Engineering 1879 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ADDRESS of the President of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 18, 37
Address of the President of the Institution of Naval Architects. 293
Address of the President of the Iron and Steel Institute. Mr. Edward Williams, 400
Ader Telephone, The, 387
Africa, Central. Future Trade in, 310
African Telegraphs, South, 312
Agricultural Engines. 557
Agricultural Machinery, Progress of, 533

AGRICULTURAL SHOW, THE ROYAL, AT KILBURN : 676
Agricultural Engines 557
Automatic Lever Anchor, Savage's, 576
Boiler and Engine, Cochran's, 572
Centrifugal Pump, J. and H. Gwynne's, 573
Drills, 534
Engines
Clayton And Shuttleworth’s Straw-Burning Portable, 670
Clerk's Gas. 574
Crossley Brothers 16-Horse Otto Silent Gas, 574
Garrett and Sons' Portable Mining, 572
Shanks and Sons' Horizontal, 671
Firegrates for Unbroken and Chopped Straw, Garrett and Sons', 572
Implements of Tillage, 534
Machinery for making Butter Kegs, Allen Ransome and Co's, . 69
Miscellaneous Implements, 584
Portable and Fixed Engines, 570
Progress of Agricultural Machinery, The, 583
Reaping Machines, 588
Royal Agricultural Society, The, 651
Steam Cultivation, 547
Steam Ploughing Machinery and Traction Engines, 575
Steam Power. 543
Steam Road Roller, Aveling and Porter's, 675
Thrashing Machine Drum Guard, Marshall, Sons and Co's, 678
Thrashing Machine, Garrett and Sons', 578
Thrashing Machine, with Side Feed, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 576
Thrashing Machine and Straw Elevator, Nalder and Nalder's, 677
Thrashing Machines, 536, 677
Under-Gear for 8-110r4e Portable Engine, Marshall, SoNs, and Company's, 570
Wood-Working Machinery, 669

Albany and Rennselaer Iron and Steel Company's Works, U.S.A., The Porter-Allen Engine at the, 115
Albert Hall, Electric Lighting at the, 400
Albo-Carbon Light, The, 157
Amalgamated Engineers, The Society of, 462
Amalgamation, Pan, of Silver Ores, in Nevada and Colorado, 41, 128, 189, 369, 473, 491, 514
American Institute of Mining Engineers (See Engineers, The American Institute of Mining)
American Iron and Steel Works (See Iron and Steel Works, American)
American Machine Tools ; English Industries and American Competition, 2
American Testing Machine, Au, 267
Ammunition ; The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, 25
Analysis of Iron and Steel, The Application of the Spectroscope to the, 127, 429
Annapolis and Windsor Railway; Canadian Railways, 44
Annlipolis to Yarmouth, Western Counties Railway ; Canadian Railways, 108
Apparatus for Replacing Derailed Rolling Stock, at the Paris Exhibition, 44
Arctic Meteorology, 475
Armour-Plating Ships of War, 295
Armour to Resist Shot and Shell, The Construction of, 69
Armour for Ships, 300
Articulating Telephones, 467, 488, 506
Artificial Dye Products at the Paris Exhibition, 162
Asquith's Slotting Machine, 257
Austria, Mining Instruction in, 205
Austrian Mineral Products, 35
Automatic Brake, The Westinghouse, 85
Automatic Expansion Gear, Halpin's Horizontal Engine with, 481
Automatic Lever Anchor, Savage's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 676
Aveling and Porter's Steam Road Roller at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Axles of Tank Engines, The Distribution of Load upon, 441
Ayr Dock, The, 196, 242

Bagnall's Tank Locomotive for the Wotton Tramway, 17
Balance, An Induction Current, 457
Balance, Induction, Professor Hughes's, 217
Balfour and Company's Auxiliary Pumping Engine with Comet" Pumps for the Yacht Wanderer," 574
Band Saws for Cutting Deals, Furness's, 235
Bars, River, The Removal of, by Induced Tidal Scour, 107, 474
Basic Bricks for Furnace Linings. 427
Batteries, Voltaic ; Lighting by Electricity, 513
Beam Engine, Powell's Compound, at the Paris Exhibition, 51
Bearing, Kitson's Loose Pulley, 243
Belgian Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 156, 171, '210, 271
Bell's Telephone, 498
Bending Moments, 33
Bevel Gear-Cutting Machine, Fetu and Dolitge's, at the Paris Exhibition, 195
Bill Legislation, Private, 357
Bill, The New Patent, 180, 237, 417, 484
Bill, The Noxious Gases, 485
Bills, Scotch Parliamentary, 12
Blanzy Mines, The; Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 98
Board of Trade v. Shipowners, The, 325, 358, 439
Boat, The Herreshoff Torpedo, 32, 94, 121
Boats for Torpedo Warfare, Yarrow and Company's, 156
Boiler, Boyer's High-Pressure Marine, 416
Boiler, Carnaire and Montellier's Vertical Tubular, at the Paris Exhibition, '284
Boiler-Drilling Machine, Tweedy's, 341
Boiler and Engine. Cochran's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 57'2
Boiler Explosion, The Coltness, 479
Boiler Explosions ; Letter to the Members of the House of Commons, 278
Boiler Explosions in 1878; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 174
Boiler Explosions, Steam ; Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 258
Boiler Explosions, Steam ; Mr. Burt's Motion in the House of Commons, 397
Boiler, The Herreshoff, 121
Boiler Inspection, 523
Boiler Legislation, 501
Boiler Makers and Iron Shipbuilders, The, 501
Boiler Plate Joints, Welded, 96
Boiler with Ten-Brink Firegrate, Escher, Wyss, and Company's, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Boilers, Steel and iron, 527, 581
Boilers, Verderber's Locomotive, 113
Boucher's Calculating Circle, 498
Bourboule and Roy at Mineral Waters, The, 337
Boyer's High-Pressure Marine Boiler, 416
Brake Trials, Continuous Railway, 3S1
Brake, The Westinghouse, 85
Brakes, Continuous ; Experiments upon the Lyons Railway, 383
Brakes, Continuous, Report of the Board of Trade on, 251
Brakes, The Effect of, upon Railway Trains, 371
Bridge over the Orange River at Bethalie, Cape of Good Hope, 371
Bridge over the River Derwent at Derby, Handyside and Company's, 292
Bridge, Sedley's Proposed High-Level, over the Thames, 416
Bridges, Movable, 214
Bridges, Steel, 392

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE:
On River Control and Management, by J.
Clarke Hawkshaw, 60, 80
On Machine-Worked Punkahs, by the Hon. R. O. Parsons, 284

British Association of Gas Managers, Meetings of the, 505, 520
British Museum, The Electric Light in the, 197
Bronze, Manganese, 523
Bushtiehrad Coal Mines, Double-Acting Pumping Engine at the, 154
Butler Mine lire Cut-off, The, 206
Butter Kegs, Allen Ransome and Company's Machinery for Making, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 569
Bye-Laws, New, of the Institution of Naval Architects, 275

Caillard Brothers' Steam Crane at the Paris Exhibition, 123
Calculating Circle, Boucher's, 498

CANADIAN RAILWAYS:
European and North American Railway, 228
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 270, 338, 388, 452
New Brunswick and Canada Railway, 188
Western Counties Railway. Annapolis to Yarmouth, 108
Windsor and Annapolis Railway, 44

Canal, The Proposed Panama ship, 518
Cannon, The Revolving Hotchkiss, 3. 23, 63,
Capital, Invested ; English Industries and American Competition, 317
Carnaire and Montellier's Vertical Tubular Boiler at the Paris Exhibition, 284
Carriage, First-Class, for the Western Railway of France, 341
Carriageway Pavements, 404
Central Africa, Future Trade in, 310
Centralisation of Industry ; English Industries and American Competition, 170
Centrifugal Pump, Gwynne's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 573
Chemistry of Puddling, The, 509
Chilian Navy, The, 483
Chiswick Main Drainage Works, Hathorn and Davey's Pumping Engines at, 478
Circuits, Telephone, Induction in ; Mr. Edison's Specification, 277
Civil Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 287, 316, 431
Clark and Standfleld's Hydraulic Grid, 203
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Portable Four-Horse Engine, 1853, 461
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Straw-Burning Portable Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Thrashing Machine with Side Feed, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 57S
Clerac's Electric Vote Recorder, 112
Clerk's Gas Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Cleveland Institution of Engineers ; Address of the President, 18, 37
Cleveland, Notes from, 9, 30, 52. 77, 99, 121, 136, 165, 183, 196, 216, 236. 263, 28:3, 314, 324, 363, 376, 396, 416, 436, 460, 487, 498, 526, 579
Cleveland Ores, Steel from, 377
Clutch, Pfieiderer's Friction, 243
Clyde Shipbuilding, in 1878, 26, 56
Clyde, Steel Shipbuilding on the, 156
Coal; Mineral Wealth of Russia, 169, 227
Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 33, 98, 367
Cochran's Boiler and Engine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 572
Collier and Company's Wheel Centre and Tyre-Boring Lathe, 362
Collieries, The High Blantyre, Stevenson's Mine Ventilator at, 178
Colliery Company, The Epinac (Saone-et-Loire) ; Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 367
Collins, Mr. W. W., 241
Coltness Boiler Explosion, The, 479
Committee of the House of Lords on Tramways, Report of the, 366
Commutator, Lartigue's Mercury, 273 Companies, The London Gas, 327
Company, The Native Guano, 54
Compound Beam Engine, Powell's, at the Paris Exhibition, 51
Compound Engine, Simpson and Company's Horizontal, 422
Compound Engine, Willan's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Compound Engines, Douglas and Grant's Three-Cylinder, of the Yacht " Isa," 195
Compound Horizontal Engine at the Pester Walzmahle, Buda-Pesth, 290
Compound Reversing Rolling Mill Engines at the Hallside Steel Works, Glasgow, 274
Compound Semi-Portable Engine, J. Fowler and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Conference, The International Telegraph, 485
Congress, The Paris, 118
Construction, Railway, 103
Continuous Brakes; Experiments upon the Lyons Railway, 383
Continuous Brakes, Report of the Board of Trade on, 251
Continuous Railway Brake Trials, 381.
Contribution to the History of the Screw Propeller, A, 13
Control, River, 60, 80
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 463
Conversazione, The Royal Society, 398, 440
Conversazione of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 524
Cooper, Hewitt, and Company's Works; American Iron and Steel Works, 87, 149
Cowper's Writing Telegraph, 180
Crane, Caillard Brothers' Steam, at the Paris Exhibition, 123
Crankshafts, Strains on, 349
Cultivation, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 547
Cunliff, Mr. Richard S., 56
Current Balance, An Induction, 457
Currents, Regulating Electric, 164
Cutting Deals, Furness's Band Saws for, 235

Deadweight Safety Valve, Eave's, 466
Deals, Furness's Band Saws for Cutting, 235
Derailed Rolling Stock, Apparatus for Replacing at the Paris Exhibition, 459
Derwent, River, at Derby, Handyside and Company's Bridge over the, 292
Determination of Manganese, The, 508
Dimensions, Standard, for Machine Fitting, 407
Dioptric Apparatus, Lighthouse, 362
Disappearance of the Thermal Springs at Teplitz, Bohemia, 198, 240
Disposal of Sewage at Stoke-upon-Trent, 262
Distribution of Load upon the Axles of Tank Engines, The, 441
Dock, The Ayr, 196, 242
Dock Gates, 486
Dock, The Nicolaieff Floating, 29
Docks, Floating, 381
Docks, London and St. Katherine; Victoria Dock Extension, 456
Docks, The Toulon Graving ; Civil Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 287, 316, 376, 431
Double-Acting Pumping Engine at the Bushtiehrad Coal Mines, 154
Double-Check Pressure Gauge, Stewart's, 37
Douglas and Grant's Three Cylinder Compound Engines of the Yacht " Isa," 195
Drainage of Lake Fucino, The, 249
Dredging Plant at the Toulon Graving Docks, Hersent and Langlois', 136, 376, 431
Drilling Machine, Tweedy's Boiler, 341
Drills (The Progress of Agricultural Machinery), 534
Drum Guard for Thrashing Machine, Marshall, Sons, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Dublin Harbour, The Improvement of, 442
Durable Spur Wheel, A, 122
Dye Products, Artificial, at the Paris Exhibition, 162

Eave's Deadweight Safety Valve, 466
Economy of Railway Working, The, 124, 145, 204, 224
Edison's Electric Light Apparatus, 159
Edison's Electro-Chemical Telephone, 238
Edison's Loud-Speaking Telephone, 442
Edison's Specification ; Induction in Telephone Circuits, 277
Electric Currents, Regulating, 164
Electric v. Gas Illumination, 117
Electric Illumination, The Rapieff System of, 55
Electric Light, The, '241, 417
Electric Light Apparatus, Edison's, 159
Electric Light Apparatus, Marshall, Sons, and Company's Portable, 364
Electric Light in the British Museum, The, 197
Electric Light, The ; M. Cernesson's Report, 104
Electric Light, The, at the Kensington Museum, 502
Electric Light, Mr. Preece on the. 81
Electric Light, Professor Tyndall and the, 75
Electric Light, Progress of the, 181
Electric Light for Railways, Travelling, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, 16
Electric Light, The Wallace-Farmer, 308
Electric Lighting, 403
Electric Lighting at the Albert Hall, 400
Electric Lighting; Report of Committee of the House of Commons, 519
Electric Lighting at the Southampton Docks, 116
Electric Vote Recorder, Clerac's, 112
Electrical Induction, 212
Electrical Induction, Sonometry by, 418
Electricity, Lighting by, 513
Electro-Chemical Telephone, Edison's, 238
Elimination of Phosphorus, The, 424
Employers' Liability for Injuries to Servants, 261
Employers to Workmen, Liability of, 197
Endurance of Steel Rails, The, 243
Engelbert's Lubricator, 479
Engine, Auxiliary Pumping, with "Comet" Pumps, for the Yacht " Wanderer," 574
Engine and Boiler, Cochran's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 572
Engine, Clayton and Shuttleworth's 4-Horse, 1853, 461
Engine, Clayton and Shuttleworth's Portable Straw-Burning, at Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn., 570
Engine, Clerk's Gas, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Engine, Compound, Horizontal, at the Pester Wwzmilble, Buda-Pesth, 290
Engine, Double-Acting Pumping, at the Bushtiehrad Coal Mines, 154
Engine, J. Fowler and Company's Compound Semi-Portable, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Engine, Garrett and Sons' Portable Mining, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 572
Engine, Halpin's Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, 481
Engine, The Heslop, a Chapter in the History of the Steam Engine, 101
Engine, Otto's 16-Horse Silent Gas, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Engine, The Porter-Allen, 115
Engine, Powell's Compound Beam, at the Paris Exhibition, 51
Engine, The Quillac Winding, at the Paris Exhibition, 178
Engine, Shanks and Sons' Horizontal, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 571.
Engine, Simpson and Company's Horizontal Compound, 422
Engine, Sulzer, Trial of a, 161
Engine, Vosper's Four-Cylinder, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Engine, Walschaert"s Horizontal, at the Paris Exhibition, 29
Engine, Willan's Compound, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Engineering, Civil, at the Paris Exhibition, 287, 316, 431
Engineers, The Amalgamated Society of, 4G2

ENGINEERS, TILE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ;
On the Chemical Composition and Physical Properties of Steel Rails, by C. B. Dudley, 143, 16G, 184
On the Butler Mine Fire Cut-off, by Henry Drinker, 206
On the Wearing Power of Steel Rails ; does it Increase with the Hardness of the Steel ? by Charles B. Dudley, 243
On the United States Testing Machine at Watertown Arsenal, by Alex. A. Holley, 267

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL;
Conversazione, 4G3
On the Best Methods of Railway Construction for the Development of New Countries, as Illustrated by the Railway Systems of South Australia, by R. C. Patterson, 103
On the Sandhurst Water Supply, Victoria, Australia, by Joseph Brady, 148
On the Construction of Heavy Ordnance, by J. A. Longridge, 157
On the Geelong Water Supply, Victoria, Australia, by Edward Dobson, 167
On Movable Bridges, by James Price, 214
On the Electric Light Applied to Lighthouse Illumination, by J. N. Douglass, 262
On Dioptric Apparatus in Lighthouses for the Electric Light, by James T. Chance, 362
On Street Carriageway Pavements, by G. F. Deacon, 404
On Wood as a Paving Material under Heavy Traffic, by O. H. Howarth, 405
On the Improvement of the Bar of Dublin Harbour by Artificial Scour, by John P. Griffith, 442
On Dock Gates, by A. P. Blandy, 486 Engineers, the Institution of Cleveland, Address of the President, 18, 37

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL : 64, 294, 362, 378
On the Construction of Armour to Resist Shot and Shell, by Captain C. O. Browne, R.A., 69
On the Heslop Engine, a Chapter in the History of the Steam Engine, by H. A. Fletcher, 101
On the Economy of Railway Working, by It. Price Williams, 124, 145, 204, 224
On the Effect of Brakes upon Railway Trains, by Captain Douglas Galton, 371
On Recent Brake Experiments upon the Lyons Railway, by M. George Marie, 383
On Electric Lighting, by Dr. John Hopkinson, 403
On the Construction and Comparative Merits of the Safety Lamps generally in Use, by Alan C. Bagot, 423
On Experiments Referring to the Use of Iron and Steel in High-Pressure Boilers, by David Greig and Max Eyth, 527, 581

ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH: Conversazioue, The, 524
On Experimental Researches into Moans of Preventing Induction upon Lateral Wires, by Professor D. E. Hughes, 212

Engines, Agricultural, 557
Engines, Compound, Douglas and Grant's Three-Cylinder, of the Yacht Isa," 195
Engines, Gas, 461
Engines, Hathorn and Davey's Pumping, at the Chiswick Main Drainage Works, 478
Engines, Miller and Company's Compound Reversing Rolling Mill, 274
Engines, Portable and Fixed, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Engines, Pumping, for Water Works at Lawrence, Massachusetts, Trial of the, 58, 78
Engines, Steam Ploughing and Traction, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Engines, Tank, The Distribution of Load upon the Axles of, 441
England and Scotland, Pollution of Rivers in, 138
English Industries and American Competition (See Industries, English, and American Competition)
Epinac Colliery Company (Saone-et-Loire), The ; Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 3G7
Equivalents, Mechanical ; Watt Anniversary Lecture,125
Escher, Wyss, and Company's Boiler with Ten-Brink Firegrate, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Estimates, The Navy, 217
European and North American Railway ; Canadian Railways, 228
European Russia, The Mineral Wealth of, 90, 169, 227, 430
Excavator, Reeves' Pneumatic, 312

EXHIBITION, THE PARIS:
Bevel Gear - Cutting Machine, Fetu and Deliege's, 195
Boiler, Carnaire and Montellier's Vertical Tubular, 284
Boiler with Ten-Brink Firegrate, Escher, Wyss, and Company's, 437
Civil Engineering:
Toulon Graving Docks, The, 287, 316, 376, 431
Coal Mining:
Blanzy Mines, The, 98
Epinac Colliery Company (Saone-et-Loire), The, 367
Grand' Combo Mines, The, 33
Crane, Caillard Brothers' Steam, 123
Derailed Rolling Stock, Apparatus for Replacing; Northern Railway of France, 959
Dye Products, Artificial, 162
Engine, Powell's Compound Beam, 51
Engine, The Quillac Winding, 178
Engine, Walschaerts' Horizontal, 29
Hydraulic Machine Tools, 65
Locomotives :
Belgium, 156, 171, 210, 271
France, 3S9 454, 517
Italy, '22
Switzerland,130
United States, G7
Metallurgy :
Works at Pont-:VMousson, The, 208
Physical Science :
Lighthouse Illumination, 139, 209, 269
Meteorological Instruments, 6, 97
Theorell's Printing Meteorograph,
Ploughs, Single and Four-Furrow, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, 437
Railway Rolling Stock :
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company, The, 45, 110
Paris and Orleans Railway Company, The, 432
Southern Railway of France, The, 229
Western Railway of France, 341, 493
Testing Lubricants, Machinery for, 234
Therapeutic Machinery, Goransson's, 214
Tramway Locomotive, Merryweather's, 256

Explosion on Board H.M.S. " Thunderer," 31, 54, 138, 200, 220, 221, 244, 257, 261, 282
Explosion on Board N.M.S. Thunderer,' The Report of the Committee, 221 244
Explosion, The Coltness Boiler, 479
Explosions, Boiler ; Letter to the Members of the House of Commons, 278
Explosions, Boiler, in 1878 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 174
Explosions, Steam Boiler; Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 258
Explosions, Steam Boiler ; Mr. Burt's Motion in the House of Commons, 397

Fetu and Deliegels Bevel Gear-Cutting Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 195
Firebox Stays, Stephenson's Locomotive, 223
Firegrate, Ten-Brink, Lecher, Wyss, and Company's Boiler with, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Firegrates for Unbroken and Chopped Straw, Garrett and Sons', at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 572
First-Class Carriage for the Western Railway of France, 341
Fixed and Portable Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Floating Dock, The Nicolaieff, 29
Floating Docks, 331
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 14. 27, 61, 81, 105, 125, 141, 167, 200, 226, 247, 255, 278, 305, 336, 363, 406, 443, 472, 490, 511, 532, 555
Foster, P. Le Neve, 178
Four-Cylinder Engine, Vosper's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Four-Furrow and Single Ploughs, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Fowler and Company's Compound Semi-Portable
Engine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
French Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 339, 454, 517
Friction Clutch, Pfleiderer's, 243
Frost, Glazed, 260
Froude, Mr. W., 462, 503, 525
Fucino, Lake, The Drainage of, 249
Fuel, The Utilisation of Sulphides as, 380
Fuller's Spiral Rule, 257
Furnace Linings, Basic Bricks for, 427
Furness's Band Saws for Cutting Deals, 235
Fuze, Percussion ; The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, 25

Gap Lathe, Watson's, with Travelling Crane, 154
Garrett and Sons' Firegrates for Unbroken and Chopped Straw, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 572
Garrett and Sons' Portable Mining Engine at the Royal Agricultural show, Kilburn, 572
Garrett and Sons' Thrashing Machine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Gas Companies, The London, 327
Gas Engine, Clerk's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Gas Engine. Otto's 16-Horse Silent, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Gas Engines, 461
Gas Illumination v. Electric, 117
Gas Managers, Meeting of the West of Scotland Association of, 511
Gas Managers, Meetings of the British Association of, 505, 520
Gas Supply, The Metropolitan, 260
Gas Washers and Scrubbers, 464
Gases Bill, The Noxious, 485
Gaslighting, Improved, 142
Gates, Dock, 486
Gauge, Stewart's Double-Check Pressure, 37
Gauge System, The ; English Industries and American Competition, 86
Gear-Cutting Machine, Bevel, Fetu and Deliege's, at the Paris Exhibition, 195
Gear, Nelson's Steam Steering, 255
Gear, Trappen's Valve, 520
Geelong, The Water Supply of, 167
Geissler, Dr., 198
Generator, Steam, The Herreshoff, 121
Glass Fibres, Torsional Strain in, 19
Glazed Frost, '260
Goransson's Therapeutic Machinery at the Paris Exhibition, 214
Government Patent Bill, The, 180, 237, 417, 484
Gower Telephone, The, 387
" Graham" Lecture, The, 106
Grand' Combs Mines, The ; Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 83
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada; Canadian Railways, 270, 338, 388, 452
Graving Docks, The Toulon ; Civil Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 136, '287, 316, 376, 431
Greenwood and Batley's Milling Machine. 376
Grid, Hydraulic, Clark and Standfield's, '203
Grinding Lathes Tyre, at the Austrian State Railway Works, 352
Grinding Maize, Ransomes, Sims, and head's Mill for, :324
Grinding Processes, 187, 207
Gwynne's Centrifugal Pump at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 573
Guano Company, The Native, 54
Guns, Naval, 3U1, 364

Hallside Steel Works, Miller and Company's Compound Reversing Rolling Mill Engines at, 274
Halpin's Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, 481
Handyside and Company's Bridge over the River Derwent at Derby, 292
Harbour, Dublin, The Improvement of, 442 Hartmann, Richard, 8
Hathorn and Davey's Pumping Engines at the Chiswick Main Drainage Works, 478
Health, Sewage, and Water Supply, The National, 439
Heavy Ordnance, 157
H.M.S. " Iris," Steam Trials of, 329
H.M.S. " Iris," Structural Arrangements and Proportions of, 302
H.M.S. " Thunderer," Explosion on Board, 31, 54, 138, 200, 220,221, 244, 257,261, 282
H.M.S. " Thunderer," The Explosion on Board ; Report of the Committee, 221, 244
Herreshoff Boiler, The, 121
Herreshoff Torpedo Boat, The, 32, 94, 121
Hersent and Langlois' Dredging Plant at the Toulon Graving Docks, 136, 376, 431
Heslop Engine. The, a. Chapter in the History of the Steam Engine, 101
High Blantyre Collieries, Stevenson's Mine Ventilator at the, 178
High-Level Bridge, Sedley's Proposed, over the Thames, 416
High-Pressure Marine Boiler, Boyer's, 416
History of the Screw Propeller, A Contribution to the, 13
Horizontal Compound Engine, Simpson and Company's, 422
Horizontal Engine, Compound, at the Pester Walzmtihle, Buda-Pesth, 290
Horizontal Engine, Halpin's, with Automatic Expansion Gear, 481
Horizontal Engine, Shanks and Sons', at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 571
Horizontal Engine, Walschaerts', at the Paris Exhibition, 29
Horograph, The, 241
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, The, 3, 23, 63
Hughes's, Professor, Induction Balance, 217
Hydraulic Grid, Clark and Standfield's, 203
Hydraulic Machine Tools at the Paris Exhibition, 65

Illumination, Gas v. Electric, 117
Illumination, Lighthouse, 262
Illumination, Lighthouse ; Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 139, 209, 269
Illumination, The Rapieff System of, 55
Implements, Miscellaneous, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 534
Implements of Tillage at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 534
Improved Gaslighting, 142
Improvement of Dublin Harbour, The, 442
Improvements in Telephones, Recent, 387
Incline, Railway, at Lyons, 291
Induction Balance, Professor Hughes's, 217
Induction Current Balance, An, 457
Induction, Electrical, 212
Induction, Electrical, Sonometry by, 418
Induction on Telegraph Lines, 280
Induction in Telephone Circuits ; Mr. Edison's Specification, 277
Indus General Steam Navigation Company's Steamer Tezpore," The, 276

INDUSTRIES, ENGLISH, AND AMERICAN COMPETITION:

Centralisation of Industry, 170
Futile Experiment, 209
Gauge System, The, 86
Invested Capital, 317
Machine Tools, American, 2
Wood as a Material in America, 47
Workshop Legislation, 208

Injuries to Servants, Employers' Liability for, 361
Inner Circle Completion Railway, The, 408
Inspection of Boilers, The, 523
Institute, The Iron and Steel (See Iron and Steel Institute, The)
Institution of Civil Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
Institution Conversazione, 1879, The, 463
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland ; Address of the President, 18, 37
Institution Lectures, The Royal, 11
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
Institution of Naval Architects, The (See Naval Architect,, The Institution of)
Instruction, Mining, in Austria, 205
Instruments, Meteorological ; Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 6, 97
International Telegraph Conference, The, 48.5
Invested Capital ; English Industries and American Competition, 317
" Iris," H. M.S., Steam trials of, 329
"Iris," H.M.S., Structural Arrangements and Proportions of, 302
Iron and Mild Steel, 393
Iron Mills, '1 he Union, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; American Iron and Steel Works, 21
Iron, Northern, Comparative Prices of, 313
Iron Prices and Ironworkers' wages, 248
Iron Shipbuilders and Boiler-Makers, The, 501
Iron Shipbuilding at West Hartlepool, 132
Iron and Steel, The Application of the Spectroscope to the Analysis of, 127, 429
Iron and Steel Boilers, 527, 581

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE 398, 410, 444, 468

Address of the President, Mr. Edward Williams, 400
On the Use of Steel in the Construction of Bridges, by H. N. Maynard, 392
On the Mechanical Properties of Iron and Mild Steel (Supplementary Paper), by Daniel Adamson, 393
On the Use of Steel in Naval Construction, by Nathaniel Barnaby, 419
On the Elimination of Phosphorus in the Bessemer Converter, by Sidney G. Thomas, 424
On the Removal of Phosphorus and Sulphur during the Bessemer and Siemens-Martin Processes of Steel Manufacture, by George J. Snelus, 426
On a Ready Means of Moulding Lime, and making Lime or Basic Bricks, and Linings for Furnaces, Converters, &c., by Edward Riley, 427
On a New Volumetric Method of Determining Manganese in Manganiferous Iron Ores, Spiegeleisen, Steel, &c., by John Pattinson, 508
On the Chemistry of Puddling, by H. Louis, 509

IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN:

Rolling Mills of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company, 90
Salisbury Iron and the Works of the Barnum
Richardson Company, 451
Union Iron Mills, Pittsburgh, Pa., The, 21
Works of Messrs. Cooper, Hewitt, and Company, The, 87, 149
Works of the Meier Iron Company, The, 315

Iron Trade in 1878, The Northern, 34
Iron Trade, The Scotch, Position and Prospects of, 123
"Isa," Yacht, Douglas and Grant's Three-Cylinder Compound Engines of the, 19.5
Italy ; Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 22

Joints, Welded Boiler Plate, 96
Joly, Jolly, and Delafoy's Viaduct over the River Rance, at the Paris Exhibition, 481, 499

Kensington Museum, The Electric Light at, 502
Kitson's Loose Pulley Bearing, 243

Lake Fucino, The Drainage of, 249
Lambrigot's Sixpenny Phonograph, 326
Lamps, Safety, 423
Lartigue's Mercury Commutator, 273
Lathe, Watson's Gap, with Travelling Crane 154
Lathe, Wheel Centre and Tyre Boring, Collier and Company's, 362
Lathes, Tyre-Grinding, at the Au3trian State. Railway Works, 392
Launch, The Herreshoff Torpedo, 32, 94, 121
Lecture, The " Graham," 106
Lectures, Royal Institution, 11
Legal Load Line, The, 332
Legislation, Boiler, 501
Legislation, Private Bill, 357
Legislation on our Rivers, 240
Legislation, Workshop; English Industries and American Competition, 2u8
Le Grand and Sutcliff's Tubular Piles, 223
Letter to the Members of the House of Commons on Boiler Explosions, 278
Lever Anchor, Savage's Automatic, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 576
Liability of Employers to Workmen, 197
Liability for Injuries to Servants, Employers', 361
Light, The Albo-Carbon, 157
Light Apparatus, Edison's Electric, 159
Light Apparatus, Marshall., Sons, and Company's Portable Electric, 364
Light, The Electric, 241, 417
Light, The Electric, in the British Museum, 197
Light, The Electric, M. Cernesson's Report, 104
Light, The Electric, at the Kensington Museum, 502
Light, The Electric, Mr. Preece on, 81
Light, The Electric, and Professor Tyndall, 75
Light, The Electric, Progress of, 181
Light, Electric, The Wallace-Farmer, 308
Light for Railways, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Travelling Electric, 16
Light, The Westinghouse, for Railway Carriages, 264
Lighthouse Dioptric Apparatus, 362
Lighthouse Illumination, 262
Lighthouse Illumination ; Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 139, 209, '269
Lighting Electric, 403
Lighting, Electric, at the Albert Hall, 400
Lighting, Electric; Report of Committee of the house of Commons, 519
Lighting, Electric, at the Southampton Docks, 116
Lighting by Electricity, 513
Lighting System, Pintsch's, 311
Lines, Telegraph, Induction on, 280
Linings, Furnace, Basic Bricks for, 427
List of Materials, Price, 20,42, 62, 84, 106, 126,148, 168, 186, 206, 226, 248, 268, 286, 314, 336, 366, 386, 406, 428, 450, 472, 490, 512, 532
Lloyd's Surveyor's Report on Steel for Shipbuilding, 40
Lloyd's Yacht Register, 354
Load, The Distribution of, upon the Axles of Tank Engines, 441
Load Line, The Legal, 3:32
Locomotive, Bagnall's Tank, for the Wotton Tramway, 17
Locomotive Boilers, Verderber's, 113
Locomotive Firebox Stays, Stephenson's, 223
Locomotive, Merryweather's Tramway, at the Paris Exhibition, 256
Locomotives, American, at the Paris Exhibition, 67
Locomotives, Belgian, at the Paris Exhibition, 156, 171, 210, 271
Locomotives, French, at the Paris Exhibition, 389, 454,517
Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 22, 67, 130, 156, 171, 210, 271, 389, 454, 517
Locomotives, Swiss, at the Paris Exhibition, 130
" London" Argand Governor Burner, Sugg's
Lantern with, 142
London Gas Companies, The, 327
London Gas Supply, The, 260
London and St. Katherine Docks; Victoria Dock Extension, 456
Loose Pulley Bearing, Kitson's, 243
Loud-Speaking Telephone, Edison's, 442
Lubricants, Machinery for Testing, at the Paris Exhibition, 234
Lubricator, Englebert's, 479
Lyons, Railway Incline at, 291
Lysedal Viaduct, The, 1

Machine, An American Testing, 267
Machine, Asquith's Slotting, 257
Machine, Fetu and Deliege's Bevel Gear-Cutting. at the Paris Exhibition, 195
Machine Fitting, Standard Sizes for, 407
Machine, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Thrashing, for Hot Climates, 323
Machine, Shaping, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, 442
Machine Tools, American ; English Industries and American Competition, 2
Machine Tools, Hydraulic, at the Paris Exhibition, 65
Machine, Tweedy's Boiler Drilling, 341
Machine-Worked Punkahs, 284
Machinery, Agricultural, Progress of, 533
Machinery, Goransson's Therapeutic, at the Paris Exhibition, 214
Machinery for Making Butter Kegs, Allen Ransome and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 569
Machinery, Steam Ploughing and Traction, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Machinery for Testing Lubricants at the Paris Exhibition, 234
Machinery, Wood-Working, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 569
Machines, Reaping, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 538
Machines, Thrashing, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 535, 577
Magnetism, Terrestrial, A New Theory of, 221
Magneto-Electric Machines; Lighting by Electricity, 513
Manganese Bronze, 523
Manganese, The Determination of, 508
Manufacture, The Northern Plate, 14
Manufacture of Sanitary Paints, The, 328
Marine Boiler, Boyer's High-Pressure, 416
Marshall, Sons, and Company's Drum Guard for Thrashing Machine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Marshall, Sons, and Company's Portable Electric Light Apparatus, 364
Marshall, Sons, and Company's Under-Gear for 8-Horse Portable Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Marten's Report on Boiler Explosions in 1878, 174
Materials, Price List of, 20, 42, 62, 84, 106, 126, 148, 168, 186, 206, 226, 248, 268, 286, 314, 336, 366, 386, 406, 428, 450, 472, 490, 512, 532
Mauser Revolver, The, 51
Mechanical Equivalents ; Watt Anniversary Lecture, 125
Mechanical Shipbuilding, On a System of, 341
Meeting, Annual, of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 258
Meeting of the West of Scotland Association of Gas Managers, 511
Meetings of the British Association of Gas Managers, 505, 520
Meier Iron Company. The Works of the ; American Iron and Steel Works, 315
Mercury Commutator, Lartigue's, 273
Merryweather's Tramway Locomotive at the Paris Exhibition, 256
Metallurgy at the Paris Exhibition, 208
Meteorological Instruments; Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 6, 97
Meteorology, Arctic, 475
Metropolitan Gas Companies, The, 327 Metropolitan Gas supply, The, 260
Microphone Receivers, On Simple Forms of, 289 Mild Steel and Iron, 393
Mill for Grinding Maize, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, 324
Miller and Company's Compound Reversing Rolling Mill Engines, 274
Milling Machine, Greenwood and Batley's, 376
Mills, Rolling, of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company ; American Iron and Steel Works, 90
Mine Fire Out-off, The Butler, 206
Mine Ventilator, Stevenson's, at the High Blantyre Collieries, 178
Mineral Phosphates, 526
Mineral Products in Austria, 35
Mineral Waters, The Bourboulo and Royat, 337
Mineral Wealth of European Russia, The, 90, 169, 217, 430
Mines, The Blanzy ; Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 98
Mines, The Grand' Combe ; Coal Mining at the Paris Exhibition, 33
Mining, Coal, at Paris, 33, 98, 367
Mining Engine, Garrett and Sons' Portable, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 572
Mining Instruction in Austria, 205
Moments, Bending, 33
Movable Bridges, 214
Multiple Wood-Boring Machine, Richards and Atkinson's, 506
Museum, The British, The Electric Light in the,' 197

Nalder and Nalder's Combined Thrashing Machine and Straw Elevator at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 577
National Water Supply, Sewage, and Health, The, 439
Native Guano Company, The, 54

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 279, 307, 357,

Address of the President, 293
Bye-Laws, New, 275
On Armour-Plating Ships of War, by Admiral Sir R. Spencer Robinson, 295
On Armour for Ships, by N. Barnaby, 300
On Naval Guns, by C. W. Merrifield) 301, 364
On the Structural Arrangements and Proportions of H.M.S. "Iris," by W. H. White, 302
On the True Nature of the Wave of Translation, and the Part it Plays in removing the Water out of the Way of a Ship with least Resistance, by J. Scott Russell, 304, 343
On Sir W. Thomson's Navigational Sounding Machine, by P. M. Swan, 320
On the Steam Trials of H.M.S. " Iris," by J. Wright, 329
On the Legal Load Line, by N. E. Porter, 332
On Twin-Ship Propulsion, by G. C. Mackrow, 334
On a System of Mechanical Shipbuilding, by J. Humphrys, 341
On Strains on Crankshafts, by J. T. Milton, 349
On a Few Years' Experience of the Screw Propeller. its Lessons and Results, by Arthur J. Maginnis, 351
On Lloyd's Yacht Register, by Dixon Kemp, 354
On the Double Power Floating Dock and the Hydraulic Grid, by Latimer Clark, 381
On the Minimum Area of Blade in a Screw Propeller necessary to form a Complete Column, by James H. Cotterill, 385
On an Instrument for Measuring the Angle through which a Ship Rolls or Pitches at Sea, by R. Clarke, 405

Naval Construction, The Use of Steel in, 419 Naval Guns, 301, 364
Navigational Sounding Machine, Sir W. Thom-son's, 320
Navy, The Chilian, 483
Navy Estimates, The, 217
Nelson's Steam Steering Gear, 255
New Brunswick and Canada Railway; Canadian Railways, 188
New Patent Bill, The, 180, 237, 417, 484
Newton, Wilson, and Company's Horograph, 241
Nicolaieff Floating Dock, The, 29
North American and European Railway ; Canadian Railways, 228
Northern Iron, Comparative Prices of, 313
Northern Iron Trade in 1878, The, 34
Northern Plate Manufacture, The, 14
Northern Rail Manufacture, 57
Notes from Cleveland, 9, 30, 52, 77, 99, 121, 136, 165, 183, 196, 216, 236, 263, 283, 314, 324, 363,376, 396, 416, 436, 460, 487, 498, 526, 579
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 14, 27, 61, 84, 105, 125, 141, 167, 200,226, 247, 255, 278, 305, 336, 363, 406, 443, 472, 490, 511, 532, 555
Notes from the North, 10, 35, 49, 77, 94, 121, 136, 165, 183, 196, 216, 236, 263, 278, 313, 324, a3, 376, 396, 421, 443, 460, 482, 500, 519, 579
Notes from Russia, 186, 247, 506
Notes from the South-West, 10. 30, 52, 77, 94, 141, 165, 183, 196, 216, 258, 283, 294, 324, 343, 396, 416, 443, 456, 482, 500, 526, 579
Notes from South Yorkshire, 10, 30, 49, 77, 99, 121,141, 165, 183, 196, 216, 236, 258, 275, 314, 321, 343, 376, 402, 421, 438, 466, 482, 500, 619, 580
Noxious Gases Bill, The, 485
Noxious Vapours, 32

OBITUARY: (Moved to separate index))
Orange River, Bridge over the, at Bethalie, Cape of Good Hope, 371
Ordnance, Heavy, 157
Ores, Cleveland, Steel from, 377
Ores, Silver, Pan Amalgamation of, in Nevada and Colorado, 43, 128, 189, 369, 473, 491, 514
Oscillometer, The, 405
Otto's 16-Morse Silent Gas Engine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574

Paints, Sanitary, The Manufacture of, :328
Pan Amalgamation of Silver Ores in Nevada and Colorado, 43, 128, 189, 369, 473, 491, 514
Panama Ship Canal, The Proposed, 518
Paris Congress, The, 118
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company's Rolling Stock at the Paris Exhibition, The, 45, 110
Paris and Orleans Railway Company's Rolling Stock at the Paris Exhibition, 432
Parliamentary Bills, Scotch, 12
Patent Bill, The New, 180, 237, 417, 484
Pavements, Carriageway, 404
Pavements, Wood, 405
Percussion Fuze ; The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, 25
Pfleiderer's Friction Clutch, 243
Phonograph, A Sixpenny, 326
Phosphates, Mineral, 526
Phosphorus, The Elimination of, 424
Phosphorus and Sulphur, The Removal of, 426
Photographic Reproduction, '200
Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 6, 97, 139, 209, 269
Piles, Le Grand and Sutcliff's Tubular, 22:3
Pintsch's Lighting System, 311
Plate Manufacture, The Northern, 14
Ploughing and Traction Engines, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Ploughs, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Single and Four-Furrow, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Pneumatic Excavator, Reeves', 312
Pollution of Rivers in England and Scotland, 138
Pont-ä-ltIonsson, The Works at ; Metallurgy at the Paris Exhibition, 208
Poole System of Grinding, The ; Grinding Processes, 207
Portable Electric Light Apparatus, Marshall, Sons, and Company's, 364
Portable and Fixed Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Portable 4-Horse Engine, 18:53, Clayton and Shuttleworth's, 461
Porter-Allen Engine, The, 115
Position and Prospects of the Scotch Iron Trade, 123
Powell's Compound Beam Engine at the Paris Exhibition, 51
Power, Steam (The Progress of Agricultural Machinery), 543
President of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, Address of the, 18, 37
President of the Institution of Naval Architects, Address of the, 293
President of the Iron and Steel Institute, Mr. Edward Williams, Address of the, 400
Price List of Materials, 20, 42, 62, 81, 106, 126, 148, 168, 186, 206, 226, 248, 268, 286, 314, 336, 366, 385, 406, 428, 450, 472, 490, 512, 532
Prices, Iron, and Ironworkers' Wages, 248
Prices of Northern Iron, Comparative, 313
Printing Meteorograph, Theorell's ; Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 6
Private Bill Legislation. 357
Processes, Grinding, 187, 207
Professor Hughes's Induction Balance, 217
Professor Tyndall and the Electric Light, 75
Progress of Agricultural Machinery, 533
Progress of the Electric Light, The, 181
Progress, Our Scientific, 73
Projectile, A Winged, 235
Propeller, The Screw, 351, 385
Propulsion, Screw, 53, 259
Propulsion, Screw; Experiments by Mr. Griffiths, 198
Propulsion, Twin-Ship, 334
Provincial Sanitation, 11, 74, 159, 303
Puddling, The Chemistry of, 509
Pulley Bearing, Kitson's Lose, 243
Pump, Gwynne's Centrifugal, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 573
Pumping Engine, Auxiliary, with " Comet"
Pumps, for the Yacht " Wanderer," Balfour and Company's, 574
Pumping Engine, Double-Acting, at the Bushtiehrad Coal Mines, 154
Pumping Engines, Hathorn and Davey's, at the Chiswick Main Drainage Works, 478
Pumping Engines for Water Works at Lawrence, Massachusetts, Trial of the, 58, 78
Punkahs, Machine-Worked, 284

Quillac Winding Engine, The, at the Paris Exhibition, 178

Rail Manufacture, Northern, 57
Rails, Steel, The Chemical Composition and Physical Properties of, 143, 166, 134
Rails, Steel, The Endurance of, 24:3
Railway Brake Trials, Continuous, 331
Railway Carriage Lighting ; Pintsch a System, 311
Railway Carriages, The Westinghouse Light for, 264
Railway Construction, 103
Railway, The European and North American; Canadian Railways, 228
Railway, The Grand Trunk of Canada ; Canadian Railways, 270, 338, 388, 452
Railway Incline at Lyons, 291
Railway, The Inner Circle Completion, 408
Railway, The New Brunswick and Canada; Canadian Railways, 188
Railway Rolling Stock at the Paris Exhibition, 45, 110, 229, 341, 432, 493
Railway Trains, The Effect of Brakes upon, 371
Railway, The Western Counties—Annapolis t.) Yarmouth ; Canadian Railways, 108
Railway, The Windsor and Annapolis ; Canadian Railways, 44
Railway Working, The Economy of, 124, 145, 204, 224
Raising Sunken Vessels, 102
Ransome's Machinery for Making Butter Kegs at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 569
Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Mill for Grinding Maize, 324
Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Single and Four-Furrow Ploughs at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Thrashing Machines for Hot Climates, 323
Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Travelling Electric Light for Railways, 16
Rapieff System of Electric Illumination, The, 55
Reaping Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 538
Receivers, Microphone, On Simple Forms of, 289
Recent Improvements in Telephones, 387
Reeves' Pneumatic Excavator, 312
Regulating Electric Currents, 164
Removal of Phosphorus and Sulphur, The, 426
Replacing Derailed Rolling Stock, Apparatus for, at the Paris Exhibition, 459
Report of the Board of Trade on Continuous Brakes, 251
Report of the Committee on the Explosion on Board H.M.S. " Thunderer," 221, 244
Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on Electric Lighting, 519
Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on Tramways, 366
Report by Lloyd's Surveyor on Steel for Shipbuilding, 40
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1878, 174
Reproduction, Photographic, 200
Revolver, The Mauser, 51
Revolving Cannon, The Hotchkiss, 3, 23, 63
Richards and Atkinson's Multiple Wood-Boring Machine, 506
River Bars, The Removal of, by Induced Tidal Scour, 107, 474
River Clyde, Shipbuilding on the, in 1878, 26, 56
River Clyde, Steel Shipbuilding on the, 156
River Control. 60, 80
River Dement, at Derby, Handyside and Company's Bridge over the, 292
River, Orange, Bridge over the, at Bethalie, Cape of Good Hope, 371
River Rance, Joly, Jolly, and Delafoy's Viaduct over the, at the Paris Exhibition, 481, 499
River Tees, Shipbuilding on the, 497
River Thames, Sedley's Proposed High-Level Bridge over the, 416
Rivers in England and Scotland, Pollution of, 138
Rivers. Legislation on our, 240
Road Roller, Aveling and Porter's Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Rolling Mill Engines, Miller and Company's Compound Reversing, 274
Rolling Mills of the Now Jersey Steel and Iron Company; American Iron and Steel Works, 90
Rolling Stock, Apparatus for Replacing Derailed, at the Paris Exhibition, 459
Royal Agricultural Society, The, 551
Royal Institution Lectures, 11
Royat and Bourboule Mineral Waters, The, 337

ROYAL SOCIETY, THE: 398

On the Torsional Strain which Remains in a Glass Fibre after Release from Twisting Stress, by J. Hopkinson, D. Sc., F.R.S., 19 On Certain Means of Measuring and Regulating Electric Currents, by C. William Siemens, 164
On the Synthetic Examination of Vowel Sounds, by W. H. Preece and Augustus Stroh, 200
On an Induction Current Balance, an 1 Experimental Researches made therewith, by Professor D. E. Hughes, 457
Soiree, 393, 440

Rule, Fuller's Spiral, 257
Russia, European, The Mineral Wealth of, 90. 169, 227, 430
Russia, Notes from. 186, 247, 506

Safety Lamps, 423
Safety Valve, Eave's Deadweight, 466
Salisbury Iron and the Works of the Barnum Richardson Company ; American Iron and Steel Works, 451
Sandhurst, Victoria, The Water Supply of, 148
Sandringham Water Supply, The, 91
Sanitary Paints, The Manufacture of, 328
Sanitary Summary for 1878, 95
Sanitation, Provincial, 11, 74, 159, 308
Savage's Automatic Lever Anchor, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 576
Saws, Furness's Band, for Cutting Deals, 235
Science, Physical, at the Paris Exhibition, 6, 97, 139, 209, 269
Scientific Progress, Our, 73
Scotch Iron Trade, Position and Prospects of the, 123
Scotch Parliamentary Bills, 12
Scotland and England, Pollution of Rivers in, 138
Scours, Tidal, The Removal of River Bars by Induced, 107, 474
Screw Propeller, The, 351, 385
Screw Propeller, A Contribution to the History of the, 13
Screw Propulsion, 53, 259
Screw Propulsion ; Experiments by Mr. Griffiths, 198
Screws, Twin, 1:37, 179
Scrubbers and Washers, Gas, 464
Sedley's Proposed High-Level Bridge over the Thames, 416
Servants, Employers' Liability for Injuries to, 361
Sewage Disposal at Stoke-upon-Trent, 262
Sewage, Health, and Water Supply, The National, 439
Shanks and Sons' Horizontal Engine at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 571
Sharp, Stewart, and Company s Shaping Machine, 442
Ship Canal, Panama, The Proposed, 518
Shipbuilders, Iron, and Boiler-Makers, The, 501
Shipbuilding in 1878, Clyde, 26, 56
Shipbuilding, Iron, at West Hartlepool, 132
Shipbuilding, Mechanical, On a System of, 841
Shipbuilding on the River Tees, 497
Shipowners v. the Board of Trade, 325, 358, 439
Ships, Armour for, 300
Ships of War. Armour Plating, 295
Shot and Shell, The Construction of Armour to Resist, 69
Show, The Royal Agricultural, at Kilburn (See Agricultural Show, The Royal, at Kilburn)
Side Feed Thrashing Machine, Clayton and Shuttleworth's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Silver Ores, Pan Amalgamation of, in Nevada and Colorado, 43, 128, 189, 369, 473, 491, 514
Simple Forms of Microphone Receivers, On, 289
Simpson and Company's Horizontal Compound Engine, 422
Single and Four-Furrow Ploughs, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, at the Paris Exhibition, 437
Sixpenny Phonograph, A, 326
Slotting Machine, Asquith's, 257
Society of Amalgamated Engineers, The, 462
Society, The Royal, (See Royal Society, The)
Society, The Royal Agricultural, 551
Society of Telegraph Engineers, Conversazione, 524
Society of Telegraph Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Society of Telegraph)
Soiree, The Royal Society, 398, 440
Sonometry by Electrical Induction, 418
Sopwith, Thomas, 75
Sounding Machine, Sir W. Thomson's Navigational, 320
Sounds, Vowel, The Examination of, 200
South African Telegraphs, 312
Southampton Docks, Electric Lighting at the, 116
South-West, Notes from the, 10, 30, 52, 77, 94, 141, 165, 183, 196, 216, 258, 283, 294, 324, 343, 396, 416, 413, 4-56, 482, 500, 526, 579
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 10, 30, 49,17, 99, 121, 141, 165, 183, 196, 216, 236, 258, 275, 314, 321, 343, 376, 402, 421, 438, 466, 482, 500, 519, 580
Southern Railway of France Rolling Stock at the Paris Exhibition, 229
Speaking Telephones, 467, 488, 506
Spectroscope, The Application of, to the Analysis of Iron and Steel, 127, 429
Spiral Rule, Fuller's, '257
Springs, Thermal, Disappearance of the, at Teplitz, Bohemia, 193, 240
Spur Wheel, A Durable, 122
Standard Sizes for Machine Fitting, 407
Stannah's Stuffing-Box, 223
Steam Boiler Explosions ; Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 258
Steam Boiler Explosions ; Mr. Burt's Motion in the House of Commons, 397
Steam Crane, Caillard Brothers', at the Paris Exhibition, 123
Steam Cultivation (The Progress of Agricultural Machinery), 547
Steam Generator, The HerreshoiT, 121
Steam Ploughing and Traction Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Steam Power (The Progress of Agricultural Machinery), 543
Steam Road Roller, Aveling and Porter's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Steam Trials of H.M.S. " Iris," 329
Steamer, The Indus General Steam Navigation Company's, " Tezpora," 276
Steel Bridges, 392
Steel from Cleveland Ores, 377
Steel and Iron, The Application of the Spectroscope to the Analysis of, 1'27, 429
Steel and Iron Boilers, 527, 581
Steel Rails, The Chemical Composition and Physical Properties of, 143, 166, 184
Steel Rails, The Endurance of, 243
Steel Shipbuilding on the Clyde, 156
Steel for Shipbuilding, Report by Lloyd's Surveyor on, 40
Steel, the Use of, in Naval Construction, 419
Steering Gear, Nelson's Steam, '255
Stephenson's Locomotive Firebox Stays, 22:3
Stevenson's Mine Ventilator at the High Blantyre Collieries, 178
Stewart's Double-Check Pressure Gauge. 37
Stoke-upon-Trent, Sewage Disposal at, 262
Strain in Glass Fibres, Torsional, 19
Strains on Crankshafts, 349
Straw-Burning Portable Engine, Clayton and
Shuttleworth's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Straw Elevator and Thrashing Machine, Nalder and Nalder's Combined, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 577
Structural Arrangements and Proportions of H.M.S. " Iris," 302
Stuffing-Box, Stannah's, 223
Sugg's Lantern with " London" Argand Governor Burner, 142
Sulphides as Fuel, The Utilisation of, 380
Sulphur and Phosphorus, The Removal of, 426
Sulzer Engine, Trial of a, 161
Summary, Sanitary, for 1878, 95
Sunken Vessels, Raising, 102
Supplementary Water Works at Vienna, The New, 287
Swedish Viaduct, The Lysedal, 1
Switzerland ; Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 130

Tank Engines, The Distribution of Load upon the Axles of, 441
Tank Locomotive, Bagnall's, for the Wotton Tramway, 17
Tees, River, Shipbuilding on the, 497
Telegraph Conference, The International, 485
Telegraph, Cowper's Writing, 180
Telegraph Engineers, The Conversazione of the Society of, 521
Telegraph Lines, Induction on, 280
Telegraphs, South African, 312
Telephone, The Ader, 387
Telephone, Bell's, 498
Telephone Circuits, Induction in; Mr. Edison's Specification, 277
Telephone, Edison's Electro-Chemical, 238
Telephone, Edison's Loud-Speaking, 442
Telephone, The Gower, 387
Telephones, Articulating, 467, 488, 506
Telephones, Recent Improvements in, 387
Ten-Brink Firegrate, Escher, Wyss, and Company's Boiler with, at the Paris Exhibition, 4:37
Tendency of Travel, The, 313
Terrestrial Magnetism, A new Theory of, 221
Testing Machine, An American, '267
Testing Lubricants, Machinery for, at the Paris Exhibition, '234
"Tezpore," The Indus General Steam Navigation Company's Steamer, 276
Thames, River, Sedley's Proposed High-Level Bridge over the, 416
Theorell s Printing Meteorograph ; Physical Science at the Paris Exhibition, 6
Therapeutic Machinery, Goransson's, at the Paris Exhibition, 214
Thermal Springs, Disappearance of the, at
Teplitz, Bohemia, 198, 240
Thrashing Machine Drum Guard, Marshall, Sons, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Thrashing Machine, Garrett and Sons', at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Thrashing Machine for Hot Climates, Ransomes Sims, and Head's, 323
Thrashing Machine and Straw Elevator, Nalder
and Nalder's Combined, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 577
Thrashing Machine with Side Feed, Clayton and Shuttleworth's at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 578
Thrashing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 535, 577
" Thunderer," H.M.S., The Explosion on Board, 31, 54, 138, 200, 220, 221, 244, 257, 261, 282
Tidal Scour, The Removal of River Bars by Induced, 107, 474
Tillage, Implements of (Progress of Agricultural Machinery), 534
Tools, American Machine ; English Industries and American Competition, '2
Tools, Hydraulic Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 65
Torpedo Boat, The Herreshoff, 32, 94, 121
Torpedo Warfare, Yarrow and Company's Boats for, 156
Torsional Strain in Glass Fibres, 19
Toulon Graving Docks, The ; Civil Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 136, 287, 316, 376, 431
Traction and Steam Ploughing Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 575
Trade in Central Africa, Future, 310
Trade in 1878, The Northern Iron, 34
Trains, Railway, The Effect of Brakes upon, 371
Tramway Locomotive, Merryweather's, at the Paris Exhibition, 256
Tramway, Wotton, Bagnall's Tank Locomotive for the, 17
Tramways, Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on, 366
Translation, The Wave of, 304, 343
Trappen's Valve Gear, 520
Travel, The Tendency of, 313
Travelling Crane, Watson's Gap Lathe with, 154
Travelling Electric Light for Railways, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, 16
Trial of the Pumping Engines for Water Works at Lawrence, Massachusetts, 58, 78
Trial of a Sulzer Engine, 161
Tubular Boiler, Carnaire and Montellier's Vertical, at the Paris Exhibition, 284
Tubular Piles, Le Grand and Sutcliff's, 223
Twin Screws, 137, 179
Twin-Ship Propulsion, 331
Tyndall, Professor, and the Electric Light, 75
Tyre Boring and Wheel Centre Lathe, Collier and Company's, 362
Tyre-Grinding Lathes at the Austrian State Railway Works, 392
Tweedy's Boiler Drilling Machine, :;11

Under-Gear for 8-Horse Portable Engine, Marshall, Sons, and Company's', at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 570
Union Iron Mills, Pittsburgh, Pa., The; American Iron and Steel Works, 21
United States ; Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 67
Universal Milling Machine, Greenwood and Batley's, 376
Utilisation of Sulphides as Fuel, The, 383

Valve, Eave's Deadweight Safety, 466
Valve Gear, Trappen's, 520
Vapours, Noxious, 32
Ventilator, Stevenson's Mine, at the High Blantyre Collieries, 178
Verderber's Locomotive Boilers, 113
Vertical Tubular Boiler, Carnaire and Mout:31lier's, at the Paris Exhibition, 281
Vessels, Raising Sunken, 102
Viaduct, The Lysedal, 1
Viaduct over the River Rance, Joly, Jolly, and Delafoy's, 481, 499
Victoria Dock Extension ; London and St. Katherine Docks, 456
Vienna Water Works, The New Supplementary, 287
Voltaic Batteries; Lighting by Electricity, 513
Vesper's Four-Cylinder Engine at the R9yal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 574
Vote Recorder, Clerae's Electric, 112
Vowel Sounds, The Examination of, 200

Wages, Ironworkers', and Iron Prices, •t18
Wallace-Farmer Electric Light. The, 3o8
Walschaerts' Horizontal Engine at the Paris Exhibition, 29
Warfare, Torpedo, Yarrow and Company's Boat for, 156
Washers and Scrubbers, Gas, 464
Water Supply of Geelong, The, 167
Water Supply of Sandhurst, Victoria, The, 148
Water Supply of Sandringham. The, 91
Water Supply, Sewage, and Health, The National, 439
Water Works at Lawrence, Massachusetts, Trial of the Pumping Engines for, 68, 78
Water Works of Vienna, The New Supplementary, 287
Waters, Mineral, The Bourboule and Royat, 337
Watson's Gap Lathe with Travelling Crane, 154
Watt Anniversary Lecture ; Mechanical Equivalents, 125
Wave of Translation, The, 304, 343
Wealth, Mineral, of European Russia, The, 90 169, 227, 430
Welded Boiler Plate Joints, 96
West Hartlepool, Iron Shipbuilding at, 132
West of Scotland Association of Gas Managers, Meeting of the, 511
Western Counties Railway. Annapolis to Yarmouth ; Canadian Railways, 108
Western Railway of France, First-Class Carriage for the, 341
Western Railway of France, The ; Railway Rolling Stock at the Paris Exhibition, 341, 493
Westinghouse Brake, The, 85
Westinghouse Light, The, for Railway Carriages, 264
Wheel Centre and Tyre Boring Lathe, Collier and Company's 362
Wheel, Spur, A Durable, 122
Willan's Compound Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show Kilburn, 574
Williams, Mr. Edward, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, Address of the, 400
Williamson's Report on Steel for Shipbuilding, 40
Winding Engine, The Quillac, at the Paris Exhibition, 178
Windsor and Annapolis Railway ; Canadian Railways, 44
Winged Projectile, A, 235
Wood-Boring Machine, Richards and Atkinson's Multiple, 506 4. A. •
Wood as a Material in America; English Industries and American Competition, 47
Wood Pavements. 405
Wood-Working Machinery at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 569
Woodcroft, Bennet, F.R.S., 140
Workmen, Liability of Employers to, 197
Works of the Barnum Richardson Company, The, and Salisbury Iron ; American Iron and Steel Works, 451
Works of Messrs. Cooper, Hewitt, and Company. The; American Iron and Steel Works, 87, 149
Works of the Meier Iron Company, The American Iron and Steel Works, 315
Works at Pont-A-Mousson, The; Metallurgy at the Paris Exhibition, 208
Workshop Legiation ; English Industries and American Competition, 208
Wotton Tramway, Bagnall's Tank Locomotive for the, 17
Writing Telegraph, Cowper's, 180

Yacht " Isa," Douglas and Grant's, Three-Cylinder Compound Engines of the, 195
Yacht Register, Lloyd's, 354
Yarmouth to Annapolis, Western Counties Railway ; Canadian Railways, 108
Yarrow and Co's Botits for Torpedo Warfare, 156

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