The Engineer 1918 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs
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A ACCIDENTS in Mines and Quarries, Increase, 163 Accidents in the United Kingdom, Reduction in Number, 383 Acetic Acid from Cocoanut Shells, 471 Acetic Acid Production from Bagasse, Sugar Factories’ Potentialities, 273 AERONAUTICS: Aero Engines, More than Forty Different Types Now being Manufactured in United Kingdom, 97
Aero Engines, Types in Most General Use, 253
Aircraft Construction Asked for in Ireland, but Negatived, 141 Aircraft Factory in Ireland, 31 Crossing the Sahara by Aeroplane, 361 Electrically-heated Clothes for Airmen, 73 French Government Aerial Postal Service, 361 German Airships, Aluminium Alloy Used in, 253 Gotha Aeroplane, Particulars of Weight, Rising and Carrying Powers, 295 Landings by Aeroplanes in Small Patches of Level Ground, 53 Liberty Motors, Great Success, 253 Materials Used in Building a Simple Type of Aeroplane, 361 Overhead Valve Aero Engines, 491 Propeller Manufacture, in Germany, Satisfactory ; Useof Cheaper Woods Laminated Together, 73 Sliop, Aeroplane, in America, a Quarter of a Mile in Length, 73 Sound Audibility at Various Balloon Heights, 163 Tension of Aeroplane Guys, 152 Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Outstanding Problems in Aeronautics, Dr. W. F. Durand, 480 World's Flying Height Record Made by Italian, 97 AGRICULTURAL Implements and Machines, Exports from the United States, 231 Agricultural Work, Statistics of Horses and Tractors Employed, 273 Agriculture, Tropical, Aeration and Irrigation, 491 Air Compressor, Two-stage Steam-driven Volumetric Efficiency, 557 Air Compressors and Ammonia Compressors Driven by Synchronous Motors, 361 Air-lift Pump Efficiency ; Increase in Proportion to Heat of Liquid Pumped, 31 Air-lift Pump, Novel Application of, 449 Air-lift- Pumping and Submergence Conditions, 427 Air and Similar Gaseous Pressures, Unit for Measurement, 339 Air Supply, Minimum, for Divers, 535 Alcohol from Garbage, 30 Alloy, American, as a Substitute for German
Silver, 317
Alloys, Iron, in Acid Manufacture, Ferrochrome and Silicon Iron, 31 Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys Plated with
Nickel, Copper, &c., 541 '
Aluminium Alloyed with Calcium, Superior Metal Results, 427
Aluminium Company’s Endeavour to Get Water Supply from Loch Treig, 31
Aluminium, Electrolytic, Production of the World, 471
Aluminium Industry Development Since Outbreak of War, 557
Aluminium Scrap, Fluxes for Melting, 119
Ambulance Fund, Captain Dennis Bayley, 330
American Motor Car, Projected Year’s Production of One Type, 339
American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York Meeting, 434
Ammonia Production in Germany by Synthetic Process, 53
Aniline Colours, Exports from the United States Double the Pre-war Value, 73
Antimony from China; Trade in Japanese Hands, 207
Antimony, Use of, in Ammunition Manufacture, 361
Architects for Workmen’s Cottages ; Government’s Scanty Pay for Designs, 9
Area and Rainfall, Comparison between Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 449
Argentine, Potential Wealth Due to Climate and Minerals, 185
Arsenal, Projected, at the United States Military Base in France, 53
Asbestos Deposits of Rhodesia, Development. 163
Asbestos Output of the United States, 141
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING AND SHIPBUILDING DRAUGHTSMEN :
MERSEYSIDE BRANCH : Meeting, 109
ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL : Future of Electric Power Supply, S. J. Watson, 193 ASSOCIATION, SCOTTISH ENGINEERING, SHIPBUILDING AND METALLURGICAL RESEARCH:
Formation, 72 INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY : Annual Meeting, 242 INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL : Annual and Autumn Meetings, 127 INSTITUTE OF METALS : Annual Autumn Meeting, 546
Annual General Meeting and Programme, 105, 193 Formation of Diamonds, The Hon. Sir C. Parsons, 328 INSTITUTE, NORTH OF ENGLAND, OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS : Ambulance Fund. Captain Dennis Bayley, 330 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS : Examination into Causes of Failure of Lorrv Parts on War Service, Lieut.-Col.
R. K. Bagnall-Wild, 418 Meeting; Awards for Papers, 176 Tank Engines, Geo. W. Watson, 418
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued):
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS (continued) : Utilisation of the Data of the Automobile Industry through Bureaux of Information, E. A. Savage, 176 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS : Advantage of Vertical Gas Retort, Alwyne Meade, 295 Gas Manufacture as Costly Now as Thirty Years Ago, Alwyne Meade, 231 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Election of New Members of Council, 466 Gas-firing Boilers, T. M. Hunter, 181
Overseas Distribution of Engineering Appliances, L. Andrews, 317 Wiring Rules Committee, Recommendation of, 317 INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS : Gustave Canet Lecture on the Stokes Gun, Sir W. Stokes, 427, 513, 568 INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS : LEEDS AND NORTH OF ENGLAND CENTRE: Formation and Appointment of Officials, 383 INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS : Employment of Women in Munition Factories, Miss Monkhouse, 361 Sir Robert Hadfield’s Prize for Hardness of Metals Determination Method, 339 War Work of Women on Munition Production in Engineering Shops, B. H. Morgan, 361 INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Annual Meetings, 62 INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS: A New British Oil Industry, Joint Paper, 141
INSTITUTION, ROYAL : Annual Meeting ; Report ; Election of Officers and Members, 418 Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, Large Endowment Fund Paid, 130 General Meeting ; Elections, &o., 499 Internal Ballistics, Lieut.-Col. A. G.
Hadcock, 455 Lectures after Easter, 284
Poetry and Modern Life, Lawrence Binyon, 455 Romance of Petroleum, Sir Boverton Redwood, 455 SOCIETY, CHEMICAL : Mr. J. S. S. Brainc on Action on Lead of Green Oak, Mortars and Concrete, 383 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS : CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY :
Papers and Awards, 352
SOCIETY, OPTICAL : Cementing Optical Parts, Use of Canada Balsam, J. W. French, 361 Spherometer of Precision, Mr. J. Guild’s Design, 53
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued): SOCIETY, RONTGEN :
Silvanus Thompson Memorial Lecture, Professor Sir E. Rutherford, 239
SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
Silver Medal Awards for Papers, 557
Tata Iron and Steel Works, H. M. Surtees Tuckwell, 163
SOCIETY, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL :
Audibility of Gunfire on the Continent.
Mr. Miller Christy, 557
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution Dr. J. S. Owens, 280 Summer Thunderstorms, Conditions Precedent to Occurrence, J. Fairgrieve, 347 Variations of Underground Water Level Near a Tidal Tiver, E. G. Bilham, 347 ATMOSPHERIC Nitrogen for Munitions and Fertilisers ; Water-Power Plant in Alabama, 231 Australia, Losses by Strikes in 1917, 449 B BALSA, New Wood, Its Properties, 197 Banks in Norway, New Temporary Law, 339 Bauxite Discoveries in British Guiana, British
Government to Retain First Call, 53
Bearing Metal, Alloy Patented in America, 339 Belgium, Economical Reconstruction of, 395 Bevel Gearing, Supposed Inventor and Date, 295 Board of Education Examinations in Science and Technology to be Discontinued, 119 Boiler Efficiency and Velocity, T. M. Hunter, 181 Boiler Explosions in United Kingdom and
United States, Comparison, 534
Boiler Heating with Stripped Coal, 31 Boiler Heating Surface, Loss of Heat Conductivity Due to Soot, 339 Boy Artificers for the Royal Navy,. Nominations, 557 Boy Welfare in the B.S.A. Works, 130 Boys’ Welfare Association, 449 Brickmaking Industry on the Kolar Goldfield, 339 Bridge, Simple Truss, Largest Span in the World, 231 Bridge, Tongabuddra, India, Particulars of, 295 Bridges in New South Wales, Old and New, 207 British Empire Producers’ Organisation, 517 BRITISH ENGINEERS’ ASSOCIATION :
Annual Meeting ; Dr. Addison’s Address, 239 British Industries Fairs in London and Glasgow, 31, 242—see also Miscellaneous Index
British Institute of Social Service, Annual Meeting, 92 Browning Light Machine Gun Compared with the Lewis Gun, 339 c CALCIUM Carbide Production, Need of Cheap
Raw Material and Cheap Power, 207
Calcium Carbide, Reduced Price, 9
Calcutta, Increased Tax on Motor Cars, 97 Canada, Demand for Power Greatly in Excess of Supply, 97 Canada in Khaki, 130 Canada, Municipal Expenditure, Comparison with English Methods, 96 Canada’s Development as shown by Increased Mails. 491 Canada’s Fuel Requirements, Solid and Liquid, 295 Canada’s Fuel Resources, Situation of Coal and of Peat Bogs, 295 Canada and United States, Use of Electric Furnaces and Output of Metals, 207 Canadian Government Purchase of Agricultural Motors for Farmers, 295 Canadian Imports and Exports, 404 Canadian Water Power Resources, Not One- tenth Developed, 317 Canal Projects, After the War, in France, 207 Canals, Board of Trade Handbook, 154 Carbide Production in Germany for Eventual Manufacture of Synthetic Rubber, 163 Carbon in Fuels, Method of Estimating, 339 Carborundum : Its Past History, 253 Car Design and Accessory Drives, 207 Cashew Nut, Valuable Properties of Nut and Tree, 491 Cattle Slaughter and the Jewish Religion, 69 Centrifugal Pumps : Question of Best Speed for Driving, 535 Chadwick Public Lectures, H. T. Davidge, 239 Change Speed Gear-box, Permanent Mesh, New
Type, F. Sabel, 557
Channel Tunnel Immediately After the War, 513 Charcoal Blast-furnace Experiment in Mysore, 163 “ Cheap Steam,” Ed. Bennis and Co., 97 Chemical Pulp Export from Norway, Distribution to Different Countries, 31 Chicago, Analysis of Vehicles, Horse-drawn and Self-propelled, 405 “ Chichopoxtle,” Valuable New Lubricant from, 513 China : Question of Gold Standard and Rise in Dollar Value, 73 Chinese Wood-oil Tree, Use of Oil in Varnish Manufacture, 31 Circular Tank, To Find the Capacity, 31 Civil Engineering, General Congress in Paris Projected, 97 Clutches, Friction, H. L. Towns, 68 COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES : Boiler-house Waste of Coal Due to Lack of Intelligence and Training, 163 By-product Coke-making in America, Statistics, 163 By-product Coke Manufacture, Weekly Reports in the United States, 383 Canada and the United States, Arrangements for Inter-export of Coal, 427 Coal Conservation, Comparison in Output between Great Britain and the United States, 141 • Coal Cutting Methods and Wages, Changes of Two Centuries, 16 Coal, Iron, and Copper Discoveries in Algeria, 141
Coal Mining Development in Germany, 31 Coal, Stripped, for Heating Boilers, 31
Coal and Textile Clothing, Production per Head in United States and Great Britain, 141
Coal Transport Saving Scheme, 427
CokeFueJ Instead of Oil for OmnibusRunning,
Great Economy, 9
Coke Fuel for Steam Wagons, 273
Coke Oven Plants and Utilisation of Waste Heat, F. E. Harris, 427 Coking Stokers an Absolute Preventative of Smoke, 273 Colliery Machinery, Safety and Signal Device, T. D. Watson, 253 Electric Display Devices in New York, Restrictions to Save Coal, 73 Electric Plants, Wasteful, Suggested Elimination of, to Economise Coal, 405 Electric Power Supply and Coal Conservation, 503
Gas Making and Unsuitable Coal, 207
Heating in Coal Stacks, Prevention of, 273 Natal and the Transvaal, Undeveloped Coal
Seams, 200
Power Production and Coal Consumption, 87 Power Supply and Coal Saving, 231
Sawdust and Wood as Coal Substitutes in Switzerland and France, 185 Spontaneous Ignition, Simple Test for Probability of, in Coal, 449
Storage, Effect on Bituminous Coals, Professor
S. W. Parr, 82
Thawing Plants for Frozen Coal in Railway Cars, 38$ Waste of Coal in the United States in Obsolete Steam Engine Plant, 52 COD Liver and Other Fish Oils to Replace Vegetable Oils in Margarine Manufacture, 273 Cold Storage Little Used in France, 97 Columbia River, Great Variation in Flow, 53 Commercial Motor Users’ Association, First
Presidential Address, Colonel Crompton, 405 Concrete for Building Government Cottages, 31 Concrete Cargo 5000-Ton Steamship under Construction in America, 231
Concrete Coaling Station for Locomotives on the Lehigh Valley, Notable Features, 535 Concrete Construction Specifications, 557 Concrete, Effect of Salts of Alkali Water, 427 Concrete Outfall Sewer on the Bottom of Lake
Erie, 491
Concrete, Reinforced, Action of Salt on, Necessary Precautions, Profe^sior H. J. M. Creighton, 73 A Concrete, Reinforced, Building with Floor Space of 24 Acres, 9 Concrete, Reinforced, in Machine Tools, 361 Concrete, Reinforced, Test to Ascertain “ Point of Destruction,” 557 Concrete, Resistance to Sea Water Affected by Workmanship, Experiments, 141 Concrete Roads in America, 50,000,000 Square Yards, 97 Contraction of Volume of Certain Substances After being Dissolved in Water in Increasing Quantities, 317 Conversion Tables, Hoffmann Manufacturing ’ Company, 416 Copper Articles, Black Finish for, 361 D DAM, Arch-, Lightest Section, in the World, New South Wales, 405 Dam on the Cimarron River, New Mexico, Dimensions and Interesting Features, 383 Dam, Concrete, for Supply of Salt Lake City, Storage of 300,000,000 Gallons, 535 Dams, Multiple-arch Reinforced Concrete, Growing in Number in America, 535 Daylight Saving in United States, 449 Death of Mr. Thomas Greenwood, 513 Death of Mr. H. J. Swindley, 73 Decimal Coinage Bill Pressed for, 339 Decimal Coinage Supported by the Federation of British Industries, 427 Diamonds, Formation of, Sir C. Parsons on, 328 Dock, New, for Barrow-in-Furness, Furness Railway Company and Vickers, Limited, 185 Domestic Fat Trap, 369 Drill Hole Nearly 5000ft. Deep, 427 Dye Industry, British, and Railway Charges on Raw Chemical Material, 471 E EDUCATION in Aeronautical Technology and Aircraft Architecture, 491 ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Aberystwyth, Electro-Power Station for, 97 Alarm Signal Actuated by Sensitive Selenium Cell, 97 Argentine Republic, 238 Central Electricity Stations in, 163 Army Demand for Electricians and Equipment, 207 Association of British Electrical Engineers, Proposed Formation of, 303 Auto-transformer to Transform 12,000 Volts to 24,000 Volts, 163 Bar Mill, Electrically-driven, at Ohio Works, 185 Batteries, “ Storage,” or “ Reversible,” 231 Blind People’s New Occupation, 490 Boosting, Need of Provision for, in Design of
Charging Equipment for Electric Motor Vehicles, 53
Cable, Safe Working Internal Temperature of, 449 Canadian Water Powers, Advantageous Situation of, 449 Chadwick Public Lectures, H. T. Davidge, 239 Cheap Power near Strathpeffer, 460 Clothesj Electrically Heated, Some Anticipated Results, 73 Coal Conservation and Power Supply, 503 Coal and Electric Energy, Inter-export Arrangements between Canada and United States, 427 Commonwealth Edison Company Generating Station One of the Largest in the World, 513 Composite Insulating Materials Investigation, 504 Cooking and Heating by Electricity, Greatly Increased Use of, 295 Domestic Appliances, Electric, Greatly Increased Sale of, in U.S.A., 253 Dry Cell Recuperation, C. F. Burgess, 73 Eel in the Pipe Line Shuts Down Electricity Supply, 39 Effects of War Conditions on Cost and Quality of Electric Service, L. S. Goodman and W. B. Jackson, 185 Electrical Heating, Question of Development, 339 Electric Winding Engines, John F. Perry, 207 Factory for Electrodes in Norway, 489 Generating Station at Saint Barthelemy, 427 Generating Systems, Large, of America;
Outputs, Peak Loads and Load Factors Statistics, 383
German Electrical Plant, Widespread Failure in Working, 253 High Voltage Insulators; Deteriorating Effects of Corona, 119 Hot Water Supply from Electricity Stations, W. M. Selvey, 317 Hydro-electric Generating Station in Iowa, Complete Automatic Working, 52 Increasing Load, New Steam Plant for, Special Economisers Used, 207 Induction Meters’ Adaptation to Different Frequencies, Difficulties, 405 Induction Motors on the Witwatersrand, 510 Insulating Material; Ingredients and Properties, 119 Insulating Properties of Fish Offal Byproduct, 535 Iron Piping for Bus-bars Replaces Copper in an American Central Station, 73 Japanese Electrical Industry, Statistics, 231 Japan’s Increased Use of Electricity in Steel Manufacture, 119 Lancaster Motor Omnibuses, Mileage and Finance, 317 Leek Linking-up Scheme, 273 Lifting Magnet in the United States, Immense
Saving of Labour by Use of, 273
Lighting Restrictions and Electricity Meters, C. H. W. Gerhardi, 557 Lightning Flash, Electric Quantities in, 471 Long Distance Electric Transport, Not Yet Called For, 317 Manchester, Future Standard for Transmission, 565 Mechanical Design of the Turbo-Alternator Rotor, S. F. Barclay, 317 ELECTRICAL MATTERS ^continued) : Methane Detector, Electric, for Use in Mines, 471 Motors, Return Ordered to be Made in Germany; Possible Connection with Copper Scarcity, 97 Motors for Textile Mills, Smaller Sizes in Favour, 185 Names of Men of Science to Denote Units, Objections to Practice, 73 Niagara Falls, Proposed Consolidation of Three Power Companies, 447 Niagara; Power Generation and Supply Comparison between Canada and United States, 513 North-West Station, U.S.A., Big New Electrical Installation, 361 Petrol Motor Cars and Electric Lighting and Starting; Double or Single Unit Question, 231 Power Factor of an Alternating Current Circuit, 513 Power Line 22,000 Volt in California, Reinforced Concrete Poles for Six Miles Length, 383 Power for Oilfields, in Baku and in Roumania, 527 Rand Mine, Second Electric Furnacelnstalled, 471 Record Output and Earnings from Sale of Electric Energy, 163 Restriction of Electric Display Devices in New York and Saving of Coal, 73 Saving of Coal by Elimination of Wasteful Electric Plants, 405 Shoe Factory, Entire Equipment Electrical, 273 Single-phase Transformers, Ordinary High Pressures for, in America, 231 Steam Pressure of 300 lb. per Square Inch in Central Generating Station, 273 Studs, Back Connection, for Switch Gear, Variations in Type of, 253 Technical Story of the Frequencies, B. G. Lamme, 163 Temperature Effects in Direct Current Meters, G. W. Stubbings, 253 Transmission of Power Across the St. Lawrence River, Submarine and Overhead Cables, 449 Trucks, Charging, Enormous Consumption of Power at Bush Terminal, New York, 535 Turbine Room Equipment of New Glasgow Power Station, 273 Units of Electricity to Melt a Ton of Steel, Figures, 405 Vaseline Replacing Air in a Cable Duct, Experiment, 383 Vereeniging^ S. Africa, Fourth Largest Power Station, 9 Voltaic Cell, New Form of, on French Railways, 471 War and Electricity Supply, 82 “ Will-o’-the-Wisps.” Perpetual Motion and the Ideal High-voltage Generator, 9 Wire Manufacture for Electrical Purposes, Big Preparations in America for After-War Trade, 383 ELECTROLYTIC Copper, Modulus of Elasticity, Working Conditions in Design of Transmission Lines, 9 Electrolytic Process of De-oxidisation, 152 Electroplating for Aluminium, New Process, 541 Embankment to Protect the City of Concepcion from Flooding of Bio Bio River, 9 Engineer and Engineering, Need of Legal Definition, 185 Engineering School at Portland, 243 Engineering Standards Committee Incorporated, 471 Engineering Student ; Accusations of Apathy, 383 Engineering Students in the United States, Proportion Exempted from Military Service, 163 Engineering Trades (New Industries) Committee, 303 Engineers’ Club for the Midlands, 491 Engineers for War Service, Suggested Certificates, 427 Engines of Various Classes, Average Weights per Brake Horse-power, P. N. Everett, 253 English Weather, 503 Etching Brasses and Bronzes, 231 Ethyl Chloride Prepared by Grove’s Process, 231 Evaporation and Stefan’s Law, N. Thomas and
A. Ferguson, 427
Exhibition of Enemy Countries Products and Appliances Now Produced in United Kingdom, 383 Exhibition of Products and Appliances Made at Home Formerly Imported from Enemy Countries, 535 Explosions, Dust Barriers for Prevention in Alberta, Canada, 97 Explosive from Liquid Oxygen, Experiments in
United States, 295
F FARTHINGS, Great Increase in Issue of Coins, 9 Firebricks from Coal Ash, Value of New Process, 31 Fire Waste in Canada Greatest in the World, 299 Fires in New York Attributable to Defective Electrical Installations, Analysis, 535 Fish Freezing in Brine, Greatly Improved Method, 273 Flax Cultivation in Canada and India, 185 Flax Supply of the World Absorbed by Countries at War, 119 Fluxes for Melting Aluminium Scrap, ] 19 Foreign Technical Press, A Review of, 570 Foreign Trade, 264 Forged Axles, Hollow, Question of Strength, 471 Forgings, Cooling, by Compressed Air, 285 ;
(Correction), Sandberg’s Patent, 373
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, Scheme Suspended, 557 Freezing, Permanent, Depth of, 317 Friction Clutches, H. L. Towns. 68 Fuel Consumption, Test and Record Motor Cycle Run in California, 557 Fuel, “ Non-pinking,” for Motor Cars, 73 Furnace, Martin, Heating with Wet Lignites, 535 G GAS, Absorbent, for Fighting Poisonous Gases, American Discovery, 535 Gas, Coal, Replacing Petrol for Commercial Vehicles, 231 Gas Manufacture as Costly Now as Thirty Years Ago, Alwyne Meade, 231 Gas for Motor Vehicles, Obtainable from all but Three Undertakings, 163 Gas for Motor Vehicles, Use Restricted, by Board of Trade, 31 Gas or Petrol for Motor Vehicles ; Different Aspects of the Question in United Kingdom and in Australia, 9 Gas Production from Sawdust or Wood Instead of Coal, 73 Gas-propelled Motor Car in Paris, 253 Gas Traction, Conversion of Commercial Motor
Vehicles, 141
Gas Traction in Manchester, 405 Gas Traction and Unsuitable Containers, 427 Gauge Work Tolerance, Tests in an. American University, 471 Gear Standardisation and Uniformity of Commercial Practices in Marketing Gears, in America, 535 German Machine Tools, Increased Output, 449 Germany’s Agricultural Research Institutions, 295 Germany’s Engineering Debt to British Engineers, 53 Germany’s Large Purchases of Wool from
South Africa before the War, 207
Gifts for the Labour Companies Overseas, 215 Glasgow, Fixed Bridge Over the Clyde, Erection Recommended, 361 Glasgow, Joint Catalogues of Technical Book in Various Libraries, 361 Glass Products in the United States, Excess of
Imports in 1914 and Excess of Exports in 1917, 73
Glommen River, Norway, as Important Industrial Site, 53 Gold Mines, Precarious Position in South Africa, 9 Gold Production of the World, 273 Gold from Southern Rhodesia. 513 Gold, World’s Output. British Empire Proportion, 17 Greenwich Observatory, Magnet House Superseded, 491 Gun, Tfie Stokes, Lecture by Sir Wilfrid Stokes, 427, 513, 568 H HAUGESUND, Norway, Projected Port Improvements, 9 Hankow, Increase of Motor Vehicles and
Probable Road Improvements, 73
Hardness of Metals, Prize Fund Presented by Sir Robert Hadfield, 339 Heat, New Principle in the Flow of, Dr. C. Hering, 316 Heat Transmission of Building Materials, A. C.
Willard and L. C. Lichty, 557
Heating and Domestic Engineers’ Programme, 273 Hong-Kong, Motor Road Round Island, 163 Horse-power, Steam Engine and Water, in the
United States, Estimated Quantity Undeveloped, 273
Hot Water from the Depths of the Earth, Temperature Increase in Proportion to Depth, 9 Houses for the Working Classes, Local Government Board Plans, 141 Housing and Town Planning, National, Subdivision of Houses, 317 Housing of Working Classes,‘Financing Private Enterprise, Scheme for, 253 Hydro-electric Generating Station in Iowa Automatically Operated, 52 Hydrogen to Replace Petrol in Switzerland, 491 I ICELANDIC Trade, Chamber of Commerce for Promoting and. Protecting, 119 India, Early Attempts to Establish Iron and Steel Industry, 185 Indian Munitions Board Shipbuilding Branch Started at Calcutta, 317 India’s Great Demand for Maps, 317 Industrial Reconstruction Council, 280 IRON AND STEEL: Annealing of Cold-hammered or Hardened Steels, Comparison, 339 Australian Steel Foundry Plants, Details of, 317 Brazil and Iron Ore, Rich Supplies, and Facilities for its Use, 231 Charcoal Blast-furnace Experiment in Mysore, 163 Cooling Forgings by Compressed Air, 285 ; (Correction), C. P. Sandberg’s Patent, 373 Crucible Steel Manufacture, Paper by Mr. F. B. Lounsberry, 557 Differential Dilatometer for Thermal Investi - gations on Steels, M. Pierre Chevenard, 53 Electricity Required to Melt a Ton of Steel, 405 Ferro-chrome and Silicon Iron as Alloys in Manufacture of Acids, 31
Ferro-manganese Production in Spain, 449 Furnace-charging Machines’ Long Life, 273 Iron Ore Deposits in India, Very Rich, 163 Japan, Steel Production in, 273
Japanese Gain Concession of Important Iron Mine, 541 Lincolnshire Ironstone Measures, Almost Inexhaustible, 273 Lloyd Wells Process for Steel Tubing Manufacture, 207 Magnetic Steel Band Drive, P. L. Weston, 339 Malleable Castings, Analyses of, 97 Malleable Castings and the Converter Method of Manufacture, 97 Malleable Castings, Output in Great Britain and United States, Comparison, 97 Manganese Imported by the United States, Appeal to Patriotism of the Steel Industry, 119 IRON AND STEEL (continued): Manganese in Steel Manufacture, Method of Testing for, T. F. Payne, 53 Mn Steel Experiments, M. A. Portevin, 53 Molybdenum in Ores, Method of Determining, 119 Molybdenum and Tungsten, Extensive Deposits Found in Sonora, Mexico, 427 National Council on Trade Policy Projected, 513 Pig Iron, Salving of Barge Load of, from Tennessee River, 253 Protection of Cast Iron Against Rust, 273 Queensland, Ore with Higher Percentage of Iron than Any in Great Britain, 222 Queensland, Suggested Iron and Steel Works, 427 Russian Government to Control Iron and Steel Industry, 339 Sandberg Sorbitic Steel, 285, 373 Steel Puddling at £1500 a Year, 185 Steel Recovery from Old Tin Cans, 557 Steel Tube Manufacture, Proper Annealing, 513 Steel Wire and Corrosion ; A Question of Copper Percentage, 231 Sulphur in Steel Castings, Changes in Raw Material and New Processes, 405 United States Output in Finished Steel, 426
Utilisation of Steel Scrap, Report by Industries Committee of House of Representatives, 97
West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, Proposed Change of Name, 306 ITALIAN Metallurgical and Mechanical Industry, Increase of Capital by the Ilva Company, 207 Italy, the Leading Motor Car Exporting Nation, 119 Italy’s Export of Motor Vehicles, 491 J JAPANESE Great Industrial Expansion, 207 Japan’s Proposed Increase of Spindles, Difficulties of Import, 53 Japan’s Proposed Outlay on Road-making, 141 Jute Manufacture, India Most Important
Country for, 163
K KNITTING Machine Needles in South China Factories, Great Scarcity of, 253 Kcenigsberg Canal and Harbour Enlargement, 557 L LABORATORIES, Government, London, Report, 185 Labour Disputes and Stoppages of Work, 141 Labour Resettlement Committee, Employers’ Representative, 471 Laundry Industry, Expansion Anticipated, Machinery Largely Imported from America, 53 Lead Exports from the United States, Consumption of Great Britain and Canada, 557 Leeds Automatic Telephone Exchange, Largest in Europe, 557 Lighthouses, Annual Report of the Commissioner, 163 Lighting and Heating, Central Stations and Isolated Plants, 471 Locomotive Boiler Explosion, Strange Result, 9 Lorries, 3-Ton,“ Machine ” for Assembling and Total Completion of One per Half-hour, 295 Lubricating Material Substitutes in Germany, 535 Luncheon Meetings for Business Men, 517 M MAGNETOS, Large Output by the British Ignition Apparatus Association, 140 Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Metal Merchants’ Suggestion, 198 Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 503 Maps in the American Army, Rapid Reproduction by Blue-printing and Lithography, 383 Marbles, Coloured, and Beautifully Grained from South-West Africa, 535 Marine Surveyors to the Board of Trade, 239 Mechanical Stoking in 1785, James Watt, Patentee, 97 Metal Production from Canadian Ores in 1917, 163 Meteorite Fragments in Scotland, 9 “ Methanephone ” for Methane Gas Detection, 432 Micromanometer and its Uses, 427 Military Motor Lorry, 3-Ton, Equipped for Operation on Coal Gas, 141 Mine in Brazil, Deepest in the World, 295 Mineral Resources of Great Britain, 374 Minerals in the Siamese Malay States, Very Rich Area, 141 Motor Car Engine of New Sleeve Valve Type, 361 Motor Car Export, Italy the Leading Nation, 119 Motor Car Industry in America, High Figures, 339 Motor Car Popularity in Canada, 405 Motor Car Suspension, Improvements, but Need of More, 258 Motor Car Taxation Assessment in Alberta, 295 Motor Cars in America, Reported Use of Three- cylinder Rotary Petrol Engine, 339 Motor Cars with Gas Container Trailers, Speed Limit Alteration, 163 Motor Car’s World’s Speed Record, 53 Motor Commercial Vehicle Chassis Built Upside Down, 405 Motor Fuel in France after the War, Alcohol and Benzol Mixture, 449 Motor Gas Equipment, Standardisation of Filling Orifices, 163 Motor Tractors in Rubber Cultivation, Great Advance in Efficiency, 163 Motor Trucks for American Army in France, Huge Number Required, 405 Motor Vehicle Working on Natural Gas, Experiment, 423 Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Driven on Coal Gas instead of Petrol, 295 Motor Vehicles and Government Control, Differentiation between Petrol and Electricity, 231 Munitions in the London District, 449 N NAPHTHALENE for Power Purposes, 53 Natalite, a Motor Spirit, 324 Natural Gas for Motor Vehicle, Working, 423 Natural Gas, Tests for Petrol, in the United States, 449 Naval Gun, Powerful and Durable, for American Battleships, 185 Newfoundland Fish Supplies Landed at Fleetwood, 53 New York Garbage Reduction Works, 568 Niagara Falls., Ten Millions a Year, or a View ? 449 Niagara—see alsr> Electrical Matters Nickel, World’s Production of, Enlarged by Six Times since 1900, 317 Nile Floods in Autumn of 1917, Abnormal, Anticipated Benefit, 119 Norway, Rolling Mill Plant and Government Loan, 119 o OCCUPATIONS Available for Discharged Soldiers, 141 Oil-field Discovery near Los Angeles, 97 Oil for Lubrication, Most Important Properties, 491 Oil Seeds Production in India, 471 Oil, Valuable Lubricant from “ Chichopoxtle ” Fruit, 513 Oil Wells in America, Use of Electric Power for Drilling, Cleaning and Pumping, 535 Oil Wells in Galicia, Great Depths, 557 Oil Wells, Prolific, in Mexico, 535 Old Cloth Tracings and Tin-foil, 286 Onyx Discovery in Tampico, Mexico, 471 Order of the British Empire, 81— see Miscellaneous Index Oven Gas for Domestic and Other Uses, 383 Oxy-acetylene Welding, Remarkable Example, 185 p PAINT to Withstand Heat, 115 Paints, Temperature Sensitive, 405 Paints and White Lead Scarcity, 53 Paper Pulp from Blady Grass in Queensland, 427 Paper Pulp and Timber in Canada, 405 Paris Bombardment ; Reported Record on United States Seismographs, 535 Patent Claims in the United States, Recent Ruling, 317 Patent Office Library’s Photostat from Sir Robert Hadfield, 513 Pension Scheme in Canada, 289 Perishable Food Imports into the United Kingdom in Pre-war Times, 53 Petrol Motor Cars and Electric Lighting and Starting ; Double or Single Unit Question, 231 Petrol Price in America, 207 Petrol, Synthetic, Process for Production, L. B.
Cherry, 449
Petrol from the United States, Increased Exports, 73 Petroleum in Mexico, Scantily Utilised owing to Lack of Transport Facilities, 491 Petroleum Spirit Refinery, Unsatisfactory Methods, 53 Petroleum from United States, A World’s Necessity, 53 Philadelphia’s Record Pumping Plant, 207 Photostat, Sir R. Hadfield’s Present to Patentoffice Library, 513 Pipe, Cast Iron, of all Sizes, Machine for Making, 253 Pipes, Compressed Cellulose, Satisfactory Except for Steam, 317 Pith, Sunflower and Sola, for Helmets, 491 Platinum, Result of Analyses, 339 Platinum in Russia Bought up by German Agents, 339 Platinum in Russia, First Record of Discovery, 317 Platinum Substitute for Electrical Purposes, 31 Platinum Substitute at One Half Cost, 273 Platinum Wire Fine Enough to Replace Spider’s Web in Telescopes, 339 Plymouth’s Lack of Cold Storage : Question of New Commercial Harbour, 53 Pneumatic Trench Mortar, French, Propelling Charge, 9 Pneumatic Tyres Inner Tube, German Method of Preserving Elasticity, 535 Polytechnic School of Engineering, Sir C. A. Parsons as President, 557 Portland Cement of Indian Manufacture, 471 Portland School of Engineering, 243 Potash Extracted from Cement Rock, Saving Effected by Use of Common Salt, 163 Power Supply in the United Kingdom, Need of Improvement in Methods, 231 Press Censor and the House that Jack Built, 119 “ Pseudo-Data,” Boiler Explosions in United Kingdom and United States, 534 Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Steady Growth, 31 Pumping Engine, Atmospheric, Still Used, 130 Years Old, 405 Q QUEENSLAND Artesian Water Supply, 303 Queensland Grass for Paper Pulp, 427 Quicklime Expansion Under Moisture, Utilisation of this Force, 513 R RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS:
Accident in Aberdeen Joint Station, 557 Accident Due to Broken Carriage Axle, 207
Accident Due to Falling Rock, 361 Accident at Penge Station, 557 Accidents Branch of Board of Trade, 141 Accidents, Pre-war and Now, Great Reduction in Board of Trade Enquiries, 53 Accidents and Road Level Crossings in United States, 513 Agricultural Produce and Railway Charges, 383 Alaska, Government Railway’s Delayed and Costly Progress, 535 Aliens’ Reported Exodus from London, 339 Aliens’ Use of Railways, 347 Ambulance Train for American Troops on the Continent, 185 Ambulance Trains Built at Stratford, 163 1 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Ambulance Trains for United States Troops Building at Swindon, 31, 207 American Railway in France, 130 American Railwaymen’s Report on Japanese Railways, 295 American Railway Passenger Rates, 449 American Railway Workmen iri France, Brave Assistance in Repulsing German Attack, 73 Appointments and Staff Changes, 9, 31, 53, 97, 141, 253, 273, 295, 339, 361, 405 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Concrete Roadways in Shops and Stores Yards, 471 Australian Chief Railway Commissioner, 53 Australian Railway Construction Since 1850, 557 Ayr Harbour and Glasgow and South- Western Railway Company, 339 Baldwin Locomotives for France in Temporary Use on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, 97 Baltimore and Ohio Express Transference from New Jersey Terminus to New York City, 535 Belgian Locomotives for American Expeditionary Force, 73 Billinton, Mr. L., London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Return to England, 557 Birthday Honours for Railwaymen, 491, 513 Birthday Honours for Railwaymen in India, 513 Board of Trade Power of Control of Railways and Rolling Stock in War-time, 9 Bridge Over the Ohio River Built by the Paducah and Illinois Railroad, 97 Bridge, Pennsylvania, at Louisville, Badly Damaged by Fire, 535 Bristol Corporation and Great Western and Midland Railway Companies, Legal Decision, 339 British Railway Funds and the Dividend Question, 53 Caledonian Railway Passenger Train and North British Light Engine, Collision, 557 Canadian Government Taking Over Railways and Leasing Them, 449 Canadian Military Deeds Commemorated by Re-named Stations on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 53 Canadian Minister of Railways, A New Office, 361 Canadian Railroad Commission, Rates Increase Question, 273 Canadian Railway Equipment ; Financing Purchase, 361 Canadian Railways Increase in Rates for Passengers and Freight, 9 Canadian War Board and Labour Unions ; Resistance to Removal of Rails, 231 Canal Employees and War Bonus, Comparison with Railways, 273 Canal Traffic Between Bristol and Liverpool ; Possible Interference with London’s Seaborne Traffic, 231
Canals and Goods Traffic Congestion, 339
Canals Used to Relieve Congested Traffic on Railways, 119 Castlecomer Collieries, Transit Facilities, 141 Central of New Jersey Railroad Passes, 97 Charing Cross Bridge Strengthening,. Attitude of the Joint Committee, 207 Chicago—New York Twenty-hour Express Taken Off, 31 Chicago Track Elevation Work, Appeal to Patriotism, 427 Clydach, Pontardawe and Cwmgorse Railway, Construction Suspended, 207 Coal on American Locomotives, Immense Saving if Lines Electrified, 361 Coal Consumption on U.S. Railways, 535 Coal in the Neighbourhood of the Great Southern and Western Railway, Adverse Report by Irish Solicitor-General, 253 Coal for New Zealand Railway Locomotives, Increased Cost, 31 Coal Transport Saving Scheme in America, 427 Coal Transport Scheme ; Great Saving in Ton Mileage, Glasgow and S. Western Railway, 231 Collision on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, Unusual Action by the President of the Line, 97 Commercial Travellers’ Week-end Fares in Ireland Not Increased, 119 Concrete Ties Still in the Trial Stage, Difficulties, 53 Cork City Railway and Other Lines, Need for Further Connections, 141 Crewe Brotherhood, Mr. Winston Churchill’s Message, 53 Damaged Food and Foodstuffs on the Pere Marquette Railroad, 491 Danger in Walking on Railway Track, 405 Death of Mr. Joseph W. Taylor, 491 Delaware and Hudson Railroad Freight Locomotives ; Increase in Engines and Train Loads, Statistics, 557 Derailment at Level Crossing in U.S.A., Due to Motor Car, 295 Directors’ First-class Free Passes, Suggested Withdrawal Refused, 141 Dividends of various Railways, 119 Doors of Railway Carriages, Device for Prevention of Accident, 253 Dublin and South-Eastern Company ; Grey- stones to Wicklow Line Strengthening, 317 Economy of Railway Electrification, Curious Comparisons, 31 Economy in Use of Oil Fuel, Decoration Mark for Best Record, 449 Eggs, Railway Conveyance of, 273 Egyptian State Railways, Increase in Fares and Freight Charges, 339 Electric Locomotives. 50 Ton : The First Built at the South Manchuria Railroad Shops 361 Electric Railway between Tampico and Mexico, 471 Enemy Officer Prisoners’ Railway Accommodation, 427 Equipment, Railway, After the War, Anti cipated Large Demand, Dr. Addison, 92 Essex, Need of Light Railways, Government Appealed to, 317 Express through Trolley Line between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, 535 Fares Increase on London Railways ; Controlled and Uncontrolled Lines, 251 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Farm Purchase by Great Eastern Railway. 207 Federated Malay States and Siamese Southern Railways, Linking up, Difficulty in Getting Railway Material, 97 First-class Privileges in War-time, 9, 491 First and Third-class Accommodation, Relative Amounts Required, 339 Fish Delay in Transit by Sea ; Railway Not to Blame, 163 Fish from Ireland, Withdrawal of Trains Question, 471 Fish Traffic, Special Trains and Trucks, Great North of Scotland Railway, 231 Fog in South-West London ; Fatal Railway Accidents, 119 Food Question ; Supplies for Trainmen when from Home, 141 Food Savings, Very Great, on United States Restaurant Cars, 97 France, British Army Transport in. Large Increase in Dock Capacity and Railway Material of All Kinds, 53 French Language and Locomotive Driving, 253 French Railway Officials’ War Honours, 383 Frozen Fish, Railway Charges on, 535 Fuel and Transport Economy and the Celebration of Washington’s Birthday, 273 Furness Railway Company and Vickers, Limited, New Dock for Barrow, 185 Furness Railway Company’s Indebtedness for Assistance in Engine Power from Other Lines, 231 Furness Railway Company’s Need of Rolling Stock, 231 Furness Railway Staff Changes, 273 Galway Proposed as a Transatlantic Port, 317 Garden Crops on the Right-of-Way of Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, 53 Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Additional Capital Required, 31, 97 Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Future Position Uncertain, 73 Glasgow and South-Western Saving Due to Coal Transport Scheme, 231 Government Payments to Railways for War Expenses, 449 Gowdall to South Yorkshire Line Opened for Goods and Mineral Traffic, 163
Grain Silo at Hull, Hastening Completion, 163 Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Suggestion of Unfair Treatment, 405
Great Central Railway Docks Engineer, 141 Great Central Railway Secretary Retires, Successor Appointed, 31 Great Central Railway 2-8-0 Type Engines for France, 339 Great Eastern Railway Discontinues Sea Water Carriage, 73 Great Eastern Railway Men with the Colours, Assistance to Men and their Dependants, 186 Great Eastern Railway and Post-office Tube, Arbitration Decision, 317, 427 Great Eastern Railway’s Purchase of Cargo Steamer, 185 Great Eastern Railway and Season Ticket Rate Increase, 513 Great Eastern Railway Timber Contracts in France, Timber Handed to British Government, 185 Great Eastern Railway’s War Traffic, Statistics, 163 Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Receipts and Expenditure, 97 Great Northern and also Midland Railway Stock ; Much Smaller Amounts Owned by Much Larger Number of Shareholders, 163 Great Northern Railway of Ireland, Changes in Passenger and Goods Traffic owing to the War, 253 Great Northern Railway of Ireland, New Work on, 273 Great Northern Railway, U.S.A., Increased Protection Against Snow, 73 Great Southern and Western Railway, New Colliery Line from Athy, 317 Great Southern and Western Railway Traffic Increased by Government Action in Regard to Tillage and Prices, 295 Great Western Railway Ambulance Trains and Rolling Stock for Railways Overseas, 31, 207 Great Western Railway Luncheon Baskets Stopped, 207 Great Western Railway’s Largely Increased Traffic for War Purposes, 207 Great Western 1 rain’s Excess Speed at Slough, 295 Highgate-road Station Closed, 163 Highway Improvements in America to Relieve the Railroads, 513 Housing of Railway Servants, Steps Taken by North Staffordshire Railway, 253 Hungarian and Austrian Locomotive Factories, 535 Increased Fares Revenue, the Property of the State, 491 India, Absence of Primary Industries and Railway Difficulties, 513 Indian Coal, Great Increase in Rail-borne Amount Owing to the War, 317 Indian Railways, Three Accidents, 73 Indo-Burma Connection ; Alternative Routes, Survey, 343 Industrial League ; Labour Members’ Visit to America, 480 Inter-Colonial Railway Accident Statistics, 427 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION— Collisions and Derailments, Investigation by Safety Division, 73
Extension of Powers Sought, 73
Limitation of Period of U.S. Government
Control of Railways, 119
Locomotive Boiler Inspection Law ; Accident Statistics, 73 Report of the Division of Safety ; Preventable Accidents, 272 Suggested Alteration of Laws Regarding Trespass, 97 Ipswich Dock Facilities and Great Eastern Railway, 231 Irish Railways’ Train Service Curtailment and Coal Saving, 361 Irish and Scottish Railway Connections at Carlisle, 405 Iron Ore Within Reach of the Stratford-on- Avon and Midland Junction Railway, 253
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) Katanga Railway Completed to Bukama ; Congo Connected with Cape Town, 471 Kent Coal Carried by South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 253 King and Royal Train Driver on the South- Eastern and Chatham Railway, 491 Labour Law in United States as to Working Hours and Rest for Railwaymen, 141 Labour Resettlement Committee Men Connected with Railways, 295 Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Train Services, 163
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway : Appointment, 405 ; Servants Disabled in War, 185 Level Crossings and Accidents on United States Railways, 513
Light Railway Orders Applications and Confirmation, 31, 253 Liverpool-street Station, Great Need of Extension, 317, 427 Locomotive Building at the Baldwin Works, 471 Locomotive. Coaling Plant, Automatic Electric, American, for N.S.W. Railways, 163 Locomotive Coaling Station, Concrete, on the Lehigh Valley, Notable Features, 535
Locomotive Repairs, Statistics, 557 Locomotive Valve Gear, 109 Locomotives Awaiting Repair, 481 Locomotives Built in U.S.A, for Use in
Russia now in Use in U.S.A., 295
Locomotives Sent from Western States of America to Relieve Congestion in Eastern Districts, 141 London, Brighton and South Coast : Locomotive Superintendent, 253 ; Allotments, 427 ; Increased Load, Slower Travelling, 231 London and North-Western : Roll of Honour Poster, 405; Staff Rewards for Useful Improvements and Suggestions, 119; London and North-Western and London Electric Railway Companies Joint Rolling Stock, 185; Men Discharged from the Army and Reinstated on Railway, 207; Victoria Crosses, 339; Steamer’s Loss by Collision, 295 London and South-Western, Provision for Coal Traffic, 185 London and South-Western Servants’ Cultivation of Railway Land Plots, 185 Magazines, Railway Staff, Discontinuance Suggested, 471 Mansfield Railway Branch to Rufford Colliery, 207, 361
Mansfield Railway, New Curve, 361 Maryport and Carlisle Ry, Coal Traffic, 253 Melbourne, Victoria, Additional Lines Approaching Completion, 163
Metropolitan Railway’s Engineering Staff Efficiency in View of Heavy Traffic on the Line, 163
Midland Railway Horses’ Keep, 185
Midland and South-Western Junction Railway ; Employment of Boys to Release Men for the Colours, 253 Midland and South-Western Junction Railway ; Statistics of War Traffic, 249 Military Service and Railwaymen, Present Arrangements, 427
Missoula Belt 100ft. long Railway, 31
Mold and Denbigh Railway ; Closed Works and Unwatering of Mines, 383 > Munition Workers’ Travelling Facilities, Cheap Week-end Tickets Withdrawn, 491 National Union of Railwaymen, Government’s Offer of Visit to Front, 31
National Union of Railwaymen, 513, 535 New Year’s Honours for Railwaymen, 31 New York Central Railroad Company, Opposition to Proposed Hudson Bridge, 447
North-Eastern Railway Accident Due to Broken Carriage Axle, 207 North-Eastern Railway Alterations in Passenger Train Service, 97 North Staffordshire Railway Signals Lighted by Electricity, 207
Owner’s Risk Rate, 9
Pacific Coast, New Railway to Open Up Mineral and Agricultural Districts, 471 Passenger Fares in Ireland, Increase from June 1st, 1918, 471 Passenger Traffic Restrictions, Deputation to Board of Trade, 557 Passengers’ Privileges, First-class, Claim Disallowed, 9, 491 Passengers, Season Ticket and Otherwise, No Present Record of Numbers, 491 Pennsylvania Company’s Stations in New York and Philadelphia, Comparison of Traffic, 31, 73 Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Greatly Increased War Traffic, 317 Pennsylvania Railroad, Conversion to Electric Traojtion, 361 Pennsylvania RailroadExpress ; Car Derailed and Wrecked by Falling Rock, 361 Pennsylvania Railroad and Report of Discontinued Expresses, 73
Pooling Scottish Private Wagons, 248
Post-office (London) Railway After the War, 557 Punctuality of Great Eastern Train Arrivals at Liverpool street, 163
Punctuality on the Midland Railway, 185
Queensland State Railways, Ratepayers and the State, 53
Queue System for Tube Railways, 471 Quintinshill Accident Anniversary, 449 Rabbits, Carriage and Delivery 2d. each, 53 Rails for Canadian Railways, Measures to
Obtain Supplies, 449
Railway Accounts and Government Control, 513 Railway Advisory Panel, Question as to its Constitution, 119 Railway Executive Committee Recognises Railway Clerks’ Association, 449 Railway Material, Exports’ Statistics, 9, 97, 231, 273, 405, 471
Rhodesian Railway Administration, 471
Russian Government and Railway Equipment Ordered from the United States, 491 Russia’s Downfall and Deficient Railway Equipment, Alba B. Johnson, 471 Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, Secretary’s Address to Railwaymen at Brighton, 163
School Children and Railway Fares, 449
Scotch Coal for the Fleet to Relieve Strain on Railways from Wales, 185 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- tinued') . Scottish Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, 43 Seamen in Railway-Owned Cross-Channel Steamers, Increased Pay, 119 Season, Return and Other Tickets ; New Powers for Railways, 383, 513 Season Ticket Rates Unchanged on Controlled Railways, 231 Season Tickets and Discharged Soldiers’ Training, 513 Season Tickets, Great Increase, 535 Season Tickets and Railway Returns, 522 Ship Timbers by Express Train, 449 Shortest Railway in the World, 31 Sleepers from Canada in 1915 and 1916, 31 Sleepers, Old, Utilised as Fuel on Boston and
Maine Railroad Buildings, 449
Slips on Railways ; Statistics, 148 South Africa and Locomotive Shortage, 409 South Australian Government Expert to
Report on System, 185, 339
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Increased Traffic in Industrial District, 207 Spanish Railway Combination for Home Building of Locomotives, 141 Standard Freight Cars on the United States Railways, 361 Steamers on the Clyde, Effort to Stop Competition, 231 Steel Cars in America, Historical Notes, 295 Steel Plates for Shipbuilding and Difficulties of Transport, 491 Stratford-on-Avon and Midland Junction Railway Receipts and Expenditure, 273 Summer Time, Further Considerations, 405 Summer Time and Workmen’s Train Lighting, 295 Superannuated Railway Servants and the Cost of Living, 119 Surprise Tests on Southern Pacific Railway, Creditable Result, 231 Taff Vale Company’s Engines More Than Three Times Pre-War Price, 231 Tehuantepec National Railroad to be Acquired by Mexican Government, 163 Timber Felling and Need of Afforestation ;
Cambrian Railway Concerned, 253
Timber, Large Sale of, on Forfeited Lands in U.S.A., 361 Time-keeping and Inter-State Trains, 317 Track-circuiting, Few Failures in Locking Signals, 449 Trade and Government Control After the War ; Railways and Canals Position, 339 Tramway Services ; Suggested “ Staggering ” of Business Hours, 383 Tramways and Parcels Conveyance, 273 Transcontinental Railway of Australia,
Varieties of Gauge, 9
Transport Company, Proposed London Goods Clearing House Scheme, 9 Transport Delays of Steel Hinder American Shipbuilding, 557 Underground Railway Women’s Club at Earl’s Court, 427 United States Coal Transport Scheme, 427 United States Express Companies for Goods
Transport, Change to State Operation, 491
United States Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation, 92 United States Government Control of Railways, 535 United States Government, Plea for Light Taxation and Economy, 491 United States Government Payment for Control of Railways, 119 United States Locomotives Out of Service, 361 United States, Nearly Two Million Troops Moved by Rail up to December 2nd, 97 United States Officers and Scheduled Running of Trains, 231 United States Old Soldiers’ Reunion, Railroad Facilities, 317 United States Railroads’ Director-General on Safety, Wages and Time Questions, 295 United States Railroads, Statistics of New Rails, Used and Required, to be Sent to Director-General, 361 United States Railway Consumption of Petroleum. 557 United States Railway Transport Increase, Statistics of Revenue and Rolling Stock, 9 United States Railways, Government Orders, General Inventory to be Taken, 427 United States Railways Operated at a Loss in January, 449 United States Railways, Income, 557 United States Railways and Presidential Control, 273 United States Railways, Rise in Wages and in Rates for Freight and Passengers, 471 United States Restricted Use of Private Railway Cars, 381 United States Severe Weather and Railway Running Repairs, 119 United States Steam Railway Freight and Passenger Cars, Statistics, 409 United States War Warnings on Railroads, 273 Victorian Railways’ Diamond Jubilee, 361 Wages Advance ; Rates for Men, Women, Boys and Girls, 383 Wagon, Coal, Unloading Regulations, 317 Wagon Derailment, South - Eastern and
Chatham Railway, 557
Wagon Repairing Difficulties, New Company Formed, 185 Wagons Let on Hire Without Permit, 471 Wagons, Privately-owned, Difficulties of General Scheme, 383 Wagons, Railway-owned, and Demurrage, 273 ; (Correction), 317 Walthamstow All-night Service Stoppage, 361, 383 War Wages of Railway Servants, 272 Waterloo Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Free Buffet, London and South-Western Company’s Co-operation, 207 Watford Services and Rolling Stock, 185 Women Employed on Railways, 253, 339 Women Employees on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 513 Workmen’s Compensation Act, Appeal Case, 405 Workmen’s Tickets on Bank Holidays, 513 RAINFALL, Abnormal, in Mysore, 513 Ramsay Memorial Fund, 264 Raw Material Rationing, 513 Razors, Hollow-ground, Industry for Wounded Soldiers, 557 Recording Differential Dilatometer, 141 Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete Reservoir, Masonry Dam in Quebec Nearing Completion, 9 Rice Crops of the World, Five-Sevenths from British Empire, Chiefly India, 185 Riveting Record Stopped by Trade Union, 471 Road Improvements in 1918-19, 231 Road Transport Committee, 119 Roads in Kent Used by Motor Omnibuses, 97 Roads in Soft Condition, Regulations for Heavy Traffic, 439 Royal Marine Corps, New, Conditions for Officers, 427 Rubber, Plantation, Equal to that from Brazil Forests, 185 Rust Prevention Process. 152 s “ SATOLITE,” an Incombustible Substitute for Celluloid, 53 Sawdust and Wood as Substitutes for Coal in
Gas Making, 73
Schneider-Creusot Works, Extent of Area and Equipment, 273 Scientific Men, Demand for, in the United States, 185 Scientific Regulation of Feed Water, R. W. Andrews, 361 Sea Water Densities, Determination of, on Board Ship, New Instrument for, A. L. Thomas, 269 Separating Materials of Different Specific Gravities, T. M. Chance, 535 Sewage Treatment, Five Processes Under Investigation, 97 Sheffield, New Factories, Buildings and Extensions, 53 Shell Casting in Germany, 531 Shell Ingots, Types Made in America, 185 Shipbuilding, Engineering and Steel Commercial Staffs Association, Foundation of, 20 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Marine, Very Large Addition in Progress, 97 American Shipbuilding and Delays of Steel Transportation, 557 American Training Ships for Merchant Service, 427 Boats, Reinforced Concrete, Building in Spain, 313 British Columbia Shipbuilding Programme, 339
Canadian Production of Large Ships, 405
Challenge Shield and Prize for Rapid Shipbuilding, 405 Coaling Transatlantic Steamers at Tampico instead of Vera Cruz, 491 Diesel-driven Motor Ship Emanuel Nobel, Her Transatlantic Record, 9 Draughtsmen, Ship, Dearth of, and United States Proposal, 253 “ Fabricated ” Ships, in America, 295 Harland and Wolff’s Shipbuilding Record for
Oil Carrier, 535
Hostels for Shipyard Workers in the North of
England and in Scotland, 513
Hull, the Hunnewell, A New Type, 231
Licensing Voyages, System Extended to all
Ships, 163
Louvain, Steamship, formerly of the Great
Eastern Company, Sunk by Submarine, 119 Motor-driven Ships for Transatlantic Service,
Suggested Use of, to Baffle Submarines, 231
Naval Losses, British, for Past Year, 119
Refrigeration on Vessels Carrying Foodstuffs, Greatly Increased use of, 449 Rivet-driving in Shipbuilding, Weekly Averages in America, 31 Shipbuilding, Merchant, in the United Kingdom, Greatly Increased Output, 491 Ship Repairs, Great Increase in Vessels Returned to Service, 471 Ships on the Great I.akes to be Transferred to the Atlantic, 9 Shipyard, Hog Island, near Philadelphia, Ambitious Programme, 491 Steamers, Proposed Establishment of Line between La Paz and Topolobampo, 471 Steel, Comparison of Weights between Ferro • Concrete and Steel Ships, 449 Steel Decks, Wood Shortage and Sheathing Substitutes, 491
Submarine Menace, Its Failure, 412
Tank Steamers in America, In Use and Under Construction, 231 Tonnage per Head, Comparison between
British and Norwegian Shipping, 31 United States Battleship, New Mexico, 449 United States Large Naval Construction, 224 United States Navy’s Use of Oil Fuel, 53
United States Standard 10,000-Ton Oil Tankers, 317 Wooden Full-powered Motor Ships in United States, 449 Wooden Ships, An Unfortunate Failure, 30
Wooden Vessels Building in Norway, 339
SILO, Grain, Nearing Completion at Hull, 163 Solder, Softening Temperature, 9 Sound Penetration at Great Heights, 163 South African Gold Output, 207 South African Need of Disinfectant to Replace Permanganate of Potash, 405 Sparking Plug for Motor Cars, New Form, 97 Spindles, Round, Method of Centring, W.
Crowther, 253
Steam Turbine Disabled on the Boston Elevated
Railway, 339
Street Lighting Specifications, 239 Sucrose Recovery from “ Final Molasses,” 383 Sugar Beet Experiments, 189 Sugar Beet in the United States, 118 Sulphate of Ammonia, Production in Germany,
America and Japan, 361
Sulphur Deposits in Spain, 231 Sulphur Industry in Sicily, Italy the Sole Source of Supply to Allies, 207 Sulphuric Acid in Manufacture of Fertilisers, 361 Sulphuric Acid, Predicted Excess Production in
United Kingdom, 295
Sun, Successful Photographs of, at the Cape, 513 Swiss Demand for Machines for Food Products 449 Swiss Electro-Technical Industry, Report bv Dr. E. Tissot, 141 Swiss Trade and Industry, 361 Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners’Report,73 T TALC in New Zealand, 185
‘ Tank,” Steam-driven, for U.S.A. Army, 491
Tar as a Fuel for Metallurgical Furnaces, W.
H. Blauvelt, 383
Tar as Fuel for Diesel Engines, 557 Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, 513, 557 Telephones, Automatic, in South Africa, 295 Temperature Conversion Table, 391 Temperature Variation in the Derwent Dam
Masonry, Thermophone Records, 535
Tests of Low Temperature Effect on Yield of Tar, 97 Textile Mills in the United States, Increased
Use of Electric Power, 9
Tilting Furnaces in this Country, 141 Timber Acreage per 100 Tons of Newsprint,
Pulp and Paper, 405
Timbers, Relative Fuel Value of, 295 Timber from South Africa, Increasing Value, 405 Time Ball at Deal, Failures in 1917, 513 Time Signal, New Type, at Observatory in New
Zealand, 141
Tin Cans, Old, Birmingham’s Offer of 20s. per
Ton for, 557
Tin, Electrolytical Recovery of, from Stannate
Solutions, D. Currie, 405
Tin-plate Industry in Japan, 339 Tin-plate Manufacture in Germany, 557 Titanium Treatment of Cast Iron, 339 Toluol in the United States, Insufficient Supply
for High Explosives, 73
Tools, Small, Protest Against Prohibition of
Import of, 141
Torpedo Accuracy and Targets in Rapid
Motion, 295
Towns, H. L., on Friction Clutches, 68 Tractor Ploughing Record in Surrey, 207 Tractors for Farm Work in France Lent by
United States Food Department, 53
Trade Marks, Opposition to New Bill, 207 Trade Reconstruction in Germany, 176 Training School at Iron Foundry, Luton, 535 Trinitro-toluol as a Commercial Explosive, 383 Tungsten Filament, New German Process, 295 Turbine Housing with Inspection Window,
Fried. Krupp, 471
Turbines, Large Hydraulic, 253 Turners and Fitters’ Handbook, Death of Mr.
T. Greenwood, 513
u UNITED STATES Army, 273 United States New Guns, 119 United States Petroleum Output, Estimated
Date of Exhaustion of Supplies, 557
United States Shell Production, 8 U.S.A. War Chassis of Light Motor Vans, 31 V VACUUM Flask versus Hot Water Bottle, 207 Vacuum Improvement and Steam-saving, 31 Valves for Motor Cars, Overhead and Side
Pocket, Comparison, 9
Vibration of Buildings due to Traffic, 471 Vienna’s Coal and Gas Consumption, 295 Volunteers, Motor, The Training of, 351 w X-RAY, Maximum Frequency, 185 YARROW, Sir Alfred, on Shipbuilding after the War. Dinner to Employees, 513 ZINC from Australia, Agreement between British Government and Australian Co., 491 Zinc, Electrolytic Production in Tasmania, 141 Zinc Refining in Japan, Ore Supply Insufficient for Demand, 9
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