The Engineer 1913 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1913 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABBEY Mills Sewage Pumping Station, 64, 68

ACCIDENTS;

Ais Gill Railway Disaster, 252, 257, 281, 306, 309, 575, 580, 681 ; (Letters), 315, 340, 421, 448, 504, 582, 607
Bray Explosion, 331
Four Recent Railway Accidents, 128 Industrial, 121
Liverpool Railway Accident, 440, 648
Melun Railway Disaster, 515
Railway Accidents and the Public, 309 ; (Letter), 340
Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, 283
Reports on Various Railway Accidents, 333
Tottenham Collision, 440
Two Recent Railway Accidents, 440
Volturno, Burning of the, 415
Waterloo Junction Accident, 473
Yeovil Railway Collision, 366
Zeppelin Airship Disaster, 282

ACCRINGTON Electricity Works with Gas- driven Generating Plant, 3()2, 367
Aerial Propulsion of Barges on Canals, L. Blin Desbleds, 318

AERONAUTICS:

Aeroplanes in Paris. 630, 675
Air Scouting at the Italian Manoeuvres, 370
British Aeroplane Industry, 202
Catastrophic Instability in Aeroplanes, F. W. Lanchester, 301
Failure of the Dirigible Balloon, 443
Forlanini Airship Citta di Milano, 251
Future of the Aeroplane, 547 ; (Letter), 607
German Aeroplane Motor Competition, 548, 593
Government and Aeronautics, 16
Gyroscopic Action of Aeroplane Motors and Propellers, 337
Military Aeroplanes in Paris, 630
Paul Schmitt Biplane, 631
Schutte-Lanz Airship S.L. 2, German, 9
Seaplane, 100 .H.P., A. V. Koe and Co., 371 {Two-page Supplement, October Zrd, 1913)
Zeppelin Airship Disaster, 282

AGRICULTURAL Engines and Implements at Smithfield Show, 619
Agricultural Machinery at Bristol Show, 10, 39
Air Compressors—see Compressor
Allen, R. W., on Modern Pumping Machinery for Drainage of the Fens, 142 ; (Letter), 181
Alloys, The Specific Volume and Constitution of. Dr. W. M. Guertler, 283
Alloys, Study of Volume Changes in, J. H. (Chamberlain, 283
America, Concrete Building Construction in, Aiken System and Unit System, 411
America, The Diesel Engine in, 189
Ames-Holden Factory in Montreal with Reinforced Concrete Interior Construction, 221
Ammonia Scrubber, Water Separator and Preheater, 219
Ammunition—see War Material
Amo Milking Machine, Wilts United Dairies, 10, 40
Analogies between Airship and Seaship Building, Felix Pietzker, 602
Andrews, Ewart S., on Reverse Bending Moments in Fixed Beams, 203
Andrews, Ewart S., on The Compressive Strength of Concrete and Stone, 296
Andrews, Ewart S., on The Revised L.C.C. Reinforced Concrete Regulations, 356, 461
Annealing of Gold, Dr. T. K. Rose, 245
Anti-rolling—see Ships
Apprenticeship Question, 405
Armour Plate—see also War Material
Armour, Present Value of, 643
Arsenical Copper, F. Johnson, 283

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIETIES.

Association, The British:
Action of an Alkaline Natural Water on Lead, J. F. Liverseege and A. W. Knapp, 330
Aerial Propulsion of Barges on Canals, L. Blin Desbleds, 318
Amorphous Phases in Metals, Dr. Walter Rosenhain, 301
Atmosphere Refraction in Wireless Telegraphy, Dr. W. H. Eccles, 357
Birmingham Meeting, 207, 285, 300, 317, 329, 343, 357, 423
Catastrophic Instability in Aeroplanes, F. W. Lanchester, 301
Colour Vision and Colour Blindness, 358 Development of the Midland Coalfields, Fred. G. Meachem, 358
Education, Principal E. H. Griffiths, 358
Effect of Altitude on Blood, 358
Effect of Atmospheric Conditions on the Strength of Signals, Professor W. E. Marchant, 357
Effect of Compression Ratio on the Efficiency of a Gas Engine, Professors J. E. Petavel and G. Asakama, 300
Explosions in Coal Mines and the Means of Preventing them. Sir H. Cunynghame, 358
Fatigue of Metals, Dr. Rosenhain, 330
Gas Engine Research Committee, Report, 300
Influence of Gas on the Inflammability of Coal Dust in the Air of Mines, Professor W. M. Thornton, 301
Inland Waterways in England, R. B. Dunwoody, 303
Inland Waterways, Lord Shuttleworth and others, 302
Internal Combustion Engine Applied to Railway Locomotion, F. W. Lanchester, 301
Landslides Accompanied by Upheaval in the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, Vaughan Cornish, 423
Liquid, Solid and Caseous Fuels for Power Production, Professor F. VV. Burstall, 301
Nature of the Electro-magnetic Waves Employed in Radio-telegraphy and the Mode of their Propogation, Professor C. W. (). Pio we, 357
Nature of X-rays, 358
Papers, Discussions, &e.. List of, 207
Phenomena in the F'ormation of Phitectics, F. Ph C. Lamplough and J. T. Scott, 330
Presence of Copper in the Sandstones of Exmouth, C. Carus-Wilson, 358
Presidential Address in the Geological Section, Professor E. J. Carwood, 358
Presidential Address, Professor Gisbert Kapp, 286, 317
Presidential Address, Sir Oliver Lodge, 300
Presidential Address on the Mechanism of Chemical Action, Professor W. P. Wynne, 301
Programme for 1913, A Lay Member, 192
Proper Utilisation of Coal and Fuels Derived Therefrom, Discussion at British Association Meeting, 329
Pure Mathematics, Dr. H. F. Baker, 357 Radiation, J. H. Jeans, 358
Radio-active Elements and the Periodic Law, F. Soddy, 330
Radio-elements as Indicators in Chemistry and Physics, Dr. G. Hevesy, 331
Section A : Mathematics and Physics, President, Dr. H. F. Baker, 207, 357
Section B : Chcmistrv, President, Wynne, 207, 301, 329
Section C : Ceology, President, E. J. Carwood, 368
Section P3 : Geography, President, H. N. Dickson; 358
Section F : Economic Science and Statistics, President, Rev. P. H. Wicksteed, 207, 302
Section C : Engineering, President, Professor C. Kapp, 207, 285, 300, 317, 357, 423
Section I ?. Physiology, President, Dr. F. C Hopkins, 358
Section L : Education, President, Principal E. H. Griffiths, 358 i
Solar and Terrestrial Magnetic Disturbances, Rev. A. L. Cortie, 358
Solution of Cases in Metals, Dr. A. Holt, 330
Spitzbergen, 358
Structural Changes in Certain Alloys by Annealing, O. F. Hudson, 330
Structure of the Atom, 358
Structure of Lias Ironstone of South Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, E. A. Walford, 358
Study of Degradation or Enhancement of Quality of Commercial Copper by Presence of Impurities, F. Johnson, 330
Tabulation of Bessel and other Functions, Elliptic Function Tables, 358
Theory of the Magnet, Ih’ofossor S. B. McLaren, 358
Three-system Copper-Oxygen, F. D. Farrow, 330
Transport and Settlement of Sand in W ater and a Method of Exploring Sand Bars, J. S. Owens, 343

Association of Engineers, Manchester:
Engineering Workshop Organisation, Hans Reno Id, 473
Meeting : Presentation of Gold Medal to Mr. V. Gartside, 421
Pattern-making Department of an Engineering Works, T. Roberts, 601
Presidential Address, Dr. E. Hopkinson, 421
Recent Developments in Steam Condensing
Plants, A. E. Leigh Scanes, 526
Visit to Mather and Platt’s Works, 421

Association of Refrigeration, International :
Administration, 411
Application of Refrigeration to Food, J. A. Ruddick, 410
Congress at Chicago, 410 Cryotherapy, Professor Bordas, 410
Industrial Refrigeration, 410
Liquefied Gases and Units, Professor William Kent, 410
Railway and Steamship Refrigeration, 410
Refrigerating Machinery and Insulating Materials, R. H. Tait and L. C. Nordrneyer, 410
Visit to Washington, 411

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Allotropic Transformations of Iron, Professor Sauveur, 250
Autumn Conference, 247, 270, 394, 395, 396
Commercial Production of Sound Ingots, Emil Gathmann, 272
Crystallising Properties of Electro-deposited Iron, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and Dr. J. E. Stead, 249
Distillation of Tar in Metallurgical Practice,
Monsieur Gevers-Orban, 248 Effect of Heat Treatment on the Colorometric Test for Carbon, &c., Professor E. D. Campbell and Mr. F. D. Haskins, 273
Electric Refining of Steel in an Induction Furnace of Special Type, Otto Frick, 273
Heating and Cooling Curves of Manganese Steel, Sir Robert Hadfield, 250
Historical Survey of the Metallurgy of Iron in Belgium, Baron E. de Laveleye, 247
Manufacture of Armour-piercing Projectiles, General Leandro Cubillo, 271
Manufacture of Coke in Belgium, Baron E. Coppee, 248
Method of Preparing Sections of Fractures of Steel for Microscopic Examination, Professor A. Campion and Mr. J. M. Ferguson 273
Modern Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, Benjamin Talbot, 271, 394, 395, 396
New Method for the Determination of the Critical Points Ac and Ar, Dr. J. E. Stead, 273
Present Methods of Testing, with Special Reference to the Work of tne International Association for Testing Materials, Professor H. Hubert, 250, 260
Principal Deposits of Iron Orc in Chili, C. Vatticr and N. Echegarai, 273
Reinforced Pile Foundation for Blast Furnaces, Armand Baar, 272
So-called Crystallisation through Fatigue, F. Rogers, 273
Use of Coke Oven and Blast Furnace Gases in Metallurgy, E. Houbaer, 249
Use of Oxygen in Blast Furnace Practice, Gustave irasenstcr, 271
Visits, 273

Institute of Metals:
Annealing of Gold, Dr. T. K. Rose, 245
Arsenical Copper, h'. Johnson, 283
Copper-rich Ralchoids, Professor S. L. Hoyt, 283
Corrosion Committee’s Past and Future Work; Condenser Tube Corrosion, Sir G. A. Muntz and Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 478
Corrosion Committee, Second Report, G. D. Bengough and R. M. Jones, 244, 263, 287, 313, 344, 371
Determination of Oxygen in Copper and Brass, T. West, 283
Influence of Phosphorous on Some Copper- Aluminium Alloys, Professor A. A. Read, 283
Intercrystalline Cohesion of Metals, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr. D. Ewen, 245
Meeting at Ghent, 106, 244, 263, 283 Metallographical Researches in Egyptian
Metal Antiquities, H. Garland, 283 iMicro-chemistry of Corrosion, C. H. Desch and S. White, 283
Specific Volume and Constitution of Alloys, Dr. W. M. Guertler, 283
Study of Volume Changes in Alloys, J. Pl. Chamberlain, 283
Visits to Shops, Messrs. Van den Kerchove and Carels b reres, 246

Institute of Naval Architects, German ;
Analogies Between Airship and Seaship Building, Felix Pietzker, 602
Annual Meeting, 571, 602, 618
Development of the Submarine Boat Periscope, Dr. Weidert, 602
Hamburg Dredging Methods, W. Thele, 618
Harmony in the Forms of Vessels, M. H. Bauer, 603
Importance and Measurement of the Stability of Sea-going Ships, Dr. Ing. Carl Commentz, 619
Measure of Stability Necessary for Ships, Ludwig Benjamin, 619
Recent Experiences and Aims in Marine Turbine Construction, Dr. Bauer, 571
Screw Propeller Problem, Professor Dr. Ing. Gumbel, 618 ; (Letter), 662
Spark Telegraphy on the Imperator, Direktor Bredow, 618
Institution of ^Automobile Engrineeps:
Roller and Ball Bearings, Professor J. Goodman, 669
The Fuel Question, Presidential Address by J. S. Critchley, 423, 451, 529

Institution of Civil Engineers:
Constitution of Port Authorities as Affecting the Organisation and Development of Ports, A. G. Lyster, 500
Construction of the White Star Dock and the Adjoining Quays at Southampton, F. E. W. Sheilds, 530
Cyclical Changes of Temperature in a Gas Engine Cylinder, Professor E. G. Coker and W. A. Scoble, 687
“James Forrest” Lecture, 1913, Twentj" Years’ Progress in Marine Construction, Alexander Grade, 449, 462
New Building, 445
Pass List, October Examinations, 1913, 553 Transandine Railway, B. H. Henderson, 635

Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Pressure Rises, Presidential Address by N. Duddell, 565

Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
Future of Oil Fuel, Presidential Address by Sir B, Redwood, 663, 689
Working Fluid of Internal Combustion
Engines, Dugald Clerk, 60, 76, 102

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
At Homo, 62G
Cutting I^ower of Lathe Turning Tools, Professor Ripper, 460, 651, 563, 583
Drainage of the Pens, R. F. Grantham, 141
Drainage of the River Ouse Basin, E. G. Crocker, 144
Engineering Research and its Co-ordination, G. H. Roberts, 165, 175

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 675
Ipswich, Corporation Electric Station and Tramways Depot, 146
Manchester Meeting, 664
Mechanical Engineering Aspects of Road Construction, Col. R. E. B. Crompton, 682
Modern Flour Mill Machinery, R. B. Creak, 459, 476
Modern Methods of Measuring Temperature, R. S. Whipple, 117, 129, 167, 183
Modern Pumping Machinery for Drainage of the Fens, R. W. Allen, 142
New Method of Cooling Gas Engines, Professor B. Hopkinson, 115
Summer Meeting at Cambridge, 40, 115, 141, 157, 165, 175, 183
Thomas Hawksley Lectures, E. B. Ellington, 626 ; (Letter), 686
University Press, Cambridge, 146
Visits, 117, 146, 166

Institution of Naval Architects:
Case for Electric Propulsion, H. A. Mavor and J. Reid, 34
Criterion for the Occurrence of Cavitation, Professor Dr. Ing. L. Giimbel, 8
Device to Facilitate the Coupling of Cruising Turbines, H. F. Yarrow, 32
Effect of Form and Size on the Resistance of Ships, G. S. Baker and J. L. Kent, 7
Effect of Internal Loose Water upon the Rolling of a Ship, &c., A. Cannon, 7
Effect of Water Chambers on the Rolling of Ships, Lloyd Woollard, 7
Fatigue in the Steel Material of Steamers, Dr. S. J. P, Thearle, 6
Performance on Service of the Motor Ship Suecia, I. Knudsen, 32
“ Suction ” or Interaction between Passing Vessels, Professor A. H. Gibson and J. H. Thompson, 7, 22
Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 6, 24
Trials of Three Ferry Steamers Propelled by Geared Turbines, Dr. J. Inglis, 30
Visits to Corporation and Tramways Power Stations; Albion Motor Car Works ; Singer Manufacturing Company ; Babcock and Wilcox, Renfrew Works; Dalmuir Shipyard ; Beardmore’s Works, 8 ; Dinner and Ball, 8

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and shipbuilders :
Aeronautical Committee, Foundation of, 632 Present Position of
Chiefly in Marine Carols, 608
Summer Meeting in Visits to Works, 8

Institution of Post-office Electrical Engineers:
Telegraph Traffic and Power Plant for Pneumatic l.'ubcs, B. Eason, 652
Institution of Water Engineers:
Annual General Meeting, 651
Borehole and Pumping Plant for Portland, Uexpected Result of Blasting, R. S. Henshaw, 651
Mechanical Filter versus Sand Filter, F. J. Dixon, 651
Returns by Water Undertakings, J. Chisholm, 651
Softening and Hardening of Water, Archbutt- Deeley Rapid Softening Process, W. T. Burgess, 651

Society of Engineers:
Highways, C. H. Cooper, 398
Society, Glasgow University Engineering :
Development of the Generation of Electricity, Presidential Address by W. W. Lackie, 474

Society, Liverpool Engineering:
Railways for Development Purposes, G. Kenyon Bell, 634

ASSOUAN Dam and the Nile I'^lood, 150 • (Letters), 156, 181, 206, 233
Atmosphere, Impurities of the, J. B. C. Kershaw, 429
Australia, Manufacture of Rolling Stock in, 278 Automatic Metallic Packing, Sigma, R. Semple and Co., 626
Automatic Sub-station—see Electrical Matters
Automatic Telephony, 572
Automatic 3h’ain Control—see Railways Automatic Train Stops or Cab Signals, 681 Automatic Valve—^ec Valve
Averoineter—see Motor Cars

BAAR, Armand, on Reinforced Pile Foundation for Blast Furnaces, 272
Baker, G. S., and J. L. Kent on the Effect of Form and Size on the Resistance of Ships, 7 Ball, J. D. W., on Reduced Live Loads on
Railway Underbridges, 377 ; (Letter), 421 Balloons—see Aeronautics
Barham, G. B., on Coal for Power Plants, 181 Battleships—see Ships
Bauer, M. H., on Harmony in the Forms of Vessels, 603
Bauer, Dr., on Recent Experiences and Aims in Marine Turbine Construction, 571
Bavarian Lloyd, 258
Belgium, Historical Survey of the Metallurgy of Iron in, Baron E. de Laveleye, 247
Belgium, Manufacture of Coke in, Baron E. Coppee, 248
Bell, (J. Kenyon, on Railways for Development Purposes, 634
Belt Coal Conveyor at Middlesbrough, Spencer and Co,, Limited, 341
Bending Moments, Reverse, in Fixed Beams, Ewart S. Andrews, 203
Bengough, G. D., and R. M. Jones, Second Report of the Corrosion (committee, 244, 255, 263, 287, 313, 344, 371
Benjamin, Ludwig, on the Measure of Stability-
Necessary for Ships, 619
Blast Furnaces-—see Iron and Steel Board of Trade, Railways and the, 655 Boats—see Ships

BOILERS:

Boiler and Economiser Efficiency and Design, R. H. Smith, 485, 522, 535, 569, 591, 615, 647, 649, 669 ; (Letter), 607
Boiler and Superheater for Queensland University, Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, 195, 196
Dampers, Electrically Operated, India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company, 526
The Naval Boiler, Evolution of, Engineer- Commander H. B.
Water-tube Boilers
Marine, 389

BOOKS of Reference, Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Boring Plant, Water, H. Brown and Co., 38 Box-nailing Machine, A. S. King, 472
Bray Explosion, 331
Bredow, Direktor, on Spark Telegraphy in the Imperator, 618

BRIDGES:

Bulak Bridge at Cairo, 403 {Two-page Supple- ment, October llth^ 1913)
Construction of the Masonry for the New Quebec Bridge, 327, 336
Dublin, Twin Scherzer Bridges at, 304, 308
Eastern Bengal Railway Bridge over the Lower Ganges, 273, 280 : (Letter), 315
Employment of High-grade Materials in Bridge Building, Dr. F. Bohny, 634
Erie Canal Lift Bridge, 562
Great Northern Railway Bridges and Viaducts {Sixieen-page Supplement^ November 23th, 1913)
Halsted-street Lift Bridge at Chicago, 562, 618
Hawthorne-avenue Bridge at Portland, 563 Liverpool Landing Stage Bridge, 125
Portland Bridge, U.S.A., 616, 628
Reduced Live Loads on Railway Underbridges, J. D. W. Ball, 377 ; (Letter), 421
Sand Point Bridge, 617
Sara Ghat Bridge—see Eastern Bengal
Tacoma Bridge, 616, 628
Timber Bridge over the River Witham at Barduey, Great Northern Railway {Six- teen-page Supplement, November 23th, 1913)
Town Bridge at Boston, Lincolnshire, 72 Vertical Lift Drawbridges, 562, 616, 628 Warrington Bridge, 40

BRISTOL, Professor W. H., Thermo-couple and Experimental Sea Temperature Indicator and Recorder, 194
British Home Oil Refineries, A. E. v. Groeling, 102
Brown, SirHanbury, on The Nile Flood of 1913, 536
Buffer Bloom Heating Furnace, Brett’s Patent Lifter Co., 47
Burstall, Professor F. W., on Liquid, Solid and Gaseous Fuels for Power Production, 301
Burton-Alexander, J. T., on Recent French Locomotive Performances, 338

CAIRO, New Port for Nile Boats, 9
Caissons for Bridges—see Bridges
Calcutta, The Port of, 246
Calendars and Diaries, 664
Cambridge Observatory, 118
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 117
Cambridge University Engineering Laboratory, 118
Cambridge University Press, 146

CANALS :

Aerial Propulsion of Barges on Canals’ L. Blin Desbleds, 318
Canal Problems, 66, 69 ; (Letters), 92, 127
Canal v. Railway Transport, The Question of, 556 ; (Letter), 582
Canals as Motor Roads, 622 ; (Letter), 686
Panama Canal, Chagrcs River and the Culebra Cut, 412
Panama Canal, Earthquake, John Stuart, 466
Panama Canal, Landslides Accompanied by Upheaval in the Culebra Cut, Vaughan Cornish, 423
Railways and Canals, 469, 556

CANNON, A., on the Effect of Internal Loose Water upon the Rolling of a Ship, <fcc., 7
Carding and Spinning Cotton Waste, W’. T. Smith and Co., 285
Cards’ Exhibit at Ghent, 128
Cards, Georges, on Present Position of the Diesel Engine Chiefly in Marino Propulsion, 601, 608
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., and Dr. J. E. Stead, on the Crystallising Properties of Electro-deposited Iron, 249
Carriages, Railway—see Railways
Catalogues, 26, 49, 78, 156, 186, 212, 238, 320, 424, 452, 506, 533, 558
Chagres River and Culebra Cut, 412
Chamberlain, J. H., on A Study of Volume Changes in Alloys, 283
Channel Tunnel, 151, 334, 363
Chatley, Professors H., and H. T. W’right, on
Tangshan Colliery, North China, 537, 646
Chester Hydro-electric Station, 406, 407, 414
Chiappella Station—see Railways, Foreign
Chicago, International Refrigerating Congress at, 410
Civil Control of the Naval Dockyards, 470
Clearing House—see Engineering Research
Clerk, Dugald, Experimental Gas Engine, 76
Clerk, Dugald, on Working Fluid of Internal Combustion Engines, 60, 76, 102
Clover Huller, “ Champion,” Ruston, Proctor and Co., 620
Clover Huller, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 622
Clyde, Control of the, 309
Clyde Shipbuilding—see Ships

COAL, COKB, AND COLLIERIES:

Belt Coal Conveyor at Middlesbrough, Spencer and Co., Limited, 341
Coal, and Fuels Derived therefrom. Proper Utilisation of. Discussion by Professor E. F. Armstrong and others, 329
Coal for Power Plants, G. B. Barham, 181
Coke in Belgium, Manufacture of, Baron E. Coppee, 248
Coke Oven and Blast Furnace Gases in Metallurgy, The Use of, E. Houljaer, 249
Coke Oven Gas, The Supply of, to Municipalities, 303
Explosions in Coal Mines and the Means of Preventing Them, Sir H. Cunynghame, 358 Explosions in Mines Committee, Fifth Report of, 578
Insurance Against Colliery Explosions, 672 Labour Questions—see Labour
Tangshan Colliery, North China, Professors H. Chatley and H. T. Wright, 537, 646

COKER, Professor E. G., and W. A. Scoble, on Cyclical Changes of Temperature in a Gas Engine Cylinder, 687
Colchester and Other Railway Accident Reports,
Workshop for Siemens wtliGib and Co. at Woolwich, F. Southey,
Compressed Air, Concreting by, 207 Compressive Strength of Concrete and Stone Kwart S. Andrews, 290 ’
Compressor, Higli-spoed Steam-driven Air , 650® 6“r^
Compressor, Quadruplex Air, Even Turnim/ Keavell and Co., 232
Compressors, Steam-driven Air, General Engine and Boiler Company, 05 ®
Concrete-—566 aZ^o r'erro-concrctc Construction in America,
Unit Systems, 411
Concrete, Interior Construction of Ames-Kolden factory m Montreal, 221
Concrete, Reinforced Grain Store at Imniing- ham Bocks, 500, 507
Concrete, Reinforced, Regulations, The Revised Uwart S. Andrews, 350, 401
Concrete and Stone, Compressive Strength of, Ewart S. Andrews, 29o °
Concreting by Compressed Air, 207
Condenser T ubes—5ee Corrosion Committee’s Report
Condensing Plants, Steam, Recent Develon- Scanes, 620
Conference of Employers, Relation of Science 492 Iridustrial Uses of Coal Gas,
Connecting-rod System, Williams, 024 Consideration of British Express Eocomotive r, Johnston, 215, 274, 296
Contract to Buy Machinery, Pleasure of Damages on iailure to Complete, 204 Contracts, 26, 54, 81, 100, 132, 180. 212 238
Control of the Clyde, 309
Conveyors, Elevators, &c., at Immingham Concrete Grain Store, 560, 607 Coolers and Crystallisers—see Scottish Shale Oil Industry
Coolers, steam Boiler and Air Compressor at Accrington Electricity Works, 302, 307
Coppee, Baron E„ on The, Manufacture of Coke in Belgium, 248
Copper, Arsenical, E. Johnson, '283
Copper-rich Kalchoids, Professor S. L. Hoyt 283
Cornish Vaughan, on Landslides Accompanied by Upheaval in the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, 423
Corrosion, 601
Corrosion Committee of the Institute of Metals last and huture Work; Condenser Tube* Sir G, A. Muntz and Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 478
Corrosion Committee of the Institute of Metals I Second Report, G. D. Bengough and R M* Jones, 244, 266, 263, 287, 313, 344, 371 '
Corrosion of Condenser Tubes—6-6c Corrosion Committee’s Report
Coster, Vennell, on Gas Engines, 678
Cotton Waste, Carding and Spinning. W T Smith and Co., 285 °
Cramp, Bly-wheel Adjustable, Brice and Belsham, 92
Crane, 160-Ton Electric Overhead Travelling Broadbent and Sons, Limited, 668
Crane, IS-JJon Hand Travelling, T. Smith and Sons, 65
Cranes, Luffing, at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co ’ Limited, 230, 231 ’’
Creak, R. B., on Modern Flour Mill Machinery 459, 476
Criterion for the Occurrence of Cavitation
Professor Dr. Ing. L. Gumbel, 8
Crocker, E. G., on the Drainage of the River Ouse Basin, 144 ; (Letters), 181, 206, 233
Crompton, Col. R. E. B., on Mechanical Engineering Aspects of Road Construction, 682 Crystallising Properties of Electro-deposited Iron, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and Dr J. E. Stead, 249
Cubillo, General Leandro, on the Manufacture of Armour-piercing Projectiles, 271
Cutting Power of Lathes—566 Machine Tools Cyclical Changes of Temperature in a Gas ? Engine Cylinder, Professor E. G. Coker and I W. A. Scoble, 687 ' Cycloidal Pumps—see Pumps

DAM, Assouan, and the Nile Flood 150 • (Letters), 156, 181, 206, 233 ’
Dampers—see Boilers
De Laveley, Baron E., on a Historical Survey of the Metallurgy of Iron in Belgium, 247 Desbleds, L. Blin, on the Aerial Propulsion of
Barges on Canals, 318 Developing the Tees, 554 Development of the Submarine—see Ships Naval Matters ’
Diesel, Dr. Rudolph, 366
Diesel Engines—see Engines Dock, Lagoon Wet, 83, 94
Dock, White Star, and Adjoining Quays at Southampton, Construction of, F, E W Shields, 630
Docks, Immingham, Reinforced Concrete Grain Store at, 666, 667
Docks, Kidderpore, Calcutta, 246 Docks and Shipbuilding at Shanghai, 366 Docks, Tanjong Pagar, 83, 94

DOCKYARD NOTES :

Actaeon, H.M.S,, Fire Damage, 652 Argentine Battleship Rivadavia, Trials 60^ Argentine Destroyers to be Fitted with
Diesel Engines, 234
Argentine Destroyers, Speed, Armament, and Cost, 602
Battle Practice Target for the Navy 421 Bateleships, H.M., Namesof, 386; (Correction),
Battleships, H.M., nearly Ready for Launching, 602
Belgian Navy and Seaplanes, Rumonrs, 234 British Oil Fuel Vessels’ Requirements, 166 Cruisers, Admiralty and Private Shipyard Building, 287
Cruisers, Light, H.M., Names of, 386 Danish Submarines, 234
Delhi, Renamed Emperor of India,
386
Destroyers—see Torpedo-boat Destroyers Elswick Battleships for Sale, 527
Emperor of India, H.M.S., 386 Fei Chung Gunnery Trials, 527
French Battleship Bearn, 652
French Battleships Lyon, Lille, Duquesne, and Tourville, 652
German Armoured Cruiser Lutzow, 652
German Destroyers Built by Vulkan and Schichau, 502
German Dreadnoughts’ Armour-plate Thickness, 234
German Torpedo-boat Destroyer S 178, 156 Iron Duke, H.M. Battleship, 502
Italian Naval Prize Awards, 527
Italian Scouts Marsala and Nino Bixio, 156; (Correction), 203
Italian Super-Dreadnought Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour, Delayed Completion, 166 ; (Correction), 203
Japanese Warship Building in this Country, 602
Linnet, II.M.S., Speed Trials, 527 Lysander, H.M. Destroyer, Trials, 662 Norwegian Battleships under Construction at Elswick, 502
Norwegian Chamber and Naval Finance, Paragon, H.M. Destroyer, 652 Portuguese Republic’s Naval Programme, Queen Elizabeth to have Two Funnels, Roumanian Naval Programme, 527 Royal Sovereign, H.M. Battleship, to Laid Down at Portsmouth, 662
Russian Destroyer Design: Exclusion of Cowls for Stokehole Draught, 156
Russian 1100-Ton Destroyers, Names and Remarkable Armament, 156
Russian Naval Estimates, 421
Swedish Battleship Fitted with Liquid luel ^Vppliances, 502
Tiger, H.M. Battle-cruiser, Launched, 652 Torpedo-boat Destroyers, Admiralty Classification, Classes A—L, 450
Torpedo-boat Destroyers, Admiralty Orders, 286
Torpedo-boat Destroyers, Nomenclature, 38<j Turkish Gunboats Completed at St. Nazaire, 502
United States Naval Intelligence Returns, 156 United States Torpedo-boat Destn)yers, Programme, 156
Warship Tonnage of Jjcading Navies, 156
Woolwich, H.M. Depot Ship, 'I rials, 652

DOCKYARD at Taikoo, 163
Dockyards and Shipbuilding at Hong-Kong, 163 Doncaster Works—see Works
Drainage of the Fens, R. F. Grantham, 141 ; (Letter), 181
Drainage of the River Ouse Basin, IJ. G. Crocker, 144 ; (Letters), 181, 206, 233
Drawbridges—see Bridges
Dredger, Non-propelled, for the Egyptian Delta, Alley and MacLellan, 234
Drill Head, A Multiple, Langelier Manufacturing Company, 503
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
Drying and Conditioning Machine for Grain, J. Gibbs and Son, 554
Dublin Bridges—see Bridges
Duddell, W., on Pressure Rises, 555
Dundee, University College, Engineering Jaibor- atories at, 417
Dunston Power Station, 604
Dunwoody, R. B., on Inland Waterways in England, 303

EARTHQUAKE—see Panama
Eason, B., on Telegraph Trattic and Power Plant for Pneumatic Tubes, 652
Educational Intelligence, 130,186, 346, 372, 398 h2ffect of Compression Ratio on the Efficiency of a Gas Engine, Professors J. E. Petavel and G. Asakama, 300
Eight Hours Question—see Labour Ejectors, Penberthy, 65

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

Accrington Electricity Works, Gas-driven Generating Plant, 362, 367
Vutojnatic Sub-station, H. R. Summerhayes, 222, 228
Brown-Boveri Driving and Control Gear, 513, 514
Biaice-Peebles Converters, 152
Centralisation of Electricity Supply. 522 Chiappella Power Station for the Giovi Line, 297
Commutator Stone and Grinder, British Thomson-Houston Company, 46
Compensated Alternating-current Generators 513
Cranes—see Cranes
Dampers, Electrically Operated, India- imbber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company, 526
Development of the Generation of Electricity, W. W. Lackie, 474
Diesel Engines for Electric Railway Car and for Electric Lighting, 440
Doncaster Works, Generators at, 574, 582 Drive for Rolling Mills Worm Gearing, British Thomson-Houston, 182
Dunston Power Station, 604
Electric Driving in Workshops, 576
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders, 44
Electric Refining of Steel—see Iron and Steel Electrically Propelled Ships—see Ships Goldschmidt High-frequency Alternator, 623 Huge Generating Station for London, 655 Hydro-electric Power Plant at Chester, 406, 407, 414
Impregnating Plant for Dynamo Stators, Dryers Limited, 224
International Electrical Congress in 1915, 40 International Electro-technical Commission, 158, 306, 360
Kingston Electricity Works, Horizontal Diesel Engines at, 3G9
Lamps—sea Lamps
Lighting of Motor Cars, 624
Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Luggage Winch for Steam Yacht Sapphire, 487
Miles Walker Compounding System, 613 Parsons Compounding System, 513
Modern Converting Machinery, 44, 88, 162, 170 ; (Letter), 74
Motor Car, Arrol-Johnston-Edison, at Olympia, 624
Motor, Special, for Propelling the Tyne- mount, 383
New Generators for Diesel Engines, Oerlikon Company, 312
Oerlikon Motor Generator and Rotary Convertor, 170
Petrol Electric and Electric Vehicles, 43 Railways and Locomotives—see Railways Rating of Electrical Machinery, 360 Rotaries, Six and Three-phase, British Thomson-Houston Company, 46
Scherbins Motor, 645
Shanghai Municipal Electric Works, 300 Ships and Boats—see Ships
Switchgear, Some New, Adams Manufacturing Company, 206
Tangshan Colliery, Electrical Equipment, 637, 646
Train Lighting, 337

EMERY Grain Scourer, T. Robinson and Son, 39
Employers, Conference of, Relation of Science and Industry, Industrial Uses of Coal Gas, 492
Employers* Trade Union, 363
Employment of High-grade Materials—see Bridges

ENGINES AND MOTORS: Internal Combustion Engines:

Aeroplane Engines at the German Motor Competition, Argus, Benz, Daimler, N.A.G., 593
Bray Explosion, 331
Busch-Sulzer Diesel Engine and Fuel Valve, 189, 191
Carels-Dicsel Engines of the Auxiliary Sailing Ship France, Schneider and Co., 669, 673, 680 {Two-pa(je Supplement,
December 2^th, 1913)
Cooling Gas Engines, A New Method Professor B. Hopkinson, 115; 206
Crude Oil Horizontal Engine, Proctor and Co., Limited, 12
Cyclical Changes of Temperature Engine Cylinder, Professoj' E. and W. A. Scoble, 687
Cylinder, Vaporiser and Fuel Atomiser of Oil Engine, British Westinghouse pany, 528
Diesel Engine in America, 189
Diesel Engine for Electric Power at caster, Carols Freres, 582
Diesel Engines of the Electric Motor Tyneinount, 380, 381, 388
Djinn Oil Engine, 37
Effect of Compression Ratio on the EfUci- cncy of a Gas Engine, Professors J. E. Petavel and G. Asakama, 300
Experimental Four-cycle Diesel Engine, New London Shij) and Engine Company, 189
Experimental Gas Engine, Dugald Clerk, 76
P*our-cycle Single-acting 1000 H.P. Gas Engines at Accrington Electricity Works, National Gas Engine Company. 362, 367
Four-cylinder Gas Engines, 476 H.P., for Abbey Mills Sewage Pumping Station, Premier Gas Engine Company, 64, 68
Gas Engine, 70 B.H.P., Crossley Brothers, 37
Gas Engines, Vennell Coster, 578
Gas Engines and Producers at Doncaster Works, Crossley Brothers and Campbell Gas ICngine Company, 674, 682
Gas Engines and Suction Producers for Ryde Waterworks, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 432
Horizontal Diesel Engines at the Kingston Electricity Works, 369
Improvements in Gas and Oil Engines, British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, 628 ; (Letter), 607
Internal Combustion Engine Applied to Railway Locomotion, F. W. Lanchester, 301
Internal Combustion hkigines at Bristol, 12
Marine Engines at Ghent Exhibition, Cards Freres, 128
Monte Penedo’s Diesel Engines, 273
Oil Engine with Magneto Electric Ignition, Petters, Limited, 38
Oil Engine, Portable, Blackstone and Co., 621
Oil Engines, Fixed and Portable, at Bristol
Show, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 12
Oil Engines at Smithfield Show, 619
Oil and Gas Engines at the xAgricultural Show, Bristol, 12, 37
Oil and Gas Engines and Suction Gas Plant, Campbell Gas Engine Company, 621
Petter’s Junior Oil Engine, 621
Polar Diesel Engine of the Ljusno Jernverk, 434, 435
Polar Diesel Engine for a Submarine, 434, 437, 438
Polar Diesel Engines, Marine and Stationary, A.-B. Diesels Motorer, 434
Polar Diesel Railway Car, 434, 439
Present Position of the Diesel Engine chiefly in Marine Propulsion, Georges Cards, 601, 608
Robey Crude Oil Engines, 621
Semi-Diesel Engine, Four-cycle 50 B.H.P., Crossley Brothers, 37
Six-cylinder Diesel Engine.s for a Barge and for the Yacht Idealia, New London Ship and Engine Company, 189
Submarine Diesel Engine. 189
Suction Gas Engine, Fielding and Platt, 38
Suction Gas Engine and Plant, Kynochs Limited, 38
Suction Gas Engines at Bristol Show, 37
Suction Gas Plant, Davey, l\ixman and Co., 39
Two-cycle Semi-Diesel Engine, 150 H.P., Petters, Limited, 180
Internal Combustion Engines (continued i :
Valveless Oil Engine, Clayton and Shuttle* ?worth, 38
Working Fluid of Internal Combustion Engines, Dugald Clerk, 60, 70, 102

ENGINES AND MOTORS: Steam Engines:

Carels Engines at Ghent Exhibition, 128
Compound Traction Engine, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 019, 620
Condensing Engines of H.M. Harbour Tug Strenuous, 391
Conversion of Engine from Compound Steam to Uniflow, 75
Engines of the Twin-screw Steam Yacht Sapphire, 480, 489, 494 {Two-page Supplement, November '1th, 1913)
Experimental Steam Engine for Queensland University, Simpson, Strickland and Co., 190, 197 ; (Letter), 007
Single-cylinder Traction Engine with Superheater, Marshall, Sons and Co., IJmited, 11
Steam Engines at Bristol Show, 3S
Superheated Steam Ploughing Engine, J, Fowler and Co., 020

ENGINEERING in the East, Progress of, 3, 29, 83, 94, 110, 103, 191, 210, 240, 300, 324, 355, 378, 404
Engineering Laboratories at University College, Dundee, 417
Engineering Progress Abroad, 87, 208, 342, 470, 554, 001
Engineering Research and its Co-ordination G. H. Roberts, 105, 175
Engineering Works—see Works
Engineering Workshop Organisation, Hans Renold, 473
Even Turning Moment of Quadruplex Air Compressor, Reavell and Co., 232
Evening Trade Classes, 338

EXHIBITIONS :

Commercial Motor Vehicle Exhibition at Olympia, 90
Ghent, Carels Exhibit at, 128
Ghent, Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
Locomotive at, R. King, 430
Motor Car Show at Olympia, 524
National Gas, at Shepherd’s Bush, 385
Paris Aero Show, 03()
Physical Society, 060
Royal Agricultural Show at Bristol, 10, 37, 529
Smithfield Club Show, 019

EXPLOSIONS, Colliery, Insurance Against, 672
Explosives, Military—see V\'ar Material Export—see 3'rado

FACTORlES—see Works
Eactories, Lal)our Questions-—see Labour b'ens—see Drainage
Ferries, 'J’rain, 007
Ferro-concrete Work on the River Weaver, (501
Ferry Boat — see Ships
Fire Engines at Olympia, Petrol-driven, 100
Fire Engines at the Royal Show, Bristol, 12
Fire Pumping Plant, Petrol-driven, Merryweather and Sons, 70
Flour Mill MatUunery, Modern, R. B. Creak, 459, 470
Flour Milling Machinery at Bristol, 39
Fly-wheol Adjustable Cramp, Price and Belsham, 92
Forthcoming Engagements, 2(5, 52, 80, 100, 130, 158, 184, 212, 233, 204, 292, 318, 340, 372, 398, 424, 452, 478, 504, 530, 550, 584, (510, 038, (504, 1590
Forthcoming Meetings, 393, 418, 448, 474, 501, 515
Fottinger Transmitter, 571
Foundries, Piecework in, 259
French Locomotives—see Railway Loconio- ti ves
Frick, Otto, on the Electric Refining of Steel in an Induction Furnace of Special Type, 273
Friction, Steam, of 4’urbine Wheels, William Kerr, 209
Fuel, Oil, The Future of, Sir B. Redwood, 003, 689
Fuel Question, J. S. Critchley, 423, 461, 529
Fuels, Liquid, Solid and Gaseous, for Power Production, Professor F. W. Burstall, 301 Furnace, Bnifer Bloom Heating, Brett's Patent Lifter Company, 47
Furnaces, Open-hearth Steel, Modern, Benjamin Talbot, 271, 394, 395, 390

GAS, Coal, Industrial Uses of, 492
Gas, Coke Oven, The Supply of, to Municipalities, 303
Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas Exhibition—see Exhibitions
Gathinann, Emil, on the Commercial Production of Sound Ingots, 272
Gauge, Vacuum ElUciency, A. E. Leigh Scanes, 520
Gear Wheels, Laminated, H. Terry and Sons, f.32
Gearing, Worm, for Rolling Mills, H. Wallwork and Co., 182
Generating Stations—see Electrical Matters
Generators for Diesel Engines—see Electrical Matters
German Aeroplanes—see Aeronautics
German Colonies and Protectorates, Mining in, 023
German Patent Legislation, 172
German Shipbuilding—see Ships
German Steel—see Iron and Steel
Gevers-Orban, Monsieur, on the Distillation of Tar in Metallurgical Practice, 248
Gibson, Professor A. H., and J. H. Thompson, on Experiments on “ Suction ” or interaction between Passing Vessels, 7, 22
GiovI Line—see Railways, Foreign
Gold, The Annealing of, Dr. T. K. Rose, 246
Goldschmidt High Precpiency Alternator, 623
Goodman, Professor J., on Koller and Bull
Bearings, 669 Government and Aeronautics, 16
Grade, Alexander, on Twenty Years' Progress
in Marine Construction, 449, 462
Grain, Machine for Drying and Conditioning, J. Gibbs and Son, 564
Grain Store, Reinforced Concrete, at Imming- ham Docks, 566, 567
Grantham, K. P., on the Drainage of the Pens, 141 ; (Letter), 181
Groeling—see Von Groeling
Guertler, Dr. W. M., on the Specific Volume and Constitution of Alloys, 283
Gumbel, Professor Dr. Ing. L., on Criterion for the Occurrence of Cavitation, 8
Gunibel, Professor Dr. Ing., on the Screw Propeller Problem, 618 ; (Letter), 662
Guns and Gunmaking—see War Material Gyroscopic Action of Aeroplane Motors and
Propellers, 337

HADFIELD Projectiles, 272
Hadfield, Sir Robert, on Heating and Cooling Curves of Manganese Steel, 250
Halvorsen, Professor Ole G., on Propeller
Experiments, 325 ; (Letter), 398
Hamburg Dredging Methods, W. I’hele, 618
Harbour and Port Works, Singapore, 83, 94 Harbour, Tsingtou, 378
Harmony in the Forms of Vessels—see Ships Hawksley, Thomas, 626
Heating and Cooling Curves of Manganese Steel, Sir R. Hadfield, 250
Henderson, B. H., on the Transandine Railway, 635
Hoe, Motor, Ivell Agricultural Motors, Limitetl, 620
Hong-Kong, Dockvards and Shipbuilding at, 163
Hong-Kong, University of, 110
Hopkinson, Professor JL, on a New Alethod of
Cooling Gas Engines, 115; (Letters), 2tH)
Houbaer, Monsieur E., on the Use of Coke Oven and Blast Purance Gases in Metallurgy, 249
Hoyt, Professor S. L., on the Copper-rich Kalchoids, 283
Hubert, Professor H., on Present Methods of Testing, with Special Reference to the Work of the International Association for Testing Materials, 250, 260
Hydro-electric Power Plant at Chester, 406, 407, 414

IMMINGHAM Docks, Reinforced Concrete Grain Store at, 566, 567
Impartial Inquiries—see Labour
Imperial Motor Transport Conference, 78, 100, 124
Imperial Wireless Chain, 43
Importance and Measurement of the Stability of Sea-going Ships, Dr. Ing. Carl Commentz, 619
Impregnating Tank for Dynamo Stators, Dryers Limited, 224
Impurities of the Atmosphere, J. B. C. Kershaw, 429
Indicator with Bdttchei* “ Powex* Counting ” Device, H. Maihat, 370
Indicators—-see also Temperature Industrial Accidents. 121 Industrial Agreements, 149
Inglis, Dr.’J., on Trials of Three Perry Steamers
Propelled by Geared I'urbines, 30
Ingots—see Iron and Steel
Insurance Against Colliery Explosions, 572
Intercrystalline Cohesion of Metals, Dr. AA\
Rosenhain and Mr. D. Ewen, 246
Interlocking of Railway Points and Signals, 168
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea ’ List of Delegates, 475
International Electrical Congress, 40
International Electrotechnical Commission, 158 306, 360
Invention, 682

IRON AND STEEL:

Allotropic Transformations of Iron, lh*c- fessor Sauveur, 250
Blast Purnace Practice, on the Vse of Oxygen in, Gustave Trasenster, 271
Commercial Production of Sound Ingots, Emil Gathmann, 272
Corrosion—see Corrosion
Crystallising Properties of Plcctro-deposited Iron, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter and Dr. J. E. Stead, 249
hhectric. Refining of Steel in an Induction Purnace of Special 'I'ype, Otto Prick, 273
Pall in Steel Prices, 504
Poreign Steel Competition in Great Britain 496
German Steel Syndicate’s Past Year, 122
Heating and Cooling Curves of Mangane.se Steel, Sir R. Hadfield, 250
Iron Merchants in tlie North, 48
Iron Trade Wages—see Labour
Metallurgy of Iron in Belgium, Historical Survey of the, Baron E. de Laveley, 247
Modern Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, Benjamin Talbot, 271, 394, 395, 396
New Iron Trade Combination, 678
Reinforced Pile Foundation for Blast Furnaces, Armand Baar, 272
Steel Pipe Joints, Stewarts and Lloyds, Limited, 685
Steel Price Maintenance by Syndicate, 681
Steel Trade Competition, 334
Wages and Prices in the Iron and Steel Trades, 604
Wrought Iron Tube Trade, New Condi tions and Prices, 258

ITALY and Sardinia, New Reservoirs in, 60

JOHNSON, F., on Arsenical Copper, 283
Johnston, E. A., on A Consideration of British
Express Locomotive Design, 215, 274, 293
Johnston, E. A., on Train Control, 34, 57, 86, 112, 151 : (Letters), 232
Joints, Steel Pipe, Stewarts and Llovds, Limited 685

KAPP, Professor Gisbert, on Electrical Railways, 281, 285, 300, 317
Kelvin Window in Westminster Abbey, 21
Kerr, William, on Steam Friction of Turbine Wheels, 209
Kershaw, J. B. C., on The Impurities of the Atmosphere, 429
King, C. R., on Compound Express Locomotive, Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, 430
King’s Cross—see Railways
Knudsen, I., on Performance on Service of the. Motor Ship Suecia, 32

LABORATORIES, Engineering, at University College, Dundee, 417
Laboratory, Locomotive Testing, in the United States, 235

LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS:

Coal Trade, Labour in the, 547
Eight Hours Question, 615
Employers’ Trade Union, 363
Impartial Inquiries, 415
Industrial Agreements, 149
Iron Trade Wages, 398
Malingering, 364
Malingering in Shipyards, 16
Miners’ Federation, 175
National Gazette of Unemployed, George
Young, 125
Piecework in Foundries, 259
Problems of Labour, 255
Railway Labour Problems, 310
Safety in Shipyards, 256
Shipbuilding Strike in Germany,
Shipyard Troubles, 340
Strike in the Railway Wagon, Engineering Trades, 47
Wages and Prices in the Iron Trades, 604
Welsh Railway Outbreak, 602, 629
Work and Wages in Factories and Workshops, 184

LACKIE, W. W., on Development of the Generation of Electricity, 474
Laminated Gearing, H. Terry and Sons, 632
Lamp, A New Half-watt, British Thomson- Houston Company, 258
Lamps, Mercury Vapour, and Plant Growth, 311
Lanchester, F. W., on Catastrophic Instability in Aeroplanes, 301
Lanchester, F. W., on The Internal Combustion Engine Applied to Railway Locomotion, 301
Landslides in the Culebra Cut—see Panama Lathes—see Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips, 54, 74, 104, 133, 160, 186, 207, 240, 266, 292, 322, 400, 428, 454, 482, 532, 692

LEADERS:

Ais Gill Accident, 257, 281, 575
Anti-rolling Devices, 202
Assouan Dam and the Nile Flood, 150
Automatic Sub-stations, 228
Automatic Train Stops or Cab Signals, 681
Bases of the Screw Propeller Problem, 629
British Aeroplane Industry, 202
Burning of the Volturno, 415
Canals, 69
Centralisation of Electricity Supply, 522 Channel Tunnel, 151
Civil Control of the Naval Dockyards, 470 Clearing House of Knowledge, 175
Control of the Clyde, 309
Corrosion, 601
Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 255
Electric Driving in Workshops, 576
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders, 44
Electric Locomotives versus Motor Coaches, 390
Electric Railways, 281
Electric Transmission for Ships, 416
Employers’ Trade Union, 363
Evening Trade Classes, 338
Failure of the Dirigible Balloon, 443
Foreign Steel Competition in Great Britain, 496
French Battleships, The New, 15
Future of the Aeroplane, 647
Generating Station, Huge, for London, 655
German Steel Syndicate’s Past Year, 122 Government and Aeronautics, 15
Gyroscopic Action of Aeroplane Motors and Propellers, 337
Impartial Inquiries, 415
Imperial Wireless Chain, 43
Industrial Accidents, 121
Industrial Agreements, 149
Industrial Motor Vehicle, 96
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 575 Invention, 682
Labour in the Coal Trade, 547
Malingering, 364
Malingering in Shipyards, 16
Marine Diesel Engine, 601
Miners’ Federation, 175
Moral of State Railways in Italy, 227
Motor Cultivation, 363
Naval Programme, 443
Navigation and Interaction, 176
Noise of our Streets, 121
Oil-fired Ships of War, 95
Panama Earthquake, 495
Petrol-electric and Electric Vehicles, 43
Port Authorities, 496
Private Enterprise and Municipal Co-operation, 150
Problems of Labour, 255
Profit Guarantee on Shipbuilding, 444
Railway Accidents and the Public, 309
Railway Inquiry, Another, 228
Railway Labour Problems, 310
Railways and the Board of Trade, 655
Railways and Canals, 469
Report on Motor Traffic, 201
Reputation of a Car, 630
Royal Commission on Railways, 548
Safety in Shipyards, 256
Science of Metals, 310
Shipbuilding in Germany, 70
Shipyard Wages, 150
Steel Price Maintenance by Syndicates, 681 Train Lighting, 337
Typhoid Bacillus and Water Supplies, 95
United States, The New Tariff in the, 389 Water-tube Boilers and the Mercantile Marine, 389
Welsh Railway Outbreak, 602, 629
Wireless Telegraph Committee, 521
Working of Motor Ships, 69
Workshop Management, 621
Zeppelin Airship Disaster, 282

LETTERS PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS:

America, 26, 106, 160, 186, 212, 266, 292, 320, 349, 376, 401, 427, 455, 481, 507, 532, 559,613, 641, 667, (>92
England, North of, 25, 53, 79, 105, 132, 160, 184, 211, 237, 265, 291, 319, 348, 374, 400, 426, 453, 479, 506, 631, 657, 686, 612, 639, 665, 691
Germany, France. Belgium, &c., 26, 54, 81, 107, 133, 161, 186, 212, 238, 266, 292, 321, 349, 375, 401, 427, 455, 481, 507, 533, 559, 587, 613, 644, 667, 692
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 24, 52, 79, 105, 131, 159, 184, 210, 236, 264, 290, 319, 347, 373, 398, 426, 453. 479, 505, 531, 556, 586, 611, 639, 664, 690
Lancashire, 24, 52, 79, 105, 131, 159, 184, 211, 237, 264, 291, 319, 347, 373, 399, 425, 463,
479, 605, 531, 557, 586, 611, 639, 665, 690
Scotland, 26, 63, 80. 106, 132, 160, 185, 211, 238, 265, 291, 320, 348, 374, 400, 426, 464, 480, 506, 531, 558, 686, 612, 640,666,691
Sheffield, 25, 53, 79, 105, 131, 159, 185, 211, 237, 266, 479,
Wales 106, 348, 586,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Accidents to Diesel Engines, J. F. Elsworth, 49, 607 ; M.A.N. Co., 475
Aeroplanes and the Factor of Safety, L. Blin Desbleds, 21
Ais Gill inquiry, Bell’s United Asbestos Company, Limited, 315
Artificial Change of Climate, 421.
Assouan Dam, E. Alessandrini, 49 ; H. H. McClure, 92, 156, 206 ; W. Willcocks, 74, 127, 181 ; R. Williams, 233
Auxiliary Sailing Ships, Draughtsman, 127 Birmingham University, Elsmere Harris, 682 ; G. E. Mappin, 553
Boiler and Economiser Efficiency and Design, Fritz Krauss, 607
Bridge over the Lower Ganges, Tees Side Bridge and Engineering Works, 315
British Association (Engineering Section) Meetings, W. P. Durtnall, 344
Canal Problems, Frank Impey, 127 ; H. Peddie, 92
Canal v. Rail Transport, Frank Impey, 582 Canals as Motor Ro^s, Arthur, Oates, 686 Case-hardening, Harbee, 315
Centrifugal Pump Curves, Buyer, 340 Drawings, The Size of, A. H. Shield, 92
Dry and Wet Air Filters, Sturtevant Engineering Company, Limited, 128; H. R. Witting, 92, 181
Electrical Trades Benevolent Institution, Justus Eck, 21
Engineering as a Profession, Vernon Smith, 314
Engineers and Aeroplanes, Octopus, 607
Experimental Engine at the University of Queensland, R. W. Hankcn, 607
Fusible Plugs, J. F. L. Crosland, 206 ; Melt ing Point, 206
l-himphrej' Pumps for Fen Drainage, E. G. Crocker, Humphrey Pump Company, 181, 233
Hydraulic Presses, Gio. Ansaldo and Co., 686 Improvements in Gas and Oil Engines, J. H.
Hamilton, 607
Increase in the Bulk of Cement, C, Isler and Co., 420
Interaction between Passing Vessels, R. Ryves, 261
Internal Forces in a Body having Orbital Motion, Apocentric, 360, 474; W. S. Farren, 448 ; M. F. Fitzg<^rald, 420, 474 ; J. H. Johnston, 476 ; Q. Y., 340, 398, 448, 475 ; F. Duncan Stoney, 504
Iron and Steel Valves, Ambleside, 156
Loads on Railway Bridges, A. H. Shield, 421 London Bridges, O. B. I. T., 618
Loss of Head through Valves, H. B. Blackman, 448 ; E. R. Briggs, 421
Newcomen Engine in Scotland, Rhys Jenkins, 49
Oil-fired Ships of War, A. E. V. Groeling, 156 ; Your Italian Correspondent, 166
Originality in Invention, H. Davey, 49
Overlooked Duties of Consulting Engineers in England, A. E., 604 ; A. H. Shield, 518
Ozone, Some Misconceptions of, Ozonair, Limited, 475
Pcdrail Tractor, Pedrail Transport, Limited, 127
Petrol-hydraulic Railway Coach, McEwan, Pratt and Co., 207
Power and Heating Plant, Consulting Engineer, 421 ; Industrial, 360 ; A. H. Twells, 421
Powerful Locomotives, Aguas Corrientes, 682 ; Interested, 448 ; J. Riekie, 421, 604, 607
Propellers, G. W. P. Walker, 398
Railings of St. Paul’s, P. W. Barnes, 518
Railway Accidents and the Public, On the Safe Side, 340
Removal of Oil from Feed Water, Wright’s Forge and Engineering Company, Limited, 360
Rotary Pumps, M. Colonna, 49 ; E. W. Sargeant, 92
Safety and Stability of Aeroplanes, &c., G. E. Blundell, 360, 475 ; Engineer, 314, 421, 504
Screw Propeller Proldems, E. Beyerhaus, 662 Self-starter for Motors, J. H. Noble, 315
Spring Design, Geo. Pardoe, 127
Starting Rotary Converters, E. Rosenberg, 74
Tangshan Engineering College, H. Chatley, 662 ; Your Special Commissioner, 662
Theory of the Gj-rostat, J. W. Gordon, 360 Train Control, C. G. Howard, 232
Re Water Hammer, Rialto, 233
Workshop Management, H. Williams, 553
World’s Greatest Tunnels, Argentine Trans- andine Railway Company, 607
LEWIS Automatic Air-cooled Machine Gun, 578, 679, 605
Lift Drawbridges—see Bridges
Lighting of Trains—see Railways
Lightship Optical and Fog-signalling Apparatus, Chance Brothers, 72
Lightships—see Ships
Liquid Fuels—see Fuels

LITERATURE: Reviews:

All the World’s Aircraft (Aeroplanes and Dirigibles), K. T. Jane, 229
Al bernatiiig-ctirrent Macliinery, The Design of, J. K. Barr and K. D. Archibald, 229
Apostle of Free Jjabonr, Life Story of William Collison, 031
Application of Kletdric Power tt) Mines and Heavy Industries, W. H. Patchell, 198, 497
Continuous Beams in Reinforced Concrete, 471
Determinative Mineralogy, with Tables, J. V. Ixiwis, 48, 057
Evolution of tlio Internal Combustion Engine, E. Butler, 560
Heating Systems, F. W. Kaynes, 87, 471
Industrial Chemistry, A. Rogers and A. B. Aubert, 177
Irrigation Engineering, Principles of, F. H. Newell and D. W. Murphy, 152, 311
Irrigation Works, E. S. Bellasis, 87, 311
Liquid Air, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Georges Claude, 70
Liquid Steel : Its Manufacture and Cost, D. Carnegie, 48, 410
Motori Diesel Marine e Kissi, Ing. G. Supine, 152
Natural Rock Asphalts and Bitumen, Arthur Danby, 497
Naval Annual, Viscount Hythe, 123
Panama: The Creation, Destruction, and Resurrection of, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, 71
Resistance of the Air and Aviation, G. Eiffel, 48, 304, 379
River and Canal Engineering, E. S. Bellasis, 87, 311
Robert Fulton, Engineer and Artist, His Life and Works, H. W. Dickinson, 48, 470
Single-phase Commutator Motors, F. Creedy, 257

LITERATURE: Short Notices:

Electric Furnaces in the Iron and Steel Industry, Dipl. Ing. W. Rodenhauser and 1. Schoenawa, 152
Electricity in Mining, Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, 48, 257
Wireless Telegraphy, C. L. Fortescue, 87, 267

LITERATURE: Books Received:

Agricultural Drafting, C. B. Howe, 031
Air Compression and Transmission, H. J, Thorkelson, 152
All About Engineering, G. D. Knox, 031
American Society for Testing Materials, Index to “ Proceedings,” Vol. I. to XII., 031
Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, Vol. II., 1911, 152
Application of Pliysico-Chemical Theory to Technical Processes and Manufacturing Methods, Professor Dr. R. Kremann, 311
Applied Chemistry, A Dictionary of, Sir E. Thorpe, 48
Arrol, Sir William, A Memoir, Sir R. Purvis, 057
Autocar Handbook, A Guide to the Motor Car, 48
Aviation, A. E. Berrirnan, 031
Bibliographic der Doktor-Ingenicur-Disserta- tionen, &c., 1900-1910, 257
Brazil in 1912, J. C. Oakenfull, 198
British Rainfall, 1912, H. R. Mill, 257
Cane Sugar Factory, F. J. Scard, 48
Carburation in Theory and Practice, R. W. A. Brewer, 198
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Year-book, 1912
Catskill Water Supply of New York City, Lazarus White, 003
City of Bradford Technical College Calendar, 1913-1914, 444
Coast Erosion and Protection, E. R. Matthews, 198
Compulsory Arbitration in Industrial Disputes, W. F. Hamilton, 523
Computations for Marine Engines, C. H. Peabody, 87
Conservation of Water, W. McCullock, 057
Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power, and Town Water Supply Purposes, P. A. M. Parker, 152
Der Bau der Wolkenkratzer, Otto Rappold, 257
Der /Torsionsindikator, Dr. Ing. Paul Nett- mann, 257
Der Widerstand und Antrieb von Schiffen, Dr. Ing. Rothe, 257
Deutscher Ausschuss fur Eisenbeton, Hefte 23, 24 and 25, 257
Die Berechnung der Warmwasserheizungen, H. Recknagel, 257
Die Lokomotiven der Gegenwart, 257
Die Verwendung der Seltenen Erden, Dr. C. R. Bohm, 057
Drainage and Sanitation, E. H. Blake, 523
Electric Circuit: Theory and Calculations, W. P. Maycock, 667
Electric Wiring, W. C. Clinton, 87
Elementaries, Verbals and Drawing for Marine Engineers, R. A. McMillan, 48
Engineering as a Profession, A. P. M. Fleming and R. W. Bailey, 257
Engineering I’hermodynarnics, C. E. Lucke, 152
English Commercial Correspondence for Home and Abroad, W. Chevob-Maurice, 48
English-German, German-English, Technical Terms for Engineers and Manufacturers, Pocket Glossary of, J. G. Horner, 631
Factory Lighting, C. E. Clewell, 631 Fighting Ships, 1913, F. T. Jane, 198
Filing Systems, E. A. Cope, 48 Fitting and Erecting of Engines, C. Leslie Browne, 48
Flexure and Strength of Rectangular Flat Plates Applied to Reinforced Concrete Floor Slabs, Theory of, H. J. Eddy, 152 Grain Elevators, Plans of, 631
Graphs in a Cable Ship Drum Room, E. Raymond Barker, 152
Heat Engines, W. Ripper, 657
High and Low-tension Switchgear Design, A. G. Collis, 198
Homeland Handbooks: Lotchworth and Hitchin, 48
Igneous Rocks, Composition, Texture, &c. J. P. Hidings, 657
Intlex to Depreciation and Wasting Assets and their Treatment in Assessing Annual Profit and Loss, P. D. Leake, 257
Indian Architecture : Its Psychology, Structure and History, E. B. Havell, 152
Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams, &c., W. L. Strange, 198
Institution of Naval Architects, “ Transactions ” of, R. W. Dana, 603
Japan, The Thirteenth Financial and Economic Annual of, 1913, 657
Laboratory Engineering, H. G. Taylor, 48 La Chaufferie Moderne, Andre Turin, 257 L’Aviation, Paul Painlevo, Emil Borel and Ch. Maurain, 48
Les Sourciers et leurs Precedes, (Sjc., Henri Mager, 87
Light, Radiation, and Illumination, J. Eck, 257
Locomotive Boilers and Engines, L. V. Ludy, 631
Logarithms for Beginners, C. N. Pickworth, 48
Mathematical Theory of Attraction, An Introduction to the, F. A. Tarleton, 198
Metallurgy, General, H. O. Hofman, 523 Mitteilungen aus dem Maschinen-Labora- torium, E. Josse,
Modern Electrical Campbell, 87
National Physical Researches., 257
Newport Year-book, 1913, 48
Oil Fuel, Professor V. B. I^ewes, 257
Outline? or Mineralogy, G. A. J. Cole, 657
Oxy-acetylene Torch Practice, J. F. Springer, 311
Physics, A Text-book of, R. S. Willows, 631
Pocket-book of Useful Formula) and Memoranda for Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers. Sir G. L. Molesworth and H. B. Molesworth, 631
Port of Sydney, N. S. W. Official Handbook, 48
Portland Cement: Its Manufacture, Testing, and Use, D. B. Butler, 631
Practical Metallography of. Iron and Steel, J. S. G. Primrose, 267
Practical Stone Quarrying, A. Greenwell and J. V. Elsden, 152
Principles of Setting Out, Securing, and Tooling Operations, A. Parr, 152
“Proceedings” " Vol. IL, 198
“ Proceedings ” of Engineers, J. Rowe, 444
Public Electric Supply Undertakings, -1 lie Management of, A. H. Seabrook, 631
Railway Nationalisation, E. A. Pratt, 257
Republics of Central and South America, C. R. Enock, 631
Researches in Magneto-Optics, P Zeeman, 631
Rivers, The Improvement of, B. F. Thomas and D. A. Watt, 603
Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Calendar, 1913-1914, 603
Rule? of Management, Wm. Lodge, 631
South American Year-book, 1913, C. S. Vesey Brown, 631
South Wales Coal and Iron Companies-, 1913, 48
Specification Writing, Elements of, R. S. Kirby, 257
Steam Boilers, Working of, E^ G. Hiller, 631
Steam Engine Design, H. E. King, 48
Steam Engine Makers’ Society, Annual Report, 1912, 152
Steel Rails: Their History, Properties, Strength, and Manufacture, W. H. Sellew, 152
Structural Drafting, F. O. Dufour, 631
Switches and Switchgear, Professor R. Edlor, 267 . , . n .
Switchgear and the Control of Electric Light and Power Circuits, A. G. Collis, 631
Theory and Design of Structures, E. S. Andrews, 198
Theory and Design of Structures, lurther Problems in the, E. S. Andrews, 87
Thermodynamics, Principles of, G. Goodenough, 631
Thermodynamik der Turboraaschinen, Zerkowitz, 257
Trade Waste Waters: Their Nature^
University of Durham, Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Calendar, 1913-1914, 444
University of London, University College Calendar, 1913-1914, 444
War Against Bribery, R. M. Leonard, 267
Waterworks Directory and 1913, 257
Weights and Measures Act, and G. A. Owen, 87
Wireless Telegraphy and Year-book of, 1913, 48
Wooden Trestle Bridges and their Concrete Substitutes, Treatise on, W. C. Foster, 603

LIVERPOOL, New Landing Stage Bridge, 125 Lloyd, 'I'ho Bavarian, 258
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
Locomotive Testing Laboratory in the United States, 235
Locomotives, Road, at Smithfield Club Show, 619
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives
London County Council Reinforced Concrete Regulations, The Revised, Ewart S. Andrews, 356, 461
London County Council’s Sewage Pumping Station at Abbey Mills, 64, 68
London County Council’s Tramways Renewals Fund, 36 .
London and Paris, Between, Changes of Sixty Years, 672
Lorries—see Motor Vehicles
L6tschl>erg T’unnel—see Railways
LutUng Cranes—see Cranes
Lyster, A. G., on I’he Constitution of Port Authorities as Affecting the Organisation and Development of Ports, 500
Statistics, 1912—
1904, H. Gunliffc
Telephony, The

MACHINE for Testing Pavement, 101

MACHINE TOOLS:

Accuracy in ^Machine fools, 259
All-gear Vertical Milling Machine, A. Herbert, Limited, 602
Armour Plato Drilling and Tapping Machine, W. Asquith, Limited, 442, 460
Boring, Drilling and Milling Alaehino, Dickinson Machine 'fool Company, Limited, 502
Boring Machine for Richards and Co.,
Combination Turret Limited, 284
Cutting Power of Professor Ripper, 460, 551, 563, 583, 636
Fly-wheel Adjustable Cramp, Price and Bclshain, 92
High-speed Combined Surfacing and Boring Machine, Geo. Richards and Co., Limited, 687
High-speed Wheel Lathes, Tangyes Limited, 635
Lathes, Turning and Boring, for Italian 15in. Shells, 688
Locomotive Wheel Quartering Machine, Electrically Driven, Cunliffe and Croom, 285
Machine Tools at Broadheath, Goo. Richards and Co., 114, 120
Machine Tools for the Production of Worm Gears, D. Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Limited, 464, 465
Multiple Drill Hoad, Langelicr Manufacturing Company, 503
Radial Drilling Machine, Midgley and Sutcliffe, 393
? Saw, Automatic Bar, Edward Limited, 422
Selective Head Lathe, Lodge Machine Tool Company, 50
Surfacing, Boring and Alilling W. Kearns and Co., 259
Worm Gears, Machine Tools for the Proiluc- tion of, D. Brown and Sons, Limited, 464, 465, 498

MACHINERY Rating, 609 Malingering—see Labour
Manganese Steel—see Iron and Steel Manufacture of Armour-piercing Projectiles,
General Leandro Cubillo, 271 Manufacture of Coke in Belgium, Baron E. Coppee, 248
Marine Construction—see Ships Marino Engines—see Engines Marine Turbines—see Turbines Mather and Platts’ Pattern Shop, T. Roberts, 604
Mavor, H. A., and J. Reid, on A Case for Electric Propulsion, 34
Measure of Damages on Failure to Complete a Contract to Buy Machinery, 204
Mechanical Engineering Aspects of Road Construction, Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 682
Mercury Vapour Lamps and Plant Growth, 311 Metal Statistics, The World’s 63
Metals, Amorphous Phases in. Dr. Walter Rosenhain, 301
Metals, Corrosion Report—see Corrosion Metals, The Intercrystalline Cohesion of,
Dr. W, Rosenhain and Mr. D. Ewen, 245 Metals, The Science of, 310
Metallurgical Practice, Distillation of Tar in. Monsieur Gevers-Orban, 248
Metallurgy of Iron—see Iron and Steel Metallurgy, The Use of Coke Oven and Blast
Furnace Gases in, E. Iloubaer, 249 Middlesbrough, Development of the Port of, 554 Milking Machines at Bristol Show, 10, 40 Milling Machines—see Machine Tools Miners’ Federation, 175 Mining Explosions - see Coal
Mining in German Colonies and Protectorates, 623
Modern Flour Mills—see Flour Mills Modern Methods of Measuring Temperature,
R. S. Whipple, 117, 129, 157, 183
Modern Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, Benjamin Talbot, 271, 394, 396, 396
Modern Road Construction, 647 Modern Steam Turbine Design, 509 Mont Cenis Line—see Railways Alont d’Or Tunnel, 386
Moorshead, Eng.-Commander H. B., on The Evolution of the Naval Boiler, 687
Corii.sH Cylintlers, Qco. I
Limited, 198, 200 I
Lathe, Alfred Herbert, (
Lathe 4'urning Tools,
(4. Herbert, and Shipley Machine, H.
Motor Cultivation, 363
Motor Plough, “ Ideal ” 'I’ractor, at Royal Agricultural Show, Bristol, 529
Motor Ploughing Machines, Trials in France, 504

MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR MATTERS:

American Cadillac Car, 526
Arrol-Johnston Cars at Olympia, 524, 526
Average Speed Indicator for Motor Cars,
The Averometer, Dr. A. M. Low, 634
Crossley Motors, Cars at Olympia, 525
Daimler Company’s Cars at Olympia, 527
Dazzle of Motor Car Headlights, Device to Mitigate, C. C. Paterson and B. P. Dudding, 657
Electric Car at Olympia, Arrol-Johnston-Edison, 524
Electric Lighting of Motor Cars, 524, 526
Electric Locomotives versus Motor Coaches, 390
Electric Self-starter, Rushmore Lamps, Limited, 524, 526
Exhibition, Commercial Motor Vehicle, at Olympia, 96
Hele-Shaw Hydraulic Transmission Gear, 154 i
Imperial Motor Transport Conference, 78, 100, 124
Industrial Motor Vehicle, 96
Lorry Chassis, 3-Ton, Daimler Company, Limited, 99
Mass Tractors’ Lorry, 97, 99
Maudslay-Renon Piston Valve Engine, 526
Motor Vehicles at the Royal Show, Bristol, 12
Napier, D., and Son’s Cars at Olympia, 525
Pedrail Tractor and Trailer, 97, 99 ; (Letter), 127
Petrol Electric and Electric Vehicles, 43
Petrol-hydraulic Railway Motor Coach,
McEwan, Pratt and Co., 154 ; (Letter), 207
Petrol Lorry, Austin Motor Co., Limited, 99
Petrol 3-Ton Lorry, Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, 97
Petrol Motor Wagon, Walker Brothers, Limited, 333
Petrol Rail Car, Buenos Aires Western Railway, Drewry Car Company, Limited, 277
Petrol Wagons at Olympia, Halley’s Industrial Motors, Limited, Maudslay Motor Company, Limited, 100
Report on Motor Traffic, 201
Reputation of a Car, 630
Shelsley-Model Car at Olympia, Crossley
Motors, Limited, 525
Shows—-see Exhibitions
Thornycroft’s Petrol Vehicles at Olympia, 96, 100
Tilling-Stevens Petrol-electric System, 96
Tramways—see Tramways
Wagons, Steam and Petrol, at Olympia, 96, 100
Workshop, Travelling, Delahaye, H. M. Hobson, Limited, 97
Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company’s Cars at Olympia, 525

MOULDING Machine, The “ Taunton ” Mechanical Ram, Rudman, Lancey and Craven, 204, 205
Mowing Machine, R. Hornsby, 39

NATIONAL Gazette of Unemployed, George Young, 125
National Physical Laboratory, x-Vlditional Building, 21
Naval Cadets, Passing-out Examination of, 212
Naval Matters—see also Ships
Navigation and Interaction, 176 ; (Letter), 261
Nile Flood of 1913, Sir Hanbury Brown, 536
Noise of our Streets, 121

OBITUARY:

Arrol, Thomas, 22!)
Bailey, Sir William H. (Portrait), 577
Bakewell, William Newton, 501
Barton, Edward, 444
Bell, David, 657
Bell, James Richard, 124
Brown, James, 177
Cuniberti, Vittorio Emanuele (Portrait), 684
Douglass, William Tregartlien, 176
Hill, Vincent, 577
Howden, James (Portrait), 576
Jones, Charles, 229
Milne, John, 151
Preece, Sir William Henry, 501, 517
Price, John, 47
Ransome, Allen (Portrait), 17
Robson, James, 198
Sharp, John Hutchinson, 518
Thearle, Samuel J. P., 548
Thom, William, 177
Thomson, T. Frame, 366
Wilkins, John Walker, 684

OFFICE and Workshop, A Combined, for Siemens Brothers and Co., at Woolwich, F. Southey, 219
Oil Burner, Brett’s Patent Lifter Company, 47 Oil Engines—see Engines
Oil Fuel, The Future of. Sir B. Redwood, 663, 689
Oil Fuel in the Royal Navy, 85, 95 ; (Letters), 156
Oil Industry, Scottish Shale, A. E. von Groeling, 218, 251, 275
(3il Refineries, British Home, A. E. v, Groeling, 102
Optical and other Apparatus at the I’hysical Society’s Exhibition, 656
Oversea Trade Expansion, 63
Owens, J. S., on Transport and Settlement of Sand in Water and a Method of Exploring Sand Bars, 343
Oxygen, The Use of, in Blast Furnace Practice, Gustave Trasenster, 271

PACKING, Sigma Automatic Metallic, R. Semple and Co., 626
Panama Canal : Chagrcs River and the Culebra Cut, 412
Panama Canal : Landslides Accompanied by Upheaval in the Culebra Cut, V. Cornish, 423
Panama J^arth(iuake, 495
Panama Earthquake, John Stuart, 466 Passing-out Examination of Naval Cadets, 212
Patent Legislation, German, 172

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH *KND AMERICAN:

Aeronautics, 482, 534, 560, 641, 667 Batteries and Accumulators, 108, 133, 161,693 Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 613 Cranes and Conveyors, 107, 349, 456 Dynamos and Motors, 27, 55, 81, 107, 161, 187, 213, 294, 321, 375, 401, 427, 455, 481, 534, 559, 587, 667, 693
Engines, Internal Combustion, 27, 28, 55, 66, 81, 82, 107, 133, 187, 213, 214, 268, 293, 322, 349, 376, 401, 427, 428, 456, 481, 533, 634, 569, 587, 688, 614, 641, 642, 667, 668, 693, 694
Engines, Steam, 27, 28, 65, 66, 107, 188, 240, 349, 466, 456, 642, 693
Gas Producers, 188, 482, 668, Hydraulics, 66, 187, 268, 694 Lighting and Heating, 134, 507, 641
Locomotives, 134, 161, 213, 693, 694
(missing lines)
PATTERNMAKING Department of an Engineering Works, T. Roberts, (>04
Peking JuCgation Machinery, 261
Personal and Business Announc(m)ents, 26, 80, 107, 132, 160, 186, 212, 238, 266, 292, 320, 374, 400, 421, 456, 480, 532, 614, 640
Petavel, Professors J. E., and G. xA.sakama on The Effect of Compression Ratio on the Efficiency of a Gas Engine, 300
Petrol Car for the Buenos Aires Railway, Drewry Car Company, Limited, 277
Petrol-driven Pumps—see Pumps
Petrol-engined Tramway Car, Lanarkshire Motor Company, 660
Petrol - hydraulic Railway Motor Coach, McEwan, Pratt and Co., 154 ; (Letter), 207
Petrol Motor Wagon, 41-Ton, Walker Brothers Limited, 333
Petrol Vehicles—see also Motor Vehicles Piecework—see Labour
Pietzker, Felix, on Analogies Between Airship and Seaship Building, 602
Pipe Joints, Steel, Stewarts and Lloyds, Limited, 685
Pletts, J., St. Vincent, on Spring Design, 61; (Letter), 127
Plough, “ Ideal ” Tractor, at Royal Agricultural Show, Bristol, 529
Plough, Motor, John Fowlei' and Co., 10
Plough, “ Stock ” Motor, Moellenkamp and Co., 621
Ploughs, Variety of, J. and F. Howard, 622 Ploughing Engine, Superheated Steam, Fowler and Co., 620
Ploughing Machines, Motor, 504
Pneumatic Tubes for Post-offices, B. Eason, 652 Port, Attar el Naby, for Nile Boats at Cairo, 9 Port Authorities, Remarks on the Constitution of, as Affecting the Organisation and Development of Ports, A. G. Lyster, 500
Portraits of Eminent Engineers and Scientists, 48
Powder Spraying Machines at Bristol Show, 10 Power Counter for Indicators, H. Maihak, 370 Power Plants at Doncaster Works, 574, 582
Present Position of the Diesel Engine—see Engines
Pressure Rises, W. Duddell, 555
Private Enterprise and Municipal Co-operation, 150
Producer Plant at Doncaster Works, Crossley Brothers and Campbell Gas Engine Co., 574, 582
Profit Guarantee on Shipbuilding, 444
Progress of Engineering in the East, 3, 29, 83, 94, 110, 163, 191, 216, 246, 300, 324, ‘ 378, 404
Projectiles—see Wai* Material
Propeller Experiments, Professor Ole Halvorsen, 325 ; (Letter), 398
Propeller Problem, Screw, Bases of the, 629

PUMPS :

Centrifugal Pumps, 60in. Invincible,
Dock at Singapore, Gwynne’s Limited, 84
Centrifugal Sewage Pumps at Abbey Mills Station, John Cochrane, 64, 68
Cycloidal Pumps for Power-house Work, Connersville Blower Company, 581
Electrically Driven Portable Pumping I’lant, India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company, 419
Gas-driven Pumps for Ryde Waterworks, Hayward-Tyler and Co., 432
Modern Pumping Machinery for Drainage of the Pens, R. W. Allen, 142 ; (Letters), 181, 20G, 23.3
Petrol-driven Fire Pumps, Merryweather and Sons, 76
Portable Hand Pump, Zwicky Liquid Pump Company, Limited, 316
Suction Chamber, Experimental, at Queen’s Engineering Works, Bedford, 90
Valve, A 94in., J. Blakeborough and Sons 284
PYROMETERS—see Temperature

QUEBEC Bridge—sec Bridges
Queen’s Engine*>ring Works—see Works
Queenslantl University Instructional Steam Plant, 195, 196, 197

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: General

Automatic Gas Shut-ofI Valve, Piiitsch’s, 608 Automatic Train Stops or Cab Signals, 681 Automatic Wireless Train Control, Prentice System, 231
Between London and Paris, Changes of Sixty Years, 672
Electrical Railways, Professor Qisbert Kapp, 281, 285, 300, 317
Engines, Diesel, for Railway Work—see Engines
Gregory Stirrup Frame
Interlocking of Railway I’oints and Signals, 168
Internal Combustion Engine Aj>plird to Railway Locomotion, P. W. Lanchester, 301
Manufacture of Rolling Stock in Australia, 278
Petrol Hydraulic Railway Motor Coach, McEwan, Pratt and Co., 154 ; (Letter), 207 Railway Accidents and the Public, 309 ; (Letter), 340
Railway Affairs in 1853, 196
Railway Labour Problems, 310
Railways for Development Purposes, G. Kenyon Bell, 634
Reduced Live Loads on Railway Underbridges, J. D. W. Ball, 377 ; (Letter), 421 Semi-fireproof Railway Carriage, 305 Train Control, E. A. Johnston, 34, 57, 86, 112, 151 ; (Letter), 232
Train Control on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 384
Train Perries, 607 'Prain Lighting, 337
World’s Greatest Tunnels, 561 ; (Letter), 607

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: British, Colonial and Indian:

Accidents, Various Reports, 333 Ais Gill—sec Midland Railway Another Railway Inquiry, 228—sec also
Railways and the State
Australia, Manufacture of Roiling Stock in, 278
Colchester Accident, Great Eastern Railway, 334
District Railway Accident near Sloane square, 128
Eastern Bengal Railway Bridge Over the Lower Ganges, 273, 280
Great Northern Railway {Sixteen-pagc Supplcmentt 1'wo Two-pa(jc Supplements, and Three Page Supplements, Noyember 2^th, 1913)
Great Northern Railway Early Buildings at King’s Cross {Three Page Supplements, November 2.%th, 1913)
Great Northern Railway Time-table of 1850 {Sixteen-page Supplement, November 'ZSth, 1913)
Great Western Railway Collision at Yeovil, 366
Great Western Railway Station, Snow Hill, Birmingham, Reconstruction, P. Gleadow and C. E. Shackle, 289 {Two~pagc Supplement, September Pith, 1913)
King’s Cross Station Roof, vii {Sixteen-page Supplement, November I'^th, 1913)
Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway, 462, 468
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Accident at Sandhills, 128
Lancashire and Y^’orkshirc Railway, Train Control on, 384
Lincolnshire Railway, A New, 462, 468 Liverpool Railway Accident, 440, 648 London and South-Western Railway’s Suburban Lines, Electrification of, 603
Midland Railway Bogie Stock, 608 {Two-page Supplement, December 5th, 1913) ; {Correction), 648
Midland Railway, Bootle Branch, 128
Midland Railway Disaster at Ais

257, 281, 306, 309, 575, 580, 681 ;
316, 340, 421, 448, 504, 582, 607

New South Wales Railways, 515

RAILWAYS and RAILWAY MATTERS: Foreign:

Benzol Electric Train for the Khedive of Egypt, 2G2
Berlin Goods Stations, 262
Buenos Aires Western Railway Petrol Car,
Drewry Car Company, Limited, 277
Federated Malay States Railways, 29 Giovi Line and Chiappella Station, 216, 217, 226, 242, 269, 297
Lotschberg Tunnel and Railway, 14, 17, 540, 595, 600
Mont Cenis Line Electrification, (>43, 654 Mont d’Or Tunnel, 385
Moral of State Railways in Italy, 227
Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, Disaster at Melun, 515
St. Gotthard Railway, Electrification of, 683 Swiss State Railways, Electrification of, 683 I'rain Control in America, 523
Transandine Railway, B. H. Henderson, 636 Transformation of the Gare St. Lazaro, 601

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: General:

Electric Locomotives versus Motor Coaches, 390
Locomotive Wheel Quartering Machine, Cunliffe and Croom, Limited, 286
Koduced Live Loads on Kailway Underbridges, J. D. W. Ball, 377 ; (Letter), 421
Schmidt Locomotive Superheater, 412 Walschaerts* Valve Gear, 130, 137, 108

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: British, Colonial and Indian:

Consideration of British Express Locomotive
Design, E. A. Johnston, 215, 274, 295
Great Northern Railway Four-coupled Superheater Passenger Locomotive {Two>paye Supplement, b^ovember '2Sth, 1913)
Great Northern Railway luocomotives {Six- teen-page Supplement, November 2Sth, 1913) Great Northern Railway Six-coupled Superheater Express Goods Locomotive {Two- page Supplement, November 23th, 1913)
London and South-Western Railway Mixed Traffic Locomotives, 581
South African Railways’ Large Narrowgauge Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, 490

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: Foreign:

American Locomotives, Some Recent, 135, 167, 174
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Locomotives, 135, 167, 174
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Locomotive, 167
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Locomotive, 168, 174
Electric Locomotive, ()0-Ton, for the Giovi Line, 216, 217, 226, 242, 269
Erie Railroad Locomotives, 136
Federated Malay States Engines, 29 Giovi Line, Steam and Electric Locomotives, 216, 217, 226, 242, 269, 297
Locomotive Erecting Shop at Kuala Lumpur, 30
Lotschberg Railway, New Locomotives for the, 540, 695, 596, 600
Mont Cenis Line Locomotives, 643, 654
Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, Four-cylinder Compound Locomotives, 623
Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway Locomotive, C. R. King, 430
Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive, 135 Recent French Locomotive Performances, J. T. Burton-Alexander, 338
Rluctian Railway Single-phase Locomotives, Brown, Boveri and Co., 359
Testing Plant, Locomotive, in United States Laboratory, 235

RATING of Electrical Machinery, 360
Rating, Machinery, 609
Recent Experiences and Aims in Marine Turbine Construction, Dr. Bauer, 671
Reduced Live Loads on Railway Underbridges, J. D. W. Ball, 377 ; (Letter), 421 J
Redwood, Sir B., on The Future of Oil Fuel, 663, 689
Refrigerating Congress, International, at Chicago, 410
Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete
Reinforced Pile Foundation for Blast Furnaces, Armand Baar, 272
Renold, Hans, on Engineering Workshop Organisation, 473
Reputation of a Car, 630 Research, Engineering, and its Co-ordination,
G. H. Roberts, 165, 175 Reservoirs in Italy and Sardinia, 60 Retorts, Shale, Various Types, 218 Reverse Bending Moments in Fixed Beams,
Ewart S. Andrews, 203
Ripograph and Crack Micrometers, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 656
Ripper, Professor, on The Cutting Power of
Lathe Turning Tools, 460, 651, 663, 683, 636 Road Board, 78, 424
Road Congress, Third International, 19
Road Construction, Mechanical Engineering
Aspects of. Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 682 Roatl Construction, Modern, 647
Road Material, Machine for Testing, 100
Rotul Roller and Street Sweeper, Motor-driven, T. Green and Son, Limited, 12
Roberts, G. H., on Engineering Research and its Co-ordination, 165, 175
Roberts, T., on The Patternmaking Department of an Engineering Works, 604
Roller and Ball Bearings, Professor J. Goodman, 659
Rollers at the Royal Show, Bristol, 12
Rolling Mills, Worm Gearing for, H- Wallwork and Co., 182
Rolling Stock—see Railways Roof, King’s Cross Station, vii {Sixteen-page Supplement, November 23th, 1913)
Rose, Dr. T. K., on The Annealing of Gold, 245 Rosenhain, Dr. Walter, on Amorphous Phases in Metals, 301
Rosenhain, Dr. W., and Mr. D. Ewen, on the
Intercrystalline Cohesion of Metals, 245 Royal Agricultural Society—see Exhibitions !
Royal Commission on Railways—see Railways Rudders—see Ships, Naval Matters

SAFETY of Life at Sea, International Confer, ence on, List of Delegates, 475 ; Programme, 527
Salvage of Ships—see Ships
Sand ill Water — see Transport and Settlement, &c.
Sauveur, Professor, on Allotropic Transformations of Iron, 250
Saws—see Machine Tools
Scanes, A. E. Leigh, on Recent Developments in Steam Condensing Plants, 620
Schmidt Locomotive Superheater, 412 Science of Metals, 310
Scottish Shale Oil Industry, A. E. von Groeling, 218, 251, 275
Screw Propeller Problem, Bases of the, 029
Screw Propeller Problem, Professor Dr. Ing. Gumbol, 618 ; (Ix-stter), 662
Sea, Temperatikre of the. Professor Bristol’s Instruments, 194
Seaplanes—see Aeronautics
Separator, Grain, Banbury Break - CycloSamuelson and Co., 39
Sewage Pumping Station, London County Council’s, at Abbey Mills, 04, 68
Sewage Purilication Plant, Tuke and Bell, 38 Sewage Works at Surbiton, 137, 148 Shanghai, Agencies in, 191
Shanghai Arsenal, 210
Shanghai, Docks and Shipbuilding at, 355 Shanghai Municipal Electric Works, 300 Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited, 324 Sheffield, Reservoirs for—see Water Supply Shields, F. E. W., on The Construction of the White Star Dock and the adjoining Quays
I at Southampton, 530
Shell—see War Material
Shipbuilding in Germany, 70

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General:

Analogies between Airship and Seaship Building, Felix Pietzker, 602
Anti-rolling Devices, 202
Between London and Paris, Changes of Sixty Years, 672
Clyde Shipbuilding, Nine Months, 405
Clyde Shipbuilding, Six Months, 40
Control of the Clyde, 309
Coupling of Cruising Turbines, Device to Facilitate, H. F. Yarrow, 32
Effect of Form and Size on the Resistance of Ships, G. S. Baker and J. L. Kent, 7
Effect of Internal Loose Water Upon the Rolling of a Ship, &c., A. Cannon, 7
Effect of Water Chambers on the Rolling of Ships, Lloyd Woollard, 7
Electric Propulsion, A Case for, H. A. Mavor and J. Reid, 34
Electric Transmission for Ships, 416
Fatigue in the Steel Material of Steamers, Dr. S. J. P. Thearle, 6
Ferry Steamers Propelled by Geared Turbines, Trials of Three, Dr. J. Inglis, 30
Harmony in the " Bauer, 603
Lloyd’s Register 418
Luggage Winch, and Equipment of
Yacht Sapphire, 486, 489, 494 (Twa-paffe Supplement, j^ovember 1th, 1913)
Marine Engines-—see also Engines and Motors Measure of Stability Necessary for Ships, Ludwig Benjamin, 619
Navigation and Interaction, 176 ; (Letter), 261
Present Position of the Diesel Engine, Chiefly in Marine Propulsion, Georges Cards, 601, 608
Profit Guarantee on Shipbuilding, 444
Propeller Experiments, Professor Ole G. Halvorsen, 325 ; (Letter), 398
Safety of Life at Sea, International Conference on. List of Delegates, 476 ; Programme, 627
Salvage of the United States Army Transport Liscum, 254, 258
Screw Propeller Problem, Professor Dr. Ing. Gtimbel, 618
Screw Pi’opeller Problem, Bases of the, 629 Shipbuilding at St. Nazaire and the French Battleship Lorraine, 675
Ship Engine-room Ventilation, 223
Spark Telegraphy in the Imperator, Direktor Bredow, 618
Stability of Sea-going Ships, Importance and Measurement of. Dr. Ing. Carl Commentz, 619
Strikes and Disputes—see Labour
“ Suction ” or Interaction Between Passing Vessels, Professor A. K. Gibson and J. H. Thompson, 7, 22
Superheated Steam Installations in Ships, 572
Tetrahedron Ship Model, Kretschmer and Liddell, 66
Twenty Years’ Progress in Marine Construction, “ James Forrest ” Lecture, A. Grade, 449, 462
Typical Ships, 390, 486
“ Unsinkable ” Boat Design, J. S. Burbery, 342
Water-tube Boilers and the Mercantile Marine, 389
Working of Motor Ships, G. Erichsen, 62, 69 Wreck Statistics for 1912, 172

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: British Navy;

Aurora, H.M., Light Cruiser, 366
Iron Duke, H.M. Battleship, 550
Queen Elizabeth, H.M. Battleship, 450
Strenuous and Sturdy, H.M. Harbour Tugs, 390

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Naval Matters:

Arjiiour—see also War Material
Balanced Rudders and Cruiser Sterns, 282 Big Naval Guns, 323
Civil Control of the Naval Dockyards, 470 Development of the Submarine Boat Periscope, Dr. Weidert, 602
Evolution of the Naval Boiler, Eng. Commander H. B. Moorshead, 687
Naval Programmes, 443
Oil Fuel in the Royal Naw, 85, 95 ; (Letters), 156
Seaplanes—see Aeronautics
Twelve-inch Naval Guns, New Mounting for. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 457 {TwO’page Supplement, October Z\st, 1913)
French Battleship Courbet, 36, 42, 250 ; (Correction), 92
French Battleship Lorraine, 675, 677
French Battleship Normandie, 676
French Battleships Normandie, Flandres, Languedoc, and Gascogne, 15, 676
French Mine Layers Cerbere and Pluton, 515, 516
French Torpedo-boat Destroyer Commandant Rividre, 178 {Two-pagc Supplement, Auqu-st i&th, 1913)
Greek 4’orpedo-boat Destroyers of the “ Lion ” Class, Cammell, Laird and Co., 59 {Two-page Supplement, July l^th, 1913)
Italian Warships Marsala, Nino Bixio, and Giulio Cesare, 203, 471
Stranding and Salvage of the Italian Cruiser San Giorgio, 592, 659
Trials of the Italian Scout Nino Bixio, 471
United States Army Transport Merrit, 355

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels ;

Aquitania and Lusitania, Engine-room Ventilation, Keith’s Patents, 223
Arum, Motor Ship, Launch of the, 603 i
Chaplain, Largest Steamer Built on the Loire, at Nantes, 231 !
Christian X., Motor Ship, G. Eriehsen’s I Report, 62, 69 |
Electric Motor Ship Tynemouiit, 380, 381, 388, 416
Ferry Boat, Wagon, for Federated Malay States Railways, 30
France, The Trials of the, 669, 673, 680 (Two-page Supplement, December 2ijth, 1913)
Kiang Wah, T. S. River Steamer, 355
King Orry, Geared Turbine S.S., Trial, 9
Ludwig Wiener, Twin-screw Harbour Tug and Passenger Tender, Ferguson Brothers, 632
Mersey Bar Lightship Alarm, Hawthorns and Co., 72
Monte Penedo, Motor Ship, 273
Motor Ship Califomia, 386
Rolandseck, The Motor Ship, 193
Royal Holland Lloyd Steamship Gelria, A. Stephen and Sons, Limited, 447
Sapphire, Twin-screw Steam Yacht, 486, 489, 494 {Two-page Supplement, November 1th, 1913)
South Atlantic Liner Lutetia, 675
Suecia, Motor Ship, Performance on Service of the, I. Knudsen, 32
VoJturno, Burning of the, 415
United States Army Transport Liscum, Salvage of, at Shanghai, 254, 258

SHIPYARD Wages and Disputes—see Labour Shipyards, Malingering in, 16
Shipyards, Safety in, 256
Shows—see Exhibitions
Sigma Automatic Metallic Packing, R.
Semple and Co., 626
Signals—see Railways
Singapore Harbour and Port Works, 83, 94 Smith, R. H., on Boiler and Economiser Efficiency and Design, 485, 522, 535, 569, 591, 615, 647, 649, 669 ; (Letter), 607
Smithfield Show—see Exhibitions
Snow Hill Station—see Railways, Great Western Railway
Societe Beige des liigenieurs et des Industricls, 234
Soot Gauges, 429
Southey, F., on A Combined Office and Workshop, 219
Spark Telegraphy on the Impcrator, Dircktor Bredow, 618
Spring Design, J. St. Vincent Pletts, 61 ; (Letter), 127
Stability, Measure of. Necessary for Ships, Ludwig Benjamin, 619
Staff Engineers’ Association, 598
Stations, Railway—see Railways
Steam Condensing Plants, Recent Developments in, A. E. Leigh Scanes, 526
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Friction of Turbine Wheels, William Kerr, 209
Steam Trap, D. Wilson, 128
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Straits Settlements, Trade in, 3
Streets, The Noise of our, 121
Strikes—see Labour
Stuart, John, on the Panama Earthquake, 466
Sub-contractors, Position of. Judgment by Mr. Justice Channell, 474
Submarine Boat—see Ships, Naval Matters
“ Suction ”—see Ships
Suction Chambers—see Pumps
Summerhayes, H. R., on an Automatic Substation, 222, 228
Superheater, Schmidt Locomotive, 412
Superheater for Traction Engine, Marshall,
Sons, and Co., Limited, 12
Surbiton Sewage Works, 137, 148
Surfacing Machines—see Machine Tools

TALBOT, Benjamin, on Modern Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, 271, 394, 395, 396
Tangshan Colliery, North China, H. Chatley and H. T. Wright, 537,
Tangshaii Engineering College, 404
Tar, Distillation of, in Metallurgical
Monsieur Gevers-Orban, 248
Tariff, The New, in the United States,
“Taunton” Mechanical Ram Machine, Rudman, Limited, 204, 205
Tees, Developing the, 554
Telegraph Traffic and Power Plant for Pneumatic Tubes, B. Eason, 652
Telephony, Automatic, 572
Temperature, Modern Methods of Measuring, R. S. Whipple, 117, 129, 157, 183
Temperature of the Sea, Taking the. Professor Bristol’s Instruments, 194
Testing Laboratory, Locomotive, States, 235
Testing Pavement, Machine for. Testing, Present Methods of. Reference to the Work of the Association for Testing Materials, fessor H. Herbert, 250, 260
Professors 546
Practice, 389 Moulding
Lancey and Craven, in the United 100 with Special International
Tetrahedron Ship Model, Kretschmer and Liddell, 65
Thearle, Dr. S. J. P., on Cases of Fatigue in the Steel Material of Steamers, 6
Thele, W., on Hamburg Dredging Methods, 618
Thermometers—see Temperature
Traction Engine, Single-cylinder, with Superheater, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 11
Tractor Plough—see Plough
Tractor, Road Locomotive Oil, John Fowler and Co., 621
Tractor, Steam, Marshall, Sons and Co., 620
Tractors and Traction Engines at the Royal Show, Bristol, 12
Tractors and Traction Engines at Smithfield Club Show, 619
Trade Classes, Evening, 338
Trade Expansion, Oversea, 63
Trade, Nine Months’ Good Export, 419
Trade in the Straits Settlements, 3
Trains—see Railways
Tramcar Wheel Lathe—see Machine Tools
Tramway Car, Petrol-engined, Lanarkshire Motor Company, 660
Tramways Depot, Ipswich, 146
Tramways Renewals Fund, London County Council’s, 36
Transmission, Electric, for Ships—see Ships
Transport, Pneumatic, for Handling Grain, Malt, &c., 38
Transport and Settlement of Sand in Water and a Method of Exploring Sand Bars, J. S. Owens, 343
Trap, Steam, D. Wilson, 128
Trasenster, Gustave, on the Use of Oxygen in Blast Furnace Practice, 271
Tsingtau Harbour, Shantung, China, 378
Tunnel, The Channel, 161, 334, 353
Tunnels, The World’s Greatest, 561 ; (Letter) 607
Turbine Construction, Marine, Recent Experiences and Aims in, Dr. Bauer, 671
Turbine, Modern Steam, Design, 509
Turbine Wheels, Steam Friction of, William Kerr, 209
Turbines, Cruising, Device to Facilitate the Coupling of, H. F. Yarrow, 32
Turbines, Francis Type, at Chester Hydroelectric Station, 406, 407, 414
Turbines of the French Torpedo-boat Destroyer Commandant Riviere Broguet, 178 {Two- page Supplement, August I5th, 1913)
Turbines, (reared, Trials of Ferry Steameis Propelled by, jDr. J. Inglis, 30
Typhoid Bacillus and Water Supplies, Dr. A. C. Houston’s Report, 96

UNEMPLOYMENT—see Labour
United States, The New Tariff in the, 389
University of Hong-Kong, 110
University of Illinois, Locomotive Testing Plant at, 235
“ Unsinkable ” Boat Design, J. S. Burbery, 342

VACUUM Gauge—see Gauge
Valve, A 94in., J. Blakeborough and Sons, 284
Valve, Automatic Gas Shut-off, Pintsch’s, 608
Valve Gear, Walschaerts, 136, 137, 168
Ventilation, Ship Engine-room, Keith’s Patents, 223
Venturi Meter, 38in., 66
Vice, Quick-acting, “ Record,” C. and J Hampton, 527
Volturno—see Ships
Von Groeling, A. E., on British Home Oil Refineries, 102
Von Groeling, A. E., on the Scottish Shale Oil Industry, 218, 251, 275

WAGES—see Labour
Wagon Ferry Boat for Federated Malay States Railways, 30
Wagon, 41-Ton Petrol Motor, Walker Brothers, Limited, 333
Wagon, 3-Ton Steam, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 621
Wagon, 6-Ton Steam, Leyland Motors, Limited, 96
Wagon, Steam Motor, Richard Garrett, 622
Wagons, Motor—see also Motor Vehicles
Wagons, Steam and Motor-driven, at the Royal Show, Bristol, 12

WAR MATERIAL AND WAR MATTERS:

Armour-plate Drilling and Tapping Machine W. Asquith, Limited, 442, 450
Armour Plate Manufacture, 234
Artillery Explosive, Tetranitranilin, 422
Big Naval Guns, 323
Gun Making in China : Shanghai Arsenal, Loongwha Arsenal, 216
Italian 15m. Shells, Turning and Boring Lathes for, 688
Lewis Automatic Air-cooled Machine Gun, 578, 579, 605
Manufacture of Armour-piercing Projectik s. General Leandro Cubilio, 271
Present Value of Armour, (>43
Twelve-inch Naval Guns, New Mounting ft r. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 457 {Two-page Supplement, October 31«L 1913)
Warships—see Ships

WATER SUPPLY:

Boring Plant, Water, H. Brown and Co., 38 Reservoirs in Italy and Sardinia, 60
Ryde, New Waterworks for, 432
Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited, 324
Sheffield, New Reservoirs for, 510, 520
Typhoid Bacillus and Water Supplies, Dr. A. C. Houston’s Report, 96

WATER-TUBE Boilers and the Mercantile Marine, 389
Waterways, Inland, Discussion at the British Association, 302
Waterways, Inland, in England, R. B. Dunwoody, 303
Weaver, the River, Ferro-concrete Work on, (>(> 1
Weidert, Dr., on The Development of the Submarine Boat Periscope, (it)2
Welsh Railway Outbreak—see Labour
Whipple, R. S., on Modern Methods of Measuring Temperature, 117, 129, 157, 183
Williams’ Connecting-rod System, 024
Wilson, D., Steam Trap, 128
Winch, Oil Motor, Brazil, Straker and Co., 37
Windmill ami Scoop Wheel at Harrierinere, 142
Wireless Chain, Imperial, 43
Wireless Telegraph Committee, 522
Wireless Telegraphy—see also Spark Telegraphy
Woollard, Jjloyd, on The T^ffect of Water Chambers on the Rolling of Ships, 7
Working Fluid of Internal Combustion Engines, Dugald Clerk, 50, 76, 102

WORKS:.

Australian Works for Railway Rolling Stock, &c., 278
Broadheath Engineering Works, George
Richards and Co., 114, 120
Burrell, Charles; and Sons’ Works at Thetford, 107
Combined Office and Workshop for Siemens Brothers at Woolwich, F. Southey, 219
Doncaster Works, Power Plants at, 574, 582
Factory Building with Reinforced Concrete
Interior Construction, The Ames-Holden, 221
Flour Mills at Ipswich, Cranfield Brothers, 105
Grafton and Co.’s Works at Bedford, 100
Howard, J. and F., Works at Ipswich, 100 Queen’s Engineering Works, Bedford, W. H.
Allen, Son and Co., 4, 10(> {Two-page Supplement, July 4:th, 1913)
Ransomes and Rapier’s Works at Ipswich, 105
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’ Works at Ipswich, 166
Reavell and Co.’s Works at Ipswich, 166
Robertson, W.- H. A., and Co.’s Works at Bedford, 167
Sundon Cement Works, 167
Works Visited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 165

WORKSHOP Management, 621 ; (Letter), 653
Workshop, Travelling, Delahaye, H. Hobson, Limited, 97
Workshops, Electric Driving in, 576
World’s Greatest Tunnels, 561 ; (Letter), 607
World’s Metal Statistics, 63
Worm Gearing for Rolling Mills, H. Wallwork and Co., 182
Worm Gears, Machine Tools for the Production of, D. Brown and Sons, Limited, 464, 465, 498
Worm Milling and Worm Wheel Generating Machines, D. Brown and Sons, Limited, 464, 4(55
Wreck Statistics for 1912, 172
Wynne, Professor W. P., on The Mechanism of Chemical Action, 301

YARROW, H. F., on Device to Facilitate the Coupling of Cruising Turbines, 32
Young, George, on A National Gazette of
Unemployed, 125

ZEPPELIN—see Aeronautics

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