Engineering 1884 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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ABERCARN Tin Works, The, 149
Accident on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, The, 66
Accident, Railway, The North Wootten, 251, 479
Accident, Railway, The Penistone, 66, 87, 110, 204, 273
Accidents, Recent Railway, 549
Accumulator Pumping Engines, Compound, for the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Company, 162
Act, the Electric Light, 482, 573
Actinometer, An Electrical, 257
Address of the President of the British Association, 211
Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 141
Adelaide Sand Mixer, The, 509
Admiralty Proposals, The, 547
Africa, South, Irrigation in, 38
African Diamond Fields, The South, 204
African Railways, 416
“ Agamemnon,” H.M.S., 417
Agricultural and Highland Society of Scotland, Centenary of the, 80
Agricultural Implements, Modern, 487, 555
AGRICULTURAL Snow, THE ROYAL, SHREWSBURY : 49
Boiler, Turner’s Vertical, 51
Chimney Lifter, Hornsby and Sons’, 50
Chimney Lifter, Smith’s, 50
Domestic Motor, Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s, 51
Engine, Crossley Brothers’ Vertical Gas, 54
Engine, Fowler, J., and Company’s Spring- Mounted Road Locomotive, 82
Engines, Air and Gas, 54
Engines, Portable and Fixed, 49
Ensilage and Chaff Cutter, Roberts’s, 58
Ensilage Cutter and Elevator, Albaret’s, 58, 445
Ensilage Cutters and Silos, 55
Expansion Gear and Governor, Burrell and Sons’ Automatic, 53
Gas Engine, Crossley Brothers’ Vertical, 54
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 59
Pump, Double-Ram Steam, Hatton’s, 54
Rain Water Separator, Roberts’s, 59 Sheaf-Binding Reapers, The Trial of, 162 Telpherage, 54
Thrashing Machine, Foden’s, 59
Wheel, Spring, for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 50
Wheel, Spring, for Traction Engines, Burrell and Sons’, 50
Wheel, Spring, for Traction Engines, McLaren’s, 50
Agricultural Show at Stockport, The, 252
Air and Circulating Pump, Independent, for the s.s. “Swift,” 575
“ Albatross,” e.s., U. S., 358
Albaret’s Ensilage Cutter and Elevator, 58, 445 Albert Bridge Flour Mills, 39, 270, 319
Albert Medal, The Society of Arts, 66
Algerian Sea, The Projected, 115
Allegheny Suspension Bridge, The, 43
Allen and Company’s Centrifugal Pumping Engines for the s.s. “ Umbria,” 445
Alloys, Conductivity of Metals and, 88
Alternating Current Machines in Parallel Circuit, 456
Aluminium, Soldering, 93
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, The, 37 Amalgamation of Silver Ores, The, 134, 174 Ambulance Experiments, The, 115
America, Electric Lighting in, 598
America, Electrical Progress in, 592
American Association for the Advancement of Science, The, 93
American Dred^ing Machinery, 30
American Numismatic Society, 458
American Sanitation, 455
Analyses of Slags, 470
Analysis, The Induction Spark in, 115
Anchor Gear for the Ironclad “ Riachuelo,” Baxter’s, 222
Anemometer, A New Hand, 280
Apperts’ Glass-Blowing Apparatus, 34
Apprentices, The Selection of, 572
“ Arabian,” s.s.. Engines and Boiler of the, 82
Arago Disc Dynamo, The, 458
Arc Lamp, Crompton and Company’s New, 35 Armature, A New Brush, 508
Armour, Chilled Cast-Iron, French and German Experiments against, 373
Armstrong Gun, The 100-Ton, 392 Astronomical Telescope, A Fixed, 233
Attack and Defence, Torpedoes for, 369
Attock Bridge, The, 445, 491, 540, 584
Australian Colonies as a Field for Engineers, The, 514
Australian Telegraphy, 417
Automatic Barring Engine, Hick, Hargreaves, and Company’s, 184
Automatic Cut-off Gear, Low’s, 250
Aveling and Porter’s Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, 537
Bakeries at the Health Exhibition, The, 114 Ball Unipolar Dynamo, The, 458
Balloons, The Steering of, 461
Barker and Co.’s “ Universal” Gas Engine, 328 Barlow’s Expanding Mandrel, 68
Barnett and Foster’s Mineral Water Machinery, 494
Batchelor’s Motion Drawings, 18 Batching and Damping Apparatus, 162 Batteries, The Electromotive Force of, 596 Batteries, New Electric, 115
Batteries, Primary, and Electric Lighting, 251 Batteries, Secondary, 1, 75
Battery, A Cheap Standard, 41
Battery, A New Carbon, 207
Baxter’s Anchor Gear, 222
Bed, A New Saltpetre, 115
Belgian Mining and Metallurgy, 89 Belgium, Trunk Line Telephony in, 530
Bell, A Tell-Tale Electric, 347
Belting, Cotton, 133
Ben Nevis, Meteorological Information from, 188 Berdan Shell and Mechanical Fuze, The, 587
Bessemer Blowing Engines for the Heft Steel Works, 69, 104, 152, 176
Bessemer Converter, Clapp and Griffith’s Stationary, 541
Bessemer Work in America, Early History of, 541 “ Bessemerising” of Copper Mattes, The, 471, 573 Bill Committees, Private, in the Lords, 109 Bill, Private, Legislation, 15, 91, 526, 551, 592 Bilston, The Boiler Explosion at, 456, 505 Blake’s Vertical Boiler, 396
Blast Furnace Slags, Use of, 401
Blast Furnaces, Effects of Wet Weather on, 584 Blindness, Colour, 41
“Blitz,” Imperial German
Engines for the, 200
Block-Setting Machine at 270
Blowing Engines, Bessemer,
Works, 69, 104, 152, 176
Blowing Glass, Apperts’ Apparatus for, 34
“ Blue Jacket,” s.s.. The, 145
Board of Trade and the South-Western Railway, The, 157
Boiler, Blake’s Vertical, 396
Boiler and Engines of s.s. “ Arabian,” 82
Boiler Explosion at Bilston, The, 456, 505
Boiler Explosion at Rotherham, 597
Boiler Explosions, Multiple, 501
Boiler Explosions, Recent, 391, 559
Boiler Explosions and Shortness of Water, 478
Boiler Joint, Thom’s Improved, 348
Boiler, Portable Sectional, 261
Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 586
Boiler Shops, Electric Lighting in, 428
Boiler, Vertical, Turner’s, 51
Boilers and Engines of s.s. “ County of Salop,” 517, 566
Boilers, Marine, The Corrosion of, 138, 235 Boilers, Marine, Forced Draught for, 384 Booth and Co.’s Radial Drilling Machine, 388 Boring, Teredo, 436
Brake Question, The, 342
Brake Question, Mr. Moon and the, 181
Brake, The Vacuum, 530
Brake, The Westinghouse, 408, 416
Brakes, Continuous, 297
Brakes, Inefficient, 132
Brakes, The Maintenance of, 62
Brakes, Railway, 248
Brazil, The Diamond Beds of, 20
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 390
Brewery and Steam Pumps, Worthington, 450
Bricks, Cork, 188
Bridge, The Allegheny Suspension, 43
Bridge, The Attock, 445, 491, 540, 584
Bridge, The Forth, 213, 223, 428
Bridge, Foundations of a Roman, in the River Trent, 417
Bridges, Cottrau’s Portable, 401, 163
BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE : 275,345, 394 Address of the President, 211
Modern Agricultural Implements, 487,555 On the Forth Bridge, 213, 223
On a New Voltmeter, by Captain Cardew, R.E., 236
On the Flow of Water through Turbines, by Arthur Rigg, 264
Physical and Chemical Sections, 275
British Columbia, 186
British Commercial Geographical Society, 432
British Iron Trade, The, 232
British Naval Gunnery, 40, 102
British Navy, Hotchkiss Rapid - Firing Six- Pounder Gun for the, 128
Bronzes, The Strongest of the, 17
Bruce and Batho’s System of Hydraulic Dredger for Burmah, 520
Brush Armature, A New, 508
Brush Electric Lighting Corporation, The, 116
Brush, Sub-Companies, The, 572
Brush System of Electric Lighting 507
Buffer and Drawbar, Hepburn’s, 484
Bullivant and Company’s Wire Rope Works, 515 Burmah, Hydraulic Dredger for, 520
Burrell and Sons’ Governor and Automatic Expansion Gear, 53
Burrell and Sons’ Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, 50
Bute Docks, The, 135
Bute Shipbuilding, Engineering, and Dry Dock Company, 147
Bye-Products of Coal, The, 305, 314, 336, 359, 404
Cable Tramways, 354, 424, 444, 469, 561
Cables, Overhead Electric, 188
Cables, Submarine, 207
Calcining Furnaces, Improvement in, 518
Canada, The Great River of. The Unchagah, 206, 231, 256, 382
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, THE : 2, 25, 76, 97, 122, 186, 194, 219, 262
British Columbia, 186
Concluding Article, 262
Kamloops to the Pacific, 219
Manitoba, 2
Medicine Hat to Summit of Rocky Mountains, 122
Moose Jaw to Medicine Hat, 97
Portage la Prairie to Regina, 76
Railways round Winnepeg, 25 I
Summit of the Rocky Mountains to Kamloops, 194 I
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 131,191
Canal, St. Petersburg Maritime, 416
Caoutchouc, A New, 347
Capacity of a Condenser, The Absolute, 42 Carbon Battery, A New, 207
Cardew’s Method of Winding Dynamos, 436
Cardiff Docks, Coal Shipping at, 134, 140,165
Cardiff Junction Dry Dock and Engineering Company, The, 136
Cardiff, Lifting Dock for, 69
Cardiff Water Supply, 93
Carriage, Ladle, at the Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 406
Cart, Tipping, Margetson and Hek’s, 539
Case, A French Telephone, 111
Cast Iron, Estimating Manganese in, 347
“ Castalia,” The Hospital Ship, 406, 470
Centenary of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 80
Centrifugal Pumping Engines, Simpson’s, 12
Centrifugal Pumping Engines, s.s. “Umbria,” 445
Cereal Products, Drying Kiln for, 384
Chaff and Ensilage Cutter, Roberts’s, 58
Chain and Anchor Testing Works, The Lloyd, 314
Chain, Harrison’s Pitch, 95
Chemical Industries on the Tyne, 65
Chemical Works, The Flint, 298
Cheshire, The Geology of, 299
Chester Water Works, The, 314
Chester Works, Walker’s, 288
Chilled Cast-Iron Armour, French and German Experiments against, 373
Chimney Lifter, Hornsby and Sons’, 50
Chimney Lifter, Smith’s, 50
Chuck, Jaw, Phillips and Storey’s, 418
CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 70, 395, 436, 440
Awards of Medals, 70
On Notes of a Journey through the North-East Portion of the Delta of the Nile in April, 1884, by Mr. William Anderson, 21
On Repairing the Cables of the Allegheny Suspension Bridge at Pittsburg, Pa., U.S. A., by Mr. Francis Collingwood, 43
Subjects for Papers—Session 1884-85, 440 On Electric Lighting for Steamships, by Mr.
Andrew Jamieson, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., F.R.S.E., 448
On the Working of Tramways by Steam, by the Hon. Richard Clere Parsons, B.A., B.C.E., Dublin, M.I.C.E., 541
On the Sydney Steam Tramways, by Mr. Walter Shellshear, Assoc. M.I.C.E., 542 Clark’s Standard Cell, 395
Clapp and Griffith’s Stationary Bessemer Converters, 541
Clay Street Hill Cable Tramway, Francisco, 561 Clerc and Bureau Dynamo, The, 354
Cleveland, Notes from, 7, 33, 67, 85, 107, 126,155, 179, 198, 234, 249, 271, 295, 327, 335, 363, 387, 409, 429, 448, 475, 498, 523, 545, 568
Cleethorpes, Electric Lighting at, 326
Club Show, The Smithfield, 537
Coal, Bye-Products of, 305, 314, 336, 359, 401 Coal Dust, The Explosiveness of, 434 Coal-Mining Machine, The “Harrison,” 11 Coal, New Zealand, 347
Coal Shipping at Cardiff Docks, 134, 140,165
Coal Trade in 1884, The, 570
Coiling, Resistance of Wires on, 394
Coins, Rectification of, by Electrolysis, 508 Coke, Examination of, 495
Collieries, The Cymmer, 146
Collieries, Excursions to, 145
Colliery, The Great Western, 145
Colliery, The Lewis Merthyr, 146
Colliery, The Llwynypia, 147
Colonies, Australian, as a Field for Engineers, 514 “ Colossus,” H.M.S., The Lighting of, 482
Colour Blindness, 41
Colour Factory, Electric Light in a, 57*2
Colour Printing, A New Process for, 432
Coloured Impressions, 461
Columbia, British, 186
Commercial Geographical Society, British, 432
Committee, Lord Ravensworth’s, 477
Committees, Private Bill, in the Lords, 109
Company, The John Cockerill,457
Composing Machine and Adjusting Apparatus, Fischer’s, 80, 102
Compound Accumulator Pumping Engine for the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Company, 162
Compound Portable Engine, Eight-Horse, 517
Compound Portable Engine, Marshall and Sons’ Sixteen Horse-Power, 537
Comptroller of Patents’ Report, The, 61
Concrete for Marine Construction, 16
Condensation of Sulphuric Acid Gas, 401
Condenser, The Absolute Capacity of a, 42
Conductivity of Metals and Alloys, 88
Conductivity of Saline Solutions, The, 93
Conductivity of Solutions, Electric, 66
Conductors for Private Electric Lighting, 598 Conductors, Silicious Bronze, 597
Conference, Electrical, at Philadelphia, 323, 355 Construction of Ordnance, The, 274, 321, 434 Constructions, Concrete for Marine, 16 Consumption of Precious Metals in the Arts, 573 Continuous Brakes, 297
Copper, Electrolytic Extraction of, 470
Copper Mattes, T^ie “ Bessemerising” of, 474,573
Copper Mines, The Mona, 445
Cork Bricks, 188
“Cornish” Steam Pump, Evans’s Portable, 221
Cornwall Engineering Works, 217
Corrosion in Marine Boilers, 138, 235
Cost of Working English Steam Tramways, 69 Cotton Belting, 133
Cottrau’s System of Portable Bridges, 163, 401
“ County of Salop,” S.S., Engines and Boilers of. the, 517, 566
Coupling, Hermanni’s Friction, 259
Covent Garden Theatre, Electric Lighting at, 258
Craig and Motion’s Valve Gear, Horizontal Engine with, 316
“Cranks, Process,” 585
Crankshaft, Dickinson’s, 418
Crewe, The London and North-Western Railway
Works at, 309
Crewe, Trevithick’s Engine at, 474
“ Crocodile,” Electric Lighting on H.M.S., 326 Crompton and Company’s New Arc Lamp, 35 Crossley Brothers’ Vertical Gas Engine, 54 Crucible Cast Steel, Manufacture of, 300,304, S49 Crude Iron Production, Northern, 366 Cupola, Dr. Otto Gmelin’s, 406
Currents, Electric, Heating Effects of, 232
Cut-off Gear, Low’s Automatic, 250
Cutter and Elevator. Albaret’s Ensilage, 58, 445
Cutters, Ensilage, and Silos, 55
Cyfarthfa Iron Works, The, 111
Cymmer Collieries, The, 146
Daglish and Company’s Glass Rolling Table, 270
Dairies, The, at the Health Exhibition, 29
Danchell’s Electric Railway, 188
Danish Railway Ferries “ Korsor” and “Nyborg,” The, 130,176
Davis and Primrose’s, Portable Punching and
Shearing Machine, 294
Death from Lightning, 416
Dee Bank Lead Works, The, 287
Dee Iron Works, The, 331
Dee Oil Company’s Works, The, 277
Defence and Attack, Torpedoes for, 369
Defence for Penistone, A, 273
Delafield Pipe Dynamo, The, 595
Delaney’s Telegraphic Instruments, 414
Delta of the Nile, The, 21
Deprez, M. Marcel, 597
Design of Steamers, The, 385
Desilverisation of Lead by Electrolysis, 294
Determination of the Ohm, 461
Developments, Some Proposed Industrial, 553
Diamond Beds of Brazil, The, 20
Diamond Fields, The South African, 204 Dickinson’s Crankshaft, 418
Diehl Incandescence Lamp, The, 435
Difficulty, The Leadville Mixed Ore, 585
Disaster, The Penistone, 66, 87, 110, 204, 273
Discharge, Metropolitan Sewage, 542, 569
Distillation of Quicksilver in Vacuo, 495
Distillery, The Electric Light in a, 428
Distribution of Power, The Hydraulic, 99
Dock Accommodation and Coal Shipping at
Cardiff, 134,140,165
Dock, Lifting, for Cardiff, 69
Docks, The Bute, 135
Docks, The Newport, 149
Docks and Tidal Harbour, The Penarth,147
Double-Ram Steam Pump, Hatton’s, 54
Dowlais and Cyfarthfa Iron Works, The, 125, 148
Drainage Works, Sluices at the Lough Erne, 268
Draught for Marine Boilers, Forced, 384
Drawmar and Buffer, Hepburn’s, 484
Drawings, Batchelor’s Motion, 18
Dredger, Hall’s Suspended, 8
Dredger, Hydraulic, Bruce and Batho’s, 520
Dredging Machinery American, 30
Drilling Machine, Boiler Shell, 586
Drilling Machine, Radial, Booth and Co.’s, 388
Dry Air Refrigerator, Lightfoot’s, 173
Dry Dock and Engineering Company, The Cardiff, 136
Dry Dock and Engineering Company, The Mount Stuart, 139
Dry Dock, Engineering, and Shipbuilding Company, The Bute, 147
Drying Kiln for Cereal Products, 384
DUlken Injector, The, 439
Dumbarton, Messrs. M'Millan and Son, 432
Dutch Port, A New, 460
Dutch State Railways, Tank Locomotive for, 348, 439
Dutton Sluices, 564
Dyeing and Finishing Machinery, 132, 160
Dynamo, The Arago Disc, 458
Dynamo, The Ball Unipolar, 458
Dynamo, The Clerc and Bureau, 354
Dynamo, The Delafield Pipe, 595
Dynamo, Ferranti’s 1000-Light, 333
Dynamo, The Van de Poele, 435
Dynamo, The Victoria, 42 Dynamos, Alternating, in Parallel Circuit, 458 Dynamos, Winding, Cardew’s Method of, 430
Early History of Bessemer Work in America, 511 Earth’s Magnetism at Paris, The, 207
Eastbourne Water Works, Moreland and Son’s
Pumping Engine at the, 310, 384, 472, 520 Easton and Anderson’s Telpher Locomotive, 54 Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, 119 EbbwVale and Khymney Iron Works, The, 148 Ebbw Vale Steel Works, Ladle Carriage at, 400 Edge Tools, Forestry and other, 159 Edison Exhibits at Philadelphia, The, 570 Edison Lamp, A Phenomenon of the, 553 Educational Exhibits at the Health Exhibition, 39, 05, 92, 185,205, 232, 307
Effect, Hall’s, 41
Electric Batteries, New, 115 Electric Cables, Overhead, 188
Electric Conductivity of Solutions, 66 Electric Currents, Heating Effects of, 232 Electric Currents, Measuring, 280
Electric Generator, 1000-Light Ferranti, 333 Electric Launches, A Race between Two, 279 ELECTRIC LIGHTING :
Alternating Dynamo, Oppermann’s, 231 Alternating Dynamos in Parallel Circuit, 456 Arc Lamp, Thomson-Houston Standard, 550 Brush Armature Core, 255
Brush Armature, A New, 508
Brush Electric Light Fittings, 255
Brush Sub-Companies, The, 572
Brush System, The, 507
Cardew’s Method of Winding Dynamos, 436 Clcrc and Bureau Dynamo, 354
Conductors for Private Electric Lighting, 598 Cost of the Electric Light in France, The, 257
Crompton’s Arc Lamp, 35
Delafield Pipe Dynamo, The, 595 Distributor, The Thomson-Rice, 550 Dynamo, The Arago Disc, 458
Dynamo, The Ball Unipolar, 458
Dynamo, The Clerc and Bureau, 354 Dynamo, Ferranti 1000-Light, 333 Dynamo, Paterson and Cooper’s, 230 Dynamo, The Van de Poele, 435 Dynamo, The Victoria, 254 Electric Light Act, The, 482, 573 Electric Light in a Colour Factory, 572 Electric Light at Hartlepool, 482
Electric Light, The, and Health, 13
Electric Light in the Mechernich Mines, 208 Electric Light on Shipboard, The, 448 Electric Light Spectacles, 162
Electric Light Wires and Lightning, 93
Electric Lighting in America, 598
Electric Lighting Companies, The, 501
Electric Lighting at Lanark, 598
Electric Lighting in Paris, 508
Electric Lighting on Trains, 503, 528
Electric Lighting at Turin, 530 i
Electric Transmission of Power, 597 I
Electrical Conference at Philadelphia, 323, 355 Electrical Engineering College, Hammond, 553 Electrical Progress in America, 592
Excelsior Electric Company, The, 458 Ferranti Electric Generator, 1000-Light, 333 Fountains at the Health Exhibition, The, 90 Gulcher System, The, 423
Hammond System of Incandescence Lighting, 334
Lamp, The Diehl Incandescence, 435 Lighting of Greenock, The, 572 Lighting the Havre Hospital, 573 Lighting of H.M.S. “ Colossus,” The, 482 Lighting of H.M.S. “Crocodile,” 326 Lighting St. Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow, 572 Lighting of St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, 483 Lighting Trains by Electricity, 503, 528 Mechanism of Thomson-Houston Lamp, 551 Primary Batteries and Electric Lighting, 251 Smith’s Lamps and Mountings, 279 Sun Lamp, The, 353 npplpmpfPi-Q 4.^7
Thomson-Houston System, The, 529, 550 Trotter’s Lanterns, 415
Underground Conductors for Greenock, 448 Underground Wires, 595
Weston System, The, 379
Woodhouse and Raw’son’s Lamp Fittings, 324 Electric Lighting in America, 598
Electric Lighting at the Health Exhibition, 90, 229, 253, 278, 324, 333, 353, 415, 423, 479
Electric Lighting Notes, 42, 116,163, 257, 326, ' 371, 395, 428, 448, 482, 572, 598
Electric Railway, Danchell’s, 188 Electric Resistance of Glass, 115 Electrical Actinometer, An, 257 Electrical Conference at Philadelphia, 823, 355 Electrical Engineering college, Hammond, 535 Electrical Progress in America, 592
Electrical Transmission of Power, 343, 481, 597 Electrically Lighted Train, An, 503, 528 Electricians, Society of, 531
Electricity, The Transmission of, 508 Electricity, Working Railway Signals by, 485 Electrolysis, Reduction by, 596
Electrolytic Extraction of Copper, 470 Electro-Magnetic Induction, 41
Electromotive Force of Batteries, The, 596 Elevator and Cutter, Albaret’s Ensilage, 58 Ellis, Mr. Thomas, 116
Engine, Automatic Barring, 184
Engine, Eight-Horse Compound Portable, 517 Engine, Gas, The “Stockport,” 280
Engine, Horizontal, w’ith Craig and Motion’s Valve Gear, 315
Engine, Marshall and Sons’ Sixteen Horse-Power Compound Portable, 537
Engine, Pumping, at the Eastbourne Water Works, Moreland and Son’s, 319, 384, 472, 520
Engine, Pumping, Simpson’s Centrifugal, 12 Engine, Trevithick’s, at Crewe, 474
Engine, The Universal Gas, 328 Engine Works, The Tyneside, 145 Engineering Company, The Hydraulic, 228 Engineering and Foundry Works, The Sandy- croft Company’s, 261
Engineering Works, Cornwall, 217
Engineers, The Amalgamated Society of, 37
Engineers, Australian Colonies as a Field for, 614
Engineers, The Institution of Civil, 70, 395, 436, 440
Engineers and Shipbuilders, The North-East Coast Institute of, 553
Engines, Air and Gas, 54
Engines, Bessemer Blowing, for the Ileft Steel Works, 69, 104, 152, 176
Engines and Boiler of the s.s. “ Arabian,” Rankin and Blackmore’s, 82
Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “ County of Salop,” 517, 566
Engines, Compound Accumulator Pumping, on the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Company, 162
Engines for the Imperial German Despatch Vessel “ Blitz,” 200
Engines, Portable and Fixed, at Shrewsbury, 49 Ensilage Cutter and Elevator, Albaret’s,” 58, 415 Equipment of War Vessels, Steamboat, 513, 581 “Eulalia,” Spanish Gunboat, The, 6
Europe, Hudson’s Bay Route to, 553
Evans’s Portable “ Cornish” Steam Pump, 221 Examination of Coke, 495
Excursions of the Iron and Steel Institute, 287, 314 Excursions of Mechanical Engineers to Collieries, 111, 134, 145
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 390
EXHIBITION, FORESTRY, EDINBURGH : 14, 89, 159 Forestry and other Edge Tools, 159 Tea Preparing Machinery, 159 Transplanting Machines, 159 Wood-Workingand other Machinery, 89
Exhibition, The International, of 1889, 531, 574 Exhibition, The International Inventions, 162 Exhibition, The Textile Trades, 132, 160, 184 Exhibition, Turin, Passenger Locomotive at the, 32
Exhibits, Miscellaneous, at Shrewsbury, 59 Expanding Mandrel, Barlow’s, 68
Expedition, The Finland Polar, 116
Expenditure, Naval, 525
Experiments, The Ambulance, 115
Experiments against Chilled Cast-Iron Armour, French and German, 373
Explosion, Boiler, at Bilston, The, 456, 505
Explosion, Boiler, at Rotherham, 597
Explosions, Boiler, and Shortness of W'ater, 478 Explosions, Multiple Boiler, 501
Explosions, Recent Boiler, 391, 559 Explosiveness of Coal Dust, The, 434 Eye, Melted Lead in the, 257 Eyre’s Forged Steel Wheels, 8
Factories, Gun, in France, 465
Failure of the Vacuum Brake, 460
Fastening, Steen’s Rail, 8
“ Fatigue of Metals,” The, 584
Ferranti Electric Generator, 1000-Light, 333
Ferries “ Korsor” and “Nyborg,” 130,176 Ferro - Manganese, Production of High-Grade, 401
Festiniog Railway, The, 283
Fields, The South African Diamond, 204
Films, New Photographic, 530
Filter for Water, A Germ, 232
Fine Wire Drawing, 404
Finland Polar Expedition, The, 116
Fire Extinguisher, Monch’s, 553
Firefly Light or Spectrum, The, 436
Fischer’s Composing Machine and Adjusting Apparatus, 80, 102
Fish Commission s.s. “ Albatross,” The, 358
Fixed Astronomical Telescope, A, 233
fixed and Portable Engines at Shrewsbury Show, 49
Flint Chemical Works, The, 298
Flour Mills, The Albert Bridge, 39, 270, 319
Flow of Water through Turbines, The, 264 Foden’s Thrashing Machine, 59
Forced Draught for Marine Boilers, 384
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 22, 47, 73, 81, 117, I 127, 189, 199, 271, 339, 430, 462, 475, 499, 556, 578, 589
Forestry and other Edge Tools, 159
Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh, The, 14, 89,159 Forged Steel Wheels, Eyre’s, 8
Forth Bridge, The, 213, 223, 428
Foundations of a Roman Bridge in the River Trent, 417
Foundry and Engineering Works, The Sandy- croft Company’s, 261
Fountains at the Health Exhibition, 90
Fowler’s Spring-Mounted Road Engine, 82
France, Gun Factories in, 465
Francke “ Tina ” Process for the Amalgamation of Silver Ores, The, 134,174
French and German Experiments against Chilled Cast-Iron Armour, 373
French Postal and Telegraph Service, The, 203 French Telephone Case, A, 111
Fresnel, The Monument to, 347
Friction Coupling, Hermanni’s, 259
Fruit Preserves, 594
Fuel for Locomotives, Petroleum, 136
Furnace, A New Regenerative, 294, 303, 311 Furnaces, Regenerative Gas, 303, 311, 576 Fuze and Mechanical Shell, The Berdan, 587
Gallois’ Steel Keys, 8
Garrett’s Combined Iron and Wood Wheels, 537 Garrett, Mr. Richard, 178
Gas and Air Engines, 54
Gas Engine, The “ Stockport,” 280
Gas Engine, The Universal, 328
Gas Engine, Vertical, Crossley Brothers’, 54
Gas Furnaces, Regenerative, 303, 311, 576
Gas, Marsh, as a Refrigerator, 115
Gas Process, The Limed Coal, 279
Gas, Water, The Use of, 325
Gear, Cut-off, Low’s Automatic, 250
General Telephone Company, The, 574
Generator, Electric, 1000-Light Ferranti, 333 Geographical Society, British Commercial, 432 Geology of Cheshire, The, 299
Geology of Madagascar, The, 460
Germ Filter for Water, A, 232
German s.s. “ Blitz,” Engines for the, 200
German and French Experiments against Chilled Cast-Iron Armour, 373
Girard Turbines, Hett’s, 30
Glass-Blowing Apparatus, Apperts’, 34
Glass, Electric Resistance of, 115
Glass Konir.g Tabic, Gag ish and Co. », ‘ao
g* sn\dV£’S »«., .»r. oS55™?”6.“«l.. Th., th. Vn«.l., 2<«, 231,256,382
Great Western Colliery, The, 145
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Guasco Lubricator, The, 8
GUlcher System of Electric Lighting, 4- Gun Factories in France, 465 v;v5n<r i9rt
Gun, Hotchkiss Six-Pounder Rapid-I nmg, 128 Gun, The Maxim Machine, 431
Gun, A New Spanish, 394
Gun, The 100-Ton Armstrong, 392
Gunboat, Spanish, The 6
Gunnery, British haval, 40, 102 Guns in Turret Ships, 40, 102
Hall’s Effect, 41
Hall’s Suspended Dredger, 8
Halo, A Red Lunar, 162
Halo, A Red Solar, 257
Halo, The Solar, 394
Hammer, Steam, for Breaking Pig^Iron 586 Hammond Electrical Engineering College, 553 Hand Anemometer, A New, 280 p-nnnsed
Harbour of Refuge at Peterhead, The Proposed,
“ Harrison ” Coal Mining Machine, The, 11 Harrison’s Pit Chain, 95
Hartlepool, Electric Light at, 482 Hatherley Steps, The, 555
Hathorn, Davey, and Co. s Domestic Motor, 51 Hatton’s Double-Ram Steam Pump, 54 Haulage, Underground^, by Electricity, 596 Havre Hospital, The, 573
Hayward Tyler and Company s Mineral Mater
Machinery, 426 . .p. ,0
Health and the Electric Light, 13 . m on
HEALTH EXHIBITION, THE INTERNATIONAL .19, 39, 65, 92.114,185, 205, 232, 367, 393, 411
Bakeries, The, 114
Clerc and Bureau Dynamo, 354
Dairies, The, 29
Drying Kiln for Cereal Products, 384
Educational Exhibits, 39, 65, 92, 185, 205, 232,
Electric Lighting, 90, 229, 253, 278, 324, 333, 353, 415, 423, 479
Glass-Blowing Apparatus, Apperts , 34
Ironing Machinery, 340
Literature, 62
London Water Supply, 393, 399
Mineral Water Machinery, 426, 494
Pumping Engine, Simpson’s Centrifugal, 12 Sanitary and Insanitary Houses, 182 Sun Lamp, 353
Universal Gas Engine, The, 328
Heat-Conducting Power of Materials, ihe, 23/ Heated Iron, The Vapours of, 375
Heating Effects of Electric Currents, 232 .
Heft Steel Works, Bessemer Blowing Engines for the, 69, 104,152, 176
Hepburn’s Buffer and Drawbar, 484
H.M.S. “Agamemnon,” 417
H.M.S. “ Colossus,” The Lighting of, 482
H.M.S. “Crocodile,” Electric Lighting on, 326 Hermanni’s Friction Coupling, 259
Hett’s Girard Turbines, 30 . .
Hick Hargreaves, and Co.’s Barring Engine, 184 High-Pressure Engine, Trevithick’s, 414 Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Centenary of the, 80
History of Photometry, The, 70
Hoists, 184 . .
Holden and Brooke’s Influx Injector, 235
Holtz Machine, Uses of the, 436
Horizontal Engine with Craig and Motion s A ai\ e Gear, 315 ,
Hornsby and Sons’ Chimneys Lifter, 50
Hornsby and Sons’ Eight Horse-Power Compound Portable Engine, 517
Hospital, The Havre, Electric Light at the, 573 Hospital Ship “ Castalia,” The, .406, ^0 Hotchkiss Six-Pounder Rapid-Firing Gun, 128 Houses, Sanitary and Insanitary, 182 Hudson’s Bay Route, The, 66
Hudson’s Bay Route to Europe, 553
Hull and Barnsley Railway, 42, 208
Human Walk, The, 508
Humber, The River, 555
Hydraulic Distribution of Power, The, 99 Hydraulic Dredger, Bruce and Batho’s, 520 Hydraulic Engineering Company, The, 228 Hypnoscope, The, 595
“Illustrated Journal of Patented Inventions, The ” 527
Implements, Modern Agricultural, 487, 555 Impressions, Coloured, 461
Improved Boiler Joint, Thom’s, 348 Improvement of the Mississippi, The, 508 Improvement in Revolving Furnaces, 518 Incandescence Lighting, Hammond System, 334 Incandescence Lighting, Woodhouse and Rawson, 324
Incrustation, The Prevention of, 42 Indicator for Lathes, Automatic Recording, 438 Induction, Electro-Magnetic, 41
Induction Spark in Analysis, The, 115
Indus River, Bridge over the, at Attock, 415, 491, 540, 584
Industrial Developments, Some Proposed, 553 Industrial Partnerships, 591
Industries on the Tyne, Chemical, 65 Inefficient Brakes, 132
Influx Injector, Holden and Brookes, 23J Infringement Action, The Telephone Patent, 597
Injector, The Dlllken, 439
Insanitary and Sanitary Houses, 182
Institute’of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The North-East Coast, 553
Institution Lectures, The Royal, 595 International Exhibition of 1889, The, 531, 574 International Forestry Exhibition, 14, 89, 159 International Health Exhibition Literature, The, 62
International Inventions Exhibition, The, 162 Iridium Industry, The, 88
Iron, Heated, The Vapours of, 375
Iron Plates and the 100-Ton Armstrong Gun, 392
Iron Production, Northern Crude, 366 IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, TUB : 299, 309 Excursions:
Chester Water Works, The, 314
Chester Works, The, 288
Dee Bank Lead Works, The, 287
Dee Iron Works, The, 331
Dee Oil Company’s Works, The, 277 Festiniog Railway, The, 283 Lloyd’s Chain Testing Works, The, 314 London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, The, 309
Mostyn Iron Works, The, 315 Palmerston Slate Quarries, The, 315 Salt Mines of Northwich, The, 290 Sandycroft Foundry,’The, 261
Ladle Carriage at Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 406
On a New Form of Regenerative Furnace, by Mr. F. W. Dick, 294, 303, 311
On the Geology of Cheshire, by Mr. Aubrey Strahan, 299
On the Manufacture of Crucible Cast Steel, by Mr. Henry Seebohin, 300, 304, 349
On the North-Eastern Steel Company’s Works and their Products, by Mr. Arthur Cooper, 301
On a New Method of Heating the Regenerative Gas Furnace, by Mr. Frederick Siemens, 303, 311, 576
On Recent Improvements in the Method of Manufacture of Open-Hearth Steel, by Mr. James Riley, 303, 311, 316
On the Recovery of Bye-Products from Coal, with Special Reference to the Coke and Iron Industries, by Watson Smith, 305, 314, 336, 359, 404
On the Spectroscopic Examination of the Vapours Evolved on Heating Iron, &c., at Atmospheric Pressure, by Mr. John Parry, 375
Iron and Steel Plates, 549
Iron and Steel Works, The Ebbw Vale, 119
Iron Trade, The British, 232
Iron Trade, The Manufactured, 252
Iron and Wood Wheels, Garrett and Sons’, 537 Iron Works, The Cyfarthfa, 111
Iron Works, The Dee, 331
Iron Works, The Dowlais, 125
Iron Works, The Dowlais and Cyfarthfa, 148 Iron Works, The Mostyn, 315 Iron Works, The Rhyinney, 112
Iron Works, The Rhymney and EbbwVale, 148 Ironclad Navy, Our, 502
Ironclads, Electric Lighting on, 371 Ironfounders’ Society, The, 158 _
Ironing Machinery at the Health Exhibition, 340 Irrigation in South Africa, 38
Islands, Queen Charlotte’s, 150, 171
Jablochkoff^ompany v, Howard, 395
Jaw Chuck, Storey and Phillips’s, 418 John Cockerill Company, 457 Joint, Boiler, Thom’s Improved, 348 “Journal of Patented Inventions, The Illustrated,” 527 . „
Junction Dry Dock and Engineering Company, The Cardiff, 136 , , ,,,,7
Jury Rudder of the s.s. “ Knickerbocker, 117
Kamloops to the Pacific, 219
Keys, Gallois’ Steel, 8
Kiin, Drying, for Cereal Products, 384 “Knickerbocker,” s.s., Jury Rudder of the, 117 Knitting Machinery, 185 .
“ Korsdr”and “ Nyborg” Railway Ferries, 130,1/6
Ladle Carriage at Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 406 Lamp, Crompton and Company’s New Arc, 35 Lamp, The Diehl Incandescence, 435 Lamp, The Sun, at the Health Exhibition, 353 Lamps, Woodhouse and Rawson’s, 324 Lanark, Electric Lighting at, 598 Lancaster and Tonge’s Piston, 185 Lartigue, Henry, 481 Launches, Electric, A Race between Two, 2/9 Launches and Trial Trips, H. 72, 107, 163, 178, 225, 258, 267, 338, 372, 396, 418, 440, 462, 483, 498, 522, 554, 574, 598
Leaching Process, Russel’s, 239 Lead, Desilverisation of, by Electrolysis, 294 Lead, Melted, in the Eye, 257
Lead and Silver Works, American, 32j Lead Works, Walker, Parker, and Co. s, 287 Leadville Mixed Ore Difficulty, 585 Leckey’s Sunshine Recorder, 223 Lectures, The Royal Institution, 595 Legal Ohm Standards, 530 Legislation, Private Bill, 15, 91, 526, 551, o92 Length, Standards of, 45, 84, 166 Lewis Merthyr Colliery, The, 146 Lifter, Smith’s Chimney, 60 Lifting Dock for Cardiff, 69 Light, An Absolute Standard of, 596 Light Act, The Electric, 482, 573 Light, Determining the Legal Standard of, 481 Light, Electric, The, in France, Cost of, 257 Light, The Electric, and Health, 13 Light and the Electric Resistance of Metals, 347 Light, Electric, on Shipboard, The, 448 Lighter, Wrecking, for Thames Conservancj, 32 Lightfoot’s Dry Air Refrigerator, 173 Lighting of the “ Colossus, ’ The. 482 Lighting Companies, The Electric, 501 T i^htin^ Electric. The Glllcher System of, 423 Lighting: Electric, at the Health Exhibition, 90. 229, ‘253, 278, 324, 333, 353, 415, 423, 479
Lighting, Electric, and Primary Latteries, 2ol Lighting, Electric, at Turin, 530 Lighting, Electric, The Weston System, 379 Lighting of Greenock, Ihe 572 Lighting the Hospital at Havre, 573 Lighting St. Andrew^s Hall, Glasgow,^572 Lighting Trains by Electricity, 503, o28 Lightning, Death from, 416 Lightning and Electric Light \\iit8, 93 Lights, Magnesium Search, 481 Lightships, Telegraphs to, 572 Limed-Coal Gas i’rocess, The, 279
«1 IncnitMion, 42
Lloyd’s Testing Works, 314
Llwj'nypia Colliery, The, 147
Locomotive, Fowler’s Spring-Mounted 82
Locomotive, Passenger ; Upper Italian Railways,
“sTzie'® Running Shed ; Taff Vale Railway,
Dutch State Railways,
Locoinoti^ve, Telpher, Fleeming Jenkins’ 54 Locomotives, Petroleum Fuel for, 136 ’
Cre“ , Tt,^309
Ravensworth’s Committee, 477
T Committees in the 109
cXKS.?“ Lubricating Oils, 532, 572
Lubricator, The Guasco, 8
Lubricators, Stauffer’s, 32
Lunar Halo, A Red, 162
Vnnh-”®’ Setting, on River Tyne, 270 Machine, Boiler Shell Drilling, 686
Tnd Company’s^sSe^’ Richards
Machine, Foden’s Thrashing, 59
Machine Gun, The Maxim, 431
Coal Mining, 11
Machine, Nalder s Single Crank Thrashing 537
Machine, Portable Punching and Shearin’’ 294 Machi'n!’ ^""8'’ DootR and Co.’s,’388
.and Proctor’s Thrashing, 537 Machinery, American Dredging, 30 Machinery’ Ironing, at the Health Exhibition,
n ^I=^’^’,"8-up Goods for Market, Riley and Company s, 162
Machinery, Tea-Preparing, 159
Forestry Ex- hibition, Edinburgh, 89, 159
80^’10^ Fischer's Composing and Adjusting, Machines, Transplanting, 159
O"’’' Wheel for Traction Engines, 50
M Millan and Son, Dumbarton, 432
Madagascar, The Geology of, 460
Magnesium Search Lights, 481
Magnetic Ore Dressing, 518
Magnetism at Paris, The Earth’s, 207
Magnetism of Thin Steel Plates, 207
Magnets, Position of the Poles of, 347 Maintenance of Brakes, The, 62
Manawatu and Wellington Railway, 560
Manby, Mr. Charles, F.R.S., 158
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway The Accident on the, 66
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 131, 191
Mandrel, Barlow’s Expanding, 68
Manganese in Cast Iron, Estimating. 347 Manitoba, 2
^^304^349^^^ Crucible Cast Steel, The, 300, Manufacture of Open-Hearth Steel, 303, 311, 310 Margetson and Hek’s TippingCart, 539 Marine Boilers, The Corrosion of, 138, 235 Manne Boilers, Forced Draught for, 384 Marine Constructions, Concrete for, 16 Marion’s Photographic Printer, 530 Maritimes, The Messageries, 182
Marsh Gas as a Refrigerator, 115
Marshall and Sons’ Sixteen Horse-Power Compound Portable Engine, 537
Massey’s Hammer for Breaking Pig Iron, 586
Materials, The Heat-Conducting Power of, 237 Mauritius, An Optical Telegraph at, 257 Maxim Alachine Gun, The, 431
Measuring Electric Currents, 280
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 111 134, 145 * ’
Address of the President, 141 Excursions to Collieries, «fec.:
Abercarn Tin Works, The, 149
“Blue Jacket,” s.s., The, 145
Bute Docks, The, 135
Bute Shipbuilding, Engineering, and Dry Dock Company, 147
Cardiff Junction Dry Dock and Engineering Company, The, 136
Cyfarthfa Iron Works, The, 111
Cymmer Collieries, The, 146
Dowlais and Cyfarthfa Iron Works, 125, 148 Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, The, 119 Great Western Colliery, The, 145 Lewis Merthyr Colliery, The, 146 Llwynpia Colliery, The, 147
Alordey, Carney, and Company’s Works
Newport, 150
Alount Stuart Dry Dock and Engineerinf**
Company, The, 139 ®
New Dock, The, 135
Newport Docks, &c.. The, 149
Penarth Docks and Tidal Harbour, 147
Rhymney and Ebbw Vale Iron Works, The. 112, 148
Severn Tunnel, The, 150
Taff Vale Railway Company’s Repairing Shops, The, 139
Tyneside Engine Works, The, 145
Wailsend Slipway and Engineering Company, The, 145
On Recent Extensions of Dock Accommodation and Coal Shipping Machinery at the Bute Dock’s, Cardiff, by Mr. John AIcConnochie. 134, 140, 165 ’
On a Description of the New Locomotive Running Shed of the Taff Vale Railway at Cathays, Cardiff, by Mr. Charles Hurrv Riches, 134, 246
On a Description of theFrancke “Tina” or Vat Process for the Amalgamation of Silver Orcs, by Ah’, Edgar P. Rathbone, 134, 174
On the Use of Petroleum Refuse as Fuel in Locomotives, by Mr. Thomas Urquhart, 136 On the Causes and Remedies of Corrosion in Marino Boilers, by Mr. J. Harry Hallett, 138, 235
ENGINEERS, INSTITUTION OF MECIIAN.—continued On the Severn Tunnel Railway, by Mr. J Clarke Hawkshawe, 209
On the Application of Electro-Magnets to th< Working of Railway Signals and Points, bi Mr. Illius A. Timmis, 485
On the Mineral Wagons of South Wales, b;5 Mr. Alfred Slater, 509
Mechanical Fuze and Shell, The Berdan, 587 Mechanical Stokers, Procter’s, 134,185 Mechernich Mines, The Electric Light in the, 20J Mechernich, Works at, Germany, 541
Medals, Awards of, at the Institution of Civi Engineers, 70
Medicine Hat to Rocky Mountains, 122 Megametre, The, 279
Melted Lead in the Eye, 257
Messageries Maritimes, The, 182 Metallurgical Notes (See Notes, Metallurgical) Metallurgical Process, A New, 470
Metallurgy and Mining, Belgian, 89 Metals and Alloys, Conductivity of, 88 ** Metals, Fatigue of,” The, 584
Metals, Light and the Electric Resistance of, 347 Metals, Precious, Consumption of in the Arts, 57t Meteorological Information from Ben Nevis, 188 Meteorological Society, Meeting of the, 6 Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, 542, 569 Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 227, 393, 399 Mills, Flour, Marriage, Neave, and Co.’s, 39, 270 Mineral Wagons of South Wales, The, 509 Mineral Water Machinery, Barnett and Foster’s. 494
Mineral Water Machinery, Hayward Tyler anc Company’s, 426
Mines, The Mona Copper, 445
Mines, The Salt, of Northwich, 290
Mining Machine, The “ Harrison ” Coal, 11 Mining and Metallurgy, Belgian, 89 Miscellaneous Exhibits at Shrewsbury Show, 59 Mississippi, The Improvement of the, 508 Mixer, The Adelaide Sand, 509
Modern Agricultural Implements, 487, 555 Moffet Jumbo Roaster, The, 495 Mona Copper Mines, The, 445
Mbneh’s Fire Extinguisher, 553 Monument to Fresnel, The, 347
Moon, Mr., and the Brake Question, 181 Moose Jaw to Medicine Hat, 97
Mordey, Carney, and Company’s Works, 150 Moreland and Son’s Pumping Engine at th(
Eastbourne Water Works, 319, 384, 472, 520 Mostyn Iron Works, The, 315
Motion Drawings, Batchelor’s, 18
Motor, Domestic, Hathorn, Davey, and Com pany’s, 51
Mount Stuart Dry Dock and Engineering Com pany, The, 139
Muir V, Stockman, 483
Multiple Boiler Explosions, 501
Nalder’s Single-Crank Thrashing Machine, 537
Napier, The Late Mr. James, F.R.S.E., 553
Naval Expenditure, 525
Naval Gunnery, British, 40, 102
Navigation, The Weaver, 241, 564
Navy, Our Ironclad, 502
Navy, The State of the, 341, 365, 339, 433, 518
Neilson, Mr. Walter, 198
New South Wales, Railway Progress in, 508
New Zealand Coal, 347
New Zealand, The Manawatu and Wellingtor
Railway, 560
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Electric Lighting at,_257
Newmarket, Water Supply of, 207
Newport Docks, The, 149
Nile, The Delta of the, 21
North-Eastern Steel Company’s Works, The, 36;
North Wootten Railway Accident, The, 251, 479
Northern Crude Iron Production, 366
Northwich, The Salt Mines of, 290
NOTES :
Absolute Standard of Light, An, 596
Accident on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin coinshire Railway, The, 66
African Railways, 416
Albert Medal, The Society of Arts, 66
Algerian Sea, The Projected, 115
Ambulance Experiments, The, 115
Analysis, The Induction Spark in, 115 Australian Telegraphy, 417
Batteries, New Electric, 115
Battery, A Cheap Standard, 41
Battery, A New Carbon, 207
British Iron Trade, The, 232
Brush Armature, A New, 508
Cables, Overhead Electric, 188
Caoutchouc, A New, 347
Cardew’s Method of Winding Dynamos, 436
Clark’s Standard Cell, 395
Coal, New Zealand, 347
Colour Blindness, 41
Coloured Impressions, 461
Condenser, The Absolute Capacity of a, 42
Cork Bricks, 188
Cost of the Electric Light in France, The, 257
Death from Lightning, 416
Determination of the Ohm, 461
Determining the Legal Standard of Light, 481 Diamond Beds of Brazil, The, 20
Dutch Port, A New, 460
Earth’s Magnetism at Paris, 207
Electric Conductivity of Solutions, 66
Electric Light in the Mechernich Mines, 208
Electric Light Wire and Lights, 93
Electric Lighting at Turin, 530
Electric Railway, Danchell’s, 188
Electric Transport of Power, 481
Electrical Actinometer, An, 257
Electro-Magnetic Induction, 41
Electromotive Force of Batteries, The, 596
Estimating Manganese in Cast-Iron, 347
Exhibition, The International Inventions, 162
Failure of the Vacuum Brake, 4G0
Finland Polar Expedition, The, 110
Fixed Astronomical Telescope, A, 233
NOTES—continued.
Gas, Marsh, as a Refrigerator, 115
Geology of Madagascar, The, 460
Germ Filter for Water, A, 232
Glass, Electric Resistance of, 115
Hall’s Effect, 41
Hammond Electrical Engineering College, 553 Hand Anemometer, A New, 280
Heating Effect of Electric Currents, 232
H.M.S. “Agamemnon,” 417
Hudson’s Bay Route, The, 66
Hudson’s Bay Route to Europe, 553
Hull and Barnsley Railways, 42, 208
Human Walk, The, 508
Hypnoscope, The, 595
Improvement of the Mississippi, The, 508
Induction Spark in Analysis, 115
Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 395, 436
Lartigue, Henry, 481
Legal Ohm Standards, 530
Light and Electric Resistance of Metals, 347 Limed-Coal Gas Process, The, 279
Lubricating Oils, 572
Lunar Halo, A Red, 162
Magnesium Search Lights, 481
Magnetism of Thin Steel Plates, 207
Marion’s Photographic Printer, 630
Measuring Electric Currents, 280 Megametre, The, 279
Melted Lead in the Eye, 257
Meteorological Information from Ben Nevis, 188 Monch’s Fire Extinguisher, 553
Monument to Fresnel, The, 347
North-East Coast Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The, 653
Optical Telegraph at Mauritius, An, 257
Petrified Wood, 436
Phenomenon of the Edison Lamp, A, 553 Photographic Films, New, 530
Physical Papers by Sir William Thomson, 572 Position of the Poles of Magnets, 347 Purifying Zinc, 257
Race between Two Electric Launches, 279 Railway, Dancheli’s Electric, 188
Railway Progress in New South Wales, 508
Railway Progress, Queensland, 188
Rainfall Records at Glasgow Observatory, 66 Rectification of Coins by Electrolysis, 508 Red Solar Halo, A, 257
Reduction b^’ Electrolysis, 596
Resistance of Wires on Coiling, 394
Royal Institution Lectures, The, 595
Sabine, Robert Henry, 436
Saharan Sea, The Proposed, 461
St. Petersburg Maritime Canal, 416
Saline Solutions, The Conductivity of, 93
Saltpetre Bed, A New, 115
Sanitation of the Panama Canal Works, 460
Science, The American Association for the Advancement of, 93
Selection of Apprentices, The, 572
Siemens, The Late Sir William, 20
Silurian Scorpion, A, 552
Solar Halo, The, 394
Soldering Aluminium, 93
Slag, On, 482
Spanish Gun, A New, 394
Spectacles, Electric Light, 162
Spectrum of Firefly Light, The, 436
Standing Order, New, 41
Steering of Balloons, The, 461 Submarine Cables, 207
Sunshine Recorder, A Simple, 93
Sunshine Recorders, 162
Synchronous Multiple Telegraph, The, 481
Telegraphic Communication with Lightships, 572
Tell-Tale Electric Bell, A, 347
Temporary Repairs of Ships, 596
Teredo Boring, 436
Thermal Coloured Rings, 257 Toughening Gold, 347
Tramways at Rio de Janeiro, 162
Trunk Line Telephony, 394
Trunk Line Telephony in Belgium, 530
Underground Haulage by Electricity, 596 Uses of the Holtz Machine, 436
Vacuum Brake, The, 530
Voltmeter, The Silver, 66
Wampum, 894
Water Supply, Cardiff, 93
Water Supply of Newmarket, 207
Water Supply of Nottingham, 347
Water Supply in South Australia, 93
Weights and Measures in Scotland, Verification of, 20
Wires, Electric Light, and Lightning, 93 World’s Telegraphs, The, 232
Notes from Cleveland, 7, 33, 67, 85, 107, 126, 155, 179, 198, 234, 249, 271, 295, 327, 335, 363; 387, 409, 429, 448, 475, 498, 523, 545, 568
NOTES, ELECTRIC LIGHTING :
Boiler Shops, Electric Lighting in, 428
Brush Electric Lighting Corporation, The, 116
Brush Sub-Companies, The, 572
Cleethorpes, Electric Lighting at, 326 Conductors for Private Electric Lighting, 598 Covent Garden Theatre, Electric Lighting at, 258
Distillery, The Electric Light in a, 428 Dynamo, The Victoria, 42
Electric Light Act, The, 482, 573
Electric Light in a Colour Factory, 572
Electric Lighting in America, 598
Glasgow, Lighting St. Andrew’s Hall, 572
Glasgow, St. Enoch’s Station, 483
Greenock, Lighting of. The, 672
Greenock, Underground Conductors for, 448
Hartlepool, Electric Light at, 482
NOTES, ELECTRIC LIGHTING—continued.
Havre Hospital, The, 573
H.M.S. “ Crocodile,” Electric Lighting on, 326 Ironclads, Electric Lighting on, 371 Jablochkoff Company v. Howard, 395
Lanark, Electric Lighting at, 598
Linlithgow, Proposed Electric Lighting at, 428 Muir V. Stockman, 483
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Electric Lighting at, 257
Steamship “ Olympo,” Electric Lighting on the, 395, 428
Steamship “San Martin,” Electric Lighting on the, 371
Steamship “Saturno,” Electric Lighting on the, 163
Steamship “ Thistle,” Electric Lighting on the, 42
Steel Company, The Stanner’s Close, Electric Lighting at, 428
Wimbledon, Electric Lighting at, 42
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 22, 47, 73, 81, 117, 127, 189, 199, 271, 339, 430, 462, 475, 499, 556, 578, 589
NOTES, METALLURGICAL :
American Lead and Silver Works, 325
Analyses of Slags, 470
“ Bessemerising” of Copper Mattes, 471,573 Clapp and Griffith’s Bessemer Converter, 541 Condensation of Sulphuric Acid Gas, 401 Consumption of Precious Metals in the Arts, 573
Desilverisation of Lead by Electrolysis, 294 Distillation of Quicksilver in Vacuo, 495
Early History of Bessemer Work in the U.S., 541 Effects of Wet Weather on Blast Furnaces, 584
Electrolytic Extraction of Copper, 470
Examination of Coke, 495
“ Fatigue of Metals,” The, 584
Fine Wire Drawing, 404
Improvement in Calcining Furnaces, 518
Leadville Mixed Ore Difficulty, The, 685
Magnetic Ore Dressing, 518
Metallurgical Process, A New, 470
Moffet Jumbo Roaster, The, 495
“ Process Cranks,” 585
Production of High-Grade Ferro-Manganese, 401
Silver Ore Smelting, New Process of, 573
Smoke Nuisance in Towns, 573
Toughening of Gold, Silver, &c., 573
Use of Blast Furnace Slags, 401
Use of Water Gas, The, 325
Utilisation of Slack, 294
Works at Mechernich, Germany, 641
Notes from the North, 33, 67, 85,107, 126, 155, 179, 199, 234, 248, 270, 304, 327, 339, 363, 387, 409, 429, 449, 474, 499, 523, 545, 568, 585
NOTES FROM PARIS :
Deprez, M. Marcel, Elected Member of the Consultative Railway Commission, 597
Electric Lighting in Paris, 508
Electric Transmission of Power, The, 597 Exhibition, The 1889, 531, 574
Industrial Developments, Some Proposed, 653 Silicious Bronze Couductors, 597
Society G^n6rale des Telephones, The, 508 Society of Electricians, 531
Telephone Company, The General, 574
Telephone Patents Infringement Action, 697
Telephone Rates, 597
Thousand-Feet Tower, A, 574
Transmission of Electricity, The, 508
Notes from the South-West, 6, 46, 66, 94,117, 127, 154, 189, 215, 234, 249, 271, 304, 328, 338, 376,386, 420, 429, 449,488, 498, 522, 556, 578,600
Notes from South Yorkshire, 7, 66, 85, 107, 127, 155, 178, 198, 249, 271, 327, 339, 363, 387, 409, 430, 449, 475, 498, 623, 545, 568
Notes from the United States, 6, 36, 68, 81,116, 139, 163, 174, 208, 233, 258, 280, 303, 325, 348, 370,395, 417, 428, 471, 495, 519, 554, 574,598
Nottingham, Water Supply of, 347
Numismatic Society, American, 458
“Nyborg”and “ Korsbr,” The Danish Railway Ferries, 130,176

Oaklands Harbour, California, 30
OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Glasgow, Rainfall Records at, 66
Ohm, Determination of the, 461
Ohm Standards, Legal, 530
Oil Company’s Works, The Dee, 277
Oils, Lubricating, 532, 572
Open-Hearth Steel, Manufacture of, 303, 311,316
Optical Telegraph at Mauritius, An, 257
Order, New Standing, 41
Ordnance, The Construction of, 274, 321,434
Ore Dressing, Magnetic, 518
Ores, Silver, The Amalgamation of, 134, 174
Otto Gmelin’s Cupola, Dr., 406
Overhead Electric Cables, 188

Palmerston Slate Quarries, The, 315
Panama Canal Works, The Sanitation of the, 460 Parallel Circuit, Alternating Dynamos in, 456 Paris, Electric Lighting in, 508
Partnerships, Industrial, 591
Passenger Locomotive ; Upper Italian Railways, 32
Patent Record, The, 22, 47, 73, 95, 118,143,168, 189, 215, 237, 259, 281, 307, 329, 351, 876, 397, 420, 441, 462, 489, 511, 535, 556, 579, 601
“ Patented Inventions, The Illustrated Journal of,” 527
Patents’ Report, The Comptroller of, 61
Penarth Docks and Tidal Harbour, The, 147
Penistone Railway Disaster, The, 66, 87, 110, 204’ 273
Peterhead, Proposed Harbour of Refuge at, 169 Petrified Wood, 436
Petroleum Fuel for Locomotives, 130
Phenomenon of the Edison Lamp, A, 553 Philadelphia, Electrical Conference at, 323, 855 PHILADELPHIA ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION, THE : 322, 343, 368, 379, 414, 435, 457, 507, 529, 550, 570, 595
American Numismatic and Archeological Society, 458
Brush System, The, 507
Dynamo, The Arago Disc, 458
Dynamo, The Ball Unipolar, 458
Dynamo, The Delafield Pipe. 595
Dynamo, The Van de Poelc, 435
Edison Exhibits, The, 570
Electric Company, The Excelsior, 458
Lamp, Incandescence, The Diehl, 435 Synopsis of Classification, 322
Telegraph, Delaney’s Multiplex System, 414 Telemeters, 457
Telephones, 343
Tests by Boards of Examiners, 368 Thomson-Houston System, The, 529, 550 Underground Wires, 595
Weston System of Electric Lighting, 379 Photographic Films, New, 530 Photographic Printer, Marion’s, 530 Photometry, The History of, 70
Physical Papers by Sir William Thomson, 572 Physical Society, The, 461, 510, 577
Pig Iron, Steam Hammer for Breaking, 586
Pistons, 134, 184, 185
Pitch Chain, Harrison’s, 95
Plates, Iron and Steel, 549
Plates, Magnetism of Thin Steel, 207
Pneumatic Strephometer, Schow’s, 599
Polar Expedition, The Finland, 116
Port, A New Dutch, 460
Portable Bridge, Cottrau’s, 163, 401
Portable Engine, Eight-Horse Compound, 517
Portable Engine, Marshall and Sons’, 537 Portable Punching and Shearing Machine, 294 Portable Engines, Hornsbys’Chimney Lifterfor, 50 Portable and Fixed Engines, 49
Portable Sectional Boiler, 261
Portage la Prairie to Regina, 76
Position of the Poles of Magnets, 347
Postal and Telegraph Service, The French, 203
Power, Electric Transport of, 481
Power, Electrical Transmission of, 343
Power, The Hydraulic Distribution of, 99 Preserves, Fruit, 594
President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Address of the, 141
Prevention of Incrustation, The, 42
Primary Batteries and Electric Lighting, 251 Printing, Colour, A New Process for, 482
Private Bill Committees in the Lords, 109 Private Bill Legislation, 15, 91, 526, 551, 592 “ Process Cranks,” 585
Process, A New Metallurgical, 470
Progress, Electrical, in America, 592
Projectiles, Steel, 479
Proposals, The Admiralty, 547
Pump, Double-Ram Steam, Hatton’s, 54
Pump, Evans’s Portable “ Cornish” Steam, 221
Pump, Independant, Air and Circulating, for the s.s. “Swift,” 575
Pumping Engine at the Eastbourne Water Works, Moreland and Son’s, 319, 384, 472, 520
Pumping Engine, Simpson’s Centrifugal, 12
Pumping Engines, for the Buenos Ayres Great
Southern Railway Company, 162
Pumping Engines, for the s.s. “ Umbria,” 445 Pumps, 133
Pumps, Worthington Steam, and Brewery, 450 Punching and Shearing Machine, Davis and Primrose’s Portable, 294
Purifying Zinc, 257
Queen Charlotte’s Islands, 150, 171
Queensland Railway Progress, 188
Question, The Brake, 342
Quicksilver, Distillation of, in Vacuo, 495
Race between Two Electric Launches, 279
Radial Drilling Machine, Booth and Co.’s, 388 Rail Fastening, Steen’s, 8
Railway Accident, The North Wootten, 251, 479
Railway Accidents, Recent, 549
Railway Brakes, 248
Railway, The Canadian Pacific (See Canadian Pacific Pailway)
Railway, Danchell’s Electric, 188
Railway Disaster, Penistone, 66,87,110, 204, 273
Railway Ferries “ Korsor” and “Nyborg,” 130, 176
Railway, The Festiniog, 283
Railway, Hull and Barnsley, 42, 208
Railway, The Manawatu and Wellington, 560
Railway Progress in New South Wales, 508
Railway Progress, Queensland, 188
Railway Rolling Stock for 1883, 43
Railway, the Severn Tunnel, 209
Railway Signals, Working, bj" Electricity, 485
Railway, South-Western, and Board of Trade, 157 Railway Works, The London and North-Western, at Crewe, 309
Railways, African, 416
Railways, Dutch State, Tank Locomotive, 348,439
Railways round Winnepeg, 25
Rain Water Separator, Roberts’s, 59
Rainfall Records at Glasgow Observatory, 66
Raising Wrecks, 32
Rankin and Blackmore’s Engines and Boiler of thes.s. “ Arabian,” 82
Rapid Firing Hotchkiss Six-Pounder Gun, 128
Rates, Telephone, 597
Ravensworth’s Committee, Lord, 477
Reapers, The Trial of Sheaf-Binding, 162
Recent Boiler Explosions, 391, 559
Recent Railway Accidents, 549
Record, The Patent, 22, 47, 73, 95, 118, 143, 168, 189, 215, 237, 259, 281, 307, 329, 351, 376, 397, 420, 441, 462, 489, 511, 535, 556, 579, 601
Recorder, Sunshine, A Simple, 93
Recorder, The Universal Sunshine, 223
Recorders, Sunshine, 162
Recording Indicator for Lathes, Simonds’, 438 Rectification of Coins by Electrolysis, 508
Red Lunar Halo, A, 162
Red Solar Halo, A, 257
Reduction by Electrolysis, 596
Refrigerator, Lightfoot’s Dry Air, 173
Refrigerator, Marsh Gas as a, 115
Refuge, Proposed Harbour of, at Peterhead, 169
Regenerative Furnace, A New, 294, 303, 311
Regenerative Gas Furnace, The, 576
Regenerative Gas Furnaces, 303, 311
Register, Lloyd’s, 412
Repairing Shops, Taff Vale Railway Co.’s, 139 Report, The Comptroller of Patents’, 61
Report of Inspection on the Forth Bridge. 428
Report of the John Cockerill Company, 457
Report on the Westinghouse Brake, 408, 416 Resistance of Glass, Electric, 115
Revolving Calcining Furnaces, 518
Rhymney and Ebbw Vale Iron Works, The, 148 Rhymney Ironworks, The, 112
“jiiachuelo,” Baxter’s Anchor Gear for, 222
Richards’ Shaft Centring and Straightening Machine, 396
Rings, Thermal Coloured, 257
Rio de Janeiro, Tramways at, 162
River Humber, The, 555
River Indus at Attock, Bridge over, 445, 491, 540, 584
River Trent, Roman Bridge in the, 417
River Tyne, Block Setting Machine on, 270
River Weaver Navigation, The, 241, 564
Road Locomotive Engine, Fowler, J., and Company’s Spring-Mounted, 82
Roaster, The Moffet “ Jumbo,” 495
Roberts’s Chaff and Ensilage Cutter, 58
Roberts’s Rain Water Separator, 59
Rolling Stock, Railway, for 1883, 43
Roman Bridge, Foundations of, in the River Trent, 417
Rope Works, Wire, Bullivantand Co.’s, 515
Rotary Steam Snow Shovel, A, 359
Rotherham, The Boiler Explosion at, 597
Route, The Hudson’s Bay, 66
Royal Meteorological Society, Meeting of the, 6 Rudder, Jury, of the s.s. “ Knickerbocker,” 117 Running Shed, Locomotive ; Taff Vale Railway, 134, 246
Rushworth’s Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 586 Russel’s Leaching Process, 239
Ruston, and Co.’s Thrashing Machine, 537
Sabine, Robert Henry, 436
Saharan Sea, The Proposed, 461
St. Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow, Lighting, 572
St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, 483
St. Petersburg Maritime Canal, 416
Saline Solutions, The Conductivity of, 93
Salt Mines of Northwich, The, 290 Saltpetre Bed, A New, 115
Sand Mixer, The Adelaide, 509
Sandycroft Foundry and EngineeringCo.,The, 216
Sanitary and Insanitary Houses, 182
Sanitation, American, 455
Sanitation of the Panama Canal Works, The, 460
Schow’s Pneumatic Strephometer, 599
Science, The American Association for the Advancement of, 93
Scorpion, A Silurian, 552
Scotland, Centenary of the Highland and Agricultural Society of, 80
Sea, The Projected Algerian, 115
Sea, The Proposed Saharan, 461
Secondary Batteries, 1, 75
Selection of Apprentices, The, 572
Separator, Roberts’s Rain Water, 59
Service, The French Postal and Telegraph, 203
Severn Tunnel, The, 150
Severn Tunnel Railway, The, 209
Sewage Discharge, Metropolitan, 542, 569
Shaft Centring Machine, Richards’, 396
Sheaf-Binding Reapers, The Trial of, 162
Shearing and Punching Machine, Davis and Primrose’s Portable, 294
Shell and Mechanical Fuze, The Berdan, 587 Ship Canal, The Manchester, 131, 191
Shipboard, The Electric Light on, 448
Shipbuilding Dry Dock and Engineering Company, The Bute, 147
Shipping Coal at Cardiff Docks, 134, 140, 165
Ships, The Stability of 367
Ships, Temporary Repairs of, 596
Ships, Turret, Guns in, 40,102
Shortness of Water and Boiler Explosions, 478
Show, The Agricultural at Stockport, 252
Show, The Shrewsbury, 49
Snow, SMITHFIELD CLUB, THE:
Engine, Portable, Marshall and Sons’, 537 Thrashing Machine, Nalder’s Single Crank, 537 Thrashing Machine, Ruston and Co.’s, 537 Tipping Cart, Margetson and Hek’s, 539 Wheel, Spring, Aveling and Porter’s, 537 Wheels, Garrett and Sons’ Iron and Wood, 537 Siemens, The Late Sir William, 20 Silicious Bronze Conductors, 597 Silos and Ensilage Cutters, 55
Silurian Scorpion, A, 552
Silver and Lead Works, American, 825
Silver Ore Smelting, New Process of, 573
Silver Ores, The Amalgamation of, 134,174
Silver Voltmeter, The, 66
Simonds’ Recording Indicator for Lathes, 438
Simpson and Co.’s Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 12 Single-Crank Thrashing Machine, Nalder’s, 537 Sir William Thomson, Physical Papers by, 572 Six-Pounder Rapid-Firing Gun, 128
Slack, Utilisation of, 294
Slag, On, 482
Slags, Analyses of, 470
Slags, Blast Furnace, Use of, 401
Slate Quarries, The Palmerston, 315
Slipway and Engineering Co., the Wallsend, 145 Sluices, The Dutton, 564
Sluices at the Lough Erne Drainage Works, 268
Smelting, Silver Ore, New Process of, 573 Smith’s Chimney Lifter, 50
Smoke Nuisance in TownSj 573
Snow Shovel, A Rotary Steam, 359
Socidt^ G6n6rale des Telephones, The, 508
Society of Arts Albert Medal, The, 66
Society of Electricians, 531
Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated, 37
Society, The Ironfounders’, 168
Society, The Physical, 461, 510, 577
Solar Halo, The 394
Solar Halo, A Red, 257 Soldering Aluminium, 93 Solutions, Electric Conductivity of, CO South Africa, Irrigation in, 38
South African Diamond Fields, The, 204 South Australia, Water Supply in, 93 South-West, Notes from the, 6, 40, 00,94, 117, 127, 154,189, 215, 234, 249, 271, 304, 328, 338, 376, 386, 420, 429, 449,488, 498, 522, 556,578, 000 South-Western Railway and Board of Trade, 157 South Yorkshire, Notes from, 7, 60, 85, 107, 127, 155, 178, 198, 249, 271, 327, 339, 303, 387, 409 430, 449, 475, 498, 523, 545, 508
Spanish Gun, A New, 394
Spanish Gunboat “ Eulalia,” The, 6 Spark in Analysis, The Induction, 115 Spectacles for the Electric Light, 162 Spectrum or Firefly Light, The, 430 Speed-Trials of Steamships, On the, 599 Spinning Machinery, Brooks’s, 132, IGO Spring-Mounted Road Locomotive Engine,
J. Fowler and Company’s, 82
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Avcling and Porter’s, 537
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Burrell and Sons’, 50
Stability of Ships, The, 307 Standard Cattery, A Cheap, 41 Standard Cell, Clark’s, 395 Standard of Light, An Absolute, 596 Standard of Light, Determining the Legal, 481 Standards of Length, 45, 84, 166
Standing Order, New, 41
Starting Engines, Musgrave and Sons’, 132 State of the Navy, The, 341, 365, 389, 433, 518 Stauffer’s Lubricator, 32
Steam and Brewery Pumps, Worthington's, 450 Steam Hammer for Breaking Pig Iron, 586 Steam Pump, Evans’s, Portable “Cornish,” 221 Steam Pump, Hatton’s Double-Ram, 54 Steam Snow Shovel, A Rotary, 359
Steam Traction Work in Glasgow, 64
Steam Tramways, 541
Steam Tramways, English, Cost of Working, 69 Steamboat Equipment of War Vessels, The, 513, 581
Steamers, The Design of, 385
Steamship “Albatross,” The U.S. Fish Commission, 358
Steamship “ Arabian,” Rankin and Blackmore’s Engines and Boilers of the, 82
Steamship “Blue Jacket,” The, 145
Steamship “ County of Salop,” Engines and Boilers of the, 517, 566
Steamship “ Knickerbocker,” Jury Rudder of, 117 Steamship “Olympo,” Electric Lighting on the, 395, 428
Steamship the, 371
Steamship 163
Steamship
culating Pump for the, 575
Steamship “ Thistle,” Electric Lighting on the, 42 Steamships, On the Speed-Trials of, 599 Steel Company, The Stanner’s Close, Electric Lighting at, 428
Steel Company’s Works, The North-Eastern, 301 Steel, Crucible Cast, Manufacture of, 300,304, 349 Steel and Iron Plates, 549
Steel and Iron Works, The Ebbw Vale, 119
Steel Keys, Gallois’, 8
Steel, Manufacture of Open-Hearth, 303, 311, 316 Steel Plates, Magnetism of Thin, 207
Steel Projectiles, 479
Steel Wheels, Forged, Eyre’s, 8 steel Works Ebbw Vale, Ladle Carriage at, 406 Steen s Rail Fastening, 8 Steering of Balloons, The, 461
Steps, The Hatherley, 555
Stock, Railway Rolling, for 1883, 43
Stockman v. Muir, 483
Stockport, The Agricultural Show at, 252
Stockport ” Gas Engine, The, 280
Stoney’s Sluices at Lough Erne, 2c8 Storey and Phillips’s Jaw Chuck, 418 Stothert and Pitt’s Block Setting Machine, 270 Straightening and Centring Machine, Shaft,
Richards and Company’s, 396 Strephometer, Schow’s Pneumatic, 599 Strongest of the Bronzes, The, 17 Sub-Companies, The Brush, 572 Subjects for Papers ; The Institution of Civil Engineers, 440
Submarine Cables, 207
Sulphuric Acid Gas, Condensation of, 401 Summit of Rocky Mountains to Kamloops, 194 Sun Lamp The, at the Health Exhibition, 353 Sunshine Recorder, A Simple, 93
Sunshine Recorder, The Universal, 223 Sunshine Recorders, 162 Suspended Dredger, Hall’s, 8 Suspension Bridge, The Allegheny, 43
Circulating Synchronous Multiplex Telegraph, The, 481
GI^s Rolling, Daglish and Co.’s, 270 xaii vale Railway Co.’s Repairing Shops The 139 Tangye’s Cornwall Engineering Works 217 Tan^k Locomotive for Dutch State Railways, 348, Tannett, Walker, and Company’s Compound Ac- Teak^459^467^^’^^P^”^ Engines, 162 Tea-Preparing Machinery, 159 Technical Training, 248 Technical University, A New, 15 Telegraph, An Optical, at Mauritius, 257 Te egraph and Postal Service, The French 203 Telegraph, The Synchronous Multiplex, 481 Telegraphing with Lightships, 572 Telegraphs, The World’s, 232 Telegraphy, Delaney’s Multiplex System, 414 Telegraphy, Australian, 417 v u,
Telemeters at the Philadelphia Exhibition 457 Telephone Case, A French, 111 ’
Telephone Company, The General, 574 le ephone Patents Infringement Action, The 597 Telephone Rates, 597 ’ ’
Telephones at the Philadelphia Exhibifinn Telephones, The Soci^t6 G^nerale des, 508 * Telephony in Belgium, Trunk Line, 530
Telephony, Trunk Line, 394
Telescope, A Fixed Astronomical, 233
Tell-Tale Electric Bell, A, 347
Telpherage, 54
Temporary Repairs of Ships, 596
Tender and Hospital Ship, “ Castalia,” 406, 470
Teredo Boring, 436
TEXTILE TRADES EXHIBITION, THE : 132, 160,184 Automatic Barring Engine, 184
Batching and Damping Apparatus, 162
Cotton Belting, 133
Dyeing and Finishing Machinery, 132, 160 Hoists, 184
Influx Injectors, Holden and Brooke’s, 235 Knitting Machinery, 185
Looms, 132, 160
Machinery for Making-up Goods, 162
Mechanical Stokers, Procter’s, 134, 185
Pistons, 134,184, 125
Pumps, 133
Spinning Machinery, Brooks’, 132, 160
Starting Engines, Musgrave and Sons’, 132
Winding Frame, Hill and Brown’s, 160
Woolcombing Machine, 160
Thermal Coloured Rings, 257
Thom’s Improved Boiler Joint, 348
Thomson-Houston System, The, 529, 550
Thousand-Feet Tower, A, 574
Thrashing Machine, Foden’s, 59
Thrashing Machine, Nalder and Nalder’s, 537
Thrashing Machine, Ruston and Co.’s, 537
Tidal Harbour and Docks, The Penarth, 147
Tin Works, The Abercarn, 149
Tipping Cart, Margetson and Hek’s, 539
Torpedoes for Defence and Attack, 369
Toughening of Gold, Silver, «&;c., 347, 573
Tower, A Thousand-Feet, 574
Traction Engines, McLaren’s Spring Wheel for, 50
Traction Work in Glasgow, Steam, 64
Trade, The Coal, in 1884, 570
Trade, Iron, The Manufactured, 252
Trades Exhibition, The Textile, 132, 160, 184
Train, An Electrically Lighted, 503, 528
Training, Technical, 248
Tramways, Cable, 354, 421, 444, 469, 561
Tramways, English Steam, Cost of Working, 69
Tramways at Rio de Janeiro, 162
Tramways, Steam, 541
Transmission of Electricity, The, 508
Transmission of Power, Electrical, 343, 579
Transplanting Machines, 159
Trent River, A Roman Bridge in the, 417
Trevithick’s Engine at Crewe, 474
Trial of Sheaf-Binding Reapers, The, 162
Trial Trips and Launches, 11, 72, 107, 163, 178, 225, 258, 267, 338, 372, 396, 418, 440, 462, 483, 498, 522, 554, 574, 598
Trunk Line Telephony, 394
Tunnel, The Severn, 150
Tunnel, The Severn, Railway, 209
Turbines, The Flow of Water through, 264
Turbines, Hett’s Girard, 30
Turin Exhibition, Passenger Locomotive at, 32 Turner’s Vertical Boiler, 51
Turret Ships, Guns in, 40,102
Twin-Screw Gunboat, “Eulalia,” The Spanish, 6
Twin-Screw Triple Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Arabian,” 82
Tyne, Chemical Industries on the, 65
Tyne River, Block-Setting Machine on, 270
Tyneside Engine Works. The, 145
Type-Composing and Adjusting Machine, 80, 102

“Umbria,” s.s., Pumping Engines for the, 445
Unchagah, The Great River of Canada, 206, 231, 256, 382
Underground Conductors for Greenock, 448
Underground Haulage by Electricity, 596
Underground Wires, 595
United States Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross,” 338
United States, Notes from the, 6, 36, 68, 81, 116, 139, 163, 174, 208, 233, 258, 280, 303, 325, 348, 370, 395, 417, 428, 471, 495, 519, 554, 574, 598
Universal Gas Engine, The, 328
“Universal” Refrigerator, Lightfoot’s, 173
Universal Sunshine Recorder, The, 223
University, A New Technical, 15
Uses of the Holtz Machine, 436
Utilisation of Slack, 294

Vacuum Brake, The, 530
Vacuum Brake, Failure of the, 460
Valve Gear, Craig and Motion’s, 315 Van de Poele Dynamo, The, 435
Vapours of Heated Iron, The, 375
Verification of Weights and Measures, 20
Vertical Boiler, Blake’s, 396 I
Vertical Boiler, Turner’s, 51
Vertical Gas Engine, Crossley Brothers’, 54 Voltmeter, On a New, 236
Voltmeter, The Silver, 66
Wales, South, The Mineral Wagons of, 509
Walk, The Human, 508
Walker, Parker, and Company’s Lead Works, 287
Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co., The, 145
Wampum, 394
War Vessels, The Steamboat Equipment of, 513, 581
Water, The Flow of through Turbines, 264
Water Gas, The Use of, 325
Water, A Germ Filter for, 232
Water, Shortness of, and Boiler Explosions, 478
Water Supply, Cardiff, 93
Water Supply, The Metropolitan, 227, 393, 399
Water Supply at Newmarket, 207
Water Supply of Nottingham, 347
Water Supply in South Australia, 93
Water Works, The Chester, 314
Water Works, The Eastbourne, Moreland and
Son’s Pumping Engine at, 319, 384, 472, 520
Water Works at the Health Exhibition, 90
Weather, The, 38, 158, 228, 321, 437, 527
Weaver Navigation, The, 241, 564
Weights and Measures in Scotland, 20
Wellington and Manawatu Railway, New Zealand, 560
Westinghouse Brake, The, 408, 416
Weston System of Electric Lighting, 379
Wet Weather, Effects of, on Blast Furnaces, 584
Wheel, Spring, Aveling and Porter’s, 537
Wheel, Spring, Burrell and Co’s, 50
Wheels, Forged Steel, Eyre’s, 8
Wheels, Garrett and Sons’ Iron and Wood, 537 White, Mr. James, 215
Wimbledon, Electric Lighting at, 42
Winding Dynamos, Cardew’s Method of, 436
Winding Frame, Hill and Brown’s, 160 Winnepeg, Railways round, 25
Wire Drawing, Fine, 404
Wire Rope Works, Bullivant and Company’s, 515
Wires on Coiling, Resistance of, 394
Wires, Electric Light and Lightning, 93
Wires, Underground, 595
Wood, Petrified, 436
Wood-Working Machinery at the Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh, 89, 159
Woodhouse and Rawson’s Lamp Fittings, 324
Woolcombing Machine, Heilmann - Ducommun and Steinlen’s, 160
Working English Steam Tramways, Cost of, 69
Working Railway Signals by Electricity, 485
Works, Cornwall Engineering, 217
Works, The Cyfarthfa Iron, 111
Works, The Dee Iron, 331
Works, The Dee Oil Company’s, 277
Works, The Dowlais Iron, 125
Works, The Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel, 119
Works, The Flint Chemical, 298
Works, Iron, Tlie Dowlais and Cyfarthfa, 148
Works, Iron, The Rhymney and Ebbw Vale, 148
Works, Lead, Walker, Parker, and Co.’s, 287
Works, The Lloyd Anchor and Chain Testing,314
Works, The London and North-Western Railway, at Crewe, 309
Works, Lough Erne Drainage, Sluices at the, 268
Works at Mechernich, Germany, 541
Works, Mordey, Carney, and Company’s, 150
Works, The Mostyn Iron, 315
Works, The Rhymney Iron, 112
Works, The Sandycroft Company’s, 261
Works, Steel, The North-Eastern Company’s, 301
Works, Tin, The Abercarn, 149
Works, The Tyneside Engine, 145
Works, Walker’s Chester, 288
World’s Telegraphs, The, 232
Worthington Steam and Brewery Pumps, 450
Wreck Raising, 32

Zinc, Purifying, 257

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