The Engineer 1914 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

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ACCIDENTS in Mills and Factories in Washington State ; Safety Committees of Workmen, 321
Acoustical Apparatus for Determination of Density of Liquids and Gases, 263
Acetylene Safety Lamp Competition, 483
Aerial Propulsion of Canal Barges, L. Blin Desbleds, 28
Aerial Railway for Ore Transport from Algerian Mine to Steamer, 263
Aerial Ropeways in India, Great Advantages of, 321
Aerially Propelled Steel Tug, 375

AERONAUTICS:

Accidents to Aviators^ 321
Aerial Derby Entries, 537 .
Aeroplane Deterioration, Lieut.-Col. F. H. Sykes, 705 . . «
Aeroplane Experiments for Military Purposes ; Practice in Photography, 509
Aeroplane, Invisible yet Fireproof, 537
Aeroplane Motor Competition in Germany, 349
Aeroplanes and Grenades, Experiments by the Royal Flying Corps, 677
Airship Motors, Device for Muffling Sound, 376 . .
American Navy, Development of Aviation, 153
Flying Corps, Royal, and T.B.E2 Type Machines, 401
Flying over Houses, Complaints of Noise and Danger, 209
Forlanini Airships Ordered in Milan by British Admiralty, 99
Giant Aeroplane for Russian Navy, 291
Hamel, Gustav. Admiralty Recognition of his Services, 693
Height Flying Record in Italy, 263
Landing Stages for Aeroplanes, 321
Looping the Loop by Government Aeroplane Pilots, 483
Safety Belt Needed and Prize Offered, 705
Seaplanes, Seven, New Type for the Admiralty, 592
Strength of Construction in Aeroplanes, War-office Report, 693
Waterplane No. 110, Fall into the Sea, 375
Zeppelin Destruction as an Everyday Occurrence, 677

AGRICULTURAL Motors for the West Indies, 125
Air Filter, New Form of, 209
Alps in South-East France; Survey, 321
Aluminium, Its Future in India, 237
Aluminium for Motor Vehicle Fittings, Advantages and Defects, 349
Aluminium, Process for Nickel Plating, 153
Analysis of Substances Precipitated from Liquids, 567
Anderson, A. Bruce, Lost in the Empress of Ireland, Resolution at Extraordinary Meeting, 649
Antarctic Expedition in 1915, Swedish, to be Absent for Five Years, 126
Anti-corrosion Mixture, Red Lead and Litharge, H. A. Gardner, 375
Antwerp Shipbuilding Yards, Record Output, 67’7
Ashokan Aqueduct for New York Water Supply, 181

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES

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Annual Meeting and Award of Bessemer Gold Medal, 191
Programme of Papers at the Annual Meeting, 440

Institute of Marine Engineers :
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships, 224

Institute of Metals :
Annual Meeting and Programme, 222
Autumn Conference at Portsmouth, 692
Internal Strains in Cold Wrought Metals, &c.. Professor E. Heyn, 441
May Lecture, Professor E. Heyn, 551 Institute, The Royal Sanitary :
Congress in Blackpool, 688
Lectures and Demonstrations, Programme 82

Institution of Automobile Engineers :
Some Experiments and their Bearing on the Design of Automobile Parts, Dr. A. M. Low, 662
Visit to Belgium, 690

Institution of Civil Engineers:
Award for Papers Read, 1913 1914, 497
Manchester Students :
Annual Dinner, 299
Students’ Meetings:
Air Filtration and the Cooling and Ventilating of Electrical Machines, W. E. Gurry, 28
Application of Power Railway Signalling in Great Britain, C. I. Routh, 84, 125
East Stirlingshire Waterworks : Earthen Embankments, Oswald I. Bell, 414

Institution of Gas Engineers Annual General Meeting in Liverpool, 620

Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Annual Dinner; Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir B. Redwood on The Petroleum Industry, 263, 272
Annual Meeting and Report, 276 Modern Gearing, H. H. Thorne, 163, 209

Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Journal, Publication of First Number, 677
Summer Meeting in Paris, 414

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy : Annual Dinner, 316
Formation of Mineral Deposits, W. P. Dreaper, 321

Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Annual Conference, 114
Meeting and Excursions at Dunfermline, 607 ; Visit to Rosyth, 607
Syllabus of Examinations, 28

Institution of Naval Architects : Annual Meetings and Dinner, Offer of Medal and Premium for Papers, 138 Summer Meeting in Newcastle, 517

Institution, North-East Coast, pf Engineers and Shipbuilders :
Scholarship Offered, 133

Institution of Petroleum Technologists : Council and Membership, 69

Institution of Railway Signal Engineers : Annual Meeting, 301

Institution, Royal :
Annual Meeting and Report, 551 General Meetings and Elections, 166, 276, 648
Heat and Cold, Lectures by Professes C. F. Jenkin, 177
Institution of Water Engineers : Annual Summer Meeting, 470, 578 Programme, 678

Society, The Aeronautical:
Gold Medal Award, 710 j

Society of Engineers (Incorporated):
Status Prize, 12
Society, The Liverpool Engineering : Failures of Dams, J. R. Davidson, 207

Society, The Optical:
Annual Meeting ; Death of Sii' D. Gill, 208

Society, The Royal:
Protection from Lightning and Range of Protection Afforded by Lightning Rods, Sir J. Larmor and J. S. B. Larmor, 700
Type-reading Optophone, Sir O. Lodge, 649

Society, Royal Agricultural, of England :
Seventy-fifth Annual Exhibition, 167, 296 Trials for Agricultural Tractors and Ploughs, 349

Society, Royal, of Arts :
Albert Medal Awarded to Chevalier Marconi, 667
Duke of Norfolk Elected Vice-president, 409
Medal Awards, 719

Society, Royal Meteorological :
Annual Meeting; Gold Medal Award : Use of Kites in Meteorology, 124
Barometer Changes and Rainfall, A Statistical Study, E. H. Chapman, 690
Cuban Rain Record and its Application, A. Hampton Brown, 680
Interpretation of the Results of Soundings with Pilot Balloons, Dr. W. N. Shaw, 225 Pilot Balloon Ascents at Central Flying School, Upavon, during 1913, G. N. Dobson, 233
Rainfall in the Southern Pennines, B. C. Wallis, 690
Reduction of Barometer Readings in Absolute Units, &c., E. Gold, 580
Relation Between Wind Direction and Rainfall, H. J. Bartlett, 690
Report on Weather, Crops, &c., for 1913, J. E. Clark and R. H. Hooker, 468
Small Anemometer for Tropical Use, A. J. Bamford, 468

ATLANTIC Crossing by Aeroplane, Plans of French Society, 263
Atmospheric Pollution in Hull due to Smoke, 483 Automatic Motor Car Starters, Competition in Hungary, 401

BARBED Wire Connected with Electric Plant in Mexican Warfare, 677
Bells and Gargoyles, Ancient Traditions, 455
Belts, Leather or Rubber, for Motor Vehicles, 15 Belts on Pulleys, Portable and Fixed Appliances for Replacing from the FIooi* Level, 401
Benzol Recovery from Coal Used for Tar Distillation, 401
Birmingham Industries Depicted by CinematC' graph, 705
Blue Print Reproduction by Oil Coating, 537 Boiler Explosions, 5.37
Boiler Stop Valve Chest Explosion at Pinkston Tramway Power Station, Glasgow, 537
Boilers, Water-tube, Cause of Tube Failures, 456

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DAMS, Failures of, J. R, Davidson 207 f°’' P‘-os.V Speaker?, 45
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ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

Agriculture and Small J[ndu«!triA« 049^'" ““ Applications of Electricity^
Barges, Electrically Worked, on the River Hudson, Economy in Operation, 049
Barmbeck Power Station as a Decorative Object, 375
Battery with New Control System, 483 Benzine from Coal Extracted by Electrical Process, 567
British Practice in the Construction of High- tension Overhead Transmission' Lines, B. Welbonrne, 99
Californian Transmission Scheme of 425 Miles, 283
Carbon Brush Tests, 71
Cast Iron and Steel in Sweden, Electric Production of, 82
Characteristics and Efficiency Factors of Some Typical Electric Signalling Currents, G, H. Crook, 301
Charges for “ Off Peak ” and “ Peak Txmd ” Supply, 426
Chicago, Electrical Energy Requirements of. 125
Condensers as Protective Devices on a Transmission Line, 375
Contact Wire for Electric Traction' Systems, 677
Continuous-current Production for Electrochemical Processes, F. D. Newbury, 209 Copper, Electrical Conductivity of, 705 Duplicate Turbine Alternator for Burton- on-Trent, 153
Electric Heating Applied to Marine Service, C. S. McDowell and D. M. Mahood, 705 Electric Lighting for Motor Car?, J. C. Hutton, 263
Electric Steering for Petrol Motor Cars, 349 Electric Transmission Unit to Replace Flywheel, Clutch, Change-speed Gear Set, &c., on Motor Vehicles, 237
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Within 100 Miles of New York, 263
Electric Vehicle Committee, Meeting, 567 Electrical Energy for General Purposes in Country Dwellings, 349
Electrical Equipment of the Petrol Automobile, Professor B. F. Bailey, 349
Electrical Treatment in Nottingham Hospital. 567
Electricity in Fiery Mines, Suggested Prohibition, 401
Electricity as Universal Benefactor, W. G. Anderson, 71
Electro-plating of Die or Pressure Castings. 237
Electro-plating, Variation of Current Density, Frank Mason, 15
Exhaust from Steam Locomotive Chimneys, Electrical Conductivity of, 509
Extra High Temperatures from an Electric Arc, Means of Obtaining, 375
Fault Testing for Coal Mines, E. E. Beads- moor, 593
Flame Arc Lamp Carbons, Improved Type, 15
Gas Ignition in Mines by Electric Sparks, Experiments, 181
Generating Station in Philadelphia, Largest Set in Existence, 649
Generating Stations, Lectures on, W. H. Patchell, 27
German Institutions of Electrical Engineers, ].-ectures and Proceedings, 649
Girod Furnace Advantages, 427 High Voltage Engineering, Advances in
Science, F. W. Peek, 667
Installation and Use* of Electricity in Mines,
Home-office Memorandum. 509 Insulation in Tunnels Due to Ionisation of the Atmosphere, M. Parodi, 237 International Electrical Congress, 28. 259 Lake Coleridge Electric Supply Scheme, 125 Largest Supply Station in Northern German v, 209
Lead-Sulphuric and Edison Storage Batteries, Comparison, E. Osher, 291
Leakage of Air into Flame Arc Lamps, 455 J /imitation of Voltages Used in the Transmission of Electrical Energy, F. W. Peek. 181
London Electricity Supply, Mr.
Report, 427, 567 1/ong Life of Electric Vehicles,
Railway and Power Company’s Experience, 291 Machine Tools,
Fair, 15 Massachusetts, Vehicles, 163 Maximum and
Edinburgh Supply Station, 126
Mercury Rectifiers for Regulating Speed of Induction Motors, 401
Oil Finding by Electricity, 209
Oil Switch Explosion and Disastrous Fire near Basle, 376
Operation and Maintenance of Electric Motors, E. F. Butler, 609
Parcel Post Delivery by Electric Vehicles in America, 465
Peat Utilisation for Generation of Electricity Energy, 609
Petrol and Electric Vehicles Compared, P. Thompson, 16
Pigsty for 1600 Animals, Supplied and Worked by Electricity, 705
Platinum Contacts Electrically Welded to Springs, 99
Portable Sub-station in Pennsylvania, 291 Postal Vans, Electrically Driven, Successful Use in Vienna, 71
Printing Trade, Electricity in the. G. E. Phillips, 16
Recording Devices in Electrical Systems. C. P. Steinmetz, 349
Repairs and Welds by Electricity, 593 Rotary Converters, 60-Cycle, Early Troubles with, 427
Small Motor Applications on the Farm, 163 Sterilising Milk by Electricity, 237
Testing for Faults in Electrical Machinery, 176
Turbine Erection for Electric Work at Toledo, Quick Work, 465
Turbo-generators, Precautions against Fire, G. S. Lawler, 181
United States Government Use of Electric Vans, 263
Use of Electric Furnace for Reduction of Ores, 70
Vehicle Committee, Electric, an^J Supply Charges, 426
Water Pipes Prevented from Freezing by Electrical Currents, 483
Welding, Electrical, Various Processes, Demonstration, R, J. Wallis-Jones, 321
ELECTROLYSIS of Water Pipes in Seattle, 71 Elianite, Valuable Resistant to Acids, Dr. Carlo Rossi, 15
Engine Waste ; Discovery to Reduce Cost, 667 Engineering Problems in the Pyramids, Professor Goodman, 237
Engineers, Warrant, R.N.R., Change in Uniform, 153
Esquimau Dry Dock, 677
Explosion in Benzol Drum at Bishop Auckland Works, 401
Explosion of Sewer Gas in America, 705

FAILURE of Main Shaft of Gas Engine, 401 Fatigue Tests, Measurement of Heat Generated,
C. E. Stromeyer, 593
Filaments, Ductile Tungsten, 283 Filter Dust from Gas Cleaning Useful in
Briquetting Iron Ore, &c., 401 Filtration of Water for Miners* Shower Baths, 509 I
Finger Prints by Photography, 16 I
Fire-damp Detected by Whistle, Professors Haber and Leiser, 71 I
Fire-damp Investigations and Defensive Measures. Monsieur Laligant, 181
Fire Engine Towetl by Omnibus at Twenty I Miles an Hour, 8 I
Fire Engines and Escapes in Berlin, Accumulator Vehicles, 667
Fire Prevention Appliances, Tests and Report, 237
Fire Protection at an Agricultural Show, 678 Flame in Light and Heating, Professor V. B. Lewes, 321
Floating Caisson for Graving Dock at Portsmouth, 662
Floor for Testing Motors and Apparatus to be used in Fiery Mines, 291
Flow Calorimeters, Investigation as to Reliability, 649
Flow of Sand and other Fine Materials through Openings of Different Shapes, Professor Hersam, 567
Fog Prevention, Local, Experiments at Lyons, 537
Forest Service, United States, Report on Wood-using Industries, 45
Furnace, Rotary, for Zine Smelting, H. Specketer, 320

GARDEN Cities and Town Planning Association, International Congress and Tour, 637 Gas in Blackburn. Reduction in Working Profits, 609
Gas Engine-driven Electric Power Plant, 376
Gas Engines and Gas Producers, Running of, W. A. Tookey, 401
Gas Engines for Japan, Great Britain the Chief Contributor, 15
Gas Engineers, Institution’s Satisfactory Progress, 237
Geodetic Survey to Determine Distance between America and Centre of Germany, 209
German Activity in China, 390
German Coal Contracts, 488
German Machine Tool Trade Flourishing, 349 Glasgow, Royal Technical College, £10,000 for Research Work, 676
Glass Chimneys of Incandescent Burners, Experiments, 483
Goggles for Incandescent Metal Workers, 677
Graphite Sheet Lubricator, Graphite Products, Limited, 140
Greek Government’s New Scheme of Naval Defence, 263
Greenwich Pier and Greenwich Generating Station, 567

HARDNESS Testing Machine for Certain Parts of Motor Oars, 349
Heavy Oils for Internal Combustion Engines, 153
Hot Metal Mixer, GOO-Ton, 637
Hull Corporation Town Planning Scheme, 237
Hydraulic Lifts, Danger of Rusted Ropes by Water Leakage, 181

ICE Manufacture by Electric Company, 45
Ice and Snow Removal from Crossings by New Heating Machine, 321
Ignition Temperature of Certain Oils and Gases, 46
Imperial College of Science and Technology Report, 209
Imperial Motor Transport Council, Alcohol Motor Fuel Committee, 138
India, Problems of Building Construction, 46
Influence of Compression, &c., in a One-cylinder Engine, E. Heinrich, 99
International Association for Testing Materials, Congress in St. Petersburg, 617 ; Report of Board of Trade Delegates, 46
International ~ * . neers, 718
International &o., 667
International International Meetings,
Inventions most Numerous in Connection with Transport and Aeronautics,

IRON AND STEEL:

Casting Iron and Steel as Employment, Regulations,
Corrosion of Iron and Steel, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 263
Electric Production of Cast Iron and Steel in Sweden, 82
Embrittling of Iron by Caustic Soda, J. H. Andrew, 693
Gray Iron for Motor Car Castings, 237 Grecian Imports of Iron and Steel, United
Kingdom Giving Way to the Continent, 181 Nitrogen in Iron, Dr. W. Herwig, 291 Segregation Streaks in Heavy Drop Forgings, 375
Spark Test for Selecting Steel, 609
Steel Reinforcing Bars in Concrete Construction, Use of Old Steel Rails Re-rolled, 321
Steel Treating Research Club, U.S.A., 537 Wrought Iron Pipe for Conducting Sea Water, 456

IVORY Traffic in the French Congo District, 181

KOPPERS Carbonising Oven for Gasworks, 375

LACTIC Acid and Ammonium Lactate Tested as Fluxes, 71
Lamp, Enclosed Flame Arc, Long-burning, 153
Lamps, Half-watt, British Thomson-Houston Company, 180
Lamps, Nitrogen-filled Metallic Filament, 349 Lantern Slides for Lectures on High-speed Steam Engines, Browett, Lindley and Co., 363
Laurence, Scott’s Anniversary Dinner, 196
Light Car Driven by Aerial Propeller for Use on Shifting Sand, 71
Light Cars, Two Seats or Three, 181
Lighthouses, Wireless, on the French Coast, 432 Lightning Protection for Buildings Containing Explosives, 609
Lubricating Wire during Drawing, “ Aquadag ” and “ Karokorn ” Syrup, 677

MACHINE Tool and Engineering Association Exhibition, 441
Magnesite Deposits on Eyres Peninsula, 649
Magnet and Rubber Suction Lifters for Nuts and Small Articles in Motor Repair Shops, 427
Manchester Electric Tramcar Statistics, 693 Marsh Gas Exhalations Causing Fires, 237 Mathematics in the Army, Sir George Green- hill, 71
Mechanical Starters for Light Cars, 593 Metallurgical Industry of Russia, 466 Meteorological Conference, Proposed, 623 Meteorological Experiments ; Box Kites and how to Transport them, 321
Middleburg Steam Coal and Coke Company’s New Borehole, 630
Milling Flat Aluminium Surfaces, 677

MINES AND MINING NEWS:

American Mining Machinery, Demand in Japan, 209
Electric Lamps in Mines for Safety Reasons, 291
Mine Explosion in Westphalia, Fatal Results, 153
Minerals in the Zambesi Valley, 99 Shot Firing in Mines by Electricity, 45

MISFIRING and a Cure, 427
Modern Gearing, H. Hubert Thorne, 153, 209 Monarkite as a Permitted Explosive, Demonstrations and Tests, 567
Mond Gas Plant at Mannesmann Tube Rolling Mills, 99
Monorail Car to Fly—Some Day, 693
Motor Car Comparisons; Light Car versus Cyclecar, 71
Motor Car Direction Indicator.. 263
Motor Car Gases and Disease, 693
Motor Car Starters, Electric, Acetylene, and Mechanical; Differing Practice Europe and America, 126
Motor Cycle Exhibition at Milan, 567
Motor Fire Engine for Exeter, 53
Motor Omnibus Service in London and Provinces, Rapid Extension, 45
Motor Spirit from Waste Oil, 427
Motor Vehicles, Relative Cost of Petrol Electricity, S. C. Thompson, 237
Motors, Internal Combustion, European American, 609
Muscular Energy in High Altitudes, Experiments, 126

NAPIER Tercentenary Celebration, 132, 606
Natural Gas from Medicine Hot Wells, Alberta, 291
Naval Architecture, Post-graduate Scholarship, 1914, 24
Navy, The Engineering Question in the. 3G2 Negro and Labour, 706
Nitric Acid Works in Great Britain, Increased Production, 16
Noise and Vibration, Company for the Prevention of, 153
Non-ferrous Metals, Defects, Messrs. Shepherd and Merrick, 401

OIL Depot, Admiralty, at Blackness, Firth of Forth, 71
Oil Fuel Depot on the Humber, 649
Oil Fuel, Imperative Necessity for its Use in the Navy, 349
Oil Fuel, Price and Freight Charges Doubled since 1910, 237
Oil Supplies for the Navy, 649
Oil Tanks, Large Steel, at Capetown, 349
Oil Wells, Maintenance of Yield, 41
Omnibus Tickets, Portable Apparatus for Stamping and Delivery, 263
Open-hearth Furnace Operated with Blast Furnace Gas, W. Worobiew, 71
Oxy-acetylene Torch for Removing Scale from Boilers, 319

PANAMA Canal, Dr. Vaughan Cornish at Royal Geographical Society, 537
Panama Canal Locks, Motors for Working, 483
Panama Canal Machinery and Equipment, Future Destination, 181
Panama Canal, United States Rules for Measurement of Vessels Passing Through, 376
Paper Mill in the Pearl River Delta, 46
Patents Applied for, Statistics, 45
Peat, Variety of Useful Products Extracted after Drying, 401
Penny-in-the-Slot Seat for Use in Parks, &c., 375
Petrol-electric Locomotive Crane, Made in Germany, 609
Petrol and Oil for Running Two-stroke Engine, 71
Petrol Storage in Two-gallon Tins, Agitation in Favour of Use of Steel Barrels, 126
Petrol Tanks, Inaccessible Openings, 375
Pitwood Impregnated with Axol, 706
Platinum Scarcity and Expansion of Electric Lighting and Technical Chemistry, 508
Poona College of Engineering, Testing Machines at, 67
Porto Alegre, Consular Analysis of Trade, Sources of Imports, 601
Producer Gas Cleaning by Straining through Fine-spun Glass, 99
Producer Gas Power Plant, Trouble with Nickel Electrodes, 537
Producer Gas from Wood, G. E. Lygo, 71
Pumping Plant at Cardiff, 54
Pyrometers, Recording, Professor C. R. Darling, 483

RADIOGRAPHY and Radio-therapy, New X-Ray Tube, 126
Radium, Effect of, on Lightning Conductors, 481
Radium Land in Colorado, Question of Government or Private Ownership, 349
Radium on Lightning Conductors, Valuable in
Reducing Lightning Flashes, 649
Radium in Ontario, Reward Offered for Discovery ; Government Measures to Secure Control, 427
Radium Tube Missing, 209
Radium : Its Whereabouts and Value, Paul Blesson, 349
Rail-handling Machine for Renewal Work, 667

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS:

Abandoned Tube Railway Under the Tyne, 321
Accident Statistics for 1913, 46
Accidents on Berlin Electric Railways, 153 Aerial Railway in Ceylon, 427
Aerial Railway for Ore Transport in Algeria, 263
Air Brush for Varnishing the Inside of Motor Cases, 677
Alloy Steel for Locomotive Parts, 125
Ambulance Work on Victorian Railways, 99 American Train Derailment on Truss Bridge, 621
Association of Railway Companies’ Signal Superintendents, &c., Meeting, 427
Automatic Signalling Installation on the Central London Railway, 677
Automatic Ticket Issuing Machine for Printing, Numbering, Dating, and Cutting off Tickets at Victoria District Railway Station, 537
Baldwin Banking Locomotive, 2-8-8-8—2 Type, 693
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Production of 40,000 Locomotives in 82 Years’ Working, 237
Ballasting Railway Tracks with Burned Earth, 71
Beira-Zambesi Railway Company in Formation, 649
Bergedorf and Friedrichsruhe Suburban Line Electrification on the Single-phase System, 401
Bombay Suburban Lines Electrification, 163
Bridge, Railway and Harbour Work in Roumania and Bulgaria, 181
Bridge, Two Miles Railway, to Link Rtigen Island to German Mainland, 181
British Guiana, Proposed Railway, 483
Burnt Island Accident and Mechanical Signalling, 637
Cab Signalling Devices, Difficulties, 321 Cactus as Cattle Guard on Arizona Eastern Railways, 45
Canadian Northern Tunnel into Montreal, Progress of Work, 15
Canadian Railway Extension, Great Activity, 45
Central Africa, Competition between Belgian, English and German Railways, 375
Charing Cross Moving Staircases and Connections between District and other Railways, 321
Chemists for Railway Work ; Tmpr>rt**y>t Functions, 649
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Partial Electrification, 401
China, Railways Opened and under Construction, 347
Chinese Railways Projection, Construction of an Additional 1000 Miles, 376
Cinders from Locomotives as Fuel for Stationary Boilers, 465
Cleaners, Portable Vortex Suction, for Railway Carriages, 427
Coal Consumption on Railways, Reduction due to Careful Administration, 291
Coal Mines, Large Locomotives for, Baldwin- Westinghouse “ Barsteel ” Type, 99
Collision near Marylebone, Report, 706
Collision at Reading Station, Great Western Railway, 677
Continuous-current Locomotives, Two 62- Ton, on the Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway, 637
Continuous-current Railway, 1200-Volt, in Germany, 326
Corean Railway Traffic Statistics for 1913, 649
Danish State Railway and Home-made Locomotives, 263
Dead Buffer Vehicles Converted to Spring Buffers, 46
Direct-current and Single-phase Systems in Austria, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, 677
District Railway Service Additions and Accelerations, 16
District Railway Through Carriage, 621 Donegal Railway Accident, Inouiry Report, 667
Doors of Cars on London Tube Railways, Central, End, or Both. 263
Dover Tramways and Electrical Charges, 667 Driver Caudle Reinstated by the Midland, 71
Dublin Tramcar Accident, 466
Earl’s Court—Willesden Section of London and North-Western Railway, Electrification, 509, 546
East London Railway Company’s Electrical Working, 181
Efficiency on the Pennsylvanian Railway Highly Favourable Results of Tests, 375* Egyptian State Railway® Locomotive Orders to Foreign Firms, 153
Electric Lighting Recommended for Fast Trains by French Government, 153 Electric Ijocomotives Cheaper than Steam 263
Electric Motor Train Connection between L.eyden and Seaside Resorts. 46
Electric Railway Working in Switzerland, Deputation of English Experts to Inspect, 349
Electrification of Main Lines in Europe and America, P. Dawson, 349
Electrification of Railways, Forthcoming Papers, 181
Escalators at Oxford-circus Station, 609 Escalators, Improved Construction, 667 Exhaust Steam for Operating Turbine Device on Locomotives, 649
Fireproof Train for North-Eastern Railway. 693
First-class Tramway Cars, 215
Folding Steps on Metropolitan Street Railways, 465
Gardens on the District Railway, Seeds and Prizes Offered, 125
Gas-electric Self-propelled Cars, 706 German-built Railways in China, 456 German East African Railway to Tanganyika,
German Locomotives for the Great Eastern Railway, Unfounded Report, 706
German Locomotives for the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 209
Great Central Collision as Result of a Series of Errors, 483
Great Eastern Railway’s New Traffic Manager, 609
Great Northern and Metropolitan Railway
Companies’ Proposed Bill Withdrawn, 706 Great North of Scotland Railway, Locomotive Superintendent Appointed, 222 Greece and International Railway Communication, 677
Hamburg Suburban Line to be Electrified on the Single-phase System, 376 Hayti, Bad Roads Banish Motor Cars, 705 Headlights, Ductile Tungsten Filaments, 283 Highland Railway, Doubling Sections of the Main Line, 401
Horse-drawn Train Service Terminated on the North British Railway, 427
Iceland, First Railway bo be Constructed, 376, 621
Illuminating of Railway Carriages, E. Kilburn Scott, 427
Indian Railways Mileage, 45
Indian Stationmaster as Respecter of Persons. 376
Insect Interference with Transport by Land and Sea, 483
Inspecting and Scrap Collecting Train on an American Railway, 667
Inspection Main Railway Structures in the United States, 347
Irish Non-stop Run from Belfast to Dublin 291
Japan, First Underground Railway, for Postal Purposes, 181
Java Railway Trains Unlighted on Account of Running only in Daylight, 71 Jerusalem to Bethlehem, New Tramways, 349 Jerusalem and Jaffa Communication, Pro. jected New Port and Railway, 126
Jubilee Issue of the Railway News, 168 Julfa-Tabriz Railway, Progress, Kansas City Cars, Alterations
Hanging-on to Cars, 706
Lacroze Tramways Company, 649
Lauban-Konigszelt Electrified Trips, 693
Light Railway Orders Confirmed by Board of Trade, 209, 567
Lighting of Tramcars, Tests of Seven Different Systems, 237
Liverpool Tramways, New Car, 427
Locking of Railway Carriage Doors, J. i Wilson, 121 ;
Locomotive Blast Pipes and Funnels Experiments, G. Strahl, 71
Locomotive Boiler Tube Failures and Welding, 401
Locomotives Re-conversion from Oil to Coal Firing in Austria, 376
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Electrification, Success of Single-phase System, 291
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and State Railways of France, Acceleration of International Service, 637
London Districts, Extension of Through Railway Communication, 649
London and North-Western Railway, Electrification of Suburban Lines, 321
London and South-Western Rolling Stock for Electrified Lines, 291
London and South Western Suburban Electrification, 649
Longest Railway Tunnel in Asia, The Khojak Tunnel, Beluchistan, 621
Lorain Surface Contact System at Wolverhampton, 677
Lotsehberg Railway, Deputation to from England, 349, 427
Lotschberg Railways, Trouble from lators in the Tunnel, 349
Madras and Southern Mahratta, New
Building at Madras Central Railway Station, 181
Magnifying Glasses for Locomotive Inspectors to Detect Flaws, 401
Manchester All-night Tram Cars, 126 Manganese Steel Railway Material, Sir Robert Hadfield, 401
Melbourne Suburban Railway Electrification, 99
Metropolitan Railway Hotel over Baker-street Station, 236
Midland Railway Bill in the House of Lords, 593
Midland Railway and Electrification of the London, Tilbury and Southend Line, 209
Midland Railway and London, Tilbury and Southend Line, 263
Midland Railway, Proposed Electrification of Section from St. Pancras to Hendon, 153
Mont Cenis Railway Electrification (Correction), 85
Montreal Harbour and Railway Electrification, 454
Movable Platforms for Long Bogie Carriages, 609, 621
Multiple Unit Trains on Silesian Mountain Railways, 669
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway, Result of Offered Prize, 46
New Zealand, Longest Railway Without a Curve in the World, 466
North British Railway Collision at Possil- park Station, 237
North British Railway Derailment, Report, 693
North-Eastern Railway New Central Permanent Way Station, 99
North-Eastern Railway, Stumpf Engine No. 825, Successful Work, 117
Omnibus and Railway Traffic Exchange at Hammersmith, 427
Pennsylvania Railway Rolling Stock, Expectation of Life and Scrap Value, 693 Permanent Way Depfit for North-Eastern Railway, 291
Persian Railway from Mohammerah to Khorambad, Concession Time Extension, 375
Peru, Central Railway, Highest in the World, 643
Petrol-electric Road Train, 339 Podanur-Pollachi Metre-gauge Railway, 466 Porcelain and Steel for Railway Carriages to Promote Cleanliness, 621
Posters on the Underground, 343 Prisoners’ Tramway Car for Montreal, 593 Prussian Railway Ix?an Bill, 374
Prussian State Railways’ Experimental Rolling Stock, 537
Rail Inspection on the Southern Railway of America, 509
Railway Construction in America, 99 Railway Employment Accident Inquiry, 693 Railway Improvements in Service between Malvern and Worcester and between Birmingham and Bristol, 706
Rochdale Tramways Accident, 537
Rocky Mountain Line, Canadian Pacific Railway, Projected Electrification as Experiment, 291
Rope Railway over the Himalayas to Connect Kashmir with the Punjab, 705
Royal Commission on Railways, 63, 166
St. Gothard Railway, Single-phase Electrification of, 637
St. Petersburg Inter-terminal Line, 667 Sand Distribution by Compressed Air, 609 Shantung Railway Company’s Meeting, 263 Shunting Locomotives on Parallel Lines to Cars, 706
Signal Glass, Yellow as a Night Colour, 375 Sleepers in Europe and America, Size and Composition, 16
Sleepers Treated with Creosote, Electrical and Other Tests, 483
Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals in Chicago, 321
Smoke Difficulty with Steam Locomotives, 609
Smoke of Locomotives in the City of Chicago, 99
Snow Storm and Electric Railways, 291
Soria Railway, Spain, and Agricultural Education, 321
South African Government Railways’ Deficit, 483
South African Railway Electrification, 99
South African Railways’ Locomotive Order for Munich.
South-Eastern Improvements Whitstable,
South-Eastern motives from Germany, 621
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Removal of Curves, 263
South Indian Railway Metre-gauge Branch Line, 456
South Manchuria Railway, Revenue from Electric Lighting Plants, 130
Special Trains to San Francisco in Connection with the International Electrical Congress, 125
Speed Indicators for Locomotives, 16
Speed Recorders on American Locomotives, 567
Steel Displacing Timber in Railway Carriages, 209
Sudan Government Survey of Projected Railway from Suakim to Tokar, 637
Swansea Station Improvement, 321
Sweden, Single-phase Electric Railways, 349 Swedish Coach Improvements, 71
Swedish Electrical Railway Development, 209
Swedish State Railways, Extension and Improvement, 237
Swiss Railways and Tramways, Statistics, 209
Tanganyika, German Communication with, by Rail and Steamer to Connect with the Belgian Congo, 263
Tay Bridge Disaster Recalled, 181
Tests, Laboratory, on Consolidation Freight Locomotive, 483
Tire Stamping, New Method, 237 Tower-hill, Proposed Tramways in the Neighbourhood of, 483
Train Stopping, Automatic, 3500 Devices Offered, 45
Tramcar and Motor Omnibus War, 153 Tramway Point Shifter, Automatic, 99 Tramways and Light Railways, Mileage Statistics, 71
Tramways Projected between Liverpool Docks and Lancashire Large Towns, 401
Transcontinental Railway, Australia, Jarrah or Karri Timber for Sleepers, 320
Transcontinental Railway, Length and Gauge, 693
Tripolitaine Railway Construction Hampered by Italian System, 71
United States and Electric Traction, Direct-current and Single-phase Working, 637
United States Railway Accident Statistics, 667
Unter den Linden, Tramway Tunnel below it, 483, 677
Ventilation of London Underground Railways by New System, 401
Viaduct Widening on the Metropolitan Railway near Kilburn—Brondesbury Station, 15
Vienna-Pressburg Single-phase Railway, 237
Wagons, Device for Automatic Registration of Weight, 436
Welding Rail Joints by Lorain Steel Company’s Process, 677
West Australian Sleepers for Transcontinental Railway, 320
Westinghouse Brake, Experiments with New Development, 456
Wheels, Steel and Chilled Iron, Restored by Grinding, 45
Wireless Train Equipment between New York and Buffalo, 181

RAINFALL, Need of Careful Observation, Anthony Lees, 349
Recording Pyrometers, C. R. Darling, 593
Refuse Disposal Plant in San Francisco, Electrically Operated, 649
Riksha, Cycle or Motor-driven, Replacing Man-drawn Vehicles, 613
Road Board, 80, 435
Road Mending with Steam Machine for Loading, Mixing, and Distributing Material, 637
Road Surfaces, Macadam, Used as Base for Concrete Roads, 401
Rock Drills Operated by One Man in America, 466
Rocket Life-saving Apparatus, Statistics, 321
Rolling Mill Construction, Recent Progress, 99
Rope Railway in India, 75 Miles Long, 349
Roumanian Government Proposed Tunnel Under the Danube, 509
Rubber, Para, Planting in British Guiana, 71
Rubber Research in Ceylon, 456
Rubber, Synthetic, Company near Manchester, 376

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Destroyer Flotilla Attacks on Portland Harbour, 125
Falstria Motor Ship Launched by Harland and Wolff at Glasgow, 321
Grossherzog Friedrich August, 153
Iron Duke, H.M. Battleship, as Flagship at Portsmouth, 321
Japanese Battleships and Destroyers, Building Progress and Details, 465
Landrail, H.M. Destroyer, Satisfactory Trial due to Superheater, Yarrow and Co., 483
Launch of a Naval Collier, Self-propelling, Werf Gusto, 85
Maine, Hospital Ship, Salving Operations Abandoned, 705
Motor Coaster for West Africa, 435 Roumania’a Increased Fleet, 263
Salvage of the Submarine A 7, Unsuccessful Attempts, 237
San Jeronimo, Oil Tank Steamer, Trial Trip, 209
Self-propelled Vessel Passes through Panama Canal, 153
Shipbuilding Industry, Agreement, 606
Steering Gear, Electric, Suggested for Motor Cars, 609
Submarine Disaster Prevention, Inventions Considered, 537
Submarine Disasters, Invention for Procuring Supply of Air, 427
Submarine Raising Experiments at Venice, 469
Suez Canal, Ships’ Maximum Drixught, 677
Tug, Trial of, Edward Hayes, 107
United States Naval Collier Jupiter, 376
Vaterland’s Maiden Trip, 537
Vaterland’s Trials, Good Results, 509
White Star Liner for the Liverpool—New York Service, 291

SILVER Mine Owned by New York Central Railway, 349
Silver for Photography, Extensive Use, 637
Skill and Experience, increasing Value of, 705
Smoke-box Cinders as Fuel, O. Nerger, 196
Solar Observatory in New Zealand, Address by Miss Proctor, 483
Status Prize, 12
Steam Boiler Working in Central Stations, J. W. Jackson, 401
Steam Boilers Heated by Submerged Firing, Briinler System, 181
Steam Raising by Combustion of Liquid Fuel Directly in Contact with Water, 677
Street Lighting in Europe and America, 456
Subsidence in the Tees Salt District at Haverton Hill, 537

TAR Distillation Limits, 677
Taxi-cab Calling Machine, 291
Taxicabs in Vienna, 99
Teachers in Technical Institutions, Association of. Conference, 661
Telegraph and Telephone Poles, Need of Special Treatment to Prevent Decay, 15
Telegraphic Experiments at Birmingham, 41
Telephone Cable between Carnarvonshire and Howth, near Dublin, 15
Telephone Call Check Meters, 705
Telephone Calls, Postmaster-General’s Letter, 693
Telephone Failures due to Weather ; Advantage of Underground Wires, 237
Telephones in England and America, 456
Temperature in Cotton Weaving Sheds and Coal Mines, Question of Limit for Working, 693
Test Holes Drilled and Dye Used to Determine Character of Rock for Foundations, 209
Testing Machines at the College of Engineering, Poona, 67
Testing of Moulding Sands, Special Course of Instruction, 291
Tests of Acetylene Motor, Favourable Results Compared with Petrol, 237
Textile Machinery, Electric Driving, J. F. Crowley, 667
Thermo-galvanometer, F. W. Jordan, 593
Tin Recovery from Tin-plate Waste, 706
Tin in South China, 99
Tinned Provisions in Norway, Prohibition of Lead in Tin-plates, 609
Tires for Motors Without Rubber, 263
Tires, Non-rubber, for Motox’ Lorries, Prize Offered by Austrian War Ministry, 291
Tires, Wood Spring, Satisfactory Experiment by Mr. J. H. Knight, 126
Titanic, Memorial to the Engineers, 468
Tracing Cloth, “ R. C.?’ 222
Trafford Park, 24
Trains—see Railways
Transference of Heat in Boilers, Evaporation Experiments, Professor O. Kochy, 71
Tripoli, Artificial Ice Supply in Excess of the Demand, 705
Tripoli, Great Increase in Port Trade, 649
: T'urbo Fans for Forced Draught, James Keith and Blackman Co., 304
Turpentine from Pine Forests in Asia Minor, 291

UNIVERSITY of Bristol, Degree of D.Se. for Mr. C. P, Smith, 51
University College, Nottingham, 192

VANADIUM in Brass, R. J. Dunn and O. F. Hodson. 153
Ventilation of Steam Turbine Engine-rooms, 237

WAGONS for House Refuse Collections, 483
Watches for Use in the Royal Navy, Annual Trial at Greenwich Observatory, 125
Water Gas in Steel Works, Torgau, Good Results, 567
Water Service Pipes, Small, Cleaning, 291
Water Supply for New York, Ashokan Aqueduct, 181
Water-tube Boiler Explosion, 46
Willcocks, Sir William, as Consulting Engineer for United States Government Irrigation Work, 655
Wire Nail Manufacture in Japan, 15

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY;

Banana Supply Assisted by Wireless Telegraphy, 71
Birds in Flight Affected by Wireless Telegraphy, 274
Canadian Wireless System Extension, 209
Coast and Shipboard Wireless Stations, Statistics, 45
Communication between Long Island, America, and Berlin, 4000 Miles Success, 209
French Inter-colonial Chain of Wireless Stations, 427
German Colonies, Wireless Telegraphy in, 82
High-speed Wireless Telegraphy Demonstration in the United Kingdom, 649
Imperator’s Important Installation of Wireless Telegraphy, 45
Isle of Man and England, Need of Wireless Communication, 427
Lighthouses, Wireless, on the French Coast, 426
Marconi’s Lecture in Rome, 320
Portsmouth Harbour, Extension of Naval Wireless Station, 263
Signalling and Wireless Telegraphy School at Harwich, 46
Train Equipment, Experimental, between New York and Buffalo, 181
Transmitting Station near Carnarvon, Largest in the World, 693
Wave Length and other Measurements in Wireless Telegraphy; New Type of Adjustable Condensers, W. Duddell, 263
Wireless Daily Newspaper, 677
Wireless Telegraphy in Southern Nigeria, 45

WIRELESS Telephony Experiments, Increasing Effectiveness, 706
Wireless Waves for Detection of Subterranean Springs and Ore Deposits, Drs. Leimbach and Lowy, 677
Wood, Metal and Pottery Exhibition at the Mansion House, 483

X-RAYS Produced by New Method, W. D. Coolidge, 71

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