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Engineering 1877 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

  • ACCIDENT, The Arlsey Railway, 31
  • Accident, The Woking Railway, 506
  • Accidents, Railway, The Lords on, 348
  • Accidents, Railway, Report of the Commission on, 131, 149, 190, 213,269
  • Acquaintance, Professional (Parliamentary Counsel), 508
  • Adamson's Address to the North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 390
  • Address, Inaugural, of Professor Abel, President, of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 118, 137, 135
  • Address of C. William Siemens, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 226, 256, 263
  • Adjusting Line Shafting, 217
  • Admiral Porter's Torpedo Ship, 284
  • Admiralty, Mr., Reed upon the, 71, 74
  • Agricultural Engineers' Association, Meeting of the, 67
  • Agricultural Locomotive, Eight-Horse Power, Ruston, Proctor, and Co.'s, 57
  • Aid to Scientific Research, Government, 511
  • Air Cushions for Docks, Clark and Standfield's, 511
  • Aix Water Supply; The Verdon Canal, 247 Alpha Gas Apparatus, Muller's, 69
  • Altoona Shops; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 320, 340,357, 373, 395, 415, 435, 458
  • Amateur Science at the United Service Institution, 251
  • America, Steel Production in, 349
  • American Bessemer Steel Production, 115, 212
  • American Institute of Mining Engineers (See Engineers, the American Institute of Mining)
  • American Iron and Steel Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 158
  • American Locomotives at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 26, 88, 267, 268
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (See Engineers, The American Society of Civil)
  • Aneroid, The: its Construction, Principles, and Uses, 374
  • Angle-Iron Bending Machine, Fielding and Platt’s, 421
  • Apps' New Induction Coil, 304
  • Arlsey Railway Accident, The, 31
  • Arsenal of Pola, The, 38
  • Artillery Experiments, Italian, 39
  • Artillery, Russian, Tabulated Details of, 180
  • Arts, The Society of (See society of Arts, The)
  • Arts, Society of, Mr. Reed at the,.329
  • Ashtabula Bridge, Failure of the, 348, 352
  • Astatic Galvanometer, Faraday's, 91
  • Atmospheric Pressure, Instrument for Measuring; The Mariotti Barometer, 315
  • Australia, The Fairlie Engine in, 170
  • Autographic Testing Machine, Thurston's, 469
  • Auto-Kinetic System, The; Fire Telegraphs, 402
  • Automatic Brake, The Westinghouse; Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 405
  • Automatic Curb Sender, The, 103
  • Automatic Fire Telegraphs, 223
  • Bagahaw and Son's Fireproof Mill at Hick-Lane, Batley, 294
  • Bain, Alexander, 54
  • Band-Sawing Machines at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 123
  • Barometer, The Mariotti, 315
  • Barrels, Machinery for Making, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 280
  • Beader, Selkirk's Tube, 430
  • Belgian and French Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 3
  • Belgian Steel Manufacture, 444
  • Belpaire's Steam Tramcar, 108
  • Bending Machine, Angle-iron, Fielding and Platt s, 421
  • Berlin Gas Works, Schwedler's Details of Gasholder at the, 49
  • Bessemer Plant, Holley's, of the Vulcan Iron Company, St. Louis, U.S.A.; American Iron and Steel Works, 183, 206
  • Bessemer Steel Production in the United States, 115, 212
  • Bill, the New Health, 505
  • Bill, the Patent, 131, 168, 189, 193, 218, 347
  • Bill, The Patent; Meeting of London Patent Agents, 188
  • Bill, The Patent, and Preliminary Examination, 150
  • Block-Setting Machinery for St. Helier's Harbour, Jersey, 2S4
  • Boards, Machines for Planing, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 122
  • "Boats, Turtle Torpedo," The Engineer on, 484
  • Boiler Explosions and Loss of Life; Letter to Members of Parliament, 267
  • Boiler Explosions in 1876; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 194
  • Boiler Explosions, Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association on, 503
  • Boiler Tube-Cleaning Apparatus, Essen's, 216
  • Boilers and Engines of the German Imperial Yacht "Hohenzollern, ' 30S, 345
  • Boilers; Howard, Experiments on, 80, 176, 296
  • Boilers, Stationary; The, Pennsylvania Railroad, 474
  • Boilers, Welded; Mr. L. E. Fletcher's Report, 419
  • Boring for Coal at Searle, 327
  • Bourry's Differential Screw Pipe Joint, 388
  • Brake, The Vacuum, '250
  • Brake, The Westinghouse Automatic; Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 405
  • Brakes, Continuous Railway, Official Report to the Belgian Government on, 463, 468
  • Brakes, continuous Railway; Trials on the North British Railway, 12, 53, 94
  • Brakes, Continuous, for Railways, 12, 53, 94, 331, 363, 463, 468
  • Brakes, The Efficiency of, 32
  • Brayton's Hydro-Carbon Engine, 127
  • Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's Horizontal Winding Engine, at the Pribram Silver Mines, Bohemia, 441
  • Bridge, The Ashtabula, Failure of, 348, 352 Bridge Competition, The Long Island, 423
  • Bridge, The East River, New York, 327
  • Bridge, Foot, across the River Ness at Inverness, 3,79
  • Bridge, The Fortieth-Street, Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 2u4
  • Bridge, The Forty-first-Street, Philadelphia The Pennsylvania Railroad, 205
  • Bridge, The Harrisburg; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 87
  • Bridge, South-Street, Philadelphia, 7
  • Bridge, Vignoles' Proposed Mean-Level, over the Thames near the Tower, 461
  • Bridges; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 70, 86, 87, 104, 134, 2U4, 205, 221, 224, 263
  • British Iron and Steel Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 115
  • Brown and May's Portable Engine and Hoist, 448
  • Brunton and Trier's Stone-Dressing Machine, 247
  • Burdon - Sanderson's Electrometer; Capillary Electrometers, 453
  • Burning Crude Petroleum in Locomotives, Urquhart's Apparatus for, 9
  • Buss's Cosine Governor, 99
  • Cables, Steel Wire, Tabulated Tests of, 134, 135
  • Cables, Submarine, Fish-Bites in, 270
  • California, Parting Gold and Silver in, 375
  • Calorific Capacity of Bodies, Absolute; Hirn's Thermodynamics, 14
  • Canal, A New, from the Rhone, 507
  • Canal, The Verdon, 247
  • Capillary Electrometers, 433
  • Car Shops, Altoona; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 435, 458
  • Castings, Solid Steel, 255
  • Cement, Portland, he Testing of, 155
  • Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia (See Exhibition, The Philadelphia)
  • Centrifugal Force v. Unbalanced Force, 152
  • Charcoal for Gunpowder, 427
  • Chiques Rock, The; The Pennsylvania Railroad, Circle, The Perspective of the, 58
  • Circular from the University College, London, 99
  • " City of San Francisco" Steamship, Roach and Sons' Engines of the, 228, 268
  • City Sanitation, 12
  • Civil Engineers, The American Society of (See Engineers, The American Society of Civil)
  • Civil Engineers, The Institution of (See Engineers, The institution of Civil)
  • Civil and Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil and Mechanical)
  • Clark and Standfield's Air Cushions for Docks, 611
  • Clay Mill and Engine Combined, Jackson's, 154
  • Cleaning Boiler 'Tubes, Essen's Apparatus for, 216
  • Cleopatra's Needle, 211
  • Cleveland Engineers, The Institution of (See Engineers' The Institution of Cleveland)
  • Cleveland, Notes from, 16, 27, a8, 76, 92, 117, 136, 153, 172, 1SS, 215, 230, 254, 268, 288, 308, 328, 346, 36S, 386, 407, 422, 462, 482, 504
  • Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1876, 34, 66
  • Coal Boring at Searle, 327
  • Coal Cargoes, 11, 51
  • Coal and iron in Prussia in 1876, The Production of, 380
  • Coil, Apps' New Induction, 304
  • College, The University, London; Circular, 99
  • College, The University, Soiree at, 464
  • Collier and Company's Shaping Machine, 314
  • Colorado, Reese River Process for the Extraction of Silver in, 474
  • Combustion of Vegetable Refuse, The, 89
  • Commission, Royal, on Railway Accidents, Report of the, 131, 149, 190. 213, -289 '
  • Compass, Sir William Thomson's New, 191
  • Compound Marine Screw Engines, Navy Department, Washington, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 110, 126
  • Conemaugh Viaduct; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 104
  • Conestoga Bridge; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 86
  • Conewago Bridge; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 221
  • Construction, Principles, and Uses of the Aneroid, The, 374
  • Continuous Brakes for Railways, 12, 53, 94, 351, 363, 463, 468
  • Continuous Railway Brakes, Official Report to the Belgian Government on, 463,468
  • Continuous Railway Brakes; Trials on the North British Railway, 12, 53, 94
  • Cooke's Steam Trolly for the Oude and Rohilkund Railway, 10
  • Copper-Slate Mines, The Mansfeld, 121
  • Cosine Governor, Buss's, 99
  • Cost of Driving Piles, The, 393, 414, 433
  • Cotton Mills, Rope Driving in, 381
  • Crane, Dubs and Company's Locomotive, 510
  • Crossheads, Locomotive, 379
  • Crude Petroleum, Urquhart's Apparatus for Burning in Locomotives, 9
  • Curb Sender, The Automatic, 103
  • Dalmatia, Railways in, 385
  • Dalswinton Engine, Symington's, 63
  • Deep Draught Ironclads, Passage of the Suez Canal by, 466
  • Defects of Certain Single-Acting Engines, The, and a Remedy, 17, 35
  • Dewar's Electrometer; Capillary Electrometers, 453
  • Dianemoscope, Stanek's, 420
  • Differential Screw Pipe Joint, Bourry's, 338
  • Difficulty, The Institution, 309
  • Direct-Acting Steam Pump, Evans and Sons', 147
  • Disintegrator, The Vapart, by the Hydraulic Engineering Company, 448
  • Divisibility of the Electric Light, 366
  • Dock, Grating, in the River St. Lawrence. 459
  • Docks, Clark and Standfield's Air Cushions for, 511
  • Double-Bogie Locomotive (Fairlie's System) for the 3-ft. Gauge, Mw on's, 32G
  • Drainage Works, The West Kent Main, 508
  • "Dreadnought," H.M.S., Trial of, 67
  • Driving Piles, The Cost of, 393, 414, 433
  • Drummond's Locomotive for the North British Railway, 400
  • Dubs' and Company's Locomotive Crane, 510
  • Dunbar and Ruston's "Steam Navvy," 360
  • East River Bridge, New York, The, 327
  • Eccentric Valves. Elliott and Burnett's, 98
  • Economiser, Exploded, at Saltaire, Mr. Waugh's Report upon the, 23G
  • Economisers, Unsafe, 233
  • Economy as Applied to the Manufacture of Wrought Iron, 486, 512
  • Education, Technical, 365
  • Edwards and Symes' Floating Fire Engine, 127
  • Efficiency of Brakes, The, 32
  • Eight-Horse Power Agricultural Locomotive, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's, 57
  • Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, The Royal Society Soirée, 332
  • Eighteen-Seventy-Six, Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in, 84, 66
  • Eighteen-Seventy-Six, Sanitary Summary for. 93
  • Eighteen-Seventy-Six. Steam Boiler Explosions in; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 194
  • Eighteen-Seventy-Six, The Volcanic Phenomena of, 401
  • Eighty-One-Ton Gun, Trials of the. 378, 424
  • Electric Light, Jablochkoff's New, 366, 486
  • Electric Light, A New Form of. 384
  • Electricity and Magnetism. No. VI.—Galvanometers; The Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 61, 91
  • Electricity and Magnetism, No. VIT., VIII., IX.. X — Electrometers : The Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus 179, 201. 259, 319
  • Electro-Contact Torpedoes; Notes on Torpedoes, 157
  • Electro-Mechanical Torpedoes; Notes on Torpedoes, 214, 45.5
  • Electrometers. Capillary, 453
  • Elliott and Burnett's Eccentric Valves, 98
  • Emery Wheels, The Use of, 52
  • Engine, Brayton's Hydro-Carbon, 127
  • Engine and Clay Mill Combined, Jackson's, 154
  • Engine, The Fairlie, in Australia. 170
  • Engine and Hoist, Brown and May's Portable, 448
  • Engine, Horizontal, by the General Engine and Boiler Co, 341
  • Engine. Horizontal, with Wannieck and Koppner's Valve Gear. 173
  • Engine, Horizontal Winding. Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's, at the Pribram Silver Mines, Bohemia, 441
  • Engine, Hydraulic Pumping, Hathorn, Davis, Campbell and Davey's, 488
  • Engine, Rolling-Mill, 108
  • Engine, Single-Acting, The Wigzell and Halsey, 16
  • Engine and Stone-Breaker Combined, Hall's, 503
  • Engine, Symington's Dalswinton. 63
  • Engineer, The, on " Turtle Torpedo Boats," 484
  • "Engineering Laboratory," An, 95
  • Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding, Clyde, 34, 66
  • Engineers' Association, Agricultural, Meeting of the, 67
  • ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, PHILADELPHIA :
  • On the Mineral Wealth of Japan, by henry S. Monroe, 38, 58, 79, 174, 218, 410, 430, 490, 511
  • On the Use of Natural Gas for Puddling and Heating, at Leechburg, Pennsylvania, by A. L. Holley, 217
  • ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL:
  • On the Failure of the Ashtabula Bridge, by Charles Macdonald, 352
  • ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF
  • On the Defects of Certain Single-Acting Engines and a Remedy, by Jeremiah Head, 17, 65
  • On Improved Up-Ending Tongs, by Jeremiah Head, 429
  • On Submarine Foundations, by A. C. Hurtzig, 429
  • ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL: 231, 809, 330, 424
  • On the Repairs and Renewals of Locomotives, by A. McDonnell, 50
  • On the Combustion of Refuse Vegetable Substances for Raising Steam, by Mr. John Head, 89
  • On the Sewage Question, by Mr. C. Norman .Bazalgette, 116 •
  • On the Transmission of Motive Power to Distant Points, by H. Robinson, 210
  • On the River Thames, by J. B. Redman, 296
  • On a Deep Boring for Coal at Searle, Lincolnshire, by Professor Edward Hull, 327
  • On Street Tramways, by Mr. Robinson Souttar, 327
  • On the History of the Modern Development of Water-Pressure Machinery, 379
  • On an Economical Method of Manufacturing Charcoal for Gunpowder, by George Huycraft, 427
  • Premiums and Prizes Awarded, 503
  • ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL:
  • On Tramways, by R. M. Bancroft, 386
  • ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL:
  • 32, 53, 74, 425, 444
  • On Homogeneous Iron, and the Degree of Homogeneity to be expected in Iron produced by various Systems of Puddling and subsequent Working, by Henry Kirk, 196, 219, 439
  • On Steam Boilers and Engines for High Pressures, 451
  • On Root's Mine Ventilator, and other Applications of Root's Blower, by E. Hamer Garbutt, 470, 469
  • ENGINEERS, THE LONDON ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN:
  • On Economy as Applied to the Manufacture of Wrought Iron, by James Ronald, 486, 512
  • Engineers, Naval; Mr. Reed's Letter, 74
  • Engineers, The North Staffordshire Institute of .1dining and Mechanical; Address of Mr. Daniel Adamson, 3VO
  • ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH : 73, 170, 311
  • Address of the President, 118, 137, 155
  • On Fire Telegraphs, by R. Von Fischer-Trewenfeld, 223
  • On Type Printing Telegraph Instruments, 291 On Underground Telegraphs, 311,;i50
  • On Quadruplex Telegraphy, 367, 485
  • Engines and Boilers of the German Imperial Yacht " Hohenzollern," 308, 345
  • Engines, German Marine, 10
  • Engines, Locomotive, Crossheads for, 379
  • Engines, Marine Screw, Compound; Navy Department, Washington, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 110, 126
  • Engines, Paddle, for Light-Draught Steamer; Wilson's, 341
  • Engines, Single-Acting, The Defects of Certain, and a Remedy, 17, 35
  • Engines of the Steamship " City of San Francisco," Roach and Sons, 228, 266
  • Engines, Twin-Screw Launch, and Boiler, Wilson and Company's, 91
  • Essen's Boiler Tube-Cleaning Apparatus, 216
  • Estimates, The Navy, 211, 249
  • Estimation of Manganese, The, 295, 316, 335, 370
  • Evans and Sons' Direct-Acting Steam Pump, 147
  • Evans and Swain's Fireproof Flooring, 193, 308
  • Examination, Preliminary, and the Patent Bill, 150
  • EXHIBITION, THE CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL, PHILADELPHIA :
  • American Iron and Steel Exhibits, 158 .
  • Band-Sawing Machines, 123
  • Barrels, Machinery for Making, 280
  • Belgian and French Exhibits, 3
  • British Iron and Steel Exhibits, 115
  • Compound Marine Screw Engines; Navy Department, Washington, 110, 126
  • German Exhibits, 45
  • Iron and Steel, 3, 45, 115, 158
  • Jig-Sawing Machines, 280
  • Krupp's 14-in. Gun on Coast Carriage, 46
  • Locomotives, 26, 88, 267, 268
  • Machine Tools, 122, 280
  • Planing Machines for Boards, 122
  • Russian Exhibits, 46
  • Sawing Machines, Stone, 281
  • Science Exhibits, 88
  • Steel and Iron, 3, 45, 115, 158
  • Stone-Dressing Machines, 281
  • Torpedoes, 54
  • Exhibition, 1878, The Paris Universal, 67, 72
  • Exhibition of Ships' Models, The Late, 466
  • Exhibition, The Shipwrights', 443, 4G4, 466
  • Expenditure, Locomotive Working, Tabulated Statement of, 365, 367
  • Experiments on Howard Boilers, 80, 176, 296
  • Explosion on the Sidonian," The, 428
  • Explosion on Board the S.S. " Palestine," 507
  • Explosions, Boiler, and Loss of Life; Letter to Members of Parliament, 287
  • Extension of Margate Jetty, The, 850
  • Eyre's Screw Propeller, 236
  • Failure of the Ashtabula Bridge, The, 318, 352
  • Fairlie Engine, The, in Australia, 170
  • Faraday's Astatic Galvanometer, 91
  • Ferris and Miles' Travelling-Head Shaping Machine, 208
  • Fielding and Platt's Angle-Iron Bending Machine, 421
  • Fire Engine, Floating, Edwards and Symes', 127
  • Fire Telegraphs, 223
  • Fire Telegraphs; The Auto-Kinetic System, 402
  • Firedoor, Locomotive, for the North British Railway, 400
  • Fireproof Flooring, Evans and Swain's, 193, 308
  • Fireproof Mill at Hick-Lane, Batley, Bagshaw and Son's, 294
  • Fish-Bites in Submarine Cables, 270
  • Float, Ship, Shallow Water, 369
  • Floating Fire Engine, Edwards and Symes', 127
  • Flooring, Fireproof, Evans and Swain's, 193, 308
  • Foot-Bridge across the River Ness at Inverness, 379
  • Force, Centrifugal, v. Unbalanced Force, 152
  • Force of the Saturday Review, The, 330
  • Foreign and Colonial Notes, 10, 59, 76, 117, 128, 146, 166, 199, 219, 237, 257, 276, 297, 317, 353, 887, 411, 431, 447, 467. 491, 513
  • Fortieth-Street Bridge, The, Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 204
  • Forty-first-Street Bridge, The, Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 205
  • Foundations, Submarine, 429
  • France, Underground Telegraphs in, 350
  • French and Belgian Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 8
  • French Railways, Rolling Stock on, 114
  • Friction Gear for Driving Pumps, Hind and Company's, 118
  • Furnaces, Ordinary and Rotary, Puddling in, 276
  • Galvanometer, Faraday's Astatic, 91
  • Galvanometers—Magnetism and Electricity, No. VI.; The Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 61, 91
  • Gas Apparatus, Muller's Alpha, 69
  • GAS MAKING, NOTES ON:
  • On the New System of Purification, 41
  • On the New Mode of Working Washers and Scrubbers, 240
  • On Purification— by Solids or Liquids? 337
  • On Utilising Spent Purifying Material, 877
  • On the Lime Nuisance in London, 496
  • Gas, Natural, Puddling by, 217
  • Gasholder, Schwedler's, at the Berlin Gas Works, Details of, 49
  • Gear, Friction, Hind and Company's, for Driving Pumps, 118
  • Gear, Valve, Wannieck and Koppner's, 173
  • German Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 45
  • German Imperial Yacht, The " Hohenzollern," Engines and Boilers of the, 308, 845
  • German Marine Engines, 10
  • German Patent Law, The New, 403
  • Gold and Silver Parting in California, 375
  • Gothard Tunnel, The St., 22
  • Government Aid to Scientific Research, 511
  • Government Inspection and Railway Working, 167
  • Governor, The Cosine, Buss's, 99
  • Graving Dock in the River St. Lawrence, 459
  • Gray's System; Telephonic Telegraphy, 355
  • Gun Carriages, Hydraulic, 305
  • Gun, The 81-Ton, Trials of, 378, 424
  • Gun, 14-in., Mounted on Coast Carriage, Krupp's, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 46
  • Gun Trials at Spezia. 39
  • Gunpowder, Charcoal for, 427
  • Guns, Russian, Tabulated Details of, 180
  • Hall's Combined Stone-Breaker and Engine, 503
  • Hand-Feed Planing Machine, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 274
  • Harbour, St. Helier's, Jersey, Block-Setting Machinery for, 2S4
  • Harrisburg; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 87
  • Harvey and Roe's Iron Permanent Way, 98
  • Hathorn Davis, Campbell, and Davey's Hydraulic Pumping Engine, 488
  • Health Bill, The New, 605
  • H.M.S. " Dreadnought," Trial of, 67
  • " Inflexible," 483, 505
  • H.M.S. " Thetis," The Propeller of, 400 High-Pressure Steam, 443
  • High Pressure, Steam Boilers and Engines for, 451
  • Hind and Company's Friction Gear for Driving Pumps, 118
  • Hirn's Thermodynamics, 14, 73, 202, 261, 394
  • Hodgkin, Neuhaus, and Company's Pulsometer at the Normanton Quarry, 301
  • "Hohenzollern," The German Imperial Yacht, Engines and Boilers of the, 308, 345
  • Hoist and Engine, Brown and May's Portable, 448
  • Holley's Bessemer Plant of the Vulcan Iron Company, St. Louis, U.S.A.; American Iron and Steel Works, 183, 206
  • Homogeneous Iron, 196, 219, 439
  • Horizontal Engine, by the General Engine and Boiler Company, 341
  • Horizontal Winding Engine, Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's, at the Pribram Silver Mines, Bohemia, 441
  • Howard Boilers, Experiments on, 80, 176, 296
  • Hunt's " Mineral Statistics;" Our Iron Industries, 35
  • Hydraulic Gun Carriages, 305
  • Hydraulic Hauling Machinery for Inclined Slips, Hayward Tyler and Company's, 362 Hydro-Carbon Engine, Brayton's, 127
  • Ice-Making Machines, Siddeley and Company's, 480
  • Impediments, Legislative, 269
  • Improvements of the River Mississippi, 13, 212, 476
  • Induction Coil, A New, Apps', 304
  • " Inflexible," The, 483, 505
  • Ingram and Stapfer's Oil-Testing Apparatus, 28
  • Inspection, Government, and Railway Working, 167
  • Institute of Mining Engineers, American (See Engineers, The American Institute of Mining)
  • Institution of Civil Engineers, The (See Engineers, Institution of Civil)
  • Institution of Cleveland Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Institution of Cleveland)
  • Institution Difficulty, The, 309
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
  • Institution of Naval Architects, The (See Naval Architects, 'The Institution of)
  • Instruments, Type Printing, Telegraph, 291
  • Interests, Vested, 384
  • Inventions Patent Bill, The, 181, 168, 189, 198, 218, 347
  • Inventors, Notes for the Guidance of (See Patents)
  • Iron and Coal in Prussia in 1876, the Production of, 380
  • Iron, Homogeneous, 196, 219, 439
  • Iron Industries, Our, 35
  • Iron Permanent Way, Harvey and Roe's, 98
  • Iron, Plate, The Strength of, 355
  • Iron, The Preservation of. 193

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE : 233, 251, 271, 291

  • Address of the President, 226, 256, 265
  • On Welding, by Richard Howson, 237
  • On Solid Steel Castings, by Mons. F. Gautier, 255
  • On Puddling in Ordinary and Rotary Furnaces, by Henry Kirk, 276
  • On the Estimation of Manganese in Spiegeleisen, and of Manganese and Iron in Manganiferous Iron Ores, by Edward Riley, '295, 316, 335, 370
  • Iron and Steel at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 3, 4b, 115, 158

IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN :

  • American Bessemer Plant; the Vulcan Works, 183, 206
  • Midvale Steel Works, 239
  • Park, Brother, and Company's Works, 337
  • Union Iron Works, Buffalo, N.Y., 473
  • Iron and Steel Works, The West Cumberland, 116
  • Ironclad, The "Inflexible," 483, 505
  • Ironclads under Construction; '1 he Navy Estimates, 211
  • Ironclads, Deep Draught, Passage of the Suez Canal by, 466
  • Ironclads, German, Engines of the, 10
  • Italian Artillery Experiments, 39
  • Jablochkoff's New Electric Light, 3GG, 486
  • Jackson's Combined Engine and Clay Mill, 154
  • Japan, The Mineral Wealth of, 38, 58, 79, 174, 218, 410. 430, 490, 511
  • Jetty Extension, Margate, 350
  • Jig-Sawing Machines at the Philadelphia Exhibition, '280
  • Jointing Staves, Machines for, 139
  • Kahlenberg Rack Railway, Locomotive for the. By the Schweizerische Locomotiv and Maschinen-Fabrik, Winterthur, 165
  • Krupp's 14-in. Gun, Mounted on Coast Carriage, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 46
  • La Cour's System of Telephonic Telegraphy, 300
  • " Laboratory, An Engineering," 95
  • Launch Engines, Twin-Screw, and Boiler, Wilson and Company's, 91
  • Launches, Torpedo, 383, 428, 448
  • Law Administration, Patent, 53
  • Law, The New German Patent, 403
  • Law Reform, Patent, 113, 463
  • Legislative Impediments, 269
  • Letter of Mr. Reed upon Naval Administration, 71, 74
  • Life, Loss of, and Boiler Explosions; Letter to Members of Parliament, 287
  • Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel Steamers, Yarrow's, 49
  • Light-Draught Steamers, Wilson's Paddle Engines fur, 341
  • Light, Electric, Divisibility of the, 366
  • Light, Electric, A New Form of, 384
  • Light, Jablochkoff's New Electric, 866, 486
  • Lime Nuisance in London, The; Notes on Gas Making, 496
  • Line Shafting, How to Adjust, 217
  • Lippmann's Electrometer, Capillary Electrometers, 453
  • Llewellyn and Cubitt's Portable Mortar Mill, 428
  • Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, The (See Scientific Apparatus, The Loan Collection of)
  • Locomotive, Agricultural, Eight-Horse Power, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's, 57
  • Locomotive Crane, Dubs and Company's, 510 Locomotive Crossheads, 379
  • Locomotive, Double-Bogie (Fairlie's System), for the 8-ft. Gauge, Mason's, 326
  • Locomotive for the Kahlenberg Rack Railway. By the Schweizerische Locomotiv and Maschinen-Fabrik, Winterthur, 165
  • Locomotive for the North British Railway, Drummond's, 400
  • Locomotive, Passenger, for the New York and Harlem Railroad, 68
  • Locomotive Working Expenditure, Tabulated Statement of, 365, 367
  • Locomotives, The Maintenance of, 50
  • Locomotives at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 26, 88, 267, 268
  • Locomotives for Rack-Rail Railways, 418
  • Locomotives, Urquhart's Apparatus for Burning Crude Petroleum in, 9
  • London Association of Foremen Engineers (See Engineers, The London Association of Foremen)
  • London Water Supply, The, 114
  • Long Island Bridge Competition, The, 423
  • Lords, The, on Railway Accidents, 318
  • Macerator for Sugar Extraction, Russell's, 48
  • McEvoy's Mechanical Torpedo; Notes on torpedoes, 407
  • Machine, Angle-Iron Bending, Fielding and Platt's, 421
  • Machine, Disintegrating. The Vapart, by the Hydraulic Engineering Company, 448
  • Machine, Ferris and Miles' Travelling - Head Shaping, 208
  • Machine, Hand-Feed Planing, Richards, London, and Kelley's, '274
  • Machine for Planing Boards at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 122
  • Machine, Scott's Wheel-Moulding, 380
  • Machine, Shaping, Collier and Company's, 814
  • Machine, Shaping and Moulding, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 489
  • Machine, Stone-Dressing, Brunton and Trier's, 247
  • Machine, Tap Groove Sharpening, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 146
  • Machine, Taylor and Challen's Nail - Forging, 48u
  • Machine, Thurston's Autographic Testing, 489
  • Machine, Thurston's Oil Testing, 176
  • Machine Tools at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 122, 280
  • Machine, Wooden-Framed Planing, Richards, London, and Kelley 8, 118
  • Machine, Wood-Grooving, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 254
  • Machinery, Block-Setting, for St. Helier's Harbour, Jersey, 284
  • Machinery, Hydraulic Hauling, for Inclined Slips, Hayward Tyler and Company's, 802
  • Machinery for Making Barrels at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 280
  • Machinery, Water Pressure, 379
  • Machines, Band-Sawing, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 123
  • Machines, Jig-Sawing, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 280
  • Machines for Planing Boards at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 122
  • Machines, Siddeley and Company's Ice-Making, 480
  • Machines, Stave-Jointing, 139
  • Machines, Stone-Dressing, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 281
  • Machines for Stone Sawing at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 281
  • Magnetism and Electricity, No. VI.-Galvanometers; The Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 61, 91
  • Main Drainage Works, The West Kent, 608
  • Maintenance of Locomotives, The, 50
  • Maintenance of Way Shops; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 459
  • Manchester Steam Users' Association, Annual Meeting of the, 253
  • Manchester Steam Users' Association; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher on Boiler Explosions, 603
  • Manganese, The Estimation of, 295, 816, 385, 870
  • Mansfeld Copper-Slate Mines, The, 121
  • Manufacture of Steel, Belgian, 444
  • Manufacture of Wrought Iron, Economy as Applied to the, 486, 512
  • Manufactures and Works in the United States at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 3, 45, 115, 158
  • Margate Jetty Extension, 350
  • Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding, Clyde, 34, 66
  • Marine Engines, German, 10
  • Marine Screw Engines, Compound; Navy Department, Washington, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 110. 126
  • Mariotti Barometer, The, 315
  • Marks, Trade, The Registration of, 93
  • Marten's Report of Steam Boiler Explosions in 1876, 194
  • Mason's Double-Bogie Locomotive (Fairlie's System) for the 8-ft. Gauge, 826
  • Materials, Price List of, 20, 40, 60, 82, 102, 120, 138, 166, 178, 200, 220, 288, '258, 278, 298, 318, 336, 354, 372, 392, 412, 432, 462, 472, 492, 514
  • Mathieson's Mechanical Torpedo; Notes on Torpedoes, 406
  • Mean-Level Bridge over the Thames near the Tower, Proposed, Vignoles', 461
  • Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of (See Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical)
  • Meeting of the Agricultural Engineers' Association, 67
  • Meeting, Annual, of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 253
  • Meeting of London Patent Agents; The Patent Bill, 188
  • Metal, Wood, and Stone, The Tones of, 285
  • Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 114
  • Midvale Steel Works, The; American Iron and Steel Works, 289
  • Mill, Clay, and Engine Combined, Jackson's, 154
  • Mill, Fireproof, at Hick-Lane, Batley, Bagshaw and Son a, 294
  • Mills, Cotton, Rope Driving in, 881
  • Mine Ventilator, Root's, 470, 489
  • Mineral Wealth of Japan, The, 38, 58, 79, 174, 218, 410, 430, 490, 511
  • Mines, The Mansfeld Copper-Slate, 121
  • Miscellaneous Repairing Shops; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 494
  • Mismanagement, More Patent Office, 72
  • Mississippi River Improvements, The, 18, 212, 476
  • Models, Ships', The Late Exhibition of, 466 Mortar Mill, Portable, Llewellyn and Cubitt's, 428
  • Miller's Alpha Gas Apparatus, 69
  • Nail-Forging Machine, Taylor and Challen's, 480
  • Nanaimo, British Columbia, Wire Tramway at, 69

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF: 250, 269

  • On Safety Valves, by J. F. Flannery, 285
  • On Gun Carriages. fur the Circular Ship " Vice-Admiral Popoff," by Lieutenant Razkazoff, 305
  • On a Shallow Water Ship Float, and a New System of Blocking enabling Loaded Vessels to be safely Docked, by Latimer Clark, 369
  • On a Practical Method of Raising Sunken Vessels, by Latimer Clark, 409
  • Naval Engineers; Mr. Reeds Letter, 74
  • Naval Models; The Shipwrights' Exhibition, 443, 464, 466
  • Navigation of the River Mississippi, Improvements in the, 13, 21-2, 476
  • "Navvy, Steam," Dunbar and Ruston's, 360
  • Navy Estimates, The, 211, 249
  • Needle, Cleopatra's, 211
  • Now Canal Iron), the Rhone, A, 507
  • New Form of Electric Light, A, 381
  • New Jersey Division; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 105
  • New Health Bill, The, 505
  • New Patent Bill, The, 131, 168, 189, 198, 218, 847
  • New York and Harlem Railroad; Passenger Locomotive for the, 68
  • New York and Long Island Bridge company; Competitive Plans for Proposed New Bridge, 423
  • Newman's Permanent Way, 136
  • Normanton Quarry, Hodgkin, Neuhaus, and Company's Pulsometer at the, 301
  • North British Railway, Drummond's Locomotive for the, 400
  • North-Eastern Railway, Westinghouse Automatic Brake Trials on the, 405
  • North Staffordshire institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; Address of Mr. Daniel Adamson, 390
  • Notes from Cleveland, 16, 27, 48, 76, 92, 117, 186, 163, 172, 188, 213, 230, 254, 268, 288, 308, 328, 346, 368, 386, 40; , 422, 440, 462, 482, 504
  • Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 10, 69, 76, 117, 128, 146, 166, 199, 219, 237, 257, 276, '297, 317, 853, 387, 411, 431, 447, 467, 491, 613
  • Notes on Gas Making (See Gas Making, Notes On)
  • Notes for the Guidance of Inventors (See Patents)
  • Notes from the North, 19, 60, 70, 92, 117, 134, 153, 171, 188, 216, 235, 248,278, 287, 312, 34 346, 369, 387, 407, 422, 447, 466, 482, 504
  • Notes from the South-West, 16, 27, 50, 70, 92, 117, 130, 153, 166, 188, 215,227, 264, 265, '288, 312, 825, 846, 368, 388, 408, 421, 442, 467, 488, 610
  • Notes from South Yorkshire, 16, '27, 48, 70, 92, 112, 136, 163, 172, 188, 208, 235, 254, 273, 288, 312, 825, 346,368, 386, 399, 422, 440, 462, 488, 604
  • Notes on Torpedoes (See Torpedoes, Notes on)
  • Obelisk; Cleopatra's Needle, 211
  • Omnibuses and Tramcars; Address of R. M. Bancroft, 386
  • OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
  • Office, Patent, More Mismanagement, Office, Patent, Publications of the, 349
  • Office, The Patent, Vandals at, 167
  • Official Report to the Belgian Government on Continuous Railway Brakes, 463, 468
  • Oil-Testing Apparatus, Ingram and Stapfer's, 28
  • Oil-Testing Machine, Thurston's, 176
  • Ordnance, Russian, Tabulated Details of, 180
  • Organisation of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Synopsis of the, 43
  • Oude and Rohilkund Railway, Cooke's Steam 'holly for the, 10
  • Paddle Engines for Light-Draught Steamers, Wilson's, 341
  • Paddle-Wheel Steamers, Yarrow's Light-Draught, 49
  • Page, Thomas, 75
  • "Palestine," s.s., Explosion on Board the, 607
  • Paris Universal Exhibition, 1878, The, 67, 72
  • Park, Brother, and Company's Works; American Iran and Stool Works, 337
  • Parting Gold and Silver in California, 375
  • Passenger Locomotive for the New York and Harlem Railroad, 68
  • Patent Bill, The New, 131, 168, 189, 198, 218, 347
  • Patent Bill, The; Meeting of Loudon Patent Agents, 188
  • Patent Bill, The, and Preliminary Examination, 150
  • Patent Law Administration, 53
  • Patent Law, The New German, 403
  • Patent Law Reform, 113, 463
  • Patent Office Mismanagement, More, 72
  • Patent Office Publications, The, 349
  • Patent Office, Vandals at the, 167
  • Patents for Inventions Bill, 1877, 198, 218
  • PATENTS; NOTES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF INVENTORS:
  • Belgium, 55, 84
  • Pendulum Pump, Stannah's, 5G
  • PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, THE
  • 1, 21, 42, 77, 85, 104, 133, 144, 169, 184, 204, 221, 244, 263, 280, 303, 320, 340, 357, 373, 395, 415, 435, 458, 475, 494
  • Boilers, Stationary, 475
  • Bridges, 70, 86, 87, 104, 134, 204, 205, 221, 244, 263
  • Car Shops, The Altoona, 435, 458
  • General Organisation, 22
  • Introductory, Historical, 1
  • Lines and Branches. 78
  • Maintenance of Way Shops, 459
  • New Jersey Division, 105
  • Permanent Way, Signals, &c,, 144
  • Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, 135
  • Repairing Shops, Miscellaneous, 494
  • Stations, 161, 184, 494
  • Synopsis of the Organisation of the Company, 43
  • Workshops, The Altoona, 320, 340, 357, 873, 395, 415, 435, 458
  • Viaduct, Conemaugh, 104
  • Workshops, Miscellaneous Repairing, 494
  • Workshops, The West Philadelphia, 279, 303
  • Permanent Way, Iron, Harvey and Roe's, 98
  • Permanent Way, Newman's, 136
  • Permanent Way, Signals, &c.; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 144
  • Perspective of the Circle, The, 58
  • Perspective, A New System of, Dispensing with Geometrical Lines of Construction, 105, 192, 264, 389
  • Petroleum, Crude, Urquhart's Apparatus for Burning in Locomotives, 9
  • Phenomena, Volcanic, of 1876, The, 401
  • Philadelphia and Erie Railroad; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 133
  • Phosphor-Bronze, 346
  • Piles, The Cost of Driving, 393, 414, 433
  • Planing Boards, Machines for, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 122
  • Planing Machine, Hand-Feed, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 274
  • Planing Machine, Wooden-Framed, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 118
  • Plate Iron, The Strength of, 355
  • Pola, The Arsenal of, 38
  • Portable Engine and Hoist, Brown and May's, 448
  • Portable Mortar Mill, Llewellyn and Cubitt's, 428
  • Portable Weighing Apparatus, Urquhart's, 421
  • Portland Cement, The Testing of, 155
  • Power, The Transmission of, 210
  • Preliminary Examination and the Patent Bill, 150
  • Premiums and Prizes Awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers, 503
  • Preservation of Iron, The, 193
  • President of the Iron and Steel Institute, C. William Siemens, Address of the, 226, 256, 265,
  • Pribram Silver Mines, Bohemia, Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's Horizontal Winding Engine at, 441
  • Price List of Materials, 20, 40, GO, 82, 102, 120, 138, 156, 178, 200, 220, '238, 258, 278, 298, 318, 336, 354, 372, 392, 412, 432, 4:)2, 472, 492, 514
  • Principles, Construction, and Uses 01 the Aneroid, - The, 374
  • Printing, Type, Telegraph Instruments for, 291
  • Production of Coal and iron in Prussia, 38u
  • Production of Steel in America, 349
  • Professional Acquaintance, 508
  • Propeller, Eyre's screw, 236
  • Propeller of H. dl S. '• Thetis," The, 400
  • Publications, The Patent Office, 349
  • Puddling by Natural Gas, 217
  • Puddling in Ordinary and Rotary Furnaces, 27G
  • Pulsometer, The, at the Normanton Quarry, Hodgkin, Neuhaus, and Company's, 301
  • Pump, Direct-Acting Steam, Evans and Sons', 147
  • Pump, Stannah's Pendulum, 56
  • Pumping Engine, Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey's Hydraulic, 488
  • Pumps, Hind and Company's Friction Gear for Driving, 118
  • Purification, The New System of; Notes on Gas Making, 41
  • Purification—by Solids or Liquids; Notes on Gas Making, 337
  • Purifying Material, On Utilising Spent; Notes on Gas Making, 377
  • Quadruplet Telegraphy, 367, 486
  • Quarry, The Normanton, Hodgkin, Neuhaus, and Company's Pulsometer at, 301
  • Rack-Rail Railways, Locomotives for, 413
  • Rack Railway, Kahlenberg, Locomotive for the, by the Schweizerische Locomotiv and Maschinen-Fabrik, Winterthur, l65
  • Railroad, New York and Harlem, Passenger Locomotive for the, 68
  • Railroad, The Pennsylvania (See Pennsylvania Railroad)
  • Railway Accident, The Arlsey, 31
  • Railway Accident, The Woking, 506
  • Railway Accidents, The Lords on, 348
  • Railway Accidents, Report of the Royal Commission on, 131, 149, 190, 213, 289
  • Railway Brakes, Continuous, 12, 53, 94, 351, 363, 46;3, 468
  • Railway Brakes, Continuous; Trials on the North British. Railway, 12, 53, 94
  • Railway Brakes, Continuous, Official Report to the Belgian Government on, 463, 468
  • Railway Rolling Stock, New; Tabulated Value of, 290
  • Railway Working and Government Inspection, 167
  • Railways, Additional Rolling Stock for, 425
  • Railways in Dalmatia, 385
  • Railways, Rack-Rail, 413
  • Raising Sunken Vessels, 409
  • Reed, Mr., upon the Admiralty, 71, 74
  • Reed, Mr., at the Society of Arts, 329
  • Reese River Process for the Extraction of Silver in Colorado, 474
  • Reform, Patent Law, 113, 463
  • Registration of Trade Marks, The, 93
  • Repairing Shops, Miscellaneous; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 494
  • Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association on Boiler Explosions, 503
  • Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Steam Boiler Explosions in 1876, 194
  • Report of the Royal Commission on Railway Accidents, 131, 149, 190, 213, 289
  • Report of the Royal Commissioners on Spontaneous Combustion of Coal in Ships; Coal Cargoes, 11, 51
  • Report of Mr. J. Waugh upon the Exploded Economiser at Saltaire, 236
  • Research, Scientific, Government Aid to, 511
  • Resistance of Vessels, The, 310
  • Resolutions passed at the Society of Arts Conference on the New Patent Bill, 218
  • Revenue Steamer, United States, The " Rush," 418, 456, 497
  • Rhone, A New Canal from the, 507
  • Richards, London, and Kelley's Hand-Feed Planing Machine, 274
  • Richards, London, and Kelley's Shaping and Moulding Machine, 489
  • Richards, London, and Kelley's Wood-Grooving Machine, 254
  • Richards, London, and Kelley's Wooden-Framed Planing Machine, 118
  • River Improvements, The Mississippi, 13, 212, 476
  • River Ness, Foot-Bridge across the, at Inverness, 379
  • River St. Lawrence, Graving Dock in the, 459
  • River Schuylkill, Bridge over the, at South-Street, 7
  • River Thames, The, 296
  • River Thames, Vignoles' Proposed Mean-Level Bridge over the, near the Tower, 461
  • Roach and Sons' Engines of the Steamship " City of San Francisco," 218, 263
  • Rock, The Chiques; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 87
  • Rolling-Mill Engine, 108
  • Rolling Stuck, Additional, for Railways, 425
  • Rolling Stock on French Railways, 114
  • Rolling Stock, New Railway, Tabulated Value of, 2u0
  • Rolling Stock in Russia, 296
  • Root's Mine Ventilator, 470, 489
  • Rope Driving in Cotton Mills, 381
  • Royal Society Soiree, The, 1877, 332

ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION, THE:

  • On the Thornycroft Torpedo Vessels; their Construction, Armament, &c., and the Results of Certain Experiments that have been made with them, by John Donaldson, 428, 448
  • On the Employment of Clark and Standfield's Floating Docks at Naval Stations, and the Means they afford of transporting Heavy Ironclads through the Suez Canal, by Latimer Clark, 466
  • Russell's Macerator for Sugar Extraction, 48
  • "Rush," The United States Revenue Steamer, 418, 456, 497
  • Russian Artillery, Tabulated Details of, 180
  • Russian Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 46
  • Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Eight-Horse Power Agricultural Locomotive, 57
  • Safety Valves, 285
  • St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 22
  • St. Helier's Harbour, Jersey, Block-Setting Machinery for, 284
  • Sanitary Summary for 1876, 93
  • Sanitation, City, 12
  • Saturday Review, The Force of the, 830
  • Schwedler's Details of Gasholder at the Berlin Gas Works, 49
  • Science, Amateur, at the United Service Institution, 251
  • Science Exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 83

SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS, THE LOAN COLLECTION OF: 11

  • Electricity and Magnetism, No. VI.—Galvanometers, 61,91
  • Electricity and Magnetism, No. VII., VIII., IX., X.—Electrometers, 179, 201, 259, 319
  • Scientific Research, Government Aid to, 511
  • Scott's Wheel-Moulding Machine, 380
  • Screw Compound Marine Engines, Navy Department, Washington, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 110, 126
  • Screw Pipe Joint, Bourry's Differential, 388
  • Screw Propeller, Eyre's, 236
  • Scrubbers and Washers, A New Mode of Working; Notes on Gas Making, 240
  • Selkirk's Tube Beader, 480
  • Sender, or Transmitting Key, The Automatic Curb, 103
  • Sewage Question, The, 116, 366, 404, 466
  • Sewage Ventilation, 72
  • Shafting, Line, How to Adjust, 217
  • Shallow Water Ship-Float, 369
  • Shaping Machine, Collier and Company's, 814
  • Shaping Machine, Travelling-Head, Ferris and Miles', 208
  • Shaping and Moulding Machine, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 489
  • Sharpening Machine, Tap Groove, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 146
  • Ship, Torpedo, Admiral Porter's, 284
  • Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, Clyde, 84, 66
  • Ships' Models, The late Exhibition of, 466
  • Ships, The Resistance of, 310
  • Shipwrights' Exhibition, The, 443, 464, 466
  • Shops, The Altoona; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 320, 340, 357, 373, 395, 435, 415, 458
  • Shops, The West Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 279, 303
  • Siddeley and Company's Ice-Making Machines, 480
  • " Sidonian," The Explosion on the, 423
  • Siemens, C. William, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, Address of, 226, 256, '265
  • Signals, Permanent Way, &c.; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 144
  • Silver in Colorado, Reese River Process for the Extraction of, 474
  • Silver and Gold Parting in California, 375
  • Singer's Mechanical Torpedo; Notes on Torpedoes, 456
  • Single-Acting Engine, The Wigzell and Halsey, 16
  • Single-Acting Engines, The Defects of Certain, and a Remedy, 17, 35
  • Sir William Thomson's New Compass, 191
  • Slips, Inclined, Hayward Tyler and Company's Hydraulic Hauling Machinery for, 3G2
  • Smith's Vacuum Brake, 250

SOCIETY OF ARTS, THE:

  • On the Preservation of Iron, by Mr. Barff, 193
  • On the Patents for Inventions Bill, 1877, by H. Trueman Wood, 198
  • Resolutions on the New Patent Bill, 218
  • On Phosphor-Bronze and its Application, by Alexander Dick, 346
  • On Continuous Brakes for Railways, by Captain Tyler, 351, 363
  • Society of Arts, Mr. Reed at the, 329
  • Society of Arts, The Sewage Question at the, 36G, 404
  • Society of Telegraph Engineers (See Engineers, The Society of Telegraph)
  • Soiree of the Royal Society, 1877, 3:32
  • Soiree, The University College, 464
  • Solid Steel Castings, '255
  • South-Street Bridge, Philadelphia, 7
  • South-West, Notes from the, 16, 27, 50, 70, 92, 117, 130, 153, 166, 188, 215, 227, 254, 265, 288, 312, 325, 346, 368, 388, 408, 421, 442, 467, 488, 510
  • South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16, 27, 48, 70, 92, 112, 136, 153, 172, 188, 208, 235, 254, 273, 288, 312 325, 346, 36d, 386, 399. 422, 440, 462, 488, 504
  • Spar Torpedo Boats; Torpedo Warfare, 208
  • Spezia, Italian Artillery Experiments at, 39
  • Spontaneous Combustion of Coal in Ships; Coal Cargoes, 11, 51
  • Stanek's Dianemoscope, 420
  • Stannah's Pendulum Pump, 56
  • Stationary Boilers; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 475
  • Stations; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 161, 184, 494
  • Stave-Jointing Machines, 139
  • Steam Boiler Explosions in 1876; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 194
  • Steam Boilers and Engines for High Pressures, 451
  • Steam, High-Pressure, 443
  • Steam Navvy," Dunbar and Ruston's, 860
  • Steam Pump, Direct-Acting, Evans and Sons', 147
  • Steam Tramcar, Belpaire's, 108
  • Steam Trolley for the Oude and Rohilkund Railway, Cooke's, 10
  • Steam Users' Association, Manchester, Annual Meeting of the, 253
  • Steam Users' Association, The Manchester, Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, on Boiler Explosions, 503
  • Steamer, United States Revenue, The "Rush," 418, 456, 497
  • Steamers, Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel, Yarrow's, 49
  • Steamship "City of San Francisco," Roach and Sons' Engine$ of the, 228, 268
  • Steamship " Palestine," Explosion on Board the, 507
  • Steel and Iron Institute, The (See Iron and Steel Institute)
  • Steel and Iron at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 3, 45, 115, 158
  • Steel and Iron Works, American (See Iron and She' Works, American)
  • Steel and Iron Works, The West Cumberland, 116
  • Steel Manufacture, Belgian, 444
  • Steel Production in America, 349
  • Steel Production, Bessemer, in the United States, 115, 212
  • Steel Wire Cables, Tabulated Tests of, 134, 136
  • Steel Works, The Midvale; American Iron and Steel Works, 239
  • Stock, Additional Rolling, for Railways, 425
  • Stock, New Railway Rolling, Tabulated Value of, '290
  • Stock, Rolling, on French Railways, 114
  • Stock, Rolling, in Russia, 296
  • Stone-Breaker and Engine Combined, Hall's, 503
  • Stone-Dressing Machine, Brunton and Trier's, 247
  • Stone-Dressing Machines at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 281
  • Stone, Metal, and Wood, The Tones of, 285
  • Stone Sawing, Machines for, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 281
  • Street Tramways, 327
  • Strength of Plate Iron, The, 355
  • Submarine Cables, Fish-Bites in, 270
  • Submarine Foundations, 429
  • Suez Canal, Passage of the, by Deep Draught Ironclads, 466
  • Sugar Extraction, Russell's Macerator for, 48
  • Summary, Sanitary, for 1876, 93
  • Sunken Vessels, Raising, 409
  • Suspension Bridge over the Pennsylvania Railroad, 70
  • Symington's Dalswinton Engine, 63
  • Tap Groove Sharpening Machine, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 146
  • Taylor and Challen's Nail-Forging Machine, 480
  • Technical Education, 365
  • Telegraph Engineers, The Society of (See Engineers, The Society of Telegraph)
  • Telegraph Instruments, Type Printing, 291
  • Telegraphs, Fire, 223
  • Telegraphs, Fire; The Auto-Kinetic System, 402
  • Telegraphs, Underground, 311, 350
  • Telegraphs, Underground, in France, 350
  • Telegraphy, Quadruples, 367, 485

TELEPHONIC TELEGRAPHY;

  • Gray’s System, 355
  • La Cour's System, 300
  • Varley's System, 299
  • Testing Portland Cement, 155
  • Thames, The River, '296
  • Thermodynamics, Hirn's, 14, 73, 202, 261, 394
  • " Thetis," H.M.S., The Propeller of, 400
  • Thomson, Sir William's, New Compass, 191
  • Thomson, Sterne, and Company's Tap Groove Sharpening Machine, 146
  • Three-Feet Gauge, Mason's Double-Bogie Locomotive (Fairlie System) for the, 326
  • Thurston's Autographic Testing Machine, 489
  • Thurston's Oil-Testing Machine, 176
  • Tones of Metal, Wood, and Stone, The, 285
  • Tongs, Improved Up-Ending, 429
  • Tools, Machine, at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 122, 280
  • Torpedo Launches, 383, 428, 448
  • Torpedo Ship, Admiral Porter's, 284
  • Torpedo Warfare, 208
  • TORPEDOES, NOTES ON :
  • Electro-Contact Torpedoes, 157
  • Electro-Mechanical Torpedoes, 214, 455
  • McEvoy's Mechanical Torpedo, 407
  • Mathieson's Mechanical Torpedo. 406
  • Singer's Mechanical Torpedo, 406
  • Torpedoes at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 54
  • Trade Marks, The Registration of, 93
  • Tramcar, Belpaire's Steam, 108
  • Tramway, Wire, at Nanaimo, British Columbia, 62
  • Tramways and Omnibuses; Address of R. M. Bancroft, 386
  • Tramways, Street, 327
  • Transmission of Power, The, 210
  • Travelling-Head Shaping Machine, Ferris and Miles', 208
  • Trenton Bridge; The Pennsylvania Railroad, `221
  • Trial of H.M.S. "Dreadnought," 67
  • Trials of the 81-Ton Gun, 378, 424
  • Trolly, Steam, for the Oude and Rohilkund Railway, Cooke's, 10
  • Tube Beader, Selkirk's, 480
  • Tube-Cleaning Apparatus, Essen's, 216
  • Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 22
  • "Turtle Torpedo Boats," The Engineer on, 484
  • Twin-Screw Launch Engines and Boilers, Wilson and Company's, 91
  • Tyler, H., and Company's Hydraulic Hauling Machinery for Inclined Slips, 362
  • Type Printing Telegraph Instruments, 291
  • Unbalanced Force v. Centrifugal Force, 152
  • Underground Telegraphs, 311, 350
  • Underground Telegraphs in France, 350
  • Union Iron Works, The, Buffalo, N.Y.; American Iron and Steel Works, 473
  • United Service Institution, Amateur Science at the, 251
  • United States Revenue Steamer, The " Rush," 418, 456, 497
  • Universal Exhibition, 1878, The Paris, 67, 72
  • University College, London, Circular from the, 99
  • University College Soiree, The, 464
  • Unsafe Economisers, 233
  • Up-Ending Tongs, Improved, 429
  • Urquhart's Apparatus for Burning Crude Petroleum in Locomotives, 9
  • Urquhart's Portable Weighing Apparatus, 421
  • Use of Emery Wheels, The, b2
  • Utilising Spent Purifying Material; Notes on Gas Making, 377
  • Vacuum Brake, The, 250
  • Valley Creek Bridge; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 86
  • Valve Gear, Wannieck and Koppner's, 178
  • Valves, Eccentric, Elliott and Burnett's, 98
  • Valves, Safety, 286
  • Vandals at the Patent Office, 167
  • Vapart Disintegrator, The, by the Hydraulic Engineering Co, 448
  • Varley's System of Telephonic Telegraphy, 299
  • Vegetable Refuse, The Combustion of, 89
  • Ventilation, Sewage, 72
  • Ventilator, Root's Mine, 470, 489
  • Verdon Canal, The, 247
  • Vessels, The Resistance of, 310
  • Vested Interests, 884
  • Viaduct, Conemaugh, 104
  • Vignoles' Proposed Mean-Level Bridge over the Thames near the Tower. 461
  • Volcanic Phenomena of 1876, The, 401
  • Vulcan Iron Company. St. Louis, U.S.A., Holley's Bessemer Plant of the; American Iron and Steel Works, 183, 206
  • Wannieck and Koppner's Valve Gear, 173
  • Warfare, Torpedo, 208
  • Warren Suspension Bridge; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 134
  • Washers and Scrubbers, A New Mode of Working; Notes on Gas Making, 240
  • Water Pressure Machinery, 379
  • Water Supply of Aix; The Verdon Canal, 247
  • Water Supply, The London, 114
  • Waugh's Report upon the Exploded Economiser at Saltaire, 286
  • Weighing Apparatus, Urquhart's Portable, 421
  • Welded Boilers; Mr. L. E. Fletcher's Report, 419
  • Welding, 237
  • West Cumberland Iron and Steel Works, The, 116
  • West Sent Main Drainage Works, The, 508
  • Westinghouse Automatic Brake Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 405
  • Westinghouse Brake, The Efficiency of the, 32
  • Wheel-Moulding Machine, Scott's, 380
  • Wheels, Emery, The Use of, 52
  • Wigzell and Halsey, Single-Acting Engine, The, 16
  • Wilson and Company's Twin-Screw Launch Engines and Boiler, 91
  • Wilson's Paddle Engines for Light - Draught Steamers, 341
  • Winding Engine, Horizontal, Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's, at the Pribram Silver Mines, Bohemia, 441
  • Wire Cables, Steel, Tabulated Tests of, 134, 135
  • Wire Tramway at Nanaimo, British Columbia, 69
  • Woking Railway Accident. The, 506
  • Wood-Grooving Machine, Richards, London, and Kelley's, 254
  • Wood, Metal, and Stone, The Tones of, 285
  • Wooden-Framed Planing Machine, Richard's, London, and Kelley's, 118
  • Working Expenditure, Locomotive, Tabulated Statement of, 365, 367
  • Working Railways and Government Inspection, 167
  • Works, The Midvale Steel; American Iron and Steel Works, 239
  • Works, Park, Brother, and Company's; American Iron and Steel Works, 337
  • Works, The Union Iron, Buffalo, N.Y. American Iron and Steel Works, 473
  • Works, The Vulcan Iron Company's Bessemer Plant at; American Iron and Steel Works, 183, 206
  • Works, The West Cumberland Iron and Steel, 116
  • Workshops, The Altoona; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 320, 340. 357, 373, 39.5, 415, 435, 458
  • Workshops. Miscellaneous Repairing; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 494
  • Workshops, The West Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 303
  • Wrought Iron, Economy as Applied to the Manufacture of, 486, 512
  • Yacht, The German Imperial "Hohenzollern," Engine and Boilers of the, 308
  • Yarrow's Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel Steamers 49
  • Yule, John, 438

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