Engineering 1886 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1886 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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Accident on the “ Collingwood,” The, 320
Accidents on the Midland Railway, 478
Accidents, Railway, and the Severe Weather, 671
Adam’s Peak in Ceylon, Peculiar Sunrise Shadows of, 536
Address of the President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 373
Address of the President of Section A of the British Association, 281
Adelaide Rock 1 rill, The, 636
Administration, British Railway, 187
Administration, Our Ordnance,'399, 428
Administration, Workshop, 149
Advancement of Science, American Association for the, 39S
Agricultural Snow, The Rival, at Norwich : 49 Dairy, 53
Davey Motors, 51 Drill, The Excelsior, 58
Engine, Compound Semi-Portable, Garrett and Sons’, 50
Engine, Semi-Portable, Fowler and Co.’s, 49
Engines, Steam, 49 Ensilage, 52
Feed Water Heater, Kirkaldy and Burrell’s, 49
Gas Engines, 51 Implements, 52
Permanent Way, Howard’s Portable, 62
Sheaf Binder, Howards', 52
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 49
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Mann’s, 49
Steering Gear for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 49
Thrashing Machine, Marshall, Sons’, and Co., 52
Traction Engine, Compound, Fowler and Co.’s, 49
Ailsa Craig Fog Signal Machinery, 106
Aluminium, 39
America, Machine Guns in, 239
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 393
American Blast Furnace Practice, 457
American Cantilever Bridge, An, 271
American Cities, Underground Wires in, 139
American Cruiser, An, 250
American and English Railways, 201, 271
American Illuminated Fountain, An, 142
American Institute of Mining Engineers, The See Mining Engineers, The American Institute of American Naval Failures, 623
American Project for the Persian Railways, The, 272
American Railroad Progress, 297
American Sanitation, 353
American Society of Civil Engineers, The (See Civil Engineers, The American Society of)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The (See Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of)
Ampèremeters and Volt, New, 430
Anderson, Sir John, 119
Annual Dinner of the Society of Engineers, 627
Anti-Incrustator in Steam Boilers, Sugar as an, 376
Armour, 425, 450, 603, 63C
Armour and Guns, 319, 425, 450
Armour-Piercing Projectiles, 401
Armour Plates, Rejected English, 142
Armour and Projectiles, Steel for, 667
Arsenal, Woolwich, 218
Art Metal, Japanese, 603
Asquith’s Railway Wheel Tyre Lathe, 155
Astronomical Instruments, 283
Atkinson’s Differential Gas Engine, 207
Atlantic and North-West Bridge at Lachine, The Contractor for the, 671
Atlantic Oil Steamer, A Pioneer, 245
Atlantic Passenger Steamers, 163, 196, 222
Atlantic Trade, The, and the Inman Company, 450
Auroral Sounds, 95
Australia and the Germans, 17
Australia, South, 451
Australian Frozen Meat Trade, The, 478
Australian Industries, 647, 657
Austro-Hungarian Lloyd’s, The, 651
Autographic Sewer Inspection, 555
Automatic Expansion Gear, Tangyc and John¬son’s, 314
Auxiliary Pumping Engine at Bradford Mater Works, 9
Aveling and Porter’s Steering Gear for Traction Engines, 49

Ball Thrust Bearing for Screw Shafts, Wells’s, 132
Balloon Photography, 167
Bar at Liverpool, The, 430
Barometer, The Recent Low Readings of the, 627
Barrels, Slack, The Manufacture of, by Machinery, 325, 336
Bartholdi Statue, The, 585
Basic Steel, 606
Basic Steel Process, Chemistry of the, 240
Baton, An Optical, 579
Batoum, The Future of, 69
Batteries, Electric, 309
Batteries, Secondary, 302, 309
Battery, A Lead Peroxide, 65L
Battery, A Paste, 322
Battery, Primary, The Regent, 188
Battery, Thermal, A New, 167, 193
Beams, Stress in, 455
Beckton Gas Works, The, 218
Belfast Water Works, 95, 618
Belgian Metallurgical Industry, 478
Belgian State Railways, Locomotives on the, 463
Belgium, A New Bone Cave in, 579
Bell, Professor, The Graphophone of, 90
Bell’s High-Pressure Filter, 262
Belt Dynamometer, Ganz’s, 260
Belting, The Transmission of Power by, 127
“Benbow,” H.M.S., 431
Bennett’s Hydraulic Hoist, 289
Berlin, The Progress of, 95
Berry and Sons’ Multiple Radial Drilling Machine, 613
Berry's Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery, 80
Bertrams’ Horizontal Compound Engine, 444
Bertrams’ Paper Calendering and Cutting Ma¬chines, 662
Bessemer Converters, 386, 390
Bessemer Process, The, 406
Bethlehem Iron Company’s Works, The, 4
“Big Guns,” 317, 372
Bill, the Electric Lighting, Withdrawal of, 68
Birmingham Compressed Air Power Scheme, 336, 343
Birmingham District Drainage Board, 275, 287
Birmingham Local Industries Exhibition, The, 361
Birmingham Water Supply, 334
Bismuth, Fluorescence of, 533
Black Sea, More Steamers for the, 533
Black Sea, Port Improvements in the, 142, 376
Blackpool Electric Tramway, 2S6
Blake’s Direct-Acting Steam Pump, 32
Blank Railway Programme for Russia, A, 671
Blast Furnace Practice, 457, 513
Blast of Granite, Monster, 117
Block-Setting Crane, Fifty-Ton; Roker Pier Works, Sunderland, 379
Bloxwich, Boiler Explosion at, 191
Blythe’s New Galvanometer, Professor, 580
Boards, Local, The Natural History of, 1, 91, 440, 465
Boat, A New Torpedo, 66S
Boats, Ships’, Wilson’s System of Housing, 132
Boats, Small Torpedo, Thornycroft’s, 273
Boiler, “Balloon,” Explosion of a, 602
Boiler Explosion at Birkenhead—A Tug-Boat
Blown Up, 272
Boiler Explosion at Bloxwich, 194
Boiler Explosion at Boston, 603
Boiler Explosion at Hull, 505, 530, 552
Boiler Explosion atShcliicld, Fatal, 402, 501
Boiler Explosions, 325
Boiler Flues, Rend ill and Gent’s Turning and Drilling Machine for, 637
Boiler Furnace, Silvester’s, 327
Boiler, The Genetic, 483
Boiler Legislation, 527
Boiler Plates, Steel, 482
Boiler Radiation Tests, 101
Boiler-Shell Drilling Machine, Rushworth and Co.’s, 420 . J „
Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “Nulli Secunda, 491, 545
Boilers, Locomotive, Longitudinal Grooving in, 599 ... XU
Boilers and Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Westmoreland,” 7, 71
Boilers, Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat, 180
Bolton Sewage Works, The, 445
Bone Cave in Belgium, A New, 579
Borries’ Compound Locomotives, 67
Bradford Water Works, Auxiliary Pumping En¬gine at, 9
Brake Returns, Continuous, 449
Brass Chains, Indian, 415
Brass, A Lubricant for, 107
Brazil, The Physical Geography of, 162
Breaker, Bucknill’s Contact, 622
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 453
Brick Masonry in Design, 194
Bridge, An American Cantilever, 271
Bridge, Long Span Railway, Canadian, 157
Bridge, The Northwich Town, 452
Bridge at Oporto, Double Road, 7
Bridge over the River Thames at Putney, 85
Bridge, Steel Cantilever Railway, over the St.
John River, N.B., Canada, 131, 207, 258, 327, 392
Bridge, The Tay, 664
Bridges, Girder, 270
Briquettes of Goal, &c., Use of Treacle for Making, 193

British Association, The : 240, 268

Address of the President of Section A, 281
Astronomical Instruments, 283
Birmingham Water Supply, 334
Chemical Science Section, The, 268
Corporation Sewage Farm, 312
Coventry Cycle Works, 338
Divided Currents, 282
Drinking Water, 311
Electric Motors, 283
Electric Railway Lamp, 333
Excursions, The, 312
Grenada Eclipse Expedition, 281
Hamstead Colliery, 313
Hardness of Metals, The, 311
Lye Fireclay Works, 313
Mechanical Science Section, The, 269
Multiplex Telegraphy, 309, 333
Needle and Fishing Tackle Works, 338
Piggott and Co.’s Works, Birmingham, 611
Rheostat, An Improved, 283
Stoke Salt Works, 312
On Absorption Spectra of Uranium Salts, by Dr. Russell, F.R.S., and Mr. W. Lapraik, 268
On the Air of Dwellings and Schcols and its Relation to Disease, by Professor T. Carnclly, 268
On Some Points for Consideration of English Engineers with Reference to the Design of Girder Bridges, by Messrs. W. Shclford, M.I.C.E.,and A. II. Shield, A.M.I.C.E., 270
On the Louisville and New Albany Bridge, by Messrs. T. C. Clarke and C. Macdonald, 271
On Freezing as an Aid to the Sinking of Foundations, by Mr. O. Reichcnbach, 271
On the Lafitte Process of Welding Metals, by Mr. William Anderson, 271
On Furnaces for the Manufacture of GIas3 and Steel on the Open Hearth, by Mr. John Head, 271
On American and English Railways, in Re¬ference to Couplings, Buffers, and Gauge, with a Suggested Improvement in Couplings, by Mr. William P. Marshall, 271
On Hydraulic Attachment to Sugar Mills, by Mr. Duncan Stewart, 272
On Forced Draught, by Mr. J. R. Fothcrgill, 272
On the Electric Illumination of Lighthouses, hv Dr. J. Hopkinson, M.A., D. Sc., F.R.S., 274,333
On Improvements in Electric Safety Lamps, by Mr. J. W. Swan, M.A., 274, 334
On Primarj’ Batteries, by A. René Upward, 274
On the Wclshach System of Gas-Lighting by Incandescence, by Mr. Conrad W. Cooke, 274, 337
On the Sphere and Roller Mechanism, by Pro¬fessor Hele Shaw and Edward Shaw, A.M.I.C.E., 274,336
On the Crampton Locomotive, by Mr. T. R. Crampton, 274
On the Birmingham District Drainage Board, by Mr. E. Till, 275, 287
On Distributing Electricity by Transformers, by Mr. Charles Zipernowsky, 275
On Recent Improvements in the Manufacture of Rifle Barrels, by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, M.I.C.E., 276
On Recent Improvements in Sporting Guns and their Accessories, by Mr. Samuel B. Allport, Chairman of the Birmingham Gun Trade, 275
On Lighthouses and Marine Signals, by Sir James N. Douglass, M.I.C.E., 276, 303, 329
On Our Experimental Knowledge of Certain Properties of -Matter, by Mr. P. T. Main, 282
On the New Current-Weigher for the Absolute Determination of the Strength of an Electric Current, by Professor James Blyth, 282
On Colour Vision, 282
On Standards of Light, 282
On the Intensity of Reflection from Glass and other Surfaces, by Lord Rayleigh, 282
On the Loss which White Light Suffers in Pass¬ing through Glass, by Sir John Conroy, 282
On Electrical Standards, 282
On the Migration of the Ions, by Professor Oliver Lodge, 282
On the Electric Resistance of Magnetite, by Professor Silvanus Thompson, 283
On the Decomposition of Acid Water with Minute Electrodes, by Professor McLeod, 283
On Induction between Wire and Wire, by Mr. Preece, 283
On a New Galvanometer Scale, by Mr. Preeco and Mr. II. R. Kempe, 283
On the Resistance of Metals, by Mr. Bottomley, 283
On Wave Motion, by Sir William Thomson, 283
On the Compound Steam Engine, by Mr. J. Richardson, 284
On a New High-Speed or Hydraulic Engine, by Mr. Arthur Rigg, 284
On Points Connected with the Illumination of Lighthouses, by Mr. J. R. Wigham, 285
On Soap Bubbles, by Mr. A. W. Rucker, F.R.S., 285
On the Blackpool Electric Tramway, by Mr. M. H. Smith, 286
On Automatic Pumping of Sewage by High- Pressure Water, by Mr. Baldwiu Latham, M.I.C.E., 287
On the Recent Progress in Secondary Batteries, by Messrs. Bernard Drake and J. Marshall Gorham, 302, 300
On the Colours of Metals and Alloys, by Pro¬fessor \V. C. Roberts-Austen, 300
On the Upward Battery, by Mr. Rend Upward, 309
On Delany's System of Multiplex Telegraphy, by Mr. W. H. Preecc, 309, 333
On the Electric Lighting of the Cannock Chase Collieries, by Mr. A. Sopwith, 310, 325
On Dynamos for Electro-Metallurgy, by Pro¬fessor G. Forbes, 310
On the Advantages to the Science of Terres¬trial Magnetism to he Obtained from an Expedition to the Region within the Antarctic Circle, by Captain Ettrick Creak, R.N., F.R.S.,311
On the Protection of Life and Property from Lightning, by Mr. MacGregor, 311
On the Treatment of Phosphoric Crude Iron in Open-Hearth Furnaces, by Mr. J. W. Wailes, 311
On the Influence of Remclting on the Pro¬perties of Cast Iron, by Mr. T. Turner, 312
On Silicon in Cast Iron, by Mr. T. Turner, 312
On the Estimation of Carbon in Iron and Steel, by Mr. T. Turner, 312
On the Manufacture of Slack Barrels by Ma¬chinery on the English and American Systems, by A. Ransoinc, 325, 336
On Boiler Explosions, by Mr. E. B. Marten, 325
On a New System of Mechanism for Imparting and Recording Variable Velocity, by Mr. W. W. Beaumont, 336
On the Birmingham Compressed Air Power Scheme, by Mr. J. Sturgeon, 336, 343
British Colonies, Ironmaking Resources of the, 370
British Museum, The Lighting of the, 579
British Railway Administration, 187
British Trade and Russian Petroleum, 504
Brown and May’s Combined Portable Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 180
Brush Colossus Dynamo-Electric Machine, 370
Brushes, Motherwell’s, 366
Bubbles, Soap, 285
Bucknill’s Contact Breaker, 522
Buffalo, U.S., Crematory at, 555
Bultfontcin Mine, 75
Burmah, The Iron Horse in, 650
Burmah Teak Trade, 44
Burnett’s Roller Mining Wedge, S14
Burning Gas Tar, 450
Burning Very Small Slack Coal, 142
Burstal, Captain E., R.N., 81
Business Requiem, A Private, 137

Cable Tramways, 2, 254, 624,649
Cable Tramways in Australia, 628
Cables, Submarine, 504
Calculating Coal Consumption, 590
Calculations, Stability, The Practical Use of, 005
Caledonian and North British Railways—Rolling Stock, 516
Caledonian Railway, Collision on the, 44
Caledonian Railway, Express Locomotive for the, 598
Caledonian Railway, Passenger Locomotive for the, 105
Calendering and Cutting Machines, Paper, Ber¬trams', 662
Callipers, Edwards’s, 260 Calorimetry, Fuel, 507
Canada, 15, 66
Canadian Long-Span Railway Bridge, 157
Canadian Machine Tools, 377, 469
Canadian Pacific Railway, Passenger Locomotive for the, 355
Canal, The Panama, 23
Canal, Ship, The Manchester, 63, 622
Canals in Russia, New, 69
Cannock Chase Collieries, Electric Lighting at, 310, 325
Cantilever Bridge, An American, 271
Carbons, The Electrical Resistance of, 533
Carbons, Fluted, 95
Carbons for Incandescent Lighting, 578
Cargoes, Nitrate of Soda, 320
Carillon for Didsbury Church, near Manchester, 260
Carriage of Petroleum in Bulk on Over-Sea Voyages, The, 113
Carrön Iron Works, Falkirk, The, 231, 253
Car-Wheel Iron, Tho Microscopic Structure of, 483
Casebournc Libel Case, The, 623
Casting Steel Chains, 414, 456
Castings, Irregularity in, 149
Cement Furnace, Ransome’s Revolving, 156
Cement, Sugar in, 401, 430
Central Electric Lighting Stations, The Insurance of, 167
Centrifugal Pumping Engine, Webber's Port¬able, 644
Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, Tangyes’, 233
Centrifugal and Reciprocating Pumps, The Re¬lative Efficiency of, 129
Centrifugo-Helical Pump, Wade and Cverry’s, 570
Ceylon Government Railways, 517, 564, 587
Chains, Bra«s, Indian, 415
Chains, Steel, Casting, 414, 456
Chamber of Commerce, Engineers and the, 603
Charts, Magnetic, of France, New, 96
Chatham Dockyard, 427, 476
Chemical Science Section of the British Associa¬tion, The, 268
Chemistry of the Basic Steel Process, 240
Chilian Railways, 577 China, Torpedo Boat for, 117
Chinese Government, Sea-Going Torpedo Boat for the, 417
Chrome Iron Ore as Furnace Lining, 95
Chronographs, A Regulator for, 652
City of the Plains, The Queen, 173, 201, 241, 258
Civil Engineers, The Asibrican Society of : 173, 201, 241, 258
On the American Line from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico via Jalapa, with Notes on the Best Methods of Surmounting High Eleva¬tions by Rail, by Mr. A. M. Wellington, 174
On English and American Railways, by Mr. E. B. Dorsey, 201
Civil Engineers, The Institution of :
On Experiments on a Direct • Acting Steam Pump, by Mr. John George Mair, M.I.C.E., 340
On the Development of the Railway System, by Mr. Edward Woods, 500
On Concrete Work under Water, by Mr. Kinipple, 523
On the Colombo Harbour Works, Ceylon, by Mr. Kyle, 523
On Harbour Improvements at Newhaven, Sussex, by Mr. Carey, 524
On Wicklow Harbour Improvements, by Mr. Strype, 524
On the Fishing Boat Harbours on tho North- East Coast of Scotland, 524
On Lowestoft Harbour Works, by Mr. Langley, 524
On the Electric Lighthouses of Macquarie and of Tino, by Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., M.I.C.E., 595
On the Use and Equipment of Engineering Laboratories, by Professor Alex. B. W. Ken¬nedy, M.I.C.E., 638
Clay, Puddling, A New, 322
Cleveland, Notes from, 10, 45, 60, 82, 120, 135,
159, 184, 211, 237, 263, 291, 316, 354, 365, 395, 423, 448, 472, 497, 525, 648, 682, 591, 619, 642, 673
Club, The Constitutional, 402
Club Show, The Smithfield, 569
Clutch, Friction, Fisher and Walker’s, 182
Clutch, Friction, Mather and Platt's, 121
Clyde-Built Torpedo Vessel for the Russian Government, A, 164
Clyde, New Graving Dock on the, 523, 500
Coal Carriage, The Cost of, 570
Coal and Coke, Sulphur in, 646
Coal Consumption, Calculating, 690
Coal in the Crimea, 117
Coal in the Donctz Region, 627
Coal Dust, Explosions of, 551
Coal Mines, Scotch, Ventilation, 245
Coal, Slack, Burning Very Small, 142
Coal Trade of 1880, The, 668
Coal Trade in 1886, The Northern, 624
Coasts and the Vertical, 322
Coles’ Steam Travelling Crane, 290
Collapse of a Turbine Penstock, 671
College, The Holloway, Egham, 188
Colliery, Hametead, 313
“ Collingwood,” The Accident on the, 320
Collision on the Caledonian Railway, 14
Colonial Railways, 110
Colonial Timber, 401
Colorado, Silver and Lead Smelting in, 267
Colorimetric Determination of Sulphur in Iron and Steel, New. 138
Colossus Dynamo-Electric Machine, The Brush, 370
Colour Vision, 282
Colours of Metals and Alloys, The, 309
Combustion, 389, 450
Committee, The Electric Lighting, The Evidence before, 321
Compagnie Générale, Dutoitspan, The, 439
Company, The Inman, and the Atlantic Trade, 450
Company, The John Cockerill, 418
Compensation on Railways, Passenger, 167
Competitive Public Expi riment, 397
Compound Condensing Engines, Yarrow’s Tor¬pedo Boat, 155
Compound Engine, Bertrams’ Horizontal, 444
Compound Engine, King’s, 640
Compound Engines of the Paddle Steamer “Ozone,” 180
Compound Engines of the s.s. “Stepney” and “ Wapping,” 290, 340
Compound Hydraulic Presses, Watson’s, 207
Compound Locomotives, 57, 188, 247, 248, 273, 301, 328
Compound Locomotives, Borries’, 57
Compound Mill Engine, Westgarth and English’s, 646
Compound Railway Sleepers, 478
Compressed Air Power Scheme, The Birming¬ham, 336, 343
Concrete in Harbour Works, 523
Concrete in Marine Construction, On the Use of, 536
Condenser Discharges, Magnetism Produced by, 141
Conduit Pipes, Wrought-Iron, 36
Congress, Railway Servants’, 401
Connecticut River at Holyoke, United States,
Dam across the, 351 Constitutional Club, The, 402
Contact Breaker, Bucknill’s, 522
Contact Electricity, 650
Continuous Brake Returns, 449
Continuous Wire Netting, 535
Contractor for the Atlantic and North-West Bridge at Lachine, The, 671
Converters, Bessemer, 386, 390
Cope’s Tobacco Works, 164
Copper Tubes, Seamless, 287
Corporation Sewage Farm, 312
Cost of Coal Carriage, The, 576
Cost of Maintaining Railway Permanent Way, The, 293
Coster’s Extractor Mechanism, C05
Counter, An Impalpable, 43
Counter, A Light Speed, 245
Coupling, Tonsson’s Friction, 641
Coventry Cycle Works, 338
Crampton Locomotive, The, 274
Crane, Coles’ Steam Travelling, 290
Crane, Fifty-Ton Block-Setting; Roker Pier Works, Sunderland, 379
Crane, Finlayson’s Hydraulic Ingot-Stripping, at the Glengarnock Steel Works, 130
Crane for Tilburj’ Docks, 119
Crankshafts and Bearings, The Production of True, 130,198
Cremation, 353
Crematory at Buffalo, U.S., 555
Crimea, Coal in the, 117
Crisis in the Ural Iron Trade, The, 70
Cruiser, An American, 250
Cruisers, New Russian, 376
Cruisers, United States, 365
Crushing Rolls, Improved, Jordan, Son, and
Commans’, 232
Cultivation and Treatment of Hemp, The, 272
Curious Meteoric Substance, A, 555
Curious Optical Illusion, A, 117
Currents, Divided, 282
Cut-off Gear, Automatic, Horizontal Engine with, 31
Cuttings, Railway, Howie’s Snow Fence for, 457
Cycle Works, Tho Coventry, 338

Dairy, 53
Dam Across the Connecticut River at Holyoke, United States, The, 351
Dangers on Foreign Railways, 552
Darley’8 Pneumatic Snow Plough, 182
Davey Motors, 51
Davey, Paxman, and Co.’s Joint for Boiler Flues. 600
Davies, Mr. Langdon, The Phonoporc of, 65
Davy Steel Plant, The, 80
Dcas’ New Graving Dock on the Clyde, 523, 566
Deep Sea Photography, 579
Deep Sea, The Temperature of the, 533
Denny’s Ship Model Shaping Machine, 132
Deposition, Gilding by, 504
Dermatine, 94
Desilverisation of Lead, Application of Electro¬lysis to the, 534
Determination of Sulphur in Iron and Steel, New Colorimetric, 138
Development of tho Railway System, The, 500
Diamond Fields, The South African, 29, 76, 165. 439 ’
Diamonds, The Mode of Winning, 29
Didsbury Church, near Manchester, Carillon for. 260
Differential Gas Engine, Atkinson’s, 207
Direct-Acting Steam Pump, Blake’s, 32
Discovery of Petroleum in the Paciflo, 167
Disease, The Germ Theory of, 353
Disposal, Sewage, 287
Dissociation, The Effect of, on Steel Melting
Furnace Economy, 695 Ditches, Mining, 294
Divided Currents, 282
Dock, The Esquimault, 296
Dock Estate, The Liverpool, 115
Dock, New Graving, on the Clyde, 523, 566
Docks, The Tilbury, 219
Docks, Tilbury, Crane for, 119
Dockyard, Chatham, 427, 476
Dockyard Expenditure, 13
Domestic Sanitation, 352
Donetz Region, Coal in the, 627
Donkin's Experimental Engine, 487, 577
Donkin’s Machine for Dividing Straight Lines, 235
Double Road Bridge at Oporto, 7
Drainage Works in Russia, 627
Draught, Forced, 272
Dredge-Steward Omni-Telemeter, The, 180
Dredging Machinery at the Royal Albert Docks, Priestman’s, 164
Drill, The Excelsior, 58
Drill, Rock, The Adelaide, 686
Drilling Machine, Berry and Sons’ Multiple Radial, 613
Drilling Machine, Boiler-Shell, Rushworth and Co.’s, 420
Drinking Water, 311
Dundee, Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering at, in 1886, 638
Duplex Direct-Acting Pumping Engine, 417
Duplex Pumping Machinery, Fielding and Platt's, 168
Dust Fuel, 37
Dutoitspan, The Compagnie Générale, 439
Dutoitspan Mine, The, 166
Dwellings and Schools, The Hygiene of, 268
Dynamo-Electric Machino, The Brush Colossus, 370
Dynamo Lightning Guard, A, 142
Dynamometer, Belt, Ganz’s, 260
Dynamos for Electro-Metallurgy, 310

Eachus and Maignen’s Sewer Ventilator, 301
Early Forms of Bessemer Converters, Some, 390
Early Telephonic Apparatus, 70, 355
Earth Currents, The Nature of, 452
Earthquake in Greece, The, 376
Earthquake, The New Zealand, 220
East Indian Railway ; The Vice-Regal Train, 313
Eclipse Expedition, The Grenada, 281, 534
Edinburgh, The Royal Society of, 602
Edison Phonoplex, The, 411
Education in Handicraft, 437
Edwards’s Callipers, 260
Egyptian Engineering, 579
Elastic Railway Key, Harrison’s, 652
Electric Batteries, 300
Electric Currents, The Effect of, on the Oscilla¬tions of Pendulums, 430
Electric Currents, Measuring, 282
Electric Discharge, Fluorescence from the, 322
Electric Lighthouses, 595
Electric Lighting : 310
Carbons for Incandescent Lighting, 578
Dynamo Lighting Guard, A, 142
Electric Illumination of Lighthouses, 274, 333
Electric Light and Eyesight, The, 350
Electric Light Testing Bridge, Woodhouse and Rawson’s, 262
Electric Lighting Bill, Withdrawal of the, 68
Electric Lighting of the British Museum, The, 579
Electric Lighting at Cannook Chase Collieries, 310, 325
Electric Lighting at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 634
Electric Lighting Committee, The Evidence before the, 321
Electric Lighting at the Firth of Forth, The, 638
Electric Lighting in the Navy, 18
Electric Railway Lamps, 333
Electric Safety Lamps, Improvements in, 274, 334
Electricity, Distributing, by Transformers, 275
Glow Lamps and their Manufacture, 602
Instruments at tho Paddington Electric Light Station, 660
Insurance of Central Electric Lighting Stations, The, 167
Motors for Electric Lighting, 627
Siemens’ Electric Light Fittings, 24
Surveying by Electric Lighting, 323
Electric Locomotive, The Largest, 141
Electric Meteorological Scale Reader, An, 330
Electric Motors, 283
Electric Motors, The Efficiency of, 534
Electric Police Signals, 90
Electric Railways in New York, 671
Electric Resistance of Woods, The, 141
Electric Spark, Nitrogen under the, 193
Electric Telegraph in France, The, 645
Electric Tramway, Blackpool, 286
Electric Tuning Forks, On a Mode of Driving, 37
Electrio Undergrouud Mains, Laying, 579
Electrical Foot Warmers, 167
Electrical Furnace, Products of the, 533
Electrical Resistance of Carbons, The, 533
Electrical Standards, 282
Electrical Transmission of Energy, The, 500
Electricity, Contact, 650
Electricity, Distributing, by Transformers, 275
Electricity, Heat into, 220
Electricity, Welding by, 324
Electrolysis, 282, 452
Electrolysis, Application of, to the Desilverisa¬tion of Lead,534
Electrolysis, Reflectors made by, 167
Electro-Magnet and of the Dynamo, Note on the Formula of the, 37
Electro-Metallurgy, Dynamos for, 310
Elevator, Grain, Tho Thwaite-Neville Self-Trimming, 420
Energy, The Electrical Transmission of, 500
Engine, Bertrams’ Horizontal Compound, 444
Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Combined Port¬able, Brown and May’s, 180
Engine, Compound Mill, Westgarth and Eng¬lish’s, 546
Engine, Compound Semi-Portable, Garrett and Sons’, 60
Engine, Experimental, Donkin’s, 487, 677
Engine, Fan, Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat, 313
Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 207
Engine, Horizontal, Ransomes, Sims, and Jeffe¬ries’, 693
Engine, Hornsby and Sons’ Vertical Winding, 600
Engine, King’s Compound, 640 Engine Lathe, 652
Engine, Launch, Jensen s, 405
Engine, The Marchant, 401, 420, 476, 400
Engine, Non-Condensing Compound, Trial of, 558
Engine, Pumping, Duplex Direct-Acting, 417
Engine, Pumping, The Worthington High-Duty, 181 193
Engine, Robey's High-Speed, 80
Engine, Rotary, Kingdon’s, 570
Engine, Semi-Portable, Fowler and Co.'s, 40
Engine, Steam Fire, for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Shand and Mason’s, 619
Engine, Stevenson’s Horizontal, with Automatic Cut-off Gear, 31
Engine, The Westinghouse High-Speed, 154
Engineering, Egyptian, 579
Engineering Laboratory, A New, 602
Engineering Laboratory, Notes from an, 101,227
Engineering Laboratories, 638
Engineering, Marine, The Progress of, 121, 140
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding at Dundee in 1886, 638
Engineers, The American Institute of Mining (See Mining Engineers, The American Institute of)
Engineers, The American Society of Civil (See Civil Engineers, The American Society of)
Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical (See Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of)
Engineers and the Chamber of Commerce, 603
Engineers, The Institution of Civil (See Civil En¬gineers, The Institution of)
Engineers and Shipbuilders, The North-East Coast, 403
Engineers, The Society of, 313
Engineers, The Society of Telegraph, 529, 598, 617
Engines, Compound, of the Paddle Steamer “ Ozone,” 180
Engines, Compound, of the, s.s. “Stepney” and “Wapping,” 290, 340
Engines, Gas, 51
Engines, Pumping, High-Duty, 340
Engines, Pumping, for Sydney Water Works, 571
Engines, Pumping, for Torpedo Boats, Yarrow’s, 268
Engines, Pumping, for the Yokohama Water Works, 326
Engines, Steam, 49
Engines, Triple-Expansion, and Boilers of the s.s. “ Nulli Secunda,” 491, 545
Engines, Triple-Expansion, and Boilers of the s.s. “ Westmoreland,” 7, 71
Engines, Triple-Expansion Marine, 470, 494
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the s.s. “ Willes¬den,” 107
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Thompson’s, 405
Engines, Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat Compound-Condensing, 155
English and American Railways, 201, 271
English Coal, No Quarter to, 194
English Engines in Russia, Alleged Failure of, 555
English Trade with Batoum, 117
Ensilage, 52
Erosion of Gun Barrels, The, 375, 433
Eruption of Etna, The, 44
Esquimault Dock, The, 296
Estate, The Liverpool Dock, 115
“ Etruria,” The, 164
Euphrates Valley Railway, The, 194
Evans, Walton White, 627
Evaporation of Water at Sea, 483
Evidence before the Electric Lighting Committee, The, 321
Excelsior Drill, The, 58
Excursions of the British Association, The, 312
Exhibition, The Birmingham Local Industries, 361
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 453
Exhibition, The Colonial and Indian :
Canada, 15, 66
Canadian Machine Tools, 377, 469
Colonial Timber, 401
Electric Lighting, 634
New South Wales, 125, 205
On Railway Extension in the Colonies, by Mr. J. S. Jeans, 110
Queensland, 539 South Australia, 451
Steam Fire Engine Trials, 324
Trial of Non-Condensing Compound Engine, 558
Victorian Court, The, 307
Exhibition, The Edinburgh International: 40, 433, 519
Engine, Bertrams’ Horizontal Compound, 444
Engines, Thompson’s Triple Expansion, 405
Iron and Steel, 116, 203
Locomotive, Passenger, for the Caledonian Railway, 105
Manufactures in Metals, 532
Paper Calendering and Cutting Machines, Bertrams’, 662
Sugar Machinery, Smith’s, 490
Thompson’s System of Framing Vessels, 535
Exhibition of 1889, The French, 504
Exhibition in Glasgow, Proposed Industrial, 479
Exhibition, The Liverpool, 16, 94, 102
Exhibition Medals, 478
Exhibition at Saltaire, 504
Exhibition, The Sanitary, at York, 380
Expansion Gear, Tangye and Johnson’s Automatic, 314
Expedition, The Eclipse, Results of, 534
Expenditure, Dockyard, 13
Experiment, Competitive Public, 397
Experimental Engine, Donkin’s, 487, 577
Explosion of a “ Balloon” Boiler, 602
Explosion, Boiler, at Birkenhead—A Tug-Boat Blown up, 272
Explosion, Boiler, at Boston, 603
Explosion, Boiler, at Hull, 505, 630, 552
Explosion, Boiler, The Sheffield, 402, 601
Explosion, Fatal Rag Boiler, atStainland, 534,601
Explosion of Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, The, 64
Explosion of a Tar Still at Gateshead, 602,669
Explosions, Boiler, 325
Explosions of Coal Dust, 651
Explosive Ice, 43
Extractor Mechanism, Coster’s, 605
Eyesight and the Electric Light, 350

Factories and Workshops, Ventilation of, 352
Failure of English Engines in Russia, Alleged, 555
Failure of a Sliding Scale, The, 478
Failures, Americal Naval, 623
Fairbairn’s Experiments on Remelting Cast Iron, 350
Fan Engine, Torpedo Boat, Yarrow’s, 313
Fastenings for Railway Rails, Stevens’, 80
F'eed Water Heater, Kirkaldy and Burrell’s, 49
Fidler's Valve Gear, 315
Fielding and Platt’s Duplex Pumping Machinery, 168
Fifty Years of Sanitation, 528
Filter, Bell’s High-Pressure, 262
Filtration of Water, The, 555
Finlayson’s Hydraulic Ingot-Stripping Crane at the Glengarnock Steel Works, 130
Fire Engine, Steam, for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Shand and Mason’s, 519
Fire Engine Trials, Steam, 324
Fire Engines, Steam, at Manchester, Merry-weathers’, 422
Firebrick Industry, The Scottish, 40
Fireclay Works, Lye, 313
Firth of Forth, The Electric Light at the, 638
Fish, Steel Casks for, 220
Fisher and Walker’s Friction Clutch, 182
Fishing Tackle and Needle Works, 338
Fittings, Electric Light, Siemens’, 24
Flames, Measuring Pitch by, 220
Fletcher, Mr., on Heating Water, 69
Floating Hospital on the River Tyne, 616
Flour Mills, The St. Saviour’s, London, Milling Machinery at, 233
Flour Mills, The South End, Liverpool, 522
Fluorescence of Bismuth, 533
Fluorescence from the Electric Discharge, 322
Fluted Carbons, 95
Fog Signal Machinery at Ailsa Craig, 106
Foot Warmers, Electrical, 167
Footsteps for Telegraph and Signal Posts, 522
Forced Draught, 272
Forced Draught Apparatus, Toward’s, 366
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 20, 72, 86, 356, 447, 606, 630, 613
Foreign Railways, Dangers on, 552
Forging Screws, 232
Forrestt and Son’s Light-Draught Stern-Wheel Steamer, 325
Forth Bridge Railway, The, 56, 431
Fothergill's Reducing Valve, 629
Foundations, Freezing, 271
Foundry Pig, Silicon in, 415, 508
Fowler and Co.’s Compound Traction Engine, 49
Fowler and Co.’s Semi-Portable Engine, 49
Framing Vessels, Thompson’s System of, 535
France, The Electric Telegraph in, 645
Freezing Foundations, 271
Freights for Petroleum Steamers, Are there? 272
French Exhibition of 1889, The, 504
French Shipbuilding, 426
French Tramways, 373
Friction Clutch, Fisher and Walker’s, 182
Friction Clutch, Mather and Platt’s, 121
Friction Coupling, Tonsson’s, 641
Friction Screw Steering Gear, Thompson’s, 289
Friedeborn’s Stern-Wheel River Steamer, 182
Frozen and Canned Meat Trades of the An¬tipodes, The, 671
Frozen Meat Trade, the Australian, 478
Fuel Calorimetry, 507
Fuel, Dust, 37
Fuel, Peat, 555
Furnace, Boiler, Silvester’s, 327
Furnace, Cement, Ransome’s Revolving, 156
Furnace, Electrical. Products of the, 533
Furnace Lining, Chrome Iron Ore as, 95
Furnace Linings, Apparatus for Repair of, 193J
Furnace Practice, Blast, 513
Furnaces, Open Hearth, 271
Future of Batoum, The, 69
Fuzes, Testing, by the Telephone, 651

Galvanometer, Professor Blyth’s New, 580
Galvanometer Scale, A New, 283
Ganz's Belt Dynamometer, 260
Garrett’s Compound Semi-Portable Engine, 50
Gas Engine, Atkinson’s Differential, 207
Gas Engines, 51
Gas Lighting by Incandescence, The Walsbach System of, 274,337
Gas, Natural, 513
Gas Tar, Burning, 456
Gas, Water, and Siemens, 150
Gas Works, The Beckton, 218 Gaseous Mixtures, Homogeneous, The Explosion
of, 64
Gases, The Kinetic Theory of, 350 Gateshead Tar Still Explosion, The, 602, 669 Genetic Boiler, The, 483
Geography of Brazil, The Physical, 162
Germ Theory of Disease, The, 353
German Iron and Steel Trades, Statistics of, 95
German Navy, The, 535
German Popn'at'on, 350
“Germanic,” The, 164
Germans and Australia, The, 17
Gilding by Deposition, 504
Girder Bridges, 270
Glasgow, Proposed Industrial Exhibition at, 479
Glass Works, The Mississippi, 544
Glengarnock Steel Works, Finlayson's Hydraulic Ingot Stripping Crane at the, 130 Glow Lamps and their Manufacture, 602
Gold Mining in Russia, 452
Gold and Silver, Treating, at the United States Mint, 27, 53, 150, 228
“Goliath,” Smith’s Ten-Ton Steam, for Sydney, N.S.W., 169
Government Manufactures, 89
Government Railways, Ceylon, 517, 564, 587
Grain Elevator, The Thwaite-Neville Self-Trim¬ming, 420
Granite, Monster Blast of, 117
Graphophone of Professor Bell, The, 90
Graving Dock on the Clyde, New, 523, 5CÖ
Great Eastern Railway, The, 245
Great Northern and the Lincolnshire Coast, The, 360
Great Northern Telegraph Company, 297
Great Western Railway, The, 323
Greece, The Earthquake in, 376
Green Ray, The, 627
Grenada Eclipse Expedition, The, 281, 534
Grooving, Longitudinal, in Locomotive Boilers, 599
Growth of Russian Manganese Ore, The, 69
Gun Barrels, The Erosion of, 375, 433
Guns and Armour, 319, 425, 450 Guns, Big, 347, 372
Guns, Machine, in America, 239
Guns, Our Rifled, 597
Gutta-Percha, India-Rubber, and Telegraph Works, Tho Silvertown, 42 b P
Gutta-Percha and India-Rubber Trade, The, 44

Hailstorm, A Violent, 193
Hall and Lester’s Rope Stopper, 674
Hamstead Colliery, 313
Hand Stamp Mill, Louis’s Prospectors’, 522
Handicraft, Education in, 437
Harbour Works, Concrete in, 523
Hardness of Metals, The, 311
Harrison’s Elastic Railway Key, 652
Harvesting Machinery, 150
Hauling and Pumping Machinery at the Windsor Slipway, Cardiff, 32
Heat into Electricity, 220
Heating Water, Mr.' Fletcher on, 69
Heinke’s Water Level Indicator, 457
Hemp, The Cultivation and Treatment of, 272
Henning’s Testing Apparatus, 130
H. M. S. “ Benbow,” 431
H. M. S. “ Narcissus,” 617
Higginson’s Hydraulic Punching Machinery, 22
High-Duty Pumping Engines, 340
High-Duty Pumping Engines, The Worthington, 181 193
High-Pressure Filter, Bell’s, 262
High-Speed Engine, Robey’s, 80
High-Speed Engine, The Wtstinghousc, 154
Hoadley, Mr. John Chipman, 569
Hoist, Bennett's Hydraulic, 289
Hoisting Second-Class Torpedo Boats, 340
Holloway College, Egham, 188
Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, The Explosion of, 64
Horizontal Compound Engine, Bertrams’, 444
Horizontal Engine with Automatic Cut off Gear, Stevenson’s, 31
Horizontal Engine, Ransomes, Sims, and Jeffe¬ries’, 593
Horizontal Punching and Straightening Machine, Rushworth and Co.’s, 180
Horn’s Tachometer, 43, 570
Hospital, Floating, on the River Tyne, 616
Housing Ships’ Boats, Wilson’s System of, 132
Howards’ Portable Permanent Way, 52
Howards’ Sheaf Binder, 52
Howie’s Snow Pence for Railway Cuttings, 457
Hudson Bay Railway, The, 117
Hull, Boiler Explosion at, 505, 530,552
Hydraulic Attachment to Sugar Mills, 272
Hydraulic Hoist, Bennett’s, 289
Hydraulic Ingot-Stripping Crane at the Glen¬garnock Steel Works, Finlayson’s, 130 Hydraulic Pipe-Testing Machine, Kennedy’s, 640
Hydraulic Presses, Watson’s Compound, 207
Hydraulic Punching Machinery, Higginson’s, 221
Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery, Berry's, 80
Hydraulic Steering Gear, Jochumsen’s Auxiliary, 366
Hydraulic Veeing Presses, Twcddell’s, 589
Hydrogenated Palladium, 504
Hygiene of Dwellings and Schools, The, 268

Ice, Explosive, 43 Ice Machines, 350
Illuminated Fountain, An American, 142
Illumination, Lighthouse, 285 Impalpable Counter, An, 43
Imparting Variable Velocity, 336
Implements, 52
Incandescent Lighting, Carbons for, 578
Incandescence, Gas Lighting by, 274, 337
India, Railways in, 214
India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph Works, The Silvertown, 42
India-Rubber and Gutta-Percha Trade, The, 44
Indian Brass Chains, 415
Indicator, Heinke’s Water Level, 457
Indicator, Steam Engine, A New, 149
Induction, Telephonic, 283
Induction of Two Coils, Measuring the Coefficient of Mutual, 569
Industrial Exhibition in Glasgow, Proposed, 479
Industries, Australian, 647, 657
Industries in Russia, Protecting, 650
Influence of the Subsoil Water, 352
Inman Company, The, and the Atlantic Trade, 450
Inoxidisable Surfaces for Iron, 114
Instruments, Astronomical, 283
Instruments at the Paddington Electric Light
Station, 660 Insulator, A New, 167
Insurance of Central Electric Lighting Stations, The, 167
Inverted Cylinder Mill Engines, 546
Investigation, Physical Science, in Dundee, 18
Ireland, Petroleum in, 402
Iron, Car-Wheel, The Microscopic Structure of, 483
Iron Companj’s Works, The Bethlehem, 4
Iron Horse in Burmah, The, 650
Iron, Inoxidisable Surfaces for, 114
Iron, Malleable, Direct from the Ores, 349
Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob, 541, 514
Iron.Silicious Pig, 615
Iron and Steel, 311 ......
Iron and Steel at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 116, 203

Iron and Steel Institute, The: 3/3

Chatham Dockyard, 427, 476
On Wrought-Iron Conduit Pipes, by Mr. Hamil¬ton Smith, Jun., 36
On Steel Wire of High Tenacity, by Dr. Percy, 86
On the Erosion of Gun Barrels by Powder Products, by Sir Frederick Abel and Colonel Maitland, 375,433
On the Iron-Making Resources of the British Colonies, by Messrs. P. 0. Gilchrist and Ed¬ward Riley, 376
On Some Early Forms of Bessemer Converters, by Sir Henry Bessemer, 386, 390
On Modifications of Bessemer Converters for Small Charges, by Mr. John Hardisty, 386, 406
On Combustion, with Special Reference to Practical Requirements, by Mr. Frederick Siemens, 389, 459
On Some Preliminary Experiments on tho Re¬moval of Metalloids in the Basic Siemens Furnace, by Mr. F. W. Ilarbord, 413
On the Casting of Chains in Solid Steel, by M. Ferd. Gautier, 414, 456
On the Process Employed in Casting Brass Chains in Jeypore, Rajputana, by Mr. C. Purdon Clarke, 415
On Silicon in Foundry Pig, by M. Gautier, 415, 608
On American Blast Furnace Practice, with Special Reference to the Works of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company at South Chicago, Illinois, by Mr. Fred. W. Gordon, 457
President's Address, The, 373
Iron and Steel, The Microscopic Structure of, 144
Iron and Steel, New Colorimetric Determination of Sulphur in, 138
Iron Works, The Canon, Falkirk, 231, 253
Ironmaking Resources of tho British Colonies, The, 376
Irregularity in Castings, 149
Japan, the Imperial Government Railways of,
Tank Locomotive for, 660
Japan, Railways in, 350
Japanese Art Metal, 603
Jensen’s Launch Engine, 405
Jochumsen’s Auxiliary Hydraulic Steering Gear, 366
John Cockerill Company, The, 418
Joicey’s Ship's Pump, 195
Joint for Boder Flues, Davey, Paxman, nnd Co.’s, 600
Joints for Woodwork, Tagg’s, 029
Joly’8 Water-Level Regulator, 247
Jordan, Son, and Commans’ Improved Crushing Rolls, 232
Kendall and Gent’s Turning and Drilling Ma¬chine for Boiler Flues, 637
Kennedy, Mr. James, 351
Kennedy’s Hydraulic Pipe-Testing Machine, 640
Key way Cutting Machine, Wilkinson and Lister’s, 9
Kier Explosion at Stainland, The, 601
Kimberley Mine in the Early Days, 502
Kinetic Theory of Gases, The, 350
King’s Compound Engine, 640
Kingdon’s Rotary Engine, 570
Kirkaldy and Burrell’s Feed-Water Heater, 49
Krotophone, The, 193
Laboratory, Engineering, A New, 602
Laboratory, Engineering, Notes from an, 101, 227
Laboratories, Engineering, 638
Laird’s Shipyard, 164
Lake Leman, The Temperature of, 141
Lamp, Miners’ Safety, The “ Morgan,” 389
Lamp, Railway Carriage Roof, Silber and Fle¬ming’s, 507
Lamp, Railway Electric, 333
Lamps, Electric Safety, Improvements in, 274, 334
Lamps, Glow, and their Manufacture, 602
Lamps, Miners’ Safety, 295
Lantern, A New Lecture, 141
Largest Electric Locomotive, The, 141
Lathe, Engine, 652
Lathe, Railway Wheel Tyre, Asquith’s, 155
Launch Engine, Jensen’s, 405
Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 46, 79, 131, 155, 194, 250, 259, 313, 378, 404, 422, 455, 510, 558, 572, 615, 643, 673
Lead Mining Company, The St. Joseph, 541
Lead Peroxide Battery, A, 650
Lead and Silver Smelting in Colorado, 267
Lecture Lantern, A New, 141 Legislation, Boiler, 527
Lessons of the Liverpool Petroleum Explosion, 671
Lexington Silver Mill, The, 637
Libel Case, The Casebourne, 623
Library, The Patent Office, 14
Life, Loss of, at Sea, 161, 213, 265,371 Light, 282
Light-Draueht Stern-Wheel Steamer, Forrestt and Son’s, 325
Light, The Electric, and Eyesight, 350
Light, The Electric, at the Firth of Forth, C3S
Light, Electric, Surveying by, 323
Light, Electric, Testing Bridge, Woodhouse and Rawson’s, 262
Light, Penetration of, in Water, 95
Light Speed Counter, A, 245
Lighthouse Illumination, 285
Lighthouses, Electric, 5»5
Lighthouses, The Electric Illumination of, 274, 333
Lighthouses and Marine Signals, 276, 303, 329
Lighting of the British Museum, The, 579
Lighting, Electric, 310, 325
Lighting, Electric, at Cannock Chase Collieries, 310, 325
Lighting, Electric, at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 634
Lighting, Electric, Motors for, 627
Lighting, Electric, in the Navy, 18
Lightning Guard, A Dynamo, 142
Lightning, Protection from, 311
Lightning Rod, A Nickel, 94
Lignite as a Refiner, 220
Lincolnshire Coast, The, and the Great Northern, 350
Liquid Fuel, Tho Use of; English Theory and Russian Practice, 45
Liquid Surfaces of Revolution, Critical Mean Curvature of 569
Liquids, The Nature of, 630
Lithograph Apparatus, Paget’s Spring Pen, 181
Liverpool, The Bar at, 430
Liverpool Dock Estate, The, 115
Liverpool Exhibition, The, 16, 94, 102
Lloyd’s, The Austro-Hungarian, 651
Local Boards, The Natural History of, 1, 91, 440, 465
Lock, Railway Door, Matthews’, 355
Locomotive Boilers, Longitudinal Grooving in, 599
Locomotive, Express; Caledonian Railway, 693
Locomotive, Passenger, for the Caledonian Rail¬way, 105
Locomotive, Passenger, for the Canadian Pacific Railway, 355
Locomotive, Tank, for the Imperial Government Railways of Japan, 660
Locomotives on the Belgian State Railways, 463
Locomotives, Compound, 57, 188, 247, 248, 273, 301, 328
Locomotives, Compound, Borries’, 57
Locomotives, Piston Valves for, 478
London and South-Western Railway, The, 220
Long-Span Railway Bridge, Canadian, 157
Longitudinal Grooving in Locomotive Boilers, 699
Loss of Life at Sea, 161, 213, 265, 371
Losses at Sea, Notes upon, 134, 139, 169, 195, 221
Louis’s Prospectors’ Hand Stamp Mill, 522
Low Readings of tho Barometer, The Recent, 627
Lubricant for Brass, A, 167
Lustrum, The Meteorological, 1881-5, 91
Lye Fireclay Works, 313
Machine, Boiler-Shell Drilling, Rushworth and Co.*8, 420
Machine for Dividing Straight Lines, Donkin’s, 235
Machine, Drilling, Berry and Sons’ Multiple Radial, 613
Machine Guns in America, 239
Machine, Horizontal Punching and Straighten¬ing, Rushworth and Co.’s, 180
Machine, Hydraulic Pipe-Testing, Kennedy’s,
Machine, Key way Cutting, Wilkinson and Lister’s,
Machine, Planing and Moulding, Ransome’s, 34
Machine, Ship Model Shaping, Denny Brothers’, Dumbarton, 132
Machine Tools, Canadian, 377, 469
Machine for Turning and Drilling Boiler Flues, Kendall and Gent's, 637
Machinery, Centrifugal Pumping, Tangyes’, 233
Machinery, Duplex Pumping, Fielding and Platt’s, 168
Machinery, Fog Signal, at Ailsa Craig, 106
Machinery, Harvesting, 150
Machinery, Hydraulic Punching, Higginson’s, 221
Machinery, Hydraulic Rivetting, Berry’s, 80
Machinery, Milling, at the St. Saviour’s Flour Mills, London, 233
Machinery, Priestman’s Dredging, at the Royal Albert Docks, 154
Machinery, Pumping and Hauling, at the Windsor Slipway, Cardiff, 32
Machinery, Railway Sleeper, Portable, 394
Machinery, Refrigerating, 22, 34, 97
Machinery, Sugar, A. and W. Smith’s, 490
Machines, Bertrams’ Paper Calendering and Cutting, 662
Machines, Ice, 350 Magnetic Charts of France, New, 96
Magnetism Produced by Condenser Discharges, 141
Magnetism, Terrestrial, 311
Magnetite, The Resistance of, 579
Magneto, The Use of the, 18
Maintaining Railway Permanent Way, The Cost of, 293
Malleable Iron Direct from the Ores, 349
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 63, 622
Manganese Ore, Russian, The Growth of, 69
Mann’s Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, 49
Manufacture of Slack Barrels by Machinery, The, 325, 336
Manufactures, Government, 89
Manufactures in Metals, 532
Manure, Thomas Slag as a, 578
Marchant Engine, The, 401, 426, 476, 499
Marine Construction, On the Use of Concrete in, 530
Marine Engineering, The Progress of, 121,140
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding at Dundee in 1886, 638
Marine Engines, Triple-Expansion, 470, 494
Marine Signals and Lighthouses, 276, 303, 329
Maritimes, The Messageries, 64, 555
Mars in 1886, 95
Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s Thrashing Machine, 52
Masonry, Brick, in Design, 194
Materials, New Thermo-Electric, 297
Materials, Phosphorescent, 533
Mather and Platt’s Friction Clutch, 121
Matter, Properties of, 282
Matthews’ Railway Door Lock, 355
Measuring Electric Currents, 282
Measuring Pitch by Flames, 220
Measuring Terrestrial Gravity by Spring Balance, 44
Meat Trades of the Antipodes, The Frozen and Canned, 671
Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of: 127,149, 191
Henning’s Testing Apparatus, 130
On the Transmission of Power by Belting, by Mr. Wilfred Lewis, 127
On the Relative Efficiency of Centrifugal and Reciprocating Pumps, by Mr. W. O. Webber, 129
On the Production of True Crankshaft Bear¬ings, by Mr. Horace See, 130, 198
On Substitutes for Steam, by Mr. Geo. II. Babcock, 149
On Another New Steam Engine Indicator, by Mr. Chas. W. Barnaby, 149
On the Irregularity in the Construction of Duplicate Iron Castings, by Mr. West, 149
On the Relative Values of Water Gas and Gas from the Siemens Producer for Melting in the Open-Hearth Furnace, by Mr. F. W. Taylor, 150
On Grain Handling in California, by Mr. J. II. Cooper, 150
Workshop Administration, 149
Mkciianical Enoinkkrs, Tuk Institution of : 188, 218
Excursions:
Beckton Gas Works, The, 218
Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, The, 192, 215, 243
Tilbury Docks, The, 219
Woolwich Arsenal, 218
Experiments on the Steam Jackctting and Compounding of Locomotives in Russia, by Mr. Alexander Borodin, 188,248, 273,301,328
On Refrigerating and Ice-Making Machinery and Appliances, by Mr. T. B. Lightfoot, 22, 84,97
On the Working of Compound Locomotives in India, by Mr. Charles Sandiford, 188, 247
On Triple-Expansion Marine Engines, by the late Mr. Robert Wyllio, 470, 494
Mechanical Industries of tho United States, The, 90
Mechanical Scionco Section of the British Asso¬ciation, The, 2C9
Medals, Exhibition, 478
Mercury Train Signal, A, 245
Merryweathere' Steam Fire Engines at Man¬chester, 422
Messageries Maritimes, The, 04, 555
Metalloids, The Removal of, 413
Metallurgical Industry, Belgian, 478
Metals and Alloys, The Colours of, 309
Metals, The Hardness of, 311
Metals, Manufactures in, 532
Metals, Resistance of, 283
Meteoric Substance, A Curious, 655
Meteorological Lustrum, 1881-5, The, 91
Meteorological Scale Reader, An Electric, 330
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 018
Metronome, A Standard, 322
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Shand and Mason’s Steam Fire Engine for the, 519
Microscopic Structure of Car-Wheel Iron, The, 483
Microscopic Structure of Iron and Steel, The, 144
Midland Railway, The, 370
Midland Railway, Accidents on the, 478
Mild Steel, Some Effects of Quenching and Annealing on, 227
Mileage, Railway, of the British and Russian Empires, 452
Milford Haven, Port Improvements at, 245
Mill, Louis’s Prospectors’ Hand Sump, 522
Mill, Oil; Union Oil Mills Company, London, 010
Mill, Roller, Mumford and Moodie’s, 288
Mill, Silver, The Lexington, C37
Milling Machinery at the St. Saviour’s Flour Mills, London, 233
Milroy, Mr. John, 431
Mine, The Bultfontein, 75
Mine, The Dutoitspan, 105
Mine, The Kimberley, in the Early Days, 502
Mine, The Mount Morgan, 348
Miners’ Safety Lamp, Tho “Morgan,” 389
Miners’ Safety Lamps, 295
Mining Ditches, 294
Mining Enginkbrs, Tub American Institute of : 4, 41, 513
Bethlehem Iron Company’s Works, The, 4 Iron Mountain, 544
Mississippi Glass Works, 544
Notes on Chinese Coals, by Mr. John F. C. Randolph, 41
On the Microscopic Structure of Iron and Steel, by F. Lynwood Garrison, 144
On the Microscopic Structure of Car-Wheel Iron, by F. Lynwood Garrison, F.G.S., 483
On Natural Gas, by Mr. Ashburner, 513
On the Irregularities of the Blast Furnace Process, and a Practical Way to Avoid Them, by Mr. Edward Walsh, Jun., 513
On Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob, by Pro¬fessor W. B. Potter, 541
Other Papers, 513
St. Joseph Lead Mining Company, The, 641
Mining Royalties in Russia, 43
Mining in Russia, Gold, 452
Mining Wedge, Roller, Burnett’s, 814
Mint, The Royal, 177
Miscellanea, 11, 33, 61, 83, 111, 143, ICS, 184, 224, 250, 259, 300, 317, 341, 378, 403, 432, 443, 473, 506, 521, 549, 572, 594, 628, 639, 661
Mississippi Glass Works, 544 Modified Phonograph, A, 193
Moles, Floating Iron, Sakhansky’s, 44
More about Armour, 630
“ Morgan” Miners’ Safety Lamp, The, 889
Motherwell’s Brushes, 366 Motion, Wave, 283
Motors, Davey. 51 Motors, Electric, 2S3
Motors, Electric, The Efficiency of, 534
Motors for Electric Lighting, 627
Motors, Steam, 284
Mount Morgan Mine, The, 348
Mountain Railways, Working, 174
Muir, Mr. William, 851
Mumford and Moodie’s Roller Mill, 288
Multiple Radial Drilling Machine, Berry’9, 613
Multiplex Telegraphy, 309, 333

“Narcissus," H.M.S., 617
Natural Gas, 513
Natural History of Local Boards, The, 1, 91, 440, 465
Nature of Earth Currents, The, 452
“ Nautilus," The Submarine Boat, 648
Naval Arciiitkcts, The Institution of : 114
Excursions:
Cope’s Tobacco Works, 164
“ Etruria,” The, 164
“ Germanic,” The, 164
Laird’s Shipyard, 164
Notc9 upon Losses at Sea, by Professor Francis Elgar. LL.D., F.R.S.E , 134, 139, 169, 195, 221
On the Carriage of Petroleum in Bulk on Over- Sea Voyages, by Mr. B. Martell, 107, 114
On the Liverpool Docks, by Mr. Lyster, 115
On the Progress and Development of Marine Engineering, by Mr. William Parker, Chief Engineer Surveyor, Lloyd's, 121,140
On Atlantic Passenger Steamers, by Mr. W. John, 163,106, 222
Naval Failures, American, 623
Navy, Electric Lighting in the, 18
Navy, The German, 535
Navy, The Spanish, 324
Needle and Fishing Tackle Works, 338
Netting, Continuous Wire, 535
New South Wales, 125, 205
New South Wales, Tlio Railway Department of, 398, 570
New Zealand Earthquake, The, 220
Niagara Falls, A Railway along, 68
Nickel Lightning Rod, A, 94
Nitrate of Soda Cargoes, 320
Nitrogen under the Electric Spark, 103
No Quarter to English Coal, 194
Non-Condensing Compound Engine, Trial of, 558
North British and Caledonian Railways—Rolling Stock,510
North-East Coast Engineers and Shipbuilders, The, 403
Northern Coal Trade in 18S6, 024
Nortbwich Town Bridge, The, 452
Norwich Show, The, 40

Notes :

Accidents on the Midland Railway, 47S
American Project for the Persian Railways, The, 272
American Railroad Progress, 207
Armour, 603
Armour-Piercing Projectiles, 401
Auroral Sounds, 95
Australian Frozen Meat Trade, The, 478
Austro-Hungarian Lloyd’s, The, 051
Balloon Photography, 107
Bar at Liverpool, The, 430
Batoum, The Future of, 69
Battery, A Lead Peroxide, 650
Battery, A Paste, 322
Belfast Water Works, 95
Bismuth, Fluorescence of, 533
Blast of Granite, Monster, 117
Boiler Explosion at Birkenhead—A Tug-Boat Blown up, 272
Boiler Explosion at Bloxwich, 194
Boiler Explosion at Boston, 603
Boiler Explosion at Sheffield, Fatal, 402
Bone Cave in Belgium, A New, 579
Brewers’ Exhbition, The, 453
Brick Masonry in Design, 194
Bridge, The Northwich Town, 452
British Trade and Russian Petroleum, 504
Burning Very Small Slack Coal, 142
Cable Tramways in Australia, 028
Canals in Russia, New, 69
Carbons for Incandescent Lighting, 578
Chrome Iron Ore as Furnace Lining, 95
Coal in the Crimea, 117
Coal in the Donetz Region, 627
Coasts and the Vertical, 322
Collapse of a Turbine Penstock, 671
Collision on the Caledonian Railway, 44
Colonial Timber, 401
Constitutional Club, The, 402
Contractor for the Atlantic and North-West Bridge at Lachine, The, 071
Crematory at Buffalo, U.S., 555
Crisis in tho Ural Iron Trade, The, 70
Cultivation and Treatment of Hemp, The, 272
Dam Across the Connecticut River at Holyoke,
United States, The, 851 Deep Sea Photography, 570
Dermatine, 94
Desilverisation of Lead, Application of Electro¬lysis to the, 534
Drainage Works in Russia, 027
Dynamo Lightning Guard, A, 142
Earth Currents, The Nature of, 452
Earthquake in Greece, The, 376
Eclipse Expedition, Results of the, 534
Egyptian Engineering, 579
Electric Currents, The Effects of, on the Oscil¬lations of Pendulums, 430
Electric Light and Eyesight, The, 350
Electric Lighting in the Navy, 18
Electric Locomotive, The Largest, 141
Electric Motors, The Efficiency of, 534
Electric Railways in New York, 671
Electric Resistance of Woods, The, 141
Electric Underground Mains, Laying, 579
Electrical Foot Warmers, 167
Electrical Furnace, Products of the, 533
Electrical Resistance of Carbon, The, 533
Electricity, Contact, 650
Electrolysis, 452
Engineering Laboratory, A New, 602
Engineers and the Chamber of Commerce, 003
English Coal, No Quarter to, 194
English Trade with Batoum, 117
Eruption of Etna, The, 44
Esquimault Docks, Tho, 296
Euphrates Valley Railway, The, 194
Evans, Walton White, 627
Exhibition Medals, 478
Exhibition at Saltaire, 504
Explosion of a“ Balloon’’ Boiler, C02
Explosion of a Tar Still at Gateshead, 602
Explosive Ice, 43
Failure of English Engines in Russia, Alleged, 555
Failure of a Sliding Scale, The, 478
Fairbairn’s Experiments on Remelting Cast Iron, 350
Filtration of Water, The, 555
Fletcher, Mr., on Water Heating, 69
Fluorescence from the Electric Discharge 32
Fluted Carbons, 95
Freights for Petroleum Steamers, Are there? 272
French Exhibition of 1889, The, 604
Frozen and Canned Meat Trades of the Anti¬podes, The, 671
Fuzes, Testing, by the Telephone, 651
Galvanometer, Professor Blyth’s New 580
German Population, 350
Germans and Australia, The, 17
Gilding by Deposition, 504
Glow Lamps and their Manufacture, C02
Gold Mining in Russia, 452
Great Eastern Railway, The, 245
Great Northern and the Lincolnshire Coast, The, 350
Great Northern Telegraph Company, 207
Great Western Railway, The, 323
Green Ray, The, 027
Heat into Electricity, 220
Horn’s Electrical Tachometer, 43
Hudson Bay Railway, The, 117
Hydrogenated Palladium, 504
Ice Machines, 350
Illuminated Fountain, An American, 142
Impalpable Counter, An, 43
India-Rubber and Gutta-Percha Trade, The, 44
Insulator, A New, 107
Insurance of Central Electric Lighting Sta¬tions, The, 107
Ireland, Petroleum in, 402
Iron Horse in Burmah, The, OSO Japanese Art Metal, 003
Kinetic Theory of Gases, The, 350
Krotophone, The, 193
Lecture Lantern, A New, 141
Lossons of the Liverpool Petroleum Explosion, 071
Light Speed Counter, A, 245
Lighting of the British Museum, The, 670
Lignite as a Refiner, 220
Liquid Fuel, The Use of; English Theory and Russian Practice, 45
London and South-Western Railway, The, 220
Low Readings of the Barometer, The Recent, 027
Lubricant for Brass, A, 107
Magnetic Charts of France, New, 90
Magnetism Produced by Condenser Discharges, 141
Magneto, The Use of the, 18
Manganese Ore, Russian, The Growth of, 09
Marchant Engine, The, 401
Mars in 1880, 95
Measuring Pitch by Flames, 220
Mechanical Industries ol the United States, The, 90
Mercury Train Signal, A, 245
Messageries Maritimes, The, 555
Metallurgical Industry, Belgian, 478
Meteoric Substance, A Curious, 555
Midland Railway, The, 370
Mining Royalties in Russia, 43
Modified Phonograph, A, 193
Motors for Electric Lighting, 027
New Zealand Earthquake, The, 220
Nickel Lightning Rod, A, 94
Nitrogen under the Electric Spark, 193
Observatory of Rio Janeiro, The, 430
Optical Baton, An, 570
Optical Illusion, A Curious, 117
Passenger Compensation on Railways, 107
Peat Fuel, 555
Penetration of Light in Water, 95
Petroleum in Ireland, 402
Petroleum in the Pacific, Discovery of, 107
Petroleum, The Storage of, 051
Phosphorescent Materials, 533
Physical Science Investigation in Dundee, 18
Pioneer Atlantic Oil Steamer, A, 245
Piston Valves for Locomotives, 478
Platinum Plating, 290
Popular Science, 003
Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 142, 370
Port Improvements at Milford Haven, 245
Prairie Telegraph Poles, 95
Progress of Berlin, The, 95
Protecting Industries in Russia, 050
Puddling Clay, A New, 322
Rag Boiler Explosion at Stainland, Fatal, 534
Railway Accidents and the Severe Weather, 071
Railway Gauge in the United States, 18
Railway Mileage of the British and Russian Em¬pires, The, 452
Railway along Niagara Falls, A, 08
Railway Programme for Russia, A Blank, 071
Railway Sleepers, Compound, 478
Railways in Japan, 350
Railways, South Australian, 050 Reflectors made by Electrolysis, 107
Rejected English Armour Plates, 142
Repair of Furnace Linings, Apparatus for, 193
Resistance of Magnetite, The, 579
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 002
Russian Cruisers, New, 376
Russian Petroleum Pipo Line Concession, The, 453
Russian Petroleums, 579
Russian Steamboat Subsidies for 1887, 430
Sakhansky’s Floating Iron Moles, 44
Salt Supplies, Our, 142
Salt Working in South Durham, 290
Sense of Taste, The, 350
Sewer Inspection, Autographic, 555
Sheet Metal Pipes, Uses of, 69
Society of Engineers’ Annual Dinner, The, 627
Sound Tunnel, The, 651
Spanish Navy, The, 324
Standard Metronome, A, 322
Statistics of German Iron and Steel Trades, 95
Steamers for the Black Sea, More, 533
Steel Casks for Fish, 220
Steel Projectiles, 452, 628
Submarine Cables, 504
Sugar as an Anti-Incrustator in Steam Boilers, 376
Sugar in Cement, 401, 430
Surveying by Electric Light, 323
Teak Trade, Burmah, 44
Telegraph Reform, 68
Telegraphing with an Uninsulated Wire, 322
Telephone, An Early, 70
Telephone, An Improved, 323
Telephone, A New, 340
Telephone of 1S68, A, 679
Temperature of the Deep Sea, The, 533
Temperature of Lake Leman, The, 141
Terrestrial Gravity, Measuring, by Spring Balance, 44
Thermal Battery, A New, 107,193
Thermo-Electric Materials, New, 297
Thermometric Paint, A, 290
Thomas Slag as a Manure, 578
Tidal Stations, 142
Torpedo Boat for China, 117
Torpedo Experiments, 478
Trades and Professions in France, Statistics of, 43
Treacle for Making Briquettes of Coal, &c., Use of, 193
Utilisation of Waste Metal, 95
Ventilation of Scotch Coal Mines, 245
Violent Hailstorm, A, 193
Volt and Ampèremeters, New, 430
Voyage of the “ Volta,” The, 297
Water Power in the United States, 142
Wax Phonograph, The, 670
Welding by Electricity, 324
Welsh Ports, The, 297
Withdrawal of the Electie Lighting Bill, 63
Woodite, 431
Worthington High-Duty Engine, The, 193
Wrought-Iron Pipes, 296
Notes from Cleveland, 10, 45, 60, 82, 120, 135, 159, 184, 211, 237, 263, 291, 316, 354, 365, 395, 423, 448, 472, 497, 525, 548, 582, 591, 619, 642, 673
Notes from an Engineering Laboratory, 101, 227
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 20, 72, 86, 356,447, 606, 630, 643
Notes upon Losses at Sea, 134,139, 169, 195, 221
Notes from the North, 10, 45, 60, 82, 120, 135,
159, 183, 211, 237, 202, 291, 316, 353, 869, 395, 423, 455, 472, 496, 524, 548, 573, 691, 619, 643
Notes from the South-West, 10, 40, 60, 82, 119, 135, 158, 184, 211, 236, 262, 290, 316, 354, 370, 391, 422,460, 472, 497, 524, 556, 573, 590,618, 642, 665
Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 46, 60, 82, 119, 135, 159, 184, 211, 237, 263, 291, 316, 354, 369, 395, 423, 482, 497, 525, 649, 573, 604, 018, 643, 665
Notes from the United States, 13, 32, 70, 78, 107, 133, 155, 181, 207, 246, 258, 298, 324, 380, 394, 433, 455, 469, 491, 523, 569, 604, 614, 672
“ Nulli Secunda,” s.s., Engines and Boilers of the, 491, 545

Obituary :

Observatory of Rio Janeiro, The, 430
Oil Mill; Union Oil Mills Company, London, 616
Omni-Telemeter, The Dredge-Steward, 180
Open Hearth Furnaces, 271
Oporto, Double Road Bridge at, 7
Optical Baton, Ail, 579
Optical Illusion, A Curious, 117
Ordish, Rowland Mason, 298
Ordnance Administration, Our, 399, 428
“Orizaba," The New Steamship, 377, 629
Overproduction, 214
“Ozone,” Paddle Steamer, Compound Engines of the, 180

Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s s.s. “ Ori¬zaba,”. 377, 629
Paddington Electric Light Station, Instruments at the, 660
Paget’s Spring Pen Lithograph Apparatus, 181
Paint, A Thermometric, 296
Palladium, Hydrogenated, 6C4
Panama Canal, The, 23
Paper Calendering and Cutting Machines, Ber¬trams’, 662
Passenger Compensation on Railways, 167
Passenger Locomotive for the Caledonian Rail¬way, 105
Passenger Locomotive for the Canadian Pacific Railway, 355
Passenger Steamers, Atlantic, 163,196, 222
Paste Battery, A, 322
Patent Office Library, The, 14
Patent Record, The, 25, 47, 73, 99,123, 147, 171,
199, 225, 251, 277, 305, 331, 357, 381, 409, 435, 461,485, 611, 537, 561, 583, 607, 031, 653, 675
Peat Fuel, 556
Peck's Slide Valve, 157
Pendulums, the Oscillations of, The Effects of Electric Currents on, 430
Penetration of Light in Water, 95
Permanent Way, Howard's Portable, 52
Permanent Way, Railway, The Cost of Maintain¬ing, 293
Persian Railways, The American Project for the, 272
Petroleum, The Carriage of, in Bulk on Over- Sea Voyages, 113
Petroleum-Carrying Steamers, 107,114
Petroleum Explosion, the Liverpool, Lessons of. 671
Petroleum in Ireland, 402
Petroleum in the Pacific, Discovery of, 167
Petroleum Pipe Line Concession, The, 458
Petroleum Steamers, 546
Petroleum Steamers, Are there Freights for? 272
Petroleum, The Storage of, 651
Petroleum, The Transportation and Refinement of, 4S0, 563, 609
Petroleums, Russian, 579
Phonograph, A Modified, 193
Phonograph, The Wax, 670
Phonoplex, The Edison, 411
Phonoporeof Mr. Langdon Davies, The, 05
Phosphorescent Materials, 533
Photography, Balloon, 107
Photography, Deep Sea, 579
Physical Geography of Brazil, The, 162
Physical Science Investigation in Dundee, 18
Physical Society, The: 37, 536, 669, 630
Note on the Internal Capacity of Thermo¬meters, by Mr. A. W. Clayden, M.A., 536
On Certain Sources of Error in Connection with Experiments on Torsional Vibrations, by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, 37
On a Mode of Driving Electric Tuning Forks, and a Further Note on the Formula of the Electro-Magnet and of the Dynamo, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 37
On the Peculiar Sunrise Shadows of Adam’s Peak in Ceylon, by the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, F.R. Met. Soc., 536
On a Method of Measuring the Coefficient of Mutual Induction of Two Coils, by Professor G. Carey Foster, F.R.S., 569
On the Critical Mean Curvature of Liquid Sur¬faces of Revolution, by Professor A. W. Rucker, M.A., F.R.S., 569
On the Influence of Change of Condition from the Liquid to the Sol id State on Vapour Pres¬sure, by Professor W. Ramsay, Ph.D., and Sydney Young, D.Sc., 630
On the Nature of Liquids as Shown by the Thermal Properties of Stable and Dissoci¬able Bodies, by Professor W. Ramsay, Ph.D., and Sydney Young, D.Sc , 630
On An Account of Cauchy’s Theory of Re¬flection and Refraotion of Light, by Mr. James Walker, M. A., 630
Pig Iron, Silicious, 645 Piggott and Co.’s Works, Birmingham, 611
Pilot Knob and Iron Mountain, 541, 544
Pioneer Atlantic Oil Steamer, A, 246
Pipe-Testing Machine, Kennedy’s Hydraulic, 640
Pipes, Sheet Metal, Uses of, 69
Pipes, Wrought-Iron, 296
Piston Valves for Locomotives, 478
Planing and Moulding Machine, Ransome’s, 34
Platinum Plating, 296
Pneumatic Snow Plough, Darley’s, 182
Police Signals, Electric, 90
Pollution of Rivers, 352
Popular Science, 603
Population, German, 350
Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 142, 376
Port Improvements at Milford Haven, 245
Portable Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 644
Portable Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Com¬bined, Brown and May’s, 180
Portable Railway Sleeper Machinery, 394
Ports, The Welsh, 297
Power, Transmission of, by Belting, 127
Practical Use of Stability Calculations, The, 605
Prairie Telegraph Poles, 95
Presses, Hydraulic, Watson’s Compound, 207
Priestman’s Dredging Machinery at the Royal Albert Docks, 154
Primary Batteries, 274
Primary Battery, The Regent, 188
Primrose’s Electric Meteorological Scale Reader, 330
Private Business Requiem, A, 137
Process, The Bessemer, 406
Production, Over, 214
Production of True Crankshafts and Bearings, The, 130, 198
Progress of Berlin, The, 95
Progress of Marine Engineering, The, 121,140
Projectiles, Armour Piercing, 401
Projectiles and Armour, Steel for, 667
Projectiles, Steel, 452, 475, 028
Properties of Matter, 282
Prospectors’ Hand Stamp Mill, Louis’s, 522
Protecting Industries in Russia, 650
Protection Iron Lightning, 311
Public Experiment, Competitive, 397
Puddling Clay, A New, 322
Pump, Centrifugal Combined Portable Engine and, Brown and May’s, 180
Pump, Centrifugo-Helical, Wade and Cherry’s, 570
Pump, Ship’s, Joicey’s, 195
Pump, Steam, Blake's Direct-Acting, 32
Pumping Engine, Auxiliary, at Bradford Water Works 9
Pumping Engine, Duplex Direct-Acting, 417
Pumping Engine, Webber’s Portable Centri¬fugal, 644
Pumping Engine The Worthington High-Duty, 181 193
Pumping Engines, High-Duty, 340
Pumping Engines, Steam, for Sydney Water Works, 571
Pumping Engines for Torpedo Boats, Yarrow’s, 258
Pumping Engines for the Yokohama Water Works, 326
Pumping and Hauling Machinery at the Windsor Slipway, Cardiff, 32
Pumping Machinery, Duplex, Fielding and Platt’s,
Pumping' Machinery, Tangyes Centrifugal, 233
Pumps, The Relative Efficiency of Centrifugal and Reciprocating, 129
Punching Machinery, Hydraulic, Higginson s, 221
Punching and Straightening Machine, Rushworth and Co.’s Horizontal, 180
Purification of Water, The, 353
Putney, Bridgo over the River Thames at, 85

Queen City of the Plains, The, 173, 201, 241, 258
Queensland, 639

Radial Valve Gears, 279, 359
Radiation Tests, Boiler, 101
Rag Boiler Explosion at Stainland, A Fatal, 531
Railroad Progress, American, 297
Rails, Railway, Stevens’ Fastenings for, 80
Railway Accidents and the Severe Weather, C71
Railway Administration, British, 187
Railway, Belgian State, Locomotives on the, 463
Railway Bridge, Long-Span, Canadian, 157
Railway Bridge, Steel Cantilever, over the St. John River, N.B., Canada, 131, 207, 258, 327, 392
Railway, the Canadian Pacific, Passonger Loco¬motive for, 355
Railway Carriage Roof Lamp, Silber and Fle¬ming’s, 507
Railway Cuttings, Howie’s Snow Fence for, 457
Railway Department of New South Wales, The. 398, 576
Railway Door Lock, Matthews’, 355
Railway, East Indian ; The Vice-Regal Train, 313
Railway, The Euphrates Valley, 194
Railway, The Forth Bridge, 56. 431
Railway Gauge In the United States, 18
Railway, The Great Eastern, 245
Railway, The Great Western, 328
Railway, The Hudson Bay, 117
Railway Key, Harrison’s Elastic, 652
Railway Lamp, Electric, 833
Railway, The London and South-Western, 220
Railway, The Midland, 376
Railway Mileage of the British and Russian Empires, 452
Railway along Niagara Falls, A, 68
Railway Permanent Way, The Cost of Maintain¬ing, 293
Railway Programme for Russia, A Blank, 671
Railway Rails, Stevens’ Fastenings for, 80
Railway Rolling Stock, 594
Railway Servants’ Congress, 401
Railway Sleeper Machinery, Portable, 394
Railway Sleepers, Compound, 478
Railway System, The Development of the, 500
Railway Wheel Tyre Lathe, Asquith’s, 165
Railways, Ceylon Government, 517, 564, 587
Railways, Chilian, 577 Railways, Colonial, 119
Railways, Electric, in New York, 671
Railways, English and American, 201, 271
Railways, Foreign, Dangers on, 552
Railways in India, 214 Railways in Japan, 350
Railways of Japan, the Imperial Government, Tank Locomotive for, 660
Railways, Mountain, Working, 174
Railways, North British and Caledonian, Rolling Stock on the, 516
Railways, Single Rail, 633
Railways, South Australian, 650
Ransome’s Planing and Moulding Machine, 34
Ransome’s Revolving Cement Furnace, 156
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Horizontal Engine, 593
Ray, The Green, 627
Record, The Patent, 25, 47, 73, 99, 123, 147, 171, 199, 225, 251, 277, 305, 331, 357, 381, 409, 435, 461, 485, 511, 537, 661, 583, 607, 031, 653, 675
Reducing Valve, Fothergill’s, 629
Refinement and Transportation of Petroleum, The, 489, 563, 609
Refiner, Lignite as a, 220
Reflection and Refraction of Light, 630
Reflectors made by Electrolysis, 167
Reform, Telegraph, 68
Refrigerating Machinery, 22, 34, 97
Regent Primary Battery, The, 183
Regulator for Chronographs, A, 652
Rejected English Armour Plates, 142
Relative Efficiency of Centrifugal and Recipro¬cating Pumps, The, 129
Remelting Cast Iron, Fairbairn’s Experiments on, 350
Removal of Metalloids, The, 413
Repair of Furnace Lining, Apparatus for, 193
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 56, 431
Requiem, A Private Business, 137
Resistance of Magnetite, The, 679
Resistance of Metals, 283
Returns, Continuous Brake, 449
Revolving Cement Furnace, Ransome’s, 150
Rheostat, An Improved. 283
Rifle Barrels, Recent Improvements in the Manu¬facture of, 275
Rifled Guns, Our, 597
Rio Janeiro, The Observatory of, 430
River Steamer, Stern-Wheel, Friedeborn’s, 182
River Thames, Bridge over the, at Putney, 85
River Tyne, Floating Hospital on the, 616
Rivers, Pollution of, 352
Rivetting Machinery, Hydraulic, Berry’s, 80
Robey’s High-Speed Engine, 80
Rock Drill, The Adelaide, 636
Roker Pier Works, Sunderland, Fifty-Ton Block-Setting Crane at, 379
Roller Mill, Mumford and Moodie’s, 283
Roller Mining Wedge, Burnett's, 314
Rolling Stock ; Nortli British and Caledonian Railways, 516
Rolling Stock, Railway, 594
Rolls, Improved Crushing, Jordan, Son, and Commans’, 232
Rope Stopper, Hall and Lester’s, 674
Rotary Engine, Kingdon’s, 570
Royal Meteorological Society, 618
Royal Mint, The, 177
Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, The, 192, 215 243
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 602
Rushworth and Co.’s Boiler-Shell Drilling Ma¬chine, 420
Rushworth and Co.’s, Horizontal Punching and Straightening Machine, 180
Russell, Mr. Thomas, 107.
Russia, Drainage Works in, 627
Russia, Mining Royalties in, 43
Russia, New Canals in, 69
Russian Cruisers, New, 376
Russian Government, A Clyde-Built Torpedo Vessel for the, 154
Russian Petroleum, 579
Russian Petroleum and British Trade, 504
Russian Petroleum Pipe Line Concession, The, 453
Russian Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 376
Russian Steamboat Subsidies for 1887, 430

Safety Lamp, Miners’, The Morgan, 389
Safety Lamps, Miners’, 295
St. Ileliers Water Works, The, 143
St. John River, N.B., Canada, Steel Cantilever
Railway Bridge over the, 131, 207, 258, 327, 392
St. Joseph Lead Mining Company, The, 541
St. Saviour’s Flour Mills, London, Milling Machi¬nery at the, 233
Sakhansky’s Floating Iron Moles, 44
Salt Supplies, Our, 142
Salt Working in South Durham, 29J
Salt Works, Stoke, 312
Saltaire, Exhibition at, 504
Salts, Uranium, 268

Sanitary Institute at York, The : 352, 380

Exhibition, 330
On the Influence of the Subsoil Water, by Mr. Baldwin Latham, F.G.S., 352
On tho Pollution of Rivers, by Professor Henry Robinson, F.G.S., 352
On Ventilation of Factories and Workshops, by Mr. William Tattersall, 352
On Domestic Sanitation, by Mr. J. Vickers Ed¬wards, 352
On American Sanitation, by Mr. J. B. Gass, A.R.I.B.A., 353
On the Germ Theory of Disease, by Professor F. de Chaumont, 353
On Cremation, by Mr. W. Eassie, F.L.S., and Mr. W. Robinson, F.L.S., 353
On Purification of Water, by Mr. Win. Whit¬taker, B.A., F.G.S., 353
Sanitation, American, 353
Sanitation, Domestic, 352
Sanitation, Fifty Years of, 528
Scale, Galvanometer, A New, 283
Science, American Association for the Advance¬ment of, 398
Science, Popular, 603
Scottish Firebrick Industry, The, 40
Screw Shafts, Wells’s Ball Thrust Bearing for, 132
Screw Threads, 266 Screws, Forging, 232
Sea-Going Torpedo Boat for the Chinese Govern¬ment, 417
Sea, Loss of Life at, 161, 213, 265, 371
Sea, Notes upon Losses at, 134, 139, 169, 195, 221
Seamless Copper Tubes, 287
Second-Class Torpedo Boats, Hoisting, 340
Secondary Batteries, 302, 309
Sense of Taste, The, 350
Severn Tunnel, The, 210
Sewage Disposal, 287
Sewage Farm, Corporation, 312
Sewage Works, The Bolton, 445
Sewer Inspection, Autographic, 555
Sewer Ventilator, Eachus and Maiguen's, 301
Shand and Mason’s Steam Fire Engine for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 519
Sheaf Binder, Howards’, 52
Sheet Metal Pipes, Uses of, 69
Sheffield Boiler Explosion, The, 402, 501
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 63, 622
Ship Model Shaping Machine, Denny Brothers’, Dumbarton, 132
Shipbuilders and Engineers, The North-East Coast, 403
Shipbuilding, French, 420
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering at Dundee in 1886, 638
Ships’ Boats, Housing, Wilson’s System of, 132
Ship’s Pump, Joicey’s, 195
Shipyard, Laird’s, 164
Show, The Norwich, 491
Show, The Smithfield Club, 599
Siemens’ Electric Light Fittings, 24
Siemens and Water G.is, 150
Signal and Telegraph Posts, Footsteps for, 522
Signals, Police. Electric, 90
Silber and Fleming’s Railway Carriage Roof Lamp, 507
Silicious Pig Iron, 645
Silicon in Foundry Pig, 415, 508
Silver Mill, The Lexington, 637
Silver and Lead Smelting in Colorado, 267
Silvertown India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telgraph Works, The, 42
Silvester’s Boiler Furnace, 327
Single-Rail Railways, 633
Slide Valve, Peck’s, 157
Sliding Scale, The Failure of a, 478
Small Arms Factory, Enfield, The Royal, 192, 215, 243
Smelting Silver and Lead in Colorado, 267
Smith’s Sugar Machinery, 490
Smith’s System of Ventilation, 590
Smith's Ten-Ton Steam “Goliath” for Sydney, N.S.W.,169
Smithfield Club Show, The, 599
Snow Fence for Railway Cuttings, Howie’s, 457
Snow Plough, Darley’s Pneumatic, 182
Soap Bubbles, 285
Society of Engineers, The, 313
Society of Engineers’ Annual Dinner, The, 627
Society, The Physical (See Physical Society, The) Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 529, 598,647
Sound Tunnel, The, 651
Sounds, Auroral, 95
South African Diamond Fields, The, 29, 75, 165, 439, 602
South Australia, 451
South Australian Railways, 650
South Durham, Salt Working in, 296
South End Flour Mills, Liverpool, The, 522
South-West, Notes from the, 10,46,60,82,119,135, 158, 184, 211, 236, 262, 290, 316, 354, 370, 391, 422, 460, 472, 497, 524, 556, 573, 590, 618,642,665
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 46, 60, 82,119, 135, 159, 184 , 211, 237 , 263, 291, 316, 354 , 369, 395, 423, 482, 497, 525, 549, 573, 604, 618, 643, 665
Spanish Navy, The, 324
Sphere and Roller Mechanism, The, 274, 336
Sporting Guns and their Accessories, Recent Im¬provements in, 275
Spring Pen Lithograph Apparatus, Paget’s, 181
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter's, 49
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Mann’s, 49
Stability Calculations, The Practical Use of, 605
Stamland, The Kier Explosion at, 601
Standard Metronome, A, 322
Standards, Electrical, 282
Station, the Paddington Electric Light, Instru¬ments at, 660
Stations, Tidal, 142
Statistics of German Iron and Steol Trades, 95
Statistics of Trades and Professions in France, 43
Statue, The Bartholdi, 585
Steam Engine Indicator, A New, 149
Steam Engines, 49
Steam Fire Engine for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Shand and Mason’s, 519
Steam Fire Engine Trials, 324
Steam Fire Engines at Manchester, 422
Steam “Goliath,” Smith's Ten-Ton, for Sydney, N.S.W.,169 J J»
Steam Motors, 284
Steam Pump, Blake’s Direct-Acting, 32
Steam Pumping Engines for Sydney Water Works, 671
Steam Steering Gear, Zicse’s, 674
Steam, Substitutes for, 149
Steam Travelling Crane, Coles’, 290
Steamboat Subsidies, Russian, for 1887, 430
Steamer, Light-Draught Stern-Wheel, Forrestt and Son’s, 325
Steamer "Ozone,” Paddle, Compound Engines of the, 180
Steamer, River, Friedeborn’s Stern-Wheel, 182
Steamers for the Black Sea, More, 533
Steamers, Passenger, Atlantic, 163, 196, 222
Steamers, Petroleum, 546
Steamers, Petroleum Carrying, 107, 114
Steamship “Nulli Secunda,” Engines and Boilers of the, 491, 545
Steamship “Orizaba,” The New, 377, 629
Steamship “ Westmoreland,” Triple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the, 7, 71 Steamship “ Willesden,” Triple-Expansion En¬gines of the, 107
Steel for Armour and Projectiles, 667
Steel, Basic, 606 Steel Boiler Plates, 482
Steel Cantilever Railway Bridge over the St. John River, N.B., Canada, 131,207, 258, 327,392
Steel Casks for Fish, 220 Steel Chains, Casting, 414, 456
Steel and Iron, 311
Steel and Iron at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 116, 203
Steel and Iron, The Microscopic Structure of, 144
Steel Melting Furnace Economy, The Effect of Dissociation on, 595
Steel, Mild, Some Effects of Quenching and Annealing on, 227
Steel Plant, The Davy, SO
Steel Process, the Basic, Chemistry of, 240
Steel Projectiles, 452, 475, 628
Steel Wire of High Tenacity, On, 86
Steering Gear, Hydraulic, Jochumsen’s Auxiliary, 366
Steering Gear, Thompson’s Friction Screw, 289
Steering Gear for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter's, 50
SteeringGear, Zieze’s Steam, 674
“Stepney" and “Wapping,” s.s., Compound Engines of the, 290, 340
Stern-Wheel River Steamer, Friodeborn’s, 182
Stevens’ Fastenings for Railway Rails, 80
Stevenson, Mr. David, 96
Stevenson’s Horizontal Engine with Automatic Cut-off Gear, 31
Stoke Salt Works, 312
Storage of Petroleum, The, 651
Straight Lines, Donkin’s Machine for Dhiding, 235
Stress in Beams, 455
Submarine Boat “ Nautilus,” The, 648
Submarine Cables, 504
Subsoil Water, Influence of the, 352
Substitutes for Steam, 149
Sugar as an Anti-Incrustator in Steam Boilers, 376
Sugar in Cement, 401, 430
Sugar Machinery, Smith’s, 490
Sugar Mills, Hydraulic Attachment to, 272
Sulphur in Coal and Coke, 746
Sulphur in Iron and Steel, New Colorimetric Determination of, 138
Surfaces, Inoxidisable, for Iron, 114
Surveying by Electric Light, 323
Sydney Water Works, Steam Pumping Engines for, 571

Tachometer, Horn’s, 43, 570
Tagg’s Joints for Woodwork, 629
Tangyes’ Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, 233
Tangye and Johnson’s Automatic Expansion Gear, 314
Tank Locomotive for the Imperial Government
Railways of Japan, 660 Tar, Burning Gas, 456
Tar Still at Gateshead, Explosion of a, 602, 669
Taste, The Sense of, 350
Tay Bridge, The, 664
Teak Trade, Burmah, 44
Telegraph Company, Great Northern, 297
Telegraph, The Electric, in France, 645
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 529, 593, 617
Telegraph, India-Rubber, and Gutta-Percha Works, The Silvertown, 42
Telegraph Poles, Prairie, 95
Telegraph Reform, 68
Telegraph and Signal Posts, Footsteps for, 522
Telegraphing with an Uninsulated Wire, 322
Telegraphy, Multiplex, 309, 333
Telephone, An Early, 70
Telephone of 1868, A, 579
Telephone, An Improved, 323
Telephone, A New, 319
Telephonic Apparatus, Early, 355
Telephonic Induction, 283
Temperature of the Deep Sea, The, 533
Temperature of Lake Leman, The, 141
Terrestrial Gravity, Measuring, by Spring Balance, 44
Terrestrial Magnetism, 311
Testing Apparatus, Henning’s, 130
Testing Bridge, Electric Light, Woodhouse and Rawson’s. 262
Testing Fuzes by the Telephone, 651
Tests, Boiler Radiation, 101
Thames, Bridge over the River, at Putney, 85
Thermal Battery, A New, 167, 193
Thermo-Electric Materials, New, 297
Thermometers, Note on the Internal Capacity of, 536
Thermometric Paint, A, 296
Thomas Slag as a Manure, 578
Thompson’s Friction Screw Steering Gear, 289
Thompson’s System of Framing Vessels, 585
Thompson’s Triple-Expansion Engines, 405
Thornycroft’s Small Torpedo Boats, 278
Thrashing Machine, Marshall's, 52
Threads, Screw, 266
Thwaite-Neville Self-Trimming Grain Elevator, The. 420
Tidal Stations, 142
Tilbury Docks, The, 219
Tilbury Docks, Crane lor, 119
Timber, Colonial, 401
Tip Wagon, Six-Ton, 443
Tobacco Works, Cope’s, 164
Tonsson’s Friction Coupling, 641
Tools, Machine, Canadian, 377, 469
Torpedo Boat Boilers, Yarrow’s, 180
Torpedo Boat for China, 117
Torpedo Boat for the Chinese Government, Sea- Going, 417
Torpedo Boat Compound Condensing Engines, Yarrow’s, 155
Torpedo Boat Fan Engine, Yarrow’s, 313
Torpedo Boat, A New, 668
Torpedo Boat, Yarrow’s, Trial of, 593
Torpedo Boats, Second Class, Hoisting, 340
Torpedo Boats, Thornycroft’s Small, 273
Torpedo Boats, Yarrow’s Pumping Engines for, 258
Torpedo Experiments, 478
Torpedo Vessel for the Russian Government, A Clyde Built, 154
Torpedoes, 500, 675, 621
Torsional Vibrations, Sources of Error in Con¬nection with Experiments on, 37
Toward’s Forced Draught Apparatus, 366
Town Bridge, The Northwich, 452
Traction Engine, Compound, Fowler’s, 49
Trade with Batoum, English, 117
Trade of 1886, The Coal, 668
Trades and Professions in France, Statistics of, 43
Train Signal, A Mercury, 245 Tramways, Cable, 2, 254, 624, 645)
Tramways, Cable, in Australia, 628
Tramways, French, 373
Transmission of Energy, The Electrical, 500
Transmission of Power by Belting, 127
Transportation and Refinement of Petroleum, The, 489, 563, 609
Treacle for Making Briquettes of Coal, &c., Use of, 193
Treating Gold and Silver at the United States Mint, 27, 53. 150, 228
Trial of Non-Condensing Compound Engine, 558
Trial Trips and Launches, 10, 40, 79, 131, 155, 194, 250, 259, 313, 378, 404, 422, 455, 510, 558, 572, 615, 643, 673
Trial of Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat, 593
Tria'8, Steam Fire Engine, 324
Triple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the s.s., “ Nulli Secunda,” 491, 545
Triple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “ Westmoreland,” 7, 71
Triple-Expansion Engines, Thompson’s, 405
Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Willes¬den,” 107
Triple-Expansion Marine Engines, 470, 494
True Crankshafts and Bearings, The Production of, 130,198
Tubes, Copper, Seamless, 287
Tunnel, The Severn, 210
Tunnel, The Sound, 651
Turbine Penstock, Collapse of a, 671
Turning and Drilling Machine for Boiler Flues, Kendall and Gent’s, 637
Tweddell's Hydraulic Veeing Presses, 589
Tyne, River, Floating Hospital on the, 616

Underground Mains, Electric, Laying, 579
Underground Wires in American Cities, 139
Union Oil Mills Company, Loudon, Oil Mills of the, 616
Uninsulated Wire, Telegraphing with an, 322
United States Cruisers, 365
United States, The Mechanical Industries of the, 96
United States Mint, Treating Gold and Silver at the, 27, 53, 150, 228
United States, Notes from the, 13, 32, 70, 78, 107, 133, 155, 181, 207, 246, 258, 298, 324, 380, 394, 433, 455, 409, 491, 523, 509, 604, 614, 072
United States, Railway Gauge in the, 18
United States, Water Power in the, 142
Ural Iron Trade, The Crisis in the, 70
Uranium Salts, 268
Use ot Concrete in Marine Construction, On the, 530
Use of Liquid Fuel, The ; English Theory and Russian Practice, 45
Use of the Magneto, The, 18
Utilisation of Waste Metal, 95

Valve Gear, Fidler’s, 315
Valve Gears, Radial, 279, 359
Valve, Reducing, Fothergill's, 620
Valve, Slide, Peck's, 157
Vapour Pressure, 630
Variable Velocity, Imparting, 336
Veeing Presses, Tweddell's Hydraulic, 589
Ventilation of Factories and Workshops, 352
Ventilation of Scotch Coal Mines, 245
Ventilation, Smith’s System of, 590
Ventilator, Sewer, Eachus and Maignen’s, 301
Vertical, Coasts and the, 322
Vertical Winding Engine, Hornsby and Sons’, 600
Vessels, Thompson’s System of Framing, 535
Vice-Regal Train, The ; East Indian Railway, 313
Victorian Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhi¬bition, The, 307
Violent Hailstorm, A, 193
Vision, Colour, 282
Volt and Ampèremeters, New, 430
“Volta,’’ The Voyage of the, 297

Wade and Cherry’s Centrifuge Helical Pump, 570
Wagon, Six-Ton Tip, 443
“ Wapping” and “ Stepney,” s.s., Compound Engines of the, 290, 340
Waste Metal, Utilisation of, 95
Water Drinking, 311
Water, Evaporation of, at Sea, 433
Water, The Filtration of, 555
Water Level Indicator, Heinke’s, 457
Water Level Regulator, Joly’s, 247
Water Power in the United States, 142
Water, The Purification of, 353
Water and Siemens Gas, 150
Water Supply, The Birmingham, 334
Water Works, Belfast, 95, 618
Water Works, The Bradford, Auxiliary Pumping Engine at, 9
Water Works, The St. Heliers, 143
Water Works, the Yokohama, Pumping Engines for, 326
Watson’s Compound Hydraulic Presses, 207
Wave Motion, 283
Wax Phonograph, The, 670
Weather, The, 40,139, 267, 372, 475, 576
Webber's Portable Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 644
Welding by Electricity, 324
Welding, A New Process of, 271
Wells’s Ball Bearings for Screw Shafts, 132
Welsh Ports, The, 297
Westgarth and English’s Compound Mill Engine, 646
Westinghouse High-Speed Engine, The, 154
“ Westmoreland,” 8.8., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 7, 71
Wheel Tyro Lathe, Asquith’s Railway, 155
Wilkinson and Lister’s Keyway Cutting Ma¬chine, 9
“ Wilksden,’’ s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 107
Wilson’s System of Housing Ships’ Boats, 132
Windsor Slipway, Cardiff, Pumping and Hauling Machinery at the, 32
Winning Diamonds, The Mode of, 29 Wire Netting, Continuous, 535
Wire, Steel, of High Tenacity, On, 86
Wires, Underground, in American Cities, 139
Withdrawal of the Electric Lighting Bill, 68
Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Light Testing Bridge, 262
Woodite, 431
Woolwich Arsenal, 218
Woods, The Electric Resistance of, 141
Woodwork, Tagg’s Joint for, 629
Working Mountain Railways, 174
Workshop Administration, 149
Works, The Bolton Sewage, 445
Works, Piggott and Co.’s, Birmingham, 611
Worthington High-Duty Pumping Engine, The, 181, 193
Wrought-Iron Conduit Pipes, 36
Wrought-Iron Pipes, 296

Yarrow’s Pumping Engines for Torpedo Boats, 258
Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat Boilers, 180
Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat Compound Condensing Engines, 155
Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat Fan Engine, 313
Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat, Trial of, 593
Yokohama Water Works, Pumping (Engines for the, 326
York, The Sanitary Exhibition, at, 3S0

Ziese’s Steam-Steering Gear, 674

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