Engineering 1877 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABATTOIR and Stock Yards, The West Philadelphia ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 21
Accident, The Tynewydd Colliery, 79, 95
Accidents, Railway, in 1876; Annual Report of the B< ard of Trade, 189, 289
Accuracy of Indicator Diagrams, The, 382, 420
Achard’s Electric Railway Brake, 396
Act, The Pollution of Rivers Prevention, 112
Address of Mr. Edward Woods, President of the Mechanical Science Section of the British Association, 156
Address of Mr. Thomas Hawkesley. President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 78
Admission Valve, Steam Pipes, and Exhaust; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 142
Agricultural Locomotive, Wallis and Steevens’ Eight-Horse, 144

AGRICULTURAL SHOW, THE ROYAL, AT LIVERPOOL ; 23, 45

Chaff-Cutters and Mills, 30 Drills, 45
Flour-Dressing and Seed-Cleaning Machines, 30
Haymaking Machines, 45, 77 Horse Gears, 30, 68
Horse Rakes, 46 Implements of Tillage, 45 Miscellaneous Exhibits, 47
Ploughing Engine, Burrell and Sons’ Eight- Horse Steam, 214
Portable and Fixed Engines, 26 Reaping Machines, 46
Sheaf-Binder Trials, 150 Sheaf-Binding Machines, 47
Steam Ploughing Engines and Traction Engines, 23
Steam Pumps, 27
Thrashing Machine, 47
Traction Engine, McLaren’s, 37, 68 Vertical Steam Pump, 332

Aillhaud’s Duplex System of Telegraphy, 74
Allison’s Boiler and J. Foowler and Company’s Vertical Compound Engine, 126
Amalgamation in Barrels; The Pelican Mill, Colorado, 297
American Iron and Steel Works (See, Iron and Steel Works^ American}
American Locomotives, Notes on some Early, 222
American Society of Civil Engineers, The {See Engineers^ The American Society of Civil)
Ancient Iron Works in Scotland, 243
Andrade’s Steam Engine Governor, 443
Aneroid, The t its Construction, Principles, and Uses, 63, 121, 291, 318, 354
Annual Meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 478
Annual Report of the Board of Trade; Railway Accidents in 1876, 189, 289
Annual Report on New Zealand Telegraphs, 381
Annual Report on the Queensland Telegraphs, 130
Annual Report of the Thames Conservancy Board, 51
Anthracite Blast Furnace, Weimer’s, 287
Anthracite and Iron, American, 503
Armour Plates, Compound, Trials of, 475
Artificial Stone, American, 74
Asquith’s Radial Drilling Machine, 16
Assimilation of Patent Laws, The, 210
Automatic Expansion Gear, 96, 99, 149
Automatic Vacuum Railway Brake, Sanders’, 114
Axle Boxes, Wedges, and Shoes ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 162
Axles; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 162

Ballast, Water, 185
Bars, Sand, The Removal of, 215
Bars, The Strength of, 53
Batteries, Electric; Notes on Torpedoes, 161
Baiter Engine, The, 50
“ Bayonnaise,” French Frigate, Torpedo Experiments on the, 50
Bays and Breakwaters, The Curving of Waves round, 427
Becker’s Railway Carriage Coupling, 424
Behaviour of Ships at Sea, The, 441, 461
Bell’s Telephone, 152, 170, 365, 381
Belt Shipper, Selig’s Safety, 135
Bement and Son’s Boring and Turning Machine, 254
Bethlehem Iron Company, Works of the ; American Iron and Steel Works, 139, 159,199, 301, 321
Bevel Gear, Corliss’s Machine for Cutting, 288
Bill, The Patent, Withdrawal of the, 51
Bills, Metropolitan Water, 457
Bills, Private, for Session 1878, 439, 476
Binders, Sheaf, at the Royal Agricultural Show,
Liverpool, Trials of, 150
Birkenhead and Hull, Cofferdams at, 460
Blast Furnace, Weimer’s Anthracite, 287
Blast Furnaces of the Soci6td Anonyme des
Alines et Usines de Hof-Silsen-Schwarzenherg, Hof, Bavaria, 101
Blister Steel, 244, 275
Board of Trade Report on Railway Progress in 1876, 308
Boiler, Allison’s Vertical, 126
Boiler, Davies’ Sectional, 127
Boiler Inspection, 308
Boiler, Scott’s High-Pressure Marine, 414
Boiler Trials, Summary of Results; Testing Engines, 171
Boiler Tube Fixing, 199, 335
Boilers; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 121
Boilers, Strength of, 293, 314
Bombay, Ormiston’s Prince’s Dock at, 267
Bo’ness Harbour Works, The, 212
Boring and Turning Machine, Bement’s, 254
Bowing’s Filter Press, 38
Brake,"Achard’s Electric Railway, 396
Brake, Sanders’ Automatic Vacuum Railway, 114
Brakes, Continuous Railway; Trials in Germany, 261, 309
Brakes, Continuous Railway; Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 12
Brakes, Continuous Railway, and Mr. Yeomans, 363
Breeehloading Mechanism, Johnson’s, 442
Bridge and Float, Transfer'; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 22
Bridge Pipe and Relief Gear for “ I” Engines; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 142
Bridge, The Swing, Newcastle, 242
Brigade, The London Fire, 72
Bristol Hew Docks, The, 291
British Association of Gas Managers, The Gas Managers^ The British Association of)

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE; 111, 131,150,164

Address of the President of the Mechanical Science Section, Mr. Edward Woods, 156
Excursions, 165
List of Officers, 110
On the Telephone, by W. H. Preece, 152, 170
On a New Mode of Circulating Hot Water through very Large Buildings, and upon a New Mode of Softening Water, as carried out at the New Lunatic Asylum (the third) for the County of Middlesex, situated on Banstead Downs in Surrey, by F. J. Bramwell, 154
On the London Water Supply, by F. J. Bramwell and Edward Easton, 155
On the Upward Jets of Niagara, by W. H. Barlow, 188
On the Rate of Progression of Groups of Waves, and the Rate at which Energy is Transmitted by Waves, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, 196
On some Experiments made at Boulogne-sur- Mer, in France, upon a New System proposed for removing the Sand Bars at the Mouths of Sea Harbours, by M. Ch. Bergeron, 215
On the Eddystone Lighthouse, by James N. Douglass, 217
On the Physical Phenomena Connected with the Mines of Cornwall and Devon, by War- ington Smyth, 235, 275
Report of the Council, 132
Brown’s Locomotive Valve Gear, 325 Browney Colliery, The, 272 Buildings, Heating, 154
Burgess and Key’s Cutter Bar, 451
Burrell and Sons’ Eight-Horse Steam Ploughing Engine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 214

Cab, Standard; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 106
Cables, Submarine, Jamieson’s Grapnel for, 431
Calculations, Engineering, 401
Caledonian Railway Company’s Wishaw Line, The, 341
California, Extraction of Gold by Plattner’s Process in, 112, 119
California, Hydraulic Mining in, 353, 409, 445, 485
Car, Caboose Four-Wheeled; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 414
Car, Cost and Materials for First-Class Passenger ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 413
Car, Directors’, and Standard Wagon Truck; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 458
Car, Drop-Bottom Gondola, Cost of; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 431
Car, Standard Drop Bottom Gondola; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 499
Car, Standard Eight-Wheeled Gravel Dump;
The Pennsylvania Railroad, 467
Car, Standard Passenger; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 413
Car Truck, Standard Four-Wheeled Passenger;
The Pennsylvania Railroad, 366
Car Truck, Standard Freight, and Springs; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 458
Car Truck, Standard Passenger Six-Wheeled; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 376
Carburometer and Grisoumeter, Coquillon’s, 317 Cars, Palace, 494
Cars, Passenger, Sleeping and Freight; The
Pennsylvania Railroad, 337
Cars, Passenger, Standard First Class; The
Pennsylvania Railroad, 404, 458
Cast-Iron Chilled Wheels; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 41
Cast Steel Guns, 228, 241
Caxton Celebration, The, 13
Cedar Point Company’s Works, The; American Iron and Steel Works, 465
Chaff-Cutters and Mills at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30
Chapman and Sutton’s Contractor’s Portable Hoist, 304
China and Japan, Reed’s New War Ships for, 371
Circular Slide Valves, 81, 94
Clarence Iron Works, The, 272
Clausthal Lead-Smelting Works, The, ’1, 140, 259,319, 383, 428,498
Clayton and Shuttieworth’s Straw-Burning ^Engine, 448
“ Cleopatra,” Launch of the, 230
Cleveland, Notes from, 10, 30, 50, 76, 98, 115, 128, 148, 172, 193, 208, 226, 248, 268, 288, 311, 332, 349, 367, 379, 400, 418, 433, 454, 479, 491

CLUB SHOW, SMITHFIELD, THE : 447

Cutter Bar, Burgess and Key’s, 451
Elastic Wheel, Mackinder’s, 450
Engine, Straw-Burning, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 448
Engine, Tangye’s Horizontal Non-Condensing, 492
Engine, Turner’s^Horizontal, 450
Engine, Vertical, with Reversing Gear, Turner’s, 435
Engine, Vertical, Robey’s, 450
Engines, Portable and Fixed, 447 Implements, 451
Spark-Extinguishing Apparatus, Petzold’s, 449
Thrashing and Finishing Machine, Garrett’s, 480
Wrought-Iron Spring Pulleys, Mackies’, 450
Wrought-Iron Dnder-Gear, Marshall’s, 450

Coal a Mechanism, not a Source of Motion, 7
Cofferdams at Dublin, Birkenhead and Hull, 460
Coke, The Manufacture of, 227, 241
College of Engineering, The Imperial, Tokei, Japan,74
College, The Royal Naval, 323, 358, 420
Colliery Accident, TheTynewydd, 79, 95
Colliery, The Browney, 272
Collision, The Eccles Junction, 433
Collmann’s Valve Gear, Horizontal Engine with, 473
Colorado, The Pelican Mill, 297
Commissioners, Patent, Report of the, 260
Companies, The Metropolitan Gas, 150, 270, 345
Compound Armour Plate Trials, 475
Compound Engines, Disconnecting, of the “Otter,” Rankin and Blackmore’s, 9
Compound Horizontal Pumping Engines for Sydney, 10
Compound and Non-Compound Engines; Experiments with Machinery of American Revenue Steamers, 53
Compound Steam Pump, Parker and Weston’s, 185
Connecting and Coupling Rods; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 201
Conservancy Board, The Thames, Annual Report of, 51
Consett Iron Works and Collieries, The, 232 Consolidation v. Fairlie Engines, 388
Construction, Principles, and Uses of the Aneroid, The, G3, 121, 291, 318, 354
Construction and Use of Taps, The, 18 Continuous Girders, 71
Continuous Railway Brakes ; Trials in Germany, 261,309
Continuous Railway Brakes; Trials on the North- Eastern Railway, 12
Continuous Railway Brakes and Mr. Yeomans, 363
Contractor’s Portable Hoist, Chapman and Sutton’s, 304
Contracts for the Works of the Paris Exhibition, 373, 392
Conversazione, The, of the Iron and Steel Institute, 243
Coquillon’s Grisoumeter and Carburometer, 317 Corliss’s Machine for Cutting Bevel Gear, 288 Cornwall and Devon, The Mines of, 235, 275 Cosmical Dust, 377
Cost and Materials for First-Class Passenger Car; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 413
Cost of One Class “ C” Anthracite Locomotive; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 260
Cost of One Class “ C” Bituminous Locomotive; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 252
Council of the British Association, Report of the, 132
Coupling, Becker’s Railway Carriage, 424
Coupling, Harrison’s Railway, 493
Crane, Mills’ Hydraulic, 134
Crane, Stuckenholz and Company’s Twenty-Ton Travelling, 87
Crescent Steel Works of Messrs. Miller, Metcalf, and Parkin, The; American Iron and Steel Works, 395
Crossheads; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 192 Croydon Waterworks, Hathorn, Davis, Campbell and Davey’s Pumping Engines at the, 357
Crushing and Grinding the Ore; The Pelican Mill, Colorado, 297
Cultivator, Knight’s Hop, 98
Currents, Earth, 497
Currents, On the Measurement of,483
Curves, Setting out, by Theodolite, 502
Curving of Waves round Bays and Breakwaters, The, 427
Cutter Bar, Burgess and Key’s, 451
Cylinder and Pet Cocks; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 204
Cylinders; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 192

Davies’ Sectional Boiler, 127
Density and Elasticity of Vapours, The, 17, 38
Deposition of Metals, The Electrical, 482 Deposits, Parliamentary, 269
Diagrams, Indicator, The Accuracy of, 382,420
Dimensions, Weights, &c.,of Locomotives; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 66
Direct Process of Iron Manufacture, The, 224, . 232, 240, 256
Disconnecting Compound Engines of the “Otter,” Rankin and Blackmore’s, 9
Distilling the Amalgam; The Pelican Mill, Colorado, 298
Distinction of Lighthouses, The, 330
Distributor and Sand Box; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 144
Divers, Protheroe’s Electric Signalling Apparatus for, 127
Dock, The Prince’s, Bombay, Ormiston’s, 267 Docks, The New Bristol, 291
Dockyard and Harbour on Lake Erie; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 4
Double-Bogie Fairlie Locomotive for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway, 399
Double-Shearing, Punching, and Straightening Machine, Wagner and Company’s, 490
Douglass, Mr., Report of, to the Trinity Board, 333, 351
Douro Viaduct, The, 346
Drainage, The Thames Valley Main, 190
Drill, Rock, Jordan’s Hand Power, 424
Drilling Machine, Asquith’s Radial, 16
Drills at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 45
Driving Wheels; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 103
Duplex System of Telegraphy, Aillhaud’s, 74
Dust, Cosmical, 377
Dynamometer, A New, 67, 90, 95, 349

Early Locomotives in the United States, Notes on some, 222
Earth Currents, 497
Eccentrics and Straps • The Pennsylvania Railroad, 164
Eccles Junction Collision, The, 433
Eddystone Lighthouse, The, 209, 217
Edison’s Telephone, 211
“ Edith,” Steamship, Raising the, 480
Eighteen-Seventy-Eight Session, Private Bills for, 439, 476
Eighteen-Seventy-Six, Railway Accidents in; Annual Report of the Board of Trade, 189, 289
Eighteen-Seventy-Six, Railway Progress in; The Board of Trade Report, 308
Elastic Wheel, Mackinder’s, 450
Elasticity and Density of Vapours, The, 17, 38
Elder, John, and Company’s Works, 182
Electric Batteries; Notes on Torpedoes, 161
Electric Fuzes, Jointers, Signalling, &c.; Notes on Torpedoes, 219
Electric Illumination; Report of Mr. Douglass to the Trinity Board, 333, 351
Electric Illumination; Report of Professor Tyndall to the Trinity Board, 303
Electric Light, The, 307
Electric Railway Brake, Achard’s, 396
Electric Signalling Apparatus for Divers, Pro- theroe’s, 127
Electric Telephony, 152,170, 365, 381 Electrical Deposition of Metals, The, 482
Electrical Qualities of Selenium, 438
Elswick Works, The, 271
Elswick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Thwaites and Carbutt’s Thirty-Ton the, 341
Emery Grinder, Thomson, pany’s, 500
Energy, “ Potential,” 43
Engine, The Baxter, 50
Engine, Burrell and? Sons’ Ploughing, at the Royal Liverpool, 214
Engine, J. Fowler and Company’s Vertical Compound, with Allison’s Boiler, 126
Engine Frame and Attachments, Standard; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 84
Engine Friction, 497
Engine Governor, Andrade’s Steam, 443
Engine, Horizontal, with Collmann’s Valve Gear, 473
Engine, Horizontal, Turner’s, 450
Engine, McLaren’s Traction, 37, 68
Engine, Straw-Burning, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 448
Engine, Tangye’s Horizontal Non-Condensing, 492
Engine Testing, 170
Engine, Turner’s, Vertical, with Reversing Gear, 435
Engine, Vertical, Robey's, 450
Engineering Calculations, 401 Engineering Education in Japan, 306
Engineering, The Imperial College of, Tokei, Japan, 74
ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL: On the Simultaneous Ignition of Thousands of Mines, and the most advantageous Groupings of Fuses, by Julius H. Striedinger, 125, 236
On the Improvement of the Entrance to Galveston Harbour, by Charles W. Howell, 234
On Proportions of Eye-Bar Heads and Pins, as Determined by Experiment, by 0. Shaler Smith, 425

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OP CIVIL: 419, 437, 453, 456

Annual Report, 478
On a Review of the Progress of Steam Shipping during the last Quarter of a Century, by Alfred Holt, 377
On a Description of Cofferdam used at Dublin, Birkenhead, and Hull, by William James Doherty, 460
Subjects fur Papers—Session 1877-78, 389 Transfer of Members, 453

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL: 72, 94

Address of the President, Mr. T. Hawkesley, 78
Docks, The New, at Bristol, 291 Excursions, 97
On a New Dynamometer for Measuring the Power Delivered to the Screws of Large Ships, by William Froude, 67, 90, 95, 349
On Safety Valves, 72
On the Tynewydd Colliery Inundation, with
the the the Severn Tunnel Railway, by John J. Geacb, 79,94
On an Improved Form of Slide Valve for Steam and Hydraulic Engines, by Francis W. Webb. 81, 94
Supplement to Notes on the Early History of Kailway Gauge, respecting the Origin of the 4 ft. 8| in. Gauge, communicated by the Secretary, 81
On the Economy of Variable Automatic Expansion in Steam Engines, by John 0. Fell, 96, 99, 149

ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH: 475 On the Measurement of Currents, by W. H. Preece, 483

Engines, Compound and Non-Compound; Experiments with Machinery of American Revenue Steamers, 53
Engines of the “ Otter,” Rankin and Blackmore’s Disconnecting Compound, 9
Engines, Portable and Fixed, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 26
Engines, Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey’s Pumping at the Croydon Water Works, 357
Engines, Pumping, for Sydney, 10
Engines, Steam-Ploughing and Traction, at the
Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 23 Eston Steel Works, The, 272
Evaporation, The Phenomenon of, 149 Excavator, Reeves’, 312
Excursions; The British Association, 165 Excursions • The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 97
Exhausting Gas, 58
Exhibition of Books and Printing j The Caxton Celebration, 13

EXHIBITION, 1878, THE PARTS : 23, 251, 281, 302, 330, 347, 372, 392, 410, 441, 487

Contracts for the Works, 373, 392
Foreign Section, 410
Transport, General Arrangements for, 441 Water Supply, 487
Expansion Gear, Automatic, 96, 99, 149
Extraction of Gold by Plattner’s Process in
California, 112, 119
Eye-Bar Heads and Pins, Proportions of as Determined by Experiments, 425
Factory Inspectors’ Report, The, 941
Fairlie Engines v. Consolidation, 388
Fairlie Locomotive, Double-Bogie, for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, 399
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Observatory Tower at, 490
Feed Pumps; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 201 Filter Press, Bowing’s, 38
Fire Brigade, The Loudon, 72
Fireboxes, Locomotive; Report to the Master Mechanics’ Convention, Philadelphia, 57, 77, 116, 137, 197, 263, 275
Firing Mines, 125, 236
Fixed and Portable Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 26
Fixed and Portable Engines at the Smithfield Show, 447
Fixing Boiler Tubes, 199, 335
Flat Surfaces, The Strength of Unstayed, 239 Flour-Dressing and Seed-Cleaning Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 19, 39, 59, 76, 85,157, 177, 197, 217, 234, 287, 315, 331, 360, 389, 405, 425, 454, 481, 503
Foreign Section of the Paris Exhibition, 410 Four-Wheeled Engine Truck, Standard; The
Pennsylvania Railroad, 85
Fowler, J., and Company’s Vertical Compound Engine with Allison’s Boiler, 126
French Torpedo Experiments, 50
Friction, Engine, 497
Furnace, Roe's Rotary Puddling, 56
Furnace, Weimer’s Anthracite Blast, 287 Furnaces, Blast, of the Soci^t6 Anonyme des
Mines et Usines de Hof-Silsen-Schwarzenberg, Hof, Bavaria, 101
Fuzes, Electric, Jointers, Signalling, &c.; Notes on Torpedoes, 219

Galvanometer, Thompson’s, Lantern, 346 Galveston Harbour Improvements, The, 234 Garrett's Thrashing and Finishing Machine, 480 Gas Exhausting, 58
GAS MAKING, NOTES ON:
Sulphur, in what Form does it Exist, 446 Sulpnur Question in London, The, 336
GAS MANAGERS, THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF: On some Experiments upon Power and Fuel expended on Exhausting Gas, by 0. Woodall, 58 .
Gas Question, The Metropolitan, 150,270,345
Gas Tank, The Middlesbrough New, 422 Gauge, Railway, 81
Gear, Automatic Expansion, 96, 99,149
Gear, Coilmann’s Valve, Horizontal Engine with, 473
Gear, Reversing, Turner’s Vertical Engine with, 435
Gearing, Hawkins’s Worm, 350
Gears, Horse, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30, 68
Geneva Tramways, Permanent Way for the, 154
German Brake Trials, The, 261, 301
Girders, Continuous, 71
Gold, Extraction of, by Plattner’s Process in California, 112,119
Government, The, and Scientific Research, 11
Governor, Andrade’s Steam Engine, 443
Grapnel for Submarine Cables, Jamieson’s, 431
Grinder, Emery, Thomson, Sterne, and Company’s, 500
Grifloumeter and Oarburometer, Coquillon’s, 317
Guide Bars; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 201
Gun-Carriage, The Moncrieff Hydro-Pneumatic, 478
Gun-Metal and Manganese Bronze, 330
Gun-Metal, The Strength of, 273
Guns, Cast Steel, 228, 241

Hall, The Stephenson Memorial, 305
Hammer, Thirty-Ton Steam. Thwaites and Carbutt’s, for the Elswick Works, Newcasile- on-Tyne, 341
Hand-Power Rock Drill, Jordan’s, 424
Harbour and Dockyard on Lake Erie; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 4
Harbour Improvements, The Galveston, 234
Harbour Works, The Bo’ness, 212
Harrison’s Railway Coupling, 493
Harvey’s Sea Torpedo; Notes on Torpedoes, 391
Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey's Pumping Engine at the Croydon Water Works, 357
Hawkesley, Mr. Thomas, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Address of, 78
Hawkins’s Worm Gearing, 350
Haymaking Machine, Loader’s, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 77
Haymaking Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 45, 77
Heating Buildings, 154
Heinemann’s TjTje-Composing Machine, 480 H.M.S. “Inflexible,” The Report on, 31, 52,229 270, 455, 495
H.M.S., “ Iris,” Trials of, 481
H.M.S. “Shah” and the “Huascar,” 129
H.M.S. “Shannon;’* Trials of Ventilating Arrangements, 330
Hirn’s Thermodynamics, 5,124, 299, 429
Hoist, Contractor's Portable, Chapman and Sutton’s, 304
Hop Cultivator, Knight’s, 98
Horizontal Compound Pumping Engines for Sydney, 10 '
Horizontal Engine with Collmann’s Valve Gear, 473
Horizontal Engine, Turner's, 450
Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, Tangye’s, 492
Horse Gears at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30, 68
Horse Rakes at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 46
Hours Labour on One Class “ C” Bituminous Locomotive, 1876; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 220
House’s Steam and Water Valve. 194
“Huascar,” The, and H.M.S, “Shah,” 129
Hunt’s Suet Lubricator, 399
Hydraulic Crane, Mills’, 134
Hydraulic Mining in California, 353, 409, 445, 485
Hydro-Pneumatic Gun Carriage, The Moncrieff, 478

Illumination, Electric; Report of Mr. Douglass to the Trinity Board, 333,351
Illumination, Electric; Report of Professor Tyndall to the Trinity Board, 303
Imperial College of Engineering, Tokei, Japan, The, 74
Imperial Technical School in Vienna, The, 290
Implements at the Smithfield Show, 451
Implements of Tillage at the Royal Agricultural
Show, Liverpool, 45
Impregnation; Extraction of Gold by Plattner’s Process in California, 119
India, Narrow Gauge Railways in, 130
Indian Railways, 327
Indicator Diagrams, The Accuracy of, 382, 420
Indicator and Speed Recorder, Theiler’a Patent, 155
Indicator, Thompson’s, 312
“Infiexible,” H.M.S., The Report on, 31, 52, 229, 270, 455, 495
Inspection of Boilers, The, 308
Institute of Naval Architects (See Naval Architects)
“Iris,” Trials of, 481
Iron and Anthracite, American, 603
Iron Bars, The Strength of, 63
Iron Manufacture, The Direct Process of, 224, 232, 240, 256
IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE : 231, 240, 271 Ancient Iron Works in Scotland, 243
Browney Colliery, 272
Clarence Iron Works, 272
Consett Iron Works and Collieries, 232 Conversazione, 243
Elswick Works, 271
Eston Steel Works, 272
Jones, Mr. John, The late Secretary, 243
Newburn Steel Works, 271
On some further Remarks regarding the Production of Iron and Steel, by Direct Process, by 0. William Siemens, 224, 232, 240, 256
On Improvements in Belgian Three-High Rolling Mills, by Alp. Thomas, 226, 244
On the Goke Manufacture of South Durham in Relation to the Iron and Steel Trades of the North of England, by A. L. Steavenson, 227, 241
On Experiments with the New Artillery made from Steel without Blows, by M. Gautier, 228, 241
On the Progress of the Slag Industries during the last Four Years, by Charles Wood, 244, 247
On the Causes of Blister on Blister Steel, by John Percy, 244, 275
On Mechanical Puddling, by R. Howson, 244, 255
On the Separation of Carbon, Silicon, Sulphur, and Phosphorus, in the Refining and Puddling Furnaces, and in the Bessemer Converter; with some Remarks on the Manufacture and Durability of Railway Bars, by I. Lowthian Bell, 231, 257, 276, 294
On the Protection from Atmospheric Action which is imparted to Metals by a Coating of certain of their own Oxides, respectively, by John Percy, 304
Phosphorus, the Elimination of, and the Direct Process of Manufacturing Iron, 240
Swing Bridge, Newcastle, 242
Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company, 243
Iron and Steel Plates, The Effect of Punching on, 195
Iron and Steel, The Purification of, 231, 257, 276, 294
IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN : Bethlehem Iron Company, Works of the, 139, 159, 199, 301, 321
Cedar Point Iron Company’s Works, 465
Crescent Steel Works, 395
Otis Iron and Steel Works, 61
Iron Works, Ancient, in Scotland, 243
Iron Works, The Clarence, 272
Iron Works and Collieries, The Consett, 232
Ironclads, Ventilating, 330

Jamieson’s Grapnel for Submarine Cables, 431 Japan and China, Reed’s New War Ships for, 371
Japan, Engineering Education in, 306
Japan, Petroleum in, 502
Japan, The Railways of, 179
Japanese Imperial College of Engineering, Tokei, The, 74
Johnson’s Breechloading Mechanism, 442
Jones, Mr. John, The late Secretary of the Iron and Steel Institute, 243
Jordan’s Hand-Power Rock Drill, 424

Keely Motor, The, 406
Knight’s Hop Cultivator, 98

Lantern Galvanometer, Thompson’s, 316
Launch of the “ Cleopatra,” 230
Launching Large Ships, 177
Laws, Patent, The Assimilation of, 210
Laws, The Patent, and the Trade Congress, 219
Lazy Cock Rigging; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 201
Lea and the Thames, The, 93
Leaching the Impregnated Ore; Extraction of Gold by Piattner’s Process in California, 119
Lead-Smeiting Works, The Clausthal, 1,140, 259, 319, 383, 128, 198
Light-Draught item-Wheel Steamer, Yarrow and Company’s, 132
Light, The Electric, 307
Ligntnouse, The Eddystone, 209, 217
Lignthouses, The Distinction of, 330
Ligntning and the Lightning-Rod, 32
Limited Liability and Science, 32
List of Oriieex B oi the British Association, 110
Lloyd's Numerals, 173
Loader’s Haymaking Machine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 77
Locomotive, Double-Bogie Fairlie, for the North wales Narrow Gauge Railways, 399
Locomotive Fireboxes; Report to the Master Mechanics’ Convention, Philadelphia, 57, 77, 116, 137, 197, 253, 275
Locomotive Valve Gear, rown’b;325
Locomotive, Wallis and Steeven’s Eight-Horse Agricultural, 144
Locomotive, Wehb’s Tank, for the London and North-Western Railway, 436, 473
Locomotives, Notes on some Early, in the United ?States, 222
Locomotives ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 65, 81, 103, 121, x42 192, 201, 220, 252, 260
London Fire Brigade, The, 72
London Gas Question, The, 150, 345 ,270
London Water Companies' Accounts, The, 328
London Water Supply, The, 155, 402, 457
Lubricator, Hunt’s Suet, 399

Machine, Asquith’s Radial Drilling, 16
Machine, Bement and Son’s, Boring and Turning, 254
Machine for Cutting Bevel Gear, Corliss’s, 288 Machine, Garrett’s Thrashing and Finishing, 480
Machine, Heinemann’s Type-Composing, 480
Machine, Loader’s Haymaking, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 77
Machine for Sea Sounding, Sir William Thomson’s, 328
Machine, Wagner and Company’s Double Shearing, Straightening, and Punching. 490
Machines, Flour-Dre,*Bing and See .-Cleauini, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30
Machines, Haymaking, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 45, 77
Machines, Reaping, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 46
Machines, Sheaf Binding, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 47
Machines, Thrashing, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 47
Machinery, Retort-Stoking, 184 Mackie’s Wrought-Iron Spring Pulleys, 450 Mackinder’s Elastic Wheel, 450
McLaren’s Traction Engines, 37, 68
Main Drainage, The Thames Valley, 190 Maintenance of Rolling Stock, lhe, 112 Manganese Bronze and Gun-Metal, 330 Manufacture of Coke, The, 227, 241
Marine Boiler, Scott’s High-Pressure, 414
Marine Steam Fleet, Twenty Minutes with our Commercial, in 1877, 204
Marshall’s Wrought-Iron Under-Gear, 450
Materials, Price List of, 20, 40, 60,82, 100,118,138 158, 178, 198, 218, 238, 258, 278, 296, 316, 334, 352, 370, 390, 408, 426, 444, 464, 484, 504
Measurement of Curreuts, On the, 483^
Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of {Se6 Engimers^ Th^ Institution of Mechanical)
Mechanical Primer, Professor Abel’s; Notes on Torpedoes, 83
Mechanical Puddling, 244, 255
Mechanism, Johnson’s Breechloading, 442
Meeting, Annual, of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 478
Meiggs, Henry, 343
Memorial Hall, The Stephenson, 305
Metal, Gun, The Strength of, 273
Metals, The Electrical Deposition of, 482
Metals, The Protection of, by Oxides, 304
Metropolitan Gas Question, The, 160, 270, 345
Metropolitan Water Companies’ Accounts, The, 328
Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 155, 402, 457
Meyer’s Multiplex System of Telegraphy, 6
Middlesbrough New Gas Tank, The, 422
Mill, The Pelican, Colorado, 297
Mill, Tide, The Source of the Power of the, 345
Mills and Chaff-Cutters at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30
Mills’ Hydraulic Crane, 134
Mines of Cornwall and Devon, The, 235, 275
Mines, Firing, 125, 236
Mining in California, Hydraulic, 353, 409, 445, 485
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 47
Mississippi River Improvements, The; Report of Captain J. B. Eads, 54
Moncrieff Hydro-Pneumatic Gun-Carriage, The, 478
Motion, Coal a Mechanism, not a Source of, 7
Motion, Wave, 196
Motor, The Keely, 406
Multiplex System of Telegraphy, Meyer’s, 6

Narrow Gauge Railway, Spooner’s Double-Bogie
Locomotive for the North Wales, 399
Narrow Gauge Railways in India, 130
NAVAL ARCHITECTS. THE INSTITUTE OP: 169, 180
“Nelson”and “Northampton,” The, 184
On Lloyd’s Numerals, by W. Denny, 173
On Transverse and other Strains of Ships, by W. John, 175
On uu,-hiug Large Ships, by J. D. A. Saiiiu -a, 177
<,?n ' aier Ballast, by Benjamin Martell, 185
Ou the Effect of Punching on Iron and Steel Plates, by A. C. Kirk, 195
On Propulsion of Vessels, by W. J. Millar, 216
On the Strength of Boilers, by J. Milton, 293, 314
Ou the Action of Screw PropePers, with some Notice of Certain uefects in the tonus in Ordinary Usa, and of a Mode of Construction design-d to reduce these Defects, by James Howden, 313
On the Cou< se of Study in the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, with Specimens of the Work done by students of iNaval Architecture, by W, H. White,323, 568. 420
Shipbuilaing Yards at Dunbarton, 184
Twenty Minutes with our Commercial Marine Steam Fleet in 1877, by J. R. Ravenhill, 204
Works of John Elder and Company, 182
Works of the Steel Company of Scotland, 184 Naval College, The Royal, 323, 368, 420 “Nelson” and “ Northampton,” The, 184 New Dynamometer, A, 67, 90, 95, 349 New Zealand Telegraphs; Annual Report, 381 New burn Steel Works, The, 271 Niagara, TneUpward Jets of, 188 Non-Compound and Compound Engines; Experiments with Machinery of American Revenue Steamers, 53
Non-Condensing Horizontal Engine. Tangye’s, 492
Notes from Cleveland, 10, 30, 50, 76, 98, 115, 128, 148, 172, 193, 208, 226, 248, 268, 288, 311, 332, 349, 367, 379, 400, 418, 433, 454, 479, 491
Notes on some Early Locomotives in the United States, 222
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 19, 39, 69, 76, 85, 157,177, 197, 217, 234,287, 315, 331, 350, 389, 405, 426, 454, 481, 603
Notes on Gas Making (See Qas Making, Notes on). Notes from the North, 10, 35, 55, 75, 97, 115,128,
153, 168, 193, 208, 225, 254, 268,288, 312, 326, 344, 362,380,400, 417, 436, 454, 479, 494
Notes from the South-West, 10, 39, 65, 70, 97, 110,128, 153, 172, 188, 208, 225, 248,267, 286,303, 332, 314, 360, 379, 397, 418, 436, 459, 471, 491
Notes from South Yorkshire, 8, 36, 56, 70, 97, 110,128, 154, 172, 193, 208,228, 248,268, 293, 306, 326, 344, 360, 380,400, 418, 436, 454, 479, 491
Notes on Torpedoes (See Torpedoes^ Notes on}
Numerals, Lloyd’s, 173

OBITUARY: (see separate index)
Observatory Tower at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 490
Office Sale Room, The Patent, 13
Ormiston’s Prince’s Dock, Bombay, 267
‘Otter,” Rankin and Blackmore’s Disconnecting Compound Engines of the, 9
Otis Iron and Steel Works, The ; American Iron and Steel Works, 61
Oxides, The Protection of Metals by, 304

Passenger Oars, Standard First-Class; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 404, 458
Passenger and Freight Equipment, Tables of; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 340, 341
Passenger, Sleeping, and Freight Cars; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 337
Patent Bill, The Withdrawal of the, 51
Patent Commissioners’ Report, The, 250
Patent Laws, The Assimilation of, 210
Patent Laws and the Trades Congress, The, 249
Patent Office Sale Room, The, 13
Pelican Mill, The. Colorado, 297
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, THE: 3, 21,41, 65, 84, 103, 121, 142, 162,192, 201, 220, 252, 260, 283, 299, 331, 337, 340, 366, 376, 404, 413, 431, 458, 467, 499
Locomotives:
Axle-Boxes, Wedges, and Shoes, 162
Axles, 162
Boilers, 121
Bridge Pipe and Relief Gear for “ I” Engines, 142
Cab, Standard, 106
Connecting and Coupling Rods, 201
Cost of One Class “ 0” Anthracite Locomotive, 260
Cost of One Class “0” Bituminous Locomotive, 252
Cost and Materials for First-Class Passenger Car, 413
Crossheads, 192
Cylinder and Pet Cocks, 204
Cylinders, 192
Dimensions, Weights, &c., of Locomotives, 66
Driving Wheels, 103
Eccentrics and Straps, 164
Engine Frame and Attachments, Standard, 84 Feed Pumps, 201
Guide Bars, 201
Labour on One Class “C” Bituminous Locomotive, 220
Lazy Cock Rigging, 204
Pilot, Standard, 84
Piston, Standard, 192
Safety Valve, The Richardson, 144
Sand Box and Distributor, 144 Springs, 164
Steam Pipes, Admission Valve, and Exhaust, 142
Throttle Lever and Stuffing Box, Class “C” Engines, 142
Truck Engine. Standard Four-Wheeled, 85
Truck Standard Two-Wheeled, 85
Whistle for Passenger Engine, 144
Miscellaneous:
Bridge and Float Transfer, 22
Harbour and Dockyard on Lake Erie, 4 Philadelphia and Erie Division, 3 Stock Yards and Abattoir, The West Philadelphia, 21 '
Wheels, Cast Iron Chilled, 41
Rolling Stock:
Car, Caboose, Four-Wheeled, 414
Car, Cost and Materials for First-Class Passenger, 413
Car, Directors*, and Standard Wagon Truck, 458
Car, Drop-Bottom Gondola, Cost of, 431
Car, Standard Drop Bottom Gondola, 499
Car, Standard Eight-Wheeled Gravel Dump, 467
Car, Standard Passenger, 413
Car Truck, Standard Four-Wheeled Passenger, 366
Car Truck, Standard Freight, and Springs, 458
Car Truck, Standard Passenger Six-Wheeled, 376
Cars, Passenger, Sleeping and Freight, 337 Cars, Passenger, Standard First Class, 404, 458
Equipments, Passenger and Freight, Tables of, 340,341
Tenders:
Class “ I” Shunting Engines, Standard Tender for, 331
Freight and Passenger Tender Truck, Standard, 299
Passenger Engine, Standard Tender for, 283
Petroleum in Japan, 502
Petzold's Spaik-Extinguishing Apparatus, 449
Phenomenon of Evaporation, The, 149
Philadelphia and Erie Division; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 3
Phosphorus, The Elimination of, and the Direct
Process of Manufacturing Iron, 240
Pilot, Standard; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 84
Pins and Eye-Bar Heads, Proportions of, as Determined by Experiment, 425
Piston, Standard; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 192
Plates, Compound Armour, Trials of, 475
Plattner’s Process, Extraction of Gold by, in California, 112,119
Ploughing Engine, Burrell and Sons’ Eight-Horse Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 214
Pollution of Rivers Prevention Act, The, 112
Pollution of Rivers, The, and its Remedies, 290
Portable and Fixed Engines at the Smithfield Show, 447
Portable Hoist, Contractor’s, Chapman and Sutton’s, 304
“ Potential” Energy, 43
Precipitation and Fusion of the Gold; Extraction of Gold by Plattner’s Process in California, 120
Press, Bowing’s Filter, 38
Price List of Materials, 20, 40, 60, 82, lOO, 118, 138,158, 178, 198, 218, 238, 268, 278, 296, 316, 334, 352, 370, 390, 408, 426, 444, 464, 484, 604
Primer, Professor Abel’s Mechanical; Notes on Torpedoes, 83
Prince’s Dock, Bombay, Ormiston’s, 267
Principles, Construction, and Uses of the Aneroid, The, 63, 121, 291, 318, 354
Private Bills for Session 1878, 439,476
Progress of Steam Shipping, The, 377
Propellers, Screw, on the Action of, 313
Propulsion of Vessels, The, 216
Protheroe’s Electric Signalling Apparatus for Divers, 127
Puddling Furnace, Roe’s Rotary, 56
Puddling, Mechanical, 244, 255
Pump, Parker and Weston’s Compound Steam, 185
Pump, Vertical Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 332
Pumping Engine, Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey’s, at the Croydon Water Works, 357
Pumping Engines for Sydney, 10
Pumps, Feed; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 201 Pumps, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 27
Punching on Iron and Steel Plates, The Effect of, 195
Punching, Straightening, and Double Shearing Machine, Wagner and Company’s, 490
Puridcation of Iron and Steel, The, 231, 257, 276 294

Queensland Telegraphs, Annual Report of the, 130

Radial Drilling Machine, Asquith’s, 16
Railroad, The Pennsylvania {See Pennsylvania Railroad)
Railway Accidents in 1876; Annual Report of the Board of Trade, 189, 289
Railway Brake, Sanders’ Automatic Vacuum, 114
Railway Brakes, Continuous; Trials in Germany, 261, 309
Railway Brakes, Continuous; Trials on the North- Eastern Railway, 12
Railway Brakes, Continuous, and Mr. Yeomans, 363
Railway, The Caledonian Company’s Wishaw Line, 341
Railway Carriage Coupling, Becker’s, 424
Railway Coupling, Harrison’s, 493
Railway Gauge, 81
Railway Progress, 1876; The Board of Trade Report, 308
Railway Signals, 496
Railway Working, 401
Railways in India, Narrow Gauge, 130
Railways, Indian, 327
Railways of Japan, The, 179
Raising the Steamship •• Edith,” 480
Rakes, Horse, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 46
Rankin and Blackmore’s Disconnecting Compound Engines of the “ Otter,” 9
Reaping Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 46
Recorder, Speed, and Indicator, Theiler’s Patent, 155
Reeves’ Excavator, 312
Regulus Smelting; The Clausthal Lead-Smelting Works, 498
Relief Gear and Bridge Pipe for “I” Engines; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 142
Report, Annual, on New Zealand Telegraphs, 381
Report, Annual, on the Queensland Telegraphs, 130
Report, Annual, of the Thames Conservancy Board, 51
Report of Captain J. B. Eads on the Mississippi River Improvements, 54
Report of the Council of the British Association, 132
Report of Mr. Douglass to the Trinity Board, 333, 351
Report of the Factory Inspectors, 94
Report to the Master Mechanics’ Convention, Philadelphia, on Locomotive Fireboxes, 57, 77, 116, 137,197, 263,276
Report of the Patent Commissioners, The, 250
Report of the Postmaster-General; Our Telegraphs, 250
Report of Professor Tyndall to the Trinity Board, 303
Report of the Select Committee on the London Fire Brigade, 72
Report on the Use of Steel for Shipbuilding, 361
Reports on H.M.S. “Inflexible,” The, 31, 52, 229, 270, 455, 495
Research, Scientific, and the Government, 11 Retort-Stoking Machinery, 184
Rigging, Lazy Cock; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 204
River Improvements, The Mississippi; Report of Captain J. B.Eads, 54
Rivers, The Act to Prevent the Pollution of, 112 Rivers, The Pollution of, and its Remedies, 290 Rivers Thames and Lea, The, 93
Roasting the Ore; Extraction of Gold by Plattner’s Process in California, 112
Roasting the Ore; The Pelican Mill, Colorado, 297
Robey’s Vertical Engine, 450
Rock Drill, Jordan’s Hand-Power, 424
Rod, The Lightning, 32
Rods, Connecting and Coupling; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 201
Roe’s Rotary Puddling Furnace, 66
Rolling Mills, Belgian Three-High, Improvements in, 226, 244
Rolling Stock Maintenance, 112
Royal Naval College, The, 323, 358,420
Rural Water Supply, 75
Russian Torpedoes; Official Reports, 19

Safety Valve, The Richardson; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 144
Safety Valves, 72
Sole Room, The Patent Office, 13
Sand Bars, The Removal of, 215
Sand Box and Distributor; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 144
Sanders’ Automatic Vacuum Railway Brake, 114
Sandusky Water Works, Ohio, Water Tower at the,361
School in Vienna, The Imperial Technical, 290
Schools, Telegraphy in, 438
Science and Limited Liability, 32
Scientific Research and the Government, 11
Scott’s High-Pressure Marine Boiler, 414
Screw Propellers, On the Action of, 313
Sea Sounding, Sir William Thomson’s Machine for, 328
Sea Torpedo, Harvey’s; Notes on Torpedoes, 391
Sectional Boiler, Davies’, 127
Seed-Cleaning and Flour-Dressing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 30
Selenium, 438
Selig’s Safety Belt Shipper, 135
Session 1877-78, The institution of Civil Engineers, Subjects for Papers, 389
Session 1878, Private Bills for, 439, 476
Setting out Curves by Theodolite, 502
Severn Tunnel, The, 79, 94
“Shah,” H.M.S.,and the “ Huascar,” 129
“Shannon,” H.M.S., Trials of Ventilating Arrangements, 330
Sheaf Binders at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, Trials of, 150
Sheaf-Binding Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 47
Shipbuilding, Report on the Use of Steel for, 361
Shipbuilding Yards at Dunbarton, The, 184 Ships, Launching Large, 177
Ships, Reed's New War, for Japan and China, 371
Ships at Sea, The Behaviour of, 441, 461
Ships, Strains on, 175
Show of the Royal Agricultural Society at Liverpool (See Agricultural Show, The Royals Liverpool).
Show, Smithfield Club (See Club Show., Smithfield) Signalling Apparatus for Divers, Protheroe's Electric, 127
Signals, Railway, 496 Silicate Paint, 14
Slag, The Utilisation of, 244, 247 Slide Valves, Circular, 81,94
Source of Motion, Coal a Mechanism, not a, 7
Source of the Power of the Tide Mill, The, 345
South West, Notes from the, 10, 39, 55, 70, 97, 110, 128, 153, 172, 188, 208, 225, 248, 267, 285, 303, 332,344, 360, 379,397, 418, 436, 459, 471, 491
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 8, 36, 56,70, 97,110, 128, 154, 172, 193, 208, 228, 248, 268, 293, 306, 326, 344, 360, 380, 400, 418, 436, 454, 479, 491
Spark-Extinguishing Apparatus, Petzold’s, 449
Speed Recorder and Indicator, Theiler’s Patent, 155
Spooner’s Double-Bogie Fairlie Locomotive for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, 399
Springs; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 164
Standard Cab ; the Pennsylvania Railroad, 106
Standard Drop Bottom Gondola Car; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 499
Standard Eight-Wheeled Gravel Dump Car; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 467
Standard Engine Frame and Attachments; The Pennyslvania Railroad, 84
Standard First-Class Passenger Cars; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 404,458
Standard Four-Wheeled Engine Truck; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 85
Standard Four-Wheel Passenger Car Truck; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 366
Standard Freight and Passenger Tender Truck ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 299
Standard Passenger Car; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 413
Standard Pilot; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 84 Standard Piston; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 192
Standard Six-Wheel Passenger Car Truck; Pennsylvania Railroad, 376
Standard Tender for Class “1” Shunting engines ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 331
Standard Tender for Passenger Engine ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 283
Standard Two-Wheeled Truck; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 85
Standard Wagon Truck and Directors’ Car; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 458
Steam Boilers, The Inspection of, 308 Steam Engine Governor, Andrade’s, 443 Steam Fleet, Our Commercial Marine, Twenty
Minutes with in 1877, 204
Steam Hammer, Thirty-Ton, Thwaites and Carbutt’s for the Elswick Works, Newcastle-on- Tyne, 341
Steam Pipes, Admission Valve and Exhaust; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 142
Steam-Ploughing Engine, Burrell and Sons’ Eight-Horse, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 214
Steam-Ploughing Engines and Traction Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 23 Steam Pump, Compound, Parker and Weston’s, 185
Steam Pump, Vertical, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 332
Steam Pumps at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 27
Steam Shipping, The Progress of, 377
Steam, Water in, 501
Steam and Water Valve, House’s, 194 Steamship “ Edith,” Raising the, 480 Steel, Blister, 244, 275
Steel Company of Scotland, Works of the, 184
steel and Iron Works, The Otis; American Iron and Steel Works, 61
Steel for Shipbuilding, Report on the Use of Steel for, 361
Steel Works, The Crescent, of Messrs. Miller, Metcalf, and Parkin; American Iron and Steel Works, 395
Stephenson Memorial Hall, The, 305
Stern-Wheel Steamer, Yarrow and Company’s Light Draught, 432
Stock, Rolling, The Maintenance of, 112
Stock Yards and Abattoir, The, of West Philadelphia ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 21
Stoking Machinery, Retort, 184
Stone, Artificial, American, 74
Straightening, Double Shearing, and Punching Machine, Wagner and Company’s, 490
Strains on Ships, 175
Straps and Eccentrics; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 164
Straw-Burning Engine, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 448
Strength of Bars, The, 53
Strength of Boilers, 293, 314
Strength of Gun-Metal, The, 273
Strength of Unstayed Flat Surfaces, The, 239
Stuckenholz and Company’s Twenty-Ton Travelling Crane, 87
Stuffing-Box and Throttle Lever, Class “ C”
Engines; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 142
Submarine Cables, Jamieson’s Grapnel for, 431
Sulphur and Copper Company, The Tharsis, 243
Sulphur Question, The, in London; Notes on Gas Making, 336,f446
Swing Bridge, Newcastle, The, 242

Tangye’s Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, 492
Tank Locomotive for the London and North- Western Railway, 436, 473
Tank, The Middlesbrough New Gas, 422
Taps, The Construction and Use of, 18
Technical School in Vienna, The Imperial 290
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of (See Engineers, The Society of Telegraph) ,
Telegraphs, New Zealand; Annual Report, 381
Telegraphs, Our; Report of the Postmaster- General, 250
Telegraphs, Queensland, Annual Report on the, 130
Telegraphy, Aillhaud’s Duplex System of, 74
Telegraphy, Meyer’s Multiplex System of, 6
Telegraphy in Schools, 438
Telephone, Edison’s, 211 |
Telephonic Telegraphy, 152, 170, 365, 381 !
Tender, Standard, for Class “I” Shunting Engine; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 331 |
Tender, Standard, for Passenger Engine; The Pennsylvania Kail road, 283
Tender Truck, Standard Freight and Passenger; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 299
Testing Engines, 170
Thames Conservancy Board, Annual Report of the, 61
Thames and the Lea, The, 93
Thames Valley Main Drainage, The, 190
Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company, The, 243
Theiler’s Patent Speed Recorder and Indicator, 155
Theodolite, Setting out Curves by, 502
Thermodynamics, Hirn’s, 5,124, 299, 429
Thompson’s Indicator, 312
Thompson’s Lantern Galvanometer, 346
Thomson, Sir William’s, Machine for Sea Sounding, 328
Thomson, Grinder,
Thrashing and Finishing Machine, 480
Thrashing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 47
Three-High Belgian Rolling Mills, Improvements in, 226, 244
Throttle Lever and Stuffing-Box, Class “ O” Engines ; The Pennsylvania Railroad. 142
Thwaites and Carbutt’s Thirty - Ton Steam Hammer for the Elswick Works, Newcastle- on-Tyne, 341
Tide Mill, The Source of the Power of the, 345
Tillage, Implements of, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 45
Torpedo Defence; Notes on Torpedoes, 279
Torpedo Experiments, French, 50
TORPEDOES, NOTES ON :
Electric Batteries, 161
Electric Fuzes, Jointers, Signalling, &c., 219 Harvey’s Sea Torpedo, 391
Mechanical Primer, Professor Abel’s, 83 Torpedo Defence, 279
Torpedoes, Russian; Official Reports, 19
Tower, Observatory, at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 490
Traction Engine, McLaren’s, 37, 68
Traction and Steam-Ploughing Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 23
Trades Congress, The, and the Patent Laws, 249
Tramways, Geneva, Permanent Way for the, 154
Transfer Bridge and Float; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 22
Transfer of Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 453
Transport, General Arrangements for; The Paris Exhibition, 441
Trials, Compound Armour Plate, 475
Trials of H.M.S. “Iris,” 481
Trials of Sheaf Binders at the Royal Agricultural
Show. Liverpool, 150
Tubes, Fixing Boiler, 199, 335
Tunnel, The Severn, 79, 94
Turner’s Horizontal Engine, 450
Turner’s Horse Gear at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 68
Turner’s Vertical Engine with Reversing Gear, 435
Turning and Boring Machine, Bement and Son’s, 254
Twenty-Ton Travelling Crane, Stuckenholz and Company’s, 87
Two-Wheeled Truck, Standard; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 85
Tyndall, Professor, Report of, to the Trinity Board, 303
Tynewydd Colliery Accident, The, 79, 95
Type Composing Machine, Heinemann’s, 480

Unstayed Flat Surfaces, The Strength of, 239
Upward Jets of Niagara, The, 188
Use and Construction of Taps, The, 18
Utilisation of Slag, The, 244,247

Vacuum Railway Brake, Sanders’ Automatic, 114
Valve Gear, Brown’s Locomotive, 325
Valve Gear, Collmann’s Horizontal Engine with, 473
Valve, House s Steam and Water, 194
Valves, Circular Slide, 81, 94
Valves, Safety, 72
Vapours, The Elasticity and Density of, 17, 38 Ventilating Ironclads, 330
Vertical Compound Engine. J. Fowler and Company’s, with Allison’s Boiler, 126
Vertical Engine, Robey’s, 450
Vertical Engine, Turner’s, with Reversing Gear, 435
Vertical Steam Pump at the Royal Agricultural Show, Liverpool, 332
Vessels, The Propulsion of, 216
Viaduct, The Douro, 346
Vienna Imperial Technical School, The, 290

Wagner and Company’s Punching and Double Shearing Machine, 490
Wallis and Steevens’ Eight-Horse Agricultural Locomotive, 144
War Ships, New, for Japan and China, 371
Water Ballast, 185
Water Bills, The Metropolitan, 457
Water Companies’ Accounts, The Metropolitan, 328
Water in Steam, 501
Water Supply, The London, 155, 402, 457
Water Supply; The Paris Exhibition,487
Water Supply, Rural, 75
Water Tower at the Sandusky Water Works, Ohio, 361
Water Works, Croydon, Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey’s Pumping Engine at the, 357
Wave Motion, 196
Waves, The Curving of, round Bays and Breakwaters, 427
Way, Permanent, for the Geneva Tramways, 154
Webb’s Tank Locomotive for the London and North-Western Railway, 436, 473
Wedges, Axle .Boxes, and Shoes; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 162
Weimer’s Anthracite Blast Furnace, 287
Wheel, Mackinder’s Elastic, 450
Wheels, Cast Iron Chilled; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 41
Wheels, Driving; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 103
Whistle for Passenger Engine; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 144
Wilson, Edward, C.E., 212
Wishaw Line, The Caledonian Railway Company’s, 341
Withdrawal of the Patent Bill, The, 51
Woods, Mr. Edward, President of the Mechanical Science Section of the British Association, Address of, 156
Working Railways, 401
Works of the Bethlehem Iron Company; American Iron and Steel Works, 139, 159, 199, 301, 321
Works, The Bo’ness Harbour, 212
Works, The Cedar Point Company’s; American Iron and Steel Works, 465
Works, The Clarence Iron, 272
Works, The Clausthal Lead-Smelting, 1,140,259, 319, 383, 428, 498
Works, The Elswick, 271
Works, The Eston Steel, 272
Works of Messrs. John Elder and Company, 182
Works of Messrs. Miller, Metcalf, and Parkin, The Crescent Steel; American Iron and Steel Works, 395
Works, The Newburn Steel, 271
Works, The Otis Iron and Steel; American Iron and Steel Works, 61
Works of the Steel Company of Scotland, The, 184
Worm Gearing, Hawkins’s, 350
Wrought-Iron Spring Pulleys, Mackie’s, 450
Wrought Iron Under-Gear, Marshall’s, 450

Yards, Shipbuilding, at Dunbarton, 184.
Yarrow and Company’s Light-Draught Stern-Wheel Steamer, 432

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