Engineering 1888 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABERDEEN, Shipbuilding in 1887 in, 60
Absorption Dynamometer, A New, 396
Accidents, Railway, Prevention of, 110
Accumulators v. Transformers, 518
Accuracy in Tunnel Alignments, 123
Acton Main Drainage Works, The, 678
Administration, Dockyard, 593
Advertisements for Tenders, Bogus, 170
Aerial Wires, 344
Afghanistan, Opening up Mineral Treasures of, 17

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING IN INDIA :

341, 423, 473, 555, 607, 608
Canal and Distributary Alignment, 655
Debarred Tracts, 607
Drainage, 473
Engineering Considerations, 424
Financial Considerations, 424
Introductory, 341
Irrigation Maps, 556
Navigation, 474
Plantation, 473
Revenue, 474
Source of Water Supply, 423
Tateels, 603
Water Distribution, 607

Agricultural Implements in India, 521.
Agricultural Show at Nottingham, The Royal Society's, 398
Air, Electric Conduction by, 93
Air Propeller, The Blackman, 201
Air Propeller, Matthews and Yates's, 125
Air Thermometer, Constant Volume, 43
Alarm, Burglar, Automatic, 308
Alexandra Dock, The, 137
Alkali Process, Another New, 365
Alloys, 271, 284, 345
Alternate Current Dynamo, The Mordey, 538
Aluminium, 546
Amenities, Professional, 70
American Competition in South Africa, 438
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 43
American Machine Tools, 186
American Pipe Line, A New, 439
American Railway Bridges, Condition of, 175
American Society of Civil Engineers, 394, 425
American Warships, 321
Analysis of Deep Sea Dredgings, 148
Anti-Primer, Duncan's, 612
Anti-Pulsator, Bray's, 308
Antiseptic, A New, 148
Arc Lamp, A New, 520
Arc Lamps, Disc, 297
Arch, The, 48
Architects' Registration Bill, 369, 306
Armour and Projectiles, 67
Armour-Clad " Italia," The, 158
Arms, Rapid-Firing, 27, 147, 196
Armstrong and Mitchell's 11-Inch Howitzer, 8
Arsenic, The Effect of, on Mild Steel, 480
Arsenic in Iron and Steel, 478
Asquith's 18-Inch Treble-Geared Lathe, 559
Associated Chambers of Commerce, The, 198
Assessment and Measure, Water Charges by, 646
Astronomical Clock, A New, 297
Atmospheric Electricity, 324
Auckland Sugar Works, The, 121
" Aurora," Belted Cruiser, The, 626
Automatic Burglar Alarm, 308
Automatic Fire Alarm, 558
Automatic Firearms, The Development of, 79, 1 09, 622
Automatic Injector, Gresham and Craven's Combination, 588
Automatic Sprinklers, 438
Axles, Car, Steel, 81

Baku Oil King, The Death of the, 396
Balanced Hydraulic Lifts, Chatwood's, 34
Balsam, Electrified, 16
Barometer, A Spider's Web, 148
Battery, Cooke's Galvanometric, 512
Battery, The Weymersch, 625
Beams, Old Puzzle about the Strength of, 641
Bearing, Collar, The Friction of a, 460, 467
Beck Gas Engine, The, 433, 466, 468
Beesley's Furnace Boiler, 7
Belgian Railway Economy, 620
Bell, Steavenson, and Cleugh's Hydraulic Rock Drill and Carriage, 165
Belt Casings in Mills, 92
Belt Driving, 308
Belted Cruiser " Aurora," The, 626
Belting, Half-Cross, 128
Bement and Miles's Locomotive Cylinder Boring Machine, 186
Bement and Miles's Steam Hammers, 84
Bement and Miles's Tyre Boring and Turning Machine, 186
Bending Copper Pipe and Testing Press, 652
Berdan Torpedo System, The, 125
Bergen-Christiania Railway, The Contemplated, 622
Berry and Sons' Treble-Geared Lathe, 586
Berry's Plate-Straightening Machine, 135
Bessemer's Hydraulic Tube Press, 75
Bever's High-Speed Engine, 102
Bill, Architects' Registration, 369, 396
Birmingham Cable Tramway, The, 315
Bishop's Castle at the Glasgow Exhibition, 547
Bismuth, Effect of Magnetisation on the Thermo Electrical Properties of, 128
Black Sea Fleet, The Russian, 651
Black Sea, New Steamers in the, 197
Black Sea Steamer Subsidies, 370
Blackman Air Propeller, The, 201
Blades, Propeller, Material best Suited for, 355
Blast Furnace Charges, 63
Blast Furnaces, Working with Natural Gas, 122
Bleaching Kiers, The Strength of, 92
Blocks or Stone Partially Loaded, Resistance of, 418
Blower, Roots, 640
Boat Propulsion, " Zephyr " System of, 517, 609
Boats, Submarine, and Diving, 354
Bofors Steel Gun, The, 510
Bogert's 10k-Inch Screw Cutting and Surfacing Lathe, 161
Bogus Advertisements for Tenders, 170
Boiler, Beesley's Furnace, 7
Boiler and Engine, The Shipman, 495
Boiler Explosion, The Dudley, 39, 7b
Boiler Explosion at the Friedenshtitte, 279
Boiler Explosion at Grays, Destructive, 176
Boiler Explosion, The Pelsall, 42
Boiler Explosion near Stockport, Rag, 223, 268
Boiler Explosions in 1887 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 454, 497
Boiler Fitting, Weir's Combination, 630
Boiler Legislation, Steam, 408
Boilers, Petroleum in, 107
Boilers, Steam, Proportions of, 396
Boilers, Working and Test Pressures for, 302, 322
Bokhara by Rail, To, 369
Bombay, Proposed Graving Docks at, 481
Boreholes, Conveying Power by, 318
Boring Machine, General, Wilkinson and Lister's, 332
Boring and Surfacing Lathe, Lang's, 212
Boring and Turning Machine, Tyre, Bement and Miles's, 186
Boston, The City of, 683, 626, 633
Boston Hot-Water System, The, 270, 558
Brake, Railway Wagon, Lawcock's, 578
Brake, Westinghouse, for Freight Trains, The New Quick-Acting, 235
Brass Drawing, A Large, 269
Bray's Anti-Pulsator, 308
Brazil, An Unexplored Corner of, 222
Break Lathe, Asquith's 18k-Inch Treble-Geared,, 559
Brick and Stone Bridges of Large Span, 95
Bridge, The Dufferin ; Oude and Rohilkund Railway, 177
Bridge Floors, Railroad, 107
Bridge, The Forth, 95, 406, 452, 611
Bridge, Howe Truss Timber, across the Willamette River, Albany, Oregon, 9
Bridge over the Hudson River, 221
Bridge, The Jubilee, 98
Bridge, Kentucky and Indiana, Louisville, 85
Bridge over the Lawrence River at Lachine ; Canadian Pacific Railway, 3b9
Bridge, The Manhattan, over the Harlem River, New York, 425
Bridge, The Sukkur Cantilever, 229
Bridge, The Tower, 246
Bright, Sir Charles Tilston, 4e6
British Trade, 253
Brown's Dynamo, Electrical Transmission of Power by, 380
Bruce, Sir George Barclay, 672
Buildings, Portable, Lucker's, 110
Bullets for Small Bore Rifles, 418
Buoys, Mooring and Marking, Campbell and Schultz's, 139
Burglar Alarm, Automatic, 308
Burmah and China, Railway Connection of, 367
Burmah, Engineering, into Tranquility, 439
Burmese Railways, 222
Burton's Magazine Rifles, 575

Cable Ropeway, Otto System of, 332
Cable Tramway, The Birmingham, 3.5
Caird, Mr. James T., 122
Campbell and Schultz's Marking and Mooring Buoys, 139
Canal Lift, Hydraulic, La Louviere, 201
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 569, 696, 617
Canal, The Orebro, Sweden, 699
Canal, The Panama, 17, 95, 571
Canal, The Perekop, 517
Canal, The Suez, 269, 573
Canal in Sweden, Projected New, 197
Cantilever Bridge, The Sukkur, 229
Capstan Engine, Rigg's Hydraulic, with Variable Power, 61
Car Axles, Steel, 81
Car, A New Sleeping, 625
Carbo-Dynamite, 393
Carbon in the Sun, 573
Carrier Pigeons in the Navy, 269
Casings, Belt, in Mills, 92
Cast Iron, Silicon and Sulphur in, 461, 499, 526
Casting Iron upon Lace, 149
Casting in Steel and Bronze, 438
Casualties, Torpedo Boat, 68
Cell, A Standard, 93
Cement, The Influence of Sugar upon, 102, 125
Cement, Painting, 297
Cement, The Strength of, 80
Centennial Exhibition, The Melbourne, 650
Central Station Lighting, 438
Centrifugal Pumps, 31
Centrifugal Sewage Pumping Engine, Drysdale's, 210
Chambers of Commerce, The Associated, 198
Charges, Blast Furnace, 63
" Charter " Gas Engine, The, 151
Chatwood's Balanced Hydraulic Lifts, 34
China and Burmah, Railway Connection of, 367
China, South-Eastern, The Meteorology of, in 1 886, 420
Chlorine, Effect of, on the Electromotive Force of a Voltaic Couple, 578
City of Boston, The, 583, 626, 633
"City of New York," The Inman Steamer, 248, 260, 628
City of Philadelphia, 233, 258
City and Southwark Subway, The, 573
City of Philadelphia, 233, 258
Civil Engineers, American Society of, 394, 425
Civil Engineers' Grievance4, 487, 521
Civil Engineers in India, 543

CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 550, 576

Harrison, Mr. Thomas, E., 3f0
On the Erection of the " Jubilee " Bridge Carrying the East Indian Railway over the River Hooghly at Hooghly, by Sir Bradford Leslie, K.C.I.E., M.I.C.E., 98
On the Use and Testing of Open-Hearth Steel for Boilermaking, by the Late Mr. Hamilton Goodall, A.M.I.C.E., 32
On the Alexandra Dock, Hull, by Mr. A. C. Hurtzig, M I C.E., 137
On the Economic Use of the Plane Table in Topographical Surveying, by Mr. Josiah Pierce, Jun., M.A., A.M.S.C,E., 163
On Manganese in its Application to Metallurgy, by Mr. Robert Abbott Hadfield, A.M.I.C.E., 246
On Some Novel Properties of Iron and Manganese, by Mr. Robert Abbott Hadfield, A.M.I.C.E., 246
On Economy Trials of a Non-Condensing Steam Engine—Simple, Compound, and Triple, by Mr. P. W. Willans, M.I.C.E., 269
On Compressed Oil-Gas and its Applications, by Mr. Arthur Ayres, M.I.C.E., 371
On the Distribution of Hydraulic Power in London, by Mr. Edward Bayzand Ellington, M.I.C.E., 408
On the Tay Viaduct, Dundee, by Mr. Peter Crawford Barlow, B.A., NI.I.C.E., 496

Civil Engineers, The Registration of, 266
Cleaning Metal and Stonework, 396
Cleansing Water Mains, 373
Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 37, 64, 97, 124, 141, 1 66, 191, 224, 234, 263, 289, 311, 333, 363, 389, 411, 441, 453, 485, 515, 511, 564, 590, 616, 642
Clock, A Large, 672
Clock, A New Astronomical, 297
Clock, Watchman a Record, A New, 626
Closing Sebastopol to Commerce, 344
Cloud Measurements, Some Methods of, 165
Cloud Movements near the Equator, Observations on, 615
Club, The Electric, of New York, 195
Clutch, Edmeston's, 185
Clyde Passenger Steamers, New High-Speed, 676
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1 887, 185, 274
Clydebank, New Dock at, 309
Coal, Russian, in the Black Sea, 270
Coal, South African, 599
Coast Defence, 217
Cobalt, The Electric Resistance of, 122, 221
Coblyn's Steel Permanent Way, 50
Coefficient of Expansion by Heat, A Simple Apparatus for the Measurement of the, 500
Cold Pericd from September, 18S7, to May, 188F, 615
Colouring Maps of the Ordnance Survey, 6:,'5
Collapsible Lifeboat, Shepherd's, 574
Collar Bearing, The Friction of a, 460, 467
Collies ies, Safety Lamps in, 601
Collisions at S( a, 358
Collmann's Valve Gear, Compound Engine with, 112
Combination Automatic Injector, Gr(sham and Craven's, 588
Combination Boiler Fitting, Weir's, 630
Combustion with Natural and Forced Draught, 151, 186, 225
Commercial Education, 198
" Cornpactum " Fresh - Water Distiller, Kirkaldy's, 640
Competition, American, in South Africa, 438
Competition, German, 169
Competition, Liquid Fuel, in Russia, 270
Compound Corliss Mill Engines, Douglas and Grant's, 283, 332
Compound Engine, Fleming and Ferguson's Quadruple- Expansion, 538
Compound Express Locomotive ; North-Eastern Railway, 309, 360
Compound and Non-Compound Engines, Steam Consumption of, 259
Compound Steam Turbine, Parsons', 35
Compresbcd Air Tramcar, The Mekarski, 287
Compressed Oil-Gas, 371
Concealing the Presence of Torpedo Bats, 93
Concrete in Sea Water, 100
Conch nser, ltayner's Volute Double-Distilling, 32
Conquering a Quicksand, 118
" Constant" System of Notation for Model Experiments, The, 329
Constant-Volume Air Thermometer, 43
Consumption, Steam, of Compound and Non-Compound Engines, 259
Continuous Moulding Machinery, 478
Contrast in Railway Progress, A, 600
Convention, The Electric Light, 310
Conversazione of the Royal Society, The, 595
Converters, Electric, Application of, 370
Conveying Power by Boreholes, 318
Cooke's Galvanometric Battery, 512
Copenhagen Exhibition, The, 518
Copper-Extraction Process, A New, 621
Copper at Low Temperature, The Electric Resistance of, 625
Copper Pipe Testing and Bending Press, 652
Copper Pipes, Electrolytically Formed, 95
Corliss Engine, Horizontal, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.'s, 384
Corliss, George Henry, 295
Corliss Mill Engints, Compound, Douglas and Grant's, 283, 332
" Cornish " Pumping Engine, Evans's, 307
Cost of Gas, Oil, and Electricity, Relative, 297
Coupling and Uncoupling Devices, Wagon, Hill's, 1 99
" Courier," Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 6
Crampton. Mr, Thomas Russell, 415
Crane, 12-Ton Steam " Goliath," The Darlington Wagon and Engineering Co, 32
Cruiser " Aurora," Belted, 626
Cruiser " Vesuvius," The Dynamite, 512
Cruisers, Mercantile, 245, 291
Curtain of Water, A, 599
" Cyclone" Dust Collector, The, 224, 397
Cyclone Pulveriser, The, 622, 5:36
Cylinder Boring Machine, Locomotive, Bement and Miles's, 186
Czar's Domain, The, 572

Dam of San Francisco Water Works, The, 17
Davey's Expansive Working Pumping Engine, 385
De la Vergne System of Refrigeration, 589, 626
Death of the Baku Oil King, The, 396, 607
Debate on the Navy Estimates, The, 265
Deep Sea Dredgings, Analysis of, 148
Defence, Coast, 217
Defence, Naval, 517
Defences, Imperial, 567
Defences, The National, 117
Design, Warship, 296, 321
Destruction of Stand-Pipes, 123
Determination of Phosphorus in Tron and Steel, 346
Development of Automatic Firearms, The, 79 1 09, 622
Development of Trade with Burmah, 43
Diagram for Electric Wiring, A, 175
Diagrams, Indicator, 107
Diametral Physiography, 184
Diamond Drill in the Pyramids, A, 624
Diamonds, South African, 175, 490
Diaries and Year Books, 97
Dickinson's Patent Screw Propellers, 408
Dielectric, The Properties of a, 270
Dilute Solutions and Gases as regards Gay Lussac's and Bayle's and Avogadro's Laws,
On the Analogy between, 600
Disc Arc Lamps, 297
Disinfecting Used in Germany, Methods of, 319
Distribution of Electricity, 122
Distribution of Hydraulic Power, 408
Distiller, The " Con3pactum" Fresh-Water, 640
Diving and Submarine Boats, 354
Dock, The Alexandra, 137
Dock at Clydebank, New, 309
Dock Matters at Hull, 149
Docks at Bombay, Proposed Graving, 481
Dockyard Administration, 593
Dockyard at Libau, The Russian, 293
Dodge's Machine for Handling Coal, 29
Domain, The Czar's, 572
Double-Distilling Condenser, Rayner's Volute, 32
Double-Spindle Drilling Machine, Rushworth's, 452
Doubling the Grand Trunk, 396
Douglas and Grant's Compound Corliss Mill Engine, 283, 332
Doxford's Propeller Planing Machine, 84
Drainage, Indian, 473
Drainage Works, The Acton Main, 578
Draught, Forced, 327, 347, 350
Draught, Natural and Forced, Combustion with, 1 51, 186, 225
Draughtsman's Provident Society, The, 32
Drill, A Diamond, in the Pyramids, 624
Drilling Machine and Carriage, Hydraulic, 165
Drilling Machine, High-Speed, Selig and Sonnenthal's, 248
Drilling Machine, Rushworth's Double-Spindle, 452
Drilling Machine, Wild's Hand-Power, 185
Drilling Machinery, Rock, Schram's, 551
Driving, Belt, 308
Drysdale's Centrifugal Sewage Pumping Engine, 210
Ducker's Portable Buildings, 110
Dudley Boiler Explosion, The, 39, 75
Dufferin Bridge, The ; Oude and Rohilkund Railway, 177
Duncan's Anti-Primer, 512
Dust Collector, The " Cyclone," 224, 397
Duval's Metallic Packing, 454
Dynamite Cruiser " Vesuvius," The, 612
Dynamite Guns, Pneumatic, 119
Dynamo, The Mordey Alternate Current, 538
Dynamometer, A New Absorption, 396
Dynamos, Brown's, Electrical Transmission of Power by, 380

Earth Current Variations, 148
Edison's New Laboratory, 69
Edmeston's Clutch, 185
Education, Commercial, 198
Education of Engineers in Prussia, The, 418
Effects of Lightning on Electrical Apparatus, The, 344
Efficiency of Incandescent Lamps with Direct and Alternating Currents, The, 223
Eiffel Tower, The, 594
Electric Club of New York, The, 195
Electric Company, The Thomson-Houston, 658
Electric Conduction by Air, 93
Electric Converters, Application of, 370
Electric Discharging Points, The Heating of 1 48
Electric Dog Cart, Volk's, 16
Electric Furnace, A New, 175
Electric Light Plant, Portable, 134

ELECTRIC LIGHTING

Arc Lamp, A New, 520
Central Station Lighting, 438
Diagram for Electric Wiring, A, 176
Disc Arc Lamps, 297
Distribution of Electricity, 122
Electric Light Convention, The, 310
Electric Light in Scandinavia, 298
Electric Lighting of Trains, The, 344
Electric Projectors, Statter's, 652
Fire Office Rules, 243, 315, 369
Fire Risks of Electric Lighting, 490, 619
Incandescent Lamps, 222
Incandescent Lamps with Direct and Alternating Currents, Efficiency of, 223
Portable Electric Light Plant, 134
Relative Cost of Gas, Oil, and Electricity, 297
Standard, A New Electric, 599

Electric Resistance of Cobalt, The, 122, 221
Electric Resistance of Copper at Low Temperatures, The, 625
Electric Rifles, 369
Electric Standard, A New, 599
Electric " Sunstroke," 70
Electric Tramway, The Lineff, 94
Electric Wiring, A Diagram for, 175
Electrical Distribution of Time, The, 10
Electrical Engineers, American Institute of, 43
Electrical Resistance of Bismuth, Influence of Magnetism and Temperature on the, 123
Electrical Stress, Optical Demonstration of, 128
Electrical Transmission of Power by Brown's Dynamo, 380
Electrical Welding, 85, 572
Electricians and Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 40, 118, 171, 195, 244, 267, 316, 392, 413, 436, 489, 518, 516
Electricity Applied to Engineering, 172, 202, 212, 237
Electricity, Distribution of, 122
Electricity and the Law, 44
Electricity in Mines, 476
Electrified Balsam, 16
Electro-Dynamometer for Determining the Differences of Phase of Two Currents of Electricity, 272
Electrolysis, Experiments on, 223, 576
Electrolytically Formed Copper Pipes, 95
Electromotive Force by Contact, 441
Electromotive Force of a Voltaic Couple, Effect of Oblorine on the, 678
Electromotor for Tramcars, A New, 369
Elevated Railroads, New York, Overcrowding on the, 16
Elevator System, The Hydro-Electric, 319
Emery Testing Machine, The, 462, 481, 612
Engine, Bever's High-Speed, 102
Engine and Boiler, The Shipman, 496
Engine, Compound, with Collmann's Valve Gear, 1 12
Engine, Compound Corliss Mill, Douglas and Grant's, 283, 332
Engine, Drysdale's Centrifugal Pumping, 210
Engine, Gas, The Beck, 433, 466, 463
Engine, Gas, The " Charter," 151
Engine, Gas, The Griffin, 381, 551
Engine Governors, 107
Engine, Horizontal Corliss, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.'s, 384
Engine, Petroleum, Priestman's, 481
Engine, Pumping, Davey's Expansive Working, 385
Engine, Pumping, Evans's Cornish, 307
Engine, Quadruple - Expansion, Fleming and Ferguson's, 538
Engine, Rigg's Hydraulic Capstan, 61
Engine, Tangyes' High-Speed Vertical, 164
Engineering Burmah into Tranquility, 439
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in 1887, Clyde, 185, 274
Engineers, American Society of Civil, 394, 425
Engineers, Civil, in India, 543
Engineers, Civil, The Registration of, 266
Engineers and Electricians, The Society of Telegraph, 40, 118, 171, 195, 244, 267, 316, 392, 413, 436, 489, 518, 546
Engineers' Grievances, Civil, 487, 521
Engineers in Prussia, The Education of, 418
Engines, Compound and Non-Compound, Steam Consumption of, 259
Engines of the s.s. Courier," Triple-Expansion, e
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the " Iolanthe," Yacht, 32
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of s.s. " Maine," 139
Engines, Volatile Liquid Vapour, 306, 349
Engraving Machine, Taylor's, 7
Estimates, The Navy, 241, 265
Eston, New Jetty at, 61
Evans's " Cornish" Pumping Engine, 307
Evans's Pump Valves, 454
Excursions of the American Soeiety of Mechanical Engineers, 3, 29, 80, 108
Exhibition, The Copenhagen, 518
Exhibition, The Glasgow International, 283, 386, 428, 491, 519, 547, 556, 597, 623, 649
Exhibition, The Melbourne Centennial, 650
Exhibition of 1889, The Paris, 118, 149, 219, 294, 419, 459, 536, 638
Exhibition, Petroleum, at St. Petersburg, 176
" Existence, The Struggle for," 143
" Expandisc" Steam Trap, The, 308
Expansive Working Pumping Engine, Davey's, 385
Experiments on the Friction of a Collar Bearing, 460, 467
Experiments with Screw Propellers, 330, 373
Explosion, Boiler, The Dudley, 39, 75
Explosion, Boiler, at the Friedenshtttte, 279
Explosion, Boiler, The Pelsall, 42
Explosion of a Revolving Rag Kier, 223, 263
Explosion of a Water Heater, 70
Explosions, Boiler, in 1887 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 454, 497
Exports, German, 246
Express Locomotive, Compound ; North-Eastern Railway, 309, 360
Express Locomotive ; Great Eastern Railway, 429
Express Locomotive ; Midland Railway, 210, 273
Extracting Copper, A New Process for, 621
Extractor, Ferrule, Rothery's, 376
Extractor, Williams's Ferrule, 454

Factory, Watch, The Waltham, 557
Facts about Ireland, 246
Farey, Mr. B. W., 574
" Faturn," The Italian Torpedo Boat, 60
Ferro-Silicon, Melting Iron or Steel Scrap with, 464, 600
Ferrule Extractor, Rothery's, 376
Ferrule Extractor, 'Williams's, 454
Ferry, The Greenwich, 171
Filtration of Waste Oil, 222
Fineness of Vessels, The, 307
Fire Alarm, The Martin-Wilson Automatic, 553
Fire Alarms for Wood Bridges, 43
Fire Office Rules, 243, 316, 369
Fire Pails, Indurated Fibre, 521
Fire Risks of Electric Lighting, 490, 519
Firearms, Automatic, The Development of, 79, 1 09, 622
Firefly-Light Photographs, 70
Fireproofing Process, The Martin, 148
Fires in Places of Amusement, 369
Flanges, Pump, 31
Fleming and Ferguson's Quadruple-Expansion Engine, 638
Floors, Bridge, Railroad, 107
Forced Draught, 327, 347, 350
Forced and Natural Draught, Combustion with, 1 51, 186, 225
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 164, 363
Foreign Engineers, Hard on, 270
Forging and Rolling Machine, The Simonds, 510
Form of Vibrating Strings, 43
Forth Bridge, The, 95, 406, 462, 611
Forth Bridge Railway, The, 70, 376
Fortifications, Gun-Cotton Shells and, 603, 628
Foundations, Testing for, 297
Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Sewage Works at, 547
Freezing Points of Glycerine and Water, The, 122
French Navy, The, 222
Fresh-Water Distiller " Compactum," The, 610
Friction of a Collar Bearing, The, 460, 467
Friction of Hydraulic Rams, The, 581
Friction, Internal, in Non-Condensing Engines, 2
Friction in Toothed Gearing, 80
Friedenshtitte, Boiler Explosion at the, 279
Furnace Boiler, Beesley's, 7
Furnace, The Husgavel, 510
Furnace, A New Electric, 175

Gallicia, The Oil-Producing Region of, 69
Galvanometer, Raworth's Linesman's, 50
Galvanometric Battery, Cooke's, 512
Gas Engine, The Beck, 433, 466, 468
Gas Engine, The " Charter," 151
Gas Engine, The Griffin, 361, 551
Gas at Peterborough, Natural, 96
Gas Producer, Sheel's, 653
Gas, Water, for Metallurgical Purposes, 477, 576
Gearing, Toothed, Friction in, 80
Geological Maps, 476
German Competition, 169
German Exports, 246
Gilbert's Semaphore Repeating Signal, 276
Girth of Ships, The Mean, 307
Glasgow International Exhibition, The, 283, 386, 428, 491, 519, 547, 556, 597, 623, 649
Glasses, Object, for Telescopes, 22
Glycerine and Water, The Freezing Points of, 122
Gokak, Ihdia, Water Power Installation at, 562
Gold in Wales, 620
" Goliath" Crane, 12-Ton Steam ; The Darlington Wagon and Engineering Company, 32
Gothard, Snow in the, 490
Governing Electromotors, 576
Governor, The Wilby Supplementary, 386
Governors, Engine, 107
Grand Trunk, Doubling the, 396
Grant, Mr. John, 359
Graving Docks at Bombay, Proposed, 431
Grays, Destructive Boiler Explosion at, 176
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, The, G51
Greenwich Ferry, The, 171
Gresham and Craven's Combination Automatic Injector, 588
Grievances, Civil Engineers', 487, 521
Griffin Gas Engine, The, 361, 551
Grindstone Truing Machine, Jardine's, 138
Growth of the London Railway System, The, 544
Gun-Cotton Shells and Fortifications, 603, 628
Gun, The Longridge, 245, 437, 466
Gun, Steel, The Bofors, 510
Gunmaking in the United States, 219
Guns, Heavy, Steel for, 292
Guns, Pneumatic Dynamite, 119
Guns and Projectiles, 197
Guns, Steel for, 478, 506, 607, 525, 527

Half-Cross Belting, 128
Hammers, Steam, Bement and Miles's, 81
Hand-Power Drilling Machine, Wild's, 185
Hard on Foreign Engineers, 270
Harlem River, New York, Bridge over the, 425
Harrison, Mr. T. E., 294, 310, 359
Haulage, Underground Rope, 159, 205, 282
Heating of Electric Discharging Points, The,
Heating and Ventilating, 2
Heavy Guns, Steel for, 292
H.M.S. " Magicienne" and " Marathon," 496
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.'s Horizontal Corliss Engine, 381
High-Speed Clyde Passenger Steamers, New, 575
High-Speed Drilling Machine, Selig and Sonnenthal's, 248
High-Speed Engine, Bever's, 102
High-Speed Vertical Engine, Tangyes', 164
Hill's Wagon Coupling and Uncoupling Devices, 1 99
Hind and Lund's Paint Mill, 138
Honolulu Marine Railway, The, 94
Horizontal Corliss Engine, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.'s, 384
Hot-Water System at Boston, Public, 270, 558
Howe Truss Timber Bridge across the Willamette River, Albany, Oregon, 9
Howell Torpedo, The, 68
Howitzer, Armstrong and Mitchell's 11-Inch, 8
Hudson River, Bridge over the, 221
Hull, Dock Matters at, 149
Humidity, The Increase of, by the Emission of Steam from Bronchitis Kettles, 528
Husgavel Furnace, The, 610
Hydraulic Canal Lift, La Louviere, 201
Hydraulic Capstan Engine with Variable Power, Rigg's, 61
Hydraulic Lifts, Chatwood's Balanced, 34
Hydraulic Mortars and Cements, 215
Hydraulic Power, The Distribution of, 408
Hydraulic Press ; Maps of the Ordnance Survey, 635
Hydraulic Rams, The Friction of, 581
Hydraulic Rock Drill and Carriage, Bell, Steavenson, and Clough's, 165
Hydraulic Tube Press, Bessemer's, 75
Hydro-Electric Elevator System, The, 319

Imperial Defences, 567
Incandescent Lamps, 222, 223
Inclined Railway at Look-Out Mountain, Tennessee, U.S.A., 307
India, Agricultural Engineering in (See Agricultural Engineering in India)
India, Agricultural Implements in, 521
India, Civil Engineers in, 543
Indian Frontier Railways, 131
Indian Railways in 1886, 91
Indiana and Kentucky Bridge, Louisville, The, 85
Indicator Diagrams, 107
Indurated Fibre Fire Pails, 621
Industries, Marine, in Scotland, 646
Influence Machine, The Wimshurst, 420
Influence Machines, 420, 430, 572
Influence of Sugar upon Cement, The, 102, 125
Inglis, Mr. John, Glasgow, 495
Injector, Gresham and Craven's Combination Automatic, 688
Injector, Restarting, Schaeffer and Budenberg's, 358
Inman Steamer " City of New York," 248, 260, 628
Installation, Water Power, at Gokak, India, 562
Institute of Electrical Engineers, American, 43
Internal Friction in Non-Condensing Engines, 2
Internal Stresses in Ordnance, 198
International Exhibition, The Glasgow, 283, 386, 428, 491, 619, 547, 666, 5b7, 623
Inventor, A Prolific, 520
" Invicta," The Stranding of the, 440
" Iolanthe," Triple-Expansion Yacht, Engines of the, 32
Ireland, Facts about, 246
Iron, Casting, upon Lace, 149
Iron Horse at Samarcand, The, 547
Iron, The Magnetic Properties of, 175
Iron in Paper-Making, 148
Iron, Pig, in 1887,16, 12i
Iron and Steel, Arsenic in, 478

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE : 463

On Silicon and Sulphur in Cast Iron, by Mr. Thomas Turner, 464, 499, 526
On the Melting in Cupola Furnaces of Wrought Iron or Steel Scrap mixed with Ferro-Silicon, by M. Ferd. Gautier, 464, 500
On an Imperfection in Mill Steel Plates Considered Chemically, by Mr. Herbert Eccles, F.G.S., 476
On Water Gas as Used for Metallurgical Purposes, by Mr. A. Wilson, 477, 576
On Continuous Moulding Machinery at the Works of M. Godin, at Guise, France, by Mr. James Johnstone, 473
On the Manufacture and Treatment of Steel for Field Guns, by Major L. Cubillo, 478, 506, 527
On Steel Castings for the Manufacture of Guns, by Major L. Cubillo, 478, 507, 525
On the Behaviour of Arsenic in Ore and Metal during Smelting and Purification Processes, by Messrs. Pattinson and Stead, 478
On the Effect on Arsenic on Mild Steel, by Messrs. F. W. Harbord and A. E. Tucker, 480
On a New Instrument for the Measurement of Colour, more Especially as Applied to the Estimation of Carbon in Steel, by Mr. H. Le Neve Foster, 480

Iron or Steel Scrap, Melting, with Ferro-Silicon, 464, 500
Irrawaddy River, The Navigation of the Upper Waters of the, 176
Irrawaddy River, Trade on the, 543
Irrigating Machinery, 146
" Italia," Armour-Clad, The, 158
Italian Torpedo Boat " Fatuni," The, 60

Jackets, Steam, 222
Jack's Metallic Piston Packing, 331
Japanese Magic Mirror, The, 70
Jardine's Grindstone Truing Machine, 138
Jetty at Eston, New, 61
Joining the Oxus and Caspian, 319
Jubilee Bridge, The, 98

Keely Motor, Another, 17
Keep's Tests for Foundry Iron, 319
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge, Louisville, Thc, 85
Kew Magnetometer, Note on some Additions to the, 600
Kfilers, Bleaching, The Strength of, 92
Kirkaldy's " Compactum" Fresh-Water Distiller, 640

La Louviere Hydraulic Canal Lift, 201
Laboratory, Edison's New, 69
Labour Market, The State of the, 319
Lachine, Bridge over the Lawrence River at ; Canadian Pacific Railway, 359
Lamont - Frolich Formula for Induced Magnetism, The Graphic Treatment of the, 441
Lamp, A New Arc, 520
Lamps in Collieries, Safety, 601
Lamps, Incandescent, 232, 223
Lang's Surfacing and Boring Lathe, 212
Large Brass Drawing, A, 269
Large Clock, A, 572
Largest Petroleum Field in the World, The, 465
Lathe, Berry- and Sons' Treble-Geared, 586
Lathe, Bogert's 10k-Inch Screw-Cutting and Surfacing, 161
Lathe, Break, Asquith's 18I•Inch Treble-Geared, 559
Lathe, Lang's Surfacing and Boring, 212
Lattice and other Girders, Stresses on, 625
Launch Engines, The " Zephyr," 517, 609
Launches and Trial Trips, 8, 37, 97, 123, 163, 211, 247, 263, 307, 359, 432, 491, 515, 541, 588, 615, 639
Law and Electricity, The, 41
Laws, Mining, 476
Laycock's Railway Wagon Brake, 578
Legislation, Steam Boiler, 408
Letter-Press Department; Maps of the Ordnance Survey, 636
Libau, The Russian Dockyard at, 298
Lifeboat, Shepherd's Collapsible, 574
Lift, Canal, La Louviere Hydraulic, 201
Lifting Power of Magnets, Formula) of Bernoulli and Hizecker for the, 576
Lifts, Hydraulic, Chatwood's Balanced, 34
Light, Electric, at Scandinavia, 298
Light, Photographic, A New, 122
Light, The Wells, 186
Lighting, Central Station, 438
Lighting with Magnesium, 624
Lighting of Trains, The Electric, 344
Lightning, The Effects of, on Electrical Apparatus, 344
Lightning, Photographs of, 650
Lightning Rods, The Price of the Factor of Safety in, 128
Limit of Refraction in Relation to Temperature and Chemical Composition, The, 176
Lineff Electric Tramway, The, 94
Linesman's Galvanometer, Raworth's, 50
Liquid Fuel Competition in Russia, 270
Liverpool Water Supply, 317
Lloyd's Register Shipbuilding Returns, 465
Locomotive, Compound Express ; North-Eastern Railway, 309, 360
Locomotive Cylinder Boring Machine, Bement and Miles's, 186
Locomotive, Express; Great Eastern Railway, 429
Locomotive, Express ; Midland Railway, 210, 273
Locomotive, A Money-Making, 43
Locomotive Practice, 645
Locomotive, Tank ; Imperial Railways of Japan, 1 39
Locomotives for New South Wales, 193, 313, 460, 648, 597
Locomotives, Steam Sanding Apparatus for, 638
London Railway System, The Growth of the, 544
Longridge Wire Gun, The, 245, 437, 466
Look-Out Mountain, Tennessee, U.S.A., Inclined Railway at, 307
Lubricating Oils, Russian and American, 673
Lubrication, 379
Lulea-Ofoten Railway, The, 69

Machine, The De la Vergne Refrigerating, 580) 626
Machine, Drilling, Rushworth's Double Spindle,452
Machine, Drilling, Selig and Sonnenthal's High-Speed, 248
Machine, Drilling, Wild's Hand-Power, 185
Machine, The Emery Testing, 462, 481, 512
Machine, Engraving, Taylor's, 7
Machine, General Boring, Wilkinson and Lister's, 332
Machine, Grindstone Truing, Jardine's, 138
Machine, Locomotive Cylinder Boring, Bement and Miles's, 186
Machine, The Milling, 30
Machine, Plate-Straightening, Berry's, 135
Machine, Propeller Planing, Doxford's, 84
Machine, The Simonds Rolling and Forging, 510
Machine Tools, American,186
Machine Tools, Modern, 17
Machine, Tyre Boring and Turning, Bement and Miles's, 186
Machinery, Irrigating, 146
Machinery, Moulding, Continuous, 478
Machinery, Schram's Rock Drilling, 551
Machinery Section at the Glasgow Exhibition, The, 597, 623
Machines, Influence, 420, 430, 572
Magazine Rifles, Burton's, 575
Magic Mirror, The Japanese, 70
" Magicienne" and " Marathon," H.M.S., 496
Magnesia as a Non-Conductor for Stearn Pipes, 93
Magnesium, Lighting with, 624
Magnetic Circuit in Dynamo Machines, The, 272
Magnetic Lag and the Work Lost due to Magnetic Lag in Alternating Current Transformers, 500
Magnetic Properties of Iron, 175
Main Drainage Works, The Acton, 678
" Maine," s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of, 139
Malarious Districts, The Treatment of, 207
Man, Prehistoric, in Spain, 344
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 669, 596, 647 Manganese Steel, 246
Manhattan Bridge over the Harlem River, The, New York, 425
Manoeuvres, Naval, 13
Maps, Geological, 476
Maps of the Ordnance Survey, The, 1, 55, 119, 1 57, 220, 254, 301, 353, 401, 447, 532, 582, 635 Marine Boilers, Pressure in, 322
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1887, Clyde, 185, 274
Marine Industries in Scotland, 646
Marine Railway, The Honolulu, 94
Marshall and Son's Copper Pipe Testing and Bending Press, 652
Martin Fireproofing Process, The, 148
Martin-Wilson Automatic Fire Alarm, The, 558
Material best Suited for Propeller Blades, 355
Matthews and Yates's Air Propeller, 125 Mean Girth of Ships, The, 307
Measure and Assessment, Water Charges by, 616
Measurement of the Power Supplied to the
Primary Coil of a Transformer, 271

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF : 29, 80, 106

Dodge's Machine for Handling Coal, 29 Excursions, 3, 29, 80, 108
On an Economical Method of Heating and Ventilating an Office and Warehouse Building, by Mr. H. J. Snell, 2
On Internal Friction of Non-Condensing Engines, by Professor R. II. Thurston, 2 On the Power Press Problems, by Mr. Oberlin Smith, 2
On the Milling Machine as a Substitute for the Planer in Machine Construction, by Mr. John J. Grant, 30
On Standard Section Lining, by Mr. Frank Van Vleck, 30
On Divergences in Flange Diameters of Pumps, Valves. &c., of Different Makers, by Mr. Percy A. Sanguinetti, 31
On Centrifugal Pumps and their Efficiencies, by Mr. W. 0. Webber, 31
On Friction in Toothed Gearing, by Professor G. Lanza, 80
On How to Test the Strength of Cements, by Mr. J. Sondericker, 80
On Steel Car Axles, by Mr. J. Coffin, 81
On the Influence of Sugar upon Cement, by Mr. Harry de B. Parsons, 102, 125
On the Use of Kerosine Oil in Steam Boilers, by Mr. L. F. Lyne, 107
On a Railroad Bed for Bridge Structures, by Mr. 0. C. Wilson, 107
On a Peculiar Indicator Diagram, by Mr. Charles E. Emery, 107
On an Improved Form of Shaft Governor, by Mr. Frank II. Ball, 107

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 145, 460

Annual Report, The, 145
On Irrigating Machinery on the Pacific Coast, by Mr. John Richards, 146
On the Position and Prospects of Electricity as Applied to Engineering, by Mr. William Geipel, 172, 202, 212, 237
On the Friction of a Collar Bearing, 460, 467
On the Emery Testing Machine, by Mr. Henry B. Towne, 462, 481, 512
Melcarski Compressed Air Tramcar, The, 287
Melting Wrought Iron or Steel Scrap with Ferro-Silicon, 464, 500
Mercantile Cruisers, 245, 291
Messageries Maritimes, The, 647
Metal and Stonework, Cleaning, 396
Metallic Packing, Duval's, 454
Metallic Piston Packing, Jack's, 334

METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, THE ROYAL : 74, 165, 324, 420, 528, 615

First Report of the Thunderstorm Committee, 615
On the Non-Instrumental Meteorology of England, Wales, and Ireland, by Mr. G. M. Whipple, B Sc , F.R.A S., K R. Met. Soc., 74
On Electrical and Meteorological Observations on the Peak of Teneriffe, by the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, F.R. Met. Soc., 165
On the Rainfall of South Africa, 1842-1846, by Mr. W. B. Tripp, 111.1 C. E., F. It. Met. Soc ,165
On Some Methods of Cloud Measurements, by Mr. Nils Ekholm, 165
On Atmospheric Electricity, by the President (Dr. Marcet), 324
On the Non-Existence of Thunderbolts, by Mr. G. J. Symond", F.R.S., 324
On Jordan's New Pattern Photographic Sunshine Recorder, by Mr. J. B. Jordan, 420
On the Meteorology of South-Eastern China in 1886, by Dr. W. Doberck, F.R. Met. Soc., 420
On the Measurement of the Increase of Humidity in Rooms by the Emission of Steam from the so-called Bronchitis Kettle, by Dr. W. Marcet, F.R.S., 528
On the Cold Period from September, 1887, to May, 1888, by Mr. C. Harding, F.R. Met. Soc., 615
On Observations on Cloud Movements near the Equator ; and on the General Character of the Weather in the " Doldrums," by the Hon. R. Abercromby, F.R. Met. Soc., 615
Report of the Wind Force Committee on Experiments with Anemometers Conducted at Hersham, by Mr. G. M. Whipple, B.Sc., and Mr. W. H. Dines, B.A., 528

Meter, Schiinheyder's Water, 601
Methods of Disinfecting Used in Germany, 319 Mica, Uses of, 344
Mild Steel, The Effect of Arsenic on, 480 Mild Steel Plates, 476
Mill, Paint, Hind and Lund's, 138
Milling Machine, The, 30
Mills, Belt Casings in, 92
Mine, The Morgan, 620
Mineral Treasures of Afghanistan, 17
Mines, Electricity in, 476

MINING ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF : 474, 510

Boston Hot-Water System, The, 558
Martio-Wilson Automatic Fire Alarm, 558
On the Descent of the Charge in an Iron Blast Furnace, by Mr. Robert II. Richards and
Richard W. Lodge, of the Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., 63
On Spirally Welded Tubing, by Mr. James C. Bayles, 475
On the Mining Laws of New York, by Dr. Raymond, 476
On the Construction of Geological Maps, by Mr. Ives, 476
On Mining in Large Bodies of Soft Ore, by Mr. R. P. Rothwell, 476
On the Formation of Fissure Veins, by Mr. S. F. Emmons, 476
On the Structural Nature of Ore Deposits, by Mr. S. F. Emmons, 476
On Recent Mine Accidents, by Mr. C. A. Ash-burner, 476
On the Application of Electricity to Mining, by Mr. G. %V. Minsfleld, 476
On the Open-Hearth Process, by Mr. A. E. Hunt, 510
On the Husgavel Furnace for Making Malleable Iron, by Mr. E. Lynwood Garrison, 510
On the BOfors Steel Gun, by Captain 0. E. Michaelis, 510
Simonds Rolling and Forging Machine, The, 510 Thomson-Houston Electric Company, The, 558 Tyler Tube Works, The, 558
Waltham Watch Factory, The, 557

Mining, Submarine, 3, 56, 81, 131, 181, 230, 281, 449, 531, 582, 634
Miscellanea, 7, 33, 65, 89, 111, 150, 167, 199, 211, 248, 272, 289, 320, 346, 372, 385, 407, 442, 465, 485, 524, 641, 565, 591, 617, 643
Model Experiments, The Constant System of Notation for, 329
Models at the Glaszow Exhibition, 556
Modern Machine Tools, 127
Money-Making Locomotive, A, 43
Mooring and Marking Buoys, Campbell and Schultz's, 139
Mordey Alternate Current Dynamo, The, 538 Morgan Mine, The, 620
Mortars and Cements, Hydraulic, 245
Motor, Keely, Another, 17
Motor, A New Sun, 343
Moulding Machinery, Continuous, 478

National Defences, The, 117
Natural and Forced Draught, Combustion with, 151, 186, 225
Natural Gas at Peterborough, 246
Natural Gas Wells of Pittsburg, The, 16
Natural Gas, Working Blast Furnaces with, 122

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF: 295, 302, 327, 354

On American Warship Design, by Mr. William John, 296, 321
On Unarmoured Water Lines in Warships, by Captain C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald, R.N., 296
On the Development of Modern Weapons considered in Relation to the Designs of Warships, by Captain Hubert Grenfell, R.N., 296
On Working and Test Pressures for Marine Boilers, by Mr. R. Sennett, 302, 322
On the Possible Advantages of Substituting Volatile Liquids for Water in Vapour Engines, by Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 306, 349
On the Fineness of Vesssels in Relation to Size and Speed, by M. J. A. Normand, 307
On a Method of Approximately Dttermining the Mean Girth of Ships, by Mr. A, Blechyn-den, 307
On Forced Draught, by Mr. J. R. Fotbergill, 327, 317
On Boilers under Forced Draught on the Closed Stokehole System, by Mr. Thomas Soper, R.N., 327, 350
On the " Constant " System of Notation of Results of Experiments on Models used at the Admiralty Experiment Works, by Mr. R. E. Froude, 329
On the Theory of the Screw Propeller, by Professor Greenhill, 329
On the Results of Experiments with Four and Two-Bladed Screw Propellers, by Mr. J. B. Andrea, 330, 373
On Submarine Boats and Diving Boats, by Lieutenant W. Hovgaard, 354
On the Material Best Suited for Propeller Blades, by Mr. W. C. Wallace, 355
On the Influence of Size and Speed on Collisions at Sea, by Mr. J. C. Heck, 358

Naval Defence, 517
Naval Manoeuvres, 13
Navigation of the Upp3r Waters of the Irrawaddy River, Tho, 176
Navy, The, 391
Navy Estimates, The, 211, 265
Navy, The French, 222
Navy, The Russian, 197
New South Wales, Locomotives for, 193, 313, 460, 548, 597
New York, The Electric Club of, 195
New Zealand Railways, 369
Newbery-Vautin Process, The, 14, 314
Nicol's Shortened Self-Acting Sprengel Pump, 154
Non-Conductor for Steam Pipes, Magnesia as a,93
Non-Instrumental Meteorology of England,
Wales, and Ireland, The, 74
Normand, Mr. Charles Benjamin, 150
Norway, Rainfall in, 122
Norway, Shipbuilding in, 270
Norway, The Wood Pulp Industry in, 122

NOTES :

Accuracy in Tunnel Alignments, 123
Aerial Wires, 344
Agricultural Implements in India, 521
American Competition in South Africa, 438
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 43
American Pipe Line, A New, 439
Analysis of Deep Sea Dredgings, 148
Antiseptic, A New, 148
Arc Lamp, A New, 520
Architects' Registration Bill, 369, 398
Associated Chambers of Commerce, Tbe, 198
Astronomical Clock, A New, 297
Belgian Railway Economy, 520
Bergen-Christiania Railway in Norway, The Contemplated, 522
Bishop's Castle at the Glasgow Exhibition, 547
Black Sea Steamer Subsidies, 370
Blocks of Stone, Resistance of, Partially Loaded, 418
Boiler Explosion at Grays, Destructive, 176
Bokhara by Rail, To, 369
Brass Drawing, A Large, 269
Brazil, An Unexplored Corner of, 222
Bridge over the Hudson River, 221
Bridges of Large Span, Brick and Stone, 95
Bruce, Sir George Barclay, 572
Bullets for Small-Bore Rifles, 418
Burmese Railways, 222
Caird, Mr. James T., 122
Canal in Sweden, Projected New, 197
Carbon in the Sun, 573
Carrier Pigeons in the Navy, 269
Casting Iron upon Lace, 149
Casting in Steel and Bronze, 438
Cell, A Standard, 93
Central Station Lighting, 438
City and Southwark Subway, The, 673
Civil Engineers' Grievances, 521
Cleaning Metal and Stonework, 396
Cobalt, The Electric Resistance of, 122, 221
Commercial Education, 198
Concealing the Presence of Torpedo Boats, 93
Conquering a Quicksand, 148
Constant-Volume Air Thermometer, 43
Conveying Power by Boreholes, 318
Curtain of Water, A, 699
Czar's Domain, The, 572
Dam of the San Francisco Water Works, 17
Death of the Baku Oil King, 396
Destruction of Stand-Pipes, 123
Diagram for Electric Wiring, A, 175
Diamond Drill in the Pyramids, A, 624
Dielectric, The Properties of a, 270
Disc Arc Lamps, 297
Disinfecting Used in Germany, Methods of, 319
Distribution of Electricity, 122
Dock Matters at Hull, 149
Dockyard at Libau, The Russian, 298
Doubling the Grand Trunk, 396
Dynamometer, A New Absorption, 396
Earth Current Variations, 148
Edison's New Laboratory, 69
Education of Engineers in Prussia, The, 418
Electric Conduction by Air, 93
Electric Converters. Application of, 370
Electric Dog-Cart, Volk's, 16
Electric Furnace, A New, 175
Electric Light in Scandinavia, 298
Electric Lighting of Trains. The, 344
Electric Resistance of Copper at Low Temperatures, The, 625
Electric Rifles, 369
Electrio Standard, A New, 599
Electric " Sunstroke," 70
Electrical Distribution of Time, The, 16
Electricity and the Law, 44
Electrified Balsam, 16
Electrolytically Formed Copper Pipes, 95
Electromotor for Tramcars, A New, 369
Engineering Burmah into Tranquility, 439
Exhibition, Melbourne, The Centennial, 650
Explosion of a Revolving Rag Kier, 223
Explosion of a Water Heater, 70
Facts about Ireland, 246
Filtration of Waste Oil, 222
Fire Alarms for Wood Bridges, 43
Fire Office Rules, 369
Fire Pails, Indurated Fibre. 521
Fire Risks of Electric Lighting, 400
Firefly-Light Photographs, 70
Fires in Places of Amusement, 369
Form of Vibrating Strings, 43
Freezing Points of Glycerine and Water, 122
French Navy, The, 222
German Exports, 246
Hard on Foreign Engineers, 270
Heating of Electric Discharge Points, The, 148
Honolulu Marine Railway, The, 94
Hot-Water System at Boston, Public, 270
Hydraulic Mortars and Cements, 245
Hydro-Electric Elevator System, The, 319
Incandescent Lamps, 222
Influence Machine from 1788 to 1888, The, 572
Internal Stresses in Ordnance, 198
Iron Horse at Samarcand, The, 547
Iron in Paper-Making, 148
Japanese Magic Mirror, The, 70
Joining the Oxus and Caspian, 319
Keely Motor, Another, 17
Keep's Tests for Foundry Iron, 319
Labour Market, The State of the, 810
Large Clock, A, 672
Lattice and other Girders, Stresses in, 625
Lighting with Magnesium, 624
Lightning, The Effects of, on Electric Apparatus, 344
Lineff Electric Tramway, The. 94
Liquid Fuel Competition in Russia, 270
Lloyd's Register Shipbuilding Returns, 465
Longridge Wire Gun, The, 246
Lubricating Oils, Russian and American, 673
Lulea-Ofoten Railway, The, 69
Magnesia as a Non-Conductor for Steam Pipes, 93
Magnetic Properties of Iron, The, 175
Martin Fireproofing Process, The, 148
Mercantile Cruisers, 246
Mica, Uses of, 344
Mineral Treasures of Afghanistan, Opening up the, 17
Money-Making Locomotive, A, 43
Natural Gas at Peterborough, 246
Natural Gas Wells of Pittsburg, The, 16
Natural Gas, Working Blast Furnaces with, 122
Navigation of the Upper Waters of the Irrawaddy River, The, 176
New Zealand Railways, 369
Oil-Producing Region of Gallicia, The, 69
Optical Telegraphy, 370
Orebro Canal, Sweden, The, 599
Origin of Petroleum, The, 122
Overcrowding on the New York Elevated Railroads, 16
Painting Cement, 297
Panama Canal, The, 17, 95
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 149
Perekop Canal, The, 547
Petroleum Exhibition at St. Petersburg, 176
Petroleum Field, The Largest, in the World, 465
Phonograph, The New, 44
Phosphorus in Iron and Steel, Determination of, 345
Photographic Light, A New, 122
Photographs of Lightning, 650
Post Office Telegraphy, 271
Power Tool for Hand Use, A, 149
Prehistoric Man in Spain, 344
Professional Amenities, 70
Projectiles and Guns, 197
Prolific Inventor, A, 520
Proportions of Steam Boilers, 396
Railway Bridges, American, Condition of, 175
Railway, Great Indian Peninsula, 651
Railway Progress, A Contrast in, 600
Railway to Teheran, The, 175
Rainfall in Norway, 122
Relative Cost of Gas, Oil, and Electricity, 297
Revision of the United States Patent Laws, The, 17
Rifle, A New Swedish, 521
Russian Black Sea Fleet, The, 651
Russian Coal in the Black Sea, 270
Russian Enterprise in Persia, 245
Russian Navy, The, 197
Russian Railway, A New, 490
Russian Railways, 650
Russian Steam Colliers, 626
Samarcand Railway, Improving the, 599
Sand Drifts on the Trans-Caspian Railway, 222
Searching for Oil near Vladivostock, 418
Sebastopol, Closing, to Commerce, 344
Sewage Works at Frankfort - on - the - Maine, New, 647
Shipbuilding in Norway, 270
Sleeping Car, A New, 625
Sliding Town, A, 624
Snow in the Gothard, 490
Snow Screens on Russian Railways, 197
Sound Tunnel, The, 673
South African Coal, 599
South African Diamonds, 175, 490
South Australian Railways, 521
Speed of Trains in Russia, 345
Spider's Web Barometer, A, 148
Steam Jackets, 222
Steamers in the Black Sea, New, 197
Steamers for Burmah, Wanted, 419
Stranding of the " Invicta," 440
Submarine Telegraphy, The Telephone Applied to, 625
Suez Canal, The, 269, 573
Submarine Torpedo Boat, Trial of Machinery for a, 419
Sun Motor, A New, 343
Swedish-Norwegian Railway, The, 197
Testing for Foundations, 297
Tower Bridge, The, 245
Trade with Burmah, Development of, 43
Velocity of the Sound of Firearms, 222
Velocity of Sound in Small Tubes, 43
Vieille Mcntagne, The, 521
Watchman's Record Clock, A New, 625
Water Towers for City Fires, 418
Welding by Electricity, 672
Western Union Telegraph Company, 319
Weymersch Battery, The, 625
Wood Pulp Industry in Norway, The, 122 Wood Water Pipes, 625
Zambesi Railway, 650

Notes from Cleveland, 11, 37, 64, 97, 124, 141, 1 66, 191, 224, 2:34, 263, 289, 311, 333, 363, 389, 411, 441, 453, 485, 515, 511, 564, 590, 616, 642
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 154, 363
Notes from the North, 10. 36, 64, 88, 124, 140, 1 66, 190, 214, 239, 2238, 310, 333, 362, 388, 410, 440, 452, 484, 514, 540, 564, 590, 616. 642
Notes from the South-West, 11, 49, 61, 88, 128, 141, 166, 191, 215, '239, 262, 283, 311, 333, 376, 338, 410, 440, 453, 484, 514, 539, 565, 601, 617, 651
Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 37, 64, 93, 124, 141, 167, 193, 215, 219, 20, 289, 310, 333, 363, 389, 411, 441, 453, 484, 515, 540, 564, 690, 616, 642
Notes from the United StItes, 61, 110, 139, 163, 199, 210, 234, 260, 298, 320, 346, 376, 397, 442, 466, 491, 548, 574, 589, 614, 653
Nottingham, The Royal Agricultural Society's Show at, 298

OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
Object Glasses for Telescopes, 22
Observation on the Peak of Tenerife, Electrical and Meteorological, 165
Observatory, The Warner, 99
Office, The Patent, 191
Oil-Gas, Compressed, 371
Oil-Producing Region of Gallicia, The, 69
Oil, Searching for, near Vladivostock, 418
Oils, Lubricating, Russian and American, 573
Old Puzzle about the Strength of Beams, The, 641
Open-Hearth Process, The, 510
Open-Hearth Steel, 32
Optical Telegraphy, 370
Ordnance Survey, The Map' of the, 1, 55, 119, 1 57, 220, 254, 301, 353,401, 447, 532, 582, 635
Orebro Canal, Sweden, The, 599
Origin of Petroleum, The, 122
Otto System of Cable Ropeway, 332
Overcrowding on the New York Elevated Railroads, 16
Oxus and Caspian, Joining the, 319

Packing, Duval's Metallic, 454
Packing, Piston, Jack's Metallic, 331
Paint Mill, Hind and Lund's, 138
Painting Cement, 297
Panama Canal, The, 17, 95, 571
Paper-Making, Iron in, 148
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 118, 149, 219, 294, 419, 459, 536, 639
Parliamentarianism and the Services, 413
Parsons' Compound Steam Turbine, 35
Passenger Steamers, Clyde, New High-Speed, 575
Patent Law for Switzerland, A, 33.
Patent Laws, United States, Revision of the, 17
Patent Office, The, 194
Patent Record, The, 25, 51, 77, 103, 129, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 277, '199, 325, 35), 377, 399, 421, 445, 471, 501, 529, 553, 579, 605, 631, 655
Patents and Trade Marks, 39
Pelsall Boiler Explosion, The, 42
Perekop Canal, The, 547
Permanent Way, Steel, Coblyn's, 50
Persia, Russian Enterprise in, 245
Peterborough, Natural Gas at, 246
Petroleum in Boilers, 107
Petroleum Engine, Priestman's, 481
Petroleum Exhibition at St. Petersburg, The, 176
Petroleum Field, The Largest, in the World, 465 Petroleum, The Origin of, 122
Petroleum, Russian, Transport of, 68,105 Philadelphia, 233, 258
Phonograph, The New, 44
Phosphorus in Iron and Steel, Determination of, 345
Photographic Light, A New, 122
Photographs, Firefly-Light, 70
Photographs of Lightning, 650
Photography, Some of the Applications of, to Scientific Purposes, 323
Photography, Stellar, Telescopes for, 402
Photography, Stereoscopic, 442

PHYSICAL SOCIETY, THE : 128, 176, 223. 271

Experiments on Electrolysis, by Mr. W. W. Haldane Gee, B. Sc., Mr. H. Holden, B.Sc., and Mr. C. H. Lees, B.Sc., 223, 576
On the Effect of Magnetisation on the Thermo. Electrical Properties of Bismuth, by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, 128
On the Influence of Magnetism and Temperature on the Electrical Resistance of Bismuth and its Alloys with Lead and Tin, by M. Ed. von Aubel, 128
On a Water Dropping Influence Machine, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D. Se., 128
On the Price of the Factor of Safety in Lightning Rods, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D. Sc., 128
On the Optical Demonstration of Electrical Stress, by Professor A. W. Rttcker, F.R.S., and Mr. C. V. Boys, 128
On the Limit of Refraction in Relation to Temperature and Chemical Composition, by Mr. T. Pelham Dale, 176
On the Use of the Term Resistance in the Description of Physical Phenomena, by Mr. R. H. M. Bosanquet, 176
On the Efficiency of Incandescent Lamps with Direct and Alternating Currents, by Professors W. E. Ayrton, I.R.S., and J. Perry, F. R.S. , 223
On the Height, Length, and Velocity of Ocean Waves, by the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, F.R. Met, Soc., 223
On the Temperature at which Nickel begins Suddenly to Lose its Magnetic Properties, by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, B.A., 223
On the Measurement of the Power Supplied to the Primary Coil of a Transformer, by Mr. E. C. Rimington, 271
On the Magnetic Circuit in Dynamo Machines, by Professors W. E. Ayrton and J. Perry, 272
On the Employment of b n Electro-Dynamometer for Determining* the Difference of Phase of Two Harmonic Currents of Electricity, by Mr. T. H. Blakesley, 272
On the Variation of the Coefficients of Induction by Mr. W. E. Sumpner, B.Sc., 397
On Electromotive Force by Contact, by Mr. C. Y. Burton, B.Sc., 441
On a Theory Concerning the Sudden Llss of Magnetic Properties of Iron and Nickel, by Mr, H. Tomlinson, B.A., 441
On the Graphic Treatment of the L'Imont-Frolich Formula for Induced Magnetism, by Professor S. P. Thompson, B.Sc., 441
On the Condition of Self-Excitation in a Dynamo M whine, by Professor S. P. Thompson, B.Sc., 500
On the Conditions of Self-Regulation in a Constant Potential Dynamo Machine, by Professor S. P. Thompson, B.Sc.. 500
On Magnetic Lag and the Work Lost due to Magnetic Lag in Alternating Current Transformers, by Mr. Thomas-H. blakesley, M.A., 500
On a Simple Apparatus for the Measurement of the Coefficient of Expansion by Heat, by , Professors W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and J. Perry, PALS., 500
On the Governing of Eleetromotors, by Professors W. E. Ayrton and J. Perry, 576
On the Formula of Bernoulli and Hacker for the Lifting Power of Magnets, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 676
On the Analogy between Dilute Solution and Gases as regards Gay-Lussac's and Boyle's and Avogradro's Laws, by Professor Van't Hoff, 600
On a Method of Comparing very Unequal Capacities, by Mr. A. H. Fison, 600
On Some Additions to the Kew Magnetometer, by Professor H. Thorpe, F.R.S., and Professor Rticker, F.R.S., 600

Physiography, Diametral, 184
Piercy, Mr. Benjamin, 359
Pig Iron in 1887, 15
Pig Iron Trade in 1887, The Scotch, 126
Pigeons in the Navy, Carrier, 269
Pipe, Copper, Testing and Bending Press, Marshall and Son's, 652
Pipe Line, A New American, 439
Piston Packing, Jack's Metallic, 334
Pittsburg, The Natural Gas Wells of, 16
Places of Amusements, Fires in, 369
Plane-Table, The, 163
Planing Machine, Doxford's Propeller, 84
Plant, Portable Electric Light, 134
Plantation, Indian, 473
Plate-Straightening Machine, Berry's, 135
Plates, Mild Steel, 476
Pneumatic Dynamite Guns, 119
Portable Buildings, Ducker's, 110
Portable Electric Light Plant, 134
Post Office Telegraphy, 271
Power, Electrical Transmission of, by Brown's Dynamos, 389
Power, Hydraulic, The Distribution of, 408
Power Press Problems, 2
Power Tool for Hand Use, A, 149
Power, Transmission of, by Water and Air, 274
Prto.tice, Locomotive, 615
Prehistoric Man in Spain, 314
Press, Copper Pipe Tasting and Bending, 652
Press, Hydraulic, Maps of the Ordnance Survey, 635
Press, Tube, Bessemer's Hydraulic, 75
Pressures for Boilers, Working and Test, 302, 322
Prevention of Railway Accidents, 110
Priestman's Petroleum Engine, 481
Process, Alkali, Another New, 363
Process, The Newbery-Vautin, 14, 314
Producer, Sheel's Gas, 653
Professional Amenities, 7u
Projectiles and Armour, 67
Projectiles and Guns, 197
Projectors, Statter's Electric, 652
Prolific Inventor, A, 520
Propeller, Air, The Blackman, 201
Propeller, Air, Matthews and Yates's, 125
Propeller Blades, The Material best Suited for, 355
Propeller Planing Machine, Doxford's, 84
Propeller, Screw, The Theory of the, 32 i
Propellers, Screw, Dickinson's Patent, 408
Propellers, Screw, Experiments with, 330, 373
Properties of a Dielectric, The, 270
Proportions of Steam Boilers, 396
Propulsion, Boat, The "Zephyr " System of, 617,609
Provident Society, The Draughtsman's, 32
Public Hot-Water System at Boston, 270, 558
Public Works Department in the United States, A, 435
PulveriMer, The Cyclone, 522, 536
Pump Flanges, 31
Pump, Sprengel, Nicol's Shortened Self-Acting, 1 54
Pump Valves, Evans's, 451
Pumping Engine, Centrifugal, Drysdale's, 210
Pumping Engine, "Cornish," Evans's, 307
Pumping Engine, Davey's Expansive Working, 385
Pumps, Centrifugal, 31

Quadruple-Expansion Engine, Fleming and Ferguson's, 538
Quick-Acting Westinghouse Brake for Freight Trains, The New, 235
Quicksand, Conquering a, 118

Rag Kier, Revolving, Explosion of a, 223, 263
Rail, To Bokhara by, 369
Railroad Bridge Floors, 107
Railway Accidents, Prevention of, 110
Railway Bridge at Lachine, 359
Railway Bridges, American, Condition of, 175
Railway Connection of China and Burmah, 367
Rail way, Contemplated Bergen-Christiania, 522
Rail way Economy, Belgian, 520
Railway, The Forth Bridge, 70, 375
Railway, Tne Great Indian Peninsula, 651
Railway, Inclined, at Look-Out Mountain, Tennessee, U.S.A., 307
Railway, The Lulea-Ofoten, 69
Railway, A New Russian, 490
Railway Progress, A Contrast in, 600
Railway, Samarcand, Improving the, 599
Railway, The Swedish-Norwegian, 197
Railway System, the London, The Growth of, 544
Railway to Teheran, The, 175
Railway and Tramway Working, 619
Railway and Wagon Brake, Laycock's, 578
Railway, The Zambesi, 650
Railways, Burmese, 222
Railways in 1886, Indian, 91
Railways, Indian Frontier, 131
Railways, New Zealand, 369
Railways, Russian, 650
Railways, The Sind Pishin, 368, 381, 503
Railways, South Australian, 521
Railways, Swedish, 22, 41
Rainfall in Norway, 122
Rainfall of South Africa, 165
Rams, Hydraulic, The Friction of, 581
Rapid-Firing Arms, 27, 147, 196
Raworth's Linesman's Galvanometer, 50
Rayner's Volute Double-Distilling Condenser, 32
Record, The Patent, 25, 51, 77, 103, 129, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 277, 299, 325, 351, 377, 399, 421, 445, 471, 501, 529, 553, 579, 605, 631, 655
Refrigeration, De la Vergne System of, 589, 626
Registration Bill, Architects', 369, 396
Registration of Civil Engineers, The, 266
Relative Cost of Gas, Oil, and Electricity, 297
Renewing Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 224
Report of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 145
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R. E., C.M.G., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 70, 375
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on the Boiler Explosions in 1887, 454, 497
Report of the Wind Force Committee on Experiments with Anemometers conducted at Hersham, 528
Resistance of Blocks of Stone Partially Loaded, 418
Resistance, The Use of th Term, in the Description of Physical Phenomena, 176
Restarting Inject )r, Schaeffer and Budenberg's, 358
Revision of the United States Patent Laws, 17
Rifle, A New Swedish, 521
Rifles, Burton's Magazine, 575
Rifles, Electric, 309
Rigg's Hydraulic Capstan Engine with Variable Power, 61
Risks, Fire, of Electric Lighting, 490, 519
River Irrawaddy, Trade on the, 518
Robertson, Mr. Henry, 359
Rock Drill and Carriage, Hydraulic, Bell, Steavenson, and Clough's, 165
Rock-Drilling Machinery, Schram's, 551
Rolling and Forging Machine, The Simonds, 510
Roots Blower, 610
Rope Haulage, Underground, 159, 205, 282
Ropeway, Cable, Otto System of, 332
Rothery's Ferrule Extractor, 376
Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Nottingham, The, 298
Royal Society, The Conversazione of the, 595
Royal Society Soirée, 1888, The, 487
Rules, Fire Office, 243, 316, 369
Rushworth's Double-Spindle Drilling Machine, 452
Russian Black Sea Fleet, The, 651
Russian Coal in the Black Sea, 270
Russian Enterprise in Persia, 245
Russian Navy, The. 197
Russian Petroleum, Transport of, 68, 105
Russian Railway, A New, 490
Russian Railways, 650
Russian Railways, Snow Screens on, 197
Russian Steam Colliers, 626

Safety Lamps in Collieries, 601
Samarcand, The Iron Horse at, 547
Samarcand Railway, Improving the, 599
San Francisco Water Works, Tne Dam of the, 17
Sand Drifts on the Trans-Caspian Railway, 222
Sanding Apparatus for Locomotives, Steam, 638
Scandinavia, Electric Light at, 298
Schaeffer and Budenberg's Restarting Injector, 358
Schonheyder's Water Meter, 601
Schram's Rock-Drilling Machinery, 551
Scientific Purposes, Some of the Applications of Photography to, 323
Scotch Pig-Iron Trade in 1887, The, 126
Scotland, Marine Industries in, 646
Scrap, Melting Iron or Steel, with Ferro-Silicon, 464, 500
Screw-Cutting and Surfacing Lathe, Bogert's 1 0k-Inch, 161
Screw Propeller, The Theory of the, 329
Screw Propellers, Dickinson's Patent, 408
Screw Propellers, Experiments with, 330, 373
Sea, Collisions at, 358
Sea Water, Concrete in, 100
Sea Water, Street Watering with, 366 4-
Searching for Oil near Vladivostock, 418
Sebastopol, Closing, to Commerce, 344
Second-Class Torpedo Boat, Yarrow's, 406
Section Lining, Standard, 30
Self-Excitation in a Dynamo Machine, The Condition of, 500
Sell-Regulation in a Constant Potential Dynamo Machine, The Condition of, 500
Selig and Sonnenthal's High-Speed Drilling Machine, 248
Semaphore Repeating Signal, Gilbert's, 276
Services, Parliamentarianism and the, 413
Sewage Pumping Engine, Centrifugal, Drysdale's, 210
Sewage Works at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, New, 547
Sewage Works, Wimbledon, 375
Shears for Cutting 30-Inch by 9-Inch Slabs at the Clyde Bridge Steel Works, Rutherglen, 566
Sheel's Gas Producer, 653
Shells and Fortifications, Gun-Cotton, 603, 623
Shepherd's Collapsible Lifeboat, 574
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 569, 596, 647
Shipbuilding in Aberdeen in 1887, 50
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1887, Clyde, 185, 274
Shipbuilding in Norway, 270
Shipbuilding Returns, Lloyd's Register, 465
Shipman Engine and Boiler, The, 495
Ships, The Mean Girth of, 307
Show, The Royal Agricultural Society's, at Nottingham, 298
Signal, Gilbert's Semaphore Repeating, 276
Silicon and Sulphur in Cast Iron, 464, 499, 526
Simonds Rolling and Forging Machine, The, 510
Sind Pishin Railways, The, 368, 331, 503
Sleeping Car, A New, 625
Sliding Town, A, 624
Small-Bore Rifles, Bullets for, 418
Snow in the Gothard, 490
Snow Screens on Russian Railways, 1A7
Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, The, 40, 118, 171, 195, 244, 267, 316, 392, 413, 436, 489, 518, 546
Soiree, The Royal Society, 1888, 487
Sound of Firearms, Velocity of the, 222
Sound Tunnel, The, 573
Sound, Velocity of, in Small Tubes, 43
South African Coal, 599
South African Diamonds, 175, 490
South Australian Railways, 621
South-West, Notes from the, 11, 49, 64, 88, 128, 1 41, 166, 191, 215, 259, 262, 288, 311, 333, 370, 388, 410, 440, 453, 484, 514, 539, 565, 604, 617
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 37, 64, 98, 124, 141, 167, 198, 215, 239, 263, 289, 310, 333, 363, 389, 411, 441, 453, 484, 515, 640, 564, 590, 616
Speed of Trains in Russia, 345
Spider's Web Barometer, A, 148
Spirally Welded Tubing, 475
Sprengel Pump, Nicol's Shortened Self-Acting, 1 54
Sprinklers, Automatic, 438
Stand-Pipes, Destruction of, 123
Standard Cell, A, 93
Standard, A New Electric, 599
Standard Section Lining, 30
State of the Labour Market, The, 319
Statter's Electric Projectors, 652
Steam Boiler Legislation, 908
Steam Colliers, Russian, 626
Steam Consumption of Compound and Non-Compound Engines, 259
Steam " Goliath" Crane, 12-Ton ; the Darlington Wagon and Engineering Co, Limited,
Steam Hammers, Bement and Miles's, 84
Steam Jackets, 222
Steam Sanding Apparatus for Locomotives, 633
Steam Trap, The " Expand isc," 308
Steam Turbine, Parsons' Compound, 35
Steamer " City of New York," The Inman, 248, 260, 628
Steamers in the Black Sea, New, 197
Steamers for Burmah, Wanted, 419
Steamers, Clyde Passenger, New High-Speed, 575
Steamship Company, The Messageries Maritimes, 647
Steamship " Courier," Triple-Expam ion Engines of the, 6
Steamship " Maine," Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 139
Steel and Bronze, Casting in, 438
Steel Car Axles, 81
Steel Gun, The Bofors, 510
Steel for Guns, 292, 478, 506, 607, 525, 527
Steel and Iron, Arsenio in, 478
Steel, Manganese, 246
Steel, Open-Hearth, 32
Steel Permanent Way, Coblyn's, 50
Steel Plates, Mild, 476
Stellar Photography, Telescopes for, 402
Stereoscopic Photography, 442
Stone and Brick Brdges of Large Span, 5
Stranding of the " Inviota," The, 440
Street Watering with Sea Water, 366
Strength of Beams, The Old Puzzle about the, 641
Strength of Bleaching Kiers, The, 92
Strength of Cement, The, SO
Stresses on Lattice and other Girders, 625
Stresses in Ordnance, Internal, 198
" Struggle for Existence, The," 143
Submarine and Diving Boats, S54
Submarine Mining, 3, 56, 81, 131, 181, 230, 231, 449, 531, 582, 634
Submarine Telegraphy, The Telephone Applied to, 625
Submarine Torpedo Boat, Trial of the Machinery for a, 419
Subsidies, Black Sea Steamer, 370
Subway, The City and Southwark, 573
Sudden Loss of Magnetic Properties of Iron and Nickel, A Theory Concerning the, 441
Suez Canal, The, 269, 573
Sugar, The Influence of, upon Cement, 102, 12
Sugar Works, The Auckland, 121
Sukkur Cantilever Bridge, The, 229
Sulphur and Silicon in Cast Iron, 464, 499, 526
Sun, Carbon in the, 573
Sun Motor, A New, 343
Sunshine Recorder, Jordan's New Pattern Photographic, 420
" Sunstroke," Electric, 70
Supplementary Governor, The Wilby, 386
Surfacing and Boring Lathe, Lang's, 212
Survey, The Maps of the Ordnance, 1, 55, 11P 1 57, 220, 254, 301, 353, 401, 447, 532, 582, 635
Sweden, Projected New Canal in, 197
Swedish-Norwegian Railway, The, 197
Swedish Railways, 22, 41
Swedish Rifle, A New, 521
Switzerland, A Patent Law for, 339

Tangyes' High-Speed Vertical Engine, 164
Tank Locomotive ; Imperial Railways of Japan, 1 39
Tay Viaduct, The, 496
Ta3lor's Engraving Machine, 7
Teheran, The Railway to, 175
Telegraph Company, Western Union, 319
Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, The Society of, 40, 118, 171, 195, 244, 267, 316, 392, 413, 436, 489, 518, 546
Telegraphy, Optical, 370
Telegraphy, Post Office, 271
Telephone Applied to Submarine Telegraphy, The, 625
Telephone and Telegraph Wires, Renewing, 224
Telescopes, Object Glasses for, 22
Telescopes for Stellar Photography, 402
Temperature at which Nickel begins Suddenly to Lose its Magnetic Properties, 223
Tenders, Bogus Advertisements for, 170
Test and Working Pressures for Boilers, 302, 322
Testing for Foundations, 297
Testing Machine, The Emery, 462, 481, 512
Tests for Foundry Iron, Keep's, 319
Theory of the Screw Propeller, The, 329
Thermometer, Constant Volume Air, 43
Thomson-Houston Electric Company, The, 55S
Thunderbolts, The Non-Existence of, 324
Thunderstorm Committee, First Report of the, 615
Timber Bridge, Howe Truss, across the Willamette River, Albany, Oregon, 9
Time, The Electrical Distribution of, 16
Tintometer, A New, 480
Tool for Hand Use, A Power, 149
Tools, Machine, American, 183
Tools, Modern Machine, 127
Toothed Gearing, Friction in, 80
Torpedo Boat Casualties, 68
Torpedo Boat " Fatum," The Italian, 60
Torpedo Boat, Submarine, Trial of Machinery for a, 419
Torpedo Boat, Yarrow's Second-Class, 406
Torpedo Boats, Concealing the Presence of, 93
Torpedo, The Howell, 58
Torpedo System, The Berdan, 125
Torpedoes, 416
Tower Bridge, The, 215
Tower, The Eiffel, 594
Towers, Water, for City Fires, 418
Town, A Sliding, 624
Trade, British, 253
Trade with Burmah, Development of, 43
Trade on the Irrawaddy- River, 548
Trade Marks and Patents, 39
Trade, The Scotch Pig-Iron, in 1887, 126
Trains, The Electric Lighting of, 344
Trains, Speed of, in Russia, 315
Tramcar, Compressed Air, The Mekarski, 287
Tramcars, A New Electromotor for, 369
Tramway, Cable, The Birmingham, 315
Tramway, The Lineff Electric, 94
Tramway and Railway Working, 619
Trans-Caspian Railway, Sand Drifts on thc, 222
Transferring from Copper to Zinc, 582
Transformers v. Accumulators, 518
Transmission of Power by Brown's Dynamos, Electrical, 38.)
Transmission of Power by Water and Air, 274
Transport of Russian Petroleum, 68, 105
Treatment of Malarious Districts, The, 207
Treble-Geared Break Lathe, Asquith's 18i-Inch, 559
Treble-Geared Lathe, Berry and Sons', E86
Trial of the Machinery for a Submarine Torpedo Boat, 419
Trial Trips and Launches, 8, 37, 97, 123, 163, 211, 247, 263, 307, 359, 432, 494, 515, 541, 583, 615, 639
Triple-Engines of the s.s. " Courier," 6
Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. " Maine," 1 39
Triple - Expansion Yacht Engines of the " Iolanthe," 32
Tube Press, Bessemer's Hydraulic, 75
Tube Works, The Tyler, 558
Tubing, Spirally Welded, 475
Tunnel Alignments, Accuracy in, 123
Tunnel, The Sound, 573
Tunnel, The Vosburg, 331
Turbine, Parsons' Compound Steam, 35
Tyler Tube Works, The, 558
Typewriter, The, 93
Tyre Boring and Turning Machine, Bement and Miles's, 186

Uncoupling and Coupling Devices, Hill's, 199
Underground Rope Haulage, 159, 205, 282
Unequal Capacities, On a Method of Comparing, 600
Unexplored Corner of Brazil, An, 222
United States, Gunmaking in the, 219
United States, Notes from the, 61, 110, 139, 163, 1 99, 210, 234, 260, 298, 320, 316, 376, 397, 442, 466, 491, 548, 574, 589, 614, 656
United States Patent Laws, The Revision of the, 1 7
United States, A Public Works Department in the, 435
Uses of Mica, 344

Valve Gear, Collmann's Compound Engine with, 1 12
Valves, Pump, Evans's, 454
Variable Power, It'gg's Hydraulic Capstan Engine with, 61
Variation of the Coefficients of Induction, 397
Variations, Earth Current, 148
Velocity of the Sound of Firearms, 222
Velocity of Sound in Small Tubes, 43
Ventilating and Heating, 2
Vertical Engine, Tangyes' High-Speed, 161
Vessels, The Fineness or, 307
" Vesuvius," The Dynamite Cruiser, 512
Viaduct, The Tay, 496
Vibrating Strings, Form of, 43
Vieille Montagne, The, 521
Volatile Liquid Vapour Engines, 306, 319
Volk's Electric Dog Cart, 16
Vo:ute Double-Distilling Condenser, Rayner's, 32
Vosburg Tunnel, The, 331

Wagon Brake, Railway, Laycock's, 578
Wagon Coupling and Uncoupling Devices, Hill's, 1 99
Wales, Gold in, 620
Waltham Watch Factory, The, 557
Wanted, Steamers for Burmah, 419
Warner Observatory, The, 99
Warship Design, 296, 321
Warships, American, 321
Waste Uil, Filtration of, 222
Watchman's Record Clock, A New, 625
Water and Air, Transmission of Power by, 274
Water Charges by Measure and Assessment, 646
Water, A Curtain of, 599
Water-Dropping Influence Machine, A, 128
Water Gas for Metallurgical Purposes, 477, 576
Water Heater, Explosion of a, 70
Water Mains, Cleansing, 373
Water Meter, Schonhe3 der's, 601
Water Pipes, Wood, 625
Water Power Installation at Gokak, India, 562
Water Supply, Liverpool, 317
Water System, Hot, The Boston, 558
Water Towers for City Fires, 418
Water Works, Dani of the San Francisco, 17
Watering, Street, with Sea Water, 366
Waves, Ocean, height, Length, and Velocity of, 223
Weather, The, 14, 69, 144, 24'3, 340, 433, 568
Weirs' Combination Boiler Fitting, 630
Welding, Electrical, 85, 572
Wells Light, The, 185
Western Union Telegraph Company, 319
Westinghouse Brake for Fi eight Trains, The New Quick-Acting, 235
Weymersch Battery, The, 625
Wilby Supplementary Governor, The, 386
Wild's Hand-Power Drilling Machine, 185
Wilkinson and Lister's General Boring Machine, 332
Willamette River, Albany, Oregon, Howe Truss Timber Bridge across the, 9
Williams's Ferrule Extractor, 454
Wimbledon Sewage Works, 375
Wimshurst Influence Machine, The, 420
Wire Gun, The Longridge, 245, 437, 466
Wires, Aerial, 344
Workshops ; Maps of the Ordnance Survey, 636
Wood Bridges, Fire Alarms for, 43
Wood Pulp Industry in Norway, The, 122
Wood Water Pip's, 625
Working and Test Pressures for Boilers, 302, 322
Works, The Acton Main Drainage, 578
Works Department in the United States, A Public, 435

Yacht Engines of the " Iolanthe," Triple-Expansion, 32
Yarrow's Second-Class Torpedo Boat, 406
Year Books and Diaries, 97

Zambesi Railway, The, 650
" Zephyr" System of Boat Propulsion, The, 517, 609

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