Engineering 1883 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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ACADEMY Prizes, French, 377
Accident, An Engineering, 377
Accidents, Recent Railway, 422
“Accumulator,” A High-Pressure Gas, 591
Accumulators and Metallodion, 620
Acid-Resisting Bricks, 160
Act, The Electric Lighting, 1882, 374
Action of the Microphone, The, 305
Address of the President of the Institution of
Civil Engineers, 32
Address of the President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 446
Africa, South, The Diamond Fields of, 458
Agents, The Institute of Patent, 515
Agricultural Society, The West of England, 492
Air, Compressed, Glass Blowing by, 691
Air Compressors, Brotherhood’s, 458
Algerian Railway, New, 329
Alloy, A New Copper Zinc, 161
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, The, 609
American Goods Traffic, 112
American Machine Tools, 104
Ammonia from Blast Furnace Gases, 230
Amsterdam Exhibition, The, 486, 652
Anglo-American Brush Company, The, 184
Antwerp Water Works, The, 64
Anvil Blocks, Large, for Steel Works, 403
Apparatus, The Brush Incandescence, 482, 503
Apparatus, Life-Saving, 491
Aquarium Electric Light Exhibition, The, 254
Armature, Crompton’s Step-Wound, 59
Armour, Chilled Cast-Iron, 526, 549
Arnoldi’s Electric Alarm Gauges, 319
Artificial Aurora, An, 228, 377
Artificial Leather from Leather’ Waste, 471
Artificial Manure Hubbub, The, 561
Artificial Stone, 159
Artillery, The New Italian Field, 315
Asbestos Filters, 304
Asquith’s Break Lathe, 533
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 137, 534
Atlantic Cables, 115
Attack and Defence, Torpedo, 301
Aurora, An Artificial, 2’28, 377
Auroral Phenomena, 18
Austral, s.s., Raising the, 229, 368
Australia and Marseilles, 19
Australia, South, Water Supply in, 403
Automatic Primer for Pumps, An, 150

Balance, The Induction, 20, 71, 118, 231
Balloon, The Centennial of the, 206
Ballooning, Military, 575
Ball’s Unipolar Dynamo Machine, 306
Barges, Iron Hopper, for the River Wear, 294
Barrow Depositing Dock, The, 508 !
Bate’s Hydrometer, 434
Batoum Section of Trans-Caucasian Railway, 184
Batteries, The Electromotive Force of, 519
Batteries, Secondary, The Chemistry of, 17
Battery, The Brush Secondary, 178, 198
Battery, The Insulite, 540
Battery Residues, 566
Bausan, Giovanni,The, 11
Belgian Coal Mining, 63
Bell Telephone, An Improved, 329
Bellamy’s Multitubular Boiler, 391
Bengal, State Railways in, 38
Berlin, Royal Testing Establishment, 519
Berly’s Electrical Directory, 184
Bessemer Steel Castings, 439, 447
Bill, The Government Patent, 275, 301, 325, 347, 373, 397, 443
Bill Legislation, Private, 347, 398, 422, 445, 467, 517, 563, 589, 610
Bill, The United States Tariff, 293
Bills, Private, for Session 1883, 15, 27, 52, 87,113, 182, 214, 336
Blake’s Compound Steam Pumps, 604
Blake’s Pig Iron Breaker, 198
Blast Furnace Gases and Ammonia, 230
Blast Furnace, The Working of, 98
Blindness, Colour, 448
Blower, Root’s, 510
Board Schools, Science in, 424 I
Board of Trade Rules for Boilers, 269, 276, 472
Boiler, Bellamy’s Multitubular, 394
Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, The ; Report of L. E. Fletcher, 6
Boiler Explosions, Recent, 157, 490
Boiler Explosions in 1882 : Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 342
Boiler Owners, The Responsibility of, 182
Boiler Plates, Cleveland, 605
Boiler Rivetting Plant, 415
Boiler, The Sharpe-Palmer, 581 I
Boiler, Steam, Construction and Management, 391
Boiler, Thornycroft’s Water Tube, 463 >
Boilers, Board of Trade Rules for, 269, 276, 472
Boilers and Engines of s.s. “ Hanoverian,” 337
Boilers, Non-Conducting Coverings for, 147 |
Borodin’s Coaling Stage for Locomotives, 82
Braced Piers and Supports, 501
Bradford, The Fall of a Chimney at, 369
Brake Experiments, Vacuum, 1*3
Brake Failure at Northampton, The, 537
Brake, Hand, Failure of a, 63
Brake, Hydraulic Fail, 520,
Brakes, Continuous, 181, 591, 613
Brakes, Continuous, upon the Continent, 40, 160
Break Lathe, Asquith’s, 533
Bricks, Acid-Resisting, 160
Bricks, The Decay of, 304
Bridge, The East River, 489
Bridge, Foot, at La Villette, 221
Bridge, London, Crossing the Thames Below, 159
Bridge, Swing, at Hamburg, 59, 132, 155, 200
British Association, The, 493
British Iron Trade in 1882, The, 138
Bronze, Manganese, 18
Brotherhood’s Air Compressors, 458
Brotherhood’s Works, 390
Brush Company, The Anglo-American, 184
Brush Incandescence Apparatus, The, 482, 503
Brush Secondary Battery, The, 178,198
BrUnn Theatre, Electric Lighting at the, 345
Buckett Caloric Engine, The, 368
Builders, Pyramid, The Tools of the, 573
Building Trades Exhibition, The, 325, 349
Burning Liquid Fuel, 578, 600
Bye-Products in Coke Making, 185

Cables, Atlantic, 115
Caloric, Buckett Engine, The, 368
Canada, The Grand Junction Railway of, 49
Canada, Public Works in, 278
Canal Across the Isthmus of Florida, A, 305
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 73, 114, 227, 241, 263, 388
Canal, The Panama, 88
Canal and River Service, Dredgers for, 152
Carbon, The Conductivity of, 402
Carbon in Steel, 97,187
Carbonic Oxide, Preparation of, 540
Case, The Telephone, 88, 134
Cast-Iron Chilled Armour, 526, 549
Castings, Bessemer Steel, 439, 447
Centennial of the Balloon, The, 206
Centrifugal Force, 566
Channel Tunnel, The, 41, 611
Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway, 352
Chemistry of Secondary Batteries, The, 17
Chesterfield and Derbyshire Mining Engineers, Meeting of the, 582
Chicago Exhibition of Railway Appliances, 19, 161, 229
Chilled Cast-Iron Armour, 526, 549
Chime, A Magnetic, 612
Chimney at Bradford, The Fall of a, 369
Chinese Section at the Fisheries Exhibition, 586
Chromometer, Stead’s, 459
Clan Line Steamers, The, 613
Cleveland Boiler Plates, 605
Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 48, 66, 81, 109, 129, 151, 186, 197, 219, 256, 288, 300, 321, 341, 371, 395, 425, 442, 472, 488, 510, 548, 554, 592, 603
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1882, 36, 56, 116, 173, 279
Coal and Coke Trades, The, in 1882, 304
Coal, Duties on, 203
Coaling Stage for Locomotives, 82
Coatbridge District, Iron and Steel Trades in, 229
Cochran and Company’s Compound Launch Engine, 508
Coke Making, Bye-Products in, 185
Colour Blindness, 448
Compasses of Iron Ships, Deviation of the, 181
Compensator for Signal Wires, Johnson’s, 9
Compound Engines, Horizontal, 320
Compound Locomotives, 585
Compound Mill Engines, 555
Compound Steam Pumps, Blake’s, 604
Concrete, Hardening, 229
Concrete, the Use of in Marine Construction, 38
“Conqueror,” H.M.S., Engines of, 604
Constant, A New Mechanical, 566
Construction and Management, Steam Boiler, 391
Continuous Brakes, 181, 591, 613
Continuous Brakes upon the Continent, 160
Continuous Brakes on French Railways, 40
Conversazione of the Royal Society, The, 421
Cooper, Mr. Peter, 329
Copper in the United States, 540
Copper Zinc Alloy, A New, 161
Cork Exhibition, The, 88
Corrugated Flues, The Strength of, 316
Countries, New, Irrigation in, 384
Covered Service Reservoirs, 231
Crane, Six-Ton Travelling Jib, 103
Crane, A Sixty-Ton Derrick, 493
Crane, Twenty-Ton Jib, 56
Crompton’s Electric Lamp, 246
Crompton’s Step-Wound Armature, 59
Crucible Furnace, Piat’s Oscillating, 160, 186
Cultivator, Garrett’s Patent Steam, 35
Curious Effect of Lightning, A, 63
Currency, United States, 520
Current Meter, Hopkinson’s, 213
Currents, Earth, and Solar Spots, 206
Curved Diffraction Gratings, Spectra Formed by, 160
Curves, Railway, Resistance on, 392
Cutting Metals, Modern Systems of, 352, 416, 495
“Czar,” The Engines of, 364, 414

Decay of Bricks, The, 304
Degrees, Science, 613
Derrick Crane, A Sixty-Ton, 493
Determining the Ohm, 115
Diamond Fields of South Africa, The, 458
Diffusion Engine, A, 613
Directory, Berly’s Electrical, 184
Directory, Street’s Indian and Colonial, 100
District Railway, Ventilation of the, 251, 398, 586
Dock, The Barrow Depositing, 508
Donkin and Company’s Gas Exhausters, 316 Dowson’s Gas Producer, 130
Draught, Forced, Steam Trials under, 249, 266, 484
Drawing Pens, Stringer’s, 364
Dredger for the River Wear, 36, 81, 175, 247, 288
Dredgers for River and Canal Service, 152
Dredging Plant, 39
Ducousso-Breguet Automatic Signals, 16
Duplex Induction Machine, Wimshurst’s, 3
Durham Salt, 305
Dust, Explosive, 377
Duties on Coal, 203
Dynamite Trade, The, 278
Dynamo Machine, Ball’s Unipolar, 306
Dynamos, The Hopkinson-Muirhead, 530
Dynamos, Self-Induction in, 229

Earth Currents and Solar Spots, 206
East Coast, Harbours of Refuge on the, 133, 225
East River Bridge, The, 489
Ebonite, 115
Edinburgh Water Works, 507
Effects of Repeated Heating on Steel and Iron, The, 374
Efticiency of Guide Blade Propellers, The, 460
Electric Alarm Gauges, Arnoldi’s, 319
Electric Exhibition at Kdn’gsberg, 539
Electric Haulage on Tramways, 255 H”/**
Electric Illumination, Zipernowsky System, 551
Electric Lamp, Crompton’s, 246
Electric Light, The, on Board Ship, 423
Electric Light, The, at the Eden Theatre, 587
Electric Light Exhibition, The Aquarium, 254
Electric Light, The, and the Eye, 278
Electric Light at the Fisheries Exhibition, 492, 609
Electric Light Installation, An, 145
Electric Light, The, and the Microscope, 160
Electric Lighting, 111, 126, 128, 204
Electric Lighting Act, The, 1882, 374
Electric Lighting at the Brtlnn Theatre, 345
Electric Lighting on H.M.S. “ Himalaya,” 155
Electric Lighting, The Law on, 493
Electric Lighting in Mills, 85
Electric Lighting Notes, 5, 32, 56, 80, 104, 150, 177, 207, 216, 265, 296, 320, 340, 378, 390, 415, 438, 483, 506, 531, 554
Electric Lighting of Nottingham, T8ic, 444
Electric Lighting at Oxford, 394
Electric Lighting at St. Denis, 82
Electric Lighting in Sheffield, 91, 108
Electric Railway, Charing Cross and Waterloo, 352
Electric Railway, The Portrush, 376
Electric Railway, A Swiss, 377
Electric Reading Lamp, An, 532
Electric Telpherage, Fleeming Jenkin’s, 318
Electric Transmission of Power, 207, 264, 289, 402
Electrical, Directory, Berly’s, 184
Electrical Distribution, Gaulard and Gibbs' System of, 205
Electrical Exhibition, The Paris, 63
Electrical Exhibition, The Vienna, 40, 137, 184, 229, 377, 493
Electrical Resistance of Tempered Glass, The, 304
Electrical Transmission and Storage, 306
Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes, 449
Electricity, Lectures on, 88
Electro-Amalgamation of Gold Orc, The, 227
Electrodes, Fuller’s Earth, 540
Electromotive Force of Batteries, The, 519
Ellington’s Grain Warehousing Machinery, 106
Engine, The Buckett Caloric, 368
Engine, A Diffusion, 613
Engine, An Experimental, 179
Engine, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, Hornsby and Sons', 294
Engine, Horizontal Compound, 320
Engine, Ridcalgh’s High-Speed, 605
Engine, Sewa^xe Pumping, 329
Engine, Two-Wheeled Portable, 440
Engineer Students, Naval, 63
Engineering Accident, An, 377
Engineering, Marine, and Clyde Shipbuilding in 1882, 36, 56, 116, 173, 279
Engineering and Metal Trades Exhibition, The, 40, 352, 519
Engineering, Telegraphic, in 1882, 37
Engineers, The Amalgamated Society of, 609
Engineers, The Chesterfield and Derbyshire, Meeting of, 582

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ; 32,88,323, 446, 467

Address of the President, 32
Institution Lectures, 467
On the Antwerp Water Works, by William Anderson, 64
On the Design and Construction of Repairing Slipways for Ships, by Mr. T. B. Lightfoot, M. Inst. C.E., and Mr. John Thompson, 188
On Covered Service Reservoirs, by Mr. William Morris, 231
On Telephones, by SirFrederick Bramwell, 272
On the Productive Power and Efficiency of Machine Tools, and of other Labour-Saving Appliances worked by Hydraulic Pressure, by Mr. Ralph Hart Tweddell, 281
On Stamping and Welding under the Steam Hammer, b}' Mr. Alexander McDonnell, 281
On the Summit-Level Tunnel of the Bettws and Festiniog Railway, by Mr. William Smith, 340
On the Introduction of Irrigation into New Countries, as Illustrated in North-Eastern Colorado, by Mr. P. O’Meara, 384
On Resistance on Railway Curves as an Element of Danger, by Mr. John Mackenzie, 392
On Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes, by Professor F. A. Abel, 449
On the Diamond Fields and Mines of South Africa, by Mr. James N. Paxman, 458
On the Edinburgh Water Works, by Mr. Alexander Leslie, 507
On the Water Works of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, bj" J. G. Gamble, 531
On the Water Supply of Peterborough, by Mr. John Addy, 578

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ; 97, 349, 375

On Carbon in Steel, by Professor Abel, 97, 187 On the Molecular Rigidity of Tempered Steel, . by Professor D. E. Hughes, 97, 104
On the Working of Blast Furnaces with Special Reference to the Analysis of Escaping Gases, by Mr. Charles Cochrane, 98
On the St. Gothard Tunnel, by Herr dclstein, 101, 130,152
On the Strength of Shafting when both to Torsion and End Thrust, fessor A. G. Greenhill, 349, 366
On Improvements in the Manufacture of Coke, by Mr. John Jameson, 352, 375
On some Modern Systems of Cutting Metals, by Mr. W. Ford Smith, 352, 416, 495
Engineers, The Society of Telegraph, 18, 88 Enginesand Boilers of the s.s. “Hanoverian,” 13, 337
Engines, Compound Mill, 555
Engines, Compound, for Steam Launch, Cochran and Company’s, 508
Engines of the “ Czar,” 364, 414
Engines of H.M.S. “ Conqueror,” 604
Engines of H.M.S. “Satellite,” 484
Engines, Non-Condensing Steam, 348, 401
Engines, Reversing Rail Mill, 554
Engines, Reversing Rolling Mill, for the Nova Scotia Steel Company, 419
Engines, Rolling Mill, 320
Erzberg, The Styrian, 17
Escapes, Foretelling Firedamp, 448
Evans’s Pig Iron Breaker, 221
Excavating the Channel Tunnel, 41
Exhausters, Gas, Donkin and Company’s, 316
Exhausters, Gas, Gwynne and Company’s, 440
Exhibition, The Amsterdam, 486, 552
Exhibition, The Aquarium Electric Light, 254
Exhibition, The Building Trades, 325, 349 Exhibition, The Cork, 88
Exhibition, Engineering and Metal Trades, 352
Exhibition, The Fisheries, 135, 411,469, 492, 562, 609
Exhibition of Irrigation Machinery, 448 Exhibition, the Paris Electrical, 631
Exhibition of Railway Appliances, Chicago, 19, 161, 229
Exhibition, The Sportsman’s, 137
Exhibition, The Vienna Electrical, 40, 137, 184, 229, 377, 493
Expansion Gear, Hornsby and Sons’ Automatic, Horizontal Engine with, 294
Expansion Motion, Stevenson and Price’s Automatic, 106
Experimental Engine, An, 179
Experiments, Munro’s Telephonic, 252
Experiments, Vacuum Brake, 13
Explosion at the Glasgow Gas Works, 89
Explosions Act, 1882, The Boiler ; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 6
Explosions, Boiler, in 1882 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 342
Explosions, Recent Boiler, 157,490
Explosive Dust, 377
Explosive Purposes, Electricity Applied to, 449
Eye and the Electric Light, The 278

Failure of a Brake at Northampton, The, 537
Failure of a Handbrake, 63
Fall of a Chimney at Bradford, The, 369
Fan Brake, Hydraulic, 520
Feed-Water Heater, The Wass, 416
Ferro-Prussiate Multiplying Process, 519
Field Artillery, Italian, the New, 315
Files, Sharpening, 505
Filter, Piefke’s, 272
Filters, Asbestos, 304
Filters, Thames, at Saccharum Works, 35
Fireboxes, Steel, for Locomotives, 138
Fires, The Prevention of, 135
Firing Gas Retorts, The Heat, Regenerative System of, 53

FISHERIES EXHIBITION, THE ; 135, 411

Chinese Section, 586
Electric Light, The, 492, 609
Machinery, 469
Meteorology, 562
Models, 515, 538

Fishery Board, The Scotch, 40
Florida, A Canal Across the Isthmus of, 305
Flues, Corrugated, The Strength of, 316
Fog Signalling, 280
Foot-Bridge at La Villette, 221
Force, Centrifugal, 566
Forced Draught, Steam Trials under, 249,266, 484
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 26, 72, 96, 122, 144, 168, 207, 262, 307, 334, 360, 367, 410, 450, 478, 535, 598, 603
Foreign Technical Literature, 11,63, 89, 155, 185, 230, 279, 305, 345, 378, 394, 462, 494, 533
Foretelling Firedamp Escapes, 448
Foundering of Steam Ships, The, 40
French Academy Prizes, 377
French Inventions, 88
Fuel, Liquid, Apparatus for Burning, 578, 600
Fuel in Rolling Mills, Petroleum as a, 425
Fuel on Russian Railways, 329
Fuller’s Earth Electrodes, 540
Furnace, Blast, The Working of, 98
Furnace, The Piat Oscillating Crucdble, 160, 186
Furnaces, The Siemens-Martin, 102

Garrett’s Patent Steam Cultivator, 35
Gas “ Accumulator,” A High-Prtessure, 591
Gas Companies, The Metropolitan, 540
Gas Exhausters, Donkin and Company’s, 316
Gas Exhausters, Gwynne and Company’s, 440
Gas Manufacture, Residual Products in, 207
Gas Producer, Dowson’s, 130
Gas Retorts, The Heat-Regenerative System of Firing, 53
Gas Works, Explosion at the Glasgow, 89
Gases, Blast Furnace, as a Source of Ammonia, 230
Gases, The Transmission of Sound in, 471
Gaseous Fuel, 457
Gasholder at Rheims, 437
Gauges, Arnoldi’s Electric Alarm, 319
Gaulard and Gibbs’ System of Electrical Distribution, 205
Gear, Strong’s, Locomotive Valve, 195
Generators for Incandescence Lighting, 482, 503
German Steam Navigation, 540
“Giovanni Bausan,” The, 11
Girard and Koster Turbines, 244
Girdwood’s Isometric Governor, 106
Glaciers, The Motion of, 493
Glasgow Gas Works, Explosion at the, 89
Glass-Blowing by Compressed Air, 591
Glass, Tempered, The Electrical Resistance of, 304
Gold Mining in Oriental Siberia, 169, 313
Gold Ore, The Electro-Amalgamation of, 227 Goods Traffic, American, 112
Government Patent Bill, The, 275, 301, 325, 347, 373, 397, 443
Governor, Girwood’s Isometric, 106
Governor, Knowles’ Automatic, 318
Governor, The Mas, 486
Grain Warehousing Machinery, Ellington’s, 106
Grand Junction Railway of Canada, The, 49
Griffiths, Mr. Robert, 606
Gruson’s Chilled Cast-Iron Armour, 526, 549
Guide-Blade Propellers, The Efficiency of, 460
Guion Liner “Oregon,” The New, 602
Gun Carriages, Vavasseur’s Naval, 599
Guns, Modern, 62
Guns, The Nordenfelt Machine, 51, 77, 123, 147
Gwynne and Company’s Gas Exhausters, 440

Hall’s Type-Writer, 9
Hamburg, Swing Bridge at, 59, 132, 155, 200
Hammer, Steam, Stamping under the, 281
Hammers, Thwaites’ Steam and Pneumatic, 580
Handbrake, The Failure of a, 63
“ Hanoverian,” s.s., Boilers and Engines of, 337
Harbours of Refuge on the East Coast, 133, 225
Harbours and Rivei’s, Queensland, 305
Hardening Concrete, 229
Hardening and Tempering Steel, 366
Hardness of Common Metals, Scale of, 619
Harvey, Mr. Robert, 438
Haulage on Tramways, Electric, 255
“Hawarden Castle,” The, 353
Heat-Regenerative System of Firing Gas Retorts, The, 53
Heater, The Wass Feed-Water, 416
H.M.S. “ Conqueror,” Engines of, 604
H.M.S. “ Himalaya,” Electric Lighting on, 155
H.M.S. “ Satellite,” Engines of, 484
High-Pressure Gas “Accumulator,” A, 591
High-Speed Engine, Ridcalgh’s, 605
Hints for Working a Holtz Machine, 591
Hitting Objects at Sea, 362, 386
Hopkinson’s Current Meter, 213
Hopkinson-Muirhead Dynamos, The, 530
Horizontal Compound Engine, 320
Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, Hornsb5^ and Sons’, 294
Hot Blasts, The Temperature of, 448, 455, 456
Hyde Park Corner, 424
Hydraulic Fan Brake, 520
Hydraulic Machine Tools, 281
Hydraulic Steering Gear, Lafargue’s, 440
Hydrometer, Bate’s, 434

Illumination, The Zipernowsky System of, 551
Improvements, Metropolitan, and their Cost, 229
Incandescence Apparatus, The Brush, 482
Incandescence Lamps, 440
Indian Public Works Department, 226
Indicator, Stroudley’s Speed, 178
Indicator, Tinkbein and Sphaffer’s Speed, 58
Induction Balance, The, 20, 71, 118, 231
Induction Machine, Wimshurst’s Duplex, 3
Industry, The Soda, 61
Inland Sea of Tunis, The, 403
Installation, An Electric Light, 145
Institute of Patent Agents, The, 515
Institution Lectures, The, 467
Insulite Battery, The, 540
International Exhibition, Amsterdam, 486, 552 Inventions, French, 88
Iron Breakers, Pig, 198, 221
Iron Hopper Barges for the River Wear, 294 Iron, Manufactured, in 1882, 518
Iron Ore District, The Northampton, 448,457, 579 Iron and Steel, The Effect of Repeated Heating on, 374
IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE : 446, 455 Address of the President, 446
On the Testing of Steel Rails, 447
On the Use of Steel Castings in Lieu of Iron and Steel Forgings for Ship and Marine Engine Construction, by Mr. William Parker, 447
On Bessemer Steel in its Cast and Unwrought State, by Mr. W. D. Allen, 439, 447
On a Comparison of the Working of a Blast Furnace, with Blast Varying from 990 deg. to 1400deg., by Mr. W. Hawdon, 448, 455
On the Value of the Successive Additions of the Air Used in Smelting Iron, by Mr. I. Lowthian Bell, 448, 456
On the Northampton Iron Ore District, by Mr. Butlin, 448, 457, 579
On the Estimation of Minute Quantities of Carbon by a New Colour Method, by Mr. J. E. Stead, 457, 459
On a New Chromometer, bj’’ Mr. J. E. Stead, 457, 459
On the Production and Utilisation of Gaseous Fuel in ttie Iron Manufacture, by Mr. Sutherland, 457
Iron and Steel,Magnetisation of, by Breaking, 377 Iron and Steel, The Oxidation of, 278
Iron and Steel Trades, Development of the, in the Coatbridge District, 229
Iron Trade, The British, in 1882, 138
Iron Trade in 1882, The Scotch, 77 Iron, Zinc Coating for, 471
Irrigation Machinery, Exhibition of, 448 Irrigation in New Countries, 384
Isometric Governor, Girdwood’s, 106 Isthmus of Florida, The, A Canal Across, 305
Italian Field Artillery, The New, 315 Italian Naval Review of 1882, The, 63
James, Mr. John C., C.E., 299
Jib Crane, Twenty-Ton, 56
Johnson’s Compensator for Signal Wires, 9
Joint, The Lancaster Swivel, 416
King’s Governors for Water Motors, 79
Knight’s Annotated Model Bye-Laws, 229
Knighthoods, The New, 375
Knowles’ Automatic Governor, 318
Kdnigsberg, Electric Exhibition at, 539
La Villette, Foot-Bridge at, 221
Lafargue’s Hydraulic Steering Gear, 440
Lake Winnipeg, 472
Lamp, Crompton’s Electric, 246
Lamp, An Electric Beading, 532
Lamp, A Perfect Miner’s Safety, 160
Lamps, Incandescence, 440
Lancaster Swivel Joint, The, 416
Lathe, Asquith’s Break, 533
Launches and Trial Trips, 395, 415, 441, 485, 506, 534, 558, 582, 606
Law of Electric Lighting, The, 493
Lead Mines, The Weardale, 591
Lead Mining, Northem, 329
Leather Waste, Artificial Leather from, 471 Lectures on Electricity, 88
Lectures, The Institution, 467
Legislation, Private Bill, 347, 398, 422, 445, 467, 517, 563, 589, 610
Leoben School of Mines, Testing Machines at the, 340
Lifeboat, Timmis and Hodgson’s Reversible, 58, 419
Life-Saving Apparatus, 491
Light, The Electric, on Board Ship, 423
Light, The Electric, and the Eye, 278
Light, The Electric, at the Fisheries Exhibition, 492, 609
Light, The Electric, and the Microscope, 160
Light, Exhibition, The Aquarium Electric, 254 Light Installation, An Electric, 145
Lighthouse and Fog Signals for Ailsa Craig, 304
Lighting Act, The Electric, 1882, 374
Lighting, Electric, 111, 126, 128, 204
Lighting, Electric, at the Brtlnn Theatre, 345
Lighting, Electric, on H.M.S. ‘‘Himalaya,” 155
Lighting, Electric, in Mills, 85
Lighting, Electric, at Nottingham, 444
Lighting, Electric, at Oxford, 394
Lighting, Electric, at St. Denis, 82
Lighting, Electric, at Sheffield, 91, 108
Lightning, A Curious Effect of, 63
Lime-Water and Silica, 519
Liquid Fuel, Apparatus for Burning, 578, 600
Literature, Foreign Technical, 11, 63, 89,155, 185, 230, 279, 305, 345, 378, 394, 462, 494, 533
Locomotive, Coaling Stage for ; South-Western Railway of Russia, 82
Locomotive for the St. Gothard Railway, 298 Locomotive Valve Gear, Strong’s, 195 Locomotives, Compound, 585
Locomotives, Merry weather and Sons’ Tramway, 220, 243
Locomotives, Steel Fireboxes for, 138
London Bridge, Crossing the Thames Below, 159
Long Distance -Telephoning, 424
Lubrication 364
MacColl’s Rivetting Machine, 462
McEvoy’s Torpedo System, 433
Machine, Dynamo, Ball’s Unipolar, 306
Machine Guns, The Nordenfelt, 51, 77, 123, 147
Machine, Holtz, Hints for Working a, 591
Machine, Shearing and Punching, 394
Machine, Testing, at theLeoben School of Mines, 340
Machine Tools, American, 104
Machine Tools, Hydraulic, 281
Machine Tools, Modern, 193, 213, 290, 335, 385, 455, 501
Machine, The Werder Testing, 530
Machine, Wimshurst’s Duplex Induction, 3 Machinery, Ellington’s Grain Warehousing, 106 Machinery at the Fisheries Exhibition, 469 Magnetic Chime, A, 612
Magnetisation of Iron and Steel by Breaking, 377 Magnetism, The Nature of, 564
Magnetism, Professor Hughes on, 137
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 73, 114, 227, 241, 263, 388
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, The, 137, 534, 607
Manganese Bronze, 18
Manufacture of Gas, Residual Products in, 207 Manufacture of Pig Iron in Sweden, The, 86 Manufactured Iron in 1882, 518
Manure Hubbub, The Artificial, 561
Marine Construction, Use of Concrete in, 38
Marine Engineering and Clyde Shipbuilding in 1882, 36,56, 116,173, 279
Marine Signalling Apparatus, 472
Marten’s Report on Boiler Explosions in 1882, 342 Mas Governor, The, 486
Masting Ships of War, 468, 514
“ Mawuna,” The Paddle Steamer, 216 Mechanical Constant, A New, 566
Mechanical Stoker, Sinclair’s, 59
Memorial, Trevithick, 345
Merry weather and Sons’ Tramway Locomotives, 220, 243
Metal Trades Exhibition and Engineering, 40, 352, 519
Metallodion and Accumulators, 520
Metals, Common, Scale of Hardness of, 519 Metals, Modern Systems of Cutting, 352, 416, 495 Meteorology at the Fisheries Exhibition, 562 Meter, Hopkinson’s Current, 213
Meter, Schmid’s Water, 437
Metropolitan Gas Companies, The, 540 Metropolita«i Improvements and their Cost, 229 Metropolitan Railway, The Paris, 513
“Mho” and Ohm, The, 519
Mica Crystals, Made-up, Optical Effects of, 206 Microphone, The Action of the, 305
Mid’oscope and the Electric Light, The, 160 Mid-Ocean Telegraphy, 493
Military Ballooning, 575
Mill Engines, Compound, 555
Mill Engines, Rolling, 320
Miller, Mr. John, Railway Engineer, 493
Mills, Electric Lighting in, 85
Mineral Products, Russian, 29
Miner’s Safety Lamp, A Perfect, 160
Mines, Testing Machine at the Leoben School of, 340
Mining, Belgian Coal, 63
Mining, Gold, in Oriental Siberia, 169, 313
Mining, Northern Lead, 329
Model Bye-Laws, Knight’s Annotated, 229 Models at the Fisheries Exhibition, 515, 538 Modern Machine Tools, 193, 213, 290, 335, 385, 455, 501
Modern Ordnance, 62
Modern Systems of Cutting Metals, 352, 416, 495 Molecular Rigidity of Tempered Steel, 97, 104 Moscow Tramways, The, 19
Motion of Glaciers, The, 493
Motion, Stevenson and Price’s Automatic Expansion, 106
Motors, Water, King’s Governors for, 79
Movable Weir on the River Rhdne, 271 Multitubular Boiler, Bellamy’s, 394
Munro’s Telephonic Experiments, 252
Nature of Magnetism, The, 564
NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 251, 277, 303, 327
On the Steam Trials of the “Satellite” and “Conqueror,” under Forced Draught, by R. J. Butler, 249, 266, 484
On the Influence of the Board of Trade Rules for Boilers upon the Commercial Marine, by J. T. Milton, 269, 276, 472
On Fog Signalling, by J. McFarlane Gray, 280
On the Mode of Estimating thd Strains to which Steamers are Subject, by Wigham Richardson, 317
On the Efficiency of Guide Blade Propellers, by J. I. Thornycroft, 460
Naval Engineer Students, 63
Naval Gun Carriages, Vavasseur’s, 599
Naval Review, The Italian, of 1882, 63 Navigation, German Steam, 540
New Copper Zinc Alloy, A, 161
New Countries, Irrigation in, 384
New Knighthoods, The, 375
New South Wales, Railways in, IS
New Tricycle, A, 84
Nice, Burning of the Pier at, 329 Non-Condensing Steam Engines, 348, 401 Non-Conducting Coverings for Boilers and Steam
Pipes, 147
Nordenfelt Machine Guns, 51, 77, 123,147 North, Steam Shipping in the, 403 North-Eastern Steel Company, The, 534 Northampton, The Brake Failure at, 537 Northampton Iron Ore District, The, 579
NOTES :
“Accumulator, A High-Pressure Gas, 591
Accumulators and Metallodion, 520
NOTES—continued,
Acid-Resisting Bricks, 160
Alloy, A New Copper-Zinc, 161
Artificial Leather from Leather IVastc, 471
Asbestos Filters, 304
Atlantic Cables, 115
Aurora, An Artificial, 228, 377
Auroral Phenomena, 18
“ Austral,” s.s.. Raising the, 229,368
Australia and Marseilles, 19
Balloon, The Centennial of the, 206
Batoum Section of the Trans-Caucasian Railway, 184
Battery, The Insulite, 540
Battery Residues, 566
Belgian Coal Mining, 63
Berly’s Electrical Directory, 184
Board of Trade Rules for Boilers, The, 472 Brakes, Continuous, 613
Brakes, Continuous, upon the Continent, 160 Brakes, Continuous, on French Railways, 40 Brakes, Continuous, Uniformity in, 591 Bricks, The Decay of, 304
British Association, The, 493
Brush Company, The Anglo-American, 184
Canada, Public Works in, 278
Canal Across the Isthmus of Florida, A, 305
Carbon, The Conductivity of, 402
Carbonic Oxide, Preparation of, 540
Centrifugal Force, 566
Coal and Coke Trades, The, in 1882, 304
Coke-Making, Bye-Products in, 185
Colour Blindness, 448
Concrete, Hardening, 229
Constant, A New Mechanical, 566
Cooper, Mr. Peter, 329
Copper in the United States, 540
Cork Exhibition, The, 88
Diffusion Engine, A, 613
Directory, Street’s Indian and Colonial Mercantile, 160
Dredging Plant, 39
Dynamite Trade, The, 278
Dynamos, Self-Induction in, 229
Earth Currents and Solar Spots, 206 Ebonite, 115
Electric Light, The, and the Eye, 278
Electric Lighting, The Law on, 493
Electric Resistance of Tempered Glass, 304
Electric Transmission of Power, 207
Electromotive Force of Batteries, The, 519
Engineering Accident, An, 377
Engineering and Metal Trades Exhibition, 40 352, 519
Exhibition of Irrigation ^lachinery, 448
Explosion at the Glasgow Gas Works, 89
Explosive Dust, 377
Failure of a Handbrake, The, 63
Ferro-Pruasiatc Multiplying Process, 519
Firedamp Escapes, Foretelling, 448
Foundering of Steam Ships, The, 40
French Inventions, 88
Fuel on Russian Railways, 329
Fuller’s Earth Electrodes, 540
Furnace, The Piat Oscillating Crucible, 160
German Steam Navigation, 540
Glass Blowing by Compressed Air, 591
Holtz Machine, Hints for Working a, 591
Hyde Park Corner, 424
Inland Sea, The, of Tunis, 403
Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 88
Iron Ships, Deviation of the Compasses of 184
Iron and Steel, The Oxidation of, 278
Iron and Steel Trades, Development of the, in the Coatbridge District, 229
Italian Naval Renew of 1882, The, 63
Knight’s Annotated Model Bye-Laws, 229
Lake Winnipeg, 472
Lectures on Electricity, 88
Lighthouse and Fog Signals for Ailsa Craig, 304
Lightning, A Curious Effect of, 63
Magnetic Chime, A, 612
Magnetisation of Iron and Steel by Breaking, 377
Magnetism, Professor Hughes on, 137 Manganese Bronze, 18
Marine Signalling Apparatus, 472
Metropolitan Improvements and their Cost, 229
Microphone, The Action of the, 305
Microscope and the Electric Light, The, 160 Mid-Ocean Telegraphy, 493
Miner’s Safety Lamp, A Perfect, 160
Mining, Northern Lead, 329
Moscow Tramways, The, 19
Motion of Glaciers, The, 493
Naval Engineer Students, C3
Nice, Burning of the Pier at, 329
Ohm, Determining the, 115
Ohm and “ Mho,” The, 519
Optical Effects of Made-up Mica Crystals, 20G
Panama Canal, The, 88
Paris Electrical Exhibition, The, G3 Petroleum as a Fuel in Rolling Mills, 425 Photo-Filigrane, 115
Photographing Sound Waves, 278 Polytechnic Society, Royal Cornwall, 591
NOTES—con/jnv<’(7.
Premiums of the Society of Arts, 493
Prizes, French Academy, 377
Queensland Rivers and Harbours, 305
Radiation of Siver in Solidifying, The, 471
Railway Appliances, Chicago Exhibition of, 19, 161, 229
Railway, New Algerian, 329
Railway, A Swiss Electric, 377
Railways in New South Wales, 18
Railways and Passenger Duty, 403
Residual Products in Gas Manufacture, 207 Royal Society’s Soir(5e, The, 403
Royal Testing Establishment, Berlin, 519
Sabine’s Wedge and Diaphragm Photometer, 63
Salt, South Durham, 305
Scale of Hardness of Common Metals, 519
Science in Board Schools, 424
Science Degrees, 613
Scotch Fishery Board, The, 40
Shipbuilding on the River Wear, 229
Siemens’ Selenium Pho»tometer, 591
Silica and Lime-Water, 519
Sixty-Ton Derrick Crane, A, 493
South American Timber, 519
Spectra Formed by Curved Diffraction Gratings, The, 160
Spectrometer, A New, 448
Spottiswoode, Mr. William, F.R.S., 613
Steam Shipping in the North, 403
Steamers, The Tonnage of, 304
Steel Rails in Poland, 329
Steel Works, Large Anvil Blocks for, 403
Sulphur, Phosphorescence of, 540
Sulphur in the Soil of Paris, 492
Tehuantepec Ship Railroad, The, 519
Telegraph Engineers, the Society of, 18, 88
Telegraphs, New, in Tripoli, 560
Telephone, The, 278, 403
Telephone Case, The, 88
Telephone, An Improved Bell, 329
Telephoning, Long Distance, 424
Temperature of the Thames, The, 493
Thomas, Mr. Lynall, and the War Office, 566 Thunderstorms, 566
Transmission of Sound in Gases, The, 471
United States Currency, 520
Ure, The Late Mr. John F., 448
Vienna Electrical Exhibition, The, 40,137,184, 229, 378, 493
Water Supply in South Australia, 403
Waterloo and Charing Cross Electric Railway, 352
Weardale Lead Mines, The, 591
West of England Agricultural Society, The, 492
Whitworth’s Scholarships, The, 278
Zinc Coating for Iron, 471
Notes from Cleveland, 11, 48, 66, 81, 109, 129, 151, 186, 197, 219, 256, 288, 300, 321, 341, 371, 395, 425, 442, 472, 488, 510, 548, 554, 592, 603
Notes, Electric Lighting, 5, 32, 56, 80, 104, 150, 177, 207, 216, 265, 296, 320, 340, 378, 390, 415, 438, 483, 506, 531, 554
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 26, 72, 96, 122, 144, 168, 207, 262, 3O7, 334, 360, 367, 410, 450, 478, 535, 598, 603
Notes from the North, 7, 41, CO, 90, 117, 132, 162, 186, 197, 219, 256, 282, 297, 321, 341, 371, “ 432, 442, 465, 488, 511, 535, 559, 583, 603
Notes from the South West, 22, 48, 66, 90, 132, 162, 177, 196, 238, 262, 282, 297, 334, 384, 410, 432, 442, 461, 488, 510, 548, 572, 602
Notes from South Yorkshire, 22, 43, CO, 84, 117, 161, 185, 197, 238, 256, 297, 321, 353, 367, 415, 442, 465, 485, 511, 548, 583, 603
Notes from the United States, 19, 64, 89,116,161, 185, 230, 280, 320, 378, 394, 439, 472, 494, 510, 581, 613
Nottingham, The Electric Lighting of, 444
Nova Scotia Steel Company, Reversing Rolling Mill Engines for, The, 419

OBITUARY : See separate index section

Objects at Sea, Hitting, 362, .386
Ohm, Determning the, 115
Ohm and “ Mho,” The, 519
Optical Effects of Made-up 5Iica Crystals, 200
Ordnance, Modern, 62
“ Oregon,” The New Guion Liner, 602
Owners, Boiler, The Responsibility of, 182
Oxford, Electric Lighting at, 394
Oxide, Preparation of Carbonic, 540

Paddle Steamer “ Mawuna,” The, 216
Panama Canal, The, 88
Paris, Electric Light at the Eden Theatre, 587
Paris Electrical Exhibition, The, 63
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 513
Paris, Sulphur in the Soil of, 492 Passenger and Railways Duty, 403
Patent Agents, The Institute of, 515 Patent Bill, The Government, 275, 301, 325, 373, 397, 443
Patent Record, The, 23, 43, 67, 92, 119, 139, 189, 208, 233, 257, 283, 308, 330, 354, 379, 426, 451, 473, 497, 521, 541, 567, 595, 614
Pens, Stringer’s Drawing, 364
Peter Brotherhood’s, Mr., Works, 390 Peterborough, The Water Supply of, 578 Petroleum as a Fuel in Rolling Mills, 425 Phenomena, Auroral, 1$ Phosphorescence of Sulphur, 540 Photo-Filigrane, 115 Photographing Sound Waves, 278 Photometer, Sabine’s Wedge and Diaphragm, 63 Photometer, Siemens’ Selenium, 591
Photometry, 1, 29, 75, 125, 170, 239, 291, 361, 387, 479, 525
Piat Oscillating Crucible Furnace, The, 160, 186 Piefke’s Filter, 272
Pier at Nice, Burning of the, 329 Piers, Braced, and Supports, 501 Pig Iron Breaker, Blake’s, 198 Pig Iron Breaker, Evans’s, 221 Pig Iron, The Manufacture of, in Sweden, 86 Plant, Boiler Rivetting, 415
Plant, Dredging, 39 Plates, Cleveland Boiler, 605 Poland, Steel Rails in, 329 Polytechnic Society, Royal Cornwall, 591 Port Elizabeth Water Works, 531 Portable Enigine, Two-Wheeled, 440 Portrush Electric Railway, The, 376
Power, Electric Transmission of, 207,264, 289,402 Premiums of the Society of Arts, 493 Prevention of Fires, The, 135
Priestman’s Dredgers for Rivers and Canals, 152 Private Bill Legislation, 347, 398, 422, 445, 467, 517, 563, 589, 610
Private Bills for Session 1883, 15, 27, 52, 87, 113, 182, 214, 336
Prizes, French Academy, 377
Process, Ferro-Prussiate Multiplying, 519 Products, Russian Mineral, 29
Professor Hughes on Magnetism, 137 Progress of Telegraphy, The, 218
Propellers, The Efticienc5'^ of Guide Blade, 460 Public Works in Canada, 278
Public Works Department, Indian, Reorganisation of, 226
Pumping Engine, Sewage, 329
Pumps, an Automatic Primer for, 150 Pumps, Steam, Blake’s Compound, 604 Punching and Shearii>g Machine, 394 Pyramid Builders, The Tools of the, 573
Queensland Rivers and Harbours, 305
Radiation of Silver in Solidifying, The, 471
Rail Mill Engines, Reversing, 554
Railroad, The Tehuantepec Ship, 519
Railway Accidents, Recent, 422
Railway Appliances, Chicago Exhibition of, 19, 161,229
Railway, Bettws and Festiniog; Summit Lc\ el Tunnel, 340
Railway Curves, Resistance on, 392
Railwav, Electric, Charing Cross and Waterloo, 352
Railway Engineer, Mr. John Miller, 493
Railway, The Grand Junction of Canada, 49
Railway, New Algerian, 329
Railway, The Paris Metropolitan, 513
Railway, The Portrush Electric, 376
Railway, The St. Gothard, Locomotive for, 298
Railway, A Swiss Electric, 377
Railway, Trans-Caucasian, The Batouan Section of the, 184
Railway '\’entilators, The District, 251, 398, 586
Railways, French, Continuous Brakes on, 40 Railways in New South Wales, 18
Railways and Passenger Duty, 403
Railway's, Russian, Fuel on, 329
Railways, State, in Bengal, 38
Rails, Steel, in Poland, 329
Raising the s.s. “Austral,” 229, 368
Reading Lamp, An Electric, 532
Receivers, Telephonic, 82
Recent Boiler Explosions, 157, 490
Recent Railway Accidents, 422
Refuge, Harbours of, on the East Coast, 133, 225 Reorganisation of the Indian Public Works Department, 226
Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher on the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, 6
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1882, 342
Reservoirs, Covered Service, 231
Residual Products in Gas Manufacture, 207
Residues, Battery, 566
Resistance on Railway Curves, 392 S
Responsibility of Boiler Owners, The, 182 I
Reversible Lifeboat, Timmis and Hodgson's, 58, 419
Reversing Rail Mill Engines, 554
Reversing Rolling Mill Engines for the Nova Scotia Steel Company, 419
Review, The Italian Naval, of 1882, 63
Rheims, Gasholder at, 4.37
Ridcalgh’s High-Speed Engine, 605
River and Canal Service, Dredgers for, 152
River Rhone, Movable Weir on the, 271
River Wear, Dredger for the, 36, 81, 175, 247, 288
River Wear, Iron Hopper Barges for the, 294
River Wear, Shipbuilding on the, 229
Riversand Harbours, Queensland, 305
Rivetting Machine, MacColl’s, 462
I Rivetting Plant, Boiler, 415
Rolling Mill Engines, 320
Rolling Mills, Petroleum as a Fuel in, 425
Root’s Blower, 510
Rope Tramways, Wire, 555
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 591
Royal Society, The Conversazione of the, 421
Royal Society’s Soirde, The, 403
Royal Testing Establishment, Berlin, 519
Rules, Board of Trade, for Boilers, 269, 27.0, 472
Russian Mineral Products, 29
Russian Railways, Fuel on, 329
Sabine’s Wedge and Diaphragm Photometer, 03 Saccharum Works, The Thames Filter at, 35 St. Denis, Electric Lighting at, 82
St. Gothard Railway, Locomotive for the, 298
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 101, 130,152 “Satellite,” H.M.S., Engines of, 484 Salt, South Durham, 305
Schmid’s Water Meter, 437
ScJioIarships, The Whitworth, 278
Science in Board Schools, 424
Science Degrees, 013
Scotch P'ishery Board, The, 40
Scotch Iron Trade in 1882, 77
Secondary Batteries, The Chemistry of, 17 Secondary- Battery, The Brush, 178, 198 Self-Induction in Dynamos, 229 Sewage Pumping Engine, 329
Shafting, The Strength of, 349, 360 Sharpe-Palmer Boiler, The, 581
Sharpening Files, 505
Shearing and Punching Machine, 394
Sheffield, Electric Lighting in, 91,108
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 73, 114, 227, 241, 203, 388
Ship Railroad, The Tehuantepec, 519 Shipbuilding, Clyde and Marine Engineering in 1882, 30, 50, 110, 173, 279
Shipbuilding on the River Wear, 229
Ships, Iron, Deviation of the Compasses of, 184 Ships of War, Masting, 408, 514
Shuttleworth, The Late Mr., 115
Siberia, Oriental Gold Mining in, 109, 313 Siemens-Martin Furnaces ; Graz Steel Works, 102
Siemens’ Selenium Photometer, 591
Signal Wires, Johnson’s Compensator for, 9 Signalling Apparatus, Marine, 472
Signalling Apparatus, Train, Ducousso-Breguet Automatic, 10
Signalling, Fog, 280
Silica and Lime-Water, 519
Silver, The Radiation of in Solidifying, 471 Sinclair’s Mechanical Stoker, 59
Six-Ton Travelling Jib Crane, 103
Sixty-Ton Derrick Crane, A, 493
Slipways, 188
Society of Arts, Premiums of the, 493 Society, Conversazione of the RoyaJ, 1883, 421 Society of Telegraph Engineers, 18, 88 Soda Industry, The, 01
Soirde, The Royal Society’s, 403 Solar Spots and Earth Currents, 200 Sound in Gases, The Transmission of, 471 Sound Waves, Photographing, 278 South Africa, The Diamond Fields of, 458 South American Timber, 519 South Australia, Water Suppb’ in, 403 South-West, Notes from the, 22, 48,60, 90, 132, 102, 177, 196, 238, 202, 282, 297, 334, 384, 410, 432, 442, 461, 488, 510, 548, 572, 602
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 22, 46, 60, 84, 117, 101, 185, 197, 238, 250, 297, 321, 353, 307, 415, 442, 405, 511, 548, 583, 003
Spectra Formed by Curved Diffraction Gratings, The, 160
Spectrometer, A New, 448
Speed Indicator, Stroudley’s, 178
Speed Indicator, Tinkbcin and Schaffer’s, 58 Sportsman’s Exhibition, The, 137
Spottiswoode, Mr. William, F.R.S., 013 Stamping under the Steam Hammer, 2S1 State Railways in Bengal, 38 Stead’s Chromometer. 459
Steam Boiler Constnretion and Management, 391
Steam Cultivator, Garrett’s, 35
Steam Engines, Non-Condensing, 348, 401
Steam Hammer, Stamping under the, 281
Steam Launch, Cochran and Company’s Compound Engines for, 508
j Steam Navigation, German, 540
Steam Pipes and Boilers, Non-Conducting Coverings for, 147
Steam and Pneumatic Hammers, Thwaites’, 580
Steam Pumps, Blake’s Compound, 004
Steam Ships, The Foundering of, 40
Steam Shipping in the North, 403
Steam Trawlers, 532
Steam Trials under Forced Draught, 249, 266, 484
Stenm Users’ Association, Manchester, 137, 534, 607
Steamer, Paddle, The, “ Mawuna,” 216 Steamers, The Clan Line, 613 Steamers, Masting, 468, 514
Steamers, Strains on, 317
Steamers, The Tonnage of, 304 Steel, Carbon in, 97, 187 Steel Castings, Bessemer, 4.39, 447 Steel Company, The North-Eastern, 534 Steel Fireboxes for Locomotives, 138 Steel, Hardening and Tempering, 366 Steel and Iron, The Effect of Repeated Heating on, 374
Steel and Iron, Magnetisation of by Breaking, 377
Steel and Iron, The Oxidation of, 278
Steel Rails in Poland, 329
Steel, Structural, 592
Steel, Tempered, Molecular Rigidity of, 97, 104 ?
Steel Works, Large Anvil Blocks for, 403
Steel Works of the Southern Bailway Company of Austria, Graz ; Siemens-Martin Furnaces, 102
Steering Gear, Lafargue’s Hydraulic, 440
Step-Wound Armature, Crompton’s, 59
Stevenson and Price’s Automatic Expansion Motion, 100
Stoker, Sinclair’s Mechanical, 59
Stone, Artificial, 159
Storage and Transmission, Electrical, 306 Strains on Steamers, 317
Strength of Corrugated Flues, The, 316
Street’s Indian and Colonial Directory, 160 Stringer’s Drawing Pens, 364
Strong’s Express Locomotive, 195
Stroudley’s Speed Indicator, 178
Structural Steel, 592
Students, Naval Engineer, 63
Styrian Erzberg, Tiie, 17
Sulphur, Phosphorescence of, 540
Sulphur in the Soil of Paris, 492
Summit-Level Tunnel ; Bettws and Festiniog Railway, 340
Supports and Braced Piers, 501
Sweden, The Manufacture of Pig Iron in, 86
Swing Bridge at Hamburg, 59, 132, 155, 200 Swiss Electric Railway, A, 377
Swivel Joint, The Lancaster, 416
System of Electrical Distribution, Gaulard and Gibbs’, 205
Tariff Bill, The United States, 293
Tehuantepec Ship Railroad, The, 519
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 18,88 Telegraphic Engineering in 1882, 37
Telegraphs in Tripoli, New, 566
Telegraphy, Mid-Ocean, 493
Telegraphy, The Progress of, 218
Telephone, The, 278, 403
Telephone Case, The, 88, 134
Telephone, An Improved Bell, 329
Telephones, 272
Telephonic Experiments, Munro’s, 252
Telephonic Receivers, 82
Telephoning, Long Distance, 424
Telpherage, Electric, Fleeming Jenkin’s, 318
Temperature of the Thames, The, 493
Tempered Glass, Electrical Resistance of, 304
Tempering and Hardening Steel, 366
Testing Establishment, Royal, Berlin, 519
Testing Machine at the Leoben School of Mines, 340
Testing Machine, The Werder, 530
Testing Steel Rails, 447
Thames, Crossing the, Below London Bridge, 159
Thames Filters at Saccharum Works, 35
Thames, The Temperature of the, 493
Theatre, BrUnn, Electric Lighting at the, 345
Thomas, Mr. Lynall, and the War Office, 566
Thornycroft’s Water-Tube Boiler, 463
Thunderstorms, 566
Thwaites’ Steam and Pneumatic Hammers, 580
Timber, South American, 519
Timmis and Hodgson’s Reversible Lifeboat, 58, 419
Tinkbein and Schaffer’s Speed Indicator, 58 Tonnage of Steamers, The, 304
Torpedo Attack and Defence, 301
Torpedo System, McEvoy’s, 433
Tools, American Machine, 104
Tools, Hydraulic Machine, 281
Tools, Modern Machine, 193, 213, 290, 335, 385, 455, 501
Tools of the Pyramid Builders, The, 573
Trade, The British Iron in 1882, 138
Trade, The Dynamite, 278
Trades, The Coal and Coke in 1882, 304
Trades Exhibition, The Building, 325, 349
Traffic, American Goods, 112
Train Signalling Apparatus, Automatic, 16
Tramwav Locomotives, Merry weather and Sons’, 220, 243
Tramways, Electric Haulage on, 255
Tramways, The Moscow, 91
Tramways, Wire Rope, 555
Trans-Caucasian Railway, The Batoum Section of the, 184
Transmission of Power, Electric, 207, 264, 289, 402
Transmission of Sound in Gases, The, 471
Transmission and Storage, Electrical, 306 Travelling Jib Crane, Six-Ton, 103
Trawlers, Steam, 532
Trevithick Memorial, The, 345
Trial Trips and Launches, 395, 415, 441, 485, 506, 534, 558, 582, 606
Trials, Steaan, under Forced Draught, 249, 2C6, 484
Tricycle, A New, 84
Tripoli, New Telegraphs in, 566
Tunis, The Inland Sea of, 403
Tunnel, The Channel, 41, 611
Tunnel, Excavating the Channel, 41
Tunnel, St. Gothard, 101,130, 152
Tunnel Summit-Level; Bettws and Festiniog Railway, 340
Turbines, Girard and Koster, 244
Tweddell’s Boiler Rivetting Plant, 415
Twenty-Ton Jib Crane, 56
Type Writer, Halls, 9
Unipolar Dynamo Machine, Ball's, 306
United States, Copper in, 540
United States Currency, 520
United States, Notes from the, 19, 64, 89, 116, 161,185, 230, 280, 320, 378, 394, 439, 472, 494, 510, 581, 613 ’ ’
United States Tariff Bill, The, 293
Ure, Mr. John F.. 448, 480
; Use of Concrete in Marine Construction, 38
Vacuum Brake Experiments, 13
Valve Gear, Locomotive, Strong’s, 195
Vavasseur’s Naval Gun Carriages, 599
Ventilation of the District Railway, The, 261, 398, 586
Vienna Electrical Exhibition, The, 40, 137, 184, 229, 377, 493
Walker, Mr. C. V,, F.R.S., 18
War, Masting Ships of, 468, 514
War Olfice, The, and Mr. Lynall Thomas, 566
Wass Feed-Water Heater, The, 416
Water Meter, Schmid’s, 437
Water Motors, King’s Governor for, 79
Water Supply of Peterborough, The, 578
Water Supply in South Australia, 403
Water-Tube Boiler, Thornycroft’s, 463
Water Works, Antwerp, 64
Water Works, Edinburgh, 507
Water Works, Port Elizabeth, 531
Waterloo and Charing Cross Electric Railway, 352
Wear, River, Dredger for, 36, 81, 175, 247, 288
Wear, River, Iron Hopper Barges for the, 294
Wear, River, Shipbuilding on the, 229
Weardale Lead Mines, The, 591
Weather, The, 14, 62, 136, 253, 324, 422, 538
Weir, Movable, on the River Rhone, 271
Werder Testing Machine, The, 530
West of England Agricultural Society, The, 492
Wheatley, Mr. Thomas, 299
Whitworth’s Scholarships, The, 278
Wiinshurst’s Duplex Induction Machine, 3
Winnipeg, Lake, 472
Wire Rope Tramways, 555
Working of Blast Furnaces, The, 98
Works, Mr. Peter Brotherhood’s, 390
Works, Public, in Canada', 278
Works, Thames Filter, at Saccharum, 35 : Young, Dr. Janies, F.R.S., 510
Zinc Alloy, A New Copper, 161
Zinc Coating for Iron, 471
Zipernowsky System of Electric Illumination, 551

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