The Engineer 1925 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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A AERIAL Ropeway, 5 Miles Long, for Tin Ore Transport from the Andes Slopes, 349 AERONAUTICS : Aeroplane as Aid to Fruit Culture, 115 Aeroplanes for Forest Patrol and Photo¬graphic Survey in Canada, 115 Aeroplane’s Reported 270 Miles per Hour, 356 Aircraft Apprentices, Awards by Air Ministry, 478 Airship Station to Become Beet Sugar Factory, 609 “ Autogiro ” Flying Machine at Madrid, Successful Tests, 37 Belgian Congo, Establishment of Air Route .Expected Shortly, 267 Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 102 Civil Ail1 Route Between Egypt and India, Progress of Arrangements for, 189 Danish Army Purchase of Aeroplanes from English Company, 89 De Haviland Moth Light Aeroplanes, Two Ordered for Aero Club, 89 Fogs and Safe Landing, New Method to Secure, 433 French Seaplanes and their Men Lost during Trials, 295 Goliath Bombing Planes’ Attack on the Riffs, 328 Non-stop Transatlantic Flight Projected, 141 Polo Ground as Landing Ground for Aero¬planes, 491 R 38 Disaster, Tablet Unveiled in Memory of Lost British and Americans, 11 R 38 Memorial Fund, Part of the Income to be Used as a Prize for Technical Paper, 257 Seaplane Race in America, Britain’s Entrants Sent Over for Practice, 295 Shenandoah, U.S.A., Airship, Equipment and Successful Trials, 189 AGRICULTURAL Machinery Tests, 63 Alcohol, Industrial, Factory Activities and Prospects, 215 Alcohol Production from North Borneo Palm Sap,141 Aluminium Hollowware, Duty Asked for, 295 Aluminium Plant in Quebec Calls for Model City to House 5000 Employees, 261 Aluminium Syndicate Formed in Germany, 241 American Society for Testing Materials, 348 Ammonia, Synthesis of, Secrets Connected with Low Temperatures and Pressures, 669 Ammonium Sulphate Recovery Plant at Staf¬ford Gasworks, 695 An Alien’s Dinner, 606 Anhydrite as Substitute for Gypsum as Re¬tarder for Portland Cement, 463 Apulia’s Need of Water for Agriculture and Kindred Industries, 639 Arsenic Ore Discoveries in South Australia, 551 Arsenic Record Output in U.S.A., 669 Artificial Silk Factory Projected at Oldham, 267 Asphalt Mixing Plant, Davey, Paxman and Co., 628 ; (Correction), 656 Asphalt Paving Conference, 204 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION, DIESEL ENGINE USERS’ : Scottish Shale Oil Industry, E. M. Bailev. 422 INSTITUTE, AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL: Electric Alloy Steel, F. E. Clark, 581 INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL : Andrew Carnegie Research Fund, 593 INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT : Election of the Council, 141 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS : Annual Dinner, 499 Awards of Medals, 405 Conference and Programme, 389 Informal Meeting, Petrol Gauges, 282 Meeting Fixtures, 336 Military Motor Vehicles, Projected Dis cussion of Paper, 506 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS : Awards for Papers, 450 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
A.M.I.E.E. Examination, Conditions, 75 Annual Conversazione, 52
Election of New Members of Council, 102 STUDENTS’ SECTION : Visits to Marconi Company’s Wireless Stations, 151 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIP - BUILDERS IN SCOTLAND ! Commercial Application of Fuel Oil, A. F. Baillie, 669, 695 Opening of Session, Presidential Address, Programme for Session, 386 INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
Measurement of Air Flow, E. Ower, 377
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS : Lecturette on Flow Meters, Rotameter Accuracy, W. H. Simmons, 519 SHEFFIELD AND DISTRICT SECTION :
Visit to D.P. Battery Company’s Works, 26
INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS : Development of the Steam Locomotive, J. G. H. Warren, 63 MANCHESTER CENTRE : Visit to Works of Boyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 204 INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS : H.R.H. Duke of York to Attend Annual Dinner, 523
Cancelment of Dinner, 580
INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
Mr. Marriott’s Book, 78
INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Award of Scholarships, 447 Date for Next Annual Meetings, 491
INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
Papers for the New Session, 417
Pneumatic Hammers and other Tools, Life of, F. D. Verrill, 551 Presidential Address, Sir E. H. Tennyson d’Eyncourt, 417
INSTITUTION, PERMANENT WAY : Visits to Works, 102
INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS : High Wages in U.S.A, and Canada. Signal Department’s Share in Success, Lord Congleton, 433 Register of Appointments Required and Vacant, 377
Three-aspect Signalling Report, 165
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
General Meeting and Elections, 52, 500, 653 Hundredth Annual Course of Christmas
Lectures for Juveniles, Sir W. Bragg, 533, 653
INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
Examinations in India, 336
INSTITUTION OF WELDING ENGINEERS :
Mr. A. E. Knowles on Use of Surplus Power of Power Stations, 609
SOCIETY, FARADAY :
Annual Meeting and Election of Council, 89 General Discussion on Photo-chemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 279
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES :
Exhibition, 653
AUSTRALIAN Commonwealth Engineering
Standards, Electrical Matters Decisions, 267
Australian Government Roads Grants, 581 Australian Shale Oil Corporation, Start on Retort House in Tasmania, Oil Expectations, 377
B BAMBOO Utilisation in Pape’* Manufacture, Greatly Improved Process, 491 Barnsley College of Mining, Cost of, 639 Barrages Projected Across the Nile and White Nile', 321 Bauxite Deposits in Hungary, 463 Bay of Fundy, Power Generation from its Tides, Project for, 551 Beet Sugar Factory at Cupar, Projected, 349 Beet Sugar Factory in Dunmow District, 215 Beet Sugar Factory, English, but Machinery American, 669 Beet Sugar Factory at Halesowen, Plans may be Transferred to Gainsborough, 609 Beet Sugar Factory on the Ouse, 46 Beet Sugar Factory Projected near Camberley, 241 Beet Sugar Production in Canada, 115 Beet—see also Sugar Belgian Zinc Production, 115 Bell Overhauled After 700 Years’ Service, 349 Belt Conveyors to Replace Trucks, 377 Bengal Proposal to Dredge the Saraswati, 609 Blacksmith’s Demonstration Motor Van, 115 Boiler Explosion Risk, 165 Boiler Explosions and Imperfect Repairs, 669 Boiler Repair Methods, Good and Otherwise, 669 Boiler, Vertical, Unusual Explosion of,702 Boiler for Work under 1500 lb. Pressure, 405 Bombay’s Projected Chlorination of all the Water from Lake Tansa, 141 Breathing Apparatus, The Draeger, for Mines, 695 Brick-built Chimneys Felled at Bolton, 321 Bridge Across the Niagara River, Work Begun, 241 Bridge, International, Between Detroit and Canada, 491 Bridge, Large Wooden Span Trestle Over the Athabaska River, Canada, 189 Bridge Projected at Hull, 165 B ridge, New, Over the St. Lawrence at Montreal, 63 Bridge, Old Timber, at Seacoinbe, to be Re¬placed by Steel, 433, 463 Bridge, South Shore, Montreal Harbour, Plans Sanctioned, 491 Bridge, Suspension, and Cables, Dating Back over Sixty Years, 669 Bridges, Railway—see also Railways Bridges in Virginia, Unsatisfactory Condition of, 433 British Chemical Plant Manufacturers’ Asso¬ciation, Meeting, 154 British Columbia Waterway, 295 British Delegation at Trials in Brussels of Motor Lorries Driven by Producer Gas, 321 British Engineering Standards Association, Schedule of Specifications for Steel for Die Blocks, 310 British Export Trade Depression, Report, 165 British Guiana, Air Service versus Railway, 581 British Imports into Southern Rhodesia, Very Large Proportion of Total, 551 British Wire Netting Manufacturers Associa¬tion, 63 Bromine from Sea Water, 115 Bryan Donkin Chesterfield Works Extension, 349 Bulgaria’s Imports Increase, 581 Bulgarian Opening for British Trade, 433
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CABLE-WORK!NG Under Full Pressure for Ten Months, 165
Cables, Telephone and Telegraph. New in
France and Belgium, Tenders, 551
Caen, Normandy, Improvement of Port, 267
Calcium Sulphate Waste for Use in Plaster and
Building Blocks, 189
Calcutta Harbour, Increased Traffic Tonnage, 519
Canada, Annual Report on Manufacturing Industries, 433
Canada, Association of Consulting Engineers, Incorporated, 115
Canada’s Favourable Balance of Trade, 141
Canadian Automobile Factories’ Output, 639
Canadian Exports of Pulp and Paper, 581
Canadian, Formation of New Lake Suggested 551
Canadian Mines, Record Output of Lead, 215
Canadian National Railway New Docks, Wharves and Warehouses for, 491
Canadian National, Removal of Parrv Sound Plant, 491
Canadian Section of Ujiited States Institute of Radio Engineers, 433
Canal Building, Heavy Task in U.S.A., 519
Canals and Motor Transport, Co-operation Highly Desirable, 405
Capetown Steel Pipes Order for Germany, 37
Carbon Monoxide, Value of Pyrotannic Acid
Method for Quantitative Determination, 267
Carbon, Successful Fusion of, 581
Carbon Tetrachloride as Fire Extinguisher, Fumes Reduced by Caustic Soda, 165
Carbonic Acid, Liquid, and Other Gases, Pro¬duction of, at Stockholm, 491
Cement Factory, Large, Projected at Dunstable, Plant to Turn Out 100,000 Tons Yearly, 189
Cement Factory at Montreal, 115
Cement Factory, New, in Kent, 491
Ceylon Plumbago Trade Improvement, 609
Chefoo, Port of, China, Improvement for Use by Ocean-going Steamers, 88
Chemical Engineers, Training of, Proposed Monotechnic in London, 639
Chemical Works in India and Burma. 37
Chesterfield to Adopt Railless Car System in Place of Tramways, 141
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
“ Asociacion Carbonera de Chile ” Formed, 608 Barnsley Electricity Works, Coal Discovery
in Boiler-house Excavations, 89
Bituminous Coal Output of the United States, 141
British Somaliland Coal Discovery, 89
Brown Coal at Yallourn, Victoria, Cost* of Mining and Delivery, 519
California’s Abundance of Iron Ore, but Lack of Coke or Coking Coal, 165
Chromium, Electro-deposition of, C. H. S. Tupholme, 163
Coal Briquette Binders, Vegetable Pulp, 519, 581
Coal Discovery at Kamasamudram, Mysore, Not of Commercial Value, 89
Coaling Plant for Durban, Details of, 405
Coke and By-products in the United States, Statistics, 89
Coke-making Plant at Krugersdorp, S.A., Extension of, 695
Coke Ovens, Large, Projected, in Ontario, 165
Factory in Orkney Isles for Coal Briquette- binding Material, 519, 581
Fall of Coal, Extensive, at Yallourn, Vic¬toria, 519
French Production of Coal per Kilowatt Installed, 189
German Coal, Low-temperature Distillation of, in Yorkshire, Interesting Experiment, 267
“Good Day’s Work,” 4 Tons or 15 ? 321
Great Britain’s Week’s Coal Output, 89, 189, 405,491, 618,695
Harby, near Lincoln, New Colliery Starting, 321
Holland Coal Exports to Germany, 491
Kent Thick Coal Seam Struck, 463
Pekin, Coal Deposit Discovery, North-cast of Summer Palace, 609
Pithead Baths, 120, at Colliery near Shef¬field, 349
Polish Coal for Holland, Trial Consignments, 368
Royalties on Coal in Great Britain, 72
Russian Coal for Alexandria, First Shipment in Many Years, 695
Staveley Coal and Iron Company, Sinking Resumed, 463
Support of Underground Workings in the Coalfields of Scotland, Safety in Mines Research Board Paper, 609
Sydney, 60 Miles from, Coal Discovery, 609
Wemyss Coal Company’s Developments Under the Forth and Inland, 141
West Yorkshire Coalfield, New Boreholes, 349
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DAM, Large, Material Deposited by Belt Conveyors, 215 ••
Dam, Otaki, To be Largest in Japan, Work Started on, 377
Dam, Storage and Power, in Muskoka Lakes District, Ontario, 695
Dam in Victoria for Irrigating Water Storage, 639
Dams, Projected Building of 100 Across the
River Tennessee, 669
Darlington Tramways Replaced by Trolley Omnibuses, 2)5 Death of Mr. William Arnot, 10 Death-watch Beetle Destroyers, 261 Department of Overseas Trade, Information Notice, 21 Derby Railway Institute Radio Society, Visit to Works, &c., 78 Diamond Substitute Discovery, 581 Die Blocks—see British Engineering Distillery for Production of Alcohol from Molasses, 115 Docks, Dry, Two Now, in Montreal, 551 Dolcoath Tin Mine, Now Shaft, 349 Doncaster Hopes to Replace Tramways by
Trolley Omnibuses, 377
Douglas Harbour, Improvement under Consideration, 616 Drilling Operations and Hoped-for Success on the Rand, 609 Dry Dock, 700ft. ex-German, Length Increased, 63 Dry-rot Ravages in Alabama, 267 Durban, New Graving Dock at, 52 Dutch Scheme for Communication by Telephone between Ships at Sea and Land, 241 E EARTHQUAKES’ Slight Effect in Mines and Tunnels, 669 East African Dependencies, Trade and Information Office, 695 Egyptian State Railways Tenders, Revision of List of Approved Manufacturers, 267 El Salvador Republic, Public Works Programme, 669 ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
Aliwal North Electricity Undertaking, 579
Athens Power Works, Proposed, Tenders for, 349 Australian Standard Pressures and Frequencies, 349 Berlin, Projected Increase of Electrical Power, 241 Bohemia Electrification, Power Station at 70 Miles from Prague, 551 Bo’ness Electricity Department, Increased Charges, 382 Cables and Conductors for Montevideo, Tenders Wanted, 361 Canadian Power Companies’ Projected Increase of Plant, 581 Cauvery Falls, India, Costly Additional Power Plant for, 63 Charcoal Scarcity and Potential Electric Power at Teheran, 295 Chili State Railways’ Electrification Equipment, 695 Cooling of Large Transformers, Successful Method, 405 Copper Wire with Percentage' of Cadmium for Electric Transmission, 63
Durban, Tenders for Power Plant for, 249 Durham County Education Committee, Project for Electrical Laboratory, 609 Electrical Breakdown Explained, 89 Electric Furnace Temperatures, French and English Compared, 189 Electric Vehicle Progress, 37 Electric Vehicle’s Rapid Delivery, 267
Electricity in Berlin Households, Increased Use of, 405 Electricity Supply Industry, Cost of Living and Reduction of Wages, 37 Eleven 5000-Kilowatt Transformers for Brisbane Electric Light Company, 267 Expert Committee on Electricar Development, Delay in Report Unavoidable, 11 Heating, Electric, Mischief of Secrecy as to Methods, 405 Hereford Projected Electric Extensions, 189 International Conference on High-tension Electric Supply, 151 Irish Free State and Shannon Electricity Bill, ] 1
Lamp Importation, Largo, into Portugal, 37
Lighting, British Thomson-Houston Company’s New Showrooms, 21 Lots-road Power Station Plant Increase, 695 Maidstone Committee, Bearsted Supply of
Electricity Scheme to Cost £6500, 438 ‘
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued): Motor, Largest Ever Built for Steel Mill, to be Installed at McKinney Steel Company, Cleveland, 141 National Electricity Scheme Committee, 115 New South Wales State Commission on Electricity, Lapse of, 377 Gland, Island of, Sweden, Proposal to Supply Electrical Power to, 609, 669 Overhead Belt for Supply of Current to Large Rural Area, 115 Paris International Conference on High- tension Lines, 361 Polish Electrical Engineering, Demand for Increase in Import Duties, 47 I Power-house at King George’s Docks, Calcutta, 89 Power Station Fuel Efficiency at New York, J. B. C. Kershaw, 581 Power Station at Witbank, South Africa, Construction Progress, 295 Queenstown, S. Africa, Development of Electricity Scheme, 463 Switchgear Improvement and Experiments, 241 Sydney City Power-house, Site at Botany Bay, 491 Sydney Power Station, Tenders for Plant to be Invited, 609 Tanjore, Madras, Loan for Electrification, 519 220-Kilovolt Transmission and Flash-overs,
R. J. C. Wood, 433
Turbo-alternator, 5000-6000-Kilowatt, for Durban, 463 Turbo-alternator, 10,000-Kilowatt, 321 Units Sold for Cooking Purposes at Cardiff, 491 Victorian Electricity Commission, Sugarloaf Hydro-electric Scheme, 463 Victorian Electricity Commission’s Work, 551 Villages near Newton Abbot, Electricity Supply Order, 695 ELECTROPLATERS’ and Depositors’ Technical Society, 653 Element, New, Discovered by Czech University Professor, 551 Engineering Federation and Trade Unions Conference in London, 1 1 Engineers’ Club Annual Dinner. 475 Engineers and the Colonial Office, 389 Exeter Ship Canal, New Lock Gates for, 115 EXHIBITIONS :
British Industries Fair in 1926, 321, 475
British Industries Fair, London and Birmingham, Invitations to all Parts of the World, 519 Cairo Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, 349 Cycle Show at Olympia, 295 Electrical Exhibition at Osaka, 267 Fifth International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition in Paris in 1926, 189 German Foundry Exhibition at Dusseldorf, 215 International Agricultural Exhibition at Brussels, 588 International Fair at Salonica, 215
Postponement of Opening, 241, 295
International Motor Trade Exhibition in Copenhagen, 433 International Oil Exhibition at Crystal Palace, 626, 669 International Sample Fair in Havana, 581 Osaka, Electrical Exhibition in 1926, 321, 519 Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 447, 463 Radio Exhibitions in New York, 433 Railway Centenary Exhibition at South Kensington, 377, 463 Universal Smoke Abatement Exhibition in Birmingham, 669 ESTONIA’S Development as an Independent State, 639 Experimental Arch Dam, Construction Started, 551 Explosion of Aluminium Steam-jacketed Pan, Need of Caution, 89 Explosion of Boiler in Steam Trawler, 405 Explosion of Copper Winch Steam Pipe, 639 Explosion of Steam Trap in Important Powerhouse, 89 Explosion of Steam-worked Digester, 115 Explosions, Stop Valve, Due to Water-Hammer, 321 Explosives for Domestic Industries in U.S.A., Statistics of, 267 Explosives in Mines, Report by Mines Research Committee, 581 F FACTORY of the Future, Alfred W. Brown, 463 Fairs—see Exhibitions Fan Installed in the Transvaal, Largest in the World, 377 Faraday House, Old Students’ Association, Seventeenth Annual Dinner, 417 Ferries, Vehicle, Across Sydney Harbour, 519 Ferry Across the Humber, 639 Finland State Sulphuric Acid and Superphosphate Plant at Kotka, 639 Fire-fighting in Mines, Tests, 115 Fire Float, New, for the Thames, 63 Floating Dock, Ex-German, Section for Scapa Bay Salvage Work, 321 Floating Dry Dock, 700ft. Ex-German, Arrival at Malta, 11 ; Arrival of Extra Section at Malta, 215 Flood Damage at Worcester to Electricity and Waterworks, 405 Floors of Railway Wagons, Experiments in Replacing Wood and Iron by Cement, 519 Flue Gases from Generating Stations, Value of Unceasing Watch, 377 Forestry Commission Activities, 215, 321 Forest and Fire Protection, 669 Foundry for Harrow School Workshop Projected, 609 Frost Effect on Concrete Dam, California, 63 Fuel Economy Engineering, New Company Started, 547 Fuel Research Work at the University of Birmingham, 551 Furnaces, Electric, in France, Output in 1913 and in 1924, 695.
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HACK Saw Blade, Now Type, Frys (London), Ltd., 204
Hacksaw for Wide Cuts, 565
Hardening Drills by Use of a Fresh Herring, 405 ; (Letter), 429
Helium Gas Wells in Toronto, 669
Helium Production, Experiments in Berlin, 405
High-pressure Trap, Steam Discharge from, 215
High-pressure Turbine, Reported Record, 165
Highway Operations, G. H. Delano, Snowfall Effects, 639
House of Lords Well Provided with Heating Apparatus, 377
Houses of Steel Frames with Concrete Slabs, Erection in Eleven Days, 189
Hughes and Salomons Scholarships, 178
Human Factor in Industry, 653
Humber Navigation, Projected Improvements 349
Hydraulics,-Laboratory of, for Indian College, 639
Hydraulics, Research Institute for, Proposed in Switzerland, 377
Hydro-electric Development at Slave Falls, 491
Hydro-electric Plant in Now Brunswick, 189
Hydro-electric Plant/, Novel Type, in China, 215
Hydro-electric Power in Norway, French
Opinion of its Great Capabilities, 241
Hydro-electric Power Plant of British Columbia
Electric Railway Company, 463
Hydro-electric Power in Switzerland, Growth of, 11 Hydro-electric Scheme in British Columbia, 551 Hydrogen Peroxide, Solid Form, British, Placed on the Market, 609 Hydrogen Production by New Method for Ammonia Synthesis, 349 Hydrograph er Appointed in Toronto, 165
IRON AND STEEL (continued)
Newfoundland, Question of Royalties on Iron Ores from, 349 Nickel Plating on Exposed Steel Parts of Motor Cars, 463 Nickel-plating, Porosity of, Result of Tests, 267 Nickel Production of Canada, Output of Two Companies, 189 Paint for Protecting Steel Surfaces under Certain Conditions, Tests, 581 Quebec Magnesite Offered for British Steel Trade, 295 Steel Furnaces, Progress in Output and Conditions, 581 Steel Plates, Record Size, 165 Steel Rails Export, Germany’s Large Proportion, 695
Steel, Remarkable Claims for New Kind, 349 Steel Structures, Unsuitable for Japan. 377
Stockton, New Wharf Likely to Lead to Continental Trade in Iron, 609 Suffolk Iron Foundry Employees’ Outing. 303 Sydney, Nova Scotia, Record Steel Output, 669 Sydney Steel Plant Fully Employed for Canadian National Railways, 609 Tubes, Solid-drawn, of Stainless Steel and Iron, 581 Tungsten, Influence of, on Steel, Research Report, 241
United States, Pig Iron Production, 349
Workington Rail Mills of United Steel Company Restarted, 321 ISLE of Wight in Danger of Coast Erosion, 36 Italian Discovery of Ore Containing Copper
Sulphide and Gold, 340
Italian Parliament Telephone Between Chamber and Senate, 241 J JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Ltd.. Dinner to Directors and Management by Staff, 499 Japanese Patent Office Controller, Visit of, 695, K KA MB] Coupling, Swedish Engineer’s Invention, 551 Kaolin Discovery on Vancouver Island, 189 Kawasakai Dockyard Company, New Sheet
Mill, 463
Kelvin Hall Destroyed by Fire, 37 Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, The New, 241 Korea Experimenting in Cultivation of Sugar Beet, 669 L LAMBETH Bridge, New, Estimated Cost of, 141 Landslide, Huge, and its Effect, 377 Lantern Slides for Lectures, Tangyes Ltd., 475 ;
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 694
Lead Mining Industry in Teesdale, Progress of New Company, 441 Lead, Reported Discovery of Process for Hardening and Tempering, 189 Leith Harbour and Docks, Projected Additions, 404 Libraries and Information Bureaux, Special, Association of, 78 Lifeboat with Hand Propelling Gear, 164 Lifeboat’s Round the World Cruise, to Demonstrate Best Outfit Conditions, 433 Lighthouse Fire Puts Danger Signal Out of Action, 37 Lighthouse at River Wear Entrance to be Removed, 215 Lighthouses, Light Vessels, &c., Cost of Maintenance, 89 Lighting in Industry, 295 Lightning Statistics in Kilowatt-hours, 141 Lincoln, William, Obituary Notice, 518 Linoleum Factory for Denmark, 547 Lobito Angola Harbour Contract Progressing Slowly, 581 Loch Katrine, Extensive Alterations to Aqueducts, Sluices, &c., Fine Roadway Made, U Locomotive Boiler Explosions and Brass Smoke Tubes, 63 L.C. Council Fellowships, 102 London’s Housing, Proposed Use of Colour in the Concrete Employed, G. Topham, 695 London Traffic Advisory Committee, Tubes versus Omnibuses, 545 M MACHINE-MAKING Industry at Chemnitz, Reported Critical State of, 609 Machinery, Light, in Nanking, 551 Magnetic Observatory to be Established at
Godhavn, West Greenland, 405
Maidstone Street Bridge Widening, 267 Malachite Mines, Bembe, Angola, 581 Manchester G.P.O. Sorting Office, Facilities for
Handling Mail Bags, 295
Manchester, Great Increase in Road Transport, 495 Manganese—see Iron and Steel Manufacturers’ Processes Disclosed, Difference between English and American Practice, 189 Marking Ink for Chemical Porcelain, Formula for, 581 Matches, AVaterproof, 89 Melbourne and Brisbane, Need of Additional Bridges. 141 Merchandise, Record Amount Handled at Capetown Docks, 669 Mercury Deposit Discoveries in Sumatra, 267 Mersey Tunnel—see also Railways Mersey Tunnel Committee, Engineers Appointed, 349 Metals and Non-metals in Canada, Much Increased Output, 491 Methylated Spirit Production by New Process in Germany too Expensive for Commercial Use, 189
Mica, Domestic Uncut, Statistics of U.S.A.
Sales, 215
Milling Plant, Costly, Projected at Calgary, 115 Mine Pressures, Gauge for Measuring, 695 Mine Ventilation Scheme at Randfontein, 519 Mines Department Testing Station, 519 Mineral Deposits in Arctic Regions, Projected Investigation, 377 Mineral Production of Tasmania, 609 Miners’ Welfare Work, Costly Grounds, Hall and Baths Opened, 123 Mining and Coal Handling in Victoria, Investigating European Methods, 241 Mining Electrical Engineers, Education and Training of, T. J. Nelson, 609 Mining Industry and Research, E. J. Eoley, 433 Mining in New Zealand, Conference, 639 Molybdenum—see Iron Monazite Sand Discovery in Tasmania, 115 Mortar from Slate Dust Mixed with Glutin, 349 Motor Car, English, World’s Record in Paris, 349 Motor Car Imports into South Africa, Increase, 95 Motor Omnibus Service, Passenger and Freight between Manchouli, Manchuria, Urga and Saupeitzefu, 609 Motor Road between Liverpool and East Lancashire, 405 Motor Touring in Great Britain, 50 Per Cent. Increase over 1924, 349 N NATAL’S Greatly Increased Exports, 141 Natural Gas Discovery on North Saskatchewan River, Canada, 695 New Brunswick Power Development Schemes, 115 Newcastle Quay, Proposed Extension, 405 Newcastle and Gateshead, Desired Quayside Improvements, 639 Newcomen, Thomas, and James Watt Anniversaries, 215 Newhaven, Harbour at, Offered to Southern Railway, 412 New South Wales, Safe Working of Coal and Shale Mines, Inquiry, 165 New South Wales State Cabinet and Wireless Schemes, 639 New Zealand, Boring at the Taranaki Oilfields, 519 New Zealand, Greymouth Harbour Board’s Projected Improvements, 141 Niagara Falls, Permission for Increased Water Diversion for Power Purposes, 609 Niagara Falls Recession and Effect of, 463, 551 Nickel—see Iron and Steel Nipigon River, Ontario, Expectations from Development of Energy of, 639 Nitric Oxide Production Experiments, 295 Nitrogen Factory, Hitch in Negotiations, 329 Nitrogen Fixation Factory Projected on the Moscow-Nijni Novgorod Railway, 609 Notched Bars, Comparative Impact and Slow- bend Tests on Non-ferrous Allovs and Steels, 267 o OIL Changes in Rocks Under Pressure, 63 Oil Discovery in China, Transport,Difficulties, 115 Oil Engine Power Plant, Tenders Called for, 463 Oil Prospects in Queensland, Dr. A. Wade, 519 Oil Refinery at North Vancouver, B.C., 463 Oil Refining from Bituminous Coal in China, Plant being Installed, 241 Oil Storage Facilities at Grangemouth, 349 Oils, Crude, of the Western Hemisphere, Study of, and Report, 639 One-millionth of a Centimetre for Metal Foils, Reported Process for Production of, 215 Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission Appointments, 241, 376 Ontario’s Water Power Resources, Results of Survey, 115 Oscillograph, Electro-magnetic, New Type, 215 Overseas Trade, Discussion Between Continental Representatives of Britain with Home Manufacturers, 349 Oxygen by Liquid Air Process, Plant at Great Western Railway Works, Swindon, 695 p PAPER Mill Projected for Fort Alexander, Manitoba, 141 Paper Products from Waste Straw, 491 Patent Laws, Irish Free State, 317 Peat Fields of Alfred, Ontario, to be Reopened, 189 Persia’s Mineral Wealth, 295 Petrol-electric Vehicle for L.C.C. Fire Brigade, 189 Petroleum in Africa, Unsuccessful Search Hitherto, I 4 1 Petroleum Prospecting in Spain, 551 Phosphate Deposits Excellent Report, 609, Phosphate Rock Discovery near Capetown, 115 Photographs Taken by Aeroplane Transmitted East and West America in Half an Hour, 377 Piles, Wooden, Under Water, Means of Cutting Off, 463 Pipe, Huge, Rapidly Moved to New Position, 695 Pipe Line Electrically Welded and Resulting Economy, 581 Platinum Market in London, Scheme to Form Combine, 349 Polytechnic in St. Pan eras, New, Grant for, 63 Port Works at Fremantle, W.A., Improved, 463 Portland Cement Output Expected at North fleet, 295 Potash and Rock Salt, Large Deposits Report in the Ruhr Coalfield, 215 Potteries’ Gas and Electricity Undertakings, Disappointing Results, 11 Power Alcohol Production from Molasses in Australia, 89 Punjab Government, Water Supply Extension, 039 R RADIUM-BEARING Ores, Reported Discovery in the Belgian Congo, 609 Rails, Japan’s Decision to Replace American by British, 646 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
Aberystwyth, Sunday Excursions to, 89 Accidents :
Buffer Stop Collision at Douglas, 215, 295 Buffer Stop Collision at Luddenfoot, Report, 107 Buffer Stop Collisions, Report on Three, 695 Collision, Slight, at Llandudno, 405, 491 Collision, Slight, at Sheffield, 321 Collisions and Automatic Train Control, 37 7 Connecting Rod Causes Fatal Accident near West Acton Station, 669 Delaware Disaster near Rockport, U.S.A., An Act of God, 89 Derailment on Stoppage of Boat Train, 241 Doncaster Avoiding Line Accident Recalled, 115 Explosion of Gas Cylinder, Fatal, 348, 377 Fatal Derailment of Express, U.S.A., 500 Fenny-Stratford Disaster, 639, 669 Fog and Accidents, 581 French Railway Collision, Another Fatal, 215 French Train’s Disastrous Derailment at Amiens Station, 189 Goods Trains’ Collision near Barnard Castle, Report, 241 Head-on Collision in Colorado, Signalman’s Presence of Mind, 215 Historical Cases of Shunted Trains being Overlooked, 321 Hope Collision and Deaths of Three Railwaymen, Coroner’s Verdict, 321 ; Report, 669 Level Crossings Accidents in U.S.A., Reduction in, 63 Light Engine Collision at St. Enoch’s, Glasgow, 695 Liverpool-street Station Collision Inquiry, Signalman Blamed, 349 Mishap to Motor Car Train near Holly well, 133 “ Movement ” Accidents to Railway Servants, 1924, 345 Platelayer Killed in Absence of Look-out Man, 267 Previous Accidents Recalled, 165, 321, 463 Reduction in Number of Accidents to Standard Oil Vehicles Crossing Railways, 695
Report on Collision at Baker-street, 491
Return of Railway Accidents and Casualties, 267 Slight Collision at Wincobank, 581 Track Circuit Failures and Unexpected Causes, 405 Tramcar Running Back and Collision, 405 433 ACWORTH, Sir William, Proposed Memorial to, 551 American Declaration of Independence Anniversary, 11 American Train’s 946 Miles Journey in 22| Hours, 405 American Transportation and Grouping Question, 295 American Views on Railway Working in England, 163 Appointments and Staff Changes, 115, 201, 295, 405, 519, 609 Articulated^ Cars in America and Great Britain, Advantages of, 215 Automatic Train Control, New System in America, 639, 669 Bengal - Nagpur Railway, Electrification Question, 37 Benguella Railway, Progress Towards Katanga, 551
Birthday Honours for Railwaymen, 37
Bridge, Beira - Nyasaland Railway, Over the Zambesi, 89 Bridge Over the Murray River, Strengthening, 377 Bridge Over River Murray for Through Trains from Melbourne to Adelaide, 165 British Railways, Criticism of, and American Tribute to Efficiency, 215 Buenos Aires, Projected Underground Railway, 171 Business Falling and Railwaymen’s Number Increasing, 267 Cambrian Railway’s Changes of Fortune, 609 Canadian National Railway to Operate Electric Train Service between Ottawa and Montreal, 165 Canadian Pacific Railway, A 40 Miles Extension, 581
Centenary Exhibition Prolonged, 463
Centenary Memorial Service for Railwaymen, 321 Centenary of Railways’ Celebrations, Embarrassing Numbers Taking Part, 349 Centenary of Railways, Old Engines to Go to York Railway Museum, 189 Central London Railway’s Birthday, 141 Central Wages Board Meetings, 349, 463 Charing Cross and Metropolitan Junction, Certain Lincs Temporarily Closed, 215 Charing Cross Underground Station’s Future, 639 Cheshire, Salop and Herefordshire Lines, New Administration Plans, 519 Chicago, Union Station Opened, Particulars of, 215
Chinese Railway in Progress, Details, 295 Chinese Railways’ Decreased Receipts, 1 1
City Railway, Kennington Station Reopened, 63 City Railway, Train Indicators Provided, 463 Closing Branch Lines and Stations, Difference between American and British Regulations, 551
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
London, Midland and Scottish Railway (con.):
Changes Foretold in Ownership of Certain Lines in Consequence of Grouping, 491
Coal Commission, Director of L.M. and S.
Railway to be a Member, 267
Euston to Perth with Only One Stop, 63 ;
Claim Disputed, 89
Fleet wood, Improvements near Passenger Station and Larger Steamers on Belfast Route, 491 Further Widening of Line near Wakefield, 45 London, Tilbury and Southend Electrification Postponed, 89 Motor Cars Over Ferries on the Caledonian Section, Complaints of Excess Charges, 189 Portstewart Station Tramway (Northern Counties Committee) to be Exchanged for Omnibus Service, 491 Relaying Lines with Felt Pads Under Chairs, in Dunblane and Stirling Area, 463 Restaurant Service, Manchester and Birmingham, 519 Season Tickets, Weekly, Liverpool and Manchester, Manchester and Bury, 519 Water Columns and Tanks, Differently Coloured and the Reason for, 561
Winter Service Changes, 349
London and North-Eastern Railway : Hanging Buffers apd Timber Dog, £100 Reward offered for Invention, 673 Hull Dock Warehouse Destrovcd by Fire, 669 Liverpool-street and Ilford Proposals, Cost of, 377 Locomotion No. 1 Returned to Pedestal in Darlington Station, 491 Locomotive and Wagon Construction Programme, 551 Pullman Train Changes on the L. and N.E. Railway, 295 Signalman’s Action Averting an Accident, 295 Lord Monkswell and the Railways, 519, 609 Mail Service to Belfast and North of England, Improvements, 321 Manchester, Scheme for Tube Railways for, 377 Manchester South Junction and Altrincham
Railway, Local Demand for Electrification, 433
Melbourne Cable Tramway Conversion to an Electric Service, 491 Mersey Railway Company’s Grievance, 189 Mersey Tunnel Construction Bill Passed, 148 Metropolitan, District and Tubes Railways, Greatly Improved Services, 321 Ministry of Transport: Appointments to Railway Employment Safety Appliances Committee, 141 Electrification of Railways, Parliamentary Question and Minister’s Reply, 241
Fenny-Stratford Disaster Inquiry, 639, 669
Order for Acquisition by Agreement of
Land by London Electric Railway, 295
Railway Statistics, Passenger and Goods, for March, 41 Railway Statistics for June, also for First Half of Present Year, 321
Railway Statistics for July, 433 Railway Statistics for August, 581 Railway Statistics for September, 695
Motor Omnibuses to Replace Trackless Trains in Boksburg, 695 NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN : Central Wages Board, Difficulties of Discussion, 405 Circular to the Members Advising Acceptance of Wages Board Award, 669 Coal Dispute and Traffic Handling, Warning of General Manager, 267 Question of Amalgamation with Locomotive Engineers and Firemen Society, 73 Railway Companies’ Conference with Trades Unions, 11 Railway Companies’ Proposal to Men for All-round Reduction in Directors’ Fees, Salaries and Wages, 37, 669
Railwaymen’s Wages and Cost of Living,
11, 669
Record Assets Reported, 18
National Wages Board and Railwaymen’s Wages, 551, 669 Never-Stop Railway, The One-millionth Passenger, 405 New Zealand Government Railways, Self- propelled Coaches for, 215 North London Railway, Former, Discontinues Second-class Bookings, 295 North London, Travelling Facilities, Public Inquiry, 321 Nova Scotia, Bill for Branch Line Construction Defeated, 37 Oil-burning. Locomotive’s Wonderful Run, 581 Old-street Underground Station, New Escalator Shaft and Passageway, 37 Oxford Circus Station Reconstruction, 189 Parliamentary Decision Concerns Oldest
Existing Railway to have Received Parliamentary Sanction, 463
Parliamentary Powers to be Sought for Works on Various Railways, 581, 609 Passenger Tube Under the Tyne, 490 Pennsylvania Railroad Telephone, Extensive Use of, 215 Pennsylvania System, Retirement of President, 463 Piccadilly Circus Tube Station, Progress, 295
Post Office Trains, 37
Praise of Railway Companies, 639 Pullman Car Non-stop Trains, 581 Punch and Wagon-coupling Accidents, 63
Rail Motor, New Type, 165
Railway Material Exports Statistics, 115, 165, 377, 519 Railway Rates, 50 per cent. Increase, Wages 150 per cent., Material 80 per cent., Sir R. Wedgwood, 519
Railway Rates Tribunal : Capital of Railway Companies, Tribunal’s Decision, 433 Demurrage Charges on Railway-owned Wagons, 165
Railway Rates Tribunal (continued):
Economies Arising Out of Grouping, 463
Economics from Grouping not Confirmed by-Railway Companies, 405 Postponement of Question of Railway Expenses and Standard Charges, 141
Rating of Railways, 115 Raven, Sir Vincent, Resigning President’s Office, 669 Royal Train to North, New Route Taken, 189 Scottish Railway Shareholders and Men’s Wages during Government Control, 267
Shopmen’s Wages, Court of Inquiry to be Set up, 695 Signal Colours, Two, for Colour-blind and Non-colour-blind, 491 Signalling and Other Appliances, J. E. and J. P. Annett, 639 Signalling Plant, Electro-mechanical, at Belfast, 241 Signalman’s Death at His Post, Effect of Block System Signalling, 377 Sir Felix Pole on Peace in Railwav Industry, 669 Sleeper Spacing and Axle Loads, A. F.
Harvey, 609
South African Railways Workshops, Cost of Extensions, 189 South-East London and Traffic Facilities, 141 Southern Railway : Charing Cross to Orpington and Addis- combe, Electrification Delayed, 491 Complaints of Overcrowding Due to Bank Holiday Traffic, 189 Concrete Sleepers, Projected Trials of New Type, 700
Criticisms of Electrical Services, 241
Different Electric Systems on Various Sections, 89 Electrical Services, New, and Extensions, 11 Newhaven, Harbour at, Proposed Transfer to Southern Railway, 412
Reconstruction Work on Eastern Kent
Section, 37
Restaurant Facilities Extended, 386
Siding, New, at Dorking North Station, 115
Totton, Hythe and Fawley Light Railway and Torrington and Halwill Light Railway Inspected and Opened, 63, 89 Turbine Mail Steamers, Southern Railway, Converted to Oil Burners, 581 Vera and Alberta Steamers, Southern Railway, to be Replaced by New Vessels, 491 Victoria Stations Amalgamation Numbering, 349 Waterloo, Changes of Certain Electric Trains to Relieve Congestion, 609 Wimbledon Station Under Reconstruction, 669 Stephensons, Father and Son, Confusion by Journalists, 89 Stockton and Darlington Railway, Celebration of One Hundredth Anniversary of Opening, 215 Stratford, Gas Standard Obstruction, 215 “ Summer Trains,” Incorrect Report, 115 Sunday Trains in Scotland, Additional, 405 Swiss Federal Railways, Progress of Electrification of Olten-Berne Section, 141 ; (Correction), 165 Telephone Booths, I Mile Apart for 10,000 Miles Railway, 89 Telephones on Railway Motor Cars in Italy and America, 141 Thomas, Mr. J. H., on the Coal Subsidy and Nationalisation, 241 Tottenham Court-road Comb ” Escalators, 491 Trade Union, New Railway, 89 Tramway Electrification in Reval, Esthonia, 581 Tramway Works at Liverpool, Cost of, 491 Tramways, Limitations of, A. W. S. Herrington, 639 Transandine Railway Boundary Tunnel, 11
Tubes’ Decreased Passengers and Receipts
Compared with Greatly Increased Prosperity of Motor Omnibuses, 527, 545 Underground Company’s Tunnel Connection at King’s Cross between Piccadilly and City Lines, 295 Underpinning of Railway Bridge Over London Street, 165 Victorian Government Railways Traffic Statistics, 295
Virginian Railway Electrical Operation, 551 Wages Rate in Pre-war Days, 581
Wagons, High-capacity, All-metal, for Road Stone and Tar-macadam, 295 Wagons, Privately Owned, Reply to Complaints, 491 Watford Extension Opening, 433 ; Descriptive Brochure of Line, 551 Whitemoor Locomotive Depot at March, 639 Winter Train Services, Dates for Beginning and End, 295 Woolwich-built Locomotives, 178 Workmen’s Unremunerative Fares on Tramways and Railways, 527 REACTION, Incompleteness of, Between Hard Water and Alkaline Reagents Used, 63 Reagent, New, for Copper, Iron and Cobalt in Quantitative Analysis, 267 Reflector, New Type, 463 Reinforced Concrete Building, Highest in the World, 63 Reinforcement of Concrete Pipes, New Method of, H. S. Bower, 519 Research Work, Report of American Bureau of Standards, 11 Reservoir Built in Rapid Time, 551 Resistance to Traction of Passenger Motor Cars and of Pneumatic Tire "Wagons on Paved Surfaces and on Grave], 519 Road Troubles in American Cities as in London, 669 Roads in Hunan, China, Construction Scheme, 639 Roofs, Iron Sheets Outlast Steel, 89 Ropes, Worn, New Instrument for Testing, 695 Royal Scottish Museum Assistantship, Appointment, 89 Rubber Compounding Tendencies, W. B.
Wiegand, 321
Rubber Exports from Para, 'Statistics, 241 Rubber Industry Institution Meeting, 361 Rubber Plantation to be Started in Liberia, 463 Rudder Perforation, A German Invention, 63 Russian Oil Storage Tanks at Avonmouth and Grangemouth, 551 s SAGUENAY River, Big New Power Development, 141 St. Lawrence Power Development, Project Delayed, 63 St. Lawrence Waterways Deepening, Inquiry by Expert, 115 Salford Centralisation of Transportation System, 695 Salt, First Shipment from New Salt Wells of Alberta Salt Company, 189 Salt Water for Fire Mains, Evil Effects of, 695 Salving of Treasure on P. and O. Mail Boat
Egypt, Contract for, 405
Scarborough’s New Bridge and Government Grant, 141 Scholarships in Engineering, British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, 568 Scholarships in Engineering, Norton and Gregory, Ltd., 499 Scholarships in Engineering Offered by Loughborough College, Leicestershire, 695 Scholarships, Hughes and Salomons, 178 Scholarships, Research, in Naval Architecture, 245 Scientific and Industrial Research, Appointments to Advisory Council, 377 Scottish Shale Oil Industry, Position of, 295 Sea Sand in Plaster, Cable Insulation Destroyed by Corrosion, 115 Sennar Dam Opened, 89 Shale Oil Industry in South Africa, Question of State Assistance, 609 Shanghai Strike Troubles and Interrupted Electric Supply, 295 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : British India, In and Out Tonnage Statistics, 267 British Naval Work for the Hellenic Government, .253
Cairn Liner Damage and Quick Repair, 141
Canada’s New Ships for British West Indian Trade, 349 Centrifugal Separators for Fuel Oil on Motor Ships, 405 Comet Steamer, Hundredth Anniversary of Disaster, 433 Commonwealth Cruisers, Names of Two New, 695 Destroyer Repairs to be Limited to Dockyards, 215 Flettner Rotor Ship, Finnish Inventor’s Improvement, 11 Furness, Withy and Co., Tenders Invited for Ships, British Prices far Exceed Foreign, 89 Fushun, Shallow-draught Steamer, Safe Arrival at Hongkong, 639 Gliding Boat Driven by Aeroplane Propeller, Great Expectations, 267 Harwich—Esbjerg Motor Mail and Passenger Ship Parkeston, Great Advantages of, 349
Japanese Naval Estimates, 63
Kenilworth, 5096-Ton Steamer, Rapid Bunkering and Despatch, 349 Lifeboat Regulations, Fleming Boat Recommended, 89 Machinery Installed in Lake Steamer, Record Speed, 165 Motor Lifeboat, Seventeen Years Old, but Still Doing Good Service, 165
Motor Ship City of Stockholm, 307 Motor Ship Danmark, Particulars of, 377 Naval Building Programme, 1925—6, 215
Oil Tanker to Burn Oil Fuel with Tripleexpansion Engines, 349 Orient Line Steamers’ Change of Home Port, 215 P. and O. Bombay Liner Ranchi to Start Service, 141 Rotor Ships, Large, for German Government 37 Scapa Flow, Salving of German Destroyers, Progress, 63, 115, 165, 695
Second-hand Steamships’ High Prices, 295
Sinking of Mississippi River Steamer, Its Cause, 295 Towing to Buenos Aires from Hull, Four Months’ Voyage, 349 Turbine Mail Steamers, Dover-Calais, Two Converted for Oil Burning, 639
Two Cruisers, British, Machinery for, 669
White Star Liner’s Stern Frame Rail Journev, Space Required for Transport, 581 Yarrow Experiments and Research Work in connection with High-speed Vessels, 518 SHOWS—see Exhibitions Silting Trouble at Durban Waterworks, 267 Silver-lead Ore Discovery, New South Wales, 519 Silver Wedding Presentation, 565 Singapore Registration Bill for Architects. 499 Smoke Abatement and Lack of Funds, 669 Smokeless Fuel, Discussion of Papers on, 496 Snowdon Mountain Railway, Increased Traffic, 377 Societies—see Associations Sorel’s Magnesium Oxychloride, 639 South Africa’s Imports of Merchandise, 115 Soviet Union, Progress in Mechanisation in Industry, 321 Steam at Bottom of Vertical Gas Retorts, Results and Tests, 491 Steam Condenser with 70,000 Square Feet Cooling Surface, 267 Steam Power Plant, 100,000 H.P., Projected in Carolina, 639 Stellite, A Cutting Tool, but Not a Steel; E. M.
Boote, 551
Suez Canal, Traffic and Revenue Returns, 141 Sugar Beet Factory Projected at Selby, 405 Sugar Factory Erection in Latvia, 377 Sugar Factory at Raymond, Alberta, 581 Sugar—see also Beet Sulphate of Ammonia Plant in Natal Closed
Down, 519
Suspension Bridge, New, Over the Delaware River, 63 Synthetic Ammonia, Toulouse Plant for Manufacture of, 349 T TANKS, Large, for Molasses, 115 Tarmac Works and Plant Projected in East Cleveland, 377 Tasmanian Cement Works Starting Operations, 609 Telephone Call-boxes, Prevention of Eavesdropping, 241 Telephone Circuit and Elimination of Noises, 321 Telephone Development, Great Britain at the Foot of the List of Nations, 63 “ Telephone Habit,” Post Office Project to Inculcate, 519 Telephone, Long-distance Service, in China, 669 Telephone Statistics, 321 Telephone, Street, Instruments, New System at Dundee, 491 Telephoned Pictures as Part of Press Routine in U.S.A., 43 Telephonic Communication Between London and Frankfort, 165 Tenders for Pumping Station Plant, Cairo, 348 Testimonial to a Distinguished Frenchman, 568 Thermometers for Russia, Centigrade Scale Only to be Used, 405 The Thirty Club, Westminster Dinner, 21 Timber Output for Coming Year in Quebec, Predicted Amount, 695 Timber Sleepers, New Remedy for Worn Spike Holes, 463 Tin Deposits in the Waratah Valley, 463 Tin Mine in Cornwall, Reopening, 115 Tin, Prospecting for, in South-West Africa, 165 Tires Exposure to Damp or Dust, Need of Care, 609 Traction Engines and Rubber Tires, 141, 215 Trade Dispute Statistics for July, 215 Traffic “ White Line ” at Dangerous Corners, Inventors' Schemes for Improvement, 639 Trepanning Tool, Fry’s (London), Ltd., 78 Tunnel Under St. Louis Bay Proposed, 115 Tunnels, Two, Under Detroit River, 551 Turbine Pumps, Large, for Manchester, 420 Turkish Science and Industry Magazine, 405 u UNDERPINNING Church. Elaborate Process with Steel Pipe Piles, 491 United States National Research Council, Projected Publication of Scientific Data, 620 University College, London, Course of Lectures, Mercury Vapour Lamps and Mercury Arc Rectifiers, Professor J. A. Fleming, 437 University of New Brunswick, Chair of Electrical Engineering, 695 University of Sheffield, Appointments, 78 V VAUGHAN, Mr. J. A., Retirement of, 463 “ Veeder Magnetic Counter,” 609 Vehicle Building Industry, New Regulations for, 215 Vehicles, Municipal, Trial of Street Sweepers, &c., 475 Vertical Shaft Sinking, New World’s Record, 463 Vickers Group Amateur Operatic Society, 593 WAGON and Machine-building Factory, Germano-Bulgarian, 160 Wagons, War Department, 162 Water-hammer and Accident Caused by Failure to Open By-pass, 89 Water Main, 1400ft. Long, Rapid Placing of, 267 Water Power Development in the Punjab, 267 Water Power Developments near Ontario
Border, Quebec Contracts, 639
Water Power Plant, 800,000 H.P. for Saguenay, Quebec, 241 Water Softening, Limits of Rate for Filtration, 115 WATER SUPPLY : Additional Water Supply for Mining Areas near Pontefract, 405 Bradford’s Additional Water from the River Nidd, 349 WATER SUPPLY (continued): Capetown Water Supply, Pipe Dimensions for, 165 Chicago Water Consumption, Enormous Tota and Half Wasted, 551 Durban’s Water Supply, Progress of Dam Construction, 295
Esthonian Republic, New Waterworks, 333
Household Water Consumption Reduced by Metering, 695
Skegness Water Supply Augmentation, 215
Water Storage Reservoir, Additional, at Milford, near Stafford, 63 WATERPROOF Bags for Transporting Dry Chemicals, Increased Use of, 695 Waves, Sound, and Light, Comparison, 639 Waygood-Otis Club Sports, 21 Weathering of Stone Used for Buildings, 609 Welland Canal, Magnitude of Work, 669 Weymouth Port Development Scheme, 267 Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting, 102 Wire Rope Safety Tests, 491 Wire Rope Strengths, Messrs. Bruntons, 536 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY : American Encouraging Report of Efficiency of British Wireless Industry, 241 Arctic Circle, 125-Miles Beyond, Wireless Station Opened at Aklavik, 519 Austria, Broadcasting Restrictions and Protection, 321 “ Beam ” Radio-telegraph Station near Skegness for Communication with India and Australia, 11, 215
Belle Isle New Station, 677 Board of Trade New Wireless Regulation, 37 Bolivia Begins Broadcasting, 669 Broadcast Telephony Conference, 11
Broadcasting from Colliery by Sheffield Relay Station, Great Success, 11 Broadcasting Experiments from Scotch Express, 37 Broadcasting Schemes Projected, Listeners’ Requirements, 11 Broadcasting Stations under Construction, World-wide Increase, 349 Broadcasting Stations at Milan and in Czecho-Slovakia to be Opened Shortly, 189 Colombo and Perth, Western Australia, Communication Set up and Experiments in Progress, 669 Commercial Organisation in Isolated Parts of the World, Wireless Installations, 11 Cork Harbour Pilot Boat, Wireless Installation for, 37 Deep Sea Fishermen Mission, New Steamship Fitted with Wireless Transmitter, 11 French Broadcasting Stations, Comparative Strength Shown by Experiments, 295
Geneva Broadcasting Troubles, 639
German Wireless Industry Progress, 141, 215 Greek Government and Wireless, 141 Heating Filaments of Wireless Valves, Dr.
J. H. T. Roberts’ Invention, 11
High-powered Wireless Stations in Jamaica and Bermuda, 37 Hilversum (Dutch) Station as Rival to Daventry, 519 Leeds and London, Broadcasting Arrangements, 377 Lighthouse Equipped for Wireless in Canada, 321
Lightning Effect on Wireless Apparatus, 377 Liverpool Broadcasting Station Accident, 321 Queensland Broadcasting Service, 321 Receiving Sets in Chile, 463
Receiving Sets Repair, Suggested Body of Expert Maintenance Men, 37 Receiving Sets Without Special Batteries 433 Seoul, Korea, Broadcasting Station, 695 Studio, Wireless, Large New, for London
Station, 241
Trinidad Wireless System Reconstruction, 581 Two-way Communication between Kohat (North-West Indian Frontier) and Caterham, Record, 491 Vessels of Rio de Janeiro Company to be Equipped with Powerful Marconi Installations, 491 Wireless Goods in British Market, Protection Sought Against Foreign Underselling, 349 Wireless International Conference at Geneva, 37 Wireless Telegraph Station at Salinas, under Brazilian Department, 433
Wireless Telegraphy (Explanation) Bill, 37
WOLFRAM Deposit Discovery in South Africa, 609 Workshop Suggestion Schemes, 361 World Power Conference, Permanent Committees to be Set up for each of. Participating Countries, 695 Y YANGTZE Engineering Works, near Hankow, Resumes Operations, 89 Yarrow Boilers with Superheaters for Portsmouth Dockyard Power Station, 695 York Omnibuses, Trolley and Petrol, Show
Profit, but Loss on Tramcars, 349
z ZINC and Lead, Large Manufacturing Plant for, Projected in Quebec, 165 Zinc Ore in Spitzbergen, Large Deposits, 581 Zinc Refinery, Large New, in Canada, 187 Zulu land Harbour Proposed, Cost of Such Undertaking, 551
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