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Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Index: Letters to the Editor

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Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Letters to the Editor Index.
Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Letters to the Editor Index.
Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Letters to the Editor Index.
Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Letters to the Editor Index.

Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Index

Letters to the Editor

  • Aeronautics. See Flight and Pressure
  • Beams, New Method of Calculating the Deflection of. W. M. Wallace, 85 ; John Goodman, 151
  • Brake. See Vacuum.
  • Breakdown at Lot’s Road. Oswald T. Davis, 512
  • Bridge, Safety of the Blackwells Island, New York. Philip P. Brown, 728
  • “Burning” Broken Propeller-Blades. James Herdman, for Hawthorns and Co., Limited, 651; A Moulder, 698 ; H. Sayers, 729 ; Wm. Roxburgh, 751
  • Cement. See Portland Cement
  • Civil Engineers, Institution of. N.A.W., 22 ; O.C.N., 48 ; A.M. Inst. C.E., 48 ; Cassandra, 117 ; Smoking-Room, 117
  • Columns. See Rankine-Gordon Formula
  • Combustion Processes in Locomotive Fire-Boxes. F. W. Bach, 50
  • Condensation, A Note on. J. Czerny, 306
  • Corrugation of Rails. T. II. Saunders, 387; D. Evans, 419; J. Sutherland Warner, 510, 615 ; M. Inst. C.E., 591
  • Cost of Fuel for Diesel Oil-Engines. W. P. Sillence, for Mirrlees, Bickerton, and Day, Limited, 591
  • Cotton Machinery, Driving. See Electrically-Driven
  • Couplers, Automatic. A. V. Roe, 306; Arthur Paget, 388
  • Dephosphorisation and Desulphurisation in Electric Steel Furnaces. John Harden, 205
  • Depreciation of Machinery. A. Williams Price, 590
  • Diesel Engine, Cost of Oil; W. P. Sillence, for Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Limited, 591
  • Drains, Intercepting Traps on. E. Hardwick Terry, for the Local Government Board, 615
  • Electric Lighting Act. See Orders
  • Electric Steel Furnaces. John Harden, 205
  • Electrically-Driven Ring-Frames at the Manchester Exhibition. C. A. Hempstock, for Platt Brothers and Co., Limited, 651
  • Engine, Marine Gas. See Marine
  • Engineering, Modern, Two Distinct Aspects of. J. W. C. Haldane, 238
  • Engineering in Public Schools. J. E. King, 21
  • Ferro-Concrete Design, Economy in. H. B. Gates, 238, 271, 306 ; Oscar Faber, 238, 306, 343 Fire-Box. See Locomotive
  • Flight, Problem of, 21, 49, 86, 117, 151, 185, 206, 238, 270, 306, 388, 410, 441, 556, 591, 615, 650, 698, 786, 832; Hiram S. Maxim, 21, 86, 118, 185,239, 270, 650 ; Henry Lea, 21; John Kirkby, 49 ; Edgar E. Wilson, 49, 185, 207, 238, 271, 306, 441, 556, 698; John Hodge, 49; Rankine Kennedy, 49, 50, 117, 271, 388 ; T. G. Challis, 49 ; Albert P. Thurston, 50, 117, 151, 185, 307, 556, 615 ; Horatio Phillips, 50, 118, 207 ; Sidney H. Hollands, 86, 117, 151, 307, 411 ; Frederic H. Grix, 86; R. S. Cree Brown, 86; James S. Frain, 117 ; W. H. Dobson, 117, 239, 307, 411; H. C. Vogt, 151, 410; J. P. Porter, 185; E. V. Hammond, 206, 388, 441, 650, 786, 832 ; George L. O. Davidson, 207, 411; A. V. Roe, 271 ; Herbert Chatley, 307, 388, 591, 651 ; B. Baden Powell, 343; Frank Hambling, 343, 441; Geo. H. Gibson, 343 ; D. Evans, 411; A. Ross, 441; A. K. C., 591; Lawrence Hargrave, 750 ; A. E. Flynn, 786
  • Furnace, Electric Steel. See Dephosphorisation
  • Guest’s Law of Combined Stresses, 206, 239, 271, 306, 387, 418, 440, 511, 555, 615, 651, 698, 728, 750, 786; P. T. Crowther, 206, 306, 511, 615, 651; C. A. Smith, 239, 418, 511, 728 ; Walter A. Scoble,271, 418; Rankinite, 387, 440; Graduate, 418 ; Laurence B. Turner, 555, 651 ; C. A. Carus Wilson, 555 ; Designer, 698 ; Edward C. Moyle, 698, 750 ; Henry Foster, 728, 750; G. H. Gulliver, 729, 786; A. T. J. Kersey, 786
  • Hooke’s Universal Joints for Motor-Cars. II. F.
  • Fullagar, 729
  • Horse-Power Rating of Petrol-Engines. Mervyn O’Gorman, 852
  • Iron-Founders, Training of. F. Hall, 419
  • Liquid Air. See Oxygen
  • Live-Steam Feed - Heaters. G. F. Davidson, 388
  • Locomotive Combustion Processes. See Combustion
  • London County Council Tramway Report. A.
  • Williams Price, 22
  • Lot’s Road Breakdown. See Breakdown Lubrication, Forced. Mark Robinson, 185
  • Marine Gas-Engine. A. Vennell Coster, 48, 85 ;
  • C. A. St. George Moore, 48, 118 ; Henry Lindsay, 48;
  • Myddleton Briggs, for the Lewis Gas-Engine and Gas-Producer Company, 85; Charles W. Kay, 787
  • Monocular Prism Field-Glass for the Army. George Foucar, 419; Aitchison and Co., 512
  • Motor-Cars, Bevel-Geared Back Axles for. W. Cameron, 729, 786 ; V. G. Barford, 750
  • Motor-Car. See also Hooke's Joint and Horse-Power Bating
  • Motor-Car Show at Olympia, Lessons from. Geo. H. Cutbush, 7
  • Nickel Steel for Bridges. Nickel, 556
  • Non-Slipping and Everlasting Stair-Treads. A. C. Punbulow, forW. J. Davies and Sons, 751 ; A. A. Robertson, for Addison, Potter, and Son 852
  • Orders under the Electric Lighting Acts. T. H. W. Pelham, for the Board of Trade, 591
  • Oxygen, Separation of, from Liquid-Air. Ren6 J. L£vy, for the British Liquid Air Comnanv Limited, 50 .
  • Palestine, Development of. D. G. Petrides, 511
  • Portland Cement. Henry Kelway Bamber, 690
  • Pressure of Grain, .lames Whitaker, 343
  • Pressure Variation on Rectangular Aerofoils. Herbert Chatley, 591, 651
  • Propeller-Blades, “ Burning.” See Burning
  • Propellers, Marine and Aerial ; Motorite, 270.
  • See also Screws and Flight.
  • Propellers, Twin-Blade. Lawrence Hargrave, 750
  • Public Schools, Engineering in. J. E. King, 21
  • Rail Corrugation. See Corrugation
  • Railway Couplings. See Couplers
  • Rankine-Gordon Formula, False Basis of. Henry S. Prichard, 852
  • Rotating Discs, Experiments on. II. H. Jeffcott, 440 ; A. Stodola, 410, Maurice F. Fitzgerald, 510
  • Screw Propulsion and Negative Pressure. See also Flight. Enquirer, 186
  • Ships, Longitudinally Framed. Francis H. Alexander, 832
  • Smokeless Powders. W. D. Borland, for the E.C. Powder Company, 420
  • Stair-Treads. See A on- Slipping
  • Steel for Bridges. See Nickel
  • Symbols for Physical Quantities. Miles Walker, 116, 418
  • Turbine. See Rotating Disc
  • Vacuum Brake and Slack Brake-Gear. E. S. Luard, 84
  • Wagon Couplings, See Couplers
  • Warships, Speed of. M.I. Meeh. E., 239
  • Water, Electrical Treatment of. Ernest Perrett, for Davis Perrett, Limited, 388
  • Welding, A New System of. John A. Smeeton, for Fusion Welded Metals, Limited, 48, 85; H. Heron Hosack, 48; John Kirkby, 48, 85, 117


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