Engineering 1907 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1907 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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ABSORPTION Dynamometer, 723
Accident Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation and Legal

Accidents :

Accidents in German Mines, 289
Collapse of Iron Stack at Cammell's Steel Works, 518
Collision at Elliot Junction, 13, 83, 123, 550
Collision of "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" and "Orinoco," 188, 207
Crane Accident at Barrow-in Furness, 219
Derailment on the New York, Central, and Hudson River Railway, 479
Fatal Accident at Willans and Robinson's Works, 187
Fatal Accidents in North American Coal-Mines, 241
Indian Railway Accidents, 712
Italian Prize Competition for the Prevention of Accidents in Factories, 255
Pit-Cage Accident near Sheffield, 560
Railway Accidents in America,787. See 479
Ulleskelf Accident (N.E.R ), 17

Accumulators. See Electric.

Acts of Parliament. See Parliament and Legal.
Adding and Listing-Machine, The Burroughs, 580
Address, Presidential, to Engineering Conference, 822
Address, Presidential, to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 595
Address, Presidential, to Iron and Steel Institute, 624
Address, Presidential, of Lord Glasgow to Institution of Naval Architects, 388
Adhesion between Concrete and Steel, 278. See also Ferro-Concrete
Admiralty Naval Policy, 11
Admiralty Policy. See Engineers, Naval, and Warships
Aerial Mast for Wireless Telegraphy, Failure of, 89, 110
Aeroplanes versus Wings, 217, 249, 271, 458, 488, 525, 526, 647, 592. See 491
Africa. See South Africa
African Railways, 721
Ageing of Mild Steel, 642, 725, 757
Agricultural Hall, Islington, Motor Vehicles and Flying Machines at, 490, 491
Agricultural Machines, Italian Treatise on, 295
Agricultural Society Show at Lincoln, 859
Agricultural Society Trials of Suction-Gas, 11, 45
Air, Compressed. See also Compressed Air and Pneumatic
Air-Compressors at Devonport Docks, 269. See 755
Air, The Exploration of, 391. See also Aero¬planes
Air-Heating for Boiler Furnaces, 642, 691
Air, Liquid, Manufacture of, 506
Air Pressure on Planes, 526. See Aeroplanes
Air, Regeneration of, by Sodium Peroxide, 456
Air, Warm, at High Altitudes, 457
Aire, Sluice in River, 644
Alarms for Fire, Automatic, 79
Alexander, M. W., on a Plan to Provide for a Supply of Skilled Workmen, 328. See 243 and LETTERS
"Alexandra," Turbine-Driven Yacht, for the King, 722
Alkali and Bleach Industry, 246
Alloys of Aluminium and Copper, 108, 127, 159, 233, 253, 299
Almeria, Spain, Transportation and Shipment of Ore, 103, 171
Alston, W. M., on the Rothesay Dock at Glasgow, 543
Alternating Current. See Electric
Alternating Stresses in Metals, 209, 318, 505, 547
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium and Copper, Alloys of, 108, 127, 158, 233, 253, 299
America. See also United States
American Engineering Societies, Building for, 86
American Locomotive Company, Rotary Snow Plough, 171
American Locomotives. See Locomotives
American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
American Metallurgical Industry. See iron and Steel and Notes from the United States
American Prosperity, Disadvantage of, 216
Ammonia and its Compounds, Treatise on, 260
Andrews, Thomas, The late, 864
Andrews, W. T., Demolition of Great Wheel, Earl's Court, 537
Annual Publications. See Year-Books
Antenna for Wireless Telegraphy, Failure of, 89, 110
Antimony. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Antiquation Charges, 585
Apparatus at Royal Society's Soirée, 621, 808
Apprentices, Engineering, 243, 271, 319, 347. See 328
Apprentices, Workman, Training of, 528. See 243 and LETTERS
Apprenticeship. See also Education and Training
Apprenticeship System at Messrs. Barr and Stroud's, 772
Arc Lamps. See Electric
Arch. See Bridge
Architects, Royal Institution of British, and Ferro-Concrete, 717
Argentina, British Interests in, 255
Argentine Railway Affairs, 696
Armament of Warships. See Warships
Armour. See also Warships
Armoured Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Artillery. See Guns
Assouan Dam, 425, 493
Astronomical Telescope, Gigantic, for California. 406
Astronomy, Spectroscopic Phenomena, 684
Atlantic Passenger Traffic, 88
Atomiser, Centrifugal, 784
Audible Signalling on Railways, 837, 867
Auld Brig o' Ayr, 471
Austen, H. C. M., on the Modern Developments of British Fishery Harbours, 167, 261, 542, 701
Australasia. See New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia
Australia, Trans-Continental Railway, 527
Auto-Cars. See Motor-Cars
Automatic Sluice in River Aire at Leeds, 644
Automobiles. See Motor-Car
Ayr, Historic Bridge at, 471

Bacterial Treatment of Trade Wastes, 489
Bairstow, Leonard, on Gas-Engine Efficiency, 731
Baker, Sir Benjamin, The late, 685
Ball Lightning, 655
Balloon Struck by Lightning, 656
Bamford, H., on Moving Loads on Railway Under-Bridges, 699
Barbettes. See Guns
Barge for Automatic Coaling of Steamers, Clarke System, 78
Barges for Shipment of Coal and Ore, 854
Barrington, W., on Light Railway Policy, 838, 867
Basic Steel from High-Silicon Pig,636
"Bassein," Paddle-Steamer for Burma Railway Company, 805
Batteries. See Electric and Guns
Battleships. See Warships
Battleship, The World's Largest, The "Satsuma," 23
Beams, Distribution of Stresses in, 456
Beaumont, W. W., on Petrol Motor-Omnibuses, 365, 395, 415
Bending-Machine for Large Pipes, 774
Bending-Machine for Pipes, The " Conrex," 193
Bending-Machine for Thin Pipes, 393
Bending Stresses in Beams, 456
Berlin, Street Pavement of, 784
Berthelot, The late Marcellin, 391
Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Limited, Manchester ; Locomotive Works, 2, 70
Bigge, D. S. on Electrically-Driven Reversing
Rolling-Mills, 624, 627, 634
Birmingham, Bridge over Great Western Railway at Smallheath, 603, 673
Blackfriars Bridge, Widening of, 75, 863
Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas
Bleach and Alkali Industry, 246
Blocks, Concrete, Machine for Making, 238
Blount, Bertram, on the Preservation of Iron and Steel-Work, 810, 827
Blowing-Engines. See Engines, Molting, also Air-Compressors Myth, Rock-Dredging at, 839, 869
Board of Trade and Boiler Explosions. See Boiler Explosions
Boats, Motor. See Motor-Launches and Motor Boats
Boat for Pearl-Fishing Driven by Oil-Motor, 91
Boats, Submarine, 390, 457, 501
Boddam's Hydro-Electric Lift, 646
Bodsworth Heating Furnace, 566
Bogies, Railway. See Carriages and Locomo tives
Boiler Explosion Acts, Working of, 558, 677
Boiler Explosion near Chesterfield, 327
Boiler Explosion at Craven Arms, 599
Boiler, Explosion of Thermal Storage Tank at Greenwich, 55
Boiler Explosions in 1906, 558, 677
Boilers with Induced Draught and Hot-Air Economisers, 642, 691
Boilers of Locomotives. See also Locomotive
Boilers and Pielock Superheaters for S.S. "Rance," 77
Boiler Plant, Efficiency of, 10, 45, 79, 592, 654, 690, 708, 753
Boiler-Plates, Ageing of, 642, 725, 757
Boiler, The Temperley - Cockburn, 176. See Erratum, 211
Boiler, Water-Tube, The Lune Valley, with Liquid-Fuel Burner, 376
Boilers, Water-Tube, for Mission Steamer "Endeavour " (W. Sisson and Co., Gloucester), 80
Bolton Water Works, Mechanical Filters at, 733
Bondman Weir at Leeds, Automatic Sluice in, 644
Bone, W. A., on the Use of Steam in Gas-Producer Practice, 639, 659
Books Received, 7, 103, 134, 260, 296, 609, 673, 705, 737, 768, 798
Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Bordeaux Exhibition, 121, 124, 752
Bordeaux International Congress in Naval Architecture. See Naval Architects
Boring-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Borstall, H. R. J., on Upkeep Charges for Large Electric Generating Sets, 819, 831
Bottle-Making Machine, The Leistner, 740
Brake-Absorption Dynamometer, 723
Brake, Eddy-Current, for Testing Motor, 308
Brake, The Freund Tramway, 210
Brassey " Naval Annual," 766
Brazilian Shallow-Draught River Steamers, 616
Breakdown Crane, 30-Ton, 419
Breakdowns of Large Gas-Engines, 751
Breakdowns of Marine Engines, 245
Breathing Apparatus, Artificial, and Sodium Peroxide, 456
Brennan Mono-Rail Car, 621. See 749, 794, 826, and Erratum, 776
Bridge, Blackfriars, Widening of, 75, 853
Bridge, Connaught, in Natal, 330
Bridge across Darling Harbour, Sydney, N.S.W., 515
Bridge Foundations of Ferro-Concrete, 615
Bridge, Great Western Railway, at Smallheath,
Birmingham, 603, 673
Bridge, Historic, at Ayr, 471
Bridges, Railway, Moving Loads on, 699
Bridge over River Avon, at Bristol, 515
Bridge over River Indus at Khushalgarh, 229
Bridges, Strengthening of, on Madras Railway,
407
Bridges, The Use of High-Tensile Steel in, 846, 872
Bridge at Victoria Falls, 392
Bridging Yalu River, 185
Briquettes of Iron Ore, 90, 143
Bristol, Swing-Bridge over the River Avon, 515
British Association :
Annual General Meeting, Arrangements for,
654
Distribution of Population by Facilities of
Rapid Transit, by Lynden M%eassey, 193
Programme of, 654
British Battleships. See Warships
British Fishery Harbours, 167, 261, 542, 701
British Interests in Argentina, 255
British Locomotives. See Locomotives
British Naval Training. See Engineers and Navy
British Oxygen Company, Works of, 506
British Railways ; Current Construction, 326
British Railways, Financial Condition of, 279
British Warships. See Warships
Brock, The late Mr. Walter, 679
Bronzes ; Aluminium and Capper Alloys, 108,
127, 158, 223, 253, 299
Brown, Andrew, The late, 625
Bruges Harbour and Canal, 624
Building Blocks, Concrete, Machine for Making,
238
Building Construction. See also Ferro-Concrete
Building Factory and Workshop, Design of, 182
Buildings, Ferro-Concrete, Durability of, 812,
828, 863. See Eiratum, S63
Building of New Central Criminal Court, 284
Building Trades' Exhibition, 476
Building for United Engineering Society of
America, 86
Bunkering Barges, 78, 854
Burlingham, W., on the Deformation of Pro
peller Blades, 263. See 347
Burma Railway Company, Paddle - Steamer
" Bassein," 805
Burroughs Adding and Listing Machine, 580
Buses, Motor. See Motor-Buses

Cable Companies, Submarine, 256, 790 Cables, Electric, Fireproof Tests of, 752
Cable Joints and Sockets for Guys, Failure of, 110 Cables, Mooring, for " Mauretania" and " Lusi-tania," 425
Cable Steamer, Japanese, " Ogasawara Maru," 514
Cable, Submarine, Developments, 256, 790 Caisson for Dock at Chantiers de la Gironde, 796 Caissons, Ferro-Concrete, for Bridge Founda
tions, 615
Caissons for New Graving Docks at Devonport, 202
Calcium for Reduction of Oxides and Sulphide, 785
Calculating Machine, The Burroughs, 580 Calculations of Ships, The Integraph for, 446 Calculator for Speed and Power of Steamships,
395
Caledonian Railway, Six-Coupled Express Loco¬motive, 144
Caledonian Railway, Snow-Plough for, 308 Callipers with Dial Reading, 600
Calorimetric Tests of Coal on Danish Railways, 653
Canal and Harbour at Bruges, 624
Canal, North Sea-Baltic and German Naval Policy, 684
Canal, Panama, Alternative Scheme for, 181 Canal, Panama, Labour Problems of, 589 Canal, Panama, Present Status of, 337
Canal and Power-Station at Trolhattan, Sweden, 282
Canal, Suez, Rock-Dredging in, 839, 869
Canal, Suez, Treatise on, 6
Canals and Waterways, Royal Commission on, S9, 166, 588, 783
Capron, A. J., on Induced Draught with Hot-Air Economisers, 612, 691
Capstan Driven by Compressed Air at Keyham Docks, 755
Capstan Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Carbon Filaments for Electric Lamps, Manufac¬ture of, 354. See 151
Carbon, Influence of, on Steel, 124
Carbon Lamps, Standardisation of, 154
Carbon, Tests of, for Dynamo Brushes, 95 Carburettor, Paraffin, for Motor Vehicles, 495.
See also Motor-Omnibus in ILLUSTRATED INDEX Card Index and Engineering Periodicals, 291 Cargo-Handling Appliances for Ships, 847, 874 Cargo Steamer, The Design of the Modern, 411,
530
Cargo Steamers and Water - Ballast Arrange
ments, 847, 874
Carnegie Scholarships, 635
Carpenter, C. C., on the Distribution of Gas at
Increased Pressure, 851, 876
Carpenter, H. C. H., on Analysis of the Evolu
tion of Modern Tool-Steel, 533, 569
Carpenter, H. C. H., on Alloys of Aluminium and
Copper, 127, 158, 233, 253, 299
Cars and Carriages. See Motor-Cars, Railway
Cars, and Tramway-Cars
Cartel, German Steel,-625, 751
" Cassiopea," Italian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 42
Cast-Iron. See also Iron
Casting Steel by the Oakley Process, 721
Catalogues, 64, 9S, 256, 290, 330, 361, 402, 436,
500, 566, 600, 632, 696, 729, 760, 790, 876. For
details see PARAGRAPH INDFX
Cataract Dam, Sydney, N.S.W., 156
Cathode and Positive Rays, 246, 281, 353, 387, 423
Cathode Rays, 736
Causes and Prevention of Fire at Sea, 446, 467
Cement, Adhesion of Steel to, 278
Cement Concrete. See Concrete and Ferro
Concrete
Cement Industry in Denmark, 526
Cement, Portland, 455
Central Criminal Court, 284
Central Station. See Electric and Power
Centrifugal Atomiser, 781
Centrifugal High-Lift Pump (Allen, Son, and
Co.), 11.4
Centrifugal Pumps for New Graving Dock,
Colombo, 643
Chain Cables for " Mauretania" and " Lusitania," 425
Channel Tunnel, 425
Chart of Heat Energy for Steam-Turbine Calculations, 57, 79
Chassis. See Motor-Car
Chemical Institution, Imperial, for Germany, 23
Chemistry Applied to Engineers, 386. See 458 and Erratum, 426
Chemistry of Paints, Treatise on, 134
Chesterfield, Boiler Explosion near, 327
Chimney, Ferro-Conorete, Failure of, 247
China, Trade Prospects in, 653
Chinese Foreign Trade, 23
Chromium, Cobalt, and Nickel in Pig Iroii for
Steel-Making, 633, 695
Chuck for Parallel Shank-Drills, 627
City Traffic, Transportation of, 193
Civil Engineers. Conference of the in¬stitution. ot. see also next volume.
Engineering Conference, 779 ; Programme of, 785 ; Opening Proceedings, 809, 822 ; Address by the President, 822 ; Second Day's Proceedings, 837; Visit to. Dover, 858
Section I.—Railways
The Chemical Composition of Steel' Rails and Latest Developments, by Christer Peter Sandberg, 809, 827
Reinforced Concrete for Railway Structures, by Charles Augustus Harrison, 810, 827
The Best Means of Preserving Iron and Steel-Work in Railway Construction, by Bertram Blount, 810, 827
The Action between Wheel and Rail, by
Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, 837, 867 A System of Audible Signalling on Railways, by W. Dawson, 837, 867
Light Railway Policy, by William Barrington, 838, 867
Section IL—Harbours, Docks, and Canals, and Section V.—Shipbuilding (Joint Meeting)
Harbour and Dock Development as Affected by the Development of Shipping, by Lord Pirrie, 811, 827
Section 11.—Harbours, Docks, and Canals
Ferro-Concrete Structures, by Charles Scott
Meik, 812, 828. See Erratum, 855
The Durability of Reinforced-Concrete Struc¬tures, by Francis Ernest Wentworth Sheilds, 812, 828. See Erratum, 856, and LETTER, 863
Dock Equipment, including the Relative Advantages of Electric and Hydraulic Appliances, by William Wilkinson Squire, 838, 868
Dredging in the Sea Channels of the Mersey, by Anthony George Lyster, 839, 868
Rock-Dredging, with Particular Reference to the Present Rock•Removal Operations at Blyth, by John Watt Sandeman, 839, 869
Dredging Rock in the Suez Canal, by Edouard Quellennec, 839, 869
Section III.—Machinery.
Reciprocating Engines for Ocean - Going Steamers, by Henry Davey, 814, 829
The Turbine as Applied to Marine Propul¬sion, by the Hon. Charles Algernon Par¬sons, 814, 829
Precision Grinding, by H. Darbishire, 840,
870
Machine-Tool Design as Affected by the Use of High-Speed Cutting Tobls, by Professor J. T. Nicolson, 840, 870
The Use of Pneumatic Tools in Workshops, by Charles Palmer Whitcombe, 842, 871
Section 1V.—Mining and Metallurgy
Problems of the Witwatersrand Gold-Fields, by George Alfred Denny, 810, 830
Special Methods of Shaft - Sinking, by Henry Louis, 816, 831
The Design and Equipment of Shafts for Deep Winding, 'by Charles Edward Rhodes, 816, 831
Arrangement and Design of Colliery Sur¬face Work, by Edmund Mills Hann, 813, 871
Segregation in Steel, by John Edward Stead,
843, 872
Section V. — Shipbuilding, and Section IV., Mining and Metallurgy (Joint Meeting)
The Use of High-Tensile Steel in Compound Structures, such as Ships, Bridges, &c., by A. E. Seaton, 846, 872
High-Tensile Steel for Torpedo-Boat Con¬struction, by Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 846, 873
The Use of High-Tensile Steel in the Con¬struction of the " Mauretania," by Edwin William de Rusett, 816, 873
Section V.—Shipbuilding.
The Structural Details of Cargo Steamers in Relation to their Water-Ballast Arrange¬ments, by Samuel J. P. Thearle, 847, 874
Arrangements for Working Cargo on Ships,
by William Henry Dugdale, 847, 874
Section VI. - Water Works, Sewerage, and Gas Works
The Comparative Cost of Pumping by Steam, Internal-Combustion Engines, and Electricity, Based upon Actual Working, by Charles Hawksley and Henry Davey, 817, 832. See LETTER, 863
Water-Softening, by William Matthews, 818, 832
Water-Hardening, by James Watson, 818, 833 The Applications of Town Gas as a Heating
Agent, by William Hosgood Young
Webber, 850, 875
The Distribution of Gas at Increased Pres¬sure, by Charles Claude Carpenter, 851, 876
Section VII.—Applications of Electricity
Electrical Transmission Gears on Motor-Vehicles, by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 818, 833
The Application of Electricity to the Work¬ing of Railway Points and Signals, by Luis de Moraes Goines Ferreira, 819, 833
Upkeep Charges on Large Electric Generat¬ing Sets, by Henry Robert John Burstall and John Somerville Highfleld, 819, 831
Civil Engineers, Institution or:
The Simplon Tunnel, by Francis Fox, 44 Internal - Combustion Engine for Marine Purposes, by J. T. Milton, 122
Modern Motor-Vehicles, by Lieut. -Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 175
Civil Enzineers. Inst. of—continued.
On the Limits of Thermal Efficiency in Internal-Combustion Engines, by Dugald Clerk, 284
The Construction of Overhead Electric
Transmission Lines, by A. P. Trotter,
3t14
The Victoria Falls Bridge, by G. A. Hobson, 392
Electrically-Driven Winding-Gear and the Supply of Power to Mines, by A. H. Precie, 481.
The Application of Hydro-Electric Power to Slate-Mining, by Si. Kellow, 481
The Pyrmont Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales (Hr. P. Allan), 515
Swino•. Bridge over River Avon at Bristol, by W. II. B. Savile, 516
Election of Officers, 632
James Forrest Lecture, by Dr. Francis
Elgar, on Unsolved Problems in the Design
and Propulsion of Ships, 822 Conversazione, 851
Civilisation and Engineering,62
Clark, Lyonel Edwin, on Moern Floating Thcks, 417, 462
Clark, Mateo, on the Port of Seville, 789
Clarke Automatic Coaling•Barge, 78
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Stamp End Works, Lincoln, 799
Clements, The Late Mr. 0. P., 155
Cleveland Iron. See Metal Price Diagrams Cleveland, Notes from, 15, 49, 82, 123, 147, 187, 211, 241, 275,
311, 346, 383, 426, 459, 485, 518,
551, 582, 617, 617, 681, 713, 745, 777,•821, 855 Clipper Bows for Steamers, 207. See 188
Clocks and Time, Treatise on, 6
Clutch. See Coupling and Motor-Car Clydebank, Rothesay Dock at, 643
Coal in Kent, 316
Coal-Mining in Natal, 506
Coal-Mining. See also Colliery and Engine, Winding
Coal-Mining, Treatise on, 798
Coal-Testing on Danish Railways, 653 Coaling-Barge, The Clarke Automatic, 78 Coaling Barges, 854
Cobalt, Chromium, and Nickel in Pig Iron for Steel-Making, 638, 695
Coke-Oven Gas for Driving Gas-Engines, 271, 319, 347
Collieries, Eight-Hour Day in, 488, 521., 715 Colliery. See als) Coal and Envite, Winding Colliery Shafts for Deep-Winding, Design and
Equipment of, 816, 831
Colliery Shafts, Special Methods of Sinking, 816, 831
Colliery Surface Works, Arrangement and Design of, 843,-871
Colliery Working and Management, Treatise on, 295
Collisions. See Accidents
Colombo Graving Pock, Pumping..Machinery for, 643
Colour Photograph of Interference Effects on Stressed Glass, 56
Columbium for Metallic Lamps, 527
Columns, Ferro-Concrete,Effects of Heat o; 322 Combine, The German Stel, 625, 751
Combine, Japanese Shipping, 401
Combination, Shipbuilding ; John Brown and Harland and Wolff, 820
Commerce, Maritime, Defence of, 244 Commercial Motor - Vehicle and Motor-Boat Exhibition at Olympia, 339, 373
Commercial Motor-Vehicles, 279. See also Motor Commission, Royal, on Canals and Waterways, 89, 166, 588, 783
Compartments, Watertight, of Ships, 823
Compensation to Workmen, Indemnity Against, 456
Compensation, Workmen's, in Italy, 152 Compensation, Workmen's. See also Legal Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Compressed Air-Brake. See Brake Compressed-Air-Driven Capstan at Keyham
Docks, 755. See also Compressor
Compressed Air, Use of, in Workshops, 842, 871 " Compressol " System of Making Foundations, 739
Compressors, Air, at Devonport Docks, 269 Computer for Speed and Power of Steamships, 395
Concrete, Adhesion of Steel in, 278 Concrete-Block-Making Machine, 238
Concrete, Ferro. See Ferro-Concrete
Concrete Foundations; " Compressol " System, 739
Concrete Mixer and Elevator, 593
Concrete, Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete Concrete, Shearing Strength of, 747
Condenser, A Theoretical, 773, 863
Condensing Machinery. See also Pump3
Conduits, The " Conrex " Split, for Electric Cables, 224
Conference, Engineering. See Civil Engineers Congress, Bordeaux International. See Naval Architects
Connaught Bridge, Natal, 330
" Conrex," Inspection Fittings for Electric Cables, 224 ; Pipe-Bender, 193
Contracting-Out of Workmen's Compensation Act, 456
Control of Torpedoes by Hertzian Waves, 66 Conversazione of Royal Society, 621, 808 Conveying and Shipping of Ore, 103, 171
Cooling Effect of Cylinder Walls, 691
Copper and Aluminium, Alloys of, 108, 127, 158, 233, 253, 299
Copper, Electrolytic, from Sulphidic Ores, 154 Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagram Copper, Tests of, for Electric Machinery, 95 Cordingley's Motor and Flying-Machine Exhibi
tion at Islington, 491
Cordite, Debate on, 780
"Coronel Bolognesi," Peruvian Cruiser, Steam Trials of, 124
Corpuscles and Electric Radiation, 246, 281, 853, 387, 423
Corpuscular Theory and Electrolysis, 87 Corpusoular Theory of Matter, 786
Corrugation of Rails, 422, 703, 803. See 837, 897
Cost of Marine Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, 154
Cost of Various Methods of Pumping Water, 817, 832, S63
Cotton Machinery, Safeguards for, 7
Cotton-Mill Construction, Recent, in Lancashire, 63
Cotton-Mill, Electrically-Driven, at Droylsden, Manchester, 45
Cotton-Mills, Fires in, 705
Cotton•Mills in Japan, 223
County Council. See also London County Council
County Council, The New, for London, 313
Crane, 10-Ton Locomotive, 321
Crane, 30-Cwt. Hydraulic Pedestal, 851
Crane, 30-Ton Breakdown, 419
Crane, 150-Ton Hammer- Head, at Clydebank, 803
Crane, 150-Ton Hammer-Head (Bechem and Keetman), 737
Crane, 150-Ton Hydraulic Wharf, at Elswick, 260
Crane, Electric Travelling (C. and A. Musker, Limited), 710
Crane, Overhead-Revolving, for Foundries (Slaschinenfabrik Augsburg-Niirnburg), 125
Crane. See also Hoists
Cranes for Shipbuilding Berths, 412, 481
Craven Arms, Boiler Explosion at, 599
Criminal Court, New Central, 284
Cruisers. See Warships
Crystal Palace Motor-Oar Show, 185
Crystals, Birth and Affinities of, 655
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See also Micro-Photographs
Cunard Liners, Express, Moorings for, 425
Cunard Liner " Lusitania," Design and Launch of, 409, 433
Cunard S S. " Mauretania," Use of High-Tensile Steel in, 846, 873
Curtis Steam Turbine. See Turbine, Steam
Cutting Metals, The Art of, 64. See also 170018
Cylinder Walls, Cooling Effect of, 691
Cylinders, Strength of, to Resist Collapse, 19

Dam, The Assouan, 425, 493
Dam, The Cataract, at Sydney, N.S. W., 156
Dams, Earth, Built by Hydraulic Method, 90
Dan Paraffin Marine Motor, 318
Danger Signals for Warship Turrets, 612
Danish State Railway, Four-Cylinder Compound Locomotive for, 771, 852
Da,rbishire, H., on Precision Grinding, 810, 870
Darjeeling Electricity Works, 200-Horse-Power
Hydraulic Turbine for, 495
Davenport, John A., on High-Tension Electric Ignition for Petrol-Engines, 228
Davey, Henry, on The Cost of Pumping Water, 817, 832. See 803
Davey, Henry, on Reciprocating Engines for
Ocean Steamers, 814, 829. See 862
Dawson, W., on a System of Audible Signalling for Railways, 837, 867
De Laval Steam-Turbine. See Turbine, Steam,
De Rusett, E. W., on the Use of High-Tensile
Steel in the " Mauretania," 846, 873
Decking for Bridges. See Bridges
Deformation of Propeller-Blades, 263, 347
Dennis Motor-Omnibus, 272
Denny, Archibald, on Torsiometers for the Measurement of Power in Steamers, 413, 482
Denny, G. A.,, on Problems of the Witwatersr and Goldfields, 816, 830
Depreciation Charges, 585
Derailment. See Accidents
Derby Show ; R.A.S.E. Suction-Gas Trials, 11, 45
Derricking Crane, 150-Ton Hammer-Head, 737
Design of Machine Details, A Factor in, 505, 547
Design of Machine-Tools for High-Speed Steel,
840, 870
Design of Marine-Engine Details, 245
Design of Motor-Cars, 318. See 69, 175, 249, 318.
See 490
Design of Propeller Struts, 415, 465
Design of Yachts under New Rules, 17
Designs Bill, The New, 18, 117, 143, 421, 458
Designing by Increase or Reduction of Propor
tions, 619
Destroyers.. See Warships
Destructor for Disposal of House Refuse, 753
Detectors for Fire, 79
Devonport New Naval Docks, 197, 267, 755
Diagram, Entropy, for Steam-Turbine Investi
gations, 57, 79
Diagram, Entropy, Treatise on, 608
Dial.Reading Callipers, 600
Dieppe and Newhaven Wireless-Telegraph Ser
vice, 308
Diesel Engines, Tar-Oil for, 782
Diffusion and Osmotic Pressure 150
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Disadvantage of Prosperity, 216
Disinfection by Electrolytic Hypochlorite, 720
Distribution of Electricity in France, 557
Dock Equipment ; Electric versus Hydraulic
Appliances, 838, 868
Dock Requirements and Shipping Development,
811, 827
Dock, The Rothesay, at Glasgow, 643
Dock. See also harbour and Port
Docks, Colombo, Pumping Machinery for, 643
Docks, Modern Floating, 447, 462
Docks, Naval, at Devonport, 197, 267
Docks of the Socidto de la Gironde, 796
Dockyard, New Royal, at Stockholm, 591
Dover Harbour Works, 858
Doyle, The late Mr. Patrick, 533
Drainage of Johannesburg, 67
Draught, Induced, with Hot-Air, 642, 691
Drawing Office, Standardisation in, 649
Drawing Office Table, Adjustable, 787
Drawing-Pen, The Samuel, 291
"Dreadnought," H.M.S. Effect of in Naval
Tactics, 553
"Dreadnought," Tactical Qualities of, 59, 124
Dredging the Entrance to the Mersey, 333, 603,
655. See 839, 868
Dredging Rock at Blyth and in the Suez Canal,
839, 869
Drilling-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Dugdale, W. H., on Cargo-Handling Appliances
for Ships, 847, 874
Dunell, G. R., The late, 051
Durham Collieries, Extra-High-Tension Switch-Gear at, 578
Dust-Destructor for House Refuse, 763 Dust-Laying on Roads, 720
Dynamics, Treatise of, 133
Dynamometer, Ah3orption Type, 723
Dynamometer, Eddy-Current, for Testing Moto:s 308
Dynamos. Sue Dynamos and Alternators under Electric

Earl's Court, Demolition of Great Wheel at., 537 East River Tunnel of the New York and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, 573
Ecole Centrale, 458. See 426
Economisers, Hot-Air, for Boilers, 642, 691 Eddy-Current Brake for Testing Motors, 308 Education of Apprentices at Messrs. Barr and
Stroud, 772
Education ; The Ecole Centrale, 458. See 426 Education in Japan, 858
Edwards, C. A., on Alloys of Aluminium and Copper, 127, 158, 233, 253, 299. See 1(8 Efficiencies of Gas-Engines, 731
Efficiency of Internal-Combustion Engines, 26 Efficiency of 2000-Kilowatt Willans-Dick-Kerr Turbo-Alternator, 752, 863
Efficiency of Steam-Boiler Plant, 592, 654, 690, 708, 753
Efficiency of Steam-Turbine. See also Turbine, Steam
Efficiency Tests of 3500-Kilowatt Turbine at Carville, 654
Efficiency Tests of High-Speed Petrol-Motor, 164 Egypt, Industrial Progress of, 487, 492
Egyptian Dam. See A88ouan
Egyptian Mail Steamship Company ; Tu:bine Steamers, 722
Eight-Hour Day in French Government Works, 620
Eight-flour Day for Miners, 488, 521, 715 Electron Theory and Electrolysis, 87. See also Railways

Electric :

Alkali and Bleach Industry, 246
Alternating Currents, Treatise on, 609
Commutation of Dynamos, 130
Condensers, Electrolytic, 586
Conduction in Metals, 265
Continuous Currents at High Pressure, 350
Cotton Mill, Electrically-Driven, at Droyls
den, Manchester, 45
Crane, 150-Ton Derricking, 737. See also
Crane
Dock Equipment. Electric versus Hydraulic
Appliances, 838, 868
Electrolytes, of Particles in, 688 Electrolytic Copper from Sulphidic Ores, 154 Electron Theory and Electrolysis, 87. See
also Röntgen
French Legislation on Distribution, 557 Furnace for Hardening Tool Steel, 282 German Power-Stations in 1906, 558 Greenwich Power-Station and the Observatory, 219
Hertzian Waves Used for the Control of Torpedoes, 66
Hydro-Electric Lift, Boddam's, 646
Ignition, High-Tension, for Petrol Engine, 228
Incandescent Lamps, Manufacture of, 354 Inductance, Mutual, Measurement of, 7z1.6 Lamps, Carbon, Standardisation of, 164 Lamps, Metallic Filament, 151
Lamps, Modern Incandescent, 591
Lamps, Niobium, Filaments for, 627 Materials Used in Construction of Electric Machinery, 95, 129
Magnetism, Studies in, 625, 558, 587
Motor Vehicles, Three-Phase Transmission for, 121
Nature of Matter and Radioactivity, Treatise on, 736
Overhead Transmission Lines, 364, 741 Paris Supply Scheme, 454
Petrol Electric Equipment for Motor-Onnii-bus, 341. See 143
Petrol-Electric Transmission Gear for Motor-Vehicles, 818, 833
Power in Mines and Quarries, 481 Radiotelegraphy, Trans-Atlantic, 89 Col
lapse of Antenna, 110. See Wireless Railway Points and Signals, Electrically
Operated, 819, 833
Railway, Underground, of Paris, 38 Rectifiers, Electrolytic, 586
Regenerative Control of Railway Motors, 654 Relay Working of Submarine Cables, 786 Rolling-Mills, Electrically-Driven, 627, 634 Rontgen, Cathode, and Positive Rays, 246,
281, 353, 387, 423
Single-Phase Equipment for New York, New
Haven, and Hartford Railway, 741
Split Inspection Fittings, The " Conrex," for Cables, 224
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 256, 790
Swedish Railways, Electrification of, 154 _

Switch Gear, Extra-High-Tension, 405, 447,

611, 578, 670. For details see Switch-Gear in GENERAL INDEX
Technical Electricity, Treatise on, 673 Telegraphy, Wireless, Trans-Atlantic, 89 ;
Collapse of Antenna, 110. See also Inreless Tests of Fireproof Electric Cables, 752
Tests of 2000-Kilowatt Willans-Dick-Kerr
Turbo-Alternator, 762, 863
Three-Phase Transmission for Motor Vehicles, 121. See also Petrol
Thury System of Transmission by Direct Current, 358. See 350 '
Train on L. and Y. Railway, 560
Tramway Points, Tierney and Malone's Electrically-Operated, 192
Transformers, Design of, 130
Trezzo d'Adda Hydro-Electric Power Station, 174
Upkeep Charges on Large Generating Sets, 819, 834
Valve-Cells, Electrolytic, 686
Water-Power Station and Canal at Trol' hattan, Sweden, 282
Water-Power Station on the Rhine near Laufenburg, 298
Wireless Telegraphy between Newhaven and Dieppe, 308
Wireless Telegraphy, Recent Improvements in, 717. See also Radiotelegraphy Wireless Telegraphy, Treatise on, 295
Wiring Regulations, 522

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Selection and Testing of Materials for Con¬struction of Electric Machinery, by Pro¬fessor J. Epstein, 95, 129
The Transmission of Electrical Energy by Direct Current on the Series System, by J. S. Highfleld, 358. See 350
Electrification of New York, Newhaven, and Hartford Railway, 741
Electricity, Technical Treatise on, 673 Electrolysis and Electron Theory, 87 Electrolytes, Migration of Particles in, 688 Electrolytic Hypochlorite, 720
Elevator and Mixer for Concrete, 693
Elevators. See also Hoists
Elgar, Franois, on Unsolved Problems in the Design and Propulsion of Ships, 822
Elliot Junction, Railway Accident at, 13, 660 Embankments Built by Hydraulic Method, 90 Employers' Liability. See also Workmen's Com¬pensation and Legal
" Endeavour," Stern - Wheel Mission Steamer (Salter Brothers, Oxford), 80
Energy Chart for Steam-Turbine Investigations, 57, 79
Energy Chart, Treatise on, 608
Engines, Air-Compressors, at Devonport Docks, 269
Engines for Ferry Steamers on River Hooghly, 141 Engine, Gas, 1200 - Horse-Power Four-Cylinder
(The Premier Gas-Engine Company, Sandiacre,
Nottingham), 47
Engines, Gas, Comparison of Types, 249
Engines, Gas, Cooling Effect of Cylinder Walls, 69
Engines, Gas, Defects of Large, 761
Engines, Gas, Development of, 280
Engines, Gas, Efficiency of, 284, 731
Engines, Gas, Misting, at Shelton Iron Works, 204 Engines, Gas, Maintenance of, 347
Engine, Gas, The Marine,
184, 207, 249, 377, 389,
429, 528, 825. See 814, 829
Engines, Gas, for Marine Purposes, 122
Engines, Gas, The " Premier," 47, 224
Engines, Gas, at Royal Agricultural Show, 860 Engines, Gas, R. A.S.E. Trials of Suction, 11, 45 Engines, Gas, Working with Coke-Oven Gas, 271,
319, 347
Engine Governor with Smith's Automatic Knock-Off Gear, 285
Engines of H.M.S. " Warrior," 179
Engines, Internal-Combustion, Development of, 280
Engines, Internal-Combustion. See Engines, Gas, Engines, Oil, and Motor
Engines, Locomotive. See Locomotives Engines, Marine, Failures of, 245
Engines, Marine, with Lentz Valves for Super¬heated Steam, S.S. " Rance," 77
Engines, Marine, for Stern-Wheel Steamer "
deavour " (W. Sisson and Co., Gloucester), 80 Engines, Marine, versus Turbines, 154, 814, 829.
$ee.857 Qa9
Engines, Oil, Auxiliary, for Yacht, 461
Engines, Oil, Diesel, Tar Oils for, 782
Engine, Oil, Marine, The " Dan," 318
Engines, Oil, for Marine Purposes, 122
Engines, Oil, Paraffin Carburettor for, 495 Engines, Oil, at Royal Agricultural Show, 860 engine, Oil, used for Fishing-Boat, 91
Engine, Petrol, Efficiency Tests of, 124, 164 Engines, Petrol, High-Tension Electric Ignition for, 228
Engines, Petrol. See also Motor-Cars and Motor-Launches
Engine, Petrol, Tests of, 124, 164
Engines, Reciprocating, for Ocean Steamers, 814, 829. See 857, 862
Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 859 Engines. See Motor-Cars and Motor-Boats Engineering Apprentices, 243, 271, 319, 347. See 328
Engineering and Chemistry, 386. See Erratum, 468
Engineering and Civilisation, 62
Engineering Conference. See Civil Engineers Engineering Employers' Federation and Trade Unions, Agreement between, 526
Engineering, Hope in, 316
Engineering, Humours of, 772
Engineering Periodicals and the Card-Index, 291 Engineering, Sanitary, Treatise on, 296 Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1906, 28. See Erratum, 49
Engineering Societies of America, Building for, 86
Engineering, The Value of Judgment in, 277 Engineering Works in New South Wales, 659 Engineers' Education. See Education and Train¬ing
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 and Civil Engineers' Conference
Engineers, Naval, and Admiralty Policy, 715, 754. See LETTERS
Entropy Chart for Steam-Turbine Investigations, 57, 79
Entropy Diagram, Treatise on, 102, 608
Epstein, Professor J., on Materials used in Electric Machinery, 95, 129
Errata :
Engineering Conference, 855, 863 Gyroscope, Theory of, 776
Metallic Filament Lamps, 187 Milling-Machine, Horizontal, 681 Naval Architects, Institution of, 452 Olympia Exhibition, 426
Problems of Applied Chemistry, 426, 458 Production of Marine Engineering Firms, 49
Errata—continued.
Radiotelegraphy and the Telefunken System, 14
Sankey's Workshop Testing-Machine, 286 Steam at High Pressures and Temperatures, 642
Temperley-Cockburn Boiler, 211
Escape from Buildings in Case of Fire, 22, 45 " Espero," Italian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 42 Exhibition, The Aero Club, 491
Exhibition of Building Trades, 476
Exhibition, International, in Japan in 1912, 121 Exhibition of Laundry Machinery at Islington, 651
Exhibition, Maritime, at Bordeaux, 121, 124, 752 Exhibition of Motor-Cars at the Crystal Palace, 185
Exhibition of Motor-Vehicles at Islington, 990 Experience, The Value of, to Engineering, 277 Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions Explosion on Japanese Battleship " Mikasa,"
Report on, 91
Explosion of Thermal Storage Tank at Green¬wich, 55
Explosives, Composition and Effects of, 119 Explosives, Debate on, 780
Exports. See Trade
Exposition. See Exhibition

Facing-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Factory Building, Cotton, in Lancashire, 53 Factory Building, Design of, 182
Factories, Cotton, Fires in, 705
Factories, Cotton, in Japan, 223
Factory, Cotton-Spinning, Electrically-Driven, at Droylsden, Manchester, 45
Factory Extension at Guildford, 282
Factory Law Cases. See Legal
Factories, New, in Glasgow, 571
Failure of Ferro-Concrete Chimney, 247
Failure of Wireless-Telegraph Antenna at Mach. rihanish, 110
Failures of Mild Steel through Age, 642, 725, 757 Fast Cutting. See Tool Steel
Fatigue of Materials and the Time-Factor, 385 Fatigue, Metal. See also Micro-Photographs Fatigue of Metals, 505, 547
Fatigue of Metals under Alternating Stress, 318 Fatigue, Mild Steel, 642, 725, 757
Feed-Water Heating for Boilers, 592, 654, 690, 708, 753
Feed-Water Heating by Live Steam, 10, 45, 79 Ferranti, Extra-High-Tension Switch-Gear, 405, 447, 511, 578, 676
Ferreira, L. M. G.' on Electric Working of Rail¬way Points and Signals, 819, 833
Ferries, Steam, International, 56

Ferro-Concrete, 717

Ferro-Concrete, Adhesion of Steel in, 278 Ferro-Concrete Chimney, Failure of, 247 Ferro-Concrete Columns, Effects of Heat on, 322 Ferro-Concrete, Early Examples in England, 795 Ferro-Concrete Flooring (Kahn System), Test of,
677
Ferro-Concrete Floors at the Waldorf Hotel, London, 516
Ferro-Concrete Foundations for Bridge, 615 Ferro-Concrete Pier at Purfleet, 813 Ferro-Concrete Pile Litigation, 354 Ferro-Concrete, Practicable Points in, 492 Ferro-Concrete for Railway Structures, 810, 827 Ferro Concrete Structures and their Durability,
812, 828, 863. _gee Erratum., 863
Ferro-Concrete, Treatise on, 13s
Ferro.Concrete Wharf at Hornchurch, Essex, 46 Ferry Steamers for River Hooghly, 141
Field Guns. See Guns
Filament, Metallic Lamp, 151. See Erratum, 187 Filaments, Carbon, for Electric Lamps, Manu¬facture of, 354. See also Lamps
Filing System for Engineering Periodicals, 291 Fillets, Effect of, on Strength of Bars, 505, 547 Filter for Oil. See Oil
Filters, Mechanical, for Water at Bolton, 733 Filtration of Sewage, 355. See also Sewage Finances of Japan, 323
Financial Condition of British Railways, 279 Findlay, Alexander, and Co., Motherwell ; Ore-Shipping Pier, 103, 171
Fire-Alarm, The Pearson Automatic, 221
Fires in Cotton-Mills, 705
Fire-Detectors, 79
Fire, Effects of, on Ferro-Concrete, 322 Fire-Engine, Steam, Motor-Driven, 548 Fire-Escapes, Regulations in London, 22, 45 Fires at Sea, Causes and Prevention of, 446, 467 Fireproof Electric Cables, Tests of, 762
Fishery Harbours, British, 167, 261, 542, 701. See also next volume
Fishing-Boats, British, 167, 261, 542, 701 Fishing-Boat Driven by Oil-Motor, 91
Fittings, The " Conrex " Split, for Electric Cable, 224
Flame in Gas and Petrol Motors, 280
Fleet, Naval. See Warships
Fleming, Dr. J. A., on Wireless Telegraphy, 717 Flight by Wings versus Aeroplane, 217, 249, 271, 468, 488, 625, 526, 547. See 491
Floating Docks, Modern, 447, 462
Flooring, Kahn Ferro-Concrete, Test of, 677 Floors, Ferro-Concrete, at the Waldorf Hotel, London, 616
Flues, Boiler, Strength of, 19
Flying-Machine Exhibition at Islington, 491 Flying Machines, Wings versus Aeroplanes, 217,
249, 271, 458, 488, 625, 526, 547. See 491 Formans and McCall, Glasgow ; Ore-Shipping
Pier, 103, 171
Foundations, The " Compressol " System of Making, 739
Foundations, Ferro-Concrete, for Bridge, 615 Foundry Crane, Overhead Travelling (Maschinen-fabrik Augsburg-Niirnberg), 125
Foundry for Steel, The Oakley, 721
Fraserburgh Harbour, 701
French Commercial and Industrial Interests, Defence of, 185
French Ecole Centrale, 458. Sec 426
French Electric Supply Scheme for Paris, 454 French Government Works, Eight-Hour Day in, 620
French Labour Legislat ion, 683
French Merchant Marine and Personnel, 748 French Northern Railway, Speeds on, 20, 143 French Western Railway, Purchase of, 351 Freund Tramway Brake, 210
Fuel, Liquid, 179, 679, 782
Furnace, Bodsworth Heating, 566
Furnace, Electric, for Hardening Tool•Steel, 282 Furnace Temperature Measurements, Optical, 286, 323

Gas, Coke-Oven, for Driving Gas-Engines, 271,
319, 347
Gas Distribution at Increased Pressure, 851, 876
Gas-Engines. See lengines, Gas
Gas-Producer Practice and the Use of Steam in,
639, 659
Gas, Producer. See also Producer and Suction
Gas, Producer, Treatise on, 259
Gas-Propulsion of Ships, 184, 207, 249, 377, 389,
429, 628, 825. See 814, 829
Gases, Rare, Liquefaction of, 781
Gas, Town, Applied to Heating, 850, 875
Gas, Welsbach, Mantles, 691
Gauge Callipers with Dial Reading, 600
Gauge, Micrometer, 794
Gearing, Ernest George, The late, 248
Generators, Electric. See Alternators and
Dynamos, under Electric
Generators, Gas. See Producer Gas and Suction
and Gas
Geodesy, Treatise on, 606
German Electricity Works in 1906, 658
German Harbour Extensions, 218
German Imperial Chemical Institution, 23
German Labour, Conditions of, 523, 551
German Naval Policy and North Sea Canal, 684
German Steel Union, 625, 751
German Turbine Cruiser " Lubeck," Steam
Trials of, 252
Gibbs Helio-Chronometer, The, 657
Gibson, J. Hamilton, on the Torque of Propeller
Shafting, 413, 497. See 482, 768
Girders. See Bridges and Roofs
Girders, Stresses in Plate Webs, 136, 207
Gironde, Societe de la, Shipbuilding Works of, 796
Glasgow Extra-High-Tension Switch-Gear, 405,
447, 511
Glasgow, New Works in, 571
Glasgow, Rothesay Dock at, 643
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Wagon for
Carrying Rails, 239
Glass-Bottle-Making Machine, The Leistner, 740
Glass, StreFsei, Colour Photographs of Inter
ference Effects in, 66
" Glauco," Submersible Torpedo-Boat, 494
Gold-Mining in the Rand, Problems of, 816, 830
Gold-Mining Machinery, Treatise on, 736
Governor, Pickering, with Smith's Knock-Off
Gear, 285
Graving Dock. See Dock
Greases, Shoe-Polishes, and Leather-Dressings,
Treatise on, 7
Great Western Railway Bridge over River Avon
at Bristol, 515
Great Wheel it Earl's Court, Demolition of, 537
Greenwich Generating Station and Observatory,
219
Grinding-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Grinding, Precision, 840, 870
Grip-Chuck for Parallel Shank-Drills, 627
Guildford, Industrial Developments at, 282
Gulf Stream and British Temperature, 528
Gun-Boats. See IVarships
Guns, Composition and Effects of Explosives for,
119
Guns, Kilroy's System of Protection for War
ships, 612
Gun-Mountings, 377, 389, 429
Guns, Naval, in Modern Battleships, 51
Gun, New Vickers-Maxim Automatic Rifle
Calibre, 111
Guns and Propelling Machinery of Warships, 377,
389, 429
Guns, and Tactical Qualities of Battleships, 59,
124
Guns, 105 and 120-Millimetre Quick-Firing Field
Howitzers, 610
Guns. See also Warships
Guns, The Manufacture of Cordite for, 780
Guy-Ropes for Wireless Telegraph Antenna,
Failure of, 110
Gyroscopic Apparatus for Steadying Ships, 442,
448. See 623, 749, 794
Gyroscope, Theory of, 749. See 442, 448, 623,
794, 826, and Erratum, 776
Gyrostat, Brennan's, 623, 794

Haldane, R. B. and Universities, 186
Hamburg Harbour Extensions, 218
Hammer-Head Crane at Birkenhead, 737
Hammer-Head, 150-Ton Crane, at Clydebank, 803
Hammers, Pneumatic Power, 176
Handling and Shipment of Ore, 103, 854
Hann, E. M., on Arrangement and Design of Colliery Surface Works, 843, 871
Harbord, W. F., on the Physical Properties of
Steel, 791
Harbord, F. W., on the Quality of Steel as
Affected by its Mode of Preparation, 641
Harbours, British Fishery, 167, 261, 542, 701
Harbour Extensions of the Hansa Towns, 218
Harbour Facilities at New York, 247
Harbour at Fraserburgh, 701
Harbour Requirements and Shipping Develop
ment, 811, 827
Harbours. See also Docks
Harbour, Tokio, 725
Harbour Works at Dover, 858
Harbour, Zeebrugge, and Canal, at Bruges, 624
Hard Woods of Western Australia, 35
Hardening Tools, Bodsworth Furnace for, 566
Hardening of Water, 818, 833
Harlem River Tunnel, New York, 473
Harribon, C. A., on Reinforced Concrete for
Railway Structure, 810, 827
Hawksley, Charles, on Cost of Pumping Water,
817, 832, S63
Heat Absorbed by Cylinder Walls of Engines, 591
Heat, Effects of, on Ferro-Concrete, 322
Heat, Mathematical Theory of, 671
Heat in Water and Steam at High Temperatures,
1, 40, 227, 334, 472. See Erratum, 642
Heating by Ordinary Town Gas, 850, 875 Helio-Chronometer, The Gibbs, 657
Helium in High Vacua at Low Temperatures, 7R1 Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagram Hermite Process of Electrolysing Brine, 720 Hertzian Waves Used for the Control of Torpe
does, 66
Hertzian Wave Telegraphy. See Wireless Tele
graphy, under Electric and Radiotelegraphy Hibbard, H. W., on Engineering Periodicals and
the Card-Index, 291
High Altitudes, Warm Air at, 457
Highfleld, J. S., on the Transmission of Electric Energy by Direct - Current on the Series System, 358. See 350
Highfleld, J. S., on Upkeep Charges for Large Electric Generating Sets, 819, 834
High Speed Tool Steel. See Tool Steel High-Temperature Scales, 153
History of Scottish Industry, Treatise on, 101 Hopkinson, B., on Efficiency of Petrol-Motor, 164 Hopkinson, B., on a New Optical Torsion-Meter,
768. See 413, 482, 497
Horology, Treatise on, 6
House Refuse, Destruction of, 753
Hudson River Tunnel, New York, 367
Humours of Engineering, 772
Howitzers, 105 and 120-Millimetre Quick-Firing, 610
Hydraulic Fill Dams, 90
Hydraulic Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools Hydraulic, 150-Ton, Wharf Crane at Elswick, 250 Hydraulic Pedestal Crane, 30-Cwt., 851 Hydraulic Turbines for Darjeeling Electricity
Works, 495
Hydraulic Turbines, Treatise on, 703
Hydraulic versus Electric Machinery for Dock Equipment, 838, 863
Hydro-Electric Lift, Boddam's, 646 Hydro-Electric Power-Station at Trolhattan, 282 Hydro-Electric Power-Station near Laufenburg,
298
Hydro-Electric Power-Station on the River Adda, 174

Ignition, High - Tension Electric, for Petrol-Engines, 228
illuminants, New, 591
Illumination of Railway Premises and Work¬shops, 105. See 124
Illumination. See also Light and Lighting and Lamps
Implements, Italian Agricultural, Treatise on, 295
Index-Card for Engineering Periodicals, 291 India-Rubber, Utilisation of Waste, 748
Indian Railway Property, 56
Induced Draught with Hot-Air Economiser (Ellis and Eaves), 642, 691
Indus River, Bridge over, at Khushalgarh, 229 Industrial Chemistry, 386. See 458
Industrial Conditions at Tyneside, 134, 163 Industrial Developments in Glasgow, 571 Industrial Developments at Guildford, 282 Industrial Notes, 26, 63, 93, 125, 157, 189, 221,
251, 285, 321, 321, 357, 393, 427, 46], 496, 529,
562, 693, 626, 657, 689, 723, 755, 787, 801, 865 Industrial Organisation, 149
Industrial Progress of Egypt, 487, 492
Industrial Situation in the United States, 216 Industrial and Social History of Scotland, Trea¬tise on, 101
Industries, Mining, of Natal, 5C6
Industry and Trade of Kobe and Osaka, 65 Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland ; New Building, 625
Institutions, Engineering, of America, Building for, 86
Institutions, Technical. See Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, Physical Society, British Association, and Society of Arts
Instruments, Electrical. See under Electric Instruments at the Royal Society's Soirée, 621, 808
Insulating Materials used in Electric Machinery, 95
Insurance of Labour in Germany, 623. See 554 Insurance of Labour in Italy, 162
Insurance of Workmen. See Workmen's Com¬pensation
Interchangeability. See Standardisation Interference Effects in Strained Glass, Colour Photographs of, 66
Integraph for Ships' Calculations, 446 Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines,
Gas ; Engines, Oil ; Engines, Petrol ; Motor
Cars ; and Motor-Launches
Internal Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photo. graphs
International Building Trades' Exhibition, 476 International Congress in Naval Architecture. See Naval Architects
International Steam-Ferries, 56
Inventions. See Patents
"Invincible," Launch of H.M.S., 622

Iron and Steel Institute :

Vienna Meeting, 592, 639, 763
Annual General Meeting, 624
Report of the Council, 624
New President, 624
Bessemer Gold Medal, 624
Presidential Address, 624
The Development of Electricity in the Iron and Steel Industries, with Special Refer¬ence to its Latest Application to Reversing Rolling-Mills of High Power, by D. Selby Bigge, 624, 627, 634
Award of Scholarships, 636
The Manufacture of Steel from High-Silicon Phosphoric Pig by the Basic Bessemer Process, by Arthur Windsor Richards, 636, 791
A Method of Producing High-Class Steel from Pig Iron containing Chromium, Nickel, and Cobalt, by Arthur Windsor Richards, 638, 695
An Investigation on the Use of Steam in Gas-Producer Practice, by William Arthur Bone and Richard Vernon Wheeler, 639, 659
Iron and Steel Instltute—continued.
The Relation between the-Process of Manu
facture and some of the Physical Pro
perties of Steel, by W. F. Harbord, 641, 791
Ageing of Mild Steel, The, by C. E.
Strotneyer, 642, 725
Inductd Draught with Hot-Air Economisers
for Steel Work and Blast-Furnace Boilers,
by A. J. Capron, 642, 691
" Sentinel" Pyrometers and their Application
to the Heat Treatment of Tool-Steel, by
H. Brearly and F. Collin Morwood, 642
The D stribution of Sulphur in Metal-Ingot
Moulds. 642
Iron, Composition of. See also Micro-Photo
graphs
Iron and Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Iron, Hysteresis Losses in, 95, 129
Iron, Influence of Carbon on, 124
Iron-Ore Briquettes, 90, 143
Iron-Ore Deposits in Sweden, 247, 556, 688
Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges
Iron and Steel, Microscopic Analysis of, 207
Iron and Steel Production of Sweden, 401
Iron and Steel Work, Preservation of, 810, 827
Ironclad. See Warships
Irrigation of Egypt, 425, 493
Italian and Agricultural Implements, Treatise
on, 295
Italian Railways and Simplon Tunnel, 672
Italy, Insurance of Labour in, 152

James Forrest Lecture on Unsolved Problems in the Design and Propulsion of Ships, 822 Japan, Education in, 858
Japan Mail Company (Nippon Yusen Kaisha), Annual Report of, 92
Japan, Trade with, 785
Japanese Battleship " Mikasa," Explosion on, 91 Japanese Battleship " Satsuma," Launch of, 23 Japanese Cable Steamer " Ogasawara Maru," 514 Japanese Cotton Mills, 223
Japanese Finances, 323
Japanese Harbour at Tokio, 725
Japanese International Exhibition in 1912, 121 Japanese Shipping Combine, 401
Japanese Steel Works, 455, 591
Japanese Trade at Ports of Kobe and Osaka, 65 Jetty, Ferro-Concrete, at Hornchurch, Essex, 46 Johannesburg, Drainage of, 57
Johns, A. NV., on the Resistance of Ships, 443, 563 Judgment, The Value of, in Engineering, 277

Kahn Ferro-Concrete Flooring, Test of, 677
" Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse," Collision of, with
" Orinoco." 188, 207
Kalamazoo Railway Supply Company ; The Moore
Track-Drill, 208
Kennedy, Sir A. B. W., Presidential Address to
Engineering Conference, 809, 822
Kent Coalfields, 316
Kea ham Docks, Compressed-Air-Driven Capstan
at, 755. See also Devonport Docks
Khushalgarh Bridge over River Indus, 229
Kiel Carlal and German Naval Policy, 684
Kilroy's Danger Signals for Warship Turrets, 612
King's Navy. See Warships
Kirunavaara and Luossavaara, Sweden, Iron Ore
Deposit at, 656, 688
Kitson Light, 124, See 105
Knock-Off Gear Applied to Pickering Governor,
285
Kobe and Osaka, Trade of, 65
Korting Gas-Engines at the Shelton Iron Works,
204
Kynoch, Limited, and the Metric System, 219

Laboratory, National Physical, 370, 439
Labour Conditions in Germany, 523, 554
Labour Legislation ; The Eight-Hour Day in French Government Works, 620
Labour Legislation in France, 683
Labour Legislation in Italy, 152
Labour Legislation. See Workmen's Compensa¬tion, Legal, and Trade
Labour Problem of the Panama Canal, 589 Lakes, Variations of Level in, 783
Lamps, Carbon, Standardisation of, 154
Lamps, Gas, Electric, Petrol, and Oil, for the Lighting of Workshops and Yards, 105. See 124
Lamps, Incandescent, Manufacture of, 354 Lamps, Metallic Filament, 151. See Erratum, 187 Lamps, Modern Gas and Electric, 591 Lamps.See also'Elcetric
Lancashire, Recent Cotton-Mill Construction in, 53
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Electric Train, 560
Land Boilers See Boiler8
Laufenburg Hydro-Electric Power Station, 298 Launch of Cunard Liner " Lusitania." 409, 433 Launch of French Battleship the " Verito," 722 Launch of H.M.S. " Invincible," 522
Launch of the King's Yacht, 722
Launches, Motor. See Motor-Launches Laundry Machinery Exhibition, 651
Least Squares, Method of, Treatise on, 605 Leather-Dressings, Shoe-Polishes, and Lubricants, Treatise on, 7

Legal :

Ferro-Concrete Pile-Case, 354
Fire-Escapes and the London Building Act,
22, 45
French Labour Legislation, 683
French Legislation on Electric Distribution,
657
French Miners' Eight-Hour Day, 488
Indemnity Against Workmen's Compensa
tion Act, 456
Insurance of Labour in Germany, 523. See
554
Irrigation Litigation (Kansas and Colorado),
721.
Law of Master and Servant, 191, 661
Masters and Servants' Cases, 27
Miners' Eight-Hour Day, 521, 715
New Patent Bill, 18, 117, 143, 421, 453
Passing-Off Cases, Recent, 139
Patent Law Reform, 18, 117
Patents Bill in Committee, 650
Pneumatic Tool Litigation, 677
Workmen's Insurance in Italy, 152
Thermit, Limited, v. Weldite, Limited, 600

Legislation, French Labour, 683
Legislation. See also Parliament and Legal
Leistner Bottle-Making Machine, 740 • Lentz-Valves, for Engines of S.S. " Rance," 77 Letters to the Editor, 10, 45, 79, 124, 143, 175,
207, 249, 271, 319, 347, 457, 493, 528, 547, 592,
654, 768, 763, 772, 863
Lewes, Vivian B., on the Causes and Prevention of Fire at Sea, 446, 467
Lift, Boddam's IIydro-Electric, 646
Lifts. See also Hoists
Light, Interference Effects in Strained Glass, 56 Light Railway Policy, 838, 867
Lighting, Electric. See also Electric
Lighting, Modern Gas, and Electric Lamps, 591 Lighting of Railway Premises and Workshops, 105. See 124
Lightning, Ball, 655
Lilly, W. E., on Web Stresses in Plate Girders, 136. See 207
Lincoln, Royal Agricultural Show at, 859
Lines, Overhead, for Electric Transmission, 364, 741
Liquid-Air Manufacture, 506
Liquid-Fuel Burner and Water-Tube Boiler, 376 Liquid-Fuel for Marine Purposes, 179
Listing and Adding Machine, The Burroughs, 580
Literature, 6, 101, 133, 259, 295, 605, 671, 704, 736, 766, 798. See LITERATURE INDEX
Liverpool Entrance to Mersey, 333, 603, 655. See 839, 868
Lloyd's Record of Shipping Losses. See also Shipbuilding and Shipping
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 54
Lloyd's Shipping Returns, 185
Loading Appliances for Ships, 847, 874. See also Barges
Loading Depth of Ships, 822
Local Authorities. See Municipal and London County Council
Locomotives, Compound, 175, 207. See 143, 249 Locomotive Crane, 10-Ton, 321
Locomotive, Four - Cylinder Compound, for Danish State Railway, 771, 852
Locomotive Improvement and Superheating, 655 Locomotive, Narrow-Gauge Eight-Wheel Duplex, for Greece, 482
Locomotives on Northern Railway of France, 143 Locomotive, Rack, for Transandine Railway, 643
Locomotive, Six-Coupled Bogie Tank, for Mid¬land Railway, 707
Locomotive, Six-Coupled Express, for Caledonian Railway, 144
Locomotive Speeds on the Northern Railway of France, 20, 143
Locomotive, Ten-Coupled Tank, with Schmidt Superheater, for the Prussian State Railways (Berliner Maschinenbau A.-G., vormals L. Schwartzkopff, Berlin), 12
Locomotive, Ten-Wheeled Four-Coupled, with Schmidt Superheater, for Swedi9h State Rail¬. ways, 419
Lodordotive Works of Messrs. Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Limited, 2, 70
London Building Act and Fire-Escapes, 22, 45 London County Council, 313
London County Council Power-Station and Green¬wich Observatory, 219
London County Council. See also Municipal London County Council Tramway Finance, 85, 118
London County Council Tramways, Statistics of, 183
London, Sanitary Evolution of, Treatise on, 259 London Traffic, Transportation of, 193
London Water Supply, 708
Lorries. See Motor-Cars and Motor-Wagons Louis, Henry, on the Special Methods of Shaft-Sinking, 816, 831
" Lubeck," German Turbine Cruiser, Steam Trials of, 252
Lubricants,Shoe-Polishes, and Leather-Dressings, Treatise on, 7
Luke, W. J., on Design and Launch of Cunard Liner " Lusitania," 409, 433
Lunkenheimer's Re-Grinding Valve, 561 Luossavaara and Kirunavaara, Sweden, Iron-Ore Deposits at, 556, 688
" Lusitania," Cunard Liner, Design and Launch of, 409, 433
" Lusitania," Cunard Liner, Moorings for, 426 Lyster, A. G., on Dredging the Sea-Channels of the Mersey, 839, 868. See also 333, 603, 655

Macassey, L., on Urban and Suburban Traffic, 193
Macbrayne, The late Mr. David, 155
Machine for Beating Matrices of Stereotypes (Lennings and Huesing, London), 58
Machine for Bending Large Pipes, 774. See also Machine Tools
Machine Details, The Design of, 505, 547 Machine for Making Concrete Blocks, 238 Machine for Sand-Papering, 787
MachineTools :
- Bending-Machine for Thin Pipes, 193, 393. See 774
- Boring and Milling-Machine, Horizontal (Ernest Schiess, Diisseldorf), 41
- Boring and Turning-Mill (Low Moor Company), 357
- Callipers with Dial Reading, 600
- Chuck, The Grip, for Parallel Shank-Drills, 627
- Design of, for High-Speed Steel, 840, 870
- Drilling-Machine, Manual, for Railway and Tramway Tracks, 208
- Drilling - Machine for Rails, Electrically Driven, 861
- Drilling Machine,- Ten-Spindle (Butler and Co.), 799
- Drilling and Tapping-Machine, Horizontal (William Asquith), 680
- Lathe, The "Apollo," All-Gear Capstan, 529
- Lathe for Turning Crank-Pins (J. Butler and Co.), 799
- Machines at Works of Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Gorton, 70
- Micrometer Gauge, 600, 794
- Milling and Boring Machine, Horizontal (Ernest Schiess, Diisseldorf), 41
- Milling Machine, Horizontal (Herbert, Co¬ventry), 866
- Milling Machine, Horizontal (G. Wilkinson and Sons), 645. See Erratum, 681 Pipe-Bending Machine, 193. 393, 774 Pneumatic Tools in Workshop, 842, 871. See 176
- Punching and Shearing Machine, 251 Sand-Papering Machine, 787
- Shaping Machine, 20-In. Stroke (Harrison and Horsley, Manchester). 93
- Shearing and Punching Machine, 251 Steady for Turning Slender Rods, 765
- Tapping and Drilling Machine, Horizontal (William Asquith), 680
- Turning and Boring Mill (The Low Moor Company), 357
Machinery, Cotton, Safeguards for, 7, 108 Machinery, The "Curse" of, 52
Machinery, Propelling, and Guns of Warships, 377, 389, 429
Machrihanish Antenna for Wireless Telegraphy, Collapse of, 89, 110
M'Intosh, J. F.; Six-Coupled Express Locomo¬tive for Caledonian Railway, 144
McKechnie, Ames, on Propelling and Ordnance Machinery of Warships, 377, 389, 429 Mackrow, George, The late, 220
Madras Railway, Strengthening Girder Bridges of, 407
Magnetisation Properties of Iron, 95, 129 Magnetism. See Electric and Physical Society " Mahroussa," Turbine-Driven Yacht for Khe¬dive, 25, 79
Maintenance Charges of Large Electric-Gene¬rating Sets, 819, 834
Mallock, H. R. A., on the Action between Wheel and Rail, 837, 867. See 763
Malone and Tierney's Electrically - operated Tramway Points, 192
Management of Workshops, 149
Manchester Steam-Users' Association Report, 677 Manganese. See A lloys
Manoeuvres, British Naval, 244
Manufacture of Electrolytic Alkali and Bleach, 246
Manufacturing Facilities at Tyneside, 134, 163 Manufacture of Steel from Pig Iron Containing Chromium, Cobalt, and Nickel, 638, 695 Marconi. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric Marine Boilers. See Boilers
Marine Engineering. See Engines, Marine Naval Architects, Steamers, Turbines, and Warships Marine Gas Propulsion, 184, 207, 249, 377, 389, 429, 528, 825. See 814, 829
Marine Motors. See Motor-Launches
Marine Steam-Turbine. See Turbines
Marine Uses of Oil Fuel, 179, 782
Maritime Commerce, Defence of, 244
Maritime Exhibition at Bordeaux, 121, 124, 752 Mast for Wireless Telegraphy, Failure of, 110
Master and Servants' Oases. See Legal Material, Construction of. See also Micro-Photographs and Alloys
Materials Used in Electric Machinery, 95, 129 Mathematics, Treatise on, 671
Matrix-Beating Machine for Stereotyping (Len-nings and Huesing, London), 58
Matter, Electrical Nature of, Treatise on, 736 Matthews, William, on Water-Softening, 818, 832 " Mauretania," Cunard Liner, Moorings for, 425 " Mauretania," Use of High-Tensile Steel in Construction of, 846, 873
Maurice, The late Mr. Frederick, 155 Measurement Rating of Yachts, 17 Measurements of High Temperature, 153. See also Pyrometers
Measures and Weights, Standards of, 216
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: Nomination of Officers, 105
- Lighting of Railway Premises ; Indoor and Outdoor, by Mr. Henry Fowler, 105. See 124
- Alloys Research Committee's Eighth Report. Alloys of Aluminium and Copper, by Pro¬fessor H. C. H. Carpenter and C. A. Edwards, 108, 127, 158, 233, 253, 299
- Annual General Meeting, 232
- Report of the Council, 232
- Amendment of By-Laws, 232
- Graduates' Prizes, 233
- Election of Officers, 233
- Vote of Thanks to Retiring President, 233 The Willans Premium, 233
- Petrol Motor-Omnibuses, by W. W. Beau¬mont, 365, 395 415, 607
- Presidential Address, by T. Hurry Riches, 595 Mechanics, Theoretical Treatise on, 133
Meik, C. S., on Ferro-.Concrete Structures, 812, 828. See Erratum, 863
Mercantile Marine, Defence of, 244
Mercantile Marine of France, 748
Mersey, Dredging Sea Channels of, 839, 868 Mersey, River, Entrance to, 333, 603, 655. See 839, 868
Metal-Price Diagram, 24, 189, 319, 460, 592, 754 Metals, Commercial Value of Microscopic Examination of, 122
Metals, Electric Conduction in, 265
Metals. See Iron, Steel, Tin, Copper, Alumi¬nium, Alloys, and Micro-Photographs
Metals, Strained, Real Nature of Slip-Bands in, 91 Metals, Structure of. See also Micro-Photo¬graph
Metals and the Uses of the Microscope, 557 Metallic-Filament Lamps, 151. See also Lamps, and Erratum, 187
Meteorological Society, Royal Annual Report, 92, Weather in War Time, by R. Bentley, President, 92, Metric System in Meteorology, by Richard Inwards, 248, Report on Pkenological Observations in the British Isles during 1906, by Edward Morley, 248, Exploration of the Air, by Major B. F. S. Baden Powell, 391, Temperature Around the British Islands in Relation to the Gulf Stream, by R. Strachan, 628, Phenomenal Rainfall in Suva, Fiji, August 8, 1906, by R. L. Holmes, 528, Balloon Struck by Lightning, by Colonel J. E. Capper, 656, Standard Rain-Gauge, with Notes on Other Forms, by Dr. IL R. Mill, 656
Metering Power-Gas by the Pitot Tube, 653 Meters, Venturi, for Water at Rio de Janeiro, 23 Metric System at Messrs. Kynochs, 219 Metropolitan Railway of Paris, 38
Metropolitan. See also London
Metropolitan Water Board ; Subsiding Reser¬voirs at Walton,526
Metropolitan Watr Supply, 708
Meyers, Professor A. J. ; Birth and Affinity of Crystals, 555
Micrographic Analysis of Iron and Steel, 207 Micrography, Physical and Engineering Uses of, 557
Micrometer-Gauge, 794
Micrometer with Dial Reading, 600
Micro-Photographs of Corrugated and Smooth Rails, 763, 863. See 837, 867 Micro-Photographic Structure of Fatigued Metal, 506, 547
Microscope, Physical and Engineering Uses of, 557 Microscopic Examination of Metals, Commercial Value of, 122
Microscopic Observations of Slip-Bands in Strained Metals, 91
Micro-Structure of Metals. See also Micro-Photographs
Micro-Structure of Steel, 843, 872
Midland Railway Six-Coupled Bogie Tank Loco¬motive, 707
"Mikasa," Japanese Battleship, Report on Sin k¬ing of, 91
Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Mills, Cotton, Fires in, 705
Mills, Cotton, in Japan, 223
Mills, Rolling, Electrically Driven, 624, 627, 634 Mills. See also Factories
Mines, Coal, Surface Works of, 843, 871
Mines, Coal, Working and Management of, Treatise on, 295
Mine-Shafts, Design and Equipment of, 816, 831 Mines and quarries, Electric Power in, 4S1
Mine Winding-Engine. See Engines, Winding and Colliery
Minerals. See also Railway
Minerals, Transportation and Shipment of, 103, 171. See also Barges
Miners' Eight-Hour Day, 488, 621, 715 See also Legal
Mining Gold in the Rand, Problems of, 816, 830 Mining Industries of Natal, 506
Mining Machinery for Gold, Treatise on, 736 Mining Machinery. See also Engines, Colliery and Electric
Mining, Treatise on, 798
Miscellanea, 49, 83, 115, 187, 220, 241, 283, 311, 392, 419, 451, 519, 551, 583, 656, 690, 713, 777
Mission Steamer, Stern-Wheel, the "Endeavour," (Salter Brothers, Oxford), 80
Mitchell, L., on the Filtration of Water at Bolton, 733
Mixer and Elevator for Concrete, 693
Models, Relation of, to Full Scale, 619
Moissan, The late Henri, 283
Money-Adding Machine, The Burroughs, 580
Mono-Rail Railway, The Brennan, 623. See 749, 794, 826, and Erratum, 776
Moore Track-Drill, 208
Mooring Cables for "Mauretania" and " Lusitania", 425
Motor-Boats at Olympia, 339, 375. See Erratum, 426
Motor-Bus. See also Motor-Omnibus
Motor-Car Design, Questions of, 69
Motor-Car Design, 318. See 69, 175, 249, 490 Motor-Car, The, Development of, 214
Motor-Car Show at Crystal Palace, 1S5
Motor-Car Show at Islington, 490
Motor-Cars, Speed-Indicator for, 710 Motor-Carriage, Railway. See Motor-Car, Rail, and Motor-Car Tragic
Motors, Eddy-Current Brake for Testing, 308 Motors, Internal-Combustion. See Engines, Oil; Engines, Gas; Motor-Car, Motor-Omnibus,
Motor-Launches, and Engines, Petrol • Motor Lawn • Mowers (Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies), 374
Motor-Omnibus, 175, 181
Motor-Omnibus, The Dennis, 272
Motor-Omnibus. For details see ILLUSTRATED INDEX
Motor-Omnibuses at Olympia, 339, 373 Motor-Omnibus, The " Orion," 513 Motor-Omnibuses, Petrol, 365, 395, 415, 507 Motor-Omnibus, The Ryknield, 320 Motor-Omnibus, The Wolseley, with Petrol Electric Equipment, 341
Motor, Paraffin Marine, The " Dan," 318
Motor, Paraffin, for Yacht, 461
Motor, Petrol, Efficiency Tests of, 164
Motors, Petrol, High-Tension Electric, Ignition for, 228
Motors, Petrol, at Royal Agricultural Show, 860 Motor-Pinnace for Pearl-Fishing, 91
Motor Roller, Petrol-Driven, 373
Motor Show at Olympia, 339, 373. See Erratum, 426
Motor, Steam, Fire-Engine for Johannesburg, 548 Motor Vehicles, Commercial, 279
Motor Vehicles, Modern, 175, 181
Motor Vehicles, Paraffin Carburettor for, 495 Motor Vehicles with Petrol-Electric Equipment, 143, 341
Motor Vehicles, Petrol, Electric Transmission for, 121, 818, 833
Motor Wagons at Olympia, 339, 373
Motor-Wagons, Renard Train, 237, 271, 458, 493 Moving Loads on Railway Under-Bridges, 699
Municipal Government of London 313
Municipal Trading. See also London County Council
Municipal Tramway Finance of the L.G.C., 85,118 Municipal Tramway Statistics, 182
Mutual Inductance, Measurement of, 786

Natal Connaught Bridge, 330
Natal, Mining Industries of, 506
National Physical Laboratory, 370, 439
Nationalisation of Western Railway of France, 351
Naval Architects, Institution of: London, Meeting; Presidential Address, by Lord Glasgow, 383 Report of Council, 388; Award of Gold Medal, 389; The Influence of Machinery on the Gun-Power of Modern Warships, by James Mcliechnie, 377, 389, 429; Safe Submarine Vessels and the Future of the Art, by Simon Lake, 320, 501; Annual Dinner, 391; On Some Points of Interest in Connection with the Design, Building, and Launching of the "Lusitania," by W. J. Luke, 409, 433. See also Erratum, 452; The Evolution of the Modern Cargo-Steamer, by S. J. P. Thearle, 411, 530. See also Erratum, 452; Cranes for Shipbuilding Berths, by Senor Carlo Piaggio, 412, 484; Torsiometers, as applied to the Measurement of Power in Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, by Archibald Denny, 413, 462. See also Erratum, 452; Propeller Struts, by George Simpson, 415, 465 Torque of Propeller Shafting ; Some Investigations and Results, by J. Hamilton Gibson, 413, 497; Experiments with Dr. Schlick's Gyroscopic Apparatus for Steadying Ships, by Sir William H. White, 442, 448; Approximate Formulae for Determining the Resistance of Ships, by A. W. Johns, 443, 563; The Causes and Prevention of Fire at Sea, by Professor Vivian B. Lewes, 446, 467; The Application of the Integraph to Ship Calculations, by J. G. Johnston, 446; Some Phases of the Fuel Question, by Professor Vivian B. Lewes, 447; Modern Floating Docks, by Lyonel Edwin Clark, 447, 462; Bordeaux International Congress. See also next volume. Opening Proceedings, 861 ; Programme of,

744; Some Practical Points in the Application of the Marine Steam-Turbine, by the Hon. C. A. Parsons and Mr. H. Wheatley Ridsdale, 862; The Elements of the Mechanics of Impact, by Mr. de Mauteou, 863; A Device-for Deadening the Rolling of Ships, by Professor Cremieu, 863. See 442; The Structural Development in British Merchant Ships, by J. Foster-King, 863

Naval Boilers. See Boilers
Naval Construction. See also Warships
Naval Docks at Devonport, 197, 267. See 755
Naval Engineer Question, 715. See LErrEas
Naval Engineers and Admiralty Policy, 386, 754
Naval Machinery. See Warships, Engines, and Turbine
Naval Manoeuvres, British, 244
Naval Pocket-Books, 191
Naval Policy, 213
Naval Policy of Admiralty, 11
Naval Policy of Germany and North Sea Canal, 684
Naval. See also Navy
Naval Strategy, 349, 553
Naval Tactics and " Dreadnought " Type of Battleship, 59, 121
Naval Tactics and the Modern Battleship, 51
Navigation, Aerial, 217, 249, 271, 458, 488, 525, 526, 547, 592. See 491
Navvies Pension Fund, 493
Navy Annual, 766
Navy Estimates, 314
Navy, French, and Merchant Marine, 748
Navy, Personnel of, 386
Navy. See also Naval
Nernst Lamps, 591
New South Wales, Public Works in, 559
New York Central and Hudson River Railway, Accident on, 479
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, Electrification of, 741
New York Shipping, 247
New York Subaqueous Tunnels, 297, 367, 473, 573, 667, 732. See 661
Newell, H. F., Spectroscopic Phenomena in Stars, 684
Newhaven and Dieppe Wireless Telegraph Service, 308
Nickel, Cobalt, and Chromium in Pig Iron for Steel-Making, 638, 695
Nickel-Plated Steel Wire, 143
Nicolson, J. T., on Machine-Tool Design as Affected by High-Speed Steel, 840, 870
Nile Dam, The Assouan, 426, 493
Niobium for Metallic Lamps, 527
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Annual Report of, 92
Nobel, Sir A.; Explosives, 119
North, Notes from the, 14, 48, 82, 122, 146, 186, 210, 240, 274, 310, 346, 382, 426, 459, 485, 518,
650, 582, 616, 646, 680, 712, 744, 776, 820, 854
North-Sea Canal and German Naval Policy, 684
North-Western Railway of India ; Bridge over Indus at Khushalgarh, 229
Northern Railway of France, Locomotive Work on, 143
Northern Railway of France, Speeds on, 20
Notched Bars, Stresses in, 505, 547
Notes. See Cleveland, North, South-West, South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial, Legal, and Miscellanea
Nursey, The late Perry F., 864

Oakley Steel Foundry Process, 721

Obituary:

Observatory, Greenwich, and County Council Power Station, 219
Ogasawara Maru," Japanese Cable Steamer, 514
Oil-Engines. See Engines, Oil, Motor-Cars, and Motor-Launches
Oil Fuel for Marine Purposes, 179
Oil Fuel. See Fuel, Liquid
Oil-Fuel Turbine-Driven Torpedo-Boats, 679
Oil. See Lubrication
Oils, Tar, for Diesel Engines, 782
Old-Age Pension Fund for Navvies, 493
Old Bailey New Building, 284
Olympia, Building Trades' Exhibition at, 476
Olympia, Exhibition of Commercial Motor
Vehicles and Motor-Boats, 339, 373. See
Erratum, 426
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor-Bus
Optical Effects due to Stresses in Glass, 66
Optical Pyrometry, 286, 323
Ordnance. See Warships and Gana
Ore, Iron, Briquettes of, 90, 143
Ore, Iron, Deposits, in Sweden, 556, 688
Ore, Iron, in Sweden, 247
Ore. See also iron
Ore-Shipping Barges, 78, 854
Ores, Sulphidic, Electrolytic Copper from, 151
Ore, Transportation and Shipment of, 103, 171
Organisation of Workshops, 149
" Orinoco," Collision of, with " Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse," 188, 207
" Orion " Motor-Omnibus, 513
Osaka and Kobe, Trade of, 65
Osmotic Pressure, 150
Overhead Electric Transmission Lines, 364, 741
Overhead Travelling Foundry Crane (Maschinen
fabrik Augsburg-NUrnberg), 125
Overhead Trolley Construction for 11,000-Volt
Single-Phase Railway, 741
Oxygen, Manufacture of, 506
Oxygen from Sodium Peroxide for Regeneration
of Air, 456

Pacific Steam Navigation Company's T.-S.S.
" Quilpue," 774
Paddle-Steamer " Bassein " for Burma Railway
Company, 805
Painting of Iron and Steel Work, 810, 827
Paints, Chemistry of, Treatise on, 134
Palmer, Sir Charles, Bart., The late, 750
Panama Canal, Alternative Scheme for, 184
Panama Canal, Labour Problem of, 589
Panama Canal, Present Status of, 337
Paraffin, Auxiliary Motor for Yacht, 461
Paraffin Carburettor for Motor Vehicles, 495
Paraffin Motor, The Dan Marine, 318
Paris Metropolitan Railway, 38
Paris Electric Supply Scheme, 454
Parliament. and Miners' Eight-Hour Day, 521,
716. See 488
Parliament and the Navy Estimates, 314
Parliament and the Navy. See also Warships
and Engineers in the Navy, and Naval
Parliament and the New Patent Bill, 18, 117,
143, 421, 458, 650
Parliament and the Personnel of the Fleet, 386
Parliamentary Debate on Cordite, 780
Parsons, C. A., on the Marine Steam-Turbine,
814, 829. See 867, 862
Parsons Steam-Turbine. See Turbine
Particles, Migration of, in Electrolytes, 688
Passengers on Atlantic Liners, 88
Passing-Off Cases, 139
Patent Bill, The New, 18, 117, 143, 421, 458, 650
Patent Record, 33, 67, 99, 132, 195, 225, 257, 293,
331, 403, 469, 503, 535, 567, 601, 665, 697, 730,
761, 835, 877
Patents Bill in Parliament, 650
Pattison, The late Alfred Robert, R.N., 317
Pavement of Berlin Streets, 784 •
Pearson Fire-Alarm Company, London ; Auto
matic Fire-Alarm, 221
Peat, Utilisation of, 650, 708, 753, 772
Pedestal Crane, 30-Cwt. Hydraulic, 851
Pen, Drawing, The Samuel, 291
Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel, New York, 667
Pension Fund for Navvies, 493
Periodicals, Engineering, and the Card Index, 291
Personnel of the Fleet, 386
Petrol-Electric Equipment for Motor-Omnibus, 341. See 143
Petrol-Electric Transmission for Motor-Vehicles, 121, 818, 833
Petrol Motor-Omnibuses, 365, 395, 415, 507. See
also ILLUSTRATED INDEX under Motor-Omnibus Petrol Motors. See Motor-Cars, Motor-Launches,
Motor-Buses, Motors, and Engines, Petrol Phosphoric Pig, Manufacture of Steel from, 791 Photographs, Colour, of Interference Effects on
Stressed Glass, 56
Photographs, Micro. See Micro-Photographs Photometry, and the Lighting of Workshops and Yards, 105. See 124
Physical Laboratory, The National, 370, 439 Physical Properties of Metal. See Alloys and Micro-Photograph

Physical Society :

Measurement of Mutual Inductance by the
Aid of a Vibration Galvanometer, by A.
Campbell, 786
Note on the Decay of the Active Deposit
from Radium, by W. Wilson and W. Mak
ower, 786
Relay for Long Submarine Telegraph
Cables, by S. G. Brown, 786
Piaggio, Carlo, on Cranes for Shipbuilding
Berths, 412, 484
Pielock Superheater for S.S. " Rance," 77
Pier, Ferro-Concrete, at Purfleet, 813. See 46
Pig Iron Containing Chromium, Cobalt, and
Nickel for Steel•Making, 638, 695
Pig-Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Pig, Phosphoric, High Silicon, in Steel Manu
facture, 791
Piles, Ferro-Concrete, 795, 812, 828, 863. See
Erratum, 863
Piles, Ferro-Concrete ; Litigation, 354
Pile-Tapering Machine, 851
Piling, The " Compressol " System of Making
Foundations, 739
Pinnac..!, Motor-Driven, for Pearl-Fishing, 91
Pipe-Bender, The " Conrex," 193
Pipe-Bending Machine, 393
Pipe-Bending Machine, Large, 774
Pipes, Resistance of, to Collapse, 19
Pirrie, Lord, on Harbour Requirements and
Shipping Development, 811, 827
Pit-Head Works for Collieries, 843, 871
Pitot Tube Used in Measuring Power-Gas, 653
Plant, Depreciation of, 585
Plate-Girders, Web-Stresses in, 136, 207
Pneumatic-Power Hammers, 176
Pneumatic-Tools, Use of in Workshops, 842, 871
Pocket-Books. See Year-Books
Pointing-Machine for Piles, 851
Points and Signals, Electric-Working of, 819, 833
Points for Tramways, Tierney and Malone's
Electrically-Operated, 192
Policy of Western Australian Railway, 217
Pollution of Rivers, 424
Pollution of Water Supply, 807
Port. See also Harbour and Docks
Port of Seville, 789
Portland Cement, Specific Gravity of, 455
Power-Gas. See Engine, Gas ; Suction-Gas, and
Producer-Gas
Power-Hammers, Pneumatic, 176
Power Measured by Torsion of Shafting, 413, 482,
497, 768
Power Plants. See also Electric and Hydro Electric
Power Scheme, Victoria Falls, 11
Power and Speed-Computer for Steamships, 395 Power-Station. See also Electric
Power, Water, Purchase of, by Swedish State, 91 Power, Water. See also Hydro-Electric Precision Grinding, 840, 870
Prelini, Charles, on the New York Subaqueous
Tunnels, 297, 367, 473, 573, 667, 732. See 561 Prelini Shield for Subaqueous Tunnels, 561 " Premier " Gas-Engine, 47, 224
Premium Pupils, 243, 271, 319, 347. See 328 Preservation of Iron and Steel, 810, 827 Presidential Address to Engineering Conference,
822
Presidential Address of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 595
PresidentiallAddress, Iron and Steel Institute, 624 Presidential- Address by Lord Glasgow to Insti¬tution of Naval Architects, 388
Pressure of Air on Planes, 526. • See Aeroplane Pressure, Osmotic, 150
Prevention of Fire at Sea, 446, 467
Price, John ; Smallheath Bridge, Birmingham, 673
Price of Marine Turbines and Reciprocating Engines, 154
Principles of Similitude, 619
Printing, Stereotype, Matrix-Beating
Machine for
(Lennings and Huesing, London), 58
Private Bill Legislation. See Parliamentary Problems of Applied Chemistry, 386. See 426, 468
Producer Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas, and Gas
Producer-Gas from Peat, 650, 708, 753, 772 Producer-Gas Measuring by Pitot Tube, 653 Producer-Gas Practice and the Use of Steam,
639, 659
Producer-Gas, Treatise on, 259
Producers, Suction Gas, R.A.S.E. Trials, 11, 46 Propeller-Blades, Deformation of, 263, 347 Propellers for Steamships, 824
Propeller Shafting, Torque of, 413, 482, 497, 768 Propeller Struts, 415, 465
Propelling Engines, Set Engines
Propelling and Ordnance Machinery of Warships, 377, 389, 429
Proportions of Similar Mechanical Designs, 619 Propulsion of Vessels by Gas-Engines, 249. See also Gas and 377, 389, 429
Prosperity, Disadvantage of, 216
Pump, High-Lift Centrifugal (Allen, Son, and Co.), 114
Pumps, Hydraulic, 384
Pumping, The Comparative Costs of, 817, 832, 863
Pumping Machinery for New Graving Dock, Colombo, 643
Pupils, Premium, 243, 271, 319, 347. See 328 Purification, Bacterial, of Trade Wastes, 489 Purification of Rivers, 424
Purity of Water Supply, 807
Pyrmont Bridge, Sydney, N.S,W., 615 Pyrometry, Optical, 286, 323

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Quarries and Mines, Electric Power in, 481 Quays. See Harbours, Docks, and Wharves Quellennec, E., on Dredging Rock in the Suez
Canal, 839, 869
Quick- Firing Guns. See Guns and Warships Quicksilver. See Metal-Price Diagrams
" Quillota," T.-S.S., for Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 774
" Quilpue," T.-S.S., for Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 774

Rack Locomotive for Transandine Railway, 643 Radiation, Electric, 246, 281, 353, 387, 423 Radio Telegraphy. See Wireless
Radioactivity and Electrical Nature of Matter, Treatise on, 736
Radiotelegraphy, Trans-Atlantic, 89 ; Collapse of Antenna, 110
Radium, Decay of Active Deposit from, 786 Rail-Drilling Machine, 851
Rail and Wheel, Action Between, 837, 867. See 763
Rails, Corrugation of, 422, 763, 863. See 837, 867 Rails, Steel, (themical Composition of, 809, 827 Rails, The Moore Track-Drill for, 208
Railway Accident at Elliot Junction, 13, 550 Railway Accident on the New York Centr .1 and
Hudson River Railway, 479. See also Accident Railway Affairs in Argentine Republic, 696 Railways in Africa, 721
Railways, American, Prosperity of, 216
Railways, Argentine, 255
Railway Auto-Car. See Motor-Car, Rail Railway Breakdown Crane, 419
Railway, The Brennan Mono-Rail, 623. See 749, 794, 826. See Erratum, 776
Railway Bridges, Strengthening of, on Madras Railway, 407
Railway, Caledonian, Snow-Plough for, 308 Railway Carriages. See Carriages
Railway Construction, Current, 326
Railways, Electric, and Regenerative Control, 654
Railways, Electric. See also Electric
Railways, Electrification of Swedish State, 154 Railway, Electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, 741
Railways, Italian, and Simplon Tunnel, Treatise on, 672
Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Electric Train on, 560
Railways, Light, Policy of, 838, 867
Railway Locomotive. See Locomotive and Motor Carriages
Railway, Metropolitan Underground Electric, of Paris, 38
Railway motor Carriages. See Motor Carriages Railway Points and Signals, Electric Working of, 819, 833
Railway Premises, Lighting of, 105. See 124 Railway Property in India, 56
Railway Property, Scotch, 501
Railway and Road Bridges. See Bridges
Railway Rolling-Stock. See Carriages, Locomo¬tive, Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Railway Situation, 279
Railway Snow - Plough, Rotary, for Denver,
North Western, and Pacific Railway, 171 Railway Speeds on the Northern Railway of
France, 20, 143
Railway Steel and Iron Work, Preservation of, 810, 827
Railway, Street. See Tramway
Railway Structures, Ferro-Concrete for, 810, 827 Railway Train, Royal, Metre-Gauge, for India, 307, 335
Railway Trains, Influence of Side Wind on, 457, 647, 655
Railways, Trans-Continental, Australian, 527 Railway Tunnels, New York Subaqueous, 297, 367, 473, 573, 667, 732. See 561
Railway Under-Bridges, Moving Loads on, 699 Railway Wagons for Carrying Rails, Di9 Railways, Western Australian, Policy and Work
ing of, 217
Railway, Western of France, Purchase of, 351 Railway Yard and Terminals, Treatise on, 704 Rain-Gauges, Different, Forms of 656
Rainfall, Phenomenal, in Fiji, 528
" Rance," Steamship ; Boilers, Pielock Super
heaters and Engines with Lentz Valves, 77 Rand Gold-Mining, Problems of, 816, 830 Rapid-Cutting Steel. See Tool Steel
Rating of Yachts, 17
Rays, Röntgen, Cathode, and Positive, 246, 281, 363, 387, 423
Reconstruction of Girder Bridges on Madras Railway, 407
Reduction of Oxides and Sulphides by Metallic Calcium, 785
Refuse from Houses, Disposal of, 753
Refuse, Trade, and River Pollution, 424 Regeneration of Air by Sodium Peroxide, 456 Regenerative Control of Electric Motors, 654 Regulations for Electric Wiring, 622
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Renard Road Train, 237, 271, 458, 493
Rendel and Robertson, London ; Bridge over River Indus, 229
Report, Annual, of Iron and Steel Institute, 624 Report of Manchester Steam-Users' Association, 677
Report of Working of Western Australian Rail¬way, 217
Researches at the National Physical Laboratory/ 370, 439
Reservoir Dams Built by Hydraulic Method, 90 Reservoirs, Subsiding, of the Metropolitan Water Board, 626
Reservoir at Sydney, N.S.W., 156
Resistance of Concrete to Shear, 747
Resistance of Materials and the Time-Factor, 385 Resistance of Railway Trains and Side Wind, 41;7, 547, 655
Resistance of Ships, 443, 563
Resistance of Tubes to Collapse, 19
Reviews. See LITERATURE, INDEX
Rhine Hydro-Electric Power-Station near Lau
fenburg, 298
Rhodes, C. E., on the Design and Equipment of
Shafts for Deep-Winding, 816, 831
Rhone-Paris Electric Supply Scheme, 454
Richards, A. W., on the Manufacture of Steel
from High Silicon Phosphoric Pig, 791
Richards, A. W., on Manufacture of Steel
from Pig Iron Containing Chromium, Cobalt,
and Nickel, 638, 695
Richards, A. W., on Steel-Making from High
Silicon Phosphoric Pig Iron, by the Basic
Bessemer Process, 636
Riches, T. Hurry, Presidential Address to In
stitution of Mechanical Engineers, 595
Rio de Janeiro, Venturi Water-Meters at, 236
River Cuyaba, Shallow-Draught Passenger
Steamers for, 616
River Foyle, Ferro-Concrete Caissons for, 615
River Hooghly, Ferry Steamers for, 141
River Mersey, Entrance to, 333, 603, 655. See
839, 868
River Pollution, 424
Road Bridges. See Bridges
Road Locomotion. See Motor-Cars, Motor-Buses,
Motor-Wagons, and Traction
Road Pavement in Berlin, 784
Road Surfaces, Improvement of, 720
Road Train, The Renard, 237, 271, 458, 493
Road Vehicles, Petrol-Electric Transmission for,
121, 143, 311, 818, 833
" Roaring" Rails, 422, 763, 863. See 837, 867
Rock-Dredging at Blyth and at Suez Canal, 839,
869
Rolling-Mills, Reversing, Electrically - Driven,
624, 627, 631
Rolling-Stock. See Carriages, Locomotives,
Motor-Carriages, and Wagons
Röntgen, Cathode, and Positive Rays, 246, 281,
353, 387, 423
Rosenhain, W., on Micrography, 557
Rotary Snow-Plough for Denver, North-Western
and Pacific Railway, 171
Rotation, namics of, 749. See 442, 448, 623,
791, 826, and Erratum, 776
Rothesay Dock at Glasgow, 643
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
R. A.S.E. Suction-Gas Trials, 11, 45
Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, 89,
166, 588, 783
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological
Royal, Metre-Gauge, Train for India, 307, 336
Royal Navy. See Navy, Naval, and Warships
Royal Society Soirée, 621, 803
Royal Yacht " Alexandra," Launch of, 722
Rubber-Waste, Utilisation of, 748
Rules for Electric Wiring, 522
Ryknield Motor-Omnibus, 320

Safeguards for Cotton Machinery, 7
Samuel Drawing-Pen, 291
Sandberg, C. P., on the Chemical Composition of Steel Rails, 809, 827
Sandeman, J. W., on Rock-Dredging at Blyth, 839, 869
Sand-Papering Machine, 787
Sanitary Engineering, Treatise on, 296
Sanitary Evolution of London, Treatise on, 269
Sanitation, Practical Treatise on, 798
Sanitation, Electrolytic Hypochlorite in, 720
Sankey's Workshop Testing-Machine, 209. See
Erratam., 286
" Satsuma," Japanese Battleship, Launch of, 23
Schemes in Parliament. See Parliamentary
Schiedam, Holland, Smulders' Shipbuilding
Works, 437, 851
Schlick's Gyroscopic Apparatus for Steadying
Ships, 442, 448. See 623, 749, 794, 863
Scotch Railway Property, 501
Scottish Industrial and Social Ilistory, Treatise
on, 101
Scouts. See Warships
Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Machine-Tools
Screw-Propellers. See Propellers
Screwing Machines. See Machine-Tools
Sea Power. See _Naval
Seaton, A. E., on the Use of High-Tensile Steel
in Ships, Bridges, &c., 846, 872
Seiches, 783
Segregation in Steel, 813, 872
Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Motor-Cars, Motor
Wagons and Motor-Carriages
Serpollet, Loon, The late, 248
Seville, The Port of, 789
Sewage, Bacterial Treatment of, 489
Sewage, Filtration of, 355
Sewage and River Pollution, 424
Sewerage Scheme for Johannesburg, 57
Shackles for Motor-Car Springs, 69, 175, 249, 318
Shaft-Sinking, Special Methods of, 816, 831
Shafts for Deep Winding, Design and Equip
ment of, 816, 831
Shafting, Propeller, Torsion of, 413, 482, 497, 768
Sharpening Machine for Piles, 851
Shearing Strength of Concrete, 747
Shelton Iron Works, Mining Gas-Engines at, 204
Shield, Prelini's, for Subaqueous Tunnels, 561
Shipbuilding, Ancient and Modern, Treatise on,
101
Shipbuilding Berths, Cranes for, 412, 481. See
also Cralies
Shipbuilding Combination, Brown and Harland
and Wolff, 820
Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1906, 28. See
Erratum, 49
Shipbuilding Firms, Old French and English, 425
Shipbuilding Returns, Lloyds, 54. See 185
Shipbuilding. See also Warships and Naval
Architects
Shipbuilding Trade, 492
Shipbuilding Works of Socidtd de la Gironde, 796
Shipbuilding Works, Werf Gusto, of Messrs.
Smulders, 437
Shipbuilding, The World's, in 1906, 142
Shipment of Coal and Ore from Barges, 78, 854
Shipment and Handling of Ore at Almeria, Spain,
103, 171
Shipment and Transportation of Ore, 103
Shipping Combine, Japanese, 401
Shipping Development and Harbour Require¬ments, 811, 827
Shipping Facilities at German Ports, 218 Shipping Facilities at New York, 217
Shipping, French Mercantile, 748
Shipping Industry, British, 243
Shipping Returns, Lloyd's, 185
Ship's Calculations, The Integraph for, 446 Ships, Cargo-Handling Appliances for, 847, 874 Ship0s, Cargo, Steam, The Design of Modern, 411,
5S
Ships, The Use of High-Tensile Steel in, 816, 872, 873
Ships, Prevention of Fire on, 446, 467
Ships Propelled by Gas-Engines, 181, 207, 249,
377, 389, 429, 528, 826. See 814, 829
Ships, Resistance of, 443, 563
Ships. See also Steamers and Warships
Ships, Stability of, 823
Ships, Steadying of, by Gyroscopic Apparatus, 442, 448. See 623, 749, 794, 863
Ships' Structure and Water-Ballast Arrange¬ments, 817, 874
Ships, Speed of, 824
Ships, Unsolved Problems in the Design and Pro¬pulsion of, 822
Show, Royal Agricultural, at Linooln, 859 Signalling, Audible, on Railways, 837, 867 Signals, Railway, and Points, Electric Working
of, 819, 833
Similitude, Principles of, 619
Simplon Tunnel, 44
Simplon Tunnel, Treatise on, 672
Simpson, George, on Design of Propeller Struts, 415, 465
Sims, W. S , Lieutenant-Connnander, United
States Navy, on Tactical Qualities of " Dread
nought " Type of Battleship, 59. See 124 Single-Phase Line Construction on New York,
New Haven, and Hartford Railway, 741 Sinking Shafts, Special Methods of, 816, 831 Skilled Workmen, The Training of, 328 See 243
and LETTERS
Slender Turning, 756
Slip-Bands, Rosenhain on, 557
Slip-Bands in Strained Metals, Real Nature of, 91 Sluice, Automatic, in the Bondman Weir, at Leeds, 614
Smallheath Bridge, Birmingham, 603, 673 Smulder's Shipbuilding Works at Schiedam, Holland, 437. See 854
Snow-Plough for the Caledonian Railway, 308 Snow-Plough, Rotary, for Denver, North-Wes¬tern, and Pacific Railroad, 171
Social and Industrial History of Scotland, Treatise on, 101
Societe des Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, 796
Society, Royal Agricultural. See Agricultural
Societys. See Institutions
Sockets for Cable Joints, Failure of, 110
Sodium Peroxide, Regeneration of Air by, 456
Softening of Water, 818, 832
Soirée of Royal Society, 621, 808
Solutions, Osmotic Pressure of, 150
Sound, Signalling by, on Railways, 837, 867
South Africa. See Cape Colony, Natal, Orange
River, Rhodesia, and Transvaal
South America, British Interests in, 255. See
also Argentine
South American Railway Affairs, 696
South-West, Notes from, 15, 49, 83, 123, 147,187,

211, 241, 275, 311, 345, 383, 426, 459, 485, 519,

651, 583, 617, 647, 681, 713, 745, 777, 821, 855 South Yorkshire, Notes from, 15, 48, 82, 123, 147,

186, 211, 240, 275, 311, 345, 383, 426, 459, 485, 518, 650, 582, 617, 647, 681, 712, 745, 776, 821, 855 Spanish Ore, Transportation and Shipment of, 103, 171

Spark Telegraphy. See Wireless Telegraphy under Electric
Specific Gravity of Portland Cement, 455 Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, 1, 40, 227, 334, 472. See Erratum, 642
Speed-Indicator for Motor•Cars, 710
Speed and Power Computer for Steamships, 395 Speed and Resistance of Ships, 443, 563
Speed of Steamships, 824
Speed of Trains on Northern Railway of France, 20, 143
Spectroscopic Phenomena in Stars, 684
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Split Inspection Fittings, The " Conrex," for Electric Cables, 224
Spring Attachment of Motor-Cars, 69, 176, 249, 318 Squire;. W. W., on Electric versus Hydraulic Machinery for Docks, 838, 368
Stability of Electrolytic Hypochlorite and Sani¬tation, 720
Stamp End Works, Lincoln, 799 Standardisation of Carbon Lamps, 154 Standardisation in the Drawing-Office, 649 Standards of Weights and Measures, 216 Stanton, T. E., on Experiments on the Fatigue
of Metals, 505. See 547
Stars, Spectroscopic Phenomena in, 684 Stations, Electric Power. See under Electric a nd Hydro-Electric
Statistics of the London County Council Tram¬ways, 183
Stead, J. E., on Segregation in Steel, 843, 872 Steamboats. See Steamers
Steam-Boilers. See Boilers
Steam Consumption. See also Steam Trials, Turbines, Tests, and Diagrams in ILLUSTRATE D INDEX
Steam-Engines. See Engines
Steam Energy Chart for Turbine Investiga¬tions, 57, 79
Steam-Ferries, International, 66
Steam in Gas-Producer Practice, 639, 659 Steam-Heated Feed-Water for Boilers, 592, 654, 690, 708, 753. See 10, 45, 79
Steam at High Pressures and Temperatures, 1, 40, 227, 334, 472. See Erratum, 642
Steam, Live, for Ileating Feed-Water, 10, 45, 79 Steam-Lorries. See also Motor-Cars and Motor. Wagons
Steam-Motor Fire-Engine, 548 Steam-Superheaters. See Superheaters
Steam Trawler for the North Sea, 642
Steam Trials of German Turbine - Cruiser " Liibeck," 252
Steam Trials of H.M.S. " Warrior," 179
Steam Trials of Oil-Fuel Turbine-Driven Tor¬pedo-Boats, 679
Steam Trials of Peruvian Cruiser " Coronel Bolognesi," 124
Steam-Turbines. See Turbines
Steam and Water at High Temperatures, Ther¬mal Properties of, 1, 40, 227, 331, 472. See Erratum, 642
Steam - Yacht, The " Mahroussa," Turbine-Driven, 25, 79
Steamers, Ancient and Modern, Treatise on, 101 Steamers, Atlantic, Passenger Traffic by, 88 Steamers, Cargo-Handling Appliances for, 817,
874
Steamers, The Design of the Modern Cargo, 411, 630
Steamers Driven by Curtis Turbines, 696 Steamers' Engines. See Engines, Marine Steamers, Express Cunard, Moorings for, 425 Steamers, Ferry, for River Hooghly, 141 Steamer, Japanese Cable, " Ogasawara Marti,"
514
Steamer " Lusitania," Design and Launch of, 409, 433
Steamer " Mauretania," Use of High-Tensile Steel in, 846, 873
Steamers, Ocean-Going : Turbines versus Reci-procatinz Engines, 814, 829, 857, 862
Steamer, Paddle, " Bassein " for Burma Railway Company, 805
Steamers' Power Measured by Torsion of Shaft¬ing, 413, 482, 497, 768
Steamers, Propeller Struts for, 415, 465 Steamers " Quillota " and " Quilpue," for Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 774
Steamer " Rance," with Machinery for Super¬heated Steam, 77
Steamers. See also Warships
Steamers, Shallow-Draught, for Cuyaba River, Brazil, 616
Steamers ; Shipbuilding in 1906, 28. See Erra¬tum, 49
Steamer, Stern-Wheel, " Endeavour," for Mis
sion Work (Salter Brothers, Oxford), 80 Steamers with Straight Stems and Clipper Bows,
207. See 188
Steamers' Structure and Water-Ballast Arrange¬ment, 847, 874
Steamers, Turbine. See also Turbines Steamers, Turbine, for the Mediterranean, 722 Steamers, Turbine, Practical Points in, 862. See
857
Steamers, Unsolved Problems in the Design and Propulsion of, 822
Steamers, Use of High-Tensile Steel in, 816, 872, 873
Steamships, Steam and Po wver Computer for, 395
Steel, Adhesion of, to Concrete, 278
Steel Concrete. See 1&'rro Concrete
Steel, Current Theories of, 347
Steel Foundry Process, The Oakley, 721
Steel, Hardening of, in Fused Electrolytes, 282
Steel from High-Silicon Phosphoric Pig, 791
Steel, High-Speed, and Machine-Tool Design, 840,
870
Steel, High-Speed Modern, 569, 633
Steel, High-Speed Tool, Composition and Treat
ment of, 54
Steel, High-Tensile, in Bridges, Ships, &c., 816,
872, 873
Steel, High-Tensile, in Construction of " Maure
tania," 846, 873
Steel, High-Tensile, in Torpedo-Boit Construc
tion, 846, 873
Steel, Influence of Carbon on, 124
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel
Institute
Steel and Iron, Microscopic Analysis of, 207
Steel and Iron Production of Sweden, 401
Steel and Iron Rolling-Mills, Electric Driving of,
624, 627, 634
Steel and Iron-Work, Preservation of, 810, 827
Steel-Making from High-Silicon Phosphoric Pig
Iron by the Basic Bessemer Process, 63d
Steel-Making in Japan, 591
Steel, Manufacture of, from Pig Iron Containing
Chromium, Cobalt, and Nickel, 638, 695
Steel, Micro-Structure of. See Micro-Photo
graphs
Steel, Mild, Ageing of, 642, 725, 757
Steel Motor-Omnibus, 373
Steel, Physical Properties of, 791
Steel, Quality of, as Affected by Manufacture,
641
Steel Rails, Chemical Composition of, 809, 827
Steel Rails, Corrugation of, 7e3, 863. See 422,
837, 867
Steel. See also Alloys, Iron, and Micro-Photo
graphs
Steel, Segregation in, 813, 872
Steel Union, The German, 625, 751
Steel Wire, Nickel-Plated, 143
Steel Works, Japanese Government, 455
Stereotype Matrix - Beating Machine (Lennings
and Huesing, London), 58
Stern - Wheel Mission Steamer " Endeavour "
(Salter Brothers, Oxford), 80
Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Oesellschaft Vul
can, 163
Stockholm, The Proposed New Royal Dockyard
at, 591
Stoney, Edward W., on Strengthening Girder
Bridges on Madras Railway, 407
Stop-Valve, The Lunkenheimer Regrinding, 561
Straight Stems and Clipper Bows, 207. See 183
Street Pavement in Berlin, 781
Strength of Beams, Theoretical, 456
Strength of Concrete in Shear, 747
Strength of Materials and the Time-Factor, 385
Strength of Tubes to Resist Collapse, 19
Strengthening Girder Bridges on Madras Rail
way, 407
Stress, Alternating, the Effects of, 209, 318
Stresses in Beams, The Distribution of, 456
Stresses in Materials and the Time-Factor, 385
Stresses in Metal. See also Micro-Photo graphs
Stresses in Notched Metal Bars, 505, 547
Stresses in Plate-Girder Webs, 136, 207
Strikes and Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes and Legal
Stripping of Great Wheel at Earl's Court, 537 Stromeyer, C. E., on the Ageing of Mild Steel, 642, 725, 767
Structure of Metal. See Micro-Photographs Struts for Screw-Propeller, 415, 465
Subaqueous Tunnels, New York, 297, 367, 473 573, 667, 732. See 561
Subaqueous Tunnels, Prelini's Shield for, 561 Submarine Boat. See also Warships
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 256, 79U Submarine Vessels, 390, 457, 501
Submersible Boat. See also Warships Suction-Gas Engine. See Engine, Gas, and Agricultural
Suction-Gas Producer. See Producer Gas Suez Canal, Rock-Dredging at, 839, 869
Suez Canal, Treatise on, 6
Sulphidic Ores, Extraction of Copper from, 151 Sun-Dial, The Gibbs Improved, 657
Superheated Steam in Locomotives, 655 Superheated Steam, Thermal Properties of, 4U, 227, 334, 472. See Erratum, 642
Superheater on Locomotive, for Swedish State Railway, 419
Superheater, Pielock, for S.S. " Rance," 77 Superheater, Schmidt, for Prussian State Tank Locomotive, 32
Surface Works for Collierie;, 843, 871
Surveying, Treatise on, 605
Swedish Iron Ore, 247
Swedish Iron-Ore Deposits, 556, 633
Swedish Iron and Steel Production, 401
Swedish Royal Dockyard, Proposed, 591 Swedish State Purchase of Water Power, 91 Swedish State Railway, Electrification of, 154 Swedish Water-Power Station and Canal at
Trolhattan, 282
Swing-Bridge over River Avon at Bristol, 515 Swinton, A. A. C., on Electric Transmission Gear for Motor Vehicles, 818, 833

Switch Gear:

Automatic Hand-Operated Oil-Switch, 577 Bench Type Operating-Board, 576, 577, 578 Flat-Back Operating-Board at Glasgow, 420 Isolating Switch, 512
Multi-Core Cables for Switchboard Connec¬tion, 612
Remote-Control Automatic Oil-Switches, 441, 445, 448, 678
Resistance Cut-Out for Electrostatic Volt¬meter, 632
6500-Volt Switch - Gear at Glasgow, 405, 420
6600-Volt Switch-Gear for Durham Collieries Electric Power Supply Company's Station, near Penshaw, 576, 577, 578
10,000-Volt Transformer and Feeder Panels at the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company, Limited, Willesden, 676, 678
Three-Phase Time-Limit Relay, 512
Sydney, N.S.W., Cataract Dam, 156

Table, Adjustable, for Drawing-Office, 787 Tactical Qualities of " Dreadnought " Type of Battleship, 59, 124
Tapering-Machine for Piles, 851
Tar Oils for Diesel Engines, 782
Tarring of Road Surfaces, 720
Teaching of Mechanics. See Mechansm, Teaching. See Education and Training Technical Education, 186
Technical Education for German Chemical In¬dustries, 23
Technical Education. See also Education Technical School, Ecole Centrale, 458
Teesside Bridge and Engineering Works, Limited,
Middlesbrough ; Bridge over River Indus, 229 Telegraphs, Submarine. See Submarine Telegraphy. See Electric and Wireless Telegraphy, Wireless, Trans-Atlantic, 89 ; Col
lapse of Antenna, 110
Telephones. See also Electric
Telescope, Gigantic, for California, 408
Temperature Measurements, Optical, 286, 323 Temperature Scales for Extreme Heats, 153 Temperley-Cockburn Boiler, 176. See Erratum, 211
Tenders of Locomotives. See Locomotives
Tests of Alloys of Aluminium and Copper, 127, 158, 233, 253, 299
Tests of Alternating Stress, 209, 318
Tests of Bond between Concrete and Steel, 278 Tests of Fireproof Electric Cables, 752
Tests of Hard Woods of Western Australia, 35 Tests of High-Speed Petrol-Motor, 164
Tests of Lancashire Boiler with Pre-Heated Feed, 10, 45, 79
Tests of Lathe-Tools of Different Shapes and Steels, 54
Tests of Materials Used in Electric Machinery, 95, 129
Tests of Metals. See also Micro-Photographs Tests of Mild Steel for Deterioration, 642, 725, 757
Tests of Petrol-Engine, 124
Tests of " Premier " Gas-Engines, 224
Tests of Reinforced - Concrete Flooring (Kahn System, 677
Tests. See also Trials, Steam Trials, lieichsan
stalt, and Diagrams in ILLUSTRATED INDEX Tests of 3500-Kilowatt Steam-Turbine at Car
ville, 654
Tests of 2000-Kilowatt Willans-Dick-Kerr Turbo-Alternator, 752, 863
Testing Brake, Eddy Current, for Motors, 30$ Testing Coal on Danish Railways, 653
Testing Dynamometer, Absorption Type, 723 Testing-Machine, Sankey's, for Workshops, 209. See Erratum, 286
Thearle, S. J. P., on Cargo-Steamers and Water-Ballast Arrangements, 847, 874
Thearle, S. J. P., on the Evolution of the Modern Cargo-Steamer, 411, 630
Thermal Properties of Water and Steam at High Temperatures, 1, 40, 227, 334, 472. See Erra¬tum, 642
Thermal Storage Tank Explosion, 55 Thermometry, Optical, 286, 323
Thermo Dynamics of Iii2h-Pressure Steam, 1,
40, 227, 334, 472. See Erratum, 612
Thermo-Dynamics. See Turbine, Compound
Reaction Steam
Thermo-Dynamics, Treatise on, 671
Theta-Phi Diagram for Steam-Turbine Investi
gations, 57, 79
Theta-Phi Diagrams, Treatise on, 102, 608
Thompson, A. B., on Panama Canal Labour Pro
blems, 689
Thomson, Professor Silvanus ; Studies in Mag
netism, 525, 558, 687
Thrashing-Machines at the Royal Agricultural
Show, 859
Thring, L. G. P., on a New Optical Torsion
Meter, 768. See 413, 482, 497, 768
Thury System of High Tension Direct-Current
Electrical TransmiEsion' 350, 358
Tierney and Malone's Electrically - Operated
Tramway Points, 192
Timbers, Hard, of Western Australia., 35
Time and Clocks, Treatise on, 6
Time-Factor in the Resistance of Materials, 3i5
Timmis, I. A., The late, 13
Tin Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Tokio Harbour, 725
Tokio, Japan, Exhibition in 1912, 121
Tools, Heating and Hardening Furnace for, 566
Tools, High-Speed, for Cutting Metals, 64
Tools, Machine. See Machine-Tools
Tools, Pneumatic, in Workshops, 842, 871. See
176
Tool-Steel Hardening in Fused Electrolytes, 282
Tool-Steel, High-Speed, and the Design of Ma
chines, 840, 870
Tool-Steel, The Evolution of Modern, 569, 633
Top, Theory of, 749. See 442, 448, 623, 794, 826,
and Erratum, 776
Torpedoes, Control of, by Hertzian Waves, 66
Torque of Propeller Shafting, 413, 482, 497, 768
Torsiometers for Propeller Shafting, 413, 482,
497, 768
Track-Drill, The Moore, 208
Traction, Electric. See Tramways and Rail
ways under Electric!
Tractor, Robey's Steam, 373
Trade, Foreign, of China, 23
Trade and Industry of Kobe and Osaka, 65
Trade with Japan, 785
Trade Prospects in China, 653
Trade Refuse and River Pollution, 424
Trade, The Shipbuilding, 422
Trade, Shipping, of Yangtse River, 401
Trade, Swedish Iron and Steel, 401
Trade Unions and Employers' Federation, Agreement Between, 526
Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes and
Legal
Trade Wastes, Bacterial Treatment of, 489
Trading, Municipal. See Municipal Trading
Traffic, Urban and Surburban, 193
Train, Electric, on Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, 860
Train, The Renard, for Roads, 237, 271, 453, 493
Train Resistance and Side Winds, 457, 547, 655
Train, Royal Metre-Gauge, for India, 307, 335
Trains. See Locomotives, Railways, and Motor
Carriages
Trains. Speeds of, on Northern Railway of France,
20, 143
Training of Apprentices at Messrs. Barr and
Stroud, 775
Training. See also Education and Apprentices
Training of Skilled Workmen, 328. See 243 and
LETTERS
Tramway Brake, The Freund, 210
Tramway Construction over Blackfriars Bridge,
75, 853
Tramway Finance of the London County
Council, 85, 118
Tramways, The Moore Track-Drill for, 208
Tramway Motors, Regenerative Control of, 654
Tramways, Municipal. See Municipal Trading
Tramway Points, The Tierney and Malone Elec
trically-Operated, 192
Tramway Rails, Corrugation of, 422, 763, 863.
See 837, 567
Tramways. See also Electric
Tramway Statistics, 183
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Traffic, 88
Transandine Railway, Rack Locomotive for,
643
Trans-Atlantic Wireless Telegraphy, 89 ; Col
lapse of Antenna, 110
Transformers, Tests of, 130
Transit, Rapid, for Towns, 193
Transmission, Electric, for Motor-Vehicles, 818,
833
Transmission of Electrical Energy by Direct
Current on Serifs System, 350, 358
Transmission Lines for Electric Power, 361
Transportation and Shipment of Ore at Almeria,
Spain, 103, 171
Trawling-Boats, 542
Treatment, Bacterial, of Trade Wastes, 489
Trezzo d'Adda Hydro-Electric Power Station, 174
Trials. See Steam Trials, Warships, Guns, Sue
tion-Gas Tests, and Launches and Trial
Trips
Triple-Expansion Engine. See Engines
Trolhattan Power Station and Canal, 282
Trucks. See also Carriages
Trusses. See also Bridges and Roofs
Trust, The German Steel, 625, 751
Trust, Japanese Shipping, 401
Tube-Bender, The " Conrex," 193
Tube-Bending Machine, 393
Tube-Bending Machine, Large, 774
Tubes, Resistance of, to Collapse, 19
Tunnel under English Channel, 425
Tunnel, The Simplon, 44
Tunnel, Simplon, Treatise on, 672
Tunnels, New York Subaqueous, 297, 310, 367,
473, 561, 573, 667, 732
Tunnels, Subaqueous, Prelini's Shield for, 561
Turbine, The Curtis Marine, 596
Turbine, Development of, 425
Turbine- Driven Oil-Fuel Torpedo-Boats, 679
Turbine-Driven Yacht " Mahroussa," 25, 79
Turbine, German, Cruiser " Ltibeck," 252
Turbines, Hydraulic, Treatise on, 705
Turbines, Marine, Practical Points in Application of, S62. See 857
Turbines, Hydraulic, for Darjeeling Electricity Works, 495
Turbines, Marine, versus Reciprocating Engine,
154. 81.4. 829. See 857, 862
Thrnme, Maririe Steam, Treatise on, 7,-672
Turbine, The Marine Steam, 453, 857
Turbine Pump for High Lifts (Allen, Son, and Co.), 114
Turbines for Ship Propulsion, 825
Turbines, Steam, Entropy Chart for, 57, 79
Turbine, Steam, Tests of 3500-Kilowatt, at Carville, 654
Turbine Steamers for the Mediterranean, 722
Turbine Steamers' Power Measured by Torsion of Shafting, 413, 482, 497, 768
Turbine Steamers, Vibration in, 863
Turbine, Willans-Dick-Kerr, 2000-Kilowatt, Alter
nator Tests of, 752, 863
Turbine Yacht, The King's, 72
Turning-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Turning of Slender Rods, 755
Turrets, Kilroy's System of Protection for, 613
Tyneside Industrial Conditions, 134, 163

Underground Railways. See also Tunnels and Railways
Unions, Trade. See Trade Unions, Industrial Notes, and Legal
United Engineering Societies' Building in America, 86
United States, Notes from, 14, 44, 115, 145, 212,
460, 514, 559, 579, 616, 646, 677, 708, 744, 776,
864
United States. See also America
University Education, 186
Upkeep Charges on Large Electric Generating
Sets, 819, 834
Urban and Suburban Traffic, 193
Utilisation of Peat, 650, 708, 753, 772
Utilisation of Waste Rubber, 748

Vacua, IIigh, and Helium at Low Temperatures, 781
Valves, Lentz, for Engines of S.S. " Rance," 77 Valve, The Lunkenheimer Regrinding, 561 Valves and Valve Gear. See also Motor-Cars,
Locomotives, Regulators, and Engines Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor-Cars, Motor
Wagons, Motor-Buses, and Motor-Carriages Venturi Water-Meters at Rio de Janeiro, 236
" Write," French Battleship, Launch of, 722
Vibration in Turbine Steamers, 863
Victoria Falls Bridge, 392
Victoria Falls Power Scheme, 11
Vienna, Visit of Iron and Steel Institute to, 639
Vulcan Shipbuilding Company, 153

Wade, L. A. B. ; The Cataract Dam, Sydney, New South Wales, 156
Wagon, Double Bogie, for Carrying Rails, 239 Waggons, Steam. See also lifotor•Cars, Motor-Wagons and Renard Train
Waldorf Hotel, Ferro-Concrete Floors at, 516 War Influenced by Weather, 92

Warships :

Battleships of the " Dreadnought " Type, Tactical Qualities of, 59, 124
Battleships, Rationale of the Modern, 61 Coronel Bolognesi," Peruvian Cruiser, Steam Trials of, 121
Cruisers of the Future, 349
Defence of Maritime Commerce, 244
Explosion on Japanese Battleship " Mikasa," 91
French Battleship "Write," Launch of, 722 Guns and Propelling Machinery, 377, 389, 429 High-Tensile Steel in Torpedo-Boat Con¬struction, 846, 873
Italian Submersible Torpedo-Boat " Glauco," 491
Japanese Battleship "Satsuma," 23
Kilroy's System . of Danger Signals for Turrets, 613
Launch of H.M.S. " Invincible," 523
Lloy d's Return of Warship Construction, 54 Naval Pocket-Books, 191
Naval Policy, 213
Navy Annual, 766
Navy Estimates, 314
Shipbuildinz, The World's, in 1906, 142 Smith's Speed-Indicator Factory, Watford, 710
Steam Trials of German Turbine Cruiser " Lubeck," 252
Submarine Vessels, 390, 457, 501 Torpedo-Boats, Oil-Fuel Turbine-Driven, 679 Torpedo Craft, " Espero," " Cassiopea," &c., for Italian Navy, 42
Torpedoes Controlled by Hertzian Waves, 66 Torpedo Vedette-Boats for the Roumanian Government, 517
Value of Size in, 553
" Warrior," H.M. Cruiser, Engines and Steam Trials of, 179
Waste Rubber, Utilisation of, 748
Wastes, Trade, Bacterial Treatment of, 489 Water-Ballast Arrangement and Design of Steamers, 817, 874
Water-Hardening, 818, 833
Water-Level Changes in Lakes, 783
Water, Mechanical Filtration of, at Bolton, 733 Water-Meters, Venturi, at Rio de Janeiro, 236 Water-Power, Purchase of, by Swedish State 91 Water-Power. See hydraulic and Hydro-Elec
tric
Water-Power Station on the Rhine, near Laufenburg, 298
Water-Power Station on River Adda, Italy, 174 Water-Power Station at Trolhattan, Sweden, 282 Water-Pumping, The Comparative Cost of, 817, 832, 863
Water-Pumps. See Pumps
Water Reservoir. See also Reservoirs Water-Reservoirs for London, at Walton, 526 Water-Softening, 818, 832
Water and Steam at High Temperatures, Ther¬mal Properties of, 1, 40, 227, 334, 472. See Erra¬tum, 642
Water Supply of London, 708
Water Supply, Pollution of, 807
Water Supply of Sydney, New South Wales, 156 Water-Turbines for Darjeeling Electricity Works, 495
Water-Turbines, Treatise on, 705
Water-Wheel, Pelton. See also Turbines Waterways and Canals, Royal Commission on, 89, 166, 583, 763
Waterways. See also River and Canal
Watson, James, on Water-Hardening, 818, 833 Wear of Rails, 837. 867. See 422, 763
Weather in War-Time, 92
Web Stresses in Plate-Girders, 136, 207
Webber, W. H. Y., on the Use of Town Gas for Heating, 860, 875
Weights and Measures, Metric System, at Mes rs. Kynoch's, 219
Weights and Measures, Standards of, 216 Weir, Bondman, Automatic Sluice in, 644 Welsbach Gas-Mantle, 591
Wentworth Sheilds, F. E., on the Durability of Reinforced-Concrete Structures, 812, 828, 863. See Erratum, 863
Werf Gusto of Messrs. Smulders, 437. See 831 Western Australian hard Woods, 35
Western Australian Railway Policy, and Work¬ing of, 217
Western Railway of France, Purchase of, 351
Wharf Crane, Electric Travelling (C. and A. Musker, Limited), 710
Wharf Crane, 30-Cwt. Hydraulic, 851. See also Crane
Wharf Crane, 150-Ton Hydraulic, at Elswick, 2:,0
Wharf, Ferro-Concrete, at Hornchurch, Essex, 46. See also Pier
Wheel, The Great, at Earl's Court, Demolition of, 537
Wheel and Rail, Action between, 837, 867. See 422, 763
Whitcombe, C. P., on the Use of Pneumatic Tools in Workshops, 842, 871
White, Sir William H., on Gyroscopic Apparatus for Steadying Ships, 442, 448. See 623, 749
Widening of Blackfriars Bridge, 75, 853
Willesden Extra High-Tension Switch-Gear, 676
Wilson, Sir Alexander, Bart., 579
Wind, Influence of, on Railway Trains, 457, 547, 655
Winding, Deep, Design of Shafts for, 816, 831
Wings versus Aeroplanes, 217, 249, 271, 458, 4138, 525, 526, 517, 592. See 491
Wire, Copper, Variations in, 95
Wires, Steel, Nickel-Plated, 143
Wireless Signals for the Control of Torpedoes, 66
Wireless Telegraphy, Improvements in, 717
Wireless Telegraphy. See Electric
Wireless Telegraphy, Trans-Atlantic, 89 ; Col¬lapse of Antenna, 110
Witwatersrand Gold-Fields, Problems of, 816, 830
Woods, Hard, of Western Australia, 35
Wood-Working Machinery. See Machine-Tools
Workmen in Germany, Conditions of, 523, 554
Workmen, Skilled, The Training of, 328. See 243 and LErrERs
Workmen's Compensation Act, Indemnity against, 456. See also Legal
Workmen's Compensation in Italy, 152 Workmen's Pension Fund, 493
Work of National Physical Laboratory, 370, 439

Works:

Works of British Oxygen Company, 506
Works, Facilities for, at Tyneside, 134, 163
Works, Japanese Government Steel, 455
Works, Locomotive, of Messrs. Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Limited, 2, 70
Works of Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth at Lincoln, 799
Works, New, at Glasgow, 571
Works, New, at. Guildford, 282
Works, Public, in New South Wales, 559
Works, Shipbuilding, of Messrs. Smulders, at Schiedam, Holland, 437, 854
Workshop Buildings, Design of, 182
Workshop Organisation, 149
Workshops and Railway Premises, Illumination of, 105. See 124
Workshops, Use of Pneumatic Tools in, 842, 871 World's Shipbuilding in 1906, 142

Yacht Design and New Rating Rules, 17
Yacht Fitted with Paraffin Auxiliary Motor, 461
Yacht, Turbine-Driven, for the King, 722
Yacht, Turbine, "Mahroussa" for the Khedive of Egypt, 25, 79
Yalu River, Bridging of, 185
Yangtze River 'Japanese Shipping Combine, 401
Yarrow, A. F., on High-Tensile Steel for Torpedo-Boats, 846, 873
Year-Books and Annuals, 24, 92, 155, 188, 191 255, 270

Zambesi Bridge at Victoria Falls, 392 Zeebrugge Harbour and Canal, 624

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