The Engineer 1902 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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- 1901, 15
Accidents, Explosions, and Fines:
- Bridge Collapse, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, (261)
- Cage, Trimdon Colliery, (544)
- Castle Pit, Cyfarthfa, Death of Mr. Arnold, (472)
- Dynamite Explosion, New York, (261)
- Fall of Overhead Tram Wire, Sheffield, (37)
- H.M.S. Mars. on Board, 378, 379
- Home-office Report for 1901 of Fatal Mine and Quarry Accidents, (89)
- Lift, Bradford, (537)
- Motor Omnibus, at Scarborough, (459)
- Safety Lamps and Colliery Explosions, 506, £91
- Seaham Harbour New Docks, Mr. A. C. Brown Killed at, (26)
- Stockton-on-Teei Ironworks, Remarkable Acci¬dent at, (13)
- Traction Engine Precipitated on to the North Stafford Railway, (433)
- United States Deaths and Iojuries from Light¬ning and Railway Accidents in 1900, (386,
- West Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Accident to Steel Girder, (214)
- Explosion, Ardeer Factory of Nobel’s Explosives Company, (63), (89)
- Explosions, Boiler :
- Board of Trade Report on, (261)
- Enquiries and Investigations under Provisions ot the Act, (261)
- German Empire, 1899, (620)
- Model Steamer on the Serpentine, (37)
- Rochdale, (89)
- Vilumara, Madrid, (89)
- Explosion of Mond Gas, (13)
- Explosion at the Electric Faso Works near Ghorley, (630)
- Explosion of Refrigerating Plant, The Alleged, (44)
- Explosions, Safety Lamps and Colliery, 506, 591
- Explosion in a Sheffield Foundry, (363), (420)
- Fires :
- Barbican, Telephone Lines Destroyed, (433)
- Bertrams, Limited, Edinburgh, (190)
- Car Shed of the Trolley Company at Paterson, New Jersey, (166)
- Chatham Dockyard, (583), (607) [
- Electric Factory of Froyards, near Nancy, (409)
- Hyde Park Locomotive Works, (522)
- New S. Griffin Pit, (214)
- Newsum and Co.’s Timber Mills, Gainsborough, (409)
- Railway Workshops, Cairo, (504)
- Rolling Stock Depót of the Samara and Zatoust Railway, (291)
- AERIAL Navigator, Another, (485)
- Aeronauts, Altitude Reached by Dr. Bersen and Dr. Suriog, (630)
- Agricultural implements, Bad Quality of Russian, j (561)
- Agricultural Machinery and Implements Imported into Odessa, Total Weight of, 1900, (190)
- Agricultural Machinery, Use of Modern, in Asturias, (511)
- Air Blast, 12
- Air Compressors for Raising Oil at Baku, Use of, (561)
- Air Pressures Used in Playing Brass Instruments, Dr. E. 11. Barton and Mr. S. C. Laws on the, (43)
- Airship, Tbo Barton, 392
- A Brooklyn Inventor’s, (630)
- M. Santos Dumont’s, at the Crystal Palace. (314)
- Airships, New, (409)
- Air, Travel in, 12, 47, 71, 84, 121, 147, 171, 194. 218, 219, 214, (261), 295, 290, 417, 440, 467, ; 493
- Alcohol, Denaturised Untaxed, Consumption in Germany for Technical Purposes, (583)
- Peru, industrial Use of, 611 v. Petroleum, The Competition in Paris, (89,
- from Sugar-cane in Peru, Annual Pro¬duction of, (607)
- Alliance, The New, and its Commercial Effects, 192
- Alloys of Nickel and Copper cannot be Mag¬netised, (287)
- Almanacs, Calendars, &c., 28, 48, 77, 124, 150
- Aluminium as an Alloy, (214)
- Anode, Utilisation of the Properties of, The Best Lubricant to Use on, (166)
- Bronzas, Tests of, (31)
- and Magnesium, with Ammonium Chloride Solution, Fused Mixtures of, (314)
- -ZincAlloys. Castings made from, (237)
- American v. English Machinery in China, 211
- Manufacturers, The Birth of, 637
- Recklessness, 171
- Spark Arrester, 246 Tourists in Europe, 19/1, (237)
- Trade, Satisfactory Condition of, (335)
- Triumphs, 261
- Workshop Methods in Steel Construction, 120, 219, 269
- Ammonia, Relative Decomposition of, by Iron and Copper, (139)
Appointments and Resignations: Appointments:
- Adams, Mr. J. F., (335)
- Ballan, Mr. A. E., (26)
- Clayden, Mr. H. W., (272)
- Cormack, Mr. J. D., (190i D xon, Mr., (583)
- Donnet, Mr. J. W., (433)
- Graham, Mr. J. L , (433)
- GrindliDg, Mr. W. J., (459)
- Lake, Mr. E.t (26)
- O’Meara, Major W. A. J., (159)
- Price, Mr., (472)
- Ram, Mr. G. Scott, Electrical Inspector of Factories and Workshops, (237)
- Rse, Mr. II. S. C., (229)
- Roberts, Mr. M., (459)
- Robinson, Mr. J. G., (459)
- Samson, Mr. P., Appointed by the Lords of the Admiralty, (63)
- Smith, Mr. W. E., Appointed by Lords of the Admiralty, (63)
- Watts, Mr. Philip, Appointed Director of Naval Construction, bis Successor at Elswick, , Mr. Perrett, (89), (125)
- West, Mr. G. F., (13)
Resignations:
- Clayton, Mr. T. G.( Presentation to, (166)
- Hookey, Mr. Ja«., (190)
- Rouse, Mr. F., (359)
Armour Plating:
- Cramp Co., and tho Armour Plate for tbe ; Battleship Maine, (139)
- Curved Plates, 121
- Krupp Armour, A New, 433, 481
- Largest Plate ever Rolled Finished at the Parkgate Iron and Steel Co.’s Works, (409)
- Slackness in the Industry, Mr. J. F. Hope and Mr. Arnold Forster on the, (49)
- Trials of Openshaw at Whale Island and Shoeburyness, (386), (409)
- Armoured Tower, San Paolo, near Taranto, (190)
- Artesian Water Supply and Irrigation, W. Gibbons Cox, 402
- Asbestos Mining in California and Georgia, (13)
- Asquith. W , Machine Tools (Supplement, June Yilh, 1902)
Association, Acetylene :
- Formation of, (97); General Meeting, (l£0)
Association, American Iron and Steel:
- Iron and Steel Statistics, Mr. Swank’s Annual Report, 23
Association on Ballasting, American Railway Engineering and Main¬tenance of Way :
- Report of the Committee, (350)
Association, Cold Storage and Ice:
- Annual Dinner : Papers to ba read, (441)
Association of Electrical Contractors, National:
- First Meeting of the N. Section of, (89)
Association of Engineers In Charge:
- Programme of, 36
- Seventh Annual Dinner, (312)
Association of Engineers, Leeds :
- Injector, Theory and Working of the, Mr. Konrad Andersson, (437)
- Structural Ironwork, Prof. John Goodman,(169)
Association of Engineers, Manchester:
- Annual Report, (75)
- Anniversary Dinner, Forty-fifth, 109
- Half-yearly Meeting, New Members Elected, (617)
- High-pressure Gas for Works Lighting, Mr. J. Nasmith, 215
- Machine Tools, Application of Portable, Mr. J. R. Ingham, 170
- Silo Granarios for Floor Mills, Mr. J. Whitaker, (323)
- Tecbnolexicon, Circular respecting the Preparation of, by the Society of German Engineers, J617)
- Training of Engineering Apprentices, Inaugural Addrtsi by Mr. E. G. Constantine, 71
- Visit to the Works of John Brown and Co., Limited, 605
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
- London Convention, Papers to be Read and Discussed, (550)
- Special General Meeting, (135)
Association, Machinery Users’:
- Annual General Meeting, (638)
Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:
- Annual Dinner, (169)
- Dinner to Mr. J. J. Innis, (545)
- Steam Engine Packing, Mr. A. McSviney, (150)
Association of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors, Scottish:
- First General Meeting, Presidential Address of Mr. A. B. McDonald, 636
Association, National Traction Engine:
- Action Taken by, with references to the New Laws Proposed by the Worcester County Council in respect to Locomotive Traffic, (648)
Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers:
- Meeting at Lyndhurst, and Complimentary Dinner to Mr. Dean and Mr Clajtan, (607)
Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, British:
- Seventh Annual General Meeting, (314)
- ASTURIAS, Modern Agricultural Machinery in Demand, (511)
- Atlantic Trade, Combination in the, 411, 435, (446)
- Automatic Signals from Westminster Clock to Greenwich, (583)
- Autumn’s Drought, The, 134
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- BAASS, Mr. J. E., (484)
- Bacterial Treatment of Trades Waste, Mr. W. Naylor on, 150
- Baku, Decline of Imports of Machinery into, (561)
- Baku, Kerosene, Limited Russian Demand for, (561)
- Baku, 0.1 Raised by Means of Air Compressors, (561)
- Balancing Locomotives — see Locomotives, Balancing
- Balloon, Tae Barton Airship, 392
- Balloon, The Severo Navigable, 482, (485)
- Barton Airship, The, 392
- Bases, TbeControl of (referring to Lieut. Hordern’s Prize Essay), 539
- Battersea Polytechnic, Conversazione at the, (334)
- Bauxite, New South Wales, 144
- Benzone, Naphthalene, and Aothracite, Prepara¬tion of, from Metallic Carbides, C. S. Bradley and C. B. Jacob’s Patent, 560
- Bevelling Machine, Messrs. Davis and Primrose, 258, 259
- Beyer, Peacock and Co., Limited (1902), (420)
- Bicycle, Holden’s Motor, (190), 333
- Bicycles Wanted in Erzoroum, (511)
Bills
- American Shipping Subsidy, (359)
- Brighton Electric Railway, 45, (63), (314)
- Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway, (459)
- Canal from Rochester to Gravesend, (261)
- Ethiopia-Jilbutil Railway, (386)
- Great Western, for Changes in the Risca District, (113)
- Great Western and London and North-Western, to Acquire the Brynmawr and Western Valley Lines, (26)
- Hull and Barnsley Railway Company’s, to be Opposed by Hull, (121)
- Lancashire and Yorkshire (Steam Vessels), Passed, (607)
- Leicestershire and Warwickshire Electric Power, ! (37)
- London and North-Western, Widening of the Trent Valley Line, (113)
- London Subways, 340 London United Tramways, (570)
- London Water, 136, 143, 241, (355), 433
- Manchester City Circle Railway, (13)
- Metropolitan District Railway, (214)
- Midland Railways, (190), (214)
- Ontario Legislature : to empower Municipalities to Purchase, &c., Electric Energy for Heat, Light, and Power, (287)
- Patent, The New, 196
- Peckham Rye Tube Railway Withdrawn, (113)
- Private, in Parliament, 354, 394, 408
- Private, for Transfer of Imperial Institute to
- the Board of Trade, (537)
- Rhondda Tramways, (63)
- Rhymney Railway, (446)
- Swedish Parliament, for Purchase by the State of the two Telephone Companies, (459)
- Taff Vale, (386)
- BIRTWISTLE Hydraulic Jointing Syndicate, Limited, New Method of Jointing Boiler
- Tubes, (271)
- Biscuit-sorting and Packing Machine, D. Thom¬son and Co., 503
- Blair, Mr. Geo. Maclellan, 43
- Blast Furnaces on American Lines, (60)
- Blast Furnaces in Course of Erection or being Rebuilt in the United Kingdom, (37)
- Blast Furnace, Non - crucible, Mr. John L. Stevenson, 72
- Blast Furnace Practice, Recent, by Mr. B. D. Healey, 464
- Blast Furnaces under Reconstruction, (445)
- Blast Furnaces in the United Kingdom, (433)
- Blast Furnace Tuyeres, Cooling, 489
- Blister, Remarkable, caused by a Fall in a Fur¬nace. 545
- Blytb, The Old Fish Qoay, (139)
- Board of Trade Returns, 265
- Bog, Splitting of the Annagh, Leitrim, (607)
Boilers:
- Babcock and Wilcox Water-tube, (89), 93, 286
- Blake’s Improved Multitubular Vertical, 112
- Committee on Water-tube, Second Report, 227, 255
- Corrosion of Condenser Tubes and Sea Water Conductors, Mr. E. Cohen on the, 469
- Cylinder Lubrication, 46
- Distortion in, Due to Overheating, Mr.
- Stromeyer on, 337, 344, 369—see also 527 English Navy, 635
- Express, Mr. A G. Mumford, 141, 145
- Fire-box Stays of Locomotive, Mr. Webb on, 412, 419
- Locomotive, 585
- Locomotive, Mr. R Waters on, (150)
- Locomotive Type, for a Sugar Factory, Geo. Fletcher and Co., 625, 628
- Machine-fired, Test of, 286
- Marine, 10, 43, 62 (89), 93, 109
- Navy, 10, 43, 62, 93, 144, 145, (485), 487, 513, 544, 563
- Nic’ausse Water-tube, 43, 109, (485), 519
- Power and Electricity, 163
- Pozzies, 337
- Scotch Water-tube, Replace Belleville in the United States Lake Steamers, (359)
- Scummer, The Hotchkiss, 70
- Seagull, Niclausse Water-tube Trials, (485), 519
- Types of, for the Six First-class Cruisers of the 1901-2 Programme, 544
- Vulcan Boiler Insurance Company, Annual Meeting, 300
- Water tube, 10, 43, 62, 89, 93, 109, 144, 145, 227, 286, 468, (485), 519
- Water-tube, Canadian, 467, 468
- Water-tube, for First-class Torpedo Boats, Mr. A. G. Mumford, 144. 145
- Water-tube, Hardie, 467, 468
- Yarrow, Water-tube, 10, 62
- BOILER Power and Electricity, 168
- Bonawee Granite Quarries, Monster Blast Fired at, (139)
- Boring Bar with Adjustable Cutters, Barker and Spick, 172
- Machine, W. Asquith (vi., Supplem.nl, June Yitk, 1902)
- Machine, Darling and Sellers (i., Supple¬ment, June Yith, 1902)
- Mill, Double, Messrs. Webster and Bennett, 604, 605
- Machine, Double, G. Wilkinson and Sons, 461
- Machine, A Large, Tangye Tool and Electric Company (Supplement, April 18th, 1902), 393
- and Milling Machine, Portable Electric, J. Buckton and Co, Limited ( x., Supplement, June 13th, 1902)
- Bondouard, Mr. O., Dendritic Crystals Shown by Fused Mixtures of Aluminium and Magnesium, (314)
- Bowen, Mr. T., (472)
- Breconshiro Works of the Merthyr Urban Council, Sale of the Machinery, &c., (638)
- Brick-drying Plant, American, 323
- Brick. Specific Heat of, (214)
- Bricklayers, Average Work of, The London County Council's and the British, (261)
- British Fire-prevention Committee, Tests with Fireproof Wood, and Silver Medal Award, (89), (113), (139)
Bridges:
- American, New, 470
- American Transporter, Duluth, 442
- Ca'ais, across the Tidal Basin. (433)
- Cantilever, Two, over the N. Tyne, (485)
- Cantilever, over the St. Lawrence, 541
- Cast Iron, 441
- Clybourne Place over Chicago River, Trunnion Bascule, (607)
- Colonial, 103
- Exe, its Reconstruction, (13)
- Floating or Steam Ferry, Launched by Vickers,
- Son and Maxim at Barrow, (287), (301)
- Grand Junction Canal, Great Western Railway, E Finch and Co., (152)
- Great Yarmouth, Midland and Great Northern Railway, E. Finch and Co., (152)
- London, Cost of the Improvements, (214)
- Luxembourg, Arched, 431. 432
- North-Eastern Railway’s High-level, across the Tyne, (237), (272)
- Ottawa, (74)
- Pangbourne, Picturesque Old Wooden Bridge to be Replaced by an Iron one, (237)
- Permanent Railway, across the Damooda, India, (261)
- Preservation of, from White Ants, Mr. H. E. Bellamy on the, (409)
- Removal, Pennsylvania Railway, Crossing the Raritan River, (583)
- Removal, Pittsburg Railway, 544, 661, (6C6)
- Renewal of a Railway, over Battersea Park-road, 543
- Reath Docks, Great Western Railway, Mr. J. C. Inglis (Supplement, February 28th, 1902), 94, 96, 207, 210
- Saigou into AnDam, Railway, from, (261)
- St. Petersburg, Palace, 416
- Steel, Paris Metropolitan Railway, (336)
- Strengthening of Early Iron, 352, 375, 449
- Suspension and Cantilever, 62
- Swing, Mr. W. H. McLean on, (120)
- Taff Vale Railway, (638)
- Testing of Railway, 157
- Tower, New South Approach Opened to, (261) 297, (343)
- Transvaal and Orange River Colony, Repair of. (409)
- Vermilion River, Railway, over the, Ill., U.S. A., High Concrete Arch, (359)
- United States, Three Large Cantilever, (358)
- Weston and Tiverton, (391)
- Y-shaped, U.S.A., Zanesville, 470
- BUCKINGHAM Palace, Sanitary Worksat, (458)
- Buckton and C, J., Limited, Machine Tools (Supplement, June 13th, 1902)
- Butler and Co., J., Machine Tools (Supplement, June\3ih,\M>)
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- CABLE, Chain, The Longest and Heaviest ever Made, (409)
- Drum Wugou, Mr. A. H. Robin-on. 1 521