The Engineer 1916 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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A ACCIDENTS, Metropolitan Street, Statistics, 531 Acid-resisting Alloys, 577 Advertising from Tower of Sixty Storeys in New York, 259 Aerial Tramway for Conveyance of Salt in California, 577 AERONAUTICS: Aeroplane Industry in United States, Growth of, 77 British Aircraft Constructors’ Society, First General Meeting, 11 Chinese Government Manufacture of Aeroplanes, 99 German Aeroplanes, New Features, 439 Self-starter for Aeroplane Engines, 189 Steam-driven Seaplanes, Future Possibilities, 11 Tenders for Aeroplane Construction for the American Army, 531 United States Army Air Service, 555 United States Exports of Aeroplanes, 259 United States Nomenclature for Aeronautics, 463 Zeppelin Construction, French Chemical Analysis of Alloys Used, 32 Zeppelin L33, Leading Particulars of, 325 Zeppelin’s Observer in a Suspended Basket, 509 AGRICULTURAL Tractors for Buenos Aires, 77 Agricultural Tractors, Increased Manufacture in the United States, 393 Air-lift Well Pumping Installation in New Jersey, 509 Allday, Mr. William, Death of, 213 Alloy Substitute for Platinum, 371, 577 Alloys, Manufacture and Use of, H. D. Hibbard, 213 Aluminium Production in Norway, Large Hydro-electric Plant Proposed, 33 Aluminium Separation from Zinc, Manganese, &c., Gravimetric Method, 349 American Anti-Aircraft Gun, 127 American Exports of Ammunition and Firearms, 167 American Labour and Eight Hours a Day, 235 American Machine Tools, Demand after Conclusion of Peace, Anticipations, 99 American Production of Benzole, Toluol and Naphthalene, 555, 577 American Quicksilver Industry, 71 American Shipyards’ Large Contracts for
Merchant Shipbuilding, 55
Ammonia Recovery from Peat, 348, 353 Anti-Corrosive Grease, 531 Antimony from South Africa, Great Demand, 303 Anzac, Prohibition of Word for Trade Use, 325 Apprentices Rewarded for Science Class Attendance, 259’ Apprentices’ Trade School at Westinghouse Works, 11 Architectural Competition in Designs for Federal Parliament House. 531 Arctic Copper Deposits, Possibility of Rendering Accessible, 487 Argentine Import of Agricultural Implements, 119 Argentine, Schemes for Prevention of Overflow of River arid for Development of Irrigation, 213 Armour Plate Manufacture in the United States, 88 ; Suggestion of Government Monopoly, 119 Asbestos Industry of the Cape Province, 417 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER :
Uniform Conditions for Engineering Operations and Industrial Work, Gold Medal Paper, Alfred Etchell, 349
INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Autumn Meeting, 180
•Dates for Meetings in 1917, 498 •Programme, 180
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Annual Autumn Meeting and Programme, 226
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
Electrical Equipment of a Car, A. Ludlow Clayden, 462 First Meeting of Session, 223
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
Awards for Papers, 380
Sand Drags, Paper on Keadby Bridge, J. B. Ball, 463
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Wiring Rules (Seventh Edition), Correction, 90 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND : Central Electricity Supply for Scotland, Presidential Address, W. W. Lackie, 77
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Opening of Winter Session and Programme, 332 Stability and Use of Cranes under Working Conditions, E. Eade, 332
INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
Design and Construction of Steel Railway Coaches, A. T. Houldcroft, 417 c CADMIUM Percentage in Spelter, Professor Ingalls, 417 Calcutta, Wood Paving Stopped, 281 California’s Extensive Use of Electric Power, 299 Canada’s Capacity in Peat Output, 463 Canada’s Consumption of Wood for Pulp Manufacture, Increase, 119 Canada, Statistics of Metal and Mineral Production, 325 Canadian Mines Report ; By-products from Coke Ovens, 303 Canadian Munition Industry Development, 577 Canal Companies and War Bonus, Who is to Pay ? 509 Canal del Roque, Cuba, for Land Reclamation, 551 Carburetter Floats, Leaky, 77 Car-driving Invention for Disabled Men, 11 Catalytic Property of Platinum, 235 Caterpillar Tractors for United States Army, 349 Cauvery Dam, One of Largest in the World, 393 Ceiba District of Honduras, La Ceiba Tree, 4 Celluloid, Substitute for, 230 Channel Tunnel Scheme Revived, 33 Cheap Steam, Ed. Bennis and Co., Limited, 333 Chemical Industry and Independence of Government Aid, Dr. C. Carpenter, 259 Chicago River Bascule Bridge, 303 Chimneys, Very Large Steel, in Arizona, 393 Chlorate of Potash from Japan, 287 Circle of Scientific, Technical, and Trade Journalists, 520 City and Guilds of London Institute, 139 Clarkson, Norman, Flight Sergeant, Killed by Shell, 259 Coal Carbonisation for Production of Explosives, 439 Coal Discovery in the Federated Malay States, 189, 321 Coal Dust for Drop Forge and other Heating Furnaces, 119 Coal Exploration in West Iceland, 393 Coal Gas for Motor Vehicle Purposes, 281 Coal Gas Standard of Value in New York, Heat Units Supplant Candle-power, 509 Coal Gas as Substitute for Petrol in Motor Cars, 439 Coal Mines Closed and Re-opened, 99 Coal Mining Committee’s Report—see Railways, Pooling of Wagons Coal Output in the United Kingdom, 167 Coal Pits Around Doncaster, 233 Coal Production Shortage in America, 487 Coal Resources of the United Kingdom, Arnold Lupton, 99 Coal, Simple Form of Test for, 11 Coal Storage under Water in Iowa, 213 Coal Supplies, Deputation from Gas and Electricity Undertakings, 22 Coal Tar and Colour Industry, Dr. Everest, 416 Coal for United States Railways, 349 Coliseum at Springfield, U.S.A., Roof Supports, 463 Colouring Rifle Barrels, 517 Commercial Motor Users and Chester County Council, 393 Commercial Motors, Annual Inspection of, 522 Concrete Barges No Longer a Novelty, 259 Concrete,. Great Need of Care in Mixing, Experiments, 213 Concrete, Reinforced, and Ferro-concrete, Differentiation between, J. S. Brodie, 77 ; (Letter), 127 Concrete Roads in America, Cranks and Critics, 235 Consular Reports, Suspension of Publication, on Grounds of Economy, 213 Conversion of Metres to Feet, 193 Cooling Tower, Largest Natural Draught, 439 Cooling Tower Wanted for Gisborne, New Zealand, 213 Copper from British Columbia, 303 Copper Discovery, Important, in Newfoundland, 393 Copper Exports from the United States, 439 Copper, German Substitutes for, 338 Copper Mines in Cuba Worked since 1520, 531 Copper, Record Purchase from America by * Germany and Austria, 259 Corrosion Research Station, 248 Cotton, American and Egypt, High Prices, 487 Crystal Palace Engineering School, 132 Cutting Retail Prices in United States, Legislation, 235 D DAYLIGHT Saving Chart, Horseley Company, Limited, 367 Death of Mr. G. E. Shore, 417 Delivery of Goods, Difficulties in, Germany
Gains at Britain’s Expense, 235
Diesel Engines and Low Insurance, 189 Diving in the United States Navy, Deep Sea Record, 143 Division of the Product of Industrv, Sir Hugh Bell, 55 Dry Dock Concrete Building by New Method,
417
Dynamical Balancing of Machines, 55 Dynamite, Three Different Kinds, 487 EDITOR’S Lament, 471 Educational Books for British Prisoners of
War, 367
Egg Breaking by Hand, Experiments, 417
Eggs, Cold Storage, Legislation, 259
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
Alternating-current Motors, N. C. E. Jacobv, 11
Alternating Currents, Standard Frequency of, 509
Aluminium as an Overhead Conductor, Mr. Wyssling on Cost, 189
American Central Station Efficiencies, Fino Records, 55 American Output of Electrical Machinery, Increase : Statistics, 189 Battery Sub-stations on the New York Edison System, 77 Birmingham Tramways and Shortage in Power Supply, 439 Board of Trade Licence to Import Insulating Materials, 371 Bradford Power Station, Output of Electrical Energy, 370 Central Supply for Scotland, W. W. Lackie, 77 Centralisation of Electric Power in Chicago, Great Economy of, 213 Copper Sheets, Spot Welding or Seam Welding, Suitable Electrodes for, 11 Cost and Advantages of Electrical Power, 393 Daylight Saving and Increased Use of Electricity in Manchester, 393 Dry Batteries for Flash Lamps, American Manufacturers’ Harvest, 393 Ebro Water Utilisation for Industrial Power Supply, 463 Edison Storage Battery, Effect of Temperature on its Performance and Durability, 531 Electrical Company’s Difficulties in Paris owing to the War, 99 Energy in Canada, Threatened Stoppage of Supply to the United States, 99 Furnaces, Classification of, 371 • Lieutenants, New Rank in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 65 Ploughing in Sweden, Italy and France, 281 Supply in Norway for Franco- American Syndicate, 439
Vehicle Committee, 130, 336
Vehicles, Marking of Lead Plate Batteries, 487
Vehicles and Scarcity of Petrol, 167 Electrician, The Two-thousandth Number, 272
Electricity Supply and Proposed Co-operation, 110 Energy from Tides, Professor D. Robertson, 551 Farmers Installing Electric Plants in Alberta, Canada, 325 Filament Lamps, Old and New, Question of Economy, 371 Fluctuations in Light with Low Periodicities, 371 French Alps, Increased Demand and Supply of Water-developed Energy, 349 Fulham and Battersea Power-houses Linked up, Suggested Inclusion of Hammersmith, 99 Fuse Blowing Due to Excessive Current, Not to Voltage, 259 Generator, Large, under Construction in Berlin, 393 German Copper Scarcity and Use of Zinc, 463
German Electric Lamps for Italy, 531 Gilbert Club to be Wound up, Meeting, 332
Heating by Electricity, Gas and Coal, Comparisons, W. B. Smith, 371 Home-office Regulations for Sigrialling in Mines, 119 House Refuse Collected by Electric Vehicles, 280 Ignition Systems, Accumulator and Magneto, Tests of Relative Efficiencies, 462 India, Great Need of Overhauling of Electrical Industry, 531 Insulating Materials, Data Given by United States Bureau of Standards, 325 Inter-connection of Electric Supply Undertakings, 333 Internal Combustion Engines and Electricity Pressure, 393 Japan, Statistical Report of Electrical Undertakings, 99 Japanese Electrical Track and Generating Stations, Statistics, 119 Japan’s Electrical Industry Development, 55, 577
Jinrickshaw, Electrical, for Simla, 259 Lamps for New York Consumers, 509 Linking-up London’s Electric Stations, 360
Locomotives for Underground Ore Haulage in South Africa, 417 Lorry, One-ton Edison Electric, Details of Report on Cost and Working, 281 Low Coal Consumption for Current Generation, 281 Modern Electric Mine Locomotives, W. M. Hoen, 11 National Electric Light Association of America, Interesting Report, 10 New York State Barge Canal, Lock Machinery Electrically Worked, 189 Oldham’s Electricity Meters and “ Summer Time,” 167 Paraffin Vaporisers Electrically Heated in America, 439 Plough, Electric, Possibilities of, 281 Potentiometer, Improved Type, Professor Ryan, 349 Power Generator and Munitions Output in the North of England, 463 Present Position of Electricity Supply in United Kingdom, E. T. Williams, 11 Primary Cell Output and Falls in Temperature, 467 Rating of Electric Lamps, 143
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) : Russian Finland, Large Electrical Undertaking, 393 Russia's Unused Water Power, 259 Sheep Fattening by Electric Light, 303 Southampton Electrical Supply ; Boiler Extensions, 393 Steam Turbines and Generators, Development of, 10 Sweden Exports Electric Power to Denmark, 439 Ten Years of Evolution of Hydro-Electric Units, G. B. Gillicott and W. B. Jackson, 117 Toledo, New Central Supply Station, 555 Transformers, Trouble and Protection, 77 Two-speed Alternating Current Elevator Motor, 439 United States Electric Light and Power, Prosperous Year, 417
Walsall New Electric Station, 417 White Ants and Power Line Poles, 393
Willage Storage Battery Company New Works Equipment. 487 Wiring Rules (Seventh Edition) (Correction), 90 Yorkshire, Board of Trade Proposals for Linking-up Electrical Undertakings, 439
Zinc Wire Cables, Bare and Insulated, 143
ELECTROLYTIC Copper Production in Canada, 349 Electro-Magnets for Handling Pig Iron on the American Lakes, 349 Enemy Businesses in the United Kingdom, Winding-up Orders, 235 Engine Driven by Steam, Gas, Benzine or Petroleum, 281 Engineering in Argentina, National Congress, 349 Engineering Experiments in the United States, 167 Engineering Societies Collective Headquarters in New York, 303 Engineering Standards Committee, New Secretary Appointed, 98 Ernolith, New Substitute for Celluloid, 230 Excavators, Electrically Driven for Drainage Work in Idaho, 509 Experimental Workshop and Industrial Laboratory for Aeronautical and other Work on Inventions, &c., 33 Exports of American Motor Vehicles, 235 F FEDERATED Malay States, New Harbour for, 303 Ferro-Vanadium Exports from United States, 509 Fifth Avenue, New York Traffic Count, 555 Fire Signalling on the Route of Engines Controlled from Headquarters, 33 Fireproofing Liquid, 235 Fish, Live, in a Gold Mine, 509 Floating Dock Captured at Tsingtau Transferred by Japanese to Sasebo Port, 55 Food Storage Limited by Legislation in United States. 259 Forest Tree Seedlings Planted by Machine, 577 Fracture in Colliery Guide Rope, 77 France’s Blast Furnaces, 463 French Army Steel Helmets, Details, 167 Freezing Point of Mercury, United States Bureau of Standards, Determination, 463 Fuel Oil in Battleship s Double Bottom Tanks, Parks Pneumercator System for Ascertaining Amount, 531 Fuel Used in Diesel Engines, Necessary Characteristics, R. E. Mathdt, 33 Fuel Used by London Omnibuses, Diluted Petrol, 189 Furnaces, Carbon Electrodes Standardised, 509 GAS Charge Reduction by the South Metro politan Gas Company, 142 Gas Coke for Boiler Furnaces to Replace Coal, 281 Gas Company, Edinburgh, Owning Railway Wagons for Coal Supply, 349 Gas Explosion in Pockets of Clay Soil in Tunnel under Lake Erie, 189 Gas Lighting, Economical, 272 Gas and Petrol for Power Generation, Comparison, 371 Gas Producers, Peet-fed, for Electricity Generation, and with Ammonia Recovery Plant, in Italy and Germany, 348 German Coal Tar Colours Export Value, 99 German Competition with United States after the War, Proposed Legislation, 235 German Control of Paper Miller and Coal Tar Dye Industries, with View to Military Exigencies, 77 German Government Control of Coal-mining Interests, 487 German Guns Made with Molybdenum Alloy, 555 Gold Imports into the United States, 509 Granite from Norway for Methil Docks, 325 VerY Large, Projected HAMMERS. Inverted, for Pulling Long Sheet
Piling. 555
Hand, Mechanical, Prize Offered for Best Apparatus, 417 Harbour and Dock Dues for Ships in Government Service, 509 Heating Dwelling-houses by Coal or Electricity, Cost, 259 Helical Toothed Gear Box for Motor Vehicles, New Type, 143 Highways in New York State, Maintenance, 119 Honourable Artillery Company, 132 House of Commerce at Birmingham, 270 Housing and Town Planning after the War, Councillor Harrison Barrow, 577 Huddersfield’s Approval of Decimal System, 371 Human Side of Scientific Study, 371 Hydraulic Installation, Modern, near Minneapolis, 281 Hydraulic Power in Japan, 99 Hydro-Electric Power Plant in South America, 439 Hydro-Electric Units, Ten Years of Evolution of, G. B. Gillicott and W. B. Jackson, 117 INDIA, Minipg of Wolfram Ore for Recovery of Tungsten, 434 India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha and Telegraph
Works Company’s War Relief Funds, 281
India, Trade of, Within the Empire, 357 Indian Coal Mining in 1915, 463 Indian Tea Planting and Electrical Supply, 303 Indigo, Synthetic, War Scarcity, 77 Industrial Revival in Invaded Districts of France after the War, Formation of Association, 99 Industrial Strength and National Defence, 126 Inventions Disregarded, History of the Lewis Gun, 189 IRON AND STEEL: American Society of Automobile Engineers, Standard Colours for Marking Steel Bars, 55 British Ron and Steel and Allied Trades Federation Report, 55 British Steel for Ships rather than Shells, 189
Carbon in Steel and Iron, Tests of Direct Combustion Method, 33 Case-hardening Steel Articles, 349
Cast Iron Heated and Cut by Ordinary Carpenter’s Saw, 77 Cast Iron Water Pipe Laid in America during the Civil War, 55 Castings, Hydraulic System of Cleaning and
Removing Cores, 393 Chalk Rust on Cast Iron, 189 Chrome Steel for Ball Bearings, 371 Chrome Vanadium Steel, Advantage of, 189 Cleaning Machinery for Castings, Tests of Power Required for Driving, 393
Copper Bearing Steels and Resistance to Corrosion, E. A. and L. T. Richardson, 371 France’s Supply of Iron and Steel, Huge
Imports to Replace War Deficiency, 55
Galvanised Corrugated Sheet Iron in the Dominican Republic, 189 German Engine Weights per Brake Horsepower, 531 Growth of Electrical Production of Steel in the United States, 33 Hardening Damascene Blades, 555 Holland’s Iron and Steel Imports and Exports, Two Years Compared, 33 India’s Imports of Iron and Steel Machinery and Railway Material, 555 Iron Mine in France, Re-opening after being in German Hands, 417 Irrigation Project in State of Washington, 555 Lead-plated Steel, Substitution for Zinc, &c., Made Possible by New Process, 189
Manganese Shortage in Germany, 119
Mexican Large Exports of Steel from Monterrey, 531 Relation between Yield Point and Proportional Limit for Steel, J. E. Howard, 119 Semi-finished Steel, Great Britain’s Imports from United States instead of from Germany, 509
Semi-steel, Useful Characteristics of, 77
Shrinkage of Manganese Steel Greater than that of Ordinary Steel, 143
Stainless Steel Analysis, 393
Swedish Electric Furnaces’ Annual Iron Production, 439 Tungsten Steel for Engineer’s Tools in America, Cost and Scarcity, 143 Tungsten—see also Tungsten IRRIGATION Works on the Rio Negro, Important Undertaking of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, 531 Irrigation Works in South Africa, 349 J JAPANESE Electrical Undertakings—see Electrical Matters Japan’s Manufacture of .Chlorate of Potash, 287 John Fritz Medal Award in United States, 555 K KAURI Gum Oil from Peat in New Zealand, 573 L LETTERS and Parcels for Troops, Great Increase, 11 Li 143S Capacity, Determining Factors, Lighting Shops in Paris, Drastic Order for War Economy, 487 Lighting, Subdued, for Motor Cars, Twin Filament Bulbs for Headlights, 509 Lloyd’s Register—see Ships Longridge, Colonel J. A., Killed in Action, 189 Lubricating Oil, Useful Test for Refinement, H.
W. Petty, 33
M MACHINE Rifle for United States, 463 Machine Tool, New, Wanted, 498 Magnesium, Special Uses of, 213 Magnetic Chucks for Holding Needle-pointing Dies, 393 Magneto Apparatus, Testing, 213, 509 Magnetos, All-British, Large Output for Government Use, 349 Manchester Municipal School of Technology, 155 Mechanical Stokers on a Fluctuating Load, Performance of, 89 Melting Down Foreign Gold, 509 Metal Production in Japan, 393 Metal, Self-lubricating, “ Graphalloy,” 421 Metals in Manufacture of Munitions, Committee to Secure Most Economical Use, 531 Metals and Materials Economy Committee, 584 Metric System Question in Great Britain and United States, 325 Metric System, Suggested Introduction, 119 Mexican Government’s Home-made Cartridges, 555 Mica, Fall in Total Value of Production in India, 439 Military Service Postponement in Case of Selected Science Students, 7 Milling Cutter Tests in America, 235 Mine Signal Electrical System in Michigan, 487 Mine Works, Deepest, in the World, 371 Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Special Reports on the, 155 Miners with the Colours and Output from Collieries, 303 Moakes, Lieut. J. C., Killed in Action, 281 Molybdenite, Specimens Found in New Zealand, 184 Molybdenum, Demand for, 325 Molybdenum Discovery In Norway, 325 Montevideo Sewerage Works, 143 Motor Car Engines and Right-angled Bends, 33 Motor Car Gear-boxes, Power Losses in, 463 Motor Car Manufacture Profits in America, 325 Motor Car, Steam, with Oil-fired Boiler and Uniflow Engine, 487 Motor Cars, Chassis and Parts Imported into United Kingdom, 349 Motor Cars and Cycles Registered in London, Statistics, 143 Motor Cars for Farmers in United States, 349 Motor Spirit and the Petrol Tax, 491 Motor Vehicles Exported from United States, 143 Motor Vehicles, Heat Treatment of Gearing for, 235 Motor Vehicles in New York, Need of Weight Regulations, 463 Moving a Three-storey Steel Frame Structure, 417 Munition Workers’ Holidays, 189 Munition Workers and Sunday Labour, 11 Munitions Tribunals, Statistics of Cases, 325 N NATURAL Gas Measurements at High Pressures ; Errors and Boyle’s Law, 303 Natural Gas in the United States, Record
Quantity Used, 371
New York Handicapped in Freight Handling, 439 New York Refuse Utilisation Scheme, 577 New York State’s Barge Canal, 509 New Zealand, Lake Coleridge, Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 341, 371 New Zealand, Projected Harbour Works in Wellington, 577 New Zealand, Projected Large Harbour at
Wanganni, 213
Niagara, Beauty versus Utility, 143 Nickel Exports to Germany from Ontario and
New Caledonia, 119
Nickel Production in Canada and America, 393 Nitric Acid, Sources of Production ; Its
Importance, 491
North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Presentation to Mr. F. Lewins, 584 Norway, Electro-Chemical Works Started by
French-American Syndicate, 259
o OIL Industry in California, Development, 504 Omnibus Lifeguards and Reduction in Street Accidents, 95 Oxygen Deficiency in Atmosphere, Men, Mice and Canaries, 325 Oxygen, Production by the Electrolytic Process, 439 p PACKINGS for Steam Jointings, British Made, 143 Palladium and Silver Alloy, 303 Panama Canal, Favourable. Report on its
Future Usefulness, 349
Panama Canal, Landslide on, 393 Panama Canal, Two Years’ Operations, 509 Paper Making from Cotton Stalks and Bark, 417 Paper Manufacture from Tambookie Grass, 325 Paraffin Wax, Solid, Used to Coat Inside of Tanks, 417 Patent Rights of Enemies ; Austrian Legislation, 259 Patents Act, Inventors and the War, 417 Perpetual Motion, 235 Peru, Cotton Cultivation Development, 577 Peru, Trade Openings in, 584 Peruvian Trading and the Enemy Trading Act, 325 Petrol Control Committee, Licences, 299 Petrol Engines, Trouble from Pitting of Valves, 213 Petrol for Heating Paraffin Engines, Lega Question, 487 Petrol Locomotives in Chicago Water Tunnel, 371 Petrol Making by the Rittman Process, 463 Petrol Substitute, Patent for, H. K. Tompkins 325 Petrol Substitutes and Legal Decision, 259 Petrol Supply, Expected Augmentation, 167 Petrol Supply, Restriction of and Effect on
Road Motor Services, 213
Photograph Enlargement without Use of Lens, 417 Pig Feeding on Garbage, 167 Piling, Long Steel Sheet, Inverted Hammers for Pulling, 555 Pipes in Steam Generating Stations, Proposed
Painting of Flanges, 463
Piston Rings of Motor Car Engines, Average Pressure, 417 Plate Girders, Functions of Stiffeners, 417 Platinum in Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, 235 Plough, Petrol Driven, Details of Weight, &c.,
Possibilities of Electric Plough, 281
Porcelain for Chemical and Laboratory Work, No Longer Made in Germany, 259 Portland Cement, Extensive Use of Oyster Shells in Manufacture of, 213 Post-office Tube for London, Delay, 11, 33 Potash from Kelp, Government Plant in
Southern California, 555
Prizes for Essays, 568 Prohibited Exports, Additions to List, 11 Professors Ayrton and Perry as Pioneers in
Instrument Production, 281
Public Libraries and Technical Literature, 290 Pulverised Coal as Fuel for Steam Boilers, 349 Pumping Machinery for New South Wales, 393 Purloining Engineers’ Plans, 143 Pyridine and Other Solvents of Coal Constituents, 577 Q QUEENSLAND Irrigation Scheme, 371 Quicklime Expansion when Wet, Utilisation for Mechanical Purposes, 531 R RADIO-ACTIVITY Not Confined to Radium, Radio-Thorium as Substitute, 235 Rails, Dearth in South Africa, 213 ; (.Correction), 235 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Accidents on British and American Railways, Comparative Statistics, 189 Accidents and Fewer Board of Trade Inquiries, 11 Accidents Reports, Necessary and Unnecessary, 55
Accidents—see Wallneuk, Warminster, &c.
Advertisement Changes ; Land for Works, 55 Air Raids and Injury to Railway Servants, 189
Alaska, Government Lines in, 371
Alaskan Railway Carrying Coal, 259 American Gondola Cars, Steel, for Russian
State Railways, 143
American Locomotive Exports, 166
American Railways, Great Loss of Life due to
Trespassing, 189
Annual Report on Railway Accidents, 77 Argentina, Suggested History of Railway Construction, 531 Argentine Central Railway Electric Service, 303, 349 Argentine Railway Carriage Heating, 439 Australian East-West Transcontinental Rail
way Board of Commissioners Likely to be
Appointed, 189
Australia, East-West Transcontinental Railway, Rolling Stock to be Built in Australia, 99 ; Progress and Cost, 487 Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway and Government Telegraphs, Dispute, 349 Bengal and North-Western Railway, Managing Director, New Appointment, 340 Bengal and North-Western Railway, Retirement of Chief Engineer, Mr. W. J. Turnbull, 259 Benghasi to Er-Regana, New Line Completed, 147 Bletchley—see London and North-Western Board of Trade Import Restrictions and American Electric Motor Chassis, 217
Board of Trade New Extensive Powers over. Railway Services, Wagons, &c., 531 I Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Rail way, Changes in Board of Directors, 189 Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Death of Chairman, 99 Box Tunnel, Temporary Closing, 463 Brazil, Locomotive Fuel Question, 235'
Brazil, Proposed New Railway, 430 Bricklayers Arms Depot, Women as Van Drivers and Guards for South-Eastern Railway, 281 Bridges on Electric Street Railways, Question of Safety, 577 Bridges, Railway, in New York City, Annual
Inspection and Report, 235
British Malaya, Railway Expansion in, 316 “ Brown’s Discipline ” on American Railroads, 509 Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Death of Chairman, 577 Buenos Aires and Pacific Railwaymen, Military Honours, 463
Burma Railway Construction, 281
Caledonian Railway Collision in Snowstorm^ 577 Canadian Pacific Railwaymen Wounded m the War and Re-employed on tl^e Railway, 213
Canadian Pacific Railway Trouble, 439
Canadian Pacific Railway Wharves in Vancouver, 325 Canadian Railway Board and Fire Protection, 463 Canadian Railways and the Canadian Government, Future Policy, 55 Canadian Railways Commission, Changes in Composition, 413, 417, 439, 487 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- tinned): Canadian Railways and the Transportation Problem, 167
Cannon-street Station Opening, Jubilee, 213
Cardiff Railway and Taff Vale Railway Companies, Result of Legal Action. 485 Central Argentine Railwaymen’s War Service, 393 Central Argentine Suburban Line Electrification. 303, 349 Ceylon Government Railways’ Successful Running, 349
Charing Cross Bridge and Another Bill, 463 Charing Cross Bridge Bill Rejected, 11
Charing Cross Bridge Bill and Railway Directors in Parliament, 33 Charing Cross Bridge and the London County Council, 118 Charing Cross Bridge Repairs, Nightly Stoppage of Certain Trains, 393 Charing Cross Bridge Widening, Board of Trade Grants Extension of Time, 189 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Hot and Cold Drinks, 393 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Electrified Portion Supplied with Light Signals* 371 ; Further Portion Opened, 487 Chicago and North-Western Railway, Accident Statistics, 509 Christiania and Denmark, Suggested New Communication, 77 Coke for Locomotives and Abolition of the Smoke Nuisance, 349 Collision between Midland Passenger and Great Central Goods Trains 531 Consolidated Signal Company’s Relations with Government Departments, 463 Crimean Rolling Stock Gauge as the Origin of Standard Fixed by Argentine Railways, 99
Cuban Railway Extension, 281
Darkened Streets and Railway Posts, Liability for Accidents, 189
Daylight Saving and United States Railways,
Death of Mr. L. Longbottom, London and North-Western Locomotive Superintendent, 259 Death of Midland Company’s Assistant Carriage and Wagon Superintendent, 371 Death of Mr. Theodore N. Ely, Pennsylvania Company, 487 Donop, Colonel P. G. von. Retirement as Chief Inspecting Officer ; Appointment of Colonel Pringle, 166 Dublin and South-Eastern Company and Coast Erosion, 417 Dublin and South-Eastern Railwaymen’s War Bonus, 393
East Indian Railway Company Collieries, 99
East Indian Railway Dining Cars Withdrawn, 11
East Indian Railway and Train Control, 119
Edgware and Hampstead Railway Construction, Extension of Time Granted, 303 Egg Demonstration Train, Great Eastern Railway, 325, 371 Eight Hours Act on United States Railways, 463, 4.87 Eight Hours’ Legislation and Railwaymen who are not Trainmen, 417 Electric Service Supersedes Steam between Broad-street and Kew Bridge and Broad- street and. Richmond, 213 El Paso and South-Western Railroad ; Locomotive Speed Indicators and Recorders, 393
Euston Station Hall Redecorated, 153, 235 Euston Train’s Record Speed, 555
Excess Profits TaxA. New Chairman of Board of Referees, 213 Exports of Road Material and Rolling Stock, Comparative Tables, 235 Exports from United Kingdom of Locomotives and other Railway Material, 577 Federated Malay Railways and New Harbour, 303 " ... . Flood Damage on North British Railway Lines, 355 French Railways and Women’s Labour, 417 French Trunk Railway Locomotives in January, 1914, 555 Fuel on Argentine Railways, Increased Cost Raises Transport Expenses, 393 German Railways Drastic Restrictions, 531 German South-West African State and Private Railways Taken Over by South African Government, 11 German State Railways,.Lack of Heating, 303 German State Railways, Women Employees, Glasgow District Subway Railway, Uniform Fare Instituted, 531 Glasgow and Paisley Joint Line, Derailment and Collision at Wallneuk, 235, 439 Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Change pf Chief Engineer, 325 Great Central Railwaymen with the Colours and Casualties, Arc., 325 Great Central Train Collision at Lincoln, 555 , Great Eastern Railway, Egg and Poultry Train, 325, 371 Great Eastern Railway Manager’s Military Appointment, 99 Great Indian Peninsula Railway Meeting, 11 Great Northern Company, Roll of Honour Poster, 531 Groat Northern Railway versus Hendon Rural district Council, 77 Great Northern Railway, versus Pickfords, Limited, 7 7 Great Southern and Western Railway, Collision at Kiltimagh Station, 577 Great Western Railway, Change of Divisional Locomotive Superintendent, 325 Great Western Railway Company’s Canal Engineer, Change of Appointment, 303 Great Western Railway Co.’s New Works Engineer, Retirement, 11 Great Western Railway, Engineering Staff . Changes, 11 Great Western Railway, Men of Military Age with the Colours, Casualties and Still on the Railway, 235 Great Western Railway, Military Traffic 4 Statistics, 119 Great Western Railway, Record in Traffic and Immunity from Accident, 235 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con.
tinued)\
Great Western Railway, Retirement of Mr. AV. Armstrong, New Works Engineer, also of Mr. G. J. Whitelaw, Accountant, 33 Great Western Railway, Safety Medal, 259 Great Western Road Motor Service Curtailed because of Reduced Petrol Supply, 213 Hampton Court Junction and Claygate, Postponement of Electric Service, 303 Harrogate Season and Trains Alteration, 167 Heysham Route to Ireland (Midland Railway)
Closed, 487 : Suggested Renewal, 509
Highland Company’s .Hopetown Station Closed till End of the War, 555 Highland Company’s New 4-4-0 Tender Engines, R. and W, Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., 555 Hill, James J., Harvard Professorship in Memory of, 393 HALS. Duke of Albany, Armed Boarding Cruiser, Formerly Fleetwood - Belfast Steamer, Sunk by Submarine, 189 Holiday Railway Traffic, 248 India, Survey bv Eastern Bengal Railway, 439 Indian Railways, Question of State or Private Ownership, 303 Inquests on Railwaymen and National Union of Railwaymen, 11 Institutions of Locomotive Engineers and of Railway Signal Engineers, Papers, Arc.— see Associations Interim Dividends Declared to Date, 77, 99, 119, 143 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION : American Railways and Trainmen Dispute, Suggested Reference to Interstate Commission, 55 Coal and Refrigerator Cars, Scarcity in the United States, 577 Headlights of Locomotives, New Regulations, 119 Membership Increased, Statistics of Cases 259 Purchase of Supplies by Common Carrier, Regulation, 55 Ireland, Greenwich Time and the Mails, 281 Irish Board of 'Agriculture’s Report, 259 Irish and English Time, Uniformity After October the First, 167 Irish Railway Grievance Against Government. 417 Irish Railways’ Increased Rates, 417 Irish Railways and War Bonus, 325, 371, 581 Irish Time Change Necessitates Alteration of Timetables, 167 Irish Train Control, New Powers, 487 Italian Ministry of Maritime and Railway Transports, 213 Italian State Railway Deficit, 281 Japanese Railways, Change of Gauge, 119 Jarrow Railway Accident Recalled, 531 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Shopmen, Increased Pay, 213 Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Ships its own Sleepers from Southern Ports, 417 Litter Left by Visitors in Public Places and on Railways, 33 Littleton Collieries, Limited, versus London and North-Western Railway Company, 99 Locomotive Exports—see Railway Material Locomotives’ Use of Powdered Coal, 371 London, Brighton and South Coast Railwaymen with the Colours, Casualties, 143 London, Brighton and South Coast Special Train Derailed, Inquiry, 77 London Electric Railways Company and Powers for Purchase of Land, 99 London and North-Western Railway, Change of Running Superintendent, 33 London and North-Western Railway, Collision at Bletchley, 143, 349 London and North-Western Railway, Collision in Snowstorm at Wigan, 577 London and North-Western Railway Decline to Reinstate Restaurant Cars, 311 London and North -Western Railway Engines, Five New Four-cylinder Ones of the
Claughton ” Type, 167
London and North-Western Men with the Colours, Casualties, 555 ; Commissions, 325 ; Decorations, 11 London and North-Western New Station at Kensal Green Tunnel, 303 London and North-Western Railway, Refreshment Question, 487 London and North-Western Rugby Engineer, Retirement, 213 London and North-Western Steamer Connemara’s Fatal Loss by Collision ; Steamer Losses of the London and North-Western Railway Company, 417 London and South-Western Suburban Electrification, Claygate and Waterloo, 439, 463 Long Island Railroad Company, Trouble with Motorists at Level Crossings, 33 Long Island Railroad, Improved Accident Record, 417 Long Island Railroad Level Crossings Danger, 77 Luggage in Advance Ceases, 531 Luggage Limit and Women Porters, 463 Luggage and the War, Dearth of Porters, 11'9, 463 Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Appointment of Chairman, ] 19 Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company, Annual Meeting, 11 Mansfield Railway Company, Progress' of Line, 325, 371 Manila Railways in. Difficulties, 281 Mechanical Stokers for United States Locomotives, More General Use Advocated, 577 Melbourne Railways Electrification, Grave Delay in English Contracts, 55 Metropolitan Railway—see Aylesbury Metropolitan Railway War Service Corps, Supply of Vegetables to Hospitals, 371 Metropolitaine of Paris, Net Receipts, 11, 143 Mexican Appointment of Civil Engineers as Inspectors of Railroads, 53.0 Mexican Railway taken over by Mexican Government, 189 Mexican Railways, Annulling of Contracts by Carranza Government, 281 Mexico Citv, Excellent Electric Car Svstem. 531 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued ) : Mexico, Constitutionalist Railways Measures to Stimulate Emplovees1 Inventive Powers, 531 Midland Railway General Manager, Temporary Government Appointment of Sir Guy Granet Terminated, 99 Midland Railway’s New Line Through Bradford ; Time Extension, 167 Midland Railway, Provision for Former Servants Discharged from the Army, 303 Munition Workers and Railway Facilities for Holidays, 259 Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, “ Safety Line ” Painted on Platforms, 259 National Union of Railwaymen, Change of Secretary, 509 National Union of Railwaymen and Military Service, 167, 213 ; and Casualties, 393 New South Wales Government Railways, Test of Audible Cab Signals, 531 New South Wales Railway Staff, Memorial to Members Fallen in War, 11 New York City Avoided by Federal Express on Account of Outbreak of Infantile Paralysis, 259 New York Elevated Railroad, Two Strikes, 235 New York State Railways, Painting Car Ends for Street Safety, 463, 531 New Zealand Railways, Mileage Open for Traffic, 290 Nicaragua New Railway, 371 Nigerian Railway Working Results, Statistics, 235 Norfolk and Western Railway Company, Extension of Electrification, 259
Norfolk and Western Railway Company’s
. New Type of Steel Coal Pier and Generally Forward Policy in Working, 33 Norfolk and Western Railway Company’s Offer to its Men of Military Training Pay, 93 North British Conciliation Scheme and Women Workers, 463 North British Railway Bill and Oil Company Concessions, "3 3 North British Railway Dividend, AV agon Question and Government, J09 North British Railway, Landslide near Galashiels, 577 North-Eastern Railway Company’s Mechanical Coaling Plant, 21 3 North-Eastern Railway, Derailment at Serein erst on, Report, 33 North-Eastern Railway Shopmen, Advance in Pay, 235 North London Railway Electrification, Accel eration of Speed, 281
Ottoman Railway and the War, 303 Painting Cars as a Safety Measure, 531
Panama Railroad Men’s Eight Hours Dav, 393 Panama Shops of Entre Rios Railway Damaged by Fire, 417
Passenger Train Service, Curtailment, 487
Passenger Trains, Limit of Weight for
Luggage and Parcels, 463, 487
Penistone Ahaduct, Reopening, 119
Pennsylvania Railroad Electric Service between Philadelphia and Paoli, 77 Pennsylvania Railroad Lines East of Pittsburgh. Record of Safetv and Observance of Rules. 189 Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Care for Shopmen’s Eyesight, 463 Pennsylvania Railroad Men Called up for Mexican Service r Relief for Families, 213
Pennsylvania Railroad Signal Lights, 259
Permits for Certain Districts, Extension of Areas Prohibited, 303 Petrol Reduction and Great Western Road Motor Service, 213 Pooling uf Wagons and Coal Transport, 303, 349 Pooling of Wagons and Scottish Railway Companies, 393
Postal Express, The AA’est Coast. 74
Powdered Peat as Fuel for Locomotives, Swedish Railway Experiments, 167 Price-AVilliams, Richard, Notable Papers on Railway Matters, 281 Pullman Ambulance Train for United States
Army, 303
Queensland Government Purchase of Chi 11 ago e’ Rai 1 way, 555 Quintinshill Signalmen’s Release from Penal Servitude, 555 Rail Failures, Comparison between Open Hearth and Bessemer Processes, 487 Railway’ Benevolent Institution, Subscriptions, ] 1 Expansion in Latin America, F. M. Halsey, 99 Men with the Colours, Analysis, 325, 509 Men’s Demand for War Bonus Increase, 143, 167.213, 235, 259, 281, 325 Material and Rolling Stock, Exports Statistics,’55, 143, 349, 439 Materials, Some Foreign Specifications for. United States Bulletin. 325 Repair Shops at Minas Geraes, 143 Shopmen’s AV ar Bonus, 325
Single Men and Military Service, 417
Railways, Few Applications for New Orders, 509 ’ Reduction of Fares for Royal Show at Manchester, 33 Road' to the East, Suggested New Route in Friendly Occupation, Sir Arthur Evans, 213
Rolling Stock Wastage, 468
Roumanian Port of Constanza ; Connection with Derby, 417 Russian Locomotive Orders for Canada and the United States, 509 Russian Railway Construction and Training of Engineers, 167 “ Safety First ” Movement Results in Illinois, 555 Salisbury—Trowbridge Line, Fatal Collision, 213. 235 Sand Drags, J. B. Ball. 463 San Francisco—Oakland Railway Signalling System. 439 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Schoolboys and War AVork in Holiday Time, 259 Scottish Railways and Carted Luggage, 1 1 Serbian Railwaymen Working in France. 167 Siamese Northern Railway, Progress in Construction, 259 Sierra Leone Government Railways Statistics, 281 Signalling of a Colonial Railway, A. C. Rose, 439, 487 Signalmen and Long Hours, 463
Sleeping Car Berth Charges Raised, 189
Sleeping Cars on British Railways, Analysis of Ownership, 555 South African Railway Men for French Railways, 393 South African Railways and Harbours, Estimates of Expenditure. 143 South African Railways, Retirement of Sir Thomas Price, 39 ; Death, 303 South African Railways, Satisfactory Annual Report, 99 South Australia, Railway Commissioners for 189 South-Eastern and Chatham Grievance Against Railway Director Members of Parliament, 33 South-Eastern, and Chatham Railway Steamer Engadine 'Lowing H.M.S. Warrior, 33 South-Eastern and Chatham Steamer Queen Lost in Channel Skirmish, 417 South India and Indo-Ceylon Connection, 463 South Indian Railway Officers and Men with the Colours, 417 Southern Pacific Railroad, Distinctive Colour for Cars, 531 Southern Pacific Railroad and Increased Cost of Rolling Stock and Material, 393 Southern Railway Company’s Poor Revenue, 417 Spain, Southern Railways of, British Interests in, Transferred to France, 231
Springs on Rolling Stock, Rare Failures, 55 Stanley, Sir Albert, of Underground Railways and General Omnibus Company, made President, of Board of Trade, 531
Steamship Services between England and Ireland ; Restored between Fleetwood and Belfast, 33 Stranraer Train from Euston, Separate Running, 439 Strawberry Traffic to Ireland and Scotland, 143 Summer Time and Railwaymen’s Pay, 281 Superheaters and Mechanical Stokers on Locomotives in United States and Canada, 259 Survey for Jessore-Faridpur Railway, 439 Timetables, Free Supply to Hotels, &c., Withdrawn, 49 Train Ferries between Sweden and England, 77, 417 Train Services, Extensive Changes in January, 509 Trains Stoppage, Excursion and Otherwise in Ireland, if Required, 487 Transport, History, Theory and Present Organisation of, Lectures at the University of London, 213 Transportation, Military, New Appointments, 393 Tube Railway AVorkers’ Increased Pay, 281 Turkish Government Cancels French and Franco-Belgian Concessions, 434 'Union Pacific Railroad, Measures for Flood Protection, 303
Union Pacific Railroad Refreshments, 531
Union of South Africa Railways, Rates in War Time. 11 9
United States Army Hospital Train, 213
United States Bureau of Standards Commerce Bulletin, 325 United States, Carriage < f Grain and Shortage in Wagon Supply, 393 United States Census of Steam and Electric Railway Car Construction, 371 United States, Export of Railway Material and' Rolling Stock, 325 United States, Export of Steel Rails, 213, 325 United States Railway Dispute, 138, 167, 235,439 United States Railwavs and the Clayton Act, 213, 235 United States Railways, Coal Supply, 349 United States Railways and Oppressive Legislation, 452 United States Railway Regulation, Government Investigation Ordered, 143 Victoria and New South AArales, Inter-border New Lines, 167 A’ictoria., Railwaymen’s Increased Minimum Wage, 371 Victorian Railway Commissioners’ Annual Report, 509 Wagon Demurrage, Midland Railway’s Action Against Haulage Contractors, 555 AVagon Repairs, Action to Recover Siding Rent, 55 AA’agons, Privately-owned, Pooling, 59, 119 AVagons and Wagon Sheets, Railway Charges, 55
AA'allneuk, Collision at, 235, 439 War Bonus Cost to the State, 393
for Salaried Railway Staff, 167 and Wages Deductions, 463 and Women Railway AVorkers, 77, 325, 439
AVhQ is to Pay it ? 325—see also Railway Men’s Demand Warminster Collision, Board of Trade Inquiry, 213, 235, 325, 393
AVaste Paper Sale on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, 439 Weedon Accident Unique of its Kind, 119 AVeight of Goods by Passenger Trains Limited, 463, 487 Women Engine Cleaners at King’s Cross Shed, 259 Women on London Electric . Railways, Facilities for Meals. &c.. 577 AAzomen Porters and AVeight Limitation, 463, 487 Woodhead Tunnel, Great Central Railway, 55 RAINFALL Reports from Rochester, N.Y., 33 Refractories and Zirconia, 463 Rifles, Respective Merits of the Ross and the Lee-Enfield, 99 Riveting a Damage.! Mountain on the West Shore Railroad. 531 Rolling Mill. Reversing, Large Electric-driven, 487 Royal Agricultural Show at Cardiff, 463 Rubber, Specific Gravitv-and Tensile Strength, 99 Russia, Economic Map of. 188 Russian Cellulose Industry, Proposed Working by Norwegian Company, 349 Russian Deficiency in Certain Minerals, Absence of Electric Furnace in Steel Manufacture, 325 Russian Projects for Encouragement of Electrotechnical Enterprises, 303 Russia’s Reconstruction of Waterway Connecting Archangel with Petrograd, 167 Russian 'Prado Openings in Machinery and Steel, 55 s SAFETY First Campaign in London, 487 Salt Mines in Switzerland. 349 San Francisco, Proposed Five-mile Bridge, 314 Sands and Dust, Great Difference in Surface Area lyetween Coarse and Fine, 371 Savile, Captain W. H. B.. Assistant Engineer at Bristol Docks, Killed in Action, 213 Science in Education, Place of, Dr. J. A.
Fleming, 11
Scientific Societies, Board of, 154 Sea Action. Maximum Theoretical and Effective
Battle Range, Commander R. Earle, 439
Sea Salt Production on Colombian Coast, 439 Sewerage Systems in Canada, 393 Shaft Sinking by Cementation Process, 235 Shale Sample and Prospect of Oil from Natal, 303 Shanghai, Docks Extension, 577 Sheffield Trade in Terms of Increased Use of Electrical Power, 167 Shells in America, The Warrior at the Lathe, 303 Shells, Cast Steel, Successful Manufacture of, in the United States, 371 Shells, High-explosive, Record Production at Record Pay, 77 Shells Output by Allies and Germany, Large Figures, 577 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS: American Dreadnoughts, The Vanishing Ram, 509 Anchor for United States Super-Dreadnought, 463 Canadian Maritime C. mmerce, Satisfactory Conditions, 99
Canadian Statistics of Shipping, 463
Diesel Enginesand Steam Engines, Important Changes to Well-known Ships, 77 Drifting Ship Repaired in Mid-ocean, 126 Fusible Plugs, United States Steamboat Regulations, 119 Geared Turbines to Replace Direct-connected Turbines in United States Destroyers, 259 German and Austrian Ships Interned in United States Ports, 55 German Construction of U-boats for Campaign Against Norwegian Ships, 463 German Large Submarine Protected Cruiser in Course of Building, 281 German Submarine Cargo Boat Deutschland, 143 Germany’s New Mercantile Fleet, 143 Great Eastern Company’s Steamer Colchester, Capture by Germany, 299 Gyrostatic Stabiliser for U.S. Navy, Largest Steel Casting Ever Made, 99 H.M.S. Duke of Albany, Armed Boarding Cruiser, Formerly Fleetwood-Bplfast Steamer, Sunk by Submarine, 189
“ Isherwood ” Vessels, Statistics, 555
Italian Cargo Vessel of 20,000 Tons Displacement, 167
Japanese Shipbuilding Activity, 577 Lloyd’s Register, Analysis of Lost Ships, 270 Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns, 333
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued): Mexico’s Trade Conducted by Use of Foreign Ships. 143
Molteno, New Water Scheme for. 303
Motor Ship Peru, Burmeister and Wain, Launched, 299 Naval Career in the United States, Battleship Tours to Encourage Taste for, 235 Shipbuilding in Quebec, Inducements Offered for. Laying Down Plant. 33 Ship Lengthened and Converted from Cargo Boat to Oil Tanker, 143
Shipping Output and Food Control. 487
Steel Ships on the Canadian Atlantic Coast, Cost of Building, 167 Submarine’s Possibilities Against the United States, 509
Submersible Boat, Simon Lake, 70
Turbine Development in Ship Propulsion, 189 Turbine Propelling Machinery for American Ships, 463 United States Battle Cruisers and Guns, 235 Battle Cruisers at 35 Knots, Possibilities with Coal or Liquid Fuel, 235 Battle Cruisers and Need of New Docks, 119 Battleship Oklahoma, Last to be Fitted with Reciprocating Engines, 555 . Battleship Oklahoma, Measurement of Fuel Oil in her Tanks. 531 Battleships, Tenders, 487 Navy, Geared Turbines for Destroyers, 303 Proposed Law Requiring Certain Engineers in Ships, 213 Repair Ship Prometheus, 303 Shipbuilding Now in Progress, 143, 531 Ships Maumee and Kanawha, Diesel Engines versus Steam, 417, 439 SIAMESE Calls for Tenders for Hydraulic Dredger, 281 Silicate Cotton or Silicate Fibre, J. Scott. 119 Silk, Artificial. Manufacture of, at Wolverhampton, 349 Silver Used in Moving Picture Production, 33 Skyscraper Limitations Imposed in New York, 167 Smithfield Show, Absence of Agricultural Implements, 303 Soldiers and Sailors, Training and Employment of, 568 Sound of Gunfire and Zones of Silence, M. Esclangon, 213 South Africa Suggested Establishment of Electro-chemical Industries, 555 South African Mines, Statistics of Labour and Output. 303 South America, Various Engineering Schemes, 349 South-Western Polytechnic Institute, Opening of Session, 110 Spelter and Zinc, Respective Outputs of Great Britain, Belgium, and Germany. 325 Stainless Cutlery : Absence of Corrosion but also of Sharpness. 303 Statue of Liberty, France’s Present to United States, Illuminatedj 487 Steam Turbine Run Non-Condensing, Condemnation of System, 77 “ Stolenite,” Mineral in California Used in Gambling, 143 Strains and Stresses : “ Strength of; Webs of I-Beams and Girders,” H. F. Moore and W. M. Wilson, 393 Strains in Working Engineering Structures, Instrument for Determining, 213 Strikes and Government Methods, 11 Submarine Gun, Satisfactory Test in United States, 143 Sugar Machinery for Natal and Zululand, American Competition, 531 Summer Time, Coal Saving in Manchester, 487 Superheated Steam at Sea, Gas and Steam
Temperatures, H. B. Oatley. 33
Surface Combustion Process for High Temperature Laboratory Furnaces, 36 Sweden and Britain. Projected Scheme for
Regular Daily Traffic, 33
Swedish Manufacture of Nitric Acid and other
Chemical Products, 463
T TECHNICAL Writing, Does it Pay? 371 Telephone Cables of Iron Suitable for Short Distances only, 213 Telescope, 72in. Reflecting, at Victoria, B.C., 189 Thermalene Gas for Welding, 417 Thompson, Silvanus P., The Late Professor, 539 Thompson, Professor S. P., Memorial, 65 Thymol formerly made in Germany from Indian
Seeds, now made in United Kingdom, 55
Timber, Petrol Driven Cross Saw for, 417 Timber Prices and Wholesale Felling in the United Kingdom, 33 Timber Stumps, Excellent Results of Burning Process, 33 Tin Plate Manufacture, America’s Footing in Foreign Markets, 487 Tin Plate and Sheet Rolling, Failure of Efforts to Render Automatic, 531 Tins, Old, A Slump at Grimsby, 235 Tools for Lathes and Planers ; Welding High Speed Steel to Carbon Steel by Oxy-Acetylene Process, 99 Toronto Munitions Plants, Shortage of Labour, 119 Torpedo Attack and the Use of Nets in the United States Navy, 55 Tracing Cloth, Old, Good Use for, 73 Tractor for Artillery Haulage, Caterpillar or Four-wheel ? 189 Trade after the War, Financial Facilities for, Board of Trade Committee, 11 Traffic Statistics of New York, London and Paris, 393 Training Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, 314 Transit Facilities and Municipal Control, J. M.
McElroy, 325
Tropical Countries of the Empire, Popular Lectures, Miss’E. A. Browne, 270 Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Santa Maria, Projected Sanitation and Water Scheme, 281 Tungsten Deposits in California, 577
Lamp Filaments, Life of, 487
Lamp Manufacture Simplified, 393
Ore Exports from the Federated Malay
States, W. E. Kenny’s Mines Report, 33
in Portugal, Rich Deposits, 577
and Tungsten Alloys, United States as Leading Producer, 463 Tunnel, Mersey, for Chester and Lancashire Connection, Revival of Scheme, 509 Turpentine, Commercial, m Canada, Adulteration, 11 Typewriter, Noiseless. 167 u UNIFLOW Engine for Steam Motor Car, 487 Union of South Africa Mines, Statistics of Output, 119 United States Army Appropriation Bill, Machine Guns, Lewis or Otherwise, 370 Canal Schemes, 463 Engineering Schools Students, Statistics, 119 Expenditure on War Munitions and Tools, &c., 325 Exports, Great Increase, 509 Exports of Machine Tools, 371 Exports of Motor Vehicles, 259 Great Increase in Use of Motor Vehicles, 281 Legislation in Regard to Strikes, •259 United States Machine Gun Board’s Report, 439 Naval Searchlight, Most Powerful in the World, 167 Naval fetation at Brooklyn, Rock Clearing, 434 Rural Roads and Bridges, Annual Cost, 509 Production of Manganese Ore, 99 Tax on Munitions Making Firms, 97 w WAGES and Munition Production in America 189 War Bonus for Ironfounders of St. Helens, 281 War Damage in France, Statistics, 235 War and Light Motor Vans, 316 War Munitions Manufacture, American Need of Gauges and Special Tools, A. L. Humphrey, 167 War Savings at Siemens’ Woolwich Works, 281 War Unpreparedness and American Action, 167 Waste Land Cultivation by Metropolitan Railway, 559 Water Power Plant, Largest High Head in the United States and Canada, 99 WATER SUPPLY: Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge and Dukin- field, Mr. F. J. Dixon’s Report, 459 Canada, Development of Waterworks Systems, 417 Dunedin Water Supply, Proposed Extension, 99, 213 Liquid Chlorine for Disinfection of Water Supply, 463 Municipal Waterworks and War Service, 563
Parana, Argentine, Water Supply, 371
San Francisco, New System under Construction, 311 Texas, City of 100,000 Supplied by Wells with Air Lifts, 213 Tunnel, 18-mile, for Water Supply to Catskill Aqueduct, 555 Victoria, British Columbia, Increased Water Supply, 417 Wellington, New Zealand, Water Supply, 371 WELLAND Ship Canal in Canada, 167 Whale Destroys United States Motor Boat, 417_ White, Sir William, Memorial, 51 Wind and Windmills, 281 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: Dickson Island, Mouth of the Yenisei, Station for Sending Meteorological Telegrams to Petrograd, 528
Fog Gun Fired by Wireless Control. 443
Forest of 700 Miles between Manaos and Portovelho Causes Establishment of Wireless System, 531 High Frequency, Advantage of, in Radio - Telegraphy, 349 Paris and Washington, Difference in Longitude Established by Wireless Telegraphy, 189 Spitsbergen, Wireless Station and Harbour on Island near, 325 Use of Wireless Telegraphy in Small Installations, Increase, 213 WOMEN in Germany Training as Engine Drivers, 452 z ZEPPELINS- -see Aeronautics Zinc Extraction by Electric. Wet Process. 1 I Zinc Factory in Japan, 325 Zirconia as a Refractory, 463 Zuyder Zee, Scheme for Enclosure and Draining, 531
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