Engineering 1906 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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General Index

ABEL, The late C. D., 289
Abolition of Electrical Signs of Life by Anaesthetics, 344
Accident Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation and Legal
Accident to the "Deutschland" in Dover Harbour, 198
Accidents to Machinery in 1905, 494

Accidents. Railway :

Accident on Caledonian Railway, 534
Accident at Grantham, 431, 534, 736, 876, 877. See Vacuum. Brake and LETTER, 593
Accident on Highgate Tramway, 605
Accident at Salisbury, 19, 87, 421, 464
Accident at Stafford, 102
Accident at Tapton Junction, 842
Accident to s.s. "Deutschland," 234

Accumulators: See Electric

" Achilles," H.M. Armoured Cruiser, Steam Trials of, 672
Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal
Adams' Flying Machine, "Antoinette " Motor, 669
Adams' Motor-Car, 35 to 90-Horse-Power Eight-Cylinder, 696
Adamson, E., on the Influence of Phosphorus, Manganese, Aluminium, and Silicon on Chill in Cast Iron, 27
Addresses, Presidential, 428. See also insiitu flows, Technical, and British Association
Admiralty Policy, Naval Engineers and, 23, 500, 634
Admiralty Naval Policy, 738
Admiralty Policy. See Engineers, Naval, Warships, and LETTERS
" Adriatic," White Star Liner, Launch of, 384
A.E.G. Curtis Steam-Turbines, 675
Aerial Locomotion, 792
Aeroplane, " Antoinette " Engine for, 696
Aeroplane for Flight, 792
'Esthetics of Engineering Structures, 633
"Africa," H.M.S., Forced Lubrication of Engines, 12
Africa. See South Africa
Agricultural Machinery at Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807
Agricultural Show, Royal ; Derby Suction-Gas Trials, 805, 843, 865
Agricultural Society Show at Derby, 6. See Erratum, 126
Air-Brake, The Chapsal-Saillot, S63
Air-Brake, Westinghouse Quick-Acting, 761
Air, Compressed. See also Compressed Air and Pneumatic
Air Compressor, The " 13oreas " Portable, 222
Air-Compressors, Turbine, 600, 640, 669, 669, 735, 738, 744
Air-Compressor, Two-Stage, 517
Air-Lift Pump, Tests of, 397
Air, Liquid, Production of, 161, 199, 234, 285, Si?
Air-Pumps, Rotary, for Laboratory Work, 387
Air Resistance of Trains, 293
Air, Utilisation of Nitrogen in, by Plants, 310. See 21
Alaskan Telegraphy, 680
Alexandra Docks and Railway, Newport ; Coal
Shipping Appliances, 163, 363
Alloys, Ferro-, made by Electric Furnace, 780
" Almirante Grau," Peruvian Cruiser," 433
Alpha Particle of Radium 0, the Positive Charge Carried by, 216
Alternating Current. See Electric
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium, Silicon, Phosphorus, and Manganese Influence, on Chill in Cast Iron, 27
America. See also United States
American and Colonial Engineering Cases, 195
American Institute of Mining Engineers. See Iron and Steel Institute
American and Foreign Rail Specifications, 115, 170, 209, 238
American Locomotives. See Locomotives
American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
American Metallurgical Industry. See Iron and Steel
American Railway Master Mechanics' Association, 350
American Technical Colleges, 672
Analysis, Optical, of Industrial Gases, 394
Aniline Colour Industry, The Jubilee of, 149
Annuals, 576, 763, 886
Antimony. See Metal-Price Diagrams
"Antoinette " Motor, 696
Apparatus, Newman's, for the Study of Mechanism, 861
Applied Chemistry, Some Imperial Aspects of, 308
Apprentices ; Encouragement of Industry, 715. See 671
Apprentices, Evening Study by, 715, 797, 865
Apprentices' Prospects, 55
Apprentices, Scheme of Advancement for, 633
Apprenticeship Question, 65
Apprenticeship. See also Education and Training
Aqueduct, Repairing of Limestone Concrete, 782
Aqueducts, Water Works and Catchment Areas, 782
Arc-Lamps. See Electric
Arc Spectrum of Iron under lligh Pressures, 178
Arcs, Geodetic, Proposed Re-Measurement of British, 281
Arch. See Bridge
Argentine Railway Affairs, 885
Argentine Railway Economics, 54
Armament of Warships. See Warships
Armour, Modern, and Its Attack, 218
Armour. See also Warships
Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Aromatic, Hydro-Substances, 309
Artificers, Engine-Room, and Stoker Mechanicians, 55, 593. See also Naval Engineers
Artillery, Controlled Recoil for, 487
Artillery. See Guns
Atmospheric Nitrogen, The Fixation of, 21, 310
Atomic Disintegration, Modern Views of, 213
Attack of Modern Armour, 218
Australasia. See New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia
Australian Patents, 765
Australian Trans-Continental Railway, 92
Austrian Four-Cylinder Compound Locomotive, 799
Austrian Railway Motor Carriages, 319
Austrian Railways, Four-Cylinder Compound Six-Coupled Locomotive, 673
Austro-Hungarian Four-Cylinder Compound Ten-Coupled Locomotive, 566
Auto-Cars. See Motor-Cars
Automobiles. See Motor-Cars
Axle-Bearings for Indian Railway Wagons, 787

Bagdad Railway, 359
Baikal Railway, 298
Baker-street and Waterloo Railway, Electric Lifts for, 380
Balakhany, Natural Gas at, 317
Balanced Locomotives, Bodmer's, 844
Balanced Regulator of " Adriatic" Compound Locomotive, 668
Balancing of Engines, Experiments Illustrating, 237, 245
Balmain's Paint, Rate of Decay of Phosphorescence, 275
Baltic.North Sea Canal, 294, 672
Bamber, II. K., on Axle-Bearings for Indian Railway Wagon, 787
Bamford, II., on Moving Loads on Railway Under-Bridges, 307, 445, 619
Banbury as a Centre for Manufactures, 294. See Erratum, 336
Band-Saw for Ripping Deck-Planks, 623
Barbette - Facing Machine (Napier Brothers, Glasgow), 555
Bargoed Colliery, 182
Barometric and Rainfall Changes of an Oscillatory Nature, 280
Barr and Stroud, Works of, 23. See LETTERS
Barry Docks,180
Barry, Sir J. ., on Standardisation in British Engineering Practice, 207
Bars, Stresses in, 668
Basingstoke, London and South-Western Railway ; Pneumatic Operation of Points and Signals, 417
Batteries. See Electric and Guns
Battleships, See Warships
Battleships, Speed of, 669
Beams Tested by Polarised Light, 566
Bearings, Emulsification of Oil in Turbine, 94
Bearings, Friction Experim€ nts on, at Cooper's Hill, 594
Bearings for Railway Axles, 787
Beer-Making and Bottling Machinery at Brewers Exhibition, 564
Behaviour and Strength of Ductile Materials under Combined Stress, 248
Belgian Blast-Furnace Gas-Engine Designs, 111, 129. See also 188
Belgian Iron Trade, 563
Belgian Locomotives. See Locomotives
Belgium, Workmen's Cheap Railway Fares in, 340
Belgium, Workmen's Compensation Act, 769
Bell, The late Imrie, 725
Bending Rolls for Plates (Messrs. Craig and Donald), 560
Benguella Railway, Four-Cylinder Compound Rack-Adhesion Locomotive for, 201
Bessemer Gold Medal, 111
Bethune Colliery, France, Pit-Head Plant at, 235
Bibliography of Chilled Cast Iron, 30
Billet Shears for Rolling-Mills, 313
Birmingham New Electric Generating.Station, 498
Blast-Furnace Blowing - Engines, Development of, 162, 440
Blast-Furnace Gas-Engine Design, Belgian, 111 129. See also 188
Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See also Engines, Gas Blast-Furnace Gases, 738, 764
Blast-Furnace Practice and Gas-Producers, 406
Blast-Furnace Problem in Germany and Sweden, 497
Blast Refrigeration, 147, 332
Blasting Explosives, Testing of, E09
Bleach and Electrolytic Chlorine, 533 Bliss-Leavitt Turbine-Driven Torpedo, 496 Blower, 36-In. Keith-Blackman, 471
Blowers, Turbo-, 741. See UTTERS, CCO, 669, 735, 738
Blowing-Engines, Blast-Furnace, Development of, 162, 440
Blowing-Engines Driven by Gas-Engines, 612 Blowing-Engines. See Engine, blowing, also Air-Compressors
Blue-Print Washing-Machine, Halden's Con-tinuous, 640
Board of Trade and Boiler Explosion. See Boiler Explosion
Board of Trade Report on Highgate Tramway Accident, 605. See also Accidents, Railway
Boats, Motor. See Motor-Launches and Motor Boats
Bodmer's Balanced Locomotives, 844
Bogies, Railway. See Carriages and Locomotives Boiler, The Davies Water-Tube, 415
Boiler Explosion, Basset Mines, Redruth, 613
Boiler Explosion at Cradley Heath, 814
Boiler Explosion at East Greenwich, 878
Boiler Explosion at Longridge Gas Works, 62
Boiler Explosion at Rochdale, 99
Boiler Explosion on the s.s. "Chelmsford," 336
Boilers of Locomotives. See also LW:01110i i ved
Boiler, Locomotive, The " Robert " Wo.tcr-Tube, 254
Boiler Plant, Efficiency of, 665, 764, 765
Boiler-Riveting Plant at Messrs. Beardmore's Works, 221
Boiler, Semi-flash, 793
Boilers, Steam, Natural Gas under, 507
Boiler, Water-Tube. See also Water-Tube Boiler Boiler, Water-Tube, for Steam Wagon, 793
Boltzmann, The Late Professor Ludwig, 360
Bond, The Late C. R.,-559
Bonding Tramway Track in Philadelphia, 658
Bonte, H., on the Construction of Large Gas-Engines, 609
Books Received, 69, 106, 242, 374, 467, 476, 517, 580, 786; 860
Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
"Boreas " Portable Air Compressor, 222
Boring away the Sill of Grimsby Dock, 33
Boring-Machine. See Machine-Tools Bottle-Washing and Filling-Machines at Brewers'
Exhibition, 561
Braidwater Dipper for Tow, 330
Brake, Chapsal-Saillot Compressed-Air, 863 Brake-Testing for Small Motors, 8;7
Brake, Vacuum, 736
Brake, Westinghouse Quick-Acting Railway, 761 Breakdowns of Machinery in 1905, 494
Breakwater at Colombo Harbour, 750 Breakwater, Ferro-Concrete, in Holland, 519
Brewers' Exhibition at Islington, 561
Bribery, Prevention of, 121 •
Bridge, 1800 Ft. Cantilever Span, Across the St. Lawrence, 10
Bridges for Cargo-Carrying at Emden Harbour, 253
Bridges, Design and Construction of. 785 Bridges, Moving Loads on Railway Under , 307, 445, 619
Bridge, New High-Level, over the Tyne. 53 Bridge over Nile at Cairo, 483
Bridge, Transporter, Newport, 182
Brinell's Hardness Test for Metals, 639 Britannia Motor-Car, 763
"Britannia," Steam Trials of H.M.S., with Superheaters, 161, 873

British Association : 122, 177, 203, 212, 213, 275, 308, 309, 310, 312, 339, 405

General Arrangements, 122
Inauguration, 177
Presidential Address, by Professor E. Ray Lankester, 177
Section A.-illathetnat ical and Physical, 177, 212, 246, 275
Progress in Physical Science, by Principal E. H. Griffiths, 177
Arc Spectrum of Iron under High Pressure, by W. G. Duffield, 178
Osmotic Pressure, Measurements of, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Berkeley, 212
Evolution of the Elements, by F. Soddy, 213
The Positive Charge Carried by the Alpha particle of Radium C, by F. Soddy, 216
Radioactivity and Internal Structure of the Earth, by the Hon. R. J. Strutt, 216
The Nature of the Radiation from Incandescent Mantles, by J. Swinburne. 217
The Teaching of Mechanics by Experiment, by C. E. Ashford, 246
The Rate of Decay of the Phosphorescence of Balmain's Paint, by B. J. Whiteside, 275
Chemical and Electrical Changes Induced by Ultraviolet Light, by Sir W. Ramsay and Dr. J. F. Spencer, 276
Researches on Nearly Pure Gaseous Ozone, by Dr. E. Ladenburg, 276
Photographs of Thin Liquid Films, by H. Stansfield, 276
Report of the Electrical Standards Com-mittee, 276
A Glass of Low Resistivity, by C. E. S. Phillips, 276
Photographic Records of the Vibrations of a String and Responsive Motions in the Air, by Professor E. H. Barton and J. Penzer, 276
Report of the Seismological Committee, by Professor John Milne, 277
The Irregular Motions of the Earth's Pole, by Major E. H. Hills and Professor J. .armor, 277
A Possible Effect of Vibration on Zenith Distance Observations, with Special Refer-ence to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, by Professor H. H. Turner, 277
Spectroscopic Observations of Solar Eclipses, by Professor F. W. Dyson, 280 -
The Connection between Disturbed Areas of the Solar Surface and the Solar Corona, by the Rev. A. L. Cortie, S. J. 280
The Measurement of Lunar Radiation, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Rosse, 280
Note on Rainfall, by Professor A. Schuster and Professor H. H. Turner, 280
The York Rainfall and Sun-Spots, by J. E. Clark, 280
Barometric and Rainfall Changes of an Oscillatory Nature, by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 280
Report of the Committee for the Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Kites, by Dr. .W. N. Shaw and W. H. Dynes, 280
Report of the Committee on Magnetic Observations at Falmouth Observatory, 280

Report of the Coihmittee on the Magnetic Survey of South Africa, 280

Ben Nevis Observatory, 281
Mathematical Papers, List of, 281
The Proposed Remeasureinent of the British Geodetic Arcs, by Major E. H. Hills, 281
Section G.-Engineering, 203, 218, 243 Presidential Address, by, Professor J. A. Ewing, 203, 218
Suction-Gas Plants, by Professor . W. E Dalby, 205, 248
Standardisation in British Engineering Practice, by Sir J: Wolfe Barry, K.C.B., 207,220
Modern Armour and Its Attack, by Ma tor W. E. Edwards, R.A• I ••• 918 •
Removal of Dust and Smoke from Chimney Gases, by S. II. Davies and F. G. Fryer, 220
Fracture of Iron and Steel, by W. Rosenhain, 220
Segregation in Steel Ingots, by J. E. Stead, 220, 405
Structural Changes in Nickel Wire at High Temperatures, by Dr. H. C. H. Carpenter, 220, 222
Magnetic Indicator of Temperature, by W. Taylor, 220
Edinburgh Engineering Laboratories, by
Professor T. Hudson Beare, 220 Glow-Lamps, by Sir W. II. Preece, 213
The Advent of Single-Phase Electric Traction, by C. F. Jenkin, 243, 573
A General Supply of Gas for Light, Heat, and Power Production, by A. J. Martin, 245
Experiments Illustrating the Balancing of Engines, by Professor W. E. Dalby, 237, 245
Some Recent Developments of the Steam-Turbine, by G. G. Stoney; 246
An Application of Stream-Line Apparatus to the Determination of the Directions and Magnitudes of Stresses in Ships' Structures, by J. Smith, 246, 436
The Teaching of Mechanics by Experiment., by C. E. Ashford, 240
Central Technical College Lecture-Table Testing-Machine, by Professor Ashcroft, 247
Recent Advances in the Knowledge of Radiation Phenomena, and Their Bearing on the Optical Measurement of Temperature, by Professor J. B. Henderson, 217
Electropositive Coatings for t he Protection of Iron and Steel fram Corrosion, by S. Cowper Coles, 217
The Strength and Behaviour of Ductile Materials under Combined Stress, by W. A. Scoble, 248
Waterproof Roads as a Solution of the Dust Problem, by D. Mackenzie, 218
Section B.—Chemistry, 303
Presidential Address, by Professor W. Dunstan, 303
Chemical Research in the Dutch East Indies, by Dr. M. Greshoff. 309
The Production of Prussic Acid by Plants, by Professor W. Dunstan, 309
Chemistry of Rubber and of Gums, 303 Report on Hydrolysis of Sugar, by R. J. Caldwell, 309
Report of Committee on Hydro-Aromatic Substances, by A. W. Crossley, 309
Report of Committee on D.) namic Isomerism, by Dr. T. N. Lowry and Professor 11. E. Armstrong. 310
Ergot Alkaloids, by G. Barger and F. H. Carr, 310
A Method of Determining Indogo'..in, by W. Popplewell Bloxam, 310
The Factors which Determine Minimal Diet Values, by F. S. Hopkins, 310
Utilisation of Nitrogen in Air by Plants, by T. Jamieson, 310
Oxidation in Soils and its Relation to Pro-ductiveness, by Dr. F. V. Darbishire and Dr. E. J. Russell, 312
The Electrical Discharge in Air and its Applications, by S. Leetham and W. Cramp, 312
On the Temperature at which Water Freezes in Sealed Tubes, by Professor H. A. Miers and Miss F. Isaac, 312
The Crystallisation of Gold in the Solid State, by G. Beilby, 312
Section L.—Educational Science, 246
The Teaching of Mechanies by Experiment, by C. E Ashford, 246
Central Technical College Lecture - Table Testing-Machine, by Professor Ashcroft, 217
Section E.—Geography, 281, 312
The Proposed Remeasurement of the British
Geodetic Ares, by Major E. H. Hills, 281 Changes on the Coasts of the British Isles, by C. Reid, 312
Section I.—Physiology, 310, 312
The Factors which Determine Minimal Diet Values, by F. 0, Hopkins, 310
The Nitrification of Sewage in Shallow Filters with Fine Particles, by Dr. G. Reid, 312
Section. F.—Economic Science and Statistics, 339
Presidential Address, by A. L. Bowley, 339 Theory of Distribution, by Professor F. Y. Edgeworth, 340
Inhabited House Duty as a Graduated Tax, by J. Bonar, 340
The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices, by Professor Wicksell, 340
The Specie Reserve of the United Kingdom, by R. H. Inglis-Palgrave, 340
The Gold Reserve, by Mr. Drummond-Fraser, 340
Cheap Railway Tickets for Workmen in
Belgium, by Professor E. Mahaim, 340 Woollen Industries, Organisation of, by Professor Claphain, 340
Some Notes on Railway Cost Statistics, by R. L. Wedgewood, 341
Some Principles of Freight Traffic Working, by W. F. Stephenson, 311
Distribution of Population by Facilities of
Rapid Transit, by Lynden Macassey, 341 Lead-Mining in Yorkshire, by J. Backhouse, 312
Labour Exchange and the Unemployed Problem, by W. H. Beveridge, 342
The Unemployed, by C. T. Hamilton, 342 Some Recent Investigations in Home Work, by J. R. Macdonald, 342
Economic Theory and Proposals for a Legal Minimum Wage, by H. B. Lees-Smith, 342
Papers on Labour Subjects, 344
Lectures, 344
Volcanoes, by Dr. Tempest Anderson, 341
Electrical Signs of Life and their Abolition
by Anaesthetics, by Dr. A. D. Walter, 344
The Manufacture of Light, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 314
Summary, 314

British Battleships. See Warships
British Engine, Boiler, and Electrical Insurance Company, Report for 1905, 401
British Engineering Practice, Standardisation in. 207, 208, 220
British Gas-Engines, Large, 111, 127
British Locomotives. See Locomotives
British Naval Training. See Engineers and Navy
British Railway Construction, 284
British Railway Economics, 258, 381, 391
British Science, Foreign Opinions of, 360
British Warships. See Warships
Brotherhood Motor-Car (Sheffield Simplex Motor Works, Limited), 723
Brussels Congress for Testing Materials, 565, 637, 654
Building Construction. See also Ferro-Concrete
Building, Ferro-Concrete, Failure of, 461
Buildings, Ferro-Concrete, at Toron•o, 862
Building Materials Tested by Sand-Blast, 717
Bullets, Effect of Water in Stopping, 91
Bullets, Resistance of Materials to, 636
Burma Oil-Fields, Water Pumping Plant for, 384
Burnand, A. H., on The Measurement of Friction in Gas-Engines, 00
Burrell, The late Mr. Charles, 10
Bursting of Steam Pipe at Rochdale, 93, 822
Buses, Motor. See Motor Buses
Buses, Steam, 688, 709, 753, 822
Bute Docks, 179
Bute Docks, Cardiff ; Coal-Shipping Appliances, 163, 165. See also 179
Butlin and Co., Messrs. Thomas, Works of, 1481
Buying Stores for Engineering Works, 376, 446

Cable, Submarine, Developments, 234
Cables, Submarine, Enterprise, 885
Cables, Submarine, of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, 316
Cairo, Bridge over Nile at, 483
Caledonian Railway Accident, Board of Trade Report on, 534
Caledonian Railway, Goods Locomotive for, 299
Caledonian Railway, Six-Coupled Passenger Locomotive for, 739
Calibration of Fuel Calorimeters, 295
Calorimeters for Fuel, Calibration of, 295
Calorimeters for Liquid Fuels, 401
Calorimeters, Platinum Resistance Thermometers for, 359
Cambridge University, Engineering School at, 585, 650
Can-Making Machinery, 478
"Canada" (Periodical), 861
Canadian Ferro-Concrete Workshops, 862
Canadian Ice-Breaking Steamer, 261
Canadian Pacific Railway Twin-Screw Steamers, 95
Canadian Railway Development, 59, 703
Canadian Railways, 592
Canal, North Sea-Baltic, 291, 672
Canals and Waterways, Royal Commission on, 582, 716, 875
Cap-Screwing Machinery for Cans and Bottles, 478
Cape Government Railway, 63
Capstan Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Car, Motor, Railway Traffic, 164, 179, 264'547, 591
Cars and Carriages. See Motor-Cars, Railway Cars, and Tramway Cars
Carbonic Anhydride Refrigerating Machine, 73
Cardiff, Bute Docks, Coal-Shipping Appliances at, 163, 165. See 179
Cardiff Meeting of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 162
Cardiff Works of Messrs. Guest, Keen, and Nettlefold, 179
Cargo-Handling Machinery. See Coal Shipping " Carnarvon," s.s., -Board of Trade Lightship Tender, 555
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., on Structural Changes in Nickel Wire at High Temperatures, 222
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H. on Tempering and
Cutting Tests of High-Speed Steels, 147, 300 Carriage, Bogie, Composite Lavatory for the
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 287
Carriage of Goods at Owner's Risk, 98
Carriages for P. L. M. Railway Company, at Milan Exhibition, 635
Carriages, Railway, Tests of Leitner-Lucas Lighting Apparatus on, 520
Carriages, Railway, Vickers-Hall System of Lighting, 811
Cast Iron, Bibliography of, 30
Cast Iron, Influence of Phosphorus, Manganese, Aluminium, and Silicon on, Chill in, 27
Cast Iron ; Grading of Pigs for Foundry, 649
Cast Iron. See also Iron
Cast Iron ; Testing in Finished Castings, 637
Catalogues, 30, 64, 102, 136, 172, 233, 274, 304, 318, 862, 406, 474, 508, 542, 614, 679, 714, 746, 851, 884. For list see PARAGRAPH INDEX
Catchment Areas, Water Works, and Aqueducts, 782
Catchment Areas, Yield of, 782
Cement Concrete. See Concrete and Ferro-Concrete
Cement, Decomposition, by Sea-Water, 655
Cement Grout used in Sinking Shafts, 605

8 Cements, Hydraulic, 654

Cement, Portland, Manufacture of, 76
Cement, Testing of, 655
Central South African Railway, Steam-Coach for, 107
Central Station. See Electric and Power
Centrifugal Acceleration and Electromotive Force, 466
Centrifugal-Pressure Fan, 36-In. Keith-Blackman, 471
Centrifugal Pump and Compound Tandem Engine, 165
Ceylon, Colombo Harbour, 750
Changes, Structural, in Nickel Wire at High Temperatures, 220, 222
Channel Ferry, Train-Carrying Steamer for, 7b7
Chapsal-Saillot Compressed-Air Brake, 863
Charing Cross Roof Failure, 56
Chassis. See Motor Cars
" Chelmsford," s s., Boiler Explosion on, 336
Chemical and Electrical Changes Induced by Ultra-Violet Light, k76
Chemical Fire-Engine. See Fire-Engines
Chemical Reaction, Constancy of Mass in, 622
Chemical Research in the Dutch East Indies, 309
Chemistry, Applied, Some Imperial Aspects of, 308
Chemistry, Electro-, 69. See British Association
Chemistry of Materials of Engineering, 786
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, Vauclain Balanced Compound Locomotive for, 335
Chill in Cast Iron, Influence of Phosphorus, Manganese, Aluminium, and Silicon on, 27
Chimney, Ferro-Concrete, Failure of, 700
Chimney Gases, Removal of Smoke and Dust from, 220
China, Tutelage, by Japan, 566
Chinese Railways and Mines, 768
Chinese Trade with Japan, 532
Chlorine, Electrolytic, and Bleach, 633
Chuck for Holding Drills with Parallel Shanks, 99 Circuit-Baikal Railway, 298
Civil Engineering, Economics of, 741
Civil Engineers, Institution of ; Presidential Addresses, 428

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Presidential Address by Sir A. B. W. Kennedy, 633, 613
Single-Phase Electric Traction, by C. F. Jenkin, 746
The Talla Water Supply of the Edinburgh and District Water Works, by W. A. p. Tait, 782
Repairing a Limestone-Concrete Aqueduct, by M. R Barnett, 782
The Yield of Catchment Areas, by E. P. Hill, 782
Mechanical Considerations in the Design of High-Tension Switch-Gear, by H. W. E. Le Fanu, 814
Glifsgow Association of Students ; Presidential Address on, Economics of Civil Engineering, by D. A. Matheson, 735, 741 Civilisation and the Engineer, 633
Clarkson, T., on Steam as Motive Power for
Public-Service Vehicles, 688, 709, 753, 822 " Claymore," French Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 469
"Clay- Workers' Hand- Book," 786
Cleaning of Gas, 111, 127. See also Gas
Cleveland Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Cleveland, Notes from, 15, 47, 85, 118, 154, 191, 224, 255, 289, 321, 352, 389, 425, 458, 491, 525, 559, 596. 630, 663, 705, 729, 760, 801, 821, 869

Clutch, The Michel Gradual Application, 569.

See also Motor-Car Clutch
Clyde Navigation, Travelling Cranes for, 492 Coal Appliances : Penarth Dock, 152, 163 ;
Alexandra Docks, Newport, 163, 363 ; Bute Docks, Cardiff, 163, 165
Coal Industry of British India, 877
Coal Industry, The Westphalian, 373
Coal-Mines, Safety Appliances for Electric Apparatus in, 88
Coal-Mining.. See also Colliery and Engine
Coal Production in Russia, 196
Coal Shipping at Penarth Dock, 152, 163 ; Bute Docks, 163, 165 ; Alexandra Docks, Newport, 162, 363
Coal-Tar Colour Industry, Jubilee of, 149
Coal of Warships, 796
Coast Erosion in the British Isles, 312
Coastal Destroyers, 465
"Cochrane," Steam Trials of H.M. Armoured Cruiser, 43
Coke Production in Russia, 196
Colby, A. L., on " Comparison of American and Foreign Rail Specifications," 115, 170
Colby, A. L., on "The Nodulising and Desulphurisation of Fine Iron Ores and Pyrites Cinders," 147, 602
College, Engineering, at Cooper's Hill, 159, 591 Collieries, Mechanical Equipment of, 551, 571 Colliery, Bargoed, 182
Colliery Disaster at Courrieres, 562
Colliery Pit-Head Plant for French Coal.Mines, 235
Colliery. See also Coal and Engine, Winding Collisions. See Accidents
Colloids and their Utilisation, 1
Colombo Harbour, Ceylon, 750
Colonial and American Engineering Cases, 195 Columns Supporting Roof of Victoria Station, London, 139, 242, 379, 448
Command of the Sea, 17
Commissions, Secret, in Trade, 121
Compensation for Workmen and the House of Lords, 842
Compensation, Workmen's, in Belgium,-769 Compensation, Workmen's. See also Legal Competition, Emsworth Sewerage, 534
Compound Engines. See Engines
Convound Locomotives. See Locomotives Competition, Shipping, and Legislation, 561 • Compressed-Air Brake. See Brake
Compressor, Air, the " Boreas " Portable, 222 Compressor, Air, Two-Stage, 517
Compressors, Turbine-Driven, 600, 640, 669, 735, 738, 744
Compulsory Working of Patents, 764
Concentration of Metalliferous Sulphides, 260 Concrete Cinder, Corrosion of Iron in, 876 Concrete, Ferro-. See Ferro-Concrete Concrete-Limestone Aqueduct, Repairing of,78:-,1 Concrete, Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete Concrete Works at Colombo Harbour, 760 Condensing Machinery. See also Pumps Condensing Plant for De Laval Steam-Turbine 313
Condenser for Steam Wagon, 793
Conference, International, on Radiotelegraphy, 462, 529, 635, 666, 839. See also Wireless Telegraphy
Congress, International Navigation, at St. Petersburg, 442
Congress. International, for Testing Materials, 637, 565, 654
Congress, Trades Union, 336
Constancy of Mass in Chemical Reactions,622 Constructional Ironwork in the Palace heatre, London, 867
Continental Fire Service, 387, 512. For details see Fire Service, Continental, under ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Contract, The Legal Effect of a, 479
Contractors, Engineers and, 705. See LETTERS
Convention, International Radio-telegraphic, 462, 529, 635, 666. See Wireless Telegraphy
Conveying Coal, Electric Telpherage Plant for, 44
Cooper's Hill College, 169
Cooper's Hill College ; Testing-Machine for Oils and Bearings, 694
Copenhagen, Proposed Scandinavian Exhibition in, 196
Copper, Effects on Steel, 101
Copper Hand-Book, 836
Copper, Impact Tests of, 638
Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Corona, Solar,.Connection with Disturbed Areas on Solar Surface, 280
Corrosion of Iron in Cinder Concrete, 876
Corruption, Prevention of, 121
Corundum and Its Uses, 194
Cost Statistics, Railway, 311
Cotton Industry in Japan, 451
Cotton ; Its Cultivation, Marketing, and Manufacture 858
Cotton-Mill Driven by De Laval Steam Turbine, 314
Cotton-Mills, Safety Appliances in, 143
County Council. See London County Council
Coupling, Flexible, for De Laval Steam Turbine, 313
Coupling, Flexible Elastic, 506
Courrieres Mining Disaster, 562
Crabtree, J. H., on Safety Appliances in Cotton Mills, 143
Cradley Heath, Boiler Explosion at, 814
Cranes, Electric, at Belfast, 117
Cranes, Hydraulic) Travelling Wharf, 492
Crane, Overhead Electric, for Boiler Shop, 221
Crane. See also Hoists
Crane, 42-Ton Titan, at Colombo Harbour, 750
Crane, Transporter, at Emden Harbour, 253
Crematories, Garbage, in America, 860
Crowd, Weight of a, 376
Crucible Furnace, The "Empire," 416
Crucibles, Manufacture of, 563
Cruisers. See Warships
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See also Micro Photographs
Crystallisation of Gold in the Solid State, 312
Cultivation of Cotton, 858
Cunard Express Liner " Mauretania," 315, 420. See 349, 384
Curtis A.E.G. Steam-Turbines, 675. See Turbines, Stearn,
Cutlery and Files, Manufacture of, 563
Cutting and Tempering Tests of High-Speed Steels, 147, 300
Cycle Show, The Stanley, 733

Dalby, Professor W. E., on Experiments Illustrating the Balancing of Engines, 237
Dalby, Professor W. E., on Suction-Gas Plants, 205
Darling, Charles R., on Calorimeter for Liquid Fuels, 404
Davies' Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater, 415
De Laval Steam-Turbine. See Turbines, Steam
Death-Rate and Temperature Conditions, 782
Decay of Phosphorescence of Balmain's Paint, 275
Decking for Bridges. See Bridges
Defects in Machinery, 605
Derailment. See Accidents
Derby Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 6. See Erratum, 126
Derby, Trials of Suction-Gas Plant and Engines at, 805, 843, 865
Design, Faults in, 631
Design of Railway Bridges, 307, 415
Destroyers,. See Warships
Destructors, Refuse, in America, 860
Desulphurisation of Fine Iron Ores and Pyrites Cinders, 147, 502
"Deutschland," Accident to, in Dover Harbour, 198, 234
Dial Weighing-Machine, 95
Didcot, Great Western Railway, Electrically
Operated Points and Signals at, 554, 588
Diesel Oil-Engine for Marine Purposes, 463
Diet Values, The Factors which Determine Minimal, 310
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Discharge in Air, Electrical, and its Application, 312
Disputes Bill, Trade, 251, 767
Distribution of Population by Facilities of Rapid Transit, 341
Distribution, Theory of, 340
Docks, Alexandra, and Railway, Newport; Coal Shipping Appliances, 163, 363
Docks, Bute, 179 ; Penarth, 180 ; Barry, 180
Docks, Bute, Cardiff; Coal-Shipping Appliances, 163, 165. See 179
Dock, Floating, for Submarine-Boats, 67
Dock, Graving, at Colombo Harbour, 760
Dock, Grimsby, Lowering the Sill of, 83
Docks, Improvement of the Port of Hull, 467
Docks, London; Proposed Ocean Wharf, 842
Dock, Penarth, Shipping of Coal at, 152, 163. See also 180
Docks; Schemes in Parliament, 772
Dockyards, Government versus Private, 731
Dover Harbour, Accident to the "Deutschland" in, 198, 234
Draught, The Phcenix Gauge for, 413
"Dreadnought," H.M.S., 534
"Dreadnought," H.M.S., Guns of, 463
"Dreadnought," H.M.S., Gun Trials of, 567
"Dreadnought," H.M.S., Steam Trials of, 462, 493, 874
Dredge, The late James, C.D1.03 , 241
Dredger, Rock-Cutting, 83, 211
Drill-Chuck, for Drills with Parallel Shanks, 99
Drilling Machines. See Machine-Tools
Drude, The late Professor Paul, 126
Dublin Electrically-Operated Slipway, 162
Ductile Materials, Strength and Behaviour of, under Combined Stress, 248
Duff Power-Gas Plant, Madrid, 809
Dunstable as a Manufacturing Centre, 359
Dust Problem and Waterproof Roads, 248
Dust on Roads, Suppression of, by Oil-Sprinkling, 51
Dust and Smoke, Removal of, from Chimney Gases, 220
Dyes, Aniline ; the Jubilee of the Industry, 149
Dynamic Isomerism, 310
Dynamometer for Small Motors, 877
Dynamos. See Dynamos and Alternators, under Electric

Earth, Constitution of Interior of, 433
Earth, The Radioactivity and Internal Structure of, 216
Earthquake, Valparaiso, 260
East Indies, Chemical Research in Dutch, 309
Eclipses, Solar, Spectroscopic Observations of, 280
Economic Science and Statistics, 339
Economic Theory and Proposals for a Legal Minimum Wage, 342
Economics of British Railways, 258, 384, 391
Economics of Civil Engineering, 735, 741
Edinburgh Water Supply, 782
Education, Engineering, at Cambridge, 585, 650
Education, Technical, in America, 672
Education, Vulcan Fellowship in, 671
Effect of Copper on Steel, 101
Efficiency of Boiler Plant, 666, 761, 765
Efficiency of Steam-Turbine, 743, 778. See also Turbines, Steam
Efficiency of Turbine Air-Compressors, 738
Efficiency of Turbo - Compressors, 669. See LETTERS, 600, 640, and Air-Compressors
Elasticity, Mathematical Theory of, 566

Electric :

Accumulator, Nickel-Iron, 89
Air-Brake Dynamometer for Small Motors, 877
Alternator, Self-Exciting Compounded, 845
Birmingham, New Generating Station at, 498

8 Calorimeters, Platinum Resistance, 359

Centrifugal Acceleration and Electromotive Force, 466
Chlorine and Bleach, Electrolytic, 633
Cranes, Gantry, at Belfast, 117
Discharge in Air and its Applications, 312
Electron Theory and Centrifugal Acceleration, 466
Furnace, Applications of Electric, to Manu facture of Iron and Steel, 779
Furnace, Kjellin Steel, 147, 240
Gas-Driven Power Station at Madrid, 809 Ignition of Petrol-Engine, Tests of, 856 Kerr Effect and Electro-Optics,,The, 325, 729 Lamps, Glow, 243
Lift, Passenger, for the Bakerloo Railway, 380 London County Council Electric Power Bill, 20, 60, 601, 636, 804, 808
Magnetic Methods of Testing Metals, 666 Mines, Protection of Electrical Apparatus in Fiery, 88
Niagara, Municipal Power Scheme at, 229 Nitrogen, Fixation of Atmospheric, 21 Physical Society's Exhibition, Testing and
Measuring Instruments at the, 840
Points and Signals at Didcot, Great Western Railway, 554, 588
Power Bills in Parliament, 20, 504 601, 636, 804, 808
Power for the Rand, 765, 797, 844
Power Station, Hydro-Electric, at Troll-hattab, Sweden, 294
Power Supply of London, 20, 60, 601, 636, 804, 808
Primers for Students, The " Electrician," E80
Radiotelegraphy and the Telefunken System, 788, 827, 853
Radiotelegraphy by Continuous Electrical Oscillations, 734
Radiotelegraphic Convention, International, 462, 529, 635, 666, 839
Radiotelegraphy, Manual of, 785
Railway Commission of St. Louis Exhibition, Tests of the, 229, 293
Railway, Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton Tube, 809
Rheostat, Water, 291
Simplon Tunnel, Locomotive and Equipment for, 683
Single-Phase. See Traction
Slipway, Electrically-Operated, at Dublin, 182
Target, Peter's Self-Registering, 221
Telegraph Company, The Great Northern, 316
Telegraph. See also Radtoteleqraphy Telegraph, Submarine, Enterprise, 234, 885 Telegraphy in Alaska, 680
Telephone Sale, The Glasgow, 52
Telpher for Conveying Coal, 44
Tests of Telegraph Poles, 234
Traction, Single-Phase, 243, 573, 746
Train-Lighting, Vickers-Hal) System of, 811
Turbo - Alternator, 1500 - Kilowatt Winans-Dick Kerr, for Islington Power-Station, 501
Turbo-Alternators, Efficiency of, 744 Units and Standards,-699
Valve, A New Type of Electric, 21

Electrical and Chemical Changes Induced by Ultra-Violet Light, 276
Electrical Discharge in Air and its Application, 312
Electrical Engineers, Meeting with Kindred Institution, 52
Electrical Standards Committee ; Report, 276
" Electrician " Primers, 580
Electro-Chemistry, 69. See British Association
Electro-Optics, A Fundamental Question in, 326, 729
Electro-Positive Coatings for the Protection of Iron and Steel, 247
Electrolytic Chlorine and Bleach, 533
Elements, The Evolution of the, 213
Elevators. See also Hoists
Ellis, The late Mr John Devonshire, 667 Embankments, Ferro-Concrete Marine, 519
Emden Harbour, Cargo-Handling Machinery at, 253
"Empire" Hardening and Crucible Furnaces, 416
Employers' Liability Act in Belgium, /69. See also Workmen's Compensation and Legal
"Empress of Britain," Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Twin-Screw Steamer, 95
Einsworth Sewerage Competition, 534
Emulsification of Oil in Turbine Bearings, 94
End-Thrust, Steam-Turbine, 421, 455, 500, 534
Enfield Motor-Car, 697
Engines, Agricultural, and Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807
Engines, Balancing of, Experiments Illustrating, 237, 215
Engines, Blast-Furnace Blowing, Development of, 162, 440
Engines, Blast-Furnace Gas, Design of, in Belgium, 111, 129
Engines, Blast-Furnace Gas. See LETTERS Engines, Blowing, Driven by Gas-Engine, 612 Engines ; Breakdowns in 1905, 494 Engine-Building Up to Date, 593
Engine, Compound Tandem, and Centrifugal Pump, lt15
Engine, Gas, 100-Brake-Horse-Power Ruston Suction, 835
Engine, Gas, 350-Horse-Power Single-Cylinder, 609
Engines, Gas, Built in Great Britain, 111, 127 Engines, Gas, Construction of Large, 609 Engines, Ga4, German Regulations for Testing, 864
Engines Gas, Application of Large, in German Iron and Steel Industries, 111, 132
Engines, Gas, at Madrid Power-station, 809 Engines, Gas, Measurement of Friction in, 60 Engines, Gas, Some Large Continental, 10 Engines, Gas, Stuffing-Box, Bearings, Valve Gear and Ignition for, 609
Engines, Gas, Thermal Efficiency of, 612
Engines of H.M.S. " Africa ;" Forced-Lubrication System, 12
Engines of Historical Interest, 91, 199
Engines, Internal-Combustion. See Engines, Gas ; Engines, Oil ; and Motor
Engines, Locomotive See Locomotives
Engines, Oil, for Marine Purposes, 463
Engines, Petrol, Power and Size of, 53
Engines, Petrol. See Motor-Cars and Motor-Launches
Engine, Petrol, Tests of a, 856
Engine, Pumping, for Burma, 384
Engines, Pumping, at Portsmouth Dockyard, 607
Engine, Pumping, for South Africa, 286
Engine, Pumping. See also Pumps
Engine-Room Artificers and Stoker Mechanician, 55, 593
Engines, Rotary, versus Reciprocating, 455 Engines. See also Motor-Cars and Motor-Boats Engines, Steam, for Steam-Wagon, 793
Engines, Steam, at the Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807
Engines, Suction-Gas Trials at Derby, 805. See LETTERS
Engine, Three Cylinder Vertical, for Tyre-Mills, 349
Engine, Triple-Expansion Pumping, for South Africa, 286
Engine, Winding, Duplex Tandem, 80
Engineer as a Civiliser, 633, 643
Engineers and Contractors, 705. See LETTERS Engineers, Education. See Education and Training
Engineer Sub-Lieutenants for Temporary Service in the Royal Navy, 738. See 55, 593 Engineers, Institutions of. See Civil Engineers,
Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers
Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, and Society of Arts
Engineers, Mining. See Iron and Steel Institute Engineers, Naval, 55, 251
Engineers, Naval, and Admiralty, 23, 500, 534
Engineers, Naval, and Marine, 602
Engineers in the Navy. See LETTERS
Engineering Apprentices, Evening Study by, 533, 715, 797, 865
Engineering Cases, American and Colonial, 195
Engineering, Civil, Economics of, 735, 741
Engineering Laboratories, Cambridge, 650
Engineering Laboratories, Edinburgh, 220
Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, Olympia, Machine-Tools at, 358, 394, 409, 449, 471, 477, 517 See Machine - Tools and ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Engineering Practice, British, Standardisation in, 207, 208, 220
Engineering School of Cambridge University, 585, 650
Engineering Work in Warfare, 636
Entropy Diagram for Steam-Turbines, 512, 516
Equatorial Twin telescope at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 819
Equipment of Fire Brigade. See Fire-Service in ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Equipment, Mechanical, of Collieries, 551, 571
Ergot Alkaloids, 310
Erosion of Coasts in the British Isles, 312
Esser Barratt Repeating Rifle, 641
Etching of Metals for Micro-Photography, 654
Evans, C. J., on the Calibration of Fuel Calorimeters, 295
Evening Study by Engineering Apprentices, 633, 715, 797, 865
Evolution of the Elements, 213
Ewing, Professor J. A.; Internal Structure of Metals, 203
Excavation of Rocks under Water, 211. See 83
Exhibition, Brewers', at Islington, 564
Exhibition, Cycle, at Islington, 733
Exhibition, Engineering and Machinery, Olympia, Machine-Tools at, 358, 394, 409, 449, 471, 477, 517. See Machine-Tools and ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Exhibition, Milan. See Milan Exhibition.
Exhibition of Motor-Cars at Olympia, 623, 626, 627, 637, 661, 692. 721
Exhibition, Paris Automobile, 806
Exhibition of the Physical Society, 840
Exhibition, The Printing, Stationery, and Allied Trades, 90
Exhibition, Proposed Scandinavian, in Copenhagen, 196
Exhibition, Scandinavian, in 1912, 358
Exhibition, Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807
Expenditure and National Revenue, 461.
Experimental Work at the Reichsanstalt, 295
Explosions, Boiler. See.Boder Explosions
Explosion in Courrieres Coal-Mine, 562
Explosion of Thermal Storage Tank at Greenwich, 878
Explosive Mixtures of Coal-Gas and Air, 142
Explosives and Guns, Treatise on, 579
Explosives, Testing of, 809
Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition.
Express Trains, Peril of, 693
Eye Bars, Stresses in, 124
Facing-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Factories, Government ye 8U8 Private, 731
Factories, Power Suppl% to, 497
Factory Law Cases. See Legal
Failure of Ferro-Concrete Building. See Ferro-Concrete
Failures of Power-Generating Plant, 494
Falmouth Observatory, Magnetic Observations, 280
Fan, 36-In. Keith-Blackman, 471
Fans, Turbo, 744. See LETTERS, 600, 669, 735 733. See also Air-Compressors
Fares, Cheap, for Workmen in Belgium, 310
Fast Cutting. See Tool Steel
Fatigue, Metal. See also Micro Photographs
Fatigue of Steel, Micrographic Study of, 842
Faults of Design, 634
Feed-Water Heating by Live Steam, 665
Feed- =Water Meter, 413
Feed-Water, Oil-Separator and Water Softener, 834
Ferro-Alloys Made by Electric Furnace, 780
Ferro-Concrete Buildings, Failure of. 461, 700
Ferro-Concrete Chimney, Failure of, 700
Ferro-Concrete Coal Wharf at Rochester, e53
Ferro-Concrete, Durability of Iron in, 876
Ferro-Concrete and Fire Protection, 59
Ferro-Concrete Floor, Fire Test of, 262
Ferro-Concrete, Hard and Mild Steel in, 25a
Ferro-Concrete, Reliability of, 464, 700
Ferro-Concrete Sea Defences, 519
Ferro-Concrete, Strength of, 655
Ferro-Concrete Warehouse Burnt at Dundee, 221
Ferro-Concrete Workshops at Toronto, 862
Ferry, Channel, Train - Carrying Steamer for, 757
Files and Cutlery, Manufacture of, 563
Films, Thin Liquid, Photographs of, 276
Filter for Oil. See Oil-Separator
Filters, Shallow, with Fine Particles, Nitrification of Sewage in, 312
Fire-Boat, Twin-Screw Petrol, 331
Fire-Box Stays, Flexible, 360
Fire-Detector, The Leslie Walker, 775
Fire, Dundee Warehouse, 221
Fire-Engines, 108, 337, 512. See Fire-Service,
Continental kunder ILLUSTRATED INDEx)
Fire Prevention. See Mire Service
Fire Protection and Ferro-concrete, 59, 262
Fire Service, Continental, 1n8, 337, 512. For details, see ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Fire Tests of Concrete Floors, 262. See 59
Fishguard and Rosslare Service, Turbine Steamers for, 106
Fleet, Naval. See Warships
Flexible Elastic Coupling, 506
Flight, Artificial, 696, 792
Floating Dock for Submarine-Boats, 57
Flooring, Weight of Crowds on, 676
Flour-Mills, Messrs. J. Rank and Co., Limited, Atlantic, 182
Flue-Recording, Draught Gauge for, 413
Flying- Machine, " Antoinette " Motor for, 696
Flying-Machines, 792
Force Diagrams for Framed Structures, 276
Foreign and American Rail Specifications, 115, 170, 209, 238
Forts, The Construction of Temporary, 636
Foundations of Nile Bridge at Cairo, 483
Foundations of Victoria Station, London, 35
Foundry Pig Iron, Grading of, n49
Fowler, H., on Lighting of Railway Premises,
Indoor and Outdoor, 826, 847, 881
Fracture of Fatigued Steel, Micro-Photographic Study of, 842
Fracture of Iron and Steel, 220
Freezing Temperature of Water in Sealed Tubes, 312
Freight Traffic Working, Some Principles of, 341
French Colliery ; Pit-Head Plant, 233
French Locomotive. See Locomotives
French Miners' Pensions and State Intervention, 838
French Naval Manoeuvres, 604
French Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Claymore," 469
Friction in Gas-Engines, Measurement of, 60
Friction of Lubricated Surfaces, 655
Friction of Oils and BOarings, Tests at Cooper's Hill College, 594
Friction, Singular Effect of, 605
Fuel Calorimeters, Calibration of, 205
Fuel, Liquid, Calorimeter for, 404
Fuel, Liquid, for Steam-Raising, 0, 709
Furnace, Blast, Blowing-Engines, Development of, 162, 440
Furnaces, Blast, and the Gas- Producer, 406
Furnaces, Blast, in Germany and Sweden, 497
Furnace, Electric, for Iron and Steel Manufacture, 7'79
Furnace, Gas, for Hardening, 416
Furnaces, Heating, for Railway Tyre Works, 520
Furnace, Kjellin, Electric Steel, 147, 240
Furnaces, Metallurgical, Pyrometers for, 92

"Gadfly,", H.M. Coastal Destroyer, 465
Gantry Cranes, Electric, 117
Garbage Orematories in America, 860
Gas, Blast-Furnace, for Power, 764
Gas-Cleaning, Notes on, 111, 127
Gas, Coal, and Air, Explosive Mixtures of, 142
Gas-Engine Design, Blast-Furnace, in Belgium, 111, 129. See also PARAGRAPIIS, 183
Gas-Engines, Large, Application of, in German
Iron and Steel Industries, 111, 132
Gas-Engines, Large, Built in Great Britain, 111, 127
Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas
Gas for Light, Heat, and Power Production, 245
Gas, Natural, at Balakhany, 317
Gas, Natural, under Steam-Boilers, 507
Gas-Plants, Suction, 205, 248, 805, 813, 865
Gas-Producer. See also Producer and Suction
Gas-Producers, 91
Gas-Producers in Iron Blast-Furnace Practice, 116, 406
Gas-Retort, Vertical, 292
Gas Schemes in Parliament, 809
Gas Trials, Suction, R. A.S. E., Derby, 805, 843, 865
Gaseous Ozone, Nearly Pure, Researches on, 276
Gases, Blast-Furnace, 764, 798
Gases, Chimney, Removal of Smoke and Dust from, 220
Gases, Constants for, 75
Gases, Industrial, Optical Analysis of, 394
Generators, Gas. See Producer Gas and Suction and Gas
Geodetic Arcs, Proposed Remeasurement of British, 281
Geology of Interior of Earth, 433
German Fire - Brigade Appliances. See Fire
Service, Continental, under ILLUSTRATED INDEX
German Regulations for Gas-Engine Tests, 861
German Shipping, Expansion of, 466
Germany and Sweden, Blast-Furnace Problem in, 497
German Testing Institutions, Work of, in 1905, 873
Girder Work for Roof of Victoria Station, London, 139, 242, 379
Girders. See Bridges and Roofs
Girders, Stress Diagrams for, 275
Gland Packing, 568
Glasgow Association of Students Inst. C.E ; Presidential Address (D. A. Matheson), 735, 741
Glasgow Telephone Sale, 52
Glass of Low Resistivity, 276
Glasses, Physical Properties of, 195
Glow-Lamps, 243
Gold Reserve, 340
Gold in the Solid State, Crystallisation of, 312
Goodman, Professor John, on the Strength and Elasticity of White Metal, 376
Goods Carried at Owners' Risk, 98
Goods-Traffic Working, Some Principles of, 341
Government versus Private Factories, 731
Governor for De Laval Steam-Turbine' 313
Grantham, Railway Accident at, 431, 534, 593, 736, 876. See Vacuum Brake. See LETTER, 593
Graphite and Silicon, Influence of, on Open Hearth Process, 370
Graving Dock at Colombo Harbour, 750
Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton Railway, 809
Great Northern Telegraph Company, 316
Great Western Railway ; Electrically-Operated Points and Signals, 554, 588
Grenfell, The late Captain Hubert H., 421
Grimsby Dock, Lowering the Sill of, 83
Grinding Files and Cutlery, 563
Grinding-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Grout, Cement, used in Sinking Shafts, 605
Guest, Keen, and Nettlefold's Works, Cardiff, 170
Guildford Storm of August 2, 1906, 844
Gums and Rubber, Chemistry of, 309
Gunboats. See Warships
Gun Trials of H.M.S. " Dreadnought," 567. See 462
Guns and Explosives, Treatise on, 579
Guns, Field, Controlled Recoil of, 487
Guns of H.M.S. "Dreadnought," 462
Guns of H.M.S. " Montagu," Salving of, 617
Guns of Russian Armoured Cruiser Rurik," 656
Guns. See also Warships

Halden's Blue-Print Washing-Machine, 640
Hamburg-American Steamship Company, 466
Hamburg, The New Central Railway Station at, 840
Hammer, Steam, Six-Ton, 520
Hanbury, H. W., on Compound Locomotive for the Northern Railway of France, 488
Hann, E. M., on Mechanical Equipment of Collieries, 551, 571
Harbour, Colombo, 750
Harbour Deepening Machinery, 83, 211
Harbours, Schemes in Parliament, 772
Harbour Service Vessel " Wyvern," for Midland Railway Company, 218
Hardness of Metals; Brinell's Method, 639
Haslain, S. B , and Riches, T. H., on Railway Motor-Car Traffic, 164, 179, 264, 547
Haulage, Electrically-Operated, for Slipway, 182
Heat Treatment of Steel, 227
Heat-Wave over England, 782
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Hennebique Ferro-Concrete Coal Wharf at Rochester, 659
Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Radiotelegraphy
High-Speed Tool Steel. See Tool-Steel
High-Tension Switch-Gear Design, 844
Highgate Tramway Accident, 606
Historical Engines, 199
H.M.S. " Dreadnought," 462, 634, 567, 874 Holland, Ferro-Concrete Sea Defences in, 519
Holland ; Reclamation of Zuider Zee, 433
Home Work, Recent Investigations in, 342
Honigsberg's Solutions in Beam Theory, 566
Hopwood, T. E., and Riches, T. Hurry, on the Mechanical Appliances used in the Shipping of Coal at Penarth Dock, 152, 163
Horner, Joseph, on Machine Tools Exhibited at Olympia Exhibition, 391, 409, 449, 477, 617
House Duty, 340
House Illuminants, 720. See 826, 847, 831
Hubert, Professor H., on Design of Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines in Belgium, 111, 129. See also 188
Hull, Improvements in the Port of, 467
Hungarian State Railways, 4-Cylinder Compound Locomotive for the, 80
Hutton, R. S., on the Electric Furnace and its Applications to the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, 779
Hydraulic Billet-Shears for Rolling-Mills, 313 Hydraulic Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
Hydraulic Power Plant and Coal-Shipping Appliances at the Alexandra Docks, Newport., 163, 363. See also Coal Shipping
Hydraulic Press for Railway Tyre Works, 520
Hydraulic Riveting Plant at Messrs. Beardmore's Works, 221
Hydraulic Travelling Wharf-Cranes, 492
Hydro-Aromatic Substances, 309
Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, Niagara, 229
Hydro-Electric Power Station at Trollhattan, 291
Hydrolysis of Sugar, 309
Hygiene, Mental, and Engineering, 392

Ice-Breaking Steamer " Lady Grey," 261
Ice-Making Machine, Carbonic-Anhydride, 73
Ignition of Petrol Engine, Tests of, 856. See also Motor-Car
Illumination of Houses, 720. See Lights and Lighting
Illumination of Railway Premises, 826, 847, 881
Implements. See Agricultural Show and Smithfield Show hide, The late Mr. W., 191
Incandescent Mantles, Nature of Radiation from, 217
Indian Coal Industry, 677
Indian Railway Economics, 54
Indian Railway Wagons, Axle Bearings for, 787
Indicated Horse-Power of Turbine Vessels, 777
Indicator-Cards Showing Effects of Governing Gas-Engines, 609
Indicator, Magnetic, of Temperature, 220
Indogotin, A Method of Determining, 310
Industrial Conditions at Banbury, 294. See Erratum, 336
Industrial Conditions at Dunstable, 359
Industrial Facilities on Teesside, 2, 34
Industrial Notes, 26, 57, 97, 137, 173, 202, 235, 263, 299, 331, 361, 399, 435, 469, 501, 636, 569, 607, 642, 673, 707, 739, 775, 812, 815, 880
Industrial Problems, 323. See British Association, Section F.
Industry. See Trade
Industry and Training. See Training
Influence of Silicon and Graphite on the Open-Hearth Process, 147, 370
Ingots, Steel, Segregation in, 220, 405
Inhabited House Duty, 340
Inkstand, The "Napier," 470
Institute of Marine Engineers, 496
Institution of Civil Engineers, Glasgow Students, 736 ; Presidential Address, 741
Institutions, Technical. See Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, British Association, and Society of Arts
Instruments, Electric. See Electric
Insurance of Labour in Belgium, 769
Insurance of Workmen. See Workmen's Com-pensation
Interchangeability. See Standardisation Interest, Rate of ; Influence on Prices, 340
Internal-Combustion andTines. See Engines, Gas ; Engines, Oil ; Engines, Petrol ; Motor Cars ; and Motor-Launches
Internal Structure of Metals, 203. See 220, 405, and Micro-Photographs
Internal Structure and Radioactivity of the Earth, 216
International Conference on Radiotelegraphy, 462, 629, 635, 666, 839. See Radiotelegraphy
International Congress for Testing Materials, 565, 637, 654
International Navigation Congress, St. Petersburg, 442
Inventions. See Patents
"Invicta," Ancient Locomotive, 64
"Iris " Six-Cylinder Motor-Oar (Legros and Knowles), 627
Iron Blast-Furnace Practice and the Gas-Pro-ducer, 406
Iron, Composition of. See Micro-Photographs Iron, Corrosion of, in Cinder Concrete, 876
Iron, Influence of Phosphorus, Manganese, Aluminium, and Silicon on Chill in Cast, 27
Iron Ores, Fine, and Pyrites Cinders, Nodulising and Desulphurisation of, 502
Iron and Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Iron under High Pressures, Arc Spectrum of, 178 Iron-Nickel Electric Accumulator, 89
Iron, Pig, Grading of, 649
Iron, Pig, Industry in the United States, 21 Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges
Iron and Steel, Fracture of, 220
Iron and Steel Industry, German, Application of Large Gas-Engines in, 111, 132, 4u6. See BlUst-Furnace Engines

Iron and Steel Institute :

The Influence of Silicon, Phosphorus, Manganese, and Aluminium on Chill in Cast Iron, by E. Adamson, 27
The Effect of Copper on Steel, by F. II. Wigham, 101
Summer Meeting :
Joint Meeting with the American Institute
of Mining Engineers, 110, 116, 144
Visits and Excursions, 111, 116, 147, 148
President's Reception, 110
General Meeting, 110
Foreign Visitors' Welcome, 110
Bessemer Gold Medal, Presentation to II. M. the King, 111
Succeeding President, 111
Ehrenwirth, Professor Josef von, Presentation of Diploma to, 111
Notes on Large Gas-Engines Built in Great
Britain, and upon Gas Cleaning, by T. Westgarth, 111, 127
The Design of Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines in Belgium, by Professor H. Hubert, 111, 129.
See also PARAGRAPHS, 188
The Application of Large Gas-Engines in the
German Iron and Steel Industries, by R. Reinhardt, 111, 132
Address of President of American Institute of Mining Engineers, 112
A Comparison of American and Foreign Rail Specifications, by A. L. Colby, 115, 170, 209, 238
Gas-Producers as an Auxiliary in Iron Blast•
Furnace Work, by R. H. Lee, 116, 406
The Development of the Roe Puddling Process, by J. P. Roe, 145, 637
Improvements in the Rolling of Iron and Steel, by J. E. York, 147, 401
Concluding Proceedings, 147
Windsor Excursion, 147
Reception by His Majesty the King, 147 Annual Dinner, 148
Tempering and Cutting Tests of High-Speed Steels, by Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 147, 300
Different Modes of Blast Refrigeration, and their Power Requirements, by J. E. Johnson, Jun., 147, 332
The Influence of Silicon and Graphite on the Open-Hearth -Process, by A. 'S. Thomas, 147, 370
The Nodulising and Desulphurisation of Fine Iron Ores and Pyrites Cinders, by A. L. Colby, 147, 502
The Kjellin Electric Steel Furnace, by E. C. Ibbotson, 147, 240
Iron and Steel, International Specifications for Testing, 637
Iron and Steel, Protection of, by Electro-Positive Coatings, 247
Iron and Steel, Rolling, Improvements in, 147, 401 Iron and Steel, Use of Electric Furnace in Manufacturing, 779
Ironclad. See Warships
Iron Trade in Belgium, 565
Islington Power-Station, 1500-Kilowatt Steam• Turbine for, 601
Isomerism, Dynamic, 310
Italian Exhibition. See Milan Exhibition

James and Browne Motor-Car, 693
Japan, Financial and Economic Annual, 91
Japan, Industrial Development of, 680
Japan, Steel-Making in, 126
Japan, Tourist Facilities in, 197
Japan Year-Book, 877
Japanese Battleship " Mikasa," Salvage of, 393
Japanese Cotton Industry, 454
Japanese Naval Base in Korea, 358
Japanese Naval Programme, 433
Japanese Railway Construction, 21
Japanese Railway Tyre Works, 520
Japanese Railways, 327
Japanese Shipbuilding, 486
Japanese Trade in 1905, 316
Japanese Trade with China, 532
Japanese Tutelage of • China, 566
Japanese War Finance, 465
Japan's Mercantile Marine, 490
Jenkin, C. F., on The Advent of Single-Phase Electric Traction, 243, 573. See also 746
Jetty at Colombo Harbour, 750
Johnson, J. E., Jun., on Different Modes of Blast Refrigeration and their Power Requirements, 147, 332
Jubilee of Aniline Colour Industry, 149

Kalamazoo Pressed-Steel Car-Wheel, 435. See Erratum, 704
Kennedy, Sir A. B. W., Presidential Address at Institution of Civil Engineers, 633, 643. See
LiirrEas, " Engineers and Contractors"
Kerr Effect and kAectro-Optics, 325, 729
Kiel Canal, 294
King's Navy. See Warships
Kites, Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of, 280
Kjellin Electric Steel Furnace, 147, 240
Korea, Financial Reforms in, 231
Korea, Naval Base in,(358
Korea, Trade of, 360
Krauss, The late George Von, 662

Laboratories at Cambridge University, 585, 650
Labour, Claims of, 599
Labour Exchange and the Unemployed Problem, 342
Labour Legislation in Trade Disputes, 767
Labour Legislation. See Trade Disputes Bill, Workmen's Compensation, and Legal
Labour, Papers on, 344. See British Association, Section F.
Labour Problems, 323
Lakhovsky Screw-Bolt, 398
Lamps, Electric Glow, 243
Lamps. See also Electric
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Rail Motor Car for, 591
Lanchester Motor-Car, 694
Land Boilers. See Boilers
Lapper for Tow, The Braidwater, 330
Lasche, 0., on the A.E.G. Steam-Turbine, 675
Launch of Cunard Liner " Mauretania," 420. See 349, 384
Launch of MM. Battleship " Lord Nelson," 328
Launches, Motors. See Motor-Launches
Launches and Trial Trips, 15, 63, 102, 138, 174, 199, 233, 262, 285, 336, 369, 404, 442, 471, 505, 542
Launch of White Star Liner " Adriatic," 384
Law of Tramways and Light Railways, 91, 242
Lead, Impact Tests of, 638
Lead-Mining in Yorkshire, 342
Lecture-Table Testing-Machine, 247
Lee, R. H., on "The Gas-Producer as an Auxiliary in Iron Blast-Furnace Practice," 116, 406

Legal :

Amalgamated Society of Tailors' Libel Case, 8
American and Colonial Engineering Cases, 195
Anti-Boycott Decision in America, 425
Benefit Side of Trade-Unions, The, 228
Commissions, Law Relating to, 78, 373
Covenants Restricting Trade Rivalry, 697
Effect and Construction of Contracts, 479
Goods at Owners' Risk, 98
Important Cases of the Year, 528
Latent Defects in Machinery, 605
Law of Master and Servant, The, 61, 836
Machinery and Rating, 500
Motor-Buses and the Law of Rating, 355
Motor-Car Drivers and the Law of Negligence 672
Prevention of Corruption, 121
Railways, Light, and Tramway Law, 242
Restrictive Legislation, 392
Shipping Competition and Legislation, 561
Trade Disputes Bill, The, 251, 767
Tube Railways and the Law of Compensation, 700
Ward and Locke versus the National Society of Operative Printers' Assistants, 173
West Riding Case, 813
Workmen's Claims, 599
Workman's Compensation in Belgium, 769 Workmen's Compensation and Employers' Liability Act, 468
Workmen's Compensation Act in the House of Lords, 842

Legislation, Restrictive, on Motor-Cars, 392
Legislation. See also Parliament and Legal Legislation and Shipping Competition,561
Leitner-Lucas Train-Lighting Apparatus, Tests of, 520
Lentz Reversing Gear for Locomotives, 832
Lentz Valve for Four-Cylinder Compound Locomotive, 720
Leslie-Walker Fire-Detector, 775
Letters to the Editor, 23, 65, 94, 199, 234, 260, 285, 317, 421, 455, 500, 534, 668, 576, 593, 640, 705, 738, 764, 797
Lifts, Passenger, for the Bakerloo Railway, 380
Lifts. See also Hoists
Light, Manufacture of, 344
Light, Polarised, for Testing Beams, 566
Light, Pressure of, 250
Light Railways and Tramways Law, 242
Light, Ultra-Violet, Induction of Electrical and Chemical Changes by, 276
Lighting Apparatus for Trains, Tests of the Leitner-Lucas, 520
Lighting, Electric. See Electric
Lighting of Houses, 720
Lighting of Oxford-Street, 773
Lighting of Railway Premises, 826, 847, 881
Lighting of Railway Trains on the Leitner-Lucas System, 520
Lighting of Trains on the Vickers-Hall System, 811
Lightship Tender Steamer " Carnarvon," 555
Limestone-Concrete Aqueduct, Repairing of, 782
Liners, Large Atlantic, 384
Link Motions, Newman's Apparatus for the Study of, 861
Liquid-Air Plant at Battersea, 161
Liquid Air, Production of, 199, 234, 285, 317
Liquids, Effect of, in Stopping Projectiles, 91
Liquid Films, Thin, Photographs of, 276
Liquid Fuel Calorimeters, 404
Liquid Fuel for Steam-Raising, 69, 709
Literature, 68, 105, 242, 373, 466, 475, 516, 579, 763, 785, 836, 861, 876
Lloyd's Record of Shipping Losses, 259. See also Shipbuilding and Shipping
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 54, 497
Load, Artificial, for Electrical Generators, 291
Local Authorities. See Municipal
Locomotive, Balanced Regulator Valve for, 568. See LETTERS
Locomotive, Bodiner's Balanced, 814
Locomotive Boiler, the Robert Water-Tube, 251
Locomotive, Compound, Six-Coupled, 463
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound Express, for Austrian Railways, 798
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound Express,
for the Northern Railway of France, 488
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound, for Hungarian State Railways, 80
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound, with Lentz Valve, 720
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound, Rack Adhesion, for Benguella Railway, 201
Locomotive, Four - Cylinder Compound, Six-Coupled, for Austrian Railways, 673
L000motive, Four-Cylinder Compound, Six-Coupled ; Breda Engineering Company, Milan, 423, 457
Locomotive, Four - Cylinder Compound, Ten-Coupled, for the Austrian Railways, 556
Locomotive, Goods, for Caledonian Railway, 299
Locomotive, " Invicta," 64
Locomotive, Narrow-Gauge, at Milan Exhibition, 632
Locomotives, Road, at Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807
Locomotive, Six-Coupled Passenger, for Caledonian Railway, 739
Locomotive, Six-Coupled Tank, with Lentz Reversing Gear, 832
Locomotive Steam-Superheater, The " Schenectady," 43
Locomotive Tender for Austrian State Railways, 799
Locomotive, Three-Phase Electric, for Simplon Tunnel, 683
Locomotive Tyres and Fire-Box Stays, 350
Locomotive, Vauclain Balanced Compound, for Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, 385
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway ; Roof of Victoria Station, London, 35, 139, 242, 379, 448
London County Council Electric Power Bill, 20, 50, 601, 636, 804, 808
London County Council and the Motor-Bus, 837
London County Council ; Results of Municipal Trading, 160
London County Council. See also Municipal London County Council Tramways, 126, 197, 532
London Electric Power Bills Before Parliament, 20, 60, 601, 636, 804, 808
London Port ; Proposed Ocean Wharf, 842
London and South-Western Railway ; Pneumatimcally-Operated Points and Signals, 417 London Traffic, Report of Royal Commission on, 18
London Water Supply, 193, 500, 636
Longridge Gas Works Boiler Explosion, 62
"Lord Nelson," H.M. Battleship, 328
Lorries. See Motor-Oars and Mfitor-Wagons
Louisiana Purchase Exposition ; Report of the Electric Railway Commission, 229, 293
Lubrication, Forced, in Engines of H.M.S. "Africa," 12
Lubrication and Oils, 655
Lubrication of Railway Axle-Boxes, 787
Lubrication Testing-Machine at Cooper's Hill College, 594
Lunar Radiation, Measurement of, 2E0

Macaulay, J., on Coal-Shipping Appliances and Hydraulic Plant at the Alexandra Docks and Railway, Newport, 163, 363

Machine-Tools :

Band-Saw for Ripping Deck-Planks ; A. Ransome and Co., Limited, Newark, 623
Barbette Facing-Machine ; Napier Brothers, Limited, Glasgow, 555
Bevel-Gear Planing Machine, Bilgram (Neil and Co., London), 449
Bevel Gear Planing-Machine Oerlikon Automatic (C. W. Burton, Griffiths and Co.), 477
Borino. and turning Mill, Vertical (The Deutsche Niles - Werkzeugmaschinen Fabrik, Berlin), 60
Chuck for Drills with Parallel Shanks, 99
Drilling-Machine, Vertical 25-In. Sliding
Head (Selig, Sonnenthal, and Co.), 477
Gear-Generating Machine, Biernatzki ; C.
Churchill and Co.1 Limited, London, 410

Gear-Hobbing Machines (John Holroyd and Co., Limited, Rochdale), 395

Gear Robbing-Machine, Automatic ; Schuchardt and Schutte, Lond m, 394
Grinder, " Heald" Cylinder (C. Churchill and Co. Limited, London), 409
Grinder, " Heald" Piston•Ring (C. Churchill and Co.' Limited, London), 409
Grinder, Schmaltz Automatic Twist-Drill (The Agenoria Company, London), 403
Grinding-Machine, Air•Driven ; The Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Company, Limited, London, 399 •

Grinding-Machine, Cock (Selig, Sonnenthal, and Co.), 477

Grinding Machine, Norton (Ludw. Loewe and Co. Limited, London), 411
Grinding - Machine, Shear-Blade (A. Ransome and Co., Limited, Newark), 866
Grinding - Machine, Square - Hole (Burton, Griffiths, and Co., London), 399
Lathe, Backing-Off ; Ludg. Loewe and Co., Limited, London, 410
Lathe, Bogert Crankshaft (Schuchardt and Sohutte, London), 449
Lathe, Engine, Lodge and Shipley, with Patent Head (C. W. Burton, Griffiths, and Co., London), 410
Lathe, High-Speed 8i-In. (John Stirk and Sons, Halifax), 394
Lathe, Pittler Turret (C. W. Burton, Griffiths, and Co., London), 453
Lathe, Railway-Wheel (Messrs. P. R. Jackson and Co., Manchester, 520
Lathe, Ring-Turret (C. W. Burton, Griffiths, and Co., London), 449
Lathe for Turning Test-Pieces (John Holroyd and Co., Limited, Rochdale), 394
Machine Vice, Universal (Schuchardt and Sohutte), 477
Milling-Cutter Sharpener, Schmaltz Automatic (The Agenoria Company, London), 409
Milling - Machine, Cam (Schuchardt and Schutte, London), 449
Milling-Machine, Circular (John Holroyd and Co., Limited, Rochdale), 449
Pin and Stud-Making Machine (Ludw. Loewe and Co., London), 517
Pipe-Bending Machine, Kennedy (.1. Barker and Co., Limited), 477
Planing Machine, Pneumatic Deck- (The
Howard Pneumatic Tool Company), 477
Riveting-Machine, Hydraulic (Crow, Harvey and Co., Glasgow), 221
Rolls, Horizontal Plate-Bending, at Beard-more's Works (Craig and Donald, Johnstone), 560
Screw-Cutting Machine, " Simplex " (0.
Churchill and Co., Limited, London), 414
Screwing Machine, Tube (Joshua Heap and Co., Limited, Ashton-under-Lyne), 517
Screw-Making Machine, Automatic (Pfeil Lind Co., London), 453
Screw-Milling Machine (John Holroyd and Co., Limited, Rochdale), 449
Shaping Machine with Friction Drive (Ludw. Loewe and Co., Limited, London), 411
Shears, Billet, for Rolling-Mills, 313
Sleeper Adzing and Boring-Machines, Automatic (A. Ransome and Co., Limited, Newark), 287
Slot-Drilling Machine (George Richards and Co., Limited, Manchester), 453
Tooth-Rounding Machine (Schuchardt and Schutte, London), 394
Wheel Cutting Machine, Spur and Bevel (Charles Churchill and Co., Limited, London). 517
Wheel-Tooth Rounding-Machine (Pfeil and Co., London), 414
Machinery, Cotton, Safety Appliances for, 143
Machinery, Faults of Design in, 634
Machinery, Latent Defects in, 605
Machinery for Making and Bottling Beer, 564
Machinery and Rating, 500
Madrid, Gas-Driven Power-Station at, 809
Magazine Rifle, The Esser-Barratt, 641
Magnetic Metals, Testing of, 566
Magnetic Observations at Falmouth Observatory, 280
Magnetism. See Electric and Physical Society
Malay States, Tin-Mining in, 281
Management of Purchasing Department in Engineering Works, 376, 446
Management of Workmen, 429
Manchester Ship Canal, Subaqueous Rock-Cutting Machinery for, 211
Manchester Steam-Users' Association Report for 1905, 494
Manchurian Railways, 269
Manganese, Aluminium, Silicon, Phosphorus, Influence on Chill in Cast Iron, 27
Manganese. See Alloys
Manoeuvres, French Naval, 604
Manufacture of Cotton, 858
Manufacture of Light, 344
Manufacturing Conditions at Banbury, 294.- See Erratum, 336
Manufacturing Conditions at Dunstable, 359
Manufacturing Facilities on Tees-aide, 2, 34
Marconi. See Radiotelegraphy
Marine Boilers. See Boilers
Marine Engineering. See Engines, Marine, Naval Architects, Steamers, and Warships
Marine Engineers, Institute of, 496
Marina Motors. See Motor-Launches
Marine Steam-Turbine, Development of, 471 Marine Steam-Turbines. See Turbines, Steant
Marketing of Cotton, 858
Mass in Chemical Reactions, Constancy of, 622 Masters and Servants' Cases. See Legal Materialpriifungsamt, The Prussian, 873 Materials, Mechanics of, 857
Materials, Structure of. See also Micro-Photographs and Alloys
Matheson, Donald A., on Economics of Civil En-gineering, 735, 741
Matter, Properties of, 785
Mandalay Motor-Car, 725
" Mauretania," Cunard Express Turbine-Liner, 345
" Mauretania," Express Cunarder, Launch of, 420. See 349, 384
May, The Late F. C., 46
Measurement of Friction in Gas-Engines, 66 Measurement of Lunar Radiation, 280 Measurement of Steam and Feed Water, 413, 414
Measurement of Temperature, Optical, 247 Measurements of Osmotic Pressure, 212

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:

Summer Meeting, 162, 178
Reception by Deputy-Lord Mayor, Cardiff, 162, 180
Visits and Excursions, 179, 180
Bute Docks, Visit to, 179
Guest, Keen, and Nettlefold's Works, Visit to, 179
Penarth Docks, Visit to, 180
Barry Docks, Visit to, 180
Annual Dinner, 180
Atlantic Flour-Mills (J. Rink and Co , Limited), 182
Bargoed Colliery, Visit to, 182
Newport, Visit to, 112
Transporter Bridge, Newport, 182
Garden Party, 182
Concert, 182
Tintern, Visit to, 182
Ilfracombe, Visit to, 182
Mechanical Appliances used in the Shipping of Coal at Penarth Dock, by T. Hurry
Riches and T. E. Hopwood, 152, 163
The Development of Blast-Furnace Blowing-.
Engines, by D. E. Roberts, 162, 440
Mechanical Appliances used in Shipping
Coal at the Bute Docks, Cardiff, by H. S. C. • Ree. 163, 165
Coal-Shipping Appliances and Hydraulic
Power Plant at the Alexandra Docks and
Railway, Newport, Mon., by J. Macaulay, 163, 363
The Manufacture of Tin Plates, by R. B. Thomas, 164, 178, 183
Large Testing-Machines in South Wales, 1829-1906, by T. H. Wicksteed, 164, 178, 189
Railway Motor-Car Traffic, by T. H. Riches
and S. B. Haslam, 164, 179, 264, 647 London• Meetings, Winter Session, 1906.7, 547, 688, 753, 822
Mechanical Equipment of Collieries, by E. M. Hann, 551, 571
Steam as a Motive Power for Public-Service Vehicles, by T. Clarkson, 688, 709, 753, 822
Lighting of Railway Premises, Indoor and
Outdoor, by H. Fowler, 826, 847, 881

Mechanical Equipment of Collieries, 551, 571
Mechanicians, Stoker, and Engine-Room Artificers, 55, 593. pee also Naval Engineers
Mechanics of Materials, 867
Mechanics, The Teaching of, 246
Mechanism, Newman's Apparatus for the Study of, 861
Mental Hygiene and Engineering, 392
Metals in the Colloidal Form ,1
Metals, Internal Structure of, 203
Metal Price Diagrams, 24, 200, 329, 468, 606, 774, 878
Metals. See Steel, Iron, Tin, Copper, Aluminium, Alloys, and Micro-Photographs
Metals, Structure of. See also Micro-Photo-graphs
Metallurgical Nomenclature, 666
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, Electric Furnace Processes, 779.
Metallurgical Purposes, Pyrometers for, 92 Meter, The " Sarco," for Feed-Water, 413
Meter, The " Sarco," for Measuring Steam, 414

Meteorological Society, Royal:

The Abnormal Weather of the Past Summer and Some of its Effects, by W. Marriott, 782
International Congress on Polar Exploration, by Dr. H. R. Mili, 782
The Guildford Storm of August 2, 1906, by Admiral J. P. Maclear, 844
The Metric System in Meteorology, by R. Inwards, 844
Metric( System in Meteorology, R44
Metropolitan and District Railway, 232 Metropolitan. See also London
Metropolitan Water Supply, 193, 500, 036
Michel Gradual Application Clutch, 569
Micrographic Study of Failures by Fatigue, 842 Micro-Photography of Metals, 654. See 842 Micro-Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs
Midland Railway Company's Harbour Service
Vessel " Wyvern," 248
" Mikasa," Japanese Battleship, Salvage of, 393

Milan Exhibition :

Boiler, Robert Water-Tube Locomotive, for the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company, 254
Carriages, First and Third - Class; Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company, 535
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound, for Hungarian State Railways, 80
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound with Lentz Valves ; Hannoversehe Maschinen-bau A.-G., 720
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound Six Coupled ; Ernesto Breda, Milan, 423, 457
Locomotive, Four-Cylinder Compound Ten.-Coupled ; The Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company, Vienna, 556
Locomotive, Narrow-Gauge, with Schmidt. Superheater; Krauss and Co., Munich, 632
Locomotive, Six-Coupled Compound, 463 Locomotive, Six-Coupled Tank, with Lentz
Reversing Gear (Haunoversche Maschinenbau A.-G., Hanover-Linden), 832
Railway Motor Carriage for Austrian Rail-ways; F. X. Komarek, Vienna, 319

Military Operations by Civil Engineers, 636 Mill, Rolling, for Railway Tyres, 520
Milling Machines. See Machine-Tools
Mills, Rolling, for Rails and Sections, 401
Mine Winding-Engine. See Engines, Winding and Colliery
Minerals. See Railways
Miners' Pension and French State Intervention, 838. See also Belgian
Mining Disaster at Courrieres, 562
Mining Engineers, American Institute of. See Iron and-Steel Institute
Mining, Lead, in Yorkshire, 342
Mining Machinery. See also Engines, Colliery, and Electric
Mining and Railways in China, 768
Mining of Tin in the Malay States, 281
Miscellanea, 15, 47, 93, 119, 155, 199, 226, 261,289, 328, 353, 389, 425, 459, 499, 525, 597, 631663, 729, 760, 801, 835, 869
Moncrieff, The Late Sir Alex., 191
Mond Gas. See Producers
" Montagu," Salving of Guns of H.M.S., 617
Motions, Irregular, of the Earth's Pole, 277
Motor-Boats, Diesel Oil-Engines for, 463
Motor-Boat, Shallow-Draught Stern-Wheel, 576
Motor-Boat, Twin-Screw Petrol, for Fire Service, 831
Motor-Bus, The, 251, 837. See also Motor Omnibus
Motor-Bus Design,157, 679
Motor-Buses and te Law of Rating, 855 Motor-Buses and the Police, 568
Motor-Buses, Steam, 688, 709, 753, 822 Motor-Car, The Adams, 35-40 Horse-Power Eight-Cylinder, 696
Motor-Car, Axles for, 623. 626, 627, 697. See 793 Motor-Oar, Brakes for, 623, 661, 690, 723,756. See 709, 793
Motor-Car, 18,24 H.-P.; The Britannia Engineering Company, Colchester, 725, 763
Motor-Car, J. W. Brooke and Co., Limited,
Lowestoft, 725
Motor-Car, The Brotherhood, 723
Motor-Car Carburettors, 695, 696, 697, 724, 763
Motor-Car, Clutch for, 569, 623, 627, 722. See 793
Motor-Car Differential Gear 623, 626, 724, 766
Motor-Car Drivers and Law of Negligence, 672
Motor-Car, The Enfield, 697
Motor-Cars, Engines for, 623, 626, 627, 661, 698, 697, 722, 730. See 709, 739
Motor-Car Exhibition, Olympia, 623, 626, 627, 637, 661, 692, 721
Motor-Car Exhibition at Paris, 806
Motor-Car, Flexible Elastic Coupling for, 506
Motor-Cars, Horse-Power of, 53
Motor-Car, The " Iris " Six-Cylinder (Legros and Knowles), 627
Motor-Car, James and Browne, 693
Motor-Car, The Lanchester, 694
Motor-Car, The Maudslay, 35.45 Horse-Power, 726
Motor-Car, the Napier, 40-Horse-Power Six-Cylinder, 661
Motor-Car, New Engine Company, Acton, 626 Motor-Car, 24.30 Horse-Power, The Nordenfelt ;
British Bariquand and Marre Engine Company, 696
Motor-Cars at Olympia, 623, 626, 627, 637, 661, 692, 721
Motor-Car, Rail, for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 591. See 164, 179, 264, 647. See also
Motor-Carriages
Motor-Car, Restrictive Legislation on, 392
Motor-Cars, Scottish Reliability Trials, 161 Motor-Car ; the Sheffield Simplex Motor Works,
Limited, Sheffield, 723
Motor-Car Shock-Absorber, 661
Motor-Car, The Siddeley ; Wolseley Tool and Motor-Car Company, 628
Motor-Car, The Simms, 696
Motor-Car, 46-Horse-Power Six-Cylinder Touring ; Thames Iron Works Company, 724 Motor-Car, Six-Cylinder 30-Horse-Power ; the.
- Standard Motor Company, Coventry, 722 Motor-Car, Speed-Gear for, 623, 661, 697, 723, 724
Motor-Car ; The Speedwell Motor Company, 725
Motor-Car, Steam, the " Rexer," 523
Motor-Car Steering-Gear, 627, 724. See 711, 793
Motor-Car, The Straker-Squire, 567
Motor-Car, Tests of Engine for,856
Motor-Car, The Thornyoroft 30-Horse-Power Six-Cylinder, 696
Motor-Car Traffic, Railway, 164, 179, 264, 547
Motor-Car, Valves for, 627, 690, 724, 780, 766, 766. See 793
Motor-Car The Vauxhall and West Hydraulic Engineering Company, 735
Motor-Car, Worm Drive for, 626
Motor-Carriage, Railway. See Motor-Car, Rail, and Motor-Car, Traffic
Motor-Carriage, Railway, at Milan Exhibition, 319
Motor-Carriage for Central South African Railway, 107
Motor-Cycles at the Stanley Show, 733
Motor-Lorries at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Derby, 6
Motor-Omnibuses, 251, 568, 837. See also Motor-Bus
Motor-Omnibus, The Clarkson Steam, 688, 709, 753, 822
Motor Omnibus; Progress in Design, 157, 579
Motor-Omnibuses and Police Regulations, 527 Motor-Omnibus, Taxation of, 355
Motor-Tractor; Smithfield Show, 757
Motor-Wagons, Steam 5-Ton, 793
Motor, The " Antoinette," for Aeroplanes, 996
Motors, Internal-Combustion. See Engines, Oil, Engines, Gas; Motor-Car and Motor-Launches Motor Traffic, Roads for, 356
Motor, Two-Cycle ; The Motor, Engine, and Manufacturing Company, 697
Motor Vehicles, Treatise on Design of, 579
Motor Yacht Club, Reliability Trials, 232
Moving Loads on Railway Under-Bridges, 307, 449, 619
Muffle Furnace, The " Empire," 416
Muller, The Late J. Franz, 119
Municipal Niagara Power Scheme, 229
Municipal Schemes in Parliament, 601, 772, 804, 808
Municipal Telephones at Glasgow, 52
Municipal Trading. See also London County Council
Municipal Trading, Some Lessons in, 160
Municipal Tramway Schemes, The London County Council, 129, 197, 532

Napier Inkstand, 470
Napier Motor-Car, 40-Horse-Power, Six-Cylinder, 661
" Natal," Steam Trials of Armoured Cruiser, 198
National Physical Laboratory in 1905, 38
National Physical Laboratory and French Comment, 360
National Physical Laboratory, Repeated Impact-Testing Machine, 33
National Revenue and Expenditure, 461
Natural Gas at Balakhany, 317
Nature of the Radiation from Incandescent Mantles, 217
Naval Activity in Sweden, 327
Naval Bases in Korea, 358
Naval Boilers. See Boilers
Naval Construction, New Programme of, 122
Naval Construction in 1906, 873. See Warships
Naval Engineers, 55, 251, 593
Naval Engineers and Admiralty, 23, 500, 534
Naval Engineers and Admiralty Policy, 51. See LETTERS
Naval Engineers and Marine Engineers, 602
Naval Engineers. See Urns, INDEX
Naval Machinery. See Warships and Engines, Marine
Naval Mauceuvres, French, 604
Naval Manoeuvres, Lessons from, 17
Naval Policy, Admiralty, 738
Naval Policy and Rapidity of Warship-Building, 427
Naval Power, Balance of, 735
Naval Programme, 158
Naval Programme of Japan, 433
Naval Retrenchment and Continental Powers, 257
Naval Strength and Speed of Battleships, 669
Naval Strength, Standards of, 735, 803
Navies of the World, The Minor, 324
Navigation Congress, International, at St. Petersburg, 442
Navy and the Government,49
Navy, Submarine Boats in the, 871
"Nelson," H.M. Battleship, 328
New Engine Company's Motor-Car, 626
New South Wales Railways, 603
New Zealand Railways, 1906, 872
Newcastle, New High-Level Bridge for the North Eastern Railway Company, 53
Newman's Kinematic Apparatus for the Study of Mechanism, 861
Newport, 182, 363
Newport, Alexandra Docks and Railway, Coal
Shipping Appliances at, 163, 363
Newport Transporter Bridge, 182
Niagara Power Scheme, Municipal, 229
Nickel and Carbon Steels, 22
Nickel, Iron and Electric Accumulator, 89
Nickel Wire, Structural Changes in, at High
Temperatures, 220, 222
Nile Bridge at Cairo, 483
Nitrification of Sewage in Shallow Filters with Fine Particles, 312
Nitrogen in Air, The Utilisation of, by Plants, 310
Nitrogen, Atmospheric Fixation of, 21
Nodulising of Fine Iron Ores and Pyrites Cinders, 502
Nomenclature, Uniform, in Metallurgy, 666
Normand, The Late J. Augustin, 806
North,- Notes from the, 14, 46, 85, 118, 154, 190, 224, 254, 238, 320, 352, 388, 424, 458, 490, 524, 558, 696, 630, 662, 704, 728, 773, 800, 830, 868
North Sea-Baltic Canal. 294, 672
Northern Railway of France, Compound Four
Cylinder Express Locomotive for, 438
Norway, Water Power in, 231
Notched Bar Impact Test, 638
Notes. See Cleveland, North, South-West,
South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial,
Legal, and Miscellanea
Nozzle, Adjustable, for Pelton Water-Wheel, 98

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observations, Spectroscopic, of Solar Eclipses, 2,80
Observatory, Ben Nevis, 281
Observatory, Royal Greenwich, Effect, of Vibrations on Zenith Distance Observations, 277
Observatory, Oxford, Equatorial Twin Telescope at, 819
04 Emulsification in Turbine Bearings, 91
Oil-Engines. See Engines, Oil ; Motor-Cars and Motor-Launches
Oil-Fields of Trinidad, 90
Oil Fuel for Steam-Raising, 69
Oil Fuel. See also Fuel, Liquid
Oil. See also Lubrication
Oil-Separator and Water-Softener, The Paterson, 834
Oil-Sprinkling for the Suppression of Road-Dust, 51
Olympia Engineering and Machinery Exhibi tion, Machine-Tools at, 358, 394, 409, 449, 471, 477, 517. See Machine-Tools
Olympia Motor-Car Exhibition, 623, 626, 627
W7, 661, 692, 721.
Omnibus, Motor, Progress in, 157
Omnibus, Motor. See also Motor-Bus
Omnibuses, Motor, 251
Omnibuses, Motor, and the Law of Rating, 355
Omnibuses, Motor, and Police Regulations, 726
Omnibuses, Steam, 688, 709, 753, 822
Open-Hearth Process, Influence of Graphite and
Silicon on, 370
Optical Analysis of Industrial Gases, 394
Optical Measurement of Temperature, 247
Opti.s, Electro, A Fundamental Question in, 325, 729
Ordnance. See Warships and Guns
Ore. See also 1 ron
Ores, Sulphide, Concentration oft 260
Oscillograph for Extra High-Tension-Current, 841
Osmosis and colloid Substance, 1
Osmotic Pressure, Measurements of, 212
Overhead Construction at Simplon Tunnel, 683
Oxford Observatory, Equatorial Twin Telescope at, 819
Oxidation in Soils, and its Relation to Productiveness, 312
Oz,ne, Nearly Pure Gaseous, Researches on, 276
Packing, 568
Paint, Balmain's, Decay of Phosphorescence, 275 Paint, Protective Power of, 665
Palace Theatre, London, Steel Work in, 867 Paris Automobile Exhibition, 806
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company ; Carriages at Milan Exhibition, 535 Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway ; Plate
Wagon, 2a
Purls, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company ; " Robert " Water-Tube Locomotive Boiler, 254
Paris Metropolitan Railway, Construction of, 26 Parliament and the London County Council Tramways, 632
Parliament and New Naval Construction, 122 Parliament and the Naval Programme, 158. See Naval
Parliament and the Trade Disputes Bill, 251, 767 Parliament and the Workmen's Compensation Act, 842
Parliament and the Navy. See also Warships and Engineers in the Navy
Parliamentary Commission on Canals and Waterways, 582, 716, 875
Parliamentary ; Government v. Private Factories, 731
Parliamentary Private Bill Schemes, 601, 701, '733, 772, 804, 808
Parsons, C. A., and R. J. Walker, on the Development of the Marine Steam-Turbine, 471 Parsons Steam-Turbine. See Turbines, Steam Patent Record, 31, 65, 103, 175, 210, 278, 305, 371, 407, 443, 509, 643, 577, 615, 647, 681, 747, 783, 817, 852, 887
Patents, Australian, 765
Patents, Compulsory Working of, 764
Paterson Oil-Separator and Water-Softener, 834 Pelton Water-Wheel, 98.
Penarth Docks, 180
Penarth Dock, Shipping of Coal at, 152, 163. See also 180
Peruvian Cruisers " Almirante Grau " and " Coronel Bolognesi," 433
Peters' Self-Registering Electric Target, 221 Petrol-Motors. See Motor-Cars, Motor-Launches, Motor-Buses, Motors, and Engines
Phoenix Recording Draught-Gauge, 413 Phosphorus, Manganese, Aluminium, and Silicon,
Influence on Chill in Cast Iron, k7 Photographs, Micro. See Micro•Photographa Photographs of Thin Liquid Films, 276 Photo-Print Washing-Machine, 640
Physical Properties of Glasses, 195
Physical Properties of Metal. See Alloys and if iero-Photographa
Physical Science, Progress in, 177
Physical Society's Exhibition, 840
Pier for Proposed Channel Ferry, 755
Pier Schemes in Parliament, 772
Pig Iron, Grading of, 649
Pig-Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Piling for Foundations of Victoria Station, London, 35
Pipes, Testing of, 654, 655
Pipes, Water-Hammer in, 494
Pit-Head Plant at Bethune Coal-Mines, 235. See also Colliery
Place, John, on Tin-Mining in the Malay States, 281
Planing-Machine. See Machine-Tools Plate-Bending Rolls (Craig and Donald), 560 Platinum Resistance Calorimeters, 359 Pneumatic System of Working Railway Points
and Signals, 417
Pocket-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Points, Railway, and Signals, Pneumatic opera-tion of, South-Western Railway, 417
Points and Signals Electrically Operated at
Didoot, Great Western Railway, 554, 588 Points and Signals, Operation of, by Power, at
Bethnal Green, 121
Polar Exploration, International Congress on, 782
Polarised Light for Testing Beams, 566
Pole of the Earth, Irregular Motions of, 277 Poles, Telegraph, Tests of, 234
Police and Motor-Buses,, 527, 668
Population, Distribution of, by Rapid Transit Facilities, 311
Port. See Harbour and Docks
Port of Hull, Improvements in, 467
Portland Cement Concrete. See Concrete and Ferro-Concrete
Portland Cement, Manufacture of, 76 Portsmouth Dockyard, Pumping Plant at, 607 Portsmouth Floating Dock, for Submarine Boats, 57
Positive Charge Carried by the Alpha Particle of Radium 0, 216
Pottery-Workers, Hand-Book for, 786
Poulsen's System of Radiotelegraphy, 734 Powell Wood Process, 234
Power from Blast-Furnace Gas, 764
Power, Electric, for the Rand, 765, 797, 844 Power, Gas. See Engine, Gas ; Suction-Gas, and Producer-Gas
Power-Generating Plant Breakdowns in 1905, 494 Power of Motor-Car Engines, 53
Power Plant, Hydraulic, at Alexandra Docks, Newport, 163, 363
Power Plants. See also Electric
Power Station, Gas-Driven Electric, at Madrid, 809
Power Stations. See also Electric
Power, Steam as, for Public-Service Vehicles, 688, 709, 753, 822
Power Supply of London, 20, 50
Power Supply to Factories, 497
Power Supply Scheme, London County Council, for London, 20, 50, 601, 636, 804, 808
Power, Water, in Norway, 231
Preservation of Timber, 234
Presidential Addresses, 428. See also Civil Engineers, and Civil Engineers, Glasgow Section Presidential Address, British Association, 177 Presidential Address, Engineering Section,
British Association, 203
Presidential Address, Mathematical and Physical
Science Section, British Association, 177 Press, Hydraulic, for Railway Tyre Works, 520 Pressed-Steel Car-Wheel, The Kalamazoo, 435.
See Erratum, 704
Pressure of Light, 250
Pressure, Osmotic, Measurements of, 212
Prices, Influence of Rate of Interest on, 340 Principals, Roof, of Victoria Station, London, 139, 242, 379, 448
Printing Machinery at Agricultural Hall Exhibi-tion, 90
Private Bill Legislation. See Parliamentary Bills
Producers, Gas, 94
Producer-Gas in Blast-Furnace Practice 406
Producer-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas, and Gas
Producers, Gas, in Iron Blast-Furnace Practice, 116, 406
Producer-Gas at Madrid Power-Station, 809
Producer, Gas, The Ruston 100-Brake-Horse-Power Suction, 835
Producer, Suction-Gas, 205, 248
Producer, Suction Gas, Trials at Derby, 805. See LETTERS
Production of Liquid Air, 199, 234, 285, 317
Productiveness of Soil and its Oxidation, 312
Projected Revel-Novgorod-Moscow Railway, 593
Projectiles, Loss of Speed, in Liquid, 91
Propelling Engines. See Engines
Prospects of Apprentices, 55
Prussian Materialprafungsamt in 1C05, b73
Prussian State Railway ; Four-Cylinder Com
pound Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 720
Prussic Acid, Production of, by Plants, 309
Public - Service Vehicles, Steam as a Motive
Power for, 688, 709, 753, 822
Puddling Process, Roe, Development of, 145, 537
Pump, Air-Lift, Tests of, 397
Pump, Centrifugal, and Compound Tandem Engine, 165
Pumps, Turbine-Driven, 744
Pumps, Vacuum, for Laboratory Work, 327
Pumping-Engine, Triple-Expansion, for South Africa, 286
Pumping Plant for Burma, 384
Pumping Plant for Sea Water at Portsmouth Dockyard, 607
Punohiug as a Testing Method, 566
Purchase of Stores in Engineering Works, 376, 448
Pyrites Cinders and Fine Iron Ores, Nodulising and Desulphurisation of, 147, 502
Pyrometers for Metallurgical Purposes, 92

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quays. See also Harbours, Docks, and Wharves
Quebec, Cantilever Bridge, of 1800 ft. Span, 10
Queensland Railway, 732
Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns and Warships
Quick Transit Facilities and Distribution of Population, 341
Quicksilver. See Metal-Price Diagrams

Rack Railways, Merits of, 858
Radcliffe Observatory, Equatorial Twin Telescope at, 819
Radiation from Incandescent Mantles, 217
Radiation, Lunar, Measurement of, 280
Radiation Phenomena in Connection with Pyrometry, 247
Radiation Pyrometry, 247
Radioactivity and Internal Structure of the Earth, 216
Radiotelegraphic International Convention, 462, 529, 635, 666, 839
Radiotelegraphy by Continuous Electrical Oscillations, 734
Radiotelegraphy and Telefunken System, 783, 827, 863
Radium C, the Positive Charge carried by the Alpha Particle of, 216
Radium, Modern Views of, 291
Rail Joints and Track Construction in Phila-delphia,658
Rail, Motor-Car. See also Motor-Car, Rail, and Motor-Carriage, Rail, and also ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Rail Motor-Car, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 691
Rail Production of the World, 63
Rail Specifications, American and Foreign ; A Comparison, 116, 170, 209, 238
Railway Accident on Caledonian Railway, Board of Trade Report on, 534
Railway Accident, Grantham, 431, 634, 693, 736, 876, 877. See Vacuum Brake. See LETTER, 693
Railway Accident at Salisbury, 19, 87, 421, 464
Railway Accident at Tapton Junction,842
Railways of the Argentine Republic, 85
Railway, Australian Trans-Continental, 92
Railway Auto-Car. See Motor-Car, Rail Railway, The Bagdad, 369
Railways in Canada, 592
Railways of the Cape Government, 63
Railway Carriages. See Carriages
Railway Chairs and Rails, The Lakhovsky Screw-Bolt for, 398
Railway, The Chapsal-Saillot Air-Brake, 863 Railway Commission of the St. Louis Exhibition, 229, '293
Railway Companies and Goods at Owner's Risk, 98
Railways, Comparison of Rack and Adhesion, 368
Railway Construction in Japan, 21
Railway Construction in South Africa, 84
Railway Construction in the United Kingdom, 284
Railway Cost Statistics, 341
Railway Development, Canadian, 69, 703
Railway Economics, British, 258, 381, 391
Railway Economics, Indian and South American, 64
Railways, Electric. See also Electric
Railway, Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton, 809
Railways in Japan, 327
Railway Around Lake Baikal, 298
Railway Locomotive. See Locomotives and Motor Carriages
Railways in Manchuria, 259
Railway, Metropolitan and District, 232
Railways and Mining in China, 768
Railway Motor-Car Traffic, 164, 179, 264, 547
Railway Motor-Carriages. See Motor-Carriages Bailways of Natal, 123
Railways in New South Wales, 603
Railways of New Zealand, 1906, 872
Railway, The Paris Metropolitan, and Construction of, 25
Railway Points and Signals, Electrically-Operated, at Didcot, Great Western Railway, 654, 588 Railway Points and Signals at Bethnal Green, Operation of, by Power, 124
Railway Points and Signals, Pneumatic Operation of, London and South Western Railway, 417
Railway Premises, Lighting of, 826, 847, 881
Railway, Projected Revel-Novgorod Moscow, 593
Railway Properties, Scotch, 455
Railways of Queensland, 732
Railway Returns, British and Foreign, 533
Railway and Road Bridges. See Bridges
Railway Rolling Stock. See Carriages, Locomotives, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Railway, Russian. See LETTERS
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 701, 733, 803
Railway, Simplon Tunnel, Electric Locomotive and Equipment of, 683
Railway Sleepers, York's, Transverse Rolled Steel, 746. See also 398
Railways in South America, 864. See also Rail-ways in Argentina
Railways, South Australian, Report of Commissioner, 666
Railway Station, The New Central, at Hamburg,
Railway Station at Stockholm, 196
Railway Station at Victoria, 35, 139, 242, 379, 448
Railway, Street. See Tramway
Rails, Stresses set up in, by Trains, 651
Railways in Sweden, 327, 736
Railway Tickets, Cheap, for Workmen in Belgium, 340
Railway Traffic, Motor-Car, 164, 179, 224, 647
Railway-Train Control, The Raymond Phillips System of, 53
Railway Train-Lighting, The Vickers-Hall System of, 811 ; Leitner-Lucas, 520
Railway Trains, Peril of, 693
Railways, Tube, and the Law of Compensation, 700
Railway-Tyre Machinery, 620
Railway Under-Bridges, Moving Loads on, 307, 446, 619
Railway Wagon for Steel Plate ; Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company, 222
Railway Wagons, Axle-Bearings for, 787
Rainfall Changes of an Oscillatory Nature, 280
Rainfall, Note on, 280
Rainfall, York, 280
Rand, Electric Power for, 785, 797, 844
Rank, Messrs. J., and Co., Limited, Atlantic Flour-Mills, 182
Rapid-Cuttin Steel. See Tool-Steel
Rapid Transit Facilities and Distribution of Population, 341
Rapid Warship-Building and Naval Policy, 42/
Rate of Decay of Phosphorescence of Balmain's Paint, 275
Rate of Interest, Influence of, on Prices, 840
Rating of Machinery, 500
Rating of Motor-Omnibuses, 355
Raymond Phillips System of Train Control, The, 63
Reciprocating Engines versus Rotary, 465. See Turbines, Steam
Reclaiming the Zuyder Zee, 433
Recoil, Controlled, of Artillery, 487
Redruth, Boiler Explosion at, 613
Ree, H. S. C., on Mechanical Appliances Used in Shipping of Coal at the Bute Docks, Cardiff, 163, 165
Reed, The late Sir E. J., K.O.B F.R.S., 770
Refloating of the " Mikasa," 393
Refrigerating Machine, Carbonic Anhydride, 73 Refrigeration, Blast, 147, 332
Refuse-Destructors in America, 860
Regulator Valve Balance on " Adriatic" Compound Locomotive, 568
Reichsanstalt, Work of, 295
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Reinhardt, K., on Application of Large Gas Engines in the German Iron and Steel Industries, 111, 132
Reliability Trials for Motor-Cars, 161
Removal of Dust and Smoke from Chimney Gases, 220
Removal of the Sill of Grimsby Dock by Boring, 83
Research Work at the National Physical Laboratory, 38
Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, i05 Researches on Nearly Pure Gaseous Ozone, 276
Reserve Specie of the United Kingdom, 340 Restrictive Legislation, 392
Retorts, Vertical, for Gas Manufacture, 292 Returns, British Railway, 258, 384
Returns, Railway, British and Foreign, 533
Revel - Novgorod - Moscow Railway Projected, 593
Revenue, National, and Expenditure, 461 Reversing Gear for Locomotives, The Lentz, 832
Rexer Steam Motor-Car, 523
Riches, T. H., and S. B. Haslam on Railway Motor-Car Traffic, 164, 179, 264, 647
Riches, T. Hurry, and Hopwood, T. E., on Mechanical Appliances Used in the Shipping of Coal at Penarth Dock, 152
Rifle, The Esser-Barratt Repeating, 611
Riveting-Machine, Hydraulic, for Boiler Work, 221
Road Bridges. See Bridges
Roads, Dust on, and the Use of Oil, 51, 248
Road Locomotion. See Motor-Cars, Motor-Buses, and Motor-Wagons
Roads for Motor Traffic, 356. See 61
Roads, Waterproof, and the Dust Problem, 61, 248
" Robert" Water-Tube Locomotive Boiler, 254
Roberts, D. E., on the Development of Blast Furnace Blowing Engines, 162 440
Rochester, Ferro-Concrete Coal Wharf at, 669
Rock-Cutting Machinery, Subaqueous, 211. See 83
Roe, J. P., on the Development of the Roe Puddling Process, 145, 537
Rolling of Iron and Steel, Improvements in, 147, 401
Rolling-Mill for Railway Tyres, 520
Rolling-Mills, Billet Shears for, 313
Rolling-Stock. See also Carriages, Locomotives, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Rolls, Plate-Bending (Craig and Donald), 560 Rolling Sleepers, 398, 746
Roof Failure at Charing Cross, 56
Roof, Ferro-Concrete, Failure of, 464
Roof. Girders, Stress Diagrams for, 275
Roof of Victoria Station, London, 35, 139, 242, 379, 448
Rotary versus Reciprocating Engines, 455 Rowan, The late James, 702
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, 582, 716, 875
Royal Commission on London Traffic, 18
Royal Meteorological Society, 782, 844. See Meteorological
Royal Navy, Engineer Sub-Lieutenants for Temporary Service in, 738
Royal Navy., See Navy, Naval, and Warships Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Effect of
Vibration on Zenith Distance Observations, 277 Rubber, Chemistry of, and of Gums, 309
" Ruri," Russian Armoured Cruiser, 656, 704 Russian Coal Production, 196
Ruston 100-Brake-Horse-Power Suction-Gas Producer and Engine, 835

Safety Appliances in Cotton-Mills, 143
Salisbury Railway Accident, 19, 87, 421, 464
Salvage of Japanese Battleship " Mikasa," 393
Salving of Guns of H.M.S. " Montagu," 617
Sand-Blast, Building Materials Tested by, 717
" Sarco " Feed-Water Meter, 413 ; Steam Measuring, 413
Saw, Band, for Ripping Deck-Planks, 623
Scandinavian Exhibition in 1912, 358
Scandinavian Exhibition in Copenhagen, Proposed, 196
Schemes in Parliament. See Parliamentary Schools, Teaching Handicrafts in, 773
Science-Teaching in Britain, 360
Scotch Railway Property, 465
Scottish Reliability Trials for Motor-Cars, 161.
Scouts. See Warships
Screw-Bolt, The Lakhovsky, 398
Screw-Cutting Lathes. See Machine-Tools, Screw-Propellers. See Propellers
Screwing Machines. See Machine-Tools Sea Defences, Ferro-Concrete, 510
Sea Power, Balance of, 736
Sea Power, Comparisons of, 735, 803. See Naval
Sealed Tubes, Freezing Temperature of Water in, 312
Segregation in Steel Ingots, 220, 405
Seismogram of Valparaiso Earthquake, 260
Seismological Committee Report, 277
Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Motor-Care, Motor
Wagons, and Motor-Carriages
Sewage Nitrification in Shallow Filters with Fine Particles, 312
Sewerage Competition, Emsworth, 534
Sewerage Schemes in Parliament, 809
Shafts, Arrangement of, in Turbine Vessels, 471
Shaft Indicator for Turbine Ships, 777
Shaft-Sinking, Use of Cement Grout in. 605
Shallow-Draught Motor-Boat, Stern-Wheel, 576
Shanks, The Late Mr. Alex., 191
Sharp, Professor Archibald, on the Drawing of Force Diagrams for Framed Structures, 275
Shears, Billet, for Rolling Mill, 313
Shipbuilding, Japanese, 486
Shipbuilding. See also Warships and Naval Architects
Shipbuilding Trade, Condition of, 54, 497
Shipping Competition and Legislation, 561
Shipping, Japan's Mercantile, 490
Shipping Losses of the Year, 259
Ships. See also Steamers and Warships
Ships' Structures, Stresses in, and the Stream-Line Theory, 246, 436
Shock-Absorber for Motor-Car, The " Napier," 661
Shot, Resistance of Materials to, 636
Siberian Railway, 298
Siddeley 30-Horse-Power Motor-Car, 623
Signals and Points, Electrically - Operated, at
Didcot, Great Western Railway, 554, 588
Signals and Points, Operation, by Power, 124
Signals, Railway, and Points, Pneumatic Operation of, 417
Signs of Life, Electrical, and their Abolition by Anaesthetics, 344
Silicon and Graphite, Influence on Open-Hearth Process, 370
Silicon, Phosphorus, Manganese, and Aluminium, Influence, on Chill in Cast Iro 27
Silver Ware, Manufacture of, at Sheffield, 564
Simms Manufacturing Company; Motor-Car, 695
Simplon Tunnel, Electric Locomotive and Equipment of, 683
Sinclair, The late Mr. George, 490
Single-Phase Electric Traction, 243, 573. See 746
Sleeper-Adzing and Boring Machine, 287
Sleepers, York's Transverse Rolled Steel, 746, See also 398
Slipway at Colombo Harbour. 750
Slipway Haulage, Electrically - Operated, at Dublin, 182
Slotting-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Smith, J., on the Application of Stream-Line Apparatus to the Determination of the Direction and Magnitude of Stresses in Ships' Structures, 246, 436
Smith, The late Mr. W. M., 592
Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807
Smoke and Dust Removal from Chimney Gases, 220
Society, Royal Agricultural. See Agricultural Society. See also Institution
Socket for Holding Drills with Parallel Shanks, 99 Soils, Oxidation of, and its Relation to Productiveness, 312
Solar Surface, Disturbed Areas on, and Connection with Solar Corona, 28J
South Africa, Cape Government Railways, 63 South Africa, Magnetic Survey of, 280
South Africa. See also Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River, Rhodesia, and Transvaal South African Railway Construction, 81
South American Railway Progress, 864
South Australian Railways, Report of Commissioners, 666
South Eastern and Chatham Railway ; Bogie Composite Lavatory Carriage, 287
South Metropolitan Power-Station, East Greenwich, Boiler Explosion at, 878
South Wales Testing-Machines, Large, 164, 179, 189
South-West, Notes from the, 15, 47, 85, 119, 155, 191, 225, 255, 289, 321, 353, 389, 425, 459, 491, 525. 559, 597, 631, 663, 705, 729, 774, 801, 831, 869
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 14, 46, 85, 118, 154, 191, 224, 255, 288, 321, 352, 388, 424, 458, 491, 524, 559, 596, 630, 662, 705, 728, 760, 801, 831, 868
Spanner in the Fleet, 23, 55, 94
Spark Telegraphy. See Radiotelegraphy and under Electric
Speakman, E, M., on the Present Status of the Steam-Turbine, 743, 777
Specie Reserve of the United Kingdom, 310 Spectrum, Arc, of Iron under High Pressures, 178
Speed of Battleships, 669
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
"St. David," Triple-Screw Turbine Steamer, for Irish Service, 106
St. Lawrence, Cantilever Bridge of 1800 Ft. Span, 10
St. Louis Exhibition ; Report of the Electric Railway Commission, 229, 293
" St. Patrick," Triple-Screw Turbine Steamer, for Irish Service, 106
St. Petersburg, International Navigation Congress at, 442
Stanchions Supporting Roof of Victoria Station, London, 139, 242, 379, 448
Standard Motor Company ; Six-Cylinder 30-Horse-Power Motor-Car, 722
Standardisation in British Engineering Practice, 207, 208, 220
Standards of Naval Strength, 736, 803. See Naval
Standards and Units, 699
Stanley Cycle Show, 733
Stanton,. Dr. T. E., on Repeated Impact-Testing Machine at the National Physical Laboratory, 33
Stations, Electric Power. See Electric
Station, Railway, at Hamburg, 840
Station, Railway, at Stockholm, 196
Station, Victoria, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, London, 35, 139, 242, 379, 448
Statistics, Railway Cost, 3a1
Stay-Bolts, Flexible, for Locomotive Fire-Boxes, 350
Stead, J. E., on Segregation in Steel Ingots, 220 405
Steamboats. See Steamers
Steam-Boilers. See Boilers and Water-Tube Boilers
Steam-Buses, 688, 709, 753, 822. See 'Buses
Steam-Coaches. See Motor Carriages and Motor Rail Cars
Steam Consumption of 500-Kilowatt Steam Turbine Unit, 11
Steam Consumption. See also Steam Trials, Turbines, and Diagrams
Steam Consumption of Turbine-Driven Ships, 471, 778
Steam Consumption of Vauclain Compound Locomotive, 885
Steam-Engines. See Engines
Steam Flow through Nozzles. See Turbines
Steam-Hammer, 6-Ton, 520
Steam - Lorries. See Afotor-Cars and Motor Wagons
Steam-Meter, The " Sarco," 413
Steam as a Motive Power for Public-Service
Vehicles, 688, 709, 753, 822
Steam Motor-Car, Rexer, 523
Steam-Omnibus, 688, 703, 750, 822
Steam Packing, 568
Steam-Pipe Bursting at Rochdale, 99
Steam, Properties of, 512, 546, 688
Steam-Superheaters. See Superheaters
Steam Trials of H.M. Armoured Cruiser "Achilles," 672 ; H.M.S. "Africa," 12 ; H.M.S. "Britannia," 161, 873
Steam Tnais of H.M. Armoured Cruiser " Cochrane," 43
Steam Trials of H.M. Armoured Cruiser " Natal," 198
Steam Trials of His Majesty's Ships in 1906, 873
Steam Trials of H M.S." Dreadnought, 462, 493
Steam Trials of Peruvian Cruiser " Almirante Grau," 433
Steam-Turbines. See Turbines, Steam,
Steamer " Carnarvon," Board of Trade Lightship Tender, 555
Steamer Company, Expansions of Hamburg American, 966
Steamers' Engines. See Engines, Marine
Steamer, Ice-Breaking, " Lady Grey," 261
Steamers, Large Atlantic, 384
Steamere. See also Warships
Steamer, Train-Carrying, for Channel Ferry, 757
Steamers, Turbine, Comparative Performances of, 778
Steamers, Turbine, Comparisons of, 471
Steamers, Turbine-Driven Fishing, 567
Steamer, Turbine - Driven, " Mauretania," for
Cunard Company, 345, 384, 420
Steamers, Turbine-Driven. See Turbines, Steam,
Steamers, Turbine, for the Fishguard and Rosslare Service, 106
Steamers, Twin-Screw, for Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 95
Steel Alloys. See Alloys and Micro-Photographs
Steel, Effect of Copper on, 101
Steel Fatigues, Micrographic Study of, 842
Steel Furnace, Kjellin Electric, 147, 240
Steel, Heat Treatment of, 227
Steels, High-Speed, Tempering and Cutting Tests of, 147, 300
Steel, High-Speed Tool, Tests of, 67
Steel Ingots, Segregation in, 220, 405
Steel and Iron, Fracture of, 220
Steel and Iron Industries, German, Application of Large Gas-Engines in, 111, 132
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel and Iron, International Specifications for Testing, 637
Steel and Iron, Protection of, by Electro-Positive Coatings, 247
Steel and Iron, Rolling of, Improvements in, 147, 401
Steel and Iron, Use of Electric Furnace in Manufacturing, 779
Steel-Making in Japan, 126
Steel, Manufacture of, at Osborn's Works, 563
Steel, Micro-Structure of. See Micro-Photo-graphs
Steel, Nickel, Allotropic Modification of, 654
Steel, Nickel and Carbon, 22
Steel, Quality of, for Ferro-Conorete, 259
Steel, Remarkable Failures of, 494
Steel Work in the Palace Theatre, London, 867
Stern-Wheel Motor-Boat, 576
Stockholm, New Railway Station at, 196
Stoker Mechanicians and Engine-Room Artificers, 55, 593
Stone Tested by Sand-Blast, 717
Stores46, Purchase of, for Engineering Works, 376, 4
Storm at Guildford on August 2, 1906, 844
Straker-Squire Motor-Car, 567
Stream-Line Theory Applied to Determination
of Stresses in Ships' Structures, 246, 436
Street-Lighting in London, 773
Strength and Behaviour of Ductile Materials under Combined Stress, 248
Strength of White Metal, 376
Stress Diagrams for Framed Structures, 275
Stresses Allowable in White Metal, 376
Stresses in Bars, 568
Stresses Due to Moving Loads on Railway Bridges, 307, 445, 619
Stresses in Eye-Bars, Methods of Ascertaining, 124. See LirrrER
Stresses, Internal, Mathematical Theory of, 566
Stresses, Mechanics of, 857
Stresses in Metals. See also Micro-Photographs
Stresses on Railway Under-Bridges, 3U7, 445, 619
Stresses in Ships' Structures and the Stream Line Theory, 246, 436
Strikes and Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes and Legal
String, Photographic Records of Vibrations of a, 276
Structural Changes in Nickel Wire at High Temperatures, 220, 222
Structure of Metal. See Micro-Photographs
Structures, Theory of, 857
Stuffing-Box Packing, 568
Subaqueous Rock-Cutting, 211. See 83
Sub-Lieutenant, Engineer, for Temporary Service in the Royal Navy, 738
Submarine Boats, Floating Dock for, 57
Submarine Boats in Naval Warfare, 433, 871, 873
Submarine Boats, The Utility of, 433, 871, 873
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 234, 885
Suction-Gas Engirie. See Engine, Gas
Suction-Gas Plant at Derby Show, Trials of, 805, 843, 865
Suction-Gas Plants, 205, 248
Suction-Gas Producer. See Producer, Gas
Suction-Gas Trials, R.A.S.E., 805, 843, 865
Sugar, Hydrolysis of, 309
Sulphide Ores, Concentration of, 269
Superheated Steam ; Trials of H.M.S. " Britannia," 161, 873
Superheater, The Davies, 415
Superheater, The " Schenectady," for Locomotives, 43
Superheating Steam in Warships, 161, 873
Survey, Magnetic, of South Africa, 280
Sweden and Germany, Blast-Furnace Problem in, 497
Swedish Electric Power Station at Trollhattan, 294
Swedish Navy, 327
Swedish Railways, 327, 736
Switch-Gear Design, High-Tension, 844

Table Testing-Machine, 247
Talla Water Works of Edinburgh Water Supply, 782
Tangye, The late Sir Richard, 530
Tapton Junction, Railway Accident at, 842
Target, The Peters Self-Registering, 221
Tax, Graduated, Inhabited House Duty as, 340 Taxing Motor-Buses, 355
Teaching of Mechanics, 246. See also Mechanism
Teaching. See Education and Training
Technical Education in Schools, 773
Technical Education. See also Education
Teesside as an Industrial Centre, 2, 34
Telefunken System of Radiotelegraphy, 788, 827, 853
Telegraph. See Electric
Telegraph Poles, Tests of, 234
Telegraphs, Submarine. See Submarines Telegraphy, Wireless. See Radiotelegraphy under Electric
Telephones, Sale of Glasgow Municipal, 52
Telephones. See also Electric
Telescope, Twin, Equatorial, at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 819
Telpherage Plant for Conveying Coal, 44
Temperature, Optical Measurement of, 247
Tempering and Cutting Tests of High-Speed Steels, 147, 300. See 67
Tenders of Locomotive. gee Locomotives
Testing Brake for Small Motors, 877
Testing of Building Materials by Sand-Blast, 717
Testing of Engineering Explosives, 809
Testing Gas-Engine, German Regulations for, 864
Testing-Machine for Oils and Bearings at Cooper's Hill College, 594
Testing-Machine for Repeated Impact at the
National Physical Laboratory, 33
Testing-Machine for Lecture-Table, 247
Testing-Machines, Large, in South Wales, 164, 179, 189
Testing Magnetic Metals, 566
Testing Materials, International Congress for, 565, 637,654
Testing Materials in Prussia, 873
Testing Metals for Hardness, Brinell's Method of, 639
Testing Methods and Machines, E6G
Testing Steel and Iron, International Specifications for, 637
Testing-Table for Air-Tightness of Tin Cans, 478
Testing Work of the National Physical Laboratory in 1905, 38
Testing Work at the Prussian Materialprii-fungsamt in 1905, 873
Testing Work at the Reichsanstalt, 295
Tests of an Air-Lift Pump, 397
Tests of the Electric Railway Commission of St. Louis Exhibition, 230, 293
Tests of Friction Losses in Gas-Engines, 60
Tests of High-Speed Steels, Tempering and Cutting, 147, 300
Tests of High-Speed Tool Steel, 67
Tests, Impact, on Notched Bar, 638
Tests of Leitner-Lucas Train-Lighting Apparatus, 520
Tests of Metals. See also Micro-Photographs Tests of a Petrol Engine, 856
Tests. See also Trials, Steam Trials, Reich-sanstalt, and Diagrams
Tests, Significance of Contraction of Area, 566
Tests of a 500-Kilowatt Steam-Turbine Unit, 11
Tests of Suction-Gas Plant at Derby Show, 805, 843, 865
Tests of Telegraph Poles, 234
Tests of Welding, 637
Thames Iron Works Company ' • 45-Horse-Power Six-Cylinder Touring Car, 72t
Theatre, The Palace, Steel Work in, 867 Thermal Storage Tank, Explosion of, 878
Thermo-Dynamic Formulae for Gases, 75 Thermo-Dynamics. See Turbine, Compound
Reaction Steam
Thermometers, Platinum Resistance, 359 Thomas, A. S., on Influence of Silicon and
Graphite on the Open-Hearth Process, 370 Thomas, R. B., on the Manufacture of Tin
Plates, 164, 175, 183
Thornycroft Motor-Car, 36 • Horse-Power Six-Cylinder, 696
Thunderstorm at Guildford, August 2, 1906, 844 Tickets, Workmen's Cheap Railway, in Belgium, 340
Tie-Rods, Stresses in, 124
Timber, Preservation of, from White .Ants, 234
Timber Tested by Sand-Blast, 717
Tin Can-Making Machinery, 478
Tin-Mining in the Malay States, 281
Tin-Plate, The Recovery of Tin from, 605
Tin-Plates, The Manufacture of, 164, 178, 183 Tin Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Tisdall, H. G. on Tests of a Petrol-Engine, 856 `'Titan," 42-Ton, at Colombo Harbour, 750
Tool Steel, High-Speed, Manufacture of, 147, 300, 563
Tool Steel, Tests of High-Speed, 67
Tools, Machine. See Machine-Tools
Topham, H., on Tests of a Petrol Engine, 856
Torpedo, The Bliss-Leavitt Turbine-Driven, 496 Torsion-Meter for Turbine-Driven Shafts, 777
Tow, The Braidwater Lapping-Machine for, 330 Traction, Single-Phase Electric, 243, 573, 746 Traction, Electric. See Tramways and Rail
ways, under Electric
Traction, Electric, Single-Phase, 243, 573, 746 Tractors at Smithfield Club Show, 757, 807 Trade, The Belgian Iron, 565
Trade Development in Japan, 680
Trade Disputes Bill, 251, 767
Trade of Japan in 1905, 316
Trade of Japan with China, 532
Trade of Korea, 360
Trading, Municipal. See Municipal Trading Trade, Shipbuilding, Condition of, 54, 497
Trades Union Congress, 356
Trade Unionism, The Benefit Side of, 228
Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes and Legal Traffic of London, Report of Royal Commission on, 18, 773
Traffic, Motor, Roads for, 61, 356
Traffic Obstructions, 773
Traffic, Railway Motor-Car, 164, 179, 261, 547 Traffic Working, Freight, 341
Train-Brake, The Chapsal-Saillot Compressed-Air, 863
Train-Brake, Vacuum, 736
Train-Brake, Westinghouse Quick-Acting, 761
Train-Carrying Steamer for Channel Ferry, 757 Train-Control, The Raymond Phillips System, 53 Train-Lighting Apparatus, Tests of the Leitner
Lucas, 520
Train-Lighting, Vickers-Hall System of, 811 Train Resistance and Speed, 385
Train Resistance, Tests of the St. Louis Railway Commission, 293
Trains. See Locomotives, Railways, and Motor-Carriages
Training. See also Education and Apprentices Tramway Accident at Highgate, 605
Tramway and Light Railway Law, 242 Tramways, London County Council, 126, 197, 532 Tramways and the Motor-Bus, 837
Tramways, Municipal. See Municipal Trading Tramway Rail-Joints and Track Construction, 658
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 808
Tramways. See also Electric
Tramways, The London County Council, 126, 197, 532
Trans-Siberian Railway, 298
Transit, Rapid, Facilities, and Distribution of Population, 341
Transporter Bridge, Newport, 182
Transporting Coal, Electric Telpherage Plant, 44
Transporting Machinery at Emden Harbour, 253
Treatises. See LITERATURE INDEX
Trenail, The Lakhovsky, 398
Trials. See Steam Trials, Warships, Guns, Suction Gas Tests, and Launches and Trial Trips Trinidad, Oil-Fields at, 90
Triple-Expansion Engine. See Engine
Trollhattan Hydro-Electric Power-Station, 294
Trucks. See also Carriages
Trusses. See also Bridges and Roofs
Tube Railway, Electric Lifts for the Bakerloo, 380
Tube Railway, Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton, 809
Tube Railways and the Law of Compensation, 700
Tug-Boat " Wyvern " for Heysham Harbour, 248
Tunnel, Simplon, Electric Locomotive and Equipment for, 683
Turbine Air-Compressors, Efficiency of, 640, 738
Turbine Air-Compressors, 735. See LETTERS, 669, 735, 738
Turbine Bearings, Emulsification of Oil in, 94
Turbine Compressors, Efficiency of, 600, 640, 669, 735, 738, 744
Turbine, Curtis, for Torpedo Propulsion, 496
Turbine Driven Battleships for the United States, 54
Turbine-Driven Fishing Craft, 567
Turbines, Exhaust-Steam, 745
Turbines, Gas, 600, 778
Turbine, Pelton Hydraulic, 98
Turbines, Steam, 250, 373
Turbines, Steam, The A.E.G. Curtis, 675
Turbine, Steam, The Compound Reaction, 511, 545, 581, 618, 685, 736, 749. See 675
Turbines, Steam, The Curtis, 749. See 675
Turbines, Steam, for the Cunard Express Liner " Mauretania," 345
Turbine, Steam, De Laval, 225 Brake Horse-Power, Details of, 313
Turbines, Steam, De Laval, at Sladen Wood Cotton-Mills, 313
Turbine, Steam, Design of Blades, 511, 582, 675, 685, 749
Turbine, Steam, Efficiency of, 546, 581, 686, 675
Turbine, Steam, End-Thrust, 421, 455, 500, 534
Turbines, Steam, in H.M.S. " Dreadnought," 493, 873
Turbines, Steam, 1500 - Kilowatt, Willans and
Robinson, for Islington Power Station, 501
Turbines, Steam, Marine Development of, 471
Turbines, Steatn,The Melms, Pfenninger, Sankey 11
Turbines, Steam, The Present Status of, on Land and Sea, 743, 777
Turbines, Steam, Recent Developments of, 246
Turbines, Steam, v. Reciprocating Engines, 455
Turbines, Steam, The Rateau, 745, 750
Turbines, Steam, Theory of, 580 Turbo-Alternators, Efficiency of, 744
Turbo-Compressors, Efficiency of, 669. See LETTERS, 600; 640
Turbo-Fans and Blowers, and Compressors, 744. See LETTERS, 600, 669, 735, 738
Turbo-Generators, Efficiency of, 678, 743
Turbo-Pumps, 744
Turning, Tile Art of, 105
Turning Machines. • See Machine-Tools
Tyne, New High-Level Railway Bridge over the River, 53
Type-Setting Machinery at Agricultural Hall Exhibition, 90
Tyre Mills, Three-Cylinder Vertical Engine for, 349
Tyree, Design of, for Railway Work, 350 Tyres, Railway, Machinery for Making, 520

Ultra-Violet Light, Induction of Electrical and Chemical Changes by, 278
Underground Railways. See also Tunnels and Railways
Unemployed Problem and Labour Exchange, 342
Uniform Methods of Testing, 566
Unions, Trade. See Trade Unions, industrial Notes, and Legal
United States Battleships and Turbines, 64
United States, Notes from the, 24, 55, 81, 1 l8, 154, 200, V4, 250, 288, 329, 352, 338, 421, 498, 524, 558, 596, 639, 662, 704, 727, 796, 868
United States. See also American
United States Pig-Iron Industry, 21
Units and Standards, 699
University of Cambridge, Engineering Schools at, 5g5, 650
Up-to-Date Engine-Building, 593
Utilisation of Colloids, 1

Vacuum Brake, 736
Vacuum Pumps for Laboratory Work, 327 Valparaiso Earthquake, 260
Valve, Balanced Regulator, for Locomotive. See LETTERS, 568
Valves, Lentz, for Four-Cylinder Compound Locomotive, 720
Valves and Valve-Gear, 68. See also Motor-Cars, Locomotives, Regulators, and Engines
Vehicles, Public Service, Steam as a Motive Power for, 688, 709, 753, 822
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor-Cars, Motor-Wagons, Motor-Buves, and Motor-Carriages Vertical Gas Retort, 292
Vibration, Effect on Zenith Distance Observa-tions, 277
Vibrations of a String, Photographic Records of, 276
Vickers-Hall System of Train-Lighting, The, 811 Victoria Falls Electric Power Scheme, 765, 797, 844
Victoria Station, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 35, 139, 242, 379, 448
Volcanoes, 344
Vulcan Fellowship in Engineering, 671

Wage, Proposal for Legal Minimum, and Economic Theory, 342
Wagons, Railway Axle-Bearings for, 787
Wagon, Railway, for Carrying Steel Plates ; Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Company, 222
Wagons, Steam, 793
Wagons, Steam. See also Motor-Cars and Motor-Wagons
Waldner, The late Mr. August, 14
Walker, R. J., and Parsons, C. A., on the Development of the Marine Steam-Turbine, 471
Wall, Boundary, of Victoria Station, London, 35
War Finance, Japanese, 465
Warship-Building, Rapid, and Naval Policy, 427
Warship Construction in 1906, 873

Warships:

Bliss-Leavitt Turbine-Driven Torpedo, The, 496
Coaling of, 796
Coastal Destroyer, I-1, M., "Gadfly," 465
Command of the Sea, The, 17
Comparison of Naval Power, 17, 735, 803
Comparison of Vessels with Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, 778, 873
Continental Powers and British Naval Retrenchment, 257
Forced Lubrication in Engines of H.M.S. "Africa," 12
French Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Claymore," 469
Gun Trials of H.M.S. "Dreadnought," 567
H.M. Armoured Cruiser " Achilles," Steam Trials of, 672
H.M. Battleship " Lord Nelson," 328
H.M.S. " Dreadnought," 534
H.M.S. " Dreadnought," Steam Trials and
Armament of, 462, 493, 873
Japanese Naval Programme, 433
Minor Navies of the World, 324
Naval Programme, 17, 158, 735, 803
New Naval Construction, 122
Peruvian Cruiser " Almirante Grau ; " 433
Position of the Submarine, 433, 871
Rapid Warship-Building and Naval Policy, 427
Refloating of the " Mikasa," 393
Russian Armoured Cruiser " Rurik," The, 656, 704
Sa617lving of Guns of H.M.S. " Montagu,"
Speed of Battleships, 669, 873
Steam, Superheating, in Warships, 161, 873
Steam Trials of H. hi. Armoured Cruiser "Cochrane," 43 ; H.M. Battleship "Africa," 12 ; H.M. Battleship " Britannia," 161, 873
Steam Trials of H.M. Armoured Cruiser " Natal," 198
Steam Trials of H.M.S. " Dreadnought," 462, 493, 873
Swedish Naval Activity, 327
United States Battleships and Turbines, 64 Utility of Submarine Boats, 433
Warship Construction in 1900, 873
Washing-Machine, Continuous, for Blue Prints, 646
Water, Effect in Stopping Projectiles, 91 Water-hammer and Bursting of Steam-Pipe at Rochdale, 99
Water-Meter, The " Sarco," for Boiler-Feeding, 418
Waves, Ocean, The Size of, 359
Water Power in Norway, 231
Water Power. See Hydraulic and Hydro-Electric Water-Pumping Installation for Burma, 384
Water-Pumps. See Pump8
Water in Sealed Tubes, Freezing Temperature of, 312
Water-Softener and Oil-Separator, The Paterson, 834
Water Supply, Edinburgh, 782
Water Supply of London, 193, 500, 636
Water Supply, Schemes in Parliament, 772
Water-Tube Boiler for Steam Omnibus, 709
Water-Tube Boilers for Locomotives, 264
Water-Wheel, Pelton, 98. See also Turbines
Waterproof Roads and the Dust Problem, 248
Waterways and Canals, Royal Commission on, 582, 716, 875
Waterways. See also River and Canal
Water Works, Aqueducts, and Catchment Areas, 782
Watson, James, and Co., Dundee ; Fire at Ware-house, 221
Weather, Abnormal, during Summer of 1906, 782,-844
Weighing-Machine (NV. and M. Avery and Co.,, Birmingham), 95
Weight of a Crowd, 375
Welding Tests, 637
Wells, Use of Cement-Grout in Sinking, 605
West Africa Railway; Four-Cylinder Compound Rack-Adhesion Locomotive for, 201
West, The Late Henry Hartley, 232
Westgarth, T.; Notes on Large British Gas
Engines, and on Gas-Cleaning, 111, 127
Westinghouse Quick-Acting Brake, Tests of, 761
Westphalian Coal Industry, 373
Wharf, Ferro-Concrete, at Rochester, 659 Wharf, Proposed, for Port of London, 842
Wheels, Design of, for Locomotives, 350
Wheel, The Kalamazoo Pressed-Steel, for Hand-Care, 435. See Erratum, 704
White, E. T., on Purchase of Stores for Engi-neering Works, 376, 446
White Metal, Strength and Elasticity of, 376
Whitham, J. M., on Natural Gas under Steam Boilers, 507
Wicksteed, T. H., on Large Testing-Machines in South Wales, 164, 179, 189
Wigham, F. H., on Effect of Copper on Steel, 101
Wind-Screen of Victoria Station, London, 242 Wire, Nickel, Structural Changes at High Tem-peratures, 220, 222
Wireless Telegraphy. See Radiotelegraphy under Electric
Wireless Telegraphy, Telefunken System of, 783, 827, 863
Wolseley Tool and Motor-Car Company ; 30-Horse-Power Siddeley Car, 623
Wood Preservation from White Ants, 234
Wood Tested by Sand-Blast, 717
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine-Tools.
Workmen's Benefits from Trade Unions, 228
Workmen's Compensation Act in the House of Lords, 842
Workmen's Compensation in Belgium, 769 Workmen's Compensation and Employers' Liability Act, 468
Workmen, Claims of, 599
Workmen's Fares, Cheap, in Belgium, 340 Workmen, Management of, 429
Workmen's Pensions in French Mines, 838 Workmen and Repetition Work, 392

Works

Barr and Stroud, 23
J. and E. Hall, Limited, Dartford, 73
Northfleet Works of the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Limited, 76
Railway Tyre Works, Japanese Government, at Yawata, 520
Works, Engineering, Purchase of Stores in, 376 446
Works, Power Supply to, 497
Workshops, Ferro-Concrete, at Toronto, 862
Workshops in Public Schools, 773
"Wyvern," Harbour Service Vessel, for Midland Railway Company, 248

Year-Book of Japan, 877
Year-Books, 576, 763, 836, 886
Yield of Catchment Areas, 782
York, .J. E., on Improvements in the Rolling of Iron and Steel, 147, 401
York Rainfall, 290
York's Transverse Rolled - Steel Sleepers, 746. See also 398
Yorkshire Lead-Mining, 342

Zenith Distance Observations, Effect of Vibration on, 277
Zuider Zee, Reclamation of, 433

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