The Engineer 1917/05/11

1917 May 11th PDF

• Contents, p 427.

Main Subjects

• Acquisition of Patent Rights, p 438.

• American Engineering News, p 433.
  • Divining Rods and Perpetual Motion.
  • Chicago Underground Railways.
  • Eighty-Five Ton Coal Wagons.
• British Patent Specifications, p 437.

• Death Announcement, Harry Rigby, p 427.

• Editorial, p 427 - p 429.
  • The Excess Profits Tax.
  • Refractory Materials.
  • Random Reflections: A Secret Session for Engineers; Peat, Genius and Invention; Style; Old Tin Cans; Works Organisation.
• Iron and Steel Institute, Sir William Beardmore, President, (No. I.), p 418.
  • Other Contributors and Award Winners listed, including:
  • George Hatton.
  • J. Arthur Hampton.
  • E. Lester.
  • Andrew Lamberton of Lamberton and Co.
  • Cosmo Johns.
• Letters to the Editor, p 423.
  • Oil Engine Nomenclature, Herbert Akroyd Stuart.
  • Dangers of the German Patent System, James Keith.
  • Engineers and the Submarine Problem.
  • Apparatus for Adjusting Tension of Aeroplane Wire, Carlo Maurilio Lerici.
  • The Metric System, Edward C. Barton.
  • Standarisation.
  • A Thermodynamic Problem, T. D. Parr.
• National Shortage of Iron Ore Supplies, Society of Arts by Professor W. G. Fearnsides, p 429.

• New Motor Installation for Barges, p 420. (Illustrated)
  • Coggins and Arthur.
  • T. H. Coggins.
  • A. E. Hook.
• Packing Electric Locomotives for Export, General Electric Co, p 424.

• Production and Industrial Employment of Vegetable Oils, p(No. XI.), p 417.

• Properties of the Refractory Materials used in the Iron and steel Industry, by Cosmo Johns, before the Iron and Steel Institute, p 420 - p 423. (Illustrated)
  • Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy.
• Provincial Letters, p 433.

• Researches made Possible by the Autographic Load Extension Optical indicator, by Professor W. E. Dalby, p 422. (Illustrated)

• Submarines in the Adriatic, p 416 and p 426. (Illustrated)

• Trial of Agricultural Tractors, Royal Agricultural Society, p 437.
  • Ford.
  • Professor Dalby.
  • F. S. Courtney.
  • R. M. Greaves.
  • R. W. Hobbs.
  • Henry Overman.
  • Sir Gilbert Greenhall.
• Use and Abuse of Steel, by Lieut,-Colonel R. K. Bagnall-Wild and Lieut. E. W. Birch, before the Institution of Automobile Engineers, p 430 - p 433. (Illustrated)

• What Industry owes to Science, (No. XII.)p 415.

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