Engineering 1887 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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Absorption Spectra, 403
Accident, The Hawkesbury Railway, New South Wales, 281, 360
Accident, The Hexthorpe Railway, 331, 530, 583
Accident on a Torpedo Boat, The, 48,82
Accidents in Mints, 536
Acton, The New Sewage Works at, 248
Adjustable Pulley, Weynian and Johnson’s, 173
Advancement of Science, American Association for the, 436
Affairs, Naval, 98
Agricultural Engine Trials at Newcastle, The, 49, 62, 97, 129, 508, 517, 606

Agricultural Society’s Show at Newcastle, The Royal: 74

Dairy, 76
Engine Trials, 49, 62, 97, 129, 508, 517, 606
Engines, The, 74
Ensilage, 76
Implements, 75

Agriculture, Iron Sulphate in, 261
Air-Compressing and Vacuum Pump, Welch’s, 25
Air Pumps, Mercurial, 549
Air of Sewers, The, 78
Alaska Boundary, The, 191
Alkali Manufacture, The, 379
Alkali Process, A New, 47
Allen’s Compressed Air Rivetter, 302
“All-Round” Titan Crane, Ransomes and Rapier’s, 304
Alternating Current Dynamos and Transformers, 348
Aluminium, The Electro-Deposition of, 656
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 436
American and Indian Railways, 679
American Ironclad, An, 157
American Machine Tools, 147
American Petroleum, A New Rival to, 129
American Railway Service, 533
Americans in the Sandwich Islands, The, 655
Analogies of Influence Machines and Dynamos, 590
Anchors, Cast-Steel, 672
Anti-Friction Grain Conveyor, 131
Antimony, 583
Antiseptics, 403
Applegarth’s Diving Apparatus, 104
Appliances, Railway Safety, 87
Appold Brake, The, 628
Arbitration, 123
Arc Regulator, A New, 101
“ Ariete,” The Spanish Torpedo Boat, 81, 484
Armour, 487
Armour-Plated Towers for Danish Fortifications, German, 416
Armoured Cruiser “ Reina Regente,” The New Spanish, 441
Armstrong’s Hydro-Pneumatic Disappearing Gun Carriages, 13
Armstrong and Mitchell’s Gatling Gun, 170
Armstrong and Mitchell’s Hotchkiss and Mountain Guns, 354
Armstrong, Mitchell and Co.’s Works, 61, 126
Artificial illuminants, Exhibition of, 234
Artificial Rubies, 286
Arts, The Society of, 533, 599
Asia Minor Railway, The, 184
Assessment of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 53
Association, The United States Electric Light, 255
Astbury’s Power and Foot Lathes, 172
Astronomical Telescopes at the Manchester Exhibition, 630, 667
Atlas Works, The, 404
Australia, Engineers in, 229
Automatic Brakes, 261
Automatic Converter, The Brown, 648
Automatic Gas-Making Machine, 643
Axle Brass Boring Machine, Craven’s Duplex, 70

Bacteriological Water Test, Dr. Koch’s, 654
Baird’s Metallic Packing, 618
Balance, A Magnetic, 336
Balance, The Torsion, 312
Balloon, Bruce’s Signalling, 184
Baltic Fleet, A New Russian Gunboat for the, 21
Baltimore Gas Companies, 557
Banker’s Strong Room, 574
Barge Building in Russia, 101
Barge Steering Gear, Taylor and Neate’s, 354
Barking Creek, Precipitation Works at, 632
Basic Open-Hearth Process, The, 349, 429, 637
Basic Steel, 141
Basic Steel for Shipbuilding, 131
Batteries, Storage, The Public Supply of Electricity from, 583
Bauer Coke Ovens, The, 500
Bearings, Garrett’s Thrashing Machine, 608
Belgian Coal Mining, 101, 440
Bell Brothers’ Exhibits at the Newcastle Exhibition, 4
Belting, Tests of the Comparative Value of Different Kinds of, 33
Beluchistan Petroleum Wells, The, 683
Bement and Miles’s Boring Machine for Car ^Wheels, 353
Bement and Miles’s Cylinder Shaping Machine, 147
Bement and Miles’s Multiple Plate Drilling Machine, 147
Bement and Miles’s Rotary Planing Machine, 522
Bement and Miles’s Vertical Boring and Turning Machine, 223
“ Bencroy,” s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 675
Benzine as an Intoxicant, 53
Bevel Wheel Cutting Machine, Smith and Coventry’s, 6
Bilbao, The Iron Mines of, 271
Bi-Metallism, 385
Birch’s Circular Saw Bench, 90
Black, Hawthorn, and Co.’s Compound Condensing Tramway Locomotive, 354
Black, Hawthorn and Co.’s Tank Locomotive, 454
Blackness Foundry, 203
Blair Crossing Bridge, The, 250, 304, 367
Blake’s Submarine Telephone, 489
Blast Furnace Creosote, Utilisation of, 404
Blast Furnaces, The Cost of, 25
Blow-Holes in Steel Ingots, 580
Blowers, Efficiency of, 669
Boat, A New Torpedo, 629
Boat, No. 80 Torpedo, 130
Boat, Submarine, Dr. Gustaf de Laval’s New, 102
Boats, Submarine Torpedo, €80
Boiler Covers under Pressure, Removing, 633
Boiler Explosion near Antrim, Fatal, 489
Boiler Explosion, Disastrous, at Pelsall, 657
Boiler Explosion near Dudley, 440, 463
Boiler Explosion at Hyde, 313
Boiler Explosions, Traction Engine, 556
Boiler Furnace, The Lishman, 490
Boiler, Thornycroft’s Water-Tube, for Torpedo Boats, 104
Boilermaking, Helical Seams in, 34
Boilers, Danger of “ Cup-Patches ” in, 610
Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “Orlando” and “ Undaunted,” 492, 551
Boring Machine for Car - Wheels, Bement and Miles’s, 353
Boring Machine, Craven’s Duplex Axle Brass, 70
Boring and Mortising Machine, Robinson’s, 301
Boring and Turning Machine, Vertical, Bement and Miles’s, 223
Bosnia, Mineralogy in, 683
Boston, U.S., Results of Improved Sewerage at, 152
Bottle-Making Machinery, 655
Boundary, The Alaska, 191
Bracing, Girder, Stresses on, 7
Bradford, The Water Supply of, 440
Brake, The Appold, 628
Brake Trials, The Westinghouse Air, 523
Brake, The Westinghouse, on Freight Trains, 511
Brakes, Automatic, 261
Brazed Joints and Copper Pipes, Tests of, 646, 661
Breathing and Labour, 466
“ Brennan ” Torpedo, The, 2, 124
Brick-Cutting Table, Robinson’s, 43
Bridge, The Forth, 153, 291, 309
Bridge, Lifting, at Tarante, Italy, 41G, 454, 503
Bridge, The Poughkeepsie, 217
Bridge at Sealand, New Railway, 184
Bridge, Suspension, The Niagara Railway, 595
Bridge and Warehouse Flooring, 209
Bridge work and Inspectors, 215
Bridging the Firth of Forth, 116, 148, 170, 210, 238
“ Britannia,” The New P. and O. Steamer, 467, 571
“Britannia” and “ Victoria,” s.s., Electric Lighting of the, 571
Britannia Works, Manchester, 405

British Association, The : 53, 261, 309

Address of the President, 270
Address of the President of the Mechanical Science Section, 271
Can Gases Conduct Electrolytically ? by Professor Roberts-Austen, 312
Excursions and Works open to Visitors :
Ordsail Works, 404
Atlas Works, The, 404
Otto Gas Engine Works, The, 405
Britannia Works, 405
Mathematical and Physical Science, 311, 377
On Roller Friction, by Professor Hele Shaw and Mr. Edward Shaw, 198
On the Iron Mines of Bilbao, by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 271
On Improvements in the Manufacture of Portland Cement, by Mr. Frederick Ransome, 274
On the Severn Tunnel, by Mr. T. A. Walker, 274, 290
On the Regime of Estuaries and the Possibility of Small Scale Experiments, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, 274
On Improvements of the Access to the Mersey Ports, by Mr. W. Shelford, 275
On the Manchester Ship Canal, by Mr. Leader Williams, 275
On the Mechanical Equivalents of Heat, by Messrs. E. A. Cowper and W. Anderson, 309
On the Forth Bridge, by Mr. Biggart, 309
On the City of London and Southwark Subway, by Mr. J. H. Greathead, 310
On Some Points in Electrolysis and Electrical Conduction, by Professor G. Wiedemann, 311
On Further Researches concerning the Electrolysis of Water, by Professor von Helmholtz, 311
On Experiments on the Speeds of Ions, by Professor Lodge, 312
On Chemical Action in the Magnetic Field, by Professor Rowland, 312
On the Action of an Electric Current in Hastening the Formation of Lagging Compounds, by Dr. Gladstone, 312
On the Electro-Deposition of Alloys, by Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 312
On the Industrial Electro-Deposition of Platinum, by Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 312
On the Action of the Solvent in Electrolytic Conduction, by Mr, Fitzpatrick, 312
On Electrolysis and Electrolytic Polarisation, by Messrs. Haldane Gee, Holden, and Lees, 312
On the Torsion Balance, by Doctor Alfred Springer, 312
On Fast-Speed Telegraphy, by Mr. W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 315
On Gold and Silver ; their Geological Distribution and their Probable Future Production, by Mr. William Topley, F.G.S., A.M.I.C.E., Geological Survey of England and Wales, 316, 419, 445
On a Revolving Engine, by Mr. A. Rigg, 332
On an Improved Steel Railway Sleeper with Chairs Pressed out of the Solid, by Mr. H. White, 333
On Specimens of Steel Produced by Skidding Railway Wheels, by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 333
On Conduction of Electricity through Gases, by Professor Schuster, 334
On the Null Method in Electro-Calorimetry, by Professor Stroud and Mr. Haldane Gee, 334
On Maps of the Solar Spectrum, by Professor Rowland, 334
On the Princeton Eclipse Expedition, by Professor Young, 334
On the Effect of Continental Lands in Altering the Level of Adjoining Oceans, by Professor Edward Hull, 334
On the Different Varieties of Thunderstorms and a Scheme for their Systematic Observation in Great Britain, by the Hon. R. Aber-cromby, 334
On the Magnetic Properties of Gases, by Professor Quincke, 334
On the Report of the Committee on Electrical Standards, by Mr. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 335
On the Permanence of the B. A. Standards of Resistance, by Mr. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 335
On the Specific Resistance of Commercial Iron, by Mr. W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 335
On the Coefficient for Self-Induction, by Mr. W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 335
On Induction between Wire and Wire, by Mr. W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 335
On Copper Wire, by Mr. W. H. Preece, 345
On an Electric Current Meter, by Professor G.-Forbes, 345
On Underground Electrical Conductors, by Professor G. Forbes, 346
On Alternating Current Dynamos and Transformers, by Messrs. C. H. W. Biggs and W. H. Snell, 348
On the Telemeter System, by Mr. F. R. Upton, 348
On the Resistance of Stone to Crushing, by Professor W. C. Unwin, 348
On Expansive Working in Direct-Acting Pumping Engines, by Mr. Henry Davey, 349
On Improvements in Lifeboats, by Mr. J. T. Morris, 375
On the Tangye Gas Hammer, by Mr. Dugald Clerk, 375
On the B. A. Screw Gauge, by Mr. W. H. Preece, 375
On an Electric Firedamp Indicator, by Mr. J. Wilson Swan, 375
On the Communication of Motion between Bodies Moving at Different Velocities, by Mr. J. W. Pearse, 377
On the Magnetisation of Iron in Strong Fields, by Messrs. Ewing and Low, 377
On the Influence of a Plane of Transverse Section on the Magnetic Permeability of Iron, by Messrs. Ewing and Low, 378
On the Magnetisation of Hadfield’s Manganese Steel, by Messrs. Ewing and Low, 378
On the Physical Properties of Manganese Steel, by Professor Barrett, 378
On the Production of a Constant Current with Varying Electromotive Force from a Dynamo, by Mr. A. P. Trotter, 378
On the Direction of the Upper Currents over the Equator in Connection with the Krakatoa Smoke Stream, by Mr. Douglas Archibald, 378
On a Comparison Magnetometer, by Mr. Haldane Gee, 378
On the Influence of Silicon on Steel, by Mr. Turner, 378
On the Nature of Solution, by Dr. Nicol, 379
On Physical Constants of Solution, by Professor Ramsay, 379
On the Present Position of the Alkali Manufacture, by Mr. A. Fletcher, 379
On the Extent to which Calico Printing and the Tinctorial Arts have been Affected by the Introduction of Modern Colours, by Mr. Charles O’Neill, 401
On a New Class of Colouring Matters, by Dr. Martins, 402
On the Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre, by Dr. Bowman, 402
On the Influence of the Silent Discharge on Gases, by Mr. W. A. Shenstone, 402
On the Absorption Spectra of the Rare Earths with Special Recent Announcement of New Elements, by Dr. G. H. Bailey, 403
On the Absorption Spectra of the Salts of Didymium under Polarised Light, by Dr. G. H. Bailey, 403
On Some Peculiar Voltaic Combinations, by Dr. Alder Wright, F.R S., and Mr. C. Thompson, 403
On Antiseptic Properties of some Fluorine Compounds, by Mr. W. Thomson, 403
On the Antiseptic Properties of Metallic Salts in Relation to their Chemical Constitution, by Professor Carnelly, 404
On a Shortened Self-Acting Sprengel Pump, by Dr. W. J. Nicol, 404
On an Apparatus for Demonstrating the Explosion of Nitro-Glycerine, by Mr. Ph. Braham, 404
On the Utilisation of Blast Furnace Creosote, by Mr. A. Allen, 404
Physical and Chemical Sections, 333
Soirees, The, 312

Brock’s Quadruple-Expansion Marine Engines, 481, 621
Browett and Lindley’s Inverted Tandem Engine, 428
Brown Automatic Converter, The, 648
Brush Contact and Compound Switches, Hartnell’s, 443
Brush Engine and Dynamo, Combined, 469
Buckley and Taylor’s Horizontal Compound Tandem Mill Engine, 223
Buddicom, Mr., 170
Burmah, Coal in, 364
Burmese Weights and Measures, 632
Bury St. Edmunds, Sewage at, 207
Buttstraps, Stiffened, Mumford’s System of, 675

Calculating Rule, Gravet’s, 512
Caledonia, New, Coal in, 313
Calendar, Lighting;, 54
Canadian Pacific Railway, Influence of the, on Russia, 391
Canadian Pacific Railway, The Western Terminus of the, 35
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 177, 241, 275, 300, 374
Canal, The Panama, 151, 215, 555
Canal, The Thames and Severn, 684
Candahar Railway, The, 511, 683
Capacities, On Comparing, 11
Car-Wheels, Bement and Miles’s Boring Machine for, 353
Carbon for Electric Lighting, Graphite, 53
Carbon Electrodes, The Manufacture of, 530
Carbonaceous Meteorite, A New, 286
Cardiff, Off-Shore Floating Dock for, 276
Carpet Cleaner, Warsop’s Pneumatic, 481
Carriage, Invalid Saloon Railway; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 38
Carriages, Gun, Modern, 210, 237
Cast-Steel Anchors, 672
Catastrophe, The Hexthorpe, 331, 530, 583
Cell, A New Standard, 184, 583
Cellerier-Parkes Photographic Process, The Cement, Portland, 274 ’
Cement Testing Machine, Elliott’s, 12
Centrifugal Oil Separator, Watson and Laidlaw’s zy ’
CevaJdUMalNU^uinS Machinery for H- M. Dock-Chains, 28
Chemical Papers at the British Association, 87
Chemical and Physical Sections of the British Association, 333
Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre, 402
Chilled Iron Tools, 466
China, Railways in, 207
Chlorination Process, The Newbery-Vautin, 354, 555
Chuck, Cone, Smith and Coventry’s, 70
Circular Saw Bench, Birch’s, 90
City and Guilds of London Institute, The, 50
City of London and Southwark Subway, The, 310
City of Washington, District of Columbia, The, 244, 268
Civil Engineering in Practical Politics, 156

Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 205, 215, 297

On Inspectors and Bridgework, by Mr. Samuel T. Wagner, 215
On the Panama Canal, by M. Colonnfi, 215
On Early Locomotives, by Mr. G. H. Thomson, 217
Poughkeepsie Bridge, The, 217
Presidential Address, 216

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 53, 509

Exhibition of Mining Appliances, 549
On Accidents in Mines, Part IL, by Sir F. A.
Abel, C.B., F.R.S., Hon. M.I.C.E., 536
On Electrical Tramways : the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway, by Edward Hopkinson, M.A.D. Sc., A.M.I.C.E., 599

Clark, Mr. Alvan, 234
Clarke, Chapman, and Parson’s Steam Windlass, 100
Clearing Waterways from Vegetation, 657
Cleveland, Notes from, 14, 41, 71, 91, 117, 149, 174, 199, 227, 253, 279, 305, 329, 357, 391, 418, 433, 459, 482, 512, 527, 553, 572, 611, 634, 676
Cloud’s Method of Fastening Steel Tyres, 237
Clyde, The Dredging of the, 183, 277
Coal in Burmah, 364
Coal in France, 21
Coal Mining, Belgian, 101, 440
Coal Mining, Explosives for, 465, 531
Coal in New Caledonia, 313
Coal Trade, Russian, Depression in the, 335
Coal in Turkestan, 21
Coin Dies, The Jubilee, 53
Coke Ovens, The Bauer, 500
Coke in Russia, 78
Coles’s 25-Ton Goliath Crane, 478
Colliers in the Black Sea, Russian, 583
Colliery Tubs, Self-Lubricating Pedestal for, 587
Combinations, New Voltaic, 390, 403
Combined Brush Engine and Dynamo, 469
Combustion of Petroleum upon the Locomotives of the Elevated Railway in New York, 656
Communication, Electrical, with Lightships, 3-59
Communication of Motion between Bodies Moving at Different Velocities, 377
Comparative Strength of Metals, The, 159
Composing and Distributing Machine, Type, Thorne’s, 8
Composite Steel and Iron, Patent, 209
Compound Condensing Tandem Engine, Powell’s, 500
Compound Condensing Tramway Locomotive, Black, Hawthorn, and Co.’s, 354
Compound Engine, Seller’s Single-Crank, 550
Compound Goods Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway, 324
Compound Marine Engine, Fenby’s, 303
Compound Pumping Engines at Watford, 457
Compound Switches and Brush Contact, Hartnell’s, 443
Compound Tank Locomotive, Webb’s, 13, 649
Compressed Air Rivetter, Alien’s, 302
Concrete in Sea Water, 202
Condensation, Cylinder, 111
Condenser, A Novel Electric, 610
Conduction of Gases, 334
Conductivity, Thermal, of Iron, Copper, and German Silver, 53
Conductors, Underground Electrical, 346
Cone Chuck, Smith and Coventry’s, 70
Congress, International Railway, 336
Consolidation Locomotive for the Canadian Pacific Railway, 429, 523
Constant Current, The Production of a, with Varying Electromotive Force from a Dynamo, 378
Construction, Gun, The Elastic Limit and, 582
Construction and Theory, Wire Gun, 509, 532
Continental Navies, 78
Converter, The Brown Automatic, 648
Cooling of the Earth, The, 313
Copenhagen, The New Harbour at, 657
Copenhagen Water Works, 361
Copper Pipes and Brazed Joints, Tests of, 646, 661
Copper Wire, 345
Cork Porous Pots, 234
Corkscrews, 335
Corrugated Crown, Garrett’s Firebox with, 455
Cost of American Locomotives, 657
Cost of Blast Furnaces, The, 25
Cost and Distribution of Heat and Power, Determining, 112
Cotton Fibre, Chemistry of the, 402
County of Middlesex Natural History and Science Society, 511
Cowan’s Syphon Water Meter, 574
Crane, “All-Round” Titan, Ransomes and Rapier’s, 304
Crane, Coles’s 25-Ton Goliath, 478
Craven’s Duplex Axle Brass Boring Machine, 70
Craven Scholarship, The, 533
Cream Separating Industry in Scandinavia, 449, 477, 522, 567
Creosote, Utilisation of Blast Furnace, 404
Cricket Scorer, Paget’s, 118
Crisis in South Africa, The Railway, 391
Cromer Station ; Eastern and Midlands Railway, 598
Crossing Bridge, The Blair, 250, 304, 367
Cruiser “Reina Regente,” The New Spanish Armoured, 441
Cruising and Racing Yachts, 543
Crushing, The Resistance of Stone to, 348
Cup-Patches” in Boilers, Danger of, 610
Current Meter, Forbes’s Electric, 345
Curtains in Theatres, Fireproof, 490
Curve Ranger, Dalrymple-Hay’s, 514
Cutter Forming Machine, Kendall and Gent’s, 81
Cutter Grinding Machine, Hulse s Universal, 455
Cylinder Condensation, 111 ,
Cylinder Shaping Machine, Bement and Miles s, 147

Dalrymple-Hay’s Curve Ranger, 514
Defects in the Designs of Warships, 18, 43o, 48d,
Defence, National, and its Mechanical Problems, 137
Dennis Straight Fullway Valve, The, 147
Determining Cost and Distribution of Heat and Power, 112 . .
De Sparre’s Jacquard Lacing Machine, oo
Diagrams of Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom, 251
Diamond Fields, South African, 219, 245
Diamond, The Matrix of the, 439
Diatoms, The Skye, 78
Direct-Acting Steam Veneer Cutters, 138
Disappearing Gun Carriages, Armstrong’s HydroPneumatic, 13 . . .
Discriminating Real from Accidental Coincidences between the Lines of Different Spectra, 590
Dispersing Smoke by Electricity, 101
Distribution, Electrical, by Transformers, 406
Distribution of Heat in the Steam Engine, 57, 106, 386
Distribution of Time in America, 439
Diving Apparatus, Applegarth’s, 104
Dock, the Esquimalt, Opening of, 390
Dock of the Hong-Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, at Kowloon, 90, J 46
Dock, Hydraulic Lifting, at Bombay, 548
Dock, Off-Shore Floating, for Cardiff, 276
Dock, The San Fernando, Buenos Ayres, 540
Doctrine of Mechanical Equivalents, The, 201
Don River, Improving the, 21
Door, M‘Elroy’s Water-Tight, 514
Dorman and Smith's Porcelain Switch, 276
Double Screw Hand and Steam Steering Gear, Napier’s, 148
Double Tracking Russian Railways, 533
Drainage, Projected, of the Zuider Sea, 657
Drainage Pumps, Supplementary, for H.M. Dockyard, Malta, 224
Dredging of the Clyde, The, 183, 277
Drill, Snowdon’s, 455
Drill and Tool Grinder, Luke and Spencer’s, 6
Drilling and Boring Machine, Hulse’s Radial, 42
Drilling Machine, Multiple Plate, Bement and Miles’s, 147
Drilling Machinery, Hydraulic, 301
Dry Land, Height and Volume of: Depth and Volume of the Ocean, 657
Dudley Boiler Explosion, The, 440, 463
Dundee Foundry, The, 203
Dundee, Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in, in 1887, 650
Duplex Rock Drill, The Ingersoll, 159
Duty on Steamers, Proposed Russian, 78
Dyeing Textiles, 401
Dynamite Gun, Zalinski’s, 427
Dynamo and Engine, Combined Brush, 469
Dynamo, The Pyromagnetic, 282, 466
Dynamo, Paris and Scott’s Four-Pole, 263
Dynamos, Alternating Current, and Transformers, 348
Dynamos, Driving, with Short Belts, 129
Dynamos, Raworth’s Friction Driving Gear for, 558

“Earl,” The Tug and Salvage Steamer, 405
Early Locomotives, 217
Earth, Cooling of the, 313
Eclipse, The Recent, 313
Edinburgh Water Works, 118, 192
Education of Intuition in Machine Designing, 111
Efficiency of Blowers, 669
Egypt, Lower, Irrigation in, 259, 283
Elastic Limit and Gun Construction, The, 582
Elastic Limit of Iron and Steel, On the Alteration of the, 558
“ Elbe,” s.s., Steam Pipe Explosion on Board the, 361, 437, 465, 487, 646, 654, 661
“ Electra,” The s.s., 587
Electric Condenser, A Novel, 610
Electric Current Meter, Forbes’s, 345
Electric Firedamp Indicator, An, 375

Electric Lighting :

Alternating Current Dynamos and Transformers, 348, 406
Brush Engine and Dynamo, Combined, 469
Carbon Electrodes, Manufacture of, 530
Dynamo, Paris and Scott’s Four-Pole, 263
Dynamo, The Pyromagnetic, 282, 466
Dynamos, Driving, 129
Dynamos, Raworth’s Friction Driving Gear for, 558
Electric Gas Lighter, A Primitive, 416
Electric Light at the Adelaide International Exhibition, 610
Electric Light on Board the New Swedish Ironclad “Svea,”207
Electric Light for Factories, 353, 368, 395
Electric Light on the Isle of May, The, 180,195
Electric Light in Omnibuses, 184
Electric Light on Russian Railways, 335
Electric Light in Vienna Opera House, 234
Electric Lighting of the “ Great Eastern,” The, 671
Electric Lighting, Motors for, 583
Electric Lighting of the s.s. “Victoria” and “Britannia,” 571
Electric Lighting in Sweden, 156
Forbes’s Meter, 345
Gas Lighting by Electricity, 53
Lighting Trains by Electricity, 339
Supply of Electricity from Storage Batteries, 583
United States Electric Light Association, 255

Electric Locomotive, Elieson’s, 413
Electric Motors in Printing Works, 287
Electric Resistances and Induction, 335
Electric Signal Trumpet, An, 261
Electric Street Tramcars, 529
Electric Traction, 124
Electric Tramways, 599
Electrical Communication with Lightships, 359
Electrical Conductors, Underground, 346
Electrical Distribution by Transformers, 406
Electrical Engineers, The, American Institute of, 610
Electrical Organ of the Torpedo, The, 466
Electrical Standards, 335
Electrical Trades Union, A Proposed, 461, 4S6
Electrical Units, The Dimensions of the, 610
Electricity Direct from Fuel, 282, 466
Electricity, Dispersing Smoke by, 101
Electricity, Gas Lighting by, 53
Electricity, Mine Pumps Driven by, 534
Electricity, Multiplex Writing by, 439
Electricity, Tempering Springs by, 261
Electro-Calorimetry, 334
Electro-Deposition of Iron, The, 261
Electro-Magnetic Machine Tools, 154
Electro-Plating Organisms, 390
Electrodes, Carbon, The Manufacture of, 530
Electrolysis, 311
Elieson’s Electric Locomotive, 413
Elliott’s Cement Testing Machine, 12
Elswick Gun, The 110-Ton, 289
Elswick Works, The, 61, 114, 126
Employment of Magnesium in Primary Batteries, 683
Endless Rail, Fender’s, 609
Engine, Compound, Seller’s Single-Crank, 550
Engine and Dynamo, Combined Brush, 469
Engine, Fenby’s Compound Marine, 303
Engine, Gas, The Otto, 42
Engine, Hauling, Fowler s Single-Cylinder, 70
Engine, High-Speed Vertical, Hornsby’s, 39
Engine, Inclined, Lancaster and Tonge’s, 638
Engine, Inverted Tandem, Browett and Lindley’s, 428
Engine, The Marine, Progress and Development of, 125, 159, 167
Engine, Merryweather’s Light Portable, 380
Engine, Mill, Buckley and Taylor’s Horizontal Compound Tandem, 223
Engine, Powell’s Compound Condensing Tandem 500
Engine, Pumping, Fowler’s Geared, 70
Engine, A Revolving, 332
Engine, Robey’s Vertical, 608
Engine, Tramway, Greig and Aveling’s, 423
Engine Trials, The Agricultural, at Newcastle, 49, 62, 97, 129, 508, 517, 606
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the s.s. “Bencroy,” 675
Engineering, Civil, in Practical Politics, 156
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in Dundee in 1887, 650
Engineering Science at King’s College, 683
Engineers in Australia, 229
Engineers, Civil (See also Civil Engineers)
Engineer's Education, An, 489
Engineers, Mechanical (See also Mechanical Engineers)
Engines and Boilers of H.M.S. “Orlando” and “ Undaunted,” 492, 551
Engines, Compound Pumping, at Watford, 457
Engines of the Ironclad “Nicolas I.,” Three-Cylinder, 195
Engines, Marine, Brock’s Quadruple-Expansion, 481, 621
Engines, Oscillating, Hartley’s Valve Gear for, 303
Engines, Pumping, 349
Engines at the Smithfield Show, 608
Enterprises, Pushing Industrial, 416
Equivalent of Heat, The Mechanical, 309
Equivalents, Mechanical, The Doctrine of, 201
Esk Paper Mills, The, 204
Esquimalt Dock, Opening of the, 390
Estimates, The Navy, 307
Estuaries, The Regime of, and the Possibility of Small Scale Experiments, 274
Evaporation by Exhaust Steam, 112
Evaporator and Vacuum Pan, Frenzel’s, 645
Excursions of the British Association, 404

Exhibition, The American :

High-Speed Vertical Engine, Hornsby’s, 39
Type-Composing and Distributing Machine, Thorne’s, 8
Writing Telegraph, The, 248

Exhibition of Artificial Illuminants, 234, 633
Exhibition, The International Petroleum, 234, 633

Exhibition, The Manchester :

Astronomical Telescopes, 630, 667
Axle Brass Boring Machine, Craven’s Duplex, 70
Banker’s Strong Room, 574
Bevel Wheel - Cutting Machine, Smith and Coventry’s, 6
Cone Chuck, Smith and Coventry’s, 70
Cutter Forming Machine, Kendall and Gent’s, 81
Drill and Tool Grinder, Luke and Spencer s, 6
Engine, Browett and Lindley’s Inverted Tandem, 428
Engine, Inclined, Lancaster and Tonge’s, 638
Fuel Economisers, 451
Glenfield Company’s Exhibits, 70
Grindstone, Rawlinson’s, 301
Hydro-Extractors, 451
Injectors, 450
Invalid Saloon Railway Carriage ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 38
Lathes, Astbury’s Power and Foot, 172
Locomotive, Compound Tank, Webb’s, 13, 649
Mechanical Stoker, Proctor’s, 289
Metal Exhibits, 230
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 450
Mortising and Boring Machine, Robinson’s, 301
Moulding Machine, Variety, Robinson’s, 600
Oil Separator, Watson and Laidlaw’s Centrifugal, 29
Otto Gas Engine, The, 42
Pulleys, 450
Pump, Goodbrand’s Quadruple, 195
Pump, Grendon’s Steam, 454
Pumps, 451
Rhodes’s Semi-Mule, 500
Rivetter, Alien’s Compressed Air, 302
Syphon Water Meter, Cowan’s, 574
Water Meter, Frost’s, 303
Wool-Washing Machine, Macnaught’s, 301

Exhibition of Mining Appliances, 549

Exhibition, The Newcastle:

Bell Brothers’ Exhibits, 4
Cutter Grinding Machine, Hulse’s Universal, 455
Diving Apparatus, Applegarth's, 104
Drill, Snowdon’s, 455
Exhibition, Tiik Newcastle—continued.
Firebox with Corrugated Crown, Garrett’s, 455
Gatling Gun, Armstrong’s, 170
Gun Carriages, Armstrong’s Hydro-Pneumatic Disappearing, 13
Gun, The 110-Ton Elswick, 289
Hauling Engine, Fowler’s Single-Cylinder, 70
Hotchkiss and Mountain Guns, Sir W. G. Armstrong and Mitchell’s, 354
Lamp, Thwaite’s “ Sunflower,” 258
Lathe, Hollow Spindle, Hulse’s, 257
Locomotive, Express Passenger, London and South-Western Railway, 185, 211, 263, 675
Locomotive for the North-Eastern Railway Compound Goods, 324
Locomotive, Tank, Black, Hawthorn, and Co.’s, 454
Locomotive, Tramway, Black, Hawthorn, and Co.’s Compound Condensing, 354
Locomotive Weighing Apparatus, Stephenson’s, 257
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 257
Ordnance Exhibits, Armstrong’s, 114
“Oriental,” Pump, Watson’s, 257
Pumping Engine, Fowler’s Geared, 70
Saw for Cutting Steel Angle Bars, Snowdon’s 455
Steering Gears and Hoisting Apparatus, 100
Tube-Cutter, Snowdon’s, 455
Ventilating Valve, M‘Elroy’s, 257
Exhibition, The Paris, of 1889, 256, 438, 615, 627, 668
Exhibition, A Siberian, 510
Explosion on Board the s.s. “ Elbe,” Steam Pipe, 361, 437, 465, 487, 646, 654, 661
Explosion, Boiler, The Dudley, 440, 463
Explosion, Boiler, at Hyde, 313
Explosion, Disastrous Boiler, at Pelsall, 657
Explosion, Economiser, at Middleton Junction, 364
Explosion, Fatal Boiler, near Antrim, 489
Explosion, Fatal, at Bradford—“ Water Hammer” Action in Steam Pipes, 490
Explosions, Boiler, Traction Engine, 556
Explosive, The New Swedish, 18
Explosives for Coal Mining, 465, 531
Express Locomotive; Midland Railway, 598
Express Passenger Locomotive; London and South-Western Railway, 185, 211, 263, 675
Extinguishing Fires, Steam for, 412
Extraction of Gold from Ores, 218, 354, 555
Extractor, Stuart’s Oil, Grease, and Grit, 674

Factories, Electric Light for, 353, 368, 395
Fast Speed Telegraphy, 315, 345
Fast Steam Yacht, A, 156
Fastening Steel Tyres Cloud’s Method of, 237
Fees on Patents, Renewal, 255
Fenby’s Compound Marine Engine, 303
Fender’s Endless Rail, 609
Fens, The Late Lord de Ramsay and the, 286
Filter, An Oil, 313
Filtration, Gerson’s System of, 534
Firebox with Corrugated Crown, Garrett’s, 455
Firedamp Indicator, An Electric, 375
Fireless Mining Locomotive, Riedel’s, 148
Fireproof Curtains in Theatres, 490
Fires, Peculiar Origin of, 579
Fires, Steam for Extinguishing, 412
Firth of Forth, Bridging the, 116, 148, 170, 210, 238
Floating Dock for Cardiff, Off-Shore, 276
Floorcloth and Linoleum Works at Kirkcaldy, 179
Flooring, Bridge and Warehouse, 209
Fluor, The Isolation of, 467
Fluoride of Nitrogen, 261
Foot and Power Lathes, Astbury’s, 170
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 103, 117, 291, 372
Foreign Patents, 308
Forests of Tunis, The, 656
Forth Bridge, The, 153, 291, 309
Forth Bridge Railway. Report on the, 478
Forth, Bridging the Firth of, 116, 148, 170,210, 238
Forth, Shipbuilding on the, 672
Foundations, Yielding. 416
Foundry, Blackness, 203
Foundry, The Dundee, 203
Foundry Ladle, Goodwin and How’s, 571
Four-Pole Dynamo, Paris and Scott’s, 263
Fowler’s Geared Pumping Engine, 70
Fowler’s Single-Cylinder Hauling Engine, 70
France, Coal in, 21
France, Tramways in, 287
French Navy, The, 632
French Telegraphy, 336
Frenzel’s Vacuum Pan and Evaporator, 645
Friction Driving Gear for Dynamos, Haworth’s, 558
Friction Roller, 198
Frost’s Water Meter, 303
Fuel Economisers, 451
Fuel, Electricity Direct from, 282
Fuel, Liquid, for Locomotives, 230
Fullway Valve, The Dennis Straight, 147
Furnace, Boiler, TheLishman, 490
Furnace Tubes, The Strength of, 682
Furnaces, Blast, The Cost of, 25
Fusible Safety Plug, Parry’s, 503

“ Galatea,” H.M.S., 526
Garrett’s Firebox with Corrugated Crown, 455
Garrett’s Thrashing Machine Bearings, 608
Gas Companies, Baltimore, 557
Gas Companies and Mineral Oil, The, 287
Gas Engine, The Otto, 42
Gas Engine Works, The Otto, 405
Gas Hammer, TheTangj’e, 375
Gas Institute, The, 10, 39
Gas Lighter, A Primitive Electric, 416
Gas Lighting by Electricity, 53
Gas Lighting by Incandescence, 139, 469, 538
Gas Lights, Incandescent, 533
Gas-Making Machine, Automatic, 643
Gas Works, The Stafford Corporation, Sulphate of Ammonia Plant at, 405
Gases, Conduction of, 334
Gases, Magnetic Properties of, 334
Gatling Gun, Armstrong and Mitchell’s, 170
Gauge, The B. A. Screw, 375
Geared Pumping Engine, Fowler’s, 70
Gelatine Water Cartridge, The, 558
German Armour-Plated Towers for Danish Fortifications, 416
9?’?ons System of Filtration, 534
Gibbons and Robinson’s Thrashing Machine, 609
Gilbert’s Nut Lock, 263
Girder Eracing, Stresses on, 7
Glenfield Company’s Exhibits at the Manchester Exhibition, The, 70
Gold from Ores, Extraction of, 218, 354, 555
Gold and Silver, 316, 419, 445
Gold and Silver Ores, Smelting, 681
Goliath Crane, Coles’s, 25-Ton, 478
Goodbrand’s Quadruple Pump, 195
Goods Locomotive, Compound, for the North-
Eastern Railway, 324
Goods Station, The Midland New, 501
Goodwin and How’s Foundry Ladle, 571
Grain Conveyor, Anti-Friction, 131
Gramophone, The, 557
Graphite Carbon for Electric Lighting, 53
Gravet’s Calculating Rule, 512
“ Great Eastern,” The Electric Lighting of the,
Greig and Aveling’s Tramway Engine, 428
Grendon’s Steam Pump, 454
Grierson, Mr. James, 417
Grinder, Luke and Spencer’s Drill and Tool, 6
Grinding Machine, Cutter, Hulse’s Universal, 455
Grindstone, Rawlinson’s, 301
Grindstones, 399
Gun Carriages, Armstrong’s Hydro-Pneumatic Disappearing, 13
Gun Carriages, Modern, 210, 237
Gun Construction, The Elastic Limit and, 582
Gun Construction and Theory, Wire, 509, 532
Gun, The 110-Ton Elswick, 289
Gun, Gatling, Armstrong and Mitchell’s, 170
Gun Steel, Inspection of, in the United States, 50
Gun, Zalinski’s Dynamite, 427
Gunboat for the Baltic Fleet, A New Russian, 21
Guns, Sir W. G. Armstrong and Mitchell’s Hotchkiss and Mountain, 354
Gyratory Stone Breaker, Lowry’s, 635

Hall, Mr. William, Shipbuilder, Aberdeen, 248
Hammer, The Tangye Gas, 375
Hand and Steam Steering Gear, Napier’s Double Screw, 148
Harbour at Copenhagen, The New, 657
Harbour, St. Helier, 22
Harbour, The Tay, 2C3
Harbour for Tunis, New, 364
Harbours, Public Works Loans to, 411
Harfield’s Steam Windlass, 100
Hartley’s Valve Gear for Oscillating Engines, 303
Hartnell’s Brush Contact and Compound Switches, 443
Hauling Engine, Fowler’s Single-Cylinder, 70
Hawkesbury Railway Accident, New South Wales, The, 281, 360
Hawksley, Mr. Thomas, Presentation to, 70
Heat, Distribution of, in the Steam Engine, 57, 106, 386
Heat, The Mechanical Equivalent of, 309
Heat and Power, Determining Cost and Distribution of, 112
Heating Pipes, Overhead Steam, 584
Height and Volume of Dry Land : Depth and Volume of the Ocean, 657
Helical Seams in Boilermaking, 34
Henley-on-Thames Sewerage, 441
H.M.S. “Galatea,” 526
H.M.S. “Orlando” and “Undaunted,” Boilers and Engines of, 492, 551
H.M.S. “ Trafalgar,” 328
Hexthorpe Catastrophe, The, 331, 530, 583
High-Speed Vertical Engine, Hornsby’s. 39
History of Local Boards, The Natural, 51
Hoerde Steel Sleeper, The, 185
Hong-Kong and Whampoa Dock Company’s Dock at Kowloon, 90, 146
Horizontal Compound Tandem Mill Engine, Buckley and Taylor’s, 223
Hornsby’s High-Speed Vertical Engine, 39
Hotchkiss and Mountain Guns, Sir W. G. Armstrong and Mitchell’s, 354
How Long must Burmah Wait? 102
Hudson Bay and Strait Route, 86
Hulse’s Hollow Spindle Lathe, 257
Hulse’s Radial Drilling and Boring Machine, 42
Hulse’s Universal Cutter Grinding Machine, 455
Hydraulic Drilling Machinery, 301
Hydraulic Lifting Dock at Bombay, 548
Hydraulic Power in Naval Gunnery, 125
Hydraulic Shearing Machine, 1000-Ton; Drum-peller Steel Works, 648
Hydro-Extractors, 451
Hydro-Pneumatic Disappearing Gun Carriages, Armstrong’s, 13
Hydrogen-Amalgam Process, The, 335
Hydrometer, An International, 53
Hydrophone, The, 131

Ice, The Viscosity of, 286
Illumination, Lighthouse, 195
“ Imperieuse,” The, 99
“ Impdrieuse,” A Russian, 101
Implements at the Smithfield Show, 609
Improvements in Lifeboats, 375
Improvements in Roads, The, 558
Incandescence, Gas Lighting by, 139, 469, 538
Incandescent Gas Lights, 533
Inclined Engine, Lancaster and Tonge’s, 638
India and Burmah, Railway Communication between, 364
Indian and American Railways, 679
Indian Petroleum Fields, The, 467
Induction and Resistances, Electric, 335
Industrial Enterprises, Pushing, 416
Industrial Union, The United States and the, 129
Influence of a Plane of Transverse Section on the Magnetic Permeability of Iron, The, 378
Influence of Silent Discharge, 402
Influence of Stress and Strain on Matter, The, 583
Ingersoll Duplex Rock Drill, The, 159
Ingots, Steel, Blow-Holes in, 580
Injectors, 450
Inspectors and Bridgework, 215
Institute, The City and Guilds of London, 50
Institute of Electrical Engineers, The American, 610
Institute, The Gas, 10, 39
Institution, The, of Civil Engineers (See Civil Engineers, Institution of)
Institution, The, of Mechanical Engineers (See Mechanical Engineers, Institution of)
Interchangeable Steel Tramway Wheels and Axles, 574
International Hydrometer, An, 53
International Railway Congress, 336
Intoxicant, Benzine as an, 53
Invalid Saloon Railway Carriage ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 38
Inverted Tandem Engine, Browett and Lindley’s, 428
Ions, The Speed of, 312
Iron, The Electro-Deposition of, 261
Iron Industry, The Ural, 656
Iron, The Magnetisation of, in Strong Fields, 377
Iron Mines of Bilbao, The, 271
Iron Ores, The Reduction of, 320, 340
Iron, The Recalescence of, 638
Iron and Steel, On the Alteration of the Elastic Limit of, 558

Iron and Steel Institute, The : "308

On the Construction and Cost of Blast Furnaces in the Cleveland District in 1877, by Sir B. Samuelson, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., 25
On some Investigations as to the Effects of Different Methods of Treatment of Mild Steel in the Manufacture of Plates, by Mr. James Riley, 29,133,161
On Patent Composite Steel and Iron, by Mr. George Allan, 209
On the Reduction of Iron Ores in the Blast Furnace, by Sir Lowthian Bell, 320, 340
On the Basic Open-Hearth Process, by Mr. J. W. Wailes, 349, 429
On Electric Light Installations for Works and Factories, by Dr. J. A. Fleming, 353, 368,395 I
President’s Address, 319

Iron and Steel, Patent Composite, 209 >
Iron Sulphate in Agriculture, 261 ,
Iron Tools, Chilled, 466
Iron Works, A New Russian, 207
Ironclad, An American, 157
Ironclad “ Nicolas I.,” Three-Cylinder Engines of the, 195
Ironclad, New Swedish, 207, 490
Irrigating Machinery on the Pacific Coast, 479, 525, 56Z
Irrigation in Lower Egypt, 259, 283
Isle of May, the Electric Light on the, 180,195
Isplation of 1 luor, The, 467

Jacquard Lacing Machine, De Sparre’s, 55
Java Meteorite, A, 234
Jersey, New Water Works, 39, 92
Joints, Lead, Nicholson’s Ladle for Running, 674
Jubilee Coin Dies, The, 53
Jubilee Prize, Gunning Victoria, 101
Jubilee Telegraphy, 156
Jute Works, 203

Keely Motor Secret, The, 332
Kendall and Gent’s Cutter Forming Machine, 81
Khyber Railway, The, 53
Kimberley, Mining Progress at, 219, 245
King’s College, Engineering Science at, 683
Kirkcaldy Floorcloth and Linoleum Works, 179
Koch’s Bacteriological Water Test, 654
Kowloon, Dock of the Hong-Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, at, 90, 146
Kj noch Revolver, The, 419

Labour and Breathing, 466
Lacing Machine, De Sparre s Jacquard, 55
Ladle, Foundry, Goodwin and How s, 571,
Ladle for Running Lead Joints, Nicholson s, 674
“Lahn,” The s.s., 540
Lamp, Thwaite’s “Sunflower, 2o8
Lamps, Wigham’s, for Lighthouses, 173
Lancaster and Tonge’s Inclined Engine, 6o8
Laused Patents, 17
Large Syphon, A, 51
Latch, May’s Reversing Lever, 393
Lathe, Hulse’s Hollow Spindle, 2a7
Lathes, Astbury’s Power and loot, 1/0
Launch, Steam, for the Royal Engineers, Chat-Laun“hef°and Trial Trips, 24, 41, 80, 104, 121, 149 171, 226, 249, 279, 305, 338, 365, 379, 409, 446*, 455, 483, 505, 526, 549, 590, 603, 621, 661,
Lifeboats, Improvements in, 375
Lifting Bridge at Tarante Italy, 410, 454, 503
Lifting Dock at Bombay, Hj drauhe, 548
Light, Electric, at the Adelaide International Ligh^The°Ele^ric, on Board the New Swedish Liffh^Electrh^for Factories, 353, 368, 395 Light! The Electric, on the Isle of May, 180, 195
Light, The Electric, in Omnibuses, 184 t
iS-ht The Electric, on Russian Railways, 335
ffit, Electric>, in Vienna Opera House, The, 234
Light Portable Engine, Merryweather s, 380
Lighthouse Illumination, 195
Lighthouse, The Rothersand, 587, 635
Lighthouses, Wigham s Lamps for, 173
Lighting,CThenEUctric, of the Great Eastern,’
Lighting, Electric, Motors for, 583 , . „ ,
Lighting, Electric, of the s.s. “Victoria’ and “ Britannia,” 571
Lighting, Electric in Sweden 156
Lighting Gas by Electricity,.339
Lighting Trains by Electricity, 339
Lightships, Electrical Communication with, 359
I mit of Pressure in Marine Engines 111
Limpsfield and Oxted Water Works, The, 157
LinCo?eSumeaannd Floorcloth Works at Kirkcaldy, 179
Liquid Fuel for Locomotives, 230
Liquid Fuel in Parliament, 207
Liquids and Magnetism, 416
Lishman Boiler Furnace, The 490
Lithanode Primary Cell, A, 129
Liverpool University College, 390
Liverpool Water Works, The, 262
Loans to Harbours, Public Works, 411
Local Boards, The Natural History of, 51
“ Lccksley Hall,” Raising the, 198
Lockwood’s Spindless Metallic Valve, 237
Locomotive, Compound Goods, for the North-Eastern Railway, 324
Locomotive, Consolidation, for the Canadian Pacific Railway, 429, 523
Locomotive, Elieson’s Electric, 413
Locomotive, Express ; Midland Railway, 598
Locomotive, Express Passenger ; London and South-Western Railway, 185, 211, 263, 675
Locomotive, Riedel’s Fireless Mining, 148
Locomotive, Tank, Black, Hawthorn and Co.’s, 454
Locomotive, Tank; Great Southern Railway of Brazil, 276
Locomotive, Tramway, Black, Hawthorn, and Co.’s Compound Condensing, 354
Locomotive, Tramway ; Wolverton and District Light Railways Company, 222
Locomotive, Webb’s Compound Tank, 13, 649
Locomotive Weighing Apparatus, Stephenson’s, 257
Locomotives, American, Cost of, 657
Locomotives, Early, 217
Locomotives, Liquid Fuel for, 230
London Water in September, 489
London Water Supply, 286
Longest Tunnel in Russia, The, 467
Lord de Ramsey and the Fens, The Late, 286
Lower Egypt, Irrigation in, 259, 283
Lowry’s Gyratory Stone Breaker, 635
Lubricator, Seek’s, 237
Luke and Spencer’s Drill and Tool Grinder, 6
Lulea-Ofoten Railway, The, 656

M‘Elroy’s Ventilating Valve, 257;
M‘Elroy’s Water-Tight Door, 514
Macnaught’s Wool-Washing Machine, 301
Machine, Automatic Gas-Making, 643
Machine, Bevel Wheel - Cutting, Smith and Coventry’s, 6
Machine, Boring, for Car-Wheels, Bement and Miles’s, 353
Machine, Craven’s Duplex Axle Brass Boring, 70
Machine, Cutter Forming, Kendall and Gent’s, 81
Machine, Cylinder Shaping, Bement and Miles’s, 147
Machine Designing, Education of Intuition in, 111
Machine Drying Cylinders, Sizing, 632
Machine, Elliott’s Cement Testing, 12
Machine, Hulse’s Universal Cutter Grinding, 455
Machine, Jacquard Lacing, De Sparre’s, 55
Machine, Macnaught’s Wool-Washing, 301
Machine, Mortising and Boring, Robinson’s, 301
Machine, Moulding, Robinson’s Variety, 600
Machine, Multiple Plate Drilling, Bement and Miles’s, 147
Machine, Radial Drilling and Boring, Hulse’s, 42
Machine, Rotary Planing, Bement and Miles’s, 522
Machine, Shearing, 1000-Ton Hydraulic ; Drum-peller Steel Works,648
Machine, Shearing, Schultz and Goebel’s, 12
Machine, Steam Thrashing and Straw-Chopping, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’, 12
Machine, Thorne’s Type-Composing and Distributing, 8
Machine, Thrashing, Gibbons and Robinson’s. 609
Machine Tools, Electro-Magnetic, 154
Machinery, Bottle-Making, 655
Machinery at the Forth Bridge Works, 153
Machinery, Hydraulic Drilling, 301
Machinery, Irrigating, on the Pacific Coast, 479, 525, 562
Machinery, Pumping, for H.M. Dockyard, Malta, 224
Machinery, Pumping, for the Prague Water Works, 290, 327
Magazine Rifles. 497
Magnesium in Primary Batteries, Employment of, 683
Magnetic Balance, A, 336
Magnetic Fields, Strong, 101
Magnetic Permeability of Iron, The Influence of a Plane of Transverse Section on the, 378
Magnetic Properties of Gases, 334
Magnetic Resistance, Note on, 11
Magnetisation of Iron in Strong Fields, The, 377
Magnetism and Liquids, 416
Magnetism and Solar Phenomena, 21
Magnetism and Thermal Conductivity, 207
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 177, 241, 275,300,374
Manganese Ore Mines, The Railway to the Russian, 416
Manganese Steel, The Physical Properties of, 378
Manoeuvres, The Naval, 178
Manufacture, The Alkali, 379
Manufacture of Carbon Electrodes, The, 530
Manufacture of Steel Plates, The, 29, 133, 161
Manufacturers, English, A Moral for, 102
Marine Engine, Fenby’s Compound, 303
Marine Engine, Progress and Development the, 125. 159, 167
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in Dundee in 1887, 650
Marine Engines, Brock’s Quadruple-Expansion, 481, 621
Marine Engines, Limit of Pressure in, 111
Marine Meteorology, 78
Marine Voltmeter, A, 21
Marinoni Stop-Cylinder Printing Machine, 325
Maritimes, The Messageries, 19
Marks, Merchandise, 262
Mathematical and Physical Section of the
British Association, 311
Matrix of the Diamond, The, 439
May’s Reversing Lever Latch, 393

Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 33, 111, 137, 668

On Tests of the Comparative Value of Different Kinds of Belting, by Mr. Samuel Webber, 33
On the Systematic Testing of Turbine Water Wheels in the United States, by Professor R. II. Thurston, 33
On Helical Seams in Boilermaking, by Professor Thurston, 34
Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of—continued. , „ __
Should a Piston Packing Ring be of the same Thickness at every Point? by Mr. Kutnei-ford, 33.
On the Education of Intuition in Machine De-sio-ninir. by Mr. John T. Hawkins, 111
On °Cylinder Condensation, by Mr. Chas. E. Emery, 111 . „ .,
On Limit of Pressure in Marine Engines, by Mr. Chas. E. Emery, 111
On Methods of Determining Cost and Distribution of Heat and Power, by Mr. Henry Towne, 112,
On a Problem in Profit Sharing, by Mr. Wm. Kent, 112 , „ . '
On the Comparative Value of Steamand Hot Water for Transmitting Heat and Power, by Mr. Emery, 112
On Evaporation by Exhaust Steam, by Mi. Albert Stearns, 112
On What are the Needs of our Navy? by Mr. H. A. Ramsay, 137 t .
On National Defence and its Mechanical Problems, by J. Morgan, Jun., 137
On Direct-Acting Steam Veneer Cutters, by Mr. Thomas S. Crane, 138
On a New Method of Making Tubes from Solid Brass, by Mr. Geo. H. Babcock, 139 |
On Gaslighting by Incandescence, by Mr. Janus Dredge, 139, 469, 538
On a New Principle in Steam Piston Packing, by Professor John E. Sweet, 669 I
On Experiments and Experience with Blowers, by Mr. Henry J. Snell, 669

Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of :

On the Distribution of Heat in a Stationary Steam Engine, by Major Thomas English, R.E., 57, 106, 386 e xu
On the Structure and Progress of the lorth Bridge, by Mr. E. Malcolm Wood, 153
On Machinery at the Forth Bridge Works, by Mr. William Arrol, 153, 291
On Electro-Magnetic Machine Tools, by Mr. F. J. Rowan, 154
On the Comparative Strength of Metals, by Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 159
On the Electric Light on the Isle of May, by Mr. David A. Stevenson, 180, 195
On the Tay Viaduct, by Mr. Fletcher F. S. Kelsey, 182
On the Dredging of the Lower Estuary of the Clyde, by Mr. Chas. A. Stevenson, B.Sc., F.R.S.E., A.M.I.C.E., 183, 277
On Irrigating Machinery on the Pacific Coast, by Mr. John Richards, 479, 525, 562
Blackness Foundry, 203
Dundee Foundry, The, 203
Esk Paper Mills, The, 204
Linoleum and Floorcloth Works at Kirkcaldy, 179I
Tay Harbour, The, 203I
Tay Jute Works, 203I
Valley field Paper Mills, The, 204

Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, The, 309
Mechanical Equivalents, The Doctrine of, 201|
Mechanical Stenography, 656i
Mechanical Stoker, Proctor’s, 289
Melotrope, The, 390
Merchandise Marks, 262|
Mercurial Air Pumps, 549 ,i
Merryweather’s Light Portable Engine, 380|
Mersey Ports, The, 275I
Messageries Maritimes, The, 19
Metal Exhibits at the Manchester Exhibition, 230
Metal, Removal of, by Emery Wheels, Hammer
and Chisel, and Files, The Cost of, 511|
Metallic Packing, Baird’s, 648|
Metallic Valve, The Transatlantic, 263j
Metals, The Comparative Strength of, 159
Metals in Russia, The Production of, 262
Meteorite, A Java, 234
Meteorite, A New’ Carbonaceous, 286|
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 526, 672 j
Meteorology, 334
Meteorology, Marine, 78
Meter, An Electric Current, 345
Meter, Water, Frost’s, 303
Middleton Junction, Economiser Explosion at, 364
“ Midge,” The Steam Tug, for St. Lucia, 89
Midland New Goods Station, The, 501
Mill, Paint, Winn’s, 7
Milling, Roller, 56
Mine Pumps Driven by Electricity, 534
Mineral Oil and the Gas Companies, 287
Mineralogical Society, The, 492, 526
Mineralogy in Bosnia, 683
Mines, Accidents in, 536
Mines, The Iron, of Bilbao, 271
Mining Appliances, Exhibition of, 549
Mining at Kimberley, Progress of, 219, 245
Mining Locomotive, Riedel’s Fireless, 148
Mining, Submarine, 1, 37, 76, 113, 151, 165, 189, 231, 295, 361, 400, 425, 453, 473, 495, 568, 642
Ministry of Railways, Russian, Reorganisation of the, 6L0
Miscellanea, 15, 54, 80, 102, 130, 158, 175, 208, 223, 249, 288, 314, 325, 366, 392, 418, 433, 468, 483, 513, 535, 553, 573, 612, 634, 651, 677
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Manchester Exhibition, 450
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Newcastle Exhibition, 257
Miscellaneous Papers at the British Association, 378, 402
Modern Gun Carriages, 210, 237
Moral for English Manufacturers, A, 102
Morgan, Mount, Our Own, 619
Mortising and Boring Machine, Robinson’s, 301
Motion, Communication of, between Bodies
Moving at Different Velocities, 377
Motor, The Keely, Secret, 332
Motors for Electric Lighting, 583
Moulding Machine, Robinson’s Variety, 600
Mount Morgan, Our Own, 619
Moving Projectiles, Photography of, 657
Mu Railway, The Abandonment of the, 439
Multiple Plate Drilling Machine, Bement and Miles’s, 147
Mumford’s System of Stiffened Buttstraps, 675

Napier’s Double Screw Hand and Steam Steering Gear, 148 .
National Defence and its Mechanical Problems, 137
Natural History of Local Boards, The, 51
Natural History and Science Society, The County of Middlesex, 511
Natural Sculpture, 440
Naval Affairs, 98

Naval Architects, The Institution of :

On the Application of Hydraulic Power to Naval Gunnery, by Lord Armstrong and Mr. J. Vavasseiir, 125
On the Progress and Development of the Marine Engine, by Mr. Frank Marshall, 125, 159, 167 . „ v •
On the Present Position Occupied by Basic Steel as a Material for Shipbuilding, by Mr. B. Martell, 131, 141 . _ __
On some Experiments with Basic Steel, by Mr. W. H. White, the Director of Naval Construction, 141
On Tyne Improvements, by Mr. P. J. Messent,
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, 127
Visit to Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.’s Works, 126
Naval Gunnery, Hydraulic Power in, 125
Naval Manoeuvres, The, 178
Naval Ordnance, United States, 605
Naval Review, The, 90
Naval Station in New Zealand, A, 567
Navies, Continental, 78
Navigation, Foreign Steam, 557
Navy Estimates, The, 307
Navy, The French, 632
Navy, What are the Needs of our ? 137
New York Sanitary Regulations, 684
New Zealand, 20
New Zealand, A Naval Station in, 567
New Zealand Viaduct, A, 390
Newbery-Vautin Chlorination Process, The, 354, 555
Newcastle, The Agricultural Engine Trials at, 49, 62, 97, 129,129, 508, 517, 606
Newcastle Engine Trials, The, 120
Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, The, 595
Nicholson’s Ladle for Running Lead Joints, 674
“Nicolas I.,” Three-Cylinder Engines of the Ironclad, 195
Nitrogen, Fluoride of, 261
Norwich, Sewage at, 336

Notes :

Aluminium, The Electro-Deposition of, 656
Antimony, 583
Arc Regulator, A New, 101
Asia Minor Railway, The, 184
Automatic Brakes, 261
Balloon, Bruce’s Signalling, 184
Barge Building in Russia, 101
Benzine as an Intoxicant, 53
Boiler Explosion near Antrim, Fatal, 489
Boiler Explosion near Dudley, 440
Boiler Explosion at Hyde, 313
Boiler Explosion at Pelsall, Disastrous, 657
British Association, The, 53
Burmese Weights and Measures, 632
Canadian Pacific Railway, Influence of the, on Russia, 391
Civil Engineering in Practical Politics, 156
Clark, Mr. Alvan, 231
Clearing Waterways from Vegetation, 657
Coal in Burmah, 364
Coal in France, 21
Coal Mining, Belgian, 101, 440
Coal in New Caledonia, 313
Coal Trade, Depression in the Russian, 335
Coke in Russia, 78
Combustion of Petroleum upon the Locomotives of the Elevated Railway in New York, 656
Cooling of the Earth, The, 313
Cork Porous Pots, 234
Corkscrews, 335
Cost of American Locomotives, 657
County of Middlesex Natural History and
Science Society, 511
Craven Scholarship, The, 533
“Cup Patches” in Boilers, Danger of, 610
Dispersing Smoke by Electricity, 101
Double Tracking Russian Railways, 533
Driving Dynamos with Short Belts, 129
Duty on Steamers, Proposed Russian, 78
Dynamo, The Pyromagnetic, 466
Eclipse, The Recent, 313
Economiser Explosion at Middleton Junction, 364
Education, An Engineer’s, 489
Electric Condenser, A Novel, 610
Electric Gas Lighter, A Primitive, 416
Electric Light at the Adelaide International Exhibition, 610
Electric Light on Board the New Swedish Ironclad “Svea,” 207
Electric Light in Omnibuses, The, 184
Electric Light on Russian Railways, The, 335
Electric Light in Vienna Opera House, The, 234 .
Electric Lighting, Motors for, 583
Electric Lighting in Sweden, 156
Electric Motors in Printing Works, 287
Electric Signal Trumpet, An, 261
Electrical Engineers, The American Institute of, 610
Electrical Organ of the Torpedo, The, 466
Electrical Units, The Dimensions of the, 610
Electricity, Multiplex Writing by, 439
Electricity from Storage Batteries, The Public Supply of,- 583
Electro-Deposition of Iron, The, 261
Electro-Plating Organisms, 390
Employment of Magnesium in Primary Batteries, 683
Engine Trials, The Newcastle, 129
Engineering Science at King’s College, 683
Engineers, The Institute of Civil, Assessment of the, 53
Exhibition of Artificial Illuminants, 234, 633
Exhibition, A Siberian, 510
FensSTheLateLoV^delamsey and the, 286
Fireproof Curtains in Theatres, 490
Fluor, The Isolation of, 467
Fluoride of Nitrogen, .61
Forests of Tunis, The, 656
Foundations, Yielding, 416
Gas Companies, OH Th
Gas Companies and Mineral Oil, The, 287
Gas Lighting by Electricity, 53
Gelatine Water Cartridge, The, 558 .
German Armour-Plated Towers for Danish Fortifications, 416
Gramophone, The, 557 u+inrr kq
Graphite Carbon for Electric Lightin*, *>3
Gunboat for the Baltic Fleet, A New Russian, 21
Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize, 101
Harbour at Copenhagen, The New, 657
Harbour, St. Helier, 22
Harbour for Tunis, New, 301
Height and Volume of Dry Land ; Depth and
Volume of the Ocean, 657
How Long must Burmah Wait? 102
Hydrogen-Amalgam Process, The, 335
Hydrometer, An International, 53
Ice, The Viscosity of, 286
“ Imperieuse,” A Russian, 101
Incandescent Gas Lights, 533
Industrial Enterprise, Pushing, 416
Industrial Union, The United States and the, 129
International Railway Congress, 336
Iron and Steel, On the Alteration of the Elastic Limit of, 558
Iron Sulphate in Agriculture, 261
Iron Tools, Chilled, 466
Iron Works, A New Russian, 207
Ironclad, New Swedish, 490
Jubilee Coin Dies, The, 53
Jubilee Telegraphy, 156
Labour and Breathing, 466
Lighting Calendar, 54
Limpsfield and Oxted Water Works, The, 157
Liquid Fuel in Parliament, 207
Lithanode Primary Cell, A, 129
Liverpool University College, 390
London Water in Septemner, 489
London Water Supply, 286
Magnetic Balance, A, 336
Magnetic Fields, Strong, 101
Magnetism and Liquids, 416
Magnetism and Solar Phenomena, 21
Magnetism and Thermal Conductivity, 207
Marine Meteorology, 78
Matrix of the Diamond, The, 439
Melotrope, The, 390
Melting Platinum, The Radiation of, 286
Merchandise Marks, 262
Metals in Russia, The Production of, 262
Meteorite, A Java, 234
Meteorite, A New Carbonaceous, 286
Mine Pumps Driven by Electricity, 534
Mineralogy in Bosnia, 683
Moral for English Manufacturers, A, 102
Mu Railway, The Abandonment of the, 439
Navies, Continental, 78
Navy, The French, 632
Obelisk, Raising an American, 417
Ocean Liners on the Neva, 156
Oil Filter, An, 313
Overhead Steam Heating Pipes, 584
Pearl, The Southern Cross, 207
Persian Railway Concessions, The, 156
Petroleum Bulk Transport and the United States, 467
Petroleum Fields, The Indian, 467
Petroleum, A New Rival to American, 129
Petroleum, The Origin of, 657
Petroleum Wells, The Beluchistan, 683
Phonograph, The New, 489
Phosphorescence of Sulphate of Lime, The, 129
Photographic Process, The Cellerier-Parkes, 102
Photography of Moving Projectiles, 657
Port-Arthur, 21
Public Works in the United States, 657
Radiation from Dull and Bright Surfaces, 390
Railway Accident, The Hexthorpe, 583
Railway Bridge at Sealand, New, 184
Railway, The Candahar, 511, 683
Railway Communication between India and Burmah, 364
Railway Crisis in South Africa, The, 391
Railway, The Khyber, 53
Railway, The Lulea-Ofoten, 656
Railway Mania in South Africa, Impending, 534
Railway to the Pacific, The Russian, 22, 558
Railway, The Red River Valley, 511
Railway to the Russian Manganese Ore Mines, 416
Railway Service, American, 533
Railway, The Siberian, 632
Railway, The South African Through, 440
Railways in China, 207
Railways, Queensland, 79
Railways in Sweden, 78
Railways for Tonquin and our Lethargy in Burmah, 262
Removal of Metal by Emery Wheels, Hammer and Chisel, and Files, The Cost of, 511
Removing Boiler Covers under Pressure, 633
River Don, Improving the, 21
Roads, The Improvements in, 558
Rubies, Artificial, 286
Russian Colliers in the Black Sea, 583
Russian Ministry of Railways, Reorganisation of the, 610
Russian Railways, Traffic on, 313 '
Sanitary Regulations in New York, 684
Sculpture, Natural, 440
Sea Telephony, 364
Sewage at Bury St. Edmunds, 207
Sewage at Norwich, 336
Sewers, The Air of, 78
Silver in Volcanic Ash, 234
Sizing Machine Drying Cylinders, 632
Skye Diatoms, The, 78
Society of Arts, The, 533
Solidification by Pressure, 184
Standard Cell, A New, 184
Steam Navigation, Foreign, 557
Steamers, New, on the Volga, 53
Steamers, The World’s, 335
Stenography, Mechanical, 656
Stone Age, A Survival of the, 335
Stone, Preservation of, 262
Stress and Strain on Matter, The Influence of, 583
Submarine Boat, Dr. Gustaf de Laval’s New 102
Submarine Telephone, Blake’s, 489
Swedish-Norwegian Railway, A, 129
Telantograph, The, 207
Telegraphy, French, 336
Telephonic Speech, The Limiting Distance of, 78 ’
Tempering Springs by Electricity, 261
Thames and Severn Canal, The, 684
Thermal Conductivity of Iron, Copper, and German Silver, 53
Thermal Radiation, 466
Tides of Tunisia, The, 466
Time in America, Distribution of, 439
Tin, The World’s, 533
Torpedo Boats, Trials of Russian, 489
Tramway Trains, 510
Tramways in France, 287
Tunnel in Russia, The Longest, 4671
Tunnel, The Suram, 511
Turkestan, Coal in, 21
Ural Iron Industry, The, 656
Ventilation of Schools, The, 184
Viaduct, A New Zealand, 390
Voltaic Combinations, New, 390
Voltmeter, A Marine, 21
"Water Hammer” Action in Steam Pipes- Fatal Explosion at Bradford, 490
Water Supply of Bradford, The, 440
Water Works, Copenhagen, 364
Water Works, The Liverpool, 262
Westinghouse Brake on Freight Trains, The, 511
Wheat Transport, Rivalry in, 78
Wire Ropes for Tramways, 184
Wood Pulp, New Uses for, 262
Wood Pulp Pails, 21
Yalta, Port Improvements at, 207
Zuider Sea, The Projected Drainage of the, 657

Notes from Cleveland, 14, 41, 71 91 117 149 174, 199, 227, 253, 279, 305. 329, 357; 391^ 418; 433, 459, 482, 512, 527, 553, 572,61], 631, 650, 676
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 103, 117, 291, 372 Notes from the North, 14. 45, 71, 90. 116, 149 328, 364, 391, 417,’ 676’
Notes from the South-West. 14 58 71 91 117 134 IS’ 279?3OV' 3’29S7O’;’3^^^^^ 663* 676 573, 612, 634,
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 41 71 91 117 288. 305: 329, s’eJ.’392, W, f 572, 611,634,650,677
States, 7, 55, 70, 90. 129. 598: 661’ 671’
Nut Lock, Gilbert's, 263

Obelisk, Raising an American. 417
OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
Ocean Liners on the Neva, 156
Off-Shore Floating Dock for Cardiff, 276
Ohio, Trial Trip of the, 90
Oil Filter, An, 313
Oil, Grease, and Grit Extractor, Stuart’s, 674
Oil Separator, Watson and Laidlaw’s Centrifugal, 29
Open-Hearth Process, The Basie, 349,429. 637
Opening of the Esquimau Dock. 390
Ordnance, Naval, United States, 605
^‘’S'^apce at the Newcastle Exhibition, 114
Ordsall Works, 404
Ores, Extraction of Gold from, 218, 354, 555
Ores, Iron, The Reduction of, 320,340
Ores, Smelting Gold and Silver 681
Organisms, Electro-Plating, 390 “Oriental” Pump, Watson’s, 257
Origin of Fires, Peculiar, 579 Origin of Petroleum, The, 657
“Orlando.” and “Undaunted,” Engines and Boilers of H.M.S., 492, 551
Oscillating Engine^ Hartley’s Valve Gear for. 303
Otto Gas Engine, The, 42
Otto Gas Engine Works, The, 405
Our Own Mount Morgan, 619
Ovens, Coke, The Bauer, 500
Overhead Steam Heating Pines 5R4
Oxford Water Works, 468

^T29^£^^^’ Machinery on the, 479,
Pacific, Russian Railway‘^e, 22, 558
Piickinir, Baird’s SletaHic, Wo S nL Steam Piston, 669
Paiis, Wood Pulp. 21
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, 127 FaSaCan^lJhc 151 215,655 ^“’’‘^jMiUs TheWne1d,201 pX Eibibitio"
Paritand Scott’s Four-Pole Dynamo, 263 P^rk^Thc VeUowstone, 828, 302, 373, 415, 451,
Parliament, Liquid Fuel _in, 2OT Parry’s Fusible Safety I lug, o03
Pnaaeiieer Ixcomotive, Express; London and S-Wcrtcrn Railway, 185, 211 263, 675
Patent Composite Steel and Iron, 209 latent Reco^. Tbe. 31. 59. 83,109,135,163,187, ^13 239 265 293, 317, 343, 371, 397,421,447, 47?: 493, 515:541, 565,591, 613, 639, 665, 689 Patents, Foreign, 308
Patents, Lapsed, 17
Patents, Renewal Bees on, 255 Pearl, The Southern Cross 207
Ped'esUHo" C^lHerj^Tubs, Self-Lubricating, 587
Peninsular'and OrVental Steam Navigation Com- ^paS New Steamer. “ BriUnnia," The 467
pJrmLcnt Magnet Ammeters and Voltmeters of Invariable Sensibility, 11
PorsiAii Railway Concession, The, 150 petroleum Bulk Transport and the United States,
Petaoleum, Combustion of, upon the Locomotives of the Elevated Railway in New York,
Petaoleum Exhibition, The International, 633
Petroleum Fields, The Ind””’’ Petroleum, A New Rival to American, 129
Phenyl-Tlio-Carbimidc, Optical Properties of, 638
Ptotographic Process, The Cellener - Parkes, Ph'otography of Moving Projectiles, 667
Physfcal and Chemical Sections of the British Pl^^ca^and Mathematical Section of the British PhyXl"properties of Manganese Steel, The, Zli on M*iI^Stes?stance by Professor W E.
Ayrtan and Profesor J. Perry, F.R.S., 11
On Sounding Coils, by Professor W Stroud, D.Sc.,and Mr. J. Mertheimer B.Sc., 11
On Comparing Capacities, by Mr. E. O. ue- On the ESects of Change in Temperature in Twisting or Untwisting Wires which have Suffered Peimanent Torsion, by Herbert Tomlinson, B.A., 11
On Permanent Magnet Amiiieters and Volt- meters of Invariable Sensibility, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and Professor J. Perry, F R S 11
On a Geometrical Method of Determining the Condition of Maximum Efficiency in the Transmission of Power by Alternating Currents, by Mr. T. IL Blakesley, M.A., 540
On the Analogies of Influence Marines and Dynamos, by Professor S. P. Thompson,
On the Effects Produced on the Thermo-Electric Properties of Iron when under Stre^ or Strain by Raising the Temperature to a Bright Red Heat,^by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, B. A., 590 .
On a Method of Discriminating Real from Accidental Coincidences between the Lines of Different Spectra with some Applications, by Mr. E. T. J. Love, M.A., 590 ,
On the Optical Properties of Phenyl-Thio-Lar bimide, by Mr. H. G. Mad an, 638
On the Recalescence of Iron, by Mr. H. lom- linson, 638 „ , „„ j
On the Rotation of a Copper Sphere and of Copper Wire Helices when freely Suspend^eQ in S Magnetic Field, by Dr. R. C. Shettle^S Pipes, Copper, and Brazed Joints, Tests of, oo
Piston-Packing Rings, 33
Piston Packing, Steam, 669 n„„„np nf a
Plane of Transverse Section, The Influence of a, on the Magnetic Permeability of Iron, 378
Planing Machine, Rotary, Bement and Miles s, Plate-Bending Rolls, Smith’s V ertical, 248
Platinum, The Radiation of Melting, 286
Plug, Parry’s Fusible Safety, 503 ,
Pneumatic Carpet Cleaner, Warsop s, 481
Pneumatic Pulveriser, 39 .
Porcelain Switch, Dorman and Smiths, zio
Porous Pots, Cork, 234
Port-Arthur, 21
Port Improvements at Yalta, 207 .
Portable Engine, MerryweatheFs Light, 380 Portland Cement, 274
Ports, The Mersey, 275
Poughkeepsie Bridge, The, 217 .
Powell’s Compound Condensing Tandem Engine, 500 ... , i-n
Power and Foot Lathes, Astbury s, 170
Power of Waves, The Transporting, (3
Prague Water Works, Pumping Engines for tn ,
Precipitation Works at Barking Creek, 633
Presentation to Mr. Thomas Hawkslej , lu
Preservation of Stone, 262
Pressure in Marine Engines, Limit of, m
Pressure, Solidification by, 184
Primary Cell, A Lithanode, 129
Primitive Electric Gas Lighter, A, 416
Printing Machine, Marinoni Stop-Cjlmder,
Printing Works, Electric Motors in, 287
Prize, Gunning Victoria Jubilee, 101
Process, A New Alkali, 47
Proctor’s Mechanical Stoker, 259
E?ectro?Lr Current with Varying
l‘^571597i67°®®'°P“®"‘ ^’’e'ne,
402
^378®’’^'^® Manganese Steel, The Physical.
Public Coans to Harbours, 411
Pulllv W» '" United States, 657
Pulleys.'IsJ™®'" Johnson’s 2\djustable, 173
Pulv.’.nt®®'^;,^®"' Uses for, 202
Pumn n 39

S’ q,?®'’?*’?;'!’® Quadruple, 195
Pumn’ ’ T^y’o"’ ‘‘"‘1 Neate’s, 29
PnmS’ ’’ Clrendon’s, 454
PS ^X^^®O"’8 Oriental, 257
Puinpinir Vacuum, 25
Punic Engine, Fowler’s Geared, 70
Pumping Engines, 349
PumSnff Watford, Compound, 457
MaUa,%2^“ Dockyard at
Pumps. 404, hl 534, 1 umpa, Air, Mercurial, 549 Vyroiuagnetic Dynamo, The, 466
^481.‘?yji®-®’'Po.nsion Marine Engines, Brock’s, nu»nn"iJ’'®jPn“?P’ *^oodhrand’s, 195
Queensland Railways, 79
Yachts, 543
n X- Boring Machine Hulse’s 49
f*^O"’ Dull and Bright Surfaces 39o’
RadHt'°” Platinum, The, 286 ’
Radiation, Thermal, 466
„ !)’ lender’s Endless, 609
wS,^g4To*’ Uawkesbury. New South
Railway Accident, The Hexthorpe, 683 The Asia Minor, 184
Railway Bridge at Sealand, New, 184
Russia, 39^^'“" Pacific, Influence of the. on
Railway, The Candahar, 511, 683 anT-^nvv ®®’oon ; Lancashire Railway, 38
BurnralF3“4’“’”’’“”'‘‘°" ’’«‘"'®®u India and Concessions. The Persian, 150
Railway Crisis in South Africa, The, 391
Railway, The Forth Bridge, Report on, 478 Railway, The Khyber, 53
Railway. The Lulea-Ofoten, 656
Railway South Africa, Impending, 534
Railway, theMu, The Abandonment of, 439 i
Railway to the Pacific, Russian, 22, 558
Railway, The Red River Valley, 511
Railway to the Russian Manganese Ore Mines, 416
Railway Safety Appliances, 87
Railway, The Siberian, 632
Railway Sleepers, 333
Railway, The South African Through, 440
Railway Suspension Bridge, The Niagara, 695
Railway, The Swedish Norwegian, 129
Railway Wheels, Steel Produced by Skidding 333
Railways in China, 207 ’
Railways, Indian and American, 079
Railways, Queensland, 79
Railways, Reorganisation of the Russian Ministry of, 610 •’
Railways, Russian, Double Tracking 533
Railways in Sweden, 78
Railways for Tonquin and our Lethargy in Burmah, 262
Railways, Traffic on Russian, 313
Raising an American Obelisk, 417 Raising the “ Locksley Hall,” 198
Ransomes and Rapier’s “All-Round” Titan Crane, 304
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Steam Thrashing and Straw-Chopping Machine, 12 “
Rawlinson’s Grindstone, 301
Raworth’s Friction Driving Gear, 658
Record, The Patent, 31, 59, 83, 109, 135, 163 187 213, 239, 265, 293, 317, 343, 371, 397, 421, 447 471, 493, 515, 541, 565, 591,613, 639, 665, 689 ’
Reduction of Iron Ores, The, 320, 340
Refrigerating Apparatus, Test of, 99
Regime of Estuaries and the Possibility of Small Scale Experiments, The, 274
Regulator, Arc, A New, 101
“ Reina Regente,” The New Spanish Armoured Cruiser, 441
Remarks on the Speed of Yachts, 594 616
Removal of Metal by Emery Wheels’, Hammer and Chisel, and Files, The Cost of, 511 ’
Removing Boiler Covers under Pressure, 633
Renewal Fees on Patents, 255
Resistances and Induction, Electric, 335
Resistance of Stone to Crushing, The, 348
Results of Improved Sewerage at Boston, U.S.,
Reversing Lever Latch, May’s, 393
Review, The Naval, 90
Revolver, The Kynoch, 419 Revolving Engine, A, 332
Rhodes’s Semi-Mule, 500
Riedel’s Fireless Mining Locomotive, 148
Rifles, Magazine, 497
Rings, Piston Packing, 33
Hiva'r.y in W’heat Transport, 78
River Don, Improving the, 21
Rivetter, Allen’s Compressed Air, 302
Roads, The Improvements in, 558
Robey’s Vertical Engine, 608
Robinson’s Brick-Cutting Table, 43
Robinson’s Mortising and Boring Machine, 301
Robinson and Sons’ Works, Rochdale, 641
Robinson’s Variety Moulding Machine, 600
Rock Drill, The Ingersoll Duplex, 159
Roger’s Steering Gear, 100
Roller Friction, 198
Roller Milling, 56
Rotary Planing Machine, Bement and Miles’s, 522
^p«aded?n Sphere when Freely Sus-
Routr 635
Roval ’ PnlJ- Strait, 86
the, Steam Launch for
|upe8“lrt^^°!°f^’g’Society, The, 528, 672
«ule. Gravel’s Calculating 512
Russia? BSB^u°ldVn’g^n\°o!°"’® f°‘’’ Russia, Coke in, 73 ’
Russian CO®JT*"? 262
Russian P^P^ession in the, 335
Russ an S£Sea. 5S3
Rmta S^XS'S^riS'’’’’”’
Russian Iron Works, A New 207
Russian Torpedo Boats, Trials of, 489

Saw Bench, Birch’s Circular, 90
sZdIL vU*Bars, Snowdon’s, 455 477/522,
Separating Industry in, 449,
Scholarship, The Craven, 533
Schools, The Ventilation of, 184
for tande^436 American Association
Scorer, Cricket, Paget’s, 118
Screw Gauge, The B. A,, 376
Sculpture, Natural, 440
Sea Telephony, 364
Sea Water, Concrete in, 202
Seaport, Paris as a, 657
Seek’s Lubricator, 237
Secret, The KeeJy Motor, 332
Self Lubricating Pedestal for Colliery Tubs. 587 ^eher 8
Single-Crank Compound Engine, 650
Semi-Mule, Rhodes’s, 500
Severn Tunnel, The, 274, 290
Sewage at Bury St. Edmunds, 207
Sewage at Norwich, 336
Sewerage Works at Acton, The New, 248
Sewerage at Boston, U.S,, Results of Improved,
Sewerage, Ilenley-on-Thames, 441
Sewers, The Air of, 78
Sharping Machine, Cylinder, Bement and Miles’s,
Sharing, Profit, A Problem in, 112
Shearing Machine, 1000-Ton Hydraulic: Drum-' peller Steel Works, 648
Shearing Machine, Schultz and Goebel’s, 12
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 177, 241, 275, 300,
Shipbuilding, Basic Steel for, 131
Shipbuilding on the Forth, 672
Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Palmer’s, 127
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in Dundee in 1887, 650
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom, Diagrams of, 251
Short Belts, Driving Dynamos with, 129
Siberian Exhibition, A, 510
Siberian Railway, The, 632
Signal Trumpet, An Electric, 261
Signalling Balloon, Bruce’s, 184
Silent Discharge, Influence of, 402
Silver and Gold, 316, 419, 445
Silver in Volcanic Ash, 234
Single-Crank Compound Engine, Seller’s, 550
Single-Cylinder Hauling Engine, Fowler’a, 70
Sizing Machine Drying Cylinders, 632
Skidding Railway Wheels, Steel Produced bv 333
Skye Diatoms, The, 78
Sleeper, Steel, The Hoerde, 185
Sleepers, Railway, 333
Slurry Pump, Taylor and Neate’s, 29
Smelting Gold and Silver Ores, 681
Smith and Coventry’s Bevel Wheel-Cutting Machine, 6
Smith and Coventry’s Cone Chuck, 70

SMITHFIELD SHOW, .THE :

Endless Rail, FendeFs, 609
Engine, Vertical, Robey’s, 608
Engines, 608
Implements, 609
Thrashing Machine Bearings, Garrett’s. 608
Thrashing Machine, Gibbons and Robinson’s. 609

Smith’s Vertical Plate-Bending Rolls, 248
Smoke, Dispersing, bj^ Electricity, 101
Snowdon’s Drill, 455
Snowdon’s Saw for Cutting Steel Angle Bars, 455
Snowdon’s Tube Cutter, 455
Society’^ of Arts, The, 533, 599
Society, The Mineralogical, 492, 526
Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 581,607,617
Soirees of the British Association, The, 312
Solar Phenomena and Magnetism, 21
Solar Spectrum, 334
Solid Brass, A New Method of Making Tubes from, 139
Solidification by Pressure, 184
Sounding Coils, 11
South Africa, Impending Railway Mania in, 534
South African Diamond Fields, The, 219, 245
South African Railway, The Through, 440
South-West, Notes from the, 14, 68, 71, 91, 134 148, 174, 199, 227, 264, 279, 305, 329, 370, 392,’ 418, 446, 470, 484, 501, 527, 552, 673, 612, 634 676
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 14, 41,71. 91 117, 174, 199, 227, 253, 288, 305, 329, 365* 392, 417, 432, 459, 482, 512, 535, 552, 572. 611 634, 677
Southern Cross Pearl, The, 207
Spanish Armoured Cruiser “ Reina Regente.” The New, 441
Spanish Torpedo Boat “ Ariete,” The, 81, 484 Spectra, Absorption, 403
Spectrum, Solar, 334
Speech, Telephonic, The Limiting Distance of, 78
Speed of Yachts, Remarks on the, 694, 616
Spindless Metallic Valve, Lockwood’s, 237
Stafford Corporation Gas Works, Sulphate of Ammonia Plant at the, 405
Standard Cell, A New, 184
Standards, Electrical, 335
Stanley’s Wheel Pen, 500
Station, Cromer; Eastern and Midlands Railway, 598
Station, Goods, The Midland New, 501
Steam Engine, Distribution of Heat in the, 57, 106, 386
Steam for Extinguishing Fires, 412
Steam Launch for the Royal Engineers, Chatham, 380
Steam Navigation, Foreign, 557
Steam Pipe Explosion on Board the s.s. ‘’Elbe,’ 361, 437, 465, 487, 646, 654, 661
Steam Piston Packing, 669
Steam Pump, Grendon’s, 454
Steam Thrashing and Straw-Chopping Machine, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’, 12
Steam Tug “Midge” for St. Lucia, The, 89
Steam Veneer Cutters, Direct-Acting, 138
Steam Windlass, Clark, Chapman, and Parson’s, 100
Steam Windlass, Harfield’s, 100
Steam Yacht, A Fast, 156
Steamer “ Britannia,” The New P. and 0,, 4(7
Steamer, Salvage, and Tugboat ” ' “ The, 405
Steamers on the Volga, New, 53
Steamers, The World’s, 335 Steamship “Electra,” The, 587
Steamship “Lahn,” The, 540
Steel Anchors, Cast, 672 Steel, Basic, 141
Steel, Basic, for Shipbuilding, 131
Steel Ingots, Blow-Holes in, 580
Steel and Iron, Patent Composite, 209
Steel Plates, The Manufacture of, 29, 133, 161
Steel Produced by Skidding Railway Wheels, 333
Steel Projectiles, 462
Steel Sleeper, The Hoerde, 185
Steel Tramway Wheels and Axles, Interchangeable, 574
Steel Tyres, Cloud’s Method of Fastening, 237
Steering Gear, Barge, Taylor and Neate’s, 354
Steering Gear, Napier’s Double Screw Hand an Steam, 148
Steering Gear, Roger’s, 100
Stenography, Mechanical, 656
Stephenson’s Locomotive Weighing Apparatus, 257
Stiffened Buttstraps, Mumford’s System of, 675
Stoker, Proctor’s Mechanical, 289
Stone Age, A Survival of the, 335
Stone Breaker, Lowry’s Gyratory, 635
Stone, Preservation of, 26*2
Stone, The Resistance of, to Crushing, 348
Stop-Cylinder Printing Machine, Marinoni, 325
Storage Batteries, The Public Supply of Electricity from, 583
Straight Fullway Valve, The Dennis, 147
Street Tramcars, Electric, 529
Strength of Furnace Tubes, The, 682
Strength of Metals, The Comparative, 159
Stress and Strain on Matter, The Influence of, 583
Stresses on Girder Bracing, 7
Strong Magnetic Fields, 101
Strong Room, Banker’s, 574
Stuart’s Oil, Grease, and Grit Extractor, 674
Submarine Boat, Dr. Gustav de Laval’s New, 102
Submarine Mining, 1, 37, 76, 113, 164, 165, 189, 231, 295, 361, 400, 426, 453, 473, 495, 568, 642
Submarine Torpedo Boats, 680
Subway, The City of London and Southwark, 310
Sulphate of Ammonia Plant at the Stafford Corporation Gas Works, 405
Sulphate of Lime, The Phosphorescence of, 129
“Sunflower ” Lamp, Thwaite’s, 258
Supplementary Draining Pumps for H.M. Dockyard, Malta, 224
Suram Tunnel, The, 511
Surfaces, Radiation from Dull and Bright, 390
Suspension Bridge, The Niagara Railway, 595
Sweden, Railways in, 78
Swedish Explosive, The New, 18
Swedish Ironclad, New, 207, 490
Swedish-Norwegian Railway, A, 129
Switch, Porcelain, Dorman and Smith’s, 276
Switches, Compound, and Brush Contact, Hartnell’s, 443
Syphon, A Large, 51
Syphon Water Meter, Cowan’s, 574

Tandem Engine, Inverted, Browett and Lindley’s, 428
Tandem Engine, Powell’s Compound Condensing, 500
Tandem Mill Engine, Buckley and Taylor’s Horizontal Compound, 223
Tangye Gas Hammer, The, 375
Tank Locomotive, Black, Hawthorn, and Co.’s, 454
Tank Locomotive; Great Southern Railway of Brazil, 276
Tank Locomotive, Webb’s Compound, 13, 649
Tarante, Italy, Lifting Bridge at, 410, 454, 603
Tay Harbour, The, 203
Tay Jute Works, 203
Tay Viaduct, The, 182
Taylor and Neate’s Barge Steering Gear, 354
Taylor and Neate’s Slurry Pump, 29
Telautograph, The, 207
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 581, 607, 617
Telegraph, The Writing, 248 Telegraphy, Fast Speed, 315, 345
Telegraphy, French, 336
Telegraphy, Jubilee, 156 Telemeter System, The, 348
Telephone, Blake’s Submarine, 489
Telephonic Speech, The Limiting Distance of, 78 Telephony, Sea, 364
Telescopes, Astronomical, at the Manchester Exhibition, 630, 667
Tempering Springs by Electricity, 261
Terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, The Western, 35
Test of Refrigerating Apparatus, 99
Test, Water, Dr. Koch’s Bacteriological, 654
Testing of Turbine Water Wheels in the United States, The Systematic, 33
Tests of Brazed Joints and Copper Pipes, 646, 661
Tests of the Comparative Value of Different Kinds of Belting, 33
Textiles, Dyeing, 401
Thames and Severn Canal, The, 684
Theory and Construction, Wire Gun, 509, 532
Thermal Conductivity of Iron, Copper, and German Silver, 53
Thermal Conductivity and Magnetism, 207
Thermal Radiation, 466
Thermo-Electric Properties of Red-Hot Iron under Stress or Strain, 590
Thorne’s Type - Composing and Distributing Machine, 8
Thornycroft’s Water-Tube Boiler for Torpedo Boats, 104
Thrashing Machine Bearings, Garrett’s, 608
Thrashing Machine, Gibbons and Robinson’s, 609
Thrashing and Straw-Chopping Machine, Steam, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 12
Three-Cylinder Engines of the Ironclad “ Nicolas I,” 195
Thwaite’s “ Sunflower” Lamp, 258
Tides of Tunisia, The, 466
Time in America, Distribution of, 439
Tin, The World’s, 533
Titan Crane, Ransomes and Rapier’s “ All- Round,” 304
Tonquin, Railways for, and our Lethargy in Bunn ah, 262
Tools, Machine, Electro-Magnetic, 151
Torpedo Boat, No. 80, 130
Torpedo Boat, A New, 629
Torpedo Boat, The Accident on a, 48,82
Torpedo Boat “ Ariete,” The Spanish, 81, 484
Torpedo Boats, Submarine, 680
Torpedo Boats, Thornycroft’s Water-Tube Boiler for, 104
Torpedo Boats, Trials of Russian, 489
Torpedo, The Brennan, 2, 124
Torpedo, The Electrical Organ of the, 466
Torsion Balance, The, 312
Traction, Electric, 124
Traction Engine Boiler Explosions, 556
Trades Union, A Proposed Electrical, 461, 486
“ Trafalgar,” H.M.S., 328
Traffic on Russian Railways, 313
Trains, Lighting, by Electricity, 339
Tramcars, Electric Street, 529
Tramway Engine, Greig and Aveling’s, 428
Tramway Locomotive, Black and Hawthorn’s Compound Condensing, 354
Tramway Locomotive ; Wolverton and District Light Railway Company, 222
Tramway Trains, 510
Tramway Wheels and Axles, Interchangeable Steel, 574
Tramways, Electric, 599
Tramways in France, 287
Tramways, Wire Ropes for, 184
“Transatlantic” Metallic Valve, The, 263
Transformers and Alternating Current Dynamos, 348
Transformers, Electrical Distribution by, 406
Transmission of Power, Determining the Maximum Efficiency in the, 540
Transmission of Power, Loss Incurred in the, 571
Transport, Petroleum Bulk, and the United States, 467
Transporting Power of Waves, The, 73
Travelling Brick-Cutting Table, Robinson’s, 43
Trial Trip of the “Ohio,” 90
Trial Trips and Launches, 24, 41, 80, 104, 121, 149, 171, 226, 249, 279, 305, 338, 365, 379, 409, 446, 455, 483, 505, 526, 549, 590, 603, 621, 664, 673
Trials, The Agricultural Engine, at Newcastle, 49, 62, 97, 129, 508, 517, 606
Trials, The Westinghouse Air Brake, 593
Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “Bencroy,” 675
Tube-Cutter, Snowdon’s, 455
Tubes, Furnace, The Strength of, 682
Tubes, New Method of Making, from Solid Brass, 139
Tug “ Midge,” The Steam, for St. Lucia, 89
Tug and Salvage Steamer “The Earl,” The, 405
Tunis, The Forests of, 656
Tunis, Harbour frr, 364
Tunnel in Russia, The Longest, 467
Tunnel, The Severn, 274, 290
Tunnel, The Suram, 511
Turbine Water Wheels, The Systematic Testing of, in the United States, 33
Turkestan, Coal in, 21
Turning and Boring Machine, Vertical, Bement and Miles’s, 223
Twisting or Untwisting Wires which have Suffered Permanent Torsion, On the Effects of Change of Temperature in, 11
Tyne Improvements, 166
Type-Composing and Distributing Machine, Thorne’s, 8
Tyres, Steel, Cloud’s Method of Fastening, 237

“Undaunted” and “Orlando,” Engines and( Boilers of H.M.S., 492, 551
Underground Electrical Conductors, 346
United Kingdom, Diagrams of Shipbuilding in the, 251
United States Electric Light Association, The, 255
United States and the Industrial Union, The, 129
United States Naval Ordnance, 605
United States, Notes from the, 7, 55, 70, 90, 129, 145, 185, 275, 380, 410, 442, 514, 534, 548, 587, 598, 671
Units, Electrical, The Dimensions of the, 610
Universitj'^ College, Liverpool, 390
Ural Iron Industrj’', The, 656
Utilisation of Blast Furnace Creosote, 404

Vacuum and Air-Compressing Pump, Welch’s, 25
Vacuum Pan and Evaporator, FrenzeVs, 645
Valleyfield Paper Mills, The, 204
Valve, The Dennis Straight Fullway, 147
Valve Gear for Oscillating Engines, Hartley’s, 303
Valve, Lockwood’s Spindless Metallic, 237
Valve, The “Transatlantic” Metallic. 263
Variety Moulding Machine, Robinson’s, 600
Vegetation, Clearing Waterways from, 657
Veneer Cutters, Direct-Acting Steam, 138
Ventilating Valve, M’Elroy’s, 257
Ventilation of Schools, The, 184
Vertical Boring and Turning Machine, Bement and Miles’s, 223
Vertical Engine, Hornsby’s High-Speed, 39
Vertical Engine, Robey’s, 608
Vertical Plate-Bending Rolls, Smith’s, 248
Viaduct, a New Zealand, 390
Viaduct, The Tay, 182
“Victoria” and “Britannia,” s.s., Electric Lighting of the, 571
Village Water Supply, 589
Viscosity of Ice, The, 286
Volga, New Steamers on the, 53
Voltaic Combinations, 390, 403
Voltmeter, A Marine, 21

Warehouse and Bridge Flooring, 209
Warships, Defects in the Designs of, 18, 435, 485. 653
Warsop’s Pneumatic Carpet Cleaner, 481
Washington, The City of. District of Columbia. 244, 268
Water Cartridge, The Gelatine, 558
“ Water Hammer ” Action in Steam Pipes—Fatal Explosion at Bradford, 490
Water Meter, Cowan’s Syphon, 574
Water Meter, Frost’s, 303
Water, Sea, Concrete in, 202
Water in September, London, 489
Water Supply of Bradford, The, 440
Water Supply, London, 286
Water Supply, Village, 584
Water Test, Dr. Koch’s Bacteriological, 654
Water-Tight Door, M‘Elroy’s, 514
Water-Tube Boiler for Torpedo Boats. Thorncroft’s, 104
Water Works, Copenhagen, 3G4
Water Works, Edinburgh, 118,192
Water Works, Jersey Wew, 39, 92
Water Works, The bimpsfield and Oxted, 157
Water Works, The Liverpool, 262
Water Works, Oxford, 468
Water Works, The Prague, Pumping Engines for the, 290, 327
Watford, Compound Pumping Engines at, 457
Watson and Laidlaw’s Centrifugal Oil Separator, 29
Watson’s Oriental Pump, 257
Waves, The Transporting Power of, 73
Weather, The, 50, 179, 283, 386, 487, 605
Webb’s Compound Tank Locomotive, 13, 649
Weighing Apparatus, Locomotive, Stephenson’s, 257
Weights and Measures, 632
Welch’s Air-Compressing and Vacuum Pump, 25
Western Terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, The, 35
Westinghouse Air Brake Trials, The, 593
Westinghouse Brake on Freight Trains, The, 511
Weyman and Johnson’s Adjustable Pulley, 173
What are the Needs of our Navy ? 137
Wheat Transport, Rivalry in. 78
Wheel Cutting Machine, Bevel, Smith and Coventry’s, 6
Wheel Pen, Stanley’s, 500
Wheels and Axles, Tramway, Interchangeable Steel, 574
Wigham’s Lamps for Lighthouses, 173
Windlass, Harfield’s Steam, 100
Windlass, Steam, Clarke, Chapman, Parsons and Co, 100
Winn’s Paint Mill, 7
Wire, Copper, 315
Wire Gun Construction and Theory, 509, 532
Wire Ropes for Tramways, 184
Wood Pulp, New' Uses for, 262
Wood Pulp Pails, 21
Wool-Washing Machinery, Macnaught’s, 301
Works, The Elswick, 61, 114, 126
Works, Public, in the United States, 657
Works, Rochdale, Robinson and Sons’, 641
World’s Steamers, The, 335
World’s Tin, The. 533
Writing by Electricity, Multiplex, 439
Writing Telegraph, The, 248

Yachts, Racing and Cruising, 543
Yachts, Remarks on the Speed of, 591, 616
Yalta, Port Improvements at, 207
Yellow’stone Park, The, 328, 362, 373, 415, 451, 545
Yielding Foundations, 410

Zalinski’s Dynamite Gun, 427
Zuider Sea, The Projected Drainage of the, G57

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