Engineering 1885 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

Aberdeen Graving Dock, Centrifugal Pumps for, | 105
Accident, Penistone Railway, 109
Accidents, Railway, in Russia, 475
Accumulators, Electric, 474
Addiwell Chemical Works, The, 232
Address of the President of the American Institution of Mining Engineers, 395
Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The, 134, 140,191, 204
Address of the President of Section G, British Association, 289, 313
Ad lard Tram Rail and Clamp, The, 342
Admiralty Cruisers, Merchant Steamers as, 187
Admiralty Finance, 596
Admiralty Reform, 137
Agents, Patent, 593

Agricultural Snow, The Royal, at Preston : 51

Brickmaking Machine, Bradley and Craven’s, 80
Chaffcutter and Elevator, Carson and Toone’s, 76
Chaffcutters, Maynard’s, Automatic Fall for, 76
Chimney Raiser, Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s, 54
Combination Agricultural Implement, Evans’s, 73, 565
Corn Mill, Blackstone’s, 73
Corn Mill, Wood’s, 73
Corn Screen, Rainforth and Co.’s Adjustable, 73
Corn Sizer, Nalder and Nalder’s, 72
Domestic Motor, The Davey, 54
Drain Cleaning Rods, Murray’s, 76
Engine and Boiler, Vertical, Ruston, Proctor and Co.’s, 54
Engine, Fowler and Co.’s Coupled Traction, 80
Engine, Gas, Crossley and Co.’s Vertical Otto, 80
Engine, Horizontal, with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’, 55
Engine, Traction, and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s, 51
Engines, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 53
Engines, Fowler and Co.’s, 51
Engines, Gas, 54
Ensilage, 76
Fencing, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 80
Implements, 72
Peat Breaker, Bracher’s, 73
Pipe Joint, Corbett’s, 80
Pulveriser, Nicholson and Son’s, 74
Sack Hoist, Porrit’s, 80
Silo with Hydraulic Seal, Howard’s, 77
Silo Press, Blunt’s, 77
Silo and Silo Press, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 76
Spark Arrester, Tyrcr’s, 54
Spring Wheel, Aveling and Porter’s, 80
Tramway Sleepers, Howard’s, 77
Well Pumps, Hathorn, Davey and Co.’s, 54
Whippietrees :
Corbett’s, 77
Davey, Sleep, and Co.’s, 77
Kell, Meats, and Co.’s, 77
Knapp and Co.’s, 77
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 77
Vipan and Headley’s, 77

Ainscoughs’ Flour Mill at Burscough, 227, 277
Air, Cooling, Chambers’s System of, 5
Air, Currents of, Experiments with, 160
“ Alacrity”and “Surprise,” H.M.S., Engines and
Boilers of, 346, 399,447, 491, 536, 588
Alarm for Icebergs, 89
Allen and Co.’s Steam and Hydraulic Reversing Engine, 9
Allin’s Water Motor, 487
Alloa, The Forth Bridge at, and Railway Connections, 349
Alloys of Copper and Cobalt, 237
Almqvist’s Marine Engine Governor, 366
Amalgamation of Silver Ores, 558
America, Fire Prevention in, 520 .
American Association for the Advancement oi Science, 137
American Cotton Mills, 183
American Institute of Mining Engineers, 327
American Millionaires, 570
American Railway Speeds, 386
American Shipbuilding, 84
American Society of Civil Engineers, The, 99
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (See
Mechanical Engineers, American Society oj
American Watch Company, The Waltham, 15,62, 85
Ammeter, A Mercurial, 258
Ammonia Soda Process, The, 574
Ammonia and Tar from Blast Furnaces, 235, 387, 409, 459
Anemometer, Lcupold’s Heliostatic, 623
Anemometer, A New, 136
Antwerp, Coal and Iron at, 167
Antwerp, Electricity at, 197
Antwerp Exhibition, The, 15, 41
Antwerp Exhibition, Electric Traction at the, 571
Antwerp Exhibition, The Telephone at the, 330
Apatite Deposits of Canada, The, 371
Application of Electricity, A New, 65
Arbitrations, Iron Trade, 306
Architecture, Naval, at the Inventions Exhibition, 63, 257
Armaments, Russian, 162
Armour-Plate Manufactory, New Russian, 620
Army Service Rifle, The New, 405
Arnold’s Steam Boilers, 514
Artificial Oligist, 596
Asquith’s Radial Drilling Machine, 250
Atkinson’s Differential Gas Engine, 187
Atlantic Cable War, The, 110
Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity, Difficulties in the Observation of, 162
Australia, Engineers in, 83
Austrian Coal Mining, 307
Automatic Brakes, 548
Automatic Fire Extinguishers, 475
Automatic Vacuum Brakes, 182
Aveling and Porter’s Spring Wheel, 80
Aveling and Porter’s Steering Gear for Traction Engines, 562
Aveling and Porter’s Traction Engine and Crane, 51
Awards, Jury, 353
Axles, Breakages of on German Railways, 285

“ Bacchante ” and “ Boadicca,” H.M.S., Boilers and Engines of, 325
Balata, 161
Balloon Photograph}’, 136
Balloons, Navigable, 547
Barrow Rock Drill, The, 443
Basic Bessemer Process, The, 605
Baxter and Co.’s Stone Breaker, 441
Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s Fencing, 80
Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s Lock Nut, 433
Bavliss, Jones, and Bavliss’s Silo and Silo Press, 76
Beaumont Rock Drill, The, 442
Beck and Company’s Hose Coupling, 398
Beck and Company’s Rotary Blower, 398
Belts as Grain Conveyers, 42
Ben Nevis Observatory, 66
Ben Nevis Observatory, Experiments at, 620
Ben Nevis, Proposed Earthquake Observatinna on, 184 ns
Benson’s Great Clock for Lucknow, 199
Berlin Telegraphic Congress, The, 162
Bermuda, A Cable to, 547
Bessbrook Electrical Tramway, The, 285
Bessemer Process, The Basic, 605
Bevel Gear Cutter, Bilgram’s, 21
Beverley, Drainage at, 211
Bichromate and Nitric Acid Cells, 547
Bill Legislation, Private, 158, 569, 603
Biscuit Ware, Minton’s Apparatus for Removing
Flint Powder from, 160 0
Black Sea, Grain Elevators on the, 162
Black Sea, Port Improvements in the, 620 Blackstone’s Corn Mill, 73
Blast Furnaces, Tar and Ammonia from qqk 387,409,459 ’
Blochairn Steel Works, The, 297
Blooming Mill for Bilbao, 55
Blower, Rotary, Beck and Co.’s, 398
Blowing Engines at the Rimamurany-Salgn-
Torjaner Iron Works, 419, 466
Blunt’s Silo Press, 77
Boat, Gourbet’s Submarine Torpedo, 501
Boat, Submarine, The Nordenfelt, 334, 371
Boats, Torpedo, The New, 212, 616
Boats, Screw Ferry, 587
Boiler Drilling Machine, Holden and Brooke’s 320
Boiler Explosion, The Leeds, 332
Boiler Insurance, 426, 497
Boiler, Marine, with Cylindrical Combustion Chamber, M‘Kaig and Stitt’s, 475
Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, Booth’s, 419
Boiler and Vertical Engine, Ruston, Proctor and Co.’s, 54
Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “ Boadicea” and
“ Bacchante,” 325
Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “Surprise” and “ Alacrity,” 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 171 Boilers, Steam, Arnold’s, 514
Boilers, Steam, at the Inventions Exhibition 474
Boilers, Tubular, 409
Booth’s Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 419
Borax Supply in the United States, The, 183
Bore-Hole, The Deepest in the World, 17
Boston, U.S., Electric Lightingat, 183
Boston Sewage Works, The, 555
Bourdon Gauges, 17
Bower-Barff Process for Protecting Iron. The 41 524 ’ ’
Boyle’s System of Ventilating Railway Carriages, 313 ’
Bracher’s Peat Breaker, 73
Bradley and Craven’s Brickmaking Machine 80
Brakes, Automatic, 548
Brakes, Automatic Vacuum, 182
Brazilian Government, Stern-Wheel Steamer for the, 202
Breakages of Axles on German Railways, 285
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 452
Brickmaking Machine, Bradley and Craven’s 80
Bridge, Cantilever, A New Type of, 405
Bridge Failure at Chatham, The, 198
Bridge, The Forth, 265, 286, 386, 430, 513, 537
Bridge, The Forth, at Alloa, and Railway Connections, 349 J
Bridge, New, Across the Yarra, 184
Bridge over the Tessin River, 278
Bridge, The Tower, 405
Bridges, Iron, Decay of, 380
Lrinjes and Goodwin’s Colour-Grinding Machine,
Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, The, 117
Britannia Works, Electric Light at the, 185

British Association, The: 162, 286, 300
Address to the Mechanical Science Section, by q r7 B- ?^er’ President of the
Section, 289, 313
Apparatus for Recording Stress and Strain, by Professor W. C. Unwin, ouZ
Channel into Swansea Har-
On ?hl’ny CaPPer> 302, 347
L a Deyelopment of the Pneumatic System Ttelegraph Purposes, by Mr. J. w. Willmot, 482
n Methods of Transporting
a„,„w ^ etjeleum in the United States of oAhn n-ff by Mr- John H- Harris, 301, 346 ° PmfoD ffLion P S-’entific Knowledge, by Professor Chrystal, 300
Towi 'wl0 Lig,htin° and the Law, by Mr. Lewis Edmunds, 302
of t'he Road Engine in the Cnlnn J*?11011 Maintenance of Roads, by Colonel Innes, 302
On aBri,d8e, by Mr. A. S. Biggart, 286 ° 302^ Mlners Safety Lamp, by Mr. Swan, ° {Relm',ve Merits of Iron and Copper
P?ereecef.°301Telegraph Li"e8- by W H‘ OShaw,13e0ian5d09ROller Gear’ by ProfeSS3r IL OnwhHSp;eele%O02TeIeSraph P°’eS’ by °Ltbe Tay Viaduct, by Mr. Crawford Barlow,

Biitk:hCTOn 4° Foi‘thcoming Meeting, 40
Bri discovered, 307
Broken r late'Straightening Machine, 321
Broken Crankshafts, Repairing 385
Brunswick Condenser, The 486’
Burscough, Flour Millat, 227 277
Business of the Suez Canal, 405

Cable to Bermuda, A 547
Li® Grappling, Submarine, 161
Ca\\e\^^^ The Life of a, 351
C The^ 546 *rance» Manufacture of Submarine,
Cables, New Submarine, 380
C-^fe^^me, 398
c““i l‘«,' uitaw S: 28
Canal, The Poutiloff, 42
Candle-Making Machinery, Price’s, 3
Cantilever Bridge, A New Type of, 405
Captain, A Man-of-War, and her, 157
Carbon Filaments, New, 596
Cars, Locomotive, for the Transcaspian Railway,
Carson and Toone’s Chaff cutter and Elevator, 76
Cask-Making Machinery, Ransome and Co.’s,
Cassel Gold Extraction Process, The, 38
Cast Iron, Silicon in, 40
Cast Steel, Examination of, 17
Casting Pottery, Minton’s Compressed Air Machinery for, 159
Castings, Dynamite for Breaking, 183
Castings, Steel, 394
Catcher, A Torpedo, 512
Cathetometer, 398
Cells, Bichromate and Nitric Acid, 547
Cement, Portland, On Testing, 145
Cement, Slag as the Basis of, 524
Centenary of the Dartford Iron Works, The, 65
Central Asia, Minerals in, 285
Central Asia, A Pipe Line for, 284
Centrifugal Machine, Weston’s, 486
Centrifugal Pump for Aberdeen Graving Dock, 105
CWynnes’ 30-in.,
Chaffcutter and Elevator, Carson and Toone’s, 76
Chaffcutters, Maynard’s Automatic Fall for, 76
Chambers’ System of Cooling Air, 5
Channel, Swansea, New Deep Sea, 302, 347
Chatham, The Bridge Failure at, 198
Chatham and Devonport Roperies, The, 501
Cheap Sodium, 524
Chemical Works, The Ad di well, 232
Chilled Car Wheels, The Inaccuracies of, 572
Chimney, A Paper, 356
Chimney Lifter, J. T. Marshall and Co.’s, 573
Chimney Raiser, Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s, 54
China, The Mineral Wealth of, 307
Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for, 487
City Lighting, Incandescence Electric Lamps for, 232
Civil Engineering at the Inventions Exhibition, 1, 29, 103
Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 99

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 287, 470, 513
On Constructions in Earthquake Countries, by Mr. John Milne, 611
On Dynamo-Electric Machines, and their Engines, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 512
On Experiments on the Steam Engine Indicator, by Mr. Arthur William Brightmore, 470
On High-Speed Motors, by Mr. John Imray, 512
Premiums Awarded Session 1884-85, 287
Subjects for Papers—Session 1885-86, 287

Clark and Low’s Indicator, 41
Clark’s Transit Instruments and Lamp, 398
Clarke’s Crank and Forge Works, 147
Classes for the Study of Electricity, 357
Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Engines, 53
Cleveland Iron Trade, The, 616
Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155,179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
Clock, An Electro-Mechanical, 500
Clock at Lucknow, The Great, 199
Clydebank Shipyard and Engineering Works, The, 269
Coal-Cutting Machine, Heppel and Cranston’s, 417
Coal and Iron at Antwerp, 167
Coal Mining, Austrian, 307
Coal-Washing Machine, Sheppard’s, 511 ,
Coalfields of New South Wales, The, 547
Coalfields, The Picton, 394
Coiling Metal Tubes, Sharp’s Process of, 485
Colonial Engineers, The Disputes of, 430
Colour-Grinding Machine, Brinjes and Goodwin’s, 365
Colville and Sons’ Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, 455
Combination Agricultural Implement, Evans’s, 565
Combined Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, 588
Comet, The New, 572
Company, The John Cockerill, 382
Company, The Leeds Forge, 8
Compass Disturbance, 333
Compound Engine, Wells’s Balanced, 469
Compound Engine, The Willans Receiver, 18
Compound Locomotive (Webb’s System) for the Paulista Railway, Brazil, 614
Compound Locomotives, 329
Compound Pumping Engine; Northwich Water Works, 304
Condenser, The Brunswick, 486
Condenser, Morton’s Ejector, Engine with, 577
Conductors, Steel-Copper Electric, 522
Conference, The Telegraph, 284
Constructions in Earthquake Countries, 611
Continuous Regenerative Gas Kiln, Dunnachie’s, 367
Controversy, The Michaelovsk, 381
Convention, The Telegraph, 89
Conveyance of Petroleum, The, 334
Cooling Air, Chambers’s System of, 5
Copper and Cobalt, Alloys of, 237
Copper in Damaraland, 258
Copper, Electro-Metallurgy of, 305
Copper, Electrolytic Refining of, 13
Copper, Purification of, 40
Copper Telegraph Wires, 429
Corbett’s Whippietrees, 77
Corliss Compound Vertical Tandem Engine, Douglas and Grant’s, 609
Corn Mill, Blackstone s, 73
Corn Mill, Wood’s, 73
Corn Screen, Rainforth and Co.’s Adjustable, 73
Corn Sizer, Nalder and Nalder’s, 72
Corbett’s Pipe Joint, 80
« Coromandel,” The New Peninsular and Oriental Steamer, 125
Cotton Mills, American, 183
Cotton Seed Oil, The Manufacture of, 39
Countries, Earthquake, Constructions in, 611
Coupling Hose, Beck and Co.’s, 398
Cowles Electric Smelting Process, The, 431
Crampton’s Models at the Inventions Exhibition, 170
Crane, Sixty-Ton Steam Derrick, at Port-Glasgow, 564
Crane, The Thwaite-Neville Hoisting and Traversing, 610
Crane and Traction Engine, Aveling and Porter’s, 51
Craniology, New Methods in, 211
Crank and Forge Works, Clarke’s, 147
Crankshafts, Repairing Broken, 385
Cranston’s Rock Drill, 416
Creil Experiments, The, 378, 452, 498, 617
Crossley and Co.’s Vertical Otto Gas Engine, 80
Crude Petroleum, Transporting, 346
Cruiser, Torpedo, The “Scout,” 111
Crushing Ore, Rolls for, 463, 487
Crystallisation of Wrought Iron, The, 605
Cupola Furnace, A New, 236, 278
Curious Effects of a Thunderstorm, 380
Current of Telephone Transmitters, The, 547
Currents of Air, Experiments with, 160
Cut-out, Hedges’ Fusible, 196
Cut-out, Hedges’ Magnetic, 196
Cutter, Bevel Gear, Bilgram’s, 21

Daily Variations of the Magnetic Elements, 500
Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
Damaraland, Copper in, 258
Danger in the Distribution of Electricity, A, 356
Danger from Lightning, The Increase in the, 378
Dartford Iron Works, The Centenary of the, 65
Davey’s Differential Gear, 225
Davey Domestic Motor, The, Hathorn, Davey, and Co., 54
Davey, Sleep, and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
Davis’s Railway Signals, 536
Deacon’s Waste-Water Meter System, 490,533
Decay of Iron Bridges, 380
Deep-Sea Channel, Swansea New, 302, 347
Deepest Bore-Hole in the World, The, 17
Denny and Co.’s Engine Works, Dumbarton, 221
Deposits of Canada, The Apatite, 371
Destroyer, A Torpedo Boat, 380
Detection, Iceberg, 110
Development of Tramways, The, 519
Diamond Fields, The, 333
Difficulties in the Observation of Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity, 162
Dip Workings, Morison and Armstrong’s Pumps for, 468
Disputes of Colonial Engineers, 430
Disturbance, Compass, 333
Dock, The Grimsby, 150
Dock, Hull Alexandra, 89
Dock*, The Tilbury, 405
Dockyard, The Nicolaeff, Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
Domestip Electric Lighting, 135, 189, 545
Double-Headed Twist Drill Cutting Machine, 590
Douglas and Grant’s Corliss Compound Vertical
Tandem Engine, 609
Drain Cleaning Rods, Murray’s, 76
Drainage at Beverley, 211
Drainage of Victoria, British Columbia, The, 161
Draining the Pinsk Marshes, 457
Draper’s Self-Recording Meteorological Instruments, 535
Drawing Platinum Wire, 40
Dredger “Tilbury,” Steam, Hunter and English’s, 566
Drill, Portable Prospecting, 443
Drilling Machine, Boiler, Holden and Brooke’s, 320
Drilling Machine, Booth’s Boiler Shell, 419
Drilling Machine, Radial, Asquith’s, 250
Drilling Machines, 583
Drills, Twist, 587
Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion Mines, The, 395
Drysdale and Co.’s Centrifugal Pumps for Aberdeen Graving Dock, 105
Dunbar and Ruston’s Steam Navvy, 135, 178, 202
Duncan Brothers’ Waverley Turbine, 365
Dunnachie’s Continuous Regenerative Gas Kiln, 367
Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, Combined Perfecting and, 588
“ Dust,” Action of Electricity on, 184
Dust Fuel, Perret’s Furnace for, 401
Dynamite for Breaking Castings, 183
Dynamo-Electric Machines, 512

Early History of the Sewing Machine, 381
Early Telegraph Line, An, 137
Earthquake Countries,Construction in, 611
Earthquake Observations on Ben Nevis, Proposed, 184
Eccentric, Tripier’s Spherical, 147
Economy, Locomotive, 377
Edinburgh Exhibition, The, 379
Edinburgh, Proposed Electric Lighting in, 40
Edison’s Electric Light Standard, 619
Ejector Condenser, Morton’s Engine with, 577
Electric Accumulators, 474
Electric Launch “Volta,” The, 230

Electric Lighting :
Domestic Electric Lighting, 135, 189, 545
Edison’s Electric Light Standard, 619

Electric Hand Lamp, Merryweather’s, 250
Electric Illumination in Mills, 523
Electric Light and Guns, The, 89
Electric Light Installation, The Greenock, 49
Electric Light at Lincoln’s Inn, The, 499
Electric Light at Lloyd’s, The, 500
Electric Light on Locomotives, The, 356
Electric Light in Military Operations, The, 161
Electric Light at the Paris Opera, The, 522, 545
Electric Light at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, The, 333
Electric Light in Theatres, The, 404, 453
Electric Lighting at Boston, U.S., 183
Electric Lighting at the Britannia Works, 185
Electric Lighting in Edinburgh, Proposed, 40
Electric Lighting of Mills, The, 6, 523
Electric Lights in Ovens, 110
Electric Mains, The Size of, 14
Electricity at Antwerp, 197
Electricity in Coal Mining, The Uses of, 258

Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition, 39,64, 88, 195
Incandescence Electric Lamps for City Lighting, 232
Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
Lamps, Electric, The Macquaire-Street, 619
Lead-Encased Electric Conductors, 578
Life of Incandescence Lamps, The, 392, 439
Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
Weston Incandescent Lamp Fittings, 174
Weston Systems in the United States, The, 86
Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284

Electric Resistance of Platinoid, The, 17
Electric Smelting, 256
Electric Traction at the Antwerp Exhibition, 571
Electrical Exhibition, Another, 65
Electrical Furnace, An, 371, 620
Electrical Laboratory, A National, 545
Electrical Tramway, The Bessbrook, 235
Electrical Weathercock, An, 136
Electricity, Action of, on “ Dust,” 184
Electricity, Classes for the Study of, 357
Electricity in Coal Mining, The Uses of, 258
Electricity, A Danger in the Distribution of, 356
Electricity at the Explosion of Flood Rock, New York Harbour. 523
Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition, 39, 64 88, 195
Electricity, A New Application of, 65
Electricity, Saponification by, 405
Electricity, Stealing, 572
Electricity and Ventilation, 183
Electro-Dynamic Telephones, 17
Electro-Mechanical Clock, An, 500
Electro-Metallurgy of Copper, 305
Electrolysis, Recovery of Tin from Tin Scrap by, 18
Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 13
Elevated Railroads, Power Required on, 138
Elevated Railway, The Meigs, 587
Embanking the River Volga, 381
Endurance of Metals, The, 429
Engine, 30-in. Centrifugal Pumping, Gwynncs’, 124, 215
Engine, Compound Pumping; Northwich Water Works, 304
Engine, Douglas and Grant’s Corliss Compound Vertical Tandem, 609
Engine, The Fielding High-Speed, 104
Engine, Fowler and Co.’s Coupled Traction, 80
Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
Engine, High-Speed, Welford’s, 385
Engine, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, Holborow and Co.’s, 142
Engine, Horizontal, with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 55
Engine, Horizontal, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 250
Engine, Horizontal, Robey and Co.’s, 263
Engine and Kapp’s Dynamo, 195
Engine, Light Steam Fire, Merryweather and Sons’, 113
Engine with Morton's Ejector Condenser, 577
Engine, The Robey Semi-Portable, 135, 481
Engine, Steam and Hydraulic Reversing, Allen and Co.’s, 9
Engine, Traction, and Crane, Aveling and Porter's, 51
Engine Trials at University College, 317, 312
Engine, Umpherston’s Rag, 199
Engine, Vertical, and Boiler, Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s, 54
Engine, Wells’s Balanced Compound, 469
Engine, The Willans Receiver Compound, 18
Engine Works, Messrs. Denny and Co.’s, Dumbarton, 221
Engine Works and Shipyard, Napiers’, 271
Engineering Purposes, Sand Bags for, 333
Engineering Works and Shipyard, The Clydebank, 269
Engineers, The American Society of Civil, 99
Engineers in Australia, 83
Engineers in the Navy, 458
Engineers and Shipbuilders, North-East Coast Institution of, 434
Engineers, Telegraph, The Society of, 38,618
Engines, Blowing, at the Rimamurany-Salgo-Torjaner Iron Works, 419, 466
Engines and Boilers of H.M.S. “ Boadicea” and “ Bacchante,” 325
Engines and Boilers of H.M.S. “ Surprise” and “Alacrity,” 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 171
Engines, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 53
Engines, Fowler and Co.’s, 51
Engines, Horizontal Tandem, at the London Portland Cement Company’s Works, Northfleet, 514
Engines, Pumping, at Whitacre; Birmingham Corporation Water Works, 6, 68, 151, 249, 293
Engines, Robey’s, 205
English and American Railways, The Expenses of, 433
Ensilage at the Preston Show, 76
“ Ernest,” Thorny croft and Co.’s Nile Steamer, 541
European Railway Progress, 619
Euston-road, The Subsidence in, 596
Evans’s Combination Agricultural Implement, 565
Evolutionary Squadron, The, 18
Examination of Cast Steel, 17
“ Excelsior,” 162
Excursions of the Iron and Steel Institute, 235, 249
Excursions of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 148, 149, 150
Exhibition, Another Electrical, 65
Exhibition, The Antwerp, 15, 41
Exhibition, Antwerp, The Telephone at the, 330
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 452
Exhibition, The Edinburgh, 379
Exhibition, The Inventions (See Inventions Exhibition, The)
Exhibition, Mining, at Glasgow, 237
Exhibition, Nuremberg, 89
Exhibition of 1889, The Paris, 66
Exhibition, The Paris, 1889, and the Metropolitan Railway, 42
Exhibition, The Paris Milling, 2 ,
Expansion Gear, Automatic, Holborow and Co. s Horizontal Engine with, 142
Expedition, The Soudan, The Telegraphs of the, 498
Expenses of English and American Railways, The, 433
Experiments, The Creil, 378, 452, 498,617
Experiments with Currents of Air, 160
Explosion, Boiler, The Leeds, 332
Explosion at Hell Gate, The, 413
Explosive Gelatine, 184
Extraction of Gold, The Cassel Process, 38

Failure, The Bridge, at Chatham, 198
Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
Fairfield Works, Govan, The, 244
Fairlie, Robert F., 133
Famine in Liverpool, The Water, 619
Fatigue of Metals, The, 31
Fencing, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 80
Ferry Boats, Screw, 587
Ferry, Steam, The Isle of Wight, 124
Fielding High-Speed Engine, The, 104
Fields, The Diamond, 333
Filaments, New Carbon, 596
Films, Liquid, 41
Finance, Admiralty, 596
Fire Engine, Light Steam, Merryweather and Sons’, 113
Fire Extinguishers, Automatic, 475
Fire Prevention in America, 520
First American Telegraph, an Underground One, 620
Flamache’s Signalling and Interlocking Apparatus for Rifle Ranges, 623
Flood Rock, New York Harbour, Electricity at the Explosion of, 523
Floods, The Nile, Impounding, 241
Flour Mill at Burscough, 227, 277
Fontinettes Hydraulic Canal Lift, The, 29
Foreign-Built Torpedo Boats, 381
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 45, 90,142,192, 216, 432, 446, 471, 550, 578, 609
Foreign Statistics, 255
Forest Supply in the United States, The, 404
Forge Company, The Leeds, 8
Forge and Crank Works, Clarke’s, 147
Forges, Gasolene Vapour for, 525
Forgings, Heavy, The Manipulation of, 504, 515
Forrestt and Sons’ Stern-Wheel Steamer for the Brazilian Government, 202
Forth Bridge, The, 265, 286, 386, 430, 513, 537
Forth Bridge at Alloa and Railway Connections, The, 349
Forth Bridge Railway; Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., 386
Forth Bridge, The, and Steel Shipbuilding, 248, 264, 265
Forth Bridge Works, The, 249
Foundry and Machine Works, Wellington, 147
Four-Masted Ship, The First American, 236
Fowler and Co.’s Coupled Traction Engine, 80
Fowler and Co.’s Engines, 51
Fowler’s Tip Wagon, 361
France, The Telephone in, 547
French Metallurgical Industry, 524
Frodingham, The Iron Industry of, 146,177
Fuel, Peat, 501
Fuel, Petroleum as, 572
Fuel Problem, A Professional Inventor and the, 430
Furnace for Dust Fuel, Perret’s, 401
Furnace, An Electrical, 371, 620
Furnace, A New Cupola, 236, 278
Furnace, The Stetefeldt, 293
Furnaces, Heating by Radiation, The Siemens System of, 594
Furnaces at the Inventions Exhibition, 284
Furness and Co.’s Tenoning Machine, 289
Fuzes, Wire, Safety, 183

Gardner Machine Gun, The Improved, 152
Garrett and Sons’ Spark Catcher, 562, 573
Gas Cavities in Rolled Iron, 334
Gas Commission, The Natural, 357
Gas Engine, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
Gas Engine, Crossley and Co.’s Vertical Otto, 80
Gas Engines at the Preston Show, 54
Gas and other Illuminants at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
Gas Kiln, Dunnachie’s Continuous Regenerative 367 ’
Gas, Natural, 17, 36, 55
Gas, Water, 426
Gasolene Vapour for Forges, 525
Gauge Dimensions, Standards of Lengths Annlied to, 579, 624 F
Gauges, Bourdon, 17
Gear, Davey’s Differential, 225
Gearing, The Transmission of Power by, 605
Gelatine, Explosive, 184
Gibbon Rail Joint, The, 342
Gland Packing, The Jerome, 160
Glass, Perforating, by Electricity, 40
Glengarnock Steel Works, The, 175
Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, The, 167
Glover’s Screen, 511
Gold Extraction Process, The Cassel, 38
Gold Mines, The Montague, 394
Gold Mines, The Nova Scotia, 370
Gold, Volatilisation of, 457
Gorman, Mr. William, Glasgow, 548
Gourbet’s Submarine Torpedo Boat, 501
Governor, McFarlane’s, 514
Governor, Marine Engine, Almqvist’s, 366
Gower, Mr., 236
Grain Conveyors, Belts as, 42
Grain Elevators on the Black Sea, 162
Graving Dock, Aberdeen, Centrifugal Pumns for, 105 . p
Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster. The 123 * ’
Greely, Major, on the Polar Sea, 620
Greenock Electric Light Installation, The, 491
Greenwood and Batley’s Double-Headed Twist-Drill Cutting Machine, 590
Greenwood and Batley’s Milling Machinery, 221
Grimsby Dock, The, 150
Grinding Machine Twist Drill, Sterne and Company’s, 319
Guano and Oil, Menhaden, 3
Gulland’s Diamond Rock Drill, 510
Gun, Machine, The Improved Gardner, 152
Gunboat Flotilla for the Amoor, Russian, 547
Gunboat, The “Irrawaddy,” 551
Gunboat, A New Russian, 356
Gunboats, Torpedo, The Proposed New, 429
Guns and the Electric Light, 89
GWynnes’ 30-in. Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 124, 215

Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, 487
Hall’s Train Communicator, 486
Hallside Works, The, 295
Harbour Works, Newhaven, 1
Harvey Rolled Screw, The, 185
Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s Domestic Motor, 54
Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s Well Pumps, 54
Heat, Solar, 531
Heating Furnaces by Radiation, The Siemens System of, 594
Heavy Forgings, The Manipulation of, 504, 515
Hedges’ Fusible Cut-out, 196
Hedges’, Magnetic Cut-out, 196
Hedges’ Speed Indicator, 195
Heliostatic Anemometer, Leupold’s, 623
Hell Gate, The Explosion at, 413
Hell Gate, Improvements to, 381
Heppel and Cranston’s Coal-Cutting Machine, 417’
H.M. Twin-Screw Torpedo Cruiser “ Scout,” 111
H.M.S. “Hero,” 429
H.M.S. “ Irrawaddy,” 551
H.M.S. “Surprise” and “Alacrity,” Engines and Boilers of, 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
Herat, The Railway Race to, 258
Hick, Hargreaves and Co.’s Horizontal Engine, 250
Higginson’s Portable Hydraulic Rivetter, 250
High Altitudes, Towns at, 546
High-Level Thames Tunnel, A, 154
High-Speed Engine, The Fielding, 104
High-Speed Engine, Welford’s, 385
High-Speed Motors, 512
Hill’s Fastening for Railway Carriage Windows, 160
Hoisting and Traversing Crane, The Thwaite-Neville, 610
Holborow and Co.’s Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, 142
Holden and Brooke’s Boiler Drilling Machine, 320
Holman’s Rock Drill, 418
Horizontal Blowing Engines at the Rimamurany-Salgo-Torjaner Iron Works, 419, 466
Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, Holborow and Co.’s, 142
Horizontal Engine with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 55
Horizontal Engine, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 250
Horizontal Engine, Robey and Co.’s, 263
Horizontal Tandem Engines at the London Portland Cement Co.’s Works, Northfleet, 514
Hose Coupling, Beck and Co.’s, 398
Houses, Insanitary, 65
Howard’s Silo with Hydraulic Seal, 77
Howard’s Tramway Sleepers, 77
Huddersfield Station Roof, The, 385
Hudson’s Bay Trade Route, The Proposed, 457
Hull Alexandra Dock, 89
Hull and Barnsley Railway, Works on the, 258
Hunter and English’s Steam Dredger “ Tilbury,” 566
Hurdy-Gurdy Water-Wheel, Pelton’s, 433
Hydraulic Canal Lift, The Fontinettes, 29
Hydraulic Canal Lift, La Louviandre, 103
Hydraulic Hoist, Smith and Stevens’s, 366
Hydraulic Pressure, Making Lead Sheets by, 136
Hydraulic Propulsion, 26, 584
Hydraulic Rivetter, Higginson’s Portable, 250
Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery, Smith and Co.’s, 321
Hydraulic and Steam Reversing Engine, Allen and Co.’s, 9
Hydrogen in Zinc Dust, 500
Hygrometers, New, 17

Iceberg Detection, 110
Icebergs, Alarm for, 89
Illuminants, Gas and other, at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
Illuminants, Lighthouse, 212, 476
Implements at the Preston Show, 72
Impounding the Nile Floods, 241
Improvements to Hell Gate, 381
Inaccuracies of Chilled Car Wheels, The, 572
Incandescence Electric Lamps for City Lighting, 232
Incandescence Lamps, The Life of, 392, 439
Incandescent Carbons, Radiation from, 18
Incandescent Lamp Fittings, Weston, 174
Increase in the Danger from Lightning, The, 378
India, Railways in, 615
Indicator, Clark and Low’s, 41
Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
Indicator, Rogers’s Station, 160
Indicator, Telegraph, Lieutenant Lloyd’s, 324
Indicator, Train Pipe, Kapteyn’s, 348
Industrial Growth at Warsaw, 457
Influence of Oil on Synchronism, 40
Insanitary Houses, 65
Installation, The Greenock Electric Light, 49
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The
North-East Coast, 434
Insulating Stem, A New, 333
Insurance, Boiler, 426, 497
Integraph, A New, 333
Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic, 487
Interlocking and Signalling Apparatus for Rifle Ranges, 623

Inventions Exhibition, The :
Boilers, Steam, 474
Candle-Making Machinery, Price’s, 3
Civil Engineering, 1, 29, 103
Electricity, 39, 64, 88, 195
Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
’lNVBSii^^“’oJtal?with con^ Expan-Engine, Hr01J/°JborJ>w and Co.’s, 142
Eng^e Horizontal, Hiek, Hargreaves, and
Co.’s, 250 , ■Rohey and Co.’s, 263
Wi“’S'iSrf'n“»mo*ws
Furnaces, 284 IUuminant3> 109, 133, 193
Hm-vey ^^^Kwing, 104 Londm^and ^North-Western Railway S.gnals,
Machine Tools, 221, 319 Mi-eC^SW^355’ 365’485
Permanent Way, 341, 3/9
Physical Science, 398, 5-1,wi
Pumping Machinery, 208, 39o
w.S cw»y. » ®. ®
Washing Machinery, 30/

Iron and Coal at Antwerp 167
Iron Conference in Russia, __
Iron Industry of Frodingham, The, 146,17 7
Iron Lighthouses, 258

Iron and Steel Institute, The . -34, -40
E CWdebank^hip^ard and Engineering Works, 269
Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
Fairfield Works, Govan, The, 244
Forth Bridge Works, The, 249
Glengarnock Steel Works, The, 1/5
Union Iron Works, Johnstone, Shanks, and
Works’oT the Steel Company of Scotland, The:
Blochairn Steel Works, The, 297
Hallside Works, The, 295 .
On the Forth Bridge, by Mr. Benjamin Baker, 248,265 , , . t t
On the Iron Trade of Scotland, by Mr. F. J. Rowan, 234, 337, 362
On Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing Purposes, by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 36, 55
On a New Form of Cupola Furnace, by Mr. James Riley, 236, 278
On the Present Position and Prospects of Processes for the Recovery of Tar and Ammonia from Blast Furnaces, by Mr. William Jones, 235 387 409 459
On the Rise and Progress of the Scotch Steel Trade, by Mr. James Riley, 228, 234
On Shipbuilding, by Mr. J. H. Biles, 248, 264
On the Value of Silicon Pig to the Ironfounder, by Mr. Charles Wood, 246, 263

Iron and Steel Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
Iron Trade Arbitrations, 306
Iron Trade, The Cleveland, 616
Iron Trade of Scotland, The, 234, 337, 362
Iron Trade, Sliding Scales in the, 132
Iron Works, The Britannia, Gainsborough, 117
Iron Works, The Globe, Lincoln, 167
Iron Works, The Sheaf, 95
Iron Works, The Spittlegate, 71
Iron Works, The Trent, Newark, 148
Iron Works, The Union, Johnstone, 319
Ironfounder, The Value of Silicon Pig to the, 246, 263
“Irrawaddy,” H.M.S., 551
Isle of Wight Steam Ferry, The, 124

Jail, A Revolving, 619
Jerome Gland Packing, The, 160
Joining the Volga and Don, 334
Joints, Rivetted, 19, 43
John’s Automatic Sprinkler, 572
Jury Awards, 353

Kapp’s Dynamo and Engine, 195
Kapteyn’s Train Pipe Indicator, 348
Kell, Meats, and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
Kilbowie, The Singer Manufacturing Company’s Works at, 210, 224
Knapp and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77

La Guaira and Caracas Railway, The, 299,344,372
Laboratory, A National Electrical, 545
Lamp Fittings, Incandescence, Weston, 174
Lamp, Hand, Merryweather’s Electric, 250
Lamps, Electric, The Macquaire-Street, 619
Lamps, Incandescence Electric, for City Lighting, 232
Lamps, Incandescence, The Life of, 392,439
Launch, The Electric, “ Volta,” 230
i^nCnes and Trial Trips. 20, 68, 81, 112, 129, la?’ 288> 33G> 350, 383, 432, 446, 470, obo, 625
T Ann phe Pa*ent> 37. 61,131, 425, 473
T pna’«uCafed>Electric Conductors, 573
1 cart CT Ma!cing> by Hydraulic Pressure, 136
Lead SWh’?ng7 A.Ncw Process of, 107
t r ^bite, Again, 458
t £011er ExPlosion, The, 332
Leeds Forge Co, The, 8
Mceste'r n<J?rivate Bi», 158, 569, 603
t o 15? ’ Sewa£e at, 259
Uven ShU eUrt8lSJ.ic Anemometer, 623
Leven Shipyard, The, 219
LReofaTnndoMTey’s Automatic Safety Gear, 441
Life ofa 8hnneSCe«rCe Lamps, The, 392, 439
Lift CannS1h^°WvVater Cablc> The. 354
Lift Cana ’ Ther lontmettes Hydraulic 29
Light fu1 \La bouvitre, Hydraulic, 103
Light -Hie Fl10’?-the Britannia Works, 185
Light Th! Feet^C> and Guns- 89
Light Th! F !2jr-IC’ aJ Lincoln’s Inn, 499
Light Flp„?-eCtnc’ at Lloyd’s, 500
Light, Electric, on Locomotives, 356
Light, Electric, at the Paris Opera, The, 522, 545
Light, The Electric, at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, 333
Light, The Electric, in Theatres, 404, 453
Light Installation, The Greenock Electric, 49
Light Standard, Edison’s Electric, 619
Light, White, Standards of, 578
Lighthouse Illuminants, 212,476
Lighthouses, Iron, 258
Lighting, Domestic Electric, 135, 189, 545
Lighting, Electric, at Boston, U.S., 183
Lighting, Electric, in Edinburgh, Proposed, 40
Lighting, The Electric, of Mills, 6, 523
Lighting, Electric, The Weston Systems of, in the United States, 86
Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
Lightning Conductors on Washington Monument, 212
Lightning, The Increase in the Danger from, 378
Lights, Electric, in Ovens, 110
Lincoln, The Globe Works, 167
Lincoln, The Stamp End Works, 98
Lincoln’s Inn, The Electric Light at, 499
Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide, The Use of, 524
Liquid Films, 41
Liverpool Water Works, 285
Lloyd’s, The Electric Light at, 500
Lloyd’s Telegraph Indicator, 324
Loans for Public Works in New South Wales, 89
Lock Nut, Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss’s, 433
Locomotive, American Inventions upon the, 308
Locomotive Cars for the Transcaspian Railway, 500
Locomotive Compound (Webb’s System) for the Paulista Railway, Brazil, 614
Locomotive Economy, 377
Locomotive for the Paulista Railway, San Paulo, Brazil, 34
Locomotive Performances, 282
Locomotive, Steam Tramway, Merry weather and Sons’, 227
Locomotive, Tank ; La Guaira and Caracas Railway, 299, 372
Locomotives, Compound, 329
Locomotives, Electric Light on, 356
Log Mines in the United States, 183
London and North-Western Railway Signals, The, 468
London Portland Cement Company’s Works, Northfleet, 514
Longitudes of Paris and Milan, The, 596
Louvifcre Hydraulic Canal Lift, La, 103
Low Countries, Tramways in the, 212
Lucas’s Temporary Rudder, 324
Lucknow, The Great Clock at, 199

Macfarlane, Mr. Walter, 431
McFarlane’s Governor, 514
M‘Kaig and Stitt’s Marine Boiler with Cylindrical Combustion Chambers, 475
Machine, Boiler Shell Drilling, Booth’s, 419
Machine, Coal-Cutting, Heppel and Cranston’s, 417
Machine, Colour-Grinding, Brinjes and Goodwin’s, 365
Machine, Combined Planing and Slotting, 227
Machine Gun, The Improved Gardner, 152
Machine, Planing, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s, 224
Machine, Plate-Flattening, Rushworth and Co’s 9
Machine, Plate-Straightening, Britton’s, 321 ,
Machine, Plate-Straightening, Scriven and Co. s, 621
Machine, Radial Drilling, Asquith’s, 250 '
Machine, Saw-Sharpening, Sterne and Co. s, 319
Machine, Taylor’s Road-Sweeping 337
Machine, Tenoning, Furness and Co. s, 289
Machine Tools, 583
Machine Tools at the Inventions Exhibition, 221, 319
Machine, Twist Drill Cutting, Double-Headed, 590
Machine Works, Wellington Foundry and, 147
Machinery, Candle-Making, Price’s, 3
Machinery, Cask-Making, Ransome and Co. s, 1 150 . •
Machinery, Pumping, at the Inventions Exhibition, 208, 395 .
Machinery, Washing, at the Inventions Exhibi
Machinery, Worssam’s Wood-Working, 418,
Machines, Dynamo-Electric, 512
Machines, Topography of, 22
Macquaire-Street Electric Lamps, The, 619
Magnesium, The Manufacture of, 522
Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456
Mains, Electric, The Size of, 14
Man-of-War and her Captain, A, 157
Manipulation of Heavy Forgings, The, 504, 51a
Manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil, The, 39
Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522
Marine Engine Governor, Almqvist s, 36b
Marshal^ J- T. and Co.’s Chimney Lifter, 562
Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s Chimney Raiser, 54
Maynard’s Automatic Fall for Chaffcutters, /6
Maynard and Cooke’s Method of Constructing River Tunnels, 154
Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17

Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 456, 555, 586
Boston Sewage Works, The, 555
On the Basic Bessemer Process, by Professor Egleston, 605
On the Crystallisation of Wrought Iron, by Mr. Win. Hill, 605 ..
On Improvements in Ferry Boats, by Mr. wu liam Cowles, 587 v
On the Meigs Elevated Railway System, by mt. Francis E. Galloupe, 587 , __ aa
On the Rating of Steam Boilers by Horee-Power for Commercial Use, by 1 rofessors Trowbridge and Richards, 586
On Standard Pipe and Pipe Threads, by mi. George M. Bond, 605 . .
On the Transmission of Power by Gearing, uj Mr. Wilfred Lewis, 605
On Twist Drills, by W. H. Thome, 587
Other Papers, 608 .

Mechanical Engineers, The Institution ot .
Address of the President, 134,140,191, 204
Description of Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, A, by M. Louis Pollion, 147
Gainsborough and Doncaster, 150
Grantham and Newark, 148
Grimsby and Frodingham, 150
Trent Iron Works, Newark, The, 148
On Dunbar and Ruston’s Steam Navvy, by Mr. Joseph Ruston, 135,178, 202
On the Iron Industry of Frodingham, by Mr. George Dove, 146, 177
On Private Installations of Electric Lighting, by Mr. Ralph H. C. Nevile, 135,189
On Recent Applications of the Robey Semi-Portable Engine, by Mr. John Richardson, 135 481
Research Committee on Rivetted Joints, Abstract of Results of Experiments on Rivetted Joints, with their Applications fo Practical Work, by Professor Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 19, 43
Visits to Works :
Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, The, 117
Clarke’s Crank and Forge Works, 147
Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, The, 167
Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster, The, 123
Sheaf Iron Works, 95,135
Spittlegate Iron Works, The, 71
Stamp End Works, Lincoln, The, 98,135
Wellington Foundry and Machine Works, 147

Mechanical Telephone, The, 89
Mechanical Telephone, A New 111
Mechanism, Sphere and Roller, 509
Meeting of the British Association, “ Section A” at the Forthcoming, 40
Meigs Elevated Railway, The, a87
Memorial, The Siemens, 543
Memorial, The Trevithick, 456
Menhaden Oil and Guano, 3 .
Merchant Steamers as Admiralty Cruisers, 187
Mercurial Ammeter, A, 258 #
Merryweather and Sons’ Light Steam Fire En-
Merry weather and Sons’ Steam Tramway Locomotive, 227 . . TT J T AEA
Merry weather’s Electric Hand Lamp, -oO
Messenger’s Valve, 43
Metallurgical Industry , French, 524
Metallurgy, Position of America in, 357
Metals, The Endurance of, 429
Metals, The Fatigue of, 31
“ Meteor ” s.s., Engines and Boilers of the, 171
Meteorological Instruments, Draper’s Self-Re-
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 512, 590
Meter System, Deacon s Waste-Water, 490, 533
Methods in Craniology, New, 211
Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 259, 354, 458, 546
Michaelovsk Controversy, The, 381
Microbes from Water, Removing, 111
Microtome, Caldwell’s Automatic, 398
Midland and North-Eastern Railways Rollin0 Stock, The, 25 .
Military Operations, The Electric Light in, 161
Mill, Blooming, for Bilbao, 55
Mill, Flour, at Burscough, 227, 277
Milling Exhibition, The Paris, 2
Milling Machinery, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley’s, 221
Millionaires, American, 570
Mills, Cotton, American, 183
Mills, Electric Illumination in, 6, 523
Mineral Oil Industry, The Scottish, 406
Mineral Wealth of China, The, 307
Minerals in Central Asia, 285
Mines, The Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion, oVo
Mines, Log, in the United States, 183
Mining Conference at Warsaw, 524

Mining Engineers, The American Institute of : 367, 394, 427
Address of the President, 395
Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion Mines, lhe, 395
Montague Gold Mines, The, 394
On an Electrical Furnace for Reducing Refractory Ores, by Dr. Sterry Hunt, 371
On the Nova Scotia Gold Mines, by Mr. Edward Gilpin, 370 ,
On the Picton Coalfields, by Henry S. Poole, 394 r. , »
On the Present Value of Steel Castings, by A. V. Abbott, 394 B .
Studies of the Apatite Deposits of Canada, oj Dr. Sterry Hunt, 371

Mining Exhibition at Glasgow, 237
Mining Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 416, 443, 510 . _ , „ t -
Minton’s Apparatus for Removing Flint 1 ow aei from Biscuit Ware, 160 n ..
Minton’s Compressed Air Machinery for Uastmo Pottery, 159 .
Mirrors, Spherical, for Solar Signalling, 596
Miscellanea, 9, 33, 66, 90,112, 138, 163, l«o, 229, 260, 288, 312, 336, 351, 375, 400, 431, 44», 467, 503, 517, 540, 563, 596, 622 1?vbiW.
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Inventions Bx tion, 159, 365, 485
Models, Crampton’s, at the Inventions dx tion, 170
Montague Gold Mines, The, 394
Mouthpiece to Telephones, 110 w ,
Morison and Armstrong’s Pumps for Dip w o ings, 468
Mortars, 212 .
Morton’s Ejector Condenser, Engine with, m /
Motor, The Davey Domestic, Hathorn, Dav y» and Co., 54
Motors, High-Speed, 512
Mount Kearsarge Railroad, 111
Muirhead, Mr. John, 322
Murray’s Drain Cleaning Rods, 76

Nalder and Nalder’s Corn Sizer, 72
Napiers’ Shipyard and Engine Works, 2/1
National Electrical Laboratory, A, 545 Natural Gas, 36, 55
Natural Gas in America, 17
Natural Gas Commission, The, 357
Naval Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition, 63, 257
Naval Progress, Russian, 41
Navigable Balloons, 547
Navigation of the Oxus, The, 572
Navvy, Steam, Dunbar and Ruston’s, 135,178, 202
Navy, Engineers in the, 458
Navy Estimates, Russian, for 1886, 308
New South Wales, The Coalfields of, 547
New York, New Water Supply for, 184
New York, Notes from, 308
New Zealand Railways, 137
Newhaven Harbour Works, 1
Niagara Park, The, 500
Niagara, The Recession of, 212
Nicholson and Son’s Pulveriser, 74
Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
Nile Floods, Impounding the, 241
Nile Steamer “ Ernest,” Thornycroft and Co.’s, 541
Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
Nordenfelt Submarine Boat, The, 334, 371
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 434
North-Eastern and Midland Railways, The, 25
Northwich Water Works, Compound Pumping Engine for the, 304

Notes :
Admiralty Finance, 596
Admiralty Reform, 137
Alarm for Icebergs, 89
Alloys of Copper and Cobalt, 237
America, Position of, in Metallurgy, 357
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 137
American Inventions upon the Locomotive, 308
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 456
Ammonia Soda Process, The, 574
Anemometer, A New, 136
Antwerp Exhibition, The, 41
Application of Electricity, A New, 65
Armour-Plate Manufactory, New Russian, 620
Artificial Oligist, 596
Atlantic Cable War, The, 110
Austrian Coal Mining, 307
Automatic Brakes, 548
Automatic Fire Extinguishers, 475
Balata, 161
Balloon Photography, 136
Belts us Grain Conveyers, 42
Ben Nevis Observatory, 66
Ben Nevis Observatory, Experiments at, 620
Berlin Telegraphic Congress, The, 162
Bessbrook Electrical Tramway, The, 285
Bichromate and Nitric Acid Cells, 547
Borax Supply in the United States, The, 183
Bourdon Gauges, 17
Bower-Barff Process for Protecting Iron, The, 41, 524
Breakage of Axles on German Railways, 285
Bridge Across the Yarra, New, 184
British Association, The, 162
British Territory, Newly Discovered, 307
Business of the Suez Canal, 405
Cable to Bermuda, A, 547
Cantilever Bridge, A New Type of, 405
Carbon Filaments, New, 596
Centenary Of the Dartford Iron Works, The, 65
Chatham and Devonport Roperies, The, 501
Cheap Sodium, 524
Clark and Low’s Indicator, 41
Classes for the Study of Electricity, 357
Coalfields of New South Wales, The, 547
Comet, The New, 572
Company, The John Cockerill, 382
Compass Disturbance, 333
Conveyance of Petroleum, The, 334
Copper in Damaraland, 258
Copper Telegraph Wires, 429
Cowles Electric Smelting Process, The, 431
Craniology, New Methods in, 211
Curious Effect of a Thunder, "orm, 380
Current of Telephone Transmitters, The, 517
Daily Variations of the Magnet Elements, 500
Danger in the Distribution of Electricity, A, 356
Decay of Iron Bridges, 380
Deepest Bore-Hole in the World, The, 17
Diamond Fields, The, 333
Difficulties in the Observation of Atmospheric
Temperature and Humidity, 162
Disputes of Colonial Engineers, The, 430
Drainage at Beverley, 211
Drainage of Victoria, British Columbia, The, 161
Draining the Pinsk Marshes, 457
Dynamite for Breaking Castings, 183
Early History of the Sewing Machine, 381
Earthquake Observations on Ben Nevis, Proposed, 184
Electric Illumination in Mills, 523
Electric Light in Military Operations, The, 161
Electric Light and Guns, The, 89
Electric Light at Lloyd’s, The, 500
Electric Light on Locomotives, 356
Electric Light at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, 333
Electric Lighting at Boston, U.S., 183
Electric Lighting in Edinburgh, Proposed, 40
Electric Lights in Ovens, 110
Electric Resistance of Platinoid, The, 17
Electrical Exhibition, Another, 65
Electrical Furnace, An, 620
Electrical Weathercock, An, 136
Electricity, Action of, on “ Dust,” 184
Electricity at the Explosion of Flood Rock,
New York Harbour, 523
Electricity and Ventilation, 183
Electro-Dynamic Telephones, 17
Electro-Mechanical Clock, An, 500
Embanking the River Volga, 381
Endurance of Metals, The, 429
Engineers in the Navy, 458
European Railway Progress, 619
Evolutionary Squadron, The, 18
Notes—continued.
Examination of Cast Steel. 17
Excelsior,” 162
Explosive Gelatine, 184
Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
Foreign-Built Torpedo Boats, 381
Forth Bridge, The, 430
Four-Masted Ship, The First American, 236
Gas Cavities in Rolled Iron, 331
Gasolene Vapour for Forges, 525
Glass, Perforating, by Electricity, 40
Gower, Mr., 236
Grain Elevators on the Black Sea, 162
Greely, Major, on the Polar Sea, 620
Gunboat Flotilla for the Amoor, Russian, 547
Gunboat, A New Russian, 356
Harvey Rolled Screw, The, 185
H.M.S. “Hero,” 429
Hudson’s Bay Trade Route, The Proposed, 457
Hull, Alexander Dock, 89
Hydrogen in Zinc Dust, 500
Hygrometers, New, 17
Iceberg Detection, 110
Improvements to Hell Gate, 381
Inaccuracies of Chilled Car Wheels, The, 572
Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
Industrial Growth of Warsaw, 457
Influence of Oil on Synchronism, 40
Insanitary Houses, 65
Insulating Stem, A New, 333
Integraph, A New, 333
Inventor of the Weigh Bridge, The, 429
Iron Conference in Russia, 285
Iron Lighthouses, 258
Iron and Steel Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
Jail, A Revolving, 619
Joining the Volga and Don, 334
John’s Automatic Sprinkler, 572
Lamps, Electric, The Macquaire-Street, 619
Lead-Encased Electric Conductors, 573
Lead Sheets, Making, by Hydraulic Pressure, 136
Light Standard, Edison’s Electric, 619
Lighthouse Illuminants, 212, 476
Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
Lightning Conductors on Washington Monument, 212
Liquid Films, 41
Liverpool Water Works, 285
Loans for Public Works in New South Wales, 89
Locomotive Cars for the Transcaspian Railway, 500
Log Mines in the United States, 183
Longitudes of Paris and Milan, The, 596
Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456
Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522
Manufacture of Submarine Cables in France, The, 546
Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
Mechanical Telephone, The, 89, 111
Mercurial Ammeter, A ,258
Metallurgical Industry, French, 524
Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 259
Michaelovsk Controversy, The, 381
Mineral Wealth of China, The, 307
Minerals in Central Asia, 285
Mining Conference at Warsaw, 524
Mining Exhibition at Glasgow, 237
Mortars, 212
Mount Kearsarge Railroad, 111
Mouthpiece to Telephones, 110
Natural Gas in America, 17
Natural Gas Commission, The, 357
Navigable Balloons, 547
Navigation of the Oxus, The, 572
New Zealand Railways, 137
Niagara Park, The, 500
Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
Nuremberg Exhibition, 89
Obituary of a Howell Torpedo, The, 258
Operatic Telephony, 572
Overland Telegraph to India, The, 380
Paper Chimney, A, 356
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 66
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 65
Paris Metropolitan Railway and the 1889 Exhibition, The, 42
Peat Fuel, 501
Petroleum as Fuel, 572
Petroleum Steamers for the Black Sea, 308
Pipe Line for Central Asia, A, 284
Platinum Wire, Drawing, 40
Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 620
Port at Sebastopol, The New, 547
Poutiloff Canal, The, 42
Power Required on Elevated Railroads, 138
Prediction of Tornadoes, 523
Professional Inventor and the Fuel Problem A, 430
Propulsion of Vessels, A New Method of, 500
Protection to the Obelisk at New York, 547
Protractor, A New, 163
Purification of Copper, 40
Purification of the Thames, The, 111
Radiation from Incandescent Carbons, 18
Railway Accidents in Russia, 475
Railway Race to Herat, The, 258
Recession of Niagara, The, 212
Recovery of Tin from Tin Scrap by Electrolysis,
Reduction of Ore by Electrolysis, 333
Remarkable Solar Protuberance, A, 258
Removing Microbes from Water, 111
Rifle, The New Army Service, 405
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 66
Russian Armaments, 162
Russian Duty on Steamers, Proposed, 357
Russian Naval Progress, 41
Russian Navy Estimates for 1886, 308
Russian Trade, 572
Sand Bags for Engineering Purposes, 333
Saponification by Electricity, 405
Scottish Mineral Oil Industry, The, 4C6
Sea Temperatures, 524
“ Section A” at the Forthcoming Meeting of the British Association, 40
Sewage at Leicester, 259
Signalling in War, 89
Silicon in Cast Iron, 40
Siphon Recorder, The, 212
Slag as the Basis of Cement, 524
Soaking Pits with Fires, 285
Solar Heat Recorder, A New, 259
South African Railways, 66
South African Telegraphy, 184
Spherical Mirrors for Solar Signalling, 596
Stealing Electricity, 572
Steamboat Subsidies in Russia, 258
Steel-Copper Electric Conductors, 522
Storms on Subterranean Telegraph Lines, 17
Submarine Cable Grappling, 161
Submarine Cables, New, 380
Subsidence in Euston-road, The, 596
Sunlight, Recent Researches on, 17
Telegraph Conference, The, 284
Telegraph Convention, The, 89
Telegraph Line, An Early, 137
Telegraph, an Underground One, The First American, 620
Telephone in France, The, 547
Telephone in Paris, The, 65
Teletopometer, The, 284
Telpher Railway, An Actual, 406
Thermal Telephone, The, 500
Tilbury Docks, The, 405
Timber Growth on the Pacific Coast of the United States, 161
Tornadoes in the United States, 259
Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A, 380
Torpedo Boat, A Russian, 500
Torpedo Boats, The New, 212
Torpedo Gunboats, The Proposed New, 429
Torpedo Scandal, A Russian, 475
Tower Bridge, The, 405
Towns at High Altitudes, 546
Tramways in the Low Countries, 212
Transmission of Signals by the Telephone, Automatic, 574
Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, The, 525
Treatment of Old Zinc, 405
Trevithick Memorial, The, 456
Tyndall Scholarships in America, 110
Unmagnetisable Steel, 380
Use of Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide The, 524
Use of Rice in Brewing, The, 137
Uses of Electricity in Coal Mining, The, 258
Utilisation of Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, 457
Volatilisation of Gold, 457
Volt, A Standard, 429
Water Famine in Liverpool, The, 619
Water Supply for New York, New, 184
Water Supply, Pure, 17
Water Wells at Samara, 162
White Lead Again, 458
Wind Producer, A, 308
Wind Velocity of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
Wire Belts for Stone Cutting, 546
Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
Work Exhibition in Paris, 40
Works on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 258

Notes from Cleveland, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 45, 90, 142, 192, 216, 432, 446, 471, 550, 578, 609
Notes from New York, 308
Notes from the North, 10, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 154, 179, 201, 238, 262, 279, 303, 334, 374, 401, 423, 448, 471, 495, 516, 552, 566, 592, 626
Notes from the South-West, 11, 32, 58, 91, 105, 128, 155, 178, 201, 238, 262, 278, 303, 335, 350, 383, 402, 436, 447, 470, 502, 517, 551, 579, 600, 626
Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 470, 502, 516, 552, 567, 592
Notes from the United States, 19, 35, 80, 125, 151, 187, 213, 260, 287, 309, 322, 361, 372, 409, 419, 444, 469, 501, 515, 541, 577, 609
Nova Scotia Gold Mines, The, 370
Nuremberg Exhibition, 89
Nut, Lock, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 433

Obelisk at New York, Protection to the, 547
Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Obituary of a Howell Torpedo, The, 258
Observatory, Ben Nevis, 66
Observatory, The Ben Nevis, Experiments at, 620
Oil, Cotton Seed, The Manufacture of, 39
Oil and Guano, Menhaden, 3
Oil, Influence of, on Synchronism, 40
Oligist, Artificial, 596
Opera, the Paris, The Electric Light at, 522, 545
Operatic Telephony, 572
Operations, Military, The Electric Light in, 161
Ore, Rolls for Crushing, 463, 487
Ore Separator, Scott’s, 160
Ores, Reduction of, by Electrosis, 333
Ormerod, Grierson, and Co.’s Horizontal Tandem Engines at the London Portland Cement Co’s Works, Northfleet, 514
Otto v. Steel, 618
Ovens, Electric Lights in, 110
Overland Telegraph to India, The, 380
Oxus, The Navigation of the, 572

Pacific Coast of the United States, Timber Growth on the, 161
Palermo, Water Works for, 185
Paper Chimney, A, 356
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 66
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 65
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, and the 1889 Exhibition, 42
Paris and Milan, The Longitudes of, 596
Paris Milling Exhibition, The, 2
Paris Opera, The Electric Light at the, 522, 545
Paris, The Telephone in, 65
Paris, Work Exhibition in, 40
Park, The Niagara, 500
Patent Agents, 593
Patent Law, The, 37, 61, 131, 425, 473
Patent Record, The, 22, 46, 68, 93, 114, 142, 164, 192, 216, 239, 266, 290, 315, 339, 363, 389, 411, 437, 461, 483, 507, 529, 553, 581, 601, 627
Paulista Railway, Brazil, Locomotives for the, 34, 614
Peat Breaker, Bracher’s, 73
Peat Fuel, 501
Pelton’s Hurdy-Gurdy Water-Wheel, 433
Peninsular and Oriental Steamer “Coromandel,” The New, 125
Penistone Railway Accident, 109 . .
Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, Combined, 588
Perforating Glass by Electricity, 40
Performances, Locomotive, 282 .
Permanent Way at the Inventions Exhibition, 341 379
Perret’s Furnace for Dust Fuel, 401
Petroleum, The Conveyance of, 334
Petroleum, Crude, Transporting, 346
Petroleum as Fuel, 572
Petroleum Steamers for the Black Sea, 308
Petroleum, The Transport of, in Bulk, 525
Petroleum, The Transportation of, 108
Photography, Balloon, 136
Physical Science at the Inventions Exhibition, 398, 521, 594
Physical Society, The, 43, 506, 578,625
Picton Coalfields, The, 394
Pinsk Marshes, Draining the, 457
Pipe Joint, Corbett’s, 80
Pipe Line for Central Asia, A, 284
Pipe and Pipe Threads, Standard, 605
Pits, Soaking, with Fires, 285
Planing Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s, 224
Planing and Slotting Machine, Combined, 227
Plate-Flattening Machine, Rush worth and Co.’s, 9
Plate-Straightening Machine, Britton’s, 321
Plate-Straightening Machine, Scriven and Co.’s, 621
Platinoid, The Electric Resistance of, 17
Platinum Wire, Drawing, 40
Pneumatic Telegraphs, 482
Polar Sea, Major Greely on the, 620
Polytechnic Society, The Royal, Cornwall, 66
Porrit’s Sack Hoist, 80
Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 620
Port at Sebastopol, The New, 517
Portland Cement, On Testing, 145
Position of America in Metallurgy, 357
Pbutiloff Canal, The, 42
Power Required on Elevated Railroads, 138
Power, The Transmission of, by Gearing, 605
Poyser’s Railway Chair, 341
Prediction of Tornadoes, 523
Premiums Awarded ; The Institution of Civil Engineers, 287
Preserving Timber, 16
President of the American Institution of Mining Engineers, Address of the, 395
Prevention of Fire in America, 520
Price’s Candle-Making Machinery, 3
Printing Machine, Combined Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder, 588
Private Bill Legislation, 158, 569, 603
Private Installations of Electric Lighting, 135,189 Producer, A Wind, 308
Professional Inventor and the Fuel Problem, A, 430
Propulsion, Hydraulic, 26, 584
Propulsion of Vessels, A New Method of, 500
Prospecting Drill, Portable, 443
Protecting Iron, The Bower-Barff Process for, 41, 524
Protection to the Obelisk at New York, 547
Protractor, A New, 163
Public Works in New South Wales, Loans for, 89
Pulveriser, Nicholson and Son’s, 74
Pump, Vacuum, The Weston Mercury, 139
Pump, Well-Sinking, Warner and Sons’, 397
Pump, The Worthington, 466
Pumping Engine, Compound ; Northwich Water Works, 304
Pumping Engine, 30-in. Centrifugal, Gwynnes’, 124, 215
Pumping Engines at Whitacre; Birmingham Corporation Water Works, 6, 68,151, 249, 298
Pumping Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 208, 395
Pumps, Centrifugal, for Aberdeen Graving Dock, 105 , .
Pumps for Dip Workings, Morison and Arm-strong’s, 468
Pumps, Well, Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s, 54
Pure Water Supply, 17
Purification of Copper, 40
Purification of the Thames, The, 111, 181
Pyrometer, The Saintignon, 226

Radial Drilling Machine, Asquith’s, 250
Radiation from Incandescent Carbons, 18
Rag Engine, Umpherston’s, 199
Rail Joint, The Gibbon, 342
Railroad, Mount Kearsarge, 111
Railway Accident, Penistone, 109
Railway Accidents in Russia, 475
Railway, Canadian Pacific, 520
Railway Carriage Windows, Hill’s Fastening for, 160
Railway Carriages, Boyle’s System of Ventilating, 313
Railway Chair, Poyser’s, 341
Railway, Forth Bridge ; Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., 386
Railway, The La Guaira and Caracas, 299, 344, 372
Railway, The Meigs Elevated, 587
Railway, The Paris Metropolitan, 65
Railway, The Paulista, San Paulo, Brazil, Locomotives for, 34, 614
Railway Progress, European, 619
Railway Race to Herat, The, 258
Railway Signals, Davis’s, 536
Railway Signals, The London and North-Western, 468
Railway Speeds, Amerioan, 386
Railway, Telpher, An Actual, 406
Railway Works, The Great Northern, Doncaster, 123
Railways, The Expenses of English and American, 433
Railways in India, 615
Railways, The Midland and North-Eastern ; Rolling Stock, 25
Railways, New Zealand, 137
Railways, South African, 66
Railways, United States, for 1884, 208
Rainforth and Co.’s Adjustable Corn Screen, 73
Rankin, Mr. Daniel, 469
Ransome and Co.’s Cask-Making Machinery, 150
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Horizontal Engine with Girder Frame, 55
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Whippietrees, 77
Recent Researches on Sunlight, 17
Recession of Niagara, The, 212
Record, The Patent, 22, 46, 68, 93, 114, 142, 164, 192, 216, 239, 266, 290, 315, 339, 363, 389, 411, 437, 461, 483, 507, 529, 553,581, 601, 627
Recorder, A New Solar Heat, 259
Recorder, The Siphon, 212
Reduction of Ores by Electrosis, 333
Refining of Copper, Electrolytic, 13
Reform, Admiralty, 137
Registers, Time, Watchmen’s, 391
Remarkable Solar Protuberance, A, 258
Repairing Broken Crankshafts, 385
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and
Major Marindin, R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 386
Requirements of War Ships, The, 451, 543
Revolving Jail, A, 619
Rice in Brewing, The Use of, 137
Rifle, The New Army Service, 405
Rifle Ranges, Signalling and Interlocking Apparatus for, 623
Rimamurany-Salgo-Torjaner Iron Works, Blowing Engines at the, 419, 466
River Tessin, Bridge over the, 278
River Thames, The Purification of the, 111, 181
River Tunnels, Maynard and Cooke’s Method of Constructing, 154
River Volga, Embanking the, 381
Rivetted Joints, 19, 43
Rivetter, Portable Hydraulic, Higginson’s, 250
RivettingMachinery, Hydraulic, Smith and Co.’s, 321
Road-Sweeping Machine, Taylor’s, 337
Robey and Co.’s Engines, 135, 205, 263, 481
Rock Drill, The Barrow, 443
Rock Drill, The Beaumont, 442
Rock Drill, Cranston’s, 416
Rock Drill, Gulland’s Diamond, 510
Rock Drill, Holman’s, 418
Rogers’s Station Indicator, 160
Rolled Iron, Gas Cavities in, 334
Roller and Sphere Mechanism, 509
Rolling Stock on the Midland and North-Eastern
Railways, 25
Rolls for Crushing Ore, 463, 487
Roman Cities, The Water Supply of, 231
Roof, The Huddersfield Station, 385
Roperies, The Chatham and Devon port, 501
Rotary Blower, Beck and Co.’s, 398
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 66
Royal Meteorological Society, The, 512, 590
Rudder, Temporary, Lucas’s, 324
Rush worth and Co.’s Plate-Flattening Machine, 9
Russell and Co.’s Sixty-Ton Steam Derrick Crane at Port-Glasgow, 564
Russia, Iron Conference in, 285
Russia, Steamboat Subsidies in, 253
Russian Armaments, 162
Russian Armour-Plate Manufactory, New, 620
Russian Duty on Steamers, Proposed, 357
Russian Gunboat Flotilla for the Amoor, 547
Russian Gunboat, A New, 356
Russian Naval Progress, 41
Russian Navy Estimates for 1886, 308
Russian Torpedo Boat, A, 500
Russian Torpedo Scandal, A, 475
Russian Trade, 572
Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s Vertical Engine and Boiler, 54

Sack Hoist, Porrit’s, 80
Gear, Lewis and Massey’s Automatic, 441 baintignon Pyrometer, The, 226 ®ama^ water Wells at, 162
Sand Bags for Engineering Purposes, 333 baponification by Electricity, 405
Saw Sharpening Machine, Sterne and Co.’s, 319
Scales, Sliding, in the Iron Trade, 132
Scare, The Torpedo,” 62
Scholarships, Tyndall, in America, 110
7n}®rican Association for the Advancement of, 137
Scotch Steel Trade, The, 228, 234 qn^nud’r.The Iron Trade 234, 337, 362 6 at the 62? C°aSt P°rt3’ A Year s ShiPbuiIdin= SenW?1nMiceraI Oil Ind«stry, The, 406
Scotts Ore Separator, 160
?orPedo Cruiser, 111
Screen, Glover’s, 511
Screw Ferry Boats, 587
Screw, Rolled, The Harvey, 185
Scriven and Co.’s Plato-Straightening Machine, 621
Sea Temperatures, 524
Qnhocfnnnl The New Poit at, 54/
- Section A’’at the Forthcoming Meeting of British Association, 40
Self-Recording Meteorological Instruments,
Semi-Portable Engine, The Robey, 135, 481
Sewage at Leicester, 259
Sewage Works, The Boston 555
Sewing Machine, Early History of the, 381
Shallow Water Cable, The Life of a, 3a4
Shanks and Co.’s Combined Planing and Slotting Machine, 227 .
Shanks and Co.’s Union Iron Works, Johnstone, 319
Sharp’s Process of Coiling Metal Tubes, 485
Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s Planing Machine, 224
Sheaf Iron Works, The, 95
Sheppard’s Coal-Washing Machine, 511
Ship, Four-Masted, The First American, 236
Shipbuilding, American, 84•
Shipbuilding at the Scottish East Coast Ports, A Year’s, 621 ,
Shipping Bounties System m France, Failure of the, 65
Ships, War, The Requirements of, 451, 543
Shipyard and Engine Works, Napiers’, 271
Shipyard and Engineering .Works, The Clydebank, 269
Shipyard, The Leven, 219
Siemens Memorial, The, 543
Siemens System of Heating Furnaces by Radiation, The, 594
Signalling and Interlocking Apparatus for Ranges, 623
Signalling in War, 89
Signals, Automatic Transmission of, by the phone, 574
Signals, Davis’s Railway, 536
Signals, The London and North-Western way, 468
Silicon in Cast Iron, 40
Silicon Pig, The Value of, to the Ironfounder, 246, 263
Silo with Hydraulic Seal, Howard’s, 77
Silo Press, Blunt’s, 77
Silo and Silo Press, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, . *6
Silver Ores, Amalgamation of, 558
Singer Manufacturing Company’s Works at Kil-bowie, The, 210, 224
Siphon Recorder, The, 212
Sixty-Ton Steam Derrick Crane at Port-Glasgow, 564
Size of Electric Mains, The, 14
Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, Utilisation of, 457
Slag as the Basis of Cement, 524
Sliding Scales in the Iron Trade, 132
Slotting and Planing Machine, Combined. 227
Smelting, Electric, 256
Smelting, Lead, A New Process of, 107
Smelting Process, The Cowles Electric, 431
Smith s Bridge Chair, 341
S1™th and Co.’s Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery,
Stevens’s Hydraulic Hoists, 366
Smithfield Club Show, The 562
Soaking Pits with Fires, 285
Society, The Physical, 43, 506, 578, 625
sX^Chetn® Enffineers’The- cis
Solar Heat, ‘531
Solar Heat Recorder, A New, 259 qnnaH\nrFtub^”ce’ A Bemarkable, 258
South Aandft’ The TeIe^aP*>s of the, 498 bourn African Railways, 66 *
qJJ? «rfri?an Telegfaphy, 184 IT 2M’ 383 409 J6J, 33o, 3a0,
Speeds, American Railway, 386
“ Staffordshire » Vp01^fcl0nary, 18
Stamp End Works0LinrniVhmke8’ 474
Standard Pine nnd’p- nC2,ln’ The> 93
Standard Volt,X 4^ Thl*eads’ 605
t sions, 579,f624ngth 35 Applied to Gauge Dimen-
Statistics, FmX 255 Wheld’ 385
Stealing Electricity. 572
Steam Boilers Amniri’ ”*
Steam Derrick Ton, 564 Cla,le at Port-Glasgow, Sixty-
glish’s, 566aer ‘TUbury.” Hunter and En- ands ps
Sons’, 113 a e> Lt8rht, Merryweather and Steam and Hydraulic and Co.’s, 9 J hc Reversing Engine, Allen
Steam NaVvv hunk 202 y’ Dunb« and Ruston’s, 135, 178
Steam Tram wav t « ’
Sons’ 227 Locomotive, Merryweather and
Steamboat Subsidies in i?
Steamer “CoromanrtJi 258 and Oriental, 125 ’ Tle Hew Peninsular
Steamer “Ernest;’Nne Thn „,541 le> Thornycroft and Co.’s
Steamers, Merchmi
Steamers, Petroleum %S Admiralty Cruisers 1ST
Steamers, Proposed ;i Orthe Black Sea 308 187
Steamship “ M^r ” Duty °"^7
Steel CaJ' En?‘nes and’Boilers of oueei bastings, 394
Steel Company of Scotland, The Works of the, 295
Steel-Copper Electric Conductors, 522
Steel and Iron Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
Steel and Iron Works, The Dalzell, 455
Steel v. Otto, 618
Steel Shipbuilding and the Forth Bridge, 248, 264 , 265
Steel Trade, The Scotch, 228, 234
Steel, Unmagnetisable, 380
Steel Works, The Blochairn, 297
Steel Works, The Glengarnock, 175
Steering Gear for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 562
Stem, Insulating, A New, 333
Stern-Wheel Steamer for the Brazilian Government, 202
Sterne and Co.’s Saw-Sharpening Machine, 319
Sterne and Co.’s Twist Drill Grinding Machine, 319
Stetefeldt Furnace, The, 293
Stone Breaker, Baxter and Co.’s, 441
Stone Cutting, Wire Belts for, 546
Storms on Subterranean Telegraph Lines, 17
Subjects for Papers; The Institution of Civil Engineers, 287
Sublimation, White Lead by, 232
Submarine Boat, The Nordenfelt, 334, 371
Submarine Cable Grappling, 161
Submarine Cables, The Manufacture of, in France, 546
Submarine Cables, New, 380
Submarine Torpedo Boat, Gourbet’s, 531
Subsidence in Euston Road, The, 596
Suez Canal, Business of the, 405
Suez Canal, The Lighting of the, 523
Sunlight, Recent Researches on, 17
Supply, Water, of Roman Cities, The, 231
“Surprise,” and “Alacrity,” H.M.S., Engines and Boilers of, 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
Survey of Scotland, Magnetic, 456
Surveying Level, 14-in., 398
Swansea, New Deep-Sea Channel, 302, 347
Sydney Tramways, The, 207, 281, 403

Tank Locomotive, La Guaira and Caracas Railway, 299, 372
Tar and Ammonia from Blast Furnaces, 235, 387, 409, 459
Tay Viaduct, The, 286
Taylor’s Road-Sweeping Machine, 337
Tehuantepec and Nicaragua, 615
Telegraph Conference, The, 284
Telegraph Convention, The, 89
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 38, 618
Telegraph to India, The Overland, 380
Telegraph Indicator, Lieutenant Lloyd’s, 324
Telegraph Line, An Early, 137
Telegraph Lines, Subterranean, Storm? on, 17
Telegraph, an Underground one, The First American, 620
Telegraph Wires, Copper, 429
Telegraphic Congress, The Berlin, 162
Telegraphs, Pneumatic, 482
Telegraphs of the Soudan Expedition, The, 498
Telegraphy, South African, 184
Telephone at the Antwerp Exhibition, The, 330
Telephone in France, The, 547
Telephone, The Mechanical, 89
Telephone, A New Mechanical, 111
Telephone in Paris, The, 65
Telephone, The Thermal, 500
Telephone Transmitters, The Current of, 547
Telephones, Electro-Dynamic, 17
Telephones, Mouthpiece to, 110
Telephony, Operatic, 572
Teletopometer, The, 284
Telpher Railway, An Actual, 406
Temperatures, Sea, 524
Temporary Rudder, Lucas’s, 324
Tenoning Machine, Furness and Co.’s, 289
Tessin River, Bridge over the, 278
Testing Portland Cement, On, 145
Thames, The Purification of the, 111, 181
Thames Tunnel, A High Level, 154
Theatres, The Electric Light in, 333, 404, 453
Thermal Telephone, The, 500
Thornycroftand Co.’s Nile Steamer “Ernest,” 541
Thornycroft, Mr. Thomas, 260
Thunderstorm, Curious Effects of a, 380
Thwaite-Neville Hoisting and Traversing Crane, The, 610
Tilbury Docks, The, 405
“Tilbury,”Steam Dredger, Hunter and English’s 566
Timber Growth on the Pacific Coast of the United States, 161
Timber, Preserving, 16
Time Registers, Watchmen’s, 391
Tin, Recovery of from Tin Scrap by Electrolysis, 18 , , on.
Tip Wagon, Fowlers, 361
Tools, Machine. 583
Topography of Machines, 22
Tornadoes, Prediction of, 523
Tornadoes in the United States, 259
Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A, 380
Torpedo Boat, Gourbet’s Submarine, 501
Torpedo Boat with Hydraulic Propulsion, 26
Torpedo Boat, A Russian, 500
Torpedo Boats, Foreign-Built, 381
Torpedo Boats, The New, 212, 616
Torpedo Catcher, A, 512
Torpedo Cruiser “ Scout,” The, 111
Torpedo Gunboats, The Proposed New, 429
Torpedo, Howell, The Obituary of a, 258
Torpedo Scandal, A Russian, 475
“ Torpedo Scare,” The, 62
Tower Bridge, The, 405
Towns at High Altitudes, 546
Traction, Electric, at the Antwerp Exhibition, 571
Traction Engine and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s, 51 . ..
Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s Steering Gear for, 562
Trade, The Cleveland Iron, 616
Trade, The Iron, of Scotland, 234, 337, 362
Trade Route, The Proposed Hudson’s Bay, 457
Trade, Russian, 572
Trade, Steel, The Scotch, 228, 234
Train Communicator, Hall’s, 486
Train Pipe Indicator, Kapteyn s, 348
Tram Rail and Clamp, The Adlard, 342
Tramway Locomotive, Steam, Merry weather and Sons’, 227
Tramway Sleepers, Howard s, 77
Tramways, Cable, 270
Tramways, The Development of, 519
Tramways in the Low Countries, 212
Tramways, The Sydney, 207, 281, 403
Transit Instruments and Lamps, Clark’s, 398
Transmission of Power by Gearing, The, 605
Transmission of Signals by the Telephone, Automatic, 574
Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, The, 525
Transportation of Petroleum, The, 108
Transporting Crude Petroleum, 346
Treatment of Old Zinc, 405
Trent Iron Works, The Newark, 148
Trevithick Memorial, The, 456
Trial Trips and Launches, 20, 68, 81, 112, 129 192, 213, 261, 288, 336, 350, 383, 432, 446 47o’ 495, 566,625 ’ *
Trials, Engine, at University College, 317, 342
Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, 147
Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “Meteor ” 171
Tropical Regions, Nitrous Soil in, 258
Tubes, Coiling Metal, Sharp’s Process of, 485
Tubular Boilers, 409
Tunnel, Thames, A High Level, 154
Turbine, Waverley, Duncan Brothers’, 365
Twist Drill Cutting Machine, Double-Headed, 590
Twist Drill Grinding Machine, Sterne and Co’s 319 ’
Twist Drills, 587
Tyndall Scholarships in America, 110
Tyrer’s Spark Arrester, 54

Umpherston’s Rag Engine, 199
Undulatory Currents, Measuring, 17
Union Iron Works, Johnstone, The, 319
United States, The Borax Supply in the, 183
United States, The Forest Supply in the, 404
United States, Notes from the, 19, 35, 80, 125 151, 187, 213, 260, 287, 309, 322, 361, 372, 409’ 419, 444, 469, 501, 515, 541, 577, 609
United States Railways for 1884, 208
United States, Tornadoes in the, 259 t
United States, The Weston Systems of Electric Lighting in the, 86
University College, Engine Trials at, 317, 342
Unmagnetisable Steel, 380 _ .,
Use of Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide, The, 524
Use of Rice in Brewing, The, 137
Uses of Electricity in Coal Mining, The, 258
Utilisation of Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, 457

Vacuum Brakes, Automatic, 182
Vacuum Pump, The Weston Mercury, 139
Value of Silicon Pig to the Ironfounder, The, 246, 263
Valve Gear, Davey’s Differential, 225
Valve, Messenger’s, 43
Variations of the Magnetic Elements, Daily, 500
Velocity, Wind Force and, 28
Velocity, Wind, of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
Ventilating Railway Carriages, Boyle’s System of, 313
Ventilation and Electricity, 183
Vertical Engine and Boiler, Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s, 54
Vertical Tandem Engine, Douglas and Grants Corliss Compound, 609
Vessels, A New Method of Propulsion of, 500
Viaduct, The Tay, 286 .
Victoria, British Columbia, The Drainage of, 161
Vipan and Headley’s Whippietrees, 77
Volatilisation of Gold, 457
Volga and Don, Joining the, 334
Volt, A Standard, 429
“Volta,” The Electric Launch, 230

Wagon, Fowler’s Tip, 361
Waltham Watch Company, The, 15, 62, 85
War, The Atlantic Cable, 110
War Ships, The Requirements of, 451, 543
War, Signalling in, 89
Warner and Sons’ Well-Sinking Pump, 397
Warsaw, Industrial Growth at, 457
Warsaw, Mining Conference at, 524 307
Washington Monument, Lightning Conductors on, 212 kqq
Waste-Water Meter System, Deacon s, 490, oao
Watchmen’s Time Registers, 391
Water Gas, 426
Water Famine in Liverpool, The, 619
Water Motor, Allin’s, 487
Water, Removing Microbes from, 111
Water Supply, The Metropolitan, 259,354,45»,
Water Supply, New, for New York, 18*
Water Supply, Pure, 17 -
Water Supply of Roman Cities, The, 231
Water Wells at Samara, 162
Water-Wheel, Pelton’s Hurdy-Gurdy, 43d
Water Works, Liverpool, 285
Water Works for Palermo, 185 pnn-min^
Water Works, Whitacre, Birmingham, Pumpii o
Engines at, 6, 68,151, 249, 298 ,
Waverley Turbine, Duncan Brothers , doo Weather, The, 14,132, 256, 356, 454, 571
Weathercock, An Electrical, 136
Weigh-Bridge, The Inventor of the, 4za
Welford’s High-Speed Engine, 38o
Well Pumps, Hathorn, Davey, and Co. s, o
Well-Sinking Pump, Warner and Sems, dv/
Wellington Foundry and Machine Woiks,
Wells’s Balanced Compound Engine, 409
Weston’s Centrifugal Machine, 486 Weston Incandescent Lamp
Weston Mercury Vacuum Pump, The,13J
Weston Systems of Electric Lioht o
United States, The, 86
Whippietrees, Corbett’s, 77 77
Whippietrees, Davey, Sleep, and Co s, 1I
Whippietrees, Kell, Meats, and Co. s, 77
Whippietrees, Knapp and Co. is, u Tefferies’, 77
Whippietrees, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies,
Whippietrees, Vipan and Headley s, 7/ . ham
Whitacre, Pumping B,'g'"esf.L’ 249? 298 Corporation Water Works, 6, 68, 151, 3*3,
White Lead Again, 458 „
White Lead by “ Sublimation, 232
White Light, Standards of,,578
Whittle’s “ Staffordshire Bo1^’.474 The 18
Willans Receiver Compound Engine, Wind Force and Velocity, 28
Wind Producer, A, 308
Wind Velocity of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
Wire Belts for Stone Cutting, 546
Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
Wolstenholme’s Compound Pumping Engine, Northwich Water Works, 304
Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
Wood’s Corn Mill, 73
Wood-Working Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 150, 418
Work Exhibition in Paris, 40
Works, The Boston Sewage, 555
Works, The Britannia Iron, Gainsborough, 117
Works, Chemical, The Addiwell, 232
Works, Clark’s Crank and Forge, 147
Works, The Dalzell Steel and Iron, 455
Works, Engine, Messrs. Denny and Co.’s, Dumbarton, 221
Works, The Fairfield, Govan, 244
Works, The Forth Bridge, 249
Works, The Globe Iron, Lincoln, 167
Works, The Great Northern Railway, Doncaster, 123
Works, The Hallside, 295
Works on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 258
Works, Iron, The Sheaf, 95
Works, The Singer Manufacturing Co’s, at Kilbowie, 210, 224
Works, The Spittlegate Iron, 71
Works, The Stamp End, Lincoln, 98
Works, Steel, The Blochairn, 297
Works of the Steel Company of Scotland, The 295
Works, Steel, The Glengarnock, 175
Works, The Trent Iron, Newark, 148
Works, The Union Iron, Johnstone, 319
Worssam’s Wood-Working Machinery, 418
Worthington Pump, The, 466
Wrought Iron, The Crystallisation of, 605
Yarra, New Bridge Across the, 184
Year’s Shipbuilding at the Scottish East Coast Ports, A, 621

Zinc Dust, Hydrogen in, 500
Zinc, Old, Treatment of, 405

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