The Engineer 1919 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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ACID Hearth — see Iron and Steel Adjustable Gauges. M. Woldgaard, 529
AERONAUTICS : See also Annual Articles
Aerial Photography, 367
Aero-dynamical Considerations, Captain G.
P. Thomson, 252
Aero-engine, 270 H.P. Basse-Selve. 246
Aero-engine Component-- see Jigs, Tools, &c.
Aeronautical Notes, 489, 54 2, 590
American Airships, 590
American Production of Aeroplanes during the War, 542
B.A.T. Passenger Biplane, 489
Fastest Aeroplane in the World, 590 Fiat Transatlantic Machine, 542, 590 First Commercial Flight, 489 New British Airships, 489
Tarrant Triplane Disaster, 542, 591
Aeroplane Erecting Shop and Doping Room, Austin Motor Company's Works, 600, 608
Aeroplane Factory, Heaton Chapel, Manchester, Crossley Motors, Limited, 422, 430 ; (Corrections), 468, 496 (Two-page Supplement, May 2nd, 1919)
Aircraft Production at Lincoln, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited. 391
Atlantic Flight, 610
Blackburn ** Kangaroo ” Aeroplane, Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, 579, 584
■’ Boulton-Paul ” Transatlantic Aeroplane, Boulton and Paul, Limited, 435
Britain’s Air Effort during the War, 461
British Rigid Airship R 33, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited. 255
Commercial Airships, 84
Commercial Aviation, 38
Development of Airship Const ruct ion, (’. 1. R. Campbell, 384, 397, 420
D.H. 10 Bombing Biplane, Aircraft Manufacturing Company, 68
Education in the Royal Air Force, 128
Fiat 12-Cylinder 400 H.P. Aero-engine, 411
Fixed Radial Aero-engines, Cosmos Engineering Company (Brazil, Straker and Co.), 530 Halberstadt Two-seater Biplane, 158 Hydrogen Barges for Royal Air Force, 219, 226
. Magnesium and its Alloys : Its Use for Aeroengines and Motor Cars, 402
Manufacture of Rafwires and their Fittings, Woodside Engineering Company, Limited, 167 (Two-page: Supplement, February 2lx/, 1919)
Military and Commercial Aircraft, 610
Multiple-engined Aeroplanes, 305
Pfalz Single-seater Fighting Aeroplane, 95
Phoenix Cork Flying Boat, Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company. Limited, 194
R 34, Long Voyage by, 590
Seaplane and Towing Lighters, 169
Standardisation of Aircraft Materials and Parts, 391
Tarrant Six-engined 3000 H.P. Triplane, 152, 453, 456, 542, 591
Technical Training in the Air Force, 110 Trend of German Aeroplane Design, 25 " Vickers-Vimy ” Transatlantic and Commercial Aeroplanes, 555, 560
Wirelessly Directed Aircraft. 357
Zeitlin. Aero-engine, 4 08
AGE-LONG Engineering Works of China, Professor Middleton Smith, 72
Agricultural Engineering in France, 457
Agricultural Machines at Cardiff Show, 62.7, 630
Agricultural Machines. Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 630
Air Compressor Design, Improvements, Reave! 1 and Co., Limited, 534, 538
Air Compressor, Petrol-driven, Portable, Lacy-Hulbert and Co., Limited, 165
Air Compressor Valve—see Valve
Air Receiver, Frank Richards, 562, 573
Air, Storing, in the Earth, 575
Alloys—see Copper, Aluminium, Magnesium, Metals, &c.
Almanacsand Diaries, 23, 46, 93, 118, 164, 442
Aluminium and its Alloys, Micrography of, D.
Hanson and S. L. Archbutt, 322
Ambulance Trains—see Railways
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS: 152 American Railway Equipment in France, 152 American Steam Power Developments, 152 Brick Chimney, 585ft. High, 152
AMERICAN Factory, Handling Material at, 341 American Steel—see Iron and Steel
Anchadura, 64 I
Andrew, J. H., and G. W. Green, on the Manufacture and Working of High-speed Steel 503, 553
Annealing see Furnace
ANNUAL ARTICLES: Aeronautics, 1914-1918. 18
Aero-engines, 18
Commercial Flying, 18
Cost of Aeroplaning, 18
Passenger Aeroplanes, 18
Engineering and Allied Trades tn 1918, 2
Iron and Steel Centres, 3
Iron, Steel, and Coal Prices, 2
Labour and Wages, 3
Miscellaneous, 4
Shipyards, In the, 3
Locomotives of the Year, 5, 12
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)-. Naval Progress, Four Years or, 14 (Two-page Supplement, January 3rd, 1919)
Battleshipsand Battle-cruisers, 14
Destroyers, 15
Engineers, The, 15
Light Cruisers, 15
Naval Guns, 15
Private Yards, 15
Submarines'and Special Vessels, 15
Railways, Bjiti^h in 1918, 8
Shipping in 1918, 16
Emigration and the Emigration Law, I 7 Freedom of the Seas, 17
German Merchant Marine, Penalising the, 17
Government Control of Shipping, 16
Legislation for Shipping, 16
National Treatment, of Shipping, 17
Shipbuilding Effort, .16
Shipbuilding, Our Capacity for, 16
Submarine Warfare Against Shipping, 16
Value of Shipping in the Future, 17
APPRENTICES, State Aid for, 468
Arc Welding—see Electric Welding
Armitage, Herbert C., on Jigs, Tools, &c., for Production of Standardised Parts, 299, 309, 324
Armoured Concrete Cooling Tower, Harald Nielsen, 526
Armoured Trains for Coast Defence, 150
Armour-piercing Shells, 18in. High Velocity, Hadfield’s Steel Foundry Company’s, 231
1 Army Supply Stores at Brooklyn, U.S.A., 340
1 Art in Engineering, The Sense of, 406, 443
I Asbestos, Rowell and Allen, 547
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Association of Engineers, Manchester: Electric Power Supply, S. L. Pearce, 104
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical: Annual Convention, The Twenty-fourth, 623 Electric Power Transmission Considerations, S. L. Pearce, 624
Presidential Address, F. Ayrton, 623
Programme for Twenty-fourth Annual Convention, 570
Valuing Electrical Undertakings, &c., Bailie W. B. Smith, 624
Visits to Works, 624
Whitley Report ; Joint Industrial Councils ; Research Work, Aiderman Walker, 624
Association, Technical Inspection: Formation, 411
Institute, Iron and Steel: Acid Hearth and Slag, J. H. Whiteley, 503 Andrew Carnegie Research Fund, Grants from, 502
Annual Banquet ; Presidential Address, Monsieur Eugene Schneider, 458
Annual Meeting, 343, 458, 474, 502, 553
Belgian Iron and Steel Industry during the War, Leon Greiner, 474, 476
Bessemer Medal Award to Professor Giolitti and Presentation of Replica of Previously Awarded Medal to Son of Mr. A. Greiner, 474
Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513
Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer, 475, 490
Improvements in the Case Hardening Process, D. Hanson and J. E. Hurst, 503
Joint Meeting of the Institute and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Discussion of Papers on Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Works. List of Papers Booth -
Hall Electric Furnace, W. K. Booth ; Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer ; New Type of Electric Furnace, A. Sablin ; Large Electric Steel Melting Furnaces, V. Stobie ; Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby ; Application of Electric Energy in Melting of Metals, H. A. Greaves ; 475, 490, 513
Jubilee of the Institute, 458
Macro-etching and Macro-printing, J. C. W. Humphrey, 503
Manufacture and Working of High-speed Steel, J. H. Andrew and G. W. Green, 503, 553
Modern Steel Metallurgy, C. H. F. Bagley, 503
Some Points in the Manufacture of Files, G. Taylor, 503, 604, 606, 626
Use of Powdered Coal, L. C. Harvey, 474
Work of the Engineering Division of the National Research Council of America, Professor H. M. Howe, 502
Institute of Metals: Annual General Meeting, 300, 301, 322
Corrosion Committee, Fourth Report, G. I).
Bengough and O. F. Hudson, 300, 301
Effect of Work on Metals and Alloys, (). W Ellis, 322
Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of Oxygen-free Copper, F. Johnson, 322
Metallurgical Information Required by Engineers, Lieut.-Col. C. F. Jenkin, 322, 325
Micrography of Aluminium and its Alloys, D. Hanson and S. L. Archbutt, 322
Properties of Some Copper Alloys, Dr. Rosen-hain and D. Hanson. 322
Relationship Between the Laboratory and the Workshop, W. R. Barclay, 322
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institute of Metals (continued):
Science and Industry in Relation to Nonferrous Metals, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527
Scope of the Works Laboratory, F. C. A. H. Lantsberry, 322
Institution of Civil Engineers : Council of the Civils (Letters), 463, 489
Limit Gauges, Conference by the British .Engineering Standards Association, 51 1
October Examinations, 1918: Pass List, 390
Institution of Electrical Engineers: Committee’s Recommendations on Power Supply, 92
Determination of the Efficiency of the Turboalternator, S. F. Barclay and S. P. Smith, 290
Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, 34]
Joint Meeting of the Institution and the Iron and Steel institute for Discussion of Six Papers on Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Works, 475, 490, 513—for List of Papers, see Iron and Steel Institute
Testing Transformer Oils, Arnold Philip, 47-The Fullerphone, Major A. C. Fuller, 435 War Memorial, Electrical Engineers’, 101 Wireless Telegraphy, Formation of Committees in connection with Electrical Engineering, 315
Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
What the War has Done for Engineers and the Part Engineers have to Play in Recon-si ruction, Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41
Institution of Locomotive Engineers :
Three-cylinder Locomotives, II. Holcroft, 485
Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Annual General Meeting, Award of Premiums, Suggested Formation of an Indian Society of Engineers, Patent Law Amendment, 193
Development of the Oxy-acetylene Welding and Cutting Industry in the United States, H. Cave, 109, 193
Electric Welding, Thomas T. Heaton, 101, 108, 127, 193
Jigs, Tools, &c., for Production of Standardised Parts, Herbert C. Armitage, 299, 309
Mechanical Properties of Steel with Consideration of Question of Brittleness, Dr. Hatfield, 447, 458, 552
Oxy-acetylene Welding. Papers by H. Cave, J. H. Davies, and F. Hazeldine, 108, 193
Proposed Visit to France (Paragraphs), 516, 619
Manchester, Engineers’ Club, Repetition of . Papers read in London on Electric and Oxy-acetylene Welding, 133
Manchester, Engineers’ Chib, Repetition of Paper read in London on Jigs, Tools and Special Machines, &e., by H. C. Armitage, 324
Manchester, Engineers’ Club, Repetition of Paper read in London on the Mechanical Properties of Steel, &c., bv Dr. Hatfield, 484
Institution of Naval Architects:
Annual Conference, 350. ‘358, 374, 384, 396, 420
Annual Dinner, 351
Concrete Shipbuilding in the United States, W. L. Scott, 397
Development of Airship Construction, C. I. R. Campbell, 384, 397, 420
Developments towards Simplification of Merchant Ship Construction. Sir E. d’Eyn-court and Mr. '1'. Graham, 396
Experiments on Full Cargo Ship Models, .lames Semple, 421
Investigations into the Causes of Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons and Stanley S. Cook, 427
Italian Two-floodable Compartment Cargo Steamers built during the War, Signor S. Orlando, 396
Model Experiments on the Effect of Beam on Resistance of Mercantile Ship Forms, J. L. Kent, 421
Na val Construction Corps of the United States Navy, Constructor-Commander S. V. Goodall, 374
Naval Construction during the War, Sir E. II. Tennyson d’Eyncourt, 351, 358 (Four-page Supplement, April Will, 1919)
Presidential Address, Lord Bristol, 350
Ships of the British Navy on August 4th, 1914, and Some Matters of Interest in connection with their Production, Sir Philip Watts, 351, 447 (Two-page Supplement, May M, 1919)
Some Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, W. H. Gard, 420
Tonnage of Modern Steamships, A. T. Wall, 421
Women Associates, 420
Work of the British Marine Engineering Design and Construction Committee, A. E. Seaton, 374, 411.
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
Machine Tools, Sir Alfred Herbert, 254, 283
Summer Meeting in .July, Programme, 591
Institution of Petroleum Technologists :
Oil from Cannel Coal a,nd Colliery Refuse, 310 Purifying Paraffin Wax, R. S. Dickie, 165
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution, Royal:
Dynamics of Flight, Captain G. P. Thomson, 252
□eiety, Ceramic : Refractory Materials Section ; Conference at Middlesbrough : Sir William Jones’ Account of Work during the War, 510
Society of Chemical Industry : Chemical Engineering Group, Formation of, 306
London Section—
Testing Transformer Oils, Arnold Philip, 47
Societies, Rontgen and Faraday : Elementary Principles of Radio -metallography , Professor Bragg, 432
Examination of Metals by X-rays, General Discussion, Various Papers, 432
Society, Royal: Conversazione, 529
Society, Royal, of Arts: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Sir F. Heath, J 84 ,
Still Engine, W. J. Still, 540
Wage Problem in Industry, W. L. Hichens, 231
AUTOCRAT of Transport, 279
Automatic Doors for Colliery Haulage Ways, 378
Automatic Tools—see Machine Tools
Automatic Valve for Motor-driven Air Compressors, British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, 464
Aviation—see Aeronautics
Awards to Inventors, 614
B BAGHDAD, Bridge over the Tigris at, 55
Bagiev, C. H. F., on Modern Steel Metallurgy, 503
Barclay, S. F., and S. P. Smith, on the Determination of the Efficiency of the Turboalternator, 290
Barclay, W. R., on the Relationship between the Laboratory and the Workshop, 322
Barges—see Ships
Bascule Bridge at La Seyne, Toulon, 502, 508 (Two-page Supplement, May 23rd, 1919)
Basingstoke—see Works
Belgian Industries, Reconstruction of, 204, 216. 243, 250, 280, 304, 306, 332, 382, 393, 425, 431 ; (Letter), 399 (Two-page Supplement, March 14th, 1919)
Belgian Iron and Steel Industry during the War, Leon Greiner, 474, 4 76
Belgian Works, Demolition—see Belgian Industries
Belgium, Our Special Commissioner in, 203— see Belgian Industries
Belgium, The Needs of, 431
Bengougli, G. D., and O. F. Hudson, Report to Corrosion Committee of Institute of Metals, 300, 301
Benzol Rectification Plant, Wilton, 196
Bib by, J., on Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, 475, 513
Biplanes—-see Aeronautics
Blast-furnace Plant at Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, Rotherham, 564 (Four-page Supplement, June 6th, 1919)
Blast-furnace Slags, Efiect of Chilling, 606
Blue Nile Irrigation Scheme, 497
Board of Trade, Appointment of Marine Surveyors to, 417
Board of Trade Rules for Boilers, 146
Boiler, Coil, Explosion, 625
Boiler Failures, Two Curious, 136
Boiler Heat Losses Recorder, Electrical, Monsieur Chopin, 213
Boilers, Board of Trade. Rules for, 146
Boilers, Coal Meter for, Lea Recorder Company, 261
Boilers, Marine, Rules for, 381
Boilers, Marine, Standardisation of, Committee’s Report, 276
Boilers of Merchant Ships, 84
Boilers, Unusual Method of Transporting, 639
Boilers, Water-tube, for Cargo Ships, Stirling
Boiler Company, Limited, 476 (Two-page Supplement, May 16th, .1919)
Books of Reference, 10, 165, 464,489, 501
Boy Artificers in the Royal Navy, 639
Bragg, Professor, on the Elementary Principles ol Radiometallography, 4 32
Bridge, Bascule, at La Seyne, Toulon, 502, 508 (Two-page Supplement, May 23rd, 1919)
Bridge Repair in America, 615
Bridge, over Tigris, at Baghdad, 55
Britain’s Air Effort-—see Aeronautics
British Airship—sec Aeronautics
British Engineering Standards Association, Conference on Limit Gauges, 511
British Industrial “ Safety First ’’ Association, 263
British Marine Engineering Design—see Ships British Motor—see Engines and Motors
British Railway Workshops in Wartime, 576, 577, 604, 605, 630
British Railways—see also Railways
CALENDER, Tnree Bowl Universal, Motor Driven, D. Bridge and Co., Limited, 460, 461 Cambridgeshire, Fen Drainage and River Improvement, 174
Campbell, C. I. R., on the Development of Airship Construction, 384, 397, 420
Canada, Coal, Iron and Steel Industries of, 124 Canada’s Mining and Metallurgical Industries, 391
Canadian Train Ferry Can ora, 184
Carbon and Tungsten Filament Lamps, 532
Carburetter Jets, Flow of Petrol through, 521
Carburetter and Vaporiser for Oil Engine, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 629
Catalogues, 46, 92, 116. 142, 164, 238, 340, 417, 442, 546, 571, 591, 644
Caterpillar—see Tractor
Cave, Henry, on Development of the Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Industrv m U.S.A., 109, 133, 193
Centrifugal Pumps for Chicago Waterworks, 595
Channel Tunnel, 280 ; (Letters), 354, 532
Chemical Engineering, 306
Chemical Industry, International Competition in, 318
Chilling Blast-furnace Slags, Effect of, 606
China, Age-long Engineering Works of, Professor Middleton Smith, 72
Chronology of Locomotion, A Short, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 603, 624 ; (Letter), 635
Clifton, Charles, on the Engineering Schools of Liege, 497
Clutch—see Electrical Matters
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIBS: See also Annual Articles
Automatic Doors for Colliery Haulage Ways, 378
Canada, Coal, Iron and Steel Industries of, 124
Coal Economies, 609
Coal Meter for Boilers, Lea Recorder Company, 261
Deterioration in the Heating Value of Coal during Storage, 284
Draper Coal Washing Machine, 180
Oil from Cannel Coal and Colliery Refuse, 310 Oil Fuel v. Coal, 183
Pulverised Coal Systems in America, Special Report by L. C. Harvey, 494
Use of Powdered Coal, L. C. Harvey, 474
COIL Boiler Explosion, 625
Cold Rolling—see Influence of, &c.
Colloidal Fuel, 390, 446, 457
Commercial Helium, 279
Compressed Air, Concreting a Tunnel by, 594
Compressed Air Engine—see Engines
Compressing Plant for Hydrogen Barges, Brotherhood, 219, 226
Compressor—see Air Compressor
Concrete Oil Tanker, 1000-Ton Sea-going, Launch, 80
Concrete, Proportioning of, L. N. Edwards, 141 Concrete, Reinforced, Dock Gates at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 289, 290 ; (Letter), 354
Concrete Ships—see also Ships
Concreting a Tunnel by Compressed Air, 594
Conservation of Labour, Law of, 228
Contracts, 65, 236, 314, 440, 470, 644
Cooling Towers, Natural Draught, Harald Nielsen, 526
Copper Alloys, Properties of Some, Dr. Ro sen-bain and D. Hanson, 322
Copper, Oxygen-free, Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of, F. Johnson, 322
Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Investigations into Causes of, Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons and Mr. Stanley S. Cook, 427
Corrosion of Non-ferrous Metals, Report to Corrosion Committee of Institute of Metals,
G. D. Bengough and O. F. Hudson, 300, 301
Cotton Seed Defibrating Machine, E. C. De Segundo, 516
Cotton Warehouses writh Fireproof Safes, 98
Crane Equipment, Electric Luffing, and Transporter ,|at Richborough, Ransomes and Rapier, Limited, 76, 77
Crane, 20-Ton Locomotive Breakdown, John
H. Wilson and Co., Limited, 134
Crompton, Colonel R. E. B., on What the War has Done for Engineers, &c., 41
Cross-Channel Transportation—see Train Ferry Cutters—see Machine Tools
D DAVIES, J. H., on Oxy-acetylene Welding, 109, 133, 193
Defibrating Machine for Cotton Seed, E. C. De Segundo, 516
Depth Charge Throwers, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 86
Deterioration in Coal—see Coal
Development of Airship Construction—see
Aeronautics
Development of Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513
d’Eyncourt, Sir E. II. T., and Mr. T. Graham on Developments towards Simplification of Merchant Ship Construction, 396
d’Eyncourt, Sir E. H. Tennyson, on Naval Construction during the War, 351, 358 (Four-page Supplement, April 11th, 1919)
Dickie, R. S., on Purifying Paraffin Wax, 165
Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, 341
Dock, Fish, Extension at Fleetwood, 55
Dock Gates, Reinforced Concrete, at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 289, 290; (Letter), 354 1 m
Dock Improvements, Middlesbrough and Tyne, 140
Doors, Automatic, for Colliery Haulage Ways, 378
Drainage, Fen, and River Improvement in Cambridgeshire, 174
Draper Coal Washing Machine, 180
Dredger, Lubecker Land, Orkney, 76, 79, 82 ;
(Letter), 152 .
Dredgers Used for Drainage Works in Egypt, 556
Dredging Tin Ore, 69
Duckham’s Gas-fired Annealing Furnace, 218
(Supplement, March 1th, 1919)
E ECONOMICS and the Workman, 156 ; (Letter), 176
Education, Emergencv Technical, 37 • (Letter), 56
Education in the Royal Air Force, 128 Educational Intelligence, 92, 436, 494 Edwards, L. N., on the Proportioning of Concrete, 141
Effect of Work on Metals and Alloys, O. W. Ellis, 322
Egypt and the Sudan, Irrigation Schemes, 497, 536, 556
ELECTRICAL MATTERS : American Electric Steel by the Triplex Process, 126, 127 (Two-page Supplement, February 1th, 1919)
Benardos Carbon Arc Process, 172
Boiler Heat Losses Recorder, Monsieur Chopin, 213
Constant-energy Balancer Set, P. O. Noble, 353
Cranes, Electric—see Cranes
Davis-Soames Electromagnetic Clutch, 352
Determination of the Efficiency of the Turbo-alternator, S. F. Barclay and S. P. Smith, 290
Developments in Electric Iron and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513
Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Works ;, Six Papers Discussed at Joint Meeting of Iron and Steel Institute and Institution of Electrical Engineers, 475, 484, 490, 513— for Titles of Papers see Institute, Iron and Steel
Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer, 475, 490
Electric Power Supply, Committee’s Recommendation's, 92
Electric Power Supply, S. L. Pearce, 104
Electric Power Transmission Considerations,
S. L. Pearce, 624
Electric Welding Problems, 203
Electric Welding, Thomas T. Heaton, 101, 108, 127, 133, 193, 203
Electric Welding and Welding Appliances, .145, 172, 197, 220, 241, 267, 296, 319, 352, 375, 394, 421, 444, 471 ; (Letter), 436
Electrical Energy from the River Dee, 524 Electrical Engineers’ War Memorial, 101 Electrically Driven Ships’ Auxiliaries, Laurence, Scott and Co., Limited, 478, 482
Electricity and the Layman, 509 ; (Letter), 532
Electricity Supply Bill, 477
Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, W. H. Gard, 420
Harnessing the Rhone, 458
Helmet for Arc Welding, 146
Hydro-electric Development in Tasmania, 263
International Electrotechnical Commission, 256, 619
Magneto Industry, Thomson-Bennett Magnetos, Limited, 26
Pontelec Methods and Machines, 241
Pontelec Spot Welding Machine, 588
Power Station Efficiencies, 134
Power from Tidal Waters, J. Smith, 590;
(Letter), 635
Quasi-arc Welding Process, A. P. Stroh-menger, 267
Railways—see Railways
Richborough Electric Power Station, 102, 104, 106
Rolling Mill, 19,000 H.P. Electric Reversing, Equipment, Siemens Brothers’ Dynamo Works, Limited, 334
Rotary Transformer, Equipment and Engineering Company, 353
Spot Welding Machine, Large, Pontelec Welding Patents, Limited, 588
Submersible Electric Salvage Pumps and Engines, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278
Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 273;
(Letter )j 354
Transformer Oils, Testing, Arnold Philip, 47 Turbo-generator, 70,000-Kilowatt, 589 Valuation of Electrical Undertakings, &c., Bailie W. B. Smith, 624
Vertical 24-Kilowatt Electric Lighting Set, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 627
Water Powers in Great Britain, 288
Water Turbine Generators, The Largest, for Queenstown, Canada, 575
Welding Problems, Electric, 203
Welding and Welding Appliances, Electric, 145, 172, 197, 220, 241, 267, 296, 319, 352, 375, 394, 421, 444, 47L; (Letter), 436
ELEVATORS, Pneumatic Grain, Floating, 206, 207
Ellis, O. W., on the Effect of Work on Metals and Alloys, 322
Emergencv Technical Education, 37 ; (Letter), 56
ENGINES AND MOTORS : Aero-engine Component—see Jigs, Tools, &c.
Basse-Selve Aero-engine, 270 H.P., 246
British Two-stroke Motor, Mitcham Motor Company, 182
Compressed Air Hoisting Engine for Mine in India, Sandy croft, Limited, 356, 363
Crude Oil Engine, 220 B.H.P., Petters, Limited, 206, 207
Diesel Marine Engine, 1100 B.H.P., Two-cycle, Ansaldo San Giorgio Company, 586
Fiat 12-Cylinder 400 H.P. Aero-engine, 411
Fixed Radial Aero-engines, Cosmos Engineering Company (Brazil, Straker and Co.), 530
Gas Blowing Engine at Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, 564
Gas and Oil Engines at the Cardiff Show, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 627 ; National Gas Engine Company, 629 ; Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 630
Heat Treatment of Steel for Small Petrol Marine Engines, 159
J.A.P. Motor Cycle Engine Testing Arrangements, 515
ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued):
Jupiter and Mercury Aero-engines, Cosmos Engineering Company, 530
Mine Ventilating Engine, Bumsted and Chandler, Limited, 110
Multiple-engined Aeroplanes, 305
Newcomen Engines, Two, 621, 632
Oil Engines, Submersible, for Driving Electrical Salvage Pumps, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278
Petrol Engines, Device for Running, on Paraffin or Heavy Oils, 110
Portable Semi-Diesel Engine, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 630
Steam Engines at Cardiff Show, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, Robey and Co., Limited, 630
Steam Wagon, 5-Ton, Robey and Co., Limited, 630
Still Engine, W. J. Still, 540 ; (Letter), 558
Traction Engine, Single-cylinder, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 630
Vertical Engine for Electric Lighting Set, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 627, 628, 629
Vertical High-speed Steam Engines at Uxbridge, 222
Zeitlin Aero-engine, 408
ENGINEERING and Allied Tradesin 1918, 2— for Details see Annual Article
Engineering Equipment in a New Zealand Hospital, 40
Engineering, Links in the History of, Rhys Jenkins, 47], 536
Engineering Opportunities in Latin-America, 441
Engineering Schools of Liege, Charles Clifton, 497
Engineering, The Sense of Art in, 406, 443
Engineering Trades (New Industries) Committee’s Report, 93 ; Branch Committee— Machine Tools and Small Tools, 111
Engineers, Divisional, of the Royal Naval Division, 341
Engineers, Volunteer, London Army Troops Companies, 24, 47, 65, 94, 117, 137
Engineers, What the War has Done for, &c., Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41
Etching—see Macro-etching
Exhibition of British Science Products, 19
Explosion, Coil Boiler, 625
F FACTORY, Aeroplane—see Aeronautics
Failure in Slag Concrete, Causes of, 603
Fair, Holland’s Third Industries, 244, 272, 295, 323
Falls, The Yguazu, 506
Federated Malay States, Tin Industry in, 454
Ferry—see Train Ferry
Files, Some Points in the Manufacture of, G.
Taylor, 503, 604, 606, 626
Fireproof Safes for Cotton, 98
Fish Dock at Fleetwood, 55
Fleet—see Ships
Fleetwood Fish Dock Extension, 55
Floating Pneumatic Grain Elevators, 206, 207
Flow of Petrol—see Petrol
Flue Gases, Measuring the Temperature of, 262 Fly-cutter—see Machine Tools
Flying Boat—see Aeronautics
Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 48, 70, 94, 118, 142, 166, 190, 214, 238, 264, 292, 316, 344, 368, 392, 418, 442, 470, 496, 522, 548, 572, . 596, 620, 646
Forty-seven Hour Week, 38
Forward, E. A., on the Measurement of Gauges, 282, 294
France, Agricultural Engineering in, 457
France, Labour Unrest in, 585
France, Public Works in, 464
France, Shipbuilding in—see Ships
Franco-British Trade, 561
French Iron, &c.—see Iron and Steel
Fresh-water Harbours and Shipping of the United States, 575
Fuel, Colloidal, 390, 446, 457
Fuel, Pulverised, Instructions for Safe Use of 398
Fuels, Powdered and Colloidal, 446, 457
Fullerphone, Major A. C. Fuller, 435
Furnace, Gas-fired Annealing Furnace, Sir A.
Duckham, 218 (Supplement, March 7th, 1919)
Furnace, Induction, Dr. E. F. Northrup, 529
Furnaces, Blast—see Blast-furnaces
Furnaces for Burning Lignite, 639
Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matteis
G GARD, W. H., on Some Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, 420
Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas-fired Annealing Furnace, Sir A. Duckham, 218 (Supplement, March 7th, 1919)
Gas Producer, 30 H.P., National Gas Engine Company, 627, 629
Gas by the Thermal Unit, 509
Gasworks and the Supply of Motor Spirit, 196
Gauge Making, Examples of. A. G. Robson, 4 99
Gauges, Adjustable, M. Woldgaard, 529
Gauges, Limit, Conference by the British Engineering Standards Association, 511
Gauges, Measurement of, E. A. Forward, 282, 294
Gear, Speed Reduction, for Marine Turbines, D. Brown and Sons, Limited, 371 (Two-page Supplement, April ISth, 1919)
Gear, Speed Reduction, for Marine Turbines, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 135
German Aeroplanes—see Aeronautics
German Industries, A Grand Federation of, 535
German Sources of Energy, State Control of, 180
Germany, Trade with the Allies, 108
Goodall, Constructor-Commander S. V., on the Naval Construction Corps of the United States Navy, 374
Government and Overseas Trade, 358
Government Rolling Mill, Southampton, 191, 202, 2]7 ; (Letter), 378 (I'our-page Supplement, March 7th, 1919)
Grain Elevators—see Elevators
Greiner, Leon, on the Belgian Iron and Steel Industry During the War, 474, 476
Gun Mounting Shop—see Works
H HANDLING Material at an American Factory, 341
Hanson, D., and S. L. Archbutt on the Micrography of Aluminium and its Alloys, 322
Hanson, D., and J. E. Hurst, on Improvements in the Case Hardening Process, 503
Harvey, L. C., Special Report on Pulverised
Coal Systems in America, 494
Harvey, L. C., on the Use of Powdered Coal, 474 Hatfield, Dr., on the Mechanical Properties of
Steel, 447, 458, 484, 552, 561
Hazeldine, F., on Oxy-acetylene Welding, 109, 133, 193
Heat Treatment of Steel—see Iron and Steel
Heath, Sir Frank, on the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 184 M
Heating and Ventilation of Workshops, Austin Motor Company's Works, 599, 608
Heating and Ventilation of Workshops, Daimler Company, Limited, 504
Heaton, Thomas T., on Electric Welding, 101, 108, 127, 133, 193, 203
Helium, Commercial, 279
Helmet for Arc Welding, 146
Herbert, Sir Alfred, Machine Tools, 254,, 283
Herdner, Monsieur, on Progress of the Express Passenger Locomotive in Fiance, 270
Hichens, W. L., on Wage Problem in Industry, 231
“ Historicus,’’ on Patent Law and the Legal Standard of Novelty, 346
History of Engineering, Links in the, Rhys Jenkins, 471, 536
Hoisting Engine—see Engines
Holcroft, H., on Three-cylinder Locomotives, 485
Holidays, Earlier, 417
Holland’s Third Industries Fair, 244, 272, 295, 323
Hospital, New Zealand, Engineering Equipment in a, 40
Howe, Professor H. M.» on Research Work in America, 502
Humphrey, J. C. W., on Macro-etching and Macro-printing, 503
Hydro-electric Development in Tasmania, 263 Hydrogen Barges Built at Richborough for
Royal Air Force, 219, 226
I ILLINOIS Steel Company—see Works Induction Furnace, American, 529
Industrial Building Construction in Tiafford Park, 98
Industrial League, 60, 566
Industrial Peace, 302
Industries, The Segregation of, 431
Industry and Ignorance, 179
Industry, Science of, 107
Inertia of the Standard, 535—see also Passing of Ingenuity
Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of Oxygen-free Copper, F. Johnson, 322
Ingenuity, The Passing of, 405, 4 66, 535 Inspection Cars, Railway—see Railways Institutes and Institute ns—see Asscciations Instructions for Safe Use of Pulverised Fuel, 398 International Competition in the Chemical
Industry, 318
International Electrotechnical Commission, 256, 619
Inventors, Awards to, 614
Irish Channel, Train Ferries for, 60
IRON AND STEEL: (See also Annual Articles)
Acid Hearth and Slag, J. H. Whiteley, 503 American Electric Steel by 11.e Triplex Pio-
cess, 126, 127 (Two-page Supplement, February 7 th, 1919)
Belgian Iron and Steel Industiy during ti e War, Leon Greiner, 4 74, 476
Blast-furnace Plant at Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, Rotherham, 564 (Four-page Supplement, June 6/7*, 1919)
Canada, Coal, Iron and Steel Industries of. 124
Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Causes ci, Hon. C. A. Parsons and Mr. Stanley S. Cook, 427
Developments in Electric lion and Steel Furnaces, J. Bibby, 475, 513
Electric Furnaces in Iron and Steel Woiks ; Six Papers Discussed at Joint Meeting of Iron and Steel Institute and Institution of Electrical Engineers—for Titles of Papers, see Institute, Iron and Steel, 475, 484, 490, 513
Electric Furnaces in the United Kingdom, 1918, R. G. Mercer, 475, 490
Future of the French Iron and Steel Industries, 204
Future of the Steel Trade, 155
Heat Treatment of Steel for Small Fetid Marine Engines, 159
Improvements in the Case Hardening Process, D. Hanson and J. E. Hurst, 503
Iron Oxide Pigment from Spain. 603
Manufacture of Files, Some Points in, G.
Taylor, 503, 604, 606
Manufacture and Working of Hieh-speed Steel, J. H. Andrew and G. W. Green, 503, 553
Mechanical Properties of Steel, &e., Dr. Hatfield, 447, 458, 484, 552, 561
Modern Steel Metallurgy, C. H. F. Bagley, 503
Output of Iron and Steel, 566—see also Ministry of Munitions
Production of Steel Ingots and Castings in 1918,490 . . .
Regrouping of Iron and Steel Production in Europe, 37
Shell Steel and Mild Steel, 619
Steel Production in Germany, 331
United States Steel Trade, 251
IRRIGATION, Egyptian and Sudan, Committee to Investigate, 224
Irrigation Schemes in Egypt and the Sudan,
497, 536, 556
Italian Steamers—see Ships
J JAMES Watt Centenary, 433, 490, 614, 634
J.A.P. Motor Cycle Engine Testing Arrangements, 515
Jenkin, Lieut.-Col. C. F., on the Metallurgical Information Required by Engineers, 322, 325, 331
Jenkins, Rhys, on Links in the History of Engineering, 471, 536
Jigs, Tools, &c., for Production of Standardised Parts, H. C. Armitage, 299, 309, 324
Johnson, F., on the Influence of Cold Rolling on the Mechanical Properties of Oxygen-free Copper, 322
Jones, Sir William, on Work in Refractory Materials during the War, 510
K KENT, J. L., Effect of Beam on Resistance of Mercantile Ship Forms, 421
Kershaw, J. B. C., on the Utilisation of Peat for Power Generation, 239, 265 : (Letter), 327
L LABORATORY and the Workshop, Relationship between, W. R. Barclay, 322
Laboratory, Works, "Scope of the, F. C. Lants-berry, 322
LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS: (See also Annual Articles)
British Industrial “ Safety First ” Association, 263
Demands of Labour, 59
Economics and the Workman, 156 ; (Letter),
176
Forty-seven Hour Week, 38, 84, 88
Industrial League, 60, 566
Industrial Peace, 302
Labour Unrest, 132
Labour Unrest in France, 585
Law of Conservation of Labour, 228
No Railway Policy Yet, 132
Railway Strike, 155
The Strikes, 131
Wage Problem in Industry, W. L. Hichens, 231
LAMPS, Carbon and Tungsten Filament, 532
Land Drainage in Cambridgeshire, 174
Land Dredger—see Dredger
Landau, D., and P. H. Parr, on a New Theory of Plate Springs, 397 ; (Letter), 489
Lantsberry, F. C. A. H., on the Scope of the Works Laboratory, 322
Launches and Trial Trips, 314, 343, 367, 416, 436, 470, 490, 515, 570, 594, 619, 646
LEADERS: 1918—A Retrospect, 13
Admiral Jellicoe on Naval Material, 381
Agricultural Engineering in France, 457
Atlantic Flight, 610
Autocrat of Transport, 279
Boilers of Merchant Ships, 84
British Naval Design—An American Tribute,
131
Channel Tunnel, 280
Chemical Engineering, 306
Coal Economies, 609
Commercial Airships, 84
Commercial Aviation, 38
Commercial Helium, 279
Demands of Labour, 59
Economics and the Workman, 156
Electric Furnaces, 484
Electric Railways, 306
Electric Welding Problems, 203
Electricity and the Layman, 509
Emergency Technical Education, 37
Fleet That Was, 634
Forty-seven Hour Week, 38, 84
Franco-British Trade, 561
Future of British Railways, 83
Future of the French Iron and Steel Industries, 204
Future of the Steel Trade, 155
Future of the Submarine, 179
Gas by the Thermal Unit, 509
Government and Overseas Trade, 358
Grand Federation of German Industries, 535
Industrial League, 60
Industry and Ignorance, 179
Inertia of the Standard, 535
Labour Unrest in France, 585
Law of the Conservation of Labour, 228
Merchant Shipbuilding in France, 59
Military and Commercial Aircraft, 610
Multiple-engined Aeroplanes, 305
Needs of Belgium, 431
No Railway Policy Yet, 132
Oil Fuel in Merchant Ships, 107
Passing of Ingenuity, 405
Powdered and Colloidal Fuels, 457
Purchasers’ Tests, 331
Railway Deficit, 633
Railway Fares, 483
Railway Strike, 155
Regrouping of Iron and Steel Production in
Europe, 37
Renovation of the Navy, 483
Resilient Tires for Road Vehicles, 405
Rolling Stock Problem in France, 306
Rules for Marine Boilers, 381
Science of Industry, 107
Segregation of Industries, 431
State Railway Working Results in Germany, 585
Status of the Inspector, 633
Steel Production in Germany, 331
Strength of Metals; 251
The Strikes, 131
LEADERS (continued):
Tests of Metal, 561
Trade Between the Allies and Germany, 108 Traders and Railway Nationalisation, 38 United States Steel Trade Expectations, 251 Ways and Communications, 204
Ways and Communications Bill, 227 Wirelessly Directed Aircraft, 357
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS: England, North of, 21, 44, 64, 91, 114, 139, 162, 187, 211, 235, 259, 287, 313, 339, 365, 388,415, 438, 440, 466, 492, 494,518,520, 545, 568, 570, 593, 594, 617, 642
Lancashire, 20, 43, 62, 89, 113, 137, 162, 186,
209, 233, 257, 285, 311, 337, 363, 387, 414,
437, 440, 465, 468, 491, 494, 517, 520, 543, 567, 591, 616, 641 ; (Letter), 532
Midlands and Staffordshire, 19, 43, 62, 89, 112, 137, 161, 185, 209, 233, 257, 285, 311, 337, 363, 388, 413, 437, 440, 465, 468, 491, 494, 517, 543, 546, 567, 591, 594, 615, 641 Scotland, 22, 45, 64, 91, 115, 139, 163, 187, 211, 236, 259, 287, 313, 340, 365, 389, 415, 439, 440, 467, 493, 519, 545, 569, 593, 618, 643, 644
Sheffield, 20, 44, 63, 90, 114, 138, 161, 185,
210, 234, 258, 286, 312, 338, 364, 387, 414,
438, 466, 468, 492, 494, 518, 544. 568, 570, 592, 594, 616, 619, 642, 644
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 46, 65, 91, 115, 139, 163, 188, 212, 236, 260, 288, 314, 339, 366, 389, 416, 439, 440, 467, 468, 493, 494, 519, 520, 545, 546, 570, 594, 618, 619, 643, 644
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Aerial Transport, Henry Davey, 232
Air Waves, A. R. Liddell, 276
Belt Driving, F. R. Parsons, 613 ; Geo. T.
Pardoe, 635 ; E. W. Sargeant. 635 Caterpillar Tractors, C. W. Kay, 125 Central Heating, M. Fitzgerald, 532 Channel Tunnel, A. Oates, 354 ; A. Lee, 532 Chemical Standards. J. H. Wragg, 152 ;
C. H. Ridsdale, 200
Coal Conservation, D. Milne Watson, 436— see also Letter on Super Gasworks, &c., M. B. L., 399
Combustion Capacity of Atmospheric Air, Jas. Dunlop, 80, 125, 200, 276, 378 ; Lubricator, 256, 354, 378
Cost of Electric Light, E. C. S., 152 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 176 ; F. E. H., 176
Council of the Civils, D., 463 : An Old Subscriber, 489
Economics and the Workman, H. C. Armitage, 176
Electric Welding and Welding Appliances, J. E. Weyman, 436
Electrically Operated Valves for Internal Combustion Engines, W. P. Durtnall. 614
Electricity and the Layman, M. C. C. G., 532 Electrification Work in Switzerland, A.
Duruz, 354
Emergency Technical Education, H. G. Taylor, 56
Engineers and Demobilisation, H. C. H. Shen ton, 125
Engineers in India, H. M. Heathcote, 354 Fletcher, Mr. William, J. T. Marshall, 34 Geometrical Trisection cf an Angle, H. R.
Kempe. 489, 582 ; A. Flindle, 558, 635 ; Guy B. Petter, 582 ; P. D. Forrester, 614
German Warships, R. G. Lindsay, 232
Germans and Hoboken Shipyard, Leon Greiner, 399
Government Rolling Mill, Southampton, J. M. Kennedy, 378
Indian Society of Engineers, E. M. Hugh man, 436
Institution of Civil Engineers—see Council
Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Donation, A. W. Kemp, 489
Labour Problem, E. T. Good, 558 ; Smilax, 614 ,
Land Dredgers at Richborough, Taylor and Hubbard, 152
Locomotive Valve Gear, J. W., 399
Marine Engineering Design and Construction, Cochran and Co., 463
Meikle’s Thrashing Machine, Arthur Lee, 200 Moratorium for Patents, Briggs and Son, 463 New “Drylock’’ on the Neckar-Danube Canal, N. J. Peddie, 109
Niagara, J. Shelley, 109
Nile Projects Committee, W. Willcocks, 354
Old Age Pensions, Works Manager, 125 Patent-office Searching System, James Keith, 232
Patents, H. G. G., 34 ; James Keith, 56 Patents Bill, The New, S. H. Adams, 399 Peat Gas Plant, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 327
Railways and Labour, E. W. Stoney, 56
Railways, State Control of, R. G. Lindsay, 34 Recent American Express Locomotives,
F. W. Brewer, 614
Reform of Public School Education, Charles Bright, 256
Reinforced Concrete Dock Gates at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 354
Reverse Stress or “ Wiggle Test,” Loco., South Indian Railway, 436
Richborough Transportation Depot and Train Ferry Terminus, Capt. H. E. Girdle-stone and Others, 109 : F. O. Stanford, 125
Royal Engineers, Common Sense, 276
Screw Thread, Proposed Shape of, G. Doorak-kers, 80
Short Chronology of Locomotion, W. B. Paley, 635
Space versus Economy in the Boiler-house, Economy, 163 ; Efficiency, 532
Steam Tenders, James Watt Boulton, 152 ;
H. G. King, 200
Super Gasworks v. Super Electricity Works, M. B. L., 399—see Letter on Coal Conservation, D. M. Watson, 436
Thames Passenger Boats, W. Effigy, 80
“The Ether,” Bertram Blount, 614 : Piscator. 635
The Still Engine, F. L. Martineau, 558
Theory of Plate Springs, Geo. T. Pardoe, 489 Three-cylinder Locomotives, A. McBeth, 56 :
Loco. M.I.M.E., 109 : Jas. Dunlop, 125, 354 : H. S. Vincent, 326 ; John Riekie, 125 Trisection, &c.—see Geometrical
Water Power and Tidal Energy, FT. J. Peddie, 635
LIEGE, Engineering Schools of, Charles Clifton, 497
Lighters—see Ships
Lighting, Oil Tanks and, 515
Lignite, Furnaces for Burning, 639
Limit Gauges, Conference by the British Engineering Standards Association, 511
Lincoln and the Three Services, 254
Links in the Bistory of Engineering, Rhys Jenkins, 471, 536
LITERATURE :
Reviews: V Gyrostatics and Rota tier, al Moticn, A Treatise on, Andrew Gray, 253
UJHigh Explosive*, Capt. E. do W. S. Colver, 328
Hydraulics, Handbook of, H. Williams King, ‘7’1
Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1918, 133
Short Notices: Alternating-current Electrical Engineering, Philip Kemp, 228
Applied Optics, Dr. A. Steinheil and Dr. E. Voit, Translated, J. W. French, 477, 542
Concrete Engineers’ Handbook, G. A. Holl and N. C. Johnson, 133
Design of Railway Location, C. C. Williams, 542
Mercantile War Loss Book, 61
Naval Annual, 1919, Earl Brassey, 610
Practical Electricity, Terrell Croft, 133 Transmission Gears, E. Butler, 228
Books Received: Aero-engines, Design and Construction of, C. Sylvester, 477, 587
Aeroplane Construction, Sydney Camm, 433
Aircraft Identification Book, R. B. Matthews and G. T. Clarkson, 333
Air Navigation, Notes and Examples, Instructor-Captain S. F. Card, 634
Alternating-current Machinery, Papers on the Design of, C. C. Hawkins anti others, 433
Aluminium, The Manufacture of, J. T. Pattison, 39
America at School and at Work, H. B. Gray, 333
American Engineers Behind the Battle Lines in France, R. K. Tomlin, 253
Annual Report of the City Engineer of the City Providence for 1917, 39
Astronomy, Elements of, for Architects, R. W. Chapman, 431
“ At a Glance ” : Twelve Conversion Tables for International Values of British, Metric and Russian Weights, &c., J. E. Slack and A. Dorey, 433
Automobile and Aero-engines, Handbook, &c., Rene Devillers, 634
Boiler Chemistry and Feed water Supplies, J. H. Paul, 477
Books for Mechanical Engineers and Metal Workers, 253
Brassfounding, J. G. Horner, 39
Butterworth’s Workmen’s Compensation Cases, Vol. XI., 477
Calculus, First Course in the, Part I., W. P. Milne and G. J. B. Westcott, 301
Can we Compete ? G. E. Mappin, 301
Carburetters, Vaporisers, &c., in Internal Combustion Engines, Edward Butler, 383
Cast Iron in the Light of Recent Research, W. H. Hatfield, 61
Catalysis in Industrial Chemistry, G. G. Henderson, 281
Catalytic Hydrogenation and Reduction, E. B. Maxted, 253
Centrifugal Pumps and Suction Dredgers, E. W. Sargeant, 383
Cheap Steam, with which is Incorporated Cheap Transport, Vol. II., 333
Commercial Russia, W. H. Beable, 228
Cycling Manual, 281
Dams, Earthen and Masonry,Construction of, Professor E. R. Matthews, 634
Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1919, 634
Dynamics, Part II., R. C. Fawdry, 301
Elastic Stresses in Structures, Translated by Ewart S. Andrews, 333
Electric Furnaces in the Iron and Steel Industry, W. Rodenhauser and others, 433
Electrician Directory, &c., 459
Electricity and Magnetism for Beginners, Part I., Harold Pender, 228
Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 1919-1920, 634
English Reference Literature, 587
Excess Profit Duty, Spicer and Pegler, 61
Factory Administration and Accounts, E. T. Elbourne, 383
Federation of British Industries, Bulletin of the, 301
Fuel Economy in Boiler-rooms, in Two Parts A. R Maujer and C. H. Bromley, 10
George Westinghouse, His Life and Achievements, F. E. Leupp, 634
Graphic Dynamics, Elements of, Ewart S. Andrews, 587
Heat Engines : Steam, Gas and Oil, Elementary Manual on, Andrew Jamieson, 433
Heat and Heat Engines, A Text-book of, Andrew Jamieson, 383
High Adventure : Narrative of Air Fighting in France, J. N. Hall, 477
How to Form a Company, H. W. Jordan, 301 Hydrology, Elements of, A. F. Meyer. 281
Income Tax : How to Avoid Overcharges &c., A. D. Macmillan, 634
Incorporated Swansea Exchange, Report 1917-18, 281 1
Industrial Arts Index, C. G. Noves and L D Teich, 281 ’ ’
Industrial Electrical Measuring Instrument*, Kenelm Edgcumbe; 39
Industrial Situation after the War 301
Institute of Metals, Journal of the, Vol. XX
G. Shaw Scott, 301
Institution of Mechanical Engineers “ Proceedings,” October-December, 1918, 634
Iron and Steel : Pocket Encylonjedia. H P Tiemann, 433
Italian Dictionary, A Short, Vol. JI A Hoare, 542
Italian Sea Power in the Great War Arehi bald Hurd, 61
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
Jane’s Pocket Aeronautical Dictionary, with English and French Technical Terms, 587
Juvenile Employment during the War and After, Ministry of Reconstruction, 228
La Formation des Ingenieurs a 1’Etranger et en France, 39
Manual of Machine Design, F. Castle, 477
Marine Boiler Management and Construction, C. E. Stromeyer, 433
Marine Engineering, A Manual of, A. E. Seaton, 433
Mechanics’ and Draughtsmen’s Pocket-book, W. E. Dommett, 281
Mica Miner’s and Prospector’s Guide, A. A. C. Dickson, 433
Mnemonic Notation for Engineering Formula?, E. F. Etchells, 61
Modern Optical Instruments, Theory of, Dr. Alexander Gleichen, 301
Moving Loads by Influence Lines and Other Methods, E. H. Sprague, 301
Natural Organic Colouring Matters, A. G.
Perkin and A. E. Everest, 61
Naval Architects’ Data, J. Mitchell, 634
New Town, W. R. Hughes, 433
Oils, Fats and Waxes, Vol. II., P. J. Fryer and F. E. Weston, 228
Oxy-acetylene Welding of Copper, Brasses and Bronzes, M. R. Amadeo, 228
Payment of Wages, G. D. H. Cole, 39
Permanent Way Handbook, Capt. S. C.
' Clayton, 587
Petrol and Petroleum Spirits, Capt. W. E.
Guttentag, R.A.F., 39
Petroleum, Albert Lidgett, 459
Physiology of Industrial Organisation and Re-employment of the Disabled, Professor Jules Amar, 253
Power Plant, Installation, Upkeep and Economical Operation, T. R. Wollaston. 301
Practical Shell Forging and Plastic Deformation of Steel and its Heat Treatment, O. O. Bower, 333
Practical Ship Production, A. W. Carmichael, 433
Principles Underlying Radio Communication, Radio Pamphlet No. 40, 477
Production and Treatment of Vegetable Oils, T. W. Chalmers, 61
Quelques Guides de 1* Opin ion en France pendant la Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, 228 Radio-telegraphy, Standard Tables and Equations in, Bertram Hoyle, 301
Railroad Structures and Estimates, J. W.
Urrock, 301
Railway Reorganisation, 383
Railway Stores, Methods and Problems, W.
H. Jarvis, 301
Railway Year-book for 1919, 459
Rangoon, Administration Report of the Commissioners, 39
Reconstruction Problems : Guide to Work and Benefits for Soldiers and Civil War Workers, 281
Reinforced Concrete Works, Recommendations, &c., concerning Execution of, Published by Concrete Institute, 333
Roads and Pavements, A Treat ise on, Ira O. Baker, 333
Rudiments of Handicraft, W. A. S. Benson. 281
Safety of the Nation, Ian D. Colvin, 634
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, &c„ 1919, 634
Shipbuilding Industry, R. W. Kelly and F.
J. Allen, 333
Simple Problems in Marine Engineering Design, &c-., R. M. Sothern 477
Sister of a Certain Soldier, S. J. Maher, 39
Slide Valves and Valve Gearing, Peter Youngson, 459
Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 61
South and East African Year-book and Guido for 1919, 459
Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange, R. Mordin, 431
Tables of Chemical and Physical Constants, P. E. Spielman, 281
Trade Unionism, An Introduction to, G. D.
H. Cole, 39
Trigonometry, Practical, H. Adams, 459
Tri-lingual Artillery Dictionary (English, French, and Italian), Vol. I., E.S. Hodgson, 61
T.N.T.: Trinitrotoluenes and Mono and Dinitrotoluenes, &c., G. Carlton Smith, 4 33
Triplane and the Stable Biplane, T. C. Hunsaker, D.Sc., 39
United States Department of the Interior : Bureau of Mines :
Bulletins :
123, Analysis of Mine and Car Samples of Coal Collected, 1913-1916, A. C. Fieldner and Others, 39
129, Fusibility of Coal Ash and the Determination of the Softening Temperature, A. C. Fieldner and Others, 301
127, Gold Dredging in the United States, (.-has. Jamin, 61
145, Measuring the Temperature of Gases in Boiler Settings,'H. Kreisinger, 61
171 (Mineral Technology, 23), Melting Brass in a Rocking Electric Furnace, H. W. Gillett and A. E. Rhoads, 301
160 (Mineral Technology, 22), Rock Quarrying for Cement Manufacture, V. Bowles, 301
156, Petroleum Technology, 44 ; Diesel Engine : Its Fuels and its Uses, Herbert Haas ; Efficiency in the Use of Oil Fuel, J. M. Wadsurrtu, 61
List of Permissible Explosives, Lamps, and Motors, Tested Prior to May 31st, 1918, Albert H. Fay, 10
Monthly Statement of Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, Compiled by A. H. Fay, April, 1918, 10; May, 1918, 39; June, 1918, 61 ; July, August, and September, 1918, 301
Technical Papers :
206, Coke Oven Accidents in the United States, Albert H. Fay, 61
200, Colloids and Flotation, Fred G. Moses 301
LITERATURE continued'):
Books Received (continued):
91, Convenient Multiple-unit Calorimeter Installation, J. D. Davis and E. L. Wallace, 39
170, Diffusion of Oxygen Through Stored Coal, S. H. Katz, 10
204, Economic Operation of Steam Turbo -electric Stations, C. T. Hirshfeld and C. L. Karr, 301
208, How to Improve the Hot Air Furnace, C. W. Baker, 301
139, Low Rate Combustion in Fuel Beds of Hand-fired Furnaces, H. Kreisinger and Others, 61
190, Methane Accumulations from Interrupted Ventilations, H. J. Smith and R. J. Hamon, 39
192, Production of Explosives in the United States, Albert H. Fay, 61
186, Routine Work in Explosive Physical Laboratory of the Bureau of Mines, S. P. Howell and J. E. Tiffany, 61
205, Saving Coal in Boiler Plants, H. Kreisinger, 61
187, Slag Viscosity Tables for Blast-furnace Work, A. L. Field and P. H. Royster, 10
154, Suggestions for Improved Methods of Mining Coal on Indian Lands in Oklahoma, J. J. Rutledge and D. Harrington, 61
195, Tars Distilled from Bituminous Coal in Hand-fired Furnaces, S. H. Katz, 39 University of Illinois Bulletin, Economical Use of Coal in Railway Locomotives, 61
Western Australia : Geological Survey
Bulletins :
67, Analysis of Western Australian Rocks, Meteorites and Natural Waters, E. S. Simpson, 542
71, Geology and Mineral Resources of the Yilgarn Goldfield, Part III., Gold Belt North of Southern Cross, T. Blatchford and C. S. Honman ; Minerals of Weston ia, E. S. Simpson ; Petrological Notes, R. A. Farquharson, 542
73, Geology of North Coolgardie Goldfield, C. S. Honman, &c., 542
69, Geology and Ore Deposits of Kal-goorlie, Part III., F. R. Feldtmann, 542
68, Geology and Ore Deposits of Meek-atharra, Murchison Goldfield, E. de C. Clarke ; Petrology. R. A. Farquharson ; Mineralogy and Underground Waters, E. S. Simpson, 542
75, Geological Reconnaissance of Country between Laverton and South Australian Border, H. W. B. Talbot and E. de C. Clarke ; Petrology, R. A. Farquharson, 542
76, Graphite Deposits at Munglinup, T. Blatchford, 542
74, Miscellaneous Reports, 542
72, Palaeontological Contributions to Geology of Western Australia, F. Chapman and R. Etheridge, 542
Woman’s Motor Manual, G. de Hamilland, 281
Wooden Ship Construction, W. H. Curtis, 433 Year-book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1918, 333
Zooms and Spins, Rafbird, 587
LLOYD S Register—see Ships
Locomotion, A Short Chronology of, C. F.
Dendy Marshall, 603, 624 ; (Letter), 635
Lodge, Sir Oliver, on Protection ol Oil Tanks Against Lightning, 515
Lorry, Motor, Works, J. I. Thornycrolt and Co.’s, at Basingstoke, 54, 58
Loughborough Technical College, 183
Lubecker Land Dredger Orkney, 76, 79, 82 ;
(Letter), 152
M MACHINE TOOLS: Backing-off Taps and an Improved Form of Fly-cutter, D. McPherson, 256
Bar Automatic Tools, H. E. Thomas, 426
Cycloid Thread Milling Cutter, Ward and Gent, 159
Fly-cutter, Improved Form of, D. McPherson, 256
Francis Inserted Tooth Cutter, 6, 9
Inserted Tooth Facing and Bossing Cutter, H. Francis and Vickers Limited, 613
Machine Tool Adaptations for the Manufacture of Tank Links, Pulsometer Engineering Company, Limited, 120, 130
Machine Tool Committee of the Ministry of Munitions, 424
Machine Tool Industry and the War, Sir Alfred Herbert, 254
Machine Tools and Small Tools, 111
Machine Tools and Workshop Methods of a Former Period, Sir A. Herbert, 283
Milling Applications and Adaptations, 6, 9
Power Presses, Automatic Arresting Motion for, M. Glover and Co., 135
MACRO-ETCHING and Macro-printing, J. C.
W. Humphrey, 503
Magnesium and its Alloys : Its Use for Aeroengines and Motor Cars, 402
Magneto Industry, Thomson-Bennett Magnetos, Limited, 26
Malay Peninsula, Mineral Deposits in, 571
Manchester, Discussions at Engineers’ Club— see. Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Mr.
Stromeyer’s Memorandum, 136
Marine Auxiliaries, Turbine-driven, Franco
Tosi Company, 636, 640
Marine Boilers—see Boilers
Marine Engineering Design—see Ships
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marine Surveyors, Appointment of, to the
Board of Trade, 417
Marine Turbine—see Turbine
Marshall, C. F. Dendy, A Short Chronology of
Locomotion, 603, 624; (Letter), 635
Marshall, C. F. Dendy, on Wind Resistance on a Train, 473
Materials and Prices, 88
Measuring the Temperature of Flue Gases, 262
Measurement of Gauges, E. A. Forward, 282, 294
Mechanical Properties of Steel—see Iron and Steel
Mercer, R. G., on Electric Furnaces in the
United Kingdom, 1918, 475. 490
Merchant Shipbuilding—see Ships
Metal, Tests of, 561
Metals and Alloys, Effect of Work on, O. W.
Ellis, 322
Metals, Institute of—see Associations
Metals, Non-ferrous, Science and Industry in Relation to, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527
Metals, Strength of, 251
Metals—see also Corrosion
Metallurgical Information Required by Engineers, Lieut.-Col. C. F. Jenkin, 322, 325, 331
Meters, Steam, George Kent, Limited, 580, 581
Micrography of Aluminium and its Alloys, D.
Hanson and S. L. Arch butt, 322
Micrometer, M. Woldgaard, 529
Military Aircraft—see Aeronautics
Military Train Ferry—see Train Ferry
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mme Ventilating Plant, Bumsted and Chandler, Limited, 110
Mineral Deposits in the Malay Peninsula, 571
Mineral Productions of the United States, 276
Mineral Statistics, 156
Mines, Protection of Ships Against, 222
Mines and Quarries Report, 1917, 156
Mining and Metallurgical Industries, Canada’s, 391
Ministry of Munitions, Machine Tool Committee of, 424
Ministry of Munitions Orders, 23, 42, 43, 56, 93, 116, ‘137, 212, 231, 256, 273, 336, 366, 386, 436, 490, 546, 594 Aluminium, 93
Ammonia and Ammoniacal Products, 256
Announcement re Iron and Steel Stock, 42
Ball Bearings, 43
Bismuth Ores, Bismuth Metal and Products
Therefrom, 273
Building Bricks, 231
Calcium Carbide, 93, 256
Coal Tar and Coke Oven By-products Returns, 366
Cold Blast Pig Iron, 336
Converter Plant, 256
Electricity Supply, 56
Gasworks Retort Carbon, 436
High-speed Tool Steel and Scrap Therefrom, 336
Home Prices, 137
Iron Prices, 93, 256
Iron and Steel, 366
Iron and Steel Prices, Home and Export, 23 ;
Corrected Notices, 212
Iron and Steel Stocks, 93, 386
Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery and
Treadle Lathes, 546
Magnesite, 231
Marked Bars, 93
Metallurgical Coke, Iron, Steel and Ironstone, 436
Non-ferrous Materials. 256, 366, 490, 594
Output and Stocks of Iron and Steel, 336, 366, 386, 436, 566
Potassium Compounds— Kelp, 273
Rosin and Rosin Oil, 256
Scrap, 336
Second-hand Railway Wagons, 273
Small Tools, 231
Steel Exports, 137
Steel Prices, 231
Steel Slabs, &c., 117
Tin-plate Prices, 256
Tin-plate Prices, Extras for Charcoal Coating, 273
Tin-plates and Terne Plates, 116
Waste Paper, 273
MORGAN Continuous Wire-rod Rolling Mill, 597 (!<'cur-page Supplement, June 20ih, 1919)
Morland, Sir Samual, Pumps, 537
Motor Cycle Engine Testing Arrangements, J. A. Prestwich and Co., 515
Motor Lorry Works at Basingstoke, J. L Thornycroft and Co., 54, 58
Motor Railways and Cars—see Railways
Motor Spirit, Gasworks and the Supply of. 196
Munitions Output in Ipswich, Rans< mes, Sims and Jefferies, Limited, 160
NATURAL Draught Cooling Towers, Harald Nielsen, 526
Naval Design, Naval Material—see Ships, Naval Matters
NAVAL NOTES : 42, 513, 511, 638
British Battle-cruisers, New, 42
China Flagship, 638
“ Composite ” Destroyer, 42
Destroyer Speeds, 638
Destroyer Turquoise, 638
Destroyers, New, 511
Distribution of the Fleet, 638
Flotilla Leaders, 638
German Copies of the Renown, 638
German Naval Construction, 42
Portsmouth, Vessels at, 511
Post-war Construction, 510
Pre-Dreadnoughts Useless, 42
Repulse, Features of the, 511
Submarine Tonnage Figures, 42
• Successful Design. 511
NEEDS of Belgium, 431
Newcomen Engines—sec Engines
New Zealand Hospital, Engineering Equipment in a, 40
Nielsen, Harald, on Natural Draught Cooling
Towers, 526
Nile Projects Committee, 224
Non-ferrous Metals, Science and Industry in relation to, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527
Norris, Captain W., Optical Method of Shaft Alignment, 451
North-East (’oast Dock Improvements, 140
OBITUARY: Boyd, William, 537
Callaway, Hugh, 586
Calthrop, Sir Guy, 199
Canning, Thomas, 253
Crookes, Sir William, 348
Eyles, Sir George L., 281
Fletcher, William, 10 ; (Letter), 34
Gobert, Edward G. A., 586
Hill, George Heniy, 253
Ingleby, Edward Cecil, 124
Lineham, Wilfrid James, 424
Lockwood, George Francis, 302
Mitchell, Sir Thomas, 333
Mort, G. F., 10
Pauling, George, 185
Redwood, Sir Bo verton, 566
Rodgers, John, 88
Royle, John James, 228
Southern, R. W. A., 253
Watson, James, 348
Weatherburn, Robert, 109
Westwood, Charles John, 302
Wilde, Henry, 333
Wortley, Henry Bell, 185
Wright, Thomas, 124
Wurl, Max O„ 228
OCEAN-GOING Rafts of Logs, 541
Oil from Cannel Coal and Colliery Refuse, 310
Oil Engines—see Engines
Oil Fuel v. Coal, 183
Oil Fuel in Merchant Ships, 107
Oil Fuel Reservoir at Rosy th, 324
Oil Tanker—see Ships
Oil Tanks and Lightning, 515
Oil Tractors— see Tractors
Oils, Transformer, Testing, Arnold Philip, 47
Optical Method of Shaft Alignment, Captain
W. Norris, 451
Orlando, Signor G., on Italian Two-floodable
Compartment Steamers, 396
.Overseas Trade, 260
Overseas Trade, Government and, 358
Oxy-acetylene Welding, Papers at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 108, 133, 193
p PAPER Yarn, Manufacture and Use of, 495 Paraffin electric Salvage Set-—see Submersible Paraffin Wax, Purifying, R. S. Dickie, 165 Paravanes—see Ships
Parsons, Hon. Sir C. A., and Mr. Stanley S. Cook on the Causes of Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, 427
Passing of Ingenuity, 405, 466, 535
Patent Law and the Legal Standard of Novelty, by “ Historicus,” 34 6
Patent-office Searching System, 199 ; (Letter), 232
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS:
British: Aeronautics, 24, 94, 237, 392, 547
Agricultural, 142
Air Compressors, 118
Batteries and Accumulators, 367, 441
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 70, 165, 190
Dynamos and Motors, 23, 47, 70, 94, 1 17, 141, 165, 213, 264, 292, 469, 495, 521, 571, 595
Electrical, 117, 141, 166
Engines, Internal Combustion, 23, 47, 69, 93, 117, 165, 189, 237, 263, 291, 315, 343, 441, 469, 495, 571, 595, 619
Engines, Steam, 23, 93, 189, 521
Gas Producers, 291
Heating and Lighting, 47, 264, 315, 344, 418, 469, 496, 548, 620
Heatingjjand Ventilating, 620
Lighting—see Heating, &c.
Locomotives, 646
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 24, 48, 70, 141, 238, 316, 367, 417, 442, 470, 496,
547, 620, 646
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 316, 368, 470, 522, 572
Mines and Metals, 24, 142, 213, 316, 368, 392, 646
Mining and Metallurgy—see Mines and Metals Miscellaneous, 48, 70, 118, 166, 190, 214, 238, 292, 344, 368, 392, 418, 442, 470, 496, 522,
548, 572, 596
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 48, 94, 166, 190, 213, 291, 496
Ordnance and Armour, 315
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 47, 213, 367, 417, 596
Ships and Boats, 237, 292, 44], 522, 620
Steam Generators, 263, 495, 521
Switchgear, 23, 47, 189, 29], 39], 417, 469, 521, 547, 571, 595, 619, 645
Tramways and Railways, 263
Transformers, 391, 417
Transmission of Power, 213, 264, 343, 391, 441, 469, 572
Turbine Machinery, 343, 367, 391, 645
Turbines, Steam, 93, 141, 189, 237
Water Purification, 547, 646
Workshop Tools, &c.—see Machine Tools
PATENTS and Litigation, 133
Patents, United States Annual Report, 516
Patents and the War (Applications for), 68
Patents and the War (Extension of Time Limit), 630
Pavement Temperatures, 411
Peace, Industrial, 302
Pearce, S. L., on Electric Power Supply, 104
Peat for Power Generation, Utilisation of, J. B.
C. Kershaw, 239, 265 ; (Letter), 327
Personal and Business Announcements, 22, 47, 65, 92, 117, 140, 164, 190, 214, 238, 260, 288, 3]6, 344, 367, 392, 440, 470, 496, 520, 546, 572, 596, 620, 646
Petrol Engines—see Engines
Petrol, Flow of, through Carburetter Jets, 521
Petrol Railway Cars—see Railways
Petter, Mr. E. W., on Restriction of Output, 630 Philip, Arnold, on Testing Transformer Oils, 47 Photography, Aerial, 367
Plate Springs, New Theory of, D. Landau and
P. H. Parr, 397 ; (Letter), 489
Plough, Snow, Rapid Street Channel, 159
Pneumatic Grain Elevators, Floating, 206, 207
Pontoons for Grain Elevators, Edwards and
Co., Limited, 207
Portable Engines—see Engines
Poultney, E. C., on Recent American Express
Locomotives, 523, 550, 574 ; (Letter, 614)
Powdered Fuels—see Fuels
Power Presses—see Machine Tools
Power Station Efficiencies, 134
Power from Tidal Waters, J. Smith, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Producer—see Gas Producer
Propellers—see Ships
Properties of Some Copper Alloys, Dr. Rosen-hain and D. Hanson, 322
Proportioning of Concrete, L. N. Edwards, 141
Public Works in France, 464
Pulverised Coal Systems in America, Special
Report by L. C. Harvey, 494
Pulverised Fuel, Instructions for Safe Use of, 398
Pulverised Fuel Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives
Pump, Centrifugal, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 628, 629
Pumps, Centrifugal, for Chicago Waterworks, 595
Pumps, Sir Samuel Morland’s, 537
Pumps, Submersible Electric, Driven by Oil
Engines, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278
Purchasers’ Tests, 331—see also Metallurgical Information
Purifying Paraffin Wax, R. S. Dickie, 165
R RADIOMETALLOGRAPHY, 432
Rafts of Logs, Ocean-going, 541
Rafwires-—see Aeronautics
RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS: (See also Annual Article)
General: Accident Reports, Five Railway, 373 Accidents in 1918, Railway, 566
Armoured Train for Coast Defence, 150
Electric Railways, Sir E. Geddes’ Views, 306 Holidays, Earlier, 417
No Railway Policy Yet, 132
Petrol Railway Inspection Car, Motor Rail and Tramcar Company, Limited, 434
Railway Deficit, 633
Railway Fares, 483
Railway Wagons for War Traffic, North-Eastern Railway, 404, 410
Railway Working during the War, White Paper, 511
Railway Year, 198
Signalling, Improvement in, McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company, Limited, 262
Strikes and Labour Questions—see Labour
Three-position Light Signalling, McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company, Limited, 262
Traders and Railway Nationalisation, 38
British, Colonial and Indian : Ambulance Trains, Rolling Stock Converted by British Railways, 73, 75
British Railway Workshops in War Time,
576, 577, 604, 605, 630
British Railways under War Conditions, 38, 73, 75
Future of British Railways, 83
Great Northern Railway ; Sturrock’s Steam Tender, 66, 67 ; (Paragraph), 81; (Letters), 152,200
High Capacity Goods Wagons for Indian Railways, 110
Indian Railways in 1917-18, 341
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Fish Dock at Fleetwood, 55
New South Wales Railways, 284
North-Eastern Railway Improvements, Middlesbrough and Tyne Dock, 140
North-Eastern Railway Wagons for War Traffic, 404, 410
North-Eastern Railway War Products, 576,
577, 604, 605, 630
Train Ferry and Transportation Depot nt Richborough, 31, 36, 49, 76, 82, 102, 106, 147, 154; (Letters), 109, 125, 152 (Two-page Supplement, January IQth, 1919) (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919)
Foreign: Alaskan Government Railway, 347, 349 American Railway Work in 1918, 232 Belgian State Railways, Proposed Electrification of, 428
Rolling Stock Problem in France, 306
State Railway Working Results in Germany, 585
Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 273 ; (Letter), 354
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: (See also Annual Article)
General: Pulverised Fuel Locomotive, 400, 457 (Two-page Supplement, April 25th, 1919)
Three-cylinder Locomotives, H. Holcroft, 485
British, Colonial, and Indian : Great Central Railway Pulverised Fuel Locomotive, 400, 457 (Two-page Supplement, April 25th, 1919)
Locomotives of 1918, 9, 12
Foreign: Express Locomotives in France, Development, Monsieur Herdner, 270
Recent American Express Locomotives, E. C Poultney, 523, 550, 574 ; (Letter), 614
R APID Steel Channel Snow Plough, 159
Receiver, Air, Frank Richards, 562, 573
Reconstruction of Belgian Industries, 204, 216, 243, 2‘50, 280, 304, 306, 332, 382, 393, 425, 431 ; (Letter), 399 {Two-page Supplement, March }Ath, 1919)
Reconstruction, The Part Engineers have to Play, &c., Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41
Recorder, Electrical Boiler Heat Losses, Monsieur Chopin, 213
Recording Coal Meter for Boilers, Lea Recorder Company, 261
Refractory Materials during the War, 510 Reinforced Concrete—see also Concrete Reinforced Concrete Dock Gates at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 289, 290 ; (Letter), 354
Relationship between the Laboratory and the Workshop, W. R. Barclay, 322
Renovation of the Navy, 483
Research, Scientific and Industrial, Government Scheme for, 237
Research, Scientific and Industrial, Sir F. Heath on the Department of, 184
Research Work in America, Professoi' H. M. Howe, 502
Reservoir, Oil Fuel, at Rosyth, 324
Resilient Tires for Road Vehicles, 405
Restriction of Output, Mr. E. W. Petter, 630 Rhone, Harnessing the, 458
Richards, Frank, on the Air Receiver, 562, 573 Richborough Transportation Depot and Train Ferry Terminus, 31, 36, 49, 76, 82, 102, 106, 147, 154, 169, 219, 226; (Letters), 109, 125, 152 {Two-page Supplement, January 10/A, 1919) {Two Two-page Supplements, January llth, 1919)
Road Destruction by Heavy Vehicles, 189
Road Scarifier, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 254
Road Scarifier, The Allen, Oxford Steam Plough Company, Limited, 589
Road Vehicles, Resilient Tires for, 405
Robson, A. G., Examples of Gauge-making, 499 Rolling Mill, Continuous Wire Rod, at Templeborough, Morgan Construction Company, 597 {Four-page Supplement, June 20th, 1919)
Rolling Mill Equipment, 19,000 H.P. Electric Reversing, Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Limited, 334
Rolling Mill, Government, at Southampton, 191, 202, 217; (Letter), 378 {Four-page Supplement, March 1th, 1919)
Rolling Stock Problem in France, 306
Rosenhain, Dr., and D. Hanson, on Properties of Some Copper Alloys, 322
Rosenhain, Dr. W., on Science and Industry in relation to Non-ferrous Metals, 322, 527
Rosyth, Oil Fuel Reservoir at, 324
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Cardiff', 627
Royal Society—see Associations, &c.
Rules for Boilers—see Boilers
Ruston and Hornsby’s War Work, 254
s
- ’ SAFETY First ” Association, British Industrial, 263
Scarifier, Road, The Allen, Oxford Steam Plough Company, Limited, 589
Science of Industry, 107
Science and Industry in relation to Non-ferrous Metals, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 322, 527
Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of, Sir Frank Heath, 184
Scientific and Industrial Research, Government Scheme for, 237
Scope of the Works Laboratory, F. C. Lants-berry, 322
Seaton, A. E., on the Work of the British Marine Engineering Design and Construction Committee, 374, 411 ; (Letter). 463
Segregation of Industries, 431
Semple, James, Experiments on Full Cargo
Ship Models, 421
Sense of Art in Engineering, 406, 44 3
Serbia, Trade Opportunities in, 268
Shells, 18in. High-velocity Armour-piercing, Hadfield’s Steel Foundry Company, 231
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: {See also Annual Articles)
General: Barges Built at Richborough, 147, 154, 219, 226
Boilers of Merchant Ships, 84
Developments towards Simplification of Merchant Ship Construction, Sir E. d‘Eyn-court and Mr. T. Graham, 396
Effect of Beam on Resistance of Mercantile Ship Forms, Experiments, J. L. Kent, 421 Electrically-driven Ships’ Auxiliaries, Laurence, Scott and Co., Limited, 478, 482
Engines—see Engines and Motors
Experiments on Full Cargo Ship Models, James Semple, 421
Flying Boat—see Aeronautics
Hydrogen Barges for Royal Air Force, 219, 226
Investigations into Causes of Corrosion or Erosion of Propellers, Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons and Mr. Stanley S. Cook, 427
Italian Two-floodable Compartment Cargo Steamers Built during the War, Signor S. Orlando, 396
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships, 212
Lloyd s Register Shipbuilding Returns, 79, 436
Mercantile Shipbuilding in 1918, Lloyds Register, 199
Merchant Shipbuilding in France, 59
Oil Fuel in Merchant Ships, 107
Optical Method of Shaft Alignment, Captain W. Norris, 451
Paravane Protection of Ships Against Mines, 222, 293
Progress in Turbine Ship Propulsion, Speedreduction Gear, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 135
Protection of Ships Against Mines, 222, 293
Shipbuilding in Australia, 340
Shipping in 1918, 16- for Details, see Annual Article
Slipsand Slipways at Richborough, 147, 154
SHIPS & SHIPBUILDING (continued):
General (continued):
Slipway for Ship Repair Work at Esquimault, B.C., Yarrows, Limited, 330, 341
Standardisation of Marine Boilers, Committee's Report, 276
Standardisation in Shipbuilding, 554
Tonnage of Modern Steamships, A. T. Wall, 421
Turbine-driven Marine Auxiliaries, Franco Tosi Company, 636, 640
Turbine Machinery lor Standard Ships, J. Howden and Co. and 1). Brown and Sons, Limited, 371 (Two-page Supplement, April IZth, 1919)
War and the White Star Line, 208
Water-tube Boilers for Cargo Ships, Stirling Boiler Company, Limited, 476 (Two-page Supplement, May Kith, 1919)
Work of the British Marine Engineering Design and Construction Committee, A. E. Seaton, 374, 411 ; (Letter), 463
British Navy: Arethusa, H.M. Light Cruiser, 449 (Supplement, May Oth, 1919)
Battle-cruisers Renown and Repulse, 359, 361 (Supplement, April 1 U7i, 1919)
Battleships taken over from Foreign Governments, 359, 361 (Supplement, April ] 1th, 1919)
British E Class Submarine, 449, 450
British Light Cruisers and Flotilla Leaders, 308
British Monitors, H.M.S. Sir Thomas Picton, H.M.S. Abercrombie, H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough. H.M.S. Havelock, H.M.S. Marshal Soult, M.23, 143
British Steam-driven Submarines of the “ K” Class, 173, 178
Cambrian, H.M. Light Cruiser, in Dry Dock, 222, 293
Coastal Motor Boats for the Navy, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., 369, 380
Iron Duke and Queen Elizabeth, H.M. Battleships, 448 (Supplement, May Oth, 1919)
Large Light Cruisers Courageous, Glorious and Furious, 359, 361 (Supplement,
April 11th, 1919)
Lord Clive, H.M. Monitor, 143 (Two-page Supplement, February l\lh, 1919)
Mine Sweepers, 360, 361, 362
Naval Construction during the War, Sir E. H. Tennyson d’Eyneourt, 351, 358 (Four-page Supplement, April 11 th, 1919)
New British Warships, 71 (Two-page Supplement, January 24th, 1919)—see also Naval Construction during the War
“ P ” Boats, J. S. White and Co., 512
Patrol Boats, 360, 361
“ Royal Sovereign ” Class, H.M. Battleships 358, 361 (Supplement, April 11th, 1919)
Ships of the British Navy on August 4th, 1914, &c., Sir P. Watts, 351, 447 (Two-page Supplement, May Oth, 1919)
Stalwart, H.M.A.S., Torpedo-boat Destroyer, Trial Trip, 351
Stormcloud, H.M. Destroyer, Launch of, Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, 582
Swift, H.M. Flotilla Leader, 448, 450
Tiger, H.M. Battle-cruiser, 14, 359, 361, 449 (Two page Supplement, January 3rd, 1919) (Supplement, May Oth, 1919)
Trusty, H.M. T.B.D., 490
Turquoise, H.M. Destroyer, Speed Trials, Yarrow and Co., Limited, 532
Naval Matters: Admiral Jellico e on Naval Material, 381
Boy Artificers in the Royal Navy, 639
British Naval Design : An American Tribute, 131
Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, 341
Experiments with Electric Welding in Warships, W. H. Gard, 420
Fleet That Was, 634
Four Years of Naval Progress, 14—for Details, see Annual Article
Future of the Submarine, 179
Naval Construction Corps of the United States Navy, Constructor-Commander S. V. Goodall, 374
Naval Gun Mounting—see Works
Oil Fuel Reservoir at Rosy th, 324
Protection of Warships Against Underwater Attack, 345
Towing Lighters, Seaplane, 169
United States Navy, Annual Report, 30, 97
Foreign Navies: German Battle-cruiser Derfflinger, 56
German Mine-laying Cruisers, 383
German Naval Types, 56
United States Navy, Annual Report, 30, 97
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels Canadian Train Ferry Canora, 184
Concrete 1000-Ton Sea-going Oil Tanker, Launch, 80
Cross-Channel Train Ferry Steamer T.F. 1, 49 (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919)—see also Richborough Transportation Depot
Fresh Water Harbours and Shipping of the United States, 575
Gienapp, Motor Ship, Harland and Wolff, Limited, 612
Italian Motor Ship Ansaldo San Giorgio, 586 Reinforced Concrete Coal Lighters, Construction of, at Tilbury, Christiani and Nielsen, 315 (Two-page Supplement, March 28th, 1919)
Sea-going Reinforced Concrete Tug Crete-hawser, Launched near Sunderland, 275
SHOW, Roval Agricultural Society, at Cardiff, 627
Signalling, Railway—see Railways
Slag Concrete, Causes of Failure in, 603
Slips and Slipways—see Ships
Smith, J., on Power from Tidal Waters, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Smith, Professor Middleton, on Age-long Engineering Works of China, 72
Snow Plough, Rapid Street Channel, 159
Societies—see Associations
Southampton, Government Rolling Mill at, 191, 202, 217 ; (Letter), 378 (Four-page Supplement, March 1th, 1919)
Springs, Plate, New Theory of, D. Landau and P. H. Parr, 397 ; (Letter), 489
Standard, Inertia of, 535—see also Passing of Ingenuity
Standardisation of Aircraft Materials and 1 arts, 391 -< .
Standardisation of Marine Boilers, Committee s
Report, 276
Standardisation in Shipbuilding, 554
State Aid for Apprentices, 468
State Control of German Sources of Energy, 180
Status of the Inspector, 633
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Meters, George Kent, Limited, 580, 581
Steam Tender—see Tenders
Steam Tractors—see Tractors
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Still, Mr. J., Engine, 540
Storing Air in the Earth, 575
Strength of Metals, 251
Strikes—see Labour
Sturrock’s Steam Tender, Great Northern Railway, 66, 67, 463 ; (Letters), 152, 200 ; (Paragraph), 81
Submersible Salvage Electric Pumps and
Engines, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 274, 278 “ Surplus,” 566, 631
Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 273 ; (Letter), 354
TANK Links, Machine Tool Adaptations for the Manufacture of, Pulsometer Engineering Company, 120, 130
Tank Links Manufacture, North-Eastern Railway, 578, 579
Tanker, Oil—see Ships
Tap, Water, Tonkin, Collins and Co., Limited, 590
Taps, Backing-off—see Machine Tools
Tasmania, Hydro-electric Development in, 263 Taylor, G., on Some Points in the Manufacture of Files, 503, 604, 606, 626
Technical Education, Emergency, 37 ; (Letter), 56
Technical Inspection Association Formed, 411
Technical Training in the Air Force, 110
Temperature of Flue Gases, Measuring, 262
Temperatures, Pavement, 411
Tender, Sturrock’s Steam, Great Northern Railway, 66, 67, 463 ; (Letters), 152, 200 ; (Paragraph), 81
Testing Transformer Oils, Arnold Philip, 47
Tests of Metal, 561
Thomas, H. E., on Bar Automatic Tools, 426
Thomson, Captain G. P., on the Dynamics of Flight, 252
Thornycroft Depth Charge Throwers, 86
Thread Milling—see Machine Tools
Tidal Waters, Power from, J. Smith, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Tigris, Bridge at Baghdad, 55
Tilbury—see Dock Gates
Tin Industry in the Federated Malay States, 454
Tin Orc, Dredging, 69
Tires, Resilient, for Road Vehicles, 405
Tonnage of Ships—see Ships
Tools, Machine, and Small Tools, 111
Towing Lighters—see Ships
Tractor, Caterpillar, Paraffin Engine, Blackstone’s Limited, 627
Tractor, Steam Compound, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 630
Tractor, Three-wheel, D. L. Motor Manufacturing Company, Limited, 627
Tractors at the Cardiff Show, 627, 630
Trade Between the Allies and Germany, 107
Trade Opportunities in Serbia, 268
Trade, Overseas, 260
Trade, Overseas, Government and, 358
Traders and Railway Nationalisation, 38
Trafford Park, Industrial Building Construction 98
Train Ferries for the Irish Channel, 60
Train Ferry Canora, Canadian, 184
Train Ferry and Transportation Depot at Rich-borough, 31, 36, 49, 76, 82, 102, 106, 147, 154, 169, 219, 226 ; (Letters), 109, 125, 152 (Two-page Supplement, January 10th, 1919) (Two Two-page Supplements, January 11th, 1919)
Train, Wind Resistance on a, C. F Dendv Marshall, 473 J
Trains, Armoured, for Coast Defence, 150 Trains—see also Railways
Tramways in the City, 183
Transport, The Autocrat of, 279
Transport Report, 60, 85, 123
Transporting Boilers, An Unusual Method of 639
Triplane—see Aeronaut cs
Tugs—-see Ships
Tunnel, The Channel, 280 ; (Letters), 354, 532 Tunnel, Concreting, by Compressed Air,’ 594 Turbine-driven Marine Auxiliaries, Franco Tosi
Company, 636, 640
Turbine Machinery for Standard Ships, J. Howden and Co. and D. Brown and Sons^ Limited, 371 (Two-page Supplement, Avril ISth, 1919) r
Turbine, Marine, Speed Reduction Gear, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 135
Turbine, Water, The Largest, 575
Turbo-air Compressors, Rea veil and Co Limited, 534, 538
Turbo-alternators, Turbo-generators—see Electrical Matters
Turbo-exhausters for Grain Elevators Fraser and Chalmers, 206, 207
u UNITED States, Mineral Productions of, 276
United States Patents, Annual Report, 516
United States Steel Trade, 251
Use of Coal—see Coal
Utilisation of Peat for Power Generation, J. B’
C. Kershaw, 239, 265 ; (Letter), 327
V VALVE, Automatic, for Motor-driven Air Compressors, British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, 464
Valve Gears for Three-cylinder Locomotives, 485
“ Vickers-Vimy ” Aeroplanes—see Aeronautics Volunteer Engineers, London Army Troops Companies, 24, 47, 65, 94, 117, 137
w WAGES—see Labour
Wagon, 5-Ton Steam, Robey and Co., Limited, 630
Wagons, Railway—see Railways
Wall, A. T., on Tonnage of Modern Steamships, 421
War Memorial, Electrical Engineers’, 101
War, Patents and the, 68
War Products—see also British Railway Workshops
War and the White Star Line, 208
War Work in a Gainsborough Factory, 160
Water Powers in Great Britain, 288
Water Tap, A New, Tonkin, Collins and Co., Limited, 590
Water-tube Boilers—see Boilers
Water Turbine, The Largest, 575
Waters, Tidal, Power from, J. Smith, 590 ;
(Letter), 635
Waterworks, Chicago, Centrifugal Pump for, 595
Watt, James, Centenary, 433, 480, 614, 634
Watts, Sir P., on Ships of the British Navy on
August 4th, 1914, &c., 351, 447
Wax, Paraffin, Purifying, R. S. Dickie, 165
Ways and Communications Bill, 204, 227, 229 255
Welding, Electric, Thomas T. Heaton, 10], 108, 127, 133, 193, 203
Welding, Oxy-acetylene, Papers at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, H. Cave, J. H. Davies, F. Hazeldine, 109, 133, 193
Welding Problems, Electric, 203
Welding at’Steel Barrel Company’s Works at Uxbridge, 220, 421
Welding in Warships, Electric, Experiments with, W. H. Gard, 420
Welding and Welding Appliances, Electric, 145, 172, 197, 220, 241, 267, 296, 3]9, 352, 375, 394, 421, 444, 471—see also 588 ; (Letter), 436
What the War has done for Engineers, &c.. Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 41
Whiteley, J. H., on Acid Hearth and Slag, 503
Wilton Benzol Rectification Plant, 196
Wind Resistance on a Train, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 473
Wireless Telegraphy and the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 315
Wireless Telephony and Direction Finding, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 563
Wirelessly Directed Aircraft, 357
Wire Rod, Continuous, Rolling Mill, Morgan Construction Company, 597 (Four-page Supplement, June 2A)th, 1919)
Women Associates of the Institution of Naval Architects, 420
Woolwich Arsenal, 56
WORKS: Aeroplane Factory—see Aeronautics
Austin Motor Company’s Works, Heating and Ventilation of, 599, 608
Belgian Works Demolition—see also Belgian Works, Reconstruction
Britannia Ironworks, Naval Gun Mounting Shop, Marshall, Sons and Co., .Limited, 160
Cockerill Works at Seraing, 243 (Two-page Supplement, March \4th, 1919)
Daimler Company’s Works, Coventry, Heat ing and Ventilation of Workshops, 504
Illinois Steel Company's South Chicago Works, Triplex Steel Plants, 126, \'21 (Two-page Supplement, February 7th, 1919)
Magneto Industry, Thomson-Bennett Magnetos, Limited, 26
Munitions Output in Ipswich, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Limited, 160
North-Eastern Railway Workshops, War Products, Gateshead Shops, 576, 577, Darlington Shops, 604, 605—see Footnote’ 604
O ugree-Mari hay e Works, German Destruction of, 243, 250
Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Motor Lorry Works at Basingstoke, 54, 58
Warehouses in Trafford Park, Port of Manchester, Limited, 98
York Shops, 630
WORKSHOPS -see Works
X-RAYS, Examination of Metals by, 432
Y YARN, Paper, Manufacture and Use of, 495
Yarrow s Slipway at Victoria, B.C., 33o’ 341
Yguazu Falls, 506
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