The Engineer 1924 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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AERIAL Rope Conveyor, Light, Artex, Limited, 101
AERONAUTICS : See also Annual Articles
Aeronautical Woods, Machine for Testing, J. 8. Glen Primrose, 127
Aeroplane Engines—see Engines
Aircraft Apprentices’ Vacancies, 493
Apprentices, Aircraft, Training of, at Halton Camp, 119, 138, 139, 148, 167 (Two-page Supplement, February 15th, 1924)
Armstrong-Whitworth, Sir W. G., Aircraft Limited, Troop - carrying Aeroplane Awana, 23 (Supplement, January 4th,
King’s Cup Winner, 23
“ Siskin ” Scout Steel Aeroplane, 23 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Training School, Whitley, Coventry, 23
Avro Light Monoplane and Light Biplane, 37
Boulton and Paul “ Bodmin ” Postal or
4^^ai^ (Supplement, January
Bristol Aeroplane Company’s “ Bristol ’’Two-seater Fighter and “ Bristol Lucifer ” Dual Control Machine, 22, 23 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
De Havilland D.H. 50 Four-passenger Machine, 36, 44 ; D.H. 53 Light Monoplane, 36
Development of the Airship, Commander
- C. D. Burney, 407, 408
English Electric “ Wren ” Light Monoplane,
Fairey Aviation Company, Limited, “ Fawn ” Military Machine, 23
“ Fly-catcher ” Deck-landing Fighter, 23
Fairey III. D. Seaplane, 24
Twin-float Seaplane, 24
Giant Flying Boat Atalanta, 24
All-steel Wing Frame, 23 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Vickers Limited Service Machines Valparaiso and Virginia, 36, 44
Commercial Machines Vanguard and Viget, 36, 44
AGRICULTURAL Show, Royal, at Leicester, 714
Air Compressors, Portable, for Nigeria, Parsons
Motor Company, Limited, 52
Air Consumption, &c.—see Engines
Air Preheater, Howden-Ljungstrom, Boiler
Fitted with, W. H. Owen, 209
Allen, Richard, Application of Steam Turbine ' for Auxiliary Machinery, 450, 455
Allen, R. W., Irrigation Pumping Machinery in the Sudan, 542, 549
Aluminium Conductors, H. G. Williams, 507 556
Ammeters and Voltmeters, Record Electrical Company, 13
Anemometer, Recording, Cambridge Scientific
Instrument Company, 12, 13
Angle Compound Air Compressor, Sullivan
Machinery Company, 224, 225
ANNUAL ARTICLES : Aeronautics in 1923, 22, 36
(Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Airships, Loss of the Dixmude Zeppelin, 22 ; Passenger and Mail-carrying Zeppelin for America, 22
British Aeroplanes, Some Typical, 22 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Armstrong, Whitworth, Sir W. G., Aircraft, Limited :
Armstrong-Whitworth “ Siskin ”
Scout, 23
Armstrong-Whitworth “ Awana ” Troop Carrier, 23 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Limited :
Various Naval and Coastal Defence Machines, 37
Boulton and Paul “ Bodmin ” Postal or Military Machine, 23 (Supplement, J anuary 4th, 1924}
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Limited :
Bristol “ Jupiter” Fighting Machine, 22
Bristol “ Lucifer ” Dual Control Machine, 22, 23 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
De Havilland Aircraft Company, Limited :
D.H. 50 Four-passenger Machine, 36, 44
D.H. 53 Light Aeroplane, 36
English Electric Company, Limited :
Flying Boats, Phcenix* “ Cork ” and
“ Ayr,” 38
Light Monoplane Wren, 37, 38
Fairey Aviation Company, Limited :
Fairey “ Fawn ” Military Machine, 23
Fairey “Fly-catcher” Deck-landing Fighter, 23
Fairey All-steel Wing Frame, 23 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, Limited :
“ Grouse ” Experimental Machine, 37
“ Grebe ” Fighting Scout, 37, 44
A. V. Roe and Co., Limited :
Light Monoplane, 37
Light Biplane, 37
Vickers Limited :
“ Vanguard ” Twenty-three Passenger Machine, 36, 44
“ Vulcan ” Passenger Aeroplane, 36
“ Viking ” Six-seater Passenger Machine, 36
“ Viget ” Light Biplane, 36
ANNUAL ARTICLES {continued):
Aeronautics in 1923 {continued):
Vickers Limited, Service Machines :
“ Valentia ” Twin-engined Boat Seaplane, 37
“ Virginia ” Long-distance Night Bomber, 37, 44
“ Victoria ” and “ Vernon ” Troop Carriers, 37 •
“ Valparaiso ” Two-seater Fighting Machine, 37, 44
Civil Aviation, 22
Helicopters, 22
Light Aeroplanes, 22
Military Aeronautics, 22
Bridges, Some, of 1923, 25
Johore Causeway Lock and Lifting Bridge, 25
Lifting Bridge over the River Wensum at Norwich, 25 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924) .
Rolling-lift Bridge at Inchinnan, Renfrew, 25
British Locomotives of 1923, 6
Great Western Railway Six-coupled 1< our-cylinder Superheater Engine Caerphilly Castle, 7 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Eight-coupled Tank Engine, 7 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Four-cylinder Superheater Engine, 7
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Six-coupled Engine, North British Locomotive Company, 7
Makers’ Engines, 7
Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Superheater Engine, 7 {Supplement, J anuary 4th, 1924)
Electrical Engineering in 1923, 20 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Barton Station, Manchester, Switchgear, 20 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Converting Plant, 20
Electric Railway Equipment, 21
Electricity in Mines, 21
Linton Lock, Hydro Station, York, --0 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, 20
Motors, 21
Rolling Mills, 21
Switchgear, 20
Barton Power Station, 20
Linton Lock Hydro Station, 20
Turbo-generators, 20
Wembley Laboratories, 20 {Supplement,
January 4th, 1924)
Wireless Communication, 21
Gas Engineering in 1923, 50
Carbon Monoxide, 50
Coke and other By-products, 51
Fuel Research Board, 50
New Works at Chicago, 50
Smokeless Fuel, 50
“ Standard Price ” Adjustments, 50
Sulphate of Ammonia, 51
Synthetic Fertilisers, 51
Technical Progress, 50
Therm, The, 50
Harbours and Waterways in 1923, 75
United Kingdom, 75
Bristol Channel and South Wales Ports, /6
British Inland Waterways, 76
Facilities for Oil Trade, 76
Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal, 75
Naval Ports, 76
North-East Coast and Humber Ports, 76
Other Ports, 76
Port of London, 75
Scotland, 76
Southampton, 76
Canada, 76 *
India and the Middle East, 7 6
- South Africa, 76
European and Foreign Ports, 76
China and Japan, 76
Europe, 76
South America, 77
United States, 77
Motor Ships and Marine Oil Engines in 1923, 7, 8 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Beardmore Engine, New Type, 10
Beardmore-Tosi Engine, 9
Fruit-carrying Motor Ship Pizarro, 9 {Supplement, January. 4th, 1924)
Burmeister and Wain Engine, 7
Motor Ship Medon, 9 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Camellaird-Fullagar Engine, 9
Diesel-electric Fruit-carrying La Playa, 9 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Diesel Engines with Reduction Gears, 10 Doxford Engine, 9
Marine Oil Engine Trials, 10
Neptune Engine, 9
North British Engine, 8, 9 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Scott-Still Engine, 9 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Sulzer Type Engine, 8, 9
British India Steam Navigation Ship Dalgoma, 9 {Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Vickers 600 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, 9, 10
Werkspoor Engine, 10
Naval Construction in 1923, 2
France, 4
Great Britain, 2
H.M. Aeroplane Carrier Hermes, 2, 3
H.M. Submarine K, 26
Japan, 3
Other Navies, 4
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
Naval Construction in 1923 (continued) : United States, 3, 16
Battleship Colorado, 3, 16
Light Cruiser Detroit, 3, 16
Railways in 1923, 5
General :
Great Western, 5
London, Midland and Scottish, 5
Great Eastern Area, 5
Great Northern and Great Central
Areas, 5
North British Area, 5
North-Eastern Area, 5
London and North-Eastern Railway, 5
Metropolitan District and London Electric Railways, 6
Railway Accidents, 6
Railway Labour, 6
Signalling, 6
Southern Railway, 5
South-Eastern Section, 5
Sanitary Engineering in 1923, 10
Leeds, 11
London Main Drainage and Sewage Disposal, 10
Manchester’s Activated Sludge Plant, 11
Sewage Treatment by Agitation and Aeration, 10
Activated Sludge or “ Diffused Air ” Process, 10
Bio-aeration Process, 10
Surface Aeration System, 10
Walshaw System of Disposal, 11
Works in Hand and in Contemplation, 11
Steamships of 1923, 18
Boilers and Mechanical Stoking, 19
Oil in Navigable Waters, 19
Reciprocating Engines, Turbines and Gearing, 19
Repairs and Re-conditioning, 19
Ships Built on the Clyde and Tyne, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Cuba, Liner, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Limited, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Cunard Liner Franconia, John Brown and Co., Limited, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Some Large Vessels, 18
Lamport and Holt Liner Voltaire, Steam Collier Berwindmoor, Workman, Clark and Co., Limited, 18, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Minnewaska, Atlantic Transport Liner, and Turbines, Harland and Wolff, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
P. and O. Liners Mooltan and Maloja, 18 ; Holland-America Veedam, Harland and Wolff, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
White Star Liner Doric, Harland and Wolff, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Some New Developments, 19
Duct Keel, Five-bladed Propeller, 19
Special Ships, Faraday Cable Ship and Others, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
The Outlook, 20
Water Supply in 1923 :
Cardiff, Llwynon Reservoir, Roughing Filters, Taff Fawr Conduit, Second Pipe Line, Wenault Reservoir, 38
General Outlook, 38
Liverpool, Vyrnwy Supply, Aber Tunnel Filtration, 38
General, 38'
Manchester*, Thirlmere, Thirlmere Aqueduct, Heaton Park Reservoir, 38
Metropolitan Water Board, 38
Purchase of a Canal Works, 38
Works Under Construction or in Contemplation, 38
France, 39
Other Works Abroad, 39
Streamline Filter, 40
Tansa Completion Works for Bombay 39
APPLIED Mechanics, Delft International Conference on, 234
xAupprentices, Aircraft—see Aeronautics
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
Association, British Waterworks :
Annual General Meeting and Programme, 580
Association, Diesel Engine Users’:
Electricity Supply in War Time, A. H. Dykes and W. T. Townend, 538
Heavy Oil Engine Indicator Diagrams, J. M. Ferguson, 368
President, on Scope for Heavy Oil Engines, 293
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Annual Dinner, 183
Annual Meeting, 360
Hardness and Cutting Trials of a Tool Steel, Dempster Smith and Israel Hey, 356, 366
Modern Foundry Practice, Oliver Smalley, 317
Some New Dynamometers, J. S. Glen Primrose, 127
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Annual Meeting, 395, 513, 536, 565
Bessemer Medal Award to Professor Albert Sauveur, 536
Continuous Rolling Mills, their Growth and Development, J. P. Bedson, 536
Effect of Cold Work upon Crystals of Iron, Hugh O’Neill, 536
Experiments on the Brinell Tensile Relationship, A. L. Norbury and T. Samuel, 566
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued):
Institute, Iron and Steel {continued) :
Features in the Working and Efficiency of Reversing Generators, J. Seigle, 565
Forging Temperature of Steels, Professor K.
Honda, 565
Hardening of Silico-manganese Steels, E. W Colbeck and Dr. D. Hanson, 566
Hardness of Electro-deposited Iron, Nickel, ? m and C°PPer> Macnaughton, 567
High Temperature Growth of Special Cast
Irons, J. H. Andrew and H. Hyman, 536
Indentation Hardness of Metals, Professor Honda and K. Takahasi, 566
Notes on the Testing of Metal Strip, Dr.
.Leslie Aitchison and Mr. Leslie W. Johnson, 567
Plastic Deformation of Iron, Dr. F. C. Thompson and W. E. W. Millington, 536
Presidential Address, Sir William Ellis, 513 536 *
Production of Large Crystals, Professor C. A.
Edwards and L. B. Pfeil, 537
Programme, 395
Recovery of Waste Heat in Open-hearth
I urnace Practice, W. Dyrssen, 565
Transverse Test Bars, G. S. Bell and C. H Adamson, 566
X-ray Studies on the Crystal Structure of Steel, I art IL, A. Westgren and G. Phragmen, 537
Institute of Marine Engineers :
1 Gas Turbines, Hugh Campbell, 129
Institute of Metals :
Alloys of Copper and Cadmium, C. H. M Jeakins and Dr. D. Hanson, 331
Aluminium-copper Alloys, David Stockdale, oo 1
Annual and Autumn Meetings and Mav Lecture, 208
Annual General Meeting, 290 303 331 • Report of Council, 290 ; Annual Dinner’ zy i
Atoms and Isotopes, May Lee Lure, Dr. F W Aston, 637
l . ^tle Ranges in Brass as Shown by the Izod Impact Test, D. Bunting, 290
CaQoolum'lead‘zinc System, Maurice Cook, 332
Cold-drawing and Annealing Low-tin Bronze, , Stuart H. J. Wilson, 303
Copper-zinc Alloys which Expand on Solidification, Mr. lokibe, 303
Equilibrium Diagram of the Copper-tiii System, Tomimatu Isihara, 332
Fatigue Failure of Brass Tubes, &c., W. E W- Millington and Professor F. C. Thompson, 290 1
Joint Meeting with the Faraday Society, 478 • Fluxes and Slags in Metal Melting, Joint Meeting, 478
Metallurgical Research, Professor Thomas Turner, 276
Relative Corrosions of Zinc and Lead in Solutions of Inorganic Salts, Dr. J. New-i ton Friend and Mr. J. S. Tidmus, 304 ! Strength and Electro-resistivity of Copper
W. E. Alkins, 303
I Tensile Properties of Aluminium at High lemperatures, Thomas Martin 303
Thermal Coefficients of Expansion of Some Commercial Metals and Alloys Dr J Newton Friend and R. H. Vallance, 290
X-ray Studies of the Copper Aluminium Alloys, E. R. Jette and Others, 304
Zinc-bronze and Casting Temperature, F W Rowe, 331
Institute of Transport:
Fourth Congress, 478
Programme, 478
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Bristol , Waterworks, Cheddar Supply, A McCulloch Paterson, 637
Meeting of Joint Committee on Tabulating Results of Heat Engine and Boiler Trials 365, 394
1 hermal Efficiency of Internal Combustion Engines, Standards of Comparison, &c G. J. Wells, 365, 394 ; (Letter), 449
New Charter, 14
Manchester, and District Association :
Third Annual Dinner, 317
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Design of Apparatus for the Protection of Alternating-current Circuits, A. S. FitzGerald, 263
Electric Passenger Lifts, H. Marryat, 104
Power Circuit Interference with Telegraphs and Telephones, S. G. Bartholomew, 448
SP369al General MeefcinS’ 210 ; (Paragraph),
Visits of Delegates of Overseas Technical Institutions, 610, 702
Institution o£ Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Modern Pumping Engines in Holland, Pro-n fessor J. C. Dijxhoorn, 506
Tests on a Cylindrical Marine Boiler with and without Preheated Air, W. H. Owen, 209
•Joint Summer Meeting, 369, 628 696 711-Programme, 696 ■ for Details see Institu’ tion of Naval Architects
Institution of Gas Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, 696
Programme, 696
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Ciinent Fondu, J. S. Marshall, 264
Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperatures in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson and H. Wright Baker, 24
Some Physiological Aspects of Heating and Ventilation, Kenneth Gray, 174
Torsion Meters, J. Ward, 208
Water-tube Boilers, L. M. Jockel, 478
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, 222
Joint Committee Meeting, Hydraulic Power I Plants, Standard Tests for, Report of Joint Committee, 354 ’
London Summer Meeting, 1924, 369
Presidential Address, W. H. Patchell, 332, 337, 390
Electricity Supply, Mr. W. H. Patchell on, 390
Progress in Prime Movers, W. H. Patchell, 332
Progress of Mechanical Engineering in the Military Service, Lecture by Major G. Le L. Martel, 124
Relationship of Air Consumption and Brake Horse-power of Internal Combustion Engines, Dr. H. Moss, 416
Repair and Upkeep of Pneumatic Tools, R. W. Wilson, 166, 182, 222
Joint Meeting :
General Methods of Water Purification for
Industrial Purposes, B. Heastie, 225, 233
Treatment of Condensing Water, H. W. Coulson, 233
Water Purification for Industrial Purposes, J. P. O’Callaghan, 233
Water Softening by Means of Doucil, T. P. Hilditch and H. J. Wheaton, 234
Midland Branch :
Pulverised Coal, Its Preparation and Utilisation, R. Jackson, 179 ; (Correction), 200
North-Western Section :
Annual Dinner, 261
History of Ironfoundry Practice, Mr. Makin-son, 197
Possibilities of Mercury for Binary Fluid Turbines, W. J. Kearton, 197
Recent Progress in Gear Cutting, I. H.
Wright, 99
London Graduates :
Annual Lecture, Engineering in Literature, Lieut.-Colonel E. Kitson-Clark, 258
Works Management as a Career, Sir Holberry Mensforth, 181
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Annual General Meeting and Conference, 551 Programme, 551
African District Meeting, 551
Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Meetings, 381, 407, 450, 474
Report, Research Work, Elections, Premium Awards, 381 ; Annual Dinner, 382
Analysis of Ship Resistance, J. Tutin, 477
Application of Steam Turbine for Auxiliary Machinery, Richard Allen, 450„ 455
Development of the Airship, Commander C.
D. Burney, 407, 408
Drift of Ships Caused by Rolling Among Waves, Professor K. Suyeturo, 409
Effect of Length on the Skin Friction of Flat Surfaces, Dr. T. E. Stanton and Miss D. Marshall, 477
Effect of Wind and Waves on the Propulsion of Ships, J. L. Kent, 457
Further Experimental Work on Diesel Engines, Engineer-Commander R. Beeman, 474, 487, 517, 547, 578
Future of Sea Transport, Archibald Hurd, 407 1
High Elastic Limit Mild Steel and its General Applications, G. W. Barr and Others, 443, 450
Results of Some Rolling Experiments on Ship Models, M. J?. Payne, 409
Sea-borne Coastal Trade, Sir Alfred Read, 407, 408
Skin Friction Resistance and the Law of Comparison, A. Shigemitzu, 477
Strategical and Tactical Considerations Governing Warship Design, Admiral Sir •Doveton Sturdee, 381
Torsion of Ships, G. Vedeler, 475
Vibration of Ships, H. W. Nicholls, 475
Joint Summer Meeting, 369, 628, 696, 711 ;
Programme, 696
Advanced Naval Bases, Mr. S. S. Staples and Captain D. J. Munro, 712
Dinner, 713
Proposed Soft-ended Ship, Mr. Spanner’s Diagram, 712
Ship Design, Sir John Biles, 711
Spring Meetings, Annual Dinner, Programme, 342
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders:
Corrosion, Rapid, of Condenser Tubes, Causes of, Dr. Bengough, 278
Joint Summer Meeting, 369, 628, 696, 711 ;
Programme, 696 ; for Details see Institution of Naval Architects
Institution of Public Lighting Engineers and Superintendents :
First Conference and Exhibition, 184
Institution of Sanitary Engineers :
Conference on Sanitary Engineering, 7]3
Provisional Programme, Details, 713
Institution of Water Engineers :
Programme, 598
Summer General Meeting, 598
Society, Faraday:
Joint Meeting with the Institute of Metals, Fluxes and Slags in Metal Melting, 478
Society of Glass Technology :
Apparatus for Calibrating Burette Tubes, Verney Stott, 26
Efficiency in the Glass Trade, Factors Affecting, Eric Farmer, 26
Glass Industry Specifications, Soda-lime Glasses for Containers, Professor W. E. S.
Turner, 26
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :
Society, Liverpool Engineering ;
Tube Railway Tunnelling, David Anderson, 342
Society, Physical, of London :
Jubilee Celebrations, 283, 338, 342
Society, Radio, of Great Britain :
Television, Campbell Swinton, 385
Society, Royal:
Conversazione and Exhibits, 542
Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s Apparatus for Protection of Oil from Lightning, 542 Even Time Scale Production, International Western Electric Company, 543
Moullin, E. B., Torsionmeter, Cambridge Instrument Company, 543
National Physical Laboratory’s Electrical Method of Hardening Standard Gauges, 542 ; also Annular-jet Vacuum Pump for Exhausting X-ray Tubes, &c., 542
Vibration of Steam Turbine Discs and Shafts, Professor G. Stoney and J. P. Chittenden, 542
Society, Women’s Engineering:
Second International Conference, Programme, 291
Societies, Physical and Optical :
Exhibition, 12
ASTON, Dr. F. W., on Atoms and Isotopes, 637
Atoms and Isotopes, Dr. F. W. Aston, 637
Atmospheric Corrosion, 45
Atmospheric Pollution, Ninth Report of Advisory Committee, 568
Australian Engineering Notes, 77, 263, 508, 608
B BARR, G. W., and Others, on High Elastic Limit Mild Steel, &c., 443, 450
Bartholomew, S. G., on Power Circuit Interference with Telegraphs and Telephones, 448
Base Metal Supplies, 415
Bedson, J. P., on Continuous Rolling Mills, 536 Beeman, Engineer-Commander R., on Further Experimental Work on Diesel Engines, 474, 487, 517, 547, 578
Belgium’s Industrial Future, 423
Bengough, Dr., on Rapid Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 278
Benson Super High-pressure Steam Generator, 199
Bessemer—see Iron and Steel
Biles, Sir John, Ship Design, 711
Blast-furnace in New Zealand, 688, 690
Boiler Control, Modern Systems of, John B. C.
Kershaw, 141
Boiler Efficiency, W. S. Patterson, 178
Boiler Flue Cleaning Plant, W. G. Hay, 520
Boiler Load Indicator, Temperature Control Apparatus, George Kent, Limited, 13
Boiler, Locomotive, Performance, E. C.
Poultney, 192, 218
Boiler, Locomotive, Repair—see Works
Boiler, Marine, Tests with and without Preheated Air, W. H. Owen, 209
Boiler, Vertical Fire-tube for Steam Wagon, John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Limited, 714
Boilers, Water-tube, L. M. Jockel, 444 Books of Reference, 151, 395, 421, 550 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools Bridge, Sydney Harbour, 200, 253 Bridge, Waterloo, Report, 382
Bridges—see also Transporter
Brinell Test, 632
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Luncheon; Address, B. Longbottom, 334
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION, STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS : See also Paragraphs Index
British Standard Rolled Steel Sections, Complete Edition of Section Book, 716
Devil’s Claws, 145
End (or Bending) Shackles, 145
Hand Screw (Aft) Steering Gear, 145
Stud Link Cables (Anchor Cables), 145
BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Exhibition Celebration Luncheon, 486
British Port Facilities, 603
Brittle Ranges in Brass, &c., D. Bunting, 290 Bronze Statues, Casting, Morris Art Bronze
Foundry, 473
Buenos Aires, Hydro-electric Power for, 233 Building, 7500-Ton Office, Moving, 340
Bunting, D., on Brittle Ranges in Brass as shown by the Izod Impact Test, 290
Burney, Commander C. D., on the Development of the Airship, 407, 408
Burton-Alexander, J. T., Locomotive Boiler Reconditioning Shop, 404, 405, 414
Burton-Alexander, J. T., on the Summer Services of the French Railways, 720
c CALENDARS, Diaries, &c., 32, 51, 81, 133 155, 267
Calliper Gauges, Ball-hardness Tester, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 12
Calorimeter, Block, Professor Boys, 14
Cambridge Vibrograph, 12, 13 •
Campbell, Hugh, on Gas Turbines, 129
Canada, Canal System of, 486
Canada, Hydro-electric Progress in, during 1923, 153
Canada, Water-Power"Resources of, 439
Canal System of Canada, 486
Capel-Cure, Sir;Edward, 14
Carbon Monoxide in Motor Car Exhaust Gases, 282 ocs
Cars, Railway—see Railways
Casting^Bronze Statues, Morris Art Bronze Foundry, 473 -
Catalogues, 210, 295, 317, 461, 493, 523, 553, 608, 699
Cells—see Electrical Matters
Cement and Chalk Slurry, Tube Mills, Pumps, Storage, &c., Humber Cement Works, 326, 336, 358, 392 {Tivo-page Supplement, April 4th, 1924)
Cement Congress, International, 368
Cement Works—see Works
Centenary of John Elder, 1824-1869, Engineer -Captain Edgar C. Smith, 273
Chain ofjPots, Sixth to Seventh Century A.D., G. F. Zimmer, 183
Chain Pump Dredger Used in the Low Countries, 1560, G. F. Zimmer, 183
Chalk Crushing and Grinding Plant, Edgar Allen and Co., Limited, 326, 336, 358 {Two-page Supplement, April 4th, 1924)
Chile, Port, Construction in, 331
China Clay Jetty at Fowey, 195, 202 Chromium—see Iron and Steel
Churches and Office Buildings, 454 Ciment Fondu, J. S. Marshall, 264 Circle of Mechanical Trades, John Evelyn, 1660, MS. at the Royal Society, A. F. Sieve-King, 183
Clinker Cooling and Grinding at Humber Cement Works, 392
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES : Coal-handling Plant at East Greenwich . Power Station, Sir Wm. Arrol and Co.,
Limited, and Fraser and Chalmers Engi-
■ neering Works, 715, 718
Coal and Ore-handling Plant at Waalhaven, Rotterdam, 722, 723
Dry Coke-cooling Plant at Rotterdam, Sulzer Brothers, 514, 515
Pulverised Coal: Its Preparation and Utilisation, R. Jackson, 179 ; (Correction), 200
COALBROOKDALE District, Sketch of the Industrial History of, Rhys Jenkins, 694 ; (Letter), 721
Codes, Engine and Boiler Test, 286 Compressors—see Air Compressors Concrete Breaking—see Tamping Concrete, Broken Stone, Permeability of, 720 Condenser, Surface, Very Large, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Limited, 100, 101
Conference—see World Power ; Applied Mechanics ; Ships, &c.
Congress, Empire Mining and Metallurgical, 117, 508
Congress of Refrigeration, International, 685 Contracts, 55, 84, 110, 133, 155, 187, 216, 237, 267, 317, 347, 373, 399, 459, 523, 524, 556, 586, 613, 644, 671, 729
Conveyor, Aerial Rope, Light, Artex, Limited, 101
Conveyors for Coal—see Coal Handling
Copper and Electrical Power in South Africa, 683
Copper Output in United States, 209
Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, Dr. Bengough, 278
Costs of a Consulting Engineering Practice, by a Consulting Engineer, 113
Cotton Growing in the French Sudan, 608
Coulson, H. W., on Treatment of Condensing Water, 233
Cramp, Professor W., and A. Priestley, Pneumatic Grain Elevators, 34, 64, 89, 112
Crane, 25-Ton Electrically Operated Jib, Stothert and Pitt, Limited, 576, 577
Crane, French Automobile Jib, 604
Crane, Self-propelled 350-Ton Floating, Cowans, Sheldon and Co., Limited, 396 {Two-page Supplement, April llth, 1924)
Crane, 5-Ton Underhung-jib, Joseph Adamson and Co., 48, 49
i Cranes, Quay, Design of, F. M. Du Plat Taylor, 589
Cruisers—see Ships
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30, 56, 82, 108, 133, 160, 188, 214, 240, 268, 296, 322, 348, 374, 400, 426, 4G2, 494, 524, 554, 584, 614, 642, 672, 700, 732
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DAM, Hartebeestpoort, on the Crocodile River, Transvaal, 228, 230
Dam, Lake Mentz, on Sundays River, 116, 122
Davey, Henry, on Tidal Power Barrages in Sand Bottom Estuaries, 276
Dawson, Sir Philip, and Professor S. Parker Smith, on Main-line Railway Electrification, 633, 653, 684 {Two Two-page Supplements, June 6th, 1924)
Deep Water Quays, Effect of, on Navigation, Ernest Latham, 625
Delft International Conference on Applied Mechanics, 234
Design of Cranes—see Cranes
Design of Works on Open Channels, F. V.
Elsden, 440
Diamond Fields, South Africa, 261
Dickinson, H. W., and Arthur Lee on The
Rastricks, Civil Engineers, 253
Diesel Engine Users—see Associations
Diesel Engines—see Engines
Dijxhoorn, Professor J. C., Modern Pumping Engines in Holland, 506
Disruptive Adventures, 690
Distributors—see Sewage
Dock, Floating Dry, for Southampton, 198 {Two-page Supplement, February 22nd, 1924)
Dock, New Dry, at Havre, 662
Drake, Hamlyn M., Electric Industrial Heating, 114
Dredgers, and Excavating Machinery, Oil Engine Operation for, Geo. B. Massey, 668
Dredgers—see also Suction
Drift of Ships—see Ships
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
Drop Hammer for Multiple-die Stamping, Brett’s Patent Lifter Company, Limited, 154
Dry Coke-cooling Plant at Rotterdam, Sulzer Brothers, 514, 515
Dry Dock, New, and Ship-repairing Yard, at Swansea, Palmers (Swansea) Dry Dock Company, Limited, 540, 544, 576, 577
Dykes, A. H., and W. T. Townend, on Electricity Supply in Wartime, 538
Dynamometers, Some New, J. S. Glen Primrose, 127
Dyrssen, W., Recovery of Waste Heat in Open-hearth Furnace Practice, 565
ECONOMIC Conditions in Panama, 156
Economy versus Efficiency, 689, 690
Effect of Deep-water Quays on Navigation, Ernest Latham, 625
Efficiency of Power Supply, 690
ELECTRICAL MATTERS : See also Annual Articles
Aluminium Electrical Conductors for Overhead Power Transmission, H. G. Williams, 507
Apparatus, Design of, for the Protection of Alternating-current Circuits, A. S. FitzGerald, 263
Bay of Fundy Electrical Projects, 254
British Empire Exhibition Power Station, Sub-stations and Equipment, 250, 251
22,000-Volt Cable for Morwell Power Scheme, 508, 510
Communication Circuits, 448
Copper and Electrical Power in South Africa, 683
East Greenwich Power Station, Coal-handling Plant at, Sir Wm. Arrol and Co., Limited, and Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, 715, 718
Efficient Primary Cell, The Darimont, 636
Electrical Meter for Measuring Air Flow, Dr. H. Moss, 416
Electric Passenger Lifts, H. Marryat, 104 ; (Letter), 146
Electricity in Mines, Professor W. M. Thornton on, 150
Electricity Supplies, Mr. S. L. Pearce on, 150
Electricity Supply, 390
Electricity Supply in Wartime, A. H. Dykes and W. T. Townend, 538
Elverson Oscilloscope, 13
High-tension Transmission Lines, Ernest V.
Pannell, 272, 300, 328, 352, 378, 418
Ilgner Converters at Transformer Station, Waalhaven, Rotterdam, 724
Industrial Heating, Electric, Hamlyn M. Drake, 115
Kilo volt-amp're Demand Meter, American Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company, 519
Manometer, Electro-magnetic, Harold Martin, 609
“ Meg ” Insulation Tester, Dionic Water Tester, Ductor Potential Ohmmeter, Generators, &c., Evershed and Vignols, Limited, 12
Motbr Control Gear, Electrical Apparatus Company, Limited, Exhibition, 174
Neasden Power Station, Metropolitan Railway, New Switchgear at, General Electric Company, Limited, 70, 74
North Tees Power Station, 664
Peak Voltages, Measurement of, Ralph D. Mershon, 444
Power Transmission, 542
Primary Battery, Darimont Electric Batteries, Limited, 12
Pumps, Electrical, in Industrial Plants, R. H. Rogers, 458
Railway Electrification, 71 ; (Letters), 103, 129, 146
Railways and Railway Locomotives, Electric —see also Railways
Single-phase Electric Locomotives, 305, 310 (Two-page Supplement, March 2.ist, 9124)
Synchroscope, Rotary, Nalder Brothers and Thompson, 13
Telemeter, New Electrical, 579
Temperature Recorder, Siemens Brothers and Co., Limited, 13
Thermionic Valve Rectifiers, 638
Wind-driven Electrical and other Installations, E. Lancaster Burne, 318
ELSDEN, F. V., Design of Works on Open Channels, 440
Emergency Pipe Clamps, W. H. Willcox and
Co., Limited, 261
Emmet Mercury Vapour Plant, 65
Empire Mining and Metallurgy, 624, 660
Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 117
'Alloy Steels, 660
Alloys of Aluminium, 661
Cast Iron, 661
Copper and Nickel, 625
Iron and Steel Metallurgy, 660
Iron and Steel Practice, 627
Iron and Tin, 625
Oil Fuel Problems, 661
Empire Naval Defence, 390
Engineering Association of Malaya, 126
Engineering in Literature, Lieut.-Colonel E.
Kitson-Clark, 258
ENGINES AND MOTORS : See also Annual Articles
Aeroplane Engines :
“Jaguar” Air-cooled Radial, and Sevencylinder “ Lynx ” Engines, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Limited, 23
Jupiter, Mark IV., 400 H.P., Twin-cylinder Cherub Engine, Bristol Aeroplane Company, 22, 23
Rolls-Royce Condor Engines, 24
Air Consumption and Brake Horse-power of Internal Combustion Engines, Dr. H. Moss, 416
Aorangi, Motor Ship, Engines of, Two Fairfield-Sulzer 3250 B.H.P., 317, 694
Cold-starting Oil Engine, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 180
3600 B.H.P. Diesel Engine for China, Sulzer Brothers, 656
Engine and Boiler Test Codes, 286
Further Experimental Work on Diesel Engines, Engineer-Commander R. Beeman, 474, 487, 517, 547, 578
Heat Engines and Boiler Trials, 365
Heavy Oil Engine Indicator Diagrams, J. M.
Ferguson, 368
Heavy Oil Engine Working Costs, 203
North-Eastern Werkspoor Double-acting
Marine Oil Engine, 604, 626, 630, 661
Nuremburg Oil Engine, The Large; 291
Oil Engine Operation for Dredgers and Excavating Machinery, Geo. B. Massey, 668
Oil Engine in a Woollen Mill, Keighley Gas and Oil Engine Company, 264
ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued) :
Petrol Engines, High-speed, Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperatures in, Professor A. H. Gibson and H. Wright, 24
Progress in Prime Movers, Presidential Address, W. H. Patchell, 332, 337
Richardsons-Westgarth-Tosi Marine Oil
Engine, 1250 B.H.P., 9 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Roller Bearing Hot-bulb Oil Engine, S. Richards and Co., 92 ; (Letters), 103, 128, 129, 146
Scott-Still Marine Oil Engine in Motor Ship Dolius, 384, 385, 627
Sliding Cylinder Two-cycle Double-acting
Marine Oil Engine, 2000 B.H.P., North British Diesel Engine Works, 451, 483
Thermal Efficiency of Internal Combustion Engines, &c., G. J. Wells, 365, 389, 394 ; (Letter), 449
Vickers 600 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, 9, 10
ENGINEERS and English, 285, 338
Engineering Industries, 571
Engineering Notes—see Australian, French and Indian
Engineering and Physics, 338, 342
Engineering in South Africa, 395
Estimating, 244
Exhaust Valve, &c.—see Engines
EXHIBITIONS : British Empire Exhibition, 117, 250, 251, 430, 446, 447 ; Celebration Luncheon, 486— see also Separate Index
Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 117, 508, 624
World Power Conference, 126
Foundry Trades Exhibition, International, 726—see Moulding Machines and also Paragraph Index
International Cement Congress, 368
Marine and Small Craft Exhibition, 316
Model Engineer Exhibition, 40
Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition 12
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Leicester, 714
EXTRUSION of Metals, 258
F FACTS and Figures, Interpretation of, 719
Fan, “ Cindervane,” for Stepney Power House, Sturtevant Engineering Company, Limited, 696
Ferries, The Train, 221
Ferry Steamers, 477, 478
Fire-floats, Motor Machinery for, Parsons Motor Company, Limited, 232
FitzGerald, A. S., Design of Apparatus for the Protection of Alternating-current Circuits, 263
Floating Dry Dock for Southampton, 198 (Two-page Supplement, February 22nd, 1924)
Flow of Steam—see Steam
Flue Dust and Forced Draught, “ Cindervane ” Fan for Stepney Power House, 696
Fluid Friction and Heat Transference, Thomas B. Morley, 596 ; (Letter), 628
Folding Loft Stairway, C. A. O. Berner, 318
Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 58, 84, 110, 136, 162, 190, 216, 242, 270, 298, 324, 350, 376, 402, 428, 464, 496, 526, 556, 586, 616, 644, 674, 702, 734
Foundry Practice, Modern, Oliver Smalley, 317 Fowey, China Clay Shipping Jetty at, 195, 202
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 31, 57, 83, 109, 135, 161, 189, 215, 241, 269, 297, 323, 349, 375, 401, 427, 463, 495, 525, 555, 585, 615, 643, 673, 701, 733
Agricultural Machinery, 189, 215
Alcohol Monopoly, 525
Anglo-French Trade, 615
Art and Engineering, 375
Aviation Engineers, 323
Batignolles Tunnels, 463
British Coal, 297
Cable Ship, 241
Canalisation of the Rhine, 349
Capital and Industry, 241
Capital Ships, 701
Cartels, 643
Coal Carbonisation, 701
Coke Supplies, 615
Colonial Works, 463
Commercial Treaties, 269
Competition, 463
Concrete Roads, 673
Continuous Brakes, 701
Cotton, 375
Currency and Costs, 57
Deepening the Seine, 83
Desert Traction, 189
Direct Steel Process, 733
Economies and Trade, 109
Electrical Schemes, 83
Engineering Works, 401
European Reconstruction, 375
Export Trade, 241
Falling Franc, 297
Flood Protection, 57
Flood Reservoirs, 57
Foreign Boycott, 109
Foreign Competition, 349
Foreign Trade, 495, 733
Free Exports, 401
French Point of View, 135
French Ports, 297
German Coke, 701
Helicopters, 109, 555
How to Recover Trade, 135
Import Duties and Restrictions, 109
Increasing Costs, 215
Industrial Cars, 643
Industrial Co-operation, 135
Industrial Position, 269
International Fairs, 585
Iron and Steel Production, 161
Labour, 463
Liquid Fuel, 673
Locomotives, 323
Marseilles-Rhone Canal, 215
Metropolitan Extensions, 495
Monnaie Barrage, 495
Motor Cars, 643
Naval Construction, 427, 615
Novel Concrete Bridge, 241
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
Oil Engines, 323
Over-production, 495
Paris Extensions, 31, 673
Paris Fair, 585
Paris Streets, 585
Paris Water Supply, 161, 401
Port of Algiers, 349
Port of Strasburg, 349
Price Inflation, 323
Prohibiting Imports, 189
Protection, 525
Public Transport, 733
Rail Motor Cars, 269
Railway Electrification, 401
Railway Rates, 297
Reconstruction Work, 269, 615
Remarkable Flight, 525
Restricted Buying, 375
Road Construction, 427
Rolling Stock, 555
Rural Electrification, 83
Saar Production, 161
Seine Floods, 31
Shipbuilding, 31
Situation, The, 673
Stadium Railway, 555
Suburban Electrification, 495
Suction Gas for Rail Cars, 297
Suction Gas Traction, 375
Suction Gas Tractors, 555
Sugar Machinery, 525
Tidal Power, 31
Tournelle Bridge, 323
Trade Activity, 83
Trade and Exchange, 555
Trade Future, 585
Trade Prospects, 31
Traffic Control, 733
Unstable Situation, 427
Wagon Builders, 427
Wagons, 349
G GAS Turbines, Hugh Campbell, 129
Gear -Ratios, Super-accuracy in, T. M. Low-thian and W. Owen, 164
Gears and Gear Cutting, I. H. Wright, 99
Gibson, Professor A. H., and H. Wright on Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperatures, &c., 24
Glass Industry—see Associations, Society of
Glass Technology Papers
Government Patent Users, 156
Grain Elevators, Pneumatic, Professor W.
Cramp and A. Priestley, 34, 64, 89, 112
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools.
H HARDENING—see also Work-hardening
Hardness and Cutting Trials of a Tool Steel,
Dempster Smith and Israel Hey, 356, 363, 366
Harwich-Zeebrugge Train Ferry, 476, 477
Havre, New Dry Dock at, 662
Herbert, E. G., Influence of Temperature on
Work-hardening of Metals, 356, 363
Halton Camp—see Aeronautics
Hartebeestpoort Dam on the Crocodile River, Transvaal, 228, 230
Heastie, B., General Methods of Water Purification for Industrial Purposes, 225, 233
Heating, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Herbert Tester, Work-hardening of Metals and the, 248, 257
High Temperature Boilers and Engines, 337
High Tension—see Transmission
Hilditch, T. P., and H. J. Wneaton, on Waler
Softening by means of Doucil, 234
Hollis, S. L. R., Pipe Lines of the Moncenisio Hydro-electric Plant, 692
Holweck Molecular Pump, 13
Houk, Ivan E., on Stone Block Pavements in Dayton, Ohio, 606
Humber Works—see Works
Hurd, Archibald, on the Future of Sea Transport, 407
Hydraulic’ Engineering Problems, Practical, Lectures in Engineering, O. C. A. Van Lidth de Jeude, 232, 260, 308, 344
Hydraulic Transmission for Omnibuses, The Lentz, 292 ; (Addendum), 324
Hydro-electric Plant, Moncenisio, Pipe Lines of the, S. L. R. Hollis, 692
Hydro-electric Power for Buenos Aires, 238
Hydro-electric Power Station, Raanaasfoss,
Norway, Turbines at, Hallgrim Thoresen, 60, 86 (Supplement, January \%th, 1924)
Hydro-electric Progress in Canada During 1923, 153
Hydro-electric Scheme, First Big, in South Africa, 316
INDIAN ENGINEERING NOTES : Hydro-electricity for Bombay, 94
Iron Imports, 94
Progressive Hyderabad, 94
Tariff Board Inquiry, 94
INFLUENCE of Temperature—see Work-hardening
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
Instruments—see Electrical Matters and also
Various Headings
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines
International Congress of Refrigeration, 683
International Shipping Conference—see Ships
Interpretation of Facts and Figures, 719
IRON AND STEEL : Bessemer Steel, 63
Blast-furnace in New Zealand, 688, 690
Brinell Tensile Relationship, A. L. Norbury and T. Samuel, 566
Chemical Specifications for Iron and Steel, C. H. Ridsdale, 312
Chromium, 72 ; (Letter), 129
Classification of Iron and Steel Scrap in the
United States, 184
Continuous Rolling Mills, J. P. Bedson, 536
Cost of Sheet Steel Punchings, F. C. Lawrence, 597 ; (Letter), 721
IRON AND STEEL {continued):
Dunswatt Iron and Steel Works at the Witwatersrand, 196
Effect of Cold Work upon Crystals of Iron, Hugh O’Neill, 536
Efficiency of Reversing Generators, J. Seigle, 565
Forging Temperature of Steels, Professor K. Honda, 565
French Iron and Steel Production, 209
Growth of Special Cast Irons, J. H. Andrew and H. Hyman, 536
Hardness and Cutting Trials of a Tool Steel, Dempster Smith and Israel Hey, 356, 363, 366
Hardness of Electro-deposited Iron, Nickel, Cobalt and Copper, D. J. Macnaughton, 567
Hardening of Silico-manganese Steels, E. W. Colbeck and Dr. D. Hanson, 566
High Elastic Limit Mild Steel, G. W. Barr and Others, 443, 450
Indentation Hardness of Metals, Professor Honda and K. Takahasi, 566
Iron and Steel Metallurgy—see also Empire Mining and Metallurgy
Plastic Deformation of Iron, Dr. F. C.
Thompson and W. E. W. Millington, 536
Production of Large Crystals by Annealing Strained Iron, Professor C. A. Edwards and L. B. Pfeil, 537
Recovery of Waste Heat in Open-hearth Furnace Practice, W. Dyrssen, 565
Rustless Steel Propellers, 317
Standard Rolled Steel Sections, 716
Steel Development in South Africa, 144
Steel in Large Masses, 659
Transverse Test Bars and Engineering Formula;, Gerald S. Bell and C. H. Adatnson, 566
X-ray Studies on the Crystal Structure of Steel, Part II., A. Westgren and G. Phragmen, 537
IRRIGATION Pumping Machinery in the Sudan, R. W. Allen, 542, 549
Italy, Trade Conditions in, 395
J JACKSON, R., on Pulverised Coal : Its Preparation and Utilisation, 179 ; (Correction), 200
Jenkins, Rhys, Sketch of the Industrial History of the Coalbrookdale District, 694
Jockel, L. M., on Water-tube Boilers, 444
Johnsen-Rahbek Effect, 203
Joints, Large Pipe, 454
K KELVIN Centenary, 94 ; (Paragraph) Kelvin Dinner, 556
Kent, J. L., on the Effect of Wind and Waves c n the Propulsion of Ships, 457
Kershaw, John B. C., Modern Systems of Boiler Control, 141
Kiln Firing and Driving Gear at Humber Cement Works, 359, 360
Kilns, Edgar Allen and Co., Ltd., 359
Kitson-Clark, Lieut.-Colonel E., on Engineering in Literature, 258
L LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES AND WAGES QUESTIONS : Disruptive Adventures, 690
Marseillaise in Industry, 511
Railway Strike, 97, 123
Unemployment Insurance, 149
Whither ? 660
Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, 41
LAKE Mentz Dam on Sundays River, 116, 122
Latham, Ernest, Effect of Deep Water Quays on Navigation, 625
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips, 133, 159, 235, 347, 425, 459, 496, 526, 556, 583, 613, 697, 729
Lawrence, F. C., on the Cost of Sheet Steel Punchings, 597 ; (Letter), 721
LEADERS : 1923—A Retrospect, 17
American Locomotive Practice, 720
American Naval Policy, 631
Atmospheric Corrosion, 45
Base Metal Supplies, 415
Brinell Test, 632
Chromium, 72
Communication Circuits, 448
Control of Locomotive Running, 415
Cruiser Programme, 229
Disruptive Adventures, 690
Economy versus Efficiency, 689
Electricity in Mines, 150
Electricity Supplies, 150
Electricity Supply, 390
Empire Naval Defence, 390
Engineering Industries, 571
Engineering and Physics, 338
Engineers and English, 285
Extrusion, 258
Flow of Steam Through Nozzles, 572
German Locomotives for India, 177
Heavy Oil Engine Working Costs, 203
High-temperature Boilers and Engines, 337
Imperial Wireless Telegraphy, 285
Interpretation of Facts and Figures, 719
Johnsen-Rahbek Effect, 203
Locomotive Boilers, 311
Longer Locomotive Runs, 481
Machine Tool Trade of America, 61
Making of Engineers, 338
Mars3illaise in Industry, 511 .
Mass Production and Motor Cars, 541
Methods of Manufacture, 98
Modulus of Elasticity, 45
Navy Estimates, 311
Oil Locomotives, 230
Power Transmission, 542
Practical Man and Scientific Papers, 364
Railway Electrification, 71, 364
Railway Strike, 97, 123
EADERS {continued) :
Saving of Weight, 482
Steel in Large Masses, 659
Tank Locomotives, 602
The Exhibition, 447
The Parsons’ Line, 177
Thermal Action of Cutting Tools, 333
Thermodynamics and Practice, 389
Turbine Locomotives, 123
Unemployment Insurance, 149
Whither ? 660
Work-hardening of Metals, 257
uECTURES in Engineering—see University of London
3TTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England, North of, 28, 54, 80, 106, 132, 158, 186, 212, 238, 239, 266, 294, 321, 346, 372, 398, 424, 461, 492, 522, 553, 582, 612, 639, 670, 698, 730
Lancashire, 27, 53, 79, 105, 132, 157, 185, 211,
237, 265, 293, 319, 345, 371, 397, 423, 459.
491, 521, 551, 581, 611, 639, 669, 697, 730
Midlands and Staffordshire, 27. 53, 79, 105, 131, 157, 159, 185, 211, 237, 265, 293, 319, 345, 371, 397, 423, 459, 491, 521, 551, 581,
611, 639, 669, 697, 729
Scotland, 29, 55, 81, 107, 132, 159, 187, 213, 239, 267, 295, 321, 347, 373, 399, 425, 461, 493, 523, 553, 582, 612, 641, 671, 699, 731
Sheffield, 28, 54, 80, 106, 131, 158, 186, 212,
238, 266, 294, 320, 346, 372, 398, 424, 460,
492, 522, 552, 582, 611, 639, 670, 698, 730
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29, 55, 81, 107, 133, 159, 187, 213, 239, 267, 295, 321, 347, 373, 399, 425, 461, 493, 523, 553, 583,
612, 641, 671, 699, 731
.ETTERS TO THE EDITOR : Ailsa Craig Works, Ailsa Craig Motor Company, Limited, 279
Air Heaters, George Henry, 128
Bogus Situation Advertisements, 103
Bombay Water Supply, A. Fairlie Bruce, 68
Capital and Labour, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 628
Chain-driven Locomotive, T. Nelson, 129
Coalbrookdale Token, 721
Cost of Sheet Metal Punchings, A. Williams Price, 721
Economical Use of Water Power, Henry Davey, 279
Electric Lifts, Geo. T. Pardoe, 146
Engineering History, Alexander McLean, 235 Engineering Institutions, The, E. R. Briggs, 683
Engineering in Whitehall, Red Tape, 197 ;
Mechanical Engineer, 279
First Continuous Automatic Railway Brake, Jas. Dunlop, 628
First Uni-flow Engine, Jas. Dunlop, 628 ;
C. R. K., 721 ; Loftus P. Perkins, 721
Fluid Friction, Geo. T. Pardoe, 628
Foreign-built Locomotives, Straight Dink, 197 ; Loco. Builder, 235
Government Policy of Electricity Supply, H. T. Day, 14
G.W., N.E., and G.N. Locomotives, H. V.
Pegg, 577
Knocking in Solid Injection Engines, R. A. Raphael, 343 ; Hugh Campbell, 360
Labour Government Organisation of Labour, G. Halliday, 628
Leonardo da Vinci, H. Bleackley, 197
Locomotives from Germany—see Foreign-built Locomotives
Machine Tools at the Exhibition, C. M. E., 508 ; Herbert G. Williams, 538
Marine Hot-bulb Engines, &c., Engineer-inChief, 103, 279 ; Hugh Campbell, 128 ; Ledger Cozens, 129 ; Andrew Mac-Fadgen, 129 ; H. T. Day, 146 ; S. Richards and Co., 146
Menai Suspension Bridge, 68
Mercury Boiler, Bevis P. Coulson, jun., 42
Mushet and Bessemer Steel, R. Woodward, 129
Origin of the Thrashing Machine, Arthur Lee, 683
Parsons’ Line—see Powdered Fuel
Planing Machine Drive, J. Adamson and Co., 129 ; Newton Brothers, Limited, 235
Pneumatic Tools, Independent Pneumatic Tool Company, 197
Powdered Fuel, David Brownlie, 14, 68 ; F. D. Napier, 14, 103, 146, 360 ; E. Kilburn Scott, 42 ;
Norman Swindin, Harvey, 68, 197 ; R. Leach, 235 ; Blizard, 343
Railway Electrification, J. Sayers, 103, 129 ;
A. M. Taylor, 103, 146, 383 ; J. C. G. M., 129 ; V. E. Williams, 343 ; George Gibbs, 487 ; J. Ofverholm, 508
Railway Speeds, J. T. Hewitt, 42
Seine Floods, Economist, 343 ; Fenland, 383
Severn Barrage Scheme, Economy, 235
Single-phase Electric Locomotives, A, A.
Buss, 343
Solid Injection and Diesel Engines, Vickers Limited, 487
Specific Heat of Gaseous Mixtures, T. B. Morley, 449
Stainless Iron and Steel, Stainless Iron and Alloys Company, Limited, 129
Standard Pipe Taps, S. E. Allen, 683
What is Wrong with Accountancy ? F. H. A., 343 ; R. Gaudin, 383
Work-hardening of Metals, E. G. Herbert, 279
LIFTS, Electric Passenger, H. Marryat, 104 Lightships—see Ships
LITERATURE :
Reviews :
American Petroleum Refining, H. S. Bell, 314 Architecture, Modern English, Charles Marriott, 365, 417
Chemistry and Metallurgy, &c., Ulick R. Evans : Vol. III., “ The Transition of Elements,” Vol. IV., “ Metals of the B Group,” 151
Coal Tar Distillation and the Working-up of Tar Products, A. R. Warnes, 391
Coke and Its Uses, E. W. L. Nicol, 287
Electro-metallurgy, Treatise on, Walter G.
McMillan, 46, 99
B. Pokobradski, 42 ; 68, 128, 235 ; Leonard Jas. Cunningham, 197 ; C. Saxton, 261 ; John
LITERATURE (continued) :
Reviews (continued):
Engineering, Non-ferrous Metals and Alloys, Leslie Aitchison and W. R. Barclay, 150
Hydraulic Principles Governing River and Plarbour Construction, Curtis McD. Townsend, 171
Industrial Cost Accounting, Text-book of, P. M. Atkins, 365, 448
Industrial Management, R. H. Lansburgh, 512, 573
Internal Combustion Engine, H. R. Ricardo, Vol. I., Slow-speed Engines, Vol. II., Highspeed Engines, 99
Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1923, Dr. O. Parkes and F. E. McMurtrie, 46
Lignite Utilisation Board of Canada, First General Report, 417, 572
Low-temperature Carbonisation, C. H.
Lander and R. F. McKay,. 417, 691
Low-temperature Carbonisation, S. N. Wellington and W. R. Cooper, 365, 449
Materials and their Application to Engineering Design, E. A. Allcutt and E. Miller, 72
Mechanical Properties of Fluids, C. V. Drysdale and Others, 46, 171
Mechanical Refrigeration, Hal Williams, 691
Mechanical Road Transport, C. G. Conradi, 391
Merchant Service in War : Seaborne Trade, C. Ernest Fayle, Vol. III., 543
Merchant Ship Types, A. C. Hardy, 259, 391
Metallurgy of Steel, F. W. Harbord and J. W. Hall, 73
Modern Gas Producers, 512
Modern Mechanical Engineering, Professor
A. H. Gibson and A. E. L. Chorlton, 73, 170
Modern Soap and Detergent Industry, Vol. I., Theory and Practice of Soap Making, Geoffrey Martin, 287, 417
Modern Wood-working Machinery, Stafford Ransome, 482
Pulverised Fuel, Colloidal Fuel, Fuel Economy and Smokeless Combustion, Leonard C. Harvey, 652
Railway Electrification and the Electric Locomotive, Arthur Manson, 482
Silica in Canada, Its Occurrence, Exploitation and Uses, Part I., Eastern Canada,
L. Heber Cole, 313
Studies in Tidal Power, Norman Davey, 170 Utilisation of Low-grade and Waste Fuels, W. F. Goodrich, 204
Short Notices: Alignment Charts for Engineers and Students, W. J. Kearton and G. Wood, 417, 573
Blasting with High Explosives, W. G. Boulton, 314
Boiler Chemistry and Feed-water Supplies, J. H. Paul, 287
British Coasters, F. J. N. Wedge and Frank C. Bowen, 287
Civil Engineering Geology, Cyril S. Fox, 73
Colliery Electrical Engineering, C. M.
Harvey, 365
Control of the Speed and Power Factor of Induction Motors, Professor Miles Walker, 365
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Vol. V., Sir Edward Thorpe, 573, 721
Electrical Energy, Practical Control of, A. G. Collis, 314
Electro-chemistry Related to Engineering, W. R. Cooper, 73
Fuel Economy, C. F. Wade, 125, 314
Industrial Furnaces, Vol. I., W. Trinks, 365
Lathe Users’ Handbook, C. M. Linley, 73
Oil-burning Installations, C. C. Pounder, 365 Oil Fuel Burning at Sea and on Land, James S. Gander, 73
Petroleum Technologists’ Pocket Book, 287
Practical Moulding, S. J. Parsons, 287
Pulverised and Colloidal Fuel, J. T. Dunn, 73
Railway Amalgamation in Great Britain, W. E. Simnett, 46, 721
Right Start, F. E. Johnson, 46, 287
Technical Writing, T. A. Rickard, 46, 314
Theory and Practice of Mine Ventilation, Thomas Bryson, 391, 573
Wireless for the Amateur, J. Roussel, 73
Books Received : Acoustics of Buildings, &c., F. R. Watson, 125
Annales des Fonts et Chaussees, Partie Administrative, I., Janvier-Fevrier, Partie Technique, I., Janvier—Fevrier, 512
Annales des Fonts et Chaussees, Partie Technique, 1924, II., Mars—Avril, Partie Administrative, 1924, II., Mars-Avril, 691
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, Tome XXV., 2e Fascicule-Avril, 1924, 691
Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee of British Non-ferrous Metals Association, First Experimental Report, W. H. J.
- Vernon, 721
Automatic Telephone Systems, Vol. III., William Aitken, 573
Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, Annual Report, 1923-1924, 391
Chemical Appointments, Official, 391
Chemical Thermodynamics, J. R. Partington, 721
Chemistry of the Rarer Elements, B. Smith Hopkins, 512
Clubs, 1924, E. C. Austen-Leigh, 73, 151
Colliery Managers’ Pocket Book, 1924, 73,151
Compressor Theory and Practice, &c., Joseph
M. Ford, 46
Converting a Business into a Private Company, H. W. Jordan, 365
Democracy and Labour, F. J. C. Hearnshaw, 632
Der Eisenhochbau, C. Kersten, 691
Developments in Power Station Design, Edwin Austin, 46
Drying by Means of Air and Steam, E. Hausbrand, 512
Electrical Measuring Instruments : Design, Construction and Application, Part I., C. V. Drysdale and A. C. Jolley, 417
Electric Supply Share Handbook, Hubert Blake, 125
Electrician, The, Annual Tables of Electricity Undertakings, 1924, 632
Electrode Reaction and Equilibria, Faraday Society, 721
Electronic Theory of Valency, 73
LITERATURE (con^nued):
Books Received (continued) :
Elementary Applied Mechanics, T. Alexander and A. W. Thompson, 391
Emergency Water Supplies for Military, Agricultural and Colonial Purposes, A. Beeby Thompson, 512
Empire Forestry Journal, Vol. II., No. 2, 151 Engineering Drawing, H. H. Jordan and
R. P. Hoelocher, 46
Engineers’ Year Book for 1924, H. Pv. Kempe and W. H. Smith, 391
Exothermic Reaction of Portland Cement Clinker Formation, Dr. G. Martin and W. J. Cooper, 287
Experimental Mechanics, A Course of, H. J. E. Bailey, 259
Factor in India’s Progress, George Pilcher, 46 Factory Costing, H. H. Emsley, 691
Ford Electrical Equipment, Book of the, R. T. Nicholson, 259
Foundry Work, W. Roland Needham, 417
Fuel Economy in Steam Plants, Arthur Grounds, 391
Gas Engineer’s Compendium, Compiled by Experts, 632
Gerneinfassliche Darstellung des Eisen-huttenwesens, 512
Guide to Rhodesia, 512
Gyroscope, The, Practical Construction and Application, P. Schilovsky, 125
Highway Engineer’s Year Book, 1924, H. G.
Whya t, 46
Home Sewage Disposal, W. A. Hardenbergh, 721
Housing Problem and the Way Out, 73
Hiitte, Taschenbuch fur Betriebsingenieure, 171
Hydraulics, E. H. Sprague, 151
Hydro-electric Power Stations, D. B. Rushmore and Eric A. Lof, 171
Ice and Cold Storage Trades Directory and Handbook for 1924, 46
Imperial Institute, Monographs on Mineral Resources: Cobalt Ores, Edward Haise, 171
Industrial Sweden, 1923, 171
Institution of Civil Engineers, Minutes of “ Proceedings,” Vol. CCXV. and CCXVL, 259
Institution of Civil Engineers, Selected Engineering Papers, 259
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. II.,
1923, “Proceedings,” 391
Institution of Petroleum Technologists, Standard Method of Testing Petroleum and its Products, 721
Institution of Production Engineers, “ Proceedings ” of the Session, 1922-23, 171
International Air Congress, 1923, Report, 391 International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 151
Irrigation Engineering, Principles of, with Special Reference to South Africa, F. E. Kanthack, 721
Journal of the Institute of Metals, Vol. XXX., 417
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol.
CVIIL, 365
Journal of the Municipal College of Technology, Manchester, Vol. XI., 691
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 84, 691
Kent’s Mechanical Engineer’s Handbook, R. T. Kent, 46
La Telegraphie sans Fil, ses Applications en Temps de Paix et Pendant la Guerre, 171 Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Research Association, Part IV., The Melting Point of Coal Ash, F. S. Sinnatt and Others, 691 Law as to C.I.F. Contracts, H. Goitein, 691 Les Combustibles Liquides et le Probl me du Carburan t Nationale, M. Aubert, 512
London Guide, No. 3, 573
Marine Boiler Management and Construction, C. E. Stromeyer, 125
Marine Engineering Practice, Engineer-Commander F. J. Drover, 73
Marine Steam Engine, R. Sennett, The Late, and Sir Henry J. Oram, 73
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket Book,
1924, 125
Mechanical World Year Book, 1924, 46
Mining, Physics and Chemistry of, T. H. Byrom, 365
Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Physical Department, Meteorological Report for the Year 1919, 721
Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Report on Physical Department, to March 31st, 1923, F. E. Hurst, 46, 73 ; Rains of the Nile Basin and the Nile Flood of 1913, H. E. Hurst, 73
Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Report on Investigations of River Discharge Measurements, Part V., E. B. H. Wade, 721
Modern Power Engineering, Four Vols., A. Regnauld, 721
Modern Theory and Practice of Pumping, Norman Swi^din, 512
Moss from a Rolling Stone, E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, 391
Motor and Carriage Painting, A. Bates, 691 Motor Electrical Manual, 259
Moving Pictures : How They are Made and Worked, Frederick A. Talbot, 171
Oil Engines, A. L. Bird, 46
Our Silent Partner : Electricity and its Usage in Modern Life, Alan Sullivan, 171 Papermakers of the United Kingdom, 1924, Directory, 391
Payment by Results, J. E. Powell, 512
Payne’s Carriage of Goods by Sea, Roger S. Bacon, 632
Physical Chemistry of the Photographic Process, 73
Plan Copying in Black Lines for Hot Countries, B. J. Hall, 46
Population and the Social Problem, J. Swinburne, 721
Praktisches Maschinenzeichnen mit Ein-fiihrung in die Maschinenlehre, 512
Punjab Irrigation Branch Papers, Sale of Water for Irrigation, &c., 125
Radio Communication, Elements of, E. W. Stone, 259
Railroad Engineering, Elements of, W. G. Raymond, 691
Reports of the Progress of Applied Chemistry, Society of Chemical Industry, Vol. VIII., 1923, 512
LITERATURE {continued):
Books Received {continued) :
Resources of the Empire Series, Federation of British Industries, 512
Road Engineering, E. L. Leeming, 512
Royal Automobile Club Year Book, 1924, 512 Saw Mills, Arrangement, Management, &c., A. Powis Bale, 632 •
Scottish Road Conference, 1924, 391
Seaborne Trade, Vol. III., Period of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, C. E. Fayle, 391
Small Houses for the Community, C. H. James and F. R. Yerbury, 691
Smoke Inspector’s Handbook, H. B. Clinch, 314
South Wales Coal Buyers’ Handbook, W. Philips, 287
Specific Heats of Gases, J. R. Partington and W. G. Shilling, 691
Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 573
“ Standard Dimensions ” of Indian Railways, Notes on the, G. Richards and J. H. White, 632
Steam Power Engineering, Elementary, Edgar MacNaughton, 46
Story of a Great Schoolmaster, H. G. Wells, 73
Strength of Dished Ends, C. C. Pounder, 512 Structural Engineering, J. Husband and W.
Harby, 512
Subject Index to Periodicals, 1920, K, Science and Technology, 171
Sugar Machinery, A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 365
Supervision and Maintenance of Steamraising Plant, Charles A. Suckan, 417
Syndicated Supply of Electricity on the North-East Coast, &c., Andrew Gemmell, 151
Technical Costs and Estimates, Andrew Miller, 721
Terremoto e Fondazione Asismiche, Ing. Mario Viscardini, 259
The Practical Engineer Mechanical Pocketbook and Diary, 1924, and Electrical Pocket-book and Diary, 1924, 125
Theorie Generale sur les Courants Alter-natifs, M. E. Piernet, 365
“ Transactions ” of Institution of Naval Architects, 1923, 46
Una-flow Steam Engine, Professor J. Stumpf, 287
United States Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, Technological Paper No. 248, Exposure Tests on Colourless Waterproofing Materials, D. W. Kessler, 287
United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Manual for Oil and Gas Operations, T. E. Swigart and C. E. Beecher, 125 ; Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances, 1921, E. H. Burroughs, 125
United States National Museum, 1923, Report, 391
Wellington (N.Z.) Harbour Board, Statistics to September 30th, 1923, 721
What Industry Owes to Chemical Science, R. B. Pilcher and Frank Butler-Jones, 151
Workmen’s Compensation Acts, 1906 to 1923, W. Addington Willis, 417
Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 573
LIVERPOOL Engineering Society, Fiftieth Annual Dinner, 174
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
Locomotive Boilers, 312
Locomotive, Chain-driven, J. and H. McLaren, Limited, 77 ; (Letter), 129
Locomotives, Oil, 230
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives London-Bristol Telephone Cable, 628
Lowthian, T. M., and W. Owen, on SuperAccuracy in Gear Ratios, 164
M MACHINE TOOLS : Combined Lathe and Milling Machine, Scott Brothers, 686
Locomotive Crank Axle Lathe, Large, Joshua Buckton and Co., Limited, 456, 457 Machine Tool Trade of America, R. E.
Flanders, 601, 607 ; (Letter), 628
Radial Drilling, Tapping and Studding Machine, William Asquith, Limited, 422
Railway Tire Boring Machine, Craven Brothers, Limited, 126 ; -(Addendum), 159 Roll Grinding Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Limited, 344
MACLAGAN, J. C. M., on the 2000 B.H.P.
Sliding Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 451, 483
McLaren Chain-driven Locomotive, 77
Main Line Railway—see Railways
Making of Engineers, 285, 338
Malaya, Engineering Association of, 126
Manometer, Electro-magnetic, Harold Martin, 609
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marseillaise in Industry, 511
Marshall, J. S., on Ciment Fondu, 264
Marryat, H., on Electric Passenger Lifts, 104 ;
(Letter), 146
Martel, Major G. Le Q., Progress of Mechanical Engineering in the Military Service, 124
Mass Production and Motor Cars, 541
Mechanical Engineering in the Military Service, Major G. Le Q. Martel, 124
Mensforth, Sir Holsberry, on Works Management as a Career, 181
Mercury Vapour Plant, W. L. R. Emmet, 65
Metals—Copper, Bronze, Lead, Zinc, &c.—
For Papers on, see Institute of Metals
Methods of Manufacture, 98
Microscope, Projection, New Type, Vickers Limited, 728
Mineral Output of South Africa for 1923, 223
Mineral Output of South Africa, 713
Models at the Horticultural Hall Exhibition :
Howitzer, Admiral Sir R. H. S. Bacon, 40
Lathes, Edgar Manufacturing Company, 40;
Bench Lathe, Jackson-Rigby Engineering Company, Limited, 40; Drummond Brothers, 40
Models at the Horticultural Hall Exhibition (continued):
Exeter Lathe and Screw-cutting Lathe and Limited « T°°'S and Machm®ry,
I PlaningjMachine, Hand, Mr. Henry Milnes, Modulus of Elasticity, 45
M T^y’ ?’homas ’ on Fluid Friction and Heat Transference, 596
Morwell Power Scheme, Laying Extra High-tension Cable, 508, 510 g
Moss, Dr. H., on Air Consumption and Brake Horse-power of Internal Combustion Engines,
Motor Machinery—see Fire Floats
Motor Railway Inspection Car, 315
Motors, Electrical—see Electrical Matters
Moulding Machines at the Foundry Trades Exhibition :
My’n-iper s rnd S’mg®r. Foundry Plant and Machinery, Limited, 726
Co^;mak»ng Machine, Ritchie, Hart and Co.,
DfnIeMRo^’OVS? Machine» Adaptable Moulding Machine Company, 727
Moulding Machines, Electro-hydraulic Jar ' lype, Roll-over Machine, Bonvillain and Ronceray, 728
0SehTnne ?01,I'0ver Jolt Moulding Ma-chine J. W. Jackman and Co., Limited, 727
1 Fo.md PMouIding Machine, Britannia a 1? JICompany, Limited, 727 band Mill Bonvillain and Ronceray, 728 Sand Riddle, Electrically Driven, Cupola
nmitednS7t9SCt'OnaI Eng‘neering Company; Juxixix vvU, I Zi<j
Moving a 7500-Ton Office Building, 340
N NEWCOMEN Society :
“ 1 Sixth fco Sev0nth Century
A.D., G. F. Zimmer, 183
Cham Pump Dredger Used in the Low Countries, la60, G. F. Zimmer, 183
Clri<fifiAOfA^e0h!'nival Trades, John Evelyn, 1660, MS. at the Royal Society, A. F Sieve-Kmg, 183
^1?. Eastricks, Civil Engineers, H. W Dickinson and Arthur Lee, 253 ; (Letterh
Treadwheel for Raising Water, near Maidstone, Sixteenth Century, H. A. Sandford, loo
Summer Meeting, 654, 694, 725 ; Excursions, cfcc., 725
Ancient Blast-furnaces, Cast Iron Rails, Sleepers, &c., at Coalbrookdale, 725
Industrial History of the Coalbrookdale Dis-
(Letterthe’ ’R,hys Jenkinf3> 694
NEWINGTON Causeway Subsidence, 490
New Zealand, Blast-furnace in, 688, 690
I Nuremburg Engine—see Engines
OBITUARY : Bowden, William A., 223
Brooke, John Walter, 99
Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot, 543
Deane, Henry, 339
Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave, 24
Francis, Walter J., 339
Froude, Robert Edmund, 339
Hawksley, Kenneth Phipson, 512
Hobson, Arthur John, 68
Ingham, William, 379
Jacob, Francis, 543
Jordan, Dr. Henry K., 24
Jude, Dr. R. H., 656
Llewelyn, Sir Leonard Wilkinson, 682
Macaulay, Alfred William, 51
Maw, Dr. W. H. (Portrait), 313
Peskett, Leonard, 277
Pirrie, Viscount (Portrait), 655
Prouse, Oswald M., 24
. Schmidt, Wilhelm, 259
Scott-Moncrieff, Sir George, 656
Spencer, Samuel, 568
Sterne, Louis, 624
Summers, James, 178
Walmsley, Robert Mullineux, 682
O CALLAGHAN, J. P., Water Purification for
Industrial Purposes, 233
Oil Engines—see Engines
Oil Locomotives, 230
Oil Shales, South African, 457
Old Cromptonians’ Dinner, 644
Omnibuses, Hydraulic Transmission for The
Lentz, 292 ;■ (Addendum), 324
“ Onazote,” Hard Rubber, 14
Oscilloscope, Elverson, 13
Owen, W. H„ Tests on a Cylindrical Marine
Boiler with and without Pre-heated Air 209
Dr’ Improvements in Suction
Dredgers, 146, 546
p
PANAMA, Economic Conditions in, 156
Pannell, Ernest V., on High-tension Trans-mission Lines, 272, 300, 328, 352, 378 418
177 ; (Lofcfcers), 197, 235, 261, 0*0, obO
Patent Cases of 1923, 308
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH : Aeronautics, 83, 644
Batteries and Accumulators, 269, 525, 585
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 643 673
Cranes and Conveyors, 162, 733 ’
Dynamos and Motors, 31, 57, 83, 161 215
673* 701’ ^9’ 375, 401, 427, 525, 615, 643,’
Electrical Appliances, 83, 241, 733
Engines, Internal Combustion, 57, 109 135
161, 189, 215, 323, 350, 401, 427, 463 495*
555, 615, 643 ’ *.
Engines, Steam, 297, 615
Furnaces, 32, 525, 586, 674
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH (continued) :
Gas Producers, 190, 269
Lighting and Heating, 349, 464, 495, 585 Locomotives, 84, 585
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 83, 109, 297, 428, 496, 556, 585, 616
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 32, 58, 110, 216, 270, 323, 349, 376, 402, 428, 463, 556, 616
Metallurgy, 135, 324, 734
Mining Machinery, 324, 463, 702, 734
Miscellaneous, 32, 58, 84, 110, 136, 162, 190, 242, 270, 297, 324, 350, 402, 428, 464, 496, 526, 586, 644, 674, 702, 734
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 190, 323, 376, 496, 555
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 135, 216, 270, 297, 350, 376, 401, 555, 586, 674, 702, 733
Ships and Boats, 297, 350, 428
Steam Generators, 161, 189, 215, 241, 401, 463, 525, 585, 643, 673, 701
Switchgear, 349, 401
Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 57, 189, 269, 323, 375, 463, 495, 525, 555, 585, 616, 643, 674, 701
Tramways and Railways, 58, 110, 190, 216, 428, 616, 673
Transformers and Converters, 109, 135, 189, 215, 463, 701
Transmission of Power, 57, 83, 109, 375, 427, 495, 733
Turbine Machinery, 135, 241, 349, 555, 701, 733
Water Purification, 402
PATENT Users, Government, 156
Patents, United States, of 1923, 537
Paterson, A. McCulloch, on Bristol Waterworks, Cheddar Supply, 637
Patterson, W. S., on Boiler Efficiency, 178
Pavements, Stone Block, in Dayton, Ohio, Ivan E. Houle, 606
Payne, M. P., on Rolling Experiments on Ship Models, 409
Permeability of Broken Stone Concrete, 720
Personal and Business Announcements, 55, 81, 110, 133, 159, 187, 213, 237, 267, 295, 317, 350, 373, 402, 428, 459, 493, 523, 556, 586, 613, 644, 671, 699, 729
Petrol and Paraffin Engines—see Engines
Pipe Clamps, Emergency, W. H. Willcox and Co., Limited, 261
Pipe Joints, Large, 454
Pipe Lines of the Moncenisio Hydro-electric Plant, S. L. R. Hollis, 692
Pipe Lines for Water Supply—see Water Planer, Bench—see Wood-working ; also Models Planing Machines—see Wood-working Pneumatic Grain Elevators, Professor W. Cramp and A. Priestley, 34, 64, 89, 112
Pneumatic Tools, Repair and Upkeep of, R. W.
Wilson, 166, 182, 222 ; (Letter), 197 Pneumatic Tools, Testing Machines for:
Rea veil Machine for Picks, 167
R. W. Wilson Machine for Hammers, 182 Polish Engineering Industry, 334
Poultney, E. C., Locomotive Boiler Performance, 192, 218
Power Stations—see Hydro-electric ; also Electrical Matters
Practical Hydraulic Engineering Problems, Van Lidth do Jeude, 232, 260, 308, 344
Practical Man, The, and Scientific Papers, 364
Primrose, J. S. Glen, Machine for Testing of Aeronautical Woods, 127
Progress in Prime Movers, 332, 337
Projection Microscope, New, Vickers Limited, 728
Propellers—see Ships
Propelling and Pumping Machinery, Combined, for Fire-floats, Parsons Motor Company, Limited, 2,32
PUMPS : Cement Slurry Pumps, Edgar Allen and Co., Ltd., 358, 359
Double-inlet Drowned Drainage Pumps, Gwynnes Engineering Company, Limited, 52 ; (Addenda), 103
Dutch Drainage Pumps, Large, 506
Electrically Operated Pumps in Industrial Plants, R. H. Rogers, 458
Irrigation Pumping Machinery (Gezira Scheme), Sudan, R. W. Allen, 542, 549
Rotary Pump, Truslove and Co., 487
Q QUAY Cranes—see Cranes
R RAIL Car—see Railways
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS :
General:
Double-bogie Petrol Rail Car for Barbadoes, Drewry Car Company, Limited, 152, 153
Fatal Railway Accident at Euston, 478
Heavy Train Load, Record, in Natal, 52 ; (Addendum), 77
Main-line Railway Electrification, Nos. I., II. and III., Switzerland,Sir Philip Dawson and Professor S. Parker Smith, 633, 653, 684 (Two Two-page Supplements, June 6th, 1924)
Manufacture of Railway Tires, 602
Motor Railway Inspection Car, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 315
Railway Electrification, 71, 364; (Letters), 103, 129, 146, 343, 383, 508
Railway Tire-boring Machine, Craven Brothers, Limited, 126 ; (Addendum), 159 Screw-spike Driving Machine, Railway, A.
Ransome and Co., 292
Strikes—see Labour
Train Ferries, 221
Wireless Telegraphy on Trains, 262
Working of Single-lines of Railway, 568
British, Colonial, and Indian :
Camden Town Extension, London Electric Railways, 288, 442
India, Railways of, 286 ; (Paragraph), 361
Kowloon-Canton Railway, 318
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS (continued) :
British, Colonial and Indian (continued):
London and North-Eastern Railway, Leeds to King’s Cross, Non-stop, 198
London Underground Railway Rolling Stock Repair Works at Acton, 172, 173, 176 ; (Correction), 221
Mornington-crescent Tube £_Station, New Junctions at, 200
Purchases for Indian Railways, 236
Foreign: Chile, Proposed New Railway in, 369
Summer Services of the French Railways, J. T. Burton-Alexander, 720
Swiss Main-line Railway Electrification, Sir P. Dawson and Professor S. P. Smith,
633, 653, 684 (Two Two-page Supplements, June 6th, 1924)
. Winter Train Services in France, 63
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES : See also Annual Articles
General Matters: Chain-driven Locomotive, J. and H. McLaren, Limited, 77 ; (Letter), 129
Control of Locomotive Running, 415
Geared Steam Turbine Condensing Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Limited, 436, 446
German Locomotives for India, 177; (Letters), 197, 235
Locomotive Boiler Performance, E. C. Poultney, 192, 218
Locomotive Boilers, 312
Locomotive Repair—see Works 4
Longer Locomotive Runs, 481
Oil Locomotives, 230
Single-phase Electric Loconiotives, 2—C—1, Brown, Boveri and Co., 362, 369
Single-phase Electric Locomotives, Swiss Federal Railways, 305, 310 ; (Letter), 343 (Two-page Supplement, March 2\st, 1924) Tank Locomotives, 602
Tube Railway Tunnelling, D. Anderson, 342 Turbine Locomotives, 123
British, Colonial and Indian :
East Indian Railway Eight-coupled Shunting Tank Engine, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Limited, 422
Great Western Locomotive for the Vale of Rheidol Railway, 210
London, Midland and Scottish Railway 4-6-4 “ Baltic ” Tank Engines, 454
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Four-Cylinder Superheater Engine, 7
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Six-coupled Engine, North British Locomotive Company, 7
London and North-Eastern Booster Locomotive, 156
North-Western Railway of India, Eight-coupled Goods Engine, Vulcan Foundry, Limited, 184
Foreign:
American Electric Locomotives, 130
American Locomotive Practice, 720
American Three-cylinder Locomotives, 291
American Three - cylinder Locomotives, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, 666
Swiss Railways, Electric Locomotive Types,
634, 635, 654 (Two-page Supplement, June 6th, 1924)
RAND Mines Gold Output, 507
Rand Mines, Increasing Efficiency in the, 490
Ransome, Stafford, on Wood-working Machinery at Olympia, 412
Rastricks, The—see Newcomen Society
Read, Sir Alfred, on Sea-borne Coastal Trade, 407, 408
Refrigeration, International Congress of, 685 Refuse Salvage—see Works
Resaca of Rio de Janeiro, Reginald Ryves, 380, 388
Reversing Drive for Planing Machines, Newton Brothers, Limited, 101
Ridsdale, C. H., Chemical Specifications for Iron and Steel, 312
River, Experimental, Ransomes and Rapier, Limited, 452
Road. Conference, Scottish, 78
Roll-grinding Machine—see Machine Tools
Rolling Experiments—see Ships
Rolling Stock Repair Works—see Works
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Leicester, 714
Ryves, Reginald, on the Resaca of Rio de Janeiro, 380, 388
s SAFETY Hand Wheels for Valves, T. F. Gray,
Sandford, H. A., on Treadwheel for Raising Water near Maidstone, Sixteenth Century, 183
Saving of Weight, 482
Saw, Circular—see Wood-working
Schneider Variable Speed Gear, 262
Scottish Road Conference, 78
Sea-borne Coastal Trade, Sir Alfred Read, 407, 408
Sea Transport—see Ships
Sentinel Works—see Works
Sewage Distributors, Power-driven, at Leeds, Hartley, Sons and Co., 206
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING : See also Annual Articles
General: Drift of Ships Caused by Rolling, Professor K. Suyehiro, 409
Duct Keel, 19
Effect of Wind and Waves on the Propulsion of Ships, J. L. Kent, 475
Five-bladed Propeller, 19
Future of Sea Transport, Archibald Hurd, 407
International Shipping Conference, 548, 579
Lightships, Wireless Communication with, 118
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING (continued):
General (continued):
Lloyd’s Register, Annual Summary, 103
Lloyd’s Register, Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 77, 383
Marine Engines—see Engines
Marine and Small Craft Exhibition, Yachts and Motor Craft,. 316
Proposed Soft-ended Ship, Mr. Spanner, 712 Rolling Experiments on Ship Models, M. P.
Payne, 409
Sea-borne Coastal Trade, Sir Alfred Read, 407, 408
Ship Design, Sir John Biles, 711
Shipping Industry, Sir Norman Hill’s Speech, 232
Ship-repairing—see Works
Steam Turbine for Auxiliary Machinery, Application of, Richard W. Allen, 450, 455
Torsion of Ships, G. Vedeler, 475
Turbines of the ss. Mauretania, Reconditioning, 410
Turbines—see also Turbines
Vibration of Ships, H. W. Nicholls, 475
British Navy: Cruiser Programme, 228
H.M. Aeroplane Carrier Hermes, 2, 3
H.M. Submarine K26, 2, 4
Naval Matters : Advanced Naval Bases, Mr. S. S. Staples and Captain D. J. Munro, 712
American Naval Policy, 631
Empire Naval Defence, 390
Navy Estimates, 311
Warship Design, Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee, 381
Foreign Navies : United States Battleship Colorado, 3, 16, 90, 96 ; (Correction), 120
United States Scout Cruiser Detroit, 3, 16
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels : Aorangi, Quadruple-screw Mail and Passenger Ship, Engines of, 317
Atlantic Transport Liner Minnetonka, Harland and Wolff, Limited, 480, 485
Berwindmoor, Steam Collier, Workman, Clark and Co., Limited, 18, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Cuba, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, 19 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Doric, White Star Liner, Harland and Wolff, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Homeric, Reconditioning, Harland and Wolff, Limited, 200
Medon, Ocean Steamship Company’s Motor Ship, 9 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Mooltan, P. and O. Liner, Harland and Wolff, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Motor Passenger Liner Aorangi, Two 3250 B.H.P. Fairfield-Sulzer Engines, for, 317, 694
Motor Ship Dolius, 627
Motor Ship Pacific Shipper, Furness, Withy and Co., Limited, 342
Orient Liner, A New, 488
Orient Liner Orama, Vickers Limited, 567 (Two-page Supplement, May 23rd, 1924)
Scott-Still Motor Ship Dolius, 384, 385, 627
Twin-screw Motor Yacht Sea King, 246, 256 ;
(Addendum), 317 (Two-page Supplement, March 7th, 1924.)
Veedam, Holland America Liner, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
Voltaire, Lamport and Holt Liner, 18 (Supplement, January 4th, 1924)
SHOWS—see Exhibitions
Sieve-King, A. F., on MS. by John Evelyn, 1660, Circle of Mechanical Trades, 183
Sixty Years Ago, 26, 51, 73, 99, 120, 145, 183, 200, 226, 260, 279, 304, 342, 368, 395, 421, 449, 488, 507, 548, 568, 608, 632, 661, 683, 716; (Letter), 129
Sluice Gates of the Lake Mentz Dam, Glenfield and Kennedy, Limited, 117
Smith, Dempster and Israel Hey, on Hardness and Cutting Trials of a Tool Steel, 356, 363, 366
Smith, Engineer-Captain Edgar C., on the Centenary of John Elder, 1824-1869, 273
Societies—see Associations
South Africa, Engineering in, 395
South Africa, Mineral Output of, 713
South African Diamond Fields, 261
South African Oil Shales, 457
Southern Africa’s First Big Hydro-electric Scheme, 316
Southampton, Floating Dry Dock for, 198 (Two-page Supplement, February 22 nd, 1924)
Spanner, Self-adjusting Ring, Harwol Specialties Company, 454
Spike-driving—see Railways
Stairway, Folding Loft, C. A. O. Berner, 318
Stamping, Multiple-die, Drop Hammer for, Brett’s Patent Lifter Company, Limited, 154
Staples, Mr. S. S., and Captain D. J. Munro, Advanced Naval Bases, 712
Steam, Flow of, Through Nozzles, and Experimental Apparatus, 571, 574
Steam Turbine—see Turbines
Steam Wagon—see Wagon
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Stone Block Pavements in Dayton, Ohio, Ivan E. Houk, 606
Stress Recorder, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 12
Strikes, Wages, &c.—see Labour
Sturdee, Admiral Sir Doveton, on Warship Design, 381
Subsidence, Newington Causeway, 490
Suction Dredgers, Improvements in, Dr. John S. Owens, 146, 546
Super-accuracy in Gear Ratios, T. M. Lowthian and W. Owen, 164
Superheater, New Detachable Tube, Thos. Sugden, 667
Surface Condenser—see Condenser
Suyehiro, Professor K., on Drift of Ships Caused by Rolling, 409
Swinton, A. A. Campbell, F.R.S., on Television, 385
Sydney Harbour Bridge, 200, 253
TABULATING Machine, New Type, British Tabulating Machine Company, Limited, 274 Tamping and Concrete Breaking Machine, B.
Johnson and Son, 236
Tank Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives Taylor, F. M. Du Plat, Design of Quay Cranes, 598
Telegraphy and Telephony', Wireless—see Wireless
Telemeter, Electrical, 579
Telephone Cable, London—Bristol, 628
Television, A. A. Campbell Swinton on, 385
Testing Aeronautical Woods, J. S. Glen Primrose, 127
Thermal Action of Cutting Tools, 356, 363, 366 Thermal Efficiency—see Engines
Thermionic Valve—see also Electrical Matters
Thermionic Valve Exhausting Pump, 13 Thermodynamics and Practice, 389, 394 Thoresen, Hallgrim, Turbines at the Raanaas-foss Power Station, Norway, 60, 86 (Supplement, January 13th, 1924)
Tidal Power Barrages in Sand Bottom Estuaries, Henry Davey, 276
Tires, Railway—see Railways j
Tool Steel—see Hardness
Train Ferries, 221
Train Ferry, Harwich—Zeebrugge, 470, 477
Trains—see Railways
Transmission Lines, High-tension, Ernest V.
Pannell, 272, 300, 328, 352, 372, 418
Transporter Bridges at Waalhaven, Rotterdam, Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, 722, 723; Deutsche Maschinefabrik Duisberg “ Demag,” 723, 724
Transporters, Temperley, for Coal-handling at East Greenwich Power Station, 715, 718
Treadwheel for Raising Water, near Maidstone, Sixteenth Century, H. A. Sandford, 183
Tube Mills—see Chalk Crushing
Turbine Locomotives, 123
Turbine, Steam, for Auxiliary Machinery, Application of, Richard Allen, 450, 455
Turbines, Gas, Hugh Campbell, 129
Turbines, High-pressure, Brown Boveri and Co., 48 9
Turbines, Single-reduction, Geared, for Orient Liner, Orama, Vickers Limited, 567 (Two-page Supplement, May 23rd, 1924)
Turbines of the ss. Mauretania, Reconditioning,
Turbines at Raanaasfoss Power Station, Norway, Hallgrim Thoresen, 60, 86 (Supplement, January 18th, 1924)
Turner, Professor Thomas, on Metallurgical Research, 276
u UNEMPLOYMENT—see Labour
United States Patents of 1923, 537
University of London, Lectures in Engineering, Practical Hydraulic Engineering Problems, O. C. A. Van Lidthde Jeude, 232, 260, 308, 344
V VAAL RIVER ^Sluices, Model at Wembley, Glenfield and Kennedy, Limited, 357
Valves, Safety Hand Wheels for, T. F. Gray, 77
Van Lidth de Jeude, O. C. A., Lectures on
Practical Hydraulic Engineering Problems, 232, 260, 308, 344
Variable Speed Gear, The Schneider, 262
Venice, New Harbour of, 205
w WAGON, 6-7-Ton Steam, John Fowler and Co.
(Leeds), Limited, 714
Warming, Ventilating and Hot Water Service
Plant at an Asylum, 725
Water, Condensing, Treatment of, H. W.
Coulson, 233
Water Power Resources of Canada, 439
Water Purification, General Methods of, for Industrial Purposes, B. Heastie, 225, 233
Water Purification for Industrial Purposes, J.
P. O’Callaghan, 233
Water Softening by Means of Doucil, _T. P.
Hilditch and H. J. Wheaton, 234
WATER SUPPLY : See also Annual Articles
Bombay Water Supply, Tansa Completion Works, 11 ; (Letter), 68
Bristol Waterworks, Cheddar Supply, A.
McCulloch Paterson, 637
Metropolitan Water Board, 47
Tansa Completion Works, Pipe Lines for, 302
Water Main with Flexible Joints, Victaulic
Company, Limited, 184
WATERLOO Bridge, Report, 382
Water-tube Boilers, L. M. Jockel, 444
Wells, G. J., on Thermal Efficiency of Internal
Combustion Engines, 365, 389, 394
Wheels, Safety Hand, T. F. Gray, 77
Whither ? (Leader) 660
Wilson, R. W., on Repair and Upkeep of Pneumatic Tools, 116, 182, 222 ; (Letter), 197
Wind-driven Electrical and Other Installations, E. Lancaster Burne, 318
Wire Rope Making in South Africa, 174
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY: Imperial Wireless Telegraphy, 285
Telegraph Recorder, High-speed, Marconi-McLachlan, 13
Wireless Communication with Lightships, 117
Wireless Products, Elverson Oscilloscope, 13
Wireless Telegraphy on Trains, 262
WOMEN’S Engineering Society, Second International Conference, Programme, 291
Woods, Aeronautical—see Aeronautics
WOOD-WORKING MACHINES : See also Models
Planing Machines, Reversing Drive for, Newton Brothers, Limited, 101; (Letters), 129, 235
Wood-working Machinery at Olympia, Stafford Ransome, 412
Wood-working Tools, Electrically-driven, Bench Planer and Circular Saw, Hollis Woodworking Engineering Company, Limited, 26
WOOLLEN Mill, Heavy Oil Engine in, Keighley Gas and Oil Engine Company, 264
Work-hardening of Metals and the Herbert
Tester, 248, 257 ; (Letter), 279
Work-hardening of Metals, Influence of Temperature on, E. G. Herbert, 356, 363
Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, 41
WORKS : Acton Works of London Underground Railways, 172, 173, 176 ; (Correction), 221
WORKS (continued) :
Humber Portland Cement Works, 326, 336, 358, 392 (Two-page Supplement, April 4th, 1924)
Locomotive Boiler Reconditioning Shop, Alsace-Lorraine Railway, J. T. Burton -Alexander, 404, 405, 414
Refuse Salvage Works at Birmingham, 419
Sentinel Steam Waggon Works, 280, 284
Ship-repairing Yard and Dry Dock at Swansea, Palmers (Swansea) Dry Dock Company, Limited, 540, 544, 576, 577
WORLD Power Conference, 126
Wright, I. H., on Recent Progress in Gear cutting, 99
z ZIMMER, G. F., on Chain of Pots, Sixth to Seventh Century A.D., and on Chain Pump Dredger Used in the Low Countries, 1560, 183
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