INDEX 



Slip, Formulas for, 232. 



True, 231. 



Slotteri-lever reducing mo- 

 tions, 177. 



Sodium, Chloride of, 128. 

 Solid fuel, Firing with, 148. 

 fuels, 79. 

 pulleys, 66. 

 Soot with oil fuel, Formation 



oi, 157. 



Specific gravity, 45. 

 heat, 60. 



heats, Table of, 61. 

 Specifications for oil fuel, 87. 

 Speed of belts. 70. 

 of vessels, 238. 

 Piston, 192. 

 Relation between engine 



and ship, 243. 

 Relation of coal consump- 

 tion to, 242. 

 Sphere, 37. 

 Split pulleys, 66. 

 Spokane, Wash., license law, 



286. 



Springing of bed plate, 222. 

 or shifting of pillow block, 



222. 



Springs, Indicator, 174. 

 Square iron, Table of weight 



of round and, 50. 

 measures, 42. 

 roots, 6. 

 Squares, 8. 



St. Joseph, Mo., license law, 

 282: 



Louis, Mo., license law, 

 283. 

 Standard of boiler horsepower, 



141. 

 pipe dimensions, Table of, 



48. 



Starting ( an oil fuel fire, 155. 

 and Stopping compound 



Corliss engine, 210. 

 compound slide-valve en- 

 gine, 207. 



condensing slide-valve en- 

 gine, 206. 

 fires, 164. 



non-condensing slide-valve 

 engine, 205. 



Starting simple Corliss engine, 



turbines, 228. 

 States and cities having 



license laws, 244. 

 Steam and air for atomizing 



oil fuels, 84. 

 boilers, 103. 

 consumption, Horsepower 



and, 191. 

 consumption of turbines, 



223. 



distribution, Improper, 213. 

 engines, 172. 

 Flow of, 99. 



gauge, Connection of, 118. 

 gauge, Testing, 170. 

 Heat in wet, 96. 

 Moisture in, 95. 

 pipes for engines, 102. 

 pressure, Maintenance of a 



uniform, 160. 

 Properties of, 89. 

 Quality of, 95. 

 Saturated, 89. 

 Superheated, 95. 

 supply to injectors, 124. 

 turbines, 223. 

 Steel boiler tubes, Dimensions 



of, 52. 



chimneys, Iron and, 109. 

 Stripping of turbine blades, 



226. 

 Stoker, Overfeed, 105. 



Underfeed, 106. 

 Stokers, Mechanical, 105. 

 Stopped oil feed, 219. 

 Stopping compound Corliss 

 engine, Starting and, 210. 

 compound slide-valve en- 

 gine, 209. 



condensing slide-valve en- 

 gine, 206. 

 non-condensing slide-valve 



engine, 205. 



simple Corliss engine, 207. 

 Straining oil fuel, 151. 

 Subtraction of decimals, 4. 

 of fractions or mixed num- 

 bers, 3. 



Sulphate of lime, 128. 

 Sulphur in oil, Effect of, 86. 



