Engineering 1874 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABSTRACT of Experimental Trials of H.M.S. "Jumna," 136
Accident, Railway, The Thorpe Contemn, 225, 248, 268, 828
Accident to the Hirsch Propeller of H.M.S. " Raleigh," 128
Accident to the "Independencia," 109, 165, 248
Accidents on Russian Railways, 299
Accumulation of Scale in Boilers, Field's Apparatus for Preventing the, 114
Address of the President of the British Association, 138, 171, 193
Address of the President of the Institution of Cleveland Engineers, 434, 466
Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 133
Address of the President of the North British Association of 0 MS Managers, 66
Address of Professor Thomson, President of Section of the British Association, 166, 191
Adjustable Jaws, Vice with, 448
Agricultural and Highland Society of Scotland, 130
Agricultural Show, The Royal, at Bedford, 23, 33, 89, 56
Agricultural Show, The Yorkshire, 104
Air, Compressed, as a Motive Agent, 293, 315, 353, 391, 4.12
Air-Compressing Machinery, Sturgeon's. By Clayton, Son and Howlett, London, 820
Air-Heating Apparatus. By J. II. Reinhardt, Wurzburg, 253
Air, The Properties of, 16
Aligning the Sights of Ordnance, The Proper Method of, 325
" Almirante Cochrane" and " Valparaiso," The Chilian Armour-Clads, 490
Ambulance Carriages, Railway, 201
America, The Bessemer Process in, 10
American Bridge, The Central Avenue, at Newark, 179
American Cable, The Direct, 268, 804, 366
American Railroad Stations, 142
American Railway Construction and Management, 415
American Rolling Mills, 195, 218

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE:
On American River Steamboats, 87, 77
Report of Committee on the Form, Endurance, and Manufacture of Rails, 814, 868
On Draw-Spans and their Turntables. By C. S. Smith, 407, 448

American Stool Production, 307
Ammunition and Ordnance, English, 178 Anniversary, Twenty-fifth, of the Prussian Telegraph System, 422
Annual Distribution of Prizes at Cooper's Il111 College, 110, 116
Annual Mooting of the North British Association of Gas Managers, 52
"Anti-Primer,' Johnson's, Johnson's, 274
Apparatus for Drying Corn. By Davey, Paxman, and Cu., Colchester, 33
Apparatus for Feeding Thrashing Machines. By Ruston, Proctor and Co., Lincoln, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 67
Apparatus, Morgenstern's Gravity-Equation, 432
Apprentices, Engineering, Principles of Shop Manipulation for, 2, 20, 251, 277, 294, 391, 410, 490
Arched Bridges, Upright, 285, 291, 830, 849
Arctic Expedition, Our, 493
Armour-Clads, Chilian, The " Almirante Cochrane" and " Valparaiso," 490
Art of Prospectus Compilation, The, 70
Artillery, Breechloading. By L. W. Broadwell, Carlsruhe, '289
Artillery, British, 308
Artillery, Swedish, 166

ARTS, THE SOCIETY OF:
Conference on the Pollution of Rivers, 480
Protection for Inventions, by F. J. Bramwell, 483, 601
Ascension Pipes, Self-acting Seal for, 164
Ascension Pipes, Stoppages in, 96
Askham Iron Works, The, Z00

ASSOCIATION, THE BRITISH: 146,
Address of the President, Professor Tyndall, 138, 171, 193
Address of Professor Thomson, 168. 191
Report of the Committee on the Utilisation of Sewage, 189
Report of the Committee on the Rainfall of the British Isles for the Years 1873-4, 215
Report of the Council for the Year 1873-4, 157
On Self-Regulating and Adjusting Apparatus for Distant Signal Wires of Railways, by O. W. Beynon, 161
On the Vertical Shearing Stress of Beams, and the Point of Maximum Bonding Moment, by J. Neville, 192
On the Moans Adopted for the Improvement of the Navigable Channel, Dundalk, by J. Neville, 194
On a Means of Resisting Inertia, and its Application to Retarding or Stopping Heavy Bodies in Motion, by T. H. Varley and E. Furness, 194
On the Upper Bann, by John Smyth, Jun., 231
On the Eclipsing Apparatus at Holywood Lighthouse, by W. Bottomley, 234
On Technical Education, by Jeremiah Head, 265, 280
On Coal Mining in Italy, by P. Lo Novo Foster, Jun., 311

Association of Gas Managers, French, 18 Astronomy: The Orwell Park Observatory, 267
Atlantic Cables, The Life of, 184
Atlantic Cables, The New, 209
Atlantic Telegraphs, 161
Atmospheric Pollution, 9
Atmospheric Railways, '294
Atmospheric Transmission, 293, an, 353, 891, 442
Atmospheric and Vacuum Brakes, Trials of, 274
Attomporator. By J. Hartley, Ormskirk, 431
" Audacious," H.M.S., Trials of, 883
Automatic Gear-Cutting and Wheel Dividing Machine. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 281
Automatic Machines, Weaving without the Aid of, 271
Awards, Table of, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 60

Band-Saw, with Compensating Bearings. By A. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 170
Band-Saw for Iron. By J. and .1. Rioter, Winterthur, 175
B inn, The River, 231
13.1rrol Staves, Cylindrical Saws for Cutting. By B. D. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 313
Barrow Hematite Iron and Stool Works, The, 228
Harrow Shipbuilding Works, The, 237
Beams, Strains on, 19
Beckton Gas Works, Gas Exhauster at. By Gwynne and Company, Essex-street Works, London, 287

BEDFORD, THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT (See Show of the Royal Agricultural Society at Bedford):
23, 33, 39, 65
Chaff Cutters, 49
Combined Drills, 27
Corn Drills, 25
Cultivators and Grubbers, 49
Drills, 47
Drum Guards, 49
Feeding Thrashing Machines, 80
Gorse Cutters, 49
Grain Cleaning and Sorting, 55
Harrows, 49
Horse Gears, 55
Horse Hoes, 46
Manure Distributors, 48
Miscellaneous, 66
Mowers and Reapers, 49
Ploughs, 48
Portable and Fixed Engines, 44
Potato Drills, 28
Root Pulpers, 66
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines, 42
Table of Awards, 60
Table of Particulars of Vans for Mon Engaged in Steam Cultivation, 41
Thrashing Machines, 49
Trials of Carts and Wagons : Tables Showing the Results of, 33,39, 67
Turnip Thinners, 45
Vans for Men Engaged in Steam Cultivation, 39
Wagons and Carts, 23

Berry's Radial Drilling and Boring Machine, 66
Bessemer Converter Bottoms, Setting, 196, 211
Bessemer Plant, 197, 209
Bessemer Process, The, in America, 10
" Bessemer," The Saloon Steamer, 267, 288, 476
Bessemer Steel Works, The American, 307
Bill, Proposed, to Prevent Atmospheric Pollution, 9
Bill, Proposed, for the Purification of Rivers, 457
Bills, Private, for Session 1876, 440, 467
Black's Tank Locomotive for the 2 ft. Gauge, 220
Blair's Iron Sponge Manufacture, 126
Blower and Engine, Roots'. By Thwaites and Garbutt, Bradford, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 66
Blowing Engine, Vertical. By H. G. Morris, Philadelphia, 28
Blowing Engines, Bessemer, 167
Board of Health, Philadelphia, Returns of the, 241
Board of Trade Report on the Loss of the Steamship " Mary," 460, 482
Board of Trade Report on the Wreck of the Paddle Steamer "Chusan,“ 892
Board of Works, The Metropolitan, and Gas Supply, 163
Boiler Bursting Experiments, '232
Boiler, An Experimental, 14
Boiler, High-Pressure Marine. By J. Empson and Company, Hamburg, 428
Boiler, Howard's Safety. By the Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow-in-Furness, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Boiler, Vertical. By Robey and Company, Lincoln, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 84
Boilers, Domestic, Mr. Fletcher's Report on, 889
Boilers and Machinery in the Royal Navy, Care and Management of 176, '208, 283
Boilers in the Royal Navy, 283, 400
Boilers, Safety, Mr. Fletcher's Report on, 340
Bolt and Stud-End Cutter, By J. Nelson, Sunderland, 35'2
Bombay Harbour, 807
Boring Machine. Horizontal. By R. Daglish and Company, St. Helen's, 827
Boring Machine, Horizontal. By Pfaff and Company, Vienna, 868
Boring and Radial Drilling Machine. By F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge, viii
Boring, On the Rampside, near Barrow, 192
Brakes, Atmospheric and Vacuum, Trials of, 174
Brakes, Hydraulic, 194
Brassey, Mr. T., on the Marino Department of the Board of Trade, 419
Brazilian Turret Ship, The " Independencia," Launch of, 109, 166, 148
Break of Gauge in India, 205
Breaking of the Iron Steamers " Chusan" and " Mary," 862
Breakwater, The Now South, Aberdeen, 491
Breechloading Artillery. By L. W. Broadwell, Carlsruhe, 289
Breechloading Ordnance, English, 214
Brick Pre.is. By J. Whitehead and Company, Preston, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, (14
Brickmaking Machinery, Semi-dry. By Clayton, Son, and Howlett, London, 203
Bridge, Central Avenue, Newark, U.S.A., 179
Bridge over the Nerbudda, River, 302
Bridge, The St. Louis, 69
Bridge, The Victoria Swing, Leith. By A. M. Rendel and G. Robertson, 433
Bridge, The Wanganui, New Zealand. By G. R. Stephenson, 237
Bridge Work, Hydraulic Rivetter for, 98, 130
Bridges, Upright Arched, 285, 291, 330, 349
" Britannia.' Engine, The. By Grover and Company, London, 378
" Britannic," Screw Steamer. By Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 406

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE:
138, 146, 157, 101, 108, 171, 189, 191, 192, 198, 194, 215, 2Z4, 266, 280, 311

BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS, THE :
On Gasholders, by C. Woodhall, 18
On Gasholder Tanks in Concrete, by J. Douglas, 86

British Ordnance and Ammunition, 178, 803
Broadwell's Brew:111011(111w Artillery, 289
Brotherhood's Steering Gear for the Channel Steamer "Castalia,' 394
Bucharest and its Railways, 9
Budget, The Indian, 107
Buildings, Concrete, 51
Buildings, Public, Ventilation in, 207
Burmah, Iron Works for the King of, 471, 489
Business, Private Parliamentary, 834, 872, 480, 408
Bute Docks and the Mechanical Arrangement for Shipping Coal, 101
Buttgenbach’s Cap for Exhaust Pipes, 428

Cable, The Direct United States, 268, 804, 366
Cables, Atlantic, The Life of, 184
Cables, The New Atlantic, 206
Capital of the Russian Railways, 299
Captain Tyler’s Report on the Thorpe Collision, 828
Caro and Management of Machinery and Boilers in the Royal Navy, 175, 208, 238
Carriage, Sleeping, for the East Indian Railway, 818
Carriages, Railway Ambulance, 201
Carrington's Wire Tramway at Iron Mines, near Aalsund, Norway, 300
Carts and Wagons at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 23
" Castalia" Channel Steamer, Steering Gear for the. By Brotherhood and Hardingham, London, 394
Castle Pit, The, 121
Catch for Cranes, Safety, 274
Cattle Show, The Manchester, 422
Central Avenue Bridge, Newark, U.S.A., 179
Central Station, Liverpool, Roof of the. By J. Fowler and W. M. Brydone, 65
Chaff Cutters, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Chain Towage on the River St. Lawrence, 221
Channel, The Dundalk, 191
Channel Steamship, The " Bessemer," 267, 288, 476
Charging and Drawing Retorts, Machine for, at the Dawsholm Gas Works, near Glasgow. By W. Foulis, Glasgow, 268
Chomical Manufactures, The Injurious Effects of, , 419
Chemicals and Sugar, Filter Presses for. By A. L. G. Dehne, Halle-on-the-Saale, 890
Chilian Armour-Clads, The " Almirante Cochrane" and " Valparaiso," 490
"Chusan" and " Mary," Iron Steamers, Breaking of the, 362
Circular for the Instruction of Naval Engineers, Officers, 175, 208, 233
Circular Quay, Sydney, New South Wales, Proposed Extension of, 387
City Gas Supply and the Corporation, 269
Civil Engineers, The Institution of (Sec Institution of Civil Engineen9
Clamond's Thermo-Electric Generator, 477
Clarkson's Steam Pump, 210
Classes, Railway, 881
Clayton's Semi-dry Brickmaking Machinery, 203
Cleaning and Sorting Grain, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 65

CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, THE :
Address of the President, Mr. T. Wrightson, 434, 466

Cleveland, Notes from, 16, 32, 67, 67, 95, 113, 131, 143, 109, 181, 204, '23'2, 244, 273, 289, 308, 829, 842, 867, 880, 406, 415, 436, 461, 473, 500

CLUB SHOW, SMITHFIELD, THE: 461
Miscellaneous, 453
Portable and Fixed Engines, 452
Steam Ploughing Machinery and Traction Engines, 461
Thrashing Machines, 453
Three-Horse Portable Engine, 456

Coal In Germany, 14
Coal and Iron Trades of the West of Scotland, The, 302
Coal Mining in Italy, 811
Coals, Deterioration of, through Exposure, 14
Cockburn's Equilibrium Safety Valve, 501
Collieries, The Rhondda and Aberdare Valley, 121
Collision, The Thorpe, 225, 248, 268, 828
Cologne and its Industries, 865, 370, 421
Colour Printing, V43
Combined Drills, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 27
Combined Planing and Moulding Machine. By W. Furness and Co., Liverpool, 827
Combined Planing and Slotting Machine at the Barrow Shipbuilding Works. By Fairbairn, Kennedy and Naylor, Leeds, 263
Commission of Scientific Instruction, The Royal 400
Commission, The Unseaworthy Ships', 29, 145
Commissioners of Patents, Report of the, 205
Companies, London and Metropolitan Gas, 71,89, 163, 269, 305, 399, 439, 477
Companies, Public, and Patents, 61
Companies, Public, and their Prospectuses, 183
Companies' Reports, Gas, 305
Compensating Bearings, Band - Saw with. By A. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 170
Compilation, Prospectus, 70
Completion of the St. Louis Bridge, 69
Compound Engines, 280
Compound and Simple Engines, 272
Compressed Air Machinery, 119
Compressing Bricks, Press for. By J. Whitehead and Co., Preston, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 64
Concrete Houses, 51
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 267
Conference at the Society of Arts on the Pollution of Rivers, 480
Conflagrations, The Origin of, 11, 62, 119, 261
Congress, The Yarn, at Vienna, 295
Constant and Intermittent Water Supply, The, 284
Construction of Railways, Indian, in 1873, Total Expenditure for, 324
Cooling Railway Carriages, Indian, 178, 288, 833, 871
Cooper's Hill College; Annual Distribution of Prizes, 110, 116
Corliss Engine, Horizontal. By the Graflich Stolberg Wernigerodische Faktorei, Ilsenburg, Harz, 141
Corn Drills, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 26
Corn-Drying Apparatus. By Davey, Paxman, and Company, Colchester, 35
Corporation, The, and the City Gas Supply, 269
Council of the British Association, Report of the, 157
Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers; List of Prizes and Subjects for the Session 1874-5, issued by the, 190
Counterbalance, Pneumatic, for Winding Engines. By O. T. Owen, Chesterfield, 233
Crampton's Revolving Puddling Furnace, The, 81, 197, 211
Crane Jibs, Weichum's Method of Mounting, 167
Cranes, Safety Catch for, 274
Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering, The, 494
Cultivation, Steam, 94
Cultivators and Grubbers, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Curious Information, 64
Curve, Metacentric, The Nautical Magazine on the, 112. 128
Cutter, Bolt and Stud-End. By .T. Nelson, Sunderland, 862
Cutters, Chaff, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Cutters, Gorse, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Cutting Iron, Band-Saw for. By J. and J. Rioter, Winterthur, 175
Cyfarthfa Iron Works, The, 122
Cylinders, Steam, Condensation in, 267
Cylindrical Saws for Cutting Barrel Staves. By B. D. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 313

Daglish's Horizontal Boring Machine, 327
Damask Weaving, 387 874
Danchell’s Water-Testing Apparatus, 873
Davis's Mining Dial, 500
Davey's Corn-Drying Apparatus, 35
Decay of Boilers in the Royal Navy, The Causes of, 283, 400
Defective Irrigation in India, On, 165, 882
While's Filter Presses for Chemicals and Sugars, 390
Do Negri and Hermann's Engine, 339
Dennis's High-Pressure Valve, 84
Dennis's Water Waste Preventer, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 57
Deterioration of Coals through Exposure, 14
" Deutschland," The German Ironclad, 227
Dial, Davis's Mining, 600
Diaper Weaving, 297
Difficulties of Sanitary Legislation, 245
Dip Pipe, Improved, for the Hydraulic Main '292
Dingey's Pulveriser, 879
Direct United States Cable, The, 268, 304, 860
Direct-Acting Pumping Engines and Pumps for High Lifts in Minos, On, 845
Disinfector, The Universal, 852
Disintegrating Machine. Norton and Hawkesley, London, 497
Dismasting of Large Iron Sailing Vessels, Th. , 481
Disposal of Sewage, The, 351
Disposal of Sewage Matter, &c., at Rochdale, 3, 498
Docks, The Middlesbrough, 278, 301, 341, 379
Docks, The Penarth, 117
Domestic Boilers, Mr. Fletcher's Report on, 339
Donkin's Experiments with Steam Jackets, 304
Double-Acting Steam Hammer. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 404
Double-Bogie Locomotives; The Fairlie System, 142
Dovetailing Machine, 139
Dowlais Iron Works, The, 122
Draw-Spans and their Turntables, 407, 448
Drawing and Charging Retorts, Machine for, at the Dawsholm Gas Works, near Glasgow. By W. Foulis, Glasgow, 263
Drill-Grinding Machine. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 12
Drilling Machine, Radial. By F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge, 66
Drilling Machine, Radial. By J. J. Rieter and Company, Winterthur, 387
Drills, Combined, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 27
Drills, Corn, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 25
Drills, Miscellaneous, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 47
Drills, Potato, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 28
Driving Tools, Power for, 338, 431, 495
Drum Guards, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford 49
Drums, Thrashing Machine, Guard for. By Garrett and Sons, Leiston, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Dubs's Tank Locomotive for the Indian State Railways (Metre Gauge), 85
Dundalk Channel, The, 194
Dunlop's Marine Engine Governor, 188
Durability of Atlantic Cables, 184
Duty of Pumping Engines, The, 498

East Indian Railway, Sleeping Carriages for the, 318
Education, Technical, 255, 280, 420
Eighteen-seventy-three, Postal and Telegraphic Service for, 385
Eighteen - seventy - five, Private Bills for the Session of, 440, 457
Eighty-one Ton Gun, The, 429
Electric Generator, A Thermo, 477
Electrical Pyrometer, Siemens', 161
Electro-Metallurgy, Gramme's Machine for, 413
Elementary Scientific Instruction, 420
Emery Wheels, 404
" Emirghian," Steam Yacht, Trial of the, 151
Empson's High-Pressure Marine Boiler, 428
Engine and Blower, Roots'. By Thwaites and Carbutt, Bradford, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 56
Engine, The " Britannia." By Grover and Company, London, 373
Engine, Floating Fire, for Sunderland. By Merryweather and Sons, London, 243
Engine, Horizontal. By the Maschinen and Waggonbau fabriks Actien Gesellschaft, Simmering, 105
Engine, Horizontal Corliss, By the Graflich Stolberg Wernigerodische Faktorei, Ilsenburg, Harz, 141
Engine, Horizontal, with Variable Expansion Gear. By De Negri and Hermann, London, 339
Engine, Petroleum. By J. Hock, Vienna, 242
Engine, Portable Winding, 157
Engine, Ransome's Portable, 34
Engine, Three-Cylinder. By P. W. Willans, Greenwich, 221
Engine, Three-Horse Portable, at the Smithfield Show, 456
Engine, Vertical Blowing. By H. G. Morris, Philadelphia, 28
Engine, Vertical, with Head's Variable Expansion Gear. By Alexander and Son, Cirencester, 4
Engineer, The, on Compound Engines, 230 Engineer, The, on Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 267
Engineer, The, on Simple and Compound Engines, 272
Engineer, The, on " Steam Engine Cylinders," 249
Engineer, The, on the Trials of Carts and Wagons at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 54
Engineering Apprentices, Principles of Shop Manipulation for, 2, 20, 251, 277, 294, 391, 410, 490
Engineering, Practical, The Crystal Palace School of, 494
engineering Progress, 434, 466
Engineering and Shipbuilding Works at Barrow-in-Furness, 237

ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL
On American River Steamboats, 37, 77
Report of the Committee on the Form, Endurance, and Manufacture of Rails, 314, 368
On Draw-Spans and their Turntables, by C. S. Smith, 407, 448

ENGINEERS,THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL: 493
Premiums and Prizes Awarded out of Trust Funds,34
List of Prizes and Subjects for Essays, 190 Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Session 187475, 438
On the Nagpur Water Works; with Observations on the Rainfall, the Flow from the Ground, and Evaporation at Nagpur; and on the Fluctuation of Rainfall in India and in other Places, by W. A. R. Binnie, 378
On the Pennsylvania Railroad, with Remarks on American Railway Construction and Management, by C. D. Fox and F. Fox, 415
On the New South Breakwater at Aberdeen, by William Dice Cay, 491
On the Extension of the South Jetty at Kustendjie, Turkey, by George Lenton Roff 498
Report, Annual, of the Council, 493

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CLEVELAND:
Progress of Engineering; Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. T. Wrightson, 434, 466

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL : 107; 117
Programme for the Cardiff Meeting, 78
Bute Docks and the Mechanical Arrangements for Shipping Coal, by J. McConnochie, 101
Inaugural Address of the President, F. J. Bramwell, 133
On Direct - Acting Pumping Engines and Pumps for High Lifts in Mines, by Mr. Henry Davey, 355
On the Helical Pump, by Mr. John Imray, 359

Engineers, Naval Architects, and Philanthropists, The Messrs. Stevens, of Hoboken, as, 426

ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH :
On Faults in Su' marine Telegraph Cables, by J. J. Fahie, 404
On Earth Borers for Telegraph Poles, by J. Gavey, 418
The Society's Soiree, 4.59
Annual General Meeting, 480

Engines, Bessemer Blowing, 167
Engines, Compound, 230
Engines, Compound and Simple, 272
Engines, Pumping, The Duty of, 498
Engines, Swedish Marine, 130
English Breechloading Ordnance, 214
English Ordnance and Ammunition, 178
Epicyclic Trains, 449
Equations, Gravity, Morgenstern's Apparatus for Demonstrating, 432
Equilibrium Safety Valve, Cockburn's, 501
Escapement, Schoof's Resilient Lever, 254
Evaporating Pans for Sugar, Halpin and Alliott's. By Manlove, Alliott and Co, Nottingham, 357
Examination of Iron Ships, The, 419
Exhaust Pipes, Cap for, 428
Exhauster, Gas, at the Beckton Gas Works. By Gwynne and Company, Essex-street Works, London, 287
Exhibition at Manchester in 1875, Proposed, 226
Exhibits, Miscellaneous, at the Smithfield Show, 453
Expedition, Our Arctic, 493
Experimental Boiler, An, 14
Experimental Trials of H.M.S. " Jumna," Abstract of, 136
Experiments on the Strength of Phosphor Bronze, 414
Experiments, Torpedo, 126, 165, 269, 384, 439
Explosives, Researches on : Fired Gunpowder, 153, 215
Express Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway. By Neilson and Company, Glasgow, 417
Extension of Telegraphs, The, 248
Extent of Russian Railways, 299

Factory Legislation, 11
" Facts' for Steam Users, 249
Fairbairn's Combined Planing and Slotting Machine at the Barrow Shipbuilding Works, 263
Fairbairn, Sir William, 147
Fairlie System, The, 142
Farm Reports, Recent Sewage, 343
Feeding Apparatus for Thrashing Machines. By Ruston, Proctor, and Company, Lincoln, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 57
Feeding Thrashing Machines, Special Prize for, 30
" Ferdinand Vandertaelen," Screw Steamship, Trial of the, 250
Field Artillery, Breechloading. By L. W. Broad-well, Carlsruhe, 289
Field's Scale Preventer, 114
Filter Presses for Chemicals and Sugar. By A. L. G. Dehne, Halle-on-the-Saale, 390
Financial Position of the London Gas Companies, 71, 89, 399
Financial Prospects in India: The Indian Budget, 107
Fire Engine, Steam, for the London Fire Brigade. By Merryweather and Sons, London, 310
Fire in Mines v. Steam, 401
Fired Gunpowder : Researches on Explosives, 153, 215
Fires, and how they Originate, 11, 62, 149, 261
Fixed and Portable Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 44
Fixed and Portable Engines, at the Smithfield Show, 452
Fleet, Our Indian Troopship, 485
Floating Fire Engine for Sunderland. By Merryweather and Sons, London, 243
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 18, 32, 59, 75, 113, 134, 143, 178, 201, 231, 249, 292, 311, 351, 390, 405, 411, 447, 464, 481, 487
Foulis's Retort-Charging Machine at the Daws-holm Gas Works, near Glasgow, 263
Four-sided Moulding and Planing Machine. By the Engine and Wagon Construction Company, Simmering, near Vienna,102
Fowler's Central Station Roof, Liverpool, 65
Fowler's Semi-Portable Winding Engine, 424
Fowler's Tugboat for Wire-Rope Towage, 2:39
Fox, Sir Charles, 53
Fraser 81-ton Gun, The, 429
French Association of Gas Managers, 13
French Magneto-Electric Apparatus, Monsieur Gramme's, 413
Furnace, The Crampton Puddling, 81
Furness's Combined Planing and Moulding Machine, 327
Furness's Metallic Packing, 352

Garrett's Guard for Thrashing Machine Drums, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Gas Companies' Reports, 305
Gas Companies, London and Metropolitan, 71, 89, 163, 269, 305,399, 439, 477
Gas Exhauster at the Beckton Gas Works. By Gwynne and Company, Essex-street Works, London, 287

GAS MANAGERS, THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF:
On Gasholders, by C. Woodhall, 18
On Gasholder Tanks in Concrete, by J. Douglas, 36

Gas Managers, The French Association of, 13

GAS MANAGERS, THE NORTH BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF, W. 66:
Address of the President,
On the Stoppages in Ascension and other Pipes, their Causes and Remedies, with Relative Advantages by A. Malam, 96
On a new form of Slide Valve Pump; specially adapted for Heavy or Thick Tar, &c., by D. M. Nelson, 114
On a Self-Acting Seal for Ascension Pipes, by J. Alexander, 154
On an Improved Dip Pipe for the Hydraulic Main, by G. Boyd, 292

Gas Question, The London and Metropolitan, 71, 89, 163, 269, 305, 399, 439, 477
Gas Supply, The City and the Corporation, 269
Gasholder Tanks in Concrete, 36
Gasholders, 18
Gauge, Break of, in India, 205
Gear-Cutting Machine. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 281
Gears, Horse, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 55
Generator, A Thermo-Electric, 477
Geology of the North Lancashire and Cumberland Iron Ore Districts, On the, 179
German Ironclad, The "Deutschland," 227
Germany, Coal in, 14
Germany, Notes from, 14
Goods Locomotive, Hungarian, 264
Goods Locomotive, Russian, 491
Gorse Cutters, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Government Board, The Local, on the Water Supply, 30
Government, Local, and Public Health, 70, 90
Government and the Purification of Rivers, 457
Government Reports, Local, 324
Government Wharf, Sydney, New South Wales, Proposed Extension of, 387
Governor, Dunlop's Marine Engine. By Cunliffe and Dunlop, Port-Glasgow, 188
Grain Cleaning and Sorting, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 55
Gramme's Magneto-Electric Machine, 413
Grantham, John, 75
Gravity-Equation Apparatus, Morgenstern's, 432.,
Great Britain, The Rainfall of, 215
Greig's New Turnwrest Plough, at the Royal, Agricultural Show, Bedford, 93
Grinding Drills, Machine for. By W. Sellers and. Company, Philadelphia, 12
Grover's Vertical Engine, The " Britannia," with Variable Expansion Gear, 373
Grubbers and Cultivators, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Guard for Thrashing Machine Drums. By Garrett and Sons, Leiston, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Guards, Drum, at the Royal Agricultural Show. Bedford. 49
Gun, the 81-Ton, 429
Gun, 7-inch-Muzzle Loading, and Carriage, The Vavasseur. By the London Ordnance Works, Southwark, 103
Guns, Swedish. 166
Guns, Working very Heavy, 235
Gwynne and Beale's Gas Exhauster at the Beckton Gas Works, 287

Hall's Lever Vice, 5
Halpin and Alliott's Evaporating Pans for Sugar. By Manlove, Alliott, and Company, Nottingham, 357
Hammer, Single - Action Steam. By Thwaites and Carbutt, Bradford, 153
Hammer, Steam. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 404
Hand-worked Slotting Machine, 210
Harbour, The Bombay, 307
Harbour, Sydney, Proposed Extension of, 387
Harland's Screw Steamer " Britannic," 406
Harris's New Pits, 123
Harrows, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Hartley's Attemperator, 434
Head's Vertical Engine with Variable Expansion Gear. By Alexander and Son, Cirencester, 4
Health, Public, and Local Government, 70, 90
Heating Air, Apparatus for. By J. H. Reinhardt, Wurzburg, 251
Heaton's Emery Wheels, 404
Heavy Guns, Working very, 235
Helical Pump, The, 359
Hematite Iron and Steel Works, The Barrow, 228
Hematite Iron Works, The West Cumberland, 200
Hematite Works, The Maryport, 200
H.M.S. "Audacious," Trials of, 383
H.M.S. "Himalaya," Trials of, 479
H.M.S. "Jumna," Trials of, 97, 135
H.M.S. "Oberon," Experiments with Torpedoes on, 126, 165, '269, 384, 439
H.M.S. "Raleigh," The Hirsch Propeller of, 128
H.M.S. "Raleigh," Trials of, 247
Her Majesty's Yacht "Osborne," Trial of, 79
Hicks's New Spirit Thermometer, 13
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 130
High-Pressure Marine Boiler. By J. Empson and Company, Hamburg, 428
High-Pressure Valve. By T. H. P. Dennis and Company, Chelmsford, 84
High-Speed Air-Compressing Machinery, Sturgeon's. By Clayton, Son, and Howlett, London, 320
Hirsch Propeller of H.M.S. "Raleigh," The, 128
Hock's Petroleum Engine, 242
Hodbarrow Mines, The, 200
Hoes, Horse, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 46
Horizontal Boring Machine. By R. Daglish and Company, St. Helen's, 327
Horizontal Boring Machine. By Pfaff and Company, Vienna, 368
Horizontal Collies Engine. By the Graflich Stolberg Wernigerodische Faktorei, Ilsenburg, Harz, 141
Horizontal Engine. By the Maschinen and Waggonbau fabriks Actien Gesellschaft, Simmering, 105
Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear. By De Negri and Hermann, London, 339
Horse Gears, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 55
Horse Hoes, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 46
Houses, Concrete, 51
Howard's Safety Boiler, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Hungarian Goods Locomotive, 264
Hydraulic Brakes, 194
Hydraulic Power Applied to Workshop Machinery, 118
Hydraulic Rivetter. By R. H. Tweddell, 93, 130
Hydraulic Valves, 177

Illumination, Lighthouse, 234
Improved Condition of the River Thames, 125
Improved Dip Pipe for the Hydraulic Main, 292
Improving the Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 89
" Independencia, Accident to the, 109, 165, 218 India, Break of Gauge in, 205
India, On Defective Irrigation in, 155, 382 India, Railways in, 324
Indian Budget, The, 107
Indian Civil Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Annual Distribution of Prizes, 110, 116
Indian Railway Carriages, Arrangements for Cooling, 173, 238, 333, 371,
Indian Railways, Working of, 344
Indian State Railways, 19, 61, 150, 260, 276
Indian State Railways, Tank Locomotive for the (Metre Gauge). By Dubs and Company, Glasgow, 85
Indian Troopships, Our, 485
Industries at Cologne, 365, 376, 421
Industry, Scientific, 226
Information, Curious, 51
Inspection of Iron Ships, The, 419

[[1874 Institution of Mechanical Engineers|INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE: 493

Premiums and Prizes Awarded out of Trust Funds, 34
List of Prizes and Subjects for Essays, 190
Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Session 1874-75, 438
On the Nagpur Water Works; with Observations on the Rainfall, the Flow from the Ground, and Evaporation at Nagpur; and on the Fluctuation of Rainfall in India and in other Places, by W. A. R. Binnie, 378
On the Pennsylvania Railroad, with Remarks on American Railway Construction and Management, by C. D. Fox and F. Fox, 415
On the New South Breakwater at Aberdeen, by William Dice Cay, 491
On the Extension of the South Jetty at Kustendjie, Turkey, by George Lenton Robb, 498
Report, Annual, of the Council, 493

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE : 107, 117

Programme for the Cardiff Meeting, 78
Bute Docks and the Mechanical Arrangements for Shipping Coal, by J. McConnochie, 101
Inaugural Address of the President, F. J. Bramwell, 133
On Direct-Acting Pumping Engines and Pumps for High Lifts in Mines, by Mr. Henry Davey, 355
On the Helical Pump, by Mr. John Imray, 359

Institution of Naval Architects; List of Subjects for 1875, 253
Instruction, Science, 420
Instruction, Scientific, The Royal Commission of, 400
" Intermittent Downward Filtration;" Results of Experiments at the International Exhibition, 351
Inventions, Protection for, 483, 501
Inventions for Saving Life at Sea, 409
Inverness Agricultural Show, 130
Ipswich, Sewerage and Sewage of, 306
Iron and Coal Trades of the West of Scotland, The, 302
Iron Manufacture, Rolling Mill Machinery for, 74
Iron Ore Mine, The Mwyndy, 123
Iron Ores of Sweden, The, 188
Iron Sailing Vessels, Large, The Dismasting of, 484
Iron Ships, The Inspection of, 419
Iron Sponge Manufacture, Blair's, 126
Iron Steamers " Chusan" and "Mary," Breaking of the, 362

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE, 184, 195 :

Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, by A. L. Stevenson, 176
On Valves Suitable for Working Hydraulic Machinery, by R. Luthy, 177
A New form of Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, by T. Wrightson, 177
On the Geology of the North Lancashire and Cumberland Iron Ore Districts, by P. Wurzburger, 179
On the Iron Ores of Sweden, by C. Smith, 188
On the Rampside Boring, near Barrow, by A. Brogden, 192
Description of the Latest Improvements in Appliances for the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel, by B. Walker, 209
On Setting Bessemer Converter Bottoms, by A. L. Holley, 211
On Crampton's Revolving Furnace and its Products, by T. R. Crampton, 211
American Rolling Mills, by A. L. Holley, 213

Iron and Steel Works, The Barrow Hematite, 228
Iron Works, The Askham, 200
Iron Works, The Cyfarthfa, 122
Iron Works, The Dowlais, 1'22
Iron Works for the King of Burmah, 471, 489
Iron Works, The Millom, 200
Iron Works, The Solway, 200
Ironclad, German, The " Deutschland," 227
Iron-Cutting, Band-Saw for. By J. and J. Rieter Winterthur, 175
Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 176
Ironwork, Practical, 115
Irrigation in India., On Defective, 15.5, 382
Italy, Coal Mining in, 311

Jackets, Steam, 304
Jacquard Apparatus, 4:5
Jacquard Loom, The, 467
Jaws, Adjustable, Vice with. 448
Johnson's "Anti-Primer," 274
Johnson, T. Marr, 86
Jones's Universal Disinfector, 352
"Jumna," H.M.S., Trials of, 97, 135

Keys and Keyways, 326
King of Burmah, Iron Works for the, 471, 489
Kustendjie, The South Jetty at, 49R

Lancashire Boiler, An Experimental, 14
Landore Siemens Steel Works, The, 122
Landore Tin Plate Works, The, 123
Large Iron Sailing Vessels, The Dismasting of, 484
Launch of the "Bessemer" Saloon Steamer, 267, 288, 476
Launch of the " Independencia," 109, 165; 248
Launch, Steam. By Yarrow and Hedley, Popl4r, 201
Lawrence's Self-Feeding Nail Machine, 152 Leaden Water Pipes, 401
Legislation, Factory, 11
Legislation. Sanitary, 245
Length of Railways Sanctioned for India, :324
Lever Escapement, Schoof's Resilient, 2.54
Lever Vice, Hall's, 5
Lire of Atlantic Cables, The, 184
Life Raft, Roper's, for Saving Life at Sea, 409
Lighthouse Illumination, 234
Lighting Railway Trains, 363
List of Subjects for the Institution of Naval Architects, in 1875, 253
List of Subjects for the Session 1874-5, issued, by the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 190
Local Board of Nuneaton, The, and their Sewage Works, 207
Local Government Board, The, on the Supply of Water, 30
Local Government and Public Health, 70, 90 Local Government Reports, 324
Locomotive, Express, for the North-Eastern Railway. By Neilson and Company, Glasgow, 417
Locomotive, Hungarian Goods, 264
Locomotive, Russian Goods, 491
Locomotive, Tank, for the 2 ft. Gauge By Black, Hawthorn, and Company, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 220
Locomotive, Tank, for the Indian State Railways (Metre Gauge). By Dubs and Company, Glasgow, 85
Locomotives, Double-Bogie; The Fairlie System, 142
London Fire Brigade, Steam Fire Engine for the. By Merryweather and Sons, London, 340
London and Metropolitan Gas Question, The, 71, 89, 163, 269, 305, 399, 439, 477
Loom, The Jacquard, 467
Loss of the Steamship " Chusan," Report of the Board of Trade on the, 392
Loss of the Steamship " Mary," Report of the Board of Trade on the, 460, 482

Machine, Disintegrating. By Norton and Hawks-ley, London, 407
Machine, Dovetailing. By the Sachsische Maschinen-Fabrik, Chemnitz, 139
Machine, Drill Grinding. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 12
Machine, Hand-worked Slotting., 210
Machine, Horizontal Boring. By Pfaff and Company, Vienna, 368
Machine, Nail, Lawrence's Self-Feeding, 152
Machine, Radial Drilling. By J. J. Rieter and Company, Winterthur, 387
Machine, Slotting. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 232
Machine, Stone-Breaking. By H. R. Marsden, Leeds, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 21
Machine, Thrashing, at the Smithfield Show, 453
Machinery for Air-Compressing, Sturgeon's. By Clayton, Son, and Howlett, London, 320
Machinery and Boilers in the Royal Navy, Care and Management of the, 17.5, 208, 233
Machinery, Compressed Air, 119
Machinery of H.M.S. " Raleigh," Description of the, 247
Machinery, Paper, 403
Machinery, Rolling Mill, 74
Machines, Thrashing, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Machines, Thrashing, Special Prize for Feeding 30
Magneto-Electric Machine, The Gramme, 413
Making Bricks, Semi-dry Machinery for. By Clayton, Son, and Howlett, London, 203
Manchester Cattle Show, 422
Manchester and Scientific Industry, 226
Manchester Steam Users' Association, Experiments on Boilers by the, 232
Manchester Steam Users' Association, Report of Mr. Fletcher to the, 190
Manufacture of Iron Sponge, Blair's, 126
Manufacture of Scotch Pig Iron in America, The, 253
Manufacturing Nuisances, 419
Manure Distributors, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 48
Marine Boiler, High-Pressure. By J. Empson and Company, Hamburg, 428
Marine Engine Governor. By Cunliffe and Dunlop, Port-Glasgow, 188
Marine Engines, Swedish, 130
Marsden's Stone Breakers, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 21
" Mary" and " Chusan," Iron Steamers, Breaking of the, 362
Mary," Steamship, Board of Trade Report on the Loss of the, 460, 482
Maryport Hematite Works, The, 200
Materials, On the Strength of, 312
Measuring the Intensity of the Sun's Rays, Solar Thermometers for, 91
Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of (See Institution of Mechanical Engineers)
Meeting, Annual, of the North British Association of Gas Managers, 52
Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Cardiff, 107, 117
Meetings of the Society of Telegraph Engineers 418, 480
Merryweather's Floating Fire Engine for Sunderland, 243
Merryweather's Steam Fire Engine for the London Fire Brigade, 340
Merthyr Sewage Farm, The, 121
Metacentre, The, 112, 128
Metallic Packing, By A. Barnes, Accrington, 4152
Metropolitan Board of Works, The, and Gas Supply, 163
Metropolitan and London Gas Question, The, 71, 89, 163, 269, 305, 399, 439, 477
Metropolitan Railway, The, 89
Middlesbrough Docks, The, 278, 301, 341, 379
Midland Railway, Proposed Abolition of Second Class Carriages on the, 381
Millom Iron Works, The, 200
Mineral Statistics, 440
Mines, The Hodbarrow, 200
Mines, Iron, Wire Tramway at, near Aalsund, Norway. By W. T. H. Carrington, 309
Mines, the Montreal and Cleator, 200
Mines, Steam v. Fires in, 401
Mining Dial, Davis's, 500
Mining, Ironstone, in Cleveland, 176
Miscellaneous Drills, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 47
Miscellaneous Exhibits, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 56
Miscellaneous Exhibits, at the Smithfield Show, 453
Modules, On, 1, 98
Montreal and Cleator Mines, The, 200
Morgenstern's Gravity-Equation Apparatus, 432
Morris's Blowing Engine, 28
Motor, Siemens' Steam, 179
Moulding and Planing Machine. Combined. By W. Furness and Company, Liverpool, 327
Moulding and Planing Machine, Four-sided. By the Engine and Wagon Construction Company, Simmering, near Vienna, 102
Mounting Crane Jibs, Weichum's Method of, 167
Mowers and Reapers, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Murphy's Part-Rifling System, 246
Muzzle-Loading 7-in. Gun and Carriage, The Vavasseur. By the London Ordnance Works, Southwark, 103
Mwyndy Iron Ore Mine, The, 123

Nagpur Water Works, The, 378
Nail Machine, Lawrence's Self-Feeding, 152
Nautical Magazine, The, on Metacentre, 112, 128
Naval Architects, Engineers, and Philanthropists, The Messrs. Stevens, of Hoboken, as, 426
Naval Architects, The Institution of; List of Subjects for 1875, 253
Naval Engineer Officers, Circular for the Instruction of, in the Management of Boilers and Machinery, 175, 208, 233
Navy, Royal Boilers in the, 283, 400
Neilson's Express Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway, 417
Nelson's Bolt and Stud-End Cutter, 352 Nerbudda River, Bridge over the, 302
New Atlantic Cables, The, 206
New Channel Steamship, The " Bessemer," 267, 288, 476
New Form of Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, A, 177
New Pits, Harris's, 123
New South Breakwater, Aberdeen, The, 491
New Turnwrest Plough, The, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 93
Newark, U.S.A., The Central Avenue Bridge at, 179
Nixon's Ynysowen Colliery, 121

NORTH BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS, THE:
52, 66
Address of the President, 66
On the Stoppages in Ascension and other Pipes, their Causes and Remedies, with Relative Advantages, by A. Ma'am, 96
On a New Form of Slide Valve Pump; specially adapted for Heavy or Thick Tar, &c., by D. M. Nelson, 114
On a Self-Acting Seal for Ascension Pipes, by J. Alexander, 154
On an Improved Dip Pipe for the Hydraulic Main, by G. Boyd, 292

North-Eastern Railway Company's Dock Extension Works at Middlesbrough, 278, 301, 341, 379
North Lancashire and Cumberland Iron Ore Districts, On the Geology of the, 179
Norton and Hawkesley's Disintegrator, 407
Notes from Cleveland, 15, 32, 57, 67, 9.5, 113, 131, 143, 169, 181, 204, 232, '244, 273, 289, 308, 329, 342, 367, 380, 405, 41.5, 436, 461, 473, 500
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 18, 32, 59, 75, 113,134, 143, 178, 201, 231, 249, 292, 311, 351, 390, 405, 411, 447, 464, 481, 487
Notes from Germany, 14
Notes from the North, 15, 32, 58, 67, 87, 105, 131, 143, 169, 181, 208, 223, 244, 273, 289, 302, 329, 342, 367, 385, 405, 423, 443, 461, 476, 500
Notes, Sanitary, 146
Notes from the South-West, 15, 32, 67, 87, 114, 131, 152, 157, 181, 204, 232, '244, 265, '289, 300, 321, 342, 355, 380, 395, 4'23, 437, 461, 481, 500
Notes from South Yorkshire, 15, 53, 67, 87, 114, 131, 143, 169, 181, 204, 231, 244, 273, 281,308, 329, 347, 368, 380, 395, 418, 443, 462, 481, 497
Nuisances, Manufacturing, 419
Nuneaton and its Sewage, 207

"Oberon," H.M.S., Experiments with Torpedoes on, 1'26, 165, 269, 384
OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, The Orwell Park, 257
On Modules, 1, 98
Opening of the Saint Louis Bridge, 69
Ordnance and Ammunition, English, 178
Ordnance, British, :303
Ordnance, English Breechloading, 214
Ordnance, Heavy, The Working of, 235
Ordnance, The Proper Method of Aligning the Sights of, 325
Ordnance, Swedish, 166
Ores, Pulveriser for Reducing. By F. Dingey, Truro, 379
Ores of Sweden, The Iron, 188
Origin of Fires, The, 11, 62, 149, 261
Orwell Park Observatory, The, 257
" Osborne," Her Majesty's Yacht, Trial of, 79
Our Arctic Expedition, 493
Our Indian Troopships, 485
Our Villages : their Sanitary Reform, 367, 388
Owen's Pneumatic Counterbalance for Winding Engines, 233

Packing, Metallic. By A. Barnes. Accrington, 352
Pans for Sugar, Evaporating, Halpin and Alliott's. By Manlove, Alliott, and Company, Nottingham, 357
Paper Machinery, 403
Parliamentary Private Business, 334, 372, 430, 468
Part-Rifling System, The, 246
Passenger, Goods Traffic, and Gross Receipts of Russian Railways, 299
Patent Commissioners, Report of the, 205
Patents and Public Companies, 51
Penarth Docks, 117
Petroleum Engine. By J. Hock, Vienna, 242
Philadelphia, Sanitary Progress in, 241
Phosphor-Bronze, 414
Piedmontese and Milanese Modules, 1, 98
Pig Iron in America, Scotch, The Manufacture of, '253
Pipes, Leaden Water, 401
Pit, The Castle, 121
Planing and Moulding Machine, Combined. By W. Furness and Company. Liverpool, 327
Planing and Moulding Machine, Four-sided. By the Engine and Wagon Construction Company, Simmering, near Vienna. 102
Planing and Slotting Machine, Combined, at the Barrow Shipbuilding Works. By Fairbairn, Kennedy, and Naylor, Leeds, 263
Plant, Bessemer, 197, 209
Plough, The New Turnwrest, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 93
Ploughs, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 48
Pneumatic Counterbalance for Winding Engines. By C. T. Owen, Chesterfield, 233
Pneumatic Transmission, 293, 315, 353, 391, 442
Pollution, Atmospheric, 9
Pollution of the River Thames, 125
Pollution of Rivers, Conference on the, at the Society of Arts, 480
Polychrome Printing, 343
Portable Engine, Ransome's, 34
Portable and Fixed Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 44
Portable and Fixed Engines, at the Smithfield Show, 452
Portable Engine, Three-Horse, at the Smithfield Show, 45e
Portable Winding Engine, 157
Postal and Telegraphic Service for 1S73, 3S5
Potato Drills, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 28
Power for Driving Tools, 338, 431, 495
Practical Engineering, The Crystal Palace School of, 494
Practical Ironwork, 115
Premiums and Prizes Awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers, 34
President of the British Association, Address of the, 138, 171, 193
Press, Brick. By J. Whitehead and Company, Preston, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 64
Principles of Shop Manipulation for Engineering Apprentices, 2, 20, 251, 277, 294, 391, 410, 490
Printing, Polychrome, 343
Private Bills for Session 1875, 440, 457
Private Business, Parliamentary, 334, 372, 430, 468
Prize, Special, for Feeding Thrashing Machines, 30
Prizes at Cooper's Hill College, Annual Distribution of, 110, 116
Process, The Bessemer, in America, 10
Professor Thomson, President of Section G, British Association, Address of, 168, 191
Professor Tyndall, Address of, at the British Association, 138, 171, 193
Programme for the Cardiff Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 78
Progress, Engineering, 434, 466
Progress, Sanitary, in Philadelphia, 241
Propeller, Harland's, for the Screw Steamer " Britannic," 406
Propeller of H.M.S. " Raleigh," The Hirsch, 128
Propeller, The Screw, Petition to Parliament of H. Wimshurst, 75
Proper Method of Aligning the Sights of Ordnance, 325
Properties of Air, The, 16
Propontis," Steamship, Particulars of the First Voyage of the, 129
Prospectus Compilation, 70
Prospectuses and Public Companies, 18:3
Protection for Inventions, 483, 501
Prussian Ironclad, The " Deutschland," 227
Prussian Telegraph System, The, 422
Pumping Engines, The Duty of, 498
Pyrometer, Siemens' Electrical, 161
Public Buildings, Ventilation in, 207
Public Companies and Patents, 51
Public Companies and their Prospectuses, 183
Public Health and Local Government, 70, 90
Puddling Furnace, The Crampton, 81
Pulleys and Wheels, Keys for Fastening, 326
Pulp Strainers for Paper Manufacture, 403
Pulpers, Root, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 55
Pulveriser for Reducing Ores. By F. Dingey, Truro, 379
Pump, The Helical, 359
Pump, Steam. By Clarkson Brothers, Glasgow, 21
Pump, Steam. By A. Schmid, Zurich, 262
Pumping Engines and Pumps for High Lifts in Mines, On Direct-Acting, 355
Pumps, Tar, 114
Purification of Rivers, The, 457

Question, The London and Metropolitan Gas, 71, 89, 163, 269, 305, 399, 4391 477

Radial Drilling and Boring Machine. By F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge, 66
Radial Drilling Machine. By J. J. Rieter and Company, Winterthur, 387
Radiation Thermometers, Solar, 91, 345
Railroad Stations, American, 142
Railway Ambulance Carriages, 201
Railway Carriages, Indian, Arrangements for Cooling, 173, 238, 333, 371
Railway Classes, 381
Railway Collision, The Thorpe, 225, 248, 268, 328
Railway Construction and Management, American, 415
Railway, East Indian, Sleeping Carriage for the 318
Railway, The Metropolitan, 89
Railway Signals, 161
Railway Train Lighting, 363
Railway, Working a Single Line of, 268
Railways, Application to Parliament for, 440
Railways, Atmospheric, 294
Railways at Bucharest, 9
Railways in India, 324
Railways, Indian State, 19, 61, 150, 260, 276
Railways, Indian, Working of, 344
Railways, Russian, 299
Rainfall of Great Britain, The, 215
"Raleigh," H.M.S., Trials of, 247
Rampside Boring, near Barrow, On the, 192
Ransome's Portable Engine, 31
Reapers and Mowers, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49
Recent Sewage Farm Reports, 343
Reform, Sanitary, of our Villages, 367, 383
Regulating and Measuring Water from Canals and Reservoirs, Modules for, 1, 93
Reinhardt's Air-Heating Apparatus. 251
Renders Victoria Swing Bridge at Leith, 433
Rennie, Sir John, F.R.S., 206
Report, Annual, of the Council of Civil Engineers, 493
Report, Annual, of the Postmaster - General, 385
Report of the Board of Trade on the Loss of the Paddle Steamer " Chusan," 392
Report of the Board of Trade on the Loss of the Steamship " Mary," 460, 482
Report, Captain Tyler's on the Thorpe Collision, 328
Report of the Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, on the Form, Endurance, &c., of Rails, 314, 368
Report of the Council of the British Association, 157
Report of Major Donelly on Science, Schools, and Classes, 420
Report for 1873 of Mr. R. Hunt, on our Mineral Products, 440
Report, The Final, on Unseaworthy Ships, 29, 145
Report of Mr. Fletcher on Domestic Boilers, 339
Report of Mr. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 190
Report of Mr. Fletcher on Safety Boilers, 340
Report of the Patent Commissioners, 206
Report on Railways in India for 1873-74, 324
Report of the Refuse Removal Committee, Ipswich, 306
Report on Safety Valves Presented to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 445, 463
Report of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of the Council on Education, 420
Reports of Gas Companies, 305
Reports, Government Local, 324
Researches on Explosives : Fired Gunpowder, 153, 215
Resilient Lever Escapement, School's, 254
Results of Trial Trips with Steamships, 323, 361
Results of Trials of Wagons and Carts, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, Tables Showing the, 33. 39, 57
Retort-Charging Machine at the Dawsholm Gas Works, near Glasgow. By W. Foulis, Glasgow, 263
Returns of Work done by American Bessemer Plant, 10
Revolving Puddling Furnace and its Produce, The Crampton, 197, 211
Rhenish Railways and Cologne Industries, 365, 376, 421
Rhondda and Aberdare Valley Collieries, The, 121
Rieter's Band-Saw for Iron, 175
Rieter's Radial Drilling Machine, 387
Rifled Guns, War Office Report on the, 303
Rifling System, The Part, 246
Rival Schemes for Bombay Harbour, 307
River Bann, The, 234
River Nerbudda, Bridge over the, 302
River Pollution, Conference on, at the Society of Arts, 480
River St. Lawrence, Chain Towage on the, 221
River Steamboats, American, 37, 77
River Thames, Present Condition of the, 125
Rivers, The Purification of, 457
Rivetter, Hydraulic. By R. H. Tweddell, 93. 130
Robey's Vertical Boiler, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Redford, 34
Rochdale, Disposal of Sewage Matter, &c., at, 3, 498
Rolling Mill Machinery, 74
Rolling Mills, American, 195, 213
Rolling Stock of the Russian Railways, 299
Roof of the Central Station, Liverpool. By J. Fowler and W. M. Brydone, 65
Root Pulpers, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 55
Roots' Blower and Engine. By Thwaites and Carbutt, Bradford, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 56
Roper's Life-Raft for Saving Life at Sea, 409
Royal Commission of Scientific Instruction, The, 4UU
Royal Navy, Boilers in the, 283, 400
Royal Navy, Boilers and Machinery in the, 175, 208, 233
Russian Goods Locomotive, 491
Russian Railways, 299
Russian Vice with Adjustable Jaws, 448
Ruston's Apparatus for Feeding Thrashing Machines, at the Royal Agricultural Show. Bedford, 17

Safety Boiler, Howard's. By the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Barrow-in-Furness, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Safety Boilers; Mr. Fletcher's Report on, 340
Safety Catch for Cranes, 274
Safety Valve, Cockburn's Equilibrium, 501
Safety Valves; Report on, Presented to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 445, 463
Sailing Vessels, Large Iron, The Dismasting of, 484
St. Lawrence, The River, Chain Towage on, 221
St. Louis Bridge, The, 69
Saloon Steamer, The " Bessemer," 267, 288, 476
Sanitary Legislation, 245
Sanitary Notes, 146
Sanitary Progress in Philadelphia, 241
Sanitary Reform of our Villages, 867, 388
Saws, Cylindrical, for Cutting Barrel Staves. by B. D. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 313
Scale Preventer, Field's. 114
Schmid's Steam Pump, 262
Schoof's Resilient Lever Escapement, 254
School of Practical Engineering, The Crystal Palace, 494
Science Instruction, 420
Scientific Industry, 226
Scientific Instruction, The Royal Commission of, 400
Sclater-Booth's Proposed Bill to amend the Alkali Act, 9
Scotch Pig Iron in America, The Manufacture of, 253
Scotland, Highland and Agricultural Society of, 130
Screw Propeller, The, 75
Screw Steamer " Britannic." By Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 406
Screw Steamship, " Ferdinand Vandertaelen," Trial of the, 250
Second-Class Carriages, Proposed Abolition of, on the Midland Railway, 381
Self-Acting Seal for Ascension Pipes, 151
Self-Feeding Nail Machine, Lawrence's, 152, Sellers' Drill-Grinding Machine, 12
Sellers' Gear-Cutting Machine, 281
Sellers' Slotting Machine, 231
Sellers' Steam Hammer. By W. Sellers and *Company, Philadelphia, 404
Semi-dry Brickmaking Machinery. By Clayton, Son, and Howlett, London, 203
Semi-Portable Winding Engine. By J. Fowler and Company, Leeds, 424
Sensitive Thermometers, 13
Session 1875, Private Bills for, 440, 457
Setting Bessemer Converter Bottoms. 196, 211
Seven-Inch Muzzle. Loading Gun and Carriage, The Vavasseur. By the London Ordnance Works, Southwark, 103
Sewage, The Disposal of, 351
Sewage Farm, The Merthyr, 121
Sewage Farm, Reports, Recent, 843
Sewage498 Matter, &c., at Rochdale, Disposal of, 3,
Sewage at Nuneaton, 207
Sewage Progress, 3, 146, 207, 306, 343, 851
Sewage, The Utilisation of, 189
Sewerage and Sewage of Ipswich, 306
Shallow River Tugboat for Wire-Rope Towage. By J. Fowler and Company, Leeds, 139
Shedding (Weaving), 217
Shipbuilding Works, The Barrow, 237
Shipping Coal, Mechanical Arrangements for, at the Bute Docks, 101
Ships, Iron, The Inspection of, 419
Ships, Unseaworthy, The Commission on, 29, 145
Show, The Manchester Cattle, 422

SHOW OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AT BEDFORD
23, 33, 89, 55
Chaff Cutters, 49
Combined Drills, 27
Corn Drills, 25
Cultivators and Grubbers, 49
Drills, 47
Drum Guards, 49
Feeding Thrashing Machines, 30
Gorse Cutters, 49
Grain Cleaning and Sorting, 55
Harrows, 49
Horse Gears, 55
Horse Hoes, 46
Manure Distributors, 48
Miscellaneous, 56
Mowers and Reapers, 49
Ploughs, 48
Portable and Fixed Engines, 44
Potato Drills, 28
Root Pulpers, 55
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines, 42
Table of Awards, 60
Table of Particulars of Vans for Men Engaged in Steam Cultivation, 41
Thrashing Machines, 49
Trials of ()arts and Wagons : Tables Showing the Results of, 33, 89, 57
Turnip Thinners, 45
Vans for Men Engaged in Steam Cultivation, 39
Wagons and Carts, 23
Show, The Yorkshire Agricultural, 104

Siemens' Electrical Pyrometer, 161
Siemens' Steam Motor, 179
Siemens' Steel Works, The Landore, 122
Sights of Heavy Ordnance, The Proper Method of Aligning, 325
Signals, Railway, 161
Silk Waste, The Utilisation of, 6, 100
Simple and Compound Engines, 272
Single-Action Steam Hammer. By Thwaites and Carbutt, Bradford, 153
Single Line Working, 268
Single Lines of Railway, The " Staff" System for Working, 225
Sir Charles Fox, 53
Sir John Rennie, 206
Sir William Fairbairn, 147
Sleeping Carriage for the East Indian Railway, 318
Slotting Machine. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 232
Slotting Machine, Hand-worked, 210
Slotting and Planing Machine, Combined, at the Barrow Shipbuilding Works. By Fairbairn, Kennedy, and Naylor, Leeds, 263

SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW, THE: 451
Miscellaneous, 453
Portable and Fixed Engines, 452
Steam Ploughing Machinery and Traction Engines, 451
Thrashing Machines, 453
Three-Horse Portable Engine, 456

SOCIETY OF ARTS, THE:
Conference on the Pollution of Rivers, 480
Protection for Inventions, by F. J. Bramwell, 483, 501

Society of Telegraph Engineers, Meetings of the, 404, 418, 480
Soda from Common Salt, Injurious Effects from the Manufacture of, 419
Soiree of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 459
Solar Radiation Thermometers, 91, 345
Solway Iron Works, The, 200
South Jetty, The, Kustendjie, 498
South-West, Notes from, 15, 32, 67, 87, 114, 131, 152, 157, 181, 204, 232, 244, 265, 289, 300, 321, 342, 355, 380, 395, 423, 437, 461, 481, 500
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 15, 53, 67, 87, 114, 131, 143, 169, 181, 204, 231, 214, 273, 281, 308, 329, 347, 368, 380, 395, 418, 413, 462, 481, 497
Sponge Manufacture, Blair's Iron, 126
"Staff" System, The, for Working Single Lines of Railway, 225
State Railways, Indian, 19, 61, 150, 260, 276
State Railways, Russian, 299
State Subventions for the Russian Railways, 299
Station, Roof of the Central Station Railway, Liverpool. By J. Fowler and W. M. Brydone, 65
Stations, American Railroad, 142
Statistics, Mineral. 440
Steam Cultivation, 94
Steam Cultivation, Vans for Men Engaged in, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 39
Steam Cylinders, Condensation in, 267
Steam Fire Engine for the London Fire Brigade. By Merryweather and Sons, London, 340
Steam v. Fires in Mines, 401
Steam Hammer. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 404
Steam Hammer, Single-Action. By Thwaites and Carbutt, Bradford, 153
Steam Jackets, 304
Steam Launch. By Yarrow and Hedley, Poplar, 201
Steam Motor, Siemens', 179
Steam-Ploughing Machinery and. Traction Engines, at the Smithfield Show, 451
Steam-Ploughing and Traction Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 42
Steam Pump. By Clarkson Brothers, Glasgow, 210
Steam Pump. By A. Schmid, Zurich, 262
Steam Users' Association, Manchester, Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the, 190
Steam Users, " Facts" for, 249
Steam Yacht " Emirghian," Trial of the, 151
Steamboats, American River, 37, 77
Steamship " Chusan," Board of Trade Report . on the Loss of the, 289
Steamship "Mary," Board of Trade Report on the Loss of the, 460, 482
Steamship "Propontis," Particulars of the First Voyage of the, 129
Steamships, Results of Trial Trips with, 323, 361

STEEL AND IRON INSTITUTE, THE: 184, 195
Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, by A. L. Steavenson, 176
On Valves Suitable for Working Hydraulic Machinery, by R. Luthy, 177
On a New Form of Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, by T. Wrightson, 177
On the Geology of the North Lancashire and Cumberland Iron Ore Districts, by P. Wurzburger, 179
On the Iron Ores of Sweden, by C. Smith, 188
On the Rampside Boring, near Barrow, by A. Brogden, 192
Description of the Latest Improvements in Appliances for the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel, by B. Walker, 209
On Setting Bessemer Converter Bottoms, by A. L. Holley, '211
On Crampton's Revolving Furnace and its Products, by T. R. Crampton, 211
On American Rolling Mills, by A. L. Holley, 213

Steel and Iron Works, The Barrow Hematite, 228
Steel Production, American, 307
Steering Gear for the Channel Steamer " Castalia." By Brotherhood and Hardingham, London, 394
Stephenson's Bridge over the River Wanganui, New Zealand, 237
Stevens, The Messrs., of Hoboken, as Engineers, Naval Architects, and Philanthropists, 426
Stone Breakers, Marsden's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, '21
Stoppages in Ascension Pipes, 96
Strainers, Pulp, for Paper Manufacture, 403 Strains on Beams, 192
Strength of Materials, On the, 312
Strength of Phosphor-Bronze, Experiments on the, 414
Storage and Supply of Water, The, 284
Stud-End and Bolt Cutter. By J. Nelson, Sunderland, 352
Sturgeon's High-Speed Air Compressor. By Clayton, Son, and Howlett, London, 320
Submarine Wires, Decrease in the Manufacture of, 248
Sugar and Chemicals, Filter Presses for. By A. L. G. Dehne Halle-on-the-Saale, 890
Sugar Pans, Evaporating, Halpin and Alliott's. By Manlove, Alliott, and Company, Nottingham, 357
Supply, The City Gas, and the Corporation, 269
Supply of Gas and the Metropolitan Board of Works, 163
Supply and Storage of Water, 284
Supply of Water, 80
Suspended Saloon Ship, The "Bessemer," 267, 288, 476
Swedish Marine Engines, 130
Swedish Ordnance, 166
Swing Bridge, The Victoria, Leith. By A. D.I. Rendel and G. Robertson, 433 •
Sydney Harbour, Proposed Extension of, 387
System, The Fairlie, 142
System of Part-Rifling, The, 246

Table of the Annual Duty of Pumping Engines, 499
Table of Awards at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 60
Table of Experiments on a Beam Engine with and without Steam Jackets, 305
Table of Indian State Railways, Projected and in Course of Construction, 62
Table of the Number and Weight of Vehicles for Passenger Traffic on the Midland Railway, 382
Table of Particulars of Vans for Men Engaged in Steam Cultivation, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 41
Table of Pressures, Temperatures, and Volumes of Compressed Air and Permanent Gases, 17
Table of Results of Experiments on Shearing Strains of Iron bolt s, 312
Table Showing Cost of British Guns, 303
Table of Trials of H.M.S. " Audacious," 381
Table of Trials of H.M.S. "Himalaya," 479
Table of Trials of H.M.S. " Raleigh," 248
Table of Trials of our Indian Troopships, 486
Table of Weights, Charges, U., of English, Russian, and French Guns, 430
Tables of Cost, Expenditure, and Extent of Indian Railways, 314
Tables of Experiments on Safety Valves, 416, 447
Tables of Quantities and Weights of Materials for Constructing Bridges, 330
Tables Showing the Results of Trials of Wagons and Carts, at the Royal Agricultural Show at Bedford, 33, 39, 57
Tabulated Details of the Trials of H.M.S. " Jumna," 9/, 133
Tabulated Details of the Trial of Her Majesty's Yacht " Osborne," 7J
Tank Locomotive far the Indian State Railways (Metre Gauge). By Dubs and Company, Glasgow, 85
Tank Locomotive for the 2-ft. Gauge. By Black, Hawthorn, and Company, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 220
Tanks, Gasholder, in Concrete, 36
Tar Pumps, 114
Technical Education, 255, 280, 420

TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF:
On Faults in Submarine Telegraph Cables, by J. J. Fahie, 404
On Earth Borers for Telegraph Pules, by J Gavey, 418
The Society's Soiree, 459
Annual General Meeting, 480

Telegraph System, The Prussian, 422
Telegraphic and Postal Service for 1873, 385
Telegraphs, Atlantic, 164
Telegraphs, The Extension of, 248
Testing the Strength of Boilers, 232
Testing Water, 373
Textile Manufactures; Mr. Cross's Bill for the Regulation of, 11
Thames, The River, Present Condition of, 125
Thermo-Electric Generator, A, 477
Thermometers Sensitive, 13
Thermometers, Solar Radiation, 91, 315
Thorpe Collision, The, 225, 248, 268, 328,
Thrashing Machine Drums, Guard for. By Garrett and Sons, Leiston, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 73
Thrashing Machines, Apparatus for Feeding. By Ruston, Proctor, and Company, Lincoln, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 57
Thrashing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 49.
Thrashing Machines at the Smithfield Show, 453
Thrashing Machines, Special Prize for Feeding, 80
Three-Cylinder Engine. By P. W. Willans, Greenwich, '221
Three-Horse Portable Engine, at the Smithfield Show, 456
Thurston, Professor R. H., on the Properties of Air, 16
Thwaites's Single-Action Steam Hammer, 153
Times, The, on Steam Cultivation, 94
Tin Plate Works, The Landore, 123
Tomline's Observatory at Orwell Park, 257
Tools, Power for Driving, 838, 431, 495
Torpedo Experiments, 126, 165, 269, 384, 439
Towage, Chain, on the River St. Lawrence, 221
Towage, Wire-Rope, 239
Traction Engines and Steam Ploughing Machinery, at the Smithfield Show, 451
Traction and Steam Ploughing Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 42
Trains, Epicyclic, 449
Trains, Lighting Railway, 363
Tramway, Wire, at Iron Mines, near Aalsund, Norway. By W. T. H. Carrington, 309
Transmission, Pneumatic, 298, 315, 858, 391, 442
Trial of Her Majesty's Yacht " Osborne," 79
Trial of the Screw Steamship, " Ferdinand Vandertaelen," 250
Trial of the Steam Yacht "Emirghian," 151
Trial Trips, 323, 861 . Trials of Atmospheric and Vacuum Brakes, 274
Trials of H.M.S. "Audacious," 383
Trials of H.M.S. "Himalaya," 479
Trials of H.M.S. " Jumna," 97, 135
Trials of H.M.S. "Raleigh," 247
Trials of Wagons and Carts at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 39
Troopships, Our Indian, 485
Turnip Thinners, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 45
Turntables for Draw-Spans, 407, 448
Turnwrest Plough, The Now, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 93
Tweddell's Hydraulic Rivetter, 93
Twin-Steamer "Castalia's," Steering Gear for the. By Brotherhood and Hardingham, London, 394
Two-Foot Gauge, Tank Locomotive for the. By Black, Hawthorn, and Company, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 220
Tyler, Captain's, Report on the Thorpe Collision, 328

Upright Arched Bridges, 285, 291, 330, 349
United States Cable, The Direct, 268, 304, 866
Universal Disinfector, The, 352
Unseaworthy Ships' Commission, The, 29, 145
Users of Steam, " Facts" for, 249
Usual Causes of Fires, 11, 62, 149, 261
Utilisation of Sewage, The, 189
Utilisation of Silk Waste, The, 6, 100

Vacuum and Atmospheric Brakes, Comparative Trials of, 274
" Valparaiso" and " Almirante Cochrane," The Chilian Armour-Clads, 490
Valve, High-Pressure. By T. H. P. Dennis anti Company, Chelmsford, 84
Valves, Hydraulic, 177
Valves, Safety, Report on, Presented to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 445, 463
Variable Expansion Gear, Head's Vertical Engine with. By Alexander and Son, Cirencester, 4
Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Engine with. By De Negri and Hermann, London, 439
Vans for Men Engaged in Steam Cultivation, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 39
Vavasseur's 7-in. Muzzle-Loading Gun, and Carriage. By the London Ordnance Works, Southwark, 103
Ventilating Indian Railway Carriages, 173, 238, 333, 371
Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, Improvement in the, 89
Ventilation in Public Buildings, 207
Vertical Blowing Engine. By H. G. Morris, Philadelphia, 28
Vertical Boiler. By Robey and Company, Lincoln, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 34
Vertical Engine, The " Britannia," with Variable Expansion Gear. By Grover and Company, London, 373
Vertical Engine with Head's Variable Expansion Gear. By Alexander and Son, Cirencester, 4
Vice with Adjustable Jaws, 448
Vice, Hall's Lever, 5
Victoria Swing Bridge, Leith, The. By A. M. Mendel and G. Robertson, 433
Vienna, The Yarn Congress at, 295
Villages, Our; their Sanitary Reform, 367, 388
Voyage of the Steamship " Propontis," Particulars of the, 129

Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, A New Form of, 177
Wagons and Carts at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 23
Wagons and Carts, Trials of, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 39
Wallachian Railways, 9
Wallis's Three-Horse Portable Engine at the Smithfield Show, 456
Wanganui Bridge, New Zealand. By G. R. Stephenson, 287
War Office Report on Rifled Guns, 303
Waste Silk, The Utilisation of, 6, 100
Water Pipes, Leaden, 401 . Water Supply, 30
Water Supply and Storage, 284
Water 'resting, 373
Water Waste Preventer. By T. H. P. Dennis and Co, Chelmsford, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 57
Water Works, The Nagpur, 378

WEAVING;
VIII. Twilled Fabrics, 110
IX Shedding, 217
X. Weaving without the Aid of Automatic Machines, 271
XI. Diaper Weaving, 297
XII. XIII. Damask Weaving, 337, 374
XI V. Jacquard Apparatus — Introduction, 425
XV. The Jacquard Loom, 467 Weichum's Method of Mounting Crane Jibs, 167

West Cumberland Hematite Iron Works, The, 200
West of Scotland Coal and Iron Trades, The, 302
Westphalia and Rhenish Railways; their Effects on Cologne Industries, 365, 376, 421
Wheel - Dividing and Automatic Gear - Cutting Machine. By W. Sellers and Company, Philadelphia, 281
Wheels, Emery, 404
Wheels, Keys for Fastening, 326
White's Steam Yacht " Emirghian," Trial of, 151
Whitehead's Brick Press, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bedford, 64
Whitney's Band-Saw, with Compensating Bearings, 170
Whitney's Cylindrical Saws for Cutting Barrel Staves, 318
Willan's Three-Cylinder Engine, 221
Wimshurst's Petition to Parliament respecting. the Screw Propeller, 75
Winding Engine, Portable, 157
Winding Engine, Semi-Portable. By J. Fowler and Company, Leeds, 424
Winding Engines, Pneumatic Counterbalance for. By O. T. Owen, Chesterfield, 233
Wire-Rope Towage, 239
Wire Tramway at Iron Mines, near Aalsund, Norway. By W. T. H. Carrington, 309
Woodall, C., on Gasholders, 18
Woolwich Arsenal, The 81-ton Gun at, 429
Working very Heavy Guns, 235
Working of Indian Railways, 344
Working a Single Line of Railway, 268
Works, The Barrow Shipbuilding, 237
Works, Bessemer, The Number of, in America, 10
Works, Iron, for the King of Burmah, 471, 489
Workshop Machinery, Hydraulic Power Applied to, 118
Wreck of the " Chusan" and " Mary" 862, 392, 460, 482

Yarn Congress, The, at Vienna., 295
Yarrow's Steam Launch, 201
Ynysowen Colliery, Nixon's, 121
Yorkshire Agricultural Show, The, 104

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