The Engineer 1917 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

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A

• ABRASIVE Manufacturing Plant, Large, at Quebec, 207
• Acetone for Production of Synthetic Rubber, 97
• Aerial Wire with the Key-Morse Apparatus ; Length Limitations, 119

AERONAUTICS :

• - Aerodromes or Flying Fields, 55
• - Aero Engines and Parts, Urgent Demand for, 163
• - Aeroplanes in America, Difficulties with Four- bladed Propellers, 119
• - American Inventor’s Aeroplane to End the War in Sixty Days, 141
• - Aviation Engine Development, E. H. Sher- bondy, 541
• - “Borrodising” as Preventive of Corrosion, 315
• - Fireproof Varnish for Aeroplanes, 407
• - Horse-power in Relation to Weight, Greatly
• - Increased Proportion in Modern Aeroplanes, 497
• - Long Distance Aeroplane Record by Italian Captain, J. Laurenti, 229
• - Motors, Aeroplane, 10,000 Orders Taken by One American Firm, 229
• - Planes of Flying Machines, Experiments in America, 547
• - Postal Service by Aeroplane, 190
• - Radiators, Aeroplane, Standardisation of, 234
• - Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 552
• - Seaplane for Training Purposes in the United States, Lieut. G. D. Murray, U.S.N., 519
• - United States Aeroplane Makers and Metric Measurements, 229
• - United States Airplane, Vacuum Chamber for Testing Engines, 541
• - United States Aviation Engine, Advantages, 361
• - Warning of Air Raids, Tests of Various Methods, 55
• AFRICAN “Da” Fibre for Rope Making, 519
• Agricultural Machinery for Ministry of Muni¬tions, 77
• Agricultural Machines for France after the War, Government Action, 229
• Agriculture by Mechanical Aids, Great Increase Expected, 119
• Alcohol, Denatured, and Anti-freezing Precautions, 473
• Alcohol and Petrol, Power from, 315
• Alcohol, Synthetic, Manufacture on Commercial Scale in Switzerland, 207
• Alloy, Copper and Zinc, Proportions and Use, 541
• Alloy, New Anti-friction Type, 497
• Alloy for Ships’ Propellers, 249
• Alloy Steel Castings for Dies in America, 163
• Alloys, Iron-Aluminium and Iron-Silicon for Electro-Magnetic Uses, 77
• Alloys, Iron-Silicon, Acid Resisting Properties of, 163
• Aluminium Output from Foyers and Kinloch- leven, 73
• Aluminium Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines, J. Leopold, 55
• Aluminium, Possible Extraction from Staffordshire Clay, 293
• Aluminium Scrap, Fluxes for Melting, 473
• Aluminium Scrap, Methods of Melting, 185
• Aluminium Works in Hungary, 497
• American Co-ordinating Committee on Exportation, 518
• American Society of Civil Engineers Abandons Convention for 1917 owing to War Work Demands, 15
• Amethyst Colour Development in Glass, 271
• Ammonia Production in Germany, 76
• Ammonia, Sulphate of, United States Production, 315
• Anthracite—see Coal
• Anti-Submarine Net at a Cost of Twenty Millions Sterling, A Suggestion, 293
• Antofagasta Port Improvements, Tenders in London Called for, 163
• Artesian Basin of Australia, Largest Known in the World, 385
• Artesian Wells in Perth, Failure of Attempt to Utilise, 519
• Artificial Colouring Matter in the United States, Large Capital Invested, 293
• Artificial “Tides” Utilised for Coal Trans¬portation on the Ohio River, 293
• Asbestos Industry of the United States, 229
• Asphalt, Paraffin, andc., “Natural,” Produced in the United States, 163

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

• ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING AND SHIP¬BUILDING DRAUGHTSMEN :
• - HARTLEPOOLS SECTION :
• -- (Tees-side and Hartlepools Branch) Second Annual General Meeting, 484
• - LONDON BRANCH :
• -- Annual General Meeting : Reorganisation of the Association, 357
• INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
• - Autumn Meeting ; List of Papers, 198, 239
• INSTITUTE OF METALS :
• - Autumn Meeting, 24
• - Diamond Formation, Lecture by Sir Charles Parsons, 497
• - Memberships Question : Extra Election, 24
• INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
• - Awards for Papers, 440
• - DUBLIN SECTION :
• -- Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric Power in Ireland, 270

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

• INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
• - Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
• - Non-Ferrous Metals Bill, 552
• INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
• - Cadet Associate Membership, 207
• INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
• - Proposals for Compulsory Adoption of Metric System, 177
• INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
• - Before Easter Programme, 531
• - Before Easter Friday Programme, 570
• - Christmas Lectures, 464
• - Donations for Experimental Research, 413
• - Meetings and Elections, 24, 509
• SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
• - Goods Clearing House System and Machinery Explained, Paper and Demonstration, A. W. Gattie, 39
• SOCIETY, FARADAY :
• - Pyrometers and Pyrometry, 323
• SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
• - Optical Stores Captured from the Enemy, Lieut.-Col. A. C. Williams, 437
• SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
• - Albert Medal Awarded to Mr. Orville Wright for Aeronautical Work, 11
• - Awards of Medals, 11
• - Howard Lecture by Mr. W. G. Fearnsides, Favourable Prospect for Iron and Steel Manufacturers in Eastern England, 361
• SOCIETY, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL :
• - Abnormal Temperature, andc.; Daily Temperature at Greenwich, W. W. Bryant, 486
• - Computation of Wind Velocity from Pilot Balloon Observations, P. Bolton, 570
• - Twelve-hourly Barometer Oscillation, Dr. G. C. Simpson, 486
• - Use of Monthly Mean Values in Climatological Analysis, E. G. Bilham, 570
• ASTRONOMICAL Error in 1 B.C., 247
• Atlantic Cable Used for Thames Bridge, 118
• Australian Defence Department, Proposed Plant for Benzene and Toluene Production, 59

B

• “BALSA,” Valuable New Tropical Wood, 541
• Bangkok, Siam, Use of Electric Vehicles, Independent of Coal Supply by Use of Rice Husks, 429
• Barrow, Record Amount of House-building, 337
• Basic Slag for Agricultural Purposes, 385
• Belt Transmission, Thickness Fallacy, 561
• Bennis and Co., Lantern Slides, 384
• Benzene and Toluene Production in Australia, 59
• Benzol Production by Gas Authorities Un¬profitable at Present Price, 293
• Benzol Production and Use After the War, 451
• Bequest to University of Liverpool, 541
• Birmingham Gas, Analysis of Use during Year, 141
• Birmingham House Shortage and Town Planning, 97
• Blackpool Cliff Protection, 315
• Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Department and New Industrial Develop¬ments in United Kingdom, 207
• Boiler Corrosion Preventive, 271
• Boiler Furnace Excess Air, CO2 Percentage Measurement, 519
• Boiler House Operations, andc., Comparison between Steam Turbines and Boilers, Messrs. Otley and Pickles, 519
• Bombs Dropped by Aircraft, Necessary Precautions, 55
• Bonuses for Female Workers in France, 547
• Boracic Acid in Arc Lamps, 97
• Brass Melting by Electric Furnace, Investigation at Cornell University, 249
• Bridge in California, Concrete Arch Span Settling Without Cracking, 55
• Bridge Design, Economies of, Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, 497
• Bridge Designs, Standard, for Ontario, 97
• Bridge Erecting Methods, A Forward Step, 271
• Bridge Piers Obstruction to Flow of Water, Forthcoming Paper by Floyd A. Nathan, 11
• Brinell Hardness Test of Metals, Monsieur Guillery, 429
• British-built Magneto on French Designs, 293
• British Empire Food and Raw Material Resources, Imperfectly Utilised, 473
• British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 105
• British Industries Fair in 1918, 407
• Building Cost to be Doubled for Many Years to Come, 141

C

• CALCUTTA’S Motor Vehicles, 97
• California and Earthquakes, 256
• California, Large Unmapped Area of Fertile Territory, 185
• Canada, Hydro-electric Power Possibilities, 429
• Canada, Munitions and Supplies Purchased from, in Three Years of War, 497
• Canada, Return of Industrial Activity, 407
• Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 271
• Canadian Scientific and Industrial Research, 55
• Capper, Major-General J. E., Director-General of the Tank Corps, 229
• Carbon and Graphite Electrode Manufacture in Norway, 429
• Carbon Monoxide in Mines, Simple Test for Detecting even Minute Amount, 337
• Cardiff, Election of Engineer and Surveyor, 541
• Castings of Chromium-Copper Alloys, Method of Preparing, 315
• Castings, Large and Small, Scrapping Economy, 22
• Cellulose Acetate for Varnish Manufacture, 497
• Cellulose Piping, Compressed, Satisfactory in General Use, 141; as Substitute for Metal, 385
• Cement for Fastening Metal Parts to Marble, 97
• Cement Industry in Japan, 249
• Cement Mill near Guatemala City, Large Capacity and Low Cost of Product, 11
• Cemented Surface, Coating by the Nicholl Process, 33
• Ceylon, New Port at Aragam Bay, East Coast, 163
• Charcoal and Conservation of Timber in Sweden, 337
• Chelmsford, Works’ Sports for Charity, 196
• Chemical Industry in Switzerland, War Scarcity of Raw Material, 315
• Chemists, Industrial, National Association of, Proposed, 109
• Chicago Meat-canning Factory’s Great Increase in Steam Generating Plant, 141
• Chimney, 570ft. High, in Japan, 185
• China’s Use of Electricity and Neglect of Gas, 315
• Chinese Export Trade and Government Assistance, 119
• Chinese Factories, Details of Industries and Equipment, 497
• Chinese Imitation of Foreign Trade-marks, British Complaints, 141
• Chisel, Best Method to Harden and Temper, 337
• Chlorine, Best Temperature for Electrolytic Production of, 229
• Christmas Gifts for the Labour Battalion, 462
• Chromite Production in the United States, A Record Year, 337
• Clay-working Cinders, Value for Fuel, R. G. Lovell, 451

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

• - Anthracite Coal, W. H. Booth, 33
• - Anthracite Discovery in the Alps, 337
• - Calorific Value of Coal, Deterioration Since Outbreak of War, 271
• - China, Pinghsiang Collieries, 163
• - Coalfield Seams Burning in Large Area of the United States, 11
• - Coal Mines, Breathing Apparatus, Scientific Research Council Inquiry, 97
• - Coal Mining Regiments, Question of United States Raising them for France, 561
• - Coal Shortage in North-West America, Prohibition of Shipments to Canada, 337
• - Coal for Steam Production, Advantages of Welsh Anthracite, W. H. Booth, 33
• - Controller of Coal Mines, Address and Code of Directions, 11
• - French Output of Coal, 315
• - India, North and West, Disappointing Coal Supply, Suggested Substitution of Hydroelectric Power, 315
• - Indian Collieries and Use of Electricity, 11
• - Indian Minerals, Coal the Most Important , 293
• - Italian Coal Discovery, 97
• - Oklahoma and Kansas, Shallow Coal-beds Working, 293
• - South African Coal, High Percentage of Tar, 293
• - United States, Possible Shortage of Coal, and Wood Fuel as Substitute, 185
• COAL Gas for Motor Cars, 531
• Cold Storage and Ice Making, Liverpool Experience, 429
• Cold Storage Warehouses for United Kingdom Food Supply, 541
• Commercial Alcohol from Damaged Potatoes 540
• Commercial Motors, Annual Inspection of, Prizes, 552
• Concrete, Best Colours for Colouring, 11
• Concrete for Cheap Building, A House every Three Days, 407
• Concrete Fence Posts and Attachment of Wire Fencing, 163
• Concrete Fence, Reinforced, for Great Yarmouth, 385
• Concrete, Reinforced, Action of Salt on, Professor H. J. M. Creighton, 572
• Concrete, Reinforced, Examined by X-rays, 492
• Concrete,- Reinforced, Injurious Action of Salt in the Philippine Islands, 561
• Concrete Roads, Emulsified Asphalt for Main-- taining, 229
• Concrete Silos for Wheat Storage in Australia. 497
• Concrete for Small Buildings, 385
• Concrete as a Substitute for Timber, Bricks, Iron and Steel, 396
• Copper and Lead of Serbia Exploited by Germans and Austrians, 229
• Copper, World’s Production of, 197
• Coral Carving, Japan Endeavouring to Replace Italian Production, 519
• “Corimite,” Insulating Material Made from Fish Offal, 451
• Corrosion of Tinned Copper Sheets, 119
• Cotton Spinning and Weaving Industry in Korea, 561
• Crane, Floating, Largest Lifting Crane Built in United States, 407
• Crane, 50-Ton Locomotive Jib, for Panama Canal Docks, Unusual Type, 119
• Crinan Canal, Inadequacy of, and Suggested Replacement, 207

D

• DANUBE Navigation and Ports for Increased Trade Development, 451
• Death of Mr. W. J. Widdowson, 541
• Decimal Coinage and Metric System of Weights and Measures, Opinions Invited, 361
• Deoxidisation, Electrolytic Process Patented in the United States, 229
• Diamond Drill Hole in New Jersey, Record Depth, 271
• Diamond Formation, Sir C. Parsons, 497
• Diesel Engine Driven by Peat Gas, 519
• Dock, Royal Edward, at Avonmourh, Projected Enlargement, 519
• Draughtsmen, Increased Pay, 413
• Dry Rot in Timber, Drastic Action Necessary, 337

E

• EGGS, New Method for Safe Delivery, 473

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

• - Applications of Electricity, List of 3000 in Booklet, 77
• - Arc Lamps, Uses of Boracic Acid, 97
• - Arc Welding, Continuous Current Superior to Alternating, 541
• - Arc Welding, Suitable Electric Conditions for, H. L. Unland, 407
• - Armature Shafts on the Commutator End of Motors, Novel Method of Repair, 77
• - Army Cooking by Electric Oven, 429
• - Belfast, Electricity Supply Possible from Tidal Power of Strangford Lough, 163
• - Blast-furnace Tap-holes Opened by Electric Arc, 541
• - British and Metric Systems as Affecting British Electrical Trade, 451
• - Calcutta, Cheap Current for Cooking and Heating, 11
• - Capacity of Single Turbo-generator Units, Limitation in Size, 473
• - Cattle Driving by Electricity, 141
• - Cauvery Power Scheme in Mysore, Conveyance of Very Heavy Machinery, 119
• - Centralisation of Power and Profit from Byproducts, Enormous Gains Possible, H. Wilson-Fox, 429
• - Charging Plugs and Sockets for Electric Vehicles, 437
• - China’s Preference for Electricity, 315
• - Commercial Motor Vehicles, Electric, Projected Expenditure, 33
• - Committee on Electric Power, Chairman and Additional Members, 11
• - “Continuously Loaded” Paper—Core Cable for Underground Telephone, 97
• - Current Transformers and Possible Registration Errors, 497
• - Economy in Use of Electric Furnaces to Convert Steel Scrap into Castings, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
• - Electro-Chemical Industries at Shawinigan, Quebec, 561
• - Electro-Culture, Results of, on Garden Produce, 407
• - French Production of Iron by Electric Furnaces, 11
• - Furnaces, Government Permit and British Steel Making, 249
• - Furnaces at Work in Great Britain, Statistics of Increase and Type, 11
• - Generating Costs per Unit, J. Shepherd, 55
• - German Pocket Torch with Hand-driven Dynamo, 429
• - Harrogate, Proposed Installation of Byproduct Steam Boiler Plant for Electrical Supply, 163
• - Indian Collieries and Electrical Winding, 11
• - Indian Collieries, Electricity Replacing Steam, 11
• - Insulating Material from Fish Offal, 451
• - Japanese and the Australian Market for Electrical Supplies, 497
• - Lamp Voltage, Standardisation of, 385
• - Leeds’ Increased Electricity Supply, 429
• - Morocco, Suggested Water Power Development and Electrification of Railways, andc,. 315
• - Niagara Falls, Cost of Power from, 293
• - Nickel Alloys Used for Centre Electrodes of Sparking Plugs, 451
• - Optical Pyrometer for Works Use, 249
• - Porcelain Insulators Made in the Transvaal, 519
• - Power Transmission Lines Nearly 700 Miles in Length, 293
• - Power Transmission Lines of Nevada, California Company’s System, Longest Yet Projected, 11
• - Quebracho, for Cleaning Electric Insulators, 141
• - Selenium Cell Produced by Californian Experimenter, Immensely Increased Sensitiveness, 33
• - Standard Voltages of Electric Supply in the United States, 249
• - Steel Mills, Rolling and Reversing, Advantages of Electric Motor Drive, 33
• - Street Cleansing Vehicles in Sheffield, Satisfactory Economy Effected, 141
• - Street Cleansing Vehicles ; Ten Years’ Life, 119
• - Swedish Output of Electric Furnaces, 519

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

• - Tata Hydro-electric Power Supply, Great Success, 561
• - Taxicabs, Electric, in Detroit, 497
• - Transmission Line Over the St. Lawrence River, Details of Erection, 77
• - Tungsten Wire Importation for Electric Lamps, 450
• - Turbo Alternator Development, History of, 519
• - United States Electric Furnaces, Large Increase, 451
• - Water Power and its Utilisation in France and Elsewhere, 561
• - Wellington, New Zealand, Storage Battery Truck for Use on the Water Front, 361
• ENERGY Required for Rain Production, J. Patterson, 473
• Engineers’ Clubs in Manchester and in Philadelphia, 249
• Engines, “Uniflow,” World’s Records of Efficiency, 141
• Envelope-opener for Office Use, 119
• Envelopes Placed in Typewriter by Machine, American Device, 163
• Explosives Output in the United States, 163
• Exports Prohibited by Board of Trade, Lists of Articles and Countries, 185
• Eyesight of Workers, Offer by Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians, 519

F

• FALL of a Stone to Earth’s Centre, Calculations of Time Required, 561
• Federation of British Industries, New President, 413
• Feed-water for Boilers, Troubles Due to Sodium Hydroxide, 77
• Fiat Company’s Twenty-three Thousand Workpeople, 293
• File-cutting Machines, First Recorded Use in this Country, 385
• Fire-brick, Melting Points of Various Samples, 185
• Fires in New York State, Large Proportion of Preventable Loss, 55
• Fishing Boat to Catch 60,000 lbs. of Fish an Hour, 229
• Flour Waste in Iron Foundries, Wood and Sawdust as Substitute, 141
• Fluorine—see Water Supply
• Food Production and Tractors ; Training Drivers, 315
• Foremen’s Mutual Benefit Society, 397
• Fruit Centres for Pulping or Drying Surplus Fruit, 180
• Fuel, Alcohol, from Sugar Molasses in Australia, 337
• Fuel Gas from Straw—see Straw
• Furnace Design, Principles of, A. D. Williams, 293

G

• GAS and Industrial Efficiency, 497
• Gas, Natural, 40,000 Bore-holes in the United States, 497
• Gas Replacing Petrol for Commercial Vehicles, 97
• Gas Supply of America and Toluol for High Explosives, 271
• Gas Supply and Investigation by Fuel Research Board, 55
• Gas Traction, Joint Committee on, 393
• Gauges Tested for Ministry of Munitions by National Physical Laboratory, Ten Thousand a Week Average, 11
• German Use of Yeast for Manufacture of Buttons and Knife Handles, 97
• Germans Dismantling Blast-furnace Plants for Use in Munition Works, 451
• Germany, Coal Prices and Gas Consumption, 319
• Glass for Cooking Utensils, Chemical Product, 293
• Glass from German Firms, 112
• Glass Tubing of Large Diameter, Simple Method of Cutting, 361
• Glass, Window, Working Temperature of, 411
• Glycerine Industry, Japanese, Developments, 138
• Government Changes, 55
• Graphalloy, 497
• Graphite, Flake, from Ceylon and Madagascar, 135
• Graphite in Oils, andc., To Obtain Permanent Suspension of, C. H. Bierbaum, 361
• Graphite for Scaling Boilers, 473

H

• HOLLAND, Blast-furnaces and Rolling Works in, Suggested Erection of, 77
• “Horse-power Race,” Professor A. E. Kennedy, 119
• House Deficiency in this Country, Local Government Board Inquiry, 519
• Hungarian Aluminium Works for Exploiting Bauxite Deposits, 271
• Hydraulic Power Installation in South Africa, The Largest, 293
• Hydrogen, Atmospheric, Proposed Works for Production in Iceland, 519
• Hydro-technical Laboratory in Italy, 415

I

• INDIA’S Disappointing Coal Supply ; Suggested Substitution of Hydro-electric Power, 315
• India, Survey of, Genera] Report, 293
• Indian Agriculture, Mechanical Cultivation Progress, 249
• Industrial Reconstruction Council, 530
• Interest Chart, Marsden and Co., Limited, 162
• Ireland, Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric Power, 270
• Irish Canals Placed under Control of Committee, 55
• Irish Joint Committee of Engineers to Consider Peat Utilisation, 33
• Irish Water Power Schemes, Tidal Power of Strangford Lough, 163

IRON AND STEEL:

• - Alloy Steel Castings Used by American Drop Forging Manufacturers, 163
• - Alloys, Iron Silicon, Acid-resisting Properties of, 163
• - American Production of Steel Ingots and Castings, 11
• - Annealing Temperatures for Nickel Steel, 385
• - Atmospheric Effects on Sheet Iron, 315
• - Australian Company Erecting Works for Home Supply of Spring Steel, Railway Wheels and Axles, andc., 207
• - Chilled Cast Iron Car Wheels ; Effect on American Railways, 407
• - Chilling of Cast Iron, An Accidental Discovery in the Eighteenth Century, 185
• - Chinese Pig Iron for United States Shipbuilding, 451
• - Corea, Output of Ore of Poor Quality but Abundant Quantity, 163
• - Corrosion and “Borrodising,” 315
• - Electric Motor Drive in Steel Mill Service, Advantages of, 33
• - Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55
• - Electric Steel Making and Limitation of Furnaces, 249
• - German High-speed Steel, New Type, 541
• - Hardening of Steel, Frenchmen’s Solution, 315
• - Indian Pig Iron for San Francisco, 11
• - Iron-Aluminium Alloys, Messrs. Yensen and Gat ward, 301
• - Japanese Steel Works Projected for Manufacture of Plates, Rails, Square and Bar Steel, andc., 33
• - Japan’s Use of Electricity in Steel Manufacture, 337
• - Lincolnshire, North, as Centre for Steel Manufacture, 337
• - Manganese in Fire-box Steel, Specified Percentage, 249
• - Manganese Shipped from China to Japan, 429
• - Molybdenite of Low Grade ; Cheap Process of Manufacture, 207
• - Molybdenite Shipments from Quebec, 163
• - Molybdenum Steel, Great Value of, as Gun Lining, 55
• - New South Wales Manufacture of Steel Wheels, 141
• - New South Wales Steel Works, Demand for Rails and Shipbuilding Plates, 249
• - Reagent in Steel Investigation, Messieurs Le Chatelier and E. L. Dupuy, 451
• - Resources and Production pf Iron and Other Metalliferous Ores, 109
• - Steel Business Origin Claimed by an American, 541
• - Steel Foundry in the Yangtze Valley, Japanese and Chinese Agreement, 119
• - Steel Shortage in Canada; Shipping and Railway Needs, 141
• - “Swedish” Iron and Hematite Supply, Favourable Prospect for East England Iron and Steel Manufacture, 361
• - Tungsten, Uses in Electricity, 207
• - United States Steel Castings, Percentages of Kinds of Steel and Methods of Productions, 11
• - Wrought Iron, Cost of, Compared with Steel, G. G. Roberts, 315
• IRISH Production of Antimony and Lead, 451
• Irrigated Lands in Australia and the Barren Jack Dam, 473
• Italian Government Schemes for Hydraulic Development, 361
• Italian Internal Waterways, Periodical to Deal with Question, 185

J

• JAPAN Boating—see Ships
• Japan Builds 9000-Ton Steamer for British Owners in Less than Three Months, 207
• Japan as Competitor in Incandescent Lamp Trade, 361
• Japanese Glycerine Industry Development, 407
• Japanese Scientists Sent to United States to Study Industrial Conditions, 385
• Japanning Process, Double Operation, 337
• Japan’s Copper Ore Output and Exports, 185
• Java, Increased Sugar Production, 185
• Jute Substitute in Russia, 77

K

• KAISER and Czar in 1904, 207

L

• LABOUR Accidents, Calendar of, 451
• Lamp, Gas-filled Type, with Renewable Filament, 561
• Land under Plough in England and Wales, Large Increase, 11
• Lantern Slides, Bennis and Co., 384
• Lead Mines in Flintshire to be Reopened, 97
• Lead Production in Certain States of America 385
• Lead Trade Development in Derbyshire, 429
• Leicester Town-planning Scheme for After the War, 55
• Lightning Flash, Length and Quantity of Electricity, 229
• Lignite, Distillation of, for Tars, 451
• Lincoln Housing and Town-planning Schemes, 497
• Liquid in Air, Method of Determining Surface Tension of, 541
• Liquid Ammonia, Latent Heat of Vaporisation of, N. S. Osborne and M. S. Van Dusen, 451
• Liquids in Capillary Tubes, Bigelow and Hunter and Mr. W. D. Bancroft, 561
• Locks on Canals, Comparison between England and Germany, 55
• London County Council Training of Munition Workers, 127

M

• MACHINE Shop for Ford Motor Company, Remarkable Construction, 407
• Machine Telegraph Development, Anticipated Success, 429
• McNicholl Process for Coating Freshly Cemented Surface, 33
• Magnesia Bricks, Refractory Properties of, Messieurs H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 451
• Magnetic Separators for Minerals, Varying Strength, 97
• Magneto Industry, British Developments, 97
• Manchester Corporation Omnibuses, Statistics of Running, 11
• Manufactures Formerly Obtained from Germany, Demand in England, 77
• Megaphones for Submarine Detection, 519
• Metal Cutting by Revolving Smooth Steel Discs, 541
• Metal Economy, Discovery of Wasted Dies, 561
• Metals, Boiling Points of, and Pyrometric Work, C. R. Darling, 497
• Metric System, Proposals for Compulsory Adoption, 77
• Mid-Scotland Canal, Work for Demobilised Men after the War, 473
• Milling Machines, C. Churchill and Co., 486
• Mineral Wool, Pure White, Uses of, 385
• Mines in the Transvaal and Kimberley, Prevention of Pneumonia in Natives, 293
• Mining Plant in South Africa, 561
• Mining Timber, Substitute for, Patented, E. Seward, 119
• Ministry of Health, 552
• Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel
• Monazite Discoveries and German Control, 249
• Monazite in Mysore, Disappointing Result, 361
• Monazite Sands for Gas Mantles, Discovery in Ceylon, 249, 473
• Motor Car Engines, Battery System of Ignition, 337
• Motor Car Engines, Cracks in Water Jackets, 140
• Motor Car Manufacture Replaced by Aircraft Motors, 519
• Motor Car Weight and Improved Construction, 55
• Motor Car’s Record Speed, 473
• Motor Cars in America, Exhaust Cut-outs Discontinued, 361
• Motor Industries, Technical Committee, Bodies Represented, 473
• Motor Lorries for War Use Ordered in the United States, Large Orders, 293
• Motor Lorry Accommodation, Better Utilisation of, 77
• Motor Omnibuses, Taxation and Upkeep of Roads, 33
• Motor Ploughing in England and Wales, Cost per Acre, 561
• Motor Spirit, Standardisation of, Tests and Paper by Mr. Lomax, 429
• Motor Taxation in France, New Formula for Determining, 337
• Motor Tire Manufacture in America ; Own Mills and Own Cottonfields, 207
• Motor Trucks and Automobiles for United States War Department, Standardisation and Large Output, 385
• Motor Vehicles and Coal Gas, 315
• Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, 97
• Motor Vehicles, Suspension System of Improved Type, 315
• Motor Vehicles, to Value of Over Six Millions Sterling Ordered by the United States, 141
• Motor Volunteers, City, and Invasion, 384
• Mowra Flower, Important Raw Product in Hyderabad, 119
• Municipal Engineering and Public Health, Effect of the War on, H. P. Boulnois, 328
• Munition Workers’ Training under London County Council, 127

N

• NATIONAL Association of Industrial Chemists, Proposed, 109
• Natural Gas Used for Lighting Pisa, 271
• Negro Emigration from Southern States of America Discouraged, 11
• New South Wales Imports and Exports, 407, 497
• New South Wales Mineral Output, High Value in 1916, 185
• New South Wales, Value of Mineral Exports, First Quarter, 1917, 229
• New York State Barge Canal Completion, 97
• New York, Weight of Traffic and Pavement Composition, 429
• New Zealand, Discovery of Scheelite, 55
• New Zealand Government and Factory Heating Appliances, 473
• New Zealand, Hydro-Electric Projects for the North Island, 97
• New Zealand, Increased Cold Storage since War Outbreak, 561
• New Zealand ; Sulphuric Acid Works in Christchurch, 385
• Niagara Falls and Shortage of Water Power both in Canada and United States, 271
• Nickel-Copper Ore, New Discovery in Ontario, 261
• Nickel in Ontario, 80 per Cent, of World’s Supply, 497
• Nitrates, Synthetic, in the United States, 315
• Nitric Acid by Fixation of Atmospheric Nitro¬gen Process, Comparison of Cost by Different Methods. 11, 77
• Nitrogen Products Committee’s Report, 541
• Nitro-Starch as Blasting Explosive, Advantages of, 33
• Noise of Trucks on Concrete Floor, Method of Deadening, 33
• Nottingham City Engineer, Mr. A. Brown’s Long Service, 541

O

• OIL for Burning, Advancing Price, 271
• Oil-forming Conditions in the British Isles, W. H. Dalton, 519
• Oil Production of the United States, 561
• Omnibuses Run on Coal Gas Instead of Petrol, Great Saving in Cost, 11
• Ontario Government and Net Fishing, 271
• Optical Glass: The Real Introducers of New Materials, 473
• Orange River Falls, South Africa, 407
• Oven for Electric Cooking for Army Use, 385

P

• PAINT as a Rust Preventive, Experiments, 319
• Panama Canal, Big Docks to be Built, 315
• Panama Canal and Railroad, Improved Health of Employees, 185
• Paper and Lectures for West of Scotland Institute, Difficulty in Obtaining, 229
• Papyrus in North Zululand, Company Formed to Utilise, at Christiania, 207
• Paraffin for Motor Tractors, Question of Lower Prices, 293
• Paris, Flood Prevention and Navigation Improvement Works, 293
• Paris Tramways, Increased Working Expenses, 293
• Patents, Statistics of Applications, 33
• Peat Gas for Driving Diesel Engine, 519
• Petrol Consumption in France, Restrictions and Reserve Stock, 385
• Petrol Extracted from Natural Gas in the United States, 337
• Petrol Imports into United Kingdom, 97
• Petrol Production in the United States, 271
• Petrol Shortage, Problem in United States, 361
• Petrol, Synthetic, from Kerosene or Paraffin at Cost of 0.5d. per Gallon, 163
• Petrol Waste, Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks on, 97
• Petroleum in Burma, Increased Output, 249
• Petroleum, Natural Formation Secret not yet Discovered, W. H. Dalton, 519
• Piles of Steel Pipe with Concrete Lining, 337
• Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines, J. Leopold, 55
• Platinum, Difficulty in Finding Alloy for, 271
• Platinum Discovery in Southern Spain, 271
• Platinum in Manitoba, 406
• Platinum for Military Purposes, 229
• Platinum Output of the World in 1916, 11
• Platinum Substitute ; Alloy of Gold and Palladium, 119
• Ploughing by Motor Traction, Forty Acres in Six Ten-hour Days, 497
• Plymouth Harbour, Development of Catte- water Lower Reaches, 473
• Pneumonia Among South African Native Miners, Success of Inoculation, 185
• Port Kembla, New South Wales, 385
• Portugal and New Industries ; Large Iron and Steel Works, 229
• Postal Services by Aeroplane, Established and Projected, 190
• Potash from Feldspar, 229
• Potash Salts Production in United States, 97
• Potash Scarcity in Germany ; Trade Apprehensions, 473
• Production Limit ; The Human Factor in Industry, G. E. Toogood, 537
• Prohibited Exports from British Empire, 55, 77
• Protected Occupations, Scrap Metal Collection, Dr. Addison, 38
• Punch, Press Mud and the Ministry of Munitions, 271
• Pyrometer, Optical, for Works Use, 249
• Pyrometers and Pyrometry, Instruments Shown and General Discussion, 323

Q

• QUEBEC New Dry Dock, Largest in the World, 141
• Queensland, Mineral Output of, 515

R

• RAGS of the British Army, High Prices Paid, 55

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS:

• - Accident Due to Sleeping Engine Driver, 385
• - Accident at Finchley-road Station, Need of Automatic Signalling, 271
• - Accident Scotch Express, 561
• - Accident to Soldiers’ Train in Yorkshire, 271
• - Accident Tramway, at Dover, 185, 429
• - Accidents, Prevention of, Harriman Medal
• - Awarded to Illinois Central Railway Company, 6
• - Air Raid Shelter in Hitherto Unopened Railway Tunnels, 407
• - Air Raids and Ventilation of Tube Railways, 361
• - Alaskan Railway, Completion Hastened to Bring About Advantages of all Kinds, 163
• - Albert Medal for Life Saving, Award, 561
• - Ambulance Train of Sixteen Coaches Built in Fifteen Weeks by Midland Railway, 229
• - American Engineers and French Railways, 315
• - American Engineers’ Plans for Spanish Railways, 407
• - American Fatal Car Collision, 473
• - American Freight Car Efficiency and Car Builders’ Association Rules, 97
• - American Railroads and Coal, Analysis of Kinds Used, 249
• - American Railway Authorities ; Conference to Reduce Clerical Work, 473
• - American Railways—see also United States Railways and Inter-State Commerce Commission
• - Ames, Oakes and Oliver, Constructors of First Transcontinental Railway Oyer the Rockies, 207
• - Appointments and Changes of Personnel on Various Railways, 11, 33, 55, 77, 97 184 249, 337, 361
• - Argentine Government and Railway Supply Questions, 77
• - Association of Private Owners of Railway Rolling Stock, 73
• - Australian Commonwealth Railways Bill, Non-Political Control, 337
• - Australian East-West Railway, Cost, 451
• - Australian East-West Railway; Projected Exhibition to Celebrate Opening, 229

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued)

• - Australian East-West Transcontinental Railway ; Approaching Completion and Subsequent Train Service, 33, 77, 229, 337
• - Bacteriological Car Laboratory Presented to French Army, 473
• - Bakerloo to Watford, Lengthened Trains, 497
• - Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Employment of Women, 42
• - Barrow-in-Furness, Deficiency of House Accommodation, Strain on Railways, 207
• - Beasley, Mr. A., Retirement from Taff Vale Managership and Appointment as Director, 33, 55, 97
• - Belgian Locomotives in France, 55, 77
• - Bombay, Baroda and Central India Company Builds Ambulance Trains, 67
• - Brazilian Purchase of Locomotives to Expedite Food Supplies to Allies, 519
• - British Railway Administration, Mr. Lynch’s Questions, 451
• - Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Scrap, Economical Treatment of Castings, 22
• - Burma Railways Company’s Supplies for War Purposes, 561
• - Business or Pleasure,Overcrowded Travelling, 455
• - Butterworth, Sir A. Kaye, General Manager of North-Eastern Railway to Visit America on Behalf of the Government, 163
• - Cab Penny Toll Dispute Settled, 561
• - Cabs and Taxis and Railway Stations, Tolls, 163
• - Cabs Use of Railway Stations, Position Defined, 163
• - Caledonian Railway, Collision at Newton Colliery, Result of Inquiry, 55
• - California and other States ; Level Crossing Regulations, 561
• - Cambrian Railway Company’s Prizes for Well-kept Stations, 519
• - Canadian Dominion and the Maritime Provinces, Intercolonial Railway Completion, 33
• - Canadian Government Railways, New Rolling Stock, 229
• - Canadian Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways’ Postponement of Adoption of Uniform Gauge, 330
• - Canadian Northern Railway, Petition Against Government Purchase, 207
• - Canadian Northern Railway Taken Over by Government—Question of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 119
• - Canadian Pacific Railway’s Projected Doubledeck Bridge at Toronto, 33
• - Canadian Railway Association for National Defence, 519
• - Canadian Railway Combination and Removal of Rails to France, 119
• - Canadian Railway Commission, Cost of, 451
• - Canadian Railway Revenues, 141
• - Canal Control Committee, Annual Cost, 541
• - Canal Transport for Coal and Heavy Goods Traffic, to Relieve Railways, 361
• - Cape to Cairo Railway, Completion to Bukama on the Congo, 207
• - Cars Partly Loaded Only; Photographs Sent to Traders to Induce Economy in Use of Railway Facilities, 207, 249
• - Central Railroad of New Jersey, Economy in Card Passes, 473
• - Channel Tunnel Project, Government Support Refused during War, 163
• - Charing Cross Bridge Strengthening, Bill Passed, 11
• - Chemin de Fer du Nord, Change of General Manager, 11, 77
• - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Accident, 385
• - Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, Saving of Fuel Due to Electrification, 459, 541
• - Chicago and North-Western Railway and “Safety First” Post Cards, 33
• - Children’s Home in Memory of South Indian Railway Engineer Killed in Action. 229
• - Clayton Aniline Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 271
• - Coal Consumption on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 163
• - Coal Control and the Coming Winter, 97, 315
• - Coal for London, Rail-borne and Sea-borne in 1914 and 1917, 11
• - Coal Mines in Ireland and Railway Facilities 429
• - Coal Pooling in United States : Avoidance of, Delay in Shiploading, 337
• - Coal Rate Differences, Anomalies of Transport, 451
• - Coal Transport Reorganisation in the North- West of England, 429
• - Coal Transport Scheme, Great Saving, 497, 519
• - Coal Wagons to and from Collieries, Investigation of Delays, 497
• - Coal Wagons and Private Ownership, 315
• - Collection and Distribution of Goods, Reform Needed, 497
• - Concrete Disintegration in Linings of Railway Tunnels in America, 163
• - Copenhagen, New Underground Railway Stopped for Want of Material, 249
• - Crane Accident on Breakdown Work, 293
• - Death of Mr. William Smith, 361
• - Death of Old Engine-driver Due to Heat, 97
• - Death of Mr. W. R. Sykes, 293
• - Difficulties of Railwav Service in War-time, 361
• - Dividends, Interim, of Certain Railways, 141
• - Drivers’ and Guards’ Difficulty in Regard to Food and Lodgings When Away from Homes, 97
• - Eastern Bengal Railway Survey for Ferry Boat Service on Jamuna River, 191
• - Economies of Railway Operation in America, Committee Appointed, 18
• - Economy and Free Travelling of Conference Delegates, 407
• - Electric Headlights Replace Oil on Baltimore and Ohio Locomotives, 451
• - Electric Locomotive Built in Manchuria, 519
• - Electrification of 211 Miles of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.. Paul Railroad, 271
• - Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company and Repair of Armature Shafts, 77
• - Employers’ Liability, Trial Ends in Verdict for the Railway, 497

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

• - Erie Railroad, Discontinuance of Numerous Passenger Trains, 77
• - Exhibition of Produce of Allotment Holders on the London and South-Western Railway, 229
• - Fares Increase on London Railways, 229
• - Fares Increase Unlikely to be Further Extended, 519
• - Federated Malay States Railways, Favourable Financial Position, 473
• - Fine for Letting Wagons on Hire Without Government Permit, 481
• - Fire Outbreak on Ammunition Train ; Rewards foi Courageous Work of Staff, 337
• - Flashlights at Level Crossings on the Furness Railways, Source of Economy as well as Safety, 519
• - Flowers for Manchester Hospitals, Railway Arrangement for Delivery, 141
• - Food Instruction Trains in the United States, 271
• - France, Northern Railway Chief Engineer Resigning Post, 11
• - Free Travelling for Army ReServe Munition Workers, 385
• - Free Travelling for Merchant Seamen Dis¬charged at Other than Usual Port, 337
• - Freight Train Loads on Eastern Railways of United States, 249
• - French Railways, Percentage of Expenditure to Receipts, 292
• - Fuel for Locomotives, Report of Committee on Powdered Coal to International Railway Fuel Association, 33
• - Fuel Scarcity and Utilisation of Russian Schist for Locomotive Boilers, 451
• - “Full Crew” Rule in New Jersey, 519
• - Geddes, Sir Eric, First Lord of the Admiralty, Continuance of Relations with North- Eastern Railway, 207
• - Genoa to Milan Line, Great Loss of Life Due to Derailment of Express Train, 163
• - German Increased Railway Fares and Demurrage Charges, 229
• - Goods Storage and Handling in United States, Threatened Troubles, 185
• - Goods Traffic Increase under Government Control, 141
• - Government Appointments for Railway Officials, 119
• - Great Eastern Company Gives Facilities for Coal Storage for Use with Farm Machinery, 97
• - Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Opening of Parsik Tunnel near Kalyan, 33
• - Great Northern (U.S.A.) and Northern Pacific to Keep Posts for Enlisted Employees, 11
• - Guns versus Locomotive. Manufacture, Beyer, Peacock and Co.’s Difficulties, 385
• - Haiderabad, Serious Railway Collision, 163
• - Harcourt-street Station, Dublin, Second Accident to Engine on Same Spot, 207
• - Highland Railway, Late Chief Engineer as Divisional Food Commissioner for North Scotland, 185
• - Horse Transport, Controller Appointed, 473
• - Illinois Central Line Speed Reductions and Resulting Losses, 497
• - India, Defence of, Government and War Transport Railway Facilities, 315
• - India, Design and Inspection of Girder Bridges, 407
• - India, North-Western Railway to Use Oil Fuel, 293
• - Indian Railways Supplies to Mesopotamia, Unexplained Loss, 163
• - Indian Traffic Controller Appointed, 141
• - Indo-Ceylon Connection Working at a Loss, 451
• - Injury Claim Refused on Ground of Negli¬gence, 11
• - Injury to Employees,- Notice to Men Seeking Employment, 11
• - Interavailability of Season and Traders’ Tickets, Restrictions Withdrawn, 361
• - Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s New York Traffic, 536
• - INTER-STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION :
• -- Car Service Division Formed to Deal with Distribution Exchange and Return of Freight Cars, 163
• -- Rates Increase, Application Renewed by Railway Companies, 385, 463
• -- Trainload Statistics, 33
• - Irish Branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, 315
• - Irish Collieries and Need of Railways, 97
• - Irish Munition Workers and Christmas Travelling, 429
• - Irish Permanent Way Men Returned from France to Ireland, 77
• - Irish Railway Engineers’ Strike, 33
• - Irish Railway Men’s War Bonus Increased to English Level, 229
• - Irish Railways Claims in Respect of Rebellion of Easter, 1916, 519
• - Irish Railways Exempt from 50 per Cent. Increase in Fares, 163
• - Irish Railways, Wagon Demurrage Regulations, 296
• - Irish Seaside Resorts and Limited Travelling, 55
• - Irish Train’s Remarkable Speed, 315
• - Italian Coal Scarcity Involves Train Reduction, 497
• - Italian Government Increase in Railway Fares, 519
• - Italian Minister of Transportation, 11
• - Italian State Railways, Satisfactory Finance, 249
• - Japanese Mission to Study American Transport and Industrial Conditions, 519
• - Kentucky Coalfields and the Virginian Railway, Suggested Purchase by United States President, 207
• - Kobe’s Elevated Railway, 561
• - Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company and Government Control, 293
• - Lewis, J. T., S. Indian Railway Engineer Killed in Action, Children’s Home in Memory of, 229
• - Light Railway Commission, Retirement of Colonel Boughey, 361
• - “Limited Mail,” Origin of Term, G. P. Neele, 229
• - Live Stock at Large on Texas and Pacific Railroad, 211

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): .

• - Live Stock Trespassing on American Railways, Action by all Companies, 249
• - Liverpool, Increase in Railway Haulage Charges, 271
• - Locomotive and Railway Material, Exports from the United States, 249
• - Locomotives for Burning Pulverised Fuel, 33
• - London and North-Western Hotel at Birmingham, Extensions, 193
• - London and North-Western Railway versus J. Sankey and Son, Carriage of Wheels, 55
• - London and North-Western Railway, War Casualties, 229
• - London and North-Western Railway, Decorations, 519
• - Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Western Union Telegraph Ccmpany’s Poles, United States Government Intervenes, 97
• - Madrid to Construct Electrical Underground Railway, 185
• - Manchester Train Service Changes, Midland Railway, 429
• - Mechanical Stokers on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 385
• - Melbourne, Railway Electrification in, 451
• - Meyrick Park, Bournemouth, Halt Closed,407
• - Midland Railway Collision at Derby, 407
• - Midland Railway, Derailment of Passenger Train, 271
• - Motor Cars and Unprotected Railway Crossings, Tennesee Law, 229
• - Moving Trains, Fatalities Caused by Entering and Leaving, 229
• - Munition Work in Indian Railway Shops, Increase of Employees, 229
• - NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN :
• -- Annual Report, 97
• -- Air Raid Demands, 519
• -- and Board of Trade, 293
• -- Deaths in Action or from Wounds, 185
• -- and Mr. J. H. Thomas, 293
• -- Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Autobiography, 451
• - Newfoundland, Four Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of Discovery, 293
• - New Jersey and Discontinuance of Numerous Trains by Erie Railroad, 77
• - New Jersey Public Utilities Commission and Curtailment of Train Service, 168
• - Newport Light Railways Order, 419
• - New South Wales, Increased Railway and Tramway Rates, 356
• - New South Wales Railways, Increased Outlay, 451
• - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Reduction in Passenger Trains, 141
• - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Successful Financial Management and Retirement of President, 10
• - New York State, Rapid Transit System, 153
• - New Zealand Locomotive, Satisfactory New Type, 527
• - New Zealand, New Rolling Stock, 561
• - New Zealand Railways, Traffic Statistics, 385, 429
• - New Zealand, Trolley Accident in Tunnel, 141
• - North British Railway Company Increases Salaries and Pays Income Tax of Staff, 207
• - North-Eastern Railway Allotment Holders and Goat Keepers, 271
• - North-Eastern Railway, General Manager to Visit America, 163
• - Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car and the War, 42
• - Oil, Domestic Production, Broxburn Oil Company and the North British Railway, 11
• - Oil Shortage and Gas-lighted Railway Carriages, 397
• - Oil Substituted for Coal on the Western Indian Locomotives, 519
• - Open Cars for Transport of Goods, Use Forbidden Except for Public Service, 541
• - Overcrowding at Business Hours, Increased Train Service, 385, 455, 497
• - Overcrowding on Suburban Lines, 429
• - Oxted Tunnel Failure and Re-opening, 97
• - Panama, Projected Railway on Atlantic Coast, 55
• - Parcels Traffic and Stamp System, 508
• - Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads’ Reduction of Passenger Trains, 97
• - Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Suggested Electrification, 83
• - Pennsylvania Railroad, Men of Foreign Birth, Analysis ; Purchasers of Liberty Bonds, 473
• - Pennsylvania Railroad and Military Service, 315
• - Perishable Traffic in America, Wagons in Sidings, 407
• - Permanent Way, New Type, Demonstration at Townsville, Queensland, 561
• - Peru, American Locomotives Preferred by, 141
• - Peru, New Railwav to be Financed in New York, 119
• - Porters’ Tips and Compensation Question, 519
• - Prosser, Mr. E. A., Manager of Taff Vale as well as of Cardiff and Rhymney Railways, 33
• - Queensland Government Railways, Investigation, 337
• - Queensland Government Railways Report, 561
• - Rails, Steel, Manufacture in Sputh Africa, Trade Impetus Due to War, 229
• - RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION :
• -- Increased Income, 11
• -- Prince of Wales as President, 77
• - Railway and Canal Commission Court, Trials Postponed to End of the War, 97
• - Railway Clerks, Male and Female Wages Increase, 561
• - Railway Clerks’ War Bonus and Superannuation, 271
• - Railway Crossing Sign in South Carolina, Use as Advertisement Forbidden, 33
• - Railway Engineer Regiments for France, Nine Called for in the United States, 15
• - Railway Executive Committee’s Agreement with Men’s Union as to War Wages, 141
• - Railway Material Exported from the United Kingdom, 11, 77, 185, 315, 385, 497

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - Railwaymen’s Fifth Increase in Pay since War Began, 119
• - RailwayMen’s Further Advance in Pay, 473, 497
• - RailwayMen’s Pay and Government Agreement, 519
• - Railway Officials Lent to Government but Paid by the Railways, 207
• - Railway Purchase in the United Kingdom, 541
• - Railway Returns for 1913, Last Published in Complete Form, 229
• - Railway Shopmen’s War Bonus, 33, 119
• - Railway Workers’ Wages, New Adjustment, 185
• - Railways, Future of, Under Consideration by Board of Trade, 429
• - Reduction in Train Services, 119
• - Reduction, Further, in Train Services Im¬probable, 519
• - Risk Rates and Companies’ Responsibility, 561
• - Road, Rail and WTater Transport in France, 541
• - Russian Railway Improvements, 451
• - Russian Road-beds, Russian Railway Working Difficulties, 293
• - “Safety First” Competition for London Drivers, 249
• - St. Pancras Station, Wholesale Thefts from, 473
• - Sao Paulo and Boituba Lines, Conversion to Electric Traction, 429
• - School Holidays and Railway Travelling, 385
• - Season Ticket Irregularities ; Greater Strictness Enforced. 315
• - Season Ticket Price Increase and Government Control, 429, 519
• - Season Tickets to East London Stations, 77
• - Season Tickets Inter-Availability, 11, 361
• - Selous Siding, Rhodesian Railways, 55
• - Shire Highlands Railway, Survey for Extension from Blantyre to Lake Nyasa, 207
• - Signalling and Engine Head Lights Colour Confusion, 361
• - Signalling, Great Need for Automatic System to Prevent Accident, 271
• - Signals, Colour Experiments on Different Lines, 337
• - Skilled Railwaymen and War Services, 315
• - Soldiers’ Fatal Train Accident in Yorkshire, 249, 271
• - Soldiers’ Leave and Travelling by Train, 141
• - Soldiers’ Week-end Travelling, Regulations, 497
• - South African Finance, Increased Revenue from Railways and Harbours, 51
• - South African Government Order for Superheater Mountain Type Locomotives, 33
• - South African Railway Stores, Improved Methods. 407
• - South African Railways Engine Shortage and Traffic Restrictions, 429
• - South African Railways Signalling Installations, 407
• - South-Eastern and London, Dover and Chatham Companies’ Dividends, 97
• - South Indian Railway Company and Ceylon Government, 451
• - Soutnern Pacific, Cheap Transportation of Goods, 293
• - Southern Pacific Company’s Short Cut Across the Great Salt Lake, 541
• - Southern Railway Discourages Negro Emigration from Southern States, 11
• - Southern Railway Record of Safety, 163
• - Speed of Trains in United States, Evil Effect of Unnecessary Restrictions, 541
• - Stanley, Sir Albert, Presentation from Underground Companies to Former Managing Director, 53
• - State-owned Railways of the World Not One-third of Total, 55
• - Steel Substitution for Timber in Car Construction, Saving of Timber Effected, 541
• - Steel versus Wooden Coaches for United States Railways, 119
• - Stone Throwing at Trains, 315
• - Summer Train Services Abandoned, 54
• - Sweden’s Great Shortage of Rails, 451
• - Swedish Transport Bureau to Control Rolling Stock, 119
• - Switzerland, No More Passenger Trains on Sundays, 271
• - Taff Vale, Cardiff and Rhymney Railways under Joint Managership, 33, 55, 77, 97
• - Telephone Tests on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, 55
• - Theft of Goods in Transit, Railway Law, 337
• - Thefts of Goods from Railways, 249
• - Tie-plates Attachment to Sleepers, New Type of Plant, 11
• - Track and Bridge Reconstruction on South African Railways, 429
• - Track and Rolling Stock for Military Transportation in France, from United Kingdom, India, Australia and Canada. 11
• - Traffic between England and Wales and Scotland, No Choice of Routes, 519
• - Traffic Interchange between Furness and Other Railway Lines, 249
• - Train Overturned by Storm on Kohat Thai Railway. 77
• - Training of United States Troops, Assistance of the Long Island Railroad, 361
• - Trains and Railway Changes in October, 293
• - Tramcar, Fatal Derailment at Dover, 185, 429
• - Tramway Receipts Increase in the United Kingdom, 185
• - TRESPASSING ON UNITED STATES RAILWAYS :
• -- “Disgraceful ” Neglect of the Law, 541
• -- Military Control and Reduction of Accidents, 22
• - Underground Routes between Certain Stations, Eastbound or Westbound as Preferred, 229
• - Union Steel Corporation of South Africa, Steel Rail Manufacture, 229
• - United States Cars Rebuilding, Large Amount of Timber Employed, 561
• - United States Census of Railroad Employees of Military Age, 541
• - United States Expeditionary Force in France Director-General of Transportation, 337
• - United States Government and Loans to Railways, 315

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - United States Government Supplies, Success of Transport Arrangements Due to Pooling of Cars, 337
• - United States Military Service and Railroad Labour Stress, 330, 385
• - United States National Defence, Rolling Stock or Additional Power and Terminals, 77
• - United States Passenger Train Economy, Results, 389
• - United States Passenger Train, Reduction and Coal Saving, 42, 77, 185, 389
• - United States Production of Rails, Greatly Increased Output, 185
• - United States Railway Dining Car Service and Food Saving, 541
• - United States Railway Employees Not Exempted, as a Class, from Military Service, 141
• - United States Railway Equipment and Supplies, Enquiry by Mr. H. C. Hoyle, 385
• - United States Railwaymen’s Wages Demand, Action by President Wilson, 451, 561
• - United States Railways Fiscal Year, 407
• - United States Railways, Mileage of Signalling and of Train Despatching by Telegraph and Telephone, 496
• - United States Traffic, Measures for Improvement and Coal Saving, 185
• - United States War Board’s Appeal for Railroad Concentration on the War, 219
• - Victoria, Increase of Railway Fares and Freight Charges, 207
• - Victorian Government Railways, Superheaters and Fuel Saving, 185
• - Victorian Railways Working, Mr. T. R. Johnson Appointed as Commission, 33
• - Volunteers, Position of Railwaymen in the Event of Invasion, 473
• - Wagon Ropes, Railway, Pooled, 77
• - Wagons for Collieries : Board of Trade and Private Ownership, 300
• - Wagons for France Built in the United States, 451
• - Wardle, G. H., Rises from Clerk to Board of Trade Secretary, 185
• - War Gardens on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 315
• - War-office Department for Railway Control, Expenditure, 407
• - War Work Volunteers and Travelling Facilities, 429
• - Weight of Trains, Varvinsr Methods of Calculation, 119
• - Western Australia, Railway Freight Shortage Due to Lack of Ships for Wheat Transport, 11
• - Western Australia Railway Wagons and the Vacuum Brake, 33
• - Western Australia, Traffic and Finance Statistics, 55
• - Women Employees for the Pennsylvania Railway, Preliminary Inquiry, 22
• - Women’s Labour in Transport Work, 229
• - Women of the Midland Railway and the Rifle Club, 337
• - Women at Military Hospitals, Reduced Fares for, 271
• - Women as Permanent Way Gang on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 271
• - Women as Special Constables on the Great Eastern Railway, 271
• - Wooden Cars for Passenger Trains in the United States, Steady Withdrawal from Service, 119
• - Y.M.C.A. Work on United States Railway, Transport of Troops, 36)
• RAIN-MAKING Plant in Australia, 497
• Refrigerating Stores Capacity in United Kingdom, 361
• Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete
• Research Work and Educational Scheme for Benefit of Cotton Industry, by Messrs. Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Co., 207
• Resources of Iron—see Iron
• Reversing Mill, Electrically-driven, Recently Installed, 77
• Road Vehicles, Mechanically-propelled, Large Increase, 361
• Roads and Tarspraying, Details of Labour and Material, 337
• Rope Drive, Longest Known Life of, 519
• Rope Drive, World’s Highest Velocity, 519
• Rotary Flying Engines, American Want of Success in Production of, 519
• Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germany, 97
• Russian Cotton Seed Oil Industry, 185
• Russian Exhibition, 118
• Russian Oil Production, High Rate in Spite of Labour Shortage, 33
• Russia’s Pre-war Industries, British Capital Employed, 33

S

• ST. PAUL’S Cathedral, Strengthening of Piers of Transept, 207
• Salt Production in Russia, Analysis of, 163
• Salt Roadway in Utah, Advantages of, 473
• Sanitary Work in the Army, Major A. J. Martin, 328
• Scientific and Industrial Research Department’s New Address, 77
• Searchlight Improvements and Experiments in Germany, 77
• Seine Improvements, to Check Floods and Aid Navigation, 141
• Sewage Plant in America, Activated Sludge Compared with Percolating Filters, 561
• Sheet Metal Industry, Employers’ Joint Committee Meeting, 420
• Shell Forgings, Temperature Considerations, 249
• Shell Output in America, 97
• Shells, Immensely Increased Output, 33
• Shells Used in Capture of Messines, Estimated Weight of Steel, 33

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :

• - American Shipbuilding versus German U-boats, 234
• - American Steamers Converted to Diesel- engined Ships, 82
• - Cadiz, Abandoned Shipbuilding Yard to be Re-opened, 185
• - Canvas as Auxiliary in Steamships Not Required in Diesel-engined Vessels, 207
• - Charts, Serious Errors Discovered, 407
• - Concrete Ship Designed at San Francisco, 119 Concrete Ships, Advantages and Cost, 185
• - Diesel Engines for Submarines in the United States Navy, Attempt to Dispense with Air Starting Valves, 163
• - Durban, Electric Coaling Plant of New Design, 429
• - German Diesel-driven Motor Ship Wilhelm A. Riedermann, 429
• - German Submarines, Size and Number Stated to be Much Exaggerated, 207
• - Hong-Kong Shipping Analysis, Increase of Vessels Using the Port, 185
• - Hulls of Sea-going Vessels, Composition for Dressing, 561
• - Italian Measures Against Submarine Attack and for Re-construction of Mercantile Marine, 225
• - Japan, Absence of Pleasure Boating and Small High Speed Petrol Motors, 55 ; (Letter), 384
• - Japanese Ports, Percentage of Japanese and Foreign Vessels, 140
• - Japanese Ships Built at Tsurumi, Japan, Warships as well as Merchantmen to be Home Built, 163
• - Japan’s Shipbuilding Capacity, Great Extension of, 385
• - Merchant Ships Under Construction in American Shipyards, 361
• - Norwegian Iron and Concrete Ship Launched, The First, 163
• - Nova Scotia’s First Home Built Steel Oceangoing Steamer, 185
• - Panama Canal Terminals Supply Boats, 451
• - Russian 50-Ton Submarines, 175
• - Schooner Yacht America, Her Destination, 407
• - Shipbuilding Berth in Canada, Largest Enclosed for Canadian Vickers Limited, 361
• - Shipbuilding in the United States, Statistics, 55
• - Standard Ship, First Under War Conditions, Built at Chepstow, 541
• - Standard Steamers, Completed, Started and Sunk, 519
• - Standardised Ships of Cast Steel Constructed at Rate of More than One a Day, 207
• - Submarine Boat, First Recorded in 1640, 33
• - Submarine Chasers Ordered from United States for British and Italian Governments, 385
• - Submarine Detection by Megaphone, 519
• - Submarines, Exchange of Periscopes for Lenses on Either Side of the Vessel, 141
• - U-Boat Dangers, Suggestion to Net the North Sea, 141
• - U-Boats Failure to Impede Military Operations, 407
• - United States Call for American Sailors for their New Merchant Marine, 141
• - United States Collier Jupiter, Safe Arrival with Wheat Cargo in France, 33
• - United States Emergency Fleet, Details of Contracts, 33
• - United States Motor-driven Superdreadnought Tennessee, 249
• - United States New Dreadnoughts, 407
• - Warship Losses, Causes of, Comparison between Gunfire, Submarines and Mines, 207
• - Whitby, Prospect of Shipbuilding, 541
• - Wooden Ships to be Built in Canada, Steam- driven, 141
• - Wooden Ships 100 Years Old, 229
• - Wooden Vessels, Best Metal for Screw Shafts, 229
• SIAM, Projects for Systematic Irrigation, 207
• Silica Bricks, Superiority over Fireclay, 315
• Silver’s Increased Price, 293
• Silvertown Works Fire, Exaggerated Report’ 163
• Slide Rale, Pamphlet on “Useful Engineers, Constants,” andc., J. A. Burns, 260
• Smokeless Fuel for United States Navy, 385
• Soap Substitutes in Germany, 119
• Soldiers and Sailors, Disabled, to be Employed on Gramophone Manufacture, Works Opened, 361
• South Wales Miners and Taxes, 311
• South-Western Polytechnic Institute, 154
• Spanish Telephone System, Projected Extension, 141
• Spanish Works for Home Supply of Ships and War Material, 119
• Sparking Plug, Lenoir the Original Inventor, 77
• Sparking Plug, Better Insulation Needed, A. Champion, 407
• Stainless Steel Cutlery, Use of Chromium Stopped, 271
• Stanley, Sir Albert, Former Underground Managing Director, now President of Boaid of Trade, 53
• Steam Pressure for Steam Turbines, Increase in America, 497
• Stone Falling to Centre of the Earth, Calculation of Time, M. Sanger, 141
• Straw for Motor Fuel Gas, Canadian Chemist’s Process, 385
• Straw Pulp, Tested in Scottish Mills,. 429
• Street Accidents, Wonderful American Invention, 473
• Submarine Cable, Largest in the World, 229
• Suction Gas Plant in South Africa, Largest in Existence, 293
• Sugar or Bananas in Jamaica, 97
• Sugar, Motor Spirit and other Products from Mowra Flower, 119
• Sulphur Recovery from Smelter Fumes, “Thiogen” Process, 229
• Sweden, Proposed Government Grant for Grain Storage, 293
• Synthetic Indigo Manufacture at Ellesmere Port, Dr. G. T. Morgan, 24

T

• TAXATION of Motor Spirit, Import Duty During tho War, 55
• Taxes on Wages, South Wales Miners, 311
• Tea-growing Increase in Nyasaland, 146
• Tea Mixed with Iron and Steel Borings, 561
• Telegram Round the World in 16.5 Minutes, New York Times Message, 141
• Telegraph and Telephone Mileage in the Federated Malay States, 556
• Telegraph, Modern, Principles of, Professor J. A. Fleming, 328
• Telephone Exchange, The Work of, Professor J. A. Fleming, 328
• Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, for Sydney, Cost of, 561
• Telephone from Montreal to Vancouver, Record Length, 451
• Telephone Signalling, Various Methods, 249
• Telephone, Underground, “Continuously Loaded” Paper Core, in Shropshire, 97
• Telephone, Underground, from Washington to New York, 315
• Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, Much the Largest in the World, 249
• Textile Factories, Source of Electric Power, 385
• Tilbury Dock Enlargement, Completion, 33
• Timber in Victoria, Investigation of Development and Best Time for Cutting Mountain Ash, 55
• Tin Included in War Material Regulations, 561
• Tin Mining in Cornwall, Percentage of Loss of Tin and Wolfram, 519
• Tin and Tungsten in Wolfram, Separation by New Process, 361
• Tin from Zaaiplaats Smelting Works, South Africa, 428
• Titanium, Properties and Uses of, 541
• Town Planning After the War, Professor S. D. Adshead, 328
• Tractors, Farm, Varieties in the United States, 497
• Tractors for Farm Work, Good Ploughing Result, 361
• Tractors for Farmers, Government Assistance in Ontario, 55
• Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
• Turbines, Very Large Geared Marine, Construction in America, 33
• Turbo-blowing Plant to Replace Beam Engines After Seventy Years’ Constant Service, 337

U

• U-BOATS With and Without Periscopes, 77
• United States Army to Use Browning Automatic Rifle and the Lewis Gun, 163
• United States Increased Output of Tractors, 249
• United States Record Agricultural Programme, 293
• United States Soldiers, Weight of Metal and Other Equipment Carried, 519
• United States Standard Water-tube Boilers for Emergency Fleet, 519
• University College, London, Awards of Scholarships and Diplomas, 66

V

• VEGETABLE Matter in Waterways, Cleared by Mowing Machines from a Launch, 429
• Victoria and Storage Silos for Wheat, 249
• Viscometers, Need of Standardisation, 271

W

• WAGONS, Steam, Smoke Nuisance in Sheffield, 33
• War Conditions and New Industries, 561
• War Truck, American, Details of, 561
• Warehouse with Sixteen Acres of Floor Space, for New York Navy Yard, 451
• Water Gas, Continuous Process, Aqvist and Helsing, 293
• Water Jackets of Motor Car Engines, Filling up Cracks, 140

WATER SUPPLY:

• - Airdrie, Coatbridge and District Water Trust, Complaints of Deficient Supply, 361
• - Australia, Artesian Water Supply of, 385
• - Dartmoor to Plymouth, Success of New Water Main, 519
• - East London Water Supply from the Buffalo River, 141
• - Everett, Washington, Details of Scheme, 11
• - Filtered Water in the United States, Varieties of Filtration Plant, 407
• - Flow of Water in Wood-stave Pipe, F. C. Scobey, 271
• - Fluorine and Arsenic in Spring Waters, 385
• - Japan, Schemes for Water Supply at Tokio, 361
• - Lancaster’s New Scheme for Supply, 163
• - Montreal Public Supply Sterilisation, 119
• - Rand Water Board Report, Record Sale Year, 293
• - Reservoir Cost in England and America, 561
• - Winnipeg Water Supply from Artesian Wells, 271
• - Wood Pipe for Silty Water, Suitable Velocity, 33
• - Wood-stave Pipe for Water Conveyance, 11
• WEATHER Forecasts in the United States, High Average Correctness, 33
• Welfare Work, Home Secretary’s Proposals for Factories and Workshops, 97
• Welland Ship Canal, Suspension of Work, 271
• Westminster Bridge, Curiously Composite Structure, 119
• Whale Steaks as Food on the Pacific Coast, 451
• Wheat Storage in Silos, Victoria, 249
• White Mineral Wool Manufacture from Basalt Rock near Melbourne, 271
• Wire Rope Strain and Intelligent Lubrication, 77
• Wire Ropes for Collieries, Factor of Safety, 271

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY:

• - Detective Vessel for Wireless Spies and Hoaxers, 315
• - Japanese Station at Funabashi, Particulars of, 55
• - Lag in Wireless Time Signals, 429
• - Messages Picked up Over 11,000 Miles off, 229
• - Radio-telegraphy and Telephony, Medal of Honour Award, 77
• - Wireless Installations and “ Jamming,” 561
• WOLFRAM from Burma, Increased Export, 293
• Wood Block Paving, Cost Before and Since the Outbreak of War, 55
• Wood, New Tropical, Valuable for Heat Insulation, 541
• Wood Paving, Latest Practice in, 337
• Wool, Pure White Mineral, Uses of, 385
• Workmen’s Clothing and Machinery, Numerous Fatalities, 33
• Worms and Agricultural Land, 311

X

• X-RAY Industry, British, Need of Capital and Skill, 33

Y

• YEAST Used in Germany for Manufacture of Buttons, Knife Handles, andc., 97
• Yokohama Rier Reconstruction, Completion, 337

Z

• ZINC in “Gun-Metals” for Marine Engineering, 249
• Zinc Works, Electrolytic, in Tasmania, 11
• Zirconia, Raw and Purified, High Melting Point of, and Other Properties, 77

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