Engineering 1882 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

Abatement of Smoke Exhibition The, 90
“Aberdeen,” s.s., Engines of the, 315
“ Aberdeen.” s.s., Indicator Diagrams from Engines of tne, 529
Accident, The Canonbury Railway, 18
Accident Fund Societies, The Clyde, 255
Accident, The Hudson River Railroad, 136
Accumulating Battery, The Faure, 65, 83, 206
Accumulators, Kabath’s, 613
Actinic Phenomenon, A Curious, 66
Action of Light on Silver Resistances, 65
Action of the Microphone, The, 587, 653
Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 38
Admiralty Appointments, 377
Air, Compressed, “Notes” on, 67
Air Engine, Differential High-Pressure, 30
Air-Refrigerating Machinery, 174
Allsup and Sons’ Double Twin-Screw Ferry Steamers on the River Mersey, 602
American Express Passenger Locomotive, 270
American Telegraph Company, The Central and South, 261
Anderson’s Dovetailing and Moulding Machine, 605
Anemometers. The Exhibition of, 378
Anthracite or Stone Coal, 576, 624, 652
Anti-Fouling Compositions, 459
Appointments, Admiralty, 377
Arago Dynamo-Electric Generator, The, 52
Arc, The Brockie, 638
Arc Lamp, Fyfe’s Differential, 659
Armour and Guns, 300
Armoured Ships’ Inclined Decks, Experiments with, 433
Arms, The Captured Fenian, 635
Armstrong Ribbon Gun, The, 638
Artillery, 600, 661
Artillery, Mountain Horse, 93
Ashton and Sperryn’s High-Pressure Cock, 590
Atlantic to the Mediterranean, The Canal from the, 162
Atlantic Telegraphy, 183
Attraction and Repulsion from Vibration, 455, 480, 506, 558
“ Austral,” The Orient Line Steamer, Trial Trip of, 446
Australian, South, Government Railways, 584
Automatic Boiler Feeder, The Fromentin, 555
Automatic Continuous Railway Biake, 245
Automatic Expansion Gear, Jefferis’s, 497
Automatic Jablochkoff Candle Holders; 520
Automatic Vacuum Brakes; Report of Colonel Rich, 607
Aveling. Thomas, 228

Barometer, An Electric, 508
Batteries, Electric Storage, 184, 347
Batteries, Secondary, 615
Battery, The Faure Accumulating, 83
Battery, The Sutton Storage, 92
Bazin System of Dredging, The, 103,129
Bell-Coleman Dry Cold-Air Machine, The, 156
Belleville Boiler, The, 432
Belting, Cotton, 339
Berly’s Electrical Directory, 459
Berlin Metropolitan Railway, The, 138
Bichromate Cell, A New Form of, 561
Bilbao, The Iron Ore District of, 482, 608, 629,655
Bill Legislation, Private, 250, 276, 304, 378, 458, 470. 505, 534, 613, 636,661
Bill, The Rivers Conservancy, 203
Bill, Sir John Lubbock’s, and Patent Law Reform, 378. 408, 431
Bills for Session 1882, Private, 15, 78, 124, 216, 262
Bjerknes’s Hydrodynamic Experiments, 23,147, 191, 639
Blackburn, The Railway Collision at, 62
Blast Furnaces Idle,-380
Blasting, Submarine, The Lauer System of, 494
Bleachfield, Electric Power in the, 534
Bleaching by Electrolysis, 663
Block and Lock Signals; Hodgson’s System, 655
Blowing up Ice in the Elbe, 17
Blundells’ “ Waterwitch” Pump and Engine, 651
Board, A Central Harbour, 14
Boat for the Danish Co ver ament, Thornycroft’s Torpedo, 185
Boat-Lowering Apparatus, 335
Boat-Lowering Apparatus and Life-Boats, 371
Boat, Torpedo, for the Italian Government, Yarrow and Company’s, 399
Boiler, The Belleville, 432
Boiler, Cadiat’s Steam, 445
Boiler Construction, Marine, 308
Boiler Explosion, The Great Bridge, 562
Boiler Explosion, The Radcliffe, 484, 509, 531
Boiler Explosions in 1881; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 198, 223
Boiler Explosions, Steam, 146
Boiler Feeder, The Fromentin Automatic, 555
Boiler Flues, The Collapse of, 590
Boiler, Lancashire, Hawksley, Wild, and Company’s, with Flanged Flues, 30
Boiler-Makers, Rushworth and Co’s Machine Tools for, 131
Boiler, Multitubular, Hawksley, Wild and Co’s, 608
Boiler, Neumann's Cylindrical, 272
Boilers and Engines, 365
Boilers and Engines at the Kimberley Water Works, 178, 207
Boilers and Engines of the Steamship “ Servia/’ 221, 245, 349
Boilers, Steam, On Corrosion in, 627
Boilers and Steam Pipes, Compositions for Coating, 327
Boilers, Steam, Schwartzkopff’s Safety Apparatus for, 627
Boilers and Winding Engine at the Calumet and Hecla Mines, 290
Bo’ness, Meik and Son’s New Dock and Harbour Works at, 196
Book Clearances at the Patent Office Library, 17
Bossing Wheels, Massey’s Steam Hammer for, 18
Boston New Dock Works. 614
Box Cars, New York Central Standard 34<t., 521,572 *4
Boyle’s System of Ventilation for Ships, 640
Brake, Automatic Continuous Railway, 245
Brakes, Automatic Vacuum; Report of Colonel Rich, 607
Brakes, Continuous, 505, 535
Brakes, Continuous, on the Metropolitan District Railway, 587
Breslau Pumping, Sewerage, and Irrigation Works, The, 38, 80
Bridge, The Forth, 532
Bridge over the Msta; Nicolai Railway, 424, 449
Bridge over the Tessin; The St. Gothard Railway, 218
British Coal Consumption, 410
Brockie Arc, Tne, 638
Bronze Guns, German, 162
Brotherhood’s Three-Cylinder Engine, for Driving Dynamo-Electric Machines, 172
Brown Coal in the Blast Furnace, The Use of, 482
Brown’s Tramway Locomotive, 109
Building Trade Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, The, 276
Bunkers, Coal, and Magazines, 89
Bridge, The Harlem River, 497

Cadiat’s Steam Boiler, 445
Calculation of Trim, On Approximate Formulae for the, 593
Calumet and Hecla Mines, Winding Engine and Boilers at the, 290
Canadian Railways, 534, 614. 639
Canal from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, The, 162
Canal, The Orissa Coast, 1
Canal, The Panama, 93, 139. 161, 663
Canal, Panama, American Opinion on the, 347
Gance’s Electric Regulator, 30
Candle Holders, Automatic Jablochkoff, 520
Candle Power of the Electric Light, 141
Canonbury Railway Accident, The, 18
Caoutchouc, The Expansion of Hard, 254
Captured Fenian Arms, The, 635
Carbon, The Chemical Equivalent of, 534
Carbon Electrodes, Destruction of, by Continued
Electrolysis, 483
Carbon Filaments, The Spectrum of, 433
Carbon and Iron in Steel, 495, 572
Carbon under Pressure, Resistance of, 380
Carrying and Speed of Screw Steamers, On the, 295,396,537
Cast Steel Stern Frame and Rudder, Jessop and Sons’, 398
Cattle Car, Standard; New York Central Railroad, 654
Cell, Bichromate, A New Form of, 561
Cell, The Daniell, 182
Cell, A New Photo-Electric, 587
Cement, On, 65
Central Harbour Board, A, 14
Central Railroad of New Jersey, U.S.A., Express Locomotive for the, 85
Central and South American Telegraph Company, The, 261
Chemical Equivalent of Carbon, The, 534
China Clipper, The “ Stirling Castle,” 271
Chinese Ram Cruisers, The, 139
Chronograph for Engineering Purposes with the
Hipp Escapement, 552
Chronometric Shutter, The, 638
Civil Engineers, The Institution of {See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
Clark’s Compound Engines of the s.s, “ Mexican,” 7, 52
Clerk’s Gas Engine, 110
Cleveland, Notes from, 11,46, 57, 95, 122,142,164, 179, 201, 230, 245, 280, 309, 364, 382, 397, 434, 460, 478, 509, 536, 553, 581, 610, 642, 653
Clocks, Schweizer’s Electric, 10
Clyde Accident Fund Societies, The, 255
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, 1881. 53,140,292
Coal, Brown, in the Blast Furnace, The Use of, 482
Coal Bunkers and Magazines, 89
Coal Consumption, British, 410
Coal Consumption, London’s, 92
Coal Mining, A New Method of, 482
Coal, Stone, or Anthracite, 576, 624. 652
Coal Washing, 518
Coating Boilers and Steam Pipes, Composition for, 327
Cock, Ashton and Sperryn’s High-Pressure, 590
Cold-Air Machine, The Bell-Coieman Dry, 156
Collapse of Boiler Flues, The, 590
College, Cooper’s Hill, 429
College, The University, London, 508
Collision at Blackburn, The Railway, 62
“ Colossus” and “ Edinburgh,” Launch of the, 278,345
Colour Changes in the Mediterranean and other Waters, 184
Colour of Water, The, 254
Combination Wood-Working Machine, Richards and Company’s, 131
Coming Patent Law Discussion, A, 62
Committee, The Electric Lighting, 491, 500, 529, 563, 606
Company, The Electrolytic, 615
Companies, London Water, 36
Compass, A Weather, 663
Compositions, Anti-Fouling, 459
Compound Engine with Davey’s Combined
Governor and Reversing Gear, 8
Compound Engine, Halpin’s, 392
Compound Engine with Klug’s Valve Gear, Ross and Duncan’s, 578
Compound Engine Trials, 174, 220, 242, 266, 545
Compound Engines: Calculating Indicator
Diagrams, 579
Compound Engines, On the Economy of, 472
Compound Engines for Steam Yachts, 472
Compound Pumping Engine, 427
Compressed Air, “Notes” on, 67
Compressed Steel, 380
Condenser, The Speaking, 664
Condensing Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company’s Horizontal, 244
Conductivity of a Vacuum, The, 410
Conference, The Lightning Rod, 225
Conservancy Bill, The Rivers, 203
Conservation of Solar Energy, The, 230
Continuous Brakes, 505,535
Continuous Brakes on the Metropolitan District Railway, 587
Continuous Printing Press, Hoe’s, 217
Continuous Railway Brake, Automatic, 245
Conversazione at the “ Daily Telegraph,” 664
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 561
Conversazione of the Royal Society, 484
Conversazione at University College, 561
Cooper’s Hill College, 429
Copley and Company's Compound Engine for Steam Yachts, 472
Copper, New Method of Purifying, 183
Copper Refining in Japan, 621, 650
Corrosion in Steam Boilers, On, 627
Corrosive Effects of Steel on Iron, 354
Cotton Belting, 339
Cox and Company’s Steam Launch Engine, 624
Cracks and Annealing of Steel, 592
Crane, Hunter and English’s Thirty-Ton Floating, for the St. Katharine Dock Company, 446
Cranes, Winches, and Lifting Appliances, 369
Cranes, Windlasses, &c., 322
Creosoting in the United States, 255
Crystal Palace, Electrical Exhibition at the, 37, 181, 205, 251, 252
Crystal Palace and the Insurance Companies, The, 230
Cunard Liner “Servia,” The, 221, 245, 349
Current Meter, A New Electric, 162
Currents, Electric. On the Mechanical Production of, 77,101, 148, 170
Currents, Powerful, A New Galvanometer for, 432
Currents in a Vacuum, The Gramme, 613
Curves, On the Reduction of, 647
Curves of Stability of some Mail Steamers, 602
Cylindrical Boiler, Neumann’s, 272

“ Daily Telegraph” Conversazione, The, 664
Daniell Cell, The, 182
Danish Government, Thornycroft’s Torpedo Boat for the, 185
Davey’s Combined Governor and Reversing Gear, Compound Engine with, 8
Davis’s Steam Steering Gear, 398
De Bergue and Company’s Rivetting Machine, 201
Decks, Armoured Ships’ Inclined, Experiments with, 43 3
Dew-Point, On the Theory of the, 637
Diary, The Gas Engineer’s, 37
Differential Arc Lamp, Fyfe’s, 659
Differential High-Pressure Air Engine, 30
Disaggregation of Tin, 229
Discharge of Electricity by Heated Bodies, The 254
Discussion, A Coming Patent Law, 62
Diving Appliances, 327, 421, 441
Dock and Harbour Works at Bo’ness, Meik and
Son’s New, 196
Dock Works, Boston, New, 614
Docks, The Milford Haven, 91
Dolbear Telephone, The, 307
Double Twin-Screw Ferry Steamers on the River Mersey, 602
Dovetailing and Moulding Machine, Anderson’s, 605
Draper, Dr., 93
Dredging, The Bazin System of, 103,129
Dredging and Excavating Plant, 316
Dredging Machinery, 338
Drills, Two Primitive, 570
Dry Cold-Air Machine, The Bell-Coleman, 156
Dutch Field Gun, The New, 380
Dynamite and its Manufacture, 214, 585
Dynamo-Electric Generator, The Arago, 52
Dynamo-Electric Generator, Fein’s, 195
Dynamo-Electric Generator for Five Lights, Sautter, Lemonnier, and Company’s, 58
Dynamo-Electric Generator, Jurgensen’s, 130
Dynamo-Electric Generator, The Schu* kert, 244
Dynamo-Electric Generators. Driving, 172
Dynamometer, Fronde’s. 240

Easy Magnetisation, 613
Economy of Compound Engines, On the, 472
“Edinburgh” and “Colossus,” Launch of the, 278, 345 ™ AAA
Edison Electric Light on Holborn, The, 330
Edison System of Electric Illumination, The, 226, 252,305,407,467
Education, Professional, for Working Miners, 508
Edwards’s Gas Engine, 222
Eidsforth’s Electiical Switch, 658
Electric Barometer, An, 508
Electric Clocks, Schweizer’s, 10
Electric Conductivity of Sulphur Plus Carbon, The, 588
Electric Current Meter, A New, 162
Electric Currents, On the Mechanical Production of, 77, 101, 148, 170
Electric Exhibition in Munich, 432
Electric Illumination, The Edison System of, 226,305, 407,467
Electric Lamp, The Pilsen, 152
Electric Light, Candle Power of the, 141
Electric Light Currents, A Galvanometer for, 613
Electric Light at Godaiming. The, 35
Electric Light,The Laing, 117
Electric Light at tneMansion House, 270
Electric Light, The Maxim. 137
Electric Light at Norwich, The, 293
Electric Light on the Place du Carrousel, The, 76
Electric Light Plant, Portable, 109
Electric Light at the Port of Havie, The, 5
Electric Light at the Savoy Theatre, The, 18, 204
Electric Light and shortsightedness. The, 162
Electric Light at Stafford House, The, 663
Eiectri > Lighthouses of France, The, 237, 287, 622
Electric Lighting Committee, The, 491, 500, 529, 563,606 e
Electric Lighting, The Gillcher System of, 443
Electric Lighting in Sheffield, 37
Electric Lighting of the s.s. “Orient,” 278
Electric Power, 229
Electric Power in the Bleachfleld, 534
E[ectric Railways, 432
Electric Regulator, Cance’s, 30
Electric Regulator, The Gramme, 172
Electric Sparks, The Potentials of, 65
Electric Storage Batteries, 347
Electrical Directory, Berly’s, 459
Electrical Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, The, 37, 181, 205, 251, 252
Electrical Firedamp indicator, An, 278
Electrical Properties of Indium, Some, 93.
Electrical Resistances of Various Solutions of Zinc Salts, 475
Electrical Storage Battery, On a New, 184
Electrical Transmission of Power, The, 3
Electricity, The Discharge of, by Heated Bodies, 254
Electricity, Medical, 278
Electricity, The Transport of Power by, 182
Electricity and Wire Covering, 182
Electro-Magnetic Repulsion, 508
Electrodes, Carbon, Destruction of, by Continued Electrolysis, 483
Electrolysis, Bleaching by, 663
Electrolytic Company. The, 615
Elias Machine, The, 278
Energy, Solar, The Conservation of, 230
Engine, Clerk's Gas, 110
Engine, Compound, with Davey’s Combined Governor and Reversing Gear, 8
Engine, Compound Pumping, 427
Engine, Differential High Pressure Air, 30
Engine, Edwards’s Gas, 222
Engine, Gas, The Theory of the, 384
Engine, Halpin’s Compound, 392
Engine, James and Wardrope’s Three-Cylinder, 521
Engine and Pump, The “ Waterwitch,” 651
Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company’s Horizontal Condensing, 244
Engine Shed, Standard, for the London and North Western Railway, 240
Engine, Siemens’ Gas, 271
Engine, Steam Launch, Cox and Company’s, 624
Engine for Steam Yachts, Copley and Company’s Compound, 472
Engine Trials, Compound, 174, 220, 242, 266, 545
Engine, Winding, and Boilers, at the Calumet and Hecla Mines, 290 ... m
ngineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding, 1881, The Clyde, 53,140, 292
Engineering Service, The Italian Civil, Reorganisation of, 183
Engineering in 1881, Telegraphic, 63

Engineers, The Institution of Civil: 14
Address of the President, 38
Conversazione, 561
On the Analysis of Potable Water, with Special Reference to the Determination of Previous Sewage Contamination, by Chas. W. Folkard, 87
On the Candle Power of the Electric Light, by Dr. Paget Higgs, 141
On Air-Refrigerating Machinery and its Applications, by J. J. Coleman, 174
On "Steel for Tyres and Axles, by Benjamin Baker. 212
On Steel for Structures, by Ewing Matheson, 236
On the Design of Structures to resist Wind Pressure, by Charles B. Bender, 308
On the Theory of the Gas Engine, by Dugald Clerk, 384
On Harbours and Estuaries on Sandy Coasts, by L. E. Vernon-Harcourt, 442
On Coal Washing, by Thomas F. Harvey, 518
On Three Systems of Wire-Rope Transport by W. T. R. Carrington, 549
On the various Systems of Grinding Wheat, and on the Machines used in Corn Mills, by W. Proctor Baker, 564
On Modem Flour Milling in England, by Henry Simon, 564
On Roller Mills and Milling as practised at Budapest, by W. B. Harding, 564

Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical: 102, 420
On Meters for Registering Small Flows of Water, by J. J. Tylor, 102,106
On the Bazin System of Dredging, by A. A. Langley, 103,129
On Hydraulic Lifts for Passengers and Goods, by Edward Bayzand Ellington. 128,153, 420
On Improved Appliances for Working under Water or in Irrespirable Gases, by W. A. Gorman, 421, 441
On Power Hammers, with a Movable Fulcrum, by Daniel Longworth, 423, 474
On Wool-Combing by Modern Machinery, by F. M. T. Lange, 424,425
On Machinery for Sowing of Seed, by Mr. Smythe, 424, 523

Engineers, The Society of Telegraph, 89
Engines of the s.s. “Aberdeen,” 315, 529
Engines and Boilers, 365
Engines and Boilern at the Kimberley Water Works, 178, 207
Engines and Boilers of the Steamship “ Ser via,” 221,245, 349
Engines, Clark’s Compound, of the s.s. “ Mexican,” 7, 52
Engines, Compound: Calculating Indicator Diagrams, 579
Engines, Horizontal, with Stanek’s Valve Gear, 601
Engines. Marine, and Details of Marine Engines and Boilers, 317
Engines, Pumping, for the Breslau Sewerage and Irrigation Works, 38, 80
Engines.Pumping, and Pumps, 368
England’s Naval Power, 429
English Tramways, 13
English’s Lamp, 222
Estimates, The Naval, 275
Excavating and Dredging Plant, 316
Exhibition at the Agricultural H ill, The Building Trade, 276
Exhibition of Anemometers, The, 378
Exhibition in Edinburgh, The International Fisheries, 405
Exhibition in Munich, Electric, 432
Exhibition of Naval Models, The Shipwrights Company’s, 430, 458. 482
Exhibition, The Naval and Submarine (See Naval and Submarine Exhibition, The)
Exhibition, The North-East Coast Marine, 637
Exhibition, A Photographic, 137
Exhibition, The Smoke Abatement, 90, 252, 277, 417, 469
Expansion of Hard Caoutchouc, The, 254
Experiments, Dr. Bjerknes’s Hydrodynamic, 23, 147,191, 639
Experiments, Recent Hydraulic, 249, 662
Exploder, A New Magneto-Electric, 65
Explosion, Boiler, The Great Bridge, 562
Explosion, The Radcliffe Boiler, 484, 509, 531
Explosion at Stockton, Locomotive; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 57,116
Explosion, The “ Swiftsure,” 614
Explosions, Boiler, in 1881; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 198, 223
Explosions in Flour Mills, 206
Explosions, Steam Boiler, 146
Export Steel Rail Trade, The, 508
Express Locomotive for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, U.S.A., 85
Express Passenger Locomotive, American, 270
Express Passenger Locomotive, Four-Coupled, 156, 177
Extracting Sulphur, New Method of, 459

Failure of a Gasholder, 278
Faure Accumulating Battery, The, 65, 83, 206
Fein’s Dynamo-Electric Generator, 195
Fenian Arms, The Captured, 635
Ferry Steamers, Double Twin-Screw, on the River Mersey. 602
Field Gun. The New Dutch, 380
Field Telegraphs, 562
Firearms. Military Magazine, 263
Firebox, Ti’p and Wattitz’s Locomotive, 298
Firedamp Indicator, An Electrical, 278
Fireproof Paint, 56
Fisheries Exhibition in Edinburgh, The International, 405
Flanged Flues. Hawksley, Wild, and Company’s Lancashire Boiler with, 30
Floating Crane, Hunter and English’s Thirty-Ton, for the St. Katharine’s Dock Company. 446
Flooding the Shotts, 587
Flour Mills, Explosions in, 206
Flow of Liquids in Pipes, The, 483
Flues, Boiler, The Collapse of, 590
Fluffing Machine and Fan, Jones’s, 578
Flying Birds, Photographing, 278
Fogs, The Formation of. 254
Folding Tube Stopper, Turner’s, 537
Foot Lathe with Overhead Gear, 590
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 22, 41, 69, 100, 111, 146, 185, 236, 260, 351, 388, 412, 428, 466, 492, 538, 553, 598, 620, 648, 670,
Foreign Technical Literature, 10, 33, 67, 94, 139, 162, 184, 255, 279, 352, 383, 434, 460, 511, 535, 588, 641, 665
Forgings, Steel, The Composition of, 139
Forth Bridge, The, 532
Foundering of Steamships, The, 135
Four-Coupled Express Passenger Locomotive, 156. 177
France, The Electric Lighthouses of, 237, 287, 622
French Academy Prizes, The, 161
French Railway Companies, Ministerial Circular to,139
French Railways, New, 229
Fromentin Automatic Boiler Feeder, The, 555
Froude’s Dynamometer, 240
Fuel in Iron and Steel Manufacture, Economy of, 496
Furnaces Idle, Bla^t, 380
Fyfe’s Differential Arc Lamp. 659

Galvanometer for Electric Light Currents, A, 613
Galvanometer for Powerful Currents, A New, 432
Gardner Machine Gun, The, 546
Gas Engine, Clerk’s, 110
Gas Engine, Edwards’s, 222
Gas Engine, The Theory of the, 384
Gas Engineer’s Diary, The, 37
Gas, The Lighting Power of, 664
Gas Producer and Motor, Siemens’, 271
Gas Stove, Schbnheyder’s. 450
Gasholder, Failure of a, 278
Gauges, Key-Way, 537
Gauges, Testing Pressure, 590
Gear, Davis's Steam Steering, 398
Gear for Locomotives, Henszey’s Steam Reversing, 219
Gear for Locomotives, Indicator, 447
Gear, Steam Steering, 372
Geissler’s Tubes, 347
Generator, The Arago Dynamo-Electric, 52
Generator, Fein’s Dynamo-Electric, 195
Generator, Jilrgensen’s Dynamo-Electric. 130
Generator, The Schuckert Dynamo-Electric, 244
Generators, Driving Dynamo-Electric, 172
German Bronze Guns, 162
Germany, Telephones in, 380
Giffard, M. Henri, 409
Glasgow, Further Wind Pressure Observations at, 37
Godaiming, The Electric Light at, 35
Gold-Reducing Machinery, Jordan and Son’s, 56
Gold and Silver in the United States, 611
Goldschmidt, Hahlo, and Company’s Portland Rotary Pump, 58
Gong Signals, Siemens’ Railway, 195
Government, Municipal, and Water Supply, 181
Governor and Reversing Gear, Davey’s Combined, Compound Engine with, 8
Governors, Marine, 326, 372
Graham v. Ransomes, 466
Gramme Currents in a Vacuum, The, 613
Gramme Dynamo-Electric Generator for Five Lights, Sautter, Lemonnier, and Company’s, 58
Gramme Electric Regulator, The, 172
Graving Dock Leakage, A Novel Method of Checking, 183
Gray’s Harmonic Telegraph, 123
Great Bridge Boiler Explosion, The, 562
Grinding Wheat, 564
Giilcher System of Electric Lighting, The, 443
Gulf Stream and the Panama Canal, The, 65
Gun Carriages, Hydraulic, The Vavasseur and Albini, 432
Gun, The Gardner Machine, 546
Gun, A New Magazine, 587
Guns and Armour, 300
Guns, The 100-Ton, 614
Guns, Modern, 600,661
Guns at the Naval and Submarine Exhibition, 330

Halpin’s Compound Engine, 392
Halpin's Sea Connexions for Steamers. 12
Hammer, Massey’s Steam, for Bossing Wheels. 18
Hammers, Power, with a Movable Fulcrum, 423, 474
Hanover, Petroleum in, 161
Harbour Board, A Central, 14
Harbour and Dock• Works at Bo’ness, New, 196
Harbour, The Milford Haven, 91
Harbour, The Wanganui, New Zealand, 104
Harbours on Sandy Coasts, 442
Harlem River Bridge, The, 497
Harmonic Telegraph, Gray’s, 123
Havre, The Electric Light at the Port of, 5
Hawksley, Wild, and Company's Lancashire
Boiler with Flanged Flues, 30
Hawksley, Wild, and Company’s Multitubular Boiler, 608
Heat of Steam, The Specidc, 603
Henszey’s Steam Reversing Gear for Locomotives, 219
H.M.S, “ Polyphemus,” 455
High-Pressure Cock, Ashton and Sperryn’s 590
Hipp Escapement, Chronograph for Engineering Purposes with the, 552
Hoe’s Continuous Printing Press, 217
Holley, Alexander Lyman, 114
Horizontal Condensing Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company’s, 244
Horizontal Engines with Stanek’s Valve Gear,
Hospital Trains, 90
Hudson River Railroad Accident, The 136
Hull and Barnsley Railway, The, 183 664
Hunter and English’s Thirty-Ton Floating Crane for the St. Katharine Dock Company, 446
Hydraulic Experiments, Recent, 249, 662
Hydraulic Gun Carriages, The Vavasseur and Albini, 432
Hydraulic Lifts, 128, 153, 420
Hydrodynamic Experiments, Dr. Bjerknes's 23 147,191.639 J
Hydrostatic Rivetter, De Bergue and Company’s,

Ice in the Elbe, Blowing up, 17
IU2->T 305 4^7 ThS Edison System of,
Incandescence-Arc Lamps, 390, 418
Incandescence Lighting. 241, 267
Indian Public Works Department, The 460
Indicator Diagrams from Engines of the s 8. “Aberdeen,” 529
Indicator Rig for Locomotives, New, 447
Indium, Some Electrical Properties of, 93
Installation, Edison, at the Crystal Palace, 251
Institution of Naval Architects (See Naval Architeeth The Institution of) Insulite, 534
Insurance Companies and the Crystal Palace, 230
Inter-Algerian Sea, The Proposed, 562
International Fisheries Exhibition, 405
Iron and Carbon in Steel, 495, 572
Iron Ore District of Bilbao, The, 482, 608, 629, 655
Iron, Preserving, 409
Iron Prices, Manufactured. 409
Iron Shipbuilding in the North, 587

Iron and Steed Institute, The, 481, 495
On Certain Physical Tests and Properties of “ Mild” Steel, 475, 481, 502
On a New Method of Mining Coal, by Paget Mosley, 482
On the Iron Ore District of Bilbao, by William Gill, 482, 629
On the Use of Lignite or Brown Coal in the Blast Furnace, 482
On the Mutual Relations of Carbon and Iron in Steel, by George E. Woodcock, 495, 572
On the Consumption and Economy of Fuel in Iron and Steel Manufacture, 49o

Iron Trade, Scotch, in 18S1,82
Irrigation and Sewerage Works, The Breslau, 38, 80
Isthmus of Corinth, Piercing the, 18
Isthmus of Suez, The, 663
Italian Civil Engineering Service, Reorganisation of the, 183

Jablochkoff Candle Holders, Automatic, 520
Jablochkoff Exhibit at the Crystal Palace, 20*
James and Wardrope’s Three-Cylinder Engine, 521
Japan, Copper Refining in, 621, 650
Japanese Railway, A New, 171
Jefferis’s Valve Gear, 497
Jessop and Sons’ Case Steel Stern Frame, 398
Jets, The Vibratory Effects of, 380
Jones’s Fluffing Machine and Fan, 578
Jordan and Son’s Gold-Reducing Machinery, 56
Jurgensen’s Dynamo-Electric Generator, 130

Kabath's Accumulators, 613
Keith Prize, Award of to Professor Chrystal, 638
Key-Way Gauges, 537
Khatatbeh Pumping Station, The, 638
Khotinsky’s Limelight, 37
Kimberley Water Works, Engines and Boilers at the. 178, 207
Klug Valve Gear, Compound Engine with, 578
Krupp's Muzzle Pivot Gun, 433

Laing Electric Light, The, 117
Lamp, Arc, Fyfe's Differential, 659
Lamp, English’s, 222
Lamp, A New Safety, 380
Lamp, The Pilsen Electric, 152
Lamp, Swan’s Incandescent, Tests of, 347
Lamps, Incandescence-Arc, 390, 418
Lancashire Boiler, Hawksley, Wild, and Company’s, with Flanged Flues, 30
Lathe, Foot, with Overhead Gear, 590
Lauer System of Submarine Blasting, 494
Launch of the “Edinburgh” and •• Colossus.” 278, 345
Launch Engine, Cox and Company’s Steam, 624
Launching Velocities, On, 497
Law, Patent, A Coming Discussion, 62
Law Reform, Patent, 36, 117
Lead Mining and Royalties, 229
Lead Pipes and Water, 254
Leakage in a Graving Dock, Checking, 183
Leather Machinery. 578
Lectures, The Royal Institution, 17
Legislation, Private Bill. 250, 276, 304, 378, 453, 470, 505, 534, 613, 636, 661
Lehigh Valley Railroad, Locomotive for the, 602
L'Etincelle, 162
Library, The Patent Office, 37
Life-Boats and Boat-Lowering Apparatus, 371
Life-Saving Appliances, 338
Lifts, Hydraulic, 128, 153, 420
Light, Electric, Candle Power of the, 141
Light, The Edison Electric, on Holborn, 380
Light, The Electric, at Godaiming, 35
Light, Electric, at the Mansion House, 270
Light, Electric, at Norwich, The, 293
Light, Electric, on the Place du Carrousel, 76
Light, The Electric, at the Port of Havre, 5
Light, The Electric, at Stafford House, 663
Light, The Laing Electric, 117
Light, The Maxim Electric, 137
Light, Ozone formed by, 17
Light Plant, Portable Electric, 109
Lighthouses of France, The Electric, 237, 287, 622
Lighting Committee, Electric, 491, 500, 529, 563, 606
Lighting, Electric, The Gulcher System of, 443
Lighting, Electric, in Sheffield, 37
Lighting, Incandescence, 241, 267
Lighting Posver of Gas, The, 664
Lighting of the Savoy Theatre. The, 18, 204
Lightning Rod Conference, The, 225
Lights, The Maxim and Weston, at the Crystal Palace, 251
Limelight, Khotinsky’s, 37
Linford v. Otto, 113
Liquids in Pipes, The Flow of. 483
Literature, Foreign Technical, 10, 33. 67, 94,139, 162, 184, 255, 279, 352, 383,434, 460,511, 535, 588, 641, 665
Load Lines, 411
Lock and Block Signals ; Hodgson’s System, 655
Locomotive, American Express Passenger, 270
Locomotive, Brown’s Tramway, 109
Locomotive Explosion at Stockton; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher 57 116
Locomotive, Express, for the Central Railroad ol New Jersey, U.S A.. 85
Locomotive Firebox,'Tilp and Wattitz’s, 298
Locomotive, Four-Coupled Passenger, 156, 177
Locomotive for Lehigh Valley Railroad, 602
Locomotive Transfer Truck for the South Australian Government, 549
Locomotive, Heuszey’s Steam Reversing Gear
Locomotives, New Indicator Rig for, 447
Log of the s.s. “ Orient,” The, 94
London and North-Western Railway, Webb’s Standard Engine Shed for the, 240
London Water Companies, 36 London’s Coal Consumption, 92
Lubbock, Sir John’s, Bill, and Patent Law Reform, 378, 408, 431
Lubricants and Lubricating xA.pparatus, 326 Lubricating and Cleaning Machine, Parrington and Almond’s Wire Rope, 105
Luminous Paint in the Spectrum, 182

Machine, The Bell-Coleman Dry Cold-Air 156
Machine, The Elias, 278 ’
Machine and Kan, Jones’s Fluffing 578
Machine Gun, The Gardner, 546
Machine Mining in Cleveland, 459
Machine, Bivetting, Da Bergue and Co.’s, 201
Machine Tools, 334 ’ 1
Machine Tools for Boiler-Makers, 131
Machine, Wood-Working, Combination 131
Machinery, Air-Refrigerating, 174
Machinery, Dredging, 338
Machinery, Jordan’s Gold-Reducing, 56
Machinery for the Sowing of Seed 424 523
Machines, Refrigerating, 339,370 ’ ’
Machines, Wool-Combing, 424 425
Magazine Gun, A New, 587 ’
Magazines and Coal Bunkers, 89
Magnetic Storm, The Recent, 508
Magnetisation, Easy, 613
Magneto-Electric Exploder, A New, 65
Mail Steamers. Curves of Stability of some 602
Manchester Smoke Abatement Exhibition The 252, 277,417,469 ’ ’
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Renort of the, 544 ’ *
Mansion House, Electric Light at the, 270
Manufacture of Dynamite, The, 214, 585
Manufactured Iron Prices, 409
Marine Boiler Construction, 308
^Clyde ^3S1406292g an<1 1881> The
Marine Engines, and Details of Marine Engines and Boilers, 317 °
Marine Exhibition, The North-East Coast 637
Marine Governors, 326, 372
Marne and Rhine Canal and Canal de 1’Est-owbJ?ies arxd PumPs at Pierre-la-Treiche’, 272, 381
Marquis of Worcester. The 92
"naal Eeport of Boiler Explosions in 1881, 198, 223
Massey’s Steam Hammer for Bossing Wheels 18
Materials used in Shipbuilding, 352
Matter. Solidification of Particles of, 203
Maxim Electric Light, The, 137
Maxim and Weston Lights at the Crystal Palace lhe, 251 ’
Meat Refrigeration, 305
Meat Transport from New Zealand, 588
Mechanical Production of Electric Currents On the, 77, 101, 148, 170
Medical Electricity, 278
Mediterranean, Colour Changes in the 184
Menelaus, Mr. William, 347, 398
Mercantile Steamers and Sailing Vessels Load Lines for, 411
Merchant Steamers, 353
Messageries Maritimes, The, 636
Metal Surfaces, The Mutual’Influence of, 561 Meter, Richards’ Water, 659
Meters f.-r Efficiency, 460 Meters, Water, 106
Metropolitan Railway, The Berlin, 138
“ Mexican,” s.s., Compound Engines of the, 7, 52
Microphone, The Action of the, 587, 653
Microphone, A Sounding Board, 92
Microphone and Sounding Pipes, The 637
Midland Railway of Canada, The, 664 ’
Mild Steel, The Properties of, 475, 481 502
Milford Haven Harbour, The, 91
Military Magazine Firearms, 263
Mineral Production of Russia, The, 508
Mining in Cleveland, Machine, 459
Mining, Coal, A New Method of, 482
Ministerial Circular to French Railway Companies, 139
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Naval and Submarine Exhibition, 342, 373
Models, Naval, The Shipwrights Company’s Exhibition of, 430, 458, 482
Models of Vessels and Details 323 Modern Artillery, 600, 661
“ Moor,” The Union Line Steamer, 471
Moulding and Dovetailing Machine, Anderson’s, 605 ’
Mountain Horse Artillery, 93
Multitubular Boiler, Hawksley, Wild, and Company’s, 608 ’
Municipal Government and Water Supply, 181
Muzzle Pivot Gun, Krupp’s, 433

Naval Architects, The Institution of: 303,346
On Armoured Ships and Modern Guns, by J. D’A. Samuda, 300
On Lloyd’s Rules as Affecting Marine Boiler Construction, by J. T. Milton, 308
On the Triple Expansive Engines of the s.s. “ Aberdeen,” by A. U. Kirk, 315
On the Quality of Materials used in Shipbuilding, by H. H. West, 352
On Modern Merchant Steamers, by James Dunn, 353
On the Corrosive Effects of Steel on Iron in Salt Water, by J. Farquharson, 354
On the Revision of the Tonnage Law, by W. H. White, 355, 383
On the Basis for Fixing Suitable Load Lines for Mercantile Steamers and Sailing Vessels, by B. Martell, 411
On the Economy of Compound Engines, by W. Parker, 472
On Launching Velocities, by W. Denny, 497
On Progressive Trials, by J. Harvard Biles, 591
On Cracks and Annealing of Steel, by A. C. Kirk, 592
On Approximate Formulse for the Calculation of Trim, by J. A. Normand, 593
On Curves of Stability of some Mail Steamers, by J. Harvard Biles, 602
On Corrosion in Steam Boilers, by W. J. Norris, 627
On the Reduction of Transverse and Longitudinal Metacentric Curves to Ratio Curves, by W. Denny, 647

Naval Estimates, The, 275
Naval Models, The Shipwrights Company’s Exhibition of, 430, 458, 482
Naval Power, England’s, 429

Naval and Submarine Exhibition, The : 307, 317, 365
Boat-Lowering Apparatus, 335
Coating Boilers and Steam Pipes, Compositions for, 327
Cranes, Winches, and Lifting Appliances, 369
Cranes, Windlasses, &c., 322
Cotton Belting, 339
Diving Apparatus, 327
Dredging Machinery, 338
Engines and Boilers, 365
Engines, Marine, and Details of Marine Engines and Boilers, 317
Governors, Marine, 326, 372
Guns, 330
Life-Boats and Boat-Lowering Apparatus, 371
Life Saving Appliances, 338
Lubricants and Lubricating Apparatus, 326
Miscellaneous, 342, 373
Models of Vessels and Details, 323
Paints, 330
Pumps and Pumping Engines, 368
Refrigerating Machines, 339, 370
Signals, 334
Steering Apparatus, Steam, 319, 398
Steering Gear, Steam, 372
Stern Frame and Rudder, Jessop and Sons’
Cast Steel, 398
Telegraphs, Ships’, 331
Tools, Machine, 334

Neilson, Mr. William, 563
Neumann’s Cylindrical Boiler, 272
New York Central Railroad Standard 34-ft. Box Cars, 521. 572
New York Central Railroad, Standard Cattle Car for the, 654
New Zealand, Meat Transport from, 588
Nickel-Plating. 65
Nicolai Railway, The, 424,449
Norwich, The Electric Light at, 293

Notes:
Accumulators, Kabath’s, 613
Actinic Phenomenon, A Curious, 66
Anti-Fouling Compositions, 459
Armoured Ship’s Inclined Decks, Experiments with, 433
Armstrong Ribbon Gun, The, 638
Barometer, An Electric, 508
Belleville Boiler, The, 432
Berly’s Electrical Directory, 459
Bichromate Cell, A New Form of, 561
Blast Furnaces Idle, 380
Bleaching by Electrolysis, 663
Blowing up Ice in the Elbe, 17
Boston New Dock Works, 614
Brakes, Continuous, 535
Brakes, Continuous, on the Metropolitan District Railway, 587
Brockie Arc, The, 638
Bronze Guns, German, 162
Canadian Pacific Railway, The, 639
Canadian Railways, 534, 614
Canal from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, The, 162'
Canonbury Railway Accident, The, 18
Caoutchouc, Expansion of Hard, 254
Carbon, The Chemical Equivalent of, 534
Carbon Electrodes, Destruction of by Continued Electrolysis. 483
Carbon Filaments, The Spectrum of, 433
Carb m under Pressure, Resistance of, 380
Cement, On, 65
Chinese Ram Cruisers, The, 139
Civil Engineers, The Institution of, 561
Clyde Accident Fund Societies, 255
Coal Consumption, British, 410
Colour Changes in the Mediterranean and other Waters, 184
Compressed Steel, 380
Conductivity of a Vacuum, The, 410
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 561
Conversazione at University College, 561
Creosoting in the United States, 255
Current Meter, A New Electric, 162
“ Daily Telegraph,” The, 664
Draper, Dr., 93
Dutch Field Gun, The New, 380
Edison Electric Light on Holborn, The, 380
E Conductivity of Sulphur Plus Carbon,
Electric Exhibition in Munich, 432
Electric Light at the Savoy Theatre, The, 18
Electric Light and Shortsightedness, The. 162
Electric Light at Stafford House, The, 663
Electric Lighting of the s.s. u Orient,” 278
Electric Lighting in Sheffield, 37
Electric Power, 229
Electric Power in the BleachQeld, 534
Electric Sparks, The Potentials of, 65
Electricity, The Discharge of by Heated Bodies, 254
Electricity, The Transport of Power by, 182
Electricity and Wire Covering, 182
Electro-Magnetic Repulsion, 508
Electrolytic Company, The, 615
Elias Machine, The, 278
Experiments of Professor Bjerknes, The, 639
Explosions in Flour Mills, 206
Faure Accumulator, The New, 65, 206
Field Telegraphs, 562
Firedamp Indicator, An Electrical, 278
Flooding the Shotts, 587
Fogs, The Formation of, 251
French Academy Prizes, The, 161
French Railway Companies, Ministerial Circular to,139
French Railways, New, 229
Galvanometer for Electric Light Currents, 613
Galvanometer for Powerful Currents, 432
Gas Engineer’s Diary, The, 37
Gasholder, Failure of a, 278
Geissler’s Tubes, 347
Giffard, M. Henri, 409
Gramme Currents in a Vacuum, The, 613
Gulf Stream and the Panama Canal, The, 65
Gun Carriages, The Vavasseur and Albini Hydraulic, 432
Guns, The 100-Ton, 614
Hull and Barnsley Railway, The, 183, 664
Indian Public Works Department, The, 460
Indium, Some Electrical Properties of, 93 Insulite, 534
Insurance Companies and the Crystal Palace,
Iron, Preserving, 409
Iron Prices, Manufactured, 409
Iron Shipbuilding in the North, 587
Isthmus of Corinth, The Piercing of the, 18
Isthmus of Suez, The, 663
Italian Civil Engineering Service, Reorganisation of the, 183
Jablochkoff Exhibit at the Crystal Palace, 205
Keith Prize, Award of the, to Professor Chrystal, 638
Khatatbeh Pumping Station, 638
Khotinsky’s Limelight, 37
Krupp’s Muzzle Pivot Gun, 433
Lamp, A New Safety, 380
Launch of the “ Edinburgh” and “ Colossus,” 278 ’
Lead Mining and Royalties, 229
Leakage in a Graving Dock, Novel Method of Checking, 183
L’Etincelle, 162
Light on Silver Resistances, Action of, 65
Lighting Power of Gas, The, 664
Liquids in Pipes, The Flow of, 483
London’s Coal Consumption, 92
Luminous Paint in the Spectrum, 182
Machine Mining in Cleveland, 459
Magazine Gun, A New, 587
Magnetisation, Easy, 613
Magneto-Electric Exploder, A New, 65
Marine Exhibition, The North-East Coast, 637
Marquis of Worcester, The, 92
Medical Electricity, 278
Menelaus, Mr. William, 347
Metal Surfaces, The Mutual Influence of, 561
Meters for Efficiency, 460
Microphone, The Action of the, 587
Microphone and Sounding Pipes, The, 637
Midland Railway of Canada, The, 664
Mineral Production of Russia, 508
Mountain Horse Artillery, 93
Naval and Submarine Exhibition, The, 307 Nickel-Plating, 65
Ozone formed by Light, 17
Panama Canal, The, 93,139,161, 663
Panama Canal, American Opinion on the, 347
Patent Office Library, Book Clearances at the, 17, 37
Petroleum Testing Apparata, 587
Photo-Electric Cell, A New, 587
Photographing Flying Birds, 278
Platinum, The Halogens and Permeability of, 409
Purifying Copper, New Method of, 183
Radcliffe Boiler Explosion, The, 481
Railway Construction in Queensland, 509
Railways, Electric, 432
Railways and Public Works in Queensland, 638
Royal Institution Lectures, The, 17
Royal Society, The, 484
St Gothard Tunnel. The Service of the, 307
Sea, The Proposed Inter-Algerian, 562 Shipbuilding, 65
Shortsightedness and the Electric Light, 162
Shutter, The Chronometric, 638
Sliding Scale Prices, 433
Soiree of the Royal Society, The, 640
Sounding Board Microphone, A, 92
Otes—continued.
Speaking Condenser, The, 664
Steel Forgings, The Composition of, 133
Steel Rail Trade, The Export, 508
Steel Trade and Sheffield, The, 460
Steam Shipbuilding, 664
Storage Batteries, Electric, 347
Storage Battery, A New Electrical, 184
Storm, The Recent Magnetic, 508
Sulphur, New Method of Extracting, 459
Sutton, Storage Battery, The, 92
“ Swiftsure” Explosion, The, 614
Syphon Recorder, The, 613
Telegraphy, Atlantic, 183
Telegraphy, South American, 92
Telephone, The, 139
Telephone Patents, The, 433
Telephone, Progress of the, 587
Telephone Speed Indicator, A, 330
Telephones in Germany, 381
Teleradiaphone, The. 17
Tempering by Pressure, 278
Tests of Swan’s Incandescent Lamp, 347
Thermometers, Preparing, 508
Tin, Disaggregation of, 229
Torpedo Boat, A New Russian, 531
University College, London, 508
Vetterli, Friedrich, 586
Vibratory Effects of Jets, The, 330
Voltaic Arc, Pressure in the, 138
Water, The Colour of, 254
Water and Lead Pipes, 254
Water Power in the Punjab, 380
Water Supply of Towns, The, 638
Weather Compass, A, 663
Wind Pressure Observations at Glasgow, Further. 37
Working Miners, Professional Education for, 508
Year Books, The Stock Exchange, 37

Notes from Cleveland, 11, 46, 57, 95, 122,142,164 179, 201, 230, 245, 280, 309, 364, 382, 397, 434,' 460, 478, 509, 536, 553, 581, 610, 642, 653
Notes" on Compressed Air, 67
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 22, 41, 69, 100, 111, 146, 185, 236, 260 351, 388, 412, 428, 466, 492, 538, 553, 598, 620, 648, 670
Notes from the North, 11, 33, .66, 95, 111, 142, 157, 178, 201, 224, 256, 279, 310, 364, 382, 401,428, 454, 478, 510, 536, 553, 581, 615, 642,660
Notes from the South-West, 11, 46, 60, 95,122. 133,157, 179, 200, 224, 256, 280, 301, 359, 382, 410, 434, 454, 478,504, 536,556, 589, 610,633, 659
Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 46, 60, 83, 122, 142, 157, 176, 201, 224, 255, 280, 310, 359, 376, 401, 428, 454, 478. 501, 536, 553, 581, 610, 641, 665
Notes from the United States, 94, 142, 152,308. 411,433,511,589,640,665

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, The Royal, 612
One Hundred-Ton Guns. The, 614
Ordnance, Modern, 600, 661
“ Orient,” s.s., Electric Lighting of the, 278
Orient Line Steamer “Austral,” Trial Trip of the, 446
‘ Orient,” s.s., The Log of the, 94
Orissa Coast Canal, The, 1
Otto v. Linford, 113
Ozone formed by Light, 17

Paint, Fireproof, 56
Paint, Luminous, in the Spectrum, 182
Paints at the Naval and Submarine Exhibition, 330
Panama Canal, The, 93,139, 161,663
Panama Canal, American Opinion on the, 347
Panama Canal, The, and the Gulf Stream, 65
Parriugton and Almond’s Wire Rope Cleaning and Lubricating Machine, 105
Particles of Matter, Solidification of, by Pressure, 203
Passenger Locomotive, American Express, 270
Passenger Locomotive, Four-Coupled, 156, 177
Patent Law Discussion, A Coming, 62
Patent Law Reform, 36, 117
Patent Law Reform and Sir John Lubbock’s Bill, 378, 408, 431
Patent Office Library, The, 37
Patent Office Library, Book Clearances at the, 17
Patent Record, 19, 42, 70, 96, 118, 143, 165, 186, 208, 232, 257, 281, 311, 360, 385, 413, 435, 461 487, 514, 539, 565, 594, 616, 643, 666
Patents, The Telephone, 433, 532
Petroleum in Hanover, 161
Petroleum, Pumping, 86
Petroleum Testing Apparata, 587
Phenomenon, A Curious Actinic, 66
Phosphor-Bronze for Telephone Wires, 192
Photo-Electric Cell, A New, 587
Photographic Exhibition, A, 137
Photographing Flying Birds, 278
Piercing the Isthmus of Corinth, 18
Pilsen Electric Lamp, The, 152
Place du Carrousel, The Electric Light on the, 76
Plant, Dredging and Excavating, 316
Platinum, The Halogens and Permeability of, 409
“ Polyphemus,” H.M.S., 455
Port of Havre, The Electric Light at, 5
Portable Electric Light Plant, 109
Portland Rotary Pump, Goldschmidt, Halo, and Company’s, 58
Potable Water, The Analysis of, 87
Potentials of Electric Sparks, The, 65
Power, Electric, 229
Power, The Electrical Transmission of, 3
Power Hammers with a Movable Fulcrum, 423, 474
Preparing Thermometers, 508
Preserving Iron, 409
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Address of the, 38
Pressure Gauges, Testing, 590
Pressure, Tempering by, 278
Pressure in the Voltaic Arc, 133
Prices, Sliding Scale, 433
Primitive Drills, Two, 570
Printing Press, Hoe’s Continuous, 217
Private Bill Legislation, 250, 276, 304, 378, 458, 470, 505, 534, 613, 636, 661
Private Bills for Session 1882,15, 78, 124, 216, 262
Private Business to Whitsuntide, 560
Prizes, The French Academy, 161
Professor Chrystal, Award of Keith Prize tc, 638
Progressive Trials, 591
Properties of Mild Steel, 475
Protection of Workmen, Safety Arrangements for the, 213,569
Public Works Department, The Indian, 460
Public Works and Railways in Queensland, 638
“ Pullman,” The Town of, 519
Pump and Engine, The “ Waterwitch,” 651
Pump, Goldschmidt, Hahlo, and Company’s Portland Rotary, 58
Pumping Engine, Compound 247,
Pumping Engines for the Breslau Sewerage and Irrigation Works, 38, 80
Pumping Petroleum, 86
Pumping Station, The Khatatbeh, 638
Pumps and Pumping Engines, 368
Pumps and Turbines at Pierre-la-Treiche, 272, 381
Punjab, Water Power in the. 380
Purifying Copper, New Method of, 183

Queensland, Railway Construction in, 509
Questions, Vexed, 403

Radcliffe Boiler Explosion, The, 484, 509, 531
Railroad Accident, The Hudson River, 136
Railroad, Central of New Jersey, U.S.A., Express Locomotive for the, 85
Railroad, The Lehigh Valley, Locomotive for, 602
Railway Accident, The Canonbury, 18
Railway, The Berlin Metropolitan, 138
Railway Brake, Automatic Continuous, 245
Railway of Canada, The Midland, 664
Railway Collision at Blackburn, The, 62
Railway Construction in Queensland, 509
Railway Gong Signals, Siemens', 195
Railway, The Hull and Barnsley, 183, 661
Railway Matters, Mr. F. W. Webb on, 156
Railway, A New Japanese, 171
Railway, The Nicolai, 424, 449
Railway, St. Gothard, Bridge over the Tessin, 218
Railway, The Tehuantepec Ship, 225, 404, 479
Railways, Canadian, 614, 534, 639
Railways, Electric, 432
Railways, New French, 229
Railways, The Proposed Vienna, 27
Railways and Public Works in Queensland, 638
Railways, South Australian Government, 584
Railways in Time of War, 479, 570
Bam Cruisers, The Chinese, 139
Ransomes v. Graham, 466
Rapidity in War, 557
Recent Hydraulic Experiments, 249,662
Recorder, The Syphon, 613
Recorder, Syphon, Sir William Thomson’s, 28
Reduction of Curves, On the, 647
Refining, Copper, in Japan, 621,650
Reform, Patent Law, 36,117
Refrigerating Machines, 339, 370
Refrigeration, Meat, 305
Regulator, Cance’s Electric, 30
Regulator, The Gramme Electric, 172
Regulator Valve Water-Closet, 642
Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher on the Locomotive Explosion at Stockport, 57, 116
Report of the Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 544
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1881, 198, 223
Repulsion an 1 Attraction from Vibration, 455, 480. 596, 558
Repulsion, Electro-Magnetic, 508
Resistance of Carbon under Pressure, 380
Reversing Gear and Governor, Davey’s Combined Compound Engine with, 8
Reversing Gear for Locomotives, Henszey’s Steam, 219
Revision of the Tonnage Law, The, 355, 383
Ribbon Gun, The Armstrong, 638 .
Richards and Company's Combination Wood-Working Machine, 131
Richards’ Water Meter, 659
Rig for Locomotives, New Indicator, 447
River Harlem, Bridge over the, 497
Rivers Conservancy Bill, The, 203
Rivetting Machine, De Bergue and Co.’s, 201
Ross and Duncan’s Compound Engine with Klug’s Valve Gear, 578
Rotary Pump, Goldschmidt. Hahlo, and Co.’s, 58
Royal Institution Lectures, The, 17
Royal Observatory, The, 612
Royal Society Conversazione, The, 481
Royal Society, The Soiree of the, 640
Royalties and Lead Mining, 229
Rushworth and Company’s Machine Tools for Boiler-Makers, 131
Russell, John Scott, F.R.S., 583
Russian Mineral Production, 508
Russian Torpedo Boat, A New, 534
Ruston, Proctor and Co’s Horizontal Condensing Engine, 244

Safety Arrangements for the Protection of Workmen, 213, 569
Safety Lamp, A New, 380
St Gothard Railway, The; Bridge over the Tessin, 218
St, Gothard Tunnel, The Service of the, 307
Sandy Coasts, Harbours on, 442
Sanitary Summary for 1881,159
Saving Lite, Appliances for, 338
Savoy Theatre, The Electric Light at the, 18, 204
Schbnheyder’s Gas Stove, 450
Schuckert Dynamo-Electric Generator, The, 244
Schwartzkopff’s Safety Apparatus for Steam Boilers, 627
Schweizer’s Electric Clocks, 10
Schwendler, Carl Louis, 56
Scotch Iron Trade in 1881, The, 82
Screw Steamers, On the Speed and Carrying of, 295, 396, 537
Sea Connexions for Steamers, Halpin’s, 12
Sea, The Proposed Inter-Algerian, 562
Secondary Batteries, 615
“Servia,” Steamship, Engines and Boilers of the, 221, 245, 349
Session 1882, Private Bills for, 15, 78, 124, 216, 262
Severn Tunnel, The, 47
Sewerage and Irrigation Works, The Breslau, 38, 80
Ship Railway, The Tehuantepec, 225, 404, 479
Shipbuilding, 65
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, 1881, The Clyde, 53,140, 292
Shipbuilding. Materials Usedin, 352
Shipbuilding in the North, Iron, 587
Shipbuilding and Ship Surveying, 583
Shipbuilding, Steam, 664
Ships, Boyle’s System of Ventilation for, 640
Ships’ Telegraphs, 331
Ships of War. 61
Shipwright Company’s Exhibition of Naval Models, The, 430, 458, 482
Shortsightedness and the Electric Light, 162
Shotts, Flooding the, 587
Shutter, The Chronometric, 638
Siemens’ Gas Producer and Motor, 271
Siemens’ Railway Gong Signals, 195
Signals, Block and Lock, Hodgson's, 655
Signals at the Naval and Submarine Exhibition, 334
Silver and Gold in the United States, 611
Silver Resistances, Action of Light on, 65
Sir John Lubbock’s Bill and Patent Law Reform, 378, 408, 431
Sliding Scale Prices, 433
Smoke Abatement Exhibition, The, 90
Smoke Abatement Exhibition, The Manchester, 252,277,417, 469
Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 89
Soirde of the Royal Society, The, 640
Solar Energy, The Conservation of, 230
Solidification of Particles of Matter by Pressure, 203
Solutions of Zinc Salts, Electrical Resistances of Various, 475
Sounding Board Microphone, A, 92
Sounding Pipes and the Microphone, 637
South American Telegraphy, 92
South Australian Government Railways, 584
South-West, Notes from the, 11, 46, 60, 95, 122 133, 157, 179, 200, 224, 256. 280, 301, 359, 382’, 410, 434, 454, 478, 504, 536, 556, 589, 610, 633, 659
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 46, 60, 83, 122, 142, 157, 176, 201, 224. 255, 280, 310, 359, 376,
401, 428, 454. 478, 501, 536,553, 581, 610, 641, 665 Sowing of Seed, Machinery for the, 424, 523
Speaking Condenser, The, 664
Spectrum of Carbon Filaments, The, 433
Speed Indicator, A Telephonic, 380
Standard 34-ft. Box Cars, New York Central Railroad, 521, 572
Standard Cattle Car; New York Central Railroad, 654
Standard Engine Shed for the London and North-Western Railway, 240 .
Stanek’s Valve Gear, Horizontal Engines with, 604
Steam Boiler, Cadiat's, 445
Steam Boiler Explosions, 146 .
Steam Boilers, On Corrosion in, 627
Steam Boilers, Schwartzkopff’s Safety Apparatus for, 627 , „
Steam Launch Engine, Cox and Company s, 624
Steam Reversing Gear, 219
Steam Shipbuilding, 664
Steam, The Specific Heat of, 603
Steam Users’ Association, Manchester, Report of the, 544 , ,
Steam Yachts, Copley and Company s Compound Engines for, 472 .
Steamer, The “Moor/’ Union Line, 471
Steamers, Double Twin-Screw Ferry, on the River Mersey, 602
Steamers, Halpin’s Sea Connexions for, 12
Steamers, Merchant, 353
Steamship “ Orient,” The Log of the, 94
Steamships, The Foundering of, 135
Steel, Compressed, 380
Steel, On Cracks and Annealing of, 592
Steel Forgings, The Composition of, 139
Steel on Iron, Corrosive Effects of, 354
Steel, Mild, The Properties of, 475, 481, 502
Steel Rail Trade, The Export, 508
Steel for Structures, 236
Steel Trade, The, and Sheffield, 460
Steel for Tyres and Axles, 212
Steering Apparatus, Steam, 319
Steering Gear, Davis’s Steam, 398
Steering Gear, Steam, 372
Stern Frame and Rudder, Jessop and Sons’ Cast Steel, 398
“ Stirling Castle,” The China Clipper, 271
Stock Exchange Year Books, The, 37
Stockton, Locomotive Explosion at; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 57,116
Stone Coal or Anthracite, 576, 624, 652
Stopper, Turner’s Folding Tube, 537
Storage Battery, On a New Electrical, 184, 347
Storm, The Recent Magnetic, 508
Stove, Schonheyder’s Gas, 450
Stresses, Wind, 303
Structures and Wind Pressures, 308
Submarine Blasting, The Lauer System of, 494
Suez, The Isthmus of, 663
Sulphur, New Method of Extracting, 459
Sulphur Pius Carbon, The Electric Conductivity of, 588
Summary for 1881, Sanitary, 159
Surfaces, Metal, The Mutual Influence of, 561
Surveying, Ship, and Shipbuilding, 583
Sutton Storage Battery, The, 92
Swan Light at the Savoy Theatre, The, 206
Swan’s Incandescent Lamp, Tests of, 347
“Swifture” Explosion, The, 614
Switch, Eidsforth’s Electrical, 658
Sydney Water Supply, The, 160
Syphon Recorder, The, 28, 613

Technical Literature, Foreign, 10, 33, 67, 94, 139, 162, 184, 255, 279, 352, 383,434, 460, 511, 535, 588, 641, 665
Teeth of Wheels, The, 649
Tehuantepec Ship Railway, The, 225, 404, 479
Telegraph Company, The Central and South American, 261
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 89
Telegraph, Gray’s Harmonic, 123
Telegraphic Engineering in 1881, 63
Telegraphs, Field, 562
Telegraphs, Snips’, 331
Telegraphy, Atlantic, 183
Telegraphy, South American, 92
Telephone, The, 139
Telephone, The Dolbear, 307
Telephone Patents, The, 433, 532, 587
Telephone Wires, Phosphor-Bronze for, 192
Telephones in Germany, 380
Telephonic Speed Indicator, A, 380
Teleradiophone, The, 17
Tempering by Pressure, 278
Tessin, Bridge over the; The St. Gothard Railway, 218
Testing Apparata, Petroleum, 587
Testing Pressure Gauges, 590
Theatre, The Savoy, The Lighting of the, 18, 204
Theory of the Dew-Point, On the, 637
Theory of the Gas Engine, 384
Thermometers, Preparing, 508
Thirty-Ton Floating Crane, 446
Thomson, Sir William's, Syphon Recorder, 28
Three-Cylinder Engine, James and Wardrope’s, 521
Tilp and Wattitz’s Locomotive Firebox, 298
Tin, Disaggregation of, 229
Tonnage Law, The Revision of the, 355, 383
Tools tor Boiler-Makers, Rushworth and Company’s Machine, 131
Tools, Machine, 334
Torpedo Boat for the Danish Government, 185
Torpedo Boat for the Italian Government, 399
Torpedo Boat, A New Russian, 534
Town of “ Pullman,” The, 519
Towns, The Water Supply of, 638
Trains, Hospital, 90
Tramway Locomotive, Brown’s, 109
Tramways, English, 13
Transfer Truck, Locomotive, for the South Australian Government, 549
Transmission of Power, The Electrical, 3
Transport of Meat from New Zealand, Th’, 588
Transport of Power by Electricity, The, 182
Transport, Three Systems of Wire-Rope, 549
Trial, Compound Engine, 174, 220, 242, 266,545
Trial Trip of the Orient Line Steamer “ Austral,” 446
Trials, Progressive, 591
Trim, On Approximate Formulee for the Calculation of, 583
Truck, Locomotive Transfer, for the South Australian Government, 549
Tubes, Geissler’s, 347
Tunnel, The Service of the St. Gothard, 307
Tunnel, The Severn, 47
Turbines and Pumps at Pierre-la-Treiche, 272, 381
Turner’s Folding Tube Stopper, 537
Tyres and Axles, Steel for, 212

Union Line Steamer “ Moor,” The, 471
United States, Notes from the, 94, 142, 152, 308, 411, 433, 511, 589, 640, 665
United States, Silver and Gold in the, 611
University College, London, The,508

Vacuum Brakes, Automatic; Report of Colonel Rich, 607
Vacuum, The Conductivity of a, 410
Valve Gear, Jefferis’s, 497
Valve Gear, The Klug, Compound Engine with, 578
Valve Gear, Stanek’s, Horizontal Engines with, 604
Velocities, On Launching, 497
Ventilation for Ships, Boyle’s System of, 640
Vessel”, Models of, and Details, 323
Vetterli, Friedrich, 586
Vexed Questions, 403
Vibration, Attraction and Repulsion from, 455, 480, 506, 558
Vibratory Effects of Jets, The, 380
Vienna Railways, The Proposed, 27
Voltaic Arc, Pressure in the, 138

Wanganui Harbour, New Zealand, 104
War, Railways in Time of, 479, 570
War, Rapidity in, 557
War, Ships of, 61
Washing Coal, 518
Water-Closet, Regulator Valve, 642
Water, the Colour of, 254
Water Companies, London, 36
Water and Lead Pipes, 254
Water Meter, Richards’, 659
Water Meters 106
Water, Potable, The Analysis of, 87
Water Power in the Punjab, 380
Water Supply and Municipal Government, 181
Water Supply of Sydney, The, 160
Water Supply of Towns, The, 638
Water Works, The Kimberley, Engines and Boilers at, 178, 207
“ Waterwitch’' Pump and Engine, The, 651
Weather, The, 15, 36, 137, 229, 346, 457, 584
Weather Compass, A, 663
Webb, Mr. F. W., on Railway Matters, 156
Weston and Maxim Lights at the Crystal Palace, The, 251
Wheat Grinding, 564
Wheels, Steam Hammer for Bossing, 18
Wheels, The Teeth of, 649
Whitsuntide, Private Business to, 560
Winches, Cranes, and Lifting Appliances, 869
Wind Pressure Observations at Glasgow, 37
Wind Pressures and Structures, 308
Wind Stresses, 303
Winding Engine and Boilers at the Calumet and Hecla Mines, 290
Windlasses, Cranes, &c., 322
Wire Covering and Electricity, 182
Wire Rope Cleaning and Lubricating Machine, Parrington and Almond’s, 105
Wire-Rope Transport, Three Systems of, 549
Wires, Telephone, Phosphor-Bronze for, 192
Wood-Working Machine, Combination, 131
Wool-Combing Machines, 424, 425
Worcester, The Marquis of, 92
Working Miners, Professional Education for, 508
Workmen, Safety Arrangements for the Protection of, 213,569
Works, Breslau Sewerage and Irrigation, 38, 80

Yarrow and Co’s Torpedo Boat for the Italian Government, 399
Year Books, The Stock Exchange, 37

Zine Salts, Electrical Resistances of Various Solutions of, 475

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