Engineering 1878 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABOUCHOFF Steel Works, St. Petersburg, Eastons and Anderson's Sixty-Ton Steam Forge Crane for the, 65
Accident, Railway, The Hatfield, 30, 180
Accidents, Recent Railway, 157
Accidents, Two Railway, 69
Accuracy of Indicator Diagrams, The, 77, 294
Action of Railway Brakes, The, 432, 469, 490
Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 50
Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. John Robinson, at Paris, 476
Address of the President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Dr. Siemens, 85, 111
Administration and Service Bureaux ; The Paris Exhibition, 225
Admiralty Boiler Committee, The, 263, 389
Admission to the Exhibition; The Paris Exhibition, ;341
Aerial Telegraph Lines, Insulators for, 254
Agricultural Locomotives, 132
Air Injector for Air Vessels, Wipperman and Lewis's, 16
Alarum, Cooke's Telephonic, 451
Alcock's Fifty-Ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 84
Algerian Palace at the Paris Exhibition, 161
Amateur's Foot Lathe, 240
American Iron and Steel Works (See Iron and Steel Works, American)
American Railway Appliances, 229
American Society of Engineers (See Engineers, The American Society of)
American Telegraphy, 167
Annual Meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects, 286
Annual Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 247, 259, 274
Apparatus, Dynamo-Electric, 63, 87
Aquarium at the Paris Exhibition, 42, 85
Architects, Naval, The Education of, 347
Armour Plates, Compound, 147
Art of Puddling, The ; its Past, Present, and Future, 376
Artillery (Broadwell), Krupp, 244
Arts, The Society of (See Society of Arts, The)
Association of Chambers of Commerce, The, and the Patent Laws, 186
Atkinson's Feed-Water Heater, 436
Automatic Brake, The Westinghouse ; Standard Brake Rigging for Carriages on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 203

Barnard and Wright's Report on the Mouths of the Mississippi, 65, 111
Barrel, The Glazing; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 138
Bateman, Mr. John Frederic, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Address of, 50
Battery, Byrne's Pneumatic, 207, 417, 421
Bay State Iron Company, Plate Mill of the ; American Iron and Steel Works, 401
Becquerel, Regnault, and Secchi, 205
Bedplates and Framing; Steam Engines at the Paris Exhibition, 499
Belleville Boiler, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Belleville Boiler, Portable Engine with, at the Paris Exhibition, 387
Bernays' Twin Cylinder Engine, at the Paris Exhibition, 353
Bessemer Product at the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company's Works, 227
Bessemer Steel, The Manufacture of, 275, 290
Bevan, Mr. G. Phillips, on Strikes in 1877, 7
Beverley and Atkins' Stone Sawing Engine, 516
Bill, The Factories and Workshops, 146
Bill, The Telegraphs, 324
Binder, Wood's Sheaf, 182
Black, Hawthorn, and Company's Tank Locomotive (3 ft. Gauge) at the Paris Exhibition, 509
Blair Process, The, 274, 289
Black Copper, Smelting for; The Clausthal Lead-Smelting Works, 19, 57
Block, Plummer, Chapman and Sutton's, 170
Board of Trade, The, and Clyde Shipbuilders, 200
Board of Trade, The, and Railways, 105
Boiler, The Belleville, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Boiler Committee, The Admiralty, 263, 389
Boiler and Engine Trials at the South Metropolitan Gas Works, 79, 108, 116
Boiler Explosion, Dublin. Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher on the, 395
Boiler Explosions ; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 120
Boiler Explosions in 1877; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 162
Boiler Explosions, Steam ; Communication from the Manchester Steam Users' Association to the Home Secretary, 266
Boiler Flues, Apparatus for Testing, 260
Boiler Making, Report on the Use of Steel for, 131
Boiler Making and Shipbuilding, Steel Plates for,. 47, 127, 165, 223, 303
Boilers, The Corrosion of, 431, 495
Boilers, Corrugated Flues for, 245, 284, 3G9
Boilers, High-Pressure Steam, 373
Boilers, Locomotive, 122
Boilers, Meunier's, at the Paris Exhibition, 493
Boilers, Steam, The Circulation of Water in, 30
Boilers, Steel, On Experiments Relative to, 310, 320, 354, 396
Boilers, Steel Marine, 305, 459
Boilers, Twin, Smith and Alexander's, 27
Bolckow, Mr. H. W. F., 494
Boring Machine for Locomotive Cylinders, Sharp, Stewart and Co's Portable, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Box Engine, Outridge's, 52
Brake, Clark and Webb's Continuous, for the London and North-Western Railway, 46, 104
Brake, Smith's Vacuum, Experiments with the ; The Hatfield Railway Accident, 181
Brake Squib Attachment, Smith's Vacuum, 170
Brake Trials, Vacuum, between Paris and Creil, 493
Brake, The Westinghouse Automatic ; Standard Brake Rigging for Carriages on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 203
Brakes, Continuous Railway; Returns to the Railway Companies' Association, 264
Brakes, Railway, the Action of, 432, 469, 490
Brakes for Railway Trains, Continuous, 112
Branfill's Earthwork Measurer, 160
Brazilian Ironclad, The " Independencia," 107
Breaking-Down Machine; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 95
Bridge, The East River, Notes on the Masonry of, 53, 121, 171
Bridge, Floating, The Hooghly, 201
Bridge, Matthyssen's Proposed Lifting, over the River Scheldt at Antwerp, 140
Bridge at Prague, A New, 859
Bridge over the River Sarpsfos; Norwegian State Railways, 10, 26, 62
Bridge, The Tay, Official Inspection of, 181
Bridges, Indian Railway, 362
Bridges, Long-Span Railway, 405
British Catalogue ; The Paris Exhibition, 341
British Ironclads, 224
British Section ; The Paris Exhibition, 237
Brown's Valve Gear, Horizontal Condensing Engine with, at the Paris Exhibition, 475
Brunton and Trier's Stone-Dressing Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Building of the Ville de Paris; The Paris Exhibition, 336, 362
Bureaux, Administration and Service; The Paris Exhibition, 225
Byrne's Pneumatic Battery, 207, 417, 421

California, Hydraulic Mining in, 20, 58
Cambria Iron and Steel Works ; American Iron and Steel Works, 422, 485
Canadian Railways, The, 175, 214, 313, 360, 400, 508
Canal, The Delaware and Raritan; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 198
Car, Hand; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 43
Car, Standard Box ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 24
Carbon Telephone, Edison's, 496
Cascade, The Grand; The Paris Exhibition, 225
Casting Apparatus, Steel, 274, 289
Catalogue, The British ; The Paris Exhibition, 341
Centrifugal Pumping Engine, Gwynne and Company's, 62
Chairmen, Professional, 185
Chambers of Commerce, The Association of, and the Patent Laws, 186
Chapman and Sutton's Plummer Block, 170
Charcoal Grinding Mill ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 37
Chocolate Factory, Menier's, at the Paris Exhibition, 444, 491
Circulating Pump, Manley's Steam, at the Paris Exhibition, 451
Circulation of Water in Steam Boilers, The, 30
Clark and Webb's Continuous Brake for the London and North-Western Railway, 46, 104
Classification of Exhibits; The Paris Exhibition, 338
Clausthal Lead-Smelting Works, The, 19, 57
Cleveland, Notes from, 15, 28, 51, 66, 90, 101, 122, 144, 169, 184, 204, 228, 242, 262, 288, 302, 322, 368, 388, 408, 430, 450, 478, 494, 521
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company's Works, The; American Iron and Steel Works, 256
Clyde Shipbuilders and Board of Trade, The, 200
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade in 1877, The, 8, 32
Coal Mine Locomotives, 507
Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 391, 399, 448
Coal Truck, Standard ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 14
Coalfield, The Formosan, 89
College, The Royal Naval, and the Mercantile Marine, 353
Collision and Loss of the " Grosser Kurfurst," 453
Committee, The Admiralty Boiler, 263, 389
Compound Armour Plates, 147
Compound Engine, Trial of Donkin and Co.'s, at the South Metropolitan Gas Works, 79, 108, 116
Compound Engine Trial ; Report of M. Walther-Meunier, 4, '21
Compound Engine for Tug-Boat, 469
Compound Engines with Correy's Variable Expansion Gear, 491, 504
Compound Engines for Rail Mill, Tannett, Walker, and Company's, 388, 430
Compound Mill Engine, Holborow and Company's, 386
Compound-Plate Battery, Byrne's, 417, 421
Compounding a Horizontal Engine, 202
Computation of Earthwork, Branfill's Diagrams for, 160
Condensing Engine, Dick and Stevenson's Horizontal, 184
Condensing Engine, Horizontal, Duvergier's, at the Paris Exhibition, 428
Condensing Engine, Horizontal, at the Paris Exhibition, 475
Conductors, Metallic, Telegraphy without, 13, 147
Construction of Railways in Japan, The, 379 Continuous Brakes for Railway Trains, 112
Continuous Railway Brakes; Returns to the Railway Companies' Association, 264
Contracts and Cost of Materials ; The Paris Exhibition, 196
Contracts and Works, The Cost of ; The Paris Exhibition, 286, 287, 307
Converting Furnace, Ponsard's, at the Paris Exhibition, 450
Cooke's Telephonic Alarum, 451
Cormack's Steam Stop 'Valve, '221
Corpet and Bourdon's Narrow Gauge Locomotive at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Corrosion of Boilers, The, 431, 495
Corrugated-Flues for Boilers, 245, 284, 369
Cost of Maintenance of Passenger and Freight Cars ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 120
Cost of the Maintenance of Way; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 99, 119
Cost of Motive Power ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 140, 141, 160
Cost of One Standard Box Car ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 25
Cost of Running, Mileage, and Repairs of Thirty-seven Engines for One Month; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 161
Cost of Works and Contracts; The Paris Exhibition, 286, 287, 307
Couplings, Railway, Trial of, 182
Crane, Alcock's Fifty-Ton Overhead Travelling, 84
Crane, Sixty-Ton Steam Forge, Eastons and Anderson's, for the Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 65
Crookes's Experiments on. Repulsion from Radiation, 68, 73, 145, 155, 195, 253, 293
Crown Point Iron Company's Mines and Works, The; American Iron and Steel Works, 208, 216
Cylinder Boring Machine, Portable, for Locomotives, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 351

Deal Frame, Ransome's Single, at the Paris Exhibition, 426
Deep-Sea Thermometer, A Standard, 226 Delaware and Raritan Canal ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 198
Densemeter ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 236
Deposits, Parliamentary; 409
Diagrams, Indicator, The Accuracy of, 77, 294
Diamond Furnace, The ; American Iron and Steel Works, 235
Dick and Stevenson's Horizontal Condensing Engine, 184
Differential Screw Jack, Zobel, Neubert, and Company's, 5'22
Dimension Sawing Machine, Richards', 151 Dion, M. de, 350
Direct-Acting Hydraulic Press, Taylor's, 190
Direct-Acting Steam and Hydraulic Press, A, 92
Direct Process of Making Wrought Iron and steel, On the, 54, 74
Discussion on Experiments Relative to Steel Boilers, 854, 896
Disintegrator, The Vapart, 491
Disposal of Sewage and Water Supply, 454
Disposal of Town Refuse, 518
Distribution of Space ; The Paris Exhibition, 338
Dock Extension, The Victoria, 246
Dome, Central, of the Grand Vestibule ; The Paris Exhibition, 322, 334
Douglas's Railway Coupling, Trial of, 182
Douro Viaduct, The, 457, 463, 494
Drilling Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Radial, at the Paris Exhibition, 366
Drying Stove ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 197
Dublin Boiler Explosion, Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher on the, 395
Dublin Exhibition of 1853, The, 343
Durham's Hydro-Steam Governor, 131
Dusting Reels ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 137
Duvergier's Horizontal Condensing Engine, at the Paris Exhibition, 428
Dynamo-Electric Apparatus, 63, 87
Dynamo-Electric Machines, Lontin's, 49

Earnings and Expenditure ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 89, 234
Earthwork Measurer, Branfill's, 160
East River Bridge, Notes on the Masonry of, 53, 121, 171
Eastons and Anderson's Sixty-Ton Steam Forge Crane for the Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 65
Edgar Thomson Steel Company, Works of the ; American Iron and Steel Works, 295, 313, 381
Edison's Carbon Telephone, 496
Edison's Talking Phonograph, 52, 186
" Edith," Steamship, Raising the, 280, 297
Education of Naval Architects, The, 347
Eighteen-Seventy-Eight, The Royal Society Soiree, 371
Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, Mr. G. Phillips Bevan on Strikes in, 7
Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, The Clyde Shipbuilding Trade in, 8, 32
Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, Mr. E. B. Marten's Report on Boiler Explosions in, 162
Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, Sanitary Summary for, 47
Eighteen-Seventy-Seven, The Scotch Iron Trade in, 33
Electricity, Lighting by Means of, 491, 52G
Electricity and Sound, 435
Embankments of the Thames, The, 318
Embankments and the Thames Tides, 323
Emery Grinding Machinery, at the Paris Exhibition, 443
Engine, Bernays' Twin Cylinder, at the Paris Exhibition, 353
Engine, Beverley and Atkins' Stone Sawing, 515
Engine and Boiler Trials at the South Metropolitan Gas Works, 79, 108, 116
Engine, Compound, for Tug-Boat, 469
Engine, Compounding a Horizontal, 202
Engine, Dick and Stevenson's Horizontal Condensing, 184
Engine, Duvergier's Horizontal Condensing, at the Paris Exhibition, 428
Engine, The Fairlie ; Prolongation of Patent, 304
Engine, Gibbon's Horizontal Non-Condensing, 123
Engine, Gwynne and Company's Centrifugal Pumping, 62
Engine, Holborow and Company's Compound Mill, 386
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, at the Paris Exhibition, 475
Engine, Mining, J. Fowler and Company's Thirty-Horse Semi-Portable, at the Paris Exhibition, 404
Engine, Outridge's Box, 52
Engine, Portable, with Belleville Boiler, at the Paris Exhibition, 387
Engine Trial, An ; Report of M. Walther-Meunier, 4, '21
Engine, Winans' Three-Cylinder, 407
Engineer, The, on Magnophonic Reporting, 435, 475
Engineering Laboratory, An, 264

ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
Notes on the Masonry of the East River Bridge, by Francis Collingwood, 53, 121, 171

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL; 11
Address of the President, 50
On Some Recent Improvements in Dynamo-Electric Apparatus, by Dr. Higgs, 63, 87
On the Evaporative Power of Locomotive Boilers, by J. A. Longridge, 122
On Liquid Fuel, by H. Aydon, 168
On the Hooghly Floating Bridge, by Bradford Leslie, 201
On Railway Appliances at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, by Douglas Galton, '229
On Direct-Acting or Non-Rotative Pumping Engines and Pumps, by Henry Davey, '239
On the Huelva Pier of the Rio Tinto Railway, by T. Gibson, 279
On the Embankments of the River Thames, by Edward Bazalgette, 318
On the Ravi Bridge, by R. T. Mallet ; on the Alexandra Bridge over the Chenab, by H. Lambert ; on the Jhelum Bridge, by F. M. Avern, 362
On the Construction of Steam Boilers adapted for very High Pressures, by James Fortescue Flannery, 373
On the Design generally of Iron Bridges of very Large Spans for Railway Traffic, by T. C. Clark, 405
Soiree, 434

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL;
105, 285, 297, 474, 487
Address of the President, Mr. John Robinson, 476
Ivry Gas Works, Visit to the, 490
Meeting, General, 285, 297
On the Application of Direct-Acting Pressure Intensifying Apparatus to Hydraulic Presses, by Ralph H. Tweddell, 92
On Continuous Brakes for Railway Trains, by R. D. Sanders, 112
On the Appliances and Operations for Raising the Wreck " Edith," at Holyhead, by Lawrence M. Kortright, 280, 297
On Experiments Relative to Steel Boilers, by William Boyd, 310, 320, 354, 396
On the Construction of Vessels to Resist High Internal Pressure, by Dr. C. William Siemens, 298, 308
Discussion on Experiments Relative to Steel Boilers, 354, 396
On the Effect of Brakes upon Railway Trains, by Captain Douglas Galion, 432, 469, 490
On Further Applications of the Flow of Solids, by M. Henri Tresca, 477, 502, 525
On the Hydraulic Machinery in the Shipbuilding Department of the Naval Dockyard at Toulon, by M. Marc Berrier Fontaine, 487
On Mechanical Traction on Tramways, by M. Anatole Mallet, 488, 503, 523
On the Greindl and other Rotary Pumps, by M. L. Poillon, 490
On Vertical Compound Engines Fitted. with Cerrey's Variable Expansion Gear, by Thomas Powell, 491, 504
On the Vapart Disintegrator, by M. Prosper Closson, 491
On Lighting by Means of Electricity, by M. Hippolyte Fontaine, 491 526
Vacuum Brake Trials, 493

ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH; 207
Address of the President, 85, 111
On American Telegraphy, by W. H. Preece, 167
On De la Rue's Chloride of Silver Cell, by Latimer Clark, 207
On Byrne's Pneumatic Battery, 207
On Barlow's Logograph, by W. H. Barlow, 208

Engines, Compound, with Correy's Variable Expansion Gear, 491, 504
Engines Compound, Tannett, Walker, and Company's, for Rail Mill, 388, 430
Engines, Non-Rotative Pumping, 239
Engines, Stationary, at the Paris Exhibition, 498
Engines, Winding, Shifting Slide Valves for, 278
English Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 411, 434, 509
Estimates, The Navy, 523
Excavating Scoop, J. Fowler and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 449

EXHIBITION, THE PARIS:
3, 42, GO, 85, 109, 135, 161, 19G, 225, 237, 264, 285, 286, 287, 305, 322, 333, 347, 372
Administration and Service Bureaux, 225
Admission to the Exhibition, 341
Algerian Palace, 161
Aquarium, The, 42, 85
Boiler, The Belleville, 351
Boilers, Meunier's, 493
British Section, 237
Building of the Vile do Paris, 336, 362
Catalogue, The British, 341
Classification of Exhibits 338
Agriculture and Pisciculture, 341
Alimentary Products, 340
Furniture and its Accessories, 338
Horticulture, 341
Mechanical Industry, Appliances and Processes connected with, 339
Raw and Manufactured Material ; Extractive Industries, 339
Coal Mining, 391, 399, 448
Contracts and Cost of Materials, 196
Cost of Works and Contracts, 286, 287, 307
Cylinder Boring Machine for Locomotives, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, 351
Dome, Central, of the Grand 'Vestibule, 322, 334
Domes, Corner, of the Grand Vestibule, 335
Drilling Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Radial, 366
Emery Grinding Machinery, 445
Engine, Duvergier's Horizontal Condensing, 428
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, 475
Excavating Scoop, J. Fowler and Company's, 449
Exhibitions, Previous ; 342
London Exhibition of 1851, 342
New York Exhibition of 1852, 343
Dublin Exhibition of 1853, 343
Paris Exhibition of 1855, 313
London Exhibition of 1862, 343
Paris Exhibition of 1867, 343
Vienna Exhibition of 1873, 344
Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, 345
Explosives, 423, 465
Furnace, Ponsard's Converting, 450
Grand Cascade, 225
Industrial Halls, 333
Locomotive, Black, Hawthorn, and Company's Tank, 509
Locomotive, Narrow Gauge, Corpet and Bourdon's, 351
Locomotives; Great Britain; 411, 434, 509
Machinery Annexes, The French, 306
Machinery Halls, 305
Mining Engine, J. Fowler and Company's Thirty-Horse Semi-Portable, 404
Plantations in the Grounds, Tables of Work and Prices, 60, 61, 62
Portable Engine with Belleville Boiler, 387
Pump, Manley's Steam Circulating, 451
Railway Safety Apparatus, Saxby and Farmer's, 403
Sewage System of Paris, 455
Single Deal Frame, Ransome's, 42G
Slotting Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Co.'s, 494
Space, The Distribution of, 338
Steam Engines, Stationary ; Bedplates and Framing, 498, 499
Steam Power, 135
Stone-Dressing Machine, Brunton and Trier's, 437
Stone-Sawing Engine, Beverley and Atkins', 515
Telegraphic Apparatus, 392, 412, 433, 519
Telephones, French, 500
Therapeutic Machinery, Gornansson and Company's, 478
Tobacco Exhibits, 464, 491, 519
Transmission of Power, 109
Transverse Galleries, 333
Trying-up Machine, Ransome and Company's, 351
Twin Cylinder Engine, Bernays', 353
Vestibules, 331
Ville do Paris, The Building of the, 336, 36'2
Water Supply, 3

Exhibits, The Classification of ; The Paris Exhibition, 338
Explosion, The Dublin Boiler, Mr. E. L. Fletcher's Report on, 395
Explosions, Boiler ; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 120
Explosions, Boiler, in 1877 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 162
Explosions, Steam Boiler: Communication from the Manchester Steam Users' Association to the Home Secretary, 266
Explosives at the Paris Exhibition, 423, 465
" Express," Twin Steamship, Trial of the, 222

Factory Legislation, 146
Factory, Menier's Chocolate, 444, 491
Fairlie Engine, The; Prolongation of Patent, 304
Fans, Horizontal, for Feeding Furnaces, 78, 118, 177, 213, 273
Farms, Sewage, 166
Feed-Water Heater, Atkinson's, 436
Feeding Furnaces, Horizontal Fans for 78, 118, 177, 213, 273
Ferro-Manganese, Manufacture in the United States; American Iron and Steel Works, 235
Fifty-Ton Overhead Travelling Crane, Alcock's, 84
File Sharpener, Tilghman's Sand Blast, 515
Floating Bridge, The Hooghly, 201
Flow of Solids, The, 477, 502, 525
Flues, Boiler, Apparatus for Testing, 260
Flues, Corrugated. for Boilers, 245, 260, '281, 369
Foot Lathe, Amateur's, 240
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 10, 35, 55, 75, 93, 133, 152, 204, 231, 251, 272, 291, 302, 357, 377, 397, 439, 458, 483, 505, 527
Formosan Coalfield, The, 89
Fowler, J., and Company's Excavating Scoop, at the Paris Exhibition, 449
Fowler, J., and Company's Thirty-Horse Semi-Portable Mining Engine, at the Paris Exhibition, 404
Framing and Bedplates ; Steam Engines at the Paris Exhibition, 499
Freight and Passenger Services, Percentages of General Expenses; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 199
Freight and Passenger Traffic ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 199, '218, 235
French Machinery Annexes; The Paris Exhibition, 306
French Telephones at the Paris Exhibition, 500
Fuel, Liquid, 168
Furnace, The Diamond.-Ferro-Manganese Manufacture in the United States; American Iron and Steel Works, 235
Furnace Feeder, The Helix, at the Paris Exhibition, 514
Furnace, Ponsard's Converting, at the Paris Exhibition, 450

Galleries, Transverse ; The Paris Exhibition, 333
" Gallium," The New Metal, 188
Gas Works, The Ivry, 490
Gas Works, The South Metropolitan, Boiler and Engine Trials at, 79, 108, 116
Gases, The Liquefaction of, 324, 410, 496
Geometry of Metacentric Diagrams, The, 394
Gibbons' Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, 12:3
Glazing Barrel; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 138
" Glen Rosa," The ; Report of Mr. F. W. Wymer to the Board of Trade, 523
Goransson and Company's Therapeutic Machinery, at the Paris Exhibition, 478
Governor, Durham's Hydro-Steam, 131
Grand Cascade ; The Paris Exhibition, 225
Granulating Machine ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 137
Great Eastern Railway, The, 2S3
Greenock, Proposed New Harbour Works for,. 50
Greindl and other Rotary Pumps, The, 490
Grinding Apparatus, Saltpetre and Sulphur ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 37
Grinding Machinery, Emery, at the Paris Exhibition, 443
Grinding Mill, Charcoal ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 37
" Grosser Kurfurst," German Ironclad, Loss of the, 453
Guiding Pulley for Indicators, Stanek's, 65

GUNPOWDER, THE MANUFACTURE OF:
Breaking-Down Machinery, 95
Charcoal Grinding Mill, 37
Densemeter, The, 236
Drying Stove, 197
Dusting Reels, 137
Glazing Barrel, 138
Granulating Machine, 137
Hydraulic Pressing Apparatus, 95
Incorporating Mill, 38
Mixing Machine, 38
Pebble-Powder Machine, 235
Pellet-Powder Machine, 197
Preparing and Refining the Ingredients, 1
Saltpetre and Sulphur Grinding Apparatus, 37

Guns (Broadwell), Krupp, 244
Gwynne and Company's Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 62

Halls, the Industrial ; The Paris Exhibition, 333
Halls, The Machinery ; The Paris Exhibition, 305
Hand Car; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 43
Harbour, Malta, Jetties at, 516
Harbour Works, Proposed New, for Greenock, 50
Harp, The Telephone, 390
Harrison's Railway Coupling, Trial of, 1S3
Hatfield Railway Accident, The, 30, 180
Heater, Atkinson's Feed-Water, 436
Heating Towns by Steam, 439
Helix Furnace Feeder, The, at the Paris Exhibition, 514
H.M.S. " Inflexible," 29, 33, 67, 125, 165, 205, 243
H.M.S. " Inflexible," Report of the Committee on, 152, 172, 211, 230
High Internal Pressure, On the Construction of Vessels to resist, 298, 308
High-Pressure Steam Boilers, 373
Hirn's Thermodynamics, 38, 413
Holborow and Company's Compound Mill Engine, 386
Hooghly Floating Bridge, The, 201
Horizontal Condensing Engine, with Brown's Valve Gear, at the Paris Exhibition, 475
Horizontal Condensing Engine, Dick and Stevenson's, 184
Horizontal Condensing Engine, Duvergier's, at the Paris Exhibition, 428
Horizontal Engine, Compounding a, 202
Horizontal Fans for Feeding Furnaces, 78, 118, 177, 213, 273
Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, Gibbons', 123
Huelva Pier, The, 279
Hughes's Microphone, 384, 475, 481, 518
Hughes Telephone, The, 369
Hydraulic Machinery at Toulon Dockyard, 487
Hydraulic Mining in California, 20, 58
Hydraulic Press, Taylor's Direct-Acting, 190
Hydraulic Pressing Apparatus ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 95
Hydro-Steam Governor, Durham's, 131
Hydraulic and Steam Press, A Direct-Acting, 92

"Independencia," The Brazilian Ironclad, 107
Indian Railway Bridges, 362
Indicator Diagrams, The Accuracy of, 77, 294
Indicators, Stanek's Guiding Pulley for, 65
Industrial Halls ; The Paris Exhibition, 333
"Inflexible," H.M.S., 29, 33, 67, 125, 165, 205, 243
"Inflexible," Mr. E. J. Reed on the, 33
"Inflexible," H.M.S., Report of the Committee on, 152, 172, 211, 230
Injector, Air, for Air Vessels, Wipperman and Lewis's, 1G
Institute, The Iron and Steel (See Iron and Steel Institute, The)
Institution of Civil Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See .Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
Insulators for Aerial Telegraph Lines, 254
Intercolonial Railway, The ; Canadian Railways, 313, 360, 400
International Telegraph Traffic, The Law of, 381
Iron Company's Mines and Works, The Crown Point ; American Iron and Steel Works, '208 216
Iron, Pig, the Separation of Phosphorus from, 270

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE :

247, '259, '274
Annual Meeting, 247
On Statistics respecting the Production and Depreciation of Rails, and Notes on the Application of Wrought Iron and Steel to Permanent Ways, with a Description of a new Kind of Railway Sleeper and Clip Chair, by Charles Wood, 267, 275
On the Separation of Phosphorus from Pig Iron, by I. Lowthian Bell, 270
On some Recent Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron Sponge by the Blair Process, by J. Ireland, 274, 289
On Steel Casting Apparatus, by Michael Scott, 274, 289
On Improvements in Belgian Three-High Rolling Mills, by M. Thomas, 275
On the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails at the Works of Messrs. Brown, Bayley, and Dixon, by C. B. Holland, '275, 290
On Rail Joints, by C. H. Halcomb, 277
Spiral Punch, Kennedy's, 278

Iron and Steel Rails, Average Time of Service The Pennsylvania Railroad, 101

IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN

Bay State Iron Company, Plate Mill of the, 401
Cambria Iron and Steel Works, 422 485 Cleveland Rolling Mill Company's Works, 256
Crown Point Iron Company's Mines and Works, 208, 216
Diamond Furnace, The; Ferro-Manganese Manufacture in the United States, 235
Edgar Thomson Steel Company's Works, 295, 313, 381
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, 39, 96, 227
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company's Rail Mill, 147
Iron Trade, The Scotch, in 1877, 33
Ironclad, German, The " Grosser Kurfurst," Loss of, 453
Ironclads, Japanese, Trials of, 84
Ironclads, Our, 224
Island of Formosa, Coalfield in the, 89 Ivry Gas Works, The, 490

Jack, Differential Screw, Zobel, Neubert, and Company's, 622
Jackson's Metallic Packing, 34
Japan, The Construction of Railways in, 379
Japanese Ironclads, Reed's, Trials of the, 84
Jetties at Malta Harbour, 516
Joints, Rail, and Steel Rails, 284

Keely Motor, The, 392
Kennedy's Spiral Punch, 278
Krupp (Broadwell) Ordnance, 244

Laboratory, An Engineering, 264
Lathe, Amateur's Foot, 240
Law of International Telegraph Traffic, The, 381
Laws, the Patent, and the Association of the Chambers of Commerce, 18G
Lead-Smelting Works, The Clausthal, 19, 57
Legislation, Factory, 146
Lewin's Narrow Gauge Mining Locomotive, 44
Lifting Bridge, Matthyssen's Proposed, over the River Scheldt at Antwerp, 140
Lightened Scantlings, 374
Lighting by Means of Electricity, 491, 526
Liquefaction of Gases, The, 324, 410, 496
Liquid Fuel, 168
List of Materials, Price, 18, 36, 56, 76, 94, 114, 134, 154, 174, 194, 212, 232, 252, 292, 312, 332, 358, 378, 398, 420, 442, 462, 484, 506, 528
Locomotive Boilers, 122
Locomotive Cylinders, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Portable Boring Machine for, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Locomotive, Narrow Gauge, Corpet and Bourdon's, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Locomotive, Spar, Torpedoes ; Notes on Torpedoes, 208
Locomotive, Tank (3 ft. Gauge), Black, Hawthorn, and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 569
Locomotives, Agricultural, 132
Locomotives, Coal Mine, 507
Locomotives for Mines, Tank, 142
Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 411, 434,509
London and North-Western Railway, Clark and Webb's Continuous Brake for the, 46, 104
London Exhibition of 1851, 342
London Exhibition of 1862, 343
London Sewage, 87
Long-Span Railway Bridges, 405
Lontin's Dynamo-Electric Machines, 49
Loss of the "Grosser Kurfurst," The, 453

Machine, Breaking-Down ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 95
Machine, Brunton and Trier's Stone-Dressing, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Machine, Granulating; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 137
Machine, Moulding, Richards', 261
Machine, Pebble-Powder ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 235
Machine, Pellet-Powder ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 197
Machine, Ransome's Trying-up, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Machine, Richards' Dimension Sawing, 151
Machine, Sharp, Stewart and Company's Portable Cylinder Boring, for Locomotives, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Radial Drilling, at the Paris Exhibition, 366
Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Slotting, at the Paris Exhibition, 494
Machinery Annexes, The French; The Paris Exhibition, 306
Machinery, Emery Grinding, at the Paris Exhibition, 443
Machinery, Goransson and Company's Therapeutic, at the Paris Exhibition, 478
Machinery Halls ; The Paris Exhibition, 305
Machinery, Hydraulic, at Toulon Dockyard, 487
Machines, Lontin's Dynamo Electric, 49
Machines for Smoothing and Polishing Wood, 115
Magnophonic Reporting, The Engineer on, 435, 475
Maintenance of Way, The Cost of ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 99, 119
Malta Harbour, Jetties at, 516
Manley's Steam Circulating Pump, at the Paris Exhibition, 4.51
Manufacture of Bessemer Steel, The, 27.5, 290
Manufacture of Gunpowder, The (See Gunpowder, The Manufacture of)
Marine Boilers, Steel, :305, 459
Marten's Report on Boiler Explosions in 1877, 162
Masonry of the East River Bridge, Notes on the, 63, 121,171
Materials, Price List of, 18, 36, 56, 76, 94, 114, 134, 154, 174, 194, 212, 232, 252, 292, 312, 332, 358, 378, 398, 420, 442, 462, 484, 506, 528
Matthyssen's Proposed Lifting Bridge over the River Scheldt at Antwerp, 140
Mayer, Julius, 255
Mechanical Traction on Tramways, 488. 503, 523
Meeting, Annual, of the Institution of Naval Architects, 286
Meeting, Annual, of the Iron and Steel Institute, 247, 259, 274
Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 285, 297
Menier's Chocolate Factory, 414, 491
Mercantile Marine, The, and the Royal Naval College, 353
Merryweathers' Steam Engines for Tramways, 140
Metacentric Diagrams, The Geometry of, 394
Metal, The New, " 188
Metallic Conductors, Telegraphy without, 13, 147
Metallic Packing, Jackson's, 34
Meunier's Boilers, at the Paris Exhibition, 493
Microphone, Hughes's, 384, 475, 4S1, 518
Microphone, The Physical Action of the, 481
Mileage, Cost of Running, and Repairs of Thirty-seven Engines for One Month ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 161
Mill Engine, Compound, Holborow and Company's, 386
Mill, The Incorporating ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 38
Mill, Plate, of the Bay State Iron Company; American Iron and Steel Works, 401
Mill, Rail, The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company's ; American Iron and Steel Works, 147
Mill, Rail, Tannett, Walker, and Company's Compound Engines for, 388, 430
Mine Locomotives, Coal, 507
Mines, Tank Locomotives for, 44, 142
Mining in California, Hydraulic, 20, 58
Mining, Coal, at the Paris Exhibition, 391, 399, 448
Mining Engine, J. Fowler and Company's Thirty Horse Semi-Portable, at the Paris Exhibition, 404
Mining Locomotive, Lewin's Narrow Gauge, 44
Mississippi, Colonel Barnard and Lieutenant-Colonel Wright's Report on the Mouths of the, 65, 111
Mixing Machine ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 38
Motive Power, Cost of ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 140, 141, 160
Motor, The Keely, 392
Moulding Machine, Richards', 261

Narrow Gauge Locomotive, Corpet and Bourdon's, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Narrow Gauge Mining Locomotive, Lewin's, 44
Naval Architects, The Education of, 347

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 286, 304, 315
Annual Meeting, 286
On the Comparative Efficiency of Single and Twin-Screw Propellers in Deep - Draught Ships, by W. H. White, 329
On the Royal Naval College and the Mercantile Marine, by W. John, 353
On Lightened Scantlings, by W. Denny, 374
On the Geometry of Metacentric Diagrams, by W. H. White. 394
On Steel for Shipbuilding, by B. Martell, 304 414, 437, 461
On the Use of Steel for Marine Boilers, and some Recent Improvements in their Construction, by W. Parker, 305, 459

Navy Estimates, The, 223
New York Exhibition of 1852, 343
Non-Condensing Horizontal Engine, Gibbon's, 123
Non-Rotative Pumping Engines, 239
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, The; American Iron and Steel Works, 39, 96, 227
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company's Works, Bessemer Product at the, 227
Norwegian State Railways ; Bridge over the River Sarpsfos, 10, 26, 62
Notes from Cleveland, 15, 28, 51, 66, 90, 101, 122, 144, 169, 184, 204, 228, 242, 262, 288, 302, 322, 368, 388, 408, 430, 450, 478, 494, 521
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 10, 35, 55, 75, 53, 133, 152, 204, 231, 251, 272, 291, 302, 357, 377, 397, 439, 458, 483, 505, 527
Notes on the Masonry of the East River Bridge, 53, 121, 171
Notes from the North, 15, 28, 51, 66, 91, 102, 124, 144, 164, 184, 204, 227. 242, 262, 287, 302, 319, 368, 388, 405, 436, 452, 472, 494, 516
Notes from the South-West, 28, 51, 68, 91, 124, 143, 168, 184, 204, 228, 241, 262, 279, 302, 319, 365, 388, 405, 430, 449, 522
Notes from South Yorkshire, 16, 33, 46, 72, 91, 110, 124, 144, 169, 184, 204, 227, 242, 262, 288, 302, 319, 388, 408, 430, 452, 500, 514
Notes on Torpedoes (See Torpedoes, Notes on)

OBITUARY: (Moved to separate index)
Official Inspection of the Tay Bridge, 181
Ordnance (Broadwell), Krupp, 244
Our Ironclads, 224
Outridge's Box Engine, 52
Overhead Travelling Crane, Alcock's Fifty-Ton, 84

Packing, Jackson's Metallic, 34
Palace, The Algerian, at the Paris Exhibition, 161
Paris Exhibition (See Exhibition, The Paris) Paris Exhibition of 1855 and 1867, 343
Paris, The Sewage System of, 455, 491 Parliamentary Deposits, 409
Passenger and Freight Cars, Cost of the Maintenance of ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 120
Passenger and Freight Services, Percentages of General Expenses ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 189
Passenger and Freight Traffic The Pennsylvania Railroad, 199, 218, 235
Past, Present, and Future of the River Thames, The, 250, 418, 441, 482
Patent Laws, The, and the Association of the Chambers of Commerce, 186
Pebble Power Machine ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 235
Pellet-Powder Machine; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 197

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, THE:
14, 24, 43, 69, 89, 99, 119, 140, 160, 189, 198, 218, 233, 258
Miscellaneous :
Concluding Article, 258
Delaware and Raritan Canal, The, 198 Earnings and Expenditure, 89, 234
Maintenance of Cars, The Cost of, 99,119
Maintenance of Way, The Cost of, 99, 119, 120
Mileage and Cost of Running Thirty-seven Engines for One Month, and Repairs, 161
Motive Power, Cost of, 140, 141, 160
Passenger and Freight Services, General Expenses of, 189
Passenger and Freight Traffic, 199, 218, 235
Rails, Steel and Iron, Average Time of Service, 101
Rolling Stock :
Car, Hand, 43
Car, Standard Box, 24
Coal Truck, Standard, 14
Cost of One Standard Box Car, 25
Weight and Capacity of English, Indian, and Pennsylvania Railroad Wagons, 70
Weight and Capacity of Pennsylvania Railroad and European Rolling Stock, 43, 44

Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, 345
Phonograph, Edison's Talking, 52, 18G
Physical Action of the Microphone, The, 481
Physical Society, the (See Society, The Physical) Pier, The Huelva, 279
Pig Iron, The Separation of Phosphorus from, 270
Plantations in the Grounds of the Paris Exhibition; Tables of Work and Prices of the, 60, 61, 62
Plate Mill of the Bay State Iron Company; American Iron and Steel Works, 401
Plates, Compound Armour, 147
Plates, Steel, for Boiler Making and Shipbuilding, 47, 127, 165, 223, 303, 517
Plates, Steel, The Strength of, 517
Plummer Block, Chapman and Sutton's, 170
Pneumatic Battery, Byrne's, 207, 417, 421
Polishing and Smoothing Wood, Machines for, 115
Ponsard's Converting Furnace, at the Paris Exhibition, 450
Portable Engine with Belleville Boiler, at the Paris Exhibition, 387
Prague, A New Bridge at, 359
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. John Frederick Bateman, Address of the, 50
President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. John Robinson, Address of the, at Paris, 476
President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Dr. Siemens, Address of the, 85, 111
Press, A Direct-Acting Steam and Hydraulic, 92
Press, Taylor's Direct-Acting Hydraulic, 190
Pressing Apparatus, Hydraulic ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 95
Price List of Materials, 18, 36, 56, 76, 94, 114, 134, 154, 174, 194, 212, 232, 252. 292, 312, 332, 358, 378, 398, 420, 442, 462, 484, 506, 528
Professional Chairmen, 185
Provincial Sanitation and Water Supply, 409
Puddling, On the Art of ; its Past, Present, and Future, 376
Pulley, Guiding, for Indicators, Stanek's, 65
Pulsometer, The, 500
Pump, Manley's Steam Circulating, at the Paris Exhibition, 451
Pumping Engine, Gwynne and Company's Centrifugal, 62
Pumping Engines, Non-Rotative, 239
Pumps, The Greindl, and other Rotary, 490
Punch, Kennedy's Spiral, 278

Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and Occidental Railway ; Canadian Railway, 508
Question, The Sewage, 166, 390

Radial Drilling Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 366
Radiation, Repulsion from, 68, 73, 145, 155, 195, 253, 293
Radiometer, The, 73
Rail Joints, 277
Rail Joints and Steel Rails, 284
Rail Mill, The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company's ; American Iron and Steel Works, 147
Rail Mill, Tannett, Walker, and Company's Compound Engines for, 388, 430
Rail Statistics, 267, 275
Rails, Steel and Iron, Average Time of Service; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 101
Railroad, The Pennsylvania (See Pennsylvania Railroad, The)
Railway Accident, The Hatfield, 30, 180
Railway Accidents, Recent, 157
Railway Accidents, Two, 69
Railway Appliances, American, 229
Railway Brakes, The Action of, 432, 469
Railway Brakes, Continuous ; Returns to the Railway Companies' Association, 264
Railway Bridges, Indian, 362
Railway Bridges, Long Span, 405
Railway Couplings, Trial of, 182
Railway, The Great Eastern, 283
Railway, The Intercolonial; Canadian Railways, 313, 860, 400
Railway Safety Apparatus, Saxby and Farmer's, at the Paris Exhibition, 403
Railways and the Board of Trade, 105
Railways of Canada, The, 175, 214, 313, 360, 400 508
Railways in Japan, The Construction of, 379
Raising the Steamship " Edith," 280, 297
Ransome's Single Deal Frame, at the Paris Exhibition, 426
Ransome's Steam Tree Feller, 50
Ransome's Trying-up Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Raritan and Delaware Canal ; The Pennsylvania Railroad. 198
Recent Railway Accidents, 157
Reed, Mr. E. J., on the " Inflexible," 33
Reels, Dusting ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 137
Refining and Preparing the Ingredients ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 1
Refuse, Town, Disposal of, 518
Regnault, Becquerel, and Secchi, 205
Report of Captain Calver on Thames Sewage, 12
Report of Colonel Barnard and Lieutenant-Colonel Wright on the Mouths of the Mississippi, 65, 111
Report of the Committee on H.M.S. " Inflexible," 152, 172, 211, 230
Report of Mr. L.E. Fletcher on the Dublin Boiler Explosion, 395
Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association on Boiler Explosions, 120
Report of Lloyd's Committee on the Use of Steel for Shipbuilding, 17, 34
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1877, 162
Report on the Use of Steel for Boiler Making, 131
Report of M. Walther-Meunier on an Engine Trial, 4, 21
Report of Mr. F. W. Wymer to the Board of Trade on the " Glen Rosa" Explosion, 523
Reporting, Magnophonic, The Engineer on, 435, 475
Repulsion from Radiation, 68, 73, 145, 155, 195, 253, 293
Richards' Dimension Sawing Machine, 151
Richards' Moulding Machine, 261
River Sarpsfos, Bridge over the; Norwegian State Railways, 10, 26, 62
River Scheldt at Antwerp, Matthyssen's Proposed Lifting Bridge over the, 140
River Thames, The Past, Present, and Future of the, 250,418, 441, 482
Rivetted Joints and Steel Plates, 473
Robinson, Mr. John, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Address of, at Paris, 476
Rolling Mill Company, The North Chicago ; American Iron and Steel Works, 39, 96, '227
Rolling Mill Company's Works, The Cleveland ;
American Iron and Steel Works, 256
Rolling Mill Company's Works, The North Chicago, Bessemer Product at, 227
Rolling Mills, Three-High, 275
Rolling Stock, Weights and Capacity of Pennsylvanian Railroad and European ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 43, 44
Royal Naval College, The, and the Mercantile Marine, 353
Royal Society, The (See Society, The Royal) Royal Society Soirée, 1878, 371
Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel, 13

Safety Apparatus, Railway, Saxby and Farmer's, at the Paris Exhibition, 403
Safety Valves, Turnbull and Company's, 522
Saltpetre and Sulphur Grinding Apparatus ; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 37
Sanitary Summary for 1877, 47
Sanitation, Provincial, and Water Supply, 409
Sarpsfos, Bridge over the River; Norwegian State Railways, 10, 26, 62
Sawing Machine, Richards' Dimension, 151
Saxby and Farmer's Railway Safety Apparatus, at the Paris Exhibition, 403
Scantlings, Lightened, 374
Scoop, J. Fowler and Company's Excavating, at the Paris Exhibition, 449
Scotch Iron Trade in 1877, The, 33
Scotland, The Water Supply Movement in, 222
Screw Jack, Differential, Zobel, Neubert, and Company's, 522
Secchi, Becquerel, and Regnault, 205
Selfe's Compound Engine for Tug-Boat, 469
Semi-Portable Mining Engine, J. Fowler and Company's Thirty-Horse, at the Paris Exhibition, 404
Separation of Phosphorus from Pig _Iron, The, 270
Sewage Disposal and Water Supply, 454
Sewage, London, 87
Sewage System of Paris, The, 455, 491
Sewage, The Thames, Captain Calver's Report on, 12
Sewage and Water Question, The, 166, 390
Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Portable Cylinder Boring Machine for Locomotives, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Radial Drilling Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 366
Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Slotting Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 494
Sharpening Files, 515
Sheaf Binder, Wood's,182
Shepherd's Valve for Ship Ventilation, 202
Shifting Slide Valves for Winding Engines, 278
Ship Ventilation, 202
Shipbuilders, Clyde, and the Board of Trade, 200
Shipbuilding and Boiler Making, Steel Plates for, 47, 127, 165, 223, 303
Shipbuilding, Report of Lloyd's Committee on the Use of Steel for, 17, 34
Shipbuilding, Steel for, 304, 414, 437, 461
Shipbuilding Trade, The Clyde, in 1877, 8, 82
Ships, British Ironclad, 224
Siemens, Dr. ; President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Address of, 85, 111
Single Deal Frame, Ransome's, at the Paris Exhibition, 426
Single and Twin Screws, 329
Sixty-Ton Steam Forge Crane, Eastons and Anderson's, for the Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburgh, 65
Slotting Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 494
Smelting for Black Copper ; The Clausthal Lead-Smelting Works, 19, 57
Smith and Alexander's Twin Boilers, 27
Smith's Vacuum Brake Squib Attachment, 170
Smoothing and Polishing Wood, Machines for, 115

SOCIETY OF ARTS, THE:
On the Past, Present, and Future of the River Thames, by J. B. Redman, 250, 418, 441, 482

SOCIETY, THE ROYAL:
On Repulsion resulting from Radiation, by William Crookes, 73
On the Action of Sonorous Vibrations in varying the Force of an Electric Current, by Professor Hughes, 384
Soiree, 371

SOCIETY, THE PHYSICAL:
On Byrne's Pneumatic Battery, by William Henry Preece, 417
On the Physical Action of the Microphone, by Professor D. E. Hughes, 481

Soiree of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 454
Soiree, 1878, The Royal Society, 371
Solids, The Flow of, 477, 502. 525
Sonorous Vibrations, The Action of ; Hughes's Microphone, 384
Sound and Electricity, 435
South Metropolitan Gas Works, Boiler and Engine, Trials at the, 79, 108, 116
South West, Notes from the, 28, 61, G3, 91, 124, 143, 168, 184, 204, 228, 241, 262, 279, 302, 819, 366, 388, 405, 430, 449, 522
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16, 33, 46, 72, 91, 110, 124, 144, 169, 184, 204, 227, 242, 262, 288, 302, 819, 388, 408, 430, 452, 500, 514
Spar Locomotive Torpedoes; Notes on Torpedoes, 208 .
Spar Torpedoes ; Notes on Torpedoes, 14, 127 Spiral Punch, Kennedy's, 278
Standard Box Oar; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 24
Standard Coal Truck; The Pennsylvania Rail-Road, 14
Standard Deep-Sea Thermometer, A, 226
Stanek's Guiding Pulley for Indicators, 65
Statistics, Rail, 267, 275
Steam Circulating Pump, Manley's, at the Paris Exhibition, 451
Steam Engines, Stationary, at the Paris Exhibition, 498
Steam and Hydraulic Press, A Direct-Acting, 92
Steam Power ; The Paris Exhibition, 135
Steam Stop Valve, Cormack's, 221. Steam Tree Feller, Ransome's, 50
Steamboat of 1804, The Stevens Twin-Screw, 69
Steamship " Edith," Raising the, 280, 297
Steamship "Glen Rosa ;" Report of Mr. F. W. Wymer to the Board of Trade, 523
Steamship, Twin, The " Express," Trial of, 222
Steamships and Transatlantic Lines, 172, 192
Steam-Worked Tramways, 140
Steel, Bessemer, The Manufacture of, 275, 290
Steel for Boiler-Making, Report on the Use of, 131
Steel Boilers, On Experiments Relative to, 310, 320, 354, 396
Steel Casting Apparatus, 274, 289
Steel Marine Boilers, 305, 459
Steel Plates for Boiler-Making and Shipbuilding, 47, 127, 165, 223, 803, 517
Steel Plates and Rivetted Joints, 473
Steel Plates, The Strength of, 517
Steel Rails and Rail Joints, 284
Steel for Shipbuilding, 304, 414, 437, 461
Steel for Shipbuilding, Report of Lloyd's Committee on the Use of, 17, 34
Steel and Wrought Iron, On the Direct Process of Making, 54, 74
Steiner's Taseometer, 136
Stevens' Twin-Screw Steamboat of 1804, The, 69
Stirling, The late Reverend Dr., 521
Stone-Dressing Machine, Brunton and Trier's, at the Paris Exhibition, 487
Stone-Sawing Engine, Beverley and Atkins', at the Paris Exhibition, 515
Stove, Drying; The Manufacture of Gunpowder, 197
Strength of Steel Plates, 517
Strikes in 1877, Mr. G. Phillips Bevan on, 7
Summary for 1877, Sanitary, 47

Talking Phonograph, Edison's. 52, 186
Tank Locomotive (8 ft. Gauge), Black, Hawthorn, and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 509
Tank Locomotives for Mines, 142
Tannett, Walker, and Company's Compound Engines for Rail Mill, 388, 430
Taseometer, Steiner's, 136
Tay Bridge, Official Inspection of the, 181
Taylor's Direct-Acting Hydraulic Press, 190
Telegraph Engineers (See Engineers, The Society of Telegraph)
Telegraph Lines, Aerial, Insulators for, 254
Telegraph Traffic, The Law of International, 381
Telegraphs Bill, The, 824
Telegraphic Apparatus at the Paris Exhibition, 392, 412, 433, 519
Telegraphy, American, 167
Telegraphy without Metallic Conductors, 13, 147
Telephone, Edison's Carbon, 496
Telephone Harp, The, 390
Telephone, The Hughes, 369
Telephones, French, at the Paris Exhibition, 500
Telephonic Alarum, Cooke's, 451
Testing Boiler Flues, Apparatus for, '260
Thames, The Embankment of the, 318
Thames, River, The Past, Present, and Future of the, 250, 418, 441, 482
Thames Sewage, Captain Calves Report on the, 12
Thames Tides and the Embankments, 323
Therapeutic Machinery, Goransson and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 478
Thermodynamics, Hirn's, 38, 413
Thermometer, A Standard Deep-Sea, 226
Thomson, Sterne, and Company's Emery Grinding Machinery at the Paris Exhibition, 443
Three-Cylinder Engine, Willans', 407
Three-High Rolling Mills, '275
Tides, The Thames, and Embankments, 323
Tilghman's File Sharpener, 515
Tobacco Exhibits at the Paris Exhibition, 464, 491, 519

TORPEDEOS, NOTES ON :
Spar Locomotive Torpedoes, 208
Spar Torpedoes, 14, 127

Town Refuse, Disposal of, 518
Towns Heated by Steam, 439
Traction on Tramways, Mechanical, 488, 503, 523
Tramways, Steam Worked, 140
Transatlantic Lines and Steamships, 172, 192
Transmission of Power; The Paris Exhibition, 109
Transverse Galleries; The Paris Exhibition, :333
Travelling Crane, Alcock's Fifty-Ton Overhead, 84
Tree Feller, Ransome's Steam, 50
Trial of the Japanese Ironclads, 84
Trial of Railway Couplings, 182
Trial of the Twin Steamship " Express," 222
Trying-up Machine, Ransome's, at the Paris Exhibition, 351
Tubes, Corrugated Flue, for Boilers, 245, 284, 369
Tug-Boat, Selfe's Compound Engine for, 469
Turnbull and Company's Safety Valves, 522
Turret Frigate, Brazilian, The " Independencia," 107
Twin Boilers, Smith and Alexander's, 27
Twin Cylinder Engine, Bernay's, at the Paris Exhibition, 353
Twin and Single Screws, 329
Twin-Screw Steamboat of 1804, The Stevens, 69
Twin Steamship "Express," Trial of the, 222
Two Railway Accidents, 69

Vacuum Brake, Smith's, Experiments with the ; The Hatfield Railway Accident, 1s1
Vacuum Brake, Squib Attachment, Smith's, 170
Vacuum Brake Trials, from Paris to Creil, 493
Valve, Cormack's Steam Stop, 221
Valves, Safety, Turnbull and Company's, 522
Valves, Shifting Slide, for Winding Engines, 278
Vapart Disintegrator, The, 491
Ventilation, Ship, 202
Vessels to resist High Internal Pressure, On the Construction of, 298, 308
Vestibule, Central Dome of the Grand ; The Paris Exhibition, 334
Vestibule, Corner Domes of the Grand ; The Paris Exhibition, 334
Viaduct, The Douro, 457, 463, 494
Victoria Dock Extension, The, 246
Vienna Exhibition of 1873, 344
Ville de Paris, The Building of the ; The Paris Exhibition, 336, 362

Walker's Railway Coupling, Trial of, 182
Water and Sewage Questions, The, 166, 390
Water in Steam Boilers, The Circulation of, 30
Water Supply ; The Paris Exhibition, 3
Water Supply Movement in Scotland, The, '222
Water Supply and Provincial Sanitation, 409
Water Supply and Sewage Disposal, 454
Weights and Capacities of English, Indian, and Pennsylvania Railroad Wagons ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 70
Weights and Capacities of Pennsylvania Railroad and European Rolling Stock ; The Pennsylvania Railroad, 43, 44
Westinghouse Automatic Brake, The ; Standard Brake Rigging for Carriages on the London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway, 203
Willans' Three Cylinder Engine, 407
Winding Engines, Shifting Slide Valves for, 278
Wipperman and Lewis's Air Injector for Air Vessels, 16
Wood, Machines for Smoothing and Polishing, 115
Wood's Sheaf Binder, 182
Works, The Clausthal Lead Smelting, 19, 57
Works, The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company's ; American Iron and Steel Works, 256
Works and Contracts, The Cost of; The Paris Exhibition, 286, 287, 307
Works of the Edgar Thomson Steel Company American Iron and Steel Works, 295, 313, 881
Works, Harbour, Proposed New, for Greenock, 50
Works and Mines, The Crown Point Iron Company's ; American Iron and Steel Works, 208, 216
Works, Sewage, of Paris, 455, 491
Wrought Iron and Steel, On the Direct Process of Making, 54, 74
Wymer, Mr. F. W., Report of, to the Board of Trade on the "Glen Rosa" Explosion, 523

Zobel, Neubert, and Company's Differential Screw Jack,522

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