The Engineer 1917 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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ABRASIVE Manufacturing Plant, Large, at Quebec, 207
Acetone for Production of Synthetic Rubber, 97
Aerial Wire with the Key-Morse Apparatus : Length Limitations, 119
AERONAUTICS : Aerodromes or Flying Fields, 55
Aero Engines and Parts, Urgent Demand for, 163
Aeroplanes in America, Difficulties with Four-bladed Propellers, 119
American Inventor’s Aeroplane to End the War in Sixty Days, 141
Aviation Engine Development, E. H. Sher-bondy, 541
“ Borrodising” as Preventive of Corrosion,315
Fireproof Varnish for Aeroplanes, 407
Horse-power in Relation to Weight, Greatly
Increased Proportion in Modern Aeroplanes, 497
Long Distance Aeroplane Record by Italian Captain, J. Laurenti, 229
Motors, Aeroplane, 10,000 Orders Taken by One American Firm, 229
Planes of Flying Machines, Experiments in America, 547
Postal Service by Aeroplane, 190
Radiators, Aeroplane, Standardisation of, 234
Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 552
Seaplane for Training Purposes in the United States, Lieut. G. D. Murray, U.S.N., 519
United States Aeroplane Makers and Metric Measurements, 229
United States Airplane, Vacuum Chamber for Testing Engines, 541
United States Aviation Engine, Advantages, 361
Warning of Air Raids, Tests of Various Methods, 55
AFRICAN “Da” Fibre for Rope Making, 519
Agricultural Machinery for Ministry of Munitions, 77
Agricultural Machines for France after the War, Government Action, 229
Agriculture by Mechanical Aids, Great Increase Expected, 119
Alcohol, Denatured, and Anti-freezing Precautions, 473
Alcohol and Petrol, Power from, 315
Alcohol, Synthetic, Manufacture on Commercial
Scale in Switzerland, 207
Alloy, Copper and Zinc, Proportions and Use, 541
Alloy, New Anti-friction Type, 497
Alloy for Ships’ Propellers, 249
Alloy Steel Castings for Dies in America, 163
Alloys, Iron-Aluminium and Iron-Silicon for
Electro-Magnetic Uses, 77
Alloys, Iron-Silicon, Acid Resisting Properties of, 163
Aluminium Output from Foyers and Kinloch -leven, 73 i
Aluminium Pistons for Internal Combustion
Engines, J. Leopold, 55
Aluminium, Possible Extraction from Staffordshire Clay, 293
Aluminium Scrap, Fluxes for Melting, 473
Aluminium Scrap, Methods of Melting, 185
Aluminium Works in Hungary, 497
American Co-ordinating Committee on Exportation, 518
American Society of Civil Engineers Abandons
Convention for 1917 owing to War Work Demands, 15
Amethyst Colour Development in Glass, 271
Ammonia Production in Germany, 76
Ammonia, Sulphate of, United States Production, 315 J
Anthracite—see Coal
Anti-Submarine Net at a Cost of Twenty
Millions Sterling, A Suggestion, 293
Antofagasta Port Improvements, Tenders in London Called for, 163
Artesian Basin of Australia, Largest Known in the World, 385
Artesian Wells in Perth, Failure of Attempt to Utilise, 519
Artificial Colouring Matter in the United States, Large Capital Invested, 293
Artificial “ Tides ” Utilised for Coal Transportation on the Ohio River, 293
Asbestos Industry of the United States, 229
Asphalt, Paraffin, &c., “ Natural,” Produced in the United States, 163
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &
societies:
Association of Engineering and Ship* building Draughtsmen :
Hartlepools Section :
(Tees-side and Hartlepools Branch)
Second Annual General Meeting, 484
London Branch :
Annual General Meeting : Reorganisation of the Association, 357
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Autumn Meeting ; List of Papers, 198, 239
Institute of Metals :
Autumn Meeting, 24
Diamond Formation, Lecture by Sir Charles Parsons, 497
Memberships Question : Extra Election, 24
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Awards for Papers, 440
Dublin Section :
Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric Power in Ireland, 270
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
Non-Ferrous Metals Bill, 552
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Cadet Associate Membership, 207
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Proposals for Compulsory Adoption of Metric System, 177
Institution, Royal :
Before Easter Programme, 531
Before Easter Friday Programme, 570
Christmas Lectures, 464
.Donations for Experimental Research, 413
Meetings and Elections, 24, 509
Society of Engineers :
Goods Clearing House System and Machinery Explained, Paper and Demonstration, A. W. Gattie, 39
Society, Faraday :
Pyrometers and Pyrometry, 323
Society, Optical :
Optical Stores Captured from the Enemy, Lieut.-Col. A. C. Williams, 437
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Albert Medal Awarded to Mr. Orville Wright for Aeronautical Work, 11
Awards of Medals, 11
Howard Lecture by Mr. W. G. Fearnsides, Favourable Prospect for Iron and Steel Manufacturers in Eastern England, 361
Society, Royal Meteorological :
Abnormal Temperature, &c.; Daily Temperature at Greenwich, W\ W\ Brvant. 486 .
Computation of Wind Velocity from Pilot Balloon Observations, P. Bolton, 570
Twelve-hourly Barometer Oscillation, Dr. G. C. Simpson, 486
Use of Monthly Mean Values in Climatological Analysis, E. G. Bilham, 570
ASTRONOMICAL Error in 1 B.C., 247
Atlantic Cable Used for Thames Bridge, 118
Australian Defence Department, Proposed
Plant for Benzene and Toluene Production, 59
B “ BALSA,” Valuable New Tropical Wood, 541
Bangkok, Siam, Use of Electric Vehicles, Independent of Coal Supply by Use of Rice Husks, 429
Barrow, Record Amount of House-building, 337
Basic Slag for Agricultural Purposes, 385
Belt Transmission, Thickness Fallacy, 561
Bennis and Co., Lantern Slides, 384
Benzene and Toluene Production in Australia, 59
Benzol Production by Gas Authorities Unprofitable at Present Price, 293
Benzol Production and Use After the War, 451
Bequest to University of Liverpool, 541
Birmingham Gas, Analysis of Use during Year, 141
Birmingham House Shortage and Town Planning, 97
Blackpool Cliff Protection, 315
Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Department and New Industrial Developments in United Kingdom, 207
Boiler Corrosion Preventive, 271
Boiler Furnace Excess Air, CO2 Percentage Measurement, 519
Boiler House Operations, &c., Comparison between Steam Turbine’s and Boilers, Messrs. Otley and Pickles, 519
Bombs Dropped by Aircraft, Necessary Precautions, 55
Bonuses for Female Workers in France, 547
Boracic Acid in Arc Lamps, 97
Brass Melting by Electric Furnace, Investigation at Cornell University, 249
Bridge in California, Concrete Arch Span Settling Without Cracking, 55
Bridge Design, Economies of, Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, 497
Bridge Designs, Standard, for Ontario, 97
Bridge Erecting Methods, A Forward Step, 271
Bridge Piers Obstruction to Flow of Water, Forthcoming Paper by Floyd A. Nathan, 11
Brinell Hardness Test of Metals, Monsieur Guillery, 429
British-built Magneto on French Designs, 293
British Empire Food and Raw Material
Resources, Imperfectly Utilised, 473
British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 105
British Industries Fair in 1918, 407
Building Cost to be Doubled for Many Years to Come, 141
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CALCUTTA’S Motor Vehicles, 97
California and Earthquakes, 256
California, Large Unmapped Area of Fertile
Territory, 185
Canada, Hydro-electric Power Possibilities, 429
Canada, Munitions and Supplies Purchased
from, in Three Years of War, 497
Canada, Return of Industrial Activity, 407
Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 271
Canadian Scientific and Industrial Research, 55
Capper, Major-General J. E., Director-General of the Tank Corps, 229
Carbon and Graphite Electrode Manufacture in Norway, 429
Carbon Monoxide in Mines, Simple Test for < Detecting even Minute Amount, 337
Cardiff, Election of Engineer and Surveyor, 541
Castings of Chromium-Copper Alloys, Method of Preparing, 315
Castings, Large and Small, Scrapping Economy, 22
Cellulose Acetate for Varnish Manufacture, 497
Cellulose Piping, Compressed, Satisfactory in
General Use, 141; as Substitute for Metal, 385
Cement for Fastening Metal Parts to Marble, 97
Cement Industry in Japan, 249
Cement Mill near Guatemala City, Large Capacity and Low Cost of Product, 11
Cemented Surface, Coating by the Nichol 1 Process, 33
Ceylon, New Port at Aragam Bay, East Coast, 163
Charcoal and Conservation of Timber in Sweden, 337
Chelmsford, Works’ Sports for Charity, 196
Chemical Industry in Switzerland, War Scarcity of Raw Material, 315
Chemists, Industrial, National Association of, Proposed, 109
Chicago Meat-canning Factory’s Great Increase in Steam Generating Plant, 141
Chimney, 570ft. High, in Japan, 185
China’s Use of Electricity and Neglect of Gas, 315
Chinese Export Trade and Government Assistance, 119
Chinese Factories, Details of Industries and Equipment, 497
Chinese Imitation of Foreign Trade-marks, British Complaints, 141
Chisel, Best Method to Harden and Temper, 337
Chlorine, Best Temperature for Electrolytic Production of, 229
Christmas Gifts for the Labour Battalion, 462
Chromite Production in the United States, A Record Year, 337
Clay-working Cinders, Value for Fuel, R. G. Lovell, 451
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES: Anthracite Coal, W. H. Booth, 33
Anthracite Discovery in the Alps, 337
Calorific Value of Coal, Deterioration Since
Outbreak of War, 271
China, Pinghsiang Collieries, 163
Coalfield Seams Burning in Large Area of the United States, 11
Coal Mines, Breathing Apparatus, Scientific Research Council Inquiry, 97
Coal Mining Regiments, Question of United States Raising them for France, 561
Coal Shortage in North-West America, Pro-hibition of Shipments to Canada, 337
Coal for Steam Production, Advantages of Welsh Anthracite, W. H. Booth, 33
Controller of Coal Mines, Address and Code of Directions, 11
French Output of Coal, 315
India, North and West, Disappointing Coal Supply, Suggested Substitution of Hydroelectric Power, 315
Indian Collieries and Use of Electricity, 11
Indian Minerals, Coal the Most Important, 293
Italian Coal Discovery, 97
Oklahoma and Kansas, Shallow Coal-beds Working, 293
South African Coal, High Percentage of Tar,
United States, Possible Shortage of Coal, and
Wood Fuel as Substitute, 185
COAL Gas for Motor Cars, 531
Cold Storage and Ice Making, Liverpool Experience, 429
Cold Storage Warehouses for United Kingdom Food Supply, 541
Commercial Alcohol from Damaged Potatoes 540
Commercial Motors, Annual Inspection of, Prizes, 552
Concrete, Best Colours for Colouring, 11
Concrete for Cheap Building, A House every Three Days, 407
Concrete Fence Posts and Attachment of Wire Fencing, 163
Concrete Fence, Reinforced, for Great Yarmouth, 385
Concrete, Reinforced, Action of Salt on, Professor H. J. M. Creighton, 572
Concrete, Reinforced, Examined by X-rays, 492
Concrete,- Reinforced, Injurious Action of Salt in the Philippine Islands, 561
Concrete Roads, Emulsified Asphalt for Maintaining, 229
Concrete Silos for Wheat Storage in Australia. 497
Concrete for Small Buildings, 385
Concrete as a Substitute for Timber, Bricks, Iron and Steel, 396
Copper and Lead of Serbia Exploited by Germans and Austrians, 229
Copper, World’s Production of, 197
Coral Carving, Japan Endeavouring to Replace Italian Production, 519
“ Corimite,” Insulating Material Made from Fish Offal, 451
Corrosion of Tinned Copper Sheets, 119
Cotton Spinning and Weaving Industry in Korea, 561
Crane, Floating, Largest Lifting Crane Built in United States, 407
Crane, 50-Ton Locomotive Jib, for Panama Canal Docks, Unusual Type, 119
Crinan Canal, Inadequacy of, and Suggested Replacement, 207
D DANUBE Navigation and Ports for Increased
Trade Development, 451
Death of Mr. W. J. Widdowson, 541
Decimal Coinage and Metric System of Weights and Measures, Opinions Invited, 361
Deoxidisation, Electrolytic Process Patented in the United States, 229
Diamond Drill Hole in New Jersey, Record
Depth, 271
Diamond Formation, Sir C. Parsons, 497
Diesel Engine Driven by Peat Gas, 519
Dock, Royal Edward, at Avonmouth, Pro
jected Enlargement, 519
Draughtsmen, Increased Pay, 413
Dry Rot in Timber, Drastic Action Necessary, 337
E EGGS, New Method for Safe Delivery, 473
ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Applications of Electricity, List of 3000 in Booklet, 77
Arc Lamps, Uses of Boracic Acid, 97
Arc Welding, Continuous Current Superior to Alternating, 541
Arc Welding, Suitable Electric Conditions for, H. L. Unland, 407
Armature Shafts on the Commutator End of
Motors, Novel Method of Repair, 77
Army Cooking by Electric Oven, 429
Belfast, Electricity Supply Possible from
Tidal Power of Strangford Lough, 163
Blast-furnace Tap-holes Opened by Electric Arc, 541
British and Metric Systems as Affecting British Electrical Trade, 451
Calcutta, Cheap Current for Cooking and Heating, 11
Capacity of Single Turbo-generator Units, Limitation in Size, 473
Cattle Driving by Electricity, 141
Cauvery Power Scheme in Mysore, Conveyance of Very Heavy Machinery, 119
Centralisation of Power and Profit from Byproducts, Enormous Gains Possible, H. Wilson-Fox, 429
Charging Plugs and Sockets for Electric Vehicles, 437
China’s Preference for Electricity, 315
Commercial Motor Vehicles, Electric, Projected Expenditure, 33
Committee on Electric Power, Chairman and Additional Members, 11
“ Continuously Loaded ” Paper—Core Cable for Underground Telephone, 97
Current Transformers and Possible Registration Errors, 497
Economy in Use of Electric Furnaces to Convert Steel Scrap into Castings, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
Electro-Chemical Industries at Shawinigan, Quebec, 561
Electro-Culture, Results of, on Garden Pro* duce, 407
French Production of Iron by Electric Furnaces, 11
Furnaces, Government Permit and British Steel Making, 249
Furnaces at Work-in Great Britain, Statistics of Increase and Type, 11
Generating Costs per Unit, J. Shepherd, 55
German Pocket Torch with Hand-driven Dynamo, 429
Harrogate, Proposed Installation of Byproduct Steam Boiler Plant for Electrical Supply, 163
Indian Collieries and Electrical Winding, 11
Indian Collieries, Electricity Replacing Steam, 11
Insulating Material from Fish Offal, 451
Japanese and the Australian Market for
Electrical Supplies, 497
Lamp Voltage, Standardisation of, 385
Leeds’ Increased Electricity Supply, 429
Morocco, Suggested Water Power Development and Electrification of Railways, &c,.
Niagara Falls, Cost of Power from, 293
Nickel Alloys Used for Centre Electrodes of Sparking Plugs, 451
Optical Pyrometer for Works Use, 249
Porcelain Insulators Made in the Transvaal, 519
Power Transmission Lines Nearly 700 Miles in Length, 293
Power Transmission Lines of Nevada, California Company’s System, Longest Yet Projected, 11
Quebracho, for Cleaning Electric Insulators. 141
Selenium Cell Produced by Californian Experimenter, Immensely Increased Sensitiveness, 33
Standard Voltages of Electric Supply in the United States, 249
Steel Mills, Rolling and Reversing, Advantages of Electric Motor Drive, 33
Street Cleansing Vehicles in Sheffield, Satisfactory Economy Effected, 141
Street Cleansing Vehicles ; Ten Years’ Life, 119
Swedish Output of Electric Furnaces, 519
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
Tata Hydro-electric Power Supply, Great Success, 561
Taxicabs, Electric, in Detroit, 497
Transmission Line Over the St. Lawrence
River, Details of Erection, 77
Tungsten Wire Importation for Electric Lamps, 450
Turbo Alternator Development, History of, 519
United States Electric Furnaces, Large Increase, 451
Water Power and its Utilisation in France and Elsewhere, 561
Wellington, New Zealand, Storage Battery
Truck for Use on the Water Front, 361
ENERGY Required for Rain Production, J.
Patterson, 473
Engineers’ Clubs in Manchester and in Philadelphia, 249
Engines, “ Uniflow,” World’s Records of
Efficiency, 141
Envelope-opener for Office Use, 119
Envelopes Placed in Typewriter by Machine,
American Device, 163
Explosives Output in the United States, 163
Exports Prohibited by Board of Trade, Lists of
Articles and Countries, 185
Eyesight of Workers, Offer by Institute of
Ophthalmic Opticians, 519
FALL of a Stone to Earth’s Centre, Calculations of Time Required, 561
Federation of British Industries, New President,
413
Feed-water for Boilers, Troubles Due to
Sodium Hydroxide, 77
Fiat Company’s Twenty-three Thousand Workpeople, 293
File-cutting Machines, First Recorded Use in this Country, 385
Fire-brick, Melting Points of Various Samples,
185
Fires in New York State, Large Proportion of
Preventable Loss, 55
Fishing Boat to Catch 60,000 lbs. of Fish an Hour, 229
Flour Waste in Iron Foundries, Wood and
Sawdust as Substitute, 141
Fluorine—see Water Supply
Food Production and Tractors ; Training
Drivers, 315
Foremen’s Mutual Benefit Society, 397
Fruit Centres for Pulping or Drying Surplus
Fruit, 180
Fuel, Alcohol, from Sugar Molasses in Australia, 337
Fuel Gas from Straw—see Straw
Furnace Design, Principles of, A. D. Williams, 293
G GAS and Industrial Efficiency, 497
Gas, Natural, 40,000 Bore-holes in the United States, 497
Gas Replacing Petrol for Commercial Vehicles, 97
Gas Supply of America and Toluol for High Explosives, 271
Gas Supply and Investigation by Fuel Research Board, 55
Gas Traction, Joint Committee on, 393
Gauges Tested for Ministry of Munitions by National Physical Laboratory, Ten Thousand a Week Average, 11
German Use of Yeast for Manufacture of
Buttons and Knife Handles, 97
Germans Dismantling Blast-furnace Plants for
Use in Munition Works, 451
Germany, Coal Prices and Gas Consumption, 319
Glass for Cooking Utensils, Chemical Product,
293
Glass from German Firms, 112
Glass Tubing of Large Diameter, Simple Method of Cutting, 361
Glass, Window, Working Temperature of, 411
Glycerine Industry, Japanese, Developments, 138
Government Changes, 55
Graphalloy, 497
Graphite, Flake, from Ceylon and Madagascar, 135
Graphite in Oils, &c., To Obtain Permanent Suspension of, C. H. Bierbaum, 361
Graphite for Scaling Boilers, 473
H HOLLAND, Blast-furnaces and Rolling Works in, Suggested Erection of, 77
“ Horse-power Race,” Professor A. E. Kennedy,
119
House Deficiency in this Country, Local
Government Board Inquiry, 519
Hungarian Aluminium Works for Exploiting
Bauxite Deposits, 271
Hydraulic Power Installation in South Africa, The Largest, 293
Hydrogen, Atmospheric, Proposed Works for
Production in Iceland, 519
Hydro-technical Laboratory in Italy, 4.15
I INDIA’S Disappointing Coal Supply ; Suggested Substitution of Hydro-electric Power, 315
India, Survey of, General Report, 293
Indian Agriculture, Mechanical Cultivation Progress, 249
Industrial Reconstruction Council, 530
Interest Chart, Marsden and Co., Limited, 162
Ireland, Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric
Power, 270
Irish Canals Placed under Control of Committee,
Irish Joint Committee of Engineers to Consider Peat Utilisation, 33
Irish Water Power Schemes, Tidal Power oi
Strangford Lough, 163
IRON AND STEEL:
Alloy Steel Castings Used by American Drop
Forging Manufacturers, 163
Alloys, Iron Silicon, Acid-resisting Properties of, 163
American Production of Steel Ingots ana Castings, 11
Annealing Temperatures for Nickel Steel, 385
Atmospheric Effects on Sheet Iron, 315
Australian Company Erecting Works for
Home Supply of Spring Steel, Railway Wheels and Axles, &c., 207
Chilled Cast Iron Car Wheels ; Effect on American Railways, 407
Chilling of Cast Iron, An Accidental Discovery in the Eighteenth Century, 185
Chinese Pig Iron for United States Shipbuilding, 451
Corea, Output of Ore of Poor Quality but Abundant Quantity, 163
Corrosion and “ Borrodising,” 315
Electric Motor Drive in Steel Mill Service, Advantages of, 33
Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
Electric Steel Making and Limitation oi Furnaces, 249
German High-speed Steel, New Type, 541
Hardening of Steel, Frenchmens Solution, 315 ' 1 1
Indian Pig Iron for San Francisco, 11
Iron-Aluminium Alloys, Messrs. Yensen and Gatward, 301 .
Japanese Steel Works Projected for Manufacture of Plates, Rails, Square and Bar Steel, &c., 33 . . .
Japan’s Use of Electricity m Steel Manufacture, 337
Lincolnshire, North, as Centre for Steel Manufacture, 337
Manganese in Fire-box Steel, Specified Percentage, 249
Manganese Shipped from China to Japan, 429
Molybdenite of Low Grade ; Cheap Process of Manufacture, 207
Molybdenite Shipments from Quebec, 163
Molybdenum Steel, Great Value of, as Gun Lining, 55
New South Wales Manufacture of Steel Wheels, 141
New South Wales Steel Works, Demand for Rails and Shipbuilding Plates, 249
Reagent in Steel Investigation, Messieurs Le Chatelier and E. L. Dupuy, 451
Resources and Production of Iron and Other Metalliferous Ores, 109
Steel Business Origin Claimed by an American, 541 T n
Steel Foundry in the Yangtze Valley, | Japanese and Chinese Agreement, 119
Steel Shortage in Canada ; Shipping and Railway Needs, 141
“ Swedish ” Iron and Hematite Supply, Favourable Prospect for East England Iron and Steel Manufacture, 361
Tungsten, Uses in Electricity, 207
United States Steel Castings, Percentages of Kinds of Steel and Methods of Productions,
Wrought Iron, Cost of, Compared with Steel, G. G. Roberts, 315
IRISH Production of Antimony and Lead, 4ol irrigated Lands in Australia and the Barren Jack Dam, 473
Italian Government Schemes for Hydraulic Development, 361 .
Italian Internal Waterways, Periodical to Deal with Question, 185
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JAPAN Boating—see Ships
Japan Builds 9000-Ton Steamer for British
Owners in Less than Three Months, 207
Japan as Competitor in Incandescent Lamp
Trade, 361
Japanese Glycerine Industry Development, 407
Japanese Scientists Sent to United States to
Study Industrial Conditions, 385
Japanning Process, Double Operation, 337
Japan’s Copper Ore Output and Exports, 185
Java, Increased Sugar Production, 185
Jute Substitute in Russia, 77
K
KAISER and Czar in 1904, 207
L
LABOUR Accidents, Calendar of, 451
Lamp, Gas-filled Type, with Renewable
Filament, 561
Land under Plough in England and Wales,
Large Increase, 11
Lantern Slides, Bennis and Co., 384 I
Lead Mines in Flintshire to be Reopened, 97
Lead Production in Certain States of America,
385 . ,
Lead Trade Development in Derbyshire, 429 Leicester Town-planning Scheme for After the
War, 55
Lightning Flash, Length and Quantity of
Electricity, 229 i
Lignite, Distillation of, for Tars, 451
Lincoln Housing and Town-planning Schemes, 497
Liquid in Air, Method of Determining Surface Tension of, 541
Liquid Ammonia, Latent Heat of Vaporisation of, N. S. Osborne and M. S. Van Dusen, 451
Liquids in Capillary Tubes, Bigelow and
Hunter and Mr. W. D. Bancroft, 561
Locks on Canals, Comparison between England and Germany, 55 |
London County Council Training of Munition Workers, 127
MACHINE Shop for Ford Motor Company, Remarkable Construction, 407
Machine Telegraph Development, Anticipated Success, 429
McNicholl Process for Coating Freshly Cemented Surface, 33
Magnesia Bricks, Refractory Properties of, Messieurs H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 451
Magnetic Separators for Minerals, Varying Strength, 97
Magneto Industry, British Developments, 97
Manchester Corporation Omnibuses, Statistics of Running, 11
Manufactures Formerly Obtained from Germany, Demand in England, 77
Megaphones for Submarine Detection, 519
Metal Cutting by Revolving Smooth Steel Discs, 541
Metal Economy, Discovery of Wasted Dies, 501
Metals, Boiling Points of, and Pyrometric Work,
C. R. Darling, 497
Metric System, Proposals for Compulsory Adoption, 77
Mid-Scotland Canal, Work for Demobilised Men after the War, 473
Milling Machines, C. Churchill and Co., 486
Mineral Wool, Pure White, Uses of, 385
Mines in the Transvaal and Kimberley, Prevention of Pneumonia in Natives, 293
Mining Plant in South Africa, 561
Mining Timber, Substitute for, Patented, E.
Seward, 119
Ministry of Health, 552
Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel
Monazite Discoveries and German Control, 249
Monazite in Mysore, Disappointing Result, 361
Monazite Sands for Gas Mantles, Discovery in
Ceylon, 249, 473
Motor Car Engines, Battery System of Ignition, 337
Motor Car Engines, Cracks in Water Jackets, 140
Motor Car Manufacture Replaced by Aircraft Motors, 519
Motor Car Weight and Improved Construction, 55
Motor Car’s Record Speed, 473
Motor Cars in America, Exhaust Cut-outs Discontinued, 361
Motor Industries, Technical Committee, Bodies Represented, 473
Motor Lorries for War Use Ordered in the United States, Large Orders, 293
Motor Lorry Accommodation, Better Utilisation of, 77
Motor Omnibuses, Taxation and Upkeep of Roads, 33
Motor Ploughing in England and Wales, Cost per Acre, 561
Motor Spirit, Standardisation of, Tests and Paper by Mr. Lomax, 429
Motor Taxation in France, New Formula for Determining, 337
Motor Tire Manufacture in America ; Own Mills and Own Cottonfields, 207
Motor Trucks and Automobiles for United States War Department, Standardisation and Large Output, 385
Motor Vehicles and Coal Gas, 315
Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, 97
Motor Vehicles, Suspension System of Improved
Type, 315
Motor Vehicles, to Value of Over Six Millions
Sterling Ordered by the United States, 141
Motor Volunteers, City, and Invasion, 384
Mowra Flower, Important Raw Product in Hyderabad, 119
Municipal Engineering and Public Health, Effect of the War on, H. P. Boulnois, 328
Munition Workers’ Training under London County Council, 127
N NATIONAL Association of Industrial Chemists, Proposed, 109
Natural Gas Used for Lighting Pisa, 271
Negro Emigration from Southern States of America Discouraged, 11
New South Wales Imports and Exports, 407, 497
New South Wales Mineral Output, High Value in 1916, 185
New South Wales, Value of Mineral Exports, First Quarter, 1917, 229
New York State Barge Canal Completion, 97
New York, Weight of Traffic and Pavement Composition, 429
New Zealand, Discovery of Scheelite, 55
New Zealand Government and Factory Heating
Appliances, 473
New Zealand, Hydro-Electric Projects for the North Island, 97
New Zealand, Increased Cold - Storage since War Outbreak, 561
New Zealand ; Sulphuric Acid Works in Christchurch, 385
Niagara Falls and Shortage of Water Power both in Canada and United States, 271
Nickel-Copper Ore, Now Discovery in Ontario, 261
Nickel in Ontario, 80 per Cent, of World’s
Supply, 497
Nitrates, Synthetic, in the United States, 315
Nitric Acid by Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen Process, Comparison of Cost by Different Methods. 11, 77
Nitrogen Products Committee’s Report, 541
Nitro-Starch as Blasting Explosive, Advantages of, 33
Noise of Trucks on Concrete Floor, Method of Deadening, 33
Nottingham City Engineer, Mr. A. Brown’s Long Service, 541
o OIL for Burning, Advancing Price, 271
Oil-forming Conditions in the British Isles, W.
H. Dalton, 519
Oil Production of the United States, 561
Omnibuses Run on Coal Gas Instead of Petrol, Great Saving in Cost, 11
Ontario Government and Net Fishing, 271
Optical Glass: The Rea] Introducers of New
Materials, 473
Orange River Falls, South Africa, 407
Oven for Electric Cooking for Army Use, 385
P PAINT as a Rust Preventive, Experiments, 319
Panama Canal, Big Docks to be Built, 315
Panama Canal and Railroad, Improved Health of Employees, 185
Paper and Lectures for West of Scotland Institute, Difficulty in Obtaining, 229
Papyrus in North Zululand, Company Formed to Utilise, at Christiania, 207
Paraffin for Motor Tractors, Question of Lower Prices, 293
Paris, Flood Prevention and Navigation Improvement Works, 293
Paris Tramways, Increased Working Expenses, 293
Patents, Statistics of Applications, 33
Peat Gas for Driving Diesel Engine, 519
Petrol Consumption in France, Restrictions and Reserve Stock, 385
Petrol Extracted from Natural Gas in the United States, 337
Petrol Imports into United Kingdom, 97
Petrol Production in the United States, 271
Petrol Shortage, Problem in United States, 361
Petrol, Synthetic, from Kerosene or Paraffin at
Cost of |d. per Gallon, 163
Petrol Waste, Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks on, 97
Petroleum in Burma, Increased Output, 249
Petroleum, Natural Formation Secret not yet
Discovered, W. H. Dalton, 519
Piles of Steel Pipe with Concrete Lining, 337
Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines, J.
Leopold, 55
Platinum, Difficulty in Finding Alloy for, 271
Platinum Discovery in Southern Spain, 271
Platinum in Manitoba, 406
Platinum for Military Purposes, 229
Platinum Output of the World in 1916, 11
Platinum Substitute ; Alloy of Gold and Palladium, 119
Ploughing by Motor Traction, Forty Acres in Six Ten-hour Days, 497
Plymouth Harbour, Development of Catte-water Lower Reaches, 473
Pneumonia Among South African Native
Miners, Success of Inoculation, 185
Port Kembla, New South Wales, 385
Portugal and New Industries ; Large Iron and Steel Works, 229
Postal Services by Aeroplane, Established and Projected, 190
Potash from Feldspar, 229
Potash Salts Production in United States, 97
Potash Scarcity in Germany ; Trade Apprehensions, 473
Production Limit ; The Human Factor in Industry, G. E. Toogood, 537
Prohibited Exports from British Empire, 55, 77
Protected Occupations, Scrap Metal Collection, Dr. Addison, 38
Punch, Press Mud and the Ministry of Munitions, 271
Pyrometer, Optical, for Works Use, 249
Pyrometers and Pyrometry, Instruments Shown and General Discussion, 323
Q QUEBEC New Dry Dock, Largest in the World, 141
Queensland, Mineral Output of, 515
R RAGS of the British Army, High Prices Paid, 55
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Accident Due to Sleeping Engine Driver, 385 at Finchley-road Station, Need of
Automatic Signalling, 271
Scotch Express, 561
to Soldiers’ Train in Yorkshire, 271
Tramway, at Dover, 185, 429
Accidents, Prevention of, Harriman Medal Awarded to Illinois Central Railway Company, 6
Air Raid Shelter in Hitherto Unopened Railway Tunnels, 407
Air Raids and Ventilation of Tube Railways, 361
Alaskan Railway, Completion Hastened to Bring About Advantages of all Kinds, 163
Albert Medal for Life Saving, Award, 561
Ambulance Train of Sixteen Coaches Built in Fifteen Weeks by Midland Railway, 229
American Engineers and French Railways, 315
American Engineers’ Plans for Spanish Railways, 407
American Fatal Car Collision, 473
American Freight Car Efficiency and Car Builders’ Association Rules, 97
American Railroads and Coal, Analysis of Kinds Used, 249
American Railway Authorities ; Conference * to Reduce Clerical Work, 473
American Railways—see also United States Railways and Inter-State Commerce Commission
Ames, Oakes and Oliver, Constructors of First Transcontinental Railway Over the Rockies, 207
Appointments and Changes of Personnel on Various Railways, 11, 33, 55, 77, 97, 184, 249, 337, 361
Argentine Government and Railway Supply Questions, 77
Association of Private Owners of Railwav Rolling Stock, 73
Australian Commonwealth Railways Bill, Non-Political Control, 337
Australian East-West Railway, Cost, 451
Australian East-West Railway; Projected
Exhibition to Celebrate Opening, 229
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- I i tinned) *
Australian East-West Transcontinental Rail" way ; Approaching Completion and Subsequent Train Service, 33, 77, 229, 337
Bacteriological Car Laboratory Presented to French Army, 473
Bakerloo to Watford, Lengthened Trains, 497
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Employment of
Women, 42
Barrow-in-Furness, Deficiency of House Accommodation, Strain on Railways, 207
Beasley, Mr. A., Retirement from Taff Vale Managership and Appointment as Director, 33, 55, 97
Belgian Locomotives in France, 55, 77
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Company
Builds Ambulance Trains, 67
Brazilian Purchase of Locomotives to Expedite Food Supplies to Allies, 519
British Railway Administration, Mr. Lynch’s Questions, 451
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Scrap, Economical Treatment of Castings, .2.2
Burma Railways Company’s Supplies for
War Purposes, 561
Business or Pleasure,Overcrowded Travelling, 455
Butterworth, Sir A. Kaye, General Manager of North-Eastern Railway to Visit America on Behalf of the Government, 163
Cab Penny Toll Dispute Settled, 561
Cabs and Taxis and Railway Stations, Tolls, 163
Cabs Use of Railway Stations, Position Defined, 163
Caledonian Railway, Collision at Newton Colliery, Result of Inquiry, 55
California and other States ; Level Crossing Regulations, 561
Cambrian Railway Company’s Prizes for
Well-kept Stations, 519
Canadian Dominion and the Maritime Provinces, Intercolonial Railway Completion, 33
Government Railways, New Rolling Stock, 229
Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways’ Postponement of Adoption of Uniform Gauge, 330
Northern Railway, Petition Against Government Purchase, 207
Northern Railway Taken Over by Government—Question of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 119
Pacific Railway’s Projected Doubledeck Bridge at Toronto, 33
Railway Association for National Defence, 519
Railway Combination and Removal of Rails to France, 119
Railway Commission, Cost of, 451
Railway Revenues, 141
. Canal Control Committee, Annual Cost, 541 Canal Transport for Coal and Heavy Goods
Traffic, to Relieve Railways, 361
Cape to Cairo Railway, Completion to Bukama on the Congo, 207
Cars Partly Loaded Only; Photographs Sent to Traders to Induce Economy in Use of Railway Facilities, 207, 249
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Economy in Card Passes, 473
Channel Tunnel Project, Government Support
Refused during War, 163
Charing Cross Bridge Strengthening, Bill Passed, 11
Chemin de Fer du Nord, Change of General Manager, 11, 77
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Accident, 385
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, Saving of Fuel Due to Electrification, 459, 541
Chicago and North-Western Railway and “ Safety First ” Post Cards, 33
Children’s Home in Memory of South Indian Railway Engineer Killed in Action. 229
Clayton Aniline Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 271
Coal Consumption on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pau! Railroad, 163
Control and the Coming Winter, 97, 315 for London, Rail-borne and Sea-borne in 1914 and 1917, 11
Mines in Ireland and Railway Facilities 429
Pooling in United States : Avoidance of, Delay in Shiploading, 337
Rate Differences, Anomalies of Transport, 451
Transport Reorganisation in the North-West of England, 429
Transport Scheme, Great Saving, 497, 519
Wagons to and from Collieries, Investigation of Delays, 497
Wagons and Private Ownership, 315
Collection and Distribution of Goods, Reform Needed, 497
Concrete Disintegration in Linings of Railway Tunnels in America, 163
Copenhagen, New Underground Railway
Stopped for Want of Material, 249
Crane Accident on Breakdown Work, 293
Death of Mr. William Smith, 361
Death of Old Engine-driver Due to Heat, 97
Death of Mr. W. R. Sykes, 293
Difficulties of Railwav Service in War-time, 361
Dividends, Interim, of Certain Railways, 141
/ Drivers’ and Guards’ Difficulty in Regard to Food and Lodgings When Away from Homes, 97
Eastern Bengal Railway Survey for Ferry Boat Service on Jamuna River, 191
Economies of Railway Operation in America, Committee Appointed, 18
Economy and Free Travelling of Conference Delegates, 407
Electric Headlights Replace Oil on Baltimore and Ohio Locomotives, 451
Electric Locomotive Built in Manchuria, 519
Electrification of 211 Miles of the Chicago, i Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 271
Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company and Repair of Armature Shafts, 77
Employers’ Liability, Trial Ends in Verdict for the Railway, 497
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Erie Railroad, Discontinuance of Numerous Passenger Trains, 77
Exhibition of Produce of Allotment Holders on the London and South-Western Railway, 229
Fares Increase on London Railways, 229
Fares Increase Unlikely to be Further Extended, 519
Federated Malay States Railways, Favourable Financial Position, 473
Fine for Letting Wagons on Hire Without Government Permit, 481
Fire Outbreak on Ammunition Train ;
Rewards foi Courageous Work of Staff, 337
Flashlights at Level Crossings on the Furness Railways, Source of Economy as well as Safety, 519
Flowers for Manchester Hospitals, Railway Arrangement for Delivery, 141
Fcod Instruction Trains in the United States, 271
France, Northern Railway Chief Engineer Resigning Post, 11
Free Travelling for Army ReServe Munition Workers, 385
Free Travelling for Merchant Seamen Discharged at Other than Usual Port, 337
Freight Train Loads on Eastern Railways of United States, 249
French Railways, Percentage of Expenditure to Receipts, 292
Fuel for Locomotives, Report of Committee on Powdered Coal to International Railway Fuel Association, 33
Fuel Scarcity and Utilisation of Russian Schist for Locomotive Boilers, 451
“ Full Crew ” Rule in New Jersey, 519
Geddes, Sir Eric, First Lord of the Admiralty, Continuance of Relations with North-Eastern Railway, 207
Genoa to Milan Line, Great Loss of Life Due to Derailment of Express Train, 163
German Increased Railway Fares and Demurrage Charges, 229
Goods Storage and Handling in United States, Threatened Troubles, 185
Goods Traffic Increase under Government Control, 141
Government Appointments for Railway Officials, 119
Great Eastern Company Gives Facilities for Coal Storage for Use with Farm Machinery, 97
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Opening of Parsik Tunnel near Kalyan, 33
Great Northern (U.S.A.) and Northern Pacific . to Keep Posts for Enlisted Employees, 11
Guns versus Locomotive Manufacture, Beyer, Peacock and Co.’s Difficulties, 385
Haiderabad, Serious Railway Collision, 163
Harcourt-street Station, Dublin, Second
Accident to Engine on Same Spot, 207
Highland Railway, Late Chief Engineer as Divisional Food Commissioner for North Scotland, 185
Horse Transport, Controller Appointed, 473
Illinois Central Line Speed Reductions and Resulting Losses, 497
India, Defence of, Government and War Transport Railway Facilities, 315
India, Design and Inspection of Girder Bridges, 407
India, North-Western Railway to Use Oil Fuel, 293
Indian Railways Supplies to Mesopotamia, Unexplained Loss, 163
Indian Traffic Controller Appointed, 141
Indo-Ceylon Connection Working at a Loss, 451
Injury Claim Refused on Ground of Negligence, 11
Injury to Employees,- Notice to Men Seeking Employment, 11
Interavailability of Season and Traders’ Tickets, Restrictions Withdrawn, 361
Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s New York Traffic, 536
Inter-State Commerce Commission :
Car Service Division Formed to Deal with
Distribution Exchange and Return of Freight Cars, 163
Rates Increase, Application Renewed by Railway Companies, 385, 463
Trainload Statistics, 33
Irish Branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, 315
Collieries and Need of Railways, 97
Munition Workers and Christmas Travelling, 429
Permanent Way Men Returned from France to Ireland, 77
Railway Engineers’ Strike, 33
Railway Men’s War Bonus Increased to English Level, 229
Railways Claims in Respect of Rebellion of Easter, 1916, 519
Railways Exempt from 50 per Cent. Increase in Fares, 163
Railways, Wagon Demurrage Regulations, 206
Seaside Resorts and Limited Travelling, 55
Train’s Remarkable Speed. 315
Italian Coal Scarcity Involves Train Reduction, 497
Italian Government Increase in Railway Fares, 519
Italian Minister of Transportation, 11
Italian State Railways, Satisfactory Finance, 249
Japanese Mission to Study American Transport and Industrial Conditions, 519
Kentucky Coalfields and the Virginian Railway, Suggested Purchase by United States President, 207
Kobe’s Elevated Railway, 561
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company and Government Control, 293
Lewis, J. T., S. Indian Rail way Engineer Killed in Action, Children’s Home in Memory of, 229
Light Railway Commission, Retirement of Colonel Boughey, 361
“ Limited Mail,”" Origin of Term, G. P. Neele, 229
Live Stock at Large on Texas and Pacific Railroad, 211
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued) : .
Live Stock Trespassing on American Railways, Action by all Companies, 249
Liverpool, Increase in Railway Haulage Charges, 271
Locomotive and Railway Material, Exports from the United States, 249
Locomotives for Burning Pulverised Fuel, 33
London and North-Western Hotel at Birmingham, Extensions, 193
London and North-Western Railway versus J. Sankey and Son, Carriage of Wheels, 55
London and North-Western Railway, War Casualties, 229
London and North-Western Railway, Decorations, 519
Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Western Union Telegraph Ccmpany’s Poles, United States Government Intervenes, 97 .
Madrid to Construct Electrical Underground Railway, 185
Manchester Train Service Changes, Midland Railway, 429
Mechanical Stokers on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 385
Melbourne, Railway Electrification in, 451
Meyrick Park, Bournemouth, Halt Closed,407
Midland Railway Collision at Derby, 407
Midland Railway, Derailment of Passenger Train, 271
Motor Cars and Unprotected Railway Crossings, Tennesee Law, 229
Moving Trains, Fatalities Caused by Entering and Leaving, 229
Munition Work in Indian Railway Shops, Increase of Employees, 229
National Union of Railwaymen :
Annual Report, 97
Air Raid Demands, 519 .
and Board of Trade, 293
Deaths in Action or from Wounds, 185
and Mr. J. H. Thomas, 293
Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Autobiography, 451
Newfoundland, Four Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of Discovery, 293
New Jersey and Discontinuance of Numerous Trains by Erie Railroad, 77
New Jersey Public Utilities Commission and Curtailment of Train Service, 168
Newport Light Railways Order, 419
New South Wales, Increased Railway and Tramway Rates. 356
New South Wales Railways, Increased Outlay, 451
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Reduction in Passenger Trains, 141
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Successful Financial Management and Retirement of President, 10
New York State, Rapid Transit System, 153
New Zealand Locomotive, Satisfactory New Type, 527
New Zealand, New Rolling Stock, 561
New Zealand Railways, Traffic Statistics, 385, 429
New Zealand, Trolley Accident in Tunnel, 141
North British Railway Company Increases Salaries and Pays Income Tax of Staff, 207 North-Eastern Railway Allotment Holders and Goat Keepers, 271
North-Eastern Railway, General Manager to Visit America, 163
Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car and the War, 42
Oil, Domestic Production, Broxburn Oil Company and the North British Railway, 11
Oil Shortage and Gas-lighted Railway Carriages, 397
Oil Substituted for Coal on the Western Indian Locomotives, 519
Open Cars for Transport of Goods, Use Forbidden Except for Public Service, 541
Overcrowding at Business Hours, Increased Train Service, 385, 455, 497
Overcrowding on Suburban Lines, 429
Oxted Tunnel Failure and Re-opening, 97
Panama, Projected Railway on Atlantic Coast, 55
Parcels Traffic and Stamp System, 508
Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads’ Reduction of Passenger Trains, 97
Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Suggested Electrification, 83
Pennsylvania Railroad, Men of Foreign Birth, Analysis ; Purchasers of Liberty Bonds, 473
Pennsylvania Railroad and Military Service, 315
Perishable Traffic in America, Wagons in Sidings, 407
Permanent Way, New Type, Demonstration at Townsville, Queensland, 561
Peru, American Locomotives Preferred by, 141
Peru, New Railway to be Financed in New York, 119
Porters’ Tips and Compensation Question, 519
Prosser, Mr. E. A., Manager of Taff Vale as well as of Cardiff and Rhymney Railways, 33
Queensland Government Railways, Investigation, 337
Queensland Government Railways Report, 561
Rails, Steel, Manufacture in Sputh Africa, Trade Impetus Due to War, 229
Railway Benevolent Institution :
Increased Income, 11
Prince of Wales as President, 77
Railway and Canal Commission Court, Trials Postponed to End of the War, 97 Clerks, Male and Female Wages Increase, 561
Clerks’ War Bonus and Superannuation, .271
Crossing Sign in South Carolina, Use as Advertisement Forbidden, 33
Engineer Regiments for France, Nine Called for in the United States, 15
Executive Committee’s Agreement with Men’s Union as to War Wages, 141
Material Exported from the United Kingdom, 11, 77, 185, 315, 385, 497
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) ;
Railwaymen’s Fifth Increase in Pay since War Began, 119
Men’s Further Advance in Pay, 473, 497
Men’s Pay and Government Agreement, 519
Officials Lent to Government but Paid by the Railways, 207
Purchase in the United Kingdom, 541
Returns for 1913, Last Published in Complete Form, 229
Shopmen’s War Bonus, 33, 119 Workers’ Wages, New Adjustment, 185
Railways, Future of, Under Consideration by Board of Trade, 429
Reduction in Train Services, 119
Reduction, Further, in Train Services Improbable, 519
Risk Rates and Companies’ Responsibility, 561
Road, Rail and Water Transport in France, 541
Russian Railway Improvements, 451
Russian Road-beds, Russian Railway Working Difficulties, 293
“ Safety First ” Competition for London Drivers, 249
St. Pancras Station, Wholesale Thefts from, 473
Sao Paulo and Boituba Lines, Conversion to Electric Traction, 429
School Holidays and Railway Travelling, 385
Season Ticket Irregularities ; Greater Strictness Enforced. 315
Season Ticket Price Increase and Government Control, 429, 519
Season Tickets to East London Stations, 77
Season Tickets Inter-Availability, 11, 361
Selous Siding, Rhodesian Railways, 55
Shire Highlands Railway, Survey for Extension from Blantyre to Lake Nyasa, 207
Signalling and Engine Head Lights Colour Confusion, 361
Signalling, Great Need for Automatic System to Prevent Accident, 271
Signals, Colour Experiments on Different Lines, 337
Skilled Railwaymen and War Services, 315
Soldiers’ Fatal Train Accident in Yorkshire, 249, 271
Soldiers’ Leave and Travelling by Train, 141
Soldiers’ Week-end Travelling, Regulations, 497
South African Finance, Increased Revenue from Railways and Harbours, 51
South African Government Order for Superheater Mountain Type Locomotives, 33
South African Railway Stores, Improved Methods. 407
South African Railways Engine Shortage and Traffic Restrictions, 429
South African Railways Signalling Installations, 407
South-Eastern and London, Dover and Chatham Companies’ Dividends, 97
South Indian Railway Company and Ceylon Government. 451
Soutnern Pacific, Cheap Transportation of Goods, 293
Southern Pacific Company’s Short Cut Across the Great Salt Lake, 541
Southern Railway Discourages Negro Emigration from Southern States, 11
Southern Railway Record of Safety, 163
Speed of Trains in United States, Evil Effect of Unnecessary Restrictions, 541
Stanley, Sir Albert, Presentation from Underground Companies to Former Managing Director, 53
State-owned Railways of the World Not One-third of Total, 55
Steel Substitution for Timber in Car Construction, Saving of Timber Effected, 541
Steel versus Wooden Coaches for United States Railways, 119
Stone Throwing at Trains, 315
Summer Train Services Abandoned, 54
Sweden’s Great Shortage of Rails, 451
Swedish Transport Bureau to Control Rolling Stock, 119
Switzerland, No More Passenger Trains on Sundays, 271 .
Taff Vale, Cardiff and Rhymney Railways under Joint Managership, 33, 55, 77, 97 *
Telephone Tests on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, 55
Theft of Goods in Transit, Railway Law, 337
Thefts of Goods from Railways, 249
Tie-plates Attachment to Sleepers, New Type of Plant, 11
Track and Bridge Reconstruction on South African Railways, 429
Track and Rolling Stock for Military Transportation in France, from United Kingdom, India, Australia and Canada. 11
Traffic between England and Wales and Scotland, No Choice of Routes, 519
Traffic Interchange between Furness and Other Railway Lines, 249
Train Overturned by Storm on Kohat Thai Railway, 77
Training of United States Troops, Assistance of the Long Island Railroad, 361
Trains and Railway Changes in October, 293 Tramcar, Fatal Derailment at Dover, J 85, 429 Tramway Receipts Increase in the United Kingdom, 185 ,
Trespassing on United States Railways : “ Disgraceful ” Neglect of the Law, 541 Military Control and Reduction of Accidents, 22
Underground Routes between Certain Stations, Eastbound or Westbound as Preferred, 229
Union Steel Corporation of South Africa, Steel Rail Manufacture, 229
United States Cars Rebuilding, Large Amount of Timber Employed, 561
Census of Railroad Employees of Military Age, 541
Expeditionary Force in France Director-General of Trans-, portation, 337
Government and Loans to Railways, 315
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
United States Government Supplies, Success of Transport Arrangements Due to Pooling of Cars, 337
Military Service and Railroad Labour Stress, 330, 385
National Defence, Rolling Stock or Additional Power and Terminals, 77
Passenger Train Economy, Results, 389
Passenger Train, Reduction and Coal Saving, 42, 77, 185, 389
Production of Rails, Greatly Increased Output, 185
Railway Dining Car Service and Food Saving, 541
Railway Employees Not Exempted, as a Class, from Military Service, 141
Railway Equipment and Supplies, Enquiry by Mr.
. H. C. Hoyle, 385
Railwaymen’s Wages Demand, Action by President Wilson, 451, 561
Railways Fiscal Year, 407
Railways, Mileage of Signalling and of Train Despatching by Telegraph and Telephone, 496
Traffic, Measures for Improvement and Coal Saving, 185
War Board’s Appeal for Railroad Concentration on the War, 219
Victoria, Increase of Railway Fares and Freight Charges, 207
Victorian Government Railways, Superheaters and Fuel Saving, 185
Victorian Railways Working, Mr. T. R.
Johnson Appointed as Commission, 33
Volunteers, Position of Railwaymen in the Event of Invasion, 473
Wagon Ropes, Railway, Pooled, 77
Wagons for Collieries : Board of Trade and Private Ownership, 300
Wagons for France Built in the United States, 451
Wardle, G. H., Rises from Clerk to Board of Trade Secretary, 185
War Gardens on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 315
War-office Department for Railway Control, Expenditure, 407
War Work Volunteers and Travelling Facilities, 429
Weight of Trains, Varying Methods of Calculation, 119
Western Australia, Railway Freight Shortage Due to Lack of Ships for Wheat Transport, 11
Western Australia Railway Wagons and the Vacuum Brake, 33
Western Australia, Traffic and Finance Statistics, 55
Women Employees for the Pennsylvania Railway, Preliminary Inquiry, 22
Women’s Labour in Transport Work, 229
Women of the Midland Railway and the Rifle Club, 337
Women at Military Hospitals, Reduced Fares for, 271
Women as Permanent Way Gang on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 271
Women as Special Constables on the Great Eastern Railway, 271
Wooden Cars for Passenger Trains in the United States, Steady Withdrawal from Service, 119
Y.M.C.A. Work on United States Railway, Transport of Troops, 361
RAIN-MAKING Plant in Australia, 497
Refrigerating Stores Capacity in United Kingdom, 361
Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete
Research Work and Educational Scheme for Benefit of Cotton Industry, by Messrs. Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Co., 207
Resources of Iron—see Iron
Reversing Mill, Electrically-driven, Recently Installed, 77
Road Vehicles, Mechanically-propelled, Large Increase, 361
Roads and Tarspraying, Details of Labour and Material, 337
Rope Drive, Longest Known Life of, 519
Rope Drive, World’s Highest Velocity, 519
Rotary Flying Engines, American Want of Success in Production of, 519
Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germany, 97
Russian Cotton Seed Oil Industry, 185
Russian Exhibition, 118
Russian Oil Production, High Rate in Spite of Labour Shortage, 33
Russia’s Pre-war Industries, British Capital Employed, 33
s ST. PAUL’S Cathedral, Strengthening of Piers of Transept, 207
Salt Production in Russia, Analysis of, 163
Salt Roadway in Utah, Advantages of, 473
Sanitary Work in the Army, Major A. J. Martin, 328
Scientific and Industrial Research Department’s New Address, 77
Searchlight Improvements and Experiments in Germany, 77
Seine Improvements, to Check Floods and Aid Navigation, 141
Sewage Plant in America, Activated Sludge Compared with Percolating Filters, 561
Sheet Metal Industry, Employers’ Joint Committee Meeting, 420
Shell Forgings, Temperature Considerations, 249
Shell Output in America, 97
Shells, Immensely Increased Output, 33
Shells Used in Capture of Messines, Estimated Weight of Steel, 33
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Shipbuilding versus German U-boats, 234
American Steamers Converted to Diesel -engined Ships, 82
Cadiz, Abandoned Shipbuilding Yard to be Re-opened, 185
Canvas as Auxiliary in Steamships Not Required in Diesel-engined Vessels, 207
Charts, Serious Errors Discovered, 407
Concrete Ship Designed at San Francisco, 119 Concrete Ships, Advantages and Cost, 185
Diesel Engines for Submarines in the United States Navy, Attempt to Dispense with Air Starting Valves, 163
Durban, Electric Coaling Plant of New Design, 429
German Diesel-driven Motor Ship W’ilhelm A. Riedermann, 429
German Submarines, Size and Number Stated to be Much Exaggerated, 207
Hong-Kong Shipping Analysis, Increase of Vessels Using the Port, 185
Hulls of Sea-going Vessels, Composition for Dressing, 561
Italian Measures Against Submarine Attack and for Re-construction of Mercantile Marine, 225
Japan, Absence of Pleasure Boating and Small High Speed Petrol Motors, 55 ; (Letter), 384
Japanese Ports, Percentage of Japanese and Foreign Vessels, 140
Japanese Ships Built at Tsurumi, Japan, Warships as well as Merchantmen to be Home Built, 163
Japan’s Shipbuilding Capacity, Great Extension of, 385
Merchant Ships Under Construction in American Shipyards, 361
Norwegian Iron and Concrete Ship Launched, The First, 163
Nova Scotia’s First Home Built Steel Oceangoing Steamer, 185
Panama Canal Terminals Supply Boats, 451
Russian 50-Ton Submarines, 175
Schooner Yacht America, Her Destination, 407
Shipbuilding Berth in Canada, Largest Enclosed for Canadian Vickers Limited, 361
Shipbuilding in the United States, Statistics, 55
Standard Ship, First Under War Conditions, Built at Chepstow, 541
Standard Steamers, Completed, Started and Sunk, 519
Standardised Ships of Cast Steel Constructed at Rate of More than One a Day, 207
Submarine Boat, First Recorded in 1640, 33 Submarine Chasers Ordered from United
States for British and Italian Governments, 385
Submarine Detection by Megaphone, 519
Submarines, Exchange of Periscopes for Lenses on Either Side of the Vessel, 141
U-Boat Dangers, Suggestion to Net the North Sea, 141
U-Boats Failure to Impede Military Operations, 407
United States Call for American Sailors for their New Merchant Marine, 141
United States Collier Jupiter, Safe Arrival with Wheat Cargo in France, 33
United States Emergency Fleet, Details of Contracts, 33
United States Motor-driven Superdreadnought Tennessee, 249
United States New Dreadnoughts, 407
Warship Losses, Causes of, Comparison between Gunfire, Submarines and Mines, 207
Whitby, Prospect of Shipbuilding, 541
Wooden Ships to be Built in Canada, Steam-driven, 141
Wooden Ships 100 Years Old, 229
Wooden Vessels, Best Metal for Screw Shafts, 229
SIAM, Projects for Systematic Irrigation, 207
Silica Bricks, Superiority over Fireclay, 315
Silver’s Increased Price, 293
Silvertown Works Fire, Exaggerated Report’ 163
Slide Rule, Pamphlet on “ Useful Engineers, Constants,” &c., J. A. Burns, 260
Smokeless Fuel for United States Navy, 385
Soap Substitutes in Germany, 119
Soldiers and Sailors, Disabled, to be Employed on Gramophone Manufacture, Works Opened, 361
South Wales Miners and Taxes, 311
South-Western Polytechnic Institute, 154
Spanish Telephone System, Projected Extension, 141
Spanish Works for Home Supply of Ships and War Material, 119
Sparking Plug, Lenoir the Original Inventor, 77
Sparking Plug, Better Insulation Needed, A. Champion, 407
Stainless Steel Cutlery, Use of Chromium Stopped, 271
Stanley, Sir Albert, Former Underground Managing Director, now President of Boaid of Trade, 53
Steam Pressure for Steam Turbines, Increase in America, 497
Stone Falling to Centre of the Earth, Calculation of Time, M. Sanger, 141
Straw for Motor Fuel Gas, Canadian Chemist’s Process, 385
Straw Pulp, Tested in Scottish Mills,. 429
Street Accidents, Wonderful American Invention, 473
Submarine Cable, Largest in the World, 229
Suction Gas Plant in South Africa, Largest in Existence, 293
Sugar or Bananas in Jamaica, 97
Sugar, Motor Spirit and other Products from Mowca Flower, 119
Sulphur Recovery from Smelter Fumes, “ Thiogen ” Process, 229
Sweden, Proposed Government Grant for Grain Storage, 293
Synthetic Indigo Manufacture at Ellesmere Port, Dr. G. T. Morgan, 24
TAXATION of Motor Spirit, Import Duty During tho War, 55
Taxes on Wages, South Wales Miners, 311
Tea-growing Increase in Nyasaland, 146
Tea Mixed with Iron and Steel Borings, 561
Telegram Round the World in 16| Minutes,
New York Times Message, 141
Telegraph and Telephone Mileage in the Federated Malay States, 556
Telegraph, Modern, Principles of, Professor J.
A. Fleming, 328
Telephone Exchange, The Work of, Professor J. A. Fleming, 328
Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, for Sydney, Cost of, 561
Telephone from Montreal to Vancouver, Record Length, 451
Telephone Signalling, Various Methods, 249
Telephone, Underground, “ Continuously
Loaded ” Paper Core, in Shropshire, 97
Telephone, Underground, from Washington to New York, 315
Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, Much the Largest in the World, 249
Textile Factories, Source of Electric Power, 385
Tilbury Dock Enlargement, Completion, 33
Timber in Victoria, Investigation of Development and Best Time for Cutting Mountain Ash, 55
Tin Included in War Material Regulations, 561
Tin Mining in Cornwall, Percentage of Loss of Tin and Wolfram, 519
Tin and Tungsten in Wolfram, Separation by New Process, 361
Tin from Zaaiplaats Smelting Works, South Africa, 428
Titanium, Properties and Uses of, 541
Town Planning After the War, Professor S. D. Adshead, 328
Tractors, Farm, Varieties in the United States, 497
Tractors for Farm Work, Good Ploughing Result, 361
Tractors for Farmers, Government Assistance in Ontario, 55
Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
Turbines, Very Large Geared Marine, Construction in America, 33
Turbo-blowing Plant to Replace Beam Engines After Seventy Years’ Constant Service, 337
U-BOATS With and Without Periscopes, 77
United States Army to Use Browning Automatic Rifle and the Lewis Gun, 163
United States Increased Output of Tractors, 249
United States Record Agricultural Programme,
United States Soldiers, Weight of Metal and
Other Equipment Carried, 519
United States Standard Water-tube Boilers for Emergency Fleet, 519
University College, London, Awards of Scholarships and Diplomas, 66
VEGETABLE Matter in Waterways, Cleared by Mowing Machines from a Launch, 429
Victoria and Storage Silos for Wheat, 249
Viscometers, Need of Standardisation, 271
w WAGONS, Steam, Smoke Nuisance in Sheffield, 33
War Conditions and New Industries, 561
War Truck, American, Details of, 561
Warehouse with Sixteen Acres of Floor Space, for New York Navy Yard, 451
Water Gas, Continuous Process, Aqvist and
Helsing, 293
Water Jackets of Motor Car Engines, Filling up Cracks, 140
WATER SUPPLY: Airdrie, Coatbridge and District Water Trust, Complaints of Deficient Supply, 361
Australia, Artesian Water Supply of, 385
Dartmoor to Plymouth, Success of New Water Main, 519
East London Water Supply from the Buffalo River, 141
Everett, Washington, Details of Scheme, 11
Filtered Water in the United States, Varieties of Filtration Plant, 407
Flow of Water in Wood-stave Pipe, F. C. Scobey, 271
Fluorine and Arsenic in Spring Waters, 385
Japan, Schemes for Water Supply at Tokio, 361
Lancaster’s New Scheme for Supply, 163
Montreal Public Supply Sterilisation, 119
Rand Water Board Report, Record Sale Year, 293
Reservoir Cost in England and America, 561
Winnipeg Water Supply from Artesian Wells, 271
Wood Pipe for Silty Water, Suitable Velocity, 33
Wood-stave Pipe for Water Conveyance, 11
WEATHER Forecasts in the United States, High Average Correctness, 33
Welfare Work, Home Secretary’s Proposals for Factories and Workshops, 97
Welland Ship Canal, Suspension of Work, 271
Westminster Bridge, Curiously Composite Structure, 119
Whale Steaks as Food on the Pacific Coast, 451
Wheat Storage in Silos, Victoria, 249
White Mineral Wool Manufacture from Basalt Rock near Melbourne, 271
Wire Rope Strain and Intelligent Lubrication, 77
Wire Ropes for Collieries, Factor of Safety, 271
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: Detective Vessel for Wireless Spies and Hoaxers, 315
Japanese Station at Funabashi, Particulars of, 55
Lag in Wireless Time Signals, 429
Messages Picked up Over 11,000 Miles off, 229
Radio-telegraphy and Telephony, Medal of Honour Award, 77
Wireless Installations and “ Jamming,” 561
WOLFRAM from Burma, Increased Export, 293
Wood Block, Paving, Cost Before and Since the Outbreak of War, 55
Wood, New Tropical, Valuable for Heat Insulation, 541
Wood Paving, Latest Practice in, 337
Wool, Pure White Mineral, Uses of, 385
Workmen’s Clothing and Machinery, Numerous Fatalities, 33
Worms and Agricultural Land, 311
X-RAY Industry, British, Need of Capital and
Skill, 33
Y YEAST Used in Germany for Manufacture of Buttons, Knife Handles, &c., 97
Yokohama Pier Reconstruction, Completion,
337
z ZINC in “ Gun-Metals ” for Marine Engineering, 249
Zinc Works, Electrolytic, in Tasmania, 11
Zirconia, Raw and Purified, High Melting
Point of, and Other Properties, 77
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