Engineering 1888 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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ABSORPTION Spectrum of Oxygen, The, 349
Accident to the Czar’s Train, The, 457
Act, The New Electric Lighting, 20
Act, The Patent Law Amendment, 20
Address of Mr. Preece, 260
Address of the President of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, IOS, 149
Adjustable Angle Plates, Sherwin’s, 178 Agricultural Engineering in India, 15, 105, 175, 223, 297, 373, 471
Agricultural Machinery in Russia, 67

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S Snow AT NOTTINGHAM, THE ROYAL : 39

Combined Traction Engine and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s, 56
Hay and Straw Press, Warnes’, 58
Hopwood’s Boiler, 41
Implements, 42
Miscellaneous, 43
Plough, Fowler’s Anti-Balance, 43
Portable Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Turner’s Combined, 58
Refrigerating Machine ; Windhausen System, 58
Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Fowler’s 58
Steam Engines and Boilers and Gas Engines, 40

Air Compressor, Newall and Blyth’s Bogie, 226
Air Compressor for Variable Pressures, An, 413
Air of Public Buildings, The, 432
Air Pyrometer, Wiborgh’s, 214, 317
Alabama and Tennessee, 326, 423
Allen Pneumatic Rivetter, The, 504
Alloys, The Conduction of, 349
Alloys and Metallic Sulphides, The Conductivity of, 611
Aluminium in Cast Iron, 211, 219
Aluminium and Sodium, 116
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, The, 634
Amberism, 636
America, Electric Lighting in, 338
America, Rope-Driving in, 510
American Bridge Failures, 252, 273, 294
American Bridge Specification, An, 568, 615
American and English Bridges, 445, 546, 597, 621
American Railroad Freight Rates, 336
Ammonia-Soda Process, The, 421
Analysis Apparatus, Gas, 421
Analysis, Spectrum, 348
Angle Plates, Sherwin’s Adjustable, 178
Annual Winding Clock, An, 413
Antediluvian B'rog Story, An, 437
Anti-Balance Plough, Fowler’s, 43 |
Appleby’s Diamond Drill for Prospecting and Mining, 33
Arbitration, The East and West India Dock, 638
Arch and Invert Braced Girders, Goodwin’s, 426
Archer Gas Process, The, 399
Architects, The Society of, 513
Armatures, New Forms of Peculiar, 193
Armoured Hose, Sphincter Grip, 491 i
Arms, Rapid-Firing, 177
Arrol-Pringle Reversing Valve Gear, The, 71
Artesian Well, Illumination by an, 96
Asbestos Packed Cock, Baines’s, 355
Asiatic Ports, Canadian Pacific Through Distances to, 264 !
Asphalt Paving, 546
Asquith’s Drilling Machine, 327
Astronomical Telescopes, Clock-Driving Apparatus for, 117, 343
Atkinson Cycle Gas Engine and Pump, 627
Atomic Weights, 312
Atomiser, Centrifugal, 121
Attack, Torpedo, 617
Automatic Flood Gates, Czvetkovics’s, 30
Automatic Sluices, 117, 182
Automatic Sprinkler, The Draper-Hetherington, 490
Aveling and Porter’s Combined Traction Engine and Crane, 56
Axle-Box, Macnee’s Dust-Proof, 426

Babbage’s Calculating Machine, 352
Bagshaw’s Diagrammeter, 354
Baines’s Asbestos Packed Cock, 355
Baku, A Rothschild at, 362
Balance, A Hydrostatic, 314
Balancing of Locomotives, The, 260
Barlow’s New Belt Fastener, 391
Barometer, A New, 6
Barry Docks, The, 268, 275
Batteries, Primary, of Light Weight, 68
Battery, A New Secondary, 588
Beam Engine at Messrs. Whitbread and Co.’s Brewery, 86
Bechuanaland Railway, England and the, 362
Belgian Metallurgical Industry, 193
Bellite in Cleveland, 482
Belt Fastener, Barlow’s New, 391
Berry’s Hydraulic Billet Shears, 306
Bessemer Steel Tyres, 562
Bever and Dorling’s Underground Hauling Engines ; Ilkeston Colliery, 605
Bilbao, New Shipbuilding and Engineering Enterprise at, 424
Bill, The Pending Patents, «&c., 383, 457, 509,568
Billet Shears, Berry’s Hydraulic, 306
Boat Lowering Gear, Disengaging Hook for, 337
Boat, A New Submarine, 513
Boat Racing, Work in, 340
Bogie Air Compressor, Newall and Blyth’s, 226 Boiler, Buckland’s, 366
Boiler, Hopwood’s, 41
Boiler, Safety, A New Form of, 288
Boilers, Locomotive, Strains in, 27
Bonna’s Water Meter, 552
Boring and Sinking of Wells, The, 199, 271, 347, 395
Brakes, Railway, in New South Wales, 458
Branch Railway at Dundee, New, 169
Branch Railway in the West of Scotland, New, 32
Break in the Cornwall Canal in Canada, 539
Breakwater at Wick Bay, The New, 56
Breathing in Smoke, 20
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 409
Brewery, Guinness’s, 249, 298
Bridge Failures, American, 252, 273, 294
Bridge, Foot, over the River Oker at Brunswick, 158, 243
Bridge, The Forth, 6, 8, 134, 205, 212, 214, 365, 591
Bridge, The New York and Brooklyn, The Cable Railway on, 328, 401, 466, 494, 541
Bridge, Railway, in Sweden, A New Large, 44 Bridge Specification, An American, 568, 615 Bridges, English and American, 445, 546, 597, 621

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE : 237

Address of Mr. Preece, 260
Chemical Section, The, 263, 420
Mathematical and Physical Science Section, The, 312, 348
Mechanical Section, The, 260,273, 312, 337, 352, 412
Meteorological Reports, 349
On Mechanical Pathology considered in its Relation to Bridge Design, by Mr. George H. Thomson, 252, 273, 294
On the Graphophone, by Mr. Henrj’ Edmunds, 261, 319
On the Raiyan Reservoir; A Project for the Storage of Part of the Nile Flood, by Mr. Cope Whitehouse, M.A., 267, 277
On the Application of Electricity to the Working of a 10-Ton Travelling Crane, by Mr. W. Anderson, M.I.C.E., 268, 337
On a Few Arguments in Favour of Light or Road Railways, by Mr. Thos. Stephen P. W. D’Alte Sellon, A.M.LC.E., 268, 274
On the Barry Docks, by Mr. John Wolfe Barrv, M.I.C.E., 268, 275
On the Plant and Machinery in Use on the Manchester Ship Canal, by Mr. Lionel B. Wells, 276
On an Improved Canal Lift, bj" Mr. S. Lloyd, 276
On the Replenishment of the Underground Waters of the Permeable Formations of England, by Mr. J. Bailey Denton, 277
On a New Sphere Planimeter, by Professor Hele Shaw, M.I.C.E., 279
On Rolling Seamless Tubes from Solid Bars or Ingots by the Mannesmann Process, by Mr. Frederick Siemens, C.E., 291, 312
On the Electrical Transmission of Power, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, 310
On Tidal Observations, 312
On the Logarithmic Law and its Connection with the Atomic Weights, by Dr. Johnstone Stoney, 312
On the Behaviour of Water under Great Provocation from Heat, by Professor Ramsay 313
On the Oscillations of a Rotating Liquid Spheroid and the Genesis of the Moon, by Mr. A. E. H. Love, 313
On the Meldometer, by Mr. John Joly, 313
On a Hydrostatic Balance, by Mr. John Joly 314
On Electrocalorimetry, by Professor W. Stroud and Mr. Haldane Gee, 314
On Electric Action on Photographic Films, bj’’ Mr. J. Brown, 314
On a Comparison of Gassner’s Dry Cells with Leclanch6’s, by Mr. Lant Carpenter, 314
On the Magnetisation of Soft Iron Bars of Different Lengths in a Uniform Field, by Sir William Thomson, 314
On the Velocity of Light in an Electrolytic Liquid Influenced by an Electric Current in the Direction of Propagation, by Lord Rayleigh, 314
On Recent Progress in the Use of Concave Gratings for Spectrum Analysis, by Professor Rowland, 314
On Electro-Magnetic Induction of Incomplete Circuits, 315
On the Measurement of Electro-Magnetic Wave Lengths, by Professor Oliver Lodge, 315
On the Impedance of Conductors to a Leyden Jar Discharge, by Professor Oliver Lodge, 315
On Gaseous Fuel, by Mr. J. E. Dowson, 337
On the Shipman Engine, by Mr. Pidgeon,337
On a Disengaging Hook for Boat Lowering Gear, by Mr. Hill, 337
On a Click Mill, by Professor Jamieson, 337
On the Cowlts Process of Electric Smelting, by Mr. Crompton, 338
On Electric Lighting in America, by Mr. G. Forbes, 338
On Electrical Distribution, by Mr. Henry Edmunds, 339
On the Measurement of Electricity in a House- to-House Supply, by Mr. W. Lowrie, 339
On the Harmonic Series of Lines in the Spectra of the Elements, by Professor Carl Runge 348
On L’Application de PAnalyse Spectrale la Mdcanique Mol^culaire ; Spectres de I’Oxy- gdne, by Dr. Janssen, 348
On the Absorption Spectrum of Oxygen, by Professors Liveing and Dewar, 349
On a Vortex Analogue of Static Electricity, by Professor Hicks, 349
On a Diffusion Photometer, by Mr. J. Joly, 349
On Electrolysis, Report of Committee, 349
On the Conduction of Alloys and Solid Sulphides, by Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Hibbert 349
On the Electromotive Force of Polarisation with Small Electrodes, by Dr. Richarz, 349
On Modern Views about Hurricanes as Compared with Older Theories, by Mr. Aber- cromby, 349
On the Temperature of Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries in the United Kingdom, by Dr. Mill, 350
OB a Magnetic Survey of Japan, by Professor Cargill Knott, 350
On Kew Corrections for Mercury Thermometers, by Mr. Shaw, 350
On Temperature Determination from Electrical Resistance, by Mr. Shaw, 350
On Standards of Light, by Professor Vernon Harcourt, 351
On Meteorological Instruments, by Mr. Joly, 351
On Lightning Conductors, 351, 384, 409
On the Burning of Coils at the Waterfall of the Bush River, belonging to the Portrusfi Electric Railway Company, by Dr. Anthony Traill, 351
On rAnalyse Chronom6trique des Phdnomdnes Electriques Lumineux, by Dr. Janssen, 351
On Electrical Standards, Report of the Committee, 352
On the Electrometric Determination of “v,” by Sir William Thomson and Messrs. Ayrton and Perry, 352
On Maxwell’s Equation for Electro-Magnetic Waves, by Professor Rowland, 352
On the Nomenclature of the Fundamental Units of Mechanics, Report of the Committee on, 352
On a Photographic Image of an Electric Arc Lamp probably due to Phosphorescence in the Eye, by Mr. Friese Greene, 352
On Some Photographs of an Eclipse of the Moon, by Mr, Friese Greene, 352
On the Mechanical Arrangements of the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage, by Major-General Babbage, 352
On the Fourth Dimension, by Mr. Dixon, 352
On a Suggestion from the Bologna Academy of Science towards an Agreement on the Initial Meridian for the Universal Hour, by Professor Tondini de Quarenghi, 352
On the Friction of Metal Coils, by Messrs. H. S. H. Shaw and E. Shaw, 352
On the Efficiency of Steam at High Pressure, by Mr. W. W. Beaumont, 353, 439
On Revolving Sails, by Mr. H. C. Vogt, 353
On Underground Railway Communication in Great Cities, by Col. R. R. Hazard, 412
On the Transmission of Power and Motion, by Mr. J. W. Pearse, 412
On an Annual Winding Clock, by Mr. W, H. Douglas, 413
On a New Form of Air Compressor for Variable Pressures, by Mr. Henry Davey, 413
On the Teaching of Chemistry, by Professor Tilden, 420
On the Influence of Silicon on the Properties of Steel, Report of Committee, 421
On the Incompleteness of Combustion in Explosives, by Professor H. B. Dixon and Mr. H. W. Smith, 421
On a Gas Analysis Apparatus, by Dr. W. J. Nicol, 421
On Proposed International Standards of Iron and Steel, by Professor Langley, 421
On the Recovery of Ammonia and Chlorine in the Ammonia-Soda Process, by Mr. Fred Bale, 421
On Action, of Light on Water Colours, by Dr. A. Richardson, 421
On Silicon and Carbon, by Professor Emerson Reynolds, 421
Physical Section, The, 262

British Columbia, Opium Trade of, 436
British Columbia, Trade of, 611
Biitish Exhibitors at Paris, 538, 558
British Manufactures, Japan as a Marketfor, 283, 533
British Mercantile Ports, The Defence of, 14
British Section of the Paris International Exhibition, 578
Brooklyn Bridge, Traffic on the, 79
Brooks Locomotive Works, The, 545 Buckland’s Boiler, 366
“Buenos Aires,” s.s., Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the, 366, 415
Buffalo, The City of, 521
Buffer and Drawbar, Oheesew’right’s Patent Combined, 232
Buildings, Public, The Air of, 432
“ Burma,” Light-Draught Steamer; Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, 600
Burning of Electric Coils, 351

Cable Railway on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, The, 328, 401, 466, 494, 541
Cables, Waring’s Underground Electric, 391
Calculating Machine, Babbage’s, 352
Canadian Pacific Railway and Sir George Stephen, The, 215
Canadian Pacific Through Distances to Asiatic Ports, 264
Canal, The Isthmus of Corinth, 216
Canal Lift, Hydraulic, at La Louvidre ; Canal du Centre, Belgium, 355
Canal Lifts, 276
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 65, 238, 273, 276, 325, 610,626
Canal, The North-Sea Baltic, 638
Canal between the North Sea and Limfjord, The Projected, 19
Canal, The Panama, 607
Canal, Ship, Proposed Great Western, 361
Canals of Canada, 436
Canals v. Railways, 187
Canals, The Sault Ste. Marie, 259
Cane-Crushing Mill, Mirrlees and Watson’s Four- Roller, 110
Cape Railway Extensions, 169
Car-Heating System, A Safety, 3
Carbon, Some Experiments on, 315
Carbon and Silicon, 421
Carriage, Composite, for the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland, 379
Cars, Freight, The Goodfellow and Cushman; Furness Railway, 550
Cars, Railway, Martin’s System of Heating, 545
Cart Improvement Works, The River, 603
Carver’s Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus, 244
Cast Guns, Steel, 609
Cast Iron, Aluminium in, 211, 219
Catalogues, The Paris Exhibition, 513
Central Institution of the City and Guilds of London Technical Institute, 419, 473, 497, 523, 559, 596
Centre-Board and Deep-Keel Yachts, 92
Centrifugal Atomiser, 121
Centrifugal Pump and Portable Engine, Turner’s Combined, 58
Change of Potential of a Voltaic Couple, The Minimum Point of, 73
Cheesewright’s Patent Combined Buffer and Drawbar, 232
Chemical Section of the British Association, The, 263, 420
Chemistry, The Teaching of, 420
China, Mining Enterprise in, 510
Chronometer Rates and How to Use them at Sea, 66, 536, 623
City of Buffalo, The, 521
City and Guilds of London Technical Institute, Central Institution of the, 419, 473, 497, 523, 659, 596
“City of New York,” The Machinery of the Inman Liner, 84, 123, 179

CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 476

On Friction Brake Dynamometers, by Mr. W.
Worby Beaumont, M.I.C.E., 477
On the Influence of Chemical Composition on the Strength of Bessemer Steel Tyres, by Mr. J. Oliver Arnold, F.C.S., 562
On the Witham New Outfall Channel and Improvement Works, by Mr. J. Evelyn Williams, M.I.C.E., 567
On the Friction of Locomotive Slide Valves, by Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, M.I.C.E., 602
Subjects for Papers—Session 1888-89, 379

Cleveland, Bellite in, 462
Cleveland, Notes from, 10, 31, 60, 98, 122, 134, 171, 185, 217, 233, 257, 290, 306, 333, 356, 390, 405, 438, 454, 481, 506, 527, 554, 580, 604, 630
Click Mill, A, 337
Clock, An Annual Winding, 413
Clock-Driving Apparatus for Astronomical Telescopes, 117, 343
Clocks, Electric Signal, 362
Clutch, Friction, The Macdonald, 552
Clutha Lock-Nut, The, 354
Clyde, The River, 93
Coal Famine in Russia, The, 241
Coal in France and Belgium, 487
Coal, Injury to, by Spontaneous Ignition, 384
Coal in the United States, 20
Coalowners and Coalminers, 407
Cock, Baines’s Asbestos Packed, 355
Cockshott and Jowett’s Malleable Iron Shaft Couplings, 603
Coefficient of Mutual Induction of a Helix Coaxial Circle, Calculation of the, 476
Cold-Rolling Steel, Jardine’s Rolls for, 33
College, Tooting, 289
Colonies and the Paris Exhibition, The, 432
Colours of Material, The Latent, 461
Combe, Barbour, and Combe’s Works, Belfast, 224
Combustion in Explosives, Incompleteness of, 421
Committee on Electrolysis, 349
Committee on Private Bill Legislation, The, 165
Company, The John Cockerill, 636
Composite Carriage for the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland, 379
Compound Engine, Robey’s Semi-Portable, 59
Compound Engine at Whitbread’s Brewery, Horizontal, 529
Compound Engines, 26
Compound Horizontal Engine, Robey’s, 452
Compound Lever Testing Machine, 188
Compound Semi-Portable Engine with Twin Boilers, Fowler’s, 378
Compound Ste«am Turbine, 144, 434, 478
Compound v. Triple-Expansion Engines, 436
Compressor, Air, for Variable Pressures, An, 413
Concave Gratings for Spectrum Analysis, 314
Concentrating Silver Ores, Mill for, 161
Concentrator, Yaryan, Mirrlees, and Watson’s, 110
Concrete for Marine Constructions, 64
Concrete, Portland Cement, 341 Condensers, Surface, 26
Conduction of Alloys, The, 349
Conductivity of Alloys and Metallic Sulphides, The, 611
Conductors, Lightning, The Joint Discussion on, 351, 384, 409
Connecting-Rods, 26
Continuous Web Printing Machine, Marinoni, 179
Cooling a Heated Conduit, 121
Copenhagen Exhibition, The, 147, 241, 336
Copenhagen, Projected Railways at, 436
Copper Depositing Process, The Elmore, 509
Copper Steam Pipes, 116,118, 125
Copper Steam Pipes, The Strength of, 208
Cornwall Canal, Break in the, in Canada, 539
Cost, Graphical Method for Obtaining Minimum, 362
Couplings, Shaft, Cockshott and Jowett’s Malleable Iron,603
Cour’s New Sprectro-Telegraph, Paul la, 362
Cowles’ Electric Smelting Works, 575
Crane, An Electrically Worked, 268, 337
Crane, Hydraulic, Stannah’s Differential, 162
Crane, Locomotive Steam, Smith’s 10-Ton, 8
Crane, Russell’s 20-Ton Overhead Power Travelling, 579
Crane, 10-Ton Locomotive; Swedish and Norwegian Railway, 628
Crane, 25-Ton Steam; Prince’s Quay, Belfast Harbour, 451
Crane and Traction Engine, Aveling and Porter’s Combined, 56
Crank-Pins, Inserting and Securing, 26
Crown Sheet, The Darby Firebox, 179
Curve Ranger, The Dalrymple-Hay, 74
Cycle Gas Engine and Pump, Atkinson, 627
Czar’s Train, The Accident to the, 457
Czvetkovics’s Automatic Flood Gates, 30

Dalrymple-Hay Curve Ranger, The, 74
Dam, Scouring, Kingston’s Floating; Hidgellee Tidal Canal Lock, 403
“Damp Air” Refrigerator, Kirk’s 5-Ton, 551
Danish Man-of-War, New, 169
Darby Firebox Crown Sheet, The, 179
Deep Keel and Centre-Board Yachts, 92
Defence of British Mercantile Ports, The, 14, 633
Defence of the Meuse, 44
Defence, Port and Harbour, 14, 633
Delebecque, Edouard, 265
Denmark, Patents in, 288
Denny’s Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “Buenos Aires,” 366, 415
Deptford Electric Lighting Station, The, 408
Determination of “v,” The Electrometric, 352
“Devil” Disintegrator, The, 132
Diagrammeter, Bagshaw’s, 354
Diamond Drill for Prospecting and Mining, Appleby’s, 33
Diamond Mining, South African, 147
Differential Hydraulic Crane, Stannah’s, 162
Diffusion Photometer, A, 349
Dimension, The Fourth, 352
Discussion on Lightning Conductors, The Joint, 351, 384, 409
Disengaging Hook for Boat Lowering Gear, 337
Disintegrator, The “Devil,” 132
Distress Signal, A New, 414
Distribution, Electric, The Edmunds System of, 499
Distribution, Electrical, 339
Diverging Torpedo Guns, Yarrow’s, 476
Dock Arbitration, The East and West India, 638
Dock, Dry, at Esquimalt, British Columbia, 56, 87
Dock Mills, Dublin, The, 145
Docks, The Barry, 2d8, 275
Docks, Pontoon and Floating, 136
Dodd’s High-Speed Engine, 330
Dogcart, An Electrical, 264
Don, Shipbuilding on the, 487
Double-Action Steam Pile Driver, 59
Double - Drilling Machine for Tube ? Plates, Shanks’, 88
Double-Ladder Dredger for the Swansea Harbour Trust, 45
Draper-Hetherington Automatic Sprinkler, The, 490
Drawbar and Buffer, Cheesewright’s Patent Combined, 232
Dredger “ Kuphus,” The Hopper; Bombay Port Trust, 552
Dredger for the Swansea Harbour Trust, DoubleLadder, 45
Dredgers, Frictional Gearing for, 144, 182
Drill for Prospecting and Mining, Appleby’s Diamond, 33
Drill, Rock, The Truro, 540
Drilling Machine, Asquith’s, 327
Drilling Machine, Fidge’s Hand Power, 541
Drilling Machine, Richards’ Radial, 468
Drilling Machine for Tube-Plates, Shanks’ Double, 88
Dry Dock at Esquimalt, British Columbia, 56, 87
Dryer, Steam, McDougall’s, 330
Dundee, New Branch Railway at, 169
Duration of Lightning Flashes, 351, 538 Dust-Proof Axle-Box, Macnee’s, 426
Dynamite Shells, 484
Dynamo, Holmes’, and Tangyes’ Engine, 178
Dynamo, Victoria, and Raworth’s Engine, 132
Dynamometers, Friction Brake, 476

East London Water Works, 44
East and West India Dock Arbitration, The, 638
Eddington and Steevenson’s Traction Engine, 587
Edinburgh, The Race to, 142
Edmunds System of Electric Distribution, The, 499
Efficiency of Steam at High Pressure, 353, 439
Ejector for Hammerless Guns, The Westley-Richards, 160
Elder Statue, The, 97
Electric Action on Photographic Films, 314
Electric Cables, Waring’s Underground, 391
Electric Coils, Burning of, 351
Electric Currents, The Influence of, on Light, 314
Electric Distribution, The Edmunds System of, 499

ELECTRIC LIGHTING :

Deptford Electric Lighting Station, The, 408
Dynamo, Holmes’, and Tangyes’ Engine, 178
Dynamo, Victoria, and Raworth’s Engine, 132
Edmunds System of Electric Distribution, The, 499
Electric Cables, Waring’s Underground, 391
Electric Light in Fishing, The Use of, 215
Electric Lighthouse at the Copenhagen Exhibition, 336
Electric Lighting Act, The New, 20
Electric Lighting in America, 338
Electrical Distribution, 339, 499
Electricity, The Measurement of, 339
Engine, Horizontal Electric Light, Smith’s, 111
Grosvenor Gallery Electric Supply Station, The, 461
Illumination by an Artesian Well, 96
Incandescent Lamps in Railway Signals, The Use of, 388
Electric Signal Clocks, 362
Electric Smelting, 338
Electric Smelting Works, Cowles’, 575
Electric Supply Station, The Grosvenor Gallery, 461
Electric Tramcar, An, 413
Electric Tramcar, The Reckenzaun, 600
Electric Welding, 571
Electrical Attachments to Safe Locks, 241
Electrical Distribution, 339, 499
Electrical Dogcart, An, 264
Electrical Resistance, Temperature Determination from, 350
Electrical Standards, Report of the Committee on, 352
Electrical Transmission of Power, The, 310, 574
Electrically Worked Crane, An, 268, 337
Electricity, The Measurement of, 339
Electricity for Tempering Steel, 361
Electro-Actinic Phenomena, 461
Electro-Magnetic Capacity, Determining, 590
Electro-Magnetic Induction of Incomplete Circuits, 315
Electro-Magnetic Wave Lengths, 315
Electro-Mechanical Water Gauge, Sax’s, 399
Electrocalorimetry, 314
Electrolysis, Committee on, 349
Electrolysis of Common Salt, The, 588
Electrometric Determination of “ v,” The, 352
Electromotive Force of Polarisation, The, 349
Elevated Railroads at New York, 561
Elmore Copper Depositing Process, The, 509
Embossed Man and Mudhole Doors, 316
Emery Grinding Machinery, Sterne’s, 133
Emery Testing Machine, 75-Ton, 21, 433, 440
“ Empire” Route to the East, The, 461
Employers’ Liability, 483
Engine, Beam, at Messrs. Whitbread and Co.’s Brewery, 86
Engine, Dodd’s High Speed, 330
Engine, Fowler’s Compound Semi-Portable, with Twin Boilers, 378
Engine, Garrett’s Horizontal, 586
Engine, Gas, and Pump, Atkinson Cycle, 627
Engine, Horizontal Compound, at Whitbread’s Brewery, 529
Engine, Horizontal Electric Light, Smith’s, 111
Engine, Marine, The First Century of the, 120
Engine, Marshall’s Triple-Expansion Semi-Portable, 30
Engine, Portable, and Centrifugal Pump, Turner’s Combined, 58
Engine, Pumping, The Worthington High-Duty, 565
Engine, Raworth’s, and Victoria Dynamo, 132
Engine, Rider’s Hot-Air, 354
Engine, Robey’s Compound Horizontal, 452
Engine, Robey’s Semi-Portable Compound, 59
Engine, The Rota, 74
Engine, The Shipman, 337
Engine, Steam, Heat in the, 99
Engine, Steam Pumping, Merryweather’s, 86
Engine, Tangyes’, and Holmes’ Dynamo, 178 Engine, Traction, and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s Combined, 56
Engine, Traction, Eddington and Steevenson’s, 687
Engine Trials at the Highland Society’s Show, 493
Engine, Underground Pumping, at the Peter- shaft, 376
Engine Works and Shipyard, Harland and Wolff’s, 103
Engineer of the Future, The, 391, 415, 440 Engineer OHicers, Naval, 557
Engineering and Allied Industries in Scotland, 637
Engineering in India, Agricultural, 15, 105, 175, 223, 297, 373, 471
Engineering Periodicals, An Index to, 169
Engineering and Shipbuilding Enterprise at Bilbao, New, 424
Engineering Works, The Falls, Belfast, 224
Engineers, The Amalgamated Society of, 634
Engineers and Lamps, 68
Engineers, Technical Education for, 389
Engineers, Telegraph, Society of, 485, 535
Engines and Boilers at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 40
Engines, Compound, 26
Engines, Hauling, Walker’s Underground, 305
Engines, Marine, Horse-Power of, 641
Engines, Mill, 45, 75
Engines at the Smithfield Club Show, 586
Engines of the 8.8. “Buenos Aires,” Quadruple- Expansion, 366, 415
Engines of the s.s. “ Falls of Inversnaid,” Disconnective Quadruple-Expansion, 502,
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the Inman Liner “ City of New York,” 84, 123, 179
Engines, Underground Hauling; Ilkeston Colliery, 505
England and the Bechuanaland Railway, 362
England, The Power of, to Resist Invasion, 37
English and American Bridges, 445, 546, 597, 621
Engraving Sounds, 247
Erecting a Locomotive, 316
Erection of the Roof of Olympia, The, 640
Erie Railroad, The, 585
Esquimalt, British Columbia, Dry Dock at, 56, 87
Estimating the Cost of Foundry Work, 5
Eureka Safety Hoist, The, 491
Evaporator for Triple-Expansion Engines, Weir’s, 123
Excavators, Steam, 27
Excursions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 573
Excursions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 25
Excursions of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 145
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 409
Exhibition, The Copenhagen, 147, 241, 336

EXHIBITION, THE GLASGOW :

Cane-Crushing Mill, Mirrlees and Watson’s Four-Roller, 110
Drilling Machine for Tube - Plates, Shanks’s Double, 88
Emery Grinding Machinery, Sterne’s, 133
Engine, Horizontal Electric Light, Smith’s, 111
Engine, Robey’s Compound Horizontal, 452
Milling Cutter and Tap Grinder, Sterne’s, 526
Models of Paddle Steamers, 146
Models of Steamers and Yachts, 446
Paddle Steamer “ Honam,” The, 451
Surfacing Machine, Sterne’s Automatic, 133
Travelling Crane, Russell’s 20-Ton Overhead Power, 579
Ventilation, Induced Draught, Leesand Anderson’s, 71
Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute, 215 Warships, Models of, 38
Water Meter, Bonna’s, 552
Wheel Tooth Cleaning Machine, Sterne’s, 133 Yaryan Concentrator, Mirrlees and Watson’s, 110

Exhibition, The Ironmongers’ Iron and Metal Trades, 485
Exhibition of Means of Transport, The Retrospective, 212, 388

EXHIBITION OF 1889, THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL : 91, 309, 485, 535

British Exhibitors, 538, 558
British Section, 578 Catalogues, 513
Fine Arts and Liberal Arts Galleries, The, 207, 424
Galleries for Miscellaneous Exhibits and Agricultural Annexes, 149
Indian Pavilion, 514
Liberal Arts, The Palace of the, 459, 485
Machinery Gallery, The, 529
Retrospective Exhibition, A, 212, 388
Exhibitions, French, 408

Exhibitors at Paris, British, 538, 558
Experiments on Carbon, Some, 315
Explosions on Tank Steamers, 414
Explosives, High, in Naval Warfare, 131, 484
Exporting Gold Machinery to Siberia, 216
Express Locomotive; Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 576, 614
Failures, American Bridge, 252, 273, 294
Falls Engineering Works, Belfast, The, 224
“ Falls of Inversnaid,” s.s.. Disconnective Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the, 502
Falls, Niagara, 573
Fast Seagoing Torpedo Boat, A, 503
Fastener, Belt, Barlow’s New, 391 Fastenings, Wire Rope, 52
Ferry Boats, The Greenwich, 53
Fibre, Indurated, 575
Fidge’s Hand-Power Drilling Machine, 541
Filtration, The Hyatt System of, 450
Fine Arts and Liberal Arts Galleries; Paris International Exhibition, 207
Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus, Carver’s, 244
Firebox Crown Sheet, The Darby, 179
Fires, Self-Extinguishment of, 170
First Century of the Marine Engine, The, 120
Fishing, The Use of Electric Light in, 216
Flashes, Lightning, 595
Flashes, Lightning, Duration of, 351, 538
Fleets, The German and Russian, 68
Fleming and Ferguson’s Double - Ladder Dredger for the Swansea Harbour Trust, 45
Floating and Pontoon Docks. 136
Floating Scouring Dam, Kingston’s; Hidgellee Tidal Canal Lock, 403
Flood Gates, CzvetKovics’s Automatic, 30
Foot-Bridge over the River Oker at Brunswick, 158, 243
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 126, 438, 468
Forms of Peculiar Armatures, New, 193
Forth Bridge, The, 6, 8, 134, 205, 212, 214,365, 514, 591
Forth Bridge and the Recent Gales, The, 514
Foundations, Steel Beams in, 413
Foundry Work, Estimating the Cost of, 5
Four-Roller Cane-Crushing Mill, Mirrlees and Watson’s, 110
Fourth Dimension, The, 352
Fowler, Mr. John, 389
Fowler’s Anti-Balance Plough, 43
Fowler’s Compound Semi-Portable Engine with Twin Boilers, 378
Fowler’s Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, 58 France and Belgium, Coal in, 487
Freight Cars, The Goodfellow and Cushman; Furness Railway, 650
Freight Rates, American Railroad, 336
French Exhibitions, 408
French Steam Navigation, 68, 147, 638
Friction Brake Dynamometers, 476
Friction Clutch, The Macdonald, 552
Friction of Engines, The Internal, 513
Friction of Locomotive Slide Valves, The, 602
Friction of Metal Coils, The, 352
Frictional Gearing for Dredgers, 144,182
Frog Story, An Antediluvian, 437
Fuel, Gaseous, 337
Fuel, Liquid, on Locomotives, 371
Future, The Engineer of the, 391, 415, 440
Future, Warships of the, 180, 284

Gales, The Recent, and the Forth Bridge, 514
Galleries, Fine Arts and Liberal Arts ; Paris International Exhibition, 207
Garrett’s Horizontal Engine, 586
Gas Analysis Apparatus, 421
Gas Engine and Pump, Atkinson Cycle, 627
Gas Engines and Steam Engines and Boilers, 40
Gas Governor, Walker and Sisterson’s, 415
Gas, Lawrence Oarburetted, 538
Gas Process, The Archer, 399 Gaseous Fuel, 337
Gasholders without Upper Guide Framing, 216
Gassner’a and Leclanchd Cells, 314
Gauge, Water, Sax’s Electro-Mechanical, 399
Gearing for Dredgers, Frictional, 144, 182 German Population, 588
German and Russian Fleets, The, 68
Geysers, Soaping, 573
Girders, Goodwin’s Arch and Invert Braced, 426
Glasgow Central Railway, The, 330
Glasgow Harbour, Proposed Tunnel under, 513
Glasgow University, Naval Architecture ar, 119
Glass, A Substitute for, 264
Glow Lamp Patents, 63
Gold Machinery, Exporting, to Siberia, 216
Goodfellow and Cushman Freight Cars, The ; Furness Railway, 550
Goodwin’s Arch and Invert Braced Girders, 426 Grafton’s 10-Ton Locomotive Crane; Swedish and Norwegian Railway, 628
Graphical Method for Obtaining Minimum Cost, 362
Graphophone and the Phonograph, The, 166, 247, 261, 319, 634, 561
Gravitation Syphon System, Sewage Disposal by the, 589
Great Maritime Routes, 170
Great Southern and Western Railway Works, Inchicore, 95
Great Western Ship Canal, Proposed, 361 Greenwich Ferry Boats, The, 53
Grinding Machinery, Sterne’s Emery, 133 Grinnell Sprinkler, The, 341
Grosvenor Gallery Electric Supply Station, The, 461
Grubb’s Works, Dublin, Sir Howard, 571 Guide Framing, Upper, Gasholders without, 216 Guinness’s Brewery, 249, 298
Guinness’s Brewery, Stock at, 143, 366
Guns, Hammerless, Ejector for, 160
Guns, Steel Cast, 609
Guns, Torpedo, Yarrow’s Diverging, 476
Gwynne, Mrs., 601

Hahn’s Portable Watchman’s Time Detector, 123
Hall’s Refrigerating Machine, 32
Hamilton, Lord George, on the Navy, 360
Hammerless Guns, The Westley - Richards Ejector for, 160
Hand-Power Drilling Machine, Fidge’s, 541
Harbour and Port Defence, 633
Harland and Wolff’s Shipyard and Engine Works. 103
Harvey’s Punching and Shearing Machine, 600
“ Hata,” Light Draught Sternwheel Steamer, for the River Irrawaddy, 55
Hauling Engines, Underground; Ilkeston Colliery, 505
Hauling Engines, Walker’s Underground, 305
Hay and Straw Press, Warnes’, 58
Heat, Influence of, on Water, 313
Heat in the Steam Engine, 99
Heated Conduit, Cooling a, 121
Heating Railway Cars, Martin’s System of, 645
Heating Rolls by Gas, Hilton’s Method of, 355
Henderson Steel Process, The, 130
High-Duty Pumping Engine, The Worthington, 665
High Explosives in Naval Warfare, 131, 484
High Pressure, The Efficiency of Steam at. 353. 439
High-Speed Engine, Dodd’s, 330
Highland Society’s Show, Engine Trials at the. 493
Hilton’s Method of Heating Rolls by Gas, 355
Hoist, The Eureka Safety, 491
Holmes’ Dynamo and Tangyes’ Engine, 178
“Honam,” The, Light-Draught Paddle Steamer. 451
Hook, Disengaging, for Boat Lowering Gear, 337
Hook, A Magnetic, 68
Hopper Dredger “ Kuphus,” The ; Bombay Port Trust, 552
Hopwood’s Boiler, 41
Horizontal Compound Engine at Messrs. Whitbread’s Brewery, 529
Horizontal Electric Light Engine, Smith’s, 111
Horizontal Engine, Garrett’s, 586
Horizontal Engine, Robej^’s Compound, 452
Horse-Power of Marine Engines, 641
Hose, Armoured Sphincter Grip, 491
Hot-Air Engine, Rider’s, 354
Humming Electrical Wires, 96
Hurricanes, 349
Hyatt System of Filtration, The, 450
Hydraulic Billet Shears, Berry’s, 306
Hydraulic Canal Lift at La Louvi^re; Canal du Centre, Belgium, 355
Hydraulic Crane, Stannah’s Differential, 162
Hydrostatic Balance, A, 314

Illumination by an Artesian Well, 96
Implements at the Nottingham Show, 42
Implements at the Smithfield Club Show, 587
Improvement Works, The River Cart, 603
Improvement Works, River Witham, 567
Incandescent Lamps in Railway Signals, The Use of, 388
Incompleteness of Combustion in Explosives, 421
Index to Engineering Periodicals, An, 169
India, Agricultural Engineering in, 15, 105. 175, 223, 297, 373, 471
India, Railways in, 284
Indian Pavilion, The; Paris International Exhibition, 514
Induced Draught Ventilation, Lees and Anderson’s, 71
Induction, Electro-Magnetic, of Incomplete Circuits, 315
Indurated Fibre, 575
Industry, The Oil Tank Steamer, in England, 44
Influence of Aluminium upon Cast Iron, The, 219
Influence of Electric Currents on Light, The, 314
Influence of Heat on Water, 313
Influence of Silicon on Steel, 421
Injury to Coal by Spontaneous Ignition, 384
Inman Liner “ City of New York,” The Machinery of the, 84, 123, 179
Inserting and Securing Crank-Pins, 26
Instruments, Meteorological, 351
Internal Friction of Engines, The, 513
Internal Transport, 583
Invasion, The Power of England to Resist, 37
Iron, Cast, Aluminium in, 211, 219
Iron, Pig, The Valuation of, 71
Iron, Purification of Water by, 431
Iron. The Rusting of, 214, 244

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE : 188

Forth Bridge, The, 214
Glasgow Exhibition, Visit to the, 215
On a Horizontal Compound Lever Testing Machine of 15,000 Powers ; with Further Recording Lever of 150,000 Powers, by Mr. Adamson, 188
On Manganese Steel, by Mr. Hadfield, 189, 228, 292
On the Forth Bridge, by Mr. F. E. Cooper, M.I.C.E., Resident Engineer, 205, 212
On a New Air Pyrometer, by Professor J. Wiborgh, 214, 317
On the Chemical Process Involved in the Rusting of Iron, by Professor A. Crum Brown, 214, 244

Iron and Steel, Standards of, 421
Ironclad “ Lepanto,” The Italian, 130, 194
Ironmongers’ Iron and Metal Trades Exhibition, The, 485
“ Islander,” The s.s., 305
Isthmus of Corinth Canal, The, 216
Italian Ironclad “ Lepanto,” The, 130, 194

Japan, Magnetic Survey of, 350
Japan as a Market for British Manufactures, 283, 533
Japan to North America, Tea Trade from, 361
Jardine’s Rolls for Cold-Rolling Steel, 33
John Cockerill Company, The, 636
Jupiter Lamp, The, 315

Kew Corrections for Mercury Thermometers, 350
Kilbourn Refrigerating Machine, The, 179
Kingston’s Floating Scouring Dam; Hidgellee Tidal Canal Lock, 403
Kirk’s 5-Ton “ Damp Air” Refrigerator, 551
“ Kuphus,” The Hopper Dredger : Bombay Port Trust, 552

Lack’s Pneumatic Pressure Printing Frame, 426 Lamp, The Jupiter, 315
Lamp Patents, Glow, 63
Lamps and Engineers, 68
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, The, 241
Latent Colours of Material, The, 461
Launch “Victoria,” The Steam, 636
Launches and Trial Trips, 7, 32, 88, 139, 162, 194, 217, 266, 290, 316, 333, 366, 377, 414, 429, 451, 514, 564, 590, 604, 630
Lawrence CarbureUed Gas, 538
Leclanchd and Gassner’s Cells, 314
Lees and Anderson’s Induced Draught Ventilation, 71
Legislation, Private Bill, The Committee on, 165
“ Lepanto,” The Italian Ironclad, 130, 194
Lesson from the North-East, A, 359
Liability, Employers’, 483
Liberal Arts, The Palace of the ; Paris International Exhibition, 459, 485
Lick Observatory, The, 1, 81, 155, 200, 225, 396
Lick Telescope, The, 149
Lifeboat, A Semi-Collapsible, 240
Lift, Hydraulic Canal, at La Louvidre ; Canal du Centre, Belgium, 355
Lifts, Canal, 276
Light-Draught Paddle Steamer “Honam,” The, 451
Light-Draught River Steamers, 51
Light-Draught Steamer “Burma”; Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, 600
Light-Draught Sternwheel Steamer “Hata” for the River Irrawaddy, 55
Light, The Influence of Electric Currents on, 314
Light Railways, 268, 274
Light, Standards of, 351
Light on Water Colours, Action of, 421
Lighthouse, The Electric; Copenhagen Exhibition, 336
Lighting Act, The New Electric, 20
Lighting in America, Electric, 338
Lighting Station, The Deptford Electric, 408
Lightning Conductors, The Joint Discussion on, 351, 384, 409
Lightning Flashes, 595
Lightning Flashes, Duration of, 351, 538,
Lightning, Protection from, 115, 235
Liquid Fuel on Locomotives, 371
Liverpool Water Works, The, 514
Lock-Nut, The Clutha, 354
Lockport, 574
Locomotive Boilers, Strains in, 27
Locomotive Crane, 10-Ton ; Swedish and Norwegian Railway, 628
Locomotive, Erecting a, 316
Locomotive, Express; Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 576, 614
Locomotive Question, The New South Wales, 584
Locomotive Slide Valves, The Friction of, 602
Locomotive Steam Crane, Smith’s 10-Ton, 8
Locomotive, The Strong, 26
Locomotive Works, The Brooks, 545
Locomotives, The Balancing of, 260
Locomotives, Liquid Fuel on, 371
Locomotives for New South Wales, 13
Louvidre, La, Hydraulic Canal Lift at; Canal du Centre, Belgium, 355
Lubricants, 52
Lubricating Oil in Bulk, 589
Lubrication of Spindles with Light Oil, 288
Luminosity of Coloured Surfaces, The Measurement of the, 539

Macdonald Friction Clutch, The, 552
McDougall’s Steam Dryer, 330
Machine, Asquith’s Drilling, 327
Machine, Babbage’s Calculating, 352
Machine, Double-Drilling, for Tube Plates, Shanks’, 88
Machine, Drilling, Fidge’s Hand-Power, 541
Machine, Harvey’s Punching and Shearing, 600
Machine, Printing, Marinoni Continuous Web, 179
Machine, Radial Drilling, Richards’, 468
Machine, Refrigerating, Hall’s, 32, 58
Machine, Refrigerating; Windhausen System, 58
Machine, Slotting, Wilkinson and Lister’s, 450
Machine, Surfacing, Sterne’s Automatic, 133
Machine, Testing, Compound Lever, 188
Machine, 75-Ton Emery Testing, 21, 433, 440
Machine, Wheel Tooth Cleaning, Sterne’s, 133
Machinery, Agricultural, in Russia, 67
Machinery Gallery, The; Paris International Exhibition, 529
Machinery of the Inman Liner “City of New York,” The, 84, 123, 179
Machinery and Plant in Use on the Manchester Ship Canal, 276
Machines, Rushworth’s Multiple Punching, 425
M‘Millan, Mr. John, Jun., 551
Macnee’s Dust-Proof Axle-Box, 426
Magazine, Rifle, The Morris, 194
Magnetic Hook, A, 68
Magnetic Survey of Japan, 350
Magnetisation of Soft Iron Bars, The, 314
Maine, The State of. Railway through, 240
Malleable Iron Shaft Couplings, Cockshott and Jowett’s, 603
Man and Mudhole Doors, Embossed, 316
Man-Of-War, New Danish, 169
Manchester Ship Canal, 65, 238, 273, 276, 325, 610, 626 ,
Manchester Ship Canal, Machinery and Plant in Use on the, 276
Manganese Steel, 189, 228, 292
Manlove and Alliott’s Vacuum Pan, 602
Mannesmann System of Making Tubes, 291, 312
Manoeuvres, The Naval, 141
Marcus Ward and Co.’s Printing Works, Belfast, 167
Marine Constructions, Concrete for, 64
Marine Engine, The First Century of the, 120
Marine Engines, Horse-Power of, 641
Marinoni Continuous Web Printing Machine, 179
Maritime Routes, Great, 170
Market for British Manufactures, Japan as a, 283, 533
Marshall’s Triple-Expansion Semi-Portable Engine, 30
Martin’s System of Heating Railway Cars, 545
Mathematical and Physical Science Section of the British Association, 312, 348
Measurement of Electricity, The, 339
Measurement, Scientific Units of, 590
Measurements of the Vibration of the Tay Bridge, Seismometric, 592

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF : 3 Excursions, 25

Miscellaneous Papers, 52
On a Safety Car-Heating System, by Mr. Henry R. Towne, 3
On Estimating the Cost of Foundry Work, by Mr. G. L. Fowler, 5
On a Short Way to Keep Time and Cost, by Mr. H. L. Binnse, 25
On Connecting-Rods, by Mr. W. F. Mattes, 26
On a New Method of Inserting and Securing I Crank-Pins, 26
On the Performance of a Compound Engine, by Mr. Barrus, 26
On Surface Condensers, by Mr. J. M. Whitham, 26
On Duty Trials of Pumping Engines, by Mr. J. S. Coon Burdett, 26
On the Distribution of Steam in the Strong Locomotive, by Mr. F. W. Dean, 26
On Strains in Locomotive Boilers, by Mr. J. S. Randolph, 27
On Steam Excavators, by Mr. W. L. Clement, 27
On River Practice in the West, by Mr. J. M. Sweeny, 51
On Mechanical Significance of Determination of Viscosity of Lubricants, by Professor J. E. Denton, 52
On Wire Rope Fastenings, by Mr, Wm. Hewitt, 52
On Electric Welding, by C. J. H. Woodbury, 571
Topical Discussions, 25

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 117, 204, 433

Address of the President, 108, 149
Dock Mills, Dublin, The, 145
Excursions and Visits to Works, 145
Falls Engineering Works, Belfast, The (Combe, Barbour, and Combe), 224
Great Southern and Western Railway Works, Inchicore, Dublin, 95
Grubb’s Works, Dublin, Sir Howard, 571 Guinness’s Brewery, 249, 298
Harland and Wolff’s Shipyard and Engine Works, 103
Marcus Ward and Co.’s Printing Works, Belfast, 167
On the Emery Testing Machine, by Mr. Henry R. Towne, 21, 433, 440
On a Description of a Balanced or Automatic Sluice for Weirs, by Lord Rosse, F.R.S., 117, 182
On the Latest Improvements in the Clock- Driving Apparatus of Astronomical Telescopes, by Sir Howard Grubb, 117, 343
On the Tramways and Rolling Stock at Guinness’s Brewery, by Mr. Samuel Geo- ghegan, 143, 366
On a Description of the Frictional Gearing Used on a Double Steam Dredger in the Port of Dublin, bj’ Mr. John Purser Griffith, 144, 182
On a Description of the Compound Steam Turbine and Turbo-Electric Generator, by the Hon. Charles A. Parsons, 144, 434, 478
On the Rathmines and Rathgar Township Water Works, by Mr. Arthur W. N. Tyrrell, M.I.C.E., 435, 465

Mechanical Section of the British Association, The, 260, 273, 312, 337, 352, 412
Mechanical Units, 352
Meldometer, The, 313
Mercury Thermometers, Kew Corrections for, 35u
Merryweather’s Steam Pumping Engine, 86
Metal Coils, The Friction of, 352
Metallurgical Industry, Belgian, 193
Meteorological Instruments, 351
Meteorological Reports, 349
Meteorological Society, Royal, 503, 601
Meter, Water, Bonna’s, 552
Meters, Water, Tylor’s, 278
Meuse, Defence of the, 44
Midlands, The Telephone in the, 487
Mill, Cane-Crushing, Mirrlees and Watson’s Four-Roller, 110
Mill, A Click, 337
Mill for Concentrating Silver Ores, 161
Mill Engines, 45, 75
Miller, Mr. Daniel, 363
Milling Cutter and Tap Grinder, Sterne’s Uni-
Mills, The Dock, Dublin, 145
Mine, The Salt, 575
Mineral Resources of the United States, 240
Mineralogical Society, The, 462
Minimum Point of Change of Potential of a Voltaic Couple, The, 73

MINING ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF : 129, 153, 521

Excursions, 573
Brooks Locomotive Works, The, 545
Cowles’ Electric Smelting Works, 575
Indurated Fibre Works, 575 Lockport, 574
Salt Mine, The, 575
Martin’s System of Heating Railway Cars, 545
On the Henderson Steel Plant and its Prospects, 130
On Asphalt Paving, by Captain F. V. Greene, 546
On the Life History of Niagara Falls, by Professor Pohlman, 573
On Soaping Geysers, by Dr. R. W. Raymond, 573
On Steel Rails, by Mr. R. W. Hunt, 574
On Electrical Transmission of Power in Mining, by Mr. R. P. Rothwell, 574

Mining Enterprise in China, 510
Mining, Submarine, 27, 168, 323, 498
Minister of Railways, The Resignation of the Russian, 487
Minister of Railways, Russia’s New, 538
Mirrlees and Watson’s Four-Roller Cane-Crushing Mill, 110
Mirrlees and Watson’s Vary an Concentrator, 110
Miscellanea, 11, 35, 61, 89, 109, 135, 162, 185, 218, 242, 257, 281, 307, 329, 357, 377, 405, 425, 455, 481, 507, 540, 555, 581, 605, 631
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Nottingham Show, 43
Models of Paddle Steamers at the Glasgow Exhibition, 146
Models of Steamers and Yachts at the Glasgow Exhibition, 446
Models of Warships at the Glasgow Exhibition, 38
Modern Watch Dials, 561
Molecular Mechanics, Application of Spectrum Analysis to, 348
Morris Rifle Magazine, The, 194
Motion and Power, Transmission of, 412
Motive Well, A, 96, 413
Motor Trials. The Societj’’ of Arts, 310
Motors to Travelling Cranes, Applications of, 636
Moulding Pipe Fittings in the United States, 50 Muir, Mr. William, 194
Multiple Punching Machines, Rushworth’s, 425 “Murder of i/', The,” 352

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF: 92,118

On Deep Keel and Centre-Board Yachts, by Mr. Martell, 92
On the River Clyde, by Mr. James Deas, 93
On Copper Steam Pipes for Modern High-Pressure Engines, by Mr. W. Parker, 116,118, 125
On the Course of Instruction in Naval Architecture at Glasgow University, by Professor Jenkins, 119
On the First Century of the Marine Engine, by Professor H. Dyer, 120
On the Steam Trials of the Royal Italian Ironclad “ Lepanto,” by Major Nabor Soliani, 130, 194
On the Possible Effect of High Explosives on Future Design for Warships, by Captain C. C. P. Fitzgerald, R.N., 131
Naval Architecture at Glasgow University, 119 Naval Engineer Officers 557
Naval Manoeuvres, The, 141
Naval Warfare, High Explosives in, 131 Navy Estimates, The Report on the, 335, 607 Navy, Lord George Hamilton on the, 360 Navy, The United States, 216
New South Wales Locomotive Question, The, 584 New South Wales, Locomotives for, 13
New South Wales, Railway Brakes in, 458
New South Wales Railways, 68
New Westminster Southern Railway, 488
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, The Cable Railway on the, 328,401, 466, 494, 541
New Zealand Railways, 388 Newall and Blyth’s Bogie Air Compressor, 226 Niagara Falls, 573
Nile Flood, A Project for the Storage of Part of the ; The Raiyan Reservoir, 267, 277
North American Transcontinental Railways, 17, 52,191
North-East, A Lesson from the, 359
North Sea Baltic Canal, The, 538
North Sea and the Limfjord, The Projected Canal between the, 19

NOTES :

Agricultural Machinery in Russia, 67
Amberism, 636
Antediluvian Frog Story, An, 437
Armatures, New Forms of Peculiar, 193
Bechuanaland Railway, England and the, 362
Belgian Metallurgical Industry, 193
Break in the Cornwall Canal in Canada, 539
Breathing in Smoke, 20
British Exhibitors at Paris, 538
Canadian Pacific Through Distances to Asiatic Ports, 264
Canal between the North Sea and the Limf jord, The Projected, 19
Canals of Canada, 436
Cape Railway Extensions, 169
Carbon, Some Experiments on, 315
Centrifugal Atomiser, 121
Coal Famine in Russia, The, 241
Coal in France and Belgium, 487
Coal in the United States, 20
Conductivity of Alloys and Metallic Sulphides, The, 611
Cooling a Heated Conduit, 121
Copenhagen Exhibition, The, 147
Danish Man-of-War, New, 169
Defence of the Meuse, The, 44
Distress Signal, A New, 414
Dundee, New Branch Railway at, 169
Duration of Lightning Flashes, The, 538
East London Water Works, 44
Electric Light in Fishing, The Use of, 215
Electric Lighting Act, The New, 20
Electric Signal Clocks, 362
Electric Tramcar, An, 413
Electrical Attachments to Safe Locks, 241
Electrical Dogcart, An, 264
Electricity for Tempering Steel, 361
Electro-Actinic Phenomena, 461
Electrolysis of Common Salt, The, 588
Elevated Railroads at New York, 561
Embossed Man and Mudhole Doors, 316
“ Empire” Route to the East, The, 461
Engineers and Lamps, 68
Erecting a Locomotive, 316
Exhibition of Means of Transport, The Retrospective, 388
Explosions on Tank Steamers, 414
Exporting Gold Machinery to Siberia, 216
Forth Bridge and the Recent Gales, The, 514
French Steam Navigation, 68, 147, 538
Gasholders without Upper Guide Framing, 216
German Population, 588
German and Russian Fleets, The, 68
Graphical Method for Obtaining Minimum Cost, 362
Grosvenor Gallery Electric Supply Station, The, 461
Humming Electrical Wires, 96
Illumination by an Artesian Well, 96
Incandescent Lamps in Railway Signals, The Use of, 388
Index to Engineering Periodicals, An, 169
Internal Friction of Engines, The, 513
Isthmus of Corinth Canal, 216
John Cockerill Company, The, 636
Jupiter Lamp, The, 315
Latent Colours of Material, The, 461
Lawrence Carburetted Gas, 538
Liverpool Water Works, The, 514
Lubricating Oil in Bulk, 589
Lubrication of Spindles with Light Oil, 288
Magnetic Hook, A, 03
Maritime Routes, Great, 170
Mineral Resources of the United States, 240
Motive Well, A, 96, 413
New South Wales Railways, 68
New Westminster Southern Railway, 488
New Zealand Railways, 388
North Sea-Baltic Canal, The, 538
Oil Tank Steamer Industry in England, The, 44
Opium Trade of British Columbia, 436
Paris Exhibition Catalogues, The, 613
Patent Law Amendment Act, The, 20
Patent Office, The, 215
Patents in Denmark, 288
Pipe Line, The Russian Crude Oil, 20
Porous Earthenware, Uses of, 147
Portland Cement Concrete, 341
Portland Cement Mortars, Permeability of, 193
Primary Batteries of Light Weight, 68
Prussian State Railways, 561
Public Works in the Transvaal, 436
Pushing on the Siberian Railway, 121
Railway Bridge in Sweden, A New Large, 44
Railway Farce in Persia, The, 20
Railway to Soukhum Kale, 44
Railway through the State of Maine, 240
Railway through the West Highlands of Scotland, Proposed, 487
Railway to Zululand, A, 148
Railways at Copenhagen, Projected, 436 Rapid-Firing Gun, New Swedish, 97
Red River Valley Railway, 388
Reservoir, A Sealed, 413, 611
Resignation of the Russian Minister of Railways, The, 487
Rides of Small Calibre, 288
Rigg’s Technical Education Appliances, 388
Rothschild at Baku, A, 362
Russian Railways, Two New, 589
Russia’s New Minister of Railways, 538
Russia’s Railway Policy, 341
Safety Boiler, A New Form of, 288
Samara-Ufa Railway, The, 389
Secondary Battery, A New, 588
Sections of Timber, Thin, 436
Self-Extinguishment of Fires, 170
Semi-Collapsible Lifeboat, A, 240
Sewage Disposal by the Gravitation Syphor System, 589
Shipbuilding on the Don, 487
Siberian Railway, The Second Section of the Great, 414
Siberian Trade a Myth, 288
Society of Architects, The, 513
South African Diamond Mining, 147
Spectro-Telegraph, Paul la Cour’s New, 362
Steel Beams in Foundations, 413
Steel for Water and other Pipes, 636
Stephen, Sir George, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 215
Stoppage of Canadian Railways, 588
Submarine Boat, A New, 513
Swedish Norwegian Railway, The, 63
Tea Trade from Japan to North America, 361
Tea Trade of the United States, 611
Technical Education for Engineers, 389 Telephone in the Midlands, The, 487
Temiscouata Railway, The, 340
Tonnage of Vessels in the United States, 815
Tracing Curves by Photography, A Nev Method of, 611
Trade of British Columbia, 611
Transcaspian Railway, The, 264
Travelling Cranes, Applications of Motors to 636
Triple-Expansion v. Compound Engines, 436
Tunnel under Glasgow Harbour, Proposed, 51?
Uhland’s Pocket Almanack for Engineers, 487
Ultra-Red Rays and Phosphorescence, 288 United States Navy, The, 216
Watch Dials, Modern, 561
West Coast Railway in Sweden, The New, 121
Work in Boat Racing, 340

Notes from Cleveland, 10, 31, 60, 98, 122, 130, 171, 185, 217, 233, 257, 290, 306, 333, 356, 390 405, 438, 454, 481, 506, 527, 654, 580, 604, 630
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 126, 438, 468 Notes from the North, 10, 31, 60, 97, 121, 148 170, 184, 216, 233, 256, 289, 306, 332, 356, 389 404, 437, 454, 480, 506, 526, 554, 580, 603, 629
Notes from South Africa. 69
Notes from the South-West, 11, 30, 77, 98, 122 134, 171, 184, 220, 229, 256. 290, 320, 333, 356 390, 404, 442,464,480,505, 527, 554, 592, 618, 63<
Notes from South Yorkshire, 10, 31, 60, 85, 122 134, 171, 184, 217, 233, 257, 290, 306, 332, 356 890. 404, 438, 454, 477, 506, 527, 580,604, 630
Notes from the United States, 34, 71, 88, 124 301, 327, 363, 378, 400, 454, 504, 551. 589, 617 637

OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)

Observations, Tidal, 312
Observatory, The Lick, 1, 81, 155, 200, 225, 396
Ocean Temperatures, 463
Office, The Patent, 215
Officers, Naval Engineers, 557
Oker, River, Foot-Bridge over the, at Brunswick, 158, 243
Oil in Bulk, Lubricating, 589
Oil Tank Steamer Industry in England, The, 44
Olympia, The Erection of the Roof of, 640
Opium Trade of British Columbia, 436 Optical Model, An, 6
Oscillations of a Rotating Liquid Spheroid, 313
Overhead Power Travelling Crane, Russell s 20-Ton, 579

Paddle Steamer “ Honam,” The Light-Draught, 451
Paddle Steamers, Models of, at the Glasgow Exhibition, 146 .
Palace of the Liberal Arts, The; Pans International Exhibition, 459, 485 I
Panama Canal, The, 607 I
Paris, British Exhibitors at, 538, 558 I
Paris Exhibition Catalogues, The, 513 i
Paris Exhibition and the Colonies, The, 432 Parsons’ Compound Steam Turbine, 144, 434, 478 | Patent Law Amendment Act, The, 20 Patent Office, The, 215
Patent Record, The, 23, 47, 77, 101, 127, 151, 173, 197,221,245,269, 295, 321, 345, 369,393, 417, 443, 469. 495, 519, 543, 569, 593, 619, 643
Patents in Denmark, 288
Patents, Glow Lamp, 63
Patents, Pending, &c., Bill, The, 383, 457, 509, P^dUon, The Indian ; Paris International Exhibition, 514
Paving, Asphalt, 546
Payton’s Valve Gear, 172
Pearce, Sir William, Bart., M.P., 600
Pending Patents, <fcc., Bill, The, 383, 457, 509, 658
“Peninsular,” The P. and0. Company’s Steamer, 662
Permeability of Portland Cement Mortars, 193 Persia, The Railway Farce in, 20
Petershaft, Underground Pumping Engine at the, 376
Phenomena, Electro-Actinic, 461
Phonograph, The, and the Graphophone, 166, 247, 261, 319, 534, 561
Phosphorescence, Ultra-Red Rays and, 288 Photographic Films, Electric Action on, 314 Photography, 352
Photography, Tracing Curves by, A New Method of, 611
Photometer, A Diffusion, 349 Photometry of Colours, The, 5 Physical Section of the British Association, The,

PHYSICAL SOCIBTY, TUB : , .
On the Photometry of Colour, by Captain
Abney, R.E., F.R.S., 5
On Continuous Current Transformers, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 6
On an Optical Model, by Professor A. W. RUcker, F.R.S., 6
On a New Barometer, by Mr. T. H. Blakesley, M.A., 6
On the Existence of an Undulatory Movement Accompanying the Electric Spark, by Mr. Ernest H. Cook, D.Sc., 6
On the Calculation of the Coefficient of Mutual Induction of a Helix and Coaxial Circle, by Professor J. V. Jones, 476
On the Upper Limit of Refraction of Selenium and Bromine, by Rev. T. Pelham Dale, M.A., 476
On Experiments on Glass in Polarised Light, by Professor S. P. Thompson. D.Sc., 476
On a New Form of Standard Resistance Coil, by Dr. J. A. Fleming, M.A., 476
On the Measurement of the Luminosity of Coloured Surfaces, by Captain Abney, 539 On the Suppressed Dimensions of Physical Quantities, by Professor RUcker, 639
On a Modification of the Ordinary Method of Determining Electro-Magnetic Capacity, by Mr. J. W. W. Waghorne, D.Sc., 590
On Some Facts connected with the Systems of Scientific Units of Measurement, by Mr. T. H. Blakesley, M.A., 590
Pig Iron, The Valuation of, 71
Pile Driver, Double-Action Steam, 59 Pipe Fittings, Moulding, in the United States, 50 Pipe Line, The Russian Crude Oil, 20 Pipes, Copper Steam, 116, 118,125, 208 Pipes, Steel, for Water and other, 636 Piston, Thompson’s Solid Block, 491 Planimeter, A New Spherical, 279
Plant and Machinery in Use on the Manchester Ship Canal, 276
Plough, Fowler’s Anti-Balance, 43
Pneumatic Pressure Printing Frame, Lack’s, 426 Pneumatic Rivetter, The Allen, 504
Pocket Almanack for Engineers, Uhland’s, 487 Polarisation, The Electromotive Force of, 349 Polarised Light, Experiments on Glass in, 476 Pontoon and Floating Docks, 136 Population, German, 588
Porous Earthenw’are, Uses of, 147 Port and Harbour Defence, 633 Portable Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Turner’s Combined, 58
Portable Watchman’s Time Detector, Hahn’s, 123 Portland Cement Concrete, 341
Portland Cement Mortars, Permeability of, 193 Ports, British Mercantile, The Defence of, 14
Post Office Telegraphy, 38
Power, The Electrical Transmission of, 310, 574
Power of England to Resist Invasion, The, 37
Power and Motion, Transmission of, 412
Preece’s Address, Mr., 260
Press, Warnes’ Hay and Straw, 58
Primary Batteries of Light Weight, 68
Printing Frame, Lack’s Pneumatic Pressure, 426
Printing Machine, Marinoni Continuous Web, 179
Printing Works, Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co.’s, Belfast, 167
Private Bill Legislation, The Committee on, 165
Prospecting and Mining, Appleby’s Diamond Drill for, 33
Protection from Lightning, 115, 235
Prussian State Railways, 561
Public Buildings, The Air of, 432
Public Works in the Transvaal, 436
Pumping Engine at the Petershaft, Underground, 376
Pumping Engine, Steam, Merry weather’s, 86
Pumping Engine, The Worthington High-Duty, 565
Punching Machines, Rushworth’s Multiple, 426
Punching and Shearing Machine, Harvey’s, 600
Purification, Water, by Iron, 431
Pushing on the Siberian Railway, 121
Pyrometer, Air, Wiborgh’s, 214, 317

Quadruple Compound Engine, Denny’s, 415
Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Buenos Aires,” 366, 415
Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Falls of Inversnaid,” Disconnective, 502

Race to Edinburgh, The, 142
Radial Drilling Machine, Richards’, 468
Railroad, The Erie, 585
Railroad Freight Rates, American, 336
Railroads, Elevated, at New York, 561
Rails, Steel, 574
Railway Axle-Box, Macnee’s, 426
Railway Brakes in New South Wales, 458
Railway Bridge in Sweden, A New Large, 44
Railway, Cable, on the New York and Brooklyn
Bridge, The, 328, 401, 466, 494, 541
Railway Cars, Martin’s System of Heating, 545
Railway Extensions, Cape, 169
Railway Farce in Persia, The, 20
Railway, The Glasgow Central, 330
Railway, The Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, 241
Railway, New Branch, in the West of Scotland, 32, 487, 553
Railway, The New West Coast, in Sweden, 121
Railway, New Westminster Southern, 488
Railway Policy, Russia’s, 341
Railway, Red River Valley, 388
Railway, The Samara-Ufa, 389
Railway Signals, The Use of Incandescent Lamps in, 388
Railway to Soukhum Kale, 44
Railway through the State of Maine, 240
Railway, The Swedish-Norwegian, 68
Railway, The Temiscouata, 340
Railway, The Transandine, 38
Railway, The Transcaspian, 264
Railway Works, Great Southern and Western, Inchicore, 95
Railway to Zululand, A, 148
Railways, Canadian, Stoppage of, 588
Railways v. Canals, 187
Railways at Copenhagen, Projected, 436 Railways in India, 284
Railways, Light, 268, 274
Railways, New South Wales, 68
Railways, New Zealand, 388
Railways, North American Transcontinental, 17, 52, 191
Railways, Prussian State, 561
Railways, Two New Russian, 589
Railways, Underground, 412
Raiyan Reservoir, The; A Project for the Storage of Part of the Nile Flood, 267, 277
Rapid-Firing Arms, 177
Rapid-Firing Gun, New Swedish, 97
Rates, Chronometer, and How to Use them at Sea, 66, 536,623
Rathgar and Rathmines Water Works, 435, 465
Raworth’s Engine and Victoria Dynamo, 132
Reckenzaun Electric Tramcar, The, 600
Record, The Patent, 23, 47, 77, 101, 127, 151, 173, 197, 221, 245, 269, 295, 321, 345, 369, 393, 417, 443, 469, 495, 519, 543, 569, 593, 619, 643
Red River Valley Railway, 388
Refraction of Selenium and Bromine, The Upper Limit of, 476
Refrigerating Machine, Hall’s, 32, 58 Refrigerating Machine, The Kilbourn, 179
Refrigerating Machine ; Windhausen System, 58
Refrigerator, Kirk’s 5-Ton “ Damp Air,” 551
Replenishment of Underground VVaters, 277
Report of the Committee on Electrical Standards, 352
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, C.M.G., R.E., on the Forth Bridge, 6, 365
Report on the Navy Estimates, The, 335, 607
Reservoir, The Raiyan ; A Project for the Storage of Part of the Nile Flood, 267, 277
Reservoir, A Sealed, 413, 611
Resignation of the Russian Minister of Railways, The, 487
Resistance Coil, A New Form of Standard, 476
Retrospective Exhibition of Means of Transport, The, 212, 388
Reversing Valve Gear, The Arrol-Pringle, 71
Revolving Sails, 353
Richards’ Radial Drilling Machine, 468
Rider’s Hot-Air Engine, 354
Rifle Magazine, The Morris, 194
Rifles of Small Calibre, 288
Rigg’s Technical Education Appliances, 388
River Cart Improvement Works, The, 603
River Clyde, The, 93
River Oker, Foot-Bridge over the, at Brunswick, 158, 243
River Steamers, Light-Draught, 51
River Witham Improvement Works, 567
Rivers and Lakes, Temperature of, 350
Rivetter, The Allen, Pneumatic, 504
Robey’s Compound Horizontal Engine, 452
Robey’s Semi-Portable Compound Engine, 59
Rock Drill, The Truro, 540
Rolling Seamless Tubes, 291, 312
Rolling Stock and Tramways at Guinness’s Brewery, 143, 366
Rolls for Cold-Rolling Steel, Jardine’s, 33
Rolls, Hilton’s Method of Heating, by Gas, 355
Roof of Olympia, The Erection of the, 640
Rope-Driving in America, 510
Rope, Wire, Westgarth’s, 160
Rota Engine, The, 74
Rotating Liquid Spheroid, Oscillations of a, 313 Rothschild at Baku, A, 362
Route to the East, The “Empire,” 461
Royal Meteorological Society, 603, 601 Rushworth’s Multiple Punching Machines, 425
RasseU’s 20-Ton Overhead Power Travelling Crane, 579
Russell’s 25-Ton Steam Crane; Prince’s Quay, Belfast Harbour, 451
Russia, The Coal Famine in, 241
Russian Crude Oil Pipe Line, The, 20 Russian Railways, Two New, 589
Russia’s New Minister of Railways, 538 Russia’s Railway Policy. 341
Rusting of Iron, The, 214, 244

Safe Looks, Electrical Attachments to, 241
Safety Boiler, A New Form of, 288
Safety Car-Heating System, A, 3
Safety Hoist, The Eureka, 491
Sails, Revolving, 853
Salt, Common, The Electrolysis of, 588
Salt Mine, The, 575 Samara-Ufa Railway. The, 389
Sault Ste. Marie Canals, The, 259
Sax’s Electro-Mechanical Water Gauge, 399
Scotland, Engineering and Allied Industries in, 637
Scotland, West of, New Branch Railway in the, 32, 487, 553
Scouring Dam, Kingston’s Floating; Hidgellee Tidal Canal Lock, 403
Seagoing Torpedo Boat, A Fast, 503
Sealed Reservoir, A, 413, 611
Seamless Tubes, Rolling, 291, 312
Second Section of the Great Siberian Railway, The, 414
Secondary Battery, A New, 588
Sections of Timber, Thin, 436
Securing and Inserting Crankpins, 26
Seismometric Measurements of the Vibration of the Tay Bridge, 592
Self-Extinguishment of Fires, 170
Semi-Collapsible Lifeboat, A, 240
Semi-Portable Compound Engine, Robey’s, 59
Semi-Portable Engine with Twin Boilers, Fowler’s Compound, 378
Semi-Portable Triple-Expansion Engine, Marshall’s, 30
Sewage Disposal by the Gravitation Syphon System, 589
Shaft Couplings, Cockshott and Jowett’s Malleable Iron, 603
Shanks’ Double - Drilling Machine for Tube- Plates, 88
Shearing and Punching Machine, Harvey’s, 600
Shears, Billet, Berry’s Hydraulic, 306
Sheerlegs, 120-Ton, at Clydebank Shipbuilding Yard, 629
Shells, Dynamite, 484
Sherwin’s Adjustable Angle Plates, 178 Ship Canal, Proposed Great Western, 361
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 65, 238, 273, 276, 325, 610, 626
Shipbuilding on the Don, 487
Shipbuilding and Engineering Enterprise at Bilbao, New, 424
Shipbuilding Yard in West Hartlepool, New, 307 Shipman Engine, The, 337
Shipyard and Engine Works, Harland and Wolff’s, 103
Short Way to Keep Time and Cost, A, 25
Siberian Railway, Pushing on the, 121
Siberian Railway, The Second Section of the Great, 414
Siberian Trade a Myth, 288
Signal, Distress, A New, 414
Silicon and Carbon, 421
Silicon, Influence of, on Steel, 421
Silver Ores, Mill for Concentrating, 161
Sinking and Boring of Wells, The, 199, 271, 347, 395
Slide Valves, Locomotive, The Friction of, 602 Slotting Machine, Wilkinson and Lister’s, 450 Sluices, Automatic, 117,182
Small Calibre, Rifles of, 288 Smelting, Electric, 338
Smelting Works, Cowles’ Electric, 575 SMITHFIELD CLUB Snow, THE : 586
Engines, The, 583
Horizontal Engine, Garrett’s, 586 Implements, 587
Traction Engine, Eddington and Steevenson, 587
Smith’s Horizontal Electric Light Engine, 111 Smith’s 10-Ton Locomotive Steam Crane, 8 Smoke, Breathing in, 20 Soaping Geysers, 573
Society of Architects, The, 513
Society of Arts, 534
Society of Arts Motor Trials, The, 310
Society, The Mineralogical, 462
Society, Royal Meteorological, 503, 601 Society of Telegraph Engineers, 486, 535 Sodium and Aluminium, 116
Soft Iron Bars, The Magnetisation of, 314 Solid Block Piston, Thompson’s, 491 Soukhum Kale, Railway to, 44 Sounds, Engraving, 247
South Africa, Notes from, 69
South African Diamond Mining, 147
South-West, Notes from the, 11, 30, 77, 98, 134, 171, 184, 220, 229, 256, 290, 320, 333, 390, 404, 442, 464, 480, 505, 527, 554, 592, 630
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 10, 31, 60, 85, 134, 171, 184, 217, 233, 257, 290, 306, 332, 390, 404, 438,454, 477, 506, 527,530, 604, 630 '
Specification, An American Bridge, 568, 615 Spectro-Telegraph, Paul la Cour’s New, 362 Spectrum Analysis, 348
Spectrum Analysis, Application of, to Molecular Mechanics, 348
Spectrum Analysis, Concave Gratings for, 314 Spectrum of Oxygen, The Absorption, 349 Spherical Planimeter, A New, 279
Spheroid, Liquid, Oscillations of a Rotating, 313 Sphincter Grip Armoured Hose, 491
Spindles, Lubrication of, with Light Oil, 288 Spontaneous Ignition, Injury to Coal by, 384 Spring Wheel for Traction Engines, Fowler’s, 58 Sprinkler, The Draper-Hetherington Automatic 490
Sprinkler, The Grinnell, 341
Standards of Iron and Steel, 421 Standards of Light, 361
Stannah’s Differential Hydraulic Crane, 162
static Electricity, A Vortex Analogue of, 349 Station, The Deptford Electric Lighting, 408 Statue, The Elder, 97
Steam Crane, Smith’s 10-Ton Locomotive, 8
Steam Crane, 25-Ton; Prince’s Quay, Belfast
Harbour, 461
Steam Dryer, McDougall’s, 330 Steam, The Efficiency of, at High Pressure, 353, 439
Steam Engine, Heat in the, 99
Steam Engines and Boilers and Gas Engines, 40
Steam Excavators, 27
Steam Launch “Victoria,” The, 636
Steam Navigation, French, 68, 147, 538
Steam Pile-Driver, Double-Action, 59
Steam Pipes, Copper, 116, 118, 125, 208
Steam Pumping Engine, Merryweather’s, 86
Steam Turbine, Compound, 144, 434, 478
Steamer “ Burma,” Light-Draught; Irrawaddy
Flotilla Company, 600
Steamer “ Hata,” Light-Draught Sternwheel for the River Irrawaddy, 65
Steamer “ Honam,” The Light-Draught Paddle, 451
Steamer “ Peninsular,” The P. and 0. Company’s, 562
Steamers, Models of Paddle, at the Glasgow Exhibition, 146
Steamers, River, Light Draught, 51
Steamers and Yachts, Models of, at the Glasgow Exhibition, 446
Steamship “Buenos Aires,” Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the, 366, 415
Steamship “ City of New York,” The, 84, 123, 179
Steamship “ Falls of Inversnaid,” Disconnective
Quadruple-Expansion Engines of the, 502 Steamship “ Islander,” The, 305 Steel Beams in Foundations, 413 Steel Cast Guns, 609
Steel, Cold-Rolling, Jardine’s Rolls for, 33
Steel, Manganese, 189, 228, 292
Steel Process, The Henderson, 130
Steel Rails, 574
Steel Tyres, Bessemer, 562
Steel for Water and other Pipes, 636 I
Stephen, Sir George, and the Canadian Pacific I Railway, 215
Sterne’s Automatic Surfacing Machine, 133
Sterne’s Universal Milling Cutter and Tap Grinder, 526
Sterne’s Wheel Tooth Cleaning Machine, 133 Sternwheel Steamer “ Hata” for the River Irrawaddy, Light-Draught, 65
Stoppage of Canadian Railways, 588
Storage of Part of the Nile Flood, A Project for the ; The RaiySn Reservoir, 267, 277
Strains in Locomotive Boilers, 27
Straw and Hay Press, Warnes’, 58
Strength of Copper Steam Pipes, The, 208
Strong Locomotive, The, 26
Subjects for Papers ; Institution of Civil Engineers.—Session 1888-89, 379
Submarine Boat, A New, 513
Submarine Mining, 27, 168, 323, 498
Substitute for Glass, A, 264
Suppressed Dimensions of Physical Quantities, The, 539
Surface Condensers, 26
Surfacing Machine, Sterne’s Automatic, 133
Survey of Japan, Magnetic, 360
Swansea Harbour Trust, Double-Ladder Dredger for the, 45
Swedish Norwegian Railway, The, 68
Swedish Rapid-Firing Gun, New, 97

Tangyes’ Engine and Holmes’ Dynamo, 178
Tank Steamers, Explosions on, 414
Tap and Milling Cutter Grinder; Sterne’s Universal, 626
Tay Bridge, Seismometric Measurements of the Vibration of the, 592
Tea Trade from Japan to North America, 361
Tea Trade of the United States, 611
Teaching of Chemistry, The, 420
Technical Education Appliances, Rigg’s, 388
Technictil Education for Engineers, 389
Technical Institute, The Central Institution of the City and Guilds of London, 419, 473, 497, 623, 559, 596
Telegraph Engineers, Societj^ of, 85, 535
Telegraphy, Post Office, 38
Telegraphy in the United States, 433
Telephone in the Midlands, The, 487
Telescope, The Lick, 149
Telescopes, Astronomical, Clock-Driving Apparatus for, 1L7, 343
Temiscouata Railway, The, 340
Temperature Determination from Electrical Resistance, 350
Temperature of Rivers and Lakes, 350
Temperatures, Ocean, 463
Tempering Steel, Electricity for, 361
Tennessee and Alabama, 326, 423
Testing Machine, Compound Lever, 188
Testing Machine, 75-Ton Emery, 21, 433, 440
Theory, The Use of, 491, 517
Thermometers, Mercury, Kew Corrections for, 350
Thompson’s Solid Block Piston, 491
Thomson’s 120-Ton Sheerlegs at Clydebank Shipbuilding Yard, 629
Tidal Observations, 312
Timber, Thin Sections of, 436
Time and Cost, A Short Way to Keep, 25
Time Detector, Hahn’s Portable Watchman’s, 123 Time, Universal, 352
Tonnage of Vessels in the United States, 315 Tooting College, 289
Torpedo Attack, 617
Torpedo Boat, A Fast Seagoing, 503
Torpedo Guns, Yarrow’s Diverging, 476
Tracing Curves by Photography, A New Method of, 611
Traction Engine and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s Combined, 56
Traction Engine, Eddington and Steevenson’s, 587 Traction Engines, Fowler’s Spring Wheel for, 58 Trade of British Columbia, 611
Trade, Siberian, a Myth, 288
Traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, 79
Train, The Accident to the Czar’s, 457
Tramcar, An Electric, 413
Tramcar, The Reckenzaun Electric, 600
Tramways and Rolling Stock at Guinness’s Brewery, 143, 366
Transandine Railway, The, 38
Transcaspian Railway, The, 264
Transcontinental Railways, North American, 17, 52, 191
Transformers, Continuous Current, 6
Transmission of Power, The Electrical, 310, 574
Transmission of Power and Motion, 412
Transport, Internal, 583
Transvaal, Public Works in the, 436
Travelling Crane, Russell’s 20-Ton Overhead Power, 579
Travelling Cranes, Applications of Motors to, 636
Trial Trips and Launches, 7, 32, 88, 139, 162,194, 217, 266, 290, 316, 333, 366, 377, 414, 429, 451, 514, 564, 690, 604, 630
Trials, Engine, at the Highland Society’s Show, 493
Trials, Motor, The Society of Arts, 310
Triple-Expansion v. Compound Engines, 436
Triple-Expansion Engines of the Inman Liner “ City of New York,” 84, 123, 179
Triple-Expansion Engines, Weir’s Evaporator for, 123
Triple-Expansion Semi-Portable Engine, Marshall’s, 30
Truro Rock Drill, The, 540
Tubes, Rolling Seamless, 291, 312
Tunnel under Glasgow Harbour, Proposed, 513
Turbine, Compound Steam, 144, 434, 478
Turner’s Combined Portable Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 58
Tylor’s Water Meters, 278
Tyres, Bessemer Steel, 562

Uhland’s Pocket Almanack for Engineers, 487
Ultra-Red Rays and Phosphorescence, 288
Underground Electric Cables, Waring’s, 391
Underground Hauling Engines; Ilkeston Colliery, 505
Underground Hauling Engines, Walker’s, 305
Underground Pumping Engine at the Petershaft, 376
Underground Railways, 412
Underground Waters, Replenishment of, 277
Undulatory Movement, The Existence of an. Accompanying the Electric Spark, 6
United States, Coal in the, 20
United States, Mineral Resources of the, 240
United States, Moulding Pipe Fittings in the, 50
United States Navy, The, 216
United States, Notes from the, 34, 71, 88, 124, 301, 327, 363, 378, 400, 454, 504, 551, 589, 617, 637
United States, Tea Trade of the, 611
United States, Telegraphy in the, 433
United States, Tonnage of Vessels in the, 315
Units, Mechanical, 352
Universal Milling Cutter and Tap Grinder, Sterne’s, 526
Universal Time, 352
Use of Electric Light in Fishing, The, 215
Use of Theory, The, 491, 517
Uses of Porous Earthenware, 147

Vacuum Pan, Manlove and Alliott’s, 602
Valuation of Pig Iron, The, 71
Valve Gear, Payton’s, 172
Valve Gear, Reversing, The Arrol-Pringle, 71
Variable Pressures, An Air Compressor for, 413
Ventilation, Induced Draught, Lees and Anderson’s, 71
Victoria Dynamo and Raworth’s Engine, 132
“ Victoria,” The Steam Launch, 636
Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to the Glasgow Exhibition, 215
Voltaic Couple, The Minimum Point of Change of Potential of a, 73
Vortex Analogue of Static Electricity, A, 349

Walker and Sisterson’s Gas Governor, 415
Walker’s Underground Hauling Engines, 305
Waring’s Underground Electric Cables, 391
Warnea’ Hay and Straw Press, 58
Warships of the Future, 190, 284
Warships, Models of, at the Glasgow Exhibition, 38
Watch Dials, Modern, 561
Watchman’s Time Detector, Hahn’s Portable, 123
Water Colours, Action of Light on, 421
Water Filtration, The Hyatt System of, 450
Water Gauge, Sax’s Electro-Mechanical, 399
Water Meter, Bonna’s, 552
Water Meters, Tylor’s, 278
Water Purification by Iron, 431
Waterworks, East London, 44
Water Works, The Liverpool, 514
Water Works, Rathgar and Rathmines, 435, 465
Waters, Underground, Replenishment of, 277
Wave Lengths, Electro Magnetic, 315
Weather, The, 14, 142, 237, 336, 460, 561
Weights, Atomic, 312
Weir’s Evaporator for Triple-Expansion Engines, 123
Welding, Electric, 571
Well, A Motive, 96, 413
Wells, The Boring and Sinking of, 199, 271, 347, 395
West Coast Railway in Sweden, The New, 121
West Hartlepool, New Shipbuilding Yard in, 307
West Highlands of Scotland, Proposed Railway through the, 32, 487, 553
Westgarth’s Wire Rope, 160
Westley-Richards Ejector for Hammerless Guns, 160
Wheel Tooth Cleaning Machine, Sterne’s, 133
Wheel for Traction Engines, Fowler’s Spring, 58
Whitbread’s Brewery, Beam Engine at, 86
Whitbread’s Brewery, Horizontal Compound Engine at, 529
Wiborgh’s Air Pyrometer, 214, 317
Wick Bay, The New Breakwater at, 56
Wilkinson and Lister’s Slotting Machine, 450
Windhausen System, Refrigerating Machine, 58
Wire Rope Fastenings, 52
Wire Rope, Westgarth’s, 160
Wires, Humming Electrical, 96
Witham Improvement Works, River, 567
Work in Boat Racing, 340

WORKS :

Brooks Locomotive, The, 515
Cowles’ Electric Smelting, 575
Engine, and Shipyard, Harland and Wolff’s, 103 Falls Engineering, Belfast, The, 224
Great Southern and Western Railway, Inchicore, 95
Marcus Ward and Co.’s Printing, Belfast, 167
Public, in the Transvaal, 436
River Cart Improvement, The, 602
River Witham Improvement, The, 567
Sir Howard Grubb’s, Dublin, 571

Water, The East London, 44
Water, The Liverpool, 514
Water, The Rathgar and Rathmines, 435, 465
Worthington High-Duty Pumping Engine, The, 565

Yachts, Deep Keel and Centre-Board, 92
Yachts and Steamers, Models of, at the Glasgow Exhibition, 446
Yarrow’s Diverging Torpedo Guns, 476
Yaryan Concentrator, Mirrlees and Watson’s, 110

Zululand, A Railway to, 148

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