Engineering 1911 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1911 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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 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

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