Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1887 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

• Absolute Electro-Dynamometer, An 480
• Academy Prizes, French, 18
• Accidents in Mines, 584
• Accidents, Railway, Recent, 233
• Accidents to Torpedo Boats, The, 481
• Accuracy of Artillery Fire, 425
• Acme Positive Water Meter, The, 442
• Act, The New Employers’ Liability, 188
• Action of the Propeller and Skin Friction on the Water-Line, The, 331
• Adamson’s 100-Ton Testing Machine, 564
• Address of the President of the Institution of
• Mechanical Engineers, 484, 508, 531
• Address of the President of the Royal Meteorological Society, 78
• Adelaide and Murray Bridge Railway, Locomotive for the, 345
• Administration, Naval, 14, 61
• Administration, Patent Office, 600
• Admiralty Contracts, 232
• Advance in Liquid Fuel, Another, 17
• Agents, Patent, 327
• Agricultural Engineering, 573
• Agricultural Engines, 399
• Agriculture in Japan, 600
• Air Brush, The, 210
• “ Ajax” and “ Agamemnon,” The Steering of the, 449
• Alarm, Fire and Burglar, 284
• Alaska, Exploration in, 378
• Allan’s Pressure Gauge, 21
• Alumina, Phosphorescent, 113
• Aluminium, 37, 278
• Aluminium Bronze, Casting, 54
• Aluminium, The Phosphorescence of, 280
• Amendment Bill, The Electric Lighting Act, 187
• America, Trades Unions in, 599
• American Coal Trade, The, 332
• American Exhibition, The, 235, 258, 332, 451
• American Institute of Mining Engineers, The (See Mining Engineers, The American Institute of)
• American Locomotives, 69
• American Metallurgical Industry, 65
• 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)
• Ammunition, A New, 40
• Anchor, Hall’s Cast Steel Stockless, 227
• Anchor, Martin’s Improved, 551
• Anchor and Mooring Shackles, Martin’s, 607
• Ancient and Modern Locks and Keys, 90
• An£mog6ne, Rougerie’s, 152 Angle Iron Planing Machine, 344
• Anglo-American Brush Company, The, 187
• Animikie Rocks, The, 365
• Anthracite, Modern, 3^5 Arago Laboratory, The, 604
• Architectural and Building Trades Exhibition, The, 260
• Armour, Belted and Internal, 352, 359
• Armour and Guns, Steel for, 375
• Armstrong Guns, 92
• Armstrong’s Night Sight for Ordnance, 236
• Army, Machine Guns for the, 89 . f
• Arrangement of Twin Screws, Maclaine s, 33
• Arterial Drainage in Ireland, 549
• Artillery Fire, The Accuracy of, 425
• Artillery in the United States, 63
• Asbestos Discoveries in Russia, More, 378
• Atlantic Liners, 18 . . e
• Atmospheric Oxidation, Electricity from, 3/8
• Auroras and Shooting Stars, 332
• Australia, Locomotives for, 114
• Australia, The Public Services in, 159
• Automatic Brake, The Interchangeable, 13/
• Award Scheme, Carron Works, 17

• Bagain River Bridge, 497, 542 P
• Bagshaw’s System of Compounding Beam Engines, 239
• Baikal, Lake, 234
• Balance, Kent’s Torsion, 367
• Band Saws and Circular Saws, 446
• Barker’s Twist-Drill Grinder, 101
• Barlows* Candle-Moulding Machine, 20
• Barney Automatic Dumping Barge, The, 4«/
• Basic Slag, 537
• Bat Guano, 480
• Baton, An Electric, 32
• Batteries, Bichromate of Soda in, 332
• Battery, A Heat, 357
• Battery for Laboratory Use, A Water, 603
• Battery, The Phoenix, 507
• Bayonets and Cutlasses, Defective, 302, 400
• Beam Caloric Engine, 43
• Beam Engines, Compounding, 239
• Beams, Fixed at the Ends, 568
• Beetling Machine, Riley’s, 492
• Belgian Steamer for the Congo, A, 65
• Belted Cruiser “Orlando,’'* The, 392
• Belted and Internal Armour, 352, 359
• Berlin, Notes from (See Notes from Berlin) Bernstein Glow Lamp, The, 101
• Bernstein’s System of Electric Lighting, 15
• Berry’s Vertical Plate-Bending Machine, 442
• Bessemer Gold Medallist for 1887, The, 524
• Bichromate of Soda in Batteries, 332
• Bill, The Electric Light Act Amendment, 187
• Bill, The Railway and Canal Traffic, 207
• Birch’s Floating Crane, 298 Black Gold, 426
• Black Sea Fleet, The Russian, 577
• Black Sea, New Shipyards in the, 89
• Blast Furnace Slag, Cement from, 526
• Blast Furnaces, Cost of Erection of, 512, 583
• “ Bteville,” s.s., Kemp’s High and Low Temperature Boilers of the, 54
• Boards, Local, The Natural History of, 2, 27, 73, 148, 173, 197, 244, 266, 289, 388, 437, 487, 539, 587
• Boat, Torpedo, A New, 306
• Bodies, Rotative, The Study of, 576
• Boiler Explosions Abroad, 280
• Boiler Explosions in 1886 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 394
• Boiler Manufacture, Modern Practice in, 491 Boiler, Pulp, Tijou’s, 120
• Boilers, Diagonal Joints for, 208
• Boilers and Engines of the Steam Yacht “Cassandra,” 153
• Boilers and Engines of the Steam Yacht “Gladiator,” 105,142
• Boilers, Kemp’s High and Low Temperature of the s.s. “Blhville,” 54
• Boilers and Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ County of York,” 247, 297
• Bolton, Sir Francis, 4U
• Book-Perfecting Machine, Feister’s, 200
• Booth and Co.’s Planing Machine, 101
• Brain, Lead in the, 480
• Brane, The Interchangeable Automatic, 137
• Brake Pipe Coupling, Kapteyn’s Metallic, 520
• Brakes, Continuous, 161
• Brakes, Railway, 234, 262
• “ Brennan” Torpedo, The, 601
• Brick Pavements, 404
• Bridge, The Bagain River, 497, 542
• Bridge, The Forth, 248, 517, 551
• Bridge, The Hawkesbury River, 191, 224, 319, 370
• Bridge across the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, U.S., The, 163, 442
• Bridge over the Ibicuy River; Great Southern Railway of Brazil, 117
• Bridges on the Eastern and Midlands Railway ;
• Cromer Extension, 30, 57, 80
• British Mercantile Steamers, 481
• Brooklyn Fire Department; The Fire Float “Seth Low,” 8, 45
• Brown’s Dynamos, Electrical Transmission of Power by, 221
• Brush, The Air, 210
• Brussels, An International Exhibition at, 113
• Building Railways, Shall Russia Leave off, 577
• Building Trades and Architectural Exhibition, The, 260
• Bullivant and Co.’s New Wire Rope Works, 214
• Burglar and Fire Alarm, 284
• Burmah, The Goldfields of, 64
• Burmese Gold, 404
• Button, The Micro-Telephone, of Dr. Herz, 416

• Calculations, Stability, 354, 355
• Calender, Riley’s, Four-Bowl Universal, 448
• Calming Waves by Oil, 576
• Caloric Engine, Beam, 43 C
• alorimeter, A New, 26
• Calorimetrical Thermometers, 406
• Camel Helping the Iron Horse, The, 18
• Campbell’s Conigraph, 54
• Canadian Locomotives, Construction of, 478
• Canal, An Indo-European, 40
• Canal, New Russian, 40
• Canal and Railway Traffic Bill, The, 207
• Canal, The Volga-Don, 553
• Candahar Railway, The, 280
• Candle-Moulding Machine, Barlows’, 20
• Cane Sugar, Diffusion Plant for the Manufacture of, 226
• Capital and Labour, 27
• Carbonic Oxide in a Railway Tunnel, 138
• Carbons, Porous, 426
• Cargoes, Grain, The Shifting of, 353, 383
• Carpentier’s Electric Baton, 32
• Carriage, Permanent Way Inspector’s, Merryweathers’, 77
• Carron Works Award Scheme, 17
• “Cassandra,” The Steam Yacht, Engines and Boilers of, 153
• Cast Iron, The Production of Silica from, 537
• Cast Steel, The Heating and Cooling of, 40
• Cast-Steel Stockless Anchor, Hall’s, 227
• Casting Aluminium Bronze, 54
• Casting Table, Sheet-Glass, Daglish’s, 68
• Caucasus, Russian Railway Progress in the, 234
• Cement from Blast Furnace Slag, 526
• Cement Furnace, Ransome’s Revolving, 526
• Cement Tests, 162
• Central Engine Works, West Hartlepool, The, 270
• Chambers of Commerce and Indian Railways, 65
• Chandler’s Engine and Fan, Combined, 45
• Chatham, Swivel Bogie Locomotive at, 176
• Chemicals, 369
• Cheshire, The Salt District of, 480
• Chicago, The City of, and City of Cleveland Fire Boats for, 45, 54
• Chilled Roll Grinding Machine, Luke and Spencer’s, 542
• Chimney, Laddering a Tall, 460
• Cnrome Steel Projectiles, 306
• Chronometers, Marine, 232
• Circular Saws and Band Saws, 446
• City and Southwark Subway, The, 305, 356

Civil Engineers, The American Society of : 220, 290

• On the Drawbridge over the Harlem River, 291
• On the Continental Iron Works, 291
• On Icemaking Machinery, 293
• On the 600-Ton Testing Alachine at the Works of the Union Bridge Company, at Athens, Pa., by Mr. Charles Macdonald, M. Am. Soc. C.E.,413

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 502, 546, 553

• On the Employment of Salt for the Removal of Snow, 45
• On Sewage Sludge and its Disposal, by Mr. William Joseph Dibdin, F.C.S., F.I.C., Metropolitan Board of Works, 118
• On Filter Presses for the Treatment of Sewage Sludge, by Mr. William Santo Crimp, A. M. I. C.E., F.G.S.. 119
• On Irrigation in Lower Egypt, by William Willcocks, A.M.I.C.E., 180
• On Dredging Operations and Appliances, by Mr. John James Webster, M.I.C.E., 212
• On the Treatment of Gun Steel, by Colonel Eardley Maitland, R.A., A.I.C.E., Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich, 270
• On Chalk Springs in the London Basin, by Mr. J. W. Grover, M.I.C.E., 381
• On Borings in the Chalk at Bushey, Herts, by Mr. William Fox, M.I.C.E., 381
• On a Borehole in Leicestershire, by Mr. T. S. Stooke, A.M.I.C.E., 381
• On the Wells and Borings of the Southampton Water Works, by Mr. William Matthews, A.M.I.C.E., 381
• On the Conversion of Timber in the Pine-Growing Districts of the U.S.A, by Circular Saws and Band Saws, by Mr. L. H. Ransome, Stud. Inst. C.E., 446
• On Printing Machinery, by Mr. E A. Clowes, 457
• On the Manufacture of Salt near Middlesbrough, by Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., F.R.S., M.I.C.E., 505
• On Accidents in Mines, Part I., by Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., Hon. M.I.C.E., 534

• Cleaning Streets in Paris, 1, 39, 75, 98
• Cleveland, the City of, and City of Chicago, Fire Boats for, 45, 54
• Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 44, 67, 83, 116, 141, 156, 181, 214, 228, 252, 275, 294, 320, 349, 373, 397, 428, 447, 473, 493,530, 556, 570, 596
• ‘ Climax” Motor, The, 295
• Club, The Electric, of New York, 138
• Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1886, 10, 12, 102
• Coal in the Biacx Sea, English, An End to, 601
• Coal in the Crimea, 163
• Coal Export, The D metz, 604
• Coal and Iron Works, The Lackawanna, 341
• Coal Mining in Colorado, U.S.A,, 73
• Coal in Romnania, 453
• Coal in Sweden, 65
• Coal Trade, The, 369
• Coal Trade, The American, 332
• Coal Trade, The Russian, 17
• Coalmining in Poland, 552
• Cochrane’s Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear, 93
• Coefficients of Mutual Induction, The Determination of, 240
• Cokes and Iron Ores, Southern, 363
• Cold Iron and Steel Sawing Machine, Lee and Hunt’s, 442
• Cold Sawing Machine, 567
• Colonial and Indian Exhibition, The Electric Light at the, 62
• Colonial Industries, 112
• Colonial Pump, Tangyes’ High Lift, 598
• Colorado, U.S.A., Coal Mining in, 73
• Colour of Feldspar, The, 234
• Commission, The Ordnance Inquiry, 499
• Company, The Anglo-American Brush, 187
• Comparing Mutual Induction with Capacity, 568
• Composite Iron and Steel, 512
• Composite Lightship “ Puffin,” The, 422
• Composition, New Non-Conducting, 332
• Compound Mill Engine, 431, 4h4
• Compound Passenger Locomotive for the North- Eastern Railway, 565
• Compound Underground Pumping Engines at the Denby Colliery near Derby, 285
• Compounding Beam Engines, 239
• Congo, A Belgian Steamer for the, 65
• Conigraph, Campbell’s, 54
• Construction of Canadian Locomotives, 478
• Continental Iron Works, The, 291
• Continuous Brakes, 161
• Contract for the Lisbon Harbour Works, 404
• Contract and Purchase in the Navy, 256
• Contracts, Admiralty, 232
• Conversion of Heat into Electricity, 357
• Copper Mining in the Lake Superior District, 150 165, 178, 215
• Copper Mining in the Urals, 306
• Copperas Waste, The, 187
• Corn-Drying Machines, Trials of, 162
• Corrosion of Iron and Steel Ships, The, 330
• Corrugated Flues, Helically, 503
• Cosmical Rock, A New, 210
• Cost of Erection of Blast Furnaces, 512, 583
• Cotton, Explosions of, 332
• “ County of York,” s.s., Quadruple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the, 247, 297
• Coupling, Hill’s Railway Wagon, 466
• Coupling, Kapteyn’s Metallic Brake Pipe, 520
• Cowley’s Tube-Cutting and Screwing Machine, 483
• Crab, Marks’, 520
• Cradock and Co.’s Wire and Wire Rope Works, 344, 365
• Crane, Birch’s Floating, 298
• Crane, Floating, Leviathan, 319
• Crane, Hydraulic Ingot, at the Hallside Steel Works, Glasgow, 58
• Crank-Axles, Locomotive, 65
• Craven’s Metal Sawing Machines, 566
• Craven’s Uiiiveraal Horizontal Milling Machine, 592
• Crimea, Coal in the, 163
• Cromer, The Eastern and Midlands Railway Extension to, 30, 57, 80
• Crucibles, Nickel, 61
• Cruiser “ Orlando,” The Belted, 392
• Cruiser and Telegraph Cable Ship, A Combined, 89
• Cunynghame, Woodhouse, and Rawson Cut-out, The, 93
• Cupola, The Herbertz, 470
• Curves of Stability, Determining, 3'23, 355
• Cutlasses and Bayonets, Defective, 302, 400
• Cutlasses, The Defective, 302
• Cut-out, The Cunynghame, Woodhouse, and Raw-eon, 93

• Daglish’s Gold Stamper Battery, 128
• Daglish’s Sheet-Glass Casting Table, 68
• Danish Ironclad, A New, 453
• Danish Telegraphs, 577
• De Bang’s Guns in Norway, 113
• Deane Pumping Engine, The, 607
• Defective Cutlasses and Bayonets, 302, 400
• Deflection of Sonorous Signals, 576
• Denel’s Dough Kneader, 113
• Denmark, New Small-Calibre Rifles for, 404
• Denmark, Proposed New North Sea Harbour in, 480
• Denny, Mr. William, 281
• Density Point of Water, The Effect of Pressure on the Maximum, 604
• Depression of Trade, The, 62, 109
• Depression, Trade, in Sweden, 114
• Designing of Warships, The, 351
• Destruction of a Standpipe, 18
• Determining Curves of Stability, 323
• Diagonal Joints for Boilers, 208
• Diagrams, Time, Kapteyn’s Apparatus for Taking, 268
• Diamond Mining at Kimberley, 187
• Dielectric, Capacity Variations in the, 283
• Diffusi m Plant for the Manufacture of Cane Sugar, 226
• Directors, The Liabilities of, 333
• Discoveries, More Asbestos, in Russia, 378
• Diverting the Oxus to the Caspian, 111
• Dock, The Esquimalt, 150
• Dock in Fifeshire, New, 442
• Donetz Coal Export, The, 604
• Double-Track One-Armed Drawbridge ; Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, 131
• Doubling Winding Frame, Stubbs’, 592
• Dough Kneading Machinery, 113
• Drainage of the Houses of Parliament, The Main, 117
• Drainage in Ireland, Arterial, 549
• Draught, Forced, for Marine Boilers, 66
• Drawbridge, One-Armed; Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, 131
• Drawbridge over the River Harlem, 291
• Dredger “ Pholas,” The Twin-Screw Hopper, 593
• Dredging, 212
• Dredging Machinery, 6
• Drill, A Portable Hydraulic, 125, 130
• Drilling Machine, Fish-Plate, Wilkinson and Lister’s, 69
• Drilling Machine, Radial, Shanks and Co,’s, 270
• Dumping Barge, The Barney Automatic, 497
• Dunderdale and Wood’s Nut-Finishing Machine, 457
• Dynamite Torpedo Gun, The Pneumatic, 344
• Dynamo-Telephone, The, 40
• Dynamos, Brown’s Electrical Transmission of Power by, 221

• Eads, Mr. James B., 257
• Early Movement of Mechanics, The, 3
• Earthquake Effect, An, 502
• Eastern and Midlands Railway Extension to
• Cromer, The, 30, 57, 80
• Economics of Greit Railways, The, 315
• Economy of Elevators, The Relative, 500
• Economy, Marine Engine, 427
• Effect, An Earthquake, 502
• Effects of Explosives, On the, 577
• Egypt, Irrigation in, 93, 180
• Egyptian Petroleum, 262
• Eiffel Tower, The, 403
• Electric Baton, An, 32
• Electric Club of New York, The, 138
• Electric Distribution, Transformers for, 527
• Electric Launch, A New, 426

Electric Lighting :

• Anglo-American Brush Company, The, 187
• Bernstein’s Glow Lamp, The, 101
• Bernstein’s System of Electric Lighting, 15
• Electric Headlight for Ships, 162
• Electric Light at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, The, 62
• Electric Light through a Fog, The, 162
• Electric Light in the New Town Hall of Vienna, 542 594
• Electric Light, New Use of the, 604
• Electric Light and Plants, The, 577
• Electric Light at Stockholm, The, 234
• Electric Light at the Suez Canal, 604
• Electric Lighting Act Amendment Bill, 187
• Electric Lighting at the Manchester Exhibition, 424
• Electrical Progress in Japan, 280
• Glow Lamp Patents, 114
• Incandescent Lamp, A New, 525
• Electric Machines, Engines for Driving, 592
• Electric Railway, Van Depoele’s, 363
• Electrical Progress in Japan, 280
• Electrical Transmission through Air, 357
• Electrical Transmission by Hot Air, 187
• Electrical Transmission of Power by Brown’s Dynamos, 221
• Electrical Welding, 22
• Electrically-Worked Machine Tools, Rowan’s, 428
• Electricity from Atmospheric Oxidation, 378
• Electricity, New Applications of, 40
• Electro-Dynamometer, An Absolute, 480
• Electro-Magnetic Telephone, The Stanhope, 453
• Electro-Magnetic Telephone Transmitter, The Theorv of the, 89
• Elevated Temperatures, The Thermo-Electric Measurement of, 239
• Elevators, The Relative Economy of, 500
• Elevators in Russia, 211
• Elswick Gun, The 110-Pon, 160, 234, 452
• Emery Grinding Machines, Luke and Spencer’s, 467
• Employers’ Liability Act, The New, 188
• Engine, Beam Caloric, 43
• Engine, Compound Mill, 431, 494
• Engine and Fan, Combined Chandler s, 45
• Engine, High-Speed, Tangyes and Floyd s, 520
• Engine, Horizontal, with Variable Expansion Gear, Cochrane’s, 93
• Engine, Pumping, The Deane, 607
• Engine, Rotative, for Mine Pumping, 91
• Engine Works, Marine, 270
• Engineering, Agricultural, 573
• Engineering Industries in Sweden, 552
• Engineering Laboratory, A Rich, 61 t
• Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in lo3b, Clyde, 10, 42,102 _ .
• Engineering Society, The Mason College, Bir
• Engineers, The Institution of Civil (See Civil Engineers, The Institution of)
• Engineers, The Society of, 144
• Engineers, Telegraph, The Society o», 63, 126, 210, 260, 328, 475, 550
• Engines, Agricultural, 399
• Engines, Beam, Compounding, 239
• Engines and Boilers of the Steam Yacht “ Cassandra,” 153
• Engines and Boilers of the Steam Yacht “ Gladiator,” 105, 142 .
• Engines for Driving Electric Machines, 592
• Engines, High-Speed, Reciprocation in, 26
• Engines, Non-Condensing, The Friction of, 5
• Engines, Pumping; Lincoln atei Works, 152,
• Engines, Quadruple-Expansion, and Boilers of the s.s. “ County of York,” 247, 297
• Engines of the Steam Tug “ Power, 176
• Engines of the Steam Yacht Myrtle, o46
• Engines, Triple-Expansion, 123, 404 u
• Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the s.s. Maryland,” 320, 534 t<__r .
• Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the s.s. vv arnno-ton 21
• Engines, Underground Compound Pumping, at the Denby Colliery, near Derby, 285
• England as a Petroleum Power, 378
• England and Petroleum Tank Cars at Batoum, 138
• English Coal in the Black Sea, An End to, 604
• Erection of Blast Furnaces, Cost of, 512, 583
• Erection of the Forth Bridge, 218, 517, 651
• Esquimalt Dock, The, 150
• Estimates, The Navy, 277
• Ewing’s Seismographs, 519
• Excavator, The Gatmell, 154
• Excavator, Steam, 128 e ,r
• Excursion of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The New York, 27
• Exhibition, The American, 235, 258, 332, 451
• Exhibition, The Architectural and Building Trades, 260
• Exhibition at Brussels, An International, 113

Exhibition, The Manchester, 402, 424, 589

• Beetling Machine, Riley’s, 492
• Chilled Roll Grinding Machine, Luke and Spencer’s, 542
• Cold Saw for Iron, Lee and Hunt s, 442 ,
• Cold Sawing Machine, Smith and Coventry s, 567
• Crab, Marks’, 520
• Electric Lighting, 424
• Engines for Driving Electric Machines, Mather and Platt’s, 592
• Four-Bowl Universal Calender, Riley s, 448
• Gas Hammer, Robson’s, 607
• Grinding and Polishing Machine, 431
• High-Lift Colonial Pump, Tangyes’, 598
• High-Speed Steam Engines, Tangyes and Floyd’s, 520
• Hydraulic Pulling Jack, Tangyes’, 520
• Iron and Steel, 477
• Lathe, Pendlebury’s, 483
• Metal Exhibits, 589
• Metal Sawing Machines, Craven’s, 566
• Milling Machine, Craven’s Universal Horizontal, 592
• Nut - Finishing Machine, Dunderdale and Wood’s, 457
• Surfacing Machine, Luke and Spencer s Automatic, 467
• Testing Machine, 100-Ton, Adamson’s, 564 Tube-Cutting and Screwing Machine, Cowley s, 483
• Turbines, Gtlnther’s, 466
• Universal Milling Machine, Smith and Coventry’s, 517
• Wheel Dividing Machine, Hulse’s, 568
• Wheel Tooth-Cleaning Machine, Luke and Spencer’s, 467
• Winding Frame, Stubbs’ Doubling, 592

Exhibition, The Newcastle, 259, 451

• Compound Passenger Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway, 565
• Express Locomotive ; Great Northern Railway, 471
• Iron and Steel, 550, 563

• Exhibition, The Paris International, 368
• Exhibition, The Saltaire, 450
• Exhibition, The South of Scotland Handicrafts, 431
• Experiments, Liquid Fuel, 332
• Experiments, Screw Blades, 331, 335
• Exploration in Alaska, 378
• Explosions, Boiler, Abroad, 280
• Explosions, Boiler, in 1886 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 394
• Explosions of Cotton, 332
• Explosive, The New, 573
• Explosives, On the Effects of, 577
• Express Locomotive ; Great Northern Railway, 471

• Fan and Engine, Combined Chandler’s, 45
• Fastest Passenger Steamer in the World, The, 502
• Feister’s Book-Perfecting Machine, 200
• Feldspar, The Colour of, 234
• Ferguson, Mr. John, 567
• Fibre Diffraction Gratings, 551
• Fibre, Pita, 525
• Fibres, Finest, Properties of the, 324
• Fifeshire, New Dock in, 442
• Fifty Years of Yacht Building, 330
• Files, Old and New, The Sand Blast Process foi Sharpening, 54
• Filter Presses for Sewage Sludge, 119
• Finding the Time, b04 , Service between,
• Finland and Sweden, Proposed o 426 r Cleveland and City of Fire Boats for the City oi Chicago, 45, 54
• hi: B'ookli“n” “■
• F"fl, Tl,.S0.Uh «3
• Fishing, Mother-of-Pearl, 42b 50°
• “ Flashing” Oils by Electncitj, o0-
• Floating Crane, Birch s, 298 „
• Floating Crane, Le\ lathan,
• Flues, Helically Corrugated, 50
• Fo«-, The Electric Light through , Forced Draught for Marine Boilers, 66
• Foreign and Colonial Notes, 70, 120, ivz,
• Foreign3Iron and Steel Trades, The, 279
• tion of two Coils, 240 Rilpv’s 448
• Four-Bowl Universal calender, Riley 8, Mexican Four-Cylinder Locomotive for the Mexican
• Central Railway, 81
• SoVoT» The-5
• Friction in Toothed Gearing, Fuel on Russian Railways, 50-Fuel Supply of Warships, 330,337 r
• Furnace, Cement, Ransomes Revolving, o-

• Gas Burner, The Welsbach Incandescent, 111, 333
• Gas Engine Trial, 433
• Gas Hammer, Robson s, 607
• Gas, Water, 53
• Gaslight Supply, The Lisbon, 5/7
• Gatmell Excavator, The, lo4
• Gauge, Pressure, Allan’s, 21
• Gauge, Water, Self-Closing, 131
• Generator, The Parsons Turbo-Electric, 378
• German Manufacturing Development m Poland, 480 . x- oon
• German Patent Examinations, -80 .
• Gilbert’s Insulators for Telegraph W ires, uOJ
• Gilbert’s Single-Needle Sounder, 69
• “Gladiator,” Steam Yacht, Engines and Boilers of the, 105,142
• Glow Lamp, The Bernstein, 101
• Glow Lamp Patents, 114
• Gold, Black, 426
• Gold, Burmese, 404
• Gold Medallist for 1887, The Bessemer, 521
• Gold Mining in Russia, 235
• Gold Ores containing Silver, Leaching, 195, 219, 412, 439, 463 t
• Gold Stamper Battery, Daglish s, 128
• Goldfields of Burmah, 64
• “ Goliath” Rails, 65
• Governors, Murdoch’s Marine, 120
• Grain Cargoes, The Shifting of, 353, 383
• Graphite, New Zealand, 332
• Gratings, Fibre Diffraction, 551
• Green’s System of Ventilation as Applied to the s.s. “ Preussen,” 322
• Grinder, Barker’s Twist-Drill, 101
• Grinding and Polishing Machine, 431
• Grover’s Spring Washers, 191
• Guano, Bat, 480
• Gun, The Maxim, 250, 520
• Gun, The Pneumatic Dynamite Torpedo, 344
• Gun, The 110-Ton (Elswick), 160, 234, 452
• Gunboats, 160
• Gunboats in the Black Sea, Russian, 603
• Guns and Armour, Steel for, 375
• Guns, Armstrong, 92
• Guns, De Bang’s, in Norway, 113
• Guns, Heavy, Steel for, 167, 270
• Guns, Krupp, 112
• Guns, Machine, for the Army, 89
• Guns, Steel for, 167, 270
• Gilnther’s Turbines, 466

• Hall’s Cast-Steel Stockless Anchor, 227
• Hammer, Robson’s Gas, 607
• Handicrafts Exhibition, The South of Scotland, 431
• Harbour Loans, 376
• Harbour and Railway Works, Lisbon, 201, 577
• Harbour Works, Lisbon, The Projected, 201
• Harlem River, Drawbridge over the, 291
• Hawkesbury River Bridge, The, 191, 224, 319, 370
• Headlight for Ships, Electric, 162
• Heat Battery, A, 357
• Heat, Conversion of, into Electricity, 357
• Heating and Cooling of Cast Steel, The, 40
• Heating PaasengerCars in the United States, 133
• Heating Railway Carriages, New System of, 191
• Heavy Guns, Steel for, 167
• Helically Corrugated Flues, 503
• Heliothermometrical Observations, 476
• Herbertz Cupola, The, 470
• Uer?’ Micro-Telephone Button of, 416
• High-Lift Colonial Pump, Tangyes’, 598
• High anJ* L,?Y, TemPerature Boilers of the s.s. “Bldville,” Kemp's, 54
• High-Speed Engine, Tangyes and Floyd’s, 520 Ki*’!?’SPeetJ Engines, Reciprocation in, 26
• High-Speed Twin Screws, 354 Hill’s Railway Wagon Coupling, 466
• History of Local Boards, The Natural, 2, 27, 73, 148, 173, 197, 244, 266, 289, 388, 437, 539, 587
• Hoosac Tunnel, The Sale of the 113
• Hopper Dredger “ Pholas,” Twin-Screw, 593 H Cochrane’s"^116 W‘th Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Milling Machine, Craven’s Universal,
• Horse-Power of a Whale’s Tail, The, 114
• Houses of Parliament, The Main Drainage of the, “ktepsie^; m aCr0S3 thC’ at P°Ugh Hudson Strait ana Bay Route. 561 ' TT^V^eel'D1Vidin^Machine, 568 | Hydraulic Apparatus for Signals, 354
• Hydraulic Drill, A Portable, 125, 130
• Hydraulic Ingot Crane at the Hallside Steel Works, Glasgow, 58
• Hydraulic Plate-Closing and Rivetting Machine, Stephens and Clark’s, 531
• Hydraulic Power Company, The London 526
• Hydraulic Power Works at Niagara Balls, posed, 32
• Hydraulic Pulling Jack, Tangyes , 520
• Hydrometer, Smales’s Pneumatic, 93
• Hygrometrical Observations, 376

• Ibicuy River, Bridge over the ; Great Southern Railway of Brazil, 117 t
• Icemaking Machinery, Pontifexs, 293
• Incandescent Gas Burner, The Welsbach, 111, 33u
• Incandescent Gaslight, The Lowe, 65
• Incandescent Lamp, A New, 525
• Indian Railway Policy, The Lagging, -10
• Indian Railways and Chambers of Commerce, 6o
• Indo-European Canal, An, 40
• Industries, Colonial, 112
• Ingot Crane, Hydraulic, at the Hallside Steel Works, Glasgow, 58
• Inquiry Commission, The Ordnance, 499
• Instability in Open Structures,,138
• Institute, Iron and Steel, The (See Iron and Steel Institute) ..
• Institution of Civil Engineers, The (See Civil Engineers, The Institution of)
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The (See Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of)
• Institution of Naval Architects The (See Naval Architects, The Institution of)
• Insulator, blater Lewis’s, 482
• Insulators for Telegraph \\ ires, Gilbert s, 309
• Interchangeable Automatic Brake, The, 137
• Internal and Belted Armour, 352, 359
• International Exhibition, The Pans, 368
• Ireland, Arterial Drainage in, 549
• Iron, The Action of Nitrogen on, 404
• Iron Borings, Sampling, 525
• Iron and Coal Works, The Lackawanna, 341
• Iron, Effects on the Physical Properties of, by Raising the Temperature to 100 deg., /9
• Iron Horse, The Camel Helping the, 18
• Iron, Lead-Coated, 576
• Iron, Nature-Smelted, 332
• Iron Ore, Spanish, 187
• Iron Ores and Cokes, Southern, o63
• Iron Shipbuilding in the United States, 38
• Iron and Steel, Composite, 512
• Iron and Steel Industries, 369

Iron and Steel Institute, The, 501, 537

• On the Terni Steel Works, by Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 511, 543
• On Composite Iron and Steel, by Mr. George Allen, 512 x .
• On the Cost of Erection of Blast B urnaces at the Newport Iron Works, Middlesbrough, by Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 512, 583
• On the South Chicago Iron and Steel M oxks, by Mr. E. C. Potter, 512,581
• On the Treatment of Mild Steel for I lates, by Mr. James Riley, 514
• On the Production of Silica from Cast Iron, by Mr. Turner, 537
• On Basic Slag as Manure, by Mr. Percy C. Gilchrist, 537 _
• On Basic Slag ; its Formation, Constitution, and Application, with Special Reference to Crystals found therein, by Messrs. J. E. Stead and C. H. Ridsdale, 537

• Iron and Steel at the Manchester Exhibition, 4/7
• Iron and Steel at the Newcastle Exhibition, 550, 563 _ ,, _ ,
• Iron and Steel Sawing Machine, Cold, Lee and
• Hunt’s, 442 ,
• Iron and Steel Ships, the Corrosion of, 330
• Iron and Steel Trades, The Foreign, 279
• Iron and Steel, The Working Stress of, 51
• Iron and Steel Works, The South Chicago, 5S1
• Iron Trade in 1886, The Manufactured, 405
• Iron Trade, The Prospects of the, 163
• Iron Trade in 1886, The Scotch, 19
• Iron Works, The Continental, 291
• Ironclad, A New Danish, 453
• Ironclad “Pelayo,” The Spanish, 517
• Ironfounding, Scientific, 309
• Irrigation in Egypt, 93, 180
• Irrigation Works in Transcaucasia, 427
• Italian Government, Twin-Screw Torpedo for the, 392

• Jacquard Repeating Machine, Shepherd Ayrton’s, 77
• Japan, Agriculture in, 600
• Japan, Electrical Progress in, 280
• Japan, Railways in, 377
• Java, The Mineral Waters of, 480
• Joints for Boilers, Diagonal, 208
• Jubilee of the Russian Minister of Railways, The, 42
• “ Jubilee” Seats, 577

• Kapteyn’s Apparatus for Taking Time Diagrams, 268
• Kapteyn’s Metallic Brake Pipe Coupling, 520
• Kemp’s High and Low Temperature Boilers of the s.s. “ Bldville,” 54
• Kent’s Torsion Balance, 367
• Kerosene Pipe Lines over the Suram Pass, 526
• Kimberley, Diamond Mining at, 187
• Kneading Machinery, 113
• Krupp Guns, 112

• Laboratory, The Arago, 604
• Laboratory, A Rich Engineering, 64
• Labour and Capital, 27
• Labour in New South Wales, 65
• Lackawanna Iron and Coal Works, The, 341
• Lackawanna Valley, The, 365
• Laddering a Tall Chimney, 460
• Lake Baikal, 234
• Lake Superior Copper Mining, 150,165,178, 215
• Lamp, Glow, The Bernstein, 101
• Lamp, A New Incandescent, 525
• Lamp, A New Oxy-Hydrogen, 332
• Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, The, 6O.j
• Langley and Prince’s Locking Gear for Switches 167 512,
• Lathe, Pendlebury’s, 483
• Launch, A New Electric, 426
• Launches and Trial Trips, 55, 79, 128 154 225, 253, 284, 325, 358, 373, 405, 421’ 446 407 521, 555, 568, 593 ’ D’
• Lay Torpedo, The, 234
• Leaching Gold Ores containing Silver 10^ oia 412, 439, 463 ' ’
• Lead in the Brain, 480
• Lead-Coated Iron, 576
• Lee and Hunt’s Cold Iron and Steel Sawinsr Ma. chine, 442 8 *
• Legislation, Railway, 427
• Legislation, Shipping, 183
• “ Leviathan” Floating Crane, 319
• Lewis’s Insulator, 482
• Liabilities of Directors, The, 333
• Life-Saving Appliances on Passenger Shins
• Light, The Electric, at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 62
• Light, The Electric, through a Fog 162
• Light, The Electric, in the New Town Hall of Vienna, 542, 594
• Light, Electric, New Use of the, 604
• Light, The Electric, and Plants, 577
• Light, The Electric, at Stockholm, 234
• Light, The Electric, at the Suez Canal, 604
• Lighting, Electric, Bernstein’s System of 15
• Lightship “ Pullin,” The Composite, 422 ’
• Lincoln Water Works, Pumping Engines at 152
• Liners, Atlantic, 18
• Liquid Fuel, Another Advance in, 17
• Liquid Fuel Experiments, 332
• Lisbon Gaslight Supply, 577
• Lisbon Harbour and Railway Works, 577
• Lisbon Harbour Works, Contract for the, 404
• Lisbon Harbour Works, The Projected, 201
• Litholine, 8
• Loans, Harbour, 376
• Local Boards, The Natural History of 2 27 73 148, 173, 197, 244, 266, 289, 388, *437, 487/539’ 587
• Locked Coil and Stranded Wire Ropes, 308
• Locking Gear for Switches, Langley and Prince’s 167
• Locks and Keys, Ancient and Modern, 90
• “ Locksley Hall,” Raising the, 600
• Locmanaud, The Phonographic, 90
• Locomotive for the Adelaide and Murray Bridge Railway, 345
• Locomotive at Chatham, Swivel Bogie, 176
• Locomotive, Compound Passenger, for the North-Eastern Railway, 565
• Locomotive Crank-Axles, 65
• Locomotive, Express ; Great Northern Railway, 471
• Locomotive, Four-Cylinder, for the Mexican Central Railway, 81
• Locomotive, The “ Strong Lehigh Valley Railroad, 407
• Locomotives, American, 69
• Locomotives for Australia, 114
• Locomotives, Canadian, Construction of, 478
• Locomotives for New South Wales, 255, 502
• London, Chatham and Dover Railway, The, 138
• London Hydraulic Power Co, The, 526
• Longest Tunnel in the World, 40
• Lovell’s Wire Nailmaking Machine, 224
• Lowe Incandescent Gaslight, The, 65
• Lower Egypt, Irrigation in, 93, 180
• Luke and Spencer’s Chilled Roll Grinding Machine, 512
• Luke and Spencer’s Emery Grinding Machines, 467

• Machine, Angle Iron Planing, 344
• Machine, Beetling, Riley’s, 492
• Machine, Berry’s Vertical Plate-Bending, 442
• Machine, Candle-Moulding, Barlows’, 20
• Machine, Chilled Roll Grinding, Luke and Spencer’s, 542
• Machine, Cowley’s Tube-Cutting and Screwing, 483
• Machine, Craven’s Metal Sawing, 566
• Machine, Grinding and Polishing, 431
• Machine Guns for the Army, 89
• Machine, Hulse’s Wheel-Dividing, 568
• Machine, Jacquard Repeating, Shepherd and Ayrton’s, 77
• Machine, Lovell’s Wire Nailmaking, 224
• Machine, Milling, Craven’s Universal Horizontal, 592
• Machine, Nut-Finishing, Dunderdaleand Wood’s, 457
• Machine, Planing, Booth and Co.’s, 101
• Machine, Radial Drilling, Shanks and Co.’s, 270
• Machine, Rail-Bending and Drilling, Wood’s Portable, 251 .
• Machine, Smith and Coventry’s Cold-Sawing, 567
• Machine, 600-Ton Testing, 413
• Machine, 100-Ton Testing, Adamson’s, 564
• Machine Tools, Rowan’s Electrically Worked, 428 k ,
• Machine, Universal Milling, Smith and Coventry s, 517
• Machine, Winn’s Pipe-Piercing, 607
• Machinery, Dredging, 6
• Machinery, Kneading, 113
• Machinery, Pontifex’s Icemaking, 293
• Machinery, Printing, 457 . __r
• Machinery of Small Steamboats for Ships of Avar, The, 331
• Machines, Electric, Engines for Driving, 59-
• Maclaine’s Arrangement of Twin Screws, 33
• Magazine and Repeating Rifles, 209, 389, 411
• Magnetic Resistance, 283
• Magnetic Train Signal, A, 426
• Magnetisation, 406
• Main Drainage of the Houses of Parliament, The,
• Manchester Exhibition, The (See Exhibition, The Manchester)
• Manchester Ship Canal, The, 115
• Manganese Steel, 113 TT ., <
• Manufacture of Pipe Fittings in the Unitea
• Manufacture of Salt near Middlesbrough, The, 505 mu xns
• Manufactured Iron Trade in 1886, The, 40a
• Manufacturing Development in Poland, Germ , 480
• Marine Chronometers, 232
• Marine Engine Economy, 427
• Marine Engine Works, 270
• Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1886 Clyde, 10, 42,102
• Marine Engines, Triple-Expansion, 123, 404
• Marine Governors, Murdoch’s, 120
• Marks’ Crab, 520
• ui?n s Mooring and Anchor Shackles, 607
• Maryland,” s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 320, 534
• Mason College Engineering Society, Birmingham, The, 282
• Mather and Platt’s Engines for Driving Electric Machines, 592
• Maxim Gun, The, 250, 520
• Maximum Density Point of Water, The Effect of Pressure on the, 604
• Measurement of Elevated Temperatures, The Thermo-Electric, 239

Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 3, 25

• Conigraph, The, 54
• Is Water Gas an Economical Fuel ? bv Mr William Kent, 53
• New York Excursion, The, 27
• On the Early Movement of Mechanics, bv Mr Horatio Allen, 3
• On„ Faction in Toothed Gearing, by Professor v. Reauleaux, 4
• H\e Friction of Non-Condensing Engines by Professor R. H. Thurston, 5 ’
• On Dredging Machinery, by Mr. A. Wells Robinson, 6
• On the Strength of Shafting subjected to both ■twisting and Bending, by Professor Langa,
• On Formula) and Tables for Calculating the Effect of the Reciprocating Parts of High-Speed Engines, by Professor Alden, 26
• On Resuits Obtained with a New Calorimeter oy Mr. Barms, 26 ’
• °Otbhernn Smith?271Ue T°°18’ by Mr’ OnMrXat1ridgeef27fOr High’Priced Labour> by On threwOa?*’ by Mr- William Cowles, 45, 54
• MnBe^Baker^T8 by
• 0 StrnnSAnrg* Alu™inium Bronze and other
• by Mr‘ Thos- D- West, 54 Standard Pipe and Pipe Threads, 4 l°P10al Discussions, 26
• PrnnL«hef Pracfcical Yal«e of the Sand Blast Process for Sharpening Old and New Files,
• Mbc'^nical Engineers, The Institution of : 114 J-OVj 47o’
• AlJ,dress of the President, Mr. Edward H Carbutt, 484, 508, 531
• M^wi0nK0f aPortabIe Hydraulic Drilling Machine, by M. Marc Berrier-Fontaine, 125^ ItJV 7' I
• Experiments on the Distribution of Heat in a ESfeh?rR.E 8480Engine’ by Mai°r Th°maS
• NonJhe Bumping Engines at the Lincoln Water Works, by Mr. Ilwry Tea-ue Engineer of the Works, 152, 204°
• Robe?teWylHe?m Engi“eS’ byMr’
• ° trietP hlr m in^’in J>he Lake Superior Dis-178 *215^ Mr‘ Edgar P’ Bathbone, 150, 165,
• On the Construction of Canadian Locomotives M by¥r-Francis R.F. Brown, 478 t'°motlves> M,®chaP,!M’ ?b,e Early Movement of, 3 MthSe,f81Vated Railway’ Official Indorsement of Mercantile Steamers, British 481 Merchant Service and the Royal Navy The 302 “SgffiF Way Metall^r»>! p- the„Man,Chester Exhibition, 589 Metallic Brake-I ipe Coupling, Kapteyn’s, 520
• Metallurgical Industry, American, 65 M4M°r481gand)8 S0Ciety’The E°ya1, 781 166> 285>
• Meter, Water, The Acme Positive, 442 mX-eFoTtgs^1^’ Eour-Cylindc>- Boco-Micro-Organisms and Water, 184
• Micro-Telephone Button of Dr. Herz, The 416
• Microscope, A Perspective 162 ’
• Middlesbrough, The Manufacture of Salt near,
• te^ f01'Fla-tes, The Treatment of, 514
• Mill Engine, Compound, 431 494
• Milling Machine, Craven’s Universal Horizontal
• Mine Pumping, Rotative Engine for, 91
• Mineral Waters of Java, The, 480
• Mines, Accidents in, 534
• Mining, Coal, in Colorado, USA 73
• M1150ng165O??8r2i5 tHe Lake SUPeriOr District.
• idV, 1U«J, I/O, Z1U
• Mining, Copper, in the Urals 306
• Mining Engineers, The American Institute of •
• Lackawanna Iron and Coal Works The 341
• Lackawanna Valley, The, 365 ’ ’
• Miscellaneous Papers, 364
• Modern Anthracite, 365
• Onr ‘henC°m?ari?on of Southern Cokes and
• A S M'CreaVsol8- R V' D’Invilliers and XX. O. 1YL Cclull, 01)3
• On Rail Sections, by Mr. W. F. Mattes, 364
• On Ammikie Rocks, by Mr. William M. Courtis,
• Van Depoele’s Electric Railway 363

• Mining, Gold, in Russia, 235 ’
• Mining Notes from Norway, 139
• Mining, Submarine, On the Personnel for, 285 oil, 4oi ’
• Miscellanea, 7, 31, 67, 83, 103, 129, 157 177 9ni 229, 252, 274, 307, 324, 358, 382, 406 421 I43’ 473, 506, 521, 547, 571, 597 ’ ’ 443,
• Miscellaneous Papers at the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 364
• Modern Anthracite, 365
• Modern Practice in Boiler Manufacture, 491
• Modern Warships, 85
• Molten Iron, Transparent, 262
• Monastic Fleet of Steamers, A, 162
• Mooring and Anchor Shackles, Martin’s, 607
• Mother-of-Pearl Fishing, 426
• Motive Power for Submarine Boats, 17
• Motor, The “ Climax,” 295
• Moulding, The Pneumatic Methcd of, 203
• Mount Pilatus Railway, The, 444
• Movement of Mechanics, The Early, 3
• Murdoch’s Marine Governors, 120
• “ Myrtle,” Steam Yacht, Engines of the, 546

• Nailmaking Machine, Lovell’s Wire, 224
• Natural History of Local Boards, The, 2, 27, 73 148, 173, 197, 244, 266, 289, 388, 437, 487, 539! 587
• Nature-Smelted Iron, 332
• Naval Administration, 14, 61

Naval Architects, The Institution of : 302.330, 352

• Communication relating to the Results of a Series of Progressive Trials carried out at Cherbourg on a Torpedo Boat, A, by M. L. De Bussey, 303
• Communication relating to the Principle of an Hydraulic Apparatus for Transmitting Signals to a Distance, by M. Max Berrier Fontaine, 354
• On the Merchant Service and the Royal Navy, by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, 302
• On the Twin-Screw Torpedo Boats “Wiborg” and “El Destructor,” by Mr. J. H. Biles, 304
• On a New Method of Using Paper Sections for the Determination of Cross Curves of Stability, by Mr. J. H. Heck, 323, 355
• On Fifty Years of Yacht Building, by Mr. Dixon Kemp, 330
• On the Corrosion of Iron and Steel Ships, by Mr. Vivian B. Lewes, 330
• On the Fuel Supply of Warships, by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, 330, 337
• On the Changes of Level in the Surface of the Water Surrounding a Vessel Produced by the Action of a Propeller and by Skin Friction, by Professor J. H. Cotterill, 331
• On the Forces Acting on the Blade of a Screw Propeller, by Mr. G. A. Calvert, 331, 335
• On the Machinery of Small Steamboats for Ships of War, by Mr. A. Spy er, 331
• On the Comparative Effects of Belted and Internal Protection upon the other Elements of Design of a Cruiser, by Mr. J. H. Biles. 352, 359
• On the Shifting of Grain Cargoes, by Professor Philip Jenkins, 353, 383
• On the Practical Application of Stability Calculations, by Mr. Archibald Denny, 354
• On High-Speed Twin Screws, by Mr. E. A Linmngton, 354
• On Stability Calculations by Means of the Planimeter, by Mr. L. Benjamin, 355 Navigation, Submarine, 453 Navy, The, 301

• Navy, Contract and Purchase in the, 256
• Navy Estimates, The, 277
• Navy, The Royal, and the Merchant Service, 302
• New South Wales, Labour in, 65
• New South Wales, Locomotives for, 255, 502
• New York Excursion of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 27
• New Zealand Graphite, 332
• Newcastle Exhibition, The {See Exhibition, The Newcastle)
• Niagara Falls, Proposed Hydraulic Power Works at, 32
• Nickel Crucibles, 64
• Night Sight for Ordnance, Armstrong’s, 236
• Nitrogen on Iron, The Action of, 404
• Nobel Brothers, St. Petersburg, 404
• Non-Condensing Engines, The Friction of, 5
• Non-Conducting Composition, New, 332
• Non-Magnetisable Timepiece, A, 603
• North Sea Harbour in Denmark, Proposed New, 480
• Norway, Mining Notes from, 139
• Norway, New Railway Schemes in, 187
• Norway, Wood Pulp Industry in, 114

Notes : 1

• Accidents to Torpedo Boats, The, 481
• Air Brush, The, 210
• American Coal Trade, The, 332
• American Exhibition, The, 235, 332
• American Metallurgical Industry, 65
• Ammunition, A New, 40
• Anglo-American Brush Company, The, 187
• Arago Laboratory, The, 604
• Asbestos Discoveries in Russia, More, 378
• Atlantic Liners, 18
• Auroras and Shooting Stars, 332
• Bat Guano, 480
• Belgian Steamer for the Congo, A, 65
• Bichromate of Soda in Batteries, 332
• Black Gold, 426
• Boiler Explosions Abroad, 280
• Bolton, Sir Francis, 40
• Brick Pavements, 404
• Bridge across the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, U.S., The, 163
• British Mercantile Steamers, 481
• Brussels, An International Exhibition at, 113
• Burmese Gold, 404
• Calming Waves by Oil, 576
• Camel Helping the Iron Horse, 18
• Canal, New Russian, 40
• Candahar Railway, The, 280
• Carbonic Oxide in a Railway Tunnel, 138
• Carron Works Award Scheme, 17
• Cast Steel, The Heating and Cooling of, 40
• Cement from Blast Furnace Slag, 526
• Chambers of Commerce and Indian Rail wavs The, 65 J ’
• Chrome Steel Projectiles, 306
• Civil Engineers, The Institution of, 502
• Coal in the Crimea, 163
• Coal in Roumania, 453
• Coal in Sweden, 65
• Coal Trade, The Russian, 17
• Coalmining in Poland, 552
• Colour of Feldspar, The, 234
• Conversion of Heat into Electricity, 357
• Copper Mining in the Urals, 306
• Copperas Waste, The, 187
• Cosmical Rock, A New, 210
• Cruiser and Telegraph Cable Ship, A Combined, 89
• Danish Ironclad, A New, 453
• Danish Telegraphs, 577
• De Bang’s Guns in Norway, 113
• Deflection of Sonorous Signals, 576
• Diamond Mining at Kimberley, 187
• Diverting the Oxus to the Caspian, 114
• Donetz Coal Export, The, 604
• Dynamo-Telephone, The, 40
• Earthquake Effect, An, 502
• Egyptian Petroleum, 262
• Electric Club of New York, The, 138
• Electric Headlight for Ships, 162
• Electric Launch, The New, 426
• Electric Light through a Fog, The, 162
• Electric Light, New Use of the, 604
• Electric Light and Plants, The, 577
• Electric Light at Stockholm, The, 234
• Electric Light at the Suez Canal, The, 604
• Electric Lighting Act Amendment Bill, 187
• Electrical Progress in Japan, 280
• Electrical Transmission through Air, 357
• Electrical Transmission by Hot Air, 187
• Electricity from Atmospheric Oxidation, 378
• Electricity, New Application of, 40
• Electro-Dynamometer, An Absolute, 480
• Electro-Magnetic Telephone Transmitter, The Theory of the, 89
• Elevators in Russia, 211
• Employers’ Liability Act, The New, 188
• Engineering Industries in Sweden, 552
• Engineering Laboratory, A Rich, 64
• England as a Petroleum Power, 378
• English Coal in the Black Sea, An End to, 604
• Exploration in Alaska, 378
• Explosions of Cotton, 332
• Explosives, On the Effects of, 577
• Fastest Passenger Steamer in the World, The, 502
• Fibre Diffraction Gratings, 551
• Finding the Time, 604
• “ Flashing” Oils by Electricity, 502
• Forced Draught for Marine Boilers, 66
• Foreign Shipbuilding, 262
• Forth Bridge, The, 551
• French Academy Prizes, 18
• Fuel on Russian Railways, 502
• German Manufacturing Development in Poland, 480
• German Patent Examinations, 280
• Glow Lamp Patents, 114
• Gold Mining in Russia, 235
• Goldfield of Burmah, The, 64
• “ Goliath” Rails, 65
• Gun, The 110-Ton, 234
• Heat Battery, A, 357
• Heating Passenger Cars in the United States, 138
• Hoosac Tunnel, The Sale of the, 113
• Horse-Power of a Whale’s Tail, 114
• Incandescent Lamp, A New, 525
• Indian Railway Policy, The Lagging, 210
• Indo-European Canal, An, 40
• Instability in Open Structures, 138
• Irrigation Works in Transcaucasia, 427
• Jubilee of the Russian Minister of Railways, The, 42
• “ Jubilee” Seats, 577
• Kerosene Pipe Lines over the Suram Pass, 526
• Labour in New South Wales, 65
• Lake Baikal, 234
• Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, The, 605
• Lay Torpedo, The, 234
• Lead in the Brain, 480
• Lead-Coated Iron, 576
• Liabilities of Directors, The, 333
• Liquid Fuel, Another Advance in, 17
• Liquid Fuel Experiments, 332
• Lisbon Gaslight Supply, 577
• Lisbon Harbour and Railway Works, 577
• Lisbon Harbour Works, Contract of the, 404
• Locks and Keys, Ancient and Modern, 90
• Locomotive Crank-Axles, 65
• Locomotives for Australia, 114
• Locomotives for New South Wales, 502
• London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, The, 138
• London Hydraulic Power Company, The, 526
• Longest Tunnel in the World, The, 40
• Lowe Incandescent Gaslight, The, 65
• Magnetic Train Signals, A, 426
• Manchester Ship Canal, The, 115
• Manganese Steel, 113
• Manufactured Iron in 1886, 405
• Marine Engine Economy, 427
• Mechanical Engineers, institution of, 114
• Meigs Elevated Railway, Official Indorsement of the, 481
• Mineral Waters of Java, The, 480
• Mining Notes from Norway, 139
• Monastic Fleet of Steamers, A, 162
• Mother-of-Pearl Fishing, 426
• Motive Power for Submarine Boats, 17 •
• Nature-Smelted Iron, 332
• New Zealand Graphite, 332
• Nickle Crucibles, 64
• Nitrogen on Iron, The Action of, 404
• Nobel Brothers, St. Petersburg, 404
• Non-Conducting Composition, New, 332
• North Sea Harbour in Denmark, Proposed New, 480
• Open-Hearth Steel Industry in 1886, The, 357
• Overhead Wires in New Orleans, 377
• Oxy-Hydrogen Lamp, A New, 332
• Pendulum, A Perfect Simple, 64
• Persian Railways, 90
• Perspective Microscope, A, 162
• “Petriana” Verdict, The, 66
• Petroleum Tank Cars at Batoum, England and, 138
• Phonographic Lockmanaud, The, 90
• Phosphorescence of Aluminium, The, 280
• Phosphorescent Alumina, 113
• Photography, A New Application of, 64
• Pita Fibre, 525
• Porous Carbons, 426
• Prospects of the Iron Trade, The, 163
• Public Works Budget, The Russian, 90
• Purchase by the State of Private Railways in
• Norway, Proposed, 307
• Radiometer, A Use for the, 210
• Railway Brakes, 234, 262
• Railway Legislation, 427
• Railway Progress in the Caucasus, Russian, 234
• Railway Progress towards Pekin, 262
• Railway Schemes in Norway, New, 187
• Railways in Japan, 377
• Railways, Shall Russia Leave off Building ? 577
• Recomposition of White Light by the Spectrum, 525
• Red-Hot Telephone Transmitter, A, 280
• Repeater Rifle in Denmark, New Small Calibre, 138
• Rifles for Denmark, New Small Calibre, 404
• Russian Black Sea Fleet, The, 577
• Russian Gunboats in the Black Sea, 603
• Russian Trade in 1886, 404
• St. Petersburg Sea Canal, The, 357
• Salinity and Temperature of some Scotch Firths, The, 552
• Salt Dibtrict of Cheshire, The, 480
• Samarcand Railway, The, 378
• Sampling Iron Borings, 525
• Scotch Fishery Board, The, 453
• Sea Telegraphy, 404
• Sea Water for Street Sprinkling, 552
• Service between Finland and Sweden, Proposed, 426
• Shipyards in the Black Sea, New, 89
• Siberian Main Railway, The, 525
• Silk v. Wire Suspensions, 280
• Sixpenny Telegrams, The, 576
• Sjuth Durham salt Deposits, 378
• South-Eastern Railway, The, 139
• Spanish Iron Ore, 187
• Stability of Patents in the United States, 480
• Standpipe, Destruction of a, 18
• Stanhope Electro-Magnetic Telephone, The, 453
• Steamers for the Amoor, New Subsidised, 115
• Steamers on the Oxus, The Russian, 41
• Steamers in Siberia, 187
• Steel Projectiles, 235
• Steel Rails in Russia, 115
• Steel Works in South Russia, New, 307
• Steno-Tclegraph, The, 162
• Submarine Navigation, 453
• Suffocation in Wells, 404
• Survey Muddle at Quetta, The, 427
• Swedish-Norwegian Railway, The, 604
• Sydney Tramways, The, 525
• Telegraphing without Wires, 162
• Telephone, A Novel, 377
• Telephone Palace, A, 41
• Timepiece, A Non-Magnetisable, 603
• Torpedo Boat, A New, 306
• Torpedo Boat Race, A, 481, 503
• Trade Depression in Sweden, 114
• Transparent Molten Iron, 262
• Trials of Corn-Drying Machines, 162
• Triple-Expansion Engines, 404
• Union Storage Battery, The, 18
• Unit of Time, A New, 525
• Vegetable Pearls, 604
• Volcanic Glass and Pumice, 426
• Volga-Don Canal, Tne, 5b3
• Water Battery for Laboratory Use, A, 603
• Water, Tne Effect of Pressure on the Maximum Density Point of, 604
• Welsbach Incandescent Gaslight, The, 333
• Western Union Telegraph Company, 139
• Wood Pulp Industry in Norway, 114
• World’s Silver, The, 187

Notes from Berlin, 78,153, 225, 369

• Chemicals, 369
• Coal Trade, The, 369
• Iron and Steel Industries, 369
• Telephones, 369
• Textiles, 369
• Torpedoes, 369

• Notes from Cleveland, 11, 44, 67, 83, 116, 141, 156, 181, 214, 228, 252, 275, 294, 320, 349, 373, 397, 428, 447, 473, 493, 530, 556, 570, 596
• Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 70, 120, 192, 240, 321, 530, 571, 608
• Notes from the North, 11, 43, 68, 82, 116, 133, 156, 181, 213, 228, 251, 275, 294, 321, 348, 372, 396, 420, 447, 472, 492, 529, 555, 570, 596
• Notes from the South-West, 10, 44, 66, 82, 115, 144, 156, 180, 213, 228, 252, 275, 295, 320, 349, 372, 397, 420, 443, 472, 493, 530, 556, 570, 597
• Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 44, 66, 82, 116, 141, 156, 181, 214, 228, 262, 275, 295, 349, 373, 397, 420, 447, 473, 493, 530, 556, 570, 596
• Notes from the United States, 20, 32, 69, 78, 101, 131, 167, 188, 214, 236, 248, 284, 308, 320, 345, 369, 427, 466, 526, 567
• Novel Telephone, A, 377
• Nut-Finishing Machine, Dunderdale and Wood’s, 457

• Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
• Observations, Heliothermometrical, 476
• Observations, Hygrometrical, 376
• Office, The Patent, 231
• Official Indorsement of the Meigs Elevated Railway, 481
• Oil, Calming Waves by, 576
• Oils, “ Flashing,” by Electricity, 502
• One-Armed Drawbridge; Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, 131
• Open-Hearth Steel Industry in 1866, The, 357
• Open Structures, Instability in, 138
• Ordnance, Armstrong’s Night Sight for, 236
• Ordnance Inquiry Commission, The, 499
• “ Orlando,” The Belted Cruiser, 392
• Overhead Wires in New Orleans, 377
• Oxus, Diverting the, to the Caspian, 114
• Oxus, The Russian Steamers on the, 41
• Oxy-Hydrogen Lamp, A New, 332

• Palace, A Telephone, 41
• Paris International Exhibition, The, 368
• Paris, Street Cleaning in, 1, 39, 75, 98
• Paris, Street Paving in, 55
• Parsons Turbo-Electric Generator, The, 378
• Passenger Cars in the United States, Heating, 138
• Passenger Locomotive, Compound, for the North-Eastern Railway, 565
• Passenger Ships, Life-Saving Appliances on, 523
• Patent Agents, 327
• Patent Examinations, German, 280
• Patent Office, The, 231
• Patent Office Administration, 600
• Patent Record, The, 23, 47, 71, 95, 121, 145, 169, 193, 217, 24 L, 263, 287, 313, 339, 361, 385, 409, 435, 461, 485, 509, 535, 559, 585, 608
• Patents, Glow Lamp, 114
• Patents, Stability of, in the United States, 480
• Pavements, Brick, 404
• Pearls, Vegetable, 604
• Pekin, Railway Progress towards, 262
• “ Pelayo,” The Spanish Ironclad, 517
• Pendlebury’s Lathe, 483
• Pendulum, A Perfect Simple, 64
• Perfecting Machine, Feister’s Book, 200
• Permanent Way Inspector’s Carriage, Merry-weathers’, 77
• Persian Railways, 90
• Personnel for Submarine Mining, On the, 285,311, 431
• Perspective Microscope, A, 162
• “Petriana” Verdict, The, 66
• Petroleum, Egyptian, 262
• Petroleum Power, England as a, 378
• Petroleum Tank Cars at Batoum, England and, 138
• Phoenix Battery, The, 507
• “Pholas,” The Twin-Screw Hopper Dredger, 593
• Phonographic Locmanaud, The, 90
• Phosphorescence of Aluminium, The, 280
• Phosphorescent Alumina, 113
• Photography, A New Application of, 61

Physical Society, The : 154, 283

• On the Permanent and Temporary Effects on some of the Physical Properties of Iron Produced by Raising the Temperature to 100 deg. Cent., by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, B.A., 79
• On some New Measuring Instruments used in Testing Materials, by Professor W. C, Unwin, F.R.S.,79
• On the Tenacity of Spun Glass, by Messrs. E. Gibson and R. E. Gregory, 154
• On Professor Carey Foster’s Method of Measuring the Mutual Induction of Two Coils, by Mr. James Swinburne, 240
• On the Determination of Coefficients of Mutual Induction by Means of the Ballistic Galvanometer and Earth Inductor, by Mr. R. H. M. Bosanquet, M.A., 240
• On the Continuous Transition from the Liquid to the Gaseous State of Matter at all Temperatures, by Professor W. Ramsay and Dr. Sydney Young, 240
• On a Lecture Experiment in Self-Induction, by Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 283
• On a Lecture Experiment to Show that Capacity Varies Inversely as the Thickness of the Dielectric, by Professors W. E. Ayrton and John Perry, 283
• On Magnetic Resistance, by Professors W. E. Ayrton and John Perry, 283
• On the Production, Preparation, and Properties of the Finest Fibres, by Mr. C. V. Boys, M.A., 324
• On Delicate Calorimetrical Thermometers and on Expansion of Thermometer Bulbs under Pressure, by Professor Pickering, 406
• On Magnetisation; on Sequences of Reversals, by R. H. M. Bosanquet, M.A., 406
• On a Thermodynamical Relation, by Professor Ramsay and Dr. S. Young, 406
• On a Modification of a Method of Maxwell’s for Measuring the Coefficient of Self-Induction, by Mr. E. C. Riming ton, 482
• On the Production of Sudden Changes in the Torsion of a Wire by Change of Temperature, by Mr. R. H. M. Bosanquet, M.A., 482
• On a Magnetic Potentiometer, by Mr. A. P. Chattock, 482
• On Transformers for Electric Distribution, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 527
• On Magnetic Torsion of Iron Wires, by Shelford Bidwell, 527
• On Beams Fixed at the Ends, by Professors Ayrton and Perry, 568
• On Messrs. Vaschy and Torranne’s Method of Comparing Mutual Induction with Capacity, by Professor G. C. Foster, 568
• Pipe Fittings, Manufacture of, in the United States, 171
• --snram Pass, Kerosene, 526
• Pipe Lines over the Sinam r gSSwX Standard, 4, 352
• Pita Fibre, 525
• Pittsburg, 16 344
• Planing Machine, An* I » , 101
• Planing Machine, Booth ana v >
• Wants and ths EkeUie Vertical, «2
• iw".1? “•».”!and t sd“i'r511
• Plough Works, The, S«
• Pneumatic Dynamite; T 1• 93
• Pneumatic Hydrometer, bmate®
• Pneumatic Method of Moulding^ >
• Pneumatic Rotation Indicator, hung ,
• Poland. Coalmining in, 004
• Pontife’x’s Icemaking Machinery, 293
• Porous Carbons, 426 13Q
• Ml^BendW ’and Drilling Machine, Wood’s, 251
• Potentiometer, Magnetic, 48.
• “ Po^vw^’^Stea^-Tug, Engines’of the, 176
• Sen ’’ S.and System of Ventilation as Applied to, 322
• Printing Machinery, 457 . 537
• Production of Silica from Cast Iron, The, odi
• Projectiles, Chrome Steel, 30b
• Property, Submarine Telegraph, 4/5
• Prospects of the Iron Trade, The, 163
• Protection in Sweden, 236
• Public Services in Australia, The, 15J
• Public Works Budget, The Russian, 90
• “ Puffin,” The Composite Lightship, 4—
• Pulling Jack, Tangy es’ Hydraulic, 520
• Pulp Boiler, Tijou’s, 120
• Pumice and Volcanic ulass, 426
• Pump, Tangyes’ High-Lift Colonial, 598
• Pumping Engine, The Deane, 607
• Pumping Engines; Lincoln Water Works, 152, 204
• Pumping Engines, Underground Compound, at the Denby Colliery, near Derby, 285
• Pumping Mine, Rotative Engines for, 91
• Purchase and Contract in the Navy, 2o6
• Purchase by the State of Private Railways in Norway, Proposed, 307
• Purel’s Flour Mixer and Dough Kneader, 113

• Quadruple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “ County of York,” 247, 297
• Quetta, The Survey Muddle at, 427

• Race, A Torpedo Boat, 481, 503
• Radial Drilling Machine, Shanks and Co.’s, 270
• Radiometer, A Use for the, 210
• Rail-Bending and Drilling Machine, Wood's Portable, 251
• Rail Sections, 364
• Rails, “Goliath,” 65
• Rails, Steel, in Russia, 115
• Railway Accidents, Recent, 233
• Railway, The Adelaide and Murray Bridge, Locomotive for the, 345
• Railway Brakes, 234, 262
• Railway and Canal Traffic Bill, The, 207
• Railway, The Candahar, 280
• Railway Carriages, New System of Heating, 191
• Railway, Electric, Van Depoele’s, 363
• Railway Extension to Cromer, The Eastern and Midlands, 30, 57, 80
• Railway, The Forth Bridge, 192, 360
• Railway, The Lancashire and Yorkshire, 605
• Railway Legislation, 427 *
• Railway, The London, Chatham, and Dover, 138
• Railway, The Mount Pilatus, 444
• Railway Policy, The Lagging Indian, 210
• Railway Progress in the Caucasus, Russian, 234
• Kailway Progress towards Pekin, 262 I
• Railway Rolling Stock, 608
• Railway, The Samarcand, 378 I
• Railway Schemes in Norway, New, 187
• Railway, The Siberian Main, 525
• Railway, The South-Eastern, 139
• Railway, The Swedish Norwegian, 604
• Railway Tunnel, Carbonic Oxide in a, 138
• Railway Tyres, The Thickness of, 338
• Railway Wagon Coupling, Hill’s, 466
• Railways, Great, The Economics of, 315
• Railways in Japan, 377
• Railways in Norway, Private, Proposed Purchase by the State of, 307
• Railways, Persian, 90
• Railways, Shall Russia Leave off Building ? 577
• Raising the “ Locksley Hall.” 600
• Ransome’s Revolving Cement Furnace, 526
• Reciprocation in High-Speed Engines, 26
• Recoinposition of White Light by the Spectrum,
• Record, The Patent, 23, 47, 71, 95, 121, 145, 169, 193, 217, 241, 263, 287, 313, 339, 361, 385, 409, 435, 461, 485, 509, 535, 559, 585, 608
• Red-Hot Telephone Transmitter, A, 280
• Registration of Trade Marks, 135
• “ Reina Regente,” The, 211
• Relative Economy of Elevators, The, 500
• Removal of Snow, The Employment of Salt for the, 45
• Repeater Rifle in Denmark, New Small Calibre, 138
• Repeating and Magazine Rifles, 209
• Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 192, 360
• Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on the Boiler Explosions in 1886, 394
• Retiro River, Brazil, Viaduct over the, 155
• Revolving Cement Furnace, Ransome’s, 526
• Rich, Mr. W. E., 8
• Rifles for Denmark, New Small-Calibre, 404
• Rifles, Magazine, 389, 411
• Rifles, Magazine and Repeating, 209
• Riley’s Beetling Machine, 492
• Riley’s Four-Bowl Universal Calender, 418
• River Bagain, Bridge over the, 497, 542 |
• River Harlem, Drawbridge over the, 291
• River Hawkesbury Bridge, The, 191, 224, 319, 370
• River Hudson, Bridge over the, 163, 442
• River Ibicuy, Bridge over the ; Great Southern Railway of Brazil, 117
• River Retiro, Brazil, Viaduct over the, 155
• Rivetting and Plate-Closing Machine, Stephens and Clark’s Hydraulic, 531
• Robson’s Gas Hammer, 607
• Rock, A New Cosmical, 210
• Rocks, The Animikie, 365
• Roll Grinding Machine, Luke and Spencer’s Chilled, 542
• Rolling Stock, Railway, 608
• Rotation Indicator, Rung’s Pneumatic, 143
• Rotative Bodies, The Study of, 576
• Rotative Engine for Mine Pumping, 91
• Rougerie’s An^mogdne, 152
• Roumania, Coal in, 453
• Route, The Hudson Strait and Bay, 561
• Rowan’s Electrically-Worked Machine Tools, 428
• Royal Meteorological Society, The, 78, 166, 285, 408, 481, 608
• Royal Navy and the Merchant Service, The, 302
• Royal Society Soiree, The, 1887, 476
• Rung’s Pneumatic Rotation Indicator, 143
• Russia, Elevators in, 211
• Russian Black Sea Fleet, The, 577
• Russian Canal, New, 40
• Russian Coal Trade, The, 17
• Russian Gunboats in the Black Sea, 603
• Russian Minister of Railways, The Jubilee of the, 42
• Russian Public Works Budget, The, 90
• Russian Railways, Fuel on, 502
• Russian Trade in 1886, 404

• St. Petersburg Sea Canal, The, 357
• Sale of the Hoosac Tunnel, The, 113
• Salinity and Temperature of some Scotch Firths, 552
• Salt Deposits, South Durham, 378
• Salt District of Cheshire, The, 480
• Salt, The Manufacture of, near Middlesbrough, 505
• Salt for the Removal of Snow, The Employment of, 45
• Saltaire Exhibition, The, 450
• Samarcand Railway, The, 378
• Sampling Iron Borings, 525
• Sand Blast Process for Sharpening Old and New Files, The, 54
• Sang, Mr. Jonn, 369
• Sawing Machine, Lee and Hunt’s Cold Iron and Steel, 442
• Saws, Circular, and Band, 446
• Saws for Cutting Metals, 566
• Scientific Ironfounding, 309
• Scotch Fishery Board, The, 453
• Scotch Iron Trade in 1886, The, 19
• Scotch Steel Trade in 1886, The, 22
• Scotland, Telephony in, 97, 147, 265,387
• Screw Blade Experiments, 331, 335
• Screw Propeller, The, 458, 532, 557
• Screwing and Tube-Cutting Machine, Cowley’s, 483
• Screws, Twin, High-Speed, 354
• Scriven and Co.’s Angle-Iron Planing Machine, 344
• Sea Canal, The St. Petersburg, 357
• Sea-Going Torpedo Boats, 136
• Sea Telegraphy, 404
• Sea Water for Street Sprinkling, 552
• Seats, “ Jubilee,” 577
• Sections, Rail, 364
• Seismographs, Ewing’s, 519
• Self-Closing Water Gauge, 131
• Self-Induction, 283, 482
• Service between Finland and Sweden, Proposed, 426
• “ Seth Low,” The Fire Float; Brooklyn Fire Department, b, 45
• Sewage Sludge, 118
• ShacKks, Martin’s Mooring and Anchor, 607
• Shafting, The Strength of, 26
• Shanks and Co.’s Radial Drilling Machine, 270
• Sharpening Old and New Files, The Sand Blast Process for, 54
• Sheet-Glass Casting Table, Daglish’s, 68
• Shepherd and Ayrton’s Jacquard Repeating Machine, 77
• Shifting of Grain Cargoes, The, 353, 383
• Ship Canal, The Manchester, 115 •
• Shipbuilding, Foreign, 262
• Shipbuilding, Iron, in the United States, 38
• Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1886, Clyde, 10, 42, 102
• Shipping Legislation, 183
• Ships, Electric Headlight for, 162
• Ships, Iron and Steel, The Corrosion of, 330
• Ships, Passenger, Life-Saving Appliances on, 523
• Ships of War, The Machinery of Small Steamboats, 331
• Shipyards in the Black Sea, New, 89
• Shooting Stars and Auroras, 332
• Siberia, Steamers in, 187
• Siberian Main Railway, The, 525
• Signals, Hydraulic Apparatus for, 854
• Silica from Cast Iron, The Production of, 537
• Silk v. Wire Suspensions, 280
• Silver, Leaching Gold Ores containing, 195, 219, 412, 439, 463
• Silver, The World’s, 187
• Simple Pendulum, A Perfect, 64
• Single-Needle Sounder, Gilbert’s, 69
• Sixpenny Telegrams, The, 576
• Skin Friction on the Water-Line and the Action of the Screw Propeller, 331
• Slag, Basic, 537
• Sluuge, Sewage, 118
• Smales’s Pneumatic Hydrometer, 93
• Small Calibre Repeater Rifle in Denmark, New 138
• Smith and Coventry’s Cold Sawing Machine, 567
• Smith and Coventry’s Universal Milling Machine, 517
• Snow, the Removal of, The Employment of Salt for, 45
• Society of Engineers, The, 144
• Society, The Physical (See Physical Society)
• Society, The Royal Meteorological, 78. 166 285 408, 481, 608
• Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 63 196 210, 260, 328, 475, 550 ’ ’
• Sodium, 86
• Soiree, The Royal Society, 1887, 476
• Sonorous Signals, Deflection of, 576
• Sounder, Gilbert’s Single-Needle, 69
• South Chicago Iron and Steel Works, 512 581
• South Durham Salt Deposits, 378
• South-Eastern Railway, The, 139
• South Russia, New Steel Works in, 307
• South of Scotland Handicrafts Exhibition, 431
• South West, Notes from the, 10, 44, 66, 82 115 144, 156, 180, 213, 228, 252, 275, 295. 320 349 372, 397, 420, 443, 472, 493, 530, 556, 570, 597 ’
• South Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 44, 66, 82 116 141,156, 181, 214, 228, 262, 275, 295. 349 373 397, 420, 447, 473,493, 530, 556, 570, 596 ’ *
• Southern Cokes and Iron Ores, 363
• Spanish Iron Ore, 187
• Spanish Ironclad “ Pelayo,” The, 517
• Special Tools, The Value of, 27
• Spring Washers, .Grover’s, 191
• Spun Glass, Tenacity of, 154
• Stability Calculations, 354, 355
• Stability, Determining Curves of, 323
• Stability of Patents in the United States, 480
• Stamper Battery, Gold, Daglish’s, 128
• Standard Pipe and Pipe Threads, 4, 352
• Standpipe, Destruction of a, 18
• Stanhope Electro-Magnetic Telephone, The, 453
• Steam Excavator, 128
• Steam Plough Works, Leeds, The, 574
• Steam Tug “ Power,” Engines of the, 176
• Steam Yacht “Cassandra,” Engines and Boilers of the, 153
• Steam Yacht “ Gladiator,” Engines and Boilers of the, 105, 142
• Steam Yacht “Myrtle.” Engines of the, 546
• Steamboats for Ships of War, The Machinery of Small, 331
• Steamer, The Fastest Passenger, in the World, 502
• Steamers, A Monastic Fleet of, 162
• Steamers, New Subsidised, for the Amoor, 115
• Steamers on the Oxus, The Russian, 41
• Steamers in Siberia, 187
• Steamship “Maryland,” Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 320,534
• Steamship “ Preussen,” Green’s System of Ventilation as Applied to, 322
• Steamship “ Warrington” Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 21
• Steel for Armour and Guns, 375
• Steel for Guns, 270
• Steel for Heavy Guns, 167
• Steel Industry in 1886, The Open-Hearth, 357
• Steel and Iron, Composite, 512
• Steel and Iron Industries, 369
• Steel and Iron at the Manchester Exhibition, 477
• Steel andiron at the Newcastle Exhibition, 550, 563
• Steel and Iron Trades, The Foreign, 279
• Steel and Iron, The Working Stress of, 51
• Steel and Iron Works, The South Chicago, 512, 581
• Steel, Manganese, 113
• Steel, Mild, for Plates, The Treatment of, 514
• Steel Projectiles, 13, 235, 423
• Steel Rails in Russia, 115
• Steel Trade in 1886, The Scotch, 22
• Steel Works in South Russia, New, 307
• Steel Works, The Terni, 511, 543
• Steering of the “ Ajax” and “ Agamemnon,” The, 449
• Steno-Telegraphy, 162, 243
• Stephens and Clark’s Hydraulic Plate-Closing and Rivetting Machine, 531
• Stern-Wheelers and Torpedo Boats, 500
• Stevenson, Mr. Thomas, 454
• Stockholm, The Electric Light at, 234
• Stockless Cast-Steel Anchor, Hall’s, 227
• Storage Battery, The Union, 18
• Strains on Propeller Blades, 331, 335
• Stranded and Locked Coil Wire Ropes, 308
• Street Cleaning in Paris, 1,39, 75, 98
• Street Paving in Paris, 55
• Strength of Shafting, 26
• Stress of Iron and Steel, The Working, 51
• “Strong” Locomotive, The ; Lehigh Valley Railroad, 407
• Stubbs’ Doubling Winding Frame, 592
• Study of Rotative Bodies, The, 576
• Submarine Boats, Motive Power for, 17
• Submarine Mining, On the Personnel for, 285, 311,431
• Submarine Navigation, 453
• Submarine Telegraph Property, 475
• Subsidised Steamers for the Amoor, New, 115
• Subway, The City and Southwark, 305, 356
• Suez Canal, The Electric Light at the, 604
• Suffocation in Wells, 404
• Sugar, Cane, Diffusion Plant for the Manufacture of, 226
• Supply, Water, from Wells, 381
• Survey Muddle at Quetta, The, 427
• Sweden, Coal in, 65
• Sweden, Engineering Industries in, 552
• Sweden, Protection in, 236
• Swedish-Norwegian Railway, The, 604
• Swinton Telephone, The, 507
• Switches, Langley and Prince’s Locking Gear for, 167
• Swivel Bogie Locomotive at Chatham, 176
• Sydney Tramways, The, 525

• Tall Chimney, Laddering a, 460
• Tangyes and Floyd’s High-Speed Engine, 520
• Tangyes’ High-Lift Colonial Pump, 598
• Tangyes’ Hydraulic Pulling Jack, 520
• Telegrams, The Sixpenny, 576
• Telegraph Cable Ship and Cruiser, A Combined, 89
• Telegraph Company, The Western Union, 139
• Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 63,126, 210, 260, 328, 475, 550
• Telegraph Property, Submarine, 475
• Telegraph Wires, Gilbert’s Insulators for, 309
• Telegraphing without Wires, 162
• Telegraphs, Danish, 577
• Telegraphs of the World, The, 14
• Telegraphy, Sea, 404
• Telephone, A Novel, 377
• Telephone Palace, A, 41
• Telephone, The Swinton, 507
• Telephone Transmitter, A Red-Hot, 280
• Telephones, 369
• Telephony in Scotland, 97, 147, 265, 387
• Temperature and Salinity of some Scotch Firths, 552
• Temperatures, Elevated, The Thermo-Electric Measurement of, 239
• Terni Steel Works, The, 511, 543
• Testing Machine, Adamson’s 100-Ton, 564
• Testing Machine, 600-Ton, 413
• Testing Materials, New Measuring Instruments used in, 79
• Tests, Cement, 162
• Textiles, 369
• Theory of the Electro-Magnetic Telephone Transmitter, The, 89
• Thermo-Electric Measurement of Elevated Temperatures, The, 239
• Thermodynamical Relation, 406
• Thickness of Railway Tyres, The, 338
• Thomson, Mr. John, 482
• Tijou’s Pulp Boiler, 120
• Time Diagrams, Kapteyn’s Apparatus for Taking, 268
• Time, Finding the, 604
• Time, A New Unit of, 525
• Timepiece, A Non-Magnetisable, 603
• Tools, Special, The Value of, 27
• Toothed Gearing, Friction in, 4
• Torpedo Boat for the Italian Government, Twin-Screw, 392
• Torpedo Boat, A New, 306 *
• Torpedo Boat Race, A, 481, 503
• Torpedo Boat Trials, 303
• Torpedo Boats, The Accidents to, 481
• Torpedo Boats, Sea-Going, 136
• Torpedo Boats and Stern-Wheelers, 500
• Torpedo Boats, Twin-Screw, 304
• Torpedo, The “ Brennan,” 601
• Torpedo Gun, The Pneumatic Dynamite, 344
• Torpedo, The Lay, 234
• Torpedoes, 328, 369
• Torpedoes and Warships, 186
• Torsion Balance, Kent’s, 367
• Torsion of a Wire, Changes in the, 482
• Tower, The Eiffel, 403
• Town Hall of Vienna, The Electric Light in the New, 542, 594
• Trade, The Coal, 369
• Trade, The Depression of, 62,109
• Trade Depression in Sweden, 114
• Trade Marks, Registration of, 135
• Trade, Russian, in 1886, 404
• Trades, Steel and Iron, The Foreign, 279
• Trades Unions in America, 599
• Train Signal, A Magnetic, 426
• Tramways, The Sydney, 525
• Transcaucasia, Irrigation Works in, 427
• Transformers for Electric Distribution, 527
• Transition from the Liquid to the Gaseous State of Matter, 240
• Transmission, Electrical, through Air, 187, 357
• Transmission of Power by Brown’s Dynamos, Electrical, 221
• Transparent Molten Iron, 262
• Treatment of Mild Steel for Plates, The, 514
• Trial, Gas Engine, 433
• Trial Trips and Launches, 55, 79, 128, 154, 177, 225, 253, 284, 325, 358, 373, 405, 421, 446, 497, 521, 555, 568, 593
• Trials of Corn-Drying Machines, 162
• Trials, Torpedo Boat, 303
• Triple-Expansion Engines, 123, 404
• Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “Maryland,” 320, 534
• Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “Warrington,” 21
• Tube-Cutting and Screwing Machine, Cowley’s, 483
• Tunnel, The Longest, in the World, 40
• Turbine, Gunther’s, 466
• Turbo-Electric Generator, The Parsons, 378
• Twin Screw Hopper Dredger “ Pholas,” 593
• Twin-Screw Torpedo Boat for the Italian Government, 392
• Twin-Screw Torpedo Boats, 304
• Twin Screws, High Speed, 354
• Twin Screws, Maclaine’s Arrangement of, 33
• Twist-Drill Grinder, Barker’s, 101
• Tyres, Railway, The Thickness of, 338

• Underground Pumping Engines, Compound, at the Denby Colliery, near Derby, 285
• Union Storage Battery, The, 18
• Unit of Time, A New, 525
• United States, Artillery in the, 63
• United States, Iron Shipbuilding in the, 38
• United States, Manufacture of Pipe Fittings in the, 171
• United States, Notes from the. 20, 32, 69, 78,101, 131, 167, 188, 214, 236, 248, 284, 308, 320, 345, 369, 427, 466, 526, 567
• Universal Calender, Riley’s Four-Bowl, 448
• Universal Milling Machine, Smith and Coventry’s
• Use of the Electric Light, New, 604
• Use for the Radiometer, A, 210

• Valley, The Lackawanna, 365
• Value of Special Tools, The, 27
• Van Depoele’s Electric Railway, 363
• Vegetable Pearls, 604
• Ventilation, Green’s System of, as Applied to the s.s. “Preussen,” 322
• Verdict, The “ Petriana,” 66
• Vertical Plate-Bending Machine, Berry’s, 442
• Viaduct over the River Retiro, Brazil, 155
• Victoria, The Wreck of the, 375
• Vienna, The New Town Hall of, The Electric Light in, 542, 594
• Volcanic Glass and Pumice, 426
• Volga-Don Canal, The, 553

• Wagon Coupling, Hill’s Railway, 466
• “ Warrington,” s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 21
• Warships, The Designing of, 351
• Warships, Fuel Supply of, 330, 337
• Warships, Modern, 85
• Warships and Torpedoes, 186
• Washers, Grover’s Spring, 191
• Waste, The Copperas, 187
• Water Battery for Laboratory Use, A, 603
• Water Gas, 53
• Water, The Effect of Pressure on the Maximum Density Point of, 604
• Water Gauge, Self-Closing, 131
• Water Meter, The Acme Positive, 442
• Water and Micro-Organisms, 184
• Water, Sea, for Street Sprinkling, 552
• Water Supply from Wells, 381
• Water Works, Lincoln, Pumping Engines at, 152, 204
• Weather, The, 15, 38, 111, 234, 329, 424, 524
• Welding, Electrical, 22
• Wells, Suffocation in, 404
• Wells, Water Supply from, 381
• Welsbach Incandescent Gaslight, The, 111, 333
• Western Australia, 49
• Western Union Telegraph Company, The, 139
• Whale’s Tail, The Horse-Power of a, 114
• Wheel-Dividing Machine, Hulse’s, 568
• White Light, Recomposition of, by the Spectrum, 525
• Whitworth, Sir Joseph, Bart., F.R.S., LL.D., D.C.L.,87
• Wilkinson and Lister’s Fish-Plate Drilling Machine, 69
• Winding Frame, Stubbs’ Doubling, 592
• Winn’s Pipe-Piercing Machine, 607
• Wire Nailmaking Machine, Lovell’s, 224
• Wire Rope Works, Bullivant and Co.’s New, 214
• Wire Rope Works, Cradock and Co.’s Wire and, 344, 365
• Wire Ropes, Locked Coil and Stranded, 308
• Wire v. Silk Suspensions, 280
• Wires, Overhead, in New Orleans, 377
• Wires, Telegiaphing without, 162
• Wood Pulp Industry in Norway, 114
• Wood’s Portable Rail-Bending and Drilling Machine, 251
• Working Stress of Iron and Steel, The, 51
• World, The Telegraphs of the, 14
• World’s Silver, The, 187
• Wreck of the “Victoria,” The, 375

• Yacht Building, Fifty Years of, 330
• Yacht “ Myrtle,” Engines of the Steam, 546