The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ABRASIVE Blocks, Commutator Grinding 1 Block Company, 249
Accelerometer and Air Speed Recorder, Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd., 37
Activated—see Sewage
Adhesives, 500
“ Aeroflex,” Improved Electric Fuse, 366
AERONAUTICS :
See also Annual Articles
Air Transport, 518
Civil Marine Aircraft, 324
International Tests of Aeronautical Models,
174
Italian Airship Norge, 437
Metal Aeroplane Developments, Boulton and
Paul, Ltd., 306
“ Pterodactyl ” Tailless Aeroplane, Captain
G. T. R. Hill, 463, 498, 501
Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research, H. E. Wimperis, 613
Technical Aspects of the Commercial Airship,
B. N. Wallis, 217 ; (Letter), 296
Wireless Equipment of a Seaplane, 209
AGRICULTURE, Applications of Engineering to, Frank Ayton, 645, 647 ; (Letter), 673
Agricultural Engineering, 128
Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, '242
Air Compressor with Cylinder 4|in. by 6in. and
5 H.P. Oil Engine, Blackstone Company, '
Air Pollution in English Towns and Cities, John
B. C. Kershaw, 433 ; (Letter), 580
Alloys, Light, or Steel ? 528
Aluminium-copper-tin Alloys, Dr. D. Stock-dale, 318
American Engine Trials—see Engines
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS :
79, 162, 190, 465, 504, 552, 661
American Shipbuilding, 661
Blast-furnace, New 700-Ton, 661
Concrete Roads, 465
Conveyors in Coal Mines, 465
Creosoting Works of the Southern Pacific
Railway, 162
Diesel-electrie Dredger, 162
Economy in Turbine Plants, 504
Electrical Energy, 190
Electric Excavators, 552
Ferro-sulphurous Blast-furnace, 552
Heavy Dredging Work, 79
Iron and Steel, 190
Labour, 190
Large Locomotive Terminus, 552
Leaching Low-grade Copper Ore, 552
Locomotives with Trailing Bogies, 79
Machine Operation of a Coal Mine, 504
Mountain Railway Engineering, 79
Ocean Shipping, 190
Railway Labour-saving Machinery, 552
Railway Lift Bridges, 504
Simplified Practice, 191
Strengthening a 416ft. Bridge Span, 465
Twelve-coupled American Locomotives, 661
Underground Mining of Limestone, 162
ANNUAL ARTICLES :
Aeronautics in 1925, 10, 32
(Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
British, Some, Military and Civil Aeroplanes, 10, 32
A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd.:
AviO “Bison” Fleet-spotting Machine, 10 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Avro-Lynx Seaplane, 10
English Electric Company Ltd.:
Metal-hulled “ Kingston ” Flying Boat, 12 (Supplement, January !<$£, 1926)
Handley Page, Ltd.:
Triple-engined “ Hampstead ” Passenger Machine, 10 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Short Brothers, Ltd.:
All-metal Aircraft Construction, 11
32 H.P. All-metal Monoplane Flying Boat, 11, 12
Experimental Duralumin-hulled Flying Boat, 12 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Vickers Ltd.:
“ Vanguard ” 25-Seater Passenger Biplane, with “ Condor ” Engine, 10, 11 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
“Vixen” Military Machine 11 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Westland Aircraft Works :
Yeovil Bombing Machines, 10 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Additional Military and Civil Aeroplanes, 32, 44
Armstrong, Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.:
“ Ajax ” Two-seater Reconaissance Biplane, with “ Jaguar ” Engine, 33, 44
“ Argosy ” Three-engined Passenger Biplane, 32, 33
Beardmore, Wm., and Co., Ltd.:
Two-seater, Fighter Biplane, with Rolls-Royce “ Eagle ” Engine and “ Lamblin ” Radiator, 33, 34
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:
Various Aeroplanes and Engines, 34, 35
Variable Timing Gear, 34, 35
Bristol “ Bloodhound ” Test Results, 35
Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:
Fairey “ Fox ” Two-seater Day Bomber with Fairey-Reed Metal Air Screw and Fairey “ Felix ” D 12 400 H.P. Aeroengine, 32
Fairey “ Fawn ” Three-seater Army Machine with Napier “ Lion ” Engine, 32
“ Flycatcher ” Single-seater Scout, Variable Types and Engines, 32
Fairey III. D Seaplane, 32
Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, Ltd.:
“ Gamecock ” Single-seater Fighter wit! “ Jupiter ” Engine, 33
“ Gloster III.” Single-seater Racing Sea plane, 33, 44
“ Gorcock ” Single-seater Fighter witl Napier “ Lion ” Engine, 33
“ Jupiter Greve,” Developed Type, 33
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
Hawker Engineering Company, Ltd.:
“ Woodcock ” Single - seater Fighter ;
“ Heron ” Single-seater with Metal Structural Details; “Hedgehog” Three-seater Biplane: “Woodcock,” “Heron ” and “Hedgehog,” with Bristol “Jupiter ” Engines, 32
“ Horsley ” Day Bomber with Rolls-Royce Condor Engine, 32
Single-seater Fighters for Royal Danish Navy, with Siddeley “ Jaguar ” Mark IV. Engines, 33
Parnail, George, and Co.:
“ Plover ” Single-seater Fighter, with
“ Jupiter ” or “ Jaguar ” Engine, 34, 44
Airships :
U.S. Shenandoah, British R 33, 35
Civil Aviation, 10
Helicopters :
Autogiro, 35
Electrical Engineering in 1925, 20, 48 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Electric Motors, 48
Electric Traction, 49 ; Storage Battery Mine Locomotive, Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Ltd., 49
Generating Sets, 21
Barking Power Station, 40,000-Kilowatt
Parsons Turbo-generator Set, 21 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Bow Generating Station, 22 (Supple- j ment, January ls£, 1926)
Turbo-generator at Bradford Electricity Works, English Electric Company, 22 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Hydro-electric Plant, 48
Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, 21
Sub-station Plant, Mercury Vapour and Static Transformer Sections, 21
Mining Plant, 49
Miscellaneous, 50
Rolling Mill Plant, 49
Sub-station Plant, 22
Automatic Sub-stations, 22
Supervisory Control Equipment for Automatic Sub-statiop, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 22 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Switchgear, 48
Telephone Cables, 50
Transformers, 48
Testing Transformers for Sustained Arc between Points 114in. Apart, Ferranti, Ltd., 48
Wireless Communication, 20
Automatic Call Apparatus, Marconi Company, Radio Communication Company, 21 ; Daventry Wireless Transmitting Gear, 20
Fluctuations in Prices of Engineering Materials during 1925, 9
Gas Engineering in 1925, 63
Combined Nitrogen Production, 64
Gasworks and Low-temperature Carbonisation, 63
Synthetic Alcohol, 64
Technical Progress. 64
Utilisation of Coke, 64
ANNUAL ARTICLES {continued):
Harbours and Waterways in 1925, 50
United Kingdom, 50
Bristol Channel and South Wales Ports, 50
British Waterways, 51
London, Port of, 50
Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal, 50
Naval Dockyards, 51
North-East Coast and Humber Ports, 50 Other Ports, 50 Scotland, 50
Southampton, 50
Africa, 51
European Ports, 51
Belgium, 51
Continental Waterways, 51
France, 51
Germany, 51
Holland, 51
Italy, 51
North and South America, 51
Canada, 51
South America, 51
United States, 51
The East, 51
Locomotives—see Steam
Motor Ships and Marine Oil Engines in 1925, 14, 17,18
{Supplement, January 1«£, 1926) Brown-Sulzer Engine, 14, 17, 18, 19 Continental Progress in 1925, 19 Double-acting Engines, 14, 17
Asturias, R.M.S.P. Motor Passenger Liner, and One of Main Engines, 14, 17, 18
North British Two-cycle Sliding Cylinder Engine, 17, 18
Swedish-American Liner Gripsholm, 17, 18 {Supplement, January ls£, 1925)
Mirrlees-Nobel 1000 B.H.P. Two-cycle Engine, 19
“ Neptune ” Type Marine Engine, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 18, 19 Opposed Piston Engines, 19
Single-acting Four-cycle Eng'nes, 17
Raby Castle, North-Eastern Werkspoor Motor for, 17 {Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
S.’ngle-acting Two-cycle Engines, 17
Upwey Grange Houlder Line Motor Reirigerator Ship, 17, 18 {Supplement, January l<tf, 1926)
Motor Ships and Marine Oil Engines in America, 19
Worthington 2900 B.H.P. Double-acting Engine, 19
Conclusion, 20
Naval Construction in 1925, 5
British Empire, 5
France, 6
Italy, 7
Japan, 6
Minor Navies, 7
United States, 6
KTNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
Railways in 1925, 46
Great Western, 47
London Electric Railways, 47
London, Midland and Scottish, 46
London and North-Eastern, 46
Metropolitan, 47
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint
Railway, 47
Southern, 47
Two Light Railways, 47
Sanitary Engineering in 1925, 23
Bradford Esholt Scheme, 23
Falmouth, New Main Drainage Works at, 23
General Outlook, 22
Leeds Main Drainage and Sewage Disposal Works, 23
London Main Drainage, 22
Manchester, 22
Reading, New Disposal Works at, 23
Salford, 23
Wandie Valley Joint Sewerage Board, 23
Works Completed, Under Construction or in Contemplation, 23
Steam Locomotives of 1925, 2
(Supplement, January ls£, 1926)—see also Illustrations, Names Index and Subjects Index, Locomotives
French Engines :
P.L.M. Railway, Eight-coupled Passenger Engines, 5 (Supplement, January Istf, 1926)
Paris-Orleans Eight-coupled Passenger Engine, 5 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Great Western Railway, 2 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Great Western Railway Passenger Engine Saint Martin, 2 (Supplement, January Isi, 1926)
London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 2
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Three-cylinder Compound Engine, 2
London and North-Eastern Railway, 2 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
London and North-Eastern Engines, “ Mikado ” Type Locomotive, “ Gar-ratt ” Locomotive, 2 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
London and North-Eastern Railway Engine with Lentz Valve Gear, 2
Makers’ Locomotives :
Avonside Engine Company, Fireless Locomotive, 2, 3
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., South Australian Railways, Six-coupled Engine, 5
W. G. Bagnall, Ltd., Madras and S.M. Railway, 3
Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., Garratt Engine, Indian State N.W. Railway, 3 ; Experimental Ljungstrom Geared Turbine Engine, 3, 4
Hawthorn, R. and W., Leslie and Co., Ltd., Indian State Railways, Tank Engine, 5
North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., South African Railways Modified “ Fairlie ” Engine, 3 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Peckett and Sons, Ltd., Saddle-tank Engine, 4
Robert Stephenson and Co., Ltd., Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, Eight-coupled Goods Engine, 4
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Nigerian Railways Three-cylinder Narrow-gauge Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Yorkshire Engine Company, Ltd., Oil-burning Engine, Central Railway of Peru, 4
■ Southern Railway, 2 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Southern Railway, Express Passenger Engine, “ King Arthur ” Class, 2 (Supplement, January 1<$£, 1926)
Steamships of 1925, 7
(Supplement, January l«s£, 1926)
British-built Liners, 7
Caledonia, Anchor-Cunard Liner, 8
Carinthia, Cunard Liner, 7
Conte Biancamano, Lloyd Sabaudo Company, 8 (Supplement, January 1st, 1926)
Llandovery Castle, Union-Castle Liner, 7
Princess Marguerite, Canadian Pacific Liner, 8
Ranchi, Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company, 7 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Dredgers Built During 1925, 8
Railway and River Boats, 8
Repairs and Reconditioning, 8
Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 8
Some New Developments, 8
Some Refrigerator Ships, 8
Water Supply in 1925, 35
(Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
British Works :
Belfast’s Silent Valley Scheme, 36
Bradford, 35
Cardiff, 36
Loch Katrine Works, 36
Manchester Corporation Waterworks : Haweswater Scheme, Heaton Park Reservoir, Thirlmere, 35
Queen Mary Reservoir, 35 (Supplement, January Isf, 1926)
Taf Fechan Water Supply Board, 36 Wakefield’s Ryburn Valley Scheme, 36 Works in Hand or in Contemplation, 36
Hong Kong Water Supply, 36
Sennar Dam and the Gezira Irrigation Scheme, 36 (Supplement, January ls£, 1926)
Singapore Water Supply from Johore, 37
Other Works Abroad, 37
NTO] 441 rchite rmou:
FAGASTA, Port of, Enlargements at, jctural—see Traditional
r Plate, Manufacture of, Monsieur Bacle,
186
rmstrong, Professor H. E., Fuel Research, Report on the Coal Industry, 375, 524
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
Association, British Acetylene and Welding :
Notes on Welding of Aluminium, Edgar T. 'Painton, 189
Association, British Waterworks :
Summer Meeting at Bristol, Programme, 649
Association, Diesel Engine Users’ :
Heavy Oil Engine Installations, Geoffrey Porter, 277
Industrial Tests of Internal Combustion Engines, W. A. Tookey, 437
Specifications for Lubricating Oils for Use on Heavy Oil Engines, E. W. Johnston, 615
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Garratt Locomotive, R. H. Whitelegg, 392
Association, Incorporated, Municipal Electrical :
Industrial Electric Heating, A. P. M. Fleming and J. H. Crossley, 669
Operating Costs of Electric Battery Vehicles C. W. Marshall, 668
Presidential Address, R. B. Mitchell, 635
Supplies to Outlying Districts, S. E. Britton, 635
Thirty-first Annual Convention at Glasgow, 635, 668
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Annual Meeting, 447, 600, 627
Coal-blending, D. Brownlie, 628
Effect of Mass in the Heat Treatment of Nickel Steel, Dr. W. Rosenhain and others, 628
Hardening and Tempering of High-speed Steel, A. R. Page, 630
Hardness of Carbon Steels at High Temperatures, I. G. Slater and T. H. Turner,' 629
List of Papers Taken as Read, 630
Ratio of the Tensile Strength of Steel to the Brinell Hardness Number, R. H. Greaves and J. A. Jones, 630
Autumn Meeting Programme, 447, 630
Bessemer Gold Medal Award, 600
Past and Future of the Steel Industry, Sir W. P. Rylands, 574, 583, 601
Programme, 447
Report on the Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 528, 601
Silicates in Steel Ingots, J. H. S. Dickenson, 528, 602
Institute of Marine Engineers :
Electric-hydraulic Steering Gear, Dr. Hele-Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 506
Institute of Metals :
Annual Dinner, 293
Annual and Extraordinary General Meeting, List of Papers, 222
Annual Meeting, 222, 292, 317, 345
Extraordinary Meeting, New Articles of Association, 346
Aluminium-Copper-Tin Alloys, Dr. D. Stock-dale, 318
Brittle Ranges of Bronze, W. L. Kent, 318 Constitution of the Alloys of Silver and Tin,
A. J. Murphy, 345
Corrosion of an Ancient Tin Specimen, Professor C. O. Bannister, 346
Crystal Growth in Recrystallised Metals, Dr. W. Feitknecht, 317
Determination of Zinc Oxide in Brass, Dr.
B. S. Evans and Mr. N. F. Richards, 346
Die Casting of Aluminium Alloys, George Mortimer, 292
Hardness of Cold-rolled Copper, S. L. Hoyt and T. R. Schermerhorn, 292
Influence of Gases at High Temperatures, A. Glynne Lobley and Douglas Jepson, 318
Intermetallic Compounds, W. Hume-Rothery, 345
Macrostructure of Cast Metals, R. Genders, 317
Mechanical Properties of a Nickel-Copper Alloy, H. J. Tapsell and J. Bradley, 346
Single Crystals of Metals, Sixteenth May Lecture, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 559 Soft Soldering of Copper, Dr. T. B. Crow, 318 Softening of Strain-hardened Metals, &c., R. W. Bailey, 292
Striation Due to Working or Corrosion, Monsieur A. M. Portevin, 346,
Institute of Physics :
Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research, H. E. Wimperis, 613
Institute of Transport:
Sixth Congress Programme, 468
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 293
April Examinations, 1926, Pass List (Interim) and Associate Membership, 565
Construction of a Breakwater Head at Madras, Colin Robert White, 464
Conversazione, 640 ; Three Lectures, Models and other Exhibits, Compressed Air Machinery, Monel Metal Parts, Metal-lurgical Exhibits, Optophone for the Blind, Manometer, Ventilating and Displacement, Vertical Vibrograph and Stress Recorder, Fan Brake Dynamometer, Dust Counter, 640
Khyber Railway, Victor Bayley, 221
Khyber Railway, Survey and Construction of, Colonel Gordon R. Hearn, 221
Limiting Stresses, Discussion, 472
October Examinations, 1925, Pass List, 161 Association of London Students :
Caine Waterworks Company, Recent Improvements in the Works of, J. Kennard, 68
Development of Harbour and Dock Engineering, Vernon-Harcourt Lecture, Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, 24
Driving a Cable Tunnel under the Thames, 242
Birmingham and District Association :
Joint Meeting :
Road Transport and its Possible Developments, Papers by Major F. C. Cook, Mr.
C. Owen Silvers, and Sir John Thorny-croft, and Discussion, 2’07, 208
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
American Switchgear, 192
Application of Machinery at the Coal Face, Sam Mavor, 444
Design of Storage Battery Locomotives for Use in Mines, L. Miller, 444
Electric Traction on the Orleans Railway, H.
Parodi, 408
Electricity in Mines, R. Nelson, 444
Improvement of Power Factor, Edgar Wall
Dorey, 182
Semi-Jubilee Dinner, 130
Summer Meeting, 384
Testing Static Transformers, Lindley Thompson and H. Walmsley, 158
South Midland Centre :
Joint Meeting on Road Transport, 207
Wireless Section :
Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators, Lieut.-Colonel K. E. Edgeworth: 70
Propagation of Radio Waves, J. Holling-worth, 192
Rugby Wireless Station, E. H. Shaughnessy, 448
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Nobel Oil Engine, P. H. Wilson, 324
Werkspoor Marine Oil Engine, G. J. Lugt, 193
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers'
Summer Meetings, 621
Preliminary Programme, 621
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Commercial Aspect of Foundry Work, J. Wolstenholme, 130
Lifting and Shifting Machinery, C. H. Woodfield, 306
Pipework : Its Manufacture and Lay-out, G. H. Willett, 351
Power Stations in U.S.A, in 1925, Honorary
Member’s Lecture, W. H. Patchell, 224 Tendencies in Modern Electric Practice, J. M.
Seddon, 306
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
High Efficiency Oil Engine, A. E. L. Chorlton.
360, 364, 394 ; (Letter), 363
Marine Oil Engines Trial Committee’s Report, 65
Measurement of Cutting Temperatures, E. G.
Herbert, 24, 238—see also North-Western Branch
Modern Development of Paper Mill Plant, W. W. Beaumont and Leslie N. Burt, 462, 476
Piston Temperatures and Heat Flow in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson, 122
Summer Meeting at Ipswich, 645
Applications of Engineering to Agriculture, Frank Ay ton, 645, 647
Modern Flour Milling Machinery, Lieub.-Colonel F. W. Turner, 635, 645, 670
Midland Branch :
Joint Meeting on Road Transport, 207 North-Western Branch :
Cutting Temperatures, E. G. Herbert, 225
Marine Oil Engine Trials Committees Report, 134
Some Mechanisms of Textile Machinery, W. A. Hanton, 296
Institution of Mining Engineers :
Scholarship, Travelling Post-Graduate, Offered, 361
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Fifty-third Annual General Meeting and Conference, 506
Meeting in the Scottish District, Programme, 561
Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Meeting, 349, 379, 405 ; Report, 349 Annual Dinner, 351
Comparative Freight Economics of a Cargo Vessel with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, W. J. Lovett, 380
Crane Equipment of Shipbuilding Berths, Ebenezer Smith, 406
Experiments on Mercantile Ship Models in Waves, J. L. Kent, 381
Experiments upon the Skin Friction of Smooth Surfaces, W. G. A. Perring, 381
High-pressure Water-tube Boilers for Marine
Purposes, Harold Yarrow, 405, 410, 411, 414
Launching Problems, W. J. Berry, 350
Method Used in H.M. Ships for Readily Correcting Heel and Trim, A. W. Cluett, 406
Present Outlook for British Shipbuilding, A. C. F. Henderson, 349, 362
Propeller Dimension Formulae Based on Mr.
R. E. Froude’s Model Screw Experiments, Professor C. M. Carter, 381
Recent Modifications to Water-tube Boilers of the Three-drum Type, Engineer-Captain L. M. Hobbs, 405
Ship Wave Resistance, Comparison of Mathematical Theory with Experimental Results, W. C. S. Wigley, 381
Spring Meetings, Programme, 296
Summer Meeting in Belgium, 588, 660, 672
Belgian Mercantile Marine, Monsieur A. Pierrard, 660
Programme and List of Papers, 588
Relative Efficiency of Turbine and Diesel Machinery, Sir John Biles, 660, 672 Temperature Variation and Heat Stresses in
Diesel Engines, Robert Sulzer, 379, 391
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
High-powered Oil Engines, W. S. Burn, 494 Electric Propulsion of Ships, Eskil Berg, 275 What is Sea Speed ? Reginald J. Eyres, 392
Institution, Royal, of Great Britain :
After-Easter Session :
Friday Evening Discourses, List of Subjects and Speakers, 393
Programme of General Courses of Lectures,
393
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
{continued'):
Institution of Water Engineers :
Manchester Waterworks, 614 Programme, 450
Thirty-first General Meeting, 450, 617
Society, Faraday :
Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media, General Discussion, List of Papers, 633
Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media, 656
I. Explosive Reactions, General Considera
tions :
Explosion Wave in Cyanogen Mixtures, Dr. Colin Campbell and Professor H. B. Dixon ; Gaseous Explosions at High Initial Pressures ; Ignition Point of Gases, Professor H. B. Dixon and others ; Ionisation in Gas Explosions, W. E. Garner and S. W. Saunders ; Ionisation and Gaseous Explosions, 8. C. Lind ; Radiation in Gaseous Explosions, Professor W. T. David ; Uniform Movement of Flame, Professor R. V. Wheeler and Dr. W. Payman, 657
II. Explosive Reactions in Reference to Internal Combustion Engines :
Combustion in Gas Engines, Professor W. T. David, 658
Effect of Metallic Sols in Delaying Detonation in Internal Combustion Engines, Flight-Lieutenant C. J. Sims and Dr. E. W. Mardles ; Explosions in Petrol Engines, H. T. Tizard, 658
Society, Newcomen :
John George Bodmer and Mechanical Stoking, David Brownlie, 164
Matthew Murray, G. F. Tyas, 268
Society, Royal:
Conversazione : Archimedian Loculus, Borehole Alignment Indicator, Pendulum Apparatus for Determinations of Gravity, Vibrations of an Autocar Illustration, Compression Tests on Aluminium Crystals, <k c., 633
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Propagation of Electric Waves, J. E. Taylor, 249
Societies, Physical and Optical:
Exhibition, 37
AUTOMATIC Superheating of Steam, 516 Axle-boxes—see Railway Locomotives
Ayton, Frank, Applications of Engineering to Agriculture, 645, 647 ; (Letter), 673
B BAILEY, R. W., Softening of Strain-hardened Metals, &c., 292
Bakery, Large Electrically Driven, Kneaders, Moulders, Conveyors and other Plant, 294, 298
Ballasting—see Railways
Beaumont, W. Worby, and Leslie N. Burt, Modern Development of Paper Mill Plant, 462, 476, 505
Belgium, Freight Rates in, 546
Bending and Torsional Strains and Stresses in a Loaded Crank Shaft, H. Carrington, 520
Benton, W. A., Some Aspects of Friction, 403, 430, 458
Berg, Eskil, Electric Propulsion of Ships, 275
Berry, W. J., Launching Arrangements of
H.M. Ships Nelson and Rodney, 350
Biles, Sir John, Steam versus the Diesel Engine, 660, 672
Birmingham Trade Fair, Extension to, 80
“ Black Spot,” The, 299
Bodmer, John George, and Mechanical Stoking, David Brownlie, 164
Boiler Design, Improvement in, 499 ; (Letter), 530
Boiler, Oil-fired Yarrow Land Type, 274, 275
Boiler, Producer Gas-fired, Wollaston Gas Producers, Ltd., 163
Boiler Tests, Credibility of, 156
Boiler, “ Thermax,” Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 248
Boiler Water Conditioning, Dr. R. E. Hall, 223
Boilers, High-pressure Water-tube, for Marine
Purposes, Harold Yarrow, 405, 410, 411, 414, 587
Boilers, Water Capacity of, 611
Boilers, Water-tube, of the Three-drum Type, Recent Modifications to, Engineer-Captain L. M. Hobbs, 405
Bombay, Back Bay Reclamation, 275
Books of Reference, 107, 160, 252, 384, 411, 477, 547, 608, 661
BRIDGES :
Highway, British Standard Unit Loading for, J. M. Liddell, 119
Menai Straits Suspension, Centenary of, 133
New, Over the Thames at Caversham, L. G.
Mouchel and Partners, 656, 666
Oswald-street, Glasgow, Construction of, W.
L. Scott, 62
Reinforced Concrete, Wairoa River, N.Z., 94
Second Narrows, Vancouver, 409
Steel Swing, for Wallasey, Francis Morton and Co., Ltd., 276
BRIDGE Flooring, Special Flanging Press for, Davy Brothers, Ltd., 674
British Cement—see Works
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :
Specifications :
Corrugated Furnaces and Smoke Tubes for Marine Boilers, 293
Ebonite for Radio Purposes, 95
Genuine Dry White Lead, 351
Genuine White Lead Oil Paste, 351
Painting Materials, 351, 562
Paints, White Spirit for, Turpentine for, Raw Linseed Oil for, 677
Railway Rails, 562
Reflector Fittings for Electric Lighting, 160
Side Scuttles and Frames, 506
Tables of Brinell Hardness Numbers, 562 Vulcanised Fibre and Pressboard for Elec
trical Purposes, 95
BRITISH Railways—see Railways
British Standard Unit Loading for Highway
Bridges, J. M. Liddell, 119
Brittle Ranges of Bronze, W. L. Keat, 318
Britton, S. E., Supplies to Outlying Districts, 635
Brownlie, David, Coal Blending, 628
Brownlie, David, on John George Bodmer and
Mechanical Stoking, 164
Brugg Sub-station—see Railways, Foreign
Burn, W. S., High-powered Oil Engines, 494, 534
c CALENDARS, Diaries, Ac., 27, 53, 83, 111, 197, 456
Calendering—see Linoleum in Subjects Index
Calvert, Dr. H. T., Activated Sludge Process of Sewage Treatment, 267
Canada, Water Power Resources of, 436
Canadian Water Resources, 47
Canal de Castilla Irrigation Schemes, 447
Carnot Centenary, 128
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., Single Crystals of Metals, 559
Carrington, H., Bending and Torsional Strains and Stresses in a Loaded Crank Shaft, 520
Carter, Professor C. M., Propeller Dimension Formulae Based on Mr. R. E. Fronde’s Model Screw Experiments, 381
Catalogues, 83, 111, 167, 255, 309, 337, 425, 481, 565, 593, 621, 651, 677
Cements, Quick-hardening, 590
Centenary of a Famous Bridge, 133
Chadwick Public Lecture, Sewage Treatment, Activated Sludge Process of, Dr. H. T. Calvert, 267
Chemists and Power Plant Problems, 612
Chorlton, A. E. L., High-efficiency Oil Engine, 360, 364, 394 ; (Letters), 363, 412
Chromium Plating, General Survey of, E. A. Ollard, 212
Cluett, A. W., Method Used in H.M. Ships for Readily Correcting Heel and Trim, 406
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Coal Blending, David Brownlie, 628
Coal Commission, 322
Coal and Economies, 556 ; (Letters), 617, 649
Coal Powdering Machine, Atomised Fuel and Engineering Company, 248
Electric Winding Gear at Monceau-Fontaine Colliery, Belgium, 210, 211, 214
Powdered Coal Plant at Dover, Lindley Duffield and Co., Ltd., 319
Report on the Coal Industry, Professor Henry E. Armstrong, 375
Skip Hoisting at Coal Mines, 47
Wages Boards for the Coal Industry, 556
COMPARATIVE Performances of Air Heaters, 668
Concrete—see Bridges, Reinforced, and Steel
Concrete and Steel, Bond Between, 160
Congress of Chemists, Forty-fifth Annual Meeting, Co-operation of Numerous Societies, Programme, 646
Consistency of Steam Tables, 272
Contracts, 27, 57, 86, 111, 140, 167, 197, 230, 252, 278, 309, 337, 372, 425, 453, 481, 509, 540, 568, 596, 624, 651, 677
Contracts Secured by British Firms, 268
Control of the River Scoltenna, 669
Cork Jointing, Works, South Chingford, 271, 27 3
Cork Mills, &c.—See Linoleum
Cornish Mining, 465
Corrosion of an Ancient Tin Specimen, Professor
C. O. Bannister, 346
Crane Equipment-—see Ships
Crane, “ Toplis,” l|-Ton Level Luffing Jib, Bedford Engineering Company, 589
Cranes, Hydraulic Cargo, on the Motor Liner Asturias, Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclav, Ltd., 364
Crank Shaft—see Bending Strains
Creber, W. F. H., Manchester Waterworks, 614
Crow, Dr. T. B., Soft Soldering of Copper, 318 Cruisers—see Ships, Naval
Crystal Growth in Recrystallised Metals, Dr.
W. Feitknecht, 317
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 28, 58, 84, 112, 138, 168, 198, 228, 256, 282, 310, 338, 370, 398, 426, 454, 482. 510, 538, 566, 594, 622, 652, 678
Cutting Temperatures, Apparatus for Measurement of, E. G. Herbert, 24, 225, 238, 245 ; (Letters), 276, 296
D -DAVIES, C. E. Sprea ” of Metal in Rolling, 598, 626 6
Dawson, Sir Philip, and Professor S. Parker Smith, on Main Line Railway Electrification, 175
Derrick, Self-slewing, H. Robb, Ltd., 163
Design of Air Heaters, 300
Dickenson, J. H. S., Distribution of Silicates in
Steel Ingots, 602
Die Casting of Aluminium Alloys, 292
Distilling Plant for the Red Sea, Mirrlees
Watson Company, Ltd., 577
Dorey, Edgar Wall, Improvement of Power Factor, 182, 186
ECONOMISER, Future of the, 74 ; (Letters),
Edgeworth, Lieut.-Colonel, Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators, 70
Education and the Employee, 640
Education in the Gas Industry, F. W. Goodenough, 644
Educational Intelligence, 54, 83, 197, 565
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
See also Annual Articles
Alternating-current Pressure Regulators, 431 459, 487, 516, 548—For details see Illustrated Index (Electrical Matters)
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
Alternating-current Switchgear, Brookhurst Switchgear, Ltd., 646, 647
American Switchgear, 192
Arc Welding Plant, Portable, Siemens -Schuckert, Ltd., 562
Automatic Rotary Converter Sub-station, 218
Binary Converter, New Electrical, Mawds-ley’s, Ltd., 503
Birmingham Representative Electrical Goods at the British Industries Fair, 260
Automatic Engine-driven Sub-station Plant, Austin Lighting Company and National Gas Engine Company, 263
Mercury Vapour Rectifier, Hewittic, and Hackbridge Transformer, 260
Model of Electrically Driven Winding Engine, Fraser and Chalmers, 262, 263
Motors in Operation and Component Parts, Electric Welding Appliances, Electro-plating Apparatus, Filtering and Heating Apparatus, &c., 263
Motors, Small, Collection of Varying Sizes, Exhaust Fans, Polishing and Grinding Motors, Manda Motors, Ltd., 261
Oil-break Star-delta Motor Starter, Oil Circuit Breaker, 6600-Volt Starting Gear for Slip-ring Motor, George Ellison, 261 Pirelli Joint for High-pressure Cables, Method of Insulating and of Applying Paper Insulation to, Ferrule for Joining Large Cables, Pirelli General Cable Works, Ltd., 262
Steel Works Motor, General Electric Company, 262, 263
Transformer, 110,000-Volt, English Electric Company, 261
Trucks, Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 260
Cleaning Blast-furnace Gases by Electricity, 588
Comparison of Power Stations, 387
10,000-Kilowatt Diesel Generator Set, Blohm und Voss and Siemens and Schuckert, 662 Electrical Distribution System at Hawarden Bridge Steel Works, 610, 613
Electric Hydraulic Steering Gear, Dr. Hele-Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 506
Electric Motor Starting and Protection, 532
Electric Storage Battery Locomotive Competition, 673
Electric Traverser and Grab for Bar Shearing Machine, Craven Brothers, Ltd., 104, 105
Electricity in the Home, 354
Electricity in Mmes, 444
Electricity Supply, 104, 327 ; (Letter), 384
Exhibits, Various, at the Physical and Optical
Societies’ Exhibition, 38
Extensions to Lots-road Power Station, 273 Fuse, Improved Electric, tfie “ Aeroflex,” 366 Heat Transmission Aspect of a Power Station, 416
High-frequency Fatigue Tests, 434
High-voltage Direct-current Testing Equipments, 658
Induction Regulators—see Alternating Current
Industrial Electric Heating, A. P. M.
Fleming and J. H. Crossley, 669
Langerbrugge Power Station, 570, 582 (Two page Supplement, June 4th, 1926)
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives Manchester Electricity Supply, 664 Measuring Small Fluid Pressures, An Electrical Method, H. A. Thomas, 88
Midgebat Power Station, Midi Railway, 376, 378
Monceau-Fontaine Colliery, Belgium, Electric Winding Gear at, 210, 211, 214
Motor Generators for the Rugby Wireless Station, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 40
Ontario, Electric Power for, 580
Operating Costs of Electric Battery Vehicles, C. W. Marshall, 668
Petrol-electric Generator for Rail Car, 361
Power Factor, Improvement of, Edgar Wall Dorey, 182, 186
Propagation of Electric Waves, J. E. Taylor, 249
Railways —see Railways
Rating of Generating Plant, 333
Shanghai, Electric Power in, 587
Ships, Electric Propulsion of, Eskil Berg, 275
Showrooms and Offices, Electrical, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 464 Small Electric Lighting Sets, Austin Lighting Company, Chloride Electrical Storage Company, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 206, 207 Supplies to Outlying Districts, S. E. Britton, 635
Testing Static Transformers, Lindley Thompson and H. Walmsley, 158
Tests of Turbo-generator Sets, 603
Trolley Omnibuses at Ipswich, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, 493
Water Power for the Paris-Orleans Railway Electrification, 584
Windmills for Generation of Electricity, 586 Wireless Matters—see Wireless Telegraphy ; also Annual Articles
ELECTROMETER, Compton, Cambridge Instrument Company, 38
Electro-pneumatic Power Hammer, 30-Cwt., B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 533
ENGINES AND MOTORS :
See also Annual Articles
American Marine Oil Engine Trials, 477
Asturias, R.M.P.S. Motor Liner, Engines of, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 14, 17, 18, 79 240, 244
Cold-starting Two-stroke Oil Engines, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 247
Comparative Freight Economies of a Cargo Vessel with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, W. J. Lovett, 380
Diesel Engine, 15,000 B.H.P. and 10,000-
Kilowatt Three-phase Generator, Blohm and Voss, 662
Double-acting Four-stroke Marine Oil Engine, 4000 B.H.P., North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Ltd., 554, 558, 559
Double-acting Two-cycle Marine Oil Engine, Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., 494
ENGINES AND MOTORS {continued) :
Eight-cylinder Marine Oil Engine, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 447
Gas Oil for Petrol Engines, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 412
High-efficiency Oil Engine, A. E. L. Chorlton, 360, 364, 394 ; (Letters), 363, 412
High-powered Oil Engines, W. S. Burn, 494, 534
Horizontal 31 B.H.P. Oil Engine, 3 B.H.P. Enclosed Paraffin Engine with Dynamo, &c., for $ to 1| Kilowatts Lighting Set; Single-cylinder Two-stroke Oil Engine with Scavenging Pump, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 207
Horizontal 66 H.P. Heavy Oil Engine, National Gas Engine Company, Ltd.; Small Lighting Sets, Austin Lighting Company and National Gas Engine Company, Ltd., 206
Industrial Tests of Internal Combustion Engines, W. A. Tookey, 437
Inertia Governor, A New, Ramsay, Jackson and Co., Ltd., 419
Links in the History of the Steam Engine, 402 M.A.N. Double-acting Marine Oil Engine,
352, 353, 356, 382
Marine Oil Engines Trials Committee, Third Report, 65, 134 ; Extracts from Fourth Report, 576
Marine Reverse Gear, Improved, Langdon Engineering Company (1924), Ltd., 616
Nobel Oil Engine, P. H. Wilson, 324
600 B.H.P. Oil Engine at Basingstoke, Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., 158 ; (Addendum), 197
Oil Engine, 130 B.H.P., Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 248
Oil Engines, Fielding and Platt, Ltd., 247
Oil Engines, 100 B.H.P. and 5 B.H.P. with
Special Fuel Oil Injection, Blackstone Company, Ltd., 207
Petrol Engines, High-speed, Piston Temperatures and Heat Flow in, Professor A. H. Gibson, 122, 148
Petters, Ltd., Twin-cylinder Marine and other Engines, 247
Portable Steam Engines at Brussels Exhibition, 242
Six-cylinder Heavy Oil Engine, 300 B.H.P., L. Gardner and Sons, Ltd., 422
Steam versus the Diesel Engine, Sir John Biles, 660, 672
Tangyes Oil Engines, 247
Temperature Variation and Heat Stresses in Diesel Engines, Robert Sulzer, 379, 391,
420
Triple - expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine, Hathorn, Davey and Co., Ltd., 438, 439
15,000 B.H.P. Two-cycle Double-acting Diesel Engine, Blohm and Voss, 134
Two-stroke Crude Oil Engine, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 108
Vickers-Petters 100 H.P. Oil Engine, 247
Werkspoor Marine Oil Engine, 193
ENGINE-ROOM—see Ships, Naval Matters
Engineering in America and Great Britain, 127 ;
(Letter), 152
Engineering, Naval—see Ships, Naval Matters Engineering Plant at Olympia, 491
A.C.E. Cube and other Concrete Mixers, “ Tonkin ” Mixer for Concrete and other Material, Australia Concrete Machinery Company, 492
“ Cling Surface ” for Belt Dressing, Thomas and Bishop, Ltd., 493
Combined Screening and Crushing Plant, Concrete Block-making and Mixing Machinery, Winget, Ltd., 491
Concrete Mixer “ Roll,” the “ Exe ” Hoist Builders and Contractors’ Plant, Ltd., 491
Concrete Mixers, John Fowler and Co. (Leeds),
Ltd., 491
Hydraulic Block and Brick Moulding Machine, Edge-runner Mortar Mill, Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., 493
“ Klippon ” Scaffolding Bracket, P. E.
Helme and Co., 492
Scaffolding, Tubular, Scaffix Scaffolding Ties, “ Conforms ” Steel Shuttering, &c., Scaffolding (Great Britain), Ltd., 493
Sewage Purification Plant, Tuke and Bell, 492
Tubes, Brass and Copper, Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd., 492
Window Frames, Variety of, from Standardised Units, John T. Beacon Windows, Ltd, 492
Esholt Sewage Works, New, Opening of, 530 Excavator, Oil-engine Driven Dragline, Ruston
and Hornsby, Ltd., 418, 419
EXHIBITIONS :
Agricultural Machinery at Brussels Exhibition, 242
British Industries Fair, London and Bir
mingham, 80, 205, 247, 260
Building Exhibition at Olympia, 472, 491
Electrical Exhibition at Osaka, 412
International Foundry Trades Exhibition, 630
International Road Congress and Exhibition, 494
Leipzig, Technical Fair at, 286
Paris Industrial Fair, 557
Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 37 ; for Exhibits, see Various Headings.
EXPERIMENTS upon the Skin Friction of Smooth Surfaces, W. G. A. Perring, 381
Experiments—see also Ships
Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media. For List of Papers, see Associations, &c., Society Faraday
Eyres, Reginald J., What is Sea Speed ? 392
F FACTORY—see Works
Fairs—see Exhibitions
Feed Water—see Rail-way Locomotives
Feitknecht, Dr. W.» Crystal Growth in Re
crystallised Metals, 317
Finance and Industry in France, 417
Firefloat, a Motor, Merry weather and Sons, 192
Fish-plates—see Railways
Flanging Press for Bridge Flooring, Davy Brothers, Ltd., 674
Fleming, A. P. M., and J. H. Crossley, Industrial Electric Heating, 669
Flour-milling Machinery, Lieut.-Colonel F. W Turner, 635, 645, 670
Flow of Water through Soil, 315
Fluctuations in Prices—see Annual Articles
Forthcoming Engagements, 30, 60, 86, 114 140, 170, 200, 230, 258, 284, 312, 340, 372’ 400, 428, 456, 484, 512, 540, 568, 596, 624’ 654, 680
Founder of Technical Education, 70
FOUNDRY EXHIBITS AT THE ROYAL
AGRICULTURAL HALL :
630
Air Compressors, Broom and Wade, 633
Core-making Oils, Spermoline, Ltd., Beecroft and Partners, 632, 633
Cupola Construction, Internationa’. Foundry Equipment Company, Pneu’.ec Machine Company, 633
Foundry Sand-preparing Machine, T. Ketin and R. Thiriart, 631
High-speed Moulding Machine, Sand Sifter, and Sand Mill, Universal System of, Machine Moulding Company, 631, 632
Jolt Moulding Machine, Hand-operated, Denbigh Engineering Company, 632
List of other Exhibitors, 633
Magnetic Separator, Rapid Magnetting Company, 631, 632
Mill for Mixing Sea Sand and Oil for Coremaking, Fordath Engineering Company 633
National Physical Laboratory Exhibits, 630
Pneumatic Sand Sifter, Britannia Foundry Company, 631
Spark Arrester, Pneulee Machine Company, 632, 633
X-ray Examination of Metals, 630
FREIGHT Rates in Belgium, 546
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES :
29, 59, 85, 113, 139, 169, 199, 229, 257, 283
311, 339, 371, 399, 427, 455, 483, 51], 539’
567, 595, 62-3, 653, 679
Advancing Costs, 113
Advancing Prices, 455
Agricultural Engineering, 455
Alpine Railway, 113
Automatic Couplings, 139
Aviation, 623
Brest-Casablanca Cable, 595
Case-hardening, 483
Cham bon Barrage, 595
Cheap Fuels, 679
Coal, 679
Coal Production, 85, 229
Coal Strikes, 483
Colliery Industry, 427
Colonial Works, 29, 311
Concrete Piling, 199
Continuous Brakes, 199, 653
Credit Restrictions, 283
Currency Depreciation, 399
Electric Vehicles, 567
Electrical Ploughing, 371
Electricity on the Farm, 371
Electricity Tariffs, 427
European Commercial League, 311
Export Trade, 595
Ferry Boats, 229
Floating Docks, 229
Flood Protection, 59, 139
Foreign Trade, 139, 257, 399
French Navy, 257
Fuel Economies, 283
Higher Import Duties, 169
Hydraulic Works, 567
Hydro-electric Plants, 595
Import Duties, 283 *
Import Tariffs, 399
Industrial Burdens, 169
International Steel Union, 567, 623
Iron and Steel Production, 199
Iron and Steel Trades, 339
Joy Stick, 59
Miners’ Wages, 139
Moto? Cars, 199
Motor Fuels, 311,. 455
Narrow-gauge Railways, 511
Naval Air Force, 169
Oil Borings, 539
Paris Sewage, 623, 653
Paris Water Supply, 455
Pig Iron Production, 539
Port of Nantes, 311
Port of Rouen, 257
Power Alcohol, 113
Production Costs, 85
Public Works, 679
Rail Motors, 85
Rail Union, 29, 339, 427, 539
Railway Accident, 59
Railway Progress, 511
Railway Rates, 399
Reparations and Public Works, 539
Rhine Canal, 653
Rhine-Rhone Canal, 511
Rove Tunnel, 29, 623
Russian Trade, 483
Saigon Arsenal, 85
Scrap Iron, 113
Seaborne Traffic, 339
Seaplane Trials, 283
Selling Prices, 483
Shipbuilding, 113, 229
Shipping, 339
Strikes in Belgium, 29
Suburban Traffic, 169
Tank Steamer, 539
The Situation, 511
Trade Future, 257
Trade Outlook, 59, 567
Trade Restrictions, 653
Transalpine Railway, 59
Tunnel Ventilation, 427
Tunnelling the Vosges, 139
Wages and Production, 595
FREQUENCY Variations, &c.—see Wireless 1 elegraphy
'Fr^AOr!’JOme AsP°('ts °f, w. A. Benton, 403, 430, 458
Fuel Distributing Gear’ Ruston and Hornsby, -L-J LCL. 9 vUo
Fue! Research, Report on the Coal Industry, Professor Henry E. Armstrong, 524
Fuel Technology, 333
Furnace Production, Requirements for, Metal
• or Mineral, Gas-fire Hardening Shop, Gibbons Brothers, 248
Furnaces and Combustion, 102 ; (Letter), 123
Furnaces, Gas-fired, Incandescent Heat Company, Ltd., 248
Fuse—see Electrical Matters
G GAS Industry, Education in the, F. W. Goodenough, 644
Gas Oil for Petrol Engines, Parsons Motor Company, Ltd., 412
Gases at High Temperatures, Influence of, A.
Glynne Lobley and Douglas Jepson, 318
Gasworks Structures, Electrically Welded, J. Newell Reeson, 252
Gear Shaper, Super-accurate Production of Spur Gears on the Gear Shaper, H. Walker, 316
Gear, Toothless, Garrard Gears, Ltd., 304
Gearing—see Involute
Gearing, Hydro-mechanical—see Ships
Genders, R., Macrostructure of Cast Metals, 317
General Strike, 527
Geological Congress at Madrid, 78
German Steel and Coal Trust, A New, 382
Gibson, Professor A. H., on Piston Temperatures and Heat Flow in High-speed Petrol Engines, 122, 148
Goggles, Protective Effect of, J. and R. Fleming, Ltd., 251
I Good, E. T., World Steel Trade and Britain’s Share, 149
I Goodenough, F. W., Education in the Gas Industry, 644
i Greaves, R. H., and J. A. J ones, Tensile Strength and Brinell Numbers, 630
H HALL, Dr. R. E., on Boiler Water Conditioning, 233
Hally, George, Electric Train Testing on the Metropolitan Railway, 514, 542
[Hammer, Power, 30-Cwt. Electro-pneumatic,
B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 533
Harbour and Dock Engineering, Development of, Vernon-Harcourt Lecture, Sir C. Kirkpatrick, 24
Harvey, William, Traditional Architectural Forms and their Structural Efficiency, 374
Heat Transmission—see Electrical Matters
Henderson, A. C. F., Outlook for Shipbuilding, 349, 362
Herbert, E. G., Apparatus for Measurement of Cutting Temperatures, 24, 225, 238, 245 ; (Letters), 276, 296
Heterogeneity, &c.—see Iron and Steel, Report on
High Efficiency-^—see Engines
Highway Bridges—see Bridges
Hill, Captain G. T. R., Tailless Aeroplane, 463, 498, 501
Hobbs, Engineer-Captain L. M., Recent Modifications to Water-tube Boilers of the Three-drum Type, 405
Hume-Rothery, W., Intermetallic Compounds, 345
Hydraulic Cargo Cranes on the Motor Liner Asturias, Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, Ltd., 364
Hydraulic Developments of the Midi Railway in the Ossau Valley, 376
Hydraulic Governor, A New, Percy Pitman, 191
Hydraulic Press, Double-action, Wm. Grice and Sons, 450
Hydraulic Works in Sao Paulo, 334
Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1925, 223
Hydro-electric Supply, Swiss, Alfred R. .Sieveking, 519
Hydro-mechanical Gear—see Ships
I ILLUMINATION and Photometry, Glossary of Terms Used in, 79
India, Reinforced Concrete Retaining Walls in, 390
Indian Irrigation, 1921-1924, 388, 402
Industrial Locomotives, Societe John Cockerill, 532
Industry and Trade, 390
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
Instruments, Various, at the Physical and
Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 38
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines
Intermetallic Compounds, Researches on the
Nature, Properties, &c., of, W. Hume-Rothery, 345
International Geological Congress, 78
International Road Congress and Exhibition, 494
International Shipping Conference, 468 International Tests—see Aeronautics
Involute Internal Gearing, H. Walker, 146, 172
IRON AND STEEL :
“ Bond between Concrete and Steel,” 160
British Steel, 583
Cleaning Blast-furnace Gases by Electricity, 588
Continental Production of Iron, 369
German Iron and Steel Production in 1925, 157
Hardening and Tempering of High-speed Steel, A. R. Page, 630
Hardness of Carbon Steels at High Temperatures, I. G. Slater and T. H. Turner, 629
International Iron and Steel Agreements, 408
Iron and Steel Production in 1925, 95
Light Alloys or Steel ? 528
Mass, Effect of, in the Heat Treatment of Nickel Steel, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Others, 628
Nickel-Copper Alloy, H. J. Tapsell and J. Bradley, 346
Past and Future of the Steel Industry, Sir W. P. Rylands, 574, 583
Quenching, 216
Report on the Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 601
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
Safe Loads and Endurance of Steels under
Repeated Bending Stresses, 130
Sandviken, Steel Strip Rolling at, 466, 470
Silicates and Steel Ingots, J. H. S. Dickenson, 602
Some Special Steels, Hadfields, Ltd., 407
Steel Rails Production in America, 504
Tensile Strength and Brinell Numbers, R. H.
Greaves and J. A. Jones, 630
Ukrainian Iron and Steel Industry, Development of, 412
United Steel Companies’ Works, Tar-distilling Plant, W. C. Holmes and Co., 68, 72 World Steel Trade and Britain’s Share, E. T.
Good, 149
IRRIGATION—see also Indian
Irrigation Schemes, Canal de Castilla, 447
Irrigation Works, Van Ryneveld’s Pass, 54 Italy, Water Power in, 98
J JOHNSTON, E. W., Lubricating Oils for Heavy
Oil Engines, 615
Jubilee of the Telephone, 636
Jutland, Battle of, 545
Jutland, Lessons of, 555
K KENT, J. L., Experiments on Mercantile
Ship Models in Waves, 381
Kent, W. L., Brittle Ranges of Bronze, 318
Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in English
Towns and Cities, 433 ; (Letter), 580
L LANGERBRUGGE—see Electrical Matters
Launches and Trial Trips, 54, 83, 137, 197, 309, 425, 509, 593, 621, 654
Lawn Mower, Motor-driven, Dennis Brothers, 248
LEADERS.
1925—A Retrospect of, 15
Aeroplane and the Car, 16
Civil Engineering, 16
Education, 16
Industry, 16
Locomotives, 16
Marine Engineering, 15
Adhesives, 500
Agricultural Engineering, 128
All-steel Passenger Rolling Stock, 472
“ Black Spot,” The, 299
British Steel, 583
Chemists and Power Plant Problems, 612
Coal and Economics, 556
Comparative Performances of Air Heaters, 668
Comparison of Power Stations, 387
Credibility of Boiler Tests, 156
Cutting Temperatures, 245
Design of Air Heaters, 300
Dreadnought Anniversary, 155
Education and the Employee, 639
Electricity in Mines, 444
Electricity Supply, 101, 327
Engineering in America and Great Britain, 127
Foreigrer on British Railways, 388
French Navy, 471
Furnaces and Combustion, 102
Future of the Economiser, 74
General Strike, 527
Heat Transmission Aspect of a Power Station, 416
Improvement in Boiler Design, 499
Lessons of Jutland, 555
Liberty of the Subject, 583
Light Alloys or Steel ? 528
Limiting Stresses, 472
Metallurgical Education, 45
Misunderstandings about Steam, 185
Naval Construction, 443
Naval Engineers, 499
Navy Estimates, 271
New Cruisers, 215
Power Factor, 186
Privately-owned Railway Wagon, 415
Quenching, 216
Railway Gear, 358
Rebuilding the German Navy, 639
Royal Naval Engineer Officers, 328
Sixty Years Ago and To-day, 45
Status of Naval Engineer Officers, 357
“ The Engine-room Department Never Fails,” 667
Too Many Institutions ? 272
Torsionmeters, 73
Variety in Design, 246
Wages Boards for the Coal Industry, 556
Water Capacity of Boilers, 611
LEATHER for Belting, Chrome-tanned Heat Resisting, &c., Henry Beakbane, 249
Leipzig, Technical Fair at, 286
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS :
England, North of, 26, 56, 82, 110, 136, 166, 196, 227, 254, 280, 308, 336, 368, 397, 424, 452, 480, 508, 536, 564, 592, 620, 650, 676
Lancashire, 25, 54, 83, 109, 135, 166, 195, 225, 253, 279, 307, 335, 367, 395, 423, 451, 479, 507, 535, 563, 591, 619, 649, 676
Midlands and Staffordshire, 25, 54, 81, 109, 135, 165, 195, 225, 253, 279, 307, 335, 367, 395, 423, 451, 479, 507, 534, 563, 591, 619, 649, 675
Scotland, 27, 57. 82, 111, 137, 167, 196, 227, 255, 28], 308, 337, 369, 397, 425, 453, 481, 509, 537, 564, 592, 621, 651, 677
Sheffield, 26, 56, 81, 110, 136, 165, 196, 226, 254, 280, 308, 336, 368, 396, 424, 452, 480, 508, 536, 564, 592, 620, 650, 676
Wales and Adjoining Counties. 27, 57, 82, 111, 137, 167, 197, 227, 255, 281, 309, 337, 369, 397, 425, 453, 481, 509, 537, 565, 593, 621, 651, 677
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :
Air Pollution, J. K. Best, 580 ; John B. C. Kershaw, 580
Bats versus Mosquitoes, Henry Home, 617
Boiler Design, Improvements in, H. Loftier, 530 ; G. R. Crammond, 580
British Imports, Exports and Employment, W. T. Hudson, 123
British Industries Fair, A. L. Johnson, 363
British Locomotives, 1825 -1924 : No. XLIL, E. L. Ahrons, 42 ; John Poole, 9
Business Situation in England, W. E. Bailey 124
Choice of Steels for Engineering Work, J Mohn, 251 ; A. P. Hague, 384
Coal and Economics, J. Golder, 617 ; Arthur Oates, 649
Combustion Chambers for Pulverised Coal, Leonard Harvey, 123
Commercial Airship. S. H. Phillips, 296
Concrete Roads, W. A. Trevor Taylor, 363
Consistency of Steam Tables, E. B. Wedmore 334
Culture—see Training
Cutting Temperatures, Edward G. Herbert, 276 ; Charles R. Darling, 296
Ea' ly Steam Power in Agriculture, W. Worby Beaumont, 673
Electric Vehicles Association, J. C. Elvy, 80
Electricity Supply, J. F. Raggett, 384
Empire Trade Expansion, Colonial Trade, 42
Engineering in America and Great Britain, Bertram Austin, 152 ; W. Francis Lloyd, 152
Engineering Foundation, E. Kilburn Scott 412
Foreign Tool Steel, Safety First, 251
Future of the Economiser, George Tansley, 95 ; A. I. Mieville, 152
Gyratory Traffic, A. S. E. Ackermann, 580
High-efficiency Oil Engine, S. F. C., 363
Improved Steam Turbines, Daniel Adamson, 124
Institution of Fuel Technology, Leonard Harvey, 334
Jacob Perkins’ Engineering Works “To Let,” C. R. K., 363
Lancashire Boiler, An Old, Wilson Boilermakers, Ltd., 124
Limiting Factor, Stanley P. Christie, 412
Locomotive Design, Charles J. Toth, 334
Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 80
Microscopic Analysis of Fino Grits, J. S. Owens, 80
Motor Trains, Wm. Hy. Robson, 531
Petrol Engine Conversion, Patrick Gay, 251 ;
Parsons Motor Company, 296
Power Station Design, A. L. Masterman, 222
Road Corrugations, Alfred Weale, 9 : Thos.
H. Webster, 42
Starting-up Steam Plants, H. D., 465, 531 ;
A. Fleming Browne, 531
Steam Locomotive, F. W. Dean, 95
Super-accuracy, A. F. A., 384
The Two James and the Two Stephensons, A. M. H. Solomon, 668
Ton-miles and Piston Valves, J. G. H. Warren 80
Torsion Meters, Geo. T. Pardoe, 95 ; Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd., 222
Training of Engineers, C. L. Bryant, 222, 334 (with Editorial Note) ; John D. Troup, 277 ; Hugh P. Vowles, 277 ;
E. E. Simpson, 277 ; R. Opie, 296
Unpublished Letter bv William James,
S. J. A. Cotterell, 617
Water-cooled Combustion Chambers, P. V. Vernon, 530
Waterloo Bridge, E. W. Dickinson, 95 ;
O. B. I. T., 465
Whirling Speeds of Drum Rotors, P. Fearn, 222 ; T. M. Naylor, 277
LIBERTY of the Subject, 583
| Liddell, J. M., on British Standard Unit Loading for Highway Bridges, 119
Light Alloys—see Alloys
Limiting Stresses, 472
LINOLEUM MACHINERY :
90, 116, 150, 180, 202, 232
Calendering, &c., 150
Cement, The, 90
Cork Grinding, 116
Inlaid Linoleum, 180
Inlaid and Printed Linoleum, 202
Mixing, 116
Paint Making, 232
Printed Linoleum, 203
For Details—see Illustrations, Names and Subjects
LITERATURE :
Reviews :
Applied Elasticity, S. Timoshenko and J. M. Lessells, 417
Bats, Mosquitoes and Dollars, 156 ; (Letter), 617
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie, 1925, Conrad Matschoss, 103, 187
Chemistry of the Drying Oils, R. S. Morrell and H. R. Wood, Volatile Solvents and Thinners, Noel Heaton, 473
Economics of Carburetting and Manifolding,
R. W. A. Brewer, 359
English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800, H. Hamilton, 301, 444
Geschicte des Eisens, Dr. Otto Johannsen, 39
Industrial Applications of Coal Tar Products, H. M. Banbury and A. Davidson, 445
Oil and Colour Chemistry Monographs : Cellulose Ester Varnishes, F. Sproxton, Blacks and Pitches, H. M. Langton, 103
Oilfield Exploration and Development, A.
Beeby Thompson, 102
Railway Accidents, Legislation and Statistics, 1825-1924, H. Raynar Wilson, 74
Smoke Problem of Great Cities, Sir Napier Shaw and J. S. Owens, 246
Some Reminiscences: Seventy-five Years’ Work in Civil Engineering, Professor H. Adams, 216
The Engineer and the Prevention of Malaria, Henry Home, 585
Transmission Circuits for Telephone Communication, K. S. Johnson, 103
LITERATURE {continued):
Short Notices :
Disease of Unemployment and the Cure Sir E. W. Petter, 39, 157
Electrical Precipitation, Sir Oliver Lodge, 103
Fuel Economy and Smoke Prevention, J. B.
C. Kershaw, 501
Fuel Oil Viscosity-Temperature Diagram, Lieut.-Commander G. B. Vroom, U.S. Navy, 417
Industrial Furnaces, W. Trinks, 417
Insulated Electric Cables, Vol. I., C. J.
Beaver, 39
Loud Speakers, C. M. R. Balbi, 473
Materials Testing : Theory and Practice,
J. H. Cowdrey and R. G. Adams, 124, 389
Modern Railway Signalling, M. G. Tweedie and T. S. Lascelles, 501
Oscillographs, J. T. Irwin, 39
Photo-electricity, Stanley Allen, 39
Practical D.C. Armature Winding, L. Wolli-son, 39
Practical Road Engineering, H. E. Goldsmith, 216
Practical Surveying, G. W. Usill, 246, 445
“ Proceedings ” of the Fourth International
Congress of Refrigeration, 216
Processes of Flour Manufacture, Percy A.
Amos, 157
Pyrometers, Ezer Griffiths, 246, 389
Science of Flight and its Practical Application, Vol. I., Captain P. H. Sumner, 473
Surveying for Settlers, W. Crossley, 473 Waterworks Administration, W. H. Parsons, 301, 445
Books Received :
Advertisers’ ABC, 1926, T. B. Browne Ltd., 557
Annales des Ponts et ChaussGes, 585
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 473
Annftli dei Lavori Pubblici gia°Giornale del Genio Civile, 74, 216, 473, 557, 669
Annual Report of the Society of Chemical Industry, &c., 669
Appareillage Electrique, P. Maurer, 557
Association of British Engineers in the
Argentine Republic, Journal, 1925, 473
Ayrton, Hertha, 1854-1923, Evelyn Sharp,
Beitrag zu den Grundlagen der Schnellsu-fenden Halbdieselmotoren, Dr.-Ing. Karl Buchner, 301
“ Bennis ” Standard Evaporation Tables, G. A. Rossetti, 103
Birmingham Exchange Directory of Members, &c., 633
Book of the Light Car, E. T. Brown, 389
British Malaya, Handbook to, 1926, Captain
R. L. German, 612
Bulk Cargoes, A. C. Hardy, 557
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXIV., No. 1, 1926, 669
Culvert’s Mechanics’ Almanac, 1926, F.
Nasmith, 39
Carburation et Carburateurs, L. Poincare 246
Cargo Handling at Ports, Brysson Cunningham, 585
Central Electric Stations in Canada, 557
Centrifugal Dryers and Separators, E. A.
Alliott, 301
Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue, D. M. Newitt, 389
Coal and Ash-handling Plant, J. D. Troup,
Colliery Manager’s Pocket-book, 103
Colliery Year Book, &c., 417
Combustibles InfGriours et de Remplace-ment, Pierre Appell, 557
Combustion in Power Plant, T. A. Marsh, 389
Composition of Coal : Plant Cuticles in Coal, Safety in Mines Research Board, V. H. Legg and R. V. Wheeler, 124
Concrete Year Book, O. Faber and H. L.
Childe, 103
Corrosion: Causes and Prevention, F. N.
Speller, 669
Cours de Thermodynamique, G. Bruhat, 359
Das Deutsche Warenzeichenrecht, Dr. W.
Pinzger and Dr. F. Heinemann, 389
Der Behalterbau, Part I., E. Broschat, 669
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Vol. VI.,
S. Acid-Tetryl, Sir Edward Thorpe, 359
Dictionary of Costing, R. H. J. Ryall, 557
Die Entwickelung des Dieselmaschine, Professor R. Schottler, 359
Die Erfindung der Lokomotive und ihre Entwicklung in Oesterreich, Ing. F. X. Saurau, 301
Die Technische Mechanik, Vol. II., Festig-heitslehre, M. Samter, 301
Diesel Maschinen, Vol. IL, 39
Draught and Capacity of Chimneys, J. G.
Mingle, 216
Eclairage Electrique, P. Maurer, 103
Electrical Contracting, H. Ayres Purdie, 669
Electricity, Applied, S. Timoshenko and
J. M. Lessells, 246
Elementary Electrical Training, O. R.
Randall, 473
Elements of Motor Vehicle Design, C. T. B.
Donkin, 669
Elements of Reinforced Concrete Design, H. V. Crabtree, 157
Engineering Index, 1925, 585
Engineers’ Year Book for 1926, 473
Engines of High Output, H. R. Ricardo, 301
English Clubs, A List of, 1926, E. C. Austen
Leigh, 301
Enlarged Heat Drop Tables, H. Moss and
Professor H. L. Callendar, 246
Experiment to Determine Corrections to Sounding in River Gauging, P. Phillips, 216
Fuel Oil Viscosity-temperature Diagram, Lieut.-Commander G. B. Vroom, 473
Gas Engineers’ Pocket-book, H. O’Connor, 557
Gas and Fuel Analysis for Engineers, A. H. Gill, 585
Gayer’s Acreage Tables, A. F. Gayer, 473
Handbuch der Schiffbau Industrie, Deutsche Wirtschafts Biicherei, 301
H.M. Stationery Office Publications :
Condor Engine, Series III., 417
Hydrology and Ground Water, J. M. Lacy, 473
Military Engineering, Vol. I., Mechanical Engineering, 359
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
H.M. Stationery Office Publications (continued) :
Reports, Economic and Industrial Conditions :
Argentine Republic, H. O. Chalkley, 246
Belgium and Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Economic Situation in, J. Picton Bagge, 58
Food Investigation Board, 1924, 124
France, J. R. Cahill, 39
India, T. M. Ainscough, 103
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyrenaica, 103
Paraguay, F. W. Paris, 157
Venezuela, H. A. Hobson, 124
Water Transport Catalogue of the Science
Museum, 557
Hiitte Taschenbuch der Stoffkunde, Dr.-Ing.
A. Stauch, 246
Hydraulics : Gauging of Sewage Flows, &c.,
T. Barlow, 359
“ Ice and Cold Storage ” Trades Directory, 103
If I were a Labour Leader 1 Ernest J. P.
Benn, 669
Illustrated Technical Dictionaries, Weaving and Woven Fabrics, A. Schlomann, 301 Industrial Arts Index, H. W. Wilson Company, 633
Industrial Furnaces, Vol. II., W. Trinks, 389
International Review of the Science and
Practice of Agriculture, 557
Journal of the Institute of Metals, G. Shaw
Scott, 216
Kelly’s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 669
Laboratory Experiments for the Engineering Student, H. Threfall, 157
Law Relating to Injuries to Workmen, F. G.
Neave, 669
L’Enseignement Technique, Bulletin
Mensuel, &c., 301, 557
Les Moteurs a Explosion, E. Marcotte, 557
Les Progres de la Fonderie : Moulage et Fusion, C. Derulle, 669
Locomotive Superheating and Feed-water i
Heating, 557
Locks and Lockmaking, F. J. Butler, 669
Marine Oil Engine, Questions for B.O.T.
Examinations on, W. C. MacGibbon, 246
Mass Production Equipment, P. Gates, 103
Mathematics for Engineers, Parts I. and II.,
W. N. Rose, 473
Mechanical Draught, J. E. Lister and C.
Harman Harris, 669
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book, 157
Metal Spraying, T. H. Turner and N. F.
Budgen, 301
Mines, The (Working Facilities and Support Act, 1923), 246
Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Lake Plateau Basin of the Nile, Dr. FI. E. Hurst, 39
Modern Drying Machinery, H. B. Cronshaw, 301
Modern Telpherage and Ropeways, Herbert
Blyth, 669
Motor Boat and Marine Motor Annual, 557
Motor Ship Reference Book, 1926, 301
Original Book of the Ford, R. T. Nicholson, 669
Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of
Mankind, Garet Garrett, 557
Outbreaks of Fire, Sydney Gompertz, 669
People’s Year Book, 1926, 39
Piasterwork Construction, G. P. and G. E.,
Blankart, 301
Portland Cement and Concrete, Making and
Testing of, 557
Powering of Ships, T. C. Tobin, 557
Practical Electricians Pocket Book, 157
Practical Engineer ” Electrical Pocket
Book, 1926, Conrad Arnold, 124
“ Practical Engineer ” Mechanical Pocket Book, 103
Practical Lessons in Carpentrv and Joinery,
G. Ellis, 669
Practical Marine Diesel Engineering, L. R.
Ford, 103
Practical Saw Doctor, R. W. Todd, 301
Principles of Electric Power Transmission and Distribution, L. F. Woodruff, 359
Principles and Practice of Surveying, C. B.
Breed and G. L. Hosmer, 585
“ Proceedings ” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 557
“ Proceedings ” of the American Society for
Testing Materials, Vol. XXV., 389
Profit-sharing, M. E. Askwith, 359
Public Ground-water Supplies in Illinois, 557
Quantum Theory of the Atom, G. Birtwistle, 301
Radio Press Year-book, 1926, 301
Refrigeration, Introduction to, H. C. Kenn, 473
Reid’s Handy Colliery Guide and Directory, 389
Report of the Bridge Sub-committee on Track Stresses.. 1925, 585
Secret of High Wages, B. Austin and W.
Francis Lloyd, 389
Self-instruction for Students in Gas Supply, “ Mentor,” 246
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 359
Specification, F. Chatterton, 359
Stainless Iron and Steel, J. H. G. Monypenny, 557
Stars and their Uses, E. B. Leggett, 39
Steam Turbines, G. Belluzzo, 633
Stress Analysis of Bow Girders, 473
Studies of Bond between Concrete and Steel, 216
Superheat Engineering Data, 612
Surface Water Supply of Canada : Atlantic
Drainage, &c., 1922-3, 1923-4, 74
Surveying, W. N. Thomas, 612
Sweden Year Book, 1926, 669
Technical Conference of State Utility Commission Engineers, 216
Technisches Worterbuch, Ausdriicke des Maschinen-und Schiffbaues, Erich Krebbs, 557
Technology Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, 157
The Engineer and Prevention of Malaria, Henry Home, 417
The “ Express ” per Gross and per Dozen Reckoner, J. Gall Inglis, 301
LITERATURE (continued'):
Books Received (continued):
Theoretical Phvsics, Introduction to, Vol. II., A. Haas, 246
Theory and Practice of Radio Frequency Measurements, E. B. Moullin, 669
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Incorporated Swansea Exchange, 669
“ Transactions ’’ of the Engineering Association of Malaya, 1924, 417
“ Transactions ” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 359
Transport and Handling of Mineral Acids, F. Hirsch, 669
Turbo-blowers and Compressors, W. J. Rear ton, 103
Uber die Natur der Elek tri zi tab, Leo Gilbert, 301
Union des Ingenieurs Sortis des Ecoles Speciales de Louvain, Bulletin, 103
Universal Directory of Railway Officials, 1926, 612
Use of Sodium Silicate for Sizing of Paper,
T. E. Blasweiler, 633
Vibrations in Engines and Mach nery, A. T.
J. Kersey, 216
Way to the Smokeless City, W. H. Casmey and Sir E. Hoyle, Bart., 359
Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1926, S. R. Potter, 389
Year Book of Wellington Harbour Board, New Zealand, 417
Zerkleinerungsvorrichtungen und Mahlan-lagen, Carl Naske, 669
LLOYD’S Register—see Ships
Lobley, A. Glynne, and Douglas Jepson, on Influence of Gases at High Temperatures, 318 Locomotive, Electric Storage Battery, Competition, 673
Locomotives, Industrial Societe J ohn Cockerill, 532
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives ; also Annual Articles, Steam Locomotives.
Lovett, W. J., Comparative Freight Economics of a Cargo Vessel with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, 380
Low-temperature Carbonisation and Power Generation, 236
Lubricating Oil Depot, at Wandsworth, Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd., 526, 531
Lubricating Oils for Use on Heavy Oil Engines, E. W. Johnston, 615
M MACHINE TOOLS :
Automatic Lathe, Improved, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 278
Boring and Turning Mill, Vertical, Selson Engineering Company, Ltd., 474, 475
Change-speed Gear, Expanding Pulley, Barker and Co., 249
Grinding Attachment for Heavy Lathes, Herbert Hunt and Sons, 422
Hexagon Turret Lathe, Improved, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 642
Improved Thread-milling Machine, Buck and Hickman, Ltd., 578
Leipzig Fair Machine Tool Hall, Extensive and Varied Exhibits of Machines, chiefly in Motion, 286, 287
Milling Cutters, High Power, Inserted Tooth, &c., Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 249
Milling Cutters, High Power, Side and Face Cutter, Heavy Milling Operation, Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 249
Multiple Bar Shearing Machine, De Bergue and Co., Ltd., 100, 104, 105
Presses for Plastic Material or Hot Brass, Taylor and Challen, Ltd., 206
Testing Machine, Multiple-lever Universal, Joshua Buck ton and Co.; Ltd., 442, 446
MacNICOLL, Donald, Marine Turbine Governing and Forced Lubrication Failure Control, 266
Macrostructurc of Cast Metals, R. Genders, 317
Madras, Construction of a Breakwater Head at, Colin R. White, 464
M.A.N. Engine—see Engines
Manchester—see Water Supply
Mangnall-Irving System of Thrust Boring, 521, 522, 523
Marine Engines—see Engines ; also Annual Articles
Marine Gear—see Engines ; also Annual Articles
Marine Turbine Governing and Forced Lubrication Failure Control, Donald MacNicoll, 266
Marshall, C. W., Operating Costs of Electric Battery Vehicles, C. W. Marshall, 668
Measuring Small Fluid Pressures, An Electrical Method, H. A. Thomas, 88
Mechanical Engineering Exhibits, Various, 249 Metal Aeroplane—see Aeronautics
Metals, Single Crystals of, Professor H. C. H.
Carpenter, 559
Metallurgical Education, 45
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mineral Productions of New South Wales i.i 1925, 464
Mines and Quarries, U.S.A., Safety Working in, 562
Misunderstandings about Steam, 185
Mixing Machines—see Linoleum
Monceau-Fontaine—see Electrical Matters ; also Coal, Ac-
Mortimer, George, Die Casting of Aluminium Alloys, 292
Multiple Bar Shearing and Handling Equipments, 100, 104, 105
Murday Type Traction Recorder, 515
Murphy, Silver and Tin Alloys, 345
Murray, Matthew, G. F. Tyas, 268
N NAVAL Matters—see Ships
Naylor, T. M., Whirling Speeds of Drum Rotors.
89 ; (Letters), 222, 277
New South Wales Mining Industry, 289
Newcomen Society—see Associations
OBITUARY :
Ahrons, Ernest Leopold, 416
Bailie, John David, 74
Boswell, Samuel, 12
Carlisle, The Right Hon. Alexander Montgomery (Portrait), 300
Daniel, John, 348
Folland, Henry, 388
Fraser, Gordon H., 191
Herdt, Louis Anthyme, 501
Hird, Francis, 388
Holmes, Sir George (Portrait), 209
Hoyle, James Rossiter (Portrait), 328
Johnson, Claude Goodman, 444
Leslie, Sir Bradford (Portrait), 347
Lloyd, Arthur Llewellyn, 417
Moilliet, Georges, 577
Murphy, Martin, 156
Pickles, George, 428
Riley, R. Sanford, 577
Ward, Thomas W., 191
Watts, Sir Philip (Portrait), 329
Windsor, Cecil Stanley, 12
OIL Cooler, Reliance Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 162
Oil Engines—see Engines ; also Annual Articles
Oils—see also Lubricating
Omnibuses, Electric Trolley, at Ipswich, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, 493
Oswald-street Bridge, Glasgow, W. L. Scott, 62
p PAGE, A. R., Hardening and Tempering of High-speed Steel, 630
Painton, Edgar T., on Welding of Aluminium, 189
Paper Mill Plant, Modern Development of, W. W. Beaumont and Leslie N. Burt, 460, 476, 505
Paper Pulp in France, 645
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH :
Aeronautics, 29, 139, 653
Building, 140, 284
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 229, 427, 567
Dynamos and Motors, 29, 85, 113, 139, 169, 199, 229, 311, 339, 371, 399, 455, 483, 511, 623, 679
Electrical Appliances, 29, 199, 567, 653
Engines, Internal Combustion, 199, 229, 283, 399, 427, 511, 539, 595, 623, 653, 679
Engines, Steam, 139
Furnaces, 114, 283, 339, 596, 653, 680
Gas Producers, 483
Lighting and Heating, 539
Locomotives, 139, 653
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 30, 85, 230, 257, 456, 539, 653, 680
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 60, 85, 113, 339, 400, 427, 456, 512, 679
Metallurgy, 170, 199
Mining Machinery, 371
Miscellaneous, 30, 86, 114, 140, 170, 200, 230, 258, 284, 312, 340, 372, 400, 428, 484, 512, 540, 568, 596, 624, 654
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 140, 311
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 139, 257, 340, 680
Ships and Boats, 230, 481, 539, 596
Steam Generators, 59, 169, 283, 371, 483, 567 Switchgear, 59, 170, 229, 427, 511, 653, 679 Telegraphs and Telephones, 59, 113, 139,
170, 257, 283, 311, 339, 371, 399, 455, 483, 512, 595, 679
Tramways and Railways, 86, 257, 539, 596
Transformers and Converters, 29. 59, 85, 257, 311, 339, 427
Transmission of Power, 60, 85, 199, 339, 399, 567, 623
Turbine Machinery, 29, 85, 229, 371, 455, 595
Water Purification, 400
Welding, 230, 340, 540
PELTON Wheel, 3 B.H.P., with New Type Governor and Deflector, Percy Pitman, 191
Perring, W. G. A., Experiments upon the Skin Friction of Smooth Surfaces, 381
Personal and Business Announcements, 27 54, 83, 114, 137, 167, 197, 222, 309, 337, 369, 393, 425, 453, 484, 509, 540, 565, 624, 651, 680
Petrol-electric Rail Car, American, 361
Photographing Explosion Pressure Waves, 320
Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 37
Physics, Relationship of, to Aeronautical Research, H. E. Wimperis, 613
Pierrard, Monsieur A., Belgian Mercantile Marine, 660
Piston Temperatures, Professor A. H. Gibson. 148
Pitot-static Tubes, Design of, 94
Platinum Production in South Africa, 573
Platinum in the Transvaal, 295
Porter, Geoffrey, Heavy Oil Engines Installations, 277
Powdered Coal—see Coal
Power from Sea Waves, Suggested Method of Obtaining, Monsieur P. Van Vloten, 461
Power Stations—see Electrical Matters
Press, Flanging, for Bridge Flooring, Daw
Brothers, Ltd., 674 y
Presses—see Hydraulic ; also Machine Tools
Progress and Happiness, Professor A. E Kennelly, 162
PUMPS :
Centrifugal and Reciprocating Pumps
Tangyes, Ltd., 247 F ’
Combined Auxiliary Pumps for 30 000-
Kilowatt Steam Turbine, Sulzer Brothers 590
Co!?rbi^ Feed-water Heater and Pump, v\ orthington-Simpson, Ltd., 53
Efficient Waterworks Pumping Plant Hathorn, Davey and Co., Ltd , and J.’ Thompson, Ltd., 438, 439
Hydraulic Pump, West Hydraulic Engineer-ing Company, 52
Wapping Pumping Station of the London Hydraulic Power Company, 634, 638
Q QUEEN MARY Reservoir Cpnduit, 126, 131 142
Quick-hardening Cements, 590
R RADIO—see Wireless
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS :
All-steel Passenger Rolling Stock, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 472, 478 American Petrol-electric Rail Car, 361 Automatic Train Control in America, 93
Electric Train Testing on the Metropolitan Railway, George Hally, 514, 542
Fracturing of Fish-plates, N. Garrett Smith 435
Main Line Railway Electrification, Sir Philip Dawson and Professor S. Parker Smith 175, 233, 235, 342, 343 ; for Details, see Foreign Railways
Rail Production in America, 504
Railway Year, 358
Relaying Railway Track by Machine, A. W. Bretland, 75
Wagon, Privately Owned Railway, 415
British, Colonial, and Indian :
Ballasting the C.P.R. Tracks, 291
Bengal-Nagpur Railway, “ Garratt ” Locomotives, 586
Doubling the Inner Circle, 362
Foreigner on British Railways, 388
Great Southern Railways, Ireland, Relaying Track by Machine, A. W. Bretland, 75
Indian Railway Administration Report, 333
Indian State Saloons, Eastern Bengal Railway, 108
Metropolitan Railway, Electric Train Testing on, George Hally, 514, 542
Notes on British Railways by a Continental Engineer, 145, 178, 204, 236, 264, 288, 314, 358
Conclusions, 359
Electrification, 314
Goods and Traffic, 358
Interlocking and Signalling, 178
Management, 358
Passenger Traffic, 314
Permanent AVay, 178
Rolling Stock and Wagons, 236 ; Goods Wagons and Trucks, 237
Shunting and Switching, 288
Termini and Stations, Goods Stations, Running Sheds, 204
Locomotives Included in Notes on British Railways—see Railway Locomotives
Preston and Carlisle, New Loop Lines Between, 580
Waterloo Tube Station Reconstruction, 306
Foreign Railways :
Electric Traction on the Orleans Railway, H. Parodi, 408
Italy and Central Europe, Proposed New
Railways Between, 673
Main Line Railway Electrification :
U.S.A. North -Western States :
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway, 177, 234, 235
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, 175, 233, 235
Great Northern Railway, Cascade Tunnel, 177, 234, 235
Inland Empire Railroad, 177, 234, 235
U.S.A., South-Eastern States :
Norfolk and Western Railway, 342, 343
Virginian Railroad, 343, 344, 345
Midi Railway of France, Hydraulic Developments, 376
Swiss Federal Railways, Brugg Sub-station, 188
Water Power for the Paris-Orleans Railway Electrification, 584
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES :
General:
American Diesel-electric Locomotive, 268
American Eight-coupled Locomotives, 351
Automatic Train Control in America, 93
Economy in Axle-box Design, 503
Garratt Locomotive, R. H. Whitelegg, 392
Locomotive Feed-water Heater, Worthing
ton-Simpson, Ltd., 53
Locomotive Testing, Electric, 545
Single-phase 50-Cycle Electric Locomotive,
Fried. Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, 606
British, Colonial and Indian :
Notes on British Railways, 145 et seq.—see also Railways
Locomotives, 264
Locomotive Running and Management,
Shunting and Switching : Coal Premiums, 288
^°44()ern ^a^waY’ New 4—4—0 Type Engines,
Main Line Railway Electrification, Electric Locomotives for :
U.S.A. North-Western States, Milwaukee and St. Paul
176, 177, 233
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific
177, 234
Chicago, ^Railway,
Railway,
Great Northern Railway, 177. 234, 236 Inland Empire Railroad, 177, 234
U.S.A. South-Western States, Norfolk and Western Railway, 343, 344
Virginian Railroad, 345
Norfolk and Western Railway, New Locomotive, 4000 H.P. Two-unit Electric, American Locomotive Company, 96 (Two-page Supplement, January 22nd, 1926)
163
see Electrical Matters
New Floating, David Brown and Co.,
earners Adjustable, Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 249
Refractories : Fire-bricks and Bricks for Heat |
Insulating, Timmis and Co., 248
Refrigerator. Platen-Munters Ammonia Evapo | ration System, 220
Reinforced Concrete Retaining Walls in India, ' 386, 390
Relaying Track—sec Railways
Report—see Coal
Research and British Engineering Progress, 219
Research Exhibits at the Physical and Optical
Societies’ Exhibition, 37
Reservoir Conduit, Queen Mary, 126, 131, 142
Retaining Walls and Geostatic Theories, F. W.
Woods, 604
Ripping Steel Plates, Machine for, Noble and Lund, Ltd., 326, 332, 333
Road Congress, International, and Exhibition, 494
Rolling Stock—see Railways
Rosenhain, Dr. W., and Others, Effect of Mass
in the Heat Treatment of Nickel Steel, 628
Rylands, Sir W. P., Past and Future of the Steel
Industry, 574, 583, 600
Ryves, Reginald, Water Power Storage by Pumping, 602
s SAFE Loads and Endurance of Steels under
Repeated Bending Stresses, 130
Safety Working in United States Mines and Quarries, 562
Sand Blast Barrel, New, J. W. Jackman and
Co., Ltd., 618
Sandviken—see Iron and Steel
Scholarship Offer to Mining Engineers, 361
Scientific Exhibits at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 633
Screwing Machine, Simple Hand, Victor Engineering Company, Ltd., 194
Sea Waves, Suggested Method of Obtaining Power from, Monsieur P. Van Vloten, 461
Sewage Works, New Esholt, Opening of, 530 Sewer Pipes Laid by Thrust Boring Machine.
Mangnall Irving, 521, 522, 523
Shaughnessy, E. H., Rugby Wireless Station.
448
Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING :
See also Annual Articles
General:
Crane Equipment of Shipbuilding Berths, Ebenezer Smith, 406
Electric Propulsion of Ships, Eskil Berg, 275
Freight Economics of a Cargo Vessel, Comparative, with Reciprocating and with Diesel Machinery, W. J. Lovett, 380
Hydro-mechanical Transmission Gearing for Motor Ships, 179
International Shipping Conference, 468
Launching Problems, W. J. Berry, 350
Lloyd’s Register :
Annual Summary, 92
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 80, 446
Marine Engines—see Engines
Mercantile Ship Models in Waves, Experiments on, J. L. Kent, 381
Outlook for Shipbuilding, A. C. F. Henderson, 349, 362
Propeller Dimension Formulae, &c., Professor C. M. Carter, 381
Recent Liner Performances, 47
Ship W7ave Resistance, Comparison of Mathematical Theory with Experimental Results, W. C. S. Wigley, 381
Shipbuilding Costs, 664
Steering Gear, Electric Hydraulic, Dr. Hele-Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 506
Trials of the Motor Vessel Pacific Trader, Committee’s Report, 65
Trials of the Motor Vessel British Aviator, Engines Tested by Marine Oil Engines Trials Committee, 576
What is Sea Speed ? Reginald J. Eyres, 392
British Navy :
Dreadnought Anniversary, 155
H.M.S. Suffolk, 217
Launching Arrangements of H.M. Ships
Nelson and Rodney, W. J. Berry, 350
New Cruisers, 215
Naval Matters :
Engineering Branch of the Royal Navy, 486, 499
“ The Engine-room Department Never Fails,” 667
Heel and Trim, Method Used for Readily Correcting, A. W. Cluett, 406
Jutland, Battle of, A Retrospect, 545, 555
Naval Construction, 443
Naval Engineers, 499
Navy Estimates, 271
Rebuilding the German Navy, 639
Royal Naval Engineer Officers, 328, 330, 357
Status of Naval Engineers, 524, 547
Foreign Navies :
French Cruiser Duquesne, 440
French Navy, 471
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING {continued):
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels :
Asturias, R.M.S.P. Motor Passenger Liner, 14, 17, 18, 79, 240, 245 ; (Addendum), 281
Belgian Mercantile Marine, Monsieur A. Pierrard, 660
British Aviator, Motor Vessel, Engines Tested by Marine Oil Engines Trials Committee, 576
Motor Ship Danmark, Burmeister and Wain, Ltd., 265
Motor Ships for South America, William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., 321
Pacific Trader, Motor Vessel, Engines Tested by Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, Wm. Doxford and Sons, 65
Triple-screw Liner Laurentic, 465
SIEVEKING, Alfred R., Swiss Hydro-electric
Supply, 519 ; (Correction), 561
Silicates—see Iron and Steel
Silver and Tin Alloys, A. J. Murphy, 345
Sixty Years Ago, 9, 54, 79, 98, 124, 149, 187, 212, 246, 273, 293, 334, 351, 389, 409, 440, 465, 504, 523, 552, 588, 603, 641, 663
Sixty Years Ago and To-day, 45
Slater, I. G., and T. H. Turner, Hardness of
Carbon Steels at High Temperatures, 629
Sludge, Activated, Diffused-air Method of Treatment, 79
Smith, Ebenezer, Crane Equipment of Shipbuilding Berths, 406
Smith, N. Garrett, The Fracturing of Fishplates, 435
Societies—see Associations
Soft Soldering of Copper, Dr. T. B. Crow, 318
Softening of Strain-hardened Metals, &c., R.
W. Bailey, 292
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES :
83, 161, 194, 251, 278, 305, 421, 478, 504, 579, 618, 675
Aviation Service in South Africa, 618
Big Electric Hoist, 504
Bridges, New, 549
Briquette Manufacture Company, 421
Broken Hill Power Plant, 579
Broken Hill Power Scheme, 161
Cape Town’s Electrical System, 675
Consumption of Gas and Electricity in Johannesburg, 619
Demand for Railways, 675
Durban Ship Repairing Job, 549
Eight Hours’ Day, 478
Electric Railway Working, 579
Electrification of Natal Main Line, 83
Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 618
Factories in Liquidation, 161
Floating Dock at Table Bay, 675
Fruit Wagons, New, 579
Gas for Johannesburg, 504
Government Areas New Plant, 675
Important Ship Repair, 421
Industrial Progress, 83
Irrigation in Great Fish River Valley, 618
Irrigation of the Kalahari, 194
Kalahari Problem, 161
Labour-saving Elevators, 305
Large Gas Plant Wanted, 579
Large S.A.R. Orders, 305
Locomotives on Nigerian Railways, 83
Locomotives Ordered from Germany, 579
Metrovick Electric Winders, 675
Mineral Output, 161, 549
Mineral Output for 1925, 478
Motor Car Centre, 305
Municipal Enterprises, 549
Narrow-gauge Motor Truck, 618
Natal Railway Electrification, 194
New Cape Central Railway, 504
Novel Power Agreement, 194
Orders Lost Through Strike, 675
Petroleum in S.W. Africa, 478
Pig Iron Production, 251
Platinum Activities, 478
Platinum Production in the Transvaal, 278
Port Elizabeth’s Electrical Power, 161
Port Elizabeth Harbour Extension, 579
Power Station, Large, at Durban, 305
Power Station Mishap, 504
Pulp Binder Invented, 194
Railway Electrification, 504
Railway Rolling Stock, 549
Railways, New, 549
Rand-Cape Telephone Service, 618
Rand’s Record Output, 618
Record Workshop Job, 549
Refrigerating Plants, 549
Reservoirs Troubled by Silt, 194
Rhodesian Chrome for U.S.A., 478
Rhodesian Irrigation Project, 305
Rhodesia’s Mineral Riches, 194
Rock Hoist, A Large, 305
Union Irrigation, 161
Union’s 1925 Maize Crop, 305
Union Miniere’s New Plant, 675
Union Railway Budget, 579
Union Railways’ Traffic, 421
Union Rolling Stock, 161
Union Steel Corporation, 83
Water Valve, World’s Largest, 305
Witbank Super Power Station, 161, 478
World’s Largest Electric Hoist, 619
‘ SPREAD ” of Metal in Rolling, C. E. Davies, 598, 626
Standardisation in Industry, 293 Stations, Railway—see Railways Status of Naval Engineers, 524 Steam, Misunderstandings About, 185 Steam Tables, Consistency of, 272 Steam Turbine Plant for an Old Cotton Mill,
W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd., 52
Steam Turbines, Improved, for Turbo -generators, Oerlikon Ltd., 105 ; (Letter), 124
Steel—see Iron
Stockdale, Dr. D., Aluminium-copper-tin Alloys, 318
Striation Due to Working or Corrosion, Monsieur A. M. Portevin, 346
Stroborama, Monsieurs Laurent and Augustin Seguin, 506
Sulzer, Robert, Temperature Variation and Heat Stresses in Diesel Engines, 379, 391, 420 Super-accurate Production of Spur Gears on the Gear Shaper, H. Walker, 316 ; (Letter), 384
Superheating of Steam, Automatic, 516
Sutlej Valley Irrigation Project, 644 Swiss Hydro-electric Supply, Alfred R. Sieve-king, 519 ; (Correction), 561
T TAR Distilling Plant at Steel Works, W. C. Holmes and (Jo., Ltd., 68, 72
Taylor, J. E., Propagation of Electric Waves, 249 |
Telegraphy and Telephony, Wireless—see Wireless
Telephone, Jubilee of the, 636
Television, Transmitting and Receiving Instruments, J. L. Baird, 641
Temperature Variation—see Engines
Testing Machines—see also Machine Tools
Testing Machines :
Izod Impact Testing, 207
Rubber Testing, 206, 207
Spring Testing, 207
W. and T. Avery, 206
Tests of a Back-pressure Steam Turbine, Monsieur M. Hentsch, 462
Thermionic Generators, &c.—see Wireless Telegraphy
Thermo Element, Vacuum, Moll and Berger, 38
Thomas, H. A., An Electrical Method of
Measuring Small Fluid Pressures, 88
Thompson, Lindley, and H. Walmsley, Testing Static Transformers, 158
Thrust Boring, Mangnall Irving System, Sewage
Pipes Laid by, 521, 522, 523
Time Taken to Start a Stand-by Power Plant, 450 ; (Letter), 465
Too Many Institutions ? 272 ; (Letter), 412
Tookey, W. A., Industrial Tests of Internal
Combustion Engines, 437
Toothless Gear, Garrard Gears, Ltd., 304
Torsionmeters, 73 ; (Letters), 95, 222
Traditional Architectural Forms and their
Structural Efficiency, William Harvey, 374
Trains and Train Control—see Railways
Trucks—see also Electrical Matters
Tunnel, Cable, Under the Thames, 242
Turbine, Back-pressure Steam, Tests of, Monsieur M. Hentsch, 462
Turbine Blades, Wear of Nickel Steel ; Turbine, Exhaust Gas, Rotor for, Special Steels, 407, 408
Turbines—see also Steam
Turbo-generators—see Electrical Matters
Turner, Lieut.-Colonel F. W., Modern Flour Milling Machinery, 635, 645, 670
I Tyas, G. F., Matthew Murray, 268
VALVES for the Fourth Thirlmere Pipe Line, 1 550
I Valves, Multiple Flap, “ Ismailia,” E. C.
Bowden-Smith, 160
• Van Ryneveld’s Pass Irrigation Works, 54
Variety in Design, 246
Vulcanised Fibre—see British Engineering
Standards
w WAGES Board for the Coal Industry, 556
Wagon, 200 Cubic Feet Side-tipping, Robert
Hudson, Ltd., 334
Wagons—see also Railway
Wairoa—see Bridge
Walker, H., Involute Internal Gearing, 146, 172
Walker, H., Sup er-accurate Production of Spur
Gears on the Gear Shaper, 316
Wallis, B. N., Technical Aspects of the Commercial Airship, 217 ; (Letter), 296
Wapping—see Pumps
Washing Filtering Material, New Method of, Alfred E. Smith, 561
Water Power Development in Switzerland, 366
Water Power in Italy, the Orba Torrent, 98
Water Power for the Paris-Orleans Railway Electrification, 58-1
Water Power Projects in Spain, 348
Water Power Resources of Canada, 436
Water Power Storage by Pumping, Reginald Ryves, 602
WATER SUPPLY :
(See also Annual Articles and Reservoir)
Big Water Supply Scheme, 496
Caine Waterworks Improvements, 68
Manchester Waterworks, W. F. H. Creber, 614
Metropolitan Water Board, Recent Works, 77 Paris Water Supply, 12
Thirlmere Pipe Line, The Fourth, 550
WELDING of Aluminium, Notes on, Edgar T.
Painton, 189
Welding Plant, Portable Arc Welding, Siemens-Schuckert, Ltd., 562
Whirling Speeds of Drum Rotors, T. M. Naylor, 89 ; (Letters), 222, 277
White, Colin R., Construction of a Breakwater
Head at Madras, 464
Whitelegg, R. H., The Garratt Locomotive, 392 Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance : Comparison of Mathematical Theory with Experimental Results, 381
Wilson, P. H., Nobel Oil Engine, 324
Wimperis, H. E., Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research, 613
Windmills for Generation of Electricity, 586
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELE
PHONY .
See also Annual Articles—Electrical
Matters
Exhibits, Various, at the Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition, 38
Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators, Lieut.-Colonel K. E. Edgeworth, 70 Imperial Wireless Beam Stations, Marconi’s
Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., 78 Propagation of Radio Waves, J. H oiling-worth, 192
Radio Frequency Resistance and Inductance of Coils, 152
Rugby Wireless Station, Motor Generators for, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 40 ; (Correction), 107
Rugby Wireless Station, E. H. Shaughnessy, 448
Seaplane, Wireless Equipment of, 209
Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, 290
WOODWORKING MACHINERY :
Olympia, Woodworking Machinery at, 472
Belt, Roller-fed Sand-papering Machine ; Haunching Tenons and Cutting Wedges, New Machine for, Haighs (Oldham), Ltd., 473
Chain-cutter and Hollow Chisel Mortising Machine with New Sharpening Tool, Planing and Moulding Machines, Saw Bench, Under-driven, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 473
Electro-brazing Apparatus, Joinery Machines, Wadkin and Co., 473
High-speed, Four-side, Planing and Moulding Machine, Thomas White and Sons, Ltd., 473
Mortising and Tenoning Machines, Sandpapering Machines, Sawing and Planing Machines, John Pickles and Sons, Ltd., 473
Super-Elliot Woodworker, Dominion Machinery Company, 473
Sanding Machine, Combined Chain and Chisel Morticer, Combined Surfacer and Saw, Dominion Machinery Company, 248
Wood Planing and Matching Machine, Highspeed, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 302, 303
WOODS, F. W., Retaining Walls and Geostatic Theories, 604
WORKS :
British Ciment Fondu Factory, 107
Linoleum Factory, 90
YARROW, Harold, High-pressure Watertube Marine Boilers, 405, 410, 411, 414, 587
z ZINC Oxide in Brass, Determination of, Dr.
B. S. Evans and Mr. H. F. Richards, 346
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