Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III

Earthquake, effects on, II., 10,11,13. Foundations, caissons for, II., 7. Ritz Hotel, II., 6, 8. Singer building, II., 5. Height, increase in, II., 3. Metropolis Bank bu Iding, II., 9. Metropolitan Life Assurance build- ing, If., 15, 20. Metropolitan power station, II., 16. Montgomery Ward building, II., 21. Protection of steel work against fire, II., 12, 13. Singer building, II., 18, 19. Speed of construction, II., 5, 10. Truss carrying twelve stories, II., 16. Wind-bracing, II., 14, 15. Stone carriers, Indian, III., 247. Stonehenge, I., 6, 14. Strathcona, Lord, driving last spike of Canadian Pacific Railway, I., 283. Superheater, Schmidt’s, II., 256. Surveying on Mount Leone, for Simplon Tunnel, III., 154. T Tank steamer for oil carriage, II., 339. Telegraph line construction — African Trans-continental Telegraph : Bracketing wire, I., 193. Erecting pole, I., 199. Repairing station, Nkata, I., 202. Straining wire, I., 200. Telegraph station : Kota Kota, I., 203. Newfoundland, II., 278, 362. Poldhu, II., 438, 439. Waterville, III., 376. Teredo, ravages of, I., 180. Thermal efficiencies of engines, I., 228. Thames Tunnel, see “ Tunnels.” Thompson ladder excavator for tunnel- ling, I., 301. Timbering in tunnel, I., 88. Time-table of Trans-Caspian Railway, II:, 381. Toggle, adjusting, for cantilevers of arch bridge, III., 278, 285. Tombs, Nobatean, I., 348. Torpedoes : Dropping gear, I., 439. Firing, I., 436, 438. Instruction, I., 440. Picking up, I., 433. Ready for discharge, L, 435. Section of Whitehead, L, 434. Whitehead in tube, I., 434. Towers of Forth Bridge, I., 329, 330. Track thrower, mechanical, II., 147. Traction engine on Uganda Railway works, II., 57. Train—Canadian Pacific Railway adver- tisement, I., 285; contractors’ elec- tric, for tunnel, I., 237. Trestles at Colorado River closure, III., 113; see “ Bridges.” Truss, timber, New York Subway, II., 347, 348. Tubes—Britannia Bridge, I., 148, 149 ; Victoria Bridge, I., 211, 213. TUNNELLING: Chicago Subway, moulding, I., 363, 364. Cut-and-cover, I., 52. Exploring below tunnel with boring machine, II., 120. Lining with, brickwork, I., 88. Lining with iron, I., 55, 62. Pilot tunnel, II., 109. Rock boring, II., 118 ; III., 159. Rust joints, I., 62. Screw pile foundation, Pennsylvania Railroad, II., 113. Setting out, I., 231, 232. Shaft sinking, I., 53, 54, 81. Surveying, II., 105, 106. TUNNELLING SHIELDS: Assisted shield method, I., 305. East River gas tunnel shield, II., 107. Greatheacl shield, I., 233, 238, 304. Hooded shield, I., 306, 308. Hudson River Tunnel shield, II., 108, 109. Lower Hudson River Tunnel shield, IL, 110. Pennsylvania Railroad East River Tunnel shield, II., 114, 115. Rotherhithe Tunnel shield, I., 57, 58, 59. Station shields, I., 233, 238, 240. Steering shield round curve, I., 234; vertically, 236. Thames Tunnel shield, I., 186, 187. Turbines, steam, Parson’s : Blading, II., 38. Drum, II., 39. Lot’s Road power station turbine, III., 231. Mauretania's, II., 40. Principle of, II., 37. Rotor complete, II., 39. Turbines, water : Niagara Falls Power Company’s, IL, 302, 303. Ontario Power Company’s, II., 308. Pelton wheel, III., 276, 277. TUNNELS: Central London Railway station, I., 230. City and South London (section), I., 229. Gunnison, II., 96. Huntley irrigation, II., 86. Jungfrau Railway, III., 305, 308. Mink, Canadian Pacific Railway, I., 262. Myrdal, Bergen-Kristiania Railway, III., 351. New York: Battery, II., 121. East River gas, II., 107. Harlem River, II., 104. Lower Hudson River, II., 110. Steinway, IL, 121, 122. Subway, II., 344, 347, 349, 350. Rotherhithe, I., 49-64. St. Gothard, entrances, III., 150. Severn, I., 80, 81, 89. Simplon: Brandt drill at work, III., 159. Brieg portal, III., 161. False arches, III., 157, 158. Inroads of water, III., 156. Iselle portal, III., 160. Thames, I., 181-192. Trans-Siberian Railway, III., 81. Tube of London, I., 311. Waterloo and City, I., 229. U Underpinning : New York Elevated Railway, II., 350. New York Times building, IL, 349. St. Mary Woolnoth Church, III., 317 318 319 Winchester Cathedral, III., 313. Unloader, Lidgerwood, II., 142. V Valve gears: Joy, II., 251. Stephenson, II., 245. Walschaert, II., 256. Viaducts: Lethbridge, Canadian Pacific Rail- way, I., 257. Long Key, I., 139, 141. Victoria Falls, I., 90, 91, 92 (map), 93 (perspective view), 99. Vulkan, III., 124. Vyrnwy, Lake : Site before flooding, IIL, 178. Water impounded, III., 178. Water tower, III., 181. W Walker, T. A., I., 83. WARSHIPS: Battleships: Dreadnought, I., 387, 388 ; II., 175. King Edward VII., I., 389. Cruisers : Indomitable, I., 392, 394. Clearing decks, I., 443, 444. Conning tower, I., 446. Engine room, I., 445. Submarines : 81, conning tower, etc., I., 429. 84, cruising, I., 429. Flotilla at Gosport, I., 426. Karp awash, I., 427. Launch of a submarine, I., 432. ' Sectional view of, I., 428. Torpedo craft: Dragonfly, IT., 43. Nembo, sections of, I., 419. Speed and power, I., 421. Suggested French, I., 417. Tartar, I., 420. Viper, I., 424. Warships of the future, I., 453-455. Water cisterns on Trans-Caspian Rail- way, II., 378. Water mains, at Staines, III., 199 ; 40- inch, 208. Weir, waste, of Lake Fife, III., 237; shutters, hydraulic, 235. Well-sinking (see “ Artesian Wells ”): Baku oil wells, II., 326-329. Roumanian dug wells, IL, 325. Winchester Cathedral, III., 312; under- pinning, 313. Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway sid- ings at, I., 284. Wireless telegraphy—cabin on warship, I., 450; station at Poldhu, II., 438, 439. THE END