The Engineer 1918 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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A ACTIVATED Sludge, Composition and Properties, 9 Adelphi Houses, Risks to Historic Houses of Proposed Government Occupation, 329 Aerial Ropeways in India, 439 AERONAUTICS : Aircraft.Engine Weight per Horse-power, 243 Aircraft Losses of the Enemy More than Double those of the Allies, 97 Air Raids and Bombardment- Casualties, 463 American Aircraft Bureau’s Quick Work, 395 American Air Mail Service, Low Cost of, 395 American Flight Across the Atlantic, Early Achievement Predicted, 75 Cacquot Captive Balloon ; Kite Balloons, 221 Doping in Aircraft Factories ; Report on Health of Workers, 139 Doping Departments of Aeroplane Factories, Importance of Ventilation, 117 Evolution in Aircraft Engines, Statement by United States War Department, 97, 243 Flight at Low or High Levels, Merits of Internal Combustion and Steam Engines Compared, 117 German Diesel Engine for Use on Aeroplanes, 31 German Dirigibles, Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, Method of Reading Signals, 9
Handley-Page Works, Visit to, 272
Lamp, Wireless Signal, for Aeroplane and other War Work, 31 Propellers for Aircraft, New Design in America, J. A. Irving, 139 Radiological Aeroplane for Rendering Surgical Aid, 395 Reduced Power of Engines at 15,000ft. Due to Reduced Density of Atmosphere, 135 Wounded Soldiers Transport by Aeroplane, 395 AFFORESTATION, Preliminary Expenditure, Interim, Authority Set up, 463 Age Limit for Driving Licences, Reduction in, 108 Agricultural Implements Needed by Roumania, 499 Agricultural Motor Tractors, Large Supplies by
Food Production Department, 243
Agricultural Tractors, Projected Trials, 509 Air Compressor Design, Best Practice, J. M.
Ford, 75
Air Pressure of 47 lb. per Square Inch, 53 Alcohol for Industrial Purposes, Statistics, 181 Alcohol and Petrol Blend as Liqiid Fuel, 96 Alcohol, Production from Carbide, 31 Alcohol Proof Enamels and Varnish, Jenson and Nicholson, 108 Alcohol from Sugar in Sulphite of Soda Lyes
Used for Treating Wood Pulp-alcohols, Value for Internal Combustion Engines, 243
Alkali Works, Annual Report, 75 Alloy : A New, Ferrouranium, 553 Alloys for Anti-friction Metals, French Trials to Economise Copper, &c., 287 Aluminium, Cold-rolled Sheet, Practice in Annealing, 463 Aluminium, Electrolytic Production of, in Various Countries, 181 Aluminium and Glucinium, 487 Aluminium Ingots, Reduction in Price, 287 Aluminium, Rapid Increase in World’s Production of, 415 Aluminium for Reduction of Oxide, Intensely
High Temperature Produced, 221
American Anti-trust Law, 298 Am irican Cold Storage Plants, Three, with 14,000,000 Cubic Feet Capacity, 139 American Lumbermen’s Waste of Timber Products, 53 American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee Formed to Repoit on, 75 American War Finance Corporation, 287 Americans and Diesel Engine Building, 9 Ammonia as a By-Product at Gasworks, 159 Ammonia, Latent Heat of Vaporisation, 139 Ammonia for Munitions, but Shortage in
Quantity for Refrigeration, 139
Ammonia, One Pound of, to Make Twenty Hand Grenades, 139 Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures : Superiority of Ammonal, 329 Apprentices at Huddersfield, Successful Scheme, 553 Architects, Surveyors, Constructional Engineers, &c., New Federation of, 351 Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co.’s, Fabricated Ship, 415 Artesian Well Boring in Queensland, Cost of, 307 Asbestos Insulation in Brick Boiler Settings to Reduce Air Leakage and Save Heat, 351 Asbestos Mining Industry in Rhodesia, 395 Asphalt Laid during Rainfall, 75 Assessment of an Engineering Works, 476 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :
ASSOCIATION, AUTOMOBILE r
Coal Gas for Motor Vehicles, £1000 Prize, 415 ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL : Large Capital Expenditure and Income Represented by Members, 9
INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS :
Annual Meeting ; Report and Elections, 382 INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
Chemists for Government Service, 531
INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Autumn Meeting, 171. Programme, 171
INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
King George as Patron, 373
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Autumn Meeting, 148. Programme, 148
Membership Advantages : Pamphlet. 44
Relation of Science to the Non-Ferrous
Metals Industry, 487
INSTITUTE, ROYAL SANITARY :
Henry Saxon Snell Prize Award, 553
Refuse Disposal Prize Essay, James Jackson, 553
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS ;
Election of Motor Cycle Engineers, 329
Tanks Design ; Honorary Membership for
Major W. G. Wilson, 553
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued'): INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS : Hundredth Session, Opening, 373 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Contracts, Modification of Model Conditions, 395 Co-ordination of Research in Works and Laboratories, Premium Offered for Paper, 9 Cross Compound Turbo - Generator for Large Sets, J. H. Shaw, 531 Examination Rules Suspended during War, 97 Posting of Members Joining the Army to Technical Units, 201
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS : Employment for Engineers, 496 INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS : Annual Meetings for 1919, 373 Scholarship for 1918 Award, 190
INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
Annual Report, 117
Maximum Regulating Resistance and Maximum Shunt Resistance of Track Circuits, W. J. Thorrowgood, 9 Sub-Committee to Provide Names for Functions of Track Circuits, 329
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Christmas Juvenile Lectures ; Fish of the Sea, Professor D’Arcy Thompson, 406 Christmas and Other Courses of Lectures, 530 Meetings and Elections, 17, 406
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 564
SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
Measuring Alternating Currents and Electric Oscillations, J. Williams, 94
SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL •
Postponement of Lecture on Civil Aerial Transport , by Mr. Claude Grahame- White, 500
SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
Wireless Transmission of Electric Energy in Bulk, Unknown Possibilities, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 509 AUSTRALIA Prohibits Importation of Bosch Magnetos, 53 Australian Production of Fencing Wire and Wire Netting, 53 Austria and Permissible Stresses in Structural Ironwork, 553 Automatic Telephones in Shanghai, 395 Automobile Construction in the United States, War Orders to Come First, 243 B BALLOONS—see Aeronautics Barbed Wire Exports from the United States, 97 Barbed Wire Scrap Collected by Machine, 9 Bauxite for Furnace Lining and Crucibles, 159 Belts, Driving, Paper Substitute, in Germany, 463 Birkenhead’s Extensive Refrigeration Equipment, 159 Boiler Conversion, from Coal to Fuel Oil Firing, Results at London Factory, A. F. Baillie, 395 Boiler Efficiency at United States Steel Works, Tests with Uncleaned Blast-furnace Gas, 221 Boiler Plants on Oil Fuel in New England, 117 Boder Pressure at Carville Power Station and at Glasgow, 531 Boiler Scale Removal with Paraffin, 362 Boilers, Egg-ended and Modern Lancashire, Compared, 9 Boilers, Marine, Life of, Prolonged by Care in Early Days of Use, 139 Boring and Turning Mill, Large Extension, for Arsenal Work, 31 Boy Welfare, 217 Bradford Technical College, 256 Brass Industry Pooling Scheme, Proposed, by Mr. Howard F. Smith, 9 Bridges, Continuous Span, and Structural Efficiency, 509 British Empire’s Natural Resources and Water Power Development, 553 British Engineers’ Association, New Appointment, 531 British Gauge Manufacturers’ Association, 351 British Industries Fair, 373 British Magnetos, 298 British Scientific Products Exhibition, 487 Building Industry of the United States, Suggested Federation of all the Interests Involved, 53 Building in United States Cities, 463 Business Profits’ Value in Creation of Opportunities for Others, 243 By-product Ovens in Canada, Varieties of Type, 243 By-products, New Uses for, 395 c CABLES, World’s Submarine, Private and National, Analysis, 351 Caissons, Concrete, Trapezoidal, Compared with
Rectangular Sections, 509
Calendar for 1919, Abdulla’s, 544 Calorific Value of Pitch, 329 Canada Balsam, Best Known but far from Satisfactory Medium for Joining Optical Parts, 509 Canada’s Arable Land, Nitrates and Hydraulic Energy, 307 Canada’s Imports of Coal and Oil, 439 Canada’s Very Largely Increased Exports of
Paper and Paper Pulp, 373
Canadian Training of Disabled Soldiers, Large Numbers under Instruction, 243 Canal between Paris and Dieppe, Scheme of 1694 Again Revived, 373 Canal, Ship, from Doncaster or Sheffield to Goole and the Sea, Projected, 96 Canals, Government-owned, Deep-sea Level Along the United States Atlantic Coast, Recomm snded Scheme, 373 Carbide Scarcity for Acetylene Lamps, 315 Case-hardening and Oil-hardening Compositions, Comparison, 117 Catalogues for Purchasing Agents, Standard Size Adopted, 287 Celluloid, Excellent Substitute for, in Making
Surgical Appliances and Artificial Limbs, 531
Cement, Natural, in United States Rocks, 553 Channel Tunnel Scheme for Japan, 395 Chemical Activity in America, Great Influence of the War, 509 Chemists for Government Service, 531 Chilean Nitrate, History of its Increased Export, 9 Chimney at Tacoma, Height Record Again Broken, 9 China Manufactures Pencils with Machines from Japan, 382 Chinese Tax on Goods in Transit, 463 COAL, COKE. AND COLLIERIES: Anthracite Coal from Irish Mines, No Surplus Available, 415 Arigna Coalfields and Railway Connection with County Sligo, 415 Berlin’s Coal Supply Economised by Transmission of Electricity, 351 Board of Trade Requisitions of Coal and other Fuel, 201 Boring for Anthracite in Dauphine, Depth of Nearly a Mile said to be Reached, 75 By-product Coking in the United States, 542
Carbo-coal, New American Fuel, 117
Coal Consumption Economy Stimulated by Bonus System, 351 Coal Controller, New Assistants Appointed, 201 Coal Storage, Need of Inspection for Avoidance of Spontaneous Combustion, 139 Coal Storage Safer when Fine Sizes Exclude the Air, 9 Coal with Sulphur Content, Divided Opinion as to Liability to Spontaneous Combustion, 53 Coal Tar Dyes and Chemicals in the United States, Census, 463 Coke, The Formation of, Messrs. Charpy and Godehot, 243
Coke and Weather Injury, 487 Colliers with, the Colours, 53 Denmirk to Pay Increased Duty on Coal Imported from United Kingdom, 201 Dye Industry and Coke By-products, 395
English and American Coal Shortage Compared, 553 German Prices for Coal and Iron Greatly Increased, 201 Oil Fuel as Coal Substitute, Comparison, E. H. Peabody, 177 Pulverised Coal Replaces Oil Fuel at Central Heating Station in Seattle, 553 Pulverised Coal in United States Manufactures, 415 Queensland Coal Deposits, Extent and Value, 117
Rationing Colliers : Why Not ? 75 Shortage of Coal, Controller’s Report, 509
South Wales Coal Losses through Short Time, 415
Sp tzbergen Coal for Sweden, 75 Steam Users and Coal Wastage, 351 Sulphur in Coal and Liability to Heat when Stored in the Open, 373 Testing Coals at Seattle, 531
United States Bureau of Mines, Paper on Weights of Various Coals, 181 United States Survey’s Estimate of Coal and Coke Output for 1917, 395 Vlassovo-Grujer District Coal Output Reduced to One-seventh of Normal Yield, 247 COINAGE Reform, Suggested Change of Penny Value, 509 Cold Storage Space in United Kingdom, Great Increase Expected, 69 Cold Storage in United Kingdom and United States, 9 Concrete—see also Reinforced Concrete Beams and Computation of Energv, 439 Concrete Blocks and Beams for Building, Government Report, 329 Concrete Bodies with Hollow Centres Produced by Use of Ice, 307 Concrete Construction, Methods and Tests in United States, 307 Concrete Floors, Dusty, Various Remedies for, 53 Concrete Structures, Marine, in United States and Canada, Adverse Report on Liability to Corrosion, 373 Concrete as Substitute for Steel in Car Construction, Gondola Car to be Tested, 382 Concrete Walls, Prevention of Condensation, Kerner Greenwood, 329 Condensers, Glass, Hard Paper and Mica, Tests with Varying Frequency, 395 Copper Castings, Addition of Strontium an Advantage, 287 Copper and Copper Alloys, Manufactured Products, Inquiry in-Connection, Department of Scientific Research, 531 Copper Output in America, 181 Copper from Pyritic Ashes, New Method for
Electrolytic Extraction, 382
Cost plus System, 395 Counterfeit Coin—see Platinum Cranes with Alternating and with Direct
Current, Comparison as to Safety, 9
Crude Oil and Fuel Oil, 395 Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 564 D DANISH Government Hydro-electric Scheme, 415 Danube, Utilisation of, for Navigation and Water Power, 553 Death in Action of Lieut. Graham Johns, 314 Dsath of S.r George Armytage, 439 Detonation of Gun-cotton, Nitro-Glycerine, &c., 329 Disabled Sailors and Soldiers or Widows of Men Killed; Offer from Royal Sanitary Institute, 9 Dock Construction near Naples, Largest Dock in the Mediterranean, 221 Dock, Large New, at South San Francisco, 159 Dredger, Large Suction, Built at Sydney, 373 Drilled Holes in Motor Lorries, Aeroplanes, Motor Cycles and Torpedoes, 307 Driving Belts of Paper in German Workshops, 373 Dyeing Industry in the Ellesmere Port Dis* strict, 221 Dyestuffs from Coal-tar, America’s Enormous Production Replaces Previous Imports from Germany, 509 E ECONOMIC Problems after the War, 285 Economic and Reconstruction Supplements to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press, 243 Economy in Unnecessary Correspondence, 395 Edgware-road (London), Traffic Census, 439 ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Alternator Voltage Limitations and the Reason for Them, 439 Aluminium Conductors of Low Conductivity, Change in Austrian Regulations, 415 Arc Welding and Control of Weld Constituents, 439 Cables of 33,000 Volts Probably the Limit of Useful Pressure Development, 53 Crystalline Selenium, and other Substances Affected by Light, 553 Dielectric Losses in Cables : Comparison between Insulation with Mineral • Base and Vegetable-Base Compounds, 221 Electric Heating as a Desirable Load for the Central Station, 97 Electrically Driven Reversing Cogging Mill —see Miscellaneous Index Electrode Manufacture at Frederikstad, Norway, 159 Electro-Magnetic Theory of Matter, Albert C. Crehore, 31
French Glow-lamp Production, 307
Galicia’s Purchase from Germany of Electric Plant Erected in East Galicia During War, 415 Heat Application by Electrical Eddy Currents Instead of Steam, 307 Heat Storage by Novel Electric Heating System, 287 Hydro-electric Undertakings—see also Hydroelectric Insulator, Wood Stick, for High Voltages, in Favour in America, 221 Metallic Oxides as Depolarisers, Treatment of Positive Electrodes of Primary Batteries, 159 Ministry of Munitions, Permits and Electrical Development, 509 Motor Amp Are Calculator, George Ellison, 362 Motor, Very Small, for Surgical and other Purposes, 415 Motors in Steel Mill Equipment, Need of Standardisation, 307 Niagara, Increased Water Power from, for War Purposes, 159 Ovens, Electric Tests in U.S.A., Economical for Long but not for Short Cooking Operations, 117
Oxide Film Lightning Arrester, 75
Platinum for Electrical Work, Scarcity, and Suggested Tax on Use for Luxuries, 75 Power Extension by Southern Canada Power Company, ] 59 Research Work of Committee Appointed by Institution of Electrical Engineers in Connection with Department of Scientific Research, 97 Shanghai and Electrical Progress, 117 Shanghai Electricity Department, Report, 31 Ship Construction and Electric Welding, 75, 221 Shipbuilding and Electric Welding, Divided Opinion, Commander S. V. Goodalls, 531 South African Extensive Use of Electricity, 221 Spanish Electric Power Supply from Falls of the Douro, 43 Temperature in the Electric Furnace, 219 Temperature of Metals and Value as Electric Conductors, 531 Tramways’ Consumption of Electricity;
J. M. McElroy, 351 Transmission, Electric, 447
Transmission of Electric Energy to Economise Berlin’s Coal Supply, 351 Tungsten Filament Lamps, Large Sale in America, 97 Turbo-Alternator Constructed at A. E. G. Works, First of 60,000 K.V.A. Capacity, 159 Turbo-Generator, Cross-compound for Large Sets, J. H. Shaw, 531 Water, Electrical Conductivity of, 75
Welding, Electric, for Ship Construction, A. J. Mason, 75
EMPIRE’S Mineral Resources, 365 Employment for Engineers, 496 Employment Exchange and Local Advisory Committee, 509 Engineer Volunteer Corps, County of London, Royal, Recruits Called for, 53 Engineers, Divisional, Unit, Proposed Re-union, 531 Engineering Works Sports for War Funds, 128 Engineering Workshops and Septic Poisoning, Satisfactory Result of Enquiry, 329 Eri Silk from Indian Moth Cocoons, 463 Exhibition of Key Industries, 287, 329, 351 Explosive for Mines in South Africa, Substitute for Nitro-Glycerine, 53 F FEDERATION o£ British Industries, British Empire Producers’ Organisation, and Imperial Council of Commerce, Joint Councils, 53 Ferrouranium, a New Ferro-alloy, 553 Fire Losses in Canada Greatest, per Head of Population, in the World, 221 Fish, of the. Sea, Professor D’Arcy Thompson, 553 Flexure and Torsion in Propeller Blades, Experiments on Beams, 395 Flow, Orifice and Weir, Effect of Slight Roundings of the Upstream Edge, Jacob O. Jones, 9 Free Trade, Real Principles of, J. S. Hecht, 243 French Incandescent Lamp Factories, Output, 415 French Licences for Imports to France of Textile and Sewing Machines, 97 Fuel Conditions and Needed Economy in Electric Supply Stations, 221 Fuel Limitations in Manufacture of Pleasure Vehicles in America, 97 Fuel, New American Invention, 117 Fuel, Patent Mixture Used in New York, 487 Fuel Requirements of Canada, 439 Fuels, Natalite and E. H. A., Variation in Ingredients, 53 G GARLIC, Fungi, Carbide, Heather, Chalk ;
New Uses for above Raw Products, 351
Gas and Allied Industries, Question of Legislative Protection, 487 Gas, Coal, Its Powers, Heat-giving and Lightgiving ; New Departure, 139 Gas, Coke Oven, Successfully Utilised for Domestic and Industrial Purposes, 463 Gas Containers, Permeability of Fabric and Loss of Gas, 415 Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, £1000 Prize, 415 Gas-driven Omnibuses, Satisfactory Trials, 117 Gas Furnaces, Optical Pyrometer for, 415 Gas-propelled Vehicles and Government Permits, 307 Gas Generated by Wood Waste Fuel for Driving Swedish Internal Combustion Engines, 181 Gas Traction Section at British Scientific Products Exhibition, 509 German Gas-driven Road Motors after the War, 415 German Goods with Neutral Trade-marks, 439 German Inland Waterways, Proposed Rhine- Danube Ship Canal, 553 German Leather Trade, Shortage of Materials and Prizes Offered for Substitutes, 287 German Motor Trade Thriving Notwithstanding War, 415 German Silver, Differences in Manufacture in England, America and Germany, 221 German Transport Vehicles with Wooden Tires, 307 Germany’s Difficulties Due to Metal Shortage, 201 Germany’s Metal Shortage and Device for Tubing, 221 Glasses or Telescopes through Lady Roberts’ Fund, 553 Glass-ware, Graduated,. Tested at National Physical Laboratory, 53 Glassware, Scientific, Volumetric Tests at the National Physical Laboratory, 149 Gloucester as a Concrete Shipbuilding Port, 509 Glucinium an Aluminium, 487 Goggles, Substitute for Glass Found in U.S.A., 415 Gold Production of the World almost entirely in British and American Hands, 553 Grain Elevators for South Africa, Need of, 487 Graphite Deposit in Norway about to be Utilised, 307 Gun and Munition Plant on Neville Island, U.S.A., Extensive Preparations, 181 H HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Recovering from Disaster, 382 Hardness of Ceramic Products and Brinell Ball Test, 553 Heat Insulating Material of Newly Discovered Swedish Clay, 97 Heat Loss from Chimneys, Apparatus for Measurement, Monsieur Chopin, 287 Heating and Power Plant with Pulverised Coal
Fuel, at Vancouver, 438
Herring Oil Factories in Norway, 415 Hides and Skins Exported from India, 463 Hot Water Transmission Possible for Four
Miles, W. M. Selvey, 139
House Famine in Toronto. 117 Huddersfield Engineers’ Training Association, Success of Scheme, 553 Hydraulic Energy and Fuel Energy in the United States, 463 Hydraulic Riveting Dangers and German Remedy, 201 Hydro-electric Equipment in White River
Plant, Puget Sound Traction Company, 135
Hydro-electric Power in U.S.A., Insufficient
Supply and Need for Coal Economy, 329
Hydro-electric Schemes in New Zealand, Success and Further Development, 404 Hydro-electric Work for Railway Electrification, Huge Barrage in France, 423 Hysteresis or Backlash Present in Measuring Instruments, 97 ILLUMINANTS, Tests of Effect on the Eye, 159 Incandescent Mantle, Physical Theory, Rubens on, 415 India, Extension of Use of Machinery in Agriculture and Irrigation, 287 India, Openings for British Trade in Agricultural Machines, 287 India, Road and Bridge Construction, 221 Indian War Loan Advertised on Great Indian
Peninsula Railway Coaches, 166
Indigo, Liquid, Process of Manufacture, 509 Industrial Conferences, Further Programme, 452 Industrial Progress of Past Four Years, 395 Industrial Reconstruction Council, Change of Address, 9 Industrial Series of Conferences, 170 Inland Revenue, Analysis of Gross Receipts, 395 Institutes and Institutions—see Associations IRON AND STEEL: Corrosion by Sea Water of Surface Condenser Tubes, 129 Eight-hour Day as Basis of Wage Payment in United States Steel Industry, 395 German Iron Deterioration since Outbreak of War, 439 German Prices for Coal and Iron Greatly Increased, 201 Holland, Government Participation in Establishment of Steel Foundries and Rolling Mills, 463 Iron in Contact with Sulphuric Acid, Professor C. E. Fawsitt and A. A. Pain, 487 Iron Ore, Valuable Deposits of, in South Africa, 196 Iron Oxides for Protective Coatings, 117
Iron and Steel Exchange for London, 499
Manganese Ore Exports from British Columbia to the United States, 181 Metallic Iron and Tetrachloride of Silicium, Experiments and Results, 493 Molybdenum Smelting Works in Norway, 487 North Staffordshire Railway Rates and the Iron and Coal Trades, 404 Queensland, Development of Molybdenite Mining, 487
Queensland, Discovery of Iron Ore, 31
Queensland, Discovery of Scheelite at Percy- ville, 487 Queensland Royal Commission on Steel and Ironworks, 491 Rustless Steel, Increase in Chronrum for, 395 Scheelite Discovery at Percy ville, Queensland, 487 Scrap Steel or Iron, Re-conversion into Pig Iron, 139
Temper Removal from Hardened Steel, 159 Temperature in the Electric Furnace, 219 Tungsten with Carbide, How to Treat, for Mechanical Working, 53 Tungsten, Experiments in Welding, 53
Tungsten Exports .from Federated Malay States, 221 United States Prices of Tool Steel Compared with those of United Kingdom, 9 J JAPANESE Clocks, Increased Export of, 31 Japanese Government Encouragement of
Motor Lorry Manufacture, 53
KAISER Wilhelm Trust for Promotion of the
Science of War, 351
L LEAD Alloys, Advantage of Tin Addition, 351 Leggings, Safety, for Molten Metal Workers, 53 Lighting Restrictions and Dust Deposits on Lamps, &c., 97 Light Transmission through Water, Difficulty of, 243 Lignite Briquettes, Carbonised, Plant for Manufacture in Canada, 75 Liquid Fuel, Blend of Alcohol and Petrol, 96 London County Council Trade Scholarships, 286 Lorries, Standardised, Rapid Construction in
United States, 97
Loughborough Instructional Factory and Classroom Training, 553 Lubricants, Cutting, and Cooling Liquids, Memorandum of Scientific and Industrial Research Department, 287 Lubricants for Twist Drills, Result of Tests at Illinois University, 221 Lubrication of Air Compressor Cylinders, Right Type of Oil Required, 243 Lubrication of Wire Rope, Importance of Method Employed, 351 M MACHINE Tool Department, Permission to Purchase Tools, 221 Machine Tool Depreciation in Wartime, 314 Machine Tool Manufacture for Non-war Work, Government Regulations, 287, 357 Machine Tools, British and German, J. Judson, 382 ' Magnesite from Manchuria, Superiority of, 351 Magnetising other Metals Besides Iron, 415 Magnetos, British, 298 Manchester College of Technology, Department of Industrial Management, 201 Manganese—see Iron and Steel Measurement, Rapid, of Fluctuating Temperatures, 159 Measuring Instruments and Hysteresis, 97 Meat Treatment in the United States, 9 Menothorium, A New Substitute for Radium.
Dr. R. N. Moore, 395
Metal Extraction D.rect from Ores, Testing
New Dutch Process, 287
Metal Scrap Purchase in Small Quantities, 243 Metal Shortage, Utilisation of Old Bullets by the Calcutta Mint, 439 Metal Spraying by New Process, 75 Metal Spraying by Oxy-Hydrogen Flame, 243 Meteorological Unit of Pressure, 117 Metric System and Foreign Trade, Inquiry in America, 139 Mexican Petroleum Production, Number of
New Wells Bored, 53
Milling Cutter Manufacturers’ Association, 276 Mine Employees Above and Below Ground, Statistics, 181 Mineral Resources, Empire’s, 365 Mines Abandoned in 1917, 181 Mines T.mbering in the Loire District, Sylvestre
Pine Preferred, 463
Miners’ Federation and Goaf Control, 221 Minimum Wage Rejected by American War Labour Board, 307 Mints of Calcutta and Bombay, Large Coin Output, 373 Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel Motor Car Taxation in the United States, 463 Motor Cars in Europe, Census, 31 Motor Cars, Private, Manufacture in the United States Practically Stopped for Lack of Material, 306 Motor Club in North China, 320 Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society, Series of Exhibitions, 463 Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society, Steam Vehicle Section, 531 Motor Vehicles and Equipment in United States, Largest Government Order ever given, 415 Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, £1000 Prize, 415 Mysore Gold Mines, Report, 439 N NATIONAL Comparisons of Production and Costs, England and Elsewhere, Sam Turner, 439 Nationalisation of Tranport and Electric Supply, Mr. Lloyd George’s View, 439 Natural Gas Treatment for Recovery of Motor Spirit in America, 97 Natural Gas Wells Bored in China before the Christian Era, 243 Newspapers, After the War, 65 New Uses-of Certain Raw Products, 351 New Zealand and Hvdro-electric Development, 404 New Zealand, Local Cold Storage Expansion, 307 New Zealand’s Petroleum Possibilities, 531 Niagara, Increased Water Power for War Purposes, 159 Nickel and Copper Works, New, in Ontario, Production Begun, 181 Nitric Acid from the Air, Extension of Bavarian Establishments for Production of, 139 Nitric Acid Production in the United States, 439 Nitrogen, Fixation of Atmospheric, Japanese Laboratory for Study, 395 Nitrogen Fixation, Extensive Literature and Patents Dealing with, 531 Nitrogen Fixation Patents ; Haber Process and German Duplicity, 201 Nitrogen, World’s Consumption, 323 Northampton Polytechnic Workshop’s Output for Woolwich Arsenal, 509 Norway Prohibits Contracts for Delivery of Good* Abroad for More than Six Months Ahead, 139 Norway’s First Fuel Factory, 373 Norway’s Unused Water Power to be Utilised for Replacing Coal Deficiency, 181 o OIL from Alum Schist in Sweden, Use in Crude or Converted Form, 463 Oil from the Antarctic Regions, 487 Oil Drilling in Derbyshire, 307 Oil Extraction from Schist, Factories in Sweden, 373 Oil Factories, Herring, in Norway, 415 Oil Fuel as Coal Substitute, Comparison, E. H.
Peabody, 177
Oil Refineries, Waste of Fuel, 97 Old Tins, What to do with, 171 Omnibuses Running on Compressed Coal Gas, 97 Optical Effects in a Photographic Dark Room, 439 Optical Instruments, Better Joining Medium Much Needed, 509 Optical Instruments and “ Ghosts,” 307 Optical Pyrometer for Controlling Temperature of Gas Furnaces, 415 Output per Acre and per Worker and Railway Charges ; Comparison between United Kingdom and other Countries, Sam Turner, 439 Ovens, Electric—see also Electrical Matters Ovens, Electric and Steam Heating Compared, 167 Oxide Film Lightning Arrester, 329 Oxy-acetylene Welding Efficiency, Satisfactory Tests, 395 p PAINTS and Enamels, Mixing, Good and Bad, 97 Paintwork of Motor Cars, 439 Paper Clothing of Vienna Tramway Conductresses, 287 Pap^r from Grass in South Africa, 463 Paper Substitute Driving Belts made in Germany, 373 Paper Supplies Improved by Use of Home-grown
Products, 287
Paper Textiles in Germany, 272 Patents, Grants to Aliens since Outbreak of
War, 31
Peat Areas in Jutland, Utilisation of, 531 Peat Briquette Manufacture in Belfast, 307 Peat in Ireland, Price and Facilities for Conveyance, 117 Persona] Equation and Technical Difficulty, 463 Petrol-Electric Transmission, 447 Petrol Entropy Diagram, 139 Petrol Locomotives, Armoured, for Bringing up
Supplies to the Front in France, 382
Petrol for Passenger Vehicles : No Prohibition of its use in United States, 53 Petrol Production from Coal, Company Started in India, 307 Petroleum from Mexico, Increased Exports, 159 Petroleum Possibilities in New Zealand, 531 Phosphorus, Effect of, on Soft Steel, 117 Photography with Bromide Paper, Twenty
Years’ Life, 75
Pier, Very Large, at Vancouver, 31 “ Platino ” as Substitute for Platinum, Properties of, 201 Platinum Counterfeit Coins More Valuable than the Real Thing, 9 ; (Letter), 30 Pneumatic Riveting Tools, Increasing Use in
Clyde and Tyne Areas, 401
Potash from Germany Before the War, English
- Present Output, 53
Potash Recovery in a Gas-cleaning Plant;
Killing Two Birds with One Stone, 139
Potash Salts for Agriculture in France, Contrasted Supply and Demand, 87 Precision Gauges and other Munitions, Work of the London County Council, 531 Profit-sharing in Italy, 287 Q QUEENSLAND Coal Mines, Report for 1917’ 382 Queensland. Mineral Output, Expected Increase, 31 Queensland Mining —see also Iron and Steel Quenching of Forgings, 117 R RADIOTELEGRAPHY, Scientific Problems of. Professor J. A. Fleming, 286 Radium, Substitute for, Dr. R. N. Moore, 395 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Aberdeen, County of, Rural Transport in, 243, 415 Accident Anniversaries in September and October, 265, 307 Accident Anniversaries in December, 531 Accident to Brooklyn Rapid Transit Train, 415 Accident to Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Train, 159 Administration of Railways in the Future, 159 Air Brake Defects and Fuel Waste, 287 Aircraft Transport, Large Covered Vans Built at Swindon, 463 American Red Cross Canteen in Presidential State Rooms at Union Station, Washington, 139 American Ton-m’le Statistics, Proposal to Abandon Compilation Rejected, 139 Americans’ Capture of German Narrow Gauge Railway, Petrol Locomotives and Railway Material, 373 Appointments and Staff Changes, 53, 75, 97, 117, 158, 159, 221, 265, 307, 329, 415, 463, 487, 509, 553 Argentine Government Refuses Railways Permission to Increase Rates, 243 Armistice Day and Railwaymen’s Pay, 531 Australia and England, Divergent Opinion on Wharf and Railway Bill, 75 Australian Imports of Permanent Way Material, 1913 and 1916 Compared, 373 Baghdad Railway, Present Condition of Track and Rolling Stock, 553 Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway Taken up to Supply Material for Overseas, 75 Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Surveys and Extensions, 329 Birm'ngham Demonstration and London and North-Western Railway Suggestions, 351 Blackpool and Fleetwood Electric Railway, 139, 329 Blandford Station and Military Camp, New Railway, 463 Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Statistics, 31 Branch Railways, Power Sought for Construction of, 487 British Railways, Sacrifice of Wagons in War Interests, 139 Brooklyn Rapid Transit Train’s Fatal Derailment, 415 Brussels, Great Eastern Railway Steamer, Sunk in Raid on Zeebrugge, 395
Burma Railways, Increased Dividend, 509
Caledonian Railway, Reduction of Extra Passenger Trains, 243 Cambrian and Furness Railways both Damaged by Storm, 265 Cambrian Railway to Take over Tanat Valley Railway, 351 Cambrian Railways, Carriage of Timber, 395 Canada and New Zealand, Railway Policy, Comparisons, 329 Canadian Government’s Foresight in Provision of Locomotives, 531 Canadian Industry during Transition from War to Peace, Government Action, 509 Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific Companies Exchange of Facilities to Promote Economy and Good Service, 509 Canadian-Pacific Service Flag and Employees with the Colours, 509 Canadian Railroads, and Wages Increase, 287 Canadian Railway Collisions and Automatic Control, 509 Canadian Railway Congestion Relieved by Double Tracking, 553 Canadian Railway War Board, New Wages Scale, 221 Canals and Railways, Board of Trade Control, 9 Cape Central Railway as a Private Concern, Question of Government Taking it Over, 265 Carriers’ Liability, London and North- Western Railway Loses Case, 75 Castlecomer Railway Construction, Irish Members’ Complaint, 53 Castlecomer Railway and the Great Southern and Western Railway, 159 Castlecomer—see also Great Southern and Western Ceylon Government Railways, Report, 329 Charges on Goods Transport, Prepayment Proposed, 53 China, Need of Locomotives in, 391 Christmas Holidays and Travelling Facilities, 463 Clermont-Auvergne-Alais Railway Electrification, Hydro-electric Works in La Lozere, 433 Coal for Railway Use, Diminished Supplies and Probable Further Reduction in Train Services, 243
Coal Rationing in Ireland, Non-existent, 97
Coal in Trucks for Private Consumers
Liable to Commandeering, 287
Collision, Another Disastrous, in the United States, 75, 439 Collision, Disastrous, on Indiana Railway, 31 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Collision between Goods Trains on the London and North-Western Railway, 181, 287 Communication Chain on Trains, Illegal Use, 553 Conciliation Board on the Great Western Railway, Retirement of Chairman and New Appointment, 509 Continental Loading Gauge for Railway
Vehicles, 265 ; (Correction), 329
Continental Time System for the British
Army, 265
Continuous Brakes and Abolition of Private
Ownership of Wagons, 487 Cork, Railway Connection Much Needed, 415 Crewe Mayoralty Accepted by Chief Mecha
nical Engineer of London and North- Western Railway, 307 Damage to Cars and Cargoes by Careless
Shunting, 287, 395
Death of Mr. Thomas A. Armstrong, 97
Mr. Peter Drummond, 53
Mr. C. A. Goodnow, 287
the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy,
463
Mr. Adam Hunter, 97
Mr. John Frederick Robinson, 97
Sir Frederick Upcott, 395
Mr. G. J. Whitelaw. 487
Demobilisation Schemes, Train Arrangements, 531 Dividends, Increased, on Various Railways, 97, 117, 139 Eight Hours’ Day for Railway Traffic Employees in United Kingdom, 509 Federated Malay States, Bangkok and
Penang Through Service Opened, 351
Fertilisers in Agr culture, Carriage Rates and
Distribution, 117 Fish from Ireland Spo:lt by Transit Delay, 75 France, Northern Railway of, Wanton Destruction of Property by Germans, 531
France, State Ra’lway System of, Rolling
Stock Statistics, 31
Freight Congestion in the United States, Canadian Cars Held Up, 531 French Railway Accident, Decision, 97 French Railways and State Control Question, 351 Fry, Sir Edward, the Late, as Arbitrator in
Railway D.spute, 373
German Systematic Destruction of French
Railway Property, 531
Germans’ Wilful Damage to Great Northern
Railway Carriages, 265
Glasgow and South-Western Railway and
Ayr Harbour, Commissioners’ Decision, 329 Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Death
of Locomotive Superintendent, 53 ; Appointment of Successor, 75 Glasgow and South-Western Train Service, Curtailment Due to Coal Scarcity, 304 Glover, Colonel G. T., Locomotive Engineer to Great Northern Railway, Ireland, 265 Government Control of Trade and of Railways, Criticism, 181 Government and Trade Union Negotiations
Resumed, 221
Grain Sacks, Charge for Hire of, from Railways Increased, 307 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to Build Ships at Prince Rupert, 181 Great Northern Rai waymen Abstained from
Joining Strike, 351
Great Northern Three-cylinder Engine, Mr.
Gresley’s Good Working Results, 265
Great Southern and Western Railway, Progress of Connections with Wolfhill and with Castlecomer Collieries, 53, 415 Great Western Railway. Standard Locomotives, Classification, 553 Great Western Railway, Withdrawal of Rail Motor Service to Welsh Colliery, Protests and Inquiry, 75
Heated Corn in Transit Preserved by Use of Compressed Air, 201
Holiday Traffic Limited by Railway Executive Committee, 9, 75 Import Traffic Rates, Home and Foreign Merchandise, 463 Independence Day and United States Railroads, 117 India’s Contribution of Railway Material, Rolling Stock and Labour for Mesopotamia and Palestine, 181 Inexperienced Railway Staffs and Need of Patience, 395 Influenza Masks Compulsory on Alberta Trains, 509 Ingot Iron Plates for Locomotive Fire-boxes,
Causes of Damage, 447
Institutions, Railway—see Associations Ipswich Dock Bill and the Gas Company, 97 Ireland, Passengers’ Route Restrictions Withdrawn, 463 Ireland, Suggested Construction of Tunnel Connection, 395 Irish Boats, Holyhead and North Wall, Normal Night Sailings Resumed, 487, 509 Irish Coal and Iron, Position of County Sligo, 415 Irish Coal MiTie, Railway Connection with, 159 Irish Mail Boats, Alteration to Daylight Sailing, and Consequent Train Changes, 287, 329, 400, 463 Irish Mails, Expiring Contract, 31 ; Renewal of Contract, 159, Irish Railways and Coal Shortage, 97 Irish Reconstruction, Contradictory Statements, 531 Irish Sub-committee of Committee on Transport, Big Schemes, 221 Irish Timber and Turf, Question of Improved Railway Transit, 415 Irish Traffic Delays Due to Enemy Action, 487 Iron and Coal Trades and North Staffordshire Railway Rates, 404
Italian New Three-phase Locomotives, 139 J ubilee of the Metropolitan District Railway,
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Change of Chairman, 307 ; Death of Late Chairman, Sir G. Armytage, 439 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Collision, 221 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Damaged and Trains Delayed by Cloud Burst, 75 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, “ Rationing ” Holiday Traffic, 9, 75, 159, 265 Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Deposit Bill for New Railway, 487 Light Railway Commission Inquiries, Report for 1917, 97 Light Railway for New Dyeing Industry in the Ellesmere Port District, 221 Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 265 Light Railways Commission, Powers Continued at Reduced Cost, 31 Lights, Standard Head, for Engines, New Code to Economise Oil, 159, 287 Llandrindod Wells Connection ?with Cambrian Company, 351 Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association, 463 Locomotive Returned to Crewe with Message from France, 221 Locomotives After the War, Baldwin Locomotive Company’s Anticipations, 201 Locomotives, Armoured Petrol, for 3 aking Supplies in France to the Front, 382 Locomotives Lying Idle in Large Numbers through Lack of Repairers, 487 London, Brighton and South Coast’s Motor Car Train Service between West Croydon and Wimbledon, 373 London Electric Railways Company : Purchase of Land in Westminster, 395 London and North-Western Disaster Averted by Signalman, 307 London and North-Western Railway Roll of Honour, 395 London and North-Western Resumed Early Morning Service from Euston to Ireland, 373 London and South-Western Railway, Abolition of Second Class, 31 London and South Western Railway Allotments under Cultivation, 243 Longridge and Hellifield Proposed Light Railway, 373 Lord Rhondda as Railway Director, 31 Lord Shaughnessy, Recognition of his Services by McGill University, 53 McAdoo, Mr. W. G.. Resignation as Director- General, 463 Mansfield Railway Company’s Proposed New Branches, 487 Marseilles Expresses, Terrible Disaster, 265 Metropolitan District Railway Carrying 7000 Soldiers Daily, 558 Mexico, Proposed Extension of Railway from Tampico to Higo, 8 Midland Railway Control of Draymen, 395 Midland Railway Friendly Society’s Investment in National War Bonds, 108 Midland Railway’s Further Investment in War Loan, 463 Military Stores by Passenger Trains, Complaints, 351 Motor Car Train Service, Wimbledon and West Croydon, 373 Motor Trollies for Signal Maintainers, Saving of Labour, 287 National Transport Workers’ Federation, Wholesale Demands, 553 National Union of Railwaymen, Members Killed in the War, 463 National Union of Railwaymen and Mr.
J. H. Thomas, 351
National Union of Railwaymen, Mr. J. H.
Thomas’ Report, 53
Nationalisation of Railways, Mr. Winston Churchill on, 553 New’ South Wales, Expenditure on Railway and Tramway Construction since 1850. 9 New South Wales Railways, Signalling Device, 415 New Year Staff Changes, 553 Nord Railway System, New Line Opened, 181 Nord Railway, Valenciennes Station and the Signalling System, 439
Nord-Sud of Paris, Great Increase in Passengers, nearly 50 per cent. Women Employees, 415 North-Eastern Railway and Coal Saving, 509
North-Eastern Railway’s Proposed Bridge, 553 North-Eastern Railway Sheds and Electric Rolling Stock Destroyed by Fire at Newcastle, 139 November’s Accidents Record Recalled, 439 Oil-burning Locomotives, United States Statistics, 53 Orleans Railway, Mechanical Cleaning for Carriages and also for Hired Cabs, 117 Packing of Goods Sent by Railway, Need of Improvement, 31 •Parcels bv Passenger Train, Revision of Rates, 328, 373 Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway Disaster, 265 Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway.
Electrification of Branch Line, 423 Peat in Ireland, Railw’ay Conveyance, 117
Pennsylvania Railroad and War Workers, Heavy Daily Traffic, 53 Piccadilly Tube, Broken Axle Causes Great Delay to Traffic, 75 Pooling Scottish Railway Wagons, 97 Pooling Wagons, all Now Included. 159 Prepayment of Merchandise Transport, Scheme Postponed, 221 ’ Privilege Tickets and Overcrowded Railways, 351 Quebec Bridge, Question of Running Powers over the Bridge, 97 Queensland Railway Development, Room for Improved Methods, 373 Question Record at Paddington, 243 Rail Head Distortions and Wheel Loads, American Railway Investigations, 181 Railway Benevolent Institution Flag-day, 39 Railway and Canal Commission, Death Vacancy, 463 Railway Clerks' Association and the Railway Executive Committee, 307 Railway Materia] Exports Statistics, 9, 139, 181. 287, 351, 509 Railway Material Shortage, Light Railway Taken up, for Overseas Purposes, 75 Railway News and Railway Gazette, Amalgamation, 487 Railway Policy after the War, Sir A. Stanley on, 394 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con tinued); Railway Traffic to London Waterside Stations, Demurrage Payment Demands, 31 Rates Increased for Transport of Candles, Glycerine, <fec.» between Bromborough Joint Railway and London, 243 Rationing Tickets on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 9, 75, 159, 265 Restricted Service, Week-end Travelling Inadvisable, 53 Restrictions on Travelling, 31 Return Tickets and Through Booking Restrictions, 201 Royal Marine Engineers Employed to Supply Deficient Civilian Labour for Railway Making, 9 Safety Measures on the North London Railway, 201 St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, Improved Access for Pedestrians, 265 Scottish Railway Stocks and Shared, New Association, 181, 395, 531 Scottish Railways and Harbours, Private Legislation Commissioners’ Decision, 329 Season Ticket Question under Consideration, 463 Season Ticket Regulations for Mercantile Marine, 159 Season Ticket Restrictions Removed, 487 Season Tickets, Interavailability of, and Clerical Labour, 117 Shipping Shortage and Over-burdened Rail Transport at Bristol, 287 Signal, Position Light, under Test by Metropolitan Railway, 351 Sligo’s Reported Coal and Iron and the New Railway Line fromArigna, 415 Soldiers’ Leave and Week-end Travelling, 117 South African Railway Administration, Criticisms said to be Unwarranted, 75 South African Railways, Economy and Need of Grain Elevators, 487 South African Railways and Harbours, Change of Date of Report, 207 South - Eastern and Chatham Railway, Dispute with the Gravesend Corporation, 487 South - Eastern and Chatham Steamers, Senior Engineer Retires, 221 Stephenson, not Stevenson, George, 243 Stockholders’ Association, England,to Follow Scottish Example, 531 Superannuation Funds, Suggested Reinvestment, 159 Sweden’s Proposed Railway Electrification, 553 Swedish Railways and Government Control, 329 Swedish Train’s Terrible Disaster, 307 Switzerland Ocean Project for New Railway, Turin to Bordeaux, 139 Telephoning and Accidents, Need of More Accurate Wording of Inquiries, 97 Thomas, Mr. J. H., on Nationalisation of Railways, 531 Torpedoed Steamer Dundalk, Death of Mr.
S. J. Cocks, 373
Traffic for Shipment through Port of London, Railway Executive Stipulations, 467 Train Service, Further Reductions Contemplated, 181 Train Service, No Further Reductions Expected, 395 Tramway Transportation of Fire-clay and Coal, 415 Tramway Transportation of Parcels Pe r- mitted in Sheffield, 415 Tramways, Consumption of Electricity, J. M. McElroy, 351 Transport Company Refused Permission to Increase Capital, 395 Transport Facilities in the United Kingdom, Committee Appointed, 139, 159 Transportation by Rail, Road and Canal, Mr. Lloyd George’s Views, 439 Trans-Siberian Railway, Future National Management, 395 Travelling Facilities, Increase Already Up to Power of Engines and Length of Platforms, 463 Uganda Railway, General Manager, 117 Underground Railways, Congestion, Insufficient Rolling Stock, 509 Union of South Africa Railways and Harbours, General Manager Coming to Peace Conference, 487 < 4 -4 u United States Rail Production in 1917 201 United States Railroad Brotherhood and “ Safety First ” Measures, 201 United States Railroad Trainmen Brotherhood ; Members in the American Army and Navy, 201 United States Railroad, Transportation of Coal, 53 United States Transportation of Grain, 307 United States Transportation of Troops, 201 United States Railroads under Federal Control: Administration Considering Question of New Locomotive Plant or Loans to Existing Builders, 234, 307 Administration to Dredge and Operate Portion of Cape Cod Canal, 221
Administration and Railroad Bonds, 373
Administration and Wages of Shop Craftsmen, 315 Atlantic Ports, Greatly Reduced Congestion of, Since December, 1917, 415 Bureau of Railway Economics, Effort to Continue its Existence, 9, 139
Class I. Railroads, Earnings, 315
Connections of Passenger Trains, Needed Improvement, 117 Federal Control, Effects, Saving of Interest on Loan, 53 Fire Insurance Abandoned in View of Operation as a Single System, 139
Fire Insurance, Change of Policy, 373
Fuel Economy by Skip-stop System, 243 Government Control, Suggested Permanence. 553 Government Enlarges President’s Power to Control Urban Electric Lines, 9 Government Payment for Use of Railways, Expected Heavy Deficit in Working Cost, 9 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : United States Railroads under
Federal Control (continued):
Government Regulation of Necessary Work, 221 Interstate Commerce Commission, Suggested Improved Rails to Avoid Accidents, 201 ; Violation of Statutes for Promotion of Safety, 439 Large Locomotive Orders from Baldwin Company, 221 Locomotives for France : Demand for War Purposes Necessitates Restrictions in the United States, 439
Locomotives and Superheating, 181
Maintenance of Way, Difficulties of Material and Labour Shortage, 97 New Engines to Haul Trains from Makers to the Railway Company, 139
New Federal Railroad Managers, 242
New Locomotives, Distribution of Orders for 1415 Engines, 139 Nine Hours a Day for Maintenance of Way, 553 Orders for Locomotives and Freight Cars, 53
Pennsylvania Railway Tracks and Tunnels Opened for Use by other Companies, 439 Presidential Control and the Coming of Peace, 487, 509
Privately Owned Passenger Cars Taken Over, 307 Railroad Bridge Spans in Stock to be Used in Other Districts, 201 Railroad Fares, Suggested Schools for Instruction of Officials, 117
Railroad Scrap Metal, Limit on Prices, 117 Railroads and Shortage of Rubber, 117 Standardisation, Permanent Committee Appointed, 243 Steel, Removal of Embargo on Use of, for Non-War Projects, Railways Benefit, 531 Suggested Use of Letters Instead of Postcards between Railways and Shippers, 75 Terminal Unification ; Emergency War Measures, 307
United States Soldiers, Proposed Cent a Mile Fares, Opposition, 509 Wagons and Contents Damaged in Shunting, 287 Women on Railroads : Increased Employment, but Additional Safeguards, 243, 307
Wooden Cars on Railways ; Statistics, 53
Victoria Government Railways, New Chief Engineer, 415 Wagon Bearing Plate Spring Used Since 1894 and as Good as Ever, 9
Wagons Damaged in Shunting, 395
Wagons for Iron Transport in the North, 221 Wagons, Railway Owned; Common User, and Channel Ferry, 553 Wagoqs, Second-hand, Dealing Without a Permit, 395 War Wages, Further Demands, Conference, and Awards, 181, 307 War Wages, New Agreement for Automatic Increase, 466 Waterloo System for Receipt of Shop Parcels, 395 Women Railway Workers in Procession at Royal Silver Wedding, 31 Women as “ Signalmen ; ” Divided Opinion as to Fitness, 181 Women’s Labour on Railway Main Lines, 221 Women's Strike on the London Tube Railways, 181 RAND Water Board—see Water Supply Raw Products Turned to Fresh Purposes, 351 Reconstruction, The Aims of. 239 Reconstruction Committees Formed ; Progress, 531 Reconstruction Lectures, 391 Reconstruction, Ministry of, and Trade Conferences, 553 Refrigerating Plant for the United States Army in France, 487 Refuse Disposal, Prize Essay, 553 Reinforced Concrete—see also Concrete Reinforced Concrete Chimneys, Vibration of, 243 Reinforced Concrete Floors, Effect of Brine, 329 Rifles and Cupro-Nickel Fouling, Necessary Measures, 31 Road Board Improvement Fund Allocations, 351 ,, Road Costs in the Maidstone District, 329 Road Siding Defects and Remedy, 439 Road Work as Means of Employment, Government Grant, 531 Roads for War Purposes, Army Council Committee, 415 Roberts, Lady, Fund and Return of Field Glasses, 553 Roumania’s Need of Agricultural Implements, 499 Rubber, Synthetic, Discussion at German Bunsen Society, 243 Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germans, 560 Rubber of the World : Distribution and Value, 35 Russia-the Principal Customer Before the War for Silesian Zinc, 373 Russian Locomotive Output and War Repairs, 351 Russia’s Heavy Losses of all Kinds, Due to Brest-Lit ovsk Treaty, 201 Rust-inhibitive Coating from Blue Lead, 139 SAILORS and Soldiers, Discharged, Separate
Employment Exchange, 287
Salters’ Institute of Industrial Chemistry, 287 Salvage, Wholesale, 373 Sawdust for Extinction of Petrol Fires, 75 Scales and Weighing Machine*, 386 Scheelite—see Iron and Steel, 487 Scientific and Industrial Research, Inquiry by Committee on Metallurgy of Copper and Zinc, 531 Screwing Tackle Manufacturers Form Association, 351 Scythes in Russia, Great Scarcity, 487 Serbia, Mineral Resources of, 21 Sesame Cultivation in Tonkin and Elsewhere, 221 Sewage Experiments in New York, 31 Sewage of London, Suggested Scheme for Profitable Use, 75 Sewage and Water Disinfection in the United States, 75 Shell Production in Canada, 181 Shells Fired on the Western Front, Activities of Controller of Machine Tools,' 553 Ship Canal from Doncaster or Sheffield to the Sea vid Goole, Projected, 102 Shipbuilding, Engineering and Steel Commercial Staff's Association, Formation, 561 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS: Additional Shipbuilding Berths at Northumberland Shipyard, 201 American Shipbuilding Workers, 221 America’s Large Submarines, 139 Belfast Firms, Shipbuilding, Amalgamation of Two, 415 Belfast's Shipbuilding Growth during War, 415 Canadian Output of Ocean Ships, 243 Clan MacWilliam, Large Cargo Carrier, Launched, 418 Concrete Shipbuilding Seventy Years Ago and Since, 221
Concrete Ships have Come to Stay, 201
Concrete Ships and New Yards for Building Them in U.S.A., 159 Concrete Ships, No Protective Composition Needed for Hulls, 373 Concrete Ships, Suggested Building in Floating Dry Docks, 181 Concrete Steamship Faith, Excellent Performance in Exceptionally Rough Weather, 97
Concrete Vessels, Severe Tests of. 307 Electric Welding and Lloyd’s Register, 221
Electric Welding for Ship Construction, A. J. Mason, 75 Electric Welding for Ships, Plant in the United States, 509 Electric Welding in Shipbuilding, Divided Opinion, Commander S. V. Goodall, 531 Electrically Welded Ships, First Vessel Built in America, 509 Fabricated Ship, First, Designed by Sir W.
G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 415
Fabricated Ship, First National, as Pattern, Details of Construction, 329—see also Miscellaneous Index Ferro-concrete Shipbuilding in Ireland, New Yard for, 415 Harland and Wolff’s Engines for Other Firms’ Standard Ships, 351 Hospital Bed Endowment Chosen by Shipyard Workers as Reward for Rapid Shipbuilding, 373 Japanese Shipbuilding for the Entente Powers, 53 Large Merchant Ships Recently Launched, 329 Lloyd’s Register and Concrete Ships, 439 Marine Engineers’ Responsibility and Great Need of Efficiency, 75 Merchant Shipbuilding in the United States, Eaormou* Increase, 221 Pneumatic Riveting Tools in Shipyards, 401
Rapid Ship Construction in United States, 97
Repair of Ships by the Admiralty, Large Numbers, British and Foreign, Dealt with, 487 Riveting in Shipyard Work, Hand and Pneumatic, Comparison, 531 Salvage of Steamship Arabv, Interesting, 362 Shipbuilding Before the War, British Much Cheaper than Canadian, 75 Ships, Docks, &c., in United States. Plans not to be Carried out of the Country except by U.S. Officials or Representatives, 243 Smart Work at Shipyard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 181 Steam Traps on Board Ship, 75 Tankers, New Concrete, in U.S.A., 159 United States Future Shipping Expansion, Lieut. Commander Stevenson-Taylor, 553 United States Shipyard Accidents, Reported Exaggeration, 196
Wooden Ship Repaired with Concrete, 531 Work in the Shipyards, 210
SIAM’S Imports of Cutlery, &c., Japan Ousting Germany, 181 Silesian Zinc, Falling Off in Metal and also Ore, 373 Silica Brick and the Transformation of Quartz,
H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitsch, 373
Silicon in Metallic Tron Experiment*, 493 Sisal Hemp Cultivation in Antigua, 463 Societies—see Associations, &c. Soiree to Celebrate Armistice, 564 Solder, Cadmium Suggested as Substitute for Tin, 75 South Africa, Expansion of Industry and Municipal Proposals, 553 South African Mine Training School, the Third Started by Government, 31 Souvenir of the War, Simplex Conduits, Limited, 564 Spirit for Industrial Purposes from Moss, &c., Distillery in Sweden, 186 Spruce, Fifty Million Feet Exported from
America for Aircraft, 395
Steam Users and Coal Wastage, 351 Stellar Parallax, Progress and Improved Instruments, 97 Stellite, Non-ferrous Alloy, Properties of, 439 Storage Warehouses, &c., for Army Material in the United States, 262 Suez Canal Receipts Greatly Reduced by the War, 75 Sugar Cane Insufficiently Cultivated in the West Indies, 53 Sugar from the Palm and Sugar Cane, 117 Sulphuric Acid Production in United Kingdom, 373 Sulphuric Acid Substitutes from Waste Products, 373 Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Training Scheme for Mechanics, 351 Synthetic Rubber, Discussion at German
Bunsen Society Meeting, 243
TASMANIA as an Ideal Hydro electric Centre, 329 Tax of £46,000,000 Paid by one Firm, 53 Telegraph Systems and State Control, in United
Kingdom and U.S.A., J 59
Telephones, Automatic, in Shanghai, 395 Temperature Variations in Engines, Rapid
Measurement by New Apparatus, 159
Thermos Flask Not a Foreign Invention, 243 Thimbles, Great Shortage on the Continent, Government Metal Permit to Brass Founders Employers’ Association, 97 Timber for Building, Suggested War Economy, 415 Timber Question in Great Britain, Afforestation Difficulties, 307 Timber Scarcity after the War : a Suggestion, 112 Timber, Scientific Technology of, State Promotion of Research Desirable, 75 Timber of Scots Pine, its Value, 117 Timber Stocks in the United Kingdom, Census, 31 Tin Plate in Australia, Great Scarcity for Meat and Jam Packing, 159 Tin Plate Output in America, Enormous Increase since the McKinley Tariff, 139 Tins, Old, What to do with; 171 Toluol from Gas in America, Great Expectations, 243 Tractor, Three Wheel Electric, to Replace Horses for Wagon Drawing, 31 Training at Loughborough, Suggested Continuance, 553 Training for Mechanics at Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson’s Works, 351 Transport Industry, Joint Industrial Council, 531 Transport in the United Kingdom, Need of Improvement after the War, Mr. Lloyd George, 242 T.N.T. Purification Difficult, 415 T.N.T. Work, Improved Hea’th of Workers, 75 Tungsten—Iron and Steel Tunnel Driving in New York, Shield of Unusual Size Employed, 31 Tunnel. Otira, New Zealand, Progress of. 412 Typewriters in Japan, 329 UNITED States Development of Wireless Telegraphy, 97 Exports of Tin-plates, Terneplates and Taggers Tin, 20 per cent. Increase, 509 Foreign Trade, Growth of,553 Government and Groat Telegraph Companies, 463 Oil Shales Hitherto Unused, 201 Trade Markings, 487 Trade Statistics, Date of Compilation. 487 Units ana Unity, Napier Shaw, 31 VALVES, Revolving, of Internal Combustion, Engines, Capt. B. C. Hucks’ Method, 439 Varnish and Enamel, Alcohol Proof, Jensen and Nichohon, 108 Vegetable Wax, Extraction of, as a Japanese Industry, 463 Vehicles, British Army, in France, 553 Vickers, Limited, Resignation ot Chairman, 243 Volumetric Tests on Scientific Glassware, N. P. Laboratory's Pamphlet, 149 WASTE Products, Striking Economy by Utilisation of, 373 Waterproofing Mixture, French, for Leather, Cloth, Paper, &c., 18J WATER SUPPLY: American Water Works Association, Cost Increase in Inverse Proportion to Efficiency, 509 Barrage, Vaal River, Rand Water Scheme, 311 Bombav Agricultural Department, Bores for Wells, 307
Brisbane Water Supply, 298 Cape Town’s Water Supply, 307
Chlorination Treatment of Water in America, Satisfactory Results, 181 Water Power in France, Greatly Increased Utilisation since Outbreak of War, 373 Water Power in Great Britain Available for Development, Less than One-tenth in Use, 287 Water Power from Natural Supplies, Very Long Time for Observation Necessary to Determine Action. 287
INDEX. Wells for the Allied Forces on the Continent, 75 WATT, James, Organ Built by him Given to Glasgow Corporation, 9 Welding, Autogenous, Importance of Purity of Added Metal, 307 Wire Rope Lubrication, Importance of Method, 351 Wireless Communication between United Kingdom and Australia, 287
Wireless System to Connect Larin-America and United States, 117
Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Motor Truck, 373
Wolfram Mining in Bohemia, 307
Wolfram Ore in China, 181, 221
Wood Protection in Damp Situations, 307
Wooden Poles, Zinc Fluoride Recommended as Preservative, 373, 463
Workman’s Time and Balance Book, 66
World’s Submarine Cables, Private and National, Analysis, 351
Y
YARN Production from Paper, Long Known in Japan, 531
z
ZINC Fluoride as a Preservative of Wooden Poles, 373, 463
Zinc Ores Mined in Canada, Proposed Bounties on, 201
Zinc Output of Australia, 9
Zirconia, Recommended Addition of, to
Graphite used for Smelting Crucibles, 14
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