Engineering 1875 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1875 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

ACCIDENT, The, at the Dundee Graving Dock, 141
Acquaintance, Professional [The Parliamentary Solicitor], 88
Act, The Factory, Meeting of Commissioners at Glasgow, 235
Action of Brakes, The, 11
Action of Light, The Mechanical, 173, 221
Acts, The Alkali, 498
Adamson and Co's Works, 225
Address to the Mechanical Section of the British Association, by the President, W. Froude, 191, 215
Address of the President of the British Association, Sir J. Hawkshaw, 163, 189, 214
Admiral Popoff's Circular Ironclads, 343, ,356, 381, 399, 439
Admiralty Committee Report on the Perkins Engine and Boiler, 34
Admiralty Engineers, 31, 322, 326
Agricultural and Highland Society of Scotland, Show of the, 96

AGRICULTURAL SHOW, THE ROYAL, AT TAUNTON : 16, 21, 43
Combined Drum Guards and Feeders, 27, 82
Corn, and other Mills, Chaffcutters, &c., 52
Donkey Pump, 239
Haymaking Machines and Horse Rakes, 43
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 54
Mowing Machines, 21, 23
Ploughs, Horse Hoes, Harrows, &c., 61
Portable and Stationary Engines, 48
Prizes, 46
Self-Raker Reaper, 52
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines, 47
Steam Road Roller, 131
Thrashing Machine Drum Guards, 26, 82
Vertical Engines and Boilers, 50, 82

Air Bags for Raising Vessels, 345
Alexandra Docks, Newport, The, 232, 282, 317
Alkali Acts, The, 49S Alloa, Dock Extension at, 39
Ambulance Carriages, Railway. By the Waggonfabrik Ludwigshafen, 63
American Bessemer Practice, 363
American Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 at Philadelphia, The, 33, 67, 89, 108, 123, 128, 144, 156, 171, 178, 193, 244, 267, 290, 327, 392, 396, 480, 520
American Locomotive, An Early, 81
American Ordnance, 77
American Pig Iron, 82
American Railway, An Early, 310

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE:
On the Water Front of New York, by John D. Van Buren, 17, 39
On th.3 Wear of Rails, by A. L. Holley, 62
On the Construction of a Masonry Dam, by J. James Cross, 275, 242, 296, 333

American Tests of Iron and Steel, 36
Ancient and Modern Trieste, The Port of, 445, 483, 503, 523
Aneroid, The, its Construction, Principles, and Uses, 99, 372, 469
Angle-Irons, The Strength of, 482
Annual Meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 492
Anthracite Coke, 389, 431
Appleby's Permanent Way Locomotive Crane, 206
Appliances for the Treatment of Tank Offal, '231
Applications of the Gyroscope, 83
Arched-Ribs and Suspension Bridges, with their Auxiliaries, 351, 429, 487, 509
Archer's Stone-Breaking Machine, 475
Armoured and Unarmoured Ships; Parliamentary Debate on, 55
Artillery, Swedish, 168
Artillery, Woolwich and Krupp, 382
Artisans' Dwellings Act, The, 121

ASSOCIATION, THE :
167, 186, 208
Address to the Mechanical Section, by W. Froude, 191, 215
Address of the-President, 163, 189, 214
On the Avonmouth Docks, by James Brunlees, 222
On Handyside's Steep Gradient Locomotive, 189
On a Machine for Obtaining Motive Power from Wave Motion, by Beauchamp Tower. 387
On Portishead Docks, by F. C. Stileman, C.E., 179
On Railway Safety Appliances, by F. J. Bramwell, 178, 194, 248
On the Report of the British Association Rainfall Committee, by C. J. Symons, 179
On a Scheme of Water Supply for the Villages and Country Parishes of the Central and Eastern Counties of England, by Professor Hull, 315
On the Severn Tunnel, by Charles Richardson, 196
On the Sharpness Docks, by W. B. Clegram, 240
On Sir William Thomson’s Self-Registering Tide Gauge, 199
On the Steering of Screw Steamers, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, 179
On the Trials of Screw Steamships, by William Denny, 311
On Vertical Motion of Vessels, by John I. Thornycroft, 258

Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, The, 57
Atlas Forge Works, The, 228
Aveling and Porter's Steam Road Roller, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 131
Avonmouth Docks, The, 222
Avenue Bridge, The Girard, Philadelphia. By Clarke, Reeves, and Company, Philadelphia, 379, 394
Axles, Steel v. Iron, 85

Ballast, Travelling Stone Breaker for Preparing. By H. R. Marsden, Leeds, 9
Bamboo Paper, 481
Band Saw for Heavy Timber. By Allen Ransome and Company, Chelsea, 516
Bankruptcy, The Strousberg, 414
Barlow's Rock Drill, 294
Barraclough's Reed-making Machine, 406
Bauer, Wilhelm, 96
Beams, Girders, and Columns, Iron, Am3rican, 'rests for, 334
Bede and Company's Double Roving Machine, 103
Beer's Hauling Engine at the Hazard Collieries, Belgium, 432
Beesley's Punching and Shearing Machine, 246
Bell, Leech's Signal, for Mines, 333
Bessemer Practice, American, 363
Bicheroux's Gas Furnace, 495
Bill, The Now Merchant Shipping. 92
Bill, The Patent: In Memoriam, 97
Bill to Prevent the Pollution of Rivera, 13
Bill for the Registration of Trade Marks, 12, 118, 290, 420, 518
Blake's Direct-Acting Steam Pump, 37
Blake's Steam Pump for Hydraulic Presses, 511
Blast Furnace, Caustic Lime in the, 203, 223
Blast Furnace Hearths, 202, 224
Block, Moore's Pulley, 230
Blowing Engines, Vertical. 340
Board, The Local Government and Sanitation, 254
Board of Trade, The, and Merchant Shipping, 233
Boiler and Engine, Vertical. By the Sachsische Dampfschiffs and Maschinenbau Anstalt, Dresden 522
Boiler Explosion at Haslingden; Mr. Fletcher's Report on, 485
Boiler Explosion at Wolverhampton, 81
Boiler Explosions, 478
Boiler Explosions on Shipboard, 292
Boiler Explosions; Memorial to the Home Secretary, 15
Boiler, The Howard, 209
Boiler, Mouchot's Solar, 512
Boilers, The Corrosion of, 426
Bolton, Excursion to; Bolton Iron and Steel Works, 227
Bolts, Tilp's Locking, between Engine and Tenders. 94
Bombay Docks, 397
Boring Bars, 367, 386
Boring Machine, Horizontal. By R. Fernau and Company, Vienna. 158
Boring Machine, Horizontal, for Reversing Shaft Arms. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Manchester, 417
Boring Tool Holders, 425
Boring Tools for Lathe Work, 425
Braces, Ratchet, King's Vacuum Support for, 247
Brake, The Westinghouse Vacuum, 31
Brakes, The Action of, 11
Brassey, Mr., and the Navy. 459
Breakwater, The Manors, 380
Brick-kiln, Bull's Semi-Continuous, 321
Brickmaking Machinery, Durand's, 268
bridge, The Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, 379, 394
Bridge over the Hudson River at Troy, Now York, U.S.A., 5
Bridge. London, The Proposed Widening of, 251, 307, 345
Bridge, Railway, over the River Jumna, 162
Bridge, Railway, over the River Severn, 198
Bridge, Somerley, near Ringwood, Hants, 129
Bridge, The Tay, 289
Bridge, The Victoria, Brisbane, 496
Bridges, Suspension, and Arched Ribs, with their Auxiliaries, 851, 429, 481, 509
Brighton, The Sewerage of, 462
Brisbane, The Victoria Bridge at, 496
Bristol in 1875, 153

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE:
163, 167, 178, 179, 186, 189, 191, 194, 196, 199, 208, 214, 215, 222, 240, 248, 258, 311, 315, 387
British Association Rainfall Committee, Report of the, 179
British Association, The, and the Sewage Question, 208
British Iron Trade Association, Meeting of the, 500
British Medical Association at Edinburgh, Meeting of; Sanitary Progress, 145
Broughton Copper Works, The, 210
Brown's Tank Locomotive for Branch Railways, Switzerland, 111
Brussels Tramways, The, 379
Buildings, The Weight on Foundations of, 103
Bull's Semi-Continuous Brick-kiln, 321

Calculations, Contemporaneous, 441
Calico Printing Machine, Mather and Platt's, 123 Californian Mint, The, 132
Canal, New Ship, for St. Petersburg. 246
Captain Cunningham's Hydraulic Experiments, 517
Captain Tyler's Report on the Railways of the United Kingdom, 384
Carriages, Railway Ambulance. By the Waggonfabrik, Ludwigshafen, 63
Carriages, Two-Story, for Swiss Railway Lines, 154, 396
Carrington's Machines for Testing Wire, 303
Casting Steel Ingots, Hackney's Method of, 181
Centennial International Exhibition of 1878, at Philadelphia, The, 33, 67, 89, 108, 123, 128, 144, 156, 171, 178, 193,241, 267, 293, 327, 392, 396, 480, •520
Centrifugal Pumping Engine, Lawrence and Porter's, 122
Chaff-Cutters, Corn, and other Mills, &c., at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 52
Chatterley Iron Company's Works, The, 229
Church Roof for the Republic of Costa Rica, 213
" Circle" Trials; Steam Trials of Her Majesty's Ships, 383
Circular Floating Forts, 380
Circular Ironclad at Sea : Letter from E. J. Reed, 356
Circular Ironclads, The Russian, 343, 356, 381, 399, 439
Circular Shaping Machine. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Openshaw, near Manchester, 141 City of Bristol in 1875, 153
City and Metropolitan Gas Question, The, 31, 151, 290, 326, 440, 479
Civil Engineers, The Institution of (See Institution of Civil Engineers)
Classed and Unclassed Ships, The Times on, 100
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Shunting Engine, 285 Cleansing and Paving, Street, 137

CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, THE:

On the Introduction of Vertical Blowing Engines into Cleveland, by John Gjers, 340

CLEVELAND IRON TRADE FOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION:

On the Corrosion of Boilers when Working in Connexion with Surface Condensers, 426

Cleveland, Notes from, 10, 3), 59, 76, 92, 121, 132, 149, 173, 183, 206, 237, 256, 268, 293 312, 332, 341, 365, 385, 406, 418, 435, 453, 4;6, 493, 522
Clock Escapement, Lange's, 182
Cloth-Shearing Machines. By H. Thomas, Berlin, 83

CLUB SHOW, SMITHFIELD, THE: 455
Implements, 456
Portable and Fixed Engines, 455
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines, 455

Clutch Coupling, Johnson's, 247
Coalfield, North Staffordshire, 225, 427, 431, 465, 484
Coal at the Hazard Mine, The Haulage of, 58, 432
Coal and Iron Company, The Stafford, Shakings of, '229
Coal, Labour, and Railways, 356
Coal-Cutting Machinery, Payton and Holmes', 858
Coal-Tipping Apparatus at the Alexandra Docks, Newport, 317
Coke, Anthracite, 389, 431
Colleges, The Place of, in Engineering Training, 284, 315
Collieries, The Hazard, Belgium, Hauling Engine at, 432
Combined Drum Guard and Feeder, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 27, 82
Combined Hand and Slide Lathe, Low's, 282
Commission on Engineers in the Navy, 322, 326
Commission, The Factory Act, 235
Commission, Rivers Pollution, Report of the, 400
Commission on the Sanitary Condition of Dewsbury, 440
Commissioners of Patents' Report for 1874, 167
Committee of the House of Commons, The, on the Metropolitan Gas Supply, 31, 151
Committee on the Telegraph Service, Report of the, 117, 135
Company, The Edgar Thomson Steel, U.S.A., 147
Company, the Native Guano, 234
Companies, The Metropolitan Gas, 31, 151, 290, 826, 440, 479
Compass and Fogs, The, 188
Competition for the Whitworth Scholarships, 1875, List of Successful Candidates, 118
Compound Engine for Spinning Mills. By J. and T. Dale, Kirkcaldy, 282
Compound Engines (Contemporaneous Calculations], 441
Compressed Steel, 107, 279
Condensing Engine, Horizontal. By Holborow and Company, Stroud, 375
Condensation, Surface, 449
Cone Plate for Boring in the Lathe, 475
Congress, The Geographical, 346, 352, 373, 403
Consolidated Coal, 118
Construction of a Masonry Dam, New York, 175, 242, '296, 333
Construction, Principles, and Uses of the Aneroid, 99, 372, 489
Contemporaneous Calculations, 411
Conversazione of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 498
Converted Rodman Gun, The, 97
Cooke's Punkah for Cooling Railway Carriages on the Oude and Rohilkund Railway, 95
Copper Works, The Broughton, 210
Corn and other Mills, Chaff-Cutters, &c., at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 52
Correy's Variable Expansion Gear, 354
Corrosion of Boilers, The, 426
Corrosion of Iron in Railway Bridges, The Rapid, 101
Corrosion of Metals, The, 232
Cotton Preparing Machinery. By J. Rioter and Company, Winterthur, 198
Countersink Drills, 142
Coupling, Johnson's, Clutch, 247
Coupling for Railway Carriages, Sterne's, 482
Coxhead's Hydraulic Gear for Water-tight Doors, 102
Crampton's Revolving Furnace, 186
Crane, Permanent Way. By Appleby Brothers Southwark, 206
Crane, Seventy-Ton Steam. By J. Taylor and Company, Birkenhead, 182
Crowns, Locomotive Firebox, 171
Cultivation, Steam, in Sutherlandshire, 453
Curtis, Sons, and Company's Works, 211 Cutters, 294

Dale's Compound Mill Engine, 232
Dam, Masonry, New York, Construction of a, 175, 212, 296, 833
Darlington, The Railway Jubilee at, 253, 261
Davey's Hydraulic Pumping Engine, 247
Davey, Paxman, and Company's Vertical Engine and Boiler, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 82
Debate, The Late Naval, 55
Decay of Telegraph Posts, The, 151
Deep-Sea Sounding by Pianoforte Wire, 41
Delahante's Steam Launch and Engines for Deep Sea Fishing, 95
Deposits of Saltpetre, The Peru, 848, 388
Derbyshire and Chesterfield Engineers' Institute, The, 62, 85
Detent for Indicators, Darke's, 474
" Deutschland," The Loss of the, 477
"Devastation," H.M.S., Engines of, 274
Devon and Somerset Railway, Viaducts on the, 512
Dewsbury Sewerage, 440
Diffusion of Hydro-Carbons in Coal Gas, The, 84
Direct-Acting Steam Pump, Blake's, 37
Direct-Acting Steam Pump. By J. Pickering, Stockton-on-Tees, 366
Direct-Acting Steam Pump, Walker's, 54
Dock Extension at Alloa, 39
Docks, The Alexandra, Newport, 232, 282, 317
Docks, The Avonmouth, 222
Docks, Bombay, 397
Docks, Portishead, 179
Docks, The Sharpness, 240
Domes, Steam, 290, 292
Donkey Pump. By Hayward Tyler and Company, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 239
Double Lathe. By Kendall and Gent, Manchester, 188
Double Roving Machine. By Bede and Company, Verviers, Belgium, 108
Double-Shaping Machine. By R. Fernau and Company, Vienna, 212
Dover Harbour, 78
Drainage, Land, 344
Drainage of the Upper Thames Districts, 362
Drifts and Reverse Keys, 523
Drill, Barlow's Rock, 294
Drilling Hard Metals, 141
Drilling in the Lathe, '289
Drills and Drilling, 126, 141, 239, 294. 867, 868, 4'25 Flat Drills, 126.—Twist Drills, 126.—Feeding Drills, 126. — Drilling Hard Metals, 141.— Slotting. or Keyway Drills, 141.—Pin Drills, 142—Countersink Drills, 142.— Drilling in the Lathe, 239.—Half-Round Bits, M.—Cutters, 294. —Reamers, 295, 367.— Boring Bars, 367, 886.—Tools and Boring Bars, 386.—Small Boring Bars, 386.—Boring Tool Holders, 425.—Boring Tools for Lathe Work, 425
Driving Gear, Millstone. By A. J. Was, 829
Drop-Box Loom. By C. Honegger, Ruti, Switzerland, 301
Drop-Box Loom. By Socin and Wick, Basle, Switzerland, 260
Drum Guards, Thrashing Machine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 26, 82
Dundee Graving Dock, The Accident at, 141
Durand's Brickmaking Machinery, 268
Dwelling Act, The Artisans', 121
Dynamo-Electric Machine, Tinley's, 398

Early American Locomotive, An, 81
Early American Railway, An, 810
Earthworks and Permanent Way of Swiss Narrow Gauge Railways, 70
East London Railway, The, 467
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, U.S.A., The,14I
Efficiency of Screws, The Relative Propelling, 156, 295, 868, 407, 525
Egypt, The Resources of, 361
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, Bristol in, 158
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, Sanitary Summary for, 518
Eighty-One Ton Gun, Trials of the, 252, 267, 479
Electric Machine, Tisley's Dynamo, 898
Electrical Speed Recorder. By W. Groves, London, 115
Electrical Registration, 67
Elevated Railroad, The New York, 81
Elevator, Pneumatic Grain, 88
Elliott's Detent for Indicators, 474
Emery Grinding, 2
Emery Wheel Lathe Attachment, Handyside's, 328
Engine and Boiler, The Perkins, Admiralty Committee Report on, 34
Engine and Boiler, Vertical. By the Sachsische Dampfschiffs und Machinenbau Anstalt, Dresden, 522
Engine, Centrifugal Pumping, Lawrence and Porter's, 122
Engine, Compound, for Spinning Mills. By and T. Dale, Kirkcaldy, 282
Engine, Davey's Hydraulic Pumping, 247
Engine, Gas, Otto and Langen's, 514
Engine, Horizontal, with Variable Expansion Gear. By Allen Ransome and Company, Chelsea, 469
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, By Holborow and Company, Stroud, 375
Engine, Marine, of the Future, The, 421
Engine Performances, Steam, 251
Engine, Shunting. By Clayton and Shuttleworth, Lincoln, 285
Engine, Six-Cylinder. By West and Company, London, 30, 138
Engine Test, Notes on an, 505
Engine. Traction. By Robey and Company, at the Smithfield Show, 471
Engine, Vertical. By Taylor and Challen, Birmingham, 431
Engineer, The, on Marine Engines for Ships of War, 421, 441
Engineering Physics, 326
Engineering Training, The Place of Colleges in, 284, 315

ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL:
On the Water Front of New York, by John D. Van Buren, 17, 39
On the Wear of Rails, by A . L. Holley, 62
On the Construction of a Masonry Dam, by J. James Croes,_175, 242, 296, 333

ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF:
On the Introduction of Vertical Blowing Engines into Cleveland, by John Gjers, 340
Engineers' Institute, The Chesterfield and Derbyshire, 62, 85

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL;
Premiums and Prizes Awarded, 36
On the Manora Breakwater, Kurrachee, by William Henry Price, 3S0
On the Pneumatic Transmission of Telegrams, by R. S. Culley, 397
On Experiments on the Movement of Air in Pneumatic Tubes, by M. Charles Bontemps, 414
On the Brighton Intercepting and Outfall Sewers, by J. G. Gamble, 462
Annual Meeting, 492

Engineers in the Navy, 31, 322, 326
Engineer s, Naval, The Times on, 322
Engineers, Society of Telegraph, Conversazione of the, 498
Engineers and Surveyors, Municipal and Sanitary, The Association of, 57
Engines, Compound [Contemporaneous Calculations), 441
Engines, Fixed and Portable, at the Smithfield Show, 455
Engines, Hauling, at the Hazard Collieries, Belgium, 58, 432
Engines of H.M.S. " Devastation," 274
Engines, Pumping, 460
Engines, Pumping, Steam Economy in, 371, 409
Engines and Tenders, Tilp's Locking Bolts between, 94
Engines, Quadruple, '208, 218, 251, 437
England at Philadelphia, 460
England, The Water Supply of, 56
Escapement Lange's Clock, 182
Exhibition, The Centennial International of 1876, at Philadelphia, 33, 67, 89, 108, 123, 128, 144, 156, 171, 178, 193, 244, 267, 290, 327, 392, 396, 480, 520
Exhibition, Geographical, in the Palace of the Tuileries; Geographical Congress, 346, 352, 373, 403
Exhibition, The Leeds, 37
Exhibition of Locomotives at Darlington, The 264
Exhibition, The Manchester Mechanical and Industrial, 113, 172
Exhibits, Miscellaneous, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 54
Expansion Gear, Correy's Variable, 354
Expansion Link, Kernaul's, 258
Experiments, Hydraulic, 517
Explosion, Boiler, at Haslingden; Mr. Fletcher's Report, 485
Explosion, Boiler, at Wolverhampton, 81
Explosions, Boiler, 478
Explosions, Boiler; Memorial to the Home Secretary, 15
Explosions, Boiler, on Shipboard, 292
Extension of Docks at Alloa„ 39
Extinguishing Fires at Sea, Thompson's Apparatus for, 359

Factory Act Commission, The, 235
Fairlie Locomotives for New Zealand, 458
Fast Torpedo Launches, 236
Feed Pipes; Mr. Fletcher's Report to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 36
Feeder and Drum Guard, Combined, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 27, 82
Feeding Drills, 126
Fernau and Co.'s Double-Shaping Machine, 212
Fernau and Co.'s Horizontal Boring Machine, 158
Ferry, The Thames Steam, 309
Field Instrument, Universal, Jahns', 155
Finishing and Thrashing Machine, Wallis and Steevens', 474
Fire Engine and Pump, Ship's. By J. Stone and Company, Deptford, 496
Firebox Crowns, Locomotive, 171
Firebrick, Practical Tests of, 447
Fireclay and other Refractory Materials, 225, 240, 241, 431
Fires at Sea, Thompson's Apparatus for Extinguishing, 359
Fishing Launch, Steam. By. M. G. Delahante, Bordeaux, 95
Fittings for Line Shafts, 87
Flanged Pulleys, 416
Flat Drills, 126
Fletcher's Heavy Tank Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway, 58
Fletcher's Reports to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 36, 485
Flintsch's Paper-Colouring Machinery, 353
Flow of Water in Rivers [Hydraulic Experiments], 517
Fogs and the Compass, 188
Forts, Circular Floating, 380
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 16, 63, 85, 106, 122, 133, 149, 176, 183, 257, 274, 298, 331, 390, 408, 424, 448, 486, 496, 524
Foundations of Buildings, the Weight on, 103
Four-Coupled Locomotive for the, Highland Railway, 71
Four-Coupled Locomotive for the Western Rails% ay of France. Designed by M. Ernest Meyer, 341, 359
Fowler's Steam Ploughs in Sutherlandshire, 453
French Electrical Registration, 67
French Steam Navigation, 136
Friction of Screws, The, 78
Froude's Address to the British Association, 191, 215
Fuel; Consolidated Coal, 118
Furnace, Crampton's Revolving, 186
Furnace, Gas, Bicheroux's, 496
Furnace Hearths. Blast, 202, 224
Furnace, Price's Patent Retort, 225, 287, 430
Future Sanitary Legislation, 325

Galloway, W. and J., and Company's Works, at Ardwick, 225
Gas Engine, Otto and Langen's, 514
Gas Furnace, Bicheroux's, 495

GAS MANAGERS, WEST OF SCOTLAND ASSOCIATION OF:
On the Diffusion of Hydro-Carbons in Coal Gas, by William Young, 84

Gas Question, The City and Metropolitan, 31, 98, 151, 290, 326, 440, 479
Gas and Rivers Pollution Bills, The Metropolitan, 98
Gases from Rendering Tanks and Tank Offal, The Treatment of, 231
Gases, Sewer, and Sewerage, 77
Gauge, Office Water, Nicholas's, 379
Gauge, Tide, Sir William Thomson's Self-Registering, 199
Geographical Congress, The, 346, 352, 373, 403
German Iron, 405
German Mining and Iron Industries, 3, 145, 330, 473
Girard Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia, The, 379, 394
Girders, Beams, and Columns, Iron, American Tests for, 334
Glas's Millstone Driving Gear, 329
Gold-Mining in Japan, 168
Gothard Tunnel, The St., 2, 335 , 491
Government Board, Loca.1 Report of the, 420
Grain Elevator, Pneumatic, 83
Graving Dock, Dundee, The Accident at, 141
Grinding. Emery, 2
Groves' Electrical Speed Recorder, 115
Guano Company, The Native, 234
" Guide, The Mechanic's," 423
Gun, The Converted Rodman, 97
Gun, the 81-Ton, Trials of, 252, 267, 479
Guns, American, 77
Guns, Swedish, 168
Guns, Woolwich and Krupp, 382
Gyroscope, Applications of the, 83

Hackney's Ingot Moulds for Steel, 224, 238
Hackney's Method of Casting Steel Ingots, 181
Half-Round Bits, 239
Hand and Slide Lathe, Low's Combined, 232
Hand Turning, 20, 86
Handyside's Emery Wheel Lathe Attachment, 328
Handyside's Steep Gradient Locomotive, 1s9
Harbour, the Dover, 78
Harrows, Ploughs, Horse Hoes, &c., at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 51
Haslingden, Boiler Explosion at; Mr. Fletcher's Report on, 485
Haulage of Coal at the Hazard Mine, The, 58, 43
Hawkshaw's, Mr. John, Address to the British Association, 163, 189, 214
Haymaking Machines and Horse Rakes, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 43
Heat, Latent, 308, 336
Heavy Tank Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway. Designed by E. Fletcher, 58
Heavy Timber, Band Saw for. By Allen Ransome and Company, Chelsea, 516
Hedges' Vertical Engine and Boiler, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 50
Hell Gate Improvement Works, New York, The, 245
H.M.S. "Devastation," Engines of, 274
H.M.S, "Pelican," The Perkins Machinery for, 32, 34
Her Majesty's Ships, Steam Trials of, 160, 234, 304, 383, 507
H.M.S. "Vanguard," The Loss of, 207, 269
Herbert's Circular Floating Forts, 880
Hey's Wheel-Moulding Machine, 303
Hicks, Hargreaves, and Company's Works, 228
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland's Show, 96
Holborow's Horizontal Condensing Engine, 375
Home Telegraph Service, Report of the Committee on the, 117, 135
Honegger's Drop-Box Loom, 301
Hope, Mr., and the Sewage Question, 308
Horizontal Boring Machine. By R. Fernau and Company, Vienna, 158
Horizontal Boring Machine for Reversing Shaft Arms. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Manchester, 417
Horizontal Condensing Engine. By Holborow and Company, Stroud, 375
Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear. By Allen Ransoms and Company, Chelsea, 469
Horse Rakes and Haymaking Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 43
Horse Hoes, Harrows, Ploughs, &c., at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 51
Hot Water Heating Apparatus. By Wright and Turner, Keighley, 83
Howard Boiler, The, 209
Hudson River at Troy, New York, U.S.A., Bridge over the. By Alfred B. Boller, 5
Hyde Junction, Excursion to; D. Adamson and Company's Works, 225
Hydraulic Experiments, 517
Hydraulic Gear for Water-tight Doors, Cox-head's, 102
Hydraulic Presses, Blake's Steam Pump for, 511
Hydraulic Pumping Engine, Davey's, 247
Hydraulic Punching and Shearing Machine, Tweddell's, 58
Hydro-Carbons in Coal Gas, The Diffusion of, 84

Impact Pump. By R. E. Parsons, 131
Imperial Gas Company, Address of the Chairman at the Meeting of : Gas Question, 151
Implements at the Smithfield Show, 455
Improvement Works, The Hell Gate, New York, 245
In Memoriam : The Patent Bill, 97
Indian State Railways : Bridge over the River Jumna, 162
Indicators, Detent for, Darke's, 474
Indicators, Revolution, 159, 259
Industrial and Mechanical Exhibition, The Manchester, 113, 172
Infernal Machines Modern, 512
Ingot Moulds for Steel, 224, 238

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE :

Premiums and Prizes Awarded, 36
On the Manors. Breakwater, Kurrachee, by William Henry Price, 380
On the Pneumatic Transmission of Telegrams, by R. S. Culley, 397
On Experiments on the Movement of Air in Pneumatic Tubes, by M. Charles Bontemps, 414
On the Brighton Intercepting and Outfall Sewers, by J. G. Gamble, 462
Annual Meeting, 492

Institution of Naval Architects, The, 454
Instruction, Scientific, Report of the Commission on, 152
International Exhibition of 1876, The Centennial, at Philadelphia, 33, 67, 89, 108, 123, 128, 144, 156, 171, 178, 193, 244, 267, 290, 827, 892, 396, 480, 520
International Patent Laws, 198
Inventors, Notes for the Guidance of; Patents, 243, 271, 299, 318, 364, 410
Iron, American Pig, 82
Iron Beams, Girders, and Columns, American Tests for, 334
Iron, German, 405
Iron Industries and German Mining, 3, 145, 380, 473
Iron in Railway Bridges, The Rapid Corrosion of, 101
Iron and Steel, American Tests of, 8, 86, 834
Iron v. Steel Axles, 85

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE: 208, 223, 422, 430

Atlas Forge Works, 228
Broughton Copper Works, 210
Chatterley Iron Company's Works, 229
Curtis, Sons, and Company's Works, 211
Excursion to Hyde Junction; Adamson and Company's Works, 225
Excursion to Oldham; Platt's Works, 227
Excursion to Bolton; The Bolton Iron and Steel Works, 227
Hicks, Hargreaves, and Company's Works, 228
Howard Boiler, The, 209
Johnson and Nephew's Wire Works, 225
London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, 228
Lord Granville's Iron Works, Etruria, 229
Minton and Company's Porcelain Works, 229
Note on the Manufacture of Anthracite Coke in South Wales, by NV. Hackney, 389, 481.
On the Designing of Ingot Moulds for Steel Rail Ingots, by William Hackney, 224, 238
On Fireclay and other Refractory Materials, by George J. Snelus, 225, 240, 241, 431
On Further Improvements in Blast Furnace Hearths, by Charles Wood, 202, 224
On High Pressure Steam generally, and its Application to Quadruple Engines, by Daniel Adamson, 208, 218, 251, 437
On the North Staffordshire Coalfield with the Ironstones contained therein, by Charles J. Homer, 225, 427, 431, 465, 484
On Price's Patent Retort Furnace, by I. Lowthian Bell. 225, 287, 430
On the Strength of Rail Joints, by C. P. Sandberg, 431, 439, 444
On the Use of Caustic Lime in Blast Furnaces, by I. Lowthian Bell, 203, 223
Ravensdale Iron Works, 229
Sinkings of the Stafford Coal and Iron Company, 229
Sir Joseph Whitworth's Works, 225
Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Works, 211 Tabulated Analyses of Refractory Materials, 241
W. and J. Galloway and Company's Works at Ardwick, 225

Iron and Steel Works, The Bolton, 227
Iron Trade Association, British, Meeting of the, 500
Ironclad, A Circular, at Sea; Letter from E. J. Reed, 356
Ironclads, The Russian Circular, 313, 356, 381, 399, 439
Iron Works, The Chatterley, 229
Iron Works, Lord Granville's, 229
Iron Works, The Ravensdale, 229
Irons, Angle, The Strength of, 482

Jahns' Universal Field Instrument, 155
James' Tin Box Making Machinery, 182
Japan, Gold Mining in, 168
Japan, Metallurgy in, 63
Johnson's Clutch Coupling, 247
Johnson and Nephew's Wire Works, 225
Joints, Rail, The Strength of, 431, 439, 444

JUBILEE, THE RAILWAY, AT DARLINGTON : 253

Exhibition of Locomotives, 264
First Wagons and Permanent Way, 261
" Jubilee of Railways," '264
Origin and Progress of Steam Locomotion, 260
Statistical Aspects of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 264
Tables giving Particulars of Locomotives, 2';2, 273

Juana, River, Railway Bridge across the, 162

Keys, Reverse, and Drifts, 523
Ken call and Gent's Double Lathe, 188
Kernaul's Expansion Link, 258
Kiln, Brick, Bull's Semi-Continuous, 321
King's Vacuum Support for Ratchet Braces, 247
Krupp and Woolwich Guns, 382

Lathe, Cone Plate for Coring in the, 475
Labour, Coal, and Railways, 356
Land Drainage, 344
Lange's Clock Escapement, 182
Large v. Small Ships of War, 419
Latent Heat, 308, 336
Lathe Attachment, Emery Wheel, Handyside's, 328
Lathe,88 Double. By Kendall and Gent, Manchester, 1
Lathe, Low's Combined Hand and Slide, 232
Launch, Steam Fishing. By M. G. Delahante, Bordeaux, 95
Launches, Fast Torpedo, 236
Law of Patents, British and Foreign, 243, 271, 299, 318, 364, 410
Lawrence and Porter's Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 122
Laws, International Patent, 198
Lecture, Introductory, at University College, by Professor A. B. W. Kennedy, 284, 315
Leech's Signal Bell for Mines, 333
Leeds Exhibition, The, 37
Leeds and the Sewage Question, 55
Letters of Mr. Brassey on the Navy, 459
Legislation, Future Sanitary, 325
Legislation, Shipping, 98
Lewin's Two-Horse Power Thrashing Machine, 102
Liernur's Sanitary Sewerage System, 177
Light, The Mechanical Action of, 173, '221
Lime, Caustic, in the Blast Furnace, 203, 223
Line Shafts, Fittings for, 87
Link, Kernaul's Expansion, 258
Liverpool Landing Stage, The, 125
Liverpool Water Supply, The, 269, 402
Local Government Board Report, The, 420
Local Government Board, The, and Sanitation, 254
Locking Bolt between Engines and Tenders. By E. Tilp, 94
Locomotive Crane, Permanent Way, By Appleby Brothers, Southwark, 206
Locomotive, An Early American, 81
Locomotive Firebox Crowns, 171
Locomotive, Four-Coupled, for the Highland Railway. Designed by D. Jones, 71
Locomotive, Four-Coupled, for the Western Railway of France. Designed by M. Ernest Meyer, 341, 359
Locomotive, Heavy Tank, for the North-Eastern Railway. Designed by E. Fletcher, 58
Locomotive, Passenger, for the Glasgow and South-Western Railway. Designed by J. Stirling, 201
Locomotive, Tank, for Branch Railways, Switzerland. Designed by C. Brown, 111
Locomotives, The Exhibition of, 264
Locomotives, Fairlie, for New Zealand, 458
London Bridge, The Proposed Widening of, 251, 307,345
London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, The, 228
London Railway, The East, 467
London Water Supply, The, 362
Loom, Honegger's Drop-Box, 301
Loom, Socin and Wick's, 260
Lord Granville's Iron Works, Etruria, 229
Loss of the " Deutschland," The, 477
Loss of H.M.S. " Vanguard," The, 207, 269
Low's Combined Hand and Slide Lathe, 232

McFarland Rotary Pump, The, 332
Machine, Archer's Stone-Breaking, 475
Machine, Calico Printing. By Mather and Platt, Manchester, 123
Machine, Double Roving. By Bede and Company, Verviers, B3lgium, 103
Machine, Double Shaping. By R. Fernau and Company, Vienna, 212
Machine, Heys' Wheel-Moulding, 303
Machine, Horizontal Boring. By R. Fernau and Company, Vienna, 158
Machine, Horizontal Boring, for Reversing Shaft Arms. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Manchester, 417
Machine, Plate-Shearing, with Revolving Cutters. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Openshaw, 171
Machine, Punching and Shearing, Beesley's, 246
Machine, Quartering, for Inside or Outside Cranks, Reid's, 328
Machine Reamers, 295, 367
Machine, Reed-making. By T. Barraclough, Manchester, 406
Machine, Shaw's Circular Shaping, 141
Machine, Stone-Breaking, with Wrought-Iron Frame. By H. R. Marsden, Leeds, 416
Machine, Thrashing and Finishing. By Wallis and Steevens, Basingstoke, 474
Machine, Thrashing, Two-Horse Power. By S. Lewin, Poole, 102
Machine, Tisley's Dynamo-Electric, 393
Machine Tools, Slotting, 465
Machine, Wool-Scouring. By J. Petrie, Jun., Rochdale, 424
Machinery, Coal-Cutting, Payton and Holmes', 353
Machinery, Cotton Preparing. By J. Rieter and Company, Winterthur, 198
Machinery, Durand's Brickmaking, 2G8
Machinery, Paper-Colouring. By F. Flint3ch, Offenbach-on-the-Maine, 353
Machinery, The Perkins, for H.M.S. " Pelican," 32, 34
Machinery, Tin Box Making. By Jabez James, London, 182
Machines, Cloth-Shearing. By H. Thomas, Berlin, 83
Machines, Modern Infernal, 512
Machines, Mowing, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 21, 23
Machines for Testing Wire, Carrington's, 303
Madrid Markets, The, 28
Manchester Mechanical and Industrial Exhibition, The, 113, 172
Manchester Steam Users' Association, Mr. Fletcher's Reports to the, 36, 485
Manchester Steam Users' Association; Memorial to the Home Secretary on Boiler Explosions. 15
Manors, Breakwater, The, 380
Marine Engine of the Future, The, 421, 441
Marks, Trade, Registration cif, 12, 113, 29 ), 420 518
Marlow's Railway Safety Points, 1G2
Marsden's Stone - Breaking Machine with Wrought-Iron Frame, 416
Marsden's Travelling Stone Breaker for Preparing Ballast, 9
Masonry Dam, New York, Construction of a, 175, 242, 296, 333
Materials and Railways, 438
Materials, Refractory, 225, 240, 241, 431
Mather and Platt's Calico-Printing Machine, 123
Measured Mile Trials; Steam Trials of Her Majesty's Ships, 160, 234, 304
" Mechanic's Guide, The, ' 423
Mechanical Action of Light, The, 173, 221
Meeting, Annual of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 492
Meeting of the British Iron Trade Association, 500
Meeting of the British Medical Association at, Edinburgh; Sanitary Progress, 145
Meeting Of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 141
Merchant Shipping Bill, The New, 92
Merchant Shipping and the Board of Trade, 233
Metallurgy in Japan, 63
Metals, The Corrosion of, 232
Metallurgical Works of Prussia in 1874, The Productions of, 433
Meteorological Service of the United States, The, 42, 120, 499
Metre Gauge Rolling Stock, Swiss, 29
Metropolitan and City Gas Question, The, 31, 98, 151, 290, 326, 44), 479
Metropolitan Gas and Rivers Pollution Bills, The, 98
Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 362
Mexican Railway, The, 152, 304
Meyer's Four-Coupled Locomotive for the Western Railway of France, 341, 359
Military Rifles, 497
Mill, Oil, for the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Railway. By A. Rigg, London, 139, 143
Millstone Driving Gear. By A. J. Glas, 329
Mines, The Hazard, Haulage of Coal at, 58, 432
Mines, Leech's Signal Bell for, 333
Mining and Iron Industries, German, 3, 145, 380, 473
Mint, The Californian, 132
Minton and Company's Porcelain Works, 229
Mississippi, The Mouths of the, '284
Modern Infernal Machines, 512
Molecules, On, 1
Moore's Pulley Block, 230
b1organ's Tuyere for Smiths' Hearths, 475
Motion of Vessels. Vertical, 258
Motors, Wave, 387
Muchot's Solar Boiler, 512
Moulds, Ingot, for Steel, 181,224, 238
Movement of Air in Pneumatic Tubes, 414
Mowing Machines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 21, 23
Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, The Association of, 57
Munroe's Report on Gold-Mining in Japan, 168

Narrow Gauge Railways, Swiss; Earthworks and Permanent Way, 70
Narrow Gauge, The, in Switzerland; 135
Native Guano Company, The, 234
Naval Architects, The Institution of, 454
Naval Debate, The late, 55
Naval Engine of the Future, The, 421
Naval Engineers, The Times on, 322
Navigation, French Steam, 136
Navy, Engineers in the, 31, 322, 326
Navy, The, and Mr. Brassey, 459
New York Elevated Railroad, The, 81
New York River Front Improvements, 17, 39 New Zealand, Fairlie Locomotives for, 458
Newport, The Alexandra Docks at, 232, 282, 317 Nicholas's Office Water Gauge, 379
Nichol's Experiments on Surface Condensation, 419
Nith, River, New Railway Viaduct over the, 304
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company's Bessemer Plant, The, 363
North Staffordshire Coalfield, The, 225, 427, 431, 465, 4S4
Notes from Cleveland, 10, 3.5, 59, 76, 92, 121, 132, 149, 173, 183, 206, '237, 256, 268, 293, 312, 332, 341, 365, 385, 406, 418. 435. 458, 476, 493, 522
Notes on an Engine Test, 505
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 16, 63, 85, 106, 122, 133, 149, 176, 183, 257, 274, 298, 331, 390, 408, 424, 448, 486, 496, 524
Notes from the North, 10, 35, 59, 76, 93, 121, 133, 149, 172, 183, '212, 237, 256, 268, 293, 312, 349, 366, 385, 405, 415, 438, 463. 476, 501, 521
Notes for the Guidance of Inventors; Patents, 243, 271, 299, 318, 364, 410
Notes from the South-West, 10, 85, 59, 81, 93, 121, 132, 158, 173, 183, 211, 237, 257, 268, 293, 313, 323, 350, 360, 385, 405, 415, 435, 463, 473, 501, 521
Notes from South Yorkshire, 10, 35, 59, 76, 92, 114, 133, 158, 172, 183, 206, 237, 257, 267, 285, 312, 323, 349, 365, 380, 406, 418, 435, 454, 476, 501, 521
Nottingham Sewage; Reports on the Best Methods of Utilising, 270

OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
Obstructions at Hell Gate, New York, The Removal of, 245
Offal, Tank, Appliances for the Treatment of, 231
Office Water Gauge, Nicholas's, 379
Oil Mill for the Scinde, Punjaub and Delhi Railway. By A. Rigg, London, 139, 143
Oldham, Excursion to; Platt's Works, &c., 227
On Molecules, 1
Opening New Markets at Madrid, 38
Ordnance, American, 77
Ordnance, Swedish, 168
Origin and Progress of Steam Locomotion, The, 260
Otto and Langen's Gas Engine, 514

Paper, Bamboo, 481
Paper-Colouring Machinery. By F. Flintsch, Offenbach-on-the-Maine, 353
Parson's Impact Pump, 131
Passenger Locomotive for the Glasgow and South-Western Railway. Designed by J. Stirling; 201
Patent Bill, The: In Memoriam, 97
Patent Laws, International, 198

PATENTS; NOTES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF INVENTORS :

No. L Introduction. 243
Nos. IL, III., IV., V., United Kingdom, 271, 299, 318, 3G4
No. VI., Argentine Republic, 410

Patents, Report for 1874 of the Commissioners of, 167
Paving and Cleansing, Street, 137
Payton and Holmes' Coal-Cutting Machinery, 358
Performances of Steam Engines, 251
Perkins Engine and Boiler, Admiralty Committee Report on the. 34
Perkins Machinery, The, for H.M.S. "Pelican," 32, 34
Permanent Way Crane. By Appleby Brothers, Southwark, 206
Permanent Way and Wagons, The First. '261
Peru, The Saltpetre Deposit• of, 348, 3S8
Petrie's Wool-Scouring Machine, 424
Philadelphia, England at, 460
Physics, Engineering, 326
Pianoforte Wire, Deep Sea Sounding by, 41
Pickering's Direct-Acting Steam Pump, 366
Pig Iron, American, 82
Pin Drills, 142
Pipes, Feed; Mr. Fletcher's Report to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 3i;
Plate, Cone, for Boring in the Lathe, 475
Plate-Shearing Machine with Revolving Cutters. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Openshaw. 171
Platt Brother's Works, kc.. 227
Ploughs, Horse Hoes, Harrows, &c., at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 51
Pneumatic Grain Elevator, 83
Pneumatic Transmission, 397
Pneumatic Tubes, Movement of Air in, 414
Points, Marlow's Railway Safety, 162
Pollution of the River Thames, The, 185
Pollution of Rivers Bill, The, 13
Pollution of Rivers Commission, Report of he, 400
Popoff's Circular Ironclads, 343, 356, 3S1, 99 439
Port of Trieste, Ancient and Modern, The, 445, 483, 503, 523
Portable and Fixed Engines, at the Smithfield Show, 455
Portable and Stationary Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 48
Portishead Docks, 179
Posts, Telegraph, The Decay of, 151
Practical Tests of Firebrick, 447
Premiums and Prizes Awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers, 36
President of the British Association, Sir J. Hawkshaw, Address of the, 163, 189, 214
President of the Mechanical Section of the British Association, W. Froude, Address of, 191, 215
Presses, Hydraulic, Blake's Steam Pump for, 511
Price's Retort Furnace, 225, 287, 430
Principles, Construction, and Uses of the Aneroid, 99, 372, 489
Printing Machine, Calico. By Mather and Platt, Manchester, 123
Prizes, List of, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 46
Production of the Smelting Works of Prussia in 1874, The, 433
Professional Acquaintance, 88
Propelling Efficiency of Screws, The Relative, 156, 295, 368, 407, 525
Pulley Block, Moore's, 230
Pulleys, Flanged, 416
Pump, Donkey. By Hayward Tyler and Company, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 239
Pump and Fire Engine, Ship's. By J. Stone and Company, Deptford, 496
Pump, The McFarland Rotary, 332
Pump, Parsons' Impact, 131
Pump, Steam, Blake's Direct-Acting, 37
Pump, Walker's Direct-Acting Steam, 54
Pumping Engines, 460
Pumping Engine, Centrifugal, Lawrence and Porter's 122
Pumping Engine, Davey's Hydraulic, 247
Pumping Engines, Steam Economy in, 371, 409
Punching and Shearing Machine, Beesley's, 246
Punching and Shearing Machine, Tweddell's Hydraulic, 58
Punkah for Cooling Railway Carriages on the Oude and Rohilkund Railway. Designed by J. G. Cooke, 95
Purification of Sewage; Leeds and the Sewage Question, 55

Quadruple Engines, 208, '218, 251, 437
Quartering Machine, Reid's, f',.1r Inside or Outside Cranks, 328

Rail Joints, The Strength of, 431, 439, 444
Railroad, The New York Elevated, 81
Rails, the Wear of, 62
Railway Ambulance Carriages. By the Waggonfabrik Ludwigshafen, 63
Railway Brakes, The Action of, 11
Railway Bridge across the River Jumna, 162
Railway Bridge over the River Severn, 198
Railway Bridges, The Rapid Corrosion of Iron in, 101
Railway Carriages, Punkah for Cooling, on the Oude and Rohilkund Railway. Designed by J. G. Cooke, 95
Railway Carriages, Sterne's Coupling for, 482
Railway, Devon and Somerset, Viaducts on the 512
Railway, An Early American, 310
Railway, The East London, 467

RAILWAY JUBILEE AT DARLINGTON; 253

Exhibition of Locomotives, 264
First Wagons and Permanent Way, 261
"Jubilee of Railways," 264
Origin and Progress of Steam Locomotion, 260
Statistical Aspects of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 264
Tables giving Particulars of Locomotives, 272, 273

Railway, The Mexican. 152, 304
Railway Safety Appliances, 178, 194, 248
Railway Safety Points. By Marlow, Roebuck, and Fallow, 162
Railway, The Stockton and Darlington, Statistical Aspects of, 264

RAILWAY SYSTEM, OUR; 275

Table L Passenger Traffic, 275
Table IL Extent of Lines, 276
Tale M. Relation between Extent of Lines, Traffic, and Population. 276
Table IV. Goods Traffic, 276
Table V. Train Miles, Signalling Arrangements, and Data Relating to Accidents, 277
Table VI. Net Receipts, 277
Table VII. Capital and Revenue, 277, 278
Table VIII. Expenditure, 278

Railways, Coal and Labour, 356
"Railways, The Jubilee of," 264
Railways and Materials, 438
Railways, Swiss Narrow Gauge; Earthworks and Permanent Way, 70
Railways in Switzerland, The Narrow Gauge, 135
hallways of the United Kingdom, Captain Tyler's Report on the, 384
Rainfall; Laud Drainage, 344
Raising Vessels, Air Bags for, 345
Ransome's Band Saw for Heavy Timber, 516
Ransome's Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear, 4G9
Ratchet Braces, Vacuum Support for. By H. J. H. King, Newmarket, Gloucestershire, 247
Ravensdale Iron Works, The, 229
Reamers, 295, 367
Reaper, Self-Raker, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 52
Reed's, Mr. E. J., Letter on a Circular Ironclad at Sea, 356
Reed-making Machinery. By T. Barraclough, Manchester, 406
Refractory Materials, 225, 240, 241, 431
Registration by Electricity, 67
Registration of Trade Marks, 12, 118, 290, 420, 618
Reid's Quartering Machine for Inside or Outside Cranks, 328
Relative Propelling Efficiency of Screws, The, 156, 295, 368, 407, 525
Report of the Admiralty Committee on the Perkins Engine and Boiler, 34
Report of the British Association Committee on the Sewage Question, 208
Report of the British Association Rainfall Committee, 179
Report of Captain Tyler on the Railways of the United Kingdom, 384
Report of the Commission on Scientific Instruction, 152
Report of the Commissioners of Patents for 1874, 167
Report of Committee on the Telegraph Service, 117, 135
Report of Dr. Smith on the Alkali Acts, 498
Report of Mr. Deacon on the Water Supply of Liverpool, 269, 462
Report of the Local Government Board, 420
Report of H. S. Munroe on Gold-Mining in Japan, 168
Report of the Rivers Pollution Commission, 400
Report on a Test Trial of a Swain Turbine Water Wheel, 61
Reports on the Best Methods of Utilising the Nottingham Sewage, 270
Reports of Boiler Explosions on Shipboard, 292
Reports of the British Association on the Sewage Question. 208
Reports of Mr. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 36, 485
Resources of Egypt, The, 361
Retort Furnace, Price's, 225, 287, 430
Reverse Keys and Drifts, 523
Revolving Cutters, Plate-Shearing Machine with. By Shaw, Hossack, and Company, Openshaw, 171
Revolving Furnace, Crampton's, 186
Revolution Indicators, 159, 259
Ribs, Arched, and Suspension Bridges, with their Auxiliaries, 351, 429, 487, 509
Rieter's Cotton Preparing Machinery, 198
Rifles, Military, 497
Rigg's Oil Mill for the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Railway, 139, 143
River Front Improvements, New York, 17, 39
River Hudson at Troy, New York, U.S.A., Bridge over the. By Alfred B. Boller, 5
River Jumna, Railway Bridge across the, 162
River Mississippi, The Mouths of the, '284
River Nith, New Railway Viaduct over the, 304
River Severn, Railway Bridge over the, 198
River Thames, The Pollution of, 185
Rivers, Bill to Prevent the Pollution of, 13
Rivers, Flow of Water in [Hydraulic Experiments). 517
Rivers Pollution Commission, Report of the, 400
Rivers Pollution and Gas Bills, The Metropolitan, 98
Road Roller, Steam. By Aveling and Porter, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 131
Robey and Co.'s Traction Engine at the Smithfield Show, 471
Rock Drill, Barlow's, 294
Rodman Gun, The Converted, 97
Rolling Stock, Swiss Metre Gauge, 29
Roof, Church, for the Republic of Costa Rica. By Morewood and Company, Bilston, 213
Rotary Pump, The McFarland, 332
Roving Machine, Double By Bede and Company, Verviers, Belgium, 103
Royal Navy, Engineers in the, 31, 322, 326
Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Meeting of the, 141
Royle's Steam Trap, 350
Russian Circular Ironclads, The, 343, 356, 381, 399, 439
Ruston, Proctor, and Co.'s Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 82

Safety Appliances, Railway, 178, 194, 248
Safety Points, Railway. By Marlow, Roebuck, and Fallow, 162
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 2, 335, 491
St. Petersburg, New Ship Canal for, 246
Saltpetre Deposits of Peru, The, 348, 388
San Francisco Mint, The Processes Employed at, 132
Sanitary Legislation, Future, 325
Sanitary Progress; Meeting of the British Medical Association at Edinburgh, 145
Sanitary Sewerage System, Liernur's, 177
Sanitary Summary, 1875, 518
sanitation and the Local Government Board, 254
Saw, Band, for Heavy Timber. By Allen Ransome and Company, Chelsea, 516
Scholarships, Whitworth; List of Successful Candidates, 113
Scientific Instruction, Report of the Commission on, 152
Schneider, M., 499
Screw Steamers, The Steering of, 179
Screw Steamships, The Trials of, 311
Screws, The Friction of, 78
Screws, The Relative Propelling Efficiency of, 156, 295, 368, 407, 525
Sea Sounding, Deep, by Pianoforte Wire, 41
Self-Raker Reaper, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 52
Self-Registering Tide Gauge, Sir William Thomson's, 199
Semi-Continuous Brick-kiln, Bull's, 321
Service, The Meteorological, of the United States, 42, 120, 499
Seventy-Ton Steam Crane. By J. Taylor and Company, Birkenhead, 182
Severn Tunnel, The, 196
Sewage at Nottingham. Reports on the Best Methods of Utilising, 270
Sewage Question and the British Association, 208
Sewage Question, The, and Mr. Hope, 308
Sewage Question, The, and Leeds, 55
Sewerage of Brighton, The, 462
Sewerage of Dewsbury, The, 440
Sewerage and Sewer times, 77
Sewerage System, Liernur's Sanitary, 177
Shafts, Line, Fittings for, 87
Shaping Machine, Double. By R. Fernau and Company, Vienna, 212
Shaping Machine, Shaw's Circular, 141
Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Works, 211
Sharpness Docks, 240
Shaw, Hossack, and Company's Circular Shaping Machine, 141
Shaw, Hossack, and Company's Horizontal Boring Machine for Reversing Shaft Arms 417
Shaw, Hossack, and Company's Plate-Shearing Machine with Revolving Cutters, 171
Shearing Machines, Cloth. By H. Thomas, Berlin, 83
Shearing and Punching Machine, Beesley's, 246
Shearing and Punching Machine, Tweddell's Hydraulic, 58
Shell Reamers, 367
Ship Canal, New, for St. Petersburg, 246
Ship, A Venerable War, 156
Shipping Bill, The New Merchant, 92
Shipping Legislation, 98
Shipping, Merchant, and the Board of Trade, 233
Ships, Classed and Unclassed, The Times on, 100
Ships' Compasses and Fogs, 188
Ship's Pump and Fire Engine. By J. Stone and Company, Deptford, 496
Ships of War, Large v. Small, 419
Show of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 96

SHOW OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, TAUNTON : 16, 21, 43
Corn, and other Mills, Chaffcutters, &c., 52
Donkey Pump, 239
Drum Guards and Feeders, 27, 82
Haymaking Machines and Horse Rakes, 43
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 54
Mowing Machines, 21, 23
Ploughs, Horse Hoes, Harrows, &c., 51
Portable and Stationary Engines, 48
Prizes, 46
Self-Raker Reaper, 52
Steam Ploughing Machines and Traction Machines, 47
Steam Road Roller, 131
Thrashing Machine Drum Guards, 26, 82
Vertical Engines and Boilers, 50, 82

SHOW, SMITHFIELD CLUB, THE : 455
Implements, 456
Portable and Fixed Engines, 455
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines, 455

Shunting Engine. By Clayton and Shuttleworth, Lincoln, 285
Signal Bell for Mines, Leech's, 333
Sir C. Wheatstone, 344
Sir Joseph Whitworth's Works, 225
Six-Cylinder Engine. By West and Company, London, 30, 138
Six-Hour Trials; Steam Trials of Her Majesty's Ships, 507
Slotting or Keyway Drills, 141
Slotting Machine Tools, 465
Small Boring Bars, 386
Small v. Large Ships of War, 419
Smelting Works of Prussia, The Production of the, in 1874, 433
Smiths' Hearths, Morgan's Tuyere for, 475
Society of Arts, Royal Scottish, Meeting of the, 141
Society of Telegraph Engineers, Conversazione of the, 498
Socin and Wick's Loom, 260
Solar Boiler, Mouchot's, 512
Solicitor, The Parliamentary; Professional Acquaintance, 88
Somerley Bridge, near Ringwood, Hants, 129
South-West, Notes from the, 10, 35, 59, 81, 93, 121, 132, 158, 173, 183, 211, 237, 257, 268, 293, 313, 323, 350, 360, 385, 405, 415, 435, 463, 473, 504, 521
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 10, 35, 59, 76, 92,114, 133, 158, 172, 183, 206, 237, 257, 267, 285, 312, 323, 349, 365, 380, 406, 418, 435, 454, 476, 501, 521
Spanish Markets, The Opening of, 38
Speed Indicator, 159, 259
Speed Recorder, Electrical. By W. Groves, London, 115
Stafford Coal and Iron Company, Sinkings of the, 229
Stage, The Liverpool Landing, 125
Stationary and Portable Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 48
Statistical Aspects of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 264
Steam Cultivation in Sutherlandshire, 453
Steam Domes, 290, 292
Steam Economy in Pumping Engines, 371, 409
Steam Engine Performances, '251
steam Ferry, The Thames, 309
Steam Fishing Launch. By M. G. Delahante, Bordeaux, 95
Steam, The Formation and Expansion of; Latent Heat, 308, 336
Steam Locomotion, The Origin and Progress of, 260
Steam Navigation, French, 136
Steam : Mr. B. G. Nichol’s Experiments on Surface Condensation. 449
Steam Ploughing Machines and Traction Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 47
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines at the Smithfield Show, 455
Steam Pump, Blake's Direct-Acting, 37
Steam Pump, Direct-Acting. By J. Pickering, Stockton-on-Tees, 366
Steam Pump. Walker's Direct-Acting, 54
Steam Road Roller. By Aveling and Porter, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 131.
Steam Trap, Royle's, 350
Steam Trials of Her Majesty's Ships, 160, 234, 304, 383, 507
Steel, Compressed, 107, 279
Steel Ingots, Hackney's Method of Casting, 181
Steel v. Iron Axles, 85
Steel and Iron, Tests of, American, 8. 36, 334
Steel, On the Uses of, 69, 118, 127, 169, 254, 280, 363, 40'2, 442, 460, 481, 488
Steel Works, The Edgar Thomson, 11.9.A., 147
Steep Gradient Locomotive, Handyside's, 189
Steering of Screw Steamers, The, 179
Sterne's Coupling for Railway Carriages, 482
Stirling's Passenger Locomotive for the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 201
Stone Breaker, Travelling, for Preparing Ballast. By H. R. Marsden, Leeds, 9
Stone-Breaking Machine, Archer's, 475
Stone-Breaking Machine with Wrought-Iron Frame. By H. R. Marsden. Leeds, 416
Stone's Ship Pump and Fire Engine, 496
Street Paving and Cleansing, 137
Strength of Angle-Irons, The, 482
Strength of Rail Joints, The, 431, 439, 444
Strousberg Bankruptcy, The, 414
Sunken Vessels, Air Bags for Raising, 345
Supply of Water for England, The, 56
Surface Condensation, 449
Suspension Bridges and Arched Ribs, with their Auxiliaries, 351, 429, 487, 509
Sutherlandshire, Steam Cultivation in, 453
Swain Turbine Water Wheel, Report of a Test Trial on a, 61
Swedish Guns, 168
Swinging Saloons; Applications of the Gyroscope to, 83
Swiss Branch Railways, Tank Locomotive for. Designed by C. Brown, 111
Swiss Metre Gauge Rolling Stock. 29
Swiss Narrow Gauge Railways; Earthwork and Permanent Way, 70
Swiss Railway Lines, Two-Story Carriages for, 154, 396
Switzerland, The Narrow Gauge in, 135

Tank Locomotive for Branch Railways, Switzerland. Designed by C. Brown, 111
Tank offal and the Gases from Rendering Tanks, The Treatment of, '231
Taunton, Show of the Royal Agricultural Society at (See Show of the Royal Agricultural Society).
Tay Bridge, The, 289
Taylor and Company's Seventy-Ton Steam Crane, 182
Taylor and Challen's Vertical Engine, 431
Telegraph Engineers, Conversazione of the Society of, 498
Telegraph Posts, The Decay of, 151
Telegraph Service, 1 he, 117, 135
Test, Engine, Notes on an, 505
Testing Wire, Carrington's Machine for, 303
Tests of Firebrick, Practical, 447
Tests of Iron and Steel, American, 8, 36, 334
Thames, The River, Pollution of, 185
Thames Steam Ferry, The, 309
Thames Tunnel, East London Railway through the, 467
Thames, Upper Districts, Drainage of the, 382
Thomas's Cloth-Shearing Machines, 83
Thompson's Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires at Sea, 359
Thrashing and Finishing Machine. By Wallis and Steevens, Basingstoke, 474
Thrashing Machine Drum Guards at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 26, 82
Thrashing Machine, Two-Horse Power. By S. Lewin, Poole, 102
Tide Gauge, Sir William Thomson's Self-Registering, 199
Tilp's Locking Bolt between Engines and Tenders, 94
Tin Box Making Machinery. By Jabez James, London, 182
Tisley's Dynamo-Electric Machine, 393
Tools and Boring Bars, 386
Tools, Slotting Machine, 465
Torpedo Launch, Thornycroft's, Trials of, 23G
Traction Engine. By Robey and Company, at the Smithfield Show, 471
Traction and Steam-Ploughing Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 47
Traction and Steam Ploughing Engines, at the Smithfield Show, 455
Trade Marks, Registration of, 12, 118, 290, 9201 518
Training, Engineering, The Place of Colleges in, 284, 315
Tramways, The Brussels, 379
Tramways in Switzerland, The Narrow Gauge, 135
Transmission, Pneumatic, 397
Trap, Royle's Steam, 350
Travelling tone Breaker for Preparing Ballast. By H. R. Marsden, Leeds, 9
Trials of the 81-Ton Gun, 252, 267, 479
Trials of Screw Steamships, The, 311
Trials, Steam, of Her Majesty's Ships, 160, 234, 304, 383, 507
Trieste, Ancient and Modern, The Port of, 445, 483, 503, 523
Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 2, 335, 491
Tunnel, The Severn, 196
Turbine Water Wheel, a Swain, Report of a Test Trial on. 61
Turning, Hand, 20, 86
Tuyere for Smiths' Hearths, Morgan's, 475
Tweddell's Hydraulic Punching and Shearing Machine, 58
Twin-Screw Engines of H.M.S. " Devastation," 274
Twist Drills, 126
Two-Story Carriages for Swiss Railway Lines, 154, 396
Tyler's Donkey Pump, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 239

Unclassed and Classed Ships, The Times on, 100
United Kingdom, Captain Tyler's Report on the Railways of, 384
United States Meteorological Service, The, 42, 120, 499
Universal Field Instrument, Jahns', 155
Upper Thames Districts, Drainage of the, 382
Uses, Principles, and Construction of the Aneroid, 99, 372, 489
Uses of Steel, On the, 69, 118, 127, 169, 254, 280, 363, 402, 44'2, 460, 481, 488

Vacuum Brake, The Westinghouse, 34
Vacuum Support for Ratchet Braces, King's, 247
" Vanguard," H.M.S.. The Loss of, 207, 269
Variable Expansion Gear, Correy's, 354
Venerable War Ship, A, 156
Ventilation of Sewers; Sewerage and sewer Gases, 77
Vertical Blowing Engines, 340
Vertical Engine. By Taylor and Challen, Birmingham, 431
Vertical Engine and Boiler. By the Sachsische Dampfschiffs and Maschinenbau Anstalt, Dresden, 522
Vertical Engines and Boilers at the Royal Agricultural Show, Taunton, 50, 82
Vertical Motion of Vessels, 258
Vessels, Air Bags for Raising, 345
Viaduct over the River Nith, New Railway, 304
Viaducts on the Devon and Somerset Railway, 512
Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, 496
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 400
Villages, The Water Supply of, 315

Wagons and Permanent Way, The First, 261
Walker's Direct-Acting Steam Pump, 54
Wallis and Steevens Thrashing and Finishing Machine, 474
War Ship, A Venerable, 156
War, Ships of, Large v. Small, 419
Water Front Improvements, Now York, 17, 39
Water Gauge, Office, Nicholas's, 379
Water, Hot, Heating Apparatus. By Wright and Turner, Keighley, 83
Water Supply of England, The, 56
Water Supply of Liverpool, The, '269, 462
Water Supply of London, The, 362
Water, Supply of New York, 175, 242, 296, 333, 245
Water Supply of Villages, The, 315
Water-tight Doors, Coxhead's Hydraulic Gear for, 102
Wave Motors 387
Wear of Rails, The, 62
Weight on Foundations of Buildings, The, 103
West's Six-Cylinder Engine, 30, 138
Western Railway of France, Meyer's Four-Coupled Locomotive for the, 341, 359
Westinghouse Vacuum Brake, The, 34
Wheatstone, Sir C., 344
Wheel-Moulding Machine, Heys', 303
Whitworth Scholarships; List of Successful Candidates, 113
Widening London Bridge, Proposed, 251, 307, 345
Wire Testing Machines. By W. Carrington, London, 303
Wolverhampton, Boiler Explosion at, 81
Wool-Scouring Machine. By J. Petrie, Jun., Rochdale, 424
Workmens' Dwelling Act, The, 121
Woolwich and Krupp Guns, 382
Works of Adamson and Company, 225
Works, The Atlas Forge, 228
Works, The Bolton Iron and Steel, 227
Works, The Broughton Copper, 210
Works, The Chatterley Iron Company's, 229
Works, Curtis, Sons, and Company's, 211
Works of W. and J. Galloway and Co at Ardwick, 225
Works, Hicks, Hargreaves, and Co's, 228
Works, The London and North-Western, at Crewe, 228
Works, Lord Granville's Iron, Etruria, 229
Works, Minton and Company's Porcelain, 229
Works, Platt's, &c., 227
Works, The Ravensdale Iron, 229
Works, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, 211
Works of Sir Joseph Whitworth, 225
Works, Wire, of R. Johnson and Nephew, 225
Wreck of the " Deutschland," The, 477
Wright and Turner's Hot Water Heating Apparatus, 83

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