INDEX. 



The Numerals refer to Pages. 



A. 





ACCUMULATORS, 718 



,, differential, 720 



effect on pressure in motor 



cylinder, 722 

 steam, 720 



Achard, 6 

 Adhesion, 5 



Admixture of fluid in pipes, 215 

 Air charging devices, G26 



compressor, 693, 706 



flow of, through pipes, 199, 214 



lift pumps, 699 



efficiency of, 704 



vessels, 617 



,, delivery, 621 



,, ,, for centrifugal pump, 646 



on pumps, 617 



,, suction, 617 

 Alexander, 253 

 Armstrong, Sir W. G., 718 

 Atmospheric, pressure, 19 



B. 



BACKWATER function, 319 

 Balance cylinders for lifts, 745 

 Balancing of end thrust in turbines, 504 



pumps, 672 



Ball nozzle, 81 

 Barker's mill, 471 

 Barnes, H. T., 13, 54 

 Barr, J., 153 



Bazin, 2, 145, 149, 160, 197, 212, 290 

 Bell mouth orifice, 119 

 Bends in pipe, losses, due to, 251 



river, flow round, 330 

 Bernoulli's theorem, 73 

 Bilton, H. G., 105 

 Borda's mouthpiece, 112 

 turbine, 475 



Bore, 317 



Bough, vibration of, 4i? 



Boussinesq, 139 



Boyden's diffuser, 477 



Brake, hydraulic, 782 



Bramah, 19 



Branch mains, 263 



Breast wheel, 431 



Brightmore, 253 



Broad crested weirs, 159 



Brown, Hanbury, 132 



Buckets, design of, for Pelton wheel, 445 

 form of 445 



number of 446 



Buffer stop, hydraulic, 782 



Bye-pass, flow along, 266 



C. 



CALIBRATION of current meters, 355 

 Capillarity, 7 

 Capstan, hydraulic, 778 

 Castel, 118 

 Cavitation 606 

 Centre of buoyancy, 32 

 pressure, 26 

 on vane, 381 



Centrifugal pumps, 630 



air vessel for, 646 



circulating, 663 



,, ,, balancing of end thrust 



672 



Buffalo, 640 



change of pressure in 



652 



compound, 665 



examples of design, 67f 



for dredging, 631 



general equation for, 666 



guide vanes, 634, 655, 664 



Holden and Brook, 643 



Mather-Reynolds, 642 



