Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III

Parrott, J. R., engineer of Florida East Coast Extension Railway, I., 139. Parseval airship, III., 61. Paying-out gear for cable-laying—that used for first Atlantic cable, II., 285 ; Bright’s, IL, 292, 294 ; III., 366. Peacock, I. M., on “ Transportation Canals of the United States,” III., 163. Pearson, S., and Son, the famous con- tractors—Old Hudson River tunnel, II., 109; East River tunnels for Pennsylvania Railroad, 117 ; Vera Cruz harbour, III., 76 ; New Admir- alty harbour, Dover, III., 78. Pelton wheels, III., 276. Penetrative power of 12-inch guns, I., 390. Periscope, I., 431. Perkins, W. T., on “ The Manchester Ship Canal,” I., 153; on “ Great Underpinning Achievements,” III., 312. Peto, Brassey, and Betts, contractors for the Victoria Bridge, L, 214. Petroleum, .see “ Oil Fields, Engineering in the World’s,” IL, 321-341. Pharos of Alexandria, I., 370. Phi In?, island of, II., 405. Phillips, Horatio, experimenter with aeroplanes, III., 6, 7. Picking-up gear for cable-laying, II., 369 ; IIL, 368. Piers for Forth Bridge towers, I., 325, 326, 328. Pile-driving—bridges of Canadian Pacific Railway, L, 279; Lucin cut-off trestles, III., 145 ; Manchester Ship Canal, I., 160-162 ; New Erie Canal works, III., 169 ; with water jet, IL, 121. Piles—for Dover harbour works, III., 79; reinforced concrete, II., 426, 427 ; screw, IL, 113. Pilot tunnel, T., 58; IL, 109. Pintsch lightbuoys on Suez Canal, I., 249. Pipe cleaner, automatic, for oil pipe lines, IL, 338. Pipe joints—aqueduct syphons, III., 185; “ muff ” for very high pressures, III., 275, 276 Pipe lines — Kinlochleven, HL, 275 ; petroleum, II., 337, 338; see also “ Aqueducts.” Pipes for—aqueduct syphons, III., 185; London water mains, III., 206. Planer, a huge metal, II., 382. Plate girders, I., 104. Plating a ship, II., 74. Platte River, II., 89. Ploughs, steam. III., 290, 291, 298. Plymouth breakwater, III’., 70-72. Pole, F. J. C., on “ The Construction of Fishguard Harbour,” L, 172; on “ The Conversion of the Gauge of the Great Western Railway Alain Line,” I., 108; on “ The Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash,” I., 34. Poling boards, I., 186 (Thames Tunnel), 306. Port Said, I., 245. Portugaleti transporter bridge, L, 289. Posilippo, grotto of, L, 19. POWER STATIONS: Caban Coch dam,IIL, 189; Chicago drainage canal, IIL, 174; elevated, in steel frame building, IL, 15; Jung- frau railway, III., 307; Kinloch- leven, III., 277; London, see “Elec- tric Power-Stations of London,” III., 226-231; New York subway, II., 351; Niagara Falls, see “ Water-Power Stations of Niagara Falls,” II., 295- 311; Roosevelt dam, II., 100. Price’s rotary excavator, I., 58, 301, 302, 303. Producers, gas, I., 217. Propellers, aerial, IIL, 41-44. Propelling Machinery of a Ship, The, II., 29-43. Paddle v. screw, 29 ; increase in boiler pressures, 29; expansive working of steam, 30 ; Scotch and water-tube boilers, 31, 32 ; forced draught, 33 ; quadruple expansion engines, 33; the condenser, 35; paddle engines, 35; oscillating engines, 35 ; diagonal direct-acting engines, 36; marine steam tur- bines, 36; Curtis, Rateau, and Zoelly turbines, 36 ; Parsons marine turbine, 36, 37 ; turbines of Lusi- tania and Mauretania, 38, 39 : boilers of Lusitania and Mauretania, 39 ; combination of piston engines and turbines, 40-42 ; internal combus- tion engines, 42, 43. “ Propulsive coefficient,” I., 356. Protection of banks of Suez Canal, I., 249. Pumping engines—sewage, III., 221,224; water, 20], 203, 204, 206. Pumping—petroleum, IL, 334 ; water from Gladiator, I., 46. Pumping stations—sewage : Abbey mills, III., 221 ; Crossness, 224 ; Dept- ford, 224 ; Lot’s Road, 223, 224 ; North Woolwich, 223—water : Lee Bridge, 203, 204, 206. Pyramids of Egypt, I., 9, 13, 14. Q Queensferry, South and North, I., 321, 325. Quicksand, IL, 117. R Race between electric and steam loco- motives, II., 221. Races, motor car, IIL, 321-334; see “ Development of the Racing Motor Car.” Rail joints, self-adjusting, on Forth Bridge, I., 336. Railway Brakes, IL, 246-251. Railway of the Far North, A, I., 21-33. Discovery of gold on the Yukon River, 21 ; rush to Klondike, 22 ; difficulties of travel, 22; exciting times at Skaguay, 23 ; “ Soapy ” Smith, 23 ; the White Pass trail, 24; frauds perpetrated on Indian guides, 24; sufferings of baggage animals, 25 ; the trail covered with dead horses, 25; a railway pro- jected, 25 ; details of the route, 25 ; work commenced, 25; legal diffi- culties at Skaguay, 26 ; tame bears in camp, 26 ; labour troubles, 27 ; intense cold hinders work, 27 ; first train reaches Summit, 27 ; the sleigh trail, 28; fleet organized for the Yukon traffic, 28 ; first train reaches Lake Bennett, 29; a re- markable year’s work, 29; the Yukon River waterway, 29; prep- arations for second winter’s work, [ 396 ] 30; trouble with frozen ground, 30 ; progress along Lake Bennett, 32; last spike driven, July 29, 1900, 32 ; details of the railway, 32; gra- dients, 32 ; bridges, 33 ; alignment, 33 ; snow-ploughs, 33. RAILWAYS: Alpine, see “ Two Remarkable Alpine Railways,” IIL, 301-311 ; Barmen-Elberfeld, see “ Barmen- Elberfeld Railway,” II., 125-128; Beira-Salisbury, IL, 155; Bergen- Kristiania, see “ Borgen-Kristiania Railway, The Construction of the,” III., 347-356; Canadian Pacific, see “ Canadian Pacific Railway, The Construction of the,” I., 257-286 ; Cape to Cairo, see “ Cape to Cairo Railway,” II., 150-162; Central Pacific, see “ Construction of the first American Transcontinental Railway,” IIL, 129-147 ; Fell, IIL, 301-306; Hedjaz, see “ Hedjaz Railway, The,” I., 339-349 ; Jung- frau, III., 306-311 ; Orenburg- Tashkent, II., 381 ; Oroya-Lima, L, 126; Panama, new, IL, 148; Panama, old, II., 131 ; Snaefell, III., 302 ; Trans-Caspian, see “ Rus- sian Railways in Central Asia,” II., 375-381 ; Trans-Siberian, see “ Trans-Siberian Railway, The,” III., 81-95 ; Tube, of London, see “ Tube Railways of London, The,” I., 226-240, 300-311; Underground Freight, of Chicago, see “ Under- ground Freight Railways of Chicago, The,” I., 359-367 ; Uganda, see “ Uganda Railway, The,” II., 50- 64 ; Union Pacific, see “ Construc- tion of the First American Trans- continental Railway, The,” III., 129- 147; Wengeralp, IIL, 306; Wetter- horn, see “ Wetterhorn Aerial Rail- way, The,” IL, 189-192; White Pass and Yukon, see “ Railway of the Far North,” I., 21-33. Rainfall of India, III., 233, 246. Reaping machines, III., 293, 297. Reclamation Act, promoting irrigation in the United States, II., 93. Record-breaking in laying railway track, IL, 151, 159. Refining petroleum, II., 336. Reflector, Mangin, I., 249. Reinforced concrete armour, L, 403. Reinforced Concrete Construction, II., 418-432. Stone and brick work, 418 ; cast- iron introduced for beams and columns, 419 ; steel beams adopted, 419 ; what concrete is, and how made, 419, 420 ; Portland cement, its manufacture and advantages, 420; what reinforced concrete is, 421 ; disposal of materials, 421 ; cost of reinforced concrete as com- pared with steel, 422 ; stresses in a beam, 422; distribution of steel bars in a reinforced concrete beam, 423 ; properties of concrete and steel, 424; their expansion, tensile strength, etc., 424 ; many uses of reinforced concrete, 425 ; reinforced concrete columns, 425; arrange- ment of steel bars in reinforced con- crete columns, 426 ; reinforced con- crete piles, 427 ; many uses for reinforced concrete, 428 ; the new General Post Office buildings, 430- 432.