The Engineer 1918 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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ACTIVATED Sludge, Composition and Properties, 9
Adelphi Houses, Risks to Historic Houses of Proposed Government Occupation, 329
Aerial Ropeways in India, 439
AERONAUTICS : Aircraft.Engine Weight per Horse-power, 243
Aircraft Losses of the Enemy More than Double those of the Allies, 97
Air Raids and Bombardment Casualties, 463
American Aircraft Bureau’s Quick Work, 395
American Air Mail Service, Low Cost of, 395
American Flight Across the Atlantic, Early Achievement Predicted, 75
Cacquot Captive Balloon ; Kite Balloons, 221
Doping in Aircraft Factories ; Report on Health of Workers, 139
Doping Departments of Aeroplane Factories, Importance of Ventilation, 117
Evolution in Aircraft Engines, Statement by United States War Department, 97, 243
Flight at Low or High Levels, Merits of Internal Combustion and Steam Engines Compared, 117
German Diesel Engine for Use on Aeroplanes, 31
German Dirigibles, Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, Method of Reading Signals, 9
Handley-Page Works, Visit to, 272
Lamp, Wireless Signal, for Aeroplane and other War Work, 31
Propellers for Aircraft, New Design in America, J. A. Irving, 139
Radiological Aeroplane for Rendering Surgical Aid, 395
Reduced Power of Engines at 15,000ft. Due to Reduced Density of Atmosphere, 135
Wounded Soldiers Transport by Aeroplane, 395
AFFORESTATION, Preliminary Expenditure, Interim, Authority Set up, 463
Age Limit for Driving Licences, Reduction in, 108
Agricultural Implements Needed by Roumania, 499
Agricultural Motor Tractors, Large Supplies by Food Production Department, 243
Agricultural Tractors, Projected Trials, 509
Air Compressor Design, Best Practice, J. M.
Ford, 75
Air Pressure of 47 lb. per Square Inch, 53
Alcohol for Industrial Purposes, Statistics, 181
Alcohol and Petrol Blend as Liqiid Fuel, 96
Alcohol, Production from Carbide, 31
Alcohol Proof Enamels and Varnish, Jenson and Nicholson, 108
Alcohol from Sugar in Sulphite of Soda Lyes Used for Treating Wood Pulp-alcohols, Value for Internal Combustion Engines, 243
Alkali Works, Annual Report, 75
Alloy : A New, Ferrouranium, 553
Alloys for Anti-friction Metals, French Trials to Economise Copper, &c., 287
Aluminium, Cold-rolled Sheet, Practice in Annealing, 463
Aluminium, Electrolytic Production of, in Various Countries, 181
Aluminium and Glucinium, 487
Aluminium Ingots, Reduction in Price, 287
Aluminium, Rapid Increase in World’s Production of, 415
Aluminium for Reduction of Oxide, Intensely
High Temperature Produced, 221
American Anti-trust Law, 298
American Cold Storage Plants, Three, with
14,000,000 Cubic Feet Capacity, 139
American Lumbermen’s Waste of Timber Products, 53
American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee
Formed to Report on, 75
American War Finance Corporation, 287
Americans and Diesel Engine Building, 9
Ammonia as a By-Product at Gasworks, 159
Ammonia, Latent Heat of Vaporisation, 139
Ammonia for Munitions, but Shortage in
Quantity for Refrigeration, 139
Ammonia, One Pound of, to Make Twenty Hand Grenades, 139
Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures : Superiority of Ammonal, 329
Apprentices at Huddersfield, Successful Scheme, 553
Architects, Surveyors, Constructional Engineers, &c., New Federation of, 351
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co.’s,
Fabricated Ship, 415
Artesian Well Boring in Queensland, Cost oi, 307
Asbestos Insulation in Brick Boiler Settings to
Reduce Air Leakage and Save Heat, 351
Asbestos Mining Industry in Rhodesia, 395
Asphalt Laid during Rainfall, 75
Assessment of an Engineering Works, 476
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Association, Automobile r
Coal Gas for Motor Vehicles, £1000 Prize, 415
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical :
Large Capital Expenditure and Income
Represented by Members, 9
Institute of Arbitrators :
Annual Meeting ; Report and Elections, 382 Institute of Chemistry :
Chemists for Government Service, 531
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Autumn Meeting, 171. Programme, 171
Institute of Marine Engineers :
King George as Patron, 373
Institute of Metals :
Autumn Meeting, 148. Programme, 148
Membership Advantages : Pamphlet. 44
Relation of Science to the Non-Ferrous
Metals Industry, 487
Institute, Royal Sanitary :
Henry Saxon Snell Prize Award, 553
Refuse Disposal Prize Essay, James Jackson, 553
Institution of Automobile Engineers ;
Election of Motor Cycle Engineers, 329
Tanks Design ; Honorary Membership for
Major W. G. Wilson, 553
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Hundredth Session, Opening, 373
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Contracts, Modification of Model Conditions, 395
Co-ordination of Research in Works and Laboratories, Premium Offered for Paper, 9
Cross Compound Turbo - Generator for Large Sets, J. H. Shaw, 531
Examination Rules Suspended during War, 97
Posting of Members Joining the Army to Technical Units, 201
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Employment for Engineers, 496
Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Meetings for 1919, 373
Scholarship for 1918 Award, 190
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :
Annual Report, 117
Maximum Regulating Resistance and Maximum Shunt Resistance of Track Circuits, W. J. Thorrowgood, 9
Sub-Committee to Provide Names for Functions of Track Circuits, 329
Institution, Royal :
Christmas Juvenile Lectures ; Fish of the Sea, Professor D’Arcy Thompson, 406
Christmas and Other Courses of Lectures, 530
Meetings and Elections, 17, 406
Society of Engineers :
Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 564
Society, Physical :
Measuring Alternating Currents and Electric Oscillations, J. Williams, 94
Society, Royal Aeronautical •
Postponement of Lecture on Civil Aerial Transport , by Mr. Claude Grahame -White, 500
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Wireless Transmission of Electric Energy in Bulk, Unknown Possibilities, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 509
AUSTRALIA Prohibits Importation of Bosch Magnetos, 53
Australian Production of Fencing Wire and Wire Netting, 53
Austria and Permissible Stresses in Structural Ironwork, 553
Automatic Telephones in Shanghai, 395
Automobile Construction in the United States, War Orders to Come First, 243
BALLOONS—see Aeronautics
Barbed Wire Exports from the United States, 97
Barbed Wire Scrap Collected by Machine, 9 Bauxite for Furnace Lining and Crucibles, 159 Belts, Driving, Paper Substitute, in Germany, 463
Birkenhead’s Extensive Refrigeration Equipment, 159
Boiler Conversion, from Coal to Fuel Oil Firing, Results at London Factory, A. F. Baillie, 395
Boiler Efficiency at United States Steel Works, Tests with Uncleaned Blast-furnace Gas, 221
Boiler Plants on Oil Fuel in New England, 117
Boiler Pressure at Carville Power Station and at Glasgow, 531
Boiler Scale Removal with Paraffin, 362
Boilers, Egg-ended and Modern Lancashire, Compared, 9
Boilers, Marine, Life of, Prolonged by Care in Early Days of Use, 139
Boring and Turning Mill, Large Extension, for Arsenal Work, 31
Boy Welfare, 217
Bradford Technical College, 256
Brass Industry Pooling Scheme, Proposed, by Mr. Howard F. Smith, 9
Bridges, Continuous Span, and Structural Efficiency, 509
British Empire’s Natural Resources and Water Power Development, 553
British Engineers’ Association, New Appointment, 531
British Gauge Manufacturers’ Association, 351
British Industries Fair, 373
British Magnetos, 298
British Scientific Products Exhibition, 487
Building Industry of the United States, Suggested Federation of all the Interests Involved, 53
Building in United States Cities, 463
Business Profits’ Value in Creation of Opportunities for Others, 243
By-product Ovens in Canada, Varieties of Type, 243
By-products, New Uses for, 395
c CABLES, World’s Submarine, Private and National, Analysis, 351
Caissons, Concrete, Trapezoidal, Compared with
Rectangular Sections, 509
Calendar for 1919, Abdulla’s, 544
Calorific Value of Pitch, 329
Canada Balsam, Best Known but far from Satisfactory Medium for Joining Optical Parts, 509
Canada’s Arable Land, Nitrates and Hydraulic
Energy, 307
Canada’s Imports of Coal and Oil, 439
Canada’s Very Largely Increased Exports of Paper and Paper Pulp, 373
Canadian Training of Disabled Soldiers, Large Numbers under Instruction, 243
Canal between Paris and Dieppe, Scheme of 1694 Again Revived, 373
Canal, Ship, from Doncaster or Sheffield to Goole and the Sea, Projected, 96
Canals, Government-owned, Deep-sea Level Along the United States Atlantic Coast, Recommended Scheme, 373
Carbide Scarcity for Acetylene Lamps, 315
Case-hardening* and Oil-hardening Compositions, Comparison, 117
Catalogues for Purchasing Agents, Standard Size Adopted, 287
Celluloid, Excellent Substitute for, in Making
Surgical Appliances and Artificial Limbs, 531
Cement, Natural, in United States Rocks, 553
Channel Tunnel Scheme for Japan, 395
Chemical Activity in America, Great Influence
of the War, 509
Chemists for Government Service, 531
Chilean Nitrate, History of its Increased
Export, 9
Chimney at Tacoma, Height Record Again Broken, 9
China Manufactures Pencils with Machines from Japan, 382
Chinese Tax on Goods in Transit, 4.63
COAL, COKE. AND COLLIERIES: Anthracite Coal from Irish Mines, No Surplus Available, 415
Arigna Coalfields and Railway Connection with County Sligo, 415 .
Berlin’s Coal Supply Economised by Trans- I mission of Electricity, 351
Board of Trade Requisitions of Coal and other Fuel, 201
Boring for Anthracite in Dauphine, Depth of
Nearly a Mile said to be Reached, 75
By-product Coking in the United States, 542
Carbo-coal, New American Fuel, 117
Coal Consumption Economy Stimulated by
Bonus System, 351
Coal Controller, New Assistants Appointed, 201
Coal Storage, Need of Inspection for Avoidance of Spontaneous Combustion, 139
Coal Storage Safer when Fine Sizes Exclude the Air, 9
Coal with Sulphur Content, Divided Opinion as to Liability to Spontaneous Combustion, 53
Coal Tar Dyes and Chemicals in the United States, Census, 463
Coke, The Formation of, Messrs. Charpy and
Godehot, 243
Coke and Weather Injury, 487
Colliers with, the Colours, 53
Denmark to Pay Increased Duty on Coal
Imported from United Kingdom, 201
Dye Industry and Coke By-products, 395
English and American Coal Shortage Compared, 553
German Prices for Coal and Iron Greatly Increased, 201
Oil Fuel as Coal Substitute, Comparison, E. H. Peabody, 177
Pulverised Coal Replaces Oil Fuel at Central Heating Station in Seattle, 553
Pulverised Coal in United States Manufactures, 415
Queensland Coal Deposits, Extent and Value, 117
Rationing Colliers : Why Not ? 75
Shortage of Coal, Controller’s Report, 509 South Wales Coal Losses through Short Time, 415
Sp'tzbergen Coal for Sweden, 75
Steam Users and Coal Wastage, 351
Sulphur in Coal and Liability to Heat when
Stored in the Open, 373
Testing Coals at Seattle, 531
United States Bureau of Mines, Paper on
Weights of Various Coals, 181
United States Survey’s Estimate of Coal and Coke Output for 1917, 395
Vlassovo-Grujer District Coal Output Reduced to One-seventh of Normal Yield, 247
COINAGE Reform, Suggested Change of Penny Value, 509
Cold Storage Space in United Kingdom, Great Increase Expected, 69
Cold Storage in United Kingdom and United States, 9
Concrete—see also Reinforced
Concrete Beams and Computation of Energy, 439
Concrete Blocks and Beams for Building, Government Report, 329
Concrete Bodies with Hollow Centres Produced by Use of Ice, 307
Concrete Construction, Methods and Tests in United States, 307
Concrete Floors, Dusty, Various Remedies for, 53
Concrete Structures, Marine, in United States and Canada, Adverse Report on Liability to Corrosion, 373
Concrete as Substitute for Steel in Car Construction, Gondola Car to be Tested, 382
Concrete Walls, Prevention of Condensation, Kerner Greenwood, 329
Condensers, Glass, Hard Paper and Mica, Tests with Varying Frequency, 395
Copper Castings, Addition of Strontium an Advantage, 287
Copper and Copper Alloys, Manufactured Products, Inquiry in Connection, Department of Scientific Research, 531
Copper Output in America, 181
Copper from Pyritic Ashes, New Method for
Electrolytic Extraction, 382
Cost plus System, 395
Counterfeit Coin—see Platinum
Cranes with Alternating and with Direct
Current, Comparison as to Safety, 9
Crude Oil and Fuel Oil, 395
Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 564
D DANISH Government Hydro-electric Scheme, 415
Danube, Utilisation of, for Navigation and Water Power, 553
Death in Action of Lieut. Graham Johns, 314
Death of S.r George Armytage, 439
Detonation of Gun-cotton, Nitro-Glycerine, &c., 329
Disabled Sailors and Soldiers or Widows of Men Killed; Offer from Royal Sanitary Institute, 9
Dock Construction near Naples, Largest Dock in the Mediterranean, 221
Dock, Large New, at South San Francisco, 159
Dredger, Large Suction, Built at Sydney, 373
Drilled Holes in Motor Lorries, Aeroplanes, Motor Cycles and Torpedoes, 307
Driving Belts of Paper in German Workshops, 373
Dyeing Industry in the Ellesmere Port Dis» strict, 221
Dyestuffs from Coal-tar, America’s Enormous Production Replaces Previous Imports from Germany, 509
E ECONOMIC Problems after the War, 285
Economic and Reconstruction Supplements to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press, 243 Economy in Unnecessary Correspondence, 395 Edgware-road (London), Traffic Census, 439
ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Alternator Voltage Limitations and the Reason for Them, 439
Aluminium Conductors of Low Conductivity, Change in Austrian Regulations, 415
Arc Welding and Control of Weld Constituents, 439
Cables of 33,000 Volts Probably the Limit of Useful Pressure Development, 53
Crystalline Selenium, and other Substances Affected by Light, 553
Dielectric Losses in Cables : Comparison between Insulation with Mineral • Base and Vegetable-Base Compounds, 221
Electric Heating as a Desirable Load for the Central Station, 97
Electrically Driven Reversing Cogging Mill —see Miscellaneous Index
Electrode Manufacture at Frederikstad, Norway, 159
Electro-Magnetic Theory of Matter, Albert C. Crehore, 31
French Glow-lamp Production, 307
Galicia’s Purchase from Germany of Electric Plant Erected in East Galicia During War, 415
Heat Application by Electrical Eddy Currents Instead of Steam, 307
Heat Storage by Novel Electric Heating System, 287
Hydro-electric Undertakings—see also Hydroelectric
Insulator, Wood Stick, for High Voltages, in Favour in America, 221
Metallic Oxides as Depolarisers, Treatment of Positive Electrodes of Primary Batteries, 159
Ministry of Munitions, Permits and Electrical Development, 509
Motor Ampdre Calculator, George Ellison, 362
Motor, Very Small, for Surgical and other Purposes, 415
Motors in Steel Mill Equipment, Need of Standardisation, 307
Niagara, Increased Water Power from, for War Purposes, 159
Ovens, Electric Tests in U.S.A., Economical for Long but not for Short Cooking Operations, 117
Oxide Film Lightning Arrester, 75
Platinum for Electrical Work, Scarcity, and Suggested Tax on Use for Luxuries, 75
Power Extension by Southern Canada Power Company, 1 59
Research Work of Committee Appointed by Institution of Electrical Engineers in Connection with Department of Scientific Research, 97
Shanghai and Electrical Progress, 117
Shanghai Electricity Department, Report, 31
Ship Construction and Electric Welding, 75, 221
Shipbuilding and Electric Welding, Divided Opinion, Commander S. V. Goodalls, 531
South African Extensive Use of Electricity, 221
Spanish Electric Power Supply from Falls of the Douro, 43
Temperature in the Electric Furnace, 219
Temperature of Metals and Value as Electric Conductors, 531
Tramways’ Consumption of Electricity, J. M. McElroy, 351
Transmission, Electric, 447
Transmission of Electric Energy to Economise Berlin’s Coal Supply, 351
Tungsten Filament Lamps, Large Sale in America, 97
Turbo-Alternator Constructed at A. E. G.
Works, First of 60,000 K.V.A. Capacity, 159
Turbo-Generator, Cross-compound for Large Sets, J. H. Shaw, 531
Water, Electrical Conductivity of, 75
Welding, Electric, for Ship Construction, A.
J. Mason, 75
EMPIRE’S Mineral Resources, 365
Employment for Engineers, 496
Employment Exchange and -Local Advisory Committee, 509
Engineer Volunteer Corps, County of London, Royal, Recruits Called for, 53
Engineers, Divisional, Unit, Proposed Re-union, 531
Engineering Works Sports for War Funds, 128
Engineering Workshops and Septic Poisoning,
Satisfactory Result of Enquiry, 329
Eri Silk from Indian Moth Cocoons, 463
Exhibition of Key Industries, 287, 329, 351
Explosive for Mines in South Africa, Substitute for Nitro-Glycerine, 53
F FEDERATION of British Industries, British Empire Producers’ Organisation, and Imperial Council of Commerce, Joint Councils, 53
Ferrouranium, a New Ferro-alloy, 553
Fire Losses in Canada Greatest, per Head of Population, in the World, 221
Fish of the. Sea, Professor D’Arcy Thompson, 553
I Flexure and Torsion in Propeller Blades,
I Experiments on Beams 395
Flow, Orifice and Weir, Effect ol Slight Round-
i ings of the Upstream Edge, Jacob O. Jon®?, 9
Free Trade, Real Principles of, J. S. Hecht, 243
French Incandescent Lamp Factories, Output, 415 „ f
French Licences for Imports to France of
Textile and Sewing Machines, 97
‘ Fuel Conditions and Needed Economy in
1 Electric Supply Stations, 221
1 Fuel Limitations in Manufacture of 1 leasure
I Vehicles in America, 97
Fuel, New American Invention, 117
Fuel, Patent Mixture Used in New York, 487
Fuel Requirements of Canada, 439
| Fuels, Natalite and E. H. A., anation in
| Ingredients, 53
GARLIC, Fungi, Carbide, Heather, Chalk ;
1 New Uses for above Raw Products, 351
1 Gas and Allied Industries, Question of Legislative Protection, 487
Gas, Coal, Its Powers, Heat-giving and Lightgiving ; New Departure, 139
Gas, Coke Oven, Successfully Utilised for Domestic and Industrial Purposes, 463
Gas Containers, Permeability of Fabric and Loss of Gas, 415 .
Gas-driven Motor Vehicles, £1000 Prize, 4 5
Gas-driven Omnibuses, Satisfactory Inals, 11/ Gas Furnaces, Optical Pyrometer for, 41a Gas-propelled Vehicles and Government Permits, 307 .
Gas Generated by Wood Waste Fuel for Driving Swedish Internal Combustion
Gas ^fraction Section at British Scientific Products Exhibition, 509
German Gas-driven Road Motors alter the War, 415 , i
German Goods with Neutral Trade-marks, 433
German Inland Waterways, Propo-ed Rhine-Danube Ship Canal, 553
German Leather Trade, Shortage of Materials and Prizes Offered for Substitutes, 287
German Motor Trade Thriving Notwithstanding
War 415
German Silver, Differences in Manufacture in England, America and Germany, 221
German Transport Vehicles with W ooden lues, 307
Germany’s Difficulties Due to Metal Shortage, 201 ' , „ .
Germany’s Metal Shortage and Device foi Tubing, 221 . ' ,
Glasses or Telescopes through Lady Robert-..
Glass-ware, Graduated,. Tested at National Physical Laboratory, 53
Glassware, Scientific, Volumetric Tests at the National Physical Laboratory, 149
Gloucester as a Concrete Shipbuilding Port, oOJ
Glucinium an Aluminium, 487
Goggles, Substitute for Glass Found in U.S.A.,
Gold Production of the World almost entirely in British and American Hands, 55a
Grain Elevators for South Africa, Need of, 48/
Graphite Deposit in Norway about to be Utilised, 307
Gun and Munition U.S.A., Extensive
Plant on Neville Island, Preparations, 181
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Recovering from
Disaster, 382 „ . „
Hardness of Ceramic Products and Brinell
Heat insulating Material of Newly Discovered
Swedish Clay, 97
Heat Loss from Chimneys, Apparatus tor
Measurement, Monsieur Chopin 28/
Heating and Power Plant with Pulverised Coal
Fuel, at Vancouver, 438
Herring Oil Factories in Norway, 41a
Hides and Skins Exported from India, 463
Hot Water Transmission Possible for lour
Miles, W. M. Selvey, 139
House Famine in Toronto. 117
Huddersfield Engineers’ Training Association,
Success of Scheme, 553
Hydraulic Energy and Fuel Energy in t
United States, 463
Hydraulic Riveting Dangers and German
Remedy, 201 . ., p5vAl.
Hydro-electric Equipment in White River
Plant, Puget Sound Traction Company, 13o
Hydro-electric Power in U.S.A., Insufficie .■
Supply and Need for Coal Economy, 329
Hydro electric Schemes in New Zealand,
Success and Further Development, 404
Hydro-electric Work for Railway Electrifica
tion, Huge Barrage in France, 423
Hysteresis or Backlash Present in Measuring
Instruments, 97
ILLUMINANTS, Tests of Effect on the Eye, Incandescent Mantle, Physical Theory, Rubens India, Extension of Use of Machinery in Agriculture and Irrigation, 287 . .
India, Openings for British Trade in Agricultural Machines, 287
India, Road and Bridge Construction, 221
Indian War Loan Advertised on Great Indian
Peninsula Railway Coaches, 166
Indigo, Liquid, Process of Manufacture, 509 Industrial Conferences, Further Programme,
Industrial Progress of Past Four Years 395
Industrial Reconstruction Council, Change
Address, 9
Industrial Series of Conferences, 170
Inland Revenue, Analysis of Gross Rec®'Pt®> 0
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
IRON AND STEEL: Corrosion by Sea Water of Surface Condenser Tubes, 129
Eight-hour Day as Basis of Wage Payment in United States Steel Industry, 395
German Iron Deterioration since Outbreak of War, 439
German Prices for Coal and Iron Greatly Increased, 201
Holland, Government Participation in Establishment of Steel Foundries and Rolling Mills, 463
Iron in Contact with Sulphuric Acid, Professor C. E. Fawsitt and A. A. Pain, 487
Iron Ore, Valuable Deposits of, in South Africa, 196
Iron Oxides for Protective Coatings, 117
Iron and Steel Exchange for London, 499
Manganese Ore Exports from British
Columbia to the United States, 181
Metallic Iron and Tetrachloride of Silicium, Experiments and Results, 493
Molybdenum Smelting Works in Norway, 487
North Staff ordshire Railway Rates and the Iron and Coal Trades, 404
Queensland, Development of Molybdenite Mining, 487
Queensland, Discovery of Iron Ore, 31
Queensland, Discovery of Scheelite at Percy-ville, 487
Queensland Royal Commission on Steel and Ironworks, 491
Rustless Steel, Increase in Chronruni for, 395
Scheelite Discovery at Percy ville, Queensland, 487
Scrap Steel or Iron, Re-conversion into Pig Iron, 139
Temper Removal from Hardened Steel, 159
Temperature in the Electric Furnace, 219
Tungsten with Carbide, How to Treat, for
Mechanical Working, 53
Tungsten, Experiments in Welding, 53
Tungsten Exports .from Federated Malay States, 221
United States Prices of Tool Steel Compared with those of United Kingdom, 9
J JAPANESE Clocks, Increased Export of, 31
Japanese Government Encouragement of
Motor Lorry Manufacture, 53
KAISER Wilhelm Trust for Promotion of the
Science of War, 351
L LEAD Alloys, Advantage of Tin Addition, 351
Leggings, Safety, for Molten Metal Workers, 53
Lighting Restrictions and Dust Deposits on Lamps, &c., 97
Light Transmission through Water, Difficulty of, 243
Lignite Briquettes, Carbonised, Plant for Manufacture in Canada, 75
Liquid Fuel, Blend of Alcohol and Petrol, 96
London County Council Trade Scholarships, 286
Lorries, Standardised, Rapid Construction in
United States, 97
Loughborough Instructional Factory and Classroom Training, 553
Lubricants, Cutting, and Cooling Liquids, Memorandum of Scientific and Industrial Research Department, 287
Lubricants for Twist Drills, Result of Tests at Illinois University, 221
Lubrication of Air Compressor Cylinders, Right Type of Oil Required, 243
Lubrication of Wire Rope, Importance of Method Employed, 351
M MACHINE Tool Department, Permission to
Purchase Tools, 221
Machine Tool Depreciation in Wartime, 314
Machine Tool Manufacture for Non-war Work,
Government Regulations, 287, 357
Machine Tools, British and German, J. Judson, 382
Magnesite from Manchuria, Superiority of, 351
Magnetising other Metals Besides Iron, 415
Magnetos, British, 298
Manchester College of Technology, Department
of Industrial Management, 201
Manganese—-.see Iron and Steel
Measurement, Rapid, of Fluctuating Temperatures, 159
Measuring Instruments and Hysteresis, 97
Meat Treatment in the United States, 9
Menothorium, A New Substitute for Radium,
Dr. R. N. Moore, 395
Metal Extraction D.rect from Ores, Testing
New Dutch Process, 287
Metal Scrap Purchase in Small Quantities, 243
Metal Shortage, Utilisation of Old Bullets by the Calcutta Mint, 439
Metal Spraying by New Process, 75
Metal Spraying by Oxy-Hydrogen Flame, 243
Meteorological Unit of Pressure, 117
Metric System and Foreign Trade, Inquiry in
America, 139
Mexican Petroleum Production, Number of
New Wells Bored, 53
Milling Cutter Manufacturers’ Association, 276
Mine Employees Above and Below Ground,
Statistics, 181
Mineral Resources, Empire’s, 365
Mines Abandoned in 1917, 181
Mines T.mbering in the Loire District, Sylvestre
Pine Preferred, 463
Miners’ Federation and Coal Control, 221
Minimum Wage Rejected by American War x Labour Board, 307
Mints of Calcutta and Bombay, Large Coin
Output, 373
Molybdenum—-see Iron and Steel
Motor Car Taxation in the United States, 463
Motor Cars in Europe, Census, 31
Motor Cars, Private, Manufacture in the United
States Practically Stopped for Lack of Material, 306
Motor Club in North China, 329
Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society, Series of Exhibitions, 463
Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society, Steam Vehicle Section, 531
Motor Vehicles and Equipment in United States, Largest Government Order ever given, 415
Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, £1000 Prize, 415
Mysore Gold Mines, Report, 439
N NATIONAL Comparisons of Production and Costs, England and Elsewhere, Sam Turner, 439
Nationalisation of Tran-port and Electric Supply, Mr. Lloyd George’s View, 439
Natural Gas Treatment for Recovery of Motor Spirit in America, 97
Natural Gas Wells Bored in China before the Christian Era, 243
Newspapers, After the War, 65
New Uses-of Certain Raw Products, 351
New Zealand and Hydro-electric Development, 404
New Zealand, Local Cold Storage Expansion, 307
New Zealand’s Petroleum Possibilities, 531
Niagara, Increased Water Power for War Purposes, 159
Nickel and Copper Works, New, in Ontario, Production Begun, 181
Nitric Acid from the Air, Extension of Bavarian Establishments for Production of, 139
Nitric Acid Production in the United States, 439
Nitrogen, Fixation of Atmospheric, Japanese Laboratory for Study, 395
Nitrogen Fixation, Extensive Literature and Patents Dealing with, 531
Nitrogen F.xation Patents ; Haber Process and German Duplicity, 201
Nitrogen, World’s Consumption, 323
Northampton Polytechnic Workshop’s Output for Woolwich Arsenal, 509
Norway Prohibits Contracts for Delivery of Goods Abroad for More than Six Months Ahead, 139
Norway’s First Fuel Factory, 373
Norway’s Unused Water Power to be Utilised for Replacing Coal Deficiency, 181
o OIL from Alum Schist in Sweden, Use in Crude or Converted Form, 463
Oil from the Antarctic Regions, 487
Oil Drilling in Derbyshire, 307
Oil Extraction from Schist, Factories in Sweden, 373
Oil Factories, Herring, in Norway, 415
Oil Fuel as Coal Substitute, Comparison, E. H. Peabody, 177
Oil Refineries, Waste of Fuel, 97
Old Tins, What to do with, 171
Omnibuses Running on Compressed Coal Gas, 97
Optical Effects in a Photographic Dark Room, 439
Optical Instruments, Better Joining Medium Much Needed, 509
Optical Instruments and “ Ghosts,” 307
Optical Pyrometer for Controlling Temperature of Gas Furnaces, 415
Output per Acre and per Worker and Railway Charges ; Comparison between United Kingdom and other Countries, Sam Turner, 439
Ovens, Electric—see also Electrical Matters
Ovens, Electric and Steam Heating Compared, 167
Oxide Film Lightning Arrester, 329
Oxy-acetylene Weldintr Efficiency, Satisfactory Tests, 395
p PAINTS and Enamels, Mixing, Good and Bad, 97
Paintwork of Motor Cars, 439
Paper Clothing of Vienna Tramway Conductresses, 287
Paper from Grass in South Africa, 463
Paper Substitute Driving Belts made in Germany, 373
Paper Supplies Improved by Use of Home-grown Products, 287
Paper Textiles in Germany, 272
Patents, Grants to Aliens since Outbreak of
War, 31
Peat Areas in Jutland, Utilisation of, 531
Peat Briquette Manufacture in Belfast, 307
Peat in Ireland, Price and Facilities for Conveyance, 117
Persona] Equation and Technical Difficulty, 463
Petrol-Electric Transmission, 447
Petrol Entropy Diagram, 139
Petrol Locomotives, Armoured, for Bringing up
Supplies to the Front in France, 382
Petrol for Passenger Vehicles : No Prohibition of its use in United States, 53
Petrol Production from Coal, Company Started in India, 307
Petroleum from Mexico, Increased Exports, 159
Petroleum Possibilities in New Zealand, 531
Phosphorus, Effect of, on Soft Steel, 117
Photography with Bromide Paper, Twenty
Years’ Life, 75
Pier, Very Large, at Vancouver, 31
“ Platino ” as Substitute for Platinum, Properties of, 201
Platinum Counterfeit Coins More Valuable than
the Real Thing, 9 ; (Letter), 30
Pneumatic Riveting Tools, Increasing Use in Clyde and Tyne Areas, 401
Potash from Germany Before the War, English Present Output,'53
Potash Recovery in a Gas-cleaning Plant;
Killing Two Birds with One Stone. 139
Potash Salts for Agriculture in France, Contrasted. Supply and Demand, 87
Precision Gauges and other Munitions, Work of the London County Council, 53!
Profit-sharing in Italy, 287
Q QUEENSLAND Coal Mines, Report for 1917* 382
Queensland Mineral Output, Expected Increase, 31
Queensland Mining—see also Iron and Steel
Quenching of Forgings, 117
R RADIOTELEGRAPHY, Scientific Problems of. Professor J. A. Fleming, 286
Radium, Substitute for, Dr. R. N. Moore, 395
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Aberdeen, County of, Rural Transport in, 243, 415
Accident Anniversaries in September and October, 265, 307
Accident Anniversaries in December, 531
Accident to Brooklyn Rapid Transit Train, 415
Accident to Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Train, 159
Administration of Railways in the Future, I 159
Air Brake Defects and Fuel Waste, 287
Aircraft Transport, Large Covered Vans Built at Swindon, 463
American Red Cross Canteen in Presidential State Rooms at Union Station, Washington, 139
American Ton-m:Ie Statistics, Proposal to Abandon Compilation Rejected, 139
Americans’ Capture of German Narrow Gauge Railway, Petrol Locomotives and Railway Material, 373
Appointments and Staff Changes, 53, 75, 97, 117, 158, 159, 221, 265, 307, 329, 415, 463, 487, 509, 553
Argentine Government Refuses Railways Permission to Increase Rates, 243
Armistice Day and Railwaymen’s Pay, 531
Australia and England, Divergent Opinion on Wharf and Railway Bill, 75
Australian Imports of Permanent Way Material, 1913 and 1916 Compared, 373
Baghdad Railway, Present Condition of Track and Rolling Stock, 553
Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway Taken up to Supply Material for Overseas, 75
Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Surveys and Extensions, 329
Birm’ngham Demonstration and London and North-Western Railway Suggestions, 351
Blackpool and Fleetwood Electric Railway, 139, 329
Blandford Station and Military Camp, New Railway, 463
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Statistics, 31
Branch Railways, Power Sought for Construction of, 487
British Railways, Sacrifice of Wagons in War Interests, 139
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Train’s Fatal Derailment, 415
Brussels, Great Eastern Railway Steamer, Sunk in Raid on Zecbrugge, 395
Burma Railways, Increased Dividend, 509
Caledonian Railway, Reduction of Extra
Passenger Trains, 243
Cambrian and Furness Railways both
Damaged by Storm, 265
Cambrian Railway to Take over Tanat Valley Railway, 351
Cambrian Railways, Carriage of Timber, 395
Canada and New Zealand, Railway Policy, Comparisons, 329
Canadian Government’s Foresight in Provision of Locomotives, 531
Canadian Industry during Transition from War to Peace, Government Action, 509
Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific Companies Exchange of Facilities to Promote Economy and Good Service, 509
Canadian-Pacific Service Flag and Employees with the Colours, 509
Canadian Railroads, and Wages Increase, 287
Canadian Railway Collisions and Automatic Control, 509
Canadian Railway Congestion Relieved by Double Tracking, 553
Canadian Railway War Board, New Wages Scale, 221
Canals and Railways, Board of Trade Control, 9
Cape Central Railway as a Private Concern, Question of Government Taking it Over, 265
Carriers’ Liability, London and North-Western Railway Loses Case, 75
Castlecomer Railway Construction, Irish Members’ Complaint, 53
Castle comer Railway and the Great Southern and Western Railway, 159
Castlecomer—see also Great Southern and Western
Ceylon Government Railways, Report, 329
Charges on Goods Transport, Prepayment Proposed, 53
China, Need of Locomotives in, 391
Christmas Holidays and Travelling Facilities, 463
Clermont-Auvergne-Alais Railway Electrification, Hydro-electric Works in La Lozere, 433
Coal for Railway Use, Diminished Supplies and Probable Further Reduction in Train Services, 243
Coal Rationing in Ireland, Non-existent, 97
Coal in Trucks for Private Consumers
Liable to Commandeering, 287
Collision, Another Disastrous, in the United States, 75, 439
Collision, Disastrous, on Indiana Railway, 31
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued) :
Collision between Goods Trains on the London and North-Western Railway, 181, 287
Communication Chain on Trains, Illegal Use, 553
Conciliation Board on the Great Western Railway, Retirement of Chairman and New Appointment, 509
Continental Loading Gauge for Railway Vehicles, 265 ; (Correction), 329
Continental Time System for the British Army, 265
Continuous Brakes and Abolition of Private
Ownership of Wagons, 487
Cork, Railway Connection Much Needed, 415
Crewe Mayoralty Accepted by Chief Mechanical Engineer of London and North-Western Railway, 307
Damage to Cars and Cargoes by Careless Shunting, 287, 39.5
Death of Mr. Thomas A. Armstrong, 97
Mr. Peter Drummond, 53
Mr. C. A. Goodnow, 287
the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, 463
Mr. Adam Hunter, 97
Mr. John Frederick Robinson, 97 Sir Frederick Upcott, 395 Mr. G. J. Whitelaw. 487
Demobilisation Schemes, Train Arrangements, 531
Dividends, Increased, on Various Railways, 97, 117, 139
Eight Hours’ Day for Railway Traffic Employees in United Kingdom, 509
Federated Malay States, Bangkok and Penang Through Service Opened, 351
Fertilisers in Agr culture, Carriage Rates and Distribution, 117
Fish from Ireland Spo:lt by Transit Delay, 75 France, Northern Railway of, Wanton Destruction of Property by Germans, 531 France, State Ra.lway System of, Rolling Stock Statistics, 31
Freight Congestion in the United States, Canadian Cars Held Up, 531
French Railway Accident, Decision, 97
French Railways and State Control Question, 351
Fry, Sir Edward, the Late, as Arbitrator in Railway D.spute, 373
German Systematic Destruction of French Railway Property, 53.1
Germans’ Wilful Damage to Great Northern Railway Carriages, 265
Glasgow and South-Western Railway and Ayr Harbour, Commissioners’ Decision, 329 Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Death of Locomotive Superintendent, 53 ; Appointment of Successor, 75
Glasgow and South-Western Train Service, Curtailment Due to Coal Scarcity, 304
Glover, Colonel G. T., Locomotive Engineer to Great Northern Railway, Ireland, 265
Government Control of Trade and of Railways, Criticism, 181
Government and Trade Union Negotiations Resumed, 221
Grain Sacks, Charge for Hire of, from Railways Increased, 307
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to Build Ships at Prince Rupert, 181
Great Northern Ra i waymen Abstained from Joining Strike, 351
Great Northern Three-cylinder Engine, Mr.
Gresley’s Good Working Results, 265
Great Southern and Western Railway, Progress of Connections with Wolfhill and with Castlecomer Collieries, 53, 415
Great Western Railway. Standard Locomotives, Classification, 553
Great Western Railway, Withdrawal of Rail Motor Service to Welsh Colliery, Protests and Inquiry, 75
Heated Corn in Transit Preserved by Use of Compressed Air, 201
Holiday Traffic Limited by Railway Executive Committee, 9, 75
Import Traffic Rates, Home and Foreign Merchandise, 463
Independence Day and United States Railroads, 117
India’s Contribution of Railway Material, Rolling Stock and Labour for Mesopotamia and Palestine, 181
Inexperienced Railway Staffs and Need of Patience, 395
Influenza Masks Compulsory on Alberta Trains, 509
Ingot Iron Plates for* Locomotive Fire-boxes, Causes of Damage, 447
Institutions, Railway—acs Associations
Ipswich Dock Bill and the Gas Company, 97 Ireland, Passengers’ Route Restrictions Withdrawn, 463
Ireland, Suggested Construction of Tunnel Connection, 395
Irish Boats, Holyhead and North Wall, Normal Night Sailings Resumed, 487, 509
Irish Coal and Iron, Position of County Sligo, 415
Irish Coal MiTie, Railway Connection with, 159
Irish Mail Boats, Alteration to Daylight Sailing, and Consequent Train Changes, 287, 329, 400, 463
Irish Mails, Expiring Contract, 31 ; Renewal of Contract, 159,
Irish Railways and Coal Shortage, 97
Irish Reconstruction, Contradictory Statements, 531
Irish Sub-committee of Committee on Transport, Big Schemes, 221
Irish Timber and Turf, Question of Improved Railway Transit, 415
Irish Traffic Delays Due to Enemy Action, A on
Iron and Coal Trades and North Staffordshire Railway Rates, 404
Italian New Three-phase Locomotives, 139
J ubilee of the Metropolitan District Railway, 463
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Change of Chairman, 307 ; Death of Late Chairman, Sir G. Armytage, 439
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Collision, 221
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Damaged and Trains Delayed by Cloud Burst, 75
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, “ Rationing ” Holiday Traffic, 9, 75, 159, 265
Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Deposit Bill for New Railway, 487
Light Railway Commission Inquiries, Report for 1917, 97 1
Light Railway for New Dyeing Industry in the Ellesmere Port District, 221
Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 265
Light Railways Commission, Powers Continued at Reduced Cost, 31
Lights, Standard Head, for Engines, New Code to Economise Oil, 159, 287
Llandrindod Wells Connection with Cambrian Company, 351
Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association, 463 Locomotive Returned to Crewe with Message from France, 221
Locomotives After the War, Baldwin Locomotive Company’s Anticipations, 201
Locomotives, Armoured Petrol, for 'J aking Supplies in France to the Front, 382
Locomotives Lying Idle in Large Numbers through Lack of Repairers, 487
London, Brighton and South Coast’s Motor Car Train Service between West Croydon and Wimbledon, 373
London Electric Railways Company : Purchase of Land in Westminster, 395
London and North-Western Disaster Averted by Signalman, 307
London and North-Western Railway Roll of Honour, .395
London and North-Western Resumed Early Morning Service from Euston to Ireland, 373
London and South-Western Railway, Abolition of Second Class, 31
London and South Western Railway Allotments under Cultivation, 243
Longridge and Helhfield Proposed Light Railway, 373
Lord Rhondda as Railway Director, 31
Shaughnessy, Recognition of his Services by McGill University, 53
McAdoo, Mr. W. G.; Resignation as Director-General, 463
Mansfield Railway Company’s Proposed New Branches, 487
Marseilles Expresses, Terrible Disaster, 265 lI<?nnncKai” -District Railway Carrying 7000 Soldiers Daily, 558 6
Mexico, Proposed ’Extension of Railway from Tampico to Higo, 8
Railway Control of Dravmen, 395 Midland Railway Friendly Society’s In-vi VuStn?9nt National War Bonds, 108 Midland Railway’s Further Investment in war Loan, 463
Military Stores by Passenger Trains, Complaints, 351
Motor Car Train Service, Wimbledon and West Croydon, 373
Motor Trollies for Signal Maintainers, Saving of Labour, 287
yrapcP0it Workers’ Federation, Wholesale Demands, 553
National Union of Railwaymen, Members Killed in the War, 463
N^ional Union of Railwaymen and Mr.
•I. H. Thomas, 351
National Un;on of Railwaymen, Mr. J. H „ ihomas’ Report, 53
Nationalisation of Railways, Mr. Winston Churchill on, 553
New South Wales, Expenditure on Railway and tramway Construction since 1850. 9
New South Wales Railways, Signalling Device, 415 ®
New Year Staff Changes, 553
281 RaiIway System, New Line Opened, N%d Railway, Valenciennes Station and the Signalling System, 439
2 ord-Sud of Paris, Great Increase in Passengers, nearly 50 per cent. Women Employees, 415
North-Eastern Railway and Coal Saving, 509 ^ 553 Eastern Railway’s Proposed Bridge, North-Eastern Railway Sheds and Electric Rolling Stock Destroyed by Fire at Newcastle, 139
November’s Accidents Record Recalled, 439 Oil-burning Locomotives, United States statistics, 53
Orleans Railway. Mechanical Cleaning for Carriages and also for Hired Cabs, 117
Packing of Goods Sent by Railway, Need of Improvement,. 31
•Parcels by Passenger Train, Revision of Rates, 328, 373
Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway Disaster, 265 J
anc* Mediterranean Railway.
Electrification of Branch Line, 423 leat in Ireland, Railway Conveyance, 117 Pennsylvania Railroad and War Workers, Heavy Daily Traffic, 53
Piccadilly Tube, Broken Axle Causes Great Delay to Traffic. 75
Pooling Scottish Railway Wagons. 97
Pooling Wagons, all Now Included. 159
1 repayment of Merchandise Transport be heme Postponed, 221 • ■ ’
Pr|jjOge Tickets Overcrowded Railways, Quebec Bridge Question of Running Powers over the Bridge, 97 6
Queensland Railway Development, Room for
Improved Methods, 373
Question Record at Paddington. 243
Kail Head Distortions and Wheel Loads American Railway Investigations, 181
Radway Benevolent Institution Flag-day, R vtpancyt”163 °anal Commission’ Death Radway Clerks’ Association and the Railway Executive Committee, 307 J
RaiisTa287U3t51i,a5(yjXPOrtS Statistics’ 9’ 139> Rajiway Material Shortage, Light Railway
Taken up, tor Overseas Purposes, 75 “lmaytiSrWwnd Rai'Way °aZette’ Amal-
RaonW<394 °liOy Kfter th® War’ Sir A- Stanley
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con tinned):
Railway Traffic to London Waterside Stations, Demurrage Payment Demands, 31
Rates Increased for Transport of Candles,
St Glycerine, &c.» between Bromborough Joint Railway and London, 243
Rationing Tickets on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 9, 75, 159, 265
Restricted Service, Week-end Travelling Inadvisable, 53
Restrictions on Travelling, 31
Return Tickets and Through Booking Restrictions, 201
Royal Marine Engineers Employed to Supply Deficient Civilian Labour for Railway Making, 9
Safety Measures on the North London Railway, 201
St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, Improved Access for Pedestrians, 265
Scottish Railway Stocks and Shared, New Association, 181, 395, 531
Scottish Railways and Harbours, Private Legislation Commissioners’ Decision, 329 Season Ticket Question under Consideration, 463
Season Ticket Regulations for Mercantile Marine, 159
Season Ticket Restrictions Removed, 487
Season Tickets, Interavailability of, and Clerical Labour, 117
Shipping Shortage and Over-burdened Rail Transport at Bristol, 287
Signal, Position Light, under Test by Metropolitan Railway, 351
Sligo’s Reported Coal and Iron and the New Railway Line from Arigna, 415
Soldiers’ Leave and Week-end Travelling, 117
South African Railway Administration, Criticisms said to be Unwarranted, 75
South African Railways, Economy and Need of Grain Elevators, 487
South African Railways and Harbours, Change of Date of Report, 207
South - Eastern and Chatham Railway, Dispute with the Gravesend Corporation, 487
South - Eastern and Chatham Steamers, Senior Engineer Retires, 221
Stephenson, not Stevenson, George, 243
Stockholders’ Association, England, to Follow Scottish Example, 531
Superannuation Funds, Suggested Reinvestment, 159
Sweden’s Proposed Railway Electrification, 553
Swedish Railways and Government Control, 329
Swedish Train’s Terrible Disaster, 307
Switzerland Ocean Project for New Railway, Turin to Bordeaux, 139
Telephoning and Accidents, Need of More Accurate Wording of Inquiries, 97
Thomas, Mr. J. H., on Nationalisation of Railways, 531
Torpedoed Steamer Dundalk, Death of Mr.
S. J. Cocks, 373
Traffic for Shipment through Port of London, Railway Executive Stipulations, 467
Train Service, Further Reductions Contemplated, 181
Train Service, No Further Reductions Expected, 395
Tramway Transportation of Fire-clay and Coal, 415
Tramway Transportation of Parcels Pe r-mitted in Sheffield, 415
Tramways, Consumption of Electricity, J. M. McElroy, 351
Transport Company Refused Permission to Increase Capital, 395
Transport Facilities in the United Kingdom, Committee Appointed, 139, 159
Transportation by Rail, Road and Canal, Mr. Lloyd George’s Views, 439
Trans-Siberian Railway, Future National Management, 395
Travelling Facilities, Increase Already Up to Power of Engines and Length of Platforms, 463
Uganda Railway, General Manager, 117
Underground Railways, Congestion, Insufficient Rolling Stock, 509
Union of South Africa Railways and Harbours, General Manager Coming to Peace Conference, 4 87 s «
United States Rail Production in 1917 201
United States Railroad Brotherhood and “ Safety First ” Measures, 201
United States Railroad Trainmen Brotherhood ; Members in the American Army and Navy, 201
United States Railroad, Transportation of Coal, 53
United States Transportation of Grain, 307
United States Transportation of Troops, 201
United States Railroads under Federal Control: Administration Considering Question of New Locomotive Plant or Loans to Existing Builders, 234, 307
Administration to Dredge and Operate Portion of Cape Cod Canal, 221
Administration and Railroad Bonds, 373
Administration and Wages of Shop Craftsmen, 315
Atlantic Ports, Greatly Reduced Congestion of, Since December, 1917, 415
Bureau of Railway Economics, Effort to Continue its Existence, 9, 139
Class I. Railroads, Earnings, 315
Connections of Passenger Trains, Needed Improvement, 117
Federal Control, Effects, Saving of Interest on Loan, 53
Fire Insurance Abandoned in View of Operation as a Single System, 139
Fire Insurance, Change of Policy, 373
Fuel Economy by Skip-stop System, 243
Government Control, Suggested Permanence. 553
Government Enlarges President’s Power to Control Urban Electric Lines, 9
Government Payment for Use of Railways, Expected Heavy Deficit in Working Cost, 9
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
United States Railroads under Federal Control (continued): Government Regulation of Necessary Work, 221
Interstate Commerce Commission, Suggested Improved Rails to Avoid Accidents, 201 ; Violation of Statutes for Promotion of Safety, 439
Large Locomotive Orders from Baldwin Company, 221
Locomotives for France : Demand for War Purposes Necessitates Restrictions in the United States, 439
Locomotives and Superheating, 181
Maintenance of Way, Difficulties of Material and Labour Shortage, 97
New Engines to Haul Trains from Makers to the Railway Company, 139
New Federal Railroad Managers, 242
New Locomotives, Distribution of Orders for 1415 Engines, 139
Nine Hours a Day for Maintenance of Way, 553
Orders for Locomotives and Freight Cars, 53
Pennsylvania Railway Tracks and Tunnels Opened for Use by other Companies, 439 Presidential Control and the Coming of Peace, 487, 509
Privately Owned Passenger Cars Taken Over, 307
Railroad Bridge Spans in Stock to be Used in Other Districts, 201
Railroad Fares, Suggested Schools for Instruction of Officials, 117
Railroad Scrap Metal, Limit on Prices, 117 Railroads and Shortage of Rubber, 117 Standardisation, Permanent Committee Appointed, 243
Steel, Removal of Embargo on Use of, for Non-War Projects, Railways Benefit, 531 Suggested Use of Letters Instead of Postcards between Railways and Shippers, 75 Terminal Unification ; Emergency War Measures, 307
United States Soldiers, Proposed Cent a Mile Fares, Opposition, 5G9
Wagons and Contents Damaged in Shunting, 287
Women on Railroads ; Increased Employment, but Additional Safeguards, 243, 307
Wooden Cars on Railways ; Statistics, 53
Victoria Government Railways, New Chief Engineer, 415
Wagon Bearing Plate Spring Used Since 1894 and as Good as Ever, 9
Wagons Damaged in Shunting, 395
Wagons for Iron Transport in the North, 221 Wagons, Railway Owned; Common User, and Channel Ferry, 553
Wagons, Second-hand, Dealing Without a Permit, 395
War Wages, Further Demands, Conference, and Awards, 181, 307
War Wages, New Agreement for Automatic Increase, 466
Waterloo System for Receipt of Shop Parcels, 395
Women Railway Workers in Procession at Royal Silver Wedding, 31
Women as “ Signalmen ; ” Divided Opinion as to Fitness, 181
Women’s Labour on Railway Main Lines, 221 Women’s Strike on the London Tube Railways, 181
RAND Water Board—see Water Supply
Raw Products Turned to Fresh Purposes, 351 Reconstruction, The Aims of, 239 Reconstruction Committees Formed ; Progress.
531
Reconstruction Lectures, 391
Reconstruction, Ministry of, and Trade Conferences, 553
Refrigerating Plant for the United States Army in France, 487
Refuse Disposal, Prize Essay, 553
Reinforced Concrete—see also Concrete
Reinforced Concrete Chimneys, Vibration of, 243
Reinforced Concrete Floors, Effect of Brine, 329 Rifles and Cupro-Nickel Fouling, Necessary Measures, 31
Road Board Improvement Fund Allocations, 351 /,
Road Costs in the Maidstone District, 329
Road Siding Defects and Remedy, 439
Road Work as Means of Employment, Government Grant, 531
Roads for War Purposes, Army Council Committee, 415
Roberts, Lady, Fund and Return of Field Glasses, 553
Roumania’s Need of Agricultural Implements, 499
Rubber, Synthetic, Discussion at German Bunsen Society, 243
Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germans, 560
Rubber of the World : Distribution and Value, 35
Russia the Principal Customer Before the War for Silesian Zinc, 373
Russian Locomotive Output and War Repairs, 351
Russia’s Heavy Losses of all Kinds, Due to Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 201
Rust-inhibitive Coating from Blue Lead, 139
s SAILORS and Soldiers, Discharged, Separate
Employment Exchange, 287
Salters’ Institute of Industrial Chemistry, 287
Salvage, Wholesale, 373
Sawdust for Extinction of Petrol Fires, 75
Scales and Weighing Machines 386
Scheelite—see Iron and Steel, 487
Scientific and Industrial Research. Inquiry by Committee on Metallurgy of Copper and Zinc, 531
Screwing Tackle Manufacturers Form Association, 351
Scythes in Russia, Great Scarcity, 487
Serbia, Mineral Resources oi, 21
Sesame Cultivation in Tonkin and Elsewhere, 221
Sewage Experiments in New York, 31
Sewage of London, Suggested Scheme for Profitable Use, 75
Sewage and Water Disinfection in the United States, 75
Shell Production in Canada, 181
Shells Fired on the Western Front, Activities of Controller of Machine Tools,’ 553
Ship Canal from Doncaster or Sheffield to the Sea vid Goole, Projected, 102
Shipbuilding, Engineering and Steel Commercial Staff’s Association, Formation, 561
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : Additional Shipbuilding Berths at Northumberland Shipyard, 201
American Shipbuilding Workers, 221
America’s Large Submarines, 139
Belfast Firms, Shipbuilding, Amalgamation of Two, 415
Belfast's Shipbuilding Growth during War, 415
Canadian Output of Ocean Ships, 213
Clan MacWilliam, Large Cargo Carrier, Launched, 418
Concrete Shipbuilding Seventy Years Ago and Since, 221
Concrete Ships have Come to Stay, 201
Concrete Ships and New Yards for Building Them in U.S.A., 159
Concrete Ships, No Protective Composition Needed for Hulls, 373
Concrete Ships, Suggested Building in Floating Dry Docks, 181
Concrete Steamship Faith, Excellent Performance in Exceptionally Rough Weather, 97
Concrete Vessels, Severe Tests of. 307
Electric Welding and Lloyd’s Register, 221
Electric Welding for Ship Construction, A. J. Mason, 75
Electric Welding for Ships, Plant in the United States, 509
Electric Welding in Shipbuilding, Divided Opinion, Commander S. V. Goodall, 531
Electrically Welded Ships, First Vessel Built in America, 509
Fabricated Ship, First, Designed by Sir W.
G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 415
Fabricated Ship, First National, as Pattern, Dstails of Construction, 329—see also Miscellaneous Index
Ferro-concrete Shipbuilding in Ireland, New Yard for, 415
Harland and Wolff’s Engines for Other Firms’ Standard Ships, 351
Hospital Bed Endowment Chosen by Shipyard Workers as Reward for Rapid Shipbuilding, 373
Japanese Shipbuilding for the Entente Powers, 53
Large Merchant Ships Recently Launched, 329
Lloyd’s Register and Concrete Ships, 439
Marine Engineers’ Responsibility and Great Need of Efficiency, 75
Merchant Shipbuilding in the United States, Enormous Increase, 221
Pneumatic Riveting Tools in Shipyards, 401
Rapid Ship Construction in United States, 97
Repair of Ships by the Admiralty, Large Numbers, British and Foreign, Dealt with, 487
Riveting in Shipyard Work, Hand and Pneumatic, Comparison, 531
Salvage of Steamship Arabv, Interesting, 362
Shipbuilding Before the War, British Much Cheaper than Canadian, 75
Ships, Docks, &c., in United States. Plans not to be Carried out of the Country except by U.S. Officials or Representatives, 243
Smart Work at Shipyard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 181
Steam Traps on Board Ship, 75
Tankers, New Concrete, in U.S.A., 159
United States Future Shipping Expansion, Lieut. Commander Stevenson-Taylor, 553
United States Shipyard Accidents, Reported Exaggeration, 196
Wooden Ship Repaired with Concrete, 531
Work in the Shipyards, 210
SIAM’S Imports of Cutlery, &c., Japan Ousting Germany, 181
Silesian Zinc, Falling Off in Metal and also Ore, 373
Silica Brick and the Transformation of Quartz, H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitsch, 373
Silicon in Metallic Iron Experiments, 493
Sisal Hemp Cultivation in Antigua, 463 Societies—see Associations, &c.
Soiree to Celebrate Armistice, 564
Solder, Cadmium Suggested as Substitute for Tin, 75
South Africa, Expansion of Industry and Municipal Proposals, 553
South African Mine Training School, the Third Started by Government, 31
Souvenir of the War, Simplex Conduits, Limited, 564
Spirit for Industrial Purposes from Moss, &c., Distillery in Sweden, 186
Spruce, Fifty Million Feet Exported from America for Aircraft, 395
Steam Users and Coal Wastage, 351
Stellar Parallax, Progress and Improved Instruments, 97
Stellite, Non-ferrous Alloy, Properties of, 439
Storage Warehouses, &c., for Army Material in the United States, 262
Suez Canal Receipts Greatly Reduced by the War, 75
Sugar Cane Insufficiently Cultivated in the West Indies, 53
Sugar from the Palm and Sugar Cane, 117
Sulphuric Acid Production in United Kingdom, 373
Sulphuric Acid Substitutes from Waste Pro* ducts, 373
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Training Scheme for Mechanics, 351
Synthetic Rubber, Discussion at German
Bunsen Society Meeting, 243
T TASMANIA as an Ideal Hydro electric Centre, 329
Tax of £46,000,000 Paid by one Firm, 53
Telegraph Systems and State Control, in United
Kingdom and U.S.A., J 59
Telephones, Automatic, in Shanghai, 395
Temperature Variations in Engines, Rapid
Measurement by New Apparatus, 159
Thermos Flask Not a Foreign Invention, 243
Thimbles, Great Shortage on the Continent, Government Metal Permit to Brass Founders Employers’ Association, 97
Timber for Building, Suggested War Economy, 415
Timber Question in Great Britain, Afforestation Difficulties, 307
Timber Scarcity after the War : a Suggestion, 112
Timber, Scientific Technology of, State Promotion of Research Desirable, 75
Timber of Scots Pine, its Value, 117
Timber Stocks in the United Kingdom, Census, 31
Tin Plate in Australia, Great Scarcity for Meat and Jam Packing, 159
Tin Plate Output in America, Enormous Increase since the McKinley Tariff, 139
Tins, Old, What to do with, 171
Toluol from Gas in America, Great Expectations, 243
Tractor, Throe Wheel Electric, to Replace Horses for Wagon Drawing, 31
Training at Loughborough, Suggested Continuance, 553
Training for Mechanics at Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson’s Works, 351
Transport Industry, Joint Industrial Council, 531
Transport in the United Kingdom, Need of Improvement after the War, Mr. Lloyd George, 242
T.N.T. Purification Difficult, 415
T.N.T. Work, Improved Hea-’th of Workers, 75
Tungsten—tec Iron and Steel
Tunnel Driving in New York, Shield of Unusual Size Employed, 31
Tunnel. Otira, New Zealand, Progress of. 412
Typewriters in Japan, 329
UNITED States Development of Wireless Telegraphy, 97
Exports of Tin-plates, Terneplates and Taggers Tin, 20 per cent. Increase, 509 Foreign Trade, Growth of,553 Government and Groat Telegraph Companies, 463
Oil Shales Hitherto Unused, 201
Trade Markings, 487
Trade Statistics, Date of Compilation. 487
Units ana Unity, Napier Shaw, 31
VALVES, Revolving, of Internal Combustion, Engines, Capt. B. C. Hucks’ Method, 439 Varnish and Enamel, .Alcohol Proof, Jensen and Nichol-on, 108
Vegetable Wax, Extraction of, as a Japanese Industry, 463
Vehicles, British Army, in France, 553
Vickers, Limited, Resignation of Chairman, 243 Volumetric Tests on Scientific Glassware, N. P. Laboratory's Pamphlet, ]49
WASTE Products, Striking Economy by Utilisation of, 373
Waterproofing Mixture, French, for Leather, Cloth, Paper, &c._, 183
WATER SUPPLY: American Water Works Association, Cost Increase in Inverse Proportion to Efficiency, 509
Barrage, Vaal River, Rand Water Scheme, 31!
Bombav Agricultural Department, Bores for Wells, 307
Brisbane Water Supply, 298
Cape Town’s Water Supply, 307
Chlorination Treatment of Water in America, Satisfactory Results, 181
Water Power in France, Greatly Increased Utilisation since Outbreak of War, 373
Water Power in Great Britain Available for Development, Less than One-tenth in Use, 287
Water Power from Natural Supplies, Very Long Time for Observation Necessary to Determine Action. 287
Wells for the Allied Forces on the Continent, 75
WATT, Janies, Organ Built by him Given to Glasgow Corporation, 9
Welding.. Autogenous, Importance of Purity of Added Metal, 307
Wire Pope Lubrication, Importance of Method, 351
Wireless Communication between United Kingdom and Australia, 287
Wireless System to Connect Larin-America and United States, 117
Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Motor Truck, 373
Wolfram Mining in Bohemia, 307
Wolfram Ore in China, 181, 221
Wood Protection in Damp Situations, 307
Wooden Poles, Zinc Fluoride Recommended as Preservative, 373, 463
Workman’s Time and Balance Book, 66
World’s Submarine Cables, Private and National, Analysis, 351 *
Y YARN Production from Paper, Long Known in Japan, 531
ZINC Fluoride as a Preservative of Wooden Poles, 373, 463
Zinc Ores Mined in Canada, Proposed Bounties on, 201
Zinc Output of Australia, 9
Zirconia, Recommended Addition of, to
Graphite used for Smelting Crucibles, 14
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