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A ABRASIVE Manufacturing Plant, Large, at Quebec, 207 Acetone for Production of Synthetic Rubber, 97 Aerial Wire with the Key-Morse Apparatus ; Length Limitations, 119 AERONAUTICS : Aerodromes or Flying Fields, 55 Aero Engines and Parts, Urgent Demand for, 163 Aeroplanes in America, Difficulties with Four- bladed Propellers, 119 American Inventor’s Aeroplane to End the War in Sixty Days, 141 Aviation Engine Development, E. H. Sher- bondy, 541 “ Borrodising” as Preventive of Corrosion,315 Fireproof Varnish for Aeroplanes, 407 Horse-power in Relation to Weight, Greatly Increased Proportion in Modern Aero¬planes, 497 Long Distance Aeroplane Record by Italian Captain, J. Laurenti, 229 Motors, Aeroplane, 10,000 Orders Taken by One American Firm, 229 Planes of Flying Machines, Experiments in America, 547 Postal Service by Aeroplane, 190 Radiators, Aeroplane, Standardisation of, 234 Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 552 Seaplane for Training Purposes in the United States, Lieut. G. D. Murray, U.S.N., 519 United States Aeroplane Makers and Metric Measurements, 229 United States Airplane, Vacuum Chamber for Testing Engines, 541 United States Aviation Engine, Advantages, 361 Warning of Air Raids, Tests of Various Methods, 55 AFRICAN “Da” Fibre for Rope Making, 519 Agricultural Machinery for Ministry of Muni¬tions, 77 Agricultural Machines for France after the War, Government Action, 229 Agriculture by Mechanical Aids, Great Increase Expected, 119 Alcohol, Denatured, and Anti-freezing Pre¬cautions, 473 Alcohol and Petrol, Power from, 315 Alcohol, Synthetic, Manufacture on Commercial Scale in Switzerland, 207 Alloy, Copper and Zinc, Proportions and Use, 541 Alloy, New Anti-friction Type, 497 Alloy for Ships’ Propellers, 249 Alloy Steel Castings for Dies in America, 163 Alloys, Iron-Aluminium and Iron-Silicon for Electro-Magnetic Uses, 77 Alloys, Iron-Silicon, Acid Resisting Properties of, 163 Aluminium Output from Foyers and Kinloch- leven, 73 Aluminium Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines, J. Leopold, 55 Aluminium, Possible Extraction from Stafford¬shire Clay, 293 Aluminium Scrap, Fluxes for Melting, 473 Aluminium Scrap, Methods of Melting, 185 Aluminium Works in Hungary, 497 American Co-ordinating Committee on Exporta¬tion, 518 American Society of Civil Engineers Abandons Convention for 1917 owing to War Work Demands, 15 Amethyst Colour Development in Glass, 271 Ammonia Production in Germany, 7 6 Ammonia, Sulphate of, United States Produc¬tion, 315 Anthracite—see Coal Anti-Submarine Net at a Cost of Twenty Millions Sterling, A Suggestion, 293 Antofagasta Port Improvements, Tenders in London Called for, 163 Artesian Basin of Australia, Largest Known in the World, 385 Artesian Wells in Perth, Failure of Attempt to Utilise, 519 Artificial Colouring Matter in the United States, Large Capital Invested, 293 Artificial “ Tides ” Utilised for Coal Trans¬portation on the Ohio River, 293 Asbestos Industry of the United States, 229 Asphalt, Paraffin, &c., “ Natural,” Produced in the United States, 163 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES! ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING AND SHIP¬BUILDING DRAUGHTSMEN : HARTLEPOOLS SECTION : (Tees-side and Hartlepools Branch) Second Annual General Meeting, 484 LONDON BRANCH : Annual General Meeting : Reorganisation of the Association, 357 INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL : Autumn Meeting ; List of Papers, 198, 239 INSTITUTE OF METALS : Autumn Meeting, 24 Diamond Formation, Lecture by Sir Charles Parsons, 497 Memberships Question : Extra Election, 24 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS : Awards for Papers, 440 DUBLIN SECTION : Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric Power in Ireland, 270
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS : Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55 Non-Ferrous Metals Bill, 552
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Cadet Associate Membership, 207 INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS : Proposals for Compulsory Adoption of Metric System, 177
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Before Easter Programme, 531 Before Easter Friday Programme, 570 Christmas Lectures, 464 Donations for Experimental Research, 413 Meetings and Elections, 24, 509
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS : Goods Clearing House System and Machinery Explained, Paper and Demonstration, A. W. Gattie, 39 SOCIETY, FARADAY :
Pyrometers and Pyrometry, 323
SOCIETY, OPTICAL : Optical Stores Captured from the Enemy, Lieut.-Col. A. C. Williams, 437 SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS : Albert Medal Awarded to Mr. Orville Wright for Aeronautical Work, 11 Awards of Medals, 11 Howard Lecture by Mr. W. G. Fearnsides, Favourable Prospect for Iron and Steel Manufacturers in Eastern England, 361 SOCIETY, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL : Abnormal Temperature, &c.; Daily Temperature at Greenwich, W. W. Bryant, 486 Computation of Wind Velocity from Pilot Balloon Observations, P. Bolton, 570 Twelve-hourly Barometer Oscillation, Dr.
G. C. Simpson, 486
Use of Monthly Mean Values in Climatological Analysis, E. G. Bilham, 570 ASTRONOMICAL Error in 1 B.C., 247 Atlantic Cable Used for Thames Bridge, 118 Australian Defence Department, Proposed Plant for Benzene and Toluene Production, 59
Canadian Scientific and Industrial Research, 55
Capper, Major-General J. E., Director-General of the Tank Corps, 229
Carbon and Graphite Electrode Manufacture in Norway, 429
Carbon Monoxide in Mines, Simple Test for Detecting even Minute Amount, 337
Cardiff, Election of Engineer and Surveyor, 541
Castings of Chromium-Copper Alloys, Method of Preparing, 315
Castings, Large and Small, Scrapping Economy, 22
Cellulose Acetate for Varnish Manufacture, 497
Cellulose Piping, Compressed, Satisfactory in
General Use, 141; as Substitute for Metal, 385
Cement for Fastening Metal Parts to Marble, 97 Cement Industry in Japan, 249 Cement Mill near Guatemala City, Large Capacity and Low Cost of Product, 11 Cemented Surface, Coating by the Nichol! Process, 33 Ceylon, New Port at Aragam Bay, East Coast, 163 Charcoal and Conservation of Timber in Sweden, 337 Chelmsford, Works’ Sports for Charity, 196 Chemical Industry in Switzerland, War Scarcity of Raw Material, 315 Chemists, Industrial, National Association of, Proposed, 109 Chicago Meat-canning Factory’s Great Increase in Steam Generating Plant, 141 Chimney, 570ft. High, in Japan, 185 China’s Use of Electricity and Neglect of Gas, 315 Chinese Export Trade and Government Assistance, 119 Chinese Factories, Details of Industries and Equipment, 497 Chinese Imitation of Foreign Trade-marks, British Complaints, 141 Chisel, Best Method to Harden and Temper, 337 Chlorine, Best Temperature for Electrolytic Production of, 229 Christmas Gifts for the Labour Battalion, 462 Chromite Production in the United States, A Record Year, 337 Clay-working Cinders, Value for Fuel, R. G. Lovell, 451 COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:
Anthracite Coal, W. H. Booth, 33 Anthracite Discovery in the Alps, 337
Calorific Value of Coal, Deterioration Since Outbreak of War, 271 China, Pinghsiang Collieries, 163 Coalfield Seams Burning in Large Area of the United States, 11 Coal Mines, Breathing Apparatus, Scientific Research Council Inquiry, 97 Coal Mining Regiments, Question of United States Raising them for France, 561 Coal Shortage in North-West America, Prohibition of Shipments to Canada, 337 Coal for Steam Production, Advantages of Welsh Anthracite, W. H. Booth, 33 Controller of Coal Mines, Address and Code of Directions, 11 French Output of Coal, 315 India, North and West, Disappointing Coal Supply, Suggested Substitution of Hydroelectric Power, 315 Indian Collieries and Use of Electricity, 11 Indian Minerals, Coal the Most Important , 293 Italian Coal Discovery, 97 Oklahoma and Kansas, Shallow Coal-beds Working, 293 South African Coal, High Percentage of Tar, 293 United States, Possible Shortage of Coal, and Wood Fuel as Substitute, 185 COAL Gas for Motor Cars, 531 Cold Storage and Ice Making, Liverpool Experience, 429 Cold Storage Warehouses for United Kingdom Food Supply, 541 Commercial Alcohol from Damaged Potatoes 540 Commercial Motors, Annual Inspection of, Prizes, 552 Concrete, Best Colours for Colouring, 11 Concrete for Cheap Building, A House every Three Days, 407 Concrete Fence Posts and Attachment of Wire Fencing, 163 Concrete Fence, Reinforced, for Great Yarmouth, 385 Concrete, Reinforced, Action of Salt on, Professor H. J. M. Creighton, 572 Concrete, Reinforced, Examined by X-rays, 492 Concrete,- Reinforced, Injurious Action of Salt in the Philippine Islands, 561 Concrete Roads, Emulsified Asphalt for Main-- taining, 229 Concrete Silos for Wheat Storage in Australia. 497 Concrete for Small Buildings, 385 Concrete as a Substitute for Timber, Bricks, Iron and Steel, 396 Copper and Lead of Serbia Exploited by Germans and Austrians, 229 Copper, World’s Production of, 197 Coral Carving, Japan Endeavouring to Replace Italian Production, 519 “ Corimite,” Insulating Material Made from Fish Offal, 451 Corrosion of Tinned Copper Sheets, 119 Cotton Spinning and Weaving Industry in Korea, 561 Crane, Floating, Largest Lifting Crane Built in United States, 407 Crane, 50-Ton Locomotive Jib, for Panama Canal Docks, Unusual Type, 119
E
EGGS, New Method for Safe Delivery, 473
ELECTRICAL MATTERS:
Applications of Electricity, List of 3000 in Booklet, 77
Arc Lamps, Uses of Boracic Acid, 97
Arc Welding, Continuous Current Superior to Alternating, 541
Arc Welding, Suitable Electric Conditions for, H. L. Unland, 407
Armature Shafts on the Commutator End of
Motors, Novel Method of Repair, 77 Army Cooking by Electric Oven, 429
Belfast, Electricity Supply Possible from Tidal Power of Strangford Lough, 163 Blast-furnace Tap-holes Opened by Electric Arc, 541 British and Metric Systems as Affecting British Electrical Trade, 451 Calcutta, Cheap Current for Cooking and Heating, 11 Capacity of Single Turbo-generator Units, Limitation in Size, 473 Cattle Driving by Electricity, 141 Cauvery Power Scheme in Mysore, Conveyance of Very Heavy Machinery, 119 Centralisation of Power and Profit from Byproducts, Enormous Gains Possible, H. Wilson-Fox, 429 Charging Plugs and Sockets for Electric Vehicles, 437 China’s Preference for Electricity, 315 Commercial Motor Vehicles, Electric, Projected Expenditure, 33 Committee on Electric Power, Chairman and Additional Members, 11 “ Continuously Loaded ” Paper—Core Cable for Underground Telephone, 97 Current Transformers and Possible Registration Errors, 497 Economy in Use of Electric Furnaces to Convert Steel Scrap into Castings, E. Kilburn Scott, 55 Electro-Chemical Industries at Shawinigan, Quebec, 561 Electro-Culture, Results of, on Garden Pro* duce, 407 French Production of Iron by Electric Furnaces, 11 Furnaces, Government Permit and British Steel Making, 249 Furnaces at Work in Great Britain, Statistics of Increase and Type, 11 Generating Costs per Unit, J. Shepherd, 55 German Pocket Torch with Hand-driven Dynamo, 429 Harrogate, Proposed Installation of Byproduct Steam Boiler Plant for Electrical Supply, 163
Indian Collieries and Electrical Winding, 11
Indian Collieries, Electricity Replacing Steam, 11 Insulating Material from Fish Offal, 451 Japanese and the Australian Market for Electrical Supplies, 497 Lamp Voltage, Standardisation of, 385 Leeds’ Increased Electricity Supply, 429
Morocco, Suggested Water Power Development and Electrification of Railways, &c,. 315 Niagara Falls, Cost of Power from, 293
Nickel Alloys Used for Centre Electrodes of Sparking Plugs, 451 Optical Pyrometer for Works Use, 249 Porcelain Insulators Made in the Transvaal, 519 Power Transmission Lines Nearly 700 Miles in Length, 293 Power Transmission Lines of Nevada, California Company’s System, Longest Yet Projected, 11 Quebracho, for Cleaning Electric Insulators, 141
Selenium Cell Produced by Californian Experimenter, Immensely Increased Sensitiveness, 33
Standard Voltages of Electric Supply in the United States, 249 Steel Mills, Rolling and Reversing, Advantages of Electric Motor Drive, 33 Street Cleansing Vehicles in Sheffield, Satisfactory Economy Effected, 141 Street Cleansing Vehicles ; Ten Years’ Life, 119 Swedish Output of Electric Furnaces, 519
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
Tata Hydro-electric Power Supply, Great Success, 561
Taxicabs, Electric, in Detroit, 497
Transmission Line Over the St. Lawrence River, Details of Erection, 77 Tungsten Wire Importation for Electric Lamps, 450 Turbo Alternator Development, History of, 519 United States Electric Furnaces, Large Increase, 451 Water Power and its Utilisation in France and Elsewhere, 561
Wellington, New Zealand, Storage Battery Truck for Use on the Water Front, 361 ENERGY Required for Rain Production, J. Patterson, 473 »
Engineers’ Clubs in Manchester and in Philadelphia, 249 Engines, “ Uniflow,” World’s Records of
Efficiency, 141
Envelope-opener for Office Use, 119 Envelopes Placed in Typewriter by Machine,
American Device, 163
Explosives Output in the United States, 163 Exports Prohibited by Board of Trade, Lists of
Articles and Countries, 185
Eyesight of Workers, Offer by Institute of
Ophthalmic Opticians, 519
F FALL of a Stone to Earth’s Centre, Calculations of Time Required, 561 Federation of British Industries, New President, 413 Feed-water for Boilers, Troubles Due to Sodium Hydroxide, 77 Fiat Company’s Twenty-three Thousand Workpeople, 293 File-cutting Machines, First Recorded Use in this Country, 385 Fire-brick, Melting Points of Various Samples, 185 Fires in New York State, Large Proportion of Preventable Loss, 55 Fishing Boat to Catch 60,000 lbs. of Fish an Hour, 229 Flour Waste in Iron Foundries, Wood and
Sawdust as Substitute, 141
Fluorine—see Water Supply Food Production and Tractors ; Training
Drivers, 315
Foremen’s Mutual Benefit Society, 397 Fruit Centres for Pulping or Drying Surplus Fruit, 180 Fuel, Alcohol, from Sugar Molasses in Australia, 337 Fuel Gas from Straw—see Straw Furnace Design, Principles of, A. D. Williams, 293 G GAS and Industrial Efficiency, 497 Gas, Natural, 40,000 Bore-holes in the United States, 497 Gas Replacing Petrol for Commercial Vehicles, 97 Gas Supply of America and Toluol for High Explosives, 271 Gas Supply and Investigation by Fuel Research Board, 55 Gas Traction, Joint Committee on, 393 Gauges Tested for Ministry of Munitions by National Physical Laboratory, Ten Thousand a Week Average, 11 German Use of Yeast for Manufacture of Buttons and Knife Handles, 97 Germans Dismantling Blast-furnace Plants for Use in Munition Works, 451 Germany, Coal Prices and Gas Consumption, 319 Glass for Cooking Utensils, Chemical Product, ‘ 293 Glass from German Firms, 112 Glass Tubing of Large Diameter, Simple Method of Cutting, 361 Glass, Window, Working Temperature of, 411 Glycerine Industry, Japanese, Developments, 138 Government Changes, 55 Graphalloy, 497 Graphite, Flake, from Ceylon and Madagascar, 135 Graphite in Oil^, &c., To Obtain Permanent Suspension of,' C. H. Bierbaum, 361 Graphite for Scaling Boilers, 473 H HOLLAND, Blast-furnaces and Rolling Works in, Suggested Erection of, 77 “ Horse-power Race.” Professor A. E. Kennedy, 119 House Deficiency in this Country, Local
Government Board Inquiry, 519
Hungarian Aluminium Works for Exploiting
Bauxite Deposits, 271
Hydraulic Power Installation in South Africa, The Largest, 293 Hydrogen, Atmospheric, Proposed Works for Production in Iceland, 519 Hydro-technical Laboratory in Italy, 415 I INDIA’S Disappointing Coal Supply ; Suggested Substitution of Hydro-electric Power, 315 India, Survey of, Genera] Report, 293 Indian Agriculture, Mechanical Cultivation Progress, 249 Industrial Reconstruction Council, 530 Interest Chart, Marsden and Co., Limited, 162 Ireland, Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric Power, 270
Irish Canals Placed under Control of Committee, 55
Irish Joint Committee of Engineers to Consider Peat Utilisation, 33
Irish Water Power Schemes, Tidal Power of Strangford Lough, 163
IRON AND STEEL:
Alloy Steel Castings Used by American Drop Forging Manufacturers, 163
Alloys, Iron Silicon, Acid-resisting Properties of, 163
American Production of Steel Ingots and Castings, 11
Annealing Temperatures for Nickel Steel, 385
Atmospheric Effects on Sheet Iron, 315
Australian Company Erecting Works for Home Supply of Spring Steel, Railway Wheels and Axles, &c., 207
Chilled Cast Iron Car Wheels ; Effect on American Railways, 407
Chilling of Cast Iron, An Accidental Discovery in the Eighteenth Century, 185
Chinese Pig Iron for United States Shipbuilding, 451
Corea, Output of Ore of Poor Quality but Abundant Quantity, 163
Corrosion and “ Borrodising,” 315
Electric Motor Drive in Steel Mill Service, Advantages of, 33
Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
Electric Steel Making and Limitation of Furnaces,' 249
German High-speed Steel, New Type, 541
Hardening of Steel, Frenchmen’s Solution, 315
Indian Pig Iron for San Francisco, 11
Iron-Aluminium Alloys, Messrs. Yensen and Gat ward, 301
Japanese Steel Works Projected for Manufacture of Plates, Rails, Square and Bar Steel, &c., 33
Japan’s Use of Electricity in Steel Manufacture, 337
Lincolnshire, North, as Centre for Steel Manufacture, 337
Manganese in Fire-box Steel, Specified Percentage, 249
Manganese Shipped from China to Japan, 429
Molybdenite of Low Grade ; Cheap Process of Manufacture, 207
Molybdenite Shipments from Quebec, 163
Molybdenum Steel, Great Value of, as Gun Lining, 55
New South Wales Manufacture of Steel Wheels, 141
New South Wales Steel Works, Demand for Rails and Shipbuilding Plates, 249
Reagent in Steel Investigation, Messieurs Le Chatelier and E. L. Dupuy, 451
Resources and Production pf Iron and Other Metalliferous Ores, 109
Steel Business Origin Claimed by an American, 541
Steel Foundry in the Yangtze Valley, Japanese and Chinese Agreement, 119
Steel Shortage in Canada; Shipping and Railway Needs, 141
“ Swedish ” Iron and Hematite Supply, Favourable Prospect for East England Iron and Steel Manufacture, 361
Tungsten, Uses in Electricity, 207
United States Steel Castings, Percentages of Kinds of Steel and Methods of Productions, 11 Wrought Iron, Cost of, Compared with Steel, G. G. Roberts, 315 IRISH Production of Antimony and Lead, 451 Irrigated Lands in Australia and the Barren Jack Dam, 473 Italian Government Schemes for Hydraulic Development, 361 Italian Internal Waterways, Periodical to Deal with Question, 185 J JAPAN Boating—see Ships Japan Builds 9000-Ton Steamer for British
Owners in Less than Three Months, 207
Japan as Competitor in Incandescent Lamp Trade, 361 Japanese Glycerine Industry Development, 407 Japanese Scientists Sent to United States to
Study Industrial Conditions, 385
Japanning Process, Double Operation, 337 Japan’s Copper Ore Output and Exports, 185 Java, Increased Sugar Production, 185 Jute Substitute in Russia, 77 KAISER and Czar in 1904, 207
M
MACHINE Shop for Ford Motor Company, Remarkable Construction, 407
Machine Telegraph Development, Anticipated Success, 429
McNicholl Process for Coating Freshly Cemented Surface, 33
Magnesia Bricks, Refractory Properties of, Messieurs H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 451
Magnetic Separators for Minerals, Varying Strength, 97
Magneto Industry, British Developments, 97
Manchester Corporation Omnibuses, Statistics of Running, 11
Manufactures Formerly Obtained from
Germany, Demand in England, 77
Megaphones for Submarine Detection, 519 Metal Cutting by Revolving Smooth Steel Discs, 541 Metal Economy, Discovery of Wasted Dies, 561 Metals, Boiling Points of, and Pyrometric Work,
C. R. Darling, 497
Metric System, Proposals for Compulsory Adoption, 77 Mid-Scotland Canal, Work for Demobilised Men after the War, 473 Milling Machines, C. Churchill and Co., 486 Mineral Wool, Pure White, Uses of, 385 Mines in the Transvaal and Kimberley, Prevention of Pneumonia in Natives, 293 Mining Plant in South Africa, 561 Mining Timber, Substitute for, Patented, E.
Seward, 119
Ministry of Health, 552 Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel Monazite Discoveries and German Control, 249 Monazite in Mysore, Disappointing Result, 361 Monazite Sands for Gas Mantles, Discovery in
Ceylon, 249, 473
Motor Car Engines, Battery System of Ignition, 337 Motor Car Engines, Cracks in Water Jackets, 140 Motor Car Manufacture Replaced by Aircraft Motors, 519 Motor Car Weight and Improved Construction, 55 Motor Car’s Record Speed, 473 Motor Cars in America, Exhaust Cut-outs Discontinued, 361 Motor Industries, Technical Committee, Bodies Represented, 473 Motor Lorries for War Use Ordered in the
United States, Large Orders, 293
Motor Lorry Accommodation, Better Utilisation of, 77 Motor Omnibuses, Taxation and Upkeep of Roads, 33 Motor Ploughing in England and Wales, Cost per Acre, 561 Motor Spirit, Standardisation of, Tests and
Paper by Mr. Lomax, 429
Motor Taxation in France, New Formula for Determining, 337 Motor Tire Manufacture in America ; Own
Mills and Own Cottonfields, 207
Motor Trucks and Automobiles for United
States War Department, Standardisation and Large Output, 385
Motor Vehicles and Coal Gas, 315 Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, 97 Motor Vehicles, Suspension System of Improved
Type, 315
Motor Vehicles, to Value of Over Six Millions
Sterling Ordered by the United States, 141
Motor Volunteers, City, and Invasion, 384 Mowra Flower, Important Raw Product in Hyderabad, 119 Municipal Engineering and Public Health, Effect of the War on, H. P. Boulnois, 328 Munition Workers’ Training under London County Council, 127
Ontario Government and Net Fishing, 271
Optical Glass: The Real Introducers of New
Materials, 473
Orange River Falls, South Africa, 407 Oven for Electric Cooking for Army Use, 385 p PAINT as a Rust Preventive, Experiments, 319 Panama Canal, Big Docks to be Built, 315 Panama Canal and Railroad, Improved Health of Employees, 185 Paper and Lectures for West of Scotland Institute, Difficulty in Obtaining, 229 Papyrus in North Zululand, Company Formed to Utilise, at Christiania, 207 Paraffin for Motor Tractors, Question of Lower Prices, 293 Paris, Flood Prevention and Navigation Improvement Works, 293 Paris Tramways, Increased Working Expenses, 293 Patents, Statistics of Applications, 33 Peat Gas for Driving Diesel Engine, 519 Petrol Consumption in France, Restrictions and Reserve Stock, 385 Petrol Extracted from Natural Gas in the
United States, 337
Petrol Imports into United Kingdom, 97 Petrol Production in the United States, 271 Petrol Shortage, Problem in United States, 361 Petrol, Synthetic, from Kerosene or Paraffin at
Cost of |d. per Gallon, 163
Petrol Waste, Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks on, 97 Petroleum in Burma, Increased Output, 249 Petroleum, Natural Formation Secret not yet
Discovered, W. H. Dalton, 519
Piles of Steel Pipe with Concrete Lining, 337 Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines, J.
Leopold, 55
Platinum, Difficulty in Finding Alloy for, 271 Platinum Discovery in Southern Spain, 271 Platinum in Manitoba, 406 Platinum for Military Purposes, 229 Platinum Output of the World in 1916, 11 Platinum Substitute ; Alloy of Gold and Palladium, 119 Ploughing by Motor Traction, Forty Acres in Six Ten-hour Days, 497 Plymouth Harbour, Development of Catte- water Lower Reaches, 473 Pneumonia Among South African Native
Miners, Success of Inoculation, 185
Port Kembla, New South Wales, 385 Portugal and New Industries ; Large Iron and Steel Works, 229 Postal Services by Aeroplane, Established and Projected, 190 Potash from Feldspar, 229 Potash Salts Production in United States, 97 Potash Scarcity in Germany ; Trade Apprehensions, 473 Production Limit ; The Human Factor in Industry, G. E. Toogood, 537 Prohibited Exports from British Empire, 55, 77 Protected Occupations, Scrap Metal Collection, Dr. Addison, 38 Punch, Press Mud and the Ministry of Munitions, 271 Pyrometer, Optical, for Works Use, 249 Pyrometers and Pyrometry, Instruments Shown and General Discussion, 323 Q QUEBEC New Dry Dock, Largest in the World, 141 Queensland, Mineral Output of, 515 R RAGS of the British Army, High Prices Paid, 55 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS:
Accident Due to Sleeping Engine Driver, 385 at Finchley-road Station, Need of Automatic Signalling, 271
Scotch Express, 561
to Soldiers’ Train in Yorkshire, 271 Tramway, at Dover, 185, 429 Accidents, Prevention of, Harriman Medal Awarded to Illinois Central Railway Company, 6 Air Raid Shelter in Hitherto Unopened Railway Tunnels, 407 Air Raids and Ventilation of Tube Railways, 361 Alaskan Railway, Completion Hastened to Bring About Advantages of all Kinds, 163 Albert Medal for Life Saving, Award, 561
Ambulance Train of Sixteen Coaches Built in Fifteen Weeks by Midland Railway, 229 American Engineers and French Railways, 315
American Engineers’ Plans for Spanish Railways, 407 American Fatal Car Collision, 473 American Freight Car Efficiency and Car
Builders’ Association Rules, 97
American Railroads and Coal, Analysis of Kinds Used, 249 American Railway Authorities ; Conference to Reduce Clerical Work, 473 American Railways—see also United States Railways and Inter-State Commerce Commission Ames, Oakes and Oliver, Constructors of First Transcontinental Railway Oyer the Rockies, 207 Appointments and Changes of Personnel on Various Railways, 11, 33, 55, 77, 97 184 249, 337, 361 Argentine Government and Railway Supply Questions, 77 Association of Private Owners of Railway Rolling Stock, 73 Australian Commonwealth Railways Bill, Non-Political Control, 337 Australian East-West Railway, Cost, 451 Australian East-West Railway; Projected
Exhibition to Celebrate Opening, 229
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- I tinued) Australian East-West Transcontinental Rail’ way ; Approaching Completion and Subsequent Train Service, 33, 77, 229, 337 Bacteriological Car Laboratory Presented to French Army, 473 Bakerloo to Watford, Lengthened Trains, 497 Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Employment of Women, 42
Barrow-in-Furness, Deficiency of House Accommodation, Strain on Railways, 207 Beasley, Mr. A., Retirement from Taff Vale Managership and Appointment as Director, 33, 55, 97 Belgian Locomotives in France, 55, 77
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Company Builds Ambulance Trains, 67 Brazilian Purchase of Locomotives to Expedite Food Supplies to Allies, 519 British Railway Administration, Mr. Lynch’s Questions, 451 Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Scrap, Economical Treatment of Castings, .2.2 . . Burma Railways Company’s Supplies for War Purposes, 561 Business or Pleasure,Overcrowded Travelling, 455 Butterworth, Sir A. Kaye, General Manager of North-Eastern Railway to Visit America on Behalf of the Government, 163 Cab Penny Toll Dispute Settled, 561 Cabs and Taxis and Railway Stations, Tolls, 163 Cabs Use of Railway Stations, Position Defined, 163 Caledonian Railway, Collision at Newton Colliery, Result of Inquiry, 55 California and other States ; Level Crossing Regulations, 561 Cambrian Railway Company’s Prizes for Well-kept Stations, 519 Canadian Dominion and the Maritime Provinces, Intercolonial Railway Completion, 33 Government Railways, New Rolling Stock, 229 Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways’ Postponement of Adoption of Uniform Gauge, 330 Northern Railway, Petition Against Government Purchase, 207 Northern Railway Taken Over by Government—Question of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 119 Pacific Railway’s Projected Doubledeck Bridge at Toronto, 33 Railway Association for National Defence, 519 Railway Combination and Removal of Rails to France, 119
Railway Commission, Cost of, 451
Railway Revenues, 141
Canal Control Committee, Annual Cost, 541
Canal Transport for Coal and Heavy Goods Traffic, to Relieve Railways, 361 Cape to Cairo Railway, Completion to Bukama on the Congo, 207 Cars Partly Loaded Only; Photographs Sent to Traders to Induce Economy in Use of Railway Facilities, 207, 249 Central Railroad of New Jersey, Economy in Card Passes, 473 Channel Tunnel Project, Government Support Refused during War, 163 Charing Cross Bridge Strengthening, Bill Passed, 11 Chemin de Fer du Nord, Change of General Manager, 11, 77 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Accident, 385 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, Saving of Fuel Due to Electrification, 459, 541 Chicago and North-Western Railway and “ Safety First ” Post Cards, 33 Children’s Home in Memory of South Indian Railway Engineer Killed in Action. 229 Clayton Aniline Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 271 Coal Consumption on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 163 Control and the Coming Winter, 97, 315 for London, Rail-borne and Sea-borne in 1914 and 1917, 11 Mines in Ireland and Railway Facilities 429 Pooling in United States : Avoidance of. Delay in Shiploading, 337 Rate Differences, Anomalies of Transport, 451 Transport Reorganisation in the North- West of England, 429 Transport Scheme, Great Saving, 497, 519 Wagons to and from Collieries, Investigation of Delays, 497
Wagons and Private Ownership, 315 Collection and Distribution of Goods, Reform Needed, 497
Concrete Disintegration in Linings of Railway Tunnels in America, 163 Copenhagen, New Underground Railway Stopped for Want of Material, 249
Crane Accident on Breakdown Work, 293
Death of Mr. William Smith, 361 Death of Old Engine-driver Due to Heat, 97 Death of Mr. W. R. Sykes, 293 Difficulties of Railwav Service in War-time, 361 Dividends, Interim, of Certain Railways, 141 ? Drivers’ and Guards’ Difficulty in Regard to Food and Lodgings When Away from Homes, 97 Eastern Bengal Railway Survey for Ferry Boat Service on Jamuna River, 191 Economies of Railway Operation in America, Committee Appointed, 18 Economy and Free Travelling of Conference Delegates, 407 Electric Headlights Replace Oil on Baltimore and Ohio Locomotives, 451 Electric Locomotive Built in Manchuria, 519 Electrification of 211 Miles of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.. Paul Railroad, 271 Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company and Repair of Armature Shafts, 77 Employers’ Liability, Trial Ends in Verdict for the Railway, 497 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- ] tinued): . Live Stock Trespassing on American Railways, Action by all Companies, 249 Liverpool, Increase in Railway Haulage Charges, 271 Locomotive and Railway Material, Exports from the United States, 249 Locomotives for Burning Pulverised Fuel, 33 London and North-Western Hotel at Birmingham, Extensions, 193 London and North-Western Railway versus
J. Sankey and Son, Carriage of Wheels, 55
London and North-Western Railway, War Casualties, 229 London and North-Western Railway, Decorations, 519 Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Western Union Telegraph Ccmpany’s Poles, United States Government Intervenes, 97 . Madrid to Construct Electrical Underground Railway, 185 Manchester Train Service Changes, Midland Railway, 429 Mechanical Stokers on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 385 Melbourne, Railway Electrification in, 451 Meyrick Park, Bournemouth, Halt Closed,407 Midland Railway Collision at Derby, 407 Midland Railway, Derailment of Passenger Train, 271 Motor Cars and Unprotected Railway Crossings, Tennesee Law, 229 Moving Trains, Fatalities Caused by Entering and Leaving, 229 Munition Work in Indian Railway Shops, Increase of Employees, 229 NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN :
Annual Report, 97
Air Raid Demands, 519 .
and Board of Trade, 293
Deaths in Action or from Wounds, 185
and Mr. J. H. Thomas, 293
Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Autobiography, 451 Newfoundland, Four Hundred and Twentieth
Anniversary of Discovery, 293
New Jersey and Discontinuance of Numerous Trains by Erie Railroad, 77 New Jersey Public Utilities Commission and Curtailment of Train Service, 168 Newport Light Railways Order, 419 New South Wales, Increased Railway and Tramway Rates, 356 New South Wales Railways, Increased Outlay, 451 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Reduction in Passenger Trains, 141 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Successful Financial Management and Retirement of President, 10 New York State, Rapid Transit System, 153 New Zealand Locomotive, Satisfactory New
Type, 527
New Zealand, New Rolling Stock, 561 New Zealand Railways, Traffic Statistics, 385, 429 New Zealand, Trolley Accident in Tunnel, 141 North British Railway Company Increases
Salaries and Pays Income Tax of Staff, 207 North-Eastern Railway Allotment Holders and Goat Keepers, 271
North-Eastern Railway, General Manager to Visit America, 163 Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car and the War, 42 Oil, Domestic Production, Broxburn Oil Company and the North British Railway, 11 Oil Shortage and Gas-lighted Railway Carriages, 397 Oil Substituted for Coal on the Western Indian Locomotives, 519 Open Cars for Transport of Goods, Use Forbidden Except for Public Service, 541 Overcrowding at Business Hours, Increased Train Service, 385, 455, 497 Overcrowding on Suburban Lines, 429 Oxted Tunnel Failure and Re-opening, 97 Panama, Projected Railway on Atlantic Coast, 55 Parcels Traffic and Stamp System, 508 Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads’ Reduction of Passenger Trains, 97 Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Suggested Electrification, 83 Pennsylvania Railroad, Men of Foreign Birth, Analysis ; Purchasers of Liberty Bonds, 473 Pennsylvania Railroad and Military Service, 315 Perishable Traffic in America, Wagons in Sidings, 407 Permanent Way, New Type, Demonstration at Townsville, Queensland, 561 Peru, American Locomotives Preferred by, 141 Peru, New Railwav to be Financed in New York, 119 Porters’ Tips and Compensation Question, 519 Prosser, Mr. E. A., Manager of Taff Vale as well as of Cardiff and Rhymney Railways, 33 Queensland Government Railways, Investigation, 337 Queensland Government Railways Report, 561 Rails, Steel, Manufacture in Sputh Africa, Trade Impetus Due to War, 229 RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION :
Increased Income, 11 Prince of Wales as President, 77 Railway and Canal Commission Court, Trials Postponed to End of the War, 97 Clerks, Male and Female Wages Increase, 561
Clerks’ War Bonus and Superannuation, .271 Crossing Sign in South Carolina, Use as Advertisement Forbidden, 33 Engineer Regiments for France, Nine Called for in the United States, 15 Executive Committee’s Agreement with Men’s Union as to War Wages, 141 Material Exported from the United Kingdom, 11, 77, 185, 315, 385, 497 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : United States Government Supplies, Success of Transport Arrangements Due to Pooling of Cars, 337 Military Service and Railroad Labour Stress, 330, 385 National Defence, Rolling Stock or Additional Power and Terminals, 77 Passenger Train Economy, Results, 389 Passenger Train, Reduction and Coal Saving, 42, 77, 185, 389 Production of Rails, Greatly Increased Output, 185 Railway Dining Car Service and Food Saving, 541 Railway Employees Not Exempted, as a Class, from Military Service, 141 Railway Equipment and Supplies, Enquiry by Mr. H. C. Hoyle, 385 Railwaymen’s Wages Demand, Action by President Wilson, 451, 561 ‘ Railways Fiscal Year, 407 Railways, Mileage of Signalling and of Train Despatching by Telegraph and Telephone, 498 Traffic, Measures for Improvement and Coal Saving, 185 War Board’s Appeal for Railroad Concentration on the War, 219 Victoria, Increase of Railway Fares and Freight Charges, 207 Victorian Government Railways, Superheaters and Fuel Saving, 185 Victorian Railways Working, Mr. T. R.
Johnson Appointed as Commission, 33
Volunteers, Position of Railwaymen in the Event of Invasion, 473 Wagon Ropes, Railway, Pooled, 77 Wagons for Collieries : Board of Trade and Private Ownership, 300 Wagons for France Built in the United States, 451 Wardle, G. H., Rises from Clerk to Board of Trade Secretary, 185 War Gardens on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 315 War-office Department for Railway Control, Expenditure, 407 War Work Volunteers and Travelling Facilities, 429 Weight of Trains, Varvinsr Methods of Calculation, 119 Western Australia, Railway Freight Shortage Due to Lack of Ships for Wheat Transport, 11 Western Australia Railway Wagons and the Vacuum Brake, 33 Western Australia, Traffic and Finance Statistics, 55 Women Employees for the Pennsylvania Railway, Preliminary Inquiry, 22
Women’s Labour in Transport Work, 229
Women of the Midland Railway and the Rifle Club, 337 Women at Military Hospitals, Reduced Fares for, 271 Women as Permanent Way Gang on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 271 Women as Special Constables on the Great Eastern Railway, 271 Wooden Cars for Passenger Trains in the United States, Steady Withdrawal from Service, 119 Y.M.C.A. Work on United States Railway, Transport of Troops, 36) RAIN-MAKING Plant in Australia, 497 Refrigerating Stores Capacity in United Kingdom, 361 Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete Research Work and Educational Scheme for Benefit of Cotton Industry, by Messrs. Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Co., 207 Resources of Iron—see Iron Reversing Mill, Electrically-driven, Recently Installed, 77 Road Vehicles, Mechanically-propelled, Large Increase, 361 Roads and Tarspraying, Details of Labour and Material, 337 Rope Drive, Longest Known Life of, 519 Rope Drive, World’s Highest Velocity, 519 Rotary Flying Engines, American Want of Success in Production of, 519 Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germany, 97 Russian Cotton Seed Oil Industry, 185 Russian Exhibition, 118 Russian Oil Production, High Rate in Spite of Labour Shortage, 33 Russia’s Pre-war Industries, British Capital Employed, 33 s ST. PAUL’S Cathedral, Strengthening of Piers of Transept, 207
Salt Production in Russia, Analysis of, 163
Salt Roadway in Utah, Advantages of, 473
Sanitary Work in the Army, Major A. J.
Martin, 328
Scientific and Industrial Research Department’s New Address, 77 Searchlight Improvements and Experiments in Germany, 77 Seine Improvements, to Check Floods and Aid Navigation, 141 Sewage Plant in America, Activated Sludge Compared with Percolating Filters, 561 Sheet Metal Industry, Employers’ Joint Committee Meeting, 420 Shell Forgings, Temperature Considerations, 249 Shell Output in America, 97 Shells, Immensely Increased Output, 33 Shells Used in Capture of Messines, Estimated Weight of Steel, 33 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Shipbuilding versus German U-boats, 234 American Steamers Converted to Diesel- engined Ships, 82 Cadiz, Abandoned Shipbuilding Yard to be Re-opened, 185 Canvas as Auxiliary in Steamships Not Required in Diesel-engined Vessels, 207
Charts, Serious Errors Discovered, 407
Concrete Ship Designed at San Francisco, 119 Concrete Ships, Advantages and Cost, 185 Diesel Engines for Submarines in the United States Navy, Attempt to Dispense with Air Starting Valves, 163 Durban, Electric Coaling Plant of New Design, 429 German Diesel-driven Motor Ship Wilhelm A. Riedermann, 429 German Submarines, Size and Number Stated to be Much Exaggerated, 207 Hong-Kong Shipping Analysis, Increase of Vessels Using the Port, 185 Hulls of Sea-going Vessels, Composition for Dressing, 561 Italian Measures Against Submarine Attack and for Re-construction of Mercantile Marine, 225 Japan, Absence of Pleasure Boating and Small High Speed Petrol Motors, 55 ; (Letter), 384 Japanese Ports, Percentage of Japanese and Foreign Vessels, 140 Japanese Ships Built at Tsurumi, Japan, Warships as well as Merchantmen to be Home Built, 163 Japan’s Shipbuilding Capacity, Great Extension of, 385 Merchant Ships Under Construction in American Shipyards, 361 Norwegian Iron and Concrete Ship Launched, The First, 163 Nova Scotia’s First Home Built Steel Oceangoing Steamer, 185
Panama Canal Terminals Supply Boats, 451 Russian 50-Ton Submarines, 175
Schooner Yacht America, Her Destination, 407 Shipbuilding Berth in Canada, Largest Enclosed for Canadian Vickers Limited, 361 Shipbuilding in the United States, Statistics, 55 Standard Ship, First Under War Conditions, Built at Chepstow, 541 Standard Steamers, Completed, Started and Sunk, 519 Standardised Ships of Cast Steel Constructed at Rate of More than One a Day, 207
Submarine Boat, First Recorded in 1640, 33
Submarine Chasers Ordered from United States for British and Italian Governments, 385
Submarine Detection by Megaphone, 519
Submarines, Exchange of Periscopes for Lenses on Either Side of the Vessel, 141 U-Boat Dangers, Suggestion to Net the North Sea, 141 U-Boats Failure to Impede Military Operations, 407 United States Call for American Sailors for their New Merchant Marine, 141 United States Collier Jupiter, Safe Arrival with Wheat Cargo in France, 33 United States Emergency Fleet, Details of Contracts, 33 United States Motor-driven Superdreadnought Tennessee, 249
United States New Dreadnoughts, 407
Warship Losses, Causes of, Comparison between Gunfire, Submarines and Mines, 207
Whitby, Prospect of Shipbuilding, 541
Wooden Ships to be Built in Canada, Steam- driven, 141 Wooden Ships 100 Years Old, 229 Wooden Vessels, Best Metal for Screw Shafts, 229 SIAM, Projects for Systematic Irrigation, 207 Silica Bricks, Superiority over Fireclay, 315 Silver’s Increased Price, 293 Silvertown Works Fire, Exaggerated Report’ 163 Slide Rale, Pamphlet on “ Useful Engineers, Constants,” &c., J. A. Burns, 260 Smokeless Fuel for United States Navy, 385 Soap Substitutes in Germany, 119
Soldiers and Sailors, Disabled, to be Employed on Gramophone Manufacture, Works Opened, 361
South Wales Miners and Taxes, 311
South-Western Polytechnic Institute, 154
Spanish Telephone System, Projected Extension, 141
Spanish Works for Home Supply of Ships and War Material, 119
Sparking Plug, Lenoir the Original Inventor, 77
Sparking Plug, Better Insulation Needed, A. Champion, 407
Stainless Steel Cutlery, Use of Chromium Stopped, 271
Stanley, Sir Albert, Former Underground Managing Director, now President of Boaid of Trade, 53
Steam Pressure for Steam Turbines, Increase in America, 497
Stone Falling to Centre of the Earth, Calculation of Time, M. Sanger, 141
Straw for Motor Fuel Gas, Canadian Chemist’s Process, 385
Straw Pulp, Tested in Scottish Mills,. 429
Street Accidents, Wonderful American Invention, 473
Submarine Cable, Largest in the World, 229
Suction Gas Plant in South Africa, Largest in Existence, 293
Sugar or Bananas in Jamaica, 97
Sugar, Motor Spirit and other Products from Mowra Flower, 119
Sulphur Recovery from Smelter Fumes, “ Thiogen ” Process, 229
Sweden, Proposed Government Grant for Grain Storage, 293
Synthetic Indigo Manufacture at Ellesmere Port, Dr. G. T. Morgan, 24
TAXATION of Motor Spirit, Import Duty During tho War, 55
Taxes on Wages, South Wales Miners, 311
Tea-growing Increase in Nyasaland, 146
Tea Mixed with Iron and Steel Borings, 561
Telegram Round the World in 16| Minutes,
New York Times Message, 141
Telegraph and Telephone Mileage in the Federated Malay States, 556 Telegraph, Modern, Principles of, Professor J.
A. Fleming, 328
Telephone Exchange, The Work of, Professor J. A. Fleming, 328 Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, for Sydney, Cost of, 561 Telephone from Montreal to Vancouver, Record Length, 451 Telephone Signalling, Various Methods, 249 Telephone, Underground, “ Continuously
Loaded ” Paper Core, in Shropshire, 97
Telephone, Underground, from Washington to New York, 315 Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, Much the Largest in the World, 249 Textile Factories, Source of Electric Power, 385 Tilbury Dock Enlargement, Completion, 33 Timber in Victoria, Investigation of Development and Best Time for Cutting Mountain Ash,55 Tin Included in War Material Regulations, 561 Tin Mining in Cornwall, Percentage of Loss of Tin and Wolfram, 519 Tin and Tungsten in Wolfram, Separation by New Process, 361 Tin from Zaaiplaats Smelting Works, South Africa, 428 Titanium, Properties and Uses of, 541 Town Planning After the War, Professor S. D. Adshead, 328 Tractors, Farm, Varieties in the United States, 497 Tractors for Farm Work, Good Ploughing Result, 361 Tractors for Farmers, Government Assistance in Ontario, 55 Tungsten—see Iron and Steel Turbines, Very Large Geared Marine, Construction in America, 33 Turbo-blowing Plant to Replace Beam Engines After Seventy Years’ Constant Service, 337 U-BOATS With and Without Periscopes, 77 United States Army to Use Browning Automatic Rifle and the Lewis Gun, 163 United States Increased Output of Tractors, 249 United States Record Agricultural Programme, 293 United States Soldiers, Weight of Metal and Other Equipment Carried, 519 United States Standard Water-tube Boilers for Emergency Fleet, 519 University College, London, Awards of Scholarships and Diplomas, 66
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VEGETABLE Matter in Waterways, Cleared by Mowing Machines from a Launch, 429
Victoria and Storage Silos for Wheat, 249
Viscometers, Need of Standardisation, 271
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WAGONS, Steam, Smoke Nuisance in Sheffield, 33
War Conditions and New Industries, 561
War Truck, American, Details of, 561
Warehouse with Sixteen Acres of Floor Space, for New York Navy Yard, 451
Water Gas, Continuous Process, Aqvist and Helsing, 293
Water Jackets of Motor Car Engines, Filling up Cracks, 140
WATER SUPPLY:
Airdrie, Coatbridge and District Water
Trust, Complaints of Deficient Supply, 361
Australia, Artesian Water Supply of, 385
Dartmoor to Plymouth, Success of New Water Main, 519 East London Water Supply from the Buffalo River, 141
Everett, Washington, Details of Scheme, 11
Filtered Water in the United States, Varieties of Filtration Plant, 407 Flow of Water in Wood-stave Pipe, F. C.
Scobey, 271 Fluorine and Arsenic in Spring Waters, 385
Japan, Schemes for Water Supply at Tokio, 361
Lancaster’s New Scheme for Supply, 163 Montreal Public Supply Sterilisation, 119
Rand Water Board Report, Record Sale Year, 293 Reservoir Cost in England and America, 561 Winnipeg Water Supply from Artesian Wells, 271 Wood Pipe for Silty Water, Suitable Velocity, 33
Wood-stave Pipe for Water Conveyance, 11
WEATHER Forecasts in the United States, High Average Correctness, 33 Welfare Work, Home Secretary’s Proposals for
Factories and Workshops, 97
Welland Ship Canal, Suspension of Work, 271 Westminster Bridge, Curiously Composite
Structure, 119
Whale Steaks as Food on the Pacific Coast, 451 Wheat Storage in Silos, Victoria, 249 White Mineral Wool Manufacture from Basalt
Rock near Melbourne, 271
Wire Rope Strain and Intelligent Lubrication, 77 Wire Ropes for Collieries, Factor of Safety, 271 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: Detective Vessel for Wireless Spies and Hoaxers, 315 Japanese Station at Funabashi, Particulars of, 55
Lag in Wireless Time Signals, 429
Messages Picked up Over 11,000 Miles off, 229 Radio-telegraphy and Telephony, Medal of Honour Award, 77
Wireless Installations and “ Jamming,” 561
WOLFRAM from Burma, Increased Export, 293 Wood Block Paving, Cost Before and Since the Outbreak of War, 55 Wood, New Tropical, Valuable for Heat Insulation, 541 Wood Paving, Latest Practice in, 337 Wool, Pure White Mineral, Uses of, 385 Workmen’s Clothing and Machinery, Numerous Fatalities, 33 Worms and Agricultural Land, 311 X X-RAY Industry, British, Need of Capital and Skill, 33 Y YEAST Used in Germany for Manufacture of
Buttons, Knife Handles, &c., 97
Yokohama Rier Reconstruction, Completion, 337 Z ZINC in “ Gun-Metals ” for Marine Engineering, Zinc Works, Electrolytic, in Tasmania, 11 Zirconia, Raw and Purified, High Melting
Point of, and Other Properties, 77
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