The Engineer 1917 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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ACCIDENTS: Nine Months’ Railway Accidents, 297
Railway Accidents in 1916, 169
Ratho Railway Accident, 63
Vanguard Disaster, 57
ACID Process—see Iron and Steel
Action of Caustic Liquors, &c.—see Iron and Steel
Admiralty Appeal to Workers, 51
AERONAUTICS: Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Report, 72
Aeroplane Production in America, 489, 498
Air Reprisals, 340
American Aviation Engine, 311
An Aeroplane Works, 257 (Two-page Supple ment, September VAst, 1917)
Aero-engine Connecting-rods, P. G. Bourcier, 167
Aeronautical Societies—see Associations
Duties of the Air Forces, 35
German Aeroplanes, Constructional Details, 516
Output of Aeroplanes, L. Blin Desbleds, 508
River Diversion for Aerodrome at Hanworth
Park, 366
Training of Aeronautical Engineers, Dr. R. M.
Walmsley and Mr. C. E. Luard, 6
Zeppelin, Engine-room Gondola of, 392
AERO-STEAM Railway Traction, Pierre Guedon, 425
Agar, A. F., on Engineering Works Canteens, 491
Agricultural Experiments — see Electrical Matters
Agricultural Machinery Department, Ministry of Munitions, 45
Agricultural Tractors and Haulers, British, 512, 533, 553, 562
AgriculturalTractors, Petrol, Aultman, Rumely,
Wallis, Gray, &c., 298
Agricultural Tractors—see also Tractor
Agriculture, Application of Science to, 412
Ahrons, E. L., on the Shrinkage Allowance for Locomotive Tires, 263
Ahrons, E. L., on Typos of Irish Locomotives,
162 ; (Letter), 184
Air Engines—see Engines
Air Heater for Carburetters—see Motor Vehicles
Air Heater for Workshops, J. Boyd and Sons, 503
Air Pumps and Air Lift Pumps—see Pumps
Alcohol, Fuel, 232
Alcohol, Fuel, in xAustralia, 278
Alcohol as a Source of Power, W. T. Rowe, 471
Almanacs and Diaries, 572
Aluminium, Effect of Heat on, Dr. H. C. H.
Carpenter and Mr. L. Taverner, 274
Aluminium Production in the West Highlands, 463, 525
Ambulance Trains—see Railways
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS: 18, 130, 174, 300
Activated Sludge Process for Slaughter-house Wastes, 130
Advisory Committee on Terminal Facilities, 174
Alcohol from Garbage, 130
American Dockyard Works, 174
Bridge Erection by Locomotive Cranes, .301
Coal Shipping Pier at an American Atlantic Port, 300
Drainage of Irrigated Lands, 18
Goods Stations for Electric Railways, 300
Large Dockyard Crane, 174
Potash as a By-product of Portland Cement, 300, 540
Spray Irrigation for Vegetable Gardens, 300
Ten-coupled Locomotives, 174
Tests of Steel Columns, 301
Water Tube Fire-box for Locomotives, 18
AMERICAN Engineers and the War, 298
American Inventors Attack the Anti-Submarine Problem, 550
American Military Engineers in France, 419
Anthony, C., on Air-lift Pumping, 526 ; (Letter), 556
Apotheosis of the Destroyer, 499
Apprentices, Education of, 76
Arched Keel Block, Reinforced Concrete, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Limited, 345 Architecture, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters Argentina, Sugar Machinery for, 171 Ariadne—see Ships, British Navy
Ash Handling Plant, Pneumatic, Ed. Bennis and Co., 103
Aspinall, Frank B., on the Latent Heat of Steam, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279
Assaying and Chemical Balance, Wilfred Heusser, 192
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association of Engineers, Manchester : Briquetting Metal Turnings, Debate, 525
British and Foreign Patent Law Reform, V. A. B. Hughes, 425
Engineering Works Canteens, A. F. Agar, 491 Presidential Address, Wire Manufacture, J.
B. Bedson, 334
Worm Gearing, F. J. Bostock, 393
Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers: Heating Surface of Boilers for Locomotives, 45
Institute, Aeronautical: Output of Aeroplanes, Conference, L. Bh’n Desbleds, 508
Institute, Concrete: Conditions Essential to the Corrosion of Iron, Dr. Newton Friend, 550
Institute, The Iron and Steel: Acid Open-Hearth Process, Dr.F. Rogers, 276, 297
Autumn Meeting, 198, 239, 244, 265, 276, 296, 310
Eggertz Test for Combined Carbon in Steel, J. H. Whiteley, 297
Failure of Boiler Plates in Service, &c., Dr.
E. B. Wolff, 296
Heat Treatment of Grey Cast Iron, J. E. Hurst, 266
Influence of Heat Treatment on the Electrical and Thermal Resistivity, &c., of Some Steels, E. D. Campbell and W. C. Dowd, 297
Investigation upon a Cast of Acid Open-Hearth Steel, T. D. Morgans and F. Rogers, 297
Labour and Wages, 305
Microstructure of Chemically Pure Iron between Ar3 and Ar.„ 297
New Experiments on Shock Tests and on the Determination of Resilience, Georges Charpy and Andre Cornu-Thenard, 244, 265 Present Knowledge and Practice in regard to the Briquetting of Iron Ores, G. Barrett and T. B. Rogerson, 265, 299, 310
Reports of Mechanical and Metallurgical Section of Committee, 266
Institute of Metals: Autumn Meeting, 215, 252, 254, 274; Programme, 215
Effects of Heat at Various Temperatures on the Rate of Softening of Cold Rolled Aluminium Sheets, Dr. H. C. H. Carpenter and Mr. L. Taverner, 274
Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Metals, Professor Zay Jeffries, 275
Experiments on the Fatigue of Brasses, Dr.
B. Parker Haigh, 252
Fuel Economy Possibilities in Brass Melting Furnaces, L. G. Harvey, 275
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institute of Metals (continued) :
Gas Firing, Principles and Methods of a New System of, A. C. lonides, 275, 320
Hardness and Hardening, Professor T. Turner, 252, 254
High Temperature Thermostat, Further Notes on, J. L. Haughton and D. Hanson, 275, 322
Screen for Comparing or Standardising the Grain Size of Brass, Owen W. Ellis, 275
Use of Chromic Acid and Hydrogen Peroxide as an Etching Agent, S. W Miller, 275
Institute, Textile: Autumn Conference at Preston, 331
Institution of Automobile Engineers: Design of a Small Agricultural Tractor, A. E.
L. Chorlton, 545
Fuse Inspection, A. W. Reeves and Cecil Kimber, 52
Coventry Branch—
Welding with Application to Automobile Engineering, H. L. Towns, 125, 147
Institution of Civil Engineers : Centenary of the “ Civils,” 563
■ Engineering Training, Meeting, 364
Examination for Associate Membership, 567 Presidential Address, Harry E. J ones, 406 Recent Developments in By-Product Coking,
G. B. Walker, 509
Institution of Electrical Engineers: Presidential Address, C. H. Wordingham, 435
Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Comparison of Working Costs of Principal Prime Movers, Oswald Wans, 355, 363, 368, 380
Notes on Air-lift Pumping, A. W. Purchas, 446
Thomas Hawksley Lecture, Capt. H. Riall Sankey on Heat Engines, 489
Use of Soap Films in Solving Torsion Problems, A. A. Griffiths and G. I. Tavlor, 536, 546
Institution of Naval Architects:
Scholarship in Naval Architecture, 418
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders: Sub-Committee’s Report on Methods of Producing High Vacuum, 557
Institution of Water Engineers: Air-lift Pumping, Papers by Mr. C. Anthony and Professor A. H. Jameson, 526
Water Power Supplies of the United Kingdom, C. H. Roberts, 525
Winter Meeting, 525
Society, Aeronautical, of Great Britain : Training of Aeronautical Engineers, Dr. K.
M. Walmsley and Mr. C. E. Luard, 6
Society, Ceramic : Dinner; Presidential Statement, W. J. J ones ; Visit to Dalzell Steel and Ironworks, D. Colville and Son, 292
Fire-clays and Ganisters of South of Scotland,
L. W. Kinsman and M. MacGregor, 291
Meeting at Glasgow, 291
Papers on Silica, Hydration of Calcined Dolomite and Fire-bricks, by Miss C. Beveridge and Mr. W. Emney, J. Burton, G. W. Wright, 291
Refractories and Modern Kilns, J. G. Maxwell, 291
Refractory Properties of Silica, H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 291
Tests for Refractories, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 291
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
SOCIETIES (continued):
Society, Chemical:
Limitations of the Balance, Bertram Blount, 402
Society of Chemical Industry :
Activated Sludge Process of Sewage Purification, E. Ardern, 94
Annual General Meeting, 70, 93
Artificial Silk Industry, T. P. Wilson, 94
Benzene and Toluene for High Explosives, Sources of, T. F. E. Rhead, 71
Calorific Value of Industrial Gaseous Fuel, W. J. Pickering, 93
Chemical Porcelain, Henry Watkins, 71
Economics of Coal, Professor Henry Louis, 524
Future of the Fine Chemical Industry, E. W Mann, 94
Industrial Application of Town’s Gas, C. M.
Walter, 93
Industrial Fuel from Gasworks E. W. Smith, 93
Manufacture of Synthetic Nitrates by Electric Power, E. Kilburn Scott, 93
Metallurgical Questions, Professor Turner, 94
Other Papers : Cartridge Brass, Dr. H. W.
Brownsdon ; Aluminium Alloys, J. H. Stansbie ; Carbonless Alloys, J. Kent Smith ; Superheating of Slags and Metals during Refining, J. E. Fletcher, 94
Presidential Address, Dr. C. C. Carpenter, 71
Sands Used in Metallurgical Practice Compared with those Used in Glass Manufacture, Professor Boswell, 71
Synthesis of Ammonia and its Oxidation to Nitric Acid, E. B. Maxted, 93
Texture of Fire-clays, W. C. Hancock, 71
Visits, 94
London Section—
Patent Law Reform, Dr. F. W. Hay, 435
Society, Faraday :
Pyrometers and Pyrometry, Discussion, 393, 402, 424
Society, Royal, of Arts:
Copper, Progress in the Metallurgy of.
Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 491, 526, 566
Discovery and Invention, Sir Dugald Clerk’s
Trueman Wood Lecture, 514
Programme for Session, 442
Science and its Functions, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 447
ATMOSPHERIC Engine—see Engines
Atmospheric Pollution and the Impurities of Rain-water, J. B. C. Kershaw, 443
Attachment of Spindles to Forged Steel Valves,
F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153
Australia, Fuel Alcohol in, 278
Australia, Soldiers after the War, 336
Australian Notes, 518
Austrian Inland Waterways Project, 99
Automatic Control of Pumps—see Pumps
Automatic Drop-bottom Mine Car (Griffith
Tub), Sanford-Day Ironworks and Manufacturing Company, 457
Automobile Engineering, Welding with Application to, H. L. Towns, 125, 147
B BALANCE, Assaying and Chemical, Wilfred Heusser, 192
Balance, limitations of the, Bertram Blount.
402
Baling Press—see Cotton
Band Saw—see Sawing
Bar Mill—see Iron and Steel
Barrett, G., and T. B. Rogerson, on the
Briquetting of Iron Ores, 265, 299, 310
Basic Blast-furnaces, 392
Bedson, J. P.,' on Developments in Wire k Manufacture, 334
Benzol, The Future of, 387 ; (Letters), 428, 450 Bevel Gear Machines—see Machine Tools Blast-furnace Dust—see Ministry of Munitions Blount, Bertram, on the Limitations of the
Balance, 402
Boiler Feed-water Regulator, Copes, 367
Boiler Plates, Failure in, and the Stresses in Riveted Joints, Dr. E. B. Wolff, 296, 456
Boilers for Locomotives, Heating Surface of, 45 Boilers, Waste Heat, for Driving Drop Hammer
Plant, 450, 452
Books of Reference, 81, 118, 348
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools]
Bostock, F. J., on Worm Gearing, 393 R Boston, U.S.A., Submarine Tunnel at, 230, 234, 235
Boulnois, H. P., Report to Roads Improvement Association, Concrete Roads, 73
Bourcier, P. G., on Aero-engine Connecting-rods, 167
Brakes—see Railways
Brass Melting, L. G. Harvey, 275
Brass Scrap, 118
Brasses, Experiments on the Fatigue of, Dr. B.
Parker Haigh, 252
Brazil, Public Works in, 449
BRIDGES:
Locks and Bridges for Mid-Scotland Canal, 558 (Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards from a Theoretical Standpoint, George Kenworthy, 5, 25, 48, 91 ; (Letters), 162, 248
Quebec Bridge, The New, 253, 336, 338, 381, 403, 426 (Two-page Supplement, November 9th, 1917)
Suspension Bridges in New Zealand, J.
Dawson’s System, 52, 56
Typical Swing Bridge for Proposed MidScotland Canal, 560
BRIQUETTING—see also Iron and Steel
Briquetting Metal Turnings, Debate, 525
Britain as an Agricultural Country, 188 ;
(Letter), 360
British Agricultural Tractors and Haulers, 512, 533, 553, 562
British Industries, The War, Some Metals and, 99
British Marine Engineering Design, and Construction Committee, 209, 257, 505
British Standard Sections, Approved, 567 Business of War, 187
c CALIFORNIA, Power Plant Extension in, 193 Californian Magnesite, 103
Canada, Trade between the United Kingdom and, 118
Canadian Railways—see Railways
Canal Control Committee, 175
Canal Schemes, Mid-Scotland, 465, 538, 558 (Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Canals, 453
Canteens, Engineering Works, A. F. Agar, 491
Canteens at Munitions Works, 268, 269
Carburetters—see Motor Vehicles
Career Offered by Engineer’s Department of a British Railway, 113
Carlisle, Locomotive Coaling Plant at, London and North-Western Railway, 12, 18
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., on Progress in the Metallurgy of Copper, 491, 526, 566
Carpenter, Dr. H. C. H., and Mr. L. Taverner, on the Effect of Heat on Aluminium, 274
Case Hardening Furnace, Monometer Manufacturing Company, 570
Casting, A Heavy, Transporting, 413
Castings, Some Large, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 292
Catalogues, 19, 39, 108, 132, 176, 196, 260, 418, 437
Caterpillar—see Evolution of Chain Track Tractor
Caustic Soda Concentration Plant, Mirrlees, Watson Company, Limited, 34, 44
Cement Joints for Cast Iron Water Mains, Clark H. Shaw, 32
Centenary of the “ Civils ”—see Associations &c.
Centenary of the Heat Regenerator and Stirling’s Engine of 1816, 516, 517 ; Stirling Specification, 567
Centrifugal Type Gas Washers, W. C. Holmes and Co., Limited, 502
Ceramic Society, Refractory Materials Section, 291 (For Details of Papers—see Associations, &c.)
Chain Track Tractor—see Tractor
Channel Tunnel, 193
Charges for Water—see Water Supply
Charpy, Georges, and Andre Cornu-Thenard, on Experiments on Shock Tests and on Determination of Resilience, 244, 265
Chemical Papers at Society of Chemical Industry—see Associations
Chester Hydro-electric Power Developments, 86
Chili, Engineering Schemes for, 560
China and the Engineer, S. W. B. McGregor, 360
Chorlton, A. E. L., on the Design of a Small Agricultural Tractor, 545
Chuck, The “ Marvel ” Drill, Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54
Circular Arcs, Simple Calculations of, 114
Clapham, F. T., on The Distribution of Establishment Charges, 177 : (Letters), 301, 323
Clapham, F. T., on Foundry Costs, 286
Clerk, Sir Dugald, Discovery and Invention, 514
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:
By-product Coking, G. B. Walker, 509
Coal Concreted from Dust or Ashes, R. G.
Lovell, 126
Coal Problem, 330
Coal and Tin Mining in British Malaya, 63
Coal Transport Reorganisation Scheme, 36, 54
Coke-handling Plant, Telpher, at Warrington Gasworks, Strachan and Henshaw, Limited, 430, 434
Colliery Winding Engine, Old, 94, 98
Economics of Coal, Professor Henry Louis, 524
Economy in Coal Consumption, Government Suggestions, 7
COAL, COKE, & COLLIERIES (cont.) : Electricity Supply and the Economy of Coal, 540
Gas, Coal, for Motor Vehicles, 226
Griffith Colliery Tub (Automatic Drop-Bottom Mine Car), Sanford-Day Manufacturing Company, 457
Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, London and North-Western Railway, 12, 18
New Scheme for Coal Supply, 36
Osaka Electric Works, Coal and Ash Plant at the, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, G.
F. Zimmer, 115
Position of the Coal Mining Industry, A. F. Pease, 373
Push Button Coal and Ash Hoists at Allison and Baltimore, 254
Sampling Coal, 42
COKE—see Coal
Columbia, A New Port in, 425 ; (Letter), 556
Commerce and the State, 521
Commercial Aspect of Engineering in China, S.
W. B. McGregor, 360
Commercial Dock Developments at Falmouth, 378
Concrete, Reinforced, Arched Keel Block, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Limited, 345
Concrete, Reinforced, Shipbuilding in Norway, 520, 524
Concrete Roads, Report to Roads Improvement Association, H. P. Boulnois, 73
Concrete, Transmission of, by Air and Steam, 159,164
Concrete—see also Ferro-Concrete
Contract, 55.2
Controlled Owner, The, 251
Conversion of Ford Cars—see Motor Vehicles
Copes Boiler Feed Water Regulator, 367
Copper, Metallurgy of, Professor H. C. H.
Carpenter, 491, 526, 566
Correspondence Schools, 488
Corrosion of Iron—see Iron
Corrosion of Metal, Electrolytic, by Sea Water, 260
Costs—see Working Costs
Cotton Baling Methods and Freightage Economy, 282
Cotton Baling and Sampling Machinery, A. E.
Cummins, D. Bridge and Co., Limited, 448
Coventry Strike, 501
Cranes, 5-Ton Electric Goliath, for France, Sir
W. Arrol and Co., Limited, 140, 142
Critical Speeds of Loaded Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 246
Culm and other Waste Fuels, Use of, J. B. C. Kershaw, 307
Curtis Rateau Turbines—see Turbines
D DANGER of Letting Things Slide, 252
Darling, Chas. R., on Small Electric Furnaces and their Uses, 422
Desbleds, L. Blin, on the Output of Aeroplanes,
Design of a Tractor—see Tractor
Deterioration of Curtis Rateau Turbine Blading, A. Fenwick, 30, 60
Development of German Waterways, 196
Development of Machinery in" the United
States Navy—see Ships
Discharging Ore, New Method for, 193
Discovery and Invention, Trueman Wood Lecture, Sir Dugald Clerk, 514
Distribution of Engineers’ Products Overseas, C. Hamilton-Wickes, 314
Distribution of Establishment Charges, F. T.
Clapham, 177 ; (Letters), 301, 323
Diving Globe for Salving Sunken Ships, W. D. Sisson, 386, 389
Docks and Harbours, Empire, 499
Docks, Rosario, Improvements at the, 292
Donaldson Elevator for Ore Discharging, 193
Doorakkers, G., on the Manufacture of Hardened Thread Gauges, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390
Drill Chuck, The “ Marvel,” Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
Drop Hammer Plant, Bretts’ Patent Lifter Company, 450, 452
Duties of the Air Forces, 35
Dyson, Captain C. W., on The Development of Machinery in the United States Navy, 170, 190, 211
E ECONOMY in Coal Consumption, Government Control, 7
Education of Apprentices, 76
Educational Intelligence, 196, 248, 284, 305, 328, 333, 572
Efficiency, A. L. Haas, 37
Efficiency, Meaning of—see Working Costs of Prime Movers
ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Bar Mill, 20in., Motor-driven, General
Electrical Company, 190
California, Power Plant Extension in, 193 Chester Hydro-Electric Power Developments, 86
Coal and Ash Plant at the Osaka Electric Works, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited,
G. F. Zimmer, 115
Electric Discharge and Crop Production, Experiments by Miss E. C. Dudgeon, Mr. J. E. Newman, and others, 74
Electric Drive for Warships, 228
Electricity Supply and the Economy of Coal, 540
Empress Works, Huddersfield, E. Brook, 342 Greenock, Ferro-Concrete Power House at, 239
Greenwich, L.C.C. Power Station, New Appointments at, 560
Halifax District, New Sub-Stations for, 76 Lancashire and Cheshire, Interconnection of
Electricity Supply Systems in, 171 Locomotives and Railways—see Railways Motor Boats, Electrically Controlled, 425 National Electric Supply Policy, 453 Pumps, Electrically Driven—see Pumps
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
Small Electric Furnaces and their Uses, Chas. R. Darling, 422
Standardisation of Machinery, British and American Conference, 319
Switch, Wall Socket and Plug, Combined, Donovan and Co., 83
Tasmanian Great Lake Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, 67, 78 (Two page Supplement, July 21th, 1911)
West Highlands, Big Water Power Scheme for Aluminium Manufacture, 463, 525
Wild-Barfield Method of Steel Hardening, 82 Winch, Electric, J. H. Wilson and Co., Limited, 525
ELECTROLYTIC Corrosion of Metal in Sea Water, 260
Elswick—see Works
Emmett, W. L. R., on the Turbine Electric Equipment of United States Cruisers, 228
Empire Docks and Harbours, 499
Empire, The : Its Commerce and its Commercial Requirements, S. J. Johnstone, 457
Employers and Employed, 10, 13
ENGINES AND MOTORS . Aero Engine Connecting-rods, P. G. Bour-cier, 167
American Aviation Engine, 311
Atmospheric Colliery Winding Engine at Madeley, 94, 98
Bulb Experiments on Hot Bulb Engines, 112;
(Letters), 149, 161, 215
Heat Engines, Capt. H. Riall Sankey, 489
Standardisation of Marine Engines, 209, 257 505
Stirling’s Regenerator and Hot Air Engine of 1816, 516, 517
Stirling’s Specification, 567 ; (Letter), 537
Testing Department of Fiat Company, Turin, 504
Uniflow Engine, H. W. Morley, 455
Uniflow Engine for Road Vehicles, F. W.
Marquis, 276 ; (Letters), 333, 360, 384 United States Naval Machinery—see. Ships Working Costs of the Principal Prime Movers,
Oswald Wans, 355, 363, 368, 380, 414; (Letter), 384
ENGINEER, Volunteers, County of London 24, 45, 68, 87, 110, 132, 152, 176, 196, 218, 239, 248, 305, 328, 350, 374, 397, 419, 442. 464, 486, 510, 527, 552, 570
Engineers, Training of, 379
Engineering Design—see British Marine, &c.
Engineering Enterprise in Mexico, 167
Engineering, Links in the History of, Rhys Jenkins, 493
Engineering Projects in Latin-America, 115— see also Latin-American Notes
Bolivian Railways, 115
Peru, A New Port in, 115
Engineering Schemes for Chili, 560
Engineering Training, 364
Engineering Works Canteens, Arthur F. Agar. 491 &
Establishment Charges, Distribution of, F. T. Clapham, 177
Evolution of the Chain Track Tractor, 111. 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 208, 221, 241, 250 : (Letter), 184
Excess Profits Problems. 53
Explosibility of Methane Air Mixtures, 215
F FAILURE of Boiler'PIates—see Boiler
Falmouth, Commercial Dock Developments at, 378
Feed Water Regulator, Copes, 367
Fenwick, A., Deterioration of Curtis Rateau
Turbine Blading, 30, 60
Ferro-Concrete Power House at Greenock, 239
Fiat Company, Turin, Testing Department, 504
Filter Bed Sand Washer, Portable, Hunter and
English, Limited, 44
Fire and Salvage Boat for Elswick, 503
Firebrick Manufacture, Testing, &c., Paper
Read at Glasgow Meeting of the Ceramic Society, 291
Floods, The Protection of Paris Against, 16
Ford Cars—see Motor Vehicles
Foreign Languages, Reconstruction and, 493
Forth and Clyde—see Canal
Forthcoming Engagements, 24, 110, 218, 238, 260, 284, 304, 326, 350, 360, 396, 415, 437, 462, 484, 508, 530, 550, 570
Foundry Costs, F. T. Clapham, 286 ; (Letters), 301, 323
French Industries, New, 248
Friction Screw Press, J. Rhodes and Sons, Limited, 43
Friend, Dr. Newton, on Conditions Essential to the Corrosion of Iron, 550
Fuel Alcohol, 232
Fuel Alcohol in Australia, 278
Fuel Economy Possibilities in Brass Melting
Furnaces, L. G. Harvey, 275
Fuel Research, 340, 344
Fuels, Culm and Other Waste, Use of, J. B. C.
Kershaw, 307
Furnace, Oil-fired Case Hardening, Monometcr Manufacturing Company, 570
Furnaces, Brass Melting, Fuel Economy Possibilities in, L. G. Harvey, 275
Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of Metals, J.
Wright and Co., 146, 147
Furnaces—see also Electrical Matters
Fuses—see War Material
Future of Benzol, 387 ; (Letters), 428, 450
Future of Railways—see Railways
G GAS, Coal, for Motor Vehicles, 226
Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, 178
Gas Firing, New System of, A. C. lonides, 275. 320
Gas, Industrial Uses, Abstracts of Papers at Society of Chemical Industry, 93
Gas Washers, Centrifugal Type, W. C. Holmes and Co., Limited, 502
Gases and Air, Inflammability of Mixtures of.
G. A. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 168
Gauges, Hardened Thread, Manufacture of, G. Doorakkers, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390
German Munitions Supply, 339
German Waterways, The Development of, 196
Germany’s Economic Position After the War, 544
Germany, Substitutes in, 509
Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 122
Greenock, Ferro-Concrete Power House at, 239
Greenwich, L.C.C. Power Station, New Appointments at, 560
Grey Cast Iron—see Iron
Griffith, A. A., and G. I. Taylor on the Use of Soap Films in Solving Torsion Problems, 536, 543, 546
Griffith Tub—see Coal
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools
Guedon, Pierre, on Aero Steam Railway Traction, 425
Gunboats and Baghdad, 274
Gun Lathes—see Machine Tools
H HAAS, A. L., on Efficiency, 37
Haddrell, C. H., on The Industrial Outlook, 137, 144 : (Letter), 301
Haigh, Dr. B. P., on Experiments on the Fatigue of Brass, 252
Haig’s Weather, 295
Hamilton-Wickes, C., on The Distribution of Engineers’ Products Overseas, 3J4
Harbour Scheme, Langstone, near Portsmouth, 179
Hardness and Hardening, Professor T. Turner, 252, 254, 295
Harvey, L. G., on Fuel Economy Possibilities in Brass Melting Furnaces, 275
Haughton, J. L., and D. Hanson, Further Notes on a High Temperature Thermostat, 275, 322
Hawksley, Thomas, Lecture on Heat Engines, Capt. H. Riall Sankey, 489
Hay, Dr. F. W., on Patent Law Reform, 435 ; (Letter), 481
Heat, Effect of, on Aluminium, Dr. H. C. H.
Carpenter and Mr. L. Taverner, 274
Heat of Steam, The Latent, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279
Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel—see Iron
Heat Treatment of Metals, Furnaces for, J.
Wright and Co., 146, 147
Heating of Industrial Buildings, J. Boyd and ' Sons, 503
High Temperature Thermostat—see Thermostat
High Vacuum, Methods of Producing, Experimental Apparatus at Richardsons, West-garth and Co., Report, 557
History of Engineering, Links in, Rhys Jenkins, 493
Hobbs, E. W., Mechanical Arms for Maimed Soldiers, 334, 335, 351, 376
Hoists, Push Button Coal and Ash, 254
Hot Air Engines—see Engine s
Hot Bulb Engines, Some Bulb Experiments on, 112 : (Letters), 149, 161, 215
Hughes, V. A. B., on Reform of the Patent Laws, 425
Hurst, J. E., on Pleat Treatment of Grey Cast Iron, 266
Hydro-Electric Power Developments, Chester, 86
Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, Tasmanian Great Lake, 67, 78 (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1917)
Hydrostatic Pressure, Effect of, on Metals, Professor Zay Jeffries, 275
I IMPACT Testing Experiments, G. Charpy and A. Cornu-Thenard, 244, 265
Industrial League, 81, 196
Industrial Outlook, C. H. Haddrell, 137, 144
(Letter;, 301
Industrial Parliament, 35
Industrial—see also Labour Questions
Industrial Research—see Research
Industrial Unrest—see Labour
Industries, New French, 248
Industries of Poland, 14
Industry and the Whitley Report, 169
Inflammability of Mixtures of Gases and Air, G. A. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 168
Inland Waterways, Use of, 526
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
Intensifier, Inverted Steam Hydraulic, Davy Brothers, Limited. 366
lonides, A. C., on a New System of Gas Firing, 275, 320
IRON AND STEEL: Acid Open-Hearth Process, Dr. F. Rogers, 276, 297
Action of Caustic Liquors on Steel Plates, C.
E. Stromeyer, 496
American Iron Trade, 228
Bar Mill, 20in., Electrically Driven, General Electric Company, 191
Basic Blast Furnaces, 392
Briquetting of Iron Ores, Guy Barrett and T. B. Rogerson, 265, 299, 310
British Steel for Shells, 509
Corrosion of Iron, Conditions Essential to the, Dr. Newton Friend, 550
Dealings in Pig Iron, 63
Electric Method of Steel Hardening, Wild-Barfield, 82
Forged Steel Valves, Attachment of Spindles to, F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153
Heat Treatment of Grey Cast Iron, J. E. Hurst, 266
Heat Treatment, Influence of, on Electrical Resistivity, &c., E. D. Campbell and W.
C. Dowd, 297
Iron Mines of Cumberland and Lancaster, 87
Iron Ore, Professor Henry Louis, 493
Iron Prices, 86
Iron and Steel Institute—see Associations Labour and Wages, 305—see also Labour Prices of Steel—see Ministry of Munitions The War, Some Metals and British Industry, 99
IRRIGATION Projects in South Africa, 169 Irrigation for Vegetable Growing, 108
JAPAN and the War, 248
Jeffries, Professor Zay, on the Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Metals, 275
Jenkins, Rhys, on Links in the History of Engineering, 493
Johnstone, S. J., on The Empire : Its Commerce and its Commercial Requirements, 457
K KENWORTHY, George, on Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards, &c., 5, 25, 48, 91 ; (Letters), 162, 248
Kershaw, J. B. C., on Atmospheric Pollution and the Impurities of Rain-water, 443
Kershaw, J. B. C., The Use of Culm and Other Waste Fuels, 307
Kershaw, J. B. C.» The Use of Waste Gases for Steam Generation. 27
L LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS: Admiralty Appeal to Workers, 51
Advances in Wages, 63
Employers and Employed, 13
Industrial Councils, 10, 13
Industrial League, 81
Industrial Parliament, 35
Industrial Unrest, 79
■ Industrial Unrest, Causes of, 121
Industrial Unrest, Inquiry, 122
Industry and the Whitley Report, 169
Labour and the State, 187
Miners’ Wages, 192
Pay of Foremen and Shop Managers, 425
Railway Enginemen’s Demands, 165
Railway Men’s Societies, 215
Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, 274 : (Letter), 323
Welsh Labour, Commissioners’ First Report, 100
Whitley Report, 169, 331, 357
LANGSTONE Harbour Scheme, 179
Latent Heat of Steam, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47,
58 : (Letters), 162, 184, 279
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Latin-American Engineering Notes, 115, 225, 397
Argentina, 225
Bolivian Railways, 115
Chili, 225, 397
El Salvador, 225
Peru, A New Port in, 115
LEADERS: Acid and Basic Steel, 364
Air Reprisal^, 340
America’s Shipbuilding Problems, 165
Apotheosis of the Destroyer, 499
Austrian Inland Waterways Project, 99
Britain as an Agricultural Country, 188
Business of War, 187
Canals, 453
Causes of Industrial Unrest, 121
Centenary of the “ Civils,” 563
Coal Transport Reorganisation Scheme, 36
Commerce and the State, 521
Controlled Owner, 251
Cycle in Naval Architecture, 431
Danger of Letting Things Slide, 252
Duties of the Air Forces, 35
Electrification of Main Line Railways, 563
Empire Docks and Harbours, 499
Employers and Employed,-13
Engineering Training, 364
First Lord’s Statement, 409
Fuel Alcohol, 232
Fuel Research, 340
Future of Benzol, 387
Future of British Railways, 475
Future of Canadian Railways, 79
German Munitions Supply, 339
Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 122
Gunboats and Baghdad, 274
Haig’s Weather, 295
Industrial Parliament, An, 35
Industrial Research, 209
Industrial Unrest, 79
Labour and the State, 187
Latent Heat of Steam, 58
London County Council Tramways, 58
Manufacturers and Standards, 317
Meaning of Efficiency, 363
Measurement of Temperature, 431
M.I.D., The, 543
Ministry of Munitions. 13
National Electric Supply Policy, 453
Organisation and Efficiency, 144
Our Naval Strategy, 143
Patent Law Reform, 521
Quality of Hardness, 295
Railway Enginemen’s Demands, 165
Science and the Man, 476
Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, 274
Shipping and Shipbuilding in the United States, 317
Ships and More Ships, 410 -i
Size of the Standard Ships, 273
Standardisation of Marine Engines, 209 j
Submarine War : The Latest Phase, 231
Taxation of Stock Values, 57
TheWar, Some Metals, and British Industries, ]
Torsion, 543 1
Transmission of Military Power, 387
Vanguard Disaster, 57 *
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS: England, North of, 21, 40, 64, 85, 107 128 150, 172, 195, 217, 237, 259, 280, 302, 324’ 346, 370, 394, 416, 438, 460, 482, 507, 528’ 548, 568
Lancashire, 20, 39, 64, 84, 106, 128, 150, 172 194, 216, 236, 258, 280, 302, 324, 346, 370’ 393, 415, 438, 459, 481, 505, 527, 548, 568’
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS {continued): Midlands and Staffordshire, 19, 39, 63, 84’ 106, 127, 149, 171, 193, 216, 236, 257, 279’ 301, 323, 345, 369, 393, 415, 437, 459, 481’ 505, 527, 548, 567
Scotland, 22, 41, 65, 86, 108, 129, 152, 173, 195, 218, 238, 259, 282, 304, 325, 347, 371, 395, 417, 440, 461, 483, 507, 529, 549, 569
Sheffield, 20, 42, 65, 84, 107, 129, 151, 173, 194, 216, 237, 258, 281, 303, 325, 347, 371, 395, 417, 439, 461, 483, 506, 529, 549, 568
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 41, 66, 86, 108, 130, 152, 174, 196, 218, 238, 260, 282, 304, 326, 348, 372, 396, 418, 440, 462, 484, 507, 530, 550, 569
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Aeroplane Manufacture, L. Blin Desbleds, 360
Air-lift Pumps, R. Stirling, 556
American Industries, B. K., 301
Britain as an Agricultural Country, F. L. Morgan, 360
Centenary of the Heat Regenerator and the Stirling Air Engine, R. B. Prosser, 537
Charing Cross Railway Bridge, H. Davey, 105 Coal Economy—see Fuel
Colombia, A New Port in, F. L. Hothersall, 556
Commercial Aeronautics, Handley Page, Limited, 39
Conquest of Schleswig-Holstein, T. F. Wilkinson, 19
Control of Railways, Hexagon, 450
Copper Tubes for Aeroplanes, Ing. Carlo Maurilio Lerici, 19
Cornish Engine and Steam Engine Economy, Henry Davey, 537
Duddell, William Du Bois, 428
Early Steamboat, Arthur Lee, 118, 248, 323 ;
J. H. Anderson, 118 ; Fred. Walsh, 228 ;
R. B. P., 279
Engineers and India, Executive Engineer, 527 Ericsson’s Monitor, Writer of the Article, 161 Essential Metals, Geo. T. Pardoe, 537 Evolution of the Chain Track Tractor, L.
Sterne, 184
Evolution of the Monitor, R. B. P., 184
Excess Profits, Cleveland Manchester Engineer, 54
Feed-water Heating in Locomotives, W. G. Landon, 450 ; Mead, McLean and Co., 527
Filing Papers, A. Fanti, 87
Foundry Costs, Practical Cost Accountant, 301 ; F. T. Clapham, 323
Fuel Alcohol, Horace Wyatt, 248
Fuel Economy, F. Samuelson, 38 ; W. H. Casmey, 38, 105, 149, 215 ; Lancastrian, 87; W. Townsend, 118; Steam-Raiser, 118, 184
Future of Benzol, T. D. Parr, 428, 450 ; Interested Engineer, 149
German Trade after the War, H. Hamel Smith, 428
Gloucester as a Port: Why not Modernise It ? E. F., 526
Hot Bulb Engines, Basil H. Joy, 149 ; A. J. W. G., 149; R. E. Mathot, 161; Cecil H. Cox, 215
Latent Heat of Steam, Henry Sykes, 162 ; Steam, 184 ; F. B. Aspinall, 279
Locomotive Feed Purifiers, W. Effigy, 323
Metric System, F. A. Halsey, 105
Motor Boating and Motoring in Japan, W. H.
Leggett, 384
Names for Compound Units—see Pinch
Noise in Reinforced Concrete Buildings, S., 54 Oil Engine Nomenclature, H. A. Stuart, 384 Organ Blowing, C. M. Penman, 248
Patent Law Reform, Wilfred Hunt, 481 ;
James Keith, 537 ; E. C. Barton, 556
“ Penalty ” of Failure in the British Army, J. C., 54
“ Pinch,” C. F. Dendy Marshall. 162, 384 ; Associate Member, 333 ; H. W. Stowers, 384 ; H. Ravenshaw, 413 ; R. C. Kirkwood, 413
Plymouth as a Commercial Port, R. E. Ella-cott, 248
Pounds Per Square Inch—see Pinch
Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards, &c.,
H. R. White, 162 ; G. Kenworthy, 248
Production of Ductile Tungsten, British Thomson-Houston Company, 556
Pyrmont Bridge, Percy Allan, 162 ; H. R. White, 184
Railway Transport, A. W. Gattie, 54
Remuneration of the Staff, Skill, 384 ; Bitten, 428
Royal Navy and its Engineers, Ex-Editor, The Naval Engineering Review, 105
Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, Traditionist, 323
Secret Session for Engineers, H. C. C., 19
Solid Fuel for Steam Cars, C. D. Leng, 248
Steel Rail Trade, T. Good, 279
Tube Rolling Mill Patent, Clydeside Tube Company, 384
Types of Irish Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 184
Uniflow Compound Engine, M.I.C.E. (Fr.), 333 ; Robey and Co., 360 ; A. J. W. G., 384 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 384
-Valve for Sewage Pumps, E. C. Bowden-Smith, 428
Wagon Smash, Salt Union, Limited, 54
Wheels of Tractors, H. P. Saunderson, 39
Working Costs of Prime Movers. H. Davev. 384
LIMITATIONS of the Balance,Bertram Blount 402
Links in the History of Engineering, Rhvs
Jenkins, 493 J
LITERATURE : Reviews: All the World’s Aircraft, 1917, F. T. Jane, Edited, C. G. Grey, 166, 234
Composition of Technical Papers, H. A. Watt, 341
English and Engineering, Frank Aydelotte, 15 Explosives, Arthur Marshall, 15
On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 365
Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers, &c., Captain C. W. Dyson, 267
Rowan Premium Bonus System, 80
Searchlight Projectors, Electric, The Range of, Jean Rey, 59
LITERATURE (continued'):
Short Notices:
Industrial and Manufacturing Chemistry, Part II.: Inorganic, Geoffrey Martin, 32,101
London Transport Trust, Edwin A. Pratt, 15 ;
(Letter), 54
Mechanical Handling of Material, &c., G. r.
Zimmer, 32, 101
Naval Architecture, J. E. Steele, 80, 101
Properties of Aerofoils and Aerodynamic Bodies, A. W. Judge, 101
Saws : Their Care and Treatment, H. W.
Durham, 101
Steel and its Heat Treatment, D. K. Bullens, 101
Telegraph Engineering, Erich Hausmann, 15
Books Received: Applied Chemistry, Reports of the Progress of, 15
Artilleristisch Tijdschrift, J. H. Carstens and
J. H. Westerveld, 234
Brazil Commercially Considered, Syren and Shipping, 234
Business Law for Engineers, C. Frank Allen, 501
Canada : Department of Mines—Mines Branch :
Annual Report on Mineral Production cf Canada, No. 426 ; Report on Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada, Dr. Wm. A. Parks, No. 388
Bulletin No. 14, Coal Fields and Coal Industry of Eastern Canada, F. W. Gray, No. 430, 32
Mining of Thin Coal Seams as Applied to the Eastern Coalfields of Canada, J. F. Kellock Brown, 501
City and Guilds of London Institute, Department of Technology, Programme 1917, 18, 101
C.M.U.A. Handbook, F. G. Bristow, 257
Concrete—Plain and Reinforced, Dr. F. W.
Taylor and S. E. Thompson, 101
Continuous Current Motors and Control Apparatus, A. P. Maycock, 501
Contribucion al Estudio de las Ciencias Fisicas y Matem&ticas, &c., XVIII., XIX., XX., 501
Correction Tables for Thermodynamic Efficiency, C. H. Naylor, 101
Cours de G6ometrie Pure et Appliquee de 1’dcole Poly technique, M. d’Ocagne, 101
Critique des Propulseurs, Paul Popovatz, 140
Cycling Manual, 15, 501
Design and Construction of Industrial Buildings, Maurice Kahn, 257, 267
Design of Railway Location, C. C. Williams, 101
Diesel Engine Design, E. M. Rose, 267
Electrical Engineering, Principles and Practice of, Alexander Gray, 297
Electrical Measurements, F. A. Laws, 297
Elements of Coal Mining, D. Burns, 234
Explosives, A Short Account of, A. Marshall, 267, 341
Farming by Motor, 80
Flying Book, W. L. Wade, 15
Founder’s Manual, D. W. Payne, 297
Geological Survey, Memoirs of the :
“ Geology of the South Wales Coalfield,” Part IV.; “ Country Around Pontypridd and Maesteg,” Dr. Aubrey Strahan and Others, 501
Gold Deposits of the Rand, C. B. Horwood, 257
Graphic Statics, The Elements of, E. H.
Sprague, 32
Hawkins’ Electrical Guide, 257
Heat Drop Tables—Absolute Pressures, H.
Moss and Professor H. L. Callendar, 101
Heat Drop Tables—H.P. Gauge Pressures, &c., Herbert Moss and Professor H. L. Callendar, 501
How to Make Railways Pay for the War, Roy Horniman, 32
Hydraulics, Treatise on, Mansfield Merriman, 59
Indicator Handbook, Part II., 80
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, January-May, 1917, 234
Interpreters, The, George Ince, 234
Journal of the Institute of Metals, 123
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 123
Kelly’s Directory of the Engineers and Iron, Metal and Electrical Trades, 80
Laws of Physical Science, E. F. Northrup, 234
Les Etablissements d’Artillerie Beiges Pendant la Guerre, Willy Breton, 234
Logarithms for Beginners, C. N. Pickworth, 80
Materials of Engineering, Text-book of the,
H. F. Moore, 501
Metallurgical Analysis, Methods in, C. H. White, 501
Modern Underpinning, Lazarus White and Edmund E. Prentis, Jun., 501
Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book, 1917, W. C. Bersey and A. Dorey, 267
Munition Workers’ Handbook, Ernest Pull, 234
Oils, Fats, and Waxes,^P. J. Fryer and F. E. Weston, 234
Operation and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems, S. T. Harding, 257
Organisation of Thought, A. N. Whitehead, 15
Power Wiring Diagrams, A. T. Dover, 501
Preservation of Wood, A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 267, 341
Proceedings, Engineering Association of N.S.W., 297
Proceedings of the Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, 1917, 267
Programme of the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, 80
Prospectus of University Courses in the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester, 80
Quantitative Analysis, Principles of, W. C.
Beasdale, 501
Records of Railway Interest in the War, Part IV., 59
Refrigeration, The Elements of, A. M. Greene, Jun., 501
Registration and Publication of Directors* Names, H. W. Jordan, 257
Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, 234
Science and Industry, R. T. Glazebrook, 59
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
Scientific Treatise on Smoke Abatement, H-Hamilton, 10]
Smoley’s Parallel Tables of Slopes and Rises,
C. K. Smoley, 297
Steam Turbines, J. A. Moyer, 59
Street Railways’ Fares, D. C. Jackson and
D. J. McGarth, 297
Theory of the Submarine Telegraph and Telephone Cable, H. W. Malcolm, 234
Trade of To-morrow, E. J. P. Benn, 101 United States Artillery Ammunition, Ethan
Viall, 234
United States Department of the Interior : Bureau of Mines :
Annual Report of Director of Bureau of Mines to Secretary of the Interior to June 30th, 1916, 15
Bulletins :
147, Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining, J. W. Thompson, 140
95, Magnetic and Other Properties of Iron-Aluminium Alloys Melted in Vacuo, Trygve D. Yensen and W. A. Gat ward, 101
128, Refining and Utilisation of Georgia Kaolins, Ira E. Sproat, 80
124, Sandstone Quarrying in the United States, O. Bowles, 140
Miners' Circular :
23, Elementary First Aid for the Miner, W. A. Lignott and D. Harrington, 15
Monthly Statements of Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, by Albert H. Fay, September and October, 1916, 15
Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1916, A. H. Fay, 80
January, February and March, 1917, 140
Technical Papers :
164, Accidents at Metallurgical Works in the United States, 1915, A. H. Fay, 15 •
106, Asphyxiation from Blast-furnace Gas, F. H. Willcox, 140
137, Combustion in the Fuel Bed of Hand-fired Furnaces, H. Kreisenger and Others, 80
150, Inflammability of Mixtures of Mine Gas and Industrial Gases with Air, G. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 140
153, Injurious Dusts in Steel Works, J. A. Watkins, 140
168, Metal Mine Accidents in the United States in 1915, A. H. Fay, 80
166, Motor Gasoline, Properties, Testing, &c., E. W. Dean, 140
143, Ores of Copper, Lead, Gold and Silver, C. H. Fulton, 140
140, Primary Volatile Products of the Carbonisation of Coal, Guy B. Taylor and H. C. Porter, 140
132, Underground Latrines for Mines, J. H. White, 15
142, Vapour Pressures of Various Compounds at Low Temperatures, G.- A. Burrell and I. W. Robertson, 15
Universal Directory of Railway Officials 1917, S. R. Blundstone, 234
Watt and the Steam Age, J. W. Grant, 234
What Germany is Fighting for, Sir C. Waldstein, 32
Wonder Book of the Navy, H. Golding, 234
Year Book of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917, 257
LOCOMOTIVES—see Railway Locomotives London County Council Tramways, 58 Longitudinal Sleepers for Railways and Tramways, Signor Olindo Valeri, 29
Losses of Ships—see Ships
Louis, Professor Henry, on Economics of Coal, 524
Louis, Professor Henry, on Iron Ore, 493
Lovell, R. G., on Coal Concreted from Dusts or Ashes, 126
Low Temperature Carbonisation from the Gasworks Standpoint, 423
M McGREGOR, S. W. B., on the Commercial Aspect of Engineering in China, 360
MACHINE TOOLS : (See also Works)
Bevel Gear Generating Machine, Smith and Coventry, 82
Boring, Milling and Drilling Machine, Geo.
Richards and Co., Limited, 118, 120
Gun Lathe, 15in. Motor-driven, John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, 213, 214
Internal Cylinder Grinding Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, 320
Plain Horizontal Milling Machines, 42in., Smith and Coventry, 102
Press, 250-Ton Friction Screw, J. Rhodes and Sons, Limited, 43
Screw-cutting Device, J. D. Carver, 18
Surfacing, Boring, Milling and Drilling Machine, Combined, Pearn-Richards, 118, 120
Taper-turning Sliding Lathe, 9in., H. F. Atkins, 43
Tool Works at Timperley, Smith and Coventry, 470, 474
MACHINERY, Naval—see Ships, also Engines Machinery Trade after the War, 248
McLarty, F. M., on Attachment of Spindles to
Forged Steel Valves, 153
Magnesite, Californian, 103
Manchester Stbam Users’ Association, Annual Report, C. E. Stromeyer, 496
Manufacture of Hardened Thread Gauges, G.
Doorakkers, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390
Manufacturers and Standards, 317
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marquis, F. W., on the Uniflow Engine for
Road Vehicles, 276 ; (Letters), 333, 360, 384
Measurement of Temperature, 432
Mechanical Arms for Maimed Soldiers, E W Hobbs, 334, 335, 351, 376
Mechanics’ Institution, Great Western Railway, at Swindon, 321
Mechanism for Signals—see Railways
Metal, Electrolytic Corrosion of, by Sea Water, 260
Metal Turnings and Borings, Briquetting, Debate at Manchester Association, 525
Metals, Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on, Professor Zay Jeffries, 275
Metals, Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of, J. Wright and Co., 146, 147
Metals, Institute of—see Associations, &c
Metallurgy of Copper—see Copper
Methane-Air Mixtures, Explosibility of, 215
Mexico, Engineering Enterprise in, 167
Mid-Scotland Ship Canal Schemes, 465, 538, 558 (Two-pa^e Supplement, December 28th, i y i / j
Military Power—see War and War Matters
Mill, 20in. Bar, Electrically-driven, Genera] Electric Company, 191
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mine Car—see Automatic
Mineral Oil Resources of the British Empire, Professor J. S. S. Brame, 412
Miners—see Labour
Mines, German Naval, 227
Mining, Coal and Tin, in British Malaya, 63
Ministry of Munitions, 13
Ministry of Munitions : Agricultural Machinery Department, 45
Ministry of Munitions : Munitions Council, 171
Ministry of Munitions : Munitions Inventions Department, 535, 543
Ministry of Munitions Orders, 123, 192 197 219, 279, 547
Blast-furnaces Dust, 123
Calcium Carbide, 279
Chrome Ore, 219
Coal Tar, 219
^Oils *ie9Z01’ CrUde NaPhtha <and Light
Lead, 219
Eric®sSteel and Wrought Iron Scrap, 197 Road Stone Quarries, 123
Sh547 ■DiS°ard and Eleotrically^mado Steel,
Tap Cinder, Mill Cinder, Flue Cinder and Scale, 547
Tin-plates and Terneplates, 192
Women Engineers, 279
MONITOR—see Ships
Morley, H. W., on the Uniflow Engine, 455
MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR MATTERS :
.Air Heater for Motor Car Carburetters, Brown Brothers, Limited, 480
Coal Gas for Motor Vehicles, 226
Conversion of Ford Cars into Commercial Vehicles, 8
Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, 178
Technical Committee of the Motor Industries 66 ’
MUNITIONS Works, Canteens at, 268, 269
NAVAL Matters—see Ships
Naval Notes, 367, 413, 458, 504, 545
Austro-Hungarian Navy, 545
Destroyer Raid on Trieste, 545
Destroyer versus Submarine, 504
Drake, H.M., Armoured Cruiser, Torpedoed, oo /
Electrically-controlled Boats, 458
German and Austrian Navies, Revolutionary
Movements, 367 J
German Auxiliary Cruiser Marie Sunk. 413
German Electrically Controlled Boat, 413
German Naval Gunnery, 504
German Raider Seeadler, End of, 367
Germany’s New Ships with Old Names, 367
Histone Order, 505
Mine Layers, 459
Mr. Daniels’ Annual Report, 545
Naval Action in the Gulf of Riga 367
Navy for Indo-China, 504
Old Vessels on Active Service 458
Orama, H.M.S., Torpedoed, 413
Swedish Battleships, 459
Swedish New Battleship Sverige, 413
U.S.S. Jacob Jones, 545
N.S.W. REPATRIATION Scheme, 336
Zealand Suspension Bridge—see Bridges Niekei Deposits and Industry of Ontario, 210, Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Abstracts of Papers at . Society of Chemical Industry, 93 Nitrogen Compounds, Synthetic, 155 Nitrogen Problem, 472
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OBITUARY:
Arkwright, Bernard, 319
Baines, William Newbold, 437
Buchanan, James, 477
Butler, James Ryder, 190
Denny, Peter, 455
Duddell William Du Bois, 411 ; (Letter), 428
Griggs, William J., 7
Hawksley, Charles (Portrait), 492
Holland, General, 7
Latham, Charles, 297
Matheson, Ewing, 523 ; (Correction), 550
Merry weather, James Compton, 477
Ritchie, Henry, 201
Sidney, Lieutenant L. P., 455
Simon, Captain Harry, 225
Sykes, William Robert (Portrait), 319
Westmacott, Percy, 225
OIL-FIRED Case Hardening Furnace, Mono-
meter Manufacturing Company, 570
Omnibus, Gas-driven, for Edinburgh, 226
Nickel Deposits and Industry of, 210,
Ore, New Method for Discharging, 193
Ore Shipping Pier on Lake Superior, 257
Organisation and Efficiency, 144
Oxide of Zinc, G. C. Stone, 418
Oxy-acetylene—see Welding
PARIS, The Protection of, Against Floods, 16 Patent Law Reform, 521 ; (Letters), 537, 556
Patent Law Reform, Dr. F. W. Hay, 435 ;
(Letter), 481
Patent Laws, Reform of the, V. A. B. Hughes, 425
Patent Rights, Acquisition of, 24, 46, 68, 88, 110, 132, 154, 176, 198, 220, 240, 262, 284, 306, 328, 350, 374, 398, 420, 442, 464, 486, 510, 532, 552, 572 ; (Letter), 384
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS: British : Aeronautics, 46, 67, 131, 306, 373, 397, 441, 485
Batteries and Accumulators, 571
Building, 398
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 45, 87, 531, 551
Cranes and Conveyors, 262, 327
Crushing and Grinding, 350
Dynamos and Motors, 23, 67, 131, 198, 219, 239, 283, 327, 349, 373, 419, 464, 551
Engines, Internal Combustion, 23, 45, 67, 87, 131, 153, 175, 197, 219, 261, 283, 305, 327, 349, 373, 397, 419, 441, 464, 485, 509, 531, 551, 571
Engines, Steam, 153, 261, 327, 463
Gas Producers, 131, 349
Lighting and Heating, 24, 110, 154, 176, 240, 283, 305, 398, 571
Locomotives, 45, 349, 464, 552
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 23, 68, 88, 110, 175, 220, 239, 262, 283, 306, 328, 375, 398, 485, 509, 532, 551, 571
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 110, 132, 153, 220
Mines and Metals, 46, 197, 350, 398, 510, 552 Miscellaneous, 24, 46, 68, 88, 110, 132, 176, 198, 220, 240, 284, 328, 350, 374, 398, 420, 442, 464, 486, 510, 532, 572
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 87, 154, 262, 397, 420, 485, 532, 571
Ordnance and Armour, 67, 88, 220, 373, 419, 485
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 109, 131, 220, 239, 374, 441, 509, 531
Refrigerating Machinery, 349
Ships and Boats, 68, 239, 262, 328, 420, 572
Steam Generators, 23, 45, 109, 239, 261, 305, 327, 397, 463, 485
Switchgear, 109
Telegraphs and Telephones, 131, 153
Textile Machinery, 240
Tramways and Railways, 283
Transformers, 67, 283, 441, 509
Transmission of Power, 23, 87, 109, 131 154 198, 262, 306, 419, 441, 464, 571
Turbine Machinery, 87, 197, 463, 531, 551
Water Purification, 306
PAY of Foremen and Shop Managers, 425
Pease, A. F., on the Position of the Coal Mining Industry, 373
Peat, The Utilisation of, 109
Personal and Business Announcements, 24, 45, 66, 88, 110, 132, 152, 196, 238, 260, 304, 350, 374, 393, 419, 464, 486, 508, 552
Petrol Gauze, 462
Petrol Tractor on the Farm, 298
Pipe Thread Tap Heads, 270
Ploughing Tractor, F. R. Simms, 183, 184
Plug Extractor for Shells, M. Glover and Co., 7
Plymouth as a Commercial Port, 224
Pneumatic Ash-handling Plant, Ed. Bennis and Co., 103
Poland, The Industries of, 14
Port, A New, in Colombia, 425 ; (Letter), 556
Potash from Brine Water, 540—see also American Engineering News
Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards—see Bridges
Presses—see Machine Tools
Prisoners of War, British, and their Studies, 123
Production and Preparation of Raw Rubber, 399, 421, 444, 467
Profits—see Excess Profits
Progress in the Metallurgy of Copper—see Copper
Pumping, Air-lift, C. Anthony, 526 ; (Letter),
Pumping, Air-lift, Professor A. H. Jameson, 526
Pumping, Air-lift, A. W. Purchas, 446
Pumps, Air, Committee’s Report, Experimental Plant, 557
Pumps, Electrically-driven Hydraulic, Automatic Control of, A. Towler, 480
Purchas, A. W., on Air-lift Pumping, 446
Push-button Hoists—see Coal
Pyrometers and Pyrometry, 393, 402, 424
Q QUALITY of Hardness, 295 Quarries—see Ministry of Munitions Quebec Bridge—see Bridges
“ R RAILWAYS & RAILWAY MATTERS General: Aero-steam Railway Traction, Pierre Guedon, 425
Ambulance Trains for the Continent, Midland
Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, 358 (Two-page Supplement, October 2Qth, 1917)
Automatic Train Control, W. R. Sykes Signal Interlocking Company, 50
Battery-operated Railway Signals, 124
Brake, Westinghouse or Vacuum, Automatic Train Control for, 50
Career Offered by Engineers’ Department of a British Railway, 113
Electrification of Main Line Railways, 563
Longitudinal Sleepers for Railways and
Tramways, Signor O. Valeri, 29
Narrow-gauge Self-discharging Wagons for Burma Mines Railway, Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company, 478
Nine Months’ Railway Accidents, 297 Railwaymen, Labour Questions—see Labour Railway Men’s Societies, 215
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MAT TERS (continued):
British, Colonial and Indian :
Australian Transcontinental Railway, 356, 362 ; (Paragraph), 384
Burma Mines Railway Wagons, Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company, 478
Co-ordination Among Welsh Railways, 189 Future of British Railways, 475, 513, 535, 565
Future of Canadian Railways, 71, 79
Great Eastern Railway System of Automatic Train Control, 50
Great Western Railway Mechanics’ Institution at Swindon, 321
Mansfield Railway, 401, 408
New South Wales Railways, 477
North-Eastern Railwhy Transport of Heavy Castings, 413
Railway Accidents in 1916, 169
Ratho Railway Accident, 63
South African Railways and Harbours, 261 Sudan Railways in 1916, 419
Sydney, City and Suburban Electric Railways of, 144
Foreign: American Railways and the War, 357
Panama, Light Railway Building in, 314 Peru, Railway Construction in, 67 Virginian Railway, 312, 316
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES:
General:
Heating Surface of Boilers for Locomotives, 45
Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, 12, 18 Shrinkage Allowance for Locomotive Tires,
E. L. Ahrons, 263
British, Colonial, and Indian : Great Northern Railway, Conversion of Compound Engines, 542, 547
London and North-Western Railway, Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, 12, 18
North-Eastern Railway, Locomotive Performance, 200, 224
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, New Locomotives on the, 287, 294 ; (Letter), 323 ; (Correction), 326 (Two-page Supplement, October 5th, 1917)
Types of Irish Locomotives, E. L. Ahrons, 162 ; (Letter), 184
Foreign American Locomotives for the American Forces in France, 458
French Railways, Conversion of Singleexpansion to Compound Engines, 511 (Two-page Supplement, December 14<A, 1917)
P.L.M. Locomotive Conversion—see French Railway Engines
Paris-Orleans Railway, British-built Tank Locomotives for, 43 (Two-page Supplement, July \3th, 1917)
Pennsylvania Railroad Heavy Single-phase Electric Locomotive, 175
United States Southern Railway Eight-coupled Passenger Locomotives, 167
RANDOM REFLECTIONS: 318, 340, 364, 388, 410, 432, 454, 476, 500, 522, 544, 564 (see Special Index)
RARER Key Minerals, S. J. Johnstone, 457
Rastrick, John U., Drawing by, 81 ; (Letters), 118, 228, 248, 279
Reconstruction and Foreign Languages, 493
Reeves, A. W., and C. Kimber on Fuse Inspection, 52
Reform, Patent Law, 521 ; (Letter), 537
Reform, Patent Law, Dr. F. W. Hay, 435 ; (Letter), 481
Reform of the Patent Laws, V. A. B. Hughes, 425
Refractories, Papers at the Glasgow Meeting of Ceramic Society, 291
Regenerator and Hot Air Engine of 1816, Stirling’s, 516, 517 ; Stirling’s Specification, 567; (Letter), 537
Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete
Research, Scientific and Industrial Report, 179, 206, 209, 226, 253, 269, 344
River Diversion at Hanworth Park, 366
Road Sweeping and Loading Machine, F. Walters and Co., 96
Road Vehicles, The Uniflow Engine for, F. W. Marquis, 276
Roads, Concrete, Report to Roads Improvement Association, H. P. Boulnois, 73
Roads of Sheffield, 368
Rogers, Dr. F., on the Acid Open-hearth Process, 276, 297
Roller-welding, Tube, Machine, Rollings and Guest, Limited, 524
Rosario Docks, Improvements, 292
Rouen, The Port of, 459
Rowe, W. T., on Alcohol as a Source of Power.
471
Rubber, Raw, The Production and Preparation of, 399, 421, 444, 467
s SAMPLING—see Coal
Sand Washer, Portable Filter Bed, Hunter and English, Limited, 44
Sankey, Captain H. Rial!, on Heat Engines, 489
Sawing Machine, Vertical Band, T. Robinson and Son, Limited, 412
Science, Application of, to Agriculture, 412
Science, Applied, What the Empire Owes to, 351
Science and its Functions, A. A. Campbel] Swinton, 447, 476
Scientific and Industrial Research, Committee’s
Report, 179, 206, 209, 226, 253, 269, 344
Scientific Institutes and Industrial Requirements, 274 ; (Letter), 323
Scotland, Canal—see Mid-Scotland
Scotland, Trade Education in, 289 •
Scrap, Brass, 118
Screwing Machines-—see Machine Tools
Sections, Approved British Standard, 567
Sewage Purification, E. Ardern, 94
Shafts, Loaded, Critical Speeds of, W. M. Wallace, 246
Shaw, Clark H., Cement Joints for Cast Iron
Water Mains, 32
Sheffield, The Roads of, 368
Shells, Plug Extractor for, M. Glover and Co., 7 Ship Canal—see Canal
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General: American Shipbuilding Developments, 261
America’s Shipbuilding Problems, 165
Device for Raising Sunken Ships, W. D.
Sisson, 386, 389
Electrically-controlled Motor Boats, 425
Government as Shipbuilders, 256
Losses of Ships and Submarines, 556
Marine Engines—see Engines
New National Shipyards, 458
Reinforced Concrete Arched Keel Block, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Limited, 345
Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding in Norway, 520, 524
Ships and More Ships, 410
Standardised British Merchant Ships, 267, 272 273
United States, Shipping and Shipbuilding in the, 317
British Navy: Ariadne, Loss of H.M. Protected Cruiser, 102
Submarine Chasers for the British Navy, American-built, 139
Vanguard Disaster, 57
Naval Matters: Admiralty Appeal to Workers, 51
American Inventors Attack the Anti-
Submarine Problem, 550
Apotheosis of the Destroyer, 499
Cycle in Naval Architecture, 431
Development of Machinery in the United States Navy, Captain C. W. Dyson, 170, 190, 211
Electric Drive for Warships, 228
First Lord’s Statement, 409
German Naval Mines, 227
Gunboats and Baghdad, 274
Losses of Ships and Submarines, 556
Monitor, Revival of the, 133 ; (Letters), 161, 184
Naval Dry Dock at Norfolk, U.S.A., 101
Naval Power-boat Construction in America, 139
Our Naval Strategy, 143
Submarine and Kindred Problems, 329, 550
Submarine War : The Latest Phase, 231
Foreign Navies: American Naval Programme, The New, 380 American Navy and Mercantile Marine, 256 German Battle Cruiser Graf von Spee, 246 Italian Submarine Chasers, 566 Submarine Chasers, American, 139
United States Cruisers, Turbine Electric Equipment, W. L. R. Emmett, 228
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels: American Navy and Mercantile Marine, 256 American Wooden Steamships, 332 Fire and Salvage Boat for Elswick, 503 Steamboat, An Early, 81; (Letters), 118, 228, 248, 279, 323
SHOCK Tests, Experiments, &c., Georges Charpy and A. Cornu-Thenard, 244, 265
Shrinkage of Tires—see Railway Locomotives
Signals—see Railways
Silk, Artificial, T. P. Wilson, 94
Simple Calculations of Circular Arcs, 114
Six-Ton Steam Wagon, Atkinson and Co., 494 Sleepers—see Railways
Soap Films, Use of, in Solving Torsion Problems,
A. A. Griffith and G. I. Taylor, 536, 543, 546 Societies—see Associations
Soda Concentration Plant, Mirrlees, Watson Company, Limited, 34, 44
Soldiers, Maimed, Mechanical Arms for, E. W.
Hobbs, 334, 335, 351, 376
South Africa, Irrigation Projects in, 169
South African Railways and Harbours, 261
South American Engineering Markets, 348
South American Machine Belting Market, 531
Speeds, Critical, of Loaded Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 246
Spindles, Attachment of, to Forged Steel Valves, F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153
Standard Sections, Approved British, 567
Standard Ships—see Ships
Standardisation of Electrical Machinery, 319
Standardisation of Engines—see Engines
Standards, Manufacturers and, 317
Steam Generation, The Use of Waste Gases for, J. B. C. Kershaw, 27
Steam-Hydraulic Intensifier, Inverted, Davy Brothers, Limited, 366
Steam, The Latent Heat of, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184
Steam Wagon, Six-Ton, Atkinson and Co., 494 Steel—see Iron and Steel
Stirling’s Air Engine—see Engines
Stone, G. C., on Oxide of Zinc, 418
Strikes—see Labour
Stromeyer, C. E., on the Action of Caustic
Liquors on Steel Plates, 496
Submarines—see Ships
Submarine Tunnel at Boston, U.S.A., 230, 234, 235
Substitutes in Germany, 509
Sugar Machinery for Argentina, 171
Surfacing Machines—see Machine Tools
Suspension Bridges—see Bridges
Swinton, A. A. Campbell, on Science and its Functions, 447, 476
Synthetic Nitrogen Compounds, 155
TASMANIAN Great Lake Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, 69, 78 (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1917)
Taxation of Stock Values, 57
Telephone Engineering Progress, 201
Temperature, Measurement of, 432
Testing Department of the Fiat Company, Turin, 504
Testing—see also Impact
Thermostat, High Temperature, Further Notes on, J. L. Haughton and D. Hanson, 275, 322
Tin and Wolfram, Trengganu’s Supplies of, 297 Tin-plates, &c.—-see Ministry of Munitions Tires—see Railway Locomotives
Tools—see Machine Tools and also Works
Torsion Problems, Use of Soap Films in Solving, A. A. Griffith and G. L Taylor, 536, 543, 546
Towler, Alfred, on the Automatic Control of Electrically-driven Hydraulic Pumps, 480
Towns, H. L., on Welding with Application to Automobile Engineering, 125, 147
Traction Engine, J. Boydell, 111
Tractor, Chain-Track, Evolution of the, 111, 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 208, 221, 241, 250; (Letter), 184
Tractor, Pedrail, B. J. Diplock, 181, 223
Tractor, Small Agricultural, Design of, A. E. L.
Chorlton, 545
Tractor, The Petrol, on the Farm, 298
Tractors and Haulers, British Agricultural, 512, 533, 553, 562
Trade Education in Scotland, 289
Trade, Machinery, after the War, 248
Trade between the United Kingdom and Canada,118
Trade after the War—see Danger of Letting Things Slide
Training of Aeronautical Engineers—see Aeronautics
Training of Engineers, 379
Trains—see Railways
Tramways, Glasgow Corporation, 122
Tramways, London County Council, 58
Transmission of Concrete by Air and Steam4 159, 164
Transporting a Heavy Casting, 413
Trengganu’s Supplies of Tin and Wolfram, 297 Trueman Wood Lecture—see Associations, &c.,
Royal Society of Arts
Tube Roller-welding Machine, Rollings and Guest, Limited, 524
Tunnel, Submarine, at Boston, U.S.A., 230, 234, 235
Turbine Blading, Curtis Rateau, Deterioration of, A. Fenwick, 30, 60
Turner, Professor T.<on Hardness and Hardening, 252, 254, 295
u UNIFLOW Engine—see Engines
Use of Culm and Other Waste Fuels, J. B C.
Kershaw, 307
Use of Inland Waterways, 526
Use of Soap Films—see Soap
Use of Waste Gases for Steam Generation,
J. B. C. Kershaw, 27
Utilisation of Peat, 109
V VALVES, Forged Steel—see Iron and Steel
Vertical Band Saw—see Sawing
Victoria Works of Yarrows, Limited, 270
Volunteers, County of London Engineer, 24. 45, 68, 87, 110, 132, 152, 176, 196, 218, 239, 248, 284, 305, 328, 350, 374, 397, 419, 442, 464, 486, 510, 527, 552, 570
w WAGES—see Labour
Wagon, Six-Ton Steam, Atkinson and Co., 494
Wagons, Railway—see Railways
Walker, G. B., on By-Product Coking, 509
Wallace, W. M., on the Critical Speeds of Loaded Shafts, 246
Walmsley, Dr. R. M., and Mr. C. E. Luard, on the Training of Aeronautical Engineers, 6
Wans, Oswald, on a Comparison of Working Costs of the Principal Prime Movers, 355, 363, 368, 380, 414 ; (Letter), 384
WAR MATERIAL & WAR MATTERS: Air Reprisals, 340
American Military Engineers in France, 418
British Steel for Shells, 509
Business of War, 187
Fuse Inspection, A. W. Reeves and Cecil Kimber, 52
German Munitions Supply, 339
Transmission of Military Power, 387
WAR, Some Metals and British Industries, 99
Washer—see Gas Washer
Waste Gases for Steam Generation, The Use of, J. B. C. Kershaw, 27
Water Power Supplies of the United Kingdom, 463, 525
WATER SUPPLY: Cement Joints for Cast Iron Water Main/, Clark H. Shaw, 32
Charges for London Water, 83
Portable Filter Bed Sand Washer, Hunter and English, Limited, 44
WELDING with Application to Automobile Engineering, H. L. Towns, 125, 147
Welsh Labour, 100
West Highlands, Big Watei’ Power Scheme, 463, 525
What the Empire Owes to Applied Science, 351
Whitley Report, Industry and the, 169
Whitley Report-—see also Labour
Winch, Electric, J. H. Wilson and Co., Limited, 525
Wire Manufacture, History of, J. P. Bedson, 334
Wolff, Dr. E. B., on Failure of Boiler Plates in Service, &c., 296, 456
Women’s Work on Engineering Munitions, Permanent Memorial, 496
Working Costs of the Principal Prime Movers, Oswald Wans, 355, 363, 368, 380, 414; (Letter), 384
WORKS: An Aeroplane Works, 257 (Two-page Supplement, September 2lst, 1917)
Elswick Works, Fire and Salvage Boat for, 503
Empress Electrical Works, Huddersfield, E. Brook, 342
Smith and Coventry’s New Tool Works, 470 474
Victoria Works, Yarrows, Limited, 270
WORKSHOPS, Air Heater for, J. Boyd and Sons, 503
W.R. Combustion Indicator (Correction), 19
Y YARROWS, Limited, Victoria Works, 270
z ZEPPELINS—see Aeronautics
Zimmer, G. F., on Coal and Ash Plant at Osaka Electric Works, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, 115
Zinc, Oxide of, G. C. Stone, 418
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