The Engineer 1900 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

• ABBOTT and Co., Limited, Report for the last Financial Year, (200)

Accidents, Fires, Boiler Explosions, dec.:

• Balloon, Count Zeppelin's, 318
• Boiler Explosions, 483
• iu the Year, Persons Killed and Injured by, (591)
• 1899, in Germany, (379)
• Locomotive, at Westerfield, 314, 411, 413, 498
• Lyons, (167)
• Phenomena of, 496
• near St. Helens, 615, (491)
• Sutton Heath Pottery, 597
• Sydenham, (250)
• Tube Explosion, Belleville, on board tho Mntiue, (641)
• Bursting of Main from Lake Vyrnwy, (163)
• of Main Steam Pipe in Engine-house, Clydach Vale Collieries, (491)
• Colliery Flooded, Cymmer, (452), (480)
• Explosion, Great Central Railway Companies’ Gasworks, (87)
• Great Western Railway Colliery, ( (124)
• Fall of Roof, Slank Iron Mines, (33)
• Fire, Handyside’s Britannia Foundry, Derby, (491)
• Messrs. Nash and Sons Spado and Shovel Works, (504)
• Oldbury Carriage Works, (114)
• West Toxteth Dock, Liverpool, (33)
• Halliwell, Mr. J., Killed through Falling down a Pit Shaft, (137)
• Hoboken Disaster, Loss Sustained by the North German Lloyd, (163)
• Horse Killed by a Telephone Wire, (508)
• Landslip, Cornwall, (519)
• Powell Duffryn Colliery, (163)
• Railway Accidents see Railway
• Roof, Engineering Works, Sterling Boiler Company, Limited, 119
• Whitwell’s Ironworks, Thcrnaby, (62)
• ADEN, Scheme of Public Wharves,and Tidal Basins, Government of Bombay refuse to Sanction it, (114)
• Admiralty Committee on Naval Boi'ers, 134
• Admiralty Surveys, Recent, 136
• Aërial Experiment, An, 96
• Ships, 139
• Torpedoes, 67
• Agricultural Implements, Opening for, in Asia Minor, (293)
• Machinery and Implements in Smyrna, (33)
• Machinery, Popularity of American, (291)
• Machinery Wanted in Chile, (291)
• Work, Application of Electric Power to, (137)
• Air Compressor, The New Fisher Auxiliary, 376 Oscillating, 446
• Means of Renewing, Discovered by Two Frenchmen, ("239)
• Alcohol, Industrial Use of, The French Govern¬ment Endeavours to Promote, (508)
• Algeria, Copper and Silver Ores Found in, (137)
• Algeria, Mineral Oil in, (137)
• Alkali Act, Cement Works and the, 170
• Alloying Cast Iron with Aluminium, 118
• Alloys Employed in the Gold and Silver Coinage of the Realm, (365)
• Almanacs and Calendars, 590, 651
• Aluminium, Alloying Cast Iron with, 118
• on Carbon in Cast Iron, Influence of, Mossra. Melland and Waldron, 308
• Cooking Vessels and Fuel Economy, (519)
• and Copper, Future of, 166
• Patents, 623
• American Armour Plate, 516
• Cement, 326
• Competition in Iron Circles, (250)
• Engineering Offices, 374
• Engineers in Great Britain, Work
• Secured by, by Publication of Open Contracts in United States Trade Journals, (504)
• Machinery for the Far East, (136)
• Steel Trade, The, 139
• Tariff and the Iron Trade, Tbo, 38
• Works Practice, 445
• Ammunition—see Explosives

Appointments and Resignations:

• Bowles, Naval Constructor F. T., Appointment, (591)
• Campbell, Mr. Chas., Appointment, (22)
• Cawthra, Mr., Appointment, (253)
• Claydon, Mr. II. W., 378
• Commandcr-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Appoint¬ment for the Post of, (11)
• Dick, Mr. F. W., his Appointment and Succes¬sor, (160)
• Holland, Mr. Riehard Groves, Electod Master Cutler, (149), (249)
• Hornung, Mr. Chas., Resignation. (304)
• Lunn, Mr. J. P., Appointment, (378)
• Macaulay, Mr. John, (33)
• McCauley, Mr. J., Appointment, (150)
• May, Capt. 11. J.. Appointment, 261
• Peddie, Mr. J. Dick, Appointment, (508)
• Raw on, Mr. J., Appointment, (531)
• Rny, Mr, App Jntment, (304)
• Reeves, Mr. (>. B , Appointment, (519)
• Ritherham, Mr. T. F., Appoin'tnen». (238)
• Swansea Corporation E.eotrical Cunmiite Appin'ment of Mr. Cawtbra, (253)
• Thomas, Mr. Fred. (1., Resignation. (304)
• Trinham, Mr. J. S., Appointment, (304)
• Young, Mr. Frank W., Appointment, (87)
• ARDWICK Engineering Company, “Compact” Launch Machinery for America and for Steam Yachts, (73)
• Argentine, Exportation of Wheat, (163)
• Argentine Republic, Cultivation and Export of Wheat from the, (105)
• Armour's Plant, Boiler Installation at, 151

Armour:

• Brown and Co.’s, John, (21)
• Camme’.l’s, 4in. K.N.C. Tests of, 117
• Krupp, for Turkish Ironclads, (137)
• Opensbaw Works, Extension of, (36,
• Openshaw Works, Plate Trial, (36)
• Plate, American, 546
• Plate Contract Question, The U.S , (213)
• Plate Trials, 334
• Russian, Tested at the Bethlehem Steel Com¬pany’s Proving Ground, (137)
• Tenders for, asked by the Ordnance Biroau of the United States Navy Department, 67
• Term', 7
• Plates, American, for Russian Battleships, 301
• ARMSTRONG, Lord, 630
• Armstrong, Professor Geo. Fred, 523
• Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, Dividend, 1900, June 30th, (304)
• Artistic Accuracy, 499
• Ashton-in-Makeitield, Electric Energy Supply for, (416)
• Aspatria and Home Cultram Urban and Wigton Rural Districts Water Supply Scheme, (440)
• Asphalt Pavements in Minneapolis, Cost of Cleaning, (190)
• Asphalt Pavements in Brooklyn, Ruin of the, Dispute between tbo Gas Companies and tbo Railway Companies respecting, (316)
• Assiout Barrage Works, Breach in the, (87)

Association fop the Advancement of Science, American:

• Fly-wheel Explosions, Mr. C. H. Manning on, (62)

Association, American Railway Master Mechanics’ :

• Power Transmission by Shafting r. Eleotricity, 146,173
• Relative Advantages of Electricity and Shafting for Driving for Railway Shops, Conclusions orrived at by the Ccmmitteo Appointed to Consider, (87)
• Water in Locomotive Boilers, Statistics of the Effect of Hard and Soft, (10)

Association, Central Technical College, Old Students':

• 328

Association of Cleansing Superintendents of Great Britain:

• Motors for Street Watering and Dust Removal, Costs of, Mr. E. Shrapnel Smith on, 276

Association, Cold Storage and Ice:

• Production of Distilled Water for Ice-making Plants, Hal Williams, 647

Association of Engineers, Birmingham:

• Engineer and the Economical Development of Manufactories, The, by W. Arnold, 223

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

• Election of President and other Officers, 601
• Electric Traction Scheme, Manchester, Discussion on the Appointment of an Expert for, 601
• Engines, Triple and Quadruple-expansion, Re¬lative Efficiency of, Mr. A. L. Mellanby, 651
• Fly-wheels, Mr. Archibald Sharp, 436
• Paris Exhibition :
• Its Lessons and Suggestions for Engineers, 399, 477
• S vllabus for the Winter Session, (361)
• Visit to Boyer and Peacook’s Locomotive Works, Gorton, 401
• Visit to the White Star Liner Oceanic, 99

Association, National Free Labour:

• Employment of Militiamon with Permanent Work, 369

Association, Self-propelled Traffic:

• Address by M. O. Forostier, (191)

Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, British:

• Programme of Winter Session, (541)
• Wa6t9 of Water, Relationship between Cost of,
• end that of Detection and Prevention of, Mr. A. J. Jenkins, 7, 43
• Assouan Dam. Progress of, (611)
• Astronomy, Annual for Students, (480)
• Atlantic Record, The, 185
• Attraction, 344
• Austen, Mr. Stanley, (304)
• Australian Iron Manufacture, 372
• Aysdalegate E-.tate for Sale, (426)

B

• BAIN and Co.’s Concerns in West Cumberland Acquired by the Moss Bay Iron and Steel Company, (691)
• Rikau Boycott, Japan, The, (45)
• Balance Wheels, Novol Method of Constructing (62)
• Balata Driving Belt, A, (467)
• Balloon, Novel Experiments to be Carried Out by J. M. Bacon from a, (87)
• Balloon, Trial Trip with Count Zeppelin’s Navi¬gable, (11)
• Birr, Prof. Arch., On the Rise of the Mechanical Arts, (571)
• Bar Rolling Mil), a Large, (310)
• Birrow Hematite Steel Company's Works, Stop¬page of, (467)
• Water Supply, 392, (519)
• Bauer Forge, The, 301
• Bauermann, Prof. H., Iron and Steel at the Paris Exhibition, 1900, 236, 376, 423, 448
• Belfast Harbour Commissioners and the Glasgow Docks, 376
• Belgian Metal Market, (190)
• Bell, Sir I. L., on United States Competition, 569
• Belleisle Experiments, 18, 32, 193, 261, 489
• Belleville Boilers— x.r Boilers
• Belt Pulley, Test of a, 504
• Saddle, Mr. C. T. Powell, (10)
• Surface-hardened Carrying, Rossendale Belt¬ing Company, (225)
• Phoenix Sewn Cotton Duck, (219)
• Bengal, Coal in, (141)
• Bengal Pig Iron, Price of, in Australia and China, (637)
• BarangerSiingl Apparatus for Purifying Feed- water, (291)
• Berthelot, M., On the Boiling Points of Zinc and Cadmium, (ISO)
• Bethnal Oreen Free Library, (619)
• Bsvel Wheel Cutting, 212
• Bioycle, The “ Free-wheel,” 66
• in Siam, Demand for, (365)
• for the South African Forces, Protest
• against the War-office Specification, (591,
• and Steel Ball Trade in Bavaria, Decline of. (137)
• Trade in Moscow, American e. British, (512)
• Bilbao and Z>ebrupge, Jetty Construction at, 434

Bills:

• Cardiff Railway Company's, (624)
• Dublin Electric Lighting, Rejected, 20
• East London Water Company, (52)
• Electric Power, 5, £0, (33)
• French, for Naval Defences and Re-organisa¬tion of the Fleet, (11,
• Landon County Council’s, for Using Electricity on their Tram Lines, (87)
• London County Council's, for a Tunnel under the Thames, (62)
• and South - Westorn Line under the Solent, (591)
• Water Supply, 588
• Metropolis, Electric Railways for, (587,
• Moselle Canal, 14
• Neath Harbour, (33)
• Private, (508)
• Railway and Canal Traffic Amendment, (33,
• Rheidol Light Railway, (33)
• Sheffield District Railway Company’s, (11)
• South Wales Electric Power Distribution, (33)
• Stockport, Water Supply, (637)
• BINGHAM, Mr. Chas. Henry, (351)
• Birmingham Gasworks, Holders at the, 561, 563, 607, 628, 629 (Supplement, December 21st, 1900,)
• Birmingham Technical School, Engineering De¬partment of, to be Reorganised, (392)
• Birmingham Welsh Water Scheme, The, 362, 363
• Blackpool, Volcanic Stone Sea Walls, 146
• Blast Furnaces, Coal Consumption in, and How it is affected by Moisture in the Air, (318, Furnace Smelting by Water Gas, 153
• Board of Trade Education, South Kensington, 279

Boilers:

• Admiralty Committee on Naval Boilers, The, 134
• Belleville, 36, 39, 442
• in the British Navy, (641)
• in the Japanese Navy, 542
• Machine Tools for the Construction of, 643
• Explosions, Boiler—see under Accidents Phenomena of, 496, 498
• Seleot Committee on, (62), 90
• Flanged Fiue, Hawkesley, Wild, and Co., (303)
• Flue Drilling Machine, 65, 620
• Incrustation of Locomotive, Peculiarity in the, 641
• of Locomotive. Scale Loosened by Constantly Changing the Water, (314)
• in Preventing, Mr. Reis's Patent, (137)
• Installation at Armour’s Plant, 161
• Moscow Local Makers v. Lancashire, (519)
• Navy, 67, 134
• Niclausse, 96,118, 145, 413
• Registration and Inspection, Report of the
• Select Committee on, and Draughts Sub¬mitted, (62)
• Scale in Locomotive, Observations made on the Central Argentine and on the Great Western Railways, (544)
• Stirling Boiler Company's Show of Models, (HO)
• Tubular, Experiments with, for the German Navy, (366)
• Water-tube, Babcock and Wilcox, Demand for, (62)
• Experiments on the llyac.nth, 415
• Mr. G..schen i Memorandum on, 61, 70, 89, 134
• in Merchant Shipi, 263
• oa the Minerva, Trills, (313)
• Water-tube, for the New Cruisers Encounter and Challenger, (440)
• in Warships, L;sts of the Principal Typss, 26, 27, 56
• BOLT, Lewis, 398
• Bolt and Nut Company, Lanarkshire, Large Additions to their Woiks, (508)
• Bombay Water Supply, (544)
• Boring Machine, Cylinder, Socié c Alsacienne (iv. Supplem-nt. November 23rd, 1900)
• Loco, Cylinder, Demoor (ii. Supplement, November 2'ird, 1900)
• Sculfort et Fockedey (si. Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
• Mill, Horizontal, Smith and Coventry, Limited, 189
• Bottling Machine, Aeiiited Liquid, 565
• Bouhey, Usines, Paris. Machine Tools (Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
• “Bowling” Iron, Evidence as to the World-re¬nowned, (318)
• Bown, Mr. Wm., (114)
• Boyer, Percussive Riveter, 446
• Bradford Water Supply Work9, Mr. Watson on,
• S9, 270, 271, 274 h for Electric Cranes, 538
• Breech Screw, Krupp's Modified Welin, 243
• Briar-root Industry, The, (114)
• Bricks made from Wasto Heaps of St. Helens Glass Work», (318)

Bridges, Railway, and other:

• Alais, Light Railway, 52
• Building, American v. British, (637)
• Canadian Pacific Railway over the Red River, _(611)
• Cantilever for the Canadian Government, (253)
• Strengthening the Niagara, 576
• Foot, MadisoD, New Jersey, Plate Girder, 539
• Newcastle, at the Side of the Bykor Bridge. (293)
• Over the Spree, 374
• Great Northern Railway over the Canal Basin, Nottingham, 219, 220
• Malt Mill Lane, 257, 258
• Hank-Tu, Rebuilding of, (440)
• Heavy Draw, New York Central Railway, (72)
• Limbatb, Re-building of, Recommended by the London County Council, (620)
• Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Contract Reported to have been Secured, (250)
• London, Widening of, (392), 613
• New, over the Thames at Lambeth, 414
• Newcastle, Widening of Byker, (552)
• Ottawa River, (86)
• Siberian Railway, Across the Yenisei, 4
• Stone Arch Railway, U.S.A., 67
• Swing, Working by Electricity, 373
• Sydney Harbour, (17)
• Transporter over the Manchester Ship Canal and the Mersey, (591)
• Tyne Harbour Mouth, Aerial Suspension, at, (519), (529)
• Uganda Railway, American Contracts to Supply Thirty-four, 595
• Warden, near Newcastle, New Suspension, (11)
• BRISTOL Quays, 418
• Britannia Rapids, Ottawa, Utilisation of, (544)

British Association:

• Bradford, New Water Supply Works, Mr. Watson, 269, 270, 271, 274
• Coalfields and Iron Ore Deposits of Shansi and Honan, Mr. J. G. H. Glass, 329 Combination Integrating Wattmeter and Maxi¬mum Demand Indicator, Mr. T. Barker, 272
• Compressed Air, Experiments on the Ra-heating of, Mr. W. O. Walker, 326
• Cost of Power by Steam, Water, and Gas, Mr. J. B. C. Kershaw, 269, 290
• Dynamos at the Paris Exhibition, Professor S. Thomson on the Large, 272
• Expanded Metal in Concrete, Ute of, Mr. A. T. Walmisloy, 269
• Generating Stations, Design and Location of, Mr. A. II. Gibbings, 272
• Leader on, 192
• Machine Shop», Construction of, Mr. E. Kitson Clark, 290
• Manchester and Liverpool Proposed Express on the Mono-rail Sy»tom, Papers by Sir W. H. Preooe and Mr. F. J. Behr, 269
• Measurement of the Tractive Force, Resistance, and Acceleration of Trains, Mr. A. Malloek, 323
• Mechanical Science, Section B, List of Papers to l>o road before, 188
• Photography in Textile Designing, Use of, Prof. Beaumont, 290
• Presidential Address, Mr. Joioph Larmr.r, 235. 243, 272
• Refuse Disposal, Mr. McTaggart on House, 269
• Screw Ganges, Rapcrt on, 3C0
• Screw Threads used in Gun and Cycle Con¬struction and for Screws subject to Vibra¬tion, by Mr. O. P. Clements, 302
• Sitting of the General Committee, Innovati ms decided upon Grants made nt Bradford, 290
• Steam, Wet and Dry, and a New Form of Calorimeter for Measuring it, Prof. J. Goodman, 290
• Tractive Force, Resistance, and Accel rstim of Trains, Measurement of, Mr. A. Malloek, 269
• Tramway Construction, Mr. W. Dawson cn Rtcant 2Z2
• BRITISH Trade and Manufacturers, 118
• Bronze Forging, A Large, COG Bronze, Scojuloria, 426
• Brown-Boveri-Parsons Syndicate, Order received from the Frankfort Corporation by the, (87)
• Brnnton and Trier’s Stone-dressing Machine, 446
• Burley Sewage, Carr Bottom Reservoir, (190)
• Barton, C. W., Machino Tools (Supplement, November 23r<7, 1903)
• Bushey House Granted to the Rcyal Society (611)
• Bute, The Marquis of, 862

C

• CABLE from the Azores to New York, (114), (137)
• German-American, New York to the Azores, (114)
• Pacific, (508)
• Cablegrams, Anglo-Garman, 570
• Caird, Mr. Robort, Presidential Address, 443
• Calamine Mines in Algeria, (187)
• Calcium Carbide, Bleaching Powder, and Electro¬lytic Copper, Annual Produc¬tion of, (416)
• as a Daoxidant in Foundry Practice, (467)
• Industry in Norway and Swe¬den. (291), (365), (637)
• Industry in United States, (291)
• Manufacture of, (137)
• and Portland Cement Works at Lauffen, (491)
• Power Necessary to Produce, (508)
• Calculator, Pocket, 321, 840, 364, 388, 475, 517
• Calcutta, Coal Gasworks Flooded, (516)
• Callipers, Graduated, (617)
• Calorific Value of the Average Lindon Domestic Refuse, (239)
• Cammed Armour Plate Tests, 117
• Camphor Production, Formosa, (365)
• Canadian Mail Services, (190)
• Canadian Mineral Developments, 313

Canals:

• Baltic and Black Sea, 322
• Baltic and North Sea, 55
• Central American Ship Canals, 405, 455, 464, 465, 509, 520, 560, 605, (611), 627 (Supplement, October 26th, 1900)
• Danube-Save, (591)
• Darien, Ship, 122
• Grand Junction, 55
• Hungary, Two New, (508)
• Rennet and Avon, 550, 573, 593
• Kiel, (511)
• Leeds and Liverpool, Bursting of the Embankment, (11), 55
• Locks, High-lift, 105
• Manchester, Ship, (33), 239, 253, 822, (440),
• Moselle, Bill to Authorise its Construction, 14
• Nicaragua, (508), 605, 616
• North Sea, to Amsterdam, Extensions and Improvements, (213)
• North Sea and Baltic, Traffic through, (11), 55, (114), (365), (467), (508)
• Panama, 405, 455, 464, 465, 509, 520, (611) (Supplement, October 26th, 1900)
• Suez, (365), (611)
• Worcester to Birmingham, Project for Improvement of, 225 .
• sr« also Harbours and Waterways CAPE Colony, Value of Exports from, (544) Cardiff Intercepting Sewerage Scheme Carried, (554)
• Cardiff Municipal Buildings, Proposed Delay, (137)
• Cargo Conveyors, Philadelphia and Reading Rail¬way, 612, 614
• Carnegie, Mr., Presentation of 381b. T-rail to, (426)
• Projects, 344
• Steel for England, 321, (378)
• Catalogues, 23, 47. 67, 101, 124, 194, 220, 251, 314, 352, 402, 427, 453, 431, 507, 530, 554, 603, 651
• Cellulose Export from Norway, (213)
• Cement, American, 326
• Export, German, (163)
• Industry in the United States, (291)
• Slag, Analysis of, 218
• Testing, 162
• Testing by the Modulus of Rupture for Transverse Strain, by John Paterson, 127
• Works and the Alkali Act, 170
• Works, Portland, (4C0)
• Census of Greater New York, (190)
• Chemical Pulp Trade of Norway, (213)
• Cherbonnier, M. A., Piates for Welding Pieces of Iron or Steel, (33)
• Chester, Sewage Purification Scheme, (318)
• Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institution of Engineers, Proposed Change of Name, (293)
• Chevalet Detartariser, The, 247
• Chicago, Disadvantages under which Manufacturers Work, (253)
• Chilian Exportation of Nitrates, (137)
• Chilian Trade Mark Laws Revised, (213)
• Chimney Gases at Barrow Steel Works, Appa¬ratus to Purify, (163, for Power Stations, American, 552
• Stack in Gloucestershire, The Highest Ventilating Shaft for the Tower Works, Leeds, New Combined, 622
• Cbin Kiang, Trade of, (87,
• China’s Trade, (11)
• Chromium, Carbon Steel, High, 384
• City and Guilds of London Central Technical College, 379
• Cleaning Asphalt Pavements, Cost of, (190,
• Cleansing Superintendents of Great Britain, Conference of, (293)
• Cleveland Iron Mining Company, Fiftieth Anniversary of its Organisation, (114)
• Clyde Defences, (427)

Coal:

• American, for France, (365), (558,
• American Gas. for London Gasworks. (213)
• Anthracite, Shipment from Pailadelphia to Cronstadt, (251,
• Austria’s Steps to Check Rise in Prices, (637,
• A(i9iy°Price of> ot the pit Mouth’i8v9,
• Belgian Market, (114)