Engineering 1886 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

Accessory Products of the Blast Furnace, 489
Accident, The Manor Park, 69
Accident, Railway, at Monte Carlo, The, 278
Accrington, Boiler Explosion at, 305
Accumulator Gauge, An, 383
Accumulator, A New, 356
Acts, The Electric Lighting, 472
Address of the President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 291
Address of the President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 381
Administration, Dockyard, 181
Admiralty, Engine Contracts for the, 255
Aerial Navigation, 208 Air Blast in Sorting Coal, The, 17
Air Compressing Engine at the Manchester Guardian Office, 173
Air Compressor with Holt's Valves, 32
Alarms at Railway Crossings, lit
Alcohol, Electric Resistance of, 530
Allegheny, Pa., Pumping Engines at, 33, 95
Allen Engine and Kapp Dynamo, 521
Aluminium, A New Alloy of, 625
Aluminium in Wrought-Iron Castings, 305
American v. English Locomotives, 159, 230, 315, 477
American and English Railways, 415, 540
American Goods, Superiority of, 383, 527
American Iron and Steel Trade, The, 573
American Swamps, Reclamation of, 531
Ammunition, Machine Gun, 91
Ampèremeter, A New, 429
Andrews, Dr. Thomas, 20
Angle Iron Bevelling Machine, Arthur’s, 283
Apsheron, The Petroleum Resources of, 41
Architecture, Naval, at Edinburgh, 675
Armour Plate Trials at Spezia, The, 495
Armour Plating, Important Trial of, 139, 209
Armoured Turrets, Experiments against, 265
Armstrong Works in Russia, Proposed, 18
Artesian Wells in Central Asia, 409
Artistic Bronze Founding, 115
Asbestos Discoveries in Siberia, 429
Ashton's Power Meter, 8
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 179
Atlantic Cable, A New French, 625
Auckland, Twin Screw Hopper Dredger for, 671
Auriferous Quartz Mill Disraeli Gold Mine, 222
Australia, A Direct Wire to, 232
Austrian Torpedo Boat “ Falke,” The, 41, 328
Automatic Brakes in the United States, 3C3
Awards of the Health Exhibition, The, 138

Balance Dynamometer, 605
Balanced Slide Valves, 359
Batho, The Late Mr., 666
Batouni, The Pipe Line to, 430
Battery, Gas, The Upward, 598
Battery, New Chloride of Silver, 578
Battery, A New Secondary, 555
Battery, Primary, De Lalande’s, 505
Belgian State Railway, Locomotive for the, 152
Belgium, Coal Mining in, 210
Belgium, Gas and Petroleum in, 138
Belgium, Steel and Iron Making in, 457
Ben Nevis, Earth Currents on, 185
Ben Nevis Observatory, 138
Bessemer Steel and Pig Iron in 1886, 357
Bessemerising of Copper Mattes, 186
Bevel-Wheel Shaping Machine, 222
Bevelling Machine, Arthur’s Angle-Iron, 283
B'JJ. The Electric Lighting Act Amendment, 277
Bill Legislation, Private, 51
Bills, Electric Lighting, The New, 353, 597
"Jack Sea, Proposed New Trade Outlet in the, 357
Blast Furnace, Accesssory Products of the, 489
Blast Furnace Returns, 41
Blast Furnaces, Drying the Air for, 356
Blasting Operations on the Panama Canal, 383
Block-Setting " Hercules,” Twenty-Ton, 378
Blow-Holes in Steel, 490
Blue Heat, The Effects of, on Steel and Iron, 106
Board, The Scotch Fishery, 552
Boat, Patrol, Launching a, 898
Boats, Steam Fishing, 103
Boiler, Cadiat’s, 176
Boiler Drilling Machine, Kendall and Gent’s, 619
Boiler Explosion at Accrington, 305
Boiler Explosion at Cardiff, The, 277, 294
Boiler Explosion, The Coventry, 208
Boiler Explosion, The Stannington, 14, 112
Boiler Explosion, The Stepney, 698
Boiler Explosions in 1885; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 297
Boiler Insurance and Steam Users’ Company, The Yorkshire, 141
Boiler Plates, Steel, 319
Boiler, Safety, The Heine, 319
Boilers and Compound Engines of the Paddle Steamer, “ Kathleen Mavourneen,” 222, 271
Boilers, The Corrosion of, 555
Boilers and Engines of s.s. “ Royal Prince," 590, 613
Boilers, High-Pressure, Furnaces for, 590
Boring and Facing Machine, Waller and Co.’s, 505
Brakes, Automatic, in the United States, 303
Brakes, Railway, 454
Brakes, Vacuum, 207
Bray and Heald’s Eccentric, 21
Breaking Up of Ice in Rivers, The, 185
Brickmaking, 437
Bridge, The Forth, 31, 484
Bridge, The Hawkesbury, 367
Bridge, New York and Brooklyn, Engines of the, 104
Bridge at Niagara Falls, Cantilever, 225, 246, 325, 349
Bridge, The Tower, 622
British Shipbuilding, The Future of, 251
Bronze Founding, Artistic, 115
“ Broomhill,’’ Electricity at, 164
Brush Company, The, 139
Bucharest, Experiments against Armoured Turrets at, 265
Budd’s Rose Chuck, 614
Buffer Stop, Hydraulic, 162, 176
Bulkheads, 445
Burner, The Wigham, 163
Burrell and Sons’ Compound Launch Engines, 213
Burrows’ Automatio Tilting Foundry Ladle, 213
Bye-Products, 210

Cable, Atlantic, A New French, 625
Cablo Tramways, 561, 688
Cadiat’s Boiler, 176
Calcutta Water Works, 436
Call Apparatus, Poole and Maclver’s, 549
Cambridge, Engineering at, 281
Canada, 491, 554, 600
Canadian Railway System, The, 185
Canadian Trent Valley, The, 357
Canal Project, The Panama, 331
Canal, The Sea, to St. Petersburg, 383
Canal, Suez, The Electric Light on the, 623
Canal from the White Sea to the Baltic, 210
Canals, Steam on, 119,143
Cantilever Bridge at Niagara Falls, 225, 246, 325, 349
Canvas-Testing Machine, O’Connor’s, 198
“ Cape Charles,” The Ferry Steamer, 55
Capital, Payment of Interest out of, 427
Carbon in Iron, Determination of, 6o2
Carbonic AciJ, Liquid, 254
Cardiff, The Boiler Explosion at, 277, 294
Carey-Latham Concrete-Making Machine, 222
Cartridge, A New Safety, for Coal Mines, 481
Cast Iron, Constituents of, 619
Castings, Indian, 521
Castings, Mitis, 360
Castings, Steel, 406, 473, 508
Caucasus, The Copper Industry in the, 185
Cell, A New Constant, 601
Cement under Compression, 165
Certain Properties Common to Fluids and Solid Metals, On, 521
Changes in Iron Due to Magnetisation, 555
Channel Service, The, 91
Chapter in the History of the Power Loom, A, 243
Chili, Mining Prospects in, 623
Chilled Rolls, Lathe for Turning, 394
China, Progress in, 282
Chinese Railways, 209
Chloride of Silver Battery, New, 578
Chlorination Works and Stamp Mills, 611
Chuck, Budd’s Rose, 614
Church, The Electric Light in, 90
Chutes, Log, 16
Circular Plates, Taylor and Challen’s Shearing Machine for, 535
Circular Storms and Weather Forecasts, 1S5

Civil Engineers, The American Society of: 194, 415

Cement under Compression, 165
New York City Water Works, The, 194
On the Cantilever Bridge at Niagara Falls, by
Mr. Charles C. Schneider, M. Am. Soc. C.E., 225, 246, 325, 349
On Evaporation, by Mr. Fitzgerald, 415
On English and American Railways, by Mr. Downe, 415, 540

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 331, 531

Constitution, 532
Electric Lighting Acts, 472
Historical Notice, 531
Proceedings of the Session 1885-86, 532
On Gas Producers, by Mr. Frederick John Rowan, 84
On the Injurious Effect of a Blue Heaton Steel and Iron, by Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, A.M.I.C.E., 100
On the River Seine, by Mr. L. F. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., M.I.C E., 179
On the Explosion of Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, by Mr. Dugald Clerk, F.C.S., 256
On the Economical Construction and Operation of Railways, by Mr. Robert Gordon, M.I.C.E., 310
On the Principle to be Observed in the Laying- out, Construction, and Equipment of Railways in Newly-Developed Countries, by Mr. James Robert Mosse, M.I.C.E., 311
On the Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (Rocky Mountain Division) during the Season of 1884, by Granville Carlyle Cuningham, M.I.C.E., 312
On Water Purification; its Biological and Chemical Basis, by Percy F. Frankland, Ph.D., B. Sc., F.C.S., 359
On Brickmaking, by Mr. Henry Ward, A.M.I.C.E., 437
On the Mersey Railwa-v, by Mr. Francis Fox, M.I C.E., 485
On the Hydraulic Passenger Lifts at the Underground Stations of the Mersey Railway, by Mr. William Edmund Rich, M.I.C.E., 486

Clapp-Griffith Process, The, 317
Cleaning Boilers, Eucalyptus Fluid for, 209
Cleaning Ships’ Bottoms, Hydraulic Machinery for, 616
Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 34, 59, 81, 108, 129, 156, 187, 199, 223, 245, 269, 294, 323, 351, 377, 410, 433, 451, 475, 498, 525, 645, 680, 591, 628
Clinometer, Bubble, Evelyn’s, 91
Clock, Electro-Mechanical, 305
Clyde Locomotive Works, The, 28, 49
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1885, 51, 79,139
Coal, English, on the Volga, 480
Coal Experiments in the Pacific, 430
Coal Mining in Belgium, 210
Coal, Northumberland, in 1886, 38
Coal Region, the Pittsburg, The Geology of, 293
Coal Trade, Royalties in the, 303
Coats Steel Works, Coatbridge, 457
Cockorill Scheme, Russia and the, 18
“Collingwood,” Explosion on Board the, 456
Collisions on the London and North-Western Railway, The, 622
“ Colonies, Her Majesty’s,” 478
Committee, The Electric Lighting, 555
Companies, Telephone, 141
Company, The Brush, 139
Competition at Hawick, Handicraft, 333
Competition of Railway Couplings, The, 357
Compound Engines and Boilers of the Paddle Steamer “ Kathleen Mavourneen,” 222, 271
Compound Express Locomotive (Von Borries’ System) for the Hanoverian State Railways, 434
Compound Launch Engines, Burrell and Sons’, 213
Compound Tandem Engine at the Works of the Union Cement Company, Wallsend-on-Tyne, 189
Compressible Foundations, Structures on, 555
Compression, Cement under, 165
Concrete-Making Machine, Carey-Latham, 222
Conductivity of Resins, 601
Conferences and Lectures at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 534
Conferences, Russian Iron, and British Trade, 115
Constant Cell, A New, 601
Constituents of Cast Iron, 619
Construction, Wire Gun, 83
Continent, Steel Rails on the, 501
Convention, Electric Light. 253
Convertible Pulleys, Smith’s, 4S5
Copper, Electrolytic Refining of, 163
Copper across a Gas, The Passage of, 138
Copper Industry in the Caucasus, The, 185
Copper Mattes, Bessemerising of, 186
Copper Statistics, Some, 233
Copper, The Wet Extraction of, 39
Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The Royal, 480
Corrosion of Boilers, The, 555
Cotton Pickers, Hollow Shafts in, 254
Counter, Kaiser’s, 189
Coupling, Railway, Heinke’s, 496
Coventry Boiler Explosion, The, 208
Crampton Locomotives, 170
Crane and Grain Elevator, Lysters’ Portable Combined, 346
Crane, Thirty-Ton Steam Coaling at Troon Harbour, Craig’s, 321
Cranks and Shafts, Marino Engine, 396, 443
Crookes, Mr., The Figaro’s Tribute to, 625
Cruciform Sections, Rolling Mill for, 104
Cruise of the “ Meander,” The, 25, 75, 123, 169, 217, 263, 342, 869, 441, 465, 615
Cruiser “Mohawk,” The Torpedo, 153
Crump and Brereton’s Quarrying and Stone-Dressing Machine, 154
Cupola for Ironfounders, A New, 430
Currents, Telephonic; 17
Cycles, Wheel Load in, 466
Cyclones, The Origin of, 602

Dam, Masonry, The Vyrnwy, 26
Damascening by Electrolysis, 555
Deane Differential Plunger Sinking Pump, 569
Deep Sea Lighthouse, A, 138
Deep-Water Docks, The Tilbury, 404
Defries’ Safety Lamp, 504
De Lalande’s Primary Battery, 505
Delamare-Deboutteville and Malandin Gas Engine, The, 306
Department, The Ordnance, 305
Determination of Carbon in Iron, 602
Determining Star Magnitudes, 209
Diamond Fields, The, 209
Diamond Fields, The South Afrioan, 391, 409, 629, 544, 585
Diatomite in Skye, 450
Dilatancy, 281
Dimensions of Screws, The, 417
Disclaimer in Patent Aotions, 332
Disengaging Hook, Rees's, 348
Disraeli Gold Mine, Quartz Mill at the, 222
District Electric Lighting, 41
Diversion of tho Oxus, The, 104
Dock, The Royal Albert, 430
Dock, St. Andrew's, Hull, Ice Plant at, 535
Docks, The Tilbury Deep Water, 404
Dockyard Administration, 181
“Dolphin" and “ Surprise,” Tho, 03
Domestic Electric Lighting, Mr. Preece on, 334
Draught, Forced, 259, 284, 407, 443, 461, 510, 536
Dredger, Twin-Screw Hopper, for Auckland, New Zealand, 571
Drilling Machine, Kendall and Gent’s Boiler, 619
Driving Gear, Frictional, Ewing and Jenkin’s, 258
Drying the Air for Blast Furnaces, 356
Dynamite Gun, Zalinski’s, 147
Dynamo, Edison-Hopkinson, Efficiency of the, 446
Dynamo, Jones’, and Otto Gas Engine, 334
Dynamo, Kapp, and Alton Engine, 521
Dynamo Testing, 403
Dynamo, The Weston, 403
Dynamometer, Balance, 605
Dynamos, Testing the Efficiency of, 281

Earth Currents on Ben Nevis, 185
Earth Currents in the Ben Nevis Observatory Telegraph Cable, 133
Earth Tremors, The Velocity of, 254
Eastern Tonquin, The Geology of, 456
Eccentric, Bray and Heald’s, 21
Economic Sounder, The, 531
Economical Railways, 310
Edge and Butt Planing Machine, Scriven and Co.’s, 592
Edmunds’s Fire Escape, 95
Effects of Blue Heat on Steel and Iron, The, 106
Effects of Frost, The, 231
Effects on Trade, Railway Rates and, 329, 379
Effluvograph, The, 383
Egyptian Petroleum, 579
Electric Current, Novel Method of Finding the Strength of an, 281
Electric Fuze, A New, 601
Electric Governor, Tho Riehardson-Nevile, 333

Electric Lighting :

Dynamo, Edison-Hopkinson, Efficiency of the, 446
Dynamo, Jones’, and Otto Gas Engine, 334
Dynamo, Kapp, and Allen Engine, 521
Dynamo, The Weston, 468

Electric Light in Church, The, 90
Electric Light Convention, 253
Electric Light in Lighthouses, The, 254
Electric Light at the Paris Opera, The, 15
Electric Light, Rochechouart Baths, 39
Electric Light Station at Lucerne, 102
Electric Light on the Suez Canal, 623
Electric Light, The Weston, 429
Electric Lighting Act Amendment Bill, 277
Electric Lighting Acts, The, 472
Electric Lighting Bills, The New, 353, 597
Electric Lighting Committee, The, 555
Electric Lighting, District, 41
Electric Lighting at Paddington, 502
Electric Lighting at Sibertown, 506
Electricity at “ Broomhill,” 164
Glow Lamp Patents, 527
Governor, Electric, The Richardson-Nevile, 333
Illuminating Water by Electricity, 504
Lamp, The Weston Incandescence, 518
Lamps, Glow, Low-Resistance, 355
Lamps, Glow, and Pitwork, 504
Lamps, Incandescent, The Heat from, 164
Light from Incandescent Filaments, The, 254
Lighthouse Illumination, 281
Preece, Mr., on Domestic Electric Lighting, 334

Electric Motor, The Reckenzaun, 457
Electric Mountain Railway, An, 16
Electric Resistance of Alcohol, 530
Electric Self-Induction, 136
Electric Sounding Plates, 90
Electrical Legislation in Franco, 182
Electricity at “ Broomhill,” 164
Electro-Magnets, Recordon's, 6
Electro-Mechanical Clock, 305
Electrolysis, Damascening by, 555
Electrolytic Precipitation of Copper, 114
Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 163
Electrotyping Solution, A New, 555
Element, A New, 281
Endurance of Steel Rails, The, 491, 512
“ Enfield,” s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 8
Engine, Air-Compressing, at the Manchester Guardian Office, 173
Engine, Allen, and Kapp Dynamo, 521
Engine Contracts for the Admiralty, 255
Engine, Fire, Merryweather’s Floating, 590
Engine, Gas, The Delamare-Deboutteville and Malandin, 306
Engine, Horizontal, with Hertay’s Variable Expansion Gear, 592
Engine, Horizontal, with Proell Valve Gear, McCulloch and Sons', 244
Engine, Petroleum, Spiel’s, 128
Engine, Pinchbeck’s Rotary, 21
Engine, Tandem Compound, at the Works of the Union Cement Company, 189
Engine, Tangyes’ Two-Cylinder Quadrant, 692
Engineering at Cambridge, 281
Engineers, Meeting of the Society of, 144
Engineers, The Telegraph, in India, 67
Engineers, Telegraph, The Society of, 184, 230, 279, 380
Engines and Boilers of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s Paddle Steamer “Mona’s Queen,” 448, 495, 544
Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “Royal Prince," 690, 615
Engines, Compound, and Boilers of the Paddle Steamer “ Kathleen Mavourneen,” 222, 271
Engines, Compound Launch, Burrell’s, 213
Engines, High-Pressure Compound Pumping, at the Millwall Docks, 470
Engines, High-Speed, 380
Engines, Marine, The Friction of, 200
Engines for the New Warships, The, 140
Engines of New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 104
Engines, Pumping, at Allegheny, Pa., 33, 95
Engines, Steam Pumping, The Mason Regulator for, 348
Engines of the Stoam Yacht " Rionnag-na- Mara, " Quadruple Expansion Disconneotive, 301
Engines, Triple-Expansion, 420
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of tho s.s. 11
Enfield,” 8 Engines, On Triple and Quadruple Expansion Marine, with only Two Piston Valves, 335
Engines of the Yacht “ Lily," Tho, £2
English e. American Locomotives for the Colonies, 169, 230, 477
English and American Locomotives Compared, 315
English and American Railways, 415, 540
English Coal on the Volga, 480
English Enterprise and Burmese Petroleum, 180
English and Foreign Railways Compared, 453
Erbia, The Spectra of, 304
Ericsson's Submarine Gun, 104
Estimates, The Navy, 275, 597
Etna, The Eruption of, 025
Eucalyptus Fluid for Cleaning Boilers, 209
Europe, The Petroleum Industries of, 99, 149, 193, 239, 289, 341
Evaporation, Experiments on, 415
Evelyn’s Bubble Clinometer, 91
Ewing and Jenkin’s Frictional Driving Gear, 258
Example of Track Laying, An, 505
Excursions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 319
Exhibition, The Colonial and Indian : 160, 428, 454
Canada, 491, 554, COO Conferences and Lectures, 534
Exhibition, The Edinburgh Industrial : 455, 539, 024 Naval Architecture, 575
Exhibition, The Fireman’s, 457
Exhibition, The Liverpool, 471, 502, 577
Exhibition, The Paris, of 1889, 114
Exhibition in Russia, Petroleum, 457
Expanding Mandrel, Noble’s, 569
Experiments against Armoured Turrets at Bucharest, 265
Experiments on Evaporation, 415
Explosion on Board tho “Collingwood,” 456
Explosion, The Boiler, at Cardiff, 277, 291
Explosion, Boiler, The Coventry, 208
Explosion, The Flood Rock, 19
Explosion of Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, The, 256, 332
Explosion, Boiler, The Stannington, 14, 112
Explosion, Boiler, The Stepney, 598
Explosions, Boiler, in 1885 ; Report of Mr. E. B, Marten, 297
Extraction of Copper, The Wot, 39
Extraction of Metals from Ores, The, 603

Facing and Boring Machine, Waller and Co.’s, 505
Fairlie Locomotive for tho Royal State Railways of Saxony, 309
“ Falke,” The Austrian Torpedo Boat, 41, 328
Farms, Mechanical Power on, 45
Fast Torpedo Boat, A, 14
“ Fearless,” H.M.S., 307
Ferry Steamer “ Cape Charles,” The, 55
Fields, The Diamond, 209
Figaro’s Tribute to Mr. Crookes, Tho, 625
Fire Engine, Merryweather’s Floating, 590
Fire Escape, Edmunds’s 95
Fire Risks of Nitric Acid, 409
Fireman’s Exhibition, The, 457
Fireproof Plaster, A New, 16
First Rolling Mill in America, The, 210
Fishery Board, The Scotch, 552
Fishing Boats, Steam, 103
Fittings, Woodhouse and Rawson’s Switchboard, 127
Flood Rock Explosion, The, 19
Fluids and Solid Metals, On Certain Properties Common to, 521
Fluor and Platinum, 356
Forced Draught, 259, 284, 407, 448, 461, 510, 536
Foreign Coal, Proposed Incrcaso of Duty in Russia on, 625
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 22, 63, 212, 236, 438, 512, 580, 595
Forging Press, 4000-Ton Hydraulic, 393
Forgings, Round, A New Process of, 625
Forth Bridge Railway ; Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., 31, 484
Fossil Trunk, A, 578
Foundry Ladle, Burrows’ Automatic Tilting, 213
France, Electrical Legislation in, 182
French Navy, The, 185
French Torpedo Experiments, 256
Frew’s Pyrometer, 45
Friction of Marine Engines, The, 206
Friction Still, Pearce’s, 32
Frictional Driving Gear, Ewing and Jenkin’s, 258
Frost, The Effects of, 231
Frozen Water Supply, A, 356
Fuel, Liquid, 563, 609
Fuel, Liquid, Colonel Stewart's Lecture on, 620
Fuel, Natural Gas for, 41, 255
Furnace and Gas Producer, Smith-Casson’s, 371
Furnaces for High-Pressure Boilers, 690
Furnaces, Neutral Lining for, 491
Furnaces, A Spectroscope for, 164
Fusion Point of Paraffin, Determining tho, 408
Future of British Shipbuilding, The, 251
Fuze, A New Electric, 601

Galvanometer and Thermopile, A Combined, 531
Gas Battery, Tho Upward, 598
Gas Engine, The Dclamaro-Debouttevillo and Malandin, 306
Gas Engine, Otto, and Jones’ Dynamo, 334
Gas, The Heating Power of, 430
Gas, Hydrogen, New Process for the Manufacture of, 209
Gas Lamp, A Recuperative, 91
Gas, Natural, 291
Gas Fuel, Natural, 41, 255
Gas and Petroleum in Belgium, 138
Gas Producer and Furnace, Smith-Casson’s, 371
Gas Producer, Twin, The Thwaite, 82
Gas Producers, 84
Gas, Water, 57, 111, 353
Gaseous Mixtures, The Explosion of, 250, 332
Gauge, An Accumulator, 383
Gauge, Wire, Trotter’s, 283
Gay-Lus9ao Observatory, The, 409
Gear, Steering, 435, 443
Gearing, The Transmission of Power by, 285, 363, 581
Geology of Central Tunisia, The, 625
Geology of Eastern Tonquin, The, 456
German-Built Torpedo Boats, 68
German Opinion of Scotch Pig Iron, 305
German Shipping Enterprise, 185
German Steam Navigation, 357
Germany, Iron and Steel Railway Sleepers in, 206
“Gloucester," s.s., Jury Rudder fitted to the, 143
Glow Lamp Patents, 527
Glow Lamps, Low-Resistance, 355
Glow Lamps and Pitwork, 504
Gold Mining in the Amoor Region, 255
Gold Mining, Hydraulic, 68
Governor, Liede’s Steam, 5
Grain Elevator and Crane, Lysters’ Portable Combined, 346
Greenwood and Batley’s Bevel Wheel Shaping and Dividing Machine, 222
Gun, Dynamite, Zalinski’s, 147
Gun, Wire, Construction,83
Gun, A Yacht’s, 68
Gunpowder, Prismatio, Taylor and Challen’s Press for the Manufacture of, 446
Guns, Our, 621
Gutta-Percha, India-Rubber, and Telegraph Works, The Silvertown, 586, 012

Handicraft Competition at Hawick, 333
Hanoverian State Railways, Compound Express Locomotive (Von Borries’ System) for the, 434
Hauling Machinery at the Tcrbonella Sulphur Mines, Italy, 56
Hawkesbury Bridge, The, 367
Hayward Tyler and Co.’s Steam Pumps, 372
Health Exhibition, The Awards of the, 138
Heat from Incandescent Lamps, The, 164
Heat of tho Moon, The, 38
Heating Power of Gas, The, 430
Heating Steel, 293
Heine Safety Boiler, The, 319
Heinke’s Railway Coupling, 496
Heliograph, A Pocket, 578
“Her Majesty’s Colonies, 478
H.M.S. “ Fearless,” 307
“ Hercules,” Twenty-Ton Block-Setting, 378
Hertay’s Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Engine with, 592
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co. t>. Musgrave and Sons, 163
High-Pressure Boilers, Furnaces for, 590
High-Pressure Compound Pumping Engines at the Millwall Docks, 470
High-Speed Engines, 886
History of tho Power Loom, A Chapter in the Early, 243
Hollow Shafts in Cotton Pickers, 254
Holloway Sanatorium, The, 625
Holt's Valves, Air Compressor with, 32
Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, The Explosion of, 256, 332
Hook, Rees’s Disengaging, 348
Hopper Dredger, Twin-Screw, for Auckland, New Zealand, 571
Horizontal Engine with Hertay’s Variable Expansion Gear, 592
Horizontal Engine with Proell Valve Gear, McCulloch and Sons’, 244
Hudson Bay Railway, The Proposed, 282
Hudson River, The Ice Crop of the, 383
Hughes, Professor, on Self-Induction, 403, 574
Hydraulic Buffer Stop, 162,176
Hydraulic Forging Press, 4000-Ton, 393
Hydraulic Gold Mining, 68
Hydraulic Lifts on the Mersey Railway, 486
Hydraulic Machinery for Cleaning Ships’ Bottoms, 616
Hydraulic Press for the Manufacture of Prismatic Gunpowder, Taylor and Challen's, 446
Hydraulic Pump, Moore’s, 126
Hydraulic Pumps, Rose, Down9, nnd Thompson’s, 78
Hydraulic Ram, The, 345
Hydraulic Salt Mining, 255
Hydrogen Gas, Manufacture of, 209, 531
Hydrogen in Glow Lamps, 625

Ice, The Breaking up of, in Rivers, 185
Ice Crop of the Hudson River, The, 383
Ice Plant nt St. Andrew’s Dock, Hull, 535
Illuminating Water by Electricity, 504
Illumination at the City of Mexico, 456
Illumination, Lighthouse, 281
Incandescence Lamp, The Weston, 518
Incandescent Filaments, The Light Obtained from, 254
Incandescent Lamps, The Heat from, 164
Increase of Duty in Russia on Foreign Coal, Proposed, 625
India, Iron Working in, 229
India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph Works, The Silvertown, 586, 612
India, The Telegraph Engineers in, 67
Indian Castings, 521
Indian Meteorites, 91
Indicator, A Mechanical Stability, 382, 394
Indicator, A Strain, for Use at Sea, 382, 422
Industries of Europe, The Petroleum, 99,149,193, 239, 289, 341
Influence Machines, Wimshurst’s, 333, 495
Interest out of Capital, Payment of, 427
Inventions, Rewards for, 356
Iron, Changes in, Due to Magnetisation, 555
Iron Conference at St. Petersburg, 41
Iron Enterprise in South Russia, New, 555

Iron and Steel Institute, The: 479, 489

On the Manufacture of Tin Plates, by Mr.Philip W. Flower, 479
On Steel Wire of High Tonacity, by Dr. Percy, 489
On Certain Accessory Products of the Blast Furnace, by Mr. Thomas Blair, 489
On a Rare Blast Furnace Cinder of the Composition of Gehlonite, by Mr. H. Bauerman, 489
On Blow-Holes in Open Hearth Steel, by Mr. John Head, 490
On Wrought-Iron Conduit Pipes, by Mr. Hamilton Smith, 491
On the Application of very High Powers to the Study of the Microscopical Structure of Steel, by Dr. H. C. Sorby, 491
On the Endurance of Steel Rails, by Mr. F. W. Webb, 491, 512
On a Neutral Lining for Furnaces, by M. Ferdinand Gautier, 491
On the Constituents of Cast Iron, by Mr. Thomas Tumor, 519
On Certain Descriptions of Indian Castings, by Mr. C. Purdon Clarke, 521

Iron and Steel, Microscopic Examination of, 505
Iron and Stoel Railway Sleepers in Germany, 200
Iron and Steel, Testing, 155, 160
Iron and Steel Trade, The American, 573
Iron Trade in Russia, The, 333
Iron Working in India, 229
Ironclad “ Naniwa,” The Japanese, 470
Ironfounders, A New Cupola for, 430
Irruption of Krakatoa, The, 578
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s Paddle
Steamer “Mona’sQueen,” The, 448, 495, 544
Italian Railway System, The, 115

Japanese Ironclad, “Naniwa,” The, 470
Joicey’s Tandem Compound Engine at the Works of the Union Cement Company, Wallsend-on- Tyne, 189
Jones’ Dynamo and Otto Gas Engine, 334
Jury Rudder fitted to the s.s. “ Gloucester,” 143

Kaiser’s Counter, 189
Kapp Dynamo and Allen Engine, 521
“ Kathleen Mavourneen,” The Paddle Steamer, 222, 271
Kendall and Gent’s Boiler Drilling Machine, 619
Kolomna Works, The, 555
Krakatoa, The Irruption of, 578
Kynoch Revolver, The, 56

Laboratory Text-Books, Physical, 183
Laboratory Use, Refrigeration for, 280
Laboratory, The Weston, 392
Ladlo, Foundry, Burrows’ Automatic Tilting, 213
Lamp, The Weston Incandescence, 518
Lamps, Glow, Hydrogen in, 625
Lamps, Glow, Low-Resistance, 355
Lamps, Glow, and Pitwork, 504
Land Torpedoes, 135
Langley’s Hydraulio Buffer Stop, 176
Lathe, Lang and Sons’ Screw-Cutting and Self-Acting Sliding Gap, 128
Lathe, Pipe-Cutting and Turning, 102
Lathe for Turning Chilled Rolls, 394
Launch Engines, Burrell and Sons’ Compound, 213
Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 80, 118, 142, 153, 188, 214, 227, 244, 282, 307, 322, 350, 499, 595, 615
Launching a Patrol Boat, 393
Lectures and Conferences at tho Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 534
Legislation, Electrical, in France, 182
Legislation, Private Bill, 51
Liede’s Steam Governor, 5
Lifts, Hydraulic, on the Mersey Railway, 486
Light, The Electric, in Church, 90
Light, The Electric, at the Paris Opera, 15
Light, Electric, at the Rochechouart Baths,39
Light, Electrio Station at Lucerne, 102
Light, The Electrio, on the Suez Canal, 623
Light, Electric, Tho Weston, 429
Light Obtained from Incandescent Filaments, The, 254
Lighthouse, A Deep Sea, 138
Lighthouse Illumination, 281
Lighthouses, The Electrio Light in, 254
Lighting Act Amendment Bill, The Electric, 277
Lighting Acts, The Electric, 472
Lighting Bills, The New Electric, 353, 597
Lighting Committee, The Electric, 555
Lighting, Electric, District, 41
Lighting, Electric, at Paddington, 502
Lighting, Electric, at Silvertown, 566
“ Lily,” The Engines of the Yacht, 82
Lining for Furnaces, Neutral, 491
Liquefied Air, The Separation of, 232
Liquid Carbonic Acid, 254
Liquid Fuel, 563, 6U9
Liverpool Exhibition, The, 471, 502, 677
Lloyd, The North German, 579
Locomotive for the Belgian State Railway, 152
Locomotive, Fairlie, for tho Royal State Railways of Saxony, 309
Locomotive, Passenger and Goods, for the Uleaborg Railway, 546
Locomotive, Passenger, on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 521
Locomotive, Tank; Western Railway of France, 83
Locomotive (Von Borries’ System) for the Hanoverian State Railways, Compound Express, 434
Locomotive Works, The Clyde, 28, 49
Locomotive Works in Poland, New, 233
Locomotives for the Colonies, English v. American, 159, 280, 477
Locomotives, Crampton, 170
Locomotives, English and American Compared, 315
Log Chutes, 16
London and North-Western Railway, Collisions on the, 622
London, The Population of, 88
London University, 91
Long Distance Telephony, 628
Loom, Power, A Chapter in the Early History of the, 243
Low-Resistance Glow Lamps, 355
Lubrication of Signal Wires, 604
Lucerne, Electric Light Station at, 102
Lysters’ Portable Combined Grain Elevator and Crane, 346

McCulloch and Sons’ Horizontal Engine with Proell Valve Gear, 244
Machine, Arthur’s Angle-Iron Bevelling, 283
Machine, Bevel Wheel Shaping and Dividing, Greenwood and Batley’s, 222
Machine, Canvas Testing, O'Connor’s, 198
Machine, Carey-Latham Concrete Making, 222
Machine, Edge and Butt Planing, Scriven and Co.’s, 592
Machine, Facing and Boring, Waller’s,505
Machine Gun Ammunition, 91
Machine, Kendall and Gent's Boiler Drilling, 019
Machine, Planing, Kushworth and Co.’s, 347
Machine, Quarrying and Stone-Dressing, Crump and Brereton’s, 154
Machine, Shearing, for Circular Plates, Taylor and Challen’s, 535
Machinery, Hauling, at the Terbonella Sulphur Mines, Italy, 50
Machinery, Hydraulic, for Cleaning Ships’ Bottoms, 010
Machinery, Refrigerating, 467, 605
Machines, Wimshurst’s Influence, 333, 495
Maclver, Charles, 42
Magnesia in Portland Cement, 602
Magnesium Torch, A, 625
Making a New Merv Oasis, 69
Manchester Guardian Office, Air-Compressing Engine at the, 173
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 179
Mandrel, Noble’s Expanding, 509
Manganese Ore, New Sources of, 186
Manor Park Accident, The, 69
Manufacture of Hydrogen Gas, 209, 531
Manufacture of Tin Plates, 479
Maps, Photo-Relief, 68
Marine Engine Cranks and Shafts, 396, 443
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 18S5, Clyde, 54, 79, 139
Marine Engines, The Friction of, 200
Marine Engines with only Two Piston Valves, On Triple and Quadruple Expansion, 335
Mason Regulator for Pumping Engines, 348
Masonry Dam, The Vyrnwy, 26
“ Meander,” The Cruise of the, 25, 75, 123, 169, 217, 263, 342,369, 441, 405, 515
Mechanical Effects of Rheostatic Discharge, 403

Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of :

Experiments on the Transmission of Power by Gearing, Made by Messrs Wm. Sellers and Co., 285, 303, 581
Notes on the Steam Stamp, by Frederick G. Cogging, 119, 130, 201

Mechanical Engineers, institution of : 160,466

Description of an Autographic Test-Recording Apparatus, by Mr. J. Hartley Wicksteed, 160, 178, 213
Description of a Hydraulic Buffer Stop for Railways, by Mr. Alfred A. Langley, 162, 176
Description of Tensile Tests of Iron and Steel Bars, by the late Mr. Peter D. Bennett, Member of Council, 155, 160
On the Distribution of the Wheel Load in Cycles, by Mr. J. Alfred Griffiths, 466
On the Raising of the Wrecked Steamship “ Peer of the Realm,” by Mr. Thomas 11. Wailes, 467, 496
On Refrigerating and Ice-Making Machinerj' and Appliances, by Mr. T. B. Lightfoot, 467, 605

Mechanical Power on Farms, 45
Mechanical Stability Indicator, A, 382, 394
Meeting of the Society of Engineers, 144
Merryweathers’ Floating Eire Engine, 590
Mersey Railway, The, 89, 485
Mersey Railway, Hydraulic Lifts on the, 4S6
Metals, Fluids and Solid, On Certain Properties Common to, 521
Metals from Ores, The Extraction of, 603
Meteorite, The Story of a, 67
Meteorites, Indian, 91
Meteorological Society, Royal, 118, 174, 604
Meter, Power, Ashton's, 8
Metropolitan Railway, The Paris, 445
Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, 334
Metropolitan Water Supply, 18, 110, 233, 384
Mexico, Illumination at the City of, 456
Microscopic Examination of Iron and Steel, 505
Microscopical Structure of Steel, The, 491
Mild Steel for Shipbuilding, 405, 410
Military and Sporting Rifle, The Rees, 616
Military Telegraphy, The Telephone in, 552
Mill, Quartz, at the Disraeli Gold Mine, 222
Mill, Rolling, for Cruciform Sections, 104
Millwall Docks, High-Pressure Compound Pumping Engines at the, 470

Mining Engineers, The American Institute of : 290, 610

Excursions, 319
Natural Gas Wells, The, 292
On Pittsburgh and Vicinity ; a Brief Record of Seven Years’ Progress, by Mr. William Shinn, 291
On Natural Gas, bj’ Mr. William Metcalfe, 291
On Peculiar Phenomenon in the Heating of
Open Hearth and Bessemer Steel, bj' Mr. William Garrett, 293
On the Geologj’ of the Pittsburgh Coal Region, by Professor J. P. Leslie, 293
On the Clapp-Griffith Process, bj’ Mr. J. P. Witherow, 317
On the Recent Failures of Steel Boiler Plates, bj' Mr. William Kent, 319
On the Heine Safety Boiler, bj' Mr. C. D. Meier, 319
On Mitis Castings from Wrought Iron or Steel, by Mr. Peter Ostberg, 360
Other Papers, 293, 319
Pittsburg Plate Glass Works, The, 291
Presidential Address : Ethics of Engineering Practice, 291
Stamp Mills and Chlorination Works, 611

Mining, Gold, in the Amoor Region, 255
Mining Prospects in Chili, 623
Miscellanea, 20, 35, 59,85, 109, 142, 157, 188, 203, 227, 257. 308, 335, 347, 373, 425, 460, 484, 498, 534, 558, 667, 591, 619 Modern Valve Gear, On Some, 61
“ Mohawk,” Tho Torpedo Cruiser, 153
“ Mona’s Queen,” The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s Paddle Steamer, 448, 495, 544
Monte Carlo, The Railway Accident at, 278, 354
Moon, The Heat of the, 38
Moore’s Hydraulic Pump, 120
Mortar, 68
Moscow Factories, Proposed Removal of, 254
Mountain Railway, A South American, 254
Multiple Screws, 417
Multiplex Telegraphy, Synchronous, 494
Musgrave and Sons v. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 103
Mutual Attraction at Minuto Distances, Sir William Thomson on, 232

“ Naniwa,” The Japanese Ironclad, 470
Natural Gas, 291 Natural Gas for Fuel, 41, 255
Natural Gas Wells, 292

Naval Architects, The Institution of : 381, 417

Brief Review of the Progress of Mild Steel and the Result of Eight Years’ Experience of its Use for Shipbuilding Purposes, andc., by Mr. Martell, 405, 410
On the Speed Trials of Recent War Ships, by Mr. W. H. White, 375, 381
On an Improved Mechanical Method of Finding the Stability of a Vessel, by Mr. J. H. Heck, 382, 394
On a Strain Indicator for Use at Sea, by Mr. E. Stromeyer, 382, 422
On Flexible Crank and Propeller Shafting in Lieu of Rigid Shafting for Marine Propulsion, by Mr. J. F. Hall, 396, 443
On the Present Aspect of Mild Steel for Shipbuilding, by Mr. John Ward, 405
On the Use of Steel Castings in Lieu of Iron Forgings and Brass Castings, by Mr. E. C. Warren, 406, 473, 508
On Closed Stokeholds, by Mr. R. Sennett, 407, 448
On Forced Combustion in Furnaces of Steam Boilers, by Mr. James Howden, 407, 461, 610, 630
On Multiple Screws, by M. M. Marchal, 417
On the Determination of the Most Suitable Dimensions for Screw Propellers, by Mr. R. E. Froude, 417
On Converting Existing Compound Engines into Triple-Expansion Engines, by Mr. H. A. B. Cole, 420
On a New System of Steering Gear, and Rudder Strains Recorded by it, by Mr. Arthur J. Maginnis, 435, 443
On Recent Measurements of the Turning Powers of Screw Ships, by Captain P. H. Colomb, R.N., 444
On the Strength of Bulkheads, by Mr. T. C. Read,445
Presidential Address, 381

Naval Architecture at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 575
Naval Policy, Russian, 281
Navigation, Aerial, 208
Navy, The, 301
Navy Estimates, The, 275, 597
Navy, The French, 185
Navy, The United States, 65
Neutral Lining for Furnaces, 491
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, Engines of, 104
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, Passenger Locomotive on the, 524
New York City Water Works, The, 194
New York District Railway Company, The, 551
New York Obelisk, The Treatment of the, 184
New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad Company’s Ferry Steamer “ Cape Charles,” 55
Niagara Falls, The Cantilever Bridge at, 225, 246, 325, 349
Nitric Acid, Fire Risks of, 409
Nitrogen in the Soil, 16
Noble’s Expanding Mandrel, 569
North German Lloyd, The, 579
Northumerland Coal in 1886, 38

Notes :

Accumulator Gauge, An, 383
Accumulator, A New, 356
Air Blast in Sorting Coal, The, 17
Alarms at Railway Crossings, 114
Alcohol, Electric Resistance of, 530
Alloy of Aluminium, A New, 625
Aluminium in Wrought-Iron Castings, 305
Ampèremeter, A New, 429
Armstrong Works in Russia, Proposed, 18
Artesian Wells in Central Asia, 409
Asbestos Discoveries in Siberia, 429
Australia, A Direct Wire to, 232
Austrian Torpedo Boat “Falke,” The, 41
Awards of the Health Exhibition, The, 138
Battery, A New Chloride of Silver, 578
Battery, De Lalande’s Primary, 605
Battery, A New Secondary, 555
Bessemerising of Copper Mattes, 186
Blast Furnace Returns, 41
Blasting Operations on the Panama Canal, 383
Boiler Explosion at Accrington, 305
Breaking Up of Ice in Rivers, The, 185
Bronze Founding, Artistic, 115
Brush Company, The, 139
Bye-Products, 210
Cable, A New French Atlantic, 025
Canadian Railway System, The, 185
Canadian Trent Valley, The, 357 ,
Canal from the White Sea to the Baltic, 210
Carbon in Iron, Determination of, 602
Carbonic Acid, Liquid, 254
Changes in Iron Due to Magnetisation, 555
Channel Service, The, 91
China, Progress in, 282
Chinese Railways, 209
Clock, Electro-Mechanical, 305
Coal Experiment in the Pacific, 430
Coal Mining in Belgium, 210
Competition of Railway Couplings, The, 357
Conductivity of Resins, (01
Constant Cell, A New, 601
Copper Industry in the Caucasus, The, 185
Copper, The Passage of a Gas across, 138
Copper Statistics, Some, 233
Corrosion of Boilers, The, 555
Cupola for Ironfounders, A New, 430
Cyclones, The Origin of, 602
Damascening by Electrolysis, 555
Deep-Sea Lighthouse, A, 138
Defries’ Safety Lamp, 504
Diamond Fields, The, 209
Diatomite in Skye, 450
Dilatancy, 281
District Electric Lighting, 41
Diversion of the Oxus, The, 164
Drying the Air for Blast Furnaces, 356
Dynamo Testing, 408
Earth Currents on Ben Nevis, 138,185
Effluvograph, The, 383
Egyptian Petroleum, 579
Electric Current, Novel Method of Finding the Strength of an, 281
Electric Light in Church, The, 90
Electric Light in Lighthouses, The, 254
Electric Lighting Committee, The, 655
Electric Mountain Railway, An, 16
Electric Sounding Plates, 90
Electricity at “ Broomhill,’’ 164
Electro-Mechanical Clock, 305
Electrolytic Precipitation of Copper, 114
Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 163
Electrotyping Solution, A New, 555
Element, A New, 281
Engine Contracts for the Admiralty, 255
Engineering at Cambridge, 281
English Coal on the Volga, 480
English Enterprise and Burmese Petroleum, 186
Ericsson’s Submarine Gun, 164
Eruption of Etna, The, 625
Eucalyptus Fluid for Cleaning Boilers, 209
Evelyn’s Bubble Clinometer, 91
Example of Track Laying, An, 505
Explosion on Board the “ Collingwood,” 456
Figaro's Tribute to Mr. Crookes, The, 625
Fire Risks of Nitric Acid, 409
Fireman’s Exhibition, The, 457
Fireproof Plaster, A New, 10
Fossil Trunk, A, 578
French Atlantic Cable, A New, 625
French Navy, The, 185
Frozen Water Supply, A, 356
Fusion Point of Paraffin, Determining the, 408
Fuze, A New Electric, 601
Gas and Petroleum in Belgium, 138
Gay-Lussac Observatory, The, 409
Geology of Central Tunisia, The, 025
Geology of Eastern Tonquin, The, 456
German-Built Torpedo Boats, 68
German Opinion of Scotch Pig Iron, 305
German Shipping Enterprise, 185
German Steam Navigation, 357
Glow Lamps and Pitwork, 504
Gold Mining in the Amoor Region, 255
Handicraft Competition at Hawick, 333
Heat from Incandescent Lamps, The, 164
Heating Power of Gas, The, 430
Heliograph, A Pocket, 578
Hollow Shafts in Cotton Pickers, 254
Holloway Sanatorium, The, 625
Hudson Bay Railway, The Proposed, 282
Hydraulic Gold Mining, 68
Hydraulic Salt Mining, 255
Hydrogen Gas, Manufacture of, 209, 531
Hydrogen in Glow Lamps, 625
Ice Crop of the Hudson River, The, 383
Illuminating Water by Electricity, 504
Illumination at the City of Mexico, 456
Increase of Duty in Russia on Foreign Coal, Proposed, 625
Indian Meteorites, 91
Iron Conference at St. Petersburg, 41
Iron Enterprise in South Russia, New, 555
Iron Trade in Russia, The, 333
Irruption of Krakatoa, 578
Italian Railway System, The, 115
Kolomna Works, The, 555
Lecture on Liquid Fuel, Colonel Stewart’s, 626
Light from Incandescent Filaments, The, 254
Lighthouse Illumination, 281
Liquefied Air, The Separation of, 232
Locomotive Works in Poland, New, 233 Log Chutes, 16
London University, 91 Lubrication of Signal Wires, 504
Maclver, Charles, 42 Machine Gun Ammunition, 91
Magnesia in Portland Cement, 602
Magnesium Torch, A, 625
Manganese Ore, New Sources of, 186
Manor Park Accident, The, 69
Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, 334
Microscopic Examination of Iron and Steel, 505
Mortar, 68
Moscow Factories, Proposed Removal of, 254
Mutual Attraction at Minute Distances, 232
Natural Gas for Fuel, 41, 255
Nitrogen in the Soil, 16
North German Lloyd, The, 579
Oasis, Merv, Making a New, 69
Ordnance Department, The, 805
Otto’s Patents, Dr., 164
Paraffin Photometer, A, 530
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 114
Perspectograph, The, 504
Petroleum Exhibition in Russia, 457
Petroleum Resources of Apsheron, The, 41
Petroleum at Suez, 333
Petroleum, Tank Delivery of, 282
Phonophore, The, 480
Photo-Relief Maps, 68
Photography of the Spectra of Stars, 678
Pig Iron and Bessemer Steel in 1885, 357
Pig Iron, Proposed Restriction on tho Import of, into Russia, 185
Pipe Contracts for the Thirlmere Water Scheme, 69
Pipe Line to Batoum, The, 430
Platinum and Fluor, 356
Postal Telegraph in the United States, 91
Preece, Mr., on Domestic Electric Lighting, 334
Preservation of Timber, The, 233
Preservation of Torpedo Boats, The, 40
Protection of Vineyards from Frost, Application of Electricity to the, 281
Radiation from Snow, On, 232
Radiophones, New, 530
Railway Enterprise in Persia, American, 602
Railway Relief Works in Russia, 233
Railway in Saghalien, A, 578
Railway from Syria to the Persian Gulf, A, 429
Railway Tunnels in Russia, 602
Reckenzaun Electric Motor, The, 457
Reclamation of American Swamps, 531
Recuperative Gas Lamp, A, 91
Refrigeration for Laboratory Use, 280
Rewards for Inventions, 356
Rheostatic Discharge, Mechanical Effects of the, 408
Richardson-Nevile Electric Governor, The, 333
Rolling Mill in America, The First, 210
Round Forgings, A New Process of, 625
Royal Albert Dock, The, 430
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 480
Royal Society Soirée, The, 481
Russia and the Cockerill Scheme, 18
Russian Iron Conferences and British Trade, 115
Russian Naval Policy, 281
Russian Port in the Caspian. New, 481
Russian Prizes for Torpedo Defence, 210
Russian Railway Construction for 1886,91
Russian Shipping Enterprise, 305
Saccharin, 504 Safe Rifle Ranges, 281
Safety Cartridge for Coal Mines, A New, 481
Sampling of Pig Iron, The, 602
Sea Canal to St. Petersburg, The, 383
Signalling Sketches, 304
Sims Torpedo, The, 139
Soaking Pits for Tyres, 138
Soirée at University College, 186
Sounder, The Economic, 531
South American Mountain Railway, A, 254
Spanish Trade, Our, 334
Spectra of Erbia, The, 304
Spectroscope for Furnaces, A, 164
Star Magnitudes, Determining, 209
Star in Orion, The New, 232
Steam Pump for Liquid Lead, A, 18
Steel and Iron Making in Belgium, 457
Structures on Compressible Foundations, 555
Sub-Aqueous Photography, 17
Submarine Rocks, 505
Superiority of American Goods, 383
Suram Tuimel, The, 281, 456
“Surprise” and “ Dolphin,” The, 68
Tank Steamers on the Tyne, 579
Tansa Waterworks, 356
Telemicrophone, A, 138
Telephone Interests in the United States, 185
Telephonic Currents, 17
Testing the Efficiency of Dynamos, 2S1
Testing Water-Tight Compartments, 480
Thermometers for White Heat, 504
Thermopile and Galvanometer, A Combined, 531
Tin Scrap, 625
Torpedo Experiments, French, 266
Touch Sounder, The, 504
Trade Outlet in the Black Sea, Proposed, 357
Trial of Armour-Plating, Important, 139, 209
Velocity of Earth Tremors, The, 254
Water Supply of Nottingham, 115
Water Supply of Philadelphia, The, 356
Weather Forecasts and Circular Storms, 185
Weston Electric Light, The, 429
Western Union Telegraph Company, 115
Wigham Burner, The, 163
Wimshnrst Machine, A New, 338
Wood Trade of 1885, The, 91
Wood Turbine Water Wheels, 578
Worthington Pumping Engines, 139
Yacht’s Gun, A, 68

Notes from Cleveland, 11, 34, 59, 81, 108, 129, 156, 187, 199, 223, 245, 269, 294 , 323, 351, 377, 410, 433, 451, 475, 498, 525, 545, 580, 594, 628
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 22, 63, 212, 236,43S, 512, 580, 595
Notes from the North, 11, 33, 58, 81, 108, 129, 156, 187, 198, 236, 245, 269, 295, 322, 351, 377, 409, 433, 451, 475, 498, 525, 545, 580, 594, 628
Notes from the South-West, 22, 33, 58, 80, 107, 128, 156, 190, 199, 222, 244, 268, 294, 323, 350, 410, 433, 450, 474, 497, 525, 544, 579, 594,628
Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 34, 72, 81, 108, 128, 156, 187, 199, 223, 245, 269, 295, 323, 350, 421, 451, 475, 498, 525, 545, 579. 594, 628
Notes on the Steam Stamp, 119, 130, 201
Notes from the United States, 21, 45, 55, 96, 116, 141, 153, 190, 213, 233, 258, 283, 309, 822, 362, 384, 409, 434, 447, 485, 505, 531, 656, 671, 605, 619
Nottingham, Water Supply of, 115

Oasis, Merv, Making a New, 69
Obelisk, The New York, Treatment of the, 184
Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, The Gay-Lussac, 409
O'Connor’s Canvas-Testing Machine, 198
Office, The Patent, 37, 87, 135, 205
Opera, Paris, Electric Light at the, 15
Ordnance Department, The, 805
Ore, Manganese, New Sources of, 186
Ores, The Extraction of Metals from, 603
Origin of Cyclones, The, 602
Orion, The New Star in, 232
Otto Gas Engine and Jones’ Dynamo, 331
Otto’s Patents, Dr., 164
Our Guns, 621
Oxus, The Diversion of the, 161

Pacific, Coal Experiments in the, 430
Paddington, Electric Lighting at, 502
Paddle Steamer “ Kathleen Mavourneen,” The, 222 271
Paddle” Steamer “ Mona’s Queen," The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s, 448, 495, 644
Panama Canal, Blasting Operations on the, 383
Panama Canal Project, The, 331
Paraffin, Determining the Fusion Point of, 408
Paraffin Photometer, A, 530
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 114
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 445
Paris Opera, The Electric Light at the, 15
Parkinson’s Parallel Vice, 83
Passage of Copper across a Gas, The, 138
Passenger and Goods Locomotive for the Ulcaborg Railway, 546 n ,
Passenger Locomotive on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 624
Patent Actions, Disclaimer in, 332
Patent Office, The, 37, 87, 135, 205
Patent Record, The, 23, 47, 73, 97, 121, 145, 167, 191, 215, 237, 261, 287 , 313, 839, 365, 389, 413, 489, 463, 487, 613, 637, 559, 583, 607,629
Patent System of the United States, 1, 90,100
Patents, Dr. Otto’s, 164
Patente, Glow Lamp, 527
Patrol Boat, Launching a, 393
Payment of Interest Out of Capital, 427
Pearce’s Friction Still, 32
Pearsall’s Hydraulic Rain, 345
Peer of the Realm," Raising the, 490
Persia, American Railway Enterprise in, 602
Perspectograph, The, 504
Petroleum, Burmese, and English Enterprise, 186
Petroleum, Egyptian, 579
Petroleum Engine, Spiel’s, 128
Petroleum Exhibition in Russia, 457
Petroleum Industries of Europe, The, 99, 149, 193, 239, 289, 341
Petroleum Resources of Apsheron, The, 41
Petroleum at Suez, 333
Petroleum, Tank Delivery of, 282
Philadelphia, The Water Supply of, 356
Phonophore, The, 480
Photography of the Spectra of Stare, 578
Photography, Sub-Aqueous, 17
Photometer, A Paraffin, 530
Photo-Relief Maps, 68
Physical Laboratory Text-Books, 183
Physical Society, The, 118, 190, 226,309, 362, 437, 486, 567, 626
Pig Iron and Bessemer Steel in 1835, 357
Pig Iron, Proposed Restriction on the Import of, into Russia, 185
Pig Iron, The Sampling of, 602
Pig Iron, Scotch, German Opinion of, 305
Pig Iron Trade, The Scotch, in 1885, 19
Pinchbeck’s Rotary Engine, 21
Pipe Contracts for Thirlmere Water Scheme, 69
Pipe-Cutting and Turning Lathe, 102
Pipe Line to Batoum, The, 430
Pipes, Wrought-Iron, 491
Pittsburg Coal Region, The Geology of the, 293
Pittsburg Plate Glass Works, The, 291
Pittsburg, The Progress of, 291
Planing Machine, Edge and Butt, Scriven and Co.’s, 592
Planing Machine, Rushworth and Co.’s, 347
Plaster, Fireproof, A New, 16
Plate Glass Works, The Pittsburg, 291
Platinum and Fluor, 356
Pocket Heliograph, A, 578
Poland, New Locomotive Works in, 233
Poole and Maclver’s Telephonic Call Apparatus, 549
Population of London, The, 88
Port in the Caspian, New Russian, 481
Portable Combined Grain Elevator and Crane, Lysters’, 346
Portland Cement, Magnesia in, 602
Postal Telegraph in the United States, Proposed, 91
Power Loom, A Chapter in the Early History of the, 243
Power, Mechanical, on Farms, 45
Power Meter, Ashton's, 8
Power, The Transmission of, by Gearing, 285,303, 581
Precipitation of Copper, Electrolytic, 114
Preece, Mr., on Domestic Electric Lighting, 334
Preservation of Timber, The, 233
Preservation of Torpedo Boats, The, 40
Press, 4000-Ton Hydraulic Forging, 393
Prismatic Gunpowder, Taylor and Challen’s Press for the Manufacture of, 446
Private Bill Legislation, 51
Process, The Clapp-Griffith, 317 Producers, Gas, 84
Products of the Blast Furnace, Accessory, 489
Proell Valve Gear, McCulloch and Sons* Horizontal Engine with, 244
Professor Hughes on Self-Induction, 103, 574
Progress in China, 282
Progress of Pittsburg, The, 291
Properties Common to Fluids and Solid Metals, On Certain, 521
Protection of Vineyards from Frost, Application of Electricity to the, 281
Provisional Protection ; An Alternative, 113
Pulleys, Smith’s Convertible, 485
Pump, The Deane Differential Plunger Sinking, 569
Pump, Hydraulic, Moore’s, 120
Pump, A Steam, for Liquid Lead, 18
Pumping Engines at Allegheny, Pa., U.S.A., Reynolds’, 33, 95
Pumping Engines, High-Pressure Compound, a the Mill wall Docks, 470
Pumping Engines, Steam, The Mason Regulator for, 348
Pumping Engines, Worthington, 139
Pumps and Blowers, Rotary, Thwaites’s, 872
Pumps, Hydraulic, Rose, Downs, and Thompson’s, 78
Pumps, Steam, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co.’s, 372
Purification, Water, 359
Pyrometer, Frew’s, 45

Quadrant Engine, Tangyes' Two-Cylinder, 692
Quadruplo Expansion “ Disconnective” Engines of the Steam Yacht “ Rionnag-na-Mara,” 361
Quarrying and Stone-Dressing Machine, Crump and Brercton’s, 164

Radiation from Snow, On, 232
Radiophones, New, 530
Railroad, The New York Central and Hudson River, Passenger Locomotive on the, 521
Rails, Steel, on the Continent, 601
Rails, Steel, The Endurance of, 491, 512
Railway Accident at Monte Carlo, The, 278
Railway Accident, The Monte Carlo, Sequel to, 354
Railway, The Belgian State, Locomotive for, 152
Railway Brakes, 454
Railway Company, The New York District, 551
Railway Construction for 1886, Russian, 91
Railway Coupling, Heinke’s, 496
Railway Couplings, The Competition of, 357
Railway Crossings, Alarms at, 114
Railway Enterprise in Persia, American, 602
Railway, Forth Bridge; Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., 31, 484
Railway, London and North-Western, Collisions on the, 622
Railway, The Mersey, 89, 485
Railway, Mersey, Hydraulic Lifts on the, 486
Railway, Mountain, An Electric, 16
Railway, The Paris Metropolitan, 445
Railway, The Proposed Hudson Bay, 282
Railway Rates and their Effects on Trade 329, 379
Railway Relief Works in Russia, 233
Railway in Saghalien, A, 578
Railway Sleepers in Germany, Iron and Steel, 206
Railway from Syria to the Persian Gulf, A, 429
Railway System, The Canadian, 185
Railway System, The Italian, 116
Railway Tunnels in Russia, 602
Railway, The Uleaborg, Passenger and Goods Locomotive for, 540
Railway, The Western of Franco, Tank Passenger Locomotive for tho, 83
Railways, Chinese, 209
Railways, Economical, 310
Railways, English and American, 415,540
Railways, English and Foreign, Compared, 453
Railways, The Hanoverian State, Compound Express Locomotive (Von Borries’ System) for, 434
Railways of Saxony, the Royal State, Fairlie Locomotive for the, 309
Raising Wrecked Steamships, 407, 496
Ram, The Hydraulic, 345
Ransome, Mr. Robert Charles, 258
Rockenzaun Electric Motor, The, 457
Reclamation of American Swamps, 631
Record, The Patent, 23, 47, 73, 97, 121, 145, 107, 191, 215, 237, 261, 287, 313, 339, 305, 389, 413, 439, 403, 487, 518, 537, 559, 583, 007, 629
Recordon's Electro-Magnets, 6
Recuperative Gas Lamp, A, 91
Rees's Disengaging Hook, 348
Rees Rifle, Tho, 616
Refrigerating Machinery, 467, 605
Refrigeration for Laboratory Use, 280
Regulator for Steam Pumping Engines, The Mason, 348
Removal of Moscow Factories South, Proposed, 254
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Mu-indin, R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 31, 484
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on the Boiler Explosions in 1885, 297
Resins, Conductivity of, 601
Restriction on the Import of Pig Iron into Russia, Proposed, 185
Returns, Blast Furnace, 41
Revolver, The Kynooh, 50
Rewards for Inventions, 356
Reynolds’ Pumping Engines at Allegheny, Pa., U.S.A., 33, 95
Rheostatic Discharge, Mechanical Effects of the, 403
Richardson-Nevile Electric Governor, The, 333
Rifle Ranges, Safe, 281 Rifle, The Rees, 616
“Rifleman,” Boiler Explosion on the, at Cardiff, 277, 294
“ Rionnag-na-Mara,” Quadruple Expansion " Disconnective" Engines of the Steam Yacht, 361
River Seine, The, 179
Rochechouart Baths, Paris, Tho Electric Light at the, 39
Rocks, Submarine, 505
Rolling Mill in America, The First, 210
Rolling Mill for Cruciform Sections, 104
Rolls, Chilled, Lathe for Turning, 394
Rose Chuck, Budd's, 614
Rose, Downs, and Thompson’s Hjdraulio Pumps, 78
Rotary Blowers and Pumps, Thwaites’s, 372
Rotary Engine, Pinchbeck’s, 21
Round Forging, A New Process of, 025
Royal Albert Dock, The, 430
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 480
Royal Meteorological Society, 118, 174, 604
“ Royal Prince,” s s., Boilers and Engines of the, 590, 015
Royal Society Soirée, The, 481
Royalties in the Coal Trade, 303
Rudder, Jury, fitted to the s.s. “ Gloucester,” 143
Rushworth and Co.’s Planing Machine, 347
Russia and the Cockerill Scheme, 18
Russia, The Iron Trade in, 333
Russia, Proposed Armstrong Works in, 18
Russia, Railway Relief Works in, 233
Russia, South, New Iron Enterprise in, 556
Russian Iron Conferences and British Trade, 115
Russian Naval Policy, 281 Russian Port in the Caspian, New, 481
Russian Prizes for Torpedo Defence, 210
Russian Railway Construction for 1886, 91
Russian Shipping Enterprise, 305

Saccharin, 504
Safe Rifle Ranges, 281
Safety Boiler, The Heine, 319
Safety Cartridge for Coal Mines, A New, 481
Safety Lamp, Defries’, 504
Saghalien, A Railway in, 578
St. Andrew’s Dock, Hull, Ice Plant at, 535
St. Petersburg, Iron Conference at, 41
Salt Mining, Hydraulic, 255
Sampling of Pig Iron, The, 602
Sanatorium, The Holloway, 625
Scotch Fishery Board, The, 552
Scotch Pig Iron Trade in 1885, The, 19
Scrap, Tin, 625
Screw Cutting and Self-Acting Sliding Gap Lathe, Lang and Sons’, 128
Screws, The Dimensions of, 417
Screws, Multiple, 417
Scriven and Co.’s Edge and Butt Planing Ma- chine C)92
Sea Canal to St. Petersburg, The, 383
Secondary Battery, A New, 555
Seine, The River, 179
Self-Induction, Electric, 136
Self-Induction, Professor Hughes on, 4C3, 574
Separation of Liquefied Air, The, 232
Sequel to the Monte Carlo Railway Accident, 354
Sewage Discharge, Metropolitan, 334
Sewage Process, A New, 438
Shafts and Cranks, Marine Engine, 396, 443
Shaping and Dividing Machine, Bevel Wheel, Greenwood and Batley’s, 222
Shearing Machine for Circular Plates, Taylor and Challen’s, 535
Shipbuilding, British, The Future of, 251
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1885, Clyde, 54, 79, 139
Shipbuilding, Mild Steel for, 405, 410
Shipping Enterprise, German, 185
Shipping Enterprise, Russian, 305
Ships’ Bottoms, Hydraulic Machinery for Cleaning, 610
Ships, Turning Power of, 444
Siberia, Asbestos Discoveries in, 429
Signal Wires, Lubrication of, 504
Signalling Sketches, 304
Silvertown, Electric Lighting at, 660
Silvertown India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph Works, The, 586, 612
Sims Torpedo, The, 139
Sinking Pump, The Doane Differential Plunger, 669
Sketches, Signalling, 304
Skye, Diatomite in, 456
Sleepers, Railway, in Germany, Iron and Steel, 206
Slide Valves, Balanced, 359
Smith-Casson's Gas Producer and Furnace, 371
Smith’s Convertible Pulleys, 485
Snow, On Radiation from, 232
Soaking Pits for Tyres, 138
Society of Engineers, Meeting of the, 144
Society, The Physical, 118, 190, 226, 309, 362, 437, 486, 567, 626
Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 184, 230, 279, 380
Soil, Nitrogen in the, 16
Soirée, Tho Royal Society, 481
Soirée at University College, 186
Solution, A New Electrotyping, 555
Sorting Coal, The Air Blast in, 17
Sounder, The Economic, 531
Sounder, The Touch, 504
Sounding Plates, Electric, 90
South African Diamond Fields, Tho, 391, 409, 629, 544, 585
South American Mountain Railway, A, 254
South-West, Notes from the, 22, 33, 58, 80, 107, 128,156, 190, 199, 222, 244, 268, 294, 323, 350, 370, 410, 433, 450, 474, 497, 525, 544, 579, 594
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 34, 72, 81,108, 128, 156, 187, 199, 223, 245, 269, 295, 323, 350, 377, 421, 451, 475, 498, 525, 545, 679, 694, 628
Spanish Trade, Our, 334
Spectra of Erbia, The, 304
Spectra of Stars, Photography of the, 578
Spectroscope for Furnaces, A, 164
Speed Trials of Recent War Ships, On the, 375, 381
Sporting and Military Rifle, The Rees, CIO
Spezia, The Armour Plate Trials at, 495
Spiel's Petroleum Engine, 128
Stability of Ships, 394
Stamp Mills and Chlorination Works, 611
Stannington Boiler Explosion, The, 14,112
Star Magnitudes, Determining, 209
Star in Orion, The New, 232
Station, Electric Light, at Lucerne, 102
Statistics, Some Copper, 233
Steam on Canals, 119, 143
Steam Coaling Crane at Troon Harbour, Thirty-Ton, Craig’s, 321
Steam Fishing Boats, 103
Steam Governor, Liede’s, 5
Steam Navigation, German, 357
Steam Pump for Liquid Lead, A, 18
Steam Pumps, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co.’s, 372
Steam Stamp, Notes on the, 119,130, 201
Steam Syren, Steven and Struther’s, 70
Steam Users’ Association, Manchester, 179
Steam Users’ Company and Boiler Insurance, The Yorkshire, 141
Steam Yacht “ Lily,” Engines of the, 82
Steam Yacht “ Rionnag-na-Mara,” Quadruple Expansion “ Disconnective ” Engines of the, 361
Steamer, Ferry, “Cape Charles,” 65
Steamer “ Kathleen Mavourneen,” The Paddle, 222,271
Steamer “ Mona’s Queen,” Paddle, The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s, 448, 495, 544
Steamers, Tank, on tho Tyne, 579
Steamship “ Enflold,” Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 8
Steamship “ Gloucester,” Jury Rudder fitted to tho, 143
Steamship “ Royal Prince,” Engines and Boilers of tho, 590
Steamships, Raising Wrecked, 407, 496 Steel, Blow-Holes in, 490
Steel Boiler Plates, 319
Steel Castings, 406, 473, 508
Steel Heating, ‘293
Steel and Iron, The Effects of Blue Heat on, 106
Steeland Iron Making in Belgium, 457
Steel and Iron, Testing, 155, 160
Steel and Iron Trade, The American, 573
Steel, The Microscopical Structure of, 491
Steel Rails on the Continent, 501
Steel Rails, The Endurance of, 491, 512
Steel for Shipbuilding, Mild, 405, 410
Steel Wire of High Tenacity, 489
Steel Works, Coats, Coatbridge, 457
Steering Gear, 435, 443
Stepney Boiler Explosion, The, 598
Stereoscope, On a New Form of, 485
Steven and Struther’s Steam Syren, 79
Still, Friction, Pearce’s, 32
Stone-Dressing and Quarrying Machine, Crump and Brereton’s, 154
Story of a Meteorite, The, 67
Strain Indicator for Use at Sea, A, 382, 422
Strength of an Electric Current, Novel Method of Finding the, 281
Structures on Compressible Foundations, 555
Sub-Aqueous Photography, 17
Submarine Gun, Ericsson's, 164
Submarine Rocks, 505
Suez Canal, The Electric Light on the, 623
Suez, Petroleum at, 333
Superiority of American Goods, 383, 627
Suram Tunnel, The, 281, 456
“ Surprise ” and “ Dolphin,” The, 68
Switchboard Fittings, Woodhouse and Rawson’s, 127
Sydney Tramways, The, 66
Synchronous Multiplex Telegraphy, 494
Syren, Steam, Steven and Struther’s, 79
Syria to the Persian Gulf, A Railway from, 429

Tandem Compound Engine at the Works of the Union Cement Co, Wallsend-on-Tyne, 189
Tangyes’ Two-Cylinder Quadrant Engine, 592
Tank Delivery of Petroleum, 282
Tank, Passenger, Locomotive ; Western Railway of France, 83
Tank Steamers on the Tyne, 579
Tansa Water Works, 356
Taylor and Challen’s Shearing Machine for Circular Plates, 535
Taylor and Challen’s Press for the Manufacture of Prismatic Gunpowder, 446
Telegraph Company, Western Union, 115
Telegraph Engineers in India, The, 67
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 184, 230, 279, 380
Telegraph, India-Rubber, and Gutta-Percha Works, The Silvertown, 586, 612
Telegraph, Postal, in the United States, Proposed, 91
Telegraphy, Synchronous Multiplex, 494
Teleinicrophone, A, 138
Telephone Companies, 141
Telephone Interests in the United States, 185
Telephone in Military Telegraphy, The, 552
Telephone, Professor Thompson's, 303
Telephonic Call Apparatus, Poole and Maclver’s, 549
Telephonic Currents, 17
Telephony, Long Distance, 528
Terbonelia Sulphur Mines, Italy, Hauling Machinery at the, 56
Testing, Dynamo, 408
Testing the Efficiency of Dynamos, 281
Testing Iron and Steel, 155, 160
Testing Water-Tight Compartments, 480
Tests and Test-Recording Apparatus, 160, 178, 213
Text-Books, Physical Laboratory, 183
Thermometers for White Heat, 504
Thermopile and Galvanometer, A Combined, 531
Thirlmere Water Scheme, Pipe Contracts for the, 69
Thompson’s Telephone, Professor, 303
Thomson, Sir William, on Mutual Attraction at Minute Distances, 232
Thwaite Twin Gas Producer, The, 82
Thwaites’s Air Compressor with Holt’s Valves, 32
Thwaites’s Rotary Blowers and Pumps, 372
Tilbury Deep-Water Docks, The, 401
Timber, The Preservation of, 233
Tin Scrap, 625
Tin Plates, Manufacture of, 479
Torch, A Magnesium, 625
Torpedo Boat “ Falke,” The Austrian, 41, 328
Torpedo Boat, A Fast, 14
Torpedo Boats, German-Built, 68
Torpedo Boats, The Preservation of, 40
Torpedo Cruiser “ Mohawk,” The, 153
Torpedo Defence, Russian Prizes for, 210
Torpedo Experiments, French, 256
Torpedo, The Sims, 139
Torpedoes, Land, 135
Touch Sounder, The, 504
Tower Bridge, The, 622
Track Laying, An Example of, 603
Trade, The American Iron and Steel, 673
Trade Outlet in the Black Sea, Proposed New, 357
Trade, Railway Rates and their Effects on, 329, 379
Trade, The Scotch Pig Iron, in 1885, 10
Trade, Our Spanish, 334
Trade, The Wood, of 1885, 91
Tramway Working and Development, 13
Tramways, Cable, 501, 588
Tramways, The Sydney, 06
Transmission of Power by Gearing, The, 2£5, 363, 681
Treatment of tho New York Obelisk, The, 184
Trent Valley, The Canadian, 357
Trial of Armour-Plating, Important, 139, 209
Trial Trips and Launches, 10, 80, 118, 142, 153, 188, 214, 227,244,282, 307, 322,350, 499, 595, 615
Trials, Thc'Armour-Platc, at Spezia, 495
Trials, Speed, of Recent Warships, On the, 376, 381
Triple-Expansion Engines, 420
Triple-Expansion Engines of tho s.s. “ Enfield,” 8
Triple and Quadruple Expansion Marine Engines with only Two Piston Valves, On, 335
Troon Harbour, Craig’s Thirty-Ton Steam Coaling Crane at, 321
Trotter’s Wire Gauge, 283
Trunk, A Fossil, 578
Tunisia, Central, The Geology of, 625
Tunnel, The Suram, 281, 456
Tunnels, Railway, in Russia, 602
Turbine Water Wheels, Wood, 578
Turning and Pipe-Cutting Lathe, 102
Turning Power of Ships, 44 4
Turrets, Experiments against Armoured, at Bucharest, 265
Twin Gas Producer, The Thwaite, 82
Twin-Screw Hopper Dredger for Auckland, New Zealand, 671
Type of Warship, A New, 307
Tyres, Soaking Pits for, 138

Ulcaborg Railway, Passenger and Goods Locomotive for the, 546
United States, Automatio Brakes in the, 303
United States Navy, The, 65
United States, Notes from the, 21, 45, 55, 06,116, 141, 153, 190, 213, 233, 258, 283, 309, 322, 362, 384, 409, 434, 447, 485, 505, 531, 556, 571, 605, 019
United States, The Patent System of the, 1,90,100
United States, Telephone Interests in the, 185
University College, Soirée at, 186
University, London, 91
Upward Gas Battery, Tho, 598

Vacuum Brakes, 207
Valve Gear, On Some Modern, 61
Velocity of Earth Tremors, The, 254
Vice, Parallel, Parkinson’s, 83
Vineyards, Protection of, from Frost, Application of Electricity to the, 281
Vyrnwy Masonry Dam, The, 26

Waller and Co.’s Boring and Facing Machine, 505
Walton-le-Dale, Water Supply of, 31
Warship, A New Type of, 307
Warships, The Engines for the New, 140
Warships, On tho Speed Trials of Recent, 375, 381
Water Gas, 57, 111, 353
Water, Illuminating, by Electricity, 504
Water Purification, 359
Water Supply, A Frozen, 350
Water Supply, The Metropolitan, 18, 116, 233, 384
Water Supply of Nottingham, 115
Water Supply of Philadelphia, The, 356
Water Supply of Walton-le-Dale, 31
Water-Tight Compartments, Testing, 480
Water Works, The Calcutta, 436
Water Works, The New York City, 194
Waterworks, Tansa, 356
Weather, The, 38, 67,136, 253, 354, 356, 553
Weather Forecasts and Circular Storms, 185
Wells, Artesian, in Central Asia, 409
Wells, Natural Gas, 292
Welsh and Co.’s Air-Compressing Engine at the Manchester Guardian Office, 173
Western Railway of France, Tank Passenger Locomotive for the, 83
Western Union Telegraph Company, 115
Weston Dynamo, The, 468
Weston Electric Light, The, 429
Weston Incandescence Lamp, The, 518
Weston Laboratory, The, 392
Wet Extraction of Copper, The, 39
Wheel Load in Cycles, 406
White Heat, Thermometers for, 504
White Sea to the Baltic, Proposed Canal from the, 210
Wigham Burner, The, 163
Wimshurst’s Influence Machines, 333, 495
Wire to Australia, A Direct, 232
Wire Gauge, Trotter’s, 283
Wire Gun Construction, 83
Wire, Steel, of High Tenacity, 489
Wood Trade of 1885, The, 91
Wood Turbine Water Wheels, 578
Woodhouse and Rawson’s Switchboard Fittings, 127
Working and Development, Tramway, 13
Works, The Kolomna, 555
Worthington Pumping Engines, 139
Wrecked Steamships, Raising, 467, 496
Wrought-Iron Castings, Employment of Aluminium in, 305
Wrought-Iron Pipes, 491

Yacht’s Gun, A, 68
Yorkshire Boiler Insurance and Steam Users Company, The, 141

Zalinski’s Dynamite Gun, 147

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