The Engineer 1901 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

• Accidents, Fires, Boiler Explosions, dec.:
• Blind Shell, Accident at Okehampton, 264
• Boiler, Bursting of, at Bnrslem, (381)
• Boiler Explosion at Detroit, (579)
• Boiler Explosion, Kuottingley, 149, 154,181,205, 229, 255
• Boiler Explosions and Serious Leakages, Official Returns, (173)
• Boiler, Explosion of Traction Engine, (653)
• Boiler Tube Explosion, Babcock, Sardinia Station, London, (248)
• Bridge Failure, Texas, (273)
• Cartridge, during Gun Practice on the Royal Sovereign, Premature Explosion of a, (531)
• Collapse of Footbridge at the Paris Exhibition, 167
• Electric and Funicular Railway, Barcelona, Stoppage Caused by a Rat, (553)
• Electric Light Station, Tunbridge Wells, Ex¬plosion at, (273)
• Electric Plant, Palmer’s Shipbuilding Yard, Jarrow, (273)
• Electric Power Station, Glasgow, Labourer Killed at, (531)
• Electric Shock, Death Caused by, from Touch¬ing Incandescent Lamp Socket, (173)
• Fall of Coal Wagons over the Quay, Sunderland Docks, (173)
• Fall of Earth near Frizinghall at Sewerage Tunnelling Works, (199)
• Fall of a 30-Ton Armature into Sheffield Canal, 198
• Gas Explosion, Metropolitan Street Railway in New York, (653)
• Gas Explosion, Swansea, on Board a French Barque, (531)
• Glaishill, Swansea Valley, Traction Engine and Cars, (303)
• Hydraulic Equipment at Llanelly Docks, (664)
• Gun Accident at Freshwater, Question in the House, (39)
• Fire, Birkenhead Town Hall, 62
• Fire, Campbell and Calderwood’s Engine and Boiler Works, Paisley, (273)
• Fire, Chatham Dockyard, 252
• Fire, Doxford and Sons, Limited, Shipbuilding Works, Sunderland, (273)
• Fire, Fullerton and Co.’s Shipbuilding Yard, (579)
• Fire, Gent and Co.’s Premises, (629)
• Fire, Glasgow Exhibition Tea Rooms, (39)
• Fire, Lowmoor Ironworks, (508)
• Fire, Tiflis, due to Explosion of Cask of Spirit, (173)
• Railway—see Railway Accidents
• Reported to Inspectors of Factories and Work¬shops, 1900, (120)
• Staveley Coal and Iron Company’s Works, Ex¬plosion at, (556)
• Stockport Tramway, (273)
• Thames, near Gravesend, A Ketch Sunk by a Torpedo, (199)
• ADAMSON and Co., Messrs. J., Extensions of Works, and Orders in hand, (565)
• Admiralty Surveys, Recent, 659
• Admiralty Works Department, (455), 466
• Admiralty Works Department, Assistant Civil Engineers for, (556)
• Aerial Navigation, 89, 90, (147), (173), 595
• Mr. P. Y. Alexander's Instru¬ment for Steering Balloons, (M7)
• M. Deutsch Modifies Condi¬tions of the Contest, (173)
• Major Krebs, Light Motor for, (147)
• AEsthetic Principles of Naval Architecture, 595
• Agricultural Implements, American Exports of, (405)
• for the Egyptian Soudan, (405)
• Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
• Agricultural Machines for the Netherlands, (331)
• Imported into Germany, (303)
• Air, M. Marey’s Experiments for Studying the Motions of, (93)
• Air Lift Pump, 119
• Air Navigation, Artificial, L. Lancaster on, 623
• Air Pump and Engine, 613, 614
• Alcohol Motors, 358
• Alkali Aot, Cement Works and the, 65
• Alloys of Copper and Tin, Microscopical Exami¬nation of, Mr. Wm. Campbell, 657 Alloys, Supplied by the Stella Metal Company, instead of by the Alkali Company, (257)
• Almanacs, Calendars, &c., 641, 665
• Aluminium Bronze, Soldering, (147)
• Commercial Importance of, Prof. E. Wilson on, 326
• Aluminium, Convention between the Producers of, (455)
• iu the Electrical Industries, 625
• Hermus Process of Welding, (629)
• Moulds for Making Thin, (147)
• Patents, Some, 310
• Solder, Constituents of a Good, (629)
• American Advertising, Geo. Trotter on, 430
• v. British Automatic Appliances, 612
• Companies Interested in Mining and Metallurgy, Dividends Paid by, (503)
• Competition in the Engineering Trade, and Continental Engineering Competition, (257)
• Exporters and Consuls, 232
• Steel Works in England, (442)
• Tariffs, 413
• Americanitis, (377)
• Anesthetic, Prof. Minin on the Use of Electric Light Rays as an, (653)
• Anchor, The Lirgest Ever Made, (355)
• Ancient Mariner of the Early Iron Ships, An, 338

Appointments and Resignations: Appointments:

• Admiralty Appointments, (455), 466
• Ba,incourt, Marquis de, 47
• Beard, Mr. W. Keith, 18
• Beare, Prof. Hudson, (39)
• Benedict, Mr. Ernest, (605)
• Bourn, Mr. John, (105)
• Brown, Mr. T. B., (66)
• Callender, Prof. Hugh L., (455)
• Cormack, Mr. J. D., (39)
• Cowan, Mr. John, (508)
• Edge, Mr. J., (565)
• Fay, Mr. S., (508)
• Fitzmaurice, Mr. Maurice, (455)
• Fowler, Sir Hy., (556)
• Fyfe, Mr. Daniel, (606)
• Greene, Mr. G. P., (273)
• Hays, Mr., (556)
• Holmes, Mr. II., (605)
• Martino, Chevalier Edwardo de, 608
• Owens, Lieut.-Colooel C. J., (11)
• Ripper, Professor, (11)
• Scotter, Mr. Fred. (66)
• Watson, Mr. Edw., (258)
• Watts, Mr. Philip, Portrait, 610, 652
• Wordingham, Mr. C. II., (147)
• Wraith, Mr. G. H., (11)

Resignations:

• Bell, Mr. John, Resignation, (579)
• Binnie, Sir A. R., (11)
• Hollis, Mr. H. W., (11), (23)
• Forbes, Mr., (556)
• Newlon, Mr. G. Bolland, (11)
• Osborn, Mr. Sam., (11)
• Pollitt, Sir Wm., and Successor, (508)
• Rendell, Mr., (66)
• Shaw, Mr. B., and Successor, (629)
• Townsend, Mr. J. E., and Successor, (579)
• White, Sir Wm. II., 485
• Wright, Mr. Hy., (248)
• ARBITRATION, Experiment in, 607
• Arbitration, Metropolitan Railways, 600
• Arcbiuological Researches in Herts, Result of, (199)
• Armature, Fall of a 30-Ton, into Sheffield Canal, 198

Armour Plates:

• Armour Plates for the Cruisers of the County Class, (341)
• Krupp, for the United States Navy Depart¬ment, Carnegie Company, (120)
• Patents, The United States Government and, (390)
• Trials at Whole Island, Portsmouth, 204, 253
• Openshaw Works, 9in. Thick Plates for the Cruiser Lancaster, (232), (341)
• Mil), Davy Bros., for Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., (579)
• ARMSTRONG, Mr. Watson, Freedom of City of Newcastle Presented to, (66)
• Arnison, Mr. Geo. N., (248)
• Artesian Boring Plant, Australia, 135
• Water Supply in Australia, 135, 338
• Well in Grenelle, France, Ten Years before Water was Struck, Flow of Water per Day. (556)
• Well Scheme at Gainsborough, (120)
• Asphalt Plant, Toronto, A Municipal, (199)

Association for the Advancement of Science, Ants, and Education, International :

• Meeting at Glasgow, 1901, (10)

Association of Engineers, The Leeds:

• Internal-combustion Engines for Motor Cars,
• Mr. F. G. Heseldin, 028
• Thirty-sixth Annual Dinner, 028

Association, Geologists’:

• Excursion to the Auvergne District, (66)

Association, Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic:

• Judges’ Awards of the Third Trials of Motor Vehicles, 172

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

• Alteration of Rules, 650
• American v. English Engineering Methods, 466
• Electric Welding, Mr. T. T. Heaton, 560
• Engineering Workshop Organisation, Mr. A. P. Loscher, 633
• Eagine3 for Driving Large Dvnamos, Mr. C. Day, (391), 415
• Fine Machine Grinding, Mr. Renold, 513
• Visit to the Ferranti, Limited, Works, (391), 417

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham :

• Annual Meeting, Election of Officers, (597)
• Visit to the Linde Refrigeration Works, (418)

Association of Municipal and County Engineers:

• Twenty - eighth Annual Meeting, Secretary’s Report, Inaugural Address of the President,
• Mr. E. G. Mawbey, 20
• Permanent Way for Electric Tramways, Mr. W. Howard Smith, 20
• Overhead Electric Trolley System, Methods of Safety for, Mr. Edward Manville, 21
• Wear of Roads by Horse Haulage and Motor Traffic, Mr. W. Worby Beaumont, 21
• Purification of Sewage by Stoddart's Improved Filter, Mr. Yabbicom, 21
• Visits and Motor Car Excursion, 21

Association of Students, Glasgow:

• First General Meeting, (603)

Association, Warwickshire Miners’:

• Balance-sheet for the Last Half-year, (211)

Association of Waterworks Engineers, British:

• Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Priestley, on the Waterworks of Liverpool and Birkenhead, 34
• Rainfall, the Cycle of Precipitation, Mr. W. E. Plummer, 34
• Pollution of Public Water Supplies, Detecting and Preventing the, Mr. Wm. Watts, 34
• Visits to Laird’s Shipbuilding Yard and Lever’s Works, 34
• Visits to Warrington Waterworks and St Helens Waterworks, 62
• Winter Meeting, Papers to be Read, (538)
• ASSUAN Dam, The, 282
• Atmospheric Transparency, The Hon. Rollo Russell on, (640)
• Australia, Irrigation by Bore Water in, Average Rainfall in Pastoral Sections of, (556)
• Australia, Gem Stones Found in, (199)
• Australian Commonwealth Tariff, 601
• Australian Federation and the British Manufac¬turer, by Stafford Ransome, 395 Automatic Appliances, American v. British, 612

B

• BAKU, Consular Reports from, (224)
• Balloons, Navigable, 89, 90, 97, 147, 173, 177, 431, 434
• Balloon, M. Santos Dumont, Award Voted by the Brazilian Congress, (508)
• Balloon, M. Santos Dumont and the Deutsch Prize, (481)
• Balloon Trip across the Mediterranean, Comte de la Vaulx and his, (431)
• Bar Sawing-off and Centering Machine, Carter and Wright, 228
• Bars, Notched, M. Charpy’s Experiments upon, 657
• Barclay, Mr. Hugh, (147)
• Barron and Woodward, Change of Address, (570)
• Barrow Hematite Steel Works, 140, 148
• Battle of Sinope, November 30th, 1853, by Rear-Admiral S. Eardley-Wilmot, 497 Bauxite Deposits in New South Wales, (405)
• Banxite, Purification of, (120), (199)
• Bearings from Heating, Device for Protecting, (147)
• Beariogs for Lathes, Conical, 71
• Beissel Water Purifier, The, 415
• Belgian Royal Meteorologioal Observatory, (442)
• Belt Striker, Duplex Cam, 619
• Bicycle Frame Joint, A New, 554
• Bicycle Industry, Decline of the German, (405)
• Bicycle Spoke - making Machinery, Mr. John Batey, 512

Bills:

• Australian Patent antf Trade Marks, (245)
• Caledonian Railway Company’s, (71)
• Cardiff Railway, (106)
• Clyde Valley Electric Power, (66)
• Electric Railway under the Solent, (11)
• Express Railway, Mr. Behr’s Statements, (39)
• High-speed Railway on the Mono-rail System between Manchester and Liverpool, (120)
• Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Dearne Valley Extensions, (66)
• Light Railways, Board of Trade to Consider Additions or Amendments to, (629)
• Liverpool and Manchester Electric Express Railway, (63)
• Loch Leven Water and Electric Power, (173)
• London County Council's, for the Purchase of Eight London Water Companies, (481), 510
• Mond Gas, (66)
• Natal Legislative Assembly, for Loan for Expen¬diture on Durban Harbour, Railways, and other Works, (66)
• North-Eastern Railway Company’s, (531)
• Railway Clerks and the Factories, 205
• Rhymney Railway, Details of, (664)
• South-Eastern and Chatham and Dover Omni¬bus, Passed, (11)
• Taff Vale Railway, (664)
• Tramway, (66)
• Tunnel under the Tyne, (258)
• Underground Railways for London, 123
• West Cumberland Tramways, (66)
• BINNIE, Lady, (331)
• Birmingham City Council, Large Sums Wanted by the, (605)
• Birmingham, Tame and Rea District Drainage Board, Application for Loan, (273)
• Blackpool Promenade, Widening of, (455)
• Blast Furnaces in Central, Southern, and Western Districts of France and their Production, (173
• Blast Furnace Gases for Power Production, Utilisa¬tion of, 1
• Blast Furnace Installations in Florence, Socle! a delle Ferriere Italiane's, (653)
• Bleaching, Electrolytic, Experiments in, (405)
• Blue-prints, Waterproofing, (224)
• Boer Privateers, 47

Boilers:

• Babcock Water-tube, Danger of Using Water Containing Solid Matter, (248)
• Babcock and Wilcox, The Espiegle Sloop, 583
• Belleville, Question in the House Respecting Construction of, (120)
• Belleville, Remedy for Leaky Tubes in, (629)
• Braby Steam Generator, The, 611
• Bursting of a Vertical, Burslem, (381)
• Cylinder Lubrication, 563, 638
• Diirr, 100, 130
• Du Temple-Guyot, 197
• Efficiency and Capacity, Effect of Scale on, Mr. W. H. Bryan on, 76
• Explosions—see Accidents, Fires, and Boiler Explosions Furnaces, Durand Forced-draught System for Firing, (605)
• Glasgow Exhibition, 165
• Guyot, Du Temple, Marine, 510
• Heating Surface of Locomotive, 357
• Inspection of Steam Motor Carriage in Chicago, Locomotive, On the Austrian and Hungarian State Railways, (653)
• Niclausse and Belleville, on Italian Cruisers, Competitive Trials with, 583
• Nic’ausse for Japanese Warships, (413)
• Niclausse, Letters from J. and A. Niclausse, 38, 180
• Norman Segaudy, 564
• Passman's Vertical Tubular, 810
• Problems, Mr. E. D. Meier on, (662)
• Receiver and Feed Pump for, Automatic, Dowson, Taylor and Co., 185
• Stoking Plant, A Large, Graham, Morton and Co., Limited, 584, 585, (608)
• Under-side, Walks in Chicago Forbidden, (355)
• Water-tube, Leakage of, 255
• Water-tube Locomotive, London and South-Western Railway, Mr. D. Drummond, 603, 661
• Water-tube, New American, (342)
• Water-tube, Thornyoroft Marshall, Glasgow Exhibition, 165
• Water-tube, Thornycroft and Thornycroft- Schultz, 513
• BOLCKOW, Mr. H. W. F., Momorial to, at Middlesbrough, (342)
• Bore Tube Pump, 657
• Boring and Drilling Machine, Atlas Engineering Company, 589
• Boring Mill, 80in., 253
• Boring Mill, Large, Nile Tool Works Company, 576
• Boring and Turning Mill, Geo. Richards and Co., Limited, 489
• Boring and Turning Mill, Webster and Bennett, 361, 362
• Bremner, James, Memorial Fund, (628)
• Brett Drop Stamps. A Battery of, 659
• Bricks made from Coke Ashes, (199)
• Bridges, Railway and Other:
• American Bridge Specifications, 636, 660
• Aske Beck, Richmond, and Barnard Castle Railroad, (248)
• British Columbia, Across the Frazjr River, (39)
• Buffalo, Rebuilding of, (21)
• Carnarvon, Aber Swing, 126, 127, 128
• Chicago River, The Longest Span Bascule Built thus far, (224)
• Concrete Railway, (210)
• Derwent River, (11)
• D'una, Permanent, Across the, under Discussion, (431)
• Equipment Purposes, Metallic Boats for, in France, (653)
• Hull, Bascule, to Cross the River, (355)
• Kabul River, Pontoon or Pile over the, (173)
• Klondike River, First Steel Bridge in Middle Yukon, (224)
• London, Widening of, (248)
• Newcastle-on-Tyne, Rodbeugb, (185), 223, 227, 212, 246, 247
• New York and Brooklyn, (381), 448, 488
• New York, Across tho Hudson, (289)
• New York, Ferry Transfer, (22)
• Norfolk, The Old Magdalen, The Question of Repairing, (431)
• Oxus, The First Railway Bridge over the, (199)
• Paris Exhibition, Foot, Collapse of, 167
• Paris, Over the Seine from the Louvre, New, (199)
• Renewal, Railway, 514
• Rhine at Worms, Railway Bridge over tho, 85, 86, 87
• Riveting in India, J. Graham on, 135
• Rolling Loads on Railway Bridges, 191
• St. Petersburg, over the Urou River, (224)
• Salford Docks, Edw. Wood and Co. Limited, (493)
• Spain, Concrete Arch, Las Sagadas, 252
• Spain, Concrete Arch, over the Nolan, (381)
• Sydney Harbour, Tenders Invited for Bridge over. (83), (133)
• Tees, Transporter, over the, Projected, (310), (331)
• Thames, Whitchurch and Pangbourne, The Wooden Bridge to bo Replaced by a Steel,
• (199)
• Russian Central Asia, Amou - Daria River, (224)
• Sunday Work on Railway, 261
• Susquehanna, Stone Arch Railway, (431)
• Theory and Practice of Building, 631
• Uganda Railway, 535
• U.S.A., Easton, Pa., Suspension Foot, 300 U.S. A., Ohio, Cuyahoga River, Scherzer Rolling Lift, (508)
• U.S.A., Washington, Melan Arch, (288)
• Work, English and American, 128, 181
• Briquettes from Wood Waste, Manufacture of, G. v. Heidenstam, 465
• British Association:
• Engineering, Section G, Record of the Doings of President Col. R. E. Crompton, 325
• List of Grants made for Scientific Purposes, 299
• President’s Address, Dr. Riicker, 281, 313
• Presidents of several Sections on the Serious Educational Defects in this Country, 299 British Fire Prevention Committee, (506)
• Machine Tools in Moscow, Demand for, (355)
• Manufacturer Spends too much on Catalogues, too little on Efficient Travellers, (455)
• Manufacturers in South Africa, Success of, (622)
• Trade with the African Continent, Value of the Total, (147)
• Egypt, (181)
• Roumania, Decrease in, (173)
• Switzerland in 1900, Consular Report on, (653)
• British Workmen, Attacks on, 612
• Bronzing Liquid Free from Metal, A German Chemist Makes, (173)
• Brown, Marshalls and Co., M. J. P. Lacy on Foreign Competition, 160
• Bryan, Mr. W. H., On the Effect of Scale on Boiler Efficiency and Capacity, 76
• Bryan Vacuum Moulding Machine, The, (579)
• Burner, Lhjuid Fuel, 47 Burrows, Mr. Abraham, (211)
• Butler and Co.’s Planing Machine, 153
• Bye-products from Coke Ovens, 458

C

• CABLE between the Azores and Ireland, (579)
• Caird, Mr. Geo. S., (431)
• Calcium Carbide and Acetylene, Position of, (277)
• Callipers for Inside Measurement, (508)
• Cam Belt Striker, Duplex, 649
• Canada, Population of, (199)
• Canals:
• Atlantic-Moditorranean, 196
• Austria, 96, (173)
• Baltic and Black Sea, (514)
• Birmingham and Wolverhampton, Bursting of an Arm of, (355)
• Bruges, (653)
• Buda Pesth and Fiume, (455)
• Chicago Drainage, Increase ordered in Flowage of, (147)
• County Council Scheme, Gloucestershire, 515
• Dortmund-Ems, (147), 373, (481), (679),
• Germany, Inland Navigation in, 353
• Ghent, Tenders Invited for the Work of im¬proving, (629)
• Kherson and the Black Sea, (605)
• Ladoga, Electrio Towage on the, (199)