Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Index: Letters to the Editor
Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1908 Jul-Dec: Index
Aeronautics. See Flight and Pressure
Beams, New Method of Calculating the Deflection of. W. M. Wallace, 85 ; John Goodman, 151
Brake. See Vacuum.
Breakdown at Lot’s Road. Oswald T. Davis, 512
Bridge, Safety of the Blackwells Island, New York. Philip P. Brown, 728
“Burning” Broken Propeller-Blades. James Herdman, for Hawthorns and Co., Limited, 651; A Moulder, 698 ; H. Sayers, 729 ; Wm. Roxburgh, 751
Cement. See Portland Cement
Civil Engineers, Institution of. N.A.W., 22 ; O.C.N., 48 ; A.M. Inst. C.E., 48 ; Cassandra, 117 ; Smoking-Room, 117
Columns. See Rankine-Gordon Formula
Combustion Processes in Locomotive Fire-Boxes.
F. W. Bach, 50
Condensation, A Note on. J. Czerny, 306
Corrugation of Rails. T. II. Saunders, 387; D. Evans, 419; J. Sutherland Warner, 510, 615 ; M. Inst. C.E., 591
Cost of Fuel for Diesel Oil-Engines. W. P. Sillence, for Mirrlees, Bickerton, and Day, Limited, 591
Cotton Machinery, Driving. See Electrically-Driven
Couplers, Automatic. A. V. Roe, 306; Arthur Paget, 388
Dephosphorisation and Desulphurisation in Electric Steel Furnaces. John Harden, 205 Depreciation of Machinery. A. Williams Price, 590
Diesel Engine, Cost of Oil; W. P. Sillence, for Mirrlees, Bickerton, and Day, Limited, 591
Drains, Intercepting Traps on. E. Hardwick Terry, for the Local Government Board, 615
Electric Lighting Act. See Orders
Electric Steel Furnaces. John Harden, 205 Electrically-Driven Ring-Frames at the Manchester Exhibition. C. A. Hempstock, for Platt Brothers and Co., Limited, 651
Engine, Marine Gas. See Marine
Engineering, Modern, Two Distinct Aspects of.
J. W. C. Haldane, 238
Engineering in Public Schools. J. E. King, 21
Ferro-Concrete Design, Economy in. H. B.
Gates, 238, 271, 306 ; Oscar Faber, 238, 306, 343 Fire-Box. See Locomotive
Flight, Problem of, 21, 49, 86, 117, 151, 185, 206, 238, 270, 306, 388, 410, 441, 556, 591, 615, 650, 698, 786, 832; Hiram S. Maxim, 21, 86, 118, 185,239, 270, 650 ; Henry Lea, 21; John Kirkby, 49 ; Edgar E. Wilson, 49, 185, 207, 238, 271, 306, 441, 556, 698; John Hodge, 49; Rankine Kennedy, 49, 50, 117, 271, 388 ; T. G. Challis, 49 ; Albert P. Thurston, 50, 117, 151, 185, 307, 556, 615 ; Horatio Phillips, 50, 118, 207 ; Sidney H. Hollands, 86, 117, 151, 307, 411 ; Frederic H. Grix, 86; R. S. Cree Brown, 86; James S. Frain, 117 ; W. H. Dobson, 117, 239, 307, 411; H. C. Vogt, 151, 410; J. P. Porter, 185; E. V. Hammond, 206, 388, 441, 650, 786, 832 ; George L. O. Davidson, 207, 411; A. V. Roe, 271 ; Herbert Chatley, 307, 388, 591, 651 ; B. Baden Powell, 343; Frank Hambling, 343, 441; Geo. H. Gibson, 343 ; D. Evans, 411; A. Ross, 441; A. K. C., 591; Lawrence Hargrave, 750 ; A. E. Flynn, 786
Furnace, Electric Steel. See Dephosphorisation
Guest’s Law of Combined Stresses, 206, 239, 271, 306, 387, 418, 440, 511, 555, 615, 651, 698, 728, 750, 786; P. T. Crowther, 206, 306, 511, 615, 651; C. A. Smith, 239, 418, 511, 728 ; Walter A. Scoble,271, 418; Rankinite, 387, 440; Graduate, 418 ; Laurence B. Turner, 555, 651 ; C. A. Carus Wilson, 555 ; Designer, 698 ; Edward C. Moyle, 698, 750 ; Henry Foster, 728, 750; G. H. Gulliver, 729, 786; A. T. J. Kersey, 786
Hooke’s Universal Joints for Motor-Cars. II. F.
Fullagar, 729
Horse-Power Rating of Petrol-Engines. Mervyn O’Gorman, 852
Iron-Founders, Training of. F. Hall, 419
Liquid Air. See Oxygen
Live-Steam Feed - Heaters. G. F. Davidson, 388
Locomotive Combustion Processes. See Combustion
London County Council Tramway Report. A.
Williams Price, 22
Lot’s Road Breakdown. See Breakdown Lubrication, Forced. Mark Robinson, 185
Marine Gas-Engine. A. Vennell Coster, 48, 85 ;
C. A. St. George Moore, 48, 118 ; Henry Lindsay, 48; Myddleton Briggs, for the Lewis Gas-Engine and Gas-Producer Company, 85; Charles W. Kay, 787
Monocular Prism Field-Glass for the Army. George Foucar, 419; Aitchison and Co., 512
Motor-Cars, Bevel-Geared Back Axles for. W. Cameron, 729, 786 ; V. G. Barford, 750
Motor-Car. See also Hooke's Joint and Horse-Power Bating
Motor-Car Show at Olympia, Lessons from.
Geo. H. Cutbush, 7
Nickel Steel for Bridges. Nickel, 556
Non-Slipping and Everlasting Stair-Treads. A.
C. Punbulow, forW. J. Davies and Sons, 751 ;
A. A. Robertson, for Addison, Potter, and Son 852
Orders under the Electric Lighting Acts. T. H.
W. Pelham, for the Board of Trade, 591
Oxygen, Separation of, from Liquid-Air. Ren6 J. L£vy, for the British Liquid Air Comnanv Limited, 50 .
Palestine, Development of. D. G. Petrides, 511
Portland Cement. Henry Kelway Bamber, 690
Pressure of Grain, .lames Whitaker, 343
Pressure Variation on Rectangular Aerofoils.
Herbert Chatley, 591, 651
Propeller-Blades, “ Burning.” See Burning
Propellers, Marine and Aerial ; Motorite, 270.
See also Screws and Flight.
Propellers, Twin-Blade. Lawrence Hargrave, 750
Public Schools, Engineering in. J. E. King, 21
Rail Corrugation. See Corrugation
Railway Couplings. See Couplers
Rankine-Gordon Formula, False Basis of. Henry
S. Prichard, 852
Rotating Discs, Experiments on. II. H. Jeffcott, 440 ; A. Stodola, 410, Maurice F. Fitzgerald, 510
Screw Propulsion and Negative Pressure. See also Flight. Enquirer, 186
Ships, Longitudinally Framed. Francis H. Alexander, 832
Smokeless Powders. W. D. Borland, for the E.C. Powder Company, 420
Stair-Treads. See A on- Slipping
Steel for Bridges. See Nickel
Symbols for Physical Quantities. Miles Walker, 116, 418
Turbine. See Rotating Disc
Vacuum Brake and Slack Brake-Gear. E. S.
Luard, 84
Wagon Couplings, See Couplers
Warships, Speed of. M.I. Meeh. E., 239
Water, Electrical Treatment of. Ernest Perrett, for Davis Perrett, Limited, 388
Welding, A New System of. John A. Smeeton, for Fusion Welded Metals, Limited, 48, 85; H. Heron Hosack, 48; John Kirkby, 48, 85, 117
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