Difference between revisions of "Engineering 1911 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index"
Line 51: | Line 51: | ||
''Note: This is a sub-section of [[Engineering 1911 Jul-Dec: Index]] | ''Note: This is a sub-section of [[Engineering 1911 Jul-Dec: Index]] | ||
Abady-Simmance Gas Density Indicator, 872 | Abady-Simmance Gas Density Indicator, 872 | ||
Properties, 265. See 673 | Abattoirs, Meat Industry, South America, 828 | ||
Abrasive Materials and Wheels, Composition and Properties, 265. See 673 | |||
Absorption Brake. See Brake | Absorption Brake. See Brake |
Revision as of 15:17, 20 March 2020
Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1911 Jul-Dec: Index
Abady-Simmance Gas Density Indicator, 872
Abattoirs, Meat Industry, South America, 828
Abrasive Materials and Wheels, Composition and Properties, 265. See 673
Absorption Brake. See Brake
Abt Rack, Mountain Railways, 142
Abt, S.; Swiss Rack Railway Locomotives, 137,142 Abutment. See Bridge
Acceleration, Railway Trains, 350
Accidents:
Aeroplanes and Strength of Wings, 806 Airship, British Naval, 428 Boiler Explosions, 1909-10, 76
— Explosion, North Lopham, 267
Collision S.S. “Olympic” and H.M.S. “ Hawke,” 429. See 711, 876
Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation under Legal
Copper Steam Pipe Explosions, S.SS. “Craven,” “ Prodano,” 407
Electric Machinery Breakdown, 533
— Shock, Dangers of, 873
Explosion, French Battleship “ Liberte,” 432, 463, 600
Explosives, 1910 Report, 427
German Industrial Accidents, 140
Motor-Car Traffic and Street Accidents, 513 Power-Plant Failures, 533
Shipwrecks 1910, Lloyd’s Statistics, 174 Steam Pipe Explosion, Stratford Electricity
Works, 614
Tramcar Accidents, 327, 685
Accounts, Cost, Engineering Works, 737 Accumulators, Electric. See Electric Acetylene-Oxygen Blow-Pipe, Bridge Removal, 489
— Oxygen Welds, Microscopic Examination and
Tests, 844
— Possible Use in Motor-Car Engines, 513 Acheson Carborundum and Graphite, 673 Acids, Solubility of Steel in, 453 Acoustics, Experiments in, 782
— and Ventilation, 419
Actinium, Emission of Alpha Particles, 810
Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal Adamson, E. ; Carbon in Pig Iron, 483, 507 Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Adiabatic Expansion, Steam, 759, 798 Admiralty Airship, Accident to, 428
— and Director of Naval Construction, 73, 568
— and Engineer Officers’ Training, 358
— Library, 468
— New Secretary, 396
— Policy of Secrecy, 24
— See also Naval and Warships
Aerating Plant, Beer, 535
Aerial Navigation. See A er oplanes and Airships
— Propellers. See Aeroplanes and Airships Aeronautics. See A eroplanes and Airships
Aeroplanes and Airships:
Aerial Flight, Principles of, 312, 337 Aeronautical Research Society, East London
College, 398
Aeronautics, Report of Advisory Committee, 198. See 255
Aeroplane Accidents, Strength of Wings, 806 — Military, War Office Competition, 833,840 — Principles of Design, 312, 337
— Stability of, 313, 337
— Strength of Monoplane Wings, 806
— in Warfare, 833. See 840
— Wings, Air-Pressure on, Effect of Aspect Ratio, 273
Airships, British Army, 583
— British Naval, Accident, 428
— Effect of Side Winds, 206
— Models, Air Resistance of, 198, 206
— Models, Effect of Stabilising Fins, 198, 206
— Models, Stream-Line Flow, 198
— Models, Tests in Oblique Currents, 206
— Siemens-Schuckert, Propeller Action, 49 Army Aircraft Factory, Hydrogen Plant, 583 Aviation, Elementary Treatise on, 185
— Principles of, 312, 337 Balloon Fabrics, Tests, 76, 581. See 608 — Investigation of Atmosphere by, 385 British Circuit Race, 170
Eiffel’s Experiments, Falling Plates, 255 Engines, Aeroplane, Gyroscopic Effect, 313 — Rotating Cylinder, Balancing, 360 Gottingen Model-Testing Institute, Work of, 206, 273, 548 See Addendum, 735
Hydrogen Plant, Army Aircraft Factory, 583 Lift and Drift, Airships in Side Winds, 206 — Cambered Plates, 273
Monoplane Wings, Strength of, 806
Plates in Air Current, Pressure on, 198. See Letter, 255
— Cambered, Air Pressure on, 273
Propellers, Siemens - Schuckert Airship, Action of, 49
Wind Variations and Aerial Flight, 313, 316 Wire Stays, Largier’s Tension Meter for, 235 Wires, Air Resistance of, 273, 548. See
Addendum, 735
Afforestation, Parkend School for, 431
— Report of Development Commission, 327 Agreement, Labour Disputes. See Labour; Legal Agricultural Hall. See Exhibition
— Motors. See Engines; Tractors
— Show, Smithfield Club, 772. See Erratum, 860
— Society, Royal, Norwich Show, 5. See Erra
tum, 92
-Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture, Report of Development Commission, 327
“ Aidan,” Steamer Booth Line, 717
Air Column, Pressure and Temperature Changes, 877
— Compressed. See Compressed Air; Pneumatic
— Compressors, for Bridge Work, Indian Rail
way (Murray, Workman, and Co.), 166
— Compressors, Inertia Effects in Pipes, 166
— Compressors, Turbo, 4000-H.-P., and Tests,
Rand Mines (Pokorny and Wittekind), 793
— Compressors, Turbo, Brown, Boveri, and
Co., 46 ; Escher Wyss and Co., 87
— Compressors, Turbo, and Tests (Pokorny and
Wittekind), 791
— Compressor, Two - Stage, Steam - Driven
(Robey), 220
— Compressor Valves, Steel-Finger Type, 166
— Compressor Valves, Steel Plate, Robey’s, 220
— Currents, Effects on Sound Waves, 419
— Currents, Oblique, Effects on Airships, 206
— Flow, Pipes, Pitot Tube Measurenents, 234
— Friction, Large Fly-Wheels, 411
— Liquifying Plant, Belfast Technical Institute,
779
— Measurement by Nozzles, Turbo-Compressor
Tests, 794
— Mines, Analysing Apparatus, 838
— Pipes, Inertia Effects, 166
— Pressure on Curved Plates, 273
! — Pressure on Plates, 198. See 255
— Pump. See Pump
— Purifier and Dust-Collector, 534, 535
— Regulator, Boiler Furnaces, 675
— Resistance, Airship Models, 198, 206
— Resistance, Railway Trains in Tunnels, 127
— Resistance, Wires, &c., 273, 548. See Ad
dendum, 735
— Specific Heat at Low Temperatures, 742
— Supply, Boilers, Effect of Moisture (Erratum),
191
— Upper, Investigation by Balloons, 385
— Upper, Temperature of, 385
— Velocity, Lea-Biram Anemometer, 541 Airships. See Aeroplanes and Airships “ Aki,” Japanese Battleship, 16
Albula Works, Zurich, Hydraulic Turbines and Generators, 153
Alexander Process, Re-Forming Rubber, 75
Alkali Works, 1910 Report, 102
Allan Liners, Liverpool-Canadian Service, 603
Allen-Patterson Pipe Flanging Machine, 236
Allen, T. I., The late, 865
Allotropic, Modifications, Tin and Antimony, 601 Alloys Aluminium, for Bearings, 434
— Aluminium - Copper - Manganese, Magnetic
Properties, 739
— Aluminium, Electrical Conductivity, 312
— Aluminium-Zinc, Equilibrium Diagram, 408,
438
— Anti-Friction, Effects of Re-Melting, &c., 295
— Anti-Friction, L. and Y. Railway, 394, 434
— Copper-Aluminium, Alternating Stress Tests,
558
— Copper, Effects of Arsenic, 295
— Copper-Nickel, 394. See 435
— Copper-Tin, Chemical Analysis, 648
— Copper-Tin, Specific Gravity, Hardness, 647
— Copper-Tin, Volume Changes during Cooling,
397 407, 609, 646
— Copper-Zinc-Aluminium, Corrosion of, 475
— Copper-Zinc, Corrosion, 393, 409, 436, 472
— Copper-Zinc, Hardening, 511, 542
— Copper. See also Brass ; Bronze ; Gun-Metal;
Phosphor-Bronze
— Electrical Conductivity and Constitution,
394, 544
— Iron-Carbon, Transformations in Heat Treat
ment, 483, 509, 541
— Iron-Manganese, Effect of Carbon, 478, 483
— Non-Ferrous, Heat Treatment, 511, 512
— Non-Ferrous, Use on L. and Y. Railway, 393,
399, 433
— Solid Solutions, Nature of, 408, 680. See 544
Alpha Particles, Emission by Thorium and Actinium, 810
— Rays and the Origin of Aurorae, 383 Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress and Corrosion of Steel, 556, 613, 696
— Stress, Definitions of Reversals, 731
— Stress Experiments, Comparisons, 556, 613,
694, 731
— Stress Testing-Machine, Electro-Magnetic, 696
— Stress Testing-Machine, Rotating Beam-Type
and Results, 556, 575, 612, 693. See 731
— Stress Tests, Aluminium-Copper Alloys, 558
— Stress Tests, Arnold’s, 248, 556, 698
— Stress Tests, Bending and Torsion, 183, 246,
305; Machine, 183
— Stress Tests, Effect of Speed, 556, 576, 612,
694, 814
— Stress Tests, Elastic Hysteresis, 306, 695, 696
— Stress Tests, Form of Fracture and Theories
of Elastic Breakdown, 248
— Stress Tests, Hard Copper Wire, 580, 694
— Stress Tests, Manganese Steel, 479
— Stress Tests, Plotting of, 576, 612, 695, 697
— Stress Tests, Steel, Effects of Cold Drawing,
557
— Stress Tests, Welded Bars, 814
— Stress Tests, Wire Rope, 695
— Stress Tests, Wohler’s, 556, 612, 695
— Stress Tests, Wrought Iron, Mild Steel, and
Vanadium Steel, 248, 556, 576, 612, 693; Nickel Steel, 580. See 731, 840
Alternators. See Generators under Electric
Aluminium Alloys for Bearings, 431
— Alloys, Electrical Conductivity, 312
— Alloy, “ Sulphalium,” 150
— Brasses, Corrosion of, 475
— Bronze, Hardening, 511, 542
— Copper Alloys, Fatigue Tests, 558
— Copper - Manganese Alloys, Magnetic Pro
perties, 739
— Manufacture, Kinlochleven Water - Power
Plant, 717
— Marino Electro-Plating Process, 806
— Paint, Effect on Steam-Pipe Coverings, 395
— for Preventing Corrosion of Condenser-Tubes,
409, 475
— in Railway-Carriage Construction, 394, 434
— Soldering and Welding, 394, 434
— Specific Heat and Latent Heat of Fusion, 419.
See Erratum, 458
— Tanks for Brewing, 535
— Works, Neuhausen, Hydraulic Turbines and
Generators, 153
— Zinc Alloys, Equilibrium Diagram, 408, 438
Alundum, Composition and Properties, 265
American Metallurgical Industry. See Iron, Steel, and United States, Notes from
— Motor-Car Design, 626, 679
American Society of Naval Architects, 718, 747, 810
America. See also United States
Ammeter, Frisby’s Mechanical, for Cables, 503
Ammonal Explosive, Bridge Demolition by, 490
Ammonia Compression Refrigerating Plants, Sulzer, 830
Amsler, Dr. A.; Some New Types of Dynamometers, 128, 139
Amyl-Acetate Lamp, Atmospheric Influences, 199
Analysing Apparatus, Air in Mines, 838
Analysis, Chemical, Grading of Pig-Iron, 483, 507
— Gas, Determination of Carbon Monoxide, 872
— Harmonic, New Method, 81
Anemometer, Lea-Biram, 541
Aniline and Water, Surface Tension, 782
Annealing, Effect on Corrosion of Brass, 472
— See also Heat Treatment
Annual Publications. See Literature Index
Anode Rays and Solar Prominences, 743 Anschutz Gyro-Compass, 310
Anti-Friction Metals, Effects of Re-Melting, 295
— Metals, L. and Y. Railway, 394, 434 Anti-Rolling Tanks, Frahm’s, S.S. “Laconia,”
136; Trials, 803
Antimony-Copper Alloys, Conductivity, 546 Antimony, Explosive, 601
— Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams Apprentices, Engineering, Workshop and College
Training, 2, 4, 23,41, 42, 43, 44, 644, 741, 781. See 79,104
Apprenticeship. See also Education Apsey Gas-Heated Superheater, 535 Aqueduct, Catskill, New York Water Supply, 118 Aqueous Solutions, Laws of, 408, 418, 450, 452, 680. See 810
A rbitration, Labour Disputes. See Labour, Legal, Industrial Notes, and Paragraph Index Arc. See Electric
Arch Bridge, Ferro-Concrete, Hennebique System, Rome, 721; Tests, 723
— Bridge, Ferro-Concrete Staging, 722
— See also Bridge
Archbutt, S. L.; Aluminium-Zinc Alloys, 408, 438
Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects Argentine, Meat Refrigerating Plants, 828
— Railway, 35-Ton Steam Breakdown-Crane, 797
— Railway, Central, 4 6-2-Type Locomotive, 22
— Railway Statistics, 572
Argon Gas, Preparation and Investigation, 742 Argyll Sleeve-Valve Motor-Car Engine, 590 Armament. See Guns
Armour, Effect on Naval Tactics, 38
— H.M.S. “ King George V.,” 465
— Plate Manufacture, Japanese, 18
— Plates, Turin Exhibition, 296
— for Warships, History, 51, 111. See 104
— See also Warships
Armoured Ships. See Warships Armstrong-Morgan Solid-Oil Fuel, 535 Army Aircraft Factory, Hydrogen Plant, 583
— Airships “ Beta” and “ Gamma,” 583
— British, Aeroplane Competition, 170. 833, 840
— Territorial, Engineer Officers, 264. See 398 Arnold, Prof. J. O.; The Influence of Carbon on
Iron-Manganese Alloys, 478, 483
Arnold’s Alternating-Stress Tests, 248, 556, 698 Arsenic, Effect on Bronzes, 295
Art and Science, Relative Values, 671. See 711, 731, 763
Artesian Water Supply, Australia, 738
Arthur, N. S., The late, 665
Articulated Locomotive. See Mallet
Artificers, Engine-Room, Naval Reserve, 795 Artillery. See Guns
Asbestos Pipe Coverings, Effect of Painting, 395 Ash-Handling Plant, Dunston Power Station, 7 Ashokan Reservoir, New York Water Supply, 117 Asia, Geology and Minerals, Treatise on, 484 Aston, R. G.; Oil-Burning Locomotives, Tehuantepec Railroad, 819, 841. See 874
Astronomy. See also British Association
— Stellar Distribution and Movements, 381
— Value of Observations, 379
Atlantic Ocean, Labrador Current, Effect on British Climate, 385
— Passenger Steamers, Developments in, 72, 719
Atmosphere, Distribution of Water Vapour, 385
— Pressure and Temperature Changes in Air
Column, 877
— Upper, Investigation by Balloons, 385
— Upper, Temperature of, 385
Atmospheric Irregularities and Flying, 313, 316
— Nitrogen, Electrical Fixation, 346
Atomic Weights, Calculation of, 417
— Weights and Spectra of Elements, 417
Atomisers, Oil-Fuel. See Burners
Atoms, Structure of, 417
“Augustus B. Wolvin,” Ore Steamer, Great
Lakes, 63
Aurora Borealis, Origin, 383
Austin Motor-Car, 629. See 679
Australia, Artesian Water, Diminution of, 738
“Australia,” H.M. Australian Cruiser, 570
Australia. See also Victoria
Australian Navy, 570
— Solar Observatory, 383
Austrian Dockyard, Pola, Floating Crane, 861
Autogenous Welding and Cutting Metals, Microscopic Examination and Tests, 844
Automatic Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
— Gun. See Gun
Automobile Engineers, Institution of, Presidential Address by L. A. Legros, 512
— See Motor-Car
Auxiliary Machinery on Warships, 19
Aviation. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Axles, Motor-Car, See also Motor-Car Details in Illustrations Index
— Railway, Aluminium Alloys for Bearings, 434
Axle-Wheel Fit, Stresses, 201. See 255 “Ayanami,” Japanese Destroyer, Boiler Trials, 97
Baden, Brown, Boveri and Co.’s Works, 45. See 137
Bakers’ and Confectioners’ Exhibition, 362, 563
Bakers’ Ovens, Steam-Heated, 362
Balance, Electric Current, U.S. Bureau of Standards, 418
Balancing Marine Engines and Steamer Vibra tions, 301
— Rotating Cylinder Engines, 360
— Two-Cycle Engines, 625
Ball-Bearings, Motor-Cars, 512
— Skefko Self-Aligning, Radial and Thrust, 589
Ballistics. See Guns
Ballistite, Nature and Pressure of Gases, 94
Balloons. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Baltic Motor-Boat Race, 77
Band Conveyor, Coal, Burnley Gas Works, 495
— Saws. See Machine-Tools
Barbour’s Homopolar Dynamo, 318. See 265
Barclay, Curie, and Co., Ltd. ; Early Shipbuilding, 774
Barge, Mavor’s Electric Transmission, 310, 332
Barges, Bridge Erection by, 448
Barnaby, S. W. ; Cavitation, 49, 55. See 50
Barr, Professor A.; Practical Training of Engineering Students, 442
“ Barry ” Transporter, 30-Cwt. Travelling, 386
Batteries. See Electric
Battleships. See Warships
Bauschinger’s Experiments, Elastic Limit of Steel, 305, 556, 559, 643, 644, 694
Beams, Encastr6, Calculation of, 156
— Ferro-Concrete Floor Slabs, Calculation, 857
— Rotating, Alternating-Stress Testing-Machine,
and Results, 556, 575, 612, 693. See 731
— Theory, Early Work, 643
Bear-Trap Dam, Trollhiittan Power Plant, 374
Bearings, Ball. See Ball-Bearings
— Curtis Marine Turbine, 219
— Metals, L. and Y. Railway, 394, 434
— Metals, Effects of Remelting, &c., 295
— Roller. See Roller Bearings
— Thrust, Ball, Skefko Self-Aligning, 590
— Use of Aluminium Alloys, 434
Beaumont, W. W.; Rail Corrugation, 309, 330
Beaver Hill Dykes, Ashokan Reservoir, 119
Bed-Plates, Turbine, Erection of, 88
Beer-Chilling and Aerating Plant, 535
Belfast Congress, Royal Sanitary Institute, 174
— Municipal Technical Institute, 778. See 798
Belgian State Railways ; Locomotive, 525, 593
Belsize Motor-Car, 629. See 679
Belt Drive, Wicksteed’s Jockey-Pulley, Planing-Machines, 702, 817
Bending, Alternating, Tests of Steel, 183, 246, 305; Machine, 183
— Repeated. See Alternating Stress
— Rolls, Plate. See Machine-Tools
— Tests, Autogenous Welds, Steel, 846
Bennis Stokers, Smoke-Abatement Exhibition, 675 ; Sprinkling Type, Mines de Dourges, France, 825
Bern-Ldtschberg-Simplon Railway, Single-Phase Traction, 154, 285
Bernese Oberland Railway, Locomotive, 143
Berriman, A. E.; Aerial Flight, 312, 337
Bessbrook and Newry Railway, 138
Bessemer Converter, “Stock” Oil-Fired, 53
Bevel Gears. See Gears
Bickford’s Toluene Fuse, Blasting, 490
Biles, Prof. J. II., Presidential Address, British Association ; The Rolling of Ships, 299, 309
Binding Material, Bituminous, Roads, Tests, 78, 297
Biplanes. See Aeroplanes and Airships Biram-Lea Anemometer, 541
Birkeland-Eyde Electric Furnace, Nitrate Manufacture, 346
Birmingham, Engineering Relics, Presented to 676
Birmingham Small-Arms Co., Ltd., MotorCar, 628
Bismuth-Copper Alloys, Conductivity, 545
— Thallium Alloys, Resistance - Temperature
Curves, 547
Bisset’s Reciprocating Feed, Saw-Benches, 796
Bituminous Binders, Roads, Tests, 78, 297
Black-Body Radiation, Wien-Planck Law, 743
Blackwater Dam, Loch Leven Works, 717 Blade Friction, Impulse Steam-Turbines„727 Blades, Steam-Turbines, Measuring Angles, 551
— Steam-Turbines, Tip Leakage, 551, 564. See
Erratum, 709
Blading, Curtis Marine Turbine, 216
— Zoelly Steam-Turbine, 159
Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas
— Turbo-Blowers (Brown Boveri), 46
Blasting, Accidents with Explosives, 427
— Cordeau Detonating-Fuse, 490
— Operations, Bridge Demolition, 490
Blocks, Concrete, Building, 6
— Concrete, Olive Bridge Dam, 121
Bloom Shears, Electric, 268
Blow-Pipe, Oxy-Acetylene, Bridge Removal, 489
— Oxy-Acetylene, Tests of Welds, 844
— Producer-Gas, Pipe-Welding, 485
Blowers, Turbo (Brown, Boveri, and Co.), 46
Blowing-Engine. See also Air-Compressor Blum, Dr.-Ing. Emil, The late, 795 Boats, Motor. See Motor-Boats
— Submarine. See under Warships
Bogie, Belgian Locomotive, 596
— Wheels, Locomotives, Brakes on, 392. See 596
Bohle, Prof.; Technical Education in S. Africa, 201 Boilers, Effect of Moisture in Air Supply (Erratum), 191
— Explosions Act, Annual Report, 76
— Explosion, North Lopham, 267
— Feed-Pumps. See Pumps
— Feed-Regulator, Automatic, “ Thermofeed,”
841
— Feed-Water Heaters. See Feed
— Furnaces. See Furnace and Stoker
— Gauge-Glasses, Hopkinson’s Trycock, 796
— Horizontal Multi-Tubular, Removable Fur
nace and Tubes, 364
— House, Belfast Technical Institute,778. See 798
— House, Dunston Power-Station, 7, 12
— House, Mines de Dvurges, Bennis Stokers, 825
— Insurance Companies and Power Plant
Specifications, 763, 798
— Lancashire, Deflections of End-Plates, 683
— Lancashire, Flexible Gusset-Stays, 685
— Locomotive, Copper Fire-Box Plates, 394,
399 ; Specification, 435
— Locomotive, Copper Fire-Box Stays, 394, 400;
High Temperature Tests, 400; Specifications, 435
— Locomotive, Copper Tubes, 402 ; Specifica
tions, 435, 436. See 394
—• Locomotive, Failures of Fire-Box Stays. 391. See 400
Locomotive, Fire-Box Construction and Repair, 400. See 391
— Locomotive, Flamme Type, 525, 593 Locomotive, Mallet Compound, Southern
Pacific Railway, 791
— Locomotive, Moisture in Steam, 214
— Locomotive, and Superheaters, Heat Trans
mission, 276
Locomotive, See also Locomotive
— Marine, Forced Draught, 19
— Marine, Japanese Navy, 95
— Marine, Naval, Fifty Years’ Changes, 18
— Marine, Oil-Fired, T.-S.S. “Princess Alice,”
<64 ; Japanese Steamers, 205
— Marine, Weight, Power, and Cost, 19
— Marine. See also Steamers
— Multi-Tubular, Tosi Oil-Fired, 235
— Plates, Steel, Tests of Autogenous Welds, 845
— Shops; Sulzer Works, 84; Escher Wyss and
Co., 88 ; Swiss Locomotive Works, 90
— Tubes, Efficiency of, 275
— Water-Tube, “ Miyabara,” and Japanese Naw
Type, Trials, 97 J
Bolinder Two-Cycle Marine Oil-Engine, 346, 471 Books Received, 89, 186, 219, 251, 485, 523 589 753, 823 ’
Booth Passenger Liner “Aidan,” 717
Borough Councils, London, Financial State, 640 Bosch Water-Tight Magnetos, 678 Botany, Functions of Enzymes, 452
Boulton Relics, Presented to Birmingham, 676 Boundary Waves of the Sea, 384
Bousfield’s Experiments, Specific Heat of Water,
Bower, G., The late, 734
Bradford, Railless Electric Traction, 100
— Technical College, Enlargement, 603 Brakes, Locomotive Bogie Wheels, 392. See 596
— Magnetic, Tramcars, Testing, 775
— Motor-Car, Design, 640
— Motor-Cycle, Design, 707
«rain’ Effects on Bridge Piers, 263
— Water-Cooled, Experimental Engine, 779 See also Motor-Car Details in Illustrations
INDEX .
BraSSi?«On<(iQnS?!.‘Tub.e9’ Corrosion of, 393, 409 436, 472 ; Electrical Effect of Strain, 438
— Corrosion of, 393. 409, 436, 472
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Hardening of, 511, 512
— Loss in Melting, 403
— Loss of Zinc in Brazing, 407
“ Man9ng’ Crucible Furnace, Output,
“ T 393S’ CorrO8ioD’ Experimental Apparatus, Brasses, Aluminium, Corrosion of, 475 Brayshaw s Gas Furnaces, Royal Mint, 731 Brazed Joint. Copper Steam-Pipe, Failure 407 Brazil^Rio de Janeiro, HydrS-Electric Plant, Brazilian Navy, Storage of Smokeless Powder, ~SJla2geS’ C°1Jper Steam-Pipes, 401
Spelter, Causes of Corrosion, 407 Bread-Making Plant, 362, 563 Breakdown Crane. See Cram Breakdowns. See Accidents Brewers’ Exhibition, 531
Brewing Vessels, Aluminium, 535
Bricklaying, Labour-Saving by Motion Study, 357. See 573, 730 , t m ..
Bridge, Admiral Sir Cyprian ; Naval Tactics and Design of Warships, 25, 37
Bridge, Arch, Ferro-Concrete Staging, 722
— Brick Arch, Demolition by Explosives, 493
— Construction, Air-Compressor for, 166
— Construction, Nickel Steel, 770
— Construction Schemes in Parliament, 741
— Coteau, River St. Lawrence, 448
— Design of Struts, 769
— Engineering, Treatise on, 88
— Erection by Barges, 448
— Ferro-Concrete Arch, Hennebique System,
Rome, 721; Tests, 723
— Piers, Effects of Earthquakes, 263
— Quebec, Design, 769
— Railway, Effects of Train Brakes, 263
— Railway, Vibrations of Piers, 262
— Removal by Oxygen Blow-Pipe, 489
— St. Paul’s, London, 30, 79
Bridlington Bridge, Demolition by Explosives, 490
Brinell Hardness Tests, Autogenous Welds, Iron and Steel, 846, 847
Bristol, Marquis of, Presidential Address ; Institution of Naval Architects, 12
British Aluminium Co., Kinlochleven Water-Power Plant, 717
British Association (Portsmouth Meeting) :
Astronomical Papers, 379, 415
Chemical Papers, 450
Concluding Remarks, 453
Evening Discourses, 453
Mathematical Papers, 419
Metallurgical Reports, 453
Meteorological Papers, 384
Physical Papers, 415
Presidential Address, by Sir W. Ramsay, 291
Programme, &c., 263
Section Reports, 309, 344, 379, 415, 450
Spectroscopical Papers, 415, 451
Visits, Excursions, &c., 453
Section G.—Engineering :
Presidential Address by Prof. J. H. Biles, on the Rolling of Ships, 299, 309
Origin and Production of Corrugation of Tramway Rails, by W. W. Beaumont, 309, 330 ‘
Anschutz Gyro-Compass, by G. K. B. Elphin-stone, 310
Electric Drives for Screw Propellers, by H. A. Mavor, 310, 332
Electrical Steering, by B. P. Ilaigh, 311, 333 Single - Phase Repulsion Motor, by T. F.
Wall, 312
Some Preliminary Notes on a Study as to Human Susceptibility to Vibration, by W. P. Digby and Captain H. R. Sankey, 312, 333
Conductivity of Light Aluminium Alloys, by Prof. E. Wilson, 312
Aerial Flight, Joint Discussion by Sections A and G, 312. See 337
Principles of Flight, by A. E. Berriman, 312, 337
Recent Developments in Radiotelegraphy, by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, 316, 335
Economical and Reliable Power Generation by Over-Type Superheated Steam-Engines, by W. J. Marshall, 344, 364
Suction-Gas Engines and Producers: A Comparison of Test Performances with Results obtained in Daily Operation, and Notes upon Working Costs for Fuel, Oil, Labour, &c., by W. A. Tookey, 344, 475
Diesel Oil-Engine, by C. Day, 314, 369
Crude-Oil Marine Engines, by J. H. Rosenthal, 346, 471
Manufacture of Nitrogen Compounds from the Air, by E. K. Scott, 346
Possibility of EstablishingaNew Standard of Smoke Emission for Factory Chimneys by Dr. J. S. Owens, 349, 370. See 431 ’
New System of Continuous Transportation for Passenger and other Services, by W. Y. Lewis, 349
Section A.—Mathematical & Physical Science:
Presidential Address by Prof. H. H. Turner-The Characteristics of the Observational Sciences, 379
Stellar Distribution and Movements, Discussion on, 381
Establishing a Solar Observatory in Aus-tralia, by Dr. W. G. Duffield, 383
The Recent Eclipse, by J. H. Worthington, obo
Recent Eclipse, by Father Cortie, 383
Radiation Producing Aurora Borealis, bv L Vegard, 383 J
Magnetic Observations at Falmouth Obser-. vatory, Report by Dr. W. N. Shaw, 384 Seismological Investigations, Report of Committee on, by J. Milne, 384
Solar Cycle, The Jamaica Rainfall and Earth-quake Cycles, by M. Hall, 384
Note on the Periodogram of Earthquake Frequency from Seven to Twenty Years, by Prof. II. H. Turner, 384 3
Great Boundary Waves, Parallactic Tides hnSi?the P°^om layers of the Sea Earth pT?y °- Persson, 384 ph?eys 3a85 ’ Y °f* W’ J‘ Hum’
Amount and Vertical Distribution of Water
Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere
385P fc Of Committee on. by E. Gold’
U8e ClimiiFar8rln ,the C1“sibcation of ates’ by Dr. J. Ball and J. I. Craig,
Effect of the Labrador Current upon the Surface of the North Atlanticfand of the Latter upon Air Temperature and Barometric Pressure over tho Rritiok Hies, by Commander M. W. C Hen worth, 385 ueP‘
British Association—continued.
Thunderstorms of July 28 and 29, 1911, Study of, by Dr. W. N. Shaw, 385
Aerial Flight, Joint Discussion by Sections G and A, 312. See 337
Anomalous Dispersion and Solar Phenomena, by Prof. P. V. Bevan, 415
Dependence of the Spectrum of an Element on its Atomic Weight, by Prof. W. M.
Hicks, 417
Arc Spectra of Certain Metals in the Infra-Red, by Major E. H. Hills, 417
Atomic Structure of the Elements, with Theoretical Determinations of the Atomic Weight, by J. W. Nicholson, 417
Corpuscular Nature of Rays, by Prof. W. H. Bragg, 418
Absolute Measurement of Current at the Bureau of Standards, Washington, by Dr. N. E. Dorsey, 418
Friction Permeameter, Exhibited by W. H. F. Murdoch, 418
Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for Electrical Measurements, Report of Committee on, by Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 418 Laws of Solution, by II. Davies, 418. See 450 Peculiarities in the Adsorption of Salts by Silica, by Prof. F. T. Trouton, 418
Specific Heats at High Temperature and the Latent Heats of Fusion of Metals, by H. C. Greenwood, 419. See Erratum, 458
Methods and Apparatus Used in Petroleum Testing, by Dr. J. A. Harker and W. F. Higgins, 419
Effects of Air Currents on Sound Waves, by Prof. F. R. Watson, 419
Vernier Arc, a New Form of Micrometer, by J. W. Gordon, 419
Principle of Relativity, Discussion on, 419 Mathematical Papers, 419
Section B.—Chemistry ;
Presidential Address by Prof. J. Walker, on Theories of Solution, 450
Diffusion of Gases Through Water, by Prof.
C. Barus, 451
Influence of Constitution on the Molecular Volumes of Compounds at the Boiling-Point, by G. Le Bas, 451
Influences of Substituents on Reaction Velocities, by Prof. R. Wegscheider, 451
Absorption and Dispersion in Metallic Vapours, by Prof. P. V. Bevan, 415
Ultra-Violet Absorption Spectra of Vapours of Various Organic Substances Compared with the Absorption of these Substances in Solution and in Thin Films, by Prof. J. E. Purvis, 451
Optically Active Substances which Contain no Asymmetric Atom in the Molecule, by Prof. W. II. Perkin and Prof. W. J. Pope, 451
Report son Organic and Analytical Chemistry, 451
Compressibility of Mercury, by Dr. W. C.
McC. Lewis, 452
Colloids, Discussion on, 452
Rate of Coagulation of Colloidal Copper, by H. H. Paine, 452
Colloid Theory of Cement, by Dr. C. II.
Dtsch, 452
Indicators and Colours, Discussion on. 452 Sensitiveness of Indicators, by H. T. Tizard, 452
Part Played by Enzymes in the Economy of Plants and Animals, Discussion on, 452 Some Points in the Treatment of Wheaten Flour, by A. E. Humphries, 452
Present Position of Steel-Melting; Report by Prof. A. McWilliam, 453
Influence of Carbon and Other Elements on the Corrosion of Steels, Report of Committee on, 453
British Circuit Air Race, 170
— Columbia, Prince Rupert Harbour and
Floating-Dock, 810
— Engine, Boiler, and Electrical Insurance Co.;
Report on Machinery Breakdowns, 533
— Iron and Steel Industry, 835
— Railways. See Railways
— Section, Turin Exhibition, 250, 296
— Thomson-Houston Co.; Metal-Filament Lamp
Works, 233
— Warships. See Warships
— Welding Co.; Pipe-Making Plant, 485
Broadhurst, Henry, The late, 492
Brodie, J. A.; Practical Training of Engineering Students, 4, 43
Bromine, Analysis of Copper-Tin Alloys, 618
Bronze Aluminium, Hardening, 511, 542
— Chemical Analysis of, 618
— Effects of Arsenic 295
— Effects of Re-Melting, &c., 295
— Phosphor, L. and Y. Railway, 434
— Phosphor, Locomotive Slide-Valves, 394, 403
— Specific Gravity and Hardness. 617
— Volume Changes during Cooling, 395, 407,
609, 646
— See also Alloys
Brookhouse Pneumatic Moulding-Machine, 519
Brown, Boveri, and Co.’s’Works, Baden, 45. See 137
Bruhl, P. T.; Corrosion of Brass, with Special Reference to Condenser-Tubes, 409, 436, 472
Brunig Railway, Locomotives, 143
Brunnen-Morschach Railway Rack, Locomotive 144
Brusio, Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 252
Bucket Friction, Impulse Steam-Turbines, 727
Buffers, Spring, Planing-Machine Tables, 702
Building Blocks, Concrete, 6
— Trades, Census of Production, 467
Built-In Beams, Calculation of, 156
Bulkheads. Water-Tight, Design, 72
Burgdorf-Thun Railway, Three-Phase Traction,
Burner, Oil-Fuel, Liissoe-Lovekin, 209
— Oil-Fuel, Locomotives, Holden’s, 819
— Oil-Fuel, Locomotive, Tehuantepec Railroad
842. See 819
Burnley Gas Works Extension, 493
Burt’s Sleeve-Valve, Argyll Petrol Engine, 590 Busalla and Porte Decimo Railway, Electric Traction, 676
Cables. See Electric . .
Cableways, Bleichert Rope-Gnppmg Device, 554
— Lidgerwood, Construction of Dam, 120
— Spanish Ore-Washing Plant, 553
Cadillac Motor-Car with Electrical Equipment, 629
Caisson Disease. 453
Callendar, Researches on Steam, 726, /58. See I 793
Calorimeters, Specific Heat of Gases, 742
Cam-Shaft, Petrol-Engine, Chain Drive, 527
Cambered Plates, Air Pressure on, 273
Canada, Company Laws, 504
— Coteau Bridge, St. Lawrence, 448
— Shipping on Great Lakes, 62
Canadian Iron Industry, Effect of Premiums, 851
— Pacific Railway, T. S.8. “ Princess Alice,” Oil
Fuel, 764
— Railway Progress, 388, 592
— River Steamer “ Saguenay,” 850
Canal, Panama, Electric Towing Locomotives, 632
— Rays. See Electric
— Saulte Ste. Marie, Traffic, 62
— Ship, Forth and Clyde, 571
Canals, German, Extensions, 359
Canton-Kowloon Railway, 707
Capital, British, Foreign Investments, 801
Car Ferry Steamers, Detroit River, 64
Cars and Carnages. See Railway, Tramway, Motor-Cars and Wagons
Carbon Deposit in Cylinder Ports, 877
— Disc Motor-Starting Resistances, 456
— Effect on Iron-Manganese Alloys, 478, 483
— Influence in Steel Corrosion, 453
— Iron Alloys, Transformations in Heat Treat
ment, 483, 509, 541
— Monoxide and Dioxide in Case-Hardening
648, 681, 711, 763
— Monoxide Recorder, Gas Analysis, 872
— Packed Glands, Turbine Shafts, 219, 299
— Penetration in Case-Hardening, 651. See 631
— in Pig Iron, 483, 507
Carbonating Plant, Beer, 535
Carborundum, Composit'on and Properties, 265 ;
Manufacture, 673
Carburettor, Motor-Car Engines, Adjustment, 512
— Motor-Car Engines; Lanchester Wick-Feed,
627; Stewart, 678; Ware, 732
Care’s, Gustave, The late, 112
Cargo Derrick, Puissesseau, 141
— Winch, 3-ton Electric, 538
Carnevali, F., Autogenous Cutting and Welding of Metals, 841
— Case Hardening Steel by Compressed Gases,
681. See 618, 711, 7G i
Carre Ice-Making Plant, Domestic, 535
Carriages, Motor, Electric, Railway ; Burgdorf-Thun, 123 ; Seethalbahn, 269 ; Marligny-Orsibres, 271; Bern-Lbtschberg Simplon, 285
— Motor, Steam, Mount Pilatus Railway, 142
— Railway, Aluminium Alloys for Bearings, 434
— Railway, Screw Couplings, and Tests, 562
— Railway, Use of Aluminium, 394, 434
Cascade Induction Motors, 173
Case-Hardening Steel by Gases, Industrial Process, 648. See 681, 711, 763
— Steel, High Pressure Experiments, CM
— Steel, Penetration of Carbon, 651. See Ge»l
Cask-Washing Machine, 535
Cast-Iron Crank-Shaft, Stresses in, 533
Cast Iron, Elastic Properties and Fatigue, 695
— Iron Failures, Micrographic Examination, 750
— Iron, Tests of Autogenous Welds, 817
— Iron, Thick Cylinders, Tests, 787
— Iron Wheel Hubs and Force Fits, 201 See 255 Casting-Fettling Shops, Heating, Ventila. ing and
Dust-Extracting Plant, Sulzer Bros., 84
Castings, Injector, Moulds for, 433
— Iron and Brass (Willans and Robinson, Ltd.), 6
— Steel, Oil-Fired Converter for, 53
— See ateo Alloys, Moulding, Foundry Plant
and Machinery
Catalogues, 150, 182, 211, 243, 274, 351, 405, 442, 514, 547, 581, 652, 685, 718, 751, 814, 818, 879. See Paragraph Index
Catenary Overhead Construction, Midi Railway, France, 858
Cathetometer, 837
Cathode Rays. See Electric
Catskill Water System, New York City, 117 Cavitation. See Propellers Cells. See also Electric
Cement, Colloid Theory, 452
— Portland, Manufacture, Testing, and Chem
istry, 102, 771
““ Testing Laboratory, Lehigh University, 205 Cementation. See also Case-Hardening* Cementite, Magnetic Properties, 810 Census of Production, Building Trades, 467 Central Station. See Electric, Hydro-Electric, and Pow.r
Centrifugal Force Measuring Apparatus, 872
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Starter, Three-Phase Motor. 420
Chacob S,; Tank Tests of Model Submarines, 26, 64
Chain-Drive, Cam-Shaft, Petrol-Engine, 527 Drive, Gear-Box, Maudslay Motor-Car, 628
— Surveying, Errors in, 1
Change-Speed Gear. See Motor-Car Details in Illustrations Index
Charing Cross Electricity Supply Co. ; Steam-Pipe Explosion, 614
Charlottenberg Technical College, Naval Architecture at, 48, 54
Chassis. See Motor-Car
Chemical Analysis, Copper-Tin Alloys, 6(8 Compounds, Molecular Volumes, 451
— Compounds, Optically Active, 451
— Constants, Tables of. 753
Element®, Nature and Classification, 292 Elements, Transmutations, 292
— Reactions, Indicators, 452
— Reactions, Velocity of. 451
Nolutir ns, Theories of, 4<i3, 413, 450. 452. 680. bee 810
Chemical Work, Reichsanstalt, 775
— Works, 1910 Report, 102
Chemistry, Applied, International Congress,
U.S. Meeting, 1912, 429
— B.A. Reports on, 451
— Physiological, Functions of Enzymes, 452
— Structure of Atoms, 417
Chill for Iron Casting, 415
Chilling Plant, Beer, 535
Chimney, Ferro-Concrete, 823
China, Canton-Kowloon Railway, 707
— Shallow-Draught Motor-Boat for, 194
Chinese Foreign Loans, 807
— Railways, Progress, 504, 572, 707. See 807
— Training Cruiser “ Ying-Swei,” 78, 826
“ Chiyo Maru,” S.S., Oil-Fuel Installation, 208 Chromium and Nickel-Ohromium Steel, Case-
Hardening, 651, 681. See 711, 763
Chronographs, Electric Recording, €07, 610, 837 Chute-Closing Mechanism, Ore-Bins, 68 Citroen and Co.’s Gear-Cutting Works, 352
Civil Engineers, Institution of:
Conference on Education of Engineers.
Section II.—Scientific Training :
Address by Dr. W. C. Unwin, 2
Value of a University Degree in Engineering Science in Relation to Professional Competence, by Prof. S. M. Dixon, 3, 39
Value of a University Degree in Engineering in Relation to Professional Competence, by Prof. C. F. Jenkin, 3, 39
Position and Uses of Engineering Laboratories in Relation to Education at College, by Prof. W. E. Dalby, 4, 39
Position and Use of Engineering Laboratories in Relation to Education at College, by Professor J. Goodman, 4, 40 Position and Uses of Engineering Laboratories in Relation to Education at College, by Prof. B Hopkinson, 4, 40
Section III.—Practical Training :
Relation of Engineering Employers and Colleges from the Point of View of Practical Training of College Students, by Prof. J. E. Petavel, 2, 41
Relation of Engineering Employers and Colleges from the Point of View of Practical Training of College Students, by J. W. Horne, 2, 41
Relation of Practical Training to College Study, by Prof. A. Barr, 4, 42
Relation between Practical Training and College Education for Engineers, by Prof. H. Louis, 4, 42
Workshop Training as a Preliminary to Practical Training in other Branches of Engineering, by J. A. Brodie, 4, 43
Workshop Trainingas a Preliminary to Practical Training in other Branches of Engineering, by J. M. Moncrieff, 4, 43
Workshop Training as a Preliminary to Practical Training in other Branches of Engineering, by Prof. J. J. Welch, 4, 44
Meetings, Winter Session: See 763
Presidential Address, by Dr. W. O. Unwin,
643. See 635
Loch Leven Water-Power Works, by A. H. Roberts, 717
Hydro-Electric Plant in the British Aluminium Co.’s Factory at Kinlochleven, by F. B. Sonnenschein, 717
Electric Lighting of Railway Trains ; The Brake-Vehicle Method, by R. T. Smith, 750
Procedure at Meetings, 763
Experiments on the Strength and Fatigue Properties of Welded Joints in Iron and Steel, by T. E. Stanton and J. R. Pannell, 814
Cleveland Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams Cleveland and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 29, 80,105, 131, 167,195, 226, 259, 289, 321, 355, 389, 423, 461, 497, 531, 565, 597, 633, 669, 703, 735, 767, 799, 831, 865
Climate, Classification Diagrams, 385
— Effect of Labrador Current, 385
“ Climax” Underfeed Stoker, 269
Clinker, Refuse-Destructor, Magnetic Separator for, 456
Clocks, Electric, Murday, 872
Clouds, Solar, Anomalous Dispersion by, 415
Clutch, Magnetic, Steering Gear, 311, 334
— Magnetic, “ Vulkan,” Planing-Machine Drives,
Tests, 733, 840
— See also Motor-Car Details in Illustrations
Index
Clyde and Forth Ship Canal, 571
— River, Deepening, 396
— Shipbuilding, Early Work, Barclay, Curie,
and Co., Ltd., 774
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
Coal Consumption, British Warships, 868
— Consumption, Compound and Superheater
Locomotives, P.L.M. Railway, 317 ; Egyptian State Railways, 690
— Consumption, French Destroyers, 31
— Consumption, Garrett’s Superheated ■ Steam
Engines, 344, 366
— Consumption, Locomotives with Feed-Heaters
and Superheaters, 445, 517, 620, 755
_Consumption, Suction-Gas and Steam-Engines, 344, 368, 370, 475
— Consumption, Turbine Vessels, 32
— Consumption. See also Trials, Tests
— Gas, Calorific Value, 496
— Gas Production, 496
— Gas, Simmance-Abady Density Indicator, 872 Coal-Handling Plant, Dunston Power Station, 7 _ Plant, London Hydraulic Power Station, 77
— and Storage, Burnley Gas Works, 493
— See also Transporters
Coal-Mining, Japan, 614
— See also Colliery ; Mmes; Winding
Coal Refuse, Bennis Stokers for, 825
— Supply, Possible Exhaustion, 293
Coast, Sea, Law Relating to, 392
Cobalt-Copper Alloys, Conductivity, 547
Cock, Boiler Gauge-Glasses, Hopkinson’s, 796 Cofferdams, Pier Foundations, Coteau Bridge, 448
Coherers. See Wireless under Electric
Coke-Oven Gas, Power Production, Collieries, 803
Coking Stokers, Smoke-Abatement Exhibition, 675
Cold Drawing Steel and Fatigue, 557
— Saw. See Machine-Tools
Cold-Storage Rooms, Temperature Variation, 830
— Plants, Meat, South American, 828
College, Technical, 2, 39. See Technical College
College Training, 2, 39. See Education
— Use and Equipment of Engineering Labora
tories, 4, 39, 40
Collier, Naval, “ Neptune,” United States ; Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 663
Colliers’ Proposed General Strike, 499
— U.S. Navy, Turbo-Electric Installation, 310,
332 ; Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 663
Collieries, Accidents with Explosives, 427
— Gas-Driven Power Stations, 803. See 876
— Power-Transmission Schemes, 803. See 876
— See also Mine ; Coal; Winding Engine
Colliery Explosions and Earthquakes, 136, 384
Collision. See Accidents
Colloid Theory of Cement, 452
Colloidal Copper, Coagulation of, 452
— Solutions, Theory of, 452
Colonial Engineering Projects. See Engineering
Projects
Colonies, British, Company Laws, 501
Colour Vision Testing Apparatus, 871
Columns. See also Struts
Combined Stress, Failure of Materials in, 644
— Stress Tests, Mild Steel, Liider’s Lines, 81
— Stress, Tests of Steel, 115
— Stress in Thick Cylinders, 786
Commercial Motor Vehicles. See Motor; Wagon ;
Tractor; Traction-Engine
Company Laws, British Colonies, 504
Compass, Gyroscopic, Anschutz, 310
Compensation, Workmen’s. See Legal
Compound Engines. See Engines
— Stress. See Combined Stress
Compounding and Superheating, Locomotives
Trials : P.L.M. Railway, 317; Egyptian State Railways, 690
Compressed-Air Pipes, Inertia Effects, 166
— Starting Gear, Oil-Engines, Fowler’s, 388
— Transmission, Collieries, 803. See 376
— Winding-Engines, Closed Circuit System,
876. See 803
— Work, Physiological Effects, 453
Compressibility of Liquids, 101
“Compressor’ Foundations, Ferro-Concrete
Bridge, 721
Compressor, Air. See Air-Compressor
— Ammonia, Refrigerating, Sulzer’s, 830
Compromise in Engineering Work, 737
Conacher, J., The late, 565
Conciliation, Labour Disputes. See Labour
Concrete Block Work, Olive Bridge Dam, 121
— Building Blocks, 6
— Conduit, Loch Leven Works, 717
— Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
— Piles, “ Compressol,” Ferro-Concrete Bridge, 721
— Plant, Olive Bridge Dam, 120
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— Testing Laboratory, Lehigh University, 205
Condensation, Cylinder, Locomotives, Saturated and Superheated Steam, 341
Condensers, Belfast Technical Institute, 779
— Thyssen-Pfleiderer Rotary Air-Pump, 320
— Tubes, Corrosion of, 393, 409, 436, 472
— Tubes, Corrosion, Experiments, 393
— Tubes, Electrical Effect of Strain, 438
— See also Electric
Condensing Plant, Dunston Power Station, 8
Conduit, Concrete, Loch Leven Works, 717
Conference, Education. See Civil Engineers
Congo, Minerals of Katanga, 570
Congress, Belfast, Royal Sanitary Institute, 174
— International, Applied Chemistry, U.S.
Meeting, 1912, 429
— Navigation, Philadelphia Meeting, 864
— Railway Engineers, Italy, 676
— Trades Union, 323
Constants, Physical and Chemical, Tables, 758
Contact Differences of Potential, Metals, 81
Contract Work, Engineering, Inspection, 169
Contracts, Workmen’s, Damages for Breach, 676
Contractors’ Claims for Extras, 293
Contraflow Condensers. See Condensers
Controllers, Electric Motor. See under Electric
Controlling Gear, Winding Engines, Gott’s, 560;
Westinghouse Electric, 762
Converter, Steel, “Stock” Oil-Fired, 53
Conveyor, Band, Coal, Burnley Gas Works, 495
— Coal and Ash, Dunston Power-Station, 7
— Gravity Bucket, Burnley Gas Works, 491
— See also Elevator
Cook, G.; Strength of Thick Cylinders, 786
Cooler, Water, Domestic, Carr6 Principle, 535
Cooling Curves, Alloys. See Diagrams in Illustrations Index
Cooper-Hewitt Lamps, Fluorescent Reflectors, 873
Copper Alloys, Effects of Arsenic, 295
— Alloys, Effects of Re-Melting, &c., 295
— Alloys, Electrical Conductivity, 546, 547
— Aluminium Alloys, Alternating Stress Tests, 558
— Aluminium-Manganese Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 739
— Antimony Alloys, Electrical Conductivity, 546
— Bismuth Alloys, Electrical Conductivity, 545
— Cobalt Alloys, Electrical Conductivity, 547
— Colloidal, Coagulation of, 452
— Corrosion in Sea-Water, 473
— Electrical Resistance, 775
— Electrolytic, Free from Arsenic, 266
— Hard-Drawn, Properties of, 395, 403
— Nickel Alloys, 394. See 435
— Ore Transport, Katanga, Congo, 570
— Plates, Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 394, 399 ; Specification, 435
— Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
— Stays, Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 394, 400 ; High-
Tcmperature Tests, 400; Specifications, 435
— Steam-Pipe, Failure of Brazed Joint, 407
— Steam-Pipes, 401; Brazing Flanges, 401; Wear, 402
Tin Alloys, Chemical Analysis, 648
Copper-Tin Alloys, Specific Gravity and Hardness. 647
— Tin Alloys, Volume Changes during Cooling.
395, 407, 609, 646
— Tubes, Locomotive Boilers, 402; Specifica
tions, 435, 436. See 394
— Wire, Hard-Drawn, Alternating-Stress Tests,
580, 694
— Wires, Hard-Drawn and Annealed, Electrical
Conductivity, 405
— Zinc Alloys, Corrosion, 393, 409, 436, 472
— Zinc Alloys, Hardening of, 511, 542
— Zinc-Aluminium Alloys, Corrosion of, 475 Cordeau Detonating Fuse for Blasting, 490 Cordite, Pressure and Composition of Gases, 94
— Stability of, 237. See 432, 463. (00
Cores, Foundry, Testing Binding O:ls, 171 Corliss Engine. See Engine
Corrosion, Aluminium Brasses, 475
— of Brass, 393, 409, 436, 472
— Brazed Joint, Copper Steam-Pipe, 407
— of Condenser-Tubes, 393, 409, 436, 472
— Condenser-Tubes, Experiments, 393
— Copper and Muntz Metal in Sea-Water, 473
— Electrolytic, Steel in Ferro-Concrete, 174,
232
— of Metals, Electrolytic Theory, 437
— Steel, Effect of Stress, 556, 613, 696
— Steel, Influence of Carbon, &c., 453 Corrugation, Rails, Midland Railway, 332
— Tramway Rails, 309, 330
Corundum, Composition and Properties, 265
Cossor’s Vacuum-Pump, 838
Cost-Keeping, Engineering Works, 737
Coteau Bridge, St. Lawrence, 448
Coulson, R., on Calculating Ferro-Concrete Floor-Slabs, 857
Counter, Gas-Engines, Revolutions and Explosions, 607
“ County ” Petrol-Air-Gas Plant, 177
County Surveyors, Ireland, Appointment of, 174 Coupling, Shaft, Flexible, Needle Type, 411 Couplings, Screw, Railway, and Tests, 562
Crane, 35-Ton Steam Breakdown, Argentine Railway, 797
— Barry Transporter, 30-Cwt., 386
— Electric; Current-Collector, 504 ; Motor-Con
trollers, 503, 504
— Electric, Ore-Carrying Steamers, 58
— Floating, 120-Ton Steam, Pola Dockyard, 861
— Floating, Salving Submarines, 861
— Ford’s Grab, Wire-Rope Suspension, 777
— Large, Particulars of, 30
— Specifications, 517
— See also Hoists ; Transporters ; Shears ;
Derricks ; Ore-Handling
Crank-Shaft, Cast-Iron, Stresses in, 533
— Stresses in, and Failures, 533
Craster, Captain J. E. E. ; Errors in Chain Surveying, 1
“ Craven,” S.S., Steam-Pipe Explosion, 407
Crawford’s Trip-Gear, Drop-Valves, Steam Engines, 778
Crawford, W. J. ; the Belfast Municipal Technical Institute, 778. See 798
Creosoting Timber, Rttping Process, 328
Crosland, J. F. L. ; Staying End-Plates, Lancashire Boilers, 685
Crossley, Sir W. J., Bait., The late, 492, 525
Crucible Furnaces, Gas, Metal-Melting, Bray-shaw’s, 731
— Furnace, Tilting, Brass-Melting, Output, 402 Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil, and Diesel Cruisers. See Warships
Crushing Plant, Stone, Concrete Making, 120 Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Micro
Photographs in Illustrations Index
Cunard Liner “ Laconia,” 136; Trials of AntiRolling Tanks, 803
Cunningham, F. L.; Experiments on Rotating Beams, 556, 575, 612, 693. See 731, 840
Curtis Marine Steam Turbines, Details, 215
— Turbines for Japanese Battleships, 98
— Turbines, Steam Consumption and Efficiency,
540. See 631
— Turbines, Trials, Japanese Cruiser “ Ibuki,” 97
— Turbines, U.S. Destroyers “Sterrett” and
“ Perkins,” 215. See 785
Curved Plates, Air-Pressure on, 273
Curves, Harmonic, Analysis of, 81
— Plotting, Alternating Stress Tests, 576, 612,
695, 697
— Plotting-, Method of Interpolation, 660, 730 Cutters, Milling. See under Machine-Tools Cycle and Motor-Cycle Exhibition, Olympia, 707
— Motor. See Motor Cycle
Cylinder Casting, Sulzer Steam Engine, 85
— Condensation, Locomotives, Saturated and
Superheated Steam, 341
— Design, Gas-Engines, 104
— Ports, Carbon Deposit, 877
— Thick, Strength of, Effect of Ends on, 788
— Thick, Tests of, 786
Cylindrical Milling Cutters, Helical Teeth, Tests, 789
Dalby, Prof. W. E. ; Uses of Engineering Laboratories, 4, 39
Dam,’ Blackwater, Lcch Leven Plant, 717
— Earth, Ashokan Reservoir, 119
— Olive Bridge, Ashokan Reservoir, 119
— Regulating Roller, Trollhattan, 374
Danish Labour Disputes, 136, 235, 266, 295. See 77, 297
— Torpedo-Boat “ Soridderen ” (Yarrow), 525 Darling, C. R. ; Heat-Insulating Materials, 395 Darlington Forge, Oil-Fired Converter, 53 Darracq Motor-Car Engine, Rotating Valve, 627
“ Dartmouth,” H.M. Cruiser, Steam Trials, 139
Davey, D. C., The late, 564
Day, C. ; Diesel Oil-Engines, 344, 369
De Dion Motor-Car, 629. See 679
De Laval. See Laval
Deakin’s Double-Cutting Tool-Box, Planing-Machines, 818. See 700
Deck Beams and Pillars, Arrangement, 71 Declaration of London and the Navy, 24 Deflocculated Graphite, Manufacture and Uses, 674
Denmark, Insurance Against Strikes, 297. See 266 Depreciation Funds, Municipal Tramways, 500 Derailment. See Accident
D6n Single-Phase Motors, Brown, Boveri, and Co., 46 ; Martigny-Orsteres Railway, 271
Derrick, Puissesseau Cargo, 141 Destroyers. See Warships
Destructor, Refuse, Horsfall Tub-Feed, 667
— Refuse, Magnetic Separator for Clinker, 456 Detectors, Wireless Telegraphy. See Electric Detonating Fuse, Cordeau, for Blasting, 490 Detritus, Mining, Pollution of Rivers by, 2S0 Detroit River, Traffic on, 62
— River, Train Ferry Steamers, 64
Development Commission Report, 327 Diaphragm Gauges, Testing-Machines, 224 Dickie, G. W. ; Combined Reciprocating Engines and Turbines for Steamships, 747
Dieppe-Newhaven Steamer “Newhaven,” 642 Diesel Engine, 160-H.-P. Four-Cycle and Dynamo (Mirrlees, Bickerton, and Day), 456
— Engine, 600-H.-P. Tosi, 234 ; 2400-H.-P. Two-
Cycle, Sulzer, 85 ; 1200-H.-P., 234
— Engine Building ; Sulzer’s Works, 85—see 159 ;
Swiss Locomotive Works, 89
— Engines, Compared with Gas and Steam, 344,
367, 369, 478
— Engines, Design and Construction, 138, 148
— Engines and Electric Generators, Cost, 74
— Engines for Electric Power Stations, 74
— Engines, Efficiency and Working Costs, 149
— Engines, Fuels for, 139, 149
— Engines for Industrial Purposes, 344, 369
— Engines, Marine, Fuel Consumption, 677
— Engines,’ Marine, Mayor’s Electric Trans
mission, 310, 332
— Engines for Marine Propulsion, 138, 149, 332,
346, 471, 571, 677, 709, 869
— Engines, Niirnberg Two-Cycle Marine, 346, 471
— Engines and Steam-Engines in Destroyers,
Comparisons, 709
— Engines, Turin Exhibition, 234, 250
— Engines, Two-Stroke Cycle, Design, 588
— Engine. See also Oil-Engines
Differential Gears, Motor-Cars. See Motor-Car Details in Illustrations Index
Diffusion, Salts in Liquids, 810
Digby, W. P. ; Human Susceptibility to Vibration, 312, 333
Directories. See Literature Index
Dirigible Balloons. See Aeroplanes and Airships Disc-Grinding Machine. See Machine-Tools
— Steam-Turbine, Tesla, Efficiency, 637 Distillation of Waste Wood, 136
Dittmar’s Wheatstone Bridge, 871 Diving, Physiological Effects, 453 Dixon-Harroway Wing-Tank Steamers, 72 Dixon, James S., LL.D., The late, 103
Dixon, Prof. S. M.; University Degrees for Engineers, 3, 39
“Djinn” Marine Oil-Engine, 194
Dock Accommodation and Size of Ships, 718
— Construction Schemes in Parliament, 741
— Floating, Timber Pontoons, Prince Rupert
Harbour, Canada, 812
— London, New, 741
— Ore-Handling Appliances, Great Lakes, 63
— See also Harbours, Ports
Dockyards, Naval, Japanese, 15, 110
— Naval, Pola, Floating Crane, 861
— Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 812 Donnelly, W. T. ; the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Marine Terminal, Prince Rupert, 810
Dough-Mixing and Kneading-Machines, 362, 563 Doxford’s Turret Steamers, 72
Drainage, Land, Pumping Plant, Ferrara, 296
— Schemes in Parliament, 741
Draught, Forced, Marine Boilers, 19 Draw-Gear, Locomotive, Design, 392 Dreadnought Battleships. See Warships Dredging River Clyde, 396
— River Thames, 741
Drift and Lift, Airships in Side Winds, 206
— and Lift, Cambered Plates, 273 Drilling-Machine. See Machine-Tools
— Tests, Cast Steel, 54
— Valves. See Valves
Dry Dock. See Dock
Dryness Fraction, Steam, Locomotives, 214
Duckham-Woodall Gas-Retorts, Burnley, 493 ;
Lausanne, 495
Duddell Oscillograph, High Tension, 837 Dummy Leakage, Steam-Turbines, 308, 369 Dunston Power-Station, Newcastle Electric
Supply, 7
“Duralumin,” Electrical Conductivity, 312
Dust-Extracting Plant, Sulzer’s Foundries and Fettling Shops, 84
Dynamic Isomerism, B.A. Report, 451 Dynamometer Absorption. See also Brake
— Hydraulic Transmission, Recording, 129. See
139
— Torsion, Electric Indicating and Recording,
715
— Transmission, Torsion Type, 128. See 139
— See also Torsion-Meter
Dynamos. See Generators under Electric
Earth and Ether, Relative Motion, 419
— Heat Radiation from, 385
— Movements, Effects of Sea, 135, 384
Earthquakes and Colliery Explosions, 136, 384
— Effects on Bridge Piers, 263
— Frequency of, 384
— Investigations, B.A. Committee Report, 384
— Prediction of, 135
— Rainfall, and Sun-Spot Cycles, Jamaica, 384
— See also Seismograph
Eclipse, Solar, 1911, 383
Economics, Science and Sociology, 425
Eden, E. M., Experiments on Rotating Beams, 556, 575, 612, 693. See 731, 840
Edinger Drawing and Projecting Apparatus, Microscopes, 871
Edison’s Storage Battery, 535
Education, Belfast Municipal Technical Institute, 778. See 798
— Bradford Technical College, Enlargement,
603
— British Naval Officers, 358, 640
— College, Uses and Equipment of Engineering
Laboratories, 4, 39, 40
— Engineering, Value of Degrees, 3, 23, 39
— Engineers, Conference on; See Civil Engi
neers
Education, Engineers, Fritz Laboratory, Lehigh University, 204
— Engineers, Methods of Teaching, 161
— French Naval Officers, 501
— Japanese, Annual Report, 610
— Mining Engineers, South Africa, 201
— Naval Architects, Historical, 60
— Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,
Charlottenberg, 48, 54
— Naval Engineer Officers’, 358, 640
— Railway Engineers, 676
— Repayment for Scholarships, 292
— School of Forestry, 431
— Technical. See also Technical College
— Workshop and College Training, Engineering
Apprentices, 2, 4, 23, 41, 42, 43, 44, 644, 741, 781. See 79,104
Edwards, C. A.; the Nature of Solid Solutions, 408, 680. See 544
Efficiency Ratios, Steam Turbines, 851
Egyptian Irrigation, Treatise on, 522
— State Railways, Feed-Heating and Super
heating, 213, 275, 341, 445, 517, 617, 690, 753 See Errata, 321, 798. Trials of Compounding and Superheating, 690
Eiffel’s Experiments on Falling Plates, 255
Elastic Failure of Steel, Alternating Stress, Form of Fracture, 248
•- Failure of Steel, Shear-Stress Theory, 115, 246
— Hysteresis, Alternating Stress, 306, 695, 696
— Limit, Steel, Raising by Strain, 305, 556, 559,
644, 694
— Limit and Working Stresses, 635, 644
— Properties, Cast-Iron, 695
Elasticity, Theory of, 643
Elbe River, Salts in, 134
Electric:
Accidents to Electrical Machinery, 534 Accumulators, Self-Regulating Gear, 538 — Charging, Mercury-Vapour Rectifiers, 743 — Edison’s, 535
Alloys, Conductivity and Constitution, 394, 544
Alternating Current, Mercury-Vapour Rectifiers, 743
— Magnetic Field, Physiological Effects, 782 Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Ammeter, Frisby’s Mechanical, Cables, 503 Ampere Balance, U.S. Bureau of Standards, 418
Anode Rays and Solar Prominences, 743
Apparatus, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 837, 870
Arc Furnaces, Fixation of Nitrogen, 346
— Furnace, Steel-Melting, Hdroult, 328
— Lamps, Mercury - Vapour, Fluorescent Reflectors, 873; Distillation of Mercury, 199
— and Resistance Steel Furnace, “ Para
gon,” 468
— and Resistance Steel-Melting Furnaces,
Comparisons, 362
— Spectra, Infra-Red, Metals, 417
— Welding, Kjellberg Process, 712
Battery, Storage, Edison’s, 535
Birkeland-Eyde Furnace, Nitrate Manufacture, 346
Brown, Boveri, and Co.’s Works, 45
Cable, Energy Losses, High-Frequency Currents, 743
— Junction-Box Compounds, Insulation Tests, 743
— Magnetic Ammeter for, 503
— Mining, Cab-Tyre Sheathed, 150
— Protective Device, Giles’s Valve, 536 Capacities, Energy Losses in, 743
— Effects, Self-Induction Standards, 743 Carbon Disc Motor-Starting Resistances, 456 Cascade Induction-Motors, 173
Catenary Overhead Construction, Midi Railway, France, 858
Cathode Rays, Corpuscular, Nature, 418
— Ray Experiments, Reichsanstalt, 743
Cell, Weston Standard, E.M.F., 743 Chronographs, Recording, 607, 610, 837 Clocks, Murday, 872
Condensers, Energy Losses in 743
Condensers, Moscicki, Lightning Protection, Overhead Lines, 536
Condenser-Tube Corrosion, Effects of Stray Currents, 409, 473
Conductivity, Aluminium Alloys, 312
— and Constitution of Alloys, 394, 544
— Hard and Annealed Copper Wires, 405 Contact Differences of Potential Metals, 81 Controllers for Crane-Motors, 503, 504
— Motor, Breakdowns, 534
— Motor, Face-Plate Type, 504, 762
— Motor, Oil-Immersed, 504
— Push-Button, for Lifts, 537
Copper, Electrolytic, Free from Arsenic, 266
— Resistance of, 775
— Wire, Hard-Drawn, Alternating - Stress Tests, 580, 694
— Wires, Hard-Drawn and Annealed, Conductivity, 405
Corrosion, Steel in Ferro-Concrete, 174, 232
— of Metals, Electrolytic Theory, 437
Cranes, Current-Collector, 504; Motor-Controllers, 503, 504
Current, Absolute Measurement, U.S. Bureau of Standards, 418
— Collector for Cranes, 504
D6ri Single-Phase Motors, Brown, Boveri, and Co., 46; Martigny-Orsteres Railway, 271
Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, 251 Dielectrics, Energy Losses in, 743
Discharge in Gases, After-Glow, 646, 837 Duddell Oscillograph, High-Tension, 837 Dynamo. See Generator
Dynamometers, Torsion, Indicating and Recording, 715
Edison’s Storage Battery, 535
Electrical Engineers, Institution of, New Articles of Association, 632
Electrodes, Spherical, Unequal, Stress between, 810
Electrometer, Radium, Perpetual Motion, 873 — Recording, Meteorological, 837
Field Regulator, Automatic, Generators, 538
Electric—continued.
Fly-Wheel Motor-Generator Set, Rolling-Mill Drive, 410
Furnaces, Arc, Fixation of Nitrogen, 346
— Case-Hardening under Pressure, 681
— Induction, Steel, Pinch Effect, 325
— Steel-Melting, Arc and Resistance, Comparisons, 362
— Steel-Melting, 15-Ton Hdroult, 328
— Steel-Melting Induction, Pinch Effect, 825
— Steel-Melting, Number and Output, 4o3
— Steel-Melting, “ Paragon ” 468
Fuses, Reyrolle, Porcelain-Handle Type, 4«z
— Silver Wire, Ageing of, 775
Galvanising, Marino Process, 806
Galvanometer, Sensitive Astatic, Paschen, 83/ — Pyrometer, Temperature Compensation,
Generating Plants, Self-Regulating, Lister s, 5, 422; Walker, Horrocks, 538
Generator, 1600-K.V.A. Three-Phase Gas-Driven, Skinningrove Iron Works, 410
— 10,000-Volt Three-Phase, Trollhattan, 376
— Alternating-Current, and Thyssen Gas-Engines, 130. See Errata, 174
— Automatic Field-Regulator, 538
— D.-C.,VariableVoltage,Siemens-Ilgner,4H
— Homopolar, Turbine - Drive, Barbour’s, 318. See 265
— and Hydraulic Turbines, Oerlikon, 153
— Magnetic-Flux Meter, 838
— Motor-Car Lighting, 629, 678
— and Motor Construction, Brown, Boveri’s
Works, 45 ; Oerlikon Works, 153
— and Pelton Wheels, Necaxa Power Plant,
237,240; Rio de Janiero, 242; Brusio, 253
— Three-Phase, 150-Pole Rotor, 153
— and Two-Cycle Petrol-Engines, 539
— Unipolar, Mercury Contacts, 265. See 318 Giles’s Valves ; Protection of Cables, 536 Heaters, Ferranti, 456
High-Frequency Currents; Energy Losses in Cables, 743 ; Resistance of Wires, 743 Hoist, Baggage, 2-Ton, for Steamers, 456 Homopolar Dynamo, Barbour’s, 318. See 265 Hydro-Electric Power Plants; Albula Works, Zurich, Schaffhausen and Neuhausen Aluminium Works, 153; Aluminium Manufacture, Kinlochleven, 717; Escher Wyss Works, 88; Rheinfelden, 137; Trollhattan, 374 ; Japanese, 469, 614; Gullspang, Sweden, 819
— Power Plants, Costs, 158
— Power Plants, High-Pressure, 158, 239, 252 ; Necaxa, 237, 239 ; Rio de Janeiro, 241; Tyssedalen, 252 ; Brusio, 252 ; Siagne, 253
— or Steam-Power Station, Nitrate Manu
facture, 347
Hydrogen Plant, Army Aircraft Factory, 583 Ilgner System, Rolling-Mill Drive, 410 Induction Furnaces, Steel-Melting, Pinch Effect, 325
— Motors. See Motors
Insulation Testing Instruments, 871
— Tests, Junction-Box Compounds, 743
Insulator, Overhead Construction, Midi Railway, 858
Isolating Switches, Dunston Power Station, 9 Lamps, Carbon and Metal Filament, Lighting Efficiency, 466
— Incandescent, Luminous Glow in, 235
— Mercury Vapour; Distillation of Mercury, 199 ; Fluorescent Reflectors, 873
— Tungsten Wire Filament, Manufacture, 233 Lifts, Push-Button Controller, 537
Lighting Equipments, Motor-Cars, 629, 678
— Neon Vacuum-Tubes, 807
— Plant, Self-Regulating: Lister’s, 5, 422 ;
Walker, Horrocks, and Co., Ltd., 538
— Schemes in Parliament, 740
Lightning Protection, Overhead Lines, Mos-ciciki Condensers, 536
Locomotives, Single ■ Phase ; Lotschberg Tunnel Railway, 154, 285; Seebach-Wettingen Railway, 189
— Swiss Mountain Railways, 144
— Three-Phase ; Burgdorf - Thun Railway, 123 ; Simplon Tunnel, 125
— Towing, Panama Canal, 632
Magnetic Clutch, Ships’ Steering Gear, 311,
— Field, Alternating, Physiological Effects, 782
— Flux Meter, 838
— Holder-On, Portable Drill, 503
— Permeability Measuring Instrument, 418
— Properties, Iron Plates, Effect of Heat
Treatment, 775
— Separators, Vibratory and Rotary, 456
— Testing-Machine, Alternating Stress, 696
— Tests, Reichsanstalt, 775
Magnetos, Ignition, Bosch Watertight, 678
Megohm Meter, 871
Mercury Vapour Lamps, Distillation of Mercury, 199 ; Fluorescent Reflectors, 873
— Vapour Rectifiers, 743
Metals, Contact Differences of Potential, 81
— Effect of Strain, 438
Metal Filament Lamps ; Lighting Efficiency
466 ; Tungsten Wire, Manufacture, 233 Meter, Megohm, 871
Moscicki Condensers, Lightning Protection Overhead Lines, 536
Motor Breakdowns, 534
— Cars, Electrical Equipment, 629
— Cases, Machine Moulding, 280
— Controllers. See Controllers
— D.-C., Mine-Winding Plant, 761
— D.-C., Pipe Ventilated, 503
D.-C., 12,000-H.-P. Rolling-Mill, 410
— Generator Set, 650-Kw., Winding Gear, 761
— Generator Set, Ilgner Rolling-Mill 410
— Generators (Oerlikon Co.), 153
— Induction, Cascade System, 173
— Induction, with Centrifugal Starter, 420
— Induction, Slip-Regulator, 412
-— Single Phase, D^ri : Brown, Boveri, and Go., 46 ; Martigny-Orsteres Railway, 271 Single-Phase, Lotschberg Tunnel Locomotive, 285
— Single-Phase Repulsion, 312
Electric—continued.
Motor Starters. See Starters , Rn7 Neon Vacuum Tubes, Lighting by ,80/ Nitrogen, Atmospheric Fixation oL 346 — Discharge in, After-Glow, 83/. see oso Oil Switch. SeeSmtcA
Olympia Exhibition, 419, 453, 502, 53 d. bee
318, 589 . , m • OQ7
Oscillograph, Duddell, High-Tension, 83/ — Work, Wireless Telegraphy, 33a Overhead Construction, Single-1 base, Midi - ContacTwhC Alternating Stress Tests,
580, 694 ; Properties of, 39o, 403, 4Ud Oxides, Metallic, Properties of, 473 Ozone, Discharge in, After-Glow, 646. See 837 — Generating Apparatus, 536
Paschen Galvanometer and Thermopile, 83/ Pauling Furnace, Nitrate Manufacture, 34/ Photometric Tests, Carbon and Metal fila
ment Lamps, 466
Photometry, Effect of Atmosphere, Standard Lamps, 199
— Reichsanstalt, 775
Pipe Ventilated Motor, Direct-Current, u03 Planing Machine Drive (Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co., Ltd.), 456. See 702, 840
— Machine Drives, 456, 702, 733, 817, 810 Plating China, &c., Marino Process, 806 Polarisation Effects, Corrosion of Metals, 4/4 Positive Rays, Reichsanstalt Experiments,/43 Potential Difference, Contact of Metals, 81 Potentiometer, Sensitive, Measurement of
Effect of Strain on Metals, 438
— Slide, Paul’s, 871
Power Costs, Steam, Gas, and Diesel Engines, 344, 369, 476
— Schemes in Parliament, 740
— Station, Dunston, Newcastle, 7
— Station, Gas-Driven, Swiss Locomotive
and Engineering Works, 90
— Stations, Gas and Oil-Engines for, 74, 803.
See 876
— Stations; Sulzer’s Works, 84 ; Escher
Wyss and Co., 88
— Station, Turin Exhibition, 234
— Station. See also Hydro-Electric
— Transmission Lines and Protective De
vices, Trollhattan, 376
Protective Devices, Overhead Lines and Cables, Moscicki Condensers and Giles’s Valves, 536
Pump, Self-Starting, 422
Push-Button Controller for Lifts, 537
Pyrometers, Compensating Thermo-Couples, 134
— Platinum, Comparison with Gas Thermo
meters, 742
— Radiation, Foster Fixed-Focus, 870
— Radiation, Whipple-Fdry, 135, 837
— Reichsanstalt Tests, 775
Radiators, Ferranti, 456
Railless Road Traction, 100, 740
Railway, Bern-Lotschberg-Simplou, SinglePhase, 154, 285
— Bessbrook and Newry, 138
— Burgdorf-Thun, Three-Phase, 122
— Engadin-RhatischeBahn,Single-Phase,285
— Fribourg-Murten-Ins, 124
— L B. and S.C. Electrification Results, 231
— Martigny-Orsieres, Single-Phase, 270
— Midi, France, Single-Phase, Overhead
Construction, 857
— Norwegian, Electrification, 200
— Porte Deciino and Busalla, Italy, Three-
Phase Traction, 676
— Seebach-Wettingen, Single-Phase, 189
— Seethalbahn, Single-Phase, 269
— St. Gothard, Proposed Electrification, 286
— Swiss, Costs of Construction and Work
ing, 127, 271
— Swiss, Electric Traction on, 121, 137, 144,
189, 269, 285
— Working, Swiss Committee on, 286
Recorder, Revolution and Explosion, Gas-Engines, 607
Rectifiers, Mercury Vapour, 743
Reichsanstalt Research Work, 743, 775
Repulsion Motor, Single-Phase, 312
Resistance, Aluminium Alloys, 312
— Carbon-Disc, Motor-Starters, 456
— and Constitution, Alloys, 394, 544
— of Copper, 775
— Hard-Drawn and Annealed Copper Wires.
405
— Insulation, Junction-Box Compounds, 743
— Metallic Oxides, &c., 474
— of Molten Steel, 362
— Standard, without Capacity, 743
— Standards, Constancy of, 775
— Testing Instruments, 871
— Theatre Dimming, 456
— Wires, High-Frequency, Currents, 743
Rolling-Mill Plant, Skinningrove Works, 410
Rbntgen Ray Apparatus, Physical Society’s
Exhibition, 872 J
— Rays, Corpuscular Nature, 418
Rays, Fluorescence of Elements in, 646
— Rays, Secondary Radiations, 646
— Rays, Velocity of, 200
— Society, Presidential Address by A. A
Campbell Swinton, 671. See 711,731, 763
gchonherr Furnace, Nitrate Making, 347
1 eduction Standards, Capacity Effects,
Series-Parallel Switch, Siemens-Ilgner Motor-Generator Set, 412
Shock, Danger from, 873
Slgn Treble, 420Wa5’ MerCUry C°ntact
Single-PhaseLocomotives : Bern-Lbtschberg S>mpl°n Railway, 154, 285; Seebach-Wettingen Railway, 189
— Motors. See Motors
— Railway, Seebach Wettingen, 189 ; Bern-
Lotschberg Simplon, 154, 285; Engadin-Rhatische Bahn, 285; Martigny-Orsibres, 2/0, Seethalbahn, 269
— Traction, Midi Railway, France, Overhead
Construction, 857
— Traction, St. Gothard Railway, 286
Slip-Regulator, Induction Motor, 412
Elee I r if—continued.
Spark-Gaps, Air-Quenched, Wireless Telegraphy, 336
Sparking Potentials. Unequal Spheres, 810
Speed-Indicator, Evershed’s Electro-Magnetic, 870 , .
Standards, Report of B.A. Commission, 418 Starter, Centrifugal, Three-Phase Motor, 420 — Motor, Automatic, “ Jgranic,” 456
— Motor, Breakdowns, 534
— Motor, Carbon Disc Resistances, 456
— Motor, with Ratchet Slow Motion, 456
— Push-Button, Lift Motors, 537 Steering Gear, Ships’, Haigh s, 311, 333 Stress Between Unequal Spheres, 810
Surging in Cables, Giles’s Valve, Protective Device, 536
Switches, Isolating, Dunston Station, 9
— Motor Starting, Breakdowns, 534
— Oil, Dunston Power Station, 9
— Series-Parallel, Motor Generator Set, 412 Switchboard, 5000-Volt Semi-Portable, 456
— Automatic, Battery Regulating, 538
— Belfast Technical Institute, 779
— Electric Rolling-Mill Plant, 413
— Mine Winding Plant, 762
Switch-Gear, 20,000-Volt Ironclad, 422
_ High-Tension, Dunston Power Station, 8
— Trollhiittan Power Plant, 376
Tachometer, Lunken Magnetic, 538
Telegraph Poles, Ferro-Concrete, Tests, 529
Telegraphy. See also Wireless Theatre Dimmers “ Igranic,” 456 Thermo-Couples, Compensating Devices, 134
— Base Metal, Hoskins, 870
— Reichsanstalt, Tests, 775
Thermopile, Paschen, 837
Three-Phase Locomotives and Motor-Carriage, Burgdorf-Thun Railway, 123
— Locomotives, Simplon Tunnel, 125
— Motor with Centrifugal Starter, 420
— Motor, Slip-Regulator, 412
— Railway, Porte Decimo and Busalla, 676
Torsion-Meter, Johnson’s Direct-Reading, Potentiometer Type, 605
Traction, Road, Railless, 100, 740
Train-Lighting, Brake-Vehicle System, 750 Tramcars, Testing Magnetic Brakes, 775 Tramways, London, Statistics, 770 — Municipal, Drepreciation Funds, 500 — Schemes in Parliament, 740
Transformer Construction, Brown Boveri’s Works, 47
— Oils, Insulation Tests, 743
— Trollhattan Power Plant, 376
Transmission Gear, Mayor's, Ship Propulsion, 310, 332
Treadle, Mercury-Contact, Railway Signalling, 420
Trolley Wire, Alternating-Stress Tests, 580, 69I; Properties of, 395, 403, 405
Turbo-Alternators, A.E.G., and Brown Boveri, Dunston Power Station, 8
Turbo-Generator, Oerlikon, 10,000-H.-P. Three-Phase, 153 ; Alternating-Current, 3000-Kw.. Trials, 530
— Generator Construction, Brown Boveri's Works, 45
— Generators, Costs, 534
— Generator, D.-C., De Laval Geared, 524 Unipolar Dynamo, Mercun Contacts, 265.
See also 318
Vacuum Cleaner, “ Vortex ” Domestic, 419
— Tubes, After-Glow, ccc., 646, 837
— Tubes, Neon, Lighting by, 807
Valves, Giles's, Protection of Cables, 536
Voltage Regulation, Turbo-Alternators, 8
— Regulator, Automatic, for Generators. 538
Ward-Leonard Controller, Motor-Generator Set, 762
Water-Electrolyse™, Hjdrogen Plant, 583
Welding, K jell berg Arc Process. 712
— Screw-Propeller Repair, 712
Welds, Tensile and Fatigue Tests, 814
Weston Normal Cell, E.M.F., 743
Wheatstone Bridge, Dittmar’e, 871
Winch, 3-Ton, Cargo, 538
Winding Engines, Emergency Controller, 762
— Gear, West Rand Gold Mines, 760 Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, Marconi’s,
— Telegraphy, Air-Quenched Spark-Gaps,336
— Telegraphy, Developments, 316, 835
Telegraphy, Horizontal Antennae, Kiebitz System, 834
— Telegraphy, Marconi Military Sets, 316
— Telegraphy, Oscillograms, 335
telegraphy, Singing-Spark System, 872
Telegraphy, Telefunken System. 316, 335
— Telegraphy, Wave Decrement Meter, 871
wlre?' CoPPer» Conductivity, 405
p, Works, Brown Boveri, 45; Oerlikon, 153
Electrical Engineers, Institution of, New Articles of Association, €32
pch‘na, . Marino Process, 806
Electrodes, Spherical, Stress Between, 810
Electrolytic Copper, Free from Arsenic, 266
steel Corrosion, Ferro-Concrete, 174, 232
— Theory, Corrosion of Metals, 437
Eleotrometer, Perpetual Motion. Radium, 878
Recording, Meteorological, 887
Electrons, Relative Motions, 419
Elements, Calculation of Atomic Weights, 417
— Nature and Classification, 292
Spectra and Atomic Weights 417
— Structure of Atoms, 417
— Transmutations of, 292
Elevator, Coal, Burnley Gas Works, 495
FiiiTST tE°i H01*1* • Conoeyorx; Lifts
Railway Wheel
wcc uo /, ( o 1
Elli8,6?.'lU.: S™1M ,Or Ship’’ 1860 U 1910'
En1e'rvkr?rkf,,1^I>id Oun-MounUng, 174
p P' Composition and Properties, 265 ovees See atso Work,£n '
Employers’ Liabibtv. See Legal
Encastre Beams, Calculation of, 156
Enenrvnp'S** ^ruating Streee
p"®r5' • * Sources, 293
EtiKhies Baht'‘£-’he Electric Traction, 285
glne9 Balancing, Routing Cylinder Type, 360
Ill I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
Engine, Gas, 14-H.-P., and Portable Producer, 5
— Gas, 20-H.-P. Experimental, “ National,” 780
— Gas, 90-H.-P. (Davey, Paxman, and Co.,
Ltd.), 5. See Erratum, 92
— Gas, 1350-H.-P. Ehrhardt and Sehmer (Gallo
ways, Ltd.), 104
— Gas, Breakdowns, 533
— Gas, Colliery Power Plants, 803. See 876
— Gas, Construction, Swiss Locomotive and
Engineering Works, 89
— Gas, Cylinder Design, 104
— Gas, Diesel. See Diesel Engines
— Gas (Ehrhardt and Sehmer), and Alternator,
Skinningrove Iron Works, 410
— Gas, Four-Cycle, Double-Acting, Thyssen, and Alternators, 130. See Errata, 174
Gas, Gas and Air Valve, 283
Gas, Marine, Propulsion, 677
Gas and Oil, for Elecric Stations, 74, 803. See 876
Gas, Power Rating, 344, 345
Gas, Revolution and Explosion Counter, 607
Gas, R.A.S. Show, 5. See Erratum, 92
Gas, Smithfield Show, 772
Gas, Superheated-Steam, and Diesel; Comparisons, 344, 367, 369, 478
Gas, Throttle Governing, 772
Gas, Turin Exhibition, 250, 296
Gas, Two-Stroke Cycle, Design, 585, 623
Gas. See also Pump, Gas
Governors, Hartnell, 538
Locomotive. See Locomotives
Motor-Car, Possible Fuels, 513
Oil, 70-H.-P., Diesel Type (Korting), 251
Oil, Breakdowns, 533
Oil, Diesel. See Diesel Engine
Oil and Dynamo, Self-Regulating, Lister’s,
5, 422 ; Walker, Horrocks, 538
Oil, 4-Cylinder, Vis-i-Vis, Fowler Tractor, 387
Oil, Fowler’s Compressed- Air Starter, 388
Oil, Humphrey, 250, 295, 570, 596, 631
Oil, Junk, rs’, Two-Cycle Marine, 698
Oil, Marine, Thornycroft, 70 H.-P., 470
Oil, Marine, Bolinder Two-Cycle. 346, 471
Oil, Marine, “Djinn,” Six-Cylinder Motor-Boat, 194
— Oil, Marine, Combined with Turbine, Des
troyer, 102. See 869
— Oil, Marine, Crude, for Ship Propulsion, 346,471
— Oil, Marine, Diesel. See Diesel Engine
— Oil, Marine, Junkers’, 1000-H.-P., 698
— Oil, Marine (Kind), Reversible, 250
— Oil, Marine, Mavor’s Electric Transmission,
310, 332
— Oil, Marine (Nurnberg), 300-H.-P., 251
— Oil, for Marine Propulsion, 102, 138, 149, 332,
346, 471, 571, 677, 698, 709, 869
— Oil, Petters’, Two-Cycle, 5
— Oil, Ploughing. See also Tractors
— Oil, R.A.S. Show, 5
— Oil, Smithfield Show, 772. See Erratum, 860
— Oil and Steam, Destroyers, Comparisons, 709
— Oil, Turin Exhibition, 234, 250, 296
— Oil, Two-Stroke Cycle, Design, 585, 623
— Oil, on Warships, 21
— Petrol, Wolseley, 34-H.-P. Motor Lifeboats, 12
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeroplanes and Air
ships
— Petrol, Agricultural, Smithfield Show, 772
— Petrol, and Centrifugal Pump (Holden and
Brooke, Ltd.), 6
— Petrol and Dynamo Self-Regulating, Lister’s,
5, 422 ; Walker, Horrocks, 538
— Petrol, Lubrication of, 613, 626
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Bosch Magnetos, 678
— Petrol, Motor-Car,Carburettor Adjustment,512
— Petrol, Motor-Oar, Carburettors: Lanchester
Wick-Feed, 627 ; Stewart, 678 ; Ware, 732
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Chain-Driven, Cam-Shaft,
527
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Darracq Rotating-Valve, 627
— Petrol, Motor-Car Design, 512, 626, 679, 802
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Electrical Starting Gear,629
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Horse-Power Rating, 802
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Sleeve-Valve, Argylls, 590
— Petrol, Motor-Cycle, with Two-Speed Gear
(Veloce, Ltd.), 709
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Wolseley, 527
— Petrol, Motor-Car, Wolseley Silencer, 530
— Petrol, Rotating Cylinder, Balancing, 360
— Petrol, R.A.S. Show, 5
— Petrol, Turin Exhibition, 250, 296
— Petrol, Two-Cycle and Dynamo, 539
— Petrol, Two-Stroke Cycle, Design, 585, 623
— Petrol. See also Motor-Cars; Mot or Launches;
Aeroplanes and Airships
— Rotary Aeroplane, Gyroscopic Effect, 313
— Semi-Portable, Garrett’s Superheated Steam,
344, 361
— Steam, 60-H.-P. Cross-Compound, Experi
mental, Drop-Valves, 778
— Steam, and Air-Compressor (Murray, Work
man and Co.), 166
— Steam, Boiler Insurance Companies’ Specifi
cations, 763, 793
— Steam, Breakdowns, 533
— Steam, Carbon in Cylinder Ports, 877
Steam, Cross-Compound and Air-Compressor (Robey), 220
Steam, Drop-Valve, Crawford’s Trip-Gear, 778
— Steam, Economy of Moderate Superheat, 213.
See also Egyptian State Railways
- Steam, Marine, Costs in Japan, 98
- Steam, Marine, Forced Lubrication of, 19
- Steam, Marine, Inclined, Paddle Steamer, 87
- Steam, Marine, Japanese Navy, 96
- Steam, Marine, for Laboratory Tests, 4, 39, 40
- Steam, Marine, Naval, Fifty Years’ Changes, 18
- Steam, Marine, Steam Pressure and Economy,
- Steam, Marine, Triple-Expansion, Canadian
Steamer “ Princess Alice,” 765
- Steam, Marine, with Turbines, 26, 31, 36, 747
- Steam, Marine, Vibrations of Steamers, 301
- Steam, Marine, Weight, Power, and Cost, 19
- Steam, Marine. See Steamers; Turbines; War
ships; Engine. Oil; Marine Propulsion
- Steam and Oil. in Destroyers, 709
- Steam, Ploughing. See also Tractors
- Steam, Triple-Expansion, and Ammonia Com
pressor, Sulzer, 830
- Steam, Turin Exhibition, 234, 250, 296
Engines, Suction, Gas, and Producers, Capital and Working Costs, 314, 475
— Superheated Steam, Garrett’s Compound
Overtype, 344, 364 ; Trials, 366
— Superheated Steam, Gas, and Diesel, Com
parisons, 344, 367, 369, 478
— Superheated Steam, Ploughing, Fowler’s, 772
— Traction See Tractor
— Winding, 5500-H.-P., Corliss (Sandycroft), 560
— Winding, Compressed Air, Closed-Circuit
System, S76. See 803
| — Winding, Controlling Gear, Gott’s, 560 ; Westinghouse Electric, 762
— Winding, Electric, West Band Gold-Mines, 760
I Engineers and Contractors’ Claims, 293
| — Education. See Civil Engineers' Conference; Technical College; Education; Apprenticeship
— Education, Methods of Teaching, 161
— Institutions of. See Civil Engineers ; Mecha
nical Engineers; Electrical Engineers; Naval Architects; Iron and Steel Institute ; Physical Society; British Association ; Metals, Institute of
— Marine, American Society of, 718, 747, 810
— Naval, Japanese, 98
— Naval, Officers and Men, 21, 26
— Officers, Territorial Army, 264. See S98
— Railway, Education, 676
— Railway, International Congress, Italy, 676
— Value of University Degrees to, 3, 23, 39
— Warrant, Royal Naval Reserve, 795
Engineering Apprentices, Workshop and College Training, 2, 4, 23, 41, 42, 43, 44, 644, 741, 781. See Letters, 79, 104
— and Art, Relative Values, 671. See 711, 731, 763
— Education. See also Technical College; Edu
cation ; Apprenticeship; Civil Engineers
— Electrical, Dictionary of (Review), 251
— Exhibits, Turin Exhibition, 192, 231, 250, 258,
296, 317, 525, 593. Sec Erratum, 363
— Laboratories, Belfast Technical Institute, 778.
See 798
— Laboratory, Lehigh University, 204
— Laboratories, Use and Equipment, 4, 39, 40
— Marine, British Naval, Historical, 18, 26
— Marine, Education, Charlottenberg, 48, 54
— Marine, Japanese Development, 109. See 47
— Marine, Naval Japanese, Progress, 48, 95
— Marine, Progress of, 13, 58. See 25
— Materials, Micrographic Examination of
Failures, 748
— Projects, Foreign and Colonial, 44, 81, 112,
150, 178, 211, 239, 272, 288, 338, 371, 405, 441, 479, 514, 547, 581, 608, 629, 685, 718, 745, 781, 810, 843, 877
— Schemes in Parliament, 739
— Trades, Wages in, 294
— Work, Compromise in, 737
— Work, Extras on Contracts, 293
— Work, Technical and Commercial Considera
tions, 737
— Works. See Works
Engleberg-Stansstad Railway, Locomotive, 145
“ Enox ” Hack-Saw Blades, Tests, 746
Enzymes, Functions in Plants and Animals, 452 Equilibrium Diagrams, Alloys. See Diagrams in Illustration Index
Erhardt and Sehmer Gas-Engine (Galloways, Ltd.), 104 See 410
Erosion, Gun, with Various Charges, 95
Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works, 86. See 160
Ether, Compressibility of, 102
— and Earth, Relative Motion, 419
Eustice, Prof. J.; Counter and Recorder, Gas-Engine Experiments 607
Evershed Electro-Magnetic Speed-Indicator, 870 Exhaust-Silencer, Wolseley Motor-Car, 530 Exhaust-Steam Turbine. See Turbine Exhibition, Apparatus, Physical Society, 837, 870
— Bakers’ and Confectioners’, 362, 563
— Brewers’, Agricultural Hall, 534
— Cycle and Motor Cycle, Olympia, 707
— Electrical, 419, 453, 502, 535. See 318, 589
— “Model Engineer,” £38
— Motor-Car, Olympia, 527, 590, 626, 678, 732
— Rubber, Agricultural Hall, 75
— Smithfield Show, 772. See Erratum, 860
— Smoke Abatement, Manchester, 674
— Trade, Philippines, Manila, 652
— Turin. See Turin
— See also Agricultural Society
Expansion, Adiabatic, Steam, 759, 798
— Valve, Massey’s Steam-Hammers, 878
Experimental Work and Business Profits, 133 Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion
— Colliery, and Earthquakes, 136, 384
— Copper Steam-Pipes, Failures of Brazing, 407
— Counter, Gas Engines, 607
— French Battleship “Liberty,” 432, 463, 600
— Pump, Humphrey, Patent Decision, 295
— Pump, Humphrey,Ship Propulsion,570,596,€31
— Pump, Humphrejr, Turin Exhibition, 250
— Pump. See Pump Gas
— Steam-Pipe, Stratford Electricity Works, 614
— Turbine. See Gas Turbine
Explosives, Accidents with, 1910 Report, 427
— Ammonal, Bridge Demolition by, 490
— Antimony, 601
— Blasting, Oordeau-Detonating Fuse, 490
— Naval, Progress in, 51, 93
— Nitrocellulose, Treatise on, 484
— Nitro-Glycerine, Accidents from Freezing, 428
— Nitro-Glycerine and Nitro-Cellulose, 463
— Pressure arid Composition of Gases, 94
— Smokeless, Stability of, 237, 432, 463, 600
— See also Gun-Powder
Exposition. See Exhibition
Extensometer, “Granta,” Testing Machines, 871
— for Lateral Strain, 115, 787
— Volume Changes, Alloys, During Cooling, 609
Faber, O. ; Ferro-Concrete Chimney, 823 Fabrics. Balloon, Tests, 76. 581. See 608 Facing-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Factors of Safety, Machine and Structural Design, 557, 644. See 770
Factory Law Cases. See Legal
Falling Plates, Eiffel’s Experiments, 255
Fa’mouth, Magnetic Observations, 384
Fan, “Sirocco,” Induced Draught, Dunston Power Station, 8
Farnborough, Army Aircraft Factory, Hydrogen Plant, 583
Fatigue. See Alternating Stress
Feed-Pumps. See Pumps
Feed, Reciprocating. Saw-Benches, Bisset’s, 796 Feed-Water Heater. Heating and Superheating, Locomotives, Egyptian State Railways, 213, 275, 341, 445, 517, 617, 690, 753. Errata, 321, 798
— Regulator, Boilers, “Thermofeed,” 841
Fence Posts, Ferro-Concrete, 6
Ferrara, Land Drainage, Pumping Plant, 296
Ferro-Concrete Arch Bridge, Hennebique System, Rome, 721; Tests, 723
— Chimney, 823
— Corrosion of Reinforcement, 174, 232
— Fence, Posts, and Water-Tanks, 6
— Floor-Slabs, Calculation, 857
— Staging, Arch Bridge, 722
— Sun-Dial, 875
— Telegraph-Poles, Tests, 539
— See also Concrete
Ferry Steamers, Railway Train, Detroit River, 64 F6ry-Whipple Radiation Pyrometer, 135, 837
Fettling-Shops, Sulzer’s Works, Heating, Ventilating, and Dust-Extracting Plant, 84
Fiegehen, E. G. ; Crane Specifications, 517 Field Guns. See Guns
— Regulator, Electric Generators, 538
Filter, Air, Rotating Cylinder Type, 534
Finland, Insurance Against Strikes,266. See 297
— Unemployment Insurance, 77
Fire-Box Stays, Locomotives, Failures of, 391.
See 400
Fire-Boxes, Locomotive, Construction and Repair, 400. See 391
— Locomotive, Copper Plates, 391, 399 ; Specifi
cation, 435
— Locomotive, Copper Stays, 394, 400 ; High-
Temperature Tests, 400 ; Specifications, 435
Fire-Floats,Hydraulic Propulsion,596. See 569,631 Fits, Force, Stresses from, 201. See 255
Flamme, Prof. ; Study of Naval Architecture in Germany, 48, 54
Flamme Type Locomotive Boiler, 525, 593
Flanges, Steam-Pipes, Locomotives, Brazing, 401
— Lubrication, Railway Wheels, 631, 636. See 731
— Pipe, Facing and Drilling-Machine, 489
— Wear, Railway-Wheel Tyres, 636. See 631, 731 Flanging, Deformation of Metal in, 774
— Machine for Pipes, Patterson-Allen, 236
— Press for Locomotive Work, 400
Fleet. See Naval and Warships
Flight. See Aeroplanes and Airships
Floating-Crane. See Crane
Floating-Dock. See Dock
Floor-Slabs, Ferro-Concrete, Calculation, 857
Flour, Wheaten, Treatment, 452
Fluorescence, Elements in Rontgen Rays, 646
— Mercury Vapour, in Glow-Lamps, 235
— Tests, Vegetable Oils, 171
Fluorescent Reflectors, Mercury Vapour Lamps, 873
Flux Meter, Magnetic, 838
Fly-Wheels, Large, Air Friction, 411
— Motor-Generator Set, Rolling-Mill Drive, 410 Flying-Machines. See Aeroplanes and Airships Foden, Edwin, The late, 329
Force Fits, Stresses from, 201. See 255
Forced Draught, Marine Boilers, 19
Ford’s Grab, Wire-Rope Suspension, 777
Foreign Engineering Projects. See Engineering Projects
— Investments, British Capital, 801
Foreshore, Law Relating to, 392
Forestry, Development Commission, 327
— School of, Parkend, 431
Forging-Hammers. See under Machine-Tools
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, 571
Foster Radiation Pyrometers, 870
— Strain Meter, Structural Members, 870
Foundations. “Compressol” System, Risorgi-mento Bridge, 721
— Pier, Coteau Bridge, 448
Foundries, Brass and Iron : Sulzer s Works, 83; Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works, 87—see 160; Swiss Locomotive and Engineering Works, 90 ; Oerlikon Works, 153; Horwich Works, L. and Y. Railway, 435. See 402
— Brass and Iron ; Sulzer’s Works, Heating,
Ventilating, and Dust-Extracting Plant, 84
— Brass, Loss in Melting, 402
— Brass, Utilisation of Scrap, 402
— Cores, Testing Binding Oils, 171
— Patterns, Gear Wheels, Machine for Cutting,
282
— Plant and Machinery, 187, 280, 414, 519, 621,
723, 853. See 540, 574. See Details in Illustration Index
— Turn-Table for Moulds, 856
— Work, Moulding an Injector, 433
— W ork, Plate Patterns, L. and Y. Railway, 434
— See also Moulding
Frahm Anti-Rolling Tanks, S.S. “Laconia,” 136 ;
Trials, 803
— Speed Indicators, 872
Frames, Locomotive, Design, 391
France, Development of Marine Turbine, 36
— Insurance against Unemployment, 171
— Midi Railway, Single-Phase, Overhead Con
struction, 857
— Mines de Dourges, Bennis Stoker Installa-! tion, 825
— Siagne Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 253 Francis Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic French Battleship “ La Liberte,” Explosion, 432,
463, 600
— Destroyer “ Voltigeur,” Turbines and Recip
rocating Engines, 31
— Naval Officers’ Training, 501
» — Navy, Laubeuf Submersible Boat. 226
— Railway Economics, 602. See 324
— Railways, Workmen’s Tickets, 324
— Turbine Channel Steamer “Newhaven,” 642 Frese Formula, Flow over Weirs, 179
, Fribourg-Murten-Ins Electric Railway, 124 Friction Clutch. See Clutch
— Steam, Impulse-Turbine Buckets, 727
— Water in Pipes, Experimental Apparatus, 780 “Frieda,” Turbine Steamer, Electric Trans-
i mission, 310, 332
Frisby’s Mechanical Ammeter for Cables, 503
Fritz Laboratory, Lehigh University, 204 Fronde’s Work on Rolling of Ships, 299, 309 Fry, L. H.; Railway Engineers’ Congress, 676
Fuel Consumption, Garrett Superheated-Steam Engines, 344, 366
— Consumption, Marine Diesel Engines, 677
— Consumption, Steam, Gas, and Diesel Engines, 344, 368, 370, 475. See 677
— Liquid. See Oil Fuel
| — Oils for Diesel Engines, 139, 149
— Supply, Possible Exhaustion, 293
— See also Coal; Oil
Fujii, Engineer Rear-Admiral T.; Japanese Nava Engineering, 48, 95
Furnace, Blast. See Blast-Furnaces
— Boiler, Air-Regulator, 675
— Boiler, “ Climax ” Underfeed Stoker, 269
— Boiler, Colliery Refuse, Bennis Stokers, 825
— Boiler, Mechanical Stokers, Electrical Exhibition, 538
— Boiler, Smoke-Consuming, 675
— Boiler, for Wood Refuse, 367
— Boiler. See also Stoker
— Case-Hardening, with Carbon Monoxide, 649. 681, 711, 763
— Electric. See Electric
— Gas, Metal-Melting, Brayshaw’s, 731
— Tilting Crucible, Brass-Melting, Output, 402
— See also Converter and Refuse-Destructor Fuse, Cordeau Detonating, for Blasting, 490 Fuses. See also Electric
Gallitzin Vertical Component Seismograph, 504 Galvanising, Marino Electric Process, 806 Galvanometers. See under Elec'ric
Gas Analysis, Carbon Monoxide Recorder, 872
— Argon, Preparation and Investigation, 742
— Blow-Pipes. See British Welding Co.'s Works
— Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide, in Case-
Hardening, 648, 681, 711, 763
— Coal, Calorific Value, 496
— Density Indicator, Simmance-Abady, 872
— Diffusion through Water, 451. See 680
— Electric Discharge in After-Glow, 646, 837
— Engines. See Engines, Gas
— Furnaces, Metal-Melting. Brayshaw’s, 731
— Hydrogen, Electrolytic Plant, Army Aircraft
Factory, 583
— Lighting, Schemes in Parliament, 740
— Mond and Coke Oven, Power Production
Collieries, 803
— Plant, Petrol-Air, “ County,” 177
— and Platinum Thermometers, 742
— Producers. See.Producers and Suction
— Production, Various Coals, 496
— Pump. See Pump
— Retorts, Vertical, Woodall - Duckham, Burn
ley, 493 ; Lausanne, 495
— Specific Heat, Calorimeters for, 742
— Turbines, Efficiency of, 706. See 714
— Turbine, Holzwarth’s, 714. See 706
— Volumes, Research Work, 742
— Works, Burnley, Extension, 493
Gasolene Engines. See Engines, Petrol
Gauge-Glasses, Boilers, Hopkinson’s Try cock, 796
Gauges, Hydraulic Diaphragm, Testing-Machines, 224
— Pressure, StUckrath, Reichsanstalt, 775
— Steel, Measuring, Tests, 743
Gear, Change-Speed. See Motor-Car Details in Illustrations Index
— Cutting, Double Helical, Citroen Co., 352
— Cutting Machines. See Machine-Tools
— Differential, for Motor-Cars. See Motor-Car
Details in Illustrations Index
— Patterns, Machine for Cutting, 282
— Reduction, Westinghouse; Marine Turbine,
663 ; Turbine-Driven Pump, 664
— Reversing. See Reversing Gear
— Two-Speed, Motor-Cycle Engine (Veloce), 709
Geared Turbines for Ship Propulsion, 26, 36, 663
Gearing for Electric Locomotives, 285
— Helical, De Laval Turbo-Generator, 524
— Worm, Motor-Car Drive, 626
Generating Station. See Hydro-Electric ; Elec-trie; and Pou er
Generators, Electric. See under Electric
— Gas. See-Producers; Suction &ndGas
Geology, Asiatic, Treatise on, 484
German Destroyer, Zoelly Turbines, 163
— Institution of Naval Architects, 714, 715. See
706. Year-Book, 822
— Iron and Steel Industry, 103, 427, 835
— Navy Programme, 428
— Physical Laboratory. See Reichsanstalt
— Trade Unions, 328
— Waterways, Extensions, 859
Germany, Development of Marine Turbine. 36
— Education of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers, 48, 64
— and Morocco Iron Ores, 427
Gilbreth’s System of Labour Saving, 357. See 573, 730
Giles’s Valves, Protection of Electric Cables, 536
Giolitti, Dr. F. ; Case-Hardening Steel, 648, 681.
See 711, 763
Girard Turbine, Belfast Technical Institute, 780
Girders, Bridge Floor, Removal by Blow-Pipe, 489
— See also Beams; Bridges; Roofs
Gland, Carbon-Packed, Turbine-Shafts, 219, 299
— Leakage, Steam Turbines, 308, 309
— Metallic-Packing, Belgian Locomotive, 596
Glasgow and the Forth and Clyde Canal, 571
Glion-Montreux Railway, Locomotive, 145
— Rochers de Naye Railway, Locomotive, 143
“Gnome” Aeroplane Engines, Balancing, 360
Gold Alloys, Electrical Resistance, 546
Goodman, Prof. J.; Uses of Engineering Laboratories, 4, 40
Gornergrat Rack Railway, Locomotive, 144
Gott’s Controlling-Gear, Winding-Engines, 560
Gottingen Aeronautical Model-Testing Institute,
206, 273, 548. See Addendum, 735
Governing, Diesel Engines, 149
— Gas-Engines, Mixing Valve, 283
— Tests, Hydraulic Turbines, 158, 179, 717, 822
— Zoelly Steam-Turbines, 159, 162
Governor-Gear, Winding-Engine; Gott’s, 560
Westinghouse Electric, 762
— Hartnell, 538
Governor, Hydraulic, Francis Turbines, 821
Grabs, Ford’s, Wire-Rope Suspension, 777
Grabs, Ore-Handling, Great Lakes, 63
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Prince Rupert
Harbour and Floating-Dock, 810
— Trunk Railway, Canada, Coteau Bridge, 448
— Trunk Railway, Canada, Statistics, 592
“ Granta” Extensometer Testing-Machines, 871
Graphite, Compressibility of, 101
— Deflocculated, Manufacture and Uses, 674
— for Gun Lubrication, 674
Graphs, Methods of Plotting for Alternating
Stress, 576, 612, 695, 697
Grate. See Furnace; Boiler; Stoker
Graving-Dock. See Dock
Gravity Bucket Conveyor, Gas Works, 494
Great Eastern Railway, Oil-Fuel Locomotives, 819
Western Railway, Electric Train Lighting, 750
Green, Sir W. G., Secretary of Admiralty, 396
Grenet, L.; Transformations of Steel during Heat
Treatment, 483, 509, 541
Grinding Machine. See Machine-Tools
Materials and Wheels, Composition and Properties, 265. See 673
-— and Polishing Machine, Micro-Sections, 864
Gnnsted, H. ; Balancing Rotating - Cylinder
Engines, 360
Grosvenor Road Hydraulic Pumping Station, London, 77
Guertler, Dr. W. M. ; Electrical Conductivity and Constitution of Alloys, 394, 544
Guest’s Law. See Combined Stress
Gullspang Hydro-Electric Power Station, 819
Gun-Boats. See Warships
Guns, Effect on Naval Tactics, 26, 37
Erosion with Various Charges, 95
— Lubrication by Graphite, 674
Mounting, H.M.S. “ Monarch,” Elswick Works, 174
— Naval, and Explosives, Progress in, 51,93
— New Turkish Battleships, 170
—- Power, H.M.S. “King George V.,” 465
Guns, Secondary, British Battleships, 24
— Smooth-Bore and Rifled, Ballistics, 93
— 13.5-In., H.M.S. “Orion,” 295; Trials, 465.
See 868
— Turin Exhibition, 297
— See also Warships
Gun-Metal, Use on L. and Y. Railway, 433
Gunpowders, Naval, Progress in, 51, 93
— Pressure and Composition of Gases, 94
— Smokeless, Explosion on French Battleship
Liberty” 432, 463, 600
— Smokeless, Stability of, 237, 432, 463, 600
— See also Explosives
Gusset Stays, Flexible, Lancashire Boilers, 685
Gyroscopic Compass, Anschutz, 310
— Effect, Aeroplane Engines, 313
— Pendulum Recorder, Rolling of Ships, 805
— Phenomena, Demonstration, 81
Hack-Saw Blades, Comparative Tests, 746 Haigh, B. P.; Electrical Steering Gear, 311. 333 Hallett, Holt S., The late, 677 Hammer-Head Crane. See Cranes Hammer. See Machine-Tools
Harbour Accommodation and Size of Ships 718
— Improvements, Development Commission, 327
— Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 810
— Schemes in Parliament, 741
— See also Dock
Harcourt Pentane Lamp, Atmospheric Influences,
Hardening. See also Case-Hardening
Hardness Tests, Autogenous Welds, 846 847
— Tests, Copper-Tin Alloys, 647 ’
— Tests, Manganese Steel, 483
Harlow, Benjamin, The late, 597
Harmonic Analysis, New Method, 81 Harmonograph, Prof. S. P. Thompson’s, 782 HarriM^Ai E’: LiShfcin£ Efficiency of
Metal-Filament Lamps, 466
Harroway-Dixon Wing Tank Steamers, 72 Hartnell Governors, 538
Harvey Process, Armour-Plate Manufacture, 111 Haughton, J. L.; Volume Changes in Copper-Tin Alloys, 395, 407, 509, 646
Hawke,” H.M.S., Collision with T.-SS tt ‘ 01ympic,” 429. See 711, 876 Heat-Insulating Materials, Effect of Painting, 395-
Surface Temperature and Efficiency, 395 ’
— Radiation from Earth, 385
Radiation from Laggings, 395
— Radiation, Wien-Planck Law, 743 a^ec!2c’ ^OW Temperatures, 742
— Specific, Gases, Calorimeters for, 742
— Specific, Latent, and Metals, 419. See 458
— Specific, Superheated Steam, 726, 758
__t______determination. ,200 Transmission, Locomotive Boilers and Superheaters, 276 F
— Treatment, Effect on Corrosion of Brass, 472
— Treatment, Iron and Steel, Micrographic
Detection of Faults, 748 8 p
— Treatment and Magnetic Properties, Heusler
AUoys, 739; Iron Plates, 775
— Treatment, Manganese Steel, Effect, 478. 483
— Treatment, Non-Ferrous Alloys, 511 542
~ 576,m6ei^’6tLel^end840ndUran°eOf Kat^Ue-Treatment, Steel, Transformations, 483, 509,
— Treatment. See also Case-Hardening Heater, teed-Water. See Feed-Water Heater
6 'XtiO^IN^X5'8- 866 Dia^amS
— with Turbine Exhaust, 163
— and Ventilating Plant, Sulzer’s Foundries. 84 Hefner Standard Lamp, Atmospheric Influences
iyy >
Heinemann Process, Rubber Manufacture, 75 Helical Gears. See Gears I
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagram h”pbo“;:%n" “•"a °°~»i
M-t.irehBridge, Boe,., ^®ring Electric Steel Furnace, Pinch Effect 325 H6roult 15-Ton Electric Steel Furnace 328 * Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. S~S Tele graphy under Electric 1 ele'
th r*r A^°ys» Magnetic Properties, 739 High Frequency. See Electric
High-Speed Tool-Steel. See Tool-Steel and Steel
H.M.S. See under Warships
Hodgson, W., The late, 258
Hoist, Baggage, 2-Ton Electric, for Steamers, 456 Hoists. See also Cranes, Transporters, Sheers, and Derricks
Holder-on, Magnetic, Portable Electric Drill, 503 Holes in Plates, Stresses near, 280, 291. See 782 Holland Submarine-Boats, Design, 655. See 673 Holt, Alfred, The late, 730
“ Holzapfel I.,” Ship, Producer-Gas Plant, 677 Holzwarth, H., on the Gas-Turbine, 714. See 706 Homopolar Dynamo, Turbine Drive, 318. See 265 Hopkinson, Prof. B.; Uses of Engineering Laboratories, 4, 40
Horne, J. W.; The Practical Training of College
1 Students, 2, 41
Horner, J.; Foundry Plant and Machinery, 187, 280, 414, 519, 621, 723, 853. See 540, 574
Horse-Power Rating, Gas-Engines. 344, 345
— Rating, Motor-Car Engines, 802
Horsfall Refuse-Destructor, Mersey Docks, 667 Horwich Works, L. and Y. Railway, Use of Non-
Ferrous Metals, 393, 399, 433
Hoskin’s Base-Metal Thermo-Couples, 870 Howden-Wallsend Oil-Fuel Installation, T. S.S.
“ Princess Alice,” 764
Howe, Prof. G. W. O.; Radiotelegraphy, 316, 335 Howson, Richard, The late, 236
Huber-Stockar, E.; Electric Traction in Switzerland, 121, 137, 189, 269, 285
Hubs, Wheel, Design for Force Fits, 201, 255
Hughes, G.; Non Ferrous Metals in Railway Work, 393, 399, 433
Hulett Ore-Unloading Machines, Great Lakes, 63 Humber Motor Car, 629
Humphrey Gas-Pump, Patent Decision, 295
— Gas-Pump, Ship Propulsion, 570, 596, 631
— Gas-Pump, Turin Exhibition, 250
Hydraulics, Flow-Over Weirs, Frese Formula, 179
— Laboratory, Belfast Technical Institute, 780
— Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
— Moulding-Machines. 187, 280, 621, 723, 853 •
See Foundry Plant and Machinery in Illustrations Index
— Pipe Friction Apparatus, 780
— Power Transmission, Collieries, 803
— Pump. See Pump
Pumping-Station, Grosvenor-road, London 77
— Turbines. See Turbines and Pelton Wheels
— See also Water
Hydro-Electric Development, Japan, 469, 614
— Electric Power Plants; Albula Works
Zurich, Schaffhausen, and Neuhausen Aluminium Works, 153 ; Aluminium Works, Kinlochleven, 717; Rheinfelden, 137: Trollhattan, 374 ; Gullspang, Sweden 819
— Electric Power Plants, Costs, 158
— Electric Power Plant, Escher Wyss Works 88
— Electric Power Plants, High Pressure, 158, 239,
25^.; Necaxa, 237, 239 ; Rio de Janeiro, 241 • Tyssedalen, 252 ; Brusio, 252 ; Siagne, 253
— Electric or Steam-Power Stations, Nitrate
Manufacture, 347 ^iuraue
HydF^?Orvla^’ Electra,^ie. Army Aircraft a? .iiuuury, Doo
Hysteresis, Elastic, Alternating Stress, 306, 695,
“ IbUTrialsf97ane8e °rUiSer’ °UrtiS Turbines> In! MU?'-dS’nir01lhiittan Power Pla"t, 375 Ice-Making Plant, Domestic, Carrd Principle 535 — See also Refrigerating p ’
Ignition Magnetos, Bosch Water-Tight 678 {fenef System, Electric Drive, Rolling-Mill 410 Illinois Steel Co., Hdroult Electric Furnace 3?8 I ness Insurance. See Insurance ’ Summation, Carbon and Metal-Filament Lamps,
—- See also Light; Lighting; Lamps; Electric Ilva Iron and Steel Works, Italy, 297 'Lect,tc !™pac,t Test®> Autogenous Welds, Pig iron 847 Incandescent Lamps. See Electric ’ India-Rubber. See Rubber
Indian Irrigation Works, Treatise on, 522
— Patents Act, 574
Indicators, Chemical Reactions 452 Induction. See Electric '
Industrial Conditions, Thames Iron Works 672
- Council, Settlement of Trade Disputes 500
- Disputes. See Strikes, Labour P ’ 500
— Notes, 28, 52, 92, 140, 175, 191 222
~ and Research Work, 133
Infra-Red Spectra, Metals, 417
1 Inglrs, Sir Janies C., The late, 835 Injector, Moulding, 433
Inland Navigation, United Statesand Ganado
nical Engineers; Electrical Naval Architects ; Iron and tute; Physical Society - British a P'-1' tion ; Metals, Institute of h Associa-
TnoS°ya ’ ,See Institution Instruments, Electrical. See undpr • Insulating Materials, Heat Effect t 395; Surface Temperature and ™/a,ntln*’
Insulation. See also Electric ^ncy, 395 nS™,e67lin’ Workmen’s- and Shipbuilding, 1Unemploy-- 231
cations, 763, 798 vei -Plant Specifi-- Company, British Engine, Boiler and ■
ships 8 ’ Aer°P^nes and Air-
Interpolation Method, Curve Plotting, 660, 730
Investments, Foreign, British Capital, 801
Ireland, Appointment of County Surveyors, 174
Ireland, Portadown, Producer-Gas Plant using
Peat, 774. See Erratum, 799
Iron Armour-Plates, 111. See 51, 104
Iron-Carbon Alloys, Transformations in Heat
Treatment. 483, 509, 541
Iron, Case-Hardening. See Case-Hardening
— Cementite, Magnetic Properties, 810
— Corrosion, in Ferro-Concrete, 174, 232
— Failures, Micrographic Examination, 748
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Gold Alloys, Resistance and Temperature, 546
— Industry, Canadian, Effect of Premiums, 354
— Industry, German, 103. See 427, 835
— Industry, Russian, 1910, 548
— Manganese Alloys, Effect of Carbon, 473, 483
— Molten, Electric Resistance of, 362
— Nickel Storage Battery, Edison, 535
— Ore, Morocco, German Requirements, 427
— Ore,and Pig, German Production, 103,427, 835
— Ore Washing Plant, Spanish, Cable way, 553
— Ore. See also Ore
— Pig, Carbon in, 483, 507
— Pig, Methods of Grading, 483, 507
— Plates, Heat Treatment and Magnetic Pro
perties, 775
— Plates, Perforation Tests, 807
— Rolling-Mills. See Rolling-Mills
— and Steel Industry, World’s, 835
Iron and Steel Institute:
Italian Meeting, Abandonment of, 460, 483
Autumn Meeting, London:
Transformations of Steel within the Limits of the Temperatures Employed in Heat Treatment, by L. Grenet, 483, 509, 541
Mechanical Influence of Carbon on Alloys of Iron and Manganese, by Professor J. O. Arnold and F. K. Knowles, 478, 483
Temperature Influences on Carbon and Iron, by E. Adamson, 483, 507
New Industrial Processes for the Case-Hardening of Steel, by Dr. F. Giolitti, 648. See 711, 763
Case-Hardening by means of Compressed Gases, by Dr: F. Giolitti and F. Carnevali, 681. See 711, 763
Autogenous Cutting and Welding of Metals, by F. Carnevali, 844
Iron Works, Skinningrove, Electric Rolling-Mill Plant, 410
— Wrought, Alternating Stress Tests, 556, 576,
612, 693. See 840
— See also Cast Iron and Steel
Ironclads. See Warships
Irrigation, Australian, Diminution of Artesian Water-Supply, 738
— Works, Treatise on, 522
Isherwood System, Ship Construction, 72
Island Barn Reservoir, London Water Supply, 637
Isoprene, Preparation of Rubber from, 75
Italian Ballistite, Nature and Pressure of Gases, 94
— Metallurgical Industry, Hand-Book, 741
— Railways, 676
— State Railways, Locomotive, 192, 258
— Steel Manufacture, Turin Exhibition, 296 Italy, Development of Marine Steam Turbine, 37
— Ferrara, Land Drainage, Pumping Plant, 296
— International Congress, Railway Engineers’,
— Porte Decimo and Busalla Railway, Electric
Traction, 676
Jamaica, Sun-Spot, Rainfall and Earthquake Cycles, 384
Japan, Development of Marine Turbine, 37, 98
— Trade Statistics, 1910, 468, 523
Japanese Battleship “Aki,” 16
— Battleships, Curtis Turbines, 98
— Coal-Mining, 614
— Cruisers: “Ibuki,” Curtis Turbines, Trials,
97 ; “Kurama,” 16 ; Boiler Trials, 97
— Education, Annual Report, 640
— Finance and Economics, 103,872
— Marine Engineering Development, 109. See 47
— Merchant Shipbuilding Development, 47, 107
— Naval Construction Progress, 15, 26
— Naval Dockyards, 15, 110
— Naval Marine Engineering Progress, 48, 95
— Navy, Trials of Water-Tube Beilers, 97
— Shipping Subsidies, 47, 107
— Steamers, Oil Fuel Installations, 203
— Textile Industry, 469, 523
— Warships, Early, 15
Jenkin, Prof. C. F. ; University Degrees for Engineers, 3, 39
Jet Hydraulic Propulsion of Ships, 569, 596, 631. See Erratum, 596
Jockey-Pulley Belt-Drive, Planing-Machines, Wicksteed’s, 702, 817
Johannesburg Electric Power-Station, 505
Johnson, J. ; Swedish Ore-Carrying Steamers, 57
Johnson’s Torsion-Meter, 605
Johnson-Welin Ore Steamers, 57
Junction-Box Compounds, Insulation Tests, 743
Jungfrau Rack Railway, Locomotive, 144
Junkers’ Oil-Engines, 698
Katanga, Congo, Transport of Minerals, 570
“ Kawachi,” Japanese Battleship, Curtis Turbines, 98
Kiebitz System, Wireless Telegraphy, 834
Kieffer, H. P.; The Catskill Water - Supply System, New York, 117
“ King George V.,” H.M. Battleship, Design, 465
Kinlochleven Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 717
Kirby, F. E.; The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Marine Terminal, Prince Rupert, 810 ; Shipping on the Great Lakes, 62
Kjellberg Electric Welding Process, 712
Klose System, Rack Railways, 144
Kneading Machines, Dough, &c., 362, 563
Knight, Robert, the Late, 398
Knowles, F. K. ; The Influence of Carbon on Iron-Manganese Alloys, 478, 483
Kondo, Rear-Admiral ; Japanese Naval Construction, 15, 26
Konigsborn Mines, Turbo-Air-Compressors and Tests, 791
Krupp Process, Armour-Plate Manufacture, 111
I “ Kurama,” Japanese Cruiser, 16; BoilerTrials 97 | Ku re Dockyard, Japan, 15 *
Laboratory, Engineering, Lehigh University 204 Laboratories, Engineering, Belfast Technical In stitute, 778. See 798
— Engineering, Use and Equipment, 4, 39 40
— See also National Physical Laboratory • Beichsanstalt; Materialpriijungsamt ■ and Gottingen * ’
I Labour Affairs. See also Industrial Notes
| — Building Trades, Census jot Production 467
I — Charges and Industrial Economics, 672*
— Conditions, Catskill Water-Supply’works 191
— Conditions, French Railways, 602. See 324
— Conditions: Sulzer’s Works, 85; Swiss Loco motive Works, 91; Oerlikon Works 155
— Damages from Workmen, Breach of Contract 676 ’
— Disputes, 1910, 426
— Disputes, Conciliation and Arbitration 261
427, 499, 567, 705. See also Industrial 'Notes — Disputes, Industrial Council for Settlement
500 *
— Disputes, Picketing in, 230, 261
— Disputes, Scandinavian, 136, 235. 266 9qx See 77, 297 ’ ’
— Dock Workers Strike, 229
— Exchanges and the Insurance Bill, 599
— and Foreign Capital Investments, 801
— German Trade Unions, 328
— Insurance,Strike: Finland,266; Denmark 297
— Legislation. See also Workmen's Compensation under Legal; Industrial Notes
— and Observance of Agreements, 229, 261 705
— Proposed Miners’ Strike, 499
Railway Conciliation and Arbitration Com-mission, 261, 567, 705
Railway Strike, 261, 229, 323, 499, 567, 705
— Responsibilities of Workmen, 229, 261
Saving, Motion Study, 357. See 573, 730
— Trades Union Congress, 323
— Trade Unions and Non-Union Workmen 426 Unemployment Insurance: Finland ’ 77 France, 171 ’ '
— Unrest and Socialism, 500
— Wages in Engineering and Allied Trades ’94
— workmen's Insurance Bill, 99, 231 599 665, 672 ’ ’
— Workmen’s Insurance and Railway Com-panies, 231
— Workmen’s Insurance and Shipbuilding In. duatry, 665, 672
Labrador Current, Effect on British Climate, 385 Lab; nnth Packings, Turbines, Leakage, 308 309
LaCnnn-’ 2,un?rd Liner- 136 i Trials of Anti-Rolling Tanks, 803
Lagging Materials, Effect of Painting, 395 • Sur-face Temperature and Efficiency, 395*
Lake Steamer “ Saguenay,” 350
” and Co 88i8S’ Construction> Escher Wyss Lakes, American, Shipping on 62
Lame s Theory, Thick Cylinders, Tests of 786 Lamps, Electric. See Electric '
Mercury Vapour. See under Electric r.r/k- n Atmospheric Influences, 199 Lancashire Boilers. See Boilers
— and Yorkshire Railway ; Use of Non-Ferrous
t v 3899393' 3991 433 ; 4'6-° Locomo r'nnd nSt?r Car£urettor, Motor-Car Engines 6*7 Land Drainage, Ferrara, Italy, Pumping Plant *96 Larges Tension-Meter, Aeroplan? /toy Wires® Liissoe-Loyekin Oil-Fuel Burner, 209 Last, William Isaac, The late, 190 Latent Heat of Fusion, Metals, 419. See 458 Lateral Strain, Extensometers for, 115 787 | Lathes. See Machine-Tools ’
! men"’ teral Test Speei-
Laubeuf Submersible Boat, 226
Launch, KM. Australian Cruiser - Australia,”
“t £,)S v„.
Laval Geared Turbo -Generator, 524
Lea, II. ; Lathe Defect, 713
Lea-Biram Anemometer, 541
eaTh^r-PreVAenting ,!rass Cwrosion, 475
u lT AIlo-vs> Electrical Oonductivitv an Leeds, Railless Electric Traction, 10“ 1 lty’ 544 Tramways, Rail Corrugation 33?
regal:
Company Laws, British Colonies 504 Contractors’ Claims for Extras 293 Foreshore, Law Relating to, 392 3 Johannesburg Electric Power Station I IH gation, 505 ouruon, Liti-
Patents Act, Indian, 574
J ate,n 1 Decision, Humphrey Gas-Pumn 905
Legros, La“ageprerside>^a?CLOdf Co'ltra‘-t, 670
of Automobile Engwe*51988’ InstituDon
"W
U..,. Z.i,. 8‘2 """* ’
Lexy Carbon Monoxide Recorder 87-?
. 1 4e6^*600FrenCh Battle8h'P, Explosion, 432, Lifeboats,^fotor'W^seky'peuo? e"Da'”’120 Lift and Drift, Airehins w-E^lnes> 12
and Drift, Camberld Plates' -3 ’ 2°G
- S?ee al^wm^andfffX9°ntrolIer- 537
--rsion, Metric
- l?18s°1" ra—- “
■STS" i. ai.w Passage through Quartz, 81
Light, Polarised, Stress Determination, Notched and Drilled Tie-Bars, 782
— Rbntgen, Velocity of, 200
— Standard Lamps, Atmospheric Influences, 199
— Ultra-Violet, Testing Oils by, 171
— Velocity, Principle of Relativity, 419
— See also Spectrum
Lighting Efficiency, Electric Lamps, Carbon and Metal Filament, 466
— Electric, Motor-Cars, 629, 678
— Electric, Railway Trains, Brake-Vehicle
Method, 750
— Electric. See also Electric and Lamp
— by Neon Vacuum Tubes, 807
— Plant, Electric, Self-Regulating, Lister’s, 5,
422 ; Walker, Horrocks, and Co., Ltd., 538
— Plant, Petrol Air-Gas, “ County,” 177
— Schemes in Parliament, 740
Lightning Protection, Power Transmission Lines, MoEcicki Condensers, 536
Lime Mortars, 771
Lincoln City Water Supply, 431
Lindeck, Professor S.,The late, 669
Linley’s Tool-Rest for Lathes, 225
Liquid-Air Plant, Belfast Technical Institute, 779 Liquids, Compressibility, 101
— Diffusion of Gases through, 451. See 680
— Diffusion of Salts, 810
— Fuel. See Oil Fuel
— Surface Tension Experiments, 782
Lister’s Self-Regulating Petrol Electric Set, 5,422 Literature and Science, Relative Values, 671.
See 711, 731, 763
Literature, 88, 185, 251, 484, 522, 753, 822
— See Literature Index
Littoral, Law Relating to, 392
Liverpool, Mersey Docks, Horsfall Destructor, 667 Lloyd’s Register, Annual Report, 571
— Statistics, Shipbuilding Trade, 77, 468
— Wreck Statistics, 1910, 174
Local Authorities. See Municipal and London County Council
Loch Leven Water-Power Works, 717
Locher Rack, Mountain Railways, 142
Lock-Outs, Insurance a gait, st: Finland, 266 ;
Denmark, 297
— Scandinavian, 136, 235, 266, 295. See 77, 297 Locomotive, 4-6-2 Type, Central Argentine Railway, 22
— 4-6-2 Type Four-Cylinder Simple, Belgian
State Railways, 525, 593
— 4-6-2 Type Four-Cylinder Simple, Italian
State Railways, 192, 258
— 4-6-2 Type Four-Cylinder Simple, P.L.M.
Railway, 317
— 2-6-6-2 Mallet Compound, Oil Fuel, Southern
Pacific Railway, 791
— Boilers, Copper Tubes, 402 ; Specifications,
435, 436. See 394
— Boiler, Flamme Type, 525, 593
— Boilers, Moisture in Steam, 214
— Boilersand Superheaters, Heat Transmission,
276
— Boiler Tubes, Efficiency of, 275
— Boilers. See also Boilers, Locomotive
— Brakes on Bogie Wheels, 392. See 596
— Compound and Superheated Steam, Trials,
P.L.M. Railway, 317; Egyptian Railways,690
— Copper Steam-Pipes, 401 ; Brazing Flanges,
401; Wear, 402
— Cylinder Condensation, 341
— Design and Cost of Repairs, 391. See 400
— Details, Piston-Valves, 593 ; Bogie, 596 ;
Metallic Packing, 596
— Economy of Moderate Superheat, 213. See
also Egyptian State Railways
— Electric. See Electric
— Failure of Fire-Box Stays, 391. See 400
— Feed-Heating and Superheating, Egyptian
State Railways, 213, 275, 341, 445, 517, 617, 690, 753. See Errata, 321, 798
— Fire-Boxes, Construction and Repair, 400.
See 391
— Fire-Boxes, Copper Plates, 394, 399 ; Specifi
cation, 435
— Fire-Boxes, Copper Stays, 394, 400 ; High-
Temperature Tests, 400; Specifications, 435
— Oil Fuel, Consumption, 819, 843. See 874
— Oil Fuel, Holden’s System, 819
— Oil Fuel, Mexican Railroad, 819, 841. See 874
— Parts, Wear of, 391. See 691
— Rack, Swiss Mountain Railways, 137, 142
— with Schmidt Superheaters, 192, 258, 317,525,
593. See 276, 617, 690, 753
— Schmidt Superheater Trials, Egyptian State
Railways, 617, 690, 753. See Erratum, 798
— Slide-Valves, Phosphor-Bronze, 894, 403
— Smoke-Box Superheaters. See Egyptian State
Railways
— Steam, Swiss Mountain Railways, 142
— Superheated Steam, Life of Piston and Valve-
Rings, 691
— Superheating and Feed-Heating, Egyptian
State Railways, 213, 275, 341, 445, 517, 617 690, 753. See Errata, 321, 798
— Towing, Electric, Panama Canal, 632
— Valve-Gear, Wear of, 391. See 691
— Valve Leakage, 341
— Wheels, Flange Lubrication, 631, 636. See 731
— Wheels, Flange Wear, 636. See 631, 731
— Work, Non-Ferrous Metals in, 393, 399, 433
— Works, Swiss, Winterthur, 89
London Borough Councils, Financial State, 640
— Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Electri
fication Results, 231
— Declaration of, and the Navy, 24
— Hydraulic Power Co., Pumping Station, 77
— Industrial Conditions, Thames Iron Works, 672 —- and N.-W. Railway Widening, 221, 231
— Port of, Improvements, 741
— and S.-W. Railway, Turnham Green Widening.
489 b
— St. Paul’s Bridge, 30, 79
— Street Improvement, 30, 79
— Street Traffic, 770
— Suburban Railway Traffic, 771
— Underground Railways, Working Results
232. See 771
— Water Supply, Island Barn Reservoir, 637 Longridge, M.; Machinery Breakdowns, 533 Lorries. See Motor- Wagons and Tractors Lbtschberg Tunnel, Electric Traction, 154, 285
Louis, Prof. H.; Practical Training of Engineering Students, 4, 42
Lovekin-Lassoe Oil-Fuel Burner, 2(9
Lubrication with Deflocculated Graphite, 674
— Diesel Engines, 149
— Forced, Marine Engines, 19
— Gun, Graphite for, 674
— Motor-Car Engines, 513, 626
Lubricator, Railway-Wheel Flanges, Elliott. 631
See 637, 731
LUder’s Lines, Steel under Compound Stress, 81 Lux, F.; Electric Torsion Dynamometers, 715
Macadam Roads, Bituminous Binders, 78, 297 Machine Design, Factors of Safety, 557, 614
— Design, Strength of Materials, 635, 643 Machine-Shops. See Works
Machine-Tools: Bending Rolls, with Hinged Bearing, 483
Bloom-Shears, Electric (Oeking), 268
Drill, High-Speed Radial, All Gear (J. Archdale and Co., Ltd.), 630
— Portable Electric, with Magnetic Holder-On (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co Ltd.), 503
— Sensitive, Electric (Phoenix Dynamo Co., Ltd.), 422
Drilling and Boring Machine for Ships (Britannia Engineering Co. (1910), Ltd.), 188
— Machine, Portable Radial (Burton, Griffiths, and Co.), 537
Flanging Press, Horwich Works, 400
Gear-Cutting Machines. Double Helical (Citroen and Co.’s Works), 352
— Patterns, Machine for Cutting (A. Ransome), 282
Grinding Machine, Plain, Motor-Driven (C. Churchill and Co., Ltd.), 502
— Machine, Universal and Chucking (C. Churchill and Co., Ltd.), 502
— Machines, Vertical and Horizontal, for Discs and Rings (Churchill Machine-Tool Co., Ltd.), 193
— Materials and Wheels, Composition and Properties, 265. See 673
— and Polishing Machine, Micro-Sections (R. and J. Beck, Ltd.), £64
Hack-Saw Blades, Comparative Tests, 746
Hammers, Steam, Expansion Valve-Gear (B. and S. Massey, Ltd.), 878
Lathe, Hollow Spindle, for Pipes, 488
Lathes, Linley’s Tool-Rest, 225
Lathe Machining Turbine Rotor, Brown, Boveri, and Co.’s Works, 47
— Work, Effect of Bent Lead Screw, 713
Machine-Shop, Belfast Technical Institute. 780 *
Milling Cutters, Helical Teeth, Tes’.s, 789
Model-Making Tools. 539
Moulding-Machines for Foundry Wcrk, 187 280, 414, 519, 621, 723,853. See 540, 574.’ See Foundry Plant and Machinery in Illustrations Index
Pipe-Flange Facing and Drilling-Machine, 489
— Flanging-Machine (Patterson-Allen Engineering Co.), 236
Planing-Machines, Deakin’s Double-Cutting Tool-Box, 818. See 700
— Machines, Efficiency on Short - Stroke Work, 793, 733, 817, 840
— Machines, Electric Drives, 456, 702. 733 817, 840
— Machines, Electric Drive (Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co., Ltd.), 456. See 702, 840
— Machines, High-Speed and Double-Cutting, 700, 817. See 733, 840
— Machines, Jockey - Pulley Belt - Drive, Wicksteed’s, 702, 817. See 733, 840
— Machine Tables, Spring Buffers, 702
— Machines, “Vulkan” Magnetic Clutch Drive ; Tests, 733, 840
Plate-Bending Rolls, Hinged Bearing, 488
Press-Tool Work, Deformation of Metal, 774
Saw-Benches, Bisset’s Reciprocating Feed (A. Ransome and Co., Ltd.), 796
Shearing-Machine, Steel Blooms (Oeking), 268 Slide-Rest, Linley’s, for Lathes, 225 Socket-Forming Machine, Steel Pipes, 4«8 Steam-Hammers, Expansion Valve-Gear (B. and S. Massey, Ltd.), 878
Tool Equipment : Brown, Boveri, and Co.’s Works, 47; Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works, 87 ; Oerlikon Works, 154
Welding-Machine for Steel Pipes, 488
Machinery Breakdowns, Report on, 533
— Imports, Japanese, 469
— Inspection of, 169
— Propelling. See Engines, Marine; Engines,
Gas, Oil, Petrol, <&e.; Turbines; and Marine Propulsion
— Vibration Indicator, “ Vibragraph,” 872 Magdeburg, Salts in River Elbe Water, 134 Magnetic Ammeter for Cables, 503
— Brakes, Tram-Cars. Testing Apparatus, 775
— Clutch, “ Vulkan,” Planing-Machine Drives,
Tests, 733, 840
— Clutches, Electrical Steering-Gear, 311, 334
— Field, Alternating, Physiological Effects, 782
— Flux Meter, 838
— Observations, Falmouth Observatory, 384
— Permeability, Instrument for Measuring, 418
— Properties, Cementite, 810
— Properties, Heusler Alloys. 739
— Properties, Iron Plates, Effect of Heat Treat
ment, 775
— Separators, Vibratory and Rotary, 456
— Speed-Indicator, Evershed, 870
— Testing-Machine, Alternating Stress, 696
— Tests, Reichsanstalt, 775
Magnetism. See also Electric and Physical Society
Magnetos, ignition, Bosch Water-Tight, 678
Maidzuru Dockyard, Japan, 15
Maikop Naphtha Fields, 199
Mallet Compound Locomotive, 2-6 6-2 Type, Southern Pacific Railway, 791
Mar Chester Meeting, International Seismological Association, 135
— Smoke-Abatement Exhibition, 674
Manganese-Copper-Aluminium Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 739
— Steel, Effect of Carbon, 478, 483
— Steel, Heat Treatment and Tests, 478, 483 Manila, Philippine Trade Exhibition, 652 Manufacturers’ Profits and Research Work, 133 Marconi, Wireless, Telegraphic Apparatus, 316, 871
Marine Engineering, British Naval, Historical, 18, 26
— Engineering, Japanese Progress, 48, 95, 109
— Engineering, Progress of, 13, 58. See 25
— Engineering. See also Engines, Marine;
Naval Architects; Propellers, Screw; Turbines; Warships
— Engineers, American Society of, 718, 747, 810
— Engineers, Education, Charlottenberg, 48, 54
— Motors. See Engines
— Propulsion, Combined Oil-Engine and Steam-
Turbine, 102. See 869
— Propulsion, Crude-Oil Engines for, 346, 471
— Propulsion, Development of Turbines, 26, 32 Propulsion, Diesel Engines, Fuel Consumption, 677
—• Propulsion, Gas-Engines for, 677
— Propulsion, Geared Turbines for, 26, 36, 663
— Propulsion, Humphrey Pump, 570, 696, 631
— Propulsion, Hydraulic Jet Sjstem, 569, 596,
631. See Erratum, 596
— Propulsion, Junkers’ Oil-Engine. 698 Propulsion, Mayor’s Electric Transmission.
310, 332
— Propulsion, Oil, and Diesel Oil-Engines for, 102.
138, 149, 332, 346, 471, 571, 677, 698, 709, £69
— Propulsion, Recent Developments, 677
Propulsion, Residuary Resistance and Horse-Power, 611. See Letters, 632
— Propulsion, Turbines with Reciprocating
Engines, 26, 31, 36, 747
— Propulsion, Zoelly Turbines. 163
— Propulsion. See also Engines; Turbines;
Propellers
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam
i Mariner’s Compass. Anschutz Gyroscopic, 310
Marino Process, Electro-Plating China, &c., 806 Marehall, W. J.; Over-Type Superheated Steam-
Engines. 314, 364
Martigny-Chatelard Railway, Locomotive1:1. 144 145 *
Martigny-Orsteres Railway, Electric Traction, 270 Martin, J., The late, 799
Martin, Wm. C., The late, 596
Mash-Tun, Water-Sprayer for, 534
Mason, C. T., The lat*, 497
Mason’s Steam-Heated Bakers’ Ovens, 362
Masonry, Demolition by Explosives, 490
Massey’s Expansion Valve, Steam Hammers, 878 Masters’ and Servants’ Cases. See Legal
Materials, Engineering, Micrographic Examination of Failures, 748
— Strength of, Early Work, 643
— Structural and Machine Design, Strength of,
635, 643 ’
Mathematics, Harmonic Analysis, 81
Mathematical Functions, Tables of, 753
— Papers, British Association, 419
Matter, Nature and Classification of Elements, 292
— Structure of Atoms, 417
— Transmutation of Elements, 292
Maudslay Motor-Car, Chain-Drive Gear-Box, 628 “Mauretania,” Service Performance, 719
Mayor, H. A.; Electric Drives for Screw Propellers, 310, 332
McAlpine-Melville Reduction Gears, Turbines, €63 McGlashan’s Side-Tank Steamers, 72
McKibben, Prof. F. P. ; The Fritz Engineering
Laboratory', Lehigh University, 204 Measuring-Gauges, Steel, Tests, 743
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Summer Meeting, Zurich:
Reception at Zurich, 137
Electric Traction in Switzerland, by E.
Huber-Scockar, 121, 137, 189, 269, 285 Rack Railway Locomotives of the Swiss
Mountain Railways, by T. Weber and S. Abt, 137, 142
Modern Diesel Oil-Engines, by F. Schubeler.
138, 148
Some New Types of Dynamometers, by Dr.
A. Amsler, 128, 139
High-Pressure Water-Power Works, by L.
Zodel, 168, 239, 252
Results of Experiments with Francis Turbines and Tangential (Pelton) Turbines, by Professor Dr. F. Prasil, 158, 179
Steam-Turbines, by H. Zoelly, 158, 160. See 223, 255, 329, 540, 631. ‘See also 87
Visits, Excursions, &c.: Rheinfelden Water-Power Station, 137 ; Brown, Boveri, and Co.’s Works, 137—see 45 ; Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works, 139—see 86 ; Oerlikon Co.’s Works, 139—see 153; Sulzer Brothers Works, 159—see 83; Swiss Locomotive and Engineering Works, 159—see 89 ; Obermatt Water-Power Station, 160
Votes of Thanks, &c., 169
London Meetings, Winter Session :
The late Mr. T. Hurry Riches, 555. See 325
Experiments on Rotating Beams at University College, London, by E. M. Eden, W. N. Rose, and F. L. Cunningham, 556, 575, 612, 693. See 731, 840
Double-Cutting and High-Speed Planing-Machines, by J. Hartley Wicksteed, 700,. 817. See 733, 840
Oil-Burning Locomotives on the Tehuantepec National Railroad, Mexico, by R. G. Aston, 819, 841. See 874 Mechanical Stoker. See Stoker “ Medina,” S.S., P. and O. Liner, 560 Meijer Throttle Valve, 809
Meld rum’s Mechanical Stoker, 675
Mellor, H. W. ; Influence Lines, 689
Melville-Mc Alpine Reduction Gears, Turbines, 663 Merchant Steamers. See Steamers
Mercury, Compressibility, 452
— Contacts Unipolar Dynamo, 265. See also 318
— Distillation, Mercury-Vapour Lamp, 199
— Vapour, Fluorescence, in Glow-Lamps, 235
Mercury Vapour Lamps, Fluorescent Reflectors, 873
— Vapour Rectifiers, Alternating-Current, 743 Metal-Filament Lamps. See Electric
Metals, Allotropic Modifications, 601
— Anti-Friction, L. and Y. Railway, 394, 434
-- Anti-Friction, Effects of Remelting, &c., 295
— Contact Differences of Potential, 81
— Corrosion, Electrolytic Theory, 437
— Examination of Spectra, 742
— Fatigue of. See Alternating Stress
— Infra Red Spectra, 417
Metals, Institute or:
Newcastle Meeting:
Opening Ceremony, 393
Corrosion Research Committee Experimental Plant, Corrosion of Condenser-Tubes, 393
Non-Ferrous Metals in Railway Work, by G. Hughes, 393, 399, 433
Electrical Conductivity and Constitution of Alloys, by Dr. W. M. Guertler, 394, 544
Mechanical Properties of Hard - Drawn Copper, by D. R. Pye, 395, 403 ; Electrical Properties, 405
Volume Changes in the Alloys of Copper with Tin, by J. L. Haughton and Prof. T. Turner, 395, 407, 609, 646
Failure of a Brazed Joint, by Prof. H. Louis, 407
Alloys of Aluminium and Zinc, by W. Rosen-hain and S. L. Archbutt, 408, 438
Further Notes on the Nature of Solid Solutions, by C. A. Edwards, 408, 680. See 54 4
Corrosion of Brass, with Special Reference to Condenser-Tubes, by P. T. Briihl, 409, 436, 472
Concluding Proceedings, 410
Met als, Nature of Solid Solutions. 408,680. See 544
— Non-Ferrous, Use on L. and Y. Railway, 393,
399, 433
— Plates, Persoz Perforation Tests, 807
— Price Diagrams, 30, 176, 338, 469, 605, 776, 874
— Piice Diagram, Annual, 874
— Ribbon, Manufacture, 872
— Specific Heat and Latent Heat of Fusion, 419.
See Erratum, 458
— Thermal Expansion, 742
— Trades, Wages in, 291
Metallic Oxides, Electrical Properties, 473
— Packing, Piston-Rod, Belgian Locomotive, 696
— Vapours, Absorption and Dispersion in, 415 Metallisation, China, &c., Marino Process, 806 Metallographic Examination, Iron and Steel
Failures, 748
Metallography, Grinding and Polishing Machine, Micro-Sections, 864
— Nature of Solid Solutions, 408, 680, See 544
— See also Micro-Photographs in Illustrations
Index
Metallurgy, Electrical Conductivity and Constitution of Alloys, 394, 544
— See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals
Institute of; A Hoys
Metallurgical Exhibits, Turin Exhibition, 296
— Industry, Italian, Hand-Book, 741
— Works, 1910 Report, 102
Meteorological Electrometer, Recording, 837
— Elements, Classification by Diagrams, 385
Meteorological Society, Royal:
Abnormal Weather, Summer, 1911, by C. Harding, 716
Solar Halos and Brocken Spectres, by W. Larden, 877
Statical Changes of Pressure and Temperature in a‘Column of Air that Accompany Changes of Pressure at the Bottom, by W. H. Dines, 877
Meteorology and Aerial Flight, 318, 316
— Study of Thunderstorms, 385
— Value of Observations, 3; 9
— See also British Association
Meter, Magnetic Flux, 838
Metropolitan Boroughs, Financial State, 640
— District Railway, Turnham Green Widening,
489
— Railways, Working Results, 232. Sec 771
— Street Traffic, 770
— Water Board, Island Barn Reservoir, 637
— See also London
Mexican Fuel-Oil, Properties, 843
Mexico, Necaxa Hydro-Electric Plant, 237, 239
— Tehuantepec Railroad, Oil-Fuel Locomotive?,
819, 841. See 874
Micrographic Examination, Iron and Steel Failures, 748
Micrography, Grinding and Polishing-Machine, 864
Micrometer, Optical, Vernier Arc Form, 419
Microscopes, Edinger Drawing and Projecting Apparatus, 871
Microscopic Examination, Autogenous Welds, 844
— Examination, Iron and Steel Failures, 748 Micro-Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs in Illustrations Index
Midi Railway, France, Single-Phase, Overhead Construction, 857
Midland Railway, Rail Corrugation, 332
Military Aeroplane Competition, 833, 8,0
— Engineers, Territorial Army, 264. See 393
— Wireless Telegraphic Sets, Marconi, 316 Milling-Cutters. See Machine-Tools Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools
I Mind and Matter, 671. See 711, 731, 763
! iMiners’ Proposed General Strike, 499
' Minerals of Asia, Treatise on, 484
I — of Katanga, Congo, 570
— Oils. See Oils
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores
Mines, Accidents with Explosives, 427
— Air Analysing Apparatus, 838
. — Cascade Induction-Motors in, 173
1 — Coal. See Collieries
i — de Dourges, France, Bennis Stokers, 825
— Gold, Rand, 4000-H.-P. Turbo-zUr-Compres-
sors (Pokorny and Wittekind), 793
— Gold, West Rand, Electric Winding-Gear, 760
— Iron, Orconera, Spain, Cableway, 553
— Konigsborn, Turbo-Air-Compressors, 791
J — Seismological Phenomena, 384. See 136, 504
| — Winding. See Engines, Winding
Mining, Coal, Japan, 614
— Engineers, Education in South Africa, 201
— Industry, Norway, Labour Disputes, 136, 235, 266, 295. See 77, 297
— Refuse and River Pollution, 134, 230
Mint, Royal, Annual Report, 731
Mixing-Valve, G J 8-Engines, 283
Miyabira Boilers, Japanese Navy, Trials, 97 “ Model Engineer ” Exhibition, 538
Models, Airship. See Aeroplanes and Airships
— Drilled Plate, Stresses in, 282. See 291
— Ship. See Ship Models
— Submarines, Tank Tests, 26, 64
— Testing Institute, Gottingen, Aeronautical Work, 206, 273, 548. See Addenda. 735
Moisture in Air Supply, Boilers (Erratum), 191 Molecular Volumes, Chemical Compounds, 4^1 Molesey, Island Barn Reservoir, 637 Mollett, F. ID. The late, 258
‘ Monarch,” H.M.S., Gun-Mounting, 174
Moncrieff, J. M. ; Practical Training of Engineering Students, 4, 43
Mond Gas, Power Production, Collieries, 803
Montevideo, Meat-Refrigerating Plant, 830
Monthey-Champery Railway, Locomotive, 145
Montreux-Glion Railway, Locomotive, 145 Morgan-Armstrong, Solid Oil Fuel, 535 Morganite Carbon Glands, Turbines, 299." See 219 Morley, A. ; Encastrb Beams, 156 ; Force Fits,
201. See 255
Morocco Iron Ore, German Requirements, 427
Mortars, Lime, 771
Mortising-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Moscicki Condensers, 536
Mothersole, Hartley, The late, 233
Motion, Relative, Principle of Relativity, 419
— Study, Labour Saving by, 357. See 573, 730 Motor-Boats, Armoured, for Turkey, 470
— Boat Race, Baltic, 77
— Boat, Shallow Draught, for China, 191
Motor-Car, B.S.A., 626
— Cars, British and American Design, 626, 679
— Car, Cadillac, and Electrical Equipment, 6 k 9
— Cars, Design of Brakes, 610
— Car, Design of Details, 512
— Car Design. See also Motor-Car Exhibition
— Car Details. See Illustrations Index
— Cars, Electrical Equipment, 629,678
— Car Engines. See Engines
— Car Engines, Possible Fuels, 513
— Oar Exhibition, Olympia, 527, 590, 626, 678,732
— Cars, Japanese Imports, 469
— Cars, Light: Waverley, 628 ; Turner’s, 628 ;
Austin, 629 ; De Dion, 629 ; Humber, 629 ;
Belsize, 629 ; Star, 629. See also 679
— Car, Maudslay, Chain-Drive Gear-Box, 628
— Cars and Road Wear, 569
— Cars, Sankey’s Steel Detachable Wheel, C78,
732
— Car Steering-Gear, Adjustment, 512
— Car Traffic, London and Suburbs, 770
— Car Traffic and street Accidents, 513
— Cars, Wolseley, at Olympia, 527
— Carriages, Single-Phase Electric : 269 • Mar-
tigny-Orsibres Railway, 271 ; Berri-Lbtsch-berg-Simplon Railway, 285 ; Seethalbahn,
— Carriage, Steam, Mount Pilatus Railway, 142
— Carriage,Three-Phase, Burgdorf-Thun Ry., 123
— Cycle, Design, 707
— Cycle Engine and Two-Speed Gear (Velooe),709
— Cycle Exhibition, Olympia, 707
— Electric. See Electric
— Internal-Combustion. See Engines; Motor-
Cars; Motor-Boats; Aeroplanes and Airships; Tractors
— Lifeboats, Wolseley Petrol-Engines for, 12
— Lorries, Government Subsidies, 428
— Marine. See Engines
— Omnibus Statistics, London, 770
— Petrol. See Engines; Motor-Cars ; Motor-
Boats; Tractors; A er oplanes.and Airships
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Wagons, Steam and Petrol, R.A.S. Show, 5
— Wagon, Steam, Self-Tipping (Yorkshire), 5
— Wagon. See also Tractor
Moulding-Machines for Foundry Work, 187, 280,
414, 519, 621, 723, 853. See 540, 574. See Foundry Plant and Machinery Illustrations Index
— Pattern-Plates, 280, 434, 522, 622,725. See 854
— Testing Core-Binding Oils, 171
— Zoelly Turbine Diaphragms, 159; Injector. 433
— See also Foundry Plant and Machinery in
Illustrations Index
Moulds, Foundry, Turn-Table for, 856
Mount Pilatus Railway, Motor-Coach for, 142
Mountain Railways, Swiss, Locomotives, 137,142
Mountains, Origin of, 136
Municipal Trading, London Boroughs, 640
— Tramways, Depreciation Funds, 500
Muntz Metal Corrosion in Sea-Water, 473
Murday Electric Clocks, 872
Murdock Relics, Presentation to Birmingham, 676
National Insurance Bill. See Insurance
— Physical Laboratory, Opening Experimental
Tank, 27
Naval Airship Accident, 428
— Architects Education, Charlottenburg, 43 51
— Architects, Education of, Historical, 60 ’
— Architects, German Institution of, 714 715 •
See 706. Year-Book, 822
Naval Architects, Institution of:
Jubilee Meeting :
Preliminary Remarks, 24
Discussions, 25, 47
Inaugural Meeting, 25
Opening Remarks, Duke of Connaught, 25
Presidential Address, Marquis of Bristol, 12
History of the Institution and of Scientific
Education in Naval Architecture, bv S r
William H. White, K.C.B., 13, 25, 58
Tributes by Foreign Delegates, 25
Fifty Years’ Architectural Expression of
Tactical Ideas, by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, G.C.B , 25, 37
Progress of Naval Construction in Japan by Rear-Admiral Motoki Kondo, 15, 26
Results of Experimental-Tank Tests on Models of Submarines, by M, S. Chace
Naval Architects, Inst, ^continued.
Fiftv Years’ Changes in British Warship
FlfbyMachinery, bj Engineer Vice-Adnural
Sir Henry J. Oram, 18, 2o
Rational Application of Turbines Propulsion of Warships, by A. C. E.
Marine^team-Turbine from 1894 to 1910, by the Honourable Sir Charles A. Parsons,
Our Present2 Knowledge of ^e Vibration Phenomena of Steamers, by D .
Schlick, 27, 301
Luncheon at Lloyd’s, 27, 50' , T . 97
Opening of National Experimental Tank, Development of Merchant Shipbuilding in
Japan, by Dr. S. Tcrano and M. Yukawa, 47,107 . ..
Fifty Years’ Development in Mercanl le Ship Construction, by S. J. P. inearie,
Recent Developments in the Sea Transportation of Swedish Ore, by J. Johnson, 5/
Shipping on the Great Lakes, by F. E. Kirbj and A. P. Rankin, 62 .
Remarks on the Design and Service Performance of theTrans-Pacific Liners Tenyo Maru” and “Chiyo Maru,” by Professor S. Terano and Prof. Baron C. Shiba, 208 Progress of Naval Engineering in Japan, by Engineer Rear-Admiral T. Fujii, 48, 9?
Scientific Study of Naval Architecture in Germany, by Prof. Flamm, 48, 54
Some Further Notes on Cavitation, by b. w. Barnaby, 49, 55. See 5u
Propeller Phenomena, Lantern and Uine-matograph Views, by Prof. Flamm, 50,55 Fifty Years’ Progress of Shipbuilding in Italy, by Colonel G. Russ-', 50
Notes on Progress in Naval Artillery, by Sir Andrew Noble, 51, 93
Warship Building, 1860 to 1910, by Sir Philip Watts, K.O.B., bl' _ t
Armour for Ships, 1860 to 1910, by C. E.
Ellis, 51, 111. See 104
Visits, Excursions, &c., 25, 27, 50, 52
Banquet, 50
Votes of Thanks, 51
— Architects and Marine Engineers, American
Society of, 718, 747, 810
— Architecture, Progress of, 13, 58. See 25
— Colliers, U.S., Turbo-Electric Installation, 310,
332 ; Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 663
— Construction, 1860 to 1910, 51
— Construction, British, 1911, 867
— Construction, Director of, 73, 568
— - Construction, Italian, Fifty Years’ Progress, 50
— Construction, Japanese Progress, 15, 26
— Construction. See also Warships
— Dockyard, Austrian, Pola, Floating Crane, 861
— Dockyards, Japanese, 15, 110
— Engineer-Captain Appointments, 139
— Engineer Officers, Japanese, 98
— Engineer Officers and Men, 21, 26
— Engineer Officers’ Training, 358. See 640
— Guns. See Guns
— Machinery. See Warships; Boilers; En
gines ; Turbines ; Marine Propulsion
— Marine Engineering, British, Historical, 18, 26
— Marine Engineering, Japanese Progress, 48, 95
— Officers, British, Training, 358, 640
— Officers, Chinese, Training Cruiser for, 78, 826
— Officers, French, Training, 501
— Programme, British, 465
— Reserve, Royal, Warrant Engineers and En
gine-Room Artificers, 795
— Shipbuilding, Thames Iron Works, 672
— Tactics, and Design of Warships, 25, 37 Navigation, Aerial. See Aeroplanes and Airships
— Inland. See Inland Navigation; Canals
— International Congress, Philadelphia Meet
ing, 864
Navy, Australian, 570
— Brazilian, Storage of Smokeless Powder, 237
— British, Need for Submarines, 673
— British, and the Declaration of London, 24
— Estimates, Debate in Parliament, 24
— Japanese, Trials of Water-Tube Boilers, 97
— League Annual, 753
— Programme, German, 428
— U.S., Holland Submarine-Boats, 655. See 673
— See also Naval; Warships
NecaxaHydro-Electric Power Plant, 237, 239 Neo-Philistinism. See Literature and Science Neon Vacuum-Tubes, Lighting by, 807 “Neptune,” United States Collier, Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 663
Neuhausen Aluminium Works, Hydraulic Turbines and Generators, 153
New York City, Catskill Water System, 117
— Zealand, Bonus for Hemp Machinery, 574, 875 Newcastle Electric Supply, Dunston Station, 7
— Meeting. See Metals, Institute of “Newhaven,” French Turbine Steamer, 642 Nickel-Copper Alloys, 394. See 435
— Iron Storage Battery, Edison, 535
— and Nickel-Chromium Steel, Case-Hardening
651, 681. See 711, 763
— Steel, Alternating-Stress Tests, 247, 580. See < 840
— Steel, Bridge Construction, 770
Nile Irrigation Works, Treatise on, 522 Nitrate Manufacture from Atmosphere, 346 Nitro-Cellulose Industry, Treatise on, 484
— Powder, Stability of, 237, 432, 463, 600
— Powders, Nature and Pressure-of Gases, 94 Nitro Glycerine Powder, Stability 237,432,463,60) Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Electrical Fixation, 346
— Electric Discharge in, After-Glow, 837. See 646 Noble, Sir A., Progress in Naval Artillery, 51,93 Non-Conducting Coverings, Effect of Painting,
395; Surface Temperature and Efficiency, 395
Non-Ferrous Alloys, Heat Treatment, 511, 542
— Metals, on L. and Y. Railway, 393, 399, 433 North-East Coast Electric Supply, Dunston
Power-Station, 7
North-Eastern Railway, Bridge Demolition, 49C North Lopham, Boiler Explosion, 267
North, Notes from, 29, 79, 104, 130, 166, 194, 227, 258, 288, 320, 354, 388,422, 460, 496, 530, 564 596, 632, 668, 703, 734, 766, 798, 831, 864
lt North West,” American Lake Steamer, 64 Norway, Nitrate Manufacture, 316 -Tyssedalen Hydro-Electric Power « 2o2 Norwegian Ballistite, Nature and Pre.sure ot
Gases, 91
z sxwxftfi- mw. * Notched T^e-^rs,’Stresses in, Optical Determi-Notes^e^I^
Yorkshire, United States, Industrial, and
Legal. See also Paragraph Index Notodden, Norway, Nitrate Manufacture, alb Nozzle Design, Steam-Turbines, 216, 12.7 Nozzles, Air-Measuring, Turbo-Compressor, /94 NUrnberg Marine Diesel Engines, 346, 4/1
Obituary: Allen, T. I., 865
Arthur, N. S., 665
Blum, Dr.-Ing. Emil, 795
Bower, G., 734
Broadhurst, Henry, 492
Carels, Gustave, 112
Conacher, J., 565
Crossley, Sir W. J., Part., 492, 525
Davey, D. C., 564
Dixon, James S., LL.D., 103
Foden, Edwin, 329
Hallett, Holt S., 677
Harlow, Benjamin, 597
Hodgson, W., 258
Ho’t, Alfred, 730
Howson, Richard, 236
Inglis, Sir James C., 835
Knight, Robert, 393
Last, William Isaac, 190
Lindeck, Professor S., CC9
Martin, J , 799
Martin, Wm. C., 596
Mason, C. T., 497
Mollett, F. H., 258
Motherede, Hartley, 2S3
Rees, I. T., 22
Riches, T. Hurry, 325. See 555
Smith, William, 677
Smythe, T. D , 329
Sonnenthal, G., 496
Spring, Professor Walthcre, 2G0
Steadman, W. C., 139
Stoney, Dr. G. J., 28
Taplin, H. J., 767
Thornhill, E. B., 329
Troost, Professor, L. J., 633
Widmann, Edouard, 782
Observatory, Falmouth, Magnetic Observations, 384
— Solar, in Australia, 3:3
Oerlikon Engineering Works, 153; Electrolytic Hydrogen Plant , 583; Turbo-Generator, Trials, 530
Oils, Absorption of Moisture, 775
— Barge, Mavor’s Electric Transmission, 310, 332
— Compressibility of, 102
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Diesel Engines;
Motor-Cars; Motor-Launches; Tractors
— Fields, Maikop, Russia, 199
— Fuel Burner, Lassoe-Lovekin, 209
— Fuel Burner, Locomotives, Holden’s, 819
— Fuel Burner, Locomotives, Tehuantepec Rail
road, 812. See 819
— Fuel Consumption, Diesel Engines, 677
— Fuel Consumption, Japanese Steamers, 210
— Fuel Consumption, Locomotives, 819, 843.
See 874
— Fuel for Diesel Engines, 139, 149
— Fuel Installations, Japanese Steamers, 208
— Fuel Installation, Wallsend-IIowden System,
T.-S.S. “ Princess Alice,” 764
— Fuel Locomotives, Great Eastern Railway, 819
— Fuel Locomotives, Tehuantepec Railroad", 819,
841. See 874
— Fuel, Mallet Locomotive, Southern Pacific
Railway, 791
— Fuel, Mexican, Properties, 843
— Fuel, Solid, Armstrong-Morgan, 535
— Fuel, “Stock ” Steel Converter, 53
— Fuel, Texas, Properties, 841
— Fuel, Tosi Multi-Tubular Boilers, 235
— Lubricating, and Condenser Tube Corrosion.
473 I
— Petroleum, Testing, 419
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Transformer, Insulation Tests, 743
— Vegetable, Tests for Adulterants, 171
— Weighing-Machine, Automatic, 5
— See also Lubrication
Olive Bridge Dam, Ashokan Reservoir, 119 Olympia. See Exhibition
“Olympic,” T.-S S., Collision with H.M.S.
“ Hawke,” 429. See 711, 876
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor-Omnibus
Omnibuses, Trackless Trolley System, 100, 740 Optical Apparatus, Physical Society’s Exhibition 871
— Determination, Stresses in Notched and
Drilled Tie-Bars, 782
— Extensometers, Lateral Strain, 115, 787
— Extensometer, “Granta,” 871
— Pyrometers. See Pyrometers.
— Work, Reichsanstalt, 775
Oram, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir IL J.; Changes in British Warship Machinery, 18, 26
Orconera Iron Mines, Spain. Cableway, 553 Ordnance. See Guns ; Explosives ; Warships Ore Bins, Chute-Closing Mechanism, 58 Ore-Carrying Steamers, Great Lakes, America. 62
— Steamers, Swedish, 57
Ore-Handling Plant, Great Lakes. America, 63 Ore, Iron, Norwegian Deposits, 869
— Iron, World’s Production, 835
— Unloading Machines, Hulett, Great Lakes, 63 Onoa’- BafctleshiP» with 13.5-In. Guns,
29a ; Trials, 465. See 868
Osaka, Foreign Trade, 1910, 523. See 468 Oscillograph. See Electric
LamP8> Photometric Tests, 466 Otaki, S.S., Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, Trials, 36 .
Ovens, Steam-Heated, Bakers’, 362
Overhead Construction, Single-Phase, Midi wav, France. 857
— Lines, Lightning Protection, Moscicki Con
densers, 536
Overwind Preventer, Winding Engines, Gott’s, 560 ; Westinghouse Electric, 762
Owens, Dr. J. S.; Smoke Abatement, 349, 370 See 431
Oxides, Metallic, Electrical Properties, 473
Oxy-Acetylene Blow-Pipe, Bridge Removal, 489
— Acetylene Welds, Microscopic Examination
and Tests, 844
Ozone, Electric Discharge in, 646. See 837
— Generating Apparatus, Ventilation, &c., 536
Packing, Carbon, Turbine Glands, 219, 299
— Labyrinth, Turbines, Steam Leakage, 308, 309 — Metallic, Piston-Red, Belgian Locomotive, 596 Painting, Effect on Steam-Pipe Coverings, 395 Panama Canal, Electric Towing Locomotives, 632 Pannell, J. R.; Tests of Welded Joints, 814 Paraffin Motors. See Engines, Oil
— Oil, Compressibility of, 102
“ Paragon,” Electric Steel-Melting Furnace, 468 Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway, 4-6-2 Type
Locomotive, 317 ; Trials of Compounding and Superheating, 317
Parkend School of Forestry, 431
Parliament, Private Bills, Engineering Work, 739 Parsons, Hon. Sir C. A.; History of Marine
Steam-Turbine, 26, 32; Compressibility of Liquids, 101
— Marine Steam-Turbine Co., Report, 505. See
Erratuln, 525
. — Turbines. See Turbines
Paschen Galvanometer and Thermopile, 837
Patents Act, India, 574
Patent Law. See also Legal
Patent Records, 82, 113, 151,212, 244, 304, 339 372, 406, 443, 480, 515, 549, 582, 615, 653, 687* 752, 783, 815, 849, 880. See Patent Index ’
i Patrol Boats, Turkish (Thornycroft), 470 Pattern-Making Machines. See Machine-Tools Patterns, Gear Wheels, Machine for Cutting, 282 Pattern Plates for Moulding, 280, 434, 522, 622 725. See 854
j Patterson-Allen Pipe-Flanging Machine, 236 Pauling Furnace, Nitrate Manufacture, 347 Paul’s Overhead Construction, Midi Railway, 857
— Slide Potentiometer, 871
Peat, Producer-Gas Plant, Portadown, Ireland, 774. See Erratum, 799
Pelton Wheel, Belfast Technical Institute, 780
— Wheels (Escher Wyss and Co.), 88
— Wheels, Necaxa Power Plant, 237, 240; Rio
de Janeiro, 242 ; Brusio, 253
— Wheels, Tests, 158, 179, 717
Pendulum, Gyroscopic, Rolling of Ships, <805 Peninsular and Oriental Liner “ Medina,” 560 Pension Funds, French Railways, 602. See 324 Pentane Standard Lamps, Atmospheric Influences, 199
Perforation Tests, Iron and Steel Plates, 807
“ Perkins,” U.S. Destroyer, Curtis Turbines, 215.
See 785
Permanent Ways, Rack Railways, 142
Permeability, Magnetic, Measuring, 418
Perpetual Motion Electrometer, Radium, 873 Persoz Perforation Tests, Metal Plates, .807 Petavel, Prof. J. E.; Practical Training of College
Students, 2, 41
Petrol Air-Gas Plant, “ County,” 177
— Motors. See Engines, Petrol ; Moto Cm s;
Motor-Boats; Tractors; Aeroplanes mid A irships
Petroleum. See Oil
Petter’s Two-Cycle Oil-Engines, 5 ; Tractor 773
Pfleiderer-Thyssen Rotary Air-Pump, 320
Philadelphia Meeting, International Navigation Congress, 864
Philippine Islands, Trade with, 652
Phosphor-Bronze, L. and Y. Railway, 433
— Slide-Valves, Locomotives, 394, 403
I holographs, Micro. See Micro-Photographs \n Illustrations Index
Photography, Dallmeyer’s Telephoto Lenses, 839 Photometric Tests, Electric Lamps, 466 Photometrical Work, Reichsanstalt, 175
I hotometry, Effect of Atmosphere on Standard Lamps, 199
Physical Constants, Tables of, 753
Physical Laboratory. See National Physical Laboratory; Reichsanstalt.; Gottingen.
1 hysical Laws and Social Problems, 425
— Science, Value of Observations, 379
Physical Society:
?n»Mild St.eel- w- Nason, 81 New Method of Harmonic Analysis by Averaging Selected Ordinates, by Prof. S p Thompson, 81
Demonstration of the Subjective Nature of the Difference Tone, by Prof. S. P Thompson, 81
Demonstration of Spinning-Tops and Gyro-M . ?C9.P1C Apparatus, by Sir G. Greenhill, 81 Model Illustrating the Passage of a Light
ARen ^r0Ugh Quartz> bY Prob H. N. Measurement of Contact Differencesof Potential, by Prof. A. Anderson and J. E. Bowen, 81
Further Observations on the After-Glow of Electric Discharge and Kindred Pheno-rrA ™ena>by ™0D‘ R- J- Strutt, 646. See 837 Homogeneous Fluorescent X-Radiation of a
Second Senes, by Prof. C. G. Barkla and J. Nicol, 646
Po.arised Light Apparatus for Stress Determination, Exhibition, by Prof. E. G Coker, 782
Experiments on Surface Tension, by C. R. Darling, 782 » J
Effects of Holes and Semi-Circular Notches on the Distribution of Stress in Tension lhJ?n,ber8,’ by Prof* E* G- Coker, 782 armonograph, Exhibited, by Prof. S. P.
Thompson, 782
hy8,®?°Scal Effect of Alternating Magnetic r lelds, Demonstration by Prof. S. P« •Thompson, 782
Physical Society—continued.
Experiments in Acoustics, by Prof. S. P. Thompson, 782
Maximum Value of the Electrio Stress between Two Unequal Spherical Electrodes, by Dr. A. Russell, 810
Cubical Expansion of Fused Silica, by F. J. Harlow, 810
Temperature Coefficient of Diffusion, by B. W. Clack, 810
Alpha Particles Emitted by the Active Deposits of Thorium and Actinium, by E. Marsden and T. Barrett, 810 !
Magnetic Transition Temperature of Cementite, by S. W. J. Smith, W. White, and S. G. Barker, 810
Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 837, 870
Electric Discharge and the Luminosity that Survives it, by Hon. R. J. Strutt-, 837. See 646
Physiological Chemistry, Functions of Enzymes, 452
— Effects, Alternating Magnetic Field, 782
— Effects of Vibration, 312, 333
Picketing in Trade Disputes, 230, 261
Piers, Bridges, Effects of Earthquakes, 263
— Construction Schemes in Parliament, 741
— Foundations, Coteau Bridge, 448
— Railway Bridge, Vibrations, 262 *
— See also Bridge ; Foundations
Pig Iron, Carbon in, 483, 507
— Iron, German Production, 103, 427, 835
— Iron, Methods of Grading 483, 507
— Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Iron, Tests of Autogenous Welds, 817
— Iron, World’s Production, 835
Pilatus Railway, Motor-Coach for, 142
Piles, Concrete, “ Compressol” System, 721
Pillars. See Columns ■
Pinch Effect, Electric Furnaces, 325
Pipes, Air-Flow, Pitot Tube Measurements, 534
— Compressed-Air, Inertia Effects, 166
— Copper, Steam, Locomotive, 401; Brazing
Flanges, 401; Wear, 402
Pipe Facing and Flange-Drilling Machine, 489
— Flanging Machine, Patterson-Allen, 236
— Friction, Water, Experiments, 780 I
— Lathe, Hollow-Spindle, 488
— Lines, Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 240, 212,
252, 253, 254, 717
— Steam, Copper, Failure of Brazed Joint, 407
— Steam, Explosion, Stratford Electricity
Works, 614
— Steam, Lagging Materials, Effect of Painting,
395; Surface Temperature and Efficiency, 395
— Steel, Socket-Forming Machine, 488
— Welded Steel, Plant for Making, 485
Piston Cooling, Diesel Engines, 149
— Rings, Locomotive, Life with Superheated
Steam, 691
— Rod-Packing, Metallic, Locomotive, 596
— Valves, Belgian Locomotive, 593
— Valve, Rotary, Massey’s Steam Hammers, 878 Pitot Tube Measurements, Air-Flow in Pipes, 534 Pitting. See Corrosion
Plan-Sifter, Robinson’s Two-Crank, 6
Planck-Wien Law, Heat Radiation, 743 Planing-Machine. See Machine-Tools Plates in Air Current, Pressure on, 198. See 255
— Bending Rolls. See Machine-Tools
— Boiler, Tests of Autogenous Welds, 845
— Copper, Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 394, 399 ;
Specification, 435
— Curved, Air Pressure on, 273
— Drilled and Punched, Stresses in, 280, 291.
See 782
— Falling, Eiffel’s Experiments, 255
— Flanging-Press, Horwich Works, 400
— Iron and Steel, Heat Treatment and Mag
netic Properties, 775
— Metal, Persoz Perforation Tests, 837
— Patterns, Moulding, L. and Y. Railway, 434
— Stresses, near Holes, 280, 291. See 782
Plating, Electro, Marino Process, 806
Platinum Resistance Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Plotting Curves, Method of Interpolation, 660,730 Ploughing-Engines. See also Tractors Pneumatic Moulding-Machine, Brookhouse, 519
— Power Transmission, Collieries, 803. See 876
— Power Transmission, Closed-Circuit System,
876. See 803
— Tyres, Motor-Car, Interchangeability, 512
— See also Compressed Air
Pola Naval Dockyard, Floating Crane, 861 Polarisation Effects, Corrosion of Metals, 474 Polarised Light, Stress Determination, Notched and Drilled Tie-Bars, 782
Poles, Telegraph, Ferro-Concrete, Tests, 539 Polishing-Machine, Micro-Sections, 864
Pollution, River Elbe, by Salts, 134 I
— River, by Mining Refuse, 134, 230
Pontoons, Bridge Erection by, 448
— Timber, Floating-Dock, 812
Port. See also Harbours ; Docks
Portable Engine. See Engine
Portadown, Peat Producer-Gas Plant, 774. See Erratum, 799
Porte Decimo and Busalla Electric Railway, 676 Portland Cement. See Cement
Portsmouth Meeting. See British Association Positive Rays, Reichsanstalt Experiments, 743 Potentiometer. See Electric
Powder, Gun. See Gun-Powder ; Explosives
Power Costs, Steam, Suction-Gas, and Diesel Engines, 344, 367, 369, 475
— Electric, Schemes in Parliament, 740
— Gas. See Engines, Gas; Blast-Furnace Gas; Producer-Gas ; Suction-Gas
— Hammer. See Machine-Tools
— Plants, Boiler Insurance Companies’ Specifi
cations, 763, 798
— Plant Failures, 533
— Plants. See also Electric; Hydro-Electric
— Rating, Gas-Engines, 344, 345
— Rating, Motor-Car Engines, 802
— Station, Dunston, Newcastle Electric Supply, 7
— Stations, Electric, Cost of Gas and Oil-Driven Plant, 74
— Station, Electric, Gas-Driven (Swiss Locomotive and Engineering Works), 90
Power Stations, Electric, Gas and Oil-Engines for, 74, 803. See 876
— Station, Electric, Johannesburg,Litigation,505
— Stations, Electric: Super’s Works, 84 •
Escher Wyss and Co., 88
— Station, Electric, Turin Exhibition, 234
— Stations, Gas-Driven, Collieries, 803. See 876
— Station, Prince Rupert Harbour, 812
— Stations, Steam or Hydro-Electric, Nitrate
Manufacture, 347
— Stations. See also Electric ; Hydro-Electric
— Transmission, Compressed-Air, Closed-Cir
cuit System, 876. See 803
— Transmission Lines, Electric, Lightning Pro
tection, Moscicki Condensers, 536
— Transmission Lines, Electric, and Protective
Devices, Trollhattan, 376
— Transmission Schemes. Collieries, 803. See 876
— Water. See Hydraulic, Hydro-Electric, and
Electric
Practical Training. See Education
Prasil, Dr. F. ; Experiments with Francis Turbines and Pelton Wheels, 158, 179
Presidential Addresses : British Association, by Sir W. Ramsay, 291 ; Section A, bv Prof. H. H. Turner, 379 ; Chemical Section, by Prof. J. Walker, 450; Engineering Section, by Prof. J. H. Biles, 299, 309
Institution of Automobile Engineers, bv L A. Legros, 512
— Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. W C
Unwin, 643. See 635
— Institution of Naval Architects, by the Marquis
of Bristol, 12 *
— Rontgen Society, by A. A. Campbell Swinton,
671. See 711, 731, 763
Press, Flanging, Hydraulic, Horwich Works, 400 Pressed Steel Work, Deformation of Metal 774 Pressure Gauges, Hydraulic Diaphragm, Testing
Machines, 224 °
— Gauge, Stiickrath, Reichsanstalt, 775 Pndmore Moulding-Machines, 414. See 540 574 Priestley-Vedovelli, Overhead Construction, Midi
Railway, 858
Primrose, J. S. G.; Micrographic Examination of Failures, 748
Prince Rupert Harbour and Floating Dock, 810 ‘Princess Alice/’ T.-S.S., Oil Fuel, Canadian Pacific Railway, 764
Proctor’s Mechanical Stoker, 675
“Prodano,” S.S., Steam-Pipe Explosion, 407
Producer Gas Blow-Pipes, Pipe Welding, 485
— Gas Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Gas-Fired Retorts, Gas Works, 493
— Gas Plant, 14-H.-P. Portable, Capel’s, 5
— Gas Plant, Johannesburg, Litigation, 505
— Gas Plant, Peat, Portadown, Ireland (Oro-s-
ley Bros., Ltd.), 774. See Erratum, 799
— Gas Plant, Pipe-Welding Works, 486
— Gas Plant, Ship Propulsion, “Holzapfel I.,” 677
— Gas Plants, Steam, and Diesel Engines, Com
parisons, 344, 367, 369, 475
— Gas Plants, Suction, Costs, 344, 475
— Gas, Power Production, Collieries, 803
Prony Brake. See Brake
Propellants for Guns. See Gun-Powder; Explosives
Propellers, Aerial. See Aeroplanes and A irships
— Design, French Turbine Destroyers, 32
— Interaction, Steamers on Parallel Courses. 711
876. See 429
— Screw, Action of, 49, 50, 55
— Screw, Efficiency of, 631
— Screw, Turbine-Driven, Cavitation, 49, 50, 55.
— Screw, and Vibrations of Steamers, 27, 301
— Trials, British Warships, 868
Propulsion of Ships. See Ships; Steamers; Engines; Turbines; Propellers; Marine Propulsion; Warships
Protective Devices, Overhead Lines and Cables Moscicki Condensers and Giles’s Valves, 536 Public Works, Development Commission, 327 Puissesseau Cargo Derrick, 141
Pumps, Air and Circulating, Dunston Station, 8
— Air, Thyssen-Pfleiderer Rotary, 320
— ?ee also ^-Compressor; Condenser
— Centrifugal, Casing Casting, Sulzer’s, 85
— Centrifugal, Floating-Dock, 813
— Centrifugal, Hydraulic Propulsion of Ships,
570, 596, 631 p ’
— Centrifugal, and Petrol-Engine, 6
— Centrifugal Sinking, Sulzer’s, 85
Centrifugal, and Steam-Turbine, Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 664
-- Electrically-Driven, Self-Starting, 422
— Gas, Humphrey, Patent Decision, 295
— Gas, Humphrey, Ship Propulsion, 570, 596,
631
— Gas, Humphrey, Turin Exhibition, 250
— Vacuum, High Vacua, Cossor’s, 838
Pumping Plant, Land Drainage, Ferrara, 296
Plants, Suction-Gas, Wording Costs, 476
— Station, Hydraulic, Grosvenor-Road, 77
Pye, D. R.; Mechanical Properties of Hard-Drawn Copper, 395, 403
Pyrometers, Compensation for Thermo-Couples,
— Platinum, Comparison with Gas Thermo
meters, 742
— Radiation, Foster Fixed-Focus, 870
— Radiation, Whipple-F6ry, 135, 837
— Reichsanstalt Tests, 775
— Test of Seger Cones, 775
Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quartz, Adsorption of Salts, 418
Quartz-Mercury Thermometers, 871
Quartz, Passage of Light through, 81
Quay. See Harbour; Pocks ; Wharves
Quebec Bridge Design, 769
Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns; Warships
Quicksilver. See Mercury, Metal-Price Diagrams
Rack Locomotives, Swiss Railways, 137,142
— Railways, Forms of Track, 142
Radiation, Heat, from the Earth, 385
— Heat, from Laggings, 395
— Heat, Wien-Planck Law, 743
— Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
— Secondary, from X-Rays, 646
— Solar, and the Origin of Aurone, 383
Radiators, Electric, Ferranti, 456
Radioactive Substances, Properties of, 292
Radioactivity, Corpuscular Theory, 418
~ Experiments, Physical Society’s Exhibition,
<5/1 ’
mi,d Griffin of Aurorae, 383
~ T Particles,"810ACfciniUm’ Emission of A'pha
Radiotelegraph}'. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric y
Radium, Energy Stored in, 292
“ Perpetual Motion Electrometer, 871
Kail Corrugation, Midland Railway, 332
- nn?inwhy’iW!arand Corrugations, 319, 33) and Wheels, Area of Contact, 331
Railless Electric Road Traction, 100, 740
Railroad, Tehuantepec National, Oil-Fuel Loco-motives, 819, 841. See 874
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
BType 5S25at593PaSSenger Locomot'ive. 4-6-2
~ B?ionL 154*285^'Simplon> Single-Phase Tiac-
— Bessbrook and Newry, 138
— Breakdown Crane, 35-Ton, 797
— Bridge. See Bridge
— British, New Construction, 221. See 231
— British, Statistics, 197, 203 231
~ Aires Great Southern, Statistics, 572
Buenos Aires Western, Statistics, 572
Burgdorf-Thun, Three-Phase Traction, 122
~ 0nH Fuel, 764 C’ T"S-S' “ ^incess Alice,”
— Canadian, Progress, 38?, 592
— Canton-Kowloon, 707
Carriages. See Carriages
~ Algentine>/-6'2 Type Locomotive, 22
I — Chinese, Progress, 504, 572, 707. See 807;
Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 261,
— Conciliation Boards, New Scheme, 567
_ w™I\"UOUSJFrfoti?,n’ ScrewSystem, 349
Egyptian State, Feed-Heating and Superheating, 213,275, 341,445, 517, 617, 690, 753. See Errata, 321, 798 ; Trials of Compounding and Superheating, 690 1
— Electric. See Electric
Employees and the Insurance Bill, 231
— Employees’ Strike, 229, 261, 323, 499, 567, 705 Engadm-Rhatische Bahn, Electric Traction, 400 ’
— Engineers’ Education, 676 •
— FrpSn^eip! International Congress, Italy, 676 French, Financial Statistics, 602. See 324
— French State, T.S.S. “Newhaven,” 642
— French, Workmen’s Tickets, 324
— C'r1?n°HUTMYrt^n’Inj1’ E1ectric Traction, 124 Crand Trunk, Canada, Coteau Bridge 448
G‘and Fk>'»rk Prince Rupert Harbour
and 1 loating-Dock, 810
— Great Eastern, Oil-Fuel Locomotives, 819
— Haliln 6% e°triC Train-Li8hting, 750
— Italian State, 4-6-2-Type Locomotive, 192, 258 Lancashire and Yorkshire, Use of Non-
Ferrous Metals, 393, 399, 433 ; 4-6 0-Tvne
Locomotive, 399 •ypB
Locomotive. See Locomotive
— L. B. and S. C.; Electrification Results, 231
Mnv?- Turnham Green Widening, 489
— Martingy-Orsidres, Single-Phase Traction, 270
WidPenin“489DiStriCt’ TUmham Green
— Midi Single-Phase, Overhead Construction,
Ou/ ’
North-Eastern, Bridge Demolition, 490
Norwegian, Electrification, 200
— Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean, 4-6-2-Type Loco
motive, 317; Trials of Compounding and Superheating, 317 g
— Porte Decimo and Busalla, Italy, 676
— Rack, Forms of Track, 142
~ R°W^ons°<!k' See Carria9ee >' Locomotives;
— Sand Safety Sidings, 359
— Schemes in Parliament, 739
— Screw-Couplings and Tests, 562
Seebach-Wettingen, Electric Traction, 189
Seethalbahn, Single-Phase Traction, 269
— Signalling, Mercury Contact Treadle, 420
— Signals. See Signals
e?!np'.?n Tunnel, Electric Locomotives, 125
— Situation, 231. See 197, 203
— Southern Pacific, 2-6-6-2 Type Mallet Com
pound Locomotive, 791
— Spanish, Statistics, 223
St. Gothard, Electrification, 286
“ S'19s’- P?Sti .of Construction and Working, 123 , Electric Lines, 127, 271 ®
~ 9«o’ ^e°niC ?raction 121, 137, 144,189,
269, 285 ; Rack Locomotives, 137, 142
Irattic, London and Suburban, 771
—- Trains, Acceleration, 350
— Trains Air-Resistance in Tunnels, 127
Train Brake. See Brake
~ ^System^SO1”0 Lighting’ Brake'Vehicle
— Tunnels. See Tunnels
•— Underground, London, Working Results, 232.
0CC ( ( J.
Elanges, Lubrication, 631, 636. See
/ <51
«yrei’ Flange Wear- 636- See 631, 731 Rainfall, Sun-Spot, and Earthquake Cycles
Jamaica, 384 ' '
Ramsay, Sir W.; Presidential Address, British Association, 291
Rand Gold-Mines, Turbo-Air-Compressors and
Tests, 793 ; Electric Winding-Gear, 760
Rateau’ A C 1 |hi^inF- On the Great Lakes, 62
K L Fno-iLH E.; Turbines and Reciprocating
Engines for Warships, 26, 31
R«,’oDgA Horse-Power, Motor-Car Engines, 802
Solar Prominences, 743
Cathode, Reichsanstalt Experiments, 743
— Corpuscular Nature, 418
Eeichsanstalt Experiments, 743
Recalde, Spanish Gunboat, 288
Recorder10?'01 Land-> PumPmg Plant for, 296
Recorder, Gyroscopic Pendulum, Rolling of omps, oUo
— Revolutions and Explosions, Gas Engines,
Rectifiers, Alternating-Current, Mercury Vapour,
Pooj'vT ®ears- ®ee Gears; Gearing
Fraiun’s, 872
Reflectors, Fluorescent, Mercury Vapour Lamps, Refrigerating Chambers, Temperature Variation, — Plant, Beer-Chilling, 535
Plant, Belfast Technical Institute 779
P ants, Meat Storage, South America 8’1
Plants, Ammonia Compression Sulzer 880 Refrigerator, Domestic, Carri Princin e
Refuse Destructor Clinker, Magne^leparator, ~ D«t™>tor, Horsfall Tub-Feed, Mersey Docks,
Reichsanstalt, 1910 Report, 742 775
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete.
Repairs, Locomotive, Cost of, 391. See 400
Locomotive Fire-Boxes. 400. See 391
- Hvd°ro’F|3Pn?kan’PNe"’ York Water Supply, 117 2^2 M7 ° See 15O8Wer Plant8> 239> 240^211.
— Island Barn, Metropolitan Water Board 637 Resistance, Air ; Airship Models, 198 208 ’
q/onaim0Imter- ■ See dynamometer
— See also Electric
Ret°lev 49V y°odal,-Duckham Vertical, Burn-
. ley, 493 ; Lausanne, 495
'■ S^e Lit®Ratvre Index
Revolution Counter, Gas-Engines 017
Rhatische Bahn, Sinele-Phase Traction 285 Rheinfelden Hydro-Electric Power P?ant 137 Rhodamine Reflectors, Mercu J-Vapou^llmps, Ribbon Metals, Manufacture, 872
““ ****• Ste“»
R;ches, T. Hurry, The late, 325. See 555
R ST ? R?ck Mou’Rain Railways, 142
Rigi Railway, Locomotives for, 142 *
Rings Piston and Valve, Locomotive, Life with
Superheated Steam, 691 ’ WIttl
Rio deJaneiro, Hydro-Electric Power Plant, Risorgimento Ferro-Concrete Bridge Rome 791 Rlyer Canalisation, German, 359 g ’ R ’ 721 — Clyde, Deepening, 396
5 Water’ Salts in, 134
RivetHAlM qT Minin8' Refuse, 134, 230
p‘vet-Holes, Stresses near, 280, 291. See 782
1 Road-Binders, Bituminous, Tests, 78, 297
— Board s Experiments, Kent, 78, 297
— Board, Report, 569
Bridges. See Bridges
i ~ Improvement, London, 30, 79
1 ~ RoUeJ> PeJrol, Water-Ballast, 5
Traction, Railless Electric, 100, 740
~ w r’ ®Jeasurin& Apparatus, 839
— Wear, Motor-Car Traffic, 569
Roberts, A. H.; Loch Leven Water-Power Works,
RolllX^njs® T!Xn,°6ThiCk Cyli“der8’ 786
Dam, Trollhattan Power Plant, 374
Road. See Road-Holler
RoJhng L°adS, Structural Design, Influence Lines,
— Mfll^Electric Drive, Skinningrove Iron Works,
— of Ships. See Ships
Roof Trusses, Treatise on Design, 88
Ropes, Air Resistance of, 273, 548. See 735
Hope-Gripping Device, Cableways, Bleichert 554 Ropes, Wire, 120-Ton Crane, 861 ’ 654
Ropes, Wire, Repeated Bending Tests, 695
Ropeways, Aerial, Construction of Dam, 120
Ropeway, Wire, Spanish Ore-Washing Plant 553 Ropeways Wire, Bleichert Rope-Grip 554 ’ Ropner s Trunk Steamers, 72 P
556’ 575: mTfioTT T Rotatin? Beams, aob, o7o, 612, 693. See Letters. 731 84o
Rosenham, W.; Aluminium Zinc Alloys 408 438
346 471 ’ CrUde'Oil Engines®
Rotary Blowers. See Blowers
See Sn9ines; Aeroplanes and Air-orc CJJo
— Pump. See Pump
Rotating Beam-Testing Machine and Results , 056, 515,612, 693. See 731 ’
Royal Agricultural Society. See Aaricultn-ml
Mmt°rolo"lcal Society. See Meteorological Mint, Annual Report, 731 J
~ oav7' s?e Navy; Naval; Warships
Sanitary Institute, Belfast Congress, 174
~ Saly’p^Si°n of Liquids’by Hon-Sir
Rubber, Artificial Preparation, 75
Rubber Cord-Cutting Machine, 76
Exhibition, Agricultural Hall, 75
— Model, Stresses in Drilled Plate, 282. See 291
— Re-Forming Processes, 75
— and Rubber Testing, Treatise on, 185
— Testing. Machines, 75,581
— Washing Machine, 76
n,Tnff Pr°ces8, Oreosoting Timber, 828
Russia, Maikop Naphtha Fields, 199
Russian Iron Industry, 1910, 548
Russo; Colonel G.; Shipbuilding in Italy, 50
Rust!XW°qk R01I!ng of ShiPs> 30°- See’309
ousting. bee Corrosion
Safety, Factors of, Machine and Structural Design, 557, 644. See 770
— Gear, Winding Engines, Gott’s, 560 ; Westing.
house Electric, 762
Q??UenaJ’rT £agadian River Steamer, 350
Salmon, U.S. Submarine Boat, 655
Salts, Adsorption by Silica, 418
— Diffusion in Liquids, 810
Sand Filters. See Filters
Sand Safety Sidings for Railways, 359
Sandwich System, Training Engineering Apprentices, 2, 4, 23, 42, 43, 49
Sanitary Institute, Royal, Belfast Congress, 174 Sankey, Capt. H. R.; Human Susceptibility to
Vibration, 312, 333
Sankey Detachable Motor-Car Wheel, 678, 73Z Sasewo Dockyard, Japan, 15
Saulte Ste. Mane Canal, Traffic, 62
Saw-Blades for Metals, Comparative Tests, <46 Sawdust, Boiler-Furnace for, 367 Saws. See Machine-Tools
Scandinavian Labour Disputes, 136, 235, z66, 295.
Schaffhausen Power Plant, Hydraulic Turbines and Generators, 153
Schiff bautechnische Gesellschaft. See German Institution of Naval Architects
Schlick, Dr. 0.; Vibration of Steamers, 27, oOl Schmidt, Dr., Water Electrolysers, Hydrogen
— Superheaters, Locomotive, 192, 258, 317, 525,
593. See 276, 617, 690, 753 .
— Superheaters, Locomotive, Trials, Egyptia
State Railway, 617, 690, 753. See 798
Scholarships, Repayment for, 292 Schonherr Furnace, Nitrate Manufacture, 34/ School. See also University; Education; lecri-nical College , . . ,
Schweizerische Locomotiv und Maschinenfabnk,
Works, 89
Science and Art, Relative Values, 671. See /ll, 731, 763
— and Sociology, 425 . , , « ,•
Scientific Apparatus, Physical Society 8 Exhibition, 837, 870
— Work, Value of Observations. 379 Scleroscope Tests, Copper-Tin Alloys, 647 Scouts. See Warships
Screw Couplings, Railway, and Tests, 562 Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Machine-Tools Screw, Lead, Defective, Effect on Lathe WorK, /13
— Propellers. See Propellers; Aeroplanes and
Airships.
Sea-Shore, Law Relating to, 392
Sea-Water, Corrosion of Brass, 393, 409, 436, 4/2, Corrosion of Copper and Muntz Metal, 473; Corrosion of Steel, 453
Seebach-Wettingen Railway, Electric Traction, 189
Seethalbahn, Single-Phase Electric Traction, 269 Seger Cones, Tests of, 775
S3ismograph, Vibration of Bridge Piers, 262
— Gallitzin Vertical Component, 504 Seismological Association, International, 135
— Effects, Sea Tides and Waves, 135, 384
— Investigations, B.A., Committee Report, 381
— Phenomena in Mines, 384. See 186, 604 Separators, Magnetic, Vibratory and Rotary, 456 “ Settsu,” Japanese Battleship, Turbines, 98 Sewerage Schemes in Parliament, 741
Shaft Coupling, Flexible, Needle Type, 411
— Design for Force Fits, 201. See 255
— Dynamometer. See Dynamometer and Tor
sion Meter
— Glands, Turbines, Steam Leakage, 309
— Johnson’s Direct-Reading Torsion-Meter, 605
— Turbine, Critical Speeds, 159,163 Shallow-Draught Motor-Boat for China, 194 Shear Stress and Elastic Failure of Steel, 115,246 Shearing Machines. See Machine-Tools Shells. See Projectiles and Guns
Shibt, Baron C.; Oil-Fuel Installation, Japanese Steamers, 203
Ship Canal. See Canal
Ships’ Compas?, Anschutz Gyroscopic, 310
— Electric Baggage Hoist, 456; Cargo Winch, 538
— Frahm’s Anti-Rolling Tanks, S.S. “Laconia,” 136; Trials, 803
— Limits to Size, 718 ,
— Mod 4 Experimental Tank, National Physical Laboratory, Opening, 27
— Prooulsion. See Marine Propulsion; Engines ; Turbines; Propellers; Warships
— Resistance, Residuary, and H.-P., 611. See 632 — Rolling of, 299, 309, 803
— Rolling of, Effect of Size, 719
— Rolling of, Gyroscopic Recorder, 805
— Steering-Gear, Haigh’s Elect-ic, 311, 333
— See also Shipping; Steamers; Warships Shipbuilding, Bulkheads and Columns, 71, 72 — Clyde, Deepening River, 396
— Ear’.y Work, Barclay, Curie, &Co., Ltd., 774
— Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works, 88
— Fifty Years’ Developments, 48. 69
— Industry and the Insurance Bill, 665, 672
— Isherwood System, 72
— Italian, Fifty Years’ Progress, 50
— Japanese Development, 47,107 ,
— Nava1, British, 1911, 867
— Naval, Japanese Progress, 15, 26
— Naval, Thames Iron Works, 672
— Plates with Holes, Stresses, 280, 291
— Progress of, 13, 58. See 25, 718
— Side-Tank Construction, 72
— Trade, Lloyd’s Returns, 77, 468 See 571
— Trades, Wages in, 294
— Trunk and Turret Deck Construction, 72
— Work, Education, in Germany, 48, 54
— Yard, Prince Rupert Harbour, 812
— Yards, Japanese, 15, 110
— See a’so Steamers; Warships; Naval Shipping, Great Lakes, America, 62 — Japanese, 1910, 469. See 523
— Lloyd’s Register. Annual Report, 571
-- Merchant, Fifty Years’Growth, 48, 69 See 718 — Subsidies, Japanese, 47,107
Shipwrecks, Lloyd’s Statistics, 1910, 174 Show. See Exhibit'on
Shubeler, F.; Diesel Oil-Engines, 138,148 Siagne Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 253 Sickness Insurance. See Insurance Sidings, Sand, for Railways, 359 Siemens-Schuckert Airship, Propeller Action, 49 Signalling, Railway, Mercury Contact Tr adle,420 Silencer, Wolseley Motor-Car Engine, 530 Silica, Adsorption of Salts, 418 — Fus^d, Cubical Expansion, 810 Silica-Mercury Thermometers, 871 Silver Gold Alloys, Electrical Resistance, 546 Similarity, Law of, 636, 644 Sjmmance-Abady Gas Density Indicator, 872
Simplon-Lbtschberg-Bern Railway, Single-1 hase Traction, 154, 2-5
Simplon Tunnel Electric Locomotives for, 125
Sims A. M., on Influence Lines, bay Single-Phase. See under Electric , Sinking-Pump, Centrifugal, Sulzeirs, 8o “Sirocco” Fan, Induced Draught, Dunston
Power-Station, 8 t
Skefko Self-Aligning Ball-Bearings, a89
Skinner, F. W.; Coteau Railway Bridge, 448 Skinningrove Works, Electric Rolling-Mill, 410 Slaughter-Houses, Frozen-Meat Industry, South
America, 828
Sleeve-Valve Motor-Car Engine (Argylls), 590 Slide-Valves, Locomotive, Phosphor-Bronzy 394,
— Valves, Locomotive, Steam Leakage, 341 Slip-Regulator, Three-Phase Motor, 42 L Sluices, Regulating, Trollhattan Power Plant, 3/4 Smith, C. A. M. ; The Properties of Steam, 72 y
758. fee 798 . .
Smith, R. T.; Electric Train-Lighting, /50
Smith, Sir W. E., Director of Naval Construction, 568
Smith, William, The late, 6/7
Smithfield Show, Agricultural Hall, 7/2. See 860 Smoke Abatement and Domestic Fires, 6/4
— Abatement Exhibition, Manchester, 674
— Abatement, suggested Standard for Emission,
349, 370. See 431
— Box Superheaters. See Egyptian Railways
— Consuming Boiler Furnaces, 675
— Instrument for Measuring Density, 349, 3/1
— Quantity of Soot in, 371 .
Smokeless Powder. See Gunpowder ; Explosives Smythe, T. D., the late, 329
Social Problems and Physical Laws, 425 Socialism and Labour Unrest, 500
Societies,Engineering, Discussions at, 464. See 540
— See Civil Engineers; Mechanical Engineers;
Electrical Engineers; Maval Architects; Iron and Steel Institute; Physical Society; British Association ; Metals, Institute of
Socket-Forming Machine, Steel Pipes, 488 Sodium Sulphate, Solubility of, 680 Solar Eclipse, 1911, 383
— Halos and Brocken Spectres, 877
— Observatory in Australia, 383
— Prominences, Production by Anode Rays, 743
— Radiations and the Origin of Aurora), 383
— See also Sun
Solid Solutions, Alloys, 408, 680. See 544 Solubility, Sodium Sulphate, 680
Solutions, Chemical Theories of, 403, 418, 450, 452, 680. See 810
— Colloidal, Theory of, 452
— Gases in Water, 451, 680
— Organic Substances, Absorption Spectra, 451
— Solid, Alloys, Nature of, 408, 680. See 544 Sonnenschein, F. B. ; Kinlochleven Hydro-
Electric Power Plant, 717
Sonnenthal, G., The late, 496
“ Soridderen,” Danish Torpedo-Boat, 525 Sound, Experiments on, 782
— Nature of Difference Tone, 81
— Waves, Effects of Air Currents, 419
South Africa, Company Laws, 501
— See also Rand
South America, Meat-Refrigerating Plants, 828 South Manchurian Railways, Statistics, 572 South-West, Notes from the, 22, 80,105, 131, 167, 195, 227, 259, 289, 321, 355, 389, 423, 461, 497, 531, 565, 597, 633, 669, 703, 735, 767, 799, 831, 865
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 29, 80, 105, 131, 167, 195, 227, 259, 289, 321, 355, 389, 423, 461, 497, 531, 565, 597, 633, 669, fc99, 735, 767, 799, 830, 865
Southern Pacific Railway, 2-6-6-2 Type Mallet Compound Locomotive, 791
Spanish Gunboat, “ Recalde,” 288
— Railway Statistics, 223 Spark-Gaps. See Electric
Specific Gravity, Copper-Tin Alloys, 647
— Gravity Meter, Gas, Simmance-Abady, 872
— Heat, Air, Low Temperatures, 742
— Heat Gases, Calorimeters for, 742
— Heat, Superheated Steam, 726, 758
— Heat, Water, Bousfield’s Determination, 200
— Metals, High Temperature, 419. See 458 Specifications, Copper Plates, Tubes, and Stays,
Locomotive Boilers, 435. See 391
— for Cranes, 517
— Hard-Drawn Copper Wires, 395, 403
— Power Plant, Boiler Insurance Companies,
763, 798
Spectra, and Atomic Weights of Elements, 417
— Infra-Red, Metals, 417
— Metals, Examination, 742
— Organic Vapours and Solutions, 451 Spectroscapical Papers, B.A., 415, 451 Spectroscopy, Absorption and Dispersion in
Metallic Vapours, 415
— Anomalous Dispersion by Solar Clouds, 415 Speed-Changing Gears. See alsa Motor-Car
Details in Illustrations Index
Speed-Controller, Winding Engines, Gott’s, 560 ; Westinghouse Electric, 762
Speed-Counter, Gas-Engines, 607 Speeds, Critical, Turbine Shafts, 159, 163 Speed-Indicator, Electro-Magnetic, 870 Speed-Indicators, Frahm Resonance Type, 872 Speed-Indicator, Lunken Magnetic, 538 Speed-Reduction Gears. See Gears ; Gearing Speed Trials. See Trials
Spelter, Brazing, Causes of Corrosion, 407
— See Zinc and Metal-Price Diagrams Spheres, Unequal, Electric Stress between, 810 Spiez-Frutigen Railway, Electric Traction, 285 Spinning-Tops, Demonstration of Phenomena, 81 Sprayer, Water, Brewers’ Mash-Tun, 534 Spring Mounting, Fowlers’, for Tractors,, 388
— Professor, Walthfcre, The late, 200
— Suspension, Motor-Cars. See Motor-Car Ex
hibition
Springs, Locomotive, Design, 392 Sprinkling Stoker. See Stoker Spur-Gearing. See Gears; Gearing St. Gallen-Gais Railway, Locomotives, 144 St. Gothard Railway, Electrification, 286 St. Paul’s Bridge, London, 30, 79
Stabilising Fins, Airships, Effect of, 198, 206
stability, Holland Submarine Boats, 660
S»& Starters. See also Electr™ .. oH-Engines, Starting Gear, Compressed-Air, Oil angi ,
GeT’Electric® Motor-Car Engines, 629
Stations’, ^Electric-Power. See Meet™, Hydro-
Electric, and Power
Stavs Copper, Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 394, ,
Stay High Temperature Tests, 400; Specifications, 435 : Failures of, 391. Seei 400
— Gusset, Flexible, Lancashire Boilers, 685
Steadman, W. C., The late, 130
Steam, Adiabatic Expansion, 7o9,
— Boilers. See Boilers q
— Consumption, Curtis Turbines, 21d, 540. bee
— Consumption, Garrett Superheated Steam-
Engines, 344, 356 Qn
— Consumption, Oerlikon Turbo-Generator, 530
— Consumption, Turbine Vessels, 32
— Consumption, Turbo-Air-Compressors, ;91
— Consumption, Zoelly Steam-Turbine, 159,16-
See 223, 255, 329, 540, 631 .
— Consumption. See also Trials; ’
Tests; Diagrams in Illustrations Lxdbx
— Dryness, Locomotives, 214
— Flow, Labyrinth Packings, Turbines, 308, 309
— Flow through Nozzles, 727
— Friction, Impulse Turbine Buckets, 727
— Hammer. See Machine-Tools
— Leakage, Locomotive Slide-Valves, 311
— Lorries. See Motor- Wagons; tractors
— Pipe, Copper, Failure of Brazed Joint, 407
— Pipe Copper, Locomotives, 401; Brazing
Flanges, 401; Wear, 402
— Pipe Coverings, Surface Temperature and Effi
ciency, 395 ; Effect of Painting, 395
— Pipe Explosion, Stratford Electricity Works,
614
— Properties of, Recent Research, 726, 758, 798
— Pumps. See Pumps .
— Saturated and Superheated, Locomotive Gy- :
Under Condensation, 341
— Superheated, Locomotives, Life of Piston and
Valve-Rings, 691
— Superheated, Specific Heat, 726, 758
— Superheater. See Superheater; Superheated
— Trials. See Trials; Warships
— Turbines. See Turbines
— Valve. See Valve
Steamer “ Aidan,” Booth Line, 717
— Atlantic Passenger, Developments in, 72, 719
— British and Foreign, Parsons Turbines, 505
— Channel, “Newhaven,” French Turbine, 642
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Returns, 77, 468
— “ Craven,” Steam-Pipe Explosion, 407
— Design, Fifty Years’Developments, 48, 69, 718
— Electric Baggage-Hoist, 456; Cargo Winch,
538
— Frahm’s Anti-Rolling Tanks, S.S. Laconia,”
136; Trials, 803
— Isherwood System, 72
— Italian, Fifty Years’ Progress, 50
— Japanese, Development, 47, 107
— Japanese, State Subsidies, 47, 107
— Jet Propulsion, 569, 596, 631. See Erratum,
596
— “ Laconia,” Cunard Line, 136 ; Trials of Anti
Rolling Tanks, 803
-— Limits to Size, 718
— Lloyd’s Wreck Statistics, 1910, 174
— “ Mauretania,” Service Performance, 719
— “ Medina,” P. and O. Line, 560
— Merchant, Naval Uses, 24
— “Olympic,” Collision with H.M.S. “Hawke,”
429. See 711, 876
— Ore-Carrying, Great Lakes, America, 62
— Ore-Carrying, Swedish, 57
— Ore-Carrying, Unloading Machines, 63
— “ Otaki,” Turbines and Reciprocating En
gines, Trials, 36
— Paddle, Transporting Sections, 88
— on Parallel Courses, Effect of Propeller Wake,
711, 876. See 429
— Passenger, Great Lakes, 64
— “ Princess Alice,” Oil-Fuel, Canadian-Pacific
Railway, 764
— “ Prodano,” Steam-Pipe Explosion, 407
— Residuary Resistance and H.-P., 611. See 632
— Rolling of. See Ships, Rolling of
— “ Saguenay,” for River St. Lawrence, 350
— Side-Tank Construction, 72
— Siow-Speed, Turbines for, 26, 36
— Steering Gear, Haigh’s Electric, 311, 333
— Structural Design, 71, 72
— Swiss Lake, Construction, 88
— “Tenyo Maru” and “Chiyo Mam,” Oil-Fuel
Installations, 208
— Train Ferry, Detroit River, 64
— Trunk Deck and Turret Deck, 72
— Turbine, Allan Line. Canadian Service, 603
— Turbine, Cause of Vibration, 303. See 27
— Turbine, Johnson’s Torsion-Meter, 605
— Turbine, Mayor’s Electric Transmission, 310,
332
— Turbines for Propulsion, Development, 26, 32
— U.S. Naval Colliers, Turbo-Electric Installa
tion, 310, 332; Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 663
— Vibration, Effect of Engines and Propellers,
27,301 1
— See also Warships; Ships; Shipping; Ship
building; Engines; Turbines; Marine Propulsion
Steel, Alternating Bending and Torsion Tests. 183, 246, 305 ; Machine, 183
— Alternating Stress, Hysteresis, 306, 695, 696
— Arnold’s Fatigue Test, 248, 556, 698
— Case-Hardening by Gases, Industrial Process.
648. See 681, 711, 763
' — Case-Hardening, High-Pressure Gases, 681
Steel, Case-Hardening, Penetration of Carbon, 651. See 681
— Castings, Oil-Fired Converter for, 53
— Oemtntite, Magnetic Properties, 810
— Cold Drawing and Fatigue, 557
— Converter, “Stock” Oil-Fired, 53
_ Corrosion, Effect of Stress, 556, 613, 693
— Corrosion, in Ferro-Concrete, 174, 232
— Corrosion, Influence of Carbon, &c., 453
— Elastic Failure, Shear-Stress Theory, 115, 2.6
— Elastic Limit and Working Stresses, 635, 644
— Failures, Micrographic Examination, 748
__ Fatigue of. See Al'ernating Stress
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Hardening, Transformations in, 483, 509, 541
— Heat Treatment and Endurance of Fatigue,
576, 612, 694. See 849
— Industry, Canadian, Effect of Premiums, '54
— Industry, Russian, 1910, 518
— and Iron Industry, World’s, 835
— and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel
— Manganese, Effect of Cai bon, 478, 483
— Manganese, Heat Treatment and Tests, 478,
483
— Manufacture, Turin Exhibition, 296
— Melting Furnace, Electric. See Furnace under
Elec ric
— Microstructure. See Micro-Photographs in
Illustrations Index
— Mild and Hard, Teals of Welds, S45
— Mild and Vanadium, Alternating Stress Tests,
556, 576, 612, 693. See 840
— Molten, Electric Resistance, 362
— Molten, Whipple-F6ry Pyrometer for, 135,837
— Nickel, Alternating-Stress Tests, 580. See 840
— Nickel, Bridge Construction, 770
— Nickel and Nickel-Chromium, Case-Harden
ing, 651, 681. See 711, 763
— Pipe-Making Plant, 485
— Plates, Heat Treatment and Magnetic Pro
perties, 775
— Plates, Perforation Tests, 807
— Plates, Stress near Holes, $80, 291. See 782
— Pressed, Deformation of Metal, 774
— Rails. See Rails
— Raising Elastic Limit by Strain, 305, 556, 559,
644, 694
— Solubility in Acids, 453
Tests under Compound Stresses, 115
— Thick Cylinders, Tests, 787
— Trade, Wages in, 294
Transformations during Heat Treatment, 48’, 509, 541
— Tubes, Compound Stress, Luder’s Lines, 81
— Tubes, Tests in Three Dimensional Stress,
115. See 789
— Vanadium and Mild, Alternating-Stress Tests,
556, 576, 612, 693. See 840
— Wheel, Motor-Car, Sankey’s, 678, 732
— Work, “ Ilva,” Italy, 297
— Works, Skinningrove, Electric Rolling-Mill,
410
- Work. See Bridges ; Roofs; Columns; Floors
— Works. See also Works
Steering Gear, Motor-Cars, Adjustment, 512
— Gear, Ships’, Haigh’s Electric, Ml, 333
Steriliser, Air, Rotating Cylinder Type, 534
“ Sterrett,” U.S. Destroyer, Curtis Turbines, 215.
See 785
Stewart Carburettor, Motor-Car Engines, 678 “Stock ” Oil-Fired Steel Converter, 53 Stoker, Boiler Furnace, Wood Refuse, 367
— Mechanical, Electrical Exhibition, 538
— Mechanical, Smoke Abatement Exhibition,675
— Sprinkling, Bennis, Mines de Dourgcs,825
— Underfeed, “Climax,” 269
Stoney, Dr. D. J., The late, 28
Stop-Valves. See Valves
Storage Battery. See Electric
— Reservoir. See Reservoir
Strain, Electrical Effect, Condenser Tubes, 438
— Lateral, Extensometers for, 115, 787
— Meter, Structural Members, Fosters, 870
Straker-Squire Motor-Car, Ware Carburettor, 732
Stratford Electricity Works, Pipe Explosion, 614 Stream-Line Flow, Airship Models, 198
— Lines and Stress Lines, 282, 291
— Submarine Boats, Determination, 68
Street Accidents and Motor-Car Traffic, 513
— Improvement, London, 30, 79
— Traffic, London, 770
— See also Road
Stress in Crank-Shafts, and Failures, 533
— Electric, between Unequal Spheres, 810
— near Holes, Steel Plates, 280, 291. See 782
— Lines and Stream-Lines, 280, 291
— Notched and Drilled Tie-Bars, Optical Deter
mination, 782
— Produced by Force Fits, 201. See 255
— in Rubber Model, Drilled Plate, 280. See 291
— Shear, and Failure of Steel, 115, 246
— Three-Dimensional, Tests of Steel Tubes, 115.
See 789
— Working, and the Elastic Limit, 635, 644 Working, Machine and Structural Design,
557, 644. See 770
— See also Alternating and Combined
Strike, Dock Workers’, 229
— Insurance, Finland, 266 ; Denmark, 297
— Proposed, Miners’, 499
— Railway Employees, 229, 261, 323, 499,567, 705
Strikes, Conciliation and Arbitration. 261, 427. 499, 567, 705
— Picketing in, 230, 261
— Responsibility of Workmen, 229, 261
— Scandinavian, 136, 235, 266, 295. See 77, 297
— Settlement by Industrial Council, 500
— Statistics for 1910, 426
— See also Industrial Notes
Stripping Plates, Moulding-Machines, 415, 725. See 540
Strub Rack, Mountain Railways, 142
Structural Design, Factors of Safety, 557, 644. Ovv < / v
— Design, Influence Lines, 689
design, Strength of Materials, 635, 643
— Members, Foster’s Strain-Meter, 870
Struts, Design for Bridges, 769
Stuckrath Pressure-Gauge, Reichsanstalt, 775
Stuffing-Boxes, Carbon-Packed, Turbine 219 29 Submarine Boats. See Warships
— Work, Physiological Effects, 453
Subsidies, Canadian Iron Industry, 354
— Japanese Shipping*, 47, 107
— Petrol Lorries, 428
Suction Dredger. See Dredger
Suction-Gas Plant, 14-H. -P. Portable, Capel’s, 5
— Plants, Smithfield Show, 772
— Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Producer. See also Producer
“Sulphalium,” Aluminium Alloy, 150
Sulphate of Ammonia, Manufacture, 102
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, 102
— Acid, Ice-Making Apparatus, 535
Sulzer Brothers’Works, Winterthur, 83. See 159 Sun, Cause of Anomalous Dispersion, 415
— Dial, Ferro-Concrete, 875
— Spot, Rainfall, and Earthquake Cycles,
Jamaica, 381
— See also Solar
Superheat, Moderate, and Steam - Engine Economy, 213. See also Egyptian State Raihuays
Superheated Steam and Compound Locomotives, Trials: P.L.M. Railway, 317 ; Egyptian State Railways, 690
— Steam Engines, Compared with Gas and
Diesel, 314, 367, 369, 478
— Steam Engines, Garrett’s Compound Over
Type, 344, 364 ; Trials, 366
— Steam, Locomotive Cylinder Condensation,
311
— Steam Locomotives, Life of Piston and Valve-
Rings, 691
— Steam, Meijer Throttle-Valve, 809
— Steam Ploughing Engines, Fowler’s, 772
— Steam, Specific Heat, 726, 758
Superheater, Gas-Heated, Apsey, 535
— Locomotive, Schmidt, Egyptian State Rail
way, Tr als, 617, 690, 753. Erratum, 798
— Locomotive, Heat Transmission, 276
— Locomotive, Smoke-Box. See Egyptian State
Railways
— Schmidt, Locomotive, 192, 258, 317, 525, 593
See 276, 617, 690, 735, 798
— Sectional (J. Gordon and Co.), 538
- — Proportions of Tubes, 275
— (J-Tube Type, Galloway’s, 675 ; Gordon’s, 675 Superheating and Feed-Heating, Locomotives,
Egyptian State Railways, 213, 275, 341, 445, 517, 617, 690, 753. See Errata, 321, 798
Surface-Condensers. See Condensers
Surface Tension, Liquids, Experiments on, 782 Surveying, Chain, Errors in, 1
— Levels, Zeiss, 872
Surveyors, County, Ireland, Appointment of, 174 Suyehiro, Dr. K. ; Stresses near Holes in Plates, 280. See 291
i Sweden, Hydro-Electric PowerJ Stations; Trollhattan, 374; Gullspang, 819
Swedish Labour Disputes, 136, 235, 266, 295. See 77, 297
— Motor-Boat Race, 77
Swinton, A. A. Campbell, Presidential Address to Rontgen Society, 671. See 711, 731, 763
Swiss Engineering Works: Brown, Boveri, and Co., 45 ; Sulzer Brothers, 83 ; Escher Wyss and Co., 86; Swiss Locomotive and Engineering Worka, 89 ; Oerlikon Co., 153
— Locomotive and Engineering Works, 89
— Meeting. See Mechanical Engineers
— Railways, Electric Traction on, 121, 137, 144,
189, 269, 285 : Rack Locomotive, 137, 142 Switchboards and Gear. See under Electric Switzerland, Hydro-Electric Power Plants, Rheinfelden, 137; Brusio, 252
Syndicalism and Labour Unrest, 500
Syphons, Catskill Aqueduct, 118
Tables, Physical and Chemical Constants and Mathematical Functions, 753
Tachometer, Lunken Magnetic, 538
Tachometers, Frahm Resonance Type, 872 Tangential Water Wheels. See Pelton Wheels Tangye, G., Presentation of Engineering Relics to Birmingham, 676
Tank, Experimental, National Physical I abora-tory, Opening, 27
j — Tests of Submarine Models, 26, 64
Tanks, Aluminium, Brewing, 535
— Anti-Rolling, S.S. “Laconia,” 136 ; Trials, 803
— Water, Ferro-Concrete, 6
Tantalum, Wear-Resisting Properties, 514
Taplin, H. J., The late, 767
Tar-Macadam Roads, Tests in Kent, 78, 297 Teaching. See Education
Technical College, Bradford, Enlargement, 603
— College, Charlottenburg, Naval Architecture
at, 48, 54
— College, Lehigh University, Fritz, Laboratory,
— College, Mining Engineers, South Africa, 201
— Colleges, Use and Equipment of Engineering
Laboratories, 4, 39, 40
— Education. See Education
— Institute, Belfast Municipal, 778. See 798
— Institutions, Discussions at, 464. See 540
Teddington, National Physical Laboratory, Opening Experimental Tank, 27
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Tehuantepec National Railroad, Oil-Fuel Locomotives, 819, 841. See 874
Telefunken Wireless Telegraphy, 335. See 316
Telegraph Poles, Ferro-Concrete, Tests, 539
telegraphy. See under Electric
— Wireless. See Wireless under Electric telephone. See under Electric
?elephoto Lenses, Dalhneyer’s, 839
telescope, Measuring Smoke Density, 349, 371 temperature Measurement. See Pyrometer;
Thermometer
tenders, Locomotive. See Locomotives
‘Tensio” Screw Couplings and Tests, 562
tension Meter for Aeroplane Stay Wires, 235
— Tests, Axial Loading Device, 788
‘Tenyo Maru,” S.S., Oil-Fuel Installation, 208 terano, Dr. S., ; Merchant Shipbuilding in
Japan, 47, 107
erano, Prof. F.; Oil-Fuel Installation, Japanese Steamers, 208
tesla Bladeless Steam-Turbine, Efficiency, 637 est-Pieces, Tension, Axial Loading Device, 788 ests, Alternating Stress. See Alternating Stress
— Autogenous Welds, 844
Tests, Balloon Fabrics, 76, 581. See 608
— Bituminous Road-Making; Materials, 78, 297
— Compound Stress, Mild Steel, LUder’s Lines, 81
— Copper Plates, Tubes, and Stays, Locomotive
Boilers. 399, 400, 402, 435
— Fluorescence, Vegetable Oil, 171
— Hack-Saw Blades, 746
— High-Temperature Tensile, Copper Fire-Box
Stays, 400
— Hydraulic Turbines, Efficiency and Govern
ing, 158, 179, 717, 822
— Load and Vibration, Ferro-Concrete Bridge,
Rome, 723
— Milling Cutters, Helical Teeth, 789
— Photometric, Incandescent Electric Lamps,
466
— Steel, Alternating Bending and Torsion, 183,
246, 305 ; Machine, 183
— Steel, Arnold’s Alternating Bending, 248, 556
698
— of Steel under Compound Stresses, 115
— Steel Tubes, Three Dimensional Stress, 115.
See 789
— Tensile and Alternating Stress, Welded Bars,
814
— Tensile, Bending and Drop, Cast Steel, 53
— Thick Hollow Cylinders, 786
— Water-Current Meter*, 179. See 158
I — Welded Steel Boiler-Plates, 712
Testing Apparatus, Frictionless Torsion, 307
— Institute, Gottingen, Aeronautical Work, 2C6,
273, 548. See Addenda, 735
— Laboratory, Belfast Technical Institute. 780
— Laboratory, Lehigh University, 204
— Machine, 400-Ton, Lehigh University, 204
— Machine, Alternating Bending and Torsion,
183
— Machine, Alternating Stress, Electro-Mag
netic, 696
— Machine, Alternating Stress, Rotating-Beam
Type, 556, 575, 612, 693. See 731
— Machines, Early, 643
— Machines, “Granta” Extensometer, 871
— Machines, Hydraulic Diaphragm Gauges, 224
— Machines, Rubber, 75, 581
— Machines, Universal Grips for, 224
— Materials, Early Work, 613
— Petroleum, 419
— See also Trials; Turbines; Reichsanstalt ;
National Physical Laboratory ; Gottingen ; Diagrams in Illustrations Index
Texas Fuel-Oil, Properties, 841
Textile Education, Bradford College, 603
— Fabrics for Balloons, Tests, 76, 581. See 608
— Industry, Japanese, 469, 523
— Machinery, Turin Exhibition, 296
Thallium-Bismuth Alloys, Resistance-Temperature Curves, 547
— Lead Alloys, Electrical Conductivity, 544
Thames Iron Works and Naval Shipbuilding, 672
— London, New Docks, 741
— Navigation Improvements, 741
— St. Paul’s Bridge, London, 30, 79
Thearle, Dr. S. J. P.; Developments in Merchant Shipbuilding. 48, 69
Thermo-Couples, Base Metal, Hoskins, 870
— Compensating Devices, 134
— Reichsanstalt Tests, 775
Thermodynamics, Properties of Steam, 726, 758, 798
— Steam-Turbines, 245, £07, 373, 481, 551, 564,
660, 727, 785, 851. See Errata, 354, 709
“ Thermofeed,” Boiler Feed-Water Regulator, 841
Thermometers, Gas and Platinum Compared, 742
— Quartz-Mercury, 871
— Reichsanstalt Tests, 775
— See also Pyrometer
Thermopile, Paschen, 837
Thick Cylinders, Strength, Effect of Ends, 788
— Cylinders, Tests of, 786
Thomson Turbine, Belfast Technical Institute, 780
Thorium, Emission of Alpha Particles, 810
Thornhill, E. B.^The late, 329
Three-Phase, See Electric
Throttle-Valve, Meijer, Superheated Steam, 809
Thrust Bearing, Ball, Skefko Self-Aligning, 590
— Bearings, Curtis Marine Turbines, 219
Thunderstorms, Study of, 385
Thyssen Gas Engines and Alternators, 130. See 174
Thyssen-Pfleiderer Rotary Air-Pump, 320
Tiber River, Ferro-Concrete Bridge, 721
Tides in Bottom Layers of Sea, 384
— Sea, Seismological Effects, 135, 384
Tie-Bars, Notched and Drilled, Optical Determination of Stresses in, 782
Timber, Creosoting, RUping Process, 328
— Pontoons, Floating Dock, 812
Timkin Roller Bearings, 6
Tin-Copper Alloys, Chemical Analysis, 618
— Alloys, Specific Gravity and Hardness, 647
— Alloys, Volume Changes during Cooling, 395,
407, 609, 646
Tin, Decay of, €01
Tin-Plate Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Tin. See also Alloys
Tintometer Measuring Smoke Density, 349, 371
Tipping-Wagon, Steam, (Yorkshire Wagon Co.), 5
“Toiler,” Ship, Diesel Engines, Fuel Consumption, 677
Toluene Fuse, Bickford’s Blasting, 490
Tookev, W. A., on Suction-Gas Plant Costs, 344, 475
Tool - Box, Double Cutting Planing-Machines, Deakin’s, 818. See 700
Tool-Grinding Machine. See Machine-Tools
Tools, Machine. See Machine-Tools
Tool Steel, Alternating Stress Tests, 246
Tooth-Gearing. See Gearing
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Torpedo, Whitehead, and Naval Tactics, 26, 38
Torque-Mete?s. See Dynamometers; Torsion Meters
Torsion, Alternating, Tests of Steel, 183,246, 305;
Machine, 183
Torsion Dynamometer, Amsler’s, 128. See 139
— Dynamometer, Electric Indicating and Re
cording, 715
Torsion-Meter, Johnson's Direct Reading, Potentiometer Type, 605
— See also Dynamometer
' Torsion Testing Apparatus, Frictionless, 307 Torsional Vibrations of Steamers, 301
Town - Planning, St. Paul’s Bridge Scheme, i London, 30, 79
| Track-Brake, Magnetic, Testing of, 775
Trackless T. olley Lines, 100, 710
Traction, Electric. See Tramways and Bailways under Electric
— Engine. See Tractor
— Screw, Continuous, Underground Railways,
349
Tractors, Fowler’s Spring Mounting for, 388
— Oil, 30-H.-P.; (Petter’s, Ltd.), 773
— Oil, 50-H.-P., Fowler’s, 387
— Oil, 50-H -P , and Trials (Saunde son and
Gifkins), 773
— Steam Compound, Mann’s, 772
— Steam Compound, Marshall’s, 772
— Smithfield Show, 772
— Steam, R.A.S. Show, 5
— Superheated Steam, Fowlers, 772
Trade, British, and Foreign Investments, 801
— Disputes, Observance of Agreements, 229, 261,
705
— Union Congress, 323
— Unions, German, 328
— Union, Miners’, and a General Strike, 499
— Unionsand Non-Union Workmen, 426
— Unions and Picketing, 230, 261
— Unions and the Railway Strike, 229, 261, 323,
499, 567, 705
— Unions and Railway Conciliation Scheme, 567
— Unions and Workmen’s Responsibilities, 229,
261
— Unions. See also Industrial Notes; Legal;
Labour; Strike; Lock-Ow
Trading, Municipal. See Municipal
Traffic, London Roads, 770
Train Ferry Steamers, Detroit River, 61
— Lighting, Electric, Brake Vehicle System, 750 Training Cruiser “ Ying-Swei,” 78, 826
— See Education ; Apprenticeship
Tramcars, Magnetic Brake-Testing Apparatus,775 Tramways, Electric, London, Statistics, 770
— Electric, Schemes in Parliament, 740
— Municipal, Depreciation Funds, 500
— Strike, Denmark, 136, 235, 266, 295. See 77,
297
Transmission Dynamometer. See Dynamometer and Torsion-Meter
— Gear, Mayor’s Electric, Ship Propulsion, 310,
332
— Gear, Turbines, Westinghouse, 663
— Gear. See also Gear ; Gearing
— of Power. See Power ai.d Electric
Transmutations, Chemical Elements, 292 Transport of Turbine Casing by Rail, 88 Transporter, “ Barry,” 30-cwt. Electric, 386
— Ore-Handling, Great Lakes, 63 Travelling Crane, See Crane
Treadle, Railway Signalling, Mercury Contact, 420 Tressider Armour-Plate Process, 111
Trevithick Feed-Heaters and Superheaters, Locomotives, 213, 275, 341, 445, 517, 617, 690, 753. See Errata, 321, 798
Trials, Agricultural Tractor (Saunderson Gifkins), 773
— Anti-Rolling Tanks, Cunard Liner “ Laco
nia,” 803. See 136
— Curtis Steam-Turbines, 540. See 631
— Danish Torpedo-Boat “ Soridderen,” 525
— Francis 10,000 H.-P. Turbines and Generators,
Trolhiittan, 376
— Garrett’s Superheated Steam Engine, 366.
See 344
— Locomotives, Compound and Superheated,
P. L. M. Railway, 317; Egyptian State Railways, 690
— Locomotive, Feed-Heating and Superheating,
Egyptian State Railways, 517, 617, 690, 753. See Erratum, 70S
— Oerlikon Turbo-Generator, 530
— P. and O. Liner “Medina,” 560
— Steam, British Warships, 1911, 868
— Steam anid Gun, H.M.S. “Orion,”465. See295
— Steam, H.M.S. “Dartmouth,” 139
— Steam and Manoeuvring, Japanese Cruiser
“ Ibuki,” Curtis Turbines, 97
— Steam, Turbine Vessels, 32
— Steam, U.S. Destroyers, Curtis Turbines, 215.
See 785
— Steam. See also Warships
— Water-Tube Boilers, Japanese Navy, 97
— Zoelly Steam Turbine, 159,162. See 223, 255,
329, 540, 631
— See also Tests
Trip Gear, Crawford’s, Drop-Valves, Steam Engines, 778
Triple-Expansion Engine. See Engine, Steam “ Triumph ” Sprinkling Stoker, 675 Trolley-Wires, Properties of, 395, 403, 405 Trollhattan, Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 374 Troost, Prof. L. J., The late, 633
Trunk Steamers, Rohner’s, 72
Trusses. See Bridges ; Roofs
Tube Railways, Working Results, 282. See 771
— Steel, Alternating-Stress Tests, 246 Tubes, Boiler, Efficiency of, 275
— Condenser, Corrosion, 393, 469, 436, 472 .
— Condenser, Corrosion, Experimental Appa
ratus, 393
— Condenser, Electrical Effect of Strain, 438
— Copper, Locomotive Boilers, 402 ; Specifica
tions, 435, 436. See 394
— Steel, Compound Stress, Luder’s Lines , 81
— Steel, Tests in Three Dim-nsional Stress, 115.
See 789
— Superheater, Proportions, 275
— Welded Steel, Plant for Making, 485. See
also Pipes
Turgsten Wire Filament Lamps, Manufacture, 233
Tunnels, Air-Resistance of Trains, 127
— Lotschberg, Single-Phase Electric Traction,
154, 2S5
— Simplon, Electric Locomotives for, 125
— St. Gothard, Proposed Electric Traction, 286 Tunnelling Work, Catskill Aqueduct, 118 Turbine Construction, Brown, Boveri’s* Works,
45. See 137 ; Oerlikon Works, 153 ; Sulzer’s Works. 84 ; Escher Wyss and and Co., 87
— Driven Propellers, Cavitation, 49,55. See 50
Turbines, Gas, Efficiency of, 706. See 714
— Gas, Holzwarth’s, 714. See 706
— Hydraulic, Belfast Technical Institute',‘780
— Hydraulic, Construction (Escher Wyss) 86
— Hydraulic, Electric Generators (Oerlikon), 153
— Hydraulic. Francis, Costs, 821
— Hydraulic, Francis, Governor, 821
— Hydraulic, Francis, Gullspang Plant, 821
— Hydraulic, Francis and Prlton, Efficiency and
Governing Tests, 158, 179, 717, 822
— Hydraulic, Impu’se, Necaxa Power Plant,
237, 240 ; Rio de Janeiro, 242 ; Brus’o, 253
— Hydraulic, Rotor Casting, Sulzer’s, 85
— Hydraulic, for Ship Propulsion, 570. See 596,
631
— Hydraulic, Trot hattan, 376
— Hydraulic, Turin Exhibition, 293
— Hydraulic. See also Hydro-Electric; Hy
draulic; [Vater; Pelton Wheel
— Pump. See Pump, Centrifugal
— Shafts, Critical Speeds, 169, 163
— Shafts, Johnson’s Torsion-Meter. 605
— Steam, Blade-Tip Leakage, 551, 564. See
Erratum; 7C9
— Steam, Carbon-Packed Glands, 219, 299
— Steam, Dummy and Gland Leakage, 3)8, 309
— Steam, Efficiency Ratios, 851
— Steam, for Electiic Power St ations, 74
— Steam, in British Navy, 19, 27, 32
— Steam and Centrifugal Pump, Westinghouse
Reduction Gear. 664
— Steam, Impulse, Nozzle De ign and Bucket
Friction, 727
— Steam, Impulse. Stages Required and Steam
Velocities, 161
— Steam, Impulse, Theory of Des’gn, 564, 727,
785, 852
— Steam, Marine, Combined with Oil-Engine,
Destroyer, 102 ; See 869
— Steam, Marine, Costs in Japan, 98
— Steam, Marine, Curt’s, for Japanese Bat le-
ships, 98
— Steam, Marine, Curtis, Dttai’s, 215
— Steam, Marine, Curtis, Steam Consumption
and Efficiency, 540. See 631
— Steam, Marine, Curtis, Trials of Japanese
Cruiser “ Ibuki,”-97
— Steam, Marine, Curtis, U.q. Destroyers
‘‘Sterrett” and “Perkins,” 215. See 785
— Steam, Marine, Development, 26, 32
— Steam, Marine, forSlow-Speed Steamers, 26, 36
— Steam, Marine, Geared, Ship Propulsion, 26,
36, 663
I — Steam, Manne, German Warships, 428
I — Steam, Marine, H.M.S. “ Dartmouth,” Trials, 139
— Steam, Marine, Parsons Development, 505.
See Erratum, 525
— Steam, Marine, Trials of British Warships, 868
— Steam, Marine, Types for Ship Propulsion, 35
— Steam, Marine, with Reciprocating Engines,
26, 31, 36, 747
— Steam, Marine, Zoelly, 163
— Steam, Measuring Blade Angleq, 551
— Steam, Practical Proportioning, 851
— Steam, Reduction Gear, Westinghouse, 663
— Steam, Tesla Bladeless, Efficiency, 637
— Steam, Theory of Design, 245. 307, 373, 481
551, 564, 660, 727, 785, 851. Errata, 354, 709
— Steam, and Turbo-Compressors (Pokorny and
Wittekind), 791
— Steam, Turin Exhibition, 234, 296. Se3 363
— Steam, Unipolar Dynamos for. 265, 318
— Steam, Zoelly, 1800-H.-P. Mixed Pressu e,
163
— Steam, Zoelly, Design and C< nstruction, 158,
160. See Letters, 223, 255, 329, 540, 631. See also 87
— Steam, Zoelly, Steam Consumption and Effi
ciency, 169, 162. See 223, 255, 329, 540, 631
— Steam, Zoelly, Supplying Heating Steam, 163
— Steamers. See Steamers
— Warships. See under Warships
Turbo Air-Compressors and Tests (Pokorny and Wittekind), 791
Turbo-Blowers and Air-Compressors: Brown, Boveri, and Co, 46; Escher Wyss and Co., 87
Turbo-Generators. See Electric
Turin Exhibition, 192, 234, 250, 258, 296, 317, 525, 593. See Erratum, 363
— Exhibition, Locomotives: Italian State Rail
ways, 192, 258 ; P.L.M. Railway, 317 ; Belgian State Railways, 525, 593
Turkish Armoured Motor-Boats, 470
— Navy, New Battleships, 170
Turner, L. B.; The Strength of Steels in Compound Stress and Endurance under Repeti-lition of Stress, 115, 183, 246, 305
Turner’s Motor-Car, 628
Turner, Professor H. H., Presidential Address, British Association, Section A, 379
Turner, Prof. T., Volume Changes in Copper-Tin Alloys, 395, 407, 609, 646
Turnham Green Widening, L. and S.W. and District Railways, 489
Turning-Machines. See Lathes and Automatic under M achine-Tools
Turntable for Foundry Moulds, 856
Turret Lathes. See Machine-Tools
— Steamers, Doxford’s, 72
Twelvetrees, W. N.; The Risorgimenbo Bridge, Rome, 721
Twist-Drill Grinder. See Machine-Tools
— See Drill under Machine-Tools
Tyler’s Smoke-Oonsum’ng Boiler Furnace, 675
Tyres, Pneumatic, Motor - Car, Interchangeability, 512
— Radway Wheel, Flange Lubrication, 631, 636.
See 731
— Railway Wheel, Flange Wear, 636. See 631,731
Tyssedalen Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 252
Ugrimoff s Unipolar Dynamo, 265. See al o 318
Ultra-Violet Light, Testing Oils by, 171
Underfeed Stoker, “ Climax,” 269
Unemployment Insurance Bill, 99, 231, 599, 603, 665, 672
— Insurance Fid and Rail wav Companies, 231
— Insurance B L and Shipbuilding, 665, 6Z2
— Insurance, Finland, 77 ; France, 171
Union, Trades. See Trade Unions; IndUbtria Notes; Legal
Unipolar Dynamo, Mercury Contacts, 265. See 318
— United Kingdom. See also British
— States, Bureau of Standards, Current Measure
ment, 418
— States Destroyers “Sterrett” and “Per
kins,” Curtis Turbines, 215. See 785
— States, Development of Marine Turbine, 37
— States, Iron and Steel Industry, 835
— States, Lehigh University, Engineering
Laboratory, 204
— States Meeting, Navigation Congress, 864
— States Motor-Car Design, 626, 679
— States Naval Colliers, Turbo-Electric Installa
tion, 310, 332; Westinghouse Reduction Gear, 663
— States Navy, Holland Submarine Boats, 605.
See 673; Tank Tests, Submarine Models, 26, 64
— States, Notes from, 78, 91, 130, 166, 194, 223,
284, 319, 385, 458, 506, 530, 564, 592, 631,677, 709, 734, 766, 795, 839
— States, Shipping on Great Lakes, 62
— States Trade with Philippines, 652
— States. See also America
Universities, Tokio and Kyoto, Japan, 640 University Degrees in Engineering, 3, 23, 39
— Lehigh, Fritz Engineering Laboratory, 204
— Training for Engineers. See Civil Engin°ers
— See also Technical College
Unwin, Dr. W. C.; Education of Engineers, 2, 644 ; Presidential Address, Institution of Civil Engineers, 643. See 635
Uruguay, Meat-Refrigerating Plant, 830
Vacuum Cleaner, Hydraulic, 78
— Cleaner, “ Vortex” Domestic, 419
— Pump, High-Vacua, Cossor’s, 838
— Tubes. See Electric
Valves, Air-Compressor, Steel-Finger Type, 166
— Air-Compressor, Steel-Plate, Robey’s, 220
— - Automatic, Boiler-Feed Regulator, 841
— Design, Motor-Car Engines, 626, 802
— Drop, bteam Engines, Crawford’s Trip-Gear
778
— Gas and Air, Gas-Engines, 283
— Gear, Davy Paxman’s Gas-Engine, 5; See 92
— Gear, Locomotive, Wear of, 391. See 691
— Gear, Thyssen Four-Cycle Gas-Engine, ' 130.
See Errata, 174
— Leakage, Locomotives, 311
— Piston, Belgian Locomotive, 593
— Piston, Rotary, Massey’s Steam Hammers, 878
— Rings, Locomotive, Life with Superheated
Steam, 691
— Rotating, Motor-Car Engine, Darracq 627
— Sleeve, Motor-Car Engine (Argyils, Ltd.), 590
— Slide, Locomotive, Phosphor Bronze, 391, 403
— Stop, Explosion from Water-Hammer, 614
— Stop, Hopkinson’s Two-Seated Disc, 538
— Stop and Isolating, Sugden’s, 745
— Throttle, Superheated Steam, Meijer, 809
— See also Electric
Vanadium Steel, Alternating Stress Tests, 576, 612. See 840
Vapours, Metallic, Light Absorption and Dispersion, 415
— Organic Substances, Absorption Spectra, 451 Vedovelli - Priestley Overhead Construction,
Midi Railway, 858
Veloce Motor-Cycle Engine Two-Speed Gear, 709 Ventilating Plant, Sulzer’s Foundries, 84 Ventilation and Acoustics, 419
— Ozone Generating Apparatus, 536
Vernier Arc, Optical Micrometer, 419 Viaducts. See Bridges
“ Vibragraph ” Vibration Indicator, 872 Vibrations, Human Susceptibility, 312, 333
— Railway Bridge Piers, 262
— Tests, Ferro-Concrete Bridge, Rome, 723 Victoria, River Pollution by Mining Refuse, 230 “Victory” Smoke-Consuming Boiler Furnace,
675
Visp-Zermatt Railway, Locomotives, 144 Vitznau-Rigi Railway, Locomotives, 142 “ Voltigeur,” French Destroyer, Turbines and
Reciprocating Engines, 31
Volume Changes, Copper-Tin Alloys, during Cooling, 395, 407, 609, 646
“ Vortex” Suction Cleaner, Domestic, 419
Vulcan Flexible Gusset Stays, Lancashire Boilers, 685
“Vulcanus,” Ship, Diesel Engines, Fuel Consumption, 677
“ Vulkan,” Magnetic Clutch Drive, Planing-Machines, Tests, 733, 840
Wages, Engineering and Allied Trades, 291 Wagons, Motor, Government Subsidies, 428
— Motor, Steam, Self-Tipping (Yorkshire), 5
— Motor, Steam and Petrol, R. A.S. Show, 5
— See also Motor-Wagons; Tractors
Walker, Prof. J., Presidential Address, B.A.
Theories of Solution, 450
Wallsend-Howden Oil-Fuel Installation, T.-S.S. “ Princess Alice, 764
War Office, Aeroplane Competition, 833, 840
— Office Subsidies, Motor-Wagons, 428 Ward-Leonard Controller, Motor-Generator, 762 Ware Carburettor, Motor-Car Engines, 732 Warfare, Use of Aeroplanes, 833. See 840
Warren, A. G. ; The Properties of Steam, 726, 758. See 798
“ Warrior,” H.M.S., Machinery, 18
Warships:
Admiralty Library, 463
Admiralty, New Secretary, 396
Admiralty Policy of Secrecy, 21
Airship, British Naval, Accident to 428
Armour for Ships, 1860-1910, 51, 111. See 104
Australian Navy, 570
Battleships, Limits to Size, 718
Brazilian Navy, Storage of Powder, 237
Chinese Training Cruiser “Ying-Swei, /8, 826
Coal Consumption, Turbine Warships, 32, 868 Danish Torpedo-Boat “ Soridderen,” 525
Destroyer with Combined Oil-Engine and Steam-Turbines, 102 See 869
— Propulsion, Steam and Oil-Engines, 709
Engineer-Captains’ Appointments, 139
Engineer Officers’ Training, 358, 640
French Battleship “Liberty,” Explosion, 432, 463, 600
_ Destroyer “Voltigeur,” Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, 31
— Naval Officers’ Training, 501
_Navy, Development of Steam-Turbine, 36
— Navy, Laubeuf Submersible Boat, 226 German Destroyer Zoelly Turbines, 163
— Navy, Development of Steam-Turbine, 33
— Navy Programme, 428
Gunsand Explosives, Progress in. 51, 93
Gyroscopic Compass, Anschutz, 310
H.M. Australian Cruiser “ Australia,” 570
— Battleship “ King George V.,” Design, 465
— Battleship “Monarch,’ Gun-Mounting, 174
— Battleship “ Orion,” with 13.5-In. Guns, 295 ; Trials, 465. See 868
— Cruiser “Dartmouth.” Steam Trial*. 139
— Cruiser “ Hawke,” Collision with T.S.S.
“ Olympic,” 429. See 711, 876
— Navy, Armament of Early Ships, 93
— Navy, Development of Steam-Turbines, 19, 27, 32
— Navy, Marine Engineering, Historical, 18, 26
— Navy, Need for Submarines, 673
— Navy, Warship Construction and Trials, 1911, 867
H.M.8. “ Medina,” P. and O. Liner, fortheir Majesties’ Voyage to India, 560
— “ Warrior,” Machinery, 18
Italian Naval Construction, Fifty Years’ Progress, 50
— Navy, Development of Steam-Turbine, 37
Japanese Battleship “Aki” and Cruiser “Kurama,”16; Boiler Trials, 97
— Battleships, Curtis Turbines, 98
— Destroyer “Ay anami,” Trials, 97; “Ibuki,” Trials, 97
— Naval Construction, Progress, 15, 26
— Naval Dockyards, 15, 110
— Naval Marine Engineering Progress, 48, 95
— Navy, Development of Steam-Turbine, 37
— Navy, Engineer Officers, 98
— Navy, Trials of Water-Tube Boilers, 97
— Warships, Early, 15
Lloyd’s Statistics, Warships under Construction, 77, 468
Naval Construction, 1860 to 1910, 51
— Construction, Director of, 73, 568
— Engineer Officers and Men, 21, 26
— Officers, British, Training, 358, 640
— Programme, British, 465
— Shipbuilding, Thames Iron Works, 672
— Tactics and Design of Warships, 25, 37
Navy and Declaration of London, 24
— Estimates, Debate in Parliament, 24
Royal Naval Reserve, Warrant Engineers and Engine-Room Artificers, 795
Spanish Gunboat “Recalde,” 288
Steamers, Merchant, Naval Uses, 24
Submarine Boats, British Requirements, 673
— Boats, Excessive Submergence, 51
— Boats, Holland, Design, 655. See 673 ; Stability of, 660; in U.S. Navy, 655
— Boat, Laubeuf, 226
— Determination of Stream-Lines, 68
— Floating Crane for Salving, 861
— Tank Tests of Models, 26, 64
Torpedo, Whitehead, and Naval Tactics, 26, 38
Trials, Steam, British Warships, 1911, 868*
Turbines Combined with Reciprocation Engines, 26, 31, 36
— Parsons, on-Warships, 505, 868
Turkish Amoured Motor Launches, 470
— Navy, New Battleships, 170
United States Destroyers “ Sterrett ” and
Perkins, Cuitis Turbines, 215. See
— Holland Submarine Boats, 655. See 673
—- Naval Colliers, Turbo-Electric Installa-n°n’ 3J&332; Westin^ouse Reduction wear, bod
— Navy, Development of Steam-Turbine 37 98 ’ ’
Warship Construction, Historical Account
13, 58. See 25 ’
Washing-Machine for Casks, 535
Washing-Machine, Rubber, 76
_Plant, Spanish Iron Ore, Cablewaj, 5o3 Washington Bureau of Standards, Current Mea-
- Navy6 Yard, Tank Tests, Submarine Models,
Water and Aniline, Surface Tension Experiments,
782
— Compressibility of, 101
— Current Meters, 179. See.158
— Diffusion of Gases through, 451, bee tau
— Diffusion of Salts, 810
— Electrolysers, Hydrogen 1 lant,
— Feed-Heaters. See Feed-Water Heaters
— Gas. See also Producer-Gas
— Hammer, Steam-Pipe Explosion, ut ratford
Electricity Works, 614 „
— Level Regulator, Boilers, ‘Thermofeed, 841
— Pipe Friction Apparatus, 780 .
-- Power. See Hydraulic; Hydro-Electric
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Reservoir. See Reservoir
— Specific Heat, Bousfield’s Determination, 200
_Supply, Artesian Wells, Australia, Diminution, 738 xr , 11-7
— Supply, Catskill System, New Aork City, 11/
— Supply, City of Lincoln, 431 .
_ Supply, London, Island Barn Reservoir, 63<
— Supply, Madgeburg, Salts in River Elbe, 134
— Supply Schemes in Parliament, 741
— Tanks, Ferro-Concrete, 6
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic ; Pelton
— Vapour, Distribution in Atmosphere, 385
— Wheel. See Pelton Wheel; Turbines, Hy
draulic
— S.e also Irrigation
Waterways, German, Extensions, 359
— See also Rivers; Canals; Inland Naviga
tion
Watt Relics, Presentation to Birmingham, 676
Watts, Sir Philip ; Warship Building, 1860 to 1910, 51; Retirement of, 73
Wave Boundary, Bottom Layers of Sea, 384
— Decrement Meter, Wireless Telegraphy, 871
— Motion and Rolling of Ships, 299, 309
— Resistance of Ships, 611. See 632
— Sea, Length and Slope of, 301
— Sea, Seismological Effects, 135, 38!
Waverley Motor-Car, 628
Weather. See Meteorological; British A ssuciation
Weber, T. ; Swiss Rack-Railway Locomotives, 137, 142
Weighing-Machine, Automatic, for Oil, 5
— for Cattle, 5
— Proportional, National, 537 ; Avery’s, 652
Weights, Atomic, Calculation of, 417
— Atomic, and Spectra of Elements, 417
Weirs, Regulating, Tro.lhattan Power Plant, 374
— Water Flow, Frese Formula, 179
Welch, Professor J. J. ; Practical Training of Engineering Students, 4, 44
Welded-Steel Pipe-Making Plant, 45-5
Welding, Autogenous, Microscopic Examination and Tests, 844
— Electric Arc, Kjellberg Process, 712
— Electric, Screw-Propeller Repair, 712
— Machine for Steel Pipes, 488
Welds, Tensile and Fatigue Tests, 814
Welin-Johnson Ore-Steamers, 57
Wells, Australia, Diminution of Flow, 738
Wells, R. G.; Two-Stroke Cycle Engines, 585, 623
Wengernalp Railway, Locomotives, 143, 144
Westinghouse Reduction Gear, Marine Turbines, 663 ; Turbine-Driven Pump, 664
Weston Normal Cell, E.M.F., 743
Westphalia Mines, Turbo-Air Compressors, 791
Wheatstone Bridge. See Electric
Wheel Hubs, Design for Force Fits, 201. See 255
Wheels, Gear. See Gears ; Gearing
— Railway, Flange Lubrication, 631, 636. See
731
— Railway, Wear of Flanges, 636. See 631, 731
— Sted Detachable, Motor-Cars, Sankey’s, 678,
— Tramcar, Contact with Rails, 331
Whipple-Fdy Radiation Pyrometer, 135, 837
White, E. S.; Residuary Resistance of Vessels, 611. See 632
White-Metal Alloys, L. and Y. Railway, 394, 434
White Metals, Effects of Re-Melting, tec., 295
White, Sir W. H.; History of Institution of Naval Architects and of Education in Naval Architecture, 13, 25, 58 ; Maximum Dimensions of Ships, 718
Whitehead Torpedo and Naval Tactics, 26, 38
Wicksteed, J. Hartley; Double - Cutting and High-Speed Planing-Machines, 700, 817. See /33, 840
Wicksteed’s Belt-Drive, Planing-Machines, 702, 817
Widmann, Edouard, The late, 782
Wien-Planck Law, Heat Radiation, 743
Winch, Cargo, 3-Ton Electric, 538
Windage, Large Fly-Wheels, 411
Wind Pressure, Cambered Plates, 273
— Pressure, Plates in Air Current, 198. See 255
— Resistance, Wires, &c., 273, 548. See 735
Wind Variationsand Aerial Flight, 313, 316
Velocity, Lea-Biram Anemometer, 541
Winds, Side, Effect on Airships, 206
Winding Engines, 5500-H.-P. Corliss, 560
— Engines, Compressed-Air, Closed - Circuit
System, 876. See 803
— Engines, Controlling Gear, Gott’s, 560 ; West
inghouse Electric, 762
— Gear, Electric, West Rand Gold-Mines, 760 Wings, Aeroplane. See Aeroplanesand Airships Winterthur, Sulzer Bros.’ Works, 83. See 157
— Swiss Locomotive and Engineering Works, 89 Wire Ropes, 120-Ton Crane, 861
— Ropes, Repeated Bending Tests, 695
— Ropeways, Bleichert Rope Grip, 554
— Ropeways, Dam Construction, 120
— Ropeway, Spanish Ore-Washing Plant, 553
— Stays, Aeroplanes, Tension-Meter for, 235 Wires, Air Resistance of, 273, 548. See 735
— Copper, Hard - Drawn, Alternating - Stress
Tests, 580, 694 ; Properties of, 395, 4(3
— Copper, Hard-Drawn and Annealed, Electrical
Conductivity, 405
— Resistance, High-Frequency Currents, 743 Wohler’s Alternating-Stress Tests, 556, 612, 695 Wolseley 34-H.-P. Petrol-Engines for Lifeboats,
12
— Motor-Cars at Olympia, 527
Wood, Creosoting, Raping Process, 323
— Refuse, Boiler Furnace for, 367
— Waste, Destructive Distillation of, 136
— Working Machinery. See Machine-Tools Woodall-Duckhain Gas - Retorts, Burnley, 493;
Lausanne, 495
Working Stresses, Machine and Structural Design, 557, 644. See 770
Workmen, Damages from, Breach of Contract, 676
— German, Trade Organisations, 3i8
— Insurance Against Unemployment, Finland,
77 ; France, 171
— and Labour-Saving by Motion Study, S57. See
573, 730
— Observance of Agreements, 229, 261, 705
— Responsibilities of, 229, 261
— Wages in Engineering and Allied Trades, 294
— See also Labour
Workmen’s Compensation. See under Legal
— Insurance Bill and Shipbuilding, 665, 672
— Insurance Bill, Sickness and Unemployment,
99, 231, 599, 603, 665, 672
— Insurance and the Railway Companies, 231
— Quarters, Catskill Water-Supply Works, 121
— Tickets, French Railways, 324
Works, Alkali, 1910 Report, 102
British Thomson - Houston Co., Metal-Filament Lamps, 233
— British Welding Co., Pipe-Making Plant, 485
— Brown, Boveri, and Co., Baden, 45. See 137
— Citroen and Co.’s Gear-Cutting, 352
— Escher Wyss and Co., Zurich, 86. See 160
— Italian Engineering, Hand-Book, 741
— Management, Cost Keeping, 737
— Management and Motion Study, 357. See
573. 730
— Oerhkon Co., 153
— Skinningrove Iron, Electric Rolling-Mill, 410
— Sulzer Brothers, Winterthur, 83. See 159
— Swiss Locomotive and Engineering, 89
— Thames Iron, Naval Shipbuilding, 672
Workshop and College Training, Engineering Apprentices, 2, 4, 23, 41, 42, 43, 44, 614, 741, 781. See 79, 104
Worm Gearing, Motor-Car Drive, 626 Wrought-Iron. See Iron
Wuthrich G. ; Oerlikon Electrolyzers, A liny Aircraft Factory, is J
X Rajs. See llontgen Hays under Electric
Year-Books. See Literature Index
Yield Point and Working btresses, 635, 644 “Ying-Swei,” Chinese Training Cruiser, 78, 826
Yokosuka Dockyard, Japan, 15
Yukawa, M. ; Shipbuilding in Japan, 47, 107
Zermatt-Visp Railway, Locomotive for, 144
Zinc-Aluminium Alloys, Equilibrium Diagram, 408, 438
Zinc-Copper Alloys, Corrosion, 393, 409. 436, 472
— Copper Alloys, Hardening of, 511, 542
— Copper-Aluminium Alloys, Corrosion of, 475
— Loss from Brass in Brazing, 407
— Specific Heat and Latent Heat of Fusion, 419.
See Erratum, 458
Zodel, L. ; High-Pressure Water-Power Woiks,
158, 239, 252
Zoelly, H. ; Steam-Turbines, 158, 160. See 87, 223, 255, 329, 540, 631
Zoelly Turbine Construction, Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works, 87, 160
— Turbines, Design and Construction, 158, ICO.
See 87, 223, 255, 329, 540, 631
— Turbines, Marine Type, 163
Turbine, 1800-H.-P. Mixed Pressure, 1(3 Turbines, Steam Consumption and Efficiency,
159, 162. See 223, 255, 329, 540, 631
— Turbine, Supplying Heating Steam, 163 Zurich, Escher Wyss and Co.’s Works. 86. See
160
Meeting. See Mechanical Engineers
Sources of Information