The Engineer 1921 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ABELL, Professor T. B., on the Framing of Ships, 343
Accidents, Railway—see Railways
Ackermann. A. S. E., on the Physical Properties of Clay, 551
AERONAUTICS :
See also Annual Article
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Report, 174
Air Ministry Competitions, 1920, 41
Airship, H.M., R 38, 610, 620
Airship Sheds and their Erection, Luke Hamilton Larmuth, 412
Airships and Steamships, 621
Automatic Control of Aeroplanes, 96
Aveline “Automatic Pilot,” Auto Controls, Limited, 184
Coming Aeronautical Developments, 45
Military and Civil Aeronautics, 267
Oehmichen-Peugeot Helicopter, 411
Standardisation of Data for Aircraft Calculation, H. B. Wyn-Evans, 315
Subsidies for Civil Aviation, 51
AGRICULTURAL Motors, Report of Trials by Royal Agricultural Society, 464
Ahrons, E. L., on R. B. Longridge and Co., Bedlington, 68; (Letter), 122; G. and J. Rennie, Blackfriars, 366
Air Filter at West Bank Dock Power Station, 149, 150
Air Passing through Turbo-generators, Measurement of, B. Y. Churcher, 550
Allan, Percy, on Port Improvements at Newcastle, New South Wales, 270
Alloys, Brass and Other Copper, Season Cracking of, H. Moore and others, 264
Alloys, Copper, Plastic Deformation of some, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. A. M. Herbert, 285
Alloys of Copper with Tin, Constitution of, Dr.
J. L. Haughton, 286
Alpine Tunnels, Progress of, 348
Alternating Stress-testing Machine, Dr. W.
Mason, 550
Alternators—see Electrical Matters
Aluminium and its Alloys in Engineering, John
G. A. Rhodin, 488, 501, 531, 559, 586, 622, 635, 659 ; (Letters), 552, 651
Aluminium Sheet, Recrystallisation of, on Heating, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and Miss C. F. Elam, 286
American Arched Dam, with Tangent Ends, 88
AMERICAN CONCRETE - MIXING MACHINERY :
Car for Lining Railway Tunnels with Concrete, 62
Cement Gun, 61, 62 ; (Letters), 158, 178
Coating a Girder with Concrete, 62 Concrete-lined Tunnel with Steel Forms, 61 Concreting Disintegrating Rock in a Tunnel, 60
Construction of Reinforced Concrete Walls, • 63 -
Grain Elevator with Concrete Walls, 62
Gravity Mixers, Pressure Mixers, 60;
(Letter), 158
Hains Gravity Concrete Mixer, 60
Pneumatic Apparatus for Lining Tunnels, 60, 61
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS :
American Marine Diesel Engine of 2400 Horsepower, 206
Automatic Oil Fuel Boiler Plant, 206
Automatic Train Control, 206
Bridges with Floors below Water Level, 206 Mine Hoist for 100 Men, 206
AMERICAN Snow-loading Machine, Barker-Greene and Co., 216
American Wagons—see Wagons, &c.
ANNUAL ARTICLES :
Aeronautics in 1920, 5, 40
{Two-page Supplement, January 1th, 1921);
(Letters), 42, 70, 92, 122, 158
Airships, 41
British Aeroplanes of the Year, 5, 40
Beardmore, Wm., and Co., Limited, 41 Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Limited :
Blackburn “Swift” Torpedo-Plane. 40, 41
Boulton and Paul, Limited :
P 10 “All-steel” Aeroplane, 40
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Limited :
Bristol Seaplane, 7
Bristol Tourer. Three-seater Coup6 Aeroplane, 6, 7
Central Aircraft Company, Limited :
Centaur Nine-seater Commercial Machine, 40
De Haviland Aircraft Company, Limited :
D.H. 18 Aeroplane, 7
Handley Page, Limited, 40
Martinsyde, Limited :
Racing Aeroplane “ Semi-quaver,” 6
Saunders, S. E., Limited :
Amphibian Flying Boat Kittiwake, 6 Short Brothers, Limited :
All-metal Biplane “ Silver Streak,” 40,
41
Vickers Limited :
Amphibian Flying Boat, 6
Commercial Aeroplane, 5, 6
Instructional Machine, 5
Westland Aircraft Works :
Six-seater Limousine. 6
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
Dock and Harbour Works, Progress in, 59
East Coast Ports, 60
Glasgow and Leith, 59
Liverpool, 59
London, Southampton, Poole and Bristol,
59 ; (Letter), 92
South Wales, 60
Electrical Engineering in 1920, 19
Electric Vehicles, 20
Electricity Supplies, 19
Electrification of Railways, 19
Power Plant, &c., 19
Water Power, 20
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, 20
Gasworks Engineering in 1920, 12
By-products, 12
Carbonisation, New Principle of, 12
Coal Strike; 12
Coke and Steam Raising, 12
New Basis of Charging, 12
Iron, Steel, Coal and Engineering
Trades in 1920, 2, 31
General:
Attitude of Labour, 3
Break in Prices, 2
Collieries, The, 33
Competition Resumed, 2
Hopes of a Trade Revival, 3
How Prices Rose and Fell, 33
Rolling Stock Construction Boom, 3
Lancashire and the North-West :
Bitter Disappointment, 4
Shipbuilding Orders Fall Off, 4
Work that Could Not be Done, 4
The Midlands :
Markets in Confusion, 3
Prices Tumbling Down, 4
Steel Famine, 3
Warning, 3
North of England :
Big Teesside Schemes, 4
New Shipyard Opening Postponed, 5
Revival of Steel Exports, 5
Scotland, 31
Sheffield, 31
South Wales, 32
Locomotives and Rolling Stock of 1920,
10, 14
(Two-page Supplement, January 7 th, 1921)
Great Eastern, 10
Great Northern, 10
London and Brighton, 10
London and North-Western, 10
London and South-Western, 11
Makers’ Engines, 11
Metropolitan Railway, 11
Midland, 11
North-Eastern, 11
Scottish 8,nd Irish Railways :
Caledonian, 11
Glasgow and South-Western, 11
Great Northern of Ireland, 11
Naval Construction in 1920, 16
(Two-page Supplement, January 7th, 1921)
France, 18
Germany, 18
Great Britain, 16
Italy, 18
Japan, 18
Minor Navies, 18
Spain, 18
United States, 17
Railways in 1920 :
Ministry of Transport, 7
New Works :
Great Central, 8
Great Eastern, 8
Great Northern, 8
Great Western, 7
London and North-Western, 7
London and South Western, 8
North-Eastern, 8
'Scottish Railways, 8
Underground Lines, 8
New Proposals, 8
Personal, 8
Steamers, 8
Sanitary Engineering in 1920, 46 ;
(Letter), 92
Activated Sludge System for Reading, 47
Activated Sludge Treatment, 46
General Outlook, 46
Marylebone’s Refuse Salvage Plant, <47
Petrol in Sewers, 47
Portsmouth, New Works for, 47
Sand Filtration of Sewage Effluents, 17
Sewage Disposal Plant for Tokyo, 47
Stoke-on-Trent Experiments, 46
Thurrock, Grays and Tilbury Joint Scheme, 47
West Kent Main Sewerage Board, 47
Shipping in 1920, 20
(Two-page Supplement, January 7th, 1921)
At Home, 20
Control, 20
Freights, 20
Labour, 21
New Construction, 21
Repairs and Reconditioning, 21
Surrendered German Ships, 21
Abroad, 21
Belgium, 22
France, 22
Holland, 22
Italy, 22
Japan, 21
United States, 21
ANNUAL ARTICLES {continued) :
Shipping in 1920 {continued):
Technical, 22
Conversion of Warships, 22
Electric Propulsion, 22
Oil Fuel, 22
Welded Ships, 22
Water Supply in 1920, 37 ; (Letter), 92
Bombay Water Supply, 38
Developments in Scotland, 38
Gilboa Dam and Shandaken Tunnel, 38
Hodder Scheme of the Fyldc Water Board, 38
Metropolitan Water Board, 37
Board’s New Bill in Parliament, 37
Rapid Filtration Plant at Birmingham, 38 Rapid Filtration of Stored Water, 38 Southampton’s New Supply, 37
Works in Hand and Contemplated, 37
ARC Welder—see Electrical Matters
Assaying Apparatus—see Coal
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Cane Sugar Machinery, W. Scott Herriott, 288
Reinforced Concrete and the Housing of Expensive Plant, Felix Milner, 79
Sixtieth Anniversary Dinner, 216
Institute of Chemistry :
Annual General Meeting, 27 I
Institute, Concrete :
A Foundation Failure, Lawson S. White, 667
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Annual Meeting, 519, 536
Autumn Meeting in Paris, 191
/Awards, 519
Blast-furnace and Cupola Slags, J. E. Fletcher, 521
Cause of Quenching Cracks, Kotaro Honda and others, 537
Cleaning of Blast-furnace Gas, Notes on,
S. H. Fowles, 520
Cupric Etching Effects Produced by Phosphorus and Oxygen in Iron, J. H. Whiteley, 537
Grants from the Carnegie Research Fund, 536 Prevention of Hardening Cracks, &c., and
Effect of Recalescence in a Tungsten Tool Steel, Shipley and Brayshaw, 537
Scientific Control of Combustion, H. T. Ringrose, 511
Solid Solution of Oxygen in Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 520, 537
Sulphur in Steel, Methods of Estimating,
T. E. Rooney, 538
Welding of Steel in relation to Defects in Ingots, H. Brearley, 506, 519
Institute of Marine Engineers :
Annual Meeting, New President, 370
Diesel Marine Engines, Sir J. P. Maclay, 370
Institute of Metals :
Action of Reducing Gases on Heated Copper, S. Beckinsale and H. Moore, 285
Annual Dinner, 264
Annual General Meeting, 177, 264, 285
Casting of Metals, Lecture by Professor T.
Turner, 492
Constitution of the Alloys of Copper with Tin, Dr. J. L. Haughton, 286
Plastic Deformation of Some Copper Alloys, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. A. M. Herbert, 285
Programme, 177
Season Cracking of Brass and other Copper Alloys, Messrs. H. Moore and S. Beckinsale and Miss C. E. Mallinson, 264
Some Notes on Calcium, P. H. Brace, 285
Stages in the Recrystallisation of Aluminium Sheet on Heating, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and Miss C. F. Elam, 286
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy :
Presidential Address. F. W. Harbord, 454
Institute of Physios :
Inaugural Meeting, 467
Institute of Transport:
First Congress, at Manchester, 118
Papers on Road Transport, Messrs. C. le M. Gosselin and J. C. Haller; Locomotive Construction and Repair, Great Central Railway, Mr. Smith ; Future of the Canals, Sir J. Eaglesome, 118
Visits to Manchester Ship Canal, Trafford Park, Liverpool Dock System, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Train Control and School of Signalling, Manchester Tramway Works, &c., 118
Institution of Automobile Engineers:
Annual Dinner, 109
Automobile Research, Suggested Programme for, George Watson, 260
Ball Bearing, The : In the Making, under Test, and on Service, H. L. Heathcote, 260, 491
Elections, Programme of Meetings, &c., 260
associations; institutions & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Airship Sheds and their Erection, L. H. Larmuth, 412
Engineering Conference, Date, Programme of Meetings, Papers and General Arrangements, 651
Joint Meeting in Birmingham for Discussion of Water Resources Committee Report and Severn Barrage Scheme, 210, 230
Measuring the Discharge of the Nile at the Assuan Dam, Sir M. Macdonald and Mr. H. E. Hurst, 542
Pass List (Interim), April Examinations, 192], 594
Port Improvements at Newcastle, New South Wales, Percy Allan, 270
Strengthening Cannon-street Bridge, George Ell son, 150
I
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Annual Dinner, Jubilee Year, 274
Kelvin Lecture, Electrons, Sir William Bragg, 142
Long-distance Telephone System of the United Kingdom, Sir William Noble, 319
Magnetic Susceptibility of Low Order, Professor E. Wilson, 241
Multi-part Tariffs for Domestic Supply, J. W. Beauchamp, 479
Recent Developments in Large Steam Turbine Practice, K. Bauman, 399
Temperature Limits of Large Alternators, G. A. Juhlin, 125, 130
Thermal Characteristics of Electric Ovens and Hot Plates, Dr. Ezer Griffiths and Mr.
F. H. Schofield, 176, 181
Informal Section—-
Characteristics and Applications of Multi-speed A.C. Motors, F. Greedy, 438
Students’ Section—
Address, Mr. Llewelyn B. Atkinson, 221
Institution of Engineers (India):
Inaugural Meeting, 216
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Melbourne Section—
i Origin of Natural Oil, Rear-Admiral Sir W. Clarkson, 511
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Annual Report, 198
Conference on “Means of Improving the Thermal Efficiency of Heat Power Plants,” 571, 673
Contact Pressures and Stresses, Professor
E. G. Coker and others, 325, 328, 463
Correspondence on “ The Mechanicals ”— see Letters to the Editor
Cutting Tools, Programme of Research Work, 198
Degassing and Purification of Boiler Feed Water, Monsieur Paul Kestner, 257
Generation of Steam, Sir John Dewrance, 182
Heat Losses in Power Plants, 571
Joint Discussion with Faraday Society and others on Failure of Metals, &c.—see Society, Faraday
Joint Meeting with the Society of Chemical Industry, 257
Lecture on World’s Money System, J. G. Graves, 601
Limit Gauging, Discussion on Sir R. Glazebrook’s Thomas Hawksley Lecture, 450, 462
London Summer Meeting, Programme, 673
Mechanical Loading of Ships, H. J. Smith, 91, 103, 126
Sir Robert Hadfield Prize, 241
Standardisation in the Testing of Welds, F. M.
Farmer, 198, 200, 231
War Memorial, Unveiling, 155
Manchester Engineers’ Club—Repetition of Papers Read in London :
Contact Pressures and Stresses, Professor
E. G. Coker and others, 463
Mechanical Loading of Ships, H. J. Smith.
126
Standardisation in the Testing of Welds,
F. M. Farmer, 231
Manchester Local Branch of the Institution, Formation, 191
Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Meeting, 287, 314, 343
Annual Report for 1920, Elections, Awards, Dinner and Conversazione, 287
Deflections of Bulkheads and of Ships, A. M. Robb, 344
Design of Balanced Rudders of the Spade Type, M. E. Denny, 315
Ex-German Battleship Baden, S. V. Goodall, 287
Experiments on Tallows Used for Launching Ships, J. J. King-Salter, 344
Framing of Ships, Professor T. B. Abell, 343 Life-saving Appliances on Cargo and Passenger Vessels, E. W. Blocksidge, 314
Mechanical Gears of Double Reduction for Merchant Ships, R. J. Walker and S. S. Cook, 314, 327
Some Features of German Warship Construction, Sir Eustace d’Eyncourt, 287, 297 Spacing of Transverse Bulkheads, K. G.
Finlay, 343
I Standardisation of Data for Aircraft Calculation, H. B. Wyn-Evans, 315
| Strength of Submarine Vessels, W. R. J, Whiting, 314
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
(continued):
Institution of Production Engineers :
Formation, 423
Societies, Physical and Optical:
Exhibition at Imperial College of Science— see also Exhibitions :
Dr. W. Rosenhain’s Recording Chronograph,. 36
Machine Motion Recorder, Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company, 35
Marconi Wireless Exhibits, 34
Needham’s Pulsator Speed Indicator, 34
Robertson’s Stroboscopic Vibrator, 36
Temperature Control Apparatus, British
Oil and Fuel Conservation, Limited, 34
Tinsley Tuning-fork Stroboscope, 34
Society of Chemical Industry :
London Section—
Erosion of Bronze Propellers, Dr. (). Sil-berrad, 146
Industrial Respirators, Dr. L. Levy, 674
Smith Continuous System of Carbonisation,
G. H. Thurston, 41
Society of Engineers:
Physical Properties of Clay, A. S. E. Ackermann, 551
Society, Faraday :
Joint General Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal and Prolonged Stress :
Programme, 325
Introductory Address, Dr. Rosenhain, 371,
' 477, 523
List of Papers :
Chemical Influences in Failure of Metals, &c., Professor C. H. Desch, 371
Failure of Lead Sheathing of Telegraph Cables, L. Archbutt, 371
Failure of Metals through Internal Stress
Irregularities, &c., J. N. Greenwood, 397 Fractures in Locomotive Boiler Tubes, Sir H. Fowler, 396
Intercrystalline Cracking of Mild Steel in : Salt Solutions, J. A. Jones, 397
Intercrystalline Fracture in Steel, D. | .Hanson, 396 .
Internal Fractures in Steel Rails, &c., H. S. I Rawdon, 397
Internal Stresses in Brass Tubes, R. H. N.
Vaudrey and W. E. Ballard, 371
Internal Stresses in relation to Microstructure, J. C. W. Humfrey, 371
Mechanism of Failures of Metals, &c., Dr.
- W. H. Hatfield, 371
Phosphor Bronze Bars, J ohn Arnott, 427
Season Cracking in Brass, Prevention of, &c., H. Moore and S. Beckinsale, 427
Season Cracking, Experiences of, during the War, O. W. Ellis, 427
Spontaneous Cracking of the Necks of Small Arm Cartridge Cases, W. (’. Hothersall, 427
Discussion on Papers, 372, 397, 427
Zinc Smelting in Great Britain, Samuel Field, 384
Society, Royal:
Conversazione, 517
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Third Cantor Lecture : Examination of Materials by X-Rays, Major G. W. C. Kaye, 437
AUSTRALIA, Textile Machinery in, 22
Auto-thermal Feed, Royles, Limited, 491
B BALFOUR, Mr. A. J., on Invention and Labour, 487
Ball Bearing, The, &c., H. L. Heathcote, 260, 491
Bankers and Engineers, 240; (Letters), 273 Bauman, K., on Recent Developments in
Large Steam Turbine Practice, 399, 408 Beauchamp, J. W., on Multipart Tariffs for
Domestic Supply, 479, 515
Beckinsale, S., and H. Moore, on The Action of Reducing Gases on Heated Copper, 285
Belgian Contracts and Foreign Competition, 601 Binnie, W. J. E., on Water Power Problems, 127 Bishop, W. G., on The Care of Locomotive
Boilers, 50
Blast-furnace—see Iron and Steel
Blocksidge, E. W., on Life-saving Appliances on Cargo and Passenger Vessels, 31.4
Blowing Engines—see Engines
Boiler Equipment at West Bank Power Station.
144, 148, 152
Boiler Feed Water, Degassing and Purification of, Monsieur Paul Kestner, 257
Boiler Feeding by Gravitation, Royles, Limited. 491
Boiler-house, Large American, 376
Boiler-room Appliances Exhibition, 484 Boilers, Continuous Densimeter for. Porter
Water Softening Company, 157 ; (Letter), 215
Boilers, Corrosion of, Sir J. Dewrance, 182 Boilers, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Boilers, Value of Hydraulic Tests of, 645 Boilers, Yarrow, Water Drums of, 442, 566 Bond in Reinforced Concrete, 65 Books of Reference, 22, 344, 594, 623 Bottle-making Machines—see Glass
Bower, J. R., on Electric Rivet Heaters in Railway Wagon Shops, 412
Brace, P. H., Some Notes on Calcium, 285, 351 Bragg, Sir William, Kelvin Lecture on Electrons, 142
Brass and Other Copper Alloys, Season Cracking of, H. Moore and others, 264; (Letters), 428
Brayshaw, S. N., on Prevention of Hardening Cracks and Effect of Recalescence in a Tungsten Tool Steel, 537
Brearley, H., on Welding of Steel in relation to Defects in Ingots, 506, 519
Bridge, Cannon-street, Strengthening, George Ellson. 150
Bridge, The New Southwark, 611
British Cast Iron—see Iron
British Engineers in Italy, 352
British and German Naval War Material, Sir
R. Hadfield on, 348
British Railway—see Railways
Bronze Propellers, Erosion of, Dr. O. Silberrad, 146
Bulgaria. Water Power and Irrigation Projection, 320
Bulkheads—see Ships
c CALCIUM, Notes on, P. H. Brace, 285, 351
Calendars and Diaries, 30, 83, 112, 191, 249
Calthrop, Dion Clayton, on The Individual, 409 ; on Work and Monotony, 436 ; on The Folly of Utopianism, 462
Capetown Dock Improvements, 471
i Capetown Harbour, Extensions at, 22
I Carbonisation, Low and High Temperature, Smith System, G. H. Thurston, 41
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., and Miss C. F.
Elam on Recrystallisation of Aluminium Sheet on Heating, 286
Casablanca, Morocco, New Works, 676
Casting of Metals, Professor T. Turner, 492, 546
Catalogues, 27, 86, 112, 305, 332, 417. 442, 468.
552, 605, 629
Cement Gun—see American Concrete-mixing Machinery
Census Tabulating Machine, British Tabulating Machine Company, Limited, 532
Centrifugal Pump, Wilfley Company, Limited, 96; (Letters), 122, 158, 214, 272, 357
Chain Fracture, Remarkable, 549
Chinese Coolie. 216
Civil Engineering Wages—see Labour
Clay, Physical Properties of, A. S. E. Ackermann, 551
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
American 107-Ton Coal Wagons, 217
Coal - assay i ng Apparatus, 35 5
Coal Costs and Competition : The Real.
Problem, E. T. Good, 614 ; (Letter), 664
Coalfield, A Whole, on Fire, 664
Coal-handling at West Bank Power Station.
144, 148, 152
Cylindrical Coal Bunkers, 249
Fineness and Dryness of Pulverised Coal as Fuel, H. Kreisingcr and J. Blizard, 668
Gas Supply and the Coal Strike, 571
Norfolk, Virginia, Sewell Point Coaling Plant, 460, 466
Oil Replacing Coal, 512
Power Station with Coal Mine Adjacent, 146 Pulverised Coal for Copper Smelter Furnaces, 549
COKER, Professor E. G., and others, on Contact Pressuresand Stresses, 325, 328, 351, 463
Collaboration, 408; (Letters), 428, 493
Colwyn Report, 181, 186, 199
Combustion, Scientific Control of, H. T. Ringrose, 511 ; (Letter), 552
Concrete Foundations, Device for Holding Down Rails to, J. H. Walker, 131
Concrete-mixing Machinery, American, Gravity Mixers, Pressure Mixers, 60; (Letters), 158, 178—for Details, -see American Concrete Concrete, Reinforced, Bond in, 65
Concrete for Salt Water Works, H. C. Boyden, 384
Contact Pressures and Stresses, Professor E. G. Coker and others, 325, 328, 351, 463
Contracts, 58, 83, 135, 191, 361, 413, 471, 558, 581, 658
Copper Alloys, Plastic Deformation of Some, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. A. M. Herbert, 285
Copper Alloys—see also Alloys
Copper Consumption in Germany. Increase of. 23
Copper, Heated, Action of Reducing Gases on,
S. Beckinsale and H. Moore, 285
Corrosion of Boilers, Sir J. Dewrance, 182
Cotton, World Conference, 650
Crane, 25-Ton Electric Overhead Foundry, 667
Crane, Electric Soaking Pit, Sir W. Arrol and Co., Limited, 490
Crane, Tower, 5-Ton Electric, for Handling Timber, Sir William Arrol.and Co., Limited, 624
Cranes, Magnetic Plate-handling, Alexander Jack and Co., 298
Crank Pin Turning—see Machine Tools
Crank Shaft Alignment Indicator, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 355
Creedy, F., on Multi-speed A.C. Motors, 438
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 28, 56. 84, 110. 136, 166, 192, 222, 250, 278, 306, 336. 362, 390, 418, 446. 472, 498. 528, 556, 582, 606, 630, 656, 680
Cutting Tools—see Machine Tools
DAM, American Arched, with Tangent Ends, 88 Deeley, R. Mountford, on Friction and Lubrication, 74, 78; (Letter), 121
Degassing and Purification of Boiler Feed Water, Monsieur Paul Kestner, 257
Denny, M. E., on The Design of Balanced Rudders of the Spade Type, 315
Densimeter, Continuous, for Boilers, Porter Water Softening Company, 157 ; (Letter), 215
Derailers—see Railways
Dewrance, Sir .John, on The Generation of Steam, 182
d’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace, on Some Features of German Warship Construction, 287, 297
Diesel Engines—see Engines
Disinfector, “ Sack ” Steam, 331
Dominion Students in British Technical
Colleges, 589
Drills—see Machine Tools
Dumping, German Views on, 292
Dust Explosion in an American Grain Elevator, 624
ECONOMICS of Hydro-electric Development, Professor A. H. Gibson, 367, 393
Educational Intelligence, 527, 581, 682
Edwards, Professor ,Q. A., and Mr. A. M. Herbert on Plastic Deformation of some Copper Alloys, 285
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
See also Annual Article
Alternating-current Arc Welder, Davies and Soames, 484
Arcing on Electric Trains, 236
Batteries for Electric Trucks and Locomotives, Exide Ironclad, 234, 263, 290, 291. 292; Edison, 234, 263, 290, 318
Breakdown of Turbo-alternating Plant at Glasgow, 217
Charging Equipments for Electric Trucks and Industrial Locomotives, 456
Crane, Electric Overhead Foundry, 25-.Ton, 667
Crane, Six-motor Electric Soaking Pit, Sir W. Airol and Co., Limited, 490
Crane, 5-Ton Electric Tower, for Handling Timber, Sir W. Arrol and Co., Limited, 624
Dolgarrog and Cwrn Dyli Hydro-electric Stations in North Wales, 195
Economics of Hydro-electric Development. Professor A. H. Gibson, 367, 393
Electric Heating—see Thermal Characteristics
Electric Furnaces for Non-ferrous Metals, J. B. C. Kershaw, 48 ; Ajax-Wyatt Induction Furnace, 48 ; Baily Granular Resistance Furnace, 49 ; Booth Brass Furnace, 44, 49 ; Detroit Furnace, 44, 49 ; Renner-felt Indirect Arc Furnace, 49, 50 ; Snyder Direct Arc Furnace, 48, 50; Wile Tin-Smelting Furnace, 50
Electric Rivet Heaters, A I Manufacturing Company, 161
Electric Ships, 239
Electric Trucks and Industrial Locomotives, 234, 262, 266, 290, 294, 318, 374, 375, 402, 424, 456—for Details, see Trucks, also Locomotives, Industrial
Electricity Tariffs, 515
Electrons, Kelvin Lecture, Sir William Bragg, 142
Grain-discharging Plant, Floating Pneumatic, Electric Winch and other Equipment for, 378, 381
Hydro-electric Power Project, Spanish, 301
Hydro-electric Power Station, Lake Coleridge, 299
Indicator, Alternator Excitation, Indicator, Rotor Winding Temperature, General Electric Company of America, 625
Institution of Electrical Engineers—see also Associations
Japanese Electric Companies, Combination of, 249
Lamps, Edison-Swan Electric Company, 37
Lochaber Hydro-electric Power Scheme, 226 Locomotives, Industrial Electric—see Locomotives, Industrial
London Electricity Supply Problem, 638, 662
London and Home Counties Electricity District, 258, 268
Magnetic Plate-handling Cranes, Alexander Jack and Co., 298
Magnetic Susceptibility of Low Order, Professor E. Wilson, 241
Multi-part Tariffs for Domestic Supply, J. W. Beauchamp, 479, 515
Multi-speed A.C. Motors, F. Creedy, 438
North Wales, Power Supply in, J. B. C. Kershaw, 195 ; (Letter), 245
Pass-out Turbine and 1250-Kilowatt Alternator, C. A. Parsons and Co., Limited, 640 Peat Power Plants and Transmission Lines in Germany, 422
Physical and Optical Societies’ Electrical Exhibits, 34, 37—see also Exhibitions
Piloting Vessels by Electric Cables, A. Cross-ley, 567
Plate Mill, Electric Driving Plant for, General Electric Company, 124, 129 (Two-page Supplement, February 4th, 1921)
Powers of the Electricity Commissioners, 370 Printers’ Exhibition, Electrical Exhibits at, 521
Private House Lighting, Electric Set for, Aster Engineering Company, 298
Pump, Submersible Motor, High-lift, Submersible Motors, Limited, 24
Railways—see also Railways
Rivet Heaters, Electric, in Railway Wagon
Shops, J. R. Bower, 412
Ships, Electric, 239, 356
Signalling System, New Electrical, 577
Spanish Electric Power Project, 301
Springdale Power Station, U.S.A., with Coal Mine Adjacent, 146
Steam Turbine Design, Recent Improvements in, 482, 534, 535, 562, 592, 596. 640 Switzerland, Electrification Work in, 95 Temperature Limits of Large Alternators,
G. A. Juhlin, 125, 130, 625
Thermal Characteristics of Electric Ovens and Hot Plates, Dr. Ezer Griffiths and Mr. F. H. Schofield, 176
Thermionic Valves, 610
Tire Pump, Electrically Operated, Brown Brothers, 576
Turbo-alternators, English Electric Company, 562
Turbo-generator, Geared, Marine Type, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., 482
Turbo-generators, Measurement of Air Passing Through, B. Y. Churcher, 550
Turbo-generators—see also Steam Turbine Design
West Bank Dock Power Station, Engines at, 144, 148, 152
Working of Single Lines of Railway (Electrical Instruments), 115
Yale Electric Tractor and Trucks, 263, 266
ELECTRONS—sec Electrical Matters
Ellson, George, on Strengthening Cannonstreet Bridge, 150
ENGINES AND MOTORS :
General:
Appliances Exhibited at Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 484
ENGINES AND MOTORS {continued) :
General {continued):
Crank Shaft Alignment Indicator, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 355
Lubricating Oils for Diesel Engine Air Compressors, 508
Pumping Engines—see Pumps
Internal Combustion Engines :
Diesel Marine Engines, Sir J. P. Maclay, 370
Gas-driven Blowing Engine, ]300 H.P., Galloways, Limited, 451 {Two-parje Supplement, April 29 th, 1921)
Internal Combustion Engines, 16; (Letters), 91, 158
Marine Oil Engine, 3000 I.H.P. Opposed-piston, W. Doxford and Sons, Limited, 633, 644
Modern Marine Oil Engines, 633, 644
Railway Motor Coach with Internal Combustion Engine, Monsieur P. E. Leroux, 612
Six-cylinder Hot-bulb Marine Oil Engine, Vickers-Petters, Limited, 212, 213
Sonoscope, Capac Company, Limited, 302
Testing Diesel Engines in the Sulzer Works, 674
Two-stroke Internal Combustion Engine, Record Engineering Company, Limited, 270
Vegetable Oils as Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines, 255
Steam Engines:
Convertible Steam Roller and Traction Engine, 570, 575
Economical Portable Engine, Marshall, Sons and Co., 505, 507
Vertical Three-cylinder Rolling Mill Engine, 25,000 Horse-power} Richardsons, W estgarth and Co., 354 {Two Two-page Supplements, April 1st, 1921)
Winding Engine, Four-cylinder Condensing, for American Copper Mine, 540, 541, 544
ENGINEERING News—see also American, French, Latin-America, South America
Engineering Trades and Wages, 645, 651
Erosion of Bronze Propellers, Dr. O. Silberrad, 146
Evaporating and Condensing Tubes, The Water Film on, P. H. Parr, 559 ; (Letters), 617
EXHIBITIONS :
Appliances for Boiler-room and Steam and Internal Combustion Engines, at Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 484
British Industries Fairs, 564
Building Exhibition at Olympia, 440
Floating Exhibition at The Hague, 38
Physical and Optical Societies, 34
Artificial Alternating-current Signal Track Circuit, Automatic Wireless Aeroplane Transmitter, Tuning-fork Stroboscope,
H. Tinsley and Co., 34
Condensers for Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, Dubilier Condenser Company, 37
Lamps, “ Pointolite,” &c., Edison-Swan Electric Company, 37
Machine Running Recorder, Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company, 35
Marconi Marine Detection Finder; Marconi Valve Amplifying Detector, 34
Needham’s “ Pulsator ” Speed Indicator, Evershed and Vignoles, Limited, 35
Recording Chronograph, Dr. W. Rosen-hain, 36
Robertson Stroboscopic Vibrator, 36
“ Talyden,” Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Limited, 37
Temperature Control Apparatus, British Oil and Fuel Conservation, Limited, 34 Thermometer, Dial, New Type, Negretti and Zambra, 34
Printers’ Exhibition, Electrical Exhibits, 521
EXHIBITS at the Royal Society Conversazione, 517
Explosion, Dust, in an American Grain Elevator, 624
Explosives, Liquid Oxygen, 426
FAILURE of Metals—see Metals
Fairs—see Exhibitions
Farmer, F. M., on Standardisation in the Testing of Welds, 198, 200, 231
Father and Son, 154
Fatigue, Wohler Test, 296
Field, Samuel, on Zinc Smelting in Great Britain, 384
Einlay, K. G., on T^he Spacing of Transverse Bulkheads, 343
Firms—see Histories
Fletcher, J. E., on Blast-furnace and Cupola
Slags, 521
Floating Pneumatic Grain-discharging Plant.
Henry Simon, Limited, 378, 381
Flue Tube Superheaters, Manufacture of, Marine and Locomotive Superheaters. Limited, 438
Folly of Utopianism, Dion C. Calthrop, 462
Foreign Patents, 214
Forest Products Laboratory, United States, 322, 326
Forging Garden Forks, Modern Method of, 414 Forthcoming Engagements, 30, 58, 86. 112, 138.
168, 194, 224, 252, 280, 308, 338, 364, 392, 420, 448. 474, 500, 530, 558, 584, 608, 632, 658, 682
Foundation Failure, Lawson S. White, 667
Fowles, S. H., Notes on the Cleaning of Blastfurnace Gas, 520
France and Canada, Trade Agreement between, 260
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES :
29 57, 85, 111, 137, 167. 193, 223, 251, 279, 307, 337, 363, 391, 419, 447, 473, 499, 529, 557, 583, 607, 631, 657. 681
Aid to Reconstruction, 57
Aluminium 631
American Coal, 529
Aviation in Africa, 631
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
Coal, 447, 473
Coal Supplies, 419
Cokes, 499
Colonial Exhibition, 337
Commercial Arrangements, 111, 657
Commercial Credits, 447
Commercial Reforms, 607
Communist Labour Strike, 363
Credit and Change, 57
Credits for Exports, 167
Declining Wages, 85
Direct Steel Process, 557
Downfall of the C.G.T., 85
Fiscal Problems, 29
Foreign Exchanges, 681
Foreign Trade, 337, 391, 473, 657
Franco-British Trade, 447
French Coal, 557
French Resources, 29
German Competition, 167
Germany’s Contribution, 137
Harbour Works, 499
Higher Import Duties, 85
Hydro-electric Installations, 337
Improved Exchange, 557
Improving Conditions, 11 1
Improving Exports, 363
Industrial Burdens, 111
Iron and Steel Exports, 419
Labour Move, 137
Labour Problem, 307
Locomotives, 681
Longwy Syndicate, 137
Lost Trade, 473
Lower Wages, 251
Lyons Fair, 279
Machine Tools, 193
Machinery Exhibits, 583
Merchant Fleet, 193, 307, 337, 529
Motor Trade, 85
Naval Construction, 631
Naval Estimates, 251
Naval Programme, 657
New Import Duties, 279
New Tariffs, 391, 419
Outlook, The, 307
Paris Electrical Supply, 63!
Paris Fair, 583
Paris, The, 681
Port of Paris, 473
Production and Demand, 167
Railway Convention, The, 681
Railways, 279
Reconstruction Works, 251, 499
Rhine Canal, 583
Rhone, The, 363, 607
Road Construction, New, 529
Tariff, The New, 607
Tidal Power, 391
Tool Steels, 447
Tours Commercial Week, 557
Tractor Programme, 223
Tractors, 223
Trade Convention, 193
Trade and Credit, 681
Trade Facilities, 137
Trade Future, 29
Trade Outlook, 529
Trade Position, 363
Trade Prospects, 657
Unemployment, 57
FRENCH Ports, Improvements to, 568
French Steel—see Iron
French West Africa, Public Works in, 369
Friction and Lubrication, R. Mountford Deeley,
78; (Letter), 121
Fuel, Cheap, F. W. Harbord, 454, 461
Fuel Research Report, No. I, Coal-assaying
Apparatus, 355
Fuel, Use of Wood as, 650
Furnace, Reverberatory, Aluminium, 586
G CARDEN Forks, Modern Method of Forging, 414
Gas, Blast-furnace—see Iron
Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas Regulation Act of 1920, 118
Gas Supply and the Coal Strike, 571
Gas Turbine, H. Holzwarth, Tests Resumed, 143
Gauge, Optical Measuring, Adam Hilger, Limited, 157
Gauge, Precision, Manufacture, A. G. Robson, 313
Gauging with Dial Instruments, Wm. Cowl- I land’s Gauge, 76
Gauging—see also Limit Gauging
Gear, Skew, Design, F. E. Lindsay, 652
Gear Wheel Machinery—see Machine Tools
Gear Wheels and Gearing, Maag System of, 283, 403
Gears for Ships—see Ships
Generating, Electric—see Electrical Matters
German Tools—see Machine Tools
German Views on Dumping, 292
German Wages and the Cost of Production, 646
Germany, Increase of Copper Consumption in, 23
Germany, Peat Power Plants in, 422
Gibson, Professor A. H., on Economics of
Hydro-electric Development, 367, 393
Gill Hydraulic Propulsion System, 172
Glasgow, Breakdown of Turbo-alternating Plant at, 217
Glass, 125; (Letters), 159, 215
Glass Manufacture, Machinery for, 204, 208, 548 ; (Letter), 300
Good, E. T., on Coal Costs and Competition : The Real Problem, 614
Goodall, S. V., on the ex-German Battleship Baden, 287
Grain-discharging Plant, Floating Pneumatic, Henry Simon, Limited, 378, 381
Grain Elevator, American, Dust Explosion in, 624
Grain Elevators in Australia, 649
Graves, J. G., on The World’s Money System, 601
Greece, Patent Law in, 458
Griffiths, Dr. Ezer, and Mr. F. H. Schofield, on Thermal Characteristics of Electric Ovens and Hot Plates, 176, 181
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools Gunnery, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters
HARBORD, F. W., on Cheap Fuel, 454, 461
Haughton, Dr. J. L., on The Constitution of the
Alloys of Copper with Tin, 286
Heat Losses in Power Plants, 571, 673 ; (Letter), 618
Heathcote, H. L., on The Ball Bearing : In the Making, under Test, and on Service, 260, 491
Helicopter—see Aeronautics
Herriott, W. Scott, on Cane Sugar Machinery, 288
Hilger Interference Gauge, 157
Histories, Short, of Famous Firms, E. L.
Ahrons, 68, 366 ; (Letter), 122
Holzwarth Gas Turbine, Resumption of Tests, 143
Hong Kong Water Supply, 170, 180 (Two-page
Supplement, February \8th, 1921)
Hotchkiss Hydraulic Propulsion System, 140
Humidifying Apparatus for Textile Factories, Cleworth, Wheal and Co., Limited, 648
Humphrey Pump—see Pumps
Hydraulic Propulsion—see Ships
Hydraulic Tests of Boilers, Value of, 645
Hydraulic Valve, A New, Glenfield and
Kennedy, Limited, 77 ; (Correction), 132
Hydro-electric Development, Economics of, Professor A. H. Gibson, 367, 393
Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Lochaber, 226
Hydro-electric Power Station, Lake Coleridge, 299
Hydro-electric Schemes—see also Water Power
ICE Observation, North Atlantic. Report, 577 Indian Railway—see Railways
Indicator, Speed, Needham’s Pulsator, 34, 35, 517
Indicator—see also Engines
Individual, The, Dion Clayton Calthrop, 409 Industrial Locomotives—see Locomotives Industrial Respirators, Dr. L. Levy, 674 Industrial Trucks—see Trucks
Inertia Resistance of Electric Locomotives, 618
Influence of the Depth of Water on the Speed of Ships, 309, 340
Ingot Mould, Large, Brightside Foundry and Engineering Company, Limited, 600
Instruments, Scientific, Exhibited at the Royal Society Conversazione, 517
Invention and Labour, 487
Iron Spikes in Growing Trees, 648
IRON AND STEEL :
Blast - furnace and Cupola Slags, J. E. Fletcher, 521
Blast-furnace Gas, Notes on the Cleaning of,
S. H. Fowles, 520
British Cast Iron Research Association, 642
Cause of Quenching Cracks, Kotaro Honda and others, 537
Conditions in the Iron and Steel Industry, 675 Cupric Etching Effects Produced by Phosphorus and Oxygen in Iron, J. H. Whiteley, 537
Fatigue, 296
France, Early Iron-making in. Rhys Jenkins, 502
French Steel Industry, 435
Iron and Steel Works—see Works
Japan, Iron Manufacture and Shipbuilding in, 490
Plate Mill, Three-high, Plant, Davy Brothers, Limited, 124, 129 (Two-page Supplement, February 4th, 1921)
Rise and Fall of the Sussex Iron Industry, Rhys Jenkins, 116, 502, 546
Solid Solution of Oxygen in Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 520, 537
Stainless Steel, Uses of, 598 ; (Letter), 663
Sulphur in Steel, Methods of Estimating,
T. E. Rooney, 538
Tungsten Tool Steel, Prevention of Hardening Cracks, &c., in, Shipley N. Brayshaw, 537
Welding of Steel in relation to Defects in Ingots, H. Brearley, 506, 519
IS Lubrication a Chemical Phenomenon ? 74» 78 ; (Letter), 121
Italy, British Engineers in, 352
Italy, Port Improvements in, 522
J JAPAN, Iron Manufacture, &c.—see Iron
Jenkins, Rhys, on The Rise and Fall of the
Sussex Iron Industry, 116, 502, 546
Johnsen-Rahbek Effect, 597, 600, 614
Juhlin, G. A., on Temperature Limits of Large
Alternators, 125, 130, 625
Jutland—see Ships, Naval Matters
K KAYE, Major G. W. C., Cantor Lecture on Examination of Materials by X-Rays, 437
Kelvin Lecture—see Institution of Electrical
Engineers
Kershaw, J. B. C., on Electric Furnaces for
Non-ferrous Metals, 44, 48
Kershaw, J. B. C., on Water Power Developments in North Wales, 195 ; (Letter245
Kestner, Monsieur Paul, on The Degassing and
Purification of Boiler Feed Water, 257
King-Salter, J. J., on Tallow Used for Launching Ships, 344
LABORATORY, United States Forest Products, 322, 326
Laboratory, Works, Products of, Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 430; (Correction), 471
LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES AND WAGES QUESTIONS :
Civil Engineering and Public Works, Wages on, 404
Coal Costs and Competition: The Real Problem, E. T. Good, 614
Engineering Trades and Wages, 645, 651
German Wages and the Cost of Production, 646
Invention and Labour, 487
Miners and Progress, 407
Mines and Miners, 379
Secret Ballot, 515
Unemployment, 63, 73, 209 ; (Letters), 159, 245, 272, 300, 357
Wages and Sympathy, 73
Wages and Wisdom, 323
LAMPS, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Larmuth, Luke H., on Airship Sheds and their Erection, 412
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Latin-American Engineering Notes, 494, 578
Launches and Trial Trips, 58, 83, 135, 168. 302, 335, 392, 417, 527, 581, 605, 679
LEADERS:
1920—A Retrospect, 15; (Letters), 91
Abermule Railway Disaster, 598
Airships and Steamships, 621
Calcium, 351
Casting of Metals, 546
Collaboration, 408
Colwyn Report, 181
Coming Aeronautical Developments, 45
Cutting Tools, 210
Electric Heating, 181
Electric Ships, 239
Electricity Tariffs, 515
Engineering Trades and Wages, 645
Father and Son, 154
Fatigue, 296
French Naval Programme, 671
French Steel Industry, 435
Gas Supply and the Coal Strike, 571
German Machine Tools, 99
German Wages and Cost of Production, 646
Glass, 125
Heat Losses in Power Plants, 571
Invention and Labour, 487
Is Lubrication a Chemical Phenomenon ? 74
Locomotion, 239
London Electricity, 268
Merchant Shipbuilding in Germany, 46
Military and Civil Aeronautics, 267
Miners and Progress, 407
Mines and Miners, 379
Ministry of Transport, 268
Navy Estimates, 295
Physical Phenomenon and its Application, 597
Railway Amalgamation : A Good Start, 352
Railway Electrification, 622
Railways Bill, 488, 545, 597
Saving Weight, 672
Season Cracking, 435
Secret Ballot, 515
Stability, 461
Standardisation of Limit Gauges, 462
Steam Turbines, Large, 408
Temperature Limits of Large Alternators, 125
Unemployment, 209
Valuation Advisory Committee, 380
Value of Hydraulic Tests of Boilers, 645
Vibration, 487
Visible Stresses, 351
Wages and Sympathy, 73
Wages and Wisdom, 323
Welds, 323
Welsh Railway Disaster, 153
Yield Point, 99
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS :
England, North of, 26, 54, 82, 108, 134, 164, 190, 220, 248, 276, 304, 334, 335, 360, 361, 388, 416, 443. 470, 496, 526, 554, 580, 604, 628, 654, 678
Lancashire, 25, 53, 80, 107, 133, 135, 163, 188, 191, 219, 246, 274, 277, 302, 333, 358, 387, 415, 443, 468, 495, 497, 525, 553, 579, 581, 603, 627, 629, 653, 677 ; (Letter), 42 Midlands and Staffordshire, 24, 27, 52, 55, 80, 106, 132, 135, 162, 188, 218, 246, 249, 274, 302, 305, 332, 358, 386, 414, 442, 468, 494,
524, 552, 578, 602, 626, 653, 676
Scotland, 26, 54, 82, 108, 134, 164, 190, 191, 220, 248, 276, 304, 334, 360, 361, 388, 416, 443, 470, 471. 496, 526, 555, 580, 604, 628,
654, 678
Sheffield, 25. 53, 55, 81, 83, 107, 109, 133, 163, 189, 219, 221, 247, 249, 275, 277, 303, • 305, 333, 359, 387, 389, 415, 443, 409, 495,
525, 527, 554, 579, 603, 627, 654, 677 ; (Letter), 159
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 27, 55, 82, 83, 109, 135, 165, 190, 191, 221, 249, 276, 277, 304, 305, 335, 360, 361, 389, 417, 444, 471, 472, 497, 527, 555, 580, 581, 604, 605, 629,
655, 679
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Aeronautics in 1920, E. V. Hammond, 42, 92, 122; C. E. Stewart, 70 ; F. Handley Page, 92 ; Engineer, 92 ; W. T. Blake, 158 Albert Dock Extension, C. R. S. Kirkpatrick, 92
Bankers and Engineers, Omega, 273
Boiler Efficiency and Evaporation Tests,
H. V. Whittaker, 215
Brighton Locomotives, A. M. Bushell, 493
British Committee for Aiding Men of Letters and Science in Russia, Montagu of Beaulieu and others, 42
Cementing and Cement Walls, T. J. Clark, 178 ; E. R. Dolby, 158
Centrifugal Pumps, Gwynnes, Limited, 122, 272; P. G. Johnson, 158, 272, 413; Wilfley Company, Limited, 214, 357
“ Civils,” The, and other Engineering Societies, Conrad Gribble, 300
Coal Problem, Fred H. Auger, 664
Coal per Ton-mile—see Ton-mileage
Curious Boiler Failure, J. E. Williams, 357
Densimeter Gauge (Porter’s Patent), Porter Water Softening and Engineering Company, 215
Driving Factories by Motor Lorry Engines, R. A. Black, 664
ETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued):
Drop Forgings, J. H. W., 70;. Bernard Brett, 92, 178; D. B. Morison, 92; J. H. Wilson, 158 ; J. R. Sumner, 158 ; 'Chas. S. Pettit, 214; Assistant Engineer, 245 ; W. H. Snow, 356, 385 ; W. H. Dawe, 356 ; R. H. Perkins, 413
Drop Stamping—see Drop Forging
Economy in the Office, A Manager, 159, 272 ;
Ex-Correspondent, 178; W. M. Moxon, 178 ; Economist, 215 ; Ada Bullock, 215 ; M.T. Meeh. E., 272
Electrification of Swiss Railways, W. P. Durtnall, 618
Engineer in Industry, A. C. Purday, 385 ; A “Junior ” Engineer, 413 ; E. H. Walker, 413
Engineers’ Club for London, R. J. Mitchell, 70 Engineers and Metallurgists, A Mechanical
Engineer, 428 ; A Metallurgist, 493—sec also Season Cracking
Evolution of the Rail, W. T. Anderson, 42
Ferrox Welding Wire and Rods, Quasi-Arc Company, Limited, 178
Fiat Company and Herr Stinnes, P. S. Morton for Fiat Company, 493
“Friendly Competition,” G. R. S. Darroch, 70 ; Hy. Fowler, 92
Gauge Glasses, S. and C. Bishop and Co., 159
German Giant Gun, T. W. S., 42
Glass, R. L. Frink, 215
Glass Manufacture, Edward Meigh, 300
Heat Losses in Power Plants, W. P. Durtnall, 618
Heating Surface, F. W. Dean, 42
Hygiene of Factories, Zamaz, 651
Income Tax, Chas. H. Tolley, 245
Interesting Case of Shear, G. W. S., 215
Is Lubrication a Chemical Phenomenon ?
R. M. Deeley, 121
Labour-saving and Aluminium, G. T. Pardoe, 552
Labour’s Share, Samuel Hall, 413, 493 ; H. G. Williams, 428
“ Lancashire ” Metals, Gerard A. Muntz, 42 Large Gas Engines, Galloways, Limited, 91 ;
Crossley Brothers, Limited, 91 ; National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 158
Leather Belt, New Type of, F. R. Parsons, 70 ;
Geo. T. Pardoe, 122
Locomotive Coal Consumption, E. Cecil Poultney, 618; Henry Fowler, 651; C. R. K., 664 ; F. W. Brewer, 664
Longridge and Co., of Bedlington, Michael Longridge, 122
“ Mechanicals ” and Associate Members of Council, E. R. Dolby, 70, 178 ; A Member, 92; Status Quo, 92 ; Progress, 122 ; Max R. Lawrence, 122 ; Leslie N. Burt, 122 ; A. Powis Bale, 122; Arthur H. Fitt, 159 ; Forward Policy, 159 ; Bertram Marshall, 178
Midland Compound Engine, Expert, 70 Non-ferrous Metal Prices, Hoyt Metal Com
pany of Great Britain, 300
Oil-fired, &c.—see Oil Fuel
Oil Fuel Burners on Midland Locomotives, E. Cecil Poultney, 618; Henry Fowler, 651 ; F. W. Brewer, 664 ; C. R. K., 664
Oil Fuel Burning—see Oil Fuel Burners
Old Stockton and Darlington Engines, E. L. Ahrons, 300
Plate Mill for the United Steel Company, Duncan Stewart and Co., 159
Power Required for Pumping Viscous Liquids, R. A. Pelmore, 301
Reduction Factors for Gases, J. Gilchrist, 552 Relative Motion, F. Y. B., 357
Season Cracking, H. Fowler, 428 ; H. Heathcote, 428
Severn Scheme, G. C., 159 ; A. J. Liversedge,
Severn Tidal Power—see Severn Scheme Temperature in Reversing Turbines, C.
Rettie, 552
Thermionic Valves, J. A. Fleming, 663
Timber Viaducts on the G.W.R., Henry Shapcote, 92
Ton-Mileage per Ton of Coal on Railways, C. R. K., 617, 664
Trevithick’s Locomotive, Henry Davey, 273 ; G. S. Knox, 273 : Robert Young, 273 ; C. R. K., 301 ; J. G. H. Warren, 301 ; A. R. Bennett, 301 ; J. G. H. Warren, 357 ; (Correction), 357
Trevithick’s Portable Steam Engine, G. Greenhill, 301
Unemployment, .H. B. Strang, 245 ; Both Sides, 272 ; Thomas Petty, 273; 1,. P. Dickins, 300, 57
Uses of Stainless Steel, W. H. Hatfield, 664
Wages and Taxes, What’s Good for the Goose, &c., 159
Water Film on Tubes, Maurice Cohen, 617 P. H. Parr, 617
Water Power in Wales, S. O’Dwyer, 245
Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering in 1920, W. J. Hadfield, 92
Welsh Railway Disaster, Henry A. Dibbin, 159 ; Theodore Stevens, 159; T. S. Lascelles, 215
Wilfley Pump—see Centrifugal Pumps
Yield Point, R. Redpath, 159
LEVY, Dr. L., on Industrial Respirators, 674 Leyland Steam Wagon, 616
Life-saving in Ships—see Ships
Lighting, Electric—see Electrical Matters Limit Gauging, Discussion on Sir R. Glazebrook’s Thomas Hawkesley Lecture, 450
Lindsay, F. E., on Skew Gear Design, 652 Liquid Oxygen Explosives, 426
LITERATURE :
Reviews:
Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction, Vol. I., Ferrous Materials, A. W. Judge, 183
Applied Aeronautic Engineering, Henry Woodhouse, 100
Applied Naval Architecture, W. J. Lovett 211
Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, Heinrich Zeitlinger, 573
Brassey’s Naval and Shipping Annual, 1920-
Building Construction, Handbook of, G. A.
Hool and N. C. Johnson, 489
Calcul des Organes des Machines, J. Boulvin, 547
LITERATURE (continued):
Reviews (continued);
Chemical Analysis of Steel Works Materials, Fred. Ibbotson, 128
Crude Petroleum Products and Natural Gas, Technical Examination of, W. A. Hamor and F. W. Padgett, 489, 547
Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, Report, 75
Education and World Citizenship, J. C. M. Garnett, 516
Electric Welding, H. S. Marquand, 100
Engineering and Building Foundations, Charles E. Fowler, 516
Evolution of Naval Armament, Engineer-Commander F. L. Robertson, R.N., 623, 646
Heat Transmission in Boilers, Condensers and Evaporators, R. Royds, 623, 673
Heat Transmission by Radiation, Conduction and Convection, R. Royds, 623, 673
Industrial Problems and Disputes, Lord Askwit-h, 398
Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1920, 154
Measurement of Steady and Fluctuating Temperatures, R. Royds, 623, 673
Metallurgy, Handbook of, Dr. Carl Schnabel, Translated, Henry Louis, Vol. I., 269
Political and Commercial Geology and the World’s Mineral Resources, J. E. Spurr, 128, 296
Properties of Steam and Thermo-dynamic Theory of Turbines, Professor H. L. Callendar, 75, 353
Scientific Papers of Bertram Hopkinson, Collected by Sir J. A. Ewing and Sir J. Larmor, 380
Ship Form, Resistance and Screw Propulsion,
G. S. Baker, 572
Sugar, Manufacture of, from the Cane and Beet, T. H. P. Heriot, 437
Short Notices :
A.B.C. of Storage Battery Management, E. C. McKinnon, 100
Automotive Ignition Systems, E. L. Con-soliver and G. I. Mitchell, 489, 573
Cassell’s Workshop Series :
Mechanical Drawing, 75, 100
Pattern Drawing for Sheet Metal Workers, Thomas Newton, 75, 100
Screw-cutting, F. J. Camm, 75, 100
Chemistry, Applied, Dictionary of, Sir E. Thorpe, 437
Coal in Great Britain, Walcot Gibson, 128
Complete Practical Machinist, Joshua Rose, 211
Connecting Induction Motors, A. M. Dudley, 573, 673
Electric Handling of Materials, H. H. Broughton, 100
Electric and Magnetic Circuits, Fundamental Principles of, Fred Alan Fish, 128, 647
Electric Switch and Controlling Gear, C. G. Garrard, 128
Engineering Instruments and Meters, Edgar A. Griffiths, 75, 517
Essentials of Advertising, F. L. Blanchard, • 325, 547
Geology of Petroleum, W. Harvey Emmons, 325, 517
Governors and the Governing of Prime Movers, W. Trinks, 269
Heat Engines, David A. Low, 269
Kempe’s Engineers’ Year Book, 1921, 517
Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, William S. Franklin and Barry Macnutt, 128, 673
Lubricating and Allied Oils, Elliott A. Evans, 128, 269
Machines et Chaudieres Marines, J. Boulvin, 647
Marine Screw Propellers, Detail Design of, Douglas H. Jackson, 269
Marine Single and Double-ended Boilers, Practical Design of, John Gray, 296, 380
Mechanical Production of Cold, Sir J. A. Ewing, 353
Mind and Work : Psychological Factors in Industry and Commerce, C. S. Myers, 647
Miscellaneous Tables for Mechanical Draughtsmen, M. H. Sabine, 353
Oil Fuel Burning in Marine Practice, J. W. M. Sothern, 211
Practical Design of Plate Girder Bridges, Harold H. Bird, 12
Practical River and Canal Engineering, R. C. Royal Minikin, 12, 128
Producer Gas, J. Emerson Dowson and A. T. Lar ter, 12, 380
Railway Signalling (Mechanical), Leonard P. Lewis, 489
Shipyards of Armstrong, Whitworth, 128
Surveying and Levelling, A Text-book of,
H. Threlfall, 12, 489
Testing of Motive Power Engines, R. Royds, 12, 211
Turret Lathe Practice, J. G. Horner, 517, 547
Universal Sheet Metal Pattern Cutter, W. Neubecker, 517, 547
Well Boring for Water, Brine and Oil, C. Isler, 12, 489
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, L. B. Turner, 573
Books Received:
Aeroplane Performance Calculations, Harris Booth, 573
Air Supply to Boiler-rooms of Modern Ships of War, R. W. Allen, 573
Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction, Arthur W. Judge, 573
Applied Colloid Chemistry, W. D. Bancroft, 573
Artificial Light, Its Influence on Civilisation, M. Luckeish, 547
Automobile and Aircraft Engines, Arthur W. Judge, 573
Belts for Power Transmission, W. G. Dunk-ley, 296
Benzol: Its Recovery, Rectification and Uses, S. E. Whitehead, 12
B.O.T. and Marine Engineering Knowledge, Steam and Oil, W. C. Macgibbon, 12
British in China and Far Eastern Trade, C. A.
Middleton Smith, 12
British Journal Photographic Almanac, &c., George E. Brown, 12
LITERATURE {continued): <
Books Received (continued):
British Scientific Instruments, Dictionary ol
Coal Washing, Ernst Prochaska, 573
Coke Oven and By-product Works Chemistr j Thomas Biddulph-Smith, 623
Comparative Therm Tables, H. R. Askew, 12
Continuous-current Armature Winding, Ele mentary Principles of, F. M. Denton, 296
Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraphy, W H. Eccles, 547
Copper Refining, Lawrence Addicks, 573
Cours de Mdcanique Appliquee aux Machine
Professe & 1’Ecole Spdciale du G6nie Civi de Gand, J. Boulvin, 573
Creative Chemistry, Edwin E. Slosson, 547
Democracy and Capital, W. B. Faraday, 353
Direct-current Dynamos and Motors, Theory of, John Case, 128
Drainage and Sanitation, E. H. Blake, 547
Dynamo and Motor Attendants and theii
Machines, Frank Broadbent, 573
Electrical Engineering, F. F. Wall, 623
Electrical Handling of Materials, Vol. II..
Structural Work, H. H. Broughton, 573
Electrical Installation Work, J. H. Havelock, 547
Electric Welding, Ethan Viall, 623
Electrification of Railways, H. F. Trewinan, 296
Electrolytic Deposition of Hydrometallurgy of Zinc, Oliver C. Ralston, 573
Employee Training, J. Van Liew Morris, 573
Engineering as a Career, Percival Marshall and A. W. Marshall, 547
Engineering Construction, Part I., In Steel and Timber, Part II., In Masonry and Concrete, W. H. Warren, 573
Extra Chief Engineers’ and Surveyors’ Guide to the Examinations of the Board of Trade, Peter Youngson, 623
Field Methods in Petroleum Geology, G. H.
Cox and others, 573
Files and Filing, Translated, Ch. Fremont, 12
Fuel Oil and Steam Engineering, Elements of, R. Sibley, 623
Gas Torch and Thermit Welding, Ethan Viall, 573
I Gasoline Automobiles, J. A. Moyer, 573
Geology of the British Empire, F. R. C. Reed, 623
Heating Systems : Design of Hot Water and Steam Heating Apparatus, F. W. Raynes, 573
Henslowe’s Motor Dictionary, L. Henslowe, 623
History of the Great War, &c., Merchant Navy, Vol. I., Archibald Hurd, 296
History of the Great War, Sea-borne Trade, Vol. I., The Cruiser Period, C. E. Fayle, 75
Hydro-electric Development, J. W. Meares, 296
Hydro-electric Development in Ontario, E. B. Biggar, 547
India-rubber Goods Manufacture,“ Factory Manager,” 325
Laboratory Aids in Practical Mechanics, &c., G. S. Bowling, 647
Lessons in Heat, Wm. Franklin and B.
MacNutt, 128
Lessons in Mechanics, Wm. Franklin and B. MacNutt, 128
Liberalism and Industry, Ramsay Muir, 12
Lubrication, Practice of, T. E. Thomsen, 75
Marine Engineering, Engineer-Captain A. E.
Tompkins, 128
Marine Propellers, S. W. Barnaby, 75
Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Elements of the, Sir J. J . Thomson, 296
Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, British Rainfall, 547
Meteorology, A. E. M. Geddes, 573
Microscope: Its Design, Construction and
Applications, F. S. Spiers, 325
Mine Rescue Work and Organisation, H. F.
Bulman and F. P. Mills, 573
Modern Sanitary Engineering, Part I., House Drainage, Gilbert Thomson, 12
Modern Sanitary Engineering, Part II., Sewerage, Gilbert Thomson, 489
Motor and Dynamo Control, W. S. Ibbetson, 12
Motor Trade Telegram Code, W. M. Saunders, 75
Municipal Engineering, H. P. Boulnois, 573
New Stone Age, &c., Harrison E. Howe, 573
Oceanography, Text-book of, J. T. Jenkins, 547
Opportunities in Engineering, C. M. Horton, 547
Physical and Chemical Constants and Some
Mathematical Functions. G. W. C. Kaye and T. H. Laby, 517
Plumon’s Dictionaries of Technical Terms, 517
Practical Hydraulics, Text-book of, &c., James Park, 647
Premium Bonus System, Sir W. Rowan
Thomson, 325
Principles of Costing, A. Cathles, 623
Pure Mathematics for Engineers, Parts I.
and II., S. B. Gates, 547
Radiographic Technique, T. Thorne Baker, 547
Recent Practice in the Use of Self-contained
Breathing Apparatus, Lieut. Rex C. Smart, 647
Repairing of Locomotives, Vol. II., Boiler and Fire-box Repairs, E. L. Ahrons, 623
Serbo-Croatian Self-taught, J. J. R. E.
Beirne, 547
Shipping and Transport, Reinforced Concrete, The Factory, 517
Single-phase Transformers, Small, Edgar T!
Painton, 296
Slide Rule, C. N. Pickworth, 128
Smithing and Forging, Joseph G. Horner, 296
Social and Industrial History of Scotland, &c., James Mackinnon, 573
Spot and Arc Welding, H. A. Horner, 547
Standard Measurements, 547
State of Ohio, Miami Conservancy District, 547
Steam Railway Locomotive, E. L. Ahrons, 296
Technical Methods of Analysis, 573
LITERATURE (continued) :
Books Received (continued):
Textile Mathematics, Part I. and Part IL T. Woodhouse and A. Brand, 573
Three-phase Induction Motors, Practica Treatise on, L. E. Wood, 573
“Transactions” of the Institution of Nava Architects, 75
Water Power Engineering, Fundamenta
Principles of, F. F. Fergusson, 296
Wireless Telegraphy ■ . . . the Quenched spark System, B. Leggett, 325
LLOYD’S Register—see Ships
Loader for Loose Materials, Radial Type, Jeffrey Company, 577
Lochaber Hydro-electric Scheme, 226
Locomotion, 239
Locomotives, Industrial Electric, English Elec trie Company, 666
Locomotives, Industrial Electric, “ Automatic ” Company, 402, 403 ; British Electric Vehicles, Limited, 290, 294; Jeffery Battery Locomotives, 290 ; Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies. 235, 236
Locomotives, Industrial, Electric Trucks and. 234, 262, 266, 290, 294, 318, 374, 375, 402
Locomotives—see also Railways
L.C.C. Tramcar Design, Competition, 187
Lubricating Oils for Diesel Engine Air Compressors, 508
Lubrication—see also Friction, &c.
Lubricator, Pump, Dunbar and Slater, Limited. 161
M MAAG System of Gearing, 283, 403
Macdonald, Sir M., and Mr. H. E. Hurst, on Measuring the Discharge of the Nile at the Assuan Dam, 542
Machine Motion—see Recorder
MACHINE TOOLS:
Auto-lathe, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 574
Bench-type Six-spindle Drilling Machine, B.S.A. Tools, Limited, 494
Crank Pin Turning Machine, G. Richards and Co., Limited, 102
Cutting Tools, 198, 210
Double - spindle Hole - grinding Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Limited, 51
Drill, Westool Electric, Westminster Tool and Electric Company, 331
Gear Cutting and Grinding Machinery, Maag Gear Wheel Company, 283, 403
Gear Wheel Testing Machine, Adolphe Saurer, 285
German Machine Tools, 99, 101
Machine Tool Trades’Association, 99, 101
Machine Tool Works at Broadheath, Churchill
Machine Tool Company, 346, 350
Milling Cutters, Interesting Pair of, 330 Radial Drilling Machine for Condenser Tube
Plates, William Asquith, Limited, 330
Radius Link-grinding Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Limited, 51
Shearing Machine, High-speed Power, Regent Shears (1918), Limited, 270
Twist Drill Sharpening and Thinning Machine, Herbert Hunt and Sons, 674
MAGNETIC Plate-handling Cranes, Alexander Jack and Co., 298
Magnetic Susceptibility of Low Order, Professor E. Wilson, 241
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marine Engineering, Limits of Steam Conditions in, 480 ; (Letter), 551
Mechanical Loading—see Ships
Meniscus Microphones, E. B. H. Wade, 442
Mercantile Shipbuilding—see Ships
Metal-scraping Machine, Pneumatic, Anderson Brothers Manufacturing Company, 160
Metals, Casting of, Professor T. Turner, 492, 546 Metals, Failure of, under Internal and Prolonged Stresses, Joint General Discussion of, by Faraday Society and others, 325, 371, 396, 427, 477, 523—for Full List of Papers, see Associations, Faraday Society ; (Letters), 428, 493
Mexican Port Improvements, 348
Microphones, Meniscus, E. B. H. Wade, 442 Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Milner, F., on Reinforced Concrete and the Housing of Expensive Plant, 79
Mineral Research, Sir R. Redmayne’s Address, 647
Mineral Statistics, Our, 254
Miners and Progress, 407
Mines and Miners, 379
Mining in Victoria, 547
Ministry of Transport, 268
Money System, The World’s, J. G. Graves, 601
Moore, H., and others, on Season Cracking of
Brass and other Copper Alloys, 264
Motor Coach, Railway—see Railways
Motor Lorry Converted into Railway Motor Coach, 94, 95, 98
Motor Lorry used to Drive a Factory, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 649 ; (Letter), 664
Motors—see also Agricultural
Motors, Electric—see Electrical Matters Mountain Road in South Australia, 263
N
NAVAL Matters—see Ships
Needham’s “ Pulsator ” Speed Indicator, 34, 35, 517
Newcastle, New South Wales, Port Improvements at, Percy Allan, 270
EWCOMEN SOCIETY:
Mystery of Trevithick’s London Locomotives, Loughnan Pendred, 242, 268 ;
(Letters), 273, 301, 357
President’s Address, 636
Rise and Fall of the Sussex Iron Industry, Rhys Jenkins, 1 16, 502, 546
NEWCOMEN SOCIETY {continued) :
Summer Meeting in Birmingham, Programme 608, 636, 672
NEW Year Honours, 42
Nile, Measuring the Discharge of the, at the Assuan Dam, Sir M. Macdonald and Mr. H. E. Hurst, 542
Noble, Sir William, on the Long-distance Telephone System of the United Kingdom, 319
North Atlantic Ice Observation, Report, 577
North Wales, Water Power Developments in, J. B. C-. Kershaw, 195 ; (Letter), 245
Norway, Water Power in. 332
o OBITUARY :
Blount, Bertram, 400
Gatehouse, Tom Ernest, 376
Hodgson, Henry, 178
Jenkins, D. M., 74
Johnson, Arthur H., 109
McLachlan, John, 241
May, Walter, 468
Moulton, Lord, 260
Oechsner, Charles Louis, 564
Pitt, Walter, 51, 74
Walker, George Blake, 614
Webb, Sir Arthur, 288
OIL Engines—see Engines
Oil Fuel Burners—see Railway Locomotives
Oil, Natural, The Origin of, Rear-Admiral Sir
W. Clarkson, 511
Oil Replacing Coal, 512
Oils, Lubricating, for Diesel Engine Air Compressors, 508
Oils, Vegetable, as Fuel for Internal Combustion
Engines, 255
Oil-tight Bulkheads for Tankers, 331
O’Neill Glass Bottle Machine, 548
Optical Measuring Gauge, Adam Hilger, Limited, 157
Oxygen in Iron—see Iron
PARIS, Public Transport in, 118
Parr, P. H., on the Water Film on Evaporating and Condensing Tubes, 559 ; (Letters), 617
Parsons Tunnel—see Railways
Patent Cases, 355
Patent Law in Greece, 458
Patent Office Applications, 79
Patent Office Practice, 316
Patent Practice, United States, 602
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS :
British :
Aeronautics, 111, 223, 280
Batteries and Accumulators, 57, 583, 631
Building, 111, 168, 224
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 307, 337, 363, 681
Cranes and Conveyors, 224, 252, 337, 420, 474
Dynamos and Motors, 29, 111, 167, 223. 279, 363, 391, 419, 473, 557, 583
Electrical Appliances, 657
Electric Furnaces, 111, 138, 223, 307
Engines, Internal Combustion, 29, 57, 85, 137, 167, 193, 307, 391. 419, 473, 499. 557, 607
Engines, Steam, 279
Gas Producers, 29, 137, 363
Lighting and Heating, 25]. 280, 307, 338, 363, 419, 529, 557, 584, 657
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 57, 138, 167, 223, 308, 338, 391, 448, 499, 530, 584, 631, 658, 681
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 85, 308,
529, 608, 658, 681
Miscellaneous, 30, 58, 112, 138, 168, 194, 224, 252, 308, 338, 364, 392, 420, ‘448. 474, 500.
530, 558, 584, 608, 632, 658, 682
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 194, 308, 338, 420
Ordnance, 168, 364, 499
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 112, 193, 252, 499, 557
Ships and Boats, 30, 558, 608, 658
Steam Generators, 193, 251, 473
Steam Turbines—see Turbines
Switchgear, 30, 85, 111, 137, 193, 280, 337, 447, 607, 631, 681
Telegraphs and Telephones, 30, 193, 337
Tramways and Railways, 224, 252, 363, 447, 474, 584
Transformers, 86, 111, 137, 251, 280, 419, 657
Transmission of Power, 86, 138, 224. 251, 308, 364, 419, 447, 529, 558, 583, 607, 631, 657, 682
Turbine Machinery, 57, 85, 193, 337, 391, 419, 499, 583, 657, 681
Wireless Telegraphy, 85, 137, 167, 223, 251, 279, 307, 337, 391, 419, 447, 499. 529, 557, 583, 631, 657, 681
PATENTS, Foreign, 314
Patents, United States, 629
Peat Power Plants in Germany, 422
Pendred, Loughnan, on The Mystery of Trevithick’s London Locomotives, at the Newcomen Society, 242, 268; (Letters), 273, 301
Personal and Business Announcements, 27, 83, 132, 162, 191, 218, 249, 305, 361, 417, 445, 471, 497, 530, 58], 608, 632, 658, 682
Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 34 —see also Exhibitions
Physical Phenomenon and its Application, Alfred Johnsen and Kund Rahbek, 597, 600, 614
Plate Mill Plant, Three-high, Davy Brothers, Limited, 124, 129 {Two-page Supplement, February 4th, 1921)
Pneumatic Grain-discharging Plant, Floating, Henry Simon, Limited, 378, 381
Pneumatic Metal-scraping Machine, Anderson Brothers Manufacturing Company, 160
Port Improvements in Italy, 522
Port Improvements at Newcastle, New South Wales, Percy Allan, 270
Portable Engines—see Engines
Poultney, E. C., on Locomotive Footplate Experiences, 155, 365, 449, 561, 609; (Letter), 493
Power Plants, Heat Losses in, 571, 673;
(Letter), 618
Power Stations—see Electrical Matters
Precision Gauge Manufacture, Arthur G. Robson, 313
Production Engineers, Institution—see Associations
Propellers, Marine—see Ships
I’repulsion. Marine—see Ships
Public Works in French West Africa, 369
PUMPS :
Circulating and Bilge Pumps, Fuel Pumps for Six-cylinder Marine Oil Engine, Vickers-Petters, Limited, 212, 213
Gill Pump for Hydraulic Propulsion of Ships, 172
Hong-Kong Water Supply, Triple-expansion Pumping Engines for, James Simpson and Co., 170, 180 {Two-page Supplement, February \%th, 1921)
Hotchkiss Pump for Hydraulic Propulsion of Ships, 140
Humphrey Pump, Pumps at Chingford, 232, 238
Pump Lubricator, Dunbar and Slater, Limited, 161
Submersible Motor High-lift Pump, Submersible Motors, Limited, 24
Tire Pump, Electrical, Brown Brothers, 576 Wilfley Centrifugal Pump, 96; (Letters), 1?2, 158, 214, 272, 357, 413
R RAILS, Device for Holding Down, to Concrete Foundations, J. H. Walker, 131
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS:
See also Annual Article
General ••
Accident Inquiries by Ministry of Transport in 1920, 590
Arcing on Electric Trains, 236
Automatic Train Control on the North
Staffordshire Railway, 288
Colwyn Report, Committee on Railway Agreements, 181, 186, 199
Derailers for Railway Sidings, Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, 576
Device for Holding Down Rails to Concrete Foundations, J. H. Walker, 131
Economic Aspect of Railway Electrification, A. H. Armstrong, 576
Electric Rivet Heaters in Railway Wagon Shops, J. R. Bower, 412
Four Railway Accident Reports, 286
Railway Amalgamation, 352, 358
Railway Electrification, 622
Railway Motor Coach with Internal Combustion Engine, Mons. P. E. Leroux, 612
Railway Returns for 1920, 508
Railway Wagon Weighing Machine, A. J.
Amsler and Co., 23
Railways Bill, 488, 545, 551, 597
Tire-fixing Rolls for Railway Wheels, B. and
- S. Massey, Limited, 441
Tunnel, Parsons, Lengthening, on the Great
Western Railway, 256, 259
Wagon Works—see Works
Working of Single Lines of Railway, I 15, 127
British, Colonial and Indian :
Abermule Disaster—see Cambrian
British and French Railway Speed in 1920, 253
British Malaya, Railways in, 79
British Railway Traffic Establishment in Rhineland, A. L. Stead, 90
Cambrian Railway Disaster, 127, 145, 153, 598 ; (Letters), 159, 215
Great Western Railway, Trestle Viaducts on, Noss and Longwood, Penryn, Ponsanooth, and Saint Germains, 64, 72 ; (Letter), 92
Indian Railway Report, 315
London and North-Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways Amalgamation, 352, 358
Melbourne Railways, Electrification of the, 7 8
New South Wales Railways, Motor Lorry
Converted into Railway Motor Coach, 94, 95, 98
North-Eastern Railway New Electric Rolling Stock, 394, 406 (Two-page Supplement, April 15th, 1921)
North Staffordshire Railway, Automatic Train Control on, 288
Parsons Tunnel on the Great Western Railway, Lengthening, 256, 259
Stoke-on-Trent, New Railway at, 467
Foreign :
Alpine Tunnels, Progress of, 348
Belgian Congo, Proposed Railway Developments in, 386
Italian Railways, Electrification of, 400
Japan, Railway Construction in, 568
Latin-American Railway Notes, 214
Spain, Narrow-gauge Railway Construction in, 316
Spanish Railways, Nationalisation of, 568
Swiss Railways, Electrification of the, 563 : (Erratum), 590; (Letter), 618
Virginian Railway 107-Ton Coal Wagons, 217
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES:
General:
Care of Locomotive Boilers, W. G. Bishop, 50
Grinding Machines for Locomotive Work— see Machine Tools
Inertia Resistance of Electric Locomotives, 618
Locomotive Footplate Experiences, 155, 365, 449, 561, 609 ; (Letter), 493
Locomotive for Nigeria, W. Beardmore and Co., 508
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES (continued) .
General (continued) :
Locomotives Built by Messrs. Longridge, R. B., and Co., Bedlington Works :
Bristol and Exeter Railway Broad-gauge Engine, 69
Early Locomotives Built at, 68
First Locomotive in Holland, The Snelheid. 1839, 68
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Engine, 1849, 68
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Engine, 1846, 69
Locomotives Built by Messrs. George and John Rennie, Blackfriars :
Brighton, Croydon and Dover Railway, Two Six-wheeled Single Engines, 1843. 367
Brighton Railway, Four Six-wheeled Single Engine, 1840, 1841, 367
Early Locomotives Built at, 366
Great-Western Railway, Two Broad-gauge Engines, 1841, 367
London and Croydon Railway, 1838 and 1839, 367
London and Southampton Railway Locomotives Built in 1838, 367
Trevithick’s London Locomotives, Mystery of, Loughnan Pendred, 242, 268 ; (Letters), 273, 301, 357 ; (Correction), 357
British, Colonial and Indian :
Caledonian Railway Express Passenger Engine, 11 (Supplement, January 1th, 1921) Great Central Railway, Footplate Experiences, E. C. Poultney, 365
Great Central Railway Four-cylinder Engines, 660 (Two-page Supplement, June 24th, 1921)
Great Eastern Express Goods Engine, 10 (Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Great Indian Peninsular Railway Tank Engine, North British Locomotive Company, 11, 14
Great Northern Three-cylinder Engines, 593 ; (Letters), 617, 618, 664
Great Northern Three-cylinder Fast Goods Engine, 10 (Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Great Western Railway, Paddington and Bristol, Footplate Experiences, E. C. Poultney, No. I., 561 ; No. II., 609
Lancashire and Yorkshire Passenger Engine, Tests of, 410
■ Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Footplate Experiences, E. C. Poultney, 155
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Footplate Experiences, 449 ; (Letter), 493
London and Brighton Superheater Express Goods Engine, 10 (Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
London and South-Western Six-coupled Express Goods Engine, 11 (Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Metropolitan Railway Four-coupled Tank Engines, 120, 121
Metropolitan Railway Tank Engine, I I ; (Correction), 38
Midland Locomotives, Oil Fuel Burners on, 601 ; (Letters), 618, 651, 664
Midland Railway Decapod, 10, 11
North-Eastern Three-cylinder Fast Goods Engine, 11 (Supplement, January 1th, 1921) South African Railways, Garratt Articulated Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Limited, 11, 14
Sudan Government Railways Engine, North British Locomotive Company, IL 14
Foreign :
American Locomotive with Driven Trailing Axle, Tests of, 593
Large American Goods Locomotives, 372
RANKIN Feeder—see Glass Manufacture
Recorder, Machine Motion, Cambridge and Paul
Instrument Company, 35, 36
Recording Chronograph, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 36 Recrystallisation—see Aluminium
Redmayne, Sir R., on Mineral Research, 647
Reinforced Concrete, Bond in, 65
Reinforced Concrete and the Housing of Expensive Plant, F. Milner, 79
Research, Mineral, Sir R. Redmayne’s Address, 647
Research—see also Scientific
Respirators, Industrial, Dr. L. Levy, 674
Rhodin, John G. A., on Aluminium and its Alloys in Engineering, 488, 501, 531, 559, 586, 622, 635, 659 ; (Letters), 552, 651
Ringrose, H. T., on the Scientific Control of Combustion, 511; (Letter), 552
Rivet Heaters, Electric, A-I Manufacturing Company, 161
Rivet Heaters—see also Electrical Matters
Robb, A. M., on Deflections of Bulkheads and of Ships, 344
Robson, Arthur G., on Precision Gauge Manufacture, 313
Roller, Steam, and Traction Engine, Convert ible, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 570, 575
Rolling Mill—see Plate Mill
Rolling Mill Engines—see Engines
Rosenhain, Dr., Introductory Address on Failure of Metals under Internal and Prolonged Stress, at Faraday Society Joint Meeting, 371, 477, 523
Royal Agricultural Society’s Report of Motor Trials, 464
Royal Society Conversazione and Exhibits, 517 Rudders—see Ships
s “SACK” Steam Disinfector, 331
St. Lawrence River, Deepening the, 664
Salt Water Works, Concrete for, H. C. Boyden, 384
Salving of Ships—see Ships
Sanitary Engineering—see Annual Articles
Saving Weight, 672
Scientific Control of Combustion. H. T. Ringrose, 511; (Letter), 552
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH :
British Cast Iron Research Association, 642 Report to Lubricants Inquiry Committee,
Friction and Lubrication, R. Mountford Deeley, 74, 78
SEASON Cracking, 435 ; (Letters), 428
Season Cracking—see also Brass
Secret Ballot, 515
Seven-day Journal, 9, 39, 67, 93, 119, 147. 175, 203, 233, 261, 289, 317, 345, 373, 401, 429, 455, 481. 509, 539. 565, 591, 615, 639, 665; (Letters), 70, 92, 158, 178, 214, 245, 385, 413, 493
Severn Barrage Scheme, 210. 230 ; (Letters), 179, 272
Shanghai, Shipbuilding Industry in, 161
Shearing Machines—see also Machine Tools
Shears, End-cutting and Sketch Plate, Mangle, &c., for Plate Mill, Seri ven and Co., 124, 129, 130 {Two-page Supplement, February 4th, 1921)
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING:
See also Annual Article
General:
Australia, Shipbuilding Industry in, 77
Deflections of Bulkheads and of Ships, A. M.
Robb, 344
Design of Balanced Rudders of the Spade Type, M. E. Denny, 315
Electric Ships, 239, 356
Engines—see Engines
Erosion of Bronze Propellers, Dr. O. Sil-berrad, 146
Fitting a Large Propeller to a Steamship, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 52
Framing of Ships, Professor T. B. Abell, 343 Hydraulic Propulsion of Ships, 140, 172 Influence of the Depth of Water on the Speed of Ships, 309, 340
Japan, Iron Manufacture and Shipbuilding in, 490
Life-saving Appliances on Cargo and Passenger Vessels, E. W. Blocksidge, 314
Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns. 66, 441
Mechanical Gears of Double Reduction for Merchant Ships, R. J. Walker and S. S. Cook, 314, 327
Mechanical Loading of Ships, H. J. Smith, 91, 103
Mercantile Shipbuilding in 1920, Lloyd’s Register, 105
Merchant Shipbuilding in Germany, 46 Oil-tight Bulkheads for Tankers, 331 Piloting Vessels by Electrically Energised
Cables, A. Crossley, 567
Salvage, Notable Feat of, 301
Spacing of Transverse Bulkheads, K. G.
Finlay, 343
Strength of Submarine Vessels, W. R. J. Whiting, 314
'fallows Used for Launching Ships, Experiments on, J. J. King-Salter, 344
Yachts, Racing, Rules for Building and Classifying, 79
British Navy :
Enterprise, H.M. Light Cruiser. 17 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Hood, H.M. Battle-cruiser, 17 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
L 71 and M 23, H.M. Submarines, 17 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Lord Clive, British Monitor, with Experimental Triple Big Gun Mounting, 421, 434
Raleigh, H.M. Light Cruiser, 1 7 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Wolverine, H.M. Destroyer. 17 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Naval Matters :
British and German Naval War Material, Sir R. Hadfield on, 348
Ex-German Battleship Baden, S. V. Goodall, 287
German Warship Construction, Some Features of, Sir Eustace d’Eyncourt, 287, 297
Jutland Despatches, Some Reflections on, 87, 114, 139, 169
Naval Gunnery and Construction, Bombardment, Experimental, of German Battleship Baden, by H.M.S. Lord Clive, 421, 434
Naval Policy, Some Notes on, 324
Navy Estimates, 295, 324
Foreign Navies :
American Warships, New. 227 {Two-page Supplement, March 4th, 1921)
French Naval Programme, 671
Italian Battleship Leonardo da Vinci, Salving of, 281 {Two-page Supplement, March \%th, 1921)
United States Battleships California and Maryland, 227, 228
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels :
Arundel Castle, Union-Castle R.M.S., 510, 514
Cunard Liner Samaria, 21 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Elizabeth Stoner, Cargo Vessel, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 626
Great Eastern Railway Cross-Channel Steamer Antwerp, 22 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Meandros, Cargo Steamer, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 21 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Motor Ship Theodore Roosevelt, 22 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
P. and O. Naldera, 21 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
Yngaren, Motor Ship, Trials of, Wm. Doxford and Co., Limited, 642
Zeeland Steamship Company’s Steamer Prinses Juliana," 22 {Supplement, January 1th, 1921)
SHORT Histories—see Histories
Signalling System, New Electrical, 577
Silberrad, Dr. O., on the Erosion of Bronze Propellers, 146
“ Sincometer.” for Survey Work, Charles C. Wardrop, 594
Skew Gear Design, F. E. Lindsay, 652
Smith Continuous System of Carbonisation. G. H. Thurston, 41
J-, on the Mechanical Loading of Ships, 91, 103, 126
Snow-loading Machine, American, Barber-
Greene and Co., 216
Sonoscope, Capac Company, Limited. 302
South America, Engineering News from, 79.
Io7, 386
| South Australia, Mountain Road in. 263
Sbuthwark Bridge, The New. 61
Stability, 461
Standardisation of Engineering Products, Conference, 577
Standardisation of Limit Gauges, 450, 462
Standardisation—see also Aeronautics ; also Vv elds
Stead, A. L., on the British Railway Traffic Establishment in Rhineland, 90
Stead, Dr. J. E., on Solid Solution of Oxygen m Iron, 520, 537 6
Steam Conditions in Marine Engineering
Limits of, 480; (Letter), 551
Steam, Generation of, Sir John Dewrance, 182
Steam Turbine Design, Recent Improvements m, 482, 534, 535, 562, 592, 596, 640
Steam Turbines—see also Turbine
Steam Wagon, Leyland Motors (1914), Limited,
Steel—see Iron
Strength of Vessels—see Ships
SfcJ®ss, lnternal a?ld Prolonged. Failure of Metals under, Joint Discussion of, by Faraday and other Societies, 325, 371, 396, 427 477, 523 ; (Letters), 428, 493—for Full List oj J. apers, see Associations, Faraday Society
Stresses, Visible, 351
Stresses see Contact Pressures; also Alternating Stress
Stroboscope, Tinsley Tuning-fork, 34
Stroboscopic Vibrator, Robertson’s, 36
Sugar Cane, Machinery, W. Scott Herriott. 288 Superheaters, Flue Tube, Manufacture of.
Marine and Locomotive Superheaters’ Limited, 438
Survey Work, Device for Simplifying, Charles C vv ardrop, 594
Sussex Iron—see Iron
Switzerland. Electrification Work in. 95
Sydney Traffic Improvements, 335
Locomo-
TABULATING, Census, Machine, British m Machine Company, Limited 53 *
Tallows Used for Launching Ships ExperiT ments, J. J. King-Salter. 344 ’
Telegraphy, Wireless, 331
TeB^ng"432'le TUb6S’ Lay,ng- hy Thr"st Telephone System, Long-distance, of the United
Kingdom, Sir William Noble, 319
Temperature of Alternators— see Electrical Matters
Temperature Control Apparatus, British Oil a . uel Gonservation, 34
Testing Machine, Alternating Stress Dr \V Mason, 550 ’ ’
Testing of Welds—see Welds
Tests of Locomotives—see Railway fives J
Textile Machinery in Australia, 22 Thames Conservancy’s Bill, 311
Thermal Characteristics, &c—see Electrical Matters
Thermionic Valves, 610; (Letter), 663 Thurston, G. H., on the Smith Continuous.
System of Carbonisation, 41
Tidal Power Experiments in France, 649 lidal Power—see also Severn
Tire Pump, Electrical, Brown Brothers 576 Tires, Railway—see Railways
Tractor, “ Automatic ” Electric, 402
Tractor, Yale Electric, 263, 266
^nT’s^m0' Lan8ing E<’uiPment Com-1 f^60 Agreement between France and Canada, Tramcar Design, London County Council Competition, 187
Transport, Ministry of, 268
Transport see also Associations, Institute of Transport
Trestle Viaducts—see Railways
Trevithick’s Locomotives — see Newcomen Society
Trials of Agricultural Motors, Report bv Roval Agricultural Society, 464 '
Tr™^S’„?2ectric> and Industrial Locomotives 'll,’ He H6’ 29°’ 2941 318’ 374> 37fl. 402,’ 424, 456 ; Heenan and Fronde, 234 • Ran somes Sims and Jefferies, 234 ; Automatic, 262, Yale, 262, 266; Elwell Parker, 318-Roadcraft, Limited, 374, 376; Greenwood’ and Batley 374 375; Lansing Equipment 374^7«y’ vj’ 375 i,Eleotromobiles, Limited. 374, 376 ; Edison Electric, 402 ; Electricars B-m.ted, 402 ;“ Automatic ” Company, 402.’ . 494 ’ 4^a TS1^gSbyZ?02’ 403 ; Silvertown. 424’ V.Jndla-™bber, Gutta-percha ami
m -*-e‘e£iaPh Works Company, 424, 456
Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
Tunnels, Alpine, Progress of, 348
Tunnels, Railway—see also Railways
Turbine, Gas, H. Holzwarth, Resumption of lests, 143 . .
Tl\raQn4A?arge Sfcea,n’ Practice, K. Bauman, oyy, 4vo
Turbine, Steam, Design, Recent Improvements in, 482, 534, 535, 562, 592, 596, 640
Turbine, Water, New Type of, 518
ri’rb’ne’ Water, The Turgo Impulse, Gilbert Gilkes and Co., Limited, 411
Turbo-alternators and Turbo-generators—see Electrical Matters
Turner Professor T., Lecture on Casting of Metals, 492, 546 K
Turning Machines—see Machine Tools
UNEMPLOYMENT, 63, 73, 209: (Letters). t 159, 245, 272, 300, 357
"o?139fates P°rest Products Laboratory,
United States Patent Practice, 602
United States Patents, 629
University College Public Lectures, Programme, 484
Utopianism, Folly of, Dion C. Calthrop, 462
V VALUATION Advisory Committee, 379
Valve, A New Hydraulic, Glenfield and
Kennedy, Limited, 77; (Correction), -132
Valves, Thermionic, 610; (Letter), 663
Vegetable Oils as Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines, 255
Viaducts—see Railways
Vibration, 487
Victoria, Mining in, 547
Visible Stresses, 351—see also Contact Pressures
w WAGES—see Labour
Wagon, Hydraulic Tipping Steam, Leyland
Motors (1914), Limited, 616
Wagon Works—see Works
Wagons, Coal, 107-Ton, Virginian Railway, 217
Wagons, Railway—see also Railways
Walker, R. J., and S. S. Cook, on Mechanical
Gears of Double Reduction for Merchant
Ships, 314, 327
Water Drums of Yarrow Boilers, 442, 566
Water Film on Evaporating and Condensing Tubes, P. H. Parr, 559 ; (Letters), 617
Water Power Developments, Actual and Projected, in North Wales, J. B. C. Kershaw, 195 ; (Letter), 345
Water Power and Irrigation Projects in Bulgaria, 320
Water Power in Norway, 332
Water Power Problems, W. J. E. Binriie, 127
Water Power Resources Committee Report and Severn Barrage Scheme, 210, 230 ; (Letters), 179, 272
Water Supply, Hong Kong, 170, 180 {Two-page Supplement, February \%th, 1921)
Water Supply—see also Annual Article—also Pumps
Water Turbine—see Turbine
Weighing Machine, Railway Wagon, A. J. Amsler and Co., 23
Weight, Saving, 672
Welding of Steel, &c.—see Iron Welds, 328
Welds, Standardisation in the Testing of. F. M. Farmer, 198, 200, 231
West Bank Dock Electric Generating Station —see Electrical Matters
Wheels, Railway—see Railways
White, Lawson S., Foundation Failure, 667
Whiteley, J. H., on Cupric Etching Effects
Produced by Phosphorus and Oxygen in Iron, 537
Whiting, W. R. J., on the Strength of Submarine Vessels, 314
Wilson, Professor E., on Magnetic Susceptibility of Low Order, 241
Winding Engine—see Engines
Wireless Telegraphy, 331
Wood, Use of, as Fuel, 650
Work and Monotony, Dion Clayton Calthrop. 436
Working of Railways—see Railways
WORKS :
Bedlington Works, R. B. Longridge and Co., 68 ; (Letter), 122
Blackfriars, G. and J. Rennie, 68
Canning Town Glass Works, 204, 208
Darnall Works, The New, of Davy Brothers,, Limited, 662, 670
Jubilee of the Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, 458
Machine Tool Works at Broadheath, Churchill
Machine Tool Company, 346, 350
Marine and Locomotive Superheaters, Limited, Extension of Trafford Park Works, Manchester, 438
Rudge-Whitworth’s Works Laboratory, Products, 430 ; (Correction), 471
Sulzer Works, Winterthur, Testing Diesel Engines in, 674
Wagon Works at Horbury Junction, Yorkshire, C. Roberts and Co., Limited, 476, 486 (Correction), 682
WORKS Laboratory, Products of, Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 430
World Cotton Conference, 650
World’s Money System, Lecture, J. G. Graves, 601
Wyn-Evans, H. B., on the Standardisation of Data for Aircraft Calculation, 315
X X-RAYS, Examination of Materials by, Major G. W. C. Kaye, 437 .
Y YACHTS—see Ships
Yarrow, Sir Alfred, on Industry, 146
Yield Point, 99; (Letters), 159
z ZINC District, Large, in America, 150
Zinc Smelting in Great Britain, Samuel Fields, 384*
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