The Engineer 1919 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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A ACETYLENE and Coal Gas, Illuminating Power and Immunity from Risk, 135 Acetylene, Compressed, in a Porous Substance, Government Order, 53 AERONAUTICS: Aerodrome at Durban, Proposed Erection’ 635 Aerodrome at Goregaon, Bombay, 539 Aeroplane Surplus Engine at Work in Factory, 85 American Offer for Aeroplanes and Engines from British Disposal Department, 154 Amsterdam Aircraft Exhibition, British Section Delayed by Strikes, 157 Aviation Exhibition, Paris, 565 “ Bristol ” Fighter Biplane, Continuous Com- missionj 463 Dutch Aviation Routes to be Opened Next Year ; Services to England and Elsewhere, 572 * Fiat B.R.F. Biplane, 635 Fire Patrols by Aeroplane over Californian Forest Reserves, 301 India, Aerodrome Construction near Bangalore, 85 Insect Hunting Surveys by Aeroplane, 635 Man-power Aeroplane Flight at Paris, G. Poulain, 157 Pan - American Aeronautic Convention, Colonel E. Lister Jones’ Address, 161 Rome to Turin Flight, Record Broken, 85 Semi-rigid Airship Purchased from Italy by
U.S.A., 489
United States Airship Blown Up Owing to Sun Heat Expansion, 11 Wireless Telephony, Air Squadrons Fitted with during War, 157 AFFORESTATION Cost, Amount Allocated by Government, 135 Agricultural Engineers’ Combination, 419 Agricultural Implements Imported into India, 11 Agricultural Tractors and Ploughs, Royal
Agricultural Society Trials, 635
Alcohol, &c., from Coke-oven Gas, Process for Commercial Development, E. Bury, 635 Alcohol as Fuel for High-speed Internal Combustion Engines, Benzol Admixture Necessary, 111 Alcohol from the Mahwa Tree, 85 Alcoholic Motor Spirit Factory in Natal, Output of, 157 Algeria’s Mineral Exports, 613 Alloy, Iron, Acid-proof, Italian’s Claim, 59 Alloys of the Duralumin Type, Heat Treatment of, 35 Aluminates of Lime, Value as Cement, 85 Aluminium Alloy with Calcium, 279 Aluminium and Alloys Coating Flux, S. O.
Cowper-Coles, 489
Aluminium in Germany, Output, and Need of Coal, 359 Aluminium, Prescription for Soldering, 11 Aluminium, Useful American Circular, 305 American Association of Engineers, Committee on Legislation, 35 American Concrete Institute, Recommendations, 135 American Lakes and Rivers, Plan for Control and Regulation of Discharge and Flow, 589 American Petroleum Export Statistics, 279 Architectural and Museum Studies, Prizes for
Drawings ; Conditions, 419
Armstrong College, Appointments of Principal and Registrar, 111 Armstrong College, Vacant Professorship of Engineering, 359 Asbestos Production in Rhodesia, 411 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :
ASSOCIATION, BRITISH :
Statistics of War Transportation in France, Colonel Sir G. Beharrell, 279 Transport Policy, Mr. Acworth, 279 ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING AND SHIPBUILDING DRAUGHTSMEN : Strike at Works of Kerr, Stuart and Co., Stoke-on-Trent, Supported by Association, 11
SHEFFIELD BRANCH :
Winter Programme ; Projected Lectures, 613 ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER : Scientific Management, H. W. Allingham, 613
INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS : Council Formation, 157 INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Autumn Meeting in France, Proposed, 565 Bessemer Medal Award, 231 President for Next Year, Dr. J. E. Stead, 548
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Brass : Its Construction and Impurities’
F. S. J. Pile, 635
Micro-mechanism of the Ageing of Duralumin, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255 INSTITUTE OF MINE SURVEYORS OF GREAT BRITAIN :
SCOTTISH BRANCH :
Discussion of Objects of Institute ; Salaries Question, 359
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
Examination for Admission to Membership, 589 Meeting, 287 Presidential Address, Thos. Clarkson, 287
Reception, 478 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS : Fowls Lodged by Institution, 207 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Liverpool Sub-centre to be Formed, 539 Water Power, Professor Magnus Maclean. 279
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA) :
Rapid Establishment and Predicted Usefulness of the Institution, 539 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND : Reoccupation of Old Premises Commandeered by Ministry of Munitions, 437 Special Steels and Aluminium Alloys, Importance in Motor Vehicles and Aircraft, Dr. T. Blackwood Murray, 589
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS : Members’ List, 359
INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS : Flags for Road Paving, Natural and Artificial, F. W. Bricknell, 359 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued) : INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Awards of Elgar Scholarship and Earl of Durham Prize, 181 Cammell Laird and Parsons Scholarships, Entries for, 181 ; Awards, 421 Martell Scholarship in Naval Architecture (1920), 597 Scholarships Offered, 24, 135 INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS : Joint Technical Institute for the North- East Coast Institution and the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 181
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Christmas Juvenile Lectures : The World of Sound, Professor W. H. Bragg, 528 Election of Members and Honorary Members, 564 Meetings, 476, 564 Programme up to Easter, 1920, 564
SOCIETY, CERAMIC :
Refractory Materials Section ; Arrange* ments for Meetings, 383
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS : Award of Premiums for Papers, 646
New Scheme for Association of Engineering Societies, Offer of Annual Premium by Mr. Burnard Geen, 11 CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY :
Papers and Awards, 625 SOCIETY, FARADAY :
Magnetic Hardness of Ferrous Metals, &c., L. A. Wild, 255
SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
Spirit Level from Captured Zeiss Director, Liquids for Filling Levels, J. W. French, 135 Spirit Level, Requirements, Major E. O. Henrici, 59
SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
Australian Growth in Industrial Manufacture, Sir J. McCall on, 59 Trueman Wood Lecture, Sir Oliver Lodge, 613 Use of Electricity in Agriculture, Dr. J. F. Crowley, 489
SOCIETY OF TECHNICAL ENGINEERS : Mass Meeting, 554, 601
ATHENS, Exhibition of British Manufactures, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565 Australia, Rapid Growth in Industrial Manufacture, 59 Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Limited, Loan of Magnetic Sclerometer for Demonstration, 315 B BALLOONS Used in Tree Fumigation, 515 Barcelona, Annual International Fair Instituted, 511 Beardmore and Co.’s Large Section Mill, 181 Bearing Metals and Modern Metallography, 279 Belgian Rolling Mills, Esperance Abandoned,
New Works Projected at Hourpes, 489
Belgium, British Trade with, Catalogues at Li6ge, 262 Bennis, Ed., and Co., Lantern Slides for Lectures, 526 Benzole and the Cinematograph, 22 Benzole, Increased Production and Further
Possibilities as Substitute for Motor Spirit, 11 Benzole, “ National,” Test with a Sunbeam Car, 207, 255
Benzole Test on 10,000-Miles Run by Sunbeam
Car, 589
Bill to Prevent “ Lightning Strikes,” 419 Birmingham, Big Scheme in Progress for
Improvement of Hockley Brook, 85
Blowpipe Cutting of Scrap Metal, 181 Board of Trade, Certain Powers of, Transferred to Home-office, 539 Board of Trade Departments, New Addresses and Telephone Numbers, 502 Board of Trade, New Administrative Council, 305 Boiler Plates, Steel, in the Yangtze Valley, High Prices Paid, 35 Boiler Tube Explosion Report, 85 Boilers Heated by Electricity, 11 Bombay, New Companies Organised, 35 Borneo and Sumatra Waterfalls, Available
Horse-power, 359
Bradford Engineering Society, Coming of Age, 392 Brazil Trade, Increased Imports and Exports, 463 Brewers’ Exhibition, 452, 476 Brick Chimney for Cleveland Electric Company, Dimensions of, 85 Bridge, Highway, in Ohio, Accident during Reconstruction, 565 British Chemical Manufacturers’ Association, Visit to Germany, 68 British East African Land, Government Condition for Leasing, 613 British Industries Fair, Birmingham’s Share, 146 British Science and Key Industries Exhibition at Glasgow, 157, 328 British Scientific Products Exhibition, 59 British Westinghouse Company, Change of
Name, 181, 548
Brussels Commercial Fair, Proposed, 157 Buenos Aires, Proposed Underground System of
Electric Tramways, 613
Building Materials’ Tenacity ; Observations in the War Area, Sir B. Fletcher, 359 Bullion Salved from the Wreck of the Laurentic at Entrance to Lough Swilly, 157 0 CABLE Across the Pacific Ocean, 332 Calcutta Corporation and Question of Sanitary
Dwellings, 411
Canada, Export Trade, Increase since 1914, 85 Canada and Street Cars, Decision Against Local
Manufacture in Toronto, 111
Canadian Water Power Development, Professor
J. C. McLennan, 305
Canal, Crinan, Position under Consideration by
Ministry of Transport, 635
Canal, First, in Northern India, Proposed
Celebration of Centenary, 59
Canal, Huningue to Strasburg, Proposed
Hydro-electric Stations, 565
Canal, Ship, Proposed, at South-west of Long Island, U.S.A., 613 Canal System in Canada, Government Survey, 565 Canal System of South Yorkshire, Reorganisation under Consideration, 635 Canals’ Future as a Difficult Problem, 135 Canalising the Rhone, Power and Coal Saving, 255 Cape Copper Company Closes Mines, Large Returns since 1863, 85 Casein Glues, Valuable Properties, 111 Casting Iron Pipes, Centrifugal System, 613 Cement, Waterproof, Sir G. K. Scott Moncrieff, 489 Census of Europeans in South Africa, 11 Chain Manufacturers, New Association, 124, 220, 359 Charcoal Briquettes in India ; Difficulty, 157 Chemical Employers and Motor Transport
Employers’ Federations, Alliance, 59
Chemical Engineer as a Liaison Officer, 181 Chemistry, Organic, Professorship at Armstrong College, Dr. S. Smiles Appointed, 157 Chicago and the Atlantic, Improved Water Communication, 59 Chimney, Tall Reinforced Concrete, at Sagano- seki, Professor Omori’s Conclusions, 437, 463 Chimneys, Tall, Stresses by Wind Pressure and
Seismic Motion Compared, 437
China Clay Transport Difficulties and Settlement, 514 China, Local Materials Economically Used for Construction Work, D. F. McLeod, 181 Chinese Dockyard Improved to Carry Out American Contracts, 231 Cinematograph as Advocate for Benzole, 22 COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES: Amount of Coal Required to Mill One Ton of Ore, 589
Anthracite Seam Struck at Glyn Neath, 231 Argentine Coal Discovery, its Great Value, 207 Belgian Blast-furnaces and Coke Scarcity, 333 British Columbia and Coalfields, 383
Calcium Carbide Manufacture and Byproduct Extraction from Coal and Shale at Natal Collieries, 565
Coal Discovery in Chili, 613
Coal Mining in Germany, Decreasing Output, Increasing Cost of Production, 85 Coal Transport by Rail, Suspended Restrictions, 279 Commercial Motor Users’ Association and Coal Permits, 74 Compressed Air Coal-cutting Machines, Tests, 589 Controller of Coal Mines, Change of Appointment, 437 Dutch East Indies, Increased Coal Consumption, 259 Electrical Charges Advance with Price of Coal, 135 Federated Malay States, Useful Discovery of Coal and Output, 539
Fire Extinction by Mud Jet, 135 Gasworks, Demand for Asli Guarantee, 315
High-priced Coal and Hydro-electric Power Extension, 7
India, Increased Output of Coal Mines, 59 Ireland, Stationary Output of Coal, 565 Kent Collieries during the Railway Strike, 411 ^ens and Lievin Mines Flooding ; Ten Years Required for Complete Restarting, 135
Lord Bute no Longer Colliery Proprietor, 59 Louren^o Marques, Coal Deposits Found, 157 Melbourne Harbour Coaling Plant, 515 Mines Unwatering, Need of Barriers, 515 Mines Water-logged in the Tipton District,
181
Mining in Formosa, Primitive Methods, 231
Natal, Coal and Bituminous Shale Development in, 411 Natal Navigation Company’s New Coal Area, 515 Natal, Official Coal Trade Report, Decreasing Output, 383 Nationalisation of Mines, Mr. Justice Sankey’s Report, 23
New Zealand, Coal Discovery in, 157
New Zealand Coal Mines and Nationalisation, 312 Oil Fuel in France, Commission Urges its Use to Replace Coal, 565 Output of Coal in the United Kingdom during Four Weeks, 359
Output, Slight Improvement, 287 Powell Duffryn Company’s New Pit, 539
Pulverised Coal for Open-hearth Furnaces, N. C. Harrison, 539
Quick Work at a Colliery, 279 Seven-hour Day and the Output, 255
South Africa, Coal Development Company Formed, 383
South Africa, New Colliery, 157
Spitsbergen Coal Deposits, Scottish Syndicate to Prospect, 11
Spitzbergen, Coal Exports from, 613
Spitsbergen, Further Coal Discovery, 157 Storing Coal in Carbonic Acid Gas, 589 Temperature of Coal Mines, Atmospheric
Conditions, Ventilation and Health, 539
Tonkin Output from the Hongay Mines, 255 United States Coal Consumption Estimate, 57 Vienna Company’s Coke Supply Transferred to Czechs with Change of Frontiers, 535
Wagon Shortage on Railways, Measures Taken on Behalf of Collieries, 135
Water in South Staffordshire Mines, 589
Western India, Trial Boring for Coal ; Heavy Cost of Coal at Bombay, 565 CONCRETE Caissons for Bridge Foundations, Best Method of Sinking, F. W. Sweeney, 35 Concrete and Fire Resistance, 135 Concrete Mooring Buoys Compared with Steel, Concrete Pipe Failure in Arizona, Professor
G. E. P. Smith, 181
Concrete Replaces Plain Steel for Cranes, 383 Concrete Setting Studied by Assistance of Camera, 111 Concrete Tanks for Fuel Oil Storage, 85 Copper in Ancient India, Mr. Panchanan Neogi, 515 Copper Conductors, 242 Copper Contact Bows of Electric Railways Replaced by Carbon, 515 Copper Mines in Norway, Cost of Production and Falling Prices, 411 Copper as a Protective Against Corrosion of Steel, 305 Cornish Mining in St. Ives District, 565 Corrosion in Boilers with Turbines and with Reciprocating Engines ; Tests, 157 Corundum, Artificial, Cheap Manufacture of, Possible in England, C. J. Brockbank, 635 Cotton Mill in Central China ; British and American Machinery, 255 Creosoted Piles, Long Life of, 255 Crystal Palace Engineering Society : Papers and Awards, 625 Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering, Admiral Sir G. W. Moore on Future of Engineering, 122 D DAM Proposed Across Sutlej River, India, Highest in the World, 613 Dam, Proposed, for Irrigation Scheme in Idaho, Higher than Any Yet Built, 613 Dam in Tasmania, Cause of Failure, H. E.
Bellamy, 383
Davidson and Company’s War Work Booklet, 98 Daylight Saving in General Favour, 215 Death of Mr. T. P. Shonts : His Work on Panama Canal Development and on New York Subways, 569 Decimal Currency, Increased Adoption, 411 Derrick Cranes with Reinforced Concrete
Replacing Plain Steel, 383
Diamond Getting by Use of a Diving Bell, 231 Diesel Engine Users’ Association : Applies for Grant for Research, Complains of Household Fuel Order as Applied to Electrical Companies Using Oil, 59 Ding-Dong Mine Reopening, 411 Disabled Men Nearly All Again at Work, 85 Dock, Largest in the World Projected at Vancouver Island, 234 Dolomite Deposits in the Peak District of Derbyshire, Scheme for Working, 35 Douglas Fir Timbers, Old and New, Results of Tests, 207 Dredging Bucket Weighing Nearly 20 Tons, 207 Drills, Small Twist, Device for Protection, 231 Duralumin, Ageing of, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255 Duralumin and Kindred Alloys, Heat Treatment of, 35 Dutch East Indies, Road and Railway Construction Extended, 515 Dutch Margarine Makers’ Purchase of Oil Mills at Selby, 85 Dutch Section of the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 320 E EAST AFRICAN Mines Department and Geological Survey, 539 Eisteddford, Welsh, and Applied Science, 279 ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Accrington, Extensions of Generating Plant, 255 Agriculture, Use of Electricity in, Dr. J. F. Crowley, 489 Air from Turbo-generators as Forced Draught for Furnaces, 333 Alloy for Resistance Elements of Electrical Instruments, F. Weimar, 565 Austria’s Lost Coal to be Replaced by Electric Power, 535 Ayr, Proposed Loan for Electricity Supply, 207 Birmingham’s Electric Dust Carts, Batteries from America, 35 Bolton, Projected Expenditure on New Transformers, 207
Burma, Hydro-electric Plant for Mine, 207
Canadian Electrical Association : Bare and Covered Wires, 455 Canadian Electric Generating Plants, Statistics, 305 Castings for Switch-boxes, Replaced by Electric Welding, 463
Ceylon Hydro-electric Scheme, 489
Coal Prices and Electrical Charge Increase, 135
Copper Conductors, 242
Cracking of Rubber Insulation on High- tension Cables, F. B. Silsbe, 589 Denmark, Large Hydro-electric Works for Jutland, 279 Doncaster Corporation Loan for Generating Station, 635
Douglas Electric Light Supply, 181
Dundee Electricity Scheme, 181 ; Proposal for Extension by Use of Water from the Tummel Valley, 279 Furnace Installation, Electric, for Norway, from United States, 635 Generating Station Statistics in the United States, 85 German Output of Crucible and Electric Steel, Furnaces Employed, 111
Glasgow Electrical Finance, 333 Gwalior, India, Electricity Supply, 181
High-tension Electrical Power Transmission, Extension of Possibilities, 589 High-voltage Transmission, Practicability, Southern Californian Successful Operations, 493 Hull Electrical Plant Extensions, Loan Sanctioned, 135 Indian Scheme for Electric Supply from Local Water Power in the Nilgiris, 539 Italy, Two Large New Hydro-electric Stations for Industrial Work, 279 Japanese Electrically Driven Steel Plant _ Coming from the United States, 635
Kelp for Insulation, in Australia, 333 London Electricity Supplies, Linking-up, 635
Manchester’s Proposed Loan for Generating Station, 279 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers for Transforming High-tension Current, 613 Niagara, Power Utilisation and Natural Beauty, 383 Ootacamund,. Madras, Proposed Electric Supply from Sandy Nullah Waterfall, 59 Osaka Steam-driven Electrical Installation, Largest in the Far East, 437 ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued): Paris Electric Power Distribution, Large Outlay, 181
Pittsburgh, Large Power Plant, 255 Power in India, Increasing Demand for, 429 Power Project in Manitoba, 255 Railway and Dock Generating Stations and
Lines Exempted from Transfer under Electricity Supply Bill, 135 Rapid Reversing Motor at Indiana Harbour, 157 Rhodesia and Available Electric Horsepower, 35 Rhone Development, Use of Power in Paris, P.L.M. Railway, &c., Government Outlay, 613 Rivets, Electrically Heated, G. M. Clark, 589 Rotherham Loans for Electricity Undertaking Bill to be Passed, 135
Sheffield Electrical Finance, 333
Spain, Utilisation of Water Power of the River Tort, 181 Suffolk Electricity Supply Company Obtains Exemption from the Household Fuel and Lighting Order, 437 Surplus Hydro-electric Power Developed in British Columbia, 642 Temperature of Electric Furnaces, Device to Regulate, Monsieur Lequex, 489 Towing, Electric, on the Canal de la Marne, 255 Transport, Ministry of, and New Powers under the Electricity Bill, 539 Trial Borings with View to Tunnel Under Liffey for Electr.c Mains, 207 Whitley Council for the West Midland Electricity Supply Industry, 287 Wind Power as Source of Electrical Supply, Comparison with Gas, 59
York City Hydro-electric Scheme, 489
ELECTROLYTIC Zinc in Australia, 157 Ellesmere Port, New Wharves for Ocean-going
Steamers, 11
Engine, James Watt, 206, 213 Engineers’ Patience and Pay, 31 Engineering, The Future of, Admiral Sir G. W.
Moore, at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, 122
Exhibition, All-British, Proposed at Singapore, 613 in Athens by Federation of British Industries, 207, 411 Aviation, in Paris, 565 at Barcelona, British Firms to Exhibit Mechanical Inventions, &c., 305
Brewers, 452, 476
of British Manufactures at Athens, 207,411,489,515,565 British Science and Key Industries, at Glasgow, 157, 328 International Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Engine, 626 Mining, in South Africa, 534 Shipping, Engineering, and Machinery, at Olympia, 11, 181, 320
Union of Inventors of the Loire, 359 of Venezuela, First National, 437 Explosion of Economiser at Yorkshire Dye Works, 463
Explosion of Safety Valve Chest Due to Collision between Tug and Dredger, 111 Explosion at Scotswood Works, Official Report, 36 Explosions in War Factories, Low Rate of Fatalities, 231 Explosive Charges for Sea Depth Soundings, 463 F FACTORIES, Safety Pamphlet Issued by Home-office, 620 Factory and Agricultural Labour, Suggested Alternation of, 515 FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES :
Change of Address, 59 Exhibition in Athens, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565 Finland’s Water Power Resources, 411
Instigates Government Continuance of Emergency Road Transport Service, 411
Sending Staff to Cologne, 111
FEDERATION OF TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS :
Formation and Objects, 238 Meeting, Constitution Proposals, 290
Ferrous Metals—see Iron and Steel Fertiliser Manufacture from Phospha tic Rock at Johannesburg, 35 Fibre from Eucalyptus Bark ; Factory Started in Australia, 589 File for Cleaning Contact Points of Sparking Plugs, Brown Brothers, Limited, 601 Files and Drills, Economical Use of, 463 Fire in Coal Stack, Extinguishing, 383 Fire Engine for Refilling Water Reservoir, 181 Fire Extinction by Mud Jet in Collieries, 135 Fire-grates, Economy in, 635 Fire Losses in this Country, Enormous Increase this Year, 231 Fire Losses Greater per Head in Canada than Elsewhere, 111. Fire Patrols, Aeroplane, Over Californian Forest Reserves, 301 -Fires in Grain Elevator Caused by Wheat Dust Collecting on Electric Lamp, 111 Fish Scarcity at Billingsgate and the Railway Companies, 58 Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, Experiments Resumed, 489 Flag-pole, Reinforced Concrete, 157 Flux for Coating Aluminium and Alloys, S. O. Cowper-Coles, 489 Fog, Effect of, on Light Intensity, C. L. Utterback, 337 Foire de Paris, Variety of Exhibits, 383 Ford Tractor Factory at Cork, 255 Forest Area, Valuable, in Asia Minor, 538 “ France,” A Catalogue of French Industry, Exports, &<?., 613 Franco-Polish Society Founded in Warsaw, 589 French Docks Congestion, Measures to Relieve 383 French Offer for Works near Saarbriicken, 463 French Purchase of Peat Bog in Ireland for Fuel Making, 85 French Reconstruction of Roads, Railways, Bridges, Tunnels, Telegraphs, and Telephones, 117 French Reconstructional Work ; Question of Contracts for British and American Firms, 437 French Unused Water Power for Relief of Coal Scarcity, Suggestion, 59 Fuel Economy Organisation Committee s Report, Sir R. Hadfield on, 59 Fuel Economy in Power Production, W. T. Lane, 359 Fuel, French Commission Urges Use of Oil to Replace Coal, 565 Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines, Alcohol Requires Addition of Benzole, 111 Fuel Oil Tanks at Portland, 81 Fuel Research ; Government Station at Greenwich, 207, 305 G GADGETTS for Motorists, 522 Gas and Electricity Derived from Wind Power, Mr. F. Barrett on, 59 Gas as Fuel for Motor Vehicles, Uncertainties of Liquid Fuel, 135 Geological Survey and Museum, Transfer of Departments,1 489 Geophone, Successful Experiment in Pennsylvania Coal Mine, 111 German Amalgamation of Big Electrical and other Firms, 589 German Union of Technical Societies, Petition for New Technical Library, 11 Germany Outbids other European Countries for Erection of Wireless Telegraphy Station, 255 Glass Globes and Window Glass, Factory for Manufacture of, to be Erected at Queenborough, 111 Glass-making in West Norfolk, 207 Glue Joints and Varnished Wood Surfaces, 437 Gold Mine, Deepest of any Metal Aline in the World, 383 Gold Mines, Low-grade, in South Africa, Serious Position, 207 Gold Ore Reserves of the Rand, 35 Gold Refinery for the Rand, Proposed, 4] ] Gold from the Transvaal, Effect on the Industry of a Free Market, 333 Government Car Used as Beehive, 111 Government Financial Help for Higher Education of Ex-Service Officers and Men, 181, 279 Government Sale of Cranes and Machine Tools, 181 Grantham and District Engineering Society, 411 Grantham, Special Engineering School for Boys, 613 Gravel as an Aggregate in Concrete, 135 Greenwich, Fuel Research Station at, 207 Gunpowder in Railway Workshops, 135 Gwalior State Project for Waterway Connection with Calcutta, 11 H HARDENING of Duralumin, 35 Health, New Ministry of, I I Heat Economy in Chemical Works, Harold
Nielsen, 613
Hong-Kong’s Imports of Tin, 463 Hooghly River Bed Survey, 59 House-building, Comparison between Cost of
Brick and Concrete, 207
Hydraulic Works on the Rhone, 378, 383 Hydro-electric Plant in Burma, 207 Hydro-electric Power Extension in Sweden, 7 Hydro-electric Power, Surplus Developed in
British Columbia, 642
Hydro-electric Scheme, Ceylon, 489 Hydro-electric Scheme, York City, 489 Hydro-electric Schemes—see also Electrical
Matters
Hydrogen Peroxide, Experimental Plant for, by
Kynoch Limited, in Natal, 380
Hydrographic Surveys in the North Sea, 181 IMPERIAL Mineral Resources Bureau, Offices Moved, 231 India, Distillation of Wood and Production of Stockholm Tar, 85 India, Government and Private Service in, 406 India, Water Power Resources of, Report on, 437, 515 Indian Public Works Department, Increased Pay for Members, 363 Indian Scheme for Dredging Chilka Lake to Avoid Flooding, 411 Indians to have Training in Navigation, Bom* bay Scheme, 35 Industrial League Conference of Employers and Employed, 290 Industrial Life in America, President Wilson on, 383 Industrial Reconstruction Council and Industrial League ; Amalgamation ; New Title, 290 Insect Hunting Surveys by Aeroplane, 635 Institute Building for General Use of Technical Societies in South Africa, 135 International Electrotechnical Commission Alee ting, 314 Ipswich Rails, British Tender Preferred to American, 157 IRON AND STEEL:
Acid-proof Iron Alloy, Claim by Italian, 59
Anzan Steel Works of South Manchuria Railway, Plant Extension and Output, 489 Austria-Hungary’s Steel Output in 191 7 and 1918, 333 Bethlehem-Chile Iron Ore Dock at Cruze- Grande, 279 Blast-furnaces at Wellingborough Re-opened, British Federation of Iron, Steel, Tin-plate and Metal Merchants, Aleeting between Merchants and Manufacturers, 333 IRON AND STEEL (continued): Castings, Iron, in America, Cost of, at Begin ning of Last Century, 437 Castings Replaced by Electric Welding of Steel Plates, 463 . Chrome Iron Ore Discovery in Rhodesia, 157 Coating Iron Articles, Dr. C. Baskerville’s Method, 157 Copper as a Protective Against Steel Corrosion, 305 Corrosion of Iron Hot-water Pipes, Method of Prevention, 85 Ferrous Metals, Measuring Magnetic Hardness, &c., L. A. Wild, 255 First Cast of Steel at Coatbridge Works, 589 French Iron and Steel Companies Amalgamation, 279
French Tool Steel, “ Etiquette Rouge,” 305
German Iron and Steel Industries Proposed Combination, 411 German Output of Crucible and Electric Steel in 1917, 111 Gorman Prices of Pig Iron, Spiegel, and Merchant Bars, 489 Ingot Heating, Possible Injury by Great Speed, F. E. Bash, 589 Iron Oro Deposit Investigation by United States Geological Survey, 463 Lorraine Iron Ore for Export to Germany, French Price for, 463 Manganese Shortage : Additional Sources Indicated, 565 Ontario, Two New Steel Works being Built, 539 Pretoria Iron and Steel Industry, Proposed Extension, 565 Rusting of Steel having Copper Content, 85 Steel Boiler Plates in the Yangtze Valley, High Prices Paid, 35 Swedish Iron and Steel Industry, Low Output and Depression, 305 Swiss Steel Foundry, Electric Smelting of Scrap Iron, 437 Tata Steel Works, India : Renewed Contracts with Japan, 279 Titaniferous Iron Sands of New Zealand,
V. W. Aubel, 565
• Tunis Iron Exports to England, 231 Vancouver Company to Test Electric Smelt
ing Process for Magnetite Ores, 383
IRRIGATION, Blue Nile Scheme, Bill for
Loan Passed by House of Commons, 135
Irrigation Reservoir in Ahmcdnagar District, Bombay, 635 Irrigation Scheme for Mexico, 463 Irrigation in South Africa from the Upper Modder River, 85 Irrigation in South Africa : Utilising the Kalahari Lake, 135 Italy, Investigation into Extent of Radioactive Substances, 85 J JAMAICA, Loan for Roads and Other Constructional Work, 157 Japan, Mineral Statistics of, 255 Japan, Submarine Tunnel to Replace Ferry between Railway Stations, 279 Japan as a Trade Competitor, E. F. Crowe, 111 Japan’s Foreign Trade, Great Increase, 135 Japanese New Monthly Journal, “The Transpacific,” 359 Japanese Population and Trade in India, Rapid Growth, 333 Java Fair at Bandoeng : British Section Inadvisable, 613 Java, Industrial Fair at, Important, 59 K KAPOK, Buoyancy of, Results of Experiments, 85 “ Kapok ” for Life-saving Appliances at Sea, 157 Kauri Forests in New Zealand, 35 Kelp, Wet, Plant for Dealing with, 565 Kinematograph Films Shown at the British
Scientific Products Exhibition, 35
King’s College : Old Students’ Association, 68 King’s College War Memorial, 255 Korean Ores Largely Exploited by Japanese, 35 Krupp Works Locomotive Output, 411 Kwantung Factories for Sulphuric Acid, Soap, &c., 231 L LABOUR Costs and Mining Output Decline on the Rand, 181 Lantern Slides for Lectures, Bennis and Co., 526 Lantern Slides for Lectures, Marshall, Sons and Co., 548 Lead Factories in Belgium, German Treatment of, 383 Lead-Zinc-Iron Ores, Finely Disseminated, Difficulty in Making Clean Separation, 35 Lead and Zinc Mines in the Lake Country, Projected Developments, 207 Leaks in Masonry Wall of Canal, Method of Stopping, 383 Leather Belting : New Conditions of Sale, 147 Lectures and Concerts to Workmen, Palmers, Hebburn-on-Tyne, 578 Liffey, Proposed Tunnels Under, for Electric Mains and for Pedestrians, 207 Light Intensity, Effect of Fog on, C. L. Utterback, 337 Lighting in Factories and Workshops, Leon Gaster, 122 Lighting, Public and Private, Recent Develop- ihents in, W. C. Clinton, 421 “ Lightning Strikes,” Bill to Prevent, 419 Lignite Briquetting Factory in Canada, 613 Lille, Exposition Internationale, &c., for Samples to Utilise in Reconstruction of Devastated Country, 613 Lithuania, Articles in Demand, 589 Liverpool to Provide Storage for Oil Fuel for Merchant Steamers, 237 Local Government Board, Passing of, 11 Lodge, Sir Oliver, Tidal Power versus Land Reclamation : Atomic Energy, Wasteful Use of, 613 Longitude of the World to be Determined by Wireless Telegraphy, 515 Lord Roberts’ Memorial Workshops, Some Results, 7 Lumber Production in United States, 11 Lysaght, John, Limited, New Australian Works, 539 M MACHINE Tools, Government Sale at High Prices, 34 Machine Tools, Suggestions for Common Standards in Certain Directions for Britain and America, 35 Machine Tools, Use of, for Mechanical Accuracy; Egyptians, in 4700 B.C., were Beforehand with Whitworth, Professor W. M. F. Petrie, 47 Madagascar, Hydro-electric Installation at Tamatave, 635 Madras Engineering College Not Quite Ready, 231 Madras Government Orders Survey and Report on Various Ports, 59 Magnetic Sclerometer on Lean, 315 Magnetic Surveys at Irthlingborough and Melton Mowbray, Investigation and Important Conclusions, 11 Manganese—see Iron and Steel Maps from Aero-photographs, Disadvantages, 161 Marshall, Sons and Co., Lantern Slides for Lectures, 548 Mechanical Transport Department’s Smart Work at Kempton Park, 11 Mexico City, Projected Exhibition of British Products, 231 Micro-mechanism of the Ageing of Duralumin, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255 Microscope : Its Design, Construction, and Application : A Symposium, 588 Midland Laboratory Guild, 539 Milk Churns Brought to Paddington Daily, 383 Mills on the Thames for Extraction of Oil from Copra and Palm Nuts, 85 Milne Earthquake Observatory, Work to be Carried on at Oxford, 231 Mine in Michigan, Deepest in the World, 333 ; (Letter), 409 Mino Timber, The Preservation of, N. T. Williams, 47, 463 Mineral Resources of the Empire : Monographs Committee of the Imperial Institute, 561 Mineral Wealth of St. Agnes, Cornwall, 489 Minerals Development, 597 Miners Conveyed to and from Work at Doncaster, 35 Miners’ Lamps, Home-office Invites Suggestions, 255 Mining Exhibition in South Africa, 534 Mining Explosion in Staffordshire : Gas and Coal Dust, 462 Mining, Non-ferrous, in the United Kingdom, Board of Trade Committee, 173, 383, 411, 437, 489, 565 Mining at St. Ives, Cornwall, 565 Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Exhibition, International, 626 Motor Car Engines, Weight of, Compared with Aero-Engines, 359 Motor Car Weight Increase, Major F. Strickland, 207, 359 Motor Cars, Lorries, and Cycles, Output from Government Transport Depot at Slough, 539 Motor Cycle’s Mileage on a Gallon of Petrol, Ealing Trials, 255 Motor Omnibuses, Involuntary Stops, Small Proportion of, 515 Motor Spirit Replaced by Benzole and Alcohol, Captain Montgomery, 11 Motor Spirit from Sugar Cane : Works at Nairobi, 157 Moving a Big Gas Container, 11 N NANKING Experiments in Cultivation of American Cotton, 333 National Factories for Sale, 46 Nature, Jubilee of, 463 Naval History Chair for University of London, 135 Necessity Not the Mother of Invention, 635 New Zealand Coal Mines, Reported Nationalisation, 85 New Zealand Hydro-electric Works Acquired by Dominion Government, 515 News Letter for American Contractors’ Business, 111 Niagara Falls, Chemical Industries, Established and Prospective, 383 Niagara Falls Power Development Begun in 1842, 635 Nice, Reconstruction of Port, 463 Nitrate Deposits in South African District, Costs of Commercial Production, 589 Nitrate of Lime Factory in Norway, Largest Water Power Station in the World, 613 Nitrates from Overseas for British Explosives, Urgent Need for Construction of Factory in England, James Young, 85 Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Experiments in Fixation of, 489 Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Fixation of, Sale of
Incomplete Government Factory, 539
Nobel Prize Distribution Postponed till 1920, 85 Non-ferrous Mining, Board of Trade Committee, 173, 383, 411, 437, 489, 565 Norway’s Imports of Motor Cars, Lorries, &c., Small Proportion from Great Britain, 585 o OIL Depot at Belfast with View to Shipping and Electrical Requirements, 305 Oilfield in West Norfolk, Development Leads to Brick and Glass Making, 207 Oilfields of Athabaska, Wealth Confirmed by Old Records, 437 Oil Fuel Immensely Cheaper than Coal in Far Eastern Ports, 515 Oil Fuel Recommended in Substitution for
Coal in France, 565 ' ,
Oil Fuel Storage at Liverpool, 237 Oil at the Hardstoft Well, Increased Flow, 437, 463 Oil in Midlothian, 359 Oil in Northern Rhodesia, 231 Oil Tanks for Naval Supply, 81 Oil Wells, Government, in Derbyshire, Progress and Prospects, 463 Old Centralians, Address, &c., 196 Olympia, Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 11 Omnibus Fares Increase Justified by Increased Costs, 10 Omnibuses, Overloaded : Factor of Safety, 539 p PAINT on Structural Steel, Quantities, 84 “ Painter ” in Water Off the Coast of Peru, 539 Paints for Bearings and Machinery, Research into Behaviour of Double Iodides of Mercury, &c., 305 Panama Canal Negotiated by Dreadnoughts, 135 Paper Import Restrictions Removed, 255 Paris Institution for Centralisation of Trade Projected, 437 Patent-office Examiners, 242 Patent-office Library Hours, Petition for Lengthening, 613 Patent Owners and Manufacturers, Now Association, 11 Patents in Poland, 231 Patents Prolongation, British Chambers of Commerce Resolution, 59 Patents and Trade Marks in Enemy Countries, Board of Trade Authorisation of Fees, 35 Patents and Trade Marks : International Congress to Discuss Question, 111 Patentees, Imperial Institute of, 528 Peace Celebration Dinner, G. A. Harvey and Co., 110 Peat Resources of Irish Bogs, 539 Petrograd Engineering Factories Suffer from Bolshevist Rule, 463 Petrol Drums, Supposed Empty, Fatal Explosions, 207 Petrol Handling in France, 207 Petroleum, Boring for, at West Calder, 255 Petroleum Executive : Development of Oil Shale Industry in United Kingdom, 383 Petroleum Investigations in Mexico, 411, 463 Petroleum in Mexico, Output, Potential and Actual, 437 Petroleum in New Guinea as Possible Repayment for Australia’s War Outlay, 134 Phosphate Mines, Morocco, 565 Photographic Development, Process for Gum- bichromate Prints, 35 Photography Aided by Refrigeration, 157 Pipes, Casting Iron, by Centrifugal System, 613 Platinum Mining Improvement, Increased Russian Output Expected, 85 Poland to Obtain Certain Chemical Products from Czecho-Slovakia, 589 Poland’s Economic Resources, 539 Polish Government Loan in the United States, 589 Pontoons, Flexible, in Ship Salvage, Successful Experiments, 279 Port of Sagua, Cuba, Improvement by Dredging, 613 Portland Cement Factory in Buenos Aires District, 383 Portland Cement Factories and Potash Recovery, 411 Portuguese Proposed Purchase of British Wireless Installation at Madeira, 613 Power Costs at Rhodesian Gold Mine, Coal Cost, 231 Power,.Electric—see also Electrical Matters Power Transmission by Steel Belts on Magnetised Pulleys, 35 Profit-sharing and Labour Co-partnership, Government Report, 111 Q QUEENSLAND’S Mineral Output, 411 Queensland State Iron and Steel Industry :
Suggested By-product Production, 437
Queensland University Lectureship, 268 RADIUM Discoveries in Canada, 565 Radium Production in the United States, 305 Railless Electric Traction Service of Shanghai, 411 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS : Accident, Derailment on London and North- Western, 181
Accident, Fatal, on French Railway, 279 Accident Reports, Board of Trade, 437
Accidents, Fatal, to Passenger Trains, A Year’s Immunity from, 59 Accidents, Level Crossing, on Southern Pacific Railroad, 135 Allocation of Goods Traffic and Hardships of Traders, 85 Ambulance Train Traffic on the Great Western Railway, 207 American Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen : Proposed Cooperative Stores on Large Scale, 135 American Express Company, Packing Regulations, 359 American Locomotives, 150, for Italian Railways, 35 American Railway Associations Convention : Depreciation in Freight Cars, 135 American Saw. Mills Supplying Sleepers for British and French Railways, 35, 85 American Troop Movement ; Bailway Figures, 111 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS fcon- tinued): Annual Reports of Railways, Statutory Form of Account to be Resumed, 111 Appointmentsand Staff Changes, 11, 85, 135, 207, 230, 255, 279, 437, 463, 515 Arabia, Narrow-gauge Railway, Aden to Lahej, 488 Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., First Main Line Locomotive Built, Trial of, 437 Athens, Existing Travel Facilities, Overland to Mediterranean Ports and Thence by Steamer, 279 Baldwin Locomotive Works Change of Presi- dent, 35 Banbury Station Free Buffet War Work, 411 Blackpool Traffic “ Rationing,” 135 Blandford Railway, Net Cost, 231 Bolivia’s National Resources and Lack of Transport Facilities, 305 “ Bradshaw’s Continental Guido,” Death of Editor, 333 Brakesman’s Comfort on the El Paso and South-Western Railroad, 489 Brazil Commission on State Railway Standardisation, 515 Brighton Tramway Track Renewals Cost, 180 British Railway Companies’ Weekly Notices to Operating Staff, 565 Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Finance, 539 Buenos Aires Railway, Oil Fuel Supply Cheaper than Coal, 515 “ Calling-on ” Signal on Different Railways’ 515 Canadian Government Acquisition of Grand Trunk and other Railways, Terms, 321, 333, 411 Canadian Government Railroad Commissioner as Finance Minister, 305 Canadian Pacific Railway, Reputation for Courtesy, 359 Canadian Pacific Railway, Transport of Returned Troops, Record Figures, 111 Canal Traffic Tonnage Statistics, 565 Carriages Turned into Living-rooms for Railway Workmen, 255 Cartage of Goods by Railways, When Remunerative and Otherwise, 59 Central London and London and South- Western, Suggested New Connection, 613 Ceylon Government Railways and Coal Economy, 359 Charing Cross Underground Station ; Quarter Million Passengers and Additional Stairways, 497 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Track Kept Level by Adjustment of Pontoon Bridge, 35 Chicago Railway Services, Electrification, Agreement between City and Railway Company, 35 Chili State Railways, Electrification of 2300 Miles, 305 Clock, Electrical, Four-face, for Waterloo, 613 “ Closed ” Stations and Platform Tickets, Protest at Manchester, 589 Coal Bill of Railways with Six Shillings a Ton Increase, 85, 613 Coastwise Traffic Decline, Subsidy and E dimated Cost, 635 Coast Traffic—see also Sea-borne Collision, Buffer Stop, at Cannon-street, 59, 359 Buffer Stop, at Crowe, 515, 565 ; Suggested Precaution for Bay Lines, 613 Buffer Stop, at Haverhill, Great Eastern Railway, 589 at Cheshire Lines Manchester Station, 463 Due to Gale, near Chesterfield, 635 Fatal, on the Caledonian Railway, 359 at Huddersfield, 359 at Hull, Report, 231 between London, Brighton and South Coast Train and Light Engine at Streatham, 463 on Midland Great Western Railway, 539 on the New York Central Railway, Supposed Caused by Tramp Stowaway, 231
at Preston Station, Report, 424
at Prestwick, Glasgow and South- Western Line, 539 at Selby between Great Eastern and Great Northern Trains, 463 Commercial Travellers’ Privileges, Certain Restrictions to be Retained, 539 Commercial Travellers’ Privileges Still Suspended, 59 Congestion of Railways and Docks as a War Consequence, 207 Congestion of Railways and Wagon Shortage ; High Sea Rates Cause Transference of Conveyance to Railways, 92, 207 Cork Railway Connections, Temporary, Request for Permanent Maintenance, 539 Corrugated Fire-box, New Type, in U.S.A., 255 Cycle Carriage on the District Railway, 207 Death of Mr. G. P. Culverwell, 489 Deatli of Mr. Charles Mattathias Jacobs, 359 Death of Mr. William Kirtley, 411 Death of Sir Joseph Lawrence, 489 Death of Mr. Frank Potter, Great Western Railway Manager, 85, 111, 135 Death of Railway Commissioner to the Victorian Government, 207 Death of Lord Rathmore, 206 Death of Mr. H. Cuff Smart, 489 Derailment at Acton Bridge, Report Findings, Fire from Gas Cylinder, 305 Derailment on the District Railway, 255 Derailment, Fatal, in France, 207 Derailment, Fatal, on the Midland Railway, 359, 411, 489 Derailment Outrage in Ireland, 181, 359 Derbyshire Peak, Scheme for Railway, 635 Dover and Calais Service ai/d Demobilisation, 383 Dublin Mail Boat Service, Changes, 255 East Indian Railway Company, Extension of Contract for Working under Consideration, 111 East Indian Railway Fatal Collision, 35 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- tinued): East Indian Railway Company, Government Contract Extension ; Conversion Rate for Rupee, 370 East Indian Railway Company, Increased Carriage of Coals and other Goods, 157 East Indian Railway, New Chief Engineer, 135 East London Railway Opening, Jubilee, 565 Edinburgh and Glasgow Traffic, Respective Routes, 515 Eight-hour Day Adoption and Difficulties, 11 Electric Lighting for Railways to Prevent Fires, 231 Electric Locomotives for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Tests, 589 Electricity Supply Bill, Railway Generating Stations and Main Transmission Lines Exempted from Transfer under Clause 7, 135 Electrification of Italian Railways by Italo- American Syndicate, 565 Electrification of Main Line Railroads, Statistics for U.S.A., W. B. Potter and S. T. Dodd, 85 Electrification on North-Eastern Main Line Section and on Loop Line, 463 Electrification and Rebuilding of French Railways, 117 Electrification Schemes on Various British Main Lines, 539 Engineers as General Managers, 255 Enginemen’s Equalised Pay and Unequalised Hours and Responsibility, 489 Enginemen to have Working Clothes Provided Free, 35 Engines, Robinson Design, Transferred from War-office to Various Railways, 135 Entre Rios Railway, Fuel Question, 411, 437 Entre Rios Railway, Record Growth in Receipts and Ton Mileage, 463 Eyesight of Drivers and Firemen, 35, 411 Eyesight Test, 279 Fares and Freight Rates ; Question of Ending Subsidy to Railways, 181 Fares Revision on the London Underground Railways, 255 Federated Malay States Railways Engine, 383 Federated Malay States Railways Increased Maintenance Costs, 305 Fifty Years’ Work with One Company, 181 Films Showing Railway Work, 85 Fires on Railways ; Gas versus Electricity, 231, 305 Fish and the Railways, 58 Flag Decoration of Omnibuses, Trams, and Trains of London Electric Railways and Allied Companies to Celebrate Employees’ Return from the Army, 11 Folkestone-Dover Line Closed since 1914 and now Reopened, 111 Foodstuffs, Perishable, Carriage Arrangements, 613 France, Railway Accidents in Three Months, 383 Freight Cars Depreciation in America, 135 Freight Rates on Railways and Sea-borne Goods, 157 French Flat-bottomed Rails Sold to South Africa, 111 French Officials Visit United States for Study of Electrification of Railways, 35 French Railways, Reconstruction and Electrification, 117 French State Railways Derailment, 207 Fuel Question on South American Railways, Oil Displacing Coal, 411, 437 Galway (Barna) Railway and Harbour Bill, 613 Gas on Railways as a Cause of Fire, 231, 305 Gattie System of Handling Goods, Committee of Inquiry, 35, 58, 157, 279, 333 Gauges on Railways, Three in All, 59 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Eight Men with Company for Fifty Years, 181 Golf as an Aid to Railroad Working, 489 Goods and Passenger Traffic, Estimate of Revenue Asked for, 11 Government’s Offer to Railwaymen, 635 Government and Railwavmen’s Unions, 207, 383 Great Eastern Railway, Slight Collision with Buffer Stop, 333 Great Northern Expresses, Acceleration, 539 Great Northern Railway Extension, Change of Scheme, 635 Great Northern Railway, Retirement of Chief Traffic Manager, 135 Great Western Railway Divisional Engineer at Shrewsbury, 11 Great Western Railway General Manager, Death of Mr. Frank Potter ; New Appointment, 85, 111, 135 Great Western Railway, Mileage Increase of, 635 Hand-to-mouth Principle, Consignments Smaller and More Frequent than in Prewar Days, 35 Handling Goods and Traffic, Mr. A. W. Gattie’s Proposals, Board of Trade Committee to Investigate, 35, 58, 157 Hull Station and the Gattie System, 157 Improved Service between London, Birmingham, &c., and Wales, 383 India-office Negotiations on Locomotive Building, 565 Indian Railway Conference and Standardised Wagons, 231
Railways and Home-made Wagons,
Irish Transport Director, Contemplated Appointment, 111 Jamaica Railways, Question of Conversion from Steam to Electrical Working, 11 Japan and Railway Electrification, Locomotives from Germany Compared with Home-made, 92 Krupp’s New Locomotive Works and Prussian State Railways, 333 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway “ Rationing,” 135 Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway, Improvements in Line and Working, 11 Level Crossing Accidents on Southern Pacific Railroad, 135 Light Railway Commissioners: Orders Applied for and Confirmed, 135, 589 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Locomotive Building Design in America, Question of Standardisation or Otherwise, 35 Locomotive Building in India, 565 Locomotive Situation in France, 215 Locomotives from France, Cost of Fifty, 613 Locomotives for France from United States in War Time, 515 Locomotives, Mr. Robinson’s Design, Lying Idle ; Possible Explanation, 333, 613 Locomotives and Rolling Stock Sent Overseas during the War, 85 Locomotives for South Africa to be Built in Canada and United States instead of United Kingdom, 111 Locomotives and Wagons Built at Woolwich, 437 Locomotives and Wagons Stored in the Open, Question and Answer, 207 Lodging Allowance to Travelling Trainmen, Revision, 85 London and North-Western Coach Derailed, 181 London and North-Western’s Greenore Service New Steamers, 463 London and North-Western Railway Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Buffet, 207 London and North-Western Running Superintendent, Changes, 85 London and North-Western War Memorial, 463 London and Paris, Day Passenger Service Resumed by Brighton Railway Company, 35 London and Paris, Time-table of Connections, 437 London Railways and Extension of Electrification, 59 London, Railways Running Into, Present Percentage of Pre-war Services, 85 London and South-Western Suburban Services Improvements, 613 Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Manager Thanked for Assistance to Navy During War, 142 Lorries May be Adopted by Railways, But Not by the State, 635 Lorries, War-office, for Conveyance of Railway Goods, 111, 157, 635 Lorries—see also Transport, Ministry of Madrid Metropolitan Electric Underground Railway Opened, 437 Manchester and Oldham Section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 489 Marseilles Projected Underground Railway, 489 Mechanical Stokers on United States Locomotives, Increased Numbers, 157 Meeting Trains on United States Railways, A Fifty Years’ Old Rule, 589 Melbourne Suburban Railways, Electrification, 635 Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, Change of Manager, 437 Metropolitan District Railway : Consequences of Rails Scarcity, 85 Metropolitan District Railway’s New Cars, 59 Metropolitan Railway’s Increased Service, 11 Midland Great Western Railway—see Mullingar Midland Railway Steamship Service between Heysham and Belfast, 565 Miners’ Demonstration at Blackpool, Special Trains and Numbers, 59 Motor Lorries Lent to Railways by Government, 255, 437—see also Lorries Moving Platforms on the New York Subway, 463 Mullingar and Kells Railway : Projected Connection between West and North of Ireland, Avoiding Dublin, 569, 613 National Railroad Question of To-day, C. A. Morse, 94 National Union of Railwaymen, Administration Changes, 539 Nationalisation of Railways and Shareholders’ Interests, 59 North British Railway Locomotives Renamed After War Service Overseas, 565 North British Railway’s Locomotive Loss by Fire at Cowlairs, 11 North-Eastern Railway Collision at Hull, Report, 231 North-Eastern Railway, Electrification on 489 North-Eastern Railway Goods Traffic : Information for Gattie System Committee, 333 North-Eastern Railway, New Deputy Manager, 11 North-Eastern Railway’s Running Superintendent, 463 Nottingham Station Entrance of the Midland Railway, 207, 279, 489 Official Appointments of Sir Eric Geddes and Mr. H. G. Burgess, 207 Oil Fuel to Replace Coal and Wood on South American Railways, 411, 437 Omnibus Men’s Splendid Service on Outbreak of War, 411 Overcrowded London Trains and Electrification, 59 Parcel Loss on London and North-Western Railway, Case Lost by Railway on Appea 135 Parcels Rates Increase, 231 Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, Electrification between Clermont Ferrand and Nimes, 111 Paris Metropolitaine Finance, A Deficit, 305 Paris Metropolitaine, Great Increase in Tickets Issued, 231 Passengers’ Luggage, 100 lb. Limit Question, 169 Pennsylvania Railroad, New Mallet Engine 255 ’ Pensioned Railway Servants and Higher Cost of Living, 463 Piecework and Similar Systems on Railways, Fresh Agreement, 59 Plans and Tracings as Hospital Bandages, Historic Signatures, 305 Plumb Plan for Railway Operation, 231 Pontoon Swing Bridge Adjusted with Rise and Fall of the Mississippi, to Keep Railway Track Level, 35 Port Congestion, Sir Auckland Geddes on, 181 Post-office (London) Railway, Completion of Running Tunnel, Delayed Opening, 11 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Queensland Government Railway and Automatic Signals, 489 Race Meetings and Train Services, 176 Railway Benevolent Institution, Record Receipts, 11 Railway Bills Deposited, Decreased Number, 613 Railway Clearing House, New Secretary, 613 Railway Companies Association Circular to Proprietors Explaining Government Connection and Future Prospects, 635 Railway Employees, Increased Numbers, 613 RAILWAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Blandford Railway Handed Over to Executive Committee, 231 Collieries and Wagon Shortage, Measures Taken, 135 Continental Services, Efficiency Dependent on Government Requirements, 157 Foreign Goods and Coastwise Traffic and Charges, 207 Holidays and Pay of Clerks, Stationmasters, &c., New Scheme, 305 Sunday Duty Pay, 39 Wages Agreement between Government and Unions, 207 Railway Management and Ill-informed Criticism, 589 Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 11, 181, 231, 383, 589, 635 Railwaymen and Piecework Question, 59 Railwaymen’s Nine Hours Interval between Work, 94 Railwaymen’s Unions, Probable Amalgamation, 59 Railway Working Results to End of August, 437 Rates and Strikes, 515 “ Rationing ” Traffic to Blackpool, 135 Record Passenger Traffic on London and on New York Local Railways, Comparison, 11 Richborough, Cost of Works at, and Future of the Port, 59 Rolling Stock Cost, Pre-war and Post-war Prices Compared, 489 Rolling Stock Deficiencies as a War Consequence, 565 Rolling Stock for War Service Abroad, Questions Arising, 157 Russia, South-East, and Turkestan, Railway, Communication Opened, 463 “ Safety First ” Movement, Originator in this Country, 255 Safety First ; Records of Immunity from Accident, 411 St. Just (Falmouth) Ocean Wharves and Railways Bill, 111 St. Paul Station, Second Largest in the United States, 359 Sea-borne Goods Charges and Railway Congestion, 92, 207 Season Tickets during the Strike, 463 Season Tickets, Enamelled, Proposal by the Metropolitan Railway Company, 279 Season Tickets, Monthly, Resumed, 255 Severn Tunnel, Goods Traffic Increase since
Pre-war Time, 635
Shanghai to Build its own Tramcars, 231 Shropshire, Two New Railways, Conferences on the Proposition, 589 Signals, Automatic and Block, in the United States, 333 Sinai Railway Built by Engineer Railwaymen, 207 Single-line Tokens and Starting Signals, Suggested Precaution, 613 Sleepers from United States for British and French Railways, 35, 85 Smoking in Hospitals, Railway Employees’ Pipe Renovation Work for Soldiers, 207 Snow Closes Transandine Railway for Five Months, 565 South African Locomotive Orders Lost to United Kingdom, 111
South African Railway Rates Increase, 565 South American Railways Fuel—see Fuel South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Acci dent, Result of Inquiry, 157
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Uses Twenty-four Hours’ Timing, 255 South Indian Railway Steamers Worked at a Loss, 515 South Wales and Wagon Delays, 635 Standardised Wagons for India, 231 Steamship, Railway, Services-—see also Ships Strike, Government Direct Cost, 437 Strike and Industrial Communications by Railway, 383 Strike, Parliamentary Debate Suggested, 437 Strike and Passenger Traffic, 383 Strike of Railway Shopmen in America, 355 383 Strike and Volunteer Assistance, Railway Companies’ Resolutions in Appreciation, 463 Subsidy to Railways and Question of Freight Rates, 181 Summer Time in America Causes an Hour’s Train Stoppage, 565 Swedish State Railway Electrification, Time and Cost Estimate, 111 Swiss Surcharge on Tickets for France, Due to Exchange Rate, 613 Thomas, Mr. J. H., on Government Conciliation Scheme, 535 Tokyo, Projected Railway Electrification. Locomotive Difficulties, 92 Trades Unions, and Railway Control, 539 Traffic Allocation to a Given Company, Inconveniences, 157 Traffic Difficulties, Offer of War-office Lorries 111,157 Train and Omnibus, Increased Accommodation, 411 Transport Committee (Metropolitan Area) Progress, 59 ; Report, 181 Transport of Goods Delay, Suggested Remedy, 73 TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF : Congestion at Terminals and Ports, Cause;, and Steps Taken to Remedv, 137
Definition of Word “ Possession,” 181
Electricity Bill, New Powers, and the
Ministry of Transport, 539
Goods Rates Increase, 279
Information Required from Railway and other Authorities, 333 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF (continued)
Irish County Councils’ Request for Irish Committee for Transport in Ireland, 359
Irish Director-General of Transport, 489
Locomotives of Various Types Built in Great Britain for Use in France, Allocated to British Railways, 539 London Traffic, Special Committee, 255, 359, 463 . . Minister’s Title Changed to Minister of Transport, 135 Motor Lorries Lent by Government, 255, 437 Number of Ministry Staff, 437 Powers of other Departments, Transference to Ministry of Transport, 279, 305 Return of Locomotives and Wagons Lent to France, 411, 437 Revision of Rates, &c., Committee to Advise before Action, 415, 437, 589 Rolling Stock Position ; Figures in Preparation by Ministry, 515 Royal Assent to Bill, 181 Sir Eric Geddes on Privately Owned Wagons, 85
Transport, Institute of, 489
Transport, Railway, Papers Read at the British Association Meeting, 279 Trucks at Avonmouth, 38 to Replace 482, 1S1 Tunnel Under the Solent ; Address to Ministry Suggested, 383 Wagon Building, Government and Private, 437 Wagon Ownership, Analysis, 539 Wagons, Privately Owned and Otherwise, Comparison of Tonnage Carried, 181 TRAVELLING Vouchers for Members of Parliament, Question of, 157, 181
Twenty-four Hours'’ Timing :
Home Secretary Appoints Committee to Consider the Question, 333 South - Eastern and Chatham Adopts System, 255 Uganda Government Railway, Proposed Increase of Fares, 489 “ Underground ” Posters to Explain Increase in Working Cost, 189 Underground Railway Window Posters, 515 Uniforms of Underground and Omnibus Employees, Huge Cost Increase, 181 United States Exports of Steel Rails, Fishplates, &c., to Various Countries, 515
UNITED STATES RAILWAYS :
Agreement between Administration and Companies, Difficulties in Adjustment, !65 . Appeal for Economy in Use of Fuel and Stores, 11 Demobilisation and Passenger Equipment, 383 Employees, Statistics, 613 Federal Control Removal from Railways, 489, 515 Freight Cars Orders Delayed, but Good Supply, 463 Inventory of Supplies and Material Prior to Return of Railways to Private Management, 383 Pennsylvania Company’s Fast Train Restored, 35 Railroad Bill, Senator Cummins as Promoter, 515 Railway Industry Shown in Diagram, E. B. Leigh, 111 Railway Operation and the Plumb Plan, 231 Railway Revenue and Expenditure, 305 Ratio of Expenditure to Recipts in 1913 and 1918, 85 Sleepers, 4,000,000, Ordered from Oregon and Washington Sawmills, 35, 85
Strike of Railway Shopmen, 355, 383
War Department Purchases for France Taken Over by Railroad Administration, 85 Women Employees on United States Railways, Increase up to Armistice, Reduction Since, 260 Victorian Government Railway Commissioners, An Appointment and a Death, 207 Wagon Building and Repair ; Compensation Question, 185 Wagon Delays in South Wales, 635 Wagon Detention in Excess of Time Allowed, Statistics, 635 Wagon, Railway, Ownership, Analysis, 539 Wagon Shortage and Colliery Stoppages, 135 Wagon Shortage, Relief by Government Motor Lorries, 111, 157 Wagons, Common User System, in this Country and in United States, 589 Wagons, Privately Owned and Otherwise, Census, 181, 589 Wagons Used in France Out of Gauge for English Railways, 613 Wagons from Woolwich Arsenal ; None Yet Delivered, 565
War Bonus of Officers, 279
War Lorries for Relief of Dock Congestion, Cost, 635 War Lorries for Relief of Dock Congestion Not a Success, 635 Ways and Communications Bill—see Transport Willesden, Railway Property in, Rateable Value, 279 Women on Railway Work, Diminishing Number Pending Men’s Demobilisation, 565 Women on Railway Work, War Cabinet Committee, 72 Workmen’s Fares and Trains Still as in Prewar Time, 59 York and Newcastle ; Main and Loop Line Electrification on the North-Eastern Railway, 489 RAINFALL Data, British, Continuance of Publication, 85 Rainfall, Record, in Manila, 589 Rangefinders, Progress in, Dr. A. Barr, 111 Rangoon Dock Construction Postponed, Erosion Works Projected, 635 Ransome, Lewis, Accident, 382 Redmayne, Sir Richard, Returns to Post as Chief Inspector of Mines, 463 Refractory Materials Section of the Ceramic
Society ; Various Meetings, 383
Refrigerating Plant at Tientsin, 463 Refrigerating Plants, Small, Successful Manufacture of, iiTAustralia, 463 Refrigeration to Reduce Glare in Photographing Metal, 157 Refrigerator Fleet for Italy, Mostly German, 489 Refuse Collecting and Separating Screen in Hampstead, 111 Reinforced Concrete Columns, Experiments with Various Forms of Protective Covering,
W. A. Hull, 181
Reinforced Concrete Flag-pole, 157 Review of the Foreign Press, 528 Rhodesia Broken Hill Mines, Additional Pump, 157 Rhone Development—see Electrical Matters Ricliborough, Cost of Works at, and Future of the Port, 59 Roads, Slippery Condition Due to Tar, &c., Committee of Investigation, 613 Rock Drilling Tests and Triumphs in South Africa, 181 Royal Agricultural Society, Trials of Ploughs and Tractors, 635 Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book, 452 s SAFETY in Factories, Home-office Pamphlet 620 Salvage Pumps and Submersible Salvage Units, Government Sale, 589 Sand Used in Concrete, Careful Investigation Absolutely Necessary, H. E. Bellamy, 383 Scarfed Leather Belts, Direction of Travel, 411 Scientific Lighting and Industrial Efficiency, Leon Gaster, 122 Scotland and Reinforced Concrete, 333 Scrap Metal Utilised by Blow-pipe Cutting, 181 Sea Depth Sounding by Explosive Charges, 463 Sewage Scheme for Fleet, Further Loan, 231 Shanghai, Anglo-Chinese Business Men’s Club, 463 Shanghai, Projected Port Improvements, Dredging and Damming Rivers, 59 Shearing Strength of Wooden Structures, Simple Device for Improvement, Professor C. Forssell, 35 Sheffield, Supply of Coke Oven Gas to, Mr.
Laverick, 539
Shells, Commercial Possibilities of, 305 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS: American Transport’s Claim for Record Trip 59 Barrow and Belfast Steamship Services, Projected Re-opening, 539
Bideford’s First Steel Ship Begun, 565
Brussels, Captain Fryatt’s Steamship Salved at Zeebrugge, 207 Canadian Government Steel Steamers Building at Vancouver, 635 Canadian Mercantile Marine, New Ships Delivered, 515. Chicago to Liverpool, Voyage of Vessel of over 4000 Tons, 59 Coal Loading Record at Sunderland, 463 Curraghmore, London and North-Western Steamer, Lent to City of Dublin Steam Packet Company for Mail Service, 539 Dreadnought Fleet Passed through Panama Canal Locks, 135 Dublin Mail Boat Service Changes, 255 Electrically Welded Ship, First Launched in France, 613 First Steamer to be Built at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 613 Foreign Ships’ Charters Freed from Inter- Allied Control, 59 French Government Order, Last of Forty New Ships Launched at Victoria, B.C., 515 French Merchant Fleet Reconstruction, Report by Government Commission, 515 Fuel for Ships, Immense Saving by Use of Oil, 515 Gigantic Ocean Liners for Rapid Atlantic Crossing, 111
Greece, Shipping Amalgamation in, 359 Hebburn-on-Tyne, New Shipyard at, 59, 539
• Heysham and Belfast Passenger Service Unlikely to be Resumed, 565 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued): H. M. Destroyer Westminster in Collision, 157 Indo-Ceylon Steamers Worked at a Loss, 515 Irish Shipyard Purchase at Warrenpoint, 333 Japan and America, Relative Cost of Shipbuilding in the Two Countries, 333
Japanese New Steamship'Line, 157 Japanese Shipbuilding Profits, 411
Japanese Shipowners and Piers in Kobe Harbour, 255 Laurentic Wreck at Lough Swilly, Bullion Salved from, 157 Life-saving Appliances on Ships ; Use of “Kapok,” 157 London and North-Western Company’s
Steamers Renamed ; New Ones Built, 341 New Steamer Curraghmore, 463
Nova Scotia and Steel Shipbuilding Industry, 635
Olympic to be Reconditioned at Belfast, 157
Queenstown, Calling of Large Cunard and White Star Steamers Suspended, 207 Refrigerator Fleet for Italy, Requisitions from Germany, 489 Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 11, 181, 320 Ship’s Position at Sea, Discovered by Depth Charges and Hydrophones, 181 Spain Prohibits Export of Certain Ships, 411
Steamers Sold to Foreigners this Year, 135
Towing, Electric, on the Canal de la Marne, 255 United States Shipbuilding versus British, 231 Yarrow Shipbuilding Programme at Scots- toun, 305 SHOWER Bath for Mules Used in Mines, 279 Silt Removal from Zuni Reservoir, New Mexico,
Suggested Method, 613
Singapore, Petrol Transport Service, 333 Sirocco—see Davidson “ Skyscraper ” Born in Edinburgh in 1698, 11 Slate Quarry Waste Utilised in Wales, 515 Sound for Surveying Diamond Drill Holes ;
Accuracy of Listening Instruments, 565
South African Chamber of Mines Building, 539 South African Low-grade Gold Mines, Serious Position, 207 South African Post-office Revenue, 333 South African Technical Societies, Institute
Building for General Use, 135
Spirit Levels, Major E. O. Henrici, 59 ; J. W.
French, 135
Standardisation of Chains, New Association, 124, 220, 359 Statistics, Request for Parliamentary Committee by Royal Statistical Society, 85 Steam Turbines and Fuel Consumption, Professor F. Bacon on, 359 Steaming Gas Retorts, Mr, Riley, 539 Steel Wire Rope Tests in United States, 333 Stone Crushers, Gyratory, Largest Portable
Yet Built, 333
Strikes and the Community, A Warning, 333 Submarine Acoustics, F. Lloyd Hopwood, 181 Sugar Cane Mills in the Philippine Islands, 359 Sugar Factory from Locally Grown Beet near
Newark, 59
Sulphur Discovery in Java, 181 Summer Time Throughout the Year, Monsieur Pa seal is, 374 Surplus Government Property, Successful Sales, 11, 59, 157, 181 Surplus, Numbers Published, Surplus Sales Results , 59, 589 Suspension Bridge, Proposed, at Philadelphia, Span Required, 11 T TANK for Precipitation of Solids in Mine Water, 620 Tasmanian Government Power Scheme, 635 Telephone Boxes, Roadside, for Automobile Association Members, 107 Telephone Line between Allahabad and Lucknow, 538 Testing of Anchors and Chain Cables by Lloyd’s Register, 489 Textile Materials, Tensile Strength and Atmospheric Humidity, 411 Thermalene, New Gas for Producing High Temperatures, 383 Thermit Weld, Unusually Large, 59 Tidal Power Schemes, English and French, 305 Tigris and Euphrates Estuary Bar, Need of Removal for Sake of Trade, 463 Timber Growing in South Africa, Advantages of Pine, 437. Timber, Methods of Preserving, 489 Timber, Mine, Preservation of, N. T. Williams, 47, 463 Timber in New Zealand, Neglected Valuable Asset, 35 Timber Planting in the United Kingdom, Available Land and Need of Timber, 135 Timber, Seventy Million Feet from Britislu Columbia, 181 Timber Tests in United States ; Heartwood and Sapwood, 565 Tin Ore from British Sources, 565 Tin-plate Manufacture in Japan, 359 Tin and Silver Lead Output in New South Wales, Increased Value, 85 Tin in War Time, Cadmium Used as Substitute in Solder, 515 Tipping Dumping Wagons : Getting Barges over High Lock Sills, A Comparison, 596 Tractor Trials and Exhibition at Lincoln, 59 Trade Unionism Among Professional Associations, 181 Tram Accident at Burton, Suggestion to Check Running Backwards, 613 Trams versus Rubber-tired Vehicles, Dr. Blackwood Murray, 565 Tramways in Aberdeen and Glasgow, Profit with Low Fares, 305 Transport Committee (Metropolitan Area), Progress, 59 ; Report under Consideration, 181 TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF: Canals’ Future as a Difficult Problem, 135— see also Board of Trade Crinan Canal, Survey,What to Do with it, 635 Date of Transfer of Certain Powers from Board of Trade and Ministry of Health, 279, 305 Electricity Bill, New Powers, and the Ministry of Transport, 539
Goods Rates, Railway, Increase, 279
London Traffic Question, 59, 181, 255, 359, 463 Minister’s Title Changed to Minister of Transport, 135
Revision of Rates, Fares, &c., Procedure
Before Taking Action, 415
Royal Assent to Bill, 181
Slippery Roads, Committee of Surveyors to Investigate, 613 Transport Service, Emergency Road, Continued by Government to Relieve Congestion after the Railway Strike, 411 TRANSVAAL Gold Mines, Coal Used by, 231 u UNIVERSITY of Bristol, Major Robertson Appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 35 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE : Recent Developments in Public and Private
Lighting, W. C. Clinton, 421
Thermionic Detectors, Lectures by Professor J. A. Fleming, 382 University of Manchester, Increase of Funds Needed for Additional Students, 589 V VANCOUVER Island ; Projected Largest Dock in the World at Esquimault, 234 Venezuela, First National Exhibition, 437 Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 181 Vickers to Occupy St. Ermin’s Hotel, 565 Vickers’ War Memorial Offer for Barrow, 463 Victoria, Vancouver Island, New Water Supply, 279 w WAGES in Japan, Male and Female Workers, 359 Wales, Use of Water Power of, for Welsh Industries, Prize Essay at Eisteddfod, 279 War Models Exhibition, Returns, 35 Washington International Labour Conference, London and North-Western Official Delegate, 489 Waterfall, Prehistoric, Immense, 635 Water-logged Pits in the Tipton District, 181 Water Power Available in Borneo and Sumatra, 359 Water Power, French, Suggested Use of, in Relief of Coal Scarcity, 59 Water Power in India, Potential Resources, 437, 515 Water Power, Insufficiently Utilised in Germany and Austria, 515 Water Power Resources in Brazil, 463 Water Power of the St. Lawrence, Development, 635 Water Power of the Yangtze River, Scheme for Utilisation, S. J. Powell, 613 Waterproof Cement, Sir G. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 489 WATER SUPPLY: British Columbia, Water Power Resources, 231 Dairen, Shahokoa, New Water Supply Appliances, 231 Fire Engine for Refilling Water Reservoir, 181 Greater Winnipeg Water Board and Shoal
Lake Aqueduct, 503 Jerusalem, New Water Supply for, 216
Lima, Peru, New Waterworks Projected, 635 Manchester Water Scheme Passed House of Lords, 610 Metropolitan Water Board Reorganisation Scheme Rejected, 359 Nuneaton, Further Water Supply Projected, 589
Osaka Water Supply Extensions 231
Winnipeg Supply from Lake in Ontario, Arduous Task, 157
Water Waste at Night, 207
WATT Engine and James Watt's Cornish Experiences ; Centenary, 206, 213, 450 Ways and Communications Bill—see Transport —see also Railways Weights and Mea ures, Mr. Halsey on the Decimal System, 255 Weld Requiring 1400 lb. of Thermit, 59 Welding of Cutter Bars at a Colliery, 359 Wells, Deepest, in the World, 359 Westinghouse, Ex-British, Association Dinner, 548 Wind Power for Production of Electricity, Proposed Windmills for Supply of St. Ives, 59 Winnipeg River Power Company, Equipment, 255 Wire Hawsers, Method of Attaching, to Sunken Vessels, 207 Wireless Shore Stations in U.S.A., 305 Wireless Telegraph Station at Warsaw, Germany’s Low Bid, 255 Wireless Telegraphic Stations in Mexico, Foreign Competition Refused, 463 Wireless Telegraphy for Determination of Longitude, 515 Wireless Telephony in Air Flight, 157 Wittet, G., Retirement from Bombay Government Service, 406 Wolfram Discoveries in Siberia. Ill Wood Distillation in India, “ Stockholm ” Tar from Long-leaf Pine, 85 Wooden Piling in Wrater, Durability Question, 411 Wooden Structures, Shearing Strength of, Improvement Device, Professor C. Forssell, 35 Works, New, in the North of England, 539 Y YARROW Shipbuilding Programme, 305 z ZEPPELINS, Proposed Line of, between Germany and Sweden, 463 Zinc, Electrolytic, Production in Australia, 10/ Zinc Ore Accumulation in China, 411
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