, 472
Metallurgical Education, 45 Misunderstandings about Steam, 185 Naval Construction, 443 Naval Engineers, 499 Navy Estimates, 271 New Cruisers, 215 Power Factor, 186 Privately-owned Railway Wagon, 415 Quenching, 216 Railway Gear, 358 Rebuilding the German Navy, 639 Royal Naval Engineer Officers, 328 Sixty Years Ago and To-day, 45 Status of Naval Engineer Officers, 357
“ The Engine-room Department Never Fails,” 667
Too Many Institutions ? 272 Torsionmeters, 73 Variety in Design, 246 Wages Boards for the Coal Industry, 556 Water Capacity of Boilers, 611
LEATHER for Belting, Chrome-tanned Heat Resisting, &c., Henry Beakbane, 249 Leipzig, Technical Fair at, 286 LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England, North of, 26, 56, 82, 110, 136, 166, 196, 227, 254, 280, 308, 336, 368, 397, 424, 452, 480, 508, 536, 564, 592, 620, 650, 676 Lancashire, 25, 54, 83, 109, 135, 166, 195, 225, 253, 279, 307, 335, 367, 395, 423, 451, 479, 507, 535, 563, 591, 619, 649, 676 Midlands and Staffordshire, 25, 54, 81, 109, 135, 165, 195, 225, 253, 279, 307, 335, 367, 395, 423, 451, 479, 507, 534, 563, 591, 619, 649, 675 Scotland, 27, 57. 82, 111, 137, 167, 196, 227, 255, 281, 308, 337, 369, 397, 425, 453, 481, 509, 537, 564, 592, 621, 651, 677 Sheffield, 26, 56, 81, 110, 136, 165, 196, 226, 254, 280, 308, 336, 368, 396, 424, 452, 480, 508, 536, 564, 592, 620, 650, 676 Wales and Adjoining Counties. 27, 57, 82, 111, 137, 167, 197, 227, 255, 281, 309, 337, 369, 397, 425, 453, 481, 509, 537, 565, 593, 621, 651, 677 LITERATURE (continued): Short Notices : Disease of Unemployment and the Cure, Sir E. W. Petter, 39, 157 Electrical Precipitation, Sir Oliver Lodge, 103 Fuel Economy and Smoke Prevention, J. B.
C. Kershaw, 501
Fuel Oil Viscosity-Temperature Diagram, Lieut.-Commander G. B. Vroom, U.S. Navy, 417
Industrial Furnaces, W. Trinks, 417
Insulated Electric Cables, Vol. I., C. J.
Beaver, 39
Loud Speakers, C. M. R. Balbi, 473
Materials Testing: Theory and Practice,
J. H. Cowdrey and R. G. Adams, 124, 389 Modern Railway Signalling, M. G. Tweedie and T. S. Lascelles, 501
Oscillographs, J. T. Irwin, 39 Photo-electricity, Stanley Allen, 39 Practical D.C. Armature Winding, L. Wolli- son, 39 Practical Road Engineering, H. E. Goldsmith, 216
Practical Surveying, G. W. Usill, 246, 445
“ Proceedings ” of the Fourth International Congress of Refrigeration, 216 Processes of Flour Manufacture, Percy A. Amos, 157
Pyrometers, Ezer Griffiths, 246, 389
Science of Flight and its Practical Application, Vol. I., Captain P. H. Sumner, 473 Surveying for Settlers, W. Crossley, 473 Waterworks Administration, W. H. Parsons, 301, 445 Books Received : Advertisers’ ABC, 1926, T. B. Browne, Ltd., 557 Annales des Fonts et Chauss6es, 585 Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 473 Annali dei Lavori Pubblici gia Giomale del Genio Civile, 74, 216, 473, 557, 669 Annual Report of the Society of Chemical Industry, &c., 669 Appareillage Electrique, P. Maurer, 557 Association of British Engineers in the Argentine Republic, Journal, 1925, 473 Ayrton, Hertha, 1854-1923, Evelyn Sharp, 417 Beitrag zu den Grundlagen der Schnellsu- fenden Halbdieselmotoren, Dr.-Ing. Karl Buchner, 301
“ Bennis ” Standard Evaporation Tables,
G. A. Rossetti, 103
Birmingham Exchange Directory of Members, &c., 633
Book of the Light Car, E. T. Brown, 389
British Malaya, Handbook to, 1926, Captain
R. L. German, 612
Bulk Cargoes, A. C. Hardy, 557
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXIV., No. 1, 1926, 669 Culvert’s Mechanics’ Almanac, 1926, F. Nasmith, 39 Carburation et Carburateurs, L. Poincare, 246 Cargo Handling at Ports, Brysson Cunningham, 585 Central Electric Stations in Canada, 557 Centrifugal Dryers and Separators, E. A. Alliott, 301 Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue, D. M. Newitt, 389 Coal and Ash-handling Plant, J. D. Troup, 669 Colliery Manager’s Pocket-book, 103 Colliery Year Book, &c., 417 Combustibles Inferieurs et de Remplace- ment, Pierre Appell, 557
Combustion in Power Plant, T. A. Marsh, 389 Composition of Coal : Plant Cuticles in Coal, Safety in Mines Research Board, V. H. Legg and R. V. Wheeler, 124
Concrete Year Book, O. Faber and H. L. Childe, 103 Corrosion: Causes and Prevention, F. N. Speller, 669
Cours de Thermodynamique, G. Bruhat, 359 Das Deutsche Warenzeichenrecht, Dr. W.
Pinzger and Dr. F. Heinemann, 389
Der Behalterbau, Part I., E. Broschat, 669
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Vol. VI.,
S. Acid-Tetryl, Sir Edward Thorpe, 359 Dictionary of Costing, R. H. J. Ryall, 557 Die Entwickelung des Dieselmaschine, Professor R. Schottler, 359
Die Erfindung der Lokomotive und ihre Entwicklung in Oesterreich, Ing. F. X. Saurau, 301 Die Technische Mechanik, Vol. II., Festig- heitslehre, M. Samter, 301 Diesel Maschinen, Vol. IL, 39 Draught and Capacity of Chimneys, J. G. Mingle, 216 Eclairage Electrique, P. Maurer, 103 Electrical Contracting, H. Ayres Purdie, 669 Electricity, Applied, S. Timoshenko and J. M. Lessells, 246 Elementary Electrical Training, O. R. Randall, 473 Elements of Motor Vehicle Design, C. T. B. Donkin, 669 Elements of Reinforced Concrete Design,
H. V. Crabtree, 157
Engineering Index, 1925, 585 Engineers’ Year Book for 1926, 473 Engines of High Output, H. R. Ricardo, 301 English Clubs, A List of, 1926, E. C. Austen Leigh, 301 Enlarged Heat Drop Tables, H. Moss and Professor H. L. Callendar, 246 Experiment to Determine Corrections to Sounding in River Gauging, P. Phillips, 216 Fuel Oil Viscosity-temperature Diagram, Lieut.-Commander G. B. Vroom, 473 Gas Engineers’ Pocket-book, H. O’Connor, 557 Gas and Fuel Analysis for Engineers, A. H. Gill, 585 Gayer’s Acreage Tables, A. F. Gayer, 473 Handbuch der Schiffbau Industrie, Deutsche Wirtschafts Biicherei, 301 H.M. Stationery Office Publications : Condor Engine, Series III., 417 Hydrology and Ground Water, J. M. Lacy, 473 Military Engineering, Vol. I., Mechanical Engineering, 359
LITERATURE (continued'): Books Received (continued): H.M. Stationery Office Publications (con- tinued): Reports, Economic and Industrial Conditions :
Argentine Republic, H. O. Chalkley, 246
Belgium and Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Economic Situation in, J. Picton Bagge, 58
Food Investigation Board, 1924, 124
France, J. R. Cahill, 39
India, T. M. Ainscough, 103
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyrenaica, 103
Paraguay, F. W. Paris, 157
Venezuela, H. A. Hobson, 124
Water Transport Catalogue of the Science
Museum, 557
Hiitte Taschenbuch der Stoffkunde, Dr.-Ing.
A. Stauch, 246
Hydraulics : Gauging of Sewage Flows, &c.,
T. Barlow, 359
“ Ice and Cold Storage ” Trades Directory, 103 If I were a Labour Leader! Ernest J. P.
Benn,669
Illustrated Technical Dictionaries, Weaving and Woven Fabrics, A. Schlomann, 301 Industrial Arts Index, H. W. Wilson Company, 633 Industrial Furnaces, Vol. II., W. Trinks, 389 International Review of the Science and
Practice of Agriculture, 557 Journal of the Institute of Metals, G. Shaw Scott, 216
Kelly’s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 669 Laboratory Experiments for the Engineering Student, H. Threfall, 157
Law Relating to Injuries to Workmen, F. G. Neave, 669 L’Enseignement Technique, Bulletin Mensuel, &c., 301, 557 Les Moteurs & Explosion, E. Marcotte, 557 Les Progres de la Fonderie : Moulage et Fusion, C. Derulle, 669 Locomotive Superheating and Feed-water Heating, 557 Locks and Lockmaking, F. J. Butler, 669 Marine Oil Engine, Questions for B.O.T. Examinations on, W. C. MacGibbon, 246 Mass Production Equipment, P. Gates, 103 Mathematics for Engineers, Parts I. and II.. W. N. Rose, 473 Mechanical Draught, J. E. Lister and C. Harman Harris, 669 Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book, 157 Metal Spraying, T. H. Turner and N. F. Budgen, 301 Mines, The (Working Facilities and Support Act, 1923), 246
Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Lake Plateau Basin of the Nile, Dr. H. E. Hurst, 39 Modern Drying Machinery, H. B. Cronshaw, 301 Modern Telpherage and Ropeways, Herbert
Blyth, 669 Motor Boat and Marine Motor Annual, 557 Motor Ship Reference Book, 1926, 301
Original Book of the Ford, R. T. Nicholson, 669 Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of
Mankind, Garet Garrett, 557 Outbreaks of Fire, Sydney Gompertz, 669 People’s Year Book, 1926, 39 Piasterwork Construction, G. P. and G. E., Blankart, 301 Portland Cement and Concrete, Making and Testing of, 557 Powering of Ships, T. C. Tobin, 557 Practical Electricians Pocket Book, 157 Practical Engineer ” Electrical Pocket Book, 1926, Conrad Arnold, 124
“ Practical Engineer ” Mechanical Pocket Book, 103 Practical Lessons in Carpentrv and Joinery, G. Ellis, 669 Practical Marine Diesel Engineering, L. R.
Ford, 103 Practical Saw Doctor, R. W. Todd, 301
Principles of Electric Power Transmission and Distribution, L. F. Woodruff, 359 Principles and Practice of Surveying, C. B.
Breed and G. L. Hosmer, 585
“ Proceedings ” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 557
“ Proceedings ” of the American Society for Testing Materials, Vol. XXV., 389 Profit-sharing, M. E. Askwith, 359 Public Ground-water Supplies in Illinois, 557
Quantum Theory of the Atom, G. Birtwistle, 301
Radio Press Year-book, 1926, 301
Refrigeration, Introduction to, H. C. Kenn, 473 Reid’s Handy Colliery Guide and Directory, 389 Report of the Bridge Sub-committee on Track Stresses.. 1925, 585
Secret of High Wages, B. Austin and W.
Francis Lloyd, 389
Self-instruction for Students in Gas Supply, “ Mentor,” 246 Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 359
Specification, F. Chatterton, 359
Stainless Iron and Steel, J. H. G. Monypenny, 557 Stars and their Uses, E. B. Leggett, 39
Steam Turbines, G. Belluzzo, 633
Stress Analysis of Bow Girders, 473 Studies of Bond between Concrete and Steel, 216 Superheat Engineering Data, 612 Surface Water Supply of Canada : Atlantic
Drainage, &c., 1922-3, 1923-4, 74 Surveying, W. N. Thomas, 612 Sweden Year Book, 1926, 669
Technical Conference of State Utility Commission Engineers, 216 Technisches Worterbuch, Ausdriicke des Maschinen-und Schiffbaues, Erich Krebbs, 557 Technology Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, 157 The Engineer and Prevention of Malaria, Henry Home, 417 The “ Express ” per Gross and per Dozen Reckoner, J. Gall Inglis, 301 M MACHINE TOOLS: Automatic Lathe, Improved, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 278 Boring and Turning Mill, Vertical, Selson Engineering Company, Ltd., 474, 475 Change-speed Gear, Expanding Pulley, Barker and Co., 249 Grinding Attachment for Heavy Lathes, Herbert Hunt and Sons, 422 Hexagon Turret Lathe, Improved, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 642 Improved Thread-milling Machine, Buck and Hickman, Ltd., 578 Leipzig Fair Machine Tool Hall, Extensive and Varied Exhibits of Machines, chiefly in Motion, 286, 287 Milling Cutters, High Power, Inserted Tooth, &c., Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 249 Milling Cutters, High Power, Side and Face Cutter, Heavy Milling Operation, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 249 Multiple Bar Shearing Machine, De Bergue and Co., Ltd., 100, 104, 105 Presses for Plastic Material or Hot Brass, Taylor and Challen, Ltd., 206 Testing Machine, Multiple-lever Universal, Joshua Buckton and Co.; Ltd., 442, 446 MACNICOLL, Donald, Marine Turbine Governing and Forced Lubrication Failure Control, 266 Macrostructurc of Cast Metals, R. Genders, 317 Madras, Construction of a Breakwater Head at, Colin R. White, 464 M.A.N. Engine—see Engines Manchester—sec Water Supply Mangnall-Irving System of Thrust Boring, 521, 522, 523 Marine Engines—see Engines ; also Annual Articles Marine Gear—see Engines ; also Annual Articles Marine Turbine Governing and Forced Lubrication Failure Control, Donald MacNicoll, 266 Marshall, C. W., Operating Costs of Electric Battery Vehicles, C. W. Marshall, 668 Measuring Small Fluid Pressures, An Electrical Method, H. A. Thomas, 88 Mechanical Engineering Exhibits, Various, 249 Metal Aeroplane—see Aeronautics Metals, Single Crystals of, Professor H. C. H.
Carpenter, 559
Metallurgical Education, 45 Milling Machines—see Machine Tools Mineral Productions of New South Wales i.i 1925, 464 Mines and Quarries, U.S.A., Safety Working in, 562 Misunderstandings about Steam, 185 Mixing Machines—see Linoleum Monceau-Fontaine—see Electrical Matters ; also Coal, &c. Mortimer, George, Die Casting of Aluminium Alloys, 292 Multiple Bar Shearing and Handling Equipments, 100, 104, 105 Murday Type Traction Recorder, 515 Murphy, Silver and Tin Alloys, 345 Murray, Matthew, G. F. Tyas, 268 N NAVAL Matters—see Ships Naylor, T. M., Whirling Speeds of Drum Rotors, 89 ; (Letters), 222, 277 New South Wales Mining Industry, 289 Newcomen Society—see Associations
OBITUARY :
Ahrons, Ernest Leopold, 416
Bailie, John David, 74
Boswell, Samuel, 12
Carlisle, The Right Hon. Alexander Mont
gomery (Portrait), 300
Daniel, John, 348
Folland, Henry, 388
Fraser, Gordon H., 191
Herdt, Louis Anthyme, 501
Hird, Francis, 388
Holmes, Sir George (Portrait), 209
Hoyle, James Rossiter (Portrait), 328
Johnson, Claude Goodman, 444
Leslie, Sir Bradford (Portrait), 347
Lloyd, Arthur Llewellyn, 417
Moilliet, Georges, 577
Murphy, Martin, 156
Pickles, George, 428
Riley, R. Sanford, 577
Ward, Thomas W., 191
Watts, Sir Philip (Portrait), 329
Windsor, Cecil Stanley, 12
OIL Cooler, Reliance Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 162 Oil Engines—see Engines ; also Annual Articles Oils—see also Lubricating Omnibuses, Electric Trolley, at Ipswich,
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, 493
Oswald-street Bridge, Glasgow, W. L. Scott, 62
QUEEN MARY Reservoir Canduit, 126, 131, 142
Quick-hardening Cements, 590
R
RADIO—see Wireless
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS :
All-steel Passenger Rolling Stock, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 472, 478
American Petrol-electric Rail Car, 361
Automatic Train Control in America, 93 Electric Train Testing on the Metropolitan
Railway, George Hally, 514, 542
Fracturing of Fish-plates, N. Garrett Smith, 435 Main Line Railway Electrification, Sir Philip Dawson and Professor S. Parker Smith, 175, 233, 235, 342, 343 ; for Details, see Foreign Railways Rail Production in America, 504 Railway Year, 358 Relaying Railway Track by Machine, A. W. Bretland, 75 Wagon, Privately Owned Railway, 415 British, Colonial, and Indian : Ballasting the C.P.R. Tracks, 291 Bengal-Nagpur Railway, “ Garratt ” Locomotives, 586 Doubling the Inner Circle, 362 Foreigner on British Railways, 388 Great Southern Railways, Ireland, Relaying Track by Machine, A. W. Bretland, 75 Indian Railway Administration Report, 333 Indian State Saloons, Eastern Bengal Railway, 108 Metropolitan Railway, Electric Train Testing on, George Hally, 514, 542 Notes on British Railways by a Continental Engineer, 145, 178, 204, 236, 264, 288, 314, 358
Conclusions, 359
Electrification, 314
Goods and Traffic, 358
Interlocking and Signalling, 178
Management, 358
Passenger Traffic, 314
Permanent Way, 178
Rolling Stock and Wagons, 236 ; Goods Wagons and Trucks, 237
Shunting and Switching, 288
Termini and Stations, Goods Stations, Running Sheds, 204 Locomotives Included in Notes on British Railways—see Railway Locomotives Preston and Carlisle, New Loop Lines Between, 580 Waterloo Tube Station Reconstruction, 306 Foreign Railways : Electric Traction on the Orleans Railway, H. Parodi, 408 Italy and Central Europe, Proposed New Railways Between, 673 Main Line Railway Electrification :
U.S.A. North-Western States :
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway, 177, 234, 235 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, 175, 233, 235 Great Northern Railway, Cascade Tunnel, 177, 234, 235
Inland Empire Railroad, 177, 234, 235
U.S.A., South-Eastern States :
Norfolk and Western Railway, 342, 343 Virginian Railroad, 343, 344, 345
Midi Railway of France, Hydraulic Developments, 376 Swiss Federal Railways, Brugg Sub-station, 188 Water Power for the Paris-Orleans Railway Electrification, 584 RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES : General:
American Diesel-electric Locomotive, 268 American Eight-coupled Locomotives, 351 Automatic Train Control in America, 93 Economy in Axle-box Design, 503
Garratt Locomotive, R. H. Whitelegg, 392 Locomotive Feed-water Heater, Worthington-Simpson, Ltd., 53 Locomotive Testing, Electric, 545 Single-phase 50-Cycle Electric Locomotive, Fried. Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, 606 British, Colonial and Indian : Notes on British Railways, 145 et seq.—see also Railways
Locomotives, 264
Locomotive Running and Management, 289 Shunting and Switching : Coal Premiums, 288 Southern Railway, New 4-4-0 Type Engines, 440 Foreign : Main Line Railway Electrification, Electric Locomotives for : U.S.A. North-Western States, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway,
176, 177, 233
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway,
177, 234
Great Northern Railway, 177, 234, 236 Inland Empire Railroad, 177, 234
U.S.A. South-Western States, Norfolk and Western Railway, 343, 344
Virginian Railroad, 345
Norfolk and Western Railway, New Locomotive, 4000 H.P. Two-unit Electric, American Locomotive Company, 96 (Two- page Supplement, January 22nd, 1926) RATING—see Electrical Matters Reamer, New Floating, David Brown and Co., 163 Reamers, Adjustable, Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 249
Refractories : Fire-bricks and Bricks for Heat ;
Insulating, Timmis and Co., 248
Refrigerator. Platen-Munters Ammonia Evapo | ration System, 220 Reinforced Concrete Retaining Walls in India, '
386, 390
Relaying Track—see Railways Report—see Coal Research and British Engineering Progress, 219 Research Exhibits at the Physical and Optical
Societies’ Exhibition, 37
Reservoir Conduit, Queen Mary, 126, 131, 142 Retaining Walls and Geostatic Theories, F. W.
Woods, 604
Ripping Steel Plates, Machine for, Noble and Lund, Ltd., 326, 332, 333 Road Congress, International, and Exhibition, 494 Rolling Stock—see Railways Rosenhain, Dr. W., and Others, Effecu of Mass
in the Heat Treatment of Nickel Steel, 628
Rylands, Sir W. P., Past and Fjiture of the Steel
Industry, 574, 583, 600
Ryves, Reginald,
Pumping, 602
s SAFE Loads and Endurance of Steels under Repeated Bending Stresses, 130 Safety Working in United States Mines and Quarries, 562 Sand Blast Barrel, New, J. W. Jackman and
Co., Ltd., 618
Sandviken—see Iron and Steel Scholarship Offer to Mining Engineers, 361 Scientific Exhibits at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 633 Screwing Machine, Simple Hand, Victor Engineering Company, Ltd., 194 Sea Waves, Suggested Method of Obtaining Power from, Monsieur P. Van Vloten, 461 Sewage Works, New Esholt, Opening of, 530 Sewer Pipes Laid by Thrust Boring Machine.
Mangnall Irving, 521, 522, 523
Shaughnessy, E. H., Rugby Wireless Station, 448 Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING :
See also Annual Articles
General: Crane Equipment of Shipbuilding Berths, Ebenezer Smith, 406 Electric Propulsion of Ships, Eskil Berg, 275 Freight Economics of a Cargo Vessel, Comparative, with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, W. J. Lovett, 380 Hydro-mechanical Transmission Gearing for Motor Ships, 179 International Shipping Conference, 468
Launching Problems, W. J. Berry, 350
Lloyd’s Register :
Annual Summary, 92
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 80, 446
Marine Engines—see Engines
Mercantile Ship Models in Waves, Experiments on, J. L. Kent, 381 Outlook for Shipbuilding, A. C. F. Henderson, 349, 362 Propeller Dimension Formulae, &c., Professor C. M. Carter, 381 Recent Liner Performances, 47 Ship Wave Resistance, Comparison of Mathematical Theory with Experimental Results, W. C. S. Wigley, 381 Shipbuilding Costs, 664 Steering Gear, Electric Hydraulic, Dr. Hele- Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 506 Trials of the Motor Vessel Pacific Trader, Committee’s Report, 65 Trials of the Motor Vessel British Aviator, Engines Tested by Marine Oil Engines Trials Committee, 576
What is Sea Speed ? Reginald J. Eyres, 392
British Navy :
Dreadnought Anniversary, 155
H.M.S. Suffolk, 217
Launching Arrangements of H.M. Ships
Nelson and Rodney, W. J. Berry, 350
New Cruisers, 215
Naval Matters : Engineering Branch of the Royal Navy, 486, 499 “ The Engine-room Department Never Fails,” 667 Heel and Trim, Method Used for Readily Correcting, A. W. Cluett, 406
Jutland, Battle of, A Retrospect, 545, 555 Naval Construction, 443 Naval Engineers, 499 Navy Estimates, 271 Rebuilding the German Navy, 639 Royal Naval Engineer Officers, 328, 330, 357 Status of Naval Engineers, 524, 547
Foreign Navies :
French Cruiser Duquesne, 440 French Navy, 471
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING {continued): Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels : Asturias, R.M.S.P. Motor Passenger Liner, 14, 17, 18, 79, 240, 245 ; (Addendum), 281 Belgian Mercantile Marine, Monsieur A. Pierrard, 660 British Aviator, Motor Vessel, Engines Tested by Marine Oil Engines Trials Committee, 576 Motor Ship Danmark, Burmeister and Wain, Ltd., 265 Motor Ships for South America, William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., 321 Pacific Trader, Motor Vessel, Engines Tested by Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, Wm. Doxford and Sons, 65
Triple-screw Liner Laurentic, 465
SIEVEKING, Alfred R., Swiss Hydro-electric
Supply, 519 ; (Correction), 561
Silicates—see Iron and Steel Silver and Tin Alloys, A. J. Murphy, 345 Sixty Years Ago, 9, 54, 79, 98, 124, 149, 187, 212, 246, 273, 293, 334, 351, 389, 409, 440, 465, 504, 523, 552, 588, 603, 641, 663 Sixty Years Ago and To-day, 45 Slater, I. G., and T. H. Turner, Hardness of
Carbon Steels at High Temperatures, 629
Sludge, Activated, Diffused-air Method of Treatment, 79 Smith, Ebenezer, Crane Equipment of Shipbuilding Berths, 406 Smith, N. Garrett, The Fracturing of Fishplates, 435 Societies—see Associations Soft Soldering of Copper, Dr. T. B. Crow, 318 Softening of Strain-hardened Metals, &c., R.
W. Bailey, 292
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES :
83, 161, 194, 251, 278, 305, 421, 478, 504,
579, 618, 675
Aviation Service in South Africa, 618
Big Electric Hoist, 504
Bridges, New, 549
Briquette Manufacture Company, 421
Broken Hill Power Plant, 579
Broken Hill Power Scheme, 161
Cape Town’s Electrical System, 675
Consumption of Gas and Electricity in Johannesburg, 619
Demand for Railways, 675 Durban Ship Repairing Job, 549 Eight Hours’ Day, 478 Electric Railway Working, 579 Electrification of Natal Main Line, 83 Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 618 Factories in Liquidation, 161 Floating Dock at Table Bay, 675 Fruit Wagons, New, 579 Gas for Johannesburg, 504 Government Areas New Plant, 675’ Important Ship Repair, 421 Industrial Progress, 83 Irrigation in Great Fish River Valley, 618 Irrigation of the Kalahari, 194 Kalahari Problem, 161 Labour-saving Elevators, 305 Large Gas Plant Wanted, 579 Large S.A.R. Orders, 305 Locomotives on Nigerian Railways, 83 Locomotives Ordered from Germany, 579 Metrovick Electric Winders, 675 Mineral Output, 161, 549 Mineral Output for 1925, 478 Motor Car Centre, 305 Municipal Enterprises, 549 Narrow-gauge Motor Truck, 618 Natal Railway Electrification, 194 New Cape Central Railway, 504 Novel Power Agreement, 194 Orders Lost Through Strike, 675 Petroleum in S.W. Africa, 478 Pig Iron Production, 251 Platinum Activities, 478 Platinum Production in the Transvaal, 278 Port Elizabeth’s Electrical Power, 161 Port Elizabeth Harbour Extension, 579 Power Station, Large, at Durban, 305 Power Station Mishap, 504 Pulp Binder Invented, 194 Railway Electrification, 504 Railway Rolling Stock, 549 Railways, New, 549 Rand-Cape Telephone Service, 618 Rand’s Record Output, 618 Record Workshop Job, 549 Refrigerating Plants, 549 Reservoirs Troubled by Silt, 194 Rhodesian Chrome for U.S.A., 478 Rhodesian Irrigation Project, 305 Rhodesia’s Mineral Riches, 194 Rock Hoist, A Large, 305 Union Irrigation, 161 Union’s 1925 Maize Crop, 305 Union Miniere’s New Plant, 675 Union Railway Budget, 579 Union Railways’ Traffic, 421 Union Rolling Stock, 161 Union Steel Corporation, 83 Water Valve, World’s Largest, 305 Witbank Super Power Station, 161, 478 World’s Largest Electric Hoist, 619
“ SPREAD ” of Metal in Rolling, C. E. Davies, 598, 626 Standardisation in Industry, 293 Stations, Railway—see Railways Status of Naval Engineers, 524 Steam, Misunderstandings About, 185 Steam Tables, Consistency of, 272 Steam Turbine Plant for an Old Cotton Mill, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd., 52 Steam Turbines, Improved, for Turbo - generators, Oerlikon Ltd., 105 ; (Letter), 124 Steel—see Iron Stockdale, Dr. D., Aluminium-copper-tin Alloys, 318 Striation Due to Working or Corrosion, Monsieur A. M. Portevin, 346 Stroborama, Monsieurs Laurent and Augustin Seguin, 506 Sulzer, Robert, Temperature Variation and Heat Stresses in Diesel Engines, 379, 391, 420 Super-accurate Production of Spur Gears on the Gear Shaper, H. Walker, 316 ; (Letter), 384 Superheating of Steam, Automatic, 516 Sutlej Valley Irrigation Project, 644 Swiss Hydro-electric Supply, Alfred R. Sieve- king, 519 ; (Correction), 561 T TAR Distilling Plant at Steel Works, W. C. Holmes and Co., Ltd., 68, 72 Taylor, J. E., Propagation of Electric Waves, 249 Telegraphy and Telephony, Wireless—see Wireless Telephone, Jubilee of the, 636 Television, Transmitting and Receiving Instruments, J. L. Baird, 641 Temperature Variation—see Engines Testing Machines—see also Machine Tools Testing Machines :
Izod Impact Testing, 207
Rubber Testing, 206, 207
Spring Testing, 207
W. and T. Avery, 206
Tests of a Back-pressure Steam Turbine, Monsieur M. Hentsch, 462 Thermionic Generators, &c.—see Wireless Telegraphy Thermo Element, Vacuum, Moll and Berger, 38 Thomas, H. A., An Electrical Method of
Measuring Small Fluid Pressures, 88 Thompson, Lindley, and H. Walmsley, Testing Static Transformers, 158
Thrust Boring, Mangnall Irving System, Sewage Pipes Laid by, 521, 522, 523 Time Taken to Start a Stand-by Power Plant, 450 ; (Letter), 465 Too Many Institutions ? 272 ; (Letter), 412 Tookey, W. A., Industrial Tests of Internal
Combustion Engines, 437
Toothless Gear, Garrard Gears, Ltd., 304 Torsionmeters, 73 ; (Letters), 95, 222 Traditional Architectural Forms and their
Structural Efficiency, William Harvey, 374 Trains and Train Control—see Railways Trucks—see also Electrical Matters Tunnel, Cable, Under the Thames, 242 Turbine, Back-pressure Steam, Tests of, Monsieur M. Hentsch, 462
Turbine Blades, Wear of Nickel Steel ; Turbine, Exhaust Gas, Rotor for, Special Steels, 407, 408 Turbines—see also Steam Turbo-generators—see Electrical Matters Turner, Lieut.-Colonel F. W., Modern Flour
Milling Machinery, 635, 645, 670
Tyas, G. F., Matthew Murray, 268 V VALVES for the Fourth Thirlmere Pipe Line, 550 Valves, Multiple Flap, “ Ismailia,” E. C.
Bowden-Smith, 160
Van Ryneveld’s Pass Irrigation Works, 54 Variety in Design, 246 Vulcanised Fibre—see British Engineering
Standards
Washing Filtering Material, New Method of, Alfred E. Smith, 561 Water Power Development in Switzerland, 366 Water Power in Italy, the Orba Torrent, 98 Water Power for the Paris-Orleans Railway Electrification, 584 Water Power Projects in Spain, 348 Water Power Resources of Canada, 436 Water Power Storage by Pumping, Reginald Ryves, 602 WATER SUPPLY :
{See also Annual Articles and Reservoir) Big Water Supply Scheme, 496 Caine Waterworks Improvements, 68 Manchester Waterworks, W. F. H. Creber, 614 Metropolitan Water Board, Recent Works, 77 Paris Water Supply, 12
Thirlmere Pipe Line, The Fourth, 550
WELDING of Aluminium, Notes on, Edgar T. Painton, 189 Welding Plant, Portable Arc Welding, Siemens- Schuckert, Ltd., 562 Whirling Speeds of Drum Rotors, T. M. Naylor, 89 ; (Letters), 222, 277 White, Colin R., Construction of a Breakwater Head at Madras, 464 Whitelegg, R. H., The Garratt Locomotive, 392 Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance : Comparison of Mathematical Theory with Experimental Results, 381 Wilson, P. H., Nobel Oil Engine, 324 Wimperis, H. E., Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research, 613 Windmills for Generation of Electricity, 586 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELE
PHONY :
See also Annual Articles—Electrical
Matters
Exhibits, Various, at the Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 38
Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators, Lieut.-Colonel K. E. Edgeworth, 70 Imperial Wireless Beam Stations, Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., 78
Propagation of Radio Waves, J. Holling- worth, 192 Radio Frequency Resistance and Inductance of Coils, 152 Rugby Wireless Station, Motor Generators for, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 40 ; (Correction), 107 Rugby Wireless Station, E. H. Shaughnessy, 448
Seaplane, Wireless Equipment of, 209 Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, 290
WOODWORKING MACHINERY :
Olympia, Woodworking Machinery at, 472
Belt, Roller-fed Sand-papering Machine ; Haunching Tenons and Cutting Wedges, New Machine for, Haighs (Oldham), Ltd., 473 Chain-cutter and Hollow Chisel Mortising Machine with New Sharpening Tool, Planing and Moulding Machines, Saw Bench, Under-driven, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 473 Electro-brazing Apparatus, Joinery Machines, Wadkin and Co., 473 High-speed, Four-side, Planing and Moulding Machine, Thomas White and Sons, Ltd., 473 Mortising and Tenoning Machines, Sandpapering Machines, Sawing and Planing Machines, John Pickles and Sons, Ltd., 473 Super-Elliot Woodworker, Dominion Machinery Company, 473 Sanding Machine, Combined Chain and Chisel Morticer, Combined Surfacer and Saw, Dominion Machinery Company, 248 Wood Planing and Matching Machine, Highspeed, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 302, 303 WOODS, F. W., Retaining Walls and Geostatic Theories, 604 WORKS :
British Ciment Fondu Factory, 107 Linoleum Factory, 90
Y YARROW, Harold, High-pressure Water- tube Marine Boilers, 405, 410, 411, 414, 587 z ZINC Oxide in Brass, Determination of, Dr.
B. S. Evans and Mr. H. F. Richards, 346
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