The Engineer 1916 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1916 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ACCIDENTS:

Bletchley Collision, 174 ; (Letter), 211
Boiler Explosions, A Year’s, 37
Crowborough Derailment, Report, 32
Failure of a Copper Steam Pipe on the Clan Urquhart, 88
Railway Accident Returns for 1915, (5, 14
Warminster Collision, Great Western Railway, 250, 443

ACTIVATED Sludge Sewage Treatment in America, 170
Aerial Ropeway at Niagara Falls, 16

AERONAUTICS

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AGRICULTURAL
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ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association, British:

Calculation of the Capacity of Radio-telegraph Antennae, &c., Dr. G. W. O. Howe, 230
Decimal System in Currency, Weights and Measures, Sir R. Burbidge, 297
Disruptive Effect of Carbon Monoxide at 400 deg. to 500 deg. Cent, on Wrought Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 254
Female Labour, Report, 274
Fuel Economy and Electrical Power Distribution, 275
Fuel Economy, Report and Discussion, 255
Gaseous Explosion Committee, Interim Report, Dr. Dugald Clerk, 229
Industrial Fatigue. Report, 296
Industrial Unrest, Report and Discussion, 255
Limit Gauges, Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 224, 229. 240
Methane, Pressure on the Electrical Ignition of. Dr. W. M. Thornton, 229
Motor Cultivation, C. B. Fisher, 254
Newcastle Meeting, 205, 224, 229, 240, 254 274, 296, 356
Oxidation of Nickel Steel, Dr. J. E. Stead, 254
Popular Science Lectures, Report of Committee, 246
Presidential Address, Mr. Gerald Stoney, 205
Pressure Oil Film Lubrication, H. B. Newbiggin, 229
Principle of Similitude in Engineering Design, 'r. E. Stanton, 356
Radio-telegraphic Investigations, 239
Reduction of Solid Nickel and Copper Oxides by Solid Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 254
Standardisation, Engineering Standards Committee, C. le Maistre, 229

Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Cast Iron for Engine Cylinders, J. E. Hurst, 549
Friction Clutches, W. G. Gass, 399
Industrial Considerations After the War, P. W. Reed, 345 ,
Pneumatic Grain Handling Appliances, Cecil j Bentham, 494

Association, Incorporated Municipal ; Electrical:
Electric Vehicle Committee, 73 |

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:
Electricity and the Economical Use of Coal, R. A. Cliattock, 348

Institute, The Iron and Steel:
Autumn Meeting, 278, 299, 332
Effect of Blast-furnace Gases on Wrought Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 404
Influence of Some Elements on the Mechanical Properties of Steel, Dr. J. E. Stead, 278, 287
Manganese Ores of the Bukovina, H. K. Scott, 299, 332
Notes on Pearlite, Professor H. M. Howe and A. J. Levy, 299
Papers by Dr. Stead, Dr. Arnold, H. K. Scott, and G. F. Zummer, 299
Proposed Alterations in Membership, Committees, &c., 278
Some Properties of Ingots, A. W. and PI. Brearley, 299, 310
Steel Ingot Defects, &c.. Open-hearth Steel and Bessemer Steel, J. N. Kilby, 299
Thermo-electric Method of Studying Allotropic Changes, Professor Carl Benedicks, 22

Institute of Metals:
Annealing of Brass, C. H. Mathewson and E. M. Thalheimer, 284
Autumn Meeting, 284
Cadmium in Spelter, Professor Ingalls, 284
Development of the Spelter Industry, E. A. Smith, 284

Institution of Civil Engineers :
“ James Forrest ” Lecture : Appliances for Handling Materials’ at Ports, Sir J. P. Griffith, 366, 389 |
Presidential Address, Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, 424, 435 j

Institution of Mechanical Engineers: !
Assistant Engineers for the Ministry of Munitions, 513
Dr. Unwin’s Second Presidential Address, 376 Engineers for the Ministry of Munitions, Dr. Unwin’s Letter, 513
Hardness Tests Research Committee, Report, 613, 515, 637
“ Thomas Hawksley ” Lecture : The Gas Engineer of the Last Century, Harry E. Jones, 410
Trials on a Diesel Engine by the Late Lieut. F. T. Wilkins, 368, 444,.447
Variable-speed Gears for Motor Road Vehicles, R. E. Phillips, 646, 560

Institution of Mining Engineers:
Absorption of Oxygen by Coal, J. I. Graham, 257
Annual General Meeting, 256
Form and Structure of the Coalfields of Scotland, D. Ferguson, 257
Permeability of Coal to Air or Gas, and the Solubilities of Different Gases in Coal : Formation of Water in the Oxidation of Coal, J. I. Graham, 257
Presidential Address on the Influence of Science, Education, and Legislation on Mining, Wallace Thorneycroft, 250
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders: i
Annual Meeting, 400
Engineering After the War^A. D. C. Parsons, E. L. Orde, and G. H. Tweddell, 400
Tests, Air Pump Apparatus, at Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., 380
Works Organisation, G. H. Tweddell, 506
Institution of Petroleum Technologists:
Norfolk Oil-shales, W. Forbes-Leslie, 347

Society of Chemical Industry :
Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, 69, 92
British Coal Tar Colour Industry and its Difficulties in War Time, C. M. Whittaker, 92
Chemistry and Engineering, Dr. C. Carpenter, 467
Disadvantages of the Present Patent Law, W. P. Thompson, 93
Extraction of Tar Fog from Hot (:las, G. T. Purves, 93
Fuel Economy, Professor Armstrong, 69 Influence of Patent Laws upon Industry, W. F. Reid, 93
Influence of the War upon the Tar Distillation Industry, W. H. Coleman, 92
Manufacture of Fine Chemicals in relation to British Chemical Industry, C. A. Hill and T. D. Morson, 93
Manufacture of Synthetic Organic Drugs as Affected by the War, F. H. Carr, 93
Overhauling of the Patent Law, J. W. Gordon, 93
Presidential Address, Dr. C. Carpenter, 69 Production of Alkaloids as Affected by the War, D. B. Dott, 93
Progress of British Rare Earth Industry during the War, S. J. Johnstone, 93

Society of Engineers:
Mineral Resources cf the British Empire, Dr. W. G. Fearnsides and Dr. C. 628, 581
Visit to Johnson and Phillips’ Works, 98

Society, The Faraday :
Refractories, Discussion, 412

Society, Royal, of Arts:
Coal and its Economic Utilisation, J. S. S. Brame, 493, 513, 635

AUTOMATIC Clutch, A. E. Woodhouse, 400
Automatic Elevator for Shells, Ed. Bennis and Co., 423
Automatic Tipping Railway Wagon, Western Wheeled Scraper Company, 95, 100

BARGES—see Ships
Benedicks, Professor Carl, on Thermo-electric Method of Studying Allotropic Changes, 22
Bentham, Cecil, on Pneumatic Grain-handling Appliances, 494
Berg, S., on the Misox Railway, 480, 488, 523
Berthaut, General, on the Future of Forts, 409
Blast-furnace Gases, The Effect of, on Wrought Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 404
Bleaching, Dyeing, and Printing Cotton Fabrics, Machinery for, 27, 70, 116, 120, 162, 165
Bloor-Street Viaduct, Toronto, 394, 398
Blount, Bertram, on the Production of Glass for Scientific Use, 81
Board of Trade Iron and Steel Industries Committee, 126
Boiler Explosion, A London, 495
Boiler Explosions, A Year’s, 37
Boiler Tubes, Heat Transmission through, 10 ; (Letter), 65 j
Books of Reference, 200, 239, 263
Boring Machines—'^e^ also Machine Tools i
Boring, Tunnel, Machines, Beaumont-English and Brunton, 502
Boy Artificers for the Royal Xavy, 66
Brame, Professor J. S. S., on Coal and its l^lconoinic Utilisation, 493, 513, 535
Brass, Annealing of, C. H. ZMatthewson and E. M. Thalheimer, 284
Brazil, Th© Pirahy '3'unnel in, 60
Brearley, A. W. and H., on Some Properties of Ingots, 299, 310

BRIDGES:

Charing Cross Bridge, 8
Quebec Bridge, Accident, 232, 236, 239, 322, 327 ; (Letters), 348, 369
Quebec Bridge, Erection of the South Cantilever Arm, 363, 387 {Two-page Supple- went, October 27th, 1916)

BRIGTON, Fuel Economy Scheme for, 309 Brinell Test, 466, 513, 615
British Coal Tar Colour Industry, &c., C. M. Whittaker, 92
British Cotton Growing Association’s Meeting J. A. Hutton, 98
Briti.sh Empire, Mineral Resources of, 528, 581 British Empire Producers’ Organisation, 401
British Industrial Organisation for War, 191 : (Letter), 212
British Industry, Federation of, 121, 280 Briti.sh Rare Earth Industry, Progress cf,
During the War, S. J. Johnstone, 93
British Science and Industry, 57
British Trade in Foreign Countries, Promotion of, 550
Burstall, Professor, on th© late Lieut. Wilkins’ Paper on Trials of a Diesel Engine, 368
By-Products, Coal Tar, 401
By-Products, Coke Oven Practice, Recent
Improvements in, Dr. G. P. Lishman, 93

CADMIUM in Spelter, Professor Ingalls, 284 Calenders—see Machinery for Cotton Fabrics Canada, Hydro-Electric Plant in, 587 Canada, Mineral Production of, in 1915, 178 Canal, Th© Forth and Clyde, 395 Canal, Welland Ship, Canada, 242 Capital and Labour, E. W. Petter, 43 Carburetter—see Motor Vehicles
Carpenter, Dr. C., on Chemistry and Engineering, 467
Carpenter, Dr. C., Presidential Address at the Society of Chemical Industry, 69, 121
Carr, .F. H., on the Manufacture of Synthetic Organic Drugs as Affected by th© War, 93
Case, T. W., on a New Way of Converting Light into Electrical Energy, 154
Cast Iron for Engine Cylinders, J. E. Hurst, 649 Catalogues, 45, 130, 177, 270, 290, 360, 450, 471, 666
Catskill Aqueduct, Drainage Equipment, 464
Centrifugals—see Pumps Channel Tunnel and Other Projects, 388, 431, 457, 492, 502, 525, 552, 569, i (Letter), 494
Chatterton, Alfred, on th© Development of Mechanical Engineering in India, 36, 44
Chattock, R. A., on Electricity and th© Economical Us© of Coal. 348 ; (Letter), 392
Chemicals, Fine, Manufacture of, in Relation to British Chemical Industry, C. A. Hill and T. D. Morson, 93
Chemistry and Engineering, Dr. C. Carpenter, 467
Chemistry, Industrial. The Past and Future of, 113, 146, 170, 210, 230
Chile, Engineering Progress in, 285
Chinese Engineers for British Firms, Professor Middleton Smith. 646
Clearing House f'^r Machinery, 395, 405
Clerk, Dr. Dugald, Report on Gaseous Explosions, 229
Clutch, An Automatic, A. E. Woodhouse, 400 Clutches, Friction, W. G. Gass, 399
Coaches, Railway—see Railway Matters

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

Coal and its Economic Utilisation, Professor J. S. S. Brarae, 493, 513, 535
Coal Output Deficiency, 370
Coal Tar By-Products, 401
Coal Trade Difficulties, 383
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DAM, Elephant Butte, 185, 190
Dams, Two Constant Angle Arch, Spaulding and Salmon Creek, 260, 264
Davies, C. E., on Power Required in Rolling Metals, 134
Daylight Signals—see Railways
Decimal Systems—see British Association ; also Letters to the Plditor
Deep Well Pumping Idant at the Leathersellers
Hall, C. Isler and Co., Limited, 148 Depreciation of Controlled Plant, 419 Detonators, A Test for, C. G. Storm and W. C. Cope, 330
Diagram for Reducing Tacheometer Readings,
F. R. Freeman, 82 Diesel Engines—see Engines Dilution of Labour on Clyde and Tyne, 166 Dock and Harbour Dues on Government Ships,
122
Dott, D. B., on the Production of Alkaloids as Affected by the War, 93
Drainage Equipment for the Hudson River,
Syphon, &c., 454. 464
Drainage of New Zealand Swamps, 214, 218 Dredgers, Two Types, The Flamingo and
Walrus, Lobnitz and Co., Limited, 233 (.Two- page Supplement^ September iQth, 1916)
Drift in Artillerj’ Fire, Sir G. Greenhill, 2 Drilling IMachines—see Machine Tools Drugs, Synthetic Organic, Manufacture of, as Affected by the War, F. H. Carr, 93

EDINBURGH Tramways, 413
Education of Engineers, 18
Educational Intelligence, 66, 73, 164, 246, 290, 406
Efficiency, Edward E. Wall, 494
Efficiency, Human, 4.89

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

Braidwater Spinning Company’s Mill at Ballymena, British Thomson-Houston Electrical Plant at, 3, 12
Charging Electric Vehicle Batteries, 82 Control of 15,000 Horse-power Motors, 126 Converting Light into Electrical Energy,
New Way of, T. W. Caso, 154
Direct-coupled Paraffin Electric Set, Petters, Limited, 584
Dublin Electricity Supply, Colonel d’Alton’s Report, 411
Electric Power Supply, 351
Electrical Industry in Germany and Austria, 154
Electric Vehicles Committee, 73, 82
Electricity and the Economical Use of Coal, R. A. Chattock, 348 ; (Letter), 392
Electricity on the Farm, 13
Factories—see Isolated
Fuel Economy and Electric Power Distribution, 275
Furnaces for Smelting Iron Ores in Scandinavia, Elektrometall, "Helfenstein and Tinfos, 5 ; (Letter), 127
HoO Wet Cell, Edison and Swan, 330
Hydro-electric Plant in Canada, 587 ’Hydro-electric Power Plants in New Zealand, Two Small, 194
Iron and Steel Electrical* Conductors, 125
Isolated Factories, The Electrification of, 3, 12, 52, 94
Locomotives—see Railways
Marble Quarry, Vermont, U.S.A., Electric Power Plant, 308
Modern Electric Searchlight Projectors, J. H. Johnson, 227, 252. 294
^Modern Methods of Correcting Power Factor, 25
Paper Mill Power Plant, Reorganisation of, 583
Polyphase Alternating-current Commutator 3^Iotors, British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, 574
Power Contract, An Unusual, 142
Power Factor Meters, Dr. R. D. Gilford, 149
Power Generating Equipment, 6000 H.P. Combination Steam and Gas Engines, 97
Power-house at the Ford Motor Company’s Works, 527, 529^
Poxver Signalling Installation at Flemington ‘ N.S.W., 547, 556
Railways—see Railxvays
Shanghai Electricity Undertaking, 51
Southwick Electricity Works, Brighton, Fuel Economy Scheme, 309
Switchgear Control, New Developments in.
A. G. Collis, 49, 75
Thermo-electric Method of Studying Allotropic Changes, Professor Carl Benedicks, 22

ELECTRO-THERMIC SMELTING— see Electrical jMatters
Elephant Butte Dam, 185, 190
Elevator, Automatic, for .Shells, Ed. Bennis and Co., 423

ENGINES AND MOTORS: General:

Cast Iron for Engine Cylinders, J. E. Hurst' 549
Supply of Marine Engines, 373

ENGINES AND MOTORS: Internal Combustion Engines:

Combined Steam and Gas Engine, 6000 H.P., at Ford Motor Company’s "Works, Hoovens, Owen and Rentschler Company, 527, 532
Combination Steam and Gas Engines, 6000 H.P., 97
- Crosshead Type Diesel Engine, 350 B.H.P., Mirrlees, Bickerton, and Day, Limited, 414 ; (Correction), 442
Diesel Engines with Low Compression, Professor W. H. Watkinson,_ 266
Diesel Engines v. Steam Turbines, 324 ; (Letter), 370, 392
Four-cylinder Double-acting Gas Ejigine, Mather and Platt, 436, 437 (Two-page Supplement, November 17th, 1916)
Gas Engine, 400 B.H.P. Four-cylinder, Browett, Lindley and Co., Limited, 140 (Two-page Supplement, August ISth, 1916)
Gas Engines, Premier, at Burham, 94
Gas Engines, Ruston-Proctor, at Gerrard’s Works, Swinton, 94
Indicating Gear for Internal Combustion Engines, A. Ryder, 575
Oil Engines for Farm Service, Worthington Pump Company, Limited, 4
Trials on a Diesel Engine, F. T. Wilkins, 368, 444, 447

ENGINES AND MOTORS: Steam Engines :

Combined Steam and Gas Engine, 6000 H.P,. at Eord Motor Company’s Works, Hoovens, Owen and Rentschler Company, 527, 532
Combination Steam and Gas Engines, 6000 H.P., 97
Compound Superheating Ploughing Engine, J/Fowler and Co., Limited, 4
Portable Steam Engine, Steam Traction Engine, &c., Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 4

ENGINEER Volunteers, First London, 24, 46, 54, 76, 98, 126, 139, 179, 202, 225, 246, 272, 292, 316, 324, 382, 406, 430, 452, 476, 522, 542, 568, 584
Engineers, Education of, 18
Engineers on Foreign-going Steamships, 416 Engineering Design, Principle of Similitude in, T. E. Stanton, 356 '
Engineering Industries, Organisation of the, Engineering Industry After the War, 257 Engineering Problems in Mesopotamia, Sir
Willcocks, 310
Engineering Progress in Chile, 285
Engineering Standards Committee, C. Maistre, 229
Engineering After the War, A. D. C. Parsons, E. L. Orde, and G. H. Tweddle, 400
Engineering Works, Women’s, 37
Excavating Machines, Petrol Caterpillar, for Trench Work, Parsons Company, 435

FACTORIES—see also Works
Factories, Electrification of-—see Electrical Matters
Factories, The Human Element in, B. S. Rowntree, 441, 443
Farm Machinery, 587
Fearnsides, Dr. W. G., and Dr. C. G. Cullis on the Mineral Resources of the British Empire, 528, 581 #
Federation of British Industry, 121, 280, 550
Ferguson, D., on the Form and Structure of the Coalfields of Scotland, 257
Ferry, Train, Mammoth, for New Orleans, 322 Floods, Great, in America,’ 142
Forbes-Leslie, W., on The Norfolk Oil-shales, 347, 351
Forging Projectiles—see Projectiles
Forrest, James, Lecture on Appliances for Handling Materials at Ports, Sir J. P. Grifilth, 366, 389
Fox’tli and Clyde Canal, 395
Forthcoming Engagements, 98, 197, 223, 246, 270, 290, 302, 332, 357, 380, 405, 428, 447, 474, 495, 508, 644, 563, 584
Forts, The Future of, General Berthaut, 409
Freeman, F. R-., on a Simple Diagram for Reducing Tacheometcr Readings, 82
Freezing Process, Pit Shaft Sinking, Simon- Carves, Limited, 460, 461 ; (Correction), 494
French, J. W., on The Grinding and Polishing of Optical Surfaces, 443
French Screw Gauge, 234
French Workers, Visit of, 82
Friction Clutches, W. G. Gass, 399
Fuel Economy and Electrical Power Distribution 275
Fuel Economy, Interim Report, 200
Fuel Economy, Professor Armstrong, 69
Fuel Economy, Report and Discussion, British Association, 255
Fuel Economy Scheme for Brighton, 309 Furnace, The “Turbine,” 30
Furnace, White Metal Melting, Monometer Manufacturing Co., 423
Furnaces, Electric- -see Electrical blatters

GAS Burners for Industrial Work, 355 Gas-Electric Power Plant at Burham Works, 94 Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas Engineer of the Last Century, Harry E. Jones, 410 ; (Letter), 446
Gas Producer Electric Plant at Gerrard’s Works, Swinton, 94
Gas Turbine, Detroit Gas Turbine Corporation, 220
Gass, W. G., on Friction Clutches, 399 Gatewood, R. D., on Military and Technical
Considerations of Battleship Design, 469 Gauge, French Screw, 234
Gauges, Limit, Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 224, 229. 240
Glasgow Fire Brigade Efficion cy, 401
Glass Research, 250 Glass for Scientific Bertram Blount,
Glazebrook, Dr. R. 229, 240
Gordon, J. W.. on the Overhauling of the Patent Law, 93
Government and the Irish Railways, 667, 560 Graham, J. I., on Permeability of Coal to Air or Gas, and the Solubilities of Different Gases in Coal; Formation of Water in the Oxidation of Goal; Absorption of Oxvgen by Coal, 257
Grain-handling Appliances, Pneumatic, Cecil Bentham, 494
Grande, Julian, on the Electrification of the Swiss State Railways. 104
Great Britain from a German Standpoint, 458 Greenhill, Sir George, on Drift in Artillery Fire, 2
Greenhill, Sir George, on High-angle Fire at Aircraft, 36
Greenhill, Sir George, on Speed Sighting and Wind Deflection in Artillery, 133
Griffith, Sir J. P., on Appliances fox* Handling Materials at Ports, “James Forrest” Lecture, 366, 389
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools
Grintling and Polishing Optical Surfaces, J. W. Jfrench, 443
Gyroscopes, Stabilising Ships by Means of, 169 ; (Letter), 211—see also Ships

HANDLING Materials at Ports, Appliances for. Sir J. P. Griffiths, “ James Forrest ” Lecture, 366, 389
Hardness Tests Research Rcjjort, 613, 616, 537 Hardness ? What is, 465
Heat Transmission through Boiler Tubes, 10 ; (Letter), 65
Hichens, W. L., on the Importance of Increased Production, 17
High-angle Fire at Aircraft, Sir G. Greenhill, 36
Hill, C. A., and T. D. Morson, on the Manufacture of Fine Chemicals in relation to British Chemical Industry, 93
Holidays-—see Labour
Holland, Draining Inundated Areas, 30, 34 Hudson River Syphon of Catskill Aqueduct,
Drainage Equipment, 454, 464 Efficiency, 489
Human Element in Factories, B. S. Rowntree, 441, 443
Hurst, J. E., on Cast Iron for Engine Cylinders, 549
Hurst, J. E., on Melting Steel in the Iron- foundry Cupola, 462
Hydro-electric Plant in Canada, 587
Hydro-olectric Power Plants in New Zealand, Two Small, 194

IDLE Machinery, 395, 406
Illumination Testing—see Photometer Importance of Increased Production, W. L. Hichens, 17
Increased Production, 419
India, Development of Mechanical Engineering in, Alfred Chatterton, 36, -14
India, Ventilation in, 102
Indispensables, Question of, 374
Industrial Chemistry, The Past and Future of, 113, 146, 170, 216, 230
Industrial Considerations After the War, F. W. Reed, 345
Industrial Fatigue—see Labour
Industrial Organisation for War, British, 193 ; (Letter), 212
Industrial Peace, 533
Industrial Research—see Research
Industrial Unrest—see Labour
Industries, Engineering, Oi‘ganisa1ion of the, 118
Industry, British, Federation of, 121, 280, 550
Industry, Engineering, After the War, 257
Influence of Speed bn Endurance Tests, W. C. Popplewell, 339
Ingots—nee Iron and Steel
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines Inundation in Holland, I’umps for Draining,
The Werkspoor Company, 30, 34 Inventions, Peaceful, 373 Inventors and the War, 242

IRON AND STEEL:

Board of Trade Iron and Steel Industries Committee, 126
Cast Iron for Engine Cylinders, J. E. Hurst 549
Effect of Blast-furnace Gases on Wrought Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead, 404
Electro-thermic Smelting of Iron Ores in
Scandinavia, 5 ; (Letter), 127
Hardness Tests Research Report, 513, 515, 537
Influence of Some Elements on the Mechanical Properties of Steel, Dr. J. E. Stead, 278, 284, 287
Iron Key for Railway Chairs, J. Williamson and Co., 61
Iron and Steel Electrical Conductors, 125 Manganese Ores of the Bukowina, H. K.
Scott, 299, 332
Melting Steel in the Ironfoundry Cupola, J. E. Hurst, 462 ; (Letter), 584
Organisation of Iron, Steel, Engineering,
Shipbuilding, and Allied Industries, 529
Oxidation of Nickel Steel; Reduction of
Solid Nickel and Copper Oxides by Solid
Iron, and Disruptive Effect of Carbon Monoxide at 400 deg. to 500 deg. Cent, on Wrought Iron, Dr. J. E. Stead at the British Association Newcastle Meeting, 254 Smelting New Zealand Iron Sand, 583 Some Properties of Ingots, A. W. and H.
Brearley, 299, 310
Steel Ingot Defects, &c., Open-hearth Steel and Bessemer Steel, J. N. Kilby, 299
Steel Wire Cutter, Brown Brothers, Limited, 416
Supply of Manganese Ore, 115
Thermo-electric Method of Studying Allotropic Changes, Professor Carl Benedicks, 22
What is Hardness ? 465

IRRIGATION in South Africa, 267

JOHNSON, J. H., on Modern Electric Search light Projectors, 227, 252, 294
Johnstone, S. J., on the Progress of the British Rare Earth Industry during the War, 93
Jones, Harry E., on the Gas Engineer of the Last Century, 410 ; (Letter), 446
Jutland—«ee Ships, Naval Matters

KERSHAW, J. B. C., on Refuse Destruction, 317 ; (Letter), 369
Kilby, J. N., on Steel Ingot Defects, &c., 299
Krupp’s, Women’s War Work at, 15

LABORATORY, The National Physical, 53, 87

LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS:

Capital and Labour, 43
Coal Trimmers’ Agreement, 73
Dilution of Labour on Clyde and Tyne, 166
Holidays for Munition Workers, 171
Increased Production, the Premium System, 419
Industrial Fatigue, Report to British Association, 296
Industrial Peace, 533
Industrial Unrest, Report and Discussion, 255 Labour Cost per Piece, 511
Labour’s Delusion and Danger, 401
Labour. Problem, 238 ; (Letter), 258
Malingering, 79
Pre-war Conditions, 557
Rowan Premium System, 549, 576
Stoney, Mr. Gerald, Address to the British Association, 205, 215 ; (Letters), 242, 258
Threatened American Railway Strike, 186, 216
War and Current Thoughts, 645
Women’s Labour, 274—see Dilution of Labour and also Works

LATHES—see Machine Tools
Laundry Machinery, Modern Steam, 340, 385

LEADERS:

Activated Sludge Sewage Treatment in America, 170
Airship and the Aeroplane, 305
American Railwaymen’s Demands, 216
American Shipbuilding, 237
British Industrial Organisation for War, 191
British Mercantile Shipbuilding, 441
British Science and Industry, 57
Channel Tunnel, 579
Clearing House for Machinery, 395
Coal Trade Difficulties, 283
Coal Wastage. 121
Co-operative Research, 192
Depreciation of Controlled Plant, 419
Development of Shipping Registration, 489
Dock and Harbour Dues on Government Ships, 122
Electric Power Supply, 351
Electricity on the Farm, 13
Federation of British Industry, 121
Forth and Clyde Canal, 395
Future of British Railways, 580
Future of Cross-Channel Traffic, 261
Future Shipbuilding Demand, 305
Human Efficiency, 489
Human Element in Factories, 441
Increased Production, 419 industrial Peace, 533
Jutland, the Battle of, 35
Labour Cost per Piece, 611 ijabour Probieni, 238
London County Council Tramways, 58 Malingering, '/9
Mechanical Lnginoering in India, 3G iMr. Gerald btoney’s Aadi'ess, 215 Munitions lactones, 262
Norfolk Oii-shaloa, 351
Organisation of Kesearch, 511 l‘eacotul Inventions, 373
Petrol and its Substitutes, 122
Pre-War Conditions, 657
Problem of Aeroplane Supply, 466
Propeller Immersion and Llliciency, 10J
Quebec Bridge Accident, 239, 327
Question of American Competition, 13
Question of “ Indispensables,” 374
Railway Accidents lu 1915, 14 ; (Correction), 55
Railway Travel Problems, 633
Railways of Beland, 667
Resistance of Submarines and Airships, 237
Science for All, 216
Ships of War and Commerce, 215
Single Operation versus Automatic Machine Tools, 145
Some Railway Questions, 146
Stabilising Ships by Means of Gyroscopes, 169
Sterilising Water Supplies, 337
Supply of Marine Engines, 373
Taking Stock of Knowledge, 284
The Navy, 79
Turning of the Tables, 283
Two Tears of War, 101
What is Hardness ? 465

LE MAISTRE, C., on the Engineering Standards Committee, 229

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS:

America, 24, 46, 90, 110, 132, 155, 202, 248, , 272, 316, 362, 382, 405, 425, 447, 474, 498, 568, 587
Australian Notes, 360 I
England, North of, 19, 41, 62, 84, 106, 128, 161, 175, 198, 221, 243, 268, 288, 312, 336, 358, 379, 402. 426, 448, 473, 496, 517, 641, 563, 686
Lancashire, 19, 40, 61, 84, 106, 128, 161, 175, 197, 221, 243, 267, 288, 312, 333, 357, 377, 402, 426, 448, 471, 496, 517^ 540, 664, 686
Midlands and Staffordshire, 18, 40, 62, 83, 105, 127, 150, 174, 197, 220, 242, 267, 287, 311, 333, 357, 377, 401, 425, 447, 471, 496, 518, 640, 664, 685
Scotland, 21, 42, 63, 85, 107, 129, 163, 177, 199, 222, 244, 269, 289, 313, 336, 360, 379, 403, 427, 449, 472, 497, 519, 541, 566, 686
Sheffield, 20, 41, 63, 85, 107, 129, 152, 176,
198, 222, 244, 268, 289, 313, 334, 358, 378, 402, 427, 449, 472, 497, 519, 541, 665, 686
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 21, 43, 64, 86, 108, 129, 153, 177, 199, 223, 246, 314, 336, 359, 379, 403, 428, 450. 520. 542, 665, 587

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Ability or Experience, M. B., 212 After the War, C. R. Parkes, 302 :
Limited, 370
Aluminium Alloy Castings, Aluminium Alloy Pistons Company, 370
American Tons and Gallons, C. 9^ Evennette, 212
Audibility of Gun-firing, Observer, 40
Badges at Society Meetings, Member of Several Societies, 348
Beit Driving, J. T. 'Towlson, 39
Bletchley Accident and Track Lavout, L. A. K, 211
British Trad©—see Expansion, &c.
Canal Haulage, J. Walwyn White, 392 Channel Tunnel, J. Batey, 494
Coal Wastage, Coal Consumer, 166 Converting Centigrade to Kabrenheit, W. A. Littell, 139
Cooigardie Pipe Line, Aguas Corrientes, 242
I^eeimal Association Report, E. xA. W. Phillips, 98, 258 : J. Stormonth, 139, 196, 268, 280,
301 ; E. Merry, 166 ; A. Maclvor, 196 ; T. H. Relton, 212 ; P. W. Petter, 212 ; R. H. Burnett, 301 ; J. L. Lees, 302 ; Tolerator,
302 : Old Fossil, 332
Diesel Engines v. Steam Turbines, H. Patten, , 370, 393
Draughtsmen and their Employers, Covirt, 73 ; C. A. Longley, 98
Eleetricity and the Economical Vs© of Coal, W'. Chaney, 392
Electricitv in Engineering Workshops, J. A., 212
Electro-thermic Smelting of Iron Ores in Scandinavia, J. O. Boving, 127
Knglish ^Measures—see. Decimal Association
Expan.sion and Development of British Industries, P. A. Reuss, 138 : J. H. Butterworth. 166 •
Foreign Competition xWter the "War, 'Phren’d Miller, 447
French “Pacific" Type Locomotives, IV. J. Griggs, 463
Gas Engineer of the Txast Century, R. B. Prosser, 446
Heat Transmission through Boiler Tubes, R. Knox, 66
Importance of Scientific Treatment of Coal, Sydney H. North. 193
International System—see Decimal Association
Invention of the Steam Hydraulic Press, R,
B. Prosser, 127
Labour Problem, J. W, Hope, 258
Light Railways, H. Hamel Smith, 584
Marine Salvage Work, P. B., 139;
White, 212
Masters and Men, A. E. Kershaw, 242
Neglect of Science, A. S. E. Ackermann, 73 O ? ? H. Sharp, 280
Petrol Question, T. D. Parr, 139 Photographic Papers, T. Illingworth and Co Limited, 348
Plea for Up-to-Date Bridgework in the United Kingdom, R. H. White, 392 ; H. R Lewis, 462 ; H. L. White, 639 ; C. Gribble, 508, 663 ; G. Kenworthv, 608, 663, Pl M’ Gibb,639
Power of Cranes, W’. J. G., 494 ; J. H. Wilson and Co., 608
Power Required in Rolling Metals, C. E. Davies, 197
Projectile for Smooth-bore Ordnance C T Crpwden, 39, 98 ; C. F. Dendy Marshal^ 65, 127
Propeller Immersion and Efficiency, Benno 139, 197, 242 ; A. R. Liddell, 166, 212 ’
Quebec Bridge, The Accident to the, H. Leader, 348, 369
Question of Progress, R. G., 370
Railways, Trade and State Oymershin. C. G Howsin, 331 ; H. R. W., 348
Rattler v. Alecto—see Propeller Immersion Refuse Destruction, G. Watson, 369 Reinforced Concrete and Ferro-concrete, W.
N, Twelvetrees, 127
Royal Automobile Club Russian Ambulance Fund, A. Stanley, 139
Russian Trade, Engineer, 320
Salaries of Trained Engineers, Arcadian, 268 ;
Only an Engineer, 280 ; Aguas Corrientes,’ 280 ; Also an Engineer, 302
Science Teaching in General Schools, Prior Lien, 392
Screw, A Large, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whit- worth and Co., Limited, 258
Screw V, Paddle-wheel—see Propeller Immersion
Shipping of P'ood, A. S. E. Ackermann, 494 Signalling on the Pennsylvania Railroad, A» H. Rudd, 584
Single Operation versus Automatic Machine Tools, E. R. and F. Turner, 166
Spelter Manufacture, H. Martin, 302 Stabilising Ships by Means of Gyroscopes,
Sperry Gyroscope Company, 211
Standard Size of Catalogues, Progress, 212 ; A. P. Trotter, 242 ; A. S. E. Ackermann, 268
Steel Scrap Trade, J. Oxley, 332
Stresses in Sheet Piling, Student, 193 ; PI. C. A., 127 ; G. S., 139 ; A. A. Stoddard, 139 ; X.Y.Z., 98
Vertical Boiler, J. T. Towlson, 166, 280
War Inventions and their Application, A. E. Menzies, 301
War-time Generosity, Shylock, 302, 332 Water-tight Doors in Ships, Njj-bet and Co., Limited, 639
Worsdell’s Apparatus for Transferring Mailbags, R. B. Prosser, 66

LIDDELL, A. R., on Longitudinal Stresses of Ships, 344
Liddell, A, R., on the Yield of Riveted Connections in Shipbuilding, 29
Light, Conversion—see Electrical Matters
^"*^^40 * ^^^^'Gbrook, 224, 229,
Lishman, Dr. G. P., on Recent Improvements

LITERATURE: Reviews:

Air Supply to Boiler-rooms of War.shins Richard Allen, 14 ’
Aircraft, F. 9’. Jane and C G. Grey, 103
Canadian Pacific Railway, The Story of the Keith Morris, 142, 329 ’
Concentrating Ores by Flotation, T J Hoover, 280, 397
Development of English Building Construe- , tion, C. F. Innocent, 329
English and American Tool Builders, J W i Roe, 263, 353 ‘
Ploation Process, T. A. Rickard, 280, 397
Gyroscopic Theory, Report on, to the Aeronautical Committee, 1914, Sir G. Greenhill 69
No Limit: Book of Weights, Steel and Iron, A. Woodcock, 142, 329
Oil Fuel Equipment for Locomotives and Principles of Application, A. H. Gibbings,
Panama Canal, an Engineering I’reati.se, G W. Goethals, 142, 216
Raphael Meldola, Reminiscence.s, &e., James Marchant, 26.3
Royal Naval Air Service, In the, War Letters of Flight-Lieutenant H. Rosher, 413
Stresses in Wire-wrapped Guns and in Gun Carnages, Lieut.-Col. C. L. H. Ruggles 375, 576 ’
Trade as a Science, E. J. P. Benn, 59. 239 Typographical Printing Surface.s, L A
Legros and J. C. Grant, 352
Welfare Work : Employers’ Experiments lor Improving Working Conditions in Factories, E. D. Proud, 217, 306

LITERATURE: Short Notices:

Aeroplanes The Design of, A. W. Judge, 329 Carbide of Calcium, Manufacture of C Bingham, 142, 329
Forging of Iron and Steel, W. A. Richards, 69 Industrial Gases, including the Liquefaction of Gases, G,. Martin and Others, 142, 307
Lathe Design, Construction, and Operation, Oscar E. Perngo, 171
Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material, G. F. Zimmer, 217
Mineralogy, Elements of, F. Rutley, 171 Pioneer Railway Engineering,* ’ Herbert Chatley, 171
Wonder of Work, J. Pennell, 577
Work and Wages: The Reward of Labour and the Cost of Work, Earl Brassey, 1916,

LITERATURE: Books Received:

Aerodynamique, N. Joukowski, 376
Aeronautical Engines, F. ,T. Kean, 280
AV in Theory and Practice,
\V. Pl. N. James, 280
Alternating Currents, Treatise on the Theory
of, A. Russell, 142
American Civil Engineer’s Pocket Book, 263
' Books Received {continued}:
American Petroleum Industry, R. F. Bacon and W. A. Hamor, 413
Annual Report of the United States National Mutieum, 1916,'123
iVrcliitects and Builders’ Pocket Book, F. E. Kidder,
Architectural Building Construction, W. R. Jaggard and F, E. Drury, 142
Arithmetic for Engineers, C. B. Clapham, 76
Atti Del Coliegio degli Ingegneri Navali, &c., 217
Bridge Engineering, J. A. L. Waddell, 280 Britisli and l^oreign Marbles, &c., John Watson, 280
British Rainfall, 1916, H. R. Mill and C. Salter, 280
Can we Set the World in Order ? C. R. Enock, 280 -
Canada the Country of the Q’wentieth Century, Watson Griffen, 217
Centrifugal Pumps and Suction Dredgers, E. W. Sargeant, 16
Cold Storage and Ice Association, “ Proceedings,” Vol. XXII., 559
Conferences de Chimie Minerale, Marcel Guichard, 353 •
Contribucion al Estudio de las Ciencias Fisicas y Mateinjiticas, &c., 413, 443
Cours d’Hydraulique, J. Grialow, 363
Cours de M^canique, Leon Leeornu, 280
Directory of Manufacturers, Wholesale Importers and Exporters on the North- Eastern Railway System, 142
Dynamo and Motor Attendants and their Machines, F. Broadbent, 280
Eclipse or Empire ? H. B. Gray and S. Turner, 375
Electrical Engineering, Principles of, G. Kapp, 280
Electrical Measurements and Testing Direct and Alternating Currents, C. L. Dawes, 375
Electric Railways for the City of Sydney, Proposed, J. 3. C. Bradfield, 59
Electric Switch and Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard, 280
Engineers' Costs and Economical Workshop Production, Dempster Smith and P. C. N. Pickworth, 443
Excess Profits Duty and Profits of Controlled Establishments, Spicer and Pegler, 413
Faults in Electric Light and Power Mains, The Localisation of, F. Charles Raphael, 59
French and English Commercial Correspondence, W. Chenob-Maurice and C. Laroche, 142
Gas Engine Ignition, E. B. Norris, R. K. Winning and W. C. Weaver, 142
Gas, Oil and Petrol Engines, A. Garrard^ Gasworks Directory and Statistics, 17, 443
General Cargo : An Introduction to raanship, R. E. Goddard, 443
Heat Treatment of Steel, H. Brearley, Hydraulics, R. L. Daugherty, 142 Hydraulics, Practical, Text Book of. J. Park, 59
Iron and Steel Institute : Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, G. C. Lloyd, 443
Lektrik Schtunas de Lumiere, W. P. Maycock, 142
Machinery’s ” Screw Thread Edgar Allen, 76
Manual of Motor Mechanics Efficiency Tuning, L. Mantell, 142
Masonry Dam Design, including High Masonry Dams, C. E. Morrison and G. L. Brodie, 263
Mathematics, Elementary, for Engineers, E. H. Sprague, 559
J.

A.

S. to, T. MINES, of the Mathematics, Practical, for Technical Students, T. S. Usherwoo<l and C. T'rimble, 280

Mechanical Drafting, C, B. Howe, 26‘i Mechanical Engineer’s Handbook,
Marks, 142
Jline Surveying : An Introduction
Bryson and G. M. Chambers, 280
MINES BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF OTTAWA, CANADA :
Description of the Laboratories Mines Branch, Bulletin No. 13, 16
Investigation of a Reported Discovery of Phosphate in Alberta, H. S. de Schmid, Bulletin No. 12, 23
Mining Mathematics^—-Senior Course, S. N. Forrest, 676
Motor Boat Manual, 142
Motor Cycling Manual, 217
Munitions of War Acts, John Chartres, 16
Naval Architecture, Theoretical, Text-book of, E. L. Attwood, 142
Navy League Annual, 1916, R. YerXmrgh, 7G Notions Generales sur les Appareils a Reaction, Paul Popovatz, 375
Oilfield Development, A. B. Thompson, 443 Peace, The Coming Crash of, T. C. Elder, 142 Pictures of War Work in England, J. Pennell, 676
Portland Cement Industry, W. A. Brown, 443
Power Transmission by Leather Belting, R. T. Keat, 559
Prismatic Compasses, Manufacture and Te.sting of, F. E. Smith, 142
“ Proceedings ” of the British Foundrymen’s Association ; Foundry Trade Journal and Patiernmaker, 15
Records of Railway Interest in the War, 217 Roads and Pavements, The Construction of, T. R. Agg, 413
Ruler and Compasses, H. P. Hudson, 142
Slide Rule, Practical Manual, C. N. Pickworth, 142
Spon’s Electrical Pocket-book, W. H. Moles- worth^559
Stabilit^^jf Arches, E. H. Sprague, 280
Steel, The Physico-chemical Properties of,
C. A. Edwards, 69
Telegraphy, T. E. Herbert, 413
Testing of Tars and Pitches for Roads, J.
Hutchinson, 123
The Fan, C. H. Innes, 280
Theory and Practice of Modern Framed Structures, J. B. Johnson, C. W. Bryan, and F. E. Turneaure, 280
Through French Eyes : Britain’s Effort, H.
D. Davray, 375
Books Received (continued):
University of Hong-Kong Calendar, 1910- 1917, 659 . ,
University of London, University College, Calendar, 1916-17, 559
Value for Rate-making, H. Ek y, 142
Walsall Chamber of Commerce "i eai Book, 217

LLOYD'S Register—see Ships
Locomotive Crane—see Crane
Locomotives, British Oil, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 38, 39
Locomotives—-see also Railway Locomotives London County Council Tramways, 58
Lord Kelvin's Life and Work, Some Aspects of, Dr. Alexander Russell, 484
Louis, Professor H., on Waste in Cool Production, 69

McEOCEID, H., on the Select ion of Centrifugal Pumps, 318

MACHINE TOOLS:

Aeroplane Propellers, Rotary Shaping Machine for, J. Shorey, 572
Electric Tramway Rail Grinding Maclime, Woods-Gilbert Rail Planer Company, 285
Horizontal Boring, Facing, and Drilling Machine, Geo. Richards and Co., Limited, 54
Multiple Drilling Machine for Motor Sleeve Valves, 300 . . ,
Shell Lathe with Automatic Electric Control. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Lifhited, 124
Shell Nose Screwing-on Machine, Pollock and Macnab, Limited, 286 .
Single Operation versws Automatic Machine Tools, 145 : (Letter), 166

MACHINERY for Bleaching, Dyeing, and
Printing Cotton Fabrics, 27, 70, 116, 1-0,
Machinery, A Clearing House for, 395, 4O.T Malay States, Wolfram from, 495 Malingering, 79
Manchester, Royal Agricultural Show at, 4 Manganese Ore, The Supply of, 115 Manganese Ores of the Bukowina, H . K. Scott, 299, 332
Manufacture of Drugs—sec Drugs
Marble Quarry, Vermont, U.S.A..
Power Plant, 308
Marine Engines—see Engines
Measuring Coal-—see Coal
Mechanical Coal Stage at Hull, North-Itasteni Railway, 331 ,
Mechanical Engineering in India. Development of, Alfred Chatterton, 36, 44
Melting Furnace, White Metal. Momuneter Manufacturing Company, 423
Melting Steel—see Iron and Steel
Mesopotamia, Engineering 1 roblems m. Sir M .
Willcocks, 310 , . o IT r v
Metals, Power Required in Rolling, t. J.. Davies, 134; (Correction), 197
Military Matters—see ^Var, also Ships
Milking Machine at Manchester Show, 4, 5 Mineral Production of Canada in 1915, 1/8 Mineral Resources of the British Empire. .».8, 581
Mineral Statistics, Gur, 28
Minerals and Metals, Proposed Department of, .>85
Ministry of Munitions, Assistant Engineers for the, ]>. W. C. Unwin, 513
Ministry of Munitions, Changes in Organisation, 233
Modern Steam Laundry Machinery, 340
Motor Cultivation, C. B. Eisher, 254 , (Lettei). 280

MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR MATTERS:

Motor Car Works of Arrol-Johnston, Limited, ' 52,-56 ,
Motor Making, Private, Stopped, 413 F Paraffin Vaporiser and Carburettei Daimler Car, Binks’ Appliance, / Repairs to Motor Cars, 573 _
Road Surfaces for Motor palh^ 130 Variable-speed Gears- for Motoi Vehicles, R. E. Phillips, 546, 560

MOULDING, Sand, Machine, R- A. borough and W. Boyd, 468
Electric on a Road Blake-
Mowing and Reaping Petrol I vactor foi, ' Wyles’ Motor Idoughs, Inmited, 3-
Multiple-jet Ejector Condenser, Morton Ejector Mrurttioir’volunteers, Skilled Men as, 474 Munitions, Cost of, 320 Munitions Factories, 262

NATIONAL Physical Laboratory, 53, 8-
National Projectiles—see Projectile s:s'*S“ K"‘S3. Dvinins <»»“ S™"'“ *
SS zSa. r.™
Plants in, 194
Niagara Falls, Aerial Ropeway at, 16
?S)lk Oil Shales, W. Forbes-Leshe, 347, 3..1

OBITUARY:

Bate, William Henry, 467
Blackstone, Edward Christopher, 353
Burnett, Robert Harvey, 559
Colver, Robert, 513
Colville, Archibald, 535
Colville, David, 353
Davidso/j, Captain James Samuel, 32
Doxford, Sir William Theodore, 307
Harrison, Charles A. (Portrait), 389
McKinney, Robert C., 389
McNeill, Bedford, 284
Markham, Sir Arthur B., 118
Maxim, Sir Hiram S. (Portrait), 480
Nowbigging, John Gibson, 389
Pilkington, Mr. Herbert, 480
Price-Williams, Richard, 263
Ramsay, Sir* William, 76
Rowe, James, 353
Shaw, Colonel John Reginald, 421
Thomas, Richard, 307 330
Worsdell, Thomas William (Portrait), 15 ; (Letter), 05

OIL Burners with Natural Draught, 286
Oil Engines—sec Engines
Oil Locomotives for Mines, &c., Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 38, 39
Ontario, Construction of Camp Borden, 193
Optical Surfaces, The Grinding and Polishing of, J. W. French, 443
Organisation of the Engineering Industries, 118
Organisation of Iron, Steel, Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Allied Industries, 529
Organisation of Research, 511
Oxy-acetylene Welding, Barimar Limited, 234
PAPER, The Art of Coating, 157, 182, 204, 249, 251, ’273, 282 ; (Letter), 348 {Two-page
Supplement^ September 1.9Z, 1916)
Paper jMill Power Plant, Reorganisation of, 583 Paraffin-electric Set, Direct-coupled, Petters Limited, 584
Paraffin for Petrol Engines, Binks’ Appliance, 7
Parsons, A. D. C., E. L. Orde, and G. H. Tweddle, on Engineering After the War, 400
Past and Future of Industrial Chemistry, 113, 146, 170, 210, 230
Patent Law, Overhauling of the, J. W. Gordon, 93
Patent Law, the Present, Disadvantages of, W. P. Thompson, 93
Patent Laws, The Influence of, upon Industry, W. F. Reid, 93
Patent Rights, The Acquisition of, 24, 46, 66, 90, 110, 132, 156, 180, 202, 226, 248, 272, 292, 316, 338, 362, 382, 406,- 430, 452, 476, 500, 523, 544, 568, 590

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, British:

Aeronautic'^, 271, 361, 405, 451, 499, 589 Batteries and Accumulators, 521, 567, 590 Concrete and Cement, 90
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 89, 131, 315. 451, 521, 589
Cranes and Conveyors, 201
Dynamos and Motors, 45, 65, 89, 155, 179, 201, 225, 271, 315, 361, 405, 451, 521, 589
Electric Relays, 499
Engines, Internal Combustion, 23, 65, 109,
131, 155, 179, 201, 225, 247, 271, 291. 315, 337, 361, 381, 429, 451, 475, 499, 567, 589
Engines, Steam, 567
Feed-water Heaters—see Condensers
Gas Producers, 543
Heating and Lighting, 46, 89, 110, 156, 316, 337, 405, 544, 568
Locomotives, 45, 155, 180, 315, 429
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 65, 109, 156, 226, 247. 292, 316, 338, 361, 381, 405, 451, 475, 500, 590
Measuring and Testing Appliances, 90, 109,
132, 337
Mines and Metals, 24, 338, 429, 452
Miscellaneous, 24, 46, 90, 180, 201, 248, 272,
338, 362, 382, 406, 429, 452, 476, 500, 522, 644, 568
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 24, 65, 132, 201, 226, 248, 337, 429, 452
Ordnance and Armour, 66, 201, 226, 248, 362, 406, 429,. 521, 543, 567, 590
Papermaking Machinery. 46
Power—see Transmission
* Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 23, 45,131, 156, 225, 271, 291, 337
Ships and Boats, 24, 66, 89, 110, 132, 156, 225, 247, 316, 590
Steam Generators, 46, 155, 179, 291, 361, 543
Switchgear, 89, 131, 180
Telegraphs and Telephones, 23, 109, 291, 667
Tramways and Railways, 66, 2/1, 381, 476 Transformers, 109, 155, 225, 499 Transmission of Power, 291, 499, 543 Turbine Machinery, 45, 131, 179, 337 Wireless Telegraphy, 65

PEACEFUL Inventions, 373
Pearlite, Notes on, Professor H. M. Howe
A. G. Levy, 299
Personal and Business Announcements, no, 226, 292, 336, 360, 380, 428, 460, 498, 620, 542, 566
Petrol Scraper Shovel, S. J. Russell, 376
Petrol and its Substitutes, 122 ,
Petrel Tractor for Mowing and Reaping, VVyles
Motor Ploughs, Limited, 32
Petrol Tractors and Wagons for Military Trains, Caterpillar, Holt Manufacturing Company, 435 ' . - __
Phase zldvancers—see Electrical Meters
Phillips, R. E., On VariAble-speed Gears for
M:)tor Road Vehicles, 546, 560
Photographic Paper—see Paper Photometer, A Simple, C. H. Sharp, 330
Pipe Line, The Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, 147 ;
(Letter), 242
Pirahv Tunnel in Brazil, 60
Piston Cracked Through Overheating, 650
Piston Throttle Valve, I.ancaster and Tonge,
Limited, 330 . _
Pit Shaft Sinking by the Freezing Process, Simon-Carves, Limited, 460, 461 ; (Correction), 494
ploughs—see Agricultural Machinery Pneumatic Grain Elevators, Cecil Bentham, 494 Popplewell, W. C., on the Influence of Speed on Endurance Tests, 339
Power with By-product Recovery, T, R. Wollaston, 161
Power, Electrical—see Electrical Matters Power Factor—see Electrical Matters
Power Required in Rolling Metals, C. E. Davies, 134 ; (Correction), 197
Pressure Oil Film Lubrication, H. B. New- biggin, 229
Pre-war Conditions, 567
Printing Cotton Fabrics—see Cotton
Production, Increased, Importance of, W. L. Hichens, 17
Production, the Premium System, 419
Projectile Factory, A National, 47, 67, 78 {Two- page Supplement, July 215^, 1916 ; Two-page Supplement, July 23th, 1916)
Projectors, Modern Electric Searchlight, J. H. Johnson, 227, 252
Propellers—see Ships

PUMPS:

Air Pumps, Experimental Apparatus, Tests, 380
Drainage Pumps for Inundation in Holland, The Werkspoor Company, 30, 34
High-lift Centrifugal Pump, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 560, 661
Pumps for Hops and Fruit Spraying, Drainage, &c., Worthington Pump Company, 4 Selection of Centrifugal Pumps, D. McEoceid, 318
Vacuum Pumping Engine for Dairy Work, Worthington Pump Company, 4

PURVES, G. T., on The Extraction of Tar Fog from Hot Gas, 93

QUEBEC Bridge—see Bridges
Question of Indispensable.^, 374

RADIO-TELEGRAPH Antenna;, &c.. Calculations of Capacity of, Dr. G. W. O. Howe, 230
Radio-telegraphic Investigations by British Association, 239

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: General:

Automatic Tipping Railway Wagon, Western Wheeled Scraper Company, 96, 100
Daylight Lamp Signals on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 195
Disputes and Strikes—see Labour
Iron Key for Railway Chairs, J. Williamson and Co., G1
Order in Council as to Railways, 560
Power Signalling Installation at Flemington, N.S.W., 547, 55G
Railway Accident Returns for 1915, (>, 14 ; (Correction), 55
Railway Travel Problems, 633
Railways and the Government, 249
Some Railway Questions, 146
Wagons on Railways, Government Order, 650

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: British, Colonial, and Indian :

Bletchley Collision, 174; (Letter), 211 British Railways, 297, 463, 571
Future of British Railways, 680
Great Northern Railway, Composite Brake Carriage, 416
India, All-steel Railway Coaches for North- Western Railway, The Leeds Forge Company, 364, 372
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Derailment at Crowborough, Report, 32
Railways of Ireland, 657, 560
Warminster Collision, Great Western Railway, 256, 443

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: Foreign:

Electrification on* the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, 136, 144, 159, 168
Electrification of the Swiss State Railways, Julian Grande, 104
French Railways, Winter Service, 1916-1917, 613
Misox Railway, S. Berg, 480, 488, 523
Pennsylvania Railroad, Daylight Lamp Signals on the, 195 ; (Letter). 584
Simplon Tunnel, The Second, 630

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: General:

Locomotive Ashpits, 150
Locomotives, Steam Storage; Baldwin Locomotive Works, 234
Measuring Coal for Locomotives, 171

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: British, Colonial and Indian:

Great Eastern Railway Standard Goods Engine, 301
London and North-Western Railway, Locomotive Performance on, 343, 433
North-Eastern Railway, Plant at Hull for Coaling Locomotives, 326, 331 {Two-page Supplement^ October \^th, 1916)

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: Foreign:

Cuba, Narrow Gauge Steam Storage Engine, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 234
France, Standard Gauge Steam Storage
Engine, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 234 French State Railway Locomotives, North
British Locomotive Company, 96, 276 : (Letter), 462 {Two- page Supplement,
August 1916 ; Two-page Supplement, September 1916)

RAND Water—see Water Supply

RANDOM REFLECTIONS:

374, 396, 420, 442, 466, 490, 680 {see special Index)

REED, F. W., on Industrial After the War, 345
Refractories, Discussion- at Society, 412 512, 534, 558,
Considerations
the Faraday
Reid, W. F., on The Influence, of Patent Laws upon Industry, 93
Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete Remington’s Proposed Tunnel, 492
Research, Glass, 250—see also Glass Research, Organisation of, 611
Research, Scientific and Industrial, 187, 192, 219, 230, 260, 380, 511, 514 ; Letter from Institutes to Advisory Council, 286
Research, Scientific, at the Universities, 551
Research—see also National Physical Laboratory
Reservoirs—see Water Supply
Resistance of Submarines and Airships, 237
Revolution Counter and Watch Combined, Selson Engineering Company, 425
River Sheaf, Covering in the, at Sheffield, 606, 607
Riveted Connections—see Ships, &c. Road Surfaces for Motor Traffic, 130
Rowan Premium System, 649, 576
Rowntree, B. S., on The Human Element in Factories, 441, 443
Royal Agricultural Show at Manchester, 4
Russell, Dr. A., on Some Aspects of Lord Kelvin’s Life and Work, 484
Russian Trade—see Letters to the Editor

SADLER, Professor H. C., on Barge Forms, 682
Sand Moulding Machine, R. A. Blakeborough and W. Boyd, 468
Saw, Steam Tree-felling, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 104
Science for All, 216
Science and Industry, 96
Science and Industry, British, 67
Science Lectures, Popular, Report, 246
Science, What Industry Owes to, 478, 606, 554, 670
Scientific and Industrial Research, 187, 192, 219, 230, 250, 252, 380, 511, 614; Letter to Advisory Council, 286
Scientific Research at the Universities, 551
Scott, H. K., on Manganese Ores of the Bukowina, 299, 332
Screw Gauge, French, 234
Screws, Some Long, H. Brown and Co., 142 ; (Letter), 258
Screwing Machines—see Sfachine Tools
Searchlight Projectors, Modern Electric, J. H. Johnson, 227, 262, 294
Selling Engineer, 506
Sewage Disposal Tanks, Vitrified Clay Pipe, Dickey Clay Company, 98
Sewage Purifying Plant, 60
Sewage Treatment, Activated Sludge, in America, 170
Shaft Sinking, Pit, by the Freezing Process, Simon-Carves, Limited, 460, 461 ; (Correction), 494
Shafts, The Whirling Speed of, W. M. Wallace, 113, 184, 203
Shale Oil Industry, D. R. Steuart, 92
Shanghai—see Electrical Matters
Shaping Machines—see Machine Tools
Sheffield—see River Sheaf
Shells, Automatic Elevator for, Ed. Bennis and Co., 423
Shells, Machinery for—see Machine Tools

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General:

American Shipbuilding Boom, 307
Barge Forms, Professor PI, C. Sadler, 582
British Mercantile Shipbuilding, 437, 441
Canal and .River Barges, 262
Capital Ship—see Naval Matters
Development of Shipping Registration, 489
Engines—see Engines and Motors
Failure of a Copper Steam Pipe on tlie Clan Urquhart, 88
Future of Cross-Channel Traffic, 261
Future Shipbuilding Demand, 306
Instructions to Surveyors by Marine Department, Board of Trade; Formula for Foreign-going Ships, 416
Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns, 141, 437, 441
Longitudinal Stresses of Ships, Arthur Liddell, 344
Propeller Immersion and Efficiency, 101, 237 ; (Letter), 139
Resistance of Submarines and Airships, 237
Sperry “Active” Gyroscope for Stabilising
Ships, 172 ; (Letter), 211
Stabilising Ships by Means of Gyroscopes, 169
Train Ferries—see Ferry ,
Yield of Riveted Connections in Shipbuilding, A. R. Liddell. 29 i

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Naval Matters:

American Naval Programme, 80
Battle of Jutland, 35
Boy Artificers for the Royal Navy, 66
Capital Ship of the Future, 319
Light Cruisers in the War, 209
Military and Technical Considerations of Battleship Design, R. D. Gatewood, U.S. Navy, 469
Oil Burners with Natural Draught, Tests in U.S. Navy, 286
Ships of War and Commerce, 216
Submarine Cruisers, 6000-Ton, 73
The Navy, 79
Two Years of Submarine Warfare, 342, 384

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Foreign Navies:

American Naval Expansion, 122
American Shipbuilding, 237 Austro-Hungarian Navy, 479
German Light Cruisers, The Losses of, 432, 440
German Submarine No. 3, 384
German Submarines C 5 and Deutschland, 74
German Torpedo Craft in the A^'ar, 601 {Four-page Supplement, December Sth, 1916)
Italian Dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci, The Sinking of, 239
United States Battleship Pennsylvania, 17
United States Navy, New Ships for, 301
United States Submarine Tender Bushnell, 323

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels:

French Atlantic Liner Paris, 610, 614
Motor Tank Ship Hamlet, 246
Widgeon, Yacht, Gyroscopic Stabiliser on, 169, 172 ; (Letter), 211
Winchester, Turbine Steam Yacht, Description and Trial, E. A. Stevens, Jun., 536

SHOVEL
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Some Aspects of Lord Kelvin’s Life and Work Dr. A. Russell, 484
South Africa, Irrigation in, 267
South America, Trade Openings in, 189
Speed Sighting and Wind Deflection in Artillery, Sir George Greenhill, 133
Spelter, Cadmium in. Professor Ingalls, 284
Spelter Industry, Development of the, E. A. Smith, 284
Spiral Riveted Piping, 142
Stanton, T. E., on Principle of Similitude in Engineering Design, 356
Stead, Dr. J. E., on the Effect of Blast-furnace Gases on Wrought Iron, 404
Stead, Dr. J. E., on the Influence of Some Elements on the Mechanical Properties of Steel, 278, 284, 287
Stead, Dr. J. E., on Oxidation of Nickel Steel; Reduction of Solid Nickel, &c.; and Disruptive Effect of Carbon Monoxide, &c., 264
Steam Engines—see Engines Steam Pipe Failure—see Accidents
Steam Trap, J. Baldwin and Co., 355
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Sterilising—see Water Supply
Steuart, D. R., on the Shale Oil Industry, 92
Stevens, E. A., Description and Trial of the
Turbine Steam Yacht Winchester, 535
Stoney, Mr. Gerald, Presidential Address, 206
215 ; (Letters), 242, 258
Stresses of Ships—see
Ships Strikes—see Labour
Submarines—see Ships Subway, New York, William-street Section of the. 111
Switchgear— see Electrical Matters

TACHEOMETER Readings, Simple Diagram for Reducing, F. R. Freeman, 82
Taking Stock of Knowledge, 284—see also Iron and Steel
Tamping Machine, Self-propelling, 300
Tanks, Vitrified Clay Pipe, for Sewage Disposal, Dickey Clay Company, 98
Tar Colour Industry—see British Coal Tar
Tar Distillation Industry, Influence of the War upon, W. H. Coleman, 92
Tar Fog, Extraction of, from Hot Gas, G. T. Purves, 93 . *
Telegraphy—see Radio-telegraphy
Tests, Endurance, Influence of Speed on, W. C. Popplewell, 339
Tests of a Large Surface Condenser, Willans and Robinson, 399
Textile Mills at Ballj’Tnena, 3, 12
The Tanks, 467
Thermo-couple for Temperature Measurement —see Heat Transmission
Thermo-electric Method—see Electrical Matters Thompson, W. P., on the Disadvantages of the Present Patent Law, 93
Thrashing Machines—see Agricultural
Toronto, Bloor-street Viaduct, 394, 398
Tractor, Petrol, for Mowing and Reaping, Wyles’ Motor Ploughs, Limited, 32
Tractor, Universal, 20 B.H.P., Saunderson and Mills, 264
Tractors and Traction Engines at Manchester Show, Steam and Oil, 4, 6
Tractors and Wagons, Caterpillar Petrol, Holt Manufacturing Company, 435
Trade, Future of» 51
Trade Openings in South America, 189
Train Ferries—see Ferry
Tramway Rail Grinding Machine, Woods-Gilbert Rail Planer Company, 286
Tramways, Edinburgh, 413
Tramways, The London County Council, 68
Tree Felling by Power, A. Ransome and Co., Limited, 104
Tungsten, The Manufacture of, 469
Tunnel, The Channel, and other Projects, 388, 422, 431, 467, 492, 502, 526, 554, 569, 579 ; (Letter), 494
Tunnel, The Pirahy, in Brazil, 60
Tunnel, The Second Simplon, 630
Tunnels, Placing Concrete Lining in, by Means of Compressed Air, J. H. MacMichael, 354 “ Turbine ” Furnace for Boilers, 30
Turbine, Gas, Detroit Gas Turbine Corporation, 220
Tweddell, G. H., on Works Organisation, 506

UNIVERSITIES of Liverpool and Manchester,
Visits by Journalists, 651
Unwin, Dr. W. C., Letter on Behalf of Ministry of Munitions, 613

VALVE, Piston Throttle, Lancaster and Tonge, 330
Vaporiser and Carburetter, Paraffin, Binks’ Appliance, 7
Ventilation in India, 102
Viaduct, Bloor-Street, Toronto, 394, 398
Volunteers, First London Engineer, 24, 46, 54, 76, 98, 126, 139, 179, 202, 225, 246, 272, 292, 316, 324, 382, 406, 430, 452, 476, 522, 542, 568, 584

WAGON, Automatic Tipping Railway,
Western Wheeled Scraper Company, 95, 100
Wagons—see also Tractors
Wall, Edward E., on Efficiency, 494
Wallace, W. M., on the Whirling Speed of Shafts, 113, 184, 203

WAR MATERIAL AND WAR MATTERS:

Drift in Artillery Fire, Sir George Greenhill, 2
Future of Forts, General Berthaut, 409
High-angle Fire at Aircraft, Sir George Greenhill, 36
Inventors and the War, 242
National Projectile Factory, 47, 67, 78 {Two- page Supplement, Jtdy 215Z, 1916 ; Two- page Supplement, Jidy 2^th, 1916)
Speed Sighting and Wind Deflection in
Artillery, Sir George Greenhill, 133
Test for Detonators, C. G. Storm and W. C. Cope, 330
Two Years of War, 101
War and Current Thoughts, 545
Warships—see Ships
Women’s War Work at Krupp’s, 15

WASHING Machine, Automatic Kotary, Entwisle and Gass, Limited, 583
Wastage of Coal—see Coal

WATER SUPPLY:

Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie Pipe Line, 147 ; (Letter), 242
Deep Well Pumping Plant at the Leathersellers’ Hall, C. Isler and Co., Limited, 148
Guayaquil, Water Supply for, 407, 418
Liverpool Water Supply, 118
London, The Water Supply of, 328
Rand, Water Supply of the, 173
Sterilising Water Supplies, 327

WATKINSON, Professor W. N., on Diesel
Engines with Low Compression, 266
Welding, Oxy-acetylene, Barimar Limited, 234
Welland Ship Canal, Canada, 242
What Industry Owes to Science, 478, 505, 654, 570
Whirling Speed of Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 113, 184, 203
White Metal Melting Furnace, Monometer Manufacturing Co., 423
White, Sir William, Memorial to, 73
Whittaker, C. M., on the British Coal Tar Colour Industry, &c., 92
Wilkins, Lieut. E. T., on Trials on a Diesel Engine, &c., 368, 444, 447
Willcocks, Sir W., on Engineering Problems in Mesopotamia, 310
William-street Section of the New York Subway, 111
Willows for Baskets, Cultivation and Manipulation, W. P. Ellmore, 6
Wire Cutter, Steel, Brown Brothers, Limited, 416
Wireless Telegraphy—see Radio-telegraph
Wolfram from the Malay States, 496
Wollaston, T. R., on Power with By-product Recovery, 163
Women’s Labour—see also Labour
Women’s War Work at Krupp’s, 16
Works Organisation—see Selling Engineer

WORKS:

Electrical Equipment at Works—see Electrical Matters
Johnson and Phillips’ Works at Charlton, 98
Motor Car Works of Arrol-Johnston, Limited, 62, 66
Munitions Factories, 262
Stewarts’ Fishing Net Works, Electrical Plant at, 96
Women’s Engineering Works, 37

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