The Engineer 1917 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ACCIDENTS:
Explosion, The, 86 Railway Accidents, 39, 276
Railway Collisions at Wigan and Kirtle- bridge, 226, 229 Ratho and Wigan Railway Accidents, 39, 44, 54, 226, 229 ; (Letter), 44 ACCURACY and- Probability of Fire, Sir G. Greenhill, 73, 100 Admiralty, Changes at the, 499 AERONAUTICS:
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 298 Aeronautical Exhibition, 188 Aviation after the War, 521
Boring and Recessing Machine for Aircraft Propellers, Thos. Robinson and Sons, Limited, 296 British Aircraft Engines of High Output, Louis Coatalen, 568
Commercial Aeronautics, 517
Educational Lectures on Aeronautics, Syllabus, 211 Folkestone Raid, 497 ; (Letter), 515 Handley-Page, 550 Horse-power Tractor Bi-plane, 517 Steel Used in Aero Work, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 386 AGRICULTURAL Tractors, Government Invitation for Tenders, 470 Agricultural Tractors, Trial of Two Ford Motor-, 437 Ahrons, E. L., on Locomotives of the United Kingdom, 216 ; (Letters), 243, 494 Air Compressing Plant, Portable, Lacy, Hulbert and Co., Limited, 569 Allcock, Harry, on the Decimal System of Coinage, Weights and Measures, 290; (Letter), 586 Alternating Stress—see Stress Aluminium, Ministry of Munitions Regulations, 182, 231 Aluminium Scrap and Swarf, Control of, in the
United Kingdom, 231
America at War, 337 American Cotton Field Machinery, 515 American Engineering News, 433, 470, 527
Chicago Underground Railways, 433 Concrete Piles, 470 Divining Rods and Perpetual Motion, 433 Eighty-five Ton Coal Wagons, 433 Hot-Blast Stoves, 527 Huge Grab Bucket Dredger, 527 Miners’ Portable Lamps, 527 Quick-Bend Tests for Steel Rails, 470 Steam Tenders for Locomotives, 527
AMERICAN Navy—see Ships American Railways—see Railways American Steel Trade, 62 Annealing Furnace—see Furnace Annealing of Nickel Silver, Dr. F. C. Thompson, 285 ANNUAL ARTICLES:
AERONAUTICS IN 1916, 18 Aeroplanes, 18 Airships, 18 CHEMISTRY IN 1916, 20 ENGINEERING INDUSTRY IN 1916, 2 Coalfields, 2 Engineers and the Army, 3 Lancashire and Cumberland, 4 Midlands, 4 Miscellaneous, 5 North-East Coast, 4 Payment by Results, 3 Sheffield, 4 Shipbuilding, 3 South Wales, 4 Wages and Workers, 3 West of Scotland, 4 Women Workers, 4
HARBOURS, DOCKS, AND WATERWAYS IN 1916, 9
Belfast, 10 Chicago, 10 Forth and Clyde Canal Scheme, 10
Germany’s Waterway Projects, 32 Government and Dockyard Harbour Dues, 9
Hey sham Harbour, 10
Liverpool, 10
London, The Port of, 10
Madras, 31
Manchester Ship Canal, 10
Marseilles-Rhone Canal, 32
New York, 10
Panama Canal, 10
Russia, 32
South Africa, 31
South Wales, 10
Suez Canal, 31
U.S.A. Naval Docks, 10
Valparaiso, 32
Welland Canal, 10
Zuider Zee, 32
RAILWAYS IN 1916, 16
Australian Trans-Continental Railway, 18
British Railways Generally, 17
Electrification of Railways, 17
Locomotive Coaling Plants, 17 Locomotives, 17 ; (Letters), 108, 127 New Works, 16
Proposed Capital Expenditure in 1916, 16
Railway Accidents, 17
Rolling Stock, 17
Snowstorm of March 27th-28th, 17
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued-)
WATER SUPPLY AND SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1916, 20
Aberdeen Water Supply, 32 Activated Sludge Process, 33 Metropolitan W ater Board, 21
Nitrogen from Sewage, The Recovery of, 33 Salford Activated Sludge Experiments,
Report on, 33 Sterilisation of Water, 32 Sterilising by Liquid Chlorine, 32 Treasury, The Action of the, 21 Value of the Dried Sludge, 33 War and the Stoppage of Works, 20
APPLICATION of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, H. M. Thornton, 374 Apprentices, 40 Apprentices, The Future of, 61, 64, 66 “ Aquadag ”—see Graphite Cylinder Lubrication Asbestos, Blue, 524 Asbestos Corrugated Roofing, British Everite and Asbestihte Works, Limited, 570 Asbridge, H. H., on Precision Grinding, 268 Ashdown, H. H., on the Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, 263 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOC1ETJ.ES: Association, British Engineers:
Meeting, 553
Association of Engineers, Manchester : Bearing of Research Work on Practical Mechanical Engineering, A. Saxon, 162 Development of the Manufacture of Steel Castings, E. F. Lange, 5c Education of Engineers, Committee’s Reports, 66 Nile and the Utilisation of its Waters, A. A. Barnes, 33
Precision Grinding, H. H. Asbridge, 268 Steam Turbines lor Land Purposes, H. L. Guy, 107 : (Corrections), 127, 166 Testing of Steel, Dairy Brearley, 288
Workshop Design and Equipment, E. Simpson, 197 Association, Incorporated Municipal electrical:
Annual General Meeting, 579 Fuel Economy, J. A. Robertson, 579
New Industries Utilising Electric Power, Presidential Address, Mr. Long, 580 Nitric Acid from the Air, Kilburn Scott Process, 580 Profit Sharing in Municipal Electrical Undertakings, J. H. Bowden, 580 Institute of Engineers, South Wales: Presidential Address, Mr. Hugh Bramwell, 117 institute. The Iron and Steel: Annual Meeting, 347, 418, 420, 440, 442 Award of Bessemer Medal to Mr. Andrew
Lamberton, 418
Notes on Some Quenching Experiments, Lawford H. Fry, 442 Penetration of the Hardening Effect in Chromium and Copper Steels, L. Grenet, 442 Properties of Refractory Materials Used in the Iron and Steel Industry, Cosmo J ohns, 419, 420
Steel Ingot Defects, J. N. Kilby, 440
Institute of Metals: Annealing of Nickel Silver, Dr. F. C. Thompson, 285 Coal Gas as Fuel for Melting Non-ferrous Alloys, G. B. Brook, 311 Electric Resistance Furnace for Melting in Crucibles, Dr. H. C. Greenwood and Dr.
R. 8. Hulton, 340
General Properties of Stampings and Chill Castings in Brass, &c., Owen W. Ellis, 284 High-pressure Gas Melting, C. M. Walter, 311 Ideals and Limitations in Melting of Nonferrous Metals, Carl Hering, 340 Machining Properties of Brass, O. W. Ellis, 283 Melting of Brass and Copper in a Crucible Furnace with Coal-gas Fuel, H. M. Thornton and H. Hartley, 311, 340 Metal Melting as Practised at the Royal Mint, W. J. Hocking, 311 Metal Melting in a Simple Crude Oil Furnace, H. S. Primrose, 311, 340 Researches Made Possible by the Autographic Load Extension Optical Indicator, Professor W. E. Dalby, 422, 452, 453 Spring Meeting; Programme, 181, 284, 311, 340 Surface Tension and Cohesion in Metals and Alloys, Sydney W. Smith, 285 Institution of Automobile Engineers: Factories • Their Building and Organisation, H. O. Blackford, 198
Prizes Offered, 198 Screw Gauges, Colonel Crompton, 66
Use and Abuse of Steel, Lieut.-Col. Bagnall- Wild and Lieut. E. W. Birch, 352, 384, 430 Institution of Civil Engineers : Decimal System of Coinage, Weights and Measures, H. Allcock, 290
Foreign Trade and the Engineer, 242
Pass List (Interim) February Examinations, 1917, 259
Pass List, February Examinations, 1917
Standardisation of Engineering Materials, James Forrest Lecture, Sir J. Wolfe Barrv. 406
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution of Electrical Engineers:
Building Taken Over by Government, 280
Institution of Engineers and Sbip- builcleis in Scotland:
Electric Motor Vehicles, L. Brockman, 95
Institution of Gas Engineers: Deputation to Mr. Guy Calthrop, Coal Controller, 527 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Alternating Stress Experiments, Dr. W. Mason, 172, 176
Annual General Meeting, 175
Hardness of Metals, Sir R. Hadfield’s Prize, 279 Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, Sir W. Beardmore, 263, 280 Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, H. H. Ashdown, 263 Manufacture of Gauges at the L.C.C Paddington Technical Institute, A. G. Cooke, W. J. Gow, and W. G. Tunmcliffe, 78, 95 Notes on the Construction of Turbine Pumps, A. E. L. Chorlton, 463, 476, 477 Presidential Address, Mr. Michael Longridge, 371 Institution of Mining Engineers: Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 569 Institution of Naval Architects: Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines, Professor W. Hovgaaru, 330, 340 Closing of all Ship Side Apertures from the Bridge, Signor E. Benvenuti, 318 Design of Pin Joints Based on Ultimate Strength, Lieut. W. A. Scoble, 319 Diagram for Stability of Submarines, Cesare Laurenti, 330 Further Experiments upon Wake and Thrust Deduction, W. J. Luke, 319 Marine Application of b loating Gears of the bloating Frame Type, J. H. Macalpine, 330 Method of Obtaining for Ship Design the Spacing of Bulkheads, &c., W. J. Lovett, 317 On Launching, P. A. Hillhouse and W. H. Riddlesworth, 330
Presidential Address, Lord Bristol, 28b
Some Experiments on Influence of Running Balance on Vibration of Ships, J. J. King- Salter, 330
Spring Meeting, 286, 317, 330
Stability, Apparatus for Use of Ship Masters, T. Graham, 318 Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 287, 302 Strength and Inner Structure of Mild Steel, Professor W. E. Dalby, 318 Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, J. Montgomerie, 317 Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and shipbuilders: Guidance Specification for Reciprocating Triple-expansion Marine Engines for Cargo Boats, 130 Institution, Royal: Industrial Finance after the War, Professor H. S. Foxwell, 403 Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain: Lecture on Aircraft Problems, Louis Coatalen, 568 Steels Used in Aero Work, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 386 Society of British Gas Industries: Presidential Address by Sir Robert Hadfield, 391 Society of Chemical Industry, London Section: Basic Slag as a Fertiliser, Professors Gilchrist and Louis, 162 Society, The Faraday: Training and Work of the Chemical Engineer, Sir G. Beilby, 219, 225, 227, 363 Society, Optical: Glass Grinding and Polishing, J. W. French, 182 Society, Royal, of Arts: Application of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, H. M. Thornton, 374 National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Howard Lecture, Professor W. G. Fearn- sides, 399, 429 Works Organisation and Efficiency, Papers by Professor Ripper and Messrs. A. W. Reeves and C. Kimber, 454 ASTRONOMICAL Model, Dr. Wilson, 489 Atmospheric Engine—see Pumps Autographic Load Extension Indicator, Professor W. E. Dalby, 422, 452, 453, 468 Automatic Signalling—see Railways
B
BAGNALL-WILD, Lieut.-Col., and Lieut.
E. W. Birch, on the Use and Abuse of Steel, 352, 384, 430
Barnes, A. A., on the Nile and the Utilisation of its Waters, 33 Barry, Sir J. Wolfe, on Standardisation of Engineering Materials, 403, 406 ; (Letter), 424 Bartrum, C. O., on A Clock of Precision, 161 ;
(Letters), 198, 243
Basic Slag, 275 Basic Slag as a Fertiliser, Professors Gilchrist and Louis, 162 Beardmore, Sir W., on the Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, 263, 280 Beilby, Sir G., on the Training and Work of the Chemical Engineer, 219, 225, 227, 363 Belt Conveyor Coal Loading Plant in New South Wales, 5, 14 Benvenuti, Signor E., on the Closing of all Ship Side Apertures from the Bridge, 318 r Benzol Recovery at Gasworks, 237 Birmingham Electrical Engineers Volunteers, ’ 298 Birthday Honours List, 518 Blackwood, Peter, on Electric Steel, 494 Blue Asbestos, 524 BOILERS:
Coal Efficiency in the Boiler-house, 116, 137 Taylor Underfeed Stoker, Scholey and Co., Limited, 88
BOMBAY Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 443, 448, 464, 472 (Two-page Supplement, May 16th, 1917; Books of Reference, 63, 91, 117, 159, 176, 376, 421, 506, 570 Boring and Recessing Machine for Aircraft Manufacture, Thos. Robinson and Sons, Limited, 296 Bottle Making Plant, A Modern, Thatcher Manufacturing Company, 578, 588 Brakes—see Railways Brass and Copper, Melting of, in a Crucible Furnace with Coal-gas Fuel, H. M. Thornton and H. Hartley, 311, 340 Brass, General Properties of Stampings and Chill Castings in, tec., O. W. Ellis, 281 Brass, Machining Properties of, O. W. Ellis, 283 Brearley, Harry, on the Testing of Steel, 288 BRIDGES: Bascule Bridge Over the Chicago River, 174, 178 Coppermill Ferro-concrete Bridge Over the Colne at Wraysbury, R. N. Stroyer, 206 Pyrmont Electric Swing Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, 75, 84. 103, 110, 124, 132, 150, 151 ; (Letters), 198, 230 (Two-page Supplement, February $th, 1917) BRIQUETTING of Metal Swarf, 514, 538, 557, 592 British versus American Sugar Machinery, 202 ; (Letter), 230 British Business in Latin America, 249, 589 British Magneto Industry, 86 British Prisoners of War, Educational Facilities for, 280 Brockman, L , on Electric Motor Vehicles, 95 Brook, G. B., on Coal Gas as Fuel for Melting Non-ferrous Alloys, 311 Brushwood Sewage Filters, 337 ; (Letter), 375 Bulkheads—see Ships Bundling Presses—see Briquetting Bureau of Mineral Resources, 450 c CALENDARS and Diaries, 50, 70, 122, 230, 598 Canada—see Railways Canal Problem, 225 Canal, The Proposed Rhone-Rhine, 53 Canals, Government and the, 180 Canker of Unrest—see Labour Cardiff, Shipbuilding in, 549 Case-hardening Furnace, Monometer Manufacturing Company, Limited, 276 Catalogues, 70, 166,‘185, 211, 366 Catalogues for South America. 79 Caterpillar Tractor, Petrol, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 308, 314 (Two-page Supplement, April 6th, 1917) Ceramic Society Meeting at Stourbridge, Refractory Materials, 466 Chain Cables in the U.S. Navy, Power Forging of, Naval Constructor F. G. Coburn, 200 204 • (Letter), 230 Changes at the Admiralty, 499 Chart Table, Illuminated, Kelvin, Bottomlev and Baird. 222 , u u «y Chemical Engineer, The Training and Work of, Sir G. Beilby, 219, 225, 227, 363 Chile, Engineering in, 570 Chile, Engineering Progress in, 355 China after the War, 352 Chlorinator, Wallace and Tiernan, 252 Chorfton, A. E. L., Notes on the Construction of Turbine Pumps, 463, 476, 477, 500 Clapham, F. T., on Intensive Production Establishment Charges and Selling Price, 516 • (Letter), 586 Clock of Precision, C. O. Bartrum, 161 • (Letters), 198, 243 Closing of Ship Side Apertures—see Ships Coaches, Railway—see Railways
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES: See also Annual Articles—Engineering Industry Application of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, H. M. Thornton. 374 Belt Conveyor Coal Loading Plant at Port Kembla, New South Wales, 5, 14 Canadian Pig Iron, Steel and Coal in 1916, 95 Coal Efficiency in the Boiler-house, 116, 137 Coal Gas as Fuel for Melting Non-ferrous
Alloys, G. B. Brook, 311 Coal and the State, 179
Coal Supplies for the Gas Engineer, 527 Colliery Pumping Engine—see Pumps Concreted Coal, R. G. Lovell and C. M.
Hughes, 548 ; (Letter), 571
Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 569 Use of Coke and Coke-Breeze for Steam Generation, J. B. C. Kershaw, 51 COATALEN Louis, on Aircraft Problems, 568 Coburn, Naval Constructor F. G., on Power Forging of Chain Cables in the U.S. Navy, 200, 204 ; (Letter), 230 Commercial Production of Hydrogen. 25 Concrete Bridge—see Bridges Concreted Coal, R. G. Lovell and C. M. Hughes, 548 ; (Letter), 571 Contracts, 24, 70, 122, 260, 279, 320 Control of Aluminium Scrap and Swarf in the United Kingdom, 231 Cooke, A. G., W. J. Gow and W. G. Tunnicliffe. on the Manufacture of Gauges at the L.C.C. Paddington Technical Institute, 78, 95 ; (Letter), 139 Corrosion of Lock Gate Machinery on the Panama Canal, 255 Cotton-Field Machinery, American, 515 Crompton, Colonel, on Screw Gauges, 66 Cupro-Nickel Scrap. 243 Cycloid-Weir Water Meter, Kennicott Company, 408 D DALBY, Professor W. E.» on Autographic Load Extension Optical Indicator, 422, 452, 453, 468 Dalby, Professor W. E., on the Strength and Inner Structure of Mild Steel, 318 Dams for Water Supply—see Water Supply Decimal System of Coinage, Weights and Measures, H. Allcock, 290 : (Letter), 586 Delta as a Trade Name, Legal Action, 280 Design of Pin Joints, &c., Lieut. W. A. Scoble, 319 Development, The Secret of, 85 Diesel Engines—see Engines Dock, Dry, at Manchester, 492. 493, 496 Dock, Temporary Dry, Made v th Sheet Piling, at Valparaiso, 64, 65 Drawing-office, Premium System in the, H. Kewney, 275 Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued) : Internal Combustion Engines: Internal Combustion Engine Tests, W. A. Tookey, 29 Motor Installation for Barges, T. H. Coggins and A. E. Hook, 420 Petrol Engine for Caterpillar Tractor, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 308, 314 (Page Supplement, National Gas Engine Company) Relative Failure of the Marine Diesel Engine, 293 Steam Engines : Guidance Specification for Reciprocating Triple-expansion Marine Engines for Cargo Boats, 130
Indicator Cards—see Plotting
ENGINEER Volunteers, First London, 27, 50, 67. 90, 120, 139, 168, 190, 212, 236, 259, 280, 303, 321, 347, 368, 392, 412, 438, 459, 483, 506, 527, 553, 576, 599 Engineers and the Battle of the Ancre, 566 Engineers and the Metric System, 290 Engineering in Chile, 570 Engineering Industry—see also Annual Article Engineering Materials, Standardisation of,
James Forrest Lecture, Sir J. W. Barry, 403, 406 ; (Letter). 424
Engineering Organisation, 11 Engineering Progress in Chile, 355 Engineering Works—see Works Excess Profits Tax, 427 Explosion, The, 86 Explosions, Petrol, in Sewers, 283 Explosives, Inspectors of, Report for 1916, 580 Extraction of Sugar-cane Mills, P. H. Parr, 148 F FARM Machinery and Implements, Ministry of Munitions Branch, 48 Fearnsides, Professor W. G., on the National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, 399, 429 Fertiliser, Basic Slag as a, Professors Gilchrist and Louis, 162 Filters—see Sewage Filters Financing Industry and Trade, 403 Fire Brigade Competitions at Luton, 437 Fire Pumps—see Pumps First Lord’s Speech. 201 Fixation of Nitrogen, Kilburn-Scott Process, 580, 595 Folkestone—see Aeronautics Foreign Trade and the Engineer, 242 Forgings—see Heat Treatment Forrest, James, Lecture on the Standardisation of Engineering Materials, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 403, 406 ; (Letter), 424 Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 48, 70, 94, 120, 143, 166, 188, 210, 231, 255, 279, 301, 325, 346, 368, 390, 409, 436, 459, 483, 508, 531, 549, 574, 598 Foxwell, Professor H. S., on Industrial Finance after the War, 403 French Atlantic Service—see Ships French, J. W., on Glass Grinding and Polishing, 182 Fry, Lawford H., Notes on Some Quenching Experiments, 442 Fuel Economy, J. A. Robertson, 579 Fuel Supplies of the United Kingdom, Board Appointed, 176 Furnace, Annealing, for Bottle Making, Thatcher Manufacturing Company, 578 Furnace, Case-hardening. Monometer Manufacturing Company, Limited, 276 Furnace, Electric Resistance, for Melting in Crucibles, Dr. H. C. Greenwood and Dr. R. S. Hulton. 340 Furnace, Hydrogen Retort, Howard Lane, 511, 546 (Two-vaqe Supplement. June 15th, 1917) Furnaces, Three-phase, for Manufacture of Nitric Acid from the Air, Kilburn-Scott, 580, 595 H HADFIELD, Sir R., on British Patents, 391 Hadfield, Sir R., Prize Offered, 279 Hadfield, Sir R., on the Training and Work of the Engineering Chemist, 219. 225, 227, 363 Haldane, Dr. J. S., on the Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, 569 Harbour Improvements at Valparaiso, 516, 520 Hardness of Metals, Sir R. Hadfield’s Prize, 279 Hatfield, Dr. W. H., on Steels Used in Aero Work, 386 Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, Sir W. Beardmore, 263, 280 Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, H. H. Ashdown, 263 Hering, Carl, on Ideas and Limitations in Melting of Non-ferrous Metals, 340 Hichens, W. L., on Education and Business, 61, 64 High Precision Design, Some Points in, 584 Hillhouse, P. A., and W. H. Riddlesworth, on Launching, 330 Hocking, W. J., on Metal Melting as Practised at the Royal Mint, 311 Houston Dr.—see Water Supply Hovgaard, Professor W., on the Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines, 330, 340 Hudson River Tunnel, 540 Humphreys, G. W., on the Main Drainage System of London, 235 Hydro-electric Plant for a Yorkshire Mill, Gilbert Gilkes and Co., Limited, 266 ; (Letter), 289 Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Tata, for Bombay, 443, 448, 464, 472 (Two-page Supplement, May ISth, 1917) Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Wairua Falls, New Zealand, 376, 380 Hydrogen, The Commercial Production of, 25 Hydrogenation of Oil, Howard Lane System, 511, 546 (Two-page Supplement, June 15th, 1917) I IDEALS, &c.—see Melting of Non-ferrous Metals Illuminated Chart Table, Fletcher Lit-from- below, Kelvin. Bottomley and Baird, 222 Indicator, Autographic Load Extension, Optical, Professor W. E. Dalhy, 422, 452, 453, 468 Indicator Cards—see Plotting Indicator, W.R. Combustion, H. R. Webster, 595 Industrial Finance after tb° War. Professor H. S. Foxwell, 403 Industrial Unrest—see Labour Industries, New, in South Wales, 549 Industries, Reconstruction of, 577 Intensive Production Establishment Charges and Selling Price, F. T. Clapham, 516 ; (Letter), 586 Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines IRON AND STEEL: American Steel Trade, 62 Canadian Pig Iron, Steel and Coal in 1916, 95 Development of the Manufacture of Steel Castings, E. F. Lange, 55
Electric Steel, 494
Heat Treatment of Large Forgings, Sir W. Beardmore, 263, 280 Heat Treatment of Steel Forgings, H. H. Ashdown 263 High-speed Steel Importation into .-Italy, 298
High-speed Tool Steel Patent Action, 412 Mechanical Puddling, 465
National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Professor W. G. Fearnsides, 399, 429 Notes on Some Quenching Experiments, Lawford H. Fry, 442 Penetration of the Hardening Effect in Chromium and Copper Steels, L. Grenet, 442
Real Value of Iron Ores, 272
Refractory Materials Used in the Iron and Steel Industry, Cosmo Johns, 419, 420, 428 Steel Ingot Defects, J. N. Kilby, 440 Steels Used in Aero Work, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 386 Strength and Inner Structure of Mild Steel, Professor W. E. Dalby. 318 Testing of Steel, Harry Brearley, 288 Use and Abuse of Steel, Lieut.-Colonel Bag- nall-Wild and Lieut. E. W. Birch, 352, 384, 430 IS Welfare Work Good Business ? 101 J JOHNS, Cosmo, on Properties of Refractory Materials Used in Iron and Steel Industry, 419, 420, 428 Johnston, E. W., on Graphite Cylinder Lubrication, 71 K KERSHAW, J. B. C , on the Use of Coke and Coke-Breeze for Steam Generation, 51 Kewney, H., on The Premium System in the Drawing-office, 275 Kilburn Scott Three-phase Furnaces for Fixation of Nitrogen, 580, 595 Kilby, J. N., on Steel Ingot Defects, 440 King-Salter, J. J., on Influence of Running
Balance on Vibration of Ships, 330
L LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS: Canker of Industrial Unrest, 473 : (Letter), 494 Commissions on Labour Unrest, 543, 549
Is Welfare Work Good Business ? 101
Labour and the Stat«, 497
Munitions Workers’ Strike, 449
Partition of Bonuses, 250 ; (Letters), 268
Premium System in the Drawing-office, H.
Kewney, 275
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 24, 48, 69, 94, 119, 142, 165, 188. 210, 234. 258, 279. 301, 324, 346, 366. 390, 412, 436, 458, 482, 506, 530, 552, 574, 598 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR;
American SteamWarship in 1815 570
Apparatus for Adjusting Tension of Aeroplane Wire, C. M. Lerici, 424
Automatic Control of Trains, Audi Vide, 163 Batteries of Electric Vehicles, F. Crawter, 198 British Air Service. M. Meeh. E., 321
British v. American Sugar Machinery, Guy Wyatt. 230 British Beet Sugar Industry, H. F. Easton, 321
British Decimal Coinage, H. Allcock. 586 British Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 243 Br tish Ton, J. Pearse, 494 Brushwood Filters, S. H. Adams, 375
Caledonian Locomotives, Loco., 108, W. Pick- ersgill. 127
Canker of Industrial Unrest, W. Fyfe, 494 Chair of Engineering History, &c., M.I.C.E. (Fr.). 126 Clock of Precision, E. M. Wingfield, 198, C. O. Bartrum. 243
Compound Locomotives. M.T.C.E. (Fr.), 268 Concret'ng Coal. Clinch Jonos, 571 Condensers. S. F. J. R., 230 ; G. W. L -H.t 243 ; F .S, L-, 289" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued): Dangers of the German Patent System, James Keith, 423 ; Patent Agent, 467 Demobilisation Problems, The Writer of that Article, 82 ; Reform, 198 Detinning, Omega, 442 Electricity in Agriculture—see Electricity and Crops Electricity and Crops, J. E. Newman, 494 ;
V. H. Blackman and Ingvar Jorgensen, 515 Engineers and the Submarine Problem, Member of Institutions of Civil and of Mechanical Engineers, 424 ; Frank Fielden, 467
Engineers and Submarines—see Engineers and the Submarine Problem—also Secret Session for Engineers
F.S.S. System of Units. W. F. Dunton, 334 Filing Papers, E. R. Briggs, 321 Folkestone Raid, Ajax, 515 Human Efficiency, F. B. Gilbreth, 400
Hydro-electric Plant for a Yorkshire Mill, Mitchell Brothers, 289 Increased Production, H. J. Marshall, 66 ; C. H. Haddrell, 467
Industrial Peace, Chas. Barnes, 36 Industrial Research, J. G. Pearce, 289
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, H. C. C., 494
Intensive Production, R. G. Foster, 586 James Forrest, N., 289 Libraries, E. C. B., 571 Light Railways, R. White and Sons, 45
Manufacture of Gauges at the Paddington Technical Institute, J. E. Sears, 139
Marlborough Wheels, N. W. Hill, 334
Melting Steel Scrap in the Foundry Cupola, J. E. Hurst, 26 Metric System, E. C. Barton, 243, 424 ;
W. A., 289, 356 ; Manager, 312 : A. M., 312 ; A. H. Bell, 334 ; Metricist, 334, 375 ; E. A. W. Phillips, 334 ; C. M. Lerici, 356 ; Senex, 356 ; Tony, 356 ; F. A. Halsey, 375 ; Another Manager, 375 ; H. C. A., 375 ; F. J. Lassen, 400; Juvenis, 424; R. M. Leslie, 443 ; E. W. Sargeant, 467
Noise in Reinforced Concrete Buildings, Rowntree and Co., 549 ; C. Bentham, 571 ; Institution, 571 Oil Engine Nomenclature, H. Akroyd-Stuart, 108, 423 Old Books, H. A. Bennie Gray, 549 ; Harry J. Donkin, 571 ; Arthur L. Johnson, 586 Patents and the Poor Inventor, W. S. Pearce, 198 Pay of Draughtsmen, Draughtsman, 251 ; Purple Stripe, 268; Designing Draughtsman, 289 Permanent Industrial Exhibitions, Barimar, Limited, 82 Plea for Up-to-date Bridge work in the United Kingdom, H. R. White, 36 ; H. R. Lewis, 67 ; Conrad Gribble, 67 Power Forging of Chain Cables, Brown, Lenox and Co., 230 Premium Bonus System, Engineer, 45 ; J. Ross, 82; G. B. Petter, 82; R. F. McKay, 127 ; C. Barnes, 162 Protection Against Submarines, J. Pratt, 163 ; W. A. Woodward, 230 Pyrmont Electric Swing Bridge, H. H, Broughton, 198 ; N. R. White, 230
Rating of Machinery, J. Etherington, 25 Re P/S Napoleon III., W. W. Bengough, 243 Recent American Warships, Turrets, 67 Salaries in the Ministry of Shipping, Omega, 400 Seasoned Castings, W. W. Beaumont, 400
Secret Session for Engineers, E. W. Petter, 455, 494 ; Pontifex, 467 ; Michael Long- ridge, 467 ; C. E. H., 515—see also Engineers and the Submarine Problem
Seger Cones, H. Ansell, 312 Ship Salving, J. W. W., 467
Standard Catalogues and Periodicals, A. Fanti, 443 Standardisation, An Engineer Who Believes in Standardisation, &c., 424 Stimulated Management, W. J. T., 198, 230, 251, 268, 289 ; E. M. Wingfield, 251 ; P. M., 251 : W. G. Traquair, 268 ; C. H. Haddrell, 375 Stresses in Wire-wrapped Guns, J. H. Jones, 45
Submarine Tramps, R. M. Deeley, 108 Submarines and Secrecy, Victory, 443 Taylorism and Humanity, 8. Turner, 36 Technical Papers for the Front, J. H. Kerner- Greenwood, 334
Thermodynamic Problem, T. D. Parr, 312, 424 ; W. J. Walker, 353, 375 ; G. W. L. H., 353
Torpedo-proof Ships, Anti-submarine, 400 Trade and Professional Secrets, 184
Types of British Locomotives, P. C. Dewhurst, 494
Vacuum Brake Fittings, D. Cardew, 66
Valve Gear, A Single Excentric, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 185 Vulkanoid, C. H. S„ 356 Water-tight Doors, Brunton Brothers, Limited, 82 Wigan Railway Accident, Audi Vide, 44 LIFEBOAT Station at Wick, 19, 25 Life Saving at Sea, 360 Liquid Fuels, Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of, Harold Moore, 561 LITERATURE : Reviews:
Bridge Engineering, J. A. L. Waddell, 523 Fari e Segnali Marittimi, Vice-Admiral P. L. Cattolica and Captain A. Luria, 218 Germany’s Economic Position and England’s Commercial and Industrial Policy After the War, G. B. Dibblee, 81
How to Lay Out Turret Lathe Tools, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 475, 591 Industrial and Manufacturing Chemistry, Inorganic, G. Martin, 356, 545
Jane’s 44 Fighting Ships,” 1916, 67
Pictures of War Work in England, J. Pennell, 113 Rail Power in War and Conquest, The Rise of, E. A. Pratt, 113 Steam Turbines, W. J. Goudie, 176, 503 Strength of Ships, A. J. Murray, 79, 503 Submarine Torpedo Boat, Allen Hoar, 176, 405 Topicos Tecnicos. Octavio A. Acevedo, 255, 339 LITERATURE (continued): Short Notices: Briquetting, A Handbook of, G. Franke, 113, 545 Engineers’ Costs and Economical Workshop Production, D. Smith and P. C. N. Pickworth, 113 General Cargo : An Introduction to Salesmanship, R. E. Goddard, 113 Machine Designers, Shop Men and Draughtsmen, Handbook for, F. A. Halsey, 503, 545 Practical Safety Methods and Devices : Manufacturing and Engineering, G. A. Cowee, 265 Reinforced Concrete, Manual of, C. F. Marsh and W. Dunn, 265 Books Received: A6rodon6tique, F. W. Lanchester, 79 Air Power, Naval, Military, Commercial, Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper, 475 Atoms, Jean Perrin, 451 Autogenous Welding, Practical Manual of, R. Granjon and P. Rosemberg, 255
British Dominions Year Book, 1917, 176 Butterworth’s Workmen’s Compensation Cases, Judge Ruegg, 176
' Calculation and Measurement of Inductance and Capacity, W. H. Nottage, 475 Calculations for Steel Frame Structures, W. C. Cocking, 475
Calculus, H. W. March and H. C. Wolff, 451 Can We Set the World in Order ? C. R. Enock, 113
CANADA : DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WATER POWER BRANCH : Paper No. 12, 44 Small Water Powers,” A. M. Beale. Paper No. 13, “ Coquitlam - Buntzen Hydro-electric Development, British Columbia,’4 G. R. G. Conway, Paper No. 17, 44 Canadian Hydraulic Power Development and Electric Power in Canadian Industry,” C. N. Mitchell. Water Resources :—Paper No. 2, 44 Bow River and Storage Investigations,” M. C. Hendry. Paper No. 7,44 Manitoba Water Powers,” D. L. McLean and others, 545 Canada Year Book, 1915, 503
Chemistry, General, Hamilton P. Cady, 405 Compressed Air Practice in Mining, D. Penman, 113
Contribucion al Estudio de las Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, 79 Design of Machine Elements, W. G. Dunklev. 356 Dictionary of Commercial Correspondence, in Seven Languages, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 451 Documents Governing the Construction of a Bridge, E. E. Howard, 503 Electrical Engineering Practice, J. W. Mears, 545 Electrical Review's Electrical and Allied Trades Directory, 1917, 503 Electric Traction, A. T. Dover, 475 Electrical Trades’ Directory and Handbook, 503 Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony, The Principles of, J. A. Fleming, 67 Electricity and the Motor Car, F. H. Hutton, 255
Elementary Cams, F. de Ronde Furman, 339 English and Engineering, F. Aydelotte, 475 Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus, E. Haustrand, 176
Experimental Building Science, Vol. I., J. L. Manson, 545 Explosives, A. Marshall, 265 Flying Machine from an Engineering Standpoint, F. W. Lanchester, 79 Gasworks, Operation of, W. M. Russell, 451 High Speed Internal Combustion Engines, A
W. Judge, 176
Hornets, The, Hermes, 255 Hydro-electric Power, Lamar Lyndon, 405 In the Royal Naval Air Service, Harold Rosher, R.N., 503 Institute of Metals, Journal of the, G. Shaw Scott, 451 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, October- December, 1916, 503
Judicial Interpretations of the Munitions of War Acts, 1915-1916, J. Chartres, 503 Kelly’s Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 545 Kempe’s Engineers’ Year Book, H. R. Kempe, 451
Kingsbridge, Salcombe and the Kingsbridge Estuary, A. H. Anderson, 475 L^cons sur les Fonctions elliptiques en vue de leurs applications, R. de Montessus de Ballore, 356
Lectures on Levelling, V. J. Martin, 79 Lockwood’s Builders’ Price Book, 1917, 176 Manufacturing Costs and Accounts, A. H. Church, 475
Marine Engineering, Practical, Captain C. W. Dyson, 503 Mercantile Year Book and Directory of Exporters, 503
Mining and Mine Ventilation, J. J. Walsh, 503 Modern Milling, Ernest Pull, 475
Motor Car, T. O. A. Lawton and R. G. H.
Gibson, 113
Motor Car Engineering, Text-book on, Vol.
II., A. Graham Clark, 503 Munro’s Marine Engineers’ Annual Pocket Log and Diary, J. Munro and Co., Limited, 79
National System of Economics, J. T. Peddie, 475 Next War, The British Industries Fair, C. H.
Betts and M. Watts, 113
Office Machinery, L. R. Dicksee, 451 Peaceful Penetration, A. D. McLaren, 113 Physics for Engineers, Elementary, J. P.
Yorke, 176
Primary Batteries, W. A. Cooper, 176 Properties of Aerofoils and Aerodynamic Bodies. A. W. Judge, 475 Radiodynamics, B. F. Miessner, 503 Railway Maintenance Engineering, W. H.
Sellen, 503
Rational Wages System, H. Atkinson, 545 Reinforced Concrete, Manual of, Chas.
Marsh, 451
LITERATURE (continued): Books Received (continued): Rivers as Sources of Water Supply, A. C. Houston, 475
Riveted Boiler Joints, S. F. Jeter, 475
Rules for the Classification and Construction of Steel Ships, 265, 545 Saws, Their Care and Treatment, H. W.
Durham, 176 Sea Power, A. Hurd, 113
Shipping World Year Book, Major Jones, 475 Shorthand and Business Training, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 451 Steel and its Heat Treatment, D. K. Bullens, 503 Stresses in Structure, A. H. Heller, 67 Sugar, The High Price of, and How to Reduce it, H. Hamel Smith, 79 Syren and Shipping International Mercantile Diary, 1917, 67 Telegraphy and Telephony, 1917, 545 Turbines Applied to Marine Propulsion, Stanley J. Reed, 503 UNITED STATES : DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY : Service and Regulatory Announcements, Supplement, N. J. 4351-4400, 219 UNITED STATES : DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, TECHNOLOGIC PAPERS OF THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS . No. 86, Resistance of an Oil to Emulsification, Winston H. Herschel, 475 UNITED STATES : DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF MINES : Bulletins :—No. 105, “ Black Damp in Mines.” No. 106, 44 Technology of Marble Quarrying.” No. 116, “Method of Sampling Delivered Coal, &c.” No. 121, 44 History and Development of Gold Dredging in Montana.” No. 126, 44 Current Decisions on Mines and Mining,” 219
Coal Mine Fatalities, 1916, 219
No. 143, Law Serial. Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining, J. N. Thomson, 356 Bulletins, 108, Mineral Technology 14, 44 Melting Aluminium Chips,” H. W. Gillett and G. M. James ; 134. Petroleum Technology 36, 44 Use of Mud-laden Fluid in Oil and Gas Wells,” J. O. Lewis and W. F. McMurray, 503 Monthly Statement of Coal Mine Fatalities in U.S. Coal Mines, August, 1916. 44 Rescue and Recovery Operations in Mines after Fires and Explosions,” J. W. Paul and H. M. Wolflin, 503 Technical Paper 146. 44 Nitration of Toluene,” E. J. Hoffman, 503 Technical Paper 165. Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Year 1915, 523 Technical Paper 135. Bibliography of Recent Literature on Flotation of Ores, January-June, 1916, D. A. Lyon and Others, 523 Technical Paper 82. 44 Oxygen Mine Rescue Apparatus and Physiological Effects on Users,” Dr. Y. Henderson and J. W. Paul. Technical Papers No. 86. 44 Ore Sampling Conditions in the West.” No. 102, 44 Health Conservation at Steel Mills.” No. 117, 44 Quantity of Gasoline Necessary to Produce Explosive Conditions in Sewers.” No. 130, 44 Underground Wastes in Oil and Gas Fields and Methods of Prevention.” No. 136, 44 Safe Practice at Blast Furnaces.” No. 145, 44 Sensitiveness to Detonation of Trinitrotoluene and Tetranit roinethylanilin.” No. 157, 44 Method of Measuring the Viscosity of Blastfurnace Slag at High Temperatures.” No. 159 , 44 Production of Explosives in United States in 1915.” No. 161,44 Construction and Operation of a Single Tube Cracking Furnace for Making Gasoline,” 545 Valuation, Depreciation, and the Rate Base, Carl E. Grunsky, 503 Vaporising of Paraffin for High-speed Motors, Edward Butler, 356 Ventilation, Some Modern Methods of, R. Grierson, 79 Wireless Telegraphy, Elementary Principles of, R. D. Bangay, 503 Year Book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 265 LIVERPOOL Tramways, 386 Load Extension Diagrams—see Indicator Locomotive Engines, Minister of Munitions Regulations, 143 London, Main Drainage System of, G. W. Humphreys, 235 Longridge, Mr. M., Presidential Address at Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 371 Lorry, Five-Ton Petrol Motor, J. E. D. Ralls. 354, 355 Lovett, W. J., on a Method of Obtaining for Ship Design the Spacing of Bulkheads, &c., 317 Lubrication of Steam Turbines, T. C. Thomsen, 238, 264, 319, 327, 394 Luke, W. J., on Wake and Thrust Deduction, 319 M MACALPINE, J. H., on the Marine Application of Floating Gears of the Floating Frame Type, 330 Machines Used in Oil Production—see Oils MACHINE TOOLS:
An 44 Exploded ” Reamer, 567
Crank-pin Turning Lathe, Geo. Swift and Sons, Limited, 292, 296
High-speed Tool Steel Patent Action, 412
Horizontal Drilling Machines, D. and J. Tullis, Limited, 387 Lathe for Turning Cam Shafts, J. Parkinson and Son, 182
Machine Tool and Engineering Association,
MACHINE TOOLS (continued): Motor-driven 8|in. Centres Geared Lathe, Geo. Swift and Sons, Limited, 292, 296 Precision Grinding, H. H. Asbridge, 268 Two New Lathes, Geo. Swift and Sons, Limited, 292, 296 MACHINES used in Oil Production—see Oils Magneto Industry, The British, 86 Main Drainage System of London, G. W. Humphreys, 235 Malay—see Railways Manchester, Dry Dock at, 492, 493, 496 Marine Engines—see Engines Mason, Dr. W., on Alternating Stress Experiments, 172, 176 Materials, Refractory, 54 Materials—see also Engineering Materials Mechanical Engineering, Practical, Bearing of Research Work on, A. Saxon, 162 Mechanical Puddling, 465 Melting of Brass and Copper in a Crucible Furnace, with Coal-Gas Fuel, H. M. Thornton and H. Hartley, 311, 340 Melting of Metals, 293—see also Metal Melting Melting of Non-ferrous Metals, Ideals and Limitations in, Carl Hering, 340 Metal Melting as Practised at the Royal Mint, W. J. Hocking, 311 Metal Melting in a Simple Crude Oil Furnace, H.
S. Primrose, 311, 340
Metal Swarf, Briquetting of, 514, 538, 557, 592 Metals and Alloys. Surface Tension and Cohesion in, Sydney W. Smith, 285 Metals, Hardness of. Sir R. Hadfield’s Prize, 279 Metals, Institute of—see Associations Metals, Mystery of, 39 Metric System : American Institute of Weights and Measures 479—see also Decimal System, and Letters to the Editor Mills, Oil—see Oils Mine Haulage, Safety Carriage for, Record Engineering Comnany, Limited, 525 Mineral Resources, Bureau of, 450 Mineral Resources, Empire, 527 Mineral Statistics, Our, 328 Montgomery, J., on Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, 317 Moore, Harold, on The Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of Liquid Fuels, 561 Morgan, C. L., The Retirement of, 176 Morison, D. B., on Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, 287, 302, 381 Motor Installation for Barges, T. H. Coggins and A. E. Hook, 420 Motor Vehicles, Electric, L. Brockman. 95 Motors, Electric—see Electrical Matters Munitions Workers’ Strike, 449 Munro, A. R., on a Rapid Method of Plotting Combined Indicator Cards, 136, 137 Mystery of Metals, 39 N NATIONAL Defence in the United States, 593 National Physical Laboratory, Official Report, 569—See also Standardisation of Engineering Materials National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Professor W. G. Fearnsides, 399, 429 New Year's Honours, 166 New York Harbour—see Removing Subaqueous Rock New Zealand, Thomas Transmission Car in, 90 Nickel Silver, Annealing of, Dr. F. C. Thompson, 285 Nile, The Conservation of the, A. A. Barnes, 33 Nitrogen from the Air, Kilburn Scott Three- phase Process, 580, 595 Non-ferrous Metals—see Melting of North British Rubber Factory Extensions, 91 o OBITUARY:
Biggart, Andrew Stevenson, 405
Binnie, Sir Alexander Richardson, 470
Blyth, Benjamin Hall, 451
Browne, Sir Benjamin (Portrait), 221
Durston, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir A. John,
K.C.B. (Portrait), 377
Forrest. James (Portrait), 220
Gilchrist, James, 127
Halcomb, Svdney Broughton, 48
Harpur, William, 503
Hobson, George Andrew, 108
Hughes, Colonel Herbert, 58
Hunter, William Henry, 203
Ireland, Arthur James, 12
Kennedy, Rankin, 377
Kennedv, Thomas, 377
Leigh. John George, 378
Macmillan, William. 12
Mann, Isaac John. 127
Murray. Ronald W., 12
Porter, Robert Percival, 221
Raworth, John 8.. 285
Russell, Joseph, 523
Seaton, Gervase Douglas, 591
Sharp, Robert Gordon (Portrait), 285
Short, Horace, 339
Stirling. James (Portrait), 81
Stott. Henry G., 203
Ward, George G., 378
Western, James Halifax, 339
OTL Engines—see Engines Oil Industry, The Scottish Shale, 221,270, 274 Oils. Vegetable, Production and Industrial Emplovment of. 123. 147, 169, 192, 213, 240, 261, 307, 309, 349, 395, 417, 439 .441, 462, 486, 511, 546, 559, 564, 581, 585 {Two Page Supplements, April 20th, 1917) (Two-page Supplement, June 15th, 1917) Organisers’ Clearing House, 570 Our Trade with Latin-America. 589 Output and the Market, 315 ; (Letter), 467 BACKING Electric Locomotives for Export, Panama Canal Lock Gate Machinery, Corrosion of, 255 Parr, P. H., on the Extraction of Sugar-Cane Mills, 148 Partition of Bonuses, 250 : (Letters), 268—See also S imnlated Management Patent Action, High Speed Tool Steel, 412 Patent Rights, Acquisition of, 28, 50, 72, 98, 122, 144, 168, 190, 212, 236, 260, 282, 304, 326, 348, 368, 392, 414, 438, 460, 484, 508, 532, 554, 576, 600 PATENT SPECIFICATIONS: Aeronautics, 27, 71, 97, 189, 281, 303, 325, 347, 391, 413, 507, 531, 575 Condensers and Feed-Water Heaters, 211, 260, 507
Cranes and Conveyors, 97, 167, 212, 599
Dynamos and Motors, 27, 49, 71, 121, 189, 235, 259, 391, 413, 437, 553, 575 Engines. Internal Combustion, 27, 49, 71, 97, 121, 143, 167, 189, 211, 235, 259, 281, 325,
347, 367, 391, 413, 437, 459, 483, 507, 531, 553, 575, 599 Engines, Steam, 367, 413, 531 Gas Producers, 460, 483, 507 Heating—see Lighting Lighting and Heating, 212, 303, 392, 438, 483, 532, 554, 575 Locomotives, 259
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 50, 71, 97, 121, 144, 167, 236, 304, 325, 347, 392, 438, 460, 484, 507, 532, 553 Measuring and Testing Instruments, 168, 189, 211, 282, 348, 367 Mines and Metals, 236, 259, 282, 392, 484, 608, 532, 554, 600 Miscellaneous, 28, 50, 72, 98, 122, 168, 190, 212, 236, 260, 282, 304, 326, 368, 414, 438,
484, 508, 554, 576
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 144, 236, 575, 600 Ordnance and Armour, 28, 50, 72, 143, 190, 260, 282, 326. 368, 392, 531 Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 121, 235,
348, 599
Ships and Boats, 28, 98, 167, 189, 236, 281, 325, 391, 437, 507, 532, 600
Steam Generators, 189, 211, 259, 303, 459 Switchgear. 167, 189, 484, 531
Telegraphs and Telephones, 49, 143, 167, 211, 235, 281, 599
Tramways and Railways, 98 Transformers, 303
Transmission of Power, 121, 144, 190, 212, 304, 325, 348, 413, 460, 508, 553, 575 Turbine Machinery, 121, 303, 459, 484, 553, 575
Water Purification, 414
PATENT System, Dangers of the German, 315 ;
(Letters), 423, 467
Patents, British, Sir R. Hadfield, 391 Peaceful Penetration, 521 Pelton Wheel, 100 Horse-power for Hydro- Electric Plant at Hebden Bridge, G. Gilkes and Co., 266 Personal and Business Announcements, 27, 48, 94. 122, 168, 190, 255, 282, 326, 347, 368, 412, 459. 483, 508, 576 Petrol Caterpillar Tractor, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 308, 314 (Two-page Supplement, April 6th, 1917) Petrol Coaches, Railway—see Railways Petrol-driven Fire Pump—see Pumps Petrol Engines—see Engines Petrol Explosions in Sewers, 283 Petrol Measuring Pumps, 203 Petrol M 'tor Lorry, Five-Ton, J. E. D. Ralls, 354, 355 Plotting Combined Indicator Cards, A Rapid Method of. A. R. Munro, 136, 137 Portishead Dock Pumps—see Pumps Power Forging—see Chain Cables Precision, A Clock of, C. O. Bartrum, 161 ;
(Letters). 198, 243
Precision Grinding, H. H. Asbridge, 268 Precision, High, Design, Some Points in. 584 Premium System in the Drawing-office, H.
Kewney, 275
Presses for Briquetting—see Briquetting Presses for Oil Production—see Production Primrose. H. S., on Metal Melting in a Simple Crude Oil Furnace, 311, 340 Prisoners of War. British, Educational Facilities for, 280 Production and Industrial Employment of Vegetable Oils, 123, 147, 169, 192, 213, 240, 261, 307, 309, 349, 395, 417, 439, 441, 462, 468, 511, 546, 559, 564. 581, 585 (Two Page Supplements, April 20th, 1917) (Two-page Supplement, June \5th, 1917) Puddling—see Iron and Steel Pumpherston Works—see Works PUMPS: Deep Wells, New Electric System of Pumping, W. J. Wills, 409 Eighteenth Century Colliery Pumping Engine, at Pentrich Colliery, 56. 60 Eighteenth Century Pumping Engine at Gregory’s Mine, near Ashover, Fr. Tompson, 138 Newcomen Pumping Engine at Ashton-underLyne. 218
Petrol Measuring Pumps, 203
Portable Petrol-driven Fire Pump, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 542, 548 Portishead Dock Pumping Machinery, Oil Engine Driven, Blackstone and Co., Limited. 80 (Two-page Supplement, January 26th, 1917) Turbine Pumps, Notes on the Construction of, A. E. L. Chorlton, 463, 476, 477, 500 PYRMONT—see Bridges R RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS:
See also Annual Article
General:
Association of Minor Railways, 413
Automatic Control of Trains, 111, 226 ;
(Letter), 163
Automatic Railway Signalling, 589
Railway Accidents, 39, 276
Railway Material for South America, 408
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MAT
TERS (continued'):
General (continued): Rotary Interlocking Block System, W. R. Sykes Interlocking Signal Company, Limited. 276
Signals, Daylight, Lamps for, 455
Vacuum Brake Apparatus Improvements, Consolidated Brake and Engineering Company, 594 Vacuum Brake Improvements, Vacuum Brake Company, Limited, 228 British, Colonial, and Indian : Accidents at Ratho and Wigan, 39, 44, 54, 226, 229 ; (Letter), 44 Australian Railway Finance, 378 Australian Trans-Continental Railway, 526 British Railways in 1916, 172, 183, 206, 254 Canada, Future of the Railways of, 502 Canadian Transcontinental Railway Scheme, 571 Collisions at Wigan and Kirtlebridge, 226, 229
Future of English Railways, 327 Indian Railways in 1915-16, 378
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Retirement of Mr. C. L. Morgan, 176 London and North-Western Railway Electric Train Service to Watford, 332, 336 Malay Peninsula, Railway Expansion in, 493 Petrol-Electric Coach, New Zealand Government Railways, Thomas Transmission, Limited, 91 Forelfirn:
American Railways in War Time, 331
Goods Wagon of 120 Tons Capacity, Virginian Railway, 574
Latin America, New Railway Works in, 90 Swiss Railway Problems, 446 Swiss Railways in War Time, 149 Trainmen’s Eight Hours Act in America, 455 War and American Railways, 52
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: General: Packing Electric Locomotives for Export, 424
Standardisation, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 403, 406
British, Colonial and Indian : Locomotives of the United Kingdom, E. L. Ahrons, 216 ; (Letters), 243, 494 North Staffordshire Railway, Passenger Tank Engine, 288 Foreign American Great Northern Railway “ Mikado ” Type Engine, 244, 248 American Heavy Goods Locomotives, Recent, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 244, 248
American Locomotives for Spain, 549
Bessemer and Lake Erie Line, Ten Wheels Coupled Engine, 244, 248 Modern High Power Locomotive Economy in France, 509 Paris-Orleans Railway, British-built Tank Locomotives for, 224, 229 Virginia Railway, Triple Articulated Locomotive, 244, 248 RANDOM REFLECTIONS: 40, 62, 87, 112, 134, 158, 180, 202, 226, 250, 272, 294, 316, 338, 360, 382, 404, 428, 450, 474, 498, 522, 544, 566, 590 (see Special Index) RAZORS for the Army, 378 Reamers— see Machine Tools Reconstruction of Industries, 577 Reeves, A. W., and C. Kimber, on Works Organisation and Efficiency, 454 Refractory Materials, 54, 466—see also Iron and Ste-1 Reid Standard Unit Construction for Steel Frame Buildings, F. Braby and Co., Limited, 358, 362 Relative Failure of the Marine Diesel Engine, 293 Removing Subaqueous Rock under Difficult Conditions, 114 Research. Glass, 149 Research, Scientific and Industrial, 149, 176 Research, W. R. Whitney, 245 ; (Letter), 289 Research Work, Bearing of, on Practical Mechanical Engineering, A. Saxon, 162 Researches made Possible, &c.—see Autographic Indicator Resources of the Empire, 198 Rhone-Rhine Canal, The Proposed, 53 Ripper, Professor, on Works Organisation and Efficiency, 454 Robertson, J. A., on Fuel Economy, 579 Rock, Subaqueous, Removing, under Difficult Conditions, 114 Rodgers, Capt. W. L., on the Suitability of the Current Design of Submarines to U.S. Navy, 153, 157 Rolling Mill Electrical Equipment, British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 402, 406 Rotary Interlocking Block System, W. R. Sykes Interlocking Signal Company, Limited, 276 Royal Agricultural Society’s Trial of Ford Motor Tractors, 437 Rubber Factory, Extensions to, North British Rubber Company, Limited, 91 s SAFETY Carriage for Mine Haulage, Record Engineering Company, Limited, 525 Sailors and Soldiers, Disabled, Training of, for Electrical Sub-Station Work, 399 San Marcos—see Ships Saxon, Alfred, on The Bearing of Research Work on Practical Mechanical Engineering, 162 Science and Industry—The Place of Cambridge, &c., Sir Richard Glazebrook, 535 Science, What Industry Owes to, 34, 88, 102, 160, 217, 273, 329, 415, 461, 488, 539, 558, 577 Scientific and Industrial Research, 149, 176 Scoble, Lieut. W. A., on Design of Pin Joints Based on Ultimate Strength, 319 Scottish Shale Oil Industry, 221, 270, 274 Screw Gauges, Colonel Crompton, 66 Screw Threads—see Whitworth Secret of Development, 85 Sewage Filters, Brushwood, 337 ; (Letter), 375 Sewers, Petrol Explosions in, 283 Shale Oil Industry, The Scottish, 221, 270, 274 SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Shipbuilding—see also Annual Articles, Engineering Industry General:
American Shipbuilding and Shipping, 381
Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines, Professor W. Hovgaard, 330, 340 Closing of all Ship Side Apertures from the I Bridge, Signor E. Benvenuti, 318 Design of Pin Joints Based on Ultimate Strength, Lieut. W. A. Scoble, 319 Electrolyser for Ships, V. Roberts and Co., 549 Influence of Running Balance on Vibration of Ships, Experiments, J. J. King-Salter, 330 Launching, P. A. Hillhouse and W. H. Riddlesworth, 330 Laurenti’s Diagram for Stability of Submarines, 330 Marine Application of Floating Gears of the Floating Frame Type, J. H. Macalpine, 330 Marine Engines—see Engines Merchant Shipbuilding in Germany, 112 Motor Installation for Barges, T. H. Coggins and A. E. Hook, 420
Shipping Control, 26
Spacing of Bulkheads, &c., Method of Obtaining for Ship Design, W. J. Lovett, 317 Stability, Apparatus for Use of Ship Masters,
T. Graham, 318
Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 487, 302, 381 Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, J. Montgomerie, 317 Wake and Thrust Deduction, Further Experiments, W. J. Luke, 319 Naval Matters:
First Lord’s Speech, 201 Guerre de Course, 565
Institution of Naval Architects—see Associations, &c. Power Forging of Chain Cables in the U.S. Navy, Naval Constructor F. G. Coburn. 200, 204 Salving by Italian Navy of German Submarine U C 12, 416, 426 ; (Letter), 467
Submarines, 157 ; (Letters), 163, 230
Suitability of Current Design of Submarines to the U.S. Navy, Capt. W. L. Rodgers, 153, 157 Foreign Navies :
American Navy at War, 359
German High Sea Fleet and its Bases, 533, 555 German Mine-Laying Submarine U C 12 Salved and in Service of Italian Navy, 416, 426 ; (Letter), 467 Recent American Warships, 8, 41, 74, 543 ; (Letter), 67 (Two-page Supplement,
January 5th, 1917)
Spanish Submarine Isaac Peral, 97 ; Paragraph, 447 Submarines in the Adriatic, 416, 426 ; (Letter), 467 Suitability of Current Design of Submarines to the U.S. Navy, Capt. W. L. Rodgers, 153, 157 United States Battle Cruisers, 1 to 4, Projected, 8, 543 (Supplement, January 5th, 1917)
United States Battleship Pennsylvania, 8, 41
United States Battleships Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, 8 (Two-page Supplement, January 5th, 1917) United States Naval Experiments on the San Marcos 369 United States Navy, Mr. Daniels’ Report, 54, 75, 133 Miscellaneous: Early History of the French Atlantic Services, 145, 156 ; (Letter), 243 Italian Coal and Ore Carrying Steamer, Milazzo, 194 (Two-page Supplement, March 2nd, 1917)
Motor Ship Sebastian, 548
SIGNALS—see Railways Simpson, E., on Workshop Design and Equipment, 197 Skilled Women—see Women Mechanics Slag—see Basic Slag Smith, Sydney W., on Surface Tension and
Cohesion in Metals and Alloys, 285
Soap, Manufacture of, 559, 564 Soldiers at the Front, Technical Publications for, 537 Soldiers—see also Sailors and Soldiers Some Points in High Precision Design, 584 South America, Catalogues for, 79 South America, Railway Materials from, 408 South Wales, New Industries in, 549 Spontaneous Ignition Temperatures of Liquid
Fuels, Harold Moore, 561
Stability—see Ships Standard Engines—see Engines Standard Structure Gauge in the United States, 552 Standard Unit Construction, Reid, for Steel Frame Buildings, F. Braby and Co., Limited, 358, 362 Standardisation as Applied to the Machinery for Cargo Boats, D. B. Morison, 287, 302, 381 Standardisation of Engineering Materials, James Forrest Lecture by Sir J. Wolfe Barry. 403, 406 ; (Letter), 424 Steam Engines—see Engines Steam Generation. Use of Coke and Coke Breeze for, J. C. B. Kershaw, 51 Steam Turbines for Land Purposes, H. L. Guy, 107 Steam Turbines, Lubrication of, T. C. Thomsen, 238, 264, 319, 327 Steel—see Iron and Steel Steel Frame Buildings—see Standard Unit Construction Sterilisation—see Water Supply Stimulated Management, 179; (Letters), 198, 230, 251, 268, 375 Stoker, The Taylor Underfeed, Scholey and Co., Limited, 88 Strength of Steel—see Iron and Steel Stress, Alternating, Experiments, Dr. W. Mason, 172, 176 Stress Determination in a Flat Plate, J.
Montgomerie, 317
Submarines—see Ships Sugar-cane Mills, The Extraction of, P. H.
Parr, 148
Sugar Machinery, British versus American, 202 ;
(Letter), 230
Sugar Problem, 85 ; (Letter), 312 Surface Tension and Cohesion in Metals and
Alloys, Sydney W. Smith, 285
Suspicion, 134 Swansea, Expected Oil Trade Development, 549 Swarf, Metal, The Briquetting of, 514, 538, 557, 592 T TAX, Excess Profits, 427 Taylor Underfeed Stoker, Scholey and Co., Limited, 88 Technical Library to Aid German Industry, 326 Technical Publications for Soldiers at the Front, 537 Testing Steel—see Iron and Steel Text-books : Actual and Ideal, 473 Thompson, Dr. F. C., on Annealing of Nickel Silver, 285 Thomsen, T. C., on Lubrication of Steam Turbines, 238, 264, 319, 327, 394 Thornton, H. M., on Application of Coal Gas to Industry in War Time, 374 Thornton, H. M., and H. Hartley, on the Melting of Brass and Copper in a Crucible Furnace with Coal-gas Fuel, 311, 340 Tookey, W. A., on Internal Combustion Engine Tests, '29 » Traction Engines—see Engines Tractor, Caterpillar Petrol, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 308, 314 (Two-page Supplement, April 6th, 1917) Tractors, Ford Motor Agricultural, Trial of Two, 437 Trade After the War, 255 Training of Disabled Sailors and Soldiers for Electrical Sub-Station Work, 399 Training and Work of the Chemical Engineer, Sir G. Beilby, 219, 225, 227, 363 Trainmen’s Eight Hours Act in United States, 455 Trains—see Railways Triumph of Expediency—see Water Supply Tunnel, Hudson River, 540 Turbine Pumps—see Pumps Turbines, Steam, for Land Purposes, H. L.
Guy, 107 ; (Corrections), 127, 166
Turbines, Steam, Lubrication of, T. C. Thomsen, 238, 264, 319, 327, 394 Turbo-Generators—see Electrical Matters Turin a Seaport, 482 u UNITED STATES, National Defence in the, 593 University College, London, Annual Report, 297 University Intelligence, 168 Use and Abuse of Steel—see Iron and Steel Use of Coke—see Coal, &c. V VACUUM Brake Apparatus Improvements, Consolidated Brake and Engineering Company, 594 Vacuum Brake Improvements, Vacuum Brake Company, Limited, 228 Valparaiso, Harbour Improvements at, 516, 520 Valparaiso, Temporary Dry Dock Made with Sheet Piling, 64, 65 Vegetable Oils—see Oils Volunteers, Birmingham Electrical Engineers, 298 Volunteers, First London Engineer, 27, 50, 67, 90, 120, 139, 168, 190, 212, 236, 259, 280, 303, 321, 347, 368, 392, 412, 438, 459, 483, 506, 527, 553, 576, 599 w W.R. COMBUSTION Indicator, H. R. Webster, 595 Wagon, Goods—see Railways Wairua Falls Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 376, 380 Wake and Thrust Deduction—see Ships Warships—see Ships Water Meters—see Water Supply, 408 Waterspout in the Mediterranean, 183 WATER SUPPLY:
See also Annual Article
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Supply for, 34, 38 Cycloid-Weir Water Meter, Kennicott Company, 408 Pumping from Deep Wells, W. J. Wills’ Electrical System, 409
South Africa, Waterworks in, 172 Sterilisation of Water Supplies, 157, 252
Triumph of Expediency over Sentimentality, 566 Water Purification by Liquid Chlorine, Wallace and Tiernan Apparatus, 252 Water Research, Dr. Houston’s Report, 128, 566 WATFORD Electric Train Service—see Railways Welfare Work Good Business, Is ? 101 What Industry Owes to Science, 34, 88, 102, 160, 217, 273, 329, 415, 461, 488, 539, 558 577 Whitney, W. R., on Research, 245 ; (Letter), 289 Whitworth Form of Thread, 334 Women in Industry, 502 Women Mechanics, 294, 296
WORKS:
British Westinghouse Works, Visit by Overseas Dominions’ Representatives, 402, 406
Craven Brothers’ Tool and Crane Works, 197
WORKS (contimied):
Crossley Brothers* Engineering Works Extension in Manchester, 207
Pumphqrston Shale Oil Works, 270, 274
WORKS Organisation and Efficiency, Two Papers by Professor Ripper and Messrs, A. W. Reeves and C. Kimber, 454
Workshop Design and Equipment, Edmund Simpson, 197
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