INDEX 
Numbers refer to pages 
Absorption dynamometers, 347 
Accelerating effect of gravity, 1 
Acceleration, 16 
Acceleration diagrams, piston, 303 
Acceleration, piston or slider, 301 
Acceleration-space diagram, 287 
Acceleration-time diagram, 286 
Accumulator, hydraulic, 521 
Accumulator, intensifying, 523 
Accumulator, Tweddell’s differential, 
523 
Addendum circle, 376 
Addition of vectors, 13 
Air chamber, 504 
Algebraical formulz, 2 
_ Aluminium-copper alloys, tests of, 184 
American turbine, 493 
Analogies of linear and angular mo- 
tions, 31 
Angle, friction, 261 
Angle of repose, 261 
Angle of twist of shaft, 80 
Angular acceleration, 16. 
Ange acceleration of connecting-rod, 
Angular momentum, 21 
Angular motion, 15 
Angular motion diagrams, 290 
Angular velocity, 16 
Angular velocity of connecting-rod, 305 
Annealing, 180 
Annular valve, 508 
Anti-friction curve, 267 
Are of approach, 379 
Are of contact, 379 
Arc of recess, 379 
Arch, three-hinged, 197 
Arithmetical mean, 3 
Arithmetical progression, 3 
Artificial head, 433 
Autoloc, 411 
Axial flow turbines, 493 
Axis, instantaneous, 18 
Axis, neutral, 104 
Axle, friction of, 270 
Axode, 18 
Balancing, 414 et seq. 
Balancing of locomotives, 422. 
Ballast, 244 
Ballast guards, 244 
Ball, fracture of, 176 
Ball valve, 507 
Balls, crushing strength of, 189 (Ex. 7) 
Band and block brakes, 345 
Band brakes, 344 
Barker’s mill, 491 
Barlow’s curve, 443 
Barlow’s formula for thick cylinders, 
161 (Ex. 20) 
Bath lubrication, 274 
Bazin’s channel formula, 470 
Beam sections, equivalent, 105 
Beams and bending, 87 et seq. 
Beams and girders, 214 
Beams, continuous, 126 
Beams, deflection of, 113 et seq. 
Beams of uniform strength, 107 
Beams, resilience of, 132 
Beams, shear stresses in, 148 
Bearings for girders, 221, 289-242 
Bearings, methods of lubricating, 273 
Behaviour of materials in testing ma- 
chine, 170 et seq. 
Belgian truss, 203 
Belt dynamometer, 362 (Ex. 11) 
Belt dynamometers, 357 
Belt gearing, 363 et seq. 
Belt gearing for non-parallel shafts, 368 
Bending bevond elastic limit, 109 
Bending by forces in different planes, 
Bending combined with tension or com- 
pression, 153 
: Bending moment and shearing force 
diagrams, relations between, 92 
.Bending moment diagrams, 59, 88 
Bending moment, equivalent, 144 
Bending, moment of resistance to, 
104 
Bending moments on beams, 87 
Bending, positive and negative, 88 
Bending, stresses induced by, 103 
Bending to circular are, 113 
Bernoulli’s theorem, 439 
Bevel wheels, 384 
Bevis-Gibson torsion meter, 360 
Bibliography, 13 
