The Engineer 1907 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1907 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

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ABERDEEN, Floating Dock for, 163
Acetylene Plants, in U.S.A., 11
Accident on H.M. Destroyer Dragon, 213
- at Ulleskelf, North-Eastern Railway, Board of Trade Report, 94
- on United States Railways, 190
- at Willans and Robinson’s Rugby Works, 50
Accumulator Capacity, Maintenance of, 317
Accra Water Supply from A buri, Gold Coast, 63
Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, House-building in, 289
- Importation of Traction Engines and Machinery, 289
Admiralty, Permanent Secretary, New Appointment, 137
Adriatic, The, Service from Southampton, London and South-Western Train Service in Connection, 577
Aero Club, Flying Machine Competition, 22
- Experiments, 226, 237
Aeroplanes, 328
- Motor, Santos Dumont’s, 163
- Race, Paris to London, in 1908, 63
- Santos Dumont’s New, 193
Aerial Screw Propeller, Major Hoerne’s, 137
Agriculture, Board of. Inquiries as to Efficiency of Instruction, 317
Agricultural Labour in U.S.A., Increased Effimenoy Reduces Workers and Increases Output,
Airship “ America,” Details of, 369
Air Compressor Plants for Panama Canal Work, 289
- Discharge, Experiments in, through Orifices of Varying Size, 76
- Resistance in Simplon Tunnel, 289
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in 1909, 421
Alcohol from Domestic Refuse, 499
- Engines Wanted in Cuban Sugar Mills, 11
- Fuel Value of, for Road Vehicles, Compared with Petrol and Kerosene, 343
- for Industrial Purposes, Bill to Reduce Cost of, 343
- Undenaturised for Motor Car Propulsion, 190
Alloys, The Electrical Resistance of, 63
- Mond Metal, Analysis of, 526
- None Strictly Non-corrosive, 499
- Pro-platinum, Invented in U.S.A., 237
Aluminium from Blue Clay, New Process for Electrical Extraction of, 449
- Continuous, Sheet Rolling Mill at New Kensington, Pennyslvania, 395 I
- from Blue Clay, Electrical Extraction of, 642
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Statistics for 1906, 37
American Shipping Registered in 1906, 190
- Seamboat Speeds, 325
- Catalogues for Shoe Soles in China, 449

Appointments and Retirements:

Llewellyn Smith, Mr. Hubert, C.B», 10
Appointments and Retirements {continued) ;
Hopwood, Sir Francis J. S., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., 10
Gavey, Mr. John, C.B., Retirement from Appointment as Engineer-in-Chief of Post- office, 11; Dinner to, 408
Hill, Mr. J. J., Rumoured Retirement, 11
Lloyd’s Register, Mr. James Dixon Succeeds Sir John Glover as Chairman, 589
Normand, Augustin, Monument to, 259; (Letter), 498
Tangye, Sir Richard, Memorial at Birmingham, 113
Whitehead, Mr. Charles E., Presentation of Plate, 455

ANODE Rays, New Method of Obtaining, 655
Anthracite Discovery in Eastern Siberia, 551
- Taxed by Pennsylvania State, 526
Antwerp Swing Bridge, Tenders Called for, 90
Argentina Appoints Permanent Commission for Public Works Supplies, 190
- New Bridge over Gualegay River, 90
Argentine Republic’s Regulations for Importation of “Decauville ” Rails, Tie-bars, &c., 395
Armour Plate, Cost of Production in U.S.A,, 11
Artesian Water Boring at Lincoln, 11
Arctic Exploration, Possibilities for Further, 343
Asbestos Deposits in the Minusisk District, Siberia, 655
- Extensive Output in Quebec, 190 Ash-burning Formula, 499
Atom, Infinitesimal Minuteness of an, 848
Athenicum Club Elects Professor P. Thompson, 395 ‘ -jd I ivij
Austria-Hungary, Chemical Industry in. Greatly Increased Prosperity, 90
Australasian, New, 94
Automobile Club’s Commercial Vehicles Trials, 190 .
- Committee Appointments, 317
- Dust Trials for Cars, 551
- Races in Isle of Man, 137
- Races, Entries for, 190
- Side-slip Tests, 113, 221
- Club de France, Speed Competition Regulations, 37
- in France, Suggested Registration for War Purposes, 163
- in U.S.A., 237, 551

BALDWIN Locomotive Works, its Output, 90
Ballast-producing during a Balloon Trip, 475
Balloons and Air Ships for Military Purposes Experiments in U.S.A., 237
- and Kites, Great Height Reached by, 369
- Steering, Zeppelin, Shed Carried by Pontoon Erected by German Government on Lake of Constance, 577
Barge, Oil, Attempt to Tow, from Philadelphia to London, 551
Barometric Readings, Maximum and Minimum, 163
Barytes as an Adulterant for White Lead, 395 Battleship, Large, for United States Navy, 137
Battleships, Wireless Telegraphy Receiving Room to bo Fitted on all, 577
Benzole, Commercial, Production in Great Britain, 369
Beira, Illuminated Buoys for, 550
Belt, Leather, for American Saw Mills, said to be Largest in the World, 603
Berlin, Wreck of the Great Eastern Railway Company’s s.s., Decision as to Liability, 627
- Dutch Government Inquiry into Salvage Service, 526
Bessemer Steel Ingots, British Production of, 499
Bicycles Replace Broken-down Tramway System in Johannesburg, 526
Bicycle and Motor Car Speeds Compared, 237
Bituminous Mines of Pennsylvania, Fatalities in, 263
Blackpool, Sea Defence Works at, 163
Blairhall, Sinking of Pits Interrupted by Water, 499
Blast Furnace Improvement in Germany, 395
Boiler Covering, 655
- Explosions, Small Number of, 504, 534 Fluid, 655
- Tubes of Standard Steel, Experiments on, 90
- Works for the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company, Limited, 342
- Chain Grates, Motor-driven, for Watertube Boilers, Unsuccessful with Indian Coal, 449
- Navy, Satisfactory Report on, 603
- Ship’s, Supplement, Steam Generating Equipment of Electric Station in U.S.A., 289
- U.S. Battleship Cincinnati, Steam Raising Efficiency Tests with Water-tube Boilers, 263
Bolivia Gold and Silver Output Diminishing, 395
Brakes, Automatic Vacuum, on Indian Railway Locomotives, 289
Brakes, Hydro-pneumatic, for German Field Guns, 577
Brazil, Bureau for Geological and Mineralogical Research, 603
- Central Railway of, Extension, 107
- and the Gold Mining Industry, Dissatisfaction as to Taxation, 603
Brick Masonry Well, Floated Away by Flood in Indiana, 317
Bridge near Canton, 499
- Catawade, New Bridge Proposed, 237
- at Dimotica, Adrianople, Tenders Invited for its Construction, 113
- Over the Ganges, Indian Commission Appointed, 302
- Iron, Projected to Span Maritza in Turkey, 237
- New, between New York City and New Jersey, 237
- Manhattan, Details of Estimates for, 421
- Southwark, Improvement of, 137 Transporter, Across the Tees, Bill before Parliament, 288
Bridging the Golden Horn, 159
British Corporation Registry of Shipping, 220
British India, Nearly One-fourth in Forests under Departments, 190
Brunn’s Liquid Chemical Preservative for Stone and Metals, 11
Bulgarian Loans for Various Public Works, 213
Buoys, Illuminated, for Beira. 550
Burma Government to Erect Petroleum Pumping Station, 551

CABLES
Calcium Carbide Made in at Niagara Falls, 627
Calcium Carbide Stored in Imposed, 603
Calculation by Graphic D’Oeagne on, 526
Canadian Need of Skilled Artisans, 526
Canadian North-West, Immigration from Great Britain, 369
Canada West, 100 New Towns to be Founded, 289
Carbon Heated in Hydrogen, Chemical Effects of, 627
Carbons, Effect on Silver Bromide, How to Increase, 213
Cardiff Health Committee Workpeople, Regulations for, 551
Carmania, Turbines Examination Satisfactory, 63
Carpets from Paper, Austrian Patent, 148
Car Works for Large Cars at Douai, 551
Cast Iron Cooling, Recent Discoveries in, 627
Cast Iron Filling, 499
Causeway for Galveston Island Projected, 237
Celtic, Record Number of Passengers, 421
Cement for Fastening Iron to Marble, 655
Cement, Portland, Specific Gravity of, 213
Centrifugal Pumps, Commercial Efficiency, 113
- Efficiency Experiments, 627
- Efficiency Tests, 113
Chains, Roller, Speed of, 369
Channel Fleet and Liverpool’s Seven Hundredth Anniversary, 263
Chatham Dockyard, Rear-Admiral Giffard Appointed Superintendent, 137
Chester, Taximeter Cabs for, 90
Chili, Projected New Railway, 577
Clock for Labour Detection in America, 475
Clocks, Watches, and Scientific Instruments, Value Imported into Great Britain, 237
Clyde Shipbuilding Returns for 1906, 11
Coals, Australian, and Spontaneous Combustion. 475
- and Gas Consumption in U.S.A., 263 and other Minerals, British Output of, in 1906, 343
- Anthracite, in South-East Russia, 213
- Anthracite, Pumped from Streams in East Pennyslvania, 369
- and Coke Shipped from the Tyne, 655
Cutting by Machinery, Mr. R. C, Anderson, 188
Cutting Machines in the United States, 63
Coal Dust and Explosions, Experiments in France, 317
- Dust Experiments, 369
- Elevator at St. Petersburg, 63
- Exported, Duty on, Statistics, 11
- Field Discovered in Japan, 11
- Fields in South-East of England, Extent Statistics, 343
- Found at Oxton, near Nottingham, 475
- for Hamburg from the Tyne, 603
- in Bengal, Shortage of Wagons for, 449
- in North Africa, None Known to Exist, 551
- in U.S.A., Chief Output from Pennyslvania, 395
Loading, Smart Work at Blyth, 551
Machine-mined, in the United States, 163 Mine Fatalities in Pennyslvania, 526 Miners, Number in the United Kingdom, 37
Miners’ Strike in West Canada, 551 Mining in Afghanistan, 369
Museum at Lille University, 577 New Discovery near Wolverhampton, 113 uot Shipped at Middlesbrough, 369 Output of Illinois, 343
Output of, in Poland, 577
Output of. Under Coal Mines Regulation Act, 237
Scarcity in Russia Due to Railway Disorganisation, 369
Shipments from the Tyne, 11 Soft, on Locomotives in America, Arrest of Railway Servants Using, 577
Spontaneous Ignition of, To Prevent, 603 Storage in Pits which can be Flooded, 137, 421
Traces of Rich Veins in Tomd, 526
Traffic in Calcutta, Shortage of Wagons, 237
Turkey’s Importation of, 627 Waste on Working in India, 395 Worked by Pillar-and-Stall System, Proper Size of Pillars, 551
Workings at Motherwell, Damage to Pro perty, 137
Coke for Locomotives Tried near Pittsburg, 213
Coke Ovens, Beehive, Waste by Use of, 369
Colliery Cage Disaster, Orgreave, Verdict, 499
New Coaling Appliances, Trial on, at Port Natal, 655
Sulphur in Coal, Various Forms of, 499 United States Navy and Pennsylvania Anthracite, 263
Cobalt for Storage Battery Manufacture, 113 Cobalt, Nickel and Silver Ores in Ontario, 499 Collision near Dover between Liner and Tank Steamer, 627
Colour Photography at Soci6t^ Jongla, 483 Compass Card, Collins’ Mariners’, 36
Compensation for Accident in Indiana Disallowed, 63
Compressed Air, Loss in Transmission of, 526 Concrete Buildings Withstand Earthquake, 526
The Fatigue of, Professor Ornum’s Paper, 163
Hennebique Reinforced, for G.P.O. Extension, 11
Protection during Setting of, 449 Reinforced, Beam, Fire, and Load Test. 627
Care Required for Satisfactory Results in Building, 317
Columns, Tests of Strength after Fire, 263 ’
T-Beams, Tests of, 577 Extensive Uso in Reconstructing at San Francisco, 213
Extensive Use in Los Angeles, 213
to Replace Wood for Mine Supports, Experiments in, 113
Copper, Analytic, New Invention for Production, 289
Detection of, 63 Imports and Exports of U.S.A,, 289 in Mexico, Greatly Increased Output, 263 Molten, Properties of. Precautions Necessary to Prevent Porosity, 603
Ore, High Grade, Discovered near Vanderbilt, San Berhardius, 499
Production in Chili Diminished by Scarcity of Labour, 603
Production in the Urals, Russia, 551 Wire for Telephones in United States, 63 Cotton Mill Driving, Exchange of Old Beam Engine for Electrical Power, 237
Cow’s Curious Dietary, 551
Craigmire Granite Quarries, Enormous Blast at, 90
Crane, 120-Ton Electric Overhead, for Woolwich Arsenal, Applebys, Limited, 377, 403
Crucible, Graphite, Replaces Clay, 421
Crystal Palace Engineering School, Prize Awards and Papers, 20
Cyclone at Karachi, 603

DANISH Mercantile Fleet, Numbers and Analysis of Classes of Vessels, 237
Darien, Leyland Liner, Refloated, 449
Dean, Smith and Grace, Limited, Extension of Works 271
Derwent Valley Water Scheme, 252, 358
Destroyer Vixen, Repairs begun, 526 Destructors, Small, for Hospital Refuse, 577 Diamonds in a Volcano, 263
Dish-washing Device for Naval Battleships, 37
Die, Taper, for Cutting Pipe Threads, 163
Divers, Communication with. Tests of Apparatus for, 317
Drawing-down and Staving Scales, 36
Dredging Ambrose Channel, Leading to New York Harbour, 11
Dredgers for Egyptian Canals Wanted, 113
Dredger for Lagos, W. Simons and Co., 409 Dredging in the Port of Rhodes, 113
Dredger for Spain, Wm. Simons and Co., Limited, 558
Dredger, New, for Straits Settlements, 71
Drill Hardening in Sulphuric Acid, 449 Miniature Air, 343
Rotary Air, Weighing only 2Jlb., Made in Chicago, 90
Dust Destructor in Moravia, 212
Pl evention, Experiments by the Royal Automobile Club, 476
Problem, The, Competition for Road Preparation, 145
Dynamite Blasting Accident near Glasgow, 603

EARTHQUAKES, Causes of. Beliefs of Uncivilissd Nations, 475
Egypt, Various Contracts Secured by British Firms, 163
Eiffel Tower for Army Wireless Telegraphy, 526

Electrical Matters:

Alternating-current Electro-magnet, Device for Preventing Chattering of Armature against Pole-pieces, 526
Arc Lamp Carbons, Composition of, 499
Bath Electricity Works Pass from Corporation to Company, 190
Bolton Electricity Accounts, 499
Booster-Battery Plant at Greenock Generating Station, 627
Central Power Station Equipment, Washington,
369
Clock, Electric, at Piccadilly Tube Station, for Recording Train Departure, 343
Commutator Insulation, Substitute for Mica,
237
Direct-current Turbo-generators, Mr. Wilfred Hunt, 26
Edinburgh Electricity Supply, 298
Electric Air Filtration, 655
Current for Agricultural Implement Driving Offered at Low Rate by Durham Co., 526
Current at High Voltage, Experiments in Handlingand Transmission, 475
Driving Apparatus and Turbine Generator for Cotton Mills, 163 Generating Plant for Wednesbury, 603 Lamps and Incandescent Gas Burners, Illumination Tests, 163
Lamp, The Robertson, General Electric Company, Limited, 304
Light Deficiencies in Fog, 499 Lighting of Hornby-Sandon (Mersey) Docks, 137
Scheme for Rome, 499 in Mexico, from 100 Miles Distance, 603
Locking of Railway Carriages, 148 Motor Baggage Trucks on Pennsylvania Railroad, 289
Power Transmission, Scheme for Water Power Development for, near Ma^ ^n, Ga,, 526
Steel Furnace, Rotating, for Refining Pig Iron, 263
Power for Seville, 190
Power for Toronto, Generated at Niagara, 11
Power Scheme, Los Angeles, 177 Supply in Birmingham, 163 Supply for Havant, under Consideration, 603
Electrical Current Effects in New York State, 577
Energy, Cost of Generation by Falling Water, 11
Energy for Fort William, Ontario, 421 Engineers, Institution of, Elects Lord Kelvin President, 343
Industry, Extension of, in Turkey, English Contractors and Agents Should apply, 608
Supply for Munich, 137
Electrically Transmitted Portraits and Letters, 289
Electricity Accidents in Italian Factories, Prize Offered for Means of Prevention, 190
for Brighton, Loan Sanctioned, 190 Loan for, at Worthing, 551 in France, Development of its Use in Industry, 90
in France, Scheme for Reduction of Cost, 317
Users and Leyton Urban Council, 317 Varying Cost of, 37
Works, Cambuslang, Total Generated Weekly from Refuse, 561 Electro-metallurgy for Iron and Steel Manufacture, Its Economy Doubtful, 395
Electro-pneumatic Signalling to be Adopted by Caledonian Railway, 317
Electron Theory, Its Application to Electrolysis, 172
Electrons and Atoms, Sir Oliver Lodge on, 137 Electrolysis of Fused Sodium, 655
Engineering Courses, Mechanical and Electrical, at Reusselaer Polytechnic, U.S.A., 369
Fog Dispersion by Electric Waves in France, 410
Formula for Finding Number of Electric Lamps | for Lighting a Room, 655
Generating S^tion, Kent Electric Power Company, 672
Generators, Compound-wound. Three-wire, Improved Method of Winding, 603 Generators, Three-wire and Sparkless Running, 627
Ice Production by Electricity, 475 Investigations on the Distribution of the Magnetic Field and the Flux of Conducting Wires, 650
Johannesburg, New Electric Station at, 90 Lamp, Edison Carbon-filament, 343
Leeds Municipal Electric Lighting Profits, 526 Motor Commutating Pole, Armature Reaction of, 627
Power Transmission from Niagara, 94
Some Forms of Continuous-current Electricity Meters, Mr. R. B. Mitchell, 281
Storage Battery Negative Plates, Invention to Save Loss of Capacity in, 626
Sydney, Fine New Terminal Station at, 113
Telephones, Extensive Miles of American (Bell) Company, 213
Transformers and Resonance Phenomena, 263
Turbo-Alternator for Electrolytic Furnace in Ireland, 603
Turbo-Alternator, 3500-Kilowatt Parsons, Test of Steam Consumption, 526
Magnetic Properties of Umbrellas and Bricks, 475
Manchester Corporation, Loan for Electrical E&tensions, 627
Motor Generators of Three Machines each. Direct and Alternating Current, at Power Station of Railway at Hamburg, 651
X-Rays in a Crookes Tube, Apparatus for Varying Intensity, Berlemont’s, 463

ELEVATED Railway Cars, Copper Stolen from, 447

Engines, Motors, and Motor Vehicles:

American Motor Car Trade, 24
Auto-Cycle Club, Silencer Trials, 50 Automobile Club, Commercial Vehicle Trials, 421
Discusses Trials or Race for 1908, 213
for Bedfordshire, 430 Competition, Noise Trials, 163
in New York, 263 Industry in Italy, 449
Test Reported by American Machinist, 627
and St. Bernard Monks, 263
Cars, High-speed, Mechanics of, on Curves, - 395
Car Races in France, 86
Cycle and Motor Cycle Taxes Reduced in France and Belgium, 213
Gas Engine Cylinders, Lubrication, Regulation of, 608
Difficulties in Ignition Obviated, 526
for Airship, 475
for Driving Dynamos, 63 Patented in America in 1844, 113 fcr Waste Blast Furnace Gases in Lorraine, 11
Gas turbine for Driving Rateau Turbo-compressor, 627
High-duty Engine Used with Air Compressor, Satisfactory Test, 113
Itchen Navigation, Motor and other Vessels to be Used, 113
Motor Boat Plying Fish, Successes of, 499 Motor Boats Wanted for Zambesi, 213
Motor Cabs for London Ordered in France, 63 Motor Car Garage, General Motor Cab ^Company, Limited, 322
Mechanism, Demonstrations in, for Soldiers, 421
Trade in Italy, Development of, 237 Touring, Race in U.S.A., 421
200 H.P. Six-cylinder Built to Beat World’s Speed Record, 603
Petrol Engine, Power Tests with Varying Ignition, 317
and Cycles, Number Registered by London County Council, 37
550.000, Estimated to have been Manufactured, 526
French Statistics Concerning, 137^ 449
for Straits Settlements, 213 in France, Number of, 137 in India, Number in Chief Towns, 421 Increased Registration in New York, 213
Increased Shipment of, from this Country to South Africa, 369
in St. Petersburg, 289 on Bridges, Regulations, 163 Petrol, Offensive Exhaust from, 74 Staffordshire County Council Regulations, 190
Casualty Roll in London, 603 Cruiser for Mission to Seamen, 471 Cycles with Eight Cylinders, 369 Lorries, Petrol, for East Indian Railway, 420
Mail Vans, Milnes-Daimler, 190 Omnibus, De Dion, Service in France, 137
in London, Increased Use, 113 for Liverpool Unlikely to be Profitable, 603
for Russia, 163 for Todmorden, 11 in Harrogate, 449 Loss in Working, 263
Oil Dropping, Police Decision as to, 620
for Conveying Workmen in Germany, 577
Passenger and Parcels Service Started in the Oise, France, 369
Service at Holywell, 213 Transport Wagons for Freight in India 475
Union and the Langstone Bridge Case, 250
Essay, Prizes Offered, 163 New Clubs in 1906, 289 Objects to Bridge Tolls at Havant, 190
Scheme for Measures of Safety, 475
Van Steering Apparatus, Defective, Causes Damage, 561
Vehicles for Post-office in France, 421 Wagons, Steam, for North Staffordshire Pottery District, 133
Yacht Club, International Cup Race, 163
Oil Engines for Irrigation Purposes in Palestine, 475
Petrol Engines, Various Ignitions for, Mr. S. F. Edge’s Experiments, 213
Renard Road Train, Demonstration of, 195 Sheffield Motor Car Show, 274
Side-slip Competition, 148, 195
Stranraer and Drummore Motor Omnibus Service, 449
Torquay Motor Omnibuses Exchanged for Tramways, 90
Touring Motor Car Race, 61
Engines, Motors, and Motor Vehicles {continued')
Track of 32 Miles for New Club at Tennessee, 37
Traction and Agricultural Enginesin Vine Cultivation, Competition in Italy, 627
Traction Engine out of Control near Weston- super-Mare, 526

ENGINEERING Education in United States, 163
Engineering Society, The, Torpedo-boat and Destroyers, Mr. H. P. Philpot, 42

Exhibitions:

Bordeaux International Maritime, 177
Electrical, to be Held at Niagara Falls, 526 Franco-English Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush, 137
Hygiene, International, of, at Madrid, 523
Jamestown, to include Cosmopolitan Naval Exhibition, 475
Japanese Floating, for Rio de Janeiro, 449
Letchworth Garden City, in 1907, 90
Motor Car Show at Agricultural Hall, 37
Motor Meeting at Madrid, 475
Niagara Falls Electrical, 419
of Inventions in Berlin, 458
of Machinery and Machine Tools, International, at Amsterdam, 146
Opened at Paris, Berlin, and Hungary, 577
Scientific, Models, Instruments, Tools, Announcement of, 636
Scottish National, 1908, 71

FARSLEY District Council, Electric Lighting Provisional Order, 655
Ferries, Steam, in Sweden, 457
Files, Cut in France by Machinery from Germany, 499
Filter, Electric, Hungarian’s Invention, 499
Finland Factories Declared to be Foreign in regard to Russian Government Orders, 317
Finland, New Lines Projected in, 107
Fire Brigade, London, Increased Appliances, 190 Report, 343
Damp Diffused More Rapidly than Afterdamp, 551
Drill on City of Buffalo, Smart Work in Manning Boats, 603
Engines in the Isle of Wight, First Steam, 242
Equipment at Nurembeig, Three-wheeled Motor Steamers, 627
Exits for New York Subway, 627
Fireclay, New Workings on Lord Dudley’s Land, 627
Flushing-Middleburg Tramway Extension, 343 Fly-shuttle, Inventor of the. Memorial to John Kay, 27
Fly-wheel, New Design for Electric Station, 63
Fuel Containing Sulphur in Large Quantities, Use of, in Producer Gas Engine Plants, 526
Crude Oil, for Boiler Plant at Flour Mills, 526
Liquid, Advantages of, 449
Oils in California and Texas, Analysis of, 551
Petroleum Used in Roumanian Ships, 526
Scarcity and Variety at Potosi, Bolivia, 395
Furnace Induction Kjellin Steel, at German Iron and Steel Works, 651
Furnace, Open-hearth, Collapse of, 603
Fuse, Detonating, Tests of, for High Explosive Shells in U.S.A., 11
Fusible Plugs, Substitute for
Fishing Vessels and Open Safety Valves, 577 Franco-Spanish Trans-Pyrenean Railway Convention, 213
Freezing Ground Before Sinking Shafts at Seaham Harbour, 499
French Industrial Vehicles, Census for Possible Use in Army Transport, 113
French Navy, Vedette Torpedo Boat, Reported . Purchase of New Invention, 603 I
Freight, Transatlantic, Daily Despatch of, from | New York, 627
Frosting Incandescent Lamp Globe with Emery Cloth, 526
Furness Railway, Goods Manager Retires, 190

GARDEN Village at Hull, Projected, 343

Gas:

Acetylene, and Inverted Incandescent Burners, 343
Acetylene, Great Illuminating Power of, 369 Bolton Gas, Profits of, 475
Consumption Statistics in United States, 263
Cookers and Slot Meters in Norwich, 113
Engines for Producer Gas in Palestine, 475
Fuel in Pittsburg, Rise in Price, 11
Gasholder for Elgin, 627
Mains Burst near Cleveland, Ohio, 113
Mantle, Eggshell as, for Acetylene Gas, 577
Nelson Corporation Applies for Borrowing Powers for, 577
Nitrogen, for Fire Inflation, 213
Peat, Use of, in Sweden and Elsewhere, 343 Gasoline Explosion, Rare, 577
Plants, Suction, in Berlin, Increase in Number, 603
Producer, for Steel Works, 244
Large Power Installation in Texas, 213
Plant Increases Power Efficiency of Soft Coals, 526
Thermal Value cf, 213
Reduced Cost in Sheffield, 190
Supply at Widnes, Profit on Gas at Is. per 1000ft., 603
Tnrbinein Prance, 577
V. Steam Engines, Mr. J, E. Dowson’s Experiments, 512
Water More Poisonous than Ordinary Lighting Gas, 190
Water, Percentage of, for Paris Lighting, Rejected, 190
Leek Gasworks Plant, Extension at, 577
Gases, Specific Heat of, 63

GEOLOGICAL Class, 380
Society Centenary, 395
Geological Survey, United States, Investigation of Platinum Discoveries in California, 641
German Foreign Trade Statistics, 137
German Smelting Works, Increased Use of Gas Engines, 263
Glacier Ice in Demand, 475
Glasgow Telephones, Increased Number, 90
Gold, Large Nuggets in Australia, 163, 499 Production in Australia, 163, 577 in Australia, 163
Big Nuggets, Discovered near Taragnella, Australia, 499
and Silver in Northern Ontario, 404 and Platinum in White Sea Region, 343 Silver, and Lead Discovered in New South Wales, 369
from South Africa, Large Shipment of, 449 Industry in South Africa, Mr. F. Boyd, 212
Graphite, Bohemia, Its Uses, 499 from Borrowdale, Sole Source, of Importance in this Country, 475 Deflocculated, New Product, of Probable Use as a Lubricant, 526 in Quebec, 163
Guns versus Armour, Sir W. White’s. Lecture at Govan, 221
Guns, Brown Wire-wound, 137
Gun-firing Practice, Admiralty Report on Tests,

HAMMER, Pneumatic
Hampstead Tube Opening

Harbours and Waterways: * Aberdeen Harbour Loan * Aragon and Cataluna Canal * Belfast Harbour Board * Buenos Ayres, New canal

Bute South Dock at Cardiff, Opening Fixed,
Canal between St. John’s, Quebec, and Montreal, 395
First, Built in Massachusetts, 263 from Marseilles to Rhone, 263 Hungarian, between Danube and Theiss, Survey for, 317
Kaiser Wilhelm, Enlargement of, 263, 638
Moselle and the Saar, Projected by Prussian Government, 113
Projected Morava River to the Danube, 63
Trent, between Georgian Bayard and Lake Ontario, Probable Completion of, 343
Canals in Canada, Commerce Returns, 213 in Russia, Change of Traction on, 213 Royal Commission, Projected Tour of Inspection, 475
The Development of Scottish, 486 Three New German, Projected, 627
Cardiff Railway Company’s New Dock, The King to Open, 603
Cherbourg, New Harbour at, 90
Chicago Drainage Canal, Opposition to Further Diversion of Water from Great Lakes, 213
Coast Line of Lincolnshire, Great Changes in, 421
Construction of Merklands Quay Wall, The, Mr. J. W. Harvie on, 242
Danish Harbour of Esbjerg Enlarged, 90 Dock Basin at Stettin, 874
Clyde Trust’s New, 251 Floating, at Aberdeen, Proposed, 421 for Gothenburg, being Built at Kiel, 499
for Trinidad, 523 for Venice Harbour, 603 T^arge, to be Constructed at Hunter’s Point, 237, 395
Largest Dry, Projected at Hunter’s Point, Cal., 237
at Keyham, New Machine Shops at, 603 Dockyard, British, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 86 Dredging at Aden Harbour, 449
Dredging Work at Shanghai, Dutch Tender Accepted, 551
Dumbarton Harbour, 174
Georgian Bay Canal Survey, 37 Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Closed, 385 Harbour at Laraiche, Suggested Construction. 237
Improvement, Cape Coast Castle, 95 Kob^, Extensive Improvements at, 369 Turkish, Projected, at Haiffa, 317 of Valparaiso Reduced by Earthquake, 237
Works at Athens, Loan for, 627 Harwich Dock Equipment, 11 Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, Traffic on, 63 Lighting of Uruguayan Sea and River Coasts, Scheme for Improvement, 237
Lisbon, Port of. Administrative Changes and Improvements, 317
Liverpool Dock Board, Improvements on Hand, 113
Newlyn Harbour Improvements, 475 Panama Canal, 190, 499
Port Extension at Trieste and elsewhere in Austria, 343
of Belem, Brazil, Improvement Plans, 317 of Naples, Development of Harbour and Quays, 237
Portsmouth, Additional Dock Accommodation at, 63
Rotterdam’s New Harbour, 190
Russia, Ports to be Improved, 289
Sault Sts. Marie Canals, U.S.A., Increase in Earnings of, 63
Scarborough Harbour and Pier Improvements, 263
Sheerness Harbour can be Improved by Dredging, 645
Southampton, New Dock Projected by London and South-Western Railway, 63
Southampton Water, Deepening of Channel, 421
Sweden’s Waterways, Open and Frozen Periods, 577
Taranto, Dry Dock to be Constructed at, 577 . Thames and Lea, Their Daily Flow, 289
Waterway, Underground Tunnel, Longest and Largest, for Irrigation in Colorado, 627
Harbours and Waterways {continued'):
Welland Canal, Canada, Suggested Improvement, 263
Visit to Blythe Harbour, 177

HARLAND and Wolff’s Southampton Branch, 263
Haslington Sewerage Scheme, 163
Heat Transmission, Loss Due to Scale in Boilers, 395
Helium, Pure, Prepared by Filtration through Silica, 287
Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, New Departments, 221, 475
Holland, Electric and Steam Tramways in, 343 Hooded Vans, Danger of, 136
Horns on Horsed Vehicles Prohibited in Burma, 395
Howth Drainage Scheme, 163
Hudson River, Peculiar Property of its Silt, 90 Hull and Barnsley Railway, Changes in the Board, 190
Hydeslite, New Metal for Strengthening Brass, 317
Hydraulic Power Works at Brusio, 523 Hydro-electric Power Station near Rheinfelden, 421
Hydrofluoric Acid for Cleaning Castings, 113 Hydrofluoric Acid for Cleaning Castings, 551 Hydrogen Corpuscles, Octillions and Quintillions of, 137
Hygiene, Industrial, Prize Offered, 226

ICEBREAKER for Helsingfors, 113
Immigrants Landing in New York, Small Proportion only for New York City, 289
Increase of Telephone Charges in Sheffield, 655
India-rubber, Cultivation in Italy Suggested, 237
India-rubber in Madagascar, New Varieties of Plants, 577
Indian Import and Export Trade with Germany Belgium, and United Kingdom, 395
Infant Mortality, Proposed Crdches in Blackburn Mills, 37
Ing^nieur Chimiste Degree Instituted in France, 37
Injectors, Effect of Superheated Steam on, 627

Institutions, Societies, &c.:

Birmingham Association of Mechanical Engineers, Meeting, 252
Cold Storage and Ice Association, 226
Association of Engineers-in-Charge, Fuel Economies and Steam Generation, Mr. W. F. Goodrich, 177
Engineering and Scientific Association of Ireland, 402
Geologists* Association, Announcement of Meeting, 112
Leeds Association of Engineers : History and Treatment of High-speed Steel, Mr. Fred M. Osborne, 77 Lecture, 151
Lecture by Mr. H. J. Fuller, 236
Leicester Association of Engineers, Announcement of Visit, 599
Manchester Association of Engineers : Dinner, 174
Mr. J. Adamson Chosen President, 237 Visit to Cargo Fleet Iron Company’s Works, 596
President’s Garden Party, 664
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, The, Report for 1906, 512
Marine Engineers’ Association, Announcement of Lecture, 71
Incorporated Municipal and County Engineers : The Association of, 460, 584, 699 Announcement of Annual Meeting, 599 Announcement of Meeting, 584
Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association : 339
Programme, Alteration of, 602
Annual Convention, Announcement of, 564
Yorkshire Miners* Association, Annual Report. 221
West of Scotland Foremen Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Association, Dinner, 271
Asylum, Long. Grove, Announcement of Inspection of, 599
Automobile Club at Halifax Erects Direction Signs on Tram Poles, 369
Automobile Club, Various Papers Read, 113
British South Polar Expedition Planned, 162 Central Technical College, Old Students’ Dinner, 48
Clyde Shipyard, Transference of a, 174
Crystal Palace Engineering School, Wilson Premium Award, 429
James Forrest Lecture, Announcement of, 512 Automobile Engineers, The Institution of, 512 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, The, Conversazione, 429
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Conference, Announcement of, 536
Students’ Annual Dinner, 403
Birmingham Association of Students, 51, 112
Glasgow Association of Students :
“ Embankment for Impounding Water,” Mr. Thomas Muirhead
“Renewal of Railway Bridges,” Mr. J. W, F. Gardner, 178
Newcastle - upon - Tyne Association of Students, 68, 374, 491,582
Association of Yorkshire Students : Announcement of Annual Dinner, 98 Notes on Sand Filtration and Derwent Valley Water Board, Mr. Andrew Williamson, 358
Cleveland Institution of Engineers : Announcement of Conversazione, 98
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The : '
Conversazione, 635
Professor J. J. Thomson’s Election, 322 I Announcement of Meeting, 523
Glasgow Section :
Concert, 61
The Induction Motor, by Mr. R. Rankine, 98
Meeting, 62 Manchester Section :
Numbers of, 603
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Appointment of Ofificers, Premium Awards, 445
New Buildings in Glasgow, 186, 508
Institutions, Societies, &e. {comtinuea}:
Institute of Gas Engineers, The, 602
Iron and Steel Institute, The :
Meeting in Vienna, 225 Annual Meeting, 145
Meeting and Dinner, Annual, Announcement of, 89
Programme of Autumn Meeting, 640
Junior Institution of Engineers, The; Announcement of Visits, 666, 668 Dinner, 174
Visit to Rotherhithe Tunnel Works, 236 Institute of Marine Engineers, The :
Mr. J. G. Hawthorn on Engine Construction. 300
Mr. A. E. Battle’s Lecture on Electricity, 244, 354

Institute of Marine Engineers, 342
Visit to Erith Works of Vickers, Sous and Maxim, 596
Ventilation at Sea, Mr. W. M’Laren, 124 Institute of Mechanical Engineers :
Conversazione, 512
Benefactions towards Prize Papers, 77 Meeting at Aberdeen, 174
Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Graduates Association:
Meeting, 177
Cranes, Notes on the Design and Equipment of Electric Travelling, Mr. H. Broughton. 262
Portland Cement and the Machinery Used in its Manufacture, Mr. A. B, E. Cheeseman, 74
Successful Summer Meeting at Birmingham, 641
General Meeting, 394
Mining Institute of Scotland, Annual Meeting. 408
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 174,274, 471
Institution of Naval Architects, 142, 221, 429 North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 112, 408, 445, 565
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 144, 560, 582 institute, Northampton, 48, 98

Royal Institution, 145, 303, 365, 487, 589
Royal Sanitary Institute, The, Meeting, 159
Royal United Service Institution, Programme of Lectures, 51
King’s College (University of London) Dinner, 445
Locomotive Engineering, Conversazione at Swindon, 144
Railway Club to Visit Swindon Locomotive Works, 577
Petroleum Congress, Taird International, 176 Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Meeting, 195
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Quarterly Report, 559

Society of Arts:
Programme, 350
Mr. Hal Williams on “Commercial Applications of Refrigeration,” 195
Competition Gold Medal, Details of Conditions, 666
Indian Section, Announcement of Meeting. 532
Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society: Announcement of Meeting, 68, Meeting, 226
Coventry Engineering Society, Syllabus of Papers, 72
Engineers, Men’s Society of, at Derby, Wages Question, 576
Engineering Society, East London College, Buttressed Masonry Dams, Mr. M. J. Ormsby, 220
Engineering Golfing Society, 565, 638, 654 Faraday Society, The:
The Present Position and Future Prospects of the Electrolytic Alkali and Bleach Industry, Mr. J. B, C. Kershaw on, 226
Announcement of Meetings, 98, 536, 640] Announcement of Annual Meeting, 536, Meeting, 640
The Impedance of Solutes in Solvents as Manifested by Osmotic Pressure, J. G. A. Rhodin, 358
Glasgow Technical College Scientific Society :
The Development of the Alternating Current Motor, Mr; W. Benisonllird, 98
Balancing of Marine Engines, Mr. J. V. Robinson, 252
Liverpool Engineering Society:
Gold Medal Award, 150
Announcement of Meeting, 391 Manchester Geological and Mining Society:
Announcement of Meeting, 486, 608 Physical Society: Announcement of Meeting, 602
Physical Society of London, 24, 658

Royal Agricultural Society:
Invited to Newcastle, 37
Entries at Lincoln, 298
Regulations, 136

Royal Meteorological Society, 507
Step Anemometer, Mr. Walter Child’s, 635 Announcement of Meetings. 201, 435, 608 Presentation of Address to Mr. Wm. Marriott. 98 ’
Major Baden-Powell’s Lecture on the Exploration of the Air, 316
Rain Gauges, Dr. Mill’s Paper on, 537
Annual Meeting of the, 59
Railway, Experimental, for Tests, near Berlin, 538

Royal Scottish Society of Arts :
Keith Lectures, 1907, 144
Announcement of Meeting, 98
Sheffield Students’ Engineering and Metallurgical Society, Meeting, 59

Society of Engineers:
Announcement of Meeting, 112
Visit to Reservoirs, 599, 638

Society of Motor Omnibus Engineers, 220 Telephotography, 145 ; Professor Korn’s Lecture, 145
Tug’s Long Voyage, 77
Tunnel, The Channel, Lecture at Lille, 145 Turbines Changed for Reciprocating Engines,

University College, London:
Extension for Schools of Engineering and Architecture, 408
Students’ Dinner, Annual, 408
University, Sohemo for West of England, at Bristol, 11

INSURANCE of Engines and Boilers, 325 Irrigation in the Philippines, by Jgorrote Tribes, 317
in the Punjaub, Chenab Canal System, 475
Reservoir and Electric Lighting, at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 475
Iron and Steel, German Exports, 137
Pipes, Comparison between Cast and Wrought Iron, 603
Trade of North of England, Appointments of President and Referee for Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, 113
Works, Proposed Erection of, in New South Wales, 449
Syndicate in Bilbao, 113
Iron Manufacture, Early Egyptian, Same as of Modern Ethiopian Races, 369
Oro Mines at Hopewell, Pennsylvania, Probable Development of, 526
Mining in Lapland, Swedish Government, Proposes to Acquire Rights in, 395
Swedish, for Philadelphia, 526, 577 Swedish, Smelted in the United Kingdom, 526
in Missouri, 289
Quantity Imported from Belgium, 655 in Slag, Quick Method of Estimating Amount, 289
Steel, &c.. Coated with Tin, New Process, 421
Steel and Pig Iron Shipments from Manapol to Baltic Ports, 551
Rusting of. Accelerated by Copper, Retarded by Various other Metals, 369 Ironstone Mines, Rosebery, Cleveland, Re-opened, 551
Italian Submarine Glauco, Successful Trials of, 627

JAMAICA, Loan for Reconstruction Scheme, 163 Japan Exports Exceed Imports, 499
Orders Equipment for South Manchurian Railway, 551
Increased Output of Copper, 163
Steamship Companies’ Amalgamation, 11 Japanese Manufacture Automatic and Gatling Guns in China, 289
Sailors Supplied with Water Bottles, 475
Steel Experts Studying Conditions of Different Countries Preparatory to Placing Large Order, 499 Japan’s Foreign Trade, 190 Jebba Wreck, Rescuers Rewarded, 551

KOKOMO, Marion and Western Traction Com pany’s Improvements, 526

LABOUR Co-partnership Association Report, 63
Labour in Germany, Shortage of, Girls as Navvies, 603
Lamp, Electric, Light of. Greater Horizontally than Vertically, 395
Lamps, Osmium or Tungsten, 369
Lead Ore in Golconda, West Derbyshire, 603 Leeds University Buildings Extension, 263 Light Failure in Ship’s Engine-room, 395 Light, Measurement of, 395
Lighthouse at Pharos, Alexandria, Earliest Described, 213
of La Coubre, Old, France, Collapse of, 526
on French Coast. Three New, 577 Lightning Effect at Deal, 577
Lightning, Protection Against, 577
Little Raith Colliery, Fifesbire, Fire at, 655
Live Loads on American Bridge, Great Increase in, 421
Llangollen, 20in. Bridge to be Increased to 36in., 577
Lloyd’s Register Surveyors in Scotland, 259 lich Ness, Temperature Experiments, 190 Locomotives, Superheated Steam in, 136 Compressed Air, for Smelting Works in Montana, 551
Engine Shed, American, 534 Exports, Good Prospecte for, 603 Oil-fired, in Russia, does 79 Miles per Hour, 343
600 Horse - power Electric, for Shawinigan Falls Railway, 369 Testing Plant from St. Louis Exhibition Installed on Pennyslvania Railroad, 551
Increased Weight and Speed of, in Relation to Railroad Tracks, 343
Passenger and Freight, in U.S.A., Increase in Tractive Power of, 421
United States Passenger and Freight, Increased Tractive Power, 499
Steam vfirxuit Electric, 449 with Schmidt Superheaters, 369 Lumber Company’s Small Steam Engine to Run on Ice, 395
Pennsylvania. Heavy Freight, and Tenders, 499
Sixty Ordered for Roumanian State Railways, 551
Tank Engines, Increased Use of, 263
Txjgarithras, Tercentenary of their Discovery, 551 London County Council Steamboat Service, 369 London, Port of, Bill for Dock Extension, 113 Ijower Austrian Light Railways, Rolling Stock, 113

MACDONALD Engineering Building at McGill University, Montreal, Destroyed by Fire, 369, 449
Machine Tools, Imported by France, 577 Maintenance of Works, Prize Essay Award, 88 Manche8ter,tNew Art Gallery and Library for, 213 Ship Canal, 90, 190, 317 University, Engineering ' Laboratories to be Erected, 603
Manganese Deposits in Portugal, 137
Discovery in Mysore, 395 Exports from Brazil, 577 Mines in Poland Ceded to English Syndicate, 113
Mantles, New Process for Making, 63 Mars, Temperature of, 421
Maxim Machine Gun, New Carriage for, 163 Mercury Arc Lamp, Duration of 3000 Hours, 113 Mercury, Decline in its Price, 577 Merryweather Fire Brigade Dinner, 331 Metal-working Machinery, Statistics of American Output, 421
Metals, Moulding in Rubber, 421
Meterological Office, Harvesting Operations, Offer to Telegraph Forecasts during, 557
Metric Weights and Measures in London, 369 Milk Pails Made of Paper, 421
Milk Transportation in Germany, 395 Mine Depths and Coal Dust, 627 Mineral Discoveries near Missale, East Africa, 526
Output of Australia for 1906,[577
Traffic in Great Britain, Statistics of, 343 and Mining Machinery, International Exhibition in 1908 at New York, 551 I Increased Outputin theUnited Kingdom,
603
Metal-bearing, Subjected to a Spark of I a High-tension Induction Coil, Colour
' Effects, 343
Statistics of, in New South Wales, 449 Minors Federation of Great Britain Joined by Northumberland Miners’ Council, 551 Mines, Accidents in, 163
in Austria, Safety Chambers for Men, 289
Props for. Correct Setting of, 369
Mining Company, The Beckormet, in Cumberland, Improved Prospects of, 551
in France, Provision of Breathing Appliances, 421
Industry in Peru, Increase in, 577
Loss of Life in, 449
of All Kinds, Great Increase in, in Canada, 369
Morocco, New Works by Germans, 237 Motor Boat Exhibition in Kiel, 289
Boats, Increase of, in China, 237
Lifeboat for Tees Mouth, 421
Propelled Fishing Boats for Scotland, 449
Watering Carts in Berlin, 395
Yacht, Sea-going, Races Arranged, 395

NAVAL Targets, Reduced Size for Firing Teats, 113
Nebraska University Projects New Laboratory, 577
Neokar, Deepening of the, from the Rhine to Heilbronn, 474
New Bridge over the Blue Nile at Khartoum, 655 Caledonia, How, Passed to France, 421 South Wales, Dam for Murrumbidgee River, 449
Increase in Population, 37 Public Works in, Expenditure on, 395
York, New Subway Planned, 163 Strike of Longshoremen, 526 Surface Car Lines, Cost of, 499 Water Supply, Municipal and Private Companies, 475
Zealand, Colonial Statistics, 90 Mails from Great Britain, Suspension of San Francisco Service 237
Niagara Falls, Electric Power from, 90 Grade Crossing Commission Appointed, 577
Preservation, Refusal of Permission to Divert Calumet River, 343
Nigeria, Southern, Expenditure on Various Improvements, 317
Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Professor 0. N. Witt on, 499
Nitrogen Gas for Inflating Tires, 475
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 220
Northern Pacific Railway, Hours of Employment on, 475
Novel Method of Toughening Metals, 655

OBSERVATORY, Cape of Good Hope, Appointment of Mr. Sydney S. Hough, P.R.S., 11
Office “ Tickler,” Diary and Memoranda Cards, Henry Wells Oil Company, 188
Ohio, Lives Lost in Coal Industry, 655
Oil Fuel for the United States Navy not Favoured by Admiral Evans, 224
Trial on United States Torpedo Boat, 499
Storage on the Medway, 163 Pipe Line from Baku to Batum, 63 Pomping, Cheaper than Rail Transportation, 317
Replaces Coal on Pacific Coast Steamers, 289 Tanks to be Provided at South Indian Railway Stations, 551
Omnibus Traffic, Motor, on Waterloo Bridge, 500 in Paris, 87
Reduction of Vibration, Committee Inquiry into, 577

PAINT as Preservative of Steel ia Masonry, 499
Painting Galvanised Iron, 190, 499
Paisley Tramway System Extension, 289
Palais des Expositions to Replace the Pans Gal^rie des Machines, 137, 285
Palladium and Copper, Mixed Alloys of, 90
Panama Canal, Alterations Suggested, 163
Paris Cattle Show, 213
Paris Gal6rie des Machines, Demolition of, 137 Parkhead Works, Wm. Beardmore and Co., Developments at, 350
Patent, Damages for Infringement, 661
Law Reforms, British, Mr. B. H. Thwaite at Glasgow Technical College Scientific Society, 188
Office, American, Deficient Staff, 11 and Designs Bill, The, Committee Progress, 486
Pattern-room in England for Stores Required by Egyptian State Railways, 317
Peat Fuel, Extensive Use of, in Germany, 369
Pennies, Old German, Bought by United States Manufacturers, 263
Pennsylvania Mines, Fire Precautions in, 263
Pennsylvania, Proposal to Employ Prison Labour for Road Building, 603
Persia, No Openings in, for Large or Complicated Machinery, 369
Petroleum at Island of Trinidad, 90
Discovery at Hope Town, Cape Colony, 369
in U.S.A., Reduced High-grade Production, 263
Pipe Lines, Baku to Batum, also across Isthmus of Panama, Completion, 113, 577
Replaces.Coal for Italian Railways, 213 Spirit, Importation of, 190 5>pirit, Exports of, from Roumania, 213
Petrol Storage in Excess of Licence, at Sheffield, 11
Philadelphia, Cost of Filtration, 113
Philippine Coalfields, Development of, 449
Photographs, Electric Transmission of, Improvements, 37
Photographic' Record and Survey Society of Sussex, 395
Physical Science, Prizes Offered at Turin, 237
Pig Iron, English, Increased Purchases of, by Japan, 627
German, Consumption of, 137 Production in United States, in 1906, 90
from Scotland, for U.S.A., 627
Steel Ingots, Iron and Steel Cutlery and Machinery in America, Increased Imports of, 603
Pittsburgh, Railway Museum Proposed, 163
Plate Mill, 72in., for Carnegie Steel Company, 449 Plates, Scaling of, Comparison between Plante and Faure Types, 449
Plumbago, Blacklead or Graphite, Origin of Name, 577
Plumbers, Registration of, 590
Proposed Engineers’ Strike in Newcastle, 655 Pneumatic Machines for Building Temeraire, 63 Polishing Nickel-plated Steel Articles, 449 Pollak-Virag Apparatus Modified to Transmit Image of Human Speech, 37
Portland Cement in Canada, Quantity Manufactured, 317
Post-office Extension, The General, 236 Potasimite, New Explosive in Mexico, 577
Power Development for Manufacturing Industries in U.S.A.,289
Plants, Comparison between Producer Gas and Steam, 343
from United States Blast Furnaces, Waste of, 475
Practice Primers for Naval Breechloaders, 37 Premium System to be Retained by Admiralty, 577
Projectiles, Output from’ Lathes, Motor-driven and Belt-driven, 190
Protection of Workpeople, Offer of Prize in Italy, 177
Prussian Government Rights in Coal Mining and Potash Salt Works, 263
Pulleys, New Preparation for Coating, 354
Pumps, Centrifugal, United States Velocity Tests of, 137
Pumps, Turbine, Electrically-driven, 499

QUARRIES at Caithness, Paving Stone, Attempt to Restart, 263
Queen’s Engineering Works, Bedford, Prizegiving, 20
Quern, or Hand Mill, Unearthed near Reading, 263

RADIUM, Experiments on, 655

Railways:

Aberdeen Tramcars Utilised for Street Sweening. ! 603
Acceleration of Service of Circle Trains since Electrification, 421
Accidents on British Railways, Return, 213 !
on United States Railways, 213, 289, 395
Electric Railway, in Ohio, 627
American Railway Accidents, June, 1905—June ;
1906, 11 '
Railways, Honourable Mention of
Deserving Employes, 526
“ Nickel-plate ” Railroad, Dining Car Charges, 113
Railroad Earnings in 1906, 289
Andes, Railway to Cross, 11
Antwerp and Brussels Electric Railway, Proiect Abandoned, 289
Arbroath Railway Accident, 37, 449
Argentina, Central North Railway Extension, 317
Central North Railway, Survey for Branch Line, 317
Change of Railway Ownership in, 213
Railways Change Hands, 499
Austria-Hungary, New Railway, Trevna to Gabrovo, 113
Automobile Baggage Trucks for Pennsylvania Railroad, 369
Automotors on Railways in 1848, 343
Bakerloo Tube, Great Central Station Opened, 343
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Fire at, Philadelphia, 137
Bavarian Railways, Free Coffee for Railwaymen, 476
Behring Strait Railway :
Reported Granting of Concession, 603
Tunnel Refused by Russia, 369
Railway, Beira to Shire River, 651
Belgian State Railways, Statistics of Mileage, &c., 113
Belgian Vicinal Railways, Tenders for New Construction Invited, 395
Bengal-Nagpur Railway Apprentices, Boarding House and School for, Projected, 421
Benguella Railway to Katanga, 655
Berlin Elevated Railroad, Ticket Slot Machine, 163
Birmingham, Train Derailment at, 603 Bloomington and Joliet Electric Railway, Illinois
Success of, 627
Bolivia, New Railways in, 63
Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian Railway Company, Strike of Workmen owing to Altered Ticket Distribution, 551
Bolton Corporation, Tests on Motor Omnibus, 655
Brazil Central Railway, Widening, 449
Railway Extension in, 63 Surveys in, 317 and Telegraphic Extension in, 317 Brennan Mono Railway, Experiments in India, 577
Bridge, First Iron Railroad, 449
British, Bills Opposed by Various Provincial
Authorities, 343
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company:
Huge Power-house, 163
Fares Charged by, 37
Uses an All-steel Surface Car, 577,
Bucharest to Craiova, Projected Railway, 63 Bulgarian Railway Extension, 289 Burma Railway, Accident on, 577
-Chinese Railway Survey, 190
Railway Extension Projected, 289
Canada, Terrible Railway Accident in, 677
Canada Railway Construction, Growth of, 476
Canadian Railways, Scarcity of Labour for Construction, 213
Canadian Pacific Railroad Extensions, 37
Canadian Pacific Railway:
Projected Branch Line, 137
Steamers for Victoria to Yokohama Route, 263 Canadian Railways, Amalgamationof Three Lines, , 627
Construction, Great Demand for Labour, 526
Development in 1906, 395
, Development, Large Increase
in, 263, 421
Great Extensions Contemplated, 137
Cananea, Yaqui River, On Pacific Railway, Mexico, Russian and Chinese Labour for, 603
Car and Locomotive Orders in U.S.A., Statistics of, for 1906, 343
Central London Railway:
* Fares, 499
Subway at Oxford-circus, Proposed, 213
Central South African Railway :
Report, 651
To Set Up Machinery for Oil Extraction from Castor Oil Plant, 526
Ceylon Government Railways, Gauge, 63
Ceylon Railways, Increase of High-capacity Wagons, 90
Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway : 317
Passengers Carried on, 655
Chaumont to Neuch:ltel, Funicular Railway Decided upon, 603
Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad Extension, 499
Burlington and Quincy Railway Limits Speed for Safety, 190
Elevated Railroad, Traffic Statement, 190
and Eastern Illinois Railroad Proposes to Carry Coal to New Orleans by Boat, 526
Railroads East of, Increased Rates on Lumber, 551
North-Western Elevated Railway in, Opened, 603
Chili, New Railway Projected, 603
Chinese Government Grants Railway Concession to French Syndicate, 213,
Chinese Railways, Classification of, 63
City and South London Railway :
Extension to Euston, 90, 317
New Extension, 577
Cleveland Electric Railway Company, 3-cent Fare Suspended, 475
Coal, Cost of, for Steam Railways Compared with Fuel for Electric Power, 137
Cologne Railway Bridge over Rhine Widened, 213
Columbian Government’s New Railway, Palmira and Cartago, 526
Columbus, Delaware and Marion Railway, Bucyrus Extension, 37
Conakry-Niger Railway, 449
Cromarty and Dingwall Light Railway Order Submitted to Board of Trade, 640
Cuban Central Railway, Survey of New Branches, 37
Damascus, First Electric Railway in, 499
Danish Railways, Increase of Government Control, 263
Danish Railways, Projected Extension, 213 Derailment to Irish Goods Train, 626
District Railway Ballast, Granite Replaces Sand, 213
District Railway Company, Acceleration of Service, 11
Dumbarton Tramways Opened, 213
Dutch Railway Construction, 11
East India Railway:
Reports, R’se in Cost of Living and therefore in Wages, 526
Changes in the Directorate, 190
Colliery Department, English Chemist for, 603
Reduction in Third-class Fares, 237
Edinburgh Electric Tramways, 37
Electric Railways in Michigan, State Supervision Advocated, 163
Electric Railways, Mileage of Massachusetts Increases, and Steam Railway Mileage Decreases, 526
Single-phase Traction, 627 Tram .Rail Corrugation, 475 Underground Railways in London, Wear and Tear of Permanent Way, 37 Railway Systems, Rival, Mr. Hobart on, 499
Railway from Geraudmer, Schlucht Pass to Miinster, Highest in Germany, 551 Tramcar, Fine for Interference with, 551
European Railways Opened in 1905, 237 Erie Railroad, Tests of Electrified Branch, 526 Electric Railway. Atlantic Shore Line, 369 Electrification of Birkenhead and Chester Railway, London and North-Western Railway, and Great Western Railway, Seek Further Authority for Electrification, 163
Electric Railway Opened in Illinois, 627 Electric Railways Company of London, American Manager, 190
Experimental Railroad for Testing Signalling Devices, 655
France and Spain, Proposal to Connect, by a Railway System, 655
French Railways, Scanty Extension, 317 French Indo-Chinese Railway Convention, 213 Engines and Wagons, Additional, Ordered by French Government, 369
Franco-Spanish Trans-Pyrenean Railways, 237 Gauge of Tramway Lines in Chili, 475
Geddes, E. C., Appointment to North-Eastern Railway, 37
Genoa Harbour and Irregular Railway Service, 289
German New Metre-gauge Railway on Gulf of Guinea. 551
Railway Employes, Statistics of, 475 South-West Africa, 2ft. Gauge Railway in, 190
Germany, Uniform Railway Tariff Instituted, 237 Glasgow Electric Tramways, Success of, 603 Glasgow Tramway Committee Recommend Continental Inquiry regarding Turbines for Power Stations, 526
Grand Trunk Railway:
New Line to Toronto, 113
Plant for Rolling Stock Construction, 369 Great Central Railway:
Bill before Parliament, 237,627 Discontinuance of Sunday Goods Traffic, 263 Turbine Steamer Marylebone, 37
Great Central, Midland, and Hull and Barnsley Companies, New Joint Lines, 190
Great Eastern Railway: Half-yearly Report, 90 Increase in Men’s Pay, 113 New Restaurant Trains for, 137 Opens Tollesbury Pier and Railway Station, 526 Parkeston Quay Extension, 90
Great Northern Railway (United States), Change of Chairman, 369
Great Northern Railway Projects Line in South Yorkshire, 577
Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton : Alterations in Running, 233
Train on Fire, 499
Great Western Railway: Cost of Steamboats, 163 Distant Signalling, 263 Employs 70,000 Men, 190 Engine Shed, 655 Motors, Success of, 188 Numerous Small Shareholders, 190
Great Western and Metropolitan Railways : Extension of Service to Richmond, 90
Great Western: New Motor Service in Wales, 499
Greece, Railways in, 655
Guarantee Fund on Indian Railways, 369 Guatemala, New Railways Projected, 577 Gyroscopic Action of Revolving Armatures in Railroad Cars, 655
Harriman Railway; Alleged Bribery, 37 Hastings and Bexhill Tramways Extension, Motion Defeated, 627
Havana Railway Extension, 11, 63 Hayti, New Railway, 90
Hayti Railroad and Steamship Extensions, 263 Holland, Local Railways and Tramways Projected, 317
Hudson Companies’ Tunnels, Improvements in Cars and Stations, 163
and Manhattan Railroad, Extensions of, 655
Bay, 245
Hungarian Government Railways, New Rolling Stock, 237
Hungary, Narrow-gauge Railroads in, 655 Iceland, Proposed New Railway, 11 Illinois Central Railroad Company, New Lines. O1Q ’ ’
Portable Rotary Converter Sub-stations,
Groat Indian Peninsula Railway Proposes New Branch to Serve Bombay Docks, 577
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company Proposes Providing Hydraulic Buffer Stops for Train Control at Victoria Terminus, 551
Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Build Quarters for Soldiers while Training. .677
Light Railway Extension, 190
Madras Electric Tramway’s Receipts, 627
Madras Railway Company to be Purchased by Government, 475
Madras Railway, Government Purchase of, 551
Madras Railway’s Perambur Works to be Electrified, 526
Mysore State Railway, Survey for Short Metre Gauge Line, 577
New Branch Line in Central Provinces, and Tramway in Cachar, 577
Railways, Earnings, 263
Railway Mileage in Varying Gauge, 190 Railways, Transfer of Line, 577 South, Railway Bogies, 263 South, Railways’ Receipts, 627 Steel Girders on Indian Railways, 381 Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Company Trial Trips, 603
Interborough Rapid Transit Tube Railway, Progress of, 37
Hallways {eontinnedyx
International Conference for Technical Unity of Railways, 499
Isle of Wight Railways, Proposed Electrification of, 317
Italian Government Railways, Electrification of Various Lines, 137
Italian State Railway Coal Bought, 655
Italy, Genoa Electric Tram Company, Construction of Private Roadway, 655 Electrification of Railways in, 395 Electric Railway between Rome and Lauren- tina, 63
Railways in Italian Lake District, Projected, 317
Italian Main Railways, Extensions on Acquisition by State, 237
Italian State Railway, Contract for Sleepers, 551
Jaffa to Jerusalem Railway, Thriving Condition of Finances, 475
Japan, Compound Engines for, Built in America, 11
Government Railways Provide Tablets for Passengers’ Notes, 526
to build Extensive Railroads in South Manchuria, 163
Japanese and Chinese Railway Negotiations, 313 Railways, 434
Railway to be Electrified, 163 build Railway and also Shops for Rolling Stock Erection and Repair in Island of Saghalin, 577
Kowloon Railway, Chinese Government Vote for its Construction, 551
Kherson-Nicolaieff Railway, not Completed, 449 Kyushu, Japanese Island, Electric Tramways for, 137
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Automatic' Level Crossing Gates, Electrically Worked, 63
Leicester and Swannington Railway, Commence- ( ment of, 655
Siberia, Without Railways or Telegraph, 369
Light Railway Commissioners:
Orders, Various, Confirmed by Board of I Trade, 395, 449, 475, 577
Applications for Orders for Llandudno and
I Colwyn Bay Es tension, and Barton to
Immingham Railway, 641
London, Brighton, and South Coast, New “Trailer ” Coaches, 499
London, Chatham and Dover Railway, Accounts of, 90
London County Council:
Cars, Speed of, 655
Electrification of Tramways in Clapton-road, 655
Tramways, Increased Electrification, 113 London and North-Western Railway :
Closing of Station at Micklehurst, 113 Encourage Recreation of their Staff, 526 Retirement of Mr. H. Prichard, 190
Los Angeles Pacific Company Imports Railway Sleepers from Formosa, 526
Maidstone Rural District Light Railways Blxten- sion, 63
Manchuria, South, Railway Passes to Company, 395
Mass Meeting, of Railwaymen in Norwich, 655 Matterhorn Railway Projected, 37
Mecca and Medina Railway Begun, 289
Mersey Railway Electric Locomotive Costs, 526 Mersey Railway Company, Omnibus Service, 11 Metropolitan Railway:
Acceleration of Service, 395
Electrification Extended, 90 Number of Passengers since Opening in 1863, 90
Service, Improvements, 376
Yearly Returns of Passengers and Train Mileage, 90
Mexico, Central Railroad’s Oil-burning Freight Engines, 137
Central Railroad Orders New Type of Oil-burning Freight Engines, 289
Central Railroad, Storing of Oil Fuel, 577
City and Chalco New Railway, 551
New Railway from Columbia to Jarita, 63 New Railways in the State of Sonora, 137
Railway Extension, 369
Railway Projected between, and Belize, 289
Middlesex, Light Railway for Wembley, 163 Midland Railway:
Appointment of Mineral Manager’s Assistant, 89
Bridges over Derwent and Wye, 11
Declines Proposal for Steamer Service between Heysham and Kingstown, 577
Drivers’ and Firemen’s Holiday, 449 General Superintendent Appointed, 369
New Goods Shed, 655
Number of Stations, Rolling Stock, &c., 90 Station at Leeds, Reconstruction of, 499 Statistics of Capital Expenditure, Passengers, and Staff, 90
Statistics of Fuel Consumption, Tonnage of Merchandise Carried, &c., 90
Tunnels, Derby to Buxton, 63
Milwaukee Northern Electric Railway, Gas Engines to be Used in Power Plant, 577
Moloditschno-Nikolaieff Railway Disaster, 551 Mono-rail, Behr, Suggested Line at New York, 603
Mono-rail Tramway Construction in India, 421 Mont Blanc Railway to be Opened Shortly, 603 Montreal Street Railway Company’s Transfer Slips, 526
Moscow, Street Railways Projected in, 603 Motor Road Railways in France, Projected, 317 Trucks on Pennsylvania Railroad, 475 Vehicle for Existing Railroads, The Decau- ville Company, 475
Museum of Railway Relics in Pittsburg, 655 Narrow-gauge Railways, Projected, in Spain, 343 New Jersey State Railroad Commission, 499 South Wales Railways, Extensive System, 137
Growth of Railways in, 113 Railways, Chief Commissioner’s Appointment, 113
Railways and Tramways, Quarterly Report on, 603 York Subway, Brake Shoes for, Twenty Tons Used Monthly, 113
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Electric Single-phase Trains, 100 Miles an Hour, Tests on, 603
New York Railways, Elevated, Surface and Subways, Greatly Increased Traffic, 263
State, Reconstitution of Various Boards of Commissioners, 37
Surface Car Lines, Cost of, 475 North British Railway Company to Take Over Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway, 526 North-Eastern Railway and York, 434 North-Eastern Railway:
Appointment, Mr. H. D. Dryden, 276 Company Appoints Yard Master at Hull, 369 New Sidings, 63
North-East Coast Engineers, Wages Dispute, 603 North London Railway New Station, 665 North-Western State Railway Administration Survey, 281
North-Western Railway of India, Disaffection Among Railway Employees, 475
Norway, Widening of Railway Gauge, and New Rolling Stock in, 317
Norwegian State Railways, Increase of Goods Rolling Stock, 499
Nottingham Tram Cars, Identification Device, 627 Obstruction on the Line of the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 655
Ohio Central Railroad, Additional Shops for, 603 Ontario, Railway Extension, 11
Orange River Colony, Railway Loan Authorised, 237
Paddington Station and Long Non-stop Running Expresses, 627
Paisley and District Tramway Extension, 213 Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway: New Rails for, 603
Renewal of Track, 577
Paris Metropolitan Railway:
Accidents on, 90
Extensions, 137
Passage of, Under Seine, 421
Paris Underground Railway, Change of Ronte, 63
Pennsylvania Tries Screw Spikes for Railroads. 163
Pennsylvania Railroad Co.:
Club House for Trainmen, 343
Employes’ Pensions, 289
Rails for, 526
Raises Age Limit for Employes, 526
State Taxation, 113
To Plant Trees for Railroad Sleepers, 577 Wants College Men, 343
Widening of Track, 263
Peruvian Government Railway Survey, 395 Philippines, Proposed Railway Extension, 63 Polish and St, Petersburg-Warsaw Railways, Extra Track Lines in 1906, 395
Port Sudan as Terminus of Sudan Railways, 421 Porterville Road Railway, Cape Colony, 655 Portland Railway, Light and Power Company Changes Motor Freight Cars into Locomotives, 626
Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway, Proposed Extension, 190
Prussian State Railroads, Rules on, 655 Railway Authorities Discuss Electrification Schemes, 499
Railways, Electricity for, 162
Railways, Increase in Rolling Stock, 90 Railway Shops, Reduction of Hours of Work, 343
State Railways, Electric Traction on, 421
State Railway Extension, 499
“Puffing Billy,” Model Presented to Munich Museum, 11
Quebec and Lake St. John Railway Extension, 237 ’
Railway Club, 132, 252, 350
Bridge, Second, over Dnieper, 626 Companies and Coal Deliveries, 303 Construction and Electrification in Colorado, 395
Corrugations Caused by Weak Trucks, 369
Employes, Training of, 475
Expansion in America, 263 from Vancouver to Winnipeg under Construction, 395
Gauge in U.S.A., Enlargement of, Foretold, 289
Motors on German Lines, Comparison Tests of, 421
Rolling Stock in India, Shortage of, 551 Sleepers, Timber for, in India, 421 Sleepers, Treated with Crude Oil, 263 Smallest, in England, 551 Tehuantepec, Saves 1260 Miles, 421 Ties, Chestnut, Durability of, 449 Tracks, Machine for Moving, 237 Two-foot Gauge, at Swakopmund, 526 Russia, New Coal Railway Projected, 237 and Chinese Agreement for Siberian Railroad Working, 163
Finnish Railways, Completion of Survey. 612
Projects New Railroad in Siberia, 163 Rails and Rolling Stock, Only of Russian Manufacture, 369, 421
Railway Development in 1906, 39.5 Railway Engineers, Unemployed, 289 State Railways to be Strengthened, 289 Trans-Baikal Railway, Robberies of Freight, 499
Trans-Siberian, Lines to be Doubled, 475 Siberia, Express Train Service Postponed, 369 Siberian Railway, New Track on, 499 Moscow and Kursk Railway Carrying Capacity, 655
Railway between Moscow and Reval Projected 113, 326 J *
Santa F^ Light Railways Concession, 63
St. Gothard Railway, Projected “ Eplugen ” Opposition Line, 37
St. Petersburg to Perm, Improved New Railway, 113
Sanding Device for Electric Tram Cars, 37 Scottish Railway Companies, Meeting to Reduce Wasteful Competition, 627
Seaboard Air Railway, New York, Death of Chairman, 163
Serrezuela and Sanjuan Railway Survey, 63 Servian Government to Improve Railways, 163 Seventy Years, Active Railway Service of Mr. W Teasdale, 63
Shanghai, Electric Tramway in, 65.5 Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Slow Progress of, 627 Shenectady Railway Company’s New Line, 499
Railways (eantimietJ}*.
Sheffield to Glasgow, New Railway Proposed, 627 and London, Reduced Fares Sought, 163 District Railway Offices, 11
Signalling Experiments on the Midland Railway, ! 475
Sleeping Cars on Electric Railways in U.S.A., 263 South-Eastern Railway Takes over Crowhurst, Sidley and Bexhill Railway, 37
South Shields Tramways’ Takings, 577
South London Railway, Electrification between London Bridge and Victoria, 163
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Electrification of Local Lines at San Francisco, 213
Southern Pacific Railroad, Extension in Mexico, 113
Southport, Lagoon Projected at. 190
Southend Council to Extend Leigh Section of Light Railway, 577
Spain, New Railway from Jerez to Arcos do la Frontera, 63
Spitzbergen, Railway Projected in, for Coal Transport, 421
Station, Railway, in Brookwood Cemetery, 449 Steel Cross Ties on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 343
Steel Railway Cars, Increasing Use of, in U.S.A., 263
Susquehanna and New York Railroad Constructing Large New Yards, 526
Swedish North, Inland Railway to be Commenced, 627
Railways, Electrification of, 163 State Railways, New Rolling Stock of Swedish Manufacture, 137
Swiss Electric Railway Development, 263 Railwaymen’s Pay Increased, 551 Train Service Deranged by Snow, 190;
Geneva Tramways’ Traffic Receipts, 655 Tank Engines, Novel Type of, for Midland Railway, 369
Tashkend Railway Damaged by Rains, 317 Taxation of British Railways, 263
Texas Railroad Statistics, 651 Tokio, Underground Railway Projected, 449 Train Wrecking in France, Attempted, 428 Tramway Additions at Glasgow, 174
and Light Railways, Annual Return, 137
Bacup and Rawtenstall Agreement, 421
Barnsley District, Decline in Traffic Receipts, 627
Company, London United, Overhead System on Kew-road, Opposition to, 627
Electric, between St. Servan, St. Malo, Param6, 551
Electric, in Belfast, Profits on Working, 395
Electric, Service, near Rome, 449 Geneva, Traffic Receipts, 551 in Nottingham, Removal of Centro Standards, 289
in Turkey, Development of, 343
Service between Birmingham and Chain Walk, Aston, 551
Sheffield, Traffic Receipts, 626 System North and South of Thames, Linking up of, 369
Trans-Caucasian Railway Abandons Liquid Fuel because of Cost, 526
Trans-Pyrenean Railway, Franco-Spanish Agreement, 343
Transfer of Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Ea.st Coast Railway Company, 24
Transportation in Canada, Rapid Growth of Railways, 343
Underground Railway across Tokio, Scheme for, 343
Underground Railways, Ventilation of, 421 Union Pacific Railway :
and North-Western Railway Companies Refuse Special Rates for Troops and Equipment, 163 Extension, 237
Rail Fractures on, 551
Rails, Numerous Fractures, 603
United Kingdom, Recent Changes in Railway Ownership, 190
United States Railways, New Lines in 1906, 90 Utah Light and Railway Company, Strike of Men, 526
Varese Railway, Electric and Steam Traction, Comparison between, 603
Venezuela Railway Extension, 476
Victorian Government Contemplates Electrification of Suburban Railways, 163
Wagons, Railway, Purchase by Wandsworth Borough Council, 421
Warrington and Northwich Light Railways, 143 West Africa, Tramway under Construction in, 421
Washington, Serious Disaster near, 11 West Shore Railroad, Trial Trip of Electric Trains, 627

Wurtemberg Railways:
Proposed Change of Fares, 449
Workmen’s Pares as Compared with English, 449
York Tramways, Proposed Electrification of, 213

REFRIGERATION to Reduce Temperature in Powder Magazines, 190
Reinforced Concrete, Fire Action Upon, 63 “Resista-Steel,’’ Properties of, 603
Rhone River, Generating Stations Projected, 627 Risk in Industrial Occupations, Prize for Invention to Reduce, 237
Rivets, Special Steel for, Recommended in France, 37
Roads in Massachusetts, Sand to Prevent Ravelling, 551
Road-building, Testing Rocks for Use in. Laboratories Established in America, 488
Robertsbridge and Pevensey Light Railway, 263 Rolling of Ships, Prevention Experiments, 237 Rotherhithe and Shadwell Tunnel, Workmen’s Strike, 551
Royal Agricultural Society, Proposal to Visit Bristol, 37
Royal School of Mines, Dinner, 325
Rubber, Artificial, Manufactured in Sweden, 63 Belting, Weight of, 499
Cultivation Begun in the Philippine Islands, 317
Cultivation, Great Increase in, 449 in Abyssinia, 317
Planting in Honduras, 395 Production, Small Increase in, 113
Russian Empire^ Council for the Defence of the, and Programme of Naval Construction, 510
Flour-milling Industry, 45 Government, Cuirasses Ordered in 1905, 90 .
Ministry of Ways of Communication, Division of Labours of, 369
Rust, Preservative Against, for Iron and Steel, 526 Rust, Recipe for its Removal from Steel, 551

ST. ANNES-ON-SEA Promenade Extension, 37
St. Petersburg, Census Statistics of Population and Industries, 603
St. Petersburg, Reconstruction of Bridges, 11, 37 San Francisco Mechanics’ and Labourers’ Wages, 551
San Francisco, Rapid Building in, 475 Scandinavian Sea-fishing Industry, Motor Boats or Steam Trawlers Replacing Open Boats, 90
Science, Different Estimation of, in France and England, 343
Scientific Apparatus, John Griffin and Sons, Limited, 304
Screw Engines, American Types used in English Ships, 113
New Machine for Rapid Application of, 343
Piles for Supports in Pennsylvania Tunnels,
Seismometer, Prize Offered for Construction of, 213
Sewage Disposal at Oswestry, 421
Disposal Scheme for Bisbop Middleham, 37
Purification Works at Newmilns, 449 Works, New, Projected at Sheffield, 237 Sewer and Road, New, for Liverpool, 421
and Water Supply for Manila, 11 below St. Paul’s, No Danger in, 421 Ventilation in Manchester, 37
Shaft Repair at Sea, 159
Shanghai, Speed of Motors in, 655

Ships:

Accident to Torpedo Boat No. 99, 627 Adriatic, White Star Liner, Dimensions of, 499 Allan Line Steamers, New, 403
Battleships for United States Navy, Two New, 317
Brazilian Battleship Building at Barrow, 90 Brooklyn, United States Armoured Cruiser, Remodelling of, 90
Calais and Dover Cross-Channel Service Passes from French Government to Northern of France Railway, 627
Canadian Lakes, British-built Steamers for the, 358
Coaling of Battleship Queen Breaks Record, 577
Coaling of H.M. Battleship Venerable. 421 Cochrane, H.M. Armoured Cruiser, Trials on the Clyde, 113
Squadron, First, Change in Command, 603
Cunarders, Lounge Fitted in Various Ships, 190
Derelict Vessels on Atlantic Coast, Vessel Designed for Destruction of, 263
Destroyers Fawn and Ostrich at Pembroke for Repairs, 551
Dover Harbour Tug Lady C.undall, Salvage Awards, 551
Dreadnought, Trip from Gibraltar to Trinidad, 137
Dreadnought’s Double Rudder Severely Damaged, 551
Fire on French Battleship Brennus, 627 French Navy, Chief Constructor’s Views on Future War Vessels, 213
German Torpedo Boat S. 138, 577 Instructions for R.N.R. Engine-room Rating, 6 Italian Battleship Roma Launched, 421 Japanese Battleship Aki, Launch of, 395
Navy, Efficiency to be Doubled, 113, 449
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Aground and Refloated, 577
Mohawk, H.M.S., Ocean-going Destroyer, Launch at East Cowes, 281
Norddeutscher Lloyd Company’s Jubilee, 213 Oceanic, Fire Outbreak on, 577
Rolling of Ships, Invention for Diminishing, 627 Schooners, Steel Gasoline, for West India Trade, 526
Scout Cruisers for United States Navy, 37 Shipbuilding, Four Months’ Clyde, 460 Shipbuilding, German, Development since 1869, 395
Shipbuilding in U.S.A., Deficient Facilities for, 395
Ship Inspection on English System for France, 263
Shipping Entering Port of Havana, Increase in British, 11
Shipping in 1905, London Tonnage Greatest, 11 Ships Launched on the Tyne, Increased Number of, 577
Load-line, British and German Conference on, 526
Missing, 177
Silvana Steering Gear Causes Accident, 627 Steamer Ailsa, Floating of, 655
Steamers Under Construction in Germany, 395 Submanne Boat Tests at Newport, R.T., 627 Glauco, Italian, Success of Trials, 499
Octopus, Test Postponed, 551 The Stability of, Mr. J. G. Johnstone, 212
Torpedo Boats, New, Details of, 317 Boat No. 9 Launched at Chiswick, 289 Boat Trials with Oil Fuel, 263
Turbine Channel Steamer, Victoria, Trials of the, 445
Steamer Empress, Official Trials and Speed, 603
Fifth, Added to English
Cross-Channel Service, 627 Princess Elizabeth, Success of on Dover-Ostend Route, 499 of the Carmania and Lusitania, 213 United States Battleship Oregon, Reconstruction, 37
City of Cleveland, Largest Paddle Wheel Steamer in Existence, 90
Navy, Ships Under Construction, 63
Torpedo Boat Octopus, 90
Vesuvius, Cruiser, Fitted with Torpedo Tubes, 90
Yacht, Racing, for King of Spain, Building on thfe Clyde, 577

SHIPBUILDING Plant for Fort William, Ontario, 369
Show, Bath and West and Southern Counties, Fire Protection at, 534
Siamese Government and British Concessionaire, Tin Ore Dredging Rights in Exchange for Dock Excavation, 11
Signalling Across the Wash, Radio-Telegraph Installation, 317
Signalling Statistics by the Interstate Commerce Commission, 449
Silencer, Auto-Cycle Club’s Competition, 137 Silver Assayed by Volhard’s Method, 137
Discovery near Lake Ontario, 526 from Material in the Dumps from Old Mine in Mexico, Plant for its Recovery, 551
Singapore, Loan for Waterworks, 63
Sinking Operations at Fredville near Canterbury, 655
Slate, Tests of, by Microscopic Analysis, 343
Smoke, Black, and the Training of Stokers, 100 Nuisance in Chicago, 289
in Munich, Attempt to Diminish, 369
Prevention at St. Louis, 464
Solway, Sands Shifting in the Firth, 449
South America, Difficulties of Transport over Mountains, 475
Southern California, Imperial Valley Threatened with Inundation by Colorado River, 37 Spanner, Adjustable Box, 36
Steam Consumption Loss from Faulty Drainage and Leaky Drain Cocks, 395
Steam Pipe Bursting Disaster at Lancaster, 551
Steamer Speeds on Hudson River in 1835, 317
Steam Trawler Navigated without a Rudder, 163 Steam Turbine, Murdoch and the, 486
Steel Balls for Polishing Small Wares, 63
Bessemer, being Superseded by Open-hearth Process in the United States, 551
Chains, Possible Carrying Weight of, 655 or Copper for Electric Railways, Conductivity Tests, 113
Pipe, Higher Resistance of, than Wrought Iron Pipe, to Torsion, 112
Special, for Rivets, Mons. Charpyon, 163
Works at St. Petersburg, 655
Street Traffic in Paris, 655
Strike at Salford Docks, 655
Engineers’, at Hull, 651 in Germany, Increase of. 343
Stettin, Vulcan Ship Company’s Fiftieth Anniversary, 137
Straightening Machine, Large, for Philadelphia, 190
Submarine Cable between Iquique and Valparaiso, Repair of, 655
Sulphur as a Wood Preservative, 449
Superheat, Proper Temperature of, 627
Swansea Telephones and the G.P.O., 50, 213
Swimming Bath on American Liner, 263
Swing Bridge, North-Eastern Railway Company’s, at Hull, Girder Placed in Position, 421

TANGENT and Sine Laws, Mechanical Apparatus for Illustrating, 499
Tantalum, Chemical Properties of, 11 Extreme Hardness of, 113, 526
Tar, Coal, as a Wood Preservative, 499
- for Roads, Tests in Middlesex, 421
- Improves Main Road in Kent, 421
- to Colour Mortar, 577
Tarring Roads, Various Methods of, 475
Tar-spreading Machine, 48
Tar-spraying Offer to Kent County Council, 317
Teachers in Technical Institutions, Association of, 513
Technical College Blunders, 37
Telegraph, Trans-Saharan System, 449
Telegraphy, Field’s New Modification of Morse System, 237
Station, Wireless, for Portsmouth Dockyard, 577
Wireless, in Berlin, Improvement with New Microphone, 317
Stations on the German Coast, 458
Long Distance Transmission by, 137
Telephones, Extensions in Russia, 655
- for Bangkok, 421
- for Portsmouth Dockyard, 289
- in New York, 250
- in Swansea Bought by National Telephone Company, 317
- in U.S.A., Statistics of their Use, 163, 289, 421
Submarine, in Switzerland, 363 Subscribers, Post-office, Increase in, 11
Vibrations Photographed by Oscillograph, 551
Wireless, Experiments on American Railways, 551
Wireless, Professor Salley’s Experiments, 526
Testing Materials, Meeting of American Society for, 526
Tide in the Bay of Kundy, Utilised for Power, 343
Timber Sleepers from Burma Forests, Tests by
Eastern Bengal Railway, 421
Tin, Discovery in Wartah, Tasmania, 526
Mines in China, 449
Plates in America, Reduction in Quantity and Value of Imports, 603
Tinning Solution for Brass and Copper Articles, 526
Thermometer, Electrical Resistance by Heraeus, 475
Thorianite in Ceylon River, 449, 526
Tombstone of Fossils, 526
Tools, Machine, Great Demand for, in Canada, 343
Tool Steel, Mr. F. W. Taylor’s Paper, 90
Torpedo Boat, Danish, Tested, 499
Torpedo Boat No. 10, Launch of, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 195
Torpedoes, Fixed, Experiments in Explosion by Hertzian Waves, 449
Torsion Testing Machine, 148
Trade Experts Attached to German Consulates, 369
Trades Unions and Wakefield Electricity Works, 526
- Dispute, New York, 11 in Austria, 603
Traffic Receipts of Principal British Railways, 526
Trans-Sahara Telegraph Line, French, 63
Transvaal Mines, Consumption of Stores, 577
Train from Earth to Sun, Professor Young’s Calculations, 449
Tug, the Hercules, for Suez Canal, said to be Largest in the World, 577
Tungsten Compounds and their Uses, 577
Tungsten in Iron Alloys, New Method for Estimating, 475
Tunis, Loan for Industrial Development, 11
Tunnels, Manhattan to Brooklyn, Accuracy of Survey for, 63
Turbinia Damaged by Collision, 63
Turbine Rarely Damaged by Water, 395
Turbines, Steam, Increased Use of, in German Navy, 499
Turrets on Battleships, Slow Rotating, to Avoid Interference with Gunner’s Aim, 499
Twist Drills Tested at Worcester, U.S.A., 90
Tyne Sites for Industrial Centres, 37

UNION, Seamen’s, Conditions Accepted by Rotterdam-London Line of Cargo Steamers, 603
United States, Immigration into, Greatly Increased, 603
United States Naval Appropriation Bill, 190
Universities in the United States, Benefactions in Aid, 37

VANADIUM, Discovery of Large Deposit Reduces Value, 289
Ventilation by Steam Jet for Tunnel Driving or Shaft Sinking, 603
- of Carnegie Library at Pittsburgh, 213
- of House of Commons, Experiments, 213
Victoria and Albert Museum, The, Fifty Years Old, 625

WAGONS, Damage Caused by “Dumb ” Buffers, 263
Walthamstow, Proposal to Double Forest-road Tram Lines, 499
Walton-on-the-Naze, Fall of Cliff, 22
War Minister in Sheffield, 148
Waste Refuse at Blackpool Destructor, Profitable Returns from, 627
Water Board, Metropolitan, and Holborn Borough Council, Dispute, 190
Increased Expenditure on Steam Coal, 627
Report on Water Tests, 137
Cooling Towers, 449
Filtration in Brooklyn, Relative Cost of Sand and Mechanical Filters, 289
Falls, Finland, for Power Purposes, 221 for Steam Boilers and Iron Su^hates, 289
Power for Electric Current Generation, Enquiry in France, 213
Power in Haute Savoie, 163
Reservoir at St. Austell, 577
Reservoir at Fortis Green, New, 403
Softening Plant at Columbus, Ohio, 449
Supply, Additional, for North - East London, New Reservoirs at Ponders End, 289
and Sewage Disposal, Leeds, 37
at Stowmarket, 317
Drinking, in Huancayo, 11
Edinburgh, 186 for Coggieshail, 499
for Horta, Portugal, 63
for Hyde, Additional, 603
for Lincoln, 137 for Pencced from Cwmrhydy- milwyr, and for Heolycyw from Llechychawdd, 499
for Mutala, South Africa, 237 from Thames and Lea, 137
Military Camp, 429
of Leeds, New Reservoir, 449
of London, 137, 289
of Rio de Janeiro, 163
Penrith, Hayeswater Scheme, 37
Pollution at Boyle, Co. Roscommon, 395
Tanks, Small, Collapse Due to Corrosion of Ill-made Hoops, 551
Taps at Croydon, Success of Council’s Free Supply of Washers for Leaky, 551
Transportation Improvement in U.S.A., 369
Various Colours of. Due to Extraneous Substances, 475
Wheels, Large, for Electric Generators in California, 263
Wheels to be Erected at Vallecito, California, Largest yet Attempted, 551
Waterworks and Improvement of Port, Batoum, 551
- at Glenfinlas, Loch Lomond, Temporary Measures for Supply of Vale of Leven, 475
- Extension, Paisley, 457
Wave Power, Due to Static and Dynamic Effects, 37
Well, Artesian, at the Bank of England, C. Isler and Co., 198
- in Mansion House Chambers, Alfred Williams and Co., 374
- to Calculate Flow, 577
Westinghouse, British, Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, New Year’s Dinner, 22
Whistle, Locomotive, How Introduced, 339
Windmill at Bury St. Edmunds, A.D. 1191, 37
Wire Netting in Victoria, Australian Government to Produce by Prison Labour to Reduce Cost, 603
Wireless Telegraphy in Eritrea, 655
Wishaw Town Council, Price of Gas and Electricity, 665
Wolframinium, Specific Gravity of, 526
Woman Architect Designs Steel Buildings in New York, 343
Wood, Effect of Moisture on, 237
Wood, Preservation of, by Liquid Sulphur, 369
Woolwich Arsenal, Depression, 317
- Arsenal Workmen Remove to Germany, 551
- Explosion, 445
Worcester Town Council Extensions of Hylton road Generating Station, 655
Workmen’s Dwellings at Coventry, 257 Works Organisation, Paper by Mr. Percy Martin, 63
Wrought Iron, Preservatives Against Rust, 475

ZIRCONIUM, Professor Wedding’s Lamps, 90

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