Engineering 1884 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

Abridgments of Patents, 81
Absorption Spectrum of Water, 261
Academy Prizes, The French, 442
Accumulators, The Electromotive Force of, 442
Act? The New Patent, 15
Actions, Disclaimers in Patent, 261, 484
Address of Sir J. W. Bazalgette, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 45
Administration of the Patents Act, The, 1883, 64
Admiralt/Shipbuilding Contracts, 483
Agents, Patent, The Institute of, 549
Agents, Patent, and the President of the Board of Trade, 155
Ailsa Craig, Fog Signals at, 234
Air of Cape Horn, The, 215
Algoma to Port Arthur by Water, 495
Alhambra Theatre, The, 235, 539
Amalgamating Silver Ore, 517
America, Iron Tube Making in, 211
American Coal Breaker, An, 164, 311
American and English Fishing Vessels, 32
American Exhibition in London, An, 553
Ammeter, Ayrton and Perry’s New, 544
Amsler-Laffon’s Integrator, 333
Amsler’s Planimeter with Halpin’s Locking Gear, 141
Anemometer, Baily’s Integrating, 236
Angle Irons, Berry’s Bending and Forging Press for, 428
Animals and Plants, Manganese in, 576
Anti-Induction Telephone Circuit, An, 236
Antiseptic Treatment of Timber, The, 457
Applications of Heat, The Mechanical, 121
Arctic Oil Works, The, 534
Arlberg Tunnel, The, 257
Armament Question, The, 150
Armament of Torpedo Boats, The, 94
Armour-Clad Turret Ship, The “ Riachuelo,” 291, 300
Armour under Fire, Behaviour of, 402
Armour, Gruson’s Cast-Iron, 290
Artificial Graphite, 312
Asquith’s Horizontal Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing Machine, 7
Associated Iron-Moulders of Scotland, The, 549
Association, The Manchester Steam Users’, 120, 205, 347
Astronomical Instruments, New, 19.3
Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway, The, 169
Atmospheric Waves, 151
Attack, Naval, 241, 263
Australasia, Telegraphic Communication with, 282
Australia, Railways in South, 386
Australian Colonies as a Field for Engineers, The, 83, 115
Automatic Brake Details, Westinghouse, 140
Automatic and Exhaust Steam Injector, The, 415
Automatic Lighting of Beacons, 534
Aveling and Porter’s Spring Wheels for Traction Engines, 182
Ayrton and Perry’s Now Ammeter, 544

Bagnall’s Portable Railway Plant, 335
Baily’s Integrating Anemometer, 236
Ball Turning Machine, 392
Band Saw for Cutting Iron, Massey’s, 239
Band Saw Sharpening Machine, 466
Bar Shearing and Cropping Machine, Rushworth and Company’s, 406
Barometrical Observations, Reduction of, to Sea-Level, 160
Barometrical Readings, Extraordinary, 110
Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Compound Engines of the s.s. “Normandie,” by the, 65, 103
Basic Steel Works, The Glasgow Iron Company’s, 238
Batteries, Primary, for Electric Lighting, 35
Battery, The Skrivanov, 237
Beam, Concentrated and Distributed Loads Fixed on a, 513
Behaviour of Armour under Fire, 402
Bell and Co.’s Rope Pulley Friction Brake, 501
Belt Fastener, Moxon’s, 408
Belt Gear and Overhead Travelling Crane, Fielding and Platt’s, 523
Bending and Forging Press for Angle Irons, Berry’s, 428
Benzine, The Residual Charge from, 109
Berry’s Bending and Forging Press for Angle Irons, 428
Bessemer Steel Industry, The, in 1883,121
Bill, Private, Legislation, 11, 36, 62, 82, 106, 233, 278, 299, 385, 413, 437, 462, 484, 529, 550, 570
Billington and Newton v. Phosphor-Bronze Company, 302
Bismarck Bridge, The, 29, 87,122
Bismuth in the Magnetic Field, 575
Blast Furnace Economy, 111
Blow-Pipe Burners, Fletcher’s, 466
Blythswood Speed Indicator, The, 488
Board of Trade and Patent Agents, 155
Board of Trade, The, and Patentees, 211
Boase and Miller’s Water Cooling Apparatus, 393
Boats, High-Speed Torpedo, 461
Boats, Large Torpedo, 108
Boats, Torpedo, The Armament of, 94
Boats, Yarrow and Company’s Torpedo, 49, 84, 117, 161, 214
Bodies, Small, Measuring the Dilatation of, 282
Boiler, Burrell’s Launch, 312
Boiler and Engine Trials, 348
Boiler Explosions in 1883 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 273
Boiler Explosions, Recent, 234, 340, 528
Boiler, Hardingham’s Sectional Steam, 30
Boiler Makers and Iron Shipbuilders, The, 362
Boilers and Compound Engines of the s.s. “Normandie,” 65, 103
Boilers, Forced Draught for, 310, 313, 347
Bontemps, Charles, 478
Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing Machine, Asquith’s Horizontal, 7
Boring Machine, Kendall and Gent’s Horizontal, 119
Boston Electric Lighting Station, 565
Brake, Bell and Company’s Rope Pulley Friction, 501
Brake Details, Westinghouse Automatic, 140
Brazilian Armour-Clad Turret Ship, The “ Ria-chuelo,” 291, 300
Breechloading Gun, Phillips’s, 175
Brickmaking and Pressing Machine, Johnson’s, 543
Bridge, The Bismarck, 29, 87, 122
Bridge, The Cobden Free, Southampton, 6
Bridge, The Forth, Report to the Board of Trade on the, 66
Bridge. The Monongahela, 239, 371, 395
Bright’s Electrical Fire Alarm, 149
Bristol, University College, 492

British Association, The :
On Injector - Hydrants for Fire Extinction, by J. H. Greathead, 44
On Methods for Coking Coal and Recovering the By-Products, by Watson Smith, 175

British Naval Gunnery, 1, 26, 71, 135, 180, 223, 269, 319, 510, 552
Britton’s Steam Steering Gear, 141
Brush Company, Report of the, 125
Budapest Exhibition, The, 109
Building Trades Exhibition, The, 278
Buoyage, A Universal System of, 38
Burners, Fletcher’s Blow-Pipe, 466
Burstow Centre-Cycle, The, 142
Burrell and Sons’ Compound Semi-Portable Engine, 129
Burrell’s Launch Boiler, 312

Cable Tramways, 439, 486
Cables, Light Submarine, 527
Caloric Engines and Gas, 241

Canadian Pacific Railway, The : 245, 267, 287, 351, 424, 448, 474, 495, 518, 540, 559
Algoma to Port Arthur by Water, 495
Callendar to Nepigon, 448
Dawson Route, 267
History of Company, 287
Lake Superior District, 474
Lake Superior to Rat Portage, 518
Montreal to Callendar, 424
Progress of the Works, 351
Rat Portage to Winnepeg, 540
Red River Colony, 559

Canal, The Manchester Ship, 60, 93,199, 363
Canal, The Panama, 361
Canals, Speed on, 139
Canet’s Apparatus for Launching Torpedoes, 230
Cape Horn, The Air of, 215
Carbon Filter, Improved, 144
Carson’s Excavating Plant, 248
Case, The Telephone, 151
Cast-Iron Armour, Gruson’s, 290
Central Station, The Edison, at Milan, 215
Centre-Cycle, The Burstow, 142
Centrifugal Pump at the West Surrey Water Works, Simpson and Company’s, 138
Chart of Tunisia, A, 282
Chemistry in China, 237
“ Churchill,” s.s., Hall, Russell, and Company’s, 4

Civil Engineers, The Institution of, 411
Address of the President, Sir J. W. Bazalgette, 45
Institution and Professional Education, The, 317
On Heat and its Mechanical Applications, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, 19
On “ The Steam Engine,” by Mr. E. A. Cowper, 121
On Speed on Canals, by Mr. Francis Roubiliac Conder, 139
On the Adoption of Standard Forms of Test-Pieces for Bars and Plates, by Mr. William Hackney, 154
On Hydraulic Propulsion, by Mr. Sidney Walker Barnaby, 195
On Gas and Caloric Engines, by Professor Fleeming Jenkin, 241
On Wire-Gun Construction, by Mr. James A. Longridge, 253
On Experiments on the Composition and Destructive Distillation of Coal, by Mr. William Foster, 315
On the Heat Action of Explosives, by Captain Andrew Noble, 369
On Compressed Air and other Refrigerating Machinery, by Mr. A. C. Kirk, 370
On the Comparative Merits of Vertical and Horizontal Engines and on Rotative Beam Engines for Pumping, by Mr. William E. Rich, 394
On the Passage of Upland Water through a Tidal Estuary, by Mr. R. W. Peregrine Birch, 452
On the Antiseptic Treatment of Timber, by Mr. S. B. Boulton, 457
On Wood Pavement in the Metropolis, by Mr. George H. Stayton, 513

Clark and Bowman’s Electric Lamp, 78
Cleaner, The “ Sun” Knife, 565
Cleveland, Notes from, 7, 33, 67, 86, 100, 124, 146, 173, 187, 209, 229, 262, 275, 304, 345, 368, 391, 408, 433, 453, 482, 500, 521, 556, 566
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1883, 65, 78, 138, 203
Coal Breaker, An American, 164, 311
Coal, Experiments on the Composition and Destructive Distillation of, 315
Coal Gas as a Labour-Saving Agent, 190
Coal and Iron in 1883, 569
Coal, Manitoban, 15
Coal, Methods for Coking, and Recovering the By-Products, 175
Coal, Raw, in the Blast Furnace. On the Use of, 378, 387, 417
Cobden Free Bridge, Southampton, 6
Coils, Making Resistance, 343
Coke Oven, The Jameson, 43
Colonies, The Australian, as a Field for Engineers, 83, 115
Colony, Red River, 559
Combining Colours, 553
Comet, The Pons-Brooks, 152
Comets and Cometary Matter, 237
Committee, The Load-Line, 129
Company, The Brush, Report of, 125
Composition and Destructive Distillation of Coal Experiments on the, 315
Compound Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “Normandie,” 65,103
Compound Engines of H.M.S. “ Handy,” Ross and Duncan’s, 523
Compound Engines, Horizontal, for the Dacca Twist Company, Sharpies’, 521
Compound Engines of the s.s. “Hunstanton,” “Godiva,” “ Stokesley,” &c., 381, 406, 450, 476
Compound Engines of the Steam Yacht “Lady Torfrida,” 498
Compound Engines of the Tugboat “ Samara,’ 562
Compound Engines, The Willans, 74
Compound Locomotives, Webb’s, 106
Compound Semi-Portable Engine, Burrell and Sons’, 129
Compressibility of Liquids, 261
Comte Du Moncel, 173
Concentrated and Distributed Loads Fixed on a Beam, 513
Condensing Apparatus, Provand’s Sea-Water, 476
Conductivity of Copper, The, 365
Conductors, Electric Light, 339
Conductors, Lightning, 320
Conference, Weights and Measures, 576
Congo, Navigation of the, 63
Congo, A Steamer for the, 37
Construction, Wire-Gun, 253
Contracts, Admiralty Shipbuilding, 483
Controlling the Speed of Steam Engines, 415, 430
Cooling Water Apparatus, Boase and Miller’s, 393
Copper, The Conductivity of, 365
Copper, Phosphor, 29
Cores, Iron, Heating of, 343
Coriiss Valve Gear, The Proell, 250
Correction of Galvanometers, The, 15
Corrector, A Time, 63
Corrugated Disc Pulleys, 392
Cosmical Dust in Snow, 173
Counter for Gas Meter, Harding’s, 284
Crane, Overhead Travelling, and Belt Gear, Fielding and Platt’s, 523
Crane, Swing, for Sixty-Ton Loads, 315
Cranes, Hydraulic, for Steel Works, 166
Crankshafts, Cast Steel, 330
Cropping and Bar Shearing Machine, Rushworth and Company’s, 406
Crosby Indicator, The, 186
Cross Curves of Stability, On, 335
Crucibles and the Electric Light, 442
Crushing Strength of Ice, The, 302
Cupola, Stewart’s, 56
Current Meters, Testing, 467
Current and Potential Indicators, 192
Current Railway Legislation, 25
Curves of Stability, On Cross, 335
Cut-off Gear, Proell’s, 250
Cutting Iron, Massey’s Band Saw for, 239
Cutting-off Machine, Richards’s, 450

Deformation of Polarised Electrodes, 237
Delivery Tap, An Intermittent, 392
“Delta” Steam Launch, The, 534
Dennis Lock Furniture, The, 481
Density and Pressure of Detonating Gas Mixtures, The, 416
Deptford Storm Overflow Sewer, The, 462
Detachable Tool Points, 423
Determination of Longitude, 215
Diamond, The Matrix of the, 192
Diaphragm and Wedge Photometer, A, 43
Digester, Knowles’s, 203
Dilatation of Small Bodies, Measuring the, 282
Disc Pulleys, Corrugated, 392
Discharge, Metropolitan Sewage, 150, 542
Disclaimer Pending a Patent Action, 261
Disclaimers in Patent Actions, 484
Dock, The Hull Alexandra, 194
Dock, Proposed New, at Newfoundland, 270
Dr. Guthrie’s Experiments, 511
Dr. Todhunter, 215
Double-Barrelled Guns and Rifles, 393
Drawbaugh’s Telephone, 261
Drilling, Boring, and Surfacing Machine, Asquith’s Horizontal, 7
Drop Lubricator, Schbnheyder’s Visible, 323
Ducretet’s New Galvanometer, 237
Dust, Cosmical, in Snow, 173
Dusty Air, Illuminated Bodies in, 173
Dynamo, Ganz’s, 428
Dynamo, Matthews’s, 167
Dynamo, Multipolar Gramme, 270
Dynamo, Parsons’s High-Speed Engine-Driving,
Dynamometer, Rieter’s, 500
Dynamometer, Tatham’s, 562
Dynamos and the Telegraph, 389
Dynamos, Testing, 373, 425
Dynamos, Vertical Compound Engine for Driving, 102
Dynamos, A Symbol for, 151

Earth Plates, 576
Eccentric, Tripier’s Spherical, 481
Economy, Blast Furnace, 111
Edison Central Station, The, at Milan, 215
Education, Professional, and the Institution, 317
Edwards and Symes’s Railway Ferry Boat for San Juan, Puerto Rico, 430
Effect, Hall’s, 261
Efficiency, Naval, 170
Elder and Company’s Steam Yacht “LadyTor-frida,” 498
Electric Arc, Resistance of the, 321
Electric Governor, Willans’s, 153
Electric Governor, The Westinghouse, 535
Electric Illumination, The Hochhausen Systems of, 24, 127, 223
Electric Jewels, Trouvd’s, 15
Electric Lamp, Clark and Bowman’s, 78
Electric Launch, An, 307
Electric Light Conductors, 339
Electric Light and Crucibles, The, 442
Electric Light in Railway Trains, The, 297
Electric Light on Shipboard, The, 319,341
Electric Light Wires, The Horse-Power Expended in, 37

Electric Lighting :
Dynamo, Ganz’s, 428
Dynamo, Matthews’s, 167
Dynamo, Multipolar Gramme, 270
Dynamos, Testing, 373, 425
Edison Central Station at Milan, The, 215
Electric Arc Lamp, Clark and Bowman’s, 78
Electric Light Conductors, 339
Electric Light in Railway Trains, 297
Electric Light on Shipboard, 319, 341
Electric Light Wires, The Horse-Power Expended in, 37
Electric Lighting at the International Health Exhibition, 551, 572
Electric Lighting Station, Boston, 565
Electric Projectors on Board Yachts, 535
Electric Ship Signal Lights, 128
Engine for Driving Dynamos, Parsons’s High-Speed, 226
Engine for Driving Dynamos, Vertical Compound, 102
Engine and Dynamo, Matthews’s Three-Cylinder, 167
Hochhausen Systems, The, 24, 127, 223
Primary Batteries for Electric Lighting, 35

Electric Lighting Notes, 5, 28, 54, 79, 104, 119, 141, 164, 194, 225, 290, 321, 365, 406, 442, 452, 478, 499, 521,543, 567
Electric Railway, Lartigue’s, 534
Electric Resistance of Insulators, 63
Electric Ship Signal Lights, 128
Electric Sounding Lead, An, 38
Electrical Exhibition, The Philadelphia, 387,
Electrical Fire Alarm, Bright’s, 149
Electrical Units, 412
Electricians, The International Society of, 151
Electricity and Elephantiasis, 215
Electricity, New Mode of Generating, 237
Electro-Chemical Equivalent of Silver, The, 237, 416
Electrodes, Polarised, Deformation of, 237
Electrolysis, A New Phenomenon of, 465
Electromotive Force of Accumulators, The, 442
Employers’ Liability, 15
Engine and Boiler Trials, 348
Engine, Burrell and Sons’ Compound Semi-Portable, 129
Engine, The Gaskill Pumping, at Saratoga, 141 206
Engine Governor, Guhrauer and Wagner’s Steam, 56
Engine Lathes, 23
Engine Lathes, Grant and Bogert’s, 499
Engine, Lowe and Companys Horizontal Condensing, 4
Engine Makers, Steam, Annual Report of the, 505
Engine, Matthews’s Three-Cylinder, and Dynamo, 167
Engine, Merryweather’s, for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 231
Engine, Pumping, The Gaskill, Saratoga, N.Y., U.S.A., 141, 206
Engine Recorder, The Moscrop, 415, 430
Engine, Tangye’s Wall, 521
Engine, The Tower Spherical, 201
Engine, The Willans Compound, 74
Engine Works, The Otto Gas, 137
Engineering, Marine, and Clyde Shipbuilding in 1883, 65, 78, 138, 203
Engineers, The Australian Colonies as a Field for, 83, 115
Engines, Caloric, and Gas, 241
Engines, Compound, and Boilers of the s.s. “ Normandie,” 65, 103
Engines, Compound, of H.M.S. “Handy,” Ross and Duncan’s, 523
Engines, Compound, of the s.s. “ Hunstanton,” “Godiva,” Stokesley,” &c., 381, 406, 450, 476
Engines, Compound, of the Steam Yacht “Lady Torfrida,” 498
Engines, Compound, of the Tugboat “ Samara,’ 562
Engines for the Kimberley Water Works, 535
Engines of Manganese Bronze, 109
Engines, Pumping, 394
Engines, Sharpies’ Horizontal Compound, for the Dacca Twist Company, 521
Engines of the Steam Yacht “ Rosalind,” 250
Engines, Tramway, Honigman’s Condenser for, 53
Engines, Triple Expansion ; Indicator Diagrams, 523
Engines, Triple Expansion, of the s.s. “ Isle of Dursey,” 184
Engines, Twin Screw, of the s.s. “ Staithes,” 369
English and American Fishing Vessels, 32
English Modern Ordnance, 491, 577
English’s Valve Gear, 284
Epidemic, The Exhibition, 148
Estimates, The Navy, 435
Examiners, Patent Office, 11
Excavating Plant, Carson’s, 248
Exhaust Injector, The, 399, 415
Exhibition, The Budapest, 109
Exhibition, The Building Trades, 278
Exhibition Epidemic, The, 148
Exhibition, The International Health, 317, 412, 438, 487, 533, 551, 572
Exhibition in London, An American, 553
Exhibition, The Philadelphia Electrical, 387, 510
Exhibition at Nice, 12, 374

Exhibition, The Vienna Electrical : 13, 51, 73, 108, 159, 221, 280
Bornhardt’s Mine Exploder, 14
British War Department, The, 13
French Minister of Ports and Telegraphs, The: 159, 221, 280
Annunciators, 280
Batteries, 160
Instruments, 160
Materials for Overhead, Underground, and
Submarine Lines, 160
Miscellaneous Apparatus, 281
Telephonic Lines, 160
Testing Apparatus, 281
French Naval Department, The, 13
French War Department, The, 13
Military Telegraphs, 13
Railway Exhibits :
Administration du Chemin de Fer de Busch-tchrade & Prague, 51
Austrian Railway, 52
Eastern Railway of France, 73
Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway, 52
Northern Railway of France, 108
Pieper’s Electric Gun, 13
South Austrian Railways, 52
Telephones:
Redon’s Electric Bell, 14
Schoeffler’s System, 14
Wreden’s Microphonic Transmitters, 14

Exhibition, The Wolverhampton Fine Arts and Industrial, 464, 506, 530
Expansion Gear, Proell’s, 250
Experiments on the Composition and Destructive Distillation of Coal, 315
Experiments, Dr. Guthrie’s, 511
Explosions, Boiler, in 1883 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 273
Explosions, Recent Boiler, 234, 340, 528
Explosives, The Heat-Action of, 369
Extension, The Metropolitan Railway, 507, 532
Extension, Railway, in India, 344, 432, 465, 523
Extraordinary Barometrical Readings, 110
Eye-Piece, A Phosphorescent, 342

Fastener, Moxon’s Belt, 408
Fastener, Railway Wagon Sheet, 153
Ferry Boat, Railway, for San Juan, Puerto Rico, Edwards and Symes’s, 248, 430
Field for Engineers, The Australian Colonies as a, 83, 115
Fielding and Platt’s Overhead Travelling Crane and Belt Gear, 523
Filter, Improved Carbon, 144
Filter, The Thames, 343
Fine Arts and Industrial Exhibition, The Wolverhampton, 464, 487, 530
Fire Alarm, Bright’s Electrical, 149
Fire Alarms, Telegraphic, in Cities, 173
Fire Engine, Merry weather’s Light-Pattern, 231
Fire Extinction, The Injector Hydrant for, 44
Fire Scenes in Theatres, 215
Fishery Board, The Scotch, 302
Fishing Vessels, English and American, 32
Fletcher’s Blow-Pipe Burners, 466
Floods in the Mississippi, 459
Floods of the Ohio, The, 534
Fog Horn, A New, 389
Fog Signals at Ailsa Craig, 234
Forced Draught for Boilers, 310, 313, 347
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 9, 46, 64, 143, 262, 286, 326, 346, 391, 410, 429, 468, 492, 515, 536, 567
Foreign Technical Literature, 8, 28
Forging Press, Berry’s, 428
Forth Bridge, Report to the Board of Trade on the, 66
Free Bridge, The Cobden, at Southampton, 6
French Academy Prizes, The, 442
Friction Brake, Bell and Company’s Rope Pulley, 501
Fuel, Gaseous, The Use of, 389
Fuel in Locomotives, The Consumption of, 414, 419
Furnace Economy, Blast, 111
Furnaces, Gas Puddling and Heating, 388
Furniture, The Dennis Lock, 481

“ G.M.B.” Pig Iron, Scotch, 190
Galvanometer, Ducretet’s New, 237
Galvanometers, The Correction of, 15
Ganz’s Dynamo, 428
Ganz’s Steam Engine Governor, 56
Gardner Machine Gun, The, 144
Gardner v. Nordenfelt, 298
Gas and Caloric Engines, 241
Gas, Coal, as a Labour-Saving Agent, 190
Gas Engine, The Indicator Diagram of a, 390
Gas Engine, A Self-Starting, 129
Gas Engine Works, The Otto, 137
Gas Meters, Harding’s Counter for, 284
Gas Mixtures, The Density and Pressure of Detonating, 416
Gas Puddling and Heating Furnaces, 388
Gaseous Fuel, The Use of, 389
Gases, Reducing Metals by, 15
Gaskill Pumping Engine, The, Saratoga, N.Y., U.S.A., 141, 206
Gatling Gun, The, 355
Gauss and Weber Telegraphs, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the, 15
Gear, Britton’s Steam Steering, 141
Gear, Cut-off, Proell’s, 250
Gear, English’s Valve, 284
Generating Electricity, New Mode of, 237
Generator, Ganz’s Electric, 428
Geography of Madagascar, The, 282
Glasgow Iron Company’s Basic Steel Works, The, 238
Globe Lightning, 554
Goods Locomotive, Worsdell’s; Great Eastern Railway, 248, 293
Governor and Cut-off Gear, Proell’s, 250
Governor, Guhrauer and Wagner’s Steam Engine, 56
Governor, Knowles’s Supplementary, 432
Governor, Tangye’s, 543
Governor, The Westinghouse Electric, 535
Governor, The Willans Electric, 153
Gramme Dynamo, Multipolar, 270
Grant and Bogert’s Engine Lathes, 499
Graphite, Artificial, 342
Grapnel, Jamieson’s, 174
Gruson’s Cast-Iron Armour, 290
Gun for Cleaning Hot-Blast Stoves, 369
Gun Construction, Wire, 253
Gun, The Gatling, 355
Gun, Phillips’s Breechloading, 175
Gun Practice at Sea, 213
Gunnery, British Naval, 1, 26, 71, 135,180, 223, 269, 319, 510, 552
Guns, The Gardner Machine, 144
Guns and Rifles, Double-Barrelled, 393
Gyroscope, The Marine, 151

Hall, Russell, and Company’s s.s. “ Churchill,” 4 Hall’s Effect, 261
Hall’s Refrigerating Machine at the Health Exhibition, 563
Halpin’s Locking Gear, Amsler’s Planimeter with, 141
Hammer, Player’s Pneumatic Power, 545
“Handy,” H.M.S., Ross and Duncan’s Compound Engines of, 523
Harbour at Trieste, The New, 170
Harbours of Refuge, 471
Hardingham’s Sectional Steam Boiler, 30
Harding’s Counter for Gas Meters, 284
Health Exhibition, The International, 317, 412, 438, 487, 633, 551, 572
Heat Action of Explosives, The, 369
Heat, The Mechanical Applications of, 121
Heating of Iron Cores, 343
Heinrichs’s Arrangements for Testing Dynamo Machines, 373, 425
Heliostat, The Local, 465
High-Speed Torpedo Boats, 461
History of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 287
Hochhausen Systems of Electric Illumination, The, 24, 127, 223
Hoist, Stannah’s Safety, 324
Honigman’s Condenser for Tramway Engines, 53
Horizontal Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing Machine, Asquith’s, 7
Horizontal Boring Machine, Kendall and Gent’s, 119
Horizontal Compound Engines for the Dacca Twist Co, Sharpies’, 521
Horizontal Condensing Engine, Lowe and Company’s, 4
Horn, A New Fog, 389
Horse-Power Expended in Electric Light Wires, The, 37
Hot Blast Stoves, Gun for Cleaning, 369
Hull Alexandra Dock, The, 194
“ Hunstanton,” “ Godiva,” “ Stokesley,” &c., s.s., Compound Engines of the, 381, 406, 450, 476
Hydrant, The Injector, for Fire Extinction, 44
Hydraulic Cranes for Steel Works, 166
Hydraulic Machinery on Board Ship, 311, 337, 357
Hydraulic Propulsion, 195
Hydro-Electric Syphon, A, 38

Ice, The Crushing Strength of, 302
Illuminated Bodies in Dusty Air, 173
Illumination, The Hochhausen Systems of, 24,127, 223
Illumination, A New Standard of, 512
Imperial Standard Wire Gauge, 120
Improved Carbon Filter, 144
India, Railway Extension in, 344,432, 465, 523
Indian Public Works Department, The, 385
Indian Railways, 81
Indicator, The Crosby, 186
Indicator Diagrams from the Engines of the s.s. “ Nierstein,” 523
Indicator Diagrams of a Gas Engine, The, 390
Indicator, An Electrical Speed, 14
Indicator, Taylor’s Stability, 354
Indicators, Current and Potential, 192
Industries, Scandinavian, 116
Industry, The Bessemer Steel, in 1883, 121
Industry, The Russian Petroleum, 171, 212, 258, 270, 301, 329, 377, 440
Inglis, Mr. Anthony, 110
Injector, The Automatic and Exhaust Steam, 415
Injector, The Exhaust, 339
Injector Hydrant for Fire Extinction, The, 44
Institute of Patent Agents, The, 549
Institution, and Professional Education, The, 317
Institution, The Royal, 15
Instruments, New Astronomical, 193
Insulators, Electric Resistance of, 63
Integrator, Amsler-Laffon’s, 333
Intermittent Delivery Tap, An, 392
International Health Exhibition, The, 317, 412, 438, 487, 533, 551, 572
International Society of Electricians, The, 151
Inventions, Rewards for, 129
Iron, Band Saw for Cutting, 239
Iron and Coal in 1883, 569
Iron-Moulders of Scotland, The Associated, 549
Iron Shipbuilders and Boilermakers, The, 362
Iron Ships, The Rivetting of, 354

Iron and Steel Institute, The : 387, 401
On Blast Furnace Economy in Relation to Design, by Mr. R. Howson, 111
On the Use of Raw Coal in the Blast Furnace, by Mr. I. Lowthian Bell, 378, 387, 417
On the Casson-Bicheroux Gas Puddling and Heating Furnaces, by Mr. R. Smith-Casson, 388
On the Use of Gaseous Fuel, by Mr. W. S. Sutherland, 389
On Iron and Steel Permanent Way, by Mr. Walter R. Browne, 401
On the Behaviour of Armour under Fire, by Captain C. Orde-Browne, 402
On Recent Progress in Iron and Steel Shipbuilding, by Mr. William John, 403

Iron and Steel Permanent Way, 401
Iron and Steel, The Physical Condition of, 130
Iron and Steel Shipbuilding, 403
Iron Trade, The Northern, in 1883, 8
Iron Tube Making in America, 211
“ Isle of Dursey,” s.s., Triple Expansion Engines of the, 184
Isler’s Improved Turnstile, 523

Jablochkoff’s Sodium Battery, 365
Jameson Coke Oven, The, 43
Jamieson’s Grapnel, 174
Johnson’s Brickmaking and Pressing Machine, 543
Jones and Bamber’s “ Sun” Knife Cleaner, 565

Kendall and Gent’s Horizontal Boring Machine, 119
Kimberley Water Works, Engines for the, 535
Klose’s Speed Recorder for Locomotives, 99
Knife Cleaner, The “Sun,” 565
Knowles’s Digester, 203
Knowles’s Supplementary Governor, 432

Labour-Saving Agent, Coal Gas as a, 190
“ Lady Torfrida,” Steam Yacht, Elder and Company’s, 498
Lake Superior District, 474
Lake Superior to Rat Portage, 518
Lamp, Electric, Clark and Bowman’s, 78
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company v Westinghouse, The, 363
Large Torpedo Bo’ats, 108
Lartigue’s Electric Railway, 534
Lathes, Engine, 43
Lathes, Engine, Grant and Bogert’s, 499
Lathes, Overhead Gearing for, 200
Launch Boiler, Burrell’s, 312
Launch, An Electric, 307
Launches and Trial Trips, 29, 64, 79,104, 155, 174, 195, 205, 229, 262, 321, 358, 383, 408, 442, 457, 514, 555, 566
Launching Torpedoes, Canet’s Apparatus for, 230
Law, The New Patent, 125,527
Lead, An Electric Sounding, 38
Legislation, Current Railway, 25
Legislation, Merchant Shipping, 105
Legislation, Private Bill, 11, 36, 62, 82, 106, 233, 278, 299, 385, 413, 437, 462, 484, 529, 550, 570
Leschot, Georges Auguste, 282
Liability, Employers’, 15
Light Conductors, Electric, 339
Light, Electric, in Railway Trains, The, 297
Light, The Electric, on Shipboard, 319, 341
Light, A New Standard, 416
Light-Pattern Fire Engine, Merry weather’s, 231
Light Submarine Cables, 527
Lighting of Beacons, Automatic, 534
Lighting, Electric {See Electric Lighting')
Lighting Station, Boston Electric, 565
Lightning Conductors, 320
Lightning, Globe, 554
Lightning Rod, The, 389
Lights, Electric Ship Signal, 128
Lincoln and Brigg Tramway, 511
Liquids, Compressibility of, 261
Literature, Foreign Technical, 8, 28
Load-Line Committee, The, 129
Loads Fixed on a Beam, Concentrated and Distributed, 513
Local-Heliostat, The, 465
Loch Tay, Ship-Repairing Slip on, 512
Lock Furniture, The Dennis, 481
Locomotive, Goods, Worsdell’s; Great Eastern Railway, 248, 293
Locomotive, Merry weather’s Tramway, 32
Locomotive, Tramway, N. Scott Russell’s, 455
Locomotives, The Consumption of Fuel in, 414, 419
Locomotives, Klose’s Speed Recorder for, 99
Locomotives, Webb’s Compound, 106
Longitude, Determination of, 215
Longitude by Telegraph, 364
Lowe and Company’s Horizontal Condensing Engine, 4
Lubricator, Schbnheyder’s, 323
Lucchesini’s Type-Printing Telegraph, 480

Machine, Asquith’s Horizontal Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing, 7
Machine, Ball Turning, 392
Machine, Band Saw Sharpening, 466
Machine Guns, The Gardner, 144
Machine, Hall’s Refrigerating, at the Health Exhibition, 563
Machine, Johnson’s Brickmaking and Pressing, 543
Machine, Kendall and Gent’s Horizontal Boring, 119
Machine for Preparing Stereotype Plates, 433
Machine, Richards’s Cutting-off, 450
Machine, Rifling, for Rolls, 270
Machine, Rushworth’s Bar Shearing and Cropping, 406
Machine Tools, 23, 200, 423, 559
Machinery, Hydraulic, on Board Ship, 311, 337, 357
Machinery, Refrigerating, 370
Machinery Repairs, Steamship, 332
Maclaine’s Pistons, 43
Madagascar, The Geography of, 282
Magnetic Field, Bismuth in the, 575
Magnetic Field, Measuring the, 320
Magnetised Watches, 193
Magnetism, Professor Hughes on, 261
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 60, 93, 199, 363
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, The, 120, 205, 347
Manganese in Animals and Plants, 576
Manganese Bronze, Engines of, 109
Manganese in Marble, 282
Manitoban Coal, 15
Marble, Manganese in, 282
Marble, Pictures in, 389
Margerison’s Tap, 501 . ...
Marine Engineering and Clyde Shipbuilding m 1883, 65, 78, 138, 203
Marine Gyroscope, The, 151
Massey’s Band Saw for Cutting Iron, 239
Matrix of the Diamond, The, 192
Matter, Cometary, and Comets, 237
Matthews’s Three-Cylinder Engine and Dynamo, 167
Measurer, A Sunlight, 488
Measuring the Dilatation of Small Bodies, 282
Measuring the Magnetic Field, 320
Mechanical Applications of Heat, The, 121

Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of : 59, 85, 96, 362, 390, 414
Friction Experiments, 97
On the Physical Condition of Iron and Steel, by Professor D. E. Hughes, 98,130
On the Consumption of Fuel in Locomotives, by M. Georges Marid, 414, 419
On Portable Railways, by M. Paul Decauville, 415, 443
On theMoscrop Engine Recorder and Knowles’s Supplementary Governor, by Mr. Michael Longridge, 415, 430
On the Automatic and Exhaust Steam Injector, by Mr. A. Slater Savill, 415
Description of the Apparatus used for Testing Current Meters at the Admiralty Works at Torquay for Experimenting on Models of ” Ships, by Mr. Robert Gordon, of Burmah, 467

Merchant Shipping Legislation, 105
Merchant Ships, The Ventilation of, 355
Merryweather Tramway Locomotive, The, 32
Merryweather’s Light-Pattern Fire Engine, 231
Metals, Comparative Oxidisability of, 193
Meteorological Apparatus, 321
Meteorology in Switzerland, 15
Meters, Gas, Harding’s Counter for, 284
Meters, Testing Current, 467
Methods for Coking Coal and Recovering the By-Products, 175
Metropolitan Railway Extension, The, 507, 532
Metropolitan Railway Schemes, Paris, 573
Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, Report of the Royal Commission on, 120,150
Mho-Meter, Sir W. Thomson’s, 389
Milan, The Edison Central Station at, 215
Military Purposes, Steel for, 225
Mineral Products of Finland, 152
Mining and Metallurgy, Prussian, 512
Mississippi, Floods in the, 459
Modern Ordnance, English, 491, 577
Moncel, Comte Du, 173
Monongahela Bridge, The, 239, 371, 395
Montreal to Call end ar, 424
Moscrop Engine Recorder and Knowles’s Supplementary Governor, The, 415, 430
Motors, Sound, 173
Moxon’s Belt Fastener, 408
Multipolar Gramme Dynamo, 270 Museum, The Technological, Sydney, 64

Naval Architects, The Institution of : 300,307, 330, 354
On the “Riachuelo,” Brazilian Armour-Clad Turret Ship; its Construction and Performances, by Mr. J. D’A. Samuda, 291, 300
On an Electric Launch, by Mr. Yarrow, 307
On the Vibration of Steam Vessels, by Mr. Otto Schlick, 307
On the Stability of Vessels, 307, 325, 333
On Combustion of Fuel in Furnaces of Steam Boilers by Natural Draught and by Supply of Air under Pressure, by Mr. James Ho wden, 310,313, 347
On the Application of Hydraulic Machinery to the Loading, Discharging, Steering, and Working Steamships, by Mr. A. B. Brown, 311, 337
On Cast Steel Crankshafts, by Mr. J. F. Hall 330
On Steamship Machinery Repairs, by Mr. A K. Hamilton, 332
On Amsler-Laffron’s Integrator, by Dr. Amsler 333
On Cross Curves of Stability, their Uses, and i Method of Constructing them ; obviating th< Necessity for the Usual Correction for th< Differences of the Wedges of Immersion ant Emersion, by Mr. W. Denny, 335
On Well-Decked Steamers, by Mr. T. Phillips 354
On a Description of Alexander Taylor’s Sta bility Indicator for Showing the Initia Stability and Stowage of Ships at any Dis placement, by A. Taylor, 354
On Some Considerations Respecting the Rivet ting of Iron Ships, by Mr. H. H. West, 354
On the Ventilation of Merchant Ships, by Mr James Webb, 355

Naval Attack, 241, 263
Naval Efficiency, 170
Naval Gunnery, British, 1, 26, 71, 135, 180, 223 269, 319, 510, 552
Naval Warfare, The Ram in, 191
Navy, The State of the, 277, 435
Negative Thermometer, A, 63
Nepigon to Callendar, 448
Newfoundland, Proposed New Dock at, 270
Nice, Exhibition at, 12, 374
Nordenfelt v. Gardner, 298
“Normandie,” Compound Engines and Boilers of the, 65,103
Northern Iron Trade, The, in 1883, 8

Notes :
Absorption Spectrum of Water, 261
Administration of the Patents Act, 1883, The. 64
Air of Cape Horn, The, 215
American Exhibition in London, An, 553
Anti-Induction Telephone Circuit, An, 236
Artificial Graphite, 342
Astronomical Instruments, New, 193
Atmospheric Waves, 151
Baily’s Integrating Anemometer, 236
Barometrical Readings, Extraordinary, 110
Bath and West of England Show, The, 511
Bismuth in the Magnetic Field, 575
Blythswood Speed Indicator, The, 488
Budapest Exhibition, The, 109
Buoyage, A Universal System of, 38
Chart of Tunisia, A, 282
Chemistry in China, 237
Colours, Combining, 553
Comets and Cometary Matter, 237
Compressibility of Liquids, 261
Comte de Moncel, 173
Conductivity of Copper, The, 365
Cosmical Dust in Snow, 173
Crucibles and the Electric Light, 442
Crushing Strength of Ice, The, 302
Deformation of Polarised Electrodes, 237
“Delta,” Steam Launch, The, 534
Density and Pressure of Detonating Gas Mixtures, The, 416
Disclaimer Pending a Patent Action, 261
Dr. Guthrie’s Experiments, 511
Dr. Todhunter, 215
Drawbaugh’s Telephone, 261
Ducretet’s New Galvanometer, 237
Dynamo, The, and the Telegraph, 389
Earth Plates, 576
Electric Railway, Lartigue’s, 534
Electric Resistance of Insulators, 63
Electric Sounding Lead, An, 38
Electricians, The International Society of, 151
Electricity, New Mode of Generating, 237
Electro-Chemical Equivalent of Silver, The, 237, 416
Electrolysis, A New Phenomenon of, 465
Electromotive Force of Accumulators, The, 442
Elephantiasis and Electricity, 215
Employers’ Liability, 15
Engines of Manganese Bronze, 109
Fire Scenes in Theatres, 215
Floods of the Ohio, The, 534
Fog Horn, A New, 389
French Academy Prizes, The, 442
Galvanometers, The Correction of, 15
Gauss and Weber, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Telegraph of, 15
Geography of Madagascar, The, 282
Globe Lightning, 5*4
Gyroscope, The Marine, 151
Hall’s Effect, 261
Heating of Iron Cores, 343
Heliostat, The Local, 465
Hull Alexandra Dock, 194
Hydro-Electric Syphon, A, 38
Illuminated Bodies in Dusty Air, 173
Illumination, A New Standard of, 512
Indicator, An Electrical Speed, 14
Indicator Diagram of a Gas Engine, The, 390
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 390
Institution, The Royal, 15
Jablochkoff’s Sodium Battery, 365
Leschot, 282
Lighting of Beacons, Automatic, 534
Lightning Conductors, 320
Lightning, Globe, 554
Lightning Rod, The, 389
Load-Line Committee, The, 129
Longitude, Determination of, 215
Longitude by Telegraph, 364
Magnetised Watches, 193
Making Resistance Coils, 343
Manganese in Animals and Plants, 576
Manganese in Marble, 282
Manitoban Coal, 15
Matrix of the Diamond, The, 192
Measuring the Dilatation of Small Bodies, 282
Measuring the Magnetic Field, 320
Meteorological Apparatus, 321
Meteorology in Switzerland, 15
Mho-Meter, Sir W. Thomson’s, 389
Mineral Products of Finland, 152
Mining and Metallurgy, Prussian, 512
Navigation of the Congo, 63
Negative Thermometer, A, 63
Oil Works, The Arctic, 534
Opera, The New, by Telephone, 320
Oxidisability of Metals, Comparative, 193
Patent Act, The New, 15
Phosphor-Bronze Company, The, v. Billington and Newton, 302
Phosphorescent Eye-Piece, A, 342
Pictures in Marble, 389
Platinum Water Pyrometer, A, 302
Pons-Brooks Comet, The, 152
Professor Hughes on Magnetism, 261
Rainbow, A White, 38
Reducing Metals by Gases, 15
Residual Charge from Benzine, The, 109
Resistance of the Electric Arc, 321
Rewards for Inventions, 129
Royal Society Soiree, The, 416
Scotch Fishery Board, The, 302
Self-Starting Gas Engine, A, 129
Sewage at Nottingham, 553
Ship-Repairing Slip on Loch Tay, 512
Silicate-Oxide Paint, 576
Skrivanov Battery, The, 237
Solar Effects, The Recent, 38
Sound in Air, Velocity of, 553
Sound Motors, 173
Sparking Distance and Difference of Potentials, 302
Speed of Waves in Water, 38
Standard Light, A New, 416
Standard Thermopile, A, 416
Static Telephone in Research, The, 237
Steel Plates, New Method of Producing, 365
Steel Slab-Shearing Machine for Canada, 488
Subterranean Telegraphy in France, 152
Subterranean Water Supplies, 576
Sunlight Measurer, A, 488
Sunshine Recorders, 261
Symbol for Dynamo, A, 151
Synchronous Multiplex Telegraphy, 442
Telegraphic Communication with Australasia, 282
Telegraphic Fire Alarm in Cities, 173
Telephone Case, The, 151
Telephonic Progress, 215
Temperature of Ebullient Oxygen, The, 38
Time Corrector, A, 63
Tramway, Lincoln and Brigg, 511
Trouv6’s Electric Jewels, 15
Vieille Montagne, The, 465
Waves, The Refraction of, 465
Weights and Measures Conference, 576
Wire Fence Telegraph, A, 63
Wires, Comparative Tests of, 194

Notes from Cleveland, 7, 33, 67, 86, 100, 124, 146, 173, 187, 209, 229, 262, 275, 304, 345, 368, 391, 408, 433, 453, 482, 521, 556, 566
Notes, Electric Lighting, 5, 28, 54, 79, 104, 119, 141, 164, 194, 225, 290, 321, 365, 406, 442, 452, 478, 499, 521, 543, 567
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 9, 46, 64, 143, 262, 286, 326, 346, 391, 410, 429, 468, 492, 536, 567
Notes from the North, 8, 33, 67, 86, 101, 124 146, 168, 186, 208, 232, 248, 275, 295, 345, 358! 390, 410, 428, 453, 481, 499, 525, 546, 567
Notes from the South-West, 7 , 33, 68, 79, 124 155, 168, 187, 209, 232, 249, 271, 294, 315, 346* 396, 408, 444, 452, 482, 500, 536, 547, 578
Notes from South Yorkshire, 9, 46, 64, 86, 101 124, 152, 168, 187, 209, 232, 249, 275, 295, 346’, 359, 391, 410, 429, 453, 482, 503, 534, 547, 566
Notes from the United States, 5, 29, 79,110,123. 152, 174, 195, 216, 238, 262, 271, 294, 323, 343 365, 390, 406, 452, 478, 512, 535, 546, 566
Nottingham, Sewage at, 553

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observations, Barometrical, Reduction of to Sea-Level, 160
Office Examiners, Patent, 11
Office, The Patent, 189
Ohio, The Floods of the, 534
Oil Works, The Arctic, 534
Opera, The New, by Telephone, 320
Ordnance, English Modern, 491, 577
Ore, Silver, Amalgamating, 517
Otto Gas Engine Works, The, 137
Oven, The Jameson Coke, 43
Overhead Gearing for Lathes, 200
Overhead Travelling Crane and Belt Gear, Fielding and Platt’s, 523
Oxidisability of Metals, Comparative, 193
Oxygen, Ebullient, The Temperature of, 38

Pacific and Atlantic Ship Railway, The, 169
Paddle Engines of the Tugboat “ Samara,” 562
Panama Canal, The, 361
Paint, Silicate-Oxide, 576

Paris Metropolitan Railway Schemes:
1. Administration Project, 574
2. M. Le Masson’s Scheme, 574
3. Letellier Scheme, 574
4. Scheme of M. Mouton, 574
5. Heuz£ Project, 575
6. Delcourt’s Scheme, 575
7. Administration Plan for Suburban Lines, 575
8. Brunfaut Scheme, 575
9. Deligny Scheme, 575

Parks Railway, The, 255
Parsons’s High-Speed Engine-Driving Dynamo Machine, 226
Patent Act, The New, 15
Patent Action, Disclaimer Pending a, 261
Patent Actions, Disclaimers in, 484
Patent Agents, The Institute of, 549
Patent Agents and the President of the Board of Trade 155
Patent Law, The New, 125, 527
Patent Office, The, 189
Patent Office Examiners, 11
Patent Record, The, 20, 46, 68, 89, 112, 132, 156, 176, 196, 218, 243, 264, 285, 304, 327, 349, 372, 396, 421, 445, 468, 493, 515, 537, 556, 579
Patentees and the Board of Trade, 211
Patents, Abridgments of, 81
Patents Act, 1883, Administration of the, 64
Pavement, Wood, 513
Permanent Way, Iron and Steel, 401
Petroleum Industry, The Russian, 171, 212, 258, 270, 301, 329, 377, 440
Phenomenon of Electrolysis, A New, 465
Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition, The, 387, 510
Phillips’s Breechloading Gun, 175
Phosphor-Bronze Company v. Billington and Newton, 302
Phosphor Copper, 29
Phosphorescent Eye-Piece, A, 342
Photometer, A Wedge and Diaphragm, 43
Physical Condition of Iron and Steel, The, 130
Pictures in Marble, 389
Pig Iron, Scotch “ G.M.B.,” 190
Pinel’s Safety Valve, 417
Pistons, Maclaine’s, 43
Planimeter, Amsler’s, with Halpin’s Locking Gear, 141
Plant, Carson’s Excavating, 248
Plates, Earth, 576
Plates Steel, New Method of Producing, 365
Plates, Stereotype, Machine for Preparing, 433
Platinum Water Pyrometer, A, 302
Pneumatic Power Hammer, Player’s, 545
Pons-Brooks Comet, The, 152
Port Arthur to Algoma by Water, 495
Portable Railway Plant, Bagnall’s, 335
Portable Railways, 415, 443
Potential and Current Indicators, 192
Potentials, Sparking Distance and Difference of, 302
Practice, Gun, at Sea, 213
Press, Bending and Forging, for Angle Irons, Berry’s, 428
Press, Tile, Whitehead’s, 499
Pressing and Brickmaking Machine, Johnson’s, 543
Primary Batteries for Electric Lighting, 35
“Primrose,” Steam Yacht, The, 344
Private Bill Legislation, 11, 36, 62, 82, 106, 233, 278, 299, 385, 413, 437, 462, 484, 529, 550, 570
Products, Mineral, of Finland, 152
Proell Governor and Cut-Off Gear, The, 250
Professional Education and the Institution, 317
Professor Hughes on Magnetism, 261
Projectors, Electric, on Board Yachts, 535
Propulsion, Hydraulic, 195
Provand’s Sea-Water Condensing Apparatus,
Prussian Mining and Metallurgy, 512
Public Works Department, The Indian, 385
Publication of Specifications, 505
Pulleys, Corrugated Disc, 392
Pump, Simpson and Company’s Centrifugal, at the West Surrey Water Works, 138
Pumping Engine, The Gaskill, 142, 206
Pumping Engines, 394
Pyrometer, A Platinum Water, 302

Question, The Armament, 150

Railway, The Atlantic and Pacific Ship, 169
Railway, The Canadian Pacific. (See Canadian Pacific Railway)
Railway Company, The Lancashire and Yorkshire v. Westinghouse, 363
Railway Extension in India, 344, 432, 465, 523
Railway Extension, The Metropolitan, 507, 532
Railway Ferry Boat for San Juan, Puerto Rico, Edwards and Symes’s, 430
Railway, Great Eastern ; Worsdell’s Goods Locomotive, 248, 293
Railway Legislation, Current, 25
Railway, The Parks, 255
Railway Plant, Bagnall’s Portable, 335
Railway Schemes, Paris Metropolitan (See Paris Metropolitan Railway Schemes')
Railway Trains, The Electric Light in, 297
Railway Wagon Sheet Fastener, 153
Railways, Indian, 81
Railways, Portable, 415, 443
Railways, Ship, 290
Railways in South Australia, 386
Rainbow, A White, 38
Ram, The, in Naval Warfare, 191
Rat Portage to Lake Superior, 518
Rat Portage to Winnepeg, 540
Raw Coal in the Blast Furnace, On the Use of, 378, 387, 417
Recent Boiler Explosions, 234, 340,528
Recent Solar Effects, The, 38
Record, The Patent, 20, 46, 68, 89, 112, 132, 156, 176, 196, 218, 243, 264, 285, 304, 327, 349, 372, 396, 421, 445, 468, 493, 515, 537, 556, 579
Recorders, Sunshine, 261
Red River Colony, 559
Reducing Metals by Gases, 15
Reduction of Barometrical Observations to Sea-Level, 160
Refraction of Waves, The, 465
Refrigerating Machine, Hall’s, at the Health Exhibition, 563
Refrigerating Machinery, 370
Refuge, Harbours of, 471
Report, Annual, of the Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland, 549
Report, Annual, of the Boiler Makers and Iron Shipbuilders, 362
Report, Annual, of the Steam Engine Makers, 505
Report to the Board of Trade on the Forth Bridge, 66
Report of the Brush Company, 125
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1883, 273
Report of the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, 120
Report on Water Meter Tests, A, 489
Residual Charge from Benzine, The, 109
Resistance Coils, Making, 343
Resistance of the Electric Arc, 321
Resolutions, Mr. Sellar’s, 147
Rewards for Inventions, 129
Reynolds’s Lecture on Thermodynamics, 19
“ Riachuelo,” The, Armour-Clad Turret Ship, 291,|300
Richards’s Cutting-off Machine, 450
Rieter’s Dynamometer, 500
Riflesand Guns, Double-Barrelled, 393
Rifling Machine for Rolls, ^70
Rivetting of Iron Ships, The, 354
Rod, The Lightning, 389
Rolls, Rifling Machine for, 270
Rope Pulley Friction Brake, Bell and Company’s, 501
“ Rosalind,” Steam Yacht, Engines of the, 250
Ross and Duncan’s Compound Engines of H.M.S. " Handy,” 523
Royal Alhambra Theatre, The, 235, 539
Royal Institution, The, 15
Royal Society Soiree, The, 416, 436
Rushworth’s Bar Shearing and Cropping Machine, 406
Russian Petroleum Industry, The, 171, 212, 258, 270, 301, 329, 377, 440
Rysselberghe’s Telemeteorograph, 399

Safety Hoist, Stannah’s, 324
Safety Valve, Pinel’s, 417
“Samara,” Tugboat, Compound Engines of the, 562
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Railway Ferry Boat for, Edwards and Symes’s, 248, 430
Saratoga, The Gaskill Pumping Engine at, 141, 206
Sauvde’s Machinery for Preparing Stereotype
Plates, 433
Saw, Band, for Cutting Iron, Massey’s, 239
Saw, Band, Sharpening Machine, 466
Scandinavian Industries, 116
Schonheyder’s Visible Drop Lubricator, 323
Scotch Fishery Board, The, 302
Scotch “G.M.B.,” Pig Iron, 190
Scotland, The Associated Iron-Moulders of, 549
Sea, Gun Practice at, 213
Sea-Level, Reduction of Barometrical Observations to, 160
Sea-Water Condensing Apparatus, Provand’s, 476
Self-Starting Gas Engine, A, 129
Sellar, Mr Robert, 536
Sellar’s, Mr., Resolutions, 147
Semi-Portable Compound Engine, Burrell and Sons’, 129
Sewage Discharge, 452
Sewage Dischage, Metropolitan, Report of the Royal Commission on, 120, 150
Sewage at Nottingham, 553
Sewer, The Deptford Storm Overflow, 462
Sharpies’ Horizontal Compound Engines for the Dacca Twist Co, 521
Sheet Fastener, Railway Wagon, 153
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 60, 93,199, 363
Ship Railway, The Atlantic and Pacific, 169
Ship Railways, 290
Ship Repairing Slip on Lock Tay, 512
Ship Signal Lights, Electric, 128
Shipboard, The Electric Light on, 319, 341
Shipbuilders, Iron, and Boilermakers, The, 362
Shipbuilding, Clyde, and Marine Engineering, in 1883, 65, 78, 138, 203
Shipbuilding Contracts, Admiralty, 483
Shipbuilding, Iron and Steel, 403
Shipping Legislation, Merchant, 105
Signals, Fog, at Ailsa Craig, 234
Silicate-Oxide Paint, 576
Silver, The Electro-Chemical Equivalent of, 237, 416
Silver Ore, Amalgamating, 517
Simpson and Company’s Centrifugal Pump at the West Surrey Water Works, 138
Sir W. Thomson’s Mho-Meter, 389
Skrivanov Battery, The, 237
Slab Shearing Machine, Steel, for Canada, 488
Smith, Dr. R. Angus, F.R.S., 450
Sodium Battery, Jablochkoff’s, 365
Soiree, The Royal Society, 416, 436
Solar Effects, The Recent, 38
Sound in Air, Velocity of, 553
Sound Motors, 173
Southampton, Cobden Free Bridge at, 6
South Australia, Railways in, 386
South-West, Notes from the, 7, 33, 68, 79, 124, 155, 168, 187, 209, 232, 249, 271, 294, 315, 346, 396, 408, 444, 452, 482, 500, 536, 547, 578
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 9, 46, 64, 86, 101, 124, 152, 168, 187, 209, 232, 249, 275, 295, 346, 359, 391,410, 429, 453,482, 503, 534,547, 566
Sparking Distance and Difference of Potentials, 302
Specifications, Publication of, 505
Speed on Canals, 139
Speed Indicator, The Blythswood, 488
Speed Indicator, An Electrical, 14
Speed Recorder for Locomotives, Klose’s, 99
Speed of Steam Engines, Controlling the, 415, 430
Speed of Waves in Water, 38
Spherical Eccentric, Tripier’s, 481
Spherical Engine, The Tower, 201
Spring Wheels for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 182
Stability, On Cross Curves of, 335
Stability of Vessels, The, 307, 325, 333
“ Staithes,” Twin-Screw Engines of the s.s., 369
Standard of Illumination, A New, 512
Standard Light, A New, 416
Standard Thermopile, A, 416
Standard Wire Gauge, Imperial, 120
Stannah’s Safety Hoist, 324
State of the Navy, The, 277,435
Static Telephone in Research, The, 237
Station, Boston Electric Lighting, 565
Steam Boiler, Hardingham’s Sectional, 30
Steam Engine Governor, Ganz’s, 56
Steam Engine Makers, Annual Report of the, 505
Steam Engines, Controlling the Speed of, 415,430
Steam Launch, The “ Delta,” 534
Steam Steering Gear, Britton’s, 141
Steam Users’ Association, The Manchester, 120, 205, 347
Steam Yacht “Lady Torfrida,” Elder and Company’s, 498
Steam Yacht “ Primrose,” The, 344
Steam Yacht “ Rosalind,” Engines of the, 250
Steamer for the Congo, A, 37
Steamers, Well-Decked, 354
Steamship “Churchill,” Hall, Russell, and Company’s, 4
Steamship “ Isle of Dursey,” Triple Expansion Engines of the, 184
Steamship Machinery Repairs, 332
Steamship “Normandie,” Compound Engines and Boilers of the, 65,103
Steamship “Staithes,” Twin-Screw Engines of the, 369
Steamships “Hunstanton,” “Godiva,” “Stokes-ley,” &c., Compound Engines of the, 381, 406, 450, 476
Steamships, The Vibration of, 307
Stewart’s Cupola, 56
Steel Crankshafts, Cast, 330
Steel Industry, The Bessemer, in 1883, 121
Steel and Iron, The Physical Condition of, 130
Steel for Military Purposes, 225
Steel Plates, New Method of Producing, 365
Steel Slab-Shearing Machine for Canada, 488
Steel Works, The Glasgow Iron Company’s Basic, 238
Steel Works, Hydraulic Cranes for, 166
Steering Gear, Britton’s, 141
Stereotype Plates, Machine for Preparing, 433
Storm Overflow Sewer, The Deptford, 462
Stoves, Hot-Blast, Gun for Cleaning, 369
Submarine Cables, Light, 527
Subterranean Telegraphy in France, 152
Subterranean Water Supplies, 576
“ Sun” Knife Cleaner, The, 565
Sunlight Measurer, A, 488
Sunshine Recorders, 261
Swing Crane for Sixty-Ton Loads, 315
Switzerland, Meteorology in, 15
Sydney Technological Museum, The, 64
Symbol for Dynamo, A, 151
Synchronous-Multiplex Telegraphy, 442
Syphon, A Hydro-Electric, 38
Systems of Electric Illumination, The Hoch-hausen, 24, 127, 223

Tangye’s Governor, 543
Tangye’s Wall Engine, 521
Tap, An Intermittent Delivery, 392
Tap, Margerison’s, 501
Tatham’s Dynamometer, 562
Taylor’s Stability Indicator, 354
Technological Museum, The Sydney, 64
Telegraph, The, and the Dynamo, 389
Telegraph, The Gauss and Weber, Fiftieth Anniversary of, 15
Telegraph, Longitude by, 364
Telegraph, Lucchesini’s Type-Printing, 480
Telegraph, A Wire Fence, 63
Telegraphic Communication with Australasia, 282
Telegraphic Fire Alarms in Cities, 173
Telegraphy, Subterranean, in France, 152
Telegraphy, Synchronous-Multiplex, 442
Telemeteorograph, Rysselberghe’s, 399
Telephone Case, The, 151
Telephone Circuit, An Anti-Induction, 236
Telephone, Drawbaugh’s, 261
Telephone, The New Opera by, 320
Telephone, The Static, in Research, 237
Telephones at the Vienna Electrical Exhibition 14
Telephonic Progress, 215
Temperature of Ebullient Oxygen, The, 38
Testing Current Meters, 467
Testing Dynamo Machines, 373, 425
Test-Pieces, 154
Tests, Water Meter, A Report on, 489
Tests of Wires, Comparative, 194
Thames Filter, The, 343
Theatre, The Alhambra, 235, 539
Theatres, Fire Scenes in, 215
Thermodynamics, 19
Thermometer, A Negative, 63
Thermopile, A Standard, 416
Tile Press, Whitehead’s, 499
Timber, The Antiseptic Treatment of, 457
Time Corrector, A, 63
Todhunter, Dr., 215
Tool Points, Detachable, 423
Tools, Machine, 23, 200, 423, 559
Torpedo Boats, The Armament of, 94
Torpedo Boats, High-Speed, 461
Torpedo Boats, Large, 108
Torpedo Boats, Yarrow and Company’s, 49, 84, 117, 161, 214
Torpedoes, Canet’s Apparatus for Launching, 230 Tower Spherical Engine, The, 201
Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, Spring Wheels for, 182
Trade, The Northern Iron, in 1883, 8
Trades Exhibition, The Building, 278
Trains, Railway, The Electric Light in, 297
Tramway Engines, Honigman’s Condensers for, 53
Tramway, Lincoln and Brigg, 511
Tramway Locomotive, The Merry weather, 32
Tramway Locomotive, N. Scott Russell’s, 455
Tramways, Cable, 439, 486
Treatment of Timber, The Antiseptic, 457
Trial Tripsand Launches, 29, 64,79,104,155,174, 195, 205, 229, 262, 321, 358, 383, 408, 442, 457, 514, 555, 566
Trials, Engine and Boiler, 348
Trieste, The New Harbour at, 170
Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, 481
Triple Expansion Engines ; Indicator Diagrams, 523
Triple Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Isle of Dursey,” 184
Trouv^’s Electric Jewels, 15
Tube Making, Iron, in America, 211
Tugboat “ “ Samara,” Compound Engines of the, 562
Tunisia, A Chart of, 282
Tunnel, The Arlberg, 257
Turnstile, Isler’s Improved, 523
Twin-Screw Engines of the s.s. “ Staithes,” 369
Type-Printing Telegraph, Lucchesini’s, 489

United States, Notes from the, 5, 29, 79,110, 123, 152, 174, 195, 216, 238, 262, 271, 294, 323, 343, 365,390, 406, 452, 478, 512, 535, 546,566
Units, Electrical, 412
Universal System of Buoyage, A, 38
University College, Bristol, 492
Use of Raw Coal in the Blast Furnace, On the, 378, 387, 417

Valve Gear, English’s, 284
Valve, Margerison’s, 501
Valve, Pinel’s Safety, 417
Velocity of Sound in Air, 553
Ventilation of Merchant Ships, The, 355
Vertical Compound Engine for Driving Dynamo Machines, 102
Vessels, English and American Fishing, 32
Vessels, The Stability of, 307, 325, 333
Vibration of Steamships, The, 307
Vieille Montagne, The, 465
Vienna Electrical Exhibition (See Exhibition, The Vienna Electrical)
Visible Drop Lubricator, Schbnheyder’s, 323

Wall Engine, Tangye’s, 521
Warfare, Naval, The Ram in, 191
Watches, Magnetised, 193
Water, Absorption, Spectrum of, 261
Water Cooling Apparatus, Boase and Miller’s, 393
Water Meter Tests, A Report on, 489
Water Supplies, Subterranean, 576
Water Works, Kimberley, Engines for the, 535
Water Works, Simpson and Company’s Centrifugal Pump at the West Surrey, 138
Waves, Atmospheric, 151
Waves, The Refraction of, 465
Waves, Speed of, in Water, 38
Weather, The, 12, 60, 126, 213, 318, 413, 506
Webb’s Compound Locomotives, 106
Wedge and Diaphragm Photomoter, A, 43
Weights and Measures Conference, 576
Well-Decked Steamers, 354
Westgarth, English, and Company’s Compound Engines of the s.s. “ Hunstanton,” “ Godiva,” “ Stokesley,” &c., 381,406, 450, 476
Westinghouse Automatic Brake Details, 140
Westinghouse Electric Governor, The, 535
Westinghouse v. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, 363
Wheels, Spring, for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 182
White Rainbow, A, 38
Whitehead’s Tile Press, 499
Willans Compound Engine, The, 74
Willans Electric Governor, The, 153
Winnepeg to Rat Portage, 540
Wire Fence Telegraph, A, 63
Wire Gauge, Imperial Standard, 120
Wire Gun Construction, 253
Wires, Comparative Tests of, 194
Wires, The Horse-Power Expended in Electric Light, 37
Wolverhampton Fine Arts and Industrial Exhibition, 464, 506, 530
Wood Pavement, 513
Works Department, The Indian Public, 385
Works, The Glasgow Iron Company’s Basic Steel, 238
Works, The Otto Gas Engine, 137
Worsdell’s Goods Locomotive for the Great Eastern Railway, 248, 293

Yacht, Steam, " Lady Torfrida,” Elder and Company’s, 498
Yacht, Steam, The “Primrose,” 344
Yachts, Electric Projectors on Board, 535
Yarrow and Co’s Torpedo Boats, 49, 84, 117,161, 214

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